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GIRL SCOUTS DRIVE
MAKES SLOW START
$4,000 Only Is Reported in
the First Three Days.

The Girl Scouts drive has moved
slowly the first three days. Reports
from local headquarters late last night
Indicated that only $4,000 had been
subscribed. leaving $500 to be secured
during the remaining five days of the
campaign-if Manhattan subscribes its
quota.
Though funds were being reported
slowly there was by no means discour-
agement or slacllening of effort on the
part of those directing the drive. At
noon yesterday there was a meeting at
the Sub-Treasury, with Martin Vogel
William G. McAdoo and Mrs. Josephine
Daskam Bacon as speakers. During
the afternoon several army trucks car
ried scores of Scouts throughout the city
to their many booths and demonstration
centres,
novel exhibition of Scout train
ing. which was made at the Grand Gem
trail Terminal between 4 and o'clock
attracted considerable attention. One
youthful little Scout showed the latest
and most approved method Of bsthing
aud clothing an infant. while Mrs. Bacon
spoke of the work OF the Scouts and the
imperative need for funds TO make the
cesired eHpsnsion
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ABSENTEE VOTING.
A Plea for the Business Traveller
Who Are Away at Election Time.

To THENEDIToR OF THE SUN-Sir: At
the coming election there viii be sub
mitted TO the people measure known as
Amendment No. 2" which has been
passed by the judiciary committees Of
two Legislatures and by the Legis-
latures OF two years. the purpose OF
which is to correct an injustice which
has either deprived travelling men OF
their vote or caused inconvenience and
expense in returning to vote. 1t is called
the absentee voting amendment and en-
powers the Legislature TO provide meas
ures for voting by mail by those whose
occupation unavoidably detains them
from home.
This is not class legislation. inasmuch
as 1t applies TO all under similar condi-
tions. 1t is absolutely non-partisan.
Some leaders have feared that this might
open the door to fraud. a fear proved
groundless by the fact that this system
is already in successful operation in
more than half the States of the Union,
while most OF the other States have
legislation on the subject pending.
The commercial travellers associations
all over the country are organized on
this issue as never before, and a pop
ular verdict is Confidently expected in
New York now.
1t is estimated that there are some
csc. 900 travellers in this State now very
much in earnest The character and ex-
perience of these intelligent. deserving
citizens peculiarly At them for helping
to solve our political problems, and never
was their sound business sense so much
needed as now to stem the tide of rsdi-
calism.
No political party considerations must
stand in the way OF this concession OF
elemental justice.
Meeting all kinds Of people in all parts
Of the country their influence will surely
be on the side OF safe and sane business
policies, a unit against the anti-Ameri-
can, Bolshevist tendencies to meet which
every patriotic vote is needed.
They are our soldiers of commerce fol
whom technical barriers may as well b,
removed as for our sailors and soldier.
everywhere. RALPH GODDARD.
New York. October IT.
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Whess La Guardia Is Needed.

Our a. ighbor the World expresses
annoyant because the Citizens Union
says kin, things of Major La GUAR
OLA. Ii he stands on his Wash
ington ecord," growls the World,
why not stay in Washington"
When LA GUARDIA presented HIM
self for enlistment in the air service
of his ne edful country the army was
not so re de as the World Is. 1t prob
ably susl )ected that a man who had
done sey eral important things well
might ais o fly and fight well.
Naturs lily the World likes to sup
port Democratic candidate occa-
sionally; but why it opposes LA
GUARDIA, when his election will mean
the Great ion of fighting minority in
Board Of Estimate which is now
completed y controlled by Mr.. MUIR
PLY and Mr.. HEARST, Is a puzzle we
have to i've up.
Major LA GUARDIA has done well
in all his places; and since armistice
day he as never been needed more
than tlns town needs him now as
President of the Board of Aldermen.
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Undercurrents in the Campaig

In Manhattan woman is running
for Justice of the Municipal Court IN
the First district. In Brooklyn the
leading candidate for County Judge is
making a fight in which prohibition
overshadows all other issues. These
two campaigns, Miss REMBAUGH's
worthy attempt to be ermined and
Representative REUBEN L. HAsKELL's
battle against anti-saloon forces, are
among those which interest the inno-
cent bystander.
This Is not to say that it is dead
campaign. 1t is, however, largely
campaign of undercurrents. The re-
fusal of Tammany Hall to renominate
two acceptable Judges, the Democrats
NEwBUBGER and SMITH, has caused a
resentment which is deeper than even
the surface noise Indicates, What is
more, the best two judicial nomina
tions-for Supreme Court Justice and
Surrogate-were given by the leader
of Tammany Hail. In naming Mr..
UNTERMYER the Boss not only neg
lected to consult the customs and
traditions of the bench. the bar and
the electorate; he ignored his own
organization. This causes an under
current which threatens to carry the
whole Fourteenth street ticket up
Salt Creek. The regulars of Tammany
Hall like to vote for somebody they
know-an Al Smith or a Tom Foley
or a Christy Sullivan. They know
Justice NEwBURGER, who came up in
politics in the region where PATRICK
KEENAN, was the leader until his death.
They do not know young Mr.. UNTER-
MYER and they have not the least in
terest In his political future.
Being well liked by the rank and
file of Tammany is not guarantee of
election on this island. Judge Nc
CALL was remarkably popular among
his fellow Democrats but in Manhat-
tan and The Bronx, when election day
came, his vote was $4,000 behind that
of JOHN PURRoY mitchell. The indie
pendent Democrats had voted against
him. Fear that the same fate will
befall Candidate UNTERMYER is haunt
ing Fourteenth street now. 1t would
be wrong to say that the same fear is
felt by the Tammany workers, for
they have no such sensation when the
fortunes Of a man not to their own
personal liking are at stake. Their
only undercurrent is Indifference.
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WAR RISK INSURANCE.
Brief Tale Of Man who Sought ON
ciaI 'InteIIigent Assistance"

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--sir: May
I reply to Major Holmes and his "coios-
sal ignorance and failure to seek intel-
ligent assistance" in dealing with the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance? Per-
haps my case is an extreme one, but
doubt i'll
My discharge from r. A. c. o. T. s.
was granted December 7 last; my wife
received the first, last and only payment
Of her allotment and allowance over nine
months 1ater-this only after l had left
no stones then known to me unturned In
an endeavor to get it for her.
I wrote letters to the bureau at fire.
quent and regular intervals, then to the
chief OF the bureau later one to the
Secretary of the Treasury tunder whose
supervision---as gathered from its ad'
dress and the Major admits-it is) and
finally in desperation to Senator Wads-
worth.
The Senator got results, at all events
he got a reply. last June, which he for
warded to me a few days after wrote
him--but no money. In August re-
ceived a letter addressed to me as AS
sistant United States Attorney had
resigned my special appointment the
previous March--in reply to my com
munication." date not given, of the pre-
ceding February. 1t said the matter
would receive attention. With one ex-
ception that was the first and only an.
swer TO my series Of letters.
/ have heard. It said, and I am in
clined to believe it. that at one time the
bureau was so far behind in its CORE
spondence that It had a vault or vaults
full of unopened mail, representing two
months receipts. and not the last two
months either.
Secondly, although know I made out
two. and am under the impression that
/ made out three, sets of applica atior
papers for my war risk insurance al
Camp Taylor (the last while l was ir
the hospital) Mrs Geer has yet to re.
ceive her certificate. Last June 1 tool
what now appears TO have been fear.
ful chance and converted my term in.
| surance into a more expensive form
After the customary interval Of month
| or six weeks ! received. not my policy
oh, no! only a receipt saying in effec'
| U haven't II before me) that the burea,
had my money and that IL they could
| ind my name on their own records
some day, God only knows when, 1 ma,
get my policy
have taken care to pay the premiums
by checks. each beaNng on its face {
| succinct statement OF what it covered
and sincerely hope that if anything
should happen to me my widow. befor'
she too is taken, may receive one at leas
of the monthly payments called for b!
the insurance trust ] possess
OLIN POTTER GEER.
NEW YORK, October 81
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and tender the courtesy of salute
before departing.

and tender the courtesy of salute
before departing
This young man PERRy-one of Ave
brothers OF the same family in our
navy, of whom one gained fame on
Lake Erie and another later in
.Japan--had very exalted idens about
the American flag as well as the dig
nifty of the Republic and the respect
due TO them. SO when rendering to
the Portuguese gentleman in gold lace
this naval form Of 'Thank you,' the
young American officer made the pro-
viso, "If returned gun for gun" The
answer of the Portuguese Governor
was that, while appreciating the com
pliment intended, the return salute
could be made only with one gun less,
for" said he, "it is not customary
to return an equal number of guns to
republican Governments, but only to
those of acknowledged soverelgns..
This from Portugal, which two
years later enjoyed something like
a revolution toward freedom, at least
of the press, and in our day has be-
come republic.
Speech was silver, but silence was
golden. In the sunset glow the Cyane
sailed away, but there was no salute.
PERRY's eyes closed when the blue
field had thirty-one stars. Ours see
forty-eight. Now that the flag has
forty-eight stars this episode Of a
century ago, when the flag had fewer
than half the number of stars it now
has, is worth recalling. Neither on
the sea nor on land among aliens who
are in but not of our country. nor at
Peace Conferences, nor in any League
or Nations, must that flag suffer either
slight or dishonor.
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MEXICO.

If CAr Il ANZA and his associates are
not lac Al ng In ordinary intelligence
they i-1u-N / know that the United
States ca mot forever endure the an
archy WI ich exists in Mexico either
because hey are unwilling 10 main
tain or,la or unable to maintain or
,der. 1t may be true, as is often as
serted, th at the illiterate poems believe
the Unit d States to be unequal to the
physical task of protecting its citizens
abroiul, ! iut CARRANzA and those who
share hil power cannot hold such
belle :
Hiihor to the United States has
treated ] lexicO with singular consid-
erati ,n. Insecurity of foreign owned
prop' ,rty and foreigners lives in Mex
leo Fhlct in any other country would
have led to the most serious conse
que aces has been tolerated by our
Go .yernmt mt for six years and eight
-.uihs. every excuse Mexico put for
ward has been respectfully received.
Every mi tigating circumstance which
could be imagined by apologists for
Mexico las been listened to in pa
tience. B ut there is an end to patience /;
there CON les a time when the cries of
kidnapI 4 and murdered Americans
for the p unishment of the malefactors
who do N ned them must be heard.
That time will come-perhaps it
has con N in our relations with Mex
leo. v n len the hour strikes it will find
the An n rican people ready 10 back
up the Administration in any prac-
ticable ! move it may make to render
Mexico iafe for civilized men.
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Is Overwhelming 1t will indicate that
citizens generally are alive to the
leeds OF the country. If 10 is not
overwhelming Il will reveal the fact
that the process of instruction must
go on with increasing vigor until
every sane and honest man has been
taught that no racial, sectarian or
local prejudice or prepossession can
safely be allowed to obscure the great
issue Of Americanism against anarchy
in this hour and in this country.
The danger, IL there is danger, in
Massachusetts, does not rise from a
preponderance of malicious or revolu-
tionary persons in the electorate. 1t
rises from the fact that the only issue
on which voters should divide in the
State may be lost to sight among
other and ephemeral issues, some OF
them Fictitious, some of them paro-
ehial. IL the facts are made plain Gov
ernor CooLIDoEs victory will be ade-
quate to the requirements of the day.
II they are not Massachusetts, will
have to continue the course Of educa-
ton begun in Boston two months ago
until the lesson the civic breakdown
there should have taught Is thoroughly
comprehended by all those who are
capable of comprehending 1t.
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Gore rnor CoolIdge's Vote.

The vot which will be polled by
Governor COOLIDGE for reelection to
the office q Chief Executive of Massa-
chusetts OF 4 November 4 will have an
interest 6oi Americans in other States
Infinitely deeper than that which
usually att aches 10 the balloting in a
local conte st. In consequence Of his
rnhlnching stand in the Boston police
strike GCSt rnor COOLIDGE stands in a
Ieculiar ael alton TO the forces of law
and order OF only in Boston and the
Commonws' nth of which that city is
the capital but all over the United
States.
Therefop the vote polled by the
fearless DEF ender of public order will
give rca sonably accurate measure
Of the dc yr ee to which the electorate
81 Massach, lsetts comprehends the he
Cessities 0f the situation into which
socialistic and boshevist agitation.
supported D. the manipulations Of law
less men OF all shades OF revolutions
airy belief, eeks to plunge the United
States. h
II the yoa re for Governor COOLIDGE
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But Why Mall Such a Letteri

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-sT: Here
is an example of Mr.. Burieson's "mira-
culous' service. My office is on the sec
ond floor OF a building in Forty-second
street. New York The other day let
ter was mailed TO IRE from a firm on the
sixth floor Of the same building. Ac-
cording to the postmarks on the en-
velope it took three days to make the
trip.
From the sixth to the second floors OF
the same building in three days is some
speed I'll say. HAROLD McCREERY.
PAssAIc, n. j., October 2T.
The sun., 1919-10-28

Nobody probably has even thought
or said that Boss TowNLEY Of North
Dakota's Non-Partisan League is in
tentionally q comical person. How
ever, there is the we'll known uncon-
scious humor which sometimes brings
a laugh and often too a groan.
TowNLEY. displeased with some State
officials who closed a bank in Fargo
because they found it in a condition
which made it their duty to close it.
determined to impeach them. Then
he became comical; he demanded of
League members OF the Legislature
their pledges to vote for impeach-
mert resolutions when and as pre-
serted. Some of them refused be-
cause they wanted to hear evidence
before deciding how to vote Prob
ably TowNLEY thinks they are funny.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Pierpont V. Davis, president Of ,he IA.
uonal CITY Company, VIII address me
TTse bs GtsS Tss FQSgG55sa f"In "
Banquet OF the Church Club, waldorf
p. NJ.
Meeting. first panel sherins jury Va.
Joint convention of the National ASsora.
tion of Ice Industries and the Natural Ice
Association OF America. Hotel Aston a.
day.
Morning and afternoon sessions Of tie
Insurance Institute Of America, with oaN'
quet to the delegates in the evening h
Astor
Educational conference Of the NatoHa
Association of Audubon Societies, American
Museum OF Natural History. p VI
Meeting OF the Electric Hoist MaHat.
turers Association, East Forue'h street
=, Mes,ins of the Theatre Club. Ho's' Asst.
Meeting Of the Society for roAa4
Study. Hotel Astor, . + NJ.
Meeting of the Chicago club, H''s. A''
Meeting OF the First District. Nen Yo'S
state Federation OF "omens CLUES. hoe.
Meeting c, Of the Broadway Restaurant As.
ISOLATION Hotel Astor, $50 P N ...
Regular meeting OF the Board o. Aa.''
men. City Han. 80 p. NJ,
Meeting, National Council Insurance i.t'
sTatlon, Hotel Astor. 10 A. NJ
Luncheon, Producing Managers As''a''
tion, Hotel Astor, l Z. NJ.
physical Health, Common S.ns' or
Mental Health" lecture, auspices Depart
1880 p. NJ
Meeting Of the American Les.or Hot"
Pennsylvania, 5 p. NJ. ....
Exhibition OF fiftecn painting Ml'1a
Gallery. $50 Fifth avenue, el iaF.
Meeting 10 protest against ilr -A@H.
Nations covenant, auspices ln.''. I'.s0 N.
cieties. Hunts Point Palace. 1881 s.1"'. a.-
southern Boulevard, S =
| concert by Police Glye club, Amsterdam
Opera House, = NJ.
Old fashioned ratification RAJ. 'ur pe.
cratic candidates VIII be held az la"'"H+
Dinner to Joseph Dana Nuor bog ~,
M
kowalsky, Commerce H| lug. I"'.N
| z. NJ.
The Right Rev, Charles Sumner Ra-'a
OF ST John the Divlne at Il A. 81 ,..
The Home Economics Association H pr.
| Elementary schools viii meet a. r10 ~
| sell Sage Foundation Bl.atur 81. r''
| Twenty second street. AT 4 p. N ,o
The Right Rev. Charles n B-.r' F'.'P
of western New York viii 1r i.r r''.'
at the dinner in honor " .He t''. '..'..
| Episcopal Bishop OF NcW l.r. r
the church Club a. the waldorf .As.'.'
Lord punsany viii be the 6 o.r o. '5,,
| Society OF Arts ana Sciences 100 t H.H.' o.
| the Hotel McAlpin in 'la rF. as
There will be a meeting under '-t '.i
| pices OF the Big Brother Nn.'u..
which LAeut-Col. Coulter "l. SHOW
| pictures. at the WashIuEtgt l...t "r'
| School at r. NJ.
The Traffic Club will wuD. a. '. W..
| dorf Astoria at Z, ...,
| Democratic and Repuh an .t
| will speak at a uon-par'lstu u., ..HI
! Leagns OF Women Voters '.f'."
| sembly district at Turn HH.. I.E
avenue and Eighty-hfth street o.. ,. d,
! The Business Of Life uUt ~. .
! be the subject OF a lecture b.
| la Selva at L. :, l39 WodsH... "..
and ls2d street. at ssl6 N
The FIRST regular meeting Oh,
! the New York Society ut ir. .'...T '
! Founders and Patriots OF Au
held at the Hotel MuAip.n .....
Address by Reuben T.. Iarrr.. N'-..
can candidate for County JuuE. .'."".
| Club, Brooklyn. 1880 = "
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uatlon scarcely deemed possible when
they were written. 1t is so with most
crimes, In the statute books will be
found laws for the punishment Of
practically every conceivable offence
against our property, our persons and
our institutions. New laws may
fairly be said to be unnecessary. What
we should and must have is intelligent,
unflnching enforcement of. the laws
already provided.
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New Laws Not Needed in New York
~ to Punish Anarchists.

The conviction of two men tried in
the New York Supreme Court before
Justice WEEKS on a charge of advo-
eating criminal. anarchy is particu-
larry because of the cir
cumstances under which the prosecu-
tidl was conducted.
IN this case there was no appeal to
statutes enacted to meet peculiar con-
ditipns caused by war, and the State
deteHded in no degree on the United
StRtes for the protection of its insti-
tuHons and citizens.
Che sections of the New York Penal
LdS which were relied upon in the
'prbskcution were enacted by the Legis-
latpre in 1902, following the assassi-
nation of President MCKINLEY in
September, 1901. They constitute
ArtScle NV. The offence they treat
Is defined in section 100:
Terminal anarchy is the doctrine
tflat organized government should
be overthrown by force or violence,
ot by assassination of the executive
ktad or OF any OF the executive
officials of government or by any
unlawful means. The advocacy OF
such doctrine either by word Of mouth
or writing is a felony"
Section 161 of the law covers advo.
caeYsof criminal anarchy in consider.
able detail, and provides punishment
by imprisonment for ten years, or by
fine of not more than $1,000, or both
fog persons convicted thereof BY
sectien 1872 "assemblages of anarch
lists" are defined, and section 16S
makes it misdemeanor for those In
control Of meeting places to permit
such assemblages. Section 164 defines
the responsibility of the editors oI
pr0prietors of "a book, newspaper ol
serial" for publication of matter in
SUCH book, newspaper or serial. Under
section 165 residents of the State who
go.beyond its bounds to elude the pro
vision Of the law are declared to bt
punishable as if their offences were
committed within the State. The
concluding section deprives a person
summoned as witness under thu
article of the privilege of refusing tC
testify on the ground that his testi
mony might tend to convict him of {
crime, but such evidence shall not b,
refeiyed against him upon any criml
nal proceeding"
trom this 1t will he seen that seven
teen y' - ago the State of New Yorl
acted TO It's institutions of GOV
erhment fro'" anarchists, and acte,
WIN such wisdom and provision tina
in.h time of worldwide unrest II
enRGAmen'ssproye competent to a slt
The sun., 1919-10-28

puragement Congress alone can
to airship construction and to
9 by appropriatlng sufficient
" TO meet literally the needs Of
NATIONAL service.
day the United States is falling
d other first class Powers in the
Its trained men have not enough
to put through a comprehensive
lmme of laboratory and practl-
,rk. Invention is not stimulated
hould be. Progress we made in
| lr at high cost in money, labor,
} lood has not been continued.
, Congress unsympathetic to an
4 ened and comprehensive pro-
n Of experiments, construction
y ing we shall soon be hopelessly
IS Sed In a field in which we
II be leaders.
q ess must wake up TO the posi-
8 and the needs of the national
n, ice. We have learned from
q xperience that neither flying
ne nor flying men can be i'm
'ed in a week, or month, or a
4 lust we wait for experience
bit ter to bring home to Congress
atb IN of the fact, now recog-
bs every competent authority,
If ' We lack air defence we shall
FRI I'M air attack?
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Jest by Young Woman Postal Clerk.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: /
went to the post office here to inquire if
a certain man had got the mail out OF
his box--I wanted to catch him at the
post Office.
charming young woman clerk went
TO the box and answered: mo, it hash I
been robbed yet" and in answer to my
astonished, whats that?" again re-
peated the above phrase.
Queer eh? WILLIAM MORGAN,
CHARLESTON, S. G. October 27.