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TRADE BRIEFS.

South AfrIca's nocks total more thar
80, 900, 900 sheep, producing over ITO 900.
900 pounds Of wool per annum.
10 some parts OF Cape Province, South
Africa, chicory gives yield OF $3.50 to
$500 an acre, Johannesburg being tho chile;
market.
The revenue Of the spanish treasury in
1918 totalied S331, 263.307 aud the dis
bursenen,s 1884, lsl, 08a. resulting in .
small dcfc!t,
The Krupp works have begun TO manu-
faoturo surveying measures, rulers, squares
sighting apparatus, hydraulic and cleo
trio armatures and ventilators.
Il is understood that ILoyGs Bank, ths
National Provincial and the Union of Eng
land Bank are planning TO establish
branches a; Antwerp and at Brussels.
Carsoes awaiting transportation along
the South Marchuria railway lines. China
now aggregate 070.0O0 tons or produce,
the majority lying at ChanEehun. Kaiyuan
and Kungchuling.
Burma exported SEQ. worth OF chemi,
calls In 1918 as compared with s25.4iS
worth in 1917. The value Of such exports
to countries other than India in 1915
amounted to only ss2
Forty locomotives OF mountain" type
are being built In tho United states to
the order Of the South African Govern
ment Railway Department, reports the
British and South African Export Gazette,
Kimberley. South Africa, is raising a
SO, $50 900 loan. OF which $3.50, 900 will bt
expknded on abattoir and cold Ato-nge
works, $1,000, 900 on sewerage works and
plant, and the balance on other public
services.
Tho nrst Chinese steamship carrying ths
nag Of the Chinese Republic to appear or
Pacific waters arrived in Seattle January
/. 1t was the Hwa Hwu, carrying from
800 to 700 tons OF general merchandise
from the straits Settlements and Hong
kong
The Asia Banking Corporation, the sec.
ond American banking institution to be
established In the Orient, opened Its once,
in Shanghai on February T. The new banL
has adopted Service as Its Wstchword
and will carry on business with an Amerl
can stan.
In order TO protec, Swiss commercial
interests in Russia there has recently beer
formed In Switzerland an organization tc
be known as the "SchweizeriSche Hilfs.
und -Kreditoren n Cenosse nschaft fir Russ
land" or the Swiss Relief and Creditors
| Association for Russia.
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Great camp for New York Of the Maccso
bees, convention. Hotel Commodore III
Grand Grove OF the state of New York, l42
East Seventh street, all day. :. III,
celebrated with Victory dinner, under the
auspices of the Imperial Order, Daughters
OF the British Empire in the United States
at the Hotel Commodore at p. NJ
Special meeting OF the Greater New York
Branch OF the Enrolled womens I.easu.
streets, Brookiyn, at $50 p. NJ.
There VII be "a free , Lecture ON. msT
can Alliance of Civil Service Women. at
Police HeadauarteTs, p. M: vo.,. nm
speak at the closing exercises of the even
ing school OF the Harlem Y NJ {. A. at
West l?5th street, at gag p NJ
ton Heights Community Canteen at tho
canteen,, lssth street and Broadway at
Dinner for the Members of the Motor
Corps of America, Ritz-CArlton Hotel
Discussion Of the League of Nations, Ho-
tel Plaza, 5:3O r. NJ.
Reception for the safe return Of the
soldiers sailors and marines OF Old Green
wich Village and Chelsea district. JUST "a
+ r. Finch and Congressman La GuaTdia
will speak, 3ls West Fourteenth street Z
Dinner to the Ninety fourth Aero Pur-
sgit squsddrSSn T. Al hSd BY tss AmsIIsr
will preside. II East Thirty eighth stree
Meeting of the Mayors COMMITTEES on
Rent Profteering, room 1879, Munieips'
Building, 2 p. NJ.
Rotary Club dinner Hotel McAlpin, s:is
p. M
Kiwanis Club luncheon. Hotel McAlpin.
p. NJ.
Retail Millinery Associate luncheon,
Hotel McAlpin. 1880 P. NJ.
National Association Wood Turner's meet
ing. Hotel McAlpin, all day.
American Jersey Cattle Club melting, 10
A. NJ; luncheon. p. NJ, Waldorf-Astora.
Filth Avenue Association, comsnitte.
luncheon, Waldorf Astoria, 1890 p. N.
Chocolate and Confectionery Manufae-
turers meeting. Waldorf-Astoria, p. 81.
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GOOD ROAD BILLS IN CONGRESS
Ono Would Appropriate s42B,OOO.-
900. the Other BilIion

WASH iNGToN, June Federal sp-
proprations of $4,000, 900 during the
next nVe years for construction and
maintenance OF roads was proposed in n
bill Introduced to-day by Senator Towns.
end tMich)' Republican. Establishment
OF a national highway system under n
Feusral highway commission. without
contributions from the states Il NO.
posed
Representative Robson (Ky) intro
duced similar bill providing for tn.
appropriated OF sl,ooo,OOO,O 600 during
tho next four years, 500, 600, 900 to be
available next year. and $500 600 600
during each of the three succeeding
years To obtain the money, the states
would be required to appropriate an
amount equal to that given by the Fed.
eral Government
The bill also provides that army
trucks and other materials for which the
army now has no use should ba turned
over TO the States and used for road
building.
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BOOKLETS TO AID WORKERS.
u. 2. Labor Department Shows
Methods of Teaching Trades.

WASHINGTON. June 2-The Govern
rnent is about to make contribution
to the literature on various important
trades which, it Is said, will be of in
csttmable Valle in helping certain in
dustries adjust themselves to after
war economic conditions The contri-
button consists OF series OF pam.
phlets prepared for the benefit OF en-
ployee and employer setting forth the
proper methods OF teaching certain
trades and operations to workmen.
These booklets are being prepared by
the L. s. Training Service OF the De-
partment of Labor
The subjects covered by this series
are textile making, garment making, shoe
manufacture, paper box making, litho-
graphy, piano manufacture, foundry
work, rubber manufacture, and general
foremaruhip. The purpose of iho Curse
or training Is TO provide prs....-.l means
oy which the workers in the industry
can attain recognized standard O,
efficiency.
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ST. STEPHENS RECTOR NAMED
Father Cummings of 81. CoImsn's.
East Kingston. VIII Take Church.

Archbishop Hayes has appointed the
Rev. Francis J. Cummings rector Of
st. Stephens Roman Catholic Church
Twenty eighth street, between Third and
Lexington avenues. Father Cummings
succeeds the Most Rev. Archbishop, who
had been rector of st. Stephens untl.
two months ago when the Pope chose
him to succeed the late Cardinal Farley
as Archbishop OF New York.
Father Cummings. who is a graduate
OF Manhattan College. this city, and was
ordained at st. Joseph's Seminary Dur
woodie, has been rector OF St. Colnau =
Church, East Kingston, But he Is We
known in this city, having served at the
Church of the Ascension, West l07th
street; ST. Thomas tho Apostles. West
llSth street and St BriEid's, East
Eighth street.
st. Stephens, with a congregation OF
5000 and Sunday school children nun
berinG 1900, Is considered one of tho
most important Catholic churches In
this city. Among Its prominent rectors
were the Rev. DR. Edward McGlynn
the Rev Charles II. Cotton, who became
Bishop OF Buffalo, and the Rev. Thomas
F Cusacll, whom tbs Pope namcu
bishop OF Albany. The present church
was built by namesake OF the new
rector. Father Cummings
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WATERPROOF THE ARCH.
A Way to Prolong the Life Of Fifth
Avenues Patriotic Decorations.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-sir: A
friend from Massachusetts writes that
he has greatly enjoyed a stroll on Fifth
avenue, viewing the arch and other oh
jects recently erected for welcoming the
returning soldiers, This reminds ms
that many. even in this city, have not
had an opportunity to see these works
OF art which cost large sums and ought
to be preserved as long as possible.
When the obelisk In Central Park be-
gan to deteriorate from exposure to
weather It was treated with a water
proof coating which has preserved II
these many years. This treatment would
doubtless preserve these structures until
more enduring monuments could be
erected and until millions OF people OF
this and other countries have had an
opportunity to see them. ARCHITECT.
New YORK. June 2.
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MEN OF THE c. E. +.
A Call for Reunion OF Americans who
Served Under the Maple Leaf. \

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir: YOU
no doubt are aware of the large number
of Americans who enlisted In the Cana
dian Expeditionary Forces. OF thest
quite few came from New York city
Each day finds more of US returning
home. OF course not all of us are
coming back. The wonderful work oil
the Canadian corps from August al
Amlens to November IL at Mons was
not accomplished without severe losses
The Yanks, most OF whom enlisted in
the latter part of 1917, played their
part in what proved to be the last
push" How we'll they played 1t the
casualty lists will tell.
We who are returning to the States
are mighty proud OF having served with
that army from the other side OF the
st. Lawrence, to quote General Currie.
that army (which having once CONSOLE
dated a position. never lost it
AS things stand at present we are as
a body out OF touch with the c. L. f.
There is no organization to represent us.
In Canada they have a war veterans
organization, but 1t is OF little bene-
fit to US down here in the States. And
We aiu HOt' bSiiSNcs ciibipac W ihohi
bership in the American Legion, &C.
There are no ways or means by which
we could meet and renew those friend
ships formed in the training camps OF
England and the bsttlefields OF France.
1t does not seem fair.
1t remains to a paper which, like THE
Sun, reaches the mass of Canadians
to help and further movement to cor
rect this condition. l feel sure that IL
you would give this letter space in your
valuable paper 1t might interest and
attract the attention of somebody or a
number Of persons who have the well
fare of these men at heart and the
ability to band together these Americans,
many Of whom init the line" with the
first contingent early in 1915.
LEWIS J. CULLEN,
Nineteenth Battalion, C. E F.
NEW YoaK, June 2,
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Soldiers Bonds and Aliotments.

The SUN has been much gratified
by the receipt Of number of letters
Of which the subjoined communlca,
ton Is a fair sample:
ITO THE EDITOR OF T1;a suN-Sw:
About two weeks ago / wrote you for
information as to where l should
apply for Liberty bonds and informa-
tion as to allotments made while 1
was in the army.
you referred me to Brigadier-
General II, NJ. LORD, Director Of
Finance, Munitions Building. Wash
ington, D. c., and wish to advise
you that the response has been
prompt and courteous.
Il have received my bonds and the
allotment question is nearly settled
II want to thank you very much
for the information you furnished
and assure you that it 10 greatly
appreciated. 49,
NEW YORK, May 81"
We have told number of Devil.
dered soldiers and ex-soldiers to take
their bond and allotment troubles UP
with General LORD, and so far as we
know all of them who have followed
our recommendation have been treated
with courtesy, intelligence and hearty
good temper. We realize that we
have added to General LORDS burden
q number of extra ticks of labor that
would not have come his way had
we refrained from giving his name
end address to our inquirlng friends
and for time we were somewhat
nervous lest he should appear some
day with a squad OF soldiers to drag
us of to be shot at sunrise. How
ever, he is busy now explaining the
Army appropriation bill to the House
Committee on Military Affairs, jot
which, with the correspondence we
have directed his way, will engage
his attention for some time.
There is one bit of advice which
must be impressed on oil the soldiers
and ex-soldiers who write to General
LORD. They must be careful to write
their names and addresses and al
the facts concerning their service
clearly and in full. A good many Of
them do not do this, as THE Sun car
testify from experience. Unless the
data are given neither General LORI
nor anybody else can trace the trans
actions In which they are interested
no matter how good his will may be.
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An American objection.

In his speech on the League of
Nations Senator ROBINSON said, re-
ferring to Senator REED:
He reclassifed the human race.
He divided It into two classes. white
and dark. and under the dark CLASH
fcation he put every other race ex-
cept the white race"
Then Senator OWEN Of Oklahoma
arose In his place and said: MY.
President, as Cherokee Indian !
object"
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18TH DIVISION BANS PARADE.
Soldiers Prefer to Get Out Of ser,
vice ma Go Home.

PHILADELPHIA. June 2-Thcrs W
not be parade OF the Ssventy-Ltn'h
Division In this city After a corsu.
tat!on to-day between Mayor smith o,
Philadelphia, Adjt Gen. Bsary and ne
commanding octcvrs o. Ire division At
Camp Dix Announcement. 20 ta's srso;
was made
Mayor Smith declared th4 city = VIZ
Ing 10 STOW the same honors 10 the 81
OF the Seventy-n!nth az were hoco drG
TO the Twentysishth Div,sor ~ me
statement "as MADE tia, the NJ wtrs
AEeHse TO psradinT ard wanted - set
| cut OF the service anG 20 hons a
qutohly as posstbis.
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Dry whistles at the Races.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir; why
not call the attention OF the manaEo'
ment Of the rRcetracks TO their neglect
in not affording to women and men an
opportunity TO obtain a drink OF water
at their resorts. Thirty-five thousand
persons are interested.
II you ask for water at the public
bars the attendants forget you, There
are plenty OF drinks at 40 cents each
and beer at so cents a bottle.
Again, In the cars going to and from
the racetrack there Is no water.
Certainly IS head should entitle
us TO this necessity of life. Let there
be barrels OF water, and cups for sale.
NEW YORK, June 2, c, II, r.
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The Rhine Republic.


OF the Rhine Republic. which sud-
denly sprang into existence Sunday,
there are two widely varying views.
Chancellor SCHEIDEMANN, who may
speak for Germany as represented by
the present German Government re-
fers to the republic thus set up as
west German buffer State" and de-
clares that Its creation will tend to-
the disruption of Germany. The proc
lamatiOn of the establishment of this
republic, which may be considered as
the statement of its President, DR..
BORDEN, declares 1t to be an autono-
nous State founded In the bosom Of
Germany" that 1t separates itself
from Prusslan institutions (which are
the basis of so many wars, feudalism
and militarism" and that by so doing
1t eliminated IAN obstacle standing in
the way of Il genuine peace"
The new State Is made up of terri
tory extending from the Netherlands
on the north to Alsace, Lorraine and
Baden on the south, and from Bel
GUM east to Westphalla and the line
Of small German States extending to
the Banrian border. Within II are
included the old duchy Of Nassau, the
Rhine province of Prussia, the Palati-
nate and Rhenish Hesse.
This represents the richest and most
prosperous section Of west Germany,
the section which in the last half CEN
fury underwent the greatest CONNER
cial and industrial development of any
part of the former German Empire.
The loss of the Rhine province in itself
would be Il severe blow to Prussia; it
is rich in wide range of mineral and
agricultural productions, and 1t is
the most densely populated of any OF
the Prusslap provinces, with such
important business centres as Cologne,
Cobleaz, Dusseldorf and Aachen.
The Rhine in the most important
part of Its course as a commercial
waterway flows through the new re-
public. The Moselle Valley, with its
highly productive vineyards, and the
Saar Valley, with It's rich deposits Of
coal and its highly developed indus
tries, lie entirely within the bound
aries marked for the new Rhine State.
lndustrially the territory included
within this State would be as nearly
self-supporting as any other section of
the former German Empire.
Prussia was perhaps never too GER
tain Of the loyalty of the Rhine prov
ince. The people are rather curl
GUS mixture Of races; they are
about as much French, Franconlan,
Flemish or Low Dutch as they are
German. They have been Henerally
insiStent upon their demands in mat
tiers Of local government. 1t was In the
Rhine Valley region that the revo.
luton of 1919 gained Its grea test
force and had Its most consistent fol-
lowers. 1t was also in this region,
at Coblenz and Cologne, that the
first bitter opposition was manifested
against the conduct and the contlnu-
alton of the war. The French writer
MAURICE Barnes In referring to DR..
DoRDEN places him among the men
early disconnected with the PrussIan
rule and says: He is one of those
idealist Rhinelanders who have never
been reconciled to the subsection of
the left bank of the Rhine to brutal
exploitation by Prussia"
While there must appear a very
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pie industry from its foundations,
bury business under the ruins and
leave the men, women and children of
the United States starving by the
roadside of a desolate land.
So the Government does not and
will not cut Off the economic and
financial body behind the ears. 1t
properly and sagaciously will take the
tail, bit by bit, as 1t grows.
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The recent exhibition of drawings
attributed to AUBREY BEARDsIEY has
plunged an army OF critics into print
and they are controverting like every
thing to prove that the drawings are
and are not genuine Beardsleys. As
usual a feature of such controversies
is a demonstration that artists write
well, but that is not the most inter
esting feature of this war of pens: II
is that anybody has the courage to
argue a proposition which involves the
belief that 1t can be proved that any
drawing not positively identified as
by some one else may not be q
Beardsley.
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Taxing the Right Hand Pocket to
Pay the Left Hand Pocket.

IN discussing thls nation war OeDt
and the national war debts of the
world Senator SHOOT says:
There are Just two methods by
which the world can meet the condi-
ton It faces. Either the nations must
look the fact squarely in the face
recognize that they cannot carry the
burden and repudiate their domestic
debts. or else they must impose a
special levy on wealth that will nearly
reach the point OF coniscation."
A distinction, as Senator SMoor I'M
doubtedly knows and might well
have declared, without a difference
Whether it is Government of Europe
staggering under an internal debt al
most equal to the national wealth or
| whether 1t Is our own Government
that It may be described as a baga-
telle, its domestic debt will be cleared,
in truth. by confiscation. That is not
the question. The question is which
is the wiser way to confiscate-inch
by inch, with national safety retained,
or with one sweeping stroke, destroy
ing everything.
When this Government puts out
thirty billions of dollars of bonds the
nation does no more and no less than
to borrow from itself thirty billions
of dollars to lend to itself. The
American people, as Government,
have taken from the American peo-
pie, as a nation, the thirty billions of
dollars. BY exactly the, same token
the American people, ms a Govern
ment, owe themselves the amount and
must pay themselves, as a nation, out
of their own pockets. 1t can't be
paid any other way.
| Those who now hold the bonds of
| the United States Cover 3ment will be
taxed by the Government topay them
selves interest They will he taxed
by the Government to build up the
sinking fund for the ultimate payment
| of the principal to themselves. Some,
the rich, will be taxed, TO pay them
selves, great deal more than they
will ever get. Some, the poor, will
be taxed less than they will get. But,
| taken as n whole, the American peo-
Pile who lent to themselves, as the
Government, the thirty billions of
dollars, will pay to themselves, with
the taxes exacted from themselves,
the interest and the principal. 1t is
merely taxing the right hand pocket
to pay the left hand pocket In the
same jeans.
The Governments bond issues, as a
matter Of cold fact, were really de,
ferred taxation. 1t was not possible
for the American people as Govern,
ment to tax the American people as a
nation thirty billions of dollars at one
whack. And so the American people
as n Government taxed the Amerl
can people as a nation all they could
stand for the moreN' Then the Gov
eminent financed the rest of its wal
bills with the bonds, and to extinguish
these bonds the deferred taxation will
go on till the cows come home.
This Of course Is fair and II is
sound, To have confiscate ted the whole
war expense ut one stroke would have
annlhilated industry and business anf
would have pauperized the people. Elk,
actly in the same way, to repudiate
now at one stroke or to confiscate-
and there is not one particle of eco
monte difference between the repudia.
ton and the onfiscntlon-would top.
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Three Leagues or Nations.

We are credibly informed that the
League to Enforce Peace, in which ex-
President TAFT Is the chief figure, Is
conducting at the cost of not less
organized propaganda to create and
bring to bear upon the United States
Senate a public sentiment favorable
! TO ''the League of Nations"
n We put "the League Of Nations" in
quotation marks for the simple reason
that 1t is yet an indeterminate term.
( IL 1t is President WILSON'S League Of
Nations which Mr.. TAFT and other
honest and well meaning friends of
peace are taxing themselves to pro-
mote. no human being can say what
sort of league of nations that is.
Even the published covenant does not
tell us. The covenant is avowedly
interviewer with the treaty In the
hope of making 1t inseparable and
I. inextrlcable; and the text of the rest
of the treaty has not yet been vouch-
safed to the United States Senate for
study, although nearly seven months
have elapsed since the cessation Of
hostilities.
The various sorts of leagues of ma
lions which would answer to the gen.
eral name may be roughly grouped in
three classes somewhat as follows: ..
1. The league of nations which Is
in fact a federation If nations, a
supersovereignty exercising actual
dominion over governments previously
/. autonomous which by major force
OF arms Is prepared to define the
I boundaries and control the destinies
and even regulate some of the do
nestle affairs of the constituent
States.
2. The league of nations which Is
I mainly an organization for the judi
cial determination of disputes between
nations, with machinery for trial or
arbitration, with sheriffs powers of
execution and enforcement after a
verdict has been reached or a SEN
tence pronounced.
3. The league of nations which is
scarcely more than an international
political science society or a benevo-
lent association; with unlimited func-
lions of advice, of moral suasion and
even of a mild sort of economic pres
sure, hut without any more power to
compel than the tribunal of The
Hague had under that elaborate sys.
tenn of treaty agreements which
seemed so promising guarantor of
peace to the world about a score of
years ago.
Now, Alpha Lyre is not further
from the moon than Is the most potent
league of nations In the first of the
foregoing classes from the least eff,
clent league Of nations Of the third
class; and between the two extremes
there are n thousand possible grada-
lions of type and power.
We do not know what sort of a
League of Nations President WILSON
really wants. 1t seems to be any sort
that bears the name and will answer
for historical purposes and for the
. vindication of personal insistence
The President has sufficiently demon
strated his willingness to go either
to Alpha Lyre or to the moon, or tc
stop anywhere between.
But these gentlemen of the League
/ to Enforce Peace who under Mr.
IAFT's benign leadership are sub.
scribing a thousand dollars a day to
promote Mr.. WILSON'S League: will
they too be satisfied If they get moth.
ing but the moon?