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the Post Office for sorting and ether
preparation for delivery. But that Is
only the beginning Of this new traf-
fic; only an incident demonstrating
the need we have suggested.
Great things are in prospect for the
commercial use Of airplanes. 1t means
something more than play or sport
that an order has been placed involv-
ing the expenditure Of half a million
in planes, equipment and operation
for a cross-continent airplane line /;
that in a successful experiment a mer-
chant has delivered to an out of town
customer a ton of household goods by
airplane; that devices are announced
which, 1t is confidently promised, will
insure as great stability for a plane
in the air as for barge on the Hud-
son; that already a plane carrying
passengers, its course laid by COM
pass, has flown through fog from
Dayton, Ohio, to Long Island field,
making its appointed landing with
speed and safety.
These things surely must be fore
runners Of large uses Of airplanes for
mail, express and passenger service,
and not in the far future. But where,
near Manhattan, are these ships to
arrive and depart If the services they
offer will not be attended with such
delays and inconvenience as to handi-
cap their popularity, restrict their
patronage? Van Cortlandt Park has
been suggested as offering landing
sites, but park space Is too valuable
for recreation purposes TO be other.
wise occupied The New Jersey
meadows, drained or filed, neither a
difficult undertaking, we are assured
with thousands of acres crossed by
railways offering quick entrance into
Manhattan, suggest themselves. We
hope that other and perhaps better
adapted sites capable of great extern
sion may be found. But some one who
can do things must be alive to this.
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one of the best educated of nations
there Is as little concord of feeling
as between the slave driver and Free
Soiler in the United States Of 1880.
In 1S4S Holland was SO democratic
and so at antipodes with reachonary
Prussia that the Continental attempts
at revolution disturbed her not for n
day. Those who know her oft revised
written constitution can understand
why the German Bolehevism of No
vember, 1918, though supported by
gold and the long continued previous
propaganda, failed. Bravely the
Queen Immediately rode out among
her people, the middle classes were
armed, and most OPPORTUNITY Ameri-
can grain and meat arrived.
In the disguised republic, officially
called a kingdom, the tie that binds
the people to the nominal throne is
the memory Of WILLIAM the Silent,
who, long before ROGER WILLIAMS or
WILLIAM PENN or THOMAS JEFFER-
son, laid the foundations of the re-
pablo, not in liberation but in re-
ligious as well as political freedom to
all who we're obedient to law. JOHN
ADAMS made no mistake in saying
that a page Of history from one or
the other of the Dutch and American
republics read like a transcript.
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A Clerical and Moral Reform In
the Army.

One Of the things the war has done
for the United States army is TO re-
duce its paper work" This service
phrase covers the correspondence and
records of the establishment. 1t is
military duty which always was a
detriment to army morals, since it
was a constant cause of profanity.
But paper work has really been re-
formed and made simpler.
The unwieldy SO inch muster in roll
of earlier wars has been replaced by
individual enlistment papers and an
initial muster roll. Work which re-
qulred days in 1916 was done in an
equal number of hours year later.
The muster out rolls adopted in 1914
were also "restudied," as Is said of
operas, and abolished. with a conse-
quent reduction of clerical labor. The
physical examination report form has
been reduced from eight pages to four.
The twelve page form to show the In
dividual record of an enlisted man
has been replaced by a service rec
ord which not only accompanies the
soldier everywhere, but also has elm
mated Me several copies Of the old
descriptive list and made obsolete
three additional forms.
Before this reduction in paper work
was instituted 1t was necessary to
keep nine distinct records for each
soldier. These had to so with him
every time he was transferred or de
tached. These have been reduced to
two forms for company records and
one for reglmental headquarters. The
effect of reform like this can be
more easily understood when It Is
known that in the case of one of ou1
infantry regiments of 1904 men about
10000 records have been done away
with by the new system.
BY substituting daily reports Of
change of duties and status of sol
der for the old bi-monthly muster
rolls, the individual record of eacl
soldier from his induction into the
army can be seen at a glance. Under
the old system search had to bt
made through every bi-monthly mus
ter roll of a mans organization from
the time he entered the service to oh
tain his complete record, a long anc
tedious task.
The army has even designed a new
type of field desk for the use of ad
jutants ito facilitate the operation o
the new system of record keeping.
II less profanity is uttered by tn
commissioned and non commissioned
officers these days than used to be, th
reduction in paper work can be cred
itcd with that improvement. The Ad
jutant- General, who worked out thes
changes, Is a moral as well as a Clcri
cal reformpr
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Who Starts These False Tales?

Can it be that the Rev. DR.. CLAIR
ENCE True WILSON, who asserts that
drugged cigarettes were issued to
American soldiers in France, is &C.
quainted with the author of the
charges widely circulated earlier in
the war in which American soldiers
abroad were fatty accused of disso-
lutte living?
Those accusations were promptly.
completely and publicly disproyed.
The excellent conduct of our army
elected praise not only from its Off
GERS but also from officers of foreign
armies. and from ci.ilians whose dis
interestedness made their testimony
particularly valuable. The American
troops received a clean bill of moral
health from every impartial observer
who had earned the right to discuss
their behavior.
The Rev. DR.. CLARENCE TRUE VII.
SONS remarks about drugged ciga-
rettes and their effect on American
soldiers are so ridiculous the belief
is almost unavoidable that they came
from the same source as the previous
canard, or source closely connected
with It's authorship. If their refutatlor
we're of any importance an eXamina
| ton of their origin with this in mind
would be In order. But as they are
Of no consequence nobody is likely tc
undertake such an examination.
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We are sea. the far sought goal
Toward which the human rivers roll;
From every cline beneath the sun
The streams OF men their courses run
To merge them with our mighty whole.
Our tides are self contained. no toll
They give 10 any strand or shosl,
All come TO us--we go TO none,
We are sea.
We cannot be a stream; our soul
Can never yield its vast control.
Else vain would be our triumphs won
Else would our destiny be done.
Forevermore from pole TO pole
We are a sea
McLANDBuRGH WILSON.
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GERMANY'S ABILITY TO PAY.
Money Heretofore Spent on Her War
Machine One Resource.

To THE EplToR OF THE SUN-Sr: AS
we are all more or less statesmen and
psacemakers at this time, though un-
connected with officialdom, I venture to
suggest on the question OF the extent
OF Germany's ability 70 pay indemnity
that being relieved of the sreat burden
which she has sustained for many years
OF building up and maintaining her vast
military and naval machine, as recently
pointed out by George II. Benjamin, this
great source OF revenue is available for
.ndemnties There appears to he no
reason why it should be any more DIFF
fcult or impossible to raise great
revenue for upbuilding than for destroy
ing.
The proposition appears 10 be sound
economically and eminenty just, and
why not entirely practical?
The only other alternative would seem
to be the enforced employment or prac-
tical enslavement OF enough OF the con-
nuerec Germans for the purpose Of re-
building devastated France and Bel
sium by manual labor This might
seem a reversion to primitive methods.
but it would not be too harsh, but en-
tirely Just. You destroyed II with your
own bloody hands. now rebuild 1t with
the same hands, after you have been
Obliged to wash them" would not be
a cruel mandate.
And while they are making other pro-
visions for the payment of indemniries
and reparations let the Allies turn over
! the captured German navy TO France
and LEI her credit il on account OF the
! indemnity eXacted from her by Ger
many in 1871 J. NOBLE HAYES.
New YORK, March 10
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POLLING BLACK Jim CROW.
1t Is Not Necessary to XIII Him 10
Protect Young Corn.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS--Sir: 1t
may be that the crow ought TO be eX
terminated for his misdeeds but one OF
the charges against him. that he de-
stroys young corn just coming up. while
undoubtedly true in many cases, should
he withdrawn. as a perfect anG mex
pensive remedy exists against his &C
tiyity in this direction. No farmer who
reads a good agricultural paper should
be ignorant OF the fact that crows will
net iniure young corn the seed OF which
has been treated to a covering OF coal
tar before planting ] make this state
ment from an experience OF twenty-five
years in raising corn. have never seen
In large field more than half a dozen
plants pulled up when thus treated. The
crows who do the pulling appear to
notify all the other crows that something
is the matter with the corn in this par
tlcular field and II Ia left severely alsse
NEW ROCHELLE, March Is. NJ T. r.
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PASTEUR REDIVIVUS.

Nothing indicates that Paris 10 her
self again in spite Of Peace Confer
ence and League OF Nations so much
as the recent production Of the play
"Pasteur." The two Gultrys, father
and son, actor and author, in collabora-
ton with the famous scientist must
have produced something greatly TO
the glory of the French nation.
The play gives the whole life OF
Pasteur in series OF pictures; no
women, no love interest, no plot. These
last three elements are what the
world clamors for at the theatre, and
they are supposed to find their finest
Towering in Paris; but there Is an
other element that the laxative
Frenchman loves even more than this
glorious trinity, and that is ideas.
The life of Pasteur Is full Of germi-
mating, evolving, exploding ideas, and
though the play which bears his name
may have no ordinary dramatic inter
est, 1t has an extraordinary fascination
for Frenchmen in showing the birth
and growth of ideas that finally
revolutionize the world, just as In the
past and in another way the ideas OF
Montesquieu and Rousseau trans
formed many of the opinions of two
hemispheres.
"Pasteur" is a play that all visiting
Americans should see. Guitry's acting
is alone worth while. The subject is
more Of a revelation about French
character than are the classic plays
which horny specialized Americans fol-
low with their nose in the text. 1t is
also vastly superior to the Gallo salt
of such productions as THE Arch
| bishop and His Sons" 1.-The Disrobine
OF the Bride" and the Sleeping Hog
| which are supposed TO be the essence
of Paris in the opinion of many SNORT
sighted military visitors.
True to her Celtic nature, Paris has
been in her theatrical amusements all
through the war either seriously
classical or gracefully Gallo. The
visiting American and the French
schoolboy have had an opportunity
during the war to hear all the plays Of
Racine, Moliere and Corneille, to say
nothing of Beaumarchais. They
might spend many lifetlmes in London
or New York before they would have
a chance 10 hear all the plays o.
| Shakespeare.
Already Parisians are hoping tina
the war theatre with its fiimsy fabrics
is going to be transformed, ina
"Pasteur" is the beginning of a serle'
Of new plays that F'renchrhen whos'
energies have been terminated by tn
war will be glad to see. They hsv'
had enough OF the soft ease which cam
dangerously near to costing them thei
lives, and they see in "Pasteur" sub
ject typical OF renewed and rein
vigorated France.
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MORAL COURAGE.
4 First Step In the Reconstruction
of the Indly ldual

To THE EDITOR oF TUE SU~- Sr: We
hear good deal about reconstruction
these daNs. While VIC are rcconstru f.
ing the world wouldn't II he a good idea
il We set about roconstructtns ourselves
a little? I do not know anything that
would make more for peace.
AZ first step ] would suggest cu,t.-
waiting greater respect for moral cour-
age rs contradlstinEulshcd from phvsi-
cal We go into ecstasios Of admiration
over the prowess Of successful soldier
OF prizehghter, but the spectacle of an
honest man resisting temptation or a
b'ave man struggling with adversely "a
apt 10 leave us untouched. STRINUs
NEW YORK, March 10.
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Thou That Hast Looked on Death"

ITO any soldier returnins)
Thou that hast looked on death" ran
through my thought,
Repeating inwardiy an age old prayer
whereby, In perirs hour. men have be-
sought
An understanding Love- softer Carol
And yet, It was a look in human eyes-
Young, broodinE eyes evoked these words
in me,
A look of having seen-that stin denies
To say what sight It was those eyes ala
Thou that hast looked on death in closest
range
war death, in sickening confusion
packed,
with multiple. dsvioeful tortures strange!
'Tis done; so. let not Memory be racked.
Thou that hast looked on death--thou will
not speak;
Nor I. young soldier. will thy story seek.
EDITH NJ. THOMAS.
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The Way Of Love.

with what wild clamor ,besiesed Loves
door
Pied for his pity. begged his sympathy.
Besought him OF his trust to make me
free;
And pledged him all tho Joy within my
store,
And all tho blossoms that my garden bore.
And all my songs and all my loyalty
Alas! Love only laughed in mockery.
And bade me to be gone forevermore.
Wounded and sad, crept away to hide,
Where l might never meet his scornful
eyes:
Then, stealing soft TO win my swift sur
prise,
And all my fears with happy wit deride--
Love sought me out, his eyes with long
ing dim.
Ana led me back 20 make my home with
him.
CHARLOTTE BECKER.
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THAT TEST OF SHARPNESS.
The Spelling Followed at the UnINer
sity of Minnesota Is Questioned.

To THE EDITOR or THE SvN--Sir. How
about that test Of smartnesa reprinted
in THE Sun from the st, raNl Dispatch :
or the ton words SO frequently mis-
spelled by the unfortunate students Of
the University Of Minnesota "repellant'
Gems to have no good standing. II is
not given at all by the Century Die
tlonary. and is marked rare by the
Webster International "Repcllcnt' Is
undoubtedly the accepted form.
And as for "coliectahlc." although
de Century prefers It TO "collcctiblc,"
T. allows the latter form, which tho In
t.rnational actually prefers,
ALEXANDER nrA&E, NJ d.
NEW YORK, March -.
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While the Treaty or Peace Lays
Europe Cannot Go Back to Work.

Until the treaty of peace is signed
France cannot go back to work, Italy
cannot go back to work. Belgium can
not go back to work. These nations
in large part still remain under arms
The rest stand expectant. Meanwhile
industry decays as 1t never did even
when the war was on.
Strangely enough, Germany, so far
as concerns its armies, could 60 back
to work. The German armies have
been disbanded by the sheer process
Of falling to pieces. The soldiers Of
yesterday, having drifted to their
homes for lack Of any place else to be,
could become the farmers, the mechan-
les, the factory hands, the laborers of
to-day.
But while the war embargo rests on
the Central Powers Germany cannot
go back to work. On the lifting Of
the embargo depends not merely food
for the people but supplies with which
to work-cotton, wool, rubber, oil,
copper, even coal and steel. On the
lifting of the embargo depends an out
side market for what Germany, re-
supplied with materials and back at
work, should produce.
Already the Central Powers have
been sentenced, in effect, to twenty
years, thirty years, fifty years at hard
labor for the benefit of the Allies.
What they pay as indemnity or rep
aration, or whatever it please the
Peace Conference to call IL they must
gather by the sweat of their brow
from day to day. But nothing do they
gather for the Allies or for them
| selves while the lifting of the EN-
barge bides the treaty of peace. Moth
ing can they gather.
1t would be possible to sign a
treaty of peace within perhaps a fort
| night. At that, there would have
passed the better part of five months
after the war had ended with nearly
the whole continental Europe not yet
gone back to work.
AS many more months surely, pos
sibly years, would have TO be spent
before n treaty of peace dovetailed in
with Mr.. WILSON'S League of Nations,
as he himself has expressed it, could
ever take title from the United States
Senate, without whose approval no
doctrine and articles negotiated by the
delegates in Paris can have one ounce
more of weight with the American
Government and the American people
than a set Of resolutions adopted by
a parlor debating society hipped or
some uplift mission.
| Five months gone in signing a
treaty of peace will have cost CONT
mental Europe on top of all the wal
expenses not less than ten billions OF
dollars in economic inertia, industrial
sterillty and productive suspension
While the Peace Conference ponder;
and debates how Germany can be
made to render a billion year OF
recompense to the Allies the infatu
ated League of Nations delegates
cause q waste in postponed industrial
resumption of two billions Of dollar:
month! One year-from the end
ing of the war to the signing of 6
treaty of peace, League or no League
could cost the Allies more by bill
ions of dollars than Germany coulC
ever pay them.
Let the treaty be signed. Let thu
Allies 90 back TO work for themselves
Let the Central Powers go back t
work for themselves and for the Al
lies Then let them talk League o
Nations, II talk 1t they must, till TIN
next century dawns.
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New York Needs Nearby AirpIane
Landing Fields.

1t is rapidly becoming apparent that
II should be made some ones business
to have landing fields provided for air
planes in the immediate neighborhood
of Manhattan. The only regular depar.
lures aud arrivals of mail carrying
airplancs hc-cabout are made so rar
from the clty'S centre that II large
part of tho transit time saved by the
speed of the planes is lost in the rcla-
lively slow transfer of their loads to
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Migration.

Out OF The north a summons:
out OF the north a cry;
Above the curving shore lins
The Wide winged geese go by.
Small rills that sing of rapture
Are seeping from tho mould:
The slim withes of marsh willows
Are Frightening into gold.
The quickened sap mounts upward
In every woodland bole;
In vale and hillcrest meadows
The sod renews It's soul.
Burst are the icy letters
That held in bondage strong:
All the four winds are shouting
Their messages OF song.
Earth stirs IN rapt citation,
Old yet forever new,
And in the great migration
I am a migrant too.
CLINTON SCOTLAND
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The Promised Spring.

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Verses Found on an Australian Soldier.
Dro,a "a, phiIIips BuYefip

Ye who have faith 10 look with fearless
Beyond the tragedy OF world Of strife
And know that out OF death and night
shall rise
The dawn of ampler HE.
Rejoice, whatever anguish reud The heart,
That God has given you priceless
dover,
To i've in these great times and have your
part
In Freedoms GROWING hour.
That We may tell your sons who see tn.
light
take
I saw the power OF darkness put TO sight,
/ saw the morning break.
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alto, the two great political parties of
the country and the whole nation to
that will.
This is what anybody Is entitled
to expect from Mr.. WILSON'S abso-
Lutte disregard of the opinion or the
rights Of those who do not think as
he thinks and do not want what he
wants.
If Mr.. WILSON can get away with
anything like that-God Forbid
there never was another human be-
ing, in imperial purple or in the armor
of military chieftainship, to compare
with him for autocratic majesty since
the creation Of the world,
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Six young men who said they We're
returned soldiers unable to get work
drove in a taxiCab to SOLOMON GREEN
EERG's drug store at Wales avenue and
1921 street The Bronx, last night and
stole sSO0.-Tho netcs Of yesterday.
The method OF robbery adopted by
these thieves does not support their
assertion that they are discharged
soldiers. Discouraged eX-members of
the army are not likely to Use taxi
cabs to carry them to the shops they
pick out TO rob.
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The Aviators: Afterward.

From the ArNdreds Go<etfe.
Half gods we made them
Fashlonipg them for tho fight:
Balanced and weighed them,
Tempered and stayed them.
Armed and arrayed them,
FINISHED and hedged them for hlEht
TO them was given
Power and might Sboy. men
Clean winged and shriven,
10, they have striVeu
Up to high heaven
Dealing death, sudden and keen,
High clouds a.hover,
Far cleaning stars and tho sun
knAw them as lover
And fellow rove.
Now II is over
Their work is finished and done.
Half gods we made them,
Giving them might above men,
Winged and arrayed them.
can wo degrade them2
Have We betrayed them,
Calling them earthWard agalnf
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POEMS WORTH READING.


IT'S many q long and weary year
Since mortal eye has seen
The ancient harp of Ireland with
Its strings OF golden sheen,
Though now and then a favored one
May chance to hear II play
Far UP some wild and windy glen
Upon st. Patricks Day.
But tho harp OF war and minstrelsy
Believe mo Is not hung
Upon some lonely rowan tres,
With all its wires unstrung.
But hidden in each Celtic heart
From Dublin to Cathay.
II wakes TO old time melody
Upon st. Patrick's Day.
MiNSA IKvHo.
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BY AIR MAIL.
Time From New York TO Washing
ton, Thlrty-three Hours.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUH--Sw: On
Monday sent letter by air mail and
special delivery from New York TO
Washington 1t was posted at $3.50 A.
NJ. Monday and reached the ADDRESSED
Tuesday evening at 5 80.
Items-Ar mail stamps. special de-
livery stamp, two kilograms of inquiry
and answer and much unrest OF mind.
How long must we abide with this
SCHUYLER RHODES.
NEW YoRX, March IS.
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Perhaps in his fairest dreams the
hoy who worked fourteen hours a day
in a backing warehouse and read all
night would not have dared TO mag
inc a single copy OF a book written
by him selling for 1925, the price paid
for valuable first edition of Pick
wick Papers" last week.
The sun., 1919-03-16

At the first meeting of the Prussan
Reichstag since the establishment Of
the republic every member and spec
tator was searched for weapons be-
fore entering the building. Thus the
ancient customs of Breathitt county
are adopted in the long time capital
Of kultur.
The sun., 1919-03-16

There is said TO he a great army Of
jobless men in Sweden, and most of
them could be profitably employed in
teaching the world how to strike
Swedish matches
The sun., 1919-03-16

Those merchant vessels in German
harbors long ago requisit!oned for
Allied use by the armistice terms are
reported to be all in ship shape and
Bristol fashion and ready for sailing
all ready, except that the winches used
for hosting anchors appear to be out
OF working order.
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT

Lecture be- rror William r Gu,h~'.
NJ G g. y =. also musical programme
h. Mrs Angelina l}RC, Aro NRrrese,
,p,a !sr Puhuc Forum, =. =. lr1. lil.h
street west Of Lexington avenue.
THE EEUNN.
Orsau recital 10y Nou1ol \ Reno'N. a.
sisted H., John Leshy. tenor, Morris UiEl
school l66th street aud Bos'ou road. At
L ~.
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Knicker--I am paying my incoms tax
by instalments.
Mrs. Knicker--How lovely, and will they
como and take II away from you Just
like furniture ~ you don't pay