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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1919-02-23

Tcpnc~-cc Grand Mnster Dies.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, Feb. 22.---
Thomas j. Brandon Of Dover grand
master OF the Tennessee Masons.
died In n hospital here last night.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1919-02-23

freders' Semprlni. chief instructor
OF the American pilots school In
Milan. Ituly. has written an army
officer iit the u =. that huge
caproni Iaane is being prepared at
Milan for trans- Atlantic flight 1t
would not, surprise his friends II
Camprini Aiould attempt the trip
himself
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1919-02-23

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THE unusual interest in the Nash truck line
evidenced at this time Is perhaps heightened
by the knowledge that more trucks, we believe
were built by the Nash Motors Company during
the war for military purposes than were pro-
duced by any other maker.
The Nash Motors Company built nearly thir-
teen thousand Nash TRUCKS for military service
This preference of the Government for Nash
products is readily understood upon close
inspection Of the many superior mechanical
features of Nash truck construction.
For example, owners are quick to appreciate
the automatic locking differential with which
all Nash trucks are equipped. This feature
besides saving fuel and tires, enables Nash
trucks to make surer and safer deliveries with no
time out because of weather road conditions
Reasonably prompt deliveries can be made to
immediate buyers.
See the full line of Nash Trucks including the
famous Nash Quad, at Our Show Rooms.
Nash Trucks
Nash Quad Chassis S325O
Prices F. o. B. kenosha
Adams Motor Sales Co.
800 South Main Street
Rd0Td0UR i
Observation-Disclosures
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1919-02-23

must wear skirts. not shorter ,h,,
knee length, when they appear on
Kansas stage.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
COMMITTEE DIVIDES
ON CONTROL OF DYES
Ways and Means to Press
Bill for License Board.

WASHINGTON, July 3l.--After a long
dispute in executive session Republican
members OF the House Ways and Means
Committee decided to-day by a divided
vote to recommend passage of a bill
providing for a licensing board to con-
troll dye imports, as well as TO levy n
high tariff on all foreign dyestuffs per-
mitted to come into the country
The board would consist Of three rep
resentatives of the dye industry, seven
representatives OF consumers and a
chairman selected by the ten other
members. The life Of the board was
limited to two years by the bill.
Representatives Moore (Pa), Young
IN. d., Bowers CIV. Val and Mott
IN. " opposed any licensing system
and are expected to submit r.', Nrity
report, Their opposition was sid to
have led TO an agreement not to at
tempt passage of the bill until autumn.
Chairman Fordney also was said TO
have opposed the licensing system. but
he did not Join in voting against the
provision because of Willingness TO
abide with majority sentiment.
The Republicans who favored the hill
with the licensing system were Repre-
scntatives Longworth (Ohio). Hawley
(Ore.), Treadway (Mass), Copley
(IlL), Tilson (Conn.), Bacharach IN.
~ and Undertake (Col.).
The duty rates fixed by the bill fol-
low: Finished dyes, IS per cent, ad
valorem plus Z cents a pound, interme-
diate dyes. 10 per cent ad vaiorem Mus
8 cents pound.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
LOOKING BACK A CENTURY.
A New York Celebration Of 1918 and
the Exchanging Bowery.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: ]
desire to thank you for the able article
regarding Grand Sachem Voorhis printed
in THE Sun last Sunday and also for
the very interesting "reminiscences of
HARLEM Lane.
My paternal grandmother, of the an
cient Long Island family of Van Nos
trand, was born in the town of Ftshklll
in 1900. All her life she lived in that
town and passed on. in full possession of
her faculties. in 1895. All through life
she was a frequent visitor in the city
of New York.
At the time of the celebration after
the close of the war Of 1912 in 1915
she visited for several days her grand
aurts, who kept n millinery shop on
the west side of Nassau street. The
building was q small one with an alley
at one side. The aunts lived upstairs and
The family was the only one that occu-
pied the house.
The day OF the great parade my grand
mother, then in her fifteenth year, be-
came separated from her aunts and wan
dered far from Nassau street. There
were great crowds and she could not find
her way back. A middle aged gentle
man, for such he was. showed her the
way home The aunts chided her. and
among other things said that as New
York was getting 20 be such a large city
now it was very dangerous to have any
thing to do with a stranger.
A few days later my grandmother saw
the man who had guided her pass the
house, and calling one of her aunts
pointed him out. The aunt said, why.
we have known that man all his life and
his grandparents long before he was
born"
After her return to FishlSill there was
a celebration there. which she said she
enjoyed better because there were more
people at the game and she was ac-
quainted with nearly all OF them.
In 1885 my grandmother accompanied
me to New York to cross the Brooklyn
Bridge. AS we came down on the Third
avenue elevated. shortly after passing
Cooper Union. she looked out and said :
This is the Bowery. Same old Bowery,
/ have known II all my life, and In De-
cember, 1919, your grandfather and I
drove through here in a sleigh while on
our wedding trip to Oyster Bay"
WILLIAM r. DEAN.
PoUdHKEEPsIE. July 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
LORD cuRzows GREER.
His statesmanship Displayed at Home
and in India.


To THE EDITOR or THE sfN-sr: Your
editorial comment on Lord Curzon OF
July 81 was hardly in keeping with the
usual good taste and judgment which
distinguish THE SUN.
I remember that on one famous occa-
sion the late Mr.. Gladstone retorted OF
Mr.. Dlsraeli that his strongest argument
was some language that he had used
as a boy. Your quotation from the
annals" Of the university OF Oxford,
whatever they may be. though 1 object
to the term, might have been in season
at the time, but even then II was only
the opinion Of one lad upon another
and gets tiresome by reiteration. Life
has the knack of rubbing of tho fancied
superiority OF youth as 1t rubs on a
good many other illusions.
The nonsense in your quotations from
'Uncensored Ceiebrities'' might have
been omitted. Buffoonery never has the
habit of logic and ribaldry never takes
the place Of argument
suppose Lord Curzon would be nearly
60 years Of age. Parenthetically, would
say Lord Curzon is a sort of Maggie
Tulliver's doll to the New York press
one of your contemporaries referred to
him lately as this sprlg OF nobility
but let that pass.
He can point to a long and useful
career in the service Of his country, be-
ing long marked out as man who
would take high place in political
life. He was keen student Of Indian
probiems-Gndian politics are a field
apart. Let the average dllettante read
the chapters Of Indian correspondence
and IL he can grow enthusiastic over
their perusal he may consider himself a
genius.
Step by step Lord Curzon progressed
until at last the prize was within his
reach. A man who has been Viceroy
of India, the Jewel of the East, must
be one who combines all those qualities
which go to the making of statesman
Of the first rank. II there is one post
in the diplomatic world which calls for
wisdom, surely 1t is that Of the Indian
Viceroyalty.
Lord Curzon has written a book on
Persia. I wonder how many of your
readers could talk intelligently about
that wonderful country, the cradle OF
the Indo-European peoples.
Criticism is commodity which can
be bought very cheaply; its real value is
another matter. Politics are kaleido-
scopic in their changes, and the fascina-
tion is as to what the next turn of the
wheel will produce What appears at
one moment to be iron is found to be
pliable as clay. There are epochs in
country's history calling for the best in
its citizens. irrespective Of party labels.
Lord Curzon is found among these with
advantage to the State and credit to
himself.
believe that AUDI alteram partem"
is your motto and that an appeal to you
to insert these lines viii nc. be l.: vain.
PHILIP ALLEN.
NEW YORK, July 81.
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profits and wastage and other charges
must be added not merely once but
again and again
In such a predicament profiteering
cannot possibly be the explanation Of
our inordinate cost Of living. Profit
eering in food ut time like this
ought 10 be dealt with mercilessly.
But II must be as clear as sunshine
that II excessive profits were abso-
lutely eliminated, II only a nominal
proft were absolutely decreed, IL even
every vestige Of profit were absolutely
eliminated, there still would have to
be the multiplications Of the economic
wastage and other costs which 60 on
steadily all the way to the hands Of
the ultimate consumer.
And this Is why the locomotive
engineers went to the right spot with
their demands for lower costs Of COM
modities. They went to the right spot
when they went to the White House,
because It Is the Washington Admins
tration which has injected highly
artificial, grossly inflated, an
acutely dangerous cost, inevitably
multiplied all along the line, into the
production Of everything.
When dear grain makes dear meat
and dear food of all kinds 1t must
make dear wages. 1t must then start
the vicious circle which the clear
headed locomotive engineers recognize.
1t must start the multiplication Of
costs so that the dear grain, first ex-
pressed In dear food, then reexpressed
in dear wages, comes out in dearer
shoes, dearer' clothes, dearer rent,
dearer everything that the American
people consume.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers went to Washington to de-
mand not higher wages-which can
not solve the problem-but lower liv-
ing costs. The Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Engineers and other great la
Dor organizations Of the country
should demand of the White House
that the work of bringing down the
cost Of living begin where 1t must
begin IL the cost Of living is ever to
come down--at its foundation.
1t is the Washington Administra-
ton which has lacked up the whole
cost Of living above the reach Of the
public and insists on holding 1t up
there. The Washington Administra-
ton has made grain dear and keeps it
dear to the consumer, although there
Is more wheat in this country than
the American people could possibly
eat and although there is more corn
in this country than would fatten, as
animal life never before was fattened,
every steer and hog on the range,
every cow In the pasture, every fowl
In the poultry yard.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
Burleson Returns the Ruins.

All that was left Of the telegraph
and telephone systems Of the United
States was returned at II o'clock last
night to their owners by the Postmas-
ter-General. We do not expect to see
the services Of the various companies
brought back to their pre-war stand
ard at once, but It Is the public hope
that the peak Of the load OF ineffi-
cheney has been passed. At least the
cold hand of an Administration which
does things badly is or the wires.
Sound public opinion" says Mr..
BuRLEsoN in his parting message,
will ultimately determine how this
trust has been met" The Postmaster
General appears to have a pet delu-
sion. frequently Rugged by Mr.. VIII
SON, that the future is going to see
as white that which now not only ap-
pears, but unquestionably is, black.
So far as the wire systems OF this
country are concerned, public opinion
will never be sounder-and, we hope,
never more profape-than 1t is at the
present moment. Everybody who uses
the telegraph or the telephone knows
that the service in both branches has
sunk to the lowest depths; that there
is no other public utility in which in
competency of administration Is 80
manifest except the luckless postal
system, which still writhes in the
arms Of the statesman from Texas and
which unhappily cannot escape until
Mr.. BURLEsoN himself departs.
When the Postmaster-General de-
clares that the wire systems were ad-
ministered "in such way as to rem
der the best service possible to the
general public under abnormal condi-
tions," the general public will swallow
the statement only with the assump-
ton that Mr.. BURLEsoN himself is the
principal abnormal condition. II
knows, and It will not forget for at
least a generation, that the three sys-
TENS Of public communication fell into
Mr.. BURLEsoN's hands at time when
they were perhaps not perfect, but re-
markedly satisfactory, and that the
Postmaster General, with all the
wealth and power of n Government at
war behind him, has caused them to
be at once public Jest and menace
to business.
We trust that the owners OF the
mangled utilities have summoned all
the available doctors and nurses and
that recovery may be speedy. Mean
while, until the American people find
the way to put Mr.. BURLEsoN out
it is obvious that Mr.. WILSON does not
intend to dismiss him-the means of
the Post Office Department proper will
offend the air.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
Precocity and the Bench.

Mr.. LOUIS MARsHALL's reminder
that Stony and kent became Judges
of high courts in their early thirties
Is interesting even II In the present
case 1t is not convincing. 1t would be
more inspiring for Mr.. MARSHALL to
recall to the young lawyers Of to-day
what STORY had accomplished at 30
and what was the industry which car
ried KENT along so fast. Men matured
rapidly in those days, and If there was
any feeling that Judges should have
gray hair the Fathers blinked 1t in
consideration of the accomplishments
of certain strenuous and wise young
lawyers.
KENT was out of Yale at 1S; STORY
was graduated from Harvard at 10.
KENT read Blackstone ut 16 and spent
four hours a day before breakfast on
Latin and Greek. He was in the
Legislature at S and professor Of law
at Columbia at 80. Before he was 81,
the age when he became Recorder of
this city, he had prepared his first
volume on the constitutional history
Of the United States. He was jurlSt
OF reputation long before he became,
at 30, Justice of the Supreme Court
of this State.
At 26 JOSEPH STORY published his
Selection OF Pleadings in Civil Ac-
TONS" That same year, 1905, Salem
sent him to the Legislature. His elab-
crate legal defence of the embargo
was made when he was %, and he was
only little older than that when
he was the leader OF the movement
for the repeal of the embargo.
Mr.. MARSHALL might have cited the
youth of JOHN JAY, who was APP
pointed Chief Justice of this State
when only 80; but JAY had already
composed the famous Address to the
People Of Great Britain and drafted
the State Constitution. Most of our
great jurists of the early national
period achieved distinction young.
JOHN MARSHALL, IN spite OF SIX years
spent under arms, was the chief advo-
cate in Virginia Of the new Constitu-
ton wLel lr was 33. DANIEL WEE
sTER made great speeches in the House
when he was 81, and his triumph in
the Dartmouth College case came
when he was 80. WEBSTER, however.
was not n Judge, and It is youth and
the bench that are part of Mr.. MAR
STALLS argument.
What strikes the student Of legal
biography, however, in reading of the
early elevation Of men like STORY,
JAY and KENT to the ermine is the
fact that they had fame well in hand
before they reached the bench. No
body had to ask who they were.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
ALLIED COMMISSION
PROTESTS SEMENOFF
Demands Removal From ST.
berian RailWay Zone.

VLApIvosroK, July 10 (delayed).-
The 1nterallied Railway Commission
here despatched n formal protest yes
terday to the Omsk Government OF Ad-
miral Kolchak against violations Of the
Intersllied agreement regarding the op.
Grafton of railways The communica-
ton demands that the Russians live up
to the agreement which they signed and
are a party TO II the Government eI-
poets Allied aid. The removal OF Gen.
Semenoff from the zone where he can
interfere with railroad operations also
is asked.
This violations have been chiefly
through the military station command
ants, who sell tickets, allot cars and al
tempt general supervision OF traffic,
duty assigned to the technical board Of
the American Railway Commission to
Russia under the Craftsmanship OF John
+. Stevens.
The chief disturber is alleged to bs
Gen. Semenof. who appears TO he the
dominating figure in the Transbaikal
sector.
The United States has furnished
81, 100000 and China 100000 for the
railroad reorganization, while tho other
Allies have promised funds
Gen. Knox, chief of the British mill.
tary mission here. left for omsk on
July 16.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01

peace. II that was his consolatory
device 1t failed mlserably in its pur-
pose; for hs thus too artfully In
jected into what might otherwise have
been a meritorlous and acceptable
special covenant with France the
same fatal constitutional objection
which makes impossible the ratlHca-
ton of the general treaty as 1t now
stands. Premier CLEMENcEAU would
have cared little at the time about
that side Of the matter, for he could
scarcely have sensed 1t.
But this is conjecture; for the Sc
cret understandings, secretly arrived
at, which produced the sophisticated
special treaty with France, which
produced the sudden abandonment, in
the negotiations with LLOYD GEORGE,
of the nobly declared Point or Prin-
ciple ii. about the freedom of the
seas, and which produced the ar
rangement with Japan concerning
Shantung, are not matters In which
diplomacy has proceeded always
frankly and in the public view."
We call the attention of our neigh
Dor, so properly concerned about the
correct use Of words, to the fact that
the mere advertisement, afterward,
Of the products Of the secret dlplo-
macy Of barter does not render any
less secret the hidden motives and
processes Of the inner chamber dlplo-
macy which produced them.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
THE ANNIVERSARY OF FOUR
DAYS.

There are no four consecutive days
In the recorded history Of man like
those first days of August upon whose
fifth anniversary we are now enter
ing. From August /, when tho first
important step was taken in Ger
many's declaration of war upon Rus
STA, to August 4, when England Joined
her allies in the field, the hours were
crowded with international crises. 1t
was an avalanche that fell upon a
whole continent at once.
On Saturday I'VE years ago to-day
the world was shocked by the decision
|, upon the part of Germany that irrev-
ocably lost to Europe the peace which
she had been hoping against hope to
preserve. The German Empire had
gone to the assistance Of her already
belligerent ally by declaring hostilities
with Russia. France modified the
same day. England's great feet was
ordered to steam Immediately to the
North Sea. Although as yet on August
/ only Austria and Serbia, Germany
and Russia were officially engaged. 1t
was universally recognized that the
horror thus started could not be
stopped.
On August 2 German uhlans crossed
the French border; German infantry
entered Luxembourg, and these hos
tile acts were shortly followed by the
ultimatum and the declaration of war.
While German troops were fighting
their way into France the Kaiser
sought to accelerate their progress by
asking Belgium peaceably to consent
to troop movements through her ter
ritory. Belgium defiantly refused. I'M
mediately mobilizng.
On August 4 the Kaiser lost the war,
then but four days old, by violating
the sanctity of Belgian soil and throw
ing England in the balance against
him.
THE SUN asked on August 2, 1914:
What philosopher historian. In re-
viewing events that are binding in
their contemporary aspect, will ever
be able to apportion justly the respon-
sibility between the personal and dy-
nastic war impulse in high places OF
power and tho underlying and i'm
measurable forces Of race hatred and
national greed?"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
ALIEN INSURANCE DECIDED,
Custodian Entitled to Money De-
posted Before War.

Federal Judge Augustus y. Hand. IN
an opinion filed yesterday, decided that
the Alien Property Custodian is entitled
to possession OF money deposited IN t'ust
in this country before the war by enemy
insurance companies for the protection Of
their American policy holders. The 90
clslon was in the suit OF the trustees for
the deposit OF the Munich EeinSuran'e
Company against Francis p. Garyan'
Alien Property Custodian. 10 recover Sc
curitles seized by the United States
Marshal
The suit was test. II involved secur-
tiles worth $4.000,000. About 1900
900 is involved in cases OF similar
kind.
Judge Hand said that no question was
raised as to the enemy ownership OF me
securities, The ownership was subject 10
the lien OF the trustees, he explained
but the deed OF trust created no more
than n possessory Hen without power on
the part of the trustees TO enforce II.
"'The effect of my decision said me
court, "is TO hold that the statute gives
the right 10 the Alien Property Gus
todian to obtain possession Of enemy
owned property irrespective OF the ex'
istence OF liens thereon unless such liens
may be disposed of on notice or prosen'
tation or demand" ,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
THE FRENCH TREATY.
Suggestion rs to the Vital Amend
ments Needed Before Ratification.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The
French treaty should not be ratified
without four vital amendments
/. All references to the covenant should
be stricken out, because 1t. the cove
nant. indirectly requires us to make what
its advocates describe as the supreme
sacrifice" that is, to surrender our in
dependence.
2. France should be given a defensible
permanent frontier. Foch says the Rhine
and all its bridgeheads. This has not
yet been done.
3. Either reconstruct Russia, includ-
ing Poland. or else give Poland Danzig
and a defensible frontier against Rus
sia, Germany and Austria. These former
autocracies three times before partitioned
Poland. Germany and Austria at least
threaten TO do 1t again.
4. Make Pan-Germany pay or work
off every dollar OF allied and associated
war debt, war costs and war pensions,
and punish every Pan-German war
criminal. Otherwise Pan-Germany will
be financially stronger than the nations
it invaded.
Suppose we guarantee France, while
leaving her with a defenceless frontier.
After Germany's partial compliance with
the treaty, when the Rhine bridgeheads'
now temporarily held. are evacuated
tho only way we may keep our guar
antee good will be permanently to keep
not less than three-quarters of a million
regular troops in Europe on the French
frontier after the Rhine bridgeheads have
been yielded to Germany.
Otherwise our guarantee will be only
another scrap of paper.
HENRY A. FORSTER
NEW YORK, July 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
The Late Frank Mclaughlin.


Through the death of Frank Nc
Laughlin the newspaper and advertising
professions of this city lose a lovable
character man whose personality and
ability reflected lasting credit to the
work in which he had since leaving col
lego been engaged. Mclaughlin was
born in Philadelphia and came from a
family we'll known in the newspaper
world His father and uncle established
the Philadelphia Times, and when that
property was sold for family reasons
he came to New York and became con-
nected with the New York Times, where
his sterling qualities and business abil-
ity made him an appreciated coworker
on its advertising staff. Subsequently
Mr.. Mclaughlin became one of the busi-
ness executives of THE SUN Up until
shortly before his death he was accom-
plishing a wonderful service for the ad-
vertising department. Frank McLaugh-
lin was a type Of man representative
Of real Americanism. He was a lin
gust, speaking several languages. Art
and music were subjects dear to his
heart.