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Sir HENRY RIDER HAGaARD Is one Of
those good souls who instead of wor-
rying about the weather of this day,
is concerned about what the state of
man shall be ON October 10, 2119. He
sees danger in the race suicide (which
he finds prevalent among all the
western nations except perhaps Rus
sia and Germany. He fears that un-
less the West reforms it's races will
be submerged, two centuries hence,
beneath the influx of the myriads of
the East
In the last century, which was so
prolific that the population of the
world rose about billion, Asia In
creased its peoples about 140 per cent,
Europe IA per cent, the Americas
nearly 700 per cent. OF course all of
rhe American increase was not from
births; immigration accounted for
millions. Put Europe and the Ameri-
cas- In one group, and that groups In
crease of population in the century
was about 200 per cent.
30 Asia has no small job to over
take the hitherto fecund West in the
rate of increase. She has now about
800 millions to the 900 millions of
Europe and the Western Hemisphere.
II she kept up her old rate Of increase
Asia would have over two billion in
habitants hundred years hence.
Europe and the Americas, If their
rate of increase was reduced 30 per
cent, would hold 100000, 900.
All these. however. are figures of
population. What about the increase
of civilization, upon which RIDER
HAGdARD does not touch? Who knows
but that the East, in two centuries
more, win become so civilized that
It's incursions will be welcome? Or,
TO put II otherwise, In two centuries
/ the Western World may have recog
nized the civilization Of the East as
superior In politeness, patience and
determination.
The East is troubled with dirt, dis
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LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.
EVENTS TO-DAY.

salvation Army congress. Metropolitan
Temple, Seventh avenue and Fourteenth
Meeting of George Washington Post No.
12O, Veterans Of Foreign Wars of United
States Grand Opera House. s:15 p. NJ
Sale of library OF the late Evert JAM
sen Wendell American Art Association.
afternoon
THE American Committee for Relief In
1880 P. NJ ~
Address by John T. Pratt on How to
sion of Our Governments Fiscal Policies"
s;l5 P. NJ
Reception in honor of Richard w. Law
renee by the Bronx County woman's Re-
publican Club, 14sth street and walton
avenue, $3.50 P. N.
OF captured German war material, Armory
Ninth c. A. C., N. Y. c., Fourteenth street
near ear sixth avenue, all day and evening.
Illustrated books OF the last four centu-
ries, stuart Galleries; the making OF prints.
New York Library, Forty second street and
Exhibition of model Oite size) African
pygmy camp In the Belgian Congo. Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History, all day.
Exhibition OF tapestries and laces loaned
scum of Art,
on Measuring Intellect" under the au-
spices of the Federation for Child Study.
West sixty fourth street P. N.
Of Municipal Equipment, Grand Central
Palace. afternoon and evening
Lecture on 'Chidren's courts" by Ber-
Mrs. Ellen o'Grady. 1877 East Twenry-sec-
The American Steel Society will hold
a meeting In tho auditorium Of the Bush
s Terminal Sales bGld!ng; l2o West Forty
second nncaTt street Sy at at sdd sl5 P NJ
P. NJ
Anniversary dance OF the nrst Brooklyn
nj ~ he 20 rAy
munity Service, 1923 schermerhorn street,
Free Synagogue, SO West sixty eighth
street
Society Of Railway Financial officers.
New York County CHAPTER, Daughters
OF 1872, meeting, Waldorf rf-Astoria, : p. NJ.
teHsaG OF ITdnstrel Rights msstins
Directors meeting, International New
Thought Alliance. waldorf astoria, 8 P, NJ.
AmericQn Pomeraninn Club. meeting.
Waldorf Astoria, p NJ.
The Pan-American Society will celebrate
Brazil Day, Hotel Astor P. n,
Meeting or the Rainy Day Club Hotel
National Supply and Machine Dealers
Association, meeting, Hotel Astor, 1880
Convention of the National Machine Tooi\
Builders Association Hotel Astor, A. NJ.
American Gas Association, convention,
Hotel PENNSYLVANIA, all day.
order OF the Eastern Star. convention.
Hotel Astor all day.
New York Academy OF Medicine, section
on "Laryngology and Rhinology." II West
Forty-third street, $50 J. VI.
Leather Betting Exchange, meeting,
Hotel Pennsylvania, A, N
Foreign Commerce Club, smoker. Hotel
Pennsylvania, p. NJ
Kiwsnis Club, luncheon, Hotel McAlpin.
1890 p. NJ
northwestern Medical and Surgical so-
ciety, meeting and supper, Hotel McAlpin
New Jersey Medical Club. dinner. Hotel
McAlpin, p. NJ.
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THE WEATHER.

For eastern New York, New Jersey
and southern New England, cloudy and
warmer, with probably showers to-day
tomorrow probably cloudy; moderate
south winds
For northern New England, cloudy with
showers to-day: tomorrow partly cloudy
and cooler; moderate south winds.
orF For western New York, partly cloudy
cloudy; moderate west Winds.
WASHINGTON, Oct 14-Pressure 10
high over the Atlantic States and the
Northwest and 1t is low In the region
and the southern Rocky Mountain region.
Cloudy weather was over virtually all dis
tricts east of the Rocky Mountains ana
during the last twenty four hours eaere
states. Tennessee, the Ohio Valley. the
upper Mississippi Valley and the middle
plains States and snow and rain In the
central Rocky Mountain regions. Heavy
northern Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee
ana the Ohio Valley. Temperatures have
risen throughout the east and south states
and they have fallen in the central Rocky
outlook Is for cloudy, somewhat warmer
and showery weather Wednesday and part
ly cloudy and cooler Thursday In
middle Atlantic and New England ST.
ture and local showers in the south
lantic and Gulf States Wednesday a
Ihursday, for showers Wednesday al
Thursday In Tennessee and the lower Oh
weather Wednesday and generally fai
weather Thursday in the upper Ohio Val
ley and the regions of the Great Lakes
Observations at United States Weather Bu-
reau stations taken at p. NJ. yesterday, sev-
enty-hf meridian time
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Fire Prevention Days.

New York has had its annual fire
prevention day and all citizens who
don't want their goods or their bodies
burned because somebody else is reck-
less or careless hope that its lessons
have been taken to heart. But there
are doubts. Fire prevention day
seems to be slipping into the routine
Of life, and consequently to be losing
Its punch.
The intent Of its founders was laud-
able. Its purpose is admirable. But
as men and women and children be-
come accustomed to its observance
they become callous to its message.
They get so they think they have no
need for the lessons 1t is meant to
impress on them. They read the ad-
mirable signs which are displayed all
over the city, scratch their matches
and throw them blazing into piles of
lnflammable rubbish, with 10 thought
Of the possible consequences.
Every day ought to be fire preven-
ton day with every citizen, including
policemen. If whenever q patrolman
saw a needless smoker cast burning
match away or flip a smoking ciga-
rette stub out of window to fire an
awning he would arrest the culprit
and the Magistrate should send the
offender up for ten days regardless
Of the Assembly district he came from,
there would be a decrease In avoidable
fires which would make the fireman's
life one glorious loaf. If there were
criminal prosecution every time a
fire was discovered, as there is In
some countries, America would soon
be made safer for the insurance COM
pany reserves.
We heartily approve fire prevention
days, and would like to have the au-
thorities celebrate three hundred and
sixty-five Of them every year, and
another for good measure whenever
leap year came along.
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What Is Sauce for the Goose Is
Sauce for the Gander.

In the soft coal field the miners are
demanding scale Of thirty hours of
work week and sixty per cent. more
pay. Coal is SO essential to the ma
tion's industry and business, to the
peoples comfort and livelihood, that
strike Of the miners would. stagger
the country like a sudden and terrific
shock Of war. 1t is for this reason
that the leaders empowered to call
the strike are confident that they will
gain their demands. 1t is for this
reason that some Of them boldly de-
clare that. whatever the consequences
to the individual or to the nation,
this thing shall be.
But what is sauce for the goose Is
sauce for the gander.
How would the coal miners like 1t
II the farmers of the United States
decreed for themselves half day Of
work. ploughing time. planting time,
harvesting time, or any time?
How would the coal miners like It
If the farmers refused to do enough
work to raise the wheat needed to
make bread for the general public?
How would the coal miners like It
If the farmers refused to do enough
work to raise the corn needed to feed
and fatten the cattle and sheep from
which come the public's beef and NUT
ton, to feed the hogs from which come
the public's pork and ham and bacon,
to feed the poultry from which come
the public's eggs?
How would the coal miners like 1t
If the farmers refused to do enough
work to raise the hay and other prod
uce needed to feed and fatten the
cows from which come the publlc's
milk and butter and cheese?
How would the coal miners like 1t
If the farmers decreed that for the
small surplus Of products raised be-
yond their own food needs by their
half work day. from planting season
to harvest moon, the public must
pay them fabulous prices-$10 a
bushel for wheat. sS bushel for
corn. 50 a pound for meat. 81 a quart
for milk, 81 a pound for butter?
How would the coal miners like it
If the farmers swore that they would
have their inordinate prices without
work. though the American people,
men. women and children. must suffer
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prepare Immediately for what Is
ahead Of them and of the country.
When the great political drive against
the railroads which marked the close
Of the Nineteenth Century and the be-
ginning Of the Twentieth finally de-
prived the railroads Of the confidence
of investors and thus made It impos-
sible for them to get the money they
needed to carry forward their devel-
opment, the subsequent cessation Of
railroad extension and betterment
came as a check to our national pros
perity and put back breaking bur-
den on the public.
The effects of this stoppage Of
growth were evident in the service
rendered by the railroads in the years
Immediately before the European war
began. These effects were felt in de-
lays in freight delivery, in uncer-
tainty resulting from that delay, in
cancelled orders, in general disturb
ance of commercial relations and in
the serious difficulties manufactures
and merchants encountered in every
department of trade.
That was actually what was hap
pening when the war began. The
railroads couldn't get money. They
couldn't improve their lines. They
couldn't handle the cargoes manufac-
turers and merchants, big and little.
wanted to ship. Their inadequate
trackage was constantly congested.
Their inadequate equipment was
constantly overworked. The bottle
necks through which commerce must
pass were constantly jammed. The
needed new trackage was not pro-
vided. The needed new engines were
not provided. The needed new cars
were not provided.
Bad as conditions were then, they
are immeasurably worse now, with a
population In the United States to-day
of 100000, where 1t was 10000
600 lower ten years ago. They are
going to get worse as the population
further increases. In this situation 1t
is appalling to find legislators andtheir
chosen counsellors talking as If there
existed In the United States a COM
pleted railroad system; as II there
were here a railroad system to fur
nish the service the country must
have, which had only to be main
tained. and not to be improved. Yet
this is the folly which fills the air at
Washington, deafening honest men,
who brayely confess their ignorance,
and frightening informed men, who
fully realize the peril and want the
country to avert 1t.
Unless the lawmakers are made to
understand the real condition of the
railroads, the real need of the United
States for gigantic improvements and
extensions Of existing railroads, they
will plunge US into pit from which
to extricate US will take not years
but decades, and cost not billions but
tens of billions of dollars.
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famine and the country be plunged

famine and the country be plunged
into ruin?
And what applies to the coal min
ers applies, Of course, to other work
ers. If the brutally selfish, the sui
cidally voracious message came from
the American farm that either the peo-
pie Of the United States could ran
som their lives on the terms laid
down to them or they could starve,
how would the coal miners, how would
the longshoremen, how would the ship
builders, how would the expressmen,
how would the railway .workers-how
would they like it!
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The future of the railroads, DIS Di-
rector-General HINES warns the Con-
gress leaders, is going to be precari-
Gus, and along with them the future
Of the country is going to be precari-
Gus, unless national provision is made
to get them on their feet again after
they are turned back, at the end of
this year, to their owners. They are
not now on their feet. Never since
the Government took them over have
they been on their feet. They simply
have been bolstered up from day to
day by an opportunist Executive and
by bleeding Treasury.
The tills of roads which had cash
surpluses have been emptied by the
Government operation. Their other
resources have been drained. From
natural carriers their traffic has been
diverted. Organizations have been
demoralized. Extensions and better
ments have been neglected and in
some instances existing equipment
mas Deen crippled.
When the roads are restored to
their owners they must be restored at
the earliest possible moment to their
old condition or there will be trans
portation breakdown. There cannot
be a breakdown of the carriers with
out an Industrial and commercial
breakdown OF the nation. This Is
what Director-G General HINES means
and what he says in his letter to the
Congress leaders:
Il know you are exceedingly anx-
ious to press the railroad legislation
10 the earliest possible conclusion.
1t occurs to me that you may natu-
rally find that there are legislators
that have not followed the subject as
closely as you have and who may not
have an equal appreciation OF the rea-
sons why the public interest necessi-
tates the earliest possible solution.
"In order to keep abreast of the
growth OF business in this country It
is indispensable that the railroads
should continue to spend large sums
in the acquisition of new equipment
In the year or two prior to the be-
ginning Of Federal control this work
was largely arrested by the difficult
ties of securing materials and labor,
and also by the difficulty OF securing
new capital During the year 1918
this work was largely restricted to
things which could be promptly done
and which would have relation to
winning the war and also restricted
by the scarcity of materials.
1.-THE result was that comprehen-
sive programme for developing the
railroads was largely interrupted
During the calendar year 1919 there
has been unavoidably an almost COM
plete stoppage of all these matters
because Of the prospect of early ter
mination of Federal control and the
resulting indisposition on the part of
Congress to make appropriations
large enough TO provide for extern
sive Improvement programmes to be
carried on with Government funds
under the direction of the Railroad
Administration"
After they have beerf restored to
their old condition the roads must
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CROWN PRINCE WANTS CASTLE.
Dutch Paper Tells OF His Trying
to Buy One Near AmeronEen.

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 14.-The former
German Crown Prince is trying 70 pur-
chase the castle OF Echteld, in the
province of Gelderland. according to the
Hdndelsblad,
This Is situated near Tiel and about
twenty miles from Amerongen and
Doorn. The purchase of an estate near
his fathers was discussed at the time
OF Frederick Williams visit TO Ameron-
gen. Because of the delay in repairs
and arrangements at Doom 1t Is be-
lieved the removal OF the former Em-
peror will be postponed until early in
1920.
Although the restrictions OF the Dutch
Government on the free movement of
tho exiles are still nominally effective
William HohenzolleRp is now permitted
to motor through Doom and Ameron-
gen territory.
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For many years after nearly every
other seaside or mountain resort in
California was accessible by railway
railway station Santa Barbara was
as inaccessible, almost, as 1t was when
RICHARD HENRY DANA visited 1t In his
trip before the mast, Until compara-
lively recent years the only through
railway between Central and South
ern California ran in the San Joaquin
Valley. Long stage Journeys were
necessary in a trip to Santa Barbara,
and members OF its slowly growing
colony were largely Eastern folk.
New Yorkers many of them, who
found there climate, sea and mountain
suited to their tastes The inaccessi-
bility Of the place was to them an
added charm. But the Southern Pa
cif1c coast road after many years
struggle against engineering difficult
ties finally brtdged, bored. cut and
filled its way to the little mission town
where brown robed priests a century
and third earlier had built a church,
planted vineyards and orchards and
had Christianized the Indians who
ferded cattle and sheep. Three or four
times year those pioneer settlers
heard by Yankee trading ship news of
the outside world. Now from the We
randa of his bungalow a Santa Bar
bara colonist calls up his bankers in
Los Angeles. or his broker in San Fran
cisco, transacts business. learns Wall
Street noon prices, all before he motors
to his golf club to keep a O'Clock
engagement for a round over the links
It will not be difficult for rest-hungry
souls to understand and sympathize
with the longing of some of Santa
Barbara's residents for the older or
der of things even at the sacrifice of
hearing to-day a speech on the world
events of yesterday.
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.

siberia and Asiatic Russia" by Prince
Sarath Ghosh, y. S. l0l, nth street near
Lexington avenue Illustrated.
Aida" by Clement b. Shaw. New York
Library. sos West l45th street. Illustrated.
Romantic Drama OF the Nineteenth
Century" by Frederick II. Paulding, Y NJ.
@. A, West l2Sth street illustrated.
art and Life" Mrs. Mary q. Murray,
Hunter College Lexington avenue and
SiNty-eighth street. illustrated.
MY Cruise on tho Pacific" by Annette
Ewart, p. $. a. Brown place and lSbth
street. The Bronx. illustrated.
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LABOR AMENDMENT PASSED.
Australian ParIIam m ent Favors Pro-
posed Change.

MELBOURNE, Oct 14.--Both Houses of
the Australian Parliament have passed
the proposed constitutional amendments
giving the Government power to deal
with all Industrial matters. The amend
ment proposed by the opposition to
place the railway employees under the
Commonwealth Arbitration Act was de-
feated by large majorities,
The proposed amendments must be
endorsed by a Commonwealth conven-
tion before the end OF 1920, otherwise
they will lapse. They give the Govern
ment authority TO control combines,
trusts and monopolles and also 10 make
arrangements regarding the production,
manufacture and supply OF goods.
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LEAGUE ARITHMETIC.
II Is Strongly Reminiscent Of Demo.
cratic Financial Doctrines.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Is
this "moral" arithmetic
In 1896. Sixteen to One"
In 1919, "Six to One"
In both cases the Democrats get the
same answer-Twenty-t HC.
RICH MoNp, Va, October II.
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The active head of company own
ing and operating a number of hotels
In this city is reported to have let con-
tracts for a $1o,o00,0 900 tavern in De-
troit and to be negotiating for the
building of one of similar size and cost
in Havana. The plump profits of the
one In wet Havana to offset lean
earnings of the one in dry Detroit?
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End of the Season Offering by Missouri.
From tho Platte Guy Landmark.

One day this week at house near Pleas
ant Ridge o man discovered his little hve-
year-old daughter seated in the yard in
tently interested with something Upon
investigation 1t was found thu little ones
interest was fastened upon a large rattle
snake which she was rubbing o and down
the back with her hand The father
hardly knew how TO separate the two.
passing through several moments OF terror
lest the reptile should bite the baby. He
secured a stick. and as he struck the
snake quickly Jerked the baby out Of dan
ger. The snake had nve rattass and a
button
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midas VOTE.
1t inspires Question About Com.
paratiye Self. Government

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: India
has a vote in the League of Nations.
What measure Of self-government does
India enjoy?
AS much as Ireland?
Any more than the Philippines or
Porto Rico?
Is 1t as self-governing as ALASKAN
r. @. SAUNpERsoN.
BERLIN, October 10.
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What chance did General voN DER
GoLrz have to succeed in his attempt
to upset treaty stipulations In the Bal
tic provinces? He's not a poet!
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New York. obediently obeying the
economic urge to earn and save, last
week earned an extra quarter OF a
million and deposited 1t in the box
offices of theatres on Saturday night
to be saved by managers.
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super-hen to lay triple sized eggs
Headline Of yesterday.
And will 1t take a super-cook to
poach them?
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An Ozark Charivari.

From the Conpoy Log Cabfa.
The newly married couple were enter
tained on last Saturday night by a large
crowd with COW bells. tin tubs. ploughs
horns and shotguns
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With all sorts of untoward condi-
tions very likely in this unquiet year
"do your Christmas shopping early"
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Comprehensive HeconstructiOn Pro-
gramme.
To THE EDITOR Oh THE SuN-Sir: EN-
ployees to put their best efforts behind
their work, employers to guard their EN-
ployees' interests as trust Universal
military (Which includes vocational. in
dustrial and educational) training. SO
the burdens Of the republic in trouble
shall always be equally distributed; to
the end that we may become. more At
nation and each person fitted as never
before TO assist in constructing a sue
cessful and contented America
JOSEPH MEINRATH.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-. October IL.
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Migration.


The Sparrow-Huhi Just look at all the
aliens flying out OF the countryi
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The Gulf stresm--rve certainly found
going 10 Europe means keeping In hot
water.
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'Tis written UP on high
The tower that dares too much
Shall never climb the sky.
The stars shall never touch.
And when conclusion falls
Upon Its lofty reach
The silence OF its walls
Ii louder far than speech.
Mor.AspBvseH wnSoN.