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INWoOD rs NERVOUS.
Automobile Lessons for Beginners In
crease Street Perils.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-ST: The
people of Hnwood, the thriving residen-
tial section above Washington Heights.
are justified In feeling indignation over
the unwarranted liberties which auto
mobile demonstrators are taking with the
streets and avenues whereabouts, imper-
illing the lives of women and children
In their efforts to teach beginners how
to run cars.
There are enough tyros driving motor
cycles. hivvers and other varieties of
automobiles in the section now to make
the streets and avenues unsafe for any
but the most observing and cautious
without imposing the additional burden
o. high powered cars In charge of mex
perienced persons fitting along streets
and avenues where mothers and children
are numerous. For Inwood is strictly a
residential section. Astounding in small
children too young to realize the danger
that turks in the roadways from autos
with beginners at the wheels
While the presence of automobiles
driven by beginners is a constant source
OF worry for the mothers of children Nv
Ing in the section, even adults are not
immune from the danger. This Is evil
dent from the fact that only recently
man was run down and fatally injured
by an auto driven by woman who was
receiving instruction from demonstra-
tor who. 1t is understood, had no license
to drive a car.
recently saw a woman being in
structed how to operate a car on Yer
nlrv1np ~
There were women with baby carriages
| seated on both sides Of the avenue, but
this apparently made no difference. II
was obvious, however. that the women
| were extremely nervous. and when the
car suddenly backed UP on the sidewalk
the women hurriedly scattered in all d.
rectlons. lNwoop.
NEW YORK, July 16.
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A DYE OF ANCIENT TYRE.
Royal Purple n Luxury Not on Sale
in New York Shops.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str! !
very much doubt II even New York, with
all its imports displayed in It's ware
houses and shops, could excel the won
derful array OF merchandise to be found
in that ancient city OF Phoenicia. Tyre
One has only to read the twenty-seventh
chapter of Ezekiel to learn this fact.
From these wonderful people came
Tyr,an purple, the like of which the
world has never seen. II was SO costly
that It was used only by royalty. and
hence comes the saying royal purple
The royal robes Of ancient kings were
dyed with Tyrian purple.
This purple dye was extracted from
n mollusk called the purple murex II
was found In tropical seas 1t had thick
shells covered with splnes 1t secreted
a coloriess liquid which when exposed to
the atmosphere turned purple History
tells US that only a drop or go could be
obtained from one mollusk. hence 1t,
value.
Needless TO say there Is no Tyrian
purple from the isles Of Elishah" to be
found in these days. When the glory
Of Tyre and Sidon passed Tyrian purple
also passed away.
ARLINGTON H. CARMAN.
PArcHooUE, l.. IT,, July Is.
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obvious. Let them fight II out on this
line IL IL takes all summeri

obvious. Let them fight It out on this
line II 1t takes all summer
We hear a good deal about this not
being party question. President
WILSON has made It n party question.
He made It a party question when he
appealed in vain to the voters Of the
United States to elect for his support
and convenience n Congress which
should enable him to do unchecked
exactly what he is now trying to do
by casulstry and concealment and vo-
luminous outglvings Of rhetoric. A
party is not Justly subject to reproach
for advocating what is right. The
Republicans in Congress supported
the President throughout the wal
with a patriotic disregard Of parti.
sanehlp. Their present demand for
reservations to safeguard American
Independence under the treaty Of Yer
sallles Is equally patriotic and in nc
Objectionable sense partisan.
Let them hght It out on that line
II II takes all summer!
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HoHENzoLLERN's TRIAL.
A Reply to the Views Expressed b.
Former Governor Mccall.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN--Sfr: Gov
erDor Mccall, objecting to the coming
trial of the former Kaiser. criticises age
old English State trials. II is hardly
fair to dlsqualify London as venue
merely because OF tho practices Of other
days and other men.
The Governor also declares that a
standard should have been set up before
hand with a definite enactment and the
imposition Of penalty--in other words,
that law defining such crimes and de-
claring the penalty should have existed
In order to warrant a trial for the VIOLA
ton OF the law. But II, as It Is to be
assumed. the Kaiser is to be tried for
what outside OF Germany are regarded
as crimes against humanity, what force
Is there In the complaint that there was
no law in existence to meet the case?
The Governors most ingenious X
specious argument, however. is that what
the Kaiser did was done as the head of
a State. and inasmuch as the State Is
being held accountable for his conduct he
should go free. This hardly accords with
our American notions Of law, to which
the Governor appeals
Suppose the head of corporation en-
cages in an unlawful act is he absolved
OF personal responsibility because the
corporation Is mulcted in damages? If
in time of war the Kaiser personally
directed or approved OF acts contrary to
mankind's conceptions of humanity, why
should not he as we'll as the nation which
he represented be punished? VIII the
Governor say that II the Kaiser. acting
as head OF the State. without military
reason personally directs the extermi-
nation OF civilians In a neutral country,
or for the matter of that in an enemy
country, he should escape punishment
merely because his country pays dam
ages?
| Personal punishment Is not intended
for revenge but to prevent repetition OF
the crime. and II enforced Is much more
likely to deter others than would the
nero payment Of money damages by the
state. GEORGE HAHN.
KENNEBuSKPoRr, Me-, July 1b.
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EUROPE'S AIR FLEETS.
The League Of Nations Does Not Halt
Preparations for War.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir: Con
ststency thou art a virtue" The World
printed an article on Sunday entitled
How Aerial Appropriations of Great
Powers Compare" Great Britain has
appropriated $3.50, 200. 900. France s27o,-
900, 900 and the poor old L. S. A. $780,
oo0, 900.
The IpSrld has advocated the League
OF Nations for peace. This article speaks
of the aerial supremacy of the nations
abroad while bemoaning the insignifi-
cant size of our own air forces. Then
why tho League of Nations?
An American family living on what
was considered before tho war a good
income can hardly exist to-day. Yet we
witness food. wealth and an abundance
OF everything going to the so-called poor
Powers abroad. while they, far outstrp-
ping us, are enabled to spend hundreds
of millions of dollars for airplanes.
The more read OF the League OF
Nations the more I distrust It and turn
to thinking of and loving our good old
American ideals.
With our deceased Yankee President
Theodore Roosevelt I too maintain, 1--WE
can serve the world at all only II we
serve America first and best" @. w.
BROOKLYN. July is.
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Our Far Eastern Athletes.

The youths Of our Far Eastern
islands have developed an American
fondness for athletics and. accepting
as their own our games. they have
attained in a comparatively few years
a surprising degree Of skill and excel
lence. This was shown BY the In
terest they displayed and the records
they made in the Far East Athletic
Games held this year in Manila.
These games, which have become
the biggest athletic events OF the
Orient, owe their origin to the devel-
opment of the athletic spirit among
the Filipinos. They were planned by
the Filipinos about ten years ago and
are now participated in by the Philip
pines, China and Japan-this year for
the first time Slam and Malaga were
represented.
Nineteen new records were eskRb-
lished at the meet this year which
were not only good for the Far East
but would attract more than passing
attention at an athletic contest in this
country. The 22O yard dash was won
IN twenty-three seconds; the $50
yard run In two minutes and five
seconds; the one mile run In four
minutes and fifty-two seconds and the
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IF ninety United States Senators
were keenly concerned about exact de-
tails Of the peace treaty some 100000
school teachers who teach geography
are just as anxious to see the new
maps" explains the National Geo.
graphic Society in proposing a radical
divergence from the old way of teach
ing geography by substituting pictures
for tho charts depicting the treaty's
territory settlements. According to the
outlined plan a picture Of a Bolshevik
riot should explain why Russia has
no definite geography to-day; a pic
ture OF the British feet at Helgoland
should sever all associations Of that
rock with Germany, and a picture OF
a happy Alsatian group should tell
the disposition OF that province. But
as far as pictorial instruction goes the
ninety United States Senators keenly
concerned" about the inner workings
of the Peace Conference get little in
formation from pictures Of Versailles
and the Hotel Crillon.
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40 yard swimming contest in six min

40 yard swimming contest In six min
utes and thirty-elght seconds; the
shotput was almost 3S feet and the
pole vault 10 feet and II inches. OF
the nineteen new records made five
were won by japan, two by China and
twelve by the Philippines.
The chief winner of single events
was an exceptionally well trained
young Chinaman, CHU En- TE, who
made the highest individual scores ever
reached In Far East athletics. The
general summary showed China win
ner Of the pentathlon, decathlon and
soccer football; japan winner OF the
marathon and tennis singles and the
Philippines winner of track and field
events, swimming, tennis doubles and
basket and base ball. when It came
to baseball there was no one In the
game except the Filiplnos," according
to reports of the sporting writer's. The
great American game liz safe In the
hands OF its Far Eastern devotees,
The Manila Free Press review Of the
meet says:
Tho Filipino athletes acquitted
themselves with credit and even COW
cred themselves with glory. Pitted
against some Of the best Of Japan
and most OF the best Of China, they
showed that they can hold their own
and possibly a little more than hold
their own in athletic rivalry"
The introduction Of athletics In the
Philippines was an educational ex
pertinent Of the Federal Government
It led almost Immediately to the
growth Of a school spirit which had
not before existed, 1t eliminated tardi
ness and increased regularity of schoo
attendance. Besides, It brought to
gether in friendly contests tribes thai
were formerly mutually hostile, nnt
by furnishing athletic rivalry 1t Of
fered a satisfactory substitute for tri
bal warfare. Athletics, in fact, have
been a builder of Filipino health anC
character as we'll as a peacemaker ant
have thus proved well worthy Of tn,
encouragement received from the Isl
| and administration.
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Premature Appointments.

The announcement comes from
Washington and JOHN w. DAVIS, now
the American Ambassador to Eng
land, Is to represent the United States
on the Permanent Court of Interna-
tional Justice which Is to be estab-
lished by the Council Of the League
Of Nations. Mention Is also made of
the selection of RAYMOND B. FospIcK,
former chairman of the Commission
on Training Camp Activities, for some
other post under the League Of Ma.
lions the precise character Of which
is undisclosed.
These selections are premature and
IL is discourteous toward the Senate
to make them before that body has
acted on the Treaty Of Versailles.
Even II the League Of Nations
should be approved by the Senate
some interesting questions will arise
as to the status Of American officials
hereunder. Are they to be regarded
as officers of the United States2 II
so, they can only be appointed by the
President with the advice and consent
Of the Senate; for the Constitution
SO provides, except In the case Of In
ferior officers, whose appointment may
be vested by Congress In the Presi
dent alone, In the Federal courts o,
law or in the heads of departments
Can any American officials Of the
League Of Nations be appointed at al
without the enactment of a statute
by Congress to carry the provisions OF
the treaty into effect? How other
wise can their compensation be pro
vidcd for?
These and many other questions
ought to be settled before particular
persons are named for positions under
the League Of Nations which are a.
yet without any legal sanction.
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THE PACKERS SIDE OF TT.
A Contention That the World Is to
Stay on a New Price Level.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN--Str: The
July s issue of THE Sun contains an edi-
torial article headed TOO High Prices
for Too Much Beef" There is no ques-
ton but that the situation is complicated
and that It appears unreasonable for the
Department OF Agriculture and other
agencies to be urging increased consump-
ton of meat at present prices because Of
the large available supplies
The real difficulty is that consumers
believe that prices are unreasonably high
and that an attempt Is being made by
''proflteers" to maintain high prices
which prevailed during the war.
They fail to realize that in the opinion
OF best posted authorities the whole
world is on n new price level and that
there is little likelihood of any material
reduction in the near future.
Boycotts are tentatively suggested as
possible remedy. There Is probably
little doubt but that boycotts would
be effective in temporarily reducing the
whole level Of meat prices. and con-
sumers naturally argue that this would
be a real benefit to them.
II they are considering only the imme-
diate effects this would be true. But
what would be the result In the long run
With constantly declining meat prices II
would be obviously impossible for the
meat packers to continue to pay present
prices for live animals Producers claim
that they cannot afford to raise live stock
! If they receive any lower prices, and ma
, terial reduction In live stock production
~ 40
mand for dressed meats and a decreased
| production OF live stock, meat prices
would again advance until even higher
prices than the present would be reached
| In the long run nobody would have ben
! Gifted and the entire industry would hav,
| been seriously deranged.
It Is fundamental economic facts such
| as these that are not understood by thu
general public. Swift & Co. through 1t.
| Advertisements Is attempting to clear W
some OF these NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and t.
| give the facts to the public.
The high prices which prevailed dur
| ing the wnr have already started to de
| cline, and since the frst of April Swift a
! Co.'S prices on dressed beef Of all grades
| in the principal markets have declined
about $40 per hundredweight. Thu
fact Is that Swift & Co. has been losini
money on its dressed beef business sine
the beginning of the year. for live cattl'
have been bringing relatively such higl
prices that in order TO move the dressed
beef II had to be sold on the market at
loss to the packer after giving full credi
for hides. fats and by-products In othe
words. the market price for dressed bee
is not high enough to give Swift & Co
a profit or even allow the company t
break even on its dressed beef business.
l.. d. II. WELD,
Manager Commercial Research Depart
ment. Swift a Co.
| CHICAGO, ILL.,. July 10.
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Another incorporation Of a company
to establish n public country club in
the metropolitan district brings the
number Of such enterprises, amply
financed, which have been put under
way within year up to half dozen
at least. 1t may be that the pro-
moters of these interesting projects
would prefer to have them known as
proprietary clubs, and with proper
reason, in that there will be reetric-
lions as to patronage, both for the
comfort Of guests and the protection
Of Investments.
A number Of these clubs are largely
the enterprises Of managers of hotels
or large restaurants of this city, which
insures excellence of clubhouse enter
tainment as well as convenient
source to draw upon for patrons.
Some have been called to public at
tention as golf more specifically than
country clubs, and probably have en-
HANGED value Of affected real estate
as their chief inspiration.
The point OF social interest here Is
that successful business men appear
to be more than willing, eager. to in
vest in projects whose financial well
being depends almost wholly upon a
social development growing out Of a
new vacation time purpose, the search
for resorts providing out Of door ex-
ercise with the comforts and luxury
Of club life as an added attraction.
This does not seem to be wholly a re-
suit Of an increase In the number of
people whose purses warrant liberal
vacation expenditures; there were
people who spent money literally, law
ishly for those days, when Cape May,
Long Branch, Saratoga were names
which throughout the land conjured
scenes of high cost social gayety.
But had fashion not been tickle
toward those and other resorts almost
as we'll known a generation ago they
would now all be better known for
their golf courses. their acres Of ten
mis- courts, than for their smooth
beaches, their healing waters What
resort could now draw multitpdes,
not for a week end visit but for q
summers sojourn, whose most allur.
ing advertisement was the length and
breadth of Its verandas2
Not only are there many more PEG
pie now than generation ago who
can afford not inexpensive vacations
Of one or two or three months, but
there is much greater increase, pro,
portionately, in the number who de
mand wide. open air spaces for active
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HOME COURSES FOR COLUMBIA.
University to Enter Correspond-
ence Field in Fall.

Columbia University will edge its wav
into the correspondence school field next
September according to an announce
ment made from the university yester-
day. Then. the announcement said. n
home study course will be inaugurated
TO meet tho demand. growing for sew
eral years, that came from special stu
dents who desired to pursue special
studies were qualified to do so but were
unable to attend the university for in
struction.
All that the university undertakes to
do Is to provide the means OF study and
outline the work of the students. The
announcement specified that the home
study courses have no reference to
academic credit or degrees. Neverthe-
less the courses VIII be prepared by the
regular teachers Of the Columbia staff
and will cover the same ground as those
given 20 students at the university. En-
rolment in the home study course may
begin at any time, but the department
reserves the right 10 limit tho number or
length OF courses for which any one In
dividual may enroll. The home study
course will be conducted by the depart
ment OF extension teaching.
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NAVY GETS MANY RECRUITS.
War Pay oner Aids Enlistmcnts-
Arizona Seeks 800 Men.

The navy recruiting station has begun
a campaign to obtain recruits, and be-
cause OF the announcement last Satur-
day that men would be accepted for two
year enlistment terms and the war pay
continued has been meeting with consid-
cradle success. Many of the recruits
are former soldiers.
The battleship Arizona has started a
drive for 500 recruits for that ship and
hopes to obtain them before August 20.
Men OF all ratings are desired and will
DO enlisted at 81 East Twenty-th!rd
street and sent at once on board the
Arizona. A detail of sailors from the
vessel Is stationed at the NC-4, In Cen
trail Park to answer questions regard
ing the navy. and particularly the Ari-
roma. The recruiting station has received
permission to retain the NC-4 here until
July. 2S. after which the seaplane will!
be sent to Washington. where It will be
placed on exhibition in the Smithsonian
Institution.
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GERMAN LINE HEAD SAILS.
Meyer VIII Learn Berlin Policy of
Hamburg American.

Julius P. Meyer, head OF the passenger
service OF the neutrality-suspicious. Line,
sailed yesterday by the Holland-Ameri-
can liner Noordam to confer with Of
f'cials of his company in Germany as to
the future policy OF the line. He said
he had been out of touch with the main
office in Hamburg since the beginning
OF the war and was unable to say what
might be done In the immediate future.
About the report that German COM
pany was planning to run Zeppelins be-
tween the United States and Germany,
he said: well, you know that is not
an inrpossibility."
Baroness Mackay- Hommel of Holland.
who disappeared while on a trip from
Holland to the Orient and later was
found working as domestic in the
home OF Capt. w. s. Overton of San
Francisco, also sailed by the Noordam.
She said she had gone into domestic
service temporarily to study American
theories of democracy so she might pre-
pare her children to become Americans"
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The Way in Which "WOodrow VIII
son Did the Best He Could"

The interest Of the American peo-
pie in Shantung Is not in the matter
Of the distant politics Of the Far
East. Their interest just now is in
the fact that the men who pretended
to represent the United States at the
Paris Conference agreed to plan by
which territory In a weak republic
was turned over to strong mon
archy. Thus the people Of this re-
public. the inspiration and the pat
tern of aspiring nationallties since
1776, appear in the light Of being
willing to see 100000 human be-
ings denied the opportunity to live
under a republican form Of govern
ment.
An apologist for the President, Sen
ator JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS, explains
that "the real reason for the Peace
Conference accepting all this was
that Japan was going to quit and
walk out" and that "WooDRow VIII
SON did the best he could" What this
last sentence really means of course
is that Mr.. WILSON did anything and
eyerything-at whatever sacrifice of
Americas sovereignty or of the feel
ings Of the peoples whose right to
self determination he formerly wept
over-anything and everything to put
through that nebulous Covenant
At the dispersal Of the property OF
the late Imperial German Govern
ment Great Britain got lands and
seas and business; France got lands
and money; Japan got huge Chi
nese province to which Germany
never had an honest title. Mr.. Will
SON returns with Covenant at
tached to which Is bill Of sale Of the
right of Congress to declare war, a
waiver Of the Monroe Doctrine and q
ouitclaim deed Of our national indie
pendence. These he asks the Senate
to sign.
All that America had expected to
get from the Peace Conference was
honor; and that, as Senator WILL
JAMS practically admits, was forgot
ten in the bargaining.
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To THE DDIroR OF THE suH-Sir: Tho
Presidents plea that tho United States
adopt his League Of Nations lest the
heart Of tho world break reminds me OF
an occasion some years ago when suf-
frage was urged before the Virginia Leg
islature and every legislator was button
holed and overwhelmed by feminine ad-
vocates. One legislator. unable TO re-
flute the arguments advanced. pstried his
antagonist by remarking; my grand
mother would turn In her grave II she
knew ] had voted for suffrage"
How long has she been deadT' was
tho sweet reply.
Ten years"
Then let her turn; 1t will do her
good" was the parting shot.
Let the whole imaginary heart Of the
world break II Will do It good.
WALTON ID. BLAIR.
NEW YORK, July 16.
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TEXTILE CHIEFS GET BAIL.
Four Held, on sedition Charges
Free on Liberty Bonds.

Four leaders of the Amalgamated
Textile Workers OF America-Evan W.
Thomas, Louis Stein. Robert w. Dunn
and Henry Berger-who were arrested
in Paterson, y. j., several days ago
after n raid on meeting of extreme
radicals held without the permission OF
the police and later sent to the Passalo
county jail in default Of 81. 900 ball each
on charges Of attempting TO incite hos
tile acts against the Government, have
been released pending action Of tho
Grand Jury. Frank Hedden OF the 4.
T. w. A. deposited four $1,000 Liberty
Bonds as security.
Attorney Henry MarellL. counsel for
the union. has secured writ from Su-
preme Court Justice Minturn for re-
view OF the proceedings. II is return
able July %.