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free from politics and politicians,
ideally intelligent, ideally impartial,
but how are they to be attained7
The selection Of State commissions
ers must be made by the Executive or
by the Legislature, or by the Execu-
tive and the Legislature acting to-
gether. The Executive and the Legis-
lature are essentially political in their
origin and their operation. They can
not escape politics any more than a
farmland can escape working in the
sun. Regardless of their good will
and good faith, Governors, Senators
and Assemblymen must consider poll
tics in the conduct Of their Offices
The best that can be asked Of them
is that they shall regard politics as
upright men do, and not treat 1t as
petty echemers do.
In this, as in other things, ultimate
power lies with the people. Their
votes decide whether they shall put
into office honorable and wise mer
or dishonest and foolish men. II they
elect good men they will have good
government. If they elect bad men
they must pay for their folly.
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Seemliness at Coney Island.

In his wisdom and zeal for the pub
lie wellbeing JOHN n. HARMAN, the
Commissioner Of Parks in Brooklyn,
has brought to the attention Of the
police of the Coney Island station an
amendment TO the regulations gov.
erning the use Of parkways under
which persons dressed ain bathing
suits or In other than ordinary at
tire" are prohibited from walking on
the parkways and boulevards under
his Jurisdiction.
The effect Of this restriction will
be to prevent persons living near the
beach from using the principal thor.
oughfares in going to and returning
from their morning or afternoon dip
in the ocean, and it is confidently
predicted that the manners and NOR
ais Of Coney Island will be in conse'
quence much improved.
Coney Island does not differ from
other communities in that the be-
havior of its people might sometimes
be improved, but the necessity of re-
pressing the display Of bathing suits
in highways adjacent to the water
does not appear obvious to the casual
visitor. Commissioner HARMAN is
quoted as saying that "the change
was made because nearby residents
abused the privilege Of being allowed
to 60 TO the beach with only a fiimsy
raincoat over their bathing suits
Bathers dripping and with only an
unbuttoned raincoat over their shoul.
ders were mlngling with the street
crowds, creating discomfort and
scandal"
The oversensitiveness Of some per.
sons may have caused them to be
scandalized by the appearance OF
bathers on the way to and from the
beach; dripping costumes may have
caused annoyance TO a few. The Park
Commissioner ought to know the
facts; 1t Is his official duty to be
informed on such matters. But to mos
visitors to Coney Island and other
beaches the annual outcry over the
appearance Of men and women or
the street in bathing costumes has
become tlresome, and the spring dis
cussion Of the evils Of a convenient
and natural practice appears to be
| greatly overdone.
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FLIERs TO PATROL FORESTS
Army Aviators to Protect Them
From Fires.

Army fliers in time of peace WI
patrol the great national forests ana
reservations to protect them from d!sas-
trous forest fires, according to an an
nouncelrcnt made yesterday by Lieut.
Charles L. Parker OF the army recruit
ing station at 46l Eighth avenue
The new task OF the air service viii
be OF double value 10 tho Government
Not only will millions OF dollars OF va.u-
able timber lands he saved by early
warning OF fires but the army pilots
themselves will gain experience In hanl-
ling planes, judging distances and recon
NOTHING. which will be OF great SER -
in time OF war The announcement o.
the army patrol has been sent broadcn ,
to recruiting stations now attempting %
enlist 10000 men for tho army
Two Curtiss in All planes alreaf g
have been assigned to patrol duty o1"r
the southern portion OF the Cleveland
National Forest. They will start flying
Morday The planes will fly between
100 and 150afniles. making a morning
and an afternoon trip, They will ny ~
5000 or 5000 feet to give them wide
range of vision.
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"Open Covenants OF Peace Openly
Arrived At"

The Germans have printed the text
Of the peace treaty submitted to them,
the covenant Of the proposed League
of Nations and their counter sugges-
lions, in German and French, and the
resultant document, Of paramount In
terest to every intelligent man and
woman in the world, Is on sale in
Holland at the moderate price of
twenty-five cents copy.
Thus every Dutchman and every
alien resident In Holland who can
read French or German is able to
follow with sure knowledge the dis
cussion now proceeding between the
delegates from Germany to the Peace
Conference and the representatives of
the Allied and Associated Powers.
In the United States the case IS
different.
Here we have been allowed TO see
the text of the proposed constitution
Of a League Of Nations, the revised
version of that constitution and an
S,oOO-word summary OF tho punitive,
political and economic provisions OF
the S0,000-word treaty itself. Beyond
this we are in ignorance Of Its terms
except ms leaks in Paris have made
us acquainted with details otherwise
withheld from us.
One of these Is the provision under
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SPEEDWAY NEEDS.
Things to Put in Order Before the
Automobiles Make Their Debut.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Str: II
Is probable that the time is near when
automobiles will be speeding UP and
down the beautiful Harlem River drive
way. where the horse once held sway.
Before the Speedway is thrown open
to autoists, however, something ought
to be done to improve the artificial
beauty OF the famous thoroughfare. The
natural beauty Is all that could be de-
sired. but here and there are places
which should be attended to and put
to rights before the Speedway is thrown
open to general use.
The railing on the east side of the
thoroughfare has been permitted to fall
into q state OF tisrepair. II is broken
in many places and apparently has not
been painted for years. One gets the
impression that no care or money has
been expended on the railing for some
time, and It Is an eyesore.
The roadway in general Is in fairly
good order, but the same cannot be said
fol- the grass plot lining the east side
OF the driveway. In some places the
grass Is long and unkenpt and needs
trimming badly. A lawn mower would
DO just the thing to put It in shape.
Especially Is this true OF the grass north
Of Washington Bridge and where the
Speedway turns into Dyckman street.
Even the electric light poles on the
cast side OF the driveway seem to be
in harmony with the general run down
condition Of the Speedway. They lean
in different directions like lot OF
drunken men. and one feels in passing
them that they might topple over.
NEW York, May 2s. OBSERVER,
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHATTAS.


Paris. Past and Present" by Miss
LsNinia S. Meday. Public School Il. Forty
seventh street. west of Eighth avenue
illustrated by stereopticon views.
walt Whitman and the New World
Democracy" by Mrs. Mabel Irwin. Pubic
school ~, Forty-seeond street, east OF
Third avenue.
Literary and Historic shrines Of Boston
and Vicinity" by Isaac r. Smith. Public
school 46, lS6th street and st. Nicholas
avenue. illustrated by stereopticon views
The Place of Trees In Mems Affairs"
ana Academy street. lnwood. illustrated BY
stereopticon views.
Walt whitman" by Or. John H. Ran
dali Public School 50. 2:s East Fifty
seventh street.
our Pagan People" by c. J. Blanchard.
Illustrated by stereopticon views.
THE Battle OF the Languages for IT,"
Supremacy of the World and the M
Probable Winner" by David Goldblatt, PIN
D.. Labor Temple, southwest corner %
Fourteenth street and Second avenue
The Art OF James MacSeil Whistler.
by Louis Weinberg. in Y. W. C. a, ~
West 10th street. Illustrated by stcreop-
ticon views,
Canada" by william T. Smith. H"b-ew
Sheltering Guardian Society. Pleasant'ni-,
y. Y.
BRONX.
abraham Lincoln CSos-lSs5)," by Louis
L. Wilkinson, Lit. n, Morris High Schoo,
l66th street and Boston road.
Seeing Europe After the Armistice." hy
Alfred G. Walton, Public school, Lorc
wood avenue. Kelly and Beck streets IL.
Illustrated by stereoptIcon views
The PHILIPPINES" by Major Frank he X.
Teller avenues. illustrated by stereopt ,9n
views
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A Red Lett& Day.

I got up this morning at seven.
with portents of evil In mind.
Ia dreamt in the night of heaven
Where cooks are both faithful and kind,
Now, this made me fearful, suspicious.
Expecting new cookless plight
But oh, dIsillusion delicious:
Our cook had not left In the night
I've lived quite a while In this city,
And had both my ups and my downs.
Receiving and asking small pity,
As one must expect in large towns.
But now that I've JOY, l would share IL.
And make other lives sweet and bright
Come, listen, dear friends, while blare Il
Our cook did not leave in the night,
WILLIAM WALLACE WulrELocK
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Barnard College. luncheon, Hotel Com
modore, l p. NJ.
Convention OF the Great Camp of New
York of the Maccabees. Hotel Commodore.
all day.
Rotary Club. luncheon. Hotel McAlpin,
1880 p. NJ.
Lecture on in the Line on Armistics
Day" by Capt. Gypsy Pat Smith. Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church. p. NJ.
Memorial service for men who died in
the war, Rodelph Sholom Congregation,
Sixty-third street and Lexington avenue.
S:l5 +. ".
Lecture by James w. Gerard. Educa-
tlonal Alliance, s:l5 p. NJ.
Memorial festival of flowers. City Col
lege Stadium, u. NJ.
Historical exhibition Of book bindings
made before 1900. the Groiier Club. all day
and evening.
Lecture on Art as n National Asset" by
c. r. w. Nevinson. at tho Kloorkians GAL
leries. 40 West Fifty-seventh street. $50
=. NJ.
Sixtieth commencement OF Cooper Union,
=. NJ.
Commencement OF the Medical College
and the school OF Nursing OF the Long Isl
and College Hospital, Academy OF Music,
Brooklyn, Y. NJ
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anything could be done in this coun-
try against the German ADVANTAGES
in the way of technical skill. cheap
labor. governmental support and un-
scrupulous methods"
One of the Government measures
having a favorable effect upon the
American dye industry was the
amendment to the trading with the
enemy act, which made possible the
taking over Of German patents. Even
before this had been done, however,
American manufacturers had been
making considerable progress in the
production of dyes. All the recent
tests that have been made Of the
American dyes have proved them
in every respect fully satisfactory.
American dye workers have not yet
succeeded in producing the wide
range of shades that 1t took Germany
thirty years to develop. but they have
produced many of the most difficult
SudutS WHICH, TIE 0cIhuuS uSSiuicu
could not be produced outside Of Ger
many. The whole development has
had for its purpose the production Of
colow that will tend not to tenn
porary success but to the permanence
Of the industry.
1t Is not, however, with German
dyes alone that the American manu-
facturer must In the future compete.
Dye making has been revived as an
industry in both France and Great
Britain, while Switzerland, which
before the war was struggling with
Germany for her share Of the world
dye trade, has been making consider
able progress in the cheap production
Of high grade colors. The provision
Of the peace treaty will not In itself
furnish the protection that this new
industry will require in this country.
The protective measures which have
already been recommended at Wash
ington will remain an imperative
necessity.
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In allowing a dividend OF per cent.
capital receives its first award. follow
ing the United States Supreme Court
allowance in the gas company decl-
sion. Congress allows per cent in the
Income tax law, and bonds and gilt
edged securities pay much less. The
machinery and workers produced SEQ
900 profits from $4,000 worth of raw
material. What are the right and Just
shares for capital and producers OF the
81, 900 undivided profits? #. J. d.
NEW YORK, May 2S
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PROFIT AND Loss IN PEACE MAKING
FROM Horpey's weekly.


It possible to compute with substantial accuracy
the profit and loss Of the diplomacy in which the President
has been unusaby engaged for the last six months Inc
balance sheet runs substantially as follows:
GREAT BRITAIN WINS: ...,.,
Guaranteed and undminished control of the seas;
Virtual control of the League of Nations with six votes
to the of the United States any other Power;
The major part Of the former German colonies;
Confirmed possession of Egypt;
Greatly increased influence in the East;
Reparation for injuries and losses to- civilians.
FRANCE WINS:
Alsace-Lorraine;
The Sarre Valley;
A barrier all along the Rhine against another German
Reparation for injuries and losses to civilians.
BELGIUM WINS:
Additional territory;
Restored independence;
Reparation for her injuries and losses in the
ITALY WINS:
Restoration Of Italia Irredenta
Security for her Alpine frontier;
Control of the Adriatc Sea;
Reparaton for injuries and losses in the
JAPAN WINS:
Former German islands in the Pacific;
Control of China;
Increased influence in Asatic Russia.
WOODROW WILSON WINS:
place in history the founder of the League of Nations
which threatens his country with undoing.
THE UNITED STATES LOSES:
Her independence and sovereignty
The friendship of Italy, japan and China
The power of self-defence;
Selfdeterminaton of the size of her army and navy;
The right to make treaties at will;
The right to mind only her own business.
WAS 1T WORTH WHILE?
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Politics in the Public Service
Com missions.

The Public Service Commissions in
New York State were created while
CHARLES E. HUGHES was Governor,
and the original boards were ap-
pointed by him. Naturally, Mr..
HUGHES has a keen interest in the
development Of these regulatlve bod.
ies, and at a dinner given in honor
of the retiring Commissioners for the
metropolitan district on Tuesday eve.
ming he said:
politics must be absolutely kept
out Of these regulating commissions.
They are no place for political
rewards; they are no place for favor
or partially.
THE essence Of the whole business
is intelligence and impartiallty."
Nobody will dispute Mr.. HUGHEs's
contention that commissions regulat
ing public utilities should be ideally
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-29

England has HAwKER, and is max
ing the fuss over the brave aviator
that he deserves. But America has
his plane, or parts OF 1t. and also the
mail which HAwKER was taking to
England. The American steamer Lake
Charlottesville, one OF the vessels
built on the Great Lakes during the
war, is now steaming toward Falmouth
with such remains Of the machine as
she picked up So the Danes. who
picked up HAwKER. and the Yankees,
who salved the less important part
of the adventure, have some little part
In the glory.
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Allied Control OF the German Dye
Making Industry.

Ak1kiuk AnuubttIs
The virtual control of the German
dye industry, which a despatch from
Paris announces is given to the Al
lies for q period Of five years by a
hitherto unpublished portion of the
peace treaty, would seem to offer
solution of a peculiarly complicated
after war economic problem. The
period in which the industry is thus
free from German competition will
afford time for the development of
the plans Of manufacture that are
row under way in this country and
the allied nations and also for the
enactment OF proper legislative meas
ures to insure the protection Of the
future of the industry.
The dye industry Of the world was
before the war practically in the con-
troll Of the Germans, as they were
supplying from so to So per cent. of
all the dyes consumed. The Germans
were not the discoveries Of the posi-
bilities of aniline colors; this credit
belongs to England. France too
made aniline dyes before Germany
did. The flnanciers Of these countries,
however, let the initiative pass. from
them to the Germans, who by making
careful study Of the matter pro-
duced new formulas, processes and
MI oh 70 or Nf
colors and greater variety of tints
and shades. To the production Of
the goods themselves was added a
skilful system of world trade manipu-
lation. The Governments tariff and
other policies kept home prices up
and the manufacturers were enabled
to sell their overproduction IN for
eign countries even If this was done
ut loss. The result was that Ger
man dyestuffs could be sold all over
the world at prices which the domes-
tic manufacturers could not meet. AS
soon as domestic manufacture Of dye
stuffs In any one country was de-
stroyed or stifled 1t was no longer
necessary for the German exporters
to sell at or below cost, and the out
come Is thus told by the Journal of
Industrial and Engineering Chem
istrv:
prices were Immediately raised
and handsome profits realized. The
tendency to this result was recog-
nized by the German Government
from the nrst, and every facility was
It was fully realized by both the
civil and military authorities that IL
a world monopoly in the dyestuff in
/ dustry could be built up the military
strength of Germany would be colos-'
sally enhanced. since 1t alone of all
the great Powers would then be in
a position to secure immediate sup
plies OF the vast quantities OF NUM-
lions likely TO be needed in a mod
ern war;
Another factor that worked for the
protection Of the German dye indus
try was well organized propaganda.
1t became the part Of every German
chemist to proclaim the invincible
power of the German dye industry,
the impossibility Of securing similar
results elsewhere because of the diff
Guilty Of the process and the lack OF
the necessary machinery and the
skilled labor required. That the
propaganda had an effect is shown
in a report of A. Mitchell PALMER
former Allen Property Custodian?
Prior 10 the war only a few Amer
leans had the temerity to believe that
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The city maintains only eleven
street lights on Broadway between
Forty-second and Forty-ninth streets,
and this evening, by extinguishing for
Eve minutes all the privately sup
ported lights. the Broadway Improve
ment Association is going to show
how inadequate Is the official illumi-
nation of this part Of the highway
system. Undoubtedly Broadway will
be a dark and dismal canon in this
intermission. but what will that
prove? That the city refuses to use
electricity unnecessarily Is not an Of
fence against good government; as
long as Broadway business men do the
lighting Father Knickerbocker will
keep his street lamps for other spots.
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Taxes to Pay Billions OF Dollars
Of Old Bills.

Senator SMooT, no doubt, can be
as reasonably interested as anybody
else in a theory that is worthy Of con-
sideration. But Senator SMooT also
knows a fact when he sees it. So do
other financial leaders Of the new
Congress.
And 1t Is a hard, cold fact that
there are some eight to ten billions
of dollars Of unpaid bills and of bills
still running on-bills which are a
heritage from the war now half
year 6ld-to be cleaned up by this
new Congress, These clear headed
leaders do not try to fool themselves
and they do not try to fool the public
about this colossal mass of current
debt which must be settled with
out delay. They do not try to fool
themselves about the way 1t must be
cleared up.
1t is hopeless to think that these
billions and billions of dollars of bills
can be cleared off the slate without
heavy taxes. There is nothing else
left now. But even heavy taxes can
not clean them up unless present and
future expenditures are cut to the
bone. This Government cannot 60 on
spending the way 1t has been and still
is spending and meet the current
charges with any tax programme yet
suggested, much less clean up the stu
pendous back bills. ...
The Committees on Appropriations
must take an axe to every item in
every department that can possibly
be Topped off. They must chop out
entirely all the foolish, visionary and
extravagant programmes which have
been dreamed and set in motion by
legislative and executive insists who
don't know a business proposition,
from the reflection Of a rainbow. All
that sort Of stun must be dumped
into the waste basket. Even the
practical programmes have got to
or no taxation measure that can be
devised will keep the Treasury sup
piled with funds to pay the way Of
the Government and save its name
from financial reproach.
Everybody agrees-even the squan-
der spenders of Mr.. WILSON'S present
Administration and previous Con-
gress-that there can be no more pop
ular loans. Popular loans to pay for
dead horses wouldn't raise enough
money to cover the expense of the
loan campaign. The Treasury can
borrow money from the banks, the
Treasury will have to borrow 1t from
the banks, as It has been doing. to
satisfy pressing creditors of the Gov
eminent. But the banks must be paid,
interest and principal, out Of taxes.
This, with the current bills for con-
Quoting the Government, is going to
lay stupendous burden upon the
no escape. The American people have
to pay-have to pay the billions and
billions that have gone in extrava-
gance and waste by incompetent and
reckless squanderers. They have to
pay in taxes. But the new Congress
can save them from the further bur-
den Of useless expenditure to-day, to-
morrow and thereafter in its resolve
TO let no dollar get into an appropria-
ton measure that does not belong
there. The new Congress can spare
The American pocket as nobody in the
previous Congress ever lifted a fin
ger to spare 1t.
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Clean I'D Week June 81.

The city's spring clean up drive Wi 10
observed the week of June 90. delayed ?
was said by city officials because Of '-
Dor troubles which have interfered win
carting and dumping refuse. Sermons IN
churches and addresses in public for'. s
on Sunday will prepare the popula 20 '''
the actual vacuuming to begin the mex
day. School children. Boy Scouts ana
civic organizations will be asked !. 3
joint memorandum of Mayor Hylan AMI
other city heads to help the Health M
missioner and the Department o: 'ee'
Cleaning.
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The perfect man has been found. He
is GEORGE A. SAxroN, Jr, recently ap-
pointed to West Point by Congressman
GALLIvAN. He has been passed 100 per
cent perfect. mentally and physically.
by the Army Examining Board.-Des-
patch from Boston.
Tho hundred per cent perfection in
morals is TO be assumed in a man
selected for West Point. SAxroN will
have Use for his strength, his self
repression and his good nature when
he encounters the imperfect majority
i'm the Academy.