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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
THE LITTLE BOND HOLDERS
Protection for Those who Lent Their
Savings TO the Government.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir: I
wish to commend your editorial article
OF January ~ on what Is a Business
Basis for the New Victory Loan?" The
article Is absolutely sound, and it's criti-
cism Of the opinion Of Mr.. McGarrah as
to what is business basis for any
future loan is we'll founded on fact
ind that many people Of very hum
bic circumstances bought the various
Liberty bonds. not for the sake Of the
small interest yield, but in order to have
n safe place for their principal, made up
to great extent by their hard work
of many months. Many n dollar was
brought forth from its hiding place and
put into these bonds by people who have
never had bank account, and also
| many q person who had a few dollars
paid to a bank the first instalment and
borrowed the balance.
These 500 bonds have gone down
until the second Is are worth ss3.1S and
the ANS s94.4s. This depreciation may
seem very small to the people OF New
York. but to thousands It is very great
Would II not be wise for the Govern
ment to use the funds it has on hand
for the purchase OF bonds to buy only
tho $50 or 800 bonds. and so help the
thousands who have put all their earn
ings In these small bonds?
The Government cannot AFFORD to lose
the confidence OF the thousands OF small
| investors who have made their first in
| vestment in these bonds, A buying by
| the Government of the small bonds in
preference to those of larger denomina-
lions would keep them near par and pro-
tect hundreds OF poor people from loss,
and would be a great incentive to them
10 buy other bonds In the forthcoming
loan. EDWARD G. FoRMAN.
| FREEHOLD, N j., january 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
EVENTS TODAY.

Meeting OF the committee OF education
OF The Reconstruction Comlniss,nn. Board
Meeting OF the public health committee
at the ofitce OF Or. Henry Dwight Chaplin,
81 Vest Firty-h II 7, stree, $50 r. NJ
ish navy VIII tell the story, of the Zee
brpGgg raid. Carnegie Han, II a NJ
Home, s66 West Ind Avenue eveninr 49,
SILK Association OF America dinner. Com
missioner Murray Hubert Will talk on
prhs Port of New York" Hotel Aston :
ST. Mary's Alumna luncheon. Hotel NJ:
Carrier Engineers. meeting. Hotel McA'-
,womens Law Club, meeting. Hotel N.
,Arethusa sorority. meeting. Hotel Nc
:. OMEGA Icta Fraternity. meeting. Ho'-
:, Foreign press Association. dinner, Hot.
q. J. Yoqng Peoples Concert. Carnegie Hsst
symphony Society, Carnegie Ha". SIS
=. CONCERT American Red Cross Ag~Gl,rs
No. &c. Aeollan Hall, SAB p. NJ
lie Lyceum Society meeting. valdez
,oi MaI? 3 p. Women NJ meeting w''loF'->'
Equitable I4'e Assurance Society 'qrra.
Italian Chamber OF Commerce di~r.-
and dance Waldorf-A-toria, u. "
:, Pan.PacihG Forum OF the Japan Soo'-...
Acro ssfi the I paei,c !oE'' NJ co"man'''''
song recital and dance for the hcr.r; ~
the Virginia Day Nursery. Rits-cartor.
Lecture on purposes sui Proposas" ~
J; T. Nyhan. West side y. NJ, {. A, Z
Conference on trar!o Hesitation q, N.
Ga LeGtuT" on The Origin ana Aa'ar- a'
politan Museum OF Art, p. NJ
Luncheon OF Nassar A,G1lrse ~ 80 Y,..
Opening Of tho Knights Of -c,,..,.
Longscre Suuare Tut. At BroadN,s
FSTrfi y.tIS 7,, s;T"ct' ,!.enins..
New YdTk " IiailI l,a the ,.,'2g S'.' =
p1 AnnHHi rSan,9n end luncheon = -
'' E.imGlt '"FE n A'T carr, mgie'; iao
some rrou.ems In The u. \. f..
ton" brooklyn Chamber of CONNIE.
wv y ~ ana FeInsen streets, Brook
Arthur II. Hahlo & Co, sss rt,,n ,,.-
Hu e. Wood WOO ccnsravinss by T!motav zoe
stree. Paintings by john ri'i To,iss,..-
Enrich Galleries, 707 T.fth ay,rr. IT,.
h nia Of unusuai painting, b.. t
n,I ngbeo9k Art Galleries, % E,,' '.-.
FF, nnrn Isl street. I!ctures by A',N
the Barbizor Painters. Until Fcb-a-.
Folsom Galleries. $50 Fit.h $50.
nnoup eNh!bl1ion OF paintings. U.s..
Metropolitan Museum or 49,, r...
tlon OF work by manutacrur.rz ar ..
s!gners, showing museum iuRler
New YORK Public Library. IJ.t D.
cry room 81, the war zone Va s--.
arr, stuart Gallery. room SIC a'a..
Allied Artists OF America. Fin,
Building, 2l5 West F:tty-sovsutb s'....
10
Art Alliance OF America, 10 Fac 'r...
Cntll February II
Ninety-siKth Street Tub,!c I.1-,-.. o."
EAst Ninety -siNth street. ram !rrf .'
+ Frank Carson
GroAsr club. ~ Las. Srv'ir,r
ENhibitlon OF early prlutr! ..... .
books, books OF hours, Tnisss,s. $
Mich Galleries, los West Ttf',-...e..>
street. Exhibition Of painting ara ..t
ings made 4; tn" front b: :. e. "n. p
tEtl February 10.
Arden Gallery, 500 F!ttn a"rr.-
h!oltion OF paintings Of shipou'.f.
dnstrl"s under ,iovernnIen' co7''
the war by John &. Jnh.r...
February ~.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
The Appeal to Buy TIL 1t Hurts
Recalled by a Patriotic Investor.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrN-Sir: Few
small buyers OF the Liberty bond issues
cared to scru,inize the catch phrases
OF the patriotic sellers Of the securities.
One appeal that met your eyes on door
fence and curb. BUY! Buy TIL II
hurts" was an enigma 20 me. Well. l
took out my savings bank balance and
willingly put it into bonds at par.
These securities have since declined
5 per cent IN value, and as l con-
template tho daily fluctuations OF my
Liberty bonds the meaning OF the
slogan "Buy. Buy TIL it hurts" Is
revealed to me.
But I am real American and q
good loser. When the next issue Is an
nounced I'll be ready to buy again
Yes, and buy II 1t breaks!
NIGHT CLERK
New YoRK, January 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
DISTRIBUTING MILK.
A Plan to Avoid Duplicate Routes,
Breakage, Bad Debts and Graft

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Tho
figures quoted showing 1t costs about as
much to distribute milk as II does to
produce II cause one to wonder II some
more economical method OF distribution
than the present cannot be devised.
Obviously. the high cost OF distribut-
ing is principally due to the following
causes, II published accounts Of the
situation are correct:
/. The inefficient manner OF deliver
ing the product, due TO the fact that
number Of different distributors cover
the same routes with resultant scattered
stops, which is an instance where COM
petition raises the cost and consequently
the price, instead of reducirg 1t.
2. The loss through bottle breakage.
3. The loss by reason OF uncollect-
able bills.
4. The moneys paid TO tanitors and
others to influence the sale OF a particu-
lar company's milk in n particular
building or section; call II graft or what
you will.
The following plan, which Is sus-
gested as a basis for discussion. does
not pretend to work out the details Of
the problem, but only to suggest In a
general way what seems TO be better
method than the one now employed.
The idea Is to have the distribution
OF milk in large cities Ike New York
controlled mot owned) by the munich
nality. the city TO be divided into zones
arranged so as to make for the most
efficient receiving and distributing, and
the business in each zone to he con-
trolled by one distributor
Control OF tho business IN each zone
would be given at regular intervals,
company guaranteeing In competitive
bidding TO supply milk and service in
that zone, of a specified quality for the
lowest price "a number OF different
grades as now sold could be covered by
specifications. each TO be quoted on).
No company would be permitted 20
receive awards for more than a certain
share of the business OF the city. 50
providing for the future competitors al
future biddngs.
Sufficient guarantee o. fulfilling con-
tract should be insured by bond or
other satisfactory means. Inspection OF
milk for quality could be conducted
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
Shcrt Term Bonds Suggested for the
Victory Loan.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: l
have read with interest the editorial
articles pointing out the unwisdom OF
making the new Victory loan carry such
terms that It would force the previous
issues still lower; but I have seen no
constructive suggestions from you.
What have you in mind?
OF course the new issue Ia bound to
open" below par because people will
buy more than they want TO keep. and
perhaps the solution is a three to four
year bond at the old rate, because that
couldn't go down very much. II that is
what you are getting ready to suggest,
why not say so? +. l. GNdGs.
NEW York, January 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
Injustice to Sewing Circles.


The metaphor employed by Admiral
MAYO in his remarks to the House
Naval Affairs Committee on Thursday
was not entirely just:
THE League Of Nations is rapidly
eetting down to sewing circle with no
means Of enforcement and no interna-
tional police power"
The commander Of the Atlantic
Fleet does wrong to sewing circles
and their members. These useful or
PLANTATIONS are as a rule, models Of
equitable cooperation. The homes OF
the members are used in turn and
each lady brings her quota OF ma
terials. The expense falls alike on
each Dorcas. If any one felt that
she was being taken in" by the
others in providing sandwiches and
ice cream she would quickly leave the
circle.
II a lady was invited to n confer
ence on the subject of forming sew
ing circle and she discovered that on
account of her strength and wealth
she would be expected to clean the
other members spare rooms, to re-
pair their houses, to discipline their
employees, 10 provide lawyers TO sue
their inimical relatives, and to pay
about half the cost Of the other wom-
EMS sewing stuff and tea and tum-
bles, would she Join the sewing cir
Gle? Yet that Is what the lady Co
lumbia is being asked to do by the
conference which Admiral MAYO re-
fers to as a sewing circle.
How fur Columbia Is committing
herself. or being committed. to the
role of goat-not q word for sew
ing circle, but none other IS as ex-
pressive-can only be guessed at.
Yesterday Mr.. LODGE expressed the
uncertainty in which the Senate,
which has the last word on treaties,
10 kept, and the uneasiness with which
the adventure Of the lady Columbia
10 regarded:
ave seem already to have involved
ourselves in serious differences with
Australia and the Beers. don't know
lust what we are doing and hence speak
with some hesitation. The Senate is
kept in the dark about it all except for
casual and unofficial dispatches
Eve apparently have agreed TO guar
antee and eustain a lot of states and
republics made Of Hottentots.
'-rhe people OF this country have no
concern with the south Pacific or Africa,
except, of course. to look after our own
interests, as in Guam Why we should
10 into an arrangement which involves
u. IN difficulties with the Australians
and Beers, whose friendship Is important
to US. cannot Sec
Our troops are in Russia, our troops
are slated for Turkey, our troops re
wanted in every quarter of the earth
to do some other nations job! Our
money is talked of as II American
gold were as cheap as salt and as II
1t belonged in every land except these
United States!
Mrs. Columbia should put on her
wraps and 90 home. The fire OF pa
thence is going out and the children
are crying loudly because their taxes
hurt them.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
COLORADO MAN PROTESTS.
Professor Says lie Is .'ns Radical
as President"

WAsHINGroN. Jan. 31.--Prof Fred
erick A. Bushee of the University of
Colorado, In letter read to the Senate
to-day by Senator Thomas (Colorado),
protested against the presentation of his
name to the Senate committee inyesti-
eating German propaganda by Archi-
bald B. Stevenson IN connection with a
list OF prominent men aad women VINO,
Stevenson said. held radical or pacifist
views.
Prof. Bushee said he had been
strongly pro-Ally from the beginning Of
the war and that he held views about as
radical as those OF President Wilson.
He added: The Senate has no bust
ness 10 permit names TO he printed as
suspicious when they know no more
about them than they do about me"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
Open to Future Patriots.

Thus will be created a permanent
Government life insurance agency, the
biggest in the world, furnishing pro-
lection at cost to men who participated
in tho war and future members OF the
regular army or navy. with postmaster
agents in every city and town in the
United States.
The War Risk Insurance Bureau re-
ported to-day that 4,iS0,000 policies al
ready have been issued to soldiers and
sailors for insurance aggregating s39,-
232,000,0oO, or an average of $3.50 on
each man The volume OF this business
may be determined by comparison with
the s27,0O0. 900, coo total of life insurance
carried by private companies in the
United States. according to figures cited
to-day by bureau officials.
While the largest private life insur-
ance company In the last year wrote
sSl6,00o,000 OF insurance the Govern
ment wrote sS56,0OO 900 OF new policies
this month. When business was declining.
Up 10 to-day 34,SG9 awards had been
made on deaths OF insured soldiers or
sailors for amounts aggregating s294,-
100000.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01

Moon eets......6:24 NJ
For eastern New York. fair and some.
what colder to-day; tomorrow fair
strong northwest winds.
For New Jersey. fair and som .eha,
colder to-day; tomorrow fair: strong
For northern New England, fair AMI
colder to-day: tomorrow fair; fresh a7d
strong northwest Winds;
somewhat colder to-day; tomorrow fair
strong northwest winds.
For western New York. fair ard some.
what colder to-day; tomorrow fair
WASHINGTON. Jan. s1.--The air ,r.s
sure has increased decidedly along tbs
northern. border from the Great. Lakes
centre OF maximum pressure north o.
Minnesota. Low pressure prevails over
provinces and a decided depression OF The
mountains; It's centre being over Nevada
northern States from the Rocky Mountains
par has Of not It. '4 GnsS ss,s FhT. Ss
in New York, Now ENGLAND and n0r'a
Washington and Oregon. and rain and
SHOWS in Arizona. Utah and Nevada. In
ether Their. parts OF the United States The
look is for generally. fair weather Satur-
Mississippi River. except that the weather
Will become unsettled Sunday In the MIS-
eissippi Valley and the upper lake region
The temperature viii be lower Saturdav
throughout the Middle Atlantic and New
England states, the upper Ohio Valley and
lower lake region. Mild temperature viii
continue throughout the south Atlantic
and east Gaf Safes and Tennessee.
Observations at United States Weather Fur-au
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01

General CRowpEn's picture on the
screen testifes to popular sentiment
Of approval that could not exist II the
draft had not Justified itself, and its
directors had not proved competent
for their difficult job.
We have never before heard OF a
popular Provost Marshal General, but
General CRowDER appears by the
screen test to be entitled to the dis
tinctlon of that adjective.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
Revoking the POetlcaI License.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: You
are right; with poetic license a hy-
droplane goes anywhere"
But why any license. poetic or other
wise, when n ''hydratrplane" Cor "hy-
draerplane," FOR that mattcr) will "navi-
gate the air. as prosaically as a "hy-
droplanc" the water? LoGoTHETE.
BOSTON, January 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
February.

Quick is Fpbruarys cloSe.
Quantity IS not its boast,
Yet the quality It shows
Leaves The others at tho post.
I;riet and bitter are Its ways,
Yet what month ~ longer mlrth
would not trade ITS extra days
For tho hour OF Lincoln's BIRTH
Mortais seek Its cline TO dee.
Yet what month OF thlrty-on.
Would not swap the extra three
For the day OF Washington?
McIiASpBURGu WILSON.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01

Aviation. having achieved tho dig
nifty of a transaction involving tho
transfer of certified check for &c.,
100000 worth of apparatus. may fairly
be said to have passed successfully the
stage OF an infant industry.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
Nat Goodwin.

was never known professionally by
my other name. although he used to
tell Of the banquet In London at which
the late Sir HENRY IRVING introduced
him as "the famous American actor,
Mr.. Mt GOODWIN" But he was NAT
to the great public, which long had
the same regard for him that 1t might
have felt for spoiled child
For many years he was privileged
to do about as he pleased, with no
penalties to pay. Who Of his admirers
has forgotten that performance of "a
Gilded Fool" in Brooklyn which 1t
was found expedient to interrupt In
the middle of the play for the sake of
the star? The next night when the
beloved NAT appeared again in the
same play he was welcomed with ap-
plause enough for returning hero.
His domestic life received probably
more public attention than that Of
any other actor; but for years he was
nevertheless one OF the most liked of
the comedians.
His eminence continued throughout
long career. He emerged in Evan
geline." which will always be remem-
bered also for the artistic success
Of w. II. CRANE and HENRY E.
DIxEY. He acted in farce then, aud
In melodrama when that style Of play
was most in demand, appearing of
course in the broadly comic roles.
Then he felt himself prepared to at
tempt a higher comedy and In when
We Were Twenty-one" he delighted
the public.
CLYDE FITCH, ut the time the most
popular Of American playwrights.
wrote 'The Cowboy and the Lady"
and Nathan Hale" for him, and Au-
GUsTUs THOMAS gave him another
distinctive American type In I'm M!z-
zoura." 1t was inevitable that his
ambitions should turn to the old
comedies, in which he acted Sir
Lucfus O'Tri9gcr and Ddrid Gdrrick.
and later to Shakespeare. He played
ShylOck and Bottom, with the greater
success in the latter role.
But every part he assumed was
more or less marked with the stamp
OF his personal genius. For he be-
longed to that famous group of which
he alone was left when JOSEPH JET
FEIsoN ceased to act. Nothing finer
in contemporaneous comedy has been
witnessed than his Interpretation Of
the Judge In "Why Marry" which
was his last role in New York.
No actor possessed more magnetism
for the public. Perhaps his popularity
was greater in the past than It was
in recent years, although 1t was not
necessary to see him in play to real
izc how the public yielded to the fasci-
Latlon of his manner. He has more
than once stepped on the stage of the
Palace Theatre with no more drn-
matte problem ahead Of him than the
recital of few stories such as any
after dinner orator might recite But
the communicating warmth or his
| genius, the distlnctness of his artistic
methods and his innate humor left the
audience tingling with responsive
glow when he had finished.
Few actors Of the contemporaneous
theatre are of the same artistic stat.
ure as this comedian, who In his nat
ural endowment, his 1nesse and va
riety seems rather to belong among
the great men of the past. But IL
would be a melancholy thought thar
we are never to look upon his Like
again, rare as such manifestations OF
natural genius and finished methods
are In the art Of the theatre to-day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01

Under q new ruling by the War De-
partment, American girls may marry
American soldiers on the Rhine by
United States mail. The girl who avails
herself of this opportunity should take
the precaution Of insuring the letter.
Husbands are too valuable to send by
ordinary United States mail.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
Dividends to He Declared.

All policy holders will participate In
dividends and earnings of more than "
per cent. from the insurance fund Will
20 into dividends. Since the reserves
will be invested in Government securi-
ties, most of which will pay In the neigh
borhood OF Az per cent. 1t Is certain
that there will be large dividends to be
returned periodically to policy holders.
Collections Of premiums will be made
through postmasters In each community.
Although the rates have not yet been
announced, Col Lindsey stated to-day
they would be 80 low that officials OF
private insurance companies who as
sisted in drafting the rate schedule hao
admitted their companies could not COM
pete with them.
Any man now in military or naVal
service holding Government term NE
insurance can obtain the new forms, but
the amount will be limited to his present
holdings, which in no case can be more
than $4,000. The Government urges
all men to continue to carry their pres
ent policies, but to convert these as
soon as as they are financially able
within tho next five years.
The Government itself and not private
companies will carry these converted
policies, 1t was emphasized to-day, in
denial of reports that the insurance
business built up on the lives of fight
ing men during the war would now be
turned over by the Government to pT!-
yate concerns,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01

Taxing purses and pocketbooks as
luxuries will be defended as proper on
the ground that nobody will need
them after the tax collector has been
around.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01
Regardless Of the Expenses.

Last Thursday quite number OF the
men folk OF the NJ. y. Church took Il In
their heads TO go 10 Ladies' Aid and sur
prise them, giving them treat with hne
apples costing 10 cents pound or about
@ cents apiece. and were splendidly ra-
celved and cordially invited to come again.
between thirty and forty ladies were pres
emit Such Is what makes life worth while.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01

Congress and the state Legislatures
must agree on a definition of intoXicat-
ing beverages. a task that will not be
made easier by the fact that nobody
has yet been able to define intoxication
In a manner acceptable to all
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01

The price OF an airplane trip TO
Philadelphia has been fixed at SIS,
which, in comparison with the mount
ing railroad charges for passenger
transportation, is not excessive.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01

Highest temperature, ~. at il:b A. NJ
Lowest temperature. %, at p. NJ.
Average temperature, 35.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01

All other considerations aside. set
ting the clock forward at midnight on
March 80 brings us one hour sooner TO
midnight of the last day OF June.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01

Knicker-what Is a railroad liner
Bocker-rhe shortest distance between
two revolving funds.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01

Knicker-The Bolshev!ki are Invited TO
the Princes Islands.
Bockcr--wouldu't Biaokwe,'s Island
have been better?