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NIcHoLAs's measures of defence. Con-
stantly to retreat and never to fight
was not their idea Of the way to pro-
tect their mountain land. NICHOLAS
fed, and with small allowance from
France and Great Britain he has been
making poor attempt to sustain his
royal position by small court at
Neuilly, near Paris.
OF NIcHoLAs's six daughters, all
but the two youngest married into
royal or prlncely European families
One Of them became the popular and
much loved Queen HELENA of Italy.
The old man was proud of his girls,
and well he might be; they had be-
sides their beauty the brains of his
family. Not one Of his sons could be
his successor. DANmo, the heir ap-
parent, was so unpopular with the
MOntenegrins that he has spent most
Of his time in Germany MIRKo and
PETER fed with their father.
The traditions Of Montenegro are
Of the centuries long struggle against
the Turks. GLADSTONE spoke of the
Montenegrins as "a small people hold
ing back the Turkish horde" But
holding back the Turks Is no longer
a job for even a Balkan warrior. He
must go to work helping his women
to wiring a living from the moor soil
BY Joining the Serbians the Monte
negrins become part of the new and
strong Serb nation. The union is a
source of strength to both countries.
New Serbia gains an addition of
some 5000 square miles and about
100000 people. 1t has at last its
windows on the sea, at the ports Of
Dulcigno and Antivari.
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FOOD FOR BoLSHEVISM.
A Russian Sees Danger in the Policy
Adopted In Paris.

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. The
Intep>Allied policy on the Russian stu
alton Is chain Of fatal misunderstand-
ings and historical errors. The Princes
Islands proposition was dropped because
loyal Russia rtpudiated It with a feeling
OF deep indignation. When Heron was
substituted at the Supreme Council by
a Bullitt there was a danger that the
criminal gang of Bolsheviks in Russia
would be recognized and dealt with by
the Allied nations.
Heavy pressure exercised by the Brit
ish Parliament stopped this proposition.
Due to British public opinion Lloyd
George was almost compelled to de-
nounce the anarchistic tendencies OF
Trotzky, comparing the Bolshevist move
ment to "a volcano which Is still in
eruption" Immediately after that. how
ever, a suggestion has been made by
the Supreme Council to feed Bolshevist
Russia because of humanitarian mo-
tives.
What dark forces are guiding the Big
-Four in regard to the Russian situation?
How inhuman is this humanitarian prop
osition to feed the very men who are
plundering Russia. numbering her best
sons and crucifying her! Feeding Boil
shevist Russia means Strengthening the
Bolshevist cause not only in Russia
but throughout the world. Moscow I'M
der Trotzky is the headquarters OF in
ternational anarchy. and therefore feed
ing Trotzky means strengthening an
archy throughout the world.
Moreover. the Allies again demand
that we loyal Russians cease hostilities
against the Bolsheviki that we compro-
mise. They will not get 1t.
We will not cease hostilities. We
will keep on lighting. II they won't we
will stamp out Bolsheyism we will not
tolerate Bolshevism in Russia, and IL
Lloyd George says he would "rather
leave Russia Bolshevik than see Great
Britain landed in bankruptcy" we Rus
SLAMS have no right to deliver our moth
erland to bunch of international an
archists for the sake OF any OF the Eu-
ropean countries.
However selfish and short sighted the
attitude taken by the Supreme Council
may be. we will be guided in our ac-
tons by the only motive which should
guide the activities of every loyal citi-
long, and that is the love of his native
country, the pride of belonging to his
own people. The blood of the best sons
or Russia which has been shed merci-
lessly by the Bolsheviki will not be con-
verted into ink of compromising treaties
with them.
The fight must go on. The fight will
go on until the time when the very
memory OF the Lenine-Trotzky bloody
regime will be eliminated from the minds
Of the Russian people.
Russia has no other issue than TO be-
come free. Russias freedom can be
achieved only by complete and over
whelming victory OF the rising national
spirit over the dark forces OF interna-
tionai anarchy and conscious brutality
OF the proletarian dictatorship.
Lieutenant BORIS BRAsoL.
NEW York. April 90.
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Bedrnggled City Hall.

Colonel WILLIAM J. DONOVAN of the
165th Infantry is as polite as he is
brave. Consequently In his interview
with Mayor HYLAS at City Hall yes
terday he tactfully refrained from
uttering any criticism of the forlorn
and dilapidated appearance of the
building in which official welcome
was given 10 him or Of the plaza on
which 1t faces.
This admirable self-repressiou does
every credit to Colonel DoNovAN's
power Of self-restraint and his cour-
tesy. Really, he would almost have
been justified in ignoring the conven-
tions and asking the Mayor why City
Hall was not spruced up for his re-
ception AS the commander of regi-
ment by tradition Irish he might have
been forgiven If he had inquired why,
on the occasion Of his visit, the city
INDUCED in such an elaborate display
Of faded greenery as met his eye.
There is nothing faded or shabby
about the green in which the old
Sixty-ninth takes pride
The truth is that City Hall and the
plaza, still CARRIED in the decorations
put up in honor of the Twenty-seventh
Division, present most depressing
sight. The streamers and the conf
fers have served their purpose. They
should be cleared out and not re-
tanned to distract attention from the
interesting proceedings that bring
thousands of persons to the park.
City Hall 'unadorned is a beautiful
building, in dignity suitable to any
ceremony, and it should not be de-
faced as It is to-day.
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT

South America To-day ana To-Mor-
row stereopticon views. Clayton g. Coopsr
Washington Irving High School. 20 Irving
RUSSIAN Folk and Peasant soaxs."
songs: Edward Bromberg. Public school
-, Forty-sevsnth street west OF Eighth
:, An. Evening Of Old Songs" old Eng
lish, Sootcl, and Irish songs, Misses Graz.
second street. east OF Third avenue.
Our Pacific Empire" stereopticon viewa
notert g. Weyh., Public school 4s. 1861
street and st. Nicholas avenue.
Egypt and Cleopatra" stereopticon
views, Mrs N5 J. HsGnEsrtord Mlsank. Public
Carlyle. Part 2, The Prophet" one OF a
course on Studies in Modern Literature"
William J. Durant. Ph.D Public School
6os,oierski ono se Of course srsst on Great
Russian Writer'S" l.ouis s. FriedIand
Ph.D,, Public School CO. Hestor ana Ess.I
"shakespeare." Louis U. Wilkinson.
LII Lib n (ot SsmSyidse ,Tnyersity, Public
s!stant Director Division of Educations,
College. Lexington avenue and Sixty-eighth
street. at AIS p. NJ.
Grace F, Caldwell will tolk on Britain
and Burns Labor Temple. Fourteenth
street and Second avenue, 3 p. NJ
French Composers Old and New" piano
clans Message 10 Music Lovers" Giusepp.
A. Randegger. Y. w. II, A. 81 West llOth
street.
RRONN
Joan OF Arc" the FIRST of a course an
Heroes OF Liberty" Louis L. Wilkinson
LTD. (of Cambridge University Morris
High School. 166th street and Rostou road
Edward Gtieg ard the Scandinavian
Songs" illustrated by songs and assisted
by Miss Graca Hofheimer. Mrs CURL L.
Smith, Public School So. lssth street. Find
lay and Teller avenues
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PRICES TELL THE STORY.
why Railroad Stockholders Worry
Under Government Control.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sr. Why
should the railroad stakeholder worry?
AS f. II. Lamb says in part IN his
answer TO ]. Il. Strork THE stock
holder OF the individual railroad Is UNI
affected by wages paid employees, as
you should be aware. The compensa-
ton authorized from the Government
10 the owners OF railroads is based
upon conditions prevailing for three
years prior to June 80. 1917, and even
IL the expenses of any particular rail-
road were doubled or more this year or
last. this would have no bearing on
the returns to the stockholders"
Very well said Everything runs
beautifully. As an example, let us
take Baltimore and Ohio.
The common stock was selling above
80 and paying per cent prior to
June 80, 1917. and 1t goes begging now
In the 40s. Not only has the dividend
been reduced to per cent. but to make
things more cheerful the stockholders
have been waiting nearly one year for it.
Western Maryland is another road
which has improved wonderfully under
Government control. the common stock
selling at ~ AT tnlS WTltlTB from u
high above 30 a little before changing
hands. Many others have gone the
same way.
All told, the position OF the average
stakeholder is positively exhilarsting,
Besides, the lucky owners can also draw
a good deal OF extra buoyancy from
the fact that the shares of corporations
not taken under the protective wing OF
the american eagle are leaping up Ave
or more points in one day. some OF them
selling near or above double OF par.
Why worry, indeed. IL one sees ones
investments go a-begging at so to 10 per
cent less than one has paid for them
especially when the purchasing power
of the dollar Is cut more than in half?
Be merry. we lucky and happy
railroad stockholders The oracle says
you should. DESIRE LEscARBoURA.
wv YORK. April as.
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patton with the war has led to care
lessness in enforcing the regulations
designed to stamp out the disease, and
it is likely that soldiers returning
from their campaigns have SNUG
gled in dogs suffering from it. As has
been shown at this port, 1t is practi-
cally impossible to prevent soldiers
from bringing in pets which have &C.
companied them as mascots in their
service, and among camp dogs there
would be likely to be some sufferers
from hydrophobia.
This outbreak Of hydrophobia is
particularly interesting because of the
strong efforts England has made to
extirpate the malady and the sue
cess with which they have met.
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Srvice from the nearest railway sta
ton. Yet the club has been compelled.
in order to accommodate its eager pa
irons, to guild a second eighteen hole
course. Here is a chapter Of Scotch,
Irish and English golf history re.
peated; attractive links may be never
so inaccessible, yet they will not fail
to draw enthusiastic players. A few
years ago II was thought necessary
In this country first TO be assured Of
a company OF players near by before
the tentative nine hole course was
ventured upon; now the thing looked
for is good golf ground; that found,
though an hour or an hour apd half
by rail from a community able to sup
ply the necessary supporting member
ship, soon two eighteen hole courses
are built, while the distracted club
governors consider the cost Of ground
Tor a third course
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DEMOBILIZING THE COB.
Delay Expensive to the Government
and Trying TO the Men.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. q
read with interest the letter regarding
the rehabilitation OF the COB. and here
with offer another example of the lido
syncrasies of our system.
A friend volunteered In the navy in
1917 and was sent to the Harvard radio
school. He was soon assigned to trans
port duty as a wireless operator, and
for over twelve months ferried across
the Atlantic on cargo ships that were
hardly At for cattle boats. These old
hulks had temporary wireless quarters,
in most instances furnishing such ac-
commodations that oftentimes he slept
on deck in preference to the stuffy quar-
ters. and, though III with influenza on
one occasion he had to remain at his post
without any medical attention. He has
not entered one word Of complaint or
criticism about this, however, taking it
as "c'est la guerre."
Since the first part OF January he has
been sitting around at an inland station
waiting for his discharge He made
application through the proper channels
after the armistce was signed and
has appealed to all the local authorities
as well as TO the highest authorities in
Washington, and II was limited in Feb
ruary that his discharge would come
through April /. but It was apparently
All April fool joke. and he can now get
no information as to when he will get
his release.
He draws about $50 a month. and OF
course the Government is feeding him,
so II is safe to say that the cost to
keep him in the service is at least SIS
a month. There are 10000 in his camp,
and while he is probably drawing more
than the average. take 1t conservatively
at $50 a month to keep each man and
you can figure half million dollars a
month expense to the Government. Any
one Of these men could have been re-
leased on an indefinite furlough subject
10 call at any moment and could have
reached his quarters within from TWEEN
ty-four to forty-eight hours. II neccs-
sary, and thus avoided this expense.
Aside from what it is costing to keep
him. this young man had a job waiting
for him on April /. he is engaged to be
married, and his parents are anxious TO
have him back home. II. \. c.
New YORK. April %. ~.
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MISUSES OF THE FLAG.
More Respect for Old Glory Sought
in q Campaign OF Education.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. The
nationwide campaign carried on by the
American Defence Society to bring
about increased respect for the Ameri-
can flag is N step in the right direction
There has been too much disrespect
shown our flag during the last two
years. and the time has arrived when
the flag must be put back on the high
plane where it belongs. For instance.
the flags use as an advertising medium
TO appeal to the patriotism of citizens
must be- obviated. Those who use il as
receptacle in making collections on
subway and elevated trains. even though
such collections are made for charitable
or patriotic purposes, mus; be d!scour-
aged from doing so and warned that
the continuance of the practice will
bring more drastic action in the future.
Anent the dirty. torn. neglected nags
with which the society is concerning
itself in its campaign there are so mary
such flags in New York that only a
long campaign OF publicity and per-
sonal investigation will bring about the
desired result. The price of flags is
rot so high now that 1t should act as
barrier to the purchase OF new ones to
replace the old.
During the campaign the society in
tends to interest the boards of educa-
ton throughout the country in the work,
the idea being to have the history of the
flag taught to the pupils, Special ef-
forts will be made to teach foreign born
children the glorious history of the flag
TO make them realize what 1t means TO
he an American. They will also learn
that the flag stands for government OF
the people. by the people and for the
people" AMERICAS.
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Those Fighting Engineers.

Recruited largely in this city and
its immediate vicinity, the Eleventh.
Engineers. whose homecoming van
guard reached this port yesterday,
went to France ostensibly to do the
kind Of work their official designation
implies. All that was expected Of
them was that they should build rail-
roads and railroad yards under fire,
keep the rail heads close to the front
line trenches. maintain communica-
tons for the combat troops. work
twenty-four hours day and never say
anything they were called on to do
was impossible.
They accomplished everything that
was expected of them.
Having lived up TO their contract
as engineers. these modest citizens
looked about for chances to fight, and
whenever the opportunity offered they
sailed into the Germans with what
ever weapons were handy, from pen
knives to tamping-irons. They suf-
fered their first casualties less than q
month after they landed in France,
and they worked steadily under fire
from the beginning of their service to
it's end.
This conspicuously gallant body Of
men is commanded by Colonel WILL
lam BARCLAY PARSONS, the engineer
of New York's first underground rail
way, and If everybody who wants to
cheer them should go to Central Park
at the same time the jam there would
be worse than anything that subway
has ever known.
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can shoot and who mean business the
Bella Kun flock are now not unlike
panic stricken rabbits. The uprising at
Vienna was still less convincing as a
popular upheaval. 1.-THE whole tron-
ble," according to a circumstantial
report, was caused by lot Of I'M
ruly young men," and 1t seems never
to have been SO serious as to be be
yond the control Of the police
The strikes at Essen, In the Ruhr
district and other parts Of the Rhine
region, referred to as signs Of rebel
lion and discomfort, were ended as
easily when NosKE, the Minister OF
Defence, undertook their suppression
as strikes were ended under the en-
pire. The establishment Of a Soviet
Government in Bavaria has been &C.
cOmpanied by reports including so
many ridiculous details as to cast
considerable doubt upon the genuine
ness of the whole movement as a Red
outcropping from Moscow.
In the meantime the National AS
sembly at Weimar goes quietly and
apparently undisturbed on its way.
1t is unheard of these days; It
seems as somnolent as the little town
in which 1t Is held. In reality It
would appear that IL there was a
chance for a radical upheaval this
Assembly would present it. The ses-
sions are held under the vigilance of
the army and an approach to Weimar
is permitted only by military pass.
The same spirits which once controlled
the Reichstag control the Assembly.
SCHEIDEMANN, Count BRocKDoRFF-
RANTZAU and LANDsBERG still WELD
their former power, and Count Won
BERNsToRFF remains one Of the chief
advisers. 1t is not amiss to say that
the new Assembly is the revived
Reichstag," and. like its predecessor,
has been so far merely "a debating
society"
Unless 1t Is still rampant In the
Imagination Of Mr.. WILSON the Boil
sheSik terror now keeps no great
statesmen, not merely in the western
world but in the western part of Eu-
rope, awake o. nights.
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The subjoined message was sent
from Washington on Tuesday for pub
LEGATION in the newspapers:
Administration officials were ad-
vised in a confidential cable des-
patch from Paris to-day that in the
consideration of problems confront
ing the Peace Conference. such as
Italy's Adriatic claims and the aues-
tion of an alliance to protect France
from future aggression, President
WILSON would take no action which
might in the slightest degree jeopar-
dize the League OF Nations or con-
fiict with its fundamental principles
This assurance is obviously de-
signed to quiet the alarm of those
supporters of President WILSON in
this country who read in the disclos-
ure of his project for treaty of al
lance for the defence of France
against German aggression a confess
sion that the amended draft of a
constitution for his proposed league
Of nations would not guarantee the
peace Of the world and consequently
would fail of its principal object.
If it means what it seems. to mean,
we are to be asked TO join a league
Of nations which will insure the peace
Of the world, and at the same time
to bind ourselves by treaty to safe
guard France in case Germany is not
held to peace by the operation of
that league.
The provisions of the proposed con-
stitution Of league Of nations and
the provisions of the proposed treaty
with France are rs yet unknown to
the American people. Therefore an
attempt to discuss them would be I'M
profitable. But with what enthus-
asm that same people would well
come a message from Washington,
or from Paris, which should convey
to it such information as this:
Administration officials were ad-
vised In confidential communication
from the President to-day that in the
consideration of problems confront
ing the Peace Conference, such as
Italy's Adriatic claims and the ques-
ton of an alliance TO protect France
from future aggression, the Presi-
dent would take no action which
might in the slightest degree leopard
the traditional policy OF the United
States in foreign affairs. or conflict
with the provisions or the fundamen-
tai spirit Of the Constitution OF the
United States"
The receipt of an authentic decla-
ration by the President embodying the
idea suggested in this paraphrase OF
Tuesdays message from Washington
would do more TO restore the conf
dence and TO quiet the fears of the
people of this nation than any other
announcement that could come at this
time from the Chief Magistrate of the
United States.
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How old fashions pass At the re-
cent annual meeting in Hoboken Of
the stockholders of the Steel Corpora
ton the lunch OF long and loved COM
position, sandwiches. pie and beer. was
curtailed by the elimination of its
third and only moist component part.
A general adoption of a rule in ac-
cordance with this instance may result
in discomfort to more than the stock
holders-to the officers. In older days
of corporation stockholders meetings
it was a common custom to provide
those attending with lordly salmon
golden with a rich sauce, and a punch
of authority ladled from a bowl OF
ample girth and depth. And at such
meetings seldom an accomplished off,
cial act was questioned, seldom an off,
cial request for authority to act de-
MED. But it may be that in these
better days business more than in
older days Is business, and the punch
bowl discovered to be no better than
a pool Of deception.
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Eastern New York, showers to-day in
west and tomorrow, or tonight in east
portion; tomorrow cooler and probably
fair moderate to fresh south winds.
New Jersey, cloudy to-day, shower. nv
tonight; cooler and probably fair; moderate
to fresh south winds
Northern New England, partly cloudy 10
day, showers at night and to-morrow:
cooler to- morrow.
,s Southern ,n s New Enslsne. Increasing cloud
cooler and probably fair.
Western New York, showers and cooler
To-Day; much cooler at night; Tomorrow
WASHINGTON, d. C., April 9Th.
northwestern high pressure area of Tues
DAY night Is still central over ssskatohs-
wan, With increased intensity, and has
extended southwark into the Plains States
ana eastward to the upper Mississippi Val.
preston over western Lake Erie MOVING
northeastward with increasing Intensity,
and M,i. rains we're quite general in the lower
MISS Missouri; the upper Mississippi and the
OHIO valleys and the lake region. There
were also showers in the Carolinas, but
no other prscipitstion over the country.
~ is much colder from North Dakota
to kansas In the upper Mississippi Valley
and me northern upper lake region. with
Dakota eastward into upper Michigan.
Elsewhere It is warmer. with temperatures
well above the seasonal average as q rule.
The cool weather In the Northwest will
spread to the eastward and southwark,
rssschins the Atlantic and the interior OF
the Gulf States by Friday. There will he
local SHOWS Thursday In upper Michigan
and showers in the lower lake region and
the upper Ohio Valley, extending to the
middle Atlantic and New England coasts
Thursday night
On Friday the weather will be generally
fair east OF the Mississippi River. except
perhaps in northern Now England. 1t
VIII also. be fair Thursday in the southern
upper lake region. the lower Chic Valley
and tho South.
Storm warnings are displayed on the
great lakes. except on Ontario and ex-
treme eastern Erie.
Observations at United States Weather Blu.
reau stations taken at P. N. yesterday, sev-
@ fifth
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URUGUAY WANTS ENEMY SHIPS
Peace Delegates Ask Clause q
Treaty ON Interned Vessels.

PARIS. April 23.-The Cruguayan
delegates to the peace conference pro
posed to-day that a clause be inserted in
the peace treaty by which Germany
would waive all rights over German
ships informed in neutral ports.
The purpose of the clause is TO re-
move the possibility of German protests
concerning the ships in the future.
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Baseball umpires will clearly make
it understood that the leagues they
serve do not preserve peace,
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In the peace negotiations the only
position previously prepared" to
which the German delegates will be
allowed to Withdraw is a dotted line.