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The sun., 1919-07-04
EVENTS TODAY.

Celebration under the auspices Of tft
Mayors Committee Of Women. City Coll
lege Stadium, =. NJ
United States General Hospital No. !.
field day, $3.50 A. NJ
Fourth Of July celebration at Tammans
Hail, Gov. Alfred L. Smith will speuk,
Free concer; by the Kaltenborn orchts.
ira, Mall, Central Park, +. NJ
Formal funeral services for Old john
Barleycorn will be conducted by the Rev
John w. Ham OF Atlanta, Ga. Tent
Evangel, 10th street and Amsterdam ave-
nue.. p. NJ.
Athletic eslehr~tions have been ar
nelds, morning and afternoon.
Raising OF the flag on the bockhouse
In Central Pn!!S at 10th street. $3.50 a. VI.
Mrs, c. l.. Morehouse will read the Decla-
ration OF Independence.
July will be observed BY Henry street
Settlement and is neiEhbors by an out
door celebration consisting OF games and
and street dancing and singing a. night
A block OF Henry street from Jackson -
Scammell streets is to be closed 10 traffic
from $3.50 TO 1880 p, VI.
milton by the United States OF the Irish
republic will he held at the Lexington
Theatre, Fifty-hrst street and Lexington
avenue. by the Irish Progressive League.
The Larchmont Yacht Club Will enter
tain the commanding General and star,
Col Traylor and stan. with zoo wounte
from Gun Hi Hospital, with yacht race,
band and supper. Lieut.. Kerwood. La
fsyette Ace. seven months in a German
prison. will present souvenirs TO the sol
diers afietnoon and evening.
Allied silk Trade Corporation, meeting
Hotel Pennsylvania, all day.
Tho first event for the Blizzard cups.
Rockaway Hunting Club tournament
bara and Meadow Brook Alligator teams,
Will be played at $3.50 +. NJ.
The sun., 1919-07-04
But the Letters Generally Got Through.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
The return Of the two cent rate for do
nestle postage reminds one that a letter
in Colonial days was a costly luxury In
deed.
Doctor oberhoitzer tells us in his Phil.
adelphia" that under the Royal Governor,
Fletcher. in 1898. the rates charged for
conveying letters were these:
To New York. four and a half pence.
To Connecticut, nine pence.
To Boston. hfteen pence.
Beyond Boston, nineteen pence.
To Maryland and Virginia. nine pence.
Bat Andrew Hamilton. who had been
appointed "Postmaster-G General in these
parts" found that he could not make a
pront at these prices and was allowed 10
raise them,
The mall stare which left for New York
a. noon about 100 years ago carried only
six passengers and the fare for zach OF
these was ks.50
At ;his time there were three malls a
week to South Carolina and Georgia and
one a week to New Orleans. Mississippi.
Kentucky and Tennessee.
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They have money, and when you
nave the price riding the cushions Is
much easier than riding the blind
baggage or side door Pullman I"
Is the observation Of q philosophic
brakeman. Before the crop is har-
vested a force Of 100000 men, It Is
estimated, will be employed, and 1t Is
out natural to expect that In the
wake OF such an army there would
be thugs, thieves and parasites to prey
upon Its prosperity. 1t has brought,
however, new phase Of life to south
ern and central Kansas in the pro-
fessional beggar. The cripple, lame,
halt and blind have drifted there In
unusually large numbers. In one
block In Hutchinson citizen of that
town says he saw -four apparently
blind men and one who seems to have
lost both legs soliciting alms--more
beggars than I had ever before seen
In Hutchinson"
Another danger that Kansas is pre-
pairing to meet is agitations by or.
CARNATIONS that seek to spread dis
affection among the harvest helpers or
to destroy the garnered crops. State
and county aid has been offered and
the Anti-Horse Thief Association, Of
early Kansas days, has been revived.
The fields will be patrolled and from
the general plan of operation outlined
the State and the remainder Of the
country may feel that the wheat crop
will be securely protected from this
menace. Kansas in fact put all her
eggs into one basket, and she says
that II the rains and winds cannot
destroy her wheat, agitators and In.
cendiaries shall not. She feels her
responsibility in answering 1.-THE cill
Of n war torn and famished world
for food" but at the same time she
hears above the song Of the wheat
the flood Of gold that Is soon to pour
over her borders.
The sun., 1919-07-04

Supersovereignty is written plainly
In the proposed treaty with France
which Mr.. WILSON has signed at
Paris. There can be no doubt of this.
Whatever are the general merits Of
an engagement to go to the assistance
Of that fine and friendly nation In
case Of an unprovoked attack by Ger
many, the United States Government
has no warrant for concluding treaties
that are to be subject to the advice
and consent of an international legis-
lative body not recognized by our Con-
stitution. That is what is done by
Article Ill, which requires the APP
proval Of majority in the Council
of the League of Nations before the
Franco-American contract becomes
valid; and also provides that the
treaty may be abrogated by the same
extraneous body. Our Constitution
knows nothing of any League or So
ciety of Nations as a part of the
treaty making power of the United
States. Our Constitution, however.
does declare that trenties made under
the authority of the United States
shall be the supreme law of the land.
Therefore, If such an engagement as
President WILSON has negotiated In
the name of the United States could
become effective, we should have the
amazing spectacle Of a ma ority vote
of foreigners at Geneva making and
repeating supreme law for the United
States of America. The idea is worthy
Of Colonel House,
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"The Sun" Tobacco Fund.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir: Well
may THK SUN be proud OF having col
lected and spent for the purpose for
which It was collected the huge sum
OF $4,000 without one penny being d.
yerted for expenses incidental thereto.
and the collection and disbursement
must have cost a substantial amount.
Incident thereto Sun readers could
but note that the space devoted to
the Tobacco Fund was likewise devoted
to 1t and nothing else, and not used to
glorify the paper or its personnel. as
is so commonly the practice.
A splendid record, doubtless n unique
one. KIRK Brown.
BLOOMFIELD, N. j., July 3.
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FOURTH OF July.


From RIO American Citiren and General Ad.
tertter Of Friday. July "a, 1901.
At a large and respectable meeting
Of republicans at Colonel David Pexleys
Mt Owego, in the county of Tioga, on
the Attn July. to commemorate the an
niversary Of our Independence. After
dinner. Colonel Pexley presiding, the fol-
lowing toasts were drunk:
/. The day we celebrate--Perpetuity
to the principles which gave It a polit-
ical birth.
,. The Constitution Of the United
stntes--May equal rights, Justice and
economy be the invariable guides in Its
administration.
3. The President OF the United States
May he ever continue to merit the
confidence OF a people determined to
be free.
4. The Vice. President--May he forget
he ever was a lawyer. and instead OF in
discriminatory advocating the principles
OF right and wrong. pursue the former
and avoid the latter.
S. Governor Clinton and the triumph
o. republicsnism in the State OF New
York.
6. Agriculture. the nursery of moral
ity. Industry and national happiness.
Z. The patriots OF '76--C;ratitude to
the departed and respect for the living.
8. The land we live in--May It never
yield support to tyranny. nor be cult
waited by slaves.
9. The French Republlc-After estab-
fishing government on equal rights,
may they sit down under their own vines
and fig trees and none to make them
afraid.
10. The virtuous and oppressed of all
nations-May they find an asylum in
the American Republic.
II. A diminution OF our public debt
anc economy in our expenditures.
l2, The Hamiitonian systematic rock
on which may our political bark never
be shipwrecked.
10. May the star OF liberty which first
rose in America. shine until II republi-
caniEes all nations
II. Peace. commerce and friendship
with all nations. but entangllng alliances
with none.
IS. The State OF New York--May It
retain it's republican attitudes in the
scale OF the union.
16. The American Fair--May those
who receive their smiles merit them.
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That Decision Which the League
Would Overthrow.

The decision which was unanl-
mously arrived ut In Philadelphia 149
years ago to-day was as follows:
I'VE. therefore. the Representa-
tives OF the United States of Amer
lea, in general congress assembled,
appealing to the Supreme Judge OF
the world for the rectitude OF our
intentions, do. in the Name, and by
authority of the good People Of these
Colonies. solemnly publish and de-
clare, That these United Colonies are,
and Of Right ought to be, free and In
dependent States; that they are Alb
solved from all Allegiance TO the
British Crown. and that all political
connection between them and the
State Of Great Britain is and ought
to be totally dissolved; and that as
free and independent States. they
have full Power to levy War. con-
clude Peace. contract Alliances. es-
tablish Commerce. and to do all other
Acts and Things which independent
States may OF right do. And for the
support OF this Declaration. with a
firm reliance on tho protection of
Divine Providence. We mutually
pledge to each other our Lives. our
Fortunes. and our sacred Honor"
Every word of this holds good to-
day in the determination OF the Amer.
lean people.
They are resolved to be free and
Independent of other governments and
of that league In which the United
States would be hopelessly outvoted
by the British Empire.
They wish to retain the full power
to levy war and conclude peace, a
right which would be taken from
them by the Wilson covenant.
They desire to continue to contract
mountaineering alliances and to enter
upon treaties with such nations ne
they, the American people themselves,
tAOoSC, ulu HOl ouCu us might De
chosen for them by a score Of gov
ernments lacking knowledge Of, II not
sympathy with, the purposes OF the
United States.
The Declaration OF Independence
was made because the Colonies de-
clined further to be the tax goat for
government Of men of their own
blood; and now the people of the
States refuse to be the pack horse OF
II dozen or more Of governments still
less attractive, still more greedy.
Washington, not Geneva, must be
the seat Of power Of this Govern.
ment. The Capitol, not the Secre,
tariat of any international league
must be the place OF decision In Amer.
ica's future.
The States, our States, are league
unto themselves. What better pre-.
nmble is there for us thnn tho Decla.
ration, what covenant more just than
the Constitution?
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In the Wheat Belt.

Looking out from the capital of
Sumner county over the great wheat
fields of southern Kansas the young
man Of the Kansas City Star writes
back home: THE song OF a golden
sea fretted by the droning onrush
OF a horde of reapers ls sweep
Ing across Kansas" Great days, In
deed, in Kansas when she Is so IN
tent on listening for the last echo of
the song of wheat that she has
scarcely thought for the fate of her
promising son at Toledo or the grave
happenings of July /, for which,
heaven knows, she has her share of
responsibility.
The first sweep Of the binder
horde" has already crossed the south
ern tier Of Kansas counties. BY all
the precedents Of the past the advance
from the Oklahoma border should
have continued northward tier by tier
through the wheat producing coun-
ties to Nebraska, Local rains, how
ever, have interfered with the regu-
larity Of this movement and turned
the advance of the binder brigade In a
somewhat northwesterly direction.
There have been harvest rains, but
not enough to spoil the prospects Of
that 225,000000 bushel crop which
the Kansans have set as their goal,
according to the reports OF the State
Agricultural Department. OF the H.
100000 acres in wheat there are to
be few waste acres; the showers
have delayed cutting in many local..
ties, the grain in some central south
ern counties, particularly Harvey and
Reno, went down before early winds
and rain, but the farmers have not
despaired Of proftably harvesting
most of the moisture soaked fields.
So far the labor situation has been
better than was expected.
The army Of harvest hands is made
up much as in the past. There are
fewer college boys this year, but many
returned soldiers. Railroad men say
that there are not so many harvesters
beating their way" as In the past.
The sun., 1919-07-04
"Why Celebrate the Fourth OF July
Any LONGER"

The foregoing question Is asked by
q disheartened fellow citizen in Piscat-
aquis county, Maine, and THE Sun
uses the privileges of the day to
reply to him:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir:
Why celebrate the Fourth Of July
any longer?
ITO any American OF the Wash
inston. Jefferson. Lincoln type the
celebration OF Independence Day in
the future would be farce.
Formerly the day stood for some
thing. but now that our independence
has been surrendered to European
domination let us not become the
laughing stock OF foreign nations by
continuing a meaningless custom.
\ wv. S. c."
: There are two kinds of indepen-
dence which seem to The SUN worth
celebrating this year and next year
and every year till the moon tumbles.
As to their value and abiding utility
we are satisfied this morning to rest
the case upon the previous utterances
of the statesman who Is spending his
Fourth on the high seas after an alb
sence Of seven months of uneXampled
effort abroad to substitute for the
ideals Of 1776 some different ideals of
his own conception.
The first kind Of American indie
pendence Is American independence
Of foreign control, of foreign inter-
ference. Of foreign dictation, Of taxa
ton for foreign purposes. You have
only to read once more the immortal
words Of the Declaration OF the Sign
ers to understand precisely what this
independence means; and you have
only to study the recent utterances
and political contrlvances of the
statesman aboard the George Wash
ington to-day, and yet under oath to
preserve, protect and defend the Con
, ktitution, to perceive exactly what Il
does not mean. We are quoting now
from the WOODROW WILSON of 1915:
1.-THE passion OF America is to be
permitted to live her own life accord
ing to her own principle. The only
thing that she profoundly resents or
ever will profoundly resent is having
her life and freedom interfered with"
From the same authority in 1916:
I'VE particularly need now men
who will divest themselves OF party
passion and Of personal preference
and will try to think In the terms OF
America. II man describes him
self to me now in any other terms
that those terms I am not sure of
The sun., 1919-07-04
The City Hall Park Cannon Balls
q Job for Colonel House?

The curiosity evinced by several
correspondents Of THE Sun with re-
gard to the cannon balls which sur
mounted the gate posts Of the old
fence of City Hall Park may be partly
appeased by the following extract
from a paper read by Mr.. GHERARDI
DAVIS before the New York Histori-
cal Society on April 6, 1897:
"In 1921 an iron railing was put
up about the park, and at the en-
trance to the southern end there was
a gate the posts OF which were sur
mounted by some old Turkish stone
cannon balls, brought from the East
by Grecian pilot, as the story goes"
Mr.. DAVIS informs THE sun that
In 1897 the cannon balls were on
the Meadow on the upper east side
Of Central Park, but they disap-
peared during Mayor VAN WYcK's
regime" Where they are now We do
not know. If Turkey should appeal
to Colonel HOUSE or any other prema-
tnre functlonary of the non-existent
League Of Nations for the return Of
the cannon balls--even as the King
Of the Hedjaz appealed to the Peace
Conference for the return of the
Koran of the Caliph OTHMAN, stolen
by the Turks and presented to the
Kaiser (see Article 246 of the treaty.
how deeply would the Colonels
troupe of trained antiquarians feel
bound to go into the doings of the
Van Wyck administration?
The sun., 1919-07-04
THOUGHTS FOR THE FOURTH
Sentiments Uttered 11s Years Ago Fit
the Situation To-day.

To THn EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: In
looking over recently some papers from
the estate of the late Richard Lathers a
copy Of the American Cnisen OF a date
less than two years after the death Of
Washington seemed OF unusual interest
at this time. Its editorial review. "Of
Recent Foreign Intelligence" commented
on the affairs Of Europe, nation By ma
tion, and said:
We have lately been so much en-
gagged In detecting and exposing vii
lainies at homo that we have had
neither time nor inclination to attend
to trans.Atlaniic affairs. And whatever
may be tho fate Of Europe, we consider
Il our nrst duty. though we cannot
avoid feeling interested in the welfare
of man wherever he may be found.
to attend to our domestic concerns.
Here. though despotistn Is chained to
Its naavo cell, II requires vast pains.
vast isbour. and tho exertlon of every
talent, to keep the monster within his
proper bounds
Yot we think II evident that In pro-
portion as tyranny rases in Europe and
dosolates man. We shall ind It dinicult
to preserve entire the liberty of the
United States.
On the pending alliance between Eng
land and the northern Powers It was
naturally unsparing of its recent enemy
20: the German Despots" there is a
familiar ring as It continues: I'VE have
still less to say. The robbers have been
disappointed in their design Of partition
ing France, and now they are quarrelling
among themselves. Let them. II they
please, like other cannibals, devour each
other"
On the editorial page was also de-
scription OF Fourth OF July celebration
lis years ago. n copy Of which enclose
DIMES T. S. DENIsoN.
NEW YORK, July g.
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Tho woolworth building.

But for thy name. thy warp and woot Of
dimes
And niekels. no more exquisite IDEAL
Was ever breathed to heaven in s.onel
Appeal
Thou art. a shaft OF prayer sped from III,
grimes
And LESSONS OF tho street. windowlnE III.
times
Thou both dost, woman, to tho gutter
kneel--
And press against the clouds ehaste nps
OF steel.
A goddess, wreathed In psans, capped with
chimes.
And, come now. why attaint thine oriR,n
Does not st. Peters dome cup the wruns
mites
OF poverty. ST. Paurs preach farthlnx
ritss7
Whence drew sanots sophia her mussz,n
Nay, OF the humble dole God builds His
heights,
Temples that shrine the miracle Of a min.
sTAsLKr KIDpn wILsoS
The sun., 1919-07-04
The Sun calendar
THE WEATHER.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.
Standard Time.
Sun rises......5 ~ An Sun sets......suRN
Moon sets. ILL IN A NJ

For Eastern New York. New Jersey
and Southern New England-Fair and
continued warm to-day; tomorrow prob
ably local thunder showers; gentle, va
riable winds.
For northern New England. fair to-day.
probably local thundet showers; gentle.
variable winds.
For western New York. fair and eontin-
ers and somewhat cooler; gentle to mod.
craze southwest winds
disturbance Of moderate Intensity central
the Gulf of Mexico and moving north
far IT has been ate nded by squalls over
the east Gulf and Mains In Florida and
s r.tas e.orsla Storm warnings are dts,
warm TsstS:r Pre- pf;:ysiii$a during Tsar,a"y
England States, the Ohio and middle Mis-
,i,sippi valleys ana the rkgion of the great
iakes The highest temperature reported
at Boston, Philadelphia. Atlantic City,
Hsrrisburs and ParkersbErs. At Atlantio
ths h sni es.s pso2s aH na
station In tho month OF July. The weather
has s,.:,n Sscpms cooler over III upper Mis-
di:tri SS'A shower. and @ n
fafsss d saa N.W Enasn n .s' mG Sn
warm weather will continue Friday and
Into Saturday. and will \be followed by
or night and somewhat lowter temperature
thereafter. In the lower lake region and
the Ohio Valley the weather. Will continue
Saturday. In the upper lake region there
Will be showers and thunTerstorms ana
somewhat lower temperature Friday ana
Saturday. In the south Atlantic and east
Gulf States tho weather WHY be unsetted
with local rains Friday anf Saturday
Observations at United States Weather Bus
resu stations taken at p. NJ. yesterday,
seventy-nfth meridian time:
The sun., 1919-07-04

The Montenegro Government. that
is. the unrecognized part of it repre-
scented by King NICHOLAS and holding
a court OF its own near Paris. is pro-
testing because Montenegro was not
represented at the peace negotiations
with Germany. 1t says that this Gov
eminent was one OF the first to declare
war on Germany; 1t might with equal
truthfulness say that with the help
OF King NICHOLAS and his sons it was
the first to make peace with Germany
and get out OF the war.
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81, 100000 WILL AIDS CHARITY.
Mrs. GeorEiana II. Wright Gives to
Education Also,

Several large requests for charitable
and educational purposes were made b.
Mrs. Georgiana r. Wright. who lived Mt
~ West Seventy-s street. tli-
city, and whose will was filed YESTERDAY
The estate. of which Harvard College g
named as residuary legatee. Is said %
be valued at more than 100000
Mrs Wright died in Boston on March 2u
Legacies of $4,000 each are provics
for the New York Probation Society ara
the Free Library at puxbury. Mass
Works of art are bequeather 10 the CO.
lonial Danes OF Massachusetts, and the
Boston Museum Of Fine Arts. Large
trust funds are provided for the bcnrrt
Of relatives
The sun., 1919-07-04
ROOKIE WARNS NEW POLICE
Tells Them 1t Is Fatal to Oppose
Men "Higher Up"

Police Commissioner Enright. address
ing a class OF eighty-two recruits at 'Na
graduating exercises yesterday. cautioned
the men TO obey the rules Of discipline
implicitly. He said they must not guess
ton the motive or purpose Of orders they
may receive.
One of the graduate coppers who Ma
permitted 20 address the class ADVISED
the new policemen 10 study the rules and
written orders Of the department.
above all. don't fight back" he StiI.
The policeman who attempts to flght Wis
bosses soon comes 10 a bad end"
The sun., 1919-07-04
A Recollection OF Seventy five Years
Ago To-day.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir: I
passed through the gate OF City Hall
Park. where now stands the post ONCE,
on July I, 1st4. and l remember II as
well as though II was this morning.
The old City Hall bell had sounded the
fire alarm and stood there TO see the
engines gather toward Chambers street
and Broadway. ALBERT STONE.
NEW YORK, July 8.
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Ex-spidier Accused of Theft.

Lewis Shapiro. who said he was 4
veteran OF the Seventy seventh Division,
vas caught after chase by Patrolnan
Cotter OF the East l04th street station
yesterday and taken TO Harlem Cour'
where he was charged with robbins
Louis Peterson, broker. Of ca Elswor'N
street OF SIS. Mr.. Peterson said ''..t
three soldiers set upon him when he Wa
coming out OF subway station at Lr,-
ington avenue and Ninety siNth street
Shapiro denied the charge. but was he'd
In 1850 bail
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An ExactinE Alaskan.
From fhs Valdez Miner

Wanted, wife--Honest and capable
man wishes a wife; age not bar: must
be good cook and able to take care Of
home. Have several hundred dollars In the
bank, n comfortable cabin and promising
claim. No photograph need apply.
The sun., 1919-07-04

Another cause for whole hearted re-
joicing this day is that the men who
wrote that epic document did not be-
gin. May We not point out TO his
Majesty the King"
The sun., 1919-07-04

Highest temperature, e5. at q p. NJ.
Lowest temperature, ~ at A. NJ
Average temperature, 50.
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Lieutenant Colonel ROOSEVELT out for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of yesterday.
Into the ring the sons hat follows
the fathers!
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Among the distinguished orators who
will not be heard at Tammany Hall
this morning is the Hon. JOHN F.
HYLAN OF Bushwick.
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The Overworked Cellar.

Knicker-We are urged to lay in our
winter coal for fear OF a famine.
Bocker--Imrosalhls; the cellars are al
ready full Of something else.
The sun., 1919-07-04

1t was not a heavyweight Champion
ship crown that the American colonies
entered the ring TO dispute 143 years
ago to-day.
The sun., 1919-07-04

With an ice shortage and another
increase in the milk prices it will be
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whose tender years do not permit OF
a knowledge OF any other kind Of bot
tie than the rubber tipped variety.