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creased By the Administration curt.
GUS muddling OF the whole Russian
problem. Mr.. WILSON invited the Boil.
sheviki to conferences In the hand
soonest possible manner while they
were shooting American soldiers in
the. Archangel district. He sent rep.
rcsentatives TO Interview LsxINE and
TRoTsKr while those sinister figures
were directing their armed forces
against our troops. In this country
Bolshevik agents we're allowed to open
and maintain headquarters while the
fighting In Archangel was going on.
In Siberia our forces were ap-
parently held In idlencss for several
months, but recently they have been
In action and have suffered casual.
ties. Two of our soldiers were killed
on the very daytime 12--the State
Of New York raided the Bolshevik
Offices here. To say that the strange
mixture Of tolerance, encouragement
and armed opposition which make up
Mr.. WILSON'S record In dealing with
Bolshevism has puzzled Americans Ia
putting it mildly.
The country deserves complete
statement Of the facts Of this strange
adventure.
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PLANS MISSION TO POLAND.
Wilson Considers Inquiry Into Re-
ported Jewish Massacres.

WASHINGTON, June 27.-President VIII
son advised the Senate to-day through
the State Department that he was con
sidering sending another comm ission 10
Poland to investigate reports OF Jewish
massacres. He said a decision would
be reached after he had conferred in
Paris with Hugh Gibson, American Mn
lister to Poland.
The Presidents plans were outlined
in letter from Acting Secretary Polk
In response to a Senate resolution u
May &c requesting information regard.
ing reports OF pogroms 1t was the
first announcement here that Mr. Gibson
had been summoned to Paris 10 discuss
the matter with the President
In recent reports TO the Senate De-
partment which were transmitted 70 \
House committee by Assistant Secretary
Phillips of the state Department. Mr.
Gibson said reports of mistreatment q
Jews in Poland were grossly exagger-
ated.
Mr.. Folks letter disclosed that the
President also had directed the Ameri'
can Minister to Rumania TO investigate
reports of atrocities in Rumania.
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or affirmation to support this Constl.
tuition"
It cannot be suggested that THEo-
BORE q. BLBo, the Governor of Mis-
slssippi, is ignorant OF the mandates
Of the Constitution. He spent three
years in the law department Of Van
derbilt University, he has been a
member Of the bar for thirteen years
and he has been In public Office, either
as State Senator, Lleutenant.G Gov
ernor or Governor, since 1908 Twice
he must have sworn to uphold the
Constitution Of the United States.
II Governor BlIBo was utterly
powerless" to prevent the lynching,
then Mississippi lie not enjoying the
republican form Of government guar
anteed by the United States under
Section 4, Article w.. OF the Con.
stltution. It is enjoying mob law.
But the declaration of utter power
lessness comes from a man who made
1t before the lynching and who seems
to have lifted no finger In defence Of
the law and to have suplnely ignored
his oath of office.
Let the senior Senator in Congress
from Mississippi turn for a moment
his enraptured gaze away from the
new scheme for a Constitution Of the
World and devote his machinery Of
thought and his fine eloquence to the
attitude OF his own State and its
Governor toward the Constitution OF
the United States Or does JOHN
SHARP WILLIAMS consider that docu-
ment to be already subverted?
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else. why the appropriation for oper-
atins deficit7
Railway labor votes, and railway
shippers vote, and both are sufficiently
organised TO make their voices heard
In legislative halls and executive
chambers. With the most altruistic
Of legislative intent and administra-
tive motive, the hard fact remains
that politics is not atrophied, and that
the political party or governmental
agency which. in the present state OF
the public mind, performs either Of the
major operations which are necessary
to put railway cost and revenue in
their proper relation to each other
would thereby commit political sui
eide.
After all, It Is the great consuming
and taxpaying public which Is the
shuttlecock between the political bat
tledores of labor and shipper. 1t Is
these real parties in interest who must
compel their legislative servants to re-
store the economic balance which has
been destroyed by Legislative activity.
or the railway situation will grow
steadily worse Just at time when 1t
is an imperative need that 1t shall be-
come Immediately better.
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OLD CITY HALL PARK.
How It Looked Before the Post once
Raised Its Ugly Head.

To THE EDIroR OF THE SUN--Sir: 1t
Is an interesting account that THE SUN
publishes of the City Hall Park before
Uncle Sam built the unsightiy pile
known as the old Post ONCE at its south
ern extremity and the wagons q Dodd's
Express began to rattle over the cobble
stones at its rear to deliver the city's
mail. As post Offices in those days went
II was an advance on the ramshackle
building on Nassau street.-the old pre-
Revolutionary Dutch church that stood
on the site Of the present Mutual Life
Insurance Compsny's building-used as
post Office before its erection.
The contrast between the old Dutch
church post office and the one that Is
now known as the old Post Office was as
great us that between the one that 1t Is
hoped will be demolished and the mod
ern one on Seventh avenue.
The personal impressions Of a boy
may add a mental picture that after all
may have some holes punched in the
accuracy Of its minor details. but in its
main features is q vivid and lasting one
to the writer.
In some respects in certain stages OF
its evolution within the last half CEN
tury--or possibly q little longer II one
does not finch at a public acknowledg-
ment of years that have flown too fast
the old park was not actually a beauty
spot. It was an area described by q
triangle with the City Hall in an i'm
mense setting. Its northern background
was the buildings that faced 1t on
Chambers street Stewards wholesale
dry goods store, the American News
Company's building and the hardware
establishment of the Russell & Erwin
Manufacturing Company. The old brown
stone structure at the northeastern end
Of the park housed some Of the city
courts. On its eastern or Park Row
side was an old brown stone structure
long since demoaished-used as a Hall
OF Records, and in 1t the Department OF
Charities and Correction found home.
The board fence Is Of course within the
recollection Of many living men. But
whether II succeeded or preceded the iron
! fence-my recollection is that it sue
cceded ton whose rails the merchan-
| dislng agents of song writer's strung
their wares on cords is a matter Of
some doubt with the writer.
in some respects the abbreviated park
OF to-day Is more pleasing to the eye
than the old one at some stages of its
history Is to the memory of the writer
Aladdin has rubbed his lamp since those
| days and New York from provincial
| town has become one of the chief cities
| OF the world-splendid with CLOUD
capped towers, gorgeous palaces and SOL
emn temples" and the park has not suf-
fered in some respects by the change.
F1NpLAY SAcKErr.
NEW York, June 81
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1t will be difficult even to imagine a
thing which more startlingly proves
the moral submersion OF those whose
base appetites crave strong drink than
does an actual happening reported
from Ashland City, Tenn. There.
locked In a cell Of the county Jail. was
120 gallons of hard liquor captured
from blockade runners. Defying order.
shamelessly ignoring a decent respect
for public property. slaves Of the
Demon with hacksaws removed i'm
peding bars OF steel and took that
strong drink away from there. How
poetic will be the retribution when.
seized for this scandalous improperly
while even yet under the influence
OF the baleful booty, these sinful
creatures with dry cries of unappeased
thirst are taken to the county jail and
there immured In the very cell which
their own graceless behavior had
made to be stone dry.
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Mississippi Mob Law and the "Ut-
teriy PowerIess" Governor.

Let us assume, for the sake Of pass
ing over the obstacles of the least i'm.
portant part of the incident at Ellis,
VILE, Miss, that the negro HART.
FIELD was guilty of the "unpardon.
able offence" and that he admitted It.
His confession, so far as the Amerl-
can government of laws is concerned
is negligible when compared with
the confession of the Governor OF
the State in which HATFIELD was
lynched:
Governor BILBo, petitioned during
the day to intervene. in a statement
issued at Jackson shortly before the
lynching declared himself utterly
powerless' and said that Interference
would only lead to the deaths of hun
dreds of persons and that nobody
can keep the inevitable from hap
pening.'"
Such statements as these might be
expected from a pitiful coward or q
man grossly ignorant of the Constitu
ton of the United States. In Sec
ton l, Article XIV, 1t is provided
that no State shall deprive any per,
son of life, liberty or property with
out due process Of law; nor deny tc
any person within its Jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws" Para
graph 3 Of Article VI. declares tina
"all executive and judicial officers
both OF the United States and of tn,
several States, shall be bound by oatl
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Illinois. It will be seen, takes the
third place honors that were Ohios
In 1881; ChIcago's population has In
creased two and, q quarter millions
since the day when her civic money
contribution to the Union cause was
only $4,000 as compared with nearly
$500. 900 given by Cincinnati.
Indiana, which ranked fifth In
troops furnished in the civil war, was
only tenth in the recent struggle.
Texas, which gave only 1000 men to
the Union army, won fifth place in
1917 by sending 165,065 soldiers
Michigan. which was ninth on the
Union list, Is sixth. Massa chusetts
and Missouri. respectively the sixth
and seventh States in military
strength in the eos, were seventh
and eighth in CRowDER's count.
In the number Of soldiers supplied
to preserve the Union New Jersey,
Iowa and Kentucky were practically
equal, but In the recent war New Jer-
sey sent $500 men more than Iowa
and $4,000 more than Kentucky. the
contribution of the Dark and Bloody
Ground being 75,O43, or 700 less than
1t sent against the Confederacy in spite
OF BERIAH MAooPFIN.
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The Cost OF Words.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-ST: The
Presidents salary since he abandoned
his duties in this country is over $40 900
-unearnsd and untaxed. His royal prog
ress and residence in Europe Is costing
enormous sums, His royal yacht lying
a. Brest costs thousands OF dollars each
day. His proposed swing around the
circle to advocate his private League OF
Nations will cost thousands OF dollars
more. He was never prodigal OF any
thing OF his own except words.
Who pays the bill? OF course the
disgusted people through taxes and
loans. Who can tell the cost of empty
words? s. b. H.
NEW YORK, June 81
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Our Soldiers in Siberia.

Senator HIRAM JoHNsoN's resolu-
ton asking the President why our
troops are in Siberia, what they are
doing there and how long they are
going to be kept there is a legitimate
inquiry for the Senate to put to the
Chief Executive, and its pertlnence
and propriety were conceded by the
friends of Mr.. WILSON, who did not
oppose its passage when 1t came up
for action yesterday.
The singular situation of our troops
in Russia after the signing of the
armistlce has been source of great
pcrplexity, and this has been In.
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never have existed" The mischief
already done indicates the sinister
possibilities OF the future. Thu
change In our own country to tru,
American sentiment In this respec
Is exhibited In the following forcibl,
passages:
Undoubtedly, when the covenant
OF the League was nrst proposed. q
large majority Of the American peo-
pie favored II In principle. It ap.
peaied to them because the idea was
big one and because II was inspired
by n great ideal; for America, not
withstanding its material interests.
is n nation Of idealists. But an soon
as the plan was studied in the con-
crete thousands OF thoughtful Ameri-
cans, remembering the most sacred
traditions of our country. under
which we have grown and prospered.
deeply resented an indefinite and en-
tangiing alliance with all the nom
descript nations Of the world"
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They Had Learned Their Lesson.

From the Hdrrdrd GraduoteS Magazine.
Professor Quincy was ono OF the most
genial instructors and the most skIlful OF
disciplinarians. As a teacher Quincy was
always kind and courteous, but neverthe-
less a terror to drones and evIldoers.
For example. take the case OF a student
who was afterward a distinguished profess
sor in the medical school. We were read
ing Cicero's Episties. In the lesson for
the day he was describing a scene In
court. when II was evident that In the
morning before the witnesses came In
they had been suoornsd and Instructed
what to testify. will call the student
Drake. lie had not looked at his lesson.
and when called upon began TO translate
until he came to this passage.
lie could make nothing OF 1t. but looked
up with a helpless air and said, IT don't
think l understand this passage" Quincy
bowed. and with the utmost suAvtty said.
cit means. Mr.. Drake, that they had
learned their lesson before they came in
In the morning"
As that was exactly what II did mean.
the fellows set UP a shout and Drake
| dropped into his seat.
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Clearing Poland's Name.

Premier PADEREwsKI's emphatic de-
NAL that Jews had been wuntonly
attacked by the Poles is now Endorsed
by the representatives of the Entente
in Warsaw, who, according to ad-
vices received In London, "agree that
the reports of Jewish pogroms in
Poland have been greatly exagger-
ated." Some Jews in the ranks of the
Bolsheviki fell under the fire of Polish
troops others who attacked the troops
from houses were arrested and pun
ished: but the tales of horror that
have been circulated all over the world
to the detriment of the Polish Govern
ment are branded as false.
1t is easily conceivable that In the
turmoil and civil strife stirred up In
Poland by revolutionary and reaction
airy agitators some innocent persons
have persisted. SSch accidents can
scarcely he avoided, but there is moth
ing to indicate that the proportion of
innocent Jews who suffered in this
way was larger than the proportion
of gentiles.
In order that the truth about these
reports may be known Mr.. PADE-
REwsKI's Government has asked for
commission to examine the record
and take evidence in Poland. He is
confident that his Government will be
vindicated and the correctness Of its
attitude toward all races and creeds
demonstrated. That he has reason
for this confidence the reports just
made in London show.
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AS an American. who from the
beginning Of the World War believed
in the cause of the Allies and Ameri-
cas- duty to participate. I cannot be-
lieve in such an abandonment Of her
tried policies. I am not an advocate
OF isolation. Americas place will
always be By the side of the liberal
democracies. So believing. look
with apprehension upon this mis-
guided attempt OF doctrinaire states
men to draw America into an i'm
possible and 'entangling alliance
with many nations. liberal and illib-
eral. hostile and friendly. / prefer
President WAsHINGToN's definition
of our foreign policy to that of Pres
ident WILSON. So finally will Amer
lea decide, and in SO doing will not
mar her glorious record.
The case has not been stated bette
than In this friendly reply to friendl.
English advocate of the Wilson polio.
Of enlargement. We have quotet
freely from Mr.. BEcK's notable artl
Gle in the North American Reriem
but everybody whom the surpassingl!
important subject interests ought T.
read every word Of this notable ex
hibit of straight common sense an,
patriotic Americanism.
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The influential class OF Americans
believe that for many reasons Amer
lea cannot take part to any advan-
tage. either to itself or to civilization,
in questions that are primarily Of
European or Asiatic origin, and that,
IL 1t attempts to do so---as has been
done In its name at the Paris Con-
ference In the cases of Fiume, Dan
zig and Shantung-it can only dissi-
pate the immense moral influence
which America would otherwise
have"
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ICEBERGS ON SHIP ROUTE.
Danger Reported Near scene OF
the Titanic Disaster.

SYDNEY. y. s, June 81 rt.''
sage received here to-day states '.t' '''
large icebergs. believed o. To rar. ''
zoo feet tall. had been sig 'eu 81. '." N.'
entity OF the spot whore t"s -'.f.-
Titanic was sunk, and thai te .'.-7
made transatlantic navigate. 7f"t.
Gus in that region. They HCr" '-
so close together that they are .'.''.'
to he joined under the surface
Dense fog banks eushrogd 'n'
from Cape Race, Newton
point 100 miles south OF the -.t NO
Tiers having occasion to ,rHNc. '
nc rthern steamship rout, .''.
warned 10 keep careful lo0tn-'
eral ships have been damage
lidlng with bergs this seas"
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City Hall Park In 1851.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUN--sir: The
City Hall Park barracks covered the site
now occupied by the Post Office in
December. 1851. when my regiment, the
Seventy-fifth New York Volunteers, a
thousand strong, stayed there over night.
fed in the dining room and slept in the
two storied hunks.
While there I passed a small coin
through the iron fence at the point oppo-
site the Aston House to small boy
with the request that he purchase a
postage stamp. UP to date he has never
delivered the stamp. II this should meet
his eye and he requests 1t you may give
him my present address.
II. A. WILKINS.
NEW YORK, June 81.
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state Contributions OF Men In Two
Great Wars.

The beginnings Of the civil war and
our war with Germany were fifty.
SIX years apart. In that period the
population Of the United States was
tripled and access to every part Of II
was made easy by tenfold increase
in miles Of railroad. Yet we find
upon comparing the number Of troops
furnished by the various States in
both wars, the same four States at tho
head Of both columns:
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ALBERTA FIRES GRAVE.
Forest situation Worst In Years
Bann Park Menaced.

CALGARY. Alb. June ,27.-The forest
fire situation in Alberta is the worst in
years. according to L. II. Finlsyson.
Forestry Supervisor, who to-day said the
flames were raging in many districts
Approximately 100000 feet OF valu-
able timber had already been destroyed,
he announced.
The most serious connagration. In the
northwest corner OF tho Stoney Indian
reserve, mensces the northern outskirts
of Banff National Park.
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From ths Monticello Nstps.

Jefferson county. Florida, of which Mon
tiesllo Is the county seat. Is tho homo OF
the watermelon seed industry of the United
States. 1t could be said that this 10 the
home of the industry for the world, for
this county grows more watermelons for
seed purposes than any other section, and
more watermelons are grown In North
America than anywhere else. Jefferson
county Is the only place In tho world
where an order for a carload of water
melon seed can be nllsd-and such orders
are often hlled.
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MUTTON.
A Patriotic American Spurns an Offer
From Secretary Houston.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: DR..
Houston, the Secretary of Agriculture.
urges Americans to eat mutton. Why
should we punish ourselves this way now
the war Is over?
1t was all very well when We were
beating the Germans to endure the hard
ships OF a great conflict uncomplain-
ingly, but now the necessity is past what
good can come from affronting our stom-
achs with mutton?
Britishers. I am told, like mutton
but British taste In foods is strange and
peculiar. II they like It let them have
1t. but DR.. Houston cannot expect Amer!-
cans to eat it. CAPERs AUCE.
MOTT HAVEN, June 81.
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FIREMEN ELECT CHIEF KENYON
Association of Engineers Chooses
Him for President.
Special DespatcA 70 TnE Sun.

KANSAS CITY. June 27.--John Ken''1,
chief OF the New York city Fire De-
partment. WAS elected to-day president o.
the International Association OF Frs
Engineers at its convention here
Chief kenlon in making his inaugural
address announced programme
through which he hoped greats" stand
ardization and efficiency might bs
brought about among the thousands OF
paid, partly paid and volunteer rre
fighting organizations in the country
through standards and practices studied
and adopted by the international. Assoc
citation. He announced the appointment
OF committees to study sror, ar more
Of the phases of this work and Urt'I
a membership campaign To t-ng '''
associations rolls up to $1,000 members
before the next convention.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Mass meeting to oppose ratification n.
the League of Nations. Carnegie Hal 5
p. NJ; Senators johnson and Reed and
George Wharton Pepper will speak
Railway Signal Association, meeting,
Hotel McAlpin, $50 A. 81.
Welcome home party to men OF the "a
Eighth Regiment. at the armory p NJ
Lawn party for Catholic Chapels on
Blackwells Island. Fordham unyersi'l )
p. NJ.
Single Tax party convention, :ts Wet
Fourteenth street, all day.
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Delegates Halted by Canada,

MONTREAL. June 27.-Ee
from the United States r"p'|
city to attend the Couv' ''N
International Associate ~
Designers were halted 10y o."
immigration officials az R1'e
to-day because they showed
papers. They are Joseph I',.'
delphia: George Eiermau, i".
and Maurice krupp, S,'E3".
Francis Fiori, Jack Kahn, 'N..'
mann and David Cha~r'N
York.
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"The greatest of Americas tradi-
lions was its detachment from Eu-
ropean intrigues, which enabled It to
pursue its own path and 70 decide
successive crises free from the en-
barrassment OF entsngling alliances"
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\ new mineral has been discovered 10
Siberia. The discovery was made by 3
hunter on tho shore Of Lake Balkash, and
the mineral has been named Balkashlte
It has the appearance Of dark brown hard
rubber. and when !gn!ted It burns with q
strong flame. leaving about . per cent
ash. when placed in water it become a
Mas very much like parafnn.
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Short Grass Nature Study.
Prom the Garden Cifv Telegram

Unlike some of the prominent men in
world AFFAIRS, a coyote never stands upon
his rights; never delays the game by
arguing the matter. Just seems to have
a sneakins bunch that he Is guilty Of any
crime with which he Is charged, and pro-
ceeds forthwith TO fade away Into the
horiEon-
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Eastern New York. fair to-day ,o.r...
row fair. slightly warmer in intsr,o.,
moderate TO fresh north and nnrtb.o.,
winds, becoming southeast to-norron.
New Jersey, cloudy to-day; to.mo,,.-
fatr slightly warmer In interior. Nv, nv"
crate to fresh north and northeast WOO |o9'
becoming southeast tomorrow "'hls
Northern New England, partly cloudy .,
winds. '''neaN
Southern New England. partly o,..,-
to-day, with moderate Temperature u ~.
to fresh north and northeast winds "s
Western New York. fair to-day, to.r...
row fair. warmer. 'n0f'
WASHINGTON. June 27.-prcs,,-.
low throughout the Atlantic States and gen
eral showers occurred over this a.,
There were also light local snowsrs 20
the lower lake region. the Ohio v,r,,'
the Gulf states and the southern pnnL
Mountain region. Elsewhere the waS,h.y
was fair but with general low prsssne.
and high Temperatures except in ths iavs
region. which IL covered BY high nras"n
and considerably lower Temperature ~.
fall IN temperature extending into the my
the exception of showers SATURDAY in IS.
south Atlantic and east Gulf states ~.
weather Will prevail Saturday and Snn
day east of the Mississippi River a,
though with considerable cloudlness sa,ur.
day In New England and the middls A.
lantio States. II will be somewhat warns.
Sunday from the Ohio Valley nortbws,,
and eastward except along the Atlanta
coast. -''''"'''
Observations at United States Weather m
reau stations taken at p. II, yesterda, ~, ~
enty-hfth meridian time: "
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No Hitch,

From the Hot Springs Thomas Cat.
Bert Hall. who came in from Feavins
Ridge Saturday, reports that the Ander-
son wedding went on without a hitch
Thursday night. Groom didn't show up