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LUxURIES MORE COMMON.
The Standard as Well as the Cost Of
Living Has Gone Up.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: The
writer admits that he Is sans educa-
ton or literary ability. At six I sold
papers in New York city and lived at
the Newsboys' Home. THE SUN and
been my alma mater. In the accom-
panying thoughts on the situation there
is both wheat and chaff. At any
rate / feel the confidence, based on
observation, that we are the victims
of a champagne outgo that does not
dovetail with a beer income.
Our standard of living is much
higher than in former years. That
which yesterday was classified as a
luxury is to-day considered a necessity.
thereby creating economic and domestic
distress.
A contributory cause of discomfort
with to-day's conditions Is the auto
mobile. Tens of thousands OF people
have acquired gas devils, the upkeep
and attendant expenses Of which they
are unable to make their incomes meet.
Foodstuffs being high, they make the
II. C. of L. the goat, and It is very easy
these days to pass the buck. Thus the
case is properly diagnosed, but the
wrong patient Is being treated.
In the years gone by when beer was
a nickel a pint and you helped yourself
to the free lunch there was a silk stock
ing district in New York. But, like the
beer and the lunch. It is no more. The
belle of Avenue A cannot be distin-
guished from her sister on Riverside
Drive. What girl, even though she earn
sInall wages. that does not boast dress,
stockings or waist Of silk? What youth,
even though he earn but $50 week,
that does not give ocular proof OF shirt
or socks of silk?
Has the war left us mentally bank
rupt? Must we be protected from our
selves? AYBEE.
PATERSON, N. J.. August "A.
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service after we Joined our forces
with those Of the Allies.
As policeman and as a member
Of the navy intelligence service In
spector TUNNEY did work Of the high
est value to the country, maintaining
his police record for efficiency under
the most adverse conditions. The
boasts Of our enemies about the dam
age they would do in America were
not fulfilled. Many plots wee dis
covered and the plotters captured.
Other enemies Of the country were
frightened into good behavior by the
fate that overlook their colaborers.
A system of enemy alien supervision
was instituted which did no unneces-
sary harm to the innocent but kept
the guilty and those ambitious to be
guilty well in hand.
In accomplishing this Inspector
TUNNEY had an important and hon
orable part, and THE SUN cannot let
him quit the clty's service without
recording again its admiration for his
methods and Its qualification over the
results he has obtained as a guardian
of the public peace.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-15
AN IRISH LAD IN DOUBT.
Might He Have to Fight in Ireland
II He Joined the 69th?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: I
am a young Irishman and have recently
taken out my preliminary citizenship
papers. Two or three of my friends
have lately been urging me to Join the
newly created Sixty-ninth Regiment in
order to maintain the esprit de corps of
that body as an American fighting unit.
But hesitate for the reason that II
the League of Nations goes through in
its present form ! and the regiment may
be selected to go to China or Corea to
rapress their national aspirations to
throw off the yoke of Japan, or perhaps
1t would be my fate to be sent to Ire
land to slay my kith and kin in the
event OF an Instruction there to throw
of the blight OF English misrule-if Ire
land received any external aid.
I am therefore in a quandary and
have resolved TO invoke the friendly ad-
vice of THE SUN, which like to read
more than any other New York paper
on account OF the superb literary finish
OF its editorial and news columns.
VINCENT T. BURKE.
NEW York. August IA.
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THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER
On the Middle Classes Falls an In
creasing Burden.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: The
middle classes are not sleeping. They
are listening, watching and practising
self-restraint. But how long their self
restraint will continue depends on how
much further the worldwide agitation
and wrangle spreads.
The middle classes are good listeners +;
they have listened to the talk of the
capitalists they have listened to the
talk of labor, and they are still suffer-
ing in silence between the upper and
and neither millstones. They have voted
for Republicans, they have voted for
Democrats and still listen to the voices
Of the prophets
The middle classes are by nature con-
servative, but they have had more Of a
load forced on their backs than Nature
will stand. They do not want Congress
to be the slave of labor any more than
they want II to be the tool of capital.
They watched with establishment a
couple of years ago President Wilson
and Congress throwing up their hands
when the trainmen threatened strike,
but the temper of the middle class has
changed during the past two years and
they are now OF one Illilu, tlldl tiiis
foolishness has got to stop. If there is
going to be an ef1ort to tie up the whole
U. s. A. the middle class will sit in the
game and sit to the finish. come what
may.
Let the showdown come. We all want
to know who is running this country
capital. labor or politicians. The middle
class doesn't have to be unionized to
fight. 1t is ready and waiting.
It knows the only way to bring this
world back to an even keel politically.
economically and sensibly is more pro-
duction and less spending. II, however.
any effort v to be made to upset this
schedule OF return to normal prosperity
by big strike tho middle classes will be
in the fight to the finish They have
listened long enough they are now to be
heard from. MIDDLE CLASS.
NEW York, August IA.
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1t was announced in Washington
this week that American aid, includ-
ing rifles, munitions and other sup
plies, is on the way to Admiral KoL-
cHAK's forces in Siberia" This news
served to introduce the subjoined
gloomy conclusions:
--latest advlces. however, indicate
that these supplies will not suffice to
stem the tide and that Admiral KoL-
CHAK cannot be rescued from defeat
at the hands Of the Bolshevik forces
THE official news. including re-
ports from Major-General GRAVES, in
command of the American forces in
Siberia. is all discouraging."
If Admiral KoLCHAK, whose present
military situation causes the gravest
concern, is smashed by the Bolshe-
wiki the Wilson Administration must
bear a heavy share of responsibility
for his undoing. If he extricates him
self and his army from the present
difficulties the Wilson Administration
will not deserve one word of praise.
The conduct of the Wilson Admins
tration in Russian affairs has been
consistently unintelligent and unintel-
ligfble in the east and in the west.
II has brought credit to nobody, least
of all to its authors.
Nobody has been able to make out
what the Wilson Administration pol
icy toward Russia has been or is. 1t
has used American soldiers to fight
the Bolsheviki. 1t has invited sane
and honorable Russians to confer with
Bolshevik murderers. 1t has sent
some sort of ENJOYS on some sort Of
diplomatic mission to the Bolshevik
despots. 1t has sent American SOL
diers to Siberia, where the anti-Bol-
shevik forces are in power, and when
the troops got there the Wilson Ad-
ministration has kept them from rem
dering the full measure of efficient
help of which they were capable to the
antl-Bolshevik forces, but has exposed
them to Bolshevik attacks in the
dreariest and hardest kind of work,
as railroad guards. The Wilson Ad-
ministration tolerated the activities
of Bolshevik agent in this country
until the State of New York was
forced to get after him, And now the
Wilson Administration sends to Ad-
miral KoLCHAK a cargo Of rifles and
ammunition at the moment when our
army officers in Siberia say he is
beaten and the munitions will arrive
too late to help him.
What is the key to this amazing
record of paltering, delay, indecislon
and weakness?
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MIR. DAKA,S CENTENARY.

Rrom the Ciaremont. N. H., Daily Eagle.
In this editorial round of hammer
ing out opinions on the anvil of cur
rent events we sometimes unduly de-
velop a tendency toward criticism Of
men in high places. 1t is a regaining
Of balance, then, to consider that 1t
Is not the evil men do that lives after
them. for we hold some dead in high
esteem. To look upon a completed
life of successful constructive effort
helps to do our trifiing bit a little
better. So we cast a thought upon
New Hampshire's son and Americas
editor, Charles A. Dana.
One hundred years ago this week
he was born in Hinsdale. Perhaps
that is all New Hampshire may claim
about him, that here he came into the
world 1t was at least an entry worth
while. 1t did not take him long to
graduate from clerking in store; the
pen and printing press claimed him.
His short experience with the Brook
Farm intellectuals showed his calibre
and HIS granite ancestry perhaps saved
him from dreaming away his life amid
cloudy illusions. To the opposite ex-
IRENE It was his fortune to go, when
as a civil war news correspondent
he wrote clearly and truthfully OF
great matters.
Dana's great contribution to society
lay in making newspapers readable.
The plural Is correct, for Journalism
generally perceived and tried to adopt
some measure of the method Of dress
ing the news that Dana perfected in
THE SUN. He encouraged his young
men to write, but it was his PERSONAL
ity that illumlned the newspapers col
umns. A double master in news gath
ering and news dressing, he carried
the newspaper profession to a new
high level. The graduates Of his jour
nalistio school respected and loved
him and rejoiced to dedicate their
books to him, and when he wrote
foreword for one that writer's cup
was full.
Dana made THE SUN a great, read
able paper. People said when he died
that the paper would go down. Not
so. The principles upon which he
builded were too true to end in wreck.
1t is a fine and living monument to
grand New Hampshire man who,
though dead, yet speaketh.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-15
ROWLAND ANCESTRY.
Mayfower Descendants Don't Admit
New Bedford Pretensions.

h. To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN---str: If
you want to get a Mayflower Rowland
hot under the collar just intimate that
John Rowland was a brother Of the
Quaker Howlands, Henry and Arthur,
who committed the historical mistake
OF landing at New Bedford instead of
on Plymouth Rock.
Proverbially reiteration is better than
argument or evidence. In THE SUNS
readable article about the Splitting Up
OF Yankee Fortune" II is casually mem
toned that his tHenry's] brother John
waa a Mayflower Pilgrim" That is
what Henry's descendants have been
trying to make out for years past, but
I have not heard that they ever estab-
lished 1t.
Speaking generally. am OF the opir-
ion that the New Bedford Howlands
are a more affiuent as we'll as more
numerous tribe than the Plymouths.
Many of the latter remain a humble
group within sight of the Rock. though
some too have won fame and money
down the generations. have often won
dered why the Henry-Arthurs seemed
so eager. as their propaganda indicates,
to hitch on to John, unless they covet
the right to use the Rowland coat OF
arms, which the latters descendants are
supposed to be entitled to, although even
their title is not altogether clear. OF
course on sundry accounts 1t is some
thing to be Of kin with the Mayhower
bunch. A MAvFLowER ROWLAND.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., August IA.
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BLAKELOCKS RENT.
An Incident of the Days When His
Pictures Did Not Sell.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. Your
very interesting article relating 20 the
late artist Ralph Albert Blakelock re-
in the early sos.
One day a man called at my mothers
house to know IL he might build little
shack to be used as a studio on one
OF her vacant lots on Thirty-fourth
street near Broadway. He said, II can
not promise to pay you any rent unless
1 can sell my pictures"
Ny mother told him to go ahead and
build the shack and never mind the
rent. which he did. This man proved
to be Blakelock.
About one month later Blakelock
called upon my mother again and had
q small package done up in a newspaper
under his arm. He said. Mrs. Hege-
man. have not been able to sell any
of my pictures. but will you please take
this one in place Of the rent?'
My mother said, You sell the picture
Cor whatever you can get for it and
use the money to buy paint and can
vas with"
My brother Gerard, who happened to
De in the room at tho time and noticed
the look of pain on Blakelock's face.
motioned to my mother to accept the
painting in order not to hurt the art
lists feelings. That picture. which is a
beautiful landscape about IL by Is
inches, is now in my brothers collection
in his home in the Catskills
ADRIAN G. HEGBMAN.
STAMFORD, Conn.,. August IA.
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contracted by American soldiers and
sailors abroad were hazardous on both
sides, but the unworthiness of some
Of the men and women involved In
them is scarcely worth exploiting.
The imported brides deserve the
sympathy of those among whom they
are to live, and this will be chilled II
the character of even few OF them Is
held up to reprobation. Those Of them
who are bad at heart will inevitably be
punished for their wrongdoing In one
way or another. The others the great
majority, will have many dreary hours
before they become adjusted to their
new environment. Their plight calls
for tact and ready assistance. They
should not be received with suspicion
and distrust. In many cases their
lives since 1914 have been incredibly
hard. In all cases their lot has been
miserable in many ways. They come
from war torn countries, their hearts
filled with grief for those who fell In
the war. Their hope Of happiness
lies in the future, and 1t is a sorry
business for anybody to cast an I'M
necessary cloud over their prospects.
Few of us can help to welcome these
new Americans or do anything to
smooth their paths for them, but all
Of us can refrain from making their
difficult situation more difficult by i'm
pugning the character of even the
few whose standards are not the
standards the best Of us maintain.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-15
PLANE DROPS MAIL
ON LINER AT SEA
Experiment With Adriatic q
Success Despite Wind and
High Waves.

Neither rain nor wind nor heavy
man from delivering the first airplane
sea mail to the steamship Adriatic as the
big steamship stood out to sea yesterday
afternoon at the end OF Ambrose Chan
rel. Hundreds of passengers lined the
rail and cheered as the steel cable.
dropped from the sea plane. caught on
the wire stretched between the forward
and second masts of the ship. The cable
then pulled the mail bag from its chute
on the plane and dropped It into the sea,
from where it was quickly hauled on
board the Adriatic by sailors.
The Adriatic was ploughing through
the rough sea at sixteen knot gait
when the flying boat made It's appear
ance. The plane circled the big ship
once or twice. and then dived toward
her, while Mechanic Greisenger released
the steel cable, to the end of which was
attached the waterproof mail bag. Ow-
ing to the weather 1t was feared that
the aviators would have considerable
difficulty in hitting even such a large
object as the liner. but the stunt was
performed apparently as easily as II the
Adriatic had not been moving and rs
perfectly as If there had been no gale
whatever
Aviation experts said yesterday that
the success OF the airplane In delivering
mail to a steamship after she had got
out to sea marked another milestone in
areonautics for commercial purposes. 1t
is believed that thlrty-six hours can be
saved with mails when plans TO take
late mail aboard flying boat and de-
liver the sacks 10 steamships out at sea
are perfected. Yesterday the Adriatic
left her pier at ~ o'clock and the flying
boat departed with the late mails At
1880, delivering the sack to the ship at
u'ClOCk
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-15
New York Loses a Good Policeman.

Inspector THOMAS ]. TUNNEY, who
has retired from the New York police
force on captains pension. deserves
place in the history of crime detec-
ZION and crime prevention alongside
that held by the late JAMES MCPAR-
Ian, whose notable exploits in the
exposure and disruption of the Molly
Maguires, forty years ago, and whose
work In the more recent murder Of
Ex-Governor FRANK STEUNENBERG of
Idaho form one of the most interest
ing chapters in criminal archives.
TUNNEY has risked his life time and
time again in the performance Of his
duty, astute and far sighted, he has
successfully matched his wits against
those of highly trained men, not ordl-
nary criminals; in persistence he has
shown in his work an apparently In
exhaustible fund Of patience.
When the war in Europe began 1t
was generally assumed that the United
States had no police organization fit
to be compared with the government
agencies of foreign Powers. Our Sc
cret service was restricted by statute
to protecting the currency against
counterfeiters, guarding the President
and a few other duties. The internal
revenue inspectors operated against
one kind of misdemeananfs, the post
Office inspectors against another, and
the customs inspectors against still
another. The State police, except in
a few States, were negligible, and the
city police had their hands full with
their routine work.
Among policemen Inspector TUN-
NEY had earned high reputation by
his performance of tasks of which
the public knew little or nothing. But
the public did know he had done fine
work in suppressing bomb throwers,
whether they were black handlers, an
archlsts or members of entertain
ment committees" In labor disputes.
Consequently no surprise was caused
when he became conspicuous in the
pursuit of violators of our neutrality
before the United States entered the
war or when he Joined the Federal
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commodities which imperativciy calls
for liquidation.

commodities which imperativciy calls
for liquidation.
Count all Canada's exportable
wheat, all Australla's exportable
wheat, including the big war carry
over, all Argentina's exportable wheat
at no more than 420,OO0,0O0 bushels
out Of the total foreign demand Of
700,O00,00Q bushels, and, with less
than 100000, 600 bushels still wanted
by the world, what would we do with
our surplus Of perhaps half billion
bushels? Call all that other export
able wheat as little as 400,000,0O0
bushels II you please, with 100000, 900
bushels still wanted, what would we
do with our surplus Of perhaps half
a billion bushels2
But, whether our per capita con-
sumption be subnormal because of Mr..
WILSON'S grain policy or our per
capita consumption be normal, what
does 1t mean when the Wheat Direc-
tor feels compelled to urge the Ameri-
can people to eat more wheat-at
famine prices? The beef packers are
lmploring American consumers to eat
more Of their products which are
bursting out the cold storage walls
The pork packers are beseeching the
American consumers to eat more Of
their products for the same reason.
The dairy packers are supplicating the
American consumers to eat more Of
their products. When the Wheat d.
rector joins in the chorus with his
plea to the American consumers to
eat more wheat-eat it, to be sure,
at famine prices-what only can it
mean7
Too much wheatl
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-15
The Dry World.

The prohibitiopists have won.
with dryness Of a bone
The doom has come to Demon Rum
And no no more is known.
The League or Nations grandly plans
A visionary scheme
To quench the flood of Demon Blood
With Woodrow's pretty dream.
And Labor has a nifty plot.
For II Is seeking now
That primal wet, old Demon Sweat.
To dry upon the brow.
But stf1l millennium is far.
Until the bye and bye.
TIL disappears old Demon Tears
We won't be really dry.
MoLANDBUHeH WILSON.
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Helms wild Words.

Representative JAMES T. HEFLIN Of
the Fifth Alabama district said on the
floor Of the House on Wednesday;
"I charge now that German money
and munition money and gun manu-
facturers' money is back Of the prop
uganda to defeat the League OF Ma
TONS"
1t would be easy to dismiss this
monstrous accusation as the utter
ance Of loose mouthed politician.
In this way the public, accustomed to
Mr.. HELMS style of oratory, will
treat it. But the House owes another
course of action to It's own dignity
and to the integrity Of its processes.
The Alabama Congressman made in
open debate this allegation Of IN
speakable infamy against the men
who are fighting to save their coun-
try from the dangers of the proposed
covenant Of league Of nations, and
1t becomes a part of the permanent
record of the proceedings Of the
House of Representatives.
For the vindication Of It's own honor
the House should write the refu-
tation of the allegation In the same
record. That REPUTATION can be easily
obtained from the lips Of the author
Of the charge by the simple process
Of calling on him to produce evidence
in its support.
He cannot produce such evidence,
for no base plot exists.
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Smith Center correspondence Topeka Capital.
with the sun making the air almost as
hot as an oven young blackbird In the
Jim Boyle yard at this place this after
noon spisd a crock Of water setting in the
sun and. making q dart for H. plunged in.
Mr.. Boyle AYERS the bird gave a sharp
squawk OF pain as II touched the water.
then turned a couple OF dips in the air. and
beating II like the wind for the shade OF
q tree. shook itself vigorously for some
time, dislodzins a handful of feathers.
Going to tho crock. Mr.. Boyle found the
water 30 hot he could not bear his hand
in II.
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The House was talking about con-
tlnuing the three days adJournments.
the Presidents h C ! message to the
contrary. and Mr.. MANN said: 1T
would be a good thing II most Of the
members would take trip away from
Washington for a while and get rested
up and their souls rested up" This
advice, which the giver said he would
himself follow, was not received with
any enthusiasm that could be noticed.
There seemed to be a feeling Cypress
ing members that a visit to constitu-
encies just now, with many big do
nestle problems untackled, might re-
suit In something being done to their
souls commonly indicated in polite
literature by and a - rather
than by the comfortable word rested.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-ST: Your
account on Monday of the B. r. T.
strike settlement says: MANY different
opinions were expressed as to who should
get most credit for settling the strike,
Judge Mayer, Mayor Hylan or Public
Service Commissioner Nixon"
From opinions I heard expressed in
Brooklyn 1t seems to me you failed to
include one deserving great credit for
the settlement, the Police Commissioner.
If Mr.. Shea would not agree with me,
Mr.. Garrison might. S. K dpoo.
BROOKLYN, August IL.