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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
COLONEL FORCED TO
QUIT; PAY TOO LOW
General Declares Army Mo-
Tale Was NeUer So Lou.

BosToN. Sept. 26-The morale aT'ora
officers of the Regular Army was never
so low as it is to-day because OF the 10,
adequacy OF their pay, In the opinion OF
MaJor-Gen. Clarence r. Edwards ID
forwarding. as Commanding General Ct
the Northeastern Department The ere
OF resignation Of Lieut.-Col. ". W kos''
Gen. Edwards wrote the Ad1gnut zen
eral of the army that the case was TYP
zeal OF an alarming situation
The Endorsement of the department
commander adds that n,causr u nv
army pay standards "A man who az ep,
a commission to-day Is ,akrE vol %
poverty and that his {dw.' 1871 nave
TO grow up with less COM RI. .l. .'
average laboT1Ts wife H.. are.
Something has 60. 8. DID,. d.Is
quickly, because in this r-9.E 1a..''
officers like Gel Rose are ,s-.r.
Col Rose, graduate ut Va ron.
fourteen years ago, said b. .
that the present pay or any n,rtsssss
contemplated will no lonEs. permit NE
standard OF living formerly Obtaining "
the service" He will go into business
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
UNDER THE LEAGUE.
Would the Supernation Control the
United States Army?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In
your editorial article on General
Pershing on September ~ you refer to
his insistent determination that the
United States Army should not be a
mere reservoir OF replacement for the
armies OF the Allies understand 1t
was British proposition 30 to use It.
All of US who had dear ones 'over
there" should appreciate In highest de-
gree the efforts of this great soldier in
saving our boys from being used as
lions. After the cruel sacrifice of the
brave Australians at the Dardanelles
it would have been flying in the face OF
fate to put our young men under such
incompetent command.
Our army was very properly placed
at the disposal of General Foch as
generalisslmo, but this did not mean
that he could command this company or
that private; and all OF the American
Army remained under command OF Gen.
eral Pershing, by whom the general
plans were executed in the American
Army.
No doubt IL the supernation of the
League Is established every effort will
be made not only TO control the United
States Army but unlawfully to use
Americans as replacement troops for
foreign armies.
Americans. wake up and protect your
own boys. DEEcEY.
BALTIMORE, September 20.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
FEW STREET ORGANS LEFT.
Better Jobs and High Costs Cause
Of Shortage.

Unnoticed in the stress OF war. the
mechanical piano. has left u.s. making
our streets more silent and our alleys
and courts where ragged little folk
disport themselves unjoyful.
In one Northern town the eighty
'hurdy-gurdies" OF pre-war days have
dwindled to solitary one. Gone the
gentleman with copper colored face and
golden earrings gone the lady with the
buxom bosom and the gayly colored
shawl upon her head. The men found
place in the engineering works dur
Ing the war and instead OF grinding
out music took to grinding out shells.
And the organs themselves7 Some
lie in kitchens and now and then play
their music; some are coated with dust
in their owners works, but very many
have been broken up to save storage
room.
win the hurdy-surdy' come back?'
A maker to whom the question was
put shook his head sadly.
II doubt It," he answered. "The
war has ruined the trade. New organs
cannot be made. Steel wire is up 500
per cent. wood cannot be obtained.
Before the war two people with an
organ would often start out at 8 A M
and play till midnight They made 1926
to $40 a week that's all. You see
they are not willing to do that now,
after the munitions. or course there
will be blind men and one armed men
who will have them. but no more will
an organ weighing 225 pounds be pulled
twenty miles a day"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
The Peril OF the Meadow Frog.

We quote from our esteemed con.
temporary and neighbor the Erenine
Post these beautiful observations upon
the general situation:
when the slow creek is putting
out to sea, freighted with seed and
wan leaf, cardinal flowers watch the
waters Redeemed by their image.
Ochre ferns beneath move listlessly
III and down with the ripple.
1t seems early'to go. Ptckerel weed
is azure still. Among the green boys
the fragrant ladies' tresses wear the
white timidity OF April. Fair
are the dark red berries OF the
prickly ash. dreadful to taste, but
often they grow among wild cherries,
which, juiceless now, are sweet as
dried fruits from Persia. And there
are the black nanny berries with their
watermelon flavor and the first spicy
wild grapes"
Shall We stop here? Not for ten
dollars, though 1t be dreadful to taste
The last humming birds haunt
tanned honeysuckles. Clinging to the
sun world long after the lucent pal
Tors Of the white water lily have van
ished. her lansuid yellow sister floats
upon pool and weedy stream. Straw
berry apples arc like embers in the
orchard"
Shall we refrain from further cita-
ton? Not for a hundred doughnuts !
Finely dressed visitors have come
TO the blue berried juniper and the
n1onstrous pokeweed OF the terra
Gotta stem. The inscrutable heron
breaks his profound meditation to
engulf meadow frog. for he will
not leave before the wild geese with
mingled sound OF horn and bells
press south above the watercoursea
Startling and bluejay stay a while to
obllge with their chatter to the dawn.
The blind might hear September in
the interminable arguments of the
crow. the Respondent song Of katydid,
tree toad and boot owl. In the air
is reluctance, pause. woodbine CLOVIS.
Summer cannot wait"
Gosh, Candor compels lis TO ad-
nit that for coherent reasoning, In
vincible logic and forcible demonstra-
tion nothing that our esteemed con-
temporary has been able to advance,
editorially, concerning the imperative
necessity Of ratifying the League COW
enant exactly in the form which Mr..
WILSON demands approaches this ar
gument in impressive presenta ton
and convincing quality. Summer cannot
wait upon any reluctance of the air, or
tolerate the white timidity of April.
If LODGE and BoRAH and KNOX and
HIRAM JOHNSON and the rest of them
don't watch out the inscrutable heron
VIII have swallowed the frog.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
Psychological Test in PouEhkeepsie.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr. As
q matter of psychology. 10 It true or not
that when a man meets defeat in debate
or otherwise and permits his feeling TO
get the better Of him he attributes his
own qualities and failings TO his master
May not one who is constantly insin-
cere or untruthful sooner or later. when
defeat stares him in the face. be ex-
pected TO say those who have mastered
him are insincere or possibly liars2
am watching the papers daily to see
who calls somebody else liar" so as to
assure myself who has not been telling
the truth. not having been entirely GER
tain up TO now. G. H. CLAP.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, September 26
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
A SOLDIERS PREDIcAMENT.
HonorabIy Discharged, He Can't Find
Way to Become q Citizen.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir:
am a former Pioneer Infantry soldier.
honorab,v discharged from the United
states Army. I was born in Tore del
GRECO Italy have been in service with
the Eiftv second Pioneers through the
onerations In France,
ara 7 WAS arped at Camp Upton on
NJ, ,7,a., law cIose on TO ten wears
= ras,dont n, tbs limited States and al
Though have nv honorable army dis
49, nonars a,, NOT a citizen.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
BoIshevIki Penalize Tipping.

From the London Morning Post
1t has been noted that In Budapest walt
e.s at the hotels who venture to take a
ITO are liable 10 penal servitude. That prob
ably Is because the heads Of the Bolshe-
visit Government are staying free gratis
and. for nothing at the principal hotels.
In London tipping Is a greater nuisa nc e
than ever 1t was. Walters in certain places
actually ask for tip. II was therefore a
surprise at q military dinner the other
night to see the maitre d'hotei hustle q
waiter out of the room because he was
taking toll from officers present. Possibly
a sum had been hxed by the committee Ia
charge TO be given 20 the walters 40 that
the diners should not be pestered. This is
done very regularly at Masonic gatherings
ard saves much bother.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.

Eastern New York--Fair to-dav.,.
morrow fair. warmer; moderate nor,S
east to southeast winds.
New Jersey-Fair TODAY. ,o.r,..-
east winds u souths
New England-Falr to-day; ,o-po.,.-
lar warmer in the interior; rnods,.,.
shiitins winds becoming east and souiS'
Western New York-Fair. warmer &.
"ayi tomorrow fair. w.
WASHINGTON Sept. 2s-pre,su,. :.
moderately high in the East ana in,
the west, with moderate depress,on
over Manitoba that is followed b., r.F9po9n
rising pressure to the westward Thy
was no precipitation OF CONSEQUENCE ovas
the country, except in northwest Mon,s.i
.Where II is raining and showing to.nishra
with q decided fall in Temperatures ~;
, sH.ehos westward to the Paclhc Coo
weather also prevails from the lake ras,nn
ana the Ohio Valley eastward, and tbosa
were general frosts Friday morntps ~
the upper lake region. over the centrai
anu southwestern portions OF the coun,rn
temperatures are higher with ~ ' wy
ception OF local rains in the upnst , 81
region fair weather will prevail satprS"S
ana sunday over the Washington foraoayy
district. II will be warmer SATURDAY. ;rast
the lake region and Ohio Valley eastwa,S
ahI on sunday In the interior Of m.
middle Atlantic and New England Stats. y,
VIII be cooler Sunday in the lake region. nv
Ohlo valley. Tennessee and the north No.,
tons OF the east Gulf States Storm waTrtn..
are displayed on the great lakes ercsn,
southern Huron and extreme south Mleh.
gan 'N''
Observations at United States Weatbo, a,
'eau stations taken at L. NJ yesterSinv -
@nty-fifth meridian time wv
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
HIGH DYE TARIFF
PASSED BY HOUSE
The Democrats Vote Solidly
Against Large Increase
in Rates.

WASHINGTON, Sept. ga strong pro-
tective tariff wall, backed up by
licensing system to prevent German dye
Interests from flooding the country with
their products to the destruction OF the
American dye industry built up during
the war, was voted by the House to-day
The final vote, 156 to 1lS, was on strict
party lines, the Democrats voting solidly
against the measure because Of its high
tariff.
The bill provides a tariff Of more than
double the amount of the Underwood
act. Representative kitchin ~ c.
sought to insert in the bill rates OF the
Underwood act, but this was voted down
by the Republicans ia to l5S.
But believing the tariff alone was no;
sufficient. wall against the German dye
trust, which information placed before
the House showed has at least $50 900
600 worth of dyes ready to send 10 TIE
United States, the House, by a vote OF
2O6 TO g., sustained the license system
Tor dye imports against the protest OF
some Republicans, including Represents
I've Fordney tMichD, chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee. and j.
Hampton Moore tPaD, ranking member
The House instead Of setting W
new board TO pass on the questions Of
whether licenses shall be granted 10 N.
rorters Of foreign dyes despite the hisa
tariff conferred this power on th5
United States Tariff Commission.
In response to demands or some large
textile manufacturers who claimed that
some dyes still cannot be made in The
United States because the patents are
held by foreigners, the House made
mandatory on the commission 10 gran.
licenses for the importation OF dyes thai
are not made here.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27

losns beyond the limit Of the lending
lower Of the Treasury?
The cold fact is that this Casey
arrangement of the Treasury Depart
nient Is simply device to beat the
law and defy the authority Of the
American peoples Congress. But
when to the Chief Executive the Con-
stitution of the United States is but
flimsy fiction 1t may not be I'M
natural for his Treasury subordinates
to pay no attention to mere Congress
statutes
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
RI n RI RI II Does Equal One In
Some Places.

Considerable speculation has been
iudulged in by Americans of reaction
cry mathematical proclivities as to
the source from which President VIII
con derives his recently announced
arlthmetical theory that 1+1+1+1+
It'll, by the application of which
to international political affairs he
seeks to prove that six British votes
in the assembly Of a league of ma
tons would only be equal to one
United States vote.
Some persons insist that Mr.. VIII
SON evolved this revolutionary con-
tention from his own inner conscious
ness. Others hold that his profess
sional training having been in the
law, and his vocation for years the
enlightenment of youth on the intri-
cdcies of government, he probably is
weak on numbers. But this makes
mystery of an arithmetical conception
simple to explain when 1t is held by
native of the South belonging to the
Democratic party and twice success
full In contests for the office of Presi-
denr of the United States.
AS student of politics, theoretical
and practical, Mr.. WILSON has both
personal and official reason to know
that in some cases several votes are
IN fact equal to only one vote. For
example, Mr.. HUGHES, running for
President against Mr.. WILSON in 1916,
received in the State of Illinois 1,152,-
$40 votes at the polls, which brought
to him 20 votes of Electors of Presi-
dent and Vice-President, each Elec-
tors vote representing 39,743+ popu-
lar votes. In the same election Mr..
WILSON polled 102,S24 votes in his
native State of Virginia, which
brought to him II votes Of Electors
Of President and vice-President, or
one for each S,56S+ ballots cast at
the polls.
Thus, one vote cast at the polls In
Virginia for Mr.. WILSON eQualled ass
votes cast for Mr.. HUGHES in the
same election In Illinois. Analysis of
the election returns from other States
would disclose other instances In
which one vote cast at the polls for
Mr. WILSON as candidate for Presi-
cent equalled several cast for Mr..
HUGHES.
The indubitable fact that the votes
cast by four or five Northern Repub-
llcans for their candidate for Presi-
Dent only equal one vote cast by a
Southern Democrat for his candidate
for President accounts for Mr.. Will
soS's theory that in the assembly Of
league Of nations six votes cast by
the British Empire would only equal
one cast by the United States, and
to prove 1t In practice he would be
willing to provide tellers of Southern
political experience to supervise the
balloting in that chamber of his pro-
jected superstate.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
There is third possible reason for

There is a third possible reason for
MENEPTAH's collection 1t will be
remembered that he had ITO brothers,
the high cost of living not having
meant much to his father, who was
At wealthy builder. If we assume that
The king was wont to invite the other
ons Of RAMEsEs II. down for week
cad parties, was it not natural that
ne should have razor for each7 Or
is it possible that these are the razors
the multitudinous brothers left be-
hind when catching the S:13 out Of
Memphis on Monday morning?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
Lament of Fair Aspirant for Politics
IInnnrn

Lament OF n Fair Aspirant for Political
HonOrs.
Tho mornings are chilly, the skies over
cast.
And southwark the wild geese are hurryinS
fast:
The grasses are withered and sers IN the
park.
The short afternoons soon suceumb TO the
dark:
The breezss no longer are fragrant and
warm,
The barometer constantly threatens a
storm:
The clouds are like lead and the waters
are gray,
And Joy like a song bird has Fitted away.
A sadness profound is enthronsd in my
heart,
The tears to my eyelids at intervals start.
The shops interest me no more with their
show
OF frivols and frllls as a short time ago.
These old politicians are back OF It all;
1 wanted TO run for some ONCE this fall,
But alas at the primaries here in my
town
They would NOT consider ms--Annabsl
Browni
NINA nyISs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
TWO SIDES OF THE STRIKE.
II the Problem Is Economical the Fig
ures Are Against the Strikers.

To THE EDIroR OF THE SuN-Slr: Two
burning questions are before us in the
strike situation: Is Its genesis economic
or politically VIII the closed shop super
sede the open shop? II the present in
vestigatlon proves the origin Of the
strike Is political the foundations of our
republic are attacked. II the closed
shop idea wins the fact that Samuel
Gompers is IN his SEVENTEEN year is
about the only thing to indicate he will
not be our next President.
Now. what is the bearing of the facts
in the steel Industry Lowest wage scale
is AZ cents an hour. For unskilled labor
$3.50 to So day is paid. Average an
nual earnings Of nearly 100000 workers
have risen since 1914, in four years.
from S905 to $3.50, or over 40 per
cent, while Dun's index number on
prices indicates a rise of 30 per cent
These facts Of wages all look away from
an economic basis for the strike to
political basis.
Again. 1t is admitted that the per-
centage of aliens among the strikers Is
very high while the percentage OF
Americans among the non-strikers Is
also very high. The personnel Of the
strike points to a political basis.
Revelations regarding the previous
careers of some Of the leaders In the
strike also indicate political rather than
economic considerations The leading
organizer. Foster, IL ~ we'll known syn
dicalist and leader among the l. w. w.
When the great third party the -peo-
pie. realize the European menace
brought to our very doors, will thIy be
more or less inclined to go into the
League Of Nations?
CHARLES s. HARTwELL~
BROOKLYN. September rs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
His POcketbook.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: II
don't want TO be always thinking anout
my pocketbook." said Woodrow wilson
in his Reno speech.
And this is the same Woodrow Wilson
who few years back asked for a PEN
sion from the Carnegie Foundation.
May not suggest that one OF the
proper results OF the war should have
been an enforcement OF the idea behind
the Hakue tribunal instead of League
of Damnations, and 1t may be that the
refusal Of the Foundation to heed Will
sons request resulted in Wilson's re-
fusal 10 heed Carnegie's efforts?
NEW York, September rs. W. H. W.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
Treasury Funding Of Unpaid Inter-
est on Our Foreign Loans.

There always has been much Treas
uTy mystery around the handling Of
the interest owed us on the loans
which our Government was making to
the Allies. Once there was a sweet
Administration dream that our Treas
ury would not have to pay interest on
all the Liberty bonds subscribed by
the American people because not
merely such interest but the princi-
pal itself under the interest would be
offset by the payments coming from
foreign treasures on our loans to
them. There was a theory, based
upon the very law which authorized
our Government to make the foreign
bans, that these remittances from
abroad would be used and could be
used for no other purpose. What
was actually happening, however, was
not easy to discover, as THE SUN
came to realize after frequent at
was coming in and what was being
done with 1t.
Now we know. There wasn't any.
The whole question was purely AGA
demic. Not even Wilson Office
holder from the balmiest plantation
in Mississippi had to cudgel his brains
ever the spending of foreign interest
funds that did not exist.
Yet we are puzzled to understand
just how it is that the Treasury has
reached the conclusion that 1t can
properly, not to say legally, fund
and then no doubt refund-the inter-
est that we don't get. 1t is true that
the story, old as the hills but ever
refreshing, about CAsEY's drink here
applies. The bartender, 1t will be re-
mcmbered, called up the back stairs
+ to the rooms where the proprietor
lived, wanting to know If CASEY was
good for the price of a drink.
HAS he had It'll" called down the
proprietor.
"He has"
''He Is"
OF course, the Allies have had their
drinks-excuse us, their loans. II
they haven't paid the interest, II they
aren't going TO pay the interest, for
three or four years, or perhaps, some
Of them, for eternity, they are good
for 1t in the Casey sense as long as
the Government can't collect.
Nevertheless, the amount of treasure
which the fiscal department of our
Executive Government could lend TO
those Allies was explicitly and abso-
lutely fixed in the statutes authorizing
the loans. The Governments OF the
Allies and the Executive branch OF our
own Government have been striving
TO get the Congress authority TO TX
ceed that absolute limit; but the Con
gress authority has not been granted.
the Congress ear has been deaf 70
every such appeal. How, then, can the
Treasury make this little arrangement
--on the Casey drink basis or any
other basls-when the arrangement
II II IL anything. is an increase OF
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27

The proposed change in the rules
for Democratic national conventions
by which q candidate for President
would be nominated by a majority
vote instead of a two-thirds vote is
not loyal reform. II the majority
system had been In effect in 1912 the
Democratic nominee would have been
CHAMP CLARK. who had $50 of the
loss votes on. the tenth ballot, when
Mr.. WILSON had only 350h votes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
wiljofclemperfoch is the rather all

Wiljofclemperfoch is the rather eu-
phonious combination Of syllables-ac-
cent on the antepenult-with which
the finest avenue in Castelsarrasin.
France, has been rechristened. And
the originators of the university psy-
Geological tests would certainly delight
in discovering whether II takes the
seeing and lingual faculties longer TO
pronounce the avenues name without
hesitancy than It does the brain TO dis
Germ that the first syllables of the
names Of five allied war leaders of the
first magnitude constitute the appeila-
ton.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Reconstruction Labor Board. meeting
Hall of Records. 10 A. NJ
Nassau county convention OF the Ameri.
can Legion. Mineola Court House 2 p NJ
The Lay Alumni and students Of the
catholic University OF America will hold
a get together dinner at Brownies Chop
House, p. NJ
held day concert. revue of novelties
and baseball game will be held at Ebbets
Field for the benefit OF the building fund Of
the church OF 81. Brendan, afternoon.
Golden Jubilee Club, luncheon, Hotel
Commodore. 2. NJ
United states Fisheries Association
meeting Hotel McAlpin, Q A. ~
oueensborouSh League OF Mothers ClubA
meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania, s p. NJ.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27

Since July last the water supply
reserve in New York State has. the
statisticlans aver. decreased from 1922
coo, 100000 gallons to $4,000, 0OO. 900. Is
il the precept OF that wise ancient who
declared cleanliness to be next to god
illness at last being acted upon with
unanimity. or is IL a doctrine much
younger, in fact only three months old
next Wednesday, that is the clue to
the mystery Of the missing seventy
two billion gallons?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
DEMOCRATIC WOMEN INVITED
VIII Meet with state Committee
In Albany October 2.

ALBANY, Sept, 26.-Announcement Of a
conference Of Democratic women voters
with Democratic county chairmen and
members OF the Democratic State Com
mittee In Albany October was made
to-day By William w Farley, chairman
OF the State committee.
IAN women interested in securing the
social welfare programme introduced at
the last legislative session are invited 10
attend" the Chairman said.