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NEW PORK MAN DEFENDED.
A Common Practice Rebukcd by an
Observer From San Francisco.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN--sir: The
other day saw in q midwest paper a
brief item entitled "Men a Necessary
EVIL" Needless to say. the despatch
came from New York city.
Either there is q basic sex antagonism
between the men ana women Of your city
or some Of your Journalists are gifted
with a sense Of humor which the rest Of
the country does not possess. 1 hardly
ever pick up a New York newspaper in
which I do not see from one to three
articles anent the wrongs committed
upon women by men or articles proving
the superiority of women and the gen.
eral cussedness Of man.
am an American who Joined the
Canadian service in June. 1915, and al
most the very last New York newspaper
I saw before being sent across the pond
contained an article branding New York
men as weaklinss. The article was
written by a woman who cleverly took
back her first startling statement in the
last paragraph or two, but the, gist of
her article was that New York men were
physically weak. abnormally impolite
and did not know the meaning of the
word chivalry.
remember the article particularly be-
cause Of ths kidding" one New York
city boy in our regiment received at the
hands of his Canadian confreres who had
seen the article. The kidding" was
friendly. but the boy felt hurt and angry
at what he rightly believed TO be an un-
called for assault upon the men of his
city. When one thinks that papers
travel far and opinions especially hostile
ones. once expressed are often hard to
erase from minds prepared 70 believe evil
It behooves a great newspaper to be care
full.
am not q New Yorker but a San
franciscan. but have lived in New
York as we'll as Paris and London.
admit that New Workers. are not always
overpolite. but this applies to both the
men and women and not 70 the men
alone, as our lady journalists seem to
assume. I admit that the we'll bred Eng
lishman Is probably the most charmingly
polite fellow in the world and the grace
full and gracious Frenchwomsn his coun-
terpart in feminine charm, but In no
country In the world are women accorded
more rights and in none do they receive
more homage than in this country and
in no city in the world DO women seem
20 unappreciative Of this homage as In
New York ALEXANDER COMFORT.
BATTLE CREEK. Mich. June 2b.
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Wanted, Names and Addresses.

A great many readers Of THE SUN
will be interested in the subjoined in
structions issued this week for the
guidance of persons seeking informa.
ton about insurance, compensation or
allotments or allowances from the
War Risk Insurance Bureau:
Every person who writes the ou.
reau is urged TO begin his letter with
the following information;
Full name of the soldier sailor
or marine.
present address and former ad-
dress, IL changed.
Frank and organization In the army
or navy at the time Of application for
insurance or for allowance.
Serial number, II In army.
THE number Of insurance certin.
cate.
First. last and middle names Of
beneficiary nahed in the insurance
policy or dependents for whom al
lowance was asked. and their pres
ent address and former address, II
changed"
Not few service men and former
service men carelessly neglect to iden-
tify themselves when they write about
their insurance. their Liberty bonds
and other financial matters. They
forget to give their addresses and
omit their full names. With the bes,
intentions in the world the War Risk
Insurance Bureau cannot answer in
quiries from correspondents who do
not tell where they live. A little care
on the part Of inquirers will prevent
many Misunderstanding like those
which have caused much annoyance
In the past.
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gers, and this message was put down

gers, and this message was put down
as a hoax.
On August 20 1t was announced
that the Cyclops had been stricken
from the navy list, given up as lost
with all her people.
About three months later. on No
vember 90, 1918, a sailor named JOHN
SON, Of the United States ship Pow.
hatan. was alleged to have written
from Newport News to his mother In
Florida that the Cyclops was in the
Kiel Canal and that the United States
eship Orion was departing with gear
to put her In condition to return to
this country. This was promptly de.
MED, and It was said at the time that
the Germans had declared they had
no knowledge of the Cyclops.
On May 0, 1910, bottle was picked
up of this port In which there was
said to be message from the Cyclops
The Navy Department did not make
the message public, but did announce
II was not taken seriously, the longi
tude and latitude given in It being
evidence Of Its fraudulent character.
We now have the alleged letter Of
RAMSEY, which Of course will b
thoroughly investigated, though the
inquirers may work without greai
hope Of solving the mystery. If they
can find its writer and he is fraud
no penalty that may be inflicted on him
will be too severe.
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OUR FREEDOM AT STAKE.
why. Indeed, Should America Surren
der Her Sea Police Power?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: As
significant Of the feeling that prevailed
In England in 1910, and assuming that
this feeling has undergone no great
change in the meantime, I want TO quote
a paragraph from an article that ap-
peared In the CosmopoIitaN Of January,
1910. written by Sir Edward Hobart
Seymour. Admiral Of the British Navy:
OF course peace commissions, of .
more or less civil nature, have aimed
to restrict the mechanical violence of
war machinery, but peace organization
OF the character of the Hague Commits
sion have been unable to accomplish
much more than arouse the interest OF
public sentiment. The peace OF the ma
lions Is best insured by suficient war
ships to maintain II. The sea must be
policed as sficiently as the land. There
IL as much need for the power OF arrest
as there Is in the street. The British
navy has been compelled to discover
this fact In the proper control OF her
colonial lands. Perhaps Its supremacy
has been established largely upon the
grounds of police duty rather than
national aggrsssiveness. Navies are po-
lice forces of the sea. Upon them tho
peace or nations very largely depends
II that be true why should the people
OF the United States surrender their
right to police the sea under the League
OF Nations and place themselves and
their shipping under the control OF
others?
With the largest navy in the world
and majority of the votes in the
League Of Nations England is In posi-
ton to dominate the world to such an
extent that 1t would be suicidal for the
rest of the world to put the means in her
power to do 80.
Under the Constitution of the United
States we know our rights and dare
maintain them.
Under a League OF Nations we would
be subject TO the whims OF .nfty-seven
varieties of demagogues and damphools,
and as we have been fed up on this sort
OF thing for the past several years It is
OF very doubtful value as a steady diet
DucKTowN. Tenn. June "a. FIJI.
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Vacation Thoughts.

We have received on a printed
postcard from the Institute for Pub
lie Service. WILLIAM II. ALLEN direc-
tor, suggestions that are at least sea
sonable. for they relate to vacations,
As 1t Is we'll known that thousands
of Americans spend fifty weeks Of the
year worrying over the manner In
which they shall spend the odd fort
night, any helpful programme for the
annual summer holidays is welcome
Mr.. ALLEN sets down schedule for
morning, afternoon and evening. Let
us take them In order:
"Morning-No book but nature,
people, hand work and rowing.
swimming or tennis and the like"
After the idler has risen and
waited for somebody else to go to
breakfast. has gone to the hotel Office
or village store for the mail and has
pipeclayed his shoes, about twenty.
eight minutes Of the morning remain
for the contemplation of Nature. AS
for people, must vacationer meet
them? A man who has Just been re-
leased from work in the complaint
bureau Of railroad station, for In
stance, might object to having people
dragged into his holidays. After
luncheon:
"Afternoon-A nap, non-shop novel
or poetry. conversation about internA-
tonal and national affairs. including
art and literature, swimming. &C."
Maps are fattening, destroy the
nights sleep and cut into the precious
hours of the free person. What is q
non-shop novel? Perhaps Mr.. ALLEN
means that the young foreman Of con.
struction when on his vacation should
not read Concrete Carl; or, Fighting
the Grout Trust" The young lady
whose principal object In life is get
ting married should lay aside the
Chambers novels. The resting bar
tender should avoid 1.-THE Demoniac."
JAMES X. VARDAMAN should not read
"Uncle Toms CABIN" Mr.. CHAPLIN
should let SHAKEsPEARE's works alone.
Conversation about international
and national affairs, including art and
literature, swimming, &C." OF these
We think swimming is the safest. We
do not remember that Mr.. WELLS or
Mr.. WILSON or Herr NIErzscHE ever
said anything emphatic on the SUBJ
ject. Miss KELLBRMANN is the only
quotable author. It is economical to
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A Perfect Fourth Of July.

I was boy ] burned my outsides
with fireworks. These were taken away
from me.
When became older I burned my
insides with firewater. This has been
taken away from me.
have a smokeless vision of myself
a few years hence spending my expur-
gated Fourth Of July and keeping my
outsides and insides both cool and sane
by reading Percy Bysshe Shelley and
slipping cream soda through a straw
Efficiency. what crimes are committed
In thy name!" r. 8. CONE, MD.
WEsTwoop, N. j.. June 25.
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For eastern New York and southa-,
New England--Showers to-day and nroh'
ably tomorrow moderate winds mo,t,v
south. 'S
For New Jersey-showers to-day: nroA-
ably fair tomorrow; warmer in intsrioo,
moderate south winds. ''o''
For northern New England-Shower. a.
gay, except fair In eastern Maine; shower,
gentle to moderate south winds. a'"c'
For western New York-showers to.a.u.
probably fair tomorrow; little chsnva"y
temperature. IN
WASHINGTON, June 25,-pres,,-. l.
generally low tonight In the Atlantic az
west with. centres of moderate deprs,,in.
over southern Michigan and tho nor,h
plateau. General and substantial shan
ers occurred In the lake region. the Ohio
States and local showers in the Gull Staio.o
while over the central and west porltons q;
the country the weather was fair r. VI
peratures are lower In the middle Atlantio
states ana New England, nearly normal in
tne lake region and the South and remain
high elsewhere. ''a'u
There viii be showers Thursday in IN.
lower lake region. the upper Ohio Valisv
and the east Gulf and Atlantic States.
continuing Friday in New England, Nav
YORK and the South. The weather viii n.
iair Thursday and Friday in thu unns,
AXE region and the lower Ohio Valley ana
on Friday In the lower lake region, thu
upper Ohio Valley and the middle Atlantis
states south of New York "'o
IL VIII be somewhat warmer Friday q,
the middle Atlantic States.
Observations at United States Weather m
reau stations taken at s p. NJ YESTERDAY a.,
enty-ffth meridian time: '0''
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struction. Sheep have not the wit to
quit fool leader. Sheep are without
initiative, resource or self-rellance.
Democracy makes great many mis-
takes and commits great many fol-
lies, but 1t can defend itself, and II
learns from its errors. No sheep ever
learned anything.
Secretary HoUsToN must not allow
his enthusiasm for mutton to blind
him to the positive and enduring vir-
tues Of democracy.
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THE SENIOR PARTNER.
Is the Senate Superior to the Presi-
dent In Treaty Makinef

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN--Sir: Sen
ator Knox In his able and convincing
peech alludes to the Senate as the "co-
equal partner in the treaty making
power" Hence the other ''coequal part
nerr is the President. This is not 80.
The Presidents power Is not coedual
with but inferior to tho Senate's power.
This seems clear. for the President Is
given power by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate to make treaties
II one may do an act only by and with
the advice and consent of another. surely
tho formers power is not coequal with
that Of the latter. While there has been
a lot of fustian talk to the contrary.
Il is but plain common sense that the
Presidents power is that Of negotiator.
He is an agent acting in executive ca
pacity under the advice and upon the
consent Of his superior. the Senate, to
negotiate q contract on behalf Of their
mutual principal. the people
say Ibis superior because his
making" must be by and with the Sem
ate's advice and consent and whatever
no makes may be rendered nusatory by
their non-consent
1t IL therefore erroneous to view the
Presidents power as coequal with the
Senate's power.
An illustration, however seemingly
extravagant, will demonstrate this:
Suppose a President Of the highest and
purest character should conceive II his
duty for his country's benefit. the uplift
OF the human race and the bringing OF
some degenerate foreign people to re-
pentance, TO create New York city. for
example. British port.
He goes TO London and negotiates a
treaty ceding the city with as much sur
rounding territory rs may be necessary
or desired by Great Britain for the pur-
pose of carrying out his lofty and noble
aims.
He does this on his own hook. sin
cerely believing that the Senates advice
would thwart the fulnlment Of those
aims and knowing he could not get their
consent.
After sojourning in London six
months OF possibly year he returns to
the land Of his election and presents to
the Senate the treaty.
What would happen? Only rejection
of the treaty? No. With rejection his
removal from once. Who would remove
him? The Court of Impeachment. Who
would try him? The Senate.
How. therefore. can IL with accuracy
be said that the President Is a "coequal
pa rtner'' with the Senate in the making
of treaties?
Our present or rather our absent
President. presiding in France, repu-
dates the Senator's concession OF CO.
equal partnership, since he has adopted
the view that the Senate Is not even his
Junior partner but Is wholly subservient
to his will apd must do his bidding.
This is evidenced first by his not ask
ing the Senate's advice secondly by his
refusal to take the Senates advice when
proffered, and thirdly by his threat that
he would 80 make the treaty az to force
the Senate to consent to II willy nilly.
Ut seems about time the people should
wake up TO such assumptions in fragrant
violation of their bulwark Of liberty,
their Constitution, which, II they but
realized Il, is as sound and applicable in
the twentieth as in tho eighteenth and
nineteeth centuries
EDWIN r. LEAvIrr.
NEW YORK. June rs.
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POLK TO BE CONFIRMED.
Action on Gonzales and Hapsood
Postponed in senate.

WASHINGTON. June 26.-Connrmation
OF Frank L. Polk. counsellor OF the
State Department, to be Under Score
tary OF State Hugh Gibson to be Min
lister to Poland, and Boaz w. Long TO
be Minister to Cuba was recommended
to-day by the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
Opposition to the nomination Of will
be the first Ambassador to Peru de-
veloped in the committee. and action
was deferred. The committee also post
poned action on the nomination OF Nor
man Hapgood to be Minister to Denmark
and Benton Mcmillan. now Minister to
Peru. to be Minister to Guatemala.
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converse about swimming. The more
you talk. the less you get your bath
ing costume wet. Dinner Is over:
"Evening-Early to bed after nom
shop conversation. and then write a
question, a suggestion and a criti-
clam which will express the days
growth by acquisition and expan-
sion.'
Early to bed indeed, and partcu'
larry after next Monday. Retiring
from the non-shop conversation, you
avoid the nonstop conversationalists
But how to write in bed in a summer
hotel is not explained. The fixture
Is always just where 1t will not light
the pillows Of the intellectual. And
there are so many varieties Of ques.
lions, suggestions and criticisms. Mr.
MARouIs's Hermione might say, as q
question, Have been restful to.
day, or have IT,; as a suggestion
Cosmos, you should turn turtle"
and as a criticism, Everything nee
essary Is so needless" Such, how.
ever, is not the normal mood of the
person serving fourteen days on the
Island Of Vacation. On the night OF
his arrival, at least, his natural bed.
time question Is, What is the last
minute for breakfast?' His sugges-
ton is that the boy might hurry with
the ice water. His criticism often
implies the general unftness of his
surroundings. As for acquisition and
expansion" he leaves those to tht
hotel keeper.
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ASTORS FIGHT ASSESSMENT.
Asserts Market Value Is Less Than
Figure Named.

William Waldorf Aston, -hroIr 's
counsel, obtained from Justice
nelly In the supreme Court ye' ''|
a writ OF certiorari directed '"
Board of Taxes and AssesSmeo 4
requiring that body to certify ~ " '.'
basis on which a valuation ~ -.t''
has been placed on the Aston 1-'ne-!
at 200 10 PA Madison avenue
In the affidavts submttcl ''e
court. b. d. Elsie, attorney f.: p.
mentions Is parcels of New "
estate which have an aggreEd,- '
OF $40. 900. 900 and are assesse'
S22. 100000. Unfairness Is a.ra
Aston affirms that his prnucrt'
market value OF $3.50 less VS.
figure at which II has been as- 90
The writ is returnable IN saT'77
Court during the October term,
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Hints Waste in Loan Drives.

WASHINGTON, June 25.-Under a res.
olution introduced to-day by Represen.
tative Taylor (Tenn), Secretary Glass
would be directed TO report immediately
to the House the expenses incurred in
each Liberty Loan campaign. The reso-
luton said It had been suggested tina,
In each campaign there was great ex-
travsgance and unnecessary expense"
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Labor,s verdict Against Labor.

In the closing hours Of its conven-
ton the American Federation of La
Dor adopted report which was a
contradiction in slogic, defiance Of
the laws Of economies and a verdict
against the prosperity Of wage earn
srs. Pursued to the extreme. indeed,
1t would be a sentence Of death by
labor upon labor.
This report, in brief, urged shorter
period of work than the eight hour
day-forty-four hours week. 1t
even suggested, to take care Of the
unemployed, a six hour day. At the
same time 1t demanded readjust-
ment of wages so that earnings Of
labor will buy the same amount of
the necessaries Of life that could be
purchased by the earnings previous
to the war"
Now, let 1t be set down in the first
place that intelligent employers long
have realized that in the ordinary
tasks of close application the aver
age conscientious worker will produce
more in eight hours of unwearied eff
fort than In fourteen or twelve or
even ten hours Of exhausted energy
and vitality.
Let it 10 set down in the second
place that intelligent employers agree
that, whatever the wage, labor which
does a square days work, ounce for
ounce and hour for hour, should ex-
change into an equivalent Of food,
clothes, shelter and comforts to-day,
tomorrow and all time.
Let 1t be set down in the third
place that not merely the sympa-
thetic employer wishes this to be so
but memorable Nature DEGREES 1t shall
be SO.
But let 1t also be set down that in
the aggregate labor earns and pays
Its own wage. Nobody else pays It;
nobody else can. Out of what labor
in the aggregate produces, labor takes
its own return. The more that labor
produces the more It can take. The
less that labor produces the less there
Is for it to take.
Labor, then, must impoverish itself
IL 1t so delimits Its hours of work. or
so slackens its speed or otherwise so
falls short Of achieving adequate re-
suits that there Is not enough produc-
ton by labor to support labor as labor
needs to be supported.
Reduce the ten million workers OF
the country to terms of ten workers
and 1t must be as clear as sunshine
that IL those ten. working .rby them.
selves, say on lone island III the sea,
each working his best for eight hours
day, can produce altogether enough
and not much more than enough, to
support the whole ten, then only five
of them working eight hours, or the
full ten working only four hours can
not thus produce enough to support
the whole ten as they formerly were
supported.
1t must be as simple as a C that
whether the ten men express theIf
"wages" in pennies, In dollars or in
golden eagles, but at the same time
cut in half their. production-which
is their true wages-their earnings
will not provide them "the same
amount of the necessarles Of life that
could be purchased by the previous
earnings"
There is only one way-and 1t is a
sure way-to reduce the cost of living
an expression which means to get
more of the necessaries of life by work
1t is to produce more. not less.
There is a dead line of work and
production below which mankind
compelled by the laws of Nature to
earn it's living, cannot go without
committing economic suicide.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Edison dealers convention. Hotel Com.
m odore, all day.
League of Free Nations, luncheon, Ho-
tel Pennsylvania.
Rotary Club luncheon. Hotel McAlpin.
1880 P. NJ.
Forged Tool Society. meeting. Hotel Nc
Alpin, 1880 P. NJ.
American Labor Party. meeting, Cooper
Union. p. NJ.
Prof. de Valera will speak at meet
Ing in st. Johns College auditorium, WI.
loughby avenue. near Lewis. Brooklyn,
p. NJ.
Delmonico's, Z ?. N.
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The skipper OF q coffee laden
Brazilian ship discharging its precious
cargo at this port gives some cheering
news and what seems like good advice.
He assured the ship news reporters
that the best coffee in Rio can be
bought for 10 or IL cents a pound
and piles Of this ship brought 10000
bags-are lying on Rio docks waiting
for ships to take 1t away. "send ships
down TO Brazil and get that coffee" he
advised. Those who have been taught
to shudder at rum should have coffee
to steady their nerves.
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Knicker-Does the league provide that
the lamb may safely lie down beside the
lion7
Bseksr-No; at best IT hopes the lamb
may grow 90 be a sheep,
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Highest temperature, ~, at $50 P. n.
Lowest temperature, 81, at 7;l5 A. NJ.
Average temperature. ~.
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Two years ago to-day the first Ameri-
can troops arrived In France. Their
errand was to punish Germany for her
crimes against America; and nobody
thought there was any other reason for
the expedition until Mr.. WILSON dis
covered himself as the first President
OF Humanity.
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Sheep and Democracy.


ment of Agriculture has issued a bull
letin in which he says:
Sheep embody democracy"
AS a convinced and ardent adyo-
vate and defender of democracy TRr
Sun dissents from Secretary Hous.
TONS dictum with exactly as much
respect as 1t feels the official status
of that gentleman requires.
The sheep Is a sorry beast IN.
capable of defending itself, too stupid
to look out for its own safety, prey To
every marauder that roams the graz,
ing land. Sheep do not know enough
nat to jump over a precipice to de