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High Cost Of HooyerinR

Mr.. HOOVER, head Of the Garern.
ment Food Trust, may talk himself
black in the face about $3.50 wheat
or, for the matter of that, S2.26
wheat, but when a glut of American
wheat Is a dead certainty his talk
will never sell q bushel outside Of
this country. Mr.. HoovER's talk Of
$3.50 bushel can, however, make
the high living costs of American
consumers 90 even higher. That is
what It Is doing right now.
Mr.. HOOVER no sooner declared the
determination Of the Government
Food Trust to keep the price Of
wheat lacked up than every Amerl-
can dealer In any other grain raised
here marked up his prices on the
spot. Nobody in this country would
offer corn, for example, except on
Mr.. HoovER's famine price basis. The
same thing happened with cats, bar
ley, rye or anything else. And corn.
which feeds and fattens hogs, steers
and poultry, cannot go up without
driving up the prices of beef, pork,
chickens, ducks and geese. Corn can
not go up without driving up the
prices Of milk, butter, cheese and
eggs. This is what Mr.. HOOVER, head
Of the Government Food Trust, can
do and It is what ne Is doing with
a vengeance.
Still another thing he can do Is to
make markets for the surplus Of other
grain producing countries, killing
markets for ours. If we are fools
enough to try to sell our surplus
wheat for export on 1926 basis for
the farmer when other wheat growing
countries are glad to sell theirs much
lower than that, we simply make
them free gift of all the markets OF
the world. Worse than that, we sim
ply open the doors Of even our own
markets TO them, when we already
have IN oversupply.
While our own dealers, in response
to Mr.. HoovERs sky high price talk,
were Immediately marking up the
price of American corn in the Amer
lean markets, agents for South Amer
lean corn were selling their surplus
In our own home market--the home
market of the great corn producing
| country OF the world. They We're
selling it for delivery in New York
far below what our own Hoover in
spired dealers at home we're asking
| for theirs.
The Government Food Trust pro-
gramme means in a season Of plenty
| famine prices for American consum-
ers when consumers in the rest Of
the world are paying reasonable
prices means shutting our products
out of foreign markets; means hand
ing over export business that ought
! to belong to us first Of all to Canada.
| try that offers grain Mt rational
price while our Government Food
| Trust marks it up in this country to
crazy price.
The cost of Hoovering the Ameri-
| can consumers is too higA. Be
cause of what he IS costing them Mr..
HOOVER is liable to prove as eNpen-
sive an institution to this country as
the army and navy put together,
with perhaps the Peace Mission
| thrown in.
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EVENTS TODAY.

The title Of Chevaitr de Ia Legion
a'Houneur will he conterred upon 4. c,
Bedford at dinner In the Hotel aih-
.u0re, =. NJ
Eeyrotc speech Of Democratic party by
Homer = Cummings al the National Dem
ccrattc cub. F. NJ.
NI.eouat X. TEhu and Naoountess Ishh
w'll hc guests Of the Japan Society at
dinner at EOtel Aston, =. N.
American Electric Railway Assoc alton
meeting - West Thirty-nlnth street, az
cay. dinner tn the waldorf +. NJ.
Discussion on street railway fares
Broadway Association Kotel Martinique
. p NJ
Coy. sm!.h MI! review the Thrtssnth
coast Artillery at the ermory, Sumner and
Jefferson avenuss. Brooklyn, $3.50 y. N.
Lecture by Frederic w. H!nrichs on
Sew York city Of To- day and Alexander
Hamilton" New York Genealogical and b
aEra ph!ra' Society, e26 west Fifty eighth
street 30 g. NJ
Lecture ny Grace Corne'l on "sales-
peoples seminar metropolitan Museum
OF Art, 10 a ".
I.eccure on The Ruling Glass Of the
Future" ny Everett Dean Martin Cooper
irish Women. Council, meeting, Hotel
Rr6oNiyr Inatltu,e, Current History
meeting, S.t5 = NJ
po-e~ i Prsdv v.ll speak on labor PROB
.rmS sp'es r,Hnship cub OF New York,
Bush Terminal Sales building, J., NJ.
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ENGLISH FOR AMERICANS.
Is There Something - rong with
Uncle Sans Melting Pot!

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sr. our
bllssful dream Of being n national melt
Ing pot has been disturbed lue,y
Tho pot Is boiling. but the contents
are not fusinS; some seem iuru,i lee :
others II positive explosive powers that
might lnJura or even slattcr tho pot
Uncle Sam should fish out ami throw
away useless ara explosive ingredients
Ride in elevated or other cars here
and elsewhere and mote tine number or
pass, myers. the surprising number rem T.
ING papers or books I'm rom foreign llu-
guage. tn surprising number @. Young
people who one ImaFlncs could read
En- glish but Going this Also note the
surprising number Of young ana old con-
versiug In forclgn llu-1aRas.
Tndcniahly Il IS ones privilege ana
rIsht 10 read and speak in any Ian
gUGSa; but why 10 much Of both IN tI.s
English speaking country?
Have foreiSn language papers 70 tru-
dency 70 establish tAcsa conditionsa Are
they, perhaps, advocating un-American
ideas or craokbraiued theories? If tu.
vrat are their contents Uncle sam
should interest h'ma,lC 10 know
There 8, certainly aometlug wrou.
within the melting pot Uncle sam has
either allowed some unsuitable material
to get in or there is something wrong
with his way or smelling.
ADoLPH OPPEHHElM
NEW YORK. March 10
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14
HISTORY SET STRAIGHT.
Mr.. Cleyeland's Reply to an Appeal
In Tennessee Murder Case,

To TIE EDlToR OF TIE SuN--sfr: You
printed on March $ a letter on the con-
traSt between Presidents Cleveland aud
Wilson from Clarence T. Walker Of
Chattanooga, Tenn. which Is a curious
sample Of the inermities OF the human
memory | have no interest III reopen
Ing the subject other than that Of his
t0rical accuracy.
Your correspondent asserts that dur
ing the first term Of Grover Cleveland.
following a tragedy al Memphis, certain
correspondence ensued NOW this took
place. not in the first term. 1885 10 1889,
but in the summer Of 1892. when Mr..
Cleveland was making his third cam
paign for the Presidency.
Your correspondent says that Mrs.
King, the wife of the man convicted for
murder, addressed a pathetic letter TO
President Cleveland, vainly urging him
to exert his influence with the Governor.
This Is inaccurate. Mr. Cleveland wrote
TO Mrs King a letter. which he author
lied her TO show TO the Governor of
Tennessee. Receiving IT, he felt that he
could do nothing but extend clemency
TO the man awaiting execution
A brother OF the murdered man
promptly wrote to Mi Cleveland in
protest against what he regarded ~.
miscarriage OF justice due to the Inter
ference of a presidential candidate with
the affairs Of Tennessee. Mr.. Cleveland
retoined that II his candidacy interfered
with his answering the appeal OF n dis
tressed woman he woulG get out OF
politics, IA conclusion which evoked both
praise and censure.
RoRERr l.. O'BRrEE.
BosToN, March 10.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14
Creating Niagara Falls.

The project for control and storage
of the waters of the Colorado where
that river roars through the Grand
Canyon had Its origin with woman n,
Mrs. II. w. X. STRONG of California.
She points out three large economic
vnlues In her plan: 1t provides for
prevention Of the Uncomfortable
money damage" done by the annual
floods of the river, the use of the CON
trolled water for irrigating deserts,
(which will grow anything" and the
enormous hydroelectric energy which
could be developed from "a succession
of Niagara Falls" to be created by her
plan. Then she adds this thought:
Tho blasted rock is ready for the
builder without cost OF transporta-
tion. The dams will be narrow and
high, tied TO granite sides The sur
face of the river being raised to the
top OF theSdams. 1t becomes a NOV
Ing. living stream, life giving. and the
project, when completed the entire
length OF the canyon, would be more
than the eighth wonder of the world,
$50 miles of river from $50 to 1000
feet deep. interspersed with water
falls. Thus the scenic value Of the
canyon would be greatly increased"
No mere man engineer could be
more practical than Mrs. STRONG when
she IS talking economics. But would
any man have thought OF foreclosing
objections by societies for the preser-
walton OF scenic beauties? She had
them on her list OF obstacles, and dis
played feminine wit in dealing with
them before they could deal with her,
and showed woman's artistic touch at
the same time.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT
NIASIiATTAS

The H.mmine Birds History zone "'
cours" -u "Evo.utt1n'h, by Prot sam
uri e. schumacher, Pm. %. Of state Norlns
~cno.l West chester, Pa. Wad'eiEh High
: uoo., Ilith street west OF seventh ave
ua". s'"reoot'con vis"s.
Italy and tna world WSr," ny Harry c.
pstr-uarr, %. : IL. Broadway, Academy
-ir.at an. N,rmi,yea avenue, lnwood mo-
Armenia. Creek ana rurNlsh Muno, =
ny Arda she's H. Reolinn. editor Of the orr
entail monthly. =. 90, Eighty eiHh'h
j. 20 Rort" by Mrs Ellen KIRK
ununs. + = Il, lI7th street west q Sew
,u.r r~-rur. stereoprlcou Vows.
"rhr citizen In 'h~ Enforcement - the
loa. cont e eourse On America Wh.re
ll-ni. md Duties Me"t"p, by Prof WI
um L. Guthrie Of .. G. y. Y, =. \ TO-.
l.5'S~ r... east ~ Second avenue ~
rH" ronl,al nryciopmsnt or the Latin
Anger. 90 S.stcs" ~ Livingston r
SraN. ~ -. associate professor Of hts-
a-l wa lawur'H uvrnue.
"a Trip Through Mexico" by tho
You |"Hf' ls y. .i'Ni. Y. NJ &. a. kH ',
S'Ae Hc.n.h. Il East eighty sixth s,rsr.
steer 1r.i.cu yi'Ns
TIVE 1R0NN
Tho CouGrrs' { the oregon Country
rF Az.l Bull Flsh, E. ;. II. Fordharr
'tra't u"nr city Island avenue. CO
I..a.d. .."rrpp. ICON vows
.Il, OH MOHAWK Valley Wntrrwaysau
Oh" Ncw Dlrgs Canal" ny William r.
ios.or. g. : %, Anthony and Trtmon.
'suhtr. rir.s" b, charles L. EarrInr-
Ton - s so, BRYANT and vyse avenues
r.rth of l'.d sire t.
Sir Jamrs Rngrte." by Prof. j. g. Car.
3 f. I- "oods'oeS Branch, iSs East
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problem. A national society Is doing
oil 1t can to strengthen the stay ut
home cause, with excellent prospects
of achieving its purpose.
A similar movement is on foot in
Italy, where great numbers Of SOL
dlers are said TO be anxious to come
here. and the italian Government is
studying the situation carefully, plan.
ming to adopt n comprehensive and
effective scheme to conserve It's re-
sources of man and woman power.
Other nations may be at work on
similar projects, and the probability
Is that their effect will be greatly to
reduce the number of immigrants ar
irving here In the near future.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14

Authorities deserving Of respectful
regard assert that In the part Of New
Jersey affected by a trolleymen's strike
there are more golf links than in any
other territory of equal extent in this
country. But any one, with or with
out authority. who had opportunity to
observe can be believed when relating
that an astonishing number OF male
residents OF that territory. accustomed
to take trolley cars for a half mile ride
to their New York trains, used more
impolite language Of the crouch va
riety yesterday when they had to walk
that half mile than any OF them ever
used in walking the four or five miles
OF round over a golf course. True,
as the well known Swan o. Avon
sweetly sang. THE labor We delight in
physics pain"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14

KNOX Is one which he said might be
adopted 'if the people Of the United
States (not clamorous part of
them, hut n great majority desire
to establish n true league of nations
and nre willing to make sacrifices
for that purpose. The plan would
provide for an international court
with a code which would define war
and would discriminate between ag.
gressive and defensive war:
This code would also provide that
one nation could not summon an
other before the international court
except In respect TO matter of in
ternational and common concern TO
the contending nations. and that the
Jurisdiction OF the court would not
extend to matters OF governmental
policy, which would be excluded
from arbitration unless one OF the
disputing parties had by treaty or
otherwise given another country a
claim that might involve these sub
tects. Under such a code we would
not be called upon to arbltrate the
policy involved in our Monroe Doc
trlne; our conservation policy; our
immigration policy; our right TO ex-
pei aliens; our right to repel inva-
sion; our right to maintain military
and naval establishments, or coal
ing stations within our own borders
or elsewhere, as the protection and
development of this country might
demand; our right to make neces-
sary fertilization OF the Panama
Canal. or on our frontiers; our right
to discriminate between natives and
foreigners in respect TO rights OF
property and citizenship; and other
matters of like character"
The constitution proposed by Sen
ator KNOX would take in, not a few
of the civilized nations, but all OF
them, and yet it would not involve
America in the wars of Europe and
Asia, for 1t would put upon the ma
lions Of each hemisphere the duty OF
enforcing any decree against an Of
Tending Power of that hemisphere
1t would make America the police
man only of the western world.
And yet, as Mr.. KNOX remarked In
closing, these are not the problems
which now press urgently upon us.
Peace, immediate peace. is the thing
first to be obtained, for it is the
desire of the whole earth. Dealing
with the possibilities of the future
can wait. Dealing with the facts OF
to-day Is an instant duty. Until that
duty is accomplished the more DELHI
crate job Of providing for the con
tinuance of peace cannot he mp
preached in the right spirit. But lei
no blind follower Of Mr.. WILSON de-
lude himself into thinking that the
opposition to the Wilson covenant Il
merely destructive. That document
is not assailed because it is Mr.. VII.
SONS, but because it is wrong and
needs to be made right.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14

No heart so hard but II must soften
over the bitter homecoming OF Mr.
CREEL. Not until he arrived did he
learn that his own cable despatch filed
at Brest "for release in Washington
had go. all tangled up in the very
machinery for entangling other folks
dispatches he invented and installed.
and therefore the palpitating public
had been deprived OF the news OF his
coming. As II this were not more
than enough to worry body, there
upon the dock stood stern customs in
spectors who rudely insisted upon a
peek into the Creel baggage. although
Re told them. told them plainly. Il am
Mr. CREEL!"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14
Toxic Project includes subway Links
for Electric Line.

From ne East and west Eetos
A proposition 10 build elevated electric
railway lines In Toxic 70 relieve presen t
surface car congestion has been ad-
vanced by Tsurumatsu Toshinltsu and
Yo Kawada, according to the TOXIC
Nichi-ntch, An application for a per
nit has been filed with Governor Inouye
Of Toxic Fu CTokio Prcfecture). An
official in the construction department
Of the Toxic Flu government said The
application tor n permit to build Gle
yated electric railway lines Of high
speed provides for prosecution OF the
undertaking with n capital of $780,
900, 600, There Will be four lines IN tho
system. covering the city and suburban
districts, THE expenses OF building are
estimated at sl.500OOc a mile. 4 few
underground links are proposed. Tho
third rail Hystjm for power connection
will be used"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14
TAKES ST. A YEAR MEMS 81.
Internal Revenue Bureau to Take
TWO Months Pay.

WAsW%GroN, March lS--Du-,ng The
war the Government accepted the ser
Vices # nearly 1000 men and paid
them the uoni-al compensation. OF g. a
year To-day the dollar became YAK
ISSUE through ruling by the Internal
t''on1o bureau, that not only must the
collar De reported but that il Is taxable
u the total income from all sources Is
iu excess of the usual exemptions.
NJ 'st tar year men had private
r3cr""s ~ income above Ss,ooo, and n
these cases tho normal tax on the dollar
VIII be IL cents, or nearly two months
pay at the Government rata
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The Zoo.

A pair OF double eagles with
Their wings and tAlons clipped.
And every feather from their tough
And serRwny bodies stripped:
A drssSled turkey that no more
VIII swell and strut about
Because ono eye IL closed for good
And all his tail Is out.
A bear that draEs a broken chain
And packs an ancient trap
And leaves a trail OF blood and fur
Behind him on the map;
And goats for which Rumania
ls seeking pastures new
10! willy nilly, Uncle sam
Is keeper OF ZOO.
NINA IRyIhG
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14

Because OF the cessation OF HOSTILE
ties there will be dearth OF slogans
for the loan campaign next month.
Probably the truest and most appeal
ing would be: To make the Treasury
safe for Americans"
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The Right Man for the dob,

To THE EDrroR or. THE SUN--Si,, The
name Of Arthur p. Polite, real estate
Insurance and employment. OF Asbury
Park, ought On he inscribed high on the
roll OF the Hall of Fame S.
SoMERNIILF, n. j.. March H.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14

Numerically speaking. the prohibi-
tionists may have their eighteenth, the
President his thirteenth, but New York
at present is busily occupied with it's
Twenty and looking forward
10 the twenty fifth.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14

cess.
Bocker--Now for round dove.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14
The Te.t.

sultOr--i want 10 marry your daughter.
Fsther--Can you support her in a man
ner on which you can't figure out the in
come taxi
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14
The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.
standard Tune.
Sun rises. .....6:t1 AM Sun sets. ....6 m ? II
Moon sets..n.4 20 AZ

Standard Tune.
Sun rises. .... 6:1i NJ Sun sets. .....6 :0f 2 N
Moon sets. .....4: - a q
For eastern New York. cloudy to-day,
probably followed by rain on the coast
and rain or snow In interior tonight
and tomorrow; rising temperature to-
morrow; strong northeast winds.
For New. JERSEY. cloudy and colder ts.
day probably followed by r,J raj. nn,d 1o'nis"
For northern New England, fair and COM
tinued cold to-day; tomorrow partly
snow: strong north to east winds
For southern New Ehglnsd cloudy ana
colder to-day, tomorrow threatening with
For western New York. cloudy vita
probably snow to-day ana tomorrow
warmer tomorrow.
WASHINGTON. March 15.--An offensive
area OF high barometer has its crest Ina
medately south Of Hudson Bay and COW
era all the districts east OF tho line OF the
Mississippi River and the north central
states An area OF low barometer covers
the Rocky Mountain and Plateau regions
ana the Pacific states with the lowen
pressure distribution has been attended by
cloudness that covers all parts OF the
country except tho north border from Luke
Superior eastward and the south Rocky
rains west Of the Rocky Mountains and
local SHOWS In tho Missouri and upper Mis-
sissippl valleys. The temperature has
fallen decidedly in the northern states from
the Missouri Valley eastward TO New Eng
land and over the western plateau. Mia
weather continues throughout the southern
half Of the country east of the Rocky
Mountains. The outlook lie for cloudy and
unsettled weather over the states east o.
the Mississppi River during the next forty
eight hours with snow Friday and Satur-
day in the region OF the Great Lakes,
snow or rain Saturday in New England and
New York, and probably rain by Friday
night and Saturday 1 nthe middle Atlantic
States, the Ohio Valley. Tennessee and this
aHt Gulf states. The temperature will fall
Friday in southern New England tho mid
Ole Atlantic states and In the Ohio Valley.
It WITH rise Saturday in the region Of tbs
GreH. Lakes.
Storm warnings are displayed on the
Atlantic coast nj and north OF Sandy Hook
and on the California coast.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-14

Highest temperature. 50. at 1880 p NJ.
Lowest temperature. as. at 10 p. NJ.
Average temperature. ~,
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All Returns Must BE sworn To.

Returns where there are no pay
merts to be made may be fled al any
window between 638 and SAT. All returns
must be sworn to. All deputy collpc-
tors have power 70 take afHdavitS The
public will find a number on hand to
take their atiidavits without charge"
Little congestion ana little delay re
suited 10 individual taxpayers yestorJ al-
in spite OF the crowds which visited the
collectors offices. What Mr.. Edwards
calls his tutoring school" where the
various forms are explained and tax
payers are instructed In the r-orc,
methods Of ming them, was operating To
capacity.
In the Offices Of Collector Max E.srer
Of the Third district similar rush took
place
The Second 4 strict Offices I'm The Gus
tom House WI be open until midnight
to-day and Tomorrow
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Certified Checks Unnecessary.

should the AMOUNT paid under the
tentative return fail to equal the amount
which should have been paid for the
first quarter It must he paid AZ soon as
the final return IL made and with inter
at. il IS not necessary to use certified
checks in payments ade by mail"
While the law provide for n fine of
$1,000 and an aGdit onaI assessment of
20 per cent of the tx due for failure TO
make a return on tiue Collector Ed
wards wants II understood that persons
who communicate VITA him ana STATE
their reasons for failing to make a return
on time viii receive the greatest posi- Die
considerat on.
Collector Edwards gave these nstruc-
lions FOR taxpayers when they reach the
sixth floor Of the Custom House:
"Lf you haven't any blank form no 10
Room COS, whore you will be supplied.
and II in doubt get help on the return.
II You have your return made out
and check or money order to cover it
so 20 tho west corridor OF the building.
where cashiers wind 1ws are opened be
tween Rooms 63S and GA.
III you have cash to pay go to ;he
west corridor. 1t VII be received at
any of the windows between Gas and 645.