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silly Talk About lee.

There Is no reason why anybody
should get excited about the shortage
of ice for New York city. 1t may
cause some inconvenience and perhaps
little discomfort, but II isn't going
10 make anybody sick or impair any
body's health II the public keeps its
head and officials and unofficial ward
ers of our physical, mental and moral
wellbeing refrain from hysteria. This
is a good deal to ask Of them; PHILIP
BERoLZHEIMER, the City Chamberlain
and chairman of the Mayor Hylan
Ice Committee" is already talking
about the vital Importance" of ice
and menacng US vaguely with the
vast police powers Of the Board OF
Health"
1t Is vitality important that there
should be sufficient refrigerator space
properly cooled for the preservation
Of foodstuffs. There will be plenty of
refrigerator space properly cooled to
preserve the stocks Of food on which
the city depends. The hospitals will
have ice. The milk dealers will have
ice. The markets will have ice. II
householders are obliged to do without
the quantities Of ice they have been in
the habit of consuming to provide ice
for the dealers in food who must have
1t for the general good, they may be
uncomfortable, but they won't suffer
more than they can endure.
Ice Is a luxury for most city dwell.
ers. Many Of them think 1t IS ne,
cessary because they have been accus
toned TO use large quantities Of it.
Actually they can get along very well
without 1t. They need not buy perish.
! able foods in large quantities; most OF
them do not, ice or no ice. They can
| drink water from the tap without
fatal results. IL Is not essential tc
| human health. or even TO human hap
pIness, that chunks OF ice should be
drinks so many persons like. This vii.
sound Ike revolutionary doctrine tC
many thousands Of New Workers. but
it is not. Millions and millions Of hu
man beings living in climates as try
ing as that OF New York have lived
and do live contentedly without any
thing like the quantity Of Ice some OF
US have been taught was essential &c
our welfare.
If New York can't keep its ict
boxes as cool this summer as II wants
TO. at least 1t can keep its head cool
That will help a great deal.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
On the Changing Of Principles.

Our esteemed Canadian contempt
rary the AaH and Empire OF Toronto
has been moved by Mr.. WILSON'S re-
cent speeches, particularly those
which he delivered in Belgium, to at
tribute TO him a certain lack Of per-
sIstency in his alleged convictions.
The Hal and Empire says:
Consistency. it mus, be admitted.
IL not one OF the virtues of President
WILSON, and on more than one occa-
sion he has been twitted with having
changed his opinions and even his
principles. with 10 explanation or
apology"
Something Of the same sort has
been observed by Mr.. WILSON him
self; and semi-explanation or semi
apology was once pronounced by him
in the course OF an address delivered
in this town seven or eight years ago.
He said:
! The man who cannot change his
mind gives evidence OF profound ig-
norance-lf your mind doesn't change
when the world changes. you are no
longer in harmony with the world.
I'm willing to leave things alone il
you will guarantee that can go to
bed and find them the same in the
morning"
Almost any real philosopher could
point out bllndfold the falIacy IN this
attempted apology for wabbling with
regard to principles.
. Z 1t is one thing 10 change ones
mind in order To bring it honestly
into harmony with new conditions OF
fact. 1t is another and a different
thing to change ones avowed princi-
pies in order to bring the new condi-
lions OF fact into convenient accord
with a personal and seIf-determined
purpose which is anterior to and quite
independent Of either the discarded
set Of principles or the newly adopted
eset of principles.
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ways an important factor In building
operations, cannot now provide the
capital. The insurance companies can
not provide IL. The trust estates, the
large personal and family fortunes,
which generally go into real estate in
vestments, cannot provide 1t. The
surplus funds that otherwise would
have been building tens Of thousands
Of houses and apartments were trans
lated from that normal investment
into the United States Treasury and
thereafter devoured by war. Where
fore no house building then or now
insufficient dwelling places in the pres
ent and In the future.
As 1t is with the homes that need
to be built but cannot be built for hack
OF free capital, 50 will 1t be when new
railroads need to be thrown across the
country, when new coal mines need TO
be developed to drive the trainloads of
production and to heat the dwelling
places Of the workers. SO will 1t be
when capital in huge bulk is needed in
various other fields which must be
worked more and more IL the Ameri-
can people are to continue In the we,-
fare and prosperity which have been
their happy lot.
Nobody is going TO weep his eyes
out when the abnormally fat corpora
ton pays its full share of taxes. No
body is going to feel sorry for the
very rich man who Is required to do
the same thing. Nobody Is going to
lift a voice of protest against the
sound, adequate taxation OF every
body and everything that can pay
taxes TO clear the debts and meet the
current expenditures OF the Govern
ment. But sooner or later everybody
is going to regret-and@ bitterly re-
gret-the extreme taxation policy
which will swallow the surplus in
comes and profits and annIhilate
the surplus capital which are as es-
sential to the building Of vast works
for a great people-as essential to
their progress, as essential to their
protection from dry rot. as undried
springs are to the streams that water
the fields and as fertile soil Is 70 the
planted wheat from which comes
mans daily bread.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02

Byrons OF the desk and counter.
pass on. and let US see what kind Of
men those are behind you; those two
laborers in holiday clothes of whom
one carries in his hand a crumpled
spell out hard name. while the other
looks about for ii on all the doors
ard windows.
Irishmen both. You might know
them, II they were masked, By their
long tailed blue coats. and bright
buttons. and their drab trousers
which they wear like men we'll used
10 working dresses, who are easy in
no others. II would be hard TO keep
your model republics going without
the countrymen and countrywomen OF
those two laborers. For who else
would dig and delve and drudge. and
do domestic work and make canals
and roads and execute great lines Of
internal Improvement. Irishmen both,
and sorely puzzled. too, 20 find out
what they seek. Let us go down and
help them, for the love Of home. and
that spirit OF liberty which admits Of
honest service to honest men, and
honest work for honest bread, no mat
ter what 1t be.
That's Well We have got at the
right address at last, though it is
written in strange characters truly,
and might have been scrawled with
the blunt handle OF the spade the
writer better knows the use sot than a
pen. Their way lies yonder, but what
business takes them there? They
carry savings: to hoard up? No.
They are brothers, those men. One
crossed the sea alone. and working
very hard for one half year. and liv-
ing harder. saved funds enough to
bring the other out. That done. they
worked together side BY side, con-
tentedly sharing hard labor and hard
living for another term, and then their
sisters came, and then another
brother. and. lastly. their old mother.
And what now? Why. the poor old
crone is restless in a strange land, and
yearns TO lay her bones. she says,
among her people in the old grave
yard at home: and so they go to pay
her passage back. And God help her
and them, and every simple heart, and
all who turn to the Jerusalem OF their
younger days. and have an altar fire
upon the cold hearth OF their fathers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
SAVING MOUNT MARCY.
Its Name and Its Forests Should Be
Preserved by the state.

To THE EpIToR OF THE suN-Sir. Your
editorial article Hands on Mount
Marcy is timely.
The only hands that should be put
on Mount Marcy and all the other beau
t!ful mountains In that group are the
hands OF the State TO own and preserve
them.
There has already been too much cut
ting on and about those noble old land
marks. Too many hands have been
busy destroying their beauty and much
Of their usefulness. II takes many long
years to replace a forest, and only a few
years TO remove the native trees that
adorn the mountains and hold back the
flow OF water The name OF Marcy
should not be changed, only the tide
should be changed to the State Of all
these mountains where II is not owned
by the State. J. S. WHIPPLE
ALBANY. July l.
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ment declared that the men, at least
for a brief time, refused to obey. and
that the men also said that general
mutiny" might soon come.
What the members Of this regiment
Of Michigan selective service men may
rot know is that many, II not most,
Of the newspapers Of the United States
while printing the facts as the War
Department made them appear to be,
commented on the soldiers action in
most sympathetic way, and par
ticularly called attention to the I'M
wisdom Of sending to Russia men who
were drafted for a war against Ger
many and Of keeping them there,
without explanation, long after the
armistice.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
Surplus Capital Drafted Away From
the Public's Needs.

Revenue law amendments are COM
mendable when they eliminate petty
and vexatious taxes which give trou-
bic enough TO the Government and to
the public but yield little enough to
the Treasury. The Congress leaders
make no mistake when they seek to
get rid OF such tax pests. But those
who propose, like Representative Nc
LAUGHLIS of Nebraska, 10 replace the
eliminated excise rates with very
much higher income faxes and Inheri-
lance taxes, would better have a care
as 10 what they may do TO the enter
prise, expansion and velocity OF the
country's industry and business.
One does not have to hold a brief
for corporations TO realize that If all
their surplus earnings are gobbled up
by the tax gatherer they must run
10 the banks every time they need
capital 10 build n new plant, even to
put new roof on an old one. One
does not have to feel commiseration
for the rare individual with an in
come Of a couple of million dollars a
year to comprehend that II the tax
collector takes the greater part Of it
away from him, not merely is his in
centive to go into new activities stihed,
but his ability 10 do 50 Is shackled.
He will not have the surplus capital
TO search for new oil fields in the des-
erts and new mines in the wilderness.
He will not have the surplus funds tn
risk as a gamblers chance In back
ing other new ventures.
One Of the dangerous troubles with
excessive taxation Is that 1t abb
serbs the surplus capital with which
all new and often doubtful ventures
must be promoted, all old things made
fresh, made bigger, made more pro-
ductlve, made more useful 10 a coun-
try ami To It's people.
At this very moment there Is a
striking example, coming home to hun.
dreds Of thousands OF American peO-
pie, OF what discomfort and hardship
can be caused by the shOvellIng Of
pretty much all surplus earnings, sur,
Plus profits, surplus capital, into the
national Treasury. We refer to the
country's actual restitution of houses
for our people 10 live In.
Hundreds and hundreds of millions
Of dollars are needed to put roofs over
the heads OF families clamOring here
there and everywhere for the shelter
OF homes But the savings banks, al
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
COCKTAILS FOUND
CHAOS IN BUREAUS
War Work Lacked Coordina-
ton, He Testifies.
Special Despa.cA TO THE suv.

WAsHISGToS, July 1.-The end OF the
usefulness OF the purchasing functions
OF the Council Of National Defence. 50
far as the War Department was con-
cerned. came about in March, 1918,
when MajorGen. George w. Goethais
took charge OF the Quartermaster De-
Dartment. the canal builder told the
committee investigating war expend-
lures to-day.
Chaos existed in the War Department
when he took hold in the matter OF get
ting supplies to the armies overseas, he
said. Gen. Goethals found five different
grand divisions in the War Department,
all working without reference 70 one an
other in the purchase Of supplies. Each
had control OF the inland transportation
of goods from the factories to the sea-
board, but none had any connection with
the embarkation bureau.
This resulted. the witness said in the
p.ling Up OF vast stores OF supplies on
t-e docks. Storage or ships were lack
ing and vast waste and endless contI-
sion resulted. To correct this situation
Gen. Goethals said he took over all these
bureaus and coordinated them into one.
the division OF purchase, storage and
traeic,
He stipulated when he took cha -Ee.
tho General said. he must have a free
hand in the conduct Of the Quartermas-
ter's Department This was granted.
For almost a year after the 6eclara-
ton Of war the Quartermaster's Depart
men had been in a state OF chaos the
General declared, although there existed
ample authority to organize in the way
he finally did upon assuming the off'ce
after Quartermaster-G Sharp had
been transferred 10 the War Council
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
SAYS TINOC0 IS NEAR FALL.
broadway Merchant Tells of Con,
dItIOna in Costa Rica.

F. S. Sisterman, merchant Of so Broad
way, who arrived yesterday by the
United Fruit steamship Tlvives from
Port Limon. said the Tinoco Government
OF Costa Rlca was on its last legs and
that Tiuoco. whom the United States
has never recognized, could not hold
his Job much longer.
An attempt on the lie OF Benjamin
F.. Chase, American Consul at San Jose
had been made on Friday, June 90 by
a Government policeman. Mr.. Chase told
Mr. Sis,erman that the Costa Roan cor
stood across from Mr.. Chases porch and
fred three times at him. one bullet
passed through his clothing, another
went wild and the third struck hear the
door Mr.. Chase remarked serenely Il
the merchant: Things are getting very
interesting here"
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The fact that the American officer
stood this ordeal without ninching is
no reason to minimize its seriousness,
army men say. and there - a natural
inquiry as 10 whether the Japanese
Government intends 10 mete out proper
punishment 10 the officials GU ~ OF
these threats and attacks again. a
Captain OF the United States Arm
The case OF Corporal de Coriova q $50
calls for some further action than A
mere apology, II Is explained Investl-
CATION shows that the action OF the
Japanese was without precedent in this
case because the American corporal was
at his post OF duty trying to restore
order when he was attacked without
provocation. Although it was realized
that he was an American officer serving
as part OF the provost guard. the Japa-
nese struck him over the head. dis
armed him and then added 70 his hu-
initiation by placing him under arrest
The American officials are in a posi-
ton definitely TO place the blame FOR
these acts on specific Japanese indivld-
uals, but there is nothing so far TO show
that Japan is willing 10 punish them.
Gen. Kamel in rendering his Official
apology 10 Col, Wilder. who was in COM
mand Of the Fifteenth Infantry. refers
to Corporal Rohner when he says: 7
also have the honor to communicate to
you my deep regret FOR the pos Bile lack
OF friendliness and caution on the part
Of the japanese. even though in the
midst OF confusion, in treating the
wounded American soldier on the same
night"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
Huxiey's Love of Truth.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-sir: About
the time Mr. Roosevelt went to Africa
I had some correspondence with him
concerning the Life and Letters OF
Professor Thomas II. Huxley. In let
ter to me Mr.. Roosevelt wrote beneath
the typewriter part of the letter this
glowing tribute TO the great agnostic
Il do not know when l have enjoyed a
biography better. What splendid love
of truth the man had -
Professor Huxley's wife said he was
almost beside himself on the subject OF
truth. ARLINGTON II CARMAN.
PATCHo0UE, July /.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
OIL PROBLEMS UNSoLvED,
Mexican Emissary Says American
Rights VIII be Considered.

No settlement has been reached in tho
problems involving American oil proper
ties in Mexico during the week that Gen.
Candide Agu!lar, Minister OF Foreign
Affairs In the Mexican Cabinet has
spen; here. so he announced yesterday.
He will sail for P-ris to-day on Ia
Touraire Of the French Line
The matter - now waiting for re-~
luton before the Mexi>an Congress. %
said Ger Agu!lar. 1T is my personal
opinion ths the Congress Will issue A
Just and equitable law, in which a~v
rights Of the companies will be carefully
raken into consideration"
Gen AEuilar denied reports that he
had conferred with the oil interests here
He is son-!n-law OF President Cs--
rama. and, according TO otlcial infor-
nation received In Washington. he was
empowered 10 make any agreement, nee
sssary TO effect a settlement Of the ell
question.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
Fires End with Armistice.

The Rev. George Stone, Baptist mis-
sionary, who arrived yesterday from
Cuba by the Aunson liner Munamar,
said there had not been a single cane
plantation fire in the island since the
signing OF the armtsuce and that II had
been a common occurrence before that,
This cessation OF incendiarism, he said,
was naturally attributed 10 the stimuli
taneous ending OF German propaganda
There were large numbers OF Germans
In Cuba and some OF them had been
pretty busy doing unlawful things for
their imperial master, William Hohen-
Eollern.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
So Long. AmOntiilado.

Well. so long, Amontillado.
You sure had a golden hsart;
You could oil the world with sunshine
And you always played your part.
Glowing palaces and princes
Oh. the songs you made US sing;
Chapel bells and bursting sunsets.
All. the dazz!ing dreams you'd bring.
You were life and love and Laughter.
There was magic in your zpell,
But they say you blazed the pathway
That led to the Gates OF Hell.
But how could we forget you-
You made the sunshine start
You were much like molten topaz
And always played your part.
sEAIuEI LAWRENCE
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
JAPAN'S APOLOGY
HELD INADEQUATE
[. s. May Exact Reparation
for Tientsin Attacks Of
Last March.
WOULD PUNISH GUILTY
Treatment Of ROhner Deemed
Worse Than "Possikso
Cnfriendliness."


WASHINGTON, July 1.-JaPan's apol-
ogy to the United States for the attacks
on American soldiers and the affronts
offered American officials at Tientsin,
China. March IL last will not be suf-
ficient to satisfy the American Govern
meut. This was made clear to-day by
Acting Secretary OF State Phillips. who
said the question was still not settled
despite the apology.
Mr.. Phillips declined to discuss the
case for publication, but the understand
ing here Is that the japanese Govern
ment must go further than merely apol-
ogtZe and must take steps to punish the
guilty japanese officials and make rep
aration for the serious wounding OF Joe
Rohner. an American corporal OF the
Fifteenth Infantry, who. according to Of
hcial army reports. had his left leg
completely paralyzed as the result Of a
bayonet stab at the base OF the spine,
severing the nerves controlling that
limb"
Two other offences which may have to
be dealt with by Japan concern the
threats and attacks made by the Japa-
nese on Capt Roy H Higgins OF the
Fifteenth Infantry, and the deliberate
aHront to the uniform OF the United
States Army involved in the arrest OF
Corporal De Cordova of the American
provost guard by Japanese. Apologies.
even though couched in language of re-
pentance. are not sufficient TO make
amends for specific acts such as these, it
is explained.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02

: lhht concentration protects both
coasts, division exposes both" In his
retrospect Upon the Japan-Russian
war written in 1906, the late Ad-
miral MAHAy pointed out how Rus
sla weakened her naval power by hav-
Ing one part Of her feet In the Baltic,
another at Port Arthur and another
at Nladivostok. The principle Of the
united fest. he argued, sis precisely
the same, III application as well as in
principle, with the Atlantic and Pa
CHIC coasts of the United States. Both
are exposed. Neither need be more
exposed than the other; for, in virtue
OF our geographical position relatively
TO the other great Powers Of the
world, 1t is not the momentary loca-
tion OF the fleet, but It's simple exist
ence, adequate in numbers and eff
cheney, and concentrated in force,
which protects both coasts. Any in
vader from the one side or the other
must depend upon sea communlca-
lions to support his army throughout
the war; not merely for the three
months needed to bring the United
States feet from one side to the other.
But IL the war begins with the feet
divided between the two oceans, one
half may be overmatched and de-
stroyed, as was that of Port Arthur
and the second on coming prove IN
equal to restore the situation, as be-
fell RozHEsTvESsKY. 1t Is OF
vital consequence to the nation Of the
United States that Its people. contem-
plating the Russo-Japanese naval war,
substitute therein, In their apprehen-
sion Atlantic for Baltic and Pacific
for Port Arthur. So they will COM
prehend as well as apprehend."
In this same study MAHAS writes
that twenty years previously he had
quoted from q French authority the
axiom that naval strategy is as nee
essary in peace as in war" But what
We are witnessing now in this crea-
ton OF two real fleets in the Atlantic
and Pacific, real In the sense Of being
more adequately proportioned from
battleshlp TO auxiliarles than any
thing the navy knew before the war,
may not be the naval strategy of
peace but the political strategy Of a
prediction period. For years the
Pacific States have argued their need
OF more ships to protect that coast.
Since his party has its back against
the wall for the coming Presidential
| campaign, what Is more natural than
for Daniels TO overlook the preach.
ing OF Mahan and play the obvious
card Of giving the Pacific coast States
the naval protection" they have
asked for? 1t was with prophetic
vision that MAHAS wrote: "To an
instructed. thoughtful naval mind in
the United States there is no contln-
gency affecting the country. as inter.
ested in the navy, so menacing as the
fear of popular clamOr influencing ar
irresolute or militarily ignorant ad
ministration to divide the battleshir
force into two divisions, the Atlantic
and the Pacific"
Popular clamor in the Pacific coast
States has had It's way at last. MAHAS
is dead. But votes are living things
whose potential force are Of more con,
sequence to a "militarily ignorant ad
mInistration" than axe the needs OF
naval strategy even as expounded by
a great and loyal master Of that art.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
HAMEL CHIEF LEAGUE LAWYER
Dutch Professor Accepts Invitation
TO Take Legal Post.

THE HAGUE, July PROF J. A Van
Hamel. the Dutch publc.st and authority
on law, vii! become head OF tae lrEa.
department Of the Secrstariat o. Ias
League Of Nations. II was announced e..
day.
Prof Van Hamsel is taxing the posi-
tion at the request OF Sir James Fri,
Drummond. Secretary General Of tAs
league
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
Lunar procrastInauon! The moon
won't be full for two weeks yet!
Indian joe"
From the PaImy-u Spectator.

Joe Douglas. an Old halfbreed Indian
who has made his home in Hannibal for
many years, was in Palmyra this week
I, is popularity believed hat Joe Is the
original Indian Joe" whom Mark Twain
made famous In Tom Sawyer" II this
is correct. the celebrated humorist took
unwArrauted liberties, for Joe has always
been a quiet. inoffensive fellow instead OF
the vicious, cold blooded person the book
makes him out. and his chief concern in
ufs Just now Is to stralEhien out his title
20 some land in Hannibal.