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utteranct as quoted BY Mr.. TAFT any

utterance as quoted by Mr.. TAFT any
evidence that Mr.. BEvERIDGE's insplra-
ton or thought bore the brand "made
In Germany" 1t would indeed be
necessary to close the eyes; necessary
to close them against the 0dmlss
of every particle Of light on the sub
ject In dispute. Only a man wilfully
blind to the facts IN the case, per-
versely blind to the natural and thor-
oughly respectable conception Of pub
lie duty and patriotic obligation that
lies behind Mr.. BEvERIDoE's words,
could see the legend Mr.. TAFT called
on his hearers to visualize.
Mr.. TAFT having advised his fellow
citizens to close their eyes to the facts,
and In the observation of the faculty
Of sight thus obtained to do a gross
injustice to Mr.. BEvERIDoE, THE SUN
takes the liberty of suggesting to Mr..
TAFT that he open his own eyes and
examine with particular care the stu
alton to which his activities as a par
tisan of the League Of Nations have
brought him. The trouble is that Mr..
TAI has kept his eyes shut too long
to the facts that are written big across
the face of the covenant of the League
Of Nations.
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The Mad wittelsbachs.

To the mad kings' of Bavaria
must apparently be added the last Of
the line the aged King LUDWIG III.
The former Bavarlan ruler has been
living In the Swiss mountains near
the headwate rs>of the Rhine, and, &C.
cordlng to a Geneva despatch, his in
sanity has appeared as megalo-
mania, a form In which mental dis
ease has manifested itself in other
members Of the Wittelsbach family.
OF LUDwIG's two immediate prede-
cessors on the throne, OTTo was prac-
tically a prisoner from the day he was
crowned to his death; LUDWIG H.,
after a reign marked by profiigate
extravaganza, was declared insane
and regent was appointed for the
kingdom. Bavaria was indebted to
mad LUDWIG for the magnificent "Ba-
varian Versailles" on an island in
the Chiemsee, and for that superb
reproduction Of a medieval castle the
new Schwanstein. But these build
ings and his other grandiose schemes
bankrupted the ruler and impover-
ished the national treasury.
Even In their severe struggle with
new conditions of government the
hard headed Bavarians may find n
reason for congratulation in the fact
that they are at least free from the
rule Of the mad kings which they have
been forced to endure for the past
century.
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Siberia. In any case It Is likely old
Ideas about Siberia will have to be
revised 1t Ia q land of hope, not the
land Of despair 1t was. The change
began before the war, and recent cir
cumstances have fastened the process.
OF the refugees many will return to
Russia when order Is restored, but
many others will remain to make new
homes for themselves and to develop
Siberia's resources, thus benefiting
themselves and the world.
While anarchy stlll exists in wide
areas of Siberia, and while many diff
ficult problems remain to be settled, a
promising start seems to have been
made on the road leading to pros
perity. Not the least remarkable fea-
ture Of the situation Is that Bolshe-
vism should have made little Roadway
In a land to which unnumbered thou
sands were exiled for their revolu-
tlonary opinions under the regime of
the Cars The explanation Is that
n large part Of the population con-
sists of small land holders, who are
naturally opposed to socialistic
schemes for the division of property.
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Daylight Saving scores = Point for
Reform in Congress.

BY the act Of the House Rules Com
mittee In refusing to permit the day
light saving repeater to ride into the
statute book on the agricultural ap-
preparation bill the project to erase
the enactment Is set on Its own feet,
and will stand or fall according to the
judgment of the Representatives and
Senators as to its merits. The de-
cision of the Rules Committee Is an
incident Of the application Of Its policy
to prevent legislation by riders on
appropriation bills, a policy in every
way admirable and worthy of strict
and impartial enforcement.
Had the daylight saving law repeal
bill been allowed to remain In the ag-
ricultural appropriation bill 1t might
have passed Congress because the ap-
preparations were urgently needed. or
because some member wanted seeds to
distribute to his constituents, or be-
cause the cotton boil weevil was de-
plorably active, or for any one of a
hundred reasons not even remotely as
ISOLATED with the setting ahead of the
hands on the clock dials Of the nation.
A great many more or less pernicious
enactments have got through Congress
in this way. 1t is high time to sup
press the practice and draw the ap-
preparation measures in accordance
with their titles.
The assallants Of daylight saving
must now put their contentious for
ward on their merits They cannot
hide behind the routine necessities Of
the Government. The supporters Of
the law can defend it without being
put in the position of opposing meas
ures whose enactment Is required by
the needs of the country. Under these
circumstances there should be little
difficulty In convincing Congress that
daylight saving is worth preserving
because 1t contributes to the wealth,
the health and the comfort of the
vast majority of Americans.
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TRADE BRIEFS.

Considerable importance is attached to
the recent purchase of twenty-five German
submarines by Messrs. q. Cohen Sons h
Co. OF London and Swansea. who will I'M
dertaks to break up these vessels and dis
pose OF tho scrap metal.
Previous 10 thA war matches wers i'm
ported into Egypt principally from Sweden,
Austria Hungary and italy. In 1918 Japan
uhioaded enough matches in Egypt to sup
ply the trade for several years.
The Colombian coffee harvest is tho
heaviest IN tho history OF the country.
being estimated at !. 250. 900 sacks. reports
Trade Commissioner p. ID. Bell.
The Bureau OF Fisheries reports that
during the month OF March . total of
4O5,l2T eggs. eI2.4b+. 500 fry and 17.oIl. o20
nngerlings were distributed by Its stations
The German toy Industry has been able
TO retain a hold on the toy trade in
Switzerland as we'll as In other neutral
countries. although the German prices on
an average have been raised 100 per cent.
Tho Finnish Chamber OF Commerce COM
prises seven local organizations. with head
once in Heisingfors. acting as a sort OF
arbitration committee and as a commercial
information bureau. Tho Central Cham
her OF Commerce gets a yearly state sub
sidy OF $4,000 Finnish marks. equivalent
to s6,755.
A report from China states that an In
crease of 10 per cent. over the previous
year in the total bean output OF Dairen
for 1918 Is reported by the Bean Mills
Union. The increase was due 10 the I'M
usual demand from America during the
last year of the war. and IL already show
ing sharp decline.
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TELESCOPE THE LEADER
Revolutionary Treatment Proposed
for Conductors Of Orchestras.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str: Now
that the operatic season is over. the
Metropolitan closed for months, and
discussion started of the musical ability
and money making power Of the or
chestral directors. II seems to me that
1t would be in order to suggest a reform
In the tactics of the leader OF the or
chestra. and initiating such reform I
suggest that instead of standing up with
his back to the audience and going
through the customary motions. the
leader sit in the place whero he now
stands and become part OF the or
ckestra, and lead without the audience
being compelled to centre their gaze
upon one going through rapid calls
thenic exercises.
1t is we'll known that the great leader.
Anton Seidl. many times led his or
chestra in the manner ! suggest. and
II was great relief. as well as an
exhibition OF the perfect control under
which he held his musicians. There Is
nothing more distressing to an audience
than being compelled to watch the
leader as he stands in his pivotal POSI-
ton and to rivet attention on his antics.
We do not 20 to the opera or to a
concert to watch the varying methods
used by the directors in leading the or
chestra. hut we are compelled by their
present methods to lose the best part
OF an evening In observing the symmetry
OF their backs and the grace or lack of
grace OF their bodily exercises.
believe that a majority OF those
who are members OF the orchestra are
as well versed in the technique OF music
as their leader, and that they do not
require him to stand up befors them as
though they were a lot OF schoolboys,
and I am sure they would be more COM
plimented. and / am positive the audi
ence would be more grateful. as we'll as
the artists on the stage. to the operate
management. II It would telescope the
leader. JuDEx-
New YORK May 20.
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A Strong Candidate Found In the
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Ex-President Taft should Open His
Own Eyes.

In his Jealous advocacy of the
League of Nations ex-Presldent TAFT
has committed himself to number of
declarations completely foreign to the
judicial temperament and likely TO
cause him considerable embarrass-
ment when he quits the stump and
again installs himself in the now
somewhat agitated but soon to be
calm academic halls that constitute
his scholastic headquarters In the
city of New Haven.
None of these heated lapses from
the high plane on which Mr.. TAFT
would naturally desire to have dis
cussion Of a problem of statecraft
proceed has been more singular than
his attempted refutation of an argu-
ment against the league put forward
by ex-senator BEvERIDGE, paraphrased
by Mr.. TAFT in this form:
"Mr. TAFT quoted Mr. BEyERIDGE as
having said that the world was SO
much indebted to the United States
that for the benefit OF the world the
United States could not afford to give
up her right to conquer"
Replying to this, Mr.. TAFT said in
Indianapolis on Thursday:
"Close your eyes for a moment
and you will see a label in the shin
ing light bearing che words Made in
Germany"
To discern IN Senator BEyEHrpaE's
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SHERMAN AND BORAH
BAIT GREAT BRITAIN
Want Mail Censorship Ended
and Audience Giuen Irish.
Special Despatch 10 TIE srn.

WASHINGTON, May 29.-The British
censorship of mails and Ireland were the
subjects OF resolutions introduced in the
Senate to-day intended to express Sena-
torlal opinion Of some phases of inter-
national relations that just now COM
mand so largely the attention of that
body.
Senator Sherman (IlL) introduced a
resolution expressing the sense of the
Senate that "the continued censorship of
malls by Great Britain is no longer re-
quired by conditions OF war and that
such censoring Is largely now for the
acquisition Of business and commercial
knowledge OF American competitors;
that II is the sense OF the Senate that the
British authorities be requested to dis
continue such censoring OF mails coming
from England to reputable business
houses in the United States"
Senator Borah Udaho) introduced a
resolution that the American Peace Com
mission in Paris be requested to obtain
for the Irish representatives a hearing
in the Peace Conference. Mr.. Borah will
speak on the resolution later; for the
present 1t has gone, as did the other
two, to the Foreign Relations Committee,
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miles and READ's Of 1910 were real
steps in science as we'll as.courageous
adventures. When It was reported
the report having since been denied
that their records were beaten
few days later by the Frenchman
Lieutenant ROGET In a nonstop flight
Of 1896 miles from France to Africa
nobody derided ROGET because most
Of his voyage was over the land.
The implied suggestion Of HAwKER
that the Americans feat is negligible
because they had some protection Is
of n piece with laughing at a ma
chinist because he wears goggles or
at an electrician because he puts on
rubber gloves when he handles wires.
There is vast difference between
the courageous and the foolhardy /;
between DR.. JAMES CARROLL, submit
ting himself to the bite Of mosquito
carrying yellow fever, and Mr.. STEVE
BRoDIE, jumping Off Brooklyn Bridge.
Mr.. BRoDIE proved only that he was
up to the feat. In the same way,
while the American alrmen, taking
advantage Of all precautions-yet I'M
dergoing, in the case of TOWERS and
his men, more hardship than HAwKER
experienced-proved exactly what
they set out to demonstrate-the gen.
eral utility Of the scaplane In the air
and on the water-HAwKER proved
nothing except his unflinching brav-
cry. For this the world has given
him due credit. AS for his lack of
gradousness, he is young and per
haps Of temperament to which fail
ure is more bitter than death. He
would better have remembered what
Lord NoRTHcL1FFE philosophlcally re-
marks, that the Americans have still
left to Britain the problem Of a d.
rect flight from America to Europe.
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LOUIS THE RESIGNED.
Walt whitman's Fate May Be Par.
alleled by His Own Yet.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: In
THE SUNS book section q poet COM
plains concerning the lack OF contem-
porary war poetry. He says that Whit
mans apostrophes In our civil war
could be fittingly used to-day. There
he is wrong. The recent war was not
civil-!t was world wide. Perhaps Walt
would have sought in vain for adequate
expression to treat such a wide subject.
Anyhow. 10 my knowledge a goodly
number OF war poems have beensprinted
in the papers. Many OF them very fine,
Individual, some quite beautiful Then
why complain? Sure. they were not
written In waits style. Why should
they2 Why initiate a poets manner
isns? BE original. we poetsl
He forgets that all the war express
sions that whitman wrote were never
read at the time save by ten or twelve
friends. He could not find even a pub
Usher for them. All magazines rejected
them. Vide his DIARY" Now. had
Walt lived during the world war. It
seems TO me his poems would have been
rejected to-day as they had been re-
jected In 1875.
To tell the truth have written a
few myself, All were rejected save
three. two OF which THE SUN printed.
The best ones OF some length were re-
turned. As soon as possible 1 shall
follow Waits lines and have them pub
lished. And maybe after I have passed
to the Beyond some acclaim may be
mine. just as Whitman receives his,
twenty years after his death. The irony
OF II all
Great poetry must be concise: ex-
press In one line pictures. dramas and
sentiments. Shakespeare. Milton, Dante
and Homer were great.
LOUIS NJ EuSHEMIus,
Supreme Spirit of the Spheres.
NEW YORK, May 20.
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TRUCKS FREE TO STATES.
10000 of War Departments Sur
plus for Highway Work,

More than s45.OOO,OO worth OF motor
trucks are about to be distributed by
the Secretary of Agriculture through the
bureau of public roads to the State
highway departments, These trucks hav.
been declared surplus by the War De-
partment and are being distributed to the
States under the provisions OF section 7
or the Post ONCE appropriation bill.
They must be used by the States on
roads constructed in whole or in part
by Federal aid. for which 5000. 0oO, ooo
In addition 10 the former appropriation
was given TO the States under the same
bill. All that the Statey need do 10
acquire the use OF these 10000 trucks.
which range In capacity from two 10
hve tons, is TO pay the loading and
freight charges
OF the 10000 motor vehicles TO be sc-
quired practically free by the States IL
600 are new and 5000 are used hut
these latter ara in servlceable condition,
The motors will be apportioned to States
only upon request OF the State highway
departments.
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STATE INCOME TAX
BLANKS BEING SENT
Special Provisions Made for
Non-Residents.
Special D.spotch IN Tvr c,v

ALBANY, y. Y. May 29.-The first Of
the series OF blanks being prepared un.
der the direction of State ComptroIler
Eugene NJ. Travis to enforce the state
income tax was issued to-day. II con-
sists OF form to be filed out by all
wage earners in the State who claim
residence in New York State and must
be filed with the employers, who are re-
CURED to deduct 2 per cent. or the wage,
commissions, emoluments or perquisites
of all non-residents IN order to lnsurs
collection of the income tax from them
Those who NIL out the blank declare
that Il have no definite intention as Il
when or at alb l will establish INV
home without the state, and that II
decide to establish my home without
the state. or at another place within
the State. will promptly give you no
tice OF the fact and my new residence
address"
Non-residents of tho State are no,
entitled to tho exemptions OF $1,000 for
single persons and $4,000 for married
persons allowed to residents of the Stat
OF New York.
These blanks are ready for distrihu
ton at the State Comptrolers office I'm
New York city and In Albany. quar-
ter million OF them have been printed.
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WARS SADDEST SIGHT.
A Pipe Smoking Reformer Tells About
the Awful Cigarette.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: The
stage IL all set for a big drive for the
Nineteenth Amendment TO the American
Constitution. May l not issue a clarion
call TO the A. E f.. one of whom I
was. to abolish once and for all the
deadly cigarette? l am a pipe smoker
and know all about cigarettes.
The saddest thing in the war was to
see the flower Of our youth putting Gig
arettes while awaiting the fatal order.
Think OF appearing before the Judgment
Seat with the smell of nicotine on ones
breath!
Comrades. although too late to vote
against Demon Rum. let US at least
down the iothal cigarette. Then we
must put through the Twentieth Amend
n:ent against profanity and the Twenty
first against Irritation.
On. Stanley. on
RICHARD p. READ.
NEW YORK, May 20.
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As We Pay Honor to the Dead.

In France, in England, in Italy, in
Belgium, in Siberia, in Russia In Eu-
rope there are new made graves to
be decorated to-day. In the bosom of
the deep our soldiers and sailors sleep
their long sleep. Wherever the Amer
lean Gag flies in this country and Its
possessions there are families from
which men went forth at the call Of
their country, quick to their duty,
never to return. Decoration Day,
rich in historic meaning and lofty
sentiment, has in 1919 deeper sig
nificance for all of us than 1t has
ever had before.
The nation will do less than JUS
tice to Its dead If on this occasion It
does no more than give testimony to
It's sorrow for their passing and the
honor and gratitude in which 1t holds
their memories.
Deep in the consciousness of every
American lies the accusing knowledge
that many of these brave were sacri-
htCu bCtduSC lhclI Ou
them to make good by their strength,
their native wit, their unmeasured
valor the deficit Of training and
equipment mistaken national policy
imposed on them. No man can read
the record Of the struggle in which
their blood was cheerfully given with
out uneasy recognition Of the fact
that years Of tolerance Of a make
shift military policy cost us in the
crisis heavy toll Of lives No man
can survey the history of the two
years now closing without being i'm
pressed with the monumental errors
that made hard task harder, a war
inevitably costly in human life more
costly than it might have been.
1t does not bring comfort to the
parents whose son is gone, to the
child whose father is no more, to the
wife whose husband will never return
again to be told that when the war
ended We were getting in a position
TO arm and protect our soldiers as
they should have been armed and pro-
tected when they went out to battle
1t does not bring comfort to any
American, man or woman, to be told
that at the end Of the conflict we
were where We should have been in
armament and methods when the con-
fiict opened. 1t reflects only dis
credit on our public policy that not
until we declared war on Germany
did we begin to provide for the men
to whom the command and supply
of our forces abroad and at home was
to fall the opportunities they had
diligently sought for years to prepare
themselves more thoroughly for their
tremendous task.
These things no sane patriot can
erase from his mind to-day as his
heart fills with sorrow for the dead
and sympathy for the bereaved. We
owe to the living and to generations
yet unborn the correction of our pol
icy and the avoidance of a repetition
Of the errors Of the past.
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Socialism's Dullest Side.

Mr.. HANFoRD HENDERSON, with
drawing from publication socialistic
book written by himself, announces
that he NOW sees that Government
ownership and interference, and pa
ternalism generally, are contrary to
the highest social welfare, and tend
to make a people inefficient, unjust
and singularly uninteresting."
The first two counts of the indict-
ment, inefficiency and injustice, need
hardly be taken into the court of
American public opinion. After the
experience Of the United States with
Government control Of railroads and
wires the verdict Is unanimous
against socialism, no matter how 1t
may be disguised.
That socialism is "singularly unin-
teresting" Is the point which appeals
most to the imagination, although 1t
is the point which the socialists seem
never to consider. The Individual
human has always been the most IN
teresting of visible things, whether
he or she Is on the earth, In the air
or under the sea In the subway or
on the battlefield or in the cradle.
This country raised twenty billions
or so for war because each and every
John Smith felt that the war would
be lost If he, John Smith, did not dig
deep in his pocket. We fed Europe
because each American on, going to
his meals found his conscience sit
ting on his plate.
The singularly interesting thing
about the slngularly uninterestingness
of socialism Is that the nearer. that
method of government got to the per-
lection its followers promise for it
the duller and more deadly existence
would be. When individualism at
last was locked up in a MARKHAM
tomb with the corpse Of ambition
life would be as stupid as last years
telephone book.