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FAR NORTH FLOWERS.
Thousands Of Acres In Bloom, Yet No
Perfume.
Prom the London Tt.Bits.

\ That one should md sweet blossoms
in the ice bound, dreary wastes of the
North seems incredible. 1t is, neverthe-
less, a fact that there the explorer has
found many thousands of acres OF but.
tercups, heather. bluebells, dandellons
and rhododendrons.
1t is a verltable garden on top of the
earth, a land OF exquisite beauty az sea-
sons as well as of midnight suns. June
brings the first warm. bright rays OF the
sun The Eskimo housewife starts spring
cleaning. and soon the flowers begin to
show. even up to the most northern point
of land in the world. $50 miles from the
Pole.
A botanist has collected over 1875 species
OF plants and flowers on the roof of the
world. Even large, delicious mushrooms
are there, while orange colored lichens
are in abundance. And. strange to say.
all. with but a single exception, are per-
fectly odorless. ...
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The Culprit.

From The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
My grandfather related this to me.
And forgot II for a score of years,
Until to-day, i pass 1t on to you:
A lovely woman had her portrait drawn,
And liking it-as well she might-she
caused
A golden frame to be constructed for It,
OF curious work and wonderful design,
And very costly. And a certain man
OF her acquaintance, whom she looked
inadvertently. stole the lovely thing.
LAY, frame and alll) and carried Il away
Yet. though she knew the thief. she said
no word,
But smiled little to herself.
And then
A lovelier picture Of her lovely face
And placed Il In another golden frame
There came another man, and this was one
on whom she looked with more than pass
ing favor;
But he was impecuniousi and he
stole the rich frame sat let the portrait
whsrsst she ragged and called upon the
And had the culprit taken. tried and
hangedl
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A Plan for Keeping the Profits From
Farm Products ut Home.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sb: We
wish to sell cows. cotton, oil cake and
bran to the Frenchman.
The COW that he pays us 500 for
begins to pay dividends OF 81 day
in the way OF food and fertilizer.
His pound Of cotton or wool multiplies
In value at the rate OF 10 to 1. more or
less. when he sets his machine or his
hand to work on II.
That oil cake feeds the COW and feeds
the land there is $40 worth of fertilizer
in every ton. Bran yields almost as
much.
II is evident We had better import
the Frenchman that can do any Of the
above things.
Get that work, get that skill-and
you keep the profit on this side.
d. C. KENYON.
CARBoNDALE, Pa. October s.
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woman can say the lawmakers have
not tried to provide opportunity for
him or for her to get on the list.
The issue in the, fall campaign In
the First judicial district is serious.
An attack has been made on the in
dependence Of the judiciary. 1t Is the
duty of every good citizen to smash
that attack with his ballot on cleo
ton day.
Tammany has registered the thou
sands who do It's will. Good citizen
ship must register the tens of thou
sands who detest Tammany.
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I have the best wife In the world. but
no place TO keep her. rented house
with the understanding that It might be
sold, and on our return from our honey
moon we md Il has been sold. Our fur
niture 10 in the stores waiting to be de-
iivered. "at home" cards were mailed, my
mother-in-iaw Is coming next week, and
what sort OF a dub do you suppose she'll
think her only daughter is tied to--and
she has q good opinion Of me now. Have
q heart. and II You know of a fve or
seven room house at S35 to $50 a month
write Box 645 and we shall call you blessed.
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FREE PORT ZONE IN MANILA.
Encouragement Of Factories in Phil
lppines Is Proposed.

From the Portland Ore6onidH.
The Government Of the Philippine
Islands has taken steps to improve port
facilities at Manila, and II is anticipated
that the next session Of the Legislature
will enact a law to authorize establish
ment of free port zone at that point
This information is contained In letter
to the Portland Chamber OF Commerce
from the Philippine commercial agency
at San Francisco, maintained by the De-
partment Of Commerce and Communica-
tons of the island Government.
1t is the desire Of the department to
encourage use OF Manila as a centre for
distributing goods to the South Sea
Islands, the Malay Peninsula and India.
There IL much interest in this coun-
try in the idea OF free ports. which Is
designed to permit the landing of goods
from foreign shores without payment OF
duties or customs charges. the manufsc-
ture and shipment Of the finished prod
uct from such goods. or the repacking
for distribution, without being subjected
to import or export charges.
The free port gone is necessarily an
enclosed district or area within which
the industries or warehouses for OPEN
ing. asserting and repacking goods are
maintained. Such goods landed In the
free port zone rs may later be shipped
into the country in which the zone Is
located would be subject to all OF the
usual customs or other governmental
charges that would have been made IL
entered in the usual manner.
Seattle and San Francisco both have
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THE WEATHER.

Eastern New York, New jersey or.
New England. increasing cloudlness ana
warmer to-day, followed by showers ny
night and Tomorrow moderate sou,S
east and south winds.
western New York, cloudy and na.-
IoHoWed by showers to-day; showcr.
morrow; increasing south winds To-
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9Th. ,r.,-
map or "wednesday night showed r. tnef
able atmospheric activity over Tho i mary
states. An area Of high barnn.t onNeo
considerable magnitude has movea r' OF
from the great lakes to the Nav rapuy
coast. disturbance Of marked innsand
moving rapidly eastward along ~
Peg and an area of high baromete, NM M
fnces. uAn Prov
AS result Of these condition, ,,,n,,
ness mas Increased over the soutbern uul,
western districts. with rains in tha en-, ne
states and the plains States and .su ulI
ana rain IN the far Northwest, SNOW
An additional feature of pron,nero. Il,
coiu wave OF considerable severi,v -
tne tar Northwest Mild temperatus. u NV,
VANS generally over the middle Wos, p,e,
the south, while low Temperatures nr,anH 1
IN inc middle Atlantic and New EnFlsra
observations at United State, w..,,
bureau stations taken at s p M v..,essH
seventy-nfth meridian time: &C., 'SuV
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SOLDIERS ASK "WHY?"
An Explanation Of Disability Com.
pensation Is Demanded.

To THE EprroR OF THE SuN--ySir: Would
Il not be interesting to the voters to
know how legislation resulting in condi-
.tions like the following has come into
existence7
One Individual, from purely patriotic
motives and because they needed ma
terial from which to make officers. goes
to one Of the first officers training
camps and is commissioned as q Captain
Of infantry; National Army commits
sion dates from August 15. 1917. He 10
Immediately attached to a regiment OF
Regulars and lands in France September
20, 1917.
After q fall and winter of consider
able hardship IN training he goes into
the line in March. 1918, in command Of
n company OF Regulars which he has
worked over and with for months. On
July IS, having been within range OF
Tins with the exception of ten days ever
since Mhrch. "he gets his" couple OF
NJ. G.'s. In the abdomen.
After six months he Is discharged
from the service on a surgeons certifi-
cate Of disability and receives 80 per
cent. permanent partial disability and Is
compensated TO the extent OF $40
month. which is later reduced to $22.5o.
Another man, much younger. gradu-
ated from West Point one year ahead OF
time, we will say. Is disabled In the
same manner, which units him for mill
tary service. He Is retired on a sur
geon's certificate Of disability. and IL a
Captain receives $3.50 month. and he
is justly entitled to It. 1t is only right.
All we'll and good. But why the $22.5o
for Captain One and $3.50 for Captain
Two? .t...
Before Captain One was discharged
ne filled out blanks in which he had to
specify his profession, amount earned
the last year before he entered the army,
&C. We will say he was honest, It had
been bad year and he put down $4,000.
He is partially disabled for life to the
extent of so per cent.
Where does the $3.50 come in? Is
that so per cent. of what he was earn
ing or so per cent. Of his pay as Cap
tain OF Infantry. or what the hell Is II
so per cent. of? .. ...
OF course this bird has hunted a job
and was fortunate enough to meet real
human being who had desk job"
available for him, SO he's lucky and
won't starve for the present. although
he may be suffering considerable dis
comfort all the time from his wounds
There are quite number OF ex-soldiers
nowadays who are wondering WHY?
have no desire to dodge the RESPONSE
bility Of these statements.
GRANT SHEPHERD.
NEW YORK, october s.
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problem involved In the final DISPOSE
ton of the surrendered armada.

problem involved In the final DISPOSE
ton Of the surrendered armada.
But 1t appears England alone Of
the Allied and Associated Powers has
seen at to expend time, money and
labor in bringing the hulks to the sur
face. It may be of course that they
obstructed channels in Scapa Flow
which had to be made clear. If this
was the case would 1t not have
been cheaper and quicker to blow the
wrecks to bits than to raise them7
We shall watch the further progress
Of this gigantic salvaging operation
with interest. Is II the intention of
the authorities under whose direction
It is proceeding to raise the ships for
the purpose of fulfilling the plan advo-
waited by many which involves send
Ing them to midocean to be sunk?
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AMERICA AND IRELAND.
Interesting. Remarks Attributed t
Senator Phelan Of California.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-sI: In
regard to the letter by, John F. Curran
and his statement therein that the ques-
tons propounded by the San Francisco
Labor Council referring to Ireland were
probably concocted to save the face Of
Senator Phelan. 1t might interest Mr..
Curran to know that o few months ago
/ was in Washington and was speaking
with Senator Phelan about Ireland. He
said that America could do nothing for
Ireland because England wouldn't let
her." 1 said that that was rather a
strange statement for Senator of the
United States to make, to which he re-
piled that nevertheless It was so.
OF course, he said. II Ireland We're
under German rule 1t would be different,
but as 1t was 1t was practical mat
ter and England would allow the United
States to do nothing about It. :.
PETER GOLDEN.
NEW York October s.
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Raising useless" German War
ships.

Laymen generally will be puzzled,
we believe, by this announcement,
taken from the columns of the Army
and Macy Journal:
"of the vessels of the German navy
scuttled by their officers at Scapa
Flow the British have succeeded thus
far in raising nineteen OF theA
ut was officially reported on Sep
TENDER 10 that the vessels raised
were the powerful dreadnought Ba-
den, completed in 1915; the new cruis-
ers Emden, Frankfort and Nurem-
berg, and fifteen destroyers."
OF these nineteen vessels II will be
noted that four - the dreadnought
Baden and the cruisers Emden, Frank.
fort and neutrality-suspicious. to the
classes Of warships which previous to
their sinking were declared by high
naval authorities in Great Britain and
the United States to be useless in any
other navy except that of Germany
1t was explained that they differed SC
greatly from the fighting ships built
by other countries that the attempt tc
utilize them would introduce discor,
dant units in the fleets which would
weaken instead of strengthen the
1otlllas to which they were attached
So strong was the opinion the vessels
we're worthless that many persons
regarded their scuttling as a CHEAP
and satisfactory solution of serious
The sun., 1919-10-09

Tho North Dakota State Banking
Board explains that Its action in the
matter of the Scandinavian American
Bank at Fargo followed the discovery
that that institution was choked with
Leaguers' post-dated checks. The bank
officials retort In defence that post
dated checks were cashed at only 80
per cent. of their nominal value. Popu-
lar? Well. consider the popularity
among all varieties Of Reds, among
the weary though lightly laden, of any
bank whose vaults bulge with deposits
and which offered to cash post dated
checks on a fifty fifty basis! No longer
needed the wit and resourcefulness OF
Get Rich-Q Quick Wallingford to make
pockets poddy with kale. Would a
thousand iron men bring carefree con-
tent? Draw a check for $4,000 and
there you are! Small wonder the
Solons Of the League fight to reopen
The source Of such sweet solace.
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Don't Put on Registering

Three days remain in which the
itatizens who want politics kept out Of
the courts and Tammany kept Off the
bench can register to vote on No
Vember 4.
To-day and tomorrow from 8
O'clock in the afternoon until 10 80
o'clock in the evening the registration
places will be open and the election
officers present to put the names of
qualified citizens on the poll list. Sat.
urday the registration places will be
/ open and the election officers In at.
tendance from o'clock in the morn
ing until 1890 o'clock in the evening
l tS7do the same work.
|, 0The State has made ample provi.
SION in the arrangement of days Of
registration to serve the convenience
OF citizens Of all conceivable occupo.
4 lions and professions. No man n,
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Higher Fares and the PubIic's Attn.
tude Toward Them.

d. = U
The subjoined statement In respect
Of the future of most Of the surface
railroads of Manhattan was made on
Tuesday night by the receiver for the
New York Railways Company:
when the financial burdens under
which we are laboring at the present
time reach the point where we can
not maintain reserve, which will be
in about ninety days. / am going to
ask the court to stop the running Of
cars"
1t Is hardly necessary to explain
that the burdens to which JOB HEDGES
referred are the costs of labor and
material which, rising as steadily in
the railroad business as elsewhere,
have caused the transportation sys-
TENS of this town to be operated for
some time at loss.
Mr.. HEDGES is in position to know
what he speaks about, and when he
says ninety days he does not mean
ninety weeks, for he Is given neither
to misanthropy nor softsoap.
The receiver in the same speech ex-
pressed belief that no opposition
to higher fare would be made by the
public when the situation should be
explained '1n a language they could
understand" Possibly all the public
has not understood what the railroad
companies have been trying to say
to it through the medium Of the car
window posters. But every man who
Is intelligent enough to count his
wages, every woman who does mar
keting, understands that when the
cost Of labor, rails and coal is almost
doubled the railroads. must get a
larger revenue or lay of their men,
curtail their service and cut down
their power-Or go into bankruptcy.
If the public wants service-and 1t is
more critical of It's transportation
than Of anything else 1t buys-it must
pay more for it, just as it pays more
for food.
There are persons who are irrecon.
cilable to a living fare for the rail
roads because they are haunted by
the memory of financial crimes COM
nitted against the roads and the pub
lie in another generation. These in
dignant souls would let house go to
ruin because some rascally tenant
once stole the doorknobs. Unable to
fog the culprit, they would punish
themselves. But most folk who re-
member the sinister years of city tran
sit are unwilling to walk from the
Battery to The Bronx for the sake OF
two extra cents and getting hunk
with an irreparable past.
There are others who still hug the
ancient delusion that every public ser.
vice corporation, no matter how the
market may rise, can furnish unlim
tied service at a profit. 1t is such
persons who are pleased by political
attacks, made, as Mr.. HEDGES says
| In "a cheap way to get votes from
cheap people for dishonest PROPOSE
ton" They prefer rant to facts. Not
until the coal dealer refuses to send
another ton to the power houses ant
the current is turned Off and the cars
stop will they believe that the argu
ment for increased fares isn't sal
corporation bunk" .-,
These two classes of obtectors-tht
vindictive and the ignorant-are, we
think, far in the minority. Most OF
the people of New York understand
the situation. They do not wan'
bankrupt railroads. They do not want
impaired service. They are not CHEAP
citizens of cheap city. Not beini
objects Of charity, they do not want
something for nothing.
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II, as the Director General OF Rail
roads says, 1t would be impossible
for the Government to establish any
general readjustment of freight rates
before the roads are turned back to
their owners that argument Is settled.
Whether rates ought to be raised or
ought not to be raised at this time,
the impossible Is the impossible. But
it is to be hoped that neither Congress
nor the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion will agree with Mr.. HINES that
"any new basis to be established for
the future should be considered not
from the standpoint of unified opera
ton of all the railways but to a
greater extent from the standpoint OF
the necessities of the separate rail-
roads,"
The American railways. all told, are
never going to get up on their feet
again in any form except as a closely
linked, coordinated, unified system or
systems. 1t is true that If the car
riers were turned back to be hence
forth just as they were before the
Government took them over some Of
them would be better off than they
are now. This applies not merely to
rich earners whose cash surplus has
! been diverted away from their own
trea suries. 1t applies also to natural
traffic creators and handlers whose
business has been diverted away from
| their own rails. There are roads
which would have had plenty of bust
ness II the Government had permitted
1t to flow over those roads. There are
roads which would have had plenty
of cash If the Government had left
their own money in their own hands
to be used by them for their own pur-
poses And such roads, free to take
care of the business that naturally
| belongs to them and free to spend
their own money, might we'll be con-
tent TO resume operation as separate
institutions.
But the needs of the public demand
If not one general system then as few
systems as possible. 1t may be that
all the railroads of the United States
would better be put into four groups
or half dozen groups than kept in
one group. 1t may be that the rail-
ways of the South could never be q
normal part Of the railways of the
North. IT may he that the railways
of the West could never be a normal
part of the railways Of the East. But
this does not alter the fact that in the
United States there are too many rail-
roads by scores and by hundreds.
Some OF them have no reason for ex-
istence, from the technical point of
view. except as puny feeders to the
great roads. Some of them are mlse.-
ably poor excuses as servants of the
public needing transportation. But,
taking II by and through, the major
] ity of such roads are required as
feeders, and sooner or later they must
be made to give more and better SER
vice TO the public.
No road can give good service II II
can't make a living. No road can be
an efficient traffic feeder II 1t doesn't
make n living. When the American
railways, big and little, good, bad and
Indifferent, are put together In few
great systems-as American railway
genius was putting them together un,
til the Government stopped the nat,
, ural and inevitable process-then, and
not till then, can the public be served
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT,

"Constantinople and the DardtHcl =
Broadway and Academy street ILLUSTRATED
industrial and Social Revolutions, ,,
Miss Myran l.. Grant, Public School g.
Hester. Essex and Norfolk streets
The Department Of Education" h. an
ming 5, Prall, president Board Of Et4.a'
ton, Public School 1876, 22b West los'h
street.
Physical and Chemical Chang by
Dr. William l. Estabrooke. Labor Tempe
Fourteenth street and Second avenue. IT,
Illustrated.
The Moon and Man" by Dr. Jacob
Price, Morris High. 166th street and Bo''
mad
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Unfounded Hone.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sr: In
one Of the newspapers to-day found a
headline reading Difficult to Signal
Mars" thought the article under it
would announce the coming OF universal
peace. but to my regret I found 1t dealt
only with the red planet and not with
tho dethronement OF the god of war.
ASTRONOMER
JERSEY CITY, October s.
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DEWEY PRIZE TO BECOME TUG.
Gunboat Don Juan de Austria
Bought by Port Richmond Wan.

Boston, Oct. s.-The gunboa, Don
Juan de Austria. a prize captured BY
Dewey at Manila Bay and later ''a,'
verified into a United States war vesssL
is to be turned into a tug and used
the coastwise trade.
II was announced at the MAJ Na'a
to-day that William F. Plat % PoT
Richmond, New York city, had l'Hg'..
tho gunboat from the navy for $500"
and would put her in comnerc al st0'I.s
shortly, The Don Juan de AIS'rH
served during the European war IN mar
Dor patrol duty.
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Explaining tho Failure of the Daylight
Saving Scheme.


The secret has leaked out that the real
reason why the farmers were opposed to
the daylight saving plan was that they
were not able 10 got the ROSTERS to adopt
II. Under the new plan, instead OF the
ROSTERS waking up the farmers, It became
necessary for the farmers to wake up the
ROSTERS. This, quite naturally, aroused
feelings OF mutual antagonism. No farmer
reiishes the task Of going out each morn
ing while the moon 10 stiii riding high in
the heavens and cufnns a barnyard full of
ROSTERS on the perch. SO there was moth
ing to do but repeal the law.