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The sun., 1919-03-19

Installation of the Rev Patrick r H.v.
a. a. ,Asnche'hop Of New York. St. PatrieES
Discussion Of the New York and Nav
IN. tm eenlen's S, tunnel at meeting Of
SO West Thirty-ninth stree. s:,e
Annual dinner Of the Society of the Lass
OF the Forty, miners OF Columbia Cniver.
Fcrty-third street p. NJ
lntersettlement circus by members and
Wsbs,e1 q Hal. th' vsPoI: settlement houses.
:, Dr. Ira c. VILE will speak on "puei,e
Heasth Heconstruction, at the Open Forum
End avenue s:is p iMeasue' at ss6 West
81. lecture y pr; william rr.nc,. Camp
sa :so p Long Island College Hospital.
. Lectures, The Fat. OF th. Turk" b,
Edwin NJ. Poteat West " End fS coii.r,ssss
Church. West End avenue and Seventy
studio Club Club. =. ". G A.. IS Fac, Sixty.
second street: Mr., Sargent OF the Amsri,
c on Afsdt prsm Of Dr:ma'e Art will spoa
Victory festival under the ausp,c.s Of
the Italian Societies OF Greater New YorS'
Poets Reading" at the wood.,ook VI
erary; 7Ss East lsoth street. ais p. M
miEration." West Side Y. n. c. A. $50
Launching of tn. o. s. min. .w..p..
no a. "Gannet" Tebo zach, Basin. 10
The Rev. Marcel A. II. Jous.e S. J..
Cheva!!er OF the Legion Of Honor, viii
speak on "a French Priest In the
Trenches" under the Auspices OF the Alum.
nae association of tho College Of Nouns
81: Vincent on, Hudson, at the waldorf.
brooklyn In~titute: Arthur Stanley
Riggs will picture Heroic belgium" leo.
ture Hall I =. NJ. DR.. Earl Barpss will
discuss Greater bohemia, or RELIGION ana
Nationality" Music Hail, SIS p. NJ,
Hotel Pennsylvania: The Barrett Com
pany, meeting and lunch, A. NJ. iaather
ana Betting Association. meeting and
ASSOCIATION. meeting 1880 A. NJ. lunch |
i. NJ: New York Chapter, American In.
sutute of Ranking. dinner In grill room
meeting in Exhibition Room No. !, p NJ
surety Association of America, meeting.
10 A. NJ.
Conference on the restoration OF disabled
men under the auspices OF tho Red Cross
Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men,
lay session, Waldorf Astoria: evening see-
sion. Carnegie Hail
National Association of chair Manufao-
turers. meeting. waldorf Astoria, all DAY
Poster Advertising Association, meeting
WaldorfAst all day.
National Garment Retailers Association
meeting, Waldorf Astoria, 10 A. NJ.
Society OF Industrial Engineers conven.
tion. Hotel McAlpin. all day.
Masonic dinner 10 the Officers Of the
port OF dehRrkation. Hotel McAlpin, r. ".
National Association Clothing Designers
Hotel McAlpin, 1880 r NJ
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This is town meeting season in New
England, and where local option Is in
force the electors appear to take
savage delight in voting wet, regard
less of their records. Vermont sur
prised everybody by returning ma
jorities for license in towns that have
been dry for years. Out Of eleven
Massachusetts, towns which would not
tolerate the saloon last year eight
switched in one week, and 1t Is pre-
dicted that scores Of others will fol-
low their example.
Perhaps the imminence of prohibi-
ton, beginning July 1 with the statu
tory restrictions that will remain in
force during the period of demobili-
zation, and to be made permanent by
the Eighteenth Amendment in Janu-
airy. has stirred the thirsty to su-
preme efforts. A few weeks only are
left for alcoholic convlviality; topers
must make the most of them. But
what will they say when they learn
the altitude to which prices have
risen. the weakness that now charac-
terizes once potent liquids? II any of
them contemplates a prolonged period
Of alcoholic exaltatlon he must have
n deep purse and be prepared to
drink as he never drank before. The
red liquor Of to-day lacks the kick
our daddies knew.
1t Is disheartening to contemplate
virtuous New England preparing for
final jamboree Of proportions I'M
precedented since rum ceased to be IL
part Of the minister's salary; and
good, sound, able bodied rum 1t was
too; the spirit strong men craved at
houseraising. Will commencement
at Harvard in this year Of grace see
the banished punch restored TO its
former place Of honor7
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Colonel Harvey's Service to America.

For frankness, sincerity and truth
fulness, untempered by any thought
Of self-interest, Colonel GEORGE HAIR
vEr's address on the proposed consti-
tuition for the League of Nations, de-
livered in Indianapolis on Monday
evening. will long stand high among
the forensic and literary products Of
patriotic Americanism.
In 1t Colonel HARVEY, with charac-
teristic fearlessness, refused to per-
init fine phrases 10 obscure hard facts.
He brushed aside at the beginning
those platitudes which In the present
crisis endanger straight thinking. He
went directly to the heart of the mat
ter. His comparison Of the principles
Of WASHINGTON, which guided the
American policy in interna tional af-
fairs from the beginning Of the Re-
public through a period of unprece-
dented growth in power and prosper
ity, with the proposed departure from
those principles now advocated by
WOODROW WILSON was conclusive and
crushing in its exposure Of the fal.
lacies which underlie and vitiate the
document Mr.. WILSON to-day says we
must accept to control our foreign re-
lations for all time to come.
Colonel GEORGE HARVEY has per-
formed many valuable services for his
country In his active life, but none Of
them has been so important as his
vigorous and intelligent struggle
against the constitution for the League
Of Nations which WooDRow WILSON
Is now endeavoring to jam down the
Threats Of the American people.
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Build the vehicuIsr Tunnel ia
New Jersey Now.

Three times in the last fftecn
months the imperative need for
vehicular tunnel connecting New York
city with the mainland In New Jer-
eey has been demonstrated.
In the winter of 1918 this city
was isolated from the source Of its
coal supply by natural conditions
which may be repeated next year or
any year thereafter.
In January of this year a harbor
strike reduced the transportation IA
cilities between New York and New
Jersey to the Hudson tubes, the Penn
sylvahia Railroad tunnel and one
ferry. These are utterly inadequate
to meet the normal. everyday de-
mands for intercommunication be-
tween this town and the west bank
Of the Hudson.
Again this month a strike has oc-
Cured, which reduced the coal sup
ply In New York city to a quantity
insufficient to assure the uninter-
rupted operation Of the public utlli-
ties, whose managers were obliged to
warn the Inhabitants that unless re-
lief was obtained the subways, the
elevated railroads and the surface car
lines serving 100000 persons would
have to stop running.
These are three warnings we can
not afford to ignore. The comfort, the
business, the health Of the city have
thrice been imperllled. They would
be completely safeguarded by the
opening Of vehicular tunnel. Such
a tunnel Is practicable. 1t Is de-
manded by public sentiment Plans
for Its construction are already well
advanced. The States Of New Jersey
and New York have agreed on the
general scheme for its management.
Yet at the last moment a mysterious
obstacle has been interposed to delay
the work.
Moreover, the boring Of this tun-
mel now would provide Jobs for many
men at a time when Jobs are needed
and not only give US public i'm
provement essential to the welfare Of
the communities It would join to-
gether. but would help to solve the
labor problem. The New York-New
Jersey vehicular tunnel should be
built Mt once, and whoever seeks to
postpone It does an Ill act for the
millions Of men and women concerned
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IMR. LowcwoRrRs CHANCE.
The Way to Become Floor Leader in
the House Of Representatives.

To THE EDITOR OF The SuN--Str: My
very good friend the gentleman from
Ohio, Mr.. Longworth, seems to take his
defeat as floor leader of the Republicans
Of the House OF Representatives rather
seriously. He says: cit is idle to talk
OF Mr.. Manns declination OF the crown
rendered him In eloquent periods by
Messre. Mondell and Moore. All but
the mere naked title remains In him as
surely as though his brow was topped by
Its external evidence"
Possibly that may turn out to be true
Where MacGregor sits there is tho
head OF the table" II Mr.. Longworths
friends wanted to make sure that Mr..
Mann would not be the real floor leader
there was Just one thing they could have
done, and that was to take him on the
floor by making him Speaker.
But after all there u q certain SINH
larity between the positions Of Mr.. Mann
and of Mr.. Longworth. Both were Of
fered crowns Tho only real difference
Ia that the gentlemen who offered the
crown to Mr.. Lonsworth didn't happen
to have It In their possession. Neither
Of them has the crown now. and why
hasn't Mr.. Longworth q fair chance TO
obtain all but the naked title, the real
floor leadership?
He Is q man of first rate ability
and education. has a considerable &C.
quaintance with Congressional proceed
ure. . very pleasing personality. and
some years of creditable service on tho
greatest OF the House committees. All
he has to do to become the real leader
L.. 3 h<.s,N
every measure that comes before the
House than Mr.. Mann does.
He could do It, but It can't be done by
lying golf in the morning and bridge
in the evening. 1t requires a lot Of
hard. back breaking work. work not linn
tied to union hours. but beginning fairly
early in the morning and extending often
far into the night. It requires the care
full reading OF a lot of literature that
cannot be described as light-bills, re-
ports, hearings. authorities on the SUBJ
jects under consideration. and then some
solid thinking.
Let Mr.. Lonsworth 60 to It. Most Of
the workers on the Republican side OF
the House. the mon who have served on
the working subcommittee and on the
conference committees, the men who
know how to get their bills into shape
and how to present them on the floor.
are back Of Mr.. Mann, because the Re-
publicans have q lot OF work to do In the
next Congress and they believe the way
to got II done efficiently and satisfac-
| torily to the country Is TO seek the CO.
operation of the man who knows more
about how to do It than the whole outfit
opposing him,
But they have no quarrel with Mr..
Gillett, the new Speaker--some OF them
| voted for fim--nor with Mr.. Longworth,
and not all OF them follow Mr. Mann
from love Some of them have not yet
learned to enjoy being lambasted by him
when they happen to blunder.
Let Mr.. Longworth combine with his
urbanity and suavity and pleasing hui
NOR just a little bit more knowledge of
legislation than Mr.. Mann has and he
too can decline crowns and still lead. or
perhaps can wear the crown and WELD
the sceptre at the same time.
EDMUND PIATr.
WARRINGTON, March IS.
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Handlcaps Of Job Hunters.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: After
reading OF the experience OF an inexpe-
rienced college man I am prompted to
* "Whessa1 belongf"
Unavoidable circumstances. such as
sickness, exemption. non-essentisl em-
ployment and long working hours. forced
mo TO accept a Job as laborer during
the war. Onto these difficulties tack
race discrimination and weigh my
chances for employment as an expe-
rienced clerk and typlst after making
way for the employment of several
million discharged soldiers and war
workers.
II the college gentleman classes him
self as n semi-optimist, pray tell me
under what category should / come?
c. c. Q.
(Pre-war class. ultra optimist.)
NEW YORK, March IS.
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The Single Minded Man.

Mr.. DAVID LAWRENCE sends from
Washington to the Epenin0 Post n
despatch relative to talk In the ma
tionnl capital about Mr.. TAFT as a
candidate for President:
THE former President Is simply
Interested in the League Of Nations
and to those who say he Is hurting
his chances for the nomination by
siding with Mr.. WILSON and split
ting his own party. tho answer comes
Mr.. TAFT doesn't care one whit
about his own political fortunes-hs
is interested only in the League Of
Nations"
What the American people are
likely to look for in 1920 is at least
one candidate who Is interested In
the United States Of America.
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taken by death from Its ranks has
naturally been increasingly heavy un.
til the membership Is now 12O,918. In
caring for widows and orphans Of SOL
diers, and In encouraging a high
standard Of devotion to the nation, It
has performed notable services to the
country second only in Importance to
those the men whose names appear on
It's rolls rendered In the field. The
prominence 1t enjoyed in national,
State and local politics Is not to be
entirely attributed to the power en-
gendered in the close association Of its
members; 1t must be remembered that
among them were the most gifted, en-
terprising and intelligent citizens Of
the country, men from among whom
under any conditions would have come
the leaders in civic affairs.
As the survivors Of the Union forces
formed the Grand Army Of the Re-
public. 80 those Of the Confederate
war machine had their associa alton; In
each section the women and the sons
Of veterans organized. The most in
teresting incidents Of the reunion Of
the nation have been the Joint en-
campments Of these ancient foes held
in recent years, such as that at Gettys-
burg in 1913.
In the society which develops out Of
the present American fighting forces
there will be no sectional division. As
the veterans Of the civil war doml-
mated the public affairs Of the United
States for a generation after the fight
ing stopped, we may look forward to
a similar period OF power for the sur
vivors Of the great war; and all
Americans may well hope that under
their rule the nation will grow In
wealth and power as It did under the
rule Of their daddies.
The sun., 1919-03-19
HITS AT WILSON IN
CLEVELAND EULOGY
Gen. Wood Contrasts Attitude
Of Living With Dead
President.
SLABS AT LEAGUE IDEA
Former Chief Executives
Widow and Daughter At
tend Memorial.
SLABS AT LEAGUE IDEA

Great applause punctuated eulogy
Of Grover Cleveland delivered by Major
Cen. Leonard Wood at the memorial
ceremony at the New Amsterdam Thea
tro yesterday afternoon. The occasion
was the annual commemoration OF Mr..
Cleveland's birth by the Grover Cleve-
land Association, and besides Gen.
Harmon OF Ohio and Chief City Magis-
trate William McAdoo. who was Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy in President
Cleveland's second administration.
Gen. Wood was the chief speaker.
The General was first appointed to the
army rs surgeon by President Glove
land and later became the White House
physician. He explained to an audience
OF several hundred that he had. perhaps.
better opportunity to study Mr.. Cleve-
land at close range than any other man.
Mrs. Frances Cleveland Preston. with
her daughter and son-in-law occupied a
box during the exercises. which marked
the conclusion of the associations me-
mortal day programme.
While by Its very nature the meeting
at the theatre was non-partisan from
political viewpoint. contrasts that were
drawn by Gen. Wood between Mr.. Cleve-
land and his present Democratic sue
cessor in the White House evoked un-
mistskable expressions of approval every
time the General made a point. At no
time did Gen. Wood refer to President
Wilson by name or to the League of
the course Of tho present Administra-
ton by the party that claimed Cleve-
land left nothing to the Imagination Of
his audience.
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The Birthday OF = Man OF Many
Unhappy Returns.

This is WILLIAM J. BRYAN's birth
day. He is only 30. II to some he
seems older 1t is because he sprang to
the front at &c. That Democratic
national convention Of 1896 seems
very long ago perhaps because all
the men BRYA' thrust aside with his
cross Of gold speech are dead or po-
litically forgotten. They were BLAND
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theatrical celebrity is much
praised for his latest accomplishment
Of lassoing a stage enemy at ten yards
and with his back turned to his target.
We have no desire to discourage
critics from giving deserved recogni-
ton to notable advances In dramatic
art, but that this performance Is at the
pinnacle of art should not be implied.
Another celebrity las lassoed and tied
hog tight several statesmen not only
with his back to them but at distance
of three thousand miles.
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Sun rises. q :oa A N Sun sse g os p \
Moon rises......s al p n
For eastern New York, fair to-day1
fair and warmer tomorrow; moderate
northwest winds
For New Jersey, fair to-day; fair AND
warmer tomorrow: moderate northwest
For northern New England. parity
cloudy to-day, preceded by rain In eE
IRENE eastern Maine; morrow fair. win
winds.
For southern New England, fair and
cooler to-day; tomorrow fair. with RISING
For western New York. fair and warmst
to-day; tomorrow cloudy and warmer.
WASHINGTON. March ie-rhs pres,
.".pp RiS.a wis X. ' ms.mu I'M ps.s,
Mi,sl.sppi Rysf; n' IN. prs..ur. !. 5sllins
ssa WIFI ever wyS%n
hours there were rains in the Aiiantia
States. the Ohio Valley, the region OF the
great lakes and In the Pacific stAtss,
Al parts Of the country east OF the Roclo
State, and me Ohio valley. III. ..mp.T..
sis.ippi River except In New England. and
Il has risen over the Missouri and uppsf
Mississippi valleys. The outlook is for
.lppi River during W.dnssdsy and Thurs
day, although the weather will beooms
unsettled Thursday, with probably rain. IL
Tho as:s s.a vii IL. ...
day and Thursday in the Mississippi ana
Ohio valleys and the region q tn: reel
and New England y States, n sH' m'''i' A''An"'
Observations at United ststes wsasner Bu.
The sun., 1919-03-19

War may be what SHERMAN said It
was but It must zoe credited with
making tho drafted or recruited man
realize the value of exercise and mill
tary training. Among the men polled
at Camp Devens as to their views on
the subject OF universal training
there seemed 10 be some disagreement
about the necessity for strict dIsci-
pline, but that compulsory military
training was physically beneficial and
that It would produce a more write
mankind was the unanimous verdict.
The sun., 1919-03-19
Mr.. wilson's Open Diplomacy and
the Paris Censor's Gag.

In the United States American SEN
timent against Mr.. WILSON'S League
of Nations rises until 1t begins to run
a tidal wave.
In Paris information about what Is
taking place over here Is suppressed.
The French newspapers are gagged
by the censor. The public men who
know the truth and would tell 1t are
excluded from the league discussions.
II they insist upon declaring them
selves with informal speech their
words are smothered by the Peace
Conferences blanket as unofficial"
All the while Mr.. WILSON in his
official position towers above the Con-
ference circle ut Paris and declares
that the American people are over
whelmingly behind him.
One need not believe that the
French press. forum and speech are
throttled by the Paris censor at the
instigation Of Mr.. WILSON to give
color to his claim of voiclng unani
nous American opinion. The French
censor is adept enough without any
body's help. The French interest In
striving to get the United States to
pack the Old Worlds load Is too OBJ
vious to require a deeper motive. The
European interest in the same game
is likewise too evident to call for ex-
PLANTATION as to why other delegates
do not demand that in France the
gag be torn out of the mouth of the
public prints and free speech be un-
throttled.
Mr.. WIS SON, It is true. Is committed
unqualifiedly to Open Diplomacy: 1t Is
one Of the cardinal commandments Of
his fourteen points. Mr.. WILSON, 1t
is true, could fittingly ask that the
American view should be revealed to
the French Conference, to the French
nation, to the Powers of Europe rep
resented In the Conference. Mr..
WILSON, It Is true, might we'll de-
mand that all the American facts,
whether they were for his position
or against his position, be frankly
presented to the delegates and freely
discussed by all.
But we are bound to say that II
Mr.. WILSON is so infatuated with his
own League Of Nations project that
he can sradd up and ASSERT that~a&
American people are overwhelmingly
behind him when their protests are
like the roar Of Niagara, we can conf
prehend how the same infatuation
could lead him, when the voice of
criticism in Paris was as silent as the
grave, to assume that the French
press was not muzzled and French
speech not gagged.
Nor Is 1t to be overlooked that II
Mr.. WILSON does Nc. care In his own
country what the American people
think and say about his league. what
the United States Senate thinks and
says about his league. he would not
be likely in Paris to care what any
body there thought or said about his
league when he was determined, In
any event, to have his own way.
Nevertheless, make such allowance
MS we may for the Punishment Of Mr..
WILSON'S Open Diplomacy from the
Peace Conference Of all places on
earth, or for his Indifference to the
convictions and scruples of ANYBODY
else when they run counter to his own
will. the fact remains that Mr.. VII.
soN'is insisting thai the delegates In
Paris shall give him to bring home
and submit to the United States Sen
ate exactly the form o, leapue to
which millions Of American citizens
object and which the L itet States
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Shakespeare's Dictionary OF Slang.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir. Re-
ferring to the recent discussion as TO
the phrase Believe me-" has any one
ever noticed that there is "A Shake
spearian precedent for the much more
slangily used Good night? In
Tanning of the Shrew." near the end
OF Act H., Tranio says: us this your
speeding? Nay. then, good night our
pnrt." L
ELIzABETHTowN, March II.
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In bidding good-by to his fellow

In bidding good-by to his fellow
Representatives SwAGER SHERLEY said
Of his early experience in the House:
~ was appointed when first came TO
Congress on a committee that had one
meeting, and that was called to tell
us that there would not be another"
That was fortunate for the young
Kentuckian. Committee duties did not
keep him from the floor. where he
watched the working OF rules and
studied them until he ranked among
the best parliamentarians In the
House. That, In turn, helped him
to become chairman of the Appropria-
lions Committee in the session when
Congress made the astounding record,
according to Mr.. SHERIEY, OF appro-
priating more money than had been
appropriated before 1917 from the
foundation OF the Government,
The sun., 1919-03-19

The Silesian Countess who plays
for high stakes in gilded gambling
halls OF distressed Berlin has found q
profitable use for Spartacans. When
she loses she hires an armed guard Of
Berlin Leninites who threaten to raid
the place unless her losses ere re-
turned. She is always repaid Heads
l win. tails you lose" says the Coun-
tess. and the Spartacan, carelessly
toying with his automatic, echoes,
"She wins"
The sun., 1919-03-19
TRADE BRIEFS.

In the hrat eight months o, 1918 Ja1aa
imported sls00D worth OF rivets. chiefly
for use In shipbuiliing
Consul e, Verne Richardson reports from,
Quebec that new chocolate ard eandy
factory haA been added to tho industriss
OF that city.
The sun., 1919-03-19

Colonel ROOSEVELT says" reporters
are already beginning to write. drop
ping the inconvenient Lieutenant"
before the familiar Colonel" What
that may mean for the political future
Of the young gentleman. who shall
say?
The sun., 1919-03-19
Tho Gifts OF the Gods.

The gods In their bounty
The seasons decrced.
Allotting In wisdom
Each one TO our need.
The Fail with It's riches
And glorles far nunE.
They gave for fulflment-
The need OF the young.
The Spring with its beauty,
Its miracle told.
They gave for Its promise
The need Of the old.
AcLASpBuAGH WILSON
The sun., 1919-03-19

Perhaps the theory behind the re-
ported plan to send a German AM
bassador to the United States is that
he was un-Prussian enough to have
merited ostracism by the Prussian
House of Lords.
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Spared Much.

Priscilla told John Alden 20 speak for
himself.
'At least I don't pretend to speak for
the whole American people" he reiorted.
The sun., 1919-03-19

It is a peculiar coincidence that
French transport brought a cargo of
wine safely TO port despite the fact
that It simultaneously carried a Yam
kee division OF tanks"
The sun., 1919-03-19

~ orr friends tpho favor W ,cttA rsons-
scripts and iIiustrufions for publication toish
90 hore rejected articles returned they muN
N oil cases send stomps for tho; purpose.
TELEPHONE, BEEKMAN 22o0.