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America Loses q Great Citizen.

In Congress there are always men
Of unusual capacity and industry of
whom the public hears comparatively
little. They are the members who do
the wheel horse work in the commit
tees. They analyZe and digest the
various measures suggested for en-
actment, reconcile conflicting opinions
and prepare the drafts of bills Which
are to be reported for action. This
work requires learning, industry and
patience, and 1t frequently happens
that the men most useful in it do
not possess or are unwilling to display
the qualities which attract popular.
attention.
The late JOHN c. SPooNER, eX-Sen-
ator from Wisconsin, was unusual in
that he was not only an untiring
worker in committee but a singularly
powerful debater on the floor. His ca
pacity for hard, grinding, routine work,
examining of evidence, scrutInizing
precedents and exposing blunders was
phenomenal. His power of exposition
was remarkable. He was able to do
committee work and then to justify
| 1t on the floor Of the Senate. His gift
| for the detection Of errors of omis-
sion and commission in bills before
the chamber was astonishing. His
interest in the principles involved,
his devotion to the large results
sought to be obtained by the enact
ment of any measure, never led him
to overlook the minutia of the bill de
! signed to bring them about, while on
the other hand his inslstenCe on cor
rectness in all technical matters did
not obscure in his mind the fact that
practicability is the great end of in
| telligent law making. He had the
broad outlook of statesman whose
duty is to the nation, together with
| the trained acumen of the lawyer
who must always bear In mind the
requirements of intricate judicial
processes.
This happy union of faculties made
Senator SPooNER n consplcuously efll-
Client lawmaker, whose name Is i'm
pressed indelibly on the Federal stat
ute books, but 1t does not give the
full measure of his valuable contri-
buttons to the politics of his country.
To him the attainment Of public Office
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Summer Time Approved by a City
Farmer.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir: Mr..
Collingwood's letter on the daylight saw
ing law was made up so much more
OF generalizing than Of definite argu-
ment that would like to see further
statement OF the farmers objections.
l was brought up on q farm. I'm
enough OF a farmer still to raise an
ample supply of vegetables for my fam
lily here in New York city. l do not
consider the Language OF the farmer"
entirely beyond my comprehension.
II IS per cent. of farmers in Eastern
States are opposed to the plan, 1 be-
lieve that eighty Of each eighty-hve are
opposed to it because 1t means progress
and any new thing" is to be frowned
upon. Possibly per cent. have sound
reason; no law can be formed to please
every one.
AS Mr.. Collingwood says, there are
some farmers who can adjust themselves
to condtions-they are the ones who
progress and prosper The farmer has
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: THE
SUN Of June Z contained the despatch
here attached:
WASHINGTON. June Con recommen-
dalton of General Perah.ng President
Wilson has commuted - ten years i'm
prisonment the death saltence imposed
on Private Philip Sohn OF the Tooth
Infantry, Twenty-eighth Division. for
deserving in the face of the enemy.
General Pershing based his recommen-
dalton upon tho extreme youth OF tho
soldier. who enlisted at tho age or 10.
I have recently returned from over
seas. and II there was anything that
could have added to the feeling of dis
gust with the army which the men feel
after having been through the mill over
there" It was learning how royalty the
conscientious objector was treated by
tho authorities.
Then to read OF boy OF this age
being condemned to give ten of the best
years OF his life because, as it is as
serted, his courage broke down when
he felt the breath of hell hot upon his
face He volunteered to serve his coun-
try. He pays the penalty.
The conscientious objector would not
accept any sort of service for his coun-
try. He reaps the reward. He is par
doned. He secures immediate discharge.
He receives his back pay. He is back
home quickly. He Is back at his old
job months before the men on the other
side even started home.
1t would seem that it was about time
for some one to give q thought to
II Mr.. Wilson returns before he has
earned his second overseas service stripe
he may do so. At any rate there are
between 100000 and 3,0O0,0 900 men of
the A Z. F. who have been doing a
great deal of thinking about affairs
as they are run in America, and some
day there is an election day coming.
There seems to be one very pertinent
question: Why let a man that hasn't
courage even to think about serving his
country go free, and why punish a man
that broke down 1t helTs gate? Per-
haps because the one was not near
enough to the front line to be called a
deserter. And II this is the course to
be followed. would 1t not seem from
the treatment accorded these men that
the authorities would like all men TO
be conscientious slackers" of the SAT-
from variety. for rewards are generally
given for some service or benefit rem
| dered the donor?
Is II better to be n live coward than
a dead hero. or is 1t better to be con-
scientious objector and sidestep the issue
| entirely? THOMAS ScHooNMAKEA
Recently of 1O9th NJ. q. B.
MOUNT VERNON, June H.
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Clear tho United States OF Alien
Revoluti0nistsi

The essence Of Judge HANDS deci-
sion In the habeas corpus proceedings
brought in behalf of several alien
revolutionists ordered deported by the
Department Of Labor because of their
affiliation with the Industrial Work
ers of the World is contained in this
sentence:
Congress has the undoubted right
to prohibit the introduction of aliens
or to deport them after they have
once arrived for any cause 1t sees
fit"
Accompanying the radical propa-
ganda to which the numerous acts Of
violence which have recently stirred
the nation are directly attributable
there has been consistent effort to
obscure this power Of Congress. OBJ
viously it could have no effect on per.
sons acquainted with the Constitution
and familiar with the laws which
have been enacted in accordance with
it's principles. But that the denial
of national power over aliens has been
accepted as well founded by ignorant
dupes of radical agitators has fire.
quently been made plain.
At present the United States needs
nothing more urgently than it does
the thorough education of persons res
ident within it's boundaries to better
understanding of its national au-
tbority and powers. Even among ma
tive born Americans there are gro
tesque misconceptions of the relation
of the Federal Government to the
States and of the Federal and State
Governments to individuals. The as
sumption that an alien once estab-
lished in the United States acquires
a legal right to permanent residence
! In it Is not more ludicrous than other
assumptions current among some men
and women who would resent the sug-
gestion that they are not entirely IA
millar with their rights and obliga-
tons as citizens.
So far as alien revolutlonists are
concerned they should be turned out
| Of the country instanter. They only
obstruct the progress toward better
social conditions which have been
characteristic of the development of
the United States ever since 1t was
| founded
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Ability Of the Farmer to Set His Own
Hours.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: The
argument of II. w. Collingwood regard
Ing daylight saving and presenting the
farmers side does not indicate how or
why the farmer need work differently
than before.
Suppose instead Of moving the clocks
forward 1t was customary for city peo-
Pile, mechanics and all workers except
farmers to get to work one hour earlier
In summer, and in order to do this rail-
road time tables, Office hours, dinner
hours at restaurants were advanced one
hour by the clock we would then have
the same conditions as now with day
light saving. What difference would
that make to the farmers?
The farmer can now. as he has AL
ways done, adjust his hours OF work
by the sun and not by the clocks, which
were wrong anyhow under the old sys-
ten in summer.
Can any one see why farmers should
commence work in the morning at any
different solar time than they always
have because railroads. Offices, factories
have elected to have employees cease
wasting one hour Of pure air and day
light In the morning at the expense OF
working one hour later In the heat of
the afternoon"
Without a change of the clocks city
workers could not enjoy this early day
light, while the farmer can and does
keep on working and resting during the
same hours governed by the rising and
setting of the sun, as he did before
the rest OF the world had the chance.
Ho always has to work In the morning
when 1t is cool and rest in the after
noon when It is hot.
Does Mr.. Collngwood mean TO argue
that farmer located few miles east
Of the parallel OF longitude which marks
the clock change from eastern to CEN
trail time and another farmer located
a few miles west commence work an
hour apart? They do not, but at the
same time as far as the height of the
sun is concerned and the state of the
dew on the grass. Must the farmer who
happens to be in the zone OF central
time go out in the wet grass because
his clock marks 8 A. NJ, while the other
fellows. three miles away. marks 6 A. NJ
He does not the sun and dew regulate
it the world over and always will.
COMMON SENSE.
Npw Yong June II
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makes his inaugural bow to the aston
ished world as the representative OF
the United States of America In a
League of Nations which has no exist
ence so far as the United States of
America is concerned? How happens
1t that he Is thus officially and repre-
sentatively supervising the operation
Of new governmental machinery ere
ated by n covenant of which the
United States Government knows
nothing whatever except by hearsay?
How happens 1t that he is occupied
with diplomatic functions In relation
to that unborn and unrecognized
League which can become what 1t Is
meant by President WILSON to be only
through an amendment of the Consti-
tuition OF the United States, duly rati-
fled by three-fourths of all the States?
How does it happen that he Is now
busy in the name of the United States
with legislative and administrative
business defined not by our Constitu-
ton or by any statute enacted under
the authority of our Constitution but
merely by the constitution of an in
ternatlonal body of no standing what
ever at Washington; with far less
standing than the various benevolent,
academic or scientific societies which
the Congress has from time to time
sanctioned by granting them charters
in the regular way? From what well
comes the oil of the excellent Colo
nel's anointment?
We cannot answer these questions.
THE sun confesses without the slight
est blush of intellectual shame Its ut
ter inability to answer them. Never
theless we congratulate Colonel
HOUSE on his arrival at the distin-
guished post he is now said to be as
suming to occupy. 1t Is an event
unique Ia American experience I;
strangely enough, a unique triumph Of
individualism. in the sense Of some
body's individual autocracy. The near
est approach to an explanation is pos
sibly to be found in that mysterious
and notably un-American principle
which the extremists of the Bolshevik
school Of thought are fond of styling
direct action"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-12

tempting to give Justice to the women
of the United States as freely and as
quickly as the way to 1t was paved
for them by the Republican Congress
which last week adopted the resolu-
ton to submit the suffrage amend
ment to the States.
Let the gentlemen who say that AL
SMITH Is playing politics play little
of that kind Of politics themselves.
It's the kind that SMITH didn't learn
in Fourteenth Street. It's the kind
that, in spite of dozen obstacles,
made him Governor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-12
The Federal Employment Agency.

1t appears that there Is some doubt
whether Congress will make the small
appropriation required to maintain
the United States Employment Ser
vice beyond the present month.
The sudden cessation of this branch
Of war emergency service just at the
time when our returning soldiers and
sailors need to the utmost the benefit
Of its help would be a great and al
most irreparable misfortune. Under
the management of Federal Director
KIRcHwEY the Service Is now finding
industrial work for the unemployed
at the rate of about 100000 a month,
and Of these 100000 at least 10000,
or 20 per cent, are soldiers and sail
ors. The proportion of soldiers and
sailors to the civilian unemployed is
likely to increase as the process Of
disbandment goes on.
For this reason, IL for none other,
the work Of the Service should go on
for the present
THE Sun scarcely needs to say that
1t does not regard the supervision In
detail of the labor market and the
handling in detail of the relations be-
tween individual employers and indi-
vidual applicants for employment as
normal or properly permanent func-
ton Of Federal activity. But the
provision of work for those who at
the call Of the flag left their Jobs tf'
go to the war is different matter ;
and until this obligation of the Gov
eminent to its defenders has been full
filled let us not tolerate the idea of
Starving or Gripping this important
and intelligently conducted agency of
Industrial reconstruction.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-12
SPECIAL SESSION
RAISES NEW HOPES
Governor, Hovever, Wants
Only Suffrage Ratification.

There were indica tons last night that
Gov. Smith would be importuned from,
all sides to extend the scope OF the spe-
cial session Of the Legislature which he
has called for Monday TO ratify the Fed
eral suffrage amendment to the Consti-
tuition.
No other subject can be taken IN by
the Legislature except that specified in
the call by. the Governor unless he
should send in special message. Al
though the Governor says and mis- friends
assert he means just what he says, that
ne does not intend to ask that any mat
ters other than suffrage be considered Il
is known that a number of persons be-
fore Monday will urge him to take ur
several matters In which they are par
tiCularly interested.
william II. Anderson, superintendent
or the Anti-Saloon League. is likely g
ask the Governor to urge the adoption
OF some prohibition enforcement leEis-
lation on the other hand thoso m
terestod in the continued sale q reer
may urge the consideration of or
per cent. beer bill
The conductorettes. whose work On
the street railway lines has been cur
tailed by the bill prohibiting them -
work a. night. are considering masking
a special plea that this measure Do re-
weeks ago the Governor gave q hea--
Ing at which they urged him to ,an
special session for this SPECIFIC ir-p.s"
Dut he refused to consider the I,sl.
The women who worked for the MN.
mum wage, health insurance ard r.N.i
social legislation may see In the sp' IA.
session a chance to get a reCoNs ra-
tlon or these measures. II is not N0r-
sidered likely, however. that tho Gov
cInor will reopen this question even
should he consent to present some 01t.
ters other than suffrage to the I,c.'la-
ture.
The special Legislative commit -
consider housing conditions. Of V.t
Serator Charles G. Lockwood is 49,
man. and other bodies that arc
erpF measures Of relief for the :. .~y'v
or ZONES, may ask the Governor ire.
sent some of their ideas TO the I..g.-''-
lure Among other things II has h""7
suggested that New York State ur'.' M
/ the Federal Government to cxrug. .sll
estate mortgages from the inCou., AK
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-12
SYRACUSE HoNoRs WOMAN.
Jane Bancroft Robinson of Detroit
Made Doctor of Laws.

SYRACUSE, June IL Honorary de-
grees were awarded to-day at Syracuse
University as follows:
Doctor of Laws, Jane Bancroft Robin
son of Detroit,
Doctor OF Science. Lee F. DeForest,
New York; Veranus Alva Moore, dean of
agriculture, Cornell
Doctor of Divinity. Albert T. Angel,
Troy; Lewis T.. Carter, Schenectady
George Willis Gardner. Orange, n. j.
Mortimer =. Grffen, James a. Hensey,
Oreonta Allen l.. Hobart, Elmira.
Doctor OF Sacred Theology. Edwin
Taylor Iglehart (absentla), Japan
Literary Doctor. John Benedict Howe.
Doctor Of Pedagogy, Daniel ]. Kelly,
Solvay.
Master of Music, Charles NJ. Courboin.
Alfred Covcll Goodwin and Raymond
Sterling Wilson, all OF Syracuse
Master Of Civil Engineering Frank NJ.
Williams. Albany.
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We have with us again General
FRIEDRICH Won BERNHARD. The world
has been forced 10 endure so long the
Generals silence that it may have
forgotten that before the war he was
great German military authority and
the author of Germany and the Next
War" He comes to explain why his
predictions of German triumph
through might OF arms proved false.
1t was the Kaiser who was guilty
of a fatal error; guilty of not be-
ginning the war when all the other
nations of Europe were in a state OF
unpreparedness. ''Only with diff
Guilty." says Generel BERN HARDI. could
he be induced to take up the gauntlet
that had been thrown down to him."
The world knows how the gauntlet
was thrown down" and how the
Sword OF war was put into the Kali
ser's hand" but, as one of the leaders
OF the German military party, is not
the General making very frank con-
fession of one of Germany's concealed
designs? Doesn't he let the black cat
out OF the bag?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-12
PROMOTED AS REWARD,
PatroImnn who Captured Alleged
SIayers Is Made Sergeant,

Within a few hours after Commits
Etoner Enright had received letter
signed by the members of the extra
panel OF the June Grand Jury commend
ing Patrolman William F. Short for the
capture of three men who were indicted
for murder he announced the promotion
of Short to a detective sergeantcy.
Patrolman Short was on post AT Or
chard and Stanton streets when Dervish
Mohamem, a native OF Albania, was
murdered in his room ut 1855 Orchard
street. little later the patrolman ar
rested a man on suspicion and found he
had money belt covered with blood.
He then forced the man to take him 10
others who were said to have been con-
nected with the crime. The men in
dicted were Ralph Mosho, Mahmut
Blaza and Namza Mucho.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-12
Children Who Won't Sleep BY the
Clock.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: You
are unduly severe with Representative
Baer of North Dakota for saying that
the daylight saving law works hardships
on young children.
Those North Dakota romancerS' have
New York State sisters, and have heard
mothers Of young children say It was
very difficult for children to 60 to sleep
on being sent to bed an hour and more
before sunset.
II It is recommended to cut an hour
or two OF the children's sleeping period.
possibly that will not cause them injury.
but It 10 quite easy to see that that is
the practical effort of the law. A
GREAT HARRINGTON, Mass, June 10.
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The Extra Session to Act on the
Suffrage Amendment.

There will be variety of opinion
among politicians relative to Cover
nor SMITH's call for an extraordinary
session of the Legislature to act upon
ratification of the Federal suffrage
amendment. The Speaker, Mr.. SWEET,
views the call as unusual" and the
extra session as an unnecessary ex-
pense; and he points to the obvious
fact that New York women already
have the vote. Other critics of the
Governors action will say that Mr..
SMITH Is shrewuly showing his graft
tude, as the first Governor of this
State chosen by women's votes as
well as mems, to the women voters.
They will see in it stroke to win
womens votes in 1920, when Mr.
SMITH presumably will again be a
candidate.
THE Sun prefers to accept the
broadminded explanation which Gov
ernor SMITH makes for bringing the
legislators to Albany next Monday:
New York should be in the fore
front in the advocacy and adoption
OF all measures of q beneficial, pro-
gressive character. in the support Of
which 1t has too often Jagged.
But, furthermore, II this privilege
Is to be extended to women in such
form as to entitle them to full par
ticipation in the next ensuing Presi-
Dental election, early action is nee
essary.
ut would not be sufficient to per-
nit them only to choose between cam
didates selected and principles APP
proved by others. but they should be
enfranchised at date so early that
they may take part in the primaries
which will be held next spring to
select delegates to the national party
conventions, and thus be co-workers
from the very start in the selection
OF candidates and the declaration of
! party principles"
|
is politics of big sort. The ratif-
cation of the Federal suffrage amend
ment by the Legislature will bring
| to the women of this State nothing
that they have not already, but it will
bring to the State something in which
il has been lacking, and that Is leader
I oh hn
as the Governor says, has often Jagged
in progressiveness, and it is time the
Empire State caught up with n pro.
cession of which 1t should be the
head. The women of the United
States ought to have the vote so that
they may use it in the important
Presidential election Of next year. To
make equal suffrage nation wide it Is
necessary that thirty-siN States ratify
the Federal amendment. Weak or
wabbly Legislatures are impressed by
the example Of the great States. I'LL.
nois and Wisconsin have already rati-
fled, and favorable action by New
York will add moral weight to the
worthy cause.
We are always glad TO applaud the
Hon. ALTIED L. SMITH when he does
the right thing, and this is an in
stance. Marching ahead of his party
it is only the Democracy of the
South that will delay the adoption OF
the suffrage amendment-he Is at.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Peony exhibition of the horticultural 60
CITY. Museum of Natural History. all day.
ner. Hotel Commodore. 7 P II.
Rotary Club. luncheon, Hotel McAlp!n.
1880 Z. NJ
Alpin. 1880 p. NJ
United Cloak and Suit Designers, meet
ing. Hotel McAlpin. p. NJ
New York Section Atlantic Coast Ship
builders. Hotel McAlpin, dinner. $3.50 p "
=, Foreign Exchange Club. dinner. Hote!
McAlpin, p. NJ.
legislative investigation of BoI.hevisn.
City Hail. II A. NJ
Archdiocesan committee OF tho Society 70
Help Devastated Churches In France Wal
dorf, 1880 p. NJ.
Presentation Of Fire Department medals,
City Hall, II A. NJ.
Lecture on "Disillusionment" by Dr. Ell
ward W. Goodell. 229 Lenox avenue S.i5
p. NJ.
Lecture on The Organization OF Clubs
for Working Mems Wives" by Mrs. Eleanor
Barton, at II Barrow street. p. ".
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-12
LEAGUE DIsAPPoINTs SWISS.
Foreign Minister Explains Treaty
to ParlLa ment,

bern. June 1.-THE Swiss l...-t-
ment discussed to-day the I,o5e -
Nations. Three State counc!,lo. tt'
submitted interpretations on this re..
Dr. Felix Calender, the Foreirn "
lister, replied In behalf of the Cos -r-
ment that the question OF toII- a
league must be examined by tn' ,#'@
people earnestly and impartial.
Although the project Of the leaE. "
far from perfection and had pro..I q
serious disappointment he added 90 "u-'
be considered as the only opportuufy ~
long time to reach an intern auoNa'
league, so long desired.
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Influenza Declines In Alaska.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE Influenza
epidemic In Alaska now is well In hand
"a despatch received to-day by Secretary
Daniels said. No new cases have de-
veioped for several days at Unalaska
or Dutch Harbor. and the plague has
been confined to the Bristol Bay region,
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hard life. yes. so has the average

a hard life, yes. 30 has the average
city man. I think myself after a good
many years on each side Of the fence
that the farmer would have rather the
better of It IL he would wake up, stop
knocking and use his head as well as
his hoe. L. A RANKIN.
NEW York, June II.