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The Tercentenary OF the Landing
OF the Pilgrims.

From Provincetown, out on the til
end of the Cape Cod peninsula, comes
the cry that the town Is not only be-
ing sighted and trod upon but that
1t Is being robbed of its one great
honor. 1t asks for justice. In re-
cent years Provincetown was known
as the lair of the shifting yellow
sand monster. and the site Of the
struggle between beach grass and the
sand monster for the possession of
that portion of the Massachusetts
Commonwealth. This, however, is a
mere incident in the towns history.
The chief event was the building on
hill overlooking the town and the
Cape Cod Bay of monument the
cornerstone Of which was laid by
President ROOSEVELT and which was
dedicated by President TAFT just nine
years ago. This monument was at
that time, with one exception, the
tallest masonry tower in this coun-
try. 1t was finished after many dis
appointments and years of hard work
by the people of the town to COM
rnemorate the landing of the Pilgrims
at Provincetown, the first landing that
they made in America.
The three hundredth anniversary of
the landing of the Pilgrims is to be
celebrated next year and the Massa-
chusetts Tercentenary Commission,
which is to have charge Of the cele-
bration, has already taken the pre-
llminary steps. But in all the prep
arations so far Provincetown is prac-
tically ignored. Plymouth, its proud
rival across the bay, and upon which
not a Pilgrim stepped foot for a
month after they had stopped at the
sheltered harbor at the eastern end Of
the peninsula, is to be the whole
show. Indignantly Provincetown de-
clares despite the we'll authenticated
and thoroughly we'll established fact
that the Pilgrims first landed at Prov
incetown the Pilgrim tercentenary
celebration, according to all the pres
ent plans, will be confined entirely TO
Plymouth"
That the Pilgrims cast anchor In
Cape God harbor, now the harbor Of
Provincetown that the famous COM
pact was signed there. and that dur
ing the month which the Mayfiower
remained in this harbor the passen-
gers frequently went ashore are all
irrefutable incidents of that memo
rable voyage. They are detailed with
accompanying circumstances in Gov
ernor BRADFoRD's history Of Plymouth
and In the writings of MoURr and
MORTON, the earliest chroniclers of
thcdoings Of the Pilgrims in America.
The only place in which there appears
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SIR TOMS AMBITION.
A Plea for Hearty Reception Of His
Challenge.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sr: Your
editorial article of October 16 in re-
gard to the Americas cup has interested
me very much. 1t seems to me that
some yachtsmen take a narrow view OF
the Upton challenges. Is 1t not true
that the challenge would be more well
come to some yachtsmen II It came from
the Royal Yacht Squadron rather than
the Royal Ulster Yacht Club7 There also
seems to be an impression among many
that Sir Thomas Upton wishes to ad-
vertise his business The first objection
seems un-American and the second seems
trifling.
1 have not met Sir Thomas Upton,
but / Judge by the reports that his con-
duct In the matter of the challenges and
races has been straight. generous and
sportsmanlike. I should say that he has
proven himself the best sportsmen of
those challenging for the Americas cup
since Sir Richard Sutton. owner Of the
Genesta, and Lieutenant Hem, owner Of
the Galatea.
There are two good boats already
built, the Resolute and the Vanitie, one
of which can be used to defend the cup.
and think that we ought to extend a
cordial welcome to Sir Thomas Upton
and go into the races in a good sporting
spirit And do everything we can. as DR..
Colt used to say. ito make the occasion
pass off pleasantly"
WILLIAM s. WHITEHEAD.
New YORK, October IS.
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NEED OF A LIVING SALARY
FOR OUR POLICE.
Judge Wadhams Says It Is a CUES.
ton Of Protection.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: A
police strike in New York city would
not only be a disgrace but a menace.
But II the city fails to pay an adequate
living wage to the policemen and firemen
q time will come when through the city's
neglect the present loyal force may be
ready to listen to those who would tempt
them to desertion. A policeman Is now
called upon to live on $1,000 a year for
the first three years OF his service, and
he can't do It, He has TO borrow on his
salary months ahead. The number of
applicants for enlistment in the service
has fallen off below a number requisite
to fill the ranks.
1t Is not a question of economy, 1t is
question of the protection OF the city.
and at the same time doing an act of
common justice to the men. I feel d.
rectly interested. as I am called upon TO
preside over the Court Of General Ses-
sions, in which those who break the laws
are brought to trial. At critical mo-
ment the whole structure of the law may
depend upon the loyalty and efficiency
Of our police and fire departments. The
time to prepare for that event is now.
The way to prepare for It Is TO meet the
reasonable request OF the men for an
adequate living wage. Their hours are
long. their work is often perilous they
are not permitted to engage in any other
pursuit. they are required to live in the
city OF New York and purchase their
own uniforms
The Mayor has apparently taken the
position that he cannot meet the request
of the men on the ground OF economy.
II the city OF New York cannot afford
to pay a police and fire department, let
us have that understood and organize a
voluntary force. but IL it is proposed to
have paid force let us pay them a sum
upon which they can decently live.
It Is necessary to the maintenance OF
organized government to deny to the
police and fire departments the right to
strike as a means OF enforcing the pay
ment OF an adequate wage. Striking on
the part of the firemen and policemen is
desertion. They cannot serve a labor
union and at the same time the whole
community. This being true. there is all
the more reason that the city should
properly protect and care for these public
servants.
II is folly to temporize with such a
situation and so invite catastrophe. The
Boston example ought to be enough.
WILLIAM II. WADHAMs.
NEW YORK, October IS.
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Echo Seat.

It is the Ereenest nook beside the wayl
A dark hill climbs behind IT. dark with
pines.
Where one may know not II tits day or
night;
But. all In front. the laughing river
shines.
And. near the river bank. there is a seat,
SO old none knows the time 1t was not
there,
Where many rest them from the summer
heat,
And breathe the cool, down floating. pine
sweet air.
Then, they who still are young enough to
play,
Toss one another's name across the stream,
And laugh to hear hidden mocker gay
In accents clear the cadenced word re-
deemi
And there are others. in youths later
bloom.
Who Of the cavern dwelling uymph re-
quire
What fortune shall be theirs. OF VINO loves
whom
(say. did that hidden on. grant their
desireO.
How many a voice since then is lost, is
still.
OF those that called with fresh and
lusty cheer;
Or II they call. tits past some heavenly
hill
The voice responds-not heard OF earthly
ear.
II is so many absent years gone
by,
Since I the airy magic put TO test,
I doubt me- II the Echo would reply
To those old names lock within my
breast
EDITH NJ. THOMAS.
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The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.

hastern New York, fair IN so,,.1
clouoy In north portion TODAY ana w.,
.norroW' not much change In ternano
ture gentle variable winds
New Jersey-Fair to-dav,
pary cioudy; not much Change ~ , row
Nortbs;-ns gentle M variable winds. '''n-
morrow par 1tHw c L1nsaIand-Fair to-day; to-
In temperature; gentle variable e ,n,o ehangs
southern New England~Fair to'dan.'
temp ew partly cloudy; not much chang. In
western New York-Cloudv tnta.
,,o-morrowi not much change I'm tanrs anu
'urs' gentle variable winds Apef"'
WASHINGTON. Oct. ia ,to-r, .,
considerable intensity was cen,rsi oI ~, OF
aay hisht oyer Colorado and moving sast-
reS e% an ana the northern Rocky Mountain
southern Idaifo. The storm viii nan !.
eastward to the middle Missis,,nni ya'Ys,s
% Saya the next next forty-eisht hours Rain,
east Gulf States and Michir.n TN a, sna
Parn OF the country the weather remsined
IaiE Temperatures are now below tSs
country ana an practically all parts Of the
rocky Mountain and plateau reg,ons
dhere were frosts Saturday morning in ~.
e Uni0 and central Mississippi valleys, the
Atlantic STATES t great Tbs lakes IA; And the North
Sunusy ana Monday In Florida and Mon
gay In the Mississippi and lower Ohio
w vseSSs ana mi, the upper lake region. The
where east Of tn Mississippi River. M
important temperature changes are indis
cd,ed tor the eastern half Of the country
N observations at United States Weather
bureau stations taken at P. M, yesterday
seVenty-hfth meridian time;
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PATTI IN RAGTIME.
An Evening in California Long Ago
When the Great Artist Had a Lot
Of Fun Singing Nonsense Patter.

Adelina Patti on one of her visits to
San Francisco was the guest one eve-
ming at the home of some people who
were her intimate friends and had
been her guests in her home In Wales.
Another guest on that Sunday evening
was an ambitious young tenor who, at
PATHS request, sang and nearly ex-
pired in the excitement of the occasion,
although he was generously praised by
the great artist
Then Patti discovered in the COM
pany two young fellows she had heard
on an overland train singing to their
own banjo and guitar accompaniment.
To their confusion she demanded that
they must "oblige," and insisted that
1t was just what she wanted to hear
when they protested that they sang
only darby songs.
Instruments were produced and the
young men began rather haltingly with
the quietest and most sentimental
songs they knew. Patti was not salts
fled. Those funny, lively ones" she de-
manded. They, encouraged, gradually
worked into brisker songs, to PATHS
undoubtedly genuine pleasure. She
hummed along with them until they
swung into a rafting medley, when she
Joined with full throated voice In these
words:
chillen. keep in de middle Of de road,
Chillen. keep In de middle of de road
Doan turn onto de lef.
Doan turn onto de right
Jess keep in de middle of de roadl
The sun., 1919-10-19

Some liquor dealers in New York
city and its neighborhood have been
violating the war time prohibition act
openly, in much the same way some
liquor dealers violated the New York
liquor tax law. Now the Federal
statute is backed up by the Volstead
enforcement act, and Colonel DANIEL
L. PORTER, supervisor of internal reve-
nue. agents in this district, has given
notice that he will compel compliance
with its provisions.
Wise men in the liquor trade will
take Colonel PoRTER's words seriously.
New York is under the Jurisdiction of
the United States. New York is a
great community, but the United
States is greater. Father KNIcKEB-
BOOKER is a powerful old fellow, but
Uncle SAM is more powerful, and even
If they were equally matched as to
strength Father KNIcKERBocKER Is
not going to help any of his sons who
defy Uncle SAM. Uncle SAM has
long arm and a long memory for his
nephews who disregard >his enact
ments, and when he is sitting on the
bench he is deaf to the whispered
pleas of ward leaders and the appeals
Of district bosses.
The liquor dealers who have not
treated war time prohibition seriously
had better wake up. Already they
have done their trade a serious in
jury by giving substance to the dry
charge that many of those who follow
it are lawless characters. This is
going to handicap all movements to
legalize the sale of beer and light
wines II they defy Uncle SAM after
the volstead act becomes effective
they will not only hurt the future of
their trade, but they may find them
selves in a most unpleasant fix.
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cuRFEW SHALL NOT RING.
Let Parents, Not the Police, Take Care
of the Children Of New York.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sw: Few
parents will agree with the suggestion
made in the annual report Of Mrs Ellen
o'Grady, Fifth Deputy Police Commits
sioner, that the city ought to have
curfew ordinance
Mrs. o'Grady holds the opinion that
curfew ordinance would prevent youthful
delinquency. She thinks the police should
be empowered to pick up children after
an hour agreed upon. If this were done
the children would go to bed earlier, get
more sleep and be In better mental con-
dition the following morning to study
their lessons and acquire knowledge.
Less than n year ago the idea OF n
curfew ordinance was suggested and put
before the Board of Aldermen; but the
board voted II down. There Is no need
for a curfew ordinance In New York
and no logical reason for empowering
the police to pick UP children on the
streets unless under extraordinary cir
cumstances. Youthful delinquency can
be curbed by making the parents re-
sponsible for the actions Of their chill
dren. As a matter of fact, IL Is the
parents who should be amenable to the
law and not the children. for the latter
in most cases are not old enough to
know any better.
There are enough ordinances In force
now to cover every phase of this situa-
ton adequately. The adoption Of one
more ordinance will not improve matters
sufficiently to warrant public agitation
in its favor and there is some doubt
right now that curfew ordinance would
meet with general approval. Most parents
are quite touchy about their children.
PARENT.
NEW YoRK. October IL.
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A Lively Massachusetts, View Of Mis-.
sissippi. .

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Ajax
defying the lightning had nothing on
John Sharp williams challenging the
Irish in the Senate. Good old Anglo
Saxon Mississippi. where the White
Mans Burden is kept on ice, can always
be depended upon for light and leading.
Her Bombastes Observation-Disclosures
may be temporarily eclipsed, but her
Simon Tappertit is still on the job. That
discredited and discarded thing. Ameri-
canism. may not interest Mississippi, but
as long as Williams has jaw to wag
In the Senate our precious heritage of
Anglo Saxonism will be safe.
1t is time some heroic soul put the
pestilent irish in their place and defied
the Irish vote OF Mississippi Yazoo is
still on guard. The grim old Yahoos of
Lynchovania are back of the Tappertit
Of the Delta still. Sic semper Milesiusi
John Sharp's defiance of assassins and
assassinations is gorgeous. as full of
thrills as a movie and as he points his
fearless fofefnger at the contemplate
Irish Of the Senate let America not for
get its duty. Are Hedjaz and Patagonia
to be preserved and the Senatorial Tap
PERTH sacrificed? Perish the thought I.
Where are all our leagues. that preserve
everything from pickles to liberty? Rouse
up, Willy Reilly! The hour for hesitation
is gone. Save John Sharp at all hazards.
Let every stealthy villain in the capital
found in possession of a blowplpe and a
can OF insect powder be arrested and
shot at daybreak. Only thus will the
Simon Tappertit of Mississippi be saved
and Sim Fem baffied. Yours for the
Welshers. JOSEPH SMITH.
Boston. Mass. October IS.
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From the Boys L1s
Come out. boys come out:
Get all the troop together.
The day Is great and the sun II bright
Say. It's october weather.
Buddy Jones-go get him quick,
And Bill-there he's a-cailing.
The burrs have burst. the wind Is high.
And tho ripest ones are falling.
Hurry them up: get all the bunch
And bring them out-where's Joef
Nuts on the ground are easy to get
The sweetest the highest grow.
Scout or squirrel. which one will VIM
It's the hrst one there that lands,
But a squirrels feet should never beat
scout with his head and hands.
There's fun in the woods on a day like
Miss U? who ever dreamed miss
Natures in love with tho whole wide
world.
For Winter gave her a kiss.
Como out, boys. come out,
It's dandy sight to see
The colors that Nature has wrought
And splashed on every tree.
Tom MARTIN BRAY.
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POEMS WORTH READING.


Out OF the hidden mists Of the sea they
And in the fluid tides Of the Hudson they
linger.
Great hulking masses OF gray.
Loliins on the extended arm OF the river.
slouching and yawning:
Giants that have mounted the hurricane
Empty guns once stated with Death are
slung from their shoulders.
Each is a big burly son
Accustomed to 20 on adventures; account
ing to no one
OF whom there are terrified gossipings,
But he has come home now
And dutifully sips tea with his mother,
Shows her tho lift of his iron biceps
And laughs at her delicate pressure upon
them;
Lets her tell him about winter nannels.
While the children climb on his knees; put
their ears to his Textbook
He makes Of himself a toy. new kind OF
piaything,
CULVER trampied by Lilliput.
Urchins wormins their way in the crowds
That scurry from shore in the water bug
lanches
Go climbing the great lattice masts OF the
wireless.
Go straddlins the hobby horse guns.
Go boosting each other to peer through
telescopes,
Go humping swift heads to examine the
groovings
Down through the barrel of grim twelve
inch guns.
Pairs of tlmid sweethearts lean at the
ratings.
Solemn housewives exclaim over copper
cauldrons
Question the sailor cooks.
sometimes q bugie sounds, or a band plays.
And out OF the murderous heart Of De-
stroyers
Music slips tiptoeing quite in a daze.
Music light, grooming and Hitting,
Music some little Grandmother might hum.
Should all surprising sweet neglected memo
ries come
That set her swaying as pale chrysan-
themum.
There are nights Of the sesrchlights.
When over the lapis sky long rays of un-
blazing light
Clusters of embodied wind-go topping.
They fall as slowly as they rise,
They rise as swiftly as they fall.
They stride the heavens vain as comets
They pose as Milky Ways.
They grow tremulous and fash TO hiding.
Some. holder. drop their stems and riding
high
Poke noses into grave celestial doorways
And slap astonished consultations on this
back
A prodigious game OF hide and seek they
play;
Infinity for playground.
A game Of terrifying silencei
There is no blasting sound commensurate,
No Haunting echo wild enough
But now of late-these autumn days,
When trees on shore are like untidy hair
too long INTENDED,
When winds fling down the surly funnel
smoke
Tho ships seem restless. less at ease, i'm
patient of their playing,
Seem longing to culver once again
To the heave and the surge of their
strength.
To pulse to the thud of the pounding of
engines
And regain their lost comrade tho sea.
Some night they will slip into pockets their
soft footed searchlights.
Their bells that have tinkled the lenso of
the park bordered city.
They will turn all unnoticed,
And breathing huskily go.
Then the river-deep bosomed. maternal
the river they left.
VIII follow with tides seeking vainly; will
gaze as with eyes now bereft.
KATHRYN WHITE RYAN.
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It Is the Governments Job to Break
the Port Blockade.

From the United States Shipping
Board comes this statement:
THE delay on the part Of the long
shoremen on the Atlantic coast in
abandoning their unauthorized strike
In violation of their agreement to
abide by the awards of the National
Adjustment Commission makes 1t nee
essary for the United States Shipping
Board to give immediate considera-
ton to the working of the ships under.
It's control
This delay Is resulting in great
Inconvenience to the public. in a seri-
Gus interruption in the operation of
the merchant marine and In An ap-
palling economic waste. This is
condition which cannot be permitted
to continue. and a remedy must be
found at once to sustain these awards
and carry on the business of the
country"
Then let the United States Govern
ment get on Its job. There is no need
to hunt around the country for the
remedy. 1t is right here at hand. 1t
is sticking up in plain view of every
body. The only need is to apply It
by those whose sole and explicit duty
it is to apply it.
1t Is the Governments job, and 1t
is nobody else's, to operate its mer-
chant marine which is tied up in this
port. 1t is the Governments job to
operate the railway system, much of
which Is stalled at this port by the
shipping tieup. 1t is the Govern
ment's job to break the freight block
ade on the water and on the land; to
clean up the port railway yards and
terminals. to clean up the piers. to
clean up the harbor. AS long as the
Government Is in control of the ma
lions transportation, ashore and
afloat. 1t can be nobody else's Job.
The United States Government has
at its command the able bodied men
to put at the work Of loading and I'M
loading the tied up shipping which
waits upon the defaulting pledge and
defiant will of the striking longshore,
men. The Government has the mill
tary strength to protect those work
ers from violence and crime The
Government has the men, the author
ity and the power to clean up this
shipping. mess of disgrace and dan
ger as clean as whistle. So let the
Government clean 1t up.
If the United States Government
isn't up to that Job, then It isn't up
to any job.
The sun., 1919-10-19
The ReJuvenating Air of the Senate
Chamber.

1t would be helpful were specialists
in such matters to investigate and re-
port upon the phyelcal-or 1t may be
that hygienic is the approved word
conditions In the Senate chamber
which so marvellously stimulate the
human operative apparatus employed
or chiefly depended upon In public
speaking
1t Is not an unimportant matter.
Outside the Senate chamber robust,
broad chested men engaged in public
speaking are exhausted by an hours
effort. A certain very distinguished
and splendid orator has seldom spoken
at one time longer than fifty minutes,
the length, say. of n professors lee
ture. But In the Senate some mys-
terry of condition concerning which
our bolicitude is expressed enables
men not young. not notably otherwise
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A Word to the Wise.

We copy the following from the
Ne,os Of Lynchburg, Virginia:
THE NEW YORK SUN, which has
long since demonstrated its capacity
to resort to the lowest methods of
Justification N warning against the
Administration. did not hesitate to in
innate in its columns that the Presi-
dent was a mendacious hypocrite
when assuming to be a sick man."
II the Hon. CARTER GLASS, Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, desires to retain
the respect Of all those who wish him
well he will lose no time In inserting
high powered jawbreaker bit in the
wide mouth Of the fool who writes
such stuff under cover of the name OF
CARTER GLASS as Owner.
The sun., 1919-10-19
Good News for the Citizen Who Had
the Telephone Adventure.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir. My
attention has been attracted to a letter
published in your issue OF October l6,
signed by L. H. T." in regard to trouble
he had in getting parlor car Office and
concerning parlor car reservation which
he had from New York to Easthampton.
L. I. We assume that IL. II. T." had
purchased a parlor car seat. qf such is
the case and he will present his ticket
to the general passenger agent of the
Long Island Railroad. Room SOL. Penn
sylvania Station. New York. n. Y, the
amount he paid for It will be refunded.
RALPH PDrERs, Federal Manager.
NEW York, October IT.
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Some Southern Performances After
the "Hour Of Surrender"

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Str: In
his fling at the Irish Senator Williams
eulogized the United Confederate Veter-
ans for having Endorsed the League Of
Nations. He said there was nothing In
all the world that could compare with
them in their hour of surrender and In
their hour of seif-surrender. which came
later" But il so happened that this dis
tinguished Senator from the Black Belt
made no mention in his TRADE against
the Irish Of the organization and doings
of as cowardly a gang Of freebooters
the "Ku-Klux Klan.' as was ever or
ganized in the history of this or any
other country. This was after their
hour Of surrender" when they were
licked to a fragile with the help OF the
Irish. HENRY J. BRENNAN.
NEW York, October IS.
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II is to be read with shudder of
apprehension that a list of new and
forthcoming books contains only be-
tween 1000 and 5000 titles. The breast
bones of wild geese and other reliable
signs threaten a long. cold winter. dur
ing which reading becomes not alone a
pleasure but a necessity. so II does
seem that the book writing folk might
have done more work even If II re-
quired suspension Of their union rule
of two hours a day and a reformed
five day week.