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To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS-Slr: After
Mr.. Bensons letter, published on jar
uary 6. il would seem hardly worth
while TO say anything more about the
cost of milk, but many OF your readers
vii, doubt any statement by a member
Of the Dairymen's League. so am
going to tell the facts as gathered by
a private citizen.
Not being able TO buy good milk. l
kept my own COW for fifteen months,
Not counting the fodder, which
raised myself. and no labor as l
take care OF her myself, the actual
costfof milk has been over eight cents.
and when the consumer pays fifteen
cents or over ne is helping TO pay div!-
dends on inflated stock OF companies
distributing the milk. Many OF the
farmers work hard and get really Moth
ing for their labor but the fertilizer
which they accumulate. A. G. W.
NEW YORK, January 90.
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THE CYCLE OF THE COW.
MIX Farmers Want TO Put Their
Business on n Sound Basis.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuS--Sfr: As
to the price of milk, city people should
have heard the story told by one OF the
professors at Cornell. lie was talking
with farmer and he asked him why he
| kept cows, The farmer said:
ITO get the manure"
well, what do you want the manure
for?"
ITO make the corn and grass grow"
What do you want the corn and
grass to grow for?'
ITO feed the darn old cows"
Now IL we have to keep cows Just
20 make corn and grass grow TO keep
| the COW. the sooner We get rid OF the
COW the better.
Everything we buy has doubled in
work to-day will buy Just as much
milk II would two years ago; there
| fore milk is just as cheap to-day as
Ii ever was.
They say the fight is against the
Dairymens League. but II really Is
against every individual farmer 20 keep
him from obtaining what Is Justly his
dues. I have never seen published in
any paper anything to show in any
way that the farmer was getting more
than the cost Of production. let alone
profit 1t is also a fact that at the
| recent John Doe Investigation they
We're not willing to take any evidence
az to the cost OF producing milk.
Now with any kind OF balanced
ration costing between $40 and $50 n
e, la, ~.
| selling for $40 ton. any one can
readily see that the cost OF feeding a
COW is no small item. to say nothing
Of the work and other expenses con-
nected with the business.
I wonder how many city women
would relish getting out OF bed at
o'clock in 'ht morning on some snowy
morning and wading two or three hun
dred yards to barn and milking
seven or eight COWS, then going in and
getting breakfast. Vet doubt IL there
are many farmers wives who have not
had this experience. There Is nothing
right about this for the farmers wife
should have no more to do with the
barn than the city woman has 10 do
with the Office. The trouble ia tho
compete with other people In hiring
help
| know of 'ots % youaS boys who
are working for tho railroad and who
1rr draving 5000 month who have
noi a coat % nl.rey invested In the
worll; but show N" 'he farmer. not
Wjthsta ndiug the fact that ile has from
$4,000 TO $4,000 invested. who Is
making this much.
II the Dairymens League goes. the
dairy farmer might Just as well 60 too.
for there will be no hope Of his ever
receiving what belongs to him.
The dairy business should be put on
sound basis. the cost OF production
plus a reasonable profit, for on no other
! basis can any business prosper, and the
public should be educated to the fact
that milk is the best, cheapest and
most nourishing food which they can
buy. CHARLES A. BURNETT.
MoNrGoMErY, January n.
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The Sentinel,

Though others slept. he paced the parapet,
Needing the signs and signals In the sky,
Each ugly omen marked. lest We forget
Our solemn duty to humanity.
Dragged by no subtle phrase or willy word.
OF deadly makeshift studiously shy.
Ripe for tho nght when Right and Justice
sstirred,
Eager when Freedom called to answer
aye"
Ready! The very word was made for him.
Ordained for action. though the world
should pause.
Obstinate? Yes, II will ana purpose grim
Seem stubborn In q fight FOR righteous
cause.
Enter his name upon the muster roll,
vitality charged with Jove's Olympic ire.
Enter his namel For his embarrassed soul
Leaves with his sons the sabre of their
Tempered In zeal and patriotic fire.
WILLIAM Il. GILBERT.
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Gaelic as m Oficial Tongue.

1t will surprise and sadden many
who have watched the attempt to re-
suscitate the Irish language to read,
IN the dispatches from Dublin. tho
statement that the use OF Gaelic by
the speakers. instead OF enlIvcning he
Sim Fem proceedings, seemed rather
to make them dull.
l. ii that Gaelic is tongue hard
10 die and hard Ia bring 10 Ike: Ii Is
related of EUGENE O'GEowNEY. the
Roman Catholic priest who, with the
Protestant layman DOUGLAS HYDE,
headed the great movement Of 1893
for the return Of Gaelic. that al.
though his parents lived in the County
Meath they had no Gaelic" and in
deed until he went to the seminary
at Savan he was unaware that there
was an Irish language. Both Father
O'GRowSEY and DR.. HYDE were known
in this country, for the priest came 10
the United States year after the
foundation of the Gaelic League and
Angeles in 1899: and DR.. HYDE, who
was president Of the League from It's
beginning until HIS resignation in
1915, has spoken in many parts OF
America, pleading for the return OF
Irish Gaelic.
There was more than passing en-
thuslasm for the ancient tongue.
Gaelic, which was supposed TO have
received its death blow through the
national school act enforced in Ire
land in 1888, was returned twenty
schools. Chairs Of Gaelic we're estab-
lished at Trinity College, Dublin, and
at the Roman Catholic seminary in
Maynooth, and in this country, ut
Harvard at the Catholic University
in Washington and at Notre Dame
University. Fifteen years ago there
were forty branches Of the Gaelic
League in America. 1t would seem
that with this amount Of enthusiasm
on both sides of the Atlantic the Irish
language, after twenty-five years of
vigorous effort 10 restore It, should
have shown up better in the remark
able meetings In the Irish capital bur
maybe the reporters had not The
Gaelic, and wishing that it had died
utterly IN Ireland ms it did III Corn
wall, reflected their own gloom in their
articles.
From GEoFFREY HEATING down to
DOUGLAS HYDE, in three centuries we
have been assured Of the beauty OF
the Irish language, and II II CORE
spends with the beauty of the Irish
Imagination, rs expressed in the
poetry Of MOoRE and the plays OF
DUNsANY, it must be rare indeed
Whether ii is necessary for political
advance is another matter. An Irish
man cSn speak the language of the
United States and stlll let us know
beyond doubt that he is Irish; and
we have heard Irishmen say that thu
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Replies Usually Cut OF.

At the invitation of the chairman Mr.
Lamar essayed to get some information
from Mr.. Reynolds, but as the first part
of the latter's replies seldom suited tho
Post once official the replies were
usually unfinished.
Mr.. Lamar started out 10 review the
story told by Mr. Reynolds Yesterday
OF his dismissal by the tmastcr-Gcu-
eral after he had Endorsed "A letter writ
ten by subordinate late IN November
urging delay and obstruction to the Fed
.ral plan OF control
You say you were discharged on No
vember 30?" asked Mr.. Lamar. Before
that you talked 60 the Postmaster Cen
eralo"
II think / did the listening; he made
stump speech" Mr. Reynolds began,
and Immediately he and his examiner
began talking at once and the rest was
lost to the committee.
"On or about August IT, said Mr..
REYNOLDS, discussing labor troubles
which the Postal Company had with
The Postmaster Gcu"ltl. the Pustmas-
'or-Gencral issued an order authorizing
~" enrolment Of Postal employees in
thc Western Union employees oreaul-
cation. That could only result I'm the
breaking down OF the morale OF our
men"
you know" interrupted Mr. Lamar
aocuslngly, that was only 20 allow tel
egraph employees to get the raise en-
joyed by the Western Union"
The officers of that association came
here and were authorized TO enroll our
men" continued Mr., Reynolds. They
then went TO New York. They did not
attempt to see me, but went to one OF
our subordinate heads and took him out
to lunch
Throughout this brief statement
Judge Lamar interrupted number OF
times to insist that the Postma stor-
Generals only interest was 70 handle
the wage settlements himself aud not
be dictated TO by labor organizations
Reciting that the Postma>ter-G General
took over the telegraph, telephone and
cable systems after all apparent reason
for such action Rad passed and arhi-
tFa!iiy raised rates. Representative Nc
kinney CIllirois) to-day introduced a
resolution calling for Investigation OF
the activities OF the department in this
connection by a select bipartisan com
mittee of six members.
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A Citizen Who FOrgets That Investi.
cation Puts Men on the Payroll

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir.
have been informed that II Is the in
tention OF the Government to investigate
the ircome and excess profits tax re-
turns OF every corporation in the coun-
try.
Is this really necessary? II seems to
me that the returns of corporations man
aged by men OF experience and probity
ought TO be accepted without question.
They certainly are IN other countries
I think the Government might very we'll
exercise some discrimination In this mat
ter and thereby save enormous expense.
BUSINESS MAS.
NEW YORK. January %.
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SOLDIERS FARMS.
why Overlook the Waiting Lands In
Eastern Statesl

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN--Sir: I
read that Secretary Lane and some other
Washington officials recommend the I'M
provemert OF large tracts of land that
at present are unfit for cultivation, TO
be occupied by returned soldiers. In the
bill OF Representative Kelly OF Penn
svivania Congress Is urged t. appropri-
at" $500, 100000 70" irrigation projects.
draining great -wauie, clearing away
stumps. g. and +. would require long
time 10 make those VIA. de- p.ato wastes
suitable for nab!ia,tou
There certainly ara fewer soldiers 10
come back from Europe than went over,
and those who care to farm will uatu-
rally return to the places whore they
were located when called to the war
Thousands OF farms in New York and
the Eastern States. ready for immediate
occupancy. can be purchased on easy
terms and are located within the realms
OF civilization. Judging from conditions
In this vicinity, where most farms are
poorly cultivated and cared for owing
10 scarcity OF labor. there IL no cause
for worry about lack OF opportunity to
engage in farming, and II any one is
without employment II IS the fault Of
the worker
As to the proposed colder land bill,
Il seems unwise 10 devote suSn vast
sums OF money to n scheme that IL I'M
necessary. especially AZ this time, when
our Government is planning to ask for
another large loan. The rich appropria-
tons granted by the Government often
have for n following a great band Of
agents, contractors inSDeCtors and all
sorts Of officials who grow Fat on large
fees. Those who have the power to dis
tribute the funds OF the nation. should
not let any excitement OF the present
moment interfere with sound Judgment.
MYnoN HAMBLIN.
MrLLuToS, January %.
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Bread Lines and Government Aid.

Labor leauerS ana others VINO are
talking about threatened army of
unemployed, composed in large part
OF returned soldiers. to the number
of perhaps 100000 men, are simply
guessing. Politicians who. posing as
I the unselfish friends OF the soldiers
and Of the munition workers, are talk
Ing about taking care OF 80 vast a
number Of unemployed with a Gov
eminent appropriation of 100000
600 to provide Jobs on public works
for all who want To work are simply
talking unmitlgated nonsense.
AS for the soldiers. there isn't a
shadow of doubt that the great ma
iority Of them will he put back on
their old jobs II they want to 20 back
and if the jobs are still in existence.
This example set by employers in
ninety cases out OF a hundred cannot
he defed by employers in the other
| ten cases.
As for the munition workers and
others who did not go to war. but did
go into war work, their unemployment
| depends upon the success of this coun-
try in making its industrial readjust.
ments. These readjustments can he
made; they must be made. The law
OF Nature will see to that. The Gov
eminent. the politicians. the publ
| cists, all who are devoting thought
and speech to this question, would far
better get right on the job of read.
iustment than to be misleading the
| soldiers, the munition workers or any
body else with visionary and imprac-
ticable schemes that can never solve
| the problem.
Now, just think what Senator Ken.
YoN's bill providing for 100000, 900
reduces itself to In plain arithmetic
and common sense. If, for instance
this appropriation undertook to give
work 10 100000 unemployed, per-
| haps not more than half the money
would 20 into wages, the rest being
spent for materials and on the usual
administrative details" Of all Gov
eminent business. But If every penny
of the S1O0,0OO0O0 went into wages,
how far would 1t carry 100000
men on the journey Of employment?
II the 5,O00OO0 men received nm aver
age Of So day the hundred million
dollar appropriation would last just
about a week.
| American labor, V neither back from
the battefields and training camps o.
back from war plants, can be taken
care of only in self-supportlng indus
tries, where the dollars or the millions
Of dollars or the billions Of dollars
paid TO labor reproduce themselves in
production.
The sllllest and at the same time
the most dangerous hallucination with
which people can be afflicted is the
moonshine dream that the Govern
ment can pay when nothing else can
pay, when, as a matter Of fact, II
nothing else pays the Government
cannot pay. The Government cannot
foster non-prOductive labor beyond
the absolute needs of the Government
| without dragging down general indus.
try and business and impoverishlng
the people.
Industry and business-nOrmal In.
dustry and normal business--want to
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missing, the. total casualties amount.
ing to nearly Eve millions. But It Is
plain that every time a Frenchman
fell another Frenchman was ready to
step forward and take his place In the
undaunted ranks. France was bled,
but constant TRANSMISSION kept her
alive. 1t was Germany, after all, that
was bled white. What Germany lost
was not only the blood OF the body,
but the blood of the spirit.
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The Yehicular Tunnel Under the
North River.

Had New York harbor not been tied
up in the winter of 10l1.1S by the
severe cold, and again this month by
n strike of the harbor boat workers,
the Legislature OF this State might
have delayed its approval Of a vehicu.
lar tunnel between this city and New
Jersey. Those Illuminating periods Of
isolation, which showed New Workers
how dependent they are on means Of
communication with the mainland to
the west, had a profound educational
effect. They liftSl the tunnel project
out of the realm of desirable con-
veniences into the domain of impera.
tive necessities, and action on 1t was
consequently prompt.
In 101I-1S the Pennsylvania tunnels
we're used to transport coal TO keep
New York from freezing. This year
they were utilized to relieve the pas
sengcr congestion In the Hudson tubes
when the ferrybont service was prac-
tically paralyzed, and some supplies
were also brought to town through
them. In each emergency the need
for II vchlcular tunnel or bridge was
made apparent to everybody, and u
tunnel IS not only less expensive than
A bridge, but It's approaches can be
more easily established than those for
an elevated structure.
In laying out the route to be fol-
lowed by the tunnel the reorganiza-
ton Of the highway systems on both
sides OF the river must be taken into
account. If the smooth and orderly
flow of traffic is to be maintained. In
this work it will be essential for the
city and property owners 10 cooperate
with the tunnel commissioners. Dis
agreements among them might sori-
ously ohstruct the completion Of this
new artery of commerce.
Like every public improvement in
creasing the commercial facilities Of
New York harbor, this tunnel will be
matter OF national concern. Not
only will those living in municlpali-
ties bordering on the hurhor benefit
from 1t, but all the population living
in the territory adjacent to New York
will feel its good effects. Yet the
work is to be done ut the cost of the
States of New Jersey and New York.
without a Federal appropriation, a
fact worthy of remembrance when the
next river and harbor pork bill comes
before Congress.
Tunnel building under the rivers
about New York city should be almost
an exact science by this time. The
geological formations through which
the headings must he driven ought
to be thoroughly familiar to engineers
of subaQueous structures. The Penn
sylvania and Hudson bores lie under
the he'd of the lower Hudson; the East
River covers not only passengefo tun-
nels. but gas is brought from Long
Island to Manhattan beneath it's wa
ters. A mermaid seeking way to
the sea from the Sound must pick her
path with care. The Mclean inven-
ton is demonstrated In the tubes I'M
der the Harlem.
The results Of these numerous ex-
ploits have been to furnish an enor-
nous amount of data for the guild
ance of suhaqueous tunnel building in
New York, and to provide an ade-
quate supply of skilled and expert
enced workers from sandhogs to chief
engineers TO perform the labor, The
North River vehicular tunnel ought to
be put through in record time.
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It ia always the case that as the
session wears on the nerves OF men,
bers wear of. and they say spiteful
things which the gentle grieve to
hear. Representative SMELL, who in
the springtime OF a session is as docile
as heart could wish, now petulently
asks about the clerk for the Com
mittee on Railways and Canals.
was on that committee for two years
and ! never found the door open.
wondered what they did" How un-
reasonable The committee hired a
clerk to keep the committee door
shut Of course.
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New York's, which is to say
Americas. two most famous avenues
have Of late undergone noticeable
transformations. Broadway has been
restored. after It's long course OF sur
face disturbances for subway exca-
vations; Fifth avenue, the centre OF
every spectacular demonstration and
patriotic drive, returns to peace foot
ing; with no posters. few flags and
little bunting. 1t regains the CONNER
cial aspect OF great and impressive
business thoroughfare.
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Friedrich Naumann rs Germany .
First President.

The latest prediction regarding
the organization of the new German
Government, prediction based very
largely upon the opinions expressed
by the Berlin newspapers, is that
FRIEDRICH NAUMANN will be the first
President Of the German Republic. In
all previous discussions Of possible
candidates for this Office DR.. NAr.
MANN's name has not appeared. To
the world outside Of Germany he was
known less as politician or states
man than us historian aud publ
cist; In fact, his reputation was
founded largely upon his book "Mit-
teleuropa," defence OF Pan German
ism and Of the military party's scheme
for the extension eastward of Ger
man Imperialism.
DR.. NAUMANN has seen. however,
long and active service in the Reichs-
tag He was on most measures that
came before that body strongly CON
sentative, and he was at one time the
leader Of the Progressive Liberals.
He was considered an opponent of
socialism on account Of his strong
inclination TO Imperialism. The So
cialists, though, have reason to be
grateful TO him. as no opposed the
crusade that was planned against
them by the Government. declaring
that such an action was impossible
after the patriotic speeches Of BEBEL
and MAuRENByCHER in advocacy of
! colonial expansion. He appeared
again as a strong defender OF Chan
cellor voS BETuMASN.HoLLwEG In
his championship of the Chancellor
he took rather middle ground be-
tween the Pan-Germans apd the So
cialists and male the basis OF his de-
fence an appreciation OF the respon-
slbilities Of the Chancellor's Office and
Of VoN BETHMANN-HoLLwEG ability
to bear the great burdens which 1t
imposed.
In "Mitteleuropa," which was trans
lated into all European languages and
extensively read, DR.. NArMASN pro-
posed sort of superstate in Central
Europe. Austria and Germany were
| to be the leaders. but with them were
to be federated all the minor nations
from Norway and Sweden to Turkey.
The work created an unfavorable i'm
preston In Hungary and also in Bull
garia and Turkey. Its principles
were opposed by the radical Social
lists Of Germany. And that he sue
ceeded in gaining Socialist support ut
all was due largely to the fact that he
above all other defenders of PAn-Ger-
manlsm was able to make it accept
able to n great body Of the German
people. \ Characteristic defence Of
his principles is the following:
I'VE Germans construct the best ma
chimes give thc best instruction In ma
thematics. are the most excellent in de-
sign work; but as regards our position
| in the outside world. We are still behind
the times"
The selection OF Dr. NAuMANN
would undoubtedly be due TO a coal-
ton Of the present German parties,
of the Socialists and Of ono or more
OF the stronger bourgeois parties.
But in order to he acceptable Il the
Socialist majority he must have
| changed his former impcralist ideals,
a change which he, rs n capable poll
tician, would be quick to see was rem
dered imperative by Germany's pres
ent position.
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REYNOLDS CHIDED
AT WIRE INQUIRY
Postal Official Forced to Spend
His Time Wrangling on
Witness Stand.
SEES LESS SECRECY NOW
He Accuses BurlesOn Of Action
Tending to Effect Morale
Of Keymen.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.--Edward Reyn-
clds. vice-pre sident and general manager
Of the Postal Telegraph Company. was
before the House Post Office committee
again to-day attempting to place before
the committee the views Of those who OPP
pose Government control and operation
Of the telegraph systems Of the nation,
but was forced TO spend practically the
entire time wrangllng with Chairman
Moon (Tenn). William III. Lamar, So
lcitor for the Post Office Department,
one OF the committee appointed by Mr..
Burleson to operate the wire systems,
was present at the hearing and assisted
Mr. Moon.
Despite every attempt by most mem
bers OF the committee to protect the wit
ness the open hostility shown by Chair
man Moon, who was prompted and at
times openly lead by Mr.. Lamar, made
impossible the ascertanment in coherent
form of the information desired by the
committee.
Mr. Reynolds told tho committee the
Government could not possibly operate
the telegraph companies az economi-
cally as the private organizations.
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Outburst by Moon.

You mean.'' interrupted Chairman
Moon, that you want no Government
experiment In peace times: you mean
that you want private interests to con-
tinue to evade the rights of the Gov
eminent? Suppose we hire you folks to
run the systems for u.s."
But you would not take our views.
retorted Mr. Reynolds. The moment
we expressed them wc would he dis
missed
"po you believe the public's advice
should be obtained before tho Govern
ment undertakes TO operate n monop-
oly?" asked Representative Black
(Texas).
Yes returned Mr.. Reynolds they
would be the ones to suffer and pay the
costs"
The committee sought to ascertain Mr..
Reynolds's views as 10 the reasons for
the Government seizing the telegraph and
telephone lines
Was there more secrecy OF operation
after the Government took over the OPP
eraton?" inquired Representative Ram
seyer Gowa).
NO. there was not" retorted Mr..
Reynolds. AS soon az the change was
made every operator that had political
connections began to communicate with
Senators and congressman. and ! guess
there was less secrecy than before"