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SAYS FOREIGN LOANS
BY US. WILL BEPAID
Glass's Aid Expects Even RUS
STA to Settle for "One Of
Best Investments
Special Despatch 70 TIE suy.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-The United
states expects all foreign Governments
to pay back the loans made them during
the war, and the Government has taken
over no obligation OF a foreign Govern
ment that is not amply protected by
security. Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Leffingwell told the House
Committee on Expenditures in the State
Department to-day.
Mr. Leffingwell stated that the Gov
eminent had received no request from
any Government for the cancellation af
any part of its debts, and in answer to
questions by committee members specIh-
cally denied that such a plan was being
considered In the case of the obliga-
tons of France.
Even the Russian loans will be paid
back. because all OF the various factions
there have agreed to assume the foreign
obligations, with the exception OF one
Soviet" he said
Mr.. Leffingwell was questioned con-
corning the payment of interest on some
OF the bonds issued by the Cars regime
and now held by individuals in this
country.
There is no mystery about this pay
ment." Mr.. Lefflngweu said. when the
Gar was overthrow the Russian AM
bassador. Boris Bakhmeteff. had in his
charge a cash account of $56,000,000
Out Of this, in cooperation with the
Treasury and the National City Bank of
New York, part of the interest has been
paid. The rest of the fund has been
used to pay contract obligations of the
Cars Government in this country.
Funds received fr1=:. the salvage of
supplies and equipment awaiting ship
ment to the Cars army at the time he
was overthrown also were diverted TO
these purposes by the Amba ssador Thu
supplies salvaged were largely railroad
equipment"
Was not this sold at a great sacri-
fice?' asked Representative McFad-
den (Pa.).
Il do not know about that except that
the whole transaction was under the
surveillance of a Government committee
or which Bernard NJ. Baruch was chair.
man." Mr.. Leffingwell replied.
The total Government loans to Russia
amount to S1s7.72s,Oo0 and the best
estimate OF Russian bonds held by in
diyiduals is $se,ooo.Ooo. Mr.. Lefnngweli
said.
Answering criticisms OF the Russian
loans Mr.. Leffingwel said they We're one
OF the best Investments ever made.
without them 1t would have been i'm
possible for Russia to have kept an army
on the eastern front in 1915, a time
when Germany was at the height OF her
power, and had she not to send Aarge
numbers OF men against the Russians
she probably could have crushed the
Allies on the western front" he said.
Russia will pay the debt, for she can
not assume her place among nations
until she does. She is the richest coun-
Try In natural resources except the
United States"
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The United States and the Balkan
Treaty.

The settlement of the conflicting
claims in the Balkans is proving, as
IL was expected that it would prove,
one Of the knotty problems Of the
Peace Conference. That VENIZELos,
the Greek Premier, foresaw this was
evident In his attempt, reported from
Europe early this month, to form a
Balkan league, which might consti-
tute barrier against the aggression
of any one of the small nations and
| also guarantor of peace in the Euro
pean storm centre. This action of the
Greek Premier would tend to show
that he believed the situation was
fraught with perils against which
there was required a more specific
protection than was offered by the
League of Nations. A despatch yes
terday from THE SUN correspondent
at Paris to the effect that VENIzELos's
statements indicate that he has no
confidence in the League as pre-
server of Balkan peace" would seem
clearly to define his position.
The question arises out of the ad-
| justment of the demands of Greece
and Bulgaria to territorial rights in
the ancient Grecian Thrace. The
claims are not entirely the outgrowth
of the present war; in their origin
| they date back to the early racial
struggles Of these people in southeast
ern Europe and they were revived
with each European conference that
attempted to administer upon the
crumbling estate Of Turkish Sultans
For these reasons the question pre-
sents all the clinical, historical and
cultural perplexities and complica-
lions that have confronted every group
of adJusters that have attempted a
settlement of Balkan problems
! To the Bulgarians the value of
Thrace lies in the outlet that 1t gives
them to the Kgean Sea. They Sc
cured this outlet by the treaty at the
end Of the Balkan war; but in at
tempting to establish recognition of
their right TO Thrace by falling back
upon the Treaty of San Stefano they
overstep themselves. This treaty, 1t
Is true, gave them an outlet on the
Egean, but 1t awarded to them only
eastern Rumelia and not Thrace
Their historical claim, If 1t was to be
considered, could scarcely be SO we'll
based as that Of the Greeks. Against
their claim of 100000 Bulgarians in
Thrace, presented In the memorandum
addressed to the American Envoy at
Sofia, the Greeks adduce data to show
that the Bulgarians do not number at
the most 100000, while the Greeks
number more than 100000.
In the matter of education travel
lers In Thrace unquestionably agree
that the Greeks have more schools and
a larger attendance Of pupils than the
Bulgarians. The Greeks give the
number of their schools at ass and
| pupils at 20,61O, as against the lit
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POLICE FIELD DAY TO
DRAW BIG THRONGS
GoU. Smith and 800 Guests to
See Varied Sports.

The last OF the two field days for the
benefit of the Police Relief Fund will be
held to-day at Speedway Park, Sleeps
head Bay. One thousand policemen will
report there at o'clock to handle the
crowd and keep the landing field clear
FOR the air fleet which is to fly over
from Hazelhurst Field. A detail of /. 600
soldiers is to be taken to the park In
automobile trucks TO aid the police.
At least 5000 wounded veterans who
saw service in France will be taken 10
the games by the Motor Corps Division
of the National League for Woman's
Service. All CT the army and other hos
pitfalls in the city will send their quotas
A last minute appeal is made for auto
mobiles for the wounded and owners who
are willing to furnish the use of their
cars are asked to get in touch with
Lieut.. Estelle Wise. at the headquarters
OF the National League for Woman's
Service, 257 Madison avenue.
Gov. Smith and more than 500 guests
will attend n luncheon at the Waldorf
Astoria at 1880 o'clock, after which the
party will motor to the Speedway, where
II will be Governors Day" Among the
guests will be Prince Dedjazmatch Ma.
dac and the other members of the Abys.
sinian mission to the United States:
Major Gen. George B. Duncan, com.
handing officer at Camp Merritt, and
other army and navy officers.
The aerial marriage OF Lieut.. George
II. Burgess, an army aviator, and Mia
Milly X. Schaefer will be one of ths
features OF the afternoon.
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Vacation Hints.

The city dweller who goes to the
country on his vacation may not be
aware Of II, but there is in this State
n Conservation Commission so much
alive that 1t has made more than
1900 arrests for violations of the
conservation laws and in the month
of June recovered from 267 offenders
$3.50 in fines and had several Of
tenders sent to Jail. Other Eastern
States have similar organizations with
as viligant officers. This is mentioned
not because the city dweller Is likely
to be a wilful lawbreaker but that
through his lack of sophistication in
the ways of the woods and streams
he may become an offender and igno-
rantly tumble into trouble.
If he is a nonresident and the con-
servation man catches him fishing
without license when he should have
one $11.50 of his vacation allowance
goes to the court. He rs still worse
off II he Is an allen and hunts with
out license, for the law levles on him
for s25. There is such a thing as
having a fishing line illegally set and
also OF having an Illegal number of
lines set. OF course every person
knows he should not have "a short
trout''-the size varies In different
States; but II he will risk possessing
one he had better have $40 with him ;
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NO GERMANS IN CHINA.
A Report Of the Manner in which
They Were Deported.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Apro-
pos of Dr. John c. Ferguson's contribu-
ton to your issue Of July IS, may not,
by quoting the following letter sent me by
an American friend now in Japan, cor
roborate his statement that Professor
Ladd has revealed an utter ignorance of
the facts" when he asserts that "to-day
there are in China several thousand In
termed Germans, civil and military"7
The letter shows the correctness Of
Mr.. Ferguson's contention that "China
adopted last winter the harsh method of
deporting all Germans, men, women and
children, and that this policy was rigo-
rously carried out, the last German
having left China in May"
To quote the letter: ut seems as II
the japanese Ministers in Toxic had
Just received new instructions from
Paris that they have been told
to take all the German property, private
and otherwise, as a part of their indem-
nifty; that the other four large Powers
are to do the same in each country. That
will mean bank funds, ones house shares.
oCf 1Hlb Will We a bTtdI JOy w eAic AShb
lish here. as they want all German firms
eliminated. The English forced the Chi
nese to deport the Germans in China
since the armistice; in fact last month
all business men in Shanghai
left They went in iron steamers. those
used to transport Chinese coolies. The
decks are Of iron. We have heard from
Singapore that there have been many
cases of heat stroke, &C.. going through
the tropics, as those boats take three
times as long as ordinarily. There were
no proper cabins or berths All the
women and children on one side, the men
on the other side Of a partition; no
places to wash, &C.. and there were
armed English guards on board. Mrs.
IS husband went on the first boat
load-there were three in all. She Is
worried, as there were many sick on
board with influenza, &C."
z. AHLBoRN.
SEAL HARBoR, Me-, July "a.
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A Real Estate Ode.

stopI Looki and Listeni The chance OF
your life!
We've lots out In Newark and Pompton.
In Paterson. Hackensack, Plainfeld and
Fife,
In Maplewood, Yonkers and Compton,
We've sites on the river. and sites on the
hill,
We've homes, yet uRbuit. by the sea
No matter how seanty your funds. we've
the shanty
To suit you. my friend, TO q T.
You think you prefer Staten Island. you
Quite right. here's a home at South
Beach,
Or hero at Fort Hamilton over the way
Il one that is simply a peach.
We've Centre Moriches, jamaica and
Quogue,
We've Oyster Bay. too. on our list
The terms are so easy for homes bright
and breezy
That payments will never be missed.
Yours subject, you say. to hay feverI-
just sol
Here's Lakewood-you can't snesss a,
that
Or II you are plethoric. heavy and slow.
Tuxedo will take on your fat.
We've New York and Jersey both down
on our books.
We've most of Connecticut, too
II single or plural. tastes urban or rural.
Just see what ten dollars will dol
WILLIAM Wallace WHTrHLocK.
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A Portrait Of a Well Dressed Man

Before the reader drinks of the sub
jacent sartorial lucubration we must
assure him that it Is taken neither
from the HGberddsher nor from the
Beau Brummel Column of a theatre
programme:
1.-THE President received me in the
large reception room just off the room
that he uses as an Office. No one else
was present. spent an hour with
him. Next to his amiability
was most impressed by the nicely of
his dress. He was alfred in a blue
coat, white flannel trousers and the
most immaculate Of white kid shoes.
His cravat, or tie. as We say out
West, was tied with the most punctil-
ious care! 1t recalled an old saying
of my boyhood. He looked like he
might have Just stepped out Of Q
handbook
IT had observed the same care in
regard to his attire when he appeared
before the Senate to deliver the peace
treaty. Certainly woopRow WILSON
deserves the title OF our best dressed
President Not in our time has any
President been so puncriiious as to
dress"
The author of this well deserved
tribute Is Senator Arthur CAPPER o.
Kansas, for at least thirty years Q
trained observer of politics and panta
looms. More than that, he comes from
State where folks have real money
to spend on clothes. AS Kansas /:
the greatest winter wheat State ant
as the Government guarantees $2.2(
a bushel, every Kansan has that per
fectly tailored look. The clothing
barons OF New York, Rochester ant
Chicago would starve If Kansa:
stopped getting measured for suits.
A President of guile might be ex
pected, at the hour of Kansas Sen
ators call, TO put on his incest clothe:
to make the Senator feel at ease. NJ
such suspicion attaches in the presen
case. The long frocked Senators from
the South, the baggy kneed Senators
who represent the impoverished, non
wheat producing East, all find Mr.
WILSON as Arthur CAPPER found him
And all, without reservations, admir-,
the cut of his garments. Fabric anC
fashion are so interviewer that 1t II
impossible to separate them. The!
are regulated by open covenants o.
perfection, openly arrived at. No
one of the fourteen points Of style Il
ever abandoned.
If Mr.. WILSON should embody hi!
Articles of Apparel in treaty tn,
Senate would ratify II in a minute.
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A SPOOL OF COTTON.
Example Of the Manner In Which
Prices Strangely Rise.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str: The
editorial article in last Tuesdays paper
on the high cost Of living in my opinion
hits the nail on the head.
Instead of the United States Govern
ment looking on their guaranteed price
on wheat as a war measure and settling
with the farmer the same as they have
or will settle with the contract ammuni-
tion. machine gun. automobile and other
manufacturers they leave 1t to the people
to pay the bill direct.
We can trace corn and wheat into
everything we eat, drink or wear, either
directly or indirectly. Directly into milk,
poultry. meat; indirectly into cotton.
wool. leather, iron, coal and clothing, not
forgetting shoes which, I am advised,
will be $40 a pair this winter. It costs
the workman more to live and he Justly
demands higher wages This adds to the
cost of production and the manufacturer
has to raise his prices, perhaps only a
fraction OF cent on each article II II Is
n cheap one. The jobber makes II even
more: so does the wholesaler and the
retailer.
Several years ago the railroads raised
the rate on spool cotton five cents per
hundredweight estimate that spool of
cotton will not weigh more than an
ounce, 500 spools to 100 pounds. I'M
mejiately cotton went up a cent a spool
all over the country. The increase start
ed with five cents and II was SIC before
the consumer got iti
Something has got to be done and right
soon. The prices Of necessary commodi-
ties are going up. up. up, and wages will
have to follow. There is feeling OF
unrest among a class Of workers whose
wages have not been advanced SO they
can obtain the common necessities Of
life: clerks. statesmen. Government en-
ployees. ministers. school teachers and
the general run of unorganiEed labor.
Mr.. Senator and Mr.. Congressman had
better give little attention to what they
need JOHN Doe.
New YORK, July rs.
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schools and e,S4o pupils claimed by

schools and 6,546 pupils claimed by
the Bulgarians.
But. these considerations, which
have grown with time and out Of
bitter national controversies, cannot
obscure those that are distinctly the
outgrowth of the war. Bulgaria, I'M
der the protection Of her German and
Austrian allies, swept over Serbia,
destroying for a time its existence az
nation and making severe exac-
tons upon the Serbian inhabitants who
remained. Bulgarians through the
connivance of CONSTANTINE occupied
most of eastern Greece and afterward
engaged the army organized by VENI-
zELos on the northern Grecian Dor
der. Troops of the allied nations,
Great Britain, France, italy and
Serbia, fought Bulgaria on, the Mace
DOMAIN front and finally forced her
surrender and retirement from the
war. The United States was not at
war with Bulgaria; in fact, the Bull
garian Minister remained at Wash
ington all the time that this country
had soldiers ar the European front.
He was permitted to make frequent
defences Of Bulgaria's position and
to explain her attitude as regards our
co-belligerents.
The United States was not a suf-
ferer from Bulgarian aggression, no
American soldiers were opposed to
Bulgarians In the war, officially this
country had no difficulties to settle
with Bulgaria that required resort
to arms. Has the United States then
such a thorough understanding Of the
questions in dispute, questions that
have agitated Europe for more than
half century, that she should in
sist on a deciding voice in their settle
ment as against nations which fought
Bulgaria for three years and that suf-
fered from her aggressions and ex-
actions? That this attitude will not
make for the peace Of southern Eu-
rope, and thus for the peace Of the
world, Is the most salient feature OF
the present stage of the peace confer
ence. In the first practical applica-
ton Of the idealism of the League of
Nations the Greek Premier has rea-
son for doubling the guarantees that
1t offers.
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then, II the claim is established, leg
islatlve appropriation is made Of suf-
ficient money to pay the judgment.
The United States Court Of Claims ut
Washington exercises Jurisdiction in
cases of this kind.
Such privilege Of suing the Govern
ment as now exists, however, is not
broad enough to permit the enforce:
ment against Government ships Of
many maritime liens which have
arisen during the war; or, rather,
which would have arisen II the YES
sells lid belonged to private owners.
This condition Of things has caused
so much Just dissatisfaction in ship
ping circles in this port and else
where that q bill has been introduced
in Congress, with the sanction Of the
United States Shipping Board, author
izing suits to be brought against the
Government in the Admiralty Courts
for salvage services rendered to vessels
owned In whole or in part by the Gov
eminent and otherwise placing such
vessels In the same position before
the law as those held and operated
In private ownership, except so far as
the actual seizure of the vessel or its
cargo is concerned.
The bill provides that the United
States and any corporation In which
1t holds a majority of the stock may
be sued PERSONAL---VERY. Gin personams"
ms the legal phrase is--in the District
Court In Admiralty for any cause Of
action Of which such court ordinarily
has cognlzance in the exercise of its
admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction,
arising since April 6, 1918, the date
when this country entered the great
war; and while the vessel concerned
may not be seized under judicial
process, the court is directed, II the
complaining party so requests, to pro-
coed in the case in accordance with
the principles Of suits ain rem" In
cases Of maritime liens. A suit ain
rem" in the Admiralty practice is
suit in which the vessel itself is
treated as the defendant instead of
the person who owns 10.
The enactment Of some such meas
ure as this seems to be only a fair
request on the part of private ship
owners, who ought not to be deprived
of compensation for services rendered
to the vessels of others simply be-
cause such vessels belong in whole or
in the greater part TO the Govern
ment of the United States.
The proposed act of Congress also
provides that the United States and
the crew Of any merchant vessel
owned or operated by the United
States shall have the right to sue
for and collect moneys earned by rea-
son Of any salvage services rendered
by such vessel and crew. Writers of
authority on the law of salvage-that
Is to say, the compensation due to
those who save ship or her cargo
from the perils Of the sea-generally
stdte lhc iuic W Dc tidI inc OllCeiS
and crew of a national vessel are en-
titled to salvage; but it may be that
merchant ships acquired by the United
States under the recent war legisla-
ton would not be deemed national"
under this rule. No good reason oc-
ours to us why these merchantmen
should not enjoy the rights and privi-
leges Of salvors generally.
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THE SECOND DIVISION.
Further Reasons Why It Should BE
Honored In New York.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: For
the same reason that Mr.. Bellamy would
have the famous Second Division parade
in New York city would I. 1t is idle to
discuss which division accomplished the
most. The statistics are available to all
and demonstrate that the Seconds
laurels are not dimmed in comparison
with the achievements of the other COM
bat divisions, either By comparison in
numbers or in percentaseA
But there are stronger reasons why
parade of this particular division Is de-
sirable. Some Regular division should
parade in New York, and the Second is
more peculiarly a Regular division and
more closely connected with New York
than any other. This city Is best adapted
for the purpose, as the men being Regu-
lars no additional expense Is entailed by
keeping them in the camps In this vicin-
ity. Few will be presently discharged.
Every National Guard, every Ma
tionai Army regiment had Its home
community and so was complimented by
local parades. The Regular regiment
comes from no particular place but from
the entire Union. Perhaps the Ninth
and Twenty-third Infantry are more
identified with New York State than any
other, as they were in garrison here for
many years and were expanded and
trained at Syracuse. As for the Fifth
and Sixth Marines, every man, except
perhaps the last few requirements. vol
unteer as well a. Regular. is typical of
our entire nation and democracy. Every
man carried his marshars baton in his
pack and quite few got them. The
last Navy Register shows that the 1885
lieutenants last on the list came from the
ranks.
BY all means let this splendid division
be honored by New York city.
L. F. CARPENTER.
NEW York, July %.
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suits Against Government Ships.

Ali lawyers, but probably compare
lively few laymen, know that the Gov
ernment of a State or nation cannot
be sued in its courts of justice except
with its own consent. In most free
countries. therefore, in order that
those who have just claims against
the Government may not suffer wrong
provision n made by statute permit
ting such suits to be brought; and
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A White House Denial.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-SI: Presi-
dent Wilson has taken pains to inform
the world authoritatively that a news
paper statement that he Originated or
formulated the provisions as to Shan
tung in the treaty are untrue.
"Originate" and formulate" are con-
venient words
We are somehow reminded of that
familiar court incident where his Honor
said to a colored gentleman in front
"Are you the defendant IN this caseT'
mo. ledge. isn't no defender. Here's
my lawyer; he's the defender. I'm the
man what stole the chickens"
NOT GUILTY.
WASHINGTON, July rs.
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The Justice Who Borrowed the Bicy.
Gle Remains Unidentified.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir: The
letter of Walter G. Thornton in THE
SUN of Tuesday is well written and in
teresting. but by no conceivable stretch
OF the Imagination could 1 have been
the justice OF the peace he refers to.
1 thank Mr.. Thornton for the compli-
ment he pays me in the FIRST sentence
of his letter to the effect that. my let
tiers to THE SUN are always interesting.
That is one thing at least am proud
OF. ARLINGTON H. CARAVAN.
PArcHooUE, L. l.. July rs.
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THOSE MODEST NAMES.
An Eminent Artist Suggests New Ones
for Use In Art.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Since
the fashion in elf-deprecatory trade
names was started by the Famous Play
ers and followed later by the Eminent
Authors without causing a ripple Of
mirth among the most humorous people
on earth the way is now paved for the
Immortal Playwrghts Inc. the Illus
trious Dressmakers. Ltd, the Surprising
Stage Directors. the Perfect Continuity
Gents, the Cultivated Camera Men Of
America, the Superior Scalpers, the
Peerless Ushers. the Proud Press Agents,
the Magnificent Melodists and the Olym-
plan Criticsi What7
JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGd.
BIDpEFoRD Pool, Me-. July "a.