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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Keeping America Strong" lecture by
Y. NJ. C. A. z. NJ. -
Revival meeting. conducted by Al !
Saunders, Tent Fort Washington, liih
street and st. Nicholas avenue. 80 p. NJ
Memorial services, Tomb Of Gen. Uysse,
s. Grant, Riverside Drive. +. NJ
Community concerts auspices National
League for woman's Service. Seward pirk
schurs Park, Washington Square. ipM
Organ recital b. George " Andr VS. Sc
lections from Mendslssohn, Church OF the
Incarnation, Madison Avenue and Thirty
NTH street, lp:i5 a. VI.
Executive conference OF Jews from all
parts Of the country to discuss work d
Distribution Committee OF jewish Relief
Funds, Felix Warbu-g presiding; Hotel
Aston. all day and evening.
Exhibition of war posters issued by IN.
"arious Governments engaged in the world
war and illustTat ted books OF the past four
centuries, New York Public Library Forty.
second street and Fifth avenue
Recital for charity by the Rev Joseph
Rosenblstt. cantor; Hotel Lorraine, Edge.
Collection Of chrome Autographs Of old
masters. published by Arundel Society, only
states. Brooklyn Museum. Eastern Park
Faith and Prayer as Scientific Rsal
ties" address by Harry Gage, Hotel Aston
Exhibition of ornaments Ms shown u
drawings adapted TO other uses, iilustrat'
Ing the value of the old book print designs
metropolitan Museum OF Art. A. NJ
Mrs Jennie Croft of the Unity Society Of
Practical Christianity will speak on "fr
Gospel OF Redemption Park Avenue
j. U. stevens. evangelist, will discus
1.-THE Crime OF the Ages" Gospel Tent
sixth avenus-and Garfield place. broohlyA
sP. NJ.
tine" with colorcd slides and motion PIE
lures. by the Rev. Alfred Il. MI. Ca'ysE
Church, Fourth avenue and Twenty'n"'
street. p. NJ.
Special loan exhibition Of taposircs. Oh
laces and other treasures from private
homes, never before exhibited, MatToVoh'
tan Museum OF Art. all day TO y.
ligion," sermon. by tho Rev. Harvey Doe
Brown. Community Church, Park avenue
and Thirty-foutth street, II a. N, ..
Columbia University summer Session
one OF the three chnplains on the siAh o.
Gen. Pershing in France, st. PAuIs Chapes
p. NJ; song service and address by E''''
W. II. Fitzpatrick. tho Grove. ':lS T. d.
Concert and entertainment and tea ~
the Misses BeaEly address by the REV "
Frank Allen, Twcnty-third street l.
Z. ~, p. NJ.
Exhibition OF unique series Of wl,C
colors Of birds OF paradise, drawn by M,'
Ellis Rowan in course OF an e%pya'"oh y.
western New GUINEA, American MUSEUM
Natural History, al uay. -,
aphle Conference address BY the . ~
Frank Norris OF Fort Worth, TeSn h NJ
War Between Capitiu and Labor. NM
the Rev. G. w. Mcpherson on 'fo.r'h,y
in Religious Education" Tont LFuhSs'
10th street and Amsterdam avenue l'''
a NJ and r. NJ. ,..,,
'''rhe Reason and Remedy for Race Mo-
and Other I,awlessness" sermon BY W9
Rev. DIT j. r. Straton, Calvary BaPIS@t
Church. West FIfty-seventh street '''''
A. NJ. a..
Cornell Stober will speak on tn" ~
Told Mon" Waldorf Astoria Hotel ~ p,
Associated Bible students VIII Gus"
The Use and ABUSE OF tho BOOK "' i''''
latIon," Carnegie Hall 3 7. N.
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ever. developed the fact that II was
Of no value to Great Britain AZ a
military stronghold.
She offered 1t to CONSTANTINE for
Greek support in the war. but he re-
jected the proposal. AS the business
Of Cyprus lie largely in the hands OF
the Greeks and majority Of the peo-
pie are Of Greek descent and speak
the Greek language the present Gov
ernment Is DESTROYS of including the
island within the Hellenic confedera-
ton. To this plan there In said to be
little opposition in Great Britain.
while the former British High Com
missioner, CaptainC. w. oRR, has come
out strongly In favor Of the annexa-
ton Of the island to Greece 'under
conditions which the Greek Govern
ment has willingly accepted.
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WOMEN'S WEEKLY APPEARS
"Dispntch" Deals with Causes VI
High Cost of Living.

With tho purpose OF defending u,
economical. social and politics! r1ghS
women the old weekly known rs Wv
Neio York Dispatch, under new manas'
ment, appeared on the news STANDS 5yS,
terday. AS the editorials and the %,,.
advertising indicate, the paper IS Wv
newspaper of the women OF AmerNS
It is 70 be national in scope ana ~
itself to carry out very ambitious W.
gramme. There ia a purpose IN Ia! ~.
fore the women the actual causes o. Wv
hlgh cost of living and to urge them -
exercise the power they have TO en!o'"
the remedy. ,y
There is an attack on tho heei u ,,an
and what is asserted to be cono'oa
between the packers and hso u i'nc
asid to exist in this city and eSiehu'. .o
Its activities along the Atlantic coast "
New England.
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THEORY AND PRACTICE.
Laboratory Research That Did Not
Work 0Qt With Ivy Poisoning.

From the Neto York Medical Journal
The variance which often exists be-
tween theory and practice In medicine
Is admirably exemplihed In the case OF
the suggestions made by laboratory
workers for the treatment OF ivy poi
soning and tbs actual results obtained
by the use of the means of cure sug-
Sested
A few years ago the chemists told us
very confidently that by applying alco-
hol literally to the affected part the
poison would be promptly dissolved and
removed. Those who have tried this
formula have usually been disappointed
in the results obtained.
Quite recently distinguished chem
ist appeared before a gathering Of physi-
clans and with the utmost confidence
announced that the cure of Ivy poison
consisted in the application Of a satu-
rated solution OF potassium permanga-
nate to the affected part. Much to his
disgust, a clinician of undoubted abil-
ity remarked that he had tried the
treatment thoroughly In three cases
without any better results than he had
had from the older methods.
Recent careful study OF tho matter
seems to show-we hope our researchers
are not again premature-that the toxin
from the ivy is never volatile and that
the skin cannot be affected at a distance
from the vine. as has been asserted.
This being the case. the prevention will
be easy enough. provided the person will
inform himself as to the appearance and
IN bitat of the plant.
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A Denial That Pfonteerins Is General
Amonr Dealers.

To THE EDITOR or THE suN-sir: In
table printed in THE SUN showing
what II costs to At out n man In 1912"
IA pair Of shoes was entered as costing
SIC. against $3.50 in 1914. This state
ment is unfair.
In what We consider the best stores
In Boston this summer mems shoes Of
high quality have been retailing at from
$40 TO s1s a pair. and ! personally pur-
chased pair Of shoes made In Newark
by one Of the highest grade manufac-
tu-ers for s11, which to my rnind was
perfectly fair and legitimate price un-
der existing conditions.
From the raw material to the con-
suner there are probably from sixty TO
seventy-flve different materials and labor
operations in the construction Of shoe.
Labor In many factories is three or
four times what It cost In 1914. and
upper leather, mainly owing to bad con-
ditions in Russia and other foreign coun-
tries. has advanced to fully three times
what II was i've years ago. Sole leather
has also doubled In value. and 30, II In
ali along the iine.in materials which 80
to make up the shoe,
Auo NuhbhiLyinH OF TIC tnuibcFeot ~
ton OF a certain few dealers In shoes,
giving the impression that tits the gem.
eral rule among dealers. has caused the
most trouble. Taking the average Of
prices charged by shoe retailers
throughout the country believe that the
reports Of profiteering will be found un-
fair and unjust. The New York depart
ment stores. the New York high grade
shoe stores, and in fact all OF the larger
handlers of shoes to consumers through
out the country have, according 20 my
best knowledge and belief. pursued fair
and reasonable course.
No other large industry probably has
the ramincations and the vast amount
of detail that surround the shoe and
leather business. and with 90 many ma
tcrials entering into the cost Of . shoe.
coupled with the fact of the great
scarcity Of materials, fair minded people
will at once realize that the consumer
has not been unfairly treated.
EDWIN W. INuALLs.
BosroN, August o.
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Welcome to n Notable Recruit to
the Peoples Cause.

The Sun welcomes President VIII
SONS conversion to recognition of the
imperative need of doing something
practicable to rescue the inhabitants
Of the United States from the grip of
the terrific cost of living.
For weeks THE SUN has been striv-
ing without assistance from the Ex-
ecutive Department of the Govern
ment to stir the officials to act for the
relief Of the suffering public. For
months those authorities watched the
appalling and unchecked rise In the
prices Of the necessaries of life with
out doing one single thing for the
relief Of the population.
In vain the people called for help.
In vain they sought for action. Bu-
reaucracy, high salaried, well housed,
abundantly fed, paid no heed to their
appeals. But now the President him.
self has heard the cry and has given
his promise that one man at least In
the Executive Department shall use all
the power and authority of his office
TO save the country from the dangers
which beset 1t. The people and THE
SUN have won notable recruit to
their cause.
Whatever the President does that
is impartial and wise and practicable
10 curb the greedy men and organiza-
lions will have THE SUNS loyal sup
port. and THE SUN will rejoice sim
cerely If day comes when 1t can say
to its readers that to President VIII
SON they owe their heartfelt thanks
for the reduction of the burdens
which now Cypress them.
Let him begin with wheat.
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The Flag.

The Flag-a Tag and nothing moreY
Just strips OF bunting Betsy tore
All white and blue and crimson dyed,
We haunted at the foe-dehed,
To show our cause was justified.
Is this tho Flas and nothing ,mors7
A thing that waves on every hand
To mark possession OF our land;
where'er its folds, dung to the breeze
Upon the land and on the seas
Bring tyrant Kingdoms to their knees
Is this the Fiag-powsr to command7
Oh. soul of him forever dead,
II this is all that emblem said,
As wave on wave. afar on high,
And fold on fold he watched It ny
Outlined SO clear against the sky!
Our Flag-for which our Fathers bled.
Our country's Flag. torser the same,
Speaks with a burning tongue OF flame
Each waving. thrilling. throbbing thread
Is Life itself. because the dead
Through the red life blood they have shed
Havo vltaliEed it's very name.
symbol OF Justice and OF Right, 49,
symbol OF Freedom. Power and Might
Typifying our Nations aim
No evil deeds done in her name
Can hamper power. or influence MAIN,
Clearer brighter will glow the light
With flaming sword did We proclaim
The object of our holy aim;
To free the suffering and dish essed,
To soccer nations sore oppressed,
We gave man power-our all and best.
This sacrifice must not be vaini
Proud Symbol, ne'er shall we DO bound,
No Nations League must hem us round,
Our co1ntry--God. oh. shall Il be
Bound and tettsrsd and never free
From European tyranny?
In protest let the land resoundi
IsABBL LdKANs GATES.
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Lincoln's Phrase Revised.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUH-Sir: As
q native born American rs years old
have always been under the impress
sion that our Government was of the
people. by the people. for the people /;
but 1 am getting so mixed up that It
seems to me as II this was n govern
ment OF Woodrow, for Woodrow, by
Woodrow.
Keep up the fight for the adviEe
handed down to US by the father of
our country to keep out of all foreign
entanglements. Let Europe fight its
own battles as It has been doing for
the last ten hundred years and will be
doing for the next ten hundred regard
less OF all we can do to stop Il.
A NATIVE Born AMERICAN.
NoLAN's POINT, Lake Hopatcong, Au-
gust 9.
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course matter Of fine mathematics.
The largest fraction for any one heir
was one-forty-fifth Of the estate:
There were nfty-four different
fractions, and to the layman they
seem fearfully and wonderfully made,
as in the case Of the smallest, pre-
sentcd thus; 1t Of u of i-aa Of
1-45-1-2o.1eo."
The most fortunate Of the heirs re-
ceived between $4,000 and $25, 1000 ;
the least fortunate about $50. Mrs.
HETTx GREEN's son, Colonel EDWARD
n II. GREEN, came 10 for one-nine-
tieth of the, estate. There were three
living grandchildren Of GIDEON, thirty
two heirs Of the fourth generation,
POI Of the fifth, 158 OF the sixth and
thirty Of the seventh. -
We fancy that some Of the heirs
Will find more pleasure and comfort
In Mr.. EMERY's book than In the
money. they have receifed, for 1t is
not mere compilation of names and
dates. All in all 1t Is a literary slice
Of New England life. 1t tells not only
Of the fortune and how and by whom
II was made but Of the fine old fore
bears Of GIDEON himself: how they
started American life. how many cows
they owned, how much they paid for
that forty-acre lot and the way In
which they bequeathed their silver
spoons and their humble fortunes.
There are sketches of the living and
the dead I; usually friendly but never
colored with that thick flattery which
is the curse of so many genealogical
volumes. In the sketch Of HETTY
GREEN. for instance, VI IRE told how
she became interested in finance and
how she fed her terrier Dewey on
rice pudding and rare beefsteak. Her
COW chased an Englishman across
pasture and he said to Mrs. GREEN !:
Madam, do you know who I am?
Tn the Honorable VIVIAN WEsTLEIGH
Of London" Mrs. GREEN pursed her
lips and said: "Go tell that to the
cow" When she was asked why she
took out license to carry a pistol
she replied: MOSTLY to protect myself
against lawyers"
Miss SYLVIA ANN Rowland made
one great mistake in her will. She
should have left at least third Of
the estate to Genealogtst EMERY.
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McGRAW,S METHODS.
A Fan Who Does Not Regard Him rs
. Great Baseball General.

To TIM EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: I
was much interested in the fulsome trip-
ute to John McGraw coming from the
pen of Mr.. Doscher and appearing in
The SUN. This letter would be anus
Ing were 1t not for the fact that the
reputation Of the National League and
in a measure OF baseball itself is suffer-
ms seriously from the methods of Mo-
Graw and the widespread conviction
that the administration of the National
League is afraid to take the steps that
Justice demands with reference to NC
Graw.
In support Of Mr.. Doscher's claim
that McGraw is aNbaseball general par
excellence let him explain McGraws fall
ure in the worlds championship battles
of 1911. 1912, 1913 and 1917 and his
defeat In the interleague series with
Boston in 1909.
With reference to Mr.. Doscher's trib-
ute to those traits in McGraw's charac-
ter which are uniquely described as
fairness and sense of honor let US ask
him to explain McGraws difference with
the newspaper writer's fraternity in New
York few years ago his easerness to
take Toney in the face of his experience
with the courts last year his taking
up with Chase.
AS n physical director am naturally
Interested In the popularity of sports,
but there is no question that McGraw
and his crowd ere unpopular because
there is a widespread conviction that
he may do anything he pleases in. the
National League with impunity. and he
falls so miserably in every worlds Sc
ries, where merit alone counts.
CARROLL @. SMITH.
NEW YORK, August 9.
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Western North Carolina is known as tn
Land of the Sky"
In thssloveiy Land Of the Sky
THERE'S q stream goes ripping by;
"swannanoat swannanoar'
II the burden Of Its cry.
'ris the name Of the nymph that dwells
Where the water dips and swells;
-swannanoat swannanoar'
o the siivery syllablssi
The spirit Of beauty she,
And no mortal ote may see
"swannanoat Iswannanoer'
Save IN dreams when sunsets nea
she n one with the foam ana noss
OF the dancing waves that toss
t"awannaffeai Swannancar)
Meath the banks OF fern and moss
OF the eddies that swirl and dart
She IL ever a living part;
"swannanoat swannanoar'
with the happy singing heart.
he who has known the thrill
OF her voice from under the hill
"swannanoai swannanoar'
He viii be haunted stili.
Heerkeni the wind goes by.
And needs must follow the ory--
"Swannanoai Swannanoar>
To the lovely "Land of the Skyr'
CLINTON ecoLIAsn
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An Early Victorian.

Her drawing room was hung with faded
chintz.
And water colors OF uncertain tints
Adorned the panelied walls dim ivory hue;
A little tinkling clock OF ormolu
stood on the mantei shelf. where, blithe
and fair.
Ffirted and posed q courtly Dresden pair.
Tho chairs-some chintz, some horsehair--
stood in rows.
Broken by tables OF quaint bibelots.
And on the whatnot glass domed waxen
flowers.
And broideries of maids IN dusky bowers
And boxes covered with wee. rosy shells,
And alabaster dogs in marble dells.
Were busted gently by her own slim hand.
Though many servants waited her com
mand.
Her voice. unhurried. breathed faint SEN
timent.
Elusive as the sweet old garden scent
She always used. Her hair lay smooth and
Held by a beaded net: her high arched feet
with slender. slllfen cross strapped shoes
we're shod, ..t-. -.
Half hfd meath frocks OF muslin, sprigged
and thin,
Her long dashed. blue, untroubled eyes.
set In
A face clear chiselled as a cameo.
Watched calmly many lovers come and 60.
She gave no token warmer than a rose.
And never married-since her fancy chose
To place love in so exquisite a shrine
That he became less human|than divins.
She spent her quiet, uneventful days
Shut fast from any stir OF busting ways;
Guarding her household gods with dainty
care,
Holding aloof from life with graceful air.
Tending a ringdove or a kitten-just
A lovely thing untouched by moth or rust.
A bud, too sheltered in her dim old room
To know the sun or rain-or even bloom.
CHARLOTTE BECKER.
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On the Mud Gate Road.

As An went down the Mud Gate road,
All met err tarrap!n an er toad.
= An er hum an er haw'
An cherry time de toad would jump
Dat tarrspin hid benin er stump
An er hum an haw
An All seen whar de mushroom growed,
Err gw.ne long dat Mud Gate road
An er hum an err haw
An tink An hear er doEwood bark
At partridge berries in de dark.
An er hum an er haw'.
Err little bug seq "Itatydid."
An Man Kate hustled homo an hid,
An er hum an er haw'
But dis black chile done hsb his I'LL
Whom some un else sea whip pore wnl,"
An or hum an err haw'
RUTH LINING MILAN.
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England to cede Cyprus to Greece.

The island Of Cyprus, the third
largest body of land in the Mediter-
ranean Sea, after having been passed
around among the nations from the
earliest historical times to the pres
ent is apparently at last to find
permanency of ownership. A des-
patch from London says that the
British Parliament is seriously con-
sidering the cession of the island to
Greece and that delegation from
Athens is in England for the purpose
of completing the negotiations.
Cyprus has belonged to Persia and
Egypt; it was annexed by ALEXANDRA
the Great to Greece; 1t has been sub
ject to the rule of the Roman, Byzan-
tine, Turkish and British empires. As
Cyprus had known most of the civil
izations of antiquity 1t became a
fruitful field for explorations and ex-
cavations. The most successful of
this work was carried on by General
LOUIS p. CEsNoLI while he was Amer
lean Consul at Nicosea, the capital Of
the island. His collection. which is
the largest and most complete of Cy-
priote antiquities in the world; is now
in the Metropolitan Museum. The
heated controversy regarding the res
toration of some of these pieces
awakened among New Workers. Of two
generations ago an unusual interest In
this island.
Despite its many changes in owner
ship Cyprus seems to have gone calmly
ON attending to its own business.
There are almost 100000 people on
the island; most Of them are engaged
in agriculture, forestry and sponge
fishing. There are some tourists, who
in Tho season furnish small revenue.
and psychologists who continue to dig
among the ruins of ancient tombs
and temples. As there are representa-.
tives OF all the Levantine people on
the island Cyprus might have serious
racial difficulties had 1t not early
taken means to forestall trouble. Most
of the men who fll certain property
qualifications have the right OF suf-
frage; there are native courts for
Moslem and Christian and there are
schools for Mohammedans, Armen.
ians, Maronltes and Greek Christians.
AS a result Cyprus has been one of
the few large Near Eastern islands
free from internal strife.
Under a convention with the Sui
tan OF Turkey Cyprus was admins
tered by Great Britain from 1873 to
1914. On the outbreak of the war
with Turkey 1t was annexed to the
British Empire. In the past Great
Britain considered the island of great
strategic Importance to the protec.
ton of her interests In the eastern
Mediterranean and to the security
Of the sues Canal. The war. how
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A Book About the Splitting Of q
Yankee Fortune.

In his foreword to 1.-THE Rowland
Heirs" Mr.. WILLIAM M. EMERY, gene
alogist for the trustees of the Sylvia
Ann Rowland estate, ventures his be-
lief shat this Is the only instance in
this country where an extensive gene
illogical record has found its raison
d'etre In the distribution of for
tune" Perhaps Miss Rowland had
thought of this particular result when
in 1883, two years before her death,
she made will providing that about
half of her estate of $2,025, 0O0-the
Quakeress was the wealthiest resident
of New Bedford, Mass.-should be
distributed after the death of her
niece, HErTY Rowland ROBINSON,
among the lineal descendants of her
grandfather, GIDEON Rowland.
The task of the trustees and their
genealogist in this distribution, which
was to be made according to the
right Of representation" is better mp
preciated when 1t is recalled that
GIDEON Rowland, who was born in
1874, was married at 10 and became
the father Of thirteen children, twelve
Of whom married and had children.
and that 1t was not until 1916, when
Mrs HETTY II. r. GREEN died, that
the roundup Of GIDEoN's descendants
began. The years that had passed be-
tween GIDEON HowLAND's marriage
and Mrs. GREEN'S death were 1853;
and those New Englanders have been
a prolific people. A long lived people
too, for of the 439 persons who shared
Miss HowLAND's bequest 200 were
alive when she died nearly flfty-four
years ago. That they have been a
capable people Is evident. HErrY
ROWLAND ROBINSON became, rs Mrs.
GREEN, the richest woman in the
world; and-Mr. EMERY has counted
among GIDEoN's descendants Eat least
two members of Congress, the wife of
a Governor of Massachusetts,, several
members of the Legislature and two
Mayors Of New Bedford" Then there
are whaling captains, the founder of
New Bedford's cotton industry. men,
bers Of all the professions and cham
pion tennis players.
What work 1t was to learn ex-
actly who and where were the heirsi
They were scattered over this coun-
try, and some were in England, France
and the Hawaiian Islands. Some had
never heard of GIDEON Rowland. OF
course there was the expected mum.
Der of claimants who had nothing TO
rest their expectations on-persons
who said they were land might have
beep) descendants of the Mayflower
Rowland, whereas the first of GID
EoN's ancestors to reach America was
HENRY, who came either In the For
tune, IN 1921. or In the Ann, In 1923.
HIS brother JOHN was a Mayhower
Pilgrim. "a wave of genealogical re-
search swept over New. Bedford.
Trustee and genealogist were obliged
to hold numerous telephone or per-
sonal interviews with claimants and
attorneys, from within and without
the city. at all hours Of the day or
night" The town library was be-
sieged for copies of'an old Rowland
genealogical book. Photographs In
tended to show resemblance to old
GIDEON came from as far or as Chile.
The division Of the estate according
to right Of representation was Of