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Changes In Siberia.

Siberia shows signs Of playing an
unexpected part in after war recon-
struction. 1t is the rallying ground
Of supporters Of order In Russia, the
Kolchak Government at Omsk Is fore
most in the war on Bolshevism, and
there is a prospect that the long de-
layed development of Siberias nat
ural resources may now be begun on
an adequate scale.
Refugees from European Russia
have crowded to Siberia by millions,
according to an account of the posi-
bilities of trade between Siberia and
the United States. Omsk, Tomsk and
Irkutsk have housing problems far
worse than New York's. The Trans
Siberian Railway is short Of passen-
ger cars because the coaches are used
at all important stations for housing
refugees and as Government Offices
The influx Of new population may do
for western Asia what other migra-
-tions have done for America and
South Africa.
Bread, meat and fish are said to
be plentiful. but clothing, soap, chem.
icals and medicines arc practically I'M
obtainable. Tools and agricultural
machinery are needed. In return ST.
IBERIA could supply raw materials,
such as fax, bristles, hides, skins,
furs and grain. Thus n trade open
ing Is presented. But the obstacles
in the way of exchange of commodl-
ties are serious.
The road from the west is barred
by revolution. 1t will be some time
before the Trans-Siberian Railway
can meet traffic requirements by way
of the east and Vladivostok. Yet peo-
pie who deserve success will find a
way, and this summer there will be
available the route used by old Morse
traders centuries ago, by way of the
Kara Sea and the Obi and Yenesei
rivers, which reach rich agricultural
regions in the heart of Siberia. Ice
closes the Kara Sea all the year ex-
cept a period of about six weeks be-
tween the last of June and the first
of September; the open season might
be prolonged by Ice breakers, and 1t
is suggested that the German battle
ships might be employed profitably in
work OF this kind.
Should 1t be practicable to use the
Kara Sea trade route during the brief
season in which 1t will be available
next summer desirable impetus would
be given to the new life stirring in
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Representative BAER OF North Da-
kota, known as the farmers Con-
gressman." gives this reason why the
daylight saving law should be re-
pealed: "It works hardships on the
young children. They have to make
long drives to school and do not get
sufficient rest under the new system"
In France Il is considered bad art for
fiction writer's to invent suffering Of
children to arouse readers sympathy.
It is too easy. Laying aside that con-
sideration in favor OF North Dakota
romancers, there yet remains this OBJ
lection to the Baer conclusion: 1t is
fatty based on the assumption that
in his State there are fewer than
twenty-four hours in a day as a re-
suit Of the daylight saving law. That
We cannot believe, easy as II is be-
coming to believe many strange things
about North Dakota
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Young Mr.. HAwKER evidently did
not have time to read carefully the
newspaper accounts Of the prepara-
lions for the United States Navy sea-
plane flightA to Lisbon. Otherwise
he would not have said. as he said on
Wednesday night at a dinner in Lon
don, that the American flight was
mot n serious attempt" with a ship
stationed every twenty yards" And
he added:
III you put a ship every nifty
miles 1t shows you have no faith In
your motor"
The United States Navy, which had
planned the trip for two years, sta
toned ships at intervals of fifty miles
along the route not because of any
lack of faith in its men or Its motor,
but because Of its desire that none of
the eighteen brave men who sailed
for Portugal should perish through
lack of precaution. The preparations
taken were those which England cried
should have been taken by the Brit
ish Admiralty to protect HAwKER.
In deriding the American accom-
plishment the Australian airman is
not consistent. On Tuesday, in ex.
planning why he started so suddenly,
he said to the correspondent Of the
London Daily Mail at Edinburgh:
THE Americans were off. They
were very serious propositions. They
had one leg to go and we had one
to go. We knew that one American
machine had reached the Azores
That was very serious, and we de-
cided overnight that we would start
II the weather was at all hopeful"
Apparently HAwKEB looked upon
the American flight as an attempt to
reach Europe ahead of the men who
were preparing to fly for the $4,000
prize. This was OF course q false
impression, for the start Of the Amer
leans was regulated entirely by Navy
Department orders issued In the mid
die Of April. For the Yankees 1t was
not q race but an attempt to carry
out a carefully arranged programme
HAwKER knew. even before the sea-
planes left Rockaway, that their
course would be patrolled by destroy.
ers. Then why, II the American feat
was negligible, should 1t have spurred
HAwKEB to hop Off? If the Ameri-
cans were "a serious proposition" be,
fore HAwKER so daringly tried and
failed, why does he now regard their
successful voyage as mot a serious
attempt?
Unfortunately for HAwKER's new
mental posture, the cold facts of ac-
complishment are against him. Each
one Of the three American planes few
further than HAwKER flew. Com.
mander TOWERS, although he failed
to hit the mark, flew further than any
man up to that day had travelled
continuously in the air. His crown
is not rs bright as READS, for that
officer was able to carry out to the
letter the orders of the Navy De.
partmIA TowEns's flight Of 1850
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IMPORTS AND LABOR.
Effect on Home Industry Of the Com.
petition Of Goods From Abroad.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-5ir: The
editorial article in THE Sun entitled
Imports Mountain High" Ia timely
reading. May not the effect of such
heavy imports be to make the labor
market inelastic just when It needs to
DO most elastic to reemploy our home
coming boys7
When our civil war closed the Amer
lean people were compelled by war en-
bargoes and tariffs very largely to pre-
fer American production. and the con-
sequence was that the homecoming
troops were rapidly absorbed by the
thirsty labor market.
That the inelasticity has already APP
peared would seem to be indicated by
an editorial article In the Times on
'-rhe Improving Labor Situation" in
which, referring to the Lawrence strike,
It says, The shorter hours were con-
ceded readily enough. for the cancella-
ton of war orders and the lack OF civil
Ian orders had left the machinery with
out anything to do" But why, except
for our open ports, inviting our deal
ers to look abroad for supplies, should
there be any lack of civilian orders
We are still the same hundred million
people we were before the Administra-
ton opened our ports in October. 1919.
and we need just as much of the lay
renee mills as we needed then.
You say our imports for April were
s273, 000,0 900. II these figures represent
the face OF the bills to be paid for for
eign production It Is a serious matter,
because foreign production on the aver
age costs but 20 per cent. as much as
American production for a similar SER
vice. Therefore the import of S273,-
100000. converted into terms of Amer
lean compensation for producing and
distributing activities. is equivalent to a
supplanting Of 1896, 900, 900 worth Of
American effort. 1t stops that amount
OF American gainful activity at first fire.
But money changes hands at least
ten times in twelve months, so the sup
planting of 1885. 100000 in American
activities would represent the stoppage
of $13.s50, 000, 900 in the year following.
This would seem to be the secret of the
deadly effect which even a small in
crease in imports always has had upon
domestic prosperity.
ROSWELL A. BENEDICT.
= SOUTH NoRwALK, Conn, May 20.
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The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER
MINIATURE ALMANAC.


Sun rises.... 30 A N Sun sets. ..s:1s p NJ
Moon sets......e:l + M
For eastern New York--Fair to-day.
not quite so warm in south portion to-
morrow fair: gentle, variable winds.
For New Jersey-Fair and not quite 80
warm to-day; tomorrow fair; gentle vari-
able Winds.
For northern New Engiand-Fair to-day
winds
cooler to-day and tomorrow; gentle vari-
For western New Tork-rair to-day and
probably tomorrow; no change in tenn
perature; moderate winds.
WASHINGTON. May as-Thero ar.
evidences OF the resumption of normal
movements of areas OF high and lower
pressure across the United States. as
night At that time there was a storm
OF considerable intensity over the Cana
dian maritime provinces and another
Of high barometer over the Great Lakes
and on the north Pacific coast. The warm
wave over the Pacific States and the
Rocky Mountain region was broken DUR
ues over the north states westward to
twenty-four hours there were general
showers in the south Atlantic and Gulf
States, Tennessee and Arkansas and To-
north Rocky Mountain region and on the
north Pacific coast. In tho middle At
lantic and New England States the wealth
er Will be fair and not quite 30 warm
Friday and fair Saturday. In the Ohio
Valley and the region Of the Great Lakes
day, except that II will become unsettled
with probably showers and somewhat low
er temperature Saturday in the lower
Ohio Valley and the upper lake region.
Showery weather will continue Friday and
saturday in the south Atlantic and east
Gulf States.
Observations at United States Weather Fsu-
resn stations taken at p. N. yesterday. ssy-
enty-nfth meridian time:
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In all fairness to Secretary of the
Treasury GLASS and to ex-Secretary
McADoo It must always be borne in
mind that the War Risk Bureau en-
ploys only $4,000 clerks in Washing
ton. In Washington. mark you. 1t
might be that $4,000 clerks in Hobo
kus or Oshkosh could mall a million
checks a month. say three a day for
each clerk working twenty-five days
a month. But Washington!
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NEW ENGLAND'S LOAN CUT.
Government TO Accept Only Part
OF Subscription.

BosroN, May 29.-Only 1871 600 noo
OF the $427223.T5O subscriptions 10 the
Victory Liberty Loan obtained In New
England will be accepted by the Govern
ment the Liberty Loan Committee an
nouneed to-day. The district quota was
$4,000, 900.
The total of individual subscriptions
for the district was S17.S22, as COM
pared with more than 1900, 900 in the
Fourth loan. The average subscrlptIon
was $3.50. Subscribers by States were
as follows: Massachusetts, 466.l7s:
Maine, 53,47e; New Hampshire, 60,1l7 !;
Vermont, 29,Sl7; Rhode Island, 66,44: I;
Connecticut. 1926.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Memorial Day parade, Manhattan; re-
viewing stand at Ninety-frst street and
Riverside Drive; starts Seventy fourth
street and Riverside Drive; review by Gov.
Alfred f. Smith, A. ".
Military mass for the repose OF the souls
OF the nations honored dead; Archbishop
Hayes will preside. Battery Park, 10 40
A ".
Launching OF the S. s. Pawtucket, s. 8.
Assinippi and s. 8. Calpo. for the United
States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet
Corporation. Newark Bay shipyard, $3.50
A. ".
Memorial Day parade, Brooklyn. review
ing stand Prospect Park West and Ninth
street; starts Lafayette and Washington
avenues, A. NJ
Flying Circus" at Sheepshead Bay
Speedway . p NJ.
Memorial services at the tomb OF Gen.
y. 3. Grant: Grafton by Prof. Samuel p.
Orth, 2. NJ
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Memorial Flags.

On this Memorial Day when Ger
The soldiers graves we strew
The lilac and tho budding rose.
And daisy gemmed with dew.
Our thoughts revert with grief and pride
To those beyond the sea
Who lost their young heroic lives
Defending Liberty.
We cannot deck with garlands sweet
The places whore they rest,
Nor moisten with our tears the earth
Upon each gallant breast.
But let US TO the gentle winds
Our service hags unfold,
And hang a fadeless laurel wreath
Ger every star OF gold.
NINA IHvIko
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Aid to Foreign Buyers.

The War Finance Corporation has the
power under recent legislation to finance
export or foreign trade transactions
The owen plan calls for advances to the
foreign buyers.
The War Finance Corporation, while
receiving many inquiries, has received
no formal applications for advances. The
corporation has not yet issued the regu-
lstions under which advances are to be
made and is disposed to encourage priv
vate financing of such transactions. The
regulations viii probably not be promul-
gated until Eugene Meyer, one OF the
directors, returns from a trip to Europe
to confer with American economists who
are in touch with the situation in Euro
pean countries as to the necessities OF
the situation
Those inquiring from the War Finance
Corpoxation have shown no disposition
to furnish the security for an advance
required by the law They must put up
l25 per cent. of the very best Of securi-
ties, and 1t seems probable that in the
last analysis they may be able to Dor
row more favorably from private sources.
1t is known that the Federal Reserve
Board shares the views of Secretary
Glass in regard to the owen plan. The
board members incline to the belief
that individual initiative through the
banks of the country will better solve
the problem of meeting the foreign trade
situation In which the United States
must furnish credit in some form to
foreign buyers.
The sun., 1919-05-30

The proofreader who passed an item
in a Department OF Commerce bulle-
tin announcing that from 1000 to
1000 pounds Of pig iron intestines
are exported from China annually for
use as sausage castings" must have
been obsessed by the memory OF a
personal dietary experience.
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Rnking Up the Sad Past.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The
most unknown man in the world is the
man who mailed those bombs. The
second honors go to the policeman who,
according to the defective bureau. was
going to arrest him within forty-eight
hours" DR. WATSON.
NEW York, May 20.
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RED CROSS JOB FOR KEppEI.
Man Quits War De-
pnrtment for Mercy Work,

WAsHINoroN, May 2s.-American Red
Cross headquarters here announced to-
night that DIR. Frederick Z. Keppel.
Thlrd Assistant Secretary of War. will
resign June 80 10 become director OF Red
ross foreign operations. Dr. Keppei
was formerly secretary OF Columbia
University and later dean CT Columbia
College, but gave up those duties to en-
ter the War Department soon after the
United States entered the war.
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The Man the Horses Ran For.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Is
Sweeney. to whom my graceless nephew
frequently urges me TO tell 1t. eligible
for honors rs the most unknown man
In the world? UNCLE BILL
YOUNGSTOWN, n. j., May 90.
The sun., 1919-05-30

A guide book OF historically inter-
esting points that may be Visited by
the 1919 model American tourist" has
been published for the $4,000 volun-
teers for immediate army service in
Europe. 1t was the American tourist
Of 1918 who to a great extent Gre
ated the appeal which many of the
enumerated places hold for the Ameri-
cans who follow.
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To THE EDITOR OF TIE suN-Sir: We
may now expect to hear the English re-
fer TO an aviator as a "Hawker" and To
an aeroplane as Hawk" etc.
WILLIAM H. FoRBBs.
franklin. Pa. May 20.
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A Tan Cool Fellow who May Dis
appear on July 1.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Tom
Collins is the most universally. or was
at one time the most universally. I'M
known man in the world. That he is or
was a corporeal entity no one who was
ever asked about him doubted; but
though many searched fer him no one
is ever known to have found him. Put
him in the category Of happy meni
FINDIAr SAcKFrr.
NEW York, May 20.
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Well, yachting had its Dunraven.

Keep 'em happy" or morale, officers
are to be assigned to every military post
and camp in the country.
from Washington.
The Pollyanna Corps7
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The Most Unknown Man in the Hotel
World. .

From the Hotel Gazette.
The world Is surely getting better. A
Greenfield. Mass. hotel keeper has re-
ceived $40 from an unknown man in
settlement Of an outlawed board bill.
The sun., 1919-05-30

Third term for WILSON IL league is
beaten. says HoMER/S. CUMMINGS
Headline.
Is the Democratic National Chair
man making a threat to the people or
a promise to the President?
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FOREIGN TRADE FUND.
OPPOSED BY GLASS
Government Should Have No
Part in Finance Corpora
ton, He Says.
PLAN PUT UP TO BANKS
Secretary Believes Business
Public Should Exploit
U. s. Industries.
Special Despafch to THE Sun.


WASHINGTON, May 2s.-Secretary OF
the Treasury Glass is. not in sympathy
with the plan advanced by Senator Owen
(Okla.), former chairman of the Bank
ing and Currency Committee Of ,no
Senate, for the creation of a huge for
eign trade finance corporation with a
capital of billion dollars to be sub
scribed partly by tho Government.
Secretary Glass said to representa-
tive OF THE SUN to-day he believed for
cign Trade financing should be left to in
dividual initiative and to the vision and
business foresight of the American
banker. The banks of the country. he
said, were we'll able to do all of the
foreign trade financing necessary, and
he continued: II do not believe the
Government should undertake 1t or have
a part in It."
The Secretary expressed tie view that
the present was the best time for the
Government to cease all Interference and
business help and let industry and trade
go out on its own initiative and bring q
quick and normal readjustment of the
entire business and financial situation
on an American basis
The Owen plans calls for Government
participation in the proposed foreign
trade financing corporation to the ex-
tent of $25o.000,o0o, or one-quarter of
the entire capital stock. The corpora
ton would be at least q quasi govern
mental organization.
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Is There Such m Objective Inauencei

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Str: It
is the man who makes him who thinks
he Is the only one that knows what
America shall have change his mind
every so often. w. w.
HARRISBURG, Pa, May 20.
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True, bpt There Are Several Of Him.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: Who
Is the least known man in the world7
Easy enough; the man who doesn't
advertise. SIDNEY s. ToMAN.
New York, May 90
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THE GREATEST UNKNOWN.
Moro Nominations for the Niche Of
Nonentity.

10 THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-sir: The
most unknown man in the world is
some dominating DANES husband.
DAVID Doom.
RARrTAN, N. =, May 20.
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Bankers Discuss Plan,

A number of prominent bankers have
discussed with the Secretary the for
nation of private corporation or cor
porations for this purpose, and it is I'M
derstood the Secretary is favorably in
clined to them. He is convinced that the
banks have ample funds now to pro-
ceed on such campaign and that their
situation will improve through the end
of popular government loans and the
likelihood Of relief from railroad finance
ing.
While the Secretary is in fullest SYM
pathy with the view that the United
States Vust become an investor nation
and must make extensive foreign credits
still he believes II Is a matter for the
business public and the bankers to meet
as an opportunity for the promotion of
American business and industry. So far
as the Treasury Department is concerned
there is little chance Of any movement
by the Government similar to that taken
by the British Government for the pro-
lection of British investors in foreign
loans, particularly those of Russia. The
administrative attitude has not changed,
II was intimated, from the one that
prompted refusal Of moral support by
the Government for extensive loans and
investment IN China. The American sit
uation regarding Russian loans is differ
ent from that Of Great Britain. Ad-
vances were made by the United States
to the Russian Government and these
will be protected.
The sun., 1919-05-30

Highest temperature. 80. at s p. NJ.
Lowest temperature. 5s, at 1880 A NJ.
Average temperature. ~.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-09

this and other purposes, American
Methodism has been divided into twenty
Episcopal areas and each area into con-
ference, district and sub district groups,
each with It's responsible leader.
In addition an elaborate publicity
program has been mapped out. News
papers and magazines, church and
secular press, labor and trade, class
publications--in fact every kind Of
publication which can be reached upon
the basis Of legitimate news appeal, will
be utilised. No means Of letting Amer
lea know that the drive for world wide
Christian democracy Is on win be over
looked.
To Enroll 100000 Speakers.
An army of 100 900 Methodist Min
ute Men" Is being recruited, largely
from the men who did similar service
for Uncle Sam. DR.. Christian y.
Reisner, pastor Of Grace Church, New
York, has been released for six months
to organize this division of publicity.
DR.. Reimcr began the work with
prayer and faith--and advertising. Al
ready he has moro than 90, 900 "Metho-
dist Minute Men" mobilised and the re-
suits have exceeded his most optimistic
expectations.
There will be two Of these Minute
Men" in every Methodist church in
America--snd for every church with
more than 200 members thsyc will be an
additional man for esch Ibo. One Of
their chief duties will be TO present the
centenary work through fve-minutc
speeches. They will speak In churches,
Sunday schools, In theators, motion pic
turc houses public entertainments,
everywhere. A special magazine called
Missiles" Is being issued for the use
of these men alone. It's one purpose is
to furnish ammunition to the speakers.
The Methodist Movies" will be an
interesting feature OF American life
soon. The committee has a staff of eI-
perts In every mission field, and it is in
tended TO familisrizc every American
with the life Of the oppressed every
where. But the picture campaign aims
to do more than that II aims to bring
the thought home to every one that all
men are brothers and that the agonics
of war, ignorance and oppression can
be remedied only through a Christian
democracy of the world.
This stupendous movement did not
originate with the official machinery of
the church
Il am glad it Started in the Metho-
dist Church, sid DR.. Taylor. And
am glad it started from the rank and
file. The Methodid Church, historical
ly, has been The church Of the common
people and II II is to be power in the
life of the world 1t must always remain
just that. We are not looking TO the
weLitby for the Sl2o,OOO,OoO. We are
looking to the common people, the plain