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ANOTHER BREAKDOWN.
Renewed Criticism Of "Eficiency" Il
the War DEPARTMENT.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Has
that bureau of the war Department de-
voted to soldiers allotments stopped
functioning7 The followipg case which
smacks strongly of comic opera, but I'M
fortunately II Is not. came under my
notice few weeks ago:
The wife. or widow perhaps, OF SOL
der who was drafted from the Harlem
section OF this city on August 80. 1918,
filed an application for allotment with
the War Department on December 20,
1918. After long and vexatious delays a
response came from the Department ask
ing for further data regarding the SOL
der. This was forwarded Immediately
to Washington. Other letters were sent
to the War Department by the woman,
whose name and address are enclosed In
confidence to you. including a photo
graph Of her husband and all the infor-
nation respecting him and the draft that
she could remember.
Fron April until a few days ago the
applicants hopes went glimmering like
"self-determination" and the other
Fourteen Points," and nothing further
regarding the matter was heard from the
War Department until September 20,
when the woman. frail, delicate crea-
ture with a crippled hand, received
communication from the Adtutant-Gen-
eral stating that they were unable to
identify her husband from the data given,
as there were fully forty or fifty men
of that name on file.
The Adjutant-Generalm made further
request for the soldiers rank, army Sc
rial number, the name OF the place IN
which he enlisted and other particulars,
all Of which had been furnished the De-
partment months ago In addition to the
soldiers photograph and the date on
which he received a furlough in France
to visit relatives In Great Britain.
This dilly-dallying do-nothing policy
is an attitude which should throw the
most serious shadow upon the efficiency
OF the War Department and the admin
istration of Secretary Baker. As mat
tiers now stand the aggrieved and dis
appointed woman does not know whether
her husband 70 alive or dead, whether he
ia in Siberia or Dalmatia. along the Rhine
or In a hospital, or whether she is wife
or widow. Meanwhile she Is compelled
to earn living in the best way she ian
and under a severe physical handicap.
II this is making the world safe for
democracy may God save America from
the War Departments brand Of saliva
ton! JOSEPH w. GAvAN.
NEW YORK, October 10.
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whether wind, rain or snow comes
from the clouds. Sleeping in the out
doors warmly clad In blankets re-
news ones vitality and forever takes
away the idea that one can "catch
cold" by such methods of resting.
Food tastes much better because there
Is healthy appetite created that re-
quires not the forbidden cocktail to
lure 1t on. And after a hard days
tramping, whether following buck or
a dog. insomnia is banished. Ask an
out-of-doors-man about these things
or, better still, any member Of the
A. Il. f. now in civvies.
As for pleasure and fun, think of
the pep" In the fight of black bass
In autumn or the gymnastics Of a
striped bass or channel bass hang
ing on the line If one is not to have
the pleasure, while fishing in the surf,
10 find weakfish or blues biting, what
a joy 1t is to see the screeching gulls,
the broadbills as they fly in straight
line, or the geese in their V formation.
winging their way southwark. Should
1t happen that these creatures are not
near by to entertain the angler, what
greater JOY than to watch the white
chariots of the sea rushing over the
sandbars far out?
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Autumn Sports.

In these chill days of fall, when the
commuter starts the furnace fire to
be kept going until spring arrives and
makes that household chore lnneces-
sary, the call to the out-of-doors-man
comes on every breeze. Soon the call
becomes Irresistible. The response
may be a fishing-camping trip along
the south Jersey sand dunes, an excur-
sion to an inland lake where bass and
Iickerel have an extra kick in their
fins because the chilled &ater makes
them more active in their search for
food, or long looked for pleasure of
hunting big or upland game birds and
animals or the migratory waterfowl
and shore birds.
The deer season has begun in the
Adirondacks and in Maine. Up State
the season is open for rabbit, squirrel,
ruffed grouse, waterfowl and shore
birds. On Long Island and in New
Jersey the waterfowl season begins
Thursday, giving opportunity for the
GiiOOtuiS VI eoOoCs duu
such shore birds as the coot, gallinule;
black bellied golden plovers, yellow
leg, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, wood.
cock, rails tmarsh hens). New Jer-
sey has special open time for the
reedbird.
:, Nothing else puts a nan In such
good trim, whether he roughs 1t for
game birds and animals, fishes IN lakes
for black bass and becomes better ac-
quainted with the sunfish, crappie,
yellow perch and rock bass, or does a
mans work swinging the nine foot rod
with a four ounce sinker and angles
for the swift surf swimmers now on
their way to southern waters.
A man needs to go out into the out
doors to know what wonderful sun
shine j. to be found In the fields or
the borders of lake or beside the
ocean. The out-ef-doors-man, warmly
clad, finds no terror In the weather,
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REWARDING THE SOLDIER.
A Service Man Suggests That Bonds,
Not Cash. Be Given.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir:. The
argument that to pay a bonus to SOL
diers in cash bond issue would have
to be fioated on an already flooded mar
ket Is true TO a certain extent. but
why not give us the bonds? Such n
bill has already been proposed by Rep
resentative Jones of Texas 1t provides
that $50 bond be issued to each ex-
service man for every month he was
In the service. Restrictions are placed
on the number of bonds ally one person
can sell within a limited time. o. In this
way the Liberty bond market is fully
protected.
The good old Commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts has led the way In this coun-
try by giving all her ex-service men
800 Let that be an example to the
men in Washington who bubble about
the ''price OF patriotism"
Ninety-nine per cent. OF the ex-
service men do not claim that the coun-
try owes them living, but they feel
that they have been much underpaid for
the time they spent in the service. In
this believe the majority OF Americans
will agree.
ONE OF THE FouR MILLION.
ELIzABETH, N. j.. October IS.
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The Farmers Work Day.

Before the National Industrial Con-
ference, reassembling in Washington
to-day, the American Farmers will lay
their claims to higher money rewards
based on their agricultural work day
as compared with the hours and pay
of the plumber, the mason, the car
penter, the day laborer.
The hours Of the American farmer,
filling his own soil with the sweat of
his own brow, always have been and
still are measured by what there is to
do. When the work Is there and has
to be cleaned up not only the Ameri-
can farmer and his sons out the
American farmers wife and her
daughters work ten, twelve, fourteen
hours a day. with never thought of
overtime, half pay or holiday double
pay. If the American farmers did not
thus work the limit when the laws of
nature demanded that the fields be
ploughed, the crops cultivated and the
harvests gathered before the last
stroke of the seasons clock they
could not feed and clothe as they now
do millions of human beings abroad
as we'll as the 100000 at home.
They could not bring forth the nat
ural wealth upon which is based not
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His Chance to Be Famous.

We admire the candor of the proud
and provident couple in Ohio who Of
fer, in letter addressed to Vice Presi-
dent MARSHALL and printed in the
Congressional Record, to name their
first born son for gain:
VIII you please put this to the
Senate and the House Of Congress?
The man who will give the baby the
biggest prize can have the name"
Without wishing to discourage any
man in Congress from competing, we
think that it would be a good thing
If the Hon. GILBERT NJ. HITCHCOCK
should happen to be the winning bid
der. We cannot see any other chance
for him to become famous As for
the child, 1t is described by its parents
as big and bright; and 1t probably
would survive the ordeal.
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Brook,yn's Voting Supremacy.

The last estimate made by the
Health Department Of the populations
in the boroughs of this city credited
Manhattan with about 100000 more
souls than Brooklyn. But the regis
tration this year shows, as it showed
last year, that Brooklyn has nearly
10000 more persons who are eligible
and willing to vote than this island
can boast.
Is it that Brooklyn is more public
spirited than Manhattan? 1t would
be safer to say that the influence of
woman suffrage is more evident.
Brooklyn has nearly 10000 more
women than men; in Manhattan the
sexes are about even in number.
Brooklyn has less illiteracy than
Manhattan. But the chief reason why
Brooklyn casts a larger vote than
Manhattan is that she has about half
as many aliens as her neigbbor.
When it comes to election Brooklyn
Is the more American borough.
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Three Of the Antiquities Of the Gov.
enant Of the League of Nations.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In
the Congressional Record of August 4.
1919. appears an article in which the
covenant Of the League OF Nations is
carefully analysed. and forty-one points,
vagueness, ambiguity. impracticability
and weakness are presented. Yet de-
spite this fact the Senatorial fight of
those opposed TO the covenant is con-
centrated on four or f. .'.nts which
1t is proposed to g. At by amend
ment or reservatiU., saving more vital
menaces and antiquities unnoted.
There has been much talk on the
question oc Great Britains six votes to
one of the United States, as each of
these Powers would have one vote on
the Council, and Great Britain would
also control the votes of Canada. Aus
tralla. South Africa, New Zealand and
India In the Assembly. This is on the
assumption that the Powers repre-
scented on the Council would not be rep
resented III the Assembly. yet Article ".
Of the covenant says: "The Assembly
shall consist Of representatives of the.
members of the league"
But when We have prepared ourselves
TO accept this meaning VIC strike a new
snag In Article XXVI., which SAYS
Amendments to this covenant shall take
effect when ratified by the members of
the league whose representatives COM
pose the Assembly" Referring tn.
amendment back to the nations them
selves, not to their representatives. as
phrased above, implies that the repre-
sentation on the Council excludes rep
resentation In the Assembly. Which
view is correct?
+. Senators Reed and johnson In their
talk of Great Britain's vote of six to
the United States one believe the two
Powers would not be members OF the
Assembly. Senator Jones of Washing
ton, who advocates a resolution or res.
ervation that the American representa-
tives on the Council and in the Assem-
bly, be appointed by the President by
and with the consent OF the Senate, takes
a contrary view. Which is correct I?
II the former. the figures 6 to 1 are
correct; " the latter. the figures should
be to 2.
No attention seems to have been
called by the Senate or the press to this
discrepancy. II is typical of the confu-
sion that pervades the whole covenant
as is shown In the article above re-
ferred to in the Record, from which my
quotation is made in a condensed form.
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN.
NEW YORK, October IL.
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NAVAL UNIFORMS.
Post Election Comment on the New
Coat for Officers.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: THE
Sum prints a letter from Secretary
Daniels in which he says that the uni
form change was made after all !he off,
GERS had an opportunity to vote on the
jority had decided that the change was
necessary and desirable.
This would lead the casual reader to
think that "all'' was a representative
lot of the officers. / am informed by
several officers that this Is not the case.
1t has been said that an officer must
have had at least five years service be-
fore he was allowed to vote on the ques-
ton. and I am further informed that
many officers never had the opportunity
OF voting who had that requirement
Just to-day J was at luncheon where
there were sixteen medical officers.
There was one Of the new uniforms, and
the man who was wearing it when
asked how he liked 1t quickly said that
he was sorry he ever bought it, for 1t
had nothing on the old style for COM
fort around the neck when a stiff collar
was used, and certainly was not as well
fitted for his work as the other,
The question was asked IL the old
style was an unhealthful uniform and
every doctor smiled. One of the elder
ones was asked directly why It was sup
posed to be. His answer was an ex-
tremely guarded one. but left one with
the impression that the danger to ones
health lurked In the fertile brain of
some advocates of the new style.
Further questioning brought out the
following facts: Most OF the officers
would never wear the new style IL It
were not compulsory, and others never
expect to wear 1t until the very first Day
on which 1t becomes compulsory.
There is another very interesting side
light If asked to vote again these men
would either not vote for any change or
to keep the new coat to punish those
who in a fit of foreign admiration
adopted something not wanted or neces-
sary for our service. SQUARE DEAL
NEW YORK, October IS.
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draw. This is an utterly unjustiiable

draw. This is an utterly unjustifiable
conclusion. Legislative, executive and
judicial officers who Ego wrong" who
sell out, who take brides because
their salaries don't pay their board
BILL" would go wrong whatever the
State paid them. A member Of Con-
gress now gets $500, where his prede
cessor got 5000. The increase In the
cost Of living has made $500 worth
about what $4,000 was when the old
salary schedule was in force. Yet we
do MOI and we shall not hear that our
nominal $500 but actual $4,000
Representatives and Senators are not
as honest as the statesmen who served
before them. If New York State
Senator deserves $500 a year New
York State Assemblyman deserves
$500 year, and II the Speaker Of
the Assembly deserves $1,000 a year
every member of the Legislature de-
serves $1,000 year. The Speaker
performs various duties outside the
Assembly. If these entail an expense
on him he should be reimbursed by
the State, but we have never heard Of
a good man refusing the Speakership
because Of the expense involved In
obligations falling on Its incumbent
outside the Assembly, and II any bad
man ever did It was a fine thing for
the State.
The fourth amendment is objection
Gble not because It provides that the
Judges Of the Court Of Appeals should
be more highly compensated but be-
cause 1t does not go about the matter
straightforwardly and consequently
leaves an opening for manipulation.
The purpose OF the amendment Is tn
give the Chief Judge and Associate
Judges more pay than they now re-
ceive. Instead of empowering the
Legislature to fix their compensation
or fixing their compensation directly
itself the proposed amendment makes
their compensation dependent on that
paid to another judicial off1cer-that
Is, apparently on the pay Of JUS
tees Of the Supreme Court in the
First and Second districts, who
receive $17,500 a year, against
the $4,000 paid in other districts,
although for all we know there may
be some fee compensated judicial Off
Ger" In the State who gets q good deal
more than $17,5O0 a year.
Adoption of none Of these amend
ments is imperatively required by the
situation of the State. They should
consequently he beaten, and IL there
Is merit in the purposes they seek to
achieve new amendments may be
drawn, passed by the Legislature sit
ting next year and by that sitting In
1921 and submitted to the people in
November of 1921.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

George r. Rowland will ,e.a
the A srp Engine fabrication" betor.
West Thjrtvin.ns society of America, 20
Opening of Barge Canal Terminal. Gov
city ofaoiai 'usnd with other State and
Lewis Nixon r'eI Pubic q East SILVER Rivsr. n
sn'oner, Will speak on the "Pubiic Iytii,tis.
N !sSatISn. at the monthly luncheon Of tbs
Aipin. isisO G5ecsTicai League. Hotel Mo
East Rai1ss meeting OF trustees of Near
conVe eDieI, yale Club; P; NJ.
'idiion Hotel Pennsylvania, 10 A, NJ
nary Rsv n,0Iasmith Will talk on "Prelimi-
before re- the s,' New Tsd Soe sns
Accountants and Bookkeepers' Hotel Inn y.
perial. Sis p. NJ. fio'e' Inn
cu Mas name, meeting Of city employees to dis
auspices OF the American Labor Party y
The Sphinx Club VIII Sosd Fl j.. M ;s,1 A..
ner at the Waldorf Astoria p ySu am
ton s'e pnrI meeting, at which Al
NJ Goidtogle will speak, Seward Park rle''
GOV. Alfred E. Smith will be the cues,
Club h0h 81 At ha,t lEnehe9n Of the Uptown
Dr.. belmer Eugene Croft will sneak
en- On Ieiepathy; Thought Transformer and
Green Room. Hotel McAipin,
-, Lecture by Leo Pasvolsky on 1.-THE Rus.
Sans; commerce Building, Twenty-thira
Ninth annual meeting OF the New Jer.
'eE x Audubon Society Newark, P. NJ
coEn nh'o OF cnn, by the Motor Transport
Armory Ninth C. A. c., ~ Y. g., -Four.
teenth street, near Sixth avenue. ali day
Illustrated books OF the last four cen.
turtles, Stuart Galleries; the making Of
prints; New York Library. Forty second
Exhibition OF model fiise size, African
pygmy camp In the Belgian congo Amsri.
can Museum OF Natural History, all day.
from private collections. Metropolitan Mu-
ou Exhibit prepared by the Women IN rn-
Dor; on display at the Offices OF the Fed.
eral Council OF the Churches of Christ IN
70 A" A. n Il. dOs Fan r"snty-'''ond street.
Waldorf. Astoria, 2 p, N;
First panel sherims Jury, COMMITTEES
meeting waldorf-Astoria, 4 p. NJ
,or Maryland Society meeting waldorf-A'-
citation meeting. Hotel Aston, 10 A. Nj
Study Hotel Aston, p NJ.
The Theatre Club, Inc. meeting. Hotel
Meeting Of the United Daughters OF the
confederacy.. Hotel Aston, 1880 A.
Stage Childrens Fund meeting Hotel
Aston, p. NJ.
Meeting OF the broadway Restaurant
Association, Hotel Aston, gao y NJ
Order OF the Eastern star, supper ~
O'clock. followed by dance, Hotel Aston
Meeting Of the United Real Estate owns
ers Association. Hotel Aston J. NJ
New York Electrical League luncheon
Hotel McAlpin. 1890 T. NJ.
National Association OF Ladies Hottsr
luncheon, Hotel McAlpin, 1890 =, NJ
Unity School Of Christianity meeting
Hotel McAlpin, 2:s0 2. NJ.
Coopers Board OF Trade meeting Hotel
Nc Alpin, p. "
New York and New Jersey Lvestocf
Association meeting, Hotel McAlpln'
y. NJ
Greater New York Lace Association
meeting Hotel Nc Alpiu, p, NJ.
New York CITY rndertakerS Association
meeting Hotel McAlpin, ESQ p NJ
American Legion meeting. Hotel Penn
sylvania 4 p NJ
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Trade Target Of the World.

In August, the ninth month after
the armistice, not merely the bellig-
erents Of the year before but the
neutrals and semi-neutrals were press
ing their cargoes to our shores In
steadily increasing volume. Observe
first the "war wrecks" Germany and
Austria-Hungary delivered to us goods
to the value of more than $556,000 as
against nothing at all in 1918. Russia
In Europe sent us more than 81, $780,
600. Belgium came along with $685.
600. From January to August 81
Germany and Austria-Hungary laid
down here shipments valued at $780,
600; Russia In Europe, S2,700000;
Belgium, $1,762,OOO.
France, however war wracked, put
across the seas for our markets in
August more than S11, 100000 Of mer-
chandise--a gain over the year before
of nearly $6,0O0,00O. For the seven
months from January 1 she scored
with US $57,6O0,OOO, a gain only short
Of $15,000,000. Italy in the same class,
with $6,s0O.OO0 for August, gained
$4,S00,0O0. In the eight months she de-
livered to us more than $22,000,000.
From the United Kingdom In Au-
gust came nearly $25,O00,0OO, a gain
of more than S12,O0O,0O0. In the
eight months the record was $143,
100000, gain of more than $685.
100000. Among neighbors of the
United Kingdom the Netherlands did
in August some S7,6OO,OO0, nearly all
gain; for the eight months more than
$40, 100000, q gain of more than $780,
100000. Norway did in August S347,
600, gain of 100000, and for the
eight months S2,90O,OO0, a gain Of
more than 100000. Sweden for
August did 100000, gain Of $780,
600, and for the eight months $780,
600, a gain of nearly 81 100000.
Another neutral, Switzerland, trip
ped along In August with S2,250,-
600, gain of nearly $1,O00,000. In
the eight months her total was more
than $14,OO0,OO0 and her gain short
of $4,000,OOO. Spain showed for Au-
gust S6,2O0000, a gain of S5,000.0O0,
and for the eight months $30,600,000,
a gain of nearly $20,000,000.
For those who fought the swords
have been beaten into plough shares.
For those who stood vigil without the
battle lines warships have given place
to cargo carriers. Armies of belliger-
ents and armies of neutrals, alike de-
mobilizing and returning to the pur-
suits of peace, now deliver their
strokes and fashion their wares to
freight deeply laden argosles for our
golden market. And our national lead
ers talk; our national workers idle
and quarrel. LORD help the United
States-trade target Of the world!
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TRUCKS ON THE DESERT.
Carry Freight to Central Asia, Bring
Back Farm Products.
Rom Popular Aechdn

-Four thousand picturesque camels and
their ], 900 drivers are to be succeeded by
thirty businesslike American trucks for
the transportation of freight between
Tientsin, China, and Kulja. eastern Tur-
kestan. distance OF approximately
1000 miles.
An agricultural colonization company
is responsible for the contemplated
change. Farm products will be carried
on the return trip. Each camel of the
caravans now travelling the route is cap
able Of carrying only 200 pounds Of
freight, while each truck equipped with
a trailer will be able to transport six
toas.
Travelling at the rate OF twenty miles
a day the animals require about six
months for the round trip. Trucks are
expected to cover the same distance In
thirty days.
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THE WEATHER.

For eastern New York and soutbsr,
New England-Partly cloudy and warm,
or to-day; tomorrow showers moderats
south winds.
For New Jersey--cloud, and scmswb,,
warmer to-day, probably followed ~
east and southeast winds. '1'uera"
o,d For northern New England-Parti,
cloudy and warmer to-day; Tomorrow
showersi moderate south winds
warmer, followed by showers tonight any
tomorrow; moderate south winds.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1s-pro,,r.. :.
high over the Eastern states, relatIveis
high and rising over the far Nortbwe..
ana low over the Plains States and IN.
plateau regions This pr.,s Sn1 ssqu Their
tlon is attended by a mantle Of oIopS,
W %hi .ha c p practically all districts eas
iast twenty -four hours there were sbowers
In south Atlantic States. the Gulf Ststs'
tennessee s es. Arksnsas, the Plains States ana
temperatures and frosts were recordo5
tuesday ip the Atlantic States north =,
, uh,rsinia; In the upper Ohio Valley and
weather has also overspread the caro YI,Ts,
and northern Georgia. while the weaiHs;
NJ NJ, become warmer In the southern Rocky
and the region OF the great iakes. 'a TS,
outlook 10 for cloudy. showery weathe, !,
pi .reiv al districts east of the MIssis.
sippi River during the next thirty sis
iorty.eight hours, although the weathss
vii De fair Tuesday in the north Atlanta
states. Temperature will rise Tuesday ~
she middle Atlantic and New Enxiana
Staues. the lower lake region. the Ohio
valley, Tennessee. north Georgia and ths
upper lake region. 80 'H'
ooservattons at United States Weather Bu.
Ieau stauons taken at p. NJ. YESTERDAY
seYonty-0fth meridian time. oS'