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John Il. Hexeman.

An adequate biography Of JOHN r.
HEoEMAN, who died yesterday at his
home In Mamaroneck. would consti-
tute a history Of American life insur-
anoe in Its modern development. He
became accountant for the Manhattan
Life Insurance Company in 1865 and
four years later was selected as secre-
tary Of the Metropolitan Life Insur-
anoe Company, Of which he became
vice-president in the same year and
president in 1891.
Mr.. HEeEMAN's interest In the great
company he had labored to bring to
It's commanding position in the bust
ness world remained as keen when he
was 20 as 1t had been when he was
young man; at the annual dinner of
the company's superintendent, held in
New York In January, his address Of
welcome to his co-workers was witty,
informed and inspiring. He had at
his tongues end an amazing store of
statistics, which he impaired to his
beavers without boring them. and the
deep sincerity Of the man was evident
in every word he uttered.
The period following the civil war
was one Of intense competition among
life insurance companies in this coun-
try, and as result Of lax examina-
ton Of risks and high expense Of
management, without adequate super,
vision, many old and new companies
recklessly administered went to the
wall. In the ten years following 1870,
the year Mr.. HEGEMAN Joined the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Company,
deep popular mistrust Of all such en-
terprises was aroused. This was re-
f1ected in a great falling Off in insur-
ance written. The companies report
ing to the New York Insurance De
partment had 81 O23, 900, 900 insurance
in force In 1870; FIVE years later this
had decreased to 1902 1000, 900; by
1880 It had fallen to $1,524. 0O0. OO0
and 1t was not until 1885 that the
total reached that recorded In 1870.
These fifteen years were trying years
for life insurance executives, and
throughout the period Mr. HEGEMAN
was one of the hardest workers in his
company. The turn In the tide came
about 1880, and from that time on
there has been a constant growth in
the business done by, and steady
improvement in the methods Of, the
companies In the readjustment Of
business methods to obtain greater
safety for the insured Mr.. HEGEMAN
and his associates were leaders, and
their contributions to the improve
ment of Industrial insurance practices
have been highly important.
Mr.. HEGEMAS played determining
part not only in the upbuilding of one
insurance company but In the edu-
cation Of many insurance men and in
the instruction Of the public as to the
possibilities Of life insurance. Public
santa ton, the preservation Of health,
the Intelligent combating Of prevent
able diseases occupied much Of his
attention in recent years, and his
work done in these fields is consid-
cred Of the greatest value by scientists
and social workers familiar with 1t.
His life was as useful to his fellows as
1t was busy.
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MEN TO TEACH BOYS.
Soldiers in France Saw objection to
the Feminine Viewpoint.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir. Orc
Of the things discussed by the boys
"over there" was the problem Of the
education and training of tho boy. Es-
pecially do I remember a big debate
among o considerable number of enlisted
men, most of them former college men
and some Of them former teachers.
Many OF the points developed were
interesting. On one they were unani-
nous. They demanded that our boys,
from the beginning of adolescence on.
be given more masculine training.
They were unanimous that from this
time for at least four or flve years boys
should be taught by men teachers and
in schools for boys only. They had no
criticism Of the woman teacher as a
teacher. Anything but that. 1t was no
question of equal value as teachers. 1t
wac merely n question OF the develop
Ing Of important characteristics in
boy. and IL seemed obvious that the
boy from his thirteenth birthday on
should be taught by men and be given
tho masculine viewpoint
With these opinions in mind 1t was
with much chagrin that some of US
learned Of the introduction this week
Of women teachers into stuyvesant High
School. which has always stood as
mans school," where boys would have
developed those characteristics which are
normal and valuable. but which. even
under the ablest woman's tutelage. are
likely TO become changed. softened or
even weakened to a marked degree.
I dare say It is the dearth OF men
teachers that has led to this change.
But boys are apt to get unnatural view
points-viewpoints unnatural for boys.
I mean-through being given for so
many school years the feminine View
point on 80 many things,
DONALD MAcRIMMoN,
Former Corporal.
NEW YoaK. April 8.
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The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.
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MINIATURE ALMANAC.


Standard Time.
Sun rises" ,;;e;si M sun sets; '..7:S Pm
Moon sets. ....29t A NJ
Tbs foreroing table has been corrected "
the new artificial time"
For eastern Now York-Ilocai rains IN
the north, partly cloudy in south to-dayt
tomorrow rain; moderate southerly
winds.
For New Jersey--Partly cloudy to-dayt
Tomorrow unsettled. probably rain; mod
crate southeasterly winds
For northern New England-Local rains
to today day; to-morrow elopdy. probably I.. ran
Winds mostly south.
For southern New Ensland-Partly
ably rain n in West portioS. and so9nisSt II
east portion; moderate winds. mostly
For western New York-cloudy to-day.
probably local rains in east portion; colder
near the lakes; tomorrow rain.
WASHINGTON. April s.--The COLORADO
disturbance Of Saturday night Is central
tonight over western Nebraska with In
creased intensity. and tho resulting south.
have caused marked rise In temperatures
over the Interior districts TO much above
normal conditions, while TO the westwera
and northwestward there has been a corr
responding fall accompanied by quite gsn-
eral rains and SHOWS. There was no othey
preeipitation Of eonseauenee except In es
lake region, where there were rains. due 70
the disturbance OF Saturday, that have viz
tually disappeared. Unsettled rainy
weather will prevail Monday and Tuesday
east of he Mississippi, although probably
not until Tuesday in the Atlantic stses
south of New England. In the upper lake
region there may be some snow. II will De
colder Monday and Tuesday in the upper
lake and west lower lake region, and con
siderably colder Tuesday in the Ohio VaI-
ley, Tennessee and the east Gulf states ana
south Atlantic states. High tsmperstur..
will continue Monday in the East and
South.
Observ atoms at United States Weather
Bureau stations taken mt =. NJ. yesterday,
seventy-fifth meridian time:
Rainfall
The sun., 1919-04-07
PARIS HoN0Rs CLEvELANDERs.
At Banquet to Americans Reel
procity In Trade Is Pledged.

PARIS, April Capt. Andre Tardleu,
member of the French peace delegation,
at dinner last night In honor OF tina
members OF the Cleveland Chamber OF
Commerce who are visiting France, re-
called that April 9 marked the second
anniversary OF the entrance OF the United
States into tho war.
The armies of France and tho United
States, he said, had accomplished their
task. while the business men OF the
United States had come to cooperate
with French business men in establish
ing the same friendly spirit in business
as existed between the soldiers on the
battlefield.
President Brown OF the Cleveland
chamber said that the United States de-
sires to remain an ally OF France In a
commercial as well as In q military
sense
The sun., 1919-04-07
HERE is REAL TROUBLE.
The Quality OF Coffee Going Down
While the Price Goes Up.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN---Sir: What
is the matter with the coffee situation?
For nearly twenty years my family has
been enjoying very good brand OF
coffee, but recently we have been served
with very inferior coffee at an advance
in price OF over 80 per cent. It cannot
be correctly termed coffee, as 1t does
not taste in tN least like It.
What can be the trouble? Surely
there is plenty OF good coffee. There Is
enough in South America TO feed the
world for years to come. My friends
have had tho same trouble. Good
coffee in New York city Is a scarcity.
JOHN Z. BROWNING
LAKEWOOD. N. j., April 8.
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U. s. WARNED NOT To-
INITIATE CURRENCY
Senator Owen Sees Britain
and France Drifting on
Financial Rocks.
GOLD RESERVES DwINDLE
How Japan's Low Per Capita
Enables Her to Undersell
Higher Rated Nations.
sntcinl nsanntcA 10 TIE srr.


WARRINGTON, April s.-Warning to
the United States to keep clear OF the
evil of currency imitation with which the
countries of Europe are beset was issued
tonight by Senator Robert l.. owen
(Okla.), retiring Democratic chairman
OF the Senate Banking and Currency
Committee. At the Same time the SEN
ator warned Great Britain. France and
Italy that through the continuance or
the policy they have been pursuing they
are drifting close TO the rocks and taking
a short cut to economic financial injury.
Senator Owen returned recently from
personal study of the situation abroad
American statesmen since the civil
war clearly have recognized the dangers
Of currency imitation, Mr.. Owen said, be-
cause of the fact that American green
backs went to serious discount in terms
Of gold. with a consequent greatly dimin-
ished purchasing price. while the paper
money of the Confederacy fell go far
that 1t required $1,000 to buy a pair
Of shoes. and later was completely
worthless.
Europe has not observed the lesson
which was taught the people of the
United States by the civil war" said
the Senator, "and they are no longer on
true gold basis in Europe. Great
Britain. although on a nominal gold ba-
SIS does not in fact exchange its notes
for gold, and is still expanding the note
Issue.
The sun., 1919-04-07

From the Soldier Clipper.
We are very sorry % hear that the
Johnson willard hsht was fabe. The
fact that Wizards father once rode
through the stress OF Soldier on a lumber
wagon has no longer any charm for the
aspiring youth OF thtE city.
The sun., 1919-04-07

To call an Official State document
concerning the Bolshevist regime up
to date a white book" is to apply to 1t
an Irritating misnomer.
The sun., 1919-04-07
& The Childlike Faith OF the South
in Any Wilson Draft.

The Literary Digest has taken what
1t calls a nationwide press poll on
the League Of Nations" and 1t an
nounces that the answers received
from 1877 daily newspapers In re-
Spouse to It's question do you favor
the proposed League Of Nations"
were as follows:
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1t Is fortunate that the man who,
returning to this city after twenty
two years OF exile. was so favorably
impressed by the change to cheaper
cab rates did not first go into a grocery
store.
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1t must be admitted that the form
of the question was a little fairer
than that put by the New York Globe,
which invited its readers to answer,
either Yes or No, whether they wished
the United States ito enter n league
of nations TO preserve peace" and
left no opportunity fer q reply from
the man or woman who, favoring n
treaty which would insure peace
without surrendering American SOW
ereignty, must refuse to indorse the
abrogatlon of the Monroe Doctrine
which Mr.. WILSON'S draft contained
when he came here TO advocate a
blind acceptance of that document.
The query put by the Literary d.
qest left an opening for those news
paper editors who, while favoring u
peace compact, have read the Wilson
draft and rejected it. These, evil
IDENTIFY, are the 47S who voted Son
ditional." Is 1t to be assumed that
the IT'S who voted "Yes' meant that
they would accept the draft which the
thirty-nine Senators are pledged
against? We doubt it, yet even II 1t
could be so assumed there would he
a majority of only fifty-rine for the
affirmative. Nor Is this majority at
all dlscouraglng when we discover,
from the Literary Digest's chart, that
2OS of the us Yeas were cast In the
South. In every other section of the
country the combined Noes ard Con
ditionals were in excess Of the Yeas.
The most curious feature of the
Literary Di0est's revelation is the
comments 1t received from newspa-
pers in the region where the heaviest
affirmative vote was cast. The Fred.
ericksburg (Md.) Neps wrote:
Little interest is taken in the
question generally. people seemingly
being well content with WILSON'S
leadership and action
Loyalty but irreverently wrote the
editor of the Sun of Corsicana, Tex:
I'VE are with old WOODROW all tho
time
The Times OF Timpson, Tex, Of,
fered this remarkable contribution:
"a great man like President WILL
SON would not propose a league OF
nations II It were not best for tho
American people as well as for all
Europe"
The reader who Is unfamiliar with
the editorial mind of the Southern
Democrats may suggest that these are
the opinions OF newspapers far re
moved from centres of large political
discussion. For the benefit OF sucll
readers we effer the comment sent t.
The sun., 1919-04-07

When the automobile selling for
$3.50 is put on the market the surviv-
ing members OF the pedestrian class
will all have TO become traffic police
men.
The sun., 1919-04-07
Revealing q Government secret.


Long faces and railroadinE don't walk
in the same company. That's one reason
why railroad men have such enviable rspu-
tations for proyerbial good nature.
The sun., 1919-04-07
An Arkansas Trade Note.

Pcfita, oorre,pondenos WdInat Ridge HiaSe.
Button Watson has killed his educated
hogs, sold his mules and 10 raisinE q crop
by PROXY. ....
The sun., 1919-04-07

When FocH enters a conference 4
never becomes a controversy.
The sun., 1919-04-07

Berlin shows greater fear OF German
soldiery than Paris ever did.
The sun., 1919-04-07

THE Bank Of France does not pay
out gold against franc notes, and pays
out silver only for the purpose OF pocket
change. France has issued $3.50 per
capita, and the consequence Is that the
people have in their pockets 81 1000, ooO,-
900 francs against which there Is In the
Bank of France about 5000, 100000
francs in gold. Allowing S25 as gold
and silver cover there remains over H.
900, 600, 900 francs without cover except
by French bonds deposited In the Bank
OF France.
1.-THE fact that these French notes are
80 largely in circulation Is necessarily
diminishing the purchasing power Of the
franc note. The conditions are much
worse in Germany and in Austria still
worse, for the notes there have prac-
tically no gold value at all In Russia
the value of the paper ruble is unknown
in terms of gold.
''In Japan the currency Ia about S1O
per capita In the United States 1t Is
s57 per capita and in France $3.50 per
capita These three countries will SUI
Ace as an example to point out that a
Japanese workman for days labor.
with quality and quantity the same.
would get but one-ffteenth as much in
gold as a French laborer would get and
about one-sixth as much as an American
iaborer would get.
The sun., 1919-04-07

BOOKS AND THE BOOK WORLD
tweekly), ons year ~ wv
Canada. $3.50 Other countries. zoo
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London once, 4o-43 Fleet street
Paris once, 9 Rue de Ia Michodiere, on
Rue du Quatre septembre.
Washington once. Munsey Building.
Brooklyn once. Room 2o2. Eagle Build
Ing, S08 Washington street.
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~ our friends ubo Jdror ~ niih m0nu.
scripts and Illustrations for publication ,ctsh
10 hare rejected articles returned they must
in all cdses send stamps for thdt purpose.
TELEPHONE. BEEKMAN 1900.
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Subscriptions By Mall, Postpaid.

THE EVENING SUN. Per Month. .so.se
THE EVENING SUN. Per Year.. 500
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Per Capita Adjustment Favored.

IAN international agreement should
be established by which the per capita
circulation OF money between all nations
Of the world could be more equitably
arranged In order that commodities may
flow freely from one to the other. For
II must OF course he remembered that
nations must pay their balances TO each
other in terms OF commodities and ser,
vices or the actual but undesirable sale
Of their internal properties to residents
Of foreign lands. It Is therefore of the
highest possible importance that COM
rrodltles should flow equitably and
freely from one country to another, so
that nations may pay for commodities
with commodities produced at the same
comparative level OF cost.
France cannot compete with the
United States in foreign commerce on
equal terms. II France has three times
the per capita circulation Of the United
States, and Japan can compete. and Will
successfully compete with other nations
so long as her per capita circulation
IS much lower than the per capita CTR
culation Of other nations. assuming OF
course that the Japanese workman does
eight hours work Of quantity and
quality equal to that OF the workman
of any other competitive nation. Thus
nature works TO produce an equilibrium
OF per capita circulation. This Is one
OF the great problems which the world
conference may some time take UP and
bring to better adjustment"
The sun., 1919-04-07

Published daily, including Sunday, BY this
Sun Printing and Publishing Association,
100 Nassau st. Borough OF Manhattan, y. Y.
President, Frank A Munsey, $50 Nassau At. +;
Vice President, Erwin Wardman: Secretary,
r. II. ritherington; Treas. VIM. T. Dewart,
all of $50 Nassau street.
The sun., 1919-04-07

Japan therefore can advantageously
manufacture goods on a cheap gold basis
and undersell anything in the United
States and in France for this very rea-
son. France by expanding her own cur
rency will impair her ability to COM
pete with other nations II she pays her
labor proportionately TO her per capita
circulation of money, and this France
will be compelled to do in due time when
labor begins to appreciate the fact that
the French francs received for days
labor have lost their purchasing power
in France relatively to the purchasing
power such francs had when the per
capita circulation was lower.
Italy will learn this same lesson In
due time. The surprising feature is that
the statesmen Of Great Britain. of
France and OF italy apparently have not
had the vision to clearly see this. II IL
extremely easy to pay debts by issuing
new notes without gold cover. Wilkins
Micawber discovered this when he
thanked God as he gave new note for
the easy way In which he settled his
debts. Issuing currency to pay Govern
ment debts without a gold cover and
without keeping the notes freely eX-
changeable in gold IL n direct route to
economic financial injury. I assume of
course that the French, British and
italian statesmen will no longer permit
this policy to continue. but that they Will
issue bonds as time obligations and take
up these current obligations.
The sun., 1919-04-07

All checks, money orders, &c, to be
made payable to tbs Sun.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-07
H ATRE ATTR ACTI IONS General News of Local Theatres, Screen Stars
 and Features

it. It is just pure kid" fun anG mischief all through, with sufficient pathos for a contrast, and although there is little plot to the story i; holds the interest and pleases through out.
 Everything revolves around Little Mary McAlister and the diminutive star is quite capable of carrying the responsibilities put upon her. Ab solutely unaffected and a really tai ented actress she will hold the au dience every minute. Russell Me Dermott, who plays opposite the lic tie star, does some very clever acL ing and his horror at having to put on girls dress in front of the other boys and his panic stricken race through the streets will convulsc any audience. Two or three of the other children in the cast as well as Mary's little pup deserve a word of credit for their acting. Praise should be given to the director fJE the manner in which he has handled cast in which there are so many children and yet maintain thelr unconscious childishness.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-07
CITY OF SEATTLE TO
 BE NEXT STEAMER TO
 TAKE MAIL TO SOUTH
She Is Due Leave at Ten O'Clock Tonight; Arrivals on Her from the Outside
 for Juneau.

Af-er stopping at Cape Fanshaw and Taku Harbor, beside her regular ports of call, on the way North, the steamer City of Seattle arrived in Ju neau late yesterday afternoon with thirty-one passengers and one hun dred tons of freight.
 The passengers were F. Dobson Mrs. J. H. Kline, Mrs. E. l.. Little Mrs. E. F. Harvel, G. Jorgenson Jack Olson, D. Goodyear, D. w Hadlund, Mrs. w. Condren, c. P. O. Kelly, J. Brennan, s. Guyot, and Mrs. Guyot, Oliver Orange, w. w Bowen. w. H. Warren, c. H. Ben non, Q. B. Armbaur, J. Bergeron w. F. Ducey and Mrs. Ducey, J. M McCornish, Mrs. Violet Morris, Bur dette A. Vim, Mrs. c. Overtrip Harry Garlock, Ed Gilney, R. Ripper and Mrs Kippen, Miss A. Arness ant G. J. Mcintyre.
 Among those who left on the City of Seattle Northbound are A. R Purdy, Roy Ruebens, w. F. Bonnell Joe Radonich for Skagway and A. Kelly, Sam Nelson, H. Marcus, Louis Shotridge and Mrs. Shotridge, J. II Nichoalds for Haines.
 The City of Seattle is scheduled tt sail Southbound at ten o'clock to night.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-07
REMARkABLE PICTURE OF
 AMERICAN SOCIAL LIFE
 IS "OLD WIVES FOR NEW

One of the most remarkable pie lures of contemporaneous American life, embracing the divorce question and the more intimate phases of marital relations, is ."Old Wives foI New" produced by Cecil B. DeMille from the novel by David Graham Phillips, with the scenario by Jean Macpherson. It is an Aircraft pie ture and will be shown at the Coli scum Theatre for tonight only.
 This is in every way a superaltive motion picture offering, one that the vital theme and the masterly manner in which it has been handled Briefly, it takes up the lives of a man and woman who marry young in the heat of youthful passion and who rue it later when the woman becomes slovenly and obese, while the main gains rather than loses in every way
 They are wealthy, but this can not stay the march of events and in the end it results in divorce. An. other woman, really noble in all her instincts, enters the life of the man, nurses him back to life when he is injured to the point of death in Q railway accident, and to save whom he takes up with another woman for whom he feels no love.
 In the end she finds him and com pels him to accept her, despite that, in his desire to save her reputation, he tries to resist the love that will not be denied. The loves of others enter into the story, which searches the very souls of the characters in .volved, keenly, incisively, and be trays the unrest that gnaws at the heart of American social conditions, like a worm at the bud.
 Wonderful work has been done in the direction and the scenario, while the acting of the characters is splen- didly accomplished by such well known people as Theodore Roberts, Elliott Detxer, Fully Marshall, Flor ence Vidor, Sylvia Ashton, Helen Je- rome Eddy, Wanda Hawley, Sylvia Manon, J. Parks Jones. Julia Faye. Gustav Seyffertitz,, Lillian Leighton, Maym Kelso and others.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-07

CT Sheriff Nell story for the Para mount Sennett comedies, to be seen Eat the Coliseum Sunday, is knitting sweater in collaboration with Hank Mann who is an accomplished artist wish the knitting needles. Hanh knits and purls while Polly acts; Polly performs on the sweater while Hank acts.
 The other day Polly was sitting on platform cut over the swimming tank in her heavy Sheriff Nell boot and revolvers Hank was sitting on a box industriously knitting. "Oh. Hank" yelled Polly, signalling to him frantically, for she could see that he was all wrong. Just as she spoke something gave way and Sher if Nell went overheard and into the tank, ten feet below. Weighted down by her heavy boots and para phernalia, she went down like q shot. They saw her struggling to come up At last her head cane out just long enough for one gurg ling squeak Hank, you're purline too many stitches!" With that she gave one final gulp and went down again Two or three men dove il to her rescue but Hank never looked up from his knitting. He desires tC enter a formal denial. He says he positively did not purl too many.