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A Lesson for Our Coal Miners In
Chnaman Pile Drivers.

Soft coal miners of the United
States propose that they shall work
six hours a day five days a week.
But this time scale also includes the
proposal that the time shall be from
"bank to bank"-meaning from their
arrival at the pit mouth until their
return at the same point, so that as
against the present eight hours at the
working face the new working time,
we are told, might not exceed five
hours day.
The miners demand for this child's
play of work-twenty-five hours a
week-a go per cent. increase of pay.
They declare that this new order of
things shall go into effect one week
from next Saturday. Meanwhile the
miners and all workers might give
profitable thought to the productive
basis and the pay basis of the China
man in his own country.
In America, for example, a breath
of steam exerted through an engine
upon simple mechanism snatches a
heavy pile driver aloft, drops 1t upon
the object being driven down and In
stantly repeats the terrific stroke. Be
cause Of automatic clutch, trip and
other device the work is swift, pow
erful and effective. One man, a half
grown boy, almost a little child, to
control the mechanism would suffice
for the human labor employed in this
process Of big performance and valu.
able result. For the very reason
however. that there is big perform
ance and a valuable result-effectivt
production-the wage Garner doing
his part Of this productive job gets. a,
his share -. IS, SO a day.
In China ponderous stone is the
primitive pile driver. Dozens Of ropes
are hitched to the top of the grea,
stone. Through pulleys In a scaffold
ing above are run these ropes with
sufficient length to reach down to tht
ground again. At the end of every
rope length is a Chlnaman--dozens
scores Of Cinnamon to each pile driver
The Cinnamon all pull together ant
the stone goes up. The Cinnamon al
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A Atty dollar man each morn
Brings me a quart of milk:
purchase meat and eggs and corn
From others OF the ilk;
Served N my noontide pabulum
BY forty dollar chaps. by suml
Pressed are my sixty dollar suits
BY sixty dollar bushelmen;
Who cobbles my twelve dollar beauts
Collects some hfty yen;
And then I have them polished by
A paltry forty dollar guy. -
Whenever may need . shave
An eight per day hand does the trick:
Should I apoilinarts crave
A forty bone boy draws II slick;
The pilot who me nightly ferries
Pulls hodiernaily ten berries
Box once dukes and movie queens.
Ball players aud belihops and nshters
And those behind who shift the scenes.
And. fairy tales assert. some writer's.
And those who-sometimes- my COLLAR
Reap bounteously the dollars
-rue tears of Joy empeari the eye
As wages upward Chamber.
But there remains ore little ny
To cloud somewhat the amber
How long can we contrivs to pay 'em,
MAURICE MoRnIs.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The
Greenwich House Music School is an
nouncing an interesting series OF lee
lures by one OF the faculty. Miss Kath-
crime Ruth Heyman. They viii be given
at the school once a month. the last
Tuesday evening. beginning October 2s
at 80, without charge. and are open to
the faculty. Any music student may en-
roll for a small fee.
This school is a musical centre for the
lower West Side. The note It empha-
sizes is the educational value of music.
Miss Nancy Barrows. a we'll known deco
rator, has been most helpful in the re
lection of some new paint and furniture
which has created a most attractive at
mosphere. A few things. however, are
still lacking-a big clock for the chill
dren's waiting room 30 that they may
see the hours for their lessons an cleo
trio lamp for the ONCE desk children's q
story books and magazines music Of all
kinds. Sometimes there are attics which
could easily supply these wants. s. e
New YORK. October 22.
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BREAKFAST MEMORIES.
A Picture which Threatens to Tempt
the Dreamer to Destruction.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: With
approaching old age and a prescribed
Diet which does not include buckwheat
cakes and sausage, ones mind goes back
fifty years to the old home, where, In the
winter time, in the combined kitchen and
dining room was served a breakfast Of
buckwheat cakes and sausage that were
home grown and home made.
No butchers hands touched those long
bags of home made sausage that hung
in the garret The thyme, sage and
summer savory with which the sausage
was seasoned were home grown. Every
| thing was real. not artificial as every
thing Is nowadays. and 1t was in the
| homes Of the forehanded poor that these
good things were to be found. They
lived OF the land, not out of butcher
| shops and grocery stores as people do
| now.
In the old combined kitchen and din
| ing room. with its bright rag carpet and
| wood stove, were the pancake pitcher
| set in the dishpan back Of the stove
to keep its contents from running over
| on the floor; sausage simmering in the
frying pan, plates warming in the oven
conee pot steaming and the room filled
| with the odor and aroma Of a poor mans
| winter time breakfast. 1t is about time
to draw up to the oilcloth covered table
for the breakfast Is being put on the
table. the sausage In a deep dish SWIM
ming in the gravy. and the dark brown
| fve-inch pancakes piled high are coming
| on. Save room for half a dozen with
| home made butter and real New OrIea ms
molasses as chasers.
| Such a breakfast can be had now.
adays. but the places are few and far
between. I doubt IL such a place car
be found in New York city. I know
where there Is one and some morning ]
may break dietary rules and invite sud
den death by partalSing of one of thost
real buckwheat and sausage breakfasts
we dream of. ARLINGTON H. CARMAN.
| PATcHoaUE. October %.
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Not Progress but Homicide.

The Second Assistant Postmaster
General, Mr.. Orro PRAEGER, makes the
astonishing statement that "his de-
partment can and will extend the air
post to San Francisco by next spring"
II Congress will pass the Kahn bill
providing for the aerial transporta-
ton Of mail across the continent.
The Kahn bin was introduced be-
fore the recent army race from Nine
ola to San Francisco and back. We
have no Information that Representa-
tive KAHN, a man of generally sound
ideas, has now the same opinion of
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WICKED JAMAICA GINGER.
It Is Reported to Be killing Men In
Wayward Massachusetts.

To THE EprroR OF THE SuN--Sir. Peo-
pie may or may not believe in nationwide Q
prohibition, but all will agree that 1t can
not be established and enforced without
attending evils, among them the substi-
tuition to some extent Of other drinks more
pernicious and destructive to man than
rum or whiskey. Among these is ia
maica ginger. a good medicine perhaps
in certain cases, but even before prohibi-
ton was established freely used as a
drink. In many cases It became a habit
and some became drunkards or worse
than drunkards from its use Every
apothecary and physician can testify to
this The writer knows from a case
under his own eve how destructive are its
possibiIities This medicine In advertised
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The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York and Southern
New England-Fair to-day to.morrow
rain; moderate temperature modorata
variable winds becoming east AMI
southeast. '' a"i
For New Jersey--cloudy to-day ,c,.
lowed py rain tonight: to-morrow rain
sa,',has., s,emapsrature; fresh east and
For northern New Ensland-reIr ,o..ox.
'oimorrow Emo ~s., rain moderate northwest winds.
Followed by rain; tomorrow clearing ana
much colder; fresh south winds. anu
WASHINGTON. Oct. gs.-The storm ,S,,
Ontario moved rapidly eastward 10 ths
canadian, maritime provinces and ano,bar
d,sturSapes ~. covers the plains States and
It is advancing eastward. A cold wana sna
OF marked severity for the season "a
overspreading the Northwestern States ana
wn. vns we'tern canadian provinces The
sippi Valley and the southwestern STATE,
ana high temperature prevail throuxhont
the . QUIZ ana south Atlantic States During
the last twenty four hours there were
rains in the Atlantic and Gulf state,
Tennessee. Arkansas. Michigan and Minns.
on; %on,ans ana S snSw and rain IN North Dakota,
New ENGLAND and middle Atlantic States
II,e Ihe wsather VIII be cloudy to-day, proba-
ply Followed by rain on or before tonight
tures; In the south Atlantic Stetea there
viii be local rains today ana probab2v Fri
day with mild temperature. In the east
Sulf states, Tennessee and tho Ohio Val
Icy and lower lake region there will ho
rain to day and clearing and much eolder
weather Friday. In the upper lake raglan
there viii be rains and SHOWS to day and
snow hurries Friday. with much coider
| weather. N'Oe'
Observations at United States We,,ha-
Bureau stations taken at 9 p M yes,eriay
seventy-hfth meridian time: ''S'0u'''
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NEW BUILDING FOR G. C. N. Y.
Addition to Compton Hall VIII He
Erected at Once.

Plans are completed and bids have
been asked for the construction of an
addition to Compton Hall of the College
of the City of New York. The new
structure will be 200 feet long by rs feet
deep and will take up the southeast cor
ner of Amsterdam avenue and 140th
street. Sufficient money is available at
present to finish the first floor. which
will have an area OF $4,000 square feet
In this additional space the regular
courses OF the recently formed school OF
technology and the special courses Of the
school of business administration will be
given. The college authorities expect the
first fioor structure, which will conform
with the general Gothic architecture OF
the other college halls, to be ready In
two months. The builders will make use
OF a foundation for barracks set up last
year.
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commercial aviation that he may have

commercial aviation that he may have
held when lie drew his bill.
Sixty-three machines started in the
army race. The machines had been
specially prepared for the contes We
assume that every precautlon was
taken to make them as safe as the
airplane Of to-day can be. Their
pilots and mechanicians were the
cream Of the army.
Seven of these fiiers were killed in
the race, exclusive of the two who
met their deaths on the way to the
Mineola field. In two cases both oc-
cupants of the machine were killed !;
In three cases only one. There we're
no less than twenty-five Crashes" as
flying men term those forced landings
In which the machine Is wrecked; and
In each Of these men were injured
If not killed.
Has Mr.. PRAEGER any assurance
that by next spring he will have bet
ter machines and better airmen for
the Post Office Department than the
Army was able to find for the racer
We cannot believe that he has. We
can only believe that for the sake Of
adding a spectacular feature to the
demoralized Post Office Department
he is willing to establish a service
in which the mortality would be griev-
Gus. One-nlnth of the Army fliers
were killed. 40 per cent. Of the ma
chimes crashed" in the recent round
trip At the same rate the Post OF
fee Department, II 1t despatched two
mall planes a day from each conti-
mental terminal, would kill three or
four fiiers n month and "crash" a
dozen machines, with what results to
men and mail can be guessed at.
Let us have no delusions about the
hazards of aviation. They still exist
and although they are gradually be-
ing overcome, thanks to the airmen
and the engineers, the plane is NOT
yet so safe that it should be en-
ployed by the Government except on
errands Of necessity or on expert
mental flights made for the purpose
Of discovering the weaknesses Of the
machine. A transcontinental mai
service Is neither of these.
The Praeger scheme is not prog
ress. In the light of what happened
In the recent race it Is more like
homicidal insanity.
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"To q Violinist Gone West" /"

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. When
reading the poem ITO a Violinist Gone
West" David Hochstein came to my
mind. / knew him well and like others
felt he had brilliant future.
During the war was In charge of the
club for wounded officers at Limoges and
there heard from his friends of his
bravery and sudden death. II by any
chance the poem is to him won't you
please publish the fact? II would mean
much to his broken hearted mother and
friends. A GOLD STAR MOTHER.
New YORK. October 20.
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The Context Should Be q Helm.

To rHEs EDITOR or THE SuN-sir: Re.
ferring to a communication in THE SUN
in regard to capitalizing mother and
father I make no objection to the
former. but II we are to capitalize
father" how are we going to know
when the writer means his male parent
and when he means God Almighty
NEW York. October 20. EC.
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AUSTRIA QUITS GERMANY.
National Assembly Adopts Name
of "Repubiic" for Nation.

VIENNA. Oct. 22.-The national as
sembly eliminated to-day from the con-
stitution adopted recently the provi-
sion declaring Austria to be a composite
part OF Germany. The elimination was
determined upon to meet the terms OF
the peace treaty,
The assembly passed an act abolishing
the name of German Austria" for the
nation and substituting the title RE
public OF Austria" The Pan-German
patty offered violent opposition to the
change.
The Government has ordered a ma
tional census to be taken In December.
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let go together and the stone drops.
Then the operation is repeated. That
is the Chinaman pile driver.
The Chinaman pile driver drives
piles. But 1t takes many hands to
drive few piles, whereas In America
a few hands drive many piles.
Because In China 1t takes scores Of
Cinnamon to do in that way what Is
done III America by breath of steam
and touch Of single hand there is
minimum Of per capita production.
So the Chinaman. tugging at his rope
but giving little or nothing Of pro-
duction for his day on the job, gets a
corresponding wage. AS he must be
paid out Of his production, which is
next to nothing, the Chinaman gets
next to nothing-in American money
about 16 cents a day.
| The soft coal miners of America
cannot have effective production on a
twenty-five hour week. The soft coal
miners of America cannot reduce their
production toward the Chinaman's :
level Of production without sooner or
later reaching the Chinaman's meas
ure Of pay for. like the Chinaman,
1. their share Of their production must
be measured by what they produce.
So is it, so must 1t be- with all pro-
ducers here or anywhere. For no
race, in any cline. on any part Of the
globe, Is there my possible escape
from the eternal law Of nature that
mankind's share Of production is gov
erned by and limited to what man
kind produces.
II, with the world crying out for
more. not less, coal the miners pro-
posed to Increase their production and
did increase 1t 1t would be economi-
cally reasonable as well as possible
/ for them to take, and they naturally
would take, correspondingly greater
pay as a matter Of course. Granted
that more coal was wanted, there
would be no denying the miners
Either they would get the additional
share Of the additional production OF
they would not produce the additional
share. The invincible and merciless
natural law would give economic
judgment for them producing more
exactly as the invincible and merciless
economic law will give Judgment
against them, will give judgment
against mankind, producing less.
In the long run the choice for the
soft coal miners to make, the choice
for all workers to make. must liz
between production and reward on the
American basis or production and re
ward on the Chinaman basis.
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That the Japanese in New York
city are enthusiastically cooperating
in the campaign undertaken by the
Roosevelt Memorial Association to
raise funds for a permanent monument
to the memory Of the great American
testifies to the fact that the sons Of
Nippon are not quick to forget In
this case they undoubtedly remember
the Treaty of Portsmouth IN 1905,
which through the good offices of
President ROOSEVELT effected the termi-
nation of the Russo-Japanese war at
a time propitious to Japan.
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Passing of Another Great Snowman,


OF the seven Ringing brothers AL
FRED T., who died Tuesday at his
home In New Jersey, was the fifth to
die. JOHN RINeLING and CHARLES
RINGLING are left of the famous fam
lily which fought the great circuses of
the past and absorbed them. In the
shows they own the Barnum & Bailey
and the Forepaugh-Sells enterprises
have been united. Out Of the mid
die West the RINGLINGs came and
met the old established amusement
enterprises on their own ground. fore
/ ing the struggle for preeminence. and
winning a hard contest.
Unlike BARNUM the RINGIINGs
were circus men from their youth.
BARNuM was a speculator who turned
his hand to anything which gave
promise of profit. His success as a
Snowman was built on successes and
failures in many other fields. The
Ringing boys swapped skiff they
had tired of for pony, and started a
show" under a makeshift tent, ad-
mission to which was bought with
pins. Soon pennies replaced the pins
and the family was started on Its ca
reer. In the sos the brothers had n
wagon show, trading largely on the
interest aroused by the advertising
campaigns Of the great circuses ol
those days. The brothers were enter.
prising, shrewd, united. What other
circus men had to hire strangers to dc
they did themselves. There was d
Ringing to supervise every depart
ment Of their show, a Ringing to pro
tect every Ringing interest. The
family was unusual, perhaps unique
Certainly there have been few enter
prises brought up from nothing to
great Importance by family of sever
boys, all Joined together in the same
calling,
Railroads made the modern Ameri
can circus possible. Without them II
could not cover the territory 1t does
with the amount Of machinery, the
tents, the menagerie, the horses, th'
laborers, the managers, the athlete:
It must have. Perhaps a day will
come in which motor trucks will take
the place of railroad trains; bolt
circus man may even present show
transported through the air. A cir
Gus remains essentially unchanged Ii
the entertainment 1t offers, but 1t mus
take advantage Of every modern i'm
provement. 1t must always be VI
with the times.
It is said that the Ringlings started
J definitely in the show business witt
less than 5000 capital. This may h
true. They had, however, somethin.
better than money. Money can b.
earned or borrowed. The Ringing
had grit, persistence, initiative, un
: tagging industry. These qualities
cannot be borrowed. They cannot b
improvised. With them men achlev,
success, as the Ringlings did in tn,
, intricate and difficult business of run
ming a circus. Without them rea
, success is impossible.
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT

Australia" by Lillian S. Fisher, Pasu' .,
School 50, Broadway and Academy '"''N
Illustrated, .-,,,-,, \,
"Nationallsm and Intsrnationslism, AZ
Miss Myran L. Grant, Public eohoO' w.
Hester and Essex streets ,,..h,,A
"Child Welfare" by Robert " Henos,I1
Puelic School lob, 22o West los'A "'''"
illustrated -, VIII.
"HydroseL ~"' N"-nNlde' py ~ v'ur.
lam l. EstabIuuh '' =.
teenth street and s..s-r as .".'
HThs Universe Forces and Man ,eeyS
Jacob e. Price, Morris High seho''
street and Boston roud,
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But the City Hail WIN Not Hold q
Million Persons.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-ssr: II
the taxpayers don't want their taxes in
creased and the rentpayers don't want
their rents increased 26 per cent. they
should appear at City Hall to-day in
protest against the budget
STEWART BROWNE.
President United Real Estate Owners
Association.
New York, October 22
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CITY TO GET wEIFARE HUTS'
Cannot he Used for Playsr"1"
GalIatin Rules.

Service hutS put up In the pa'Ho "a.
welfare organizations must eithet Oy 1ars
moved or turned over to the c.'l A.
Commissioner Francis u. GalIsun ,,os. os
cided yesterday. He denied al app'.s .so.
tion of the Park and Playground hsYv "A
citation to use the Jewish We.'are md
hut in Seward Park as p.ays,,ot,S, ~,
for sick children on the ground '"Ns .,,sss cas-
parks can be used only f"r p''P'''
provided for In the city charter =, II
The knights OF Columbus ana ! I'd
C. A huts come under the rul'S ,hsv S
must be decided to the city ,H''ss ',,si ,..
are torn down when their present '''
has ended,
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Income Tax Auditors Named

bpecIuT Uctpdfeh 10 IH' IT" 4
ALBANY, oct. 22-Mark Graves 's,. a,.
OF the new income taN bureau 4. a
nounced to-day the appointment ~ s,rs
number Of senior auditor, IN 80 =,
Daniel v. Sullivan OF The tFC,n tF.,y. =.
$4,000 a year Michael stein ot ~
lyn at $3.50 year, and WI mn !, an
O'Connor OF Long Island CiN al ''''
year.
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Misleading the Innocent.

II the Lord has anything to do with
golf, which we sometimes doubt, He gives
tho dub a corking good drive once In a
while Just to keep him trying.
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Two and two are four. and fve times
Ave are twenty-five. whether the operat-
ing arithmetician Is a Boishevist or a
member OF the Union League Club.-The
Evening Post.
But 1+1+1+1+1+1-1 under the
covenant of the League OF Nations.
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Highest temperature, s3. at 4:ao p. VI.
Lowest temperature, So. at 10 7. NJ.
Average temperature. ~.
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LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.

The temperature in this city yesterday,
as recorded by the oficlsl Thermometer is
shown In the annexed table:
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-10-29
Thought Man Was5Nazy

% have saffmoi from H'oma h
and liver trouble tor yoaa, the laF
rwo years people have been 1l.tnt
me crazy The doctors could not
do anything for me. Tho aw'0.
UIuatug Of gus secmed To press
against my brain and | could No,
rluk clearly Three months ago a
friend advised taking Mayrs Won
Irrfur Remedy and II has worhei
wonders la my case. An nay bluh'.
Inr and mffrriug Ks gone and | feel
u- though newly born Il Ia a simple,
harmless preparation that removes
the catarrhal muCus from the In
l-rtiutl tract and a0lava the inf,am
nation which causes practically al
stomach liver and in'ra'inh all
lnruts. including appendicitis one
lose will convince or money re
funded
sold by all druggiHts.--AdvL