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CHICAGO'S COUNCIL
HONORS DE VALERA
Pleads for Erin With Law.
nnoksrs-Bond Plan Halls.

CHICAGO, July IA large crowd took
part tonight in the farewell for canon
de Valera, president OF the Irish Re-
public" who departed for san Fran
cisco to carry his plea for help for the
de Jure Government of Ireland" TO the
Western part OF the United States. After
visiting several OF the larger cities in the
West Mr.. De Valera plans TO return to
Chicago.
The Irish President" who was a guest
to-day of the City Council. was enthu-
siastically received on the floor of the
chamber.
THE question for America to decide,
said de Valera in addressing the council
is whether it will stand with might or
with right; whether it will do as it
always has done and support freedom
against military domination.
Some of the peace conferees are
quoted as opposing our Irish indie
pendence. They eAen want the treaty
to confirm England in her possessions
even those watch were obtained by force
Whatever the Peace Conference has
done the Irish people will not yield they
Will refuse to obey British Law. ana 81
President Wilson has pointed our law
is powerless when public opinion ,-
against it"
His project OF discussing with Chicago
bankers plans for the sale Of IS O00. 600
worth of bonds of the Irish Republic was
abandoned, although 1t was said the
question Of financing the movement
was Informally considered with his
advisers. II Is said the question may
be referred 10 n committee Of New York
and Chicago business men interested in
the Irish cause, One method suggested
was to offer the $1,000, 900 bond issue TO
popular subscription in this country.
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A BIimp Service, City Hall to Bush
wick, Is Needed.

The conspiracy of motor cars against
his Honor the Mayor is notorious !;
almost as helnous thing as the an
tipathy of the Plutocratic Press.
Every little while an automobile gets
in the Mayors way when he is being
drawn across the bridge to serve the
plain people. The offenders longest
the courts and thus raise the tax rate
and the city administration is blamed.
Only yesterday traffic in Lafayette
street was blocked for twenty min
utes while the Mayors bodyguard
fought to get the official car out of a
bad pocket.
What's to be done about it? Maybe
the British Government has solved
the problem for the city and Mr..
HYLAN by proving the efficiency Of
the fileted rigid balloon. Let a city
bllmp be provided for his Honor, that
he may sail to and from his labors.
Away with the old Post Office build
ing and make an anchorage for dlrl-
gibles on its site Find Hylan Field
in Bushwick. where the balloon may
sway all night. Operation should cost
practically nothing, as the bag could
be inflated with hot air.
What's the use Of scientific demon
stration unless some practical good is
extracted from It?
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One Point in swsnson's ID efence OF
the Gov ensnt.

As an example of the methods EN-
ployed In the attempt to palm of the
League covenant on the United States
we offer this from the speech uttered
in the Senate yesterday by the Ad
minlstration's new spokesman, Sena
tor SWANSON:
THAT a State reserves its full SOW
ereignty Is conelusively settled by the
provision allowing any member to
withdraw"
Withdraw 1t may, indeed, but how
soon and upon what terms? Turn t.
Article /. of the covenant:
Amy member OF the League may,
after two years notice Of its inten-
ton so 10 do, withdraw from the
League. provided that all its inter-
national obligations and all its OBJ
legations under this covenant shall
have been fulfilled at the time OF its
withdrawal"
What one group of nations could
do to a withdrawing government In
two years, for instance, I'm the way o.
restricting Its armament would be
everything. Two years might as wei
read two hundred years.
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The Rumanian King, FERDINAND, 1t
is reported from Vienna, is seeking a
wife for Crown Prince CHARLES from
among the European princesses
CHARLES Is now 20 and old enough to
be married ; members of royal families
as a rule wed young. since generous
subjects relieve them from building
homes and fortunes by voting them
palaces and subsidies.
King FERDINAND, 1t is apparent, is
doing the seeking; for young CHARLES
did his own choosing last September
by taking as bride the daughter of
Rumanian army officer. He was
disciplined and then divorced.
1t is reported that the King favors
the beautiful Princess YoLANDE of
Italy. From a diplomatic point of
view such a marriage might be ideal,
as IL would bring into closer union
the two Latin nations Of southern Eu-
rope; but will Italy. which does not
recognize divorce, consent to the mar
riage of a daughter of the house of
Savoy with this Rumanian Prince?
His marriage. 1t is true, was morga-
matte, but war has been a great level
Ter and the distinction may not be so
vital in republican Europe as In its
monarchical past. But why spoil a
royal romance at its very inception?
The pathway of princes and princesses
has not been strewn with roses since
July, 1914.
When Uncle WILLIAM HoHENZoL-
IERN blew his war trumpet and rat
tied his sabre he broke up a number
of very pretty little arrangements
among his royal cousins, nephews and
nieces. Matchmakers were busy at
that time talking OF marriages for
the Cars daughters and the Prince
of WALES and his sister MARY. Prince
GEORGE of Greece and ELIzABETH of
Rumania had set the day for their
wedding, and King FERDINAND of Bull
garla had chosen bride worthy of
Saxe-Coburg heir for Crown Prince
BORIS. Since then not royal mar
riage has been celebrated in Europe,
not betrothal announced, the near
est approach TO a wedding between
reigning houses being the marriage of
the British Prince GEORGE of Batten-
berg and the Countess MAZDA Tony Of
Russia.
The little Princesses of Russia,
OLGA, TIrAHIA and MARIA, became
merely the Misses RoMANoFF and,
It Is believed, persisted with their
parents. Prince GEORGE of Greece Is
no longer an heir apparent to the
Greek throne, but is with his eldest
sister, Princess HELENA, in exile with
their father, CONSTANTINE, in Swift
zerland. With them In the Swiss re-
public are fair sprinklIng of the
[sclons Of the former royal houses OF
Bavaria, Baden, Saxony and Austria
and OF the mediatized houses of Ger
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Subsidized Federal Hotels.

Members of Congress who try to cut
off or curtall war time expenses find
that they are tlresome to some of
their colleagues; that there are yet
members eager to continue pouring
out from the Treasury money con-
tributed by citizens longing for the
time when continuing war expendi-
lures will cease to trouble. Those
who persist, even though they bore
some Of their colleagues, In exposing
such of these expenses as are fla
GRAVITY unnecessary should have at
least the reward Of public approval
An instance will illustrate: Repre-
sentative CLARK of Florida, after over
coming considerable opposition, OBJ
tanned permission to address the
House for three minutes" on the sub
ject of the continuing expenditures of
the Bureau Of Housing. He went
sharply to the matter of showing that
the bureau is operating as hotels the
buildings erected on the plaza between
the Capitol and the Union Station for
the housing Of the many emergency
clerks that were hired in Washington
during the war.
Mr.. CLARK asserted that proof that
the unslghtly buildings encumberlng
the park were no longer required for
their ostenslhle need was 10 be found
in advertisements. printed by the
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A LEAGUE BASED ON FRAUD.
Must Americas Young Men Fight for
Somebody's Idealsi

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuH--slr; The
most gigantic and costly fraud in the his
tory OF the world has been perpetrated
upon the people OF the United states II II
is true, as stated by President Wilson
on Thursday, that:
I'VE entered 1.-THE warl not because our
material interests we're directly threat,
ened or because any special treaty obli-
cation to which we were parties had
been violated"
The most serious feature of this
fraud. II the above quotation was really
In the mind OF the President at the time
we declared war. Is that a conscription
act was passed which permitted no
escape for our young men. Compulsory
service for an idealistic enterprise which
would lead to permanent physical mutt
lation or the supreme sacrifice of giving
up life itself Is an injustice almost I'M
thinkable.
My only nephew died in France. When
war was declared he endeavored to enlist.
but was rejected on physical condition.
Under the conscription act he was ac-
cepted and compelled to go, and no young
man was ever more pleased than he
with the thought that he was going TO
help in beating Germany to its knees. a
nation which had slain our women and
children on the high seas and whose
agents were bringing frlghtfulness within
our own borders. He never returned. He
lies buried with Ids comrades who sac
rifced their lives in France.
This young man could not escape ser
vice II It is true that the men who
conceived and carried out the conscrip-
ton law had in mind what was defined
In the Presidents speech on Thursday
and that the League of Nations is the
one thing which our young men fought
and died to accomplish then the people OF
the United States have been the victims
Of the most outrageous fraud ever put
over" free people.
have a son ls years OF age. II this
same idea IL to be perpetuated In the
League OF Nations and when this young
man becomes old enough 10 serve his
country he is to be called upon TO shed
his blood and perhaps give his life In
conflicts which do not In any way ahect
this country or interest us in the slight
est degree, the whole League OF Nations
is mere perpetuation of the original
fraud.
AS a loyal American citizen I wish to
enter my strenuous protest.
EDWARD Z. JOHNS.
LARcHMoNr, July ~
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he believes that more can be accom-
plished through the functions of the
State courts than is being accom-
plished by the Federal investigators
he Is perfectly justified in his pres
ent action.
There may be those who will be
surprised that the investigating and
prosecuting Office in Washington, with
Its broad powers, Its great body Of
attorneys and operatives and its large
funds-and with the experience which
the war must have brought to it-has
not been able to produce results that
would make unnecessary any special
action by State. But these are days
Of surprises.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-15
Governor Smiths Step to Prevent
Crimes Against Government.

While nobody doubts the right of a
Governor to set the law in motion to
suppress anarchy and its related evils,
q was generally supposed. at least
during the war, that the Department
OF Justice of the Federal Government
would be the means usually employed
toward that end.
That the work OF the Attorney, Gen
eral in this respect has not satisfied
Governor SMITH may be read between
the lines of the proclamation in which
he appoints an extraordinary trial
term of the Supreme Court FOR the
purpose of investigating acts OF criml-
nal anarchy and all other criminal
acts directed against organized gov
eminent"
The Governor is doing the right
thing The State Constitution re-
qulres him to take care that the
laws are faithfully executed" and II
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-15
THE NATIONS HONOR ROLL
Complete Casualty Lists Not Yet Is
sued in Washington.

TIC THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sr: In
THE SIN OF July IL in The Nation
Honor Roll" you have listed 76,leo
deaths in the army and 2.6S2 in the
marines a total OF 7s,s47. l am just
in receipt of a letter from the War De-
rartment, signed by Colonel Il u. Fuller
acting chief of the historical branch
stating that the total number OF deaths
during the war in the United states
army, including the marines attached
to it, was ll2,42e
In your list you have $1,000 killed IN
action and 1888 died OF wounds
whereas the information they give is that
there we're As.sos battle deaths. You
have 23,45l died OF disease. Colonel
Fuller's figures show 56,99l.
There is a big discrepancy between
the figures you publish from day TO day
and those given by the War Department
It may be that the figures you give do
not include deaths in this country, but
certainly a man who died at Camp DIN
Of tho influenza is entitled to Just as
much honor as a man who died of
measles in France.
OGDEN II. BOWERS.
EAST ORANGE, y. j.. July u.
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LES" CRYPTIC POEM.
A Jerseyman Wonders Who Was the
Empty Handed Hero.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Some
time ago the most versatile man In
Europe, a man that is respected ana
loved by the great and the lowiy.
man whose opinion or advice Is sought
by those who fly their banners nearest
the sky and by the meek but sturdy
ploughmen--I refer to George w. Hus-
sell "F," cooperative advocate. writer
painter and artist-wrote
He has built his monument
with the winds OF time at strife,
Who could have before he went
Written on the Book of Life.
To the stars from which he came
Empty handed he goes home
He who might have wrought In name
only traced upon the foam.
Tho whole world knows that "|E
is a prophet. But what is puZzlins me
is, Whom did Russell have in mind when
he penned those remarkable lines?
PATRICK l.. QuINLAS.
NEWARK, " j., July IA.
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Harder and Harder to Live.

To get more pay to meet the high
cost OF living the members OF the
Deep Seamen's Union are threatening
widespread strike. To eat and 9th
erwise live as they have been accus-
toned to doing the seamen may need
all the increase they ask; but when
they strike, tying up the vast tonnage
essential to the distribution of the
products of American industry, they
raise the cost of living enormously.
When, outside of breadstuffs, there
isn't enough production to take care
Of the needs of our people such tying
up OF transportation, whether by rail
or by water, means that mills and fac.
tories must shut down. Some essential
raw materials cannot be supplied to
them and some Of their output cannot
be delivered TO it's natural markets.
When the demand has already forced
the price of shoes sky high there must
be still fewer shoes for lack of leather
There must be smaller volume OF
cloth for lack of wool. When sugar
Is dear coffee is dear, tea is dear
they must all become much dearer be-
cause no ships will be bringing In
fresh supplies.
In the Pennsylvania mining district,
where there has been insufficient labor.
heavy shortage Of mined coal threat.
ems hardship and disaster to house
holders next winter all over the East
Aside and apart from the danger OF
suffering from lack Of coal, one Of the
most important factors in the cost OF
living is fuel. This Is not so merely
because OF what coal that goes into
the Kitchen range and into the fur
mace directly costs the consumer. 1t
Is so because of the coal that goes
into the cost of operating n mill or Il
factory; because of the coal that goes
into the cost of operating the railroad
hauling the product of the mill or the
factory: because of the coal that goes
into the cost of the operation of street
railways-into the whole Industrial
and commercial work.
Yet while there Is n shortage of
millions Of tons of anthracite coal
the miners in Pennsylvania are going
to ask not merely for a 20 to % per
cent. advance in wages but for a re-
ductlon of the working day TO six
hours. II the miners need more
money to live as they lived before
they ought TO get it and they will get
ii. But when are the miners of Penn
sylvania, when are the wage earners
in other industries, when are all the
workers and all the consumers going
to reach common understanding
that you cannot cut the cost of living
by cutting the production, which Is
the basis Of the cost of living?
When are we all going to get down
TO the brass tack business of making
sure that enough is produced for
everybody and that then the produc-
ers shall have their full share of II
because they did produce it?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-15
TRADE BRIEFS.

There are eighty foreign hre insurance
companies operating In China, not one OF
which is American.
II is reported that the London County
and Westminster Bank IS acquiring an in
terest in the Royal Bank OF Canada.
The total production OF copper In bara
by the Cerro de Paso Copper Corporation
nj Cerro de Pasco, Peru. for the year 1918
amounted to 7l,9O47s4 pounds.
A large vegetable oil mill has been
opened at Andalss. near Padang, sumatra.
II is owned and operated by oleomargarins
interests OF the Netherlands and insures
its promoters steady supply OF vege-
table oils.
Consul Waiter II. Sholes reports from
Gotebors, Sweden, that the gradual re-
vivai of shipping at that port is vlvidly
shown by official statistics, The customs
receipts for the first four months in 1919
exceeded those for the same period OF last
year by Sl,l22975.
II is reported that the rice market of
the Philippines is far from normal, and
the Government is arranging TO send 4
rice agent TO Saigon, lndo-China. who will
keep In touch with the general rice situa-
ton and look after the orders placed by
the Philippine Islands Government.
The coal mines opened last year at
Holikangizu. Manehuria, In which 1000
men are employed, are producing very
good quality OF coal The length OF these
beds Is said TO be about sixty seven miles.
1t Is proposed to build a light railway
from the mines TO the sungari River. a
distance OF about forty-sevsn miles
Australian coal exporters are making a
strong bid for the Philippine market.
They are offering their product at a much
lower price than the Japanese dealers, who
have heretofore held the monopoly In this
commodity. The lowest Australian price
recently quoted was about f3Ss ton
g. y. b. mines. while that quoted by the
Japanese was tl2.Ts . ton g. o. b. mines.
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Manuscripts More Precious Than All
the Gold Above Ground.

The current issue Of the Insurance
Monitor appeals to the fire under
writer's of America to renew the eff
fort made by the National Board of
Fire Underwriters and the Daughters
Of the American Revolution to remove
the originals of the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution of
the United States from the peril of
destruction by fire.
These precious documents are in
the building Of the State, War and
Navy departments in Washington,
and are held, says the Insurance Mon
itor, ''in an ordinary steel safe, sur
rounded by highly combustible mate
rial, which, In the judgment of the
underwriters. would not stand Sc
we're fire test for more than twenty
minutes" The appeal continues:
According to that underwriters
report no less than five carpenter shops
are located In its basement, sur
rounded by scores OF rooms filled with
highly infiammable contents. and the
whole linked by open passages from
cellar to garnet to act as feeders for
flames. Those who recall the de-
struction Of the Equitable Building.
believed to be freproof. need not be
told what must happen should favor
able fire once gain Roadway in this
great national storage house"
These conditions, the Monitor says,
were pointed out in report made by
the underwriters to the War Depart
ment little more than year ago
and submitted by the Assistant Sec.
rotary of War to the Senate.
1t would be good thing for Con
gress to see to 1t that the priceless
certificates of this nations birth are
beyond danger. That the. State De
partment Building was considered
safe when 1t was built is certain, for
In 1877 Secretary HAMILTON FISH,
asking the return of the Declaration
from the Patent Office, where it had
been sent for safety by DANIEL WEB
srER when he was Secretary Of State
and when the Patent Office was under
that Department, assured ZACHARIAH
CHANDLER, the Secretary Of the In
terror, that the new building was fire
proof. The Declaration was kept In
cabinet in the State Department
from that time until April %, 1894,
when it was put in a safe because
the light was fading it. AS 10 the
fire conditions in the building to-day,
there is the underwriters ominous
report. Some buildings that were con,
J., Edered fireproof thirty or forty years
ago are regarded now as not even
| fire resisting.
1t is n coincidence that the origi-
mails of the Declaration and the Con,
stitution should be looked upon as in
physical danger at the very time when
the spirit and the letter of them are
threatened by the fame that has
started in the rubbish of visionary
notions. Let the Senate make these
historic American parchments safe in
both particulars!
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100000 FOR WOUNDED.
This sum Asked for RehabiIitating
and Educating Them.

WASHINGTON, July li.-Appropriatlon
Of at least s25 1000, 900 will be needed this
year for rehabilitating and educating
wounded soldiers, sailors and marines.
the House Appropriations Committee was
told to-day by James p. Munroe, vice
chairman OF the Federal Board for Vo-
cauonal Education. The committee was
holding hearings on the Sundry Civil
bill, which President Wilson vetoed Sat
urday because It limited funds for as
sisting the wounded service men.
Fourteen thousand men. an increase
OF 5000 within a few weeks. have an
piled to the board for vocational training,
Mr.. Munroe said
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KAnHaa Mhalers.

From the Popular Mechanics Magazine.
4 couple of market fishermen OF south
eastern Kansas are catching big river
cats" with tackle that resembles an old
whale fishers equipment. Enormous
barbsd hooks take the place of harpoons.
Each hook has q socket instead of the
usual eye. and IL held by friction on the
end OF long pole, to which It is also
fastened by two feet OF stout cord. Fa-
miliar with the habits OF tho giant cat
fish. the men have no difficulty in locating
the holes where they lie. When a hsh is
"snagged" the Jerk detaches the hook from
the pole. and the captive - played until
Il gives up.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-15
ABYssINIANs VISIT WILSON.
Mission ConsratuIstes America a ma
Allies on Victory.

WASHINGTON, July l4-President Will
son to-day received the Abyssinian mis-
sion sent to this country to congratulate
the American Government on the victory
OF the associated nations Members OF
the mission appeared In gorgeous cos
tunes of red velvet decorated with gold
and wore jewelled turbans. They pre-
scented a number OF gifts TO the President.
including tusks OF ivory. gold boxes and
letters from the AbyssiniAn Queen and
heir apparent,
The head OF the mission. DadJasmatch
Nado, addressed the President In his
native language and Mr.. Wilson replied
to the address