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II the free peoples, drawn together for
the purpose Of tho overthrow OF the
German autocracy and when victory
was vital for the worlds happiness,
should now, when victory 10 theirs, dis
unite as though all the task which was
theirs TO do had been fully accom-
piished1 1t would have been an i'm
measurable catastrophe had autocracy
triumphed. can think Of only one
catastrophe less great that the work
which has been 80 supcrbly accomplished
should be allowed to fail for lack OF
unity. standing behind It and seeing that
the peace which has been 30 dearly won
shall be made permanent.
mo task faces mankind now 30 for
nidable as that of arranging that the
peace won shall be made lasting OF ar
ranging that Germany, smartins from
her defeat. shall have no opportunity OF
again scheming. to subjugate ana en-
slave.
III there should be any faltering or
lack Of unity among the Powers which
have overthrow militarism that viii be
hailed In Germany as Germanys oppor-
tunity. II IL essential that the peace
which has been 90 dearly won shall
endure.
mo man who has read the peace
treaty Is SO fatuous as to imagine that
Il is a perfect treaty. There has never
been q perfect treaty. This one. dealing
with Issues larger than any which at
any time In history embarrassed treaty
makers, has fallen measureab,y short OF
perfection. but expresses nevertheless
vast accomplishment on the part Of those
statesmen who sitting around the peace
table were bound to construct out Of all
Ia @,tn y
claims Of all Europe, q document which
would at once be generally acceptable
and at the same time meet the essen
tials OF Justice and practically. 1t Is
not a perfect document, but history has
never produced q document 30 fully ex-
pressing the ideals OF right and Justice
which now rule In the world.
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FIGHT &c. TRANSFER,
HYLAN URGES BURR
Tells Corporation Counsel to
Garry Protest to States
Highest Court.
CALLS 1T AN IMPOSITION
Assemblyman Lewis Says a
Traction Company's Per-
fidy Opened His Eyes.

After giving two days OF thought to
Service Commissioner. to permit the
New York Railways Company to charge
two cents for transfers and after SINH
larry revolving in his mind the determi-
nation Of Corporation Counsel Burr to
ask the courts to intervene, Mayor Hy-
Ian wrote letter yesterday applauding
Mr.. Burr.
IT have learned" the Mayor told the
Corporation Counsel" that the Public
Service Commission has given permits
sion to the transit lines in Manhattan
to charge an additional two cents for
transfers and that the commission in
tends to allow a similar charge for
transfers in the Borough OF Brooklyn.
"Your contention that the Public Ser
vice Commission or the court has no
right to allow a charge for transfers
believe is correct, and hope you will
take It to the highest court in the State
and let them determine whether the
people are to be imposed upon by tram
sit corporations. / hope you will use
every lawful means to protect the inter
ests Of tho people Of this city In regard
to an additional charge for transfers"
Mr.. Nixon Is out OF town. The
Deputy Commissioner. Edward J. Glen
non. and Terence Farley, the commits.
sion's counsel, said II may be several
weeks before tho transfer charge goes
into effect Lawyers for the commission
and for Job Hedges the New York Rail-
ways receiver, have not yet agreed on a
form OF order for Mr.. Nixon to sign.
Assemblyman Lewis NJ. Martin OF
Clinton, Oneida county, who gave hit
name to tho so-called Z cent faro bill
OF the 1919 Legislature which died ir
the Senate AFTER Senator Thompson hat
alleged that there was 100000 slusi
fund supporting It. said yesterday thai
he would not introduce any more bill:
providing for traction fare increases
Assemblyman Martin. who was in the
city on business relating to the Lusi
Investigating Committee. said that h
had changed his attitude because he be
lieved that a traction company operating
in his county had not been frank II
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advocacy Of the preservation OF peace
by negotiation and a resoiute opposition
10 war. When the die Of war was cast,
fowever. he talked OF peace by ncgotia-
ton no longer. But even as carly as
1914 he foresaw and foretold that peace
when II came would be a matter beset
with grave difficulties and that the writ
ing OF an acceptable treaty would be
matter which would tax tho powers OF
the ablest, and. In the form OF acclaim
from their fellow men. would earn them
little contemporary reward. Baron de
Constant never for a moment doubted
the ultimate humiliation Of tho Germans.
In the course OF a series OF letters writ
ten In 1914. at the height Of the first
German successss no said:
The Germans are paying to-day Cor
their fault In 1901 because that fault
has corrupted and poisoned them. ! have
said II a thousand times--the German
armies may exhaust themselves uselessly
In killing. burning and destroying. They
will destroy themselves In the end"
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mot on n trolley car PLATFORM" said
Mr.. Hedges simply.
Aren't you the first man who has
ever, so to speak, become part OF the
rolling stock OF a traction liner
mine Is the first appellation that has
ever been employed to break the ar
tistic monotony Of surface cars In re-
ceivership. We might perhaps have
made the name a little larger. but that
Is a matter of taste, and besides, We
were trying out new thing without any
our novelty for next week will be. But
we aim to please"
Here Mr.. Hedges indicated that no
would like to resume his work Of writing
Job e. Hedges into more State docu-
ments.
Name Grating as an Asset.
but, Mr.. Hedges, with your name
grated on to every car like this aren't
you liable to be listed among the as
sets Of the road?"
No answer.
Thanks, Mr.. Hedges. Furthermore,
are the conductors and motormen going
to wear on their collars JOB Z. Hedges.
receiver? And, Mr.. Hedges, why wasn't
your name placed inside too. among the
advertisements of chewing gum and rub
Der heels and godlike young mon in col
lars7'
At this point the reporters queries
were interrupted by the noise OF some
person being thrown downstairs. Thai
person turned out TO be the reporter.
Up to a late hour last night the
Mayor, though the cars passed 80 close
to City Hall that he could have thrown
biscuh or his voice at them. had
failed to indicate in from 1000 to 5000
words whether he had seen the Hedge:
copyright ON the peoples car line.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-10
PLEADS FOR
u. S. SHIP INSURANCE
Shipping Board Head Fears
Loss Of Trade Secrets.
Spscia; DespctcA to TuE suy.

special Despdfch TO TnE SuS.
WARRINGTON, July 10.-Governmenta
Insurance for all merchant ships Of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation and Amer
lean merchant ships was urged by Chair
man Hurley OF the Shipping Board be-
fore the Marine Insurance sub-commit-
tee OF the Merchant Marine and Fish
cries Committee OF the House to-day.
American insurance either government
tai or private for American ships was
urged by Mr., Hurley particularly with a
view to preventing Germany or other ma
tions from learning trade and shipbuild-
ing secrets through Insurance of Ameri-
can merchant ships.
Germany made a practice before tho
war OF obtaining large amounts OF this
Insurance and from information SO OBJ
tained learning all about tho export
trade relations OF each country" the
Shipping Board director declared In an
swer to question by Representative Ed
monde tPa-). a member OF the sub-com-
mittee.
"Ali American insurance OF all our
vessels is vital to tho success Of the
merchant marine. Natiory that have
been successful In the shipping business
and export trade have paid particular
attention to marine insurance"
Mr.. Hurley did not urge that all
American ships should carry govern
mental insurance. though advocating con-
tinuation Of this form for ships operated
by the Shipping Board. Either the War
Risk Insurance Bureau or private Amer
lean concerns should insure all privately
operated American ships, he said. The
Shipping Board IL now framing a bill
embodying Mr.. Hurley's ideas.
Representative Edmonds urged tina,
the committee take action along the line
indicated by Mr.. Hurley.
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presenting It's case to the Judiciary Com
mittee of the Assembly, Of which he Is
chairman.
The Assemblyman said that the trac-
ton company increased it's fares in vto-
latlon of contract, but that the public
assented because II was believed that the
increase was justified by operating costs.
An expert of the Public Service Com
mission was put to work on the books,
however. and he found net income of
over 2 per cent. for 1918 following a
series Of prosperous years in which net
earnings had been from to 1875 per
cent.
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HA1G SAYS BRITISH WON WAR.
Declares English Army Bore Brunt
OF Last Two Years.

LONDON. July e.--Field Harshai Hais
upon receiving the freedom Of the city
Of Newcastle IN his address deprecated
what he considered a tendency TO mini
mize the British arny's achievements in
tho war.
1T Is right" Field Marshal Hais
said, TO speak Of our Allies. but It was
the British army that won the war; It
was Britain that bore the brunt OF the
lighting in the last two yeara hope
every one will realize that fact and
stick by the fellows who fought and
suffered and by their dependents"
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FREIGHT TRAIN KILLS THREE.
Crashes Into Houses, starts Fire
md Crushes Child.

PIrTsBuRo, July 9.-Three persons
we're killed and seven others injured here
late to-day when a southbound Monon-
gahela Connecting Railroad freight train
split a switch on the south side, the
locomotive and local tender crashing into
two houses and partly demolishing them.
The dead are Barney Williams, en-
eineer Of the freight; William Graham,
conductor, and Mary kasanov:tch. ~
years old
The child was killed in the front room
Of her home by falling wreckase when
the heavy locomotive crashed through
the front wall OF an adjoining house.
Burning Goals from the locomotive set
fire to the houses, necessltating the call
ing out of the fire department.
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FARMERS HAVE FOUR WORRIES
Labor, Lice. Blight and Drought
Disturb Jersey.

TRENroN. N. J., July s.--The State
Department OF Agriculture. In a bulletin
issued to-day. catalogues the causes for
the Jersey farmers worries as follows
Scarcity OF farm labor.
Plant lice. which have injured fruit
and truck crops.
Blight on apples and pears.
Inadequate rainfall during June.
The department didn't mention the
seyeDfeen vcar locust
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-10
HEDGES AHEADLINER
ON THE GREEN CARS.
''Receiver" in Six Inch Letters
a New Feature Of Rolling
Stock Propaganda.
AID TO IGNORANT PUBLIC
Queries About Innovation Re-
suit in a Crasb-of a Re-
porter's Body.

The Green Car line, which went into
the hands Of a receiver recently. Is
now featuring Job e. Hedges as head
liner. All day yesterday Fourth and
Madison avenue cars changed past the
downtown homo Of the common people,
otherwise known as the suburban resi-
dence Of Palm Beach's leading citizen.
bearing on each side. at the bottom, this
footnote to history:
Job e. Hedges. receiver"
The announcement, set forth In letters
i've or six inches In height, may or may
not have infringed the law by not hav-
ing "Advt" after It. 1t was just be-
low the traction concerns faVorite catch
phrase, New York Railways Company"
and, az one OF the special guardians Of
the Mayors tulip beds pointed out, II
was Just over the wheels--Mr. Hedgess
position for choice. since he Is always
in the thick Of every movement A re-
porter called on Mr.. Hedges to dis
cover why he was being starred so
prominently In his new aot, and found
the famous after dinner lawyer busy
decorating bushels OF documents with
something that looked like JOB E.
Hedges, receiver"
Is tho meaning OF this Hedges propa-
Eanda?'
So All whs Ride May Read.
at 10 used to indicate that the rosd
is In the hands OF a receiver" said Mr..
Hedges In his usual serious manner.
swinging around In a swivel chair on
which one failed to detect the latest
traction slogan. THE general public
hasn't considered the question of rates.
except as one man or another issued a
ukase on It,"
"D'ye mean to insinuste. Mr.. Hedges,
that people don't read the newspa-''
''Quiet!" commanded Mr.. Hedges ir
his most terrible tones. THE fact OF
the receivership hasn't interested mos,
persons, 50 We aim to make the truth
known at all costs. That doesn't imply
| however. that anything extra will b.
| charged passengers for the protection o.
that name Tho name Is thrown in fre<
| along with the new cent transfers"
| Then It doesn't mean that you ar,
starting q campaign to run for an!
officer"
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wtll Upse RatiAcatisn.

"I propose to urge all American
statesmen whom have the honor to
know or whom I shall have the honor
to meet to work for the ratification OF
the treaty which has been written. and
To trust to the future and to the per-
nanency of the bond which has been
tablished between the benign Govern
ments Of the earth to remedy any de-
reefs. which upon its face or as expert
ence and usage shall reveal them. may
inhere in the document as 1t now lies
before us. None Of the Powers which
have brought the present victory and
peace about IL morally free to with
draw now from the duty Of making the
peace and victory lasting. Mono Of us
may withdraw: none OF US 70 back. We
must all realise our obligation and ad-
vance, united. together.
Here IN this land far from the actual
fields of war there may be some who
do not comprehend how essential II Is
thst this peace. imperfect as II may road
or appear. must DO ratified and then
permanently enforced by the nations
which have brought It about. With all
my heart, so long as ] remain In this
country, will endeavor TO make the
necessity and permanency Of this peace
clear thing"
Baron do Constant. who Is a Senator
Of France, was noted before the begin
ming OF the world war In 1914 for his
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BARON DE- CONSTANT
HERE TO AID PEACE
French Senator Says the
Treaty Was Best OBJ
tainable.
URGES ALLIED UNITY
Visit Unofficial, but States
man Will Do All He Can
for Ratification.
URGES ALLIED UNITY

while President Wilson 10 touring this
country and explaining to his fellow
Americans the grounds upon which he
considers that there should be q prompt
ratification both of the peace treaty
and Of the covenant of the League Of
Nations. his campaign will receive the
support and encouragement Of Baron
d'Estournelles de Constant who came TO
this city on Tuesday q few hours after
the arrival OF President Wilson.
Baron de Constant came - New York
on board the Savoie which left France
q day ahead Of the George Washing
ton. He 10 ct the Rits.Carlton. where he
Will remain for q day or two. or until
he has seen former President Taft and
has discussed with him the state Of pub
lie opinion here In respect to the peace
terms and the covenant Of the league.
Whether he will mako an extensive
journey through this country, or will
spend the greater part OF his stay in this
city and In Washington will depend upon
the result OF his conversations within the
next few days with American states
men and politicians whom he either al
ready knows or to whom he has brought
letters Of introduction.
my VISIT" he said yesterday, lis en-
tirely unofsicial and Is % largely In the
nature Of pleasure trip that necessarily
it has no political significance. am
hero 40 an individual only. but a. nearly
all my friends In America are political
it will be impossible for me to 60 back
TO France without explaining to them
the vital. necessity for the ratification Of
the peace that has been written, imper-
feet as that peace not only seems to be
but Is.
War "Greatest Task."
'-rhs greatest event that ever took
place In the world was the crushing Of
the German brute. Until the Pruseian
military system was bound fast and lay
helpless no other task worth while con-
fronted the free nations OF the world.
The task brought together all the free
nations Of the world. binding them In q
temporary federation to achieve victory,
and It brought together also as . power
impelling this temporary federation all
the Ideals Of freedom that strive in the
world.
Would It not be q great catastrophe
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PertsEal TO Celebrate July -.

LISBON. July 9.-PortuSal will observe
July II as q national holiday to cele-
brate the signing OF peace. The day
will be known as Victory Day.
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a,aea Risk Claims Paid in June

wAsHINGroN. July e.--Pay1nents by
the War Risk Bureau to soldiers and
their dependents amounted to s3o.S3e.-
72s in June, ss2.322 checks being
mailed. Payments this yesS have
amounted to more than $3.50, 100000.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-12-12
Keen Un the Morale.

The big thing in life's battles is the
morale. You may have the men and
the guns, but If the men lack the
ginger they are impediments to attain
ment. 1t is easy to do things when you
are on the winning side. The trouble
begins to brew when things go wrong.
Anybody can go with the current. It's
breasting the tide that shows where
strength lies, and muscular strength is
the least side OF it, When the brain
is right and nerve control dependable
YOU can make machines do muscular
tasks There are few things that mans
Ingenuity has not submitted 20 me-
chanical control. So the problem of
today is to keep the head right. It
means more than keen thinking There
are men of the keenest intellect who
need the constant urge of right morale
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-12-12
A CHRISTM MAS WALK

In silvery softness the anthem closed
Like slowly silenced bell;
The sacred calm of a peace divine
Like benediction fell;
And out on the morning light that spread
A glimmer of amber gray,
/ walked with Margery home from church
On an old old Christmas Day.
bland, mild day-for the rugged month
Had chosen kindly mood,
Like wonderful mellow aftermath
From the Autumn's plenitude.
With scarcely tang of wholesome cold
DID the Winters breezes blow,
AS Margery walked from church with me
On Christmas long ago.
The earnest words that had touched our
S hearts
The warnings, kindly and wise
Had left a shadow of tenderness
In Margery's violet eyes; d
The merry, hoydenish maid I'd known
For twelvemonth's flying space.
Had taken on that old Christmas Day.
A new and womanly grace.
AS through the tremulous opal clouds
That shifted and swayed apart,
sun ray lighted the rosy face,
The wish was born in my heart
That down the trail of the unspent years,
Whatever their. trend might be,
The soft-eyed maiden beside me then,
Might walk to the end with me-
Absently watching the velvet flakes
BY the white gale set awning,
/ breathe the spirit of other years
While the bells of Yuletide' ring;
And near me, smiling with happy eyes
At our children's romping play.
Is the girl who walked from church with
me
On that old, sweet Christmas Day.
Harriet. Whitney Durbin, in Peoples
Home Journal
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-12-12
HONOR HELD BY QUAKER CITY
First American Edition of the Hebrew
Scriptures Was Put in Type in
Philadelphia.

The first American edition of the He
brew Scriptures was put in type at
Philadelphia by William Fry.
The first translation of the Scrip
lures into English by a Jewish scholar
in America was that of Isaac Lesser
of Philadelphia in 1853, and the first
English version prepared by a group
of Jewish scholars is that of the Jew
ISL Publication society of America,
Philadelphia. 1917.
One of the most important and wide
ly used revisions of the Rheims-Douay
version was that of Archbishop Ken
drick of Philadelphia, 1851-62.
Ben Franklin didn't think the lam
guage of the King James version suffi-
GENTLY up to date to suit the literati
of his time, and he tried his improving
hand on the Book of Job with this re-
suit:
"And it being Ievee day in heaven,
all Gods nobility came to court to pre-
sent themselves before him; and Satan
also appeared in the circle, as one of
the ministry And God said to Satan !:
You have been long time absent !;
where were you? And Satan an
swered: / have been at my country
seat, and in different places visiting
my friends"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-12-12
WONDERFUL ANIMAL, THE GNU
And Voice Would Seem to Be Not the
Least of His Remarkable
Qualities.

ew people know what a satisfac-
tory animal is the gnu. Quite num-
Der of hoOfed animals, like the ibex
and the sacred OK are mere tiresOme
combinations of Burbankism, but the
gnu has qualities all his own. His
head is hOmely as an implanted barn
flat nose and very broad mouth and
ears misshapen and uncouth. His body
is that of an exceedingly powerful
pony, with strong neck and ralxish tail.
His galvanic energy puts to shame the
glorious abandon OF cat on a tin
roof.
When / arrive before his Enclosure
he has usually retired to the shed in
which he sleeps and stands in the
doorway with far-away eyes. Efforts
to entice him forth are futile. / turn
at last as if to GO, and as / move he
bursts forth with the most heatheniah
cry that ever clattered from an ami
NAL throat. If it resembles anything,
it is the trench klaxOn that warns of
an impending gas attack-a series of
staccato shrieks which would shake
the teeth from a band saw. / don't
see how he can stand the noise he
makes. Arm rabbit with the voice
of gnu and lions will stink from his
path.
Reaching the bars of his Enclosure
III three or four astounding leaps, the
gnu halts, with head averted and feet
wide 'aDart ignoring me literally
When I move to right or left he re-
mains motionless until Is feet are he
tween us: then he closes the distance
with a bound, shrieks terribly twice
or thrice, and once more affects to be
utterly oblivious d my presence. When
finally ! leave him the clatter of his
fearful voice pursues me for hundreds
of feet. drowning all other sounds
Atlantic Monthly
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-12-12
USE OF EVERGREENs.

The use of evergreens at Christmas
time is older than the Christmas tree,
the Christians seeming to have copied
it from their pagan ancestors. In
very old book we find this reference to
the use of evergreens at Christmas
time: Against the feast of Christ
mas every mans house, as also their
parish churches, were decked with
holme. ivy. bayes, and whatsoever the
season of the year afforded to be
green. The conduits and standards of
the streets were likewise garnished;
among which l read that in the
year 1414, by tempest of thunder and
lightning, toward the morning of Can
dIemas day, at the Leadenhall, in
Cornhill, a standard of tree, being set
up in the midst Of the pavement, fast
in the ground, nailed full of holme and
ivy, for diSport of Christmas to the
people, was torn up and cast down by
the malignant spirit Gas was thought),
and the stones of the pavement all
about were cast in the streets and into
divers houses, so that the people were
sore aghast at the great tempest