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who doubt the wisdom Of trying the
Kaiser mean that he should escape
punishment. There may be cases
where guilt Is so clear as to render
legal inquiry superfiuous. None but
the adherents of NAPOLEON felt that
there was any injustice in banlshing
him to Saint Helena In order to safe
guard the world against his insatiate
ambition. Every one feels justified
In killing rattlesnake or a man-eat-
Ing tiger or n mad elephant on sight.
Unless 1t is deemed punishment
enough to have fallen from imperial
power to saving wood at Amerongen
the Allied and Associated Powers
might well send WILLIAM III. to some
remote, rocky islet in the sea, there
to eat his heart out in shame, degra-
dalton and remorse.
It would, however, be an insult to
the noble attributes of NAPOLEON to
associate the name of the last of the
HoHENzoLLERNs with the island
where he died. Saint Helena should
not be made the Kaiser's place Of
exile and expiation.
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In Summerlnnd.

From the Cleveland Plain Dec,er.
In Summers nd I stayed awhile,
And rested head and hand;
In Summerland I strayed awhile,
And dreamed awhile, and played awhile
In blessed Summerland!
In Summerland. men do not strive
For ways and means to keep alive:
Far from the city's dirt and din,
They toll not. neither do they spin
And yet they manage to survive.
They do not fill the human hive
That honey profteers may thrive;
They cat whatever sweets they win
In Summerland.
figure that In four or Eve
Years, II pinch and save and drive,
I'll purchase me n summer inn,
Where evermore I'll tan my skin,
And loaf and golf and sail and dive
In Summerland,
I'm Summerland I hid myself
BY bslmy breezcs famed:
or common sense. ! rid myseif
And fool myself. and kid myself
In blessed SummerlandD
TED ROBINSON.
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Another Small Boat Tragedy.

From the published accounts of the
tragedy near Springfield. Mass, on
Friday, whereby ten boys and an as
sistant camp leader lost their lives
through the swapping and upsettlng
of the boat and canoes in which they
were crossing lake, 1t appears that
here again we have case of bad
workmanship, than which nothing is
more common in connection with the
water. Small boats, and by this term
we include everything from battle
ships small craft TO dory or canoe.
are at once the safest things that
float and the most dangerous.
Overlooking and improper dlstribu-
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ONE GENERAL ENOUGH.
No Room In the Army for Two OF
Full Rank.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-ST: In
a recent issue you had an editorial arti-
Gle on "Generals'' which most persons
will approve Of There is no room In
an army of not quite 100000 men, and
that is to be the size Of the United
States army in the near future, for full
Generals-two Of them. anyway.
AS we are to have a world peace that
will be lasting-untii there's another
war-through the League of Nations, u
the meek and lowiy United States Sell
ate accepts of the Wilson programme,
and with enough spineless Senators
among the Republicans to prevent
two-third vote--it looks as II it would
why any army much less Generals of
high rank and CORRESPONDENCE high pay?
There is seldom any call for an officer
above the rank of Major-General in our
little national police force. II this Re-
publican Congress wishes to insure its
own succession it had better pay some
heed to the enormous outlay OF money
that is doing no one any good but the
recipients, the multitudinous Office hold
ers under this administration.
c. B. DENNIS.
A Veteran of the Civil War.
SANDUsKY. Ohio. July %.
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PRIMRoSE,S PARTNERS.
Two Organizations Of Minstrels With
which He Was Associated.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-str: In
the obituary notice of George Primrose
in TIE Sun appeared this statement
Before he was rs he was one of the
organizers of the famous Thatcher.
Primrose q West Minstrels, undoubtedly
the most important outfit OF Its class in
its day."
This is an error. The facts are these:
George Primrose and his dancing part
ner for generation, William II. West,
were famous all over the country as clog
and Jig dancers, having a reputation for
what is to-day termed class. In the late
'70s or the early sos Primrose and West
Joined forces with Milt c. Barlow and
George Wilson and formed the organi-
cation known as Barlow. Wilson. Prim-
rose & Vests Minstrels, which indeed
was undoubtedly the most important
outfit of its class in its day."
The big company came very near being
stranded on the coast and was piloted
back East by John Harry Chaplain, man
ager of many minstrel shows. They
made money under Clapham's manage
ment and were getting wealthy when in
ternal disturbances led to their separa-
ton, Barlow and Wilson heading an
organization OF their own and Primrose
and West Joining forces with George
Thatcher and forming the Thatcher,
Primrose & West Minstrels. There we're
other changes in later seasons, and 1t
was not until very few years ago that
Lew Dockstader and George Primrose
formed partnership.
Milt G. Barlow. the minstrel. was the
father Of Major Reginald Barlow. who
recently severed his connection with the
United States military forces. Major
Barlow was playing in Emma Dunn's
company In "Old Lady 81" when he en-
listed and was stationed at Camp Dew
ems The last that recall of Milf Bar
lows stage appearance he was playing
Uncle Tom in a stupendous revival Of
Uncle Toms Cabin" given In New York
several years ago. w. j. NJ.
FORT LEYDEN, July rs.
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ton Of weight arc the most frequent
causes Of these small boat disasters
both on the part of professional and
amateur watermen. It Is only a few
years since one of the boats of n
United States warship capslzed In
the North River from overcrpwdlng
and improper distribution of the men
Of liberty party in 1t, with the conse-
quent loss of forty lives. The very
human desire of men and women to
get In the bow of a boat is thing
that every one in charge Of small
craft must necessarily guard against,
but unfortunately the danger of such
a course is not as generally recognized
as It should be.
What happens when q boat, or any
other craft, for that matter. Is loaded
"by the head" as sailors say, is that
Il tends to make It unmanageable,
since 1t does not respond readily to
the action Of the rudder. Moreover,
when a craft laden In such a fashion
is lowed 1t does not hold n true course
but "yaws" from side ia side, with
the inevitable result, IL there is any
sea running, Of getting sideways to a
sea and being upset. 1t is fair to as
sumo that the tragedy at Big Pond oc.
CURED In just this fashion, for in the
story we have the familiar elements
of fiat boat being towed by launch,
high wind coming up to raise a sea
a boat filling with water, and the In
evitable fatal consequences.
Mere size has little to do with the
safety of any craft. Witness the
fisherman's dory riding the seas or
the Grand Banks and being upset by
some amateur oarsman in still water
The st. Lawrence and all the mighty
waters of its source were traversed
by white men for the first time II
safety In canoes not more seaworthy
than the modern types that drown all
too many unskilled canoists every
summer In the North River. Boat
manship needs care, care and still
more care In the loading and han
ding of small craft unless 1t Is to be
turned from one Of the best and most
inexpensive of sports into such o
tragic occurrence as that which hap
pened at Big Pond.
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Staging a Lemon Extract Boom.

Few, we think, can know before
they are here informed what a devil
ish beverage has lurked on kitchen
shelves, in cupboards, dining room
closets of the most respectable homes.
Lemon extract in its trig, fiat bottle
must have been thought of by inno-
cent millions as the thing which, put
into custards, jellies, ice cream and
cakes, gives for those who care for
that kind of flavor the kind of flavor
they care for. But truth has been
having her day out down in Washing
ton. BLAND of Missouri read from
printed matter to prove that lemon
fiavoring compounds are absolute
alcohol, 80 per cent. by volume"
Then Mr.. TINcHER told his col
leagues that in the court house at
Cherokee, Oklahoma, he had assisted
in the prosecution of creature named
JACOBS who had killed In cold blood
Farmer SrRoHL, and "the evidence
disclosed that JACOBS had drunk twen-
ty-eight bottles of lemon extract on
the day he committed murder
In view of this appalling revelation
there were Immediately offered amend
ments to strike out the requirement
that the alcohol contents of fiavoring
extracts should be stated on their
labels 1t was feared, strangely in
deed, that If the exact alcohol con-
tent, 30 per cent. was plainly printed
on the labels of bottles exposed for
sale in the show windows of drug and
fancy goods stores it would boom
the truly rural appetite for lemon
custards and cakes to an excess de-
structlve alike to digestion and NOR
ais. Yet the printed label prevailed.
partly perhaps because the pure food
law calls for 1t.
Other trouble followed. 1t was
found that lemon extract in the pro
hibition bill was described as mon
potable" which, 1t was excitedly de-
clared, the spelling books defined as
"non-drinkable" Surely il citizen
of Cherokee, Oklahoma, could drink
twenty eight bottles of 1t in day and
then accomplish murder the stuff
could not with due regard to truth be
said to be non-drinkable. Not in Okla
homa, anyway.
Mr.. BAER of North Dakota became
suddenly alarmed lest some one should
do away with picked peaches. He
quoted the laws of his State, which
In effect declare that "All intoxicating
liquors that will produce intoxication
shall be held to be intoxicating liz
uors." But is peach, picked or in
its right mind, liquor?
In the midst of great confusion the
cool official reporter heard Mr.. BRIN-
SON of North Carolina announce :
Utopia will not be reached at once
The question of CAIN finds instant
answer from us. We are our brothers
keeper"
A dlligent search of the Record OF
that tumultuous session falls to dis.
close how Brother RAERs picked
peaches Jared.
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Tho Upward Faith.

America, great country, shah write
Thy name upon the page of Freedom's
book,
For thou did'st hear above the din Of war
The clarion call to service for the world.
Thine was the challenge. thine the privi-
lege
To fight against oppression. and to win
A peace that held for thee no selfish gain.
Keep thou the faith, Americsi Thy/heart,
So great, so tender, throbs with love for
those
Who. longing for the. truth. havs turned
to thee.
All. fail them not. these souls who trust
thee now
The toilers who make fair thy fertile feids.
And those who turn thy million tlreless
wheels:
Show them the upward path. lead on and
To greater freedom both of mind and soul.
To larger faith. to Justice, and to God.
KATHERINE II. b. MuLLALLI.
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RAISING THE ANTE.
An Attempt TO Fit a Latin Prefix to
n War Phrase

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: !
solicit the hospitality of your columns to
Inquire II It is correct to speak OF the
period Immediately preceding the world
conhagration. now happily ended, as
''pre-war"?
From what ! can remember of my
Latin | submit that the right PROPOSE
ton is ante. Pre- is proposition of place
or order, as such words as prefix, prepaid
and many similar words will certainly
suggest,
Ante is clearly a proposition of time or
date. We do not say pre-meridian, pre-
diluviau, pre-dated-we use ante, which
is correct.
One sometimes meets that very elon-
gated announcement ''preinventory sale"
In this case inventory suggests period
and the judicious would grieve less If
ante we're used. Neither title is very
appealing, both being overweighted.
IT will not add to the benefits of going
dry II we are to speak OF the time before
as 'pre-prohibiuon-"
n. SCOTT WILSON.
New York. July 20.
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Earnings before

While the Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey, with its sound business
methods, with its able management,
with its wise provision for the future,
was earning these fabulous profits 1t
did not pay them all out in dividends.
1t did not begin to pay them all
out. Year after year, with single
exception, It's dividends to stockhold-
ers were below $2O,0OO,OOO a year
whether it's earnings were $4,000, 900
or $1O5,O00,OOO. All the while the
company was ploughlng in the rest.
1t was renewing and expanding it's
plant; 1t was increasing its equip
ment; 1t was building ships; 1t was
pioneering; 1t was perfecting its or
ganization; 1t was rewarding its
workers.
And so the Standard OIL Company
of New Jersey could grow and grow,
It's stockholders could prosper and
prosper, its workers could get more
and more wages in greater and greater
numbers and the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey never had to go
out and hunt for red penny Of
fresh capital.
But when the StaLGard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey was earning in
1918 nearly $102, OOO, 900 it didn't have
as much TO put into new plant or new
equipment or increased business or IN
creased credits to customers abroad
as 1t had when 1t earned .$72 10000
In 1916; as 1t had when 1t earned
SCI. 100000 in 1915. After Federal
taxes in 1915 there was left out Of
the SCI 100000 a net of $6O,777, 243.
After Federal taxes in 1916 there was
left out of the $72,OOO,O0O net Of
$T0,702. 059, But after Federal taxes
in 1918 there was left out OF the
nearly S102, 100000 net OF $57 ,2S3,-
784. And so, looking into the future
and weighing what 1t must do to take
care of its business at home and
abroad in the worlds REIMBURSEMENT,
the Standard OIL Company of New
Jersey, with its surplus earnings no
longer available for such purposes,
at last has to go to the public for the
needed money.
Now nobody is going to waste any
sympathy on the STANDARD OIL Com
pany OF New Jersey. The Standard
OIL Company Of New Jersey doesn't
need anybody's sympathy. AS long as
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Summer Magic.


From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
So many cares to vex the day,
So many fears to haunt the night,
Ny heart vas all but weaned away
From every lure of old delight.
Then summer came, announced by June,
With beauty, miracle and mirth,
she hung aloft the rounding moon,
She poured her sunshine on the earth,
She drove the sap and broke the bud,
She set the crimson rose anre.
She stirred again my sullen blood,
And walked in me new desire
Before INV cottage door she spread
The softest carpet nature weaves
And deity arched above my head
canopy OF shady leaves.
Her nights were dreams of jewelled skies
Her DAYS were bowers rife with song
Ard many a scheme did she devise
To heal the hurt and soothe tho wrong.
For on the hill or In the dell.
or where the brook went leapng by
Or where the fields would surge and swell
with golden wheat or bearded rye
I felt her heart against my own,
7 breathed the sweetness OF her breath
TIL all the cark of time had hown
And I was lord of life and death.
LESLIE PINoESEr Hill.
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Now this was Mssterbrook. He had q way
OF lending such enlargement to his
thought
BY pulled up speech that he out.hons the
day
Before the lesser fry which knew him
not.
But wiser thinkers pricked the huge bal
looms
OF colored speech he scared 90 cieveriy,
With needles OF plain logic. and his tunes
From subtlety turned sheer banality.
And he was laughed at as such men are,
5eered
For their conspicuous affected airs;
And called a windbag. nothing to be feared
In this brief world OF tangled vague
affairs.
So Masterbrook would talk down Time to
laughter
While wiser men would talk It Up to
grief.
And when he died. to thousands who came
after
He stood a symbol and departed chief.
HERBBHr s.. GoRMAN
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When the present Earl CURzoN or
Kedleston was an oxford undergrad
uate at Balliol fellow student i'm
mortalized him in the annals of the
university by attrlbuting to him the
doggerel soliloquy:
my name Is GEORGE NATHANIEL
CURzoN:
I am a most superior person"
1t Is rather due to the fact that
the first Lady CURzoN was a brilliant
Chicago girl-Miss LEITER-than his
achievements as an English political
leader, notable as these are, that Lord
CURzoN's name Is well known to
Americans; but we are assured by
Mr.. L. r. RAYMOND, the author of
"Uncensored Celebrities" that the
doctor who assisted the future Earl
into the world "is said to have re-
marked that he had a special confor-
nation of the head that only goes
with greatness"
Perhaps THIS accounts for the re-
markable suggestion which he made
In the House. of Lords on Thursday
to the effect that If the Kaiser was to
be tried in England 1t by no means
followed that the trial would take
place in London; seeming TO prefer,
as the London Daily NeCs puts it,
"some little Peddington-in-the-Hole
without giving the accused chance
OF creating unpleasant scenes"
This proposal to try the Kaiser in
some place of comparative seclusion
reminds us of Lord CURzoN's own
epigram in definition Of enterprising
Journalism, to wit: "An intelligent
anticipation of events that never oc-
cur" We confidently predict that If
the Kaiser Is tried at all there will
be no element of privacy in the pro-
ceedings, either as TO the place of
trial or anything else.
Earl CURZoN's statement naturally
provoked comment from his brother
peers. Lord BRYCE, formerly British
Ambassador at Washington and one
of the sanest of living statesmen,
wanted to know whether there wes
any precedent for holding such trial
elsewhere than In the country where
the offence had been committed. Lord
BucKMAsTER Of Cheddington, who was
Lord Chancellor in 1915 and 1915, is
even reported to have moved" their
lordships by vigorous speech in
which he protested against asking an
English Judge to administer law he
did not know, according to a proceed
ure which had never been defineds in
a court which he did not control. Lord
BucKMAsrER was. indeed, opposed to
trying the Kaiser at all.
This did not mean nor do others
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poEMs WORTH READING.


when the great battle was Joined
And the mighty hosts came forth,
He stood with the sons OF light
From the West, the South and the North
The East was near to his hand
To follow the radiant word. .
And At his side. like q star.
shone forth his terrible sword
This was the sword Of the spirit,
Tho sword of unconquer'd Right
Before II ned the red Anarchs
And the throned Anarchs Of Might.
when. 10, the call Of the bugle
The call to death or life.
The call 10 the last surrender,
Or the spirits upward strife
He II gone He IL not with usi
His sword u broke at the hilt--
God OF our watching fathers,
Whose the guilt-the guilt
JOHN JkaoMs ROONEY.
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Eastern New York. partly cloudy and
warmer to-day. Tomorrow fair and
continued warm except thunder showers
In north portion; fresh northwest winds
New Jersey. fair and warmer to-dayt
fair and continued warm tomorrow; mod
crate TO fresh southwest winds. 81
Northern New ENGLAND, partly cloudy.
warmer, probably thunder showers to-day
and to-morrow; moderate south and south
west winds.
Southern New ENGLAND. partly cloudy
winds.
Western New York. partly cloudy and
warmer to-day; probably local thunder
showers Tomorrow; fresh southwest winds.
WASHINGTON. July 2s.--An extensive
Area OF high barometer has its centre In
the vicinity of the Bermudas and II ex-
tends westward over the Gulf states and
the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. The
pressure s,s is also high over the Northwest
belt extending from Lake Superior south
ward TO the southern plateau region. This
pressure distribution has resulted In a con-
plains States. the upper Mississippi Valley
and the region Of the great lakes and con-
siderably cooler weather over the North
west. There were showers within the last
twenty-four hours in New England ana
New York. the south Atlantic and Gulf
states and at widely separated points In
the region of the great lakes and the
central Rocky Mountain region.
The outlook II for showery weather IN
the east Gulf States. Georgia and Florida
and thunder showers along the north Dor
der from the great lakes eastward. In
tho Ohio Valley southern New England,
the middle Atlantic States and the Caro-
linas the weather will remain fair Sunday
and Monday.
High temperatures will prevail Sunday
and Monday in the middle Atlantic StetS.t
southern New England. the Ohio VaiieH
and the southern portion of the region OF
he paN lalr hat M
perature is probable Sunday night and
Monday In the upper lake region.
Observations at United Ststes weather
RiIrnniI Aalrnr n q u NJ lnAlAriIll-
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The long Pacific swells are blue.
Tho wild North Sea is gray,
The waves are white with angry foam
In Fundy's stormy bay,
Green u the broad Atlantic's surge
From Britain 10 the States.
But scarlet Is the sea that rolls
To verdun's battered gates.
For where the warning nations drenched
The trampled earth with red.
The peoples rise, and far and wide
In flaming pillows spread.
Their silken petals dyed with blood
Like wounds all CORY part,
And every stalk Is rooted In
A buried soldiers heart.
NINA IIvINa
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hand with positions. Belmont was
there also with four fine bays. and
there were many others. The'day was
beautiful. There had been showers
through the night, and everything
seemed TO contribute TO make the day
one long to be remembered.
All this is now changed. Tall apart
ment houses cover the thrifty garden
spots. Electric cars speed over what
was once Haarlem Lane. No grass
grows in the roadway. nor do great
droves of cattle meander slowly down
TO the Bulls Head.
CHRISTINE FORBES Hoop.
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My Brother Man.

From The Toronto Nail and Empire.
II my brothers keeper be,
What can I do. how can I see
The way to serve him righttully--
Ny brother man7
I, by the turn OF fortunes wheel,
] have success, he woe and veal
How can ! meet his mute appeal
Ny brother man:
II by his side my lot may be
And I must suffer as doth he,
Yet may ] serve by sympathy
Ny brother man.
II good OF all Is thought OF each,
And love We live as we'll as preach,
Then love will md some way to reach
My brother man.
FRED SCoTT SHEPArp
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VIII Aid Army Prisoners.

The War Camp Community Service In
tends to help military prisoners now con-.
fined at Governors Island to find work
and get another start In life when they
are released. A unemployment bureau
has been opened for this work under the
direction of Harry NJ Bremen. He said
there are 1900 prisoners on Governors
Island and there will soon be 1000. They
will receive dishonorable discharges and
no bonus Their sole possessions will be
IS and a suit OF civilian clothes. Mr..
Bremen Is afraid they will become Va
grants unless they are helped.
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Getting Down to One Gres. Man.

In a case where d treaty of peace
Is dependent for its enforcement upon
a league of nations, and both. being
avowedly woven together, are depend
ent on a special treaty for their pro-
lection, does not the special treaty
assume the general dignity Of boss
document?
When a league of nations is ruled
by council and that council is
ruled by the representatives Of a
triple alliance, who enforces the de-
crees of the special treaty by which
the alliance is held together? Natu-
rally, the boss of the triple alliance.
Perhaps that dignitary, the future
President of the World, has come to
the conclusion that 1t matters not
whether he rides to greatness on a
league covenant or a special treaty.
Getting there is the thing.