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S154,7OO is TOTAL
OF JEWISH FUND
Appeal to Women Is Made BY
Jacob Fl. Schnf.

A total Of $154,7oo has thus far been
collected in the campaign now being
waged here for the United HnVd'na
Fund Of the Federated Jewleh Institu-
lions. according to reports made by trade
chairrnen and workers at n rally in nv
Biltmore Hotel yesterday afternoon Al
appeal TO the women OF the city for sup
port was made by Jacob II, Schif' Con-
tributlons Of $1,000 each have been re-
ceived from Flo Ziegfeld, theatrical man
ager, and Rube Goldberg, cartoonsL
William Randolph Hearst has gwen
$4,000
Herman Block. chairman for me
woollen trades, reported forty con'riou'
lions totalling $4,000. A suhsorpuQn
OF $40, 600 was reported from Emil b!sV"
of of Schmoll, Fills & Co.
Horace A. Saks, who Is chairman w
the department stores, reported StVVy
from Isaac Gimbel, $4,000 from LOUIS
Gimbel. $4,000 from Bernard Glmoel anu
$500 from Fred Gimbel The Ladls'
Sewing Circle Of the Home for Hebrew
Orphans contributed sl.650, WlIIHa
Loeb, for the jewelry trades, repo i,,s
Sl0,50O and the wastes and rags DIV"
sion reported S22.700. ,--
Col. II, A. uuinzburg eaid that dni..s
the Jewish holy daS-S n rSoh' q ~
city would announce the urSNhr' ol NY
appeal for the fund to their congJegauo'@s
Because OF their observance no meer
ings will be held Wednesday, ThuTea"
and Friday OF this week.
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Mckinley and "The New York Press"

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Let
veteran in the newspaper field correct
the Transformation which Mr.. f. J. Ed
wards gave in last Sundays SUN as to
the ownership of the New York Press
just before and after the election Of Will
liam Mckinley.
In the early days OF 1897. when Presi-
dent Mckinley was selecting his Cabinet,
Mr.. James Phillips, Jr., was neither the
owner nor tho editor OF the Press. He
had no interest whatever in the paper.
Nor in the campaigning Of 1896, first FOR
the nomination and then for the election
of Major Mckinley, did Mr.. Phillips have
any connection or association with the
Press.
The same thing is true as to virtually
the whole of the year before, In the
very first month of 1895 the Press had
been bought from Mr.. Phillips by Mr..
Henry L. Einstein, himself largely inter-
ested in the woollen industry, Of strong
protection principles, ardent Republican
allegiance and robust Americanism. 1t
was Mr.. Einstein's Press, not Mr..
Philllps's, which fought for the nominal
ton and the election of Major Mckinley.
From January. 1895, Mr.. Einsteln was
the sole owner Of the Press, until Sep
TENDER. 1912. when 1t was bought from
him by Mr.. Frank A. Munsey, who In
July. 1919. amalgamated it with THE
SUN, ever shining for all with brilliance
and power. OLD GUARD.
NEW YORK, September 23.
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UNANIMOUS VOTES.
A Defect in the League Covenant Ex-
posed by Polish History.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: 1
am under the impression that in the
Constitution of Poland, as II existed as
nation, there was a provision for a unan-
imous vote in the national assembly be-
fore any legislation could be passed, and
that, as a result Of this provision, the
assembly was deadlocked on every i'm
portant piece of legislation and on every
reform. As a consequence, the Govern
ment was powerless to transact business
and the dlslntegration and disruption Of
the Polish nation speedily ensued, rem
dering it an easy prey to partition by It's
neighbors.
The analogous provision for a unani-
nous vote now embodied in the consti-
tuition of the League of Nations as a
prerequisite for action by that body un-
der at least some Of its most important
articles appears to me an inevitable
earnest of the leagues ultimate failure.
Neither nations nor individuals can be
expected to vote against what they con-
slider their own interests, and one mega
tive vote necessarily invalidates all af-
firmative votes, precluding action by ill.
EDWARD b. WELLS.
NEW YORK, September 90.
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A NEW LEAGUE ARGUMENT.
VIII Reservations Mean Another
Great Expense Account

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Str: II
some of you editors and a lot of United
States Senator'S had any brains you
would cease )bstructing a ratification Of
the interviewer.
wonder II our noble and self-sacri-
tcing President couldn't Intervene
something like the following into one
of his logical and grandiloquent speeches.
He might say:
1T cost this country a million and n
half dollars for me and my retinue to
go to Paris and return. Should the
treaty be amended we shall all of us
(and perhaps few more) have to go
over there again.
My fellow taxpayers, It is up to you
to say whether that other million and
a half shall be saved or not.
May 1 not ask you to cipher this out
at your own Preside. where the deepest
emotions of my heart dwell with your
lApplause.1 ONLY ONE.
WARRINGTON, September 23.
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A Day Not to he Celebrated.

This Is the flftieth anniversary OF
Americas first and most picturesque
and scandalous Black Friday, the cul.
mination of the mad speculation In
gold by GOULD, FISK, and their associ-
ates. How comparatively tame Wall
Street is now may be made plain to
the youngsters by quoting from the re.
port written for the House Of Repre-.
sentatives by JAMES A. GARFIELD, who
was at the head of the investigating
committee;
THE malign influence which CAT
lime welded over the reckless and
abandoned youth of Rome finds fit-
ting parallel in the power which
FISK carried into Wall Street. when,
followed by the thugs of Erie and
the debauchees of the Opera House,
he swept into the gold room and de-
fed both the Street and the Treas
ury. Indeed, the whole gold move
ment is not an unworthy copy of that
great conspiracy to lay Rome In
ashes and deluge its streets in blood
for the purpose of enriching those
who were to apply the torch and
WELD the dagger"
That paragraph must have pleased
JIM FISK immensely, even though he
knew nothing about CATn1NE. he
took the wreck more brazenly than
GOULD, who whimpered a little:
~ did not want to buy so much
gold. hae to buy or else to back
down and show the white feather. 1
was forced into It by the bears SELL
ing out"
Not the truth, of course, and n
clumsy lie. 1t would have been much
oilier to have said that he was put.
ting gold up to save the heart of the
world from breaking.
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Germany's New Trade Triumphs.

While American workers by hun
dreds of thousands are throwing away
their tools or for the most part only
playing with them, the workers of
Germany are digging for all they are
worth. The more testimony we get
on the revival Of German production
and the renewal of the German hunt
for foreign markets, the palmer 1t
becomes that, unless American pro-
ducers get back to work on the old
basis of hard ticks and big results we
are doomed to a trade invasion by
the nation which less than a year ago
seemed TO be crumbling under the
guns of FoCH's allied armies.
Already the markets Of Great Brit
ain are being penetrated deeply. From
London HERBERT n. CAssoN sends to
the Wall Street Journal some hard,
cold facts as to the German toys, hard
ware, stationery, pianos, buttons and
novelties now filling British shops.
The predicament Of the British toy
industry is especially significant. Be
cause Of those gagged in it-wounded
>and crippled veterans Of the war-it Is
unusually moving.
Before the war, according to Mr..
CAssoN's reports, there was no toy
industry whatever in Great Britain.
Now more than 1000 firms are in
the business, with AN Association of
British Toy Makers organized as far
back 'as 1915, one year after the war
began. There are 100000 persons at
work in the industry--chlehy disabled
soldiers. Their toys never have been
a good as the German toys which be-
fore the war commanded the British
market. Yet these inferior toys now
manufactur in the United Kingdom
cost to produce not merely more than
the German toys sold for before the
war; they cost much more 10 produce
than the German toys that are offered
for sale right now in the streets OF
London and other commercial cities
of Great Britain.
One British firm, as specified by Mr..
CAssoN, is demanding $5.04 n dozen
for a certain line of mechanical toys
which are delivered to British retail
ers by German dealers. at $500 n
dozen. For the matter of that, Ger
man exporters are under such compul-
sion to convert their stocks into cash,
are so determined TO regain their lost
markets, that the German toys
which were formerly disposed OF in
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G.. o. P. TO IGNORE =
REORGANIZING PLAN
Bureau Reconstruction Ideas
Seen as Needless.
Special Despatch TO TIE Sun.

ALBANY, Sept. 23.-Republican heads
OF departments It was stated tonight,
have a quiet little agreement to pay no
attention to the recommendations of
Gov. Smiths Reconstruction Commission
in regard to a reorganization OF the
various departments and bureaus CT the
State government Consequently none OF
them will be represented at the hearing
in the Aldermanic Chamber In the City
Hall In New York tomorrow. although a
few Of them may send brief letters to the
committee stating that they are not In
sympathy with many. II not most. of the
recommendations.
It was declared tonight by one OF the
Republican department heads that he
and most OF the other State officials in
Guiding a few Of the Democrats, see no
use In wasting time talking about the
reorganization plan in New York when
most of the suggestions contained in Il
were written into the proposed constitu-
tional revision in 1915 ana defeated by
almost 100000 votes % the referendum.
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Ad Nauseam.

This utterance of President Wrr.soN
at Reno refers to the Senators who
decline to follow him blindfold to
Geneva:
IF they ever feel the impulse CT
courage instead of the impulse Of
cowardice, they will realize how much
better It feels"
And this eliminating utterance, also
at Reno, presents President WILSON'S
I conception of the courage and nobll-
, lily of his own personal attitude to-
ward his League project:
Answering those who fear that
the League will get the United States
B into trouble. want to get into any
! kind of trouble that will help liberate
mankind. 1 don't want to be always
thinking about my skin or my pock-
etbook or my friendships"
His skin! His pocketbook HIS
friendships
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cERMANYs CHINESE PACT.
An Ignored Clause in the Original
shantung Agreement.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN---sir: Con-
oerning the award Of Shantung to Japan
the major argument In support has been,
BADLY, germany had It, and China is no
worse of because japan gets 1t from
Germany"
But this Ia not true, China had OBJ
tanned from Germany one ameliorating
condition. No one refers to that one
point as to which China succeeded in
inducing Germany to grant her one
favorable condition, slight though 1t was.
II is the existence OF that one condition
that destroys the argument that Ger
many's grant to Japan Is q mere lawful
transfer Of what Germany had acquired
and could dispose Of. Ia It conceivable
that the matter to which refer was not
noticed by our delegation at Parish 1t
must have been overlooked, for no one
who knew Of IL could have had the hardi-
hood to both represent this country and
yet agree TO Germany by the treaty
transferring her Shantung rights to
Japan. The one favorable condition for
China in her Shantung treaty with Ger
many reads as follows (Part 1. Artl-
Gle ", p. 21):
Germany obligates herself never to
lease over again to any other Power
the territory leased by China"
1t is therefore clear as MONDAY that
in signing treaty in which Germany
does lease over again the territory
leased to her by China we would not be
parties to a passive but to an. active
wrong.
Humanitarianism, what immoralities
find shelter under your cloak
CHARLES STEWART DAWSON.
NEW YORK, September %.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Public hearing on tentative draft Of
rules governing storage and use OF fuel oils
and construction and Installation II oil
burning equipment. Room sl9 Municipal
Building, 10 A. NJ.
New York Electrical Show, Grand Gem
trail Palace. II A. VI. to IL P NJ
Debate on the League OF Nations, Hamil-
ton Holt affirmative. Leslie VI, Shaw
negative, Marquette Club, Hotel Plaza
s p. NJ.
Meeting OF the Board Of Education
Park avenue and Fifty ninth street
P. NJ.
GEN John F. Organ will speak On
"Compulsory Military Training In the
scheme of National Defence" New YorA
Chapter American Association OF Enp'
neers, Hotel McAlpin, s 7. NJ
Or. p. o. Orville will lecture on ''beata
and Blindness Caused by Wood Alcohor'
Hotel Majestic, p. NJ.
Dinner under the auspices Of the con-
Granada No. %, Daughters Of Isabella
Hotel Commodore, 7. NJ.
Barbara Frietchie Post, American Legion
dance. Hotel Pennsylvania. P.
Kiwahis Club luncheon, Hotel McApA
p. NJ.
war Camp Community luncheon, HOta
McAlpin, l p. NJ
American Association Of Engineers
meeting, Hotel McAlpin, "
Worlds Cotton Conference, Hote! MOAB
pin. all day.
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London at s2O.1e a gross are now
offered at S15 q gross.

London at $2O16 a gross are now
offered at SIS a gross.
An inferior quality Of children's
linen picture books made by an Eng
lish firm Is on the London market at
S1.92 a dozen. A Leipsic firm is Of
fering the same article in London for
~ cents a dozen. There are eighty
doll making plants In Great Britain,
but German dolls are now offered at
half the British price. The German
producer, In other words, is going to
drive the British producers-those
crippled veterans Of the war-out of
business, even though he must cap
ture his market by selling his goods
at lower prices than were obtained for
them before the first shot Of the war
was fred.
If British made toys, produced by
disabled soldiers, for whose workman
ship the sentiment and sympathy Of
humanity should create q market II
sentiment and sympathy ever created
market for anything, cannot stand
up against German competition, what
ordinary articles of competition can?
If British toys, British stationery,
British hardware, British pianos. Brit
ish general merchandise cannot sell
against German competition ten
months after the war, what reason on
earth is there to suppose that Ameri-
can articles in similar lines can fifteen
or twenty months after the war;
Cutting American hours to the dan
ger point, decreasing the volume Of
production and increasing the cost Of
production, will take American mar
kets away from physically able Ameri-
can wage earners who won't deliver
their best work just as surely as
British markets are being taken away
from those physically disabled pro.
ducers who cannot deliver 100 per
cent. Of work.
There isn't country on earth that
can touch the United States on normal
cost Of production in its normal com
petitive fields when the American pro-
Queer will put into his work every
ounce Of effort that is in him. But
there isn't commercially organized
country in Europe, doing Its level
best, that cannot beat the American
producer hands down, that cannot tear
his market away from him and eat 1t
up. If he will not work as he knows
how to work.
The German people have got %
work to keep their heads above water.
To swim out of their sea of troubles
they have got to labor as they never
before labored-and they always have
labored hard and well. For yenrs to
come, at the best we can do, with our
capital and our labor at top notch or
ambition and efficiency, the Industries
Of this country cs1 the labor in those
Industries must face the trade COM
petition, right here in our own mar
kets, of the desperately determined
German producer and trader. At any
thing less than that best our markets
both mt home and abroad must be
swallowed. chunk after chunk, by Ger
man competition. Our wage earners
must lose their jobs in droves.
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$4,000 TO AID IRISH FREEDOM
Kings County Democrats AuIhO''
izc Presentation.

The Democratic executive commune 's
of Kings county authorized yes'efoS'
the presentation of $4,000 70 o"o
Friends of Irish Freedom. The EluU,V.s,
represents part OF the proceeds OF o'U ,.a
parties and other entertainments E,'.
on behalf OF the Irish cause throNsAV.,,
Brooklyn during the past summer 4,
soon as other funds realized come =,
they will be given over to tho Fr.ehus
Irish Freedom. Public Works Con,H ~,
sioner Joseph A. Guider Is head o, -"
subcommittee in charge OF the ma'lu ,iy,
All OF the officers OF the eNr'IH,
committee were reelected for the en'1
ing year. John II. McCoccy Is asa,,
chairman. Julian y. Falrchlld treas ~,
and Frank V. Kelly secretary ,Ss
McCooey in IN address dwo't unon ,DII
Importance OF the present campaign a ''v
declared the outlook TO be eNTe.I'r..
favorable. He urged, however "swon,
efforts be made to register 80" "a.
vote. Plans OF organization NeT' W.
sidered.
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The special articles in the october Man
scvs have wide variety as well as interest /:
1.-THE Arab In Peace and War" by Frederic
Austin Oggi "a Vindication OF the Bour-
geoisie" by Richard lie Gallienne; THE
Great Revival OF Outdoor Sport" by Jo-
soph villa; "shall We Ever Be Able to Visit
the Moon7" IVY Charles Nevers Holmes
and civilian Shakespeare as Baseball
Fan" by Charles Veatch. The short stories
are by Clarence Nelly, Pierre Louys, W. NJ
Rouse, Robert ]. Horton. Jim Egan, Lydia
N. d. O'Nell and Marion MoCrea. A new
serial. The Last straw" by Harold Titus.
10 begun. 1.-THE Wild Fawn" and Brokers
n Adventure" are continued.
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Conservation of natural resources
is a thing of such loneliness 1t is not
easy to name other things compar-
able. Loading wheat in leaky ship
or storing corn in a rat infested crib
might satisfy some with a desire to
illustrate it's beauty and usefulness.
Congress-, being informed that the
country's railroads are suffering in
upkeep for lack of ties, proposed an
investigation with the purpose, If
possible, Of finding a substitute for
the wood used for ties. Then upspake
Mr.. JOHNSON from the great forest
State of Washington. saying, 81 think
any investigation that will be made
will be a useless procedure. In the
great State of washington and IN
Oregon and Idaho there is timber,
billions upon billions Of feet, rotting
for lack of use-all locked up in
forest reserves" Conserved
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A State Reform Upon Which Lead
ers of Both Parties Agree.

Whatever opposition the report or
tie Governors Reconstruction Com
] mission smay encounter when 1t is
presented to the public in the AL
dermanic Chamber this morning is
not likely to come from the leaders
of the two great political parties. In
the main, the simpliticatiOn of the
: administrative machinery which Mr..
/, ELKUs and his colleagues recommend
has had the Endorsement of eminent
Republicans and Democrats.
Nine years ago a Republican Gov
ernor, Mr. HUGHES, recommended to
itlie Legislature administrative re-
organization and consolidation. He
expressed his belief that RESPONSE
billty should be centred in the Gov
ernor, who should appoint cabinet
of administrative heads, accountable
to him and charged with the duties
how devolvcd upon elective State Off
GERS" The result of this message was
the introduction in the Assembly, In
1910, of a bill providing for the APP
pointment Of all State officers except
, the Governor and the Lieutenant
Governor. This measure failed.
The Republican State platform of
1914 declared for a reduction in the
number of elective officers and recon-
ricnded that the various admlnistra-
five functions of the State be vested
ia a limited number of departments.
1.-THE present duplication of effort and
expense in the public institutions Of
the State" the platform ran, SHOULD
BE- remedied by the establishment Of
a simpler and better organized sys-
tenn" The Democratic platform Of
the same year recommended the CEN
tralization Of power in the Governor
In the Constitutional Convention
OF 1915 the Hon. ELIHU RooT declared
that the existing system was an ain
visible government" by which, in spite
Of the elected officers, the political
bosses continued to rule the State /:
"When we refuse to make one Gov
eruor, elected by the people, the real
chief executive we make inevitable
the setting up of a chief executive not
selected by the people, not acting for
fhe peoples interest but Cor the self
ish interest Of the few who control
.he party, whichever party II may be-"
In a report presented to that con-
vention for the Committee on Cover
nor and Other State Officers FRED
ERICK G. TANNER said:
THE purpose of the committee has
been to provide for systematic plan
Of departmental organization; to
simplify and coordinate the admins
trative machinery OF the State; to
subject every executive agency Of the
State government to practical accoun-
liability and TO fix responsibility for
the execution OF the laws"
Here We have a succlnct statement
or the important recommenda tons of
the Elkus report The more closely
the findings of Governor SM1TH's
Reconstruction Commission are exam
ined, in so far as retrenchment and
reorganization in the State Govern
nient are concerned, the more evil
dent 1t is that the Commission has
not deviated much from the main pur-
pose of the Republican platform of
1914 or from the amendments along
Inc same line which were drawn by
the Constitutional Convention of.1915.
The Indictment of to-day against
shiftless business methods, waste and
- y
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Observing the absence of the silk
Stars and Stripes for many years
decoratively draped above the Speak
er's chair Mr.. CLARK of Missouri arose
to a question of privilege in the House
and asked, What has gone with the
flag that usually hangs over your
head?" The answer by Mr.. Speaker
GnLErr was, at has been taken down
to be repaired" This being the fact,
II seems after close examination of
the question that the Speaker should
have replied, 1T has gone with the
seamstress"
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with Apologize. to Wordsworth.

i met a little cottage maid
with eyes as blue as heaven,
I asked. "How many may you bef"
She answered. I'VE are seven"
But some are dead and some are gone"
then rejoined complaining.
"Pray tell me how your figures show
So many are remaining"
"woodrovian arithmetic"
She answered me demurely.
"If one vote counts the same as six.
Then we are seven surely"
MdIARpBuHaH wnsoS.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In
THE Sun on Monday you printed the fol-
lowing. telegraphed from Los Angeles by
one of your STAFF correspondents; mot
Senate vote will be changed. people
say, by this tour. costing the Government
something like 100000"
Is 1t true, then, that the Government,
and not Woodrow Wilson personally,
paws for this talking bout? d. C.
YOUNGSTOWN, N. j. September 2S.
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Tn. pecislon Of a Great DIarnostlelan.

DT, beUeFFV HVU'"SO" W "'UFV"E HoVVu'
Fordyce Barker was prominent as an
obstetrician in the hospital and among the
wealthy, He was the ordinary family
phyaIcian Of the Aston and other we'll
known families. Barker was ever most
genial and whole .souled. on one occasion
when a dealer in wines was Wanting the
great value of California wines. he simply.
after a few moments listening. put his
hand on the mans shoulder and said with
his raucous voice, My friend. French
wines are good enough for me-"
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Because 1t Costs So to Live Here.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: The
salary OF Supreme Court Justice in
New York city Is S17,50O. Why is it
only $4,000 in the rest of the State?
GEO. KANE.
New York, September 90.