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COL. FOREMAN HEADS LEGION.
Executive Committee Formed for
Veterans Organization.

The formation OF a permanent execu-
tive committee OF the American Legion
has been made In Paris. according 10
word received by Lieut.-Col Eric Fisher
Wood, temporary secretary, with Offices
at 10 West Forty fourth street Lieut.
Col. Wilton Foreman OF Chicago was
made chairman of the committee and
Col George II. White OF Portland, Ore,
secretary. The body is composed OF ono
officer and enlisted man from each com
bat division and each section OF the
a. +. f.
Representatives will he sent homo in
May TO confer on the proposed conven-
ton In Chicago November II. when the
veterans organizations at home and
abroad viii be amalgamated. Lieut.
mittes.
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MINIATURE ALMANAC

Standard Time.
Sun rises. rs A M sun sets. :....TpP NJ
Moon sets .:....t $40
the ns new sorss sias siP a;ms ne. been e0'
For eastern New York. rain to-day.
warmer in east portion; Tomorrow
cloudy and colder, probably rain in cen-
trail and north portions; strong south
to southwest winds
For New Jersey. rain ana warner s to-S.y;
strong south and southwest vfnds
For northern New England. rain to-day.
coider in IN News .H H.mpshir. and Ssrmonti
strong south and southwest winds
For southern New England. rain and
and colder on The mainland; strong south
and southwest winds.
For western New iorH; rm to-cs.;
lion; strong south and southwest winds,
gales on Lake Erie
WARRINGTON. April ie~-Ips esv@1
western disturbance u csntr.i ss-nl3n9
p MSn,.n Ttn SS /: ~. r.
.a.twsid rfs..ur. Z siso again ssiiinF
over .r An rsa, and !. Tisins rapidly % as
psn. State. sns x. oM sa' va.
except IN the south Atlantic States. Penssst,
light iia rain. over Northern districts west q
s eod.r F0S IN tns ssntrsi v..y
and the east Gulf States snd warmer In
the pG%' ' Il: Rocky MSsn. r re- T.
I Atlantic a st.,ss toii OH ~ s.a.r:,is t.
s vs.1 n0asa ; AND ss. ..,s Cub
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The Capture OF Odessa by the
BOlsheyikl.

The announcement by the Moscow
Government a few days ago Of the
capture of Odessa has been confirmed
by the French commander Of the al
lied forces in southern Russia. The
passing Of this important Black Sea
port into the hands of the Russian
Soviet Is said TO have caused consid-
cradle anxiety in western Europe.
The principal reason, perhaps, for
this Is the fear of the moral effect
that such a success will have at a
time when the forces OF LEVINE and
TRorzKY are endeavoring to win cen
trail Europe to Bolshevlsm.
Odessa has changed its garrison
with every phase of the war in the
past. 1t was attacked by the Turco-
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NEXT SUNDAYS DUTIES.
Ways to Lessen tho Risors Of the
Safe CracAfng Campaign.

ways 70 Lesson tho Bi9ors OF the
Safe Cracking Campaign.
10 THE EDITOR or THE suN--Sar: Lot
the cfvio educational and reform or
eanisations get ready for the safe blow
ing which must be expected on Sunday.
The Merchants Association should
send Q COMMITTEES to ash the safe
blowers not TO litter the streets with
torn paper money.
Tho Society for the Suppression Of
Unnecessary Noise should supply extra
blankets for the nitro-giycerine mon to
wrap about the safes.
The Parks and Fairgrounds Associs-
ton should plead with che robbers to
set the safes down carefully on the park
grass.
II the poiics must have . part IN the
AFFAIR. let them be sought BY . Joint
COMMITTEES Of the Explorers Club ana the
New York Microscopical Society and. II
found, be turned over TO the New York
Association for tho Blind
FRANKLIN wARKnN BARCLAY.
NEW YoRK. April 10.
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Doesn't Association Sometimes Make
an Ugly Thing Beautiful

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Why
rolnstate an unsightly old fence around
Bowling Green simply because it hap
pened to be there during the Revolution?
A thing OF beauty is a Joy forever, but
n thing OF ugliness is a pain. This pres
ervation OF old memorials having moth
ing In themselves attractive has been
carried 10 a ridiculous extreme.
NEW YORK, April TO- WYE lie BEAU.
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President Wilson on Jefferson.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SvN---Sir: April
L. will be the birthday of Thomas JEFF
fcrson. May 7 suggest that tho Demo
cratic Club print on Its dinner card on
that day the following quotation from
Mr.. Wilson's History OF the American
People" (volume ", pages and -:
"Mr Jefferson, an aristocrat ana yet
philosophical radical. deliberately
pract!sed the arts of the politician and
exhibited oftentlmes the sort OF lrsia-
certify which subtle natures yield to
without loss OF essential integrity"
FLABBERGAsTED.
Nuu Van, An,u
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Northwest Kansas Has Worst April
Blizzard In History.

ArcInsoN, April 10.--Snowdrifts west
Of Downs have demorallzed service on
the railroads in the northwestern part OF
Karsas. A passenger train and n snow
Plough are stuck in n drift eight feet
deep and half mile long near Downs
Railroad men say the storm Is the worst
ApriGblizzard in the history OF that sec
ton.
In Nebraska wire communication is
badly crippled and railroad traffic Is al
most at standstill on account Of sleet
and snow.
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BURLESON AGAIN.
Now He Seems to BE Making 1t
Harder to Buy Thrift Stamps.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Str: Don't
you think II should be made easier for
people to invest In Thrift Stamps? At n
time when the Treasury Department Is
IN need OF funds and Is spending money
TO advertise War Savings Stamps the
post Offices through the country are
making It harder to get them.
AS rule they are sold only at money
order windows. these being located
sometimes on upper floors. Just tonight
desired to change a Thrift Stamp card
for a War Savings Stamp at tho SYRIA
cuse office and was told the money
order window closed at o'clock.
This to me seems all wrong. It is a
waste OF money to advertise them IL the
stamps cannot be purchased at all
times @. Il. B.
SYRACUSE, April 10.
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MirsOuri's Troubled Political Future.

From the Montgomery County Leader.
There Is n great deal OF speculation as
TO what politics will be like after prohibit
tion goes into effect. VIII It be like a
county fair without takers. like a circus
without peanuts, like dance without
music, or a picnic without anything to
eat1 How is a fellow going to know how
to vote II he can't ask the candidate
whether he is wet or dry? What excuse
can fellow offer for getting defeated
when he can no longer blame II on the
fact the other fellow used whiskey? II Is
certainly going to be hard on politics when
the booIeless age comes
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Speaking Of the unprecedented wheat
surplus which faces this country, our
nelghbor the World says:
The Governments guarantee OF
sac = bushel would mean q total
approximatins $4,000. 100000 Tor tho
indicated winter wheat crop alone.
II there were to Be no unusual for
eign demand Tor the huge surplus
above home consumption which 10
promised. the cost Of this guarantee
TO the Federal Treasury would be
enormous"
But there can be no cost to the
Treasury which is not q cost to the
American people, who must all up the
Treasury as 1t Is drained. whether by
wheat spendings. railroad spendings,
ship spendings, wire spendings or any
other spendings. In any event, the
public pays. In any event, the loss
is the public's.
The cost Of the American wheat
glut to the Treasury. therefore, isn't
the question at all. The question is
the cost to the American people,
who foot all the bills that are run
up by the United States Government,
whether in copper pennies or IN Treas
ury warrants for billions. The ques-
ton is how to hold down the loss to
the public.
There never was a more extraordl-
nary point Of view than the notion of
the Government Food Trust that, at
ter 1t has taxed the American people
to pay the farmer the Governments
guarantee Of s2.26 bushcl, then It
shall again tax the American people
with On inordinate price for bread to
make the Treasury appear to be
avoiding q loss. There never was q
more impudent proposal than that for
every dollar the American public is
taxed to pay the Governments wheat
guarantee 1t must be taxed four
dollars more to make the Treasurys
wheat books balance.
Anybody must be as blind as a bat
not to see that the American people
would be infinitely better of to take
a direct and final loss Of half billion
dollars or a billion dollars In the
guarantee paid to the farmers above
tho true economic value Of the wheat
than to take loss Of four or FIVE bill
ions of dollars In the famine prices
they are compelled to pay for all foods
because the Government to get back
its wheat guarantees to the farmers.
jacks up and holds up the price Of
everything to eat-and in a year Of
the greatest abundance Of wheat and
Of all food products in the history Of
the country.
1t would be cheaper for the Ameri-
can people to pay the farmer outright
through the Treasury, three billions OF
dollars for his wheat and then let that
wheat go on the market under the law
Of supply and demand without the
Treasury ever getting n penny of the
money back. 1t would be cheaper for
the American people by billions Of dol
lars than to go on paying two and
three prices for bread, two and three
prices for meat products, two and
three prices for dairy products-two
and three prices for everything that
100000 consumers in the United
States must eat l., keep body and soul
together.
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1t was in a statement by Won HERT-
LIMO that Belgium was compared to
n pawn; the analogy still holds true !;
the pawn makes the last move and
the king is checkmated.
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Timely Definition OF tho Monroe
Doctrine by q French Student
OF American Politics.

The people Of America ought to DO
grateful to STEPHANE LAUzANNE, the
editor of the Matin Of Paris, for stat
ing so clearly and frankly the case
as to the Monroe Doctrine.
Monsieur LAUzANNE has sojourned
long enough in the United States to
understand the Monroe Doctrine In
all its aspects and to know the Amer
can conception Of its contents and i'm
pfications as thoroughly as any citi-
zen Of our own country. He Is like
wise sufficiently familiar with the ex-
tent Of European ignorance Of the
same subject, even amtug statesmen
and publicists over there, to perceive
the desirability of Qualification at this
critical 5uncture in the CESSATION Of
the League Of Nations.
So Monsieur LAUZANNE clarifies
with vengeancel There comes from
his informed mind and fearless pen
no nonsense about the perfect COM
patibility Of European interference in
this hemisphere and the fixed Ameri-
can policy which forbids such inter
ference. He does not attempt by soph-
istry Of logic or juggling Of words
to represent the abandonment Of the
Monroe Doctrine as merely it's extern
sion and perpetuation- He goes
straight to the heart of the matter:
EITHER the League of Nations ex-
tends to the entire world. in which
case Europeans would violate tho
Monroe Doctrine in ming1ing in
American affairs. or the League OF
Nations is confined to Europe, In
which case America will violate tho
Monroe Doctrine by mixing in Eu-
ropean affairs"
The definition is as timely as It is
trua The application to Article VIII.
and Article X. Of the proposed consti-
tuition, as read by President WILSON
TO the plenary session of the Peace
Conference on February IA, and by
him brought over on the George Wash
ington for the information Of the Sen
ate, is plain as q pikestaff.
when that treaty comes back"
said President WILSON less than six
weeks ago at the Metropolitan Opera
House, "gentlemeb on this side will
find the covenant not emily in 1t, but
so many threads of the treaty tied
to the covenant that they cannot dis
sect the covenant from the treaty
without destroying the whole vital
structure. The structure of peace
win not be vital without the League
OF Nations. and no man Is going to
bring back a cadaver with him"
Tho interesting question now Is
whether a man is going to bring back
with him a treaty interviewer with q
covenant which violates the Monroe
Doctrine, thus booming the treaty to
become a cadaver when 1t reaches the
United States Senate
But that is not all that is clearly
perceived in the Mdtin Office and ut
tered therefrom in unequivocal Ian
guage for the information of all con-
cerned. Replying yesterday to the
indirect threat Of President WILSON
TO take ship and come home without
covenant or treaty unless he has his
way in the conference, the Paris
newspaper gives notice that France
intends, league or no league, "to make
Germany pay, TO be assured against
future invasion of her eastern from
tier and to have the Saar valley"
Still speaking In the hypothetical
sense. what is the situation If neither
the President nor Monsieur CIEMES-
cEAU Is "bluflng"?
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VI me women VINO TOOK mems
places in factories during the war
what proportion received as much pay
as the men whom they replaced
About one-tenth, II we may Judge
from the figures collected in New
York by tho State Department Of La
Dor, which made an investigation in
many manufacturing plants and re-
ceived from a large number OF en-
ployers statistics on the comparative
wages Of men and women.
A census Of $40 women who had
replaced men showed that GAIT, or
SO per cent, received between &c and
IS per cent. Of the wages that had
been paid to their male predecessors.
Thirteen hundred women, or nearly
II per cent Of the total. received less
than two-thirds as much pay as the
men. Less than one-tenth received
equal pay.
Was It that the women's work was
not as efficient as the mems or their
productivity as great? The testimony
taken by the Labor Department
agents does not indicate that the mat
ters Of product and price were re-
lated as they should have been. In
group of lob women who produced
more than the men they replaced 75O
received about IS week less than
the men had been paid. Only 1os re-
ceived more than n per cent. Of the
pay that the men had drawn. Not
one received within a dollar a week
as much as the men.
Then the women who produced less
than the men whom they replaced
must have drawn very small wages
indeed? Scarcely, II at all, smaller
than the more energetic women who
outdid the men The largest group
Of women who took mems Jobs and
produced less than the men were paid
1913 per cent Of the mems wages,
while the largest group among the
women who surpassed in productive
power tho men they followed received
only 76.4 per cent Of the wage paid
to the men. On this point the bulle-
tin Of the Industrial Commission is
frankly critical:
women producing less tnan men
are penalized in earnings no more
than are women producing more than
men. 1t makes little difference
whether n woman produces moro or
less than q man. The wage rate re-
ceived does not vary with her pro-
duction."
The Commission sought to learn
whether employers were generally
satisfied with the women whom the
war sent into their plants. Four-flfths
of the plants questioned reported that
the women were so satisfactory that
"men would not necessarily be rein.
stated when they were again avail
able" Seven out Of eleven mama e-
ments retained every woman replac,
ing a man; yet" says the bulletin,
"in no case does a woman producing
more than man receive as much as
a man doing the same work in the
same plant"
In one plant which had installed a
profit sharing system It was found
that women's production was one.
fifth higher than mems, yet the men
received $21.60 week while the
women drew only $14.50; whereas
says the Industrial Commission, the
women should receive S26.50. In a
foundry where women act as inspec.
tors they handle twice rs many
pieces as the men, but receive $4.5G
week less. "Were their wages reck.
oned on the mems average for the
same work." the bulletin says, "they
would receive $39.42 week instead
of s15.12."
The Industrial Commission wishes
TO dlsabuse the public mind Of the
impression that most women wal
workers received between $40 and So
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To-day Baby Peace is Ave months
old and anxious relatives are still wait
ing for the first tooth.
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A Yarm Patriot,

The Guli-Maybo now the statesmen will
appreciate that I've been chasing Reds all
these years,
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Encouraging the Arkansas school Ma'am.

YWsa correspondence Meier Springs H,ddii0hi.
Mr, John Arant and wife are boarding
the school teacher. She has quite nice
walk through the mud TO her school
The sun., 1919-04-11

As a saddler Herr EBERT does not
seem to have fashioned a very secure
seat for himself.
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DemobiIlzed Spirals.


Tho Puttee-Im out OF q job
The Corkscrew-I sympathise with wv
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London onsos, t0-<s Flest street..
Paris once. . Rue de ID HichodisrA on
Rue du ouatre eeptembre.
Washington once, Munssy BUILDING.
Brooklyn ONCE. Room 202, Eagle Buf1d-
ing. BOB Washington street
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~ ow ffends Dho fdcor - tosfA fsans-
ecvtpfs and AIustraffons for publication utsh
10 h1ve rejected articles returned they nsast
ID az cases sead stamps for that psrposs.
TELEPHONE, BEEKMAN ZOO.
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sun Printing and Pubiishlng Association,
80 Nassau 81. Borough OF ManhsttAn. N. \.
President, Frank A. Nunsey. 100 Nassau It !
ioe-President. Erwin wardpan; Secretary.
r. H. Titherington: Treas. VIM T. Dewart,
all OF 100 Nassau street
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LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.
EVENTS TO-DAY.

fiIBHebt ttIHpeThtuF6, 30, NJ ~ r, -.
Lowest temperature. +o. at A. n.
Average temperature, <S.
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THE EVENING BUN, Per Month 80. .so-se
THE EVENING SUN (Fordgnl Per No. 160
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TRAIN STUCK IN sNoWDRIFT.

New YORK, April 10.
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hooks AND THE BOOZE WORLD
Canada. .u.bo Othsr oountriss. :. 200
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Subscriptions By Mail, Postpaid
Ons Six One
4 Yoar Months. Month.
DAILY 4 SUNDAY. $1,000 $500 s1.0o
DAILY only. ......-.. 800 400 10
SUNDAY only. 500 1.bo 40
CANADIAN RATS.
DAILY SUNDAY. $1,000 fSyO0 1lyoo
Daily only. ......... 500 400 10
SUNDAY only ....... 500 $50 80
goRuoN RATES.
DAILY q SUNDAY. .s74.00 $500 SS-fg
DAILY only. ........ 1900 300 I60
SUNDAY only........ zoo <.50 .7s
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-04-28

| When the Roman Emperor
Heraclius returned to Constanti-
nople in triumph in the year 629,
bringing with him the true cross
recovered from the Persians as
the visible symbol of the recon-
quest Of the wealthiest provin-
ces of the empire, it might have
seemed to almost any one that
the peril of the State which at
that time comprised almost all
of European civilization was at
an end. For four centuries the
Persians had been the invetera-
te enemy, a cotinuing and power
full menace more serious than
the recurring in roads Of barba-
rians in the Balkan Peninsula.
Within the last few years the
menace had been at it's height;
Persia had overrun and occupied
Syria, Palestine, and Egypt; her
army had for years been encam-
| ped within sight Of the capital
itself; more than one it had see
med that the Roman power must
inevitably go down. And yet,
thanks to an unprecedented out
burst Of patriotism, to the loyal
cooperation of a whole people,
and above all to the military ge-
MUS of a brilliant Emperor, the
menace had been put aside for
ever. The Persian armies had
been not only beaten but annihi-
lated; the Persian King was now
little more than a vassal of the
Roman Emperor; the war was
over, and complete victory had
been won. The world breathed
freely again, just as it did last
November.
Yet within seven years-those
were days when Time and ar
mics moved more slowly-Ro-
man armies were going down be-
fore a new and unexpected
enemy, who presently had occu-
pied all that the Persians had
ever held and more, too. The
provinces that had been rescued
from Persia were lost forever
to the Saracens, and once more
Rome was fighting for it's life
against a still more terrible foe,
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-04-28

PARIS.-In highquarters, ques-
ton is being considered of bring
ing some form of joint statement
bringing out the fact that Pre-
mier Lloyd George and Premier
Clemenceau have agreed with Pre-
sident Wilson on five other pha-
ses of Italian problem.
NEW YORK. - Samuel Com
pers, President of American Fe-
deratiOn of Labor, assailed adj
ministratiOn of POstmaster-Ge-
neral BurlesOn in statement issue
today stating that the must walk
the plank sooner or later;
charged him with carrying out
archaic autocracy policy in con-
duct of postal telegraph and
telephone service of United
States.
COPENHAGEN. - German
steamship ''Imperator" will
proceed to CuXhaven today to
take on bunker coal and from
there will be turned over to AL
lied according to Berlin Tage-
blatt.
WASHINGTON. = Navy De
.partment announced that non
stop fight of 20 hours and 10
minutes was made at air station,
Hampton Road, yesterday April
25th. Seaplane was driven by two
Liberty engines and covered ap-
proximately 1 $50 miles, carried a
crew of four. Wind velocity be-
tween twenty and thirty miles
per hour.
| INVERNESS, Scotland. = In
vestigation today of encounter
between local policy and Ameri-
can seaman last night showed
that incident was not serious.
three POLICEMEN we're slightly
hurt in fight.
EDINBEURG.- German war
ship interned at ScapeflOw were
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-04-28
THAPPENED BEFORE

Twho had swallowed up what was
left of Persia, who came very
near overwhelming the victor
of the earlier struggle along
with the defeated.
The new enemy was of a diff
ferent sort. He fought Holy
war she had a new and seductive
religion which knew no COM
promise; he regarded the lives
and property of unbelievers as
forfeit to the devotees of the
true faith, to be won by them
if they had the power. The war
against Persia had been a sort
of crusade, for the Persians had
national religion bitterly anita
gonistic to Christianity; but it
was only national religion,
appealing to few but Persians.
The new religion that came out
of the deserts of Arabia called
to every one; it offered obscure
spiritual benefits to those dis
satisfied with the compromises
and partial successes of their
own faith; it held out an abun-
dance of gross material prom
ises to the less spiritually mind
ed. 1t regarded infidels as the
natural slaves of the true belize
vers, toward whom no faith need
be kept and no mercy shown.
But an infidel could become a
believer and share in the benefits
by protesting faith, fighting in
the armies of the new religion,
and according unquestioning
obedience to it's autocratic head.
Heraclius, the conqueror of
the Persians, did next to moth
ing against this new menace.
His army of occupation on the
frontier fought bravely, but was
overwhelmed, and neither Empe-
ror nor people. made a very Sc
rious effort to recover what had
been lost. The provinces which
had remained Roman in senti-
ment even during the Persian
occupation embraced the new
religion and presently became
loyal to the new ruler; for they
had their own dissatisfactions
with the Government at Cons