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Evening journal., 1919-09-02
COMPLAINANT ASKED
FOR HIS DISMISSAL

At The request OF Guda AngelletiNthe
prosecuting witness, Nicholas Nisco0nl
was dismissed by Judge Churchman. in
Municipal Court this morning, on a
charge OF assault and battery.
Niscount was accused OF punching
Angelleti, breaking his glasses when he
is said 10 have refused to take on his
hat while the national anthem was be-
ing sung at a sing" at seventh and
Lincoln streets several nights ago.
Evening journal., 1919-09-02
RETURNED FROM FAIR
In POLICE PATROL

Colonel and Mrs George W. Sparks.
Mr.. and Mrs. William b. Megear and
Charles 4. Rudolph returned from the
State Fair yesterday afternoon in a pO-
lice patrol when a trolley car they were
on met with an accident at Cleveland
and Lancaster avenues. The police
patrol had responded 10 The scene on
an ambulance call and not being needed
the above party returned TO the city
in IT.
Evening journal., 1919-09-02
UwANIANs MAY ATTFN DFAIR.

The kiwains Club will meet in the
dupont Hotel tomorrow for the weekly
lunchean. The entertainment commit
tee consists Of Kenneth Horner, II. II.
Nesblt and John D. Thompson. Among
the subjects to be discussed is a
"A Kiwains' Day at the state Fair"
Evening journal., 1919-09-02
VOLUNTEER CHIEFS TRANSFERRED.

Adiuiant and Mrs. Louis Boss. who
have had charge OF the work OF the
Volunteers OF America In this city
for The past Ave years. will leave VII
mingion tomorrow 10 take charge OF
their new appointment az Paterson
" j. During their stay in this cit,
they made many friends.
Evening journal., 1919-09-02
PIONEERS TO ENTERTAIN.

Tomorrow evening win he 'Ladlos'
Night with the Benevolent Pioneers
Literary Association. Several recltd-
tlons win be heard and general social
time VIII be enjoyed.
Next week the association VIII start n
tournament. A smoker VIII take place
the following week
Evening journal., 1919-09-02
TWO CHlRCFs ACAINsr MANY

Mary Jones, Negress. was held in $500
bail FOR a hearing on Friday on charges
Of improper conduct and larceny Of s.
by Judge Churchman IN Municipal
Court This morning. Mary asked fcr
the continuance.
Evening journal., 1919-09-02

The Want Ads of This newspaper arc
the sure result bureaus for those seek
ing new positions.
The sun., 1919-04-06
TWO SUNDAY PASTIMES.
Baseball Fans and Movie Fans Are
Looking to Albany.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir: The
action OF the Senate at Albany in pass
ing the Walker bill permitting Sunday
baseball II the local authorities allow
II, and the Thompson bill giving local
authorities power to permit Sunday
movies undoubtedly has the approval of
a considerable part OF tho public. The
fisht is not over yet. of course. for the
bill. now go to the Assembly for &C
ton. but II Is believed that the measures
have a fair chance OF passing.
The question of permitting baseball
on Sunday Is an old one. and has been
up before the Legislature previously. but
the measure has always been defeated.
This was probably due in part to the
fact that It was not stipulated in these
bills that power should be given to the
local authorities to say whether Sunday
bu seball should be permitted. The
Trainer OF the present bill was wise
enough to see that only by making this
stipulation would his bill have q chance
OF passing.
are calling to the players and spectators
alike, the open air moving picture the
aires are beginning to show signs Of ac-
tivity, the neighborhood boys have al
ready selected their favorite peek holes
in tho fences. and everything Is in readi-
ness for Sunday baseball and movies.
NEW YORK, April 6. FAN.
The sun., 1919-04-06
William Crookos.

Sir WILLIAM CnooKEs, who died on
Friday, laid the foundations, so to
speak, for at least large part of two
Of the most useful inventions Of the
nineteenth century. 1t does not de-
tract one whit from Mr.. EDIsoN's
glory to say that CRooKEs, in dlsre-
gardlng Natures traditional abhor-
renee Of vacua and so improving the
air pump that he made an almost per-
feet vacuum possible. swept from the
American inventors path one of the
great obstacles to the production of
incandescent electric light. If CRooKEs
had not improved the Sprengel pump
1t might have taken EDISON a great
many more than fifteen months to
place an almost perfect electric lamp
before an oil ridden world.
The other work Of CRooKEs which
led to beneficial invention was the
tubes which bear his name. From
these tubes, as ne experimental with
them, X-rays must have been emitted,
yet he missed them and 1t was left to
RoENTGEN, years afterward, to an
nounce the discovery Of this valuable
type Of radiation.
The sun., 1919-04-06
New York,s Furniture Makers.

Everybody with proper respect for
good workmanship will be glad to
read what the Merchants Association
says In bulletin about the furniture
industry of New York, for Its pros
perity Is based on the labors of crafts.
men of skill and conscience. New
York Is third among the furniture
manufacturing cities of the United
States, its production being exceeded
by Chicago and Grand Rapids, but in
the manufacture of furniture of the
highest quality 1t has no superior.
This furniture is made chiefly in
small factories of two types, one en-
ploying from fifty to one hundred
workmen and the other from fifteen
to twenty wOrkmen In the busy sea-
son. In the factory of the second
type the proprietor is likely to be the
most skilful workman in the place,
and he works at the bench with his
employees. The workmen have many
of them served long apprenticeship
In the best furniture centres of Europe.
They are familiar with the finest
examples of the furniture makers
art, and possess the skill needed to
reproduce them.
Altogether these small shops pre-
The sun., 1919-04-06
April 9, 1917, April 9, 1918.

Two years ago to-day the Congress
OF the United States, exercising it,
constitutional function, declared q
state Of war to exist between the
United States and the Imperial Ger
man Government.
This resolution followed an address
to Congress delivered by President
WILSON on April ., 1917, In which the
President said:
with a profound sense OF the SOL
emn and even tragieal character OF
the step i am taking and OF the grave
responsibilities which 1t involves, but
in unhesitatlng obedience to what I
deem my constitutional duty. I ad-
wise that the Congress declare the re-
cent course Of the Imperial German
Government to be in fact nothing less
than war against the Government
and people OF the United States; that
1t formally accept the status of bel
ligerent which has thus been thrust
upon It and that II take immediate
steps not only to put tho country in
a more thorough state OF defence. but
also to exert all Its power and en-
ploy all its resources to bring the
Government OF the German Empire
to terms and end the war"
The sun., 1919-04-06

we must expect for this whole year Of
1919 is fixture to earn the rentals
alone by upward of seven hundred
millions of dollars. And what man In
his senses will ever dream that Gov
eminent operation, with It's career Of
financial wreck and ruin, will ever
come within n million miles Of max
ing the progressive improvement In
seasonal earnings made by the roads
under private management?
So what Government operation OF
the railroads is costing the American
public in the direct tax Of about a
billion dollars a year in passenger nnd
freight rate increases and the in
direct tax OF about three-quarters Of
a billion q year in rental deficiency,
which also must como out Of the
pockets Of the public, is approx
mately one and threequarters billions
Of dollars year.
And meanwhile tho service goes
more and more to the dogs, the prop
critics head faster and faster for the
scrap heap. the national back bends
more and more under the load--and
all the promise the American people
get Is worse and worse yet to come /;
for this story Of the smash under Gov
eminent operation Of the greatest rail.
way system In the world has only
begun.
The sun., 1919-04-06
The Fight for tho Classics.

There has been, perhaps, no briefer
or moro cOgent summary Of the rea-
sons why tho study Of Latin and
Greek should not DO abandoned in the
modern scheme of education than is
presented in this paragraph from an
address by Dean WEST Of Princeton
at the annual meeting Of the Classical
Association Of the Atlantic States ut
Haverford College yesterday:
They are fundamental TO our ma
tional language and TO other impor-
tant modern tongues They arc
demonstrably an agency OF tho frst
value for training the young mind
to clearness. exactness and thorough
ness. They are Of great help in pre-
pairing students to master all other
studies. whether scientific, profess
eional. technical. historical. literary
or artistic. Their literature 10 full of
the noblest impulses and Is admit
teddy tho greatest OF all foreign lit
erAtureS. lHelT HIslOTy 10 tHo Acy
to all history and 1t records the
origins OF our own civilized liberty.
Justice and democracy. To omit tho
classics would therefore be to destroy
a main part OF the foundation Of our
modern knowledge"
If any advocate Of the total ex
tinction OF the classics as a factor OF
education can present his case with
equal force, in equally good English
and in not much more than one hun
dred words, we shall be glad to put
the condensed argument alongside OF
the foregoing product Of Dean VESTS
loyal enthusiasm and then let intelll
gence compare, weigh and decide.
The sun., 1919-04-06
What Is Wrong In New Jersey Is
Right In North Carolina.

The editor of the Dispatch of Will
mington, N. c.. PARKER r. ANDERSON,
found himself in quandary last Oc-
tober. Then a Democrat, Mr. An
DERsoN wished to support the candi-
dacy of the Hon. FCnyIFoLD NJ. SIM
MONS for reelection to the United
States Senate. No cloud fell upon
this Wish until late in October, when
Editor ANDERSON saw in the papers
that President WILSON had written
to Mr.. CHARLES O'CoNoR HENNEssY,
Democratic candidate for Senator
from New Jersey, letter reading in
part as follows:
May I not say how deeply inter-
ested I am in tho contest you are
conducting? cannot but feel that
in ignoring my earnest appeal with
regard to the suffrage amendment,
made in tho public interest and be-
cause OF my intimate knowledge of
the issues involved both on the other
side Of tho water, and here. Senator
BAIRD Mr.. HENNEssY's Republican
opponentl has certainly not repre-
scented the true feeling and spirit OF
the people Of New Jersey. ! am sure
that they must have felt that such
an appeal could not and should not
be ignored"
Editor ANDERSON had qualm. Here
he had been supporting the Hon. FUR
NIFoLD NJ. SIMMONS against the Re
publican JOHN NJ. MoREHEAD because
he, Mr.. ANDERSON, was strong for the
Administration yet 1t came to him
that Senator SIMMONS was in the
same bsat with Senator BAIRD so far
as the suffrage amendment was con-
The sun., 1919-04-06
POEMS WORTH READING.


never thought that I could wish the
time of childhood brief.
But II should DO a gradual Spring, with
slow unfolding leaf.
With airy pipinEs heard afar-of blue
bird In the sky;
And now. a violet In the grassland now,
tho grass grown high.
For I myself remember well such spaced
and golden days
Their measure I could scarcely NIL with
pleasures and with plays:
30 long some happiest day could stretch
that evening tide was DEAR,
But. II the day were touched to srisf II
measured as q year!
o little children of tho world whose day
was touched to grief,
II 10 your broken chiidhood's time thst I
would have be brief;
20 hasten to grow UP Il osil). o hasten
to forget
You little ones who in the cyclone path of
war were seti
The Spring was snatched away from you.
Its tender hopes were killed;
The chipping music in your breasts . how
ering Terror stiiied :.
Ana now, you do not care TO search. II
blooms one violet.
o children, hasten to grow MP. ana hasten
to forget.
Through scarcely rifted battle nnirk their
faces I can see.
what aging looks In wide young eyes 10
seem to answer me:
I'VE are grown up--ws are grown up; but
how shall We forgst7"
o little children Of the world. alas. that
10 not yet!
EprrH NJ THoMAa
The sun., 1919-04-06
Our Limited Acceptance or 81
Earlier League Of Nations.

This question comes from werners-
vile, Pennsylvania
WAS the United States . sigma
tory to all the articles at tho con-
ference OF The Hague. or only to q
part of them. OWEN wIsrER, In his
'Pentecost Of Calamity seems to
think that we were sisnatories to all.
Kindly let US know. NJ. e. NJ"
Mr.. WIsTLR was mistaken II such
was his belief.
The series Of treaty engagements
formulated at the first conference at
The Hague, in 1899. consisted Of three
conventions and three declarations,
besides the final act.
OF these seven articles the United
States signed and ratified only two
without reservation; namely, the con-
vention with respect to the laws dnd
customs Of war on land and the
declaration prohibiting the launching
Of explosives or projectiles from bal
looms The main convention, relating
to arbitration, 1t signed and ratified,
as is now generally remembered and
understood, subject to the broad res
ervation relating to the Monroe Doc
trine and interference in European
affairs. 1t refused either to sign or
to ratlfy the declaration concerning
asphyxiating gases. This refusal. as
THE SUN has explained, was inspired
by Captain MAHAN.
The series formulated at the second
Peace Conference at The Hague, In
1907, consisted Of thirteen conven-
lions, one declaration and final act.
The United States was signatory to
all but three Of these several instru-
ments, but with the Monroe Doctrine
reservation affirmed, as before, In con-
nection with the initial convention.
The United States failed to sign three
Of the series. 1t ratified or adhered
to eleven Of the fifteen, with express
reservations in three cases. 1t failed
to ratify four.
This numerical statement shows the
extent and circumspection of our &C,
ceptance of the articles constituting
that earlier League of Nations for the
preservation of peace. Our negotia.
tors did not sign all that the confer,
ence proposed. Our Senate did moi
even ratify all that our negotiators
signed. Discrimination was exercised
both at The Hague and in the Scna t.
chamber at Washington.
And so 1t must always be with
treaties binding the nation to new
policies and new responsibilities.
The sun., 1919-04-06
EVENTS TODAY.

rsyshG; Physolosical Enec, i Of Music Sn Tia as
"e aadr ratytnfth street. 80 p NJ.
on, On Victory OF Masonic Fraternity," Cen.
.ras., congregational Church. HANCOCK
Prof. TS omas' : IS 81, vu, 49,.
on The Irish Question in Its Economi,
AAs . ,o1 az st. John Chrysostom's School
s Bronx. ie'' ? street street and Hoe avenue. The
,oi DR.; WIN pnrant will lecture on Dos.
and , Second avenue, ! +. M N. street
Govepnm.n l.; Moran VII speak on city
ton road, 8 p. N street. ana BIOS
,. prof George W. Bovine will deliver .
sse 'iSp Society. lOl West 125th stre.t.
,,a Presentation Of service nag, to twenty
bureau ,'d y OF the Government Loan oPxsnIss.
''o M. hippodrGme. p. NJ
A1meriean Organizations OF BrookIvn And
\ 'f,hity' Forty-seventh Regiment Armory,
Capt. Walter f. Thompson OF IN, a-,,.
SS y,aqi.r n the University Heights Pres.
lslst street The Bronx. s p NJ enu
~ rank Bohn will speak on Democracy
School H ii'oo GU Ganmor. in Amsrica Pubic
S SirS,okI E under auspices of the Brooriyn
pendent, Order B'nai BTith and the i Imcs'
tutional Synagogue a public oeIebrat;on
VII y.r., he hsId in honor Of the second ami sn
II ne world war at the Mount Morri,
irInestre, ll6th street. corner Fifth avenue
The Rev. Richard II. Tierney will, ,n...
On OF, me smith educational bill ana in on
pos Rro 70 1t az the annual breakfast Of
be hold at brooklyn College Rogers ave-
nue. ann Carroll street Brooklyn
Lsssuo of Nations' at st. ': Msrk 2" in r:
nS. zenith street near Second ave-
league league Of Nations and Riecardo o" csrdi'
and W.. speak on "Anctent Barbarism
tionSl Alliance. sll East 1l6th street. $50
0r 4 concert ,s Of Jewish music will b. held
syna goRue. Community Building Audi,or'
; .i'G Ie2d street and Southern Bouievsrd,
sesa Eidridge will speak on .-rn.
prs nSn u u Practical Poiitlc.," Cooper
Dinner in honor o, Mrs. Fisk. ur,.-
tho auspices OF the society Of Arts un ans
sciences; Hotel Biltmore, p. NJ
On rh Ike Hey, William !. sullivan will talk
coming Age" All Souls Unitarian Church,
shaw Desmond will lecture on "n.,
mark During the War" Rumford Hail, So
East Forty hrst street, p NJ
A. r Clearwater will lecture on "Am.r-
lean silver" Metropolitan Museum Of Art
p NJ Va ''
Reception and dinn.r to the Mizrschi
delegates TO the London Zionist Confer
ence. broadway Central Hotel. $3.50 p NJ
Metropolitan Museum OF Art; Lectures,
study Hour for Practical Workers :"
Grace Cornell. 2:so p. NJ; story Hour
In the Land OF the MinotRur" Anna C.
Chandler, 3 p. NJ
The Greeks OF New York will ceiebrats
the ninety-eighth anniversary OF Greek
Independence. Lexington Theatre. p. NJ.
The Rev. Herbert Shipman will talk on
The Y NJ. c. A. in France" Church OF
the Heavenly Rest. Fifth avenue. near
Forty-hfth street. p NJ.
The sun., 1919-04-06
Anniversaries.

Ten years ago today PEARY reached
the North Pole. This put a damper
on one branch of adventure that had
tempted mankind ever so long, maybe
since CoPERNICUs began to be read.
After PEABy's accomplishment the
psychological explorers came further
into their own, with their fascinating
attempts to find, by dash across
the SHOWS Of human weakness. the
short cut to Altruria. One idealist,
who started with compass Of Four
teen Points, has got as far as Paris.
One hundred and thirty years ago
to-day the first President Of the United
States. a man whose views on the re-
lations Of the United States with the
rest Of the world were respected by
twenty-five of his twenty-siK success
sors, was chosen through the count.
ing Of the electoral vote by the first
Constitutional Congress, sitting that
day for the first time.
Two years ago to-day tho United
States recognized tho fact that state
Of war existed between this country
and Germany, and the Congress
pledged "all the resources Of the coun-
try" ito bring the conflict to sue
cessful termination" The successful
termination has not been reached, It
having been delayed by the interjec-
tion Of an Interior subject. discussion
Of which in Congress IL prevented by
the refusal Of the President to call
the Congress together.
The sun., 1919-04-06
cerned. And IL the President opposed

cerned. And IL the President opposed
BAIRD merely for his opposition to the
suffrage amendment, would he not
also be against SrMMors2 The per-
turbed editor thereupon wrote at
length to the Hon. JOSEPH p. TuM-
uLrY, secretary to the President,
laying his problem before him and
closing the letter thus:
DO you care to say whether the
President holds the same views to-
ward Senator SIMMONS that he does
for Senator BAIRD? Tho people down
this way are very much interested TO
know and the Dispatch II ready to
follow the Presidents views in this
matter, even to tho extent Of espous-
ing tho cause OF Mr.. MoRrHEAD
should the President believe he would
better serve his war aims than Sem
ator SIMMONS, though we are person.
ally very friendly to the North Caro-
lima Senator and viii support him.
as We have in the past. unless such
support would hamper the Presidents
war aims"
The response from Secretary TUM.
ULTY was prompt, at least to the ex.
tent that the telegraph is swifter than
the malls nowadays, and his Telegram
to Editor ANDERSON, while 1t failed to
touch upon the matter Of the suffrage
amendment, was a blanket indorse-
ment Of Senator SIMMONS:
sTHB WHITE HOUSE, wAsHINaror.
Nov. I. 1918.
PARKER r. ANDERSON, The Dispatch,
Wilmington, ". c.:
In reply to your inquiry in letter
of the soth ultimo. am glad to say
that Senator SIMMONS has been an
effective friend OF the President As
chairman Of the Committee on Finance
no has handled in admirable fashion
soms Of the most constructive legisla-
ton Of the past six years
az. p. TuMuLry."
This interesting correspondence I,
only now made public by the editor OF
the Dispatch, who wishes to make Il
clear why. since November 8 last, thu
Dispatch has been an Independent
newspaper. while the President
wanted Republican defeated because
he voted against woman suffrage
summarizes Mr.. ANDERSON, "he heart
lily indorsed Democrat who had com
mltted the same offence against the
White House"
The sun., 1919-04-06

sent almost ideal conditions for doing
good work, and the output is declared
10 be Of the highest quality. OF the
S13, 100000 worth OF furniture esti-
mated to have been made in New
York in 1917 more than one-quarter
consisted of pieces built to order from
exclusive designs 10 At the particular
places they were to occupy in rooms.
mo attempt is made to save costs
through the use Of veneers or inferior
woods. Veneers are used. only In
places where good construction re-
quires them. In some cases the core
Of the veneer Is made Of the same
wood rs the exterior. Inferior woods
are never used In backs, drawer bot
toms or other unexposed places The
lumber is chosen for the quality of its
grain and the beauty Of its color"
But there is one thing about the
Industry that one would like to
change. To make furniture Of this
kind Is an expression Of art, and the
man who makes It Is an artist, not n
mechanic. The work Is SO fascina ting
that amateurs engage in 1t as a pas
time; vet 1t becomes more difficult
each year to get skilled workers of
native stock; the labor supply has
been kept up by immigration, chiefly
from Italy, Austria and Hungary.
The son Of the furniture maker does
not follow his fathers calling in spite
Of its attractions.
The explanation Of this situation
may possibly be found In the wage
scale. According to the Merchants
Associations bulletin the pay in 1917
rarely exceeded 60 cents an hour, and
the average was around As cents an
hour. A man endowed with the in.
Intelligence, inspiration and tempern.
ment required to work out a dream
in mahogany should easily be able to
earn a higher money reward in some
other occupation.
So in another form the old cues.
ton arises: Does art pay?
The sun., 1919-04-06

II shall take the liberty OF sug-
eestlng. through the several execu-
tive departments OF the Government,
for the consideration OF your commit
tees. measures for the accomplishment
of the several objects I have mem
toned I hope that II will be your
pleasure to deal with them as having
been formed after very careful thought
by the branch OF the Government
upon whom the responsibility OF con-
Quoting tho war and safeguarding the
nation will most directly fall"
We have reproduced these salient
passages from President WILSON s
address Of April 2, 1917,
to recall to our readers the absolute
With which on that his
toric day the President recognized the
constitutional function OF the Con
gress, and his proper appeal to Sena-
tons and Representatives for their
helpful cooperation in the prosecution
OF the war.
Comparison of this unlmpeachable
attitude toward the Congress in 1917
and the attitude of secrecy and con.
cealment toward the Senate of the
United States which has characterized
President WILSON'S negotiation Of the
peace treaty and the constitution he
proposes for league Of nations which
the Senate must eventually pass upon
cannot be other than interesting to the
American people on this anniversary.
The sun., 1919-04-06

Lady LONDONDERRY is reported to be
devoting time, energy and lots Of
pluck trying to induce British ma
irons to employ their women domes-
tic aids on an eight hour a day plan.
The pluck is chiefly required to meet
matronly objection TO giving "below
stairs" women two hours q day of for
outings, that time not to be deducted
from the eight hours OF service. Lon
don employers are the chief directors
to this, but It is only in London, with
its common fault in dwellings of dark
and unventllated kitchens, that the
great need for these airing hours
exists. Even in this country. where
dwellings of servant employers usually
have light and ventilated kitchens, the
eight hour plan for household en-
ployees might prove to be something
of a solvent for the hired help"
problem.