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UP-HUDSON CAKES.
Indiana Memories OF Albany Dough.
nuts and Crullers.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. What
do Pittsburg folk. Long Islanders and
other foreigners know about crullers
real thing, impaired to my home town,
New Albany. by a lady of the Annesley
family Of old Albany.
The cruller was made OF cake dough
cut in small oblongs. with two slashes
or a knife In each cruller and narrow
strip OF cake dough interlaced; it was
fried in hot lard. drained free of grease
on clean brown paper and sugared with
powdered sugar.
Doughnuts made by the same fair and
gentle hands were also of cake dough
cut in rings with the hole IN the centre
the round piece cut out--which gives
the name to the doughnut. being round
like a nut when cooked---was also fried
like the cruler and busted with pow
dered sugar.
The raised doughnut doubtless hailed
from elsewhere, New England perhaps
and Ia not TO be mentioned in the same
breath, being often sour or too porous
and spongy. Long live the old Albany
cruller and doughnut
We had n Saturday baked little round
cake called a sugar cake. similar to the
cooky OF to-day. cup cake dough, sugar
sprinkled over the top. baked In a hot
quick oven. Also ginger cakes. pie par
size. slashed Off to break in squares
Ike the Scots national sweet bread.
These German ginger cakes in their
pie pans were ranged to cool all along
a stone wall which edged our summer
kitchen In the basement. And through
the board off the fence" many sugar
cakes travelled to be exchanged for the
Canadian Annesley crullers and dough
nuts.
Our supply Of good ginger slabs filled
o tall brown stone Jar in our brick floor
cellar and were expected 10 last til
the next Saturday. Sugar cakes were
kept In a smaller stone jar IN an old
time closet built into the winter kitchen
All these cake goodies date from 1850
The caraway seed cooky hailed from
Bangor, Me. A Bangor sea captain
woocd and married Baltimore CIR
because she made such good cookies.
ANNEsLET's OLD NEIGHRoR
NEW ALB.Sr, Ind, May ..
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Arbutus in the South.

have been In the South.
And have known the sweet lure OF he,
mouth
That she sets TO the flute o. III. breeze
As II steals through the tops Of the trees
Through the tremuous crcsts Of the Pine
As the daylight declines,
And the breast Of the ives, wears n fold
As OF darodIl gold
have heard the gay mockingb!rd sing,
A-llght or awning,
Its medley OF robin and thrush
And wren in melodious Rush
When the dawn is a poppy that blows,
And my senses have swooned with tn,
scent
OF the bloom Of the Jasmine that ben.
Overhead, swayed and swung, and spilet
out
It's slumberous altar about.
But rot these touched my spirit as one
Little spray that looked M n the sun
by the edge OF wood, frail and shy,
with Its blossoms OF delicate dye
Like the heart OF the whorl Of a she'll
The arbutus! ah. such was the spell
or It's beauty and fragrance to mo
That Il stirred memory.
And led mo along
Like a song
ny n path in the hills far away
Where. meath the Aprilian day,
Tho Arbutus grows
by the snows'
Just a night OF the mind, and a R'eam
or Youth. and an old v.-nal dream:
but more than the bird and the vine.
And the nute OF the wind IN the pine,
Aye. than all of the lure OF the mouth
OF the dangerous South!
CLINTON SCoILIpn
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TRADE BRIEFS.

The naturalization Of the port OF ST.
John. New Brunswick, appears to be as
sured II is reported that the Governmen,
IL about to agree upon the city's apprRise
mcnt Of the harhor properties Mt $4,000,
600 This will mean elaborate improve
ments at once and will place St. John
among the great ports OF the Dominion.
One South African tanning concern has
largely increased its output OF upper
leather by the Introduction OF special
machine.
The value OF the declared exports from
Caibarien. Cuba. to the United States in
1918 was sl0.4T5.o73 being slight de.
crease compared with 1877 sI8.s2o. goo
owing to the difference in the value OF
sugar xported-slO,3 5i.0s4 in 1918 and
$40, .027 in 1917,
A company which will erect ship.
building yard in Ronneby. Sweden, was
organized In January with q capital OF
S1,oT200. The yard will have two bertha
In which vessels up 20 5000 tons dead
weight can bo constructed. The company
will also have n noating dock.
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LUSITANIA DAY.
A Suggestion for Memorial Services
in All Parts OF the Country.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: on
the initiative of the American Rights
League. and following the precedent OF
the memorial service held on May Z.
1918. in Trinity Church, this city. under
the auspices of the patriotic societies to
mark the anniversary OF the tragedy of
the I.usitania. the fourth anniversary OF
the Lusitania sinking will be marked on
Wednesday, May Z, next by an impress
sive service in the Cathedral of st. John
the Divine.
1t has been suggested to the bishops
and other heads of the larger religious
denominations in the city and country
that they should arrange for similar
services In their churches on that day
and it is thought and hoped that there
will be n wide response TO the suggcs-
ton. as the precedent OF last years SER
vice was Endorsed by the press OF tho
country.
The making OF Lusitania Day one to
be forever marked is not to perpetuate
hate or bitterness. but in memory of
those who were lost on the fated vessel
and to mark the moral entry OF America
Into the great war.
The service IN the Cathedral on
Wedne sday, May 7. at 4 80 =. NJ, will
be made possible through the coopera-
ton OF Bishop Greer and will be con-
Quoted under the auspices or the patri-
otto societies, and its details will he
arranged by general committee to be
composed Of one member from each So
ciety, all of which will send delegates to
the service The public also will be
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Why Congress Is Needed.

Congress will be in special session
within Il few weeks. 1t is needed
needed for more things than the Sem
ate's deliberate consideration of the
Peace Treaty and Mr.. WILSON,
League of Nations
The whole branch of our Legislative
Government is needed in special SEES
sion, is needed urgently, is needed
desperately, to clean up the war bills,
to take care of the demoralized tele-
phone and telegraph service, to repair
the railway wreck, to salvage the
shipping situation, to revise the tax
laws and to put the Government on
its financial feet.
The special session of Congress is
needed to provide for the industrial
security of this nation. 1t is needed
TO safeguard the American people from
economic invasion which may sub
merge them. 1t Is needed to protect
them from wild domestic policies
which threaten to make them pay
famine prices for their bread when
the country is about to be flooded
with Incompatible tides of wheat
Government programmes which spend
public moneys in Unreasonable vol
ume while the value of the Taxpayers
dollar goes down and down under
these policies and programmes which
hold their cost of living up or send
), higher.
The special session is needed to save
the American people not only from
what influences abroad would do to
their national humiliation and injury
but what is being done here Mt home
~ their present damage and, If It is
permitted to go OH much longer, ia
their future ruin.
For the good of the American peo-
pie the new Congress cannot get down
10 business too soon.
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Divorces In 1916.

Three Investigations with respect
to marriage and divorce have been
made by the United States Govern
ment. The first covered the period
from 1867 to 1886. the second related
to the twenty years from 1887 TO 1906
and the third was confined because
of war conditions TO the single calen-
dar year 1916. In the report on this
third investigation which has been
published recently by the Bureau Of
the Census figures are presented
which suggest that greater attention
may have to he given in any future
study Of the divorce question to a
factor not considered of prime i'm
portance heretofore. These figures
relate to the growing proportion Of
the divorces obtained by wives.
OF total of 1OS,7O2 divorces in
1915 available for purposes Of COM
parisOn $50 per cent. were granted
to the wife, rs compared with 6I.5 per
cent in 1906; 81 per cent. for the
period from 1897 TO 1906, and 65S
per cent. for the period from 1887 to
1896. What relation. If any. these
/ figures bear II the increasing social
and economic independence Of women
there IS nothing in the Census Blu
reau's report to show. It Is plain
that If they do reflect this independ-
ence the changing conditions will af-
feet to still greater degree the fig
ures for the years subsequent to 1915
on account of the stimulus given by
the war to women's activities In bust
ness, industry and the professions.
| A somewhat similar suggestion Is
offered by the marriage statistics.
Thus, the increase In marriages In
/ 1906 over 1896 was 800 per cent. /;
but the increase in 1915 over 1906
was only 24.1 per cent. But nothing
like definite conclusion In the mat
ter can be formed from the facts
and figures available now. With mar
rlages rs with divorces, statistics for
/ n single year are mt the most only
roughly indicative of the actual sltua-
| ton, as special influences may affect
the figures more in one year than in
another.
There Is, however, one fact which
is again demonstrated by the present
report and in which New Workers
may take pardonable pride. This is
the States clean record In the mat
ter Of divorce. In 1915 there were
only thirty-two divorces for each 100
900 of New York's population, as CON-
pared with 112 for the whole United
! States, and New York city's record
was rather better than that for the
whole State. This record was ex.
celled only by South Carolina, which
grants no divorces at all, by the Dis
trict Of Columbia with thirteen d.
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them selfish pleasure to play will
anarchists.
No one Of them can plead that he
or she did not know what might come
Of the application to human affairs of
the doctrines with which they have
toyed. AS we'll might grown man
declare he did not know the danger
of smoking in n powder factory. Tor
tured Russia has warned the world OF
the awful consequences to humanity
of the mad radicalism these men and
women treat as a pastime.
They have refused to heed the les
son Of Russia, but they could moi
blind themselves to the wounds they
have inflicted with towards weapon
on two innocent women.
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Brigadier- General LoRp's letter ex-
planning the experiences Of the Direc-
tor Of Finance with Private ScHULz's
famous Liberty Bond clears UP this
matter completely and points the
straight road for all soldiers who have
not yet received their property from
the Government Let them follow
General LORDS instructions and their
troubles will be over. incidentally.
the fact that out Of the enormous
number OF bonds bought by soldiers
only about 1000 remain undelivered
Is greatly TO the credit Of the men
who had this difficult transaction in
charge. 1t shows that they devised
and put into operation an excellent
system for the protection of the bond
buyers and worked II skilfully; and
1t Is not cause for wonder that In
some cases mistakes were made.
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Lcnine in His Latest Impudence.

Battered from without by the loyal
Russians, menaced from within by the
outraged victims of its abuse of power,
honeycombed throughout with it's in.
sane social and economic theories, the
Eolsheyik adventure in tyranny tot
ters to its fall. LENINE. the dictator.
strives by fresh impudences to repair
the wreck of his plans and avert the
day of his complete downfall. To
FERDINAND Of Rumania, pressing on
10 Budapest at the head Of vic.
torlous army. perhaps to-day In pos
session Of the Hungarian capital, the
Russian autocrat sends word that he
must evacuate Bessarabia.
Petrograd has fallen to the. Firms.
The Bolshevik stronghold in the north
is gone. The enclrcling process is pro-
ducing the military isolation Of the
Red forces. In Petrograd Bolshevism
began its career of robbery, arson,
murder and worse. The birthplace of
its lunatic processes has been reduced
70 ruin by their operation, but its pos
session was important to the prestige
and power of LENINE.
The communist government set up
in Budapest by BELA kun on the
counsel and with money provided by
LEVINE Is crushed between disaffec-
tion within and the forces of Ruma-
Al Il IL,
he has sought to buy safety for him
self by Offering brides of territory To
the Rumanians. LENINE takes an
other tack. He knows no offer of
compromise from him would be con-
sidered by King FERDINAND. SO, amid
the falling ruins of the structure he
built on foundations of chaos. auda-
cious to the end, he displays his bra
vado, in the hope that by big talk
abroad he may postpone for a time
his inevitable fate at home.
LENINE Is not fool. He knows
failure and ruin when he sees them,
Whatever he may have hoped for in
Germany, he is aware now that Boil.
shevism has no chance there. When.
ever his agents have endeavored Ia
unseat German authority they have
been suppressed, in some cases with
out serious difficulty, in others will
disorder and loss Of life, but nowhere
with worse than temporary impair,
ment Of the authority OF the Ebert
Government. Only in Munich did the
followers OF Bolshevism succeed ir
setting up their'rule, and the Munich
Soviet. doomed by the advance OF
Government troops, has drawn nc
support adequate to its necessitle,
from outside.
The world sweep OF proletarlar
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The Navy Department is trying to
get rid Of the Oregon again, but this
time In a way which is not likely to
excite a public protest such as went
up Ave or six years ago when 1t was
proposed to take the gallant old
fighter out to sea and make a target
Of her. The Department offers the
battleship to the State fer which she
was named, to be maintained for his
torical purposes without expense to
the navy.
The Oregon's keel was laid in 1901,
and she was comparatively new
Ship when the war with Spain began.
Because of her race from San Fran
cisco to Key West in order to make
the American fleet theoretically equal
to the Spanish-one Of the Jokes of
war mnthematics-we think of her as
n swift goer, yet she rarely exceeded
fifteen and one-half knots on this To-
900 mile voyage. Her official rating
was fifteen knots, knot slower than
that of the newer and slightly larger
Kearsarge and Kentucky. Her steady
speed going around the Horn and her
remarkable readiness for action In
the fight at Santiago were largely
due to the fact that Captain CLARK
to save the boilers from scale would
not use them for condensing. The
Oregon went around the enemy's ships
like Il cooper around barrel because
her men had gone without the luxury
of fresh water.
Compared with the Tennessee,
launched at the Brooklyn navy yard
last week, the Oregon Is little piece
of machinery. She Is 34S feet long ;
the Tennessee, 624. The new mon
sters displacement is three times that
Of the old battleship's. The Oregon
has 1900 horsepower; the Tennessee
$4,000. The Oregon was equipped
with four thirteen-inch guns; the Ten.
nessee has twelve fourteen-inch guns
The Tennessee's electric turbines
shoot her along at twenty-one knots
an hour as compared with the Ore
CONS fifteen and a half.
Oregon ought to preserve the Ore
con rs memorial Of a great race
against time and furious fight at
the end of the race.
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these $4,000 miles in one lifetime Of
ninety-four years was a proud son Of
New York. a resident of New Jersey
and a patriotic citizen Of the United
States; in other words. a commuter.
His record Is a marvel which suburban
real estate dealers will Immediately
seize upon as convincing proof Of the
healthfulness and satisfaction Of COM
muting and of the longevity Of the
commuter as well.
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THE WEATHER
MINIATURE ALMANAC.
STANDARD Time.

Standard Tine.
Sun Uses. ...5 80 A NJ Sun sets....7;4 p NJ
Moon sets. IL AZ NJ
me foregoing table has been corrected TO
For Eastern New York-Cloudy with
showers to-day. cooler in south portion
tomorrow showers fresh east and
southeast winds
For New Jersey-Cloudy with probab.y
showers to-day and Tomorrow; someyhat
lower temperature: fresh east and south.
east winds.
For northern New Ensland-cloudy and
cooler to-day, probably rain; to-morro,T
ram fresh northeast winds.
For southern New England-Cloudy and
Sr, probably rain: tomorrow rain;
For western New York-showers to-day
and tomorrow; not much change in tenn
perature; fresh easterly winds.
WAsHINGToN. May s.-The promlnen.
eature of the weather map SATURDAY
night Is the low pressure system tina.
covers practically all interior districts
Win Its centre over Kansas. The pressure
the Atlantic coast. The weather IL CON
siderably cooler. with temperatures much
from the great lakes westward to the
Rocky Mountains. while warmer weather
with temperatures above normal. werc
general Saturday throughout the southern
half of tho country. There have been
rains In the last twenty four hours in
the region OF the great lakes, the upper
Mississippi Valley, the Plains States and
the northern Rocky Mountain region. Heavy
rains fell In parts of Kansas. northern III
nois. northern Indiana. southern Michigan
and the spring wheat States. Snow was fall
Ing Saturday night over the northwest por-
tlon of North Dakota. The outlook Is for
showery weather over the region Of the
great lakes, the Ohio Valley and the
middle Atlantic and New England States
Sunday and Monday. Fair weather vii
prevail Sunday and Monday in the south
Atlantic States and fair weather in tho
east Gulf States and Tennessee. Sunday
Will probably be followed by local SHOW
ers in these regions on Monday. MID
temperatures will continue in tho South
ern States and the ohio Valley. vhic
the weather will be cooler Sunday in the
Atlantic States north OF Maryland. TT.
weather will be cool in tho region o.
the great lakes. Storm warnings dis
played on Lakes Huron, Michigan and
Superior, except Sault ste Marie.
Observ atoms at United states Weather
Bureau stations taken at p NJ. yesterday,
seventy-hfth meridian time:
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The Soldiers Girllsh Mother,

We have always been willing to for
give the lapses of those artists who
pictured soldiers in the wrong sort of
uniforms, had rows of their heroes
shooting from the left shoulder or
such oddities They did no positive
injustice to anybody.
But the time is comet was ripe.
indeed, long ago-to file protest
against the pictorial representation Of
the Soldiers Mother. She appears on
the cover pages. in from two to five
tints; she is in the magazine section.
the advertisements, and she looks out
from the Examinations Of every other
story. Almost without exception she
is libelled in fashion peculiarly OBJ
noxious. We wonder that she has
not risen up and done something-or
somebody.
Here is one of the Soldiers Moth
ers greeting her Boy on the dock as
he comes over the side. For present
purposes it Is immaterial that Mother
couldn't have got there unless she had
run the gantlet Of an air-tight patrol
or enjoyed pull of Cabinet grade to
get the necessary pass. The essential
fact for the purpose of this consider
alton Is that the Soldiers Mother Is
presented as a soft-eyed. white-haired
old lady. when she Is nothing of the
Grant nd ", ~ bar oh hn ca
depicted: not Mother. The mother of
this homecoming army of ours is Il
young woman. In the snappy suit in
which she comes to New York to see
the boy arrive she Is girlish. The
artist does the soldier boy very cred
itably but why draw his great-grand-
mother into it and pretend that it's
his mother?
The mothers who are greeting their
soldier sons these days don't emerge
from their chimney corners and adjust
their lace bonnets for the occasion.
They powder their noses, but not their
hair. They are proud of the fact that
they haven't any gray hairs yet, and
don't intend to get any II they can
help it--and they think they know n
way. What the artists ought to do is
TO draw Mother from the models they
have been using for sister or sweet
heart. Mother isn't an old or an ell
derby lady; in most cases she would
be surprised at the intlmation TINT
she had passed into middle age.
These boyish soldiers OF ours who
broke up the war belong to youthful
mothers. who are going to teach the
boy the new dance steps just as soon as
they can get the photograph cranked
up, and who haven't the remotest no,
ton of even starting to grow old for
a long time to come. You can see tho
Boy and his Mother ripping of the
fox trot all along Broadway any
evening. Down with the libel of the
white-haired, elderly mother of the
soldier! She would be two genera
lions behind the times.
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New YORK, May 3

The association Of Canning with the
Monroe Doctrine arises from the fact
that when British commercial inter-
ests in South America were threat
ened by the Holy Alliances proposal
to reestablish the Spanish yoke on the
revolted colonies England through
Canning proposed to the United States
a joint declaration by the two govern
ments against such action. But the
principles involved in the Monroe Doc
trine. had already been stated by JEFF
ferson. Monroe, Adams and other
American statesmen. So that the
,, Monroe Doctrine is as American in its
origin as 1t is in its aspect as q ma
tional policy.
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Come back here. kid. you scallywaK,
You're always trying thus to lag
You stoutly swore at twenty years
You'd stick TO me through smiles and
tears
What's that' You don't like aging folk
SEQ you stili will have your Joke.
! scarcely yet have reached my prime
Great Scott! Youths gone for good thi,
timel
WILLIAM WALLACE wHirsLocK.
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THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
OF American Origin and Not Due to
Canning's Suggestion.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-.Sir: We
have been hearing a good deal lately
about the Monroe Doctrine and its ap-
plication to the proposed League OF
Nations. It has always been my idea
that this is purely OF American origin
and that President Monroe and his ad-
visers are entitled to the credit for It.
enclose for your inspection the fat
footed statement which appeared in the
Toronto Daily NeiCs of March I that the
Monroe Doctrine is really British and
is the outcome OF the suggestion Of
George Canning. one OF England's great
statesmen in days gone by.
II not too much trouble I should much
appreciate information as to whether
there Is any truth in this claim.
JUNIus II. STONE.
NEW YORK, May 3.
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The Weather Bureau has issued no
bulletin on the subject but IL the
army gets home by September and de-
mobilization is speeded up. we shall
have n dry summer and wet winter
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PUBLIC LECTURES TO-DAY.


organ Recital" Washington Irving
II. S, 40 Irving place, 3 p. NJ
China Pleading for a Chance" by Pro'
Robert McElroy Of Princeton University,
Public Forum, lol East nth street. wsst
of Lexington avenue.
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Were 1t announced that a man who
had travelled fourteen times around
the earth had died, and no additional
information We're given the hearer
or reader might jump to the conclu-
sion that It was globe trotter, n
cosmopolite who proclaimed himself
a citizen OF the world. But az a
matter of fact the man who travelled
The sun., 1919-05-04

The Peace Conference may expect
Germany to sign on the dotted line
but it cannot expect tho same Of the
United States Senate.
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The men who are still on the Rhine
are further tnsuring our military tri-
umph: shall we hesitate to do the
same for a financial victory?
The sun., 1919-05-04

Knicker-whats the Idea in feeding tho
Bolsheviki?
Bocker-we think they are too polite to
talk with their mouths full.
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London once, lo-43 Fleet street.
Paris office, Rue de la Michodiere. on
Rue du Quatre Septembre.
Washington ONCE, Munsey Building.
Brooklyn ONCE, Room "02, Eagle Build
Ing, 500 Washington street.
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LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS

The temperature in this city YESTERDAY
AS recorded by the official thermometer, 1,
shown In Inn cd tnhl
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