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in this way may be developed one or two
great poets, men whom perhaps we have
never heard of. Americana Yes, per-
haps, or English; what does it matter7'
Sea Fever.
Mr.. Harrington told Of the soldier from
Maine who in his loneliness abroad found
the cover of a technical paper with
picture Of a ship on it and who carried it
around in his shirt 1t was the only thing
he could find that reminded linn of home
"Love Of the sea is bred in the bone,
he smiled "You can't get away from it.
All that boy wanted was to get back
home, back to the sea-"
1t seemed strange that man from the
middle West should so like the sea that
it is one Of the puzzles of his life why
towns should ever be built four miles in
land when they could be nearer the coast
my family came from the coast" ex
planned Mr.. Harrington, "both branches.
| remember when was small boy going
out to the pond and making believe l
couldn't see across, trying TO believe there
was more water there.
Il like the people thereon the coast.
They are suspicious Of summer visitors,
but I have stayed so late in the winter
they seem to think must Like the place
and they have taken me in. have one
of them in play this winter. l hope he
doesn't see it One time l had a play
here and one of the old fellows was in
town. I sent him some tickets and the
next summer he began to boom away at
me way down the street rs soon as he saw
me.
"'Great play, fine, great" he rumbled,
and then asked him what he liked about
il.
"Why, I saw it the first time the cur
tain went up he said. She was right in
the middle, every stick and line Of her.
Knew her the first thing. The old North
Star. Great"
Il wracked my brain TO get what he
was driving at and then remembered that
the property man Lad dug up somewhere
along the waterfront picture of an old
ship, the North Star. and hung it on the
wall in The first act. That was all he saw
of the play, but it was enough for him.
"They come in and look at my ship
models and talk about them, supremacy
saving. l am full of ignoranccs," he said
with another Harrington smile, ''but I
am learning"
Periods Percentage.
1t had been held back as long as posi-
bic, checked by the pleasure Of hearing
Mr.. Harrington talk about Maine, but it
had to come out: How did he come to
write boy storiesf
IT wrote a book called The Flint once
and instead Of having an ordinary villain
it occurred to me to use a boy, preco-
cous, unusual Boy. l tried it and thought
l couldn't make it go; but Mrs. Tarking-
ton insisted I could, so I wrote the boy.
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Lieut. Charles Divine's poetry is meet
ing with great success in the French capt.
tai, and autographed editions of City
Ways and Company Streets tMoffa, Yard
s. Company have been sold for large
sums at charity fetes. Divine is now tenn
porariIy stationed in Paris.
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That was the first. Anybody can write
about boys" he added mildly.
Perhaps so, but at the moment one
could only recall Mark Twain, Thomas
Bailey Aldrich and one or two others who
were successful Mr. Harrington pro-
ceeded to elucidate:
81 haven't written about any particular
boy, nor even drawn from my own boy
hood / have tried to write about. lust
the average American boy who grows up
in the middle sized town. If YOU ever
want to write boy story, to get into the
story telling frame of mind, you must re-
member that the average boy goes through
every stage Of development in the history
of the human race. | should Judge that
he reaches the age Of barbarism at about
thirteen and half" he said with smile.
The Boy in the Man.
"A boy is nothing but savage, and
man is nothing but boy with lot of re-
pressions. | don't mean that the average
man wants to ride hobby horses, but his
impulses are just as direct and primitive
as the boys He has learned TO check
them, that is all.
1T didn't o@ur to me until began TO
write about boys, but | realize now that |
have always looked at men in an effort to
see what sort Of boys they were. | have
felt that if could get behind the man
and see the boys features l would know
the man.
Mr.. Harrington was leaning forward,
earnestly propounding his theory, and
you tried to recall some of tine worst in
cidents of an average disorderly beyhood
in the country But if he knew the worst
lie overlooked it.
Il didn't write boy stories for boys
particularly, but 1 have had some Won
derful letters from them, really won
derful There was one from boy In
Louisville. 1t read:
Teacher told us we must each write
You letter and she will send the best one.
Well, how are youl Yours truly
The creator of Penrod sat back and
chuckled joyously. The sheer despera-
ton of it appealed to him 1t was Pen
rod 70 the life, tribute to his eternal
veracity.
And so from boys to the sea captains
again, and back TO the war and what the
young men who have been lifted from
their little place in the world will be like
when they come back from over there 1t
was natural to ask the exponent Of Amer
lean family life what effect the great ad-
venture would have on them when they
get home; but Mr.. Harrington confessed
that he could only guess.
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The New World.

The one thing to be sure of IS that
these men and their descendants will be
the ones most TO cherish PATRIOTISM" he
said. THAT has always been so. There
won't be many Bolsheviks among them.
I remember when was boy Gen. Har-
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THE POST OF HONOUR. BY RECuAR,
Wilson. +. 7. Dutton & Co. sl25.
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in this way may be developed one or two
great poets, men whom perhaps we have
never heard of. Americana Yes, per-
haps, or English; what does it matter''
The sun., 1919-03-13

The death of SIMON STEINGuT
brings practically the end Of the IA
nous little Mayors Of the East Side.
True, JOE LEVY was chosen in STEIN
CUTS place as mayor" of Second
avenue at the last so-called election
for that unofficial and unsalaried
honor, but the Hon. JOE will always
be remembered better as Duke of Is
sex street and dean of the Essex Mar
ket Bar Association.
Two other powerful Mayors" of
East Side districts, AARON (Humpy)
HANOVER, ruler of Avenue a, and
Tom LEE, boss OF Chinatown. died
years ago, and II their places were
filed their SUCCESSORS have not risen
to distinction. None ruled as long as
SrElNarT, who was the benevolent
despot of Second avenue for more than
thirty years.
Happy potentates, these regional
Mayors" They knew all their citi-
zens and never suffered the pain of
having TO raise the tax rate.
The sun., 1919-03-13
A Telephone Deficit Also.

For years the American Tele-
phone Company, ably managed, wisely
financed and intelllgently mindful of
the peoples Interest, performed ad-
mirably work of prime national i'm
portance. It was not an infrequent
thing, it became habitual. for tele-
phone rates to be lowered. Yet all
the while the service constantly I'M
proved And the company was a
steady and prolific Garner for its
stockholders.
The Government took over the OBJ
Grafton of the telephones as it took
over the operation of the railroads.
Then, exactly as had happened in the
case of the railroads, the Old Nick got
into the wires. More Of the earnings
were eaten up, but there was nothing
to show for 1t. Important tolls were
increased, but the service grew worse
In the first five months OF Govern
ment operation there was a deficit of
close to $I,000,O00 for company hith-
erto accustomed to nothing but fat
SURPRISES.
And now a general increase of rates
amounting to Il per cent. will be nee
essary to wipe out the deficit and pro-
vide Il thin surplus-a surplus, per-
haps; then again, perhaps not. For,
as Government operation can wipe
out any surplus that exists in any
thing, Government operation, when
there is no surplus, Is an insurmount-
able barrier against the creation of
one. A surplus, indeed. however high
the charges to the public are lacked
up, seems as abhorrent to Government
operation as good service.
The touch of the Government In
business Is the touch of death.
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been brought together. Every step 1t
took was in the direction of reducing
our air service to It's impotence of the
days before the war.
Such policy is fatal to the nations
defence. In no other department OF
science Is progress being made so
rapidly as In the manufacture and the
Use of aircraft. The most daring and
skllful aviator flying now must keep
UP his training or lose his supremacy.
A continuous course of instruction
must be given to airplane makers and
to filers to provide the force needed
in an emergency.
Recruiting must 20 forward unin-
terruptedly to provide fit men for
training. Experiments must he made
from day to dry, even from hour to
hour, If the best, the most modern
aircraft are to be at hand when they
are needed. There are scores of in
Ing that must be made, used, altered,
improved, adapted-the planes, the
engines, the navigation instruments,
the guns, the bomb tubes, the cam
eras, the telegraphs and telephones
that are required for air fighting, for
reconnaissance, for map making, for
directing troop movements, for con-
trolling artillery fire, for guiding in
fantry attacks.
No small, restricted establishment
can furnish the facilities that must
be provided. The air service must
have numerous personnel of men
with enthusiasm, vision; men devoted
to their work. 1t must have stimu-
lating leader, bold to adopt innova-
lions, quick to discard what science
has outgrown, eager to utilize the new
thing science will provide, governed
by no traditions except those of cour-
age and honor.
Such an establishment as this the
Administration does not propose we
shall have. The attitude of the War
Department is against 1t. Every act of
the War Department of which the pub
lie has been Informed is sure to disor
ganlze and demoralize the service, to
discourage the men in it, to prevent
enterprising men from seeking to join
it. The War Department is scrap
ping the air service, and if it con-
tinues its present course we shall be
reduced to helplessness in the air,
just as we were never raised above
helplessness in the air in the years
before we went to war.
The sun., 1919-03-13
The Kind OF League OF Nations De-
sired by Right Thinking Americans.

To THE EDIToR OF THE SuN--Sir: The
Issues involved in the consideration OF
the League of Nations "a now framed
are not partisan political questions.
Grave. fundamental questions are raised
and should be discussed without resort
ing to personalities or the cracking OF
the party whip.
A situation quite like that which con-
fronted the country in the Presidential
campaign OF 1895 may arise in 1920.
There was carried on then a campaign
OF education. Let us be gin now the cam
pa .sn OF education and ask those In high
places to drop the invective. What the
League Of Nations in the form now Of
fered seeks to ACCOMPLISH guarantee
Of universal peace---Is desired by all
right thinking Americans and that
means nearly all OF our people.
From the fact that the League Of
Nations Is opposed by many in its pres-
ent form, ono cannot infer that no in
ternatlonal compact can be framed and
adopted which will accomplish about all
thnt the most sangulne proponents OF
the present measure claim for il. and
still leave intact the fundamental pr!n-
ciples and integrity of our nation.
The example set by our ex- President
in referring to our Supreme Court as
nine black robed gentlemen in a maui
soleum in Washington" hardly EQUALS
his comments on the Senate: neither
utterance does him credit. Such an ex-
ample is not good or safe. nor does il
create healthy, sane atmosphere.
There are those OF us who believe that
tho advice OF George Washington as to
the danger OF entangllng European ALI
ances holds MS good to-day as when 4
was given. that this country ought not
The sun., 1919-03-13

American people did that very thing
just the same.
That old Congress is now out. The
new Congress is in existence, but not
in session. The American people have
set up its authority; Mr.. WILSON,
whom they denied at the national
polls last November, thus far denies
them their new Congress; denies
their will as to what legislative work
they wish d0ne-havc wished done
ever since they voted to put his Con
gress out and theirs in.
The national finances are in need of
care by the new Congress. National
reconstruction from a war to a peace
basis needs it. Industrial readjust-
ment to normal conditions needs It.
Business stability needs it. Labor and
capital need 1t. Every American in
terest, Mt home and abroad, needs it
needs it urgently, needs 1t desperately.
Call Congress!
The sun., 1919-03-13
USES FOR WHEAT HERE.
Farmers Need Part Of the Surplus
Crop to Feed Their stock.

TO THE EDITOR or THE SUN---sir: Most
Of us wonder why, now that IL Is too
late. hard headed business man was
not elected to sit IN the Presidential
chair, rather than an exponent of high
sounding rhetoric
Soon we shall be asked to subscribe
10 the Victory Loan. Why not pay tho
extra nickel on a loaf OF bread each
morning and indirectly the higher cost
on the -four the baker buys, rather than
20 down In our jeans for 500 for a
Victory bond, seeing that the Governs
ment is bound TO pay the SEES bushel
anyhow and must have the wherewithal
to do it?
believe the stockmen of this coun-
try If given n chance, can use up tho
greater part of this prodigious surplus
wheat at II better advantage than will
be offered by the foreign buyer.
To illustrate my purchase OF feeding
stuffs FOR my stock this senson amounts
to ffty-two tons, made up Of every
thing imaginable that substituting for
grain could go In cows stomach and
not kill her, costing me around $50 n
ton. Not one-tenth OF l per cent. Of
this was wheat feed, because II was not
In the Eastern market and we could not
get It.
Given a good.y supply OF that wheat
by-product known as ship feed. I will
build n ration around 1t that will make
any old COW do her best to I'LL the milk
pail.
Then there are the hog breeders.
There Is in this country to-day tho
greatest number OF breeding hogs the
world has ever known. Their sclf-feed-
ers should contain at least so per cent
Of wheat middllngs. red dog -four,
shrunlsen whole wheat ground and the
like. No one can portray the vast
amount of wheat which could be con-
sumed in feeding these hogs and rear
Ing their young w to the time Of turn
Ing into tho fattening pens.
Owing to the inability to get wheat
and its by-products the fiocks OF poul-
try have been greatly reduced, should
say 40 per cent. There are some left,
and they will, IL given a chance, con-
sumo many bushels OF wheat below the
milling grades. such az there Ia bound
TO be in an open winter like the pres
ent. Then, too, the feed hoppers In every
poultry house. to contain an ideal ration
for poultry. should be filled with a mix
ture made up OF 40 per cent. No.
middlnes and 10 per cent. bran for IL
foundation.
Lastly. we must not overlook the horse
in this wheat consuming campaign On
rearly every farm the work horse stand s.
Idle from fall to spring, and 25 per cent.
day ration OF hard grain will be most
beneficial to him.
Pardon me for injecting rural life into
tho great political and economic Ques-
tons of the day. but believe our prob
lens here at home are more important
than tbs League of Nations.
GEoRGE Il. HOWELL.
HowELLs. March -.
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Europe Is Not a Helpless Infant.

Chairman HOMER S. CUMMINGS of
the Democratic National Committee.
obeying. we suspect, the cosm!c urge
that nowadays 50 violently influences
certain members of his party, has
projected himself into international
politics and reports rs follows:
III America merely makes peace
with Germany and withdraws from
international affairs Europe will fall
into chaos"
OF course America cannot with
draw from international affairs" as
Mr.. CUMMINGS knows perfectly WELL
but has there not been enough talk
about EurOpe's utter and pitable de-
pendenCe on this country for the So
luton of her internal and external
problems?
Europe IS old in years and in
experience. The nations contained
within her borders have endured trou-
bles heretofore. The difficulties that
now obstruct the paths of her peoples
to normal conditions of living are not
unlike difficulties their ancestors sur
mounted in their day. not once, but
Il good many times. There were up
risings, mutinieS, revolutions in Eu-
rope before the United States was
founded, and they were put down,
or compromised, or were successful
without the aid of America, its states
men, its harvests or its pocketbook.
No American wants more than THE
Sun to help the inhabitants of Eu-
rope out of the hole they are in. but
THE Sun does not for an instant
believe Europe lacks the brains, the
courage or the determination to take
care of itself, even without the help
of this blessed UIlted States.
The sun., 1919-03-13
Eject Of Scrambllng Up the League
with the Peace Treaty.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir: We
appear to be informed on good authority
that when the Paris Peace Conference
has finished It's labors the terms of pres
ent peace and the structure Of tho
League Of Nations will be so woven to-
gother and intermlxed that they can
not be treated separately, but the whole
must be accepted or the whole rejected.
Evidently this device Is looked TO as a
sure means of compelling ratification by
the United States Senate.
But If such document is prepared II
cannot be used to make peace with Ger
many without at the same time making
her a member Of the League Of Nations
Like our Senate, she must accept the
whole or reject the whole and II she
accepts, the Entente Powers must accept
with her. II Germany, then also Aus
tria. IL Austria, then also Bulgaria and
Turkey. how many votes will they have
In the League? Check
RossITER JOHNSON.
NEW YoRK. March ~.
The sun., 1919-03-13
The Case of German Music.

Music as a trade and publishing
business is one Of those branches of
TeutOn industry which have been
most severely tried by the war. Isu-
lated by the blockade, Germany was
deprived Of every possibility of ex-
plotting her music in foreign coun-
tries and publishers of operas and
songs had TO find what markets they
could in'-centraI Europe, while wait-
ing for the opening of the worlds
trade. In spite Of the present I'M
popularity Of German music, its posi-
ton ms a profession or trade is tech
ncally very strong. One reason is
that the work of printing musical
scores has been very well done in
Germany, and editors of musical COM
positions have had an unusual mas
rery of the details and technique Of
this difficult art. The same printing
facilities have not been found in other
countries. The whole case has been
clearly stated in recent issue of
L'ErpOrtatew FrdncGiS, and shows
the position of the musical trade at
the dawn of peace.
France has been making an early
effort to wrest from Germany the
monopoly in musical publications and
give it to French publishers instead.
In pre-war times the whole world, in
Guiding France, possessed only the edl-
tons Of music published by the Ger
man houses, BRElTKoPF and HAERTEL
and LIToLr. Asanccessary consequence
of this supremacy of the German
trade tue works of modern German
composers. REGER. MAILER. RICHARD
STRAUSS, in spite Of their mediocrity,
were more widely spread through
out the world than those of their
much ADLER French contemporaries.
The sun., 1919-03-13
First Get the World Back to Nor
NAL Peace Basis.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: All
disinterested and sane people would
probably agree in wishing to prevent all
wars hereafter. But 1t Ia an extremely
difficult task to frame any league or
treaty TO prevent or even delay wars.
II seems TO me that the paramount
duty now is to end the present war.
awarding due punishment to the guilty
and reparatiOn 20 the innocent sufferers
and victims. We should get this war
ended FIRST, get our boys back nome
again. and the whole world once more
settled down TO orderly and useful liv-
ing and production Then we shall need
and have time 20 discuss the prorosed
league of nations and to avoid getting
into some world ENLARGEMENT that might
be worse than none at all.
i is det"slalde suggestion that the
League of Nations vii be so inter
woven with the treaty Of peace that
we cannot end this war without accept
ing the League covenant exactly as pre-
pared az Paris by Colonel House and his
associates. STEPHEN L. SrURGEs
NEW YORK, March -.
The sun., 1919-03-13
RURAL N. Y. OPPOSES
STATE INCOME TAX
Wal Try to Substitute Direct
Levy on Realty.

: ALBANY, March l2--Srong efforts
ar" to J." made hy Republicans from
rural districts to defeat the proposed
state income tax ana raise the S25 COO
600 additional revenue needed for the
treasury by a direct state tax of . mills
on dollar. should this scheme succeed
the direct State tax this year would
amount TO about 2 mills on every dollars
worth Of real property, ne leaders al
ready plan 10 raise by direct tax S1S,-
c00,O0sr' the state highway and canal
sinking fUDda
The opposition 70 the Income tax ~
expected 10 gather more force II the
tax committee determ mes TINT one ma II
OF tho income tax collected shall be
distributed to tho localities in order to
make up the loss in excise revenues.
This would necessitate levyinE a state
Income tax Of . per cent, which would
give the state SIS 100000 and the l0cali-
ties like amount This per cent tax
! on top Of the Federal income tax OF s
per cent. would make n total Of per
cent tax on small incomes
The notion OF many OF the Rcpuhlt-
! cans is' that the Democratic party
| should bear the ouus Of the Federal In
come tax and that the State should
turn elsewhere Tor revenue. They assert
that che income tax is the most unpopu-
there is always complaint against the
levy of direct State tax on real prop
erty, they contend that y tax Of two or
three miles is hardly rot!ceabr 10 prop
ertyS owners. IL the easiest and less cN-
pensivc OF NIL taNeB to collect and Is
quickly forgotten by those who object to
IT,
Those opposing the income tax put as
mn additional argument that It would be
the only form OF tax which cannot be
deducted from their incomes in ma king
out the Federal income TAX returns
Members from rural districts also are
ma King complaint against the pro
posed personal property tax or the
Davenport committee As drawn ut
present the measure provides an cxeinp-
ton OF only g., 000. and the farmers con-
tend this exemption is not enough TO ex-
clude their farm machinery. There is
talk thai this exemption will be raised
to $4,000, while the New York real
estate men want It put at $4,000