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Inadequate First Aid to the Inj ure d
Railroads.

Three-quarters Of billion OF dol
lars, reported by the House Appro-
priations Committee as first aid to
the injured railways-wounded, man
gled, mutilated by Government oper-
ation-isn't going to do much for
them. The committee cannot imagine
that mere three-quarters Of a billion
Of dollars will plug up more than a
small part of the gaping hole in the
railway finances. The committee CAN
not dream that a pitiful three-quar-
tiers of billion of dollars can pull
the roads through. There isn't a
chance. The committee must know
that hard on the heels of first aid
must come real treatment.
The perfectly hopeless plight of the
roads crippled by Government opera
ton is that under such first aid treat
ment their plight grows more and
more dangerous. 1t does not yet seem
to be understood by the public it may
not be understood by the Congress
first aid corps that, bad as they are,
the terrific deficits scored by Govern
ment operation in recent months may
become unspeakably worse for the
reason that the comparisons of the
months Of this year to date have been
made with months OF the three year
test period, which were never good
months even in the best years under
private operation.
All that the roads had to earn in
January. for example. to equal the
three year guarantee, was $55, 600, 900.
They did not come within $S7 900, 900
Of it. All that they had to earn in
February to equal the guarantee was
SAT 100000. They did not come
within $37,OOO,O0O of 1t. To equal
the guarantee in March they needed
to earn $6s,OOO,OOO They did not
come within S57.OOO,OOO Of 1t.
Nov the -x0aas- are facing. the
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Once War, Now Peace Industries.

Once Whfs NOW feaCo industries.
Congress hearings have begun on
tariff questions which should be set
tied straightway. While the war was
on hundreds Of millions of American
capital went into the manufacture Of
dyestuffs because this country was
destitute Of them and could not OBJ
tain them in any other way. Hun
dreds Of millions likewise went into
potash, nitrate, manganese and mag
nestle products. These at the time
were war industries pure and simple.
Some Of them were as essential to our
victory abroad and to our safety at
home as shells from the munition
plants and ships from the shipbuild-
Ing plants.
But, with the war over, unlike
shrapnel, bayonets and torpedoes,
they still are indispensable to our ma
tional security and to our national
welfare. Whether by war of arms
or by war Of trade or by whatever
circumstance. this nation of 10000
600 people in forty-eight State group
ings, some Of them bigger, richer and
more populous than Kingdoms and re-
puhlics Of the Old World, must never
again be caught unprepared to supply
itself out of its vast resources with
basic needs Of industries and basic
needs Of food as imperatively required
by our national life as the water we
drink and the air we breathe.
II, with our tariff laws and with
whatever other action may be neces-
sary, we do not preserve forever the
Industries which we did not possess
before the war but which we do now
possess in almost full perfection, it
will not be merely political ingrati-
tude; 1t will be national lunacy.
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months in which the guarantee Is very
much larger than for the first quarter
or third Of the year. To equal the
June guarantee the roads must earn
$S3,0O0,000. To equal the July guar
antee they must earn $76,O00,OOO To
equal the August guarantee they must
earn $SS,000,000. To equal the Sep
TENDER guarantee they must earn
500, 100000. To equal the October
guarantee they must earn no less
than $95,OOO,OO0.
One Of the fervent hopes Of the
Government operation optimists Is
that when the huge crops begin to
move to market In unexampled vol
ume the granger roads will CORE
spondingly improve their net earn
logs, and that when the farmers be-
gin to spend the billions of dollars
which they get for their crops the
things they buy to be shipped back
to the farms will put another stiff
punch In railway earnings. But the
cold fact of this Government opera
ton so far has been that greater busi-
ness doesn't help the roads to earn
more; 1t makes them lose more.
Wherefore, the stralning Treasury
and the burdened American people
need not be surprised IL the financial
wreck Of the railways in the next few
months is piled a great deal higher
than 1t has been in the past few
months. If for this month Of June
the railroads could increase their
earnings to 80 per cent. more than
they were in April they still could
show a deficit Of $44,OOo,oO0. II in
August they could double their earn
ings Of March they still could show a
deficit of $68,oOo.0oo. If in October
they could triple their earnings of
February they still could show a def
cit Of $e5,0O0,OO0.
In any event, the American railway
system Is doomed throughout this Sec
ond terrible year of Government op-
Grafton to go on humping the bumps
on Its rocking journey to the neither
terminal Of Smash.
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Sound American Doctrine From
Two Eminent Churchmen.

The writer of the subjoined letter
evidently believes that some members
Of THE SUN family may have over.
looked a treat which he enjoyed:
ITO THE EDITOR OF THE Sun
Sir: 1t seems to me that the bac-
calaureate sermon OF DR.. CHARLES
ALEXANDER RICHMOND, printed in
Mondays SUN, deserves a reprint on
your editorial page. with possibly an
editorial comment for its sound horse
sense and American clean thinking.
WILLIAM C. VoIor.
NEW YORK, June TO-"
To reprint in full the address Of the
president of Union College would re-
Quire a great deal of space. We pre-
fer to quote a few Of Its refreshing
sentences:
This is a very old world and hui
man nature is as old as the world
and will still iemain human nature.
Nations cannot be merged into q
supernation. Love of country will
still be localized. There will still be
friends among nations as there are
friends among men.
1.-THE world has no use for the
dilettante idealism that prates and
poses. that meets in luxurious draw
ing rooms in evening dress TO fiirt
with Bolshevism as a dangerous but
fascinating pastime, as children play
with IRE. These are enemies OF this
republic and they should be dealt
with as enemies. And We have as
little use for the well meaning IDEAL
list whose passion for humanity blinds
him 10 realities who has not the dar-
ing to face tho facts of life.
'Vapors thrown off by an overfed
faulty of mind are sometimes mis-
taken for visions"
On the same day that the Presby-
terrain divine delivered himself Of this
good American doctrine the Roman
Catholic Archbishop Of New York, in
asking blessing upon the Governor
of this State, uttered sentiments so
like DR.. RIcHMoND's in their patriotic
sanity that we repeat them here:
May the most holy sacrifice of tho
mass this morning put trust in you in
the hearts Of the people OF this State
and may 1t give you strength. wis.,
dom and counsel to enable you to
be one OF the best Governors the
State OF New York ever had. May It
aid you through these critical days
in carrying your burdens and may It
aid you in keeping America for
Americans and stop that so-called
philosophy some Of our public officials
are trying to plan for our land"
Sometimes nowadays a little soft
socialism or fake idealism comes from
the pulpit, but 1t is uttered by preach
ers who don't know the spirit of the
American people.
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The Frogs OF France.
From LeSIie's Weekly.

from LeSHeS weekly.
We called you Frogs, my hearties
With your regimental blue
And p'raps twas not through lovIn'
That VIC wished tho name on YOU
But now that you have got II
And IT'S likely IL will cling
1t seems that maybe, somehow,
There's meanin' to the thing.
Through four long fearful winters
In your chilly Flanders boys.
You've squatted-eAting, sleeping,
In your mud-holes-just like Frogs
Like Frogs-whose spots have mingled
With each grass and stone and stick
You camouhaged your hiding
You were first to pull the trick
Like Frogs you sat and squinted
Cross at Fritzie-day by day.
But you we're tout suite beaucoup
when you leaped into the fray.
You left a heap O. Frogs legs
In those marshes where you soaked
Where tens and tens OF thousands
of your punctured poilus croaked.
Yes, we've dubbed You Frogs my hearties
With your spattered rags OF blue,
With your scars and stumps and crutche
Which you'll carry till you're through
But well you've proved your fitness
For the rank you got by chance
And SO once more here's to you,
oh~you dauntIsAs- Frogs Of Francsl
ANrnoAx GuwEAs
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IN HAPPY VALLEY.
A Village Of Delights Where They
Have Solved the Time Problem.

A Village OF Delights Where They
Have Solved the Time Problem.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-!sIr: The
time problem for the provinces is solved,
and the honor belongs to a farmer who
resides in the village Of Shutdown. which
is located In Happy Valley. New York.
Said village consists OF n church, a
horse shed and store. II Is twenty
seven miles from Ashokan and about
twenty from Napanoch.
We-two tramps-found the gentle
man last Saturday. Being knights OF
the road we travelled light - three
pounds OF luggage, two sweaters, one
cane and a camera Having passed a
log cabin during the day which was
decorated with wildcat skulls and seen
a i've foot blacixsnake wris g1e his Shiny
way across our path, we forgot all men
tai formulas. such as "Be calm. there
is nothing to fear,T and decided to talk
lodgings with the first country gentle
man we met Hence II was that we
met up with the philosophical gentle
man referred to who has succeeded in
cutting the chronological red tape.
We assured him that after q wash
In the brook we would look almost hu-
man. and he believed It to the extent
of requesting his wife to take us in for
the night She consented and in less
than ten minutes we were seated at the
cleanest, daintiest table imaginable.
Home cured ham. eggs-ye gods. what
eggs wild honey, rye bread like cake.
fried potatoes, three kinds Of cake and
currnnt jelly.
Near the close Of the meal the lady
said. Gentlemen, save a place for the
ice cream" We did and heard the an
gels sing with the first taste. 1t was
home made and favored with wild
Strawberries.
An hour later we asked, What time
do you want us to come down to break
faEtT'
1T all depends" answered our host,
whether you want to get up according
to our time or your time"
So there you are country time or city
time. Not so bad. is It?
o. B. Du BoIs.
WBEKAwKEN. N. j.. June 10.
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Strange Happenings In Toledo.

From Toledo, the city which Is to
be the centre of the civilized world
on the Fourth Day of the Great
Thirst, comes news hitherto unfamil-
lar to persons who follow the prelim-
mary details Of P. r. preparedness.
We read that the Hon. Champ VIII
LARD, while sparring with the Hon.
JACK HEMPEL, instead of knocking
utes, himself received a blow which
swelled his face beneath his kindly
left eye to the size of a doorknob.
We read that the Hon. Challenger
DEMPSEY, while boxing with an ath-
lete Of Afric extraction known as the
Jamaica Kid, was so damaged above
his left eye that he was withdrawn
from further activity.
Is the whole continent going to the
banks Of ths Maumee three weeks
hence to see couple Of incompetents
engage in clumsy battle? If Mr..
HEMrEL can so swat Mr.. WILLARD
and remain alive, If Mr.. Jamaica Kid
can send Mr.. DEMPSEY CORY from the
training camp, why then the principals
who should be shying their castors
into the ring on July are HEMPEL
and the Jamaica Kid, and not JESS
and JACK. The spectators who gather
soberly IN Toledo for the conflict will
want the best. Threats dry for three
long days will not cheer for anything
else. A great tide is running in the
hearts Of men. Let WILLARD and
DEMPSEY self-determlne themselves
out of the fray,
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Except for the slight divergence in
the statement Of the safeguard for the
defence Of civilization In the future
as contained in the fifth paragraph
in the foregoing parallel, the two res
olutions, as we have said, are in sub,
stance If not in form Identical.
When Senator KNOX, half a yea1
ago, presented his plan for the sepa,
ration OF the business of treaty max.
Ing from the business OF world reor,
ganization by means of league of ma,
ions and put the two affairs in tbe,,
proper chronological sequence, TIL
Sun hailed the resolution as present
ing a SansIy Conservative wisel,
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EVENTS TO-DAY.
Boy Scout drive. day and night

BOY Scout drive. day and night
rum, East Fifteenth street nVS' p. N "
an M, ,S R os,t a, L.Essperanee viii speak
Engineers. New York Chapter. 70 West
Concert in memory Of frances Hopkln.
son by the orchestra of the New YORK
symphOny Society, Prospect Park Music
Regular meeting of the Board OF Edu.
cation; Park avenue and Fifty ninth street,
Song recital by Miss Louise jenkins
Straus' s,. of the Educational A.
the Retail Clothiers Association OF New
York Will be held in the Bush Terminal
Sales Building. P. NJ.
Coalition meeting OF the Material Hand.
ling Machinery Manufacturers Association.
Hotel Aston, morning. afternoon and eve
women's National League meeting, Ho-
tel Pennsylvania, P. NJ.
Exhibition Of ornamenis in prints ar!
AT for designers and craftsmen. open
Dealers, Hotel McAlpin. all day
Railway Accounting Officers Associate
Major W. W Sullivan will speak on Tho
Hotel Commodore, all day.
Manufacturing Chemists Association. an
nuAi meeting and election India HOUSE,
Eastern supply Association. meeting. Ho-
tel Aston, 10 A. NJ.
Prepared Roofing and Single Manufac.
turers convention. Hotel McAlp!n. 10
A. NJ.
Federation of Business women's clubs.
meeting, Hotel McAlpin. s p NJ.
Meeting OF the New York Board oe
Trade and Transportation, IS Park Row.
IL noon.
DR.. WIN Durant will lecture on "Preseut
and Future" at the Labor Temple. -Four
teenth street and Second avenue, at
P. NJ.
There will be meeting TO protest
against the dismissal from the schools ~
benjamin. Glassberg, under the auspices
OF the Brooklyn Central Labor Union. ~
the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, @29 Sack
man street. at F. NJ.
Vice Admiral Albert Gleaves will address
the Members Forum OF the chamber ~
Commerce Of Hoboken on Sending Them
over and Bringing EN- Beck" l. noon.
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ON ICE.
A Friend Meltingly Reproves Us for
Our Views About Consert alton.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir: For
almost forty years my system has re-
ceived daily nourishment from the in
tellectual pabulum found in the burrows
of the editorial page Of THE SUN. For
concise, virile diction. for its treatment
of any and all subjects with sparkling
clarity. for its cogent reasoning and
convincing logic. the sheet is facile prln-
ceps This morning, however, my as
similative functions were disturbed upon
reading your editorial article on ice"
The subject Is a cold one at best, and per-
laps accounts for a temporary sclerosis
in the logical arteries of the writer. The
article predicts a scarcity OF ice this
summer and an Increase in price. 1t
therefore suggests conservation Of the
product by the curbing of extravaganza
in its use. Well said. 1t then admon-
ishes US not to keep eggs, meat and
butter in the house when ice is hard
TO get. 1t goes on: Let the grocer.
the meat man. the milkman keep foods
in good condition. OF course we will
let them. We have become accustomed
TO letting these amiable purveyors Of
llfes necessities keep their produce in
any condition they may please on con-
dition that we pay the price or go with
out Then comes this somewhat nebu-
lcus conclusion considered in connection
with the predicted scarcity and increase
in cost:
Buy ice in large blocks, because large
blocks melt less rapidly than the same
weight in smaller blocks" The average
pocketbook. as we'll as the average mind
balks at this problem. Its solution is
respectfully referred to THE SUN, whose
illuminating rays are capable OF resolv-
ing a puzzle into an axiom.
GEORGE T. ALpRIcH
YoNKERs, June 9.
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DEPEW TELLS TALE
OF PEEkSkILL IN Sc
Audience Hailed "Declard-
tion" as Orators DUN.

Chauncey NJ. Depew. invited TO return
to Peekskill for the Independence Day
Grafton, sent a letter to Clifford Eou'A.
chairman of the speakers committee cA
pressing his regrets and telling a stort
that happened when he was the orator
sixty-Three years ago.
1T would be interesting II, after SIX
ty-three years, l was able TO perform
the same service" he wrote, but I
deeply regret that cannot.
AT your celebration siXty-three year
ago Gen. James w. Hustled, then "a
teacher in the Peekskill Academy, was
the reader OF the Declaration ~ lnie-
pendence. With his fine memory he Tee
peated 1t with much fire and elocut Pc
airy effect Most of the audience NtI
never read II. and thought It was a.
original production. one enthusiast 20
1rishman shouted, That's right, Jimmie
give 'em hell ="
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G. O. P. CONFERENCE JULY 8.
Brooklyn Republicans 10 Meet Ia
Kismet Temple.

Brooklyn Republicans will hold tNe'-
unofficial county convention. or co.frr-
ence. July in Kismet Temple, Herk.n''-
street near Nostrand avenue. accord =
to announcement yesterday hy Jacob a
Livingston. county leader. The Co 70
ence will recommend candidates for ta'
fall elections and formulate the plt'-
form upon which the candidates are '.
run. There will be NJ least 1000 Ir.'-
gates, including women
Everything is tentative sad "
Livingston yesterday. -" H. ...~.'
tee will do is to make rccomue aat'oU.
to the county committee. L WIZ ." -
up to that body as the largest repr'
sentative group Of local Republicans
existence to make the actual aeteIlAIs
nAtions@
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Sun rises. ..b;4 A NJ Sun sets...s:gf Pm
moon sets.....+ 80 a NJ
For eastern New York-Fair to-day:
tomorrow partly cloudy, probably show.
ers in west portion; gentle to moderate
winds.
For New Jersey-Partly cloudy TODAY
and tomorrow; little change in tempera.
ture; gentle to moderate winds. mostly
For northern New Engiand-Fair 10.
Day. DAY and tomorrow gentle winds, mostly
For southern New Ebr,,na-F.,r ,o,,..
partly cloudy. warmer in Rhode Island
and eastern Massa chusetts to-morrow;
gentle shiftins winds.
For western New York-Partly cloudy
to-day; showers tonight or tomorrow,
little change In tempera ture
WASHINGTON. June 1o.--Pressure IN
now high over the eastern half OF Tn.
country and low over the interior Of tie
western half with a marked depresso1
over eastern Montana and secondary ons,
over northern Utah and northern Alberta
thunder showers were quite general in tho
and w.as af saste. Fes sSs
east Gulf ana south Atlantic state.
rain: IN New EnsfsnS ana the ss'fp;
Northwest Unsettled weather with occa.
sional thunder showers may be expected
lake and western lower lake regions, the
Ohio Valley, Tennessee, the east Gulf and
south Atlantic States extending Thursday
to the eastern lower lake region and thu
west portion OF the middle Atlantic dis.
trict Temperatures will average soma
what above normal except in the north
upper lake region.
Observations at United States weather so.
reau stations taken at p. NJ yesterday, sew.
enty-hfth meridian time:
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3. Any project 3. The treaty Of
Tor any general peace should be
league OF nations separated from
should be the League Of
postponed for sep Nations covenant
arate considera- and a diplomatic
tion, not alone by commission should
the victorious bel be substituted for
ligerents but by the League Of Ma
all the nations, II tons without pref
and when at udice until such
some future time time as thorough
general confer consideration can
ences might be be given to the
deemed useful. league.
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THE LEADENFOOT MAILS.
Sixteen Hours From HIGson Termina
to Stone Street.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: In
connection with our present postal ser
wee. as a further proof OF its ineffi-
cheney. enclose herewith two envel-
opes showing that these two letters
were mailed at the Hudson Terminal
and stamped June 9. Q P. NJ They
were delivered to my ONCE at . Stone
street at p. NJ. on the 7th- 1t had
taken sixteen hours to travel a distance
that can be covered by ordinary walk
ing In less than ten minutes.
One OF the letters contained shipping
instructions and permits. which docu-
ments should have been to hand early
IN the morning with the first mail.
NEW YORK, June 10. P. AuBEcK.
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Governor ALIENS suggestion that
the Kansas legislators go to Topeka
at their own expense to ratify the suf-
frage amendment is gallant We sup
pose many Of the statesmen will be
willing, even II they have to borrow
the money from their wives.
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What man or woman is not i'm
PEELED by this weeks spectacle to con-
tribute substantially to the splendid
snc wholesome organization which
is physically building and morally
moulding to-morrow's citizenry from
to-day's Boy Scouts?
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Ordinances strictly regulating pc.
destrian traffic may be deemed neces.
sary despite the fact that about the
only species OF pedestrian which is
unable to apply the brakes will dis
appear after July /.
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The English inventor after whom
Bessemer. Pa. suddenly grown impor-
tant through the bomb investigation.
is named did not originate the process
for making steel so that It might be
made use of as a malicious agency
OF destruction.
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4. The army (. The three
and navy OF the foregoing limita-
United States lions are now in
should be with tended to facili-
drawn from for tate the actual
eign territories making of peace
and waters except with Germany
in 80 far as their and will not affect
retention may be the League OF Ma
temporarily nee lions, which is
essary to estab- left to later dis
llsh the status cussion.
contemplated in
the armistice.
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An Urgent Demand.

First Army Mule-What will you do
when you are demohized?
Second Army Mule-Iu hunt job put
ting the kick in home brews
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Classified.



That evidently was a garter snake,
he decided. ut started the clothes"
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Cp to Date,

Knicker-what has become of the old
oaken bucket?
Bocker-It hangs by an oil well.