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SIXTY-NINTH INFANTRY.

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
You will no doubt recall that this or
ganization, was recently inspected by Of
ficers from superior military headquarters
for the purpose Of determining whether
or not it measured up to the standards
Of efficiency required for federal recog-
milton and muster into the National
Guard. 1t affords me great pleasure to
state that the regiment has been found
in excellent condition. and authority has
already been granted for its federaliza-
ton.
l am taking advantage Of this oppor.
tunity. therefore, to thank your valuable
newspaper for its assistance in furnish
ing publicity to the recruiting campaign
conducted by the command. which closed
December 81, 1919 with extremely satis-
factory results. shall likewise be very
grateful for any publicity that you may
be able to give during the next thirty
days to the fact of the selection Of this
regiment for liberalization, as It is most
earnestly desired to place at the disposal
of the government an organization Of
maximum strength when the date OF
muster arrives in the near future. Please
call attention to the fact that the fol-
lowing requirements are the only ones
imposed on the enlisted men:-One night
each week for drill. indoor and outdoor
rifle practice. annual field equipment
The federal government will furnish all
equipment and pay (according to grade)
for weekly attendance.
Enlistments will be for one or three
years without reserve clause) Ex-serv-
ice men may enlist for one year (without
reserve clause). Recruiting officers will
be in attendance at the armory, Twenty
sixth street and Lexington avenue on
Monday. Thursday and Friday evenings.
between eight and half-past ten o'clock.
JOHN j. PHELAN.
Colonel, SiXty-ninth Infantry. New York
Guard.
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Herald Readers
Discuss Topics
of Live Interest
Woman Tells Her Troubles in Meet.
ing Expenses with $4,000
a Year.

To THE EpIroR OF THE HERALD -
l wonder If advice so badly need can
be obtained through these columns?
Domestic troubles are so difficult of ad-
Justment / don't believe the majority OF
wives know just how to go about settling
them, and I am one Of the unfortunate
ones.
We have been separated for three years.
Days pass and no change; doesn't seem at
all the right way to live.
His income to my knowledge is at least
$4,000 year; am safe to say 1t is prob
ably nearer $4,000. But for safety say
$4,000. He allows me $1,000 per year for
entire living expenses. covering absolutely
everything-clothing, hotel charges. all liv-
ing expenses. doctor bills. travels. every
thing. 1t never starts with 5000, for he
always deducts debts from year before, so
IT starts at less. Allows no bank account
no credit at any shops. In real cash gives
me s2S every Monday morning. II / run
out on Thursday, say, and he leaves town
I'm without any money for possibly two
DAYS. 1t worries me. In case Of acci-
dents ] don't see what l could do.
have no reason for a divorce. l have
no money to consult a lawyer nor do I
know One to consult. Can some one sug-
gest a course for me to pursue?
MADAME X.
| New York City, Jan. II, 1919.
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Today in New York

Convention National Wholesale Dry co~u,,
A Association and auxiliary organizations: Wai
dorf.As,orig ten A. NJ and r. NJ; dinner
seven Il. NJ.
ton: Hotel Commodore; luncheon, fifteen min
p. VI. '''asi sia
Convention Jobbers Association Of xo,ion p,
ers: Waldorf Astoria Hotel: two r. NJ wv" Dus
Meeting Board OF Supreme Lodge ofs,co-.
Order Of Sons OF st. George: Hotel Nc hinir
eight =. NJ "'p'n
Dinner Princeton Club Hotel commodor.
night
Lecture Dr John Y. Watson .Tbe ~,
X indergarten Age auspices Fcdcraticn %,
child study; 70. II West sitty-fcurth street
Dinner Manhattan College Alumni: Hotel Astor
seven Il. NJ.
Meeting Federal Board OF Vocational T-sir
ng Mann Auditcrium Ieuerai aioTapccs
street, eight i. VI.
Luncheon American Manufacturers ESpor,
Assocls ticn: Hotel Pennsylvania half past twelve
lP. NJ.
Meeting New York Board Of Trade and Trans
porta tion: No. 3S Park row: half.past oue r. N
Meeting Sunset Club: Hotel McAlpin: three
lP. NJ
Meeting Society of American Foresters: CIT,
is twieyc 7. N. 'e'' V'''-'Vu - 1'' '"'''p"s'
Mcetinc. New York CHAPTER American. Assoca.
tion of rngneers; No. 20 West Thlrty-nlntb
street: eight +. ".
Annual diuncr Hotel Association Of Now York
City. Hotel Bifmorci half-psst seven y. NJ,
iarrbesr New fers nleelrlegl League LoleI
McAlpin: half cast twelve y. N.
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BRITISH PREJUDICE AND AN AMERICAN

Americans who watched the spectacular rise of
Lady Astor in the dread field of British politics
are not likely to to be interested in her as
member for Plymouth at the present time, when
she and her husband are exposed to the vicious
attacks OF the Saturday Rerie,o. which always has
been opposed to anything. from play to paint
ing and from book to an idea, that came out of
the United States.
On this side OF the Atlantic many persons regret
that there is not in the ranks of our Suffrage party
q woman like the former Nancy Langhornc. of
Virginia If there the reproach might be re-
moved from the adorable and adored sex which
had the misfortune to contribute to statcsmanship
at Washington the sentimental and pathetic figure
Of the Hon. jeanette Rankin, OF Montana
In spite Of the decision of the House Of Lords
as the highest Court of Appeals in the realm to
the effect that the law Of 1870 repealed the dis
abliug section" Of the antiquated Act OF Settle
ment, the Saturday Rcriow would exclude Lady
Astor from the House Of Commons and her bus-
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GAS HUMAN BEINGS"

To THE Z ,IToR OF THE HERALp:-
In answer to Ralph p. Ross on the ques-
tion OF the forty-two benevolent gentle
men asking relief for the starving German
children, I beg a small space i'm your
paper.
What right have they to appeal to
the public?" Every right--as human
beings and men. No, we have not for
gotten the children of France. Belgium
and the other countries, and that is tho
biggest and chief reason we should help
those German children whose fathers
were driven by cruel monarch to COM
NIT those deeds: for we should not class
ourselves as low as the Hun. to do as
they die. Rather we should do as we
would like to be done by. Should We take
unto ourselves the murder of innocent
children by starving them? II we should
have been the country defeated chart
God, we're not y could we let our children.
die before our eyes without an appeal
to our enemy?
The war Is over--let the past be past.
oy bringing ur the future generation in
a "lcve one another attitude and not
one of revenge and malice I've had rola-
tives-yes, and enc very dear to nc
killed over there" and know he would
say help themr"
LOYAL AMERICAN.
Cedarhurst. l.. T., Jan. L. 1920
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CAUSE FOR UNREST.

To TIE EDITOR or THE HERALD:--
The next move in the campaign OF he
Anti-Saloon League in their uplifting of
the world will undoubtedly be to seek 70
remove the four Supreme Court Judges
whose opinions did not suit the fanatics.
Anderson has called everybody yellow"
who opposes him. as in pay of the Ger
man brewers They announce that thcT
will Immediately prosecute and put in jail
those who had the courage and dccencv
to make and sell what the public wanted
and asked for.
The hue and cry OF government and
press about the Reds" is ridiculous when
under our very noses the very creators
or this element are allowed to rant and
rake back and forth across the country.
backed by Bryan and his party, under the
flimsy pretext of uplifting our morals
Nip the cause of unrest. stop the reac-
tionary. the suppressors of individual
freedom, the fanatic. the intolerant "rc-
forming prohibtionist. How Is n nation
to have self-respect and feel free and
walk with It's head UP when ii is treated
like mass of inebriates fit to be in
carcerated in one great asylum?
0. u. c.
Asheville, n. c., Jan. TO- 1920
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other prospective buyers. They know always that
he has certified cheque for a million or two in
his pocket. But sometimes they guess wrong, as
when they thought he was buying the Asbury Han
First Folio of Shakespeare for Mr.. Henry o. Hunt
ington. This famous collector says that he was
not party TO the transaction. and that anyhow
"three Shakespeare first editions are enough
Most of us would be satisfied with one. even If IL
were not in what the person known TO the British
as 'the terrible Mr.. Smith" would regard as first
class condition.
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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

The League Of Nations, which came into being
by the formal ratification of the Treaty Of Peace
between Germany and Great Britain France and
the other allied Powers, will be christened Fri
day at Paris. The first meeting Of the Council
will be presided over and called to order by Leon
Bourgeois, representing France Great Britain
will be represented by Earl Curzon the British
Foreign Secretary. Twelve other nations have
been invited to present representatives. President
Wilson officially called the meeting. but the
United States will have no representative.
The birth of this League of Nations-or a
league of some Of the nations-is matter Of no
little historical importance There have been
many similar leagues ostensibly to preserve in
ternational and permanent peace" but all have
failed. History alone will settle the fate Of this
new league
After months of discussion at Versailles Presi-
dent Wilson, having succeeded in subordinating
everything else to the Covenant Of the League Of
Nations triumphanty presented to the Council
the sacred document on February Il. 1919. Mos.
Of the participants in the Versailles conference
preferred the old order until the new system had
demonstrated its capacity" President Wilson
swept aside this opinion after creating the impress
sion that he reflected the thought Of the majority
of the American people The Allies took Presi-
w
Slowly but surely rose the American tide of or-
position to the covenant. President Wilson must
have realized it, yet when he landed in Boston on
February "a he said:--"I have no doubt of the
verdict The people in the saddle and they are
going to to it that if their present governments
do not do their will some other governments will"
President Wilson was aware Of the growing oppo
sition when he held the famous White House
conference on February 26 and drew the fire Of
Senators on the difference between a moral and
a legal obligation. He knew Of the opposition
when thrty-seven Senators signed "round robin,
pledging themselves not to agree to the covenant
offered.
1t is not the fault Of the American Senate or
people IL the peoples of Europe have been deceived
as to Americas real position. The covenant be-
fore the Senate does not offer sufficient induce
ment to America to surrender sovereignty or indie.
pendence. If the United States enters the mystic
circle Of European and Asatic nations 1t will be
with adequate safeguards and projections to keep
America aloof from foreign entanglements.
The newborn League Of Nations may not need
America after all. The time will never come when
the United States cannot gain admittance IL
deemed advisable. The fact that the league will
be launched without America demonstrates there
is immediate need for the presence of the
United States
The New York herald., 1920-01-14
THE WEST SIDE IMPROVEMENT.

without passing on the merit Of Controller
iCrags latest solution of the west side improve
ment problem it is pertinent to inquire just where
the money to carry it out is to come from During
the past year much has been heard from certain
city officials concerning the advisabity of the
city taking over control and operation of this and
that public utility Little matters like buying the
interest of the railroad companies in the subways.
elevated roads and surface lines are discussed as
nonchaiantly as though they the routine Of
each days business.
The applause of the devotees of municipal own
ershp may make sweet music in the ears Of GER
tain of the ctys officials. but is it quite fair to
deude the mass of the people into the idea that the
only obstacle to the blessed condition Of things of
which the~ dream is that which comes from the
friends and hirelings Of the financial interests
which at present own large share in these con-
nodties?
1t is the veriest humbug TO talk of municipal
ownership of the transit system Of the city at this
time. 1t is pretty close to humbug to discuss the
west side improvement project at the expense of
the city when the Controller and every member
of the Board of Estimate know that this work car
ried to completion will cost millions of dollars
4 city which cannot will not pay its own
school teachers on time and which never allows a
year 70 get Dy WITHOUT cTOWulnS ltS ueDL nHllC SO
hard that its officials have adopt every conceiv
able expedient to get by is in position to seri-
ously discuss improvements purchases involving
in the aggregate hundreds of millions of dollars
Of the taxpayers money. 1t Is time TO end such
talk the only effect Of which is to fill the minds
of those who do not understand with totally false
notions of the city's ability to embark new and
costly enterprises at this time.
Rack i'm 1917 much was heard q side
Improvement. Mayor Mtchel's solution of the
problem was denounced as in the interest of the
New York Central Railroad, and among the men
who cgprged this were Mayor Hylan and Con
trolicr srsalg che latter at that time counsel for
the West Side Association. The Mitchell pro-
rramme rejected as was later modification
Of It drawn up by joint committee Of the Board
of Estimate and the Public Service Commission.
With the election Of the present city admnistra-
ton. however, the crusade on death Avenue" sud.
denly subsided and nothing has been heard Of II
since until now when Mr.. Craig comes along with
a scheme which will cost more money than the
city has or will have. no matter how thrifty II
may be- for years TO come OF course 10 Is possible
10 saddle posterity with the expense Of the i'm
provcrient by the issuance of long term bonds but
II is doubtful If even Mr.. Craig will have the
tcmerity TO suggest that
rhat the improvement is needed cannot be gain
said The best solution ever offered was that
proposed by the late Mayor Mitchell, that the city
and the New York Central Railroad get together
on the matter and share the expense Of a work in
which each has a vital interest
The New York herald., 1920-01-14
SETTLE THE TRACTION .MUDDLE..

1t would be unfortunate if the obstinacy Of the
city authorities in refusing to discuss the transit
situation with the Public Service Commissioner re-
suited in legislation increasing the powers of
the latter official that he could go ahead his
own responsibility in making a readjustment of
the contract obligations of the traction companies
The matter is one which properly belongs to the
municipal authorities, of whom in measure the
Public Service Commissioner, although appointed
by the Governor is one.
Yet this is exactly what Mr.. Nixon is suggesting
TO the Legislature in emphasizing the necessity of
commission whose rulings may prevail over n
policy of non-action in emergency the part of
the municipal authorities"
Mr.. Nixon is right when he says that halfway
measures simply temporize and that unless full
powers are given to him it would be well to place
all regulatory powers in the hands of the munich
pality. 1t is clear that Mr.. Nixon is genuinely
anxious for solution of the transit problem when
be suggests that either proper authority to deal
with conditions be given to him or he be stripped
Of all power and the emergency transferred wholly
to the ruling body Of the city government, the
Board Of Estimate and Apportionment.
The upstate Public Service Commission already
has asked the Legislature for power to deal with
fare increases regardless of franchise stipulations
The request may be granted, but it is clear to any
thinking man that similar action affecting the
New York city commission would be iii advised.
No city official from the Mayor down has any
right to dodge the emergency now existing Neither
can It be ignored or compromised with by months
Of so-called Investigations
Prompt action is required IL what is left of the
transportation systems is not to be split into in
Vulnerable costly units and the already over
crowded highways cluttered with buses, which
never can meet the transportation needs Of city
which sends upward of 100000 persons to it's
business centres each morning and carries them
home at night.
The New York herald., 1920-01-14
PARTISANSHIP.

l want TO enter my protest-my indignant
protest-against the cultivation and exhibit
tion of partisanship which has come into
American life. We are not able to discuss
national questions their merits without
bitter partisanship, chickering's and abuse
America Is still in the medieval stage on
that subject.-The Secretary of War.
If Secretary Baker means to insnuate that par
tisanship is something new in this country he
should read up on political history. Nearly every
partisanship. To partisanship has been due every
forward step in political progress through par
tisanship-often too acrid in its expression, but
nevertheless valuable in its results-Amercan
political institutions owe their growth and their
development.
Mr.. Baker thinks that the United States is still
in the medieval stage because chickering's and
abuse sometimes creep into the discussion Of ma
tional questions Abuse is to be deplored OF
course and chickering's may be temporarily irritat-
ing, but such considerations are comparatively
trivial it is the results that count. The great ac-
complishments of Washington and Lincoln are not
dimmed by the fact that each in his day was a
target for vtuperation and abuse
The life of this republic is dependent upon its
citizens taking lively interest in politics. In the
two-party system is found the best safeguard of
the great principle of majority rule Partisanship,
particularly on the part Of the masses, is nat
ural consequence of popular interest in politics and
by no means an altogether deplorable consequence.
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AMERICANS WILL HELP.

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
In answer TO the article OF Mr.. Ralph
+. Ross. "IIave We Forgotten"
The American Relief Committee for Ger
man children certainly Is doing what q
Christian heart inspires. and the Ameri-
cans will help where there Is need Arc
the poor German children responsible for
their fathers' doingsP Have they not suf-
fered on shortage OF milk and other food
and dieo by the thousands m 1919? why
not help those living while We can? Has
not italy the admiration of every mother
for feeding thousands OF Austrian chil-
urens AN AMilittCAN MOTHER
New York City, Jan Y. lss0
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WEATHER REPORT.
Eastern New York and ighboring
regi"ns-Fair and colder today, with
strong northwest winds, tomorrow
fnIr.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Tuesday.-The
northern disturbance has reached New
England after very rapid movement over
the extreme North. and II is followed bv a
general rise in pressure that covers virtu-
ally the entire interior OF the country.
aonormaiiY high pressure continuing over
lne plateau region. There were SHOWS,
mostly light. from the lake region east
ward and some additional light rains in the
CUR States that extended into Georgia.
but over the remainder of the country the
weather was fair
temperatures as a rule do not differ
greatly from the seasonal average. ex-
cept IN the extreme Northwest where
tney are quite high. With the exception
OF local rains Wednesday in the Gulf
states iair weather will prevail wednes-
day and Thursday east of the Mississirni
River.
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Weather In Winter Resorts

Reports received by the HERALD yester
day gave the temperature and atmos
pheric conditions at leading winter re.
sorts at noon as follows:-
PALM BEACH-7i; clear.
ST. AUGUSTINE-66 clear.
MIAMI. Fla.--70; clear.
ORMOND, Fla.-72: clear.
AIKEN. s. C.-54: clear
CAMDEN, s. C.-56: clear
NASSAU. BAHAMAS-70; clear.
BERMUDA .--65; cloudy.
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HOW 1T WORKS.

In Georgia revenue Off
HOW 1T WORKS. GERS arrested a bunch Of
movie actors who were
staging imitation still at work. but IL is not re-
corded that there has been any diminution in the
number or the output Of genuine "moonshine
machines" in the Georgia mountains
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1t is worth while to point out

1t is worth while to point Out
AS GENERAL for the benefit of all aneatcur
WOOD SAYS! lawyers sentmentalists aEH
believers in moral issues, -
that not single decision made by the Supreme
Court Of the United States so far on various
phases Of the prohibition question has had any
thing to do with the main point at issue There
fore, to use the motto Of General Leonard Wood
steady" is the word
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band from the House of Lords as persons of foreign
BIRTH The joke is that this very Act of Settlement
was passed with King born in Holland sitting on
the throne-William III. of GLORIOUS, pious ana
immortal memory'--no less
As sor the Rerie,cs theory that Lady Astor Is
ineligible to sit rs a Commoner because she is a
Peeress, it is simply absurd. Her momentary
rank is virtually courtesy one, depending on
the life OF Lord Astor. If he died tomorrow ana
MS son was married the wife of the latter would
be Lady Astor' and the present member for Plym-
outh would be the "Dowager viscountess just
that and nothing more.
But this is detail. Why, it may be asked
should there be at the present time such opposi
tion to a woman who is credit 10 her sex and
race, who is adored by her constituents and was
welcomed to Parliament by men like Mr.. Lloyd
George and Mr.. Arthur Balfour as person who
was likely to relieve the tedium Of chamber per-
vaded by persons to whom could be applied the
words addressed by Oliver Wendell Holmes "to an
insect":-
Thou sayest undisputed thing
In such a solemn way?
It was female socialist who complained that
Lady Astor was ineligible, first, as woman; Sec
ond as an American, and, third, as a mother of
six children. 1t is unnecessary to recall the retort
in which the candidate flayed the particular old
maid who ventured on that argument
The fact Of the matter seems to be that our
choice contribution to British public life would be
forgiven for everything-even for her original ma
tionali.y-if it were not for the fact that she is
clever without being dowdy and logical without
being shrew An Engishman does not like to
be taught anything that has to do with his own old
game.
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As Others See Passing Events.

The only contemporary statesman who might have
rivaed Clemenceau in sef-imposed demands upon his
powers had he lived to so venerable an age would
have been Theodore ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Tribune.
Congress will do well to fortify this country against
the possibility that European Disturbances may start
fresh and excessive flood of undesirables in this
direction. The United states should be protected
under all circumstances against this possibility BY a
new and efficient immigration law and a thorough
system Of inspection-New Orleans Times-Picayune.
According TO tho government figures the taxpayers
AT large have had to go down in their pockets and
pay s5s0oeo to cover the losses Of the roads while
the government was running them. The situation is
bad. decidedly bad. Certainly the Cummins bill or
some other bill like ii is badly needed.-Montgomery
Advertiser
We prepared for the information that the ensus
tpkerr ~ counting the noses the country not
finding so many red ones AZ OF yore-Newark News
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Winds OFF Atlantic Coast.

North OF Sandy Hook--Strong west and
northwest winds, clearing weather.
SANDY Hook to Hatteras-Strong north
west winds. fair, colder weather.
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Average temperature yesterday. 2
Average temperature for corresponding
date last year ....................... Q
Average temperature for corresponding
date last thirty-three years. ...... 4
Humidty:-s A. NJ. 60: I +. NJ, 72; r
NJ. 40. Barometer:-s A. NJ, 20 Up. NJ
1854. p. NJ, 1858 inches.