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Bombs and a Mayor.

The news dispatch from Rome
which relates that the Mayor OF Len
tint, Sicily, blew up the court house
as protest against his arrest on a
charge of making bombs is regret
tably lacking In those details which
give an air OF verisimilitude to an
otherwise bald narration.
The direct charge that the Mayor
blew up the court house is unsup-
ported by convincing evidence. In
fact, such additional particulars as
arc given may raise doubts as to
the cused Mayors guilt. Tho DIS
patct says that a number OF bombs
were found in his house, but It also
admits that he made them to furnish
a supply to Socialist members Of the
Municipal Council.
IL a bomb or so Is part OF the
forensic equipment of Lentini's city
fathers In their deliberations, what
evidence Is there that it was the
Mayors own private bomb and not
some other statesman's that did the
damage7 Furthermore. there is no
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UnthinLable.

When railroad managers and rail-
road workers on strike have come to
a meeting of minds on all but one
of half a dozen points Of controversy
1t is highly improbable that the two
will very long remain apart.
When the one point on which there
has yet been no meeting of minds
Involves the seniority rights of the
strikers; when the remaining issue
is whether the men who stuck to
their jobs, under the decision of the
United States Railroad Labor Board
and in a sense of loyalty to the rail-
way service and Of duty to the pub
lie, shall have their seniority stand
ing subordinated to that of the men
who did not stick to their jobs
when that is the remaining issue 1t
is hardly credible that it will be
fought by the shop unions to the
last ditch.
In any event, that the men who,
sticking to their jobs, stood by the
United States Railroad Labor Board,
stood by the railroads and stood by
the American public, should be sac
rifced to the men who, quitting their
jobs, stood against the United States
Railroad Labor Board, stood against
the railroads and stood against the
American public-this is unthink-
able.
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APPRAISERS STORES
MAY NOT BE MOVED
kr0ckc Says Shipping Men
Are 'UnduIy Alarmed

FL. II. Kracke. Appraiser Of the Port
OF New York. said yesterday shipping
circles were "unduly alarmed by infor-
nation that the Appraisers Stores,
would be moved from Washington and
Christopher streets to the Army base
at Fifty-sixth street, Brooklyn. He said
they would not be moved Immediately.
even II eventually.
Mr.. Krackes statement was called
forth by announcement that the Mer-
chants Association had called n public
meeting for Wednesday, July 26. at
O'Clock at the Hotel Astor, at which re-
moval would be discussed. The seizure
room. formerly in the present stores,
has been transferred to the Army base
and, according to Mr.. Kracke. several
million dollars worth of seized LIQUOR Is
stored there.
THE present Appraisers Stores are
fire-trap." Mr.. Krackc said. but We
must give careful consideration to the
question OF the advisability Of moving
the stores entirely to Brooklyn. There
are prospects OF our obtaining addi-
tional property, including some water
front near the present stores and that
with some more modern equipment
would help considerably"
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Aid for Europe.
America Might Dispose Of Surplus
Government Stores Abroad.

To THE NEW York HERALD: In Gov
ernment warehouses is merchandise esti-
mated at hundreds of millions, IL not
billions. in value. The usefulness Of this
gigantic store of commodities as a lev
erage in relation to the present world eco
nomic situation is not fully appreciated
Neither has the menace to domestic
business of the intermittent sales Of
these goods been justly appraised.
Prices have been disastrously affected
and some OF the largest American In
dustries have been severely injured by
the precipitation of Government goods
upon the market at time when pri-
vate enterprise was struggling to come
back after the war.
The vital question is how to dispose
of these Government holdings for the
good OF the people and Of their busi-
ness and as an aid to Europe. 1t Is
apparent that IL these immense stores
were rendered to and acquired by the
central European Powers the latter
would be freed from the economic tolls
In which they now find themselves.
Preparations payments in large
lated for in respect of at least a part
that this Government could sell. upon
condition that interallied debts be liqui-
dated in reasonable proportion. Cen
trail European trade would be revived
and tho vast idle Shipping Board feet
and other American bottoms be launched
In new era Of earning power.
America would hold. IL In line new
obligations of central Europe, but that
would not under the circumstances be
undesirable security. 1t wopld be econ
omy in the long run. for American mar
kets cannot absorb these vast reserves
without damage TO domestic production.
We must free ourselves from these sur
plus commodities and subsidize our mer-
chant marine with business, and the
prospect OF return cargoes which our
industry can profitably absorb.
JOSEPH wHIrLA Sr1NsoN.
NEW York, July 20.
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Aftcrward.
From the Arkansas Gasetf

From the Arkansas Garetfe.
And so you think that we may kiss and
part
And then forget what each has meant
to each
The tender little ways of touch and
speech .f
That are 80 tightly tendriled round the
heart:
That we may cast aside the useless chart
or seas we sailed on when we make
the beach
And set forever out OF memory's reach
Old dreams that can have power but
to hurt.
I. too. In other days have thought this
thing,
That love co rld vanish as a candle
Or fade like fragile flowers of the spring
Forgotten In the dust from whence
they came.
Love dies. but loves hurt lives when all
things go,
And this, o Well Beloved know. i
know.
q T. DAVIS.
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William A. Hazard.

American outdoor pastimes owe
much to WILLIAM A. HAZARD, who
died on Wednesday, and there will
especially be regret that he did not
live to see the coming series Of polo
games for the international trophy,
as he had done as much for polo as
any other man in this country.
Mr.. HAZARD was splendid type Of
the sportsman of the old school. His
club activities had endeared him to
friends In many callings. Almost
from the organization OF the Polo
Association he was its secretary and
treasurer. Last year, in the face Of
his protest that he could not give
the Office the attention 1t required.
he was made honorary chairman Of
the association, succeeding in office
HENRY l.. HERBERT, whose career,
like that Of Mr.. HAzARD, had been
marked by disinterested service to a
rastime which has its devotees in
every part of the world.
One of the consultations Mr.. HAZARD
had in a period of failing health was
that he had seen American players
develop the skill which enabled them
to win for the United States the
trophy emblematic Of the champion
ship. He was as eager as a boy to
witness the coming contests, which
will have new element in the team
from the Argentine.
Mr.. HAZARD was president of the
Rockaway Hunting Club and gov
ernor of the Turf and Field and Rae
quet and Tennis clubs. He was fond
of racing and was an interested spec
tator at the spring meeting Of the
Westchester Racing Association, and
ne hoped he might live to see another
meeting at Belmont Park.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Union Theological Seminary. second annual
conference of ministers and workers. Broad
way and 120th street, morning and AFTER
noon sessions.
Fellowcraft Club Star of Hope Lodge. F.
and A. M. excursion to Bear Mountain
DR.. +. b. Jewett and John Mills Of the
Western Electric Company will lecture on
Recent Advances in Long Distance Teleph-
ony." Horace Mann School Auditorium.
Broadway and 10th street. $50 r. M.
Missouri Club OF Columbia University. pio-
mic to the Palisades. p. M.
Minnesota Club of Columbia University
picnic to the Palisades. AS p. M.
New Jersey Club Of Columbia University.
picnic to the Palisades. p. M.
william r. Knox. president Of the Bowsry
Savings Bank, will lecture on Thrift and
the Teacher; Savings and Investments
Horace Mann School Auditorium. Broadway
and 120th street, p. M.
Cosmopolitan Club of Columbia University,
reception TO foreign students, Earl Hall
Auditorium. p. M. HF
New England Club of Columbia University
dance. auxiliary gymnasium, p. N.
Goldman Band. concert. the green. Colums
bia University. s p. M. tf
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AfterwhiIe.

What though 1 may not llnger at your
side,
Still 1 may love you. though I may
Your face still keep each golden
memory,
Each vision Of the things I am denied:
The thought of you, like sunshine. will
abide
To fill my life with light and you
will be
My inspiration through eternity
Although tho leagues between us open
wide.
Yet God mocks not the hope He gives
to-day,
And love will claim It's own across
the years,
This is enough. that in the After
while,
Which you have often told me of, may
Learn how to spin a rainbow of my
tears
And seek and find again your an
swering smile.
ELfsABErH scoLr.AHD
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Lay Judges.
In Pennsylvania They Sometimes
0verruled Their Associate.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Refer
ring to your correspondents letter with
reference to lay judges and lawyer
judges in which he implies that the So
called associate judges have been dis
pensed with in Pennsylvania. / beg to
call your attention to an act OF the
Pennsylvania Legislature Of 1915 which
provides that ''ths salary or compensa-
tion of the associate Judges. not learned
in the law, of the courts Of this Com
monwealth. shall be as follows: Each
such associate judge shall receive five
dollars per day for every day he may
be employed in the discharge Of his
official duties: Provided. that the salary
of no such associate Judge shall be less
than six hundred dollars per annuni.
Each of said judges shall continue to be
entitled to mileage. as now provided by
existing law"
Sullivan and Wyoming counties have
these associate judges and in the days
when licenses were granted to saloons
they were able. II both were vets. to
grant licenses, over the head Of the reg
ular Judge, learned In the law! s.
SCRANTON, Pa, July 20.
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John SIidel.
Information Wanted About Founder
Of the Mechanics Bank.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: For some
time I have been searching historical
sources for information concerning a
man who was a leading citizen Of New
York in the early part Of the last CEN
tury. He was John Slidell. member
of the General Society Of Mechanics and
one of the founders and the first presi-
dent of the Mechanics Bank of New
York, now the Mechanics and Metals
National Bank. which opened It's doors
In 1910.
Perhaps among your readers there
may be some who possess information
about John Slidell. There Is record of
q John Slidell and portrait Of him In
the possession Of the New York Histor-
ical Society. but have definitely ascer-
taineG that in 1910 he was only II years
of age. He may be son of John Sill
dell, the bank president.
I shall be grateful for any informa-
tion which may be sent to me at $50
Nassau street about this distinguished
but uncelebrated citizen of old New
York. GEORGE A. BRAKELEY.
NEW York, July 20.
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At Palner's GuIch.
RecolIections Of a Gold Seeker in the
Black Hills in 1875.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Upon the
opening of the Black Hills country in
Dakota early In December, 1875, four
gold seekers, Of whom was one, joined
with four others from Montana to fol-
low Professor Walter P. Jenney's expe-
ditionary route OF the preceding sum-
mer. At the Custer stockade, near the
present site of Custer City, South Da-
kota, and along French Creek. we left
several groups already settled for the
winter and ventured into the unknown
but supposedly richer gold fields to the
northward.
We four partners had laid In a six
months supply of miners and soldiers
ratons at Denver and Cheyenne. except
fresh meat. On the way up from the
railroad we had been eating buffalo and
antelope and we knew that the hills
sheltered plenty of black and white
tailed deer.
Over the divide we at once struck
Spring Creek. reputed to be the best
prospecting stream visited by Jenney.
Ten miles down we found several pros
pect holes Offering some encouragement,
so we made a midday camp and found a
meadow half mile wide washed by
considerable stream that debouchcd into
Spring Creek. with plenty of spruce and
jack pine at hand. After dinner we
looked over the land. voted to move in
and Palmer's Gulch was born.
Everybody rejoiced. The tired horses
rolled in the belly deep sun cured grass.
We had fuel. water and protection from
the northeast winds and were a half
mile from the only road, but out of
sight from II. Nothing bothered us
except the inevitable SHOWS and leo of
Dakota. We had a wall tent. two axes.
four foot crosscut saw. hatchet, plenty
OF picks and shovels and a keg of as
sorted nails to work with.
Two OF the party were expert AK
men. Another killed a couple of black
talls--mule deer--before dark the next
day. / snalxed in the logs. which were
quickly notched. Sheets OF slate were
got out for the chimneys and stiff clay
dug for mortar and floor covering. We
used n pair Of horses with larfats tn
parbuckle the logs after four tiers had
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been rolled or lifted by hand. A sec
ton sawed out Of a log in each cabin
prepared the way for a canvas covered
window.
We cut up parts of the wagon bodies
to make doors and two worn bootlegs
provided the material for the hinges.
Rude benches and dining tables were
made from split puncheons. Poles and
balsam boughs were first class mate
rails for bunks upon these we placed
sweet smelling mattresses of hay and
covered them with our wagon sheets.
The roofs were made of straight poles
covered with spruce boughs and over
laid with clay. and the soft soil floors
were vigorously tamped with moist clay.
There was no union labor-no car
penters, plumbers, gasfitters, brick,
sand or cement men to placate In the
construction Of two very satisfactory
cabins, which were our homes for nearly
six months. Before the first real snow
fall we moved into them. happy and
care free.
On December 23 made, think, the
first washboard used north of Fort
Laramie. Taking two foot piece of pine
I split and hewed off the sap and heart
until I had slab foot wide and an
inch and half thick. With pencil I
drew lines across this slab half an inch
apart; then with saw and pocket knife
/ notched out fairly effective wash
board. My fellows did me high honor
and that washboard worked practically
three eight hour shifts for the next
few days.
fall attempted Christmas pie. Think
ing to surprise the boys I suggested
that one Of the partners who had been
a hotel man take saddle horse and
bear our Christmas greetings to a
neighbor down the gulch and in some
way / managed to get rid Of the other
two. Then brought out the dried
apples, sugar. baking powder and, Of
course. flour.
Having no butter I used deer fat.
With THIS abundant material I built a
pie entirely satisfactory to my eye and
hid 1t pending the return of my mates
and the approach of the dinner hour.
Later I learned that dried apples were
usually subjected to preliminary cook
ing before being Incorporated into a
pie; also that tin cup full of venison
required. So any credit gained by
means of my washboard fell before the
gibes of the more expert cooks.
GEORGE W. STOKES
NEW York, July 20.
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Still More Meddling.

What ails the Post Office Depart
ment? Recently 1t announced that
certain changes are contemplated In
the design Of postage stamps, changes
that are neither desirable nor neces-
sary. Now 1t issues a petulant bull
letin to the effect that "the Postmas-
ter-General is one who will not for
ward the latest chain letter."
The chain letter referred to is absc
lutely harmless. 1t hasn't much
sense, to be sure, but that isn't the
business Of the Post Office Depart
ment. 1t is good luck letter and
says In part: Copy this and send it
to nine people whom you wish good
luck. The chain was started by an
American officer and should go three
times round the world. Do not break
the chain, for whoever does will have
bad luck. Do 1t within twerty-fcur
hours, and around nine days you will
have some great good luck and good
fortune. Let us go smiling through
1922"
1t is all right for the Post Office
Department to protect the public
against chain letters which make
appeals for funds and which may be
used for purposes Of fraud, but If the
public wants to spend its money on
bit Of harmless nonsense, why
should the department interfere?
There are more important matters
in which Post Office eficials would
do well to exercise their vigilance.
They could exclude from the mails
some Of the profane and abusive COM
munications which are permitted to
go through on post cards. There are
many of these.
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very little peanut oil found its way
into American households. About
$4,000 pounds were produced in 1912.
The total production for 1918 was
50,000,o00 pounds and exports In
creased from 100000 pounds in
1912 to 27.4OO.00o pounds four years
ago.
The soil of the South is peculiarly
adapted to diversified farming. Should
the peanut in part take the place of
cotton it would be a good thing for
Southern agriculture, which has here
tofore suffered from rigid adherence
to the one crop idea.
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Making of Americans.
Gene Sarazen's Golf Victory in Itf
Relation to Chateau Thierry.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Congratu-
lations on your editorial article IAN
American Name" in regard to the ac-
quiring Of the national open golf cham
piorship Of the United States by Gene
Sarazen.
1t was a fitting editorial article for the
anniversary of the battle OF Chateau
Thierry where Americans Of all racial
strains fought shoulder to shoulder as
Americans. I consider 1t the best edi-
torial rebulSe to Ku Klux Klanism and
other un-American isms written this
year.
Senator Lodge In defense Of his col
league. Senator Walsh, said to Senator
Williams OF Mississippi that If Walsh
were the product Of immigrant parents,
then may God bless America with many
such immigrants. In like manner does
THE NEW York HERALD pay tribute to
the progenitors Of the man who can be
such a fine American that he can win
his way against such brilliant galaxy
Of competitors to the premier place In
the game which has become so American
that a list Of its players reads like the
roster OF an American combat division.
Such articles as this prove that THE
NEW YORK HERALD has a genius for
Americanization. Such expressions OF
liberal Americanism will do more for
Americanization than three-quarters OF
the organized effort I, that end will ac-
complish. 1t was a fitting deed for the
day on which 1t was printed.
r. HURxRr MACCAULEY.
NEWARK, N. j., July 20.
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VOLUNTEER FIREMEN
CELEBRATE AT AUBURN

AUBURN, July 20.--The fiftieth ami
versary OF the Central New York volun-
teer Firen1en's Association and the COM
pletion of fifty years Of service as a fire
man by Chief w. J. Jewhurst of the
Auburn department were Jointly cele-
brated here to-day.
The annual election resulted as fol-
lows. President, Fitch Stephens of
ithaca first vice-president. Frank Cox
OF Cortland; second vice-president, Ed
son A. Tilton of waverly secretary,
Miliwood Fitch OF Moravia; treasurer,
DIR. Julian Smith Of Union: chaplain, tho
Rev. w. S. Stevens OF Moravia; county
elegates--Cayuga ~. ID. Downing !;
Seneca. Ray Haskins; Tioga, Clayton A
smith; Cortland, w. r. Riley: Tomp-
kins, Clinton ID. Cash; Cnondaga.
Charles II. Milford.
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Peanuts Instead of Cotton.

Cotton seed was once drug on the
markets OF the South. To-day the
oil is accepte' as a substitute for
other fats in L my households and is
extensively uset for cooking pur-
poses. while the residue left after the
oil has been extracted goes to the fee |
lots OF the country to supply In the
form OF beef or milk food for human
heings.
With the coming OF the boil weevil
the cotton acreage was reduced, and
planters have been looking for sub
sHtute for cotton which was rea-
sonably free from the stacks Of pests.
One OF the substitutes proposed is the
peanut, the oil OF which Is being
widely used ss food. Before 1914
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But they found the Bolshevih too
firmly In the saddle"
Although semi-official Moscow news
paper states that the Government may
export grain to secure much needed
credit. Eyduk denied any intention to
export grain this year. but modified
this a moment later by saying: 1T
wouldn't be surprising If should hap
pen ON plan similar to the 6oviet's
present coal sales to Italy, although
Russian industry does not need to Sc
cure foreign credit"
Eyduk In Berlin took an active part
in the international workers aid move
ment to induce foreign workers to buy
shares In the Soviet relief. He ad-
mitted that the capitalists might give
more money to Russia. but he prefers
to have the workers do 1t because he
hopes thereby to develop a greater
solidarity of the world proletariat.
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dence that he can escape punish
ment. is a public danger. And one
very potent cause leading to that
state of affairs is the granting of
parole or liberty on probation to
convicted criminals without conscien-
tious and painstaking investigation
Of their records and without adequate
thought of their future conduct.
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Reactionary Machine Upsets.

What better proof than the con-
tinuing record of the contests at the
primaries does the machine control
of Congress need to convince itself
that it's reactionary, selfish, stubborn,
defiant legislative course is alternating
the American people? Or must 1t go
on in blindness to the last deadly
stroke?
In Pennsylvania the reactionary
machine was against PINcHor for
Governor, and the Republican voters
upset the machine.
In Indiana the machine was against
BEvERIDGE for the nomination to the
Senate, and BEvERrDGE, going to the
voters of his party, won.
In Iowa the machine was against
BRooKHART, and BRooKHART came
through with flying colors.
In North Dakota the machine bent
all its energies to renominate Sena-
tor McCUMBER-McCUMBER, author
of the bonus raid on the national
Treasury and Of the tariff monstros-
ity-and McCUMBER went down to
defeat.
In Nebraska the machine has been
against HOWELL for the Senate nom
ination, and now HOWELL gets 1t
with ease.
If the machine control of Congress
cannot yet realize that 1t is becom-
ing well nigh fatal for any candidate
for elective Office to have its sup
port the candidates are beginning
to realize that such support is an
all but insurmountable handicap.
From the record at the primaries
thus far in every State where the
people are aroused to the issues of
the day and to the utter incapacity of
the extravagant tariff makers and
reckless bonus raiders to grasp those
issues 1t becomes evident to all eyes
with the power to see that the can
.didate who enters the average pri-
maries with the machine indorse
ment leaves hope behind.
How, then, can the candidates
doubt, how can the machine itself
doubt, what is liable to be in store
for those of them that survive the
primaries when they get to the No
vember polls whore the voters of all
parties can take crack at them?
There could be no surprise In the
Nebraska primaries after Indiana in
the middle West, Pennsylvania in
the East, Iowa in the West and
North Dakota in the Northwest. And
il the reactionary machine control
Of Congress does not come to its
senses both In the matter Of the
bcnus measure, which threatens a
colossal raid on the Treasury, and
in the matter OF the irrational tariff
schedules that threaten another CO.
lossal raid on the consuming public
Democratic sweep or members of
tie House of Representatives might
surprise nobody In the whole United
States except the same blind reac-
tionary machine.