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Alexandre Mii.txiunp, Franco's now Premier, Kod beginning when ho (stands up nntl tells some plain truths nbout the needs ot his country. If, Franco Is going to be saved economically It will not be because other nations save her but because she eaves 1 herself. If France's bills arc going to B6 paid they are going to be paid by tho Freiicli. If the water Is going to be squeezed out of France's paper tndney It Is going to be squeezed out by Flench economies and taxes. All this the new Premier declares with candor and toundn, ss.

liut his strongest dcclnmtlon oi all Is that France must work or die. In the world conditions which have grown out of tho war, with the natural laws Ignored, with Industries disorganized and workers demoralized, tho Mlllerand warning Is true not only of Franco but of nil Europe. It 1st true of our own United States. It Is true' of tbo greater part of the whole earth. Printing money Instead of man-tifiioturlug goods la never going to put Industry on a solid foundation.

Sfultlplylnf credits Instead of enlarging assets Is never going to Insure tbd solvency of business. Exacting moro waes Instead of hoeing more potatoes shearing more sheep, raising npre cattle, harvesting more crops Increasing all production is never going to meet the abnormal cost of llv-iOg; never going to provide for a nn-tlon the food, clothes and shelter that it- can get permanently and surely only by work. Exactly as real wages, tbt). dollar marks stuck on them, go down when the production Into which man's labor must be exchanged goes down, so taxes, although at a stationary rate, go up when production goes down. For taxes.JIko bread and butter, have to come nut of production.

There Isn't anything else for them to come out of. Tho very process of speeding up production, with a square day's work returned for a square day's pay, both gives the puli-licmore to eat and wear and eases it burden of taxation, Pumping up living costs with the economic force pump of wages without work, the American people have becd skinning themselves Just as surely as the French people have been I looting themselves printing paper money by the ton to inflate the prices of commodities, service and other articles of true wealth. If Franco must get down to work to dig herself out of the economic ditch in which she Is mired the United States must get down to work to keep from sliding Into that ditch iip to the hubs. The Alliance Between the Atutrlans and Czechs. A despatch from Prague confirms an earlier report df an agreement between Czecho-SIovnkla and Austria having for its purposes the Improvement In trade conditions and a cooperation to Insure the stability of the present governmental rule In each State.

Austria's choice seems to hnvc been well made. Czecho-SIovnkla is In n' better condition than any other State built on tho ruius of the Ilnpsburg monarchy; It has responsible government, industries have in a measure been restored and the people have gone to work. The Stnte Is not only s61f-stipportlng but It has raw materials for export. Bohemia In the past through Its systems of railways arid canals easily supplied Vienna with these commodities. Under the present agreement she will continue tlifs supply.

In strong contrast to the conditions III Czeclio-Slovnkia are present condl-. Hons in Hungary. The Hungarian delegation to Paris returned to Budapest Wednesday and Count Arposvi, its spokesman; declared 'that the' acceptance of the terms would mean the rulrt of the nn'tion. Hungary has been xvrccked, but principally through six months rule by the egotistic Karolti, tho ruinous regime of Wtaj. Ktiv nml his Bolshevist supporters and tho Kpaflm8 of monarchists reaction.

The great difficulty Is that Hungary has not ncccpted defeat ns Austria has. Premier IIuszad Is insisting on tho policy of tho restoration of tho Magyar rule over tho entlro area of tho former Hungarian kingdom. In this ho Is strongly supported by Admiral Homiiy, tho former. commander of tho Austro-Hungarlon who has been reorganizing and equipping a Hungarian army to sustain tho Magyar pretensions. Hungary Is to-day tbo most disturbing factor In tho Central European situation, Horthy has already despatched a forco to tlio Czech bordor for the recover of tho Slovnklan territory; ho has also Bent force to tho Austrian bonier for tho retention of Hungarian territory awarded In tho treaty to Austria.

It thus becomes evident that besides Its economic valuo the alllanco lmsalso tho' purpose of mutual protection against the military aggression of tho wilfully unruly neighbor on the south. The Monroe Doctrine In Ii 3 Wilson Covenant. Wo call attention to the very Important discrepancy ot text and meaning between tho English and tho French versions ot the Monroe Doctrine provision 'In the Wilson covenant, pointed out this morning In a letter to Tun Sun from Professor William Staub Mykrs. This slngulnr circumstance hd not escaped uotlco previously. Tho Pync Preceptor of History and Politics at Princeton brings It out more clearly than before and exhibits tho consequences of a clash of Interpretations of an article equally ofllclal In the two conflicting versions.

IteaiK-rs-of Tun Sun who have not forgotten tho earlier phases of Prcsl-deit Wilson's self-determined enter-prlac know that In his first proposed constitution It was then styled a constitution, not a covenant of the Leagno of Nations there was no reference whatever to tho Monroe Doctrine. As read by Mr. Wilson at tho plenary session of the Peace Conference on February of last year tho document was silent as the tomb about America's traditional policy bo distinctly asserted and renlllrmed In connection with both of tho series of treaties signed at The Hague, and likewise with equal directness and emphasis when our Government participated In the Algeclras convention. This original draft of the Leaguo constitution Is the draft of which Mr. Wilson said to the Conference on February 14, 1010, that it was a practical document and that It expressed the conscience of the world.

It Is the draft which he brought back with him on his brief visit to the United States In that name February, and which he exhibited both In his Boston speech of February 24 and In his New York speech In March as tho covenant which tho Senate "would find so skilfully Interwoven with the treaty of peace that It would be Impossible to dissect them apart. It was the draft of which he-said In the Metropolitan Opera House "I did not need to be told, as I have been told, that the people of the United States would support this covenant. I am nn American and I knew they would. What sweet revenge It Is upon the world And the practical covenant, the Inseparable covenant, the covenant which Mr. Wilson, because he was an American, knew the people of the United Stntes would support, was as void of any mention of the Monroe Doctrine ns tho Book of Toblt In the Apocrypha.

It was too much even for the most nrdent subscribers to the campaign fund of Mr. Tait's to Enforce Peace. The President, after his return to Paris, began to get reminders from all sorts of eminent Americans, friendly In a gpneral way to tho idea of a League of Nations, that this omission of the Monroe Doctrine was too gross a blunder to ho overlooked even by them. He received all manner of suggestions, good, bad nnd indifferent, ns to the form in which It should be Incorporated. In the second or revised draft of the original constitution, now restyled "covennnt," ho did slide In referenco to tho Monroe Doctrine.

Tho Doctrine was "mentioned," but In a manner so nebulous and deceptive nnd with a description of Its true Inwardness so pntently fraudulent that it might as well have been left freezing In tho outer darkness arid coldness to which tho President's scheme originally condemned It. His manner of explaining to the Conference and the world this change of the unchangeable was as characteristic as his method of drafting the "regional understandings" amendment, under pressure from his supporters here at home. When he came, at the plenary fcesslon of April 28, to expound the significance of "some of the alterations that have been made" he dovoted Just four words to the subject of tho Monroe Doctrine change In the League fabric. "Article he said to the Conference, "Is new." And he has been Insisting ever slnco that Article XXL, like the rest of his self-determined handiwork, must not be changed even by the dottlug'of nn or tho crossing of a Even If the heavens fall the Senate must leave his "regional understandings" mnster-plece untouched. Professor Mvuns shows to-day In his letter to Tiik Sun that while the pfllclal text nf the treaty In English signifies one thing with regard to the sanctity and force of tho Monroe Doctrine, the ofllclal text of tho treaty In French signifies quite a different thing, perhaps diametrically opposite thing, with regard to that subject.

Tho construction of this national obligation, If It should become a national obligation In the form ob-stlnntely demanded of tho. Sonato by tho President, would depend altogether, so far ns tho League was con- corned, upon tho' Bupergoycrnment'B own clwlco of offldnl version ns between English and French, nnd then on tho construction which tho Leaguo Interpreters might put upon tho extremely loose phraseology of tho article Itself, whichever version should bo adopted as definitive. Whether Professor Mykbs Is right or wrong In his view of tho plain Implication of, tho French text at this point, tho fact remains that the confusion purposo and tho evasion of direct statement leavo the Monroo Doctrlno away up In tho air. Tho only way to get It down nhd to plant It squarely on two feet on solid American ground Is to write our own reservation nr nmendincnt of construction and application, and to wrlto It so clearly that thero cm never bo In nny quarter of the globe any mlsundor-rtaudliig or doubt of what tho United Oovcinmi'iit means to do with regard lo the Monroe Doclrlne. Tho Lodge reservation on this point, supported by a majority of the Amerlcati Senators, with sllghtiy different opinions about the most desirable bo employed, Is nlmed nt this characteristic performance ot tho author of tbo covenant.

At how many other points room Is loft between French nnd l'ngllsh texts for similar misunderstandings and conflicting constructions of tho Instrument with which President Wilson has demanded that we shall bind our tuturo can bo determined only by tho most nilnnto and deliberate consideration of Its complexities. In gross and In detail; pntl this Is what the American people hnvo come to perceive and to demand. The clearing up of Article XXI. might bo a legltlinato enterprise for Mr. Takt'h Leaguo to Enforce Pence, provided tho state of Its treasury permits the undertaking.

Tiik Sun, by the way, has beforo It a somewhat pathetic private appeal to the faithful, signed by tho treasurer of that organization nnd dated only last Monday, stating that "the League was compelled recently to borrow $20,000, nnd now needs funds with which to repay this amount nnd continue Its work." Dull times? Federal Recognition of Fine Arts. At a recent meeting In this city of the Amerlcau Institute of Arts nnd Letters tentative action was vakcn to obtain Federal recognition of tho objects chiefly sought by the Institute: to foster nnd encourage the growth and excellence of American arts and letters. It was decided to call a special meeting of tho Institute to give further consideration to tho subject with the plan of determining how best to Interest public opinion In support of the purpose nnd through that forco tt move Congress to favorable action. Walter Damhoscii spoke of the cordial aid given to him by the French Minister of Fine Arts when ho undertook In France the task of raising tho standard of American hand music. In support of the suggestion Mr.

Blasii-fikld cited the good work done by the Federal Commission of Fine Arts, nnd at the suggestion of C.vss Giluekt the course decided upon was adopted. The Institute docs well to give careful thought to preliminaries; to consider how much to ask for before be ginning its campaign of public educa-a tlon lest In asking too much nt first It fall to receive nny help from Congress. We nrc disposed to think that the Institute would be unwise to ask for an executive department such as Franco and many other European countries have. It may bo that a movement having headway for a new department to administer such laws as Congress may pass further to extend Federal cooperation with States and Institutions In respect to educational matters, such, for example, ns the cooperation already existing between the Government nnd agricultural colleges, might answer the Institute's purposes. If such a Cabinet oftlco be created one of Its bureaus might well administer laws designed to foster arts and letters.

But the end sought might be more conveniently accomplished by Federal legislation extending the scope of the Commission of Fine Arts created by Congress In 1010. It Is significant In relation to the Institute's purpose to recall tho several extensions of this Commission's powers. The creating act directed that It should "advise upon tho location of statues, fountains and monuments In tho public squares, streets nnd parks of the District of Columbia, and upon tho selection of models" for such works. By nn cxj ecutlve order of October, 1010, the President directed that "plans for no public building to be erected In tbo District of Columbia for the general Government shall hereafter he finally approved by the officer duly authorized until after such officer shall have submitted the plans to the Commls-' slon of Fine Arts." Again, In February, 1012, and In November, 1013, executive orders enlarged the scope of the Commission's authority; the order of 1018 directing thnt It advise in the matter of tho erection of any "new structure" which might "affect In any important way the appearance of the city," or whenever questions arose In-, volvlng matters of art with which the Federal Government was concerned. All' bills Involving Government expenditure for work with which the Fine Arts Commission Is concerned are' reported by tho House Committee on tho and thnt committee has worked In cordial relations with the Commission, a result being that In the past ten years Washington has been spared the Infliction of such burlesques on art ns In earlier days mado some of Its parks places to be avoided by persons of good taste.

In such ways as were followed by tho dovoted little band whose efforts were rewarded with the creation of the Commission the American InstI arm kprtti A tute of Arts and Letters may nchlovo somo if not all of tho results It do-Biros. Tho Commission of Fine Arts 1h nniong tlvo sovernl known In Washington ns "Independent," not being under tho Jurisdiction of nn executive department, as are the commissions on civil service, efficiency, trade, tariff, 'boundaries and others. Congress Is moro disposed to create commissions than executive departments, nnd tine arts commission, once created, Its powers nnd Jurisdiction mny bo greatly enlarged, ns wo hnvo pointed out, by sympathetic President's executive orders. Prohibition's Effect on Crime. Somo optimistic prohibitionist Is quoted ns saying that ono of tho Inevitable results ot national drought will bo a reduction of nil police forces, Including that of New York, which numbers nearly 11,000 men.

We cannot be! love. Wo hnvo never heard New York Police Commissioner admit that ho lind enough men, oven when he was modestly confessing thai this was tho best policed city In tbo world. When thero aro no moro crimes that spring from nlcohollsm and Its byproducts thero will still be tho cold, sober housebreaker, tho pickpocket of exemplary personal habits and the usually abstemious vlolntor of a hundred ordinances. Tho police will have a thousand' groups of corner loungers to break up If It bo trUo that prohibition will sot them 'frco from somo of their other tasks. Our Town Hall.

To-morrow Now York will see tho corncrstono laid of tho houso of an Interesting experiment. This building, In West Forty-third street, is to be called tho Civic Auditorium, although Its friends have referred to It by the more Intimate name of tile town hall. It Is to bo to the1 people what Cooper Union was to the ol'der city, but perhaps In a broader way, for every law abiding citizen with a thought to utter for the common good Is expected to Join his fellow thinkers nt the Civic Auditorium, and say It aloud. It will be a plnce for patriotic demonstration, for calm discussing of city problems and often of course for letting off This new gntherlng place, of which the New England meeting house was the prototype, conies to the rescue of the dialectician who finds all tho other worthy halls taken up by New York's passion for music. Here symphony will not be permitted to take tho time and the space needed for the matching of minds.

Instead of a fugue we shall hear a discussion of the Twentieth Amendment, if one be proposed. All In all, It Is a most Interesting prospect, nnd when the cornerstone Is laid by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, whose grnndaunt. Eleanor Butler Sanders, founded the League tor Political Education, the trustee Institution of the Forum, all will wish for tho new hall useful future. The scarcity of nurses proclaimed by the Health Department seems to bo a chronic condition In New York and Its suburbs, but the effect of tho lack of professionals should not bo as serious to-day as It would have been a few years ago, before so many women learned the elements of scientific care of tho sick.

During the war tho number of women practically useful In tho sickroom in this country was Increased 'by many millions, and the value of their training still endures. It will take some thought to decide wisely to which branch of tho medical profession should be referred the case of Citizen For. Irfto his favorite restaurant this was on the morning of January 17 he ordered his accustomed cup of -offee, but Instead of bringing It to its familiar blond hue with milk he poured into Its sombre depths a liberal portion of extract of ginger. To the policeman whoso attentions he soon afterward needed Mr. Koy with good nature but with insistence explained that ho was ho Wnnlwnrth Building.

As ginger and other potent extracts may become popular beverages, some investigation hmiM rintrrmlriA their illusory effects upon minds therefrom accelerated. In olden times somo citizens imagincti and stoutly declared thoy were bears and they growled to prove It; that they were foxes and begged Interested onlookers to watch them trot. Whatever may have caused these whimsical beliefs it Is certain that Mr. For has found another cause resulting In Imaginings more artistic. For ono to believe that one is a bear, a fox, is childish; to entertain a fixed belief that ono is tho Woolworth Building denotes yearning for high nrt, no less.

It is all very well for the revenue men to say that apartment dwellers may keep liquor in their cellar bins, but it Is not constitutional to handcuff tho Janitor without duo process of law. Skatlnx at the Form. There's akatlnx on the pond at the old farm now. The lea la thick and amooth, and all a Clare. Steel blades rlnx true with each atroko anew; There's Uufhter In the air.

They're "cutting figure elfihts'' In the frost Bakes white. Tiny feet ao deft, so proud, each curve to trace, They twlat, they spin, thsy clrcU hd turn. Each movement perfect trace. They're "lined up" for a race from the old beech lot, There's Kate and drace, and Tom and fleet Will. They're gone like flaah with the drop of a hat Who'll be Hrst at the mill? Thcre'i a hui flre burning by the shore, I know.

And Its flames leap hleh and bright and Jar, While the sparks float away toward tho weatern sky. Where glows the evening star. They're akatlnx on the pond at the old farm now. The Ice Is thick and amooth, and all aglare. Oh.

for a day on tho old pond it pUy! My heart's not here It's thlr. John n. Foma. JANUARY 23, 1920, MR. MUNSEY'S PURCHASE OF THE "NEW YORK HERALD." The "Baltimore Now" Wclcomos the Accession to tho Family.

from the Baltimore Ntici, About twenty years ago Mr. Munaey, following a decade of almost unparalleled success in the field of magazlno publication, decided to turn his talents and his genluB for organliatlon In the direction of dally newspaper publication, Ho held tha very sound theory that a mngailno can spcolt only onto a month or once a week at most, whoreas dally newspaper Influences tho lives and moulds tho opinions of tens of thousands of readers each day, It is hardly worth whllo to speak here of tho discouragements, of the disappointments which were Inovltuble, Sufficient to say that a very small percentage of tlioso discouragements and disappointments would have put an effectual stop to the newspaper ambitions of most men, An a gfenernl rule a man' muat grow up In Journalism, must go at It early and stay with It lato, get It bred In the bono, so to opoak. It seldom happens that a mnn approaching middle hko can enter tho newspaper field and mako a success of the undertaking, it was only nulurul tliereforo that some of bis earlier experiences should have been disappointing to Mr. MuiiHpy and It would have occasioned little surprlso bad he rotlred gracefully from tlio field. Tho slmplo fart hi that lie was not, Is not nor over could bo a quitter.

Ho wasn't cast In that mould. Notwithstanding tlioso early discouragements Mr. Munsey went steadily ahead, taking bis losses philosophically Jlke sporthinun and a gentleman, not grieving over minor failures hero or thero but making day by day careful' ttudles and surveys of the field of modern Journalism until tho day canio when hn felt (bat bo was master of tbo situation. As bin reward for twenty years of Intenslvo effort for twenty years of persistent application of bis nound Journalistic principles, Mr. Munsey finds himself to-day at tho bead of three ot tho greatest newspaper properties ot Hie world: Tim Sun, tho New York Herald group, embracing tho Evening Telegram, the morning New York Herald and tlio Kuropean edition of tho Herald published in Tarls, and If the News may be allowed to invite itself Into this splendid company I may Include the flalH-more News.

Whllo not so large as Its brothers and sisters in tho Munsey family, no paper In the group has finer traditions or tries more sincerely to llvo up to Its best traditions than the and, after all, greatness la founded not alono on bigness but on lh will to do the day's work well. When Mr. Munsey entered the field of Journalism tho odds were against him. Just as they are always against a mnn who takes up a new line of work with nearly two score of years behind him. Most men would have been so fearfully discouraged as to make continuance In the newspaper field Impossible.

Hut men of sterner stuff, whether they bo 20 or iO or 60, who have In their hearts the determination to succeed and who bring with thin desire the cheerfulness and high aspiration of outh, of a youthful heart even If not a youthful body to such men there Is no such word as fall. In the comparatively brief space of twenty years to find oneself owner of three of the great Journalistic driving forces of the country. three great newspaper properties rich In Influence and tradition, should be a satlsfylngresult for the sacrifices of any one lifetime. I congratulate Mr. Munsey on the ownership of that wonderful property Tn Svs.

I congratulate him on tho acquisition of one of the two or three great historic newspaper properties of the country, the York Herald. But above all else I congratulate him on keeping alive the fine fires of youth and enthusiasm and determination without which life Is at best a helpless and sorry thing. Stuart Olivier. Sentiments Stirred In the Native State of Mr. Bennett's Successor.

From the l.euiilon Evening Journal. Maine has reason to tako especial pride In tho announcement that Frank A. Munsey Is extending his newspaper ownership and Influence through the purchase, announced this week, of the VorJ; Herald. Mr. Munsey Is Maine man and not only that, he Is almost a Lewlston man, having been born and educated In Androscoggin county, where he first learned how to read the dots and dashes of the Morse code In the Lisbon Falls railway station.

To-day Mr. Munsey' has come Into tho Inheritance of two distinguished Journalists, Charles A. Dana and the elder and younger James Gordon Bennett. It Is now his greatest work, without doubt, to "carry on" the great metropolitan traditions of the York Herald as ho already has been carrying on those of The Sun. But ho has changed with the changing times and Mr.

Munsey Is certain to give America twentieth century papers In the truest sense of the word. Into this fraternity of newspaperdom, where ancient political personalities and bickerings are but fading memories, Mr. Munsey la welcomed to-day with a cordial hand. "The Herald's" New Owner. From tt Emilia J'oll, Sew York.

The purchase of tho Herald by Frank A Munsey brings a newspaper of big achievements Into tho ownership of a man whoso career has been a succession of big undertakings. Mr. Munsey likes to do things of large proportions and unusual character. He revolutionized tho monthly. magailne field years ngo with his Munaev'e at ten cents.

To other magailne publishers his undertaking seemed Impossible; yet one by one most of them followed his example, though It Is doubtful whether any of them ever equalled his yearly profits out ot the popular magazine field. As In magazine publication so In newspapers, Mr. Munsey has sought no blaicd traits. Ills own vision has boen his guide and a definite, well reasoned purposo has been his only motive. He has had no alliances, no prejudices, no selfish ambitions to satisfy in tho upbuilding work he has done.

Tho dominant rioto with him has always been, frankness as to purpose, Independence In thought nnd the ragged determination Inbred in the Maine Yankee to stick everlastingly to whatever he has set out to do. Tbo purchase ot Tub Skn by Mr. Munsey a few years back gavo new vitality to that paper of splendid traditions; ho brought tho good that was In It out of the past and Into the present; he kept its traditions, but he dated them as of to-day. Now ho has taken the Herald, another newspaper of tradition, and we may depend upon it that tho namo will gain new lustro under tho Munsey regime. Charles A.

Dana and James Gordon Bennett, father and son, could not have wished to have their heritage of news paper famo left In hands mora capable or moro desirous to take up whero they left off and keep allvo and alert their spirit of great enterprise, broad purposo and sturdy Americanism. "Tho Maker of Ills Own Traditions." From the Dally Xtnnibto Journal, Auouita, Me. That Mercer lad who graduated from a five years course In telegrapTiy at Augusta Into publishing magazines firmly established a reputation for wizardry in printer's Ink years ago, so his acquisition of sovcral New York publications of old and Bplendld traditions excites no surprlso, romnrkable though It bo. Ono of his local contemporaries remarks that: "Mr. Munsey is very much tho maker of his own traditions." Tho traditions of Tli SuN.do not ap-poar to liavo been Impaired by tho own-ershlp of Krank A.

Munsey and none apprehend such fato for tho New York Herald and rfleflrowi which ho lias recently acquired. i THE MONROE DOCTRINE IN THE 'TREATY. Tho Tho Versions, Ungllsh nnd French Tho League Woqld Choose Between Them. To Tim Kditor or- Tub Sun Sir: According to an ofllelnHcopy of tho treat of peace, secured from the State Department at AVoshlnston, Article XXI. of the proosed covenant of tho Leaguo of Nations reads as follows: Nothing In this covenant shall be deemed lo nrffft the validity of International uch as treatlea of arbitration or regional underatand-Inga like the Monroo Doctrine, for ae-curing the maintenance ot peace.

According to the snmo ofllclal copy tho French text ot tho samo "Article X.Xt. Is ii follows; engagements Internallonaux, tls que les traltes d'arbltrage, et lea ententes coniino la doctrine de Monroe, qui ssaurent le malnllen de la pair, nn ont conld6rfs commo lncom-patlblea avec aucune des disposition) du present I'actc, A correct translation of this French text should rend: The International engagements, euch as arbitration treatlea, and regional un-derstandlnga like the Monroe Doctrine, which assure the maintenance of peace, are not considered as Incompatible with any of the provisions of the present compact. It at onco will bo seen that a comparison of tho English and French texts, both Of them official, shows a striking dlfferenco of emphasis If not of actual meaning. According to the Engllshtext ns submitted to the American people nothing In the Wague covenant Is to affect the Monroe Doctrine. Tho plain Implication of tho French text Is the direct opposite of this, that nothing in the Monroe Doctrine Is to affect the League.

Therefore, If tho Senate follows President Wilson's demand and ratifies the Leaguo covenant without change, this and ony other like divergences would bo subject to the League organization for interpretation. It Is a foregone conclusion that this interpretation would favor tho Interests of the other member nations rather than the peculiar Interests of the United States. Any person at all familiar with our past diplomatic history knows tho generally hostile attitude toward tho Monroe Doctrine usually assumed by the other mrflons of the world, and the formation of the League gives no sign of any conversion to American views on their part. Is any further argument needed as to the Imperative duty of the Senate to ratify the Leaguo covenant, If ratify It must, only with our'own reservations or amendments, so that by our own previous notion we shall remove all danger to tho Independence and Interests of the United States? William Starr Mters. Princeton, N.

January 20. THE VOTE OF A MINORITY. The liar Association and the Case of tho Five Socialists. To the Editor or The Sun Sir: There Is an erroneous 'impression abroad that the bar ot New York has in some way given Its opinion against the action of the Assembly In suspending the five Socialist members. The fact is that the bar has not expressed' Its opinion In any way on tho subject, nor has It had any opportunity to do so.

The number of lawyers in this borough Is not less than 12,000. The membership of the city Bar Association is about 2,000. The Hughes committee as far us is known represents less than 200 lawyers. At a recent meeting of the city Bar Association where less than one-fifth of tho membership was present tho resolution appointing the Hughes committee to defend tho five Socialists was hurriedly Jammed through in the face of strong and bitter protest and opposition. No doubt tho movers had rallied their forces beforehand, and yet they had less than 200 votes for their resolution.

And now on the strength of this snap vote of less than one-tenth of tho association membership this commltteo is going about pretending to represent the bar of New York and to be the champions of fair representation in public affairs. And more; on pretence of supporting representative government they assume to bully tho duly elected representatives of the people Into compliance with their wishes on a matter which under the Constitution of tho State Is entirely within tho control and Judgment of thoso representatives. It Is to laugh. Alfred IJ. Cruiksiiank.

New York, January 22. It Is Moro LlkV F.lnsleln Itclatlvlty. To the Editob or The Sun Sir: Has tho- Newtonian law of gravitation anything to do with the tendency of little men to marry big women and of little women to prefer big men. or Is it merely a corrective effort of nature to average tho species? Charles Theodore Murrat. Wardensville, W.

January 21. The Truth Will Out Sometimes. To the Editor or The Sun Sir: All honor to Admiral Sims for the splendid service he Is rendering to the navy and to the country! Some one has spoken of blm as a llcyi In tho Daniels den but I think that is not happy, for, a I recall the circumstances, each Hon kept Ills mouth shut. A Patient Waiter. "Washington, January 22.

In the Surely Deposit Vault. Tho Dottle I don't see how ha will ever work th" combination when he couldn't And a simple keyhole. Man's Liberality. From the Tepetca Capital. No man Is ao dtnged stingy he will object to having others' share hit good opinion of himself.

PROFITS TAX BASIS OF ALL HIGH PRICES Not Intended or Necessary ns llovcnno Measure, W. H. Colvci4 Says. ENCOUllAGEIt OF WASTE Ycnr 1910 Ono of Itecklcss Ex-travagnnco Bo Looked Uncle On in Shame. The excess profits tax wub described as a corncrstono of tho structure of high prices in a speech mado yesterday by William B.

Colver, member of tbo Federal Trado Commission, beforo tho National Consumers Leaguo In tlio Bob-erl Treat Hotel, Newark. "It was never proposed as a rovenuo mcnmiro and is not necessary as a rnvo-nuo measure," Mr. Colver said. "It was proposed only as a corrective; to o-rrnment prion fixing. Rven as a corrective It dbl not work.

On tho con-trary. It encouraged cxtrnvngnnco of operation and carelessness In business management. Now the Government Is do longer fixing prices nnd tlio only ojiriiso which ever existed, If one did for the excess profits lax has disappeared. "In everything that you buy thorn are front ono fifty excess profits taxes. Enrb ono who pays this tnx adds ILlo Ids selling price and passes It on.

The consumer finally pays the total bill." To Mr. Colver Iho consumer's it-sponslbiilly at this moment feemed lo bo "the firm but gentle application of an Ice cap to the national head nnd thereby a reduction of a temperature which has run so high that It hx resulted In a delirium of spending and a hysteria of prices." "Tho year 1919," ho said, "lias been a year which wo and our children will look back upon with shame. It lias been a year of reckless extravagance nnd personal expenditure quite aside from the' high prices which we hae been compelled to pay for tho necessaries of life. Indeed, our own reckless, extravagance has been nn exceedingly important factor In tho creation of the false price structuro In our cost of living. Nlncteen-nlneteen was a year of Insane speculation.

Hundreds nnd hundreds of millions of dollars have beer, squandered In speculative ventures and In stock gambling. When we talk of Uuo sky operations let ua not nnMer them as being limited to the cP" mendacity of promoters of mines and oil companies. New York must share tho responsibility. J.onn Terms Quoted. "The Wall Street Journal tells us that not long ago In New York a substantial -oln- buln concern, needing money for "permanent betterments, got Its tw terms: It ssued Its securities, which were taken by under writers at 30; the underwriters them on to a syndicate of sub-underwriters nt 63.

a profit of 75 per cent. The sub-underwriters passed them on to brokers at 82. a profit of 5t per cent, and the brokers passed them on to the to you and to me, and the man on the Btreet. nt par, a profit to the broker ot 22 per cent. "And when the investor chose those securities he did not know that out of his hundred dollars only thirty In fact reached the concern In whlch-he thought he was Investing and seventy of his dollars never became productive, Invested capital.

"Transactions like that are not going to lower the cos; of living. The war has put hundreds ot millions billions of dollars Into the pockets of our people. This fund la the last great reservoir of money and credit on earth, and we have been wasting It like a nation of Coal Oil Johnnies. "This fund thould be devoted to the Increase In production of necessary and useful things In this country of needed goods for export (especially of productive things Instead of foodstuffs), nnd billions of dollars should be devoted to Investment In the gilt edged transportation Vnd securities of prostrate Europe. Menus Solvent Knrope.

"With the proceeds of tho sales ot their securities Europe would be plnced In possession of a supply of credit and funds with which to rebuild her productive operations, and a solvent Europe means a solvent America. "The five great packing concerns which took to themselves during three years of 1915, 1916 and 1917 profits ot more than 1192,000,000, as compared with during the three ptecedlng years, added materially to your cost of living. The process was continued through 1018 and 1919. It Is being continued to-day. "The great packers, protesting their entire Innocence and declaring that as 'true American citizens' they nro surrendering certain legal rights, liavo agreed with Attorney-General I'almer to a consent decree placing certain limitations upon their futuro conduct.

"I had always thought that a true American would die for his rltshts before he would surrender them, nnd Indeed that that was the test of true Americanism. "Tho decree was a broad one. It wa not nccepted by the most powerful group In all the 'United States for any reason other than that they had to accept It. In a great measure Its service to the general welfare will lie In Its execution nnd In the spirit In which it is enforced, obeyed and carried out." AGAINST WOOD'S PROMOTION. linker Disapproves I1III lo Mnkc Him I.lratennnt-Oencrnl.

"Washington, Jan. 22. Secretary Ilaker wrote Representative Kahn chairman of the House Military Committee, to-day disapproving of the promotion of Major-Gen. Leonard Wood to tbo grado of Lleutenant-General as proposed in a bill Introduced by Representative Dyer The letter showed that Representative Kahn had transmitted a copy o' tho Dyer bill to Mr. Baker for recommendation, but the only comment mado by tho Secretary, beyond expressing his disapproval of tho proposal, was the following: "Gen.

Wood Is one of a number of officers of tho Regular Army of long and distinguished service." PUBLIC LECTURES TO-NJGHT. "The ETolutlnn of Mind." by I'rederlck Srhlelter, Wadletgh lllirh Honool, 115th street west ot Sere nth arenue: Illustrated. "Hamlet, the Trtrlc Thinker." by Prof. J. Duncan Bpaeth, r.

S. M. zM East rifty-e-enth utreet. "Life Jllitory nf the Earth," by Prof. Samuel Sfhmnraer.

P. 8. M. KlghtT-clghth street near First arenne: Illustrated. 'China's Furelin Cotioeon and rrovlncei." by Sydney Nellle Unher.

P. S. 132. ISM street and Wadsworth atenile; II of the Eye." William H. M.

P. H. 17, Fordham street. City Island! Illustrated. "The Philippines," by Major Frank Keek; P.

S. Anthony and Tremont artnucs. The Droni Illustrated. The Sun Calendar THE WEATHER. Eastern New York Snow to-riny for In northwest portion.

To-morrow mow In north, tnow or ran In south portion modorute northeast and cast winds, Now ereoy Snow or rain to-dy an probably to-morrow; lrttle change In ttra pcruture; moderate to fresh northtiii winds. 1 Northern New Knglund Fair to-day; i. morrow cloudy, probably anow, gentle to moderate east and louthenit wlndi. Southern New Unglund Snow lo-di and probably to-morrow inodrraia i freih Rorlheant wlnda. Western New York-Fnlr tn ilaj morrow cloudy, probably nu utiia change In temporatiirei moderate norlliean and cast winds, WASHINOTON, Jan.

A Mliht nverllfK a Mvtlon of the country cxttndlnr from Weal Virginia southrottwanl, ullh con mined high prcesure to the iwrlhunnl ami iiorthcoMwanl, and ns result rulna nmtliiuM In the fJulf Stiilex anil rains nnd iiow ttm Tcnnrsuro and tho (Uilo Valley eastward ami extended through Pennsylvania, New Jericy and southeast New York, Prrxnurr ,0 low over the plateau region mid itirro vrt HzM anowa In tho Northwol HtntM, lljlit loi-nl ruins In the ccntrul plain Ntnti and California and rains nml Known In the mltldln plateau, In tho middle plateau, in the upper Valley ami from llin la Uo reilon eaatunril Hi" ueuthcr was fair lllk'li Inn peraturcs nmtlnuc In the Soulhrukt, but where, east of Iho Hneky they am below the e.ipon;il avernire, deefdclly tn in tin NnrlliMcsl, where them wa fiirlliir fall, Tin' wealher will Im fair Friday from the enklern upper hikn rcrlon eafltw.ini nml on Friday nnd HnturdKy in sniilhern Florida llilt with them rxccptlnni them Mill be inu over the northern, nmi pd rains mer the i-enlral and ralna oer the amilhern diMrltta ent nf Hlver Friday and KkI unlay. It will be onielint cooler In liir cunt llulf nnd nilllli Atlantic State eeep Florida, bill elsewhere temperatures will chanse but little. Obscrvatlonn at United Mntca Wealher 111 reau stntlnua, taken at I'. jrHerdi). HOMiilr-llllli meridian time: Halnlali Temperature, liar- last 21 HtMlona.

High. Low. oinetrr. Iir. Wralhfr Ablleno 32 Cloudy Albany IS I Clear Athintle 11 2S 11 Hal" llaltlninro ii ro.il Hln r.lsimirilt 12 ai.th .0.1 CloiHv PO'tnn -ii Imidy nuffalo Clear Cb.irli'Moli 20.3'.

ileal Chicago I'll is Clear Cincinnati -TS Iin.Hs SO Halu Cleveland "i nam Denier .12 SO Cloudy Detroit 22 0 3i.li, Clear (ialveslon (II J2 iw.oi .01 cloudy Helena I I Snnw ci clear Kansas 21 IS Cloudy Lot f.2 SO.02 Milwaukee 20 hi ri.li iouly New so Gil 30.11 Clear Oklahoma 32 .11 Italn Philadelphia ..21 22 20.00 .14 Italn rittetiiiiir 31 21 50.12 .12 Haiti Portland. 20 I Clear Portland. Ore ffl.es Clear Halt Lnlie City. 50 21 20.SS .11 Cleat San 15 as mv.OI .18 Haiti San Illci-i) M.02 lnn Son TO Cloulr St Iiuls so 2 M.rt .03 Cloudy wcihlnclon ...2 21 53 n. Italn LOCAL WEATHUIt ItKCOItUS A.

M. 8 I' Durometer 30.62 30.S. Humidity Ii III Wind direction N.H. Wind velocity 1 WcHther Cloudy Snow Precipitation 00 .01 Tho temperature In this city yesterda aa recorded by tho official thermometr Is shown In tho annexed table: SA, SI. .10 1 V.

.23 6 I. SI. .2 9A.SI...21 2P.JI...2(i 7P.M...2 10 A.M... 23 3 P. I'.

M. UA.SI...2I 9 12 SI 25 1'. 10 P. Si. 1320.

1910. 1920. I91-' 9 A. SI 21 2 Si: 4 12 2 44 2K i 3 1'. SI 26 47 12 Mid 2 Highest temperature, 28, Ht 4:10 I' 51 Lowest temperature, JC.

at 4 A. Average temperature, 22. EVENTS TO-DAY. Frank Vanderllp will speak un "Kdma tlon for Leisure before the (ilrl 1'rn tectlvo League and the New York Probation and ITotectlve Association at tho home el Mrs. Charles II Alexander.

I West Fills eighth street, nt 9 1'. SI. Antilles l-osi veterans oi uie foreign Wars of the United States, meeting, Uraim Opera Houte Ilulldlng. Twculy-third street and Eighth avenue. 8 P.

SI. CnatUnio dance. of Illustrators, VJ dorf-Aatorla root. 1 Si. National Hound Table or Speech Improvi nient, meeting, Washington Irving Illgii School, Fifteenth street and Irving place.

1. M. Prol, John Duncau Spaeth of Prince ton will speak on "Common Sense in Head Ing." Exhibition and sale of modern painting-from the home nf the late Frank Wool worth. Silo's Filth Avenue Art Galleries Fortr-flfth street and Vanderbllt avenue, Everett Deau Slortln will lecture on The Sentimentality of 'The Return to Nature." it Cooper Union at I SI. Author's matinee fur the Mary Fisher Hum.

at Tenony N. at the Waldorf Astoria a 2:15 1. M. Lecture by Dr. Frank II.

Jewett on "Some tVarllpie Developments In Electrical Com mnnlvallon and Allied Fields" at the Hi rlneenng Societies Building. 23 West Thirty ninth street. I'. M. Dance of the Common Cause Antl-Sodal Society at the hall of the Church of On Saviour, 183d street and Washington avenu'' 8 P.

M. Senator Oeorge Thompson will lecture "Law, Order and Government" at the Ne Era Club at 174 Et Hroadway at 1' Lecture on V'Rofrlrcratlon" at the Burea ol Home Economics, 121 West Forty eeom street, at 4 P. SI. Veteran Association, Thirteenth Regimen O. N.

annual meeting, the Hippodrome P. SI. Aviation ball, Copley-Plaza, SI Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. will lay th cornerstone of tho new Town Hall at 121 Vte Forty-third street at 11:30 A.

SI Exercises will be held at tho Hippodrome at 10 A. SI Mass meeting under the auspices of the American Committee for the Independence or Armenia at Carnegie Hall, SI James W. Oerard, Irtshup Burch. Abram I. Elkus Dr.

Stephen S. Wise and Henry W. Jcnuo will speak. Mlddlebury College Alumni Association or New York City, annual dinner. I nlverslt Club.

P. I. Slajor (icn. John Hyai Hamlin Oarland, Howard Elliott and Di John Thomas will speak. Discussion of "Summer Vacations an' Rural Community Service." 1 a headquarters, COO Lexington avenue.

P. Sf. Washington Heights Taxpayers Association meeting, as Wet 15th street. 8 Exhibition of paintings and sculpture Sa magundl Club. 47 Fifth avenue, all day United States Daughters of 1S12.

rcadiot Wainorf-Astorln. 10 A M. Manuel League, dance. Waldorf-Astoria New York Southern Society, ball. Waluor Astoria, 8 31, Riverside Day Nursery, bridge Waldorf As National Automobile Club bri.js Waldorf-Astoria.

2 P. SI Delta Kpsllon Sorority, dance, Hole ion' modore. M. ralestiiv Commandary. K.

ball ami su per, Hotel Commodore. 8 P. Overseas Club, dance. Hotel Commodore 1 P. St.

Century Theatre Club, meeting Hotel Coin modore. 2:30 P. SI American Steel Export Companv riane-Hotel Pennsylvania. 8 M. St.

Ceorgc Society, dinner. Hotel I'ennsv vanli, 7 P. SI National Bank nt Conimene tlu da Hotel Pennsylvania. 8:30 SI Horso Publicity Association. met ng it Pennsylvania.

3 P. M. University Alumni, dinner Ibne Aior. 7:20 P. M.

Cornell University Alumni, dmn- Astor. 7 P. SI. eta PI Sorority, dance and bullet tcpne Hotel Astor. 8:30 P.

St. Engineering Council, meeting. En.ini. Societies nullding. 29 West Tlnrt si street, all day American Society for Te-Mnr Mater ircetlng.

Engineering Societies IIum, i-a Wet Thirty-ninth street. SI Chi Delta Klima, daucr. Hotel M- Sigma Alpha Slu. meeting ,1 MeAlpln. 6 P.

SI. "The Restoration of P.ilctme subject of an nldrr-s hv Slack before the Te upte lrarl of 'm 120th street and lJ-nnx nveniie. I Missouri Women's ctnt dance Alpln. 8 P. M.

Poultry Show. Mallwi i are ternoon ami evening National P-oot wtd soelatlon. mcctlnr. Ililtrl -and evening. National Woolen and rum.i lion, luncheon.

Aldlnc Club. line, 12 P. M. S. W.

Orafdin will lecture oi, Around si tho West Women's5 OrganUMIons of the So.ietr Ethical Culture, lecture hr Mr i trovsty Canek on "The iVerlio 2 Vet Slxtv fourth street. It Rrootljn Teachers Asnclatinn, leet the ner mnols Dtiltr on hi. w' ences, at the Training School for Tea, Park ruVe, and Nottmid avenue ProoVn. m..