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WasWriffton 1416 New York ave. N. W. New York. Times Bmiding Chicago Tribune Building Detroit Ford Building and fifty of them every day of the week, the girls themselves are far less con ment to him at Charlottesville will be quickened into life after a century's sleep.

It is a shame, indeed, that he should have been unhonored so long, and it is a curious thing that it should be left to a new-comer in the Old Dominion to rediscover this Revolutionary cavalier who laughed at danger and delighted in peril. It does not 'derogate frcm Mr. Hyde's picture nor from Jouett's claim to fame to express doubt whether the capture of Jefferson would have changed the course of events or carried panic to the heart of Washington and the iron minds and hearts around him. Corn-wallis would still nave been driven to bay and Tench Tilghman, Maryland's historic horseman, would still have carried the good news of triumph from Yorktowr. to Philadelphia.

We are inclined to think that neither Washington nor Marshall, afterward Chief Justice, would have shed many tears if Tarleton had captured Jefferson and sent him to England. They might even have thanked the British cavalry roughneck. Certainly, looking backward years "after, when the Sage of Monti-cello was giving a lot of trouble, they nit have wished that Jack Jouett had been a little late in reaching -From the Newark Evening News. progress; But it must not be forgotten that at nearly the same hour when President Harding was reading his statement of facts before the Senate there was lying on a slab in the New York Morgue the body of John Munson, a hero of the Argonne and the savior of the remnants of the "Lost Battalion." Munson died of tuberculosis; and, although it is almost inconceivable to any man of sympathetic heart that this brave should have been cast out from the army with the germs of the dread disease already lodged in his body, the fact remains that within a few brief months after he left his country's service he is dead. In the face of this astounding tragedy of neglect, who can doubt that many former service men are now in want of help which has not been made available for them? When a conspicuous hero like Munson from choice or necessity dies alone, his death must serve as a crael spur to those who have failed to help him and his fellows.

The rehabilitation of former service men is perhaps well under way but it is tragically far from accomplishment. OIL IN THE TARIFF BILL. The duties on crude oil in the Fordney tariff measure are among the least defensible in an almost wholly indefensible bill. They have called forth the intervention of President Harding. No high protectionist policy based even remotely on the logic of economic conditions could justify or palliate the taxing of petroleum imports into the United States.

The fact that the Ways and Means Committee dared to present such a proposal to Congress and the country is merely evidence of its obtuseness. It is true that certain oil producers in the United States, expecting a continuance of the abnormally high crude oil prices that prevailed a year ago, have been hit hard by the drop in these prices that came with the slackening of consumption and the rapidly increasing imports from Mexico. Many of their leases and contracts have been based on former price levels, and the Fordney duties are theresult of their strident cries for help. President Harding, according to current information, thinks that the duties might be used as a basis for bargaining with Mexico, for gaining certain trade concessions and agreements. Mexico needs the revenues she derives from the export tax on petroleum, but not quite so acutely as we need the petroleum, which is now the stabilizing factor in the American oil market.

If we were compelled to rely exclusively on domestic production, which is virtually what the Fordney act contemplates, both wholesale and retail prices of oil would advance to levels heretofore undreamed of, and the expansion of many industries dependent on this commodity would be abruptly checked and thwarted. What boots it for American capital, backed by American diplomacy, to ask a free field and no favors in seeking new oil fields in Mexico, Mesopotamia, Colombia and China if a tariff barrier is to be raised against their enterprise? Only recently the Republican party reversed its position with respect to the long-standing question of the Colombian treaty, and paid the republic $25,000,000, with an alert eye for tie bestowal of future favors to the United States with respect to oil concessions. It would be the very mockery of an economic policy to encourage such enterprise in foreign fields with the left hand and to block it with the right. It is little wonder that the President has perceived a discordant note in the measure. The ill-advised attempt to include crude oil in the tariff bill has already virtually fallen down, and it is to be excised, or at least made harmless.

Mexico has some reason to believe that we want her petroleum. She is apprehensive that our policy will be too narrowly aimed to conserve our own waning oil resources and to exploit her own to the limit. A tariff on oil would be a quaint joke on the American consumer and destroy the economic policy that the State Department is framing with regard to Mexico. HOW JACK JOUETT SAVED JEFFEKSONi Mr. Henry M.

Hyde, of The Evening Sun, revived a dashing and almost forgotten hero of Virginia Revolutionary history in the brilliant article he contributed to last Sunday's Sun: on Jack Jouett's once famous ride, by which Mr. Jefferson the Virginia Legislature were saved from capture by Tarleton and his fierce dragoons. Who was Jack Jouett? Few Virginians of today could answer the question, and to the rest of the country Jouett is probably wholly unknown. And yet, as Mr. Hyde points out, Paul Revere's much-advertised ride becomes a prosaic and "jog-trot" episode compared with the dramatic, picturesque and exciting adventure of Jack Jouett, of the Eagle Tavern of Charlottesville.

Had Paul Revere been in Jack Jouett's place, Jefferson and the whole Virginia Legislature, which had fled from Richmond to Charlottesville for safety, would have been bagged by the rebel-hating British raider who marked his trail with blood and slaughter. In the matter of spirit, romance, courage and resourcefulness, Revere cuts a sorry figure beside Jack Jouett of Albemarle. We will not spoil Mr. Hyde's recital for those who have not yet read it by a barren summary. The wonder is that Jouett has not lived in song and story.

Many a less striking theme has captured the imagination of poets and novelists. Now that Mr. Hyde has rescued him from oblivion, we should not be surprised to see him" introduced to immortality through the movies, that universal gate to publicity. As another result of Mr. Hyde's article, we hope the movement to erect a monu- JONES ON IMMORALITY.

COME months ago Superintendent R. G. Jones, of Cleveland, declared to a group of clubwomen that "immorality is the greatest menace of the public schools today that we are fast drifting toward free love in this country, and that the mothers of the nation are not making good on their jobs." This childish prattle against present-day schools, present-day love and present-day mothers followed on the heels of a really startling instance of activity In the educational field. The same fellow Jones only a few days before he made this address had gained for himself the presidency of the Department of Superintendence (National Association) by a method open to criticism. In 1919 he assisted an educational underling to the presidency of the department.

This underling appointed Jones and four other equally honorable men the group representing a small area of Lake Erie country as a committee to report on possible changes in conducting the business meetings of the department. The committee ignored the work for which it had been named it presented a plan for gaining control of the department by disfranchising a majority of the members and, after ordering this majority of the members to leave the hall, Jones had the audacity to come out as a candidate for president of the temporarily dismembered organization. Out of five candidates in the field he received only a vote or two more than his next opponent, and then he ran home and advertised to Cleveland the wonderful honor that had been conferred on him by national educators. In view of this incident it does not seem sensible for the average man to attach much weight to anything the fellow Jones may say about morality or immorality. It was for this reason that his assertion, quoted in the opening of this article, was ignored at the time of its utterance.

Recently, however, a contributor to The Sun's Forum, who appears to be disturbed by the silly talk of the honorable Cleveland schoolman, asks that judgment be passed on it in this department. IMMORALITY AND THE SCHOOLS. 'JTIE public should never become disturbed over the views advanced by an individual who bases his conclusion on 'a superficial study of the subject he undertakes to discuss. A man living in a Dunkard colony in Maryland or Pennsylvania and associating exclusively with members of this sect may presume that all American life is characterized by extreme homeliness of face and dress, by extreme banality of speech, by extreme propriety of conduct and by extreme deafness to the appeals of the world, the flesh and the devil. And he would be about as right as Jones Is.

On the other hand, a man engaged in some such profession as safe-blowing, pickpocketing or automobile jacking, and associated only with men and women in the same professional lines, is apt to conclude that all Americans are crooks, liars, cutthroats and noncommunicants of any church. It is possible that Jones, who has been pushing himself forward rapidly, may have come in touch with certain discipli nary cases in the Cleveland schools growing out of immorality among students. Because of his limited past experience the thing, doubtless, struck him as something new and indicative of present conditions. But principals of large high schools have even since secondary education became a part of the public school system occasionally discovered evidence of immorality on the part of a student or two. The fact that such evidence when discovered startles the administrators is in itself proof that the thing is a rarity.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does a single instance of immorality in a large student body indicate general immorality. A self-respecting educator should "make pretty sure that there is Immorality in the public schools before he makes an assertion to that effect for print; and if he finds there is immorality, he should be scientific enough to carry his investigation back so as to see whether it Is more prevalent now than it was at any previous period in the history of public education. I have kept pretty closely in touch with public education for nearly 18 years, and am willing to wager that the talk and conduct of our school children is cleaner now than was the case in city and rural schools 40 years ago. YOUTH AND HER MOTHER. Early in the spring, when considerable space in this department was devoted to the subject of the morality or the immorality Of present-fday fashions, a clergyman took the time to address a lengthy communication on this subject to the writer.

This clergyman may not be a greater authority on morality than I am, but since many will regard his comments as more authoritative, the following is quoted "For one thing I am nauseated by all this discussion of women's dress, Every sane man knows perfectly well that the old fashions, 'half concealing, half were far more exciting to the passions than the present short skirts. Moreover, and I think I know, as I am a chaplain of a girls school and intimately associated with some hundred Fannie Brice And Hitchcock New York Item in the St. Lewis Globe-Democrat. Fannie Brice and Raymond yHitch-cock, by the way, do a burlesque skit of Camille in a current summer revue. Fannie reclines on her tuberculous bedstead with Raymond, in a checkered suit and red necktie, as Arm and.

"I've been a bad woman, sighs K'meel "but such good company." And in her delirium she fails to recognize Hitchey as Arm and. 'The face. is familiar," she said, I can't place the body." Street 57x25 Feet New York Item in Los An teles Express. Having exhausted superlatives such as "the largest this" or "the largest that" we are enjoying a wave of diminutives. Edgar street, on the extreme west side, has been lifted from obscurity to fame as "the smallest street in New York." It cerned about their legs than their mothers were.

Today they are simply nat ural young animals for the most part and just as unconscious of themselves that is until some blamed fool reformer puts ideas into their heads." Jones charges of immorality in the schools may, then, be. dismissed as the trick of a consummate strategist to direct attention to himself. As a school administrator he may have had occasion to come in touch officially with an in stance of immorality on the part of an isolated student or It is nobody's business where he gets his views about free love. Perhaps he is a social climber as he is an educational climber, and he may have neard free talk in social circles. But free talk is a very different thing from free.

love. We come in touch with men and women in social life who spice their remarks with a hint of sug- gestiveness occasionally. But such free dom in speech is evil only to him who -evil thinks. And the man who asserts that the people of America are drifting toward free love either does not know what is free love or else he has sampled a most damnably unrepresentative element of Americans. WILD EXPERTS.

JONES is the same sort of wild expert on morality as the experts on medi cine who have lately been begging Congress to let them testify against beer. Senator John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, speaking in the Senate during the past week, said: "Along comes a fellow who sets himself up as a medical expert and tells you that liquor is not fit for medicine anyway; that he knows all about it. Long before there was any prohibition in this country the doctors prescribed Dublin stout to women nursing young babies, and prescribed ale and stout(to women in pregnancy when the pregnancy assumed certain conditions. A man who says that beer was never prescribed medicinally by reputable physicians is I will not say what he is his ignorance is too stupendous to characterize in parliamentary language. I know of my own knowledge, long before was any prohibition, that one of the favorite prescriptions for women in certain stages of going to pieces after childbirth and before childbirth was porter or "Dublin stout.

I have seen it prescribed again and again, and to women who never drank in their lives, to Southern women, who, with their sweet Puritanism and all the Puritanism of America, by the way, has fled from New England and gone South long ago regarded it as a sin for a woman to take a drink at all." Who are the Jones type of experts before Congress? There is Harvey W. Wiley; who is referred to by fanatical Congressmen as a well-known physician. Dr. Wiley is not a physician never practiced medicine. He Is a chemist, and as a chemist he is the arch enemy of everything sweet in life.

He would abol-' ish the eating of candy. And if he holds himself up as an example for Americans to follow, he would have men refrain from marrying until they are 67 years old a time when a man should provide himself with a burial plot rather than a bride. WILDER TESTIMONY. )R. WILEY'S testimony before Congress is "I have never seen a prescription written by a physician in good standing for beer as a remedial agent." The miserable hypocrisy of this statement can only be forgivenon the score that Wiley has already made the acquaintance of senility.

Doctors have pre scribed mustard baths for patients, but who in hades ever saw a prescription written out for the mustard or the bath? Beer and mustard baths and anaemas are prescribed orally, and almost any physician in the country could, if he were anxious to deceive innocent members of Congress, testify that he had never written a prescription for any one of the three, and let that be accepted as evidence that therefore none of them had even been prescribed. Another of these experts to whom Senator Williams referred was, doubtless, orrr own Dr. James M. Rowland, who testified "Every medicine in the world almost, at one time or another, has been given for purposes of increasing and improving the supply of mother's milk; beer and various malt preparations in addition. I have tried them all rather thoroughly and have not found any benefit from them." A man supposedly a professional man who is willing to testify before a nonmedical group that "every medicine in the world almost at one time or another had been given" to nursing mothers as milk producers or milk modifiers is so cariously careless in the use of words that, as Senator Williams says, he cannot be characterized in parliamentary language.

Moreover, on young Rowland's own admission that he had experimented rather thoroughly on help-, less young mothers by giving them every medicine in the world in the hope of increasing or improving their milk before he made the startling discovery that beer is not beneficial, he should ba awarded a Carnegie hero medal not for his extensive and seemingly brutal experimentation, but for his courage in admitting the thing. EZEKIEL CheEVEB. has been, duly measured and its dimensions are 57 feet along the northern side and 53 feet on the southern side, with a width of less than 25 feet. Accomodating, Ecen In Hot Weather. New York Note la Minneapolis Tribune.

Dick Carle, the comedian, is back on Broadway. He is in a rammer musical play that hasn't much speed. Carle is one of the most popular comedians in America on tour, but in New York he fails to arouse the enthusiasm due him. No one can explain why. It is true that his jokes are of the same species, but they are invariably funny.

For instance, in his present vehicle, he ia a waiter. A customer enters. "nave you aEy wild fish?" "We have none ready," replies Carle, "but if you'll wait I'll provoke one." Circulation of The Sun in 1921. Average Net Morning 115.505 Evening 100,310 Sunday 149,251 Paid Daily. 104.280 Gain 11.225 .208 Gain 21,081 135.4C0 Gain 13,791 MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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1921. TODAY TJSnKRS IN "NO-ACCI-dent "Week." whose -watchword is Carefulness. The call should be heeded by all, for no man is too lucky, no child too dearly cherished, to be free from all danger of accident and needless injury. City life takes a shocking toll of those who work and those who play. When one recalls that in the week of 1920 which corresponds to the one now beginning eight persons were killed in the city's traffic alone, it is only too evident that accidents of all sorts impose a burden of suffering which should be regarded as intolerable.

Every man, woman and child earnestly desires neither to suffer accident nor to be the cause of disaster to others and it is certain that when once this desire becomes translated into habits of carefulness, accidents will diminish perhaps to the vanishing point. When everyone is a little more thoughtful, Baltimore will be well on the road toward becoming a No-Accident city. And "No-Accident Week" is the time to begin thinking. t's make Baltimore a safe place in which to live! AS A MEANS OF POPULAR instruction and entertainment, the Marine Show more than justified itself. Haltimoreans now know something about the modern ship and the modern sailor, and with a few more exhibits of this type they will perhaps take on a nautical appearance appropriate to a seaport.

Even Baltimore's own exhibit served to keep fresh in one's mind the many advances which the city has made and is making, although various critics have compared it adversely to the one which was sent down from Newark. There is every reason to remember Newark's exhibit as an example of what may be done in the way of municipal advertising, even though it was the result of private initiative. The moral which Baltimore can derive from it is that a city's prosperity depends in overwhelming degree upon private enterprise, and the numerous exhibits of Baltimore firms and corporations showed that this city is not lacking in that essential factor. Baltimore's real exhibit was manifold and was not confined to the booth which bore its name. TRIAL.

BY COMBAT WAS Discredited many generations ago, so far as the legal settlement of personal dissensions was concerned. There was perhaps a touch of romance about the proposition that a distressed maiden could intrust her cause to a-doughty, steel-clad champion with perfect assurance that Heaven would defend the right, but the recrudescence of the combat idea in Congress is far from commendable. Brains are at a discount when one Senator maintains, like Cousin Egbert, that he can be pushed "just so far" and his opponent in the argument suggests that the pushing may be continued outside the walls of Congress. "Blackguard" is not a persuasive word, and yet it was used when the recommitment of the Bonus bill was under discussion. Is the Dempsey-Carpentier bout to serve as a precedent for future Congressional procedure? One hopes not for if it is the effete East will indubitably be at the mercy of the more sturdy West, whose sons portray the physical virtues of a rugged civilization.

But if the Senate is to stage fistic touts it will be highly desirable to supplement the Senate gymnastic apparatus with a suitable squared ring and competent referees. Senatorial battles should be orderly, even if they are conducted according to mediaeval doctrines. WHAT WB HAVH DOSE AND WHAT WE HAVE LEFT TJ5DOXE. President Harding's summary of the achievements in the matter of relief for wounded and disabled service men was a notable pronouncement and it should not be soon forgotten. The Bureau of War Risk Insurance has reduced the number of outstanding claims by nearly 135,000.

The 65,000 which are now open for adjustment will have been passed upon by July 21st along with those which will be filed before that date. The number of adjudicated claims will then amount to nearly 1,000,000. Less than 2 per cent, of the 887,614 requests for medical 'examination are still awaiting action. There are 6,000 hospital beds now ready for occupants. Over men are receiving vocational training out of the 107,824 who have applied for it, and to them must be added 4,000 others who have graduated from' their courses and are now earning, in their disabled condition, an average of nearly 50 per cent, more than they IS LLOYD GEORGE GETTING NERVOUS? Lloyd George made an obviously bad play in ordering official news to be withheld from the Northcliffe papers because he had been sharply attacked by their chief.

In doing so he also proclaimed that his unpleasant Lordship had hit him hard and caused severe pains in his internals. The quarrel between the two Premiers is an old one, and will doubtless be fought to the death; but the premier. of British journalism has this advantage over the political Premier, that as long as he publishes a good newspaper he is independent of the fickle elements of popular favor. Prime Ministers come and go, but a. newspaper of enterprise, honesty and courage is practically immortal.

The politician, moreover, can only reach the public through the newspapers, and when he wages war against any of them because of criticism of his official acts he puts himself at once in a position of disadvantage and danger. He throws himself open to the charge of attempting to suppress free speech, of trying to boycott and bully those who tell the truth about him. Only a man in a temper would have given Lord Northcliffe this chance. None but a man with miraculous powers of endurance and recuperation could have survived the constant and tremendous strains at home and abroad to which Lloyd George has been subjected in the last four or five years. If conflict had not been his natural element, he must have gone all to pieces long ago.

1 Even the toughest warrior, however, comes at last to the point where he must rest or run. Lloyd George's attempted boycott of the Northcliffe papers looks as if his nerves were getting a little out of order and as if his skill at fence had been somewhat impaired in consequence. SUNBEAMS. Some people keep so busy in quest of pleasure that they never have leisure for a good time. Good judges of men are seldom infallible.

They usually have a good opinion of themselves. A fellow can win almost any4 girl if he can make her believe that several of her chums are anxious to get First lessons in patriotism should include a study of the Constitution and short exercises in filling out tax blanks. The movie public is becoming so sophisticated that it refuses to be thrilled by any stunt short of actual suicide. It is a safe bet that Adam told most of our jokes to4 Eve and an even safer bet that she interrupted each time with a remark about the new style jn fig leaves. SEEKING MICHIGAN'S LAKE Cottagers From Chicago Find Its Breeze And Waters Cooling.

From the Indianapolis Star. Comparatively few people iajthe State of Indiana have any conception of the large number of cottages that line the beach of Lake Michigan for miles and miles near Michigan City. Some of these cottages cost a good deal of money as high as $10,000 to $12,000 and are elegantly furnished. Most of the cottages are owned and occupied by Chica-goans who usually spend the months of June, July and August in whiling away time, swimmiiig and bathing, some boating and enjoying themselves, according to Hoyle. For some furnished modern cottages a monthly rental of $300 is exacted.

Not many families of moderate income care to expend that much money for the pleasures, privileges and advantages afforded by spending the summer months along the beach of Lake Michigan at Indiana's famous harbor city. For those who have an abundance of means this resort must be a delightful spot. To Chicago business men it is especially advantageous by-reason of the short distance between Michigan City and the metropolis of the Northwest. They can spend the week-end at the beach and return to business by Monday morn ins Married And Single. From ths New Orleans States.

Mr. R. S. Quinby, of Newton, addressing a recent convention of in dustrial physicians, said single men are more dependable workers than married men. Well, name offhand 10 great men who were bachelors and 10 who were married.

If you can't think of 10 great bachelors, try to name only three quick ly. Neither can we. Nearly every great man you can think of was married. enter here" the admonition of Vergil to Dante regarding the Iaodicean spirits whom Heaven had cast out and hell refused to accept, "Let us not speak of them, but look and pass," "Inferno," Canto Third the despairing cry of Fran, cisca da Rimini, Canto Fifth, tracing its inspiration to Boethius, and from Dante passing into English in the hands of LongfelloTv and Rossetti, attaining its ideal form by the matchless rendering of Tennyson as he seems to excel his noblest artistic grace in his felicitous grasp of the original Hall," 1842), This Is truth the poet sings That a sorrow's crown of sorrow Is remembering happier things. My enumeration is capable of indefinite extension among the most impressive illustrations that may be cited is Tennyson's "Ulysses," which springs into majestic life from the very heart of the "Inferno," Canto 26.

In following this Dantean outline to its final stage no lover of literature will fail to point with becoming and honorable pride to the brilliant fame attained by a Maryland lady in this fascinating and inspiring sphere of modern culture. Miss Florence Trail, of Frederick, stands in the foremost files of romance scholarship her "History of Italian Literature" has been accorded untempered eulogy in the esoteric circles beyond the seas, where the golden harmonies of the "divine poet" are illustrated with ethereal grace and radiant in the pure severity of perfect light. Henry E. Shepherd. A Bonni Bill Would Be Much More Interesting? Reading To Him.

To the Editob of The Sun Sir: Don't you think that it was about time that the Baltimore public had read quite enough of the paltry old shot tower and the "Inquiring Reporter" stuff? Don't you think it would be more appropriate If the Baltimore Sui? would advocate a State bonus bill to compensate the soldiers and sailors who left good-payin jobs at home to fight for democracy? I and lots of others sacrificed $20 a day to do my bit, and came home a wreck from exposure. Just think of other States that paid their boys a bonus and did not fill them with hot air, as our dear old State of Maryland has done. I am surprised that there has not been a paper published in Baltimore that: had the nerve to advocate such a measure. Think of how little it would take, and I am sure that the taxpayers would not miss that little bit. So get on the job, advocate it, and I feel sure that It would be more interesting reading than that old shot tower or the City Hall Plaza.

M. Nolan. The Anchorage, Baltimore, July 10. Blake The Sabbath Horribly Holy. To the Editob of The Sun Sir: The article in today's issue of your valuable paper entitled "Blue Law Crusades to Swoop Upon the Capitol" is what every good-living man or.

woman will indorse. It is a pure farce to eliminate the delivery of ice and keep the barbers from operating and at the same time permitting the publication and sale of newspapers. Then again, in lieu of dancing, we have the in the public parks and seaside resorts. They seldom, if ever, play a piece of sacred music. As the Methodists claim, it should be a day of rest and prayer.

We all believe in a Supreme Being. Then the least we can do is to keep it holy. The seventh day God rested and consecrated it. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." E. G.

R. Baltimore, July 14, The Sales Manager Of Tlie Whistle Bottling Company, Referring: To Tlie Street Shower On South Eden Street, Says It Should Be Described As "Children Bathe While Bottler Suffers." To the Editor of The Sun Sir: Your article in yesterday's Sun, under the caption, "Mayor Probes Shower While Children Suffer," in which you take occasion to refer to the protest of "Pop Bottler" in such a manner that it constitutes a complaint of our complaint, constrains us to say that were you writing from the 100 block of South Eden street your views would be oddly at variance with those stated therein. If we could revise your, caption of the article we would make it to read thus "Children Bathe While Bottler Suffers," and sub-title it "Bottler Rescues Small Child From Imminent Danger of Being Crushed Beneath' Two-Ton Truck" for this occurred yesterday, and hardly lesser incidents of like character have preceded it. Does it not appear strange to you that, even granting the expediency of placing the showe.r in this section and admitting that great benefits could be disseminated from here, it should be placed directly before the door of a concern operating seven two-ton trucks that are required to pass through the shower no less than 20 times a day and cannot leave our premises without backing directly "into it with children clinging to the back and sides of them. This Is our exposition of the outward effect of the shower, showing how it retards the free entrance and exit of our trucks to and from our places of business, endangering life and limb of children and constituting a sufficient menace to disturb the tranquillity of the minds of the proprietors of this establishment, which is a unit in a long chain of distributing depots representing one of the largest corporations of its kind in America.

The effect on interior conditions is that it makes telephone communication difficult because of the shouts of the bathers, and distracts attention from a close application to business routine. Government examiners were yesterday compelled to abandon their examination of the volume of our distribution, because of this distracting element, and seek a more peaceful location to complete their tabulations, and while we do not approve of the shower before our door we are, nevertheless, compelled, when the wind Is set. toward us, to be unwilling participants and partake of a shower of mist with all our duds on, or close our doors and windows. We could conduct our business in a state of preparedness to receive- the shower, but we do not elect to establish so incongruous a precedent. The AA Al-rated concern which we represent does not require to be reimbursed in the sum of 5 cents for the use of its telephone, but it does re quire to have its lines kept open for the-l many local and long-distance calls which are coming In and going out at frequent intervals, and we cannot afford to grant a monopoly of its conveniences for business other than our own though we did permit a 20-minute use of it by your reporter, at which time it appeared that many more minute details of a Bhower, misplaced before the doors of a1 busy enterprise, were to be trans mitted.

We have asked for relief from an unbearable condition and are justified in so doing, but we do not desire to ask Please be concise. As a rule, 200 words should be enough beyond that the editor reserves the right to blue pencil. Your name and address must accompany each communication not for publication upless you wish, but as evidence of good faith. for an injunction" against it now. Therefore we are selecting a more peaceful way.

Sales Manager, Whistle Bottling Company. Baltimore, July 15. The Dante Centennial. To the Editob of The Sun Sir: It is the purpose of the present paper to render specific and definite aid to those who, having regard to the. approaching six hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante (born 1265, died 1321), may desire to have an accurate impression, concise and summary in form, which will serve as a prelude to the profound and elaborate researches of European scholarship in the boundless sphere embraced by the genius and art of the first supreme master in the development of modern poetry, who restored the historic continuity originating in Horner.

It may be assumed that the greater number even of your intelligent patrons have not attained a critical acquaintance with the language and literature of Italy. To this large and appreciative element of our modern society, the sovereign creation of the "divino poeta" is revealed with admirable charm and lucidity, in the English versions of Henry Carey, Longfellow and the prose translation of "The Divine Comedy," by the late Professor Norton, accompanied by an introduction, in which the allegorical and historical significance of the work is unfolded with the utmost simplicity and directness. Our language Is strewn with translations of parts, fragments, lyrics, sonnets, like star dust or autumnal leaves, but those who have availed of the results accomplised by Carey, Norton Ros-setti, Longfellow, Lowell, Moore, Azarias, Witte, Miss Florence Trail, of Frederick, may congratulate themselves and take heart with regard to the ideal character of their Dantean scholarship. It involves no overwrought or exuberant assumption to claim that the vital essence of all modern poetry in its noblest incarnations, from Chaucer to Spenser, from Spenser to Milton, Keats, Browning, Tennyson, Rossetti, derives in no small measure both form and spirit from the transcendent genius of the Florentine master. Examples without number may be cited in demonstration of this far-reaching generalization.

Notable in this brilliant array are "Paradise Lost," Milton's eighth sonnet eTennyson's "Palace.of Art" and "Ulysses," Browning's "Old Pictures in Florence," Wordsworth's "Sonnet on the Sonnet," Ros- setti's "Blessed Damozel." My enumeration, so far from exhausting, merely intimates or suggests the affluent richness of the source from which its origin is traced. No small measure of the finely touched diction of Dante has been assimilated into the language of our modern world. We reproduce through the medium of translation many of his noblest utterances; they have become perfectly absorbed into the consciousness of our native speech. Such, for example, are the famous and familiar words inscribed upon the portals of the "All hope abandon ye who.