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3 THE SUN, BALTIIOIIE, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1919. THE SUN Garfield's Polar Relief Expedition Goes To The Rescue. 1 1 i I the highest and noblest characters which can be developed. S. D.

Johnson. Charleston, S. Nov. 2S. More About The Oulja.

ganized league of nations or through the medium of a great army and a great navy. There can be but one' ultimate answer to this question. The American people believe in peace and they believe in the rule of law rather than Jthe rule of force. Will the Senate act now and act decisively, so that the world will understand that, we intend to meet our responsibilities as a member of the family of nations, or" will it let. things drift in doubt and uncertainty until the course of events forces us again to play our part in some world crisis? If we have to go in to save the day when' a great crisis comes, why not assume some responsibility iu time of peace and take steps to ward off the crisis? The country wants peace now and it wants a reasonable assurance of peace for the future, and in order to gain this assurance it is willing to sacrifice some things, even the amour propre of a Henry Cabot Lodge.

The fate of the treaty is in the hands of the mild reservationists, of whom Senator McCumber seems to be the principal spokesman. They held the strongest Please he concise. As a rule, 200 words should he enough; beyond that the editor reserves the right to hlue pencil. Your nme and address must accompany each communication -not for publication unless you wish', hut as evidence of good faith. A Moritsomery Democrat Makes A Hot Reply To "Cy" Cuiuniirigs Letter In The Snn.

Editor of The I was amused in the tirade of Cummings presented in The Sun, of November 21. Everyone here knows why he was defeated, and his labored attempt to fasten the blame on so-called leaders is ridiculous. I am in a position to -give Cummings the details of the organization that effected his defeat and why 'it; was done. I think, however, he. knows how it happened, and his letter to The Sun is for the edification of those outside of the county and not for the purpose of fooling anyqne here.

plain, unvarnished facts are that the Yclean, decent-thinking people of this county, who belong to no faction, but who stand for decent government and eleau public officials, without the aid of any of the so-called leaders of either of the Democratic factions, organized for the avowed purpose of defeating Cummings. I have a list of names of Demo crats who joined in this movement, and Cummings can see this list if lfe wishes. He was no stranger to those voters they remembered him six years ago when a candidate for the House of Delegates. By' reference to the returns of the -election' of November 4. 1913, we find Cummings received 2,849 votes, while Mr.

Snowden, who was supported by the moral element, received 3,451 votes, showing ah organization of considerable strength. They had watched his career as a public official both in the State and elsewhere and were convinced that he Was not the type of man to represent Mont- gomery county in me umre oi otuic Our was complete and. successful. Cummings is deteateu, ana we congratulate the State and county on the results. Certainly his defeat should serve as a warning in the future that political parties must present at the general only candidates whose record in public life- are above reproach and who- are acceptable to the so-called moral element, who hold the balance of power.

T. J. Day. Damascus, Nov. 27.

Commends A Sun Editorial On Free Speech. To the Editor of The Sun Your editorial today free speech is sound. Absolute free speech is the only way to preserve satisfactory Government. In connection with government, the safeguards are in the power of the army and navy to keep down organized revolution by force, and where that cannot be done, then conditions are so perni ciously wrong aud chaotic that the. old oraers snouiu iaii.

iron iui-k-i. mis. A. Caixan Parker. Dreurys Bluff.

Nov. 30. The Menace Of Fire From Rubbish Heaps' In Private And Public Huilclinus. To the Editor of The Sun Sir: In vour excellent editorial, "A Startling Reminder," I was quite disappointed not to see mention of the fact that two-thirds of all fires are caused by rubbish Apparently the recent disaster was not an exception, as in some papers the fire is said to have started in the cellar of McCoy Hall and that the explosions were from the gas pipes. This seems strangely like the only satisfactory explanation that was given of the great conflagration of 1904.

Two such terrible warnings go unheeded, while we continue to have absolutely no regulation for the collection and disposal of such wastef so that it accumulates or not, as the householder wills. Thus few buildings are entirely free from such a menace. It seems exceedingly strange that those interested the tax rate cannot Lrealize what a wonderful asset to the TT5ity. Treasurer the proper solution of the street-cleaning and refuse question would be. Vast sums could be made and vaster, probably, saved, for the expenses of almost every city department are greatly increased by the present lack of system for a clean and safe city.

Baltimore, Dec. 1. Interested. Tlfe Wonder If You Mixed The Sun With Some Other Paper, Or Whether You Have Not Been Preainins? To the Editor of The Sun Sir: I have read the Sunpaper all my life, but I never expected to see its standard lowered, as it is now by printing cartoons of President Wilson. Why should a paper turn to ridicule what he has worked so hard to maintain? Do you think for one instant that the friends of Mr.

Wilson" enjoy them And why, when a man is sick, should a paper of The Sun's standing take that time to hold him up to ridicule? To be loyal to one's friends, one's State; one's country, seems to me one of The Sun Calendar Text Of Latest Note Sent Good Morning 1 I THE BENTZTOWN BARD. (FOLGEE McKlNSEY.) MARYLAND MUSLNGS. THE BUGLE'S DREAM. There were tented men on the bivouac line. And tented men on the cross-sown plain, -But that seems ages ago, and tonight The stars of peace in a blue sky shine.

And the world goes on with its work pgain! In the little closet his bugle lies, That called so often the men to fight, "5" And it dreams if bugles have dreaming eyes Of warm lips touching its lips once more In those Christmas days of the awful war. It sees him then in the vision rise, A hero, knowing nor doubt nor fear, Over the top 'mid the motley cries -Of the burating bombs and she'il-fire near; Over the top, and in the snow A little home 'neath the Christmas stars, And his heart so lonesome and. hungry to know And death so strict with its jolts and jars For he bhall be numbered 'neath crosses, too, And only the in dreams behold. The lad so ruddy and strong and With lioa heart serving as. straight as gold.

In Flanders fields, in the poppied laud, -In the potted plains where the shells were worst, It is Christmas time where the crosses. stand, And Christmas time where the. star-firea burst But the bugle there in its closet sees Its loved one come, and it only feels Ilis lips on its own, while the melodies Awake once more where the dream-mist steals. And the heart of the bugle is glad, so glad. That he comes again, its gallant lad.

That he takes it up, and for reveille. Blows "Holy Night" in the old, sweet way! -F. McK. He Seems Like A Hefty Lad, For All That. If anyone in Newport News knows anything relative to the whereabouts of Harry Louis Friedman, lately of Baltimore, the parents of the youth will appreciate that information.

The lad is said to be 10 "years of age and the following is the description furnished by his father: He is 5 ft. 10 in. in height weighs pounds; hag a slender long face, sallow complexion. Lamped For Us In The Newport News Daily Press By J. Shick.

They Are Cheap, ''And So. Much Xicer Than Paper EXTRA SPECIAL Unusual Offer Of SILK ENVELOPES. Special Lot At "Ad" In A. M. Sun, Discovered By A.

C. P. You're Risht Ahont TJs, Maybe! To The Funny Editor Aren't the League of Nations, May I Wilson and the Sunpaper a set of damn fools? Yes. Anonymous. Love Lead You Home.

Love lead you home from storm of stress and strife, Love lead you home from bondage all your life. Love lead you dreaming: To the dream that lies In life-'s sweet dream Of soft and sunny skies! Love lead you home to flowers and song and rest, Love lead you ever to life's bless-ed best. Love lead you laughing Through life's rosier clime, Hard by the portals Of celestial chime Love lead you home, dearest more than dear; Love lead you home to sunshine dreams of cheer. Love lead you singing To life's gates of song, Th'ou who to love Through all the years belong! 15." E. Hard-Kind Made Easy, Eh? Walk.

Risht In. Turn Around And Wall IiiIit Out Again; All Married Everything. Albert P. Hard and Miss Annie Marie Kind, both of Greenville, S. C.

made their appearance at the home of 'Squire J. W. Cobb. 520 Louise avenue, about 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon bearing the necessary and were quietly married. They went on their Thanksgiving way rejoicing, after lingering with Mr.

Cobb for a short time. Lamped in the Charlotte (N. Observer By An Alert Contrib. WhysU Us; We're Innocent. Coast and Survey, Washington, Nov.

29, 1919. My Dear Sir: We've all heard of the bank teller who was asked for "a little check book for a lady that folds up in the middle;" but here 13 one from your valuable Sunpaper that would indicate that some Of your Baltimore ladies are better folded after being trimmed down a little: GIRLS AND WOMEN to trim and fold. Here's one clipped from another evening paper: TWO COLORED WOMEN wish cleaning at night. I had the impression, somehow, that the public baths in Baltimore were O. K.

How about this? Very truly yours, E. K. S. CRAGGAN. Mrs.

Malaprop On The Op'ry. According to William Gould, a young woman he knows was reading this question from a local newspaper "In what opera does the character of Siegfried ap-pear? v. And the older one answered: "Oh, why 'Siegfried's of course!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Perfectly Informal Washlady. WASHING CARDS.

ST. AT HOME. NO 1346 N. CAREY D2e Copped From Our Own Classified Section By R. Over In Delaware They Have A Little Road Which Stops Trains To Let The Sheriff Get Off.

And Serve Warrants. It is complained that a Chicago Milwaukee train is so slow that the passengers get out and milk the cows along the way. But at Bradley, S. the other night, an engineer on the M. St.

L. spit his store' teeth out of the cab window, and the train was halted while he and the brakeman. went back and recovered them. L. In Chicago Tribune.

When Evening Bells. When evening hells Jn silvery sweet proclaim The twilight rest Beyond the toil and flame; When evening's spells Of heauty fill the breast, then the flower Of fancy bright with youth Brings hack the hour That blooms with tender truth The Christmas hour. Through evening shadows clear So glad with peace, So intimate and near To heavenly things, To music, stars and time, To airy bubbles, And to fairy wings, To all that life In love of beauty sings Through canticle and chime. B. B.

PROVERBS AND PHRASES. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning I say, more than they that watch for the morning. Psalms, exxx, 6. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tendermercy.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1919. ERO FIDDLES WHILK ROMH BURXS. If six months of Senatorial criticism of the League Covenant ami other features of the Treaty of Versailles have produced no greater effect on the country at large than on the people of Maryland, it is time for the Senate to abandon its policy 'of obstruction and ratify the treaty without further delay. The results of the straw ballot taken by The Sun have been a "srrrpris.e, even to those who proposed it.

It was not an-J ticipated that the tide of opinion would run as strongly as 16 to 1 in favor of the League. One of the greatest surprises was that the vote in favor of as suming the moral obligations of Article! A was almost as large as tlie vote ior the League, while the vote for the Lodge reservations was less than one in twelve. The fact that Maryland is such a close State politically gives added significance to the vote and shows that the question of ratification is not a party, question in the minds of the people of this State, no matter how it may be regarded in the Senate. As Maryland is typical of the doubtful border States, the Democrats might accept with confidence Senator Lodge's challenge to make the League the issue of the next Presidential campaign, if the nation could afford to postpone action on the treaty that long. But, unfortunately, events are not awaiting the action of the Senate.

While Nero fiddles Rome burns. Things are daily happening in the world that make further delay nothing less than criminal folly. The eyes of the world have been fixed on Washington with the conviction that the success of the League depended in large measure on the action of the Senate. The first reaction in Europe to the failure of the treaty in the Senate was the refusal of the German delegates to accept responsibility for the destruction of their war vessels at Scapa Flow and their abrupt and defiant departure from Paris. The second reaction was the warning given by the to the Supreme Council that unless a check was placed upon the aggressiveness of D'Annunzio and his Italian followers on the Adriatic coast, the outbreak of war might soon be expected.

These incidents and others that might be mentioned are the natural results of our virtual desertion of our Allies and our failure to see the thing through. As Sam Fessenden once said, "God Almighty hates a quitter." Yet. we are placing ourselves in the position of quitters in the eyes of the world. Meanwhile the Latin-American states are going into the League without regard to the theory of the political isolation of the Western Hemisphere, on which the Senate lays such stress. What will be the status of the Monroe Doctrine, for which Senators express such solicitude, if the-Central and South American countries go into the League and we stay out? The war did much to strengthen our position of leadership in the Western world.

Is Latin-America now to lead and are Jag behind? We are certain to come into the League sooner or later. It is inconceivable that a great and progressive nation, such as we believe ourselves to be, should long stay out of a movement which we inaugurated and which promises much for the future. But the future docs not seem to be within the range of Senatorial vision at present. The Senate, as Roosevelt once said of the American Electorate, is voting with its back to the future. It is not nearly so much concerned with how the treaty may be expected to work as with how it was negotiated.

This statement can be laboriously verified by anyone who will take the time to read the 1,200 pages of "Hearings" before the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate. Like a group of lawyers at the trial of a criminah Lodge and his associates appeared to be bent on establishing the fact that the President was responsible for the features of the treaty which they considered objectionable. They called no witness who favored the treaty except for the purpose of trapping him into some admission unfavorable to it. What practical difference does it make whether President Wilson, General Smuts or Lord Robert Cecil drafted the original treaty or how the details were worked out? Like ail other agreements arrived at in conference, it was the result of compromise. We may well say of the League Covenant what Washington sail o.

the Constitution when, urging the Constitution which is offered had been more perfect, but it is the best that could be obtained at this time and a door is opened for amendments hereafter." The League is a perpetuation of the virtual alliance that existed between the great states whose combined efforts defeated Germany. It is not a dream, but an actuality. Shall we perpetuate in peace the splendid spirit of co-operation that was created by the war, or shall we suffer the great powers to drift apart and range themselves in hostile groups? The latest dispatches froru Europe indicate that an Anglo-French-Italian alliance is already in process of being formed to take the place of the League in the event of our final refusal to come in. Do Senators really believe that we can return to the isolation of the old days? Does anyone advocate isolation in the matter of trade, of finance, or of social intercourse? Our relations with Europe in all these matters are intimate. How can we remain isolated politically? No time observer of our foreign relations during the past twenty years believes that we will refrain from exercising in the future the influence to which our political stability, our wealth and economic resources, and our potential military strength entitle us.

The only question is as to how we are to exercise this influence, whether in an orderly American way through an or To the Editor of TnE Sun Sir: For all of 60 years I have been a reader and subscriber to your valuable paper and therefore crave your indulgence of a little space in your columns on a subject that appears to be of great interest and somewhat; in. dispute. Some time since I a letter from Mr. Charles W. Kennard on the Ouija That letter is substantially correct, but I wish; to.

add that I "did become interested in a "witchiboard" which he had and, after making important improvements and getting it into market able shape, identically as now manu factured, I went to Washington with a lady (a strong medium) and there demonstrated it to one of the chiefs -of the Patent So fully was he im pressed that he assured me then and there that a patent would be allowed. After that assurance I incorporated a company, and out of compliment to Mr Kennard called it the "Kennard Novelty Company." I financed it only to the extent of S500. So great was Mr. Ken nard's energy and ability that it soon proved to be a success, and then I orig inated or adopted the word "Ouija," and went again to Washington and had the trade mark registered. The company was incorporated at $30,0003,000 shares, at a par of $10 each.

-I retained 1,600 shares and full control of the com pany. For that reason I had the trade mark issued to the "Kennard Novelty company. i also took out patents in France, England and Canada. In the year .1891 we paid a monthly dividend of 10 per amLso it con tinued so long as I remained, in this country, but in 1S92 I went to London to exploit my English patent. That was a failure, and I had to hypothecate my stock and finally lost it.

I A. Fuld. He was at that time a young man and came to us as a hardwood nnjsher at $10 a week. Finally he became foreman of the finishing department. That was his only connection with the.

company. I know that he continues to manufacture the board identically "as I perfected it. How he comes to own it I do not know. But it is the height of audacity for him to claim that he is or was the inventor or patentee, or originally put it on the marker. These are facts of record and cannot be disputed.

Elijah I. Bond. Baltimore, Nov. 17. Perhaps You Had Better Consult The Leasriie For The Defense Of Public Virtue.

To the Editor of The Sun Sir: In order, to keep from violating the "Blue Laws," kindly advise me on the following Am I allowed to eat on Sunday? Am I allowed to talk on Sunday? Am I allowed to sing on Sunday? Am. I allowed to walk on Sunday? In other words, am I allowed to live on Sunday? I think these "Blue Laws" are only a whole lot of foolishness and I think if that preacher on the grand jury would dispose of all this foolishness in his mind he would be better off. Why don't you cut o.ut having church on Sunday, riding in the street cars, having funerals, think it is a shame we must be deprived of our liberties on Sunday. Against Blue Laws. Baltimore, Dec.

1. Fears Ivreisler As A Gorman Propagandist And Puts The Sun In The Same Category. To the Editor jof The Sjun Sir: Your editorial of this morning on the subject of the opposition which has arisen to the coming and playing in Baltimore of an Austrian musician, formerly an officer in the Austrian army, attracted my attention. Will you permit me room for a few words? In the first place I should like to say mat no vmerican somier and was one has anything personally against any Austrian soldier who fought for his native country cleanly and like a man. The opposition to Mr.

Kreisler is based on something far different to any personal animosity, of which there is none. In the prewar period and even later Germanic propaganda was carried on in this country through many channels, not the least important of which Avas the German and Germanophile musician. We members of the American Legion and the other patriotic organizations which have protested against the production of German opera or the performances of German musicians are determined that that same propaganda. shall not be resirmed in the United States if we can help it. We do not mean to insinuate that Mr.

Kreisler is spreading German propaganda, but we do insist that the easy tolerance by Americans of things Germanic will let down the bars and give freedom to the Hun propagandists, who are as busy now as they were in the days of Dernburg and Bern-storff. Personally, I am not surprised that a paper which supports the League of Nations folly should be guilty of also supporting Mr. Kreisler and his German friends. M. G.

Mauby. Baltimore, Nov. 29. early advance to par, or above, while the interest rate on all except those which are totally tax exempt is not sufficient to attract new buyers who can go into the market and buy fully tax-exempt State and municipal bonds on a better investment yield basis. Thus, the argument runs, it would be wiser for the Government to take steps which would tend to encourage continued holdings of the war bonds rather than to risk wholesale liquidation at this time.

And the thing which would conserve the Liberty bond and Victory note holdings would be to allow all owners to write down the value of the securities without making actual sales. During the last week several prominent bond men have communicated with the Acting Secretary of the Treasury to this effect, and it is hoped that some action will speedily be taken, or at least that matters will be so arranged that next year the selling for registering losses will not be necessary. Effect Ou Rest Of Market. The bond dealers are not entirely altruistic in making this request. They hold that anything which affects Liberty bonds, either favorably or unfavorably, exercises a similar influence on the rest of the bond market.

If the war bonds, which so greatly predominate the whole bond market, develop strength, other bonds are likely to go up, while if they turn weak, as they have lately, then the rest of the market is apt to follow. So if anything can be' done to stabilize or to improve the market position of the war bonds all bond dealers will benefit by improved business in other departments of their market. Contrary to what appears to be rather a general belief, all conversion privileges on Liberty bonds have not expired. The second 4's, the, first-second 4's and the first converted 4's are still available for conversion into 44 per cent, bonds, or will be on and after March 15 next. These bonds will not be altered as to maturity, but simply will be exchangeable for bonds of their own maturity bearing 4V4.per cent, interest, as against the 4 per cent, interest they now bear.

All three of these bonds may be turned in on March 15 or before, and new bonds will be issued. The new bonds, however, will be dated as of May 15, 1920, and will start paying 4" per cent, interest as of that date. The new bonds, though, will have an interim coupon, covering the period November 15, 1919, to May 15, 1920, at the rate of 4 per cent. Today's Almanac For Baltimore. Sunrises.

7.07 A.M. I Moon rises L20 I'M. Suu Bets 141 I Moon sets L25 A.M. Hifih tide 1.13 A.M., 2.13 T.M. Calculations expressed in the new EasUTn standard time.

PHASES OF THE MOON I-Tll DECEMBER. fcYdl moon Dec. 7 New moon 1 Last quarter Dec. 14 First quarter Dec. 34 THE WEATHER Forecast fgr Maryland Partly cloudy, with snow flurries; colder tonight and tomorrow.

A prominent feature of the weather map of last night was the intensive cold weather that prevailed in the Upier Mississippi Valley, the Upper Lake Region, the Great Plains States and the Rocky Mountain Region. Temperatures fllni7 7iipn wlj-t I In TTmmM Af S.iK. igan, Wisconsin. Minnesota, the Dako'as, ieDrasKa, Wyoming ana The lowest readings were as follows: Duluth and Havre, 24 degrees below zero, and Williston, N. IS below zero.

Relatively warm weather prevails in the Gulf States and Southern California, but in all other parts of the country temperatures are below the average for this date. During the last 24 hours there were local snows in the region of the (ireat Lakes, the Upper Mississippi Valley, the Plains States and the Rocky Mountain Region and wain in the Pacific St ates. In the Middle Atlantic and New England States the weather will be partly cloudy today, followed by local snows and colder tonight and tomorrow. In the South Atlantic States the weather win dc partly cloudy with mild temperature. In the east Gulf States the weather will be cloudy today, rain tonight and unsettled and much colder with fl Cold wave tnmortvm In 'I'nunouuuo II II' Kentucky and Indiana cloudy weather today will be followed by rain, changing to snow tonight and tomorrow, with much colder weather aud a cold wave.

In the Upper Ohio Valley nd the Lower Lake Region the weather will be cloudy with local snows today aud tomorrow with much colder weather tomorrow. In the Upper Lake Region there will bra local snows today and fair tomorrow with low temperatures. Cold wave warnings have been ordered for Indiana, Kentucky, west and central Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. Winds off Atlantic Coast North of Sandy Hook, Sandy Hook to Hatteras, moderate variable; Hatteras to Florida straits, moderate northeast and Baltimore Weather Report. United States Weather nureiu.

OoTver's Office. strategic position of any group until they I refused to deal directly with Senator Hitchcock and declared that no agreement could be arrived at except through Senator Lodge. By this declaration they were shorn of their strength. If they had stood together as an independent group they could have forced both sides to give in and a compromise framed by them would have been accepted. With the opening of the new session they will have another chance to force a reasonable compromise and it is to be earnestly hoped that this time they will be equal to the task.

THAT FELLOW HOOVER. Mr. Hoover distinguished himself during the war ty his 100 per cent, efficiency as a food administrator, and now we get a new view of him in his report of his work as Relief Ambassador to Europe after the cessation of hostilities. If. his achievements as food controller were admirable and extraordinary, his feat in turning back into the treasury more than eighty-eight millions of the one hundred millions appropriated by Congress for relief work in Europe stands without peer or parallel in recent governmental annals.

So-far as we recall, no other important official of this or any other government has found the amounts allowed for expenditures excessive, has returned more than three-fourths of the amount appropriated for the tasks in which he was engaged. Most of them, like Oliver Twist, have hungrily cried for more not a fewT of them have exceeded their allotment and presented their governments with uncomfortable deficits. This man Hoover is a dangerous fellow. He is too businesslike and economical for a regular government official. He is establishing perilous precedents, ne should be.

excluded from the political union of official high-rollers and the grand order of reckless spenders. None of them ever returned eighty-eight millions to Uncle Sam or John Buli. They will all join beneath their breath in a three-H. chorus "to hell with Herbert Hoover." What ordinary official has any show with such a cutthroat competitor, with a man who violates all the rules of the official game? ABOVE POLITICS AND PARTISANSHIP. The Newberry case is essentially nonpartisan in its character, and it would be a misfortune to the country, if it should be put upon a partisan basis in or out of the Senate.

It is of the highest interest to every American, without regard to party, because it touches the heart of American institutions. If there was an organized conspiracy in Michigan to defeat the will of the people by wholesale bribery and corruption, every decent Republican in the United States is as much concerned in its exposure and punishment as any Democrat can be. It is not a question at all of Republicanism or of Democracy it is a question of ordinary civic decency a question of safeguarding American institutions from debasing and destructive influences. It is, to a certain extent, unfortunate that this case, if it had to develop at all, should have arisen just at a time when the Senate is so closely divided and when-i war feeling still clouds the judgment more or less. It will be difficult for many persons, to free themselves from political influences in considering it, to separate it from the party and war circumstances in which it originated.

When the Ford-Newberry campaign took place there were many persons who regarded Ford almost as a public enemy, who would probably have thought they were doing God service in defeating such a candidate. Perhaps the President never did a more unpopular thing than when he indorsed Mr. Ford. That sentiment is not' dead yet, and if Mr. Newberry is put on trial in the coming Presidential year, the proceedings are likely to assume the nature of a political contest.

And yet that is precisely the thing that should not happen, if the case is to be decided on its merits or demerits. Either Senator Newberry and his friends were engaged in a deadly conspiracy against American principles, or they are themselves the victims of an astounding and shameless conspiracy. In either case it is all-important that the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth should be brought out, and that the guilty be punished or. put to shame. If the Senate had done its duty, this unfortunate situation would not have existed today.

It is primarily its business to keep its skirts clean, and if it had discharged this obligation fairly and sincerely, there would have been no opportunity for injecting politics into the investigation. As it is, the real and vital issues involved may be clouded and forgotten in a forensic battle which may possibly decide nothing, and merely inflame partisanship and. prejudice at a time when calmness and cool judgment are imperatively demanded in all things. MANLY AVI) SENSIBLE. We think the Rev.

Hamilton P. Fox, of Fayette Street Methodist Episcopal Church, did a very manly and sensible thing Sunday night in denouncing religious intolerance and all efforts to make religious differences political issues. Mr. Fox Is an uncompromising Protestant, but he is too broad to believe in religious persecution and too wise not to realize how dangerous it is to all freedom of thought. It would be a good thing for the country, morally and politically, if the-spokes-men of all religious creeds would unite in opposition to the revival of the spirit of mediaeval narrowness.

Never before have the churches needed so much to stand together as they do now. Truck drivers arrested for violation of the Blue laws wanted to' know why chauffeurs who had driven rich men's cars on Sunday were not keeping them company. The truck drivers could hardly be termed illogical. Market Weakness Of U. S.

War Bonds May Be Due To "Registering" Losses Selling Blamed On Desire Of Holders To Subtract From Gross Incomes- "Inventory" Rather Than Actual Sale Suggested As A Stabilizer. From the New York Times of Yesterday. Washington, Dec. 1. The text of the note to Mexico delivered today to the Carranza Government follows I have not failed to transmit to my Government the note of the Mexican Government dated November 26, 1919, with reference to the case of William O.

Jenkins, American Consular agent' at Puebla, and I am in receipt of a reply from the Government of the United States, which I am instructed immediately to transmit to you. The Government of the United States declines to be drawn into a juridicial discussion of irrelevant matters or unimportant incidents brought forward in connection with this case. The Mexican Government cannot be misled, as it intimates, by the citation by the United States of "no principle or precedent ot international law and not even i the reason" for Jenkins' release, for obviously no such citation is neces-: sary for the enlightenment of a government of the present day. Request Founded "Right." The Mexican Government believes, and rightly so, that the American request for Jenkins' release is. not based on "the strength of the makes it." for it knows the request is founded on the just right of an American citizen and United States Consular officer to fair treatment while residing and discharging his duties within Mexican jurisdiction, with the knowledge and approval of the' Mexican Government.

The Mexican Government may contend that the imprisonment of the victim for the investigation of a judge under the "constant vigilance of public opinion" of the truth regarding his abduction, and that a right of release on bail is a palliative for such, wrongful imprisonment, but the United States is constrained to the opinion that such arguments are mere excuses. The Government of the United States invites and desires the fullest possible examination and investigation of this case, but it cannot admit that Mr. Jenkins should be retained in prison even with the privilege of applying for bail. My Government will not, and is satis-field that Mr. Jenkins will not, place any obstacles in the way of a complete and full examination of himself or his witnesses, nor of the events leading up to and connected with his abduction.

The Mexican Government prefers to attribute the American note to an imperfect knowledge of Mexican penal laws and proceeds to explain "with refinement the intricacies of Mexican penal proceedings, but the Government of the United States fails to discern in their application to this case at the hands, of Mexican authorities any approximation to impartial treatment of Jenkins, and the Mexican Government knows the absence of such treatment is the reason for the American request. Justice Has Been Denied. The Mexican Government maintains that it cannot grant the request of the United States for Jenkins' release for the reason that under international law no diplomatic intervention is appropriate unless a denial of iustiee has occurred, and because the Mexican Government is not in a position tq demand Jenkins' release in view of the separatron of the Executive and judicial powers under the Mexican form of government and the independence of the state courts, by one of which Jenkins is held. The succinct answer to this contention is, as every one knows, that a denial of justice has already taken place and also that the Mexican Constitution specifically gives the Federal tribunal's jurisdiction of all cases concerning diplomatic agents and consular officers. The United States is not to be driven by such subtle arguments into a defense of its request for the release of Mr.

Jenkins. It is for Mexico to show cause for his detention, not for the United States to plead for his liberation. Stripped of extraneous matter with which the Mexican note of November 26 endeavors 'to clothe it, the naked case of Jenkins stands forth Jenkins, a United States consular agent accredited to the Government of Mexico, is imprisoned for "rendering false judicial testi-money" in connection with the abduction of which he was the victim. This is the substance of the Mexican note. My Government is pleased to learn that the imprisonment of Jenkins stands on this single and well-defined ground and that the recorded statements that Mexican authorities had caused the imprisonment of Jenkins because of collusion with his abductors and rebellion against the state are not seriously regarded by your Government.

Mexico "Prosecuting Victim." In whose interests, then, is the charge false swearing brought against Jenkins? His abductors? He in equity the complainant in the case of his abduction, not the defendant, as the Mexican Government now makes him out to be. The Mexican Government is prosecuting the victim instead of the perpetrators of the crime. While the outlaws who endangered his life and took away a large part of his fortune enjoy their free- dom, the Mexican authorities now deprive Jenkins of his liberty. Moreover, the ground expressed for the imprisaainent of Jenkins, namely, that he is supposed "to be responsible for the crime of rendering false judicial testimony," must betaken and my Government directs special attention to this point as merely an expression of opinion on the part of the Mexican Government, as it is entirely unsupported by evidence. There is not produced any of the testimony rendered by him or any extracts from such testimony tending to show the correctness of this opinion.

Charges "Unsupported. The Mexican Government cannot expect tho United States to accept, in the grave cirumstances of this case, such a bare, unsupported statement as a valid excuse for the imprisonment of an American consular officer, particularly in view of the fact that the investigation of the case by the representatives of the United States in Mexico so irar as it has proceeded fails utterly to support this opinion of your Government. On the contrary, the investigation gives the Government of the United States every reason to believe that Mr. Jenkins has not knowingly given any false testimony in respect to vital points in his case although he has been harassed by Mexican authorities to give such testimony even while lying in the hospital too weak and exhausted to make them as a result of his treatment by the abductors and while he knew evidence was being ODtained against him through intimidation of witnesses. So stands the single, unsupported, and, my Government believes, utterly unfounded, ground alleged for Jenkins' imprisonment.

What conclusion is to be drawn from such a reply as the Mexican Government's other than there has been a studied effort on the part of Mexican authorities to ensnare Jenkins in the intricacies of legal proceedings by alleging the com mission of technical offenses and by bringing unsupported charges against him, for a purpose In the first place, to divert the attention of the American public and the American Government, and indeed the Mexicans themselves, from the actual situation namely, that Puebla. the capital of the State of Pue'aia and perhaps the second largest city in Mexico, is without adequate prot-tion from outlaws who infes the immediate neighborhood and who arc accustomed openly aud freely to visit the city without hindrance that by the failure to furnish adequate protection in this district the Mexican authorities have, through their negligence, made possible the abduction of Jenkins, and that, in harmony with such an attitude on the part of the Mexican authorities, they have failed to carry out the duty and obligation incumbent upon them to apprehend and punish the bandits concerned in the crime of which Jenkins was the victim. Indifferent To Feeling Of Americana. And in the second place it appears to have been the purpose of the Mexican Government to assume a willful indifference to the feeling of the American people that has been aroused to the point of indignation by the exposure, hardships and physical suffering endured, by Jenkins during his abduction and his. subsequent treatment at the hands of Mexican authorities.

In view of the considerations which have been set forth and in view particularly of the belief of my Government that the charge against Jenkins of deliberate false swearing is unfounded, the Government of the United States must renew its request for the immediate release of Consular Agent Jenkins from further imprisonment. Lansing. The note was directed to Charge d'Af-f aires Summerlin, of the American Embassy at Mexico City. Husband Hunts Lost Wife. Danville.

Val, Dec. 1. J. F. Marshall, of Walnut Cove, N.

has come to Danville rooking for his wife, who has been missing for nearly a week. She left home last Tuesday with the avowed intention of seeking work in a local textile plant. Arriving after midnight, she was denied admittance to a Schoolfield hotel, she told a nicht watchman, who left her sitting on her suitcase in front of a mercantile establishment, ner husband, receiving no word from her, came to make inquiries, and found that she was not employed in the mills. He has appealed to the police to assist him in finding her. 3 55 jo S.2.

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34 28 49 NV 6 Tdv Noon 41 31 24 SW 8 .00 CJId'v 8 P.M. 38 34 61 3 Ocar Persistent and rather extensive selling of virtually all classes "of Liberty bonds and Victory notes has characterized the bond market throughout the last week, and the second 4 per the second, third, and fourth AVt per "and both classes of Victory oiotes sold at new low records for the year. A good part of this selling was attributed by bond dealers to the desire of holders to "register" their losses for purposes of subtracting them from their gross incomes iu computing income tax statements, while a minor portion was thought to be due to the increasing cost of bank accommodation and the general liquidation which has been in progress ever since the Federal Reserve Bank decided to advance its rediscount rates and the rate at which it makes advances to member banks, on November 3. Bond dealers, ho have studied the situation are almost unanimous in declaring that the Treasury Department authorities should issue a ruling allowing individual investors and corporations to "inventory" their losses, which is to say that they should be allowed to write down their bonds to the market without going through the process of actually selling the bonds in the open market in order to establish their losses, just as dealers in other securities are permitted to do. For Inventoring Bonds At Market.

Some dealers even go so far as to say that the practice of inventoring bonds and other securities should be extended to all holders of all classes of securities, which is the rule as applied to bankers, brokers, and others who make a business of trading in them, but the general belief is that it would be sufficient to start by giving this privilege only to the war bonds. The situation with regard to Liberty and Victory bonds and notes, it is contended, is somewhat different from that applying to other forms, of investment. Bankers and bond men say that the average holder of other securities may be counted upon to repurchase his holdings of other securities when he goes through the process of selling for registering his loss. But it is not so certain that the big holders of Liberties and Victories, once they have disposed of them will repurchase. The.

reason is that these Government emissions do not offer the speculative attractions which attach to some other securities. There are so many of them that the so-called "technical position" is against their Maximum tern .4:1 Minimum tempera tune. Mean tem perat ure 33 Maximum velrx-ily of the wind, 13 miles an hour, from tho northwest. Hourly Temperatures. 5 A.

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clar 31 45 Salt Iake City, cloudy Si ia Mn rancisco, cloudy 4-4 2 Tampa, clear fij 38 Washington, clear Si) WHAT'S GOING ON TODAY Exhibition of poultry, pigeon and pet stock, under the auspices of the Baltimore Poultry and Pigeou Association, at the Fifth Regiment Armory. Free lecture by Bernard C. Steiner on "France Through Normandy to at Branch 13, EndVh Pratt Free Library, Linwood avenue and Fayette street, 8 P. M. Lecture on "Bible Facts and History," by Dr.

Raymond P. Dougherty, of Goucher College, at Central Young Men's Christian Association, 8 P. M. Meeting of officers of the war at the Baltimore Club, 8.30 P. M.

Meeting of the Vouille Post, No. 30, of the American Legion, at the old Troop A Armory, Pikesville, 8 P. M. Meeting of St. Colum Cille Division, No.

0, Ancient Order of Hibernians, in meeting room on Harford avenue, 8 P. M. Monthly meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Fourth Infantry, at 705 Cathedral street, 8 P. M. December quarterly meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Baltimore City, at Alnutt Memorial Methodist Protestant Church, Lom4 bard and Chester streets, this afternoon and evening.

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