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Ao., to be Published dally, Including Sunday, by the Bun printing ana I'umu.iini Association, 100 Nassau st.. Borough of Manhattan. N. Y, President. Frank A. Munsey. ISO Nassau at.; Ervln Wardmanj Secrotarr, II. II. Tltherlngton; Trea,, Wm. T. Dewart, u or iso Nassau street. tendon Africa. 40.49 Fleet atreet. Paris office, i Rue da la Mlchodlere, oft Hue flu quatre septemore. Waafitnrton office. Munsev Bulldlnr. Brooklyn offlce. Room 202. Eagle Build ing, 303 wnsnington street, It our trlsnds uho favor us tellA montl- scripts and Illustrations for publication let's to have relectti articles returned then must IB all com lent stamps or tnat purpose. TELEPHONE. BEEKMAN 2200. Would the Lodge Resolution Go to the President? A friend In Philadelphia writes as follows: \The Sdn has done flna work In helping to detent the League treaty and savins Amsrican Independence. Just at this time Tna Sun could help very much by explaining once more what a concurrent resolution of tho two houses Is. For my own part I beps Congress will pass such a reso- lution ending tho war and 'put It up' to tho President to sign or veto.\ There Is a very general, and, ns It seems to The Sun, nn exceedingly Important misapprehension by the public and tho newspapers concerning the status of the concurrent resolution declaring penco With Germany. This resolution was tho one Senntor Lodqs introduced Immediately after the re- jection of the Interwoven Wilson treaty and covenant Because there has grown up In Con- gressional practice a clean cut dis- tinction between the joint resolution requiring the signature of tho Presi- dent and the concurrent resolution not submitted to him for approval It is widely assumed that the Lodge reso lution, being styled a concurrent reso-- J lutlon, would not be submitted to the Executive for his signature. We find even Mr. Taft saying In the Philadelphia Public? Ledger that the Lodge resolution will have no effect except ns putting on record the opin ion of Congress that peace hast'beetf created by n treaty to which weare not n party; that 4t will not bo n law, it will not be afreatjvlt will not even be an authoritative declaration by a governmental agency having power to bind us, and cannot even be transmit- ted to Germany, unless the President chooses to transmit It. Repeating that the difference be- tween a joint resolution and a con- current resolution, In the matter of the requirement of Executive ap- proval, Is not fundamental but only the growth of precedent and practice, we call attention to the following pro- vision of .the Constitution of the United States, In the seventh section of. Artlclo I. : , \Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Sen- ate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a ques- tion ot adjournment) shall be pre- sented to the President of the United States, and before the same) shall take effect shall be approved by him, or being; disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thir- of the Sen-at- o and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed In the case of a bill.\ The requirement Is. specific. The artificial and arbitrary distinction be- tween a joint resolution which has the force of law because it has the President's signature and the \con- current\ resolution which, because it has not the President's signature, is nothing more than a negligible ex- pression of the opinion of tho two houses of Congress fades away to nothingness In the light of the con- stitutional provision here quoted. This is ns It should be. The reso- lution of Congress declaring poace with Germnny, whethor technically styled a Joint resolution or n con- current resolution, should hnvo the force of law ; and the option of signing this resolution or vetoing It should be put squarely before President Wilson t the earliest possible opportunity. A Prince Among Democrats. Departing from tho United Stntes yesterday the Prlnco of Wales took with him the good will and affection- ate regard .of thousands of Americans who 'had seen him on his too restricted tour and of millions who followed through tho newspaper reports the strenuosltles of his life during his visit. The Impression created by the conduct not less than the words of the heir to England's throne was that of a wholesome, senslblo, sensitive young man, a royalty whose tribute to democracy was not mere lip ser- vice. Edward Albert was not play- ing a part as ho flushed with embar- rassment when he wns called on to address words of high counsel to grave ond serious elders, when he J blushed with pleasure on tho receipt of somo unexpected and premeditated compliment, when he. gazed with un concealed Interest at somo novel sight. Ills naturalness, the absence from his behavior of till poso and affoctedncss, wcro quickly recognlzod by the great crowds whoso curiosity ho promptly turned to Interest and whoso Interest soon developed Into an obvious and unconcealed friendliness. The con quest of affection ho began at tho Bat tcry on Tuesday continued without a reverse until Mb departure, in his for mal and Informal appearances. Be came an Interesting pcrsonago; ho left us with tho feeling wo had met an Interested frlendJ The character of tho messages sent bj? King George and the Queen Mother Alexandra during tho stay of tho Prince of Wales hero has been un usual. They have displayed direct ncss of utterance, a homeliness of do tal, n compelling human note which sharply differentiate them from the purely formal communications we are accustomed to associate with tho seal of royalty. The words father, mother, grandson \havo had place in them to the exclusion of King, Queen, Prince, a compliment to the public which will not be overlooked. Breaking Into Our Market. In October, eleventh month after tho armistice, tho Imports of the United States wero $410,000,000. This was an Increase-ov- er October last year of $109,000,000. In September tho imports of tho United States were $435,000,000. This was an increase over last year of nearly $174,000,000. In September and October together the imports of the United States of America wero more than $850,000,000, This was an Increase over the corre sponding months last year of Just about $343,000,000. For the first ten months of this year tho Imports of the United States were $3,130,000,000. This was an In crease over last year of $543,000,000. Some of the world Is well started on tho way. to pay us what it owes us with Its goods. Some of the world Is well started on the way to solve Its adverso exchange rates with Its goods. Somo of the world is well started on the way to buy our gold with Its goods. All of the world is well started on the way to brenk Into our market, tho greatest and richest on earth. Aphorisms and Memorable Phrases of the Last Political Generation. The historian who wishes to be at the same time accurate and Interest ing draws freely upon the words of the Importnnt men of the period ho is describing. This Is particularly true of Mr. James Fobd Rhodes, who has recently added to his valuable History of the United States\ a vol ume which embraces the period from Hayes to McKinley. The twenty years beginning with 1877 wcro rife with political action and debate; and Mr. Rhodes, who prepares historical narrative with a carefulness and clear ness not excelled In any other Ameri can historian now living, has used quotations with good effect The reader finds himself, if he Is of middle or later age, stumbling upon phrases which wero familiar In his youth or boyhood. General Grant, whose political Ira portanco In the Hayes regime was ns n possible third term candidate, wrote to General Adam Badeau in 1870 \I am not n candidate for any office, nor would I hold one that required any manoeuvring or sacrifice to ob tain.\ Later, when ho was asked whether he would not be disappointed if the country did not return him to the White House, Grant said: \No not at' all, but Mrs. Grant would.\ General William T. Sheuman was the ono man who shut the door as hard as lie could on tho Presidential nomination: \I would account myself a fool, a madman, an ass, to embark anew, at G5 years of age. In a career that may at any moment become tempest tossed by the perfidy, the defalcation, the dishonesty or neglect of any one of a hundred thousand subordinates utterly unknown to tho President of the United States, not to say.the eter- nal worrlment of a vast host of Im- pecunious frlend3 and old military subordinates.\ Neither Rlaine nor John Sherman, tho General's brother, could move him : \I woultr not for a million dollars sub ject myself and my family to the or deal of a political canvass and after word to a four years' service In the White House.\ Even after that Re- publicans like Geoboe William Cur tis and George Frisrie HoAn believed that General Sherman would not de cline If nominnted. These men's ef- forts wero brought to nn end, how- ever, by the sinister whispor of other delegates: \Our people do not want a Father Confessor In the White House,\ the reference, as Mr. Rhodes remarks, being to the religion of Gen eral Sherman's wife. Four yenrs later, In \the vilest po- litical campaign ever waged,\ ns An- drew D. White described It, religious prejudice wns tho cause of two well remembered phrases. \We are Re- publicans,\ said the Rev. Mr. Bun-char- \and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism and rebellion.\ Mr. Blaine, the victim of this blun- der, wrote to a friend a week after the election : \I feel quite serene over the re- sult. As the Lord sent upon us an Ass in the shape of a preacher and a rainstorm to lessen our vote In New York, I am disposed to feel resigned to the dispensation of defeat which flowed directly from those agencies.\ The burdens of men who achieved the Presidency aro Illustrated byl Gaii field's remark to Blaine: \I have been, dealing ajl tbeso - years with Ideas and here I am dealing only with persons. I have been heretofore treating of the fundamental princi ples or government and hero I am considering all day whether A or B shall be appointed to this or that offlce.\ And again In his cry: \My God! What Is thero In this placo that n man should ever want to get Into It?\ Wo can understand\ this side of Garfield hotter through a sen tenco from' tho letter written to him by John Hay declining to be his sec retary: \'One thing thou lnckcst yet'; and that Is a slight ossification of the heart. I wofully fear you will try hard to make everybody happy an ofllco which is outside of your constitutional powers.\ Garfield's suc cessor was not a man of popular phrases. But Blaine snld about Ar. true a bitter thing which tho his torian remembers: \I neither desire nor expect the nomination, but I don't Intend that man in the White House shall have it, Tho first epigram of the Cleveland era was uttered In tho Democratic convention of, 1884: \Wo lovo him most of all for the enemies ho has made.\ Of Cleveland's own striking phrases Mr. Rhodes quotes, In their proper places, \Innocuous desue tude,\ \supercilious ness,\ and \It Is a condition which confronts us, not a theory.\ A man who had onco petitioned Cleveland. for tho appointment of a blackle came again for a favor. \Well do you want mo to appoint another horse thief?\ asked the blunt President, Mr. Rhodes attributes to Senator Vance a classic story which has been attributed to several others: \Senator Vancb, of North Carolina, was indignant at the Indifference and even disrespect with which ho was treated by the President with regard to the patronage of his own State, but he saw tha humorous sldo ot the situation well enough to bo reminded of one of his own legal cases which concerned a small estate left by an old man to his two sons. Tho settle- ment was repeatedly put off by the court to tho disgust of the heirs, un- til at lost the elder son broke out. Durned If 1 ain't almost sorry the old man died.' \ The graceful Lowell, returning from the Court of St James's, said to Mr. Cleveland: \I como to you like St. Denis, with the bead you have cut off under my arm.\ Mr. Cleveland found it hard to please. He knew It and used to re- cite Tilden's description of him : \He is the kind of a man who would rather do something badly for himself than to hnvo somebody olso do it well.\ In tho Atlantlo Monthly, March, 1S07, Woodrow Wilson wroto this of Groves Cleveland: \The air at Washington filled with murmurs against the domineering and usurping temper and practice of the Executive. Power had somehow gone the length ot the avenue and seemed lodged In one man.\ President Harbison, author of the \outside the breastworks\ letter, was even more disliked than Mr. Cleve- land by politicians. \Blaine said Senator Hoab, \would refuse a re quest in a way that would seem like doing n favor. Harrison would grant n request In a way that seemed as if he were denying It.\ A Western Sen ntor told Hoar \that If' Harbison were to address an ondlcnco of ten thousand men he would capture them all; but If each ono of them were presented to him In private he would make him his enemy.\ Harrison ut tered a lasting phrase: \I cannot find myself in full sympathy with this de mand for cheaper coats which seems to me necessarily to Involve a cheaper man and woman under tho coat.\ There is a seeming echo of this in a speech of McKinley's in 1800: \They say everything would be so cheap if we only had free trade. Well, every thing would be cheap and everybody would be cheap.\ Contemporaries less successful than the Presidents made memorable phrases.. There are Hancock's \the tariff question is n local question\; John Sherman!s \I enmo West purely on private business to repair my fences\; Thomas B. Reed's \This Is n billion dollar country\ ; W. W. Dud- ley's \Divide tho floaters into blocks of live\; John J. Inoalls's \The purification of politics is an Iridescent dream\ nnd Dennis Kearney's \The Chinese must got\ \Mugwump\ was a great word of the period and Mr. Rhodes, notes that TnE Sun \made It a national nickname.\ Those who examine tho quotations in Mr. Rhodes's admirable work In the light of tho conditions of y are likely to regard with lively curi- osity the remarks of Mr. Wilson on President Cleveland, which we have quoted. But that which will arouse the reader's admiration most Is a re- mark attributed to Cleveland at the time' of the Chicago strike: \If It took every dollar In the Treasury nnd every soldier In the United States army to deliver n postal card In Chicago, that postal card should be delivered.\ That Is the spirit of America This Sick Man Gains While Doctors Disagree. \The failure of the Peace Confer ence to expel tho Turks from Europo spells bankruptcy of peace,\ said Pre mier Venizelos of Grecco Inst Satur- day. On Monday, speaking in the Houso of Commons, Mr. Baltoub \de- clined to believe that Turkey could be wiped off the map.\ A year ago Turkey surrendered in defeat, her resources exhausted, her armies destroyed or scattered. Since then there has been a marked rorlvnl of \national sentiment among tho THE SUN, SUNDAY, Turks, ond, what is of greater impor- - tnnce, Britain's 100,000,000 Mohnm mcdaa subjects have rallied to tho support, of the spiritual head of their religion, Under the circumstances, even at the risk of bankruptcy of peaco In tho Balkans, Mr. Balfour's opinion seems likely to provo correct. The bounds of the Turkish Empire may change Britain, for example, may retain con trol of Mesopotamia for the sako of the oil fields nt tho head of the Per sian Gulf nnd. of Palestlno for its vnluo ns a buffer Stnto to protect Egypt; but serious humiliation of tho Sultan and Caliph is'ltnprobablo as matters stand Tho Sick Man gaining in strength Instead of dying ! An interesting turn In the case of a historic'patlent Exit the Beaten Nebraskan for the Tariff Muddling Alabaman. Senntor Gilbert, M. Hitchcock of Nebraska Is not to move 'quietly nnd comfortably Into tho leadership of the Democrats in the Senate in succession to the late Thomas S. Martin of Vir ginia. To get the Job left vacant by Senator Martin's death ho will have to boat Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama. Mr. Hitchcock entered the Senate In 1011 and Is Mr. Under wood's senior In ecrvlce In that body by four years. However, Mr. Under wood comes from a Southern State and Mr. Hitchcock from n Northern State. This is a matter of paramount Importance in tho parochial politics of tho Democratic party. Tho decision not to promoto Mr, Hitchcock to party leadership In the Senate Is Interesting from a point of view slightly different from that which restricts the vision merely to Democratic partisan affairs. Mr, Hitchcock led, so far as anybody ex cept President Wilson led them, the Democratic Senators who supported Mr. Wilson's peaco treaty nnd tho Interwoven covenant of the League of Nations. Ho was not n captain in that fight, but n corpornl. Ho wns beaten. This wns nt his fault; his superiors ordered him to lend against the American people. But somebody besides Mr. Wilson must bear tna blame for defeat, and Mr. HrrcncocK Is a convenient scapegoat, no has served Mr. Wilson faithfully, but failure has put a period to his term of usefulness. Mr. Undehwood'a nuallficatlons for Democratic leadership are unimpeach able. Hie credentials nre embodied In the Underwood tariff law, one of the worst tariff lnws for the pcoplo of the United States that over was written. Daniel Webster's Tomb. The letter of Mr. Frank Beroen, elsewhere on this page, is on a matter which should be of concern to the peo pie not only of Massachusetts but of the forty-seve- n other States where re cent events have revived n sharp in terest In thnt Constitution of which Daniel Werstee was the greatest ex pounder. That the final resting place of the statesman whoso name springs to mind whenever the Constitution Is named should be neglected is something not merely to be regretted but to be reme died; and Mr. Berqen's letter seems to point the way to a desirable end, A Tribune of the People, Indeed ! In this long fight for American na tionalism as against rainbow inter nationalism no ono individual has done more to awaken the people to the surpassing Importance of the Issue, or to enlighten tho people to every ns poet of Its significance, or to move their opinions in the right direction by sound argument nnd captivating wit than Colonel Geoboe Harvey, the editor of Harvey's WeeklJ nnd the North American Review. To him certainly belongs the Croix de Guerre. With splendid courage and superb mentnl clarity, with unfailing good humor nnd a keen perception of fun damentals, with n personal devotion and a personal sacrifice of which the public can know little has this master of sano thought nnd good English enrned the highest hon ors of the fray. This is but n just tribute to a writer and editor of uncommon dis- tinction nnd power; nnd The Sun pays its duty to truth with gratitude and admiration. . Plans for a circular court houso havo been abandoned In favor of a six sided edlflco in which ostentatious ornamcn-tntlo- n is to be subordinated to utility. The public wants Justice to bo appro- priately domiciled, but Its principal in- terest is that the blindfolded lady shall recognize only two sides to a depute, tho right and tho wrong. Military and civilian oxpertB are col laborating In an effort to perfect \cer tain new devices for offensive opera tions,\ according to the annual report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortifica tions, made public Details are withheld as \confidential but tho report says \several models have been built from which Information of value has been secured.\ Washington despatch. We hope tho significance of Ein stein's discoveries has not been ig nored by tho experimenters. With their help the gun which shoots around tho corner may yet bo achieved. This week seos tho beginning of the annual solo of Red Cross Christmas seals, which havo been familiar since 190S. Tho proceeds of the drive will be used by the National Tuberculosis Association, which has tho permission of the American Red Cross to uso its namo and emblem, in tho campaign against phthisis, 91.7 per cent, of the contributions remaining in tho State where they aro collected. This is a worthy cause. A Georgia Statical Note. From thi Latonta Tlmti. The Rosebush mate quartet, which was to visit here this week, failed to come. The hl(h tenor cot sick ana the trip was therefore postponed. NOVEMBER - 23, 1910, PEACE TREATIES AND THE CONSTITUTION. Would Nol the Supreme Court Have Blocked the Covenant Anyway t To tub Kditor'of Tub Sun JSIr; In tho animated discussion proceeding for months In regard to tho League of Na- tions I have nowhero noted a, point which occurred to mo while making Bpceches'in tho West In favor of im- portant reservations In our acceptanco of tha covenant While It has frequently been stated that several articles of the Leaguo cov enant were In violation of our Constl tutlon, it seems to havo been taken for granted that nevertheless tho treaty If passed would stand. I believe that this Is not the caso. has boen said that bctlon Involving the Unltod States In war can be taken only by unanimous vote In which our repre sentative would participate. But that a peace treaty\ concluded by the Presi dent nnd the Senate should authorize ono man In Europe to plunge our country Into wai? we should be morally bound, wo nro told Is so obviously In violation of our Constitution that undoubtedly an appeal would be taken to our Supreme Court, which would thoreupon declare such treaty or such portion thereof null and void. That tho acceptanco of the treaty as It stood, without the crossing of a \V or .the dotting of- - an \1 as urged by the President and Mr. Hitchcock, would therefore necessitate an amendment to the Constitution to make It valid, earlier brought to tho attention of these gentlemen might have made them more favorable to practical compromise on several points, as I doubt If even they could hope' 'that such constitutional amendment would ever be made. Annie S. Peck. New York, November 22. THOSE WERE THE DAYS. Buckwheat Cakes, Oyster Sappers and Bobsleds Live In Memory. To the Editor of Tub Sun Sir; Those Uld3 Charley Southard, Carman ana others In their reminiscences are talking a lot about \eats.\ They haven't said a word about that crock which held the buckwheat batter. It started business In the fall and continued until the spring. How that beautiful, flushed faced mother brought In those cakes with bubbles In 'em In stacks, right off the old Iron griddle I Tho mothers, tho crocks and the cakes have all disappeared, but thank God for the memories. But what about the girls of thoso days, tho sw,eel, wholesome girls whose waists buttoned up In the back; whose mothers lace co.lars were fastened with a brooch, and who when engaged In kitchen work when there was n knock at tho door rolled down the sleeves ot their dresses before' answering the call? Those sweet women who gave to a- clean boy when he came around to see the girls such a royal welcome? Charley, when you ride around In your electrically lighted llmouslno with the electrical foot warmer therein do you close your eyes and recall tho big bob- sled with tho four horses, th6 straw to sit upon, and tho robes, and. your arm around the girl? Do you remember the oyster supper in the little tavern, where tho assessment was about 35 cents a person and your sharo of tho \livery rig\ was about $1.25? Do you remember tho singing ana shouting and good, clean fun; the ride home over glistening snow to the Jingle of tho real sleigh bells? Your boy, Charloy, borrows your Hm ouslne, takes his young lady to dinner, to the theatre, supper and home. The next day he comes around nnd says: \Dad I'm broke; let me have a hun dred dollars.\ D. T. B. New York, November 22. AMERICA NOT AT FAULT. Mr. Wilson Did Not Go to Paris With the Senate's Advice and Consent To Tits Editor or The Sun Sir: Be cause the United States Senate exer cises Its constitutional power and sees fit to lay down the terms under which the United Stntes will enter tho League pf Nations, some of the European cap itals express surprise and disappoint ment and the radical Socialist papers published In Taris refer to it as \a blow struck at France.\ If America doc3 not see fit to con tlnue to be the \goat then tha adop- tion of reservations Is looked upon \as a surrender of America's moral respon- sibility.\ The foreign Governments of all the nations participating in the peaco making know that President Wilson had no power to exceed his constitutional right to negotiate. Is the United States Senate to sur render Its constitutional rights because somo foreign Journalist \regards the President ot tho United States as tho messenger of America nnd ns the holder of a mandate until he had been re called\? Let us stand for American Inde pendence and attend to our own affairs. s The attitude of President Wilson in Insisting that he be permitted to exceed his constitutional right has got tho world Into a terrible moss. What does by and with\ In Artlclo II., Section 2, ot the Constitution of the United States elgntfy If tho President can Ignore the Senate? Did President Wilson go to Europe and get us In this mess \by and with the advice and consent of tho Sen.ito\? The American people will never shirk aay moral responsibility and, further more, they will not be bluffed Into as- suming the obligation of maintaining tho world as the European Powers would have It stand. Wo have mora than enough to do to solve our domestic prob- lems. Davis STr.o.va. New Youk, November 22. Cooperation In Whale Fishing. From ts London Uornng Pott. Tha Twofold Bay whale hunters tell that when the antarctic whales, on their way to northern waters for calving;, appear oft Twofold Bay, with them come the \kill ers\ a fierce species of grampus whale. which Is the treat enemy of tho true whale; and that these killers have learned to herd the whales Into the bay for the human hunters to deal with. Man wants from the white only the blubber, the whalebone (from the root of the mouth), and, when It la present, the ambergris. The rest of tha carcaia Is left to ba de- voured. It Is said that the killers the samo killers coma year after year to the bay have learned that to cooperate with man Is the oaslest way to a feast of whale lleih. and so concentrate their energies on driving a victim toward the whaling boats as dogs drive sheep. Tho Third Degree la California. OMani corrttrmUiiM Pan Fraociieo CAres- - Suspected criminals In Alameda county will be taken on perilous nights In order obtain confessions from them, said Sheriff Frank Farnet. explaining the ap- pointment of four, men on an aerial patrol far tha couaty. nAmm. WEBSTER'S NEG LECTED TOMB. Special Reasons Now for Doing Ilonor to tho Great Expounder. To tub Editoh or Tub Sun Sir; A fw vnars niro on a pilgrimage to the burial placo of Daniel Webster nt Uarshfleld I was shocked to find his tomb In a stato of neglect Shortly alter In correspondence with eminent officials of Massachusetts I learned tnat in iau tha Leaislntura or General Court haaap polntod a committee, of which tha lata Qovoraor Long was chairman, 10 con aider a sumrosuon to purchase Web iter's homestead at Marshfleld and cara for It as a memorial of tha Expounder of the Constitution. The committee,, however, found that the owner of the property considered It worth at least $100,000 and did not wish to sell It and therefore recommended that tha, amnll cemetery In which Webster is burled, adjoining the home stoad. and a passago from the neighbor ing highway, be acquired and cared for and a memorial gate erected nt tho entrance. It was estimated that the coat would be J12.00O. Perhaps the cost would bo twice as much at present bill to provide tor carrying out, tho plan recommended by tha committee was sub mltted with Its report. No action, how ever, was evor taken by tha General Court on the recommendation. Massachusetts, which Webster mado tha object ot a splendid apostrophe in his most famous speech, a State that in some respects attained tho highest reaches of our civilization In years gone by and did much to recover her prea tlgo and fame at the recent election, seems to be strangely neglectful of Webster's tomb, it may be that the people of tho Bay fltato think there U no good reason why Massachusetts alone should cara for a tomb that ought to be a shrine where all genuine Americans may renew and strengthen their dovotlon to tho Constitution on terms ot perfect equality. One day nearly fifty years\ ago Dr. Andrew D. White, president of Cornell, and Goldwln Smith, then lecturing at tha university, were conversing about ora torical achievements, and during the con rersatlon Professor Smith quietly re marked, as If there wero no doubt about tha correctness of his statement. \Dan iel Webster was tha greatest orator Yn history.\ No doubt It Is true that Web- ater conferred more lasting benefit on tho human race by the gift of speech than any other orator who ever lived \Eheu! quanto minus cum rellquls vcr- - narl, qunm vestrum memlnlsse.\ In the words of Lincoln, Webster made tha Constitution \possible to bo executed.\ Tha Kentucky and Virginia resolu Hons of 1798, a stain on the memory of Jefferson and Madison, did much to render the national Government Impo tent, as Indicated by the disgraceful aonduct on land of the war ot 1812 Thoso resolutions also nourished tho doc trine that led to tho nullification ordt nance of South Carolina in 1832. In fact, the Constitution a century ,ago had come to be but little better than a ropo of sand, a plight from which it was rescued by Webster's reply to Hayna nnd by his still greater Intellectual achievement three years later In a re ply to Calhoun. Webster unaouDteaiy planted In the minds of the youth of that time and ot later years the senti- ment that made Appomattox possible, He was shamefully vilified for his speech on March 7, 1850, but hlBtory, at last Is beginning to make amends to his mem ory for the Injustice that cast a shadow over his declining years. Shortly after Webster's death Rufus Choate delivered ,n eulogy at, Dartmouth College, which Edward Everett pro nounced tha most perfect tribute, ot its kind. At tho close Choato spoke with fervent eloquence of the emotion of voy agers In years to come ns they should approach the coast ot Massachusetts and behold the two most conspicuous 6b Jects In the range of their vision tho harbor of Plymouth and the tomb of WcbBtor. The harbor of Plymouth Is still vlslblo, but tho tomb of Webster Is corcred with weeds. On December 20, 1820, the 200th an niversary of the landing of tho Pil- grims, Webster delivered at Plymouth ono of his most Impressive occasional orations. In a little mora than a year, at the close of the third century of the landing of the Pilgrims, perhaps still more elaborate ceremonies will take place at the Immortal rock, for which prepa rations are already under way. It would oem, therefore, that the comlnc year would be particularly appropriate as a time to make It possible to realize the vision of Rufus Choate, or at least to carry out the recommendation in the report of Governor Long's committee. In the last century Daniel Webster attained and held the foremost position among the defenders of the Constitution and of what we now call American isms and a suttablo memorial should be erected In his honor at tha placo where his remains nro mingling with the earth. If tha General Court of Massachusetts will enact the necessary legislation no doubt the members of tho bnr and other patriotic citizens of tho country would gladly provldo the funds. Frank Beroen. Newark, N. J., November 22. THEJOY OF THE AMERICANS, From One of tho Men Who Aro Happy Over tho Defeat of tho Covenant To the Editor op The Sun Sir: Born In old Greenwich Village In ISIS of Scotch-Iris- h parents, a race which fur nished nlno Presidents and many sign ers ot tho Declaration of Independence, I should have been almost ashamed to acknowledgo myself an American had the treaty passed the Senate in Its pres ent form. Honor to those men who stood by the Constitution! America First. New York, November 22. Polychrome Silver Currency. To the Editor or The Sun Sir, As tha half dollar Is often mistaken for a silver dollnr, why not hnvo some color nppear In ono or the other that would quickly bo recognized? I have known of tho quarter being taken for a half also. Tho quarter could have blue and the half red, so that this confusion as to the slxa would be eliminated. Fred Brae lee Abbot. Sharon, Mass., November 22. Whipped tha Dean of Kansas Rattlers. From the Barber Countv Index. V. W. (illlum, who runs the Cook Ranch. killed the biggest and oldest rattlesnake last Sunday wa have ever seen. The anaka was about five feet long, very thick and had twenty rattles and a button. It was found by. Mr. allium while he was riding across a pssture and he was lucky enough to cut Its head off with a cattle whip. Going Roth Ways In Georgia. Antioch toncipondmct Athens Herald. W'a are sorry to sfata Tom Crawford is on tha sick list, but Is better at this (las. 4 PQEMS WORTH READING, X Prince Passes By. There Is the flare of triumph, ceremonial, and glory In tho city. There Is a rush of motorcycles cluster ing and fluttering loud twittering ground sparrows: There aro tho running moving picture men with labels in their hata and sprawling tripoda In their arms; Thero are tho guns booming from war ships ; tha blue figures of tha vigi- lant police ; Tha afreets deen fringed with people. Then comes your touring enr, tha satin lined, with tufta or coiorea riDoon blooming on It I Tour royal arms empanelled on tho front between two silken nags, your country's flag and ouro. And you havo paasod a qulot boy, ono slender hand upraised In stiffly shy salute Or puzzled flngors fumbling near your throat. You are tho sign of all tho linked tenacity of history And phantom memories follow you, of other centuries, other innas,. Caparisoned horse, and Field of Cloth ot Gold And ancestry and England. Fraternity exlsta among tha kings of earth, And so you place a wreath on tombs that aro ns thrones Where Grant lienor George Washington. All great men, old or young, tho living or tha dead, You may call Brother. And thero Is something dazzling and evasive In your splendor, Your dayn ono level of felicity I So amooth, uncrumpled,, ready ; So filled with deference and stately fare, tAnd gliding down far shining tracks long since uujuoicu. The world keeps showering Its prettiest gifts upon you, Placing its golden bowls to your un- - thlistinsrilpfl, Heaping the crowded tributo In your pat- h- Rewards and honors, brilliant pagean try! And yet we little folk upon the sidewalk that wave to you, What is It troubles us? You have aroused vague mysteries of kinship and aloofness Tho strange deep drama of allotted hu man rOles. If you aro fortunate wo somehow do not feel It, You miss too much I Life la not gener- ous with you after all. You do not tasto from earthen bowls that hold The simple, bitter, humble food of living. You are denied conflict and the strife And hard fought loss, nnd whlto affront. What can you know of glory as we know It who havo known defeat7 Life la a quest to all of us ; but not to you. Your quest was finished long before your birth : Your goal already won. Fate robbed you of tha wild free hurt of winning It. You walk on cleared and firm nnd lofty elevations, But we are ever crossing torrents and wo ford them On tho boulders .of surprise and eagor- - ness and need. Wo strive and sob and labor tor our little Joys. And spread them fanllko, like the setting sun, about us. You are so safe, so helpless to win back the common heritage of pain. It Is always day with you! Wejv8ometlmes have tha day, but always have the moon nnd stars And hunger of tho quiet night. Is It perhaps some misty hint of ,lh!s That makes your eyes so weary, little Prince? That makea your lips unreconciled to bliss? Because, for all tho flags and trumpet- - lngs and show. I never saw a face ao full of wonder Or so wistful with a question : \Is this am\ Kathrtn White Rtan, My Welcome. From the Kansas City Star. Little faces flattened at the window sane. Little hands awaiting to hold me tight again, I.lttle lira for a zrrat big kiss: Which one aees me Hrst Buddy Boy or Sls7 Little eyee my, how long It aenma Shadows creeping everywhere, then the atreet llrht gleams What If cares beset the day evening holds such joy. Little faces watching Sie and Buddy Boy. The Carter. From Farm Hfs. The Carver'a heart Is In his task. The wood yields quickly too, And no reward he deigns to ask But that his dream comes true. In beechen bark, on stately tree, . In nervous, boyish hand, Is cut a \J\ for John McKee, And \S\ for Sarah Bland. And there It stands that nil may read, That all the world may see, That Sarah Bland cannot be freed From loving John McKee. , I). F. R. MacGxecos. The Singing Fire. From the Atlanta Constitution. The Fire's still slnginir the song you knew In the nlghta when the Mother was sing- - inr too Singing the child In her arms to sleep. Who trembled to hear the witch wind creep. Or over the housetops, storming, cry To the ghostly dark and the starless sky. Life Is sweet as Ufa Is lone: With never a sigh or a farewell song: I4r la laughter, ana lite is play. And the Dark will dream Itself away!\ That's tha song the Fire sang to you. There where the Mother was singing too. It Is slnslns; the Mme old eonr To the wintry dreamer, with temples white. if:ar the years, rain nark with tears-A- fter lost dreams of the beautiful years) For the singing Fire has never known That the listening dreamer dreams alontt Change, friendly Fire, that singing word. And let this song In tha Dark bo heard: Lire Is lonely and tempest tossed. Too long too long when Love Is lost!\ But the Fire still sings thi old loved song: Lire :s sweet, as lire is longr- - Frsnk L. Stixtoh. Tha Change. From fie Kansas Cltu Star. There was no packers' trust of yora, As there has been of late. Klse how could Cwsnr get tha meat On which he grew so great? Tzmntbon J. Dan. Deficient In English. She has studlbd all the ologlej. And taught In modern colleges; . She can talk In French and Spanish, Ger man. Hebrew, Sanscrit. Greek; She can quota the Latin grammar, And speak Russian and not stammer; She knows nil tha ancient poets and can quote 'em by the week. Tha truth Is. as a linguist. 1 She Is certainly distinguished. Yet aha lacks In Anglo-Saxo- though the fact you'd never guess; I've been trying for a year, air. Trying hard to train her ear, air. And to teach her lips to utter Juat one simple little \Yes.\ Wilis Pctmtx. ..,4, The Sun Calendar THE WEATHER. For eastern tfew York-F- air fa .,,. rain followed by clearing In north tlon fair; In temperature; moderate to sUoiuitS winds. wtH For New Jersey Fair in north portion y Ito'it no change In temperature! ttadsrst?1? atronr west winds, t, For northern New England-- R.s . day, somewhat colder winds! ' molM,'' ts twaf'UaSgjJ For southern New England . falr? it i d.TwS V. mumperature; trash to strong SMj For western Now York Fair . . no decided l tiX turej fresh to strong neat wlnis, WASHINGTON, Nov. J.J. prM . fllJ'n ,\'\;lljr throughout the a disturbance that was ever aSSf aekatohewan Friday aSSf Ontario with Increased lntei\yW?I nl .though light rains In v5! Valley, tha lake region and th.'t.ffi Atlantlo tltates, with some strong winds on tha lakes. There Sf S.'\ precipitation except asm. loM ttZ V' Texas westward through Arizona, poraturea are above the seasonal a,,?! throughout the country, decldso.lv the Missouri Valley, thi plain. St....' 'J the Northwest. With the exceo l.Ui rain Sunday In New England and a?? east New York, fair weather win S.' during the next three days east .1' Mississippi River, with mild terap,,, Lf' Storm warnings are displayed on i,1' lantlo coast from nl.n n..., L1\' ! E.stport and on tha Iowe7 lak\ Buffalo to Oswego. ltn Observations taken nt United 6Ute, nnreau ststlons at 8 P. M. J\l\r. uZ2 firth merldlin time: nmtt ninfa Temneratnrn. rtni-- . t... ., Weather. High. Low. ometer, hrs. Weifln. Albany 4t 42 2D.88 Atlantic City,.,. (0 43 29.84 .. una Clonto Baltimore 50 42 29 86 .. Clear Bismarck 60 83 30.13 .. Won; Boiton E3 43 29.70 .. Clooar Buffalo u 44 20.60 Charleston 63 44 S0.04 Chicago 62 84 29.96 .. Clear Cincinnati 50 (4 29.98 .02 Clear Cleveland ii 44 29.80 .10 Clondy Denver t 46 30 30 .. Clear Detroit 48 83 29.78 .02 Cloilr Galveston 72 61 80.28 .. Clear Helena 46 88 80.33 .. Cloudy Jacksonville .... 72 64 30,12 .. COear Kansas City.... Si 49 30.18 .. Clear Los Angeles 78 70 29.94 .. Cloud; Milwaukee ...... C2 40 29.90 .. Clear Now Orleans.... 76 64 30.20 .. Clear Oklahoma City.. 68 44 30.28 .. (Hear rnuaaeipnia ... w 42 29 SO .. cioodr Pittsburg ' 48 49 29.86 .09 Clear Portland, Me.... 48 44 29.76 .. Cloud Portland. Ore... 56 42 30.26 .. Clout Salt Lake City.. 43 34 30.48 .. Clear Han Antonio.... 7! 62 30.28 .. Cloudy 8an Francisco.. 72 62 30.04 .. Clear San Dlrgo 80 O) 29.96 .. Cloud; St. Loul D 40 30.lt .. Clear Washington .... 50 40 29.84 .02 Clear LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS. 8 A.M. JP.Vt. Barometer 30.14 Humidity 66 n Wind direction S. IV. s.w Wind velocity 16 J Weather Cloudy. Cloudr. Precipitation None, Nom The temperature In this city yerterdar, as recorded bv the official thprmnm.t.. Is shown In the annexed table: ' 8 A. M...42 1 P. M...49 8P.M...H 8 A. M...46 2 P. M...50 7r.M... 10 A. M.,,47 3 P. M...S1 8 r.M,.,ii 11 A. M...60 4 P. M...49 9 P.M...4I 12 M 49 5 P.M. ..60 10 P. M. 1919 1918, 1911. mi. 9A.M. ..46 40 6 T. M...60 I 12 M 49 44 9 P.M. ..IS II 8 P.M... EI 46 12 Mid. ...13 II Highest temperature, 51, at 3 r. H. Lowest temperature, 40, at 7 P. 11 Average temperature, 46. EVENTS TO-DA- Talk bv Ann Turtl. rbinAUr n \Beautiful Queen Tly,\ Metropolitan M- useum of Art, 3 P. M. Address bv Prof. Itnrrv A. nv.rfr,. on \To-day- Social Morality nnd Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, Academy of Music, 11 A, M. Answer of the Farmers, Distributers and Public Officials to the Consumer Milk Protest, under thn aumlcea of tie Community Councils of Greater Now Vort, noiei unimore, B y, ji. Lecture bv E,1!th n. AhhM nn \np In Architecture, Sculpture and Palntlcf,\ Metropolitan Museum of Art, 4 P M. Stuyvesant Neighborhood Houso, and Ninth streets, announces thi wm imra reacting in mo senea w uti POOta\ Will h Alter UrnHv'. \Th Fim. ily Album.\ library, 8:16 P M. Jjtuyvesant Neighborhood House. Star- - veaant and Ninth streets, announces that Miss Jeannette Schick lectures on \Tho Family ond the IndtWdual in Club Life,\ 5 P. M. Lecture by Dr. David S. Muzzer ou American Ideala.\ Woodstock Libran. 749 East 160th street, 11 A. M. Gladys Axman, soprano. Manfred Mai kin, pianist; Jacques Malkln, violinist, ani Carlo Enclso, Mexican tenor, will be tie soloists at the concert at tho Do Wi:: Clinton auditorium, Tenth uvenuo aal Flfty-nlnt- h street, 3 P. M. Dinner to the French Economic Hotel Plaza. 7 P. M. Gilbert Cannan will address tho Drool-ly- Civic Forum, assembly hall of PubUt School 34, Olenmore anil Stone avenuti on \The Spirit of the New England,\ I ft M. \Causes for Thanksgiving\ will t tie topic for addresses nhlch the Hov, P:. S. Parkes Cadman will deliver. before t gatherings. At 3 o'clock he speaks a' a conference for women only, In the I W. C. A. auditorium, 376 Schermerhora street, and at 3:30 o'clock it' men's conference at the Bedford Iirancl Y. M. C. A., Bedford nvenue and Mor.rce street, Brooklyn, a meeting for men ooW Lecture by Everett Dean Martin cr, \Tho Mechanistic View,\ Manhattan Tradi School. 8:16 P. M. Benefit performance for the InstltutlJna, Synagogue, West 116th street, Jlanbattat Opera House, 8 P. M. St. Peter's Catholic Church will berla the celebration of Its 134th year of se- rvice. The Right Rev. J, II. .VrGeau, rector for moro than llfty jeara, will cel- ebrate maes; Barclay and Church atreet 11 A. M. T. M. H. A., addressed by Br JacoS Kohn. \What May Judaism Contribute t the Solution of the Social Problem ct Auditorium. Fourteenth avenue and Fiftieth street, Borourh Park. J ft- - if. George W. Wlckersham will read t lesson and George Bagdasnrlan will '\ Oounod's \Sanctus\ at St. George's, SW vesant Square, afternoon servlee. Unity Congregational Church, \The R- eligion of Reality.\ nddresa by the Ktr. Charles Frnncls Potter. Earl Hall, Colu- mbia University, 11 A. M. \Shall Teachers Affiliate With Law Unions J\ lecture by Dr. Felix hil tho Ethical Culture Society, 2 West S'1\' fourth atreet, 11 A. M. Anna C, No'.lo will tell \How to Dereloi Personal Marnetlsm.\ Hotel Imperial, u Edgar Luclen Iatkln or tne i.o\. servatory will lecture on \Recent erles In Astronomy.\ Bahil Library. Madison avenue. 8 P. M. Sioux Lodge, K. of P., annual f-- a\ and dance; Hotel Aator. 7:30 F M National Round Table, Im, raeiJ-- a Hotel Astor. 8 P. M. Hebrew Sheltering House entertain 600 members and gueatr, Astor, 2 P. M. ..,.,1 American Legion, entertainment. Dwlght Hlllls and Ola Harson will tpt'h and Marie Sundellus. Julia Arthur a\ the New York Symphony Orchestra, wi n chorus of 1,000 volcee. are ou the I gramme; mppocirome, i r , Sneclal Masonic service., rations escorted by uniformed Knights Temp 1WI j; address by the Rev Dr. Frederick Ernn,' Church. J.Sd Preabyterlan . ... . a tl ana Aiarris rarK v cat, a West Side Y. M. C. A. '\ it address by William Ordway Prt,' J o:id; laiK oy tioy i. uu\\\ \ 7. w. sinny Lands.\ lecture ujr .,, Brandenburg on \Marriage and ness\; 118 West Fltty-seveni- n American Association or Jt, raine. mass meeting in ni 5- - t ' Schneider. Tho French Ambasaador United States will be honorary Theatre. J:0 P. M .. Alter Brady's \The Family Aluu- - third reading In the nrles of c ty P .., Stuyvesant Neighborhood House, P. M, Tf General rehearsal or e''.\ ruj Wayfarer,\ direction of Dr Jan ; Morgan: Washington Irving Institutional Synagogue, Hjeflt 'a\ talnment for the building fund direction ot Bnrney Bernard. '\- - Opera House. I v. St. oftf Opening of eight dsn celebration j a fiftieth anniversary of the lounua. , twenty.flfth annlverry \t ln,\i m Grace Metnojist cnurcn; : - r. S. services and addres.es by Jl'; Ten Wilson. Dr. E. E. Tipple of r.ary nnd others, all day nnl ''Xpr.f community torum. J'\7 rhe.H' aaorrss uy ur. chit-- , v School 37, orty-aeco- avenue, 8:11 r. M. 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