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Annual January Sale of Linens

This is the sale for which the housewife waitsher yearly opportunity to buy superlative McCutcheon Linens at substantially reduced prices.

In this popular annual event she can make her choice from hundreds of exquisite Linens, all of which are of the regular McCutcheon standard of quality. There are liberal selections of Table Linens, Damasks and Fancy Cloths; Household Linens, Sheets, Pillow Cases, Towels; Blankets and Comfortables. And in addition, charming articles of personal apparel-Lingerie, Blouses, Laces, Sweaters, Hosiery and Children's Dresses.

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ding clothes, such as a pair of silk stockings, a nightcap or two, and such articles which would not have been parted with except in case of extreme need.

"One of the ladies at once handed a ten-dollar note for the pencil, and this money was conveyed to them. But it was very difficult-extremely so-to assist the family, they were so proud. . . . They became acquainted with us, and Mrs. Clemon would run in to have us go in. I can never forget the pretty little cottage they had-on the very outskirts of Philadelphia. Everything about it showed that it was the dwelling of a gentleman. The moment you entered the yard you became aware that a person of taste and refinement lived there. He had twined the rose bushes about the windows. Everything about it was so tasty, and within what furniture they possessed was extremely elegant and delicate, his wife's harp, piano, &c."

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But, I asked, were they obliged to sacrifice all these things? Oh, yes, she said, one article after another disappeared until when they left Philadelphia they had scarcely anything left.

She went on to speak of Mrs. Poe. "She was his first cousin, a little delicate matron, brought up in the South in perfect indolence and perfectly unfitted for toil. Her hands have never been soiled with work. They were small, plump, and very white. She was a little matron, hardly looked as if she was more than fourteen, and so fat-just as plump and sound and white. Poe used to like to see her so plump, he was so thin and tall. 'Ma! ma!" she would say in her sweet, delicate voice. 'Ma, don't you think I shall melt all away?' She idolized her husband.

"Oh, she was so sick; one evening she ruptured a blood-vessel. She had been singing she was a beautiful singer, and about ten o'clock she ruptured a bloodvessel. The next morning at daylight Mrs. Clemon came running over for me. I went, and found the doctor there. They had stood over her all night, fanning her; she could scarcely get her breath. It was a little bedroom-the ceiling so low that over the narrow bed it almost touched her head. I saw that the doctor kept looking up. I knew what he was thinking-that she must have a different room-and I felt so afraid that Mr. Poe would get irritated, he was so proud and quick as steel and a flint. . . . Poor thing, she suffered twenty deaths." Anna says "they were reduced almost to starvation-for days I have known. them to live on bread and molasses." This was Poe.

AMANDA B. HARRIS.

January 2, 1924

Wanted from Russia, Deeds not Words

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USSIA'S Soviet Government, if it can be called a government, has

a fairly good nose for publicity. Consequently, when President Coolidge in his Message suggested that the time might not be far off when Russia would have a government fit to be recognized by civilized nations, Tchitcherin, the Soviet Commissary for foreign affairs, made an appeal for recognition. News correspondents whose sympathy with the Russian Soviets apparently got the better of their capacity for getting information, rushed despatches out saying that President Coolidge is about to recognize the Soviet Government as not only the de facto but the de jure Government of Russia.

In this they were either assuming a sudden and unaccountable change in the policy of the American Government toward Russia or else they were allowing themselves to forget or ignore the conditions on which that policy was based. Repeatedly, under President Wilson and under President Harding, and again under President Coolidge, it has been declared in words that ought to be unmistakable that the United States does not propose to open negotiations with a Government which repudiates its obligations, which does not recognize the ordinary principles that underlie relations between civilized countries, and which makes a point of agitating in foreign countries against those countries' governments, and that recognition will not be justified until the Soviet Government changes, not the forms of its promises, but the substance of its deeds.

Those, therefore, who were somewhat disturbed by newspaper reports were promptly reassured when Mr. Hughes, apparently taking cognizance of these reports, although not specifically mentioning them, authorized the publication of instructions sent out by Zinoviev, President of the Communist Internationale and head of the Petrograd Soviet, to the Workers' Party of America in which the following statements were made: that the activity of Communist agitators in

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America "be directed among the workers of the large industries;" that "units of ten" must be organized; that "each of these units of ten must have their own fighting unit," which "must once a week be given instruction in shooting;" and that the Internationale hopes that the Workers' Party of America "will, step by step, conquer (embrace) the proletarian forces of America and in the not distant future raise the red flag over the White House."

Since the publication of these instructions on the authority of the United States Secretary of State, both Tchitcherin and Zinoviev have repudiated the document as a forgery; but it is said that the Department of Justice has assured the Department of State that the document is authentic.

If it is argued that the Communist Internationale is not the Soviet Government, but simply a party, it is sufficient ment, but simply a party, it is sufficient to answer that, in the words of the editor of the official organ of the Soviet régime,

"the close organic and spiritual connection between the Soviet Republic and the Communist Internationale cannot be doubted." The fact is that the Soviet Government is simply the Communist Internationale acting as the ruling power of Russia.

Of course this propaganda is not merely the dissemination of new and. perhaps revolutionary political ideas, but is the incitement to a violent overthrow of the very Government with which the Soviet rulers pretend to want to negotiate. No self-respecting government can deal with a crowd which has as one of its aims the overthrow of that government. Moreover, even were this propaganda to cease there would be no justification for the recognition of the Soviet Government until it had acted in reversal of its former confiscatory policy and made restitution to the American citizens whom it had deprived of their rightful property, and until it otherwise had proved by its deeds its good intention. There is no

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ENERAL CHARLES G. DAWES's reputation for plain and forcible speaking has brought him a new responsibility. As Director of the Budget he succeeded in conveying to Congress and to the various departments and bureaus of the Government some ideas about economy and rational expenditures in public moneys which had never been heeded before. He spoke with the authority of public opinion, but with a vocabulary that was distinctly his own. It is said that a high Allied official remarked recently: "If General Dawes had the courage to shriek 'Hell and Maria' at the United States House of Representatives, he undoubtedly will have the courage to tell his European colleagues what he thinks of them in order to hasten Germany's house-cleaning. That is exactly what is needed, and General Dawes seems to be the man to do it."

It is partly because European countries look to America for help out of their difficulties, but partly, perhaps chiefly, because of General Dawes's quality which is thus described, that the Interallied Reparations Commission decided to offer to General Dawes the chairmanship of the committee charged with the study of means to balance Germany's budget and stabilize her currency.

To serve with General Dawes and with Mr. Oren D. Young, Britain has nominated Reginald McKenna, former Chan

How much German capital is in hiding in foreign countries nobody knows. It is estimated in Paris, according to Mr. Forrest, the New York "Tribune" correspondent there, that in New York alone the total of such German capital is a billion and a third dollars, and the total in the United States, Great Britain, Holland, and Switzerland is $3,700,000,000.

In many quarters there seems to be some doubt as to whether all this hidden capital or any great amount of it can be uncovered. One of the two committees of experts on which Americans will be seated will have the German concealed capital as the main subject of their investigation. The member of this committee from America (who, like the members of the other committee, will not represent the American Government officially) has not at this writing been named.

As the days go by the success of the French policy since the occupation of the Ruhr has become more and more evident.

How Much Can Cities Grow?

that the Interallied Reparations Commission will name him as the British representative.

Can Germans Finance German Relief?

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r is most natural that Belgium, and particularly France, should be very reluctant to authorize any loan to Germany for the purchase of food for her population. As we explained last week, population. As we explained last week, those who might make such a loan to Germany would have a claim on Germany's resources prior to France's claim for reparations. There is no reason for believing that the French would have the least disposition to obstruct such a loan if they believed that it would provide the only means for relieving distress in Germany; but they do not believe that it is the only means. They are convinced that in New York alone there is German

capital ample to finance such purchase of food as Germany needs, and that there is no reason why the French should provide the means for getting this food so long as there are well-to-do Germans who have means in abundance which could be

used for the purpose. If pressure is to be brought upon anybody to provide food needed, it ought to be exerted upon the Germans who can afford to provide funds.

accident, rather than design. The plan of Major Pierre L'Enfant for our National capital is the sole instance of an American metropolis laid out from its inception with due regard for beauty, utility, and future expansion. Now, when it is all but too late, we are awaking to the necessity of forethought in these serious matters. Chicago had its World's Fair, its Daniel Burnham, and a progressive citizenry able to see the wisdom of drastic remodeling and vast expenditure. New York trusted to "muddling through."

But now a group of public-spirited men and women, stimulated and supported by the Russell Sage Foundation,

have formed the "Committee on Plan of New York and Its Environs." The Committee has wisely approached its task from many aspects. Its plan will not fall into the slough of over-specialization. It has organized at least four fundamental inquiries: economic and industrial; physical; legal; and social, which includes health, housing, and recreation. It has mobilized the best brains of the country to carry out and advise upon these surveys.

Prerequisite to any effective plan, it was essential to know the approximate future population growth and distribution in the metropolitan area. To this end Dr. Raymond Pearl, Professor of

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Biometry and Vital Statistics at Johns Hopkins University, assisted by Dr. Lowell J. Reed, was employed to conduct a statistical research. Their report has just been made public. In the past halfcentury the study of population prediction has become almost an exact science. Various methods of forecasting are familiar to vital statisticians. Dr. Pearl and Dr. Reed have discovered that all normal populations upon a given area grow by a certain typical curve. new country or town population growth is slow. Presently it shoots up faster. Eventually it passes a point where the available sources of subsistence begin to fail, and its rate of growth reaches a maximum. The rate becomes progressively slower until the maximum population the area will support is reached. The curve is like a much-flattened letter S with upper and lower limits called. "asymptotes." This curve holds for even a swarm of fruit flies feeding on bananas in a bottle. It has been verified in its upper portions for old countries like France, where the maximum rate has been long since passed, as well as comparatively young countries like the United States, which passed its "point of inflection" about 1914. The maxi

mum population of the United States will be reached about the year 2100 and will fall just short of 200,000,000 by this formula. Of course it is commonly objected that new scientific and agricultural discoveries may indefinitely increase the possible maximum. But all these advances must have a finite limit, and the essential truth of Malthus's theory is as potent as ever.

The survey considers the New York region as a unit, including Long Island, Westchester, and other New York counties, a corner of Connecticut, and the satellite cities of northern New Jersey. Drs. Pearl and Reed find that the population of this entire area, now about 9,000,000, will reach its ultimate limit at about 35,000,000 in the year 2100. In

2000 A.D. it will be approximately 29,000,000, of which the present Greater City will contribute something less than 16,000,000. A secondary ring of coun

Frank I. Cobb, of the New York "World" reaches about five per cent of the total (it is now 2.7 per cent). The foreignborn population will touch its maximum in about eighty years, and will eventually fall off until it becomes even less than at present. It is not generally realized that the foreign-born form a lower percentage of New York's population to-day than they have at any time since 1860.

All of these fascinating predictions are of course subject to unforeseen factors, but in the main the observed facts confirm them with a margin of error no greater than usually obtains in the physical sciences. Independent researches by other experts are in close agreement. The compelling conclusion, not only for New York, but for all cities of any mag

nitude, is that the present generation

must build for posterity. The oldfashioned gridiron street plan, the happygo-lucky transit and food-distributing systems, the neglect to purchase generous park and open space when it is cheap, are anachronisms that must go.

Business Demands
Reduced Taxes

THE chorus of approval of Secretary

Mellon's plan for reducing taxes has made it almost a certainty that the reduction will come. One point of view

because the reduction will immensely increase the buying powers of the individual taxpayers in those very classes which Mr. Mellon proposes to benefit. That view was very well put by Mr. Lewis E. Pierson, President of the New York Merchants' Association, at a recent luncheon attended by five or six hundred people, almost all business men rather than financiers or lawyers. Mr. Pierson said: "High taxes have an inevitable tendency to slow down the wheels of industry and change a situation of prosperity and abundant work to hard times and unemployment." The applause with which this and other arguments for tax reduction were greeted by this large body of representative business men left no one in doubt as to their general belief in tax reduction.

Equally evident was it at this meeting that there was no belief that tax reduction could go hand in hand with the payment of four or five billion dollars to soldiers as a bonus. Mr. Pierson laid emphasis, not only on the ordinary arguments as to the financial impossibility of paying this enormous sum of bonus money and at the same time attempting to reduce taxes, but also on the fact that the bonus might very well be considered as false generosity to the veterans in that the veteran who has a taxable income would be taxed like every one else on that income, while those who have little or no taxable income would be very apt indeed to fall into danger of unemployment, since all history and political economy teach that over-taxation, such as would be involved in one form or another in the demand of the proposed bonus,

invariably leads to unemployment and

the distress of the worker. Mr. Pierson

remarked on this last point:

The veteran would ridicule any politician who offered to give him a bonus if at the same time it were confessed that the Government would take back from him in taxes what had been given him in adjusted compensation. He would hastily reject this two-edged gratuity if those who now offer him a bonus were candid enough to admit that it might possibly entail the loss of his employment.

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growth than the old city, while the outer circle will eventually contain about twelve per cent of the total. The age distribution in New York will remain nearly the same as at present. The Negro population will increase until it

men, who believe and say that a reduction of taxes will be a great boon to the business of the country at large. This is not so much because it will reduce the taxes paid by merchants and manufacturers on their business profits, as

writer and conductor of the editorial page of the New York morning "World," died on December 21 at the age of 54. His name was probably not as well known to his readers as were the names of Greeley, Raymond, the elder