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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
CIGARETTES AND BOYS.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: NV attention has been called to Dr.
T.. NJ. Thompsons reply TO my letter IN
your issue Of June 26, in which | used as
a basis for my remarks an article regard
ing a lad eight years old who is said 10
be a confirmed criminal, owing to his ad-
dction 10 the cigarette habit since ne was
four years old.
II boys with good moral surroundings
and good moral training would scorn 10 In
du,pe IN any bad habit simply because II
,s wrong how can the doctor explain the
following results OF an investigation by
"hov EXPERT with regard TO cigarette
smoking? After making a careful STUDY
Of five hundred boys in number OF pri-
va.e schools. where the pupils were IRON,
supposedly good homes, he found that Ia
ner cent of the twelve-year-olds 20 per cent
~ the thirteen-year-olds. 3s per cent OF
the fourteen-year-olds, % per cent OF the
ffteen-year-olds, 81 per cent OF the sixteen
vear-olds and Il per cent OF the seventeen
vear-olds were either smoking or hao
smoked recently Che scholarship showing
for the smokers ranging from 10 per cent
~ II per cent lower than the non-smok-
ers).
The doctor misunderstood my article II
he thinks l intended TO infer that the ex-
termination OF the cigarette would mean a
complete cure for all forms OF depravity
among our children. We recognize full
we'll how much the influence of the lone
and the playground must also be improved
before the longedfor panacea Will be
found-but we Of the Anti-Cigarette League
believe that the use OF cigarettes means
III. letting down of the bars of self-re-
straint and a weakening Of the will, thus
allowing full play to every evil inclination,
desire and appetite, whether hereditary or
ACQUIRED, and because OF this it becomes
our duty TO safeguard the youth OF our
land from acquiring so pernicious habit.
Let us. therefore. try the practical expert
m.nt of discriminating the cigarette. and
see II the problem will not become very
much easier TO solve.
LEONARD L. MONIES,
General Secretary. Anti-Cigarette League.
New York, June 80, 1911.
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To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I have been reading the letters In
The Tribune about "A Citizen OF America,
and wish to ask few questions.
Why not call that territory between the
Panama Canal and the Arctic Ocean Amer
lea and make 1t one United States OF
America?
Why not call that territory between the
Panama Canal and the Antarctic ocean
Columbia and make It one United states
Of Columbia?
Are there not more United States" than
one?
Is not the term United States" merely
a reference to the form OF government
rather than the name Of any particular
country?
II the citizens OF the United states or
America are to be called citizens OF the
United States, then why not call the clu-
zens of Canada citizens Of the United
Provinces and the citizens or central
America citizens Of the Separate States?
When the single tax becomes universal
reality. will It not bring about the federa-
ton OF all the states Of the world into
FIVE compact nations-America. Columbia,
Eurasia, Africa and Australia? l remain
YOURS for the twentieth century enlighten-
ment. HENRY ~" LlNu
New York. June 80, 1911.
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"caevh,,Iikens Skillington." s;
DESPERATE REMEDIES
Advised by a Confirmed Criminal to
Meet Desperate Grimes.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Recently there came 10 me the wreck
OF a man whom had known some twenty
three years ago AS one Of the cleverest ana
most promising young men in his profess
sion. that Of a civil engineer. Evil associa-
lions coupled with a reckless, headstrong
nature led him from a life Of usefulness
and honor TO that OF crime. And by rea-
SON Of his peculiar and extraordinary tai
ents he soon won fame and prestige in the
criminal world. For a while l with others
watched with interest and sorrow his down.
ward fight and made at times unsuccessful
efforts 10 win him back 10 life Of recti-
,ude. II was because Of the interest l had
shown that he came TO me at this late date.
II was a remarkable and pathetic story he
had TO tell.
More than fifteen years OF his life has
been spent in state penitentiaries. and
when not in custody he was usually a
fugitive from justice. Broken in health and
in spirit, he still possessed 10 degree that
resentment which so many criminals have
toward the law and the methods Of treat
ing lawbreakers After living with me for
week or more and being made as COM
Portable as | could afford. he became more
humanllke and talked with a much changed
tone about his own past and that of Grim
inals in general. 1t is some Of his thoughts
that wish briefly TO offer here.
To amuse this guest Of mine I provided
him with pencils, paper and a set OF draw
ing instruments In this | was we'll repaid,
for he still retains wonderful facility as an
artist and craftsman. and would spend
hours at time making exceedingly clever
pictures OF myself and friends as we'll as
OF skyscrapers and OF structures that he
would work out himself He was an ON
nlvorous reader OF the daily papers and
was very fond of discussing the events and
incidents he had seen accounts Of. particu-
larry OF those that pertained to the capture
OF criminals and the commission OF crime.
lie was deeply interested in the startling
frequency OF burglaries. as reported by the
daily press, and his views and comments as
frankly given are worthy 10 my mind Of
the most serious consideration.
Burglary is one or the most dangerous
and fascinating games In the business" he
said. rand those who follow II usually 80
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prepared to avoid capture. The penalty IN
most of the states Is from one TO seven
years. so. you see unless you have oad
luck there is not much to It. Every burglar
Is a murderer In the intent. All that 's
necessary to bring about the accomplish.
ment Is the occasion. Any man Will XIII
rather than be captured"
A friend OF mine asked. How would you
discourage this class Of crime?" Here is
the answer
IT have been among men and women OF
the criminal class for twenty years and l
know the life. Our laws are joke. Win
a light penalty and with hundreds OF ways
to avoid conviction. such as sentiment
feigning sickness, faxed alibis, etc, burg
larry will continue to be popular crime.
because II Is profitable and fascinating IL
the penalty for the first offence were nfteeh
years It would make men think before they
would take chance. Fifteen years IL
long stretch. Then, for the second ohence'
sterilization-that scares them-with a lie
sentence It would kill the game. Sterih-
zation is the best remedy for all second
offenders, REGARDLESS Of the crime. once
man has a taste OF prison life he is lost'
I am no good In this world. You know my
career, so II doesn't bother me: but II you
did not know ] would not be able to talk
TO YOU as frankly as do. for once con-
Wet you never get your confidence ana sen
respect back You live In constant dreao
Of your secret being discovered. II Is TINS
feeling of insecurity that makes secono
offenders and confirmed criminals. It's
hell OF a life. Crime isn't like honest living
st comes to you. Honest occupation one
must seek for. Burglary, highway ROBBERY
dynamiting and bomb throwing are all III
definite crimes, the seriousness Depending
entirely upon circumstances, and the only
way to suppress them is TO be mercitui
with the abiding and severe with inc
offenders. I am speaking from twenty
years Of experience and association and
ought to know
This man lived with me for six weeks
and with the assistance OF Few frienos
everything was done to make him forget
his criminal past. On June we sent MN
cut to a ranch in South Dakota, where ne
would have employment and be removed
from the haunts and influences OF his ror-
mer associates. He seemed anxious ana
pleased to go. He stayed there just one
week. and his present whereabouts are un-
known to me. From the number or bure-
laries and crimes Of like character that are
being daily reported I am persuaded that
he was at least right In saying, desperate
crimes require desperate remedies"
GEORGE E. GARDNER.
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DOG DAYS AND MU//LES.

The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals has been commanded
TO enforce the recently passed ordinance
Of the Board of Aldermen requiring dogs
to be muzzled or led in leash during the
four summer months. At the same time
the society places itself on record as mot
taking any stock in the oldtime popular
belief that dogs are peculiarly liable TO
rabies Ia the dog days"
Little room remains for doubt that
the widespread popular conviction of Il
direct connection between hot weather
and rabies is only one of many sur
viving superstitions. Those who have in
vestigated the subject closely are at least
practically agreed on this point. But
there is another side to the case. which
may well be the basis Of the popular be-
lief itself. More persons, and especially
more children, are bitten by dogs, sound
or mad, during the summer months than
at any other season of the year, II for
no other reason than that both old and
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"NON-CRIHINAL" CRIMINALS.

What can be accomplished by a
few happy refnements in definition has
again been illustrated in a dictum from
the local bench. In sentencing a pris-
oper convicted of having violated the
banking laws by making a false return
IL the State Banking Department Su-
preme Court justice is reported 10 have
said Il do not regard the defendant as
"a criminal with criminal intentions, al
though he committed a criminal act
This naturally raises the question ::
What constitutes criminality? To the
ordinary mind a criminal is a person
convicted Of having broken a criminal
law. The defendant in question was
found by the jury TO have committed ALI
unlawful act and TO have committed it
knowingly Laws may undoubtedly be
broken sometimes without involving
moral turpitude on the part of the
transgressor He may not have known
and must suffer merely because igno-
rance Of the law is not accepted in the
courts as valid defence.
But il is hard 10 see how the eX-presi
dent Of the Carnegie Trust Company
could be considered technically guilty
though morally innocent. AS president
OF the company he was in a position of
trust and owed an obligation to the state
20 the company's depositors and TO the
public In misrepresenting the condi
ton of the company, in order TO prevent
an exposure of the reckless banking
methods Of his associates in the manage
ment, he encouraged existing depositors
TO continue their accounts and new de-
positors TO open accounts. He prac-
tlcally made fraudulent representations
with the intent Of holding old deposttors
and attracting new ones, and whether his
misstatement of the company's condition
had been within the law or not, which
was the main issue Of the trial, he would
not have been free from moral respOn-
sibility for an INJURY done TO those who
considered him faithful TO the trust
which he was exercising.
II the intentions behind the deception
were not criminal. what were they? The
ex-president was not trying TO impose on
the state, the depositors and the public
Just for the sake of imposing Oh them
He had an interested motive, and If
what he did was a crime, as the jury
found 1t to be his action must have been
essentially criminal.
We are not attempting TO pass upon
the business Of the verdict, which may
possibly be reversed on further proceed
ings. The Judge himself did not pass
upon that point. He merely said, accord
ing to the reports. that he did not re-
gard the defendant as a criminal with
criminal intentions, although he had
committed a criminal act. 1t is appar-
emily time to reclassify those whom we
have undiscriminatingly called criminals.
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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRHS>-Both houses, aI'e irt;1
perfunctory session TOOK
July D.
FOREIGN German troops were la Ii
ed ~ Agadir. Morocco, with tile ii'eI,..o, !,
of occupying the hiuterland lhele, So;I-
uneasiness prevails in Paris. - So n1rl 9
ings from British ports were Few; -" &c .
g. The shipping strike; concessions ~
- 10, ,rdrc made. and better condl-
lions were expected for MONDAY,
A. The request of the American Depait :
mani of State the magistrates vi po"
G,raot Court. London. issued PROVISIONS
warrants for the arrests OF IdNlu -
Kaplan and Milton a. Schmiol; A.
Changes in the directorate oil tne ~"
uonal Railways OF Mexico "eio
nounced at Mexico City.
DOMESTIC.-Pr and Mrs: 1aIt'
"Charlie" Taft and Miss Dela IorIeS
arrived at Beverly. Mass, from Nasn
iueton. - The Interstate Corliiiei &c
Coun,ission ordered an investigation Vi
all express companies dolhe an -
STATE business, TO determine the reason
sbIencss of their rates and classlncd-
lions. - John w. Springer OF Deii.ti'
VS. granted a decree OF divorce on 'he
.round OF mental cruelty, largely OH
Testimony admitted in the trlal LOT HluI :
der of H. +. Henwood for the klllihs Vi
George r.. Copeland. == IhTee pei
snns were killed and a fourth was crit
lcally injured when a tram slruch an
automobile near Albany. - GoNei l'ol
nix and party stopped at Lake George
for luncheon on the way from AII Tt,9oI
90 Underwood. =- :. Percy Hooker,
chairman Of the State Highway COM
mission. said at Albany that the positlon
m general manager of the Greater New
York Brick Company had been olIereo
Rim, The Bourne Cotton Mills OF
Tiyerton. r. l., paid its forty-third con-
sscutive semi-annual dividend TO us
operatives. Two earthquake
shocks. the heaviest since lsOo. ahG
separated by only few seconds Jarreo
the central portion of California and
Western Nevada.
CITY-Stocks were dull and firm
- Harry y. Atwood, continuing MS
fight from Squantum. Mass, came from
New LONDON in hours and ~ minutes
actual flying time, circled over Manhat-
tan and landed on Governors Island
setting a new American cross country
record - The committee having IN
charge the plans fOi the city's safe and
sane" celebration of independence Day
announced its plans In detail, which in
cluded a large number OF neighborhooo
festivities in each Of the five boroughs'
==- The greatest Fourth Of July exc.
dus in years compelled the putting on OF
hundreds Of extra trains on railroads
leading out Of the city. - Patrolman
Michael Lynch was shot and killed by
a negro while he was investigating a
shooting in a tenement house in the
Helrs Kitchen district. 60 Petitions
in bankruptcy were filed against w. j.
Cummins, Martin j. Condor and Charles
A Moore, ir., whose aggregate liabilities
are said TO be s13.500,000
THE WEATHER. Indications for to-
day: Fair. The temperature yesterday;
Highest, 81 degrees; lowest, 6S.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS

New York is very much exercised over
the escape OF a monkey, which makes
those who are familiar with the character
OF the greater portion Of New Works popu.
lation. raise their eyebrows In mild surprise
and merely grin.- Philadelphia Inquirer
4 New York magistrate has DISCHARGED
a youth arrested for standing on the stress
corner II is not a crime and can't be naoe
a crime. says he, 10 stand on a corneS
when there Is absence OF any disordetiy
conduct or intent-Lewiston (MeD Jou"
nal
The meanest man is again locatee -
New York This time he robbed a ol,' \,
newsboy OF two cents. And the worst OF ~
Is. the meanest mans name seems 10 10
legion.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
More than twelve thousand New WORKERS
were willing To pay 80 cents apiece yust "a
say that they inspected the worlds oissess
ship before sull bigger one appears
Christian Science Monitor.
A Tammany district headquarters cup
has beeA rented for a courthouse, sisS
many courthouse in New York mas Ioo. ser
like Tammany headquarters-bos'oS
Herald
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

II person convicted on the charges ana
evidence on which the ex-president OF the
Carnegie Trust Company was convicted
can be called a ''non-criminal" criminal
then crime and criminality will In most
cases have to be regarded not as twin
offspring Of one parentage but as as
tant cousins who have never reacneo
tie stage Of a speaking acquaintance.
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THERE is SOME LEFT YET.

From The St Louis Globe-Democrat
II 70 per cent OF New York bread is still
,aLad IN New York homes II encourages us
=" hone that the editor OF The Century"
MAS right in saying recently: The heart
OF the old city is still sound, but we are
eyamned with raw. or half baked. provin-
cisIisn" There used TO be genuine. sane,
human life in New York: We may now
hone that It's last spark is not yet extin-
puished
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

An unusually light sale OF fireworks
this year to suburbanites and others VINO
can still celebrate the Fourth OF July IN
the old fashioned Chinese manner WITH
out fear Of legal penalties suggests that
the fight for a safe and sane Fourth Is
safely won. Most persons already look
back to the powder burning and tetanus
provoking celebration Of other days as a
happily outgrown obsession. we are
getting maturer and more sensible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
THAT'S THE WAY THEY DO IT HERE

From The Providence Journal.
Spring lamb. according to dispatch from
Chicago yesterday. Jumped % cents hun
is in order for the retail dealer who pays
an advance OF a trihe over half-cent TO
reimburse himself by adding four cents
to the price paid by the consumer and say
for extortion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

From The Atlanta Journal.
In New York soft drinks are becoming
fad. Imagine. II possible, great white
way made OF ice cream sodas.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

law. The Wise King himself wou'o
have hesitated. He. above all other
judges, would have known that such
case cannot be disposed Of In few ePi'
grammatic lines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
SOME HERALDRY.

From The Columbia Is. c. State.
The ouarterings OF the escuteheon Of the
CITY OF Square Meals are Governor evult-
ant a fried chicken rampant. Conner
e~,l,ant. and a penitentiary vacant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

The Governor has signed bill when
is described as declaring 1t a INSIDE
meanor to make false statements know
ingly to any person which shall mislead
him in the matter Of getting employ
ment. II that means heavy penalty
for the rascals who swindle poor men and
women out of fees for procuring employ
ment II is an uncommonly good thing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
WANT YOUR FAMILY BUTcHEREDi

From The Polo Qll) Tri-County Press
George FYnboner will do all kinds OF fam
ilv butchering. He is fixed for II and will
do the butchering at home or VIII take 1t
away. George Is an expert at the busi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

This newspaper is oicned and puo'
lished by The Tribune Assoctduo"' u
Ne,o York corporation; office ana prn'
o,pol place Of business, Tribune Buhd'
ina. No. 154 Nassau street. Neo iors ;
OGDEN Malls, president; Ogden A. he'd'
sooyetorp; James ". Barrett, treasurer
The address Of the officers is inc once
of this newspaper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
uANkERs FOR CHERRY PIE.
,, rhs Toledo Blade.

From The Toledo Blade.
A strawberry shortcake twenty feet
square may seem alluring 10 some people
foot eouIlateral triangle OF cherry pie.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

The members OF the Connecticut House
of Representatives have voted them-
selves the privilege Of legislating in their
shirt sleeves. Why that anectatloh VI
unconventionality? Connecticut has
long been noted for "burying coat rather
than shirt sleeves" legislation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

Many political regulations have peer
crippled by an unhappy encounter VIII
the deadly parallel"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

The frantic appeals which are beins
made for the enactment Of bills making
less stringent the laws against racetrack
gambling suggest that there must De
great need Of improving the breed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

With tn. glorious Fourth falling on Tues
dav the customary weekend holiday will
he nroloneed until Wednesday. Indeed, the
celebration OF the birthday OF the nation
NAV be said 10 have begun on THURSDAY
and Friday, when there was general
exodus from the city 70 New London,
Conn, for the Harvard-Yale boat races
and after the contest was over a goodly
portion OF those present scattered in the
direction Of various summer resorts, coun-
try houses and country clubs, or else Joined
PARTIES on board the immense feet OF pleas
ure craft gathered at New London.
Many made their way 10 Newport. where
the Harvard Yale boatrace and Independ-
ence Day always give the signal for the
opening OF the season. which Mrs. French
Vanderbilt will help to usher in by giving
a large dinner-dance on Saturday next at
Harbourview. where her new ballroom will
be thrown open for the first time.
Yacht and country clubs are all making
the customary preparations for the cele-
bration OF the national birthday. The
yacht clubs will have races and regattas
and the country clubs the customary pro-
gramme OF sports. At the Rockaway Hunt
ing Club. at Cedarhurst. the polo tournament
will begin on that day, and. lasting two
weeks. will be made the occasion OF much
hospitality. while in the evening fireworks
will illuminate the sky. being set off with
all the more zest at the yacht and country
clubs in the knowledge that they are for
hidden In New York Here In town ora
,orical pyrotechnics will take the place Of
the more brilliant, but likewise more DAN
gerous, explosives.
Relatively few weddings OF note are
scheduled for the present month. Among
them is the wedding OF Miss Audrey Town
send Sackett. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs
Charles A. Sackett OF Park avenue. TO
Stewart Waller. son or Robert Waller. on
July %, at Miramar, the country place OF
the brides parents. Her attendants will
consist OF Mrs. Huntington Jackson. Of
Washington; Miss Kate Lawrence, OF New
York. and Miss Fanny Sinnckson, of Phil
adelphia; also two little. flower girls
PHYLLIS Thompson and Dolly Hagar. The
bridegroom. who was graduated at Har-
ward IN 1903, is a grandson OF John A.
Stewart. and belongs TO the Union and
other New York clubs. Julian Peabody
Malcolm Sloane, Wistar Kendall. Charles
Bradley and j. Copper Lord will be his
ushers. and william Godfrey, OF Phladel-
phia, will be his best man.
Miss Joan Tuckerman has selected Sat
urday. Juiy %. as the date OF her marriage
TO Evans Dick, jr., son OF Mr.. and Mrs
Evans r. Dick. The ceremony will take
place at sunsw!ck. the country place, near
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

Every other state in the Union siao'y
Yields the palm to New York for having
voted upon itself the most incompetent
and insufferable Legislature on record.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

The greatest state In the Union mas pre-,
sented the most humliating spectacie ~
Ali, so far as its lawmaking history LOT tme
past six months is concerned.-Bostoh
Transcript.
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urday. July %, as the date OF her marriage
TO Evans Dick. jr., son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Evans r. Dick. The ceremony will take
place at sunswick. the country place, near
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter 8. Grrnee left View
York Yesterday for Bar Harbor, where
they have rented the Ernesto q. Faobrt
cottage for the summer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02

The Rev. DR.. William T. MANNING rector
Of Trinity Church, leaves within the next
few days for Seal Harbor, Me- where ne
has built for himself summer home De.
tween those Of Mrs. Marcus Hanna ana
Johp Rhodes