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New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
THE PRESIDENTS TRIP.

The political expediency Of President
Taft's long trip through the West has
been questioned in certain quarters.
Some Republican leaders probably adj
vised against It, But such advice ran
counter to the teaching Of experience,
for the President has never failed TO
strengthen himself by mixing with the
voters and frankly discussing with them
the policies which he has had, in view.
The greatest successes of his admins
tTatlon have been won by appealing 10
the country to sustain him by bringing
pressure to bear on a reluctant Congress.
He virtually compelled the Senate to
approve the reciprocity compact with
Canada by going straight TO the voters,
and he was enabled TO get his Tariff
Board project through only by virtue of
the cooperation of public sentiment. His
own political ideas are always fair, lib
eral and unbiased, and he can quickly
come TO an understanding with the
public, which respects him as a candid
and open-minded adviser. The more
freely he travels and talks the more
completely will the country understand
his attitude toward public questions and
the more sympathetlcally will It appraise
his acts and views.
Ii is highly desirable in the Presidents
own interest Snd in that Of the Repub-
lican party that he should dispel the
misapprehensions said TO exist in the
West as to his tariff policy. In vetoing
the haphazard tariff measures passed by
Congress at the last session he acted In
accordance with settled programme
approved In advance by Congress and
the public-that Of delaying revision
until IL could be made in the light of
exact and adequate information. The
Republican Insurgents heartily favored
that plan and many Democrats assented
10 IT, But since adjournment the In
surgents and Democrats have incOnsist-
emily attacked his yetoes, charging, not
that he preferred to keep faith with the
rational revision idea, but that lie vetoed
their half-baked bills because he was
opposed TO downward revision OF any
sort. That false charge has been spread
throughout the West, and the President
can best repel it by telling the people OF
the West exactly why he vetoed the
tariff measures Of the last session and
by pointing out to them that 1t is to
their advantage, as well as TO the ad-
vantage of the whole country. to have
revision based on acts rather than to
have one based on guesswork and con-
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
MUSIC ~ THEATRES.

II Is reported from Chicago that some
example set in this city and dispensed
with between-the acts music. That sort
OF music is a habit which persists chiefly
because theatregoers take the orchestra
as matter of course. Yet there are
good reasons for thinking that AZ play
houses where non-musical pieces are
presented the orchestra could b. dis
pensed with 10 advantage
The employment Of an orchestra nee
essarily has u tendency 10 lcngthen the
waits between the acts. Ambitious con
duCtors often consume forty or fifty
minutes Of an evening. and the effect of
the play is weakened by intermissions
planned 10 give him and his subOrdl.
mates a chance. In the average Amer.
iCan theatre anything which iuterferes
with brisk action is unfortunate. for the
spectators are, as rule. kept tied down
tD their seats Only = small minority
gees out between the acts. for the reason
that II Is far more courteous AS well rs
far more comfortable 10 keep ones place
The seats are usually so close together
that passage I'm and out is an annoyarce
and the facilities for lounging or re-
freshment are so meagre that little eX-
cuse IS left for trampling over others 10
reach the aisle.
Were our theatres provided, as many
Of those in Europe are, with ADEQUATE
coat rooms, 50 that spectators would
not have to carry their bats, overcoats
and umbrellas with them 10 the seats,
and were refreshment and sitting rooms
available, there would be some obvious
purpose in Keeping the curtain down
fifteen or twenty minutes between the
acts. Then a ina jority would 20 out for
relaxation and refrshment But with
our customs barring such practices and
the audience practically confined to the
auditorium from the beginning To the
end Of performance It Is desirable TO
have the play run OFF quickly and
smoothly, with as brief Interruptions as
possible In so far as the orchestra
tends TO prolong these Interruptions i,s
activities are considered and unwel-
come. Conditions In the average Amer
lean playhouse frown upon over-leisurcly
performances. The play is getting to
be more than ever the thing.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
THE GOVERNOR AND PRIZEFIGHT-
ING

Governor Dix says the people want
boxing. and it was because Of strong
popular demand that the Frawley law
was enacted. under which priZefights are
being conducted. Perhaps the Governor
is right Yet accounts of the latest slug
ging match at Madison Square Garden
say that empty seats were plentiful, ana
tie receipts of the enterprise so small
that the states share will be only
SGO3 ~. For this sum New York State
permits brutal, debasing, degrading
spectacle, which certainly by the widest
stretch of Imagination could not be
called boxing, TO he offered to safe the
blood lust of some Of its citizens The
states honor goes cheap.
If any reasons other than those FUR
nished by the scandals connected with
the alleged lease of the Garden and the
admission tickets to the first fight held
there were needed to impel Governor DIX
to reorganize the commission, which Is
supposed to regulate" boxing, this fight
supplies them. Practically from the be-
ginning Of the fight one contestant was
hopelessly at the mercy Of the other.
The Evening Sun" describes him as "an
animated chopping block for his OPP
ponent. 1t says that before the middle
Of the fight both men were bathed III
his blood, the ring covering was drenched
with II, while his face was hammered
to a "carmine mush of flesh and blood
Hardened prizefight attendants turned
away sick at the sight Senator fraW-
ley, the introducer of the prizefight law,
clamored for the authorities to stop this
carnage. 1t went on through the ten
rounds, though at the end this victim,
"The Evening Sun" says, was tottering
about, beaten out of all resemblance of
"a human being" "The Evening World
is equally emphatic in describing the
fight as a bloody and brutal encounter.
One Of the rules of the Boxing Com
mission, issued August 10, specified:
The referee must stop the contest when
"elther contestant shows marked SUI
"periority." To the ordinary mortal the
marked superiority Of the one contestant
seemed apparent about five minutes
after this fight began. The commission
is supposed to have an official represen-
| tative at all fights to see that its rules
are lived up to. Yet this brutal exhibi-
tion was permitted to drag through its
tedious bloody length. Governor Dix
may approve the nauseous thing which
was inflicted on the public by money
grabbing promoters in partnership with
New York state. Does he approve vio-
| lations of his commissions rules? Does
he approve violations of the states laws
and robbery Of the states trca sury? If
he does not, let him take action to break
the deadlock in the Boxing Commission,
so that an investigation can he com
pleted TO show whether this club has
legal right to hold fights aud whether
1t cid rob the state in accounting for its
returns from the first fight held.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: l wish TO call every citizens atten-
ton to the fact that his rights are being
nullned by the Sullivan anti-weapon act.
Our Constitution Second AmendmenD pro-
vides as follows:
"A we'll regulated militia being neces-
sary 10 the security OF free state, the
right OF the people to keep and bear arms
shall not he infringed."
The meaning OF this is clear. The peo-
pie" applies 10 the people OF New YORK
Just as much as to those OF other states.
The state Legislature has been guilty OF
a violation OF the Constitution OF the
United states, for the Constitution ordains
Fourteenth AmendmenD: "No state shall
make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immuulties OF citi-
zens OF the United States"
Every one who tries 10 enforce the Sui
Ivan anti-weapon act is infringing the
Constitution OF the United States. the bull
wark OF our rights as citizens and every
citizen worthy Of the name should demand
the conservation Of his rights.
PRO ARIS EFT FOCIS."
New York. Sept. IS. 1911
Tour correspondent is mistaken. As
wo have already pointed out, the Second
Amendment is not restriction on the
state government I'm dealing with its own
citizens. but only on the federal govern
ment. The United States Supreme Court
has repeatedly so held.-Ed.l
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
THE EAST SIDE.

The East side of New York has long
been the first halting place of the citys
alien populations. To-day 1t spreadS
from the Battery to Harlem; yet no"'
as in earlier years, its heart, its core Is
found in that part of 1t when lies south
of 18th street and east Of the Bowery.
There the immigrant is tried out I;
there he proves his mettle; there MS
brain, endurance and perseverance, MS
frugality and industry enable him TO set
his foot on the first rung of the ladder
which leads to the melting-pot in the
second and third generations. Its sue
cesses the district sends onward ana
upward; its failures are there sub
merged.
1t is a kaleidoscope quarter, where
immigration follows immigration. Thirty
years ago 1t was German to the core
industrious, saving, prosperous. 1t had
its "weinstubes" and concert gardens, Its
beer halls and restaurants, its shopping
district, its theatre, one of the lnl-
portant playhouses of the German
drama. Apparently, the East Side had
settled down to its distinctive, permanent
part in the life of the city. But the tirst
generation born within its boundaries
moved northward. the second passed
through the melting-pot and emerged
TO be lost in the mass of us. The theatre
followed its patrons to the edge OF the
district; to-day its ultimate fate Is In
doubt. The East Side was ready to re-
ceive a later immigration and to test It's
mette
The italian had his chance. but failed
10 take 1t. The quarter became liddish
instead. 1t was a great, a disquletlng
change from the German prosperity to
the pitiabe poverty and helplessneSs OF
these newcomers. But they, too, "won
out" The prosperity that had deserted
the district was gradually brought back
10 IT, To-day Grand street.-the Broad
way Of the lower East Side-resembles
IL its air Of solid wellbeing the thor
oughfare Of thirty years ago. And now
great Yiddish playhouse has succeeded
the famous German theatre Of yore.
Once more the quarter appears TO
have settled down 10 a distinctive, per
manent part in the life of the city once
more history is likely to repeat itself
there. The Yiddish immigration will, no
doubt, in course Of time follow Its Ger
man predecessor up the ladder. Already
the process has begun. This immiera-
ton. too, will move on and up and leave
the lower East Side once again To later
comers. No historian Of New York has
yet written the story Of this section of
our city and Of the part II plays in the
first stage Of the making Of new Amer
leans 1t is a picturesque story IN the
retrospect, and its end IS not yet, for 1t
may well be doubted II the coming and
passing of immigrations through its old
streets have ended with its Yiddish pop
ulation Of to-day.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
PEAD.JTSTNENTc

Whatever the outcome Of the Morocco
crisis, and fortunately there seems to re
main but little room for doubt as 10 its
nature, the imbroglio itself has served
as an impressive object lesson to the
world at large. The time has come for
the readjustment Of some Of those super
fetal congratulations that do service as
international estimates Of national traits.
The French. it has long been held, are
an excitable race, prone to hysteria in
hours of crisis. There is history to prove
it, the excesses of the French Revolution
more by token. The argument has lost
nothing of its force with the passing Of
the years, least Of all ihf English speak
ing countries Since then Paris has
given the tradition repeated new leases
Of life. But in the present hour of I'M
certainty and apprehension France has
refused to become excited, her feelings
have not found vent in hysteria. Her
self-restraint. her poise, has been per-
feet.
Another superficial generalization has
long had it that the Germans are stold
race, quietly resolved in the face OF
foreshadowed events. And yet il is on
the German side OF the Rhine that ma
ticnal excitablity has manifested itself.
II the French cried Treason" forty
years ago, to-day it is the Germans who
hurl wild denunciations in pan-German-
istic meetings-and hurl them at Per
fidious Albion" II is a German congress
of socialistic workers that has discussed,
even though 1t rejected. me plan of
general strike In ease Of war. The radl-
cal French workingman, implacable foe
OF the bourgeois regime, has refrained
from adding to the difficulties confront
ing his government. And If t1e thrifty
French housewife continues to protest
In riot against prevailing high prices, 1t
Is, I'm the last analysis, the little hoard
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
THE TALK or THE DAY.

They were discussing tho Greenhaeen
case I'm a Brooklyn trolley car He was a
sturdy German and his companion was evi-
IDENTIFY hts wife. Il hope tho little girl
don't die from the poisoned candy" said
the woman. Where did she get t?' asked
the. man This paper saws ~ was gift
candy" she knew IT was gift and took
it-she can't get my sympathy" said the
man and his wife. better versed In Eng
lish than he. had 10 explain that gift"
which Is poison I'm German, has = different
meaning in the vernaculsr.
4 PENNSYLVANIA justice Of the peace found
"a number Of boys rdidlng his watermelon
patch and punished them in a novel way
The boys had TO gather up the broken
melons load them on a wagon and haul
them about town, meanwhile telling every
one they met why they had 10 do H. The
youngsters were so ashamed after a little
~ this experience that they scampered
HON" when released and the country ius.
tice docs not think lie will have any more
trouble with his melons.-Utica Press.
AS an evidence that countries bordering
on the Mediterranean are adopting Western
ways OF living IT is noted that there is n
demand for steam lsundries and washing
machines, vehicles rubber tires, BARRIERS q
chairs and bathroom httIngs from cities in
Southern Italy.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
IN THE eERkSHIRES.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune.


rorov sent 1s.-Governor and Mrs. Al.
gustus f. Wilson. of KENTUCKY arrve'
to-day in stockbridge, where tney are 'n'
guests Of Miss Lizette Hast. at The Mead
ows. Miss Hast will give large recepu'n
on Monday afternoon for her guests
Mr. and Mrs Robb De Peyster Iytus
have gone 20 town for a few days
Mrs Edwards Spencer will give cnil'
dren's party on Monday afternoon et hH
cottage for her niece, Miss Husrette Ds
roras 10 celebrate the latter's birthday
Mrs. Grenville NJ Dodge and Miss ANNA
Dodge. NJ New York. have arrived al ths
Curtis Hotel from Falmouth, Mass
Mr. and Mrs. Robert ". Paterson VIII
give series OF entertainments. dinners anu
a large musical at Blantyrs in October.
| Mr., and Mrs. Carlos De Heredia Will en-
,srta,n The L.nox Garden Club az Wheat
leigh next Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. r jay Flick departed TO-
day for Poland Springs.
Mrs. Isaac McConihe entertainer a. oros'
al the Curtis Hotel tonight.
After an Illness Of several months Mrs
Daniel S. Terrence was able 10 go out To-
day for the first time.
Mr. ana GTS. GItlK WI NSe ~
tanning Mr.. and Mrs J. r. GreenhIt.
New York. AZ the Homestead, IN shefield
Mrs 4. NJ Cowles, of New York. has
closed her cottage in Pittsheld ana Is
the Mapl.wood. with Miss r. B. Rathoone'
Miss Florence Cowles and Mrs. A O. Clar~
OF Cleveland.
Mr.. and Mrs c. Russell, OF Cleveland
arrived tonight az the Msplewood. NrS
Russell is a sister OF Mrs. A. w. Cowles
Mr.. and Mrs Royal Magsrsael. OF New
York: Mr. and Mrs. William II. Engnsh'
Mr.. and Mrs r. 2. Robinson. Of New YORK;
Mrs. william s. North and Miss Helen
North. Of Chicago; Maxwell woodruff. Mss
woodruff and Mrs. c. II. Woodruff, o.
Washington are al the Naplewood.
Mr.. and Mrs Peter Goelet Gerry, OF New
port: Miss Pauline Townsend, OF Phiadsh
phia; Mrs. r. NJ. Baldwin olcCreery. MI
and Mrs Robert Ranft and the Misses
Ranft, of New York: Mrs Charles Mallory
Mrs. II. L. Raymond. Miss VI. r. Gift Of
Port Chester; Mr.. and Mrs. Z. B. Carleton
OF Boston: Mr.. and Mrs. Charles J. Sea
brooke. Of Cleveland. are at the Hotel As
pInwsll.
walbridge Taft and Warren Mayou are
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs Daniel Chester
French. at Chesterwood
Mrs. T. De Witt Cuyler. who has teen
visiting Mrs Morris X. Jesup, has returnd
O. New York.
Mrs F. A. Burdette, of New York, ard
Or. and Mrs A. NJ Thomas, OF OrangA
y. T., are at the Curtis Hotel
Arriving ar the Red Lion Inn are Conr
mander r. f. Countz, u. s. Y, and Mrs
Courtz: Mr.. and Mrs. w IL. Foster Ma
J. s. Fisk, OF New York; Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Bartlett. Mr.. and Mrs. g. H. Whit
ney and Mr. and Mrs. NJ I. Reed. OF Bos
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley II. Stevenson, Nj
and Mrs F. ?. Winter, Mr. and Mrs. Ale
fred s. Hardy, Mr.. and Mrs. George w
Taylor and Mr.. and Mrs J. II. Arnold. Of
New York, have arrived at Heaton Hall, 10
Stockbridge.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
ARBfTRATTON-AND SENSE.

II is TO he Loped that cool heads and
wise c0unsels will prevail and that the
Perth Amboy educational situation will
not be permitted to embroil Great
Britain and this country in great and
disastrous conflict.
Any patriotic American will admit at
once that refusal TO salute the flag and
iDtone an oath Of allegiance is, primd
focic, a crime of the gravest character.
Calm justice will compel him to concede
that there might be mitigating circum-
stances in the fact that the offender Is
a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl, who hap
pens to be a British subject and whose
parents have strict notions on the ques-
tiOn OF national allegiance. To be sure,
the law requires this daily affirmation
Of loyalty to the flag and this nution, so
refusal OF any pupil becomes an offence
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17

in the toe of her stocking that has kept
the Paris Bourse firm as rock. III ls
the German hausfrau who Is Withdraw
ing her savings in incipient panic.
The world has felt Frances pulse on
the eve of possible crisis, and found
it steady and strong. The country ana
It's people have at last emerged from tue
shadow under which they dweft Ill LOT
eign eyes after 1871. There has been
no change in the national character; the
steady advance of democracy has merely
raised the true French character 10 l's
own. The oldest Of the modern nations
has taken her proper place again among
the great powers, quietly. with the calm
conviction of power that carries con
viction TO others. And the spectacle Is
one of dignity.
AS for that other pulse. beating leNer-
ishly it tells its own story, whose moral
is unmistakable and weishtily SiGhin-
cant. The time for the readjustment OF
several current International opinions
has come.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
Peo1le and Social Incidents

ner In honor of her guests, who VIII start
for New York tomorrow evening.
Mrs. Lawrence l.. Gillespie entertained at
luncheon to-day in honor OF her sister, Miss
Mildred Sherman and her hance, LORD
Camoys, of England.
Mrs. Emil Bruguerie gave dinner at
Castlewood this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian McCarty Lefle have
decided to close their season on october y.
when they will go TO New York for
three months stay before going West.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, IT,.
are expected from abroad the latter part
Of the week to visit Mr.. Burdens parents
at Fairlawn.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert c. Pell have re-
turned TO Tuxedo after a visit with Mrs.
James +. Kernochan. Mrs. William H.
Sands. of New York is at present guest
of Mrs. Kernochan.
Miss Van Dorm. Of Mount Vernon, a guest
of Mrs. Newton Adams, and Frederic ?.
King. of Newport, who has just returned
from abroad, registered at the Casino to-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones and Miss
sadie Jones. who are in New York, will re.
turn on Monday on the steam yacht Ma.
rada.
Edward J. Berwlnd Charles De L. oel-
richs. Milton s. Barger and 7. Norman DE-
r. Wbitehouse have returned from New
York.
Mrs. Frederick Nelson is expected from.
Europe in n short time.
Mr. and Mrs. George ID. Widener, who
recentlv purchased the Bell estate, on
bellevue avenue. are, Il is understood, 70
buv an adjoining strip of land TO make
room for the villa which they will build.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Thomas have re-
turned from a short visit TO New YORK
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas may purchase an es-
tate and make Newport their permanent
home in the future.
Mr. and Mrs. r. Livingston Beeckman
will remain at their villa here until the
middle OF November, when they VIII go to
Providence for the winter
Mrs. Bradford Norman and Mrs
Townsend Burden gave dinners Tonight
and William r. Hunter. president OF the
Clambake Club, entertained the members
with a dinner at the clubhouse.
H. F. Eldridge has returned TO New
York.
Reginald C. Vanderbilt. who has oeen e1'
hibiting his horses at the Syracuse morse
chow has returned TO his Portsmouth farm
Colonel Charles Hayden, Oh Boston
spending the week end here.
Norman Prince, who has been Visiuhs
here. has gone TO Chicago.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
ETHAN ALIENS BIRTHPLACE.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir. In June NJ this year I paid a
vislt 10 the birthplace OF Ethan Allen. in
the beautiful little village OF Ltchneld.
Conn. While viewing the quaint old Co
Ionial house. which impressed me- very
much. ] thought what nice way
II would be 10 honor In" memory
Of the great warrior who 50 fearless
~ DISTINGUISHED himself by the capture
Of Fort Ticonderogs lin the name Of the
great Jehovah and the Continental Con
rress" and by other daring deeds performed
by himself and his band Of Green Noun
tain BOYS I'm Revolutionary days. for either
the State 81 Connecticut or the government
10 buy the house and preserve Il as a his
torical place. The house, which is in a
good state OF preservation. ] find can be
bought. V +. LONG.
New Yort, Sept II. 1911
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS.

New York has one million school children,
some of whom will one day be in heaven
and others I'm Tammany.-Detroit Journal
Officers OF the law are overawing prize
fighters who are gcheduled to collide In Mil
waukee next Friday, showing that Milwau-
kee is not I'm New Yorks class-Chlcago
News.
woman arrested In New York tor sell
ing a'grcttes turned out 10 he a lecturer on
cookery. whose speciality was egg omelettes
baltimore American.
New York IL full of unemployed actors
according to an exchange OF that city. II
is also full OF near-actors who are en-
ployed. ed.-Phiadelphi Inquirer
Two lost boys have been found In New
York whose language the police don't un-
derstand They must be Americans.-But-
faIo Commercial.
That elghty-year-od New Yorker who
had lived for seven years I'm tho streets and
was then sent TO tho poorhouse may die OF
the luxury OF his new surroundings. lie is
pretty old to he changing his mode of life
Richester Union and Advertiser.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
ENFORCING THE LAW
Writer Wants Pressure Brought to Bear
on Public Officials.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The most pressing need In our punhc
life IA that Of honestly enforcing sucn
laws and ordinances as were intended ~
benefit the general welfare. When the en-
forcement of such laws is lax We FORM 81"
sorts Of societies to enforce them thus Try
ing 10 relieve our public servants OF duties
which they swore to perform and for whlch
they are drawing their pay.
This ought to stop We citizens shouio
not make OF ourselves public official SUD-
stitutes. but confne ourselves to the WORK
of compelling our public servants to en-
force the laws and ordinances or to re-
sign.
Any one writing TO me VIII ma me LOT
one ready and willing at any time TO act
on any suggestion or cooperate win any
effort which might be attempted In TINS
direction. We need some honest, capable
pushing lawyers to guide this movement IN
the right channel and we must have physl-
clans, educators, parents and ministers 10
tell us what is needed at once.
f. j. TIMME.
No. 500 Warren street. Brooklyn. Sept. lo,
1911