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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
NO INDEX" NEEDED.

II need not be assumed that State
Chairman Barnes's letter to Republican,
district leaders asking them to furnlsh
as complete a list as possible OF the
Progressive voters in their districts
and saving that he wanted to know
how many Republican committeeman
were unwilling 10 compile tnese
names" was a step in the execution
of a policy of prescription, as some
have interpreted it. Perhaps the pur-
nose was a policy Of persuasion. MI
Barnes has taken a deep interest Ill the
issues of principle developed III the
campaign and mag not unnaturalIy De-
love that if he can reach these voters
who were drawn away from sound
views by specious appeals he can SNOW
them the fallacies Of those appeals ana
bring them back into line. Neverthe-
less. however good Mr.. Barnes's mo-
five. we think the leaders in Brooklyn
and fin Syracuse who have declined TO
undertake the preparation of such
list are we'll advised
The law Of the state makes ample
provision for determining party mem
bership through enrolment Any at
tempt to apply another test is unwlse'
especially when that test relates TO the
past while the concern of party leaders
should be for the future. TO bring to-
gether in the support Of Republican
principles all who naturally belong In
the party of opposition, regardless Of old
differences. In this city a municipal
campaign is approaching and 1t IS eA-
ceedinglv desirable that all anti-Tdln-
many elements should be enabled TO
work in harmony for municipal ends.
regardless of their national party pref
erenceS. The preparation at this time
Of such list as Mr.. Barnes seeks,
however good the purpose, would GER
tainly he regarded as tending TO ex-
clusiyeness. Many persons, carried
away by personal enthusiasm or mis-
taken view of practical possibilities,
voted the Progressive ticket who mean
to be Republicans. Many others who
consider themselves ut the moment
definitely I'm the new party are likely 10
change their minds. 1t is too early 10
forecast the future membership OF the
party al mark out an arbitrary line Of
policy. Neither can any direct persua-
sion bring the wanderers back at pres
ent. if that be Mr.. Barnes's object.
The party's future relation to former
adherentS must be determined by nat
ural evolution. It cannot be forced.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
SOWING THE WIND.

The Industrial Workers Of the World
are making Roadway at Little Falls.
Y. Y. for the same reason that gained
them their foothcld ut Lawrence. Con
ditiOns at little Falls almost parallel
those at Lawrence. There was the
same cutting Of the earnings OF mill
workers when a law reduced the num-
Der of hours work i'm the mills which
had occurred in the Massachusetts
town. The fight is for bare sub
sistence. The workers are almost en-
tirely foreigners Of the same class as
those in Lawrence. The local authori-
ties have made blunders similar TO
those made by the Lawrence authorl-
ties, and, according to an investigator
of "The Survey" special constables in
the employ of the mill owners are al
lowed to intimidate the strikers.
All Of this-the knowledge OF the
strikers that they must win or starve
and their ignorant belief that their
employers, having their own police
force. own the local gOvernment-is
calculated 10 bring about that feeling
of desperation which was so obvious a
feature Of the Lawrence disturbance.
People in such straits "a these vel
come the ideas and the leadership of
the Industrial Workers of the World.
But if that organization gains a strong
foothold in this country under similar
circumstances it will be due 10 the
blindness and folly Of employers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21

far higher point OF view, to regard this
harbor as of such transcendent impor-
lance to the whole nation that the
whole nation must be consulted con-
corning it.
The third point is that the proposed
bill would prevent a deliberate, scien-
tifc and judicial decision" There is
no pretence that the bill has been pre-
pared as a result Of such a decision
On the contrary it has cOnfessedly been
prepared in opposition to one. or for
the purpose of avoiding one. The logic
of the bill is simply that longer piers
are needed at once for a few ships and
this seems to be the quickest and cheap
est way Of getting them. There is no
consideration Of the probable effect or
so marked narrowing Of the North
River fairway, or any convincing as
surance regarding the relations of these
changes to the permanent system OF
terminals and land connections which it
Is essential TO establish. 1t savOrs or
the stOly vi Ihc CHui VIM ii"i~"'
the route of railroad from St Peters
burg to Moscow by calling for ruler
and pencil and drawing on the map
straight line between those places. It
may be that that was the best route.
1t may also be that the plan IN Mr.
Suffers bill is the best possible for our
waterfront improvement But that has
not yet been demonstrated in the de
liberate, scientific and judicial way
which seems not only desirable but i'm
perative for an undertaking Of such
vast proportions and such farreaching
effect.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
TO KEEP CHILDREN WELL
Red Cross Seals Will Help 49,
600 Who Are on Ragged Edge.

Forty thousand school children in New
York City are on the ragged edge or tu-
berculosls," says Lawrence WELLER, direc-
tor OF the New York tuberculosis Com
mittee, in a statement from Red Cross
seal headquarters.
The statement goes on to show that
more than so per cent OF the children in
families where there is a tuberculous
adult contract the disease from the Older
member OF the family who is thus ar
fiicted. Children are unusually suscepi-
BILE TO tuberculosis Infection" says Mr..
WELLER 1T is probably safe to say that,
compared with adults. they are several
times more liable 10 infection than per-
son over sixteen years old.
Probably without exaggeration nine
tenths OF these forty thousand children, IL
the proper attention is not given to them
at an early age. will be infected with tn
berculosis before they reach the age of
sixteen.
THE Board Of Education is willing to
provide schools for this large class or
anamic children. but the Board OF Edu-
cation cannot provide food for them since
the city charter forbids it. The sale of
Red Crosa seals gives the tuberculosis
Committee fund from which food and
clothing and other necessaries for these
children are provided. We are aiming to
get fund of $4,000 to work along this
line next year."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
THE NIGHT COURTS HOURS.

The law creating the night court
provided that il was TO be kept open
until 3 a. IN. There was a good and
sufficient reason for this. The night
court was designed especially to defeat
the notorious STRAW bondsmen" who
trafflcked in the arrests Of unfOrtu-
nate street women and the miserable
policemen who stood in" with them
and created the opportunity for mutual
profit by arresting the women when
they could not be arraigned in court
Immediately.
Gradually the magistrates assigned
TO that court found the hours irksOme
and their cases few ut times. There
grew up some demand that the hours
be curtailed. Finally, as sort Of ex-
pertinent. the court was closed at l
a. IN. The chief clerk. I'm recent COM
munication to Chief Magistrate Me
Adoo. upholds this change up to this
date" he declares. Il have seen no rea-
"son why the night court should
keep open after a. m, as the num-
der Of bonds taken at the station
houses is remarkably small"
Mary Goode, disOrderly house keep
or. sees a reason why the night court
should be a night court. as it purpOrts
to be- and not half-night court, or an
early evening court. I'm her recent
testimony before the aldermanic com
mittee she told Of being arrested and
bailed out by one OF the men with
whom she had consulted about paying
police graft, and boldly declared that
the bondsman and the police split the
fee. She thus describes the process:
''They raid your house about theatre
CLOSING time. The plalnclothes man
comes around with a great hurrah
land hundreds Of people around. If
"he is too early and can reach the
might court, he drives you around In
"the wagon and waits till the night
court closes. Then he takes you back
"t0 the station house. One hundred
dollars to bail you out at night and
$500 for the bondsman. That 500 is
"split up by the lieutenant and the
"bondsman." The number Of station
house bonds may be remarkably
small" as the chief clerk Of the night
court reports. Perhaps Mary Goode
would not agree with his estimate. But
even q small number is too many
when there is any possibility Of police
graft I'm connection with the arrests.
1t will not hurt the magistrates and
the court clerks and attendants to
stay in court two hours longer in
order to do their proper work as
graft preventive. II was never the
expectation that the night court would
be rushed with cases as the day police
courts are. That is no reason why it
should not be open If its deplorable
business has to be transacted. Chief
Magistrate McAdoo can do his part in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
TWO TREATIES.

The not always judlciOus discussion
which has arisen over the control Of
the Panama Canal, and particularly
the fixing of tolls on shipping which
passes through it. has involved some
references 10 the Clayton-Bulwcr treaty,
as though that instrument were still in
force. That Is presumably because the
Ilay-PauncefOte treaty in its preamble
aiIirms the continued desire Of the two
nations TO maintain the general prn-
ciple Of neutrality which was set forth
in Article VIII Of the former cOnycn-
ton, and il seems to be assumed that
the article in question is thus still 3per-
ative In IFS entirety Sir Edward Grey,
in his temperate but forceful presenta-
ton Of the British side Of the case, does
not make that error but specifically
avoids it, but his discreet recognition
Of the facts is precisely the part of his
note to which Jealous disputantS pay
least attention.
The IIay-PauncefOte treaty 10y the
express terms Of its first article com
pletely Supersedes the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty. The latter is therefore defunct.
All that is left of il Is the general
principle Of neutrality" expressed in
Article VIII; or, rather, q limited part
thereof. For that article Is complex
and some Of it Is explicitly annulled by
the later treaty, while other parls Of
it would certainly not be recognized by
Great Britain as still valid Thus it
provides for the joint protection by
Great Britain and the United States,
not only of the Panama Canal and the
Panama Railroad. but also, sby specific
designation, Of the Tehuantepec Rail-
road. 1t would he absurd TO contend
that that provision has been retained In
force, because, first, lis validity has
never been recognized in the case Of
the Panama Railroad second, the pro-
lection Of the Panama Canal Is by the
terms of the IIay-Pauncefote treaty
cOnfided exclusively to the United
States. and, third, there is not the
slightest reason for suppoSing that
either Great Britain or Mexico looks to
this country as protector Of Sir Weet-
man Pearson's Tehuantepec Railroad.
Another provision is that on none Of
these routes shall charges or conditions
be imposed save such as the British
and American governments shall APP
prove as just and equitable. But we
have no idea that the British govern
ment looks to the United States as an
authoritative censor Of freight and
passenger rates on the Tehuantepec
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

[From The Tribune Bureau.
Washington, Dec. 20.-The British EN-
bassy drawing rooms were filled with a
large number Of prominent folk from Off
cial and resident society to pay their re-
spects to Mrs. Bryce at her second of a
series of teas this afternoon. Mrs. More
ton +. Gage, wife of the military attache
of the embassy, was presented to her
friends. Mrs. Bryce was assisted by all
Of the members Of the embassy staff.
The Brazilian Ambassador and Nine. da
CANA entertained guests at luncheon to-
day.
The German Embassy is being con-
stantly piled with inquiries about the con-
dition Of Countess Won Bernstorff. who is
quite III and has cancelled all of her So
cial engagements for the present.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
PIER HEADS AND TERMINAL.

There are three principal points Of
obvious force In Mr.. Stimson's objec-
tons to the bill introduced by Mr.. Sui
ger for the arbitrary extension Of the
pier line of the lower part of the Man.
haitian North River waterfront from a
hundred to probably five hundred feet
further into the fairway of the river.
All three of them oppose the bill not
necessarily because of the result which
it contemplates, but rather because OF
the manner in which it is proposed to
effect It,
One is that 1t would constitute a
marked exception to the otherwise uni
form and we'll established policy Of tho
federal government throughout the
Union. Under that policy, In accord
ance with the existing law, such mat
tiers here and elsewhere are regulated
by impartial boards Of expert engineers,
who determine each case upon its
merits in the most comprehensive sense
The proposed law would change that
policy with respect TO this harbor In
purely arbitrary manner, and thus
would set a precedent for similar de-
mands in behalf of other harbors, until
the general system was altogether
broken up and each harbor was made
the subject Of special legislation.
The second point, logically following
the first, is that the proposed law would
also violate the principle that each har-
Dor Is to be regulated not merely with
regard to some purely local interest but
with reference to the commercial inter-
ests Of the entire nation. 1t should be
obvious that of all the ports In America
the port of New York Is by far the most
national in character, and therefore Is
the one to which there is most reason
for applying this principle which Mr.
Suffers bill would violate. 1t might be
gratifying to New Workers, from one
point of view, 10 think that they had
control of their own harbor. Surely 1t
should be far more gratifying. from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21

applicant must be Of a certain relslous
persuasion the advertiser asks for "refer-
ences, lIfe's history and recently made
portrait"-and violates the young-men-to-
the-front theory by saying In concluslon'
mo one under forty-ive years OF age
need apply"
Mrs. Bargainhunter-I'm simply hear,
broken. | saw the loveliest sale OF
marked down shoes to-day, ana couiu
not try single one on:
Mr. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES notI
Mrs. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES as luck woulu
have II, | had a hole In the toe OF my
stocking. philadelphia Record.
The Rev. DR.. Bernard Drachman'
spoken Of in the Tribune's London dis
patches as the probable successor 10 the
chief rabbinate of Great Britain TO take
the place of the late DR.. Adler, was born
In New York In 1861 and received MS
education in the public schools Of Jersey
City and at Columbia University HIS
raDhinical studies were pursued at the
Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau'
His first charge in this country was the
Congregation Obed-Sholom, in Newark
n. j.. and in 1857 he accepted the post
OF rabbi Of Congregation Beth israel
where he oflciated for two years, when
he became the pastor of zichron Ephraim'
which place he stlll holds.
Nav. | don't want your patent can
opener"
"A rare chance. madam"
Don't want It."
you'll regret your decision"
Don't want It, | tell you.
Opportunity. madam, knocks but once.
"OppOrtunity, en-? You look moro ike
Importantly. Washington Herald.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
HYMNS VERSUS HOODLUMS
Jacob Riis Says Old Custom Revived
VIII Bespeak True American Spirit.


To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: You are mistaken in assuming that
the safe and sane Fourth OF July" sug-
gested the New Years Eve singing In the
public squares You state the origin OF
the movement and the reason for it your
self when you say, In to-day's editorial.
that years ago thousands found pleasure
IN gathering on lower Broadway 10
listen to Trinity's chimes, and that in the
place OF it has come tho tin horn, so
that the chimes now ring In vain II that
were all, but &c is not. Other things have
come hoodlumism In the street and worse
indoors on the Great White Way"-things
no longer to be borne. at least not as
typical OF American manners and GUS
toms" Hence this protest. We simply
wish 1t understood that the abomlnation
IS not New York, and New York will
agree. | have not a shadow OF doubt that
when the voices OF a thousand singers
are raised in 80 God! our help In ages
past" a hundred thousand will join in.
That will be New Yorks protest. The
change to sane ways will follow. perhaps
not all at once. but it will follow.
We shall not look TO the police for pro-
lection. for we shall not need II. We
shall be voicing the real soul OF New
York in that midnight hour. That was
what happened in San Francisco when
Tetrazzini sang. and / will back my city
against the one at the Golden Gate for
sense and sobriety any day in tho week.
All we have to fear Is bad weather. and
we will take chances on that. New York
will sing all right! JACOB A. RllS.
Richmond Hill. N. T.. Dec. 10. 1912.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
TAFT LIVE IN NEW HAVEN
President Asks Friend to Flna o
House for Him.

New Haven. Dec. @.-~President 20
will make his permanent home III w.
city when he takes up the duties oi '''
Kent professorship at Yale next spri",.
He has requested a friend TO ind MN =
house. 1t is understood that at the nea
meeting OF the corporation the tehuei .Ss
the professorship will be formally s maT
and will be accepted by President I'D
10 the corporation, OF which the FreS'
dent is a Fellow. yant
BESIDES flling the duties Of the he Mn
professorshlp the President VIII lects,
on international and constitutional ,i; n
In the law school and university, Ian fsnr.
as &C faculty member and full proiessy..
and will be entitled to a salary. 10 "a
fixed hereafter aside from the incon''
from the Kent foundation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Mrs. Frederick Edey gave dinner tol-
loved by 2 dance. last night at her house.
No. 10 West 18th street, for her deoutanto
daughter, Miss julia Ii. Edey. Inc dlh-
nor guests numbered about forty. ana IN
Guided Miss Kate Gordon Wills, MISS
F,ugenie NJ. Iadenburg. Miss Mary Pyne'
Miss Margaret Overton, Miss Audrey Os-
born. Miss Edith Logan. Miss Helena IN
derwood, Miss Margaret Trevor MISS
Edwina Post, Miss Vera l.. Van Buren,
Harold Imbrle, Johnston Redmond. Hor-
ace Stebbns. Richard Forrest Georse
Jarvis Ger jr.. Johnston Redmond .
Horton Ijams, charles Inman ana burton
Plumb About twenty additional guests
CANA in afterwari for tho dancing, when
WAS general throughout the evening.
Howard Taylor gave the third or his
dinner dances for his debutante daughter
Miss Eleanor Taylor. last night at his
house. in East 6ith street
Mrs r. A. c. Smith and Mrs. f. 7.
Holmes gave a dance last night al the
Ritz-Carlton for their daughters, MISS
Margaret and Miss Madeleine Smith, ana
Miss Mildred Holmes. Miss Margaret
Smith was IN black charmeuse, trimmed
with while lace; Miss Madeleine was In
blue chiffon over blue satin, and MISS
Holmes wore American Beauty crepe dc
chine. The dancing was informal, and at
midnight a seated supper was served. The
guests included Miss Ruth Adams. Miss
Edith Adams. Miss Molly Brooks. MISS
Groyene V. Converse. Miss Lila Il. Gii-
bert. Miss Dorothy GLIB. Miss Katherine
Moore. Miss Beatrice Raymond, MISS
Dorothy Rennard, Miss Nathalie Slocum'
Miss Frances Montagu Ward, Henry
Manning. Douglas Gibbons, James V.
Converse. Stewart Dodge, Dunbar Adams,
Harry Durant, Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
Durant. and Mr.. and Mrs Gustave +.
Touchard, jr.
Mrs. ]. Edgar Bull gave dance last
night at Delmonlco's for her debutante
daughter, Miss Priscilla Bull. Several
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
AT NEWPORT.


IBy Telegraph to The Tribunel
Newport Dec. 20.-Mr. and Mrs. law
renee l. Gillespie. who are visiting In
Providence, are expected at the Muench-
niger King for the week end before they
return 10 New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles P. Hatch, who
have returned from New York, plan TO
spend the greater part OF the winter Ct
their Berkeley avenue home.
Mrs. John Borland has gons TO rev
York for the holiday season.
Miss Elizabeth II. Sands is the guest Of
her sister. Mrs. Lorillard Spencer, IT. 10
New York.
Mrs. Rose A. Grosvenor has returned
from Providence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
MR.. SUFFERS PROMISES.

In his speech at the City Club MT.
Sulzer pledged himself to an admins
tration Of retrenchment and economy
He also declared that he stood square
CIV for home rule and local self-gov-
"ernment." Governor Dix, starting on
his term of Office. made similar profess
sions and promises. The end of ms
administration finds them broken, I'M
der pressure of economic and political
conditions far stronger than Mr.. DIX.
Mr.. Sulzer has had great deal more
experience I'm public affairs and on the
purely political side Of public life than
his predecessor. 1t is possible. there
fore. that he may come nearer to re-
deeming his promises. Mr.. Dix's eXpe-
rience may serve to show Mr.. Sulzer
some of the things he should not do.
Primarily he should not permit any
political organization, even Tammany
Hall. which nominated him, to play
politics with the business of any state
department or any municipality. That
is what caused the breaking of the Dix
economy and home rule promises
yielding to this politician and that poll
tician and the other politician around
the state. Mr.. Sulzer speaks of the
difference in the size of the state budget
now as compared with appropriations
when he was Speaker. As Governor he
will find a vastly different condition of
u.bi
existed then. The states activities are
greater; it undertakes far more in the
way of affOrding school facilities, hos
pitfalls, aSylumS. good roads and ma
chinery for regulating corporations.
These are proper activities. Their le-
ultimate expense will mount year by
year. If Governor SulZer cuts out the
illegitimate cost Of political hangers-on
I'm the departments, padded payrolls,
jobholders who toll not and extra prof
its on political contracts he will do
about all an executive can be expected
to do single-handed in the direction Of
economy.
Some day a broad-minded Governor
and a progressive Legislature will CO.
operate TO place on the statute books
genuine home rule law under which
cities may adopt charters suited to
their needs and possess power to
change them iii respect Of the admins
trative details Of municipal govern
ment Thereafter legislative interfer-
ence with city affairs may go out of
use. Meantime Mr.. Sulzer can study
the Legislature-DiX record OF 1912 with
profit to himself as warning on the
home rule issue He will find laws
ranging from one permitting Cortland
10 give money TO the Helping Hand As
sociatiOn TO Senator Cullen's making
patrolmen out Of the police doormen in
this city--about 100 in number-with-
out any civil service examinations, but
with the full pay Of patrOlmen. He Will
find a record Of ineXcusable interfer-
ence by legislation with the functions
of the Board of Estimate of this city,
involving hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars annually. These things and others
like them no Governor really believing
in home rule would permit. 1t will be
Interesting to watch Mr.. Suffers hand
ling of similar problems.