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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
NOT YET.

The Bureau of Municipal Research
Is right In saying that this is not the
time to add to the police force. The
CITY needs no more of the kind OF men
that have been added to It under the
present administration. Commissioner
Waldo has practically said that any
man who has not been convicted OF a
crime, and is otherwise eligible, Is mt
TO be a policeman. lie has appointed
men utterly and VIGOROUSLY unfit, ana
the public wants no more Of that sort
on the force. 1t wants no more men
like those who when an officer incurs
the displeasure of his superiors, come
forward with seryiceable charges three
years old against him.
What does 1t profit the city to have
favorite chauffeurs rapidly advanced
to the comfortable rank and pay of de-
tectives? What would be the worth 10
it of five hundred such men as those
who were within sight or earshot or
the Rosenthal murderers, and not only
failed TO catch them but failed to OBJ
tain any clew to them, even falsely re-
porting the license number OF the MUIR
der carr What greater protection
would the public enjoy with five hun
dred more men like those who, after
the usual custom of the system
turned up as witnesses for Becker, and
whom the jury by its verdict pro-
nounced unworthy OF belieff
With the character of many on the
force exposed as it is now, and the I'M
fit methods by which members are
chosen known as they are now, and
with the administration OF the depart
ment RESPONSIBLE for the decentralization
that exists, It is absurd TO talk OF add
ing largely to the force. If the force
is to be increased let It be increased
by methods and under authorities that
are likely TO secure honest ard useful
Datrolmen. The community has just
seen corruption end murder traced 70
the door Of an important police officer !;
and now, without reorganization and
without further inquiry, it is proposed
TO add five hundred men TO a depart
ment thus under suspicion! Let the
city be sure that bad men are out first
and bsd management eliminated An
increase in the number Of men Is prob
ably desirable, but it is not the thing
first or most needed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
PITFALLS FOR REPORTERS
Students in School of Journal
ism Told How to Avoid Them.

George Buchanan Fife, OF the editorial
stafr OF the Associated Sunday Magazines,
addressed the students Of the Pulitzer
School OF Journalism at Columbia Uni
versity yesterday on THE Newspaper and
the Magazines" He devoted himself
however, chiefly TO recalling reminiscent
ces of his early newspaper work, and told
students what advantages they were
having over the men OF the old school.
This splendid school," he said, af-
fords you an opportunity 70 enter a news
per Office so equipped that each Of you
will become valuable asset on any city
editors staff. You viii have learned the
countless things not to do, the innu-
merable questions not 10 ask you will be
ready 20 Jump In and do anything 10
which YOU are assigned without having
to ask the desk that all innocent but
highly undesirable question: How shall
I get this story? or How shall l write
this?' or Whom shall / seer
80 that's why feel to-day keen SYM
pathy for myself for what had to go
through TO learn all that you will learn IN
this school. II will save you many errors
and | am sure will help you TO many trt-
umphs and also-and this is no small part
of tit will save you SO many, many
heartburnings, go many moments of act
ual suffering over your own shortcom-
ings."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
GOT 1T OUT OF A TRUNK.

Taking 1t out Of trunk is much the
best way The explanation Of police
inspector who was shown by the Lexow
committee to have acquired half a
million, though never receiving more
than q modest salary, was that he had
made 1t on city lots In Japan. Another
said that his million or so had come
from tips on Wall Street. How IN
satisfactory those stories sound beside
the tale Of the present police officer
who has large bank accounts to eN-
plain His wife took $4,000 out Of an
old trunk. Why, of course, every one
knows the possibilities Of an old trunk.
A capable woman may produce almost
anything out Of On old trunk. But as
for tips on Wall Street or corner lots
in Yokohama, the world knows the I'M
likelihood Of profit In such specula-
lions.
If any other high police officer is
trembling over mis- big bank balances
and casting about Tor means to hide
wealth out of all proportion to his in
come as u policeman, how easy he must
feel now that 50 simple and obvious an
explanation is at hand Has Inspector
So-and-So half million scattered
around In $1,000 lots among the banks,
or put away securely IN railroad
bonds? Why, bis wife one day took It
out Of trunk. Did the chief Of this
squad or that suddenly develop into an
extensive real estate investor? It Is
plain that his wife, too, must have been
paying Il visit to the trunk. Wives
are at last getting their deserts Away
with the old stories of Japan and Wall
Street! Sudden prosperity comes, as
every woman knows, from the bottom
of the old trunk.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
MAYNARD,s EuLOGIsT.

Mr.. Sulzer IS at least entitled to
credit for the courage Of his friend
ships. when he approves Of an cleo
ton thief he says So While his sup
porter "The New York Times" Is try
ing TO dlssocla,e him from his share
in the Maynard scandal, he comes 10
the defence Of Maynard. At Syracuse
On Sunday he replied TO question
about his report TO the Legislature
approving MayLard's conduct In steal
ing an election return from the Con-
frollers mail by declaring that May
sard WIS one Of the best men that ever
ived and that the courts had found him
absolutely guiltless. AS matter Of fact,
the courts found otherwise. Justice
Cullen. I'm the Supreme Court, found
that a false canvass bad been made
as q result Of his criminal act. The
members Of the State Board Of Can
vassers, who, with his assistance.
counted the false return, were fined
for criminal contempt OF court and the
fines were upheld in December, 1891,
by the Court Of Appeals. "The New
York World" which IS now supporting
Mr.. Sulzer because It regards" him as
an "avowed opponent Of Tammany,'
thus described the transaction which
Mr.. Sulzer approves:
Judge Cullen, OF the Supreme Court,
q better Democrat than any man who
is supporting Maynard, decided that
tbe returns passed out Of the official
custody Of Emans finally when he put
them in the mail, and that their recov-
cry could only be accomplished by a
crime.
"The New York Times" also, in 1893
thus characterized the Judge Maynard
TO whom Mr.. Sulzer pays tribute as
one Of the best men that ever lived:
DO the people Of this state propose
70 elect a criminal to the Court OF
Appeals bench? Mr. M3Nnard
stole and suppressed a corrected cleo
ton return, allowed the false return
TO be counted BY the canyassers, he
being present and not protesting, and
through this crime punishable under
the Penal Code by five years imprison-
ment, his party gained seat In the
state Senate 70 which II was not en-
titled. and with that seat the control Of
the Senate.
The man whom "The World" and
The Times" thus denounced as a
criminal, in 1892 found In Mr.. Sulzer,
scting as chairman Of the Assembly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
MORE NEWSPAPER TALKS
Interest So Keen That Series
Will Be Extended,

Announcement was made at Columbia
University yesterday that series OF lect-
ures on Journalism and Public Life"
would be delivered in Earl Hall on sue
cesslve Mondays, beginning next Monday
afternoon and continuing until the end
of January. There have already been sew
eral lectures Of this kind, and they have
been so successful that the directors of
the Pulitzer School of Journalism have
decided TO have more OF them.
The lectures will be as follows:
November 4-"The Magazine and It's Re-
Eponsibilties,' Robert Underwood john
son, Of The Century Magazine" Novem-
Der 1.-The Editorial Writer'S Op-
Evening Journal" November lS-Writ-
The Now York Evening Post" Novem-
Der 3-"The Newspaper OF To-day"
Chester 8. Lord, OF The New York
Sun" December 2-"The Newspaper
Value OF Nom Essentials" Edward +.
Mitchell, OF "The New York Sun" De-
Carr v Ven Anda, OF THE New York
Times" December l6-"Accuracy In Jour
naltsm." Ralph Pulitzer of The New
York World" January 6-"The Truth In
the News" Ida NJ. Tarbell. OF The Amer
lean Magazine" January l3-"Newspaper
Power and How to Direct II" George s,
Johns, Of '"The ST. Louis Post-Dispatch."
January 20-"Art and Conscience In News
paper Making" Samuel Bowles, or The
Springfield Republican"
The lectures will be given in the large
auditorium In Earl Hall at o'clock, and
no cards OF admission win be required.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
DANGERS OF CIVILIZATION
Protest Against Deadly Hatpin Be-
fore Which No Mans Eyes Are Safe.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir. The writer, little while ago
emerged from q subway car, still with
two sound eyes; but no thanks TO gin
with an elongated hatpin, standing right
I'm front OF him In the car. BY the way
It's an everlasting wonder why they don't
lab their heads full Of holes, as well at
their hats and people. / wish they would
This definite hatpin stuck out Ike
Damascus stletto, the crowd pushed on
from behind, and this scribe's eye escaped
by the llttlest fraction OF space hence
this sCreed, and, also, because he has lots
OF wrathful company He Is frank TO
say that he pulled the pin back until
the point was lost In obscurity; those near
approved, and, wonderful the lady pre-
served a Sphinxlike quietude and repose.
We hear lots about the crusades against
the overlong hatpin both here and abroad
at this moment, In France especially; but
so far as the writer can learn OF them
they seem idiotio and imbecile, because
they don't strike at the root OF this In
Equity.
wherever there Is a law or ordinance
It Is against tho wearing Of these pins
and this is good so far as IL goes. But
at the bottom what Is wanted is TO pre-
vent the women from getting them ana
dealers from openly exposing them to
their covotousness. Let them not DO led
into temptation.
We need laws and ordinances here IN
New York absolutely prohibiting the ak
posure for sale or sale Of hatpins above
certain length, after q certain date
giving merchants reasonable time TO
conform), under proper penalty, which
should include confiscation of the contra
band stock. Such will surely be upheld
by the courts as lawful police regu!a-
ton in the interest OF public health and
safety. ALEX u. MAYER.
Mount Vernon, N. Y, Oct %. 1872.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29

been obscured with uncertainty. lie
lived In a time Of political intrigue and
diplomatic duplicity, when 1t was nee
essary to conceal If not directly to
misrepresent many things, the truth or
which was thus not recorded In the
usual manner for transmission to fut-
ure ages. The question Of the scope
of brakes commission from the Queen,
and the powers which It bestowed upon
him, has been much disputed and never
yet satisfactorily settled. Neither, de-
spite the persuasive and luminous
pages of Froude, has his purpose in
cruising up the West Coast and then
circumnavigating the globe been uni
yersally agreed upon.
In these circumstances 1t is cause
for qualification to know that some
authoritative new light has been
thrown upon these matters, and that
it has been done through the intelli-
gent and pajnstaking researches or an
American. Mrs. Nuttall, among the an
Client records and relics Of Mexico.
Long forgotten volumes of manuscript
records, contemporary with Drake,
have been found by her, giving new in
formation about him and about these
identical points of doubt, and also
about the early history of the Pacific
and the Caribbean. How convincing
the revelations will be remains to be
seen next year, when the Hakluyt So
ciety has published them to the world.
They will at any rate be OF real inter
est to the New World with which
Drake was so much associated, and
will form q fine gloss upon the history
which we ourselves have been making
at one Of the scenes Of brakes I'M
mortal exploits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29

Judiciary Committee, champion who
reported that Maynard's conduct met
his unqualified approval" and now
Mr.. Sulzer takes the same ground that
he was absolutely guiltless. lie did
not favor his nomination In 1893, mere
ly because he knew the people wouldn
stand for it. But he highly commended
his earlier appointment to the Court OF
Appeals by the Governor as the suit
able reward for his services.
The attempt of 1.-THE Times TO re-
move the Maynard stains from MI
Suffers toga only makes the Spots
show worse. Mr.. Sulzer evidently mas
no objection to such conduct as May
nard's. Would he have it repeated III
case Of need If he were In the Gov
ernOr's chair2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
peoDIe and Social Incidents

Mrs. Sara Levfen, Of New Yors, b 4
guest Of Mrs. Stanley Mccormick.
W. Bourke Cochran was a guest at ths
Muenchinger King to-day.
william E. Carter. after visiting his SON
at st. Georges School, has returned "a
Philadelphia Mr.. and Mrs. Carter win
occupy their home here next summer for
the first time In many years.
L.spenard Stewart has closed his sum.
mer home, White Lodge. and returned TO
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs Richard T. Wilson hava
gone to Baltimore. returning to their
Southern home.
Mrs. z. L. Winthrop, jr., and Miss MI
riel Winthrop, Of New York, are guests OF
Egerton l. Winthrop.
Philip Allen Clark has gone 10 New
York
Mr.. and Mrs. Royal Phelps Carroll and
Miss Carroll will close thor Newport sea.
son this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis 6tuyvesant Chan
Ter and Miss Chanler will leave here for
Tuxedo tomorrow.
A. F. Johnson. OF Boston. he's returned
to his home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

The impetus OF the first fierce onset
of the Balkan allies is still unchecked.
All along the line, or all around the
circle, the Turks are being beaten. The
MOntenegrins are said to have taken
Scutari. The Greeks, IN country nj
most as purely Greek as the Morea
itself, are pushing down the valley Of
the VistritZa toward the Greek city Of
Salonica, which Turkey owns and
Austria COvets. The Servians have
oyerrun all Of NOvibazar and have adj
vanced far beyond its borders, to
Mitrovitza and Uskub, while the Bull
garians, cooperating with thcm, have
poured through the palanka and
Diuma passes as far as IshCip, eighty
odd miles from Salonlca. Thus, If a
Junction should be formed between tn ,
Greeks and Bulgarians at or near Sa-
lonlca there would be hostile barrier
between Albania and Thrace through
the heart Of Macedonia.
In the east the Bulgarians have
drawn their lines almost completely
around Adrianople. They are said to
have reached the railroad near Baba
Eski, between AdrianOple and COnstan-
tinOple, and thus to have cut cOmmuni-
cations between those cities; and Baba
Eski is considerably south Of q direct
line from one city TO the other There
seems to he no assurance that Adria-
nople itself can hold out for any CON
siderable time, if indeed it does not
fall at the first assault; and II It
should fall the whole empire west OF
the Martha River would be cut Off
from communication with CONSTANT
nopIe. Indeed, it is already practically
cut off, for BaDa Eski Is east of the
Martha, and consequently Of the point
at which the single trunk railroad from
ConstantinOple branches into two lines,
one running along the shore of the
Egean Sea 10 Sores and SalOnica and
the other TO PhllippOpOlis, Soma and
Vienna.
How long this onset can be main
tanned and how far 1t will reach be-
fore it is checked are questions upon
which depends the future of the war.
1t is not altogether surprising that the
allies have won these initial victories.
They were ready for action and the
Turks were not. Moreover, they had
only q little way to go compared with
the distances before the Turks. From
the Bulgarian frontier to Adrianople
is less than twenty miles, while from
Constantlnople is more than hundred
and twenty. From the Seryian border
to Uskub Is forty miles, while from
ConstantinOple to that point is four
hundred The allies had a superior
force at only from one-fifth to one
tenth the distance Of the inferior forces
OF the Turks. But the Turks have the
superior force, when they can get 1t to
the scene of action. The question Is
whether the allies can so completely
achieve the conquest OF Albania, Mace
donna and Western Thrace before the
Turkish reinforcements arrive as TO be
able to hold them against the Turkish
army when the latter reaches its full
strength and when they themselves be-
come wearied and the impulse Of their
initial rush is spent.
There also arises, further In the dis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
NEW LIGHT ON DRAKE.

Popular interest In Sir Francis
Drake, at least in this country, can
scarcely be described as exactly pal
pitating with intensity. In England
the production of a successful play
with Drake for its hero has revived the
interest in him, which has never been
irconsiderable But here his name Is
spoken without thrill, "a one Of hun
dreds Of historic names for which our
regard and admiration, however high,
are placidly academic. The man who
ploughed the furrow round the world
is not I'm the same class with the po-
litical campaign, the police trials or
the football season. Yet there Is al
ways certain intelligent interest in
the solution Of great historical prob
lens and In the disclosure of important
but hitherto hidden facts concerning
great personages or events; an interest
which is as great here as in any land
on the globe. The other day somebody
was trying TO prove that Columbus was
not q Genoese or an Italian, but a
Spanish Jew The demonstration of
that extraordinary proposition would
be Of wide interest In America, but it
is not likely to happen.
For five major exploits, or series of
exploits, Drake is undoubtedly one of
the most heroic and romantic figures
In the annals of one Of the most heroic
and romantic epochs Of the worlds
history. Certain phases of his bewil-
dering career have, however, always
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
TOO MUCH LIBERTY oEPLoREp

70 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Such letters az that OF James E.
Morton, jr., in a recent issue betray the
advocacy OF too much liberty TO the for
eigner. even In our free country. The
children Of the foreign born. as we'll as
all children, cannot be too early impressed
with the duty. which should be enforced,
10 respect that which our country's flag
stands for. 1t is the utter want OF respect
for our government and its institutions
and the freedom In expressing such want
OF respect that show to me too much
freedom.
While Il goes without saying that free
dom OF opinion and expression of opinion
In this country is the right Of every one,
as general proposition, and while all
have the right of criticising government
officials. there should be a line beyond
which liberty should not permit any to
go. II this were not true, our government
might as well go out Of business and we
would need no flag. Too much liberty de-
generates into license.
BORDEN d. SMITH.
Johnstown, N. Y, Oct. a. 1912.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
nEYnNn INTERPRETATION.

Chairman McCOmbs Of the Demo-
cratic National Committee exhibits
both the innocence Of the dove and the
wisdom of the serpent when he says
proudly of the gyroscopical Democratic
candidate for President: "He needs no
Interpretation" There he stands, eX-
hlbldug bis remarkable eclecucism on
nil issues, facing every wind that
blows and blowing with each in turn
nil the way around the compass IL
would De a rash man who should at'
tempt, for instance, to interpret Gov
ernor Wilson's circumlocutiOn on the
tariff question. But Mr.. McCombs Ii
n. rash. His advice is discretion IT.
self, Tor he says;
To those confronted by the dllapi-
dated DOGGY o: free trade we say; Read
not what our opponents write, DUt
what our candidate says. He needs
no Interpretation. None can deny
either his ability or his freedom 10
speak for himself,
None can deny that the Democratic
candidate has spoken with equal free
dom and equal ability for free trade
and against free trade, for rational
protection and against rational protec-
ton. for q tariff for revenue only ana
against q tariff for revenue only. At
Pittsburgh he prOfessed an intention
merely 70 restore order and ueatness In
the garden behind the tariff wall,
while al the Union Square Chamber Of
Horrors he advocated the removal Of
all tariff walls and the conversion Of
The garden into an open common free
10 all corners. If a voter reads only
what Governor Wilson says he may
easily be led TO believe that the Demo
cratic candidate is equally ready 70 IN
Gorse the principle that all protective
tariff duties are unconstitutional and
the principle That no changes should
he made In tariff duties which might
disturb industries conducted on 9 pro-
tccttye basis. Why try to interpret
such a genius?
Perhaps Mr.. McCombs is right. 1t
would be not only lo.F nut ulsIO!alN
for Democrats TO read what Governor
Wilson's opponents write, Interpreta'
zion would only lead to confusion. Be
sides, those who try to interpret the
contradictory utterances Of Princeton's
Orator Puff may he only trying TO en-
harrass him 1t IS no more proper to
try TO pin him down to ole line Of
economic thought Than It is TO ask
Mayor Gaynor questions about New
York City's police administration,
According TO McCombs's view only
those whose heads are full Of vice and
crime will venture TO interpret the
Wnsonian policy Of taking protection
out Of the tariff and YET doing no In
Jury whatsoever to any manufactures
or workingman now enjoying protec.
ton,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

ur and Mrs W. X. Vanderbilt ana
Miss barbara Rutherfurd, VINO are uU1
to arrive in New York to-day Oh poafu
the Kronprlnzessin Cecilie. VIII spend
few weeks at their country place AT Jan
dale. Long Island, before opening 'heH
horsa IN Fifth Avenue for the winter
Mrs. Oliver Hartman. who Is passehsei
on the same boat, will go to ner c0uh.iy
Mace at White Plains. others arrFNhs
TODAY are Mr.. and Mrs. /. TOWNSEND
BURDEN Miss Evelyn Burden, Mr.. anu
Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry and the MISSES
Gerry. Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard !"
Townsend and Frederick Townsend MAT
tin. Mr.. Martin will spend the winter do
usual, at the Plaza
Mrs Frederick Edey and her debutante
daughter, Miss Julia Edey' VINO spe"'
three weeks at Hot Springs, va. re-
turned TO the city yesterday. Mrs. hoes
will give a reception on November Il 1T
her house, No. 10 West 6sth street. TOT
her daughter, her niece, Miss Pauline
Clarkson. and Miss Audrey osborn. she
will give q dance in December at Snerry
for Miss Edey.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Douglas Sloane
will return to the city from Lsnox early
next week.
Mrs. William Dverard Strong returned
to the city yesterday from Hot springs
Va. She will be at the st. Regis tor
short time before opening her house. NO.
tha
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph l. Delafeld nave
closed their place at Westhampton beach'
Long Island, and are at their house, NO
80 West 18th street for the winter
Mr.. and Mrs. George r. Baker, jr" VIII
20 10 Tuxedo to-day to spend tortnlsht
with Mr.. and Mrs. George f. Baker, ST.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Roosevelt VIII
take possession OF their house, No. East
SD street. on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James ]. Coogan, who
arrived from Europe on Saturday, are
at the Plaza for the winter,
Mr.. and Mrs Preston Gibson arrived IN
New York yesterday from Hot Springs
Va, and are at the Plaza for a short time
before going on 10 Washington for the
winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delaney Nicoll have
opened their house, No. % East 18th
street, for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Durant are at
thsir bouse M 10 Fast sd street. for
the season.
Mrs. Ernesto O. Eabbri, who is now In
Paris, will leave there this week for
Venice to spend the remainder Of the fall.