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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-11
An Open Forum for
Public Debate

tinually beseged and bombarded by re-
ports of stupendous decreases in the NOR
tally OF this disease in this country. The
truth is that the whole prevention move
ment was born in iniquity and never had
a reasonable excuse for its existence
There is no evidence of conta yion among
physicians. nurses and other attaches OF
consumption hospitals, nor among the
members and servants of families which
lodge and care for consumptives in health
and mountain resorts, nor among the
many married people when either the
husband or the wife is affected, nor
among the inhabitants Of towns in which
consumptive hospitals are located. Nor
is the theory of coutagion 50 popular
among the medical profession as some are
led TO believe by its enthusiastic sponsors
Moreover, there is not a single medical
authority OF note, who has spent his pro-
fesslonal life in a special study OF this
disease. and who has written special
work on IT. in either the English or Ger
man language, who indorses the conts-
gious nature of consumption.
This crusade is not only i'll begotten.
disease than was the case before its in
PRODUCTION. which is corroborated by the
figures given above. Add fright. worry.
grief and distress 10 the natural load Of a
consumptive. and you diminish HIS nor
NAL resistance 10 the disease. cause him
To react less readily 10 medical care and
nursing and hasten his coming death. II
is a question whether there are not i'm
posed on the people more misery actual
suffering and disappointment by the false
and misleading statements which are
constantly perpetrated by those in charge
OF the anti-consumptive crusade in re-
gard TO the tremendous reduction in
deaths which has taken place respecting
this disease during the last decade than
has been inflicted by all the charlstans
that ever existed in the land.
THOMAS ]. MAYS.
Philadelphia, July 3, 1913.
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ObtuSenesS.
time to time

Our neighbor The World" well says that since
Tweeds time the only issue on which Tammany
has been beaten in local election is the police
issue. Those who want to make the fusion hght
this year on the platform Of municipal economy
subordinating or ignoring the police issue, smut
their eyes to the plain teachings OF experience.
In a campaign against system so strongly
intrenched as the Tammany alliance between crime
and crooked politics garing public grievance
must be emphasized in order to rouse the tired
voter. Never before has so much material been put
in the hands of those who see in police corrup-
ton the most potent agency of local msgoverh-
ment nor has there ever before been available Il
candidate for Mayor who has done so much To
smash the combination of police graft and licensed
crime.
Why keep travelling all the way around Robin
Hoods barn in order to lose sight OF the issue OF
the hour and the candidate who can win on 1t!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-11

most astounding method of dsposing OF oe'U Jus
case and we are forced TO view in sadness ou -
greet the remarkable closing of the chapter
Mr.. Wilson admitted that District Attorney NC
Nah was entirely right in his view of what ought
to be done yet upheld the Attorney Geherai lol
dismissing him because he had not shown suincleht
decacy in saving the administration from serious
blunder McNab was right in fighting pos'pone-
ment and McReynolds was wrong IN oVerruilns
him. Yet McReynods was right in puhishihs
McNab for being right when he (McReynolus) was
wrong That was the hopelessly inconsistent nhp'
ing Of the President.
The California grand jury's common sense vie"
of that Juggling with logic may he kept out OF the
federal court records by the operation of the RUE
of comfy. But it will find acceptance WITH tne
great public, which thinks for itself ana Is no'
bound by courtesy to assume an attitude oil Dehe'o-
lent neutrality when the President says that TWO
and two make FIVE or that black is white
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-11
Not Courteous. but True.

It NAV have been pardonable exhibition. OF
inter-departmental comfy for Judge Van Fleet, Of
the Federal District Court for the Northern District
of California, to insist grand jurys modifying
the criticism which it wished TO put record OF
the action Of the President and the Attorney Gen
eral in the Caminetti- Diggs white slave" cases.
The judicial and executive departments co-ordi-
nate branches of the government and each has to
he considerate of the feelings Of the other fed
era Judge would naturally be oath to allow grand
jury TO express obiter dictum opinion about the
unfortunate interference with the administration of
Justice in California which was attempted at Wash
ington and then suddenly allowed to fall through.
Nevertheless, whether the grand jury was within
its official privileges not, its Characterization Of
the Presidents whitewash Of Attorney General
McReynods was thoroughly deserved and accurate
Said the jury:
The action OF the President in sustaining in one
breath the position of the Attorney General and in
the next taking steps in exact consonance with
those demanded by District Attorney McNab IL. in
the opinion OF the grand jury to say the least. a
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HE ALSO WANTS WHITMAN.

TO the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir Judging from the discussions now
taking place at the various conferences 10
select a candidate for Mayor. some OF our
reform leaders appear to have a very
poor conception OF popular feeling on the
subject.
Those leaders seem to think that people
are most interested I'm obtaining more
transportation and educational facilities.
more parks and Fairgrounds. etc. These
are all important issues. But there Is one
other that looms up above them all.
When men, women and young girls are
being held up. robbed. assaulted and
murdered in their homes or on the public
highways in broad daylight in such num-
bers as they are to-day. then the suppress
sion OF such crimes becomes the domi-
nant Issue. And the man who has demon
strated his fitness to meet this issue may
be depended upon TO meet all others that
come before him. Such man is Charles
Whitman.
Lot the people speak out on this sub
ject so that our leaders shall make no
mistake. w. II. ALLEN.
Brooklyn. July ., 1913.
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Mayor Missing.

1t has been given to the Borough Of Audubon
near Camden, n. j.. to measure the actual value
of mayor
For nine days Audubon bathed in an unaccount-
able buoyancy of spirit. No regulating hand
stretched forth to hamper business or play; ho
political or civic dispute to give the citizens
pause in their daily pursuits. The Golden Age had
come again to Audubon, it seemed, no one kne"
why.
Then some discovered that the Mayor had
been missing, but not missed, since June 3D. the
hopes of Audubon are dashed. Her improvement
can only he brief respite from pain The missing
one must be returned substitute elected
Saucy letters to indignant taxpayers, oratons in de-
fence of the town constable, denunciatons of the
opposition weekly and its ragbag editor must DE
revived.
Audubon must have mayor.
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Nearer the Davis Cup.

The American challengers for the Davis cup
strengthened their position materially when they
won two matches yesterday at Nottingham against
the German team. Maurice f. Mclaughlin recov-
ering from his recent defeat in the challenge round
for the championship of the British Isles oyercame
Germanys leading expert Herr Froitzhem, in a
five set match The American showed his staying
powers by taking three straight sets after losing
two. r. Norris Williams of the American team,
beat one of the other Germans, Herr kreutzer,
more easily, taking three sets out Of four Only
one match out Of the three remaining one in doubles,
and two in singles. will give the home team the
right to play the winner of the Canada Belgium
match in the final round.
The chances for recapturing the Davis Cup seem
bright.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-11
Democracy in the Navy.

II Secretary Daniels wants to introduce larger
amount of democracy into the navy he could not go
about it more cumsily than by drawing up an order
compelling Joint messes aboard ship for officers
and men, 1t is a buresque the spirit Of democ-
racy to hold that it compes all TO eat the same
food at the,same table The democratic principle is
sufficiently honored when in general way a free
career TO talent is offered to ALL and ii is open TO
the deserving to rise from one environment TO an
other 1t is not in the least inconsistent with Amer
ican ideas that there should be a bottom table as
well as a top table, though it is inconsistent with
them that there should be free passage on merit
from the one at the bottom to the one at the top.
The navy is necessarily the least democratic of
our governmental services 1t is controlled most
Of all by the traditions and regulations Of the past
It has not yet quite outgrown the idea that sailors
are naturally incapable Of self discipline and need
n marine guard 10 keep them under control. There
is no such thing in the army because the conditions
OF military service easier and the status of
the common soldier has always been much more
IiberaIized than the status Of the common seaman.
The navy is OF course, peculiar service Every
sea captain must be to a large extent an autocrat
on his own quarterback and the distinctions which
make for discipline must be applied vigorously
Mt sea than they are land. So long most
seamen think that the barrier between those who
serve as officers and those who serve as enlisted
men must be kept taut and high 1t will be difficult
to introduce into the navy to any appreciable ex
tent the practice which has long prevailed in the
army Of drawing on the rank and file for officers
and thus assuring fair chance OF promotion from
the bottom up.
The army is much democratic than the navy
is Yet no Secretary of War has ever fathered the
fantastic notion of making officers and enlisted
men mess together, TO the discomfort Of both Far
more effective for Mr.. Danielss purpose is his
recent order providing that only enlisted men shall
take the examinations for appointment assistant
paymasters, those examinations having been open
previously to civilians He has thus opened one of
the navy STAFF corps to promotions from the ranks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-11
Arbitration and Its Weaknesses.

Danger of a railroad strike will probably lead to
amendment of the Erdman act, increasing the size
Of arbitration commissioners under it. That will
be a gain.
But what is needed is not only larger commits
sions but larger conception of the functions OF
the commissions. The conception of arbitration
hitherto has been to compromise industrial quar-
res 1t is good and useful idea so far as 1t goes
A bigger and better conception is to do industrial
justice.
Preventing strikes by the method of compromise
saves the public vast losses and great Inconvenience
but it lays the public open to incessant holdupS
for higher wages and for higher freight rates Win
which to pay the higher wages. If this has not
been sufficiently shown by events hitherto it is likely
speedily to be shown If the history of arbitration
I'm the future remains what it has been in the past
What greater encouragement to threaten strikes
could railroad employees have than the certainty
that they have nothing to lose and everything to
gain by threatening them? process which seems
TO make certain that the employees never risk the
hardships and losses of strike and which appears
to assure them by compromise let us say, 10 per
cent increase of wages every time they ask for
so per cent increase encourages inceSsant demands
1t will keep the railroad officials SO busy present
ing evidence before commissions that they will have
little time to devote to the duties OF management
In the last two years practically all Of the time
negotiations in regard to wage increases, involving
REPRESENTATIVES of the big Eastern railroads. ar
bitration hearings in regard to them have been
going on The claims of one class OF railroad labor
are no more than adjusted before those of another
class are presented and the abOrOus process begins
anew Does any one doubt that this will continue
if arbitrator continue merely to compromise?
Sooner or later if arbitration is to be complete
success it must accomplish something more than
merely averting strikes The public may lose as
much through yielding to extortionate demands as
through strikes When extorton comes-and 1t
surely will come things are now headed-there
must be no compromise with it. Only hrmness and
courage and d high of their responsibility to
the public on the part of arbitration commissions
will save the situation. Large boards will strengthen
arbitration Experience will teach the way to avoid
its dangers.
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To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The business OF the Stock Tx
change has fallen very much in volume
and become Improbable both TO traders.
commission houses and the few "outsid-
ers' that take a venture now and then.
Old times have gone. probably not TO re-
turn. The "odd letters" are the only
brokers making their pile, and this they
do by exacting one-eighth over or under
as the case may be on every purchase or
sale below 100 shares.
Times have changed. and the small"
man should be encouraged ] know at
least twenty-five people who would trade
In odd lots II the brokers would reduce
the unit from 100 shares TO ten shares
and their commissions TO one-sixteenth
each way Thus many would put up from
800 to $500 and trade in ten to fifty
shares. probably fifteen or twenty people
where one now trades in 100 shares. Thus
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CAUSE AND EFFECT.
he San Francisco Chronicle.

From The San Francisco Chronicle.
The very latest from Paris Is cubst cooking and
futurist dishes. noted chef de cuisine Is the fore
with and pork veal cooked In absinthe beef
garnisned with bananas and gruyere sardines with
whipped cream chicken scented with vioets and
outlets exhalng the perfume Of white Had those
dishes preceded the recent atrocities In
marble could understood cubis futurist art
the natural expression of gastronomc revolution
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Cleaning the Symbol.
dubon must have a mayor.

The Goddess Of Freedom atop the national Capt.
toll is to have her decennial bath. 1t is not sur
prisng that the apostle of the new freedom should
wish to polish up this symbol to make her CLEAN
again curried clean Of the corroding CRIME which Il
long residence in Washington lends to symbols ana
ideals alike.
MAY the new freedom" get as good bath from
time to time,
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THE PEOPLES COLUMN

, the brokers would make a good living
and the Street would flourish and be as
active as Of old.
Times have changed. The little man
must be catered to or the Street will re-
main stagnant, stale. fat and Improbable.
HENRY b. HAMILTON.
New York, July Q. 1918.
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and set precedent which he may broaden by CIV
ing enlisted men larger opportunity than they
have heretofore enjoyed of trying for places as Of
fcers in the line. The only feasible way to try the
experiment of bridging the gulf between officers
and men in the navy is to try it in the beginning
on a very limited scale.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-11
A NEW ONE FROM TEXAS.

From The Houston Post.
Governor Foss OF Massachusetts, has prorogued the
Massachusetts, Legislature Now IL "Old Billy" Sulzer
can derogue New York bunch the situation will be
considerably improved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-11

"Arraeh- TO- Cheese" The Cohalan case has done
something to popuarize Gaelic as spoken jan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-11

Are the umpires at the Baby Show to receive ade-
quate police protection?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-11

How would you like to be the Etsner man!
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The Mellen season.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-01

$34S,632. This was after paying
monthly dividends amounting to 10
per cent per annum and writing of
various losses. New cannery build
ings are being constructed with con-
crete floors, steel frame and asbestos
iron roofing.
Everything is reported as flourish
ing in the Pauwela-Kuiaha homestead
tract, Maui, both harvesting and
planting of pineapples going on. Set
tiers are rushing the erection OF
houses, which must begin to be occu-
pied for two years by April, when
the second year of the settlement be-
gins, to confirm titles.
1t is reported from Washington to
this paper that legislation will he i'm
mediately proposed to exempt Hawaii
from the educational test for immiH
grants.
All this week a crisis has existed
between the Inter-island Steam Navi-
cation Co. and its captains belong
ing to the local harbor, or union. of
masters, mates and pilots. Trouble
had arisen partly over the reduction
some time ago Of an old captain with
out reason publicly stated and partly
over the arrival of a number of certifl
Gated masters from the mainland, who,
it is alleged, were engaged by Pres.
Kennedy on a recent visit. In the first
case, the harbor demands that no cap
tain shall be dismissed without inves-
tigation in which il shall join. and in
the second case the harbor assumes
that the bringing in of masters from
outside is a threat of wholesale dis
missals to get even with the masters
for their successful strike of some
months ago. At this writing the whole
territory is menaced with strike that
will suspend all inter-island cOmmu
nication by steamers of this company,
leaving only the infreQuent trips or
the Matson Navigation Co.'S boats
that call at ports on Maui and fa-
waii, plying between the islands and
San Francisco, to perform the serv-
ice
1t is denied by the Weekly Times
that the withdrawal OF the steamer
Claudine from the HilO run will so
cripple the Maui poi factory, in stop
ping its Hawaii patronage, that it will
have to shut down. 1t is still able to
ship poi to Kona and Kau every ten
days by the kilauea.
Mrs. l.. G.. SpaldinC has boucht the
residence p7oDerty of W. \. RiGCOut in
PaIojo. containing an aron Of two
acres ana having on eight-rOOmed
house ana finely cultivated grounds.
While The price ia not yet made
known. the former owner when he left
for California last June held the prop
erty for $6509.
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BUSINESS FOR SIX DAYS 5.
GAINSNEARLY $4,000

McBryde Sugar Co., 45O and 4.50.
Mutual Telephone Co., 1925 and
1926. -. -.
Oahu Railway & Land Co., 1875 and
140. - a.
4 Oahu Sugar Co., 1925 and %.
0laa Sugar Co., 4.25 and 412k.
Onomea Sugar Co., $3.50 and SO.
Pahang Rubber Co, 1851 and 20.
Pioneer Mill Co., q and 81.
Waialua Agricultural Co., 92.50 and
s5. s.
Details OF transactions for the six
days were as follows:
Stocks
. Eva Plantation Co., 300 shares for
$3.50; price, $3.50.
Haiku Sugar Co., Tor shares TO
S1285: price, 1850.
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co.,
597 shares for $13,49O50; high, "a;
low, 1915.
Hawaiian Pineapple Co., 9SS shares
for $4S,956.50; high, IS; low, 44.25.
Honokaa Sugar Co., 600 shares for
$4575; price, 1927.
Honolulu Brewing & Mailing Co.,
60 shares for S144O; price, "a.
Hilo Railroad Co., common, 615
shares for $4155; high, Z; low, CTS.
McBryde Sugar Co., 80 shares for
$405; price, $50 .
Mutual Telephone Co., 50 shares for
$l412.59; price, 1926. d
Oahu Railway & Land Co., 60 shares
for $S400; price, 140
Oahu Sugar Co. GAS shares for $14,-
S3S-121h; high, 23,12h; low. %.
~Olaa Sugar Co, 40 shares for 1926;
high, 4.25; low, Ape.
Onomea Sugar Co., 495 shares for
$16,125; nigh, So; low, $3.50.
Pahang Rubber Co., 22O shares for
$4412.50; high, 20.12k; low. 90.
Pioneer Mill Co, 993 shares for S2G,-
1875: high, q; low. 2G.S71h.
Waialua Agricultural c., 10 shares
for $3.50; pIlee. 80.
Bonds.
McBryde Sugar Co. fiycs. $1,000 at
97.75.
Mutual Telephone Co. SKIES, $4,000
at 104.
Transactions for Janu7rv.
Following is a statement of transaC-
tons for January, with high and low
respectively:>
s.. No.
e.. H.. .}...... Shares High Low
IN,4Te, =
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MANY SHARES
Change HAND

Oahu sold rather freely at fuI
decline of 18th point betweenE
sions of Thursday and Friday, Il
of 20, "a, 100 and Is at % beif
ported. Onomea has made jun
one point to 80; for 55 shares. 7 -
sold unchanged in recess at "
for 100 ana 60 shares, but advaf AZ
eighth on the board for IS sf -
three unequal lots, although LOT
mer price was still reported d hea.
Henokaa is unchanged. at 10,
100 shares reported. Hilo oau
common remains at the low u alS
day, 6.75, for a block of 2"As.
Pahang Rubber was scaledtI ID al
eighth in recess to 20 for iu 1V
shares. Ina reported sale las'
Eva is unchanged at &C.; n me
board, besides Pioneer air noteu:
the only sale was one Of ares ol
Pineapple advanced a half 10 30
Dividends of Jan. 81 unI 10
sl46,290, namely: C. B4 q 20,
1.50, or $4,000; Eva, Is or 49,
500; Waimanalo, 50, OFF, ma
waiian Electric, IS cents - no
lolulu Brewing & Malfzo cents
or $4,000; IL. S. N. Cd cents U.s. or
S16,875; Kahuku. 10 cfor soVoV'
Hawaiian Pineapple, 2i's, VI 90
$50; Waimea, 50, or 'hehana'
81, or $4,000.
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In That Time Seven Out of Six
teen Stocks Have Risen
In Price
ALL TRANSACTIONS
AMOUNT TO OVER $3.50, 600
Statement of Exchange Bust
ness for Last Month - Divi-
bends in January Aggregate
More Than Half a Million
Dollars

Transactions of the Honolulu stock
and bond exchange show a very sub
stantial gain in volume for the six
days ended at noon yesterday as
compared with those for the cores
ponding period ended last week.
Prices have also improved, increases
having a large plurality over declines,
while stocks holding their own are
just double those that have lost
ground. ~
Sales of stocks have amounted to
$l50,0443.S7R, against SS1, 262.50 last
week, an increase -S79, 1S1.371 y,
while the par value of bonds sold is
$500, against 81, 900 last week, a de-
crease of SI5,700. The totals are re-
spectively $155,743.S7k and $102,262.-
SO. the net gain of all transactions be-
ing $50, 4S1.37k.
or ten sugar stocks changing hands,
four have gained in price, four re-
NAMED stationary and two declined,
as between the first and the last
dat of the period. Six non-sugar
stocks show increases in three, no
change in two and decline in one.
Last sale records on Saturday last
and yesterday we're respectively as
follows:
Opening and Closing
Eva Plantation Co. 1925 and $3.50,
Haiku Sugar Co, $3.50 and $3.50.
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co,
33.271a and 81.
Hawaiian Pineapple Co. 44.50 and
IS.
Honokaa Sugar Co, 7.G2h and
1924.
Honolulu Brewing & Mailing Co..
"a and "A. 49,. - .-...
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BUSINESS ITEMS

An industrial disaster of large pro-
portions happened this week in the
burning of the Hawaiian Development
Co.'S lumber mill at Pahoa, Hawaii,
together with four million feet Of
fine hardwood lumber The loss is
estimated at halt a million dollars and
there was no insurance or the prop
erty.
According to the report OF the pres
idcnt and manager, ]. D. Dole, the
pack Of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co.
for last year amounted to nearly elev-
en- million cans. Undivided profits of
the company were increased by about
$4,000, bringing the Amount up to
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$34S,632. This was after paying
monthly dividends amounting to Is
per cent per annum and writing off
various losses. New cannery build
ings are being constructed with con-
crete floors, steel frame and asbestos
iron roofing. "