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New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
Rabindranath Tagore.

The award Of this years Nobel prize for litera-
tire TO the Bengali poet, Rabindranath Tagore Is
q sign of the times. The races of the earth are
ever drawing closer together growing ever more
ready TO recognize and acclaim service, whoever
the servitor and brother, far or near The dream
of a common brotherhood is growing clearer to the
vision. disillusions and rude awakenings notwith-
standing.
The West has always drawn upon the East for
wisdom and poetry, it is true, but in the work OF
Rabindranath Tagore there is a quality that brings
West and East together in more modern direct
sense He is one of u.s. of our century 1t is not
so much in his philosophy as in his feeling that ne
is our brother Not even name as yet to the read
ing public of this country although volume OF MS
poems. "The Gardener" has just been published
here in translation from his own pen, he won the
beginnings of his Western reputation In Great Brit
ain last summer through the presentation of his
oneact play "The Post Office" by the Irish Players
Like Hauptmann's "Hannele," 1t is play of
Death and the Child, play Of Death the friend
who comes to soothe and heal, the King who brings
largesse greater than this life can hold. The tender
pity of 1t and its consong mysticism are, like
Hauptmann's our own. The play is sure of produc-
ton now since its authors official recognition. 1t
should have been presented before this on its own
poetic merits for the sake of its universal appeal
The world IS steadily growing smaller its IN
habitants subjects of the same hard rule of life,
are ever understanding each other better. This Is
the meaning of the first award Of the Nobel prize
for literature to man not of our race.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
The Country Will Not Let Jim
Ham" Put Aside the Immortality
of the Pindell Letter.

One of the most deplorable developments IN the
Pindell of Peoria episode is the constralnt put
upon Colonel "Jim Ham Lewis to deny the au-
thorship Of an epstle which is sure to live among
American classics The Pinden letter, which ne
has brought himself to repudiate at least partially
is one of those Illuminating confessions in which
a statesman now and then pours out his soul Win
no thought that what he says will ever reach the
ear of the public. 1t is pre-dictagraph human
document of the first importance, since it nalvely
reveals what is going in the minds of party
leaders and administrators when they have put
aside their official pose and talk heart to heart
with one another under the seal Of personal con-
idence.
The Pindel letter is an epitome Of the Wilson
administrators perverse attitude toward dplo-
matte appointments-of the Presidents unfortu-
nate surrender to the demand Of the Secretary OF
State that he be allowed to fill most Of the foreign
posts with men who have befriended him political
w. The prose poet who composed it IS the en-
saging laureate Of system of quick rotation III
ofice-the quicker the peterborough which an
opportunity to bask in glory shall be afforded TO
the greatest number of backwoods patriots. IL
summarizes in immortal literary form the philoso-
pby of the lamented Webb Flanagan. 1t sup
plements Flannagan's "What are we here for ex-
cent for the ofices?" with Jim Ham Lewis s
"What are the offices here for except for our useF
We can sympathize with Colonel Lewiss reluc-
tance to dsavow the paternity Of the Pinde letter
true artist lives in his masterpieces, and Colonel
Lewis's fame would have been better secured by
the IT believe you have daughter epistle than
by anything else that he has ever done or is ever
likely to do as a legislator office hunter. With
what pangs he must have persuaded himself to
say: "The language used and the phraseology in the
invested letters were foreign TO anything ever used
by me-"
What a remuneration! We can see thousands OF
American school children reciting that inimitable
description Of the true American way to pick up a
social prestige which will shed its lustre on sons
and daughters for four successive generations. 1t
will rank on public school Friday afternoons with
Webster refuting Hayne Bryan crucifying man
kind upon cross of gold.
Must Colonel Jim Ham surrender the copyright
to the best and truest thing written since the Era
of the New Freedom ushered in? We do not
believe that the country will cOuntenance such a
sacrifice AS d. Webster would say again in the
present crisis: Forbid it, my countrymen forbid
it. Heaven Despite his technical selfeffacement
we shall all continue to think of Jim Ham, and
the Pinde letter zone and inseparable'
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
THE RETAIL CLERKS
How the Effort to Unionize Them Is
Progressing.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: For the first time in the history
of the labor movement of the City or New
York the department store workers-Tnen
and women-are organizing for the pur-
pose of materially bettering their work.
Ing conditions. The Retail Clerks Union
OF New York is rapidly growing. The de-
partment store workers are eager 70 JON.
In a short time the department stores OF
this city will have to face the demands OF
the union. No one is now able 10 toretell
what action the employers VIII tahe'
However, If a harmonious decision Is not
reached and II serious labor suuggls
arises. the workers, numbering IN the
thousands. will be justified in striking
In no other industry are the workers so
brutally treated. The hours OF LABOR are
long. Overtime work is often demandeo
and never paid for Fines, mutual AID So
cieties. late charges and various otner
schemes are resorted TO to mulct the smalI
wages Of the employees. The girls N 'hs
department stores must be clean ano
neatly dressed. They must be inteiligeh'
able TO read, TO write plainly and TO hsuis
correctly. Nevertheless, their wages are
lever than those received by the lowes'
paid factory hands. The effects OF 10"
wages are now being investigated Oy 'ns
union. A report of the investigation WIZ
he ISSUED soon that will startle the na''o"
In all the stores there are places Whese
the working conditions are unoearao'
and sometimes fatally injurious 10 'Hs
men and women employed there INV
labor especially the employment OF youhs
and immature girls for wages OF rom %
IN q a week. is one OF the cherisheo ~
stitutions of our large stores. Addlhs
all these evils the spy system. that en'
snares innocent girls, the insultlhs i"
of fioorwalkers, the strain or oeihs
tinually urged to do big business O.
the unwarranted abuse OF buyers sHPI'
i,tendents. managers and customers o"'
must conclude that the workers nave 'N
cause to organize and TO strike.
I'm writing this letter. We or the eo"
mittee with the sanction OF the he1a"
clerks Union of New York, an orsah'S"
ton of great magnitude, ieei 'na'
public at large should be enilghteh'u
carding the actual conditions OF 'he ~.
ers in the department stores OF tii's ~,
We hope. Mr.. Editor. that you W." =.
charitable enough TO have this letter
behalf of the workers, men ana "O'"
annear i'm the columns OF your papel,
DAVID GREENFIELD
For press Committee of the Retail CleFA'
No. 1lO East 10th street. Nov. y I'i''
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
MAN-MADE LAW
Women Should Not Be Compelled to
Obey 1t.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Under the title OF "A Man.
Woman and Crime" a writer states
that suffragists who are endeavoring 10
save from the gallows Bess Wakefleld' oil
Connecticut. convicted of completely IN
the murder of her husband, are working
against the foundation principle OF woman
suffrage. viz: equality or women WIN
men. sharing on equal terms the respoh-
sIbIlities OF citizens before the law
That abatement applies only to the en-
franchised women OF this country.
According to the fundamental principle
upon which our Republic was founded
that the Just powers of government
ara derived from the consent OF the gov
erned." women In thirty-eight of our
states, including Connecticut (as they
have no power of assent or dissenp' are
logically exempt from all law and ought
not be governed by It's enactments
The disfranchised are idiots, imbeciles'
lunatIcs. unpardoned criminals, In some
states paupers, and women! by What
right are women classed with idiots. I'M
beetles, lunatics, and deprived OF theH
privilege? The latter are amenaDle u
no law: they have no business with the
law; therefore justly the law has no busi-
ness with them. What travesty or
justice TO place woman on plane with
mental incapables, and deny her their
compensation!
Until women equally with men are al
lowed a voice In the laws which they
are forced to obey laws by which they
are governed, judged and punished; until
women equally with men are given the
right OF self-government (the vote; until
woman suffrage becomes an established
fact throughout our country, its funda-
mental principle can be applied only to
the enfranchised women of our land.
Capital punishment is man-made law.
therefore Justly applicable to men. but
unjustly applied to disfranchised women
CAROLINE CLIFTON KNAPP.
No. ll6 West uth street, Nov. u, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
Is the Race Dying Out?

The question whether the human race or at any
rate the white part of it, is dying out is seriously
raised by European statisticians. not without ap-
parent cause. Some time ago Germany used to
sneer at France producing more coffns than
cradles" and, indeed the birth rate in France Is
ominously low and the ratio between ii and the
death rate is dscouraging But pretty much all
Europe is in the same plight, in kind IL not In
degree. Nearly every important country shows a
birth rate which is steadily declining.
That is true of France, Germany, Great Britain.
Spain. Austria Hungary, Italy and Belgium. In
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14

every one of those countries the highest ort i"'e
on record was before 1885, while III most VI 'nen
the lowest rates have been since 1910 hoieo'ei
the decline is considerable Thus lhe haA'
and minimum were, in England 939 IN i'oa anu
25.1 in 1910: in Germany, 372 In 1854 anu o-i -
1905; in France. 249 in 1881 and 1876 IN 1919 anu
in Italy. 80 in 1884 and 3L5 in 1907 Nor are 'neSe
things true of only the "old" countries Oh hu'op'
They are true also of the United STATES ol aus
tralla and of New Zealand young and vital as 'nes
are supposed to be.
The gloom which these facts might 'au'e' 49,
however somewhat dispeed by comparison oe-
tween the birth rate and death rate. "eneiai'
speaking the latter is declining even more inaiAe'''
than the former The natural rate OF Increase Vi
population is therefore rising not In all iau',
In most of them including some In WHICH tue oii'"
rate is markedly decreasing. Thus III "ernia'y
between 1SS1-'S5 and 19O1'O5 the sirth rate ieh
from 81 to 343, but the death rate also teh lroi'
253 to 1919 so that the natural increase rose lroi'
III to IA We may, therefore, nope that 'ne
extinction of the Caucasian through decline o
vitality and lack of propagation is still in the I'M
measurably distant future.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
THE BULLY
May That Normal Man Achieve
Something More Than Beef!

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Why not les that funny man who
thinks himself normal fall back into
the pit he has all his life been digging
for himself? Nobody can possibly pull
him out. A few more incarnations may
possibly put him where he thinks he is
now. but that OF course, is pure specula-
ton. We can only hope It for his sake.
There are not so many OF his type
among real Americans. A normal Ameri-
can man may often lack external polish,
but he is more often than not a gentle
man at heart | wager this chap is an
Englishman Knew one just like him
once. He was born on American soil,
but his parent" was English. so that he
very naturally was an Anglomaniac be-
ing Of the species. Looking him over
casually. it was easy 10 trace the different
stages OF his development. Said parent
not wishing to bother with him, left his
upbringing to the negligible person who
happened TO be his mother, but, at the
same time, being proud Of possessing a
son, interfered with the discipline which
this unimportant mother desired 10 main
tain. Hence the son belonged to the great
unspanked. There was plenty OF beef In
him. so as he grew big enough he became
a bully. Since then people have been try
ing to get out OF his way, since II is
more convenient to do so. But they laugh
at his conceit, good and plenty.
Evidently your correspondent U
shouldn't wonder II he Is the same per-
son have used as an example OF the
species) has now bullied his wife into
writing q letter in his defence. making
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
Contractor Politician Government Good
Road to Jail.

"I know of more than three hundred contractors
who have been sandbagged," declares the irrepreS-
sible Mr.. Hennessy, land Mr.. Whitman will get
them ALL" Mr.. Whitman should get them all. Tn
doubtedy he WILL for with the aid Of Mr. Hen
messy he has obtained a wedge to penetrate 10 the
inside" of the eXtOrtion game and contractors
resentful Of their being sandbagged and local poll
ticans with grudges can be depended on to feed
in new information out of which the prosecutor
may get new leads and perchance indictments.
If onehalf the indications given borne out
in testimony it is evident that this state is soon
to witness the exposure of systematic, organized
plundering which will shock even the most case
hardened The blackmailing Of contractors by
politicians can be carried out successfully only
when the contractors get something out of It for
themselves. If they pay the bagmen, 1t is merely
that the influence of the "chief" the boss" with
his creatures in office will be exerted to permit
them to overcharge the state for good roads, -
good in only The contractors don't pay the
bagmen-not they No sympathy need be wasted
on them. They are not in business for their
health, and their yielding to political blackma is
fairly good evidence that they aren't endeavoring
to do business on merit alone The public, as
usual, has been paying.
Gratis have had free hand in state affairs, there
have been millions on millions of dollars worth
Of contracts let for barge canal and highway work.
The state has been victimized in the quality Of
much Of the good roads work already done-that
is matter of common knowledge to all who use
country roads The cost In dollars to the state
of government by potlclan-c n-contractor ring should
also be matter of common knowledge. direct
tax is being paid because Of the rapidly in
creasing expense Of state government Most OF
the tax collected comes from New York City. 1t
is a matter of personal interest to every taxpayer
here to know how much graft the builder of
roads in Oswego County collected and how much
the bagmen extorted from him to send to the
political treasury-or the pocket of the big boss"
Mr. Whitman has behind him the support of
Governor Glynn and the state authorities. He is
engaged on a work even more impotant than his
exposure and conviction of police crooks in this
city He will have the approval and cooperation
of every decent citizen he exposes the politi-
cian-contractor crooks and jails their leaders in
order to hammer home the lesson.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
Make Haste Slowly on the Compensation
Law!

Governor Glynn will be i-adyised If he attempts
TO push to passage this year any workmans com
pensation bill His zeal TO bring to an end the
existing conditions where the injured workingman
Is the prey of the ambulance chasing lawyers or
the victim of some sharp aduster for an insurance
corporation, is highly commendable. He is right in
the main in diagnosing the troubles attending the
massage OF the bill vetoed by Governor Sulzer as
due TO rreconclable differences between the labor
unions and the casualty insurance. companies But
knowledge of that fact does not solve the difh
cultes
II is true, as the Governor says, that Law EN-
bodying all the good points of the acts now In
operaton in other states ought to satisfy the work
ingmen without doing violence to employers rights
But it would be job of no mean size to prepare
the first draft OF such a law, and 1t would DC
dollars to doughnuts that such draft would
satisfy neither party In interest The history OF
such legislation has proved that.
Aside from the fact that the presentation or any
bin TO the Legislature will stir up all the Old
objections, there Is new phese Of the matter to
be considered. Though official canvass of the
votes has not yet proved 1t, undoubtedly the
constitutional amendment designed to remove any
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
BARGAINS IN CITY BONDS.

From The Argonaut.
Bonds of the City of San Francisco may now be had
I'm the open market at prices netting 51a per cent.
whereas only a little while they were readily sal
able on a 4 per cent basis But IL buyer will look
about for bargains he can pick up job lots yielding
anywhere from to per cent. Here Is the expana-
ton For certain municipal projects bonds have been
voted but cannot sold In this situation there has
up practice of paying for public work not In
money but bonds. The contractor to meet this
don merely up his price to cover the discount
in selling the bonds at the low rates above quoted.
Thus the. city is to-day practically paying anywhere
from to per cent interest all the work now In
progress and being paid for in bonds
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
WHERE FUSION is ILLEGAL

From The Kansas City Star.
II New York had the fool anti-fusio"
law Of Kansas on its statute books '"s
big victory over Tammany would nav
been impossible. The anti-fuslon
was enacted by the Republican pohtlc'NN'
dozen years ago to prevent the pen'v rs.
Gratis and Posulists from uniting. IL "a.
J. Ralph Burton who first enunciated '"'
slogan "Fusion Is immoral"
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
THAT PROGRESSIVE 'PoSSUM
His Keen, Discriminating Brains
Awaken Enthusiasm.
Brains

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: I would like 70 shake hands
through your columns with that Jersey
'possum mentioned on the first page OF
The Tribune to-day which swallowed the
Roosevelt button so long ago. 1t makes
me feel drawn both TO Jersey and 10
'possums II shows that Jersey is
good state, and also that possums are
gifted with brains OF a higher order than
we have been wont to attribute to them.
Hurrah for Jersey! but most especially
hurrah for that keen. farsighted 'possum
and his wonderful foreknowledge OF our
beloved TEDDY"
EMILY NJ. COTTON.
New Rochelle, y. Y, Nov. II, 1913
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
THE REFRACTORY HEN

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Christopher Columbus haS len
been wise enough to tell those 0p"' nn,
savants how to stand an egg on emu, -
would he have been wise enough 10 "'.' ',
told the Housewives League now "
about making the hens lay eggs eh'N.
TO knock tie market down TO thlr'E 0'
a dozen? '"
New York, Nov. l3, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
An Open for


her sign herself into the bargain, "A Nor
NAL Woman"
oh. yes Nobody said he hasn't some
brains as well as lot OF beer. After
those aforementioned reincarnations per-
hans he'll learn 10 use them
Here's TO him-5,0O years from now
r. n. 3.
New York Nov. II. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
TOO LARGE A PART.

From The Louisville Courier Journal.
Slang of its advocates eventually becomes
a part Of the language" That's all right, but In the
mean time you needn't make II all OF the language.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14

The Tribune uses its best endeavors TO insure inc
trustworhiness of every advertisement 1t prints ana
TO avoid the publication of all advertisements contain
ing misleading statements or claims
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
COMPARATIVELY SAFE.

From The Columbia State.
willy doc" Cook has opened his vauue-
willie season In New York. eggs havlns
risen there to five cents each.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14

Uncle Sam is a careless old fellow In some ways,
but he is mighty particular about the hahuhhs VI
his mail
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14

Let's quit building warshps" says Britannia
Won't do It," says Germania Then I'm going to
build more than ever retorts She Who Rules the
Waves. And so they both keep going.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
OR coPPETTES?

From The Detroit Free Press
Chicago objects to the term "polcewomen" Well,
why not call 'em police ladies'?
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14

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New-York tribune., 1913-11-14
cANAn1AN RATES.

Entered at the Posocs at York as Second Class MAI
Matter.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-14

SUBSCRIPTION RATEs-By Mail. Postage PAID ou's'ue 0
Greater York: .A. "a oo
Daily and sunday mo 10 Daily only. months 00
Daily Sunday 4.25 Daily only; OK
and s50Sunday only mohlhs'''
Daily only month";. so Sunday only Se"''' -
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-04-18
Contract Notice.

Notice is hereby given that Con-
tracts for the furnishing of one
medium size barge load Of oyster shells
delivery on Bank PascagOula River,
Pascagoula, Miss, and for the hauling
and spreading OF such shells on road
10 district Nos. and known as
Telephone Road" will be let to the
lowest bidder at the front door OF the
Court House in the City Of Pascagoula,
On the
FIRST MONDAY. the 7th day OF
April 1913,
All bids to be sealed bids, and filed
with the Clerk OF Board OF Supervisors
on or before II O'Clock NJ Of above
date. All bidders viii he REQUIRED
TO deposit $25. OU or It's equivalent with
bid, and the lowest bidder will be
required to furnish bond as provided
| by law, the undersigned Commission
ers reserving the right to reject any
or all bids.
Jno. Robinson, f H. Lewis
| w. II. Nelson, II. A. FarDswortl
N. McInnis Cnas: +. Chidsey
C'm'rs. Dist. Mop C'm'rs Dist No.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-04-18
A MESSAGE TO women
Who are "Just Ready to Drop"

When you are 'just ready to drop"
when You feel so weak that you can
hardly drag yourself about-ahd De-
cause you have not slept well. you get
up as tired-Out next morning as when
you went to bed, then you need help
right away.
Miss Lea Dumas writes from Ma
lone, N. Y, saying: II was in badly
run down condition for several weeks,
but two bottles of VinOl put ME IN
my feet again aud made me strong
aud we'll. VinOl has done me more
good than all the other medicine l
ever took"
II the careworn, haggard men and
women, the pale, sickly children and
feeble old folks around here would
follow Miss Dumas example, they
too, would soon be able TO say that
Vinol, our delicious cod liver and ron
remedy, had built them up and mace
them strong.
1t is wonderfully STRENGTHENING
and invigorating bodv-bullder, and we
sell it under 40 ironclaJ gnraat@e
Of satisfaction. You get your N n'y
back il Vinol does pot help'ol
MacVea Young, Druggist.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-04-18

years. and at times became So bad
would become unconscious. / Nave been
found in ths. condition nsry times.
Physicians did net sscre to Be ahls to
do me any good. l would become
weak and for days at a time could co
no work Not long ago ! got a box
Of DIR. Miles Laxative Tablets and
after using them found had never
tried anything that acted in such
mild and effective manner. l believe
1 have at last found the remedy that
suits my case"
Thousands of people are sufferers
from habitual constipation and
while possibly realizing something
of the danger of this condition, yet
neglect too long to employ proper
curative measures until serious i'll
ness often results. The advice Of
all physicians is, keep your bowels
clean,' and it's good advice.
DR.. Miles Laxative Tablets are
sold by all druggists, at rs cents
box containing IS doses. If not
found satisfactory, your money is
returned.
Mills MEDICAL CO" EHshart Ind