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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
Hinkey Back at Yale.

The that Yale has appointed Frank Hinkey'
the great Hinkey. head Of the football eleven
for 1914 will start shiyers down the spines of sun
dry opponents. There will be some criticism of the
move, and it may not produce at once the cham
pionshp team that New Haven hungers for after
lean years Bu. results worth while are certain.
AS a player fifteen years ago Hinkey was the
target for much abuse that should have been aimed
ut the rules Of the game it then played. He
was one of the hardest and most fearless tackers
ever on the gridron and he practically never
missed bis man. The rules allowed him TO hurl
himself headlong from distance of four TO six
feet on an opposing back, and he merely did more
thoroughly what other ends had an equal license
to do. He gave many hard jolts and got reputa-
ton thereby a crashing player but lie never re-
sorted to underhand tricks and never urged other
players to be rough merely for the sake Of rough
ness.
Since his star days the game has been modified
and many opportunities for fierce tacklng have been
cut out. Those who punt the ball better pro-
tected and 50 are those who receive it, Hinkcy
has not lost track of football, however, having Wis
tied New Haven as a coach for brief periods on
numerous occasions. He will not have TO rcearn
the game, many people may thn@. He will only
have to employ his natural skill and clearneSs
of Judgment to developing the open scheme of play.
That Yale will profit greatly 10y hS>footba zeal and
his marked ability to impart instruction there can
be no question.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
Concessions and Commerce.

There is not, as Lord Murray thinks the British
have reason to conclude, sentiment in this cOun-
try in favor of excluding all European activities
from all countries near the Canal Zone There has
been no objection TO the establishment of vast
British interests at Tehuantepec, and Of course IL
has long been notorious that the commerce of half
a dozen countries exceeds at Panama itself
Americans expect great and increasing European
activities in those regions and do not deprecate
them.
1t is not commerce TO which Americans object
but concessions of semi-poitical nature. Euro
pean powers free to trade with all the countries
around the Canal Zone and to make investments
and to develop industries in them and, of course in
a reasonable way to safeguard those interests. But
this country could not regard with cOmplacence
their acquisition of concessions which would give
them not only a monopoly of activity but measure
of administrative and political control. 1t would
not be good policy for Americans TO get such con-
cesSions and ii certainly would not comport with
American interests for Europeans TO do so.
The United States is quite willing TO see estab-
ished and maintained in I.atn-America that same
policy of the open door and equality Of opportunity
which il long ago invoked for China, and which it
regards as sound rule for all the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
Socializins Schenectady.

While Mayor-elect Mitchell here is worrying about
keeping his city administration non-partisan Mayor
Lunn of Schenectady is having TO face that problem
from quite Il different angle The Socialists have
instructed him, as loyal member Of that organl'
Zation to appoint no person not a Socialist to the
new City Planning Commission This body is to
have control over the city's streets parks, markets
and the like with considerable patronage so II
Mayor Lunn acts as the advocates of the scheme
say he must. in obedience to the state constitution
of the Socialists, that party will control the com
mission for two years and may easily be in position
to control the ctys politics well as policies.
There is certain naive franknesS about this will
ngneSs TO assume all the duties and responsibilities
Of office which is refreshing It's effect the public
is somewhat debatabe, though. An indication of its
possibilities was given by another action Of the sam
general committee which instructed the Mayor TO
hand out the jobs. Wishing to raise funds for the
Western Federation Of Miners the general commit
tee appointed a subcommittee 10 ask the Mayor to
revoke all licenses for Sunday moving picture shows
and TO reissue them with stipulation that per-
centage Of receipts should 60 TO the miners fund.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
4 Live Labor Department.

If Commissioner Lynch is able to carry out his
announced programme with even moderate de-
gree of efficiency the State Department of Labor
will be more vital force for protecting the workers
of the state and Compelling obedience to the labor
laws than ever before. The laws under which
he can operate give added power to his department,
but at the same time they place on il great re-
sponsibty His scheme for using the Division of
Industrial Hygiene, with its experts, an investi-
eating bureau the results of whose work shall Ne
bulletined. is excellent 1t would be of more help,
in all probability, toward living up to that response
bity than any other one thing the department
could do.
The great trouble with the Labor Department
hitherto has been twofod-irst, lack of proper in
spection facilities and, secondly inability to trans
NIT TO the public the results Of what work these in
adequate facilities accomplished. 1t left for "a
special legislative investigation TO make public the
child labor horrors in the canneres The Labor De-
partment, in some manner, must have become ac-
auainted with this state Of facts, even though 1t
might not then have come directly under the de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
THE CONSUMERS LEAGUE
Tn. Evil. Il Reveals and the Reforms
for Which II Works.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: II seems of special significance
that the Consumers League of New YORK
city should be awarded god nedai
prize at the recent Exhibition OF Satety
and Sanitation held at the Grand Centrai
Palace-significant because the Consuih-
ers' League exhibit is not what the aver
age New Yorker should be proud OF. IN
displaying the underpaiI work done III
the tenements, the long hours OF toll ire
low wages OF certain women in industry
the Consumers League In its exhibit
yisualizes what every New Yorker ought
TO know exists and ought to be working
to abolish.
What the Consumers League is work
ing for is:
I. Strict regulation of child labor.
.. Shorter working day for women ana
children employed in factories and stores.
3. 4 living wage for all working women.
4. The abolition of industry in tene-
ments.
>. The enactment and enforcement OF
laws protecting the labor of women ana
children.
It is the hope of the league that gold
medal may be awarded In the near tut
ure not for presentation of existing evils,
but rather for the aboIshing Of those
evils through the united demands OF the
public. MAUD NATHAN
President the Consumers League.
New York. Dec. 26. 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
WARD ESTATE FELL OFF
Litigation Over Sculptor's Will
Costly to Heirs.

John .. y. Ward. the sculptor, who died
on May !, 1910. let an estate valued at
t2S.152 The state transfer tax appraiser,
whose report was filed In the SurrOgates'
court YESTERDAY, stated that the expenses
of litigation over the validity of Mr..
Wards will. debts and administration eX-
penses reduced the net value of the estate
to S22. i6l.
The report of the appraiser shows thai
a large part of the estate credited To the
sculptor was acquired after his death. At
the time Of his death Mr. Ward was en-
gagged on statue Of August Belmont.
August Belmont. jr., had yaId him $4,000
on the $4,000 contract price. Other
sculptors were employed by Mr. Wards
widow 10 finish the statue OF the banker,
and the estate received s6,7Ij more from
the final payment. Mr.. Ward also left
unfinished an equestrian statue of Gen
eral W. $. Hancock. Ills interest in that
work was estimated at $21.53i. For the
plaster statue OF General Philip Sherl-
Gan the estate received $1,000.
The will of Mr. Ward was contested in
the Surrogates' Court by Miss Eleanor
Ward, sister 81 the sculptor. She alleged
that her brother was of unsound mind
when he executed his will and was under
the undue influence of his wife, Mrs.
Rachel NJ o. Ward Surrogate Cohalan
upheld the will. which left practically the
entire estate to Mrs. Ward. There is now
get aside from the estate $3.0S5 to meet
the claims of Miss Eleanor Ward and
Miss Mary Ward, another sister who had
"A contract with Mr.. Ward for an annual
allowance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
Hypothetical Mysteries.

Mr. Mitchell has gone about the business OF pick
ing his cabinet in sensiby calm and quiet fashion
We wish we could say as much for some of his
NEWSPAPER critics who are moved to comment upon
puesses and rumors of gueSses Of appointments
The present is a trying and crucial time for our
new Mayor. No work of his four years is likely to
count So much as this first choice of advisers. lie
i entitled 70 make that choice without uproar of
hypothetical vetoes rcsounding in his ears.
For the criticism that will come later Mr.. Mitchell
is doubtless prepared A certain amount of that Is
unavoidable. 1t is one of the joys Of the life OF
every Mayor. But on the whole we thInK that M''
Mitchell understands the sole criterion-that OF III
ness, of measuring up to the job-by which his ap
pontees will be judged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
Big Business Squares Itself with the
Marshall Vocabulary.

WHY was Vice President Marshall not let INTO Tue
secrets of the Constitution of Peace just proiui
gated at Washington? The Wilson Administrations
seems disposed merely to make three weeks truce
with troubled business and call it peace. But out
I'm Indianapolis the Vice-Presdent announces tDat
real peace has been concluded adding by way OF eA-
nonation: There is no need for antitrust leGlsia-
tion nj this time in view of the tariff law ana
the new currency law
We hone that Mr. Marshall will be vindicated as
q nronbet of modification He has been in the haDt
Of riding in the debris of readustment clear up 10
the bridle and only recently he suggested that un-
less men of wealth proved more tractable to the
ideas of the Era of the New Freedom Democrd''c
state legislatures might take it into their heads TO
abolish the right TO transmit property by testament
If he thinks it is time to it, it ought to be time
TO halt
Yet il looks as if the vicePresident had failed to
read that sentence of the Presidents recent 'peace
message" which described the currency l.w as the
first of a series of constructive measures 10 oe
undertaken by the Democratic party. He must also
have forgotten the letter which Mr. wilson wrote 10
representative Henry D. Clayton, of Alabama urs-
ing the latter to give up his appointment as senator
and to stick to his post as chairman OF the House
Judiciary Committee in order to take charge OF the
administrations forthcoming antitrust measures
Mr.. Marshall may be long on good Intentions out
he is evidently short on reliable advance informa-
ton
Yet if "bir business" is destined to wrestle still
further with President Wilson and his vocabulary
il is a least something for it to have made its peace
with the far more unique and spectacular vocabu'
larry of Vice President Marshall
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS.

In spite of all its regulations against ii, New York
has suffered another fatal tenement house fire. How
ever of what avail regulations unless they
forced Pittsburgh Post
Chicago automobiles Kill $50 persons in eleven months
New York automobiles kill pa in ten months No won
der New York laughs when Chicago makes claims to
being a metropolitan city.--Rome Sentinel.
Recent statistics showing that Pittsburgh beats New
York i'm nebriey to indicate that the former village
must have held millionaire homecoming week lately
Washington Post.
II New York toughs going to continue shooting
another In the public streets 1t would be good
idea for the city to hire few Officers who
can shoot. A few policemen who could shoot to
kill might make very desirable transfer OF some OF
New Yorks population from the city streets to the
cemetery-Buffalo Express
II is said that DR.. Wiley may be next Health
Commissioner Of New York City II New York is 10
have pure food in addition all the other blessings
resulting from the downfall OF Tammany, we shall
longer be In position to wonder why so many people
live there.-Syracuse Herald.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
CHILL AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE
A Gillian Here Opposes the Roose'
veltian View.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: To-day a friend showed me clip
ping of The Tribune containing the last
statement OF Senior Eduardo Suarez Mu-
jica, Minister of Chilli in the United
States, regarding the address of the dean
of the law faculty, Senior Marcial Mar
tinez, pronounced at ex-President Roose-
velts reception in'the University Of Chill,
Santiago
With due respect for the reasons of our
government in not indorsing the views OF
our great old man, it seems to me of
vital importance for the American public
10 know the truth--that Senior Marcial
Martinez tperhaps one of the most repre-
sentative personalities OF a glorious gem
Grafton of Gillian leaders, has reflected
n that address, with cearness. politeness
and manliness, the Chlian opinion on the
topics which he touched. This deduction
is based upon the approval that the ora
tor received from the select audience
which filled the university hall and the
just received.
Furthermore, few leading South Amer
lean newspapers hint that he not only
expressed the Gillian opinion. but the
views Of all South America, with the eX-
ception of one country, which forgot the
permanent interests of IIspano-Amcrica
for a passing advantage.
J. BUDINICH.
New York, Dec g, 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
Hospital Saturday and Sunday.

To-day and tomorrow are the days for the thirty
fourth annual collection of the Hospital Saturday
and Sunday Association, and there is chance for
everybody to give something which will make
somebody else happier or less unhappy in the com
inc wear. The association wants 100000 and it
ought to have every cent of it, If it gets it every
cent will 20 not for buildings or salaries or show
but for giving free treatment to the sick poor IN
the forty-seven associated hospitals of this city,
which last year cared for Ga 4OS free patients with
out regard to race or creed or any other condition
than that of their poverty and suffering
1t will be worth while for everybody who wishes
a Happy New Year for another to give practical
effect to his wish by making some contribution to
this fund
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
SPEED CONTROL OF TRAINS
Urgent Need of Some Efficient System
on Railroads.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: ] note that II. w. Belkuap, chief
of the division of safety appliances OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
when before the House Committee on In
terstate and Foreign Commerce. recon-
mended that the Interstate Commerce
Commission be allowed full power to reg
ulate the speed Of trains Speed" said
he was the fundamental question In
considering legislation TO prevent railroad
disasters. No block system is Of use If
operated under the wrong sort Of rules.
! think the strain on the human ma
chinery of men who operate trains at
high speed is responsible for many
wrecks. You are not gong to stop acct
dents unless you check the speed Of
trains on stretches Of poor roadbeds.
When a speed Of twenty-five To twenty
miles is justified 1t is probable many
trains are running at fifty OF sixty miles
an hour, and there are no spoedometcr5
Oh trains. and We do not know how fast
many Of them are running when time is
10 be made up
Now. as to this last point and as the
ylce-prCsidcnt Of the New Haven offers
$1,000 reward for an acceptable safety
appliance / would ask why that road Is
not trying the devices which are in Sic
Cessful use on many miles OF railroad in
Canada and in the Wos,. This system, %
says THE Electrical Railway Journal "
affords means by which a dispatcher
can display stop or proceed signals by
red and green lamps inside the cab Of the
engine; so that either a clear or stop sis-
nal is always displayed before the ongi-
ncer or motorman. Also, there rs a clock
having two hands. one showing the speed
the engine is now making and the other
hand showing the speed That II ought to
De running at to be safe from accident at
that time and in that part Of the road.
This signal in the locomotive cab is op-
Grated normally by the dispatcher and
automatically in case OF danger. For eN-
ample. when the hand indicates that the
speed, then fifty miles an hour must he
reduced to half that 10 prevent accident
right ahead. il the engineer fails or mes
lccts TO heed the signal, the system op-
crates automatically, and the train is
stopped. Also. danger signals are dis
PLAYED i'm the event of any accidental in
tcrruptiou to the operation of the system.
The system signals both ways 10 the
train and from the train. and the dts
patcher has continuous and exact knowi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
More Work for "Spues."

The "Spugs" have done useful work despite the
publics vague suspicion that they have been trying
to give a weak-tea flavor to Christmas cheer. They
have helped to emphasize the Importance Of making
Christmas a happy day for children and for the
Door and dependent and to discourage giving among
adults in the spirit of barter and ostentaton. They
may ratonalize Christmas before they get through.
Meanwhile, why doesn't some equally earnest
body Of reformers undertake to ratlOnalize New
Years? Popular methods of welcoming the new
year have more than tnge Of barbarsm. They
are uncouth, nerve racking and crudely wasteful
After next Wednesday night the newspaper stats
tcians will figure out the hundreds of thousands OF
dollars spent along Broadway in an orgy Of hys-
terical hilarity. Why not humanze the New Years
Eve celebration as we have humanized the celebra-
ton of the Fourth of July? a society organized for
the suppression Of useless tumut and what the late
Mayor Gaynor would have called "ostentatiOus guz-
cling" on New Years Eve would meet an urgent
public want.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
A Small Value for a Man.

The owner Of the Asch Building has settled nine
suits against him by representatives of victims Of the
horrible disaster there for $40 each \ casualty
company brought about the settlement with its pitt
fully meagre valuation Of human life.
Money, obviously, cannot make up for death un-
der tragic circumstances such those Of the Asch
fire. Yet to families of workers money obtained in
damages must be an important item. The valuation
on life shown in this settlement is fresh ustra-
ton of the reason for the determined fight made by
labor unions against a workmens compensation law
giving to casualty companies any part Of the bust
ness Of insuring against OccupatOnal accidents
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27

months, the public roads OF TINS state, fio
persons killed and 21f9 were injured p'
motor vehicles on which they were not riding anu
over which they had no control, and In the vast
majority of these cases there was not so much DIS
serious inquiry to determine the responsibility!
much less the imposition Of any penalty. FROM
those data it is safe to reckon that in the Whole
country every year thousands are killed anu 'eh'
of thousands are injured in this way
These facts constitute greater reproach 10 our
government and civilization than did the hefariouS
trade Of Turpin and his like to the England OF thal
day If, as there is ample cause for believing the
fault lies chiefly with reckless drivers or machines
it is high time to make the punishment mt the
crime 1t is monstrous that of the most inter-
esting and useful of all our modern inventions
Should without check restraint, be abused INTO
being murderous scourge and terror OF the peo-
pies highways
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27

nortmeuts jurisdiction. The same thing is true III
general of the various industries directly under the
denortment's control If investigation shows i'm
proper conditions. nothing can help TO chahge 'he
so reodily as a bulletin from the department giving
fine facts and the resulting action of public opinion
based on those facts Annual reports of dry-as-dust
statistics won't do ii, as past years OF the Lapor
Departments work have proved
This is an era of striving for social Dettermen''
The public expects its agencies OF government 10 oe
alive to their work and to the peoples needs ,oii-
missioner Lynch gives gratifying indications thaI
he is alive and that he intends to run 1--we depart
ment doing real work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
THE PARTY OF CALAMITY
A Republican Explains Why He Ex.
poets Disaster from the Democrats.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: IL scratch OF a pen would bring
prosperity then the scratch of four pens,
coupled with a speech savoring OF the
necromancer' art. ought 10 bring four
times prosperity. But will it? There is
something vastly more essential-confl.
dence.
In study Of tine two great political
parties covering a period of forty years
have come to the conclusion that the Sc
cret Of the Republican party's success in
government and the general good times
following its elevation to power grew out
of the fact that fundamentally the Re-
publican party was trying TO serve the
people. On the other hand, every time the
Democratic party has come into power il
must be evident to any unprejudiced
mind that the Democratic party was try
ing TO serve itself. Selhshness was the
active inspiration. and as Henry Ward
Beecher once said, "Selfishness is the
devil; il you've got 1t large you've got
the devil" That's why "deyilish" times
usually follow Democratic ascendency.
Not that any well meaning man wants TO
contribute to such condition by "howling
calamity" bat rather that calamity is
the twin brother of the devil, and the two
travel together
No matter how much legislation a party
may inaugurate. if the true spirit OF
brotherhood be not back Of IL there can
be no prosperity, and brotherhood is not
necessarily expressed in oily words; Meth
er is It manifested IN profound education.
! have seen profoundly educated men 50
selfish, so cold and lnwardly self-rght-
eous, yet powerful. SO powerful that water
would almost freeze in their presence be-
cause OF their GOODNESS. Now, any fair
minded man. studying the policy Of the
present administration In the matter Of
the civil service and the spells Of office
now being Systematically handed out
throughout the country without regard to
fitness, must become convinced that the
party i'm power is primarily working Tor
the Democratic party. ergo not for the
people, and that spells D-i-s-a-s-t-c-r. not
P-r-o-s-p-e-r-i-t-y. no matter how many
pens are used to bcsuile the people in
signing prosperity bills. a.. :.
South Orange, y. j.. Dec g. 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
Tax on All Musical instruments.

Berne, Dec. 26-All musical instru-
ments are to be subjected to an annual
tax in future i'm the Swiss canton OF
Tfcino. on the Italian side of the Alps, ac-
cording TO q decision reached to-day by
the cantonal authorities. who were
searching for new sources of revenue
The mayors of the towns, villages ana
rural districts have been ordered 10 reg
lister all pianos, violins. etc, in the house
holds under their jurisdiction.