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New-York tribune., 1913-11-24
A NATIONAL GUARD HANDICAP
Some Regiments Too Expensive to
Join, Says Militiaman.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: In relation 10 your article on the
deficiency in numbers OF the various arms
OF the militia. beg leave 10 state that
II the commanding officers OF organiZa-
tions such as the LIST Cavalry. Signal
Corps. etc, would open their regiments
TO all men who can qualify TO make good
citizen soldiers and are willing and
anxious TO serve as part OF the armed
force OF their state we would have a
larger national guard.
Upon application 10 n certain corporal
OF the national guard the writer was
Informed that TO Join said organization
he would be required to pay an initla-
ton fee Of $40. 10 purchase special
full dress uniform and equipment at a
cost OF so. and that the yearly dues for
the privilege OF being a member ana
sacrificing his time and holding himself
in readiness to serve his country at a
moments notice would be $50. In other
outfits this tax on the men is higher.
Good men are being refused. because
their services as volunteers are not
wanted-they must pay exorbitant fees
to serve.
Remedy this condition Of affairs and
New York State and every other state
in the Union will have a full national
guard. NATIONAL GUARDSMAN.
New York. Nov. 10. 1913.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24
THE PROTECTION OF WOMAN
Police and Courts Adopting Juster
Attitude, a Reader Thinks.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: You had two good editorials In
Yesterdays Tribune. One was just bit
satirical, TO be sure but then great truths
are often impressed upon the public by
satire.
The editorial. "Disposing Of the Mash
ers." gives us an idea how fast times are
CT angling and that the world Is at last be-
coming aware Of the fact that strict JUS
| tice must be meted out alike 10 both
sexes. Formerly only women were ar
rested for speaking to a member OF the
| other sex I'm the street, but now men. too'
are being arrested. and even sentenced ny
magistrates, for insulting and attacking
women on the street. Commissioner
Waldo must have received some pretty
strenuous proddng from some one
higher up" to bring about such change
I'm the state Of things So soon are we
beginning to see the effects OF Tam
many defeat May this good work go on
under the able direction OF our District
Attorney,
| The other editorial, ION Judges and Suf-
fragettes," seems omewhat sympathetic
| for that lone arraigning policeman In
| the presence Of the opposing counsel in
the blue serge suit with white facings.'
etc Again, do I note the change OF the
times, for well do / remember the time
not long ago, either, when II was "a lone
girl" mahy a time who stood before the
magistrates and received the severest
sentences the law would allow, Just on
the word OF "a lone policeman"
The beautifully dressed women standing
near a poor girl seem always TO have
mGre powerful effect than anything else
to secure justice for Girl, and | am
/ glad TO see our rich and influential women
coming downtown TO stand by tner
little sisters" among the poor. We are
told by the anti-sufragists that men are
our protectors and Will protect U.s.
isn't true, for there are not enough men
who either try or care TO protect women
most men only protect their own family
and immediate friends. while the working
GIRL the orphans. tho unprotected, are
! left to the mercy OF the libertines ana
white slave dealers. II is 10 their ove
sex that girls must look for protection
their own sex aided by the few-all TOO
few-men who believe that women as well
as themselves are human and have equal
rights.
Along this line. as along all others the
man who talks so much is the man least
to be derended upon. The man who reall?
wants to be a protector OF women does
not cry from TIE housetops about tine
superiority Of women" women should be
sheltered in the home" should be queens
Of the home" the 'sanctity OF the home
and all such hypocritical trash. but ne
gets down to work and helps them TO
condition where they can in large part
protect themselves. He has no small
fears that II he allows them little
chance TO be something and do something
they will become his succesxul rvaA
lie isn't built that way.
A TRIBUNE REApb-~
New York, Nov. 20. 1918
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24
New York's Dirty Streets.

big Bill" Edwards will no doubt disagree with
Mr. Healy an alderman of Chicago who says or
conditions in New York: why, your streets aren't
as clean as ours, and many consider ours a joke In
this particular
The rest of us. however, are rather inclined 10
take Mr. Healys word for 1t. In spite Of the clear
skies above him, Of the moderately frequent rains
and of the industry of big Bills' white Wings
busy old Father Knickerbocker invariably needs q
scrubbing.
There is room for improvement in the Street
Cleaning Department; there is in every human
agency. But we cannot help thinking that as
street cleaning departments go it has at least an
average efficiency. A weightier reason exists for
this perennial display of torn newspapers and ba-
mana skins this clutterng of thoroughfares with
pushcarts and street stands 1t is that New York
lives in its streets more than does any other Amer
lean city and probably more than do most cities
this side Of Asia. Congestion Of population is the
cause of this: 1t is the explanation of everything
Of which the Chicago alderman complained on the
lower East Side. Chicago has not this degree Of
congestion for which 1t may thank its stars rather
than its foresight
But until New York can solve this problem OF
congestion its efforts to keep clean, If they 10
succeed, must be correspondingly greater thqn
those of any Of its neighbors
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24
The New Football INDICATED.

Football came back to its own In Saturdays Har-
ward Yale game. The style of play brilliantly
vindicated itself against the reproach that the
opening up Of the attack had resulted in little or
no increase Of scoring power and had left the de
fence still with the upper hand whenever two teams
of fairly equal strength fought it out on what are
recognized as the fundamentals Of football. The
Harvard Princeton and Prnceton-iale games
seemed to demonstrate that the changes made in
the rules after the season of 1911 had not really
unloosened the scoring punch" Harvard made
one drop goal against Princeton and Princeton and
Yale made each against the other. Beyond
that there were few moments in those two contests
when the attack was not held steadily under by
the defence
But at Cambridge on Saturday the Harvard
team was able to do against Yale on d dry turf
what II had not been able to do against Princeton
on waterlogged field The Crimson attack was
almost as sustained and sweeping the onslaught
used to be under the old Vineyards to-a -rstdown
limit. II carried the ball half the length of the
field or more to point at which the Brickley drop
kick could be called upon to register certain score
Yet had no such easy substitute for the touchdown
been available there is little doubt that the Harvard
assault would have gone further and would have
worn down the Yale defence for at least one touch
down Yale, too, had flashes of energy in which the
ball was run continuously nearly half the length
of the field. Harvard made II first downs and
Yale T. so that there was again in evidence real
running game Of genuine power and consistency
1t is nothing against such a running attack that
It was used on Saturday merely to bring the ball
to within easy drop-kicking distance of the goal
posts 1t can be pushed across the line, If need
be- and 1t Is Just that assurance Of the possibility
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24
Fair Play for the Railroads.

The railroads which are asking permission to
make a per cent increase in freight rates have "A
strong primd fdcie claim on the governments con-
sideratiOn. At the instance of the government ana
in compliance with the federal mediation law most
of the roads have recently entered into wage ar
bitrations with their employees and have been
obliged to meet substantial Increases in wages
awarded by boards Of mediation.
The government which represents the general
public has been saying TO the railroads "You must
keep on increasing your cost OF maintenance
Every year there is new demand for higher
wages, and the government has just greatly en-
larged the machinery for conducting arbitrations
in which, whatever compromise may be reached
the railroads are always the loser. But when the
railroads have suggested that an increased main
tenance cost should be met by increased freight
rates the Interstate Commerce Commission has as
sumed a wait-awhileand-see what will-turnup at
titude and thought has been given to devising
additional machinery for distributing between the
roads and the public the cost of higher wages bet
ter facilities and increased safety in rairoading
There is no fair play in such policy. Every
new liability should not be added to the railroad
side of the ledger. Most railroads working hard
now to make ends meet. II the government uses
moral suasion to induce them to enlarge their out
lay it ought to permit them to charge more for.
better and more costly service
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24

on the ground of rivalry. How mistaken thaI
ground would be may be seen from actuai results
in other lands In France, Belgium and Germany
there has been a great development of inland water
transportation, chiefly parallel with the railroads.
In France in twenty years the water tonnage has
increased 10 per cent and the rail tonnage at the
same time "a per cent In Belgium the ngures nav c
been ia per cent for water and 6l for rail- ana III
Germany 274 for water and 1914 for rail.
The creation of the proposed Atlanuc Coas'
waterway might therefore be confidently expec'eu
to do the railroads no harm and to do the people
great good
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24
An Forum


create n public sentiment that will stop
the silly. mindless smirching OF a ma
tional solemnity.
To eliminate the saturnalia features
would not take from any little kid his
rights. The kiddies had their time in dis
guises TO avert witches and goblins and
every sort OF evil spirit In the time
honored race-joy of Halloween. Their
opportunity will come again at the great
man and nature feasts OF Christmas and
New Years. Then why should they de-
spoil Of it's right spirit the national fes-
tival falling midway between? What can
The Tribune do TO educate them TO bet
ter ways? KATE STEPHENS.
New York. Nov. %. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24
HADLEY AND HOOPER HIS TICKET
Tennesseean Suggests Them a. Repub'
lican Candidates in 1916.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: I suggest as the candidates OF the
national Republican party in 1916:
For President. Herbert s. Hadley, oi
Missouri;
For Vice-President, Ben W. Hooper, OF
Tennessee.
With a ticket like this the Republican
party can win easily. Hadley Is known
as a true Progressive Republican ana
Ben w. Hooper is the man who nas
twice been elected Governor In tne
Democratic State of Tennessee.
w. A. ANDERSON.
Bellbuckle. Tenn, Nov. 20, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24

of scoring od-fashioned touchdowns which the
game as played by the big teams has lacked for
four or five seasons past and which many had be-
gun to despair of ever again feeling under the pres
ent playing system. An entirely new zest VIII be
added to the game by the evidence given this year
that first class teams playing straight football can
score freely without depending on blocked kicks
muffed punts fumbes back Of the line and other
accidents.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24
TUT! TUT! WE'VE REFORMED.

From The Washington Herald.
Mr.. Mitchell. the Mayor-elect OF New
York, says he is going to take the puohe
irto his confidence. but what the NOV
York public wants Is jobs. y
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24
THE TALK OF THE DAY,

fisherman, after the manner OF his Kind was
an habitual exaggerator as TO the weight OF his
catch His family, growing tired OF his yarns made
him purchase scales and weigh each fish In their
presence. Even with the innovation the hnny
creatures which caught by him continued to
bc record breakers. In course Of time he became
proud father. and the assembled relatives were
anxious to learn the weight OF the newly arrived
infant Against his protest the fish scales we're
brought out and the child was placed on them.
The baby weighed thirty-hve pounds.
They assigning Hercules all sorts or difl-
cult Jobs, which he performed without murmur.
Next you be "A parcels post carrier during
the holiday season." This the only time Her
cules ever balked.-Lousvile Courier journal
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24

Lloyd George says that the mtants have KILLED
suffrage II must have been violent death.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24

The Yellow Taxicab Company is still hghting
Misnamed. obviously
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24

Owned and published daily by The Tribune Association
New York corporation: ogden NJ Reid PRESIDENT Cone
Hamlln. Secretary; James NJ Barrett Treasurer. Auu
Tribune Building. No. 154 Nassau street. New fo'K'
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24

James *. Mcclure Of Syracuse, seems destined
to be cassed among the country's ablest and most
painstaking "accelerators"
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24

Mr. Brickley could probably kick field goal eve
with John Doe dough bag"
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24

The Tribune uses its best endeavors TO insure the
rustworthiness every advertisement 1t prints anu
10 avoid the publication Of all advertisements contain
ing misleading statements claims.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24

Entered at the Postoce York Second Class Mail
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24
HuRRAH FOR PROHIBITION!

HURRAH FOR PROHIBITION!
They're getting It in Maine!
very real condition,
No theory, tis plain.
The gentlemen of Portland,
With their club lockers filled,
Long voted Prohibition:
This rum curse must be killed.
And while the sheriffs raded
The drug stores through the state.
The club drank their cocktails
In quiet joy sedate.
But now the pinch has shifted:
The high-toned clubs more
May shelter choicest liquors
Behind each lockers door,
And statesmen, lawyers. doctors,
And wealthy gentlemen.
Like common folk, thirst vainly
For cocktails and then
Hurrah for Prohibition
They're getting it in Maine!
This truly real condition
How long will it obtain? w. A. II.
The Man in the Char-Have you seen that poor
Bobby Blank has been run over by car and killed?
WILHELM not surprised. d'you know; he wasn't
looking at all ht when saw him the other day.
Sketch.
OFF with the old and with the older is the
new Sprakers version since Burt Quackenbush has
qualified AS postmaster Of that ancient village
Away back. before the war" said man from that
place, David Quackenbush postmaster and
served faithfully until Abraham Lincoln. in the
early part of his first term. appointed Henry Cohen
The posoffice remained In the Cohen store, with
father, widow and sons Uncle Sans representa-
tives until last week. when the of the original
postmaster succeeded to the coveted position.
Where Is Sprakers? On the Mohawk River, on the
Erie Canal, on the West Shore Railroad and three
minutes by rope ferry-established hundred
years ago and still doing business-from the main
line of the New York Central road. Sixty years
ago we had about two hundred inhabitants and
now, thanks to fine geographical situation. we
have nearly four hundred"
What makes you anxious to send Three
finger Sam to the Legislature. He isn't very
popular"
mo. We citizens of Crimson Gulch figured that
IL would be great savin to the general community
to get poker player like Sam located somewhere
else."-Washngton Star
New-York tribune., 1913-11-24

SUBSCRIPTION RATEs.-By Mail. Postage PAID ou'sae OF
New York: m
Daily and sunday mo s. 75Daiy only months 00
Daily and Sunday mos 425 Daily only year Ok
S50Sunday only Tnohtho''''
Day ony / month";. so sunday only. year''''' %oo
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

amity outnumbered the bullets that
few in the battle" From the stand
point of the purely sentimental nothing
could have been better. II was a
splendid thing 10 give the veterans OPP
portunity to visit again the scene of
battle, to renew the experiences of
army life, to greet old friends and
meet former foes and to tell old stories
from the humorous incidents Of the
campaign TO the death OF heroes. The
celebration and reunion is ended and
is now only a memory; but it is a
memory that will never leave any
body that went to Gettysburg last
week.
The event of most popular import
ance was the visit of President Wilson
and his address 10 the veterans. He
has been criticised for saying that
he was chosen the leader of the
nation" but it is time that critics, and
the nation" too, lift their eyes above
ballot boxes, for it seems evident that
in the crisis that confronted the repub-
lie, so years after the beginning OF
the Civil war, a man to lead all the
people was chosen by something high
er than ballots. No man can read
political history without seeing points
of similarity between the election Of
Lincoln in 1860 and that Of Wilson
in 1912.
But the enemy 20 be met Is differ
ent; as different as Lincoln and VIII
son. AS Wilson said al Gettysburg,
now the American people contend,
not with armies, but with principal.
/ tiles and powers and wickedness in
( high places" The Civil war tried
/ the souls of men and women, but
there will be new trials in the new
| contention which must be met no less
bravely. AS the president said: The
days of sacrifice and cleansing are
not closed" In the new campaign
/ they have scarcely begun, for a read
justment to the scale of simple hon
esty in business and in politics and
government will bring loss of money
TO some and loss of reputation tc
others. But the battle must go or
until the right shall triumph, as it die
at Gettysburg.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
ONE WAY 10 END A STRIKE.

One way to end strike is the eff
fective way that was adopted by the
city government of Cincinnati The
closing of the Ice plants there as the
result of a strike created a famine, and
when this became uncomfortable the city
seized them and operated them for the
benefit Of the public. When the pro-
prietors objected and appealed to the
court for an injunction they did not
find that tribunal so quickly responsive
rs they had expected. and that fact,
coupled with a hostile public senti-
mcnt, constrained them TO do exactly
what could have been done in the be-
ginning; namely, grant some OF the
strikers demands and submit others
20 arbitration.
Cutting off the supply Of a summer
necessary caused great hardship and
suffering everywhere in the city and
especially in the poorer districts. When
the people applied to manufacturers
elsewhere for supplies Of ice they were
informed that there were supplies for
shipment but that these could not be
released except upon the order OF the
Cincinnati monopoly. II was this evi
dence of the existence of a trust that
probably. persuaded the Cincinnati
manufacturers that they had better
dismount from their high horse while
the dismounting was good.
II the Cincinnati plan were general.
~ adopted there would be fewer
strikes-or maybe more. There is an
uncertainty about that part of the
proposition. II might encourage
workingmen 10 strike oftener in hope
of easily getting what they want, OF
Of preventing strikes by persuading
employers TO grant demands before eX'
IRENE measures are taken: and while
there appears TO be no difference be,
tween the clauses of this PROPOSE.
ton there is a distinction. But, what.
ever effect it might have on strikes,
certainly It would protect the public
during a strike
At present whenever there Is q
laoor war In any industry for the pro
uuetlon OF necessary of life or com
lort production ceases and the publ,
suffers The public cannot CONNIE
elther side TO surrender. and surren
der Is usually the prerequisite to 70
sumption. II the people. through tbai
government, should take temporar,
charge of the industries involved i
a labor war and operate them $
that consumers might obtain thei
regular and customary supplies the
might leave the disputants to figh
indefinitely. II is q logical solutio
Of serious problem, and maybe som
day II will become practical.
In the meantime, nearly every con
munity that wants the government I
bust trust could do some Dustin
itself
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
Chicago Evening Post.)

There is no mistaking the signifi.
canoe for the Mississippi valley of the
great dam for the generation of water
power which has now been completed
at Keokuk. Iowa, at the juncture of
Iowa, Missouri and Illinois.
A writer in the New York Indepen-
dent recently called the Keokuk dam
the Colossus Of power houses" He
is not eXaggerating. The Mississippi
has been harnessed and the result is
titanic. Electricity generated at this
power house was turned into St. Louis
last night and drove two-thirds of the
street cars and every one of the in
dustrial motors in the city. Within a
week it will light st. Louis and will
begin 10 nose its way toward other
cities-Buriington and Fort Madison
in Iowa, Quincy and Warsaw in Hi
nois and Hannibal in Missouri.
The impressive thing about the
Keokuk plant is the fact that the pow
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
THE BIG POWER DAM

er will be available for manufacture, a
fact which differentiates it from most
of the water power produced in the
mountains, which is used chiefly for
electric light and street car power.
Each horse power developed by wafer
power supports, when applied to in
dustrial ends, about five people. Two
thirds of the horse power available at
Keokuk will draw into the Mississippi
valley and support one million people
Illinois and Iowa are the home of
cheap coal, but we have no coal that
can touch this Keokuk water power in
cheapness. Factories are bound to
spring up in the valley as never be-
fore. The three states served by this
Colossus" may we'll feel sanguine
about their industrial future for such
a combination of abundant food sup
plies, plenty of raw material for manu-
facture and cheap water power is one
| rarely found. 1t should spell great
wealth if our men, and women, too,
| are conserved.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
Especial to The ArgusO


Washington, D. c., July 10.-Con-
gresham Robert L. Henry of Texas,
chairman Of the rules committee of
the house of representative which
reported the resolution providing for
the investigation of the Mulhall
charges, is authority for the statement
that the committee used the principal
provisions of the Tavenner resolution.
"Tavenner's resolution was the most
sweeping of all those introduced in
the house. said Mr. Henry, and for
that reason the principal features of
his resolution were embodied in the
one reported to the house"
The Washington Star recently made
the following comment on this reso-
luton.
Representative Tavenner of Hi.
nois has introduced a resolution in
the house, which, if adopted, would
call for a lobby investigation of a
scope more far-reaching than has yet
been proposed.
AS it is conceded that the resolu
ton 10 be reported by the rules com
mittee. Saturday will be broader than
was al first suggested, Mr.. Tavenne1
hopes to be able to have some of the
subjects comprised in his resolution
Incorporated in that report.
Mr.. Tavenner advocates the ap
rointment Of a special committee Of
seven members, appointed by the
speaker, to investigate fully:
Whether and TO what extent i'm
proper influences have been and arr
being exerted in connection with AM
past or pending fiscal legislation.
ITO what extent such improper in
fiuence has been or is being exerteC
in connection with past or pendin!
banking and currency legislation.
Whether and to what extent therr
has been or is being exerted fmprop
er influence in connection with legis
lation affecting labor and employers.
Whether financial institutions, in
| Guiding the New York stock exchange
are exerting or attempting to exer
or have in the past so attempted L
exert undue influence seeking to pre-
vent or modify legislation looking t