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The San Francisco call., 1913-10-04
"FamiIy Jars," Too, Are a
Wrong Against the
Child

To shake child's faith in the
goodness of its parents is. 30
shake its faith in everything
that is fine and noble Yet how
can you teach girl TO be pure
if it is matter of public records
that her mother was a light
woman? How can you teach
boy high ideals if his mother di-
vorccd his father for base con
duct7 1t is of these things. and
not their own wrongs, that men
and women should think before
they break the marriage tic
And it is not alone the flus-
bands and wives who get di..
vorces that wrong their chill
dren. Those couples who are
continually quarreling and bick-
ering, who fash out bitter taunts
and accusations against each
other in their children's pres
ence, are equally blameworthy
They also sacrifice their chill
dren on the altar of their tenn
pers.
Not long ago an officer in the
children's court made the state
ment that investigation showed
that practically every truant
child and every juvenile criminal
came from home in which
there was domestic trouble.
Generally the parents were di
vorced or separated, but almost
invariably the home was a place
of discord.
The inference is inescapablc-
the children who come from
happy homes in which the father
and mother get along peaceably
together also behave themselves.
They are not juvenile criminals,
and so, fathers and mothers, if
you want your children to grow
up into being good men and
women you must give them the
right sort of start
This can only be done in real
home, a home that is full of
peace and love and good will,
and where there's just one per-
manent father and one perma
nent mother, and where the
mother teaches the children that
the father is the pattern of man
hood they must copy, and the
father inculcates into the chill
dren's minds that their mother is
only a little lower than the
angels
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-04
Love Is Dead, Both Are
Weary in Such a
Household

You know how it is an such
households. Love is dead. The
husband is disenchanted with his
wife, weary to death of her.
Perhaps he has real grievance
against her, and she is foolish,
and fiighty, and extravagant.
The woman is disillusioned
about her husband, and has ar
rived at the place where he gets
upon her nerves and everything
he says and does irritates her
Perhaps she has real griev-
ance against him. Perhaps he
drinks too much at times, or
stays out too late, or is inclined
to be flirtatious.
Why should two people who
have found marriage failure
perpetuate that failure? they
ask. Why should two people
who make each other miserable
by staying together not part and
go their separate ways in peace?
they ask. Why should they keep
up the mockery of home after
its spirit has fed? they ask.
Why have they not a right to
lead their individual lives? they
ask
And the answer is, the Chill
DREN. Always the answer is,
the CHILDREN. From their
little innocent breasts all the
shafts of logic by which the un-
happily married justify divorce
fall back blunted and brokers
Childless couples who repent
of sorry matrimonial bargain
may break it if they choose.
They jeopardize no other inter-
ests than their own, but the man
and woman who have children
have given hostages to fortune
and they have no right to con-
slider their own happiness first.
Their paramount duty is not to
themselves, but to the helpless
little creatures that they have
brought into the world.
The saddest sight in the world
is little orphan child with no
father to protect it, no mother
to love and cuddle it. The next
saddest sight is a half orphan
child, poor little unfortunate
that lacks either fathers guild
ance or a mothers tenderness.
That any man or woman would
deliberately thrust this cruel fate
upon their own offspring is
crime unspeakable
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-04
The Divorce Court Has
Orphaned Many
Children

Yet the land is full of forlorn
little children who have been or
phaned by the divorce court and
who have no mother, or no
father, or two mothers and two
fathers, and whose arithmetic
and morals are hopelessly mud
died, and who wouldn't know
whether to respect father No l
or father No. 2, or their old
mother or their new mother, if
any one should try to teach
them the antiquated command
about honoring thy father and
thy mother.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-04

How could Miss Elenora kept quiet long?
Ping Bodie is Vallejo the
Vallejo
The practice of discontinued
when forgot how close
Los Angeles has solved the just
ncpent bands and loses them in the noun
Hoodums raded Western Addition stationery
periodicals. Let be hoped they uplt' magazines
man from Berkeley arrested Mexico spy Surely
Nexicans could
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-04

1t is the children who are the
victims of every divorce. They
suffer financially when they are
deprived of the comforts and ad-
vantages that the money their
father earns should give them.
They suffer sentimentally il
they are deprived of the love and
tenderness, the petting and cod
ding of mother Most of all
they suffer morally in being de-
prived of the reverence. and re-
spect for their parents that is
one of the most potent safe
guards against temptation to the
votfnp
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-04

Go Watsonville if you have esprit de
bachelor girls paraphrase A only good
S smokeis
johnson Washington only get $4,000 year
1t fair the president $4,000
Living matching
itseto it will survive the enew arf
$4,000 king That's more
expensive being friends of a New York candidate.
President Wilson the currency
expected lobby
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-04
]. G [ N y E r s (.
BY WILLIAM F. KIRK

BY WILLIAM T. KIRK
TT is night and it IS raining;
All alone you bow your head
With a memory too complaining
And heart that seems like lead
Each brown leaf that goes a-flying,
Torn forever from its bower,
Haunts you with its hopeless dying
Like the ghost of some glad hour
Now, away from mirth that hinders
Every thought suggesting tears,
You are gazing at the cinders
OF dozen burnt out years;
For we broke from every tether
In the cities where we strayed,
And the wine we drank together
Made us children unafraid.
Love extravagant and burning
Was our one and only creed;
Down the lane that knows no turning
We were whirled at madman speed,
Charred reminders of dead pleasure
IN the lotus days Of old,
Each poor cinder is treasure
That wouldn't trade for gold
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
Hetch-hetchy Up to Wilson.

The defence Of Hetchhetchy Valley now rests
with President Wilson. The Senate on Saturday
night passed the bill permitting San Francisco to
nood the valley and use it reservoir in exactly
the same form in which ii went through the House
sympathy with explOiters of public lands is SO
general in Congress that nothing better was to be
expected than the passage of this act which puts
to some use" merely beautiful section of ma
tiona park The plea was made that through turn
ing Hetch-hetchy Valley into reservoir San Fran
cisco would be saved from the grip of water COM
pany monopoly" That served as good cloak for
CONGRESSES impotence with any view regarding the
national park which was not utilitarian. As mat
Ter Of fact, other sources Of water supply were
available TO San Francisco besides those controlled
by the monopoly" They would perhaps have cost
the city somewhat more to develop than Hetch'
hetchy.
II the national park is to be reserved for the ma
ton and tourists and campers are not to be e1
cuded from one OF its best parts President Wilson
must use his power of veto. He is the kind OF man
who ought 10 sympathize with the lovers of nature
and defenders of parks who have tried to protect
Hetch-hetchy And he ought "ot to be mised by
the false anti-monopOly plea.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
The Legislatures Tardy Effort t
Keep Democratic Pledges.

,rL r ois,oturea burden to itself and the popu-
Loo will resume its existence to night in Difference
TO the wish of Governor Glynn that Democracy lu'-
III some Of its promises to the public before a ke-
publican Assembly comes into power lie WI" "SN
it to enact a direct primary law abolshins all con-
ventions. high scheduled workmens compensation
bill affecting hazardous occupations only ana "
law for a special election next year 10 permit 'ne
voters TO say whether there shall be convention 10
revise the constitution.
The workmen's compensation bill should be re-
jected 1t is hastily prepared, sufficient time uoes
not remain for this Legislature TO give so important
a measure adequate hearings and consiuei"'io"'
and however good bill might be enacted at oeS'
it could be only partial and incomplete as COM
pared with the compulsory law which next year 5
Legislature may adopt under the amended consul
tuition
There is no pressing necessity for consideration OIL
direct primary measure and the bill regarding Tue
constitutional convention now. rather than hon'n
from now, when the lawmakers for 1914 Degln WORN
Nevertheless. it may be just as well Tor the "oN-
ernor to try get the chastened Democrats 10 unuo
the grave damage they have done by folsung on the
public the present travesty of direct mountainous
Democracy is responsible for the law which pro-
duced the fourteen-foot ballots and the hundreds Of
names on them. 1t may we'll be Democracys task
under more favorable conditions to enact sensi-
bic. workable law The public can regard the enort
with complacency, for If Democracy doesn't Re-
publican Assembly soon will have chance at the
lob. urged by conference Of representative ke-
pbcans who have declared for a drastic bill such
as the people have been demanding.
If Governor Glynn's bill prove to be what fore
casts of its details have indicated 1t will be DIT
ter pill for Tammany. Only such wallopng as
Tammany received here and Democracy in general
cot upstate would make possible its passage. APP
parently Tammany has become reconciled TO the
necessity and will make little objection to the Gynn
measure. even though 1t does rob the machine OF
much of its hold the primary machinery Tam
manys acceptance Of the BILL though, will warrant
a careful inspection of its details
This Legislature did once pass bill for special
election on the subject of revising the constitution,
which Governor Sulzer vetoed. special election
seems to be the least Objectionable way TO meet the
demand for an early constitutional convention, &c
spite attendant expense. So the Legislature may
well enact the bill again. If it does nothing else
no great damage will result. If fear Of Republican
achievements moves it also to enact good primary
law IL will be welcome to whatever credit 1t can
get from such tardy promise keeping
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
The Terrible Tea.

The eminent Dr. Pease the Comstock of tobacco
and the Demon Rum has added another phase to his
activities He has founded an Inner Circle the
members Of which to eschew tea, coffee and
chocolate as well as tobacco liquors, opium and
other posons. For reason, they have the doctors
dctum: "A cup Of tea is as injurious as high
ball. You might just as well drink cocktail
Now It is obvious that humanity must drink
something. The Health Department has made milk
unpopular by disclosing how much of it is water or
typhoid germs. Out-of-town visitors say water
isn't obtainable in this city, and most Gothamites
don't know enough about it to contradict them
Tea has just begun to be popular, as an innocent
and exhiarating accompaniment to the tango And
now cruel Dr. Pease tells the popuace they might
lust as well drink cocktails. Maybe they will in
yestigate the subject They did when Comstock
told how vicious September Morn was.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
The Sideswiping Feather.

If a man tried to wear snowshoes in the SUBWAY lie
would be mobbed by the first passengers who trpped
over his prolonged feet So too if he tried to go 10
work in a washtub or upon hobby horse or playing
the slide trombone Space is space on this crowded
little ball of earth, and we all are obliged not TO
infringe upon our neighbots rights.
All except the woman with the sdeswiping
feather that is She bears a charmed life. Because
she is woman or because hats are hats she goes
her way tickling and eye-pOking and temperate
stroying without ever getting much as harsh
word-to say nothing of black eye or a kick in the
shnS.
What we wish to know iS-and. as can be seen we
speak with all the intense bitterness Of personal in
jury-why do not some of our mighty constitutional
lawyers discover for abating this nuisance!
Life liberty and the pursuit Of happiness, for IN
What do they amount TO while these tickiers
wave? Must freemen, insulted and overborne wait
meekly until the fashions change: Or can they
into the breach and bite, chop or yank off these in
vasons of sacred, Unborn right?
What Patrick Henry will dare to reply:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
France and Alsace and Lorraine.

In review of German politics published in the
past week Prince Won Buelow, former Chancellor of
the empire records his conviction that the Keystone
of French policy for the last forty years and to-
day is the recovery of Asace and Lorraine. France
will march for this end, he says at the first pros
pect of success. Behind French colonial expansion,
the Triple Entente and the three years service ne
sees one motive persistent and snister-revenge.
His words are too weighty and represent too near
" the prevailing German opinion TO be lightly dis
missed as chauvinistic Candid Frenchmen would
he the last to dispute them. But they would ascribe
the rancor Of their countrymen to causes deeper
and more complex than the desire to recover land
lost by the chance Of war, and would maintain, too
that the elimination of these causes was In Ger
manys hands and not their own. Chief OF those
causes we think, would be in the imperial policy In
Alsace and Lorraine policy which has, with re-
peated coarseness and brutality. violated the sym
pathies and traditions OF the inhabitants; policy
too which has defeated its own end and by max
ing loyalty TO France more costly and heroic has
made It more priced and bonored Alsace and Lor-
raine, In the opinion of many competent observers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
THE NERVOUS SEX
Its Members Might Manage to Vote
After All, Thinks q Reader.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue OF the I'd inst
reader charmingly compares horses with
men, cows with women, and vice versa.
Speaking OF animals, the whole line or
argument seems to lack horse sense.
The nervous systems Of women are
deemed fit to bear strains OF RESPONSE
bility" in their working hours well nign
unbearable, but these same nervous sys-
TENS could not bear the strain OF voting
for men who would promote laws per-
tanning to women's welfare. The girl
existing on 81 week, paying s. 20 for
board, could not stand the strain OF vot-
ing for a man in sympathy with
minimum wage commission. The SCRUB
woman receiving 10 cents an hour with
which TO support four children would not
care whether a widows pension act were
passed or not IL the mother Is to be a
conserver OF force, not a spender," why
rot build homes for her conservation and
let men do all the work that's being
done by women now
If. in the opinion Of your correspondent,
most political questions are concerned
with fiscal and commercial prob
lens, transportation. etc, It is about
time he read current periodicals with q
trife more accuracy of vision. or that
some one brought few other problems
before his eagle eye. The home IL indl-
vidual only so far as 1t Is an integral
part OF the community, and community
interests are bound 10 affect the home
How about the problem OF clean streets,
adequate disposal OF garbage, thorough
milk inspection. pure food laws, and a
few other community problems that af-
feet the individual home? Why not
be masters OF politics instead OF letting
politics master US?
NOT AN ANTI"
Boonton. y. j., Dec ). 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
Amend the Automobile Law.

one thing which Governor Glynn might better
recommend to the Legislature in the coming special
session than the passage OF a wOrkmens conpen
Saton act is the amendment of the law governing
the operation of automobiles. The present law l.
unenforceabe. 1t amended last winter hut
one of the giraffe performances of Governor Sulzer
was TO veto the amended act after apparently IA
voring it. The Legislature II requested by Gov
ernOr GlynD. might repass the bill which 1t passed
in its original session last winter. This would not
place upon the statute books ideal motor vehicle
act but it would bring the state nearer TO the end
Of chaos than the existing law ever will.
Probably the existing law was never meant to be
enforced Certainly il is unenfOrceabe and GER
tainly the courts do their part to prevent its ef-
fectve enforcement. The penalties provided for
IN it do not fit the offences at which they are aimed
and some of them are in conflict with other laws.
Moreover for the one really effective penalty, the
cancellation of the licenses held by offenders there
is no adequate system created II is absurd that
the state licensing authority the Secretary of State
should have real power to cancel licenses.
If the Legislature should pass again the act vetoed
by Mr. Sulzer the state would require the licensing
Of all persons operating motor vehicles whether
hired chauffeurs or not, and, in case Of certain
specified violations of the law, 1t would cancel the
licenses If the Secretary Of State had and exer-
clsed this authority the recklessness and speed
mania Of automobile drivers would be restrained.
The present law is I'm contempt. An arrest Is \
lark witness the recent scenes in New York
courts since the police have taken to enforcing The
speed regulations. Some of the offenders choose
to go to Jail so as not to miss the full measure Of
the fun No one suffers greatly from the foolish
fines which the state exacts But cancel the licenses
of offenders and there would be less levty That
has been the experience of other states.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
PASTORS URGE PREVENTION
Congregations in $50 Churches
Hear tuberculosis Sermons.

II was tuberculosis Day in the churches
yesterday. In more than 80 sermons were
preached in support OF the antl-tubercu-
tosis propaganda being carried on by the
committee on the prevention OF tubercu-
losis. Through the cooperation OF the
different church organizations and the
ministers special edition OF $4,000
pamphlets. explaining the causes OF the
disease and methods OF prevention was
distributed TO the various congregations.
The committee reports that up TO to-day
in the Red Cross seal campaign $500 has
been received in mail orders alone More
than $4,000 worth OF seals are on sale
with merchants. hotels and organizations
throughout Manhattan and The Bronx
In addition, dozen booths have been In
stalled in the postoffice and branch sta
tons. The sales at these booths the last
week have averaged more than SIS day.
The committee is anxious to get volun-
teers in the work. The Red Cross seal
headquarters are at No. Madison ave-
nue..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
No Municipal Party.

There was a preponderance OF opinion at the City
Club conference against forming municipal party;
and 1t should have been 1t is all right to talk
about the solid vote of Tammany and the necessity
for opposing that with organization on 1.-THE right
side" Such talk sounds plausible, but 1t won't
stand analysis.
1t is present day theory to keep municipal gov
eminent out of politics 1t would be just as bad
to have municipal parties" depending on patron
age for their upkeep as to have municipal affairs
an integral part of state and national politics. A
municipal party" to oppose Tammany could be
founded only on an issue of honesty versus dishon-
esty That too. wouldn't stand analysis. 1t Is I'M
possible arbitrarily to divide the public into sheep
and goats, and If 1t weren't the party OF virtue
would be likely to be so vrtuous as to be odious
witness the fate of the Citizens Union as polit-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
A PROGRESSIVE ON PRENDERGAsT
sympathy Is Expressed for His Medi.
eval Philosophy.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: What a pitiful political creed is
that of Mr.. Prendergast-merely Ito COM
bat the Democratic party! Nothing in
II as 10 principles, nothing as 10 con-
structive reforms-only TO get together to
carry Congress" true statesman who
Is progressive does not simply com
bat the Democratic party" He is not
merely voice OF opposition; he is not
chiefly "agin the government" But he
is for certain principles and cares not a
continental what party or group OF lead
ers carry these principles into operation.
Mr.. Prendergast evidently thinks the
primary purpose of the Progressive party
should be to hold office and GUST the DEM
ocrats. He deserts IL because he believes
II cannot do so as surely as the G.. O. p.
Mr.. Prendergast, being a good mathemati-
clan is correct In his addition. but, not
being a statesman. is wrong in his polti-
cal philosophy. He misconceves what Is
the purpose OF the Progressive party.
That is simply 10 have its two funda-
mental princlples-(a) that the people shall
have greater share in the government.
creasing share I'm the increasing wealth OF
the country-put into practice as quickly
and effectively as possible.
Who Is TO do this work? All true Pro-
gressves mot in n spirit OF futile party
strife but having really in view the future
OF our own United States. II Mr.. Wilson
continues In his messages and actions to
be o true progressive. then all forward
looking men should support him in 1916
The Progressive party should indorse him
unanimously. This is perfectly consistent
with opposing Democratic or Republican
candidates in city and state and for Con-
gress. II by their record and respective
platforms they show that they have only
the varnish OF true progressivism.
free lance in the political arena, ever
ready to give aid and comfort TO those OF
whatever party who battle for Justice
that is the programme and that is the
spirit OF a true Progressive. So. Mr.
Prendergast, we are sorry, not because
you have left the Progressive party. but
because you are still medieval In your
political philosophy A PROGRESSIVE.
New York. Dec. g. 1918.