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New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
it will not set at naught the good ~ork Oh 'niS -"
for the sake of asserting legal techhica''! oi very
doubtful worth.
Refutine "Red Light" Literature.

The wholesale arrest of a gang OF young meh
charged with operating as procurers IN depart
ment store waiting room brings the complete Vihui-
cation of the red light" drama and red light III
erature-also its refutation. These worthies-most
OF them already on their way to the workhouse-
lived up to the best traditions of their literary eX
ponents in dress manner Of approach and the like
But their intended victims did not stick to the rules
of the game at ALL 1t due to the complaints OF
shopgirls who had been approached that the work
ncs of the gang came to the attention OF the man
ayers and store detectives. And it was due to the
cordial cooperation of some of the best looking OF
the intended victims that the evidence was oD-
tanned on which the white slavers" were arrested
and several of them convicted.
Therein lies a hint for budding authors, sociolo-
ciss purity leaders and all others interested 1t Is
quite possible that girls fall victims to white
slavers" in dance halls, stores and cheap theatres
through innocence and ignorance. But apparently
the average young woman who is perforce brought
into contact with this miserable specimen or nu-
manltv IS quite as able to recognize him as So
Geological investigator would be- and equally willing
70 belp eliminate him from the community.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
DEDICATING INFANTS
It Is Risky business, an Observing
Reader Remarks.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir Some time ago poet OF more or
less repute referred to what might happen
to the best laid plans OF mice and men.
But mice and men go on laying their
plans just the same.
one of the most ridiculous OF these well
laid plans is that Just chronicled I'm con-
nection with the dedication by the parent
of a year-old son to certain form
OF missionary work In the first place,
such a dedication does not deserve to
succeed. because the child has right
To choose its own course OF action, with
out any regard whatever for the course
laid out for II by its parents, and some
tens OF thousands OF young men and
maidens take advantage OF this opportu-
nifty each year. In the second place. the
experience OF a large army of proud
parents who have chosen professions for
their children early in life, only to see the
boy picked for the pulpit mixing drinks at
the bar, the boy chosen for the ermine
twirling the ball on the diamond. the boy
trained for college professorship be-
coming clerk in a grocery store, should
convince the parent that II is idle to dedi-
cate an infant OF twelve months to any
thing.
Children do now and then follow in the
footsteps of their fathers, but II is not Of
record that the first John Adams dedi-
Gated his son to the Presidency, or that
the elder Pitt ever dedicated his son TO
the post to which he attained. II is all
very we'll to dedicate monuments to q
cause. as they lack that quality known as
free moral agency; It is well enough for
a man 10 dedicate himself 10 some great
work But it is poor days work when a
parent dedicates a son-or a daughter-to
a task which that child may repudate at
the frstVOpportunity. +. L. ORTON.
Brooklyn, Nov. 8. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
An Indian Summer Snowstorm.

The woe Of Cleveland is a grim reminder OF man
helplessness in the grasp Of the elements. hurrl-
cane sweeping the sea the Great Lakes might be
expected to work havoc beyond the power of man s
prevention But here was Indian summer snow
storm paralyzng for days the activities of great
city equipped with all the appurtenances OF modern
science and entailing wholesale destruction and
death.
Recollections Of what New York suffered in It's
one blizzard, now nearly a generation ago. must
restrain us from consciousness against Cleveland
for not being better able to cope with this week s
storm But it is permissible to wonder at the fall
ure Of inventive enterprise to provide some ways
and means of protecting transportation and com
munication from the paralysis which is reported
Electric cars are blocked as badly as ever were the
old horsecars and the most modern methods OF
storage and distribution of food supplies fall to pro-
tect the city from the menace of famine
An international conference is now considering
the assurance of greater safety ;t sea. of which
there is much need There is occasion to consider
whether something cannot also be done to protect
communities on land from meteorological disasters
There ought to be some way of maintaining the
necessary activities of life in spite Of an Indian
summer snowstorm or a March blizzard
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
No Mcnamara Tactics from the
Mail Drivers.

The striking mail drivers and chauffeurs may or
may not have had merit in their case. If they
had, dynamite plot such as was indicated 10y the
testimony which caused the federal grand jury to
issue warrants for several of the union leaders was
the surest way TO Kill it, If they had not, theirs
was not even the frail excuse of virtue driven to
desperation and violence by oppression.
In spite of the fact that the general community is
the sufferer by any labor dispute the public is al
ways inclined to the side of the aborer against the
employer, and desirous of seeing the laborer get
square DEAL But the fairness and success OF
arbitration proceedings and the general rough JUS
tice meted out through agreements between EN-
ployers and committees of employees, in everything
from clothing trades disputes to the railway en-
ployes demands have convinced the public that the
strike is a pretty poor weapon for everybody con-
cerned, and one to be used only as last resort
If the mail drivers union be proved to have made
plans to blow up mail wagons and the garage OF
the company which transports the mail between
Gostofices here. it will have succeeded only IN
placing a heavy burden of popular disfavor ana
distrust on unionism Betterment and progress, Tor
the public or small groups of individuals don't come
by Haywood and Mcnamara methods.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
The Founder of Cold Storage.

The death of Charles Teller presents amenabie
example Of the failure of important inventor TO
secure for himself tithe of the benefits and
profits which he bestowed upon the world. He died
at the age of eightysix in actual destituon, after
years of neglect and dependence upon charity
Yet he was the founder of one of the most impor-
tant factors in the trade and industry OF the world
namely. artificial refrigeration applied to trans
portatiOn storage and manufactures. 1t was nearly
forty years ago that the first cargo Of frozen meat
was shipped across the ocean in vessel equipped
with cold storage compartments according to his
design. To-day the values of such shipments amount
to hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
1t was also largely from Mr. Tellier's initiative
that there developed other applications of re-
frigeration. such as cold storage warehouses, Ice
making the artificial cooling of hotels and theatres,
the cooling and storing of beer and milk, cooling
processes in steel manufacture and in the sinking of
mine shafts, artificial ice skating rnks and many
others. AS lately as last year new desiccating
process invented by him at the age of eighty-four
was put into practice by large corporation.
His case provides striking contrast to those of
some inventors who so enrich themselves through
close monopoes of their works as to provoke de-
mands for the abolition of the patent laws.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
FROM AN IRATE PARENT
Children Must Attend Schools-But
There Are No Schools!

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir; The law requires that every child
of school age shall attend school. and
its requirements. but II does not provide
a penalty for failure to provide adequate
facilities In the way of accommodation in
connection Herewith. A law of this char
acter Is unjust and an outrageous farce,
inasmuch as all children should be
of the city parents are fined for disre-
garding the law. while In others some
are not admitted to the schools on 'ac-
count OF the lack OF accommodation. The
law cannot be invoked to compel the au-
thorities to give these children a fair
deal. Even the children who attend the
part-tlme sessions are not being treated
fairly, because others who receive the ad-
vantages OF full sessions are outdistancing
them In the quest OF an education.
At the beginning of the school terms
In February and September OF this year
a son OF mine was rejected. IL | lived
in certain sections OF the city there~is a
probability that | would have been fined
for neglecting to send my son to school,
In my neighborhood they will not furnish
my child with accommodation. yet I have
no redress, and my son Is losing the ad-
vantages accorded other children by the
refusal Of the school authorities to fur
nish him tuition.
IL had the means would resort to the
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
" tuberculosis Day."
gotten.

AS a holiday or a red letter day in the calendar
tuberculosis Day" would have insufferably
grewsome sound. Yet it might be doubted If there
would be a date more significant of practical good
to bodily health than that if it were appropriately
observed.
In some respects, it is to be feared harm has
been done by the overdevelopment Of a morbid self
consciousness on matters Of sanitation. 1t is not
good for people to feel their own pulses or take
their temperatures every hour, or to imagine the
existence Of deadly germs" In every article OF
food or drink that has not been artifcially ster-
ized. But much more good has certainly been
achieved, especially in respect to tuberculosis by
dispelling the false traditions which surrounded
the disease and by teaching practical methods OF
avoiding 1t, of preventing its transmission and,
in a large proportion of cases, of curing it.
The setting apart Of this day of special effort
may thus result in much good. 1t would be worth
while If it did nothing more than to remind people
that the plague which generation ago was still
considered the deadliest of all and the most hope
lessly incurable has already been subdued to an
extent that makes It's remission to comparatively
minor place seem practically certain and its com
plete conquest by no means impossible
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
Safety on Excursion Steamboats,.

The manager of the Iron Steamboat Company
protests bitterly against the application of the La
Toilette bill so to compel excursion boats to nave
the same equipment of lifeboats and seamen that
ocean liners have arguing that such craft should be
treated as river and harbor boats" and that great
precautions for safety are needless because during
the greater portion of their routes these steamers
could be beached or run a mudbank In five
minutes or less
1t may be that such vessels should be dlneren-
tiated from oceangOing craft But that should not
mean any relaxation of requirements for safety. In
some respects there is more danger to frail river
steamer crowded to the rails with excursionists,
though only half a mile from shore, than to pom
derous liner in mid-Atlantc.
When memories Of the General Slocum have van
ished it may he conceded that ''river and harbor
boats need no ifesaving service, because they can
he run ashore in a few minutes-as was the General
Slocum But the General Slocum is not yet for
gotten.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
Accept the Migratory Bird Law.

Attorney General Carmody has brought down a
storm on his head by questioning the constitutional
ity of the law recently passed by Congress for the
protection of migratory birds. Bird lovers, who
want all feathered creatures to live and sportsmen,
who want game birds properly protected part OF the
wear so they may be killed the rest of the year
without exterminatng the species, alike are pro-
testing against his opinion. They take the view
that migratory game birds form a valuable source
of food supply, and the songbrds and other wild
creatures of the air are of such immeasurabe value
i'm protecting the crops of the country from insects
and kindred pests that Congress was well within
its function in adopting law which would operate
10 protect all the country from the selnshness or
carelessness Of a few states
II is true that this law would take out OF the
hands OF the state authorities to considerable ex-
tent the right TO fix open seasons for game Dirds'
That would not operate a hardship though, 10
ANYBODY except pothunters; and even they would
eventually benefit by the greater supply OF game
which conservation brings. Years OF effort and
study have proved that nothing short OF federal
control OF the situation will yield adequate protec-
ton to the migratory birds because nothing ike
unity or harmony Of states action can be obtained
There is no question about the desirabiity OF such
nrotecton or its urgent need. If the Conservation
Commisson of this state, which asked Mr.. Car
mody's opinion, desires really to fulhi It's mission
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
COLLEGES for Snobs and Others.

One Of the livelest movements Of the hour is the
effort to make our colleges more democratic. There
is not much agreement as to method. But almost
the country over undergraduates and graduates are
ND in arms and eager to attack the demon Of snob
berry.
As to the right and wrong ways of approaching
the problem, Mr.. John Corbin presents some ex-
ceedingy clear-cut ideas in the current Century.
Harvard claimed Mr. Corbn's early college years
and oxford his later. So that he speaks from
pretty catholic experience, and. be It added, with
no perceptible squint toward his own homes OF
learning
For his text there IS the classic tale of the Har-
ward professor walking the college yard who asked
a troubled and forlorn youth Are you looking for
anybody?" Il don't know anybody this side Of the
Rocky Mountains" came the answer. or such is
the wilderness Of the "outs" in large colleges.
And on the other hand, for those who would be
Gins" there lies period of campaigning which Mr.
Corbin very accurately compares to the feminine
business Of social climbing.
How avoid all this and permit undergraduates to
come together man to man, on their merits? Mr..
Corbin's recipe is frankly based the Oxford and
Cambridge idea There man rubs into immediate
friendships by reason of his residence in his col
thoroughly individual 1t is large enough to give
student the spirit and life of the whole institution
For the men of special distinction there are the
clubs which fuse the colleges into one powerful tra-
dition working In directly opposite direction from
the narrowing American fraternity or society.
Just how these principles can be transplanted to
America is another matter Mr.. Corbn points out
how the Harvard Union, modelled after the Oxford
Union failed utterly He also disapproves the quad
system which President Wilson advocated for
Princeton during late unpeasantness in that insti-
tuition The scheme was too mathematical, too ar
tifcal. he seems TO hold permitting none OF the
natural sturdy individuality which is the strength
Of the English college.
For a move in the right direction Mr.. Corbln
chooses the new residential halls at Harvard. Three
Of these are to house the entire freshman class,
each a complete community in ITSELF with dining
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
THE GREAT EGG PROBLEM
Keep Hens Is the Only Solution, Says
an Expert.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Among the headings In your to-
days paper there is n column entitled
seven Hundred Thousand Women In Co
Cent Egg War" This appears to me like
NEST things women plunge into so often,
without first going into the accurate de-
tails OF the matter I'm question.
Here arc a few facts which may be OF
interest TO readers OF that column from
one who is only too anxious to Keep the
price down and has had experience this
fall regarding the difficulty I'm doing this.
Last September. I'm order TO supplement
the supply Of eggs from my own farm.
sent out 900 notices to farmers who are
making speciality in egg production or
fering them fair prlce-that is. cents
above the highest market quotation
which started I'm October with "a cents.
The daily quotation Is not settled by COM
mission men, as these ladies appear 70
think. but by the difference between the
supply and the demand out of these no.
tices I have only had about twenty re-
plies accepting my firm as means OF dis
posing OF their eggs. not because my
terms were not satisfactory. but because
their hens were not laying. or course.
storage eggs we do not know anything
about. as we do not handle them. But Il
may be OF interest to people to know that
high prices are very disagreeable to firms
handling strictly fresh eggs. and II stands
to reason that eggs bought from the
farmer at 81 cents cannot be sold for 80
cents. and the farmer is only too anxious
to have low prices. II costs just as much
to maintain a 5OO-hen plant producing at
the rate of 10 per cent, which Is good
average at this season. as IL does later on
To produce so per cent or so per cent. The
outcry OF the Housewives League seems
a little childish. as the eggs Will remain
on the hands of the farmer. who Will find
1t cheaper to dispose OF his eggs In his
own neighborhood than to ship them to
New York II the prices are not so that
they will be able to make a bare living.
AS to German. Austrian and English
eggs being imported. this has been tried
with very poor results. as the sea air Is
found to be very injurious TO eggs and
the quality will be very poor and very
unhealthy.
The best and most reasonable solution
would be for this league to go on a cam
paign to persuade every land or plot
owner to keep few hens in order to in
crease the supply OF eggs at the bad sea-
sen. viz. from August 10 to January /. 1
repeat that the price is regulated by the
supply. not by the commissioner and
that the Housewiyes' League will iniure
the commissioner more than the dealer by
"boycotting" Il. BORLAND.
No. 100 West 10th street, Nov. 10, 1913
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
AN HISTORIC CHURCH
More Facts as to the Church Of the
Divine Paternity.
the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue OF this date. referring
TO the seventy-ifth anniversary OF the es-
tablishment OF the parish OF the Church
of the Divine Paternity. | see no notice
Of the location OF the building as | recall
IT, DR.. Chapins church, known as the
Fourth Universalist." stood on the
northeast corner OF Murray and Church
streets, and probably remained there until
1882
You speak of the congregation occupy
ing a church on Duane street. The only
church building on this street that | can
recall was DR.. Alexander's Presbyterian
church, on the southeast corner Of Duane
and Church streets. These two churches
with st. Peters and st. Pauls, were
cited as the origin OF the name Of the
street. but those who know awarded the
honor TO st. Pauls.
WILLIAM r. COCK GSiD.
Plainfeld, n. j., Nov TO- 1918
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
A COOL HEAD ON MEXICO
English Adventures Should Not
Force Our Hand.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Under her constitutional President
Mexico was better Off than she has been
or ever could be under Huerta. Let all
the world warn a usurper not 10 flout the
law which governments have all too slow
ly. and often painfully. set up.
What II English capitalists have in
creased our difficulties In Mexico? A few
adventurers do not represent the English
nation. At heart England is sound. Ma
tions that have risen TO any recognition
as world powers have dono so not by
,rampling upon liberty but by arraying
themselves in one way or another as It's
champions.
All that the situation requires Is cool
heads and steady hands.
j. G. MAXWELL.
Brooklyn. Nov II, 1918
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

They were from where all New Workers come.
They stood on a busy downtown corner waiting TO
cross while streams Of trucks and wagons ana
autos surged up and down. The reassurihg wave
Of the traffic squad cop failed to lure them from
the curb.
Jed" said the elder Of the pair, "it pears to me
sif these people way behind on their hauIin''
Holy mackerel!" roarcd BRADSHAW up the dumb,
waiter shaft why do you play that one record
over and over again without "A change
because Pennypincher angrily shouted down. II
hate the darn thing, and want to wear 1t out so
can throw IT away.'-Judge.
Overheard the top of bus:
whats the mourning decoration doing over the
entrance to the National Democratic Club" asked
q man OF his companion when they came abreast or
the place that made his headquarters when at
the zenith Of his powers.
Il don't know" exclaimed the man addressed, 'un-
less It is because they believe Murphy really gave
back that $4,000"
Nellie says he has had rival in love
Belief suppose not. He has always been IN love
with hmself.-Philadephia Record
UNCLE SAM. TAKE NOTICE
oh, Uncle Sam, Oh. Uncle Sam!
Perhaps you do not giveadamn
How many victims you create
So long as mails don't get there late.
But Uncle Sam, say, If you kill
The helpless victims off until
There are no people left here say,
There'll be mails to haul away
Then, Uncle SAM what will you do
With all your auto trucks when you
Have 1uggernauted those who could
Have helped you and your trucks make good?
w. j. HAMPTON
Motorst (who has run a patriarchal fowl
But the price is very high. The birds In his second
childhood!
Irish Peasant-It's the thrue word yer honor's
spekn thin young chickens is terrible dear at this
saison.-Punch
1t doesn't take much to tie up traffic in New York
A small brown and white owl which came futtering
around Ben Franklins head from the general drec-
ton OF City Hall Park caused blockade In Park
Row for five minutes day recently Nobody
knew what brought the stranger into the whirl OF
downtown Gotham. But twenty newsboys. boot
blacks and chaueurs began to jump into the air In
vain efforts to grab the visitor, and a big crowd
collected to watch them. Finally the owl, in its
efforts to escape, dashed against window in The
Tribune Building. and captured. half stunned,
by an agile youth, who scaled the wall He received
few scratches, but bore the bird away In triumph,
to bestow on a fair friend who types letters.
Mamma was that true about your having
friend in Mexico when that last war started, ana
about a cannon ball coming right through the house
and knocking their piano all TO smithereens"
Perfectly true, dear
And did they have any little children who had to
practice on their pano?'
Yes. they have two little girls and "A little boy"
Mamma don't we never have no wars in this
country y?"-HOusfo" p""'
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

courts for redress, but the cost Of employ
ing counsel precludes this course. | would,
however, welcome an opportunity TO con-
tribute to the extent of my ability in
support OF a movement TO remedy the de-
plorable educational conditions which
have prevailed year after year, with no
prospect Of improvement.
The present law should be, amended TO
make it operative both ways. Then we
would have ample seating accommoda-
tions for ALL Our officials have been
grossly inefficient In failing to anticipate
the needs of the city in keeping pace with
it's development. There should be no fur
ther appropriations for other public works
until the school facilities meet the re-
auirements They should then be main
tsined on the proper basis and never per-
mitted to lag behind the growth OF popd'
lation. JAS. w. BELLINGEh.
No. 1926 Hoe ave, The Bronx, Nov. IL,
1913
New-York tribune., 1913-11-13
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

10 Mr. Walker. and say Thank YOU Tor
his intelligent letter, published in satur-
days Tribune on Party and city Busi-
ness-Mr. Birds Methods Are Damned by
Progressive?
Permit me also TO doff my hat 20 Mr..
Rae MacAdam for his opinion expressed
in his letter, also published I'm your Sat
urday issue, under the title "Uproot Tam
many" ERNEST F. SLOCUM.
New York Nov. II, 1913.