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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
Who's, Who in Baseball.

The various post-season contests between teams
of the two major baseball leagues throw much
light on the question of who's who in baseball. If
records count, the venerable National League will
have to yield its long established precedence to its
younger rival, the American League. The latter
organization has now won the worlds champion
ship four times In succession. The Athletics easily
vanQuished the Giants last week. four games TO one,
and this week two interleague series have been
by representatives OF the American League.
The Cleveland team, third in the American group,
defeated Pittsburg fourth In the National group,
fifth among the American clubs, defeated the Chi
cago Cubs third among the National clubs, by four
games to two The series in St Louis ended in a
tie. Had the Boston Americans played the Boston
Nationals and Washington played Philadelphia
there is good reason to think that the American
League would have had two more victories to It's
credit.
The American organization has come to the front
because 1t has proved better field for the develop
ment of talent. 1t has in Walter Johnson OF Wash
ington the greatest of all pitchers; in Milan, of
Washington, and Cobb, Of Detroit the best base
In Cobb, Jackson, Of Cleveland, and
Speaker, of Boston, the best batters It also has in
the Athletics the most formidable baseball machine
still while its younger competitor has pushed ahead
Youth has now crowded seniority pretty well out of
the limelight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
DON'T FAIL TO REGISTER!
Every Independent Voter Is Urged
to Enroll as Well.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Unless the citizens register they
will not only he barred from voting at
this election, but they will not have the
opportunity to enroll az party members
and thus they will be barred from taking
part in the affairs OF their party at tho
next primary. The independent thinking
man Is seldom urged to enroll as a men,
Der OF his party, whereas. on the other
hand. the voters who can be Influenced to
vote at the primaries for discredited party
leaders. to say the least are urged to
and do enroll for this purpose.
The boss system In political parties Is
thus maintained. The political boss Is
most concerned about the enrolment OF
men whom he can rely upon to go TO the
primaries next year and maintain him in
position Of power in the party. IL we
ever hope to rid our party Of political
bosses, the independent voter who opposes
bosses must sec to 1t that he Is enrolled
as a member OF his party.
There is no system of government which
can protect the people from their own
indifference. The public is beginning to
demand higher type Of public officials,
and there is but one way to make that
demand felt SO that parties will respond
to 1t and the right kind Of men be. at
tracted to political life. 1t cannot be
denied that a majority OF our citizens
are by no means satisfied with things as
they are. but desire TO see things i'm
proved. II is not only now time for us to
speak together as Atizens. and not as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
SECOND ONLY TO DEATH"
II Disfranchisement Is So Terrible
How Can Women Enjoy 1T

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The anti-suffragists are always
claiming that we exaggerate the humilia-
ton OF our present position as disfran-
chised citizens, but In to-day's news OF
the Sulzer trial Judge Herrick and Mr..
Marshall maintained that the impeach-
ment trial was unequivocaily criminal
trial, with the punishment OF disfran-
chisement. second only to that OF DEATH
attached 10 a verdict OF guilty.
How is 1t possible for women to regard
their present position with equanimity
when public men look upon disfranchise-
ment as a punishment second only TO
that of death? 1t is all very well for
anti-suffragists to claim that women are
not an excluded class That Is not true.
They used 10 vote In Virginia and In New
Jersey, and those who choose TO read the
statements OF public men at the time they
we're disfranchised will learn that IL was
considered far more OF a disgrace to the
state that women should have had the
vote than that criminals and lunatics
should have ii.
The thanks OF all suffragsts are due
Judge Herrick for stating clearly the hu-
initiation OF our present position.
NORA BLATCH DE FOREST,
Member OF the Executive Board OF tho
Women's Political Union.
New York. Oct. 10. 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
The New Jersey Campaign.

The New Jersey Governorship campaign, which is
of peculiar interest because OF the relation OF the
federal administration to the Democratic side Of 1t
and the expected participation Of prominent states
men from Washington is not in all respects bearing
out the promise of the preliminary contest before
the primaries That earlier campaign was waged
all around on principles rather than personalities
But now there seems to BIO the part of two OF the
three candidates and their aids relapse into per-
sonal criticism.
The Democratic and Progressive candidates are
devoting their attention largely to attacks upon the
political record of the Republican candidate They
have comparatively little to say about each other or
each others principles They seem to regard the
Republican candidate as the formidable enemy,
against whom If he is to be beaten, they must CO.
operate.
Meantime Mr.. Stokes does not seem to be worry
Ing their attentions and does not reply In kind
but contents himself with conducting his campaign
on the high ground of discussion of principles. In
this there is doubt that he makes strong appeal
to the best sentiment of the state while his record
in office as the first progressive Governor Of the
state, who gave the impetus from which all subsc-
quent reforms have proceeded is sufficiently secure
to remain uninjured by the aspersons of his critics
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
Can ANYTHING Be Better Than Tammany!

Poor Mr.. Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, is shocked and
grieved by Mr.. Mtchels anti-Tammany stand. mr.
Better han-Thou Democrat is the clever name he
has invented for the fusion candidate. That bump
tious young man has actually had the nerve to pre-
tend that some Democrats are better than Tam
many Hall. So 'Treason Treason." cries the gen
tleman from Brooklyn.
His is the right line Of talk Tammany is pure
and perfect 1t is highly moral organization, con-
tanning exactly the sort of upright, expert ability
that you would naturally call in to handle big
business How can any Democrat or anybody else
be better than such noble bunch?
We trust that Mr.. Fitzgerald can soon be spared
from Washington to put some ginger In the local
campaign He has the real stuff and ought to swing
lot Of votes-one way another.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
The Centenary of Leipsic.

To-day begins the three days centenary of the
Battle Of the Nations. The names Of Jena Auster-
litz Wagram and Borodino, not to mention the su-
preme Waterloo, are more commonly remembered
and often repeated. Yet Leipsic is easily their
peer. In numbers engaged and In losses it far out.
ranked all others save Borodno. In significance il
was really supreme. II was the defeat which
marked the beginning Of the end Of the First EN-
pre-
Seven weeks before, at Dresden, Napoleon won
his last great victory 1t was the last battle which
he ever fought and won in his old, great style In
some respects it was his greatest achievement. for
he had, almost single handed, In an amazingly brief
space of time practically created a army of
heroic proportions The soldiers of Italy, the vic
tors of Austerlitz, were no more. They had been
wasted on the wintry plains Of Muscovy But this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
What Should We Do with Corregidor

The question Of Corregidor may be academic and
remote since it depends upon the question whether
we shall repudiate national honor and duty and
scuttle out of the Philippines. But since to some
minds these minor but very practical questions
loom larger than those Of principle it u.s. perhaps,
worth considering briefly at this time.
This country has spent millions of dollars on great
military works on Corregdor and elsewhere. What
should be done with them II to scuttle?
One course would be to retain them, as though the
British had made Governors Island a Gibraltar
and had retained it when they granted our indie
pendence Another is that should demolish and
abandon them, playing ducks and brakes with mill
ions Of the nations money The third is that we
should make the Filiplnos take them, paying us
millions of dollars for something that they did not
want
None Of these courses appeals favorably to either
thrift or Justice. Yet 1t is difficult to imagine any
other which could be more satisfactorily pursued.
And this quandary is only minor one among those
that would be caused by our REIMBURSEMENT Of
sovereignty over the islands.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
The Canal and the Compass.

Dr. Watson-not Sherlock Holiness friend though,
we sssume-was puzzled by our map Of the Panama
Canal the other day. because it showed the Carib.
bean Sea at the left and the Pacific at the right,
as though the course from Colon to Panama was
from west to east If he had noticed and used the
indicator which was conspicuousy printed on the
map he would have had no difficulty in getting his
bearings, for it showed accurately tho points of the
compass and suggested that 1t easier for the
reader to turn the page askew he looked at the
map than for us to print the map running diago-
nally across our columns
The incident suggests, however, a familiar popu-
lar delusion to wit, that the course from Colon,
on the Caribbean Atlantic side Of the sthmus to
Panama on the Pacific SIDE Is from east to west.
OF course the Atlantic is at the east and the Pacific
Is at the west But the ishmus is very crooked and
at this point tends from a little south Of west to
north Of east, and Colon is actually further west
than Panama. AS result the canal runs from
north-northwest to southsoutheast and on reaching
the Pacific one finds himself further east than he
was when he left the Atlantic.
Queer, isn't 1t, to go westward by going east
ward? But it's a geographical fact all the same
which few realize until they study the map
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
The British Land Problem.

The land law campaign in Great Britain which
Mr. Lloyd George opened last week with vigor-
Gus speech at Bedford presents not only a highly
interesting problem In agrarian economics but also
one Of the most peculiar pieces of political tactics
on record in that country of curious procedures.
The paradoxical spectacle is presented of the
Unionlsts, with their inheritance Of Toryism and
landlordism, advocating abolition of great landed
estates and the establishment of peasant proprie-
torship: and on the other hand, of the Liberals
and Radicals as vigorously opposing that policy
and insisting upon the maintenance-for the pres
Spt-of the landlord and tenant system
Sro large extent, unfortunately, these policies
pre- based not upon serious economic principles
but upon ephemeral considerations of partisan ex-
pediency. Lord Lansdowne is probably not enam.
cured of the idea Of letting Hodge become freebooter
Of three and a cow; but he shrewdly reck.
ons that If Hodge becomes landlord be will stand
with the landlords party in politics, and there
core he favors peasant proprietorship, with state
aid after the fashion which has been so success
full in Ireland. Mr.. Lloyd George has no love for
landlords and their big estates but he is sure
that so long as that system is maintained he will
be able to rally the tenants against the landlords
and he knows that the tenants are the majority
nj the polls And so he would have the landlords
keep their estates while longer, but would com-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16

astounding genius in a few months out OF raw ma
terial created the egions which marched through
I.dtzen and Bautzen to the splendors of Dresden
And then at Leipsic one hundred years ago to-day,
his sun set forever What followed was the flicker
ing OF twilight
Three great empires are concerned In the coln-
memoration but most Of all the German Russia
was never in serious danger from Napoleon ana
Austria though crushed and INUNDATED had the
diplomatic skill Ia retrieve her disasters But Ger
many completely Frustrated beneath the con
querors heel and Lepsic meant TO her not so much
the defeat OF Napoleon the liberation and regen-
Grafton Of the Fatherland. 1t Is an anniversary
which all the world may well obgerve. But to the
German people, In Europe and in America II Is
day Of remembrance scarcely surpassed in grateful
e1ultation by any other in their history
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

teacher in a Protestant mission school on the
lower West Side was instructing her class OF four
and year olds to recite in unison the sd Psalm
When the little folk came to the surely goouhess
and mercy shall follow me, ETC. she noticed that
some one In error, but was unable tor some
time to detect the one who was departing from 'he
text Tiptoeing softly down the aisle with her ear
inclined first on side and then on the other she
came on a curly haired. gray eyed little miss OF
four. who was cheerfuly repeating as her phonetic
version, Surely the good Mrs Murphy Will follow
me all the days Of my life"
Beware young man, It's the fret false step tha'
counts. You'll be in politics neXts
What am doing. dad? , - -, .,
Amt that a glass OF grape juice In your hand?
Pittsburgh Post.
visiting Englishman thinks he has discovered
the reason for American extravaganza and Enshsh
thrift He says that the difference In the spending
ten,nerament of the two nations is due entirely TO
the change purse which Englishmen carry No
one whose money is constantly jngiins IN lib pooA
can nossbly be economical" says the observer from
overseas ION the other hand, the man VINO mas 10
open change purse to get at his small coins Is
under constant restraint The extra effort necessary
to get at his small coins will cause him TO forego
many opportunities for spending which his Amer-
can cousin would eagerly accept"
HE n IN lOVe.
How do you know -
Hes quit carrying his cigars in his vest pocket"
Detroit Free Press.
President Wilson has fund Of good stories. One
that he tells is OF little boy whom he encountered
at stanton Va, the Presidents birthplace Mr.
Wilson speaking to good sized crowd from
the steps Of the Baldwin Seminary for Girls. when
he discovered little seven year-old lad pushing and
showing his way through the crowd. The boy final
ly landed in front OF Mr.. Wilson. and shouted ex-
citedly:
Where is IL? Where is it?"
Mr.. Wilson stopped his speech, and with broad
smile, said good naturally:
well. my boy. guess I'm it."
"Oh, pshaw," responded the youngster. with look
of disgust, why. thought 1t dog fight"
In registration booth in San Francisco an old
colored woman had just finished registering for the
first time.
Am you shore" she asked the clerk dat Ise
done all has to do?"
Quite sure" replied the clerk; you see. it's very
simple"
I'D ought to knowed It," said the old woman
IF those fool men folks been doing 1t all desc years
might knowed 1t was powerful simple process"
Life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
MR.. BIRDS STAND
He Is Accused of Insincerity and OF
Sacrificing Fusion.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir. The questionable attitude as
suued by County Chairman Francis W.
BIRD I'm supporting Progressive candi-
dotes for aldermen against the Repuph-
cans who should have proper represent
alton on the fusion ticket Is likely 70 De
A very lively issue In this campaign MT
BIRD pleaded that a Barnes Repuohcan
Z. M hotter than a Tammany Democrat
That this is a specious argument must
be apparent 10 any Intelligent man III
the first place. the Republicans menuoneu
for the aldermanlc positions are not
parnes men I'm the sense In which MT
R,rd uses the WORD. Secondly. the county
chairman OF the Progressive party oe-
travis his own insincerlty when he prac-
tIcalIy admits that he is putting up FRO
sressive nominees I'm the full knowledge
that his course means the almost certain
SUCCESS OF the Tammany men who oppose
them.
This action on the part OF Chairman
bird shows how poorly qualified he is 10
he a county leader. In his seeming eager
ness 10 advance the importance OF the
Progressive party ne Teai's 10 'pN"o "
II Is not 10 the interests OF the Progress
,iyes to be depicted as peevishly hostile
10 the old party. That was not the at
,ltude adopted by Colonel Roosevelt wheh
he founded the Progressive movement
nor ia Il the one that has been held by
the other really great men In the party
Yet Mr.. Bird plainly wears haoitual
crouch against the Republican party and
makes no attempt TO conceal the fact that
he delights In hurting 1t as much and as
often as possible, even though to do so
he must act against the welfare OF the
1874 600 Progressive voters whom he must
represent.
II would have been very much better
for the fusion cause II the county chair
man OF the Progressives had permitted
Republicans to be represented adequately
on the aldermanic ticket BY opposing
that phase of the fusion plan Mr.. BIRD
has shown the voters of this city that lie
is willing TO sacrifice not only the Re-
publicans but the Progressives as well
to that very Murphy organization against
which he has gnashed his teeth in public
with such a fine display OF, dramatic
frenzy. l.. ID. M.
New York, Oct is. 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
MIR. M'ANENY'S STRENGTH
All Good Citizens Are Rallyins 70
His Support.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: As citizen who is watching the
present municipal campaign with in'enN
interest. I am impressed by what neu
OF Mr.. McAneny's strength. Prac.csn
everybody with whom I have discusses
the campaign. whatever his party anna
tons, is going TO vote for Mr.. McAnem
for President OF the Board OF Aldermsa
purely on his record as faitnful :"
efficient public officer who ought TO
continued in the city service.
He has played no favorites and no p'a
tics while in public office. He has mss'
record for economy and business'"
management that will be long reme~
bered by all believers in non-parus*n
municipal government. He is responsiOs
more than any other one man. TOT wv
satisfactory solution OF the transit pus'
ton. Before he came into the stusti'a
1t, was all talk and no action. Inc NJ.
subways are now under construction. NJ
has given Manhattan the best pavemshN
In its history, and he has done II Tor ie''
money than was spent during the y"
ceding administration for rotten paw
ments. The figures prove IT, he nss
eliminated waste and graft from all ni'
departments. He has cleared the pr'n''
pal thoroughfares of private obstruouon'
and restored the sidewalks TO the pup"e
that owns them / believe II is admit'e'
by everybody that he knows more aoou'
efficient municipal government than an,
other man in the City of New YORK. aa'
he is honest and on the level at the sai"'
time. He practises what he preaches
1t is for these reasons that all sooo
citizens are rallying to the support "
MIR. McAneny. no matter what their %
lief happens to be along national ilne
They know that the city cannot anofu
TO lose his services w. r n
New York, Oct Is. 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
WHEN MEN CELEBRATE
The Women Should Join, Especially
If They Have Done All the Work.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Far be II from me to criticise the
Church. but when I read the report OF the
Church Club dinner at the Hotel Aston
last evening where all the men sat at
the tables eating a good dinner and all the
women who had worked so hard for the
success Of the Church and who had con-
trbuted such a large sum OF money sat
in the gallery looking down on the men
eating their good dinners I was reminded
OF a story told by a prominent philan-
thropist
The men In her home city resolved at
the coming election to put reformers in
office, and they asked the help of the
women. The women did help. They
worked hard. They did anything and
everything asked of them. and also con-
tributed money. The reformers were
elected, and the men decided to celebrate
the event by feast. A few men. more
chivalrous than the rest, said the women
deserved some recognition for their hard
work so they-the women-were invited
to come to the feast and see them-the
men-eat II. Personally. | confess to be-
ing 80 unwomanly as to want to enter
into the real enjoyment OF feast of cele-
bration of any event, and not to be just
spectator high up in the balcony far be-
yond the reach Of all he good things.
Did you ever see-or hear OLA dinner
where the women sat downstairs eating
and men sat up In the balconies watching
them eat? / guess not-and you never
will. No man would ever accept such a
situation. We women wouldn't do things
that way, for we believe in cooperation
MT monopoly-and when We celebrate
New York wo men getting the vote In
1916 the men who helped US and gave
us money to carry on our campaign will
share and share alike" In our celebra-
ton. They'll be down on the main floor
eating turkey and ice cream and drinking
coffee and-grape juice-and not be
hungrily looking on way of In the bal
comics. That's what call square
DEAL A DAILY READER.
New York. Oct H. 1918
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
The International Aspects of Oul
Mexican Policy.

An especially disquieting feature of the Mexican
situation is the intimation that the American gov
eminent is about TO ask foreign nations TO follow
land support its policy.
II other nations are to be expected to take their
cue from us, there can be no objection That is in
kaccord with American traditions If this country Is
Ito seek not only the following but also the active
Acooperaton and aid Of other American nations such
as the chief states of South America. that policy
which was some time ago recommended by The
Tribune, is to be heartily approved as correct ana
productive Of much good to Mexico and to inter
American relations generally.
IT, however the United States is to solicit the CO.
generation and aid of European nations in solving
spurely American problem we believe that this ma
ton would utter most emphatic protest against
such counsel of impotence. Ninety years ago our
kroyernment crystallized concretey It's then already
Hong existent policy against such doings, and there
has been no indication since of a reversal of that
tprudent Judgment When IL was proposed, years
fago that we should cooperate with Great Britain
France and Spain In demonstration toward Mex
leo and again when we were asked to join Great
Britain and France In Cuban policy. our govern
ment replied with decided negative and in so
doing commanded the hearty approval Of the Amer
lean people.
The Mexican situation is undoubtedly serious
There may be some question to the extent Of
legitimate American participation in the pacica
ton Of the country But there should be no doubt
that to whatever extent we do deal with the case
we should do so on our responsibility and In
our own strength or at most with only the CO.
operation of other American states, and that we
should not in any manner invite even admit the
co-oneration Of European powers which hitherto
have consistently warned off this continent