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New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
DEMOCRATIC HUMBUG
President Wilson'S knitting of Civil
Service Is Sharply Criticised.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The cause of civil service reform
never needed more earnest work and
workers in its behalf than at the present
time, and the work should be aggressive.
1t should not be content or satisfied with
what has been achieved. but should be
actively prosecuted until every office in
the country not associated with directing
a given policy OF administrative action,
like the Cabinet officers and their as
sistants, shall have been rendered inde-
pendent Of purely partisan control and
shall be made attainable and retainable
only by fitness. merit and ability, impair
tally. and properly ascertained and
proved. and absolutely irrespective OF
Ttisan influence.
We have a right to expect that Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson, as an officer OF
the National Civil Service Reform League,
should be an aggressive worker for the
most advanced establishment OF the merit
system. With greater power than any
other man to so help, he should be the
last man to compromise with the advo-
Gates OF the spoils system. He should be
ready (as President Taft always was) TO
stifle with his veto every effort to snug
gle into an appropriation bill secret
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
Dismissed Policemen Must Stay Dismissed.

The refusal of the Appellate Division Of the
Supreme Court to order the reinstatement of ex-
Inspector Hayes and of the oft-dismissed Patrol
man Hyland will be hailed with relief by all who
hope to see an effective police organization built
up in this city. Hayes deserved the dismissal he
courted, not only for insubordination, but for lax
police work. Hyland, whose plight was made into
test case was one of number Of men dis
missed by Commissioner Cropsey for offences
ranging from conduct unbecOming an officer to
possession of criminal record and msstatements
in applications for examination His reinstatement
by Waldo held by the Corporation Counsel
to have been improper, so he was thrown out again.
One of the chief troubles with the Police De-
partment has been the refusal of policemen to
stay dismissed. 1t has seemed at times as If the
courts had gone out of their way to reinstate dis
missed policemen on technicalities. They have
apparently taken the view that a membership in
the force, once held, became vested right to be
overthrown only at the peril Of all the institutions
of the Republic. Naturally discipline has suffered,
and the city has suffered in consequence. The
Appellate Divisions action in these cases should
have wholesome effect
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
THE IMMIGRANT VOTE"
The Women Are the More Capable,
It Is Asserted.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I should like to put in word OF
'rebuttal concerning the letter of r. A.
Lawrence, entitled THE Immigrant Vote,
i'm Wednesdays Tribune. Mr.. Lawrence
writes, and in a sense truly, The men
are out, mingling with other men, learn
ing the language and usages of the coun-
try, preparing themselves for citizenship.
A varied knowledge. from actual contact
with these immigrants in so-called social
service work among them in New YORK.
has led me 10 a conviction which should
not have been ready TO accept as such
before this work began. / refer TO the
fact that the "non-existent female" of
the species in question Is far more worthy
of citizenship than is the always-in-evi-
dence male. who "mingles' and appar-
entity does little else.
In most Of the cases brought TO the no
tlce of charitable organizations and to
managers OF the various social service
departments the cause for needed relier
lies with the man OF the family. Deser-
ton OF wife and family, non-support ana
brutality, evil habits and disease. mental
incapaclty and indifference are the chief
reasons causing the downfall OF the fami-
lies investigated by social service work.
ers. The better degree of self-control, the
greater business ability cleaner habits
more constant and painstaking industry
and self sacrifice all pertain in the ma
jority of cases followed up to the side OF
the "non-existent female"
Far from a wish to excite hatred between
the sexes, as Mr.. Lawrence desires to
believe. the suffragists. by uplift in educa-
ton, by greater community of interest
and by the levelling of the centuries-long
spirit of dominator and dominated-in the
same manner the leaven is beginning TO
work between capital and labor-would
bring about harmony such as the world
has yet to experience.
Let the antis stop their everlasting pratt
ing of sex" Let men and women learn
to not only enjoy their pleasures. but their
work as well, together. Let the idea of
war between them cease. Verify, with
this generation shall the antis perish.
New York. Nov. s. 1913. r. n. 3.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
The City as a Social Worker.

Borough President McAnenys declaration that
the city should do its duty a social agency
and be 1.-The greatest social worker Of them alr'
would have been considered very advanced a few
years ago Indeed, the recent campaign showed
that some aspirants for Office still consider social
workers as fit subjects for mirtb and the city's
efforts to further the health and happiness Of its
such spirits are in the minority, and most people
will be glad to back up Mr. McAneny in his efforts
TO have the city take the lead in social service,
rather than follow behind private enterprises OF
this nature.
The city's field at present is not limited. It's
social centres schoolhouses its recreation centres
and Fairgrounds and gymnasums its parks, It's
milk stations and clinics and outdoor aid bureaus,
its bureau of hygiene for school children, all do
splendid work which should be extended. This
work costs money, and it is quite true that none
of il produces an "income for the cty'-in money.
Yet preventive work of this nature reducing the
number of cases in the amshouses and hospitals,
and penitentiares and reformatories, saves the
dtv annually hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Thus the saving in money alone represents good
dividends on the outlay, while the results attained
in health and comfort and happiness and useful
lives cannot be counted in money. City funds
spent in this way represent a good Investment in
the truest sense Of the word and the city will
be the gamer if 1t does indeed become the leader
in all social betterment enterprises
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

attack upon a cause TO which he mas
pledged his support He has, however
chosen to leave a door open in statutory
legislation, only protected by Executive
orders, which may not be made. 1t GER
tainly would have been much more con-
sistent with his own alliance for admin
istrative reform, and much more con-
sistent with his strong attitude manllesleu
in other directions. to have stood hrin'
resisted the cowardly effort Of his Demo-
cratic friends I'm Congress by strong
veto and not have been content with
lame and impotent memorandum.
President Wilson, too, has not SHOWN
the proper attitude as civil service re-
former In making many Of his appoint
ments He has permitted the lootins OF
the foreign service, removing men whose
work and experience have been and were
of the greatest value TO the nation 10
make way for political friends and work
ers. He has permitted his Postmas'el
General 10 make changes by the thousand
q day in the postofiices OF the country 70
reward his supporters, many OF WEom
have been shifting the fieshpots for
long time, but now, determined 10 Hd''
real meat, have made and have been per-
mitted to make a raid upon the post
Offices OF the country. In every case ol
which the writer has knowledge men OF
approved ability and experience, VINO
have commended themselves by careInl
of their offices, have been
forced to give way to inexperienced ana
untried men, and in some cases to Hitter
ate men. simply and only because the lat
ter were small political henchmen. This
is the spoils system and nothing else.
The Democratic party Is now engaged
once more In an effort to humous the
country in the matter OF It's love for the
cause OF civil service reform.
JAMES G. FRANCIS.
Philadelphia, Nov. s, 1913.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
To Raise Record Sum in Record Time.

The campaign to raise 100000 for the Young
Women's Christian Association and the Young
Mems Christian Association in this city has organi-
zation and it has power behind 1t. Its methods will
be as thorough they will be impressive. The sum
TO be raised is and the time in which 1t is
10 be raised is short but just because the sum is
enormous and the time is short the campaign is
likely to be successful There is great advertising
value in sums in seven figures.
But the campaign will be a success for other rea-
sons besides its striking and effective methods Its
cause is one of the best. There are no institutions
to which the public will give more Willingly than to
the Young Womens and Young Mems Christian as
sociations. The $4OOOyOO0 needed to equip them
for their great work here will be forthcoming in
record time or we misjudge New York
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
A PROGRESSIVE VIEW
No Hope Lies in Either Old Party,
It Is Asserted.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In reply to the letter from &C."
printed in to-day's Tribune, he seems to
think that all we have TO do now Is TO
keep on pounding Murphy until Tam
many Hall deprives him of his leadership
and then we will have the political mil
lennium.
Tweed died Kelly died, Croker went
back to Ireland and Tammany has sur
vived to get the worst beating that ii
ever got. and now Murphy must walk the
plank because the people must have a
goat" But Tammany will still go on.
IT will probably start anew with some
respectable hgurehead as leader, and four
years from now respectable figureheads
will be put up by it for the several mu-
nicipal offices, and respectable business
men will indorse them and the people will
elect them and Tammany will again be
in the saddle for another ten or twenty
years. and it will require another Sulzer
scandal to arouse the people sufficiently
to oust It.
VIII the people never learn that the
Tweeds, Kellys.' Crokers. Murphys and
McCooeys are only the products of a sys-
TEN and that until they put the axe to
root the tree will continue to grow and
produce new fruit of the same variety?
&C." says,Nf the Republican party
dumps out Barnes" the Progressives
will return to the party. What l have
said about Murphy and Tammany Hall
applies to Barnes and the Republican
party. He tells us that hundreds of so
called" Progressives will return to the
Republican party II Barnes is no longer
leader. But they will be so called" Pro-
gressives, men, no doubt like &C." who
thinks he is Progressive, but is really n
Republican.
The Progressive party is composed OF
men from both the old parties who feel
that the two old parties are not only too
conservative but also reactionary. We
Progressives-I mean real Progressves
not "so-called" that the only diff
ference between the Republican and
Democratic parties to-day is the differ
ence between the house of have" and
the house OF want"
II &C" will study the history of the
campaign just closed. from the time the
designating committees OF both the Pro-
gressive and Republican parties met to
the close Of the campaign, and compare
the action and general tone OF the two
parties as a whole he will have to con-
cede that the Progressive party loses
nothing by the comparison and that his
statement that the Progressive party is a
collection OF featherweights who play
petty politics of Tammany's brand with
out Tammanys willingness to get into a
real fight" will AT better as description
OF the Republican party organization.
In conclusion, let me urge all citizens
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
The Era of the New Freedom and Its
Purple. Patch Press Agent.

ColoneI ..Jim Ham" Lewis has come near earning
everlasting recognition as the purple-patch prose
poet of the Wilson administration III MIN tne Era
of the New Freedom has press agent really "ortn
while With what vividness he presents 10 tnose
whom the founder of the New Era is about 10 hohor
with diplomatic appointments 1he care-lree lellciS
and ecstatic distinction of their lou 10 ny on tne
wings of State Department travelling allowance
from Peoria to Petersburg, and TO wander uhnah
pered for at least year from one capital OF East
ern Europe to another, reyeng in hospitality guar
anteed at every stopping point by letters OF lhtro
duction from the purple-patched colonel himself
isn't that prospect to make thirster after the
ioys of public office rise up and call Dlessed tue
New Era and everything connected with 1t!
The eloquent and melodramatic Jim Ham" is al
ways there with the irresistible human thrust. i
think YOU have little daughter" he eXclalms'
..Think what it would mean to her all the remainder
Of her life TO say that her father had been Minister
Gsicl TO Russia and Of all the honor and prestige
that will go with it to the third and fourth genera
tions."
Nothing TO do but take it easy and acquire in
twelve months a social prestige transmissible un-
impaired for pretty nearly a century and hal1'
We only wonder If the coloners wizardry could not
have persuaded incumbents about to be so glorihed
TO content themselves with tenures limited to SIX
months Illinois is big state, and there are far
from enough ambassadorships and missions to go
around.
Jim Ham is than a prose poet. He is
also pioneer in a new and untitled field OF con
servation If he who makes two blades Of grass
grow where only one grew before is rightly consid-
cred human benefactor, what Nobel prize Tor
efficiency and economy" should be bestowed upon
the statesman who has discovered how to make one
Office do the work of four possibly of eight!
Colonel Jim Ham did not invent the Era OF the
New Freedom, but in his best purpepatch manner
he is doing as much as anybody we know Of TO
popuarize it and make It work.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
Advancing Good City Government

One great gain from the election of Mr.. Mltchel
as Navor will be the continuance of all that was
good in the present city administration Ihe Mayor
elect made that plain at the Merchants Association
dinner Saturday night, when he said that he would
retain all heads of departments who had served the
city faithfully.
The best thing that Mayor Gaynor did was to NIL
the various cOmmissionershps with little regard 10
politics and TO make few changes in his staff during
his administration. few of his appointees had
served under Mayor Mcclellan and have now had
nearly eight years experience in their departments
They with some of their associates, are practically
SPECIALISTS in their branches of city government.
And that is what the city needs. 1t has been be-
cause American cities have had no experts that
municipal government here has Jagged so far be-
hind municipal government abroad, where city ad-
ministration is profession and tenure of office is
practically for life.
Mayor Gaynor's treatment of this problem was
distinct advance upon the work Of his predecessors
at least upon the work of his Democratic predeces-
sors Mayor Mitchel's purpose, as announced is to
carry still further forward the art of municipal
government in this city.
1t means great deal for New York that fusion
administration is at last to be succeeded by another
fusion administration All the progress that has
been made toward better government here has re-
suited from the work of antTammany adminstra-
tions. The elevation Of public standards of decent
city government due to the administrations OF
Mayors Strong and Low and Mayor Gaynor and his
fusion associates on the Board Of Estimate and Ap-
portionment has been remarkable. Tammany If re-
turned to power could never go back to the spirit
of Van Wyck and his kind, But at no time before
the present has the antTammany movement had an
opportunity TO make its deepest impression This
time there will be eight years of continuous effort
for good government. The present administration
enters office thoroughly familiar with the citys busi-
ness and its problems. In four years more 1t
should be able to work such a change in popular
ideals of city administration that return to Tam
many will be impossible
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
Getting Ready for Panama.

Great Britain may or may not officially participate
in the Panama Pacific Exposition though we rather
expect that she WILL and it is quite certain that her
unofficial representation there will be very large.
But there is no doubt in the world Of her purpose to
take an easily paramount part in the commercial
patronage of the isthmian canal as soon as 1t Is
completed and opened to traffic. Throughout the
entire shipping industry of the United Kingdom the
chief activity is exerted in the direction of prepar
ing for Panama.
That is as II should be- For while the effect OF
the canal upon commerce and trade routes is still
matter for speculation there is every reason to ex-
pect it TO be enormous The consistent judgment or
the world for four centuries has been that the open
ing Of such a waterway Will largely revolutionize
commerce, and the concrete examples Of the Suez
and other canals convincngly suggest that the
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS,

New York has nine hundred moving
picture theatres No wonder so many
great or to be great actors have retired
from the stage TO engage in the common
pursuits of trade. 1t is a loss to art bu'
even genius must eat - PhiladaisO~
Ledger.
A New York man has been arrested VI
Asheville because he undertook to run
that town. He merely illustrated the
spirit which animates all New Workers.
Charleston News and Courier.
The management of a New York thea
tire has suddenly revised its list of new
plays for the reason that some or them
were found on rehearsal TO be too Con-
tinental." And there are people who re-
gard New York as the wickedest city III
the world.-Springield Republican.
What is New York's idea OF mode'
policeman-one who is smart enough 10
keep out of Sing Sing?-Boston Tran
script
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10

suits are more likely to exceed than to fall short
the estimates.
That this view is widely taken is seen in the lact
that nearly all other maritime nations are pursuing
the same course of preparation that Great Britain
is-Germany, Norway Italy and Austria, in Europe'
Japan. in Asia, and Chill and Peru, in South Amer
ica The one conspicuous exception to the rule iS
the United States where strange apathy on Tue
subject seems to prevail Yet this country ought 10
be more keeny and actively interested in the matter
than any and all Others in the world
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
Overpay at the Top.

Charles s. Meen, ex-president of the New York
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, is reported as
saying:
believe that the paying Of tremendous salaries to
corporation officials is waste of money. belieVe
that no man in the country is worth more than
S25 O00 per year. And | know that would WORK
fully as hard for the New Haven Railroad for 80
600 as did for 100000 or $4,000.
Mr. Mellen has put his finger on one of the great
abuses of corporation development in this country
Railroads insurance companies and other great cor
porations have set the precedent of overpayng the
men at the top, giving them in many instances sal
aries entirely out OF keeping with the value OF their
work
Few salaries beyond $4,000 represent work done
or expected to be done Officials with enormous sal
aries quickly come to believe in the fictitious value
put on their services and then their usefulness Is
over Spending salary of $4,000 to 100000 en-
crosses so much of a mans time and interests that
he is likely to turn and more into figure
head living on the work Of his subordnates.
The fact that a corporations income is large does
not Justify it in wasting money in excessive merely
for-show salaries. Overpay takes away the incen-
tive to do genuine work and in the end hurts the
corporation instead of benefting it. II would prob
ably be good thing if, as Mr.. Meen suggests, some
reasonable limit to be put on the compensation
which custom has foOlishly approved for the heads
of the larger corporations.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
MEXICO AS SHE IS
A Free Election Is Declared To Be
Absolutely Impossible.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In your Peoples Column OF the 6th
Is statement as regards the Mexican
situation by Mr.. Samuel L. Parrish.
For his summing up OF the status of the
ordinary Mexican, the ratio between the
intelligent and the ignorant, / can per-
sonally vouch from many professional
trips 10 Mexico. II is the most accurate
summing up OF conditions In Mexico that
have ever seen anywhere His Inference
that follows logically. that free election
is absolutely impossible, is the only one
that can be drawn. His conclusion. that
Hucrta should have been recognized. can
be only an opinion. BE that as 1t may. |
heartily agree with him.
Personally | would be willing to sign
my name to his article as 1t was pub
lished and without changing so much as
a punctuation mark
FRANK L. MASON.
West Haven. Conn. Nov s, 1913.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The question as to where the two lamps shall be
nsced which by established custom illuminate the
entrance 10 the home of New York's Mayor, when
the incumbent is fiat dweler, recalls the story OF
the child who said, when the family exchanged a
country home for a city apartment: i worked thiS
God Bless our Home motto and it hung in our
sitting room. where we used to live Must | change
il now to God Bless our Apartment"
People who once threw bouquets AT that man
now throw eggs -
with eggs at so cents DOZEN" exclaimed young
Mrs Torkins. "Myl They must think iot OF hlin
Washington star.
THE PLEA OF THE PEOPLE.
our big bad boss, thee implore,
To go away and sin no more
But IL that effort be too great,
10 go away, at any rate
."rbe Toronto Mail and Empire" depores the fact
that the people who write Xmas in place OF Chrlst
mas are responsible for the atroiity perpetrated Dy
the wholesale drug house whicR refers TO crystals
as "Xtals" ,, ,>,
"Tbere's no accounting for tastes" writes woman
from Yonkers. There may be people who prefer
polecats to humming birds at garden parties. Inc
garbage collector has asked e not to have the cans
disinfected with chloride Of lime He declares that
he doesn't like the smell!
"rhey say she's pretty
IT Of me tell you. When she gets on a streetcar
the advertising is a total loss"-Pittsburgh Post
Attached to the iron fence about the churchyard Of
old st. Pauls, on the Broadway side, near Fulton
street is black wooden board upon which Is written
in gold Chinese characters an invitation to Chinese
to visit the mission at No. 20 Vesey street. The
other day two visitors the city paused before the
board and one asked the other what he thought the
characters meant
why, that's Jewish cemetery" replied the other,
and they passed
Miss Mugg-You wonder who that homely looking
man is do you? Well he happens TO be my brother.
Mr.. Mixt-Oh, pray excuse me- j should have
known II by the resemblance.-Boston transcript.
Jacques Mayors current Munich Sketches" con-
tains this short, characteristic dialogue
Nathan Cat Sazburg, glancing at the mountain
top)-Ah snow has fallen again.
Sarah-Husband dear hope you sold yours
PA, what is bachelor
"A bachelor my son, is man TO be envied: but
don't tell your mother | said so"-Boston Tran
script,
New-York tribune., 1913-11-10
A Canal Making King.

Not the least important result of the enthrone-
ment of the Prince Regent Of Bavaria as King
Ludwig III may be the opening up Of that inland
kingdom TO direct commerce on the high seas.
Germany to-day leads the world in inland navga-
ton, and Bavaria, lying between the chief two
river systems of central and western Europe,
aspires to leadership in that respect among the
German states
Ludwig | of Bavaria began and carried far a
Danube Main canal, which to connect the
Black Sea with the North Sea. and that great work
is now being pushed so as to reach Aschaffenburg