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New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
ON PART TIME IN SCHOOLS
Grateful Parent Deplores Penalty His
Child Escaped.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A few days ago ] addressed a
communication to you calling attention
to the inadequate school facilities af-
forded the children Of our city and wish
to thank you for the interest which you
manifested in the case, as believe 1t was
due to the Investigation which you insti-
tuted through your representative. who
called at my home, that the school au-
thorities have seen tit to notify me TO
present my son for admission.
While | feel grateful for the progress
made, 1t seems reprehensble that such a
course should be necessary. There are
doubtless a host of other little children
on the waiting list who are missing the
advantages OF tuition to which they are
entitled. to say nothing OF the many who
are receiving only part time tuition.
There should be an organized move
ment TO remedy these conditions and i'm
mediate steps taken To provide seating
accommodations for every child OF school
age, II IL requires the leasing OF every
vacant store In the city. There should
be no discrimination in the measure OF
the privileges, as ii is as unfair to provide
half time sessions to some as IL is to deny
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26

home. So he purposes having every drunk rich
or poor sent home in "the wagon In TINS way ne
hopes to satisfy his sense of equal justice to ALL
TO save the city of Scranton $4,000 year and at
the same time to dampen the ardor OF those VINO
are out for the long distance swallowing record.
You see. he has shrewd idea, which we snare
that whom the head Of the house has once driven
home in the patrol wagon TO be accorded nrst a
reception by his neighbors and then welcome IN
the privacy of his own family, he will seek there
after to patronize the water wagon exclusively
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
Sex Equality Under the Law.

Judge Hunt of the federal courts, is the latest
convert TO the doctrine of sex equality. lie mas
announced that hereafter no woman convicted De-
fore him of smuggling shall escape prison sentence
because she is a woman. His observation mas con-
vinced him. he says that many women, having pald
fines have gone off laughing in their sleeves at the
government.
There is wholly commendabe effort, in many
states of widely differing conditions, TO make the
Iaws equally fair for men and women-to remove
statutory limitations on womans control of property,
right TO labor right TO her earnings right to pos
sess her children in of domestic difficulties right
70 hold office and vote, and the like. 1t Is only
logic that there shall be sentimental avoidance
of giving to woman equal penalty with man for the
violation of any laws.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
The Service of IconocIasts.

For the sake Of robust common sense should
welcome now and then the advent Of an iconoclast.
The human propensity to idealize the figures Of
bygOne generations with wide splashes of mental
pigment has a tendency to warp our judgment of
the present. The late Senator Lyman Trumbuls
testimony that Lincoln among the most am
bilious of offceseekers helps us for instance, to
treat more charitably own public men. 1t turns
the professional politician into IL figure of dignity
and potential grandeur
And now Professor Beard OF Columbia comes
along with "An Economic Interpretation Of the
Constitution of the United States" in which lie
points out that the Interests" of that day were
largely influential in the framing of the Constitu-
ton, that property" and not 'the people" demand
ed its adoption, and that its trainers, including
Washington, Franklin, Robert Morris, James Will
son and William BlOunt. We're, many Of them, land
spectators and promoters bent upon feathering
their nests. Professor Beard is not drawing
upon his Imagination He has original material to
prove these things.
The point is that it cannot make the Constitu-
ton less work Of political genius to know that
its trainers represented the property interests OF
their time; it cannot detract from what Lincoln
did to realize that he was oftceseeker by pro-
fession. But knowledge of this sort can help us
to a proper and more sympathetic appraisal Of our
contemporaries our professional politicians. our
representatives of "the interests" If they no
better than Washington, Ben" Franklin ard ABE
Lincoln 1t merely means that the improvement in
human nature is most gradual process. On the
other hand this give such of us as haye work
ing knowledge of our countrys history no cause for
grave apprehension
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
A Great Opportunity at Rockaway.

1t is encouraging to see that the improvement or
the citys park property at Rockaway is being taken
in hand with both energy and discretion. Numerous
prominent landscape architects and engineers are
entering into competition with plans. which are TO
be passed upon by experts, that we may hope the
development of the tract will be effected in good
taste and for the good of all the various interests
which are to be served.
There Is certainly great opportunity at Rocka'
way. New York is almost unique among the great
cities of the world in being situated that 1t can
have within its bounds seaside park with long
stretch of superb sandy beach fronting directly
upon the open sea. But that beach has in addition
the broad expanse of Jamaica Bay behind It, giving
it semi-insular situation with both surf and still
water.
In Central and Prospect parks great opportunities
were greatly improved. In some respects the op-
portunty at Rockaway is greater still; at least in
its unique features.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
THE HETCH-HETCHY CAMPAIGN
An Appeal for Support in Fight to
Preserve Yosemite.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir. The national committee for the
preservation OF the Yosemite National
parl, IS I'm sore need of funds to carry o"
the fight I'm the public interest against 'he
bill providing FOR the flooding of the great
Uctch- Hctchy Valley and the further III
yasion OF the national park rms com
mittce was recently organized to focus ,hd
aroused oppogltion OF the country TO TINS
scheme. highly Objectionable both lntrlh-
sicallv and as precedent The honorary
president Of the committee Is Dr' 'ndi'o'
w Eliot. first president of the Cohser'a-
ton Congress. and among It's hfty honoi
arv yicc-prcsidcuts are the Hon Nlilld"'
n Taft. Cardinal Gibbons. Professor
Henry Fairfield Osborn, John Muir' d
Horace MacFarland, George KEENAN, ito-
fessor Charles s. Sargent, Mrs. Il. II. ha'
riman. Mrs. j. Borden Hartman. CleVe-
land II. Dodge, Mrs. Emmons Crocker'
chairman Of conservation Of the Natloha'
Federation Of Womcn's Clubs; Andre" -
White. Frederick Law Olmsted ana many
other distinguished persons.
Among those opposing this piece oi ur-
necessary vandalism are an overwhelmihS
proportion Of the newspapers or the couh-
trv. a score Of organizations chiefly OF ma
tIonal scope, such az the American. 'Nlc
Association. the American Scenic and HIS
toric Preservation Society. and especially
the National Federation OF fWomen's Clups'
which is vigorously at work. The farmers
Of the whole san Joaquin Valley oil cantor
mia are cup I'm arms against the Dill MI
Taft has written vigorous letter against
4, taking issue with Mr.. Pinchots oppor-
tuno policy. Frederick Law Olmsted, the
DISTINGUISHED landscape architect anu
member Of the National Fine Arts COM
mission. has published In "The Boston
Transcript" a candid article showing con-
clusivolv that the nooding Of the Hetch-
Hetchy will ruin its beauty.
The advantages OF other sources OF
water supply for the city. in cost, are Wig
orougy being presented to the senate
The Mayor and other officials have peeh
aont for 70 reinforce the officials who for
months have been earning their salaries
at Washington lobbying for the project
In view Of the Importance OF the cause
the national committee earnestly asks the
assistance of the public In the effort TO
save the national park system from the
impending calamity.
Brief letters Of protest should be sent
at once to senators Elihu Root and James
4. OGorman, and checks In any amount
20 DR.. f. II. Hall. Room No. sos Tribune
Building. New York. The advocates OF
the scheme have unlimited financial re-
sources. while those who are opposing IL
must rely upon public support.
r. u. JOHNSON. Chairman.
New York. Nov. "a, 1913.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
BEGIN Your Christmas Shopping.

AS a rule a material gift is the easiest method
Of satisfying generous impulse at Christmas time
But it needs little thought to convince most people
that the proper method of discharging ones full
obligation to his fellow beings well as to him
self is to divide the burden of expenditure between
purse and will power. In doing so he will strain
neither.
The Consumers League is just now pleading for
small expenditure Of will as a reasonable con-
tribution by the Christmas shopper to the Christ
mas cheer of those who do his bidding in the shops
Every shopgrl who stands all day and half the
night behind a counter on tortured feet, all the
bundle wrappers, drivers and errand boys look
forward to Christmas an ordeal little short
of Internal and only because those who are gen.
erous with their money refuse TO expend will power
enough to do their Christmas shopping early in the
season and early In the day.
1t is time to begin now TO buy those Christmas
presents. Remember that Christmas is designed to
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
The Tiger Across the Bridge,

Those Brooklyn Democrats who have been striv'
ing nightly recent years to drive the Tiger back
across the bridge have been working on wholly
mistaken notion. Tammany didn't absorb Kings
County when, soon after Pat McCaTen's death
the Hon John II. McCooey became the head of the
BROOKLYN Democracy. Designation of McCooey as
.NIurphy's section boss for Brooklyn" is a mis-
nomer. Brooklyn has autonomy. THE Chief
himself has said it.
Murphy echoes now what the late Mayor Gaynor
said many. many months ago about Tammany as
the Democratic organization in New York County
II is unfortunate that "the Chief does not keep
more up to date otherwise he'd realize that the
community, having at its disposal the much later
Caynor structures on the rule of the Delmonico
directorate must know how information from the
inside had altered the late Mayors views Muir
phys talk about Brooklyn autonomy is purely
Pickwickian.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
MR.. STOVER AT WORK
A Friend Tells Details of Missing Com
missioner's Administ stration.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In view of the unjust criticism al
this time directed against Park Commis-
sioner Stover. would like to point out
the valuable services Mr.. Stover has rem
dered as Commissioner of Parks of Man
haitian and Richmond for the last four
years.
Never in my recollection has there been
a Commissioner Of Parks who has given
the service that Mr.. Slower has. He Is a
conscientious and untiring worker, man
Of sincere convictions beloved by all OF
his friends and co-workers, both In the
department and out Of it, of kindly nat
ure and a valuable citizen.
His interest in the children and the peo-
pie of the whole city has been of years
standing, as his unselfish devotion in So
cIal and humanitarian work amply testi-
fies.
During his administration there have
been developed thirty new supervised play
centres and several children'S school
farms. and this without the purchase OF
an extra foot Of ground by the city. He
secured the ground by appealing To the
private property owners and making avail
able the unused land owned by other city
departments. \ bureau OF recreation has
been established, with an administrative
head. who devotcs his entire time to the
subject In addition to Fairgrounds. the
parks of the city have been developed In
an enlightened manner under Mr.. StoVer
and great improvements and additions
made, such as comfort stations in Central
Park. construction of field houses. con-
struction Of storage yards, inclosing centre
plots on Broadway between 10th and
l22d streets, construction OF new Co.
lonial Park South. construction or John
Jay and Columbus Fairgrounds. construc-
ton of drains I'm the parks new concrete
bulkhead along the Speedway. installation
of water supply system in several parks,
cleaning up and making slightly and prac-
teal the stables in Central Park and re-
placing Of cutters and walks. Many or
these things do not appear readily 10 the
eye and have been done in an intelligent
manner and with very little cost to the
city.
There has been extensive replanting or
trees in Central Park. Dying trees have
been replaced and foresight used In re-
planting, so that the new trees will re-
place the old as the years go on.
Instead Of following the eXtravagant
estimates formerly made for resoiling Cen
tral Park. Mr.. Stover has revived the sol.
in great areas by ploughing and replanting
at fraction OF the cost previously con-
sidered necessary.
Until 1912 Mr.. Stover was unable to get
an appropriation for laying OF new per-
manent roads in Central Park. In that
year his first appropriation was obtained.
and with that he laid portion OF the
West Drive.
With an additional appropriation. Sc
cured this year. he has completed paving
the West Drive from 59th street To 10th
street and has paved Riverside Drive from
72d street TO 18th street.
say these things In justice to a splen-
did official and an upright citizen
JOSEPH NJ. PRICE.
New York. Nov 25, 1913.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
A Cure for Alcoholism.

Navor-elect Jermyn of Scranton has in mind the
institution of police reforms which the late Mayor
c,avnor would applaud 1t seems that Scranton has
been in the habit of gathering her intoxicated cee-
brants into her iail and in default of the payment
of small fines, of feeding most Of them for three
and four DAYS there at the citys expense. The
fines collected Mr.. Jermyn finds, do not begin to
,oot tho annual bill of about $4,000 for food for
these offenders.
The present method outrages his democracy, also,
for it is invariably the drunk and disorderly poor
man who takes ride in the patrol wagon to Police
Headquarters, while the drunk and disordery citi-
zen of means is bundled into a taxcab and sent
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
A THEATRE TICKET SUGGESTION
Correspondent Recommends Agency
Plan Pursued in London.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir In the City Of London. theatre
tickets may be purchased at the box Of
fees OF theatres and at great number
of District Offices and agencies con-
veniently located. All unsold tickets are
held at the box offices. where they may
be purchased at the standard prices. ut
other agencies the purchaser selects date
and location. the agent by telephone pur-
chases the desired tickets they are with
drawn at the box office and charged TO
the agency. and the customer is given
paper slip ticket indicating the date, num-
ber of admissions and seat numbers at
an advanced cost of one shilling over the
box office price. All unsod seats are
available at all times at all offices.
Why may not this plan be introduced
in New York. A. s. H.
New York. Nov. 25. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
THEATRE SHOULD PAY AGENCY
Reader Thinks Latter's Accommodation
Worth Something to Box Office.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Theatre ticket agencies have. in
hotels, etc, practically become necessi-
ties, but that the buyer should pay a
shave" on a ticket is not just For one
man who buys a ticket as a convenience
there are eight or nine who are induced
10 buy because the ticket office is near.
lobby 10 buy would not think of trudgins
to the box office.
Thus. it is the theatre that should pay
the agent fee for selling. as it is the
theatre that increases its patronage by
placing its tickets where they are easy
Of access. JOHN b. LIVINGSTONE.
New York. Nov. "a, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Tho safety razor industry ought to boom II all the
world heeds n warning I'm The Lancet Of the perils
of the barbcr's chair 4 French scientist has as
covered on a shaving brush taken from respectl'
bic barber a culture containing thousands upon
thousands OF bacteria. razor had about three
times as many after having been stropped on the
iarbcr's hand as it had before one Of the reforms
suggested is that brushes and combs should be kept
in hermetically sealed retainer containing 40 per
cent solution OF formo.'
Candid Hostess (on seeing her ncphew's fancee for
the first tme)-I never should have known you from
your photograph. Reggie told me you were 80
Regge's Fiancee-No, I'm not pretty, so have to
try and be nice, and it's such bore Have you ever
tried?-Punch.
THE UNITED STATES MAIL
Another slain
by the speeding mail wagon,
Rushing the streets like Juggcrnaut dragon,
And moving them down
Az the crumpling grass
Is nipped by the knives of the mowers that pass.
Another one slain
BY the postoflice drivers
Crashing their cars through remaining surNNoIs'
While never so much
AS thought do they give
To the rights Of pedestrian people to live'
Another slain,
And a loud cry arises,
cry that is protest against such demlses
But the drivers drive on
AS they please night and day,
stu adding their marks to the red right OF way.
another slain
BY the Y. g. mail drivers
Intent upon leaving no hapless survivors
But what are the odds
II they do kill a few?
Ia il not more important to rush the mails throughT
W. J. HAMPTON.
"uave Won any employe who doesn't talk baseball
horse racing and prizefghtng all the time TO the
exclusion Of business"
Yes"
where did you get him."
at isn't him, It's her.-Pittsburgh POST
You can see many things when standing for a
minute on most corners in New York City on this
particular occasion It was at 42d street and fttn
avenue. delivery wagon, of the motor variety
came whzzng by On its side was the lettering
Doctor, the Butcher" Two men noticed It,
THAT reminds me-" said one that uptown there
is named Butcher who is doctor"
We'll look in the directory some 'ime," said the
other, not willing to be outdone, "and you will find
that there is Spring in East 2Sth street Summer in
Grand street. Fall in William street and winter on
broadway"
Shea woman's mind is active than mans
He-Yes, / admit that while man is making ul
his mind woman will change hers a dozen times
Philadelphia Record.
Some idea Of the extent to which manufacturers
go in the effort to furnish goods which will appeal
to the feminine love for beautiful fabrics may be
gathered from a recent announcement by a promi-
nent nearby mill. This concern, on a list of nine
printed fabrics, says that 475 patterns covering
$50 colorings, manufactured, which one would
think enough to satisfy a widely varying line
Of lkings and ideals.
The Examiner-What do YOU understand by the
conservation of natural resources?
The Student-It means that you talk forever about
your water power and coal mines, but never use
'them.-Bufalo Express.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
Mr.. Barnes an Obstacle
to Republican Success

From The Utica Press:
a contribution 10 the literature OF cur
rent Republican politics that was doubt
less widely read was the letter of Ward
b. Edwards. of this city 10 Philip J. Nc
Cook. president of the New York Young
Republican Club, which was published
in this paper yesterday morning. MI
Edwards unequivocally declared that ne
was in favor of the elimination OF MI
Barnes as the leader OF the party In tins
state and expressed the confident opln-
ion that 9j per cent of the Republicans
were of the same mind. There can be no
doubt of the accuracy of his statemeh'
or his judgment.
The Barnes leadership stands for 'he
success OF bossism, and i'm the pursuit o.
its object IL has been willing TO sacrlllee
party success. confident that II wou"
fare better with the same leadership IN
Democratic administration than II Wou''
with Its own party I'm power under he"
and progressive auspices. Hence t"'
Barnes leadership has been an oostae''
TO Republican success of the right sois
1t has ruptured~ the party-rent u F"
twain. II was leadership OF the barne.
variety that led up to and caused the spn,
at the Chicago convention last year
was counsel from leadership OF the saps
variety that caused the adminlsudoV
of Mr.. Taft to depet from the pu''u
of policies that were then successiu' ""D
II pursued would probably have con
tinued him i'm office. Mr.. Edwards chA"
acterizes the leadership of Mr. Barnes
destructive" The faithfulness OF 'l
characterization Is attested by the ~
ord. II is no wonder that the deniahu -
the elimination of Mr.. Barnes is SO ~.
eral and that 95 per cent of the hep1
licans. as Mr.. Edwards says, take '"'
view of the matter
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
No Barnes Republican for Speaker


The Assemblymen-eect who In conference nave
deteri1ined &c stand for revision of the Assembly
rules and not to support any boss-nomlnateu can
didate for the Speakership of the next Assembly
ara taking an unassailable position If they stick
to it they can win, unless the unenlightened ana
bidebound machine members Of the Republican
and Democratic parties in the lower house unite
ON candidate in open brazen, bipartisan alliance.
1t is to be expected that the next Speaker VIII
be a Republican. He should be, as that party Will
have a clear majority of the membership OF the
Assembly. But for the best interest Of the party
and the best interest of the state he should not De
a machine Republican.
He should not be Barnes Republican. No man
taking Office with the hand of Mr. Barnes on MS
shoulder will have the confidence of the voters
No Assembly presided over by machine'selected
and machine-eected Speaker can expect to have
the approval of the voters for its acts The men
who will take the oath Of Office next January
might as well understand that at the very begin
ming of their consideration of this subject the big
Mr.. Hinman. leader of the Republican minority
this year. is being doomed as the regular or or
eanization" candidate for the Speakership He
comes from Mr.. Barnes's county. 1t is his mis-
fortune that he is known as "Barnes's Assembly
man." 1t would be his party's misfortune If he
ever came to be known as "Barnes's Speaker
If will he the fault of the progressive upto-date
Republican Assemblymenelect and the progressive
members of the party who hope to see 1t other
than minority party in this state if there is ever
even a probability of such an occurrence
There is now, in the reorganization of the AS
sembly and the work of that body under Repubh-
can control in the coming year, an opportunity at
hand to regain for the party public respect public
confidence, public approval and support. This can
not be if in the most important act of the new body
it continues the traditions and habits which made
tho Republican Assembly of 1912 failure and a
laughing stock. The Speaker of the Assembly is,
next to the Governor the chief figure in the states
government. Even a drastic revision of the rules
of that house which would deprive him of some
of the arbitrary power past Speakers have welded,
would not in any degree diminish the necessity for
the utmost care and wisdom in electing this i'm
portant official
Fortunately for the Republican party and the
state there is material In the coming Assembly for
the selection Of a Republican Speaker who shall
not bear any bOss's brand, and who shall not take
his political ideas from the last generation And
the choice is not limited to one man. either.
Nothing is of more vital Importance to the Re
publican party in New York State than the election
of a Speaker with the political ideas, ideals and
aspirations Of the present moment, and imagina
ton and intelligence enough to realize that a po-
ntical party can only deserve success by striving
TO meet the needs and the hopes Of the people
New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

are sending the children? How other
wise can these gentlemen have first hand
Information regarding conditions, from
which to draw their conclusions?
If education is a preparation for life.
who are the expert educators" unless
they be the "laymen." who are carrying
on the worlds active work?
1t is a pleasure 10 he a daily reader #
your editorial page.
ALFRED Deb. MASON.
Brooklyn, Nov. p, 1913.