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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
THE PLANT OF A SMOKER
In These Parlous Days What Can a
Poor Man Do?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As a daily reader of your emil
nently fair paper, I desire to call your
attention TO the injustice 10 smokers oil
practically prohibiting smoking upon sur
face cars by the Public Service Commits
sion. | feel sure that smokers as a class
do not desire 10 be offensive TO any one
and have a right to expect fair play. EVIL
IDENTIFY the prime movers I'm the anti
smoking crusade are women. What viii
the dear girls want us TO do next? In an
other year or two We will be perfect
LADIES ourselves Evolution Is occurring
So rapidly that somewhat settled codger
like myself finds difficulty in continually
readjusting himself.
The ladies say tobacco fumes are odious
Perhaps they are. | wonder how many
OF tho girls, however, think OF the men
sensitive sense of smell. Few, | reckon
I believe an impartial jury would give
tobacco fumes a higher rating than the
NAL odorous perfumes.
| am a confirmed smoker. but am ready
and willing to be reasonable and consid'
crate and refrain from smoking where II
will cause any offence. But let the girls
also help us In this crusade for pure all
or else provide smoking cars for us. where
those Of us who enjoy smoke may
smoke In peace and comfort.
HENRY w. KEMP.
Brooklyn. oct. |. 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
McCall's Economy"

Mr.. Mccall as candidate promises retrenchneht
and economy. But as Public Service Commissioner
he prepares contract with the lnterborough kapid
Transit Company with so little economy i'll 1t that
1t has been rejected by the Board Of Estimate
and Apportionment He seeks to justify the bonus
10 the Inerborough company which the city author
tiles have refused to pay the ground that It was
necessary to give il in order TO expedite the opening
of the Belmont tube to Queens. But if the city
upon Mr. McCalrs advice sets precedent OF yield
ing to extorion in this instance, where Will extor-
ton end in the course Of the subway business:
II the issue is retrenchment and economy Mr.
Mitchell has all the advantage of Mr.. Mccall. MI
Mitchell is under no obligations TO a horde Of the
SNUG and sleek who fitch from the public treasury.
And he has stood in office for stopping waste ana
cutting off graft, for checking the operations OF
the Ahearns and Haffens of Mr.. McCalls PERSIA
sion That is real conservatism. The only estab-
lished institution which Mr.. McCaTs election would
conserve is Tammany Hall.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
HAIL THE SMALL FAMILY!
Large. Unwanted Flocks Are Called
a Relic of Barbarism.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: At last II becomes apparent that
the world do move. For several thousand
years the man who dared intimate that a
little limitation OF population might be
practised with benefit 10 the world has
been regarded as an enemy OF the race
and as an indication OF this sort or leno-
ralce Oh the part OF the public generally
the laws OF all the states might be pointed
TO. Physicians and soSi"loglNs have, OF
course. known OF the evils OF rapid multi
plication among the class least fitted 10
care for children, but the lawmakers
have. probably rejecting the lack Of In
formation of their constituents on vital
topic. embodied into law this pTeJudice
against the exercise Of ordinary lnteIiI-
gerce on the part Of men and women.
II this wave OF sex problem discussion is
al out to result i'm a change OF policy tow
ard large families under any and all con-
ditions II will have much to its credit
There is reason to believe that much or
the opposition Of the old American sto'h
to unlimited immigration IS due not 10
feeling against the immigrant himself but
IL the tcfllIlb lldN OllNN '''N -
too rapidly and unwisely for the best III
terest Of the country. The result Is an
increasing army of ignorant men ana
women. American by birth but un-Ameri-
can in every instinct, and economcalIy
detrimental 10 the community.
II IS not that the parents themselves
and the community as a whole suffer be-
cause of this unchecked increase. but that
the unwanted children-the children VINO
cannot receive even the bare necessities
of life. to say nothing OF education ana
the comforts OF life-have to pay the pen
atty. Some day some Western state VIII
take from it's statute books the law max
ing il crime for physicians TO dissent
nate information calculated to place the
parent in a position to limit the size OF
his family. and. like many another pro-
cressive movement. it will spread TO the
East until. IN a bright future age, this
relic OF barbarism will have been entirely
eliminated.
ct the world move on.
+. l.. ORION.
Brooklyn, oct /. 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
All That Mccall Now Needs Is an
"Anti-Murphy" Testimonial
from Croker.

NIurphys desire to sit in the background and not
have his personality associated with the candidates
whom he has put on the local Tammany ticket
must not be imputed to any passing idiosyncrasy Oh
modesty AS leader Murphy has not been very
sef-efacing He has generally been willing to cast
the hoodoo of the Tammany Endorsement on the
nominees whose names came out OF his hat. de
even induced Judge Gaynor four years ago to pay
that famous sightseeing visit TO the Grand Lodge
in East 14th street although to get there tne
Judge had to consult cabman and several CITY
directories.
Mr.. Mccall doesn't need guide TO find his way
into the Presence Abandoning the public notlnca-
ton ceremony at which nominees for city omces
were expected 10 acknowledge their obligation 10
and association with Tammany will deceive NOBODY
IN the case Of man near to Murphys inner
councils The Murphy nominee for Mayor was
member of the Delmonico conference OF eight at
which Tammany's mind for this campaign was
made up. If in his case the notification ceremony
was dropped 1t was not because he was SO untama
Bile an anti-Tammanyite that wild horses could not
have dragged him over the route which Judge
Gaynor cheerfully travelled with the aid OF taxi
cab and guide book.
This is a desperate year for Tammany. and II
there are gudgeons foolish enough to be caught WIFI
the pretence that Mr.. Mccall is mo mans man
Murphy cannot be blamed for trying to catch them
He would be entirely willing to see Mr.. McCaIi
elected as an "ant-Murphy man" If that was the
only way in which he could be elected. He knows
that once elected, either as Murphy or an anti
Murphy man, Mr. Mccall would not confne himself
10 merely recommending clergymen reformers ana
other msinformed outsiders to say few kind
words" TO or for Murphy.
The latter may dodge behind the scenes Whiie
Mr. Mccall holds the spotlight as the head Of 'lhe
Suns" anti-Murphy ticket. But how about our IL
Iustrious ex- Podesta now cutvating the tranquility
Of country life i'm Ireland? He has Just gwen
Murphy heartfelt recommendation as his own III
successor in the handicraft of working for his own
pocket all the time" He gave Mr.. Mccall noml
nation for the Supreme Bench. What If he should
break out in another trumpet blast from retirement
on the fitness Of the present Tammany nominee to
succeed Grant Gilroy, Van Wyck and the 9th =
best Mayors" whom Tammany has given TO New
York?
The more the public sees Of Fodesta MurDhys
scf-restrant the highly il appreciates the
dare-to-facethe music lOquacity Of Podesta Croker
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
A Deadlock Over the Round Courthouse

The DAYS pass and the new courthouse seems no
neorer than ever Our learned Justices are very
sure that the round structure planned by MI uu9
Lowell is a botch and an eyesorc. Inc architec'S'
ON the contrary while concedng the necessity OF
hearkening to the judicial mind on the necessities
If accommodation convenience and comfort. refuse
70 concede that the bench can translate these prac-
teal needs into stone
Such an impasse must not continue forever Ana
we arise to propose practical solution Of the whole
problem. As usual the way out is simple, almost
obvious Why not simply interchange our arcHl-
tects and judges? The architects are opstrucl'ns
the Judges by uphoIdlng Mr.. Lowell. Let them re-
sign in body in favor of our Architectural Juucia's
and take up the duties of the bench
Our iudees can then devote their whole time 10
designing courthouse exactly TO their hearts de-
sire And, for guess, we predict that the result
will be a worthy housing for the law that VIII ne
laid down by the architect judges.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
When Is an American ?

Most of the English comments on the dazzling We
tory OF young Mr.. Ouimet at goIl were as sports
manlke and generous as could be asked. y few
discordant voices have been drifting in, however
Among these latter is one that, after ALL raises
interesting query. What has America 10 gloat
over" asked disgrunted Encishman. The
victory is really the victory of French Canadian.
The facts are that Mr. Ouimet, now at the mature
age of twenty, was born In Massachusetts of
French Canadian parents-born, incidentally. with
i'm sight of the course which lie has made famous
fo: all goling time. OF course he is an American
under the law-and can be Pre- ident of the United
States if enough golfers so decide. But why IS
every one feel instinctvely that the young cham
pion is much more than nominal American-that
despite the comparatively short residence of his
fanily in this country the boy is at heart and ny
nature a typical American?
Oddly enough. an English authority, THE Pail
Mall Gazette" furnishes an interesting clew to the
point Said that rather anti-American journal in
commenting upon the defeat OF Vardon and Ray:
one has only to look at the portraits Of the new
American champion f. some Of the psycholoS cal
cleWs to this surprising result IT is striking face,
with it's overpowering intensity, its utter
ton and it's sngleness of vision 1t is not the face
OF what regard as the typical sportsman" with
its easy bOnh0mic and charm Of temperament. The
Photographic aspects OF Mr. Ouimet and OF his Brit
ish rivals APPLY expressive of the opposed att-
tudes in sport OF the American and the English
school We play OF games, while Americans pur-
sue thempursue them with all the fxity Of purpose
and all the monopozing abstraction that atteEd
them in the quest of money. ambition and other ends
For good or i'll, this criticism has much Of truth
in ii. a pervading earnestness, tensity Of pur-
pose, are unquestionably prime American qualities
They are. perhaps, the qualities which THAI
any other make the American type distinct from
other national types They are the qualities which
In some strange fashion make their impress felt
a..nost Immediately upon newcomers to our shores.
The British ideal is very different, "The Pail
Mall Gazette observes TO zee life steadily and
see It whole" is way of summing up the British
plan Of life. "Sounder and more durable The Pail
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
SEX AND NATURE
Masculine Strength, Clergymen and
the Dictates of God.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Harold $. Towards refutation OF
Miss Lawrence's claim that women
would not be fitted to uphold the ballot
after h2Sing cast it, is contradicted by
the need shown by the suffragists them
selves for masculine physical protection
from a surging crowd during their parade
in Washington last March.
Mr.. Howard, in his letter appearing In
your columns this morning. also ignores
the fact that 1t is not physical inca
paclty which exempts clergymen from
draft in defence OF their country during
times OF war. but that they have the
choice OF laying aside their profession and
taking up arms, as many clergymen did
to preserve the Union. But woman cam
not lay aside her sex even II she would.
any more than she can choose II at the
beginning; there the dissenting dictates
OF God and the laws OF nature" assert
themselves. ALICE EDITH ABEL.
New York. Oct. 2. 1872
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

William Travers Jerome is so often called Harry
*. Thaw's Nemesis. owing TO his almost continuous
activity against Thaw in the years legal war.
that perhaps Mr.. Jerome's own view Of his work
may be interesting. Il can hardly describe the dis
taste the almost overpowering reluctance with
which ] take up the again each time my SER
vices are demanded" he said. 1T is all so old and
familiar TO me. II is worse much worse, than sit
ting down to cold food went through two murder
trials and three habeas corpus proceedings thrash
ing over the same material each time. Yet find
that sheer familiarity with the tends 10 dull my
memory OF the details. Many Of them slip away,
and it is a tremendous task each time to face the
more than thirty big volumes Of evidence the test-
mony of the Thaw case takes up
81 call this the good tured seat" said the usher.
"Why so?'
Because it's 3 9"-Washington Herald.
II 10 going 10 cost New Workers more money than
ever to hunt in Maine this fall the license fee for
ron-resdents having been raised to S25 season.
There are also some other changes In the laws
affecting sportsmen that are of general interest
The moose hunting season formerly was from Octo-
Der Il TO December it is limited to the month
of November The deer season remains az peiore
October I to and including December ID. ono
bull moose, not less than one year old' may ne
killed in the month Of November, and TWO deer
may be killed within the time specihcd. Inc pen
aIty for unlawful killing OF moose formerly was a
fine Of 500 and costs imprisonment for four
months the Imprisonment period remains un-
changed but under the amended law the fine Is
reduced to not less than 500 and costs. nor more
than 500 and costs.
Grand country you have here. shepherd.
"Oh ave- it's no bad: but we haze tae walk
ten miles for a drappie O. whusky -
We'll why not get Il barrel and keep IL by you!
mon mon, IL will ma keep.'-Tatler.
THE Army and Navy Journal" which recently
celebrated tho completion OF fifty years OF continu-
Gus publication has had the unusual experience OF
being conducted for that long period under one
and the same editorial management. Colonel Will
lam Conant Church, who founded the paper IN loo3'
is still the editor and the head Of the firm which
controls the publication. In article on our
Semi Centennial Colonel Church says that. While
he desires no bare Of trumpets because OF the Juo-
lee ''it Is pleasant TO remember that within a few
wears the Chief Magistrate Of the Republic said on
a public occasion that the paper had done work of
substantial worth for the army and navy, and
therefore in peculiar degree for the people OF the
United States"
Neighbor-And how's yer guild man this mornn',
Mrs. Tamson?
Mrs Tamson-He deed last NIGHT
Neighbor-Im real sorry to hear that Yen no
remember II he happened to say onythlng ABOUT a
pot o green paint before he sippet wa?-Punch
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
That Third Sex Again.

Now Mr.. Compton Mackenzie, the novelist, brings
articles sex Hatred" in THE london Daily
Mail" he produces this cheerful prophecy:
Personally. believe that we are probably watch.
ing the embryonic beginnings of a new sex. | seem
10 divine the first evolution from normal woman
hood toward a new Womanhood that will resemble
the female workers Of the bees. / seem TO apprc-
bend dimly diversion or dissection of the feminine
impulse, and I easily imagine a time in the far
future when the material work OF the world will be
performed by this new There will remain as
now the normal whose energy and endur-
ance will be devoted 10 the responsibilities OF ma
ternty; but there will also be large asexual class
whose atrophied feminniy will find new outlet
for energy and endurance in maintaining the state
of the world.
OF course there is one qualified to speak
upon this question n popular novelist No novel
OF the day could he published unless it writhed and
wriggled with sex, and Mr.. Mackenzie has doubt
less dreamed thought and written upon this sub
feet as much as any other living man.
All the same hesitate to accept this prophecy
In TOTO II may be that facing a time in
which humanity will be led by race Of super linen
and super-wOmen, served and maintained by race
of female workers. But we doubt it, And one rea.
son is the simple that outside OF the novels and
the magazines males and females are going their
several and JOINT ways with astonishing equanimity
quite as II sex" was matter Of course instead
of a fosterer OF hatred and revolution
IL there is to be third sex we much prefer to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
,,,,1 DCoDU CnJ JIANJ An Forum
lHE TEXTILES AOLOl1N Public Debate

the people would like a chance all over
the state TO give him vote Of conf
dcnce and buy him a new hat in the bar
gain If he needs one. Even these fellows
who wear stovepipes down here haven
as much under their hats as this man at
Albany, who measured swords with the
machine and spent his own cash as he
pleased. ,,-
THEoDoRUs VAN WICK.
New York, Oct. ]. 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
MORE RAILROAD VAGARIES
Puzzling Fares on the New York
Central Are Cited.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: | have gone up to Albany on y. y
Q. II. r. and paid 81 10 for one ticket on
other occasions. same train. have paid
81 As 10 Poughkeepsie and 81 as thence TO
Albany. or 81 %. The train stops ten
minutes at Poughkeepsie, so / can do IT
easily and have a sandwich and glass OF
milk with the change.
Why is this thusly?
- Ill. CALLAGUAN.
No 59s 5th street. Brooklyn. Oct. !, 1873.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03

MALI considers this point Of view We prefer not
10 attempt any such comparison. 1t Is sufficient TO
remark that late sporting contests have oniy served
TO accentuate the dcep-seated differences between
English and American Observation-Disclosures Is the
better only the centuries can tell.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03

After passing the tariff bill Congress ought 10 en-
poy some competent literary authority 10 translate
the income tax section into plain y Cs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03

put our money on sex composed exclusively oi
novellsts and magazine writers. Judging by their
output of words. they are by far the most apnor-
NAL males and females Of the hour
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03

What has Herman \. Metz ever done TO The New
York Sun" that should deny him the distinction If
being an anti Murphy Murphy man?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
MAYBE THAT'S IT.

From The Washington Post
"skin, OF mouse" gowns are the latest novelty in
women's attire. which, doubt, explains why the hem
of the garment continues to 60 un
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
The Basement
Philosopher
(eopyrIsbt 1913. by W. C. cAapman) }
By KENNETT HARRIS

The Janitor, uncomfortably attired
In his Sunday diagonals and stif1y
starched collar, and chewing a badly
unraveled cigar which he had been un-
able to light, appeared suddenly to his
Scandinavian assistant, who was in
dustriously tinkering the valve of a
water faucet at the work bench.
$50 I've caught you, have II" said
the Janitor, sternly. "Monkeying
around as usual, 1 see, the minute /
turn my back. can't go off and en-
Joy friends Misunderstanding that
l don't indulge in once year-with-
out you taking advantage of it to neg
lect your work. Well, it amt no more
than what l expected. Got all the
work DONE have you? Yes, you have!
The sidewalk looks like It. 1 bet you
amt washed it of since morning.
Washed ~ of at noon? Well, what if
you did? Don't you suppose it's been
walked on since then? Think every
body's going to turn off and take the
middle of the street just because you
slushed little water on it one time?
You'll be telling me the grass was cut
last summer as an excuse for not rum
ming the mower this year. What did
you suppose me and the estate is pcy-
ing you wages for?
Thought I'd be pleased for once
did your" the Janitor repeated, with a
glare of increased severity. "See
here, Nels, my friend, when you talk
that way, it sounds like lip, and dom t
like no lip from you. Get me? What
did you think was going to do? Take
you out and buy you drink? Give you
a gold watch with your initials in dia-
monds on the back and an engraved
testimonial inside the case? Call a
mass meeting of the tenants and ten
der you vote of thanks? Pleased!
"Oh, sure I'm pleased" continued
the Janitor, sarcastically. I'm tickled
most to pieces to come back and find
the building still standing right where
left it. didn't make no mistake
leaving 1t in your charge. You looked
after it all right all right You amt
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
Temperinu the Water to a Iamh.

Tempering the Water to Lamb.
There is certain lawyer in this
city whose income from his practice
is nearer 100000 than $4,000, says
the New York Evening Post He q
known as the keenest and readiest of
cross-examiners, and a man of epro-
found learning as well as common
sense. Yet he confesses that it took
one year for the fact to flash upon him
that he had been the victim of most
egregious piece of simple trickery.
This, his colloquy with the clerk in
haberdashery store, will explain it:
Eminent and Brilliant J lawyer
want to buy bathing suit
Small Clerk-Yes, sir. (Sorts out
several. All are of ordinary wooden
except one. This, by far the most ex-
pensive, is of heavy knitted kind.
Lawyer remarks that he is to spend
summer in Maine.)
Eminent and Brilliant Lawyer
Why is this one SO heavy?
Small Clerk-That is for bathing in
climates where the water is very cold,
sir. We sell many to persons who go
to Maine.
Eminent and Brilliant Lawyer-Ah,
it's lucky learned this. I'll take the
heavy one. buys suit and walks out.
One year later the truth flashes on
him.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
NOVELTIES SEEN IN PARIS
Imitation Rose of "OiicIoth" Is Popu..
lar--Hats Of White Taffeta Have
Not Lost Their Vogue.

Among the fashionable accessories
that Paris is offering in the shops
are flowers, or rather roses, made OF
a cloth that resembles patent leather
and is called oilcloth. 1t is soft and
shining and flexible enough to twist
and turn into well-shaped blossoms.
Each rose has two or three leaves
and the ornament is worn with after
noon gowns, and especially with frocks
Of white taffeta which, lap over from
the late afternoon hours into theater
and restaurant gowns.
White taffeta has not lost its fash
ion, but it is not combined with black
unless one uses a single spot of the
somber color, such, for instance, as
this black oilcloth rose.
Hats are made of the material, with
the rose at the side, and they are ad-
mirable for motoring and voyages by
train and steamer. They fit closely to
the head, although none of the hats
are as small as they were, for it is
considered quite fashionable to show
the hair on the bright side.
One sees coat suits trimmed with
belts of this new kind Of oilcloth, al
though patent leather is really better
looking, and serves the purpose as
well. Natural leather, dressed to be
quite soft, is used for turnover col
lars and cuffs on suits of khaki col
ored duvetyn.
Another black ornament that is
placed on gowns and hats is a huge
dragon fly of black tulle with black
velvet body. This is placed on a
gown of black or white. and If one
follows the new fashion it is put in
the middle of the back, at the top of
the belt, or at the point Of decolletage.