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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
Unlabelled Cold Storage Foods.

1t is a timely warming to consumers which Dr.
Porter the state Health Commissioner, has sent out
regarding the sale Of cold storage fOodstufs. The
law requires every merchant dealing in stored food
supplies TO display signs prominently in his estaD-
lishment acknowledging that fact. 1t requires also
that packages containing such foodstufs have
stamped on them the date when they went into stor
age and the date when they were taken out. These
laws are q dead letter far as a great number
probably the vast majority-of establishments in
this city are concerned.
There is no especial objection to cold storage foods
which have been properly kept, and not kept too
long if the customer desires stored fOOdstufs and
knows he is getting them. There is great objec-
ton to any dealers palmng off stored articles as
fresh ones at the price of fresh ones or using any
of the usual trade subterfuges to disguise the fact
that the stuff has been in cold storage DR.. Porter
is right in using all the resources Of the State Health
Department to see that the law is enforced. Any
consumer who does not all his foresight and In
genuty to protect himself against INSCRIPTIONS deal
ers is aiding in his own deception
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
A PROGRESSIVE PROPHECY
No Hope Is Seen for the Republics
Party Under Its Present Leaders.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The following from your columns
OF yesterday is cordially agreed TO- 20 wit:
I'm refusing to call national Conven-
ton for the purpose OF revising the pres
ent scheme Of party government the Re-
publican National Committee surrendered
to counsels of timdity and self-interest.
IL did not realize that il had an oppor-
tunity TO fix the attention Of the country
on the party's purpose to reform itself
through the direct instrumen,ality Of the
voters. The majority of the committee
was probably much more solicitous about
retaining control OF the machinery than II
was about giving the voters a free rein
TO reorganze"
The foregoing is perfectly true. and Il
~ equally true that such has been the
case and curse with Republican managers
ever since President Roosevelt retired.
The same gang who ruled the roast IN
the Republican National Convention 0f
1872 are 10 be in control in 1916 and that
VIII be the last canvass that the Republic
cans will ever make.
The time has come for a new party
which We already have. and if Mr.. Roose-
welt lives II Will triumph with him at It's
head in 1916 WIN r. BALDWIN.
Liberty, y. Y. Dec Is. 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
HIGH PRAISE FOR Mr.. BRYAN
He Is Placed on a Par with Lincoln in
Popular Affection.

TO the Editor OF The Tribune.
sir VIII you allow one who for many
yearf has been reader OF your paper tn
comment upon inJustices done Mr. Bryan
by The Tribune and some other New
York papers,
\ few days ago you quoted only a por-
ton ~ his speech made before the clergy
OF New York The omission is the key
To the address. Il gives readers a very
wrong impression Of the man. For seven
teen years SIR. Bryan has taken such
references-hc has been the subject OF
more ridiculc than any public man in
our country, and. too. by some to-day
high In the Offices OF the government
with smile, like man. Above all, he
has won his fight. though now but sec
ond IN command. officially. in the affairs
of the country.
/ venture the assertion that among
thinking peOple-Republican Progress
sivcs and Democrats Mr. Bryan is re-
spectcd not second To- our Lincoln. VIII ,
also was the subject OF many inJustlces.
and will. before his public career Is over,
perform ~ great "A service To his country
as did Lincoln. | write as a believer In
a public discussion Of the acts OF our
public men. Who can lay at the door
81 Mr.. Bryan scandal? or. far more
probable, an Inconsistency?
WILLIAM VI. DAVIDGE
Ballston Spa, y. Y, Dec. Is, 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
A MEMORY OF AN OLD SONG
How Ten Thousand Miles Away" Was
Sung in Frisco Forty Years Ago.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: D. L. Ps inquiry and its various
responses bring up memory OF the long
past. over forty years ago, while visiting
San Francisco, | heard an English music
hall singer, calling himself Vivian, who
was very popular there. |, In common
with many others. went TO hear him and
see his representations. one OF the songs
most called for was version OF the Ten
Thousand Miles Away" which | can still
recall.
Why such rubbish retains a place In
mans memory in spite OF a life filled
with the varied joys and cares of grow
inS family and an absorbing profession.
Is a good deal Of a mystery to me. Physi-
clogists tell us that n certain proportion
of chat is useful i'm the physical economy
as well as the more vitalizng kernel. so.
suppose. it is the same in the mental
organism. Certainly. IL serves TO keep us
I'm memory OF our youthful frivollties. and
when | hear my young folks singing
"Bagdad' and "Everybody's DOM It. II
serves to awaken
"a fellow feeling which makes one Won
drous kind"
The tune. also, runs quite clearly
through my mind. | tried it on the dog
an intelligent animal-and from the wag
of his tail concluded he considered II all
right GEORGE h. SMlLl'iE.
Bronxville, Dec. IS, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
The Warden from Oklahoma.

Among the dull, dreary wastes Of official dotu-
ments the annual report Of John b. Doolin, Game
and Fish Warden Of Oklahoma slips before the eve.
green and shady oasis. Field Forest and
Stream" il Is called. And there is hardly a dull
page in il.
Anybody can write statistics, is John BIS idea.
The difficult thing is to interest people in wild life
and so get the needed laws to protect your game
Song birds game birds and game animals are in
many cases at the point Of extinction, he observes
There never was more pathetic tragedy than this
slaughter of weak and helpless creatures"
However, it is not with tragedy but with rich.
luscious dripping tales Of the woods and the brooks
and the rivers that friend the warden makes
his plea Have you heard Of the catfish Of Cimarron
River, in Pleasant Valley? In this salty yellow
stream, whose bed of shifting sand is as clean as
If swept hourly with housewives broom" there
swim untold numbers Of drum, rock buffalo, carp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
PROTECTING OUR GOLD RESERVE
Professor Johnson's Citation of the
Bank Of France Is Criticised.

| To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: In his interesting article on cur.
rency reform I'm your issue of December
\ Professor j. +. Johnson advocates a
central bank TO protect our credit anC
gold reserves. lie says:
We lack that financial leadership and
Capitalization necessary TO the protec'
ton of the nations credit and gold stock
II the credit and gold reserve Of France
are threatened. the Bank of France. 10y
It's dominating influence and the aid OF It's
branches. Is able to control the move
ment Of the foreign exchanges"
Now. | submit that because the Bank of
France can thus protect its gold reserve
II by no means follows that the central
bank proposed by the Aldrich plan could
perform the same service for this coun-
try. There is difference i'm the posi-
tion of the two countries In the interna-
tional money market which Professor
Johnson completely overlooks.
France has an adverse balance OF trade
averaging s20oooo,OOO yearly. but, overtop-
ping this, she has an income of about
SS50,OOO,0Oo from her foreign Investments
and from the thousands Of tourists who
visit Paris t. enjoy the pleasures of that
city, so that she IL thus about S650, 600
10 the good every year. But with this
country IT is just the other way. For
the last five years we have had favorable
trade balances averaging S500,0O0,000 an
nually. but. overlapping these credits, we
owe abroad fully $1,000 1900 for interest
dues. aliens remittances. tourists eX-
penses, foreign freights, etc. so that we
are thus some S5)0O0o.000 to the bad every
year Mare NJ. Reynolds. financial editor
of The Tribune. and other experts place
these debts at a still higher figure.
France does not import all the gold due
from abroad on account OF this $3.50 900 900
surplus. Most OF II Is reinvested I'm for
eign loans. But sometimes foreigners
want TO borrow more than she cares TO
lend. Then the French Bank raises the
discount rates, refuses gold payments al
together and pays out silver That IL
how France protects her gold reserve
But the Aldrich central bank would face
a very different situation. Heretofore We
have averted gold exports In settlement
Of this half billion yearly deficit and
protected our reserves by pledging securi-
TIES short term notes. etc, abroad. But
sometimes abroad demands part cash I'm
settlement, and then the trouble begins
Loans are called, bank reserves are de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
MIR. Barnes on Progressivism.

State Chairman Barnes expresses some sorrow
because he is cassed not progressive as the Woru
is understood in presentday political discussion
have never said | was not progressive he en-
postulateS. mildly. That is probably true IL "ou'u
have seemed highly unnecessary at any uihe' loi
Mr.. Barness actions always spoke for MN hiucu
more Enthusiastically than his words could nave uohe'
From the time when he used all his influence 10
defeat certain of the Hughes political policies rated
without question, as progressive, through the time
leading up 70 the 1910 state convention. when he
was opposed to the movement which finally re-
suited in Roosevets control of that body ana 'he
nomination of Mr. Stimson, UP to the present MI
Barnes's political course was speaking for nm his
acts always spoke against policies or persons OF
both rated by the public as progressive Mr. Barnes
NAV have ranked himself as a progressive, out lie
never did. and never can impose that rating on the
public.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
A Warming to Greedy Contractors.

The verdict Of Rockland County jury that Bart
Dunn, Of Tammany was guilty Of conspiracy to
defraud the state in road building is as satisfactory
handling of one phase Of the contractor-poitcian
graft as District Attorney Whitman's John Doe in
quiry is Of another phase Dunn is to he sentenced
for building a bad road and taking pay for good
one Everybody has known that most of the good
roads" as built were bad ones because the CON
tractors didn't live up TO the specifications and IN
spectors and higher officials susceptible to political
influence didn't make them do so.
Dunns conviction is welcome because he stands
high in Tammany Ii will serve as an example to
all Get-rchquick contractors who rely on the quail
y Of their pull rather than on the quality Of their
work. When a few more contractors have been
found guilty Of defrauding the state and few more
"baGmen" and committee treasurers have been in
dcted for Matchmaking the contractors, the state
will be able to get honest work done at honest
prices
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS.

Since New York hotel men moving secure re-
ductions the prices Of foodstus II they have
concluded they cannot raise their rates hgherBufrao
Enquirer.
When a Bible society distributed 33S4Oi Bibles in
New York last 1t apparently put them in secure
hiding paces.-Tthaca Journal
New York threatens to boycott eggs and might do
Il Il there any way Of making silver zz without
them-Hartford Times
III the drivers OF the mail trucks In New York must
stop get bail every time they violate the speed limit
the mail may be delayed. but will the end of many
a useful life.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Some OF the leaders of Tammany have been suggesting
to Murphy the adyisaby of hereafter confirming his DO
litical activities in New York City. Under all the cir
cmstanccs he will be fortunate II he is able to continue
oneratons there.-Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
The New York University football team didn't score a
single point during the entire season. Notwithstanding
New York will no doubt cling to the idea that all that
Now comes the deJeuner dansant II is Just like those
other things you In New York. only II costs you
more for the advanced French uplft-Phladelphia
North American
The records show that twice many persons are
killed In one month by automobiles in New York as are
killed In one year by automobiles In London And the
number or London automobiles exceeds those OF New
York II must be that New Workers. are a rule, far
more reckless than Londoners or maybe the London
police more efficient than those Of New YorkBuf
falo Courier
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
The Judgment of Zabern.

Forty-tbree days Imprisonment is not too heavy
penalty for LIEUTENANT and baron to pay
for slashing a helpless cripple with his chivalric
sabre. Indeed, must consider 1t light in view
of the fact that two recruits are sent to solitary
confinement for three weeks and one for six weeks
just for reporting the press the lieutenant barons
remarks exhOrting soldiers to ride roughshod over
civilians Tatting seems to he pretty nearly as bad
as murderous assault
The real gist of the incident is suggested, how
which manifested by speakers in the
Reichstag. Thus Count Westarp, Of the Con
servative leaders, quoted With approval the words
of Jherlng that everybody must know that he must
must not come too close to the wheels and knives OF
machine and then proceeded to denounce those
who objected TO the sabrlng Of civilians at Xabern
for trying to democratize the army and to make
the army subject to Parliament"
There is doubt that the majority Of the Ger
nan people do mesn to democratize the army and
TO make It, at least in time Of peace subject to the
will of Parliament and to the common law of the
land. In that determination they have been much
strengthened by this brutal incident at Zabern and
by the swashbuckling defence OF IL which some
Junker statesmen have offered. 1t IL not merely
lieutenant and baron but the whole attitude Of the
army toward civilians, upon which Judgment Is be-
ing passed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
The Currency Bill in Conference

II is not possible to agree with Representative
Glass in his excited denuncaton OF the currency
bin as it left the Senate. Its acceptance "ou''
hardly bring on "saturnalia of imitation Never.
theless IL is well to have the House resist some VI
the Senates changes in the conservative spirit "icn
seems 10 inspire Mr.. Glass. If 1t does SO 1t WIN
fight TO the end against the insurance OF uepoSHS
nIan which was thrown into the Owen bill as sop
to BTyanites ,
This is one proposal to which intelligent banking
opinon throughout the country strongly oDJec'S. II
smacks OF foolish radicalism and unsound nh"hce'
Its adoption will give the Democratic party pau
name and will tend TO throw suspicion upon tue ui'
ne +be work Of men who entertain such financial
,ior,s that the guarantee of deposits appeals 10
than, nc feasible and wise The country, especiall!
the financial world, needs reinsurance now anu
il will be far from reassured by the thought li''
the new currency law will be administered III 'ne
crrit IN which financial heresy like the guarantee
NJ denosts was adopted and by the prospect OF un'
sound banking which that guarantee holds out Inc
House conferrees should insist upon the striking out
of this provision.
Ont of the conference should come a much I'M
proved measure Many amendments were auoP'eu
in the last few days by the Senate without adequate
consideration That the necessary consequence
of the method by which the bill was forced through
That some of these amendments are inconsistent
with each other and with other provisions OF the
bill as Mr. Glass asserts, is by no means uhiiNe!'
1t should be the work of the conference 10 sraeh'e
them out and 10 make practicable DILL his "orA
should not be hurried. Time should be taken 10 10
il thoroughly so that the best possible currency Id"
will result.
The currency system which will be created by 1t
will be a great advance upon any which this coun-
fry has ever had. The first period of severe hnan-
cia strain will give it its test When we have gone
through another panic shall know whether eight
or more regional institutions under the oil
rection of single board will afford all the
concentration of reserves which this country re-
quires for safety in emergency. Until some such
test is had it politically impossible to pro-
coed further in the direction Of Capitalization than
this bill does.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22

and hickory shad. Also there hourishes the !eho"
catfish reaching weight of hundred pounds.
Anybody but an Okahoman would pursue theSe
noble beasts in sordid, machne-like fashoh. Inc
Pleasant Valley folk use a seine, to be sure Du'
only 10 locate and corner the catfish. Then the
Oklahoman dives into the yellow Cimarron RIVER
and captures his catfish, man to man, so 10 speak,
Selling him by the gs with his bare hands!
If you prefer honey you should read OF the MA
militia country and its wild bees feeding the hunter
with mamma. And such mama. Listen:
Then there swinging and swishing OF burning
boughs, and the bees droWsy with smoke.
Bill called for his pan and spoon; he SAID that
some of the honey two, possibly three, years
old. II tasted of the perfume OF wild flowers mat
bloom in meadows, in valleys on crags and beside
clear. swiftly running water courses. And when the
cammy sweetness has been sucked from the COMB
there came from the latter IT was pressed De
tween the teeth delicate, almost intangible naNor
Of cedar-frOm the fragrant house in when the
honey had been stored.
BY the side of the cedar-hOney must be placed
the squirrel potpie made according to the ancient
formula of woodsmen, and rated by Warden Doolin
as the best thing the hungry hunter finds in his
camp about the time the first stars begin shining.
We envy Oklahoma much as a result of reading
this volume-but nothing do we envy her more than
her admirable warden
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
Safer Railroad Travel and Fairer Rates.

In its latest report to Congress the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission lays much stress on the accidents
occurring on railroads in 1912'13 and in erect
asks for power to supervise railroad operations IL
wants authority to regulate both the construction
and the Of the physical properties of railroads.
with view TO making travel safer 1t suggests
that legal limit be put speed and that railroads
be required TO enforce all existing precautions
against accidents many Of which are now fire.
quently disregarded.
Possibly the commission would handicap It's USE
fulness by trying to extend It's functions so as to
operation. 1t has big task on its hands al
ready. But if it find time and strength to en-
force safer operation the public would welcome its
entry into that field. The great demand of decade
ago was for speed. Now the speed craze is abating
and the average traveller prefers safe train to an
overcast one The public is being educated up to
steel passenger cars and costly block systems and
usually sympathizes with the engineers and train
men when the latter ask for advances In wages on
the ground that standards of qualification are get
ting higher.
But II the commission admits the need of more
mechanical safeguards and greater skill in opera
ton and the public is more and more concerned
about making travel safe, another argument is ere
ated for treating the railroads fairly In the matter
Of freight and passenger rates All-steel cars, the
latest block systems and better educated and more
responsible engineers and trainmen all cost money
and their cost to the roads ought 10 come back in
the shape Of larger earnings. For the last ten years
the policy Of the government has been to involve
the railroads I'm larger expenditures while forbid
ding them to increase their income. much better
service for the public has been obtained at the ex-
pense OF the railroad stakeholder. 1t would be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
NO LONGER TAMMANY'S
The Temporary Inspectors in the Fire
Prevention Bureau Have Been Replaced.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | noticed In your issue Of Deem.
Der lG. 1913. an editorial in re- inspectors
Of fire prevention being Tammauy office
holders, etc. ], as a constant reader OF
your valuable paper, differ with YOU. Per-
haps YOU are not aware that the men YOU
refer TO. the temporary appointees' have
been replaced by honest and faithful nom
partisan men who have passed a very
rigid examination. of which only about
one hundred and seventy out OF a posi-
bic five thousand applicants made the list
The men now appointed were taken one,
two. three, and down the list, no one
being skipped.
might say only four Of all the tenn
porary men who took the examination
made the list. All the above can be VERT
fed either by The Chief" or The Civil
Service Chronicle"
WALTER SCHENCK
New York. Dec. Is, 1913
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
A PLEA FROM THE BOWERY
Will You Help Feed the Bread Line
in This Christmas Season?

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Would you allow me through the
medium OF your columns to present to the
business men OF this city an investment
which is off the ordinary lines. but
which yields the very best kind OF re-
suits? IL is an investment which pays an
absolutely certain dividend. and one that
does not jeopardize any already invested
capital.
When n man entertains his friends, or
course, Il gives him pleasure. He loves TO
see them at his generous table, partaking
OF his hospitality.
There Is here In New York quite another
kind Of entertainment The guests are
poor and difident, many of them are In
clothing little better than rags, and i'll
suited To keep out the biting winter cold.
They are hungry, too. and lean and half
famished. Their faces, gaunt and hol-
low-eycd reveal their weakness. They
come. not in taxis or coaches, but afoot,
trudging through the sleet and rain. cold
and wet and chilled to the bone, TO take
their places In the bread line
These are the guests who. to the num-
Der OF 1000 or more, stand waiting every
midnight in front of the old Bowery Mis-
sion No. POI Bowery.
1t costs three cents to feed "A guest
there--just a mug OF coffee and a good
sized roll or two; but to these men II is a
kings banquet. They are the unem-
ployed, the unfortunate. the homeless and
destitute. whom fortune and happiness
seem to have passed by. one dollar will
feed 80 men and boys; s. VIII appease l65
appetites; $40 will feed $50: so will give
neal TO the entire bread line for one
night
At this season of kind deeds and re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
How to End the Ticket Spectator.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Theatre tickets and the omnipceSent
parasites turned spectators have occu-
pied considerable space in your columns
of late In ventilating dsgraceful propa-
ganda that ought never to have existed
and the same applies to the taxis' Illegal
occupancy Of the public streets. Possibly
in both instances the honorable" Board
of Alderu en- couldn't see it's way clear.
Years ago | suggested that in order to
exterminate these obnoxious sidewalk
brigands the price OF ticket should Dc
stated on same. and to sell at an excess
would be a misdemeanor Oyerfowihg
Illicit revenue and graft alone protector
and conserved the brazen contention OF
taxi companies and hotel and restaurant
proprietors.
MARY SCOTT ROWLAND.
No. Il New Bond ST., London, W, Dec
., 1913