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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
WAR AN ANACHRONISM
The Thoughts Of Loyal Hebrew at
Yesterdays Tribute to the Dead.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir, was honored by the Mayors invita-
ton to be one OF the citizens committee
10 nay respect 20 the nations dead who
fell at Vera Cruz.
I appreciated the honor as an Ameri-
can citizen, as Hebrew and as the
minister Of a congregation whose MEM
bers fought in the Revolutionary War;
and in whose synagogue prayer for the
government and every President. from
George Washington to President WILSON,
has been offered on every Sabbath and
holy day without one omission.
[ felt I was present as representing
Hebrew loyalty 10 the United States
But I felt was present as Hebrew
loyal also TO the ideals or Hebrew
prophets, among them arbitration instead
OF war. loyal TO Hebrew warnings for
peace on earth and the brotherhood or
man.
7 sat IN 'front.' OF q bereaved family
whose son was among the slain In front
OF US. The fearful eyes or the mother'
the quiet grief Of tho father, the sadness
of the sisters were eloquent OF the stern
realities OF war.
"Dulce ct decorum est pro patria mori'
--patriotism IS a sacred duty. Truei But
the crime. cost and curse OF war are often
preventable. Let the great nations es-
tablish an international court OF arbi-
tration on the lines OF the Hebrew
prophet representing the religious. the
legal and the political forces or each ma
ton. and let all the signatory nations m
s,s, that that courts verdict shah De
sought before a sword be unsheathed; let
them unitedly declare boycott or war
against any recalcitrant nation, and ma
lions would learn 10 avoid war just as
civilized Americans have learned TO AVOID
the duel.
II the United States had summoned
Huerta before such tribunal. and II ali
the nations had combined against him
instead OF allowing the United states
alone 70 make war; how quickly he would
have had to yield!
How many lives would be saved HOW
much expense avoided!
War IS an anachronism. II recaicitrAiit
nations still want It. let them nave It,
pu, LAT them have the civilized world 10
ANT And the greatest mercy VIII De
tho thoroughness OF the war.
n. PEREIRA MENDEs.
Nav York, May II. 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
THE AMERICAN ABROAD
When in Danger Is Ely for Your Life"
His Country's Only Message?

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Is Fly for your life' TO be the
message henceforth when American cit
izens are found 10 be in danger In foreiSn
lands2 Did any other President or Secre-
tary ever send such a counsel OF despair
in answer to appeals for help?
II will require years 20 recover from
the contempt our government has earned
In one year. No more humiliating chap
ter OF history was ever written than the
record OF this period in laundering and
incompetence. Whatever may be said
OF the President or Congress, there can
be no doubt that the Cabine: is the least
capable array that was ever assembled
by any President l.. c. CARTER.
Providence, r l.. May 10, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
No More Running Wild in Contempt Cases

BY setting aside the contempt sentences imposed
on Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and John
Mitchell by the Supreme Court of the District Of
Columbia the United States Supreme Court has
ended long drawn-out and very unsatisfactory legal
proceeding The contempt case has stretched over
six years or more and the Tower courts attempts TO
punish the three labor leaders have been bungling
that they have been upset twice by the Court Of APP
peals Of the District of Columbia and twice by the
federal Supreme Court The farcical exhibition
made by the court Of original Jurisdiction properly
terminated by its hiring counsel to so before the
Supreme Court and protest against the action of the
higher District of Columbia tribunal.
The Supreme Court said the first appeal that
the District Supreme Court had mishandled the
case Now II takes the practical and sensible view
that some time limit ought to be put on contempt
actions It certainly shows laxity and infrmity on
the part Of the lower courts If on matter ord
narily so clear and simple contempt they cannot
vtndcate their authority inside three years.
Altogether apart from the question OF the degree
OF INSTRUMENTATION shown toward the lower court by
the three labor leaders (and over that the lower
and the next higher local court in violent dis
agreemenp, the country is likely to welcome the
limitation now put upon the use OF the contempt
power Contempt ought 10 be evident In order TO
deserve punishment II IT IS so indirect and doubt
full that lower court judges do not know how to pro-
coed against II and appellate judges, with natural
tendency TO uphold the dignity Of the bench reverse
their inferior brethren the public must be pardoned
for thinking that the offence was more or less neg
ligibe II is comforting 10 know that under the
Supreme Courts decision no more seriocomic litiga
ton Ike the perennial Gompers Morrison Mitchell
contempt prosecution will be possible
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
THAT from These Honored dead
We Take Increased Devotion.

The city was greatly moved by yesterday S rl'e''
u I. long dav since so many flags have flown IN
our streets-since so many faces of onlookers nave
been wet with tears. The seventeen hag-drap0a
collins brought home to all the swift days "orA
at Vera Cruz And the bodyguard Of fellow sailor
men and marines. striplings all, like the men VINO
died spoke better than words of the lives and hopes
that were sacrificed under tropic sun In the name
Of the nation.
AS one of the crowd 1t is easier to say wnat
.rro+ons were not aroused than what were. There
was no word Of vindictiveness or hatred Tor 'he
Mexicans who defended their city. There were no
curses or war-breathng defances. The utter ao'
sence of any lingo spirit was as conspicuous as 1t
has boen throughout the whole tedious, dishearten-
ing tangle of the last weeks and months. here
MAINLY, were not people clamoring for conquest
or revenge.
But we think II equally msrepresents the spirit
~ the civ. as it misrepresents the spirit Of the
nation, to say that the public was shocked and
stunned by the tragedy Of the caissons-over
whelmed by the realization Of what war meant
Such pont Of view we consider, ignores the spirit
in which the seventeen died and ignores the spirit
IN which their memory lives and heartens every
man who deserves to be called American. Ihere
was nothing spectacular in the end OF these men.
They died, officially, in policing custom house
unoficially, in a laundering, inexperienced act Of
war; An Insignificant item in the worlds history
at the most. Yet we doubt If there are many OF
their fellow citizens anywhere who are not better,
sturdier Americans to-day for the routine perform
ance of these soldiers and sailors duty at Vera
Cruz
1t is the weakness Of peace that IN 1t we become
hypercritical and dstrustul It is the strength OF
war, Of the drumming guns that have no doubts"
that It rekindles a truer, simpler loyalty to the
nation we love. The seventeen caissons told SIM
pie enough story But long as nations are nations
1t is story which will stir and ennoble From It
can flow no dread or drawing back, but only finer
and more stanch resolve-"an increased devotion"
which no rhetoric can becoud or bunders confuse.
That devotion knows no persons and cares for
no ambitions 1t trusts the good faith Of the ma
tional will and stands ready to support that will 10
the uttermost.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
Phrases versus Facts.

One passage In President Wilson's address at the
navy yard yesterday shows how easy 1t is for him
to confuse ideas by translaing them into specious
surface phrases. He once more put what he con-
ceves to be the gst of his Mexican policy into these
words:
We have gone down TO Mexico to serve mankind
II we can find out the way. We do not want TO
fight the Mexicans. We want to serve the Mexcans
if A war Of aggression is not war
in which II is proud thing TO die, but of
service is thing in which it is proud thing TO die.
Mr.. Wilson's motives high and It is tribute
to them that he describes his Mexican and Latin
American policy of service" Yet he has
been 80 absorbed In his own altruism that he has
been unable TO see how essentially aggressive and
provocative his offers Of Service have been to the
Latin-Americans, naturally suspicious of the United
States and highly Jealous Of their own sovereignty.
In his Mobile speech last winter he pushed 10 a
new extreme the implications Of the Monroe Doc
trlne He told the Latin-American countries that
the United States intended not only to guarantee
them against the political aggressions of Europe
but against its financial aggressions. He said in
effect that this country desired to set up censor
ship over the concessions given by Latin-American
countries to European promoters and this an
nouncement was hailed by Professor Ford. of
Princeton, in an article in 1.-The Atlantic Monthly"
as the new Wilson Doctrine"
Setting up a censorship over Latin-American
grants or concessions may look like service" from
this side OF the shield. But to the Latin Americans
IL must look like forcble and unwarrantabe IN
reference with their autonomy.
II was exactly the same with the Wilson ultima.
tum to Huerta last summer. Huerta told that
he must resign. must not be a candidate for re-
election and must not put dummy Of his into the
Presidency. II that merely a friendly Service
Huerta couldn't see II, could the Mexican peo-
pie see It. II political Intervention in e1-
IRENE form, which outside power should have
attempted If IT was not ready TO back up its demand
al once by military force
II is well to clear up our ideas Of what we are
doing In Mexico. II intervening there 1t is be
cause our responsibilities under the Monroe Doc
trne require us 10 intervene. We are looking after
American interests first, then the interests OF for
eieners domicied in Mexico, and finally the inter
ests of the Mexicans themselves. We may be doing
ON obyious service TO ourselves and 10 Europe but
IN Mexicans the service We are doing them is not
obvious They must accept Intervention from ne
cass,tv. not from choice We cannot expect them 10
be composed and grateful because they, BOO. ere
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
The Coming Toyer
Veritas, cum Laude.

whenever am very. very quiet,
And look as though again I'd never bulge
My lips TO smilo Indeed I'll not deny til,
You always know that I've been reading Judge
II notified clouds Of gloom surround my features.
SO thickly black twoud seem that I'd been struck
BY old hard times thickly cursed by creatures
Most horrible. why. blame 1t all on Puck"
But when my eye gives forth CLINT inspiring.
And chuckles hold me tightly in their power,
My subway neighbors never seem inquirng;
They knon I've reached the last line OF the Tower!
JACK.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEpYs.

May 9-Up early and with Stephen Whitman the
tayle writer to Princeton, and on the way dis
coursed Of this and that, mostly upon matters re-
atng to letters pOliticks life and morals TO Jesse
Williamss then and beat him at tennis the first
time ever did So and then we had fine luncheon
and In the stead of the so-wondrous apple pasty I
was expecting we did have some griddlecakes and I
had over a dozen Of them, TIL Mistress Alice no
longer asked whether | would have more, but
had them taken off the table Saw the Cornes de-
feat the Prncetons at baseball and then saw the
boys from Columbia faster than the Princetons
or the crew from PENS Woods. In the evening did
watch number Of men abourlng hard TO have
jolly time but meseemed they did try too hard, so
TO Tom Niles's room and found fine bed there
which lay on, and to sleep.
10-Woke at eight, and found nobody in the room
soever. Up and to Jesses court, where Mr. Bingo
Wells beat me two sets and him but one, but In
the afternoon trounced Jesse again. Came lady
and her husband from New York IN their petrol
Wagon and took me home through the fair country
To the Office, but had no heart for work. yet did
my stint, albeit halfaseep.
Ito the ball-park with l. Cobb and we made
merrment back and forth, as Mr. Lardner hath It.
Then G. Rice the poet told us some ayles about VIII
Phelon, whom l used work at the next desk to in
the old days in Chicago and some were most droll
too. To the Office where until eleven at my Journal
and other scrivening and so homo and to bed
From the pages OF the unqualified American and
the esteemed World Messrs. Mathewson McGraw
and Chance speak to those that read and run not
Beginning next Monday Our Own Frank McMatty
will tell readers about the pennant races in the
National and American Leagues
SONOROUS INSCRIPTION FOR SUBWAY FAcADn
COMPOSED BY OUR DR.. WOODROW ELIOT
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

terested TO know that the writer has a
helping hand which he would like to ex-
tend. He may be unfortunate enough not
20 have the right hand. However II 1t is
not right, It can be passed on to some
other worthy citizen. Please see that this
letter is passed on to the proper parties
who can make use OF It, and oblige one
OF your sincere admirers,
HANDY ANDY.
New York, April %, 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
A Friend In Need.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 7 note in your columns that, be-
sides being a good up-to-date newspaper.
you have an eye to philanthropio work.
which is very commendable.
The young man that you mentioned a
looking for . position and able to ret onA
u Ia uf,Ychn "a a fnIsA- hsoA -. - -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
CONTRADICTORY PRESCIENCE.

Sir: Is It the crux Of contribia conceit or the
pinnacle OF presumption TO buy oose-leaf scrap
book? Or would you call 1t merely the final OF
forehandedness?
And do you know the contrib who is not super
stitous but" won't keep a scrap-book. lest each
landing be the last? To avoid this hoodoo, and yet
save ones stuff one keeps all the Towers. And like
the owner OF the camel in the tent the contrib
moves out to make room for the Towers BAB
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12

The CLINT and chuckes may be due, Jack to the
fact that you've reached the last linea reliefsmlle
Of Witness. In making which AMI
madversion we maliciously conscious Of beating
a legion Of contribs to II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12

going to be served by what is primarily an Ameri-
can, not a Mexican, policy.
Confusing idealistic phrases like the president
are only hndrance to a clear understanding on all
sides of the Mexican problem.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12

The successful drama Within Law" which ha, run
FOR two seasons In New York city will he the attraction
the Jefferson Theaer Saturday night May 9th four
has received the endorsement
dent but prominent men and women with itera
art politics and drama, Including every dramatic
critic in the metropolis well Allen Dale who wrots
the play NV "NS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
mot that he isn't good los.r. too

Henry Ford must be fine, broad-minded citizen,
but we shouldn't blame him If he refused to adver-
tise his car in the Americas, Ga, Times Recorder.
The T.-R carries livery ad which says For Hire,
Fords and Automobiles"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12

Well, Lord Wmborne is going to send the polo
team over. though it Is not, the cable rsee sport
page-Adv'tl says, the strongest quartet England
possesses The result Of the game, then Is as good
as printed and we have Won again Just the same
we are giving 10 on the English
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
LOWELL, THE POOR LOSER.

Sir: l suppose It only remains for me to con-
graduate Mr.. Rhengod Merngueglace as the most
misSpelled man in America. VIII the pleasing vo-
calist drop In at my exhibit the Washington
Irving Bldg. (Adv.) and select himself Life draw
ing? ORsoN LOWELL.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12

Young Mr. Walter Mills. who is 6lling Old Ed
Howe's place on the Atchison Globe, observes that
fishing takes man out into the open air. even IL he
can't induce the tickle fish to Join him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12

It is Silas's correct notion Of journalistic mis-
demeanor for paper to print column on the
sneezng OF Becker and to ignore the discovery OF
moisture on Mars
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12

The esteemed Millbrook, ~ Y Mirror Is there
with the simpspeng stuff 1t speaks of "the St
Francis EIeviour institute"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12

Omar Khayyam was qualified TO he a morning
you shall.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
THE CoMPLEAT sLANGLER.

From George Mersdith's poernsI
Were We not destined to meet by one planet,
Can fate sever us?-cdH IL, al! can M
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
ALL THE SAM &.

honesty Is the best policy. ht. all tire
same some OF our ssteeme, contem-
poraries In New York have dine Srstsy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12

Yesterday this days madness did prepare
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12

SONOROUS INSCRIPTION FOR SUBWAY FACADE
COMPOSED BY OUR DR. woopsow ELIOT
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12

Entered at tho PostoGics at New York a. s'o'n' ''
Matter.
The Detroit times., 1914-04-01

TO law passed AGAINST him. make him pay pEopnate
70 service rendered when refuse
passed 70 protect him and his property from thieves
ANY girl who the true daughter
two ways Of dshonor win select neither girl
society ahoud bss itself By placing the ballot
that tho shortcomings manmade law for her
wisely and
The sympathy Of The Times al with the worker against
employer who refuses indozse the policy live and let live
Our sympathy however, also the side justice; violence
never, either aide.
The whose bunss has made him rich and .
ton was whose toll has helped him s che
tisf for he Withholding that which does belong
him. no less . crme
Iensny often due the fallen and the plight the working girl
have called for nency but procedure places tho dis.
eonay in judges unquesonab make
Shan not mscay and b thed with inoompetens upon
this jury
TWO WRONGS DO NOT MAKE RIGHT
The Detroit times., 1914-04-01
The Quick and the Dead

Driven by want and worry to mis-
fortunes last resort. the morgue,
Lonar Zell, q San Francisco gardener,
left timely farewell message.
Buy me no Clothes" it said; "the
living need more help than the dead"
II all the outlay which grieving af-
lection makes in memory of the cher
ished dead could be saved to show
justice or mercy to the living, 1t
would be a happier world; and the
dead, could they know, would be like
ly to approve.
In framing his will. q multimillion-
aire recently left the bulk of his great
estate in trust to endow q snowy GEN.
etery. He wanted an imposing mauso-
leum built to perpetuate his memory:
and. around 1t, flowers and shrubbery
and magnificent trees. To the empty
pomp Of life he would add the useless
pomp Of death. continuing his vanity
down the ages.
He did not know that the joyous
laughter Of one happy child at play
would have made better memorial
The Detroit times., 1914-04-01
People Should Use the Ballot.
To the Editor of The Tin,es:

To the Editor of The Times:
I am a reader OF your valuable pa
per. wall say that like 1t the best
Of any daily that I ever read. You
print everything In the right spirit
and believe you print the truth. 1t
Is clean and upright, and up-to-date.
am glad to read the truth regard
less Of political parties.
! am not In favor Of q party that is
plundering the people. 1t seems to
me that this nation is ruled by the
capitalist. and that the people, who
produce the wealth OF the nation, do
not have much to say. II man pro-
duces wealth, he should own 1t, and
II he does not. he should not own 1t.
The greatest cause for the high cost
Of living today, Is the middlemen's
profits. Let them go to work and
help produce the wealth of the ma
ton, and 1t would reduce the high
cost of living billions Of dollars. Just
look around and see the people who
do not produce their own living. They
are waiting for someone to come and
hand them their good hardearned
money for nothing. 1t is high time
that the wealth-producing class of
people organized to go to the polls
and use the ballot, drive the capital.
istic power out Of existence, and form
q government by the people for the
people. VIM. MOREHOUSE,
Evart, Mich. March 80, 1914.
The Detroit times., 1914-04-01
From Another Point of VieU

What Richmond Pearson HobsOn
seeks to find out now Is whether his
constituency choice IL still Hobs0n.
Hudson Maxim, who sold us armor
plate recommended as impenetrable.
now wants to sell us the only ex-
plosive that will force projectile
through 1t. Which, also, Is getting
US going and coming.
There IL no personal Issue between
the president and mysslf.-Champ
Nice. gentle backhanded jab at
q certain gentleman who halls from
Nebraska and who was prominent In
the last national convention Of the
Democracy.
Honduras is shipping sponges.
Then. again. there are sponges that
just simply win not be ahipped.
Highwaymsn having taken q Pc
destrain's revolver away from him.
II seems TO be more unsafe than ever
TO carry one Of the things.
Circulation Of Villas currency has
been prohibited In Mexico. Maybe it
has his picture on 1t.
Going to prove conclusively that
this 10 Democratic administration.
The Detroit times., 1914-04-01
Coal Grab Defeated
By But Single Vote

MIMI: Oliver, Pa; Overman. N. C.;
Owen. Okla; Perkins. CAL; Ransdeil.
La; Smith, Ca: Smith. 8. c.; Ster'
ling. 8. Da.; Thompson. Kans.; Thorn
ton. La Tillman. s. c.; Vardaman.
Miss; Walsh. Mont; Warren, Wyo.
The insincerity of southern SEN
ators who gave as their reason for
voting against the original suffrage
resolution their objection to interior
ing with states rights" was shown
up when Senator Shafroth introduced
resolution leaving the question to
state referendums. Senator Bryan. OF
Florida, moved that this resolution be
referred to the judiciary graveyard
committee. instead OF the committee
or woman suffrage. Every single
southern senator who had previously
voted against the suffrage resolution
Joined with Senator Bryan in trying
to have this states rights" Shafroth
resolution sent to the judiciary COM
mittee and so killed, showing that
not one OF them Is honestly In favor
OF suffrage. The claim has been made
that this Shafroth resolution could
receive six or seven more votes Of
states rights" senator's than the orig
inol resolution. but this vote shows
that none of the states Fighters" has
had q change OF heart and that their
excuses were but excuses. 1t appears
that the National Woman Suffrage
association has been badly fooled in
allowing Shafroth to introduce his
compromise" resolution, and that
those suffragists AFFILIATED with the