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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
THE DESIRE TO DIG
II Is in All of Us and Should Be Care
fully Nurtured.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: One of thu greatest disadvantage
Of city life is that it prevents people ron
indulging in that natural and inStincD''
inclination TO dig in tne eartn anu
plant seeds. The pitiful ltue po''e.
plants which one sees in the windo"s -
tenements and the window gardens
of more fortunate urban jewellers ano'D
evidence Of the universally OF TINS 'e
sire to see things grow"
During my long experience as pn'S'
cal trainer / have associated with men .,
all walks OF life, and from clerk anu
hoorwalker to capitalist and protessiOnS'
man nearly all have confessed 10 an am
bition to spend their declning years ="
a farm. IL is this separation from Wv
soil that accounts for much OF the DC
generacy OF certain type OF city you".
A movement which has been successiui
iy instituted in several cities. and whlSn
deserves the encouragement and suppo''
or humanitarlans everywhere, Is thA'
which has for its end the setting aside OF
plots OF ground in the outskirts OF clues
where the children OF the POOR may plan
and till gardens. Under this plan th'
youngsters are. OF course, permitted u
claim as their own the products OF IN
plot allotted TO them and which they hav'
cared for, and prizes are offered for IN
best products OF the garden. 81 L.
Babylon. n. Y. May'4. 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
A CONVERT TO SEX EQUALITY
What Every Woman Knew Hundred
Years Ago.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: My mother was an only dauSh-
ter, and had four brothers, older than
herself. Ny grandfather was well-to-
do farmer in Vermont. lie should have
been we'll to do, for at the age when
boys are most useful on the farm he
sent these four boys TO Dartmouth COL
lege. This was a little more than a
hundred years aSo. and not long after
Vermont was set of from New York and
made a state. The country was sparsely
settled, but by a class Of people who
valued an education. Money was sub
scribed and an academy was endowed
where the boys could be fitted for col
lege.
Only for boys. be it understood My
mother could also appreciate an educa-
ton, and her intellectual gifts were
fully equal to those Of her brothers
Grandfather was man Of few words.
somewhat arbitrary. and with very set
opinions. My mother gently suggested
that she would like 10 go to school and
TO college. Grandfather's reply was,
NO. Betty il is quite enough for you 10
knit the stockings and make the shirts
for the boys to go TO college"
But the brothers were more consider
ate OF her wishes than their father, and
in vacations and odd times loaned her
their books and instructed her in ways
that gave her much pleasure and some
encouragement. One Of blessed memory,
in particular, now gone TO glory \
book printed in English on one page,
in French on the next, they studied to-
gether-a book now in tho family, and
much cherished. They read Cowper. Pol
locks Course of Time" Montgomery's
poems and other books, not too many,
at that time
District schools were opened end
teachers looked out for My mother
was probably better educated than most
girls of the time. At any rate. she was
asked TO take small school. at one
dollar per week and board. The term
was to be ten weeks. Grandfather OPP
posed her taking the school, said he
did not believe in women teachers. It
gave them entirely toe much command
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

and unified them for wives. He did
not prevent her. and she took the school.
Time passed pleasantly, and the short
term came TO close. Her trustee told
her he had not the money TO pay her
then, but saw her father frequently and
would hand IL TO him.
Time passed by, days. even weeks, but
no money. In despair. as girls Will, she
went TO ker mother inquiring, What
do you suppose has become of my
school money!"
The answer was. why, your father
has It in his pocket, and has had 1t for
a long time" In justice to her father,
IL must be said he gave his daughter
her money. He knew what business
should be, had been in tho state LeGis-
lature. had filled many town offices, and
was a member Of the church.
Some way his dull eyes and slow
brain OWNED that that much justice
was due his daughter. and acted ac-
cordingly. MARY II. SEMPLE.
Franklin Square House, Boston,
May >. 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
PRAISE FOR THE BOOKSELLERS
Strikers Are Called Spoiled Children
with Fantastic Ideas.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: II is about time that somebody
came TO che rescue of the Rockefellers.
Things have come to a pretty pass when
the owners of great wealth have not the
same rights as other people. When the
clerks In a little grocery store do not
Ike their Job. they strike and that is all
there is Of II. They are not sympathized
with when they threaten. riot, commit
arson and murder. The United States
government does not send the little mer-
chant kilograms advising him to confer
with the strikers. Tho strikers do not
seem to feel that they own the little
mans shop.
Prestol Change! How different when
the business is a big one, The owner
becomes an object OF hatred. and even his
life is threatened, and wiseacres express
the opinion that he should at least enter
into a conference. How is 1t that mere
magnitude changes Justice into injus-
tice?
l admire the Rockefeller refusal TO
treat with the unions. especially those
who want to arbitrate the open shop.
WIN d uIllOu 10 dD dthlONl-
edgment that the union is rightfully en-
titled to a part ownership in the capital
devoted to production. Strikers are spoiled
children. They have been conferred with
until they have come actually TO believe
that the business man administers a
trust for the good OF his partners, the
workers and strikers.
There are some people who have made
their money honestly and legally. Ida
Tarbell TO the contrary Notwithstanding.
II they made their money too easily in
some instances, il is no more than the
strikers would have done had the OPP
portunity presented. II they sometimes
took advantage of a monopoly law, who
made this monopoly law but the voter?
II they have more money that 1t is good
for one citizen to have. il is not half
so sensible to resort to violence as II is
TO employ the American method ana elect
representatives to find out what really
Is the matter. IL anything.
+. d. BRINKERHOFF.
Fall River. Mass. May 4. 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
Mr.. O'Gorman on Canal Tolls.

So,o+or O,Corman's speech yesterday against the
S,o canal tolls exemption repeal bill had all the
earmarks Of an apology for lost cause Inc oen
otor Knows fully that he Is beaten since the willing
noes Of the repeal forces to accept the Simmons
amendment has made victory for them srer thah
ever before.
The whole strength Of the fight to retain e1emp
tion from tolls for American coastw1se shlppins,
apart from an obvious play on antfBr1usn PreJu
dces rested in the claim that the United states py
yielding ts mower TO exempt coastwise vessels wouiu
surrender by implication the right to forury inc
canal and close il against an enemys SHIPS III uho
If war and would impair various other prerogatves
arising from our ownership and what the anu-repea
ers call our Sovereignty" In the Canal zone. Inc
simmons amendment is complete disclaimer vi
this country's purpose to yield any treaty rlghIs
which it now possesses Tolls are TO be relmposeu
unon American coastwise vessels because we choose
10 reimpose them, and the Sims bill In Its amenueu
form can be voted for both by those who THINK tnat
we are pledged to discriminate In FAVOR Oh our
own shipping and by those who think that we nave
the right to discriminate, but on economic grounds
would be foolish to use it.
Most Of Mr.. OGormans argument falls TO the
ground in view of the Simmons disclaimer IL is
useless to say that Congress Is surrender1ng treaty
rights when IL expressly anHouuCeS lh"I IL 40 NV
surrendering them. The Simmons amendment mar
rows the issue down to whether or not we want to
give an indirect subsidy 10 coastwse ships On this
Mr.. OGorman argues in a circle. He says that from
the international law point Of view vessels of COM
merce Of all nations cannot be interpreted as IN
Guiding coastwise vessels He thus takes the TAFT
Knox position that coastwse vessels are In special
class under the canal treaty, and that exempting
them from tolls is simply voting them domestic
subsidy. But at another point Mr.. O'Gorman Ia
ments the fact that If free passage is denied to
coastwise ships you make it forever impossible to
confer 1t upon the ships engaged In overseas trade
One thing stands out clearly in the New York
Senator's speech. lie is ardent, thoroughgoing
foe Of the Hay-P auncefote treaty, and the more
points at which he could break it the better satisfied
he would be. Eager he seems to be to give
subsidy to coastwise ships it is easy TO that it
would be little or no pleasure to him TO grant 1t if
he could not at the time rip the insdes out of
the Hay-Pauncefote convention
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
The Apology to Colombia.

We do not agree with Colonel Roosevelt that 1t is
yielding to blackmail' to pay over $25,OOOO0O as
solatium TO the Republic Of Colombia Colombia be-
haved foolishly when 1t rejected the Hay-Herran
treaty and tried to squeeze the United States In
canal route concession bargain. Grasping for more
he greedy Bogota politicians lost ALL and they de-
erved little sympathy, since they were warned in
dvance that Panama would probably secede and
eal independently with the United States were the
HayHerran treaty TO be rejected.
Nevertheless, most people in this country feel that
colombia did sustain a material loss through the
accession Of Panama and the sacrifice Of future
rentals on the canal right Of way. We do not want
to let an old disappointment rankle and embitter
our relations with the nations of Central America
In a spirit of pure generosity afford to give
away S25OOOOOO in order TO help bury the i'll feeling
aroused by the clash of interests in 1903.
But we cannot afford to take all the blame for that
break and put ourselves before the world In the
light Of apOlogizing for the foreign policy under
which we secured legal and equitable title to
right of way across Panama. Colonel Roosevelt Is
fully justified in denouncing the apology ncorpo-
rated into the treaty with Colombia. The pre-
amble of the convention which has been kept under
cover in Washington. but which has reached this
country through French and Colombian publications
IS highly offensive in that 1t makes the United
States express and Colombia accept regrets the
severance Of friendly relations. Either both nations
should express and both accept regrets or the past
should be ignored.
We cannot believe that the Senate will approve n
treaty containing a preamble maladroitly drawn
and imposing on the United States a confession of
culpabllity so unwarranted In fact and so grossly
offensive to national honor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
No Fraudulent Constitutional Convention.

Mr. Herbert r. Limburg. attorney for the Inde-
pendence League who is considered an authority on
election law does not agree with other lawyers that
here is no way TO prevent the holding of consttu-
ional convention next year based on fraudulent
otes He insists that If District Attorney Whit
mans Investigations Of ballot frauds in Tammany
districts Indicate an overturn Of the 1858 margin
for the convention equity suit will stop further
progress In addition to this remedy precedent for
which exists in other states, he contends that a
mandamus action might be brought against the
Board Of Elections TO prevent printing Of ballots
with names OF candidates for delegates TO the con-
yention on them.
The City Club which favored the convention, has
announced that il frauds sufficient to invalidate the
vote are disclosed it will seek to prevent the conyen
ton. 1t is to be hoped some such action Will be
forthcoming and it would come with better grace
from advocates Of the convention than from poiit-
Clans opposed to It If the vote in favor Of this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
KEEP TO THE RIGHT"
How Our Careless Pedestrians Hamper
Sidewalk Traffic.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: I read with much pleasure the
letter of Moses Allen Warren appearing
In your issue of the 5th inst 1 agree
with him that signs should be placed
along the sidewalks probably attached
to the lamp-posts), bearing the words
Keep TO the Right" and the further
inscription SLOW Moving People Keep
to the Furthest Right" When the
home rush starts on Park Row, from
Broadway to the bridge, it's job for a
moderately fast walker to navigate, what
with pokes, young men and boys stopping
every little while TO see some faker cut
A potato In a new way land thus block
ing the way OF those In back, and VINO
don't care about potatoes anyway
newsboys standing any old place most
convenient to themselves and most IN
convenient for every one else, and, last
but not least, the skulker who insists
upon getting as near as possible 10 the
building line when he should be, for the
direction in which he is going, out near
the curb. All OF these little things
hamper growth, for they are very irri-
table, especially when you are In a hurry
to make connections and have not the
wherewithal to hire a taxi.
Let us hope that this condition will
soon be attended to by our Police De-
partment and be as we'll regulated as
the street traffic. u. y. hOGAN'
New York, May s. 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
THE POLICE HONOR FUND
Private Subscriptions Are Needed 10
Succor Needy Families.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: / wish TO call attention 10 The
need for increasing the Honor Lego,
Fund in the Police Department. During
the last twelve months no less thaa
eight policemen have been murdered 10
this city by criminals whom they were
seeking 10 arrest. Some OF the pocemen
left families who were entirely without
resources upon which they might draw
until the formalitles preceding relief from
tho pension fund could be complied with
The murder OF Detective Sergeant Jc-
seph Guarnieri last month, leaving bis
widow, with three small children. PENN
ness, impelled some public spirited cia'
zens TO found the Honor Legion Fund
to be used for immediate relief in such
cases. 1t is hoped that this fund may
be made large enough TO yield an income
sufficient to relieve temporary distress
among the families OF policemen who
give their lives to the city in the perform
ance OF their duty. Already il has suecorea
the families OF two other policemen be-
sides that of Guarnleri
The fund must be replenished and IN;
creased by private contributions. con-
cert is TO be given for its benefit at the
Waldorf-Astoria next Tuesday evenlns.
Tickets at 81 30 and 81 may be obtalnea
from Philip Rhinelander, at Y william
ST., or donations directly 10 the fund ma!
be made to him in money or checks pay
able TO his order.
W. A. MARBLE,
Honorary Chairman OF tho Citizens
Committee.
New York, May 7. 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
In the Mountains.

James Northcote, the painter, pupil Of Sir
Joshua Reynolds, crossed the Alps in 1910. After
dining with the Carthusan monks at Grenobe-"the
only dinner l met with on the journay which
too luscious for my stoamch"-he proceeded as he
himself narrates:
| and my conductor had pass Mount Cents.
which was covered with snow. This we did mounted
mules. with mules to carry our baggage each led
by muleteer; it was not unpleasant, and attended
with neither difficulty danger. The vetturino
when on the mountain pulled night-cap which he
had his head his eyes, and l. following his
example, did the same concluding that there must be
some good reason for SO doing.
BY this means saw nothing OF the mountain
cept that when was the summit of il the high
wind blew my hat Off and then put up my cap to
what was become of it. The appearance as
had been up among the clouds; distant prospect
was to be discovered. When my hat was brought to
me | put ii on my head, pulled down my cap again,
and went on as before
The sentiment for mountains is a modern one
Addison and Gray, in the eighteenth century
that Northcote ornamented, conscious only of
the horror of the Alps The New HeloIse" by
Citizen Jean-Jacques of Geneva, was to open the
eyes of educated travellers to the beauties of noun
tain scenery and to inspire many sentimental Jour
ney. Then came Byron Yet as late as 1924 Ecker
mann remarked to Goethe that TO him. born in the
plains" Alpine scenery, as depicted in paintings
produced an uncomfortable feeling he had no de-
sire to explore II. That feeling is natural said
the great poet Really, that state is alone suitable
to man in which, and for which, he was born He
who is not led abroad by great objects is far hap
pier at home. Switzerland, at first made so great
an impression upon me that it disturbed and con-
fused me- CHiy after repeated visits-only in after
years. when visited those mountains merely as a
minera ogist-coud | feel at my ease among them. "
Even the Romans Gas Hegel tells u.s. were always
conscious of thrill Of fear in the presence OF
anything unknown; and wasn't Goethe persuaded
that he was an Antonine rencarnae?
To-day we all profess TO admire nature in all her
FORMS and most of us pretend that TO also
High mountains are a feeling but the hum
OF human cities torture
Some part Of this emotion Is genuine, but there is
great deal of humbug in many persons exclama-
TONS Who knows? Perhaps it would be better, on
the whole if all such were sincere like the week
enders at Atlantic City, who frankly stare into the
shop windows of the Boardwalk and peer into the
face Of every promenader. and turn their backs on
the ocean. Sincerity has its merit, even when one s
taste Is bad With sincerity there is hope Of our
improving.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
A Fiasco Conspiracy.

Just what advantage Becker could have oo'
tained from the elaborate attack Of Tombs prisoners
on Commissioner Davis's administration which she
charges him with engineering is not clear The
threatened scandal could have been disproved so
easily that the game was hardly worth the candle
1t is fortunate that the thing was discovered But
either way 1t bound to miss fire. No attack on
Miss Davis could help Becker. and much moro than
an attack on her by all the prisoners in the Tombs
would be necessary to dscredit the Correction Com
missioner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

Eagle against Mr.. Coler. then presided
of the Borough OF Brooklyn, and the
pathetic collapse of his libel suit againsi
that newspaper. l decided not 20 assist
that gentleman in his pitiful attempts At
political rehabilitation through the Amer
can flag. He a defender OF our inst.
tutions and our glorious fag7 Excuss
me. A. FICHANDLER
Department OF Education. Office OF the
Principal OF P. S. ie5, Brooklyn. MU
6, 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
In Reply to Mr.. Golfer.
o the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: | have read with considerable
amusement the frantic outburst OF Bird
5. Coler proclaiming me IS "a traitor
TO the American flag and an enemy 10
the Republic" A few OF my friends adj
vised immediate criminal libel proceed
inss. but. as | recalled the good old days
OF the Medina Sandstone Company, the
charges made by Tho BROOKLYN Daily
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08

Old Larry Anhalt sends letter received from
young man who says be is "twenty-three years DID,
five feet eight inchs tall about, slender and not par
ticularly good looking" He wants to be press
agent for Miss Annie Russell. He writes eight
pages about her as a sample of his style and ends
with 81 have enough sense not to expect an easy
time ahead Of me. When my salary permits 1t /
will take lessons In voice, dancing and fencing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08

convention honest, by however small plurality
the proposal carried. the convention should be
held But It would be a farce and worse-a dis
grace-if attempt were made to change the states
organic law in a gathering summoned by the man
date Of Tammany- stuffed ballot boxes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
THE SEVEN AGES OF A CONTRIB.
BY WENBY

as the weather more hallowed than the Andes
MountainsT asks the Rev. Emory J. Haynes. DO
we not say to the mountains Of Panama: Please
remove We order you off, ye eternal hills III you
do not go we men will remove youT Any one de-
string the short end of eight-tofve bet with us
will have to wager that the men didn't have to re-
move them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08

And will you please name your zinc waste basket
Posterity" duplicates f. S. C., lin consideration of
the gems that 60 down TO it?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
The Tribune uses !

The Tribune uses its best endeavors to insure inc
rusworthiness of every advertisement 1t prints anu
O avoid the publication of ell advertisements contain
!ng misleading statements or claims
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08

9The handling is free says an art criticism In
the Evening Post land annuity OF mood pervades
the whole" Just what annuity of mood Is we
haven't notion, unless it be something like 20
payment life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
SPEAKING OF ELUDING THE PROOFROOM-

TFrom the Norwich On y SUM-
Women pursuers are employed on some OF
the Hudson River boats
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
".wHoM ARE your SAID CYRIL"

fFrom Judge jury quoted in the Bureau
of Chemisrys Service and Regulatory Announcements
What was the class Of people whom he knew was
going to see what he wrote?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
tFrom the Atlanta Georgian

from the Atlanta Georglsn.l
pigeon blue tafeta gong-away gown added to
Miss Wilson's trousseau. 1t has the gathered tunic
at the hip line and the lower part Of the coat Is
gathered to deep joke
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08

Are you interested In baseball? Get Sunday )
GOTHAM WEEKLY GAZETTE for the latest picture of
the Yankees-Advt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08

Does the Hon Huerta remember that the Hons
Ballinger and Lorimer wouldn't resign, either?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08

Mr. W. Bourke Cochran, at a dinner given to Mr..
Frank Moss, referred to the District Attorney as
the heart and brains Of the force that directed the
triumphant conflict for the vindicaton OF justice"
But now, In court, Mr. Cochran seems to discredit
Mr.. Whitman This proves % that one should not
take a mans dinner-speeches seriously or (2) that
one should not take mans courtroom attitude
seriously Transformations thought-it proves
that one should not-but no!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08

Owned and published daily by The Tribune Assoe. -
New York corporation. ogden NJ. Reid Presoena' "
Vernon Rosers Secretary Addre" Irioun
Building, No. I54 Nassau street. New YORK
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08

We don't especially envy General Funston his
permission TO extend his lines
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08

II the esteemed Giants want bit Of encourage
ment, here 1t is: We hazarded few pieces-of-eght
with the Sport Ed. yesterday that Pittsburgh would
end the season ahead of New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08

"No great thing was ever done in a hurry" says
the Rev. A. Edwin keigwin, who really should
come into the Office about 1870 some night and
only the scaffolding OF the Tower done.