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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
The States New Era in City Government

Governor Gynns signature Of the Muraugn'Sulli-
van optional city charter bill puts on the statute
books a measure which should be great help 10
improved municipal housekeeping in this state This
measure applicable to all second and third class
cties-that is, to all cities save New York. Bu1alo
and Rochester-permits the adoption by referendum
vote. OF one Of seven forms of charter outlined IN
the law These include variations Of the commits
sion government and the city manager charters as
we'll as the more conservative Mayor and small
council scheme All the charters are built on the
short ballot idea, and all make provision for more
concentration of authority in the executives than the
average municipal charter does now.
The new law is An answer to the demand, voiced
all over the state for greater efficiency in city gov
eminent and more real home rule. II was advocated
hv the state Conference Of Mayors and the Munici-
nal Government Association The Mayors by OK
pericnce in practical work. and the association, by
study Of municipal problems. knew how the average
charter made unnecessarily difficult or in cases
impossble the short simple, direct way Of doing
things necessary to he done in city affairs. Every
city striving for better police better fire protection
cleaner streets purer water supply better school
houses and lower taxes has found this out. The
fact that in the few years since the Galveston dis
aster more than four hundred cities in tho country
have adopted the commission form Of government
which originated then while many have advanced
to the more autocratic hut more direct city manager
plan shows the possibility Of better conditions under
new municipal scheme OF working. This state Will
watch with interest the operation Of the new law
There are one or two commission charter munich
patieS here now and the Legislature only this year
adopted bill for commission charter for Buffalo
It is certain that there Is demand enough for inn
proycment in several second class cities now 10 as
sure vote some Of the charter forms which
the law permits
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
PHYLLIS TO HER couTURIER.

| can step but seven inches at a time
And ] dare not sit or speak in pantomlme
While my dearest friends ignore me
In the street, or else implore me
Madly not to wear my purple hair sublime
There IS nothing can restore me
From the ridicule that's DER mo,
And it's all because Of your artistic crime.
Oh you're drawing wilder patterns every day
In your terrible Faubourg St HonOre.
As you clutch your brow supernal
TO design new fashions vernal,
81 must vanquish Loon Bakst," is all you say.
You gre horrid. you're Internal,
With your madness diurnal,
And you're nothing but man, o Paul Polrct!
What do pou know OF the feminine and why
Should a creature in a frock-coGt specify
With DEGREES aristocratic
Though. In truth, you're diplomauc)
What attire the weaker, meeker sex may buy?
Yet perhaps, though, autocrstlc
As you are, you're less erratic
Than are we who must have novelty, or die
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
THE EXPENSE OF SUFFRAGE
An AMT" Seems to Think ihs' "
Would Be Prohibitive.

To the Editor OF The Tribune. =.
Sir: According TO the municipal
book. over $4,000 OF our taxes was
pended last year in handling election,
New York city. VIII one OF your reau''
who advocates 1omjn suffrage hiial, /.
form Us what IL will cost the c.u1'" .,..,
double the electorate o, New fof" w. ~,
and OF New York state? ] ann s''e
,unrasists would not advocate s'oa :,
step without first estimating its '0s'
all Of us. .,s.r
our large electorate already IS e. e..
expensive. as tho high cost Of NNlns .,r
ouently testdes. Economy and en'e n,
in government alone will decrease ~,
present high trend Of expenses "a.
burden of handling an electorate wv" al
large as that which We have alreao, A,
come directly out ~ al our poche's .ol
taxes become higher SO viii ioo' 80,
ront n will be harder FOR the poor
than il il NJ present ,x
Secretary Of the Wage Earners AM"
fgage League
New York. April IL 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21

the Dutch for sixty years. Never could
this alien people to the south be absorbed
even were they not embittered; constant
attention TO this fostering sore for years
on our part would drain attention from
all that is most vital IN our life. The
problems at home of our enormous immi-
grafton and illiteracy our monopohes ana
awful preventable loss OF life would go
upsolyed while we were attempting TO
purish a drunken boor by killing his
wife's second cousins and falling into the
trap which he has laid for us. This is the
rath to glory for the ambitious despot IN
Mexico City, who will, At the head or
United Mexico. be the hero Of his people
against the nation which once before en-
gagged in war with ia war which Cen
eraI Grant, who fought in 1t, pronounced
"one OF tn, most unjust wars ever fought
by a strong people against n weak one.
LUCIA AMES MEAD.
Boston, April 10, 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
An Open Forum for
Public Debte.
TEMPERING JUSTICE WITH MERCY
Life imprisonment IsUrged as Sub,
stitute for the Oath Penalty.

To the Editor OF The ribune.
Sir. NJ H. Keenais justification Il
capital punishment Il apparently based
on the two reasons pat II protects M
citizens OF a country md that long yean
ago Il was written: "1hosoever shall ,an
mans life, his life sail he taken there
for
In the first plhce,H the greatest pen
altv for murder we NE sentence with
no nardou the criminal could do no harm
What &c more. ~ ar who was serving
rfa form could Uy IN sort OF r prison
community, be trqted rs an indl'Iau"'
ba nut AZ some yrk couRen.al 70 him.
rorbape tbe little Iormant good that is In
hin, would he stitd anew and interest IN
right living no awakened Dolou'"
nan other reads besides u. n. Keenan,
r.flI sav an, a.trusting sentimentalst'
Cor ,tie LAST rtntioned argument But
,bo,, ,,,,e+ at pst admit that the GRIM
i,.I croearv ,ardcd. could commit no
more crime.
n the eocor place. why cannot we b
lil Allf E'NNf -
hro,5 enorcb.o admit that law. though
3, No.. rova, xisted for many Thousands
oe yoare ish wrong one? Why saoua
not We peole living IN a cl'.iINsp 80"
temper tustr with mercy? ". j. Keenan,
asks Mr.. pn n he has ever heard Wv
savinq "Wosoever shall take mans hi''
his life sin he taken therefor I"
A~a
- n y keenan, has heard tho sayins
"ro err yhuman, 10 forgive divine.
LILLIAN II. DRrBBBS
New Yrk. April IS, 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21

to include block or more instead OF rev ice'' a.
at present This would seem TO retain tne cniei
advantage of the peg post-that citizen know
where TO find policcman--and at the same tInle
would permit an officer to make himseh uSeluI III
trying doors and making himself generally ophoAlo"'
TO burglars and thugs Al present inc hAeu PoH'
man is about as much Of an active annoyance u 1"
burglar operating down the block as iampposr
If our new Commissioner can clear the PEI lo''
system OF this weakness he will nave very co"'
siderable achievement to his credit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
TIE LEADING QUESTION
The kti-Suffrsgists Are Congr'tul''s'
on the Rising Tide.
Il tblrdLtor al 90 TrLbune.

To tb,rdltor Of Tho Tribune
Cir. In her speech at tho dinner s.S
~, : twentieth anniversary OF mo Ne'
yor,state Woman Suffrage AssoclauoN
Mrs. Dodge stated that Woman sln'Ss'
wulprobably be the leading question :,
tbekampaign when the next PTesloen' -
thai nted States IS elected
bU. everywhere and on all occas'0n'
Ma Dodge and her colleagues sss'.'
int the tide IS rising against woman
sutnee. For more than sixty years -.
fraosts In this country have tried "
mail woman suffrage A great issue enc, enc.
the tide is rising so steadily asei".,
wolan suffrage # must be the wore ..
Nh. Dodge and her friends when 1a'
brlght this issue about She IS indee' "
h, CONGRATULATED on the twenty yee'
wrk. HELEN IAN
New York, April Il, l9A
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
Modifying the Peg Post System.

There is much 10 be said for the fixed post use
u policemen II a city could afford huge force so
that in addition 10 filling these posts IL had an
abundance Of men for patrol work, We should have
IN ideal plan. But with our present force in New
York such a duplication Is impossible and the in.
.tdllation Of peg posts upon an extended scale has
1909, le, tonaby curtaicd the work upon beats # f..
,asy to understand why Mr.. Woods j. undertaking
experiments TO IL modification II ne fixed
nosf ldea cann0t be discovered which will solve both
problems.
one NJ the plans would enlarge fixed post 80 a.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
What Happened to Henry at the Fire'

ft,or, .Notes Of Son and Brother by Henry james,
damned into the acute angle between two hign
foncos where the rhythmic play Of my arms. IN tune
with that Of several other pairs, but at DIRE as
advantage Of position, induced a rural, rusty a
ouasicxtcmporizcd old engine to work and saw
inc stream 70 flow / had done myself. in face OF
shabby confederation, a horrid even if an obscure
hurt and what was interesting from the first was
nv not doubling in the least its duration-thouSh
what seemed equally clear was that | needn't as a
matter of course adopt and appropriate IT, so to
speak or place it for increase of interest on e1hIo
ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21

EENNOl.
Three Boards. in whom the curse Of humour playd
Have each to man the Coming Tow'r cssayd.
The first, in puerility surpassed
The next, IN maudlin Wit in both the last;
Tho Boss patience can no further 20:
Hereafter lac alone will run the show
THE NASSAU LITERARY MAGAZINE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
MR.. EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
ERIC ASPlNWALL.

He used to bore us often every much
with fertilizing frut-treeS and the rest
To me he always seemed like one possessed
With Pan, the god OF gardens. But 10 Sueh
As lacked the fine SuccInct poetic touch
To subtitle and Sublimate The best
In our dull friends, nor acid for the test
His talk was lust as vital As low Dutch
But somewhere hid in Eric ASrinwall
Thouch truly he could not pronounce his 81
There was a kind OF knShip with the stars,
And something OF the thin winds OF the tall,
Those horticultural lisPlngS least OF all
VIII count at last He chung to other SnafS'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21

The usher in Carnegie Hal, when the PhHhar
monic Orchestra and LES Miserabes' in the movies
were competing one evening last week: = nose 20
ng to the Philharmonic concert to the right Less
Miserablcs 10 the left
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN POETRY
Mr.. EZRA POUND.
PHANTASM.

Nv heart is Ike
The moon wantonng .L =
Through the nayy-blue SKY of 7aSsion-nght OF
August
She srokc TO me twice beside the red letter-boT on
the corner g..
And her voice was like miscellaneous hardware split
on slab of IapS lazuli
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21

The Tribune uses its best endeavors 10 lnsu,'
trustworthness Of every advertisement II prns
to avoid the publication of all advertisements '0
ing misleading statements or claims
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
m. HENRY VAN DTR E.
THE WAY OF LOVE.

Do one kind act, however slight,
Al morn: You'll JOY both day and night
one generous word and gentle speak;
You've satisfaction for week.
The memory OF the good deed flows
Like fragrance OF sweet white rose:
The word will haunt and family cling
Like scent of lilacS in the spring.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
The Coming Toqver
The Tables Turned, or Revenge at Last.
DIVES.
Adams: Book 1. Ode 16

Adams: Book I. Ode 16
octblinsls for It's length than any other poem IN
tho inrgusre 4 handsome volume VIII ne given
to the nrst person who detects the false quantity
CVRRVM HABET DIVES DOMVM Ell
RVRI ct VRBI,
FVMAT HERBAM CARAM' ANlMNS
VIDETVR
IAETVS ET sORs NON ONEROSA;
LNDIT
PER DIEM HOMO LILLE.
R1DET rVVANS SE, FVMENIDES
IOVEMQVE.
NON PATITVR VVLNVs 1NIVRIAM-
Owe
OVAS EGESTAS MITTIT, HABEI Rto
MOLLES,
CREDlTE NOBIS.
LAAIPAS ETSI NOSTRA MALE ARDEl'
EHENl
EFT LABoRAMVs FAcERE OMNTA
ARTE,
NVM PVTAS NOS DINlVM NELLL
WIRES?
-IERCLE, VOLO ILLAS!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
THE RICH MAN.

The rich man has his motor car,
HIS country and his town estate
He smokes a hfty-ccnt cigar
And jccrs AZ Fate.
He (rlvoIs through the livelons DAY
10 knows not Poverty her p!nch,
Eis lot seems light. his heart seems gay
lie has cIuch.
ye, though my lamp burns low snd dlm'
Though I must slave for livelihood
Think YOU that / would change with MIN
You bet ! would. "a
-roboggaung on Parnassus, p. 30
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21

DO you know? Eleanor Halloween Aooo't ID "o'
with the Nassau Lt-Ady
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
TUESDAY. APRIL ei. 1914

-, 49,. ,,,,,.nsa daily By The Tribune Association
- yorS coronation ogden NJ Reid freSio'
Vernon Rogers Secretary and Treasurer
Building No 15l Nassau street. New forE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21

r,suv and Sunday mo rs Daily only, months " e
I % $685. mos 42S Daily only year d
Daily and $50 sunday on,y' 80
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
COOL QUERIES on HOT ANIMALS.

b. WILLIAM BLAKE
"Tigor, tiger. turning briqhf $T&k1P
In the forests Of the night, E 49,
What immortal hand or epe ~
CoDId frame TIM fearful sUtDUcfrupr TIGER BU
' ' ING BRIG
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21

SUBSCRIPTION RATEs.--By Mall. Postage PAD 0O''''
Greater New York. u
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
CANADIAN RATES.
FOREIGN RATES.

Entered at tn. Po.tonee New York as Second '''
Matter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21

This ode is OF note having more elLson and
octblin-ts for It's length than any other poem IN
tho inuguare 4 handsome volume VIII ne given
,o the nrst person who detects the false quantity
The Washington herald., 1914-06-22
Tax DOdEinG n Science.

over in England. where they have had
an income tax a long time. lodging the
tax has been developed into a regular
science II one is not very expert in the
science himself. he can hire some one
who is To fix up his tax return in such
manner that really the government will
owe money to the man with the in
come tax. instead of the latter owing
money to the government. These eN-
pertS are able to evolve the most in
genious exemptions that can ne imagined.
and their business is said to he extreme
ly profitable.
All of this suggests the possibility of
the development Of this science in the
United States. There will never be want
ing men who feel that they are being
imposed upon when they are asked 10
give up any part Of their income for
the support OF the government. There
may not he quite so much reason for
lodging the income tax I'm this country
and there may not he quite so many
possible ways of doing it. but il Is a
pretty safe kuess that there will be
some straining Of intelleCts in that d.
rectiOn. Therefore. It is quite probable
that it will he possible before long to buy
expert advice on this Subject-Buffalc
Express
The Washington herald., 1914-06-22
Investigate, by All Means.

Nobody believes that Senators Ovsrman and Chill
ton have been guilty of any wrongdoing in connection
with the exploitation of certain mine. Their expla-
nation that the letter paper of Senate committees to
which they belong used without their knowledge
TO advertise the enterprise is perfectly satisfactory.
The abrse of government stationery in this manner
is not new or uncommon. But it would be foolish
to avoid an investigation as it is said some OF the
Senators willing TO do. Neither Mr. Overman nor
Mr. Chiffon would consent to that, we feel sure.
In these full investigation, with the results
all made public, is the only safe course. When a
Senator becomes interested in gold NINE some sort
OF trouble for him is very likely 10 result 1t may
rot be possible to punish the men who appropriated
official stationery for the purpose of exploiting this
scheme but it is well to bear in mind that the paper
would have been of no more value than blank sheets
if had not borne the names of two prominent states
men interested in the enterprise. 1t may be possible
10 prevent such misuse of the Senates letter paper
the future.-New York Times
The Washington herald., 1914-06-22
Americas Sleuth de Luxe.

The prince OF the printers ink product of detect
ives was not in the least surprised when he learned
that the international Association OF Chiefs of Po
lice had, without the of prestdgitation or mys
terious acids, removed his from its membership
roll 1t is part of the business of great detective
never to be surprised and William J. Burns is by his
own admission, great detective His keen and orig
nal processes of reasoning revealed to him Just what
was coming off at that Grand Rapids convention In
cidentally, he might have obtained the information
from any policeman in any large city, but of course
real detective must never condescend to speak to
policeman.
The truth is, Burns altogether out of place
in any organization of policemen He and the police
inevitable foes because when the bluecoats see
masked man emerging from a second story window at
midnight. carrying bag of silver and pistol they
stubborny cling the theory that burglary has been
committed scofing in their thick-wtted way at the
deduction OF the modern and progressive seuh that
the with the bag is none other than the church
vestryman taking the Sabbath collection to the bank
and that the revolver is for protection against the
police.
Burns is a graduate OF school of detectives for
which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote all the text
books and most entertaining books they are though
when the people who read them have any real detect
i've business hand they don't send for a graduate
of Sir Arthurs school They prefer the obtuse blue
coat the clumsy precinct detective Burns did his
best to make famous and effective in real life the
methods of Sherlock Holmes, seeking to achieve in
the actual haunts of crime the brilliant trumphs with
which his prototype dazzled the world on paper in
attractive binding. Even as he rushed to the dock
meet Sir Arthur on his recent arrival in New York to
tell him of his success the police chiefs planning
to rid themselves of the influence of sIeuth whose
training tells him that circus poster is mionaire's
will written in vanishing ink, and that a murder is
merely the trifing mistake of the village chiropodist
Hence Burns is out Of the police chiefs councils
and free to pursue his destiny as Americas sleuth
de luxe.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-22
The Rise of Murray, of Massachusetts,.

Youth will not be denied in the case OF Represent
has nominated for postmaster at Boston. At seven
teen Murray enlisted in the United States Volunteer
Signal Corps for service in the Spanish and be-
came corporal In the eight years since his gradu-
alton from the Harvard law school, after taking his
B. A. degree in the university academic he has
been in the Boston city council the StatehouSe of
representatives the governors council and the House
only twenty-nne when he made his bow in Congress,
Now he is thirty-two. Corp Murray's career, far
has gone. proves that there plenty of oppor-
tunities for young man in conservative Boston,
New York Sun.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-22
Congress Behind with Its Work.

Although Congress has been in session since the
first Monday in December the indications that
the fiscal year will close with many OF the big appro-
priation bills till in suspense Preparations are being
made for the passage, June 90, of special reso-
luton extending the appropriations for ten
DAYS Such extensions have been known before, but
usually when the Senate and House were of different
political complexionS. Now both strongly Demo-
cratic and hence the embarrassment the party leaders
feel in having confess that essential public business
has been delayed by talk over antitrust legislation
and other matters which if they have any value, are
of campaign value only. The Congressional party
leaders have not been conspicuous for leadership and
the party following, while amenable to White House
direction, have not been subordinate to the party
Ledger
The Washington herald., 1914-06-22
THE AFRICAN PIGMIEs.
Their Dances May Soon BE Intro
ducrd to Civilization.

Members of a London club were re-
galed recently by a lecture in which
Mrs Powell Cotton told OF her expert
ences among the sO-called pigmies in
the heart OF the African continent. She
went 10 Africa to marry her husband
ana the first fourteen months Of their
married life were spent in and near
the Ituri forest. According to her de-
scription life in that primitive country
is not without its advantages. for every
thing is as simple can be conceived
Housewives are entirely free from the
domestic worries that often torment
women in civilized lands and the tyranny
Of fashion is an altogether unknown
quantity. Sufficient clothing for an en-
tire year can be carried in a single suit
case and nothing more costly or sub
stantial than a small tent Illuminated
by a candle is required for a dwelling.
One must be reConciled. however. to shar-
ing this habitation with enormous rats
and powerful mosquitoes.
The plgmies are described by Mrs.
Cotton as mighty hunters. terrible en-
emies and steadfast. true friends. The
matter of clothing worries them not at
all. For babies a string OF beads and a
cirClet or two Of iron are regarded as a
generous wardrobe, and even in mature
life an apron of bark cloth with a few
leaves for ornamental purposes quite
satisfy the demands of fashion. The
natives look with favor on the birth o.;
hoy babies and with a spirit OF resgna-
ton on the birth of girls. However,
when they grow up. girls are considered
Of slightly more value. The prospective
bridegroom is Obliged to stir himself in
order to collect FIVE hoes five siCkIes,
three spears. thirty arrows and twenty
neckha nds for the purchase OF his bride
He is spared this labor. however. in case
he is so fortunate as to have a sister.
for then he has only TO trade her for the
girl of his choice.
A simple shelter shaped like a bee
hive. four feet high, built OF plant poles
driven into the ground and matched
with leaves is the home in which pig
mics begin their earthly careers. After
some time. however. they are placed by
themselves in a small hut about the
size Of an ordinary dog kennel. The re-
strictions implied by the words don't
and mustn't are practically unknown
to them in childhood. They enjoy a
kind Of anarChistic freedom Of action.
Dancing is the thief form Il recreation
as they grow older. but the dance Of
these little people IS in a class entirely
different in every way from the tango
Mrs Cotton was prophesied that the pig
mics dance may he shortly introduced
in London and other centers.-The Path
finder.