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Two Good Army Selections.

The senior Brigadier-General. FRED
MaJor-General WoTHERsPooN retires for
age on November 10. Secretary GARRI-
SON makes the announcement, no doubt
with satisfaction, for he is fair
minded man. The presumption is that
FUNSTON was sent to Vera Cruz with
his brigade not only because he could
speak Spanish and knew the Spanish
character but to add to his reputation,
so that when General WoTHERsPooN
retired there would be none OF the old
vancement. General Funston has had
no fighting to do at Vera Cruz. but hts
conduct of affairs has been marked by
sound judgment, discretion and tact In
position OF considerable difficulty.
That was to be expected, for FUNSTON
proved himself an able administrator
as well as a soldier when he brought
order out of chaos at san Francisco
after the earthquake and fire. lie de-
served promotion long ago, both on his
merits and as senior In his grade.
General IIUGH l.. SCoTT win auto
matically become Chief Of Staff with
the retirement of General WoTHERsPooN
from that post, although an appoint
ment will be made In due form. 1t
was the intention when General ScoTr
was transferred from his command on
the Texas border TO tho War Depart
ment last spring that he should serve
as Chief OF Staff for the full term Of
four years. The army will applaud the
choice. Without exaggeration it may
he termed the best appointment that
could be made. General SCoTr is not
only an experienced but an educated
soldier. A master of routine and the
DRY. he IS yet in full sympathy with the
rank and file OF the service: very hui
man as well as very practical is HUGH
l.. ScoTT. He understands the army.
1t respects and esteems him. He will
make an excellent Chief Of STAFF.
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II was General ScorT who placed In
VILLAS hands works on the rules OF
modern warfare and convinced VILLA
that the American public regarded his
early methods in Mexico as little short
OF barbarous. -WdshinOton despatch.
It is true that General ScorT sent
PANcHo VILLA the informing document.
but II Is also true that the rebel leader,
who shared General FORESTS dictum
that war means fighting and fighting
means killing" was vastly amused that
there should be any rules for the game.
Recent happenings in the European
field OF conflict may have confirmed
General VILLA in his savage view OF
warfare. 1t is TO be said for him that
the educational plan of HuGH SCOTT was
not entirely futile; VILLA stopped shoot
ing his prisoners In patches and at last
doomed only officers who he declared
should have known better than to fight
for HUERrA when the Constitutionalists
were dedicated to reform of the land
laws and social betterment.
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MIR. TEACHER-MOTHER.
His Views on the Opinions or Neglected
Factor I'm a Useless Controversy.

To THE EDITOR or TIE SuN-Sir. IAN
Ola Fashioned Woman" is tired Nof the
teacher-mother question. To settle the
problem once for all she advises women
WHO WISH to bear children to resign and
ADVISES their husbands to support them.
Being the husband OF a teaciier-mother
peg leave to answer her and others who,
directly or indirectly. ask me whether
cannot or will not support my wife.
The ignorant man and the para site
woman Imagine that the only question
involved is that OF support
Under the old regime when a husband
10 wealthy, and especially when the
woman marries him for his wealth, the
woman Is satiated With every bodily lux
ury' she becomes narrow minded
woman. petty. intolerant to her sex, a
sycophant to her husband. Dresses, din
ners. theatre parties are her main inter-
ests In life. Society" as she understands
H. Is anything but OF real social value.
Children are burden to her; mother
hood a curse
When there II poverty we have the
woman in the sweatshop. the woman who
takes in washing, the woman abandoned
with her child. and the woman of the
street. This is not the place to discuss
poverty. but the grim results OF poverty
are known TO all but the ignorant and
self-satlshed. Is motherhood blessing
here?
The professional woman. whether
teacher. artist. journalist or physician.
having devoted years to preparing herself
for her life work. becomes highly intelli-
gent In practising her profession she
becomes economically independent She
does not marry for support she does not
choose man to rescue her from her
work.
1t would he an insult TO her to ask her
TO abandon her profession. No man would
dare to propose marriage to her with that
stipulation. What would be tho attitude
OF. say a male author whose wife be-
cause Of her wealth demanded that he
stop writing?
The mating OF n professional woman Ia
not conditioned by economic circum-
stances. Her intelligence and economic
freedom give her wider range 20 choose.
When a woman of this type becomes
a mother society has no right to force
her to abandon her social activities and
reIegate her TO the background by as
signing her the single duty OF taking care
OF baby" Usually the woman who has
her hands full taking care OF baby Is so
incapable that the baby is not taken care
OF at all
But the Intelligent and refined mother
can very well take care OF baby without
abandoning her previous ideals and activ-
tiles. In any case woman OF that type
can better decide for herself than have a
lot OF nonentitiea decide for her.
NJ. NJ. BREsLow.
Nrw York. November 49,
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SUFFRAGE AT BINGHAMTON.
Vote Taken Fairly and Might Have Been
Worse, Says Mrs. Dodge.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-SH: VIII
you kindly allow me to correct imme-
diately an impression given in THE SUN
OF Friday that we who opposed suffrage
in tho convention OF the Federation OF
Clubs at Bnghamton were treated with
any dlscourtesy2 Your correspondent
stated what might have happened. but
which was entirely contrary to what
did happen The president Of the New
York State Federation OF Clubs con-
Quoted tho meeting during the discus
sion OF the suffrage resolution with
the greatest fairness. She announced
that there would be a full discussion
OF both sides OF the question, and II
II took until midnight every one should
be heard. After the official announce
ment of the vote she requested that the
applause cease after n proper time had
been allowed.
1t Is not true that there was any dis
order whatever either before or during
the discuss n, nor was there any violent
uproar" There was no suspicion OF any
Kissing and the applause was given to the
speeches from both sides. ! wish to re-
PEAT that the greatest courtesy and fair
ness were shown during the whole dis
cussion
The vote OF the New York State Fed
Grafton to indorse the same resolution
that was presented at the General Fed
GRAFTON In Chicago was anticipated, as Is
proved by the preparation OF minority
report which l presented after the vote
was announced and which was placed on
record. The suffrage element in the fed
Grafton has been quietly increased for the
past few years since the time when a
pronounced suffrage leader was elected
president OF the federation, until suffra-
gists have practically taken possession
OF IL. Suffrage clubs from all over the
State have Joined. even with membership
as low az fourteen. In almost every case
officers elected to the State Federation
have been declared suffraglsts, many of
whom have worked and spoken for suf-
frage.
IL was announced from the platform
that there are 40 clubs belonging to the
New York State Federation. OF which 166
were represented at this convention Ac-
cording to the year book OF 1914 there
are thlrty-six suffrage clubs members OF
the federation and twice that number OF
clubs are organized for suffrage and OFF,
cered by active suffrage workers. Every
suffragst in the State knew that suf-
frage resolution would he presented at
this federation meeting and full num-
Der OF delegates was probably present,
The only surprising thing Is that the
vote was little over three TO one, in
stead OF ten TO one as our opponents con-
ndently expected II would he. About
twenty-five delegates did not vote on the
question. Mrs. ARTHUR NJ DODGE,
Chairman Anti-Suffrage Committee, Con-
vention OF 1914.
New York, November IS,
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The Limit of Commission Rule.

Addressing the American Bankers
Association at the third annual con
yentlon, just concluded, Mr.. THOMAS f.
WooDLoCK, who has made a special
study of railroad affairs, said:
Nobody knows better than you what is
involved In the provision OF capital for
these railroads, 1t is not the Supreme
Court of the United States that says
what IS "a fair return on investment
capital. 1t is you and your clients"
Never has the point Of the railroad
problem been stated more tersely. Never
have the limitations of commission gov
eminent been better defined
In all its decisions the Interstate
Commerce Commission has declared II
to be the public policy to maintain n
transportation service by railroads UNI
der private ownership. What the COM
mission has always failed to do has
been 10 give practical effect to this
recognition by conceding such transpor-
tation rates as would yield earnings
sufficient to induce the continued sup
port OF railroad enterprise by n steady
supply OF private capital.
AS long ms money to meet railroad
capital needs has to be obtained In COM
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To THE EDITOR or THE SuS-Sir:
beg TO advise you that your pro-German
attitude will ALLEVIATE many American read
ers American public opinion is entirely
with the Allies The exceptions are the
100000 Germans whose demeanor since
the outbreak of the war has been distinct
menace, debating TO the newspapers and
to the President himself, forming juntas
or societies for influencing public opinion.
and surfeting us generally with their
windy talk which influences not one sim
gle American worthy Of the name An
American since l7l4, G. II, ELIOT.
New YORK, November II,
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The sinking Of the superdreadnought
Audacious by mine or torpedo Off the
north coast OF ireland is a loss that the
British navy can III AFFORD. The dread
nought margin Is not 80 greatly In
favor OF England that a single ship
could be spared in a fleet action with
the Germans; and II must always be
considered that there might be a failure
to confront the Kaisers battle fleet II
1t issued from Kiel with the full
strength of the British line OF battle.
In case Of a disparity Of force every
British dreadnought would count might
lily. Tho destruction OF several second
and third class cruisers by German sub
marines has not counted for much. but
this cannot be.said OF the elimination OF
the Audacious. That Is very serious
business for England, and however It
came about It is a great triumph for
Germany
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The Bomb in tho Tombs Court.

New York was probably saved from
horrible tragedy yesterday by the
sharp eyes and cool alertness of Po-
liceman GEORGE w. O'CoNSoR, who dis
covered bomb with lighted fuse in
the Tombs police court. lie promptly
extinguished the fuse and prevented
an explosion which must have done Sc
rious damage.
There were a number Of people In the
court room and It could hardly be hoped
that all would have escaped II the
plotted crime had come to head. 1t
Is fact indicative OF tho inhumnn
recklessness behind such outrnges that
the Internal machine was 80 located
that the sufferers must have been prin-
cipally visitors to the court.
In the absence of evidence the guess
that vengeance was directed against
Magistrate CAMPBELL, who heard the
|. w. w. cases last spring and sent
BouCK WHITE to Blackwell's Island. Is
as good as any other. The motive or
the individual aimed at matters very
little. Such outrages will never deter
good citizens from doing their duty.
The important point IL the crime itself.
the assault on law and order, the of
fence against the whole community.
This calls for the swiftcst prosecution
and severest punishment possible. This
is the third recent outrage of this de-
scription, AMI the police remain under a
certain reproach until the perpetrators
are detected and arrested.
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Britain has the most to lose. Peace
class that has profited so long by the
work of soldiers; that used to be so
loud aud virtuons at Exeter Hall, so
eager to inject itself into the affairs OF
foreign nations, so profuse Of advice.
And It's nonconformlsts have, as we all
know. a specially delicate conscience
of their own.
Doubtless 1t Is this scrupulous organ
that keeps these tender nonconformlsts
in safe place.
The American nonconformlsts were
never that sort of people. They took
their guns to meeting. They ploughed
and sowed and reaped under arms.
Louisburg and Lexington, King PHILIP
and PONTIAC, the Dark and Bloody
Ground, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK-Ea st
and West.-American history in Its
most stirring generations is largely a
record Of men neither arlstocrats nor
proletarlans, just blur, pious or pro.
fame "nonconfornists." who 'dead-
ened' forests. and likewise redskins,
French. English, with divers catamounts
and wolves on the side. How many
western nonconformlst living In a
log house with ''puncheon" floor was
handy with his frelock, albeit he may
have sung and shouted at camp meet
Ing and even have groaned and
writhed in the sinners pen"
The man who 'can fight MS he prays"
is the ideal of the American noncou-
formists They like folks who can eS-
press dissent with gun. A Pres
byterian OF the name OF THOMAS JoNA-
THAN JACKSON Is fine example, for
1t wouldn't do to recommend the Eng
lish Dissenter to militant EpIsco-
palian Bishop ike LEoNTDAs Polk.
But have these British monochrome
lists. who live in an atmosphere so
foreign to war" forgotten OLIVER and
his Ironsldes and all the fervent and
ferocious Independents and Presbyte-
rians of the seventeenth century,
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CONDEMNS FRIEDMAN F1AsCo!'
Health Department Says Finsi
Chapter of "Cure" Is written.

Chapter of "Cure" Is Written.
TIE Health Department. In a statement
Issued yesterday, expressed It's final con
demnatlon OF the Friedman fiasco," as
the department called 1t. following re-
port last week OF a years Investigation
by the United States Public Health Ser
vice in the alleged cure for tuberculosis
exploited by DR., Friedrich i, Friedman
OF Berlin and group OF American pro
moters. The sanitary officials here be
lieve that the Federal report marked the
nnal chapter in this INSCRIPTIONS piece o.
commercialism."
Whereas the claims made by Fried
Manu." Health Commissioner Goldwaie-
said. ARE based on cases which alwa's
seem TO get well, or at least show ph
nomenal improvement after one or two
injections, the cases observed by tho p,|
sicians OF the United States Public Health
Service which reacted In this mann
were conspicuously few. The Goyerun
report U.s. therefore IN line with Other
ports coming from scientific sources 10
and abroad, and refutes Friedmauns c
to the discovery of a specific cure
tuberculosis The report also d.spr
that the incubation OF persons and
mails with his organism is without .l
full possibilities"
The Board OF Health here was ou,
the first bodies last year to disappIoN,
use OF Friedmann's serum,
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WILL GET TRUNKS BACK
American Consul Mt Berlin Ready 90
Aid Owners,

WAsHINGroN, Nov. 1.-THE Amer 40
Consulate General at Berlin is ARRANGING
for the return to the United states OK
trunks and other baggage left behind "l
Americans caught in Europe AT the en-.
break or the war. II was announce ''
the State Department to-day that II b'f,
gage receipts or direct authorization ''
the owners are transmitted to the Consul
General at Berlin he will endeavor 10 have
such baggage shipped out of Austria.Hnn.
gary and Germany to tho United STATES
via Rotterdam
When trunks ara found without Keys ~
Identification they will be opened and eS,
amined. but will be closed. scaled ana
wired before being shipped. No responHi
bility will be taken for trunks forwarded
by others to the United States without
receipt or the written consent OF ths
owners.
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II has always been suspected that the
British censorship considered 1t knew
more about the war than the generals
commanding in the field or the members
Of the allied governments. The defiant
tone OF Sir STANLEY BuCKMAsrER, head
of the suppfessionists, toward the House
OF Commons confirms this belief. Per-
haps, however. Sir STANLEY has at last
made his mistake. The House has a
way of thinking that the country's bust
ness Is its business. even in war time,
and as tho stupidity OF the censorship
impedes recruiting and breaks down
the courage OF the country. a partial
reform, at least, may be imposed on the
overcautious martinets who are re-
sponsible for II.
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The New CITY College Head.

The selection Of DR.. SIDNEY EDWARD
MEzFs as president OF the College Of
the City of New York is an event of i'm.
portance to the city.
SO far as can he inferred from his
past record Mr.. MTzEs is an excellent
man for the place. lie is both scholarly
and practical, a combination in accord
with the ideals and traditions OF the
City College. He has experience nj.
ready as president of a great school
supported by the public the University
OF Texas, and there Is plenty OF evil
dence OF his efficiency and popularity
in that post. In many respects the
problem OF the City College is similar
to that OF State university. The
development OF the opportunity for
young men whose natural opportuni-
ties are limited TO raise themselves In
tellectually to higher planes while at
the same time improving their capaci-
ties in active llfe-this Is the task. and
1t IL one which the new president seems
well equipped to perform.
Though the college has been In eN.
istcnce since 1913. when II was founded
as the Free Academy, DR.. MrzEs will
be only its fourth president The first
was DR.. HORACE WEBSTER, who held the
place to 1860. He was succeeded by
General ALEXANDER s. WEBB, who was
president until 1903 After n few
months intcrregnum DR.. john II. FIN
LEY OF Princeton took the hcadshlp of
the college, and his resignation last
year to become State Commissioner of
Education created the vacancy.
Dir. MEZEs will come to his new work
with cordial wishes for his success dur.
Ing many years.
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The NOncOnformists.

Sir WILLIAM ROBERTSON NICoIL, the
amiable North Briton who found or
founded what was known in the '9Os
as the kaleyard school Of literature says
that the British nonconformlsts Took
to America for approval and sympa-
thy" They neither deserve nor will
they get approval and sympathy from
their American "dlssenting" brethren
so long as these charges remain true
OF noncOnformist and middle class"
aversion to the supreme duty Of patrl-
otto men, charges of virtual self-con-
fessed laches, cowardice or unmanly
shifting OF danger upon the shoulders
of drawer Britons:
"I think there Is some justice In the
statement that the upper classes and the
lower classes have been doing their duty
In the present crisis. and that a certain
element OF the middle classes has not
This Is partly the outgrowth OF the ira
dition that the British army should he
officered by the upper classes and re-
crulted In tho ranks from the lower
classes---which leaves the middle classes
rather out OF II. Then. too. the middle
classes. especially the nonconformlst mid
die classes live In an atmosphere so for
eign to war that II takes time FOR the
military situation 20 be fully understood"
The British aristocracy, whose ser
vices to the State and whose relations
to other Glasses have been on the
whole or often great and honorable
and useful for several hundred years, Is
doing more than its part in leading and
in dying in this war, III the struggle
Is prolonged, the arlstocracy may even
suffer the fate OF the older nobility in
the Wars of the Roses. AS for 'ToMAiY
this and TOMMY that" he fights man.
fully everywhere and for little wages.
Then, according to our North British
witness. IA certain element of the
middle class" Is content to take no
hand in the conflict wherein Great
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir. !
have noticed some recent letters in THE
SUN discussing the phrase BRITANNIA
Rules Tor "Rule"l the Waves" In The
Song Book by John Hullah. Macmillan
and Company, London, 1866, page ~. the
words show merely Britannia, Rule the
Waves" ! hope 1t may come true that
Britannia rules" sc.
The words are by Thomson the tune Is
by Arne, See also Groves Dictionary
OF Music" volume ", page 1872, the Mac
milan Company. 1911. JOSEPH WILEY.
CINcINNATI, Ohio. November II.
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brogllo"7 Exactly how either faction
can nationally object to continuance Of
the occupation until responsible Gov
eminent is organized and established
Mt Mexico city and Vera Cruz It is
dlfflcult TO understand. As the Wash
ington Administration would be assum-
ing the risk of having to send the
troops back to Vera Cruz II the evacu-
alton we're carried out on November %
with no concern for the state Of the
country involved in civil war, Mr..
BRYAN's announcement must be subject
TO qualification and change.
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GIVE ME BRITAIN or GIVE ME
DEATH"
An Ironist's Amazing Appeal 70 Ameri-
can senti ment.

An Ironists Amazing Appeal TO Ameri-
can Senti ment.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sfr! At
last the American people are coming 10
their senses. are beginning to see on whicn
side OF the war their interests and honor
lie. 1t was natural that they should oe
a little slow In responding to the LOFTY
appeals of the Hon. winston Churchill.
H. @. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Conan Doyle,
Harold Begbie. Gilbert Chesterton, James
Bryce and other British advocates OF the
British cause. but who can read unmoVed
and unconvinced the exhortations OF {.
w Eliot, c. w Ralnsford, John j. Chap
man and other distinguished Americans.
that we range ourselves on the side OF
our fond motherland. who isshghting our
battles and those Of civilization and de-
mocracy? II any one is SO sunk In vulgar
prejudice. so perverted in his reasoning
as to question Great Brltain's devotion 10
these noble causes, let him deny II he can !
1. That she holds more territory ac-
quired by conquest and spollation than
any other country.
2. That she keeps more people In un-
willing subsection than any other country.
3. That she, has denounced the Monroe
Doctrine and opposed American interests
more than any other country.
4. That she has violated more treaties
contracted with the United states than
any other country.
8. That In general she has done more
wrong and injury to the United states
and visited more indignlty upon her than
any other country, perhaps than all other
countries.
Where should we be without the stun
which we owe to the Christening admins
tered to US by Great Britain? With every
mail bringing us a louder clash OF con-
tending arms and a more insistent claim
to our support. we are declaring our
selves more and more forcibly for one
side or the other know not what course
others may take, but as for me, give me
Britain or give me death Henry.
NEW YoRK. November IL
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Sir HtRprRr BEERsoHM TRxr's defenc.

Sir HERBERr BEERBoHM TREES defence
Of the English actors who are now at
the front is altogether comprehensive.
But even his loyalty to his profession
makes 1t difficult to understand how
the numerous young English actors now
In this country can be thought to be
doing their patriotic duty in view OF
England's demand for soldiers. Sir HER
BERT must have been misinformed. There
has been no criticism OF the English
actors in service. 1t Is the emigration
OF so many OF them TO Broadway and
their evident intention OF remaining
there that has caused distrust OF their
patriotism.