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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-06
ASKS GEORGE FRED
WILLIAMS To RESIGN
President Takes Step as Result of
the Minister'S Words

Philadelphia, July 6.--President VIII
son has requested the resignation Of
George Fred Williams. American min
lister to Greece and Montenegro, as a
result of Mr.. Williams public state
ments regarding the situation i'm Al
bania. This became known following
the presidents arrival here Saturday.
Mr. Williams own reports on his
statements were taken up at cabinet
meeting and afterward Mr.. Wilson de-
cided their effect was such il would be
improper for Mr.. Williams longer to
represent the United States in the Bal
kans.
II has been understood that Mr. Will
warded his resignation, but SO far as
could be learned here it has not been
received by the president
The term of George Fred Williams
as minister to Greece and Montenegro
has been brief, but has attracted much
attention.
A few weeks ago President Wilson,
Secretary Bryan and other officials
were amazed by n published report
that Mr.. Williams had circuiarized the
powers. offering his services as a me-
diator in the Albanian crisis. State
department officials then said the min
ister had no authority to do so, but
had been given permission to visit
Epirus and make a report on condl-
tions.
Says U. S. Is Not Responsible.
Washington, July 6.-President VIII
son has notified the principal Europ-
can powers that the United States dis
claims any responsibility for state
ments regarding Albania attributed TO
George Fred Williams. American min
lister To Greece and Montenegro whose
resignation has been requested by
Wilson.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-06
Plot Against Rockefeller.

That a demonstration. halted by the
ing an internal machine for it's mis-
sion, was planned against the Rookie
feller family i'm Tarrytown is the the
ory upon which the authorities are
working.
A gruesome but suggestice piece of
evidence uncovered was severed
hand which still had two small pieces
of wire made ready for connection.
The authorities believe that the own
er of this hand was i'm the act of max
ing an electric connection for one of
the bombs and battery when the
explosion occurred and he was blown
To pieces.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-06
I.W. ". LEADERS
BLOWN TO DEATH
WITH OWN BOMB
Three Men and Woman Killed by
Explosion In New York

New York, July 6,-Three men and
a woman were killed Saturday when
a bomb said To be the most powerful
ever used in this city. exploded with
tremendous force in an apartment in
hablted by Industrial Workers of the
World. The upper part of the six
story tenement house in which the
bomb was being made was wrecked
\ score Of persons were seriously
injured and much property damage
was done in a wide radius from the
scene of the explosion.
Those dead and those who escaped
injury i'm the apartment included /. w.
w. men who were defendants in the
trial to he begun today in Tarrytown,
". Y, where they were arrested for
creating q disturbance a few weeks
ayo. They went 10 the village to make
demonstrations outside the Pocantico
hills csate of John ID. Rockefeller
where John D. Rockefeller, Jr., had re-
tired after being heckled i'm front of
his office i'm this city by l. w. w. mem
bers and sympathizers. including
members of Upton Sinclair's Free ST.
lence league. Their activities here
arose from the coal mine strike trou-
bles in Colorado, where the junior
Rockefeller has mining interests.
AS soon as one OF the bodies of
those killed in the explosion had been
identified as that of Arthur Caron,
who came here from Bost0h. and who
was one of the defendants in larry
cation of the explosion on the theory
that a bomb was being constructed
by Caron and others for possible use
at the |. w. w. hearings in Tarrytown
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
Two Foolish Shipping Bills.

According to semi-official forecasts President
Wilson will ask Congress to pass both MS own
ship purchase bill and the La Toilette seamen
bill-or some substitute for the latter. ms Is
cause for establishment, since the ship purchase
bill is based on the theory that the participation
of American ship owners in the deep sea Tade
needs to be generously supplemented by tne eS'aD-
lishment of government owned lines, while the
La Toilette bill is based on the theory that par
ticipation in the ocean freight traffic should Dc
made as difficult possible for all trelghtefS' III
GLIDING those operated by the government
Mr.. Wilson says that the existing means OF
transportation are inadequate and that Ihe gov
eminent must come to the rescue OF the American
shipper But the La Toilette bill, ignoring the
fact that American vessels have now little chance
in competition with cheaper manned foreign bot
toms, wants to impose new costs on American
shin owners, even to the extent Of driving them
entirely out of the foreign trade. II also seeks
to impose extraordinary restrictions on foreign
owned ships which enter our harbors, increasing
their charges, interfering with their manage
ment and making them less useful generally TO
American exporters.
These two measures are absolutely at cross pur-
poses. 1t would be foolish for the government 70
nav out enormous sums to carry American goods
abroad, standing a loss on each voyage, and at
the same time to try to deprive the shipper OF the
facilities he now has and which Mr.. Wilson says
are insufficient The La Toilette bill became an
absurdity when the European war broke out.
The ship purchase bill lost whatever justification
it ever had three months ago, when conditions IN
ocean transportation again became more or less
normal. Congress will show common sense II 1t
buries both these inopportune and footless meas
ures.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
The American University's Greatest
Need,

In his annual report, an abstract of which is
printed elsewhere in this issue of The Tribune,
President HadIey of Yale University sets forth
with great clearness the purposes which an
American university should keep in view. He dis
cusses more directly conditions as they exist at
Yale, but what he says applies to all institutions
which have sought to develop along American
lines There can be no doubt that the American
notion of what constitutes college or university
education has maintained itself successfully IN
competition with British, French and German no.
TONS President Hadey is therefore right when
he says that, however important we may consider
the support of original research at universities
or the provision by them of technical and profess
sional training, Americans still believe 1t to be
the university's main function to give students
general culture and to Undue them with public
spirit.
Our institutions of learning do furnish the
general culture which comes from stimulating
associations and from the activities, social and
other, of a free and varied college life. Standards
of conduct have been raised and college public
opinion is broader and sounder now than it used
to be. The minimum of attainment in scholar
ship has even been pushed up several notches
But President Hadley thus states very frankly
wherein the American university has so far
Jagged behind "A thing which we need to do and
have as yet done imperfectly is to organize in
tense intellectual interest in things most worth
while"
Too many university students-those who seek
only general culture and are not working in
technical and professional schools-are satisfied
to do Just enough to qualify for degree. They
value the degree more than they do the attain
ment and discipline for which it ought to stand
They have little or no enthusiasm for learning in
itself or as a groundwork for future distinction
and service to the public. Each institution must
solve in its own way the problem of organizing an
intenser intellectual interest in things worth
while" Mr.. Hadey deals with certain sugges-
tons which have been made for reorganization at
Yale-among them the proposal to create new
undergraduate body in addition to the present
academic department and the Sheffield Scientific
School He does not commit himself to any def
mite scheme of change. But he is positive that
eve want a more intellectual atmosphere among
the students as an immediate essential 10 making
Yale what it should be-" In that sentence he lays
his finger on the most pressing need Of all Amer
lean universities and voices the judgment of
those who have most carefully studied the present
tendencies of American college life. -,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
A State ConstabuIary for New York.
ures.

We hone that Governor Whitman will accept
the suggestion made to him by Speaker Sweet
and urge the Legislature to create state con-
stabulary. A body of that sort is needed here
and it can do an important work IN preserving
order which is now either left undone or is thrust
on critical occasions on the state militia. The
militia is an awkward and expensive agency to
use in checking rioting. Experience in the states
which use the state guard for such a purpose
shows that to call out and mobilize a regiment
once or twice a year costs much more than
would be required to maintain permanent con-
stabulary. The militiamen generally arrive late
on the scene and do what they have to do perfume
toriy. Moreover the mere existence OF a con-
stabulary, ready for use at a moments notice and
trained to deal with rioters, is strong dissuader
of lawlessness.
Colorado's militia proved unequal to the task
of keeping order in the district affected by the
coal miners strike. The Governor had to ask
for federal aid, and federal troops have been on
duty in the strike region for about eight months.
Yet state constabulary Of the Pennsylvania
type could have handled the strike disorders with
ease. saved scores of lives and spared the
state treasury an expenditure of many thousands
of dollars. There has been no serious rioting IN
Pennsylvania since the constabulary was estab-
lished. The force is mobile, highly disciplined
and invaluable as a safeguard to public tran
ouillity. New York should take hint from the
experiences of Pennsylvania and Colorado.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
The Coming Tower
Park Row.

"Tell me-" said Pontus Plate what is Trutn'"
Nor did he stay for answer to his testing.
Who hut slow Time shall test it with his tooth
This Truth Ctis said) some sages died protesting'
Who but the City Editor forsooth--
Top-lining Truth for all who may be questing.
Exact. exacting-Putarch IN possc-he's
Custodian of the Ephemeral Verities
Lol where his legons run to earth the Lie,
Trailing GOV Truth-hot-foot in chase OF History;
Ubetting their wits with Wherefore and with Why,
Ouizzing the Cardinals met in close Consistory,
Discovering how the cost of lying's high
Tearing the mask from off murder mystery:
Pushing their probe in palaces and stews
For Clos close CONFERENCE.-The News
O, conscientious, carping citizen
whom mere misprint fills with fuss and fury,
can YOU recall that odd occasion when
They cross-examined you before jury
Till YOU were kin unto the headleSS hen;
How cen the culprt at the bar was sure ne
Would rather they subpGnaed AnaniaS
Than one with ears and eyes cut on the bias'
Yea. warning man. with YOU and with your KIND
Seepless Park Row will wreStle on forever,
Rendng ripe fact from underneath the rind
Wherevith our saueamish citizens endeavor
To mask some things they'd keep within the mlnd
The marvePS not that daily papers never
Are errorless, but that they go to press
With so much truth you'd rather not confess.
Publicity. what crimes are in your namel
IJpon YOUR brow what bays repose, PUBLICITY
Franklin prescribed a cudgel for the shame
Wrought by the jaundced Journalist; lupreHy
Oozes from word and action. ! could frame
A fair indctment-but, why be expllcit' lie
Whom the cap fits will wear it with acclaim
Naked is Truth, and we who would not drape her
Thank heaven (breakfasting) for our morning paper
w. T. LARNED.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
THE NEW HOUSTON
Science on the Battlefield Works
Cruelties Worse than Those of
Religion in the Dark Ages.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Reading the letters of the emf
nent men of culture regarding the war
the thought suggested itself TO me that
science to-day has become a religion
in the sense that the dark ages under
stood it, Religion has become liberal
lied, whereas science has grown IA
matte. II is science to-day that with
its cry OF culture raised the new in
QUESTION. the battlefelds of Europe,
which would make Torquemada blush.
Religion taught ms faith and love, sci
ence gave US power. The fanaticism Of
religion was faith and love misapplied,
but the fanaticism of science is power
misapplied, and that is a more hideous
monster.
All OF US, therefore. even neutrals,
in thought at least are accomplices in
the present war. For war is due 10
our making of power love and ambi-
ton, instead of making love Il power
and ambition. When lands will learn
that only littleness is jealous and that
greatness is magnanimous: when the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
A BELGIAN APPEAL
Where Old Clothes Can Be Sent for
the Relief of the Destitute.
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: While i'm the European war
zone, from which | returned recently,
| had the pleasure to meet an Ameri-
can woman Mrs. A. l.. Duryea-who
called my attention to seven small Bel
gian children, one Of whom had been
mutilated, whom she had taken under
her care On my arrival here | sent
the good woman some money, with in
structions to use it as she might see
fit for the benefit of the little chill
dren, and in acknowledging receipt Of
my contribution she said, in part:
"How kind you were to send my
fugitives the gift. | am but poor
proxy 10 express their thanks. but they
are yours. Every cent of the money
will 90 direct, without red tape, to the
homes of the Belgians, Of whom there
are 10000 in distress in this district.
They are shorn of everything which
ever they held dear, save their pride
and their honor.
"The response to my appeal for help
was so splendid that my work. begun
in small way, has reached great
capabilities. But it became too heavy
to swing alone, so friends have formed
a committee. of which | am the chair
man, with the daughter-in-law of the
Prime Minister, Baronne Robert de
Broqueville, as president, and we are
doing good work. The railroads have
given us free passes, Mrs. Edward 7.
Key, of Baltimore, has turned over TO
us her entire villa for our offices, and
we have started workshop where Bel
gian women make clothing, receiving
good wages for their work The prod
uct of this shop goes TO the destitute
What the people here want is work.
and we are securing that for them. The
Tefect has furnished us with a com
plete list of persons who are capable
TO work, and what they are fitted for.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Thayer. who has
the only motor car not taken by the
military authorities, has placed il at
our disposal, and we scour the country.
laden with medicines, clothes and
sometimes money for distribution
among the gentlewomen and children
housed in peasant homes, where I'M
glazed windows and earthen floors
take the places of luxurious homes
now reduced 10 ashes All large build
irgs everywhere are now used as hos
pitfalls for the soldiers. who reach here
in cattle cars, where they are bedded
on straw. Can you realize what the
suffering is among the refugees who
must take shelter wherever il can be
found?
Gould you be kind again and induce
some Of your friends 10 ship BY
freight cases Of old or new clothes via
Southampton or ST. Malo? What other
wise would be thrown away there
would be treasured here. Anything
from a pair of socks 20 horse blan-
ket would be gratefully received.
Money may be sent direct to the treas
urer OF the Oeuvre Beige, Dinard, or
to the Union Trust Company. New
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
Unused Fire Escapes in Tenements.

Whenever tenement house fire causes loss
OF life there is a great public outcry against
"Gre traps" and more or less stir against the
departments which have such matters under their
jurisdiction. Tenement House Commissioner
Murphy points out that two such fires, occurring
in old tenements on November %, caused eight
d .aths. Nevertheless, both buildings complied
exactly with the law regarding fire escapes, and
one even exceeded the requirements little. The
loss Of life was due 10 panic or ignorance" Of
the tenants Themselves
Fire escapes are little good il tenants do not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

that will please pedestrians. A road
along the Hudson in this park would
not only be very expensive TO main
tain, but also contrary to the very
nature of the place.
Of course motor car owners must De
catered to. No one ever heard mat
pedestrians have any rights, much
less that they should receive fayors.
For those who like to walk IN peace
the Interstate Park is almost the only
refuge near New York; but must this
be turned over to the poor but honest
contractor and then to the cloud-coni-
pelling automobile?
Back in 1909 when ] yentured 70
protest TO one at the Office Of the com,
mission was told that road would
"open up" the Palisades. Why the
park should be opened up more than
il is | do not know; perhaps building
lots are 70 be developed, or road
houses are to be opened up, too.
The commission deserves he thanks
of all for making the park a fact; pul
I for one believe road through the
Interstate Park would be a mistake
(and am not a member OF lns
A. NJ. c.. FRANK PLACE' d.
New York, Nov. 80, 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07

world will stop making power and am
bition a love and will make instead
thereof love a power and ambition,
war will waste the world no more. For
war will cease when our jealousies and
rivalries of ambition and power will
end and our jealousies and rivalries OF
love and righteousness begin. 1t is
then that nations will float the flag of
friendship and the banner of brother
hood over a world republic of lovers
and workers.
If the world felt as Kipling, the
prophet-poet, expressed himself in the
immortal line of the mastery poem
"Bobs," "And glory is the least Of
things that followed to his home"
Europe would enjoy peace to-day.
Were my own nation in the wrong |
would say that it deserved to be de-
feated. Our concern should be not
that this or that nation should win
but that the right should triumph and
that peace become the passion and the
power of man.
RABBI ALTER ABELSON.
Orange, n. j., Dec. 1, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
AMERICAN PEACE
Our System as Compared with the
Militarism Of Europe.

Militarism of Europe.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A mercantile house that has
been we'll established for one hundred
years has ample experience on when
to base it's future policy for continued
success. OF a nation one may predl-
cate the same. Next Christmas Eve
lust a century will have elapsed since
this nation inaugurated new system
of statecraft. The Treaty of Client was
signed December "a, 1914. Politicians
and diplomats of that day derided 1t
as contemplate and ridiculous. Never
theless, it has proved one of the most
successful treaties ever accepted by
contending nations. In connection with
the subsequent Rush-Bagot arrange
ment. proclaimed TO the United States
by President Monroe on April 2o, 1918,
il informed the world of the new
American system" as Monroe distin-
guished it from the European system"
This latter we see to-day utterly dis
credited-a total failure. II Is purely
and simply a system of militarism. It's
motto is, "If you want peace prepare
for war!" 1t is the sanctfication OF
robbery. the dedication of murder. The
fairest fields OF Europe have by it been
turned into vast bloody slaughter pens
and pestilential charnel houses. In
stead Of preparing for peace, desola-
ton, devastation and death ride in its
van, and in its wake remains an agony
of misery, mourning and woe.
The Monroe Doctrine insists that we
keep this accursed European system
far from our shores. To it is opposed
q new American system, which has
now been tried with entire success for
one hundred years. Part of our north
ern boundary consists Of the Great
Lakes, on which, in the War of 1872,
had been sanguinary naval fights.
Monroe might have followed the Eu-
ropean system and prepared for war
by largely increasing our armed fleet
and placing forts along the 3,840-mile
line which divides the United States
from Canada.
Instead thereof he prepared for
peace. His proclamation tells that he
agreed with Great Britain that neither
party should have any war YES
sells on those lakes, and. later, by a
tacit understanding, no forts or gar
risons on the rest of the boundary.
This new American system, this Mon
roe Doctrine in action, needs to have
its century long success trumpeted far
and wide not only in our own country,
which sometimes seems oblivious OF
Monroes wise decision, but to the
countries now accursed with the Eu-
ropean system, which is fast rushing
them on to savagery and chaos.
EDWARD BERWICK,
Acting president California Branch OF
American School Peace League.
Pacific Grove, Cal, Nov. %, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
AND NOW YOU KNOW.

fFrom the Pittsburgh GazetteTimes.l
There was little Josephine with her violin. When
she cudded the fiddle up under her little fair head
and tcked the strings with unerring bow-then
eye and ear, and heart of every auditor was filled
surfeit, and the weary cark and of all your
days was forgotten. How does she play? Well, you
hunt up the farest painted picture of st. Cecilia
that you saw then close your eyes and picture
the sort of music, in your imagination, that would
fit the picture Then you will understand how little
Josephine Kryl plays the violin-almost.
"May l." begs w. j. F. "call our sailors neutral
salts?" Indeed you may. And next Sunday night,
if you think of something you'd like to call somebody,
let us hear from YOU