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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
The Austro- Hungarian Occupation of
Servia.

The Austro-H Hungarian forces have now occu-
pied the whole northern portion of Servia. The
weakened Servian armies are falling back in the
direction of Nish, the present capital, and al
though the arrival of reinforcements from Rus
STA is reported, Servia does not seem to have
strength enough left to hold the Austrian ad-
vance in check. Nish will probably have to be
evacuated, if the invaders think it worth while
to push their campaign to finish.
Austria Hungary's object in overrunning
Serva is largely political. In August last after
the first defeats on the Drina River, the Austro-
Hungarian General Staff announced that the of
fensive against Servia would be suspended, be-
cause it was necessary to concentrate the forces
of the empire for the defence of Galicia. That
was a sound military decision. While the bat
ties in Eastern Galicia were being fought Ser
via was neglected and Servian and Montenegrin
troops invaded Bosnia and got almost within
cannon range of Sarajevo. The Servians also
captured Semlin, in Hungary. Austria Hun
garys plans the southern border were then
suddenly changed The offensive was resumed.
Bosnia was cleared of the enemy and the Austro-
Hungarian forces pushed into Servia from the
west. After good deal of hard fighting they
got close up to the line of communications be-
tween Belgrade and Nsh, and thus compelled
the evacuation of Belgrade and of all Northern
Servia.
To accomplish these results an army of from
100000 to 100000 men was :4eeded. By employ
ing so many men in the southern field Austria
Hungary handicapped herself in the critical
struggle against Russia. 1t must be clear to
any one that Servia is minor field of opera
tons. What happens there will have little effect
in military sense on the final outcome of the
war. Yet the government in Vienna was justi-
fed IN thinking that what happened there might
have important political consequences.
The occupation of large part of Servia would
undoubtedly help to keep down disafrection in
Bosnia and Herzegovina and to restore Austro-
Hungarian prestige in the Balkans. Penetra-
ton into the southern section of Serva would
also put the Teutonic allies almost in touch with
Turkey strip Of Bulgarian territory alone
intervening. Possibly the expectation that Tur
key would come TO their assistance influenced
most Of all the decision made by Germany and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
The Teacher.Mother Controversy NearS
Its End.

Whatever may be the result of the hearing
announced by DR.. Finley, State Commissioner
of Education, on the cases of seven teacher
mothers who appealed from dismissal by the
local Board of Education, there is every indlca-
ton that that tangle will soon be satisfactorily
adjusted. Mayor Mitcheps attitude favoring an
indefinite leave of absence in such cases has
helped. The new blood he has put into the
Board of Education will help also in bringing
that body to a rational view of the situation.
The instances where a teacher requests leave
of absence for collaborating are not so numerous
as to threaten the school system. The desired
arrangement is feasible in every practical detail
without risk of harm to the pupils or the curric-
ulum The risk rests on the teacher, who in
assuming maternity takes a chance of being un-
able to retain her efficiency in the schoolroom
when she returns, and so of being dropped. The
sensible thing to do would be to grant just what
the teachers have requested, without all the fuss
which the Board of Education's attitude has pro-
duced. There never would have been need for
appeal to the state authorities if the local boards
policy had not been unfair as to the individuals
concerned and unwise as to the schools.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
A Living Work.

The annual report of the Childrens Aid So
ciety, just issued, gives evidence of the value of
that splendid institutions work. During the year
it has placed 557 children in homes where they
will receive care and education and family in
luences; it has returned 500 runaway boys and
girls to relatives it has had 1061 inmates at its
farm school, it has sheltered 6319 children in its
lodging houses; it has enrolled 10991 children
in industrial schools; it has helped 1859 women
and children to day outings at the seashore and
in the country.
Helping children as this society does is Great
ing rich investment for the country's future.
1t makes live useful citizens out of possible out
casts and criminals. One of its children has be-
come Governor of state, another territorial
Governor, two were elected Mayors of their re-
spectve cities, and four grew into judges. Others
have become professional men, bankers, teachers
and clergymen. AS one of the socetys con-
tributors phrases it, "this is living work"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
Examine the Judges About Hand Pick.
ing! ,

1t is hard to see why there should have been
any division in the committee of the Brooklyn
Bar Association about inviting Justices Benedict
and Scudder and ex-Justice Marean to give their
side of the controversy produced by District At
torney Cropseys charges against them. The
charges have got to be met. No judge is so
exalted person that he is above question as to
his acts. 1t seems to be only fairness to these
men, accused of improper bias, to give them an
opportunity to be heard, and it is fortunate that
the Bar Associations investigators eventually
chose that course.
Mr.. Cropseys remarks about "hand-picked
judges" and their activities have hit sore spot.
The public wants its judges to be above suspi-
cion, and to be proved so, not declared so when
ever there is a specific question raised. The Bar
Associations committee in investigating this
matter is acting as agent of the public. 1t
has already made one tactical error in not having
all its sessions open. To seem to be lenient with
the judges by not asking them to stand eXamina
tion or to seem to treat Mr.. Cropsey's charges
as so immaterial that no answer was needed,
would have been much greater error.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
THE PEOPLES COLUMN
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

guished publicists as the only source OF
those hardy virtues indispensable to
the perpetuity of virile manhood.
But now things have changed. Our
whole country echoes with denuncl-
atoms of war, and the war spirit is
execrated as never before. Peace ad-
vocates have acquired great popularity
So likewise are the other reformers,
with whom they are classed, gaining in
public esteem.
About thirty years ago, when humane
societies in this country first obtained
laws preventing cruelty to animals,
"Puck" had cartoon embodyng the
rather general resentment against IN
reference with an owners absolute
right over his animals. Under the car
toon was inserted Things have come
to a pretty pass when a man can't beat
his own jackass." That sentiment is
almost extirpated now.
Logically, and in justice. the animals
sacrificed in the cause of vlvisectlon
should have part in the solicitude and
protection which the rapidly expanding
altruism of this country, at least, is
devoting to all other victims OF suffer-
ing and oppression.
We have late example in the move
ment for bird protection. Let US en-
courage aid for the victims of science.
JAMES p. BRIGGS.
Washington, Dec. /, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
The Tainted Money Microbe in Indiana

Out in Indiana twelve state officials have just
been indicted for helping to put through i'm
proper claims on the state treasury. Grating
in a small way seems to have been well es-
tablished habit in and about the Capitol at In
dianapolis. 1t was a habit good many legisla-
tive employees and state officers had come to con-
slider as altogether innocuous.
There is missionary work to be done in Indi-
ana's highest political circles by the most pict-
uresque Hoosier missionary now swinging around
the Chautauqua circuit. Vice-President Mar
shall, who cannot face audience without drop,
ping new moral epigram, delighted Catasauqua,
Penn, the other day with this crisp sentiment:
81 have been accused of being an enemy of the
money makers, but | say Make your money so
clearly than your child can bite on every dollar
and not get microbes"
The grand jury indictments found in Indian
apolis ought to be high call to Mr.. Marshall
90 back and practise uplift among the breth-
ren. Since he left Indiana for Washington too
many Hoosier statesmen have been so inoculated
to biting tainted money that they have lost all
fear of microbe infection.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
UNSCIENTIFIC FIFTH AVENUE.
Holes in Its Pavement Offend an OBJ
server Of Its Progress.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: ! was among the delighted ones
when Fifth av. was so scientifically
paved last September. after months
yes, years of ditch digging and pipe
laying. The efficiency of the new ma
chinery. the rapidity of its work and
the smoothness Of its product seemed
to augur we'll for the permanency of
the improvement.
Yet within ten days there was a
great hole cut just around the corner
of the curb in the 33d ST. extension of
the new pavement, and another actual
ly on Fifth av. by the curb in 31st st.
These were duly repaired. though we
know by experience that such repairs
leave irregularities.
To-day in the nine blocks paved from
Goth ST. to Saith ST. there is a hole in
the extension into Goth ST.; there are
two oblong holes between 26th and
9th SITS; hole, with a long IL ex-
tending from it, to the curb near 10Th
Ct: five holes, aggregating $50 square
feet area, crossing the avenue at 3lst
St; six holes, with a total area of
about eighty feet, blocking the avenue
ar 33d ST., and comparatively insigniii-
cant ones at the curb in oath st. At
one time in November the buses had
to turn into Madison av.
ask you what kind of an admins
tration permits this? Cannot the Bor-
ough President, the Mayor, the Gov
crnor or the President of these United
States of America exercise any au-
thority over the vandals? And where
is the Fifth Avenue Association while
this destruction is going on?
| am told that it cannot now be
graft" because the city does its own
asphalt paving repairs. That disposed
OF, am completely at loss, as my
friends are, TO account for the NAL
administration of the peoples business
which permits both the spending of
money needlessly with all the digging
that has been done, surely the present
underground work could have been pro-
vided for), and the interference with
the convenience and pleasure of citi-
zens who have to travel over and to
look upon the wanton destruction Of
their finest avenue.
ROBERT ELLIOT.
New York, Dec. 4, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
THE VICTIMS OF SCIENCE
The Vivisection of Animals and HUI.
man Beings Is Denounced.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the early part of summer
there appeared in your columns a let
ter protesting against a proposal Of a
lawyer that men sentenced to death
should be turned over to vivisectors
You gave as a sub-heading for the let
ter Views of an Excitable Opponent
OF Experimentation Upon Animals"
A few years since it was the fancy
to speak slightingly of peace advo-
Gates. They were ranked with woman
sutfragists, prohibitionists and other
"effeminate" creatures who believed in
the abolition of child labor and sweat
shops, the reduction of hours for WON.
en- workers and the necessity Of prison
reforms.
War was actually praised by distin-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
"Our Navy at Lowest State oil
Efficiency in Its History.

The Investigation of the navy which The IT'D
une has conducted points to nothing less IMAM d
farreaching decline in the efficiency Oh tne eiitre
service II is not that one feet is below the aver
ooe or that certain supplies are inadequate or
that more men are needed for particular pur-
,oso In every line where The Tribune has been
ab,e 70 obtain authentic information there are
SIGNS If DISCRIMINATION and Generalization.
Where once there was a service that ranked with
tho host in the world there is now service
FRANKLY and concededIy inferior. For one rea-
son or another we have ceased to have navy IN
which we can feel unqualified confidence ana
pride. w
The case of the submarines is typical we
still have the able and ambitious young officers IN
command. we have the crews, we have the Doats'
undoubtedly as well designed and constructed as
those of any other nation. Yet at the present
moment only four are in commission along our
bome Atlantic coast and of these only one is IN
the highest state of efficiency. The farce OF at
tonntinq 10 defend such seaboard as we possess
with one submarine, or even four, passes COM
ment. Undoubtedly the submarine is dellcate
mechanism requiring constant care and repair.
No amount of efficiency and watchfulness could
ever keep all of submarines at sea at the
same moment. But there is long gap between
a fotilla and one boat. Something has gone
wrong. Instead of prompt, thorough efforts to
keep the fleet at the highest possible point, there
is delay, confusion, laundering, an utter lack OF
effective organization. The Tribune does not pre-
tend to fix the blame accurately for the extraor-
binary condition of our submarine feet. Only
thoroughgoing and impartial investigation by
Congress can successfully analyze the troubles
and trace them to their source.
The same cannot be said of the decline in gun
nery of which we publish the detailed facts to-
day. That decline can be traced to just one cause
lack of target practice. If American gunners
have been able to boast that they ranked the
world in the past it has not been by any gift
from heaven 1t has been through tireless and
constant practice, training as rigid and absorb
ing as any schooling in the world. That practice
was stopped by Mr.. Daniels for reasons known
only to himself. AS result our navy showed re-
Gently the worst record in its history.
A submarine fotilla unfit for sea and feet
of battleships inferior in gunnery-that is the
condition which faces the American people as it
sets about its duty of safeguarding its shores.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
IRELAND'S NEUTRALIT'
Unless She Helps England She Doe
Not Deserve Home Rule.

To the Editor of The Tribune. i,
Sir: Padraic Colum. Celtic poe' ~ =,
dreamer, writes in your paper - n,
calling TO account Sir Conan Do!n .e,.
expressing his views upon the eA. 80.
binary spectacle of Sir Roger S. he.
ment. ENJOYING British honors anu 80,
tinctions, dickering with me e Va,
over the question Of lrelandS pos.,;,
during and after the war IN eei.s,
contingencies. Mr. Colum says 80
Ireland is neutral. Well. We oO s'.s,.
how devoted and loyal 10 thef W.
try the Germans are. ,av Is
To be neutral in Ireland to'osy
my belief, is 70 be disgraced' o. AZ
Ireland does not assume her shs.. ,os
the fighting that has been ioresu Id
England and her empire 10 deIe" whsr.
erty and democratic institutions Ger.
ever they exist, and 20 prevent sson;.
manic hegemony of brute ana Ne
neering force throughout burVpetsd
question may pertinently DC Js-
Are Irishmen in the circunStA',,ss.;e.
serving of the right 10 De pV'is Irs-
free and to have Home kule ~. 70
land continued TO remain ,oak
England, Germany no doup' ,,sssi
some time in the future look 20 al
for the granting Of 3 naval pss', Il u
perhaps for other assistance. .rr =
to Irishmen in this supreme ns"ls .
show where their real interes. Ill
and no doubt their conduct hy q
largely determine the final des.'I v
Home Rule for Ireland. How gan n,trss
otherwise With an Ireland % q
and disloyal to the best intes's'hs
humanity. how could England, .,s,i
testing the bloody doctrine o..,,s6elb
force versus right on CORY ns'u.n.r,s
to-day. grant unto Ireland an Jus"
melted political freedom = crtf.
Glen Ridge, n. j., Dec. !, isi~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
WHO IS JAMES LARKIN?
A Voice from Ireland in Description
of His Career.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent "Slieve.
namon" asks who James Larkn is and
what are his credentials. Who that
has the welfare of Ireland at heart
does not loathe his very name? Late
labor strike leader and agitator, he has
brought more suffering and misery into
the homes of the poor than any man
can remember. He has led them on
with fair promises of higher wages,
etc, till they were compelled to accept
the bread Of charity from the trades
union societies Of England. Yes. James
Larkin has had the proud privilege Of
humbling Ireland TO the dust.
As to his credentials, doubt il he
has the esteem OF any high minded man
or woman. His aims now seem 90
point TO being something more than
labor leader and agi.ator, but "timc
will tell"
pride goeth forth or horseback grand
and gay,
But cometh back content to beg its
way"
VERITAS.
Long Island City, Dec. Z, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
sacrifices.
COMPLACENCE

The giver of our nations laws
Is sound of head and heart
That he is wise we know, because
He always looks the part.
His purposes are high. and they
Are hidden so completely
That what they are no one can say
He functions so discreetly.
He made Big Business bow the knee.
He galvanized Finance,
He breathed upon Prosperity
And woke il from its trance.
He cured score of ills that irked-
His attitude reflects it;
And yet, so quietly he worked
That not a soul suspects 1t!
A peaceful and patient man,
His spirit naught can vex,
AS we perceive if we but scan
His policy in Mex.
This policy, without a doubt,
Will be explained by history;
But what the deuce it's all about
Is now we'll known mystery.
A subtle and secretive man,
He doesn't stamp and storm,
But moves on mysterious plan
His wonders TO perform.
We do not question or deny,
But make profound obeisance,
Convinced of his achievements by
His singular complacence.
B. L. T. in The Chicago Tribune
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
THE ART OF ISADORA DUNCAN
A Reader Defends the Color and Va
riety of Its Dramatic Expression.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the review Of the work of
Miss Isadora Duncan's pupils in the
issue of December 4 due homage is
done to the remarkable grace and
rhythm of the dances. Yet | should
like to call attention to the closing
sentences of the critique in which Miss
Duncan's art is questioned in the mat
ter of "color," of variety" and of
dramatic expression"
AS to Miss Duncan's work it should
be unnecessary to say that in subtle
variations of nuance, in delirious
abandon, in all the modes of selective
expression presented in the perfection
of dramatic form, such mastery could
only be lacking in conviction to minds
ignorant of great creative art and
developed, alas! by the specious
Warmth" the variety" and EXPIRES
sion" of the vaudeville stage and the
motion picture platform.
HELENE IUNGERICH.
New York, Dec. 4, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
AMERICANS AT THE FRONT
What Our Ambulance Men Are Seeing
on the Fields of France.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The American Volunteer Motor
Ambulance Corps is engaged with some
fifteen motor ambulances in carrying
the wounded from the battle line in
France back to the hospitals. It is
under the Red Cross and ST. Johns
Ambulance Society. All the, men with
the ambuances, except few hired
chauifeurs, are American college gradu-
ates. The following extracts from let
tiers received may interest your read
ers:
1--WE have had most exciting time.
We have been where the fighting IS the
fiercest, and have had two German
shells break within fifty feet of US. II
is a strange sensation to be under fire,
especially when one is in car and has
no means of hitting back or being in
the spirit of fighting. We have car
ried a great many wounded from the
outlying hospitals to the ones nearer
the railroads, and have seen innumer-
able troops and aeroplanes under fire
from the English guns as well as the
German.
Though not many Germans come
our way, we carry them just the same
as any one else, and we have written
letters for them. The German wound
ed are given exactly the same care as
any one else by the French. One who
was asked how he had been treated
answered. Fine
81. and we're billeted in French
house with family of nine children,
who would take no money and always
gave us tea before going to bed.
certainly pity the men.
I'VE have seen German prisoners and
one spy. At one place there was a spy
on the roof OF the hospital signalling
while we were carrying the wounded.
He was shot" ELIOT NORTON.
New York, Dec. 3, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
Club and Bullet for Ganemen.

Mayor Mitchel's sanction Of club and revolver
treatment for gangmen cSught in crime is a
pretty drastic policy, but necessary. The gangs
don't hesitate in the least in using every avail
able weapon against society; there seems no
especial reason why society should go after them
with fine words and rosewater. There were
gangs when Devery was Police Commissioner,
but they didn't riot all over the city and they
weren't prominent enough to be hired for
promiscuous assassination. Devery's men had
clubs and pistols, and they weren't afraid to use
them on crooks. The crooks knew that II is
time for them to realize that the police force is
well armed now and is ready to use its weapons
against lawbreakers.
There are few big cities in the country where
organized criminals openly defy the police, and
probably no other city has a gang problem like
ours. The holiness and safety Of the gangs have
come. of course, from the fact that their leaders
have been protected by politicians and have had
political backing at their disposal even in the
ourtrooms-whenever they got there.
The politician whose chief reliance is the thug
IL somewhat in disfavor here now, and his back
ing isn't worth what il once was. Nevertheless,
the gangs, having created new industries of
and murder TO supplement their old
ones Of ballot box stufiing and procuring, con-
tinuc 70 flourish. All the gangmen cannot be
caught and sent TO Jail offhand. Nobody expects
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
THOSE FOREIGN MARKETS.
Why Look So Far When Happine"
Can Be Found So Near!

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | always read with interest let
tiers like that from ). Kondo regarding
the possibilities of export to oihtr
countries, and then wonder why people
will write on subjects they know 81
little about and which they DO no'
study from all their angles. ] inelud'
our President and Secretary Bfdneld
We manufacturers are much EoH
concerned in holding our own msrhss
than trying 70 get foreign marses y
competition with countries tn' az
outsell US in most articles. k'sh =
those in which we can comoete oeea-,ss
of certain conditions in our favor, y
any European concern would iollos'a.
same conditions they can andersen "
every tinae, for obvious reasons.
Ii they would only look 10 the rec
ords of imports Of foreign manuias.
ures, and think what a difference
would make if those goods were NAG ~
here, perhaps their eyes migI
opened and they might realize xs
truth of the saying. why look 50 J. I.
when happiness can be found so near
If it were not for the present 'Si.
we would not be having so mucn non.
employment as at present; as nav.
of fact, there is no reason why ~
should not all be enjoying the hlgnn,
prosperity in spite of the war a. .
is, business conditions are some,nms
terrible, and the prosperity oil Ia0's
that happen to be busy on account !.
the war cannot be transferred ID y,
slightest to those whose business %;
been ruined by the influx OF impol...
goods displacing those they have he'''
tofore made. ,-sc
EENRY W. STRUSS
New York. Dec. 4, 1911.