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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
Rough House" Coneressmen.

The spectacle of a Representative in Congress
engaging in a rough-andtu tumble fight in a Capitol
committee soon jars in this of constitutions
of peace" and resolutions of disarmament Mr..
Johnson's offence seems all the worse inasmuch as
he is chairman of the committee before which his
ntagonist was appearing attorney. He owed
it to the mantle of authority which be was wearing
to sit tight in the moderators chair and avoid mix
ing repartee and blows.
Mr.. Johnson should have realized how ferocious
some of the downtrodden, DISTINGUISHED residents of
Washington have become When his colleague on
the District of Columbia Committee the Hon.
"Thete" Sims, of Tennessee had his celebrated en-
counter in Lafayette Square with Banker Glover,
Sims as Quaker-like as a man who had just
digested of Secretary Bryans lectures peace.
He didn't mix it up and call for gun, but beat
a strategic retreat down a side pathway and subse-
quently had Banker Glover called to the bar of the
House for taking pugilistc notice of words spoken
by a Representative in debate
Chairman Johnson ought to have called in
Capitol policeman and done something along the
same line. Rough house" Congressman have gone
out of date. The FOrward-lOoking statesmen at the
nations capital would do we'll to follow the tactful
example of Mr. Sims in dealing with Washington
bankers and attorneys of the white Hope type.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
Fifly.Fifty with Browning.

Ny first thought was, yet one time more ran
To gain the Tower whose guardian. T. T. A,
with two-edged sword stands to obstruct the way
knew no puny pun tawdry tale
Could gainst his perspcacity prevail
or make me fit to scale this Peak of Play.
How many times | had been cassed among
The near-contribs. who scrawl out drool desprlt
To grace this Einel of Expectancy
TO fail as they seemed best But, no! nuns
Aside my struggling lay; better unsung
said than labelled by the seer, n. @.
When suddeny-what was that fendish fret?
Those who had shot their squibs with errlhs ann
Were glibly daring to do the same.
7 saw them and I knew them ALL And yet
Dauntless the inkhorn on my desk set
And wrote II. W. r. to the DARK Iower came.
H. W. r.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
The Assembly Organization Disappointing.

ANY last hope which sanguine souls may have
cherished that Speaker Sweet was not allied with
"old guard" Repubcanism by habit and predilec-
ton has been sent glimmering by his committee as
sgnments. Two things stand out in the list-the
punishment Of New York County Republicans, who
get chairmanships which jokes aud the eleva-
ton TO high honor of Barnes henchmen and those
in complete accord with the Barnes faction of Re
publicanism Politically this means that Mr. Sweet
has used his first opportunity TO punish those who
stood for progressive organization Of the Assem-
bv primarily and TO reward the Barnes Assembly
men who supplied the votes to make him Speaker.
What is true of the distribution of chairmanshps
is even more true of the personnel OF the commit
tees themselves. Safe" men planted In each
committee that nothing short of an earthquake
could Overturn the Sweet Barnes organizations con-
troll of affairs The publics interest in this condi-
ton is best shown perhaps, by the fact that the
newly created Committee on Social Welfare, formed
to handle legislation designed TO better social and
economic conditions, is overwhelmingly controlled
by this Sweet-Barnes alliance.
This is not the way to command public confidence
and public support for the Republican party. Its
return 10 place of responsibility and trust needs
helps not handicaps, and merit in the party, not
weakness and scandal in its opponents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
The Transformation of the Peers.

There will be little surprise at the announcement
of Postmaster General Samuel that the British gov
eminent is about to undertake the abolition on ,he
hereditary principle in legislation. That does not
mean that the House of Lords will be abolished or
even that it will cease to be composed of men who
bear titles of nobility. 1t doubtless does mean that
membership in that chamber will depend upon
something other than Inheritance of name and social
rank. From that proposition 1t is scarcely credible
that many serious British statesmen can dissent
1t Is an anachronism for men of no fitness IA he
intrusted with great public duties and responsible
ties merely because they the descendants of those
who IN their day were men of Importance But it
would be intoerable to exclude from the public ser
vice some or the most capable men merely because
they are the Of their fathers or have received
titles OF social distinction. We may be sure that
the United Kingdom will not deny itself the services
Of such men as Bryce. Morley, Lansdowne Rose
berry, CurzOn and many others on the ground that
they are lords"
Such men are now ineligible to the House Of
Commons and II is to be doubted If the constitution
of that chamber will be changed so as 70 admit
them. But in reorganized and "democratized"
House OF Lords, with membership based on seac
ton according to merit they could continue TO servo
the nation more efficiently and authoritativelv than
they have been able to do In a house which for
many years has been little more than half house
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

governed by quite other rules and regula-
tons than those I'm force in the ordinary
general hospital
We have abundant proof that the SICK
children i'm the city hospitals are not get
ting the kind of care to which they are
entitled, and we feel very strongly that
when parents are asked to relnquish their
sick children TO the care of the city au-
thorities they should have the assurance
that every possible precaution VIII De
taken to guard against avoidable danger
and every means taken to return them TO
normal health. The recommendations OF
my committee look TO such purpose. and
we hope to have them carried out with
the desired result.
GEORGE MANENY.
Chairman, Board Of Estimate Committee
On Inquiry Into the Departments or
Health, Charities and Bellevue and
Allied Hospitals.
New York. Jan. 90 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
THE BEST WAY TO HELP
Give Work to the Man Out OF Job,
as This Reader Did.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In these days of semi Industrial
stagnation many men are out OF work
and distress prevails in marked degree
but help could be rendered here and there
and save many pang and much suffer-
ing. for there is many a chap who wears
ragged coat and who is compelled TO
beg for a nights lodging who is willing
to work if given a chance.
I proved this but a few days ago, be-
ing accosted by a man who asked FOR
lodging and something to eat. Presumlng
IT was one OF the usual or what we are
prone to believe pleas of the professional
"hobo." I tried the experiment of offer
ing him work and told him TO report the
next day and come TO the building which
the writer has. He was put TO work
cleaning halls and scrubbing down paint
and making himself generally useful
about an office building, and am pleased
to say that 1 have seldom found more
willing worker. / am as pleased with
my find as this poor chap is probably TO
get job.
Might it not be worth while for other
business men the owners of buildings or
property TO try similar experiment and
see il they cannot take some fellow in
from out of the cold, put bread in his
mouth and at the same time find it profit
able? w. DE II. WASHINGTON.
No. 80 West S2d street, New York, Jan.
10, 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
How TO Fight the Gangs.

If Mayor Mitchell and Police Commissioner Nc
Kay want man to head their club crusade against
the gangmen, they couldn't do much better than
10 impress BILLY" Sullivan in charge of the court
attendants in General Sessions. He has way
with him, as score or more OF "Dopey Benny
Fens adherents discovered. They had invaded
the Criminal Courts Building 20 work the common
trick OF gangdom-to bully and terrorize witnesses
at "Dopey Benny's' trial by covert threat and the
open menace of their presence until the charge fell
through for lack Of evidence. Alone, with no weapon
other than his knotty fists Sullivan drove this out
fit OF gunhghers and thieves snarling, cursing, but
running, 10 the streets.
The episode revealed the strength and weakness
Of the gangs. There is myth about the fear they
inspire and the influence they command, as is
shown by the fact that Judge Malone deemed II
wise TO keep secret the names of jurors In the
case lest they he terrori2ed or tempered with Yet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
A Small Note in Passing.

What is beneath contempt sometimes deserves a
word of amazed amusement. OF such is cartoon
in 1.-The Evening Sun" fashioned after the familiar
picture of Lincoln reading to his son Tad and
labelled Not Sex Hygiene."
The few opponents of telling the truth TO children
are persistent and hard TO down But none of them
has ever carried his fallaCy to this preposterous
length. Opposition to the teaching of sex hygiene
in schools is not without basis and unquestonaby
raises a debatable problem. Opposition to parents
telling the truth to children in the home they
become old enough to understand it is grotesque
and fatuous folly. Its idiocy can only be compared
to the taste which devotes picture of Lincoln TO
such sorry cause
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
THE IMMORAL PLAY"
Is II One Showing Indecencics or the
Sufferings of Victims?

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
| Sir: There are many good reasons Why
the white slave" films should be exhibited
| to the public, but found one OF the very
best reasons in the current number OF
THE Outlook" from which | quote as
/ follows:
There can be little doubt that, no mat
ter from what motives observers came &c
witness their production. they could hard
" leave the theatre save with height
ened disgust for the horrors necessarily
attendant upon the continued existence
of the social evil and a determination
to help, if only by thought and word. IN
the fight for its extinction"
The above is exactly the feeling men
and women who have one spark Of man
hood or womanhood in them have after
seeing those white slave films. and that
is the principal reason there is so much
objection TO them from certain quarters
they are not only going TO affect the
supply" by showing girls the traps which
are set for the ignorant and innocent, but
what ito the trade" is much more I'M
portant, the effect OF those pictures will
be to materially reduce the demand
for victims, and whatever affects the de
mand" is the largest factor. for that is
where the profits come from. Fewer con-
sumers. less profits. In every direction in
which they are divided and sub-divided.
Just one more quotation from that
splendid article: (which is the greater
detriment TO the social health-the sur
geon's knife or the spreading of paint and
powder over a wound? No one In these
Victorian days publicly objects. APP
parently through fear OF being thought
prudish and unsophistcated. 10 the mu-
steal comedies founded upon the glorin-
cation OF marital infidelity. Yet, between
these and the white slave films. pointing
a moral which he who runs may read. and
the wit and cynicism OF the average
musical farce skilfully and successfully
staged to appeal to the immature In age.
mind and morals. there is gulf as wide
as the seven seas"
One of your correspondents said In q
recent letter that censorship by the po-
lice is a necessity" We have had more
than sufficient evidence during the last
year. through the able efforts OF District
Attorney Whitman. that the police and
their superior officers in the Police De-
partment are the very last persons to
be trusted In matters affecting prostitu-
ton. | have never heard OF policemen
closing any Of the burlesques, cabaret
shows or musical comedies that nightly
infest New York. all OF which are vast
ly more indecent than any of the plays
or moving pictures they have tried to
stop. The idea of those people who are
objecting TO these films seems TO be that
plays showing indecencics which men
can laugh over. which show up mems
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS
President McAneny Explains the Report
of His Committee.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Since the publication Of the report
NJ nv committee on the children's hos
pitals of the city some criticisms Of GER
tain of the recommendations contained
therein have appeared In the pubic
prints which lead me TO believe that
those recommendations were not under
stood. and as this is a subject of great
Importance / take this means or correct
ing these misrepresentation.
The report does not recommend the con-
str,Iction OF a thousand-bed hospital for
acute cases as a separate unit, as has
been reported. but. on the contrary, states
that the ideal arrangement is to have "a
children's service complete in all particu-
lars and equipped TO properly care for
any type of children's ailment-one in
Manhattan and one in Brooklyn The
proper location of such a complete service
I'm Manhattan is at Bellevue Hospital.
where adequate space can be provided and
the attendance OF the high grade OF physi-
clans secured. In Brooklyn such a COM
plete service should be, located at Kings
County Hospital" These services at
tached to the main hospitals in Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn can be developed TO
the highest point Of efficiency and can
profit by the presence OF the high class
of specialists in attendance on the adult
service of the hospitals. The smaller hos
pitfalls should provide services adequate
for the general run Of acute cases, both
surgical and medical, and should act as
feeders to the main services at Bellevue
and Kings County hospitals
In addition to this provision for the
acute general cases we have recommended
a large hospital for long term cases, which
should be located on Blackwells Island.
such hospital should be erected where
there is abundant space surrounding II. so
that convalescent children and those suf-
fering from chronic diseases may be cared
for under the most favorable conditions.
This large hospital, which ultimately may
be developed TO accommodate 1000 chill
dren, is not TO take care OF acute cases of
any description. and U.s. therefore. to be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
The Anti Trust Message.

President Wilson's message urges the adoption OF
a series Of antitrust bills such as had already oeen
foreshadowed in the Washington correspondence OF
The Tribune 1t fails to persuade us that sucn
legislation is wholly necessary or wise
There never was a time when the Sherman act
was so well understood as at present. There never
was time when its sufhciency TO repress combina-
lions in restraint of trade was so abundantly clear
There never was time when the big business IN
terests of the country so ready to concede the
Justice of the national policy against monopolies or
so ready to conform to the existing law.
Mr. wilson's address is full of fair words for bust
moss and no doubt he is. or thinks he Is inspired
by spirit of friendness TO it. 1t " difficult to
ouarrel with one who refuses to quarrel. And Mr.
Wilson does not exaggerate when he describes the
willingness Of the big business interests Of the cOun
try 10 accept the verdict of public opinion The old
denunciatory method which was unfortunately so
familiar in the past is entirely absent from Mr.
Wilson'S message. This is one great gain But we
fear that the old habit of mind which inspired the
ancient denuncatons is not entirely gone as 1t
should be in this era Of peace Party needs more
than public needs seem to inspire the programme Of
antitrust legislation which Mr. Wilson advocates
The party record against the trusts must be made
The party platform adopted before this period Of
co-oDerotion and obedience to law has TO be writ
ten into the law So Mr.. Wilson urges a vast array
Of antitrust legislation some of which might well be
passed now but much Of which might better wait or
never be passed
At least that Is the conclusion that is to be
reached from the message, which, like most of Mr.
Wilson's deliverances, consists rather of well tuned
phrases calculated to stir the Imagination, as he
once professed than Of such specific proposals that
a positive opinion may be reached regarding them.
Much will depend upon the exact form which the
bills take that will be introduced with the admin
istrations approval
We have already indicated sympathy with the
idea Of a permanent commission TO aid in the Ell
forcement Of the Sherman antitrust act This work
now falls upon the Department Of Justice, whose du-
ties are already Onerous and whose personnel and
policy subject to frequent charIe Holding M
panies which amount to trusts have already been
condemned by the courts And the income tax offers
an obstacle of the other kind 1t is not clear that
law on this subject is necessary. Whether a law
forbddng interlockng directories should be passed
depends upon what the law is in detail and how
long time is allowed for corporations to adjust
their affairs in conformity to it. Specific definition
Of reStant of trade is likely to bring about confusion
where the courts have at last worked out reasonable
certainty less ambitious antitrust programme
would better serve the present needs and interests
Of the country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
THEOLOGY AND RELIGION
Tempestuous Discussions Of the Forms
Cannot Discredit the Latter

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Theological tempests never I'D
religion: theological tempests. htus
big, never retard. never discredit rehs@
in the minds and hearts OF earnest nS
est. natural people. because religious as
does not depend and never can osF'
on theological disputation. but ss.'
depended and always will depend on y
liefs which become sacred beliefs oec1N
they are emotionally accepted as VEG
unbeatable and therefore raise tne h''~
OF true men into CONCENTRATIONS OF w
never was and never can be REDUCES
circumstantial disquisition such as n''
in which determined theologians "I
monty indulge.
Forecasts soeyer and all guesslnp
what future religions may come
are OF no account. simply becsus
altogether impossible even so mucn
predicate intelligently any matter
lief. or ever presuppose with o.'
anything or any condition which. depe~
ing on emotionality for its fullest W.
ton, depends therefore on "hs' 'S
be attributively declared.
On what is the Christian religion hass
II is based on compassion Inc g..
Pauline Doctrine OF the uniV
Church rests within COMPASSION
dhism is the same, it's spiritual e''
being the very superlatiye OF con''sS
ate consideration. Even shintoism
is of itself an illimtable array
ref,nements OF truly comparisons"
gard for living things.
Thus emotionalty embraces a.
makes the worlds best religious
actually spiritually vital. ana II =
therefore true. distinctly true 'h''
ologv per Sc constitutes really 'V
more than those debataole s'0-<
mere disquisition relating 70 $3.50 80
and all that comprises rituahs"s
ances-grounds whereon mainly arr
perstructural edifices OF tno'e no
become everthemore subject 10
criticisms OF kinds and in DEGREES -
less and less component par" ~.x,A
emotional beliefs. and which e0's. -.,fs
inure 20 little or nothing OF rea' NJ
as ENTHUSIASTICALLY felt ana '''
up to by righteous people. ovyyH
ALFRED LAURENS bH .,,,. y
No. 1867 East nth street D''
10, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21

one sturdy two listed fighter could disperse '"e"'s
skulking bad men with police records I"i'e '""
courts should unite TO fight them openly po"'o
by arresting them and furnishing e'luence "e"'i.'
them such Is easily obtainaOe' the courts ~
imposing adequate prison sentences OH 'oii'
This involves no especial qualincatioh OH 'nc p"''
of police courts aside from thelr horin'' oP''P
ment save total disregard OF the po'i'i''""'
behind the gangs. When pull cannot ne'P " e""7
man there'l be few Of them in TINS cry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
FoRBEs.RoBERTs0Ns fAn"
Mr.. Ben Gree, Offers Rs"'
British Residents

To the Editor Of The IriOU" ys,,,isa =
Sir: May I remind INV -. rsIss@.
dents Of New York ana w .c.s
hood that our much beloN .''-s.y ~
bid us his farewell on sSs .
noon and night OF th's ~ ". c,.y hswr.
The good people of this . S'.i nse \
ported him 50 ..pIendidly, ,, %, - ',sn.r
our privilege and our uu'' ,afsons'
them a not easily to be '~' n
speed. ,serful p, Il
bringing us all together ON AN GEr
two worlds Kin. al.
New York. Jan. ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
WHY THE SOCIALIST PARTY is GROWING

"TNOF'I-'E'
From The Railway Review
The accident resulted in three fatalities and In injuries
n 81 others OF the passengers and Most of the cas-
,,, ccurred IN the passengers the Jim Crow"
which WAS Of wooden construction. The private car OF Mr.
b. Munson vice-presiden and general manager Of the
road was also but its occupants escaped with ra-
lively inconsequent injuries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

"escapades. sowing Wild OATS IA
ried infidelity, their sporting days 4
jokes-such plays are moral but Il u
play shows the sufferings Of the e.
these men have degraded and destroys
and causes them TO think about the kss
their "escapades" have done-that k1
immoral play. That is the acid test
New York City 10 determine whethg |,
play is moral or immoral.
NORA CANTWELL
New York, Jan. q, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21

Speaking of Colonel Harrison he and Mr. Robert
Adamson came home from Europe on the same boat
last summer las an auction player" is the COM
ment of the fire commissioner he is one or the hnes
Young novelists now residing in Charestown W. Va
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21

The willingness of otherwise human beings TO ac-
cuse Henry Ford of insincerity is dlspirltihs
thing. The wage-increase, instead of making the
men careless, has given them an added seriousness
about their jobs. A man just back from visit 10
the Ford factory observes that men hate TO lose 90
aday Jobs, while in $234a-day jobs it doesn't mat
ter so much
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21

Parke Davis computes (see sport page) that
IL 900 600 persons saw football games during l'l3
Our reckoning shows that 100000 Beautiful
Ladies attended the Yae-Prnceton game, so Mt
Davis's statistic staggers not at all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
HOME WAS NEVER LIKE THIS.

Choicest Food and Best Liquors." Drums, traps,
piano" Refined Cabaret and Public Dancing" and IAN
Instructor in Art OF Modern Dancing to be had
at the Sunset which advertses itself homelike
taurant.
Address furnished request. j. M. c.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
J. NJ. c.

When the market received the Presidents message
it did not know what to do with it.-Wall Street
Journal.
We'll" said the President to the market gold
bergily, what are you gonna do with it:'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21

The Tribune uses its best endeavors TO insure the
trustvorthness Of every advertisement IT prints ana
20 avoid the publication Of all advertisements contain
ing misleading statements claims.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21

Old Hank Harrison's book royalties have run into
much money. most of which he is likely to lose this
afternoon. In the second race at Charleston D. T.,
Oueed is entered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21
OH. YOU BEHAVES,

Call your colyum Coming Tower,
Plaster. Plinth or Steeple;
BY whatever name you're our
Con Tribune of the People.