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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25

Like all vital and soul-stirring episodes The play
Of President Wilson on the links of the Washing'
ton Suburban Club is already surrounded U!
myths. The truth probably never can be ascer'
tanned. Republican golfers may hold to one view
Democrats TO another.
For ourselves we sympathize entirely win 'ne
President The things that one can do in the way
If getting distance when match IS barely within
range are amazing. Unheard of sweetness IN the
sound an unprecedented beauty OF night-'ne
damnable perversity Of the game finds full room
for expression. And one hurries up to apologize
pride struggling with regret, only cur
mudgeon of golfer can maintain his bitterness.
That such a one actually exploded with wrath at
Mr.. Wilson is too sad 10 dwell upon
As golfers of a sort we should be wildly OPP
posed TO any change in the rules giving special
rights TO the Presidential Fore" But there is no
earthly reason why President should not be
treated as an ordinary duffer if he confeSses his
sin and pleads for mercy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
SUFFRAGE AND SALOONS
No Connection Between Drinks and
Women's Votes, Says Miss Ward.
Q Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The suggestions made under
the heading "Suffragists Seek Liquor
Aid" are extremely interesting. Narl-
Gus anti-suffrsgists assert that sun "a
gists seek the assistance Of the liquo:
trade. although they never have been
able 10 bring a shadow of evidence 20
this effect. la talking to other types
Of audiences these speakers Will state
that the fact that the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union and the PrOhi-
btion party support suffrage shows
that women will dragon the whole
liuuor interest. In fact. as is usual IN
discussions Of this kind, the anti-suf-
fragists like TO have things both ways
to eat their cake and to have It.
Now. the suffragists of the United
States have quite definitely taken the
stand that they are not affiliated with
any political party or programme what
soever. Therefore. they stand neither
for nor against the liquor interest.
Even il they took stand, what power
would they have to pledge the votes OF
millions OF uncnfrapchised womer
They might pledge such votes, but
every one knows such pledges would
not be worth a puff OF smoke.
In so far as there is any legitimate
discussion as TO the probable effect
upon the liquor trade Of wOmen's en-
franchisement, the whole question
turns on the opinions held as to the
attitude on such question OF women
in the bulk. That many of those iinan-
cially interested in liquor fear the ef-
feet OF womens votes has been demon
strated by the campaigns conducted by
the brewers associations in different
states. That liquor dealers are mis-
taken in believing that women's poli;i-
cal power will be inimical TO their
trade is the assertion of the anti-sus-
fragists. If they could only convert
these interests to this point OF view
there is no doubt that a great deal OF
money and energy would be saved by
the dealers ceasing to fight woman sut-
frage, which would then have an easy
walkoyer.
It would be nothing but impertinence
for the suffragists TO take any other
line than that quoted from the Nevada
women. where they state: "If we Sc
cure this privilege namely, voting
we are bound By no promise and will
exercise our right according to indiyiI-
usl conscience"
Miss Lucy Price is playing with d
two-edged sword. EVA WARD.
New York, June %, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
MURDER IN MEXICO
An Admirer Of the Constitutionalist,
Makes Some Fine Distinctions.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: / nave no patience with that
element, represented b. your CORE
spondent Mr.. Thomas, which seems 20
think no good person or thing ever
came out OF Mexico, and that, except
ing only the bloody handed Aztec
traitor who sits on the throne and the
handful Of sristocrats who alone sup
port him, % the minds and hearts Of
our neighbors below the Rio Grsrde
patriotism is a quality entirely for
Cign and unknown.
The ideas and arguments in which
Mr. Thomas from time 20 time in
Gulges in defence Of Huerts are the
same hackneyed ones which have
throughout all the ages ever been ad-
lanced in defence Of plutocraey and
despOtism, and will avail about as
much 10 stay in Mexico the march II
progress as would a broom 10 estop the
tides diurnally lapDinc the shores Of
the sea. And calling the President Of
our country and all others whose sym
Iathles are with the ConstitutiOnalists
fools will avail no more.
NO one at all acquainted with the
character and history Of the more
prominent of the rebel leaders. hardly
excepting Villa himself. probably the
most lied about man OF the age, who
cares iig about the triumph Of right
and Justice beyond his own back fence
and front gate can question their high
motives.
The so-called "buteheries" on the
part Of the rebels consist merely Of the
executions OF the older Federal Off
GERS falling into their hands-those
VINO had served under Madero. and
hence we're traitors 20 their country.
Yet in spite of this fact aud the here
tofose unhesrd of msgnanimity dis.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
SoCIALIsTIC PROPAGANDA
IL Meets with One Readers Scornful
Criticism.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Those who publicly express
opinions on socialism, pro or con, and
particularly those protagonists that
seek to be regarded as highly intel
lectual. not to say engaging, pessimists
and. therefore. especially fitted for
making conclusive statements in rels-
ton TO il, would be serving their queer
half-baked doctrines much more sensl-
bly, By first learning TO distinguish
the different brands Of socialism,
which, evidently, they do not compre-
bend.
For instance, socialism in Germany
to-day. with its varied degrees OF ad-
herents and qUasi-adherents, number
ing altogether nearly four millions, in
ncwise truly resembles the rsbid fool
ishuess promulgated in this country;
for that which carries its very consid-
cradle weight in the Fatherland IS
nothing more nor less than a tents-
lively wished-for fermentation against
existing mOnarchic institutions, which
half-thinking Germans at home believe.
more or less implicitly and honestly be-
lieve, are bad for the plain people, and
therefore should be supplsnted with
purely democratic forms of govern
ment such as Germans and all Others
supposedly enjoy in America; not
that they wish or would agree 10 trans
plant tie United States Constitution,
but that they really desire demos 20
rule and think demos sure could. II
only the monarchic state be over
thrown, or rather made to fall, by some
kind OF very energetic political under
mining.
But here in America the thing called
socialism has really nothing to do with
democratic principles at all; for its
aim, as announced BY its more intelli-
gent political sponsors being duly re-
duced to comprehensive form, shows
clearly that communism is its main
purpose and intent; and this, as every
body very we'll knows, is not democ-
racy, embodies nothing of democratic
principles per sc, but is the unrealiz-
able and hopelessly impracticable ma
terislistic dream Of materialistic
people, which they have somehow inn
blbed from the absurd altruistic utili.
tartan teachings Of Herbert Spencer,
whose Social States" unauestionably
gave rise 10 the various soeialistie
propagandas which have, during the
past hfty years, been hatched and
halt-hatched, to the utterly senseless
confusion of unnumbered local circles
the world over, not one of which has
ever yet candidly, concisely and IN
mlstakably pronounced a single politi-
CO! dictun, worthy any nations seri-
Gus attention
ALFRED LAURENS BRENNAN.
New York, June 20, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
WHAT is TRUTH?
With Some Mention of Haeekel,
Buddhism and Religious Tolerance.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The ridiculous arguments OF
your correspondent, Mr.. James F. Reil-
ly. might easily be left unanswered,
since they only repeat what has been
said and refuted a hundred times be-
fore. But ! strongly object TO the
abuse which this gentleman makes OF
such words as Science, Truth and so
on, and therefore | shall take the pains
here to refute his statements.
He begins by asking whether the
doctrines of hell and heaven, etc, lead
10 ignorant practices. Has the gentle
man ever heard of the thousands who,
on the basis of these doctrines, have
been burned at the stake and subjected
TO torrents unspeakable by his
Church at the time of the lnquisltion
He asks: "Are the several hundred
million Christians all benighted indi-
viduals?" ! wish TO ask in turn: Are
those thousands of millions who never
heard of Christianity, as, for example,
the japanese. with their wonderfully
refined civilization, the Buddhists.
with their conception of life a thou
sand times higher than Christianity
ever understood il. benighted individ-
uals? In his ignorance, probably they
are.
Furthermore. he says that Haeckel
forged the Photographic plates Of the
anthropoid ape in order to bolster up
this pet theory" and "lost his position
in a German university" Will the
gentleman kindly inform me where he
got this information and when Mi
Haeckel lost his position at German
university? / surely would be much
obliged to him, as | heard Haeckel IN
his lectures at the University of jena
about ten years ago, having at his feet
the most intelligent and earnest stu
dents of all parts of the world.
"Dogmas are nothing more nor less
than fixed religious truths" To begin
with, / object to the term religious
truth" A thing is either true or II
is not true. but it is not politically
true, or economically true, or rclig-
iously true: and, besides, If his state
ment that dogmas are fixed religious
truths is really admissible, does he
mean the dogma % every one OF. the
$500 religions that are running loose
in this world. or does ne want to say
that only he has the truth?
OF course, such an absolutely IN
founded statement as that there Is
no morality without dogma can only
appeal to the utterly ignorant. The
high civilization of Rome and Greece
never knew what a dogma was, and
there was no question of religious tol.
GRANGE in the pre-Christian era. If
have read history right, the mora
standard Of an old Athenian or q Ro'
man was at least as high as that Of oul
noble contemporaries.
"The principles of conduct. # decent
have their origin in revealed truth IS
o. course plain rubbish, and such an
assertion can only be made by mar
who disregards anything that has hap
pcned before the Jews invented tho
mOnothcistic idea.
Does scientific knowledge nceessar'
lis make a man honest, merciful
clean-minded? | think not" Does
the fact that he is educated in the
Christian religion make man honest
merciful, clean-minIed? ! am sure
il does not.
SIEGFRIED JACOBSS0HN.
New York, June %, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
A World Church Peace Conference.

The world Church Peace Council, which Will
meet in Constance Switzerland on August =,
under the auspices of the Church Peace Union,
will be the first gathering OF its kind ever held
remarkable and suggestive fact when II Is remem'
bered that the birth Of Christ was ushered in 10y
the angelic anthem of Peace on earth TO men OF
GOOD will" 1t is only one of many indications that
twentieth century Christianity is cropping It's way
back 10 some of its primitive idealisms, which in
the vicissitudes Of time and circumstance came 10
be forgotten or Obscured. On the same date
Roman Catholic Peace Conference will meet at
Iieee Belgium under the auspices OF Count Albert
Apponyi. the Hungarian statesman
IL is not to be expected Of course that the
millennium Of peace is going to be ushered IN at
once by these gatherings. Human institutions do
NOT function thus rapidly, and human nature has
onA road 10 travel before it will be ready for
that zone divine event 10 which the whole creation
moves
But Il is an immense gain that Christians are
oven ready 10 admit the needlessness and essen
,isl wlckeIness of war. AS we know, II was not
always thus: Christianity has had its Apostolic
suecession Of militant clerics, who justified and
s,xen cloried In war, and fayorite title of the
y ~. as we know, was the God Of Battles.
- ,at is passing away. 1t is no longer the
ne ,dier. but the worker and man OF business
ND upon as the ideal type of citizen
In nIf 4
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
THOSE OPPOSED TO VOTING
Another AMT" Attempts an ExPlana-
ton Of the 90 Per Cent.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As to the antiquity of Mrs.
Goodwin's figures, let me say that in
Brooklyn. November !, 1918, Miss Anna
Shaw referred to the proportion of {
per cent in favor and 90 opposed, and
was quoted as so doing in The New
York Times" | have quoted this on
several occasions, without contradiction
or correction from Miss Shaw.
Mrs. Goodwin candidly states in her
letter: 1--WE recognize that it is ALSO
lutely impossible to estimate with sc-
curacy the exact numerical strength OF
either side in this movement. Suffra-
gists enroll members from the cradle "a
the grave; we enroll only those over
twenty-one years of age. We thought il
sufficiently fair to use figures furnished
by themselves"
How can we hope to satisfy members
OF an organization who are as OK,
tremely vague and uncertain about an
accurate count Of their members as the
following would prove our suffrage
friends to be?
When the president Of an equal sui
frage league in town near New Yorl
was asked the numbers i'm her branch
she replied: 1--WE have no way Of
knowing exactly" When told that il
the five months of its existence the
local anti-sufrage league had enrolled
l.O46 members over twenty-one, and
asked L she thought they had over 500
she replied that "she guessed so, and
anyway, we have over 1000 sympa
thizers." She could not, however, eX
plain how they count their sympa
thiZers.
/ think Mrs. Goodwin will agree with
me that even quoting their own figures
could not under such conditions prove
satisfactory. r. A. LAWRENCE.
Plainield, n. j., June 20, 1911.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
THE MOVING CAUSE
Christianity Is Regarded as the Motive
Power of Civilization.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In connection with all this dis
cussion about the relations of Chris
tianity and civilization a little contem-
plation of the we'll worn figure of the
horse and the cart might give us a lit
tie light. In that figure the source of
the power making for progress need
not be argued. When we examine the
conditions OF human life in Christian
and non-Christian lands the contrast is
not 10 be denied. But the part which
religion plays in such contrasts is not
so quickly admitted by many.
Yet is 1t not significant that the dom
insnt faith of progressive nations
which have impaired vitality to back
ward peoples is Christianity. an eth
zeal monotheism, embodying and
preaching love and nope and the Faith
erhOod of God and the Brotherhood OF
Man? OF course, il may be objected
that Christianity in some instances has
placed shscklcs on the hearts and
minds of men. But the man in the
gutter does not teach or prove total
deprayity. And so long as Christianity
is true TO itself it has led civilization
or TO better things?
In view Of these things il seems that
We cannot consistently evade the con
clusiOn that the comforts. convenience.
Injuries, enlightenment and iov of life
OF Christian civilizations and the To-
norance, misery and monotonous
reaches of existence Of Christian
civilizations must be largely accounted
for IN the presence of Christianity a.
the moving cause of progress which
has come from that real liberty of
thought wherewith Christ makes men
free.
II We can settle the problem OF motive
power the question as 10 which Goes
first will resolve itself. OF course. we
can fIX contriyanee by which the cart
is foremost, but common sense has an
other way. ERNEST A. RAYNER.
Long Branch, ~ j., June %, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
BAND OR ORCHESTRA?
The Popularity of the Latter Is Sup
ported by the Attendance.
ne Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter Of II. Henry D.
Klinker in this mornings Tribune says
that the people that 20 TO hess the
music in Central Park represent the
masses and not the classes, and there
fore he believes that they would prefer
band in place of an orchestra. The
best of evidence to prove that the ma
jority Of the people attending the Gen.
trail Park concerts do not prefer the
noisy bands is merely to compare tho
size Of the audiences that have attend
ed the first two orchestral concerts
and last Saturdays and Sundays mill
tary band concerts.
| personally was present al both con-
eerts and could see the vast crowd
gathering and occupying seats and
standings long before the orchestra be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

Mayed by the Constitutionalist leaders
IN releasing all captured Federal pri-
Yates who do not join the rebel army,
and the barbarous practice of Huerta 5
forces. in striking contrast thereto, OF
executing every rebel soldier, officer or
private captured, Mr.. Thomas seeks
10 make i. appear that the tricksters,
barbarians and cutthrosts are all in
the ranks Of the rebels.
F. c. LOCKE.
Monticello, y. Y, June %, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25

cal declaration that nation should ever go to
war under any circumstances. Unfortunately the
world is not yet ready for that idyllic state OF
affairs; and doubtless the eminent delegates to the
council will recognize that fact, while recording
their hope and belief that the world is slowly but
surely advancing to the realization that war Is
not only opposed to all moral and material prog,
ress but IS destructive. OF much that Is best ana
most loyable in the nature of man g..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
Women to Vote for Pre,idsnt

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The decision Of the Illinois Su-
preme Court unfolding the eonstito-
tiouality Of the woman suffrage Law
adds about 100000 10 the number Of
women who will be entitled to vote for
President of the United States in 1918
The bill passed by the Illinois Legs
lature last year gave Presidential a
we'll as municipal suffrage TO women.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
Dorchester, Mass, June 20, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

gan. At the band concerts there was
much smaller crowd and many vacant
seats. and here and there were Ameri-
can sports whistling and digging" to
gether with the ragtime music OF the
bands. You can love the orchestra
after hearing the band, but you cannot
bear the band after hearing the or
chestra. SAMUEL DILLON.
New York, June %, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
Our More Convenient Shape.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The change in The Tribunsf
appearance most decidedly meets
with nay approval. Il is now possio.s
TO fold the paper in the centre, nor's
and south, and read all the wsy
across the middle columns comfort
ably. In crowded ears il means muen
to be able to fold paper IN ths
centre. A. 4.
40 Riverside Drive, New lorA'
June "a, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
The Coming Tower
THE BALL GAME.
CHAPTER |.
BY OUR own WILLIAM De MORGAN.

CHAPTER |.
OF BELLAREAToN's NAME HOW IT WASN'T REALLY
BELLAREAToN BECAUSE PRUDENCE CROSBY
CALLED HER THAT. NINETEEN YEARS AGO
JUNE ~ GRAMERcY PARK JUNE &C. 1915 TO
BE ACCURATE.
or course If you had looked at Bellareatons visit
ing cards, which were engraved in the neatest OF
Caslon caps and small caps and not in the Tiffany
text which was affected by the best and assistant
best and seeond-vee best people twenty years ago
eheu figdccs'-you would have known that Bellarea-
toms name was not Bellareaton at all. You would
rave known that it vas ISABELLA EATON. 29l
GRAuERCY PARK. You would not have known,
though the reading Of any of the writer's previous
publications might have given you a chart or da-
gram you could have got ahead pretty far with, so
you might have guessed, that when Isabella Eaton
was q baby and, indeed, up 10 the time when the
brook and river. Mr.. LOngfeow-and his verses
were deemed excellent IN your mothers day, de-
adolescent days, Miss Prudence Crosby, OF Augusta
Maine, lsabella's nurse and guardlan-rlght.
guardian, James Eaton, who used TO be Old Beer
Eaton of Yale. called her Prudences pronunclatory
proclivities-the ALTERATION is accidental and the
story would gain nothing by stopping TO change II
nowincluded vanillaricecream, PennsylVanlafaVenue
ard she sawr mammal yestiddy. And, obviously
Issbeareaton 1t was Isabella at first, then Bella:
But when the extremely young Miss Eaton appeared
to be becoming overdesirOus for nuzzer piece
tandy, which she had had enough Of already and
what children a-comin' TO, Prudence terrifying
and austere, would cry warning 'pellafeaton,
you've had than enough already. Bellarcdton!'
May had and gone as Mays IN Gramercy
Park had been doing for the twenty-tour years OF
Belareatons life. IL was June. June tween urther
vagueness and attempt at concealment were tutlle-
ty-fourth, Nineteen Fourteen. II was onehtteen oil
that afternoon, Wednesday The present ehronic!er
might increase his reputation for unusual ability
TO remember dates and figures but there IS no merit
accrung in this instance. He has looked II up IN
calendar and finds that June "a, 1914 fell on
Wednesday. And calendars never are wrong save
artistically. They always are that.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
CHAPTER II.

HOW YOUNG PHYSICIANS Do not MAKE MUCH
MONEY A WAITING PHYSICIAN If DOCTORS
ONLY MIGHT ADVERTISE. WHY SHOULDN'T
THEY BECAUSE THINGS ARE WRONG. But
HOW CAN IT BE HELPED:
Unless your reverence for the mating of words IS
stronger than the writer's you would not have called
John Howard Ripley, NJ D., his bills, which so
few alss were sent out Of and solely because there
were so few 10 send out, struggling physician. At
any rate his struggling was not visible. He was,
YOU might saw assuming again your willingness to
divorce word-pars whose diamOnd-Weddlng annlVef-
ssries have been celebrated, a waiting physician.
One who is by way of being in the cloak-and-sult
line, say, may struggle; subway guard may strue-
gle: ianitor Of an apartment-house may struggle.
To see the last. If we may drop the story Tor mo-
ment, we should be willing TO walk ten miles on a
cold night and pay good round admittance-tee.
Provided of course, that his struggling were IN
vain.
You would-we are going to. at any rate call DR..
Ripley waiting physician. An excellent physician
he was and they could tell you at Vienna, IN the
university of the amazing knowledge OF surgery TINS
Young American had attained. But when you take
an apartment in East Fifty-sXth street or any
where amost-you simply cannot stand in front Of
the building, collect crowd. and say; Ladies ana
gentlemen. am about to open an once mere. lhougn
am unknown 10 all OF you, can refer you TO the
faculty Of the University OF Vienna, where TOOK eN-
conscientious and honorable, my skill and judgment
are more than ordinary and deserve your trade.
Yet this would have been utterly true.
theatre may-nay. dozens dO-vaunt that II has
the Best Show in Town, and department store vow,
in print that nowhere else is II possible 20 obtain
such colossal values for such absurdly low prices
Yet DR. Riplcy's speech. could he but have made H.
would have been more truthful and. we believe more
modest Our standards are in And testing
Pilates query remains unanswered.