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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
The Nearer Warfare.

II all our poets and men OF letters mad not
beaten it TO the firing line in Europe there would
be food OF passionate words now outpourinS
about the Boston Braves. new heroes in what was
once our biggest league To come from last place
TO second in exactly three weeks is their record
To-day finds them popped back into third but
they are half game nearer the Giants, which IS
all that the great Mr.. Stallings processes to be
concerned about
It was in 1906, we believe, that the White SoA
of glorious memory did similar trick. Ihey
shot from sixth place into the lead and won both
remnant and the worlds series. Can the Braves
do likewise? The experts say not and the Giant
roOters hope not. OF course. the chances are
against them For years the Braves have been
the butt of all proper fans. By the grace OF one
mans brain they have suddenly become real ball
PLAYERS and who knows whether they will sweep
on to complete victory crumble from surprise at
their lofty estate? Ask whether an office boy can
become the managing editor in six weeks, OF
whether the Belgians can whip the German army
TO a standstill Then you will know.
Whether they last or not, the Braves have done
one thing-they have put baseball back on the
scoreboards and on the front pages. Baseball
once more occupies the central position in the
American map Of war
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
Take Human or Tammahy.

Senator Human is right when he says the
great issue in state politics this year rs to get
rid of the crowd which is now running our gov
ernmental affairs and to re-establish honest and
efficient government" There is straight and SIM
ple way TO do that Human, nominated by Repuo-
licans and Progressives as their candidate for
Governor can beat Glynn or any other man the
Tammany controlled Democrats nominate. NOM
ination by Republicans or Progressves of any
other man than this Republican whom Colonei
Roosevelt and other Progressive leaders have III
dorsed inevitably means a threecornered hght'
giving Tammany's candidate every possible
chance of victory.
Human is not necessarily a more honest or
more sincere than Mr.. Whitman or MI
Hedges in his desire to turn the rascals out CT
Albany and re-eStabliSh honest and efficient gov
ernment" But he Is more available candidate
anG he has a valuable experience in state gov
ernmental affairs as a basis for future house
cleaning operations which they lack. Therefore
he should be the Republican nominee. His Platts-
burg speech. in which he reterates his adherence
70 the Hughes brand Of Republicanism, ought 10
bring TO his support all the elements which backed
that great Governor in his memorable fights
against political bossism and administrative cor
ruption Human with such platform and the
Progressive Endorsement is a Republican asset
which the Republicans would be foolish, indeed,
not to use.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
Iessenine the GARAGE Menace.

The tremendous annual loss Of life and prop
erty due to fires of gasolene, naphtha and other
combustible oils, said by the State Fire Marshal
to be greater than from any other cause warrants
the new regulations for garages, acetylene gas
machines and cleaning establishments which his
department has promulgated. Places where sucn
infammable substances are stored or used should
be licensed They should be under official regu-
lation and inspection and this should be of uni
form severity over the state.
No individual or business concern wants hre'
Yet fires occur with a frequency and disastrous
effect in this country which the records Of other
great nations do not show In most Continental
countries the burden Cf responsibility for a ire
rests on the owner or tenant of the premises
where it occurs. Until something like that deGr e
of individual responsibility and consequent indi-
vidua care against CONGREGATIONS exists here the
great fire loss in life and money will continue.
The way to check it is by strict regulation such
as the State Fire Marshal and the Bureau or
Fire Prevention in this city are establishing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
A BATTLE CENTENARY
Daughters of 1912 to Conduct Cele.
bration at Stonington.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your Sunday edition men,
ton was made of the centenary cele-
bration of the battle at Stonington
Conn, TO take place on August 8, 9 and
10 there; il was also stated that the
tablet will be unveiled by the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution" This
statement | would ask you TO rectify
as the Connecticut Society of the
United States Daughters of 1872 is the
one which gives that tablet and the fol-
lowing ladies are officers in that So
ciety:
President, Mrs. Clarence F. R. JENNIE
Of Hartford; vice-president, Mrs. Noyes
b. Baldwin, of Derby; registrar, Mrs
Edward Mora, Of Bridgeport; chaplain,
Mrs. George T. Linsley, of Hartford;
genealogist, Miss Jeanette Booth, OF
Stratford; historian, Mrs. Theodore II.
Macdonald, of New Haven; secretary
Mrs. Charles +. Messenger, OF New
Haven; treasurer, Mrs. Clarence s.
Bolmer, of New Haven.
The president of the National Society
Of U. S. D., 1912, is Mrs. William Gerry
Slade, of New York, who | feel sure
would regret the misstatement as mueh
as we, the Connecticut members, do.
Kindly make mention Of this IN your
issue of some near date, and obllge.
GERTRUDE S. BOLLMER,
Treasurer Conn. Society U. S. d., 1917.
New Haven, Aug. 10, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
A CALM GERMAN VIEW
Historical Background of the War
Outlined.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The writer is one OF your many
German friends, although an American
citizen of over thirty years standing,
who is anxious TO put before our coun-
trymen the other side of the question
with regard to the most deplorable de-
velopments in European politics. This
"other side of the question" untortu-
nately is so frequently overlooked by
the American public, who, especially at
present, almost exclusively receive ex-
parte statements from English and
French sources. Naturally, therefore,
public opinion is rather one-sided and
will not concede that there is even the
least particle of justice on the other
side.
In order TO understand the exposed
position of Germany against which she
has been compelled TO be on guard, 1t
is necessary to recall few historical
facts. which are so easily forgotten by
the great majority Of Americans, who
are too apt to trust TO the daily press
only for information, instead OF devot-
ing some little time to the study of
history. / presume most of our coun-
trymen have heard of the Thirty Years
War and have some hay notion that
this lively period Of European history
must have been rather unpleasant for
Some folks somewhere over there.
But how many have actually learned
to realize what that terrible. age-long
war meant for the Fatherland?
Germany at that time was not a ma
ton, properly speaking not even a
country-nothing but an underlined
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
Peace and the Power Of Thought

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: May /. as an old subscriber %
The Tribune, ask you 70 give the fol-
lowing suggestion your kind eonsidera-
tion2
Most of US have come 10 realize the
power of thought, and also the power
Of the spoken word.
II every individual here in our United
States will each day at ~ noon, say
the word Peace" repeating II slowly
for five minutes, it will go far toward
establishing peace on earth-and bring
untold blessings 10 all. =,
II each newspaper in our city. ana
then throughout the country VIII &C.
quaint the people Of this simple ye.
earnest effort TO establish peace, our
whole country will resound TO Won
derful chant, that will take three hours
in passing from the Atlantic Coast 20
the Pacific Coast.
NJ. |. MALLARD.
| New York, Aug. 6, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
AGREES WITH OUR EDITORIALS
Founded Neither in Ignorance Nor
Unfairness, He Says.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Alfred Laurens Brennan, the
last an Irish name, by the way, sees lit
to take to task a Tribune editorial
opinion as to the primal causes of the
outrageous Il was going to say murder
ous) European war now being waged
on the neutral soil of little Belgium
and against the treaty, | believe, of
1865 (?)-of which Prussia was one Of
the signatories. So far as | can see
The Tribune's structures are based
clearly on fundamental facts-and a
sense of its obligations to all classes Of
its readers. There are no misconcep-
tions in its editorials-neither is there
meant to be any unfairness to the
great German people who have been
forced into an unnecessary conflict 20
satiate the ambitions of Emperor Will
lam and a few of his diplomatic adj
visers who, one would seem to think,
can see no further than the end Of
their patrician noses.
The only two diplomatists who saw a
long way in front of them were Bis
n,arck and Beaconsfeld.
Alfred Laurens Brennan's structures
are bosh! EDWIN MORGAN.
Brooklyn, Aug. s, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
Hafcn Seeks a Vindication.

Mr.. Haffen. whom Governor Hughes removed
as Borough President of The Bronx, wants win
dication" He has announced his candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for member OF AS
sembly in the 33d District, Democratic strong
hold. where nomination usually means election.
Sulzer obtained his "vindication" by election 20
the Assembly Immediately after his impeachment,
but il Is to be hoped the long years since Haffens
removal will act as sort Of statute Of limitations
and protect the public from him as lawmaker.
A man whose conspicuous failure TO live up to
the laws necessitated Ousting him from office Is
no person TO make laws for others to obey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
LET GERMANY EXPAND
Only Way to Stop the War, Thinks
Correspondent.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There is one way, and only one,
in which to stop this war from spread
ing to a world war of the most primitive
sort, and every nation knows it and
none will admit it: that is, for the
powers to permit expansion on the part
Of an overcrowded nation, and that
perhaps the most highly civilized in all
the world. Certainly no people has
delivered gratis to all the world such
magnificent contributions in the fields
of science and social economics. Cam
not the world afford a strip Of land by
which the bodies for such great minds
may be sustained? No. The civil
lied" nations of the world throw their
mentalities to the winds and allow the
crude, selfish fear of industrial and
commercial competition TO obstruet the
social, scientific and spiritual better
ment of all the world. NJ. DE D.
Brooklyn, Aug. s, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
AMERICAN NGRATITUDE"
Such Is One Name Given Our Alleged
Attitude Toward Germany.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS an American of German de-
scent please let me voice my deep re-
sentiment at the bias of the press. No
pretence of friendship for Germans
and enmity for their government
(which is certainly more efficient and
cleaner thar our own, and which we
have no right to judge can now sllay
the anger in the German mind and
heart.
We are amazed, shocked, at this in
gratitude 10 the nation whose sons
never counted the cost when America
was in distress. Now, when Germany
fights three-fourths Of the world for
her very life, this America turns on
her-gloats over the manufactured
news from Paris, London, etc.
Can we hope that in some future
war. when we in our turn may need
sympathy and even material help 70
save our national existence, we can
look for any help from those whom we
desert in their need2 Hardly!
We will find hatred where once there
was passionate love. And this nation
may come out of this war victorious
Colossus. and we smart" Americans
might have made a friend Of her, a
possible ally, in our own next great
war. which is sure TO come. A fine
piece of folly we have committed sure
enough!
In conclusion let every American re-
member our own shameless violations
of weak nations before ever picking up
a pebble, much less throwing a rock, al
others on the score of land grabbing.
Can nothing be done to right this
piece of criminal shortsightedness, and
at once, before the seeds of hatred take
root? II. c. STRACK.
owego, n. Y, Aug. 9, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
Living in the Time of Great War.

Living in the Time of Great War.
1t is the way Of human nature to be dissats-
fed with present day existence and long for the
rare old times when big things were afoot. oh, to
have lived in the Napoleoric era! Or seen the
Spanish Armada sunk Or sat through the first
night Of Hamlet and read the "Sonnets" fresh
from the press!
Well here is the greatest war Of history upon
us and what do We its contemporaries, get from
it in the way Of large emotions or splendid ideas?
Astonishngly little, would be the general verdict,
we think According to our varying sensbilities
we are sickened or shocked amazed. The first
impossible. unbelievable quality of the war has
passed away and we are all doing our best to
realize the vast armies the terrible losses and the
whole scope Of Europes tragedy, the greatest that
has befallen the civilized world. That we are
most Of us utterly failing to rise to the occasion
is the common confession.
WHY? The distance of it all from own
homes offers a partial explanation. Yet is there
not something in the very of the tragedy,
in point of time, which works in an opposite di-
rection and prevents our seeing 1t to the full!
The same nearsightedness Of human vision which
prevents a genius from being truly appraised by
his contemporaries operates here. On the first
conception of the terrible events now staining the
map Of Europe something besides mere reading
Of names and figures or even seeing the actual
dead and wounded is needed. There must be q
vivid imagining OF the whole vast canvas, of its
inspiration in the past and its significance for the
future before any complete conception of It can
he had. Minds of genius must illuminate the
dark places before any clear vision is possible.
IL may seem like fantastic suggestion, but do
not such names Agincourt, Flodden Field,
Bunker HILL Gettysburg, speak more real tragedy
TO us than all the sickening details Of Liege!
Does any one in the shadow Of a great event feel
its true weight aud atiiction?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
The Coming of the Rubber Age.

Predictions Of an astounding material progress
In the MOI remote future have been common
place since miraculous invention or discovery
began succeeding another. Buildings Whcii
would make our highest seem pigmy, air craft
of every conceivable design, wonderful railways
in the clouds and all sorts OF underground pas
senger tubes and so on have figured In the city
Of tomorrow as it has developed In the minds OF
imaginative artists. But never before have we
seen suggested the innovation which Sir Henry
Rake predicted at the opening Of the Fourth IN
ternstonal Rubber Exhibition in London Ihe
c,tv Of the future, be said, would have rubber
streets A.. nro
Sir Henry explained that advances IN the pro-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
INTERNATIONAL SYMPATHlES
In a Recent Unpleasantness Germany
Sided with Spain.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your paper has been printing
from day to day some rather passion
ate letters from our German friends
protesting against editorial expressions
inimical to the Kaiser and his war
policy and against the publication OF
the only news of the war available, al
most all of which comes from English,
French or Belgian sources. 1t is the
burden of their complaint that Amer
lea should remember the aid and moral
support rendered the Union by Ger
many during the Civil War, and should
therefore sympathize if at all with the
German side in the present war.
The Civil War period is rather a long
way back, is it not? for one was not
alive then. and have therefore got all
NV information concerning it at second
hand. And information OF that sort
is ant to leave one bit cold. But
| think | have a pretty clear recollec-
ton of Spanish War times, and 1t
seems to me / remember that at that
time German newspapers and German
sympathies were with hardly an eX-
ception inimical to America. Didn't
they delight in depicting the Amer
lean Pig" in their cartoons? The Ger
man press is always indulging IN such
subtletiesl And | can't recall that
during the Spanish war we violated
any neutral territory, that we threw
any German newspaper correspondents
in Jail, that we imprisoned any Ger
man travellers as spies or treated WIS.,
iting German women and children with
brutality or indignity.
And yet, though Germany had far
less cause for directing her sympathies
as she did than apparently we have
now for the direction ours seem to be
taking, | don't remember that Amer
leans harbored any lasting resentment
against Germans. Why, then, all this
fuss? Sympathies rarely yield to argu-
ment and vituperation. The Germans
hated to see us lick the Spaniards. We
don't want to see them lick the French.
Whatever the outcome, don't believe
their anger against US viii. last any
longer than our former anger against
them. JONATHAN.
New York, Aug. 10, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

duction and manufacture Of rubber in the last
three peaceful years had been great as TO bring
such a civic Improvement within the realm Of pos
sbity. Just TO make Sir Henry's dream seem
little more real there was provided outside tho
exhibition hall tennis court made or rubber
where the rubber producers and manufacturers
might disport themselves with the maximum OF
youthful residence.
We sincerely hope Europes devastating war VIII
not delay the coming OF the rubber millennium
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

I earnestly hope that you will grant
the space for this somewhat lengthy
epistle, but in such serious times It is
most essential to present to the public
both sides of the controversy and to
point out the historical reasons that
have made possible the anachronistic
horrors of a European war. NJ. SCH.
New York, Aug. 10, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
Misnamed Christian.
tor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune. 9,
Sir: In your Sundays editorial,
christianity and War;" you speak OF
the leading Christian nations OF the
world"
To my mind Christian is one who
follows and practises, not only pro
fesses, the teachings of Jesus. The
leaders who so recklessly are plungine
Europe into war are, in my opinion
not entitled TO be called Christians;
they are worse than heathens.
L. NJ. D0UBLEU.
Far Rockaway, Aug. 8, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

Many of the newspaper correspondents lett
with credentials not so powerful as might be
But Will Irwin carries letter to the worlds
navies from this Turret of Temerity. ANY adj
miral will give me the freedom Of the ship" he
writes on leaving, III say | represent The Con
ming Tower"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
The Coming Tower
ENOUGH OF THESE WILL GIVE YOU A REP.

NoUGH OF THESE WILL GIVE YOU A kbf'
Had / rep there were no need
For me TO ride with winged speed
My metred spurs in air to ply,
To soar, TO fit TO glide, to fly
On Pegasus, the well-known steed.
o, were Of the favored breed,
No moro of zinc would ! take heed,
I'd land on top with half try,
Had | a rep.
f. g-does this here "Morrie" need
The class to gain the colyums meed7
Nix-Would that ] we're such guy
Perchance I'd get this rondeau by
Up at the dome, the peak, the lead,
LESTER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

"The naming Of this country" postcards G. S
X from iceland, was an alphabetical inspira
ton. It's the last place on earth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
BABII.

There may be a pulp famine, in which event
the newspapers might have to issue four-page
papers II that should happen and the journal
istic cargo had to be jettisoned guess what de-
partment would be chucked first. Right as
usual.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
Our Own War Photographs
Scene on tho
road between
Liege and Client

Her mother" says the Boston Traveller sis
Mrs Helen Williams; her father is out Of town >
Which recalls the account of the wedding in which
"th1 bride was Miss Henrietta Berman; the groom
wore the conventional black"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
THE CosMIC UPSET.

Sir. Perhaps YOU have been wondering why Ger
many has challenged the whole world TO fight her.
To be beaten by France alone would have been dis
grace To be beaten by France and Russia would
have been a shame But TO be beaten by the whole
world that will be alib. u A. b.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

You don't notice such things, Of course, but 1t
is no less true that Coming Tower, the dauntless
and suphtic steed who turned around and went
back to the stable the first time he ran is entered
in the sixth race at Saratoga today.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

"The censorship" cried Sally Brown,
"What a hardship that must be-"
Hood revised
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

"From the fact that she gave an address differ
ent from that of her husband" says the esteemed
Times, "the police infer they had separated" It's
useless to try to hoodwink the police.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
HE'S IN FRANCE NOW: WHAT is 1T GONNA
DO WITH HIM?

Sir: I've got a bunch that when Rube Gold
berg returns from that m. !. upset Europe he II
run one big. grand cartoon entitled I'm CURED.
SETH.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

New York. our fair city, could mobilize Sooooo
troops any evening between $50 and $50 If the
marlborough and Brooklyn Rapid Transit stand
ing armies could be drawn on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

Anne wants to know for what club we'd nomi-
nate the lady who uses opera glasses at a moving
picture show. For president of the Don't Care
What PeopleSay Club.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
NOW YOU'RE JOKING.

Sir: My Bour Niche friend says Tout Europe
marche aux tOu-tous.' Doesn't care for the tout
ou-rien Icutons Sort of a TeutonsemDe, eh'
what Tout a vous,
BABII.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

We good American sports want the best tennis
players TO win the Davis matches; and if that
can't be done, we'd like TO see Brookes and Wild
ing take the cup.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
YOU FRAY LIKE A GIANT RooTER.

Sir: Please the public your wager Of all
your ,lverware that them Boston Braves will win the
pennant for the OF 1914. DESPERATE
p. Son my Bonded knees ask you.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

While II may be bit unsportsmanlike to de-
sire TO see Australasia runner-up in the Davis
Cup matches, we are not insensible to command
that has been dinned into us for year or :wo
We should like, therefore, to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

ADD HORRORS OF WAR.
On the latest list is
She who says ar-mis-tice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

If SUCH THERE BE, GO MARK HIM WELL.
Breathes there man with soul so dead
Who ne'er these stirring days hath said
"Ths is my own, my native land;
No war for rs. We neutral stand?
+ G "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

The Spanish cavalier, alone, on his guitar plays
q tune dear.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12

And the athaletic young man observes that the
Admiralty office started work yesterday morn
ing