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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
A SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY
The Tribune's Disclosures Of Navy
lneficiency Praised by Reader.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The broadsides which you have
begun TO pour into our country, sleep
ing in fancied security, in regard to
the unpreparedness of the nations de-
fences, is service TO this nation
which cannot be overestimated. You
deserve the thanks and praise of every
thinking. patriotic citizen, and may
great and lasting good come Of your
efforts 20 arouse the people,
Although not in any way connected
with the government services. and. IN
fact. being a professional musician, /
have for many years followed with
great interest the development of our
navy and coast defences, and have
known some things Of which you write
in general way, but must confess
myself as being frankly amazed at the
disclosures you are so patrlotlcally
making. One thing which you say IN
all truth. and which it could be heartily
wished that you could keep hammering
into the intelligences Of the people OF
this country, is that these things are
known at the War Offices of Berlin,
Toxic. London" Through the amazing
systems of espionage in use by al! the
great powers our weaknesses are bet
ter known by these powers than by our
own war Office" or what corresponds
to II.
Hammer away at this in all your dis
closures, and may great good come Of
it. G.. w. S.
Brooklyn. Dec. 7, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
HURRAH FOR THE TRIBUNE!
Medical Parasites and Their Newspaper
Aids Right Around the Corner

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Hurrah for The Tribunei
Would that there were a hundred big
newspapers willing TO wage war on the
medical parasites.
Decent advertisers will uphold you.
A lot of us are doing individual work.
Don't forget to tell the public which
Of the great lovers of the dear pub
lie" and "moulders of public opinion"
have for a consideration freely intro
duced the quacks to the homes Of their
readers. Some of them are right
around the corner, defending the fact
that their columns are common-very
common-carriers.
S. ROLAND HALL.
Easton, Penn, Dec. 10, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE
A Reader Thinks 1t Has Been Reached
by the Subway Users.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Health Commissioner Goldwater
protests against overcrowding on trans
portation lines. Chairman Mccall re-
plies that "the limit OF human en-
deayor has been reached" What does
he mean? Does n mean that his Pub
lie Service Commission has done every
thing in its power to give the people
better facilities? II he means that, the
facts do not sustain him; and al! the
facts would not look well in print.
The worst crowding is in the subway.
There it is appalling and steadily
growing worse. That IL is not neces-
sary to wait ,hree years for new lines
to give relief the commission knows
well. Persistently urged by the City
Club. the Merchants Association and
other civic organizations the commits
sion has twice formally voted prelimi-
nary stems toward providing early re-
lief. Why does II march up the hill and
then march down again?
Why not 10 per cent more cars I'm
rush hours within a few weeks by n
simple change OF signals?
Why not more cars in all non-rush
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
WHO SHOULD SUPPORT THE
FAMILY?
The Consistency of the Board of Edu.
cation Is Brought in Question.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Sunday evening, November %,
I attended the Peoples Forum of the
Church of the Ascension. The speakers
of the evening were John Martin and
DR.. Ira s. Vile, who, respectively, pre-
scented the majority and minority views
on the mother-teacher question.
While | was particularly impressed
with the sincerity. vigor and lucidity
Of expression of Mr.. Martin, was dis
appointed in that he utterly failed to
Justify in any way the attitude Of the
Board of Education toward mother
teachers
As the exponent Of the majority view
Mr. Martin upheld the right of the
Board Of Education to deny the moth
er-teacher the privilege of teaching
Upon what ground? Not on the ground
of lack Of efficiency. No, But on that
brood, humanitarian principle that the
mother-teacher should be absolved
from the duty of contributing to the
support of the family; that the hus-
band alone must support the family,
and that the woman's sphere is the
home.
have yet to be convinced that the
proper sphere for woman is exclusively
the home, but for the sake of argument
/ will concede that her proper place is
the home. The question then arises,
Why should the Board of Education
just now apparently evince such con-
cern and solcitude for the mother
teacher and leave her colleague, the
married teacher. in the cold? Why
should the board undertake indirectly
TO impress the marital obligations on
the husband of the mother-teacher and
say not word about the husbands
duty to support the married teacher?
Why should the latter be permitted TO
teach and the former be denied that
privilege?
If the Board Of Education wants us
to believe that il is earnestly cham
pioning the woman's right 10 be sup
ported b. her husband. why not make
the principle applicable TO the married
teacher as well "a 20 the mother-teach-
er-seeing that motherhood Is merely
an incident to the marital relation?
Is IL extremely painful for the Board
Of Education TO be consistent or Is
consistency the fruit Of feeble minds /?
II. z. R0THSTEIN.
New York, Dec q, 1914,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
4 Single Agency for Winter Relief Work

The rejection Of Municipal Court Justice Hart
mans scheme for special committee on evictions
in favor Of handling that situation through a
subcommittee Of the Mayors committee on un-
employment was eminently sensible. Evictions
this winter will not be confined to the East Side,
whose claims Justice Hartman was presenting 50
vigorously, and there is bound to be much sympa-
thy with Rabbi Magnets protest against exploit
ing that section Of the city. What eyictions there
may be will be part Of the much bigger problem or
unemployment and It's relief 10 have special
organization 70 furnish money 10 pay rents would
heap up needless expense, create fresh drains on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
The Coming To4uer
To William Watson

In Anszver TO HIS Sonnet, ITO America Concerning
England. "
Poet. IN Englnds hour OF pain and stress.
When her white face was stricken with dumb deSpAr'
We knowing the red burden she must bear,
Went as an orphan weeps. Yea, and no less
We wept for flowery France in her duress,
And for brave Belgium weighed with tears ana '"e'
All lands in strife cried out for pity and prayer
The worthy sunk in wars unworhnesS.
THIS is no time for venom or for blame.-
Our peace is tn. white remnant left Of God,
And when the shattered nations need ToI
TO liz them from the ashes Of the flame,
Our strength preserved shall quicken them NO shame
Shall be upon us for the path we trod!
CHARLES Hanson TowSs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

contributors and afford excellent opportunity for
petty graft
Relief work here this winter will have to be on
scale almost unprecedented, if the demands are
accurately gagged by the charitable organiza-
tions. To handle the situation effectively and
without waste, central committee or clearing
house, to cooperate with the organized charities,
seems the logical agency. There could not be
better one than the Mayors unemployment COM
mittee now in existence and working on the gen
era problem
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
Wbv Not a War Tax on Munitions
War?

To the Editor Of The Tribune. -.
Sir: Lately the government
placed a small stamp tax on every 's Z.
document and article used ID
United States. This became neeess'r
as the revenue derived from gooas ~
tering into this country almost SH.. y.
disappeared on account OF the var - -.
ing up international shipping. in' -,
tons. however. who inflicted tnis
on the world have ordered miii0a -.
dollars worth Of guns, ammuan
submarines, etc. from us not Oss 80
our manufacturers were the 'V W.,
bidders, but on account Of the ise' ~ :.
these munitions could not pe ~
from any other source. As u n.,;sS
lutely necessary in order 70 Io nor
this war that this material os ~
chased from US, why not msAe
various countries suffer the oulos s;;e,
a stamp tax on each gun, torpeo.' ven
and not us poor Americans, WY Il
complaining about the high ev,. I
living long before the war oesssd 5:
think the above plan is feasiols Nv tAs
least deserves some dlseussio" ="
readers Of this column: -, CARR.
New York, Dec. z, 1914 ri
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
LESSONS FROM THE PAST
Mr. Wilson's Earlier Views Historian, on Unpre.
paredness and the Evils That 1t Has Wrought

an army. and a formal declaration u var un ~
solved uuDu NAY ID 1856
Uutu autumn al things stood a. hey Nsts p,
Mc1icol while Sd AMY was made ready.
Speaking Of the Civil War, in 10
same volume, page 2lO;
For year 10 fingered an vas dssuIioy, sitAsa
plan. speed or riFlr as 81 11,h sides waited. q u.
oe.d tics I'D. t0 muster their resources conins
u-rUer rIga IatidI .0r Ue struggle. arc dteoW
each heyold p.-alvelturo DE temper and Dsfp~"
" A sear va, needed 10 supply administrative rs.,
and maae men aud methods nalJ ol NE 0Ds w
as on tie otlnr
In regard 70 the army in the Spanlsa
war, the following remarks from the
same authority are pertinent:
10 was a war OF impulse. a' any one nishi =
who noted hos uuprepase4 tle co--ifl aas i1 ~
o. hfi suddenly undertaken. Ih' feglisL an, ~
the Cuitcl states numbered llt -'.Yyo onees =.
men. II tel o. volunteers as much a. % issa.,
a. assume ihe bur9c y o. t.c le,l, 49, n,
for The Union and the war agAisi Nsti,s, ~ ~
years ago The regular army was INCREASED y ~
than $1,000 before the mouth 0i Mas - ny ~
me new mtl were. of course mefe fecFufs ihH y u
volunteers mustered faster than he ngaan' W.
There we're not sufficient railway facilities q
sCudiag tie troops Co their place y em0sn.,ss.
tTampal there were not hATb9r facilities snsr I. -
transports lag: mo- 0ac ~ chief c0iamand seeiosa
have seriously studied the handling q nee ~
stores upon the great scale there vas hlnlle 49,
Esd coIiusi0u and 6urderng bc9ls the eipe. ~.
vas ready % sail 10 took a. cltire week % w"
the cmbaIkUiOn (P 2,9l .a,.J
There were not surgeons 0T nurses 49, -
stores enough. and the Jack of ofgsnhAno- ~
C'iicfrt means and methods Of iranspofalh !. ~
az iyiuT there fiu CuIal worse uy far VA, -
worked a. Tampa Al Tampa ne Digh.slS -,
had been stupid. i-ldIs, -
they wpr,, deeply tfagicAi II was piiful s1n -
and Ole alike had to endure. Hitl sioTe u-tI n
80 the roar and medicines Ten where tAJ e'-N
o: no service NJ. 2s-.l
There are certainly many eoui.
open between compulsory military 81
vice in times of peace and our hlsIor.
unprepareGness in times Of war,
not necessary, and no one Wlshes,
turn America into q military camp ~.
ask our young men 20 spend Ihe ".
years Of their lives making soldIeIs-.
themselves, as feared by the Presloep-
But in view of the fact that the RE-
dent admits in his writing that ~
six months 20 two years have 80
necessary ia the past to form an AZ, ~.
in this country. is IL wise m the ny,
ent state Of universal preparation :,
war by every other nation 10
world TO rely entirely upon a elilIes,
trained and accustomed 20 arms, W." y,
neither tho training nor the arms
ever provided prior 20 declafa.vs,
war and when they cannot pc o'''
for several years thereafter !.,cotf
COURTLANDT NlCobh
New York, Dec. 10, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

Complete Characterization from Galsworthy's "The
Country House: Mrs. Hussel Barter, with
that touching look to be tho faces of many
English ladies, that look Of women who always
doing their duty their rather painful duty; whose
eyes, above cheeks creased and wihered, rose
leaf hued now over-coloured by strong weather, are
starry and anxious, whose speech is simple, sympa
thetc direct, little shy, little hopeless, yet always
hopeful who surrounded by children, in
valids, old people, all looking to them for support,
who have never known the luxury of breaking down"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

Washington, Dec. 1O.-Josephus Daniels told the
House Naval Committee to-day that delicate ques-
tions arose every week, and he hoped none Of them
would embarrass the country, but" he added, 'you
can never say they will not, and when there is fire
about us you cannot stop the contagon."-Thc
Tribune.
Meet Viviennc's Uncle Joscphus.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

Something Should be Done about the motormen'
They should be eliminated. II the trains on wnich
casualties occur all remained stationary there would
be no loss Of life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

81 am assembling a collection of the worlds
medum-b boiled boorjoy literature writes J. o. L.,
"to be known The Middle Classics" My hrst
selections are "St Elmo" Lucille" and collections
of the Worlds Best Anythings. Any others.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

The Allies, according to late dispatch, nave capt
ured railroad station in Alsace probe Finds sta
ton Agent Guilty." we imagine the headline.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

If motormen persist in demanding jobs, all rgn''
Let them take them with the full knowledge that
all "probes" will find them to blame.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

Wooden cars, Mr. Frank Hedlcy says. arc quite as
safe as steel ones 1t is easily credible. Wooden
paragraphs are the safest possible kind. Nobody is
ever injured by them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
Mr.. Harrison Fishers cover on the January Cos
mopolitan is the first Good VIII to Men" we've
seen.


Dear Mr Pepys: stand pat on that kitten question.
for one am with you. Are they slippery snealy,
horr.d beasts }. 4. W.
Dear Ar pepys: And then SAYS when are you going
10 stop talking about catsr When Pepys does %
she says-and then she got look al that diary. I'm
stop talking about getting kitten condition. she
says. IN accept that condition I says. quick /
could snap It What "a t2' THAT / get a kitten
II Mrs. Pepys does" she says.
And you I'm up against.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
TRUETALK.

lBsrt Lson Taylor in the Chicago Tibunel
Rimed verse. says Maxwell Bodenhem in the Little
Review is "a decorative straght-jacket meaning we
sunnose strait-iacket" Meaning, however, Is no
great matter Calverey SAID; especially when vers
ibre' is under consideration. Arthur Dawson Ficke
also writes OF the old forms as cramping the
spirit OF the poet. That depends, we should say Oh
the poet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
"@ssA CITIZENRY TRAINED o -"

Now, what is the talk about self-defence,
And why in the world shall our blood get tinglish?
We always had kit and accoutrements
To rescue the land from invading English.
CThey burned up Washington once, know,
But-that was ever so long ago.
Our lads are keen for marching In step,
So drill young man,-you will do no harm
With your rub-a-dub-dub and your hep, hep, hep!
For that is the way Americans arm
And great big Fleet? All, well-a-day.
We are quite in accord, but-lcho shall say?
Not counting the Krupps and their Kruppish land,
The Turk and his terrible wel-known IiIrbanry,
We are safe with our boats as bulwarks-and
A thoroughly trained and armed suburbanry.
The danger, we know, is microscopic :. d.
turn with a sigh of rec.) from the topic
PETER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

"a cats place" said Mr.. Pepys at a late hour last
night, "is somebody else's-or somebody's else
home"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

At an even later hour last night Mr.. Pepys was
mmoyabe on the cat question.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

Dear Mr Pepys; stand firm regarding that there
one sneaked into my home q weeks ago. Now
We can't make our usual pilgrimage Christmas time.
because kitty VIII be lonesome u leave her with
nobody HON G. A. 6.
Dear Mr. Pepys: Ny wife has developed sudden desire
for "A 'cuie kitty" Nothing DOING say Mr. Pepys.
US eers must stick together We depend on you f. f. c.
Poor Mrs Pepys: Another instance % Mans inhumany
to woman Ia beastiy family once divided
against Itself but TO the children we adopted
plain garden variety kitten. the overload Is as
devoted TO the supercous twevepound tiger az any Of
US But only cats Joyous youth not so fee,ing
To have kitten you must "a new one once a
month. TABBY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

Wonder what he'll name the thing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

THOU vast not born Tor death immortal Bird.
Then. we conjecture lac wrote the third. fourth ana
second lines You see he writing i'm a strait
Jacket. We wish knew what became Of that jacket
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
THE same that Outlines Ia

Charmed magic easements. opening on the foam
OF perlous seas facry lands fo1crn"
We assume that Mr. Bodenhcim or Mr. Fcle Will
agree that he has done nothing better than Keats ode
The point we wish to make is that those three lines OF
sheer magic were probably the direct result of writing
in strait jacke-the compuson to rhine the sounds
"ath" come" corn"
Sometimes a poet begins with tho last line iu
stanza and works backward he doesn't always begin
with the first line. But in the sanza we are consd-
ering Keats likely started with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

ro,,r,a N, rasonc' =, Second cas- Nan N'''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

Owned and published daily Tribune Assosiatiou Ne"
ogden NJ Reid President g. Ntutl, 49,
Ssfy ana Treasure Adress Tribune Building NO - ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

h. T.. A.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-12-04
Aeropiane Signals.

There has been tried in France an
apparatus for signaling from aero
planes used in the war, consisting of
a reservoir of lampblack, which is con-
nected with a supply Of compressed
air.
The aviator, by means Of a valve
within reach Of his hand, can blow out
a cloud CT ampblack of size varying
according to the length of pressure of
his hand upon the valve. These small
clouds can be seen from distance of
six miles, and the movement. OF the
aeroplane spaces them sufficiently to
prevent them running together.
By the use Of the Morse code it is an
easy matter to send signals in this
way from an aeroplane, and in acdi-
ton it saves the necessity of a wire
less receiving station, which is Often
difficult to operate during a campaign
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-12-04
Shorteninu the War,

The motor truck and motor passep-
ger vehicle are now undergoing, in the
great international war, the greatest
of all practical tests. If the war is
short, as all good men aevoutly hope,
the motor vehicle will not only be
great factor in shortening it but also
in determining the result; and by
shortening the length of the war the
motor will not only pay for itself many
times over, but save direct hundreds
of millions-and mayhap billions of
dollars. The quicker the contenders
move, the more CHASTITY and destruc-
tive the war will be and the sooner
exhaustion of one or both sides will
come-the starting of the beginning
of the mediations for peace. We know
that motors spell mobility, and that
there are many motors in service;
hence the war should be shorter
much shorter-than Earl Kitchener's
preparations embrace.-Rollin w.
Hutchinson, Jr., in the, Engineering
Magazine.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-12-04
Farming in Norway.

The hill FARMERS of the Norwegian
fjords have a curious way of drying
the grass, or making the hay. They
erect three-barred fences, the bars be-
ing about a foot apart, at intervals in
the fields, and hang the grass on the
bars, where it is quickly dried by the
sun and wind These districts are for
the most part very sparsely populated,
and in many cases the farms are as
much as two days journey from the
nearest village.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-12-04
THROUGH DIRE PERilS
CREW OF WRECKED VESSEL
MADE PORT IN SAFETY.
Half Frozen, With Little Food, and
Menaced by School of Whales,
Survivors Live to Tell
the Story.

How the officers and crew. of the
American revenue cutter Tahoma,
which sank late in September after
hitting an uncharted reef in the frozen
Aleutian islands, fought for life for
five days in open boats in heavy
sea, escaped a school of six whales and
finally survived with no food except
parrot soup, is recounted in letters re-
ceived by friends of the party at
Washington.
All the So survivors, including the
officers and crew of the Tahoma and
party of natives who were aboard
when the cutter began to sink, under
went almost indescribable hardships
before they were picked up by the
steamship Cordova.
AS soon as the officers found that
the cutter could not be savedsall those
on board set out in six open boats.
They remained close by the Tahoma
until she sank, "a hours after hitting
the reef. Then they started out to try
to find land Five of the boats sue
ceeded in reaching the island of Agat-
tn, one. of the Aleutan chain. The
other remained at sea until rescued.
So crowded were the members of
the party in the open boats that they
could not sit down or sleep. The feet
of every one was frozen or swollen
frightfully after the five days at sea.
The boat commanded by First Lieut..
T. M. Malloy of the revenue cutter
service attracted a school of whales.
The whales started to follow the boat
at night when they saw the lights. One
Of the whales-there were siX-got so
close that it touched the boat.
Lieutenant Malloy, fearful that the
whales would attack the boat, gave
strict orders that no one should shoot.
The whales appeared to be playful
and made no effort to harm the occu-
pants.
Because Of the crowded conditions
and the heavy sea little food could
be taken into the small boats. On the
day before they sighted land the ra-
lions had to be cut down to one sau-
sage, one cracker and one cupful of
water for each person.
At last, the occupants of Lieutenant
Malloy's boat and another, which had
remained close beside, sighted land
Agattu island. After hard pull they
made a successful landing, and with
sails that were carried by the small
boats, rigged up a shelter. The sea
men shot two wild geese and four sea
parrots, which they made into soup in
a big kettle and ate with a few water,
soaked crackers.
All of the survivors set to work
gathering driftwOod for a huge fire to
send up signal of black smoke tor at
tract some ship that might come to
the rescue in response to the IS. o.
s." calls of the Tahoma Immediately
after the accident. The COrdova ar
rived on the second day
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-12-04
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