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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

is well TO remember that small dirig-
ibles have already stood the test of
actual warfare in Tripoli and Morocco,
where they lowered practically omnis-
cient over the enemy, and did great
damage with the most primitive bombs,
but with none of the great weapons
which only a mammoth Zeppelin can
carry to points not possible to reach
in any other way than through the air.
Yet one year before the Mexican inn
brogIio the Hon. Henry Breckenridge,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy. testi-
flying before the Committee on Military
Affairs, paints this uniformed picture
of the future:
Il would go as far as to say that for
the immediate future % per cent of the
value of aviation will be in the service
of information. Now do not say that
in the development of dirigibles which
can carry five tons of lyddite or nitro
glycerine, or any other high explosive,
they will not be able 10 perfect de-
vice which will drop a ton Of explosives
in a vulnerable spot | cannot say that
the time will not come when flock Of
dirigibles can go to England and, If II
is unprotected may hover in the air
forty hours. as a dirigible can do, and
destroy whole cities; but | do mean to
say that looking at II through the
vista OF the future. with the largest
powers OF Imagination with which We
can conceive the probable growth Of
aviation, and yet, looking at it from the
point OF view of legislation that is
likely to be required and taking the
average development that will be ex-
perienced in the next fifteen or twenty
years in the army, as far as we can
see there ought not 10 be any separa-
ton from the Signal Corpse, because
this great development in aviation will
not come in that length Of time. par
ticularly in this country, because we
will follow rather than lead in its de-
velopment."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

looking forward to the day when they
can have a dozen fowls in a back yard
and fresh eggs at cost of production?
It may be they are dreaming Of liberty
and two or three acres.
Then others, perhaps inspired by pop
ular articles about how to make a
forest provide steady income in old
age or an abandoned apple orchard a
wealth producer, seek books on for
estry and horticulture. There are also
some who take up the study Of the sub
iect of general farming, just as they
would engineering. They may be the
future owners of great acreages. What
ever may be the reasons for this fond
ness for agricultural topics. it exists in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
A SEVERE ARRANGEMENT OF OLD
MIDOLEBURG.

The devil is taking the community.
Make no doubt about that. Look at
Middleburg Her hills are deforested.
The river is eating into her street. No
park: no spot for open air foregather-
ing except the cemetery: no community
life. Three competing and near to ex-
piring churches where there is room for
but one
The people are a flock Of bleaters in
the face OF the ravages that are being
wrought upon the fair valley. eyes,
peasants: it's quite the word. Retract?
I'll not retract. II there were police 10
guarantee me safe conduct into the
town and out again I'd go there and tell
them to their faces that they are peas
ants. It's the truth. And I'll blab the
truth, sir. even though prison bars
should be the penalty therefor.
The characters are not true TO life.
They are merely types. In fact, they
are idealized, for made them flesh and
blood people. and Middleburg hasn't
any. really glorifed Middleburgers
How astonishing that they should OBJ
ject,"
The man VINO wrote this is now a
prisoner-and no request for his re-
lease has come from Middleburg.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

Before the publication Of this book
Mr.. White was threatened with arrest
by the friends Of Daniel Drew, the as
sociate Of Jim Fisk and Jay Gould, be-
cause Of things he said in THE Book OF
Daniel Drew"
Last winter another good publicity
accelerator was discovered by the boy
hood acquaintance Of Bouck White in
the town Of Middleburg, y. Y. Mr..
White wrote a book called THE Mix
ing" and there was the deuce to pay
in Middleburg.
1t seems that Bouck White and Ell
eanor Hallowell Abbott hold somewhat
similar views on the meanness that
they believe exists in the small town
This is the way Eleanor pictures
little Northern Vermont town:
Here was the one type OF obtuse,
self-centred, inbred rural community
north. east, south or west-that no
amount OF culture can polish deeper
than the skin; the one type or STOCK
that. transplanted fifty years to smooth
city pavements and big civic interests
and world famous art treasures ana
soft silken luxuries, would still be
chewing it's cud OF gossip or TOBACCO
and haggling over it's purchase OF a
postage stamp. and listening to It's
neighbours telephone messages, and
peering out through its costliest WIN
dow curtains in passionate. nasal
speculation as to whether-Mrs. smith
was going up the street or-down.
Anyway, this is the way matters
shaped themselves soon after the pub
,ication Of Mr.. Whites THE Mixing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

drag up nothing except mud and shells.
1t is in the Science Room that the
real Goddess OF Fortune makes her
home. Thither come the chemists,
biologists. physicists and mathemati-
clans seeking TO penetrate the secret
chambers. They delve in books on
phosphorescence, cellulose, ozone, eco
lites, the principle Of relatively, tho
carboniferous formation in different
parts Of the world, meaning coal beds.
the photography OF the Hudson River
valley, tides and subsistence OF sea-
coasts and such light topics These
are more certain winners than the per-
sonals
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
LARGE PROPORTION OF READERS
ARE CHILDREN

IL is interesting, for instance, TO note
from the report of the library recently
issued that more than one-third of the
eight million-odd volumes circulated
through the marble palace at the cross
roads Of fashion and trade were issued
TO children. OF the total number -
per cent were fiction, 5 per cent on
literature. : per cent on sociological
topics and l per cent were religious in
their character The teeming East Side
furnished more readers than any other
part of town and chose the smallest
number of frivolous books. There is no
better place in the city to study bumps
than the central book palace, where
more than half a million persons of all
levels of society displayed their tastes
by the showing on white slips of paper.
Agricultural topics are among the
faVorite studies of the inhabitants of
Manhattan. The librarians say that
they have great difficulty in supplying
the demand for this kind of literature.
DO people seek knowledge about agri-
culture as an antidote for the walls of
brick and mortar about them? Are
they hoping some day to be back on the
farm again? or are they reviving
memories OF the past?
Books on poultry raising are asked
for most frequently. Are their readers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

meter shows that there is no wind
blowing toward aeronautics, although
the library is possessed of an unusually
fine collection of books on the subject
The vane, for want Of a current, does
not reveal whether the lack Of interest
in America in this modern topic is due
to the discoura cement of inventors be-
cause Of the decision regarding the
Wright patents. or the defamation or
the chief exhibition fiers, or because
the pressure To keep abreast OF the
times in implements Of warfare is less
strongly felt here than in Europe.
Is Tennyson, being mid-Victorian,
back number as poet, as some
charge? The meter and vane show
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
WOULD MEAN LESS MEN AND
LESS TIME.

OF course. we would subdue the Mex
leans in the long run, but it is this very
long run and the immense number OF
troops which old-fashioned methods de-
mand that make the Mexican situation
so serious. If the army and navy were
supported by an adequate air fleet the
army of occupation could probably be
cut in half and the time necessary 10
bring the Mexican people to their
senses might be reduced by years.
That the Mexican situation serves
solemn warning 10 this nation, so back
ward in military progress, was further
brought out last August in the pub
lished report of the hearing before the
Committee on Military Affairs for the
establishment of an adequate aero
nautic organization in the army. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
LOCAL HISTORIES AND GENEA.
LOGICAL WORKS.

For many years the local histories
and genealogical works were called for
only by those persons OF long ancestry
and long hair who wished 10 be num-
bered among the Sons and Daughters Of
Colonial Danes, in order to bolster no
their pride OF family or add 10 the long
list of genealogies. Science has now
discovered a use for this department..
Here the student OF eugenics picks ulc
the traits Of your family. IL is noted
whether your ancestors were particu-
larly prone to measles or chicken pox
or intoxicating liquors or light hair or
blue eyes or had a temperament or
were poetic or simply railroad presi-
dents and merchants.
After peeking through the bars Of
the door leading TO the great stack
room in which are ranged the miles OF
shelving upon which stand the Million
odd books. one is constrained 10 ele-
vate his hand in support OF the pre-
nouncement OF the writer Of old re-
BdIulIB lht ildhHlB OF DOCKS. let IN
the annual report one not only learns
that books are being added at the rate
OF approximately a thousand a week,
but that persons actually go TO the
library for the purpose Of putting forth
more. Many works have followed
systematic delving in the mines of
knowledge and near knowledge stored
on the stacks. For instance, on page
% OF the report one reads that some
one made use OF the volumes in the
American history division for the study
Of the life and writings OF Mason l..
Weems Who is interested in this pes
son? one asks, not recalling that he
first set forth the life OF the Father OF
His Country.
II was this tinerant preacher and I'D
dler who put forth the fable OF the
cherry rec and the Ratchet. Moreover.
his curious works ran into several edl-
lions. his life Of Washington. fanciful
as it is. having appeared In more than
seventy II is credited with having
had one OF the widest Calculations G.
any book in America.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

hack is the question of the endurance
~ the airship. Replenishment from an
accompanying fleet solves that prop
lem. No danger of getting lost ATTENDS
the path of the air liner, as in the case
If the short handed aeroplane. Inc
dirieible has on board every navigating
ambulance of a vessel on the sea. IL
finds its way by longitude and latitude.
II can pick up the fleet on the water
much easier than the water fleet can
find the air craft.
The whole tendency is now toward
the building of larger and larger arr
ships, so much so that the Onlteu
States officers who have been trying 10
find a dirigible of only 10000 cubic
metres in Europe discovered only one
in service. The day of such small arr
ships has passed. With the present
tendency and the constant improve
ment month by month of these great
leviathans of the air the technical eN-
pert is confirmed in the expectation
that any season now may see the cross
ing of the ocean by an air craft, PROB
ably first in company with a inner
which will replenish the airship. on
that day America will be no further
from Europe than England was before
her barriers of the sea were crossed by
air and her insular security destroyed.
on that day the Panama Canal will be
subject TO attack by overwhelming air
power.
II an aeroplane circling about the
federal intrenchments at Mazatlan
dropped bombs with considerable ac-
curacy into the Notifications, where
they exploded and killed four persons,
and II the Federal gunboat Morelos
was forced TO sea, with her super
structure on fire and her guns silenced
by bombs dropped from rebel aero
plane, what may a huge dirigible,
which carries bombs of eight times the
weight. dropped with much greater ac-
curacy, accomplish over an enemy? Ii
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

ant souls whose chief hope is that soi"e
day when they awaken on their starved
beds in their hall bedrooms they will
find themselves the heirs OF a lord.y
estate. They scan the obituary col
umns for the death notices Of persons
of their family name They read as
siduously the personal ads, praying
that their eye may fall upon one seek
ing the heirs of great property among
whom they will find themselves num-
bered. The quest usually winds up
with a little soapsuds in their eyes.
The rainbow tinted bubble called fort
une has exploded as usual. They are
like those who dredge for oysters, hop
ing to find a pearl Of great price, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
GREATEST MILITARY FACTOR OF
THE FUTURE.

General Scrivener gave the aerial
building programmes of foreign gov
ernments for 1913 as calling for S24,-
80. 900, of which total Mexico had APP
propriated 100000. against $4,000 by
the United States. He closed his tes-
timony with the statement: 80, no
matter what individuals may think. no
matter the opinion of any man, who
ever he may be, these figures show that
aeronautics have come TO stay, espe-
cially in the military world where it
may prove t. be the biggest factor
we have to deal with in the future"
The United States, with not the
slightest beginning in an art in which
long and patient experimenting alone
has given superiority 10 Germany.
waits for the day when Germany shall
have completed her present expert
ments in replenishing an aerial dread
nought from her ships at sea. These
experiments have proceeded already to
the point where they are pronounced
perfectly feasible. The history of the
dirigible shows that as long as Yep
pelin keeps in the air. when not over
loaded, as in the case Of the i'll fated
l. /, of the German navy, that airship
is safer in stormy elements than
craft on the ocean, wrenched by the
two opposing strains Of wind and wave.
The only thing to-day which stands
in the way of actually crossing the At
Iantic from Europe 10 America and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
,I hIah the truth, sir, even
though prison bars should be
Il ,bo renalty therefor

liARAkh
l. the penalty therefor"
The Rev. Bouck White now OF Black
ws island. formerly of Harvard,
,oion Theological Seminary, various
s.~obos and. most formerly of all, of
-, s,,al town Of Middleburg, Scho-
- county that being the place
..horo he was born. as every person in
,,,suon,,rr not only knows but Is anN-
,ous 10 explain away, the Rev Bouck
v,,i,e as we were saying, has landed
,.t,,d those very bars of which he is
not afraid. j.,
The headquarters Of the Church of
,ho social Revolution was changed alb
unity a few DAYS ago from Manhattan
. Rlackwelrs Island, when Magistrate
ca,nnheu in the West Side Court. SEN
fenced the Rev. Bouck White to SIX
months in the workhouse for breaking
80, the services of the Fifth Avenue
Raptist Church on sunday morning.
with a score or more members of the
Church Of the Social Revolution, Hr.
White. the shepherd Of that flock, at
tended the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church in the hope of being able -
draw its pastor the Rev. DR.. Cornelius
Woelfkin, into a debate Of Mr. Whites
ouestion whether or not Jesus taught
the immortality Of being rich THIS
was Mr.. Whites intention, but the pO-
lice were awfully prompt and capable,
being assisted by a corps of athletic
ushers.
Mr.. White tried to ask his question,
but Mr.. White and ten of his support
ers were arrested through the efforts
Of the Rev. Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin.
Mr.. White was forcibly removed from
the Rockefeller church and arrested,
following a scene of disorder, in which
he and his friends were charged with
being the moving spirits The magis-
trate decided that Mr.. White had an
erroneous idea as TO his rights in said
rchurch.
Miss Bertha Rembaugh, attorney for
Bouck White, attempted to have him
released. on the ground that her client
had sent letter to DR.. Woelflin-a
special delivery letter on Friday night
saving that he and some friends would
drop in at the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church on the following Sunday morn
ing
But DR.. Woelfllin, whom Whites
process servers had hunted over the
city. testified that he had not read the
letter until after the service. Why, in
deed. should the pastor Of Rockefeller's
church concern himself with letters
from social revolutionists?
The letter was therefore not admit
ted, and the social revolutionist will
have to spend six months in Jail I'M
less the higher courts decide otherwise.
Besides being an Episcopalian
rector. Mr.. White is an author, speaker,
intensive thinker and strong person
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

that the common run Of people SUN
like the standard poets OF the nine
tenth century as well as ever INC
later poets. such as Tagore, Maseheld
and Moves, getting a hand only when
they are doing something that focuses
the public eye upon them. Ihey are
not standard yet.
According 10 George p Brett, poetry
is once more getting into the pest
seller class. and there is comparative
decline in the popularity Of fiction.
The great book palace is the fortune
hunters paradise. Mingling in me
newspaper room with those seeking the
latest news from home and local color
for tales or a history are Few puoy-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
JmprisOned Pastor of the Church of
the Social Revolution Has His
Own Ideas and Presses
Them Vigorously.

ality generally. He comes from an old
upstate family, is about rorty-five years
old and a bachelor. He is very dignified
in manner. and man who strikes one
as being tremendously sincere.
couple of years ago he went TO Europe
do anything TO help make things easier
for people who are compelled, as he
was not, to travel third and fourth
class. He is one of twenty members of
the executive committee of the Inter
collegiate Socialist Society.
Those persons, who know him well
and are fond of him, and admire his
willingness TO die for cause. but are
unable TO follow him in all his moods
and lenses, still maintain that they
cannot picture the Rev. Mr.. White GO
ing to church i'm a rough and tumble
manner. In the minds of these people,
the Rev. Rouck White in no way suG-
gests the. police on the contrary, his
speech suggests oxford University.
The Church Of Social Revolution was
organized recently in the Berkeley
Theatre. and Bouck White was one OF
its founders.
we invite to our church." he said
at the time 81. w. WIS, socialists, an
archists single takers and all others
with radical ideas. All who believe in
the social revolution are welcome. y
number of prominent women have
Joined. and some are working on red
banner which we will display at the
meetings, showing Christ as working
man and a reformer. We want to
bring about the social revolution by
direct action, and we do not believe in
violence"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
FORMER coMRADE TURNED
AGAINST Mr.. WHITE.

Rouck Whites old school chum, MATT
Wood-Matts lawyer now ana mas
risen until he is on the seventeenth
floor of the Woolworth Buildng-asked
District Attorney Whitman to nave
Bouck arrested for criminally ibeilihS
the town and people OF Middlebirg'
Schoharie County. where both Matt and
Bolck were born and went to school
together until the one entered Yale ana
the other Harvard In 1.-THE Mixing
Mr.. White pictured Middleburg as
decadent community Inhabited by
sheeplike peasants" and without
"ciyic consciousness" He gave some
of his characters the real names of men
who had stores and banks and butcher
shops and newspapers in the village
Mr.. Wood believed Bouck White held
up the town and its inhabitants TO
public hatred, contempt and ridicule.
The lawyer sorrowfully admitted that
as one Of Middleburg's outraged sons
he believed his old comrade ought to
be put in Jail for caricaturing the VII
lage and its leading citizens.
In his novel Mr.. White used the name
Hillport but in reviewing it for New
York newspaper he said ne meant Mid
dleburg. He added that he could
acknowledge it with safety because
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

4 n ton i'm this city. They dis
cussed the kind of reading matter the
public want. They also speculated as
TO why the public did not want more
'cf their wares. They reached the con-
clusion that we buy fewer and poorer
books than do readers in Europe. And
this i'm part, they decided is because
there are many things here which dis
tract attention from reading, such as
moving pictures. the lazy mans route
t. knowledge, over Sunday automo-
billing. more general indulgence in
outdoor sports, the cheaper magazines
and the hurried reading of newspapers.
When people do read, what do they
want and why do they want il? If you
would measure the currents of public
interest 80 far as reading matter is
concerned. or discover their trend, set
up your wind motor and vane In
library. There is no better place IN
New YORK to get a blueprint cross
section of the collective mind of the
inhabitants than the public library.
Librarians will tell you why the prints
are called blue. =. publisher or maya
zine or newspaper editor ought TO
be able to get here a very definite idea
of what the public likes in the way
Of reading matter, and why 1t likes IT,.
There is nothing compulsory about
the reading except the inward prompt
ings of the readers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

Congress. Captain Hennessey. of the
artillery corps, told the committee that
if Congress would appropriate Sl,oo'-
600 for aeronautic purposes II would,
from a strictly military standpoint,
proye more valuable at this particular
time than would an additional dread
nought. Several "battleships Of the
air" he said, could he utilized to assist
the navy i'm protecting important STRAIT
egical points. like the canal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

"All the enthusiasm about Bouck
White subscribe to-" said the Rev.
Percy s. Grant, Of the Church of the
Ascension, Protestant Episcopal, New
York. and the Rev. W. ID. F. Bliss, an
other clergyman of the same denOmi-
nation. declares THE Call of the Car
pcnter" "a book unquestionably Of
genius and prophetic fire"
On the other hand, we are told that
Jacob A. Riis, author and philanthro-
pist, pleaded with the publishers to
have the work Withdrawn from circn-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

in His real aspect, as the industrial
leader Of the industrialists of the world.
They have accepted the portrait of Him
as It was reprinted by the theologians
of the Roman Empire-a representative
Of the Cesarized sovereignty in the
heavens. Therefore they are stripping
themselves Of religion Of every kind
they regard any leanings toward
spiritual view of life az evidence either
Of outworn superstition or of a covert
sympathy with the master and proprie-
tary class
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24

lation. Some lay papers characterized
THE Call of the Carpenter" as an at
tempt to capture Christ for socialism.
One religious weekly said, 1T makes
Christ a sort Of glorified Samuel Com
pers."
on democracy's present day need of
Jesus. Mr.. White writes in that book:
"A section Of the predatory class to-
day is showing a trend away from the
spiritual foundations of life and into
PRONOUNCED secularism. These have
never seen the Nazareth Workingman