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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20
OLD HOME DAY.
of Spirit of Past in
Terms of Present.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The New England town likes to bring
together former residents, act as host to
these and citizens from neighboring places
and recall past events and associations.
These meeting times are so enjoyable that
the appeal is very strong to one who has had
any close connection with that place to visit
il upon that general receiving day. The
changing character of the population, even
in the hill towns of this section Of tho coun-
try, makes the returning resident feel more
and more a stranger in his old home town.
IL he is not introduced to the new faces,
names and places he will simply be revivify-
ing the past and not interpreting the pres
ent and future Of the place he has held so
dear
In Warwick, Mass, following a suggestion
that old home day could be used as wei
coming time for the newer residents as wen
as for the former ones, the committee IN
charge this year plan to emphasize this year
the necessity of acquainting the out-of-town
visitors more with the present population,
conditions, problems and prospects The
traditions Of the past must be an inspiration
to the future, and the spirit of the workers
Of the past must be interpreted to the pres
ent so as to be cooperating agency in de-
veloping and determining the future.
The speakers Of the day include man in
public life long resident Of that locality
whose work has made him familiar with So
cial problems and who has always been es-
pecially alive to the conservation and preser-
walton of New Englands natural charm, and a
woman whose work In the Free Public
Library Commission is one Of introducing the
incoming foreign population Of the state to
the aims and purposes OF the library. The
general design of the literary programme of
the day is to show what cooperation has
done, is doing through county and state and
other agencies and what may be done through
closer relations and interaffiliations.
A photo enlargement of map published
forty-ive years ago is being used (the town
has but 60 per cent of what it then had); tacks
of different colors represent where each adult
is now living and the farm occupied. The
colored tacks representing adults born in
Sweden are nearly as numerous as those rep
resenting the adults born within the town
limits, and nearly above one-quarter Of the
entire number were born outside New Eng
land A study Of such a chart emphasizes a
little cosmopolitanism even in a country
town, when the birthplaces of residents are
considered, and should be of interest to the
visitor who can see who used to live there
and where the present occupant originated.
PAUL w. GOLDSBURY.
Warwick, Mass, Aug. 16, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20
Genealogically Important

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Having had called to my a''sH,. :,
in your paper to-day the letter addre'ssD
YOU by Miss Virginia York, IN "n''n
calls attention to the misstatemen' o.
being the grandnece Of General KoOe''
Lee. | wish to thank her for removing
an impression, as am not niece -
never made any pretence to this degree !.
relationship Although my family are
lated to and connected with the Lees ~
above mistake was made by the press ss'
I was IN the South at the time the So
was published, and endesvored 70 sO' si.h
this particular part Of the interview -.
had been made contrary to my spee'". -.
structions in answer to query 70 'N"'
feet. ~.
Nv art should be sufficient to secure a.
recognition I desire, and my family tne ~.
ton deemed desirable by society, II fe'S"
ship TO the Patrick Henrys, Henry 80.
Governor Scales Of North Carolina "H," "a.
of Philadelphia, and Tillinghasts' oil gu.
Island, and others Of more or less eaus' wv
is thought to be Of advantage to that enc
New York, Aug. IS, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20
The Mine.
CornhH MogGsine.

Later in the day, when the infantry had
made good their possession of the place, had
isandbagged and fortified it TO stand against
the expected counter attacks, the subaltern
went to look over the ground and see at first
and close hand the results of his explosion.
Technically, he found il interesting; humanity,
il was. merely sickening. The ground was one
weltering chaos and confusion of tossed earth
heaps and holes of broken beams and jagged
ended planks, of flung sandbags and wrecked
Ibarricading OF trench or barricade, as
trench and barricade, there remained, simply,
no sign. The wreckage was scattered thick
with a dreadful debris of dead bodies, Of
blood-wet clothing, of helmets and broken
rifles, burst packs and havcrsacks, bayonets,
water BOTTLES and shattered equipments. The
ambulance men were busy, but there were
still many dead and dying and wounded to
be removed. wounded with torn flesh and
mangled limbs, dead and dying with scOrched
and smouderiag clothes. The infantry
hastily digging and filing sand5ags and
throwing up parapets on the far edge of the
rocking explosion PIT rad found many bodies
caught in the descending avalanche of earth
or buried in the collapsed trenches and dug
.outs: an here and there amid the confusion
a foot or a hand protruding stark from some
earth heap marked the death-place of other
victims. The whole scene was one OF death
and desolat on, Of ruin and destruction, and
the subaltern TUNED from it sick at stomach.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20
In all, her property damage is estimated

In all, her property damage is estimated
at $40 1000 900.
When the new causeway was opened 10
traffic in the summer Of 1912 it was con-
Ihdently predicted that Galveston had nm
ished as victor her battle with the Gulf OF
Mexico. This last catastrophe Will there
fore injure her pride as well as her pocket
book. But with the same fine, unbroken
spirit with which she raised herself, liter
ally, above her corpse-strewn waste IN
1900, she may be expected to repair the
damage done by Tuesdays storm and
brace herself for renewal of the good
fight. She will find it necessary, no doubt,
to build her sea wall still higher, to con-
struct breakwaters for the protection OF
her causeway, and above all to run her
telegraph and Telephone wires, or some of
them, in the form of cables under water
to the mainland, instead of along cause
ways and trestles, so that no storm can
again destroy her means of communica-
ton with the outside world
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20
Land Values and the Budget.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Mr. Judson G. Wall recently wrote
The Tribune in reply to Mr.. John Moody's
letter. betraying lamentable ignorance OF
economies. as lamentable as his inability to
discriminate between single takers and So
cialsts
When Mr. Wall says that land is higher,
comparatively speaking, either agricultural
or urban, from Portland, Me-, to Seattle, than
II is in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens
he indicates complete inability TO understand
or else repudiates economic terms.
Mr.. Wall, having been Tax Commissioner
knows that no single law has resulted in the
loss of taxable value OF over sSOO,OOO,OOO.
Like most advocates of privilege, however,
Mr.. Wall cannot realize the wrong of our
enormous city debt and urges that it should
be increased. That is just what land specu-
lators have always done in New York City,
they have urged a low tax rate and borrow
ing. with the result that we have loaded this
debt on the city, on most Of which we are
paying $3.50 interest for every dollar bor-
rowed.
The answer to Mr.. Walls question as to
how in heavens name the city is to raise its
budgetary requirements OF s200,O00O00 plus
is very simple. The ground rent Of the city
is about 100000 900, which anybody can see
is more than the city's budget of 5000 0OO, 900.
There would be another great advantage in
the heavy taxation of land values-the land
specuators could nos unload on the city land
at several times what it's worth, as they have
done in the past The cty's credit is good,
but the citys method of raising revenue by
rcbbing the workers for the benefit Of land
spectators is very discreditable.
BENJAMIN c. MARSH.
Naw York AuO n IQlh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20
Benevolence Misunderstood.

1t was probably inevitable that the
names of some blameless neutrals should
be involved in the recent disclosures of
German activity in this country, but it is
very hard that DR.. Hugo Schweitzer,
whose benevolent purpose it was to miti-
gate the horrors of war, should be held
up as aiding and abetting in the business
of killing.
DR.. Schweitzer, it seems, was interested
in the purchase of vast quantities Of
phenol. He had entered into a contract
which called for the delivery Of about
5000 pounds a day for the rest of the
year. 1t was natural, perhaps, that his
motives were misunderstood. Picric acid is
a product of phenol, and SINCE the war be-
gan it has been in such demand that the
price of phenol has risen from 10 cents \
pound. or less, is something in the neigh
borhood of $3.50. Evll-minded people
thought, therefore, that DR.. Schweitzer
might possibly be interested in some way
in promoting the manufacture of lyddite
and similar explosives.
1t is now clear from his own account of
the transaction that nothing was further
from his mind. All that he desired was to
convert the million pounds contracted for
into "highy salutary medical remedies, y
and, above all, aspirin, which he calls 1.-THE
universal medicine" Incidentally, he was
curtailing the deadly work of the shell!
makers, and that this was part of his
generous enterprise is shown in modest
reference to his slight endeavor to divert
from the manufacturer of explosives a
large quantity of carbolic acid, which is
now to be converted into medicines of the
highest value for the relief Of the sick
and suffering"
If there were any doubt about Dr.
Schweitzer's disinterested impartiality it
should be settled by his avowed conviction
that it is the duty of our government to
place an embargo on all arms and NUM-
tons of war and thus to enable those who
are best furnished to bring the struggle
to a speedy conclusion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20
DR.. Elgin r. L. Gould.

The sudden and lamentable death of
Elgin r. L. Gould deprives New York of
a citizen of the highest type. Known as
a silk stocking and "reformer," he was
not one to make political reform projects
ridiculous or hated by combination of
arrogance, intolerance and self-advertis.
ing. He was modest, practical, hard
worker, and not self-seeking. He obtained
results by applying scientific knowledge
and experience to his problems rather
than a temporary busting off the surface
of affairs with sensational flourish.
AS City Chamberlain DR.. Gould was an
important and valued member of the Low
administration. AS one of the organizers
of the Citizens Union, as a hard working
member of the City Club as member of
committees and commissions he gave
splendid service in the public interest.
Unquestionably his best and most far
reaching work was as president Of the
City ana Suburban Homes Company,
which demonstrated that the furnishing
of decent, comfortable, sanitary homes for
working people at a very modest rental
could nevertheless, be profit making en-
terprise His part in making available
small loans on chattels or properly Sc
cured notes was also great help, great
benefit, to the honest poor Of the COM
munity. 1t is not too much to say that
his work helped many individuals, and the
city as a whole was better for his having
lived in it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20

tinue relations with savagery. II is to
write ourselves down willing victims, as
|consenting to the continued slaughter of
Americans.
Final evidence Of the German purpose
and character has now been furnished.
Not even Germany can give more definite
proof of her will. In her every act IN
the past year of shame and slaughter the
German idea has shone forth. The sink
ING Of the Lusitania was but new ex-
preston of the purpose that loosed the
sadie fury of the German soldier in
Louvain and wrote the meaning of Ger
man Kultur in the blood and honor OF
the Belgian women.
It is for Congress, not for the President,
to decide the question of peace or war
with Germany. But it is the duty of Mr.
Wilson to preserve national honor and
protect national dignity. There is left to
him no choice, no alternative. Count Won
Bernstorff should 60. Mr.. Gerard should
come home. To hesitate, to falter, to
delay now is to bring odium upon the
United States. 1t is to confess willingness
to permit Americans to be slaughtered, it
lis to surrender the prime right and neg
lect the first duty of any state, to defend
the lives of its citizens.
All the sacrifices that the United States
can make in an honorable desire TO
avoid war have been made. We have per.
mitted our dead to go unavenged, we have
suffered still further menaces to be d.
rected at the living, we have listened to
the soft words by which the hypocrite
tried to gid his savagery and cloak his
viciousness. But of all this there must now
be ar end. The murder of another Ameri-
can will mean war; this attempted assas-
sination should terminate all relations
with an outlaw state. Civilization ends at
the German frontier, and with the mad
ness that lies beyond, the fury, the pas
sion, the insane desire to kill all and spare
none. we can have no further commerce.
The duty of to-day is to have done with
Germany, the duty of tomorrow may be
not less clear, but from it only towards
could shrink, and such cowardice has hith-
erto been no part of American history.
No President of the United States, in
{. critical hour, has ever possessed fuller
measure of public confidence than Wood
row Wilson to-day. But to no President
has the pathway of duty and honor
been more plainly indicated. What could be
done to avoid strife, prevent war, preserve
peace, he has done; honestly, nobly. But
the decision was not his to make. If there
is now war, that war has been made in
Germany. But not even the certainty Of
war could excuse further negotiations
with the German government. Ultimately
the individual the state, the nation can
have but one protection against the assas-
lsin. And in the crime of the Arabic the
last thin disguise has slipped from the
German beast, and we see the fact as it
Iis-but we see it unafraid.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20

Find Brooklyn Woman Who Is l15 Years
lOld.-Headline.
Perhaps it is not her fault she remained
hidden so long.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20

Murphy Spends Day Making Up a Slate
Headline
The pre-prmary at work in its most simple
and authoritative form.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20

,,,.rra NJ the Pos,orice at New York Q" Second .'~s
'' " Mail Matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-30

ton OF the second Presbyterian church
and the Knox Presbyterian church into
the present North Presbyterian church.
he was chairman Of the building COM
mittee which had charge OF the erection
Of the beautiful new church at Twenty
fourth and Writ streets.
pr Spaldlng II survived by his wife,
one daughter. Mrs. A, s, Pinto OF Omaha
Three brothers Laurence ID, Spaldlng "
Omaha. Rev. William Alvin spalding OF
seattle. and n. w, Spalding OF Chicago,
and two sisters. Mrs ]. $. Williams OF
NilHsca, la. ana Mrs. John T Ochiltree
OF Omaha Mrs Williams II lying SER
iously IN at Seattle. suffering from q
broken hip sustained In n fall ON the
sidewalk
The body will be brought back to
Omaha aud will arrive here Friday,
Burial will be in the family lot at Forest
Lawn cemetery No arrangements for
ruuera, services have been made yet.
he was at the time OF his death d.
rector In the Omaha Presbyterian Theo-
logical seminary and trustee OF the
University OF Omaha. lie was formerly
trustee OF Bellevue college.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-30
Big Jewelry Stock
is Being Sold Out
at Retail Auction

or the thousands who visit Omaha dur
ing the Ak-Sar-Ben festivities great
proportion of them will come prepared
To combine business with pleasure. they
will buy In Omaha. Those who come TO
buy will find that Omaha has prepared
many enticing exhibits and are making
many remarkable offers. And II many
visitors come looking for bargains they
should stop at the Brodeg0ard iewelry
store This big establishment at the cor
ner of Sixteenth and Douglas streets has
gone into the receivers hands. The courts
have ordered an auction sale
James L. Hand, the well known auc-
tioneer, will be in charge, and every day
beginning Thursday viii offer for sale
to the highest bidder anything and
everything from the high class stock OF
jewelry and It's allied lines OF merchan.
disc
or course, there are auction sales and
auction sales; but this Is q real honifide
sale ordered by courts of law. with this
guarantee the people will surely take ad
vantage of the sale,
Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-30
Three Want Pay
for Inspection Of
New Dundee Lights

Like a certain active ghost OF dramatic
lore the name OF Dundee will not down
in the city council chamber.
The Omaha Electric Light and Power
company, A. A. Rouner and e. A. Rohr-
bough have claims against the city for
electrical inspection in the sums of N5'
s122. so and s174.O5, respectively. The fl
nance and accounts department would
not allow the claims until their reason
ableness had been determined. The coun-
ell referred the matter to the superin-
tendent of public improvements for in
vestigation.
Il am unable 70 understand why our
city electrical department could not have
made the inspection OF the new lighting
system in Dundee. II We want little
Job done on the city hall elevators We
nave to send outside to have the work
done" said one of the commissioners
The commissioners are curious to know
why three inspections were necessary on
the Dundee lighting plant which was
turned over at the time Of consolidation
in a partially completed condition.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-30
Germany to Keep
Out French Flowers

Correspondence OF The Associated Press
BERLIN, Sept. 9O.-The war has
brought great difficulties to the flower
growers Of Germany, but also opportuni-
ties. For years France and Italy have
been the chief markets for cut flowers
and even the duties imposed by Germany
have not protected the native merchants.
At the recent annual meeting of the
various gardening associations through
out the empire, it was resolved to ask
the government to make special efforts
to keep out of Germany curing the COM
ing winter any cut flowers that might
otherwise find their way in. via Switzer-
land, from either France or Italy.
Belgium. however, also grows flowers
In great quantities. The flower growers
therefore decided to urge on the govern
ment a duty to protect them against
competition from this quarter, after
agreeing that 1t was urgently necessary
The members of the associations rep.
resented agreed to undertake to decorate
the graves of fallen soldiers through
volunteer donations of flowers.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-30
DR.. S. K. SPALDING
DIES FROM STROKE
Prominent Omaha Physician Sue.
oumbs to Attack Of Apoplexy
at Washington.
WAS ATTENDING @. A. R. MEET

Dr. S. X. Spalding. for many years
one OF Omaha's most prominent prac-
ticing physicians, died yesterday
morning at $40 at Washington, d.
c., where ne was attending the ma
tional encampment OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic The death
followed an attack of apoplexy Tues
day morning.
DR.. Spalding was born in Frank
furt, Pa, on August 4, 1S47. A few
years later he came west TO Iowa
with his parents. when but Il years
old he enlisted in the army OF the re-
public in the civil war. He was mus
tered in on February &, 1865, at Bur
lington. Ia, and was assigned to the
Second Iowa cavalry. During the
short time he served during the war
his regiment saw service in Missouri,
Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
He was mustered out after the war
ceased on September 10. 1855.
In November. 1882. DR.. spalding came
to Omaha and has made his home here
ever since. For twenty-five years he has
resided at the corner OF Twenty-fitth and
Charles streets.
Held Many offices.
During his residence here DR. Spalding
held many prominent public offices. For
five years he was a member OF the Board
Of Education and was president OF the
board during his last year. He was also
health commissioner OF Omaha for three
years and was chairman OF the insanity
commission two years,
lie always has been n prominent Pres
byterian OF Omaha. lie was a trustee OF
the old Second Presbyterian church and
was one OF the leaders in tho consolida-
Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-30
BRIEF CITY NEWS

wedding Rings-Edholm. Jeweles.
Mavs Aoot Print New Beacon Prssa
Lighting TiEtursR-BurEsas-G rsndon.
"ToaAy's oompaSss zlovla ProgFNm~
classified section today. and appears In
The Bee EXCLUSIVELY. Find out what
khs various moving picture thsatsrs offer.
Drops Match on Bsd--Fire originating
from a lighted match dropped on a bed
did slight damage at the home Of Mrs.
Peter Coos 2766 Grant street, before be
ing exhausted.
Rreak Glass on street. II. Bailey,
81 South Twenty seventh street and
Thomas Burns. 622 South Twenty-seventh
street, were fined 81 and costs each when
brought before Judge Foster for break
ing glass in the street.
Loses His 0rip-w. Z. Rudd, 43i5
Ohio street. left his sample case on the
walk near Fifteenth and Harvey streets
ms he stepped into a building. On his re-
turn II had vanished. The missing article
and contents are valued at SIS.
Enter used Car Business - Mogv
Bernstein has gone into the used car
busipfss and has bought the Auto Clear
ine House from A. A. Altman. Assoc
.fclated with Mr.. Bernstein Is Carroll H.
strouser, who knows the automobile
business thoroughly. They will deal in
used automobiles quite extensively. hav-
ing agents in eastern cities TO buy up
machines for them.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-30
Two Mass Meetings
Held at High School

Two successful mass meetings were
held yesterday at the high school In
preparation for the game with Council
Bluffs High at Rourke park Saturday
Two meetings were held because 1t was
thought that 1900 was too large a crowd
for the high school auditorium.
The meetings were in charge OF Prin-
cipal Masters, who introduced Coach
Mulugan. The coach told the audience
what was expected, both in the matter
of buying tickets for the games ana
supporting the team at the games.
II was announced that the names OF
all those who wished to join the Stu
dents association would be taken during
the first period today. The membership
cards will be given out Thursday morn
ing. The membership fee will be N'0o'
the same as last year. These cards VIII
admit the owner to all home athletic
contests during the year.
The members of the foot ball squad
were introduced by the coach. and the
school yells were practiced.
Another mass meeting probably will be
held this week.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-30
CRAWFORD NEGRO FLASHES
ROLL JUST 0NCE-ENOUGE

For months and months and months
Charles Price, colored citizen OF craw-
ford. Neb.. saved his money.
His ambition was to get roll Of $40
bills that that would trip horse, at
least
Yesterday he decided that his wad was
as large as 1t ever would be In this life,
and he came to Omaha and put up at the
Midway hotel, which Is also the Midway
dance hall, Indoor Social club, ct cetera.
1t was a good place TO make flash.
He made the flash-once. That was about
o'clock I'm the evening. About 8 O'Clock
this morning Detectives Murphy. Rooney.
Dunn and Kennedy We're trying TO get
back his s27o by wandering around seek
ing negro to fit the description given
by Price
Price says that he had been invited TO
take a taxi ride by a we'll dressed col
Ored stranger, and while riding, his
pocket was picked.