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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
TO PROTECT TRADE
The Real Object Of the British Oar
danelles Campaign.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The British stroke at Constantlnople,
which has elected sharp criticism In Eng
land because of its wastage in men and
money more proftabiy disable in France, IS
no mere effort to help Russia make good
war. The port of Archangel, open within
fortnight or in all likelihood sooner than
the Dardaneles, would suffice for that Inc
british effort is aimed to help the Car IN
the present surely; but even more is It in
tended to control him in the future.
With Galipol peninsula in English hands,
Constantinople for which Russia has
strained since Peter the Great, gives the
Slavs no path to the sea, no position flank
ing British commerce and food supply as it
flows north through Suez and the Mediter-
rancan to the British Isles Notifications
protecting the Turkish capital might check
the Kings navy from raiding into the Black
Sea, but would provide no Russian egress
into the Mediterranean.
This egress Peter and the Romanoffs since
MIN have consistently sought. For CEN
fury and half il depended on the control
Of the Bosporus, the strait linking the
Black Sea and the Sea of Marmora-a strait
at its narrowest only six hundred yards wide,
easily comfortable by the artillery of Peters
day, which would have been of little or no
value to control the Dardanelles straits, at
their narrowest. mile wide.
The growing power of modern guns changed
the problem gave the bottle two necks in
stead of one. made the possession of the
Gailipoli peninsula and the coast opposite, as
we'll as that of the Bosporus, essential to
Russas free route to the sea. Indeed Gal
lipoi is the natural Gibraltar of the eastern
Mediterranean, controlling the push of the
Slav empire to the Mediterranean as Gibral-
tar controls the push Of the Latin people to
the Atlantic.
To-day the British Empire is gaining con-
troll of the eastern opening of the Medter-
ranean, as in July, 1904, she gained the west
ern end. Her aim in both cases is the same
to control the commerce and ships of war
of possible enemies and TO secure freedom
OF the seas for her own. Thus the British
troops dying on the Galipoli peninsula the
British ships and seamen sacrificed within
the narrows, are not wasted" they are
spent with ccld-blooded foresight TO protect
great trade route of the empire and to
control that OF possible rival and enemy
spent, in short, to consolidate a control Of
the sea that has been almost unbroken for
three centuries and that to-day is the most
formidable in all history. P.
New York, May 8, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
The Navy as 1t Is and as II Should Be

From to-day until May Is we shall
have the vessels of the Atlantic feet with
us-a visit in which all New Workers will
rejoice Under the Taft administration
there were two naval reviews in this
harbor, and the ceremony is one well
worth repeating. at least every other
year-not alone for the wholesome effect
on the feet Of the sense of being on pa
rade before the public, but for the stimu-
lation of popular interest in the condi-
ton and needs Of the navy
The officers and men of the feet will be
welcomed here with enthusiasm. From
frequent contact with the personnel of the
navy our people are familiar with its
admirable quality. Standards for men
and officers in the naval establishment
have always been high, and they are
higher to-day than ever before. So far
as crews and officers 90, so far as the
too limited personnel Of the present SER
vice is concerned there is nothing the
matter with the navy.
The public will have a chance to inspect
the super-dreadnoughts anchored in the
North River and will be duly impressed
with the fighting power of these magnifi-
cent units. 1t will see the Atlantic feet
al its best. But the impression gained
will be one-sided and misleading if it fos-
tiers the belief that the fleet efficiency so
far attained represents a genuine maxi
mum Of efficiency. 1t is nearer to mini
mum than TO maximum. For the very
powerful batteship units which we possess
are not supported by the compliments
which make roundabout navy--by the
battle-cruisers, destroyers, gunboats, sub
marines and auXiliaries necessary to put
our fleets into condition to meet the fleets
Of another first class modern navy.
These are times which are trying all
military establishments and methods as by
fire. Two years ago, when no one thought
great world war possible and the idea
that most international difficulties could
be easily settled by arbitration possessed
the public mind, Americans could be
pardoned for contenting themselves with
the idea that they had built up a good
enough" navy-good enough, that is, for
ordinary pacific purposes, though lacking
the ability TO meet the crucial test Of a
great war.
It is the falling Of this administration
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
William Barnes, illustrator.

From a Syracuse dispatch to "The
American" we take the following:
Mr. Barnes did not bat an eye when II was
being read Sitting az the end Of his law
yors table he continued TO make sketches Of
locks Of sheep which has been his favorite
occupation since he has been in court
The mistake of The Americans cor
respondent is patent. Mr.. Barnes was not
sketching sheep. He was translating to
paper his ideal of a Republican State
Convention actively at work saving the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
The Last Cigar-Nearly.

From The Manchester GUARDIAN
The week before Christmas small British
detachment were in a very tight corner one
night, after being shelled out of barn and
taking shelter in trench. 1t was necessary
to defend this point to the end, and the cap
tain, second lieutenant and dozen men were
crowded together in the trench waiting for
the attack. The captain crept out for look
round an obstruction. When he got back he
found the second lieutenant smoking cigar
a sight he had never seen before. He asked
him how the cigar came about. The reply
was: my aunt sent me some cigars for
Christmas. As there isn't 10 be any Christ
mas for US, thought might well smoke
il now" The effect Of this on the men, all
strung up to the last turn, was an immediate
easing of the strain. Morning came without
the attack, and the party was relieved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
Follies of the Censorship.

It is impossible to ignore the increasing
Indignation in England at the stupid and
inconsistent administration of the censor
ship. The official explanation is that the
newspapers have been trying to work up
a popular protest, but the fact is that
from the very first the press has support
ed the government with singular loyalty;
indeed it has been publicly acknowledged
by those in authority that since the war
began few editors have been guilty of
serious indiscretion.
What irritates the readers no less than
the editors and owners of newspapers is
the senseless suppression of news on the
pretence that it might be of service to
the enemy, though in many instances 1t Is
quite certain that the news was known in
Berlin days and sometimes weeks before It
was published in London. Even the
French official reports are occasionally
mutilared to fit what are supposed to be
the requirements of British consumption,
and it is said that one of Sir John
French's dispatches, after having been
held up for a month, was given out at
last in a modified form.
Curiously enough, there seems to be no
objection to the most depressing and even
panicky reports about slackness and
drunkenness in dockyards and arSenals,
while encouraging news about recruiting
and equipment is so carefully withheld
that when Mr.. Lloyd George set forth the
facts in the House of Commons the other
day many were astOnished to learn that
50 large an army had been raised.
Even more stupid is the treatment Of
private correspondence. 1t must be OBJ
vious that if there are spies at work they
are unlikely TO be found among members
of the government and leading public
men. Yet it is on these that the censors
fasten. Only the other day Admiral Sir
William Kennedy had to complain that
three letters addressed to him had been
opened-one of them from the British
Vice-Consul at Trondhjem. This sort Of
aimless folly has naturally caused much
resentment, which cannot possibly be eX
planned away by attributing it to party
prejudice or to a want Of reason on the
part of the newspaper editors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

The adored, by some, Evening Journal
ululates that there is no good fountain.
pen-that fountain-pens don't work and
all that old stuff that belongs to the era
of the stoveppe joke. Our pen-snd on
busy days it writes perhaps full tenth
of this column-never leaks, never gets
out of order, never splutters. Sometimes
it gets lost, and then we have a terrible
month finding one like the lost one. But
we wouldn't trade this So pen for the best
typewriter exploited.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
Public Park Music.
tor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In your issue Of May my attention
was attracted to q letter signed by a lady
with the display heading Dummy Musicians
in the Parks" The lady goes on to say that
during last year she attended many park con-
cert performances at which she detected
quite a number Of dummy musicians, "Men
who sat with instruments in hand which never
spoke at all"
Now, much as | regret having to take issue
with lady, still am forcibly inclined to do
so in defence of the vilified and traduced mu-
stefan. as represented in the ". NJ. P. T.,
from whose ranks the public park combina.
tions are selected
To my personal knowledge, which covers
quite number Of years, there has never been
a specific instance Of verifcation Of this
dummy claim, and until such is brought 20
light these statements are TO be taken as
totally unwarranted.
Relative TO the failure of some instruments
TO speak" II must be borne in mind that the
requirements of the score in instrumental
productions do not contemplate forceful or
sonorous speaking on the part of all the
but rather seek a harmonious
blending, IN order to properly interpret the
composer.
While the smaller bands. for obvious rea.
sons, could not afford single dummy, the
larger ones would not jeopardize their repu.
tation by such unfair methods
VICTOR BARAvALLE.
New York Nav & 1918
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

that II has shut its eyes TO the military
lessons of the great world struggle ana Is
satisfied to allow the United States 70
continue to get along with only good
enough" naval establishment. what this
nation really requires is a navy complete
in all respects-a real guarantee OF safety
against foreign attack, not a guarantee
that will turn into scrap OF paper
when war comes.
Our navy to-day is short OF battle
cruisers. Of ffteen-inch guns, of gunooats'
destroyers, submarines, airships' auNih-
aries and naval bases. II is short OF &C
tive officers and seamen and has no re-
serves. There are not enough sailors TO
put into commission all of our available
warships. and there is not enough ammu-
milton to last through a moderately ex-
tended naval campaign.
Rear Admiral Fiske was well within
the truth when he testified last winter
that it would take three years to put the
ships of the navy into condition to meet
the navy of first class power and five
years to get the personnel into proper
condition.
Delight in the gallant showing of the
big ships on the Hudson must therefore
be tempered by the realization that the
feet, good as it is is still lamentably be-
low the standard which the United States
ought to set in naval efficiency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
To ANNE HOPE,
to make many OF Time.

Several kisses, I saw printed,
Merely make you feel you're stinted;
Horace wrote thus, and my eyes in
Clined to read that same-brand pizen
On the pages of Catullus,-
And, think you, that bird would bull us,
Burns and Byron and Ferd Pinney
Earle have preached the same old shiny.
Then come, Anne, into this bosom,
Put away all thoughts Of gruesoms
Modesty, and buss me many,
Many kisses-or not any.
Hundreds, thousands, millions, trillions
Exc all high-ascending-illons:
Three or four are worse'n none, Anne,
All my food l like well done, an
Quick! Il never shall be sated)
Quick, or superAnneuated
You will be, and I'll be rowing
Mays the proper month for moving.
Kiss me now, or not a-tall dear,
It's the last-believe mccall, dear.
JIMMY ON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
Chocolate Soldiers.
From The westminst,r Go-,tt, }

The soldiers weakness for sweetmeats, 10
which Mr.. Bernard Shaw called attention when
he wrote THE Chocolate Soldier" has been
abundantly confirmed during the present war.
The quantity Of sweets consumed by our army
In France has been prodigious, while from
Cairo comes the news that the Australians
have absolutely eaten the place out of choco-
late. On the troopshps which brought them,
too, II was the same. Thus Captain Bean, the
official correspondent with the force, writes
"our canteen had five times the demand for
sweets and soft drinks that was expected and
one-hfth the demand for beer"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
Religious Advertising.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; | wish TO express my appreciation for
the effort your newspaper is putting forth
through its advertising columns, to induce
the general public to attend church every
Sunday. Il is a highly cOmmendable effort
and | sincerely hope that there will be q
lasting effect
II also gives evidence to the fact that you
are a progressive newspaper, and if all the
newspapers would follow your lead there
would be undoubtedly far-reaching effect
II sit pays to advertise" in business, why not
in the work of God?
CHANDLER CUDLIPP.
Jersey City, y. j., May s, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
Moving Pictures and Temperance.

Magistrate Leach of the Second Dis
trict. which includes Brooklyn, Queens
and Staten Island, finds the moving pct
ure show a great force against intemper-
ance. In 1907, he says with a total pop
ulation of l.775,0OO in the district, there
we're 10000 persons arraigned for drunk
enness. Last year, with a population Of
2.267. 625, there were only 1882 arraign-
ments For this the magistrates hold the
moving pictures primarily responsible,
and so. declares Magistrate Leach, do the
saloonkeepers.
Judges police officials, social workers
seem agreed that the saloon is gradually
ceasing to be the poor mans club'-to
the extent, at least, that numbers of work
ingmen do not spend their evenings in
saloons, as they used to do. They may
drop in for drink or two on the way
home from work, but after the evening
meal they are much more likely to take
the wife and children around the corner
to the moving picture theatre than TO
wander off to drink with other men and
settle the worlds problems across the bar.
This is a tendency altogether whole
some. which should show its beneficial re-
suits in crime statistics and savings bank
denosits. for the movies" are not likely
TO cost as much, week in and week out,
AS the saloon would, and they certainly
do not impair working capacity as hard
Iiouor does. There has been debate, al
times. whether famboyant films have not
excited some of the youth of the land to
crime. If they have, the account should
he more than settled by their acceeration
Of the temperance movement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
What the German Fleet Is Doing

To the Editor. of The Tribune
Sir: Mr.. A. {. Hemiker in The Tribune Of
to-day asks what the German navy is doing
10 protect German commerce? This gentle
man does not seem to he aware that il is
thanks to the watchful German navy that
the Baltic Sea is kept free from hostile war
ships and that shipping in the ports Of
Lubeek and Stettn has never been so brisk
as II is now. W. WANGENHEIM.
New York, May 9, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

Just TO prove how neutral this Turre,
Of Turbulence is this morning, and u avoid
the duty Of opening indignant letters fFor,
our pro-Germ. friends, we repeat tina,
Goethe and Schiller had a lot n talent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

From an announcement of a meeting to
be held by the Society of Sigmi ri, Column
bia University: Or. W. j. Gies will speak
on Diseases of the Teeth and Bones, Their
Causes and Prevention, with Some Demon
strations.' Refreshments will be served
after the meeting"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
The Coming Toue,
WHEN HALF-GODs CO..

Fluttering amid flushed apple-bioom
A starting dances on the bough:
I watch him from my quiet room
Caper with clown-like mop and nov
His eerie whistle tricks the ear:
Half-zany, half-ventriloquist,
He mocks the sweetness Of the year
A cynical, sly amorist.
Spite Of myself, I smile; and still
Love him not. While this jaunty thin1
Frances, and snaps his witty bill
/ shall not hear my blue-bird sing.
LEE WILSON Toopp.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

All is unfair in war, as Mr.. e. X. Ches-
terton might say. Any contrib who proves
satisfactorily TO US, why war has,to be-,
can have his name in BREWER caps and
small caps, signed to his apology.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

And, lest the anti-Germs. assail u.s. 4,
Is admitted that Shakespeare, Montaigrs
and Turgenev were not without gifts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
Ny country, It's Of thee,
Land Of neutrality

SSH! LET SLEEPING CATS LIE.
Sir: Don't knock the Courts in your
column. That cat case hasn't been de-
cided yet. My wife wants to know what
to do. Did the subject purrish?
FIFTY-FFTY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

The column is run like the Pullman
Company. Passengers-that is, contribs-
often tip the column porters-ofice-Ooys
whom contributions are left with.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
Moore, "Copyread" by the "Quoters."

Believe me-" il all those "endearng'
young" Charms"
Which I gaze on" so "fondly" to-day.
Were TO Change" by tomorrow. and fleet"
in my arms"
Like fairy" gifts fading away"
Thou" wouldst still be "adored," as th.
moment thou" art,
Let thy "loveliness" fade" as it will
And around the dear ruin each wish Of my
"heart"
Would "entwine" itself "verdantly" still.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
Our Own Travelogues.

Sir: La Guayra mas the highest R. R.
rate known 40c per half mile, on the
Harbor Corporation narrow gauge track.
But if you try to get to land any other way
the other sharks get you.
SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

Can Mr.. Robert Todd Lincoln, wh'
knows so much about the Pullman Com
pany, inform us why all porters whistle
through their teeth?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

1t is estimated that this nation saved
something like 100000 in kilograms yes
terday. Think of the number Of people
who knew the superfuity of wiring the
White House to be calm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

Among the new publications is a Hand
book for Singers. Oh, yes. The author
is Norris f. Croker.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

You can purchase merchandise advertised
in THE TRIBUNE with absolute ssfety-tor
il dissatisfaction results in any case The
TRIBUNE guarantees 10 pay your money
back upon request No red tape no quib-
bling. We make good promptly II the ad-
vertiser does not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

JEFF" Tesreau "Babe" Ruth
ICY" Pieh =. BILL" Carri-
gan Fritz" Maisel "Peck"
mike" Tobin "Bennie"
Kauf Billy" Sunday -
The Herald.
Bartlett himself was no more familiar
with quotations than is the esteemed"
Herald.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

Good morning! Is your neutrality Or
straight?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

Oh, yes. And Virgil had his good point,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
RmrroN RArEs-By M.n rosl.s, r.id. outsid,


Entered At IN. Po.,o-c, a, New York ssoond cls''
Mail Msrer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

Nobody ever tips the conductor.
r. r. A
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08

Owned ana published daily Nv Tire Tribune Associsuon
New Yosh CORPORATION ogden NJ Reid. President; :"
v,fnor RoFtrs Secretary and Treasurer Address Tribune
BUILDING No lSl Nassau Street New York
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New York, May 5, 1915.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-04-02
; Rear ADMIRALS
GET ADVANCEMENT
Wilson Advances Officers to
Rank Hitherto Held by
Only Few Officers.
az JONATHAN WINFIELD.


WASHINGTON, April 1.-The
time-honored title of admiral of the
navy no longer is distinctive in the
United States. Following the passage
by congress Of an enabling act, Presi-
dent Wilson has raised to the rank OF
full admiral three distinguished rear
admirals of the United States navy.
They are Rear Admiral Fletcher, who,
following his services during the
American occupation Of Vera Cruz was
given the command of the Atlantic
fleet; Rear Admiral Howard Of the
Pacific fleet and Rear Admiral Cowles
of the American fleet in Asiatic wa
tiers.
Heretofore. when the admiral was
referred to 1t was only possible to
eman one man. The title was as
unique as the title of the president Of
the United States.
The same situation still prevails in
the land wing Of the United States
military. There is only one lieuten-
ant general of the army. Before the
creation Of the new high naval Off
GERS. George Dewey was the admiral
Of the navy and when one referred
to the admiral of the navy, such ref
erence was all sufficient without men
tioning the name of the man. That
distinction no longer appertains to the
hero Of Manila bay. He now Is only
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-04-02
Germs Can't Stay
With This Treatment
No Impurities Can Retain
A Foothold- They're
Driven Out.

The action Of 8. s. S.. the famous blood
purifier. is direct from the moment it
enters the stomach. Unlike food that
must be acted upon by the digestive
juices, s. S. 8. goes at once into the
blood, and in less than five minutes has
traversed the entire circulation.
It now rapidly spreads its medicinal
action in the fine network Of blood ves-
sells and is like giving the blood a
thorough bath, to overcome eczema,
blood risings, boils and other eruptive
conditions. It can not harm any part Of
the system. It does not lodge in the
joints as do mercury. arsenic and other
minerals frequently to be found in
blood remedies. 1t Is a natural medi-
cine for the blood. just as essential to
health If germs have gotten the upper
hand as Is nutritious food II after a
spell Of sickness the body calls for nour-
iShment. Wherever you go you are
sure to meet some one who used s. s. S.
for the blood and is a willing witness
to its wonderful power to overcome
blood troubles. You can obtain S. S. S..
in almost any drug store in the U. S..
a significant fact as to its worth and
its sterling reputation. Get a bottle
today. 1t will do you good. Write to
The Swift Specific Co.. 104 Swift Bldg,
Atlanta. Ga, If the directions with the
bottle do not fully cover your case.