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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-21

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: noticed few days ago in The Trib-
une letter from Marjorie Dorman, anent
The Tribune's canneries editorial, in which
she states that in California, Oregon and
Washington women can work unlimited hours
in canneries.s
Miss Dorman is mistaken about Oregon.
By Chapter 1873. laws Of 1909, the hours for
women are restricted to sixty a week in man
utacturing. mechanical or mercantile estab-
lishments, laundries. hotels or restaurants,
etc.
In California and Washington there Is no
law restricting the hours of labor of women
in canneries. In California, however, a
minor between fifteen and eighteen cannot
be employed more than eight hours day in
any occupation whatsoever. Washington also
protects its children.
Furthermore. these laws permitting women
20 work in canneries unlimited hours were
passed before the women got the vote, which
adds 10 the point of The Tribune's editorial.
because you particularly emphasized the
point that such laws were about 20 be rushed
through just prior TO the granting Of the
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Worthy of Note.
We have received the following /;
n the Editor of The Tribune.

We have received the following:
To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR On March "a, 1915, addressed let
ter to The Tribune on the subject Of the tax
alton Of the citys aqueduct property
submitted facts and figures to show that the
city is being mulcted Of hundreds OF tnou-
sands Of dollars each year in unjust taxa
ton and pointed out that bill had been IN
PRODUCED in the Assembly TO remedy this SIT
uation. Upon the appearance Of my letter IN
The Tribune the Assembly promptly killed
this bill. %
Another bill has been introduced by the
city's representatives at Albany which seeks
to protect the city's aqueduct property IN q
slightly different way. As originally aIai ~
this bill contained a paragraph when cou'o
be construed as increasing rather man &C.
creasing aqueduct tax es. With this Joker
in the bill it rapidly advanced TO third read
ing. when the ambiguous paragraph was dis
covered and stricken out. in its present
shape the bill is acceptable 70 the city and
provides a method whereby unjust taxation
of the city's property may be avoided. III
this amended form, however, it IS meeting
with the same opposition which defeated the
former bill, and unless the force OF pubic
cpinion here in New York compe!s change
Of heart It will meet the same fate.
FRANK L. POLK, Corporation Counsel
New York, April 20, 1915.
No comment can amplify this statement
Of fact.
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Speaking of adding Personal to The
address on an envelope, there is the prod.
gality Of writing rush" on an express
package. Mrs. Harry Leon Wilson Ia,
been sending some yellow yiolets to
/ friend in New York. "She said" her hus-
band writes, write the address and then
write these two other words on the card.
| said what difference will that make to
the Exp. people they will only think you
are a rube. She said Oh you always
think YOU know so much I'll write them
myself if you don't, so | wrote them and
maybe that is why they will reach Rv.
Drive so quickly. I see the engineer
grasp the throttle and just tear over the
country thinking of his wife and little
ones back at home while the train dis
patchers and Gen1. M'c'rs. and Cond'rs
swing their lamps like mad and keep the
switches open for this train 70 make
such fast time while the Exp men on the
train look haggard at this box again and
again scarce believing they can believe
their own eyes but there are the very
words written in a plain handwriting
FLOWERS --- RUSH" And it will
cause so much confusion in the schedules
and maybe two or three train wrecks
that bet they will all breathe a sigh OF
relief and say well certainly hope no one
else hands US a package like that marked
rush or we won't know whether we are
standing on our head or on our feet"
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A Fair Play Plea.
or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: All the papers have been giving the
Commissioner of Charities a right and left
slap for a long time, and here lately the doc
tors also in the hospitals connected with the
city home. Knowing you to be level, square
and plumb, I wish to refute this.
The staff under DR.. Cuddy, consisting OF
Drs. Rovette Gilman and Geb, as well as
the others, are indefatigable in their en-
deavors to do all a doctor can do for the
patients in treatment, care and kindness
After being in marine and other hospitals
getting no relief, | came under their care
and am to-day we'll and able to do good
days work. accomplished by their skilfu
treatment.
Now, dear brother editor, give this E
space in your fair play paper. 1t is due tC
these doctors.
CHARLES W. CROCKETT.
New York, April 10, 1915.
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Pushing Trade with South America.

The establishment of branch of the
National City Bank in Montevideo is an
other step toward real INTERROGATION of
business here and business in South
America. The great obstacle to the de-
velopment of trade on a large scale be-
tween the United States and the countries
of the southern continent has been the
lack Of banking connections. Commerce
had to be conducted in a more or less
roundabout way, London being the South
American clearing house. Moreover,
practically all South American loans were
floated in Europe, and European capital
at work in Argentina and Brazil has natu-
rally helped to keep commercial inter
course with Europe active and friendly.
Now New York is beginning TO send
capital 10 South America and direct ex-
change system is being built up. The Ma
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a Daylight Saver.

From The Manchester Guardian.
The late Mr. William Willett was one OF
hose men who achieve fame by concentrat-
ing on a single idea. not too great and not
700 small. Mr. Willett's discovery was that
in summer our average active day is a bad
e.. with the sun, that we sleep on through
e.veral hours of daylight and play on
through several hours Of darkness. HIS
remedy was not concerted scheme for put
ting forward the conventional hours Of work
ard play, but the simple and almost Napo-
leoric aevce Of putting the legal clock for
ward an hour or two. 1t is unlikely that
this juggling with Greenwich time would
evc have been adopted as a national meas
urc bu. the wonder was the wealth of argu-
rrr', economic, social, ard no doubt pOliti-
cal, that Mr. Wilett was able TO produce for
his scheme. This is more or less character
.s.ic OF all single-idea reformers, but Mr..
Wallet was an exceptional master in the in
te1sive cultivation of 4 very small intellec-
tual patch.
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franchise to women, as the Gamers knew fuIi
we'll that such legislation could not be passed
afterward.
In 1913 after the women had the vote the
legislatures OF both Oregon and Washington
each assed an act authorizing the appoint
ment of an Industrial Welfare Commission,
Such commission has power to fix wages and
hours of employment. So it would seem that
the women have not hot-headedly rushed IN
10 repeal laws, but have taken rational
middle course of revision by U competent
tribunal.
The time during which women have voted
should be taken into consideration in criti-
csing equal suffrage states. 1t is unfair to
expect that women will bring about the mil
lennium in two years, when the men have been
1t it for good many years and haven't sue
ceeded AMY WREN.
Brooklyn, April II, 1915.
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MORE CONCERTS, NOT FEWER
A Plea for Restoration of an APPro
priation.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: II has Just been brought to my notice
chat the appropriation for park concerts and
recreation pier music for the coming sum
mer has been cut from 81 1000 to $4,000
This means that the Park Commissioner will
have $4,000 less to spend this year than
last. Last year the recreation piers had far
too little music much less than in previous
seasons, and most Of it was OF very poor
quality. owing to the fact that it is an utter
impossibiity 10 render good music with such
small bands.
Is New York 10 fall behind other cities ?
Are we really too poor to be able to provide
the proper amount Of amusement, education
and rastime for the people? Are the Cen
trail Park concerts 70 be reduced 10 possibly
twelve or fifteen? And what Of the other
parks? People who have never attended the
Central Park concerts cannot possibly real
ize what this would mean.
II would seem to me that in these horrible and
trying times. when almost the whole world
is at war and when almost every individual
has some hardship to endure, it would be
wise and opportune for the city officials to
provide entertainment for the people. Let
those who are unfortunate and out of en-
ployment hear some good music. Let them
forget their misfortune, for while at least.
Nothing will cheer them more or give them
better thoughts and renewed ambition. Then
also think Of the number of musicians who
will be minus employment.
This is surely not the time to dispense
with music. but rather to give more than
ever. If expenses must be cut, let them be
reduced in other departments, and perhaps
to some better advantage. 1t was Napoleon
who said: "Music. of all the liberal arts,
has the greatest influence over the passions,
and it is that to which the legislator ought to
give the greatest encouragement"
EDWIN FRANKO GOLDMAN
New York, April Is, 1915.
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tionaI CITY Bank opened a branch some

tional City Bank opened a branch some
time ago in Buenos Ayres. 1t is also
going to establish branches in Rio de
Janeiro and Santos. This pioneer work
is of the greatest value. Our manutact-
urers and merchants can find market
in South America if they are willing TO
give the people there what they want IN
the way they want it. But first of all eX-
change and banking facilities must be
created. Then commerce will follow line
of far lesser resistance than it has fol
lowed at any time since we began to tax
of Pan-Americanism in the field of trade
as well as in the field of politics
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"Home-Destroying Ballots.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Please accept my thanks for your
courtesy in sending me the copy of your edi-
torial of April 16 on "Home- Destroying Bal
lots" When we consider the personnel Of
the opposing forces in this final struggle for
democracy | think we should be armed
anew" with courage.
The alignment is very interesting I spoke
of it at meeting recently, and a Baptist
clergyman of Babylon, Long Island, replied:
when | hear man nowadays opposing
woman suffrage | consider it confession"
Formerly such opposition might be due TO
ignorant prejudice but now no man who
reads the newspapers can be unaware of
what the real opposition to woman suffrage
stands for. without the generous support
of newspapers like The Tribune our fina!
victory would be impossible.
IDA B. SAMMIS.
Huntington, April II, 1915.
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A Tribute from Danbury.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Tribune is doing a real service
in its recent editorials and the articles writ
ten by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Such edi-
torials as "Gallipoli" and "The New Crisis
in the Near East" were read in my medieval
history classes. They arouse interest in the
past, when Constantinople fell to the Turk,
in 1853 and those on neutrality give more
interest to such documents as Washington
Farewell Address. Thus we have real lab
oratory even for the study of history.
The work which Samuel Hopkins Adams is
doing for your paper | can commend highly.
His articles not only interesting to read
but are personally valuable for further pur-
chases. Not every wiser purchaser or bene-
flied honest advertiser could express his
benefits TO you. but believe there is grow
ing. however silent as yet public, which i,
helping your honest advertising columns to
worthy success
HENRY G.. WELLMAN.
Danbury. Conn, April l6, 1915.
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KICKING Up A DUST.

What a stupid ass the haok-~rter mu''
be who writes this bally rot called the
Coming Tower exclaimed the HonolraO'e
George. looking up from the morning jou''~
that they call the Tribune.
quite so. sir" I agreed. I always made
it a point TO agree with the Honorable George
lin all matters.
Listen to this. Ruggles." no continued
HIRE is a beastly par about the females
who work In their New YORK state uhhhs
factories. This press person advises the uh,
ming women 70 motor 10 their work ins'es'
Of taking the tram. Hasn't he ever any Drains
in his silly head not to know that slavey
can't afford a motor? Fancy a British writer
disseminating such rot! Positively prepos'eF'
Gus. l say, What, What"
could not but share the opinion OF th'
Honorable George. Such obvious lack OF IN
telgence on the part OF its literary persons
seems TO cause no comment IN America Du'
it would never do with US. RAMSAl'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-21
Villas Setback in Mexico.

General Francisco Villa has evidently
suffered a serious defeat in Central Mex
leo. He has had to fall back on Aguas
Calientes-20O miles north of Celaya,
where his six days engagement with Gen
eral Obregon's forces was fought Dis
patches from FL Paso tell Of dissensions
between Villa and his lieutenants and of
4 growing spirit of INSTRUMENTATION among
the rank and file. Villas star as a mill
tary commander has been on the decline
for many months--in fact ever since he
stopped fighting last summer and began
manpuvring for political control.
Villa plainly lacks the all round quail
ties needed in a Mexican dictator. He is
dashing and ruthless soldier but does
not possess the self control and breadth
Of mind to utilize the talents Of others,
and especially the talents Of men compe-
tent to organize at least a fiction of civil
administration. Politically speaking, he
has been a force for destruction, not for
reconstruction.
OF Venustiano Carranza, querulous
petulant and self-opnionated as he has
tanned at least semblance of organized
government throughout the entire period
of the anti-Huerta revolution. He has
not commanded troops in the field, yet he
has shown ability to use other command
ers in order to attain his ends-frst, Villa
and Obregon against Huerta, and now
Oregon against Villa He has also
shown in his diplomatic exchanges with
foreign governments an astuteneSs and te-
nacity which must have gratifed exceed
ingly the patriotic susceptibilities of the
great mass of Mexicans.
Carranza is willy as well as persistent
and though no military hero he has more
than held his own with the military
heroes of the bandit stripe who have
come to the front in MeXico's present re-
gime of semi-anarchy. He seems to have
separated Zapata from Villa and to have
broken the power Of the military conven-
tion in which the Zapata and Villa fac
tons combined to drive him out of the
Provisional Presidency.
The administration in Washington has
always lined up with Villa and against
Carranza. Mr.. Bryan's partiality for
Villa has been pronounced. Yet that par
TALLY was as much misplaced as most of
the other predictions of the administra.
ton in Mexico have been. Villas record in
the Berton case stamped him as a brig
and cheftain of unrestrained brutality,
whom it would be utterly imprudent to tie
to. Carranza, however difficult to deal
with personally, has, in fact, remained
the only influence in the revolution max
ing for the preservation Of at least mod
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Better Than a Review.
of fact

1t is all right, as far as it goes, for
the Navy Department to organize a re-
view of the Atlantic fleet in this harbor.
The country likes to see the navy on
parade. New York is always enthusiastic
in its welcome to the ships and to their
crews, both officers and men. 1t is deslra-
bic that the people on shore should become
better acquainted with the many splendid
units which our navy can boast of and
with the high class personnel which our
methods Of training have developed.
Yet better results both for the navy
and the country would be assured if the
energy spent by the department in ex-
hibiting the navy as it is were devoted to
an enthusiastic effort to make good OBJ
vious naval deficiencies. We have many
fine battleships-the nucleus Of real
fleet. But we are short of vessels Of other
classes and of the auxiliaries on which the
fighting ships must depend in actual war
fare. We lack a roundabout navy, com
pete in all its appointments. 1t Is there
fore only CLOSING over the deficiency to
exhibit the big units in the hope Of delud-
ing the public into believing that as they
stand they are self-sufiicing. 1t is more
important for a navy department which
understands its business to think about
supplying the many units which the navy
lacks than about parading those which it
possesses. however satisfactory they may
be in individual quality.
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F elicitations.
r of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Fluctuations are due The New York
Tribune from all who believe in humanity
justice 10 women and children and the cour-
age 20 be counted on the side of the vote
less population of this state. Through daily
pressure by The New York Tribune in hold
ing up before the public and the politicians
the magnitude of the inequity of the seven
ty-two hour cannery bill the bill was beaten
Let me ask through your paper of Messrs
Connor, Thompson and Bewley, Of seventy
two-hour cannery bill fame, that were it not
for the fearless press what chance would the
people have with the laws evolved by Legs
latures of the seventy-two-hour cannery
type? L. ADELE CUINET.
Brooklyn, April II. 1915.
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Praise for the Governor.
or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The editorial and cartoons in The
Tribune relating to the Governor and Legis-
lature OF this state and the Controller OF
this city, in my opinion, are most unjust, un-
fair and unbecoming, and some OF the car
toons horribly indecent.
The Governor is, with the aid Of the Legis-
lature actually doing what he promised TO
do. They are not temporizing. And the Con-
troler has fully shown that but for ex-Gov-
ernor Glynn's sham economy very small,
if indeed any, direct tax would be necessary
next year. But even a direct tax to the
owner of property in this city is compare
lively not as burdensome as to the owner of
a small house and garden upstate.
HENRY p. MOTT.
New York, April II, 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-21
Against the Cannery Bill.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Last night at the annual banquet OF
the Pennsylvania branch OF the University OF
Michigan Club, at the St. James Hotel, Phil
adephia, one Of the speakers extolled The
Tribune's work against the cannery bill and
warmed the hearts of the old college men to
the point that then and there they tele-
graphed Governor Whitman congratulating
him on his successful opposition TO the meas
ure. Great old Tribunei
WILLIAM MANDREW.
New York, April II, 1915.
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Sir:-Replying 70 your challenge Of u.
18th. beg to advice that THE BEECH.NUr
PACKING COMPANY does not allow n,
female employees 10 work more than 8
hours per week, no matter what the sea.
son or condition Of the market is. As 4
general thing, the hours per week are 30,
with Saturday half-toliday the year
round.
In addition TO this, the company pro.
vides for its employees health and life IN.
surance, with an assured pension at u.
expiration of 10 years continued service.
All our products are absolutely frs.
from benzoate of soda or any other pre-.
sentative. They are made under such
ideal conditions that preseryatiye is no,
necessary.
If this be press agent stuff, make th'
most Of it. Our conscience is clear ever
though we have no handy little paid en-
dorsers on our staff.
ARTHUR BOOTH.
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Stripped of all unessential details Dr'
Dernburg's peace proposals. come down
to two wholly ridiculous suggestions
Germany. he guesses, would consent to
cessation of hostlities if permitted to oc-
cupv some sort Of privileged position IN
Reloium and if provided with some guar
antee of the future freedom of the seas.
The first condition carries with 1t the
remuneration by France and Great Britain
If a moral obligation and debt of honor
10 Belgium, to repudiate which would be
TO earn the enduring scorn of all mankind.
II means also yielding to Germany a
nosition which would make both France
and Britain insecure for all time. AS 10
the second condition, such guarantee
of freedom of the seas" as Germany
desires could only be given if the British
feet were "scrapped." No international
agreement would accomplish this for all
international agreements are, in the Ian
guage of German diplomacy, scraps OF
paper As to the "scrapping" of the
British fleet, there is only one way to bring
this about.
But DR.. Dernburg's amusing bdlton
Fcssni does give chance to discuss what
might be the terms of peace that Germany
could obtain at the present time, if she
we're actually ready to sue for peace, as
no one supposes she is. The minimum OF
the Allied demands may, perhaps, be
summarized as follows:
I. The evacuation of Belgium and Luxem-
burg. D.,
The cession of Alsace- Lorraine to
france. ,
t. The cession Of Kiao-Chau to Japan.
: The cession of German islands IN the
Far East. including Samoa and New Gulhea'
10 Australia. .t-:..
The cession of German Southwest Africa
the British Union of South Africa.
= The cessiOn of Togo and hamerun 10
treat Britain and France.
This excludes such demands as an in
Iemnitv to France, the naturalization OF
he KEEL Canal, the surrender of the Ger
man fleet. the cession of the old Polish
territory on the eastern frontier. If Ger
many is actually crushed in the present
war-and no one can now suggest that
she has yet reached a point of even APP
groXimate collapse-then additional de-
mands are certain to be made upon her.
As to Austria, she will unquestlonably
be asked to cede Galicia and Bukovlna TO
Russia; Bosnia, Herzegovina and the
southern part of Dalmatia below the
Narenta to Serbia and Montenegro. If
Ttalv and Rumania enter the war Tran
sylvania, the Trentino, Trieste, lstria
Fiume. the Dalmatian coast and the
Adriatic islands will be asked by them.
The partition of Turkey will doubtless
be made by some conference of the Balkan
and Mediterranean powers, but at the
least Constantinople, the shores Of the
straits and the Sea of Marmora, Euro
pean Turkey and Syria will have to be
surrendered.
1t is idle to suppose Germany could
consent to discuss peace on such terms.
But it is equally ridiculous to imagine that
France or England will now consent to
return to a condition of things as they
we're" in the West of Europe, or Russia
IN the East. Until Germany is ready to
cede Alsace-Lorraine and evacuate Bel
rum, or able to dictate her own terms
such comment as DR.. Dernburg supplies
is too foolish to warrant discussion.
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crate standards Of civilization and order
Villas defeat and elimination ought 10
cause no regret to those who nope lor
better things in Mexico. President Will
sons unfortunate policy ousted Huerta'
Il will take a long time to get Mexico
hack 70 the condition of relative stability
in which Huerta left it. But Carranza
triumph over Villa might be at least one
step toward that goal.
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WHOM ARE Your SAID CYRIL"

From THE support OF the Arti-orenisi NO. s's
ment" by John 4. Young. editor ~ INC
Francisco Chronicle
They make their appeals because they
considered themselves as subjects Of inc
Mikado, whom they have been led TO os'
lieve exercises as much influence on TINS
side of the Pacific as he does in his own
empire.