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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
sI,oVAKS NOT WITH DUMBA
Repudiate Him and Assert Their
FriendIiness to American Interests.

To tho Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In connection with Mr.. Dumbas I'M
nr,ncr conduct. we, the Undersigned repre-
son,ing the Slovaks In he Eastern states OF
America. refute and protest against his state
ment that The Slovaks in America are sub
iccts of Au,tria-Hungary, and that he or his
agents or those of Germany can in any way
influence our people working in the munitions
factories.
We emphatically proclaim that the Slovaks
always have opposed and always will oppose
the ant-American and anti-Allies propaganda
in this country. We will in the future, as
we have been In the past be loyal to the
tni,ed States, where we found our new home
after leaving our old country. from which
we we're driven because of the oppression OF
the Hungarian government, which would not
allow us to speak our own language and edu-
cate cur children in Soyak schools.
The very fact that cut of the 100000
popu alton in the Slovak country fully lOOO,-
GOO were driven away TO the United States
owing TO political and economic persecu-
ton, is sufficient proof that there is no rea-
son why we should be used as tools for Mr..
Dumba's and the German agents unfair and
ant. American aspirations.
Il is pity that there are no ways or
means for US TO prevent Hungarian agents,
such as Mr.. Dumba, for instance, from Sian
derirg our gooG name and reputation as
honest workers and peaceful and law-abldlng
residents or citizens of the United States.
There are no Slovaks in America who de
sire to 70 back to their country unless our
nation is freed from Hungarian oppression.
There are no connecting ties between us
and the propaganda of the Hungarian agents
in this country, and We condemn the pesti-
lental activities and conspiracy OF Mr.. Dunn
ba ard his friends We are ready to work
for y interests of the United States, where
we have found political freedom and better
economic conditions than in Hungary.
We assure the American public that our
brother Sovaks have no intention TO attempt
and will not in any way attempt to help to
cripple any legitimate industry in this
country.
SLO AXIS POLITICAL FEDERATION OF
THE EASTERN STATES OF AMERICA.
Louis Matusek. VicePresident.
Jozef Honza, Secretary.
For TIE Sovak press:
New Yorsky Dennik," Editors Jan Cullen
and julius Pletenik; "Slovensky Pokrok,"
EDITOR Valen Nemic; "Slovensky Sokol,
Editor Milan Getting.
New York, Sept II, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
Half Pedant, Half Poltroon."

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Allow me to thank you heartily for
the vigorous editorial in to-day's Tribune.
How long are our people going TO put up
with this bullying and fouting, this kicking
and cutting, by Germany, and now by Aus
tria? When a new outrage is perpetrated
our government asks Germany for its YER
sion of the affair although the facts are al
ready established, and Germany replies by
any ofhand lie-the Lusitania was an aux
ilary cruiser the Arabic attacked the sub
marine, or the submarine thought she might
do so, and the Hcsperian was sunk by a
mine and there the matter ends.
When the news of the Arabic reached Lon
don the betting was to against our TAX
ing any action, and there were no takers.
Are we to infer from this submissiveness
that Mr.. Wilson's sympathies are with the
Germans, or is there another explanation in
his likeness, in one respect, TO Robespierre'
A recent life of Danton gives us the great
tribune's estimate OF his contemplate en-
envy: al lie ceusa cuistre double du capon"
he sized him up for half pedant, half
poltroon This is evidently the Kaisers
view Of our President, and probably that Of
all Europe. F. A. HENRY.
Bay Head, n. j., Sept. O. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15

study there is Of it, the more 1t is dis
cussed. the better fitted the voters will be
to act on it. II there are jokers in it, If
Il has flaws and weaknesses, nothing is
so certain 70 disclose them as the kind Of
campaign Mr.. Choate and his fellow com
mitteemen will make. OF the desirability
Of widespread interest in the constitution
there can be no question, and the diff
Guilty in obtaining such interest regarding
amendments TO the present constitution
everybc ~ is aware.
The new constitution should not be &C
copied or rejected by mere handful Of
votes. If that is not to be the case there
must be a campaign on it. Mr.. Choate
and his associates believe it should be
adopted and intend to work for that end
II that constitutes them accelerators, then
every campaign committee of any sort is
an accelerative agent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
Union Musicians Protest.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: viii you kindly publish the follow
ing protest in your paper at the earliest pos
sble date?
The New York and Brooklyn Federation
of Musicians, Inc, Local Al. protests against
the home bands composed Of children per
forming in the Coney Island Mardi Gras
celebration, September 10 TO Is, as the home
bands give their services gratis and per-
form at the Mardi 'Gras celebration, con-
sidering the same as an outing for them
selves, but thereby deprive the union musi-
clans OF making a livelihood. We als) do not
think it fair for homes TO allow their
children 20 perform In events Of this kind,
as the taxpayers help TO keep up the homes.
This matter should be investigated by the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty 20
Children, as the same is direct violation
Of the Penal Law, Chapter 40, Section 4S5,
Labor Laws Of New York State. 1913.
An interview with the chairman Of the
Coney Island Mard Gras Committee con
yinced US that he is not exactly in favor OF
the home bands performing, but as they
offer their services for merely carfare the
Concy Island Mardi Gras Committee simply
cannot refuse their offer.
NEW YORK FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS,
Inc. HENRY VOGELER, Secretary.
New York, Sept 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
Faithful Workers.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Everybody seems always to report
everybody else, so I'll follow suit, but just a
little differently.
Tonight my husband and boarded a Sixth
Avenue car at Eighth Street. At Forty ninth
or Fiftieth Street, the car running along at a
good speed and the bell Changing necessarily,
fool of young chauffeur stopped aimlessly
in the very midst of the rails, right in front
of us. In few seconds the bell rang furi-
ously, the motorman yelled at the top Of his
voice, but that idiot of chauffeur sat there
calmly looking at our car. Then the motor
man put on the brake with such lightning
speed that terrible accident was avoided
Just by a hairs breadth. | do not understand
why the motorman did not wrench his Shout
der in doing such work, but do know that if
no accident happened il was most certainly
due to his quickness of action, his strength
in a word, his efficiency and his loyalty to his
work.
A few corners higher up man tried to
Night while the car was still in motion, and
had not the conductor grabbed him and
pushed him back his skull would surely have
been smashed to atoms by the pillar.
Two instances like these are worth report
ing" | think
am sorry could not get the number OF
the car, bu. IL was a Sixth Avenue and Am
sterdam car, il was about 1925 or $3.50. and
the number on the conductors cap was 1880.
These two men ought to receive medals,
for they have certainly prevented dire catas-
trophies, and | am glad to report both Of
them for their bravery, their alertness, their
interest in the human cargo they carried and
their very evident efficiency.
JOSEPHINE FRABAClLIS,
Countess Of Castelveccho
New York, Sept. 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
The Proposed Foreign Credit.

There is apparently no point Of view
from which the credit which Great Brit
ain and France are seeking to establish
here may be considered a detriment to
this country. Not even the German SYM
pathizers, for the most part in the Mid
die West, who threaten to withdraw their
accounts from banks which share in its
establishment, can argue that it would
not benefit the United States. They are
inevitably being man9uvred into the po-
sition Of opposing a benefit to Uncle Sam
in the interest of Germany.
To begin with, the establishment of
the colossal credit proposed would large
ly solve the problem of finding safe en-
ployment for the vast surplus reserve of
nearly $500, 100000 possessed now by the
national banks alone. In the wholly arti-
fetal situation produced by the war this
surplus cannot be used with any safety
in this country. The initiation and over
speculation it would cause would lead to
profound disaster at the end of the war,
II UOl DCAOlCs
But perhaps Of more immediate and
tangible concern is the danger which the
credit would remove Of serious curtail-
ment of our foreign market. The rapid
decline and daily fuctuation Of sterling ex-
change have pointed warning for months
that the difficulty and expense Of financing
purchases in the United States might soon
cause our best customers to turn else
where for their foodstuffs and supplies.
Mr.. James J. Hill has pointed out where
they might turn for wheat, for example
to Canada, to the Argentine, TO India and
Australia, and, in case the Dardanelles are
forced by spring, to Russia.
II has long been automatic of trade
with South America that South America
would buy where she could borrow. That
is true now Of the belligerents. Let them
borrow here and they will continue TO
buy here. The credit they wish would
even act for the United States as an in
surance fund against the opening of the
since the greater cheapness
Of Russian grain would be largely offset
by the difficulty of financing its purchase,
which might well be hardly less than is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
"Accelerators" and the Constitution.

The Tribune finds itself as unable TO
agree with "The Worlds" estimate Of the
danger of can organized campaign TO 'ac-
celerate public opinion" in behalf of the
proposed new constitution as it is to
agree with our neighbors estimate Of that
document itself Mr.. Choate and his asso-
ciateS, who are TO carry on this cam
paign, are not exactly "accelerators" Of
the type of Mr. Quigg. What they do
will be done in the open, over their own
names. II will be a campaign of educa-
tion-of publicity--to make the voters
familiar with the new constitution and to
arouse general interest in the election at
which it must be adopted or rejected.
This seems 10 The Tribune, regardless
Of the merits of the proposed constitution,
entirely a worthy public service. The more !
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
Aberdeen University's Record.

(FrO1 The Dundee Adrerttser)
There are 1877 members of Aberdeen
University with the colors. This number in
cludes graduates undergraduates, alumni
and men of the university stats. The
principal the Rev. George Adam Smith, IN
the June Aberdeen University Review"
which prints as a supplement the univer-
sitys roll Of honor, points out some very
interesting facts in connection with this
to year OF war" OF the
1917 volunteers $50 are medical graduates
attending to the wounded in every area Of
war on land and sea, and Of the l0l medI-
cal graduates in Britain of the last three
years only ten are not with the colors. The
principal also points out that one OF the
most interesting sections Of the whole list
is that of the $50 graduates who have joined
the rank and file. Among these are forty
four teachers, eighteen ministers and divin-
itv students and seven lawyers. Already
twenty-five men have fallen in battle, in
GLIDING five doctors AS showing the wide
less of their dispersal, it may be pointed
out that one doctor was killed in France
another in Nigeria, another in the Singapore
mutiny, while fourth sank with the
Formidable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15

that of paying for American grain TO-
day.
II must be borne in mind that the great
bulk of American export trade with the
Allies does not lie in munitions. The lat
ter form comparatively insignificant
percentage of it and, as the foreign COM
missioners have indicated, can be PAID
for by shipment Of gold direct to their
agents here. The credit, if it is estab-
lished, will affect very slightly this par
ticular traffic. But the traffic in food
stuFs. in raw materials and manufact-
ured articles, the traffic at the founda-
ton Of the nations prosperity, when
forms much the greater part of our ex-
port trade, will depend more and more as
the days pass by on the success OF the
Anglo-French mission.
As to the form which the credit may
take and avoid at the same time viola
tion of the nations neutrality while APP
healing to investors, that is nut which
the commissioners and their conferrees
must be left to crack. 1t is by no means
the least of their problems. But in the
meantime il can do them no harm to re-
ceive the important encouragement IN
their difficult undertaking which the coun-
try's sympathy with their main object
would certainly constitute.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
A BARON MUNCHAUSGN
Submarine Commander Who Sank
Hesperian May Qualify.
e Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Has a submarine any greater or bet
ter rights than any other warship?
Many have assumed that the submarine
being peculiar craft, has peculiar
privileges. ship Of war overtaking an
enemy merchant ship may put prize crew
on board and send it to port II the sub
marine cannot put prize crew aboard II
its misfortune If the warship be en-
titled to sink the merchant ship it must
first take off the crew Of the merchant snip
and convey it TO a place Of safety. AgalA
if the submarine cannot do this II is the
fault of the submarine.
If warship overtakes a merchant snip
of a neutral nation il may stop the ship, and
if it finds contraband aboard il can Iettison
it. It cannot sink the ship unless Necessary
for It's own protection or safety, and before
doing this it must take off the crew and
convey it to place Of safety. ship Of
war cannot order the crew of the merchant
ship to take TO the boats in mid-ocean, a.
this is not place of safety, but must tax.
the crew aboard and convey it TO place Of
safety.
A submarine has no better right, and 70
order a crew to take to the boats is not -
compliance with the law which requires tbs!
such crews must be taken to place o.
safety. Such an order is in violation o.
the rules of civilized warfare and Opposed
70 the dictates of humanity. Fancy SUD
marine in the middle of winter ordering th'
crew of the merchant ship TO take 70 INC
boats as a place of safety!
The doctrine that a submarine can SINK
destroy merchant ship without hrst pro.
viding for the safety of the non-eomos'an'
crew, to say nothing of passengers. Germsny
seeks to establish. Certainly every SEN
respecting person hopes and believes tn''
any such act by submarines will be con,
sidered by the United States and all o'nG
neutral nations as. an "unfriendly act ~
that the United States and all other neuU''
nations will act accordingly.
! If the actions of the submarines ope"r
ing under the direction OF the ku!'ais'
Kaiser be closely followed it Will De aiI.
cult to distinguish most OF them from 'n0''
of Jolly Roger" or an assassin.
! Now we have the Hesperian ineieeps
with the claim that this ship was suhs =
self-defence. Does any one doubt mat sn'T ,
will be sunk as before and the excuse W"
be given "self-defence'?
Perhaps, too, the commander OF the o..
man submarine that sank the HesperA'
was a Baron Munchausen." Afh"
New York, Sept. 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
Where Payroll Economy Lies.

II is unfortunate for the Mitchell ad-
ministration that the Mayor has tied up
with his call for economy his declaration
of intent to put into effect the recon-
mendatons of the Board of Estimates
Bureau Of Standards. That inevitably
was TO bring down on himself unthinking
demands that he reduce the salaries Of
"the big fellows" instead Of the little fell
lows with small wages" and according to
schedule such criticism has come. The
Mayor, doubtless, can stand it, but 1t IS
likely to befog the whole economy issue
Salary Standardization is necessary and
must be put into effect, regardless OF any
increased or diminished budget appro-
priations and the state tax. 1t means de-
creases in some cases, increases in others.
II means that no person in one depart
ment shall receive more for his work than
an employe of another department doing
similar work; and the Bureau of Stand
ards has figured out its scales on q pretty
liberal basis, compared with money paid
for kindred work in the business world.
1t means that some jobs will be abol-
ished altogether as investigation proves
that they are not needed. Surely there can
be no legitimate protest from any reason
able citizen against such a programme
now, when the city faces financial crisis,
or at any other time.
There is no good faith in the demands
that Economy begin at the top" with re-
ductions Of the Mayors salary, the Con-
troller's salary, the Corporation Counsels
salary the City Chamberlain's salary and
the like. In the first place, these salaries
are not within the control of the officials
themselves; they are fixed by the charter,
and while the City Chamberlain himself
contends that his Office should be abOl
ished-effecting a saving for the city
the Legislature paid no attention to
his challenge. Nobody seriously believes
the Mayor, the Controller, the Corpora
ton Counsel, the various department
heads are overpaid when Supreme Court
Justices receive larger salaries than they,
and when professional men and business
men of ability not empowering make
much more in a year.
The Mayor and his department heads
have never gone to Albany to lobby for
salary increases, as have school teachers,
court clerks and others of the "little fell
lows" paid out of the city treasury. What
waste there is in the city's payrolls lies
in the middle register-in the places
created for politics and filled by politi-
clans. Some of these are within the reach
OF the Board Of Estimate; some are pro-
tected by legislation. Those which can be
reached by the local authorities should be
pruned to their proper proportions-and
if that means looping them off completely,
let them fall. For complete payroll re-
form it will be necessary to wait until a
home rule amendment to the constitu-
ton has given the local authorities ade-
quate power to deal with the rate of sal
airy of the employees they must pay out of
the tax levy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
Count Notwithstanding Agent
cFrom The Manchester Guardian)

(From The Manchester Gudrdidn)
All along bad news has proved the sharpest
spur to recruiting, and the speakers at street
meetings get the biggest haul when they are
remorselessly pessimstic At the Gladstone
statue in the Strand this afternoon the big
colonial cavaryman, the English officer back
from the trenches, and the civilian chairman
we're competing in calculated gloom, and the
only deccntly cheerful person present was the
Kings trumpeter, whose broad face went
deeper purple as he blew "soul-animating
strains" The speeches would have delighted
any German eavesdropper with the illusions
of his kind, who could not be expected to
value properly our national habit Of self
depreciation The gloom was so great that
shpdow overcast the fresh young faces of the
attendant Boy Scouts. The Canadians on the
fringe Of the crowd roped in a satisfactory
lot of recruits. The Zeppelins are still the
best recruiters, as the evidence Of the Old
Scotland Yard Office and the squirt given TO
business on the Horse Guards Parade these
last two days show clearly. "The gasbags
talk better than we fellows can" said the
sergeant on the pavement in Whitehall.
Figures are not given to the press, but the
results of the last months recruiting would
starte the writers in the German papers,
whose stories about the impossibility Of per
suading any more men into the army rise, of
course, from literal acceptance OF the ma
chine-made laments in our own conscription-
list papers. To-day recruiting officers were
busy enrolling labOrers and navvies for the
special battalions Of the Royal Engineers.
You saw the long lines of men in caps some
with the velvet collars of the costermonger
stepping along the Strand In the afternoon
looking a tri1e embarrassed under the hearty
etnrn from the naYements.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
Beyond Help?

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: VIII you kindly permit me space in
mcnt made by W. f. W. in a letter appear
ing in your issue Of to-day? She states that
6 100000 women in the United States need
the ballot to regulate conditions under which
they labor. As ~ per cent Of these women
are engaged in personal and domestic ser
vice in the homes of other women it is diff
cult see how the vote could possibly help
them. MARJORIE DORIAN.
Philadelphia, Sept IL, 1915
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international Enforcement.
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t strikes me that the present ''s
Aict in Europe presents a perfect ins'aa''
Of the enforcement of decree Of an M ~.
NAL international court against gu"
power. III
vast majority Of civilized men SUPP
the cause of Serbia, France, England
Russia. Why should not 'paeihsts e ..,,.
cially and all Of us who believe IN se.~,
ment of international disputes by 10. "a
international court seize this oppor'un,..
encourage the government Of the 0" AIT
States OF America TO enter into 'h'
real movement of its kind? Why not "a,
IN enforcing the decree which IS Ien'' rnr.
A SINCERE ADMIRER OF Your
T0RIAL PAGE.
Brooklyn, Sept. s, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
The Western Idea.

To the Editor OF The Tribune. -.
Sir: Sanity, common sense and Ae'' ~,
Outstanding of our country's Cons'" 49,.
pervade the Middle and Far West ana
oughly counterbalance the vicious innuI sr.l
at work here in the East that wouio s ,or.
us in the European war. This IS Ssav
mentcd on in your news from Wsshihs IA,
II our whole nation were as lopsiaea ,,u
average pro-Ally commentator wos'u III
il seem, nothing would save US Hom .;,I,
cat's-paw action proposed They esi, a.
raise bumper crops out West, and ono %
is good citizens who know when W"
bump for the good OF the United Sts ,snra
CARL A. KEHRWlEpsS
New York. Sent. IL 1915.
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With Messrs. Viereck and Braun in their
emplov and the esteemed "Staats-Ieiturg
and MIR. Hearst's american so nobly en-
couraging them, why should the Germans
want to buy daily newspaper here?
The President has told delegation OF VIZ
cinians that he could not predict any part
Of the course of affairs" Another argument
no doubt, for watchful waiting.
DR.. Dumba is about to hit the trail blazed
by DR.. Dernburg Are there any more dee
doctors In our midst?
Germans Striving to Soothe Wilson.-Head-
line.
Bv stroking him with the mailed fist.
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