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recent months. II discloses no weakness
on his part that he was mistaken. His
error was common to men of many ma
tons, who have already given their own
lives as a partial atonement for their re-
sponsibility in contributing to the weak
ness of their country.
II Mr.. Wilson has learned the lesson, If
he has faced the fact, if he is prepared
now to give his great influence and his
real capacity for leadership to move
ment to protect his country against the
perils. which are no longer to be abolished
by words or destroyed by rhetoric, he will
deserve well of the nation and receive
support which will be national, not parti-
san, and patriotic rather than personal.
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Rally Around Your Colonel. "
D the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have read with keen avidity MI
Norman Talcott's "Peace on Earth, Good VIII
Toward Men" article. Probably Mr.. Tai
colts patriotism has led him to that plane
where ne can see only Utopia. But at pres
emit tie chaotic state of the world affords
definite proof that peace committees Will
never be able to settle disputes which may
arise now or in the future, between the VAIL
Gus powers. The spirit of nationalism DOM
mates every nation, excluding Austria-Hun-
gary: the spirit of true national pride
CLOVIS. and when an injustice is inflicted
upon that nation it glows to burning red
And this is why we call, we ask all true
Americans to be prepared.
The old prophets Bernhard, Treitschke'
Bismarck and even "Our Colonel have
prophesed correctly. We need to be pre-
pared otherwise we shall be like the big
overgrown boy who is not able to defend
himself when insulted; we shall be placed in
exactly the same category as Chlna anu
other non-prepared nations
Why not be prepared? Why not be pre-
pared to hold back the incoming foe in the
time of war? Was it not Charles Msrtel VINO
checked the onrush of Mahometans IN
Europe? Was it not Ohio | who checked the
aggressive and aggrandizing Magyars in 95o
Was il not Charles / who defeated the Turk
Soliman? Was it not Gustavus Adolphus
who checked the ravaging lilly and WaIlen-
stein? Was it not Wellington who climaxed
the career of Napoleon? Was it not Wash
ington who won our independence? These
men all had we'll trained and prepared
armies. otherwise success would not have
been theirs Yes, Mr.. Talcott and others
may be ready to take up their guns and rush
to the front with the Demos, but who ever
heard of great crowd defeating we'll
trained, cool headed army? The Colonels
doughty article" might be full of pet cpl
thets, but the Colonel is man who has
smelled powder and knows and realizes the
meaning and situation of great war.
Indeed. if the Colonel were President to-
dav Americans would be able to travel upon
the high seas or anywhere else without the
slightest tremble or fear; indeed, If the
Colonel were President to-day the American
flag would never have been disgraced. Rally
around your Colonel, boys, and let the worst
that is to be come.
F.. WHEELER WHlTMORE.
New York, Aug A, 1915.
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Factories, Farms and Peace.
New York, Aug. A, 1915.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | agree with Mr.. Talcott in his critI-
cism Of Mr. Roosevelt. Not because he dis
agrees with the Enchanting Colonel" (there
are many people who disagree with him IN
everything; they want to appear smart, but
because | believe the same reason that is
applicable to the restraint put on the indi-
vidual carrying dangerous weapons is equally
obvious as to a nation.
Peace is the effect of war. SO let us pre-
pare for peace.
Instead of watching that despicable war
let US pay attention to our home.
Remember the factories that started IN
the ammunition business did so because they
were minus the wherewithal of home indus
tries to keep them busy.
Now is the time for US to build up those
industries that have enabled the warning
nations to take billions of dollars yearly
from us.
Boil down to the minimum our foreign de-
pendence.
Encourage home industries with tarif and
sound trust" laws
Satisfy American needs with American
goods IT,.
Factories and farms for peace; warships
for war d. A. NEWMAN.
Waterbury, Conn, Aug. 4, 1915.
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BOAT OWNERS RESPONSIBILITY
They Should Think of Ways to Pro
tect Public Better.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

| To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Fred A. Bishop, head of the Iron
Steamboat Company, owners of the Grand
Republic, upon which the panic occurred
Sunday night, resents the linking OF the
vessels name with that of the General
Slocum," says The Tribune this morning.
"Whenever the Grand Republic gets into
trouble" complains Bishop, "the first thing
that is done is to couple her name with
that of the General Slocum."
The trouble with Mr.. Bishop, and also
with Mr.. Hodgkins, the vice-president OF
the same company (who was reported earlier
in the week as saying tina. people who had
criticized the company for the panic talk
too much"), is that they are entirely too
com placent about the past good record OF
their boats, unwilling to admit any response
bility for the present near disaster, and as
far as one can see, without intention TO
think seriously about what may be done to
safeguard the public in the future.
There is not the slightest doubt in the
minds of dozen persons who, like myself,
saw the start of the panic on the Grand Re-
public: Cd That the boat officers were care
less in failing to guard the dangerous man
whose scufiiing started the trouble and VINO
had but twenty minutes earlier been locked
in TIE crews quarters, where he should
have been kept: (2) that in many parts of
the boat there were no officers or members OF
Ike crew to help calm the excited, and l3)
that the panic failed to result disastrously
only because of the nearress OF land and
the presence of calmer heads among the
passengers, and not through any effective
action on the part of the crew (save the
commendable courage Of the captain and
officers on the upper deck, who kept people
from getting into lfeboats).
The public will be interested to hear from
Nh. Bishop and Mr.. Hodgkins when they
have something worth while to say about
revention and control of such occurrences.
It does not care to hear their complaints"
The following steps would be in the line
Of constructive action, and many more may
readily be thought of:
l Abolish the sale of liquor on excursion
boats
2 Have at least one officer definitely in
charge of each deck, armed with mega
phore, so that he can make commands and
assurances of safety heard.
3. Put directions for adjustment of life
preselvers on each preserver. few placards
on the walls do not answer the purpose.
A. Announce on each trip the number of
passengers permitted by the United States
inspectors and the number actually on board
rs shown by the official count This an
nouncement could be made by placard or by
megaphone, would be matter of general
interest and would quiet the fears of people
who always imagine overcrowding even
where none exists. ROSCOE C. EDLUND.
New York, Aug. 4, 1915.
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The Fight Against Progressives

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If person who has gained his ere
dentials to represent the people as Repub
lcan or as a Democrat suddenly says he is
a Progressive are these credentials good
There is considerable dispute over this mat
ter, and matter of credentials is one which
should not be lightly considered.
Let us allow that progressveness is more
of disrupting force that breaks away from
old things, and which prevails ia all po-
ltical parties, than it is any set measure OF
principles which have been developed by time
and through struggle. These principles are
more than a written programme, ideals or
habits of thought, which, while they may in
clude progressiveness have certain settled
and determining factors in them, such as we
find in the Democratic and Republican parties.
My impressions about this matter have
been formed from experience and from an
outlook over the world, where the right TO
do this or that thing is very closely ques-
toned, and where mans ideas about things
get at times very little attention.
political party cannot compete with the
schools in instructing people about duty in
life, but it can uphold these things by giving
credentials to men who it thinks will uphold
am believer in many progressive prnci.
pies, and these will include some taken up
by the Democratic party well as the Re-
publican party, but in other ways | am
strongly tied to the past, and my fight with
Progressives is not with their sincerity or
with many of their ideals, but it is with their
lack of color On many things they are
neither hot nor cold. They do not say: "The
party of which am a member was right, is
right and intends to be right in the future, >
but they look too much at the faults Of a
certain portion of the party, and because this
certain portion of the party is not up to the
standard they try to rob all holders of ere
dentials of these credentials.
This is, then, the fight that can be made
against Progressives; not against their pro-
gressiveness, but against their lack of sta
bility. c. NJ. ORR
Chicago, Aug. 4, 1915.
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Hay Fever.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some two weeks ago sent you letter
relative to hay fever and its relief. / did
not see it published in your valued paper,
but in the issue of July % there was an
editorial referring in facetious way to the
letter and especially to that part that refers
TO the use of carbolic acid
| did not say to pour carbolic acid on
one side of the pad and hot water on the
other" | said put few drops of carbolic
acid on a pad, turn that inside, then dilute
it by pouring hot water on it and squeezing
it enough TO cause the acid to be diffused.
You say the letter is evidently circular"
one. So far as being sent to other news
papers for publication it is. have no
nostrums to sell; therefore, nothing to
advertise. On the contrary, have something
to give away, and that something Is my ex-
perience with the relief of distressing
complaint. Not in fifty years have passed
SO pleasant a summer as the present one, and
attribute it to my simple prescription, viz:
a teaspoonfu of bicarbonate of soda in a
glass of warm water, snuffed up the head re-
peatedly, keeping the treatment up for a week
or more. | wished to give publicity to this
fact in the hope that other victims would be
equally benefited. Hence the same letter to
numerous newspapers.
This is the month of August In few days
thousands of people will be afflicted with the
distressing disease known as hay fever
WILLARD F. BINGHAM.
Oxford, Md, Aug. 3, 1915.
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More West Points.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. George n. Cole, in a recent letter
to The Tribune on the general subject OF
military education, suggests that the land
grant" colleges-state universities and
others-might we'll develop still further
their military training and equipment and
become veritable West Points.
There are several objections to this plan
In the first place, it is not what universities
are established for. State universities are
supported by the taxpayers OF the state, and
the taxpayers want, not military drill, but a
good civil education. The necessary mill
tary training should be simply an incident
in the college course. Ii is hard enough to
find time for the work laid out in the regular
curriculum without further complication
West Pointer more West Points"-is the
proper solution OF the question.
In the second place, these same universities
can serve the cause of national defence in
far better way. A university is and ought
to be training school for men of "interna-
tional mind" For learning knows no ma
tional bounds. Science and scholarship de-
pend on the cooperation of men of all
nations working together to prosecute re-
search, to enrich literature and TO develop
civilization. 1t is uniyersity's business to
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Cholera in Austria.

There have been frequent reports of
an outbreak Of cholera in Austria, end
though they have generally been denied
we now learn from a dispatch to The
Tribune that it is officially admitted in
Vienna that there are 629 cases. 1t is
naturally apprehended that the state of
affairs is really more serious than the
authorities make it appear, but, however
that may be, the existence of an epidemic
is sufficiently disquieting.
1t is naturally much more difficult to
deal with such outbreaks in war time than
under ordinary conditions. In this war
so far we have heard wonderfully little
about epidemic diseases, except, indeed. in
Serbia. But during the Balkan war there
was a very serious outbreak of cholera
among the Bulgarian troops. 1t is said
to have cost them between $4,000 and 3d.
900 men, and some have surmsed that
this circumstance caved Constantinople
from capture.
For obvious reasons it is extremely diff
fcult to check such an outbreak. No
doubt all possible efforts are made in the
field laboratories to detect carriers, but
it is, of course, extraordinarily difficult to
pick out suspects among the healthy. Dur
ing the epidemic in Russia in 1910 6
per cent of carriers were found among a
large number Of healthy persons ex-
amined, and even higher percentages have
been recorded in Austria and Rumana.
1t is generally believed that the duration
of the carrier condition seldom exceeds
three weeks, but in three weeks a great
deal of damage might be done. Then it
must be remembered that cholera may be
transmitted by flies, and to keep down
flies under current conditions is no easy
matter.
In all probability there has been more
or less cholera for some months in Aus
tria. In the last four months Of 1914
more than 1000 cases were reported in
Austria and Hungary. During the win
ter there was, as usual, period of COM
parative quiescence, but it is not at all
unlikely that of late the disease has
spread more rapidly.
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Agricultural Automobiles.

Several years ago a Kansas farrper'
making an address before an agricultural
convention, figured out, to his own salts
faction, that his state had been enormously
impoverished by the automobile. AT that
time no motor vehicles were manufactured
in Kansas, and all the money that was
paid for them, amounting to millions OF
dollars, went out of the otate-to such
foreign, and therefore hostile, domains as
Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, or even New
York or Connecticut. All that money was
taken right out of Kansas. Instead of put
ting their money into improved stock, or
buying drain tile, the farmers were vast
ing their money on foreign luxury. That
was what was the matter with Kansas!
1t is probable that by this time the very
farmer who made that complaint is riding
around in his own automobile, and finding
it very good economy. In his assault on
the motor car all those years ago the
farmer took no account of the gain in et-
ficiency due to the motor. He has found
it out now, for farms are large in Kansas,
and the numerous help requires to be car
ried from one field to another. In the old
6avs. when the men walked to and from
the fields, they wasted at least an hour a
day in this utterly unproductive labor.
Now they are loaded into the ever-present
car. and three-quarters Of that time, for
five or six men, is saved. This is only a
detail. The motor car saves at least as
many millions to the Kansas farmer as 1t
costs. besides making him feel that he is
as good as Rockefeller.
In New England, where farmers who
do not cultivate more than fifteen acres OF
field now keep their cars, a new way OF
making the machine pay for itself has
been found The farmer carries people.
In New England there is always city
man. or woman visitor or somebody, who
must get somewhere over the hills The
farmer with the automobile is summoned
by telephone to carry him or her. Hours
and hours are saved; and the farmers
charge is surprisingly low. 1t represents
the gasolene and the interest on the in
vestment. And he will take you up and
down hills which would frlghten the Ital-
ian Alpine corps out of their khaki.
All of which indicates that the agricult-
ural automobile has, unlike the city board
er, come to stay.
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MIR. Osborne Should Go. "

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t seems to me pity for you to have
written the editorial with the title given
above in your issue of August 4. What
would be far more desirable to insist upon
would be to have two good men and true,
like Judge Riley and Mr. Osborne, arrange,
if it be possible, their differences or mis-
for the common good OF
prisoners.
They arc both men of high character and
aspirations. They have both done and are
doing good work for prisoners and for So
ciety 1t would be extremely difficult to re-
place either of them. 1t is more than any
ordinary loss to have either or both of them
resign their positions because of wrong in
reference from any quarter.
All men who are interested in progress
toward better more humane treatment of
those who have done wrong would be ex-
tremely sorry to know that this most re-
grettable misfortune had occurred. | trust,
therefore, you will try to neutralize the far
reaching i'll effects of your editorial if you can
do so.
BEVERLEY ROBINSON.
Westport, ~ Y, Aug. A. 1915
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To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Is it really necessary 10 c'',.'
from their slumber dozen, more or Tess :,
cause a fellow who has a room near you -.
requested to be called in the morning "
1880 that he may catch the first boat OF w
first train?
What chance is there Tor nose Of
especially those advanced in age 10 "
asleep again? .,4
Fellows who wish 10 be awakened 81 :,
unearthly hours should be provided W
hotel management with alarm clocks -,
an old man, showing along fast iot 80
and came up here among these oeS.s a
Thousand Islands for quiet and rest - -,
far this summer my rest has been repeSn -,
and suddenly broken by the loud raps !,
doors, accompanied by the equally 'Uy.
formation that it was 1880 or D o",
soon to be followed by the slammihs .,,.,
door, as the inmate OF the room eH'
and heavily plods through the ran A
II hotelkeepers care for the intere" .,,,
their guests they would guard again"
provoking disturbances. ..r.
At times have wished had gun W ,p
AN OFFICER OF THE CIVIL va"
Alexandria Bay, ~ Y, Aug. 4, 1912
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On Stretching in Court.

Court proceedings are often productive
of the most heartrending monotony OF
which the human scene is capable. And
Icourtrooms are famous even in good
weather for their sitting atmosphere.
What, then, may not be said in extenuation
of the behavior of those six lawyers who
on Monday, the "doggondest" of summers
dog days, stretched their limbs before JUS
tice Barlow S. Weeks in Part | of the Su-
preme Court of the sovereign State of New
York?
But Justice Weeks very properly scolded
them for an infraction of court etiquette
which may not be tolerated on any occa-
sion. "If counsel are so fatigued that they
find it necessary to stretch they had better
90 outside" said he. "Undigniiied be-
havior by counsel will not be tolerated"
There was a Judge once mot Justice
Weeks, that we knew of who upon rem
dering verdict, provoked the following
remonstrance from counsel for the unsuc-
cessful litigant: "How'can you pass judg-
ment in this case, your honor, after sleep
ing through the most important part of my
argument" "That in itself was a judg-
ment," responded the court.
On the same principle and by token of
this time honored precedent justice might
yawn and stretch in his own court, no
doubt. And, having rendered such judg-
ment on the proceedings, he might even
permit counsel to echo it in like manner.
But to permit them to initiate the stretch
ings would be equivalent to permitting
them to dictate his verdict, practice sub
versive of all law and order. The entire
community should uphold Justice Weeks
in his prompt action on Monday.
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The Iron Cross.
Westport, n. Y, Aug. 4, 1915.
CFrom The Westminster Gosctte)

From The Westminster Ga-ctte)
The Iron Cross. whose fame has become
somewhat furnished in the present war, had
for long been known as one of the most
famous of European war decorations. The
proposal to bestow reward Of the kind for
distinguished service in the field. and, since
the foundation of the German navy, at sea,
originated with the War of Liberation, IN
1913. There were again many distributions
of the cross during the War of Unity"
against France in 1870. With the shape Of
the Iron Cross many pictures have made US
familiar. The material from which it is con
structed is cast iron, and it has an edging Of
silver. The lSl3-'15 crosses have the initials
f. W. Friedrich Wilhelm in the centre;
those of 1870 W. Wilhelm and presumably
no change in the initial has been found neces-
sary in the present day specimens. The be-
stowal of the decoration carries with il a
small allowance to the rank and file.
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SHORTEN ENLISTMENT PERIOD
Four Years Too Long to Attract the
Needed Soldiers.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In all this discussion of preparedness
people seem to have lost sight Of the fact
that after the army has been suitably IN
creased by act of Congress it will be neees'
sary to enlist the requisite number OF men.
This will be found exceedingly diHieult
not impossible, unless the period OF enlist
ment is materially shortened. Four years Is
a long time for q man to sign away une"
he intends to make the army his VOCATION
and we need the men.
An important theory was successfully pu'
into practice at Plattsburg Barracks las'
wear. An experimental company of loo men
war strength was recruited and reeeNe'
intensive training. They were kept cob
stantly at work from reveille until p H.
but it was done with a snap and freshhe"
impossible to those 10 whom It mas OecOH'
dreary routine. As welcome ehange Nv"
the drills of the morning came the re'''
ton from until p. m. under the eh'''
supervision of the three company om'''
All shared with delightful enthusiasm
the various races, tugs Of war, wres'unt
snow battles, etc An accurate reeora
their physical development was kept AN
the improvement was astonishing
At the end Of the year they compared "O'
favorably in all things with any Of u"
other companies, and had in addition an ''
thusiasm often sadly lacking elsewhere
do not mean to imply that these ~.
could ever replace the cold solder WV
enlists again and again. His experience "
the years he has grown gray in the 'er'l'
is indispensable to officers and men sllAe' 90
on the first sergeant's handling OF the NEE
the efficiency of the company greatly "
Ponds. But for the average soldier ''"
Of such training is adequate.
OFFlCEaS WIFE
New York, Aug. 4, 1915
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emphasize this aspect of modern progress,
to show that the greatest advancement IN
civilization has been made precisely by rea-
son Of a breaking down of national barriers
and of a freer exchange of ideas among the
nations of the world. A group of young
men imbued with military ideals may help
protect us from defeat but they cannot pro-
tect us from war. Cannot a university per-
form a more patriotic duty by strengthen
ing as far as possible the bonds among
nations?
To labor to remove the causes would
seem to be the best way to prevent war.
Leave actual military training to West Point.
HARRIET FOX WHICHER.
New York, Aug. 8, 1915.