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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-23

state Engineer Williams of New
York mas new-brOomed $40 job-hold-
ers out Of his department. Maybe he's
getting " an army of politically un-
employed. Anyhow, he's got old
Tammany shrieking with sorrow.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-23

Mining Expert Fayette Jones claims
that men Inhabited Coronado islands
near San Diego leo, OOO years ago.
Yes. and we suppose that the climate
boosters are going to claim that some
OF those islanders are walking the
streets of San Diego today
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-23

III we may believe the combat
ants in Europe the statements of
neither as to losses and gains are
To be relied upon.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-23

what would you ca. this! A citizen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
HISTORICAL INACCURACIES
Dispute as to Figures Involving
Bladensburg and Lundys Lane.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have read with interest the letters in
your columns from Annapolis, Nd, signed
american Citizen" and l agree with him in
his main contention in regard to the neces-
sity for preparedness, but he makes grave
misstatements Of well known facts. For in
stance, in to-day's letter he states that al
Bladensburg the American army of 5,401 men,
"unorganized and unframed as a whole. was
routed by less than 1900 trained British
troops"
This is entirely contrary to the facts.
The British had large fleet in the Potomac,
and from this they landed their regular army
which marched on Washington. William
James, the British historian. writing not long
after the war, puts the number Of these regu
lars at 5000. Henry Adams and other Ameri-
can historians give the number as $780, 1t
is quite true that the American militia, who
had never seen a battle before, ran after a
few volleys, but a detachment of marines
under Barney made a strong resistance and in
licted severe losses upon the British. 1t is
noteworthy that this same army, cooperating
with its feet, was shortly afterward defeated
by the militia at Fort McHenry, before Balti-
more and its general, Ross, was killed.
As for Lundy's Lane, American Citizen
makes numerous misstatements. He says
that the American army there was mostly
regulars. 1t was not. 1t was composed al
most wholly of volunteers from the New Eng-
land States, New York and Pennsylvania. He
gives the American numbers in that battle at
g, 900 and the British 5000, including 500 In
dams. There were no Indians ct all at Lundy'i
Lane, and the British army led by Drummond
and Rail, the latter of whom was captured,
is put by both British and American histori-
anc at about $500 men. Our own was 1900,
the data for these figures still being in exist
ence. C. C. CARSON.
New York, Sept. 8, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12

selves on the side Of civilization against bar
barism? | say with Henry Watterson: ITO
- with the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns,
and no peace until their thrones are deInol'
ished.
My own idea is that every crowned head in
Europe ought to go before this war finishes,
and the people rule. King Albert and the
King of Italy could be elected first Presidents
CT their republics. King George should go
into oblivion. He Is the worst kind Of dunn
N.Y. Russia staggers me, but there are wiser
heads than mine who could solve the problem.
But my one thought is tina. this war should
not end till the divine right of kings" is
abolished all over the world, and that the
United States should not shrink from taking
its part in helping to bring about that end.
The war makes one feel III all the time,
but take up my Tribune every morning
with the feeling that orce a day am going
to read words that fully reflect my feelings.
New York, Sept. 8, 1915. NJ. Il. +.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
U. s. NEUTRALITY DEFENDED
This Country's Concern in Europe
Does Not Warrant Belligerency.
n.EdJ.or ~ The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter OF your correspondent, The
Common Good" appearing in to-days IT'D
une. is revelation OF reckless thinking
This writer boldly asserts: England saw her
duty and unhesitatingly faced it; America
saw her duty and shirked It,"
Whit duty. may | ask, has America seen
and avoided? The war is unquestionably con-
fined 20 those nations engaged in it, and does
not primarily involve America England saw
her duty and faced it because her future as
great empire was In imminent danger She Is
not hghting simply for great moral Issues
Even II the neutrality OF Belgium had not
been violated by the German army, England
was bound to throw her lot in with France
and Russia the moment Germany attacked
either in a war of aggression. Her duty ana
interest lay only In that direction. she could
not stand idly by while the Teutonic hordes
were laying France and Russia PROSTATE In
the dust, as she knew full well that II she
did SO British prestige and British power and
influence would soon be no more.
Hats of to England for recognizing her
duty and starting in to do that duty!
But Americas position is different: her at
titude is therefore different--is one OF
ethics. Upon what valid grounds could Amer
lea become a participant in the war? She
has no direct concern in foreign politics-in
fact, is forbidden by the Constitution to have
any; and has no quarrel with any European
power Who, then, in his senses can expect
or want her to enter the conflict without
provocation? It may be that a casus belli
will arise from the lawless and inhuman sub
marine policy of the Germans. When it does
It will be time to act. When it does, Presi-
dent Wilson will duly inform the people Of
the fact, In the meantime this country Is
we'll within its moral and constitutional
rights in remaining neutral.
II cannot be doubted that the sympathies
and sentiments of the best people in the
United States are on the side of the Allies
ara the grand principles which they repre-
sent; but to fght-c'est une autre chose.
T. w.
New York, Sept. 6, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
Deport Dumba and His Fellows

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: am sure that there must be many Of
your readers that would like the editor OF The
Tribune to know what great comfort they get
from his messages. We find on the editorial
pages Of The Tribune our own thoughts and
feelings expressed in way and with force
that we have neither the opportunity nor the
ability to use. But then, with dull, sicken-
ing thud," we recoil from the fine, strong,
ringing utterances of The Tribune, back upon
the "wesry, stale, fiat and Improbable" at
ttude Of an administration and government
that are either more than divinely patient
and long suffering, or else abortnably weak,
outrageously supine, or pernciously neutral
or something that cannot be adequately de-
scribed though | have no doubt that the
editor Of The Tribune might find approx
mately fitting terms, il he thought it ex-
pedient to open up his verbal sluice gates!
You we'll say, speaking of Dumba, "He can
no longer be regarded as the friendly rep
resentative of friendly government Give
him his passports and let him go!" But will
our procrastinatingly circumsDect govern
mcnt let him go without any hesitation
u ulSAHloS MN nOuIu huib Nhc htubia4p Ph-
triotic feelings of some of our foreign propa-
gandists, who have clearly shown that they
will stop at nothing to aid in carrying on the
murderous work begun by Germany in July a
year ago, and who would cheerfully help
along any scheme in the interest of their pre-
cious fatherland, even though this country
were destroyed in the process.
If Mr.. Dumba's fellow-countrymen are as
ignorant. stupid and altogether so unde-
sirable as the official representative of their
government says that they are, then the best
thing for this country and the worst for Aus
tria would be to send them all back to the
conditions that were so dear to them as to
send them into voluntary exile. II Mr.. Dumba
desires to keep Austrian mechanics from
earning good American money, then let him
have them all loaded on cattle cars (the Aus
trian ambassador himself has suggested the
appropriate mode of transportation), placed
on board the numerous German vessels that
are interned in American harbors, and have
them supported by the government that
would officially summon them from honest
labor, to become strikers and rioters and a
burden and a menace to the land that has
given them the only real freedom that they
nave ever known.
A DEMOCRAT THAT WAS, BUT NEVER
AGAIN
Haledon, N. j., Sept 7, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
Example of Gettysburg.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In this mornings editorial you re-
ferred to Gettysburg. AS one of Slocum's
old 18th Corps it interested me very much.
am, in fact, as IL were, "long" on Gettys-
burg. While the great battle at that point
was not to be compared to the Marine, it
certainly took quite respectable rank with
Waterloo.
Gettysburg had four phases: First, the
cavalry fight at Hanover; second, the attack
on the 1st and 18th corps on July /; third,
the fight on Sickles by Longstreet, and the
late afternoon fight of Ewell on the 18th
Corps and Culp's HILL
The fourth phase was where l was most
particularly interested-viz., the morning of
the Sd Of July, which, with Picketts charge,
made up the closing scenes of Gettysburg.
One of the heroes was General George
Greene. | saw the old man, with his long,
dark hair, and said to myself: well, old
man, if you can fight at your age, certainly
should fight at my age" There was then
difference of forty years between US.
At the great reunion in 1918 l had the
pleasure of walking over the grounds at
Culp's Hill with one of "StonewalPs" men.
That was certainly happy ending of the
Civil War, and it is to be hoped that the day
is not far distant when German, English,
French and all the other present combatants
in Europe will follow the example as set
them by the soldiers North and South Of
the Civil War and compose their differences.
JAMES H. BAUM.
Trenton N j. Sent T. 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
In Defence of Pajamas.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial on pajamas diverted
me, as am sure it must have diverted many
other readers, most agreeaby. Your plan for
the abolition of pajamas and the renaissance
of the nghtshirt merely shows, however,
that you have felt more than you have
thought about pajamas. Pajamas are all
right The trouble comes from the makers
and the wearers.
The former do two things which bring
pajamas into dsrepute: They save material
by cutting the pajamas too tight, and they
trim them with frogs, which do, as you say.
leave dents upon the human carcass. But
you needn't buy that kind Having at first
had trouble with pajamas that were too tight
for comfort, | now buy size AZ pajamas
though they tell me that my proper size is
3S. Tho kind buy have no frogs; just but
tons. And you must concede that the old
style nightshirt has buttons on il, too.
The great trouble with the nightshirt is
that it rolls up into an uncomfortable bunch
under ones armpits and around ones chest
Those IMMERSED in the art of pajsma wearing
may claim that the pajama coat will do tho
same thing, but that merely shows that they
do not understand the wearing of pajamss.
Put the pajama trousers outside the coat
and see how much happier life becomes. And
let us have a law providing certain ample
measurements for paiamas, as the Kansas
hotel law does for sheets. ]. S.
Norfolk, Conn, Sept. 8, 1915,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12

snrino and summer, running from the
little wren UP TO the barn owl. The
ecreech owl has uttered his futtering song
in the trees of City Hall Park. Whippoor-
wills still sing in Fort Washington Park
The bells of Shandon across the Lee, or
the chimes Of Lynn from Nahant, are not
sweeter than the song Of the wood thrush
n Central Park at evening; and where II
is heard one may see the vivid flash OF
the tanager or the cardinal.
II YOU put a box Of flowers out Of your
Manhattan window, ere long the butter.
flies will come fitting in from somewhere
and settle down on the blooms. Anywhere
On the island honey bees are easily called
from their clover fields by the exposure OF
box Of sugar. 1t is as If the bees
and butterflies said, "Over in this other
field there Is food for US" In spring and
autumn the downtown workers who have
good high windows may hear the wild
geese honking over, just as they did or
the old farm, and see the great "a" wheel
ing across the heavens.
Gods country is very big, and the
greatest of cities but little spot. But
New York is nearer to the edge Of the
old pasture than any other great city in
he world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
Not Blind War Hysteria.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: An article written in Rome on June
q by Inez Milholand Boissevain has Just
reached me, being sent BY an American
friend for verifcaton.
have lived in Italy among the Italians TOT
over a year. I have come to know them as
my people, perhaps to understand iittle 'he
complex simplicity Of their natures My &C
quaintances have not been limited to pam
2ered society, but | have also known the
working classes and the peasants.
For ten months heard little but the ques-
ton Of Italy entering the fight. There we're
many opinions, some for, others against, war,
but with the exception of the Socialists, and
there are many In Italy, it would be ditfcuIt
to find an italian who does not hold in his
secret heart q grudge against Austria. 1t IS
not question of the wrong Of to-day, but in
herted hatred, a hatred that has been handed
down for many generations.
Miss Milholand speaks Of volunteer sol
diers at Modena in various stages Of intoxi-
cation. I'm sorry to dispute her statement,
but that they were intoxicated is unlikely,
as Italian soldiers are permitted no wine, and
volunteers in Italy are generally gentlemen
and Italian gentlemen are never "ubbriaco
Il does not take wine to make men enthusl-
astic for war. Could one truthfully say that
any Of the Allies were enthusiastic for war
But when honor, the welfare, the future Of
ones country, are at stake. what should one
do? Sit down and cry that war is cruel, dew
astating and because it robs us Of our men,
leaves our home empty. that It must not be
Enthusiasm for the cause we consider right
is "blind hysteria"7 All, mol The man who
says 1t is Is not worthy to be called man,
and the woman who calls FOOL" to the man
who sings as he goes, perhaps to his death,
is not worthy of the name of mother
But Italian women are not like that; they
send their husbands and sons to the front,
not rejoicing, yet with pride. 1t is "per la
Patrs," and they know no finer phrase. They
are often sad as they take up, the best they
know how, the burdens Of the men, which
are difficult for Italian women trained only
for delicate work.
/ In April was in Pisa for several weeks,
where made point of talking to the work
ing people. | found only one opinion, one
idea-Italy would have to defend her honor
and supreme desire in each man to do his
part in the war that was sure to come. Day
by day the men were arriving in large num-
bers to join their various regiments, the SOL
diers with all their worldly goods wrapped
up in bandanna handkerchief, the officers in
their sombre gray uniforms, their belongings
in the tiny military casetta, but one and all
were happy; there were few with dull, leaden
faces. Even then troops were being sent to
the frontier almost daily. | asked young
officer why there was so much rejoicing
when men were going into the wholesale
slaughter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
The Strain on Neutral Nations.

The United States is not the only neu-
trail country whose laws and sovereignty
are broken and defed and offended by the
belligerents' Vaccinations In Switzer-
land the tension between the Teutonic and
the French element has grown so acute
that riots are not beyond the range of pos
sibilities, though it is believed that civil
war will be averted. The cutters of pro-
Ally Lausanne are choked with pro-Ger-
man propaganda literature; in pro-Ger'
man Zurich pro-Ally pamphlets litter the
streets. The president Of the little repub-
lie knew whereof he spoke when he de-
clared that the neutral countries are be-
ginning to suffer proportionately more
from the war than its protagonists them
selves.
Holland swarms with German secret
agents. Arrests and Imprisonment for
smuggling, espionage and bribery are the
order of the day. Just beyond the barbed
wire on the Dutch frontier Imperial Off
Gals are openly directing those operations
Hollanders of German parentage, if they
venture upon German soil, are seized and
forced into the army; Zeppelins pass con-
stantly over Dutch territory, driven out of
their course, so the Imperial Government
invariably explains, by atmospheric condi-
tions, bewildering fogs or northwest winds.
British patrols freely interfere with Dutch
trawlers, floating mines are washed up on
the Dutch coast by the hundred, and Dutch
merchants complain of the red tape in
which the British Government strangles
the export of Dutch goods.
The Holanders, indeed, can see no COM
fort whichever way they look. The prob
lem Of the mouth of the Scheldt is looming
ever more largely in the Dutch press. In
case of a German victory, il is generally
held, it will be taken from Holland as a
matter Of course; but it is the no less gen
eral conviction that, should the Allies win,
complete control Of the river will be given
10 the restored Kingdom of Belgium
oss to the Netherlands in either case. And
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
How Greenland Heard of the War

prom The Dundee AdUertiser)
When the news of the outbreak Of the war
reached Greenland, some time last autumn,
natives in their kayak were Immediately
sent around among the various settlements
to inform them Of the startling report. A
letter in a Danish newspaper tells Of the i'm
pressions made on the minds of the Esqui-
maus At all stopping places the boatmen
shouted: Observation-Disclosures nordlitdluo
sorsserlikrant"-that is as much as to say:
war has broken out among the Europeans
and the Germans!" AS the first word may
also mean Danes" the Esquimaus were
greatly alarmed at the idea Of their mother
nation being engaged in hopeless struggle
with its mighty neghbor The fear has not
yet subsidized. and the lively imagination OF
the Eskimos seems to expect landing Of the
Germans in these remote regions. Some of
them have made preparations accordingly,
and the natives Of one settlement have stored
food In cave, which is to be used as a
fortress in case Of need.
In the local newspaper volume OF near
ly fifty pages, published once a year at
Godthaab for the purpose Of providing them
with news during the winter-the Esquimaus
got the first actual news or the war, with
pictures of airships, Zeppelns, etc. Two
natives must have had much TO tell their
friends on their return home last autumn
from Hamburg, which they were to have left
as members Of German expedition to the
South Pole. They had been mistaken by the
populace for japanese spies, and had suf-
fered some rough treatment in consequence.
Curiously enough, there traces of Ger
man influence even in Greenland, owing TO
the Moravian Brethren settling in some places
toward the end Of last century. Some of the
older Greenlanders even speak about their
great Fatherand" and, of course, about their
Kaiser"l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
To Smash the Turk?
.or of The Tribune,

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Possibly the withdrawal of the
Grand Duke Nicholas from the western bat
tic front stretches roughly below the latitude
of the Caucasian front is the greatest strate-
gical move OF the year.
From now on until next May an impene-
trable barrier of mud and swollen rivers, Of
snow and icy darkness, should strengthen the
resistance Of the Russian hosts facing the
Austro-German armies.
On the other hand, the Turko-Russian bat
tlefront stretches roughly below the latitude
of Naples and Madrid, and offers every ad-
vantage TO winter" campaign The dis
lance from the Caucasian frontier 70 Con-
stantinople is about the same as from War
saw 10 Petrogrsd or from Paris TO Vienna.
The fate of empires, the long destnies Of
races, the very outcome of the whole great
war, hang in the balance where Europe and
Asia clash at the Hellespont. The Ottoman
is both the weakest member of the new
Triple Alliance and the most vulnerable part
of their wall OF FIRE
Is il not therefore a picturesque and sug-
gestiye idea that Russia, at the close OF the
second campaign on her western front is
dispatching her greatest martial genius to aid
her allies at vital point on Turkish terri
tory, and at time of year most favorable
for sending vast hordes of Slavic warriors 10
close in upon the belesgured Dardanelles?
Sesbright. n. j., Sept, 9, 1915. FE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
THE THEATRE IN WAR TIME
Effects of the War Spirit on the
Last London Season.
rron The Manchesfer Guardian

Now that the theatrical season Is coming
to an end, brisk discussion has arisen be
tween managers and critics as TO the moral
&c be drawn from the experience of the thea
tres in war time One finds no agreement on
the starting point Of the inquiry whether
the season has been commercially successful
or not. On the one hand there are bitter
complaints about the sufferings Of the theatre
because people will not go to plays IN war
time. There are stories of theatres that have
been run entirely at loss IN order TO keep
the companies and staff employed; and those
who think that the war has ruined the thea
tres point to the large number OF failures
during the season. Others who are in good
position to know maintain that the season has
been quite up to the average in prosperity,
and from ones own experience as playgoer
one can remember hardly any first night or
any other night at which the theatre was not
crowded.
If the failures have been more numerous
than usual, it is probably not the fault OF the
war so much as the extreme badness OF most
of the new productions. Most of them have
been so worthless that even the charity OF
war time audiences, whose characteristic Is
an intense desire TO be pleased, could not
cover them. Some of the shortest runs were
these of topical war plays, which were staged
before the managers had discovered that peo-
pie 90 to the theatre for nothing less than to
hear about the war from the stage.
There is an instructive feeling that the war
is too tremendous a business for our com
mercial stage, and I think the only artistic
success Of war play during the war was
"The Dynasts," in which war is treated in
remote historical spirit. The only topical
war play which has lived is "The Man Who
Stayed at Home" which is an engaging MKT
ure of melodrama and farce. From the point
of view of theatrical art there can be no
doubt that the war has had a very bad effect
on the stage. The staple Of plays this sea-
son has been revivals of well worn farces and
musical comedies, which were at any rate
more amusing than most of the cute Ameri-
car importations which have been so popular.
Probably the soundest al-round success has
been Mr. Henry Ainley's brilliant acting in
"Quinneys." The trouble with the war thea
TIE has been that business has been too much
as usual.