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Herrings, Red and Otherwise.

From one OF the most vociferous
critics of the city admins tration
comes this charge against the munic-
ipal authorities:
Tn present Administration seenns to
have several ways OF drawing a red her
ring across the trail Of their W ex-
t~ravagances.'
In the same outgiving that embalms
this %aspcrsivn on the good faith OF
Mayor mitchell and his associates we
find these sentences:
The Engineers of the City.-New
York city is being bankrupted by its
engineers. 1t has just been brought out
that the salaries of the engineers OF
the Public Service Commission amount
to $1,000. 900 annually"
In view OF the facts that the Pub.
lie Service Commission IS a State
institution, independent Of the city,
AMI that the Board Of Estimate has
nothing to do with 1t except to honor
Its drafts, the author Of these re-
marks must be accepted as a high
authority on the subject of behring's.
red and otherwise.
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A HYMN OF PEACE.
by the Head Of the Cleveland School
Of the University of the World.

To II k.pIToR OF THE SuN-Sir: War
requires hate and madness. Business
requires sanity and good will.
War requires feeling and sentiments.
Business requires thinking and princi-
pies.
War requires greed and altruism.
Business requires s~cltlshuess.
Wal requires the operations of evll.
Business requires operations Of the
good.
War requires lying, deceit and esplo-
mage. Business requires truth, candor
and confidence.
Wal requires the misuse Of science
and philosophy, business requires the
use OF science and philosophy.
Wal requires poverty, misery and
woe. Business requires wealth, liberty
and happiness,
Wal requires death, destruction and
distress. Business requires life. prog
ress and prosperity.
War requires the glory Of another
world. Business requires the glory of
this world.
War requires the aid of God. Bust
ness requires the aid 81 all mankind.
Wal requires hell. Business requires
peace, &. 4. BOwuHER.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, September II.
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SOCIETY TO UNITE
AMERICANS URGED
John A. Stewart Sends Out
Call Suggesting a National
Organization.
AGAINST USE OF HYPHEN

Plans are afoot for a society Of
Americans, and John A.. Stewart. 233
Broadway, who sends out the announce
ment suggesting such an organization,
says there is nc society nor the TO-
100000 native Americans In this coun-
try-outslde OF one or two o%rganiza-
tions-whose purpose II Is TO uphold
America and to maintain American In
stitutions.
Accordingly. Mr.. Stewart makes his
proposal to form n society of that
nature on a letter head bearing these
words Neither h%yphenism nor know
n~othingism just Americanism." The
American does not use the hyphen as
the symbol OF his citizenship "Amerl-
cans for America and America for
Americans"
1t is suggested that a conference be
held in New York or Washington to
discuss the d%esirablllty and feasibility
OF organizing an association for tho
following purposes:
ITO bring into association all organi-
cations and citizens, na~turalized and
native, who are Of undivided allegiance
to the United states. that all may act
concertedly in asserting and defending
ne lIll'EIlAN VI Nlllt " Jaw w
and institutions to bring the Immigrant
Of good will, m desires to American
ize himself and bring up his children
solely as good Americans. into closer
and more intimate association with
America and Americans. to discuss
ways and mean of facilitating the
AmcriCanizing y 'ocess among would-bs
and Dewly made citizens.
TO discuss ways and means OF COM
batting professional alienism. and to
take action In regard to such other mat
tcrs as may come before such a con-
ference for consideration"
The notice contains the preamble that
recent events have disclosed a lack OF
social aud political unity among Ameri-
cans. and adds
tradiction to say that we have permitted
to grow up in the midst of a friendly
and an all too crcdulous people racial
groups which have been exploited for
purposes Interior to those of this re-
public. Hundreds ~ thousands of these
misguided folk have come T. regard
America a. something 20 mould, exploit
and manipulate to suit ends that they
ought to see arc inimlcal 10 them and
their children as t. the United states.
II We longer tolerate their plottings and
scheri~gs Wa shall contribute TO our
own uudoiug"
II Is then pointed out that there are
more than $4,000 societies In this coun-
try composed entirely OF aliens or OF
persons OF foreign birth, almost all OF
Them making sharp distinctions. for
Islit!cll, social or other reasons. be-
tween those whom We know as Ameri-
cans and persons OF their ~ blood and
"A SgnFi4 tipus'
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Reserve Naval Omcers.

Perhaps nothing could show more
impressively our failure to systema-
tie the resources OF national defence
than the announcement from Wash.
ington that the Navy Department be-
gan recently an inquiry to learn how
many retired officers would be avail
able II their services should be need
ed. The list is to include officers who
have asked for retirement, those who
ha We been ''plucked" and such as have
been retired for a physical disability
that would not i~ncapacitate them for
special duty.
Officers, as Is well known. have left
the navy after a few years of SER
vice to accept profitable business po-
sitions. Many of them are still in the
prime Of life. Others have fallen vic
tins to the plucking board, and this
class includes some fine fighting ma
terial.
So far the Bureau Of Navigation,
which Is preparing the list Of avail
able officers, has discovered that the
country Is rich In competent officers
engaged in civil pursuits or on the
shelf through no fault of their own.
But how astounding 1t is that the
Navy Department has not kept track
Of them. Even the colleges know
where their alumni are and what
they are doing; in short, always keep
in touch with graduates. The thought
that the navy has not been able to
put It's hand upon the men educated
at Annapolis out of the public funds
Is positively fiabbergasting.
We observe that ''the classification
does not apply to officers who have
retired for age" OF course the De
pertinent has their names, as they are
in receipt Of retired pay. But It
should not be assumed that all of
them are physically unfit for service.
Army officers retire Mt the age of
sixtyfour, navy officers two years
earlier. Surely there are navy vet
Grams eel sixty-two who could re
spond to their country's call. Some
of them are five and even ten years
younger than their age, for sea SER
vice makes sound men.
We undertake to say that Rear Adj
miral HUGo OsTERHAus, who com
manded the Atlantic fleet just before
he retired recently, could still do his
turn OF duty, and there are many
officers on the retired list like him.
There were on November I, 1914, no
less than 147 retired Rear Admirals
and forty-hve retired COmmodores.
What a wealth Of good material there
still Is among them!
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in silk and . culture, two impor-

in silk and rose culture, two impor.
tant Bulgarian industries.
What FERDINAND received in ex-
change for this concession has not
been announced. So shrewd a ruler
Is not likely to consider 1t sufficient
reward for Bulgarian assistance 10
Turkey, neither does there seem any
reason to believe that Turkey would
part with such valuable territory
without an equivalent
Dedeagatch since the beginning Of
war has been an important port of
supply for southeastern Europe, and
in ease Bulgaria espouses the cause
Of the Teutonlc allies the port and
the railway leading to 1t will he OF
inestimable value TO them. That the
Allies foresaw this may in a measure
account for the occupation OF the isl
ands in the north Fgean Sea. Tene.
dos, Lemnos and Rabbit islands all
are dangerously near the Bulgarian
coast, while Imbrose, which may he
made a British naval base, Is only
forty-fve miles from Dedeagatch.
There Is thus good reason for the
Bulgarians viewing this occupation
with considerable anxiety and resent.
ment"; for It seems to have neutral
lied the value Of the Turkish grant,
amounting, in fact, virtually to a
blockade Of their long coveted port.
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BOARDS OF WEALTH.
What Is the Limit Of the Great Au-
thority They Assume?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Is
Il not time that some action were taken
to determine the legal limits of the au-
thority of the Health Commissioner and
the Health Board?
While 1t is perfectly true hat the
Legislature has a constitutional right to
delegate a certain amount OF law maxi
ing power to such bodies, 1t is equally
true that there is a limit to such power
OF delegation. Were II otherwise, as
there is scarcely an act OF one life's that
might not be said to affect ones health,
and indirectly the health of the com-
munity, a Board OF Health would have
the right to regulate the most intimate
conduct of our lives.
l have no doubt that some Of the plans
OF the present board transgress the
limits of its authority. because. conced-
ing their advisability, not to say neces-
sity, they are of such a character
that only the community itself. through
Its representatives, the Aldermen or the
Legislature, ought to have the right to
say whether we should be subjected to
their operation. They certainly appear
to trespass on the domain of legislative
authority, unless we admit that in es-
tablishing Boards OF Health the Legis-
lature, that Is, the people, abrogates all
control In such matters.
II Is at least debatable whether the
Legislature could be induced to pass a
eugenic marriage act, but there can be
little doubt hat the board would have
the right to issue a eugenic edict un-
less we deny to the Legislature the right
to delegate the law making power ex-
ccpt where II Is necessary to convey
general authority to exercise discretion
in special emergencies which II is impos-
sible to provide against by general enact
ments.
To clothe the Board OF Health with
arbitrary authority to decree virtually
what IL pleases under the guise OF pro-
noting the public health is to create a
legislature superior to the elected repre-
sentatlves OF the people and to confde
In II an authority that should always he
reserved, for the direct expression OF the
community's wishes. to its legislators.
After all, the Board of Health is in
principle II not In fact the servant. not
the master. OF the people md however
laudable many OF It's projects, the com
munity as a whole has the right In prin-
Ciple. n ought TO exercise IL in fact. to
determine In many cases whether II Il
willing to submit TO the restrictions pro-
posed by that body for its welfare, par
tlcularly when they are general In their
operation and the consequences are more
or less indirect or problematical other
wise II bids fair to he at the mercy of
every set OF faddists that may compose
the board, and become a sort OF corpus
vile for experimentation by every medi-
cal Jack In office who has a hobby TO
xplolt +. J. DuNpoS,
NEW YORK, September II.
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A Lesson From Experience.

To II EDITOR OF THE SUS-Str: A.
T.. Bachman asks whether the unin-
telligent vote will exceed the Intelligent
II women vote.
Believing reports from New Zealand
and our own voting states, ! find that
after years the far sighted vote exceeds
the vote made by uneducated women.
Women are by nature more keen
about their children than men, so to
improve their chIldren's opportunities, II
for no other reason, they will vote.
Even what is called an uuintclligont
woman will find time to help the low
rest assured there are a great many
and street conditions.
Mr.. Bachman undertakes women when
he as much as says that women haven't
the stick TO it quality and that afte'
the novelty wears off they Will dlscon.
tinue voting.
Where is the novelty in h~ousework
and baby tending from one year 20 an.
other? DO real women ever shirk that?
Then why should they avoid voting
when Il means So much to them?
DO all men vote at all elections i
not do we call them "shirkers" or say
they are ~"iucapablc'? 1t would pay
Mr.. Bachman and loads OF other gem
tlemen TO visit n suffrage meeting and
ask those people questions, and ] am
certain he and they will come away
convinced that women are the pals"
OF men INC want really and truly TO
help them make the best government
and country on earth.
KArRtNE Y. WALTER.
BROOK HAVEN, L. l., september IA.
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The Bibles Definition Of n Gentleman.

To THE EDITOR OF TIM SUN-Sir: Lab
by's' definition OF the term may have
been epigramlnatic. II was certainly by
no means novel. remember the compe
titlon In question, and tho famous editor
Of Truh did me the honor 10 commend
my definition.
II Is simply a transcription of part o.
Psalm XIV:
"lIo that walketh uprisht9y and work.
eth righteousness, ana speaketh the truth
in his heart, lie that backbite;h not with
MS tongue nor doeth evil unto his neigh,
hour, nor takrth up a r.proach agains,
his neighbour. lie that putteth not on
his money TO usury nor taketh rewart
against the innocent "
can YOU beat that for succinctnsss Of
statement or corrections OF definition
from any standpoint? EMANUEL ELIAS.
NEW YORK, September IA.
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DEFENCE SOCIETY TO MEET.
Local Committee VIII Conduct
Campaign In This City.

\ meeting # tie American Defence
Society vii. he held 1t the Hotel Aston
Tonight TO perfect the organization or
the committee Il 100. which has for It's
object an aggressive campaign In this city
for better national defence. Magistrate
Joseph l.. Corrigan will preside.
Among the members e the committee
are Charles Scribner. j. Sergeant cram,
Austin Il. Fletcher, c. Grant La Fargo.
c.. r. Dyer, w. 7. Hornaday, Robert
Appleton. Sidney w. Fish, Charles E.
L. Mccain. Frederick r. F~elinghuysen.
DAME. Frohmau, Allen W. Evarts, Dom
Barber. BRADLEY Martin. l.. T.. Mahan.
Howard Van S.udeycu, stuart u. Preston.
George Floyd Ningut. Henry Rotterdam,
Edwin Arden, Russell Doubleday. James
II. Hys,op, DR.. L, NJ. Butterield, Law
renee G.. White. Claiming Pollock. G..
Ward Champion, Lawrence :. Butler.
Henry c. Quinby, Lee de Forest, Richard
Henry Calling, Saul T.. Rogers, Beverley
r. Robinson. Dudley Davis, Edison Brad
ley, II. Casimir de Rham.
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the disorders. II the army officers
have a free hand, there will be less
danger of a race war in which Con.
s~titutlonalist soldiers might become
involved.
There is another consideration of
equal IL not greater Importance, and
that Is the stoppaee of trade in weap-
n and ammunition with the Next
cans. Not another rife, not another
case Of cartridges should be carried
across the Rio Grande at any point.
But this trade cannot be stopped
without Executive order. Has not
the time come for President WILSON
to put an end to the arming Of Next
car soldiers and bandits with weapons
shipped across the border2
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URGING THE GARY PLAN.
Under Its Provisions Could Every
Child Have Full Tuition?

To THE EDrToR OF THE SuN-Sir: II
Is important that the Board Of Educa-
tion should consider a change in policy
looking toward the solution OF the in
tolerable part time situation now facing
the city.
The city IS facing an extreme nnan-
cial crisis and unless some more eco-
nOmlcal basis is soon decided upon the
part time situation in the schools will
grow increasingly acute.
There Is no doubt that the Board of
Estimate would welcome an effort on
the part OF the school authorities to in
troduce more widely than II has the
Gary plan OF organization. The school
authorities have before them carefully
worked out plans for all the conEestel
areas Of the city in which IL would he
possible to carry out the programme al
ready approved for The Bronx. There
seems 10 be a disposition. however, for
delay. and what is needed is a definite
spur to action.
Many persons are mlsled by the state
ment OF the school authorities that there
are only 10000 children on part time.
As "A matter of fact there are in the
n~eighborhood OF 10000 to 10000 chill
dren receiving less than five hours in
struction a day. Two years ago., at the
suggestion of President Churchill. the
Board Of Education called a part time
day in the first grade Full time" and
in this way has been able to minimize
In It's statement the actual condition Of
affairs.
Under tho plans already available for
introducing the Gary plan at an early
date, Il would be possible to give every
child in the school system at least Ave
hours instruction and most OF the chill
dren tWe six and seven hours.
HOWARD w. NUDD,
Director. the Public Education Assoc!a-
ton.
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imperative I'VE demand" These de
mands call for recognition of the or
g%anization as agent for the workmen;
for an eight hour day for all colliery
workers; for certain regulations Of
pay rates, overtime. Of Measure of
the workmen's product, of number
and distribution of employees and Of
methods of mine chamber construc.
tion; for permanently fixed prices Of
coal TO employees, for abolition of
the contract system. for security
against suspension or discharge 'for
any reason until the case has been
taken up "as other grievances are
disposed Of" and for a general gricv-
ance committee" to take the place Of
the present Cancellation board.
Some Of the planks in this platform
will look to the owners and employers
like clubs. Some of the demands
are reasonable, some are not. En-.
ployees have an unluestionable right
to protection of life and limb. for ex-
ample; though sympathy goes to the
employers when the men attempt to
dictate rules of discipline and the
price at which they themselves shall
buy coal from the companies.
But the problem is t%rilateral. Both
the companies and the miners had
better leave one ear open to the voice
of the public. The new arrangement
will affect the poor family buying
fuel by the bucket; the householder,
large or small the landlord and the
tenant, and every competitor, indi.
vidual or corporate. in manufacture
and industry. Kettles must bubble
after next winter, boilers keep the
pressure up: the stove in the country
grocery must glow. and the factory
furnaces must roar.
The battle of April I, 1915, will not
he n duel.
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THAD STEVENS'S GRAVE.
His Epltaph Tells Why He Chose His
Long Home.

To II EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Per-
NIT me TO call the attention OF Thomas
Dixon to the epitaph which Thaddeus
Stevens wrote for himself. as follows:
repose In this quiet and secluded spot.
not for any preference for solitude, but,
finding other cemeteries limited by char
ter rules as 20 race. l have chosen It that
! might be enabled to Illustrate In my
death the principles which I have advo-
Gated through a long life. the equality OF
man before his Creator,
On learning that the cemetery in
Lancaster, Pa, In which he hoped to be
buried would not admit bodies of ne
groes to burial, Mr., Stevens Indignantly
sold his lot, and purchased one In an
other ground where, In the common dust
Of Gods acre, all men might be equal
and so, even in his grave, we may still
salute him as THE Great Commoner."
Brave soul Champion of liberty,
equality and fraternity Hail and fare
well! ii. y, BARTON.
TRENTON. n. j., September IA.
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The l.uIf Wind.

From The southern Womdn's Magazine.
I think I'm some kin to the lilies.
For | toll not, nor DO ! spin,
But sit In my cabin doorway
TIL the wind from the Gulf blows In.
II carries a song through the pine trees
A soft llttle hush-i bye strain,
That cllngs to the human heartstrings
Then echoes II back again,
II bushes the cries IN the marshes
And r!pples a smile on the bay,
Its kiss Is "A benediCtlou
Brings peace at the close Of the day.
II heralds tho footsteps Of twilight
sun grooming. now softer and sweet,
TIL It's lost In tue shadow distance
After singing the southland to sleep.
SO ! reckon I'm kin to The lilies;
! toll not, nor do | spin,
But sit In my cabin doorway
II. the win from the our blows In
CLARE BEACH RoTH.
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Stop the Border Troubles.

When Mexicans surprise a patrol
camp on the Rio Grande at dawn and
kill two American regulars, 1t may
be assumed that the rifles the Mexi-
cans use and the cartridges they
hre are OF American manufacture.
Nexicans are constantly crossing the
river to raid ranches in Texas, but
the stealthy attack upon sleeping
American soldiers neal Santa Maria
RAJ a demonstration OF race hatred.
Therefore 1t Is not to be regarded
lightly. Brownsville, which, although
on American soil, is 20 Mexican
than American, In the proportion Of
two to one, was only twenty-five miles
away; and on the other side OF the
yellow flood of the Rio Grande and
facing Brownsville was Matamoras,
which is practically all Mexican, with
q garrison Of $500 Carranza soldiers.
Doubtless the news Of the surprise
Of the American camp was welcome
news to the Mexican population of
Matamoras and was celebrated in the
Mexican quarter Of Brownsville. 1t
would be foolish to minimize the sig
nifcance Of the ugly incident to Mex
The situation is d%isquieting, If not
alarming.
Major EDWARD ANDERSON OF the
Third Cavalry in his report of the
fight at Santa Maria calls the Next
cans who were engaged in 1t bandits;
and the Carranza Government, which
II 800 miles away at Vera Cruz, pro-
tests that none Of its soldiers has
crossed the border. Bandits or Car
ranzistas, or both, the aggressors
were Mexicans, and there was no
p~rovocatlon for the attack. Unless all
that country Of desolate distances
between Brownsville and Laredo Is
cleared OF invaders and local bad
men, whatever they are called, the
whole border may o be afiame,
with the dire consequence Of unavoid-
able armed Intervention.
1t Is therefore the imperative duty
Of the authorities to police the terri
tory vigorously. The troops at the
disposal OF General FUNSTON can do
the work, nnd we are glad to see
that Governor FERGUSON has directed
peace officers and citizens, as well as
state Rangers, to keep away from the
border. and let the regulars deal with
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A Warning.

II is reported on excellent authority
chat certain hyphenated citizens OF
the United States, in addition to ex.
crcising their absolute and undenled
right Of refusing to lend their money
to foreign nations with whose con.
duct and purposes they are not in
sympathy, seriously contemplate a
campaign Of boycott and terrorism
against all Americans and American
banking institutions that take part in
such transactions.
We counsel these Ill advised and
Incorporate adherents of the warning
nations to give sober consideration tc
the inevitable results Of the course
they advocate, and to reckon care
fully It's effect upon themselves
II they have failed to recognize the
reaction among Americans against
their propaganda of domestic violence,
Industrial upheaval and social disturb
ance, they should seek enlightenment.
Particularly they should examine the
recent case Of DIR. DUMBA and his
associates. They should pay heed to
the popular approval Of the uncom.
promising course adopted by the au-
thorities. In the unqualified appro.
bation called forth by the abandon.
ment Of a weak and temporizlng policy
In favor Of rigid enforcement of in.
te%rnational and municipal law will
be found an unerring index Of the
state Of public sentiment.
The personalities OF retaliation are
not the exclusive possession Of any
body or organization in the United
States. This fact is not without a
definite present significance. The
weapons that h~yphenated Americans
are now urged TO raise against their
neighbors are not the subject OF
monopoly, and it would be lamentable
in the last degree If patience and
~forbearance should take the form of
reprisal.