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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
A WORD FOR THE BRITISH STACKER
Have the Working Classes England Any Good Reason 10 Be
Loyal and Patroic2-A Question To Be Considered
bv Critics of the Labor Unions

week. Then let him 90 among the cloth
workers OF Yorkshire, and see girls working
for twelve hours a day for as many sniI-
lings week. The cotton districts the same.
Then let him follow me to the agricultural
districts and see men working al the hours
God sends for 50 a week in the South to 81
in the North. Does he still think the work
er should be patriotic?
How many of the millionaire class are at
the front? They are too busy augmenting
their already swollen fortunes to lift fin
ger in their own defence, but are willing to
pay workingman the magnificent sum
of 80 cents day TO go and defend them. The
workingman himself has nothing to defend
but his freedom, and that will not feed and
clothe him. What of the soldier who is Grip
pied? Will Mr.. Smaleys friends support
him and his family? | have already heard
Of numerous cases where a soldier, dis
charged because of wounds or sickness, had
to beg his bread, because there had been no
provision made for such. There has been
recently, | know, but only recently.
There has been for years a growing dis
content among the workers in England, and
it is no secret that revolution was in the air
when the war broke out. Mr.. Smallcy speaks
very disparagingly Of Socialists, but 1t is he
and his friends who have made Socialism
necessary and the only relief in sight for the
worker. He talks in censorious tones Of the
Radical press. but what of the Harmsworth
press? Nobody has ever accused that of
being Radical; but no one, either, has ever
called it patriotic. It is Tory. To be Rsdi-
cal is to be democratic, and, Of course, that
is a sufficient reason for Mr. Smaley to con-
denim it.
hope sir, that have not taken up too
much of your space, but tc allow your cor
respondent to go on indefinitely unrebuked
would be treason to my class, which is in
fnite'y more serious than lack of patriotism
New York, Oct. IS. 1915. P LOGAN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
Greece and Belgium.
Floral Bluff, Fla. Oct. IS, 1915.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: While browsing over the editorial
section of the previous Sunday issue ! wa.
rather amused by the means OF the discor-
tented pro-German readers who bewailed
that "if Germany committed heinous Of
fence in attempting to traverse Belgium on
the way to France, then behold the Allies
marching through Greece" And another:
"As you are grieving so much about the vio-
lation Of Belgium's neutrality, what do you
think about the violation of Greece's neu-
trality?"
Though the landing Of the Allied army at
Salonica may be a simon-pure violation o.
Greek neutrality and contrary to one Of
The Hague convention agreements, the ex-
listing Greco-Serbian treaty technically
makes Greece an ally Of Serbia directly aud
the Entente powers indirectly; thus it modi-
fes the legitimate offence of neutrality vo-
lation, and to a large extert, if not entirely,
releases the Entente powers from account
ability.
When a General Won Limberger led his
army toward Liege he demanded passage
through Belgium to France, with threat o.
force if refused, with what result we all
know; the Entente Allies landed their troops
on Greek soil under the impression that
Greece would abide by the Serbian treaty.
that NJ Venzelos's Premiership was stable
and that the Greek population would welcome
them In other words, the Belgans received
the undesirable invaders with loaded arms,
but the Greeks defended their neutrality with
BLANK cartridges" so to speak.
Had the Serbian treaty not existed and the
violation of Greek neutrality been com
plete the Entente powers would be wecome
to take advantage of good port, for ddn'.
the Germans punish the Belgians with atroc.-
ties for refusing to obey their will, and aren't
the Germans being boomeranged now?
There is at least consolation for the pro-
German readers in the fact that King Con-
stantine is holding back the Greek bulldogs
from assisting Serbia and that he has .ap-
parently flung the Grace Serbian treaty into
the Kaiser's scrap Of paper waste basket.
To preserve or extend the Greek boundary
King Constantine must free himself from the
spell of Teuton hypnotism and consider
Demosthenes's warning, at is better for us to
fight King Philip Of Macedonia in Chalcidice
than in Attica," and the ~ostly consequence
of the Athenians' indifference. and realize
the disadvantage Of being isolated from other
Balkan states on land should Bulgaria con-
auer md annex Serbia.
NJ. Venizeos made q master stroke in his
reply to King Constantine when the latter
exhbi a telegram from the Kaiser assur-
ing him that in return for neutrality Greece
would not be molested: as the word of the
Kaiser, whose troops invaded Belgium, suf-
fcent protection for Greece"
F.E. w. M'MAHON.
Troy, N. Y, Oct. 90. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
Our Guileless State Department

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: 1t is calculated to fatigue ones in
dignaton to read in the morning papers that
to the recent statements made by the Ger
man Embassy in regard TO the Nicosian, fore
see that 'if such incidents become a general
practice, ETC." Apparently they accept the
statements as truthful but as calling for no
immediate action. One would think past ex-
perience might have enlightened them.
It is to be hoped that those Of US who are
quick forgetters, when they come to consider
What probative value there is in the afidavits
Of these New Orleans negro muleteers, will
remember these things:
First The army regulations Of the Ger
man General staff "Kriegsbrauch I'm Land
kriege" Chapter II, b., contain the follow
ing:
Bribery Of the enemy's subjects, etc, are
permissible; indeed, international law is in
no way opposed to the exploitation Of the
crimes Of third parties (assassinations, in
cendiarism. robbery and the like to the
prejudice of the enemy"
Second: few months ago the German
Embassy was vehemently asserting that the
Lusitania was an armed cruiser, and in sup
port of those assertions it delivered TO our
State Department the affidavit Of one Stahl.
Stahl was indicted. and on his trial ad-
mitted that the statements made in his affi-
davit were false and perjured To his credit
be it said that not even the hope Of n lighter
sentence than he received induced him to
give the name of his employer or to tell how
much was paid for his exploitation" L.
New York, Oct. 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
Giggling Girls.

Probably no girl ever giggles deliber-
ately. And probably every girl has gig
gled on occasion. DR.. Rachelle Yarros, of
Hull House, having warned young men to
beware of the giggling girl, should make
them this explanation, lest they take her
advice, too seriously and in the end shun
all feminine society: Giggling is simply
a nervous reaction to sensations COM
pounded of pleasure and fear. Some girls
succumb to it all the time and all girls
succumb to it some of the time. But most
fortunately, all girls do not succumb to 1t
all the time. The majority of them pos
sess too much self-control.
The girl who giggles constantly, or, in
the phrase of DR.. Yarros, the giggling
girl, doubtless lacks in most instances
proper development Of the higher centres
of gray matter. For this reason perhaps
she would in any case be incapable of in
spring the young men attracted to her
with the high ideals which the doctor
thinks may flow from contact with the
of a sincere hirt? The very essence of
Irritation is its insincerity, however legiti-
mate method of feminine strategy. Gig
Cling, on the other hand, is as sincere
tribute 20 masculine impressiveness as 1t
is involuntary.
Which brings US to the point which DR..
Yarros may have had in mind, but thought
better not to express, and that is that sin
certify is a poor bait for the gullible sex in
the early stages of courtship. Keep the
young man guessing until he has swal-
lowed the hook, and then you may do with
him what you will-make him stand on
his head, turn handsprings, hitch his
wagon to a star. Too many giggles, on
the other hand, and the lazy thing will
content himself with nibbles which leave
him as unregenerate as ever.
But when all is said and done the gig
Cling girl is more to be pitied than CEN
sured, is she not?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
Eugenic Foolery.

Francis Cation was not deceived In ap-
pretending that the science Of eugenics
would prove dangerously attractive to the
cranks and the half educated. A group Of
ridiculous reformers who seem to be con-
cerned in the publication of an unimpor-
tant and unnecessary medical journal in
this town have lately been threatening to i'm
prove the racial qualities of future genera
tons, and this week, by way of begin
ming, they sent out small squad Of sand
witch men to advertise their teachings.
These poor ragamufiins seem to have
been chosen with an eye to their capacity
Of shocking the public conscience. They
are ostensibly egregious specimens Of the
unfit: each in his kind plays the part of
horrible example.
One bears this sign:
II must drink alcohol TO sustain life:
Shall ! transfer the craving to others?"
Another, this:
81 cannot read this sign: BY what
right have children?"
A third:
Would the prisons and asylums be
filled II my kind had no children?"
One Of the projectors Of this interest
ing enterprise explains that it is part Of
"a nationwide campaign" the purpose
being, no doubt, to popularize the plan for
sterilizing the supposedly undesirable
whose faults might be transmitted to their
children.
The educational effect, if any can be
foreseen, will probably be to lead simple
people to believe that alcoholic craving is
invariably handed down from generation
10 generation, that blindness or inability
70 read Is heritablc condition, and that
on the strength of mans looks the peo-
pie should be allowed TO decide whether
his children are likely TO be burden on
IA state.
urhe questions put to the populace are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
"Indefensible Tolerance"

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In the makeup of the government OF
this land is there no provision for the pub
lie censure Of those in authority, and there
fore responsible, who by policy Of indie
feasible tolerance and neglect. Of due sever
fly In regard TO repeated crimes apparently
easily traceable TO common source) make
the repetition, elaboration and extension OF
such crimes n thing to be expected?
will some one kindly answer fully and
frankly? AN OUTRAGED SPECTATOR. =
New York, Oct. 20, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
CHOOSE YE NOWl"

What is the great thing? Belief.
Scorn trouble, suffering, grief;
Dare to endure the pain
Life brings, with fine disdain
Remember the word of the Lord:
al bring not peace but sword
Peace.-what is peace? Merely rest;
Ease from our toll at best;
Goal Of a weared life;
End of creative strife!
Remember the word Of the Lord:
81 bring not peace but sword
Quiet and placid paths,
Meadows and sunlight baths,
Leisure by purling streams
To dream untroubled dreams?
Remember the word of the Lord:
al bring not peace but a sword"
Comfort the highest of goals?
Not for eternal souls,
Pay then the price that's to pay!
This but the dawn of the day.
Remember the word Of the Lord:
~ bring not peace but sword"
On through eternity life
Surges, in struggle and strife
Gaining new heights, ever worth
All the dire suffering of earth.
Remember the word of the Lord:
al bring not peace but sword"
All that we need is belief
To make all the suffering. the grief,
Death and defeat speed the hour
Eternal Of triumph and power!
Remember the word Of the Lord:
81 bring not peace but sword
Then silence all faint-heartcd cries
For peacel Let the gaze Of brave eye
Heed only-the right and the wrong,
And choosing,--oh, let us be strong!
Remember the word of the Lords
81 bring not peace but sword"
WILLIAM CHAUNCY LANGDON
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28

sive. Yet Germany has hardly sent more
than 100000 troops to the Balkans.
Viewing the war from this angle, then,
it is clear why German statesmen talk and
think of peace There is no correspond
ing talk in London, Paris or Petrograd.
The apparent losers, the nations which
have so far lost, are not discussing peace
on any terms, but out Of Germany, despite
censor, official warning, patent effort, there
energies only an ever growing talk of
peace.
When the Germans have opened the
road to Constantinoplc, destroyed Serbian
resistance, temporarily asserted their su-
premacy in the Balkans, nothing is more
certain than that from one end Of this
earth to the other every German, every
German sympathizer, will talk peace.
Every influence that can possibly be ex-
erted will be called into play to procure
a settlement.
But no American should mistake this.
It compares admirably with those frantic
but abortive peace conferences Of 1864,
when the South was already beaten, but
Southern influences in the North COM
bined with the pacifist and the war weary
in the attempt TO prevent the inevitable
and avert the final scene at Appomattox,
which every soldier now knew was but
question of time.
And if Germany fails in her peace ef-
forts, then the end is assured. 1t may
be in a few months or it may take many.
But the last chance of victory will have
gone. Germany has failed at the Marine
and the Niemen. She has failed to get
q decision in the field, as the Confederacy
failed. Her defeat in the war is as GER
tain as was that of the Confederacy after
Gettysburg-unless she can tire out her
opponents, persuade them to forego vic
tory. because victory will be costly and
delayed.
The decisive part Of the war, so far as
the battlefield is concerned, is now over
for Germany. She has won much, but
missed the decision. Bernhard, writing
long before the war; foretold with inexora-
BILE logic that if Germany failed to get the
decision against one of several foes before
all were ready she would lose, and she
has failed, she has failed utterly, despite
magnificent local successes. Her generals
have failed as Napoleon failed from Leip-
zig to Fontainebeau. His problem was
to dispose of separate armies before their
collective strength doomed him. In the
end he lost. But he lost primarily be-
cause his opponents agreed to make no
separate peace and chung to the agree
ment despite temporary reverses.
Germany is now approaching what will
be her last great bid for victory, but it |
will not be made on the battlefield-thatI
is over 1t will be made in conference, in
peace negotiations, in operations through
neutral nations. If these fail, we shall
presently see the whole character of the
conflict change and an utterly new spirit
flow from the Rhine to the Vistula.
What Americans cannot now know. Is !
whether the spirit that ruled in Wash
ington in 1864 dominates in London, Paris
and Petrograd in 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28

questions the populace is not competent to
answer That they involve the considera-
ton of difficult problems concerning which
the promoters themselves do not under
stand the very rudiments Is obvious. I'M
pudent presumption alone could have die
tated so ill-considered and so stupid an APP
peal to ignorance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
Matchless.
Troy, N. Y, Oct. %. 1915.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Kuno Francke's article on "The True
Germany" in the October Atlantic" Is char
acteristic of German psychology in his faii'
ure to see where Germany should defend he'
Frontier" He says: Germany gives q
matchless example in that living wall Of mill
ions of men that are steadily and relentless
ly Hinging back the assault upon her own
frontiers OF all the great powers Of Er
rope"
But why is this matchless example given
upon the soil Of invaded nations beyond Gel
many's frontier?
Truly, II is "mstchless.'
AMERICAN WOMAN.
New York, Oct. rs, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
"Gott Nit TINS"

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your cartoon Of Saturday "Gott nit
Uns" is great 1t is beyond any doubt a
lifelike portrait.
As for your recent article. "The SHAM" II
is deserved to some extent. perhaps, but why
not turn your guns nesrer home! What has
the United States government done to defend
itx citizens livesf What has become OF
I"strict accountability! Z. W.
Providence, r. l.. Oct 20, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28

Carranza to Bench the Bull-iieadline.
Does he purpose appointing policeman
% the Supreme Court or simply restraining
cose speech?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28

You can purchase merchandise advertised
in THE TRIBUNE with absolute saietywior
IL dissatisfaction results in any case me
TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your money
back upon request. No red tape, no qu'1-
Hing We make good promptly if the ad-
vertiser does not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28

Gerard's Tai, with the Kaiser.-Headline
Was il like Beveridge's?
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r,s-.a q, the Pos,or,s at York as Second Class
Mall Matter.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-26
COUNTY COURTS ID RECONVENE TODAY Heavy Docket of Capital Cases Set In Criminal
 Court

The several courts of the county will reconvene this morning after the re- cess for Jefferson countys call in the supreme court with a heavy docket set ir each court Juries for the week will be organized this morning by Judge H. P. Heflin in the first division Of the criminal court and the capital docket sounded. There are about q dozen capital cases on the docket aud Judge Heflin will set the order of trial. Judge w E. Fort and Judge Heflin will try the capital cases and Judge John H. Miller the nonjury cases set in the second division.
 The following capital cases are set for this week:
 Andy Moss, murder
 William Hall. murder.
 Jean Hanks and Nathaniel Eaun. robbery. three cases.
 Harry Spencer. murder.
 Jim Colias. murder.
 Walter Patterson. murder.
 Adonia Crusean, robbery.
 Clyde Allen, murder.
 Lethra Davis, murder
 Pope Hodges. murder.
 Waltor Togg. robbery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-26
HSHOT TO DEATH WHILE PLEADING FOR | FOOD IS THE FATE OF AUGUST BRUSS

except two small boards which he -oIld not have used for kindling. l think that the man went to the house and asked for something to eat and WAS shot"
 It was difficult at first to establish the identity of the dead man. Very few effects wore found in his pockets aud nothing to identify him except a worn and faded letter addressed to Mrs. Au gust Bruss. s14 Maple avenue. Antigo Viz It was written in English and was dated Selma. but was almost illeg- ible on account of having been carried in his pocket so long.
 The letter was signed August and was evidently to the mans wife. The portions of the letter which were lceible said that he had been for sorue time in the Mobile county jail. It K believed by the authorities that the man wrote the letter but had no money to post n so continued to carry it Il, his pocket. A newspaper in foreign language was also found In his pocket, but these were the only effects.
 Coroner Spain was notified of the killing and at once left to investigate it. The body Is being held at a local undertaking establishment pending the location, If possible, of relatives of the dead man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-26
FIRE IN STOREROOM
 OF COLONIAL BAR
Damage Is Estimated At $35OO-Caused COnsid-
 erable Excitement

Fire which broke out in the store room of the Colonial hotel bar yes terday at noon caused considerable ex- citement and damage estimated at S350O.
 Efforts to ascertain what caused the blaze were futile and it is the accep.- ed theory that it was case of spon. taneous combustion The hazard was covered by insurance amounting to S2500.
 The principal damage was to the stock of liquors which the warerooln contained. It is said that a new stock had only recently been ordered An other odd feature of the fire was that l.. D. Whitson. proprietor of the hotel. had cancelled an insurance policy fer 5000 only few days ago.
 After the fire was extinguished it was found that the heat from the flames had caused the liquor in .he barrels to expand and blow the bungs out. A number of barrels were emptied in this way.
 The hotel proper was not damaged. The carpenter shop of A. F. Culvert in the rear of the hotel was damaged about $100 and the damage to the hotel building Is estimated at $250.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-26

On Thursday night. April 70. the general visiting committee of the Odd Fellows lodges of the Birmingham district will meet with Jefferson Valley lodge, No. 50, Pratt City, and take part in the cele- bration Of the ninety y-slxth anniyersaf< of the order under the auspices of that lodge. The meeting will be public and held in the city hall. where programme appropriate to the occasion will be pre- serted.
 A feature will be the visit of Mrs. Miller matron of the Alabama Odd Fellows or phans home at Cullman and a number of children from the home. Mrs. Miller will make short address about the home and the children will render musical and other selections.
 Deputy Grand Master George Huddles- ton will make the principal address, There will be other speakers and vocal and instrumental selections. It is expected that the attendance at this meeting VIII be large as all Odd Fellows, their families and friends are invited to be present, and an enjoyable evening is assured. The exercises will commence at o'clock.
 On Wednesday. April 2S Fidela lodge Woodawn, will hold anniversary exercises at Beggs hall. Mrs. Miller and the home children will be present and take part in the programme. Deputy Grand Master George Huddleston will be among the speakers.