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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20

treme pacifsts, and, secondly, the people who
think that no such council or league is pos
sble, and that no such international force
would, as a matter of fact, be maintained
The most serious difficulty in regard to
the creation of such an international agree
ment is the conspicuous fact that no reH-
ance whatever could be placed on Germany as
faithful member of such q league. As yet
nobody sees the way out OF this supreme
difficulty. A few publcsts and authors in
England are attempting to formulate a
scheme for the establishment of an interna-
tional body with power to prevent interna-
tional war in Europe; but this group is
wrestling in vain with the problem of Ger
man fathlessness.
1t is very true, as you say, that no neutral
nation has protested against the outrage on
Belgium; but the reason for the failure to
protest is, | think, not a discreditable one.
II has been evident, from last August till
now. that the American people have not made
up their minds that the United States must
enter this war No protest from the gov
eminent of the United States would have had
the least effect on Germany unless it was
couched in such terms that Germany could
see that her refusal to regard the protest
meant war with the United States.
| am not a peace at any price" man, and
printed last October the statement that we
ought to go into the war if England or
France showed signs of exhaustion. They
show no such signs as yet. Moreover, it
would be much more wholesome for Europe
all alone to prove to Germany that she can
rot win dominating position in Europe or
the world, and to give that demonstration
without any assistance from the United
States or any other American nation. If
England, France, Russia and Italy, with one
or two of the Balkan States, can defeat Ger
many and Austria Hungary without assist
ance from US there will be more hope for
future peace and good will in Europe than
if the forces of the United States have to be
brought into the fight.
| entirely agree with you that it would be
huge calamity for the war to end without
complete indemnity for Belgium from Ger
many. | believe that to be the opinion of
an immense majority of the American voters.
have been in the habit of stating the mat
ter in this way-no peace until Germany is
driven back on to her own soil on both east
and west fronts. CHARLES w. ELIOT.
Cambridge, Mass March 81, 1915.
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WATCH THIS SPACE
FOR
THAT ANNOUNCEMENT
or
A NEW DEPARTMENT
At Last Comes One to Join Is!

rwilliam Marion RoeCy iu the ST. Louis MirroFI
All the 'Ilttery felers' have been driving
II into me for three or four years tnat
Joseph Conrad IS the great contemporary
writer. And cannot see him that way al
all "Alnayer's Folly" is "a good BOOK
even a fine big book: Youth" Is rather too
much OF itself. Under Western Skies is
Dostoievsky without the Russians psyche
logical percipieuce. Now come "A SET o.
Six" and Victory" published by Double
day. Page & Co. a Set OF SIX IS o. COZ
lection of short storcs-good enough
stories. but once Conrad IS started one
wonders II he viii ever be done. lie de-
Hberately holds back his story. lie always
has the brake on. He simply Wont iet mo
story tell itself and he won't tell it as Il ne
really wants TO tell a. Oh. but think OF
his style! Well, it's well 20 have a STYLE
but submit ii is no part OF a style s OuS'
ness TO get in the way OF a story ana cog
il and make il drag. So !t is WIN VIC
tory" There's a story In "a splendid SET
ting, but,-IIeavens and Earth.-to get inc
story is like pulling a eat backward out o.
q bootleg. There are characters that
never become quite real and tho reason
for all the long-drawn narrative at the
how-speed OF cold molasses IS not quite
clear. There are villains who talk MA
lutin and pedestrian speech and prosecute
their villainy with no logic OF the art o.
the story, that can see. The climax IS
sort OF slaughterhouse scene -ftsrth ody u
wiped out at once. sheer melodrlma dah-
gerously near a burlesque Of ITSELF And mo
reading OF IL is Ike long march Oh a s'1na
road There's style here and there-fes'
But IT is no relief submit that Joseph
Conrad is overcome by his style and 20 arc
his readers. The "littery telers are an
wrong. A style should help story, not
hamper IT, when there's au 'n'lleraoIe
deal OF style and II loads the story down
like lead.-thcre Is no style no alb Ana
Joseph Conrad's stsle makes even tho story
OF his own development INTO writer
most mgubrious bore. i be win .orset
himself and give himself up 20 h.s story
he will find real stylo Now the reading
OF him is simply hard work and not worm
IL in the end
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20
No Favors to the Gamers!

The latest attempt to scuttle the labor
law in favor of the canneries, which Gov
ernor Whitman is said to have consented
to approve, is no better than the Bewley
bill, which he refused to sign. 1t would
accomplish exactly the same thing in per
hitting the forced labor of women and
minors. 1t would give to the Gamers ex-
actly what they want exactly as they want
ii, and the burden Of proof that they were
violating the law or evading it would be
laid on the Labor Department under such
circumstances that proof would be almost
impossible to obtain.
Emergencies" such as the Gamers who
ask this legislation tell Of are properly
provided for in the existing law. These
emergencies, of late-deivered produce, Of
early ripened vegetables, causing a glut
of canning material, of unexpectedly large
crops and the like, are common to all can
ners. Labor Commissioner Lynch de-
clares that a majority Of the Gamers obey
the present law, which is proof that it is
not unreasonable. Where it is dlsobeyed
it is because "of the individual Gamers
attitude toward it and not Of the neces-
sary exigencies of his business
To change this law, therefore, would
be to repeal a reasonable, enlightened
statute drawn to protect women and chill
dren against brutal and inhuman exploit
alton, for the benefit of a few Gamers
who now are lawbreakers because of
greed. Common sense and humanity re-
volt at the thought. The present law
should not be changed. 1t should be pre-
served and enforced rigidly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20
A Unitarian Revival.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Associated with the Oldest of the
New York City Unitarian churches, All
Souls, my attention was called to your wise
editorial Of yesterday entitled, playing
Into Billy Sundays Hands" | think there
IS slight misapprehension about the pur-
pose Mr.. Wiers, of Montcair and perhaps
others have in hiring a hall and starting
what some might think opposition services
of Paterson.
But Unitarians had the experience recently
IN Philadelphia of an unprecedented awaken
ing, for as one of the results of Sundays
denunciation all the churches there, includ-
ing the one at Germantown, were filled to
cverfowing on all the days Of the week
not merely Sundays. And if as a reaction
"a reflex action, you might say-Sunday
creates an interest in Unitarianism which no
other agency could or would create, they no
doubt think the opportunity too promising TO
be omitted.
In Philadelphia many thousands-perhaps
should say tens of thousands Unitarian
pamphlets were distributed, taken from the
racks at the church doors; and as the sup
ply of such literature is practically unlim
tied, the demand for it is likely to be sup
piled. C.RB
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Wellington 8 Height.

From The Manchester Guardian.
To think Of the Duke Of Wellington as a
little man is almost as difficult as to think
Of Napoleon as a big one. Yet a heated CON
troversy occupies the correspondence col
umns Of "The Spectator" as to whether there
was much TO choose in height between the
two. The duke was very little, If at all,
taller than Napoleon" says the writer Of an
article in a recent issue, and this week a
surprising number Of people who knew the
duke or lived as children with some one who
was his intimate friend hasten to rebut the
attack on his inches. The belittlinF school
quote Thomas Carlyle, whose eye for physi-
cal characteristics was a keen one, and who
described the duke in 1850 as "a shortish.
,lightish man" But the duke was getting
old then, and the stoop that marked him
even as a young man may have increased.
The people who will not have him less than
medium height have better evidence TO 20
on One of Them lived "in constant asso-
citation with him" till she was eighteen, az
the house Of the parents of another he was a
Constant visitor" a third frequently saw
him riding in the park, and all claim . feet
inches or more for him. Il is a curious
thing that while the stature Of julius Cesar,
for instance, IS not in dispute we should be
IN doubt about that Of so comparatively re-
cent a hero as Wellington.
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Civil War Gun-Running.
or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In view of the fact that you exposed
an attempt Of several honorable gentlemen to
obtain old government rifles to sell at a profit
TO European governments, perhaps some of
your readers may be interested in tho fol-
lowing bit Of history:
In 1861 5000 condemned carbines lay in the
government arsenal in New York City. Gov
eminent officials had condemned these car
bines in 1887 as being SO bad that they would
shoot off the thumbs Of the soldiers who used
them.
Arthur n. Eastman, of Manchester, n. H,
offered the government SO apiece for the con-
demned rifles. They were sold to him for
$3.50 apiece. Simon Stevens, Tammanv
polItlcianj backed Eastman to the extent Of
$4,000. Stevens obtained the funds from ]
Pierpont Morgan.
The 5000 condemned rifles were sold 10
General Fremont, commanding at ST. Louis.
upon the representation that they were good.
new rifles. Fremont paid $22 each for the
rifles, notwithstanding the fact that the gov
eminent was then paying $3.50 for rifles Of
the best pattern.
In 1862 Secretary of War Stanton appointed
a commission which completely exposed this
fraud. The government" reported the COM
mission, not only sold one day for s17.4s6
arms which it had agreed the day before 10
repurchase for S109,9l2, making a loss 70 thu
United states of S92,426, but virtually fur
n:shed the money TO pay itself the s17 Asa il
received"
The government refused to pay Morgan. and
ne sued for 1t. The case Of j. Pierpont Nor.
gan vs. Inc United States Government may
be found in the commissions report "a casa
No. 81. The commission agreed to nav s19 81
carbine, but this offer was not satisfactorv
20 the claimants. Stevens brought suit for
the ful amount in the Court Of Claims at
washington, and in 1857 Judge Peck decided
III iaVot Oh stevens. Y. R. RUCSAJ.
New York, April 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20
CANNERY SLAVERY
Some Facts Supplied by the Former
Chief Investigator.
q the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribune for April 10 APP
pears letter signed by E. S. Truesdell, Of
Binghamton, n. Y, which criticised methods
used by the State Factory Investigating
Commission and the accuracy of its findings.
resent his criticism and know 1t to be in
correct.
First-The time card of Miss Jennie
Hackeman, who worked, according to the
Gamers own time card, 117ls hours in a
week, was not taken from the Gamers files
by stealth The inspector, with the full per-
mission of the Gamer took it and all the other
time cards for the year to the commissions
branch Office at Syracuse to be transcribed.
The card was photographed there.
Second-This card was furnished by the
Gamer as a record of the correct hours of
labor. | cannot see that the inspector should
have gone behind the Gamers own record,
especially in light of the fact that the state
law requires the Gamer to keep accurate
time records.
Third-The statement that this woman's
time card showed forty-nine hours more
work for this week than any other time card
in the factory is untrue, as the transcript
of the time records on file with the Factory
Commission show. These were the longest
hours worked in the week, but other women
also worked extreme hours.
Fourth-The endeavor by misrepresenta-
ton regarding this particular time card to
discredit statements that women worked ex-
treme hours in the canneries cannot go
unchalenged. The commission had women
investigators working in factories where the
women were worked over 100 hours week.
and Mr. Roy Hemingway, superintendent
of the X. c. Hemingway cannery at Au-
burn, n Y, admitted under oath before the
Factory Commission that his regular time
records were false, and produced what he
swore was correct record showing that
Mrs Donnelly worked 1l9% hours in a week,
and that many other women worked almost as
long. In the commissions report will be found
a photograph of pay envelope from this fac
tory of a woman who worked 10 hours in
week for 10 cents an hour. The fact is
absolutely unassailable that even if Miss
Jennie Hackeman's time record illegally re-
corded the hours of two persons as is al
legged, some INSCRIPTIONS Gamers have
worked women almost unbelievably long
hours.
My conclusion is that Mr.. Truesdell, with
his great desire to protect the public from
misrepresentation, had better tend to his
own barnyard before he endeavors to dis
credit Investigators who have honestly en-
deavored to discover the truth and have
succeeded in doing SO.
ZENAS L. POTTER.
Former Chief Cannery Investigator, New
York State Factory Investigating Com
mission.
New York, April IS, 1915.
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administration and city administration
all out of sympathy with Tnmmanys nsp'-
rations, 1t seems an ill-chosen momen, IN
which to construct bigger hall with a
more spacious hearthstone. Going norm
Tammany will desert that section OF 'he
CITY in which its strength has been most
concentrated. It will cut the acquaint-
orco Of the lower East Side and the Bow
cry. 1t may get domiciled more comfort
ably uptown, but it can never hope 70
rear in that more sophisticated political
area a temple which will symbolic what
il is and what it lives for as adequately
and fttingly as did the bold and frowning
headquarters Of Tweed, Kelly, Croker and
Murphy in East Fourteenth Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20
The Home First.


To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Referring to your editorial Of this
morni ~, Destroying Ballots it
would appear from the diary Of Mrs. Sam
mis- that the giving Of votes to women in
wolves only the casting of the ballot, in
which though. you seem 20 concur On this
point a number of people, including myself
differ from the advocates of womans suf-
Gaco.
The news item about Offices for women in
Chicago shows 20 my mind what will nat
urally follow if women are given the ballot.
A number Of women would undoubtedly de-
mand office and others would have Offices
rendered them for political purposes. Do
YOU think this further invasion Of mans
sphere will tend TO keep the home life, which
YOU will admit is the foundation Of our social
life. intact? VIII II not make marriage less
attractive 20 women?
We "ants" do not contend that womans
activities should be confined TO the home en-
tirely. but we do say that home should have
first place, and believe that T. will be subord-
mated 20 large extent II she receives the
ballot. F. Z. SCUDDER.
Babylon, n. Y, April l6, 1915.
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after his army went south Of the James
by a second method. Week by week he
stretched his lines eastward as his rein
forcements came up. Lee, compelled 70
extend his lines in the same way, finally
stretched them until, as he had long
expected. they became too thin, and in the
last days of March Grant broke them in
three places and opened the drive TO APP
pomattox. Unless the Germans can pres
emily bring forward new reserves 1t must
be clear that Joffre's tactics will have a
similar result
At Neuve Chapele the British actually
penetrated the German lines. Conceiva-
bly,, to judge from British reports, had the
reserves been well handled more than local
advantages might have been gained.
French success in the last few days IN
Alsace is another indication of the weak
ening of German resistance. But above
all the failure of the Germans TO take the
offensive anywhere in the West in recent
weeks seems to demonstrate that they lack
the numbers for anything but defensive
fighting, and even here are hard put to 1t,
as all the recent struggles would indicate,
to hold their own.
If this Interpretation of Allied strategy
be true, if the Germans in France are
actually and permanently to remain infe-
rior in numbers, then instead Of any gen
eral Allied offensive all along the line, the
Spring drive" so much advertised, what
is to be expected is a long series Of nib
bles," of operations wholly similar to those
in Champagne, in Flanders, in Lorraine
and in Alsace. SO long as Allied losses DO
not exceed German, the cost to the Ger
mans will be greater proportionately, and
the time must come when they will have
to retire to shorter lines, presumably be-
hind the Meuse and the Scheldt.
Meantime the immediate effect Of this
strategy is to pin down in their positions
all the German troops in France, save the
small reserves which are hurried from
danger point to danger point, and there
can be no shifting of army corps east and
west in France or from France to the
Russian front, as in the past. This, so far
as it is possible to Judge, has already hap
pened.
In sum, recent events seem TO confirm
the views of official and unofficial observ-
ers that the Germans have been put on
the defensive permanently in France, and
the ablest British critic, Belloc, finds war
rant for the belief that the strategy Of
Jofre is really an imitation Of Grants
method which ultimately disposed Of Lee,
policy Of attrition, for which "nibbling"
is but a euphemism, as the casualty lists
disclose.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20
Tax Rate Reflections.

Mavor Mitchell and President McAneny
are agreed that if the Republican Legls-
Iature follows its present programme the
.ax rate next year will be 2.15 instead OF
90, a 25 point raise.
This means that next year, when there
will be a President and Governor to
elect, the Republicans Of this town will
have to deal with an electorate which Is
facing the substantial fact of an enormous
expansion of the tax rate, with an inevita-
bic concomitant increase in city rents.
The taxpayers Of New York City will
know that this increase is due to the will
full extravaganza of Republican Legis-
Iature determined at all costs to acquire
patronage for political purposes. They
will know that it represents the cost OF
having streets in rural communities, OF
clearing out frog ponds in county districts,
Of every conceivable kind of waste which
might benefit deserving Republicans.
They will know also that, as Senator
Brown has indicated, an increase in the
state budget from S49,OOO,0OO to $685.
100000 this year is only a preliminary to
raising it from 500, 100000 to 8O,OOO,OOO
if other comfortable Republican sessions"
are to follow.
They will know, further, that in the
hope of obtaining a few of the 10000
new Jobs to be created this year the local
Republican leaders, Samuel S. Koenig and
Jacob A. Livingston, have made not a
single protest against plundering the
city treasury.
They will recall that in the Legislature,
while seven Republican Senator'S and
twenty Republican Assemblymen sat silent,
only Tammany Democrats raised their
voices in defence of the City Of New
York.
All these circumstances may combine to
rouse the enthusiasm of this community
for Republican candidates. The promise
Of new S1O,OOO,OOO to be added to the
budget if a Republican state administra-
ton be chosen in 1916 may persuade them
to vote as one man for Republican candi-
dates and another - points added to the
city tax rate.
Patiently this is what Republican lead
ars at Albany expect. Enthusiastically this
is what local Republican leaders and legis-
lators look forward to. Perhaps it will
happen. A great majority of the voters
Of this town may believe Republican
state administration is cheap at any price,
but unless this can be established, is the
present legislative game worth the candle?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20
The Coming Towe,
TOLERANCE.

That mystic spray that lights the ,,.,.
ling eye,
Alack, It's but the devils deadly b,ox
Base belladonna-and that brow. s,.,.,
high,
Some pythoness with poisoned pencil d,,r
The thrill Of youth and hope and Low, a.,
life
That sends the glowing color 10 The ch..,
Cannot be feigned. The rabbits foot /, ~,
With shameless bushes that deceit 4.
speak.
Those tawdry tinted tresses and that sr,n.
From painted lips, those languid lids sp,
gest
The vulgar and the vicious and the VII.
Vain articles all,-and self-confessed
Thank Heav'n, thy natural charms ar,
quite enough
To keep unsoiled thy form and soul. dear
Rose,
Yet I'll deny thee not thy powder puff.
1t hides those funny freckles on thy nose,
A. R.N.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20
New York, March %, 1915.

Dear Mr.. Stowell I cordially agree with
you that there must be a military and naval
force behind the international council or
league. Public opinion will not answer,
and neither will the threat Of non-inter-
course. have been preaching that doctrine
ever since last September. But two classes
Of persons refuse to accept it-frst, the ex-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20

alBUrE TO THE FIRE.FlGHrERs OF slooEFin
PARK IN RECOGNITION Of SERVICE
AT TIE ADLER FIRE
[Robert J. Barnett IN The Rdssasd Park Bulletin
Last Monday morn az ten O'Clock
The bull.hOrn shdeked aloud.
one.one, two. throe-thlrtesn. three hmn
An alarm with superstition sndo~ed.
The response Of the men whose au5 II va
To hght the smoke and flames,
Was evidence Of heroic desire
As swift TO the scene they cama
The nre.Iads needed no direction
To the Orchard Street gara3s.
Little did they know What danger lay trt
Amid the Vapor emitting 10 volumes largo,
BANG. uuff-a tongue Of flames
swept northSard htty feet Or nors
In the path where the gallant rl1ters stood
II ragged like biosy wave against ~ thors
And ere the atmosphere vas cleared
Elght Victims " had lure1,
Some slnsed. some scorched others eady burned,
OH What suffering must have been endured.
These brave men had done thF' dup,
Performed Il we'll and mufmufeo nQN
Yes and they'll repeat me risk
When recovered from their no." uaiorlhts qt
Ys who unlustly crluclse
Give thought 10 an earnest plea
For the men Who deserve an exalted pfal"
No nOber servants can there De-
Their hearts are hllsd nl,h Hndasss
They Give no thought 70 strife,
All their efforts bend toward
Saving mans property and hfo.
Here's 10 our worthy fre.fshte1
The pride OF Ridgened Park
COMPARED With departments near and a'H
They're crosdlng the hundred percentage nan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20

"These 72-hour-a-week injustices are
nothing" said a golf widow yesterday.
During the golf season my husband il
away from home 104 hours a week; and
when he Is at home his mind Is on golf.
There Ought to Be a Law"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20

Perhaps there are weightier matters
for discussion than the facts that Mrs S.
J. Kidder has been elected Chairman Of
Courtesies of the Iowa New Workers and
Bouquet e. Son are florists out Grayesend
way.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20

And contrib's wife-D. II. Rays
that her husband puts in 70 hours a week
at unsuccessful contributing. "And he
doesn't get sc an hour for IT," she adds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20

Seats in the last line Of benches IN the
Supreme Court at Syracuse, LOUIS oeioo''
wires, are at premium.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20

The Tribune's Syracuse correspondent,
obviously has a notion that the Co'one'
won't run in 1916. His dispatch refers 70
him as 1.-The former ex-President.'