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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
AGAINST FINANCING
ROCK ISLAND NOW
N. L. Amster Asserts Reid
Moore Interests Are Beaten
in Proxy Fight.
VIEW HELD PREMATURE

The fight for proxies for the annual
meeting Of the Chicago. Rock Island and
Pacific Railway next Monday. and for
the determination of policy OF financial
rehabilitation OF the property connected
with the election OF four new directors,
brought a statement from y. l.. Amster.
loader of the opposition. yesterday. In
which he asserted that although he Is
not opposed to the issuance OF $1o.-
oo0, 900 to sl5,000,000 OF new preferred
stock at par, he believes the company
should rest for a year before doing any
new financing.
The plan OF financing that is being
considered by the largest security
holders In the company. 1t IL believed.
contemplates the raising OF between
sac. OOO, 900 and 49,. 900. 900. probably by
the creation of a new issue OF preferred
stock, though possibly by an income
bond issue.
Mr.. Amster in his statement contends
that the MANAGEMENT of the company
and the Reid Moore interests are already
beaten. The financial community re-
Carded this assertion as decidedly pre-
mature In view Of the fact that the Snel-
don committee and the management Will
probably control from 100000 to 400.-
900 votes. against a possible 100000 by
the Amster committee. as estimated by
Others than the members OF this com
mittee.
II il possible Mr.. Amstor will be
elected to one OF the four places on the
board. which would not be altogether
displeasing to certain members or the
bos I'd. II Is said, as a means OF proving
to Mr. Ams,cr just how big are the
difficulties the road is facing. Several
large independent owners of stock eN-
pect to vote IN person at the meeting.
among them Francis l.. Iceland. prcsi-
dent OF tho New York County National
Bank, owner of over 1000 shares.
Mr.. Amster asserts in his statement
that the company need have no fear OF
It's ability to meet approximately s2O.-
o0o, 900 OF interest and S1".o0o,ooo of
maturing equipment and other indebted
ness within the next eighteen months
because it's earnings will easily take
care of it, interest charges and should
pay the equipment maturties. and be-
csusr II will have about S3o.ooo.ooo oil
refunding bonds released for rcfinancinc
purposes. He estimates that AT mar
ket value OF $50 to So on the bonds the
company could raise t2i,ooo,ooo.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
NATIONAL BANKS MAY
GUARANTEE DEPOSITS
AttOrney-General Says Such
Protection Is Legal and
Gives Confidence.

WASHINGTON. April s.-The Treasury
Department made public to-day an opin-
ion from Attorney-General Gregory up
holding the right of national banks to
have their deposits guaranteed by surety
companies The question had been re-
ferred to the Department OF Justice as
a result Of questions which had arisen
as 10 the Interpretation OF opinions given
on this subject by the Acknowledgement
In 1905 and 1909
Here is an excerpt from the opinion
The means by which depositors are
to be protected and secured are not eX-
pressly limited or restricted by statute.
A large discretion is left to the banks
officers and directors They may Use
such means for the purpose as are not
prohibited by or inconsistent with the
provisions Of the law. and az they may
reasonably ind to he suitable and proper
and not Inconsistent with the prudent
conduct of the affairs OF the bank within
the scope OF its charter. Whatever pro-
tects the depositors. IL has been said
protects the bank because II assures
confidence in the bank.
"a contract OF insurance or guaranty
such az described IN the question sub
mi'ted may afford protection TO deposi.
tors by securing the performance OF az
OBI CATION on the part of the bank which
otherwise might not he performed. And
II liz not unrea sonable to believe that
such contract at the same time may
prove valuable to the bank because OF
the confidence II may assure.
mo reason is perceived for prohibit
ing a national bank in the discreti on
of its directors from So securing It's de.
positors or for denying to the bank sucf
benefits as they belieN may accrue IL
the form OF Increased c<lfidence result.
ing from such contract"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
IN MEMORY OF ISIDOR sTRAUs,
Meeting Arranged by the Leasuc
Of Foreign Born Citisens.

A public meeting TO honor the man
oyv Of Is!dor Straus. who died IN the
vi-anic disaster. will be held under the
auspices OF the League OF Foreign Born
citizens on Sunday evening next At Pub
,ic School 81. FORSYTH and stanton
streets.
The speakers will nc President Nc
krcny OF the Roar ri Of Aldermen
eV-Gov Sulzer, Ahram ' Elkus and
Samuel Dorf grand master Of the order
~ Birth Abraham Cantor Samuel
Meisels and choir will Sing and Plator
Brounoff composer W the sympohny
Titanic" will be At the piano.
Among those expected to attend are
members Of the Straus family, Samuel
koenig, Louis Marshall, Samuel I'm
termyer, Daniel Guggenheimer, Judge
Nathan Blur, Seth Low, James Spey err
Isaac y. Seligman, Adolf 1ewisohr
Felix ". Warburg, Judge Otto Rosal
sky and Macmillan Morgenthau, Jr.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
WORLD STRIKE AS
PROTEST IN WAR
International Labor Leaders
Threaten to Call Out 90
600. 900 Trade Unionists.
DEMAND SLAUGHTER STOP

international labor leaders in this
city began yesterday to prepare the way
for an international strike as protest
against the European war by placing
themselves in communication with
President Carl Legion o. the Inter
which includes the American Fedora
ton OF Labor.
Communications also were sent %
the French lapor leader, and cable
messages were sent to the Independent
Labor party convention at Norwich.
England In the communication to the
French and German labor leaders the
international leaders ask the attitude OF
the French with regard to an inter-
national strike They also are asked
concerning what action they would ad-
wise for an International conference TO
arbtratc the questions In dispute IN the
war
IL Was decided yesterday to hold an
executive session to elect delegates 20
the proposed conference of American
and European labor leaders. If a strike
takes place it will call out 2o.oOo.ooo
trade uuionlsts throughout the world.
The executive session will be held after a
conference with tinted States Senator
d Robert ". La Toilette and Samuel
7 Gpmpcis. president Of the American
I Federation OF Labor. at Cooper Union.
{ April 10.
instructions will he issued to the
, delegation {, prepare an ultimatum 70
! the Etropean Powers on behalf OF the
[ labor unions Of the world. This ulti-
matum viii state that IL an interna-
tioral conference rs not called 10
irb.tratc the questions involved In the
war the labor unions will Nc compelled
10 all world strike.
Ernest Benin. "orreS spending secretary
/ % ,h. central Federated Union, said
"Rc~aus. OF the great number ~ IN
: u..-l,1rl. r.hn haNe nlrcAdN boon killed
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
M. BOTS ON "MARTYRED TOWNS
Author and Playwright Lectures
Before the French Institutc.

"knd crying God with us" they at
tack and deseCrate the house OF God. y
So declared VI. Jules Ros, the French
author and playwright, in the course
~ his lecture on the "Msrtyred Towns"
delivered yesterday afternoon In Rum
ford Hail, 30 East Forty first street,
before the members OF the lnsti'ut
Francais aux Etats-Tnis. And to H.
lustrate his lecture he threw upon the
screen series OF photographs Of
churches in Franco and Flanders and
more especially Of Rheims Cathedral
VI Bois spoke especially OF the spirit
of sacrifice shown by the women Of
France He said that the mothers OF
Erancs sacrificed their sons not foI
France alone hut for the good OF all
humanity. Go forward. Your brother
l. Win you." wrote, he said, French
mother tn her second son In tho trenchc'
r'''r hearing ~ the death IN battle OF
her eldest son.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
JUSTICES ARGUE With
HARVESTER LAWYERS
Supreme Court Asks why Con-
Germ Didn't Grow without
Destroying Rivals.

wAsHrScroN April arguments IN
the international Harvester COMPANY
case before tho supreme Court we're
continued to-day. the third of tho boar
ting.
Nor, than usual interest has attached
to the arguments. LAWYERS arc divided
sharply over what the court will decide
IN this ase. one Of the most recent and
most important of the antitrust cases,
n was held IN rho decree NJ the Circuit
Court for IN. eighth circuit that tho
trust was unlawful and must be dis,
solved. but one ~ tho sblesi at tho three
Judges Ssnborn, disecntcd This has
raised the hope nf attorne,s for N"
Harvestsr company thar II might get
reversal from I'VE highest court. hut the
lire OF quest oninc b! tho Judges to-day
did not indicate such fayorsbl" ~
cision.
The Chief Justice asked Counsel VII
an for the Harvertcr company why the
corporation d,d not grow along business
lines. evolve, 50 10 speak. instead Of go
ing 70 \ = Morgan & 60 and getting
capital 70 finance 4 combination thst
brought about The dest ruction OF "ompe-
tition
The attorne, replied that another ~
torney would speak for the COMPANY on
that point Justice NCkenna and Nr.
Wilson had lively argument. The Jus
tce asked 4 tho object of tho Govern
ment's suit VAS not 10 restore comp-.
tltive conditions such as existed before
the combination Of IN" iiNc companies
IN 1902 when five companies were com
hlned into one, the International.
Tho LAWYER replied that II would he
impossible to restore competition a. II
existed before tho combination for mo
reason that the companies have disap'
peared and could not DC made To- re-
appear Tho Internal lonsl Harveetc'
Companys defence ~ thsi II has no
hcen proved guilty ~ unlawful trade
practices. that it has not raised prices
but has enlarged the foreign rnsrke, and
a Thousand other things II could not
have done except through tho "oubina
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09

In the war We deem II the duty OF the
labor unions Of the world to intervene
and bring pressure to bear In favor OF
international arbitration. not merely Tor
economic reasons but on purely humani-
tartan grounds. recognizing in the pres
ent war the greatest disgrace to civili-
cation that has ever been known IN
human history.
we feel embt oned to take TINS
step because OF the known anti-war
sentiment which exists among large
masses Of people in Europe. principally
trade unionists. and In view OF the
resolutions against war adopted AZ tne
conventions OF the British trace
unionis,s We will call the attention OF
the warning masses to these resolutions
and urge them to return TO their original
policy"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
MR.. TAFT AT WEST POINT.
Ex-president Received with Mill
tary Uonors At the Academy.

WEST POINT, April s.-Ex-President
TAFT is visiting the military academy
for a Few days lie arrived az o'clock
this afternoon and was received with
military honors. A troop Of cavalry
escorted him to the plains, where a
salute of twenty-one guns was fired by
the light battery stationed there. The
entire battalion of cadets was dawn
TN at attention and afterward was re-
viewed nv Mr. Taft There was re-
cep,ion and dinner in the army officers
mess this evening.
Mr.. Taft is here TO deliver lecture
on The Spirit OF the Constitution" be
fore tho cadets tomorrow morning in
rullum Memorial Hall. lie is the guest
of col Townsloy. superintendent OF the
academy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
WILL OPEN PRODUCERS BOOKS
Ir,-.stGatov to ~tBdy Records IN
stngc Trnst lnn.iry.

Assistant United states Attorney
claude \ Thompson announced ves'cr
daN that the investigation ~ the alleged
theatrical trust had progressed to the
stage where q would he neceesarr to
subpoena rho books Of klaw 4 Erlanecr
aud tho ~huberis
Mr. Thompson has arranged - make
tn. examination NJ the books ia such
a way rs not to Interfere ~ any way
with kllu 4 l;rlangcr and tho Shuher's
IN thu, carving on of their business.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
FIND MoRs. SLAYER" IS MAD
Doctors study self-Accused Pois-
ourr-Goes 70 Asylum.

WHITE PLAINS, y. Y. April S.--As no
evidence was found to corroborate his
confession that he poisoned eight aged
inmates OF the German odd Fellows
Home at Yonkers Frederick Mors' who
had been locked up in the White Plains
jaiI since February 3. was discharged
to-day by Coroner James l.. Dunn.
But his period OF freedom was briei
Drs. Samuel T.. Getty and Dr. william
f. Coins after an examination tonight
decided that he was insane. a..
Nors will be arraigned before CITY
Iudg. B,-all Tomorrow He will be
committed to the Hudson River STATE
Hospi,al. II is thought probable that
ultimately he will be deported, as ne
landed here only last July
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
Vale student pleads GUilt,.

Anthony Aurlo, - Years old. 81
bridgeport. conn. Who claims To h.
Vale student. pleaded guilty yesterday
before county Judg. Ilylau to bringing
5000 worth of stolen goods from Bridge
port into this state and turning them
over TO two receivers. He win be son.
fenced on Monday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
Fear for Man Missing with Cnsh
and Jewels.

The disappearance on April l Of
Harry Naylor, ISL westchester av.rus
an Investigator for the Board of Health
WAS reported yesterday at Police Head
quarters by his wife. Mrs. Nsylcr Ok
pressed fears for her husband He WAS
in poor health and carried with h,n
about $500, a diamond ring and pin and
gold watch. She thinks 1t possible r..
may have lost his memory
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.

Exports from the port OF New York
reported yesterday We're S5,is6.siS and
imports s2.ils,6is. compared with cN-
ports Of si,11S.53s and imports Of
e2iSi.Iai on WEDNESDAYS
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09

The ,r'al receipts for duties a. the
Custom House Yesterday we're $751;
2sI.So. Of which ss5.9lI.7s was for
merchandise withdrawn from bonded
warehouses and s25l 5000 for recent
lamentations
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09

TWTNT WT~VWI~.
cation. good ait apply TO Mrs. Reussner
lioefner.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-09

LONG ISLAND.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-17
Who Make international Law7

INTERNATIONAL law in the broad sense,
L is not a structure, but process. 1t is a
series of explanations of the way in which
nations have acted under different crcum-
stances, supplemented by more or less formal
agreements among them to act as they have
acted IL the circumstances should be re-
peated.
The textbooks may give a different defni-
tion, but when reduced to their elements all
the definitions will be found to rest on tn )
simple proposition, namely, that the law Of
nations, like the law of nature. is merely
way Of acting. The law OF gravitation de-
scrbes how a suspended body behaves itself
II the support is removed. But If the nice
adjustment Of forces in the world should be
upset. no physicist could tell offhand how
the law Of gravtaton would operate.
The balance Of power among nations is
disturbed by this great war, and the emer-
gencies are creating new necessities and new
international law is now IN the making. The
process has begun, and no one can tell what
the product will be All that is known is
that in the struggle for existence the warning
nations will pursue that course which they
think will hest serve them. and they will use
all the power at their command to defend
their right To ignore old precedents or to
make new precedents. And there is no high
tribunal which can stop them.
The body of international precedents which
we now have has been made largely by the
action of England. France. Germany and the
United states. The United States is the only
Power interested in holding fast to the old
precedents; but it cannot compel France
England and Germany to make war accord
ing to rules that please Washington alone
The United States is in a minority in the in
ternational legislature and it will have to
admit that the majority rules. We may not
like it, but we must submit because we have
not the physical power to enforce our wishes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-17
Who Will Grasp This Opportunity?

THE Government is making plans for the
L building of flying machines at the League
Island Navy Yard at some other place
The League Island yard offers advantages
which can be found in no other place So
ii is likely that it will be selected. Every
airship has to be equipped with motor. and
the lighter the motor for each horsepower
the more desirable it becomes for use in
flying machine.
Who in this city or in the whole country
has the foresight and enterprise and courage
to put money and brains into the develop
ment of motor lighter than any other
the market, or what motor manufacturer
right here convince the Government that
his motor is the best in the world for the
uses to which it is to be put? The final de-
csion has not yet been made to build air
ships at League Island, and it cannot be
made until Congress meets again, There is,
therefore. time enough for Philadelphia in
ventors and manufacturers to prepare for
the market that is likely soon to be at their
doors and that will carry with it control of
national and international markets also.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-17
Liuuor Champions on the Job

VXTHEN Mulvihill and Neil Bonner gather
wv together at Harrisburg there is some
reason to believe that movement to wreck
local option is on foot These gentlemen are
working in the open, of course. They have
not been backward in letting the Common
wealth know what they stand for. Their po-
sition was we'll known last fall before the
election. To be sure Doctor Brumbaugh was
explicit in his advocacy of local option, writ
ing a platform of his own that the record
might be straight; but the liquor interests,
which are as blind here as they have been in
other States had an idea that he was only
fooling. They have been disillusioned and
have a real fight on their hands. They are
pretty sure of rousing defeat ii the Ware
interests stand by the Governor, they
ought to do and will do If there is any acu-
men back of their politics
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-17
4 Policy That Leads to Bankruptcy

FT4HE administrative incapacity of the DEM
i ocratic party is notorious, and it was
never better demonstrated than during the
past two years The Congress just adjourned
made appropriations amounting to s2,OOO,-
o00o00 and IL has boasted that this is a
=. GOO 000. 900 country.
II business had been prosperous and therev-
enues OF the Government had continued on
the usual scale there might have been justi-
neaIian for the appropriations. But the
PARTY began 10 unsettle business by revising
the tarin II may be granted, for the sake
81 argument, that in the long run the tariff
ehanee may be beneficial, but the first
sreet has been to reduce the revenues. TO
produce an enormous deficit and TO unsettIe
husfneas.
Fhe Democratic Congress also, not con-
feD1 win reducing the tarin, passed a lot
u laws changing the conditions under which
bnsfness may be done. This also was un-
zstfllng almost everything that has been
aona has been disturbing, instead OF reas-
zIaa Even the banking act, which Is a
faI aplofemepf over tie Cd Law. IS IN
snasa = laau9e the methods of doing busi-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-17
The Germans Could Do 1t

THE report that comes out of Germany
j that the Germans have their navy yards
so perfectly organized and have enlisted the
engineering and constructing skill of the en-
pire so effectively that they are turning out
a submarine every day is not incredible. If
Henry Ford can build 100 automobiles a
day It is not impossible for paternal gov
ernment. with all the resources of a great
empire at its command, to build underwater
vessels at the rate of 30 a month
Whether one sympathizes with the Ger
mans or not. it is foolish to attempt to with
hold from them the praise that is their due
for their remarkable efficiency and for the
thoroughness with which they prepare for
their tasks. What victories they have won
thus far have been organized victories
Nothing has been left to chance That is why
al the reports that come out OF Germany
reveal the unbounded confidence of the Ger
mans In ultimate victory.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-17

we are to hear this week. Pooh Bah may be
comic masterpiece, the Pirate King may
sing with renewed vigor today his song;
When sally forth to seek my prey,
| help myself in royal way.
| sink few more ships, it's true,
Than a well-bred monarch ought to do;
But many king on a flrst-class throne
If lie wants to call his soul his own
Must manage somehow to get through
More dirty work than ever | do.
But "Ioanthe; or, the Peer and the Peri"
remains the piece in which Gilbert satlrzed
a ludicrous subject most ludicrousy and in
which he achieved the acme of his art
satire from both sides.
Spoofing the House of Lords
1t is no business of a reviewer to spoil
sport by telling too much of what Philadel-
phia may see Thursday evening, but it can
do no harm to recall bits here and there of
the adventures of Strephon, fairy and Con-
servative above the waist mortal and Rad
ica below. Passing over the abysmal yet
heartening reflections of Private Willis, on
scntry-go outside Westminster.
That every little boy or gal
That's born into the world alive
Is either little Liberal
or else little Conservative.
we may recall the declaration of the fairy
queen tllat Slle VIII lorCe all SlTepnOn DlllS
through both houses:
You shall sit, If he sees reason
Through the grouse-and-salmon season.
Peers shall TEEN in Christendom,
And a dukes exalted station
Be attainable by competitive examination.
OF course it is simple and very direct
attack, nothing for a humorist to be con-
spicuously proud of, even If it leads a peer
to remark: "Wel, but think what It all
means. l don't so much mind for myself,
but with the House of Peers with no grand
fathers worth mentioning the country must
go to the dogs. / don't want to say
a word against brains. I've great respect
for brains. I often wish I had some myself,
but with House Of Peers composed eXclu-
sively of people of intellect what's to become
of the House of Commons?"
1t is characteristic of Gilbert's popularity
in his own day-and perhaps of his popu-
social eXcrescenCes of his time and ours, not
of the roots of Victorian civilization. He
twltted the nobility the officous, the up
starts; he poked his fun at the vagares OF
meath to thrust his scapel into the drear and
noXious reality of commercial exploitation
which had followed upon the industrial revo-
luton and which made the nineteenth CEN
tury hideous age 1t was something doubt
less too bitter for our amusement,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-17

TT Is easy to understand why Lydia Field
i Emmet's painting, Patricia" was voted
to be the best in the spring exhibition of the
Academy of the Fine Arts. The painting is a
fine piece of work from the technical point
of view and the subject is appropriate for a
picture. A sweet child, standing, hesitant,
as if timid, that is all there is to it, But
the artist put into the painting that indie
Unable something which produces the impress
sion that personality looks at you from
the canvas.
Miss Emmett will therefore, receive the
prize offered by Edward Box for the painting
which the great jury of the public selected
as the best in the exhibition. The verdict
indicates that popular taste is sound.