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THE LIFEBELT PUZZLE.
Singular German Comment on the
Lusitania and Arabic Cases.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sir: To
Judge by the uttcrances OF German
newspapers We must revise our Amer
lean prejudices concerning the natur. OF
logic. There are now two distinct kinds
of logic: 10 wit, logic and German logic.
The latter from some points of view is
far more Interesting, being very novel
IL not original,
In order to illustrate the methods of
this new German logic We need only
compare the statements of The German
press concerning the Lusitania with the
statements of the German press con-
cernluE the Arabic. The Lusitania case,
the German editors Informed us. was q
horrible example of British inetficiency.
The loss Of life would not have been so
great, IN other words, perhaps only hun
dreds would have been drowned instead
"t a Thousand or more. If the proper
PRECAUTIONS had been taken. namely,
efficient llfeboat and lif,hclt service.
That was sufficiently brazen. but IL
evidently had its effect on british mer-
chant captains. A. any rate, Captatn
F1nch of the Arabic, as the unbiased
Will admit. most efficiently carried ont
IN" German idea Of iifchuat and life
belt precautions, AS "A result of Captain
FInch,s precautions the passengers OF
the Arabic were fully provided with liro-
belts, and rs a result of his issuing life.
belts We have the new German logic.
which says: The liners captain FUR
nlshed lifebclts To the passengers and
crew. This WAS done because the can
tain planned to ram the submarine"
Ac. ordinG TO the foregoing the first
principle uf the new German logic must
be" Heads | win tails YOU lose" HAD
the captain of the LusitIuil taken tho
prccautluu to isSu, lifyhelts 10 the n1s-
senGers and crew he would by tina, act
have been convicted Of the intention 10
ram the submarine and then of
course, there could have been but, ono
thing Tor the German submarine to do
namely, sink the lMsitIull. If the CO..
tain of the Arabic had no, issued If
bolts II would have been another nor-
rible example Cscc under Lus.ttuial OF
British tnei,icicncy and the cause OF
great loss IT life.
We must therefore conclude as fol.
W lie 1t understood 10y the new Ger
man logic shat the captain OF 4 British
m reliant ship 90 must issue lircb,Its.
CD must not issue liftholts.
The British Government may NOW
otfor a Kings ransom To Edison n Ed
son can Invent a lifchrlt tht, is NOT A
Iitehelt, u lifCbcit which being used Is
not used, and which not hr.ug used
Is used.
Edison can no doubt invent such a
lifehclt, hut II will not circumvrut tho
new German logic, which can Ice made
to cover any British action however
normal II - ~
ANNAPOLIS. Md, August %.
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The Prusslan Sidewalk and the New
York subway.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir.
Thanks TO Charles A. Gehrie for his fair
ahd dignified letter to THE Sun.
This disgraceful propaganda of racial
nate and injustice carried on against our
"~hyphenated' c~itizsns is ignominious
and quite un-American. Those so-called
Americans who are melting all this ra-
clal warfare are not much better than
the mob which lynched Frank. and as
an American and a patriot I am heart
lily ashamed OF them.
In answer TO those compatriot OF
mine who We're rudely jostled by Ger
man officers In the streets of Dresden
M Berlin. can only say that I spent
several months at different times in both
cities and never had any such expert
'nce. ] only remember that when riding
in the Rerlin subway during rush hours
! never had to stand, because an officer
invariably rose to give me a seat, and
! have often wished | might he shown
the same courtesy in our New York
subway.
Now in these hysterical and trouhlous
times the best We can do is 70 follow
our noble Presidents advice and not stir
un more strife II hatred.
l.. L. MrLLINGroN.
NFw YoRK, August 90.
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First Aid to Philosopher.

From Mr.. &. \. BowsnIR Of IN"
Cleveland School of the University
Of the World, an institution which
processes 10 he engaged In Il diSintcr.
rSled way in IN effort 10 Propagate
the Method Of Right Thinking. we
have received the suhioined somewhat
orphic eIlogy of NcltiSlncss
who denies that he is selfish reveals
that he is. or such are the liars.
"WIho dccries the selhshncss Of others
proclalms his own OF such are the
lypocrites.
"Nho denies sclhshuess to others
has greed. OF such are the parasite, the
thief and the robber.
"Seliishness is Of the spirit. II l.
the motive Of progress. II is the desire
~ man to he in body, soul and mind
the most excellent"
MI. RoWSIIER'S proper place is not
In the University hut in the Kinder
garten Of the World. What business
has he Z" SET NJ as II teacher Of the
philosophy of Scliishnr>S when he
cnnnot even distinguish between on.
l%IGhtcncl Scltishness and the common
or garden variety?
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II Cotton, why Not Leather?

From an intelligent Yankee more
or less directly interested in the pros
perity Of the shoe manufacturing
trade The sun has received the fol
lowing communication:
ITO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-sir: l
notice that the United States Treasury
has decided to help Southern cotton
planters.
Il am connected with the shoe trade,
n since the Wilson tariff went int
effect the shoe business has been I'm the
20 Los Angeles. One thousand OF the
thirteen hundred shoe manufacturers in
the United States would appreciate
financisl< aid, and l wondered If you
would use your kind offices with the
Treasury Department in the endeavor
To see that the shoe trade gets the
same favor as the cotton planters.
Somebody has once remarked that we
were born free and equal and on this
account | feel that the Democratic
party, founded on the principle to serve
all alike, will come to the rescue of the
shos manufacturers OF this country.
: They certainly need the money and
when they can secure 1t from the United
States Treasury without being charged
interest, 1t certainly speaks well for the
generosity and kindly spirit OF the DEM
ocratic party. EDWIN W. INGALLS,.
LYNN, Mass, August IS"
To the great majority Of fair
minded persons we think that this
application in behalf VI the shoe and
leather industry will seem reasonable
and in accord with American princi.
pies Of equal rights and equal op'
portunities.
Possibly Secretary MC.ADoo and his
more or less populous surrounding OF
Southern gentlemen in office have Il
satisfactory nswer to Mr.. ~INGALLs's
question: II money from the United
States Treasury is to he lent without
interest for the support Of the suffer
ing cotton industry, why not likewise
to sustain the languishing boot and
shoe industry:
But II Secretary McApoo and his
Southern friends have u satisfactory
nswe TO this question we should
like 10 hear il. for We cannot imagin,
what it Is.
1t cannot be that the far reaching
plans Of Mr., MC.\Doo and his asso
ciates for the extension Of Fedora
functions by the purchase of ship.
and the operation " a Government
owned merchant marine contemplate
also the purchase of cotton planta.
lions with money from the Treasury
and Federal operation of these plan.
tations in order that the Government
owned merchant marine may have
Government raised cotton to carry.
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electric wires attached to ~carbonized
plates and the electricity generated by
gasolene engines or motors Is 20 cause
chlorine gas to rise from the earth and
kill the mosquitoes. The process, 1t is
said, will also kill the eggs, or arva."
The New Jersey commission with
the long name should be warned that
complete uccess will be expected OF
IT IL such elaborate machinery Is en-
ployed. Complete success is. how
ever, impossible IL preventive meas
ures are permitted to lapse for ever
a brief time. In the Panama zon
they say that II operations against
the common enemy are suspended for
a fortnight 1t reappears in force. The
trouble with most Of our extermina-
tors is that there are too many in
tervals in their warfare on the pest.
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The Opposition Heard From.

To ruE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir.
Three cheers for Mrs. Lackey of South
Orange, N. j., that she has the courage
OF her convictions and dares to express
what so many feel!
Some one asks in your columns. Does
Mrs. Lackey understand the suffrage
cause"' Apparently she does, thor
oughly. and though she may have
omitted some "~despicable" points, she
has made a good beginning with her
list.
S~ufragists have promulgated their
propaganda so long without active op.
position that they consider It a per
sonal grievance II other women express
their views on the subject.
Here's TO Mrs. Lackey's good health
May she live long and prosper!
CORA VI. BROWNE.
NEWPORT. r. l., August 26.
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we're protests; that congressman

were protests; that Congressman
heard from their constituents. hear
from them vehemently. And the
Postma ster.G General has heard from
the congressman as well as puliti.
clans Of great influence In practically
all the districts threatened with thi'
blow inflicted right on the v OF I'm
Iwrtant elections. So the rumor, not
yet officially confirmed but persistent
and credited, Is that automobile rura|
mail delivery stops short.
Strange that the head Of n Govern
ment department. particularly th+
head Of the Post Office Department,
should overlook 10 fundamental a
principle OF all Government owned
and operated Industries as the Une
making absolutely imperative the dis
bursement OF taxpayers money along
broad and bountiful lines Of scientific
surerfiulty and waste.
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NO ARMS TO MEXICANS.
The Plan OF an Embargo Aimed at
Carranfa Condemned.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: l
am glad that THE Sun has disapproved
of the plan, now being considered by
the Pan-American Peace conferees, OF
putting an embargo on arms to Car
ann while at the same time allowing
the other factions in Mexico to obtain
them freely. The Administrator made
IN objectionable mistake in ever rails
ing the embargo that vas placed on
all arms by President Taft. Whatever
the object of the Administration may
be, the result seems to be to keep IN
man from attaining a strong enough
position to govern the country.
Suppose al embargo should lessen
Carranza's power. would 1t not also as
slst in raising an even less desirable
man TO an exalted position And lave
not the past years gone to prove that
only the defeated pretend to listen to
directions and suggestions from this
side of the border?
The worst mistake OF all. however. Is
to allow any arms at all to be sent into
that distracted country where there Is
no Government to control or to be held
responsible. American a arms are
being used against our own citizens not
only in Mexico but in our own States.
Bullets have been shot into ranch
houses sixty, seventy and ninety miles
his side of the international border line
by MeNicans who crossed the Rio Grande
with intent to kill the American citizens
who were defending their own property.
And Furthermore. American citizens and
soldiers have been wounded and killed
in United States territory.
The first duty of the United States
Government is not so much 10 protect
foreigners in foreign lands nor hu-
namely TO interfere In the Internal DO
litical affairs of foreign countries az Il
Is to protect its own citizens at home.
II We can do that we should at. least
refrain from materially aiding the as
sassins who invade our land with arms
and attack our citizens. J. A. l..
CpDToN OK Ht-psoS August or
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A Postscript to the COrollary Of the
T%hirty-One Despises.

To TIE EDITOR or THE SuS-Sir: VIII
you allow me to add a postscript to my
corollary to Mrs. Lackey's thirty-one
despises:
/ despise the policy OF the suffrage
party for It's frequent statement OF half
truths. For instance. the Federated
Woman's Clubs indorsed suffrage with
a large minority recording lts protest.
This was followed by an immediate proc
lamation from the suffrage headquar-
tiers that 1000. 900 women (the full
numerical strength OF the federatlon)
Endorsed suffrage.
despise its policy OF deluding the ig-
norant by its promise that suffrage will
lighten the burdens of women workers.
whereas the whole truth is that suf-
frage will increase the stress upon them
and increase competition against them.
Like Tarpeia at the gate OF Rome. they
ask for the shields that men wear. and
would receive them to he crushed be-
meath the weight.
dcspise its policy of suggesting a
woman's strike, sex against sex Amer
leans in groups which would prove
nothing that Is not already known, and
ado TO the burdens of the working
women exploited by the suffrage party.
AN AMERICAN WOMAN.
NEW YORK, August 26.
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How Many?

To tbs Enron OF THE SuN-Sir: |
have voted for the Republican candi-
date for President ever since B!aine's
nomination. | hope to do so In 1916,
But II President Wilson Is renominatea
pose him as German Americans I shall
deem It my duty as we'll as my prlvi-
lcse to vote for his reelection
| am mighty certain that thousands
of other Republicans are Of the same
way Of thinking WILLARD T.. KEYEs.
RosToN, August %.
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Stra NICELY Overlooked.

From Washington by way N a
despatch to the Milwaukee Sentinel
comes news that the Postmaster-t;e,r
eral has reconsidered his plan of OK.
tending automobile delivery Of mails
on the rural routes. Such deli very
Il Is reported, will he continued in ri,
various counties If the six States
where II Is already established. but
Il will not he extended. Temporarily
at least Mr.. BURLEsoN's purlOse (
put the system in operation on all the
rural routes has been ubanaonel.
When Congress passed the Joint
resolution continuing the post office
appropriations of The last to the pres.
ont iiscal year there WAS attached
thereto al the suggestion of Mr.
BURLFsoN permission in the dlscrc,
tion of the Postma ster-Gencral I,
pay Sl.SOo Il year IN rural carriers
furnishing their own motor vehicle.
ana serving "A rural route Of not less
than nifty miles in length.
Tc :ne cOngrc> Smau from a dis
tat having many and long rura'
routes this looked promising and al
IN the interest Of the plain people
On general principles it meant an in
rca in the disbursement If III,
public money, in itself ever desirabl,
and ~commendable. Resides. there
were the collateral personal advan
tages to the statesman himself In III,
gratitude, politically expressed, Of tn,
bcnetciaries.
Sound In theory. but alas in prati
cal application most lamentable. In
stead Of an increase In Government
expenditure there was involved ,
wanton saving running far into tn,
millions by substituting the nutomo
bile for the one horse shay. And how
was this saving effected? Ry nuthln.
more or less than rendering srImr
fuous N" services If thousands nj
able bodied voters.
Not 10 be wondered al thar thor,
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Frances wright, a free thinker and go
cialist, whose moral philosophy Is
ummed up In this excerpt from her
writings:
have devoted my time and fortune to
laying the foundation OF an establishment
where affection shall form the only mar
rage, kind feeling and kind action the
only religion.
ruza,o,h GOA, e,,r, .ht,,,. Itch,
."cram. ss.aaas -. 80.
GroaIan aau.s 49, go, Si"oroa., 60
y]antion oS sucraes,. ~ Isso ana AZ.
,,,araa h.rsa,e 20 ,Sts m,aordtnarr 81
sranca
me right OF woman 10 put away q
husband. be he ever so impure Is never
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rest-ltovsk

The fall Of the great fortress Of
Brest- Lltovsk, upon which the Rus
slams had mvoted their defence along
the river Bug. has come in the short
period OF three weeks after the vie.
torious German army entered War
saw. capital of Poland and third city
In the empire. Brest-LitovSk is n
hundred miles east of Warsaw. Most
notable Is this feat of the Germans
In breaking down the resistance Of
the Russian army and driving it from
one prepared position after another
a hundred miles in twenty-one days
and at last reducing the stronghold
which was to be the stumbling block
in the path of the invader.
There Is no parallel for this stupen-
dous success in modern warfare. and
any conjecture. therefore. as To what
the German var machine may yet ac-
complish is futile. If the Russians
to make a successful stand any.
where. the River Bug in its course
from near Novo GeorgievSk TO Brest.
LitOysk and thence south to Cholm
afforded a defence of great strength.
But all has been in vain. The advanc,
of the invaders was Irresistible. tx.
plantations have been offered for the
evacuation Of Warsaw and the col
lapse ut Novo G~eorgievsk. n great
fortress which was stpi oscl to be
impregnuble. and in each ease ii was
said that strategic considerations
called for the retirement Of the Rus.
sian army If its organization was to
be preserved for a new plan Of cam
paign; and presumably the fall Of
Brest-Litovsk will be accounted for
In much the snme way.
But the fact remains that the Rus
sian army. which covered Itself with
glory In the Galician campaign. tax.
ing I.emberg ana Feremysl. the latter
with an immense number of prison.
ers, threatening Cracow, Selling Stra-
''-' ''iIh'hlhh ih~~N ~ h'~Iflil
into the Hungarian pains. has failed
utterly Ia save lis prestige In the pres.
ence II the powerful German often.
sive and has with difficulty preserved
its organization. When the brilliant
successes of the Russians in the cary
Galician campaign are compared with
their collapse in Poland in contact
with Austrian as well as with German
troops. the Judgment is warranted
that the Russians have been lighting
lately under the handicap of u Dis.
parity of artillery AMI a deficiency ~
small arms ammunition. When such
Is the case there Is un holding any
position If the enemy has Il consid.
crahlc superiority in guns and II sur.
plus cf ammunition. as the Tcutoni"
allies have.
\ parallel with N~APoLEoN's Moscow
campaign may therefore Lee regarded
as irrelevant if speculation is in or
der about the future plans of the
German General Staff. II seems id'c
10 set II limit 10 the tide Of invasion.
The world in modern times has never
known such Il military machine ~
seen such I'M offensive rs that Of the
Tcutonic allies.
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BRooKLYN. August %.


To THE t.pIroH oF THE SUN-Sir, The
Almighty has been blamed for a GOOD
many Of the evils Of this wicked world.
but nothing quite SO bad has heretofore
been aid at Ills door AS this from Mrs.
Edith NJ Arnold of Putnam, Conn. 81
firmly holi"N" that the Almighty Is the
substantial bacNer Of woman suffrage"
If the Almighty Is the Substantial"
hacker of woman suffrage, then either
Jesus was not the Son 81 God, or PAM
was not IA true disciple, for sur-
frlp" j. admittedly ~antagnnistic e. the
"dortrin" of Jesus as preached by pall"
with reference to woman and the mar
rage relation
The Almighty Is presumably NOT In.
norant NJ the fact that the suffrage
movement was started In this unit by
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Micrococcus prodiRiosus In the stan OF
Life.


That housewives may blame the germ
and not the cook when bread goes wrong
Instructor Giasco Of the Kansas state
Agricultural College Is competing a SO
ries 81 experiments on bacteria in bread
Il was found that bread could he eN-
posed and made sick similarly to an AM
NAL, by the harmful micrococcus pro.
digiosus and others Practically every
kind of bad bread was found to he caused
by bacteria.
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The President has the right TO have
said of him nothing but what is true.
The Colonel.
The American Society OF Deliber-
ate and Unqualified Falsifiers smiles
reminiscentlY.
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P'"ni he b'.paker >sHhn,,
hi d ~ Trr'u II, 4iut S,,io stree,
"As the hrsl t. lake nut q hunting -
,",se - the onir' ~ the 'oInty Cork On
Friday.
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London ONCE. Bingham House, 1 Arun'
del street. Strand.
Paris ONCE, 6 Rue de la Mlchodiers. on
RYE du Quatre Septembre.
Warrington once. Hubs Building.
Brooklyn ONCE. l06 Livingston street
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~ or friends <pho favor ne toifh n,dnn.
s,ipts aud Illustrations for publication irfsh
10 Io,s rejected articles returned heD must
~ all cases send stamps for that purpose.
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Six humid cd thousand ries have been
slaughtered in the village of Fcapack,
near here, by the young peop'e, VIM ara
engaged IN a fly killing untcst.-u Ne
tuchen dcSpdtch,
\ fact which probably will not be
featured in next years summer resort
booklets, IT our memory serves, Pea
pack is the place whore several hun
drod thousand Of SMITHS used to
swarm in August.
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Readers OF Tar Sun leaving town for the
summer months can have the daily ana
Sunday and evening editions delivered TO
them In any part OF this country or Eu-
rope on the terms stated above. Addresses
changed as often AS desired. order through
newsletter or directly OF Publication o.
hce, telephone 1900 Beekman.
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-19
SHOW SUPREMACY OF SOUL
Bright Spots in Dark Incidents Of
the Great Conflict Going on
In Europe.

Courage is the universal possession
of the German, the Englishman. the
F~renchman. the Belgian, the Austrian,
the Russian and the Japanese. The
stories of individual GOODNESS and dar-
Ing are so many that they have al
most ceased to attract special atten-
ton. The other day, when the Brit.
ish drt adnaught Formidable went
down in a storm, crushed like an egg
shell by t~orpedoes or mines, its cap
tain-Loxley-was on the bridge as II
sank; and his last words were:
STEADY men; it's all right; keep cool;
do not get in a panic: be British"
Every officer was at his post; many
Of them bad lighted cigarettes, This
stirring exhibition of the fact that
the man does not die when his body
falls in the trenches or sinks in the
ocean a be matched In every navy
and army, All Europe is fighting for
invisible things. There never was
such universal and commanding evi.
dence that the soul of humanity is SUI
preme and invincible.-From the Out,
look.
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