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New-York tribune., 1915-08-04
Patriotism and War.
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Amid the rattle of rifles and bayonets,
the thunder of guns and the agonizing walls
of the wounded, it was refreshing to hear a
powerful appeal for peace, echoing round
the world, uttered by an American woman,
Jane Adams. If through her efforts the war
can be shortened by year, month, or even
day, Miss Adams will receive the blessing
Of millions of mothers.
There are other American women who have
made their contributions toward peace, not
universal peace-their ambition is more mod
est-but toward securing peace to this coun-
try. They are our sisters in Kansas who
have started the Walnut Grove cadet corps.
This is the first womens military organiza-
tion in America, but not the last, as the
twenty-four young women who form this body
have planned a statewide campaign to have
similar corps started in other Kansas towns
Patriotic German women, some of the most
arstocratic classes have taken an active part
in the fighting, and their example has been
followed in other belligerent countries. But
the object Of our Walnut Grove sisters is to
prevent war by promoting throughout the
land an ardent and active patriotism. More
power to them! Their names will be written
in golden letters in the annals of American
patriotism. n. BEHAR.
New York, July 26 1915.
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04
Mr.. Rockefeller's Aphrodite.

The statue bought by Mr.. Rockefeller to
adorn his Temple of Love at Pocantico
Hills is a thing Of extraordinary interest
apart from all aesthetic considerations, for
it is one of the few works Of art that ever
wrought up the people of this town to a
pitch of wild and undisciplined excitement.
Three times in the last quarter of CEN
Itury we have witnessed this unusual spec
tacle: when Sorolla made his first appear
ance here, when the Cubists, Futurists and
other fashionable innovatOrs were intro
duced, and when the National Arts Club
exhibited this notorious Aphrodite.
The emotional extravaganza created by
the Aphrodite was the most difficult of al!
to account for on the strength of the object
itself. Setting other circumstances aside,
Sorolla's paintings possessed all the ele-
ments of popularity and were sure at least
to sell well. The ArmoYy exhibition was
the best exhibition of contemporary art
ever held here and besides it was full of
things that had been much talked about
and never hitherto seen by the public of
! New York. The Post-Impressionists were
hard to understand; Sorola was very easy
to understands: in either case a tip from
/ the knowing ones was enough to inflame
the public mind. There was nothing in
the Aphrodite, however, to justify any eX-
pectation of popular enthusiar.. 1t would
not have attracted much attention at a
miscellaneous exhibition of sculpture, but
would probably have passed as good
modern reproduction. Yet it gave rise to a
demonstration far more extraordinary
than anything seen at the Armory.
The rabble that used to assemble every
day about the 'Nude Going Downstairs"
was composed largely of gigglers; but at
the Arts Club there were none but wor-
shippers, who contrived somehow to whip
themselves into a state of incredible
aesthetic exaltation. Nothing like these
assemblies had ever been seen here before
and may never be again. People would
come daily and place nosegays on the
pedestal of the statue and poems addressed
to Aphrodite were laid rsverentially at her
feet. 1t was an amazing spectacle. To ac-
count for it we must look further than the
statue itself, which was really very nice,
but not exciting enough to explain so
much perturbation in community that
generally takes its art pretty stoically.
The true explanation lies in the atmos-
phere of mystery that was created about it,
partly by the owner and partly by critic
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04
Appeal from Mrs. Henry Balfour
O the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May | beg the hospitality of your
widely read journal for an appeal on behalf
Of our aviators in active service? In view
Of the likelihood of the campaign being
continued through the autumn and winter,
am anxious to collect the following articles,
which will be urgently needed by the men OF
the Royal Naval Air Service and of the Royal
Flying Corps in the western war area and
elsewhere: Cardigans, sweaters (both
urgently needed, flannel shirts and vests
leather and knitted waistcoats, helmets
gloves, socks and muffiers | shall be most
grateful for any contributions which may
be sent to me, now or later, of articles such
as the above, or of money, which will enable
me to purchase those objects which seem
most urgently needed. The high apprecia-
tion with which consignments of such things
as the above were received by our aviators
during last winter emboldens me to make
this appeal to the well known generosity of
American sympathizers.
EDITH BALFOUR
Langley Lodge. Headington Hill, Oxford
England, July q, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04
German Bands.

The German bands have become
strangely numerous on the streets OF the
metropolis, and they play Die Wacht am
Rhein" with cyclonic power. They have
been complained of by the writers of let
ters to various editors as unreutral, but
the friends of the Allies are probably
right in not making any representations
to President Wilson on the subject.
In the first place, these bands are a
striking proof of the fact that there are
thousands of Germans in this country who
are more or less in a state of captivity
They are composed of men who are mag
nifcently eligible at least to the German
Landsturm, which is now in the fighting
line. To have such lung and leg power
wasted on the streets of New York, while
it might be blowing inspiriting horns, or
even carrying fire projectors, at 4pres or
Lublin. must be a saddening, humiliating
thing to all loyal Germans. And the par
tisans of the Allies must reflect that the
more German bands there are on the
streets of New York the less food for
melinite there is in the Fatherland. This
thought is likely to inuuce equanimity in
the Allied mind in listening to the gusty
strains of "Die Wacht am Rhein" in the
purlieus of Harlem or among the spread
ing ailanthus groves of Washington
Heights.
Another consideration removes the per-
formance of patriotic German airs by
these wandering musicians far from the
domain Of German propaganda. The
bands are universally composed of such
wretched musicians that they are rapidly
making "Die Wacht am Rhein" odious to
the entire population, of whatever ma
tional origin. 1t will soon become a ques-
ton, with each successive "drive" of these
musical barbarians, whether Allied coun-
ter-offensves will not be provoked even
on Avenue A or upper Amsterdam ave-
nue.. The tide of aesthetic wrath may be
said to be rising every day.
So the Allies do well, on the whole, to
let the German bands severely alone.
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04
Where Progress Resides.

Colonel Roosevelt's announcement that
he intends to remain Progressive was tc
be expected AS the head and front OF
that party-indeed, its cause for existence
he could not well desert it while any
other members, even a few, remained. But
there is in evidence in that announcement
a great change in the attitude Of the chief
Progressive toward others and other par
ties from the days when the Bull Moose
were presented as the fount of all right
eousness and the source Of the nations
salvation.
There is a broad spirit of tolerance
toward those who have re-entered the Re
publican party and tacit acknowledge
ment that it may be possible for them
there to work for progressive ideas and
modern methods of government. In other
times not so very long ago they would
have been backsliders, not to call them
traitors, as some of the more hot-headed
local Progressives have done.
All this is a notable advance. which will
be valuable to the extent to which the
spirit of it is continued. Neither the Bull
Moose nor the Republican party has a
monopoly of virtue or Of that general
state of mind which, demanding improve
ment and moderqity in social and politi-
cal conditions and governmental agencies,
is termed progressive for lack of some
more specific name.
In this state particularly it is essen
TALLY a question Of individual judgment
whether more can be accomplished for the
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04
The Bronze Horses of Venice.


CFrom The Manchester Guardian)
The four bronze horses which have been re-
moved from the facade of st. Marks at Venice
symbolic one of Europe's mistakes mis-
take that is the far-back cause of one part Of
the present war. Why they should stand
so prominently and, as it seems, so irrele-
vanity on the cathedral front is puzzle to
all who do not know their story. They are
excellent Roman work of the imperial age,
and probably crowned more than one trium-
phal arch at Rome. Constantine removed
them to Constantnople, where they were ap-
proprately used to ornament the Hippodrome.
When the crusadng armies, in 1908, had
turned aside from the rescue of the Holy
Sepulchre to besiege Constantinople, and in
the following year, the city had been taken
and barbarously sacked, the Venetians
brought these horses to Venice and placed
them on the external gallery of the front
of st. Marks as trophies of victory.
The victory of which the bronze horses were
a trophy was treason to Europe. and in the
end disaster both for Venice and Europe. It
greatly weakened the Eastern Christian En-
pire and contributed to its final destruction
by the Turks in 1853. Thus the Turks got
Constantinople and firm footing in Europe.
"The fall of Constantnople in 1863" says
Mr. Horato Brown the historian Of Venice,
with ali the consequences which it entailed
was in no small measure due to Venetian ac-
ton in the Fourth Crusade Had the four
horses never found their way TO Venice that
city might have been spared its long and un-
availing warfare with the Turk, the Parthenon
at Athens might not have been destroyed by
shot from a Venetian cannon, the Crimean
and other wars might not have taken place,
and to-day our Lancashire lads might not be
laying down their young lives on the CALI
poli Peninsula. In 1897 Napoleon took the
horses TO Paris. In 1915 the Austrian En-
peror Francis restored them to their long
familiar place at Venice. Now they have
been removed again, this time out OF risk Of
destruction by Austrian bombs, and another
chapter is added to their already remarkable
history.
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04
Mr.. Osborne Should Go.

lt is with sincere reluctance IndI LIN
Tribune has reached the conclusion that
Thomas Mott Osborne should be removed
as Warden Of Sing Sing Prison. But there
seems now no possible doubt that his con
tnuance means anarchy in prison admin
listration. chaos in a state department, and
what is still more undesirable, the ultl-
mate sacrifice of those ideals of prison bet
terment which so many of us have cher
ished and for which every cne was pre-
pared to overlook incidental mistakes and
temporary confusion.
1t has been realized from the start that
portion of Mr. Osbornes difficulty grew out
of the opposition of those who represented
an older regime, destitute of all real
humanity and suspect as part of sys-
tenn of graft and corruption which has long
been a disgrace to this state.
All of us were willing, anxious, to see
the newer principles of penology-or the
better doctrines of humanity-applied to
the unfortunate and to the vicious, whose
offending, however great, was felt by grow
ing numbers not to exclude them from the
sympathy or the attention of the state and
the community. There was general recog-
milton that whatever limitations Of temper
and temperament Mr.. Osborne possessed
he was sincerely anxious to serve the newer
doctrines of prison administration and ap-
ply a broader spirit of humanity to the
criminals.
But the situation has now come to this;
| 1t is no longer conceivable that Mr.
Osborne can continue at Sing Sing without
bringing discredit to the very principles
and ideals which he went there to serve
The whole cause of prison reform is be-
ginning to suffer from his mistakes of
Judgment and defects of temper. If he con-
tinues, the whole cause of prison reform
seems destined to be retarded for years in
this state.
And it is the cause of prison reform that
The Tribune is most deeply interested in.
1t has supported Mr.. Osborne in the past
it has borne patiently with his shortcom'
ings, because it has wanted to do nothing
to strengthen the hands Of those of his op-
ponents whose motives it understood, whose
purposes it detested. Precisely as long as
there seemed any chance that Mr.. Osborne
could continue without wrecking the pri-
mary object Of his mission we have held
our peace, or indorsed those things he
worked for which seemed to US praise
worthy.
But that time has passed In the inter
est Of prison reform in the future in this
state The Tribune believes Mr.. Osborne
should retire. If he persists in refusing tc
resign, we believe Governor Whitman
should cause his removal. The Tribune
recognizes that Mr.. Osborne's has been an
honest failure, but it is not willing that
the failure should injure a cause vastly
more precious than any personal interest
of the present Warden of Sing Sing.
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04
Women in Business.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your paper Of July 2S II IS ra'ne
amusing to read your correspondents views
on women in business lie evidently believes
that it is a poor rule that does not "o,- %
both ways, for the evils that he thinks iol'V"
when a woman enters business life are ~
ones that are generally believed 10 " =.
womsns heritage outside Of Ou'.Nss'
career-namely, the petty sharpness ana ~
derhandedness that are natural 10 "s
woman who is economically dependent upD'
man and must rely upon his chance gehe
ositv or meanness for her keep
Does your correspondent wish US 20 oehe,s
that all people are made low ana ls.Vs'. ~.
by business? Or does he think ous'Hs.'
methods ennoble the male and lower 'he -,
male7 If this Is so is he willing 10 'u's', -,
that the virtues he admires m women 80 -,
only when they are restricted and cohHne.. -,
Such people as the writer Of TINS "''..
to which ! refer place morality upon -
frail and insecure basis. II women are -. ~.
irresponsible creatures as he suggests "A
sooner they are brought into the open 49,,
shorn of their ill-gotten charm the 80 .l
for the race. Unfortunately CD se'e.'
millions of them are in business, ana LIZ, ,.
stay there; others and some ous,"Is. .ss
women, thank heayen,-are mothers o. -.
world, and if they have only guarded ~
tues" to pass or to their sons the IU'
looks pretty dark. IA.
There is, a. a matter of fact, not one "a. o..
of truth in your correspondents taih' ~
young woman who becomes debased oy ~,
ness would become debased By soHe'a-s ..,s
else il the doors Of shop, office or 80,
were closed to her. Such things are temps
mental and have nothing TO do with 'he |:.k
The subterfuges TO which some men l;,.
in order to bolster up their blind preiu., -,
are pitiful and alarming, and can ON; IA.
what a woman said recently TO me III IAN
rado: "How ashamed of themselves you,
will be some day when they look BACK back;
HARRIET T. COMsIV0A
Brooklyn, July %, 1915
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04

the Hateful Doctrines Bnh ietc ana
etof NGItasm

junk. while their children have been allowed
to slave the rest of their lives to pay the
tally.
If the present war could result in the
overthrow of bloody German feudaism and
prasping English capitalism, il might be
worth all the blood that has been shed. Bot
it won't Thererl be some ponderously
diotic talk about national honor satisfied,
some boundaries will be shifted and some
particular group of capitalists will be gwen
new markets, and that will be all there will
be TO t-all but the debts and the wounded
and the insane and the widowed and father
less, relics of the noble game OF war.
When the Lusitania incident occurred
was as indignant as any one. | was for TAX
ing a rife and going out to wreak vengeance
then and there. But upon reflection saw
that there was not the slightest chance IN
the world of wreaking it upon any RESPONSE
Bile party The Kaisers and Won Ilrpiues
could never be reached. Even in event OF
defeat of the German arms, and all OF tne
gentlemen 10 blame being captured they
would be marched out with the hignest
honors, and if I-an humble soldier-Snoula
even so family express my emotions as 70
land an overripe tomato or egg on one OF
their august countenances ! would De locheu
up in the guardhouse and punished by my
owr officers. All that would be offered me
would be the opportunity Of numbering some
fresh-fac German boy who was no more 70
blame for the atrocity than I, WITH perhaps
the added satisfaction Of seeing in the amer
lean Sunday papers, when it was all over
pictures of the Kaiser and Teddy shaHns
hands and each congratulating the other on
his courage and prowess.
So | decided the best thing I could DO
would be to keep quiet, and then after the
war was over do what little I could 10 tor
ward the German revolutionary movement
which is bound 70 come. That and do my
tiny best against the growth of German
militarism (for whose grand efficiency NJ
Roosevelt expresses such profound admhs
tom in my own country.
Which am doing at this very moment
NORMAN TALC0TT'
Greenwich, Conn, July %, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04
Loans to Students.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you kindly inform me through
your paper if there is any society or organ
ization which loans money to deserving stu
dents in order to aid them to complete their
college course? If so, will you please publish
their names and greatly oblige.
STUDENT.
Albany, n. Y, July q, 1915.
We do not know of such an organization
but would suggest that the correspondent ad-
dress his query 10 the Commissioner of Edu-
cation at Washington.-Ed.
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04
"The First Anniversary"
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is great satisfaction to have
The Tribune take such firm stand for jus
tice and right as expressed in its leading
editorial THE First Anniversary Of TO
days issue.
| am sure that it voices the sentiment OF
the great silent majority.
GEORGE A. TRAVER.
New York, Aug. /, 1915
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04

Thanks to that Tnvsble Government
which rules newspapers, as well as states,
there appeared on this page yesterday, in
an article entitled "By Train to Fez," the
following errors: Taxa was translated as
"Torza," Kairuan as "Kaernain," and the
familiar French term for North Africa,
Africa Minor, was corrected" to "Asia
Minor" This last, by placing Morocco in
Asia, achieved geographical change be-
yond the possibilities of war itselr
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04

To Heaven, the Kaiser would have us be-
ieve, is to be attributed full praise for Ger
man success to date. This is all right, but
will Heaven have to accept equal responsible
ity for any German reverses hereafter?
Plainly partnership with the Kaiser carries
a heavy burden of care for the Deity. if this
be the case.
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04

Reports of Turkish atrocities in Asia dis
close an amiable Osmanli effort to assimilate
the "Kultur" of their ally. But judging from
recent reports they have still much to learn
in the way of terrbleness.
New-York tribune., 1915-08-04

British Gain $50 Yards.-Headline.
Has any one told Kitchener about Brick
ley?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-04

of Russia must be destrouet by Fire
or dynamite. If Mr.. Bryan and or
Mr.. Wilson want to be British then 1t
Is better to go there and stand there.
to watch when British put UP the
American flag in order to save there
ships from to be sunk.
"Tt must be destroyed: the Fore
River ship Yards at Quincy, ILL.,, or
Mass
'2-The bethlehem Steel Corpo-
ration, Pa. which put up Schrapnefs.
The President of the Company claims,
he has orders for 500 Millions That
lis enough to kill all People in Amer
lea and Europe.
"'s-Ky. Wagon Manufacturing Co.
to deliver 5000 wagons.
1.-The Financial News from New
York claims the Pawder Manufak-
toring Co, at Mupong (probably Du-
Pont) will deliver for so Million dol
lars of Pawder and America Calls her
self neutra.
"It it better to wreak a Train with
war material as see thousands of men
kilt.
.. "A reward from 10000 Dollars Will
! be paid to German or Irish patriot
to help US in this war. To help us
annihiiate our enemits-
(Signed}
a THE GERMAN COMMITTEE !"
In addition to the fifty copies of this
circular. hidden in one newspaper.
was page of notes. written in Ger
man, which freely translated were an
follows:
Help us. please, / was a member
in ST. Louis from 1886 to 1905, Either
distribute the enclosed circulars IN the
morning in any factory or post trem
up at II o'clock at night at some
street. corner. This becomes necessary
II the Washington crowd viii not stop
or prohibit the sending of war muni-
ltions to the allies o. that dollar! We
de deserve a place in Heaven! s.
d. r., formerly memberit
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-04
Bsscball Facss and Figures.

Salaries first were paid 10 bau play
ers in 1858 by the CINCINNATI club.
Roger Common. the famous old slug
ger, in 1911 games In ten consecu-
tivs seasons had grand batting av-
eraxe OF .325. Richard j. (Dickey)
pierce IL credited with introducing
the bunt hit in the summer of 1875.
The first 10 game on record was
played by the Chicago and st. Louis
teams In 1875. the former winning
the contest. O. Nicholson holds the
record for the greatest number OF
stolen bases In season. When with
the Frankfort team OF the Blue Grass
League, In 1912, he pilfered Ill sacks
in 12a games In 1913 the Meridian
team. OF the Cotton states League.
was defeated in twenty-sfx consecutive
games. the record. The first no-hit
game. no player reaching first base,
in the history OF baseball. took place
in 1875 James Calvin. OF the st.
Louis Reds, was the record-making
twirier. and he pitched against the
Casa Club Of Detroit. The battle took
place at Iona, Michigan. on August
II. The feat was repeated twice n
1879 by J. L, Richmond. OF the Wor-
cester. National League, outfit ON June
Q. against Chicago, and on July -,
againAt Springfield. Again, on June
IA. 1885, Richmond performed the
same stunt AGAINST Cleveland:. and In
the same year, on June ~, John ~,
Ward, twirlar for Providence. beat
Buffalo Ia this kind Of a contest No
additions were made To these names
until May s. 1904. twenty-four years
later. when ID. T. lsCys') Young, Of
the Boston American League team,
defeated the Athletics in q no-hit, no
player reaching first. game. and "A.
loss similarly heat the White Sos
when he twirIed for the Cleveland
American League club on October 3
1908. r. w. Thayer. Ok Harvard. In
vented the mask in ISy&.. He
was catching for the Crimson team
1t the time.--Ed A. Gcswcy. In Les
He's.