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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
The Show of the Year.

Time was when New Workers dated their year
from the Horse Show-not because everybody
went, but because everybody was interested.
That interest has shifted, moved north some score
and more Of blocks, TO the Grand Central Palace
where everybody who has or hopes to have car
is this week inspecting the cars Of 1915 1t is the
great show Of the year, beyond question. Half
a million visitors are expected. The whole town
talks automobile as it used to talk horse in the
days gone by
1t is a real tribute to the innate charm and
ingenuity of the motor car that this interest per-
sists. Each year we hear more of standardized
cars and standardized types Of cars, yet each
year every car owner returns to prospect among
the novelties set forth. The automobile has be-
come as reliable as a cart horse-more reliable, if
we exempt the still unsolved problem of tires.
The end Of improvement, of changes that mean
vastly increased comfort and convenience, even
if comprising no mechanical revolution, is still
far off.
This years show has as it happens, at least
two important mechanical deyelopments-the
eight cylinder motor and the magnetic transmits
sion, eliminating gear changes. Every motorist
will want to follow the course Of these new eff
forts, whatever their ultimate fate. Aside from
these two centres of interest the show would be
noteworthy for the vast extension of small con-
venences and minor comforts, reinements Of
travel which are destined to make modern motor
riding as different from what we knew before as
limited express is from jerkwater accommo-
dalton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05

Just and arbitrary plucking system and Win
holding Justice from Captain Gibbons and other
admirable officers railroaded on the retired ns'
will be squarely up 10 the reactionaries on inc
Naval Committee. since the Navy Department Is
heartily in favor OF a change.
The Assistant Secretary of the Navy recently
put forward substitute plan for Fastening 'he
flow of promotion. According to 1T officers are
to be judged on the three qualifications OF record
knowledge and professional reputation the latler
to be found in the opinions Of commanding OIL
GERS. Those who fail TO meet fixed standing IN
these matters will be barred from promotion ana
will pass into q class known as the active reserve
list Thus the unfit can be set aside and ample
chance given for the ambitious and able men 70
go forward. Such a scheme Of elimination would
be above-board and free from all suspicion OF
personal animosity and intrigue.
1t is important that the plucking board should
be discarded It is equally important that the IN
justice which it did to competent individual Off
GERS should be made good.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
A CURE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
Socialism and Public Works Are
Brought Forward by a Reader.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A book which every thoughtful
person interested in the crying ques-
ton of unemployment should read IS
the late Edmond Kelly's work on So
cialism. Professor Kelly, If ! remem-
Der Alright, was a member of the facui-
~ of Columbia University, who, after
opposing socialism for many years,
embraced il, and in the book Of which
speak (to which a melancholy inter
est attaches because he died soon after
completing ID he thoughtfully fore
casts certain developments of the pub
lie mind in the midst Of which we
seem to DO living this winter. Espe-
cially he expresses the opinion that
unemployment will be the chief awak-
ener of the people of this country TO
the disorder, waste and wrong Of our
industrial system, and that the coming
changes in it will enter by that means
that the foolish misery Of unemploy-
ment will be the first great social sore
TO be cured (mstead of ameliorated).
do not know whether the New York
papers have noted the steps which
South Carolina and Georgia have taken
10 relieve the unemployed namely,
public works.
SARAH N. CLEGHoRN.
Camden, s. G.. Jan. !, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
A JOKE, KIND OF.
By OUR OWN FRANK TINNEY.

Hello, OrsOn.
Hello, Frank. How are
No, not yet. Let me get extra line in.
Now: Hello, Orson.
Why, hello Frank How are you?
oh, I'm "a right, Orson, 1 am. See?
Amt that more natural? Orson, ! got joke,
Orson, have.
You have joke, Orson?
Yes, got joke. You should say,
"Well, Frank, is it good one?" and then l say:
eyes, but it got in the show anyway"
is it good joke, Frank?
oh, yes indeed it is a good joke, Orson, but
it got in the show, which runs every night and
Wednesday and Saturday matinees, anyway. See?
That's so they won't git sore at me for knockin'
their rotten OF show. Ask me again is it good
joke. To bring us back, like.
is it good joke, Frank?
oh, it's a swell joke, OrsOn. Pause Of one
1ninute1 Ask me what it is. You big Norwegian.
What is it, Frank?
Well, did you see yesterdays Tribune where
they had whole page about Grantland, sayin'
compliments about him and everything?
Yes Frank, ! saw that. l considered it a
remarkable Endorsement of that sterling sport
writer, didn't you?
All you should say is yes you seen it. Don't
try to help me so much. Well, didn't you
think it would make him feel like a breakfast
food, 0rson?
Like a breakfast food, Frank? Why, no.
Ask me how like breakfast food?
How do you mean, Frank, like breakfast
food?
Why, pulled Rice.
[Eritl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
Mr.. Ellison "Aein the Government "

If Mr.. Ellison, counsel for the polcemen's
unions, really believes all he says about police
conditions and the necessity for their improve
ment, he should have tried little work at Police
Headquarters before his newspaper denunciation
of the administration. There hasn't been an adj
minstration in this city in many years so willing
to have advice, suggestions, even criticism, deliv
cred first hand to department heads as Mr..
Alitchel's is. Police Commissioner Woods is a
young man with a good reputation, which he
doesn't care to lose by fzzling in Office Waldo
did, and it's dollars to doughnuts he would have
been properly grateful for any advice of value.
Instead of that man-to-man method-the kind
of human treatment" which Mr.. Ellison demands
for the policemen-he tried the newspaper attack
Whether or not he intended il 10 do so, that at
tack is certain 10 stir up discomfort among feath
erheads in the police force. 1t is certain 10
encourage lawlessness by those who think the
police force demoraized and unfit to do its duty.
IL is certain, that is, to bring about in some
degree Just what Mr.. Ellison threatened if Mr..
Woods didn't do what the policemen's lawyer said
must be done.
Mr.. Ellison has himself been a public official
and can calculate nicely the damaging effect of
his utterance The public cannot undertake TO
Judge his motive. 1t can only know that his
he actually was striving for better
ment-was wofully bad. He can hardly feel proud
10 have aligned himself with the soreheaded,
rebellious policemen and the gangmen who attack
the force individually and collectively yet that
Is the net effect Of what be has done.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
IT TAKES MONEY TO BUY BREAD
Some Illustrations Of the Inadequacy
of Social Service.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your able editorial, "The In
adequacy of Social Service" of to-day
issue. YOU say, at is high time for some
thing besides theorizing and talk" That
reminds me of an old saying, Talk is
cheap, but il takes money TO buy bread"
Why has not Social Service been doing
things in the time of year when such
things should be done-making ready
for times of misfortune to the poor,
which comes doubly upon them in cold
weather? Why have the recreation
piers foot of Christopher st. and west
10th st. not been fitted up for sleeping
quarters as has the one at the foot of
East 24th ST.? Why are the vacant old
public schools (of which there are a
dozen or more) not made comfortable
for the down-and-o outs?
Your SNUG citizen talks and talks OF
what should be done for the poor, but
seldom acts. Ditto the committee on
who undoubtedly mean
well, but are slow in action-red tape
seems to be their stumbling block. Why
not adjust the blame of cutting after
ward? Commissioner Kingsbury can
not give shoes donated for the bare
footed, and Commissioner Featherstone
is afraid to cover his chilled horses
with blankets made for them, because
the law says so and SO. Out upon such
cowardice! Why can't they act as Far
ragut did when told Of danger: Damn
the torpedoesl Go ahead" And in
doing so the public would stand at their
backs. Z. N. SWIFT.
New York, Dec 81, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
One Price for All TaxicabS.

Mayor Mitchels signature to the recently
adopted amendment to the public hack ordinance
brings all taximeter cabs plying in this city under
the restrictions Of the license system and the new
rate of 80 cents for the first half mile. That
amendment is intended to put an end to the prac-
tice Of having taxicabs hired out ION call" at
rate higher than the legal charge, the excess be-
ing divided between the hotel or club which ar
ranges for the service and the taxicab company.
There is no earthly reason why any taXicab
or taxicab company should have any advantage
over its competitors in getting business from the
public. This ordinance puts them on an equality.
If some can get along at the legal rate where
others fail the public can't be expected to weep
or to dig down and pay an overnight charge be-
cause some officials want overnight salaries or
directors overnight dividends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
RELIEF THAT DOES NOT RELIEVE
A Complaint from a Starving Man
with a Clean Collar

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Almost daily now an announce
ment appears i'm the newspapers that a
group of socially, politically or indus
trially prominent gentlemen, hearing
of the huge army of unemployed in
New York at the present time, the Sc
cret having leaked out in the usual
mysterious fashion of our best known
public secrets, have formed commit
tee for the relief of said army and Will
Immediately go to it. or words to that
effect Thus the problem Is solved-in
theory. at least.
Actually, the results are terribly DIS
appointing, largely due TO the unwind
ing of endless red tape and TO other
slow moving processes where the ne
cessities demand instant action. Use
less and tiresome statistics are leisurely
gathered, varying in subject from the
shrinkage in demand for labor because
Of the frost bitten Florida orange crop
down TO the probable number of new
voters that will arrive after the war is
over. A young man registering with
che of these well intentioned commit
tees should make his claim transfera-
Bile, so that when he finds it impossible
his grandchild. having reached the
working age and the committees Office
simultaneously, could claim the IN
heritance. The workings of these spe-
cial committees and other local char
liable institutions are certainly beyond
human comprehension.
4 correspondent hit the nail on the
head the other day when he protested
that because he was able TO make re
spectacle appearance, not at all IN
keeping with the traditional down and
out type, the so-called charitable insti-
tutions to which he applied offered him
very little encouragement. One has 70
lose money, clothes, pride, spirit, am
bition. everything, in fact, and sink TO
the lowest depths of detected poverty
before one becomes eligible for assist
ance. ! have had similar experiences,
the only difference being that was al
lowed TO register IN the employment
bureau of two institutions, a third one
declining 10 do me the small courtesy
Of replying TO q mail inquiry for this
purpose. This registering process, how
ever, is the only thing that has hap
pened so far in my own particular
case. ! broke all speed records getting
down TO the much heralded Municipal
Employment Bureau the second day il
was opened, and i have no doubt my
application. along with 5000 or 1900
others. is resting undisturbed in its
original pigeonhole there.
II there was an institution 10 look
after such applicants as are still able
to wear a clean collar 20 whom pre-
ventive might be administered, il would
lessen 10 a considerable extent the
number who have to undergo the more
difficult operation of a cure. IL would
also cut down the prevailing number Of
suicides and robberies. have been
out OF work for an exceptionally long
period now. and If nothing material
ICES very shortly | will be reluctantly
compelled to select a dark street cor
ncr and a section of lead pipe suitable
for night work or else give up crowd
ing the universe. because ! am unable
TO dodge the undertakers for a much
longer period DOUBTFUL.
New York. Jan. 2, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
The Coming Tower
The Boundaries of Appreciation.

When some one pulls droll idea.
When some one thrusts a jocund Jab'
I laugh right out. You can't call me
Crab.
The dollars that | spend are many
To get a little bit OF fun
q like a Joke as well as any
One"
! do not elevate mine eyebrow
At what another thinks is rough;
| do not have to have the hghbrow
Stuff
Yet nothing keeps my heart from sinking
Alas how then my spirits droop!-
At Jokes about the noise OF drinking
Soup.
And though have a ceaseless yearnlng
For any quip or crank or wheezc,
l cannot smile at Jokes concerning
Cheese.
! used to blame this lovely climate,
But deep deliberation shows
Ne why ! have so sad a time at
Shows
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
ARMS AND THE SCHOOL
Mothers Are Urged to Oppose Mill
tary Training of Children.
The Editor Of Tho Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We hear that "the Mayor Is
considering the introduction OF mill
tary training in our public schools"
would like to ask what the mothers are
considering.
There are two or three things that
have been regarded until recently, even
by the most masculine minds, as pc
culiarly woman's sphere and duty-the
home and the training of young chH-
Gren. We are told that ii mother
impresses herself and morality upon
her children during the tender years OF
their lives their future will be secure.
God knows, many women and moth
ers yearn for peace and would do all
in their power to bring 1t about. Men
tell us that woman's suffering and tor
ture during times of war are her por-
ton, but many OF US are beginning TO
think that we would like to have some
thing 10 say about this, and il we must
be martyrs we would like to be given
j choice of martyrdom, and If our little
children are to be taught that OF which
we disapprove without our permission
the time has indeed come when we
must in all honor and in defence OF
our young take a stand.
II any period of little child's life
should be sacred from hate and cruelty
it is that part when his mind should
be prepared for the worlds peaceful
work and brotherly kindness.
To introduce into the classroom and
study hour the suggestion of war and
butchery is to defile the only secure
time that women have to impress the
female point of view. No sentimental
ity about training the boy for defence
can cover the perfectly apparent fact
that if he must defend himself and his
country it must be against--whomE
The suggestion is evil and would come
at an age when boys particularly have
no need of such instruction.
And, pray, what are our girls TO De
taught during the hours in q mixed
class when bows are drilled 20 antici-
pate the day when they will be called
upon 70 slaughter their kind?
Mothers, are you stolidly going to
accent the male decision as TO what
your children are to be taught2 Do
YOU shudder at .he horrors inflicted
upon other mothers sons and then
spinelessly keep silence when your own
sons are trained for similar fate
Have you nothing to say as to thisg
No oplnionE
The women probation officers were
removed before the protest of women
was voiced in defence of the needs OF
their sex Mother-teachers are SQUAD
bled over while the effect upon the pu-
pills goes unheeded-but do not add this
last weakness to the list. Before mill
tary training is introduced into the
Public school system let mothers de-
mand a hearing and side by side with
the fathers of their children consider
this terrible subject we'll
HARRIET T. C0MST0CK.
Flatbush, n. Y, Jan. 4, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
BISMARCK AND GERMANY
From a Reader Unscquainted with the
Great Chancellor's Memoirs.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue Of January 1 you
published "Reply to Professor Wien."
signed NJ. b. In this reply NJ. b. speaks
of German thickheadedness; accuses
Germany of the infamy of broken
faith, pillage, rapine and murder in
Belgium, etc. Furthermore he calls
Bismarck self-confessed forger and
plotter for the crime of war, man
without honor. a NJ hero for a nation
without honor
/ am not able to reply to NJ. b. in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
A CRITIC OF JOHN BURR0UG
His Words an Insult to Enslishme'-
Also He Is No Diplomat

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In to-day's issue Of The Tris.t
/ read, under the caption, John Dc
roughs on Kultur," an entirely ahs'
ranted slur on Englishmen. | an y"
particularly interested in the eonIF
versy between Mr. Burroughs and nv
fessor w. Wien in re Kultur, whieh' =
a recent writer stated, IS synonyms.
with efficiency as applied TO uIs
German. Dir. Burroughs writes; ~
urally my own sympathles woaiH
with your people" Why ns"s '...
when his progenitors undoubtedly ".
English, the name being Anglo,ssllSs
q like the Germans. | had
rather have a German for my ns't ~,
than an Englishman; unless :
pick the Englishman / would cnsp~,
on the German" Does not tnis ~ ~,
ment, showing marked predileeui;e's.
the Germans, imply persona s,e
periority? Doubtless the pleSse ~
lishman would feel highly ho1ois% ~
up in the air, so 20 speak, in oei.s
lected TO bask in such exclusive - Il.
pherel Many eminent persons g.
sessed of excellent and loYaoie
are nevertheless obsessed WIS As
own importance. They feel olg ~
own burg. But why the forego.hs
suit 70 millions Of Englishmsn
not tantamount 20 saying, ns.
Briton for neighbor; | must w.. ~,
eye on the chicken coop ana ~
patch? There is an ineongIs,,"", 81
this truly great man deseendings, III BE-.
aspersion and innuendo anen' 'N'
lish. =. ui,f
Posta nascitur, non a. mlgsss Bsr
equal truth be applicable 20 ySap Is,i
roughs as born natuI~''' .l.cs
ornithologist. an authority u h,
without a peer, especially on is,s,,
and lore. Had he, however, ..,,,iiitf
diplomatic career, instead OF s,siist
as an erudite writer and scsi
venture as a diplomstisf az
have been an absolute failure,
ALFRED PAUL PhiL'
panbury, Conn, Jan. 1, 1912
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05

utive has interfered with the rights OF
our business men TO trade in per-
fectly legitimate way with the Allies
thus acting on behalf of Germany; now
this protest TO England is in effect fur
Their Intervention on Germany's side,
as the outburst of jubilation from that
country's press clearly shows. II our
President does not feel called upon TO
express any opinion upon the criminal
outrage upon civilization involved IN
the attack upon Belgium, even when
officially asked TO do so, surely he
might at least refrain from indirect
attack upon the Allies by assisting the
German cause. FAIR PLAY.
New York, Jan. /, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
DrODJ DC cor TININ An Forum
L

the billingsgate he is using. s.n'
ply ask, Who are you, N. B., Us
you dare to besmirch the memory .
Bismarck, TO SANDER q whole cate.
and 10 insult twenty-five millions Q
Americans of German descent .
German birth? ] call a man ".
publishes such slandering wore
anonymously a coward. ! ehallssf
NJ. B. 70 come out with his fun nss'
and position in social life, I }.
has one. There is no need to dsfs.
Germany against such vile accusatio'
Germany also does not seek and c'e
not need the sympathy OF such Ans.
cans as VI. B., who is arrogant encsg'
70 call his view the prevailing Arr'
can view of Germany"
DIR. ALBERT A. RIPPERGBk
New York, Jan. ,, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
Divorcing Politics from Social Service.

Governor Whitman is entirely right when he
saws Politics does not mix well with health and
charity" II doesn't. Yet persistent efforts have
been made to make them mix in the last four
years of state administration. Politics crept into
the administration of the Health Department
and the states charities as well as into the other
state departments Indeed in broad interpre-
tation of the term it is due to politics that there
are twenty-sx departments or bureaus having
jurisdiction over eighteen charitable institutions,
as Assemblyman Hinm9n has pointed out.
The Governor calls on department heads to
root politics out Of these departments. That is a
considerable task, as the departments are consti-
tuted Yet it is one that ought to be undertaken
one that must be accomplished, whether by
the men who now hold Office or by appointees of
the Governors making. Politics has no place in
the social service work of the state. Politicians
do not belong in that service when they are poll
ticans and nothing more. The Governor by elm
mating discordant elements will do much to help
the states wards.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
Righting the Wrongs Done by the Pluck
Ing Board.

The Rules Committee Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives has just announced that it will cord
tally support any measures looking 10 the aboli-
ton Of the naval plucking board and the restora-
ton TO the active list of officers who have been
victimized by that boards star-chamber rulings.
II the Committee on Naval Affairs wants spe-
cisI rule 10 expedite such legislation all it has 20
Do is 60 ssk for g. Should no request he made
lie gsspoaSibtig for maintaining the present "a.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
Tn. Patent Medicine Csmpns'

To the Editor Of The Tribune. =
Sir: Glad 20 note your s,e !
patent medicine advertisements ,Ds.. ,sss
these days of takers snd looI' sssp
paper paper printing it does one COCA ..' r. \
interested in the uplift OF . 4 Tss frs
see paper Of the type Of Nag,
una take the stand you are xSrtN
INV GEORGE NJ, Ck sa,s
Kingston. n. Y, Jan. 2 isie
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
Presidential Neutrality.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: President Wilson having called
upon the people Of this country to OBJ
serve an attitude Of strict neutrality
toward all the belligerents, is it not
time for the people 20 call upon the
President himself TO do likewise
Time and again thu WAahlngton Exec
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05

The Tribune totshss 60 49,, 80
r,aders that anonymous rsr ~ "
h. Driafed IN Iris c0iHmH ~ kfs.f
ords and as dn dSsHfdhtN 49, 49, :
oood faith. ndme aid - Ga.,' ~ =" :
sIgned "a epcry case tas's rsc.es.<
pyblshed " the wfifer ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05

"As reader" David Arnold Bach, OF Ossining
mounts the Peoples Forum TO crate, 81 moved
to protest against your printing the vaporings of
the white-lvered, ehcken-hearted, thirdsex Great
ures who hide behind initials pseudonym."
Unaccustomed rs il is TO public rebuttal, The
Tribune begs TO reserve the right to admire the
pifle Of Mark Twain and o. Henry.
But it has no sympathy with the recreant subter-
fugs Of hiding behind initials.