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Toward Sex Equality.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May the mother of four growing boys
EXPRESS an opinion on the equal suffrage
question through the medium oe your valued
paper? Now, it seems to me that the funda-
mental principle of democratic government
is that there should be no privileged class.
One of the chief demands Of the feminist
Iropagandists is for equality between the
sexes. Nov, In order to establish this state
of equality wou suggest these few changes
in our present social fabric:
l. Equal pay for equal work for men and
women
,. Equal guardianship Of children.
3. The obligation of all women to support
themselves and contribute an equal amount
with the husband to the maintenance of their
children and the home.
a. The abolition of the wife's right of
dover in her husbands estate.
5. Abolition of the crime Of wife desertion
by the husband or the institution of CORE
spor ding crime OF husband deserton by the
wife.
g. Equal punishment for equal crime as
between the sexes Women to be held strict
ly accountable for their tortuous acts.
T. The abolition of capital punishment or
the execution of females convicted of capital
crime
{. Radical reform in laws pertaining to
alirony, et:.
Radical changes in the system that puts
TIE reputation of every honest man in the
street or subway at the mercy Ot'sny woman
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30
Becker.

Charles Becker is a corrupt policeman
whom two juries declared guilty Of murder.
Every remedy which law provides for the
protection of the innocent has been en-
oloyed by his diligent and experienced
counsel. These have proven vain because
his conviction was in accordance with law
and evidence. If ever capital punishment
be a proper method of dealing with crim-
nails it is in this case.
It is a popularity common to the popu-
lation of all great cities that their inter
est in crimes involving the inhabitants OF
the underworld" and in our local drgot
the system" is constant and almost
passes the point of decency.
Thanks to this we have for several
wears been assailed with the foul and dis
gushing details of a drama in which
gamblers. stool pigeons, prostitutes and
all the dramatis persona of the Tender
loin and the Bowery have played con-
spicuous part in each days news.
The Becker case has been an intolera-
BILE stencil in the public nostrils. 1t has
beeh as wearisome as the Thaw case, and
it has excited something Of the same
maudlin and crack Drained sympathy for
Becker that was aroused for Harry Thaw'
Nothing in the whole history of the
Becker case is as appropriate and as sat
isfactory as the end that seems now to be
fixed In its latest phase it has been no
more nor less than midsummer madness.
A guilty murderer, corrupt and faith
less public servant, an instrument ana
tool of crime and friend Of criminals Is
going to be executed for wholly sordld,
cowardly, contemplate murder. That is
all there is to it and all further comment
is superfiuous.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30
Stalking the Perfect Husband.

Mrs. Martha Stevens, of Brooklyn, who
has advertised for husband, would dis
prove the ungracious remark of Horace
Greeley that "a widow of doubtful age
will marry almost any sort OF a white
man." Her quest is for the perfect
husband" and she naturally wishes a large
assortment of applicants, larger as
sortment than her circle of acquaintance
offers. One can entertain only sympathy
and admiration for so optimistic and
courageous lady.
But will she obtain this paragon whom
she seeks? A successful business man
in the early forties, teetotaler, COM
panion and home slayer, one who is
affectionate, highly chivalrous and not
given to bossing-such mates do not hang
head downward from the bushes for the
plucking. They exist, but almost invarl-
ably in bondage to the ones who through
years of training have rendered them the
well broken husbands that they are.
"My first husband was as near perfect
as a man could be-" Mrs. Stevens says.
All, but how much of that perfection was
due to constant association with one whose
standards in husbands are stimulation?
It may prove difficult indeed to provide
his duplicate from the raw material offer
ing itself in every mail. 1t is highly prob
able that Mrs. Stevens will find it neces-
sary again to mould the thing she wants
from the rough, and once completed and
polished off we shall hope that, unlike
his predecessor, he survives to permit her
enjoyment of the fruits of her efforts.
We say this in full appreciation of the
fact that Mrs. Stevens has the world of
the unattached among males at her feet.
For has not so great an authority as
Thackeray declared: "This l set down as a
positive truth. A woman with fair oppor-
tunities and without positive hump, may
marry whom she likes? And Mrs.
Stevens, we are informed, has no handi-
cap whatever, while possessing pink
cheeks, a cluster of Castle-clip curls, a
smile that breaks easily and often and a
fourteen room house beautifully fur
nished. Happy the man who can say of
her: II caused the widows heart to sing
with Joy"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30
The Beam in German Eyes.
o the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Germany has violated Belgian neu-
trality, not forgetting all Of the women and
children that were murdered and outraged.
She has broken the law OF nations by attempt
ing to rend from us the freedom Of the seas,
for which our forefathers fought and died.
And yet the Germans and Austrians can
honestly attempt to preach TO US about manu-
featuring munitions of war for the Allies;
which is absolutely justified by international
law, II Germany were able to get her navy
loose so as to protect her commerce, she also
would be buying her munitions here. II. S.
New York, July "a, 1915.
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coast towns. But there apparently our
good offices must stop. We should I'M
doubtedly be willing to supervise Haytrs
customs collections and strengthen out her
debts if we are invited to do so. But It
would be foolish to thrust this helpful
service on the Haytians, so long as they
feel that it would not be to their advan-
tage-that it would constitute, in the
language of the inimitable Bobo, "a
paralysis of all patriotic initiative graft
and the humiliation Of the national
spirit (the spirit which flames out
brightest in the demand for immunity to
conduct revolution for all it is worth).
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30
Crimean War Munitions.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: "Skookum Bob" wishes to know how
American-made munitions of war figured in
the Crimean War.
In Bridgeport they will tell you that the
first big money made in the war munition
trade by manufacturers of that city was in
orders placed by Russia during that war.
Prior to that time the making OF such sup
plies in Bridgeport was on a comparatively
small scale.
Bridgeport also figured in the Franco
Prussian War of 1870, when again large con-
tracts were placed at fancy figures by the
French government.
In other words, the development Of the am
munition trade in Connecticut, according to
local authorities, is largely the result Of or
ders placed by foreigners either at war or
preparing for war, just as the enormous fac
tories row under construction in that city are
being built out of prospective profits on con-
tracts placed since the outbreak OF nostilities.
New York, July IS, 1915. YANKEE.
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Praise for Mr.. Colvin's Letter.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | can't refrain from writing and say
ing that Andrew Colvin's letter regarding
the controversy between the United States
and Germany is the nearest to the truth
that have read in The Tribune or any other
newspaper He is to be congratulated upon it.
There is no room left for argument from
British Americans, as they wish to be called.
| was born in this country, but | have yet
10 hear of one British American. belonged
to certain club where we had a very fine
fellow for president who happened to be a
British subject. No British-American. When
some member started to investigate this gen
tleman he resigned. | know he has been in
Elizabeth more than thirty years.
PHILIP u. HAMMER
Elizabeth, N. j., July rs, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30
For the Care of the States Detectives.

1t is an eminently reasonable petition
that has been offered to the State Consti-
tutioral Convention asking for an amend
ment which will enable the Legislature
to establish a special commission for the
purpose of considering the problem of the
mentally defective. 1t is very generally
known to-day that a prodigious economic
waste is caused by the failure of the
state to provide institutional care for the
feeble minded, but the extent of the evil
and the variety of its consequences are
not even now clearly realized. And though
the efforts made to awaken the public to
a Consciousness Of its responsibility have
undoubtedly had some effect, it is idle to
expect useful results except by systematic
reforms. These can only be cOmpassed
by men qualified by knowledge and expert
ence to deal with a problem so full of
difficulties.
In the first place, the state is at present
i'll equipped to care for the unfortunates
in question. In a review of the last
twenty years DR.. Thomas w. Salmon
shows that in comparison with the adj
vances made in the care of the insane we
have done little or nothing for the feeble
minded. Indeed, he makes it clear that
in the last five years the rate of increase
in public provision for detectives has
actually been less than in any five years
since 1895.
This is extremely discouraging, consid-
ering that whatever popular interest there
is in the matter has been aroused chiefly
in the last few years
However, it is not problem that can
be solved by popular agitation alone. 1t
is an extremely complex problem, and we
cannot hope that it will ever be solved but
by the careful and deliberate considera-
ton of experts. The enormous difficulties
involved were apparent enough in Eng
land a few years ago when Parliament
first undertook to make some sort OF de-
cent provision for this class, and the
stupid and ignorant opposition encOun-
tered on that occasion may doubtless be
expected mere, too. Above all, it is not
a matter to be left to the ineXpert, and
the only hope lies in the appointment of
a commission with clear understanding
of all the difficulties involved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30
WEST POINTS AND WAR
Preparedness Will Simply Lead to
Conflict.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The talk of preparedness has been
going the rounds long enough now, so that the
first sharp edge is smoothed oil Tor good
many of us-even for those who feel most
keenly the fallacy Of the principle involved
But in spite Of this fact, the editorial More
West Points Needed" in to-day's issue OF your
paper, comes with distinct shock. One reads
il with such a hopeless, helpless feeling
with the realization Of such dreadful plumber
ing at the very fountain head.
Being "only woman" the thing seems alb
surdly simple to me. We, who have to fur
nish the lannon's food out of our very bodies,
find it hard to understand why there should
ever be any difference between peoples so
strong as to warrant their organized slaughter
Of each other. And we, in our infinite igno-
rance, cannot see how, if men are trained from
youth in the idea Of staying, there is going to
be any room for that idea OF brotherly love
so inimical TO the other. There is no such
mirage as peace through preparedness"
With the foundation of every new West Point
is laid simultaneously the cause OF another
war. Is there not any one strong enough to
make people see that what we really need are
more schools-more places in which to teach
that the cause of mankind everywhere Is the
same; that all humanity is working for
common aim-the improvement of the human
race? 1t is only through wisdom that we
can come 70 see that no one nation, as no
one individual, has the whole truth; but that
each must be content and proud to quietly
contribute its share to the general cause.
There could never be good enough reason
for me to make a soldier of a son of mine
would rather see him dead than a muir
derer CARMEN s. REUBEN.
New York, July 26, 1915.
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A Naval Man to Head the NAVY

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: A large percentage OF the people in
terested in the building of an adequate navy
would feel more confidence in the admins
tration if our present Secretary of the Navy
could be induced to resign. He is, beyond
the question of a doubt, misft
In the business world the man who knows
is chosen to administer affairs. Why doesn't
the same principle apply to the navy? Let
us have a navy man for the head of the
navy and board of naval men to assist him.
HOWARD Ia. HORTON
Ocean Grove, n. j., July 81. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30
Hayti.

Hayti often shakes our belief in the
universally of the maxim America for
Americans" This blood-stained, barba-
rous republic, with its mere shadow of or
ganized government, is one of the barren
est fields on which the seed of Amer
icanism has been cast. Liberty under the
law and governments originating from the
people and conducted for the good of the
people have had less honor in Hayti than
in any other Of the struggling American
republics whose political independence the
Monroe Doctrine was framed to protect
Hayti is still as savage at heart, still
as incapable of political self-control, as
she was when Toussaint POuverture de-
Tended her mountain Businesses against
the armies of France. She has had many
rulers in the century which has elapsed
since then, but never one who owed his
tenure of Office to anything but military
force. These rulers called themselves
Presidents, Emperors or Kings, accord
ing to their fancy, but they were all
despots, and scarcely one Of them ended
his reign in peace. Ignorance, supersti-
ton and all-prevaiing political cOrrup-
ton have kept Hayti from benefitng from
the influences making for order and prog
ress which have been working steadily in
nearly all the other Latin-American states.
Our duty to this American derelct has
been a puzzling problem. Had Euro
pean power tolerated such misgovern-
ment in a dependency in this hemisphere
we should have demanded evacuation or
restoration of order. But we do not want
to assume political responsibility for
Hayti's regeneration, and we would not
assume it except under the direst stress.
Moreover the people of the republic
doubtless prefer the anarchy under which
they live to any betterment of conditions
through the agency of the United States.
The leader of the latest revolution,
General Bobo, accused the government
of Guilaume the murdered President. of
negotiating for an American administra-
ton of the Haytian customs. The soul
of every Haytlan politician out of office
rebels at so cruel a disposition of the
customs revenues-the great prize for
which all revolutions strive. Says General
Bobo The object of the revolution which
| have undertaken is to prevent this ire
mendous disgrace, this ruin of the Father
land"
He tearfully calls attention TO "the
merciless starvation and humiliation of
the Dominican Republic" ii. e., the Do
minican graft hunters). which have re-
suted from American fiscal supervision.
The United States is collecting customs
revenues so that the Dominican Republic
may pay its European debts. But that
is the last obligation which would appeal
to Hayti's generals.
We have landed marines and shall pro-
tect the lives of Americans and foreigners
generally i'll Port-au-Prince and other
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who chooses to make complaint of mash
ing" against him. Also, finding a means OF
dealing with the female of the "masher
species.
10. The liability of all women to all duties
and responsibilities imposed upon men
These changes, with, perhaps, few others,
would very nearly establish the much-deslred
state Of equality between the sexes. When
these conditions obtain women should, all
justice, possess the ballot, but not before.
But for men to confer the vote upon women
before these changes are instituted would
make us a vastly privileged class, social in
Justice am sure no true feminist desires.
New York, July "a, 1915. ID. VD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30
Guile and Gall.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Is "W. p" really an American or l.,
he an Englishman trying to do his little
share of German batting?
Let him talk to real" Americans and he
will find that they are on to German euile
and English gall.
William A. lie Beau has the right solution
HENRY EVERITT LEWIS.
New York, July 81, 1915.
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The Plaza Fountain.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Does the city pay for that ne" iODa
tain at Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth sue'.
or is it a donation? hope it is. II il IS nv
pity the city. as it is big piece Of graz,
J. MON0HAN'
New York, July p, 1915.
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Thanks.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Permit me 10 thank you for your 'e',
fair editorial on "Prizefghting for Sufrss'
1t is pleasure to read anything SO sane.
MARY GREY BREWER
Staten Island, July 20. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30

The Bliss Company, of Brooklyn, manu-
features war munitions with the object, OBJ
of sending folks to Nlrvana
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30

Having a man arrested for driving lame
horse and then paying his fine seems rather
a costly method of penance for the sins Of
humanity
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30

Bryan Sours on Grapes.-Headline
II has usually been the other way about.
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Mosquitoes Home Bred.-Headline.
The sweet little domestic things!
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-, New york coronation ogden NJ Reid. rrcsident. u
Vernon ROGERS Secretary and Treasurer Address iroue
building No lal Nassau Street New YORK
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r. tered at the Postonoe at New York as Second Class
Mail Matter
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-20
HOME FOLKS ARE BEST
Revelation That Came to Girl
About to EIope.
Dy JOANNA SINGLE.

The cool stiffness of the September
evening came into the little upper
room where Drusilla sat huddled on
the door with both arms on the win
dow sill while she waited for the dusk
to become darkness. She hardly
breathsd. though she knew that her
door was locked. that she was sup
posed to have gone to bed with .
slfght headache, and that her parents
would not disturb her. It was q task
for har heart to keep ON feeling hot
and angry enough 20 that she could
leave them without . word and slip
on TO marry = man-any man-but
least Of all one like Henry Main,
whom they had done their best to
keep away from her They told her
she was too young to know. Worse
than that. they wanted her to marry
Max just because she had been en-.
gagged to him before Henry came into
the neighborhood for his summers
vacation.
At thought Of Max she rose.
smoothed down her blue serge skirt
and put on her hat Max had gone
too far when he ordered her abso-
lutely not to speak to the other man.
She did not like jealousy. He would
see now that he had made a mistake.
II he had just asked her not to-but
no. even then she could not have
helped loving the older. more sophis-
ticated man. with his tender, master
full ways. She did not like to 20 to
him in this way.
Finally she heard the little clock
on the shelf downstairs strike 10, and
though she was shivering with fear
and the misery Of leaving her own
little room, she slipped into the hall,
her shoes in her hand. She waited,
heard her fathers deep breathing
from the open room, and then slipped
down the back stairs to the kitchen
and out into the yard.
There was no moon, and Drusilla,
child as she still was, shrank from
going alone in the dark through the
field to the bit of wood where he
would be waiting for her. Max was
always prowling about, since his
farm was neighboring, and might
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-20

The British army on mobilization
will require $4,000 horses, and no one
has the slightest idea where they can
Be found. Good authorities tell mn
that this number Of animals Of IN.
military ase' does not exist in thu
country. With the growth of mechani.
cal transport the necessity of taking
steps to secure a supply Of horses IN
war grows more and more urgent
We can not. unfortunately. mount our
cavalry on taxicaos. We stin breed
the best horses In the world-but thew
are bought up for the use of foreign
armies. while the British war Office Is
counting Its pence.-London Mall
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-20

come upon them. Now the slend er
sirl stole about the barn where old
Beauty. the mare. thrust out her head
and whinnied softly for attention.
Drusie stopped moment to lay her
race against the kindly old creature.
and then passed through the orchard.
trembling at every step. wondering
whether in the morning her mother
would cry, or whether she would Just
look gray and old as she had done
when she saw that her daughter was
Diminishing Max.
Al she came to the bit of pasture
between orchard and wood, she sud.
denly remembered Henry. and the
magnetic half-hypnotism of him
numbed her senses and made her for.
get all but him. He would take care
OF her; he loved her; they would 70
to the city and real life would begin
for her.
Then she recalled her big. bluff.
blue-eyed lover and his angry con-
tempt for the other man, his injus-
tice. his almost violence. As II she
couldn't tell . good man from . bad
one. What right had he to forbid
her to see any one she liked?
BY this. now fearless, she was en-.
tering the wood path where q little
farther on was the big tree where
Henry was waiting, and where under
some bushes waited q suitcase with 4
few things she had taken out there,
one by one. during the last few days.
She almost laughed to herself to
think she had reached the place with.
out somehow meeting Max-he had
been almost omnipresent the last few
weeks. although she would not speak
to him. Henry had gone back to the
city, and even now no one was sup
posed to know that he was driving
over for her from a neighboring town.
from which they would later take a
night train. She was glad she had
not met Max.
Once safe in the trees she gave a
little low call like q quail and waited
for An answer; but receiving none,
called again. and then listened. What
she heard was q crashing of bushes
at some distance. and suddenly the
angry voices Of men. Instantly she
hid herself. Probably Henry was
waiting for these people to pass be-
fore he showed himself.
Fiat on the ground under the brush
the girl lay. her heart going like mad
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-20
Cost 10 Ree,ment,, D..

The everyday goat is responsible for
the nickname Of the Royal Welsh ia.
siieers-the Nanny Goats." A goat /.
tie regimental mascot and IL led AZ
the head Of the column. On st pa.
vid's day, in the officers mesa. IN.
goat. escorted BY drums and afs. q
marched around the table.