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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
Our Sincerity Challenged.
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: For newspaper to hurl headlong into
maddened world flaming torch of intolera-
bic Eetred, bitter animosity and murderous
dissent, is indeed fitting ceremony of "In.
dependence Day" commemoraton!
With submerged desire for war, you deftly
and cuLnngly promulgate a gospel of socia
unrest and sow the seeds of disastrous race
dpheavals.
Your opinion is your own, while the edi.
! toria fed-milksop's is some one else's.
You have been solemnly exhorted by the
President of our country to practise a scrupu-
lous neutrality. And this same neutrality
wax"d unneutral in its idiotc enthusiasm.
Can the righteous, liberty-lovng land OF
Amepta be your medium of journalistic IN
spira ion? Or is it indeed an outcome OF
individual sentiment?
YoI- shrieking headlines, your sensational
news sLd editorial hoaxes, tend to confirm
stubborn suspicion of strong disregard fol
the fundamental canOns of journalism.
In your independence Day" editorial, you
condemn millions of fellow citizens for the
crime of a paranoiac-brand them with In
sanity and murder because of race affilia
tions. You incriminste one nation and exon
crate the other American neutrality excuse.
neither.
II ircrimnate you must, then incriminatc
our money mongers, who in that hellist
whirlpool of Europe a means of sordd gain
Decry rather their moral and ethical code
their fendsh delight at the sight of bursting
Golfers of filthy lucre.
Only recently we were brought face to fac,
with stunning effects to a crime which haC
received its initial impetus from vitriolit
utterances Of the lingo.
Sow hate and dissenson and the country
will reap crime and violence.
If his be your mission, then you forfeit
the right of unbiased judgment
! If civil strife and racial feuds constitut,
the elements of your ardent sense of "patri
otism,' then may you receive the fruit,
Thereof.
The writer challenges your sincerity o.
purpo Sc, your patriotism and your right o.
speaking for the people"
! Whore wilful representation of fact,
and oIassed individual beliefs are sugar coat
cd as Public Opinion" enlightened journal
ism must OF necessity fade into disgrace su
| oblivion. Z. B. H.
New York, July 7, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
Deep Sarcasm from a Reader
e Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On Monday, June 81, you ran a let
ter under head Against Mr.. Walsh" signed
"D. B. S." dated Paterson, n. j., June IL.
saying: Il read with more than ordinary
qualification your admirable article on Frank
p. Walsh .. o"
Ny file of Rockefeller Walsh clips con-
tans no such article, unless it be your os-
tentatiously indignant editorial of May 90
under mead walsh at His Old Tricks" in
in which, as a sort of parallel column pen
dant to Ivy Lees qucktouch bluff, not to
say press agent panhandle signed "W. L.
Mackenzie King under Mackenzie King
Misrepresented," you permitted yourself to
be stampeded into pusllanimous renig on
your preceding fearlessly critical and abso-
lutely truthful editorial of May %, "All-
Powerful Rockefeller"
But perhaps you ran a Sunday feature
story that escaped my shears. Or was there
still another editorial between May 80 and
June II likely to afford such Extraordinary
ratification" to your correspondent in silk.
mill Sunday-Bill Town on the Passaic!
Though writ sarkastick please take this
as b. (. request for urgently needed in
formation. Z. W. KRACKoWIZER
Lake George, n. Y, July 4, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
An Appeal to Lincoln.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The letter Of Rose Phelps in Wednes-
davis issue surely could not be accused OF
dealing with "mists of thought" as did those
If the sufFragist facts" she mentioned. No,
they were not mists; they were too foggy
TO be called that-in fact, true English
fog in their darkness.
She contends that women should not be
given the vote because large number OF
them are either Indifferent or do not want
it, | grieve that she did not have an oppor-
tunity to give this advice to President Lin
coin. If she could but have said, "Mr. Lin
coin. the greater number of the slaves do not
want to be freed or else are Indifferent 20
it," | wonder what he would have thought?
Think you that great emancipation would
have said "They should not then have their
freedom until all desire it,?
Then it is sometimes hard for US mere
men to understand why an intelligent woman
cannot vote because some of her sisters are
not equal in intelligence, and also when a
large percentage of the male voters are not
eligible to the class Of the intelligent fe-
male.
Mrs. Phelps contends an act which would
give the vote to women, when so many TO
whom this privilege would thus be given OBJ
ject to it, would be "undemocratic." Then,
what a violation Of democracy was the free
dom of the slaves! For, remember. even so
did the slaves object; even so were they in
different
/ am a new reader Of The Tribune, con-
yerted TO its columns by the opinions Of
many Of my brethren, who declared it pro-
gressive in its ideas, and also through the
disgust with the narrowness Of one other
paper Of New York, to which | have been a
subscriber for years, and if Mrs Phepss
contention that The Tribune favors equal
suffrage be true my affection for its pages
grows warmer.
GEORGE P. KENNEHAN.
Brasher Falls, n. Y, July 7, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
GLOVERSVILLE CELEBRATES
Ex- Governor Slaton a Feature Of
City's Twenty fifth Anniversary.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some things Of importance have beer
happening in Gloversyille, and as far as my
ewes have seen no New York City paper
has taken note. We have been celebrating
the twenty fifth anniversary of our existence
as a city, and it has been no ordinary cele-
bration. 1t took the place of frecrackers TO
old and young alike-was family celebra-
ton. Streets were decorated, bands played
men, beasts and motors paraded; there were
fireworks said to have cost $1,000 and hui
man flag in which 800 children took part-a
truly wonderful spectacle!
But the climax occurred on Monday after
noon great outdoor meeting was planned
with Governor Whitman as the guest OF
honor Then came the news that eX-Goy-
ernor Slaton was to be in this section over
the Fourth and an invitation was extended
to him.
The afternoon was perfect and the Gov
errors found a multitude waiting for them.
The speeches | cannot remember, being en-
crossed by the crowd and their enthusiasm.
Governor Whitman must surely have been
pleased by the ovation rendered hint was
hearty and sincere. Quite naturally, | won
dered how our citizens would receive the
man so honored by some, so hated by others;
the man who put conscience before popular
ity Mere words cannot describe the ova-
ton There were cheers, shouts, cries OF
praise and the band played "While We Are
Marching Through Georgia" When the ma
chine in which the Ex-Governor rode started
down the street it was surrounded, not by an
angry mob, but by men falling over each
other for a shake Of his hand. For blocks
the machine barely crawled, while those
who could not shake Mr.. Slaton's hand waved
their hats and cheered.
So Georgia helped our city in its celebra-
ton, and we showed our approval of their
Ex-Governor. h. K. h.
Gloversville, N. Y, July 8, 1915.
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Another Insane Fourth.

New York has no reason to be proud of
it's efforts at safety and sanity on the
Fourth of July. This years celebration
was less noisy than usual and no one was
killed. That is the best that can be said
Of it. And in time even that may require
modification, for these Fourth of July re-
ioicings kill at long range. 1t is not till
the tetanus returns come in that we can
properly measure the degree of safety. On
all former occasions the majority Of deaths
were caused by tetanus, and so for some
days to come we cannot say with any con-
lidence that no lives were sacrificed this
year.
The disquieting circumstance revealed
by the Department of Health is the great
increase in the number of accidents. In
quiry at the larger hospitals shows that
the number Of injuries was more than
twice as great as the number in 1914, and
it was learned that "most of the wounds
had been caused by the use of blank car
tridges."
1t may be hoped that the prophylactic
measures now more generally applied than
in former years will prevent the occurrence
of any fatalities, but we can hardly boast
of a sane Fourth until it has become I'M
necessary to lay in extraordinary supplies
of antitoxin for these occasions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
In Defence of Eastern Women

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In a letter signed Rose Phelps in
your correspondence columns of July the
statement is made that . as yet no
sufTragist has satisfactorily explained what
our Eastern states, where the intelligent,
educated women are so greatly in the minor
ity"
This seems to me so characteristic Of
statements constantly made by anti-suffra-
gists, based on assumption, flung
broadcast with little regard for proof and
less for fact, that it is scarcely worth no.
tce. Yet in defence of our Eastern women,
whom Miss Phelps has thus wantonly
maligned | cannot forbear taking up the
cudgels
| have for years done volunteer settlement
wort on the East Side in New York City,
and | believe Miss Phelps herself could find
mental stimulus in conversation with the
girls in my classes and the mothers in the
homes | have visited.
| conduct a class of fifteen girls in the
settlement, and we meet at least once week
to read and study For three years we read
Robert Browning's poetry, and the keen APP
probation of Browning's ethics and philoso-
ply evinced by those girls, their quick re-
Spouse to his loftiest sentiments, would be
surprise to people who, knowing nothing
Of them, look upon the East Siders as dumb,
driven cattle"
This year the class has been reading Olive
Schreiner's Woman and Labor" in a study
of the woman movement, and as with the
Browning reading | have been surprised to
learn that the great questions involved are
commonplace of discussion in the homes Of
these girls.
They are all wage earners, employed all
day as bOOkkeepers, stenographers, buyers
and clerks, yet they find the strength, most
of them, to take courses of study at night
Some of them are taking a stiff English
course in New York University; one of them
stenographer in a law Office, is taking the
night course in the University Law School
one graduated recently from night high
school after attending the school five years
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
Serving Civilization.

A race must be unusually hardy to sur
Ivive civilization. Nature has to be in
suited and defed, injured, distorted dis
regarded. The process begins with the
assumption of clothing and ends, perhaps
with the apotheosis of militarism. But of
the ending we can't be quite sure as yet.
Of the beginning there comes a fine
sample from the report of the Resident
British Commissioner of the Gilbert and
Ellice Islands Protectorate, in the South
Pacific. The good missionaries have got
the natives there to clothing their golden
limbs, in the belief that prayer books and
nakedness are as poor combination as,
say, a silk hat and tights. The Resident
Commissioner writes:
"The old method of lubricating the body
(bare save for 'riri' or kilt of finely
worked leaveS) with cocoanut oil was the
best possible protection from chill in this
region of sudden rains. The cotton smock
for women and the cotton trousers and
shirts for men, which, in the mind of the
people, seem now so indispensable to pro-
fessed Christianity, while reducing the en-
durance of the skin, render it more
susceptible to the chills which wet cloth
ing engenders. The result is colds, pneu-
monia, influenza, and eventually Cuber-
culosis."
Apparently whskey would have done
Just as well by these innocent islanders
besides providing them with little hi
larity before hey succumbed to the white
mans vices. For clothing is a vice, or
rather a device, for rendering sex more
attractive. Esquimaus are the only
people having an adequate excuse for its
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12

five nights every week, and this after work
ing in business Office all day during the
entire time. Others are giving part OF their
scanty spare time to social service or char
ity work, holding out a helping hand to
those even less fortunate than themselves.
Nor are these isolated instances; other
settlement workers, other newspaper women,
will bear the same testimony that the East
ern women are awake and alive to the issues
of the day, and will resent as keenly as | do
for them the charge that Intelligent, edu-
Gated women are so greatly in the minority"
in this part of the country.
JEANETTE STERLING GREVE.
New York, July 8, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
The Zeppelin Fire Bomb.
From The Manchester Guordian)

From The Manchester GudrdiGu)
An interesting description of incendiary
bombs and how to deal with them has been
prepared by the British Fire Prevention Com
mittee. It has been printed as a placard for
posting in public institutions or private
houses alongside the instructions for using
the fire extingushers. A sketch shows what
an incendary bomb looks like, so that you
will know it when you see it, and a diagram
shows its exact construction and what is
inside il. The usual ire-bomb dropped by a
Zeppelin is of conical shape, the diameter at
the base being about ten inches. 1t is
wrapped round with inhammable cord, which
gives it rather a nautical appearance, en-
HANGED by handle at the apex FOR lowering
il over the gunwale of the airship-if air
ships have gunwales. The base is fiat
cup, and from this to the handle runs a
hollow metal funnel forming the centre and
business part of the bomb. This centre fun
mel is filled with thermite. Thermite is the
preparation which on ignition produces a
heat so intense as to melt steel. Many
people going home late in Manchester have
seen it in use welding together the ends Of
the tramrails. The ignition OF thermite ere
ates a tremendous glare Of light, and the heat
melts the metal funnel. The molten metal
spreads when the bomb strikes. II sets up at
once n fierce fire if it strikes anything com.
bustible, but at the beginning II is only a
small fire, and if it is tackled at once with
water it can be put out before it does any
damage 10 speak Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
Annual Retirement of State Bonds

1t is evident that in the readjustment
Of the states financial methods which is
becoming inevitable one of the first prob
lens to be settled is that of the sinking
funds for outstanding bond issues The
present method of raising annually a
contribution toward the ultimate retire
nent of the bonds is neither sensible nor
scientific. 1t has resulted in imposing on
the present generation of taxpayers a
proportion of the total far larger than
their just share, so that there is in hand
now sum almost large enough, if wisely
invested with interest compounded, to
meet the full Indebtedness at maturity.
A far more equitable method is that
proposed by the Constitutional Conven-
TONS Committee on State Finances-the
issuance of serial bonds, to be retired in
equal annual instruments. This would
have the merits of simplicity, defniteness
and directnesS. The sum to be contributed
each year would not be indefnite-an I'M
scientific calculation of percentage on
fluctuating property valuations. The
states financial authorities would know
just what they would have to raise to
meet the annual bond retirement obliga-
ton; the public would know, and there
could be no Juggling of sinking funds and
70 overtaxing one year and evasion of
sinking fund requirements the next.
Now the states financial affairs are
so muddled that experts disagree in in
depreciation of them, and the public is
more or less in the position of the patient
when doctors get to quarrelling over the
nature of his malady. Any move in the
direction Of clarity and simplicity, as this
one is, is to be commended.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
King George as a Shot.

IRON the dundee AdtfTtiScTJ
If it ever came 10 personal contest be-
tween the rulers of the nations now at war
who would come out on top? In point OF
Workmanship, King George would probably
win. There are few better shots in the world
than his majesty, and the Kaiser, though a
fine marksman, is by no means his equal
King George slowed astonishing accuracy OF
aim as a lad of eleven, and a few years age
performed the almost unique feat of firing
both barrels Of two guns in such rapid sue
cession that four dead birds fell.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12

The British have "sheled out" handsomely
in subscribing to their new war loan. Now
let them more handsomely still she'll the Ger
mans out of Belgium.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12

Berlin press much pleased with note
That alone damns it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12

Entered at the Postoce New YorH Second Class Mai
Matter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12

Owned and published daily BY The Tribune Association,
New York corporation ogden NJ Reid President G. vernon
Rogers Secretary and Treasurer Address Tribune buun'
No. i5i Nassau Street. New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12

Italians Win Monticello Headline.
But that belongs to Jefferson NJ. Levy.
Evening star., 1915-02-04
GOLF AT PINEHURsT.
John H. clapp, Chevy. Chase, De
feated BY Robert Hunter.

P1NEECRST. y. c.. February A.
Hamilton X. Kerr of Ekwanok and ].
c. Parrish, jr.. of the National Club; H.
NJ. Weaver of Bramshot, England. and
Philip Y. Carter of Nassau. Gardiner
w. White of Flushing and Charlton L.
Becker of Woodland, Robert Hunter OF
Weeburn and W. l.. Code of Chester
field move forward as the result OF yes
terdays first round of match play in
the annual February golf tournament t.
Irving $. Robeson of Oakhill gave
Parrish q 2-to-1 defeat, and likewise
Weaver's win from Walter G. Clark of
Wollaston and Hunters victory over
John H. Clapp of Chevy Chase ended
on the seventeenth green. No unusual
features marked the play. in the next
Scott of Inverness and W. l.. O'connor
of indianapolis, Michael Sullivan of De-
troit and J. J. Evans of Lancaster,
played nineteen holes in the sixth and
last fight, Scott and Sullivan winning.
In the second flight T. W. Case of
Auburn goes forward to meet W. f.
Wilson of Atlantic City,, r. A. Balfe of
BROOKLYN plays r. H.. Hunt Of Worces
meets the Rev. T. a. Cheatham Of Sal
isbury. and S. y. Tennessee of Coopers-
town is braclseted with Henry c.
Fownes Of Pittsburgh.
In the third division Henry Nc
Sweeney of Seaview is the only sur
vivor from the metropolitan district,
and in the fourth G. T. Dunlap of Ca
noe Brook and H. G. Streat of Wyka-
CYL moved forward and will play to-
gether today.
In the fifth fight F. G. Morse OF
Rochester. H. B. Smithers of Great
Neck. Philip Barnum of ST. Andrews,
Fl. w. Smith of East Orange and r. O.
Derrick of Buffalo remain, and in the
sixth and last division H. C. Morse OF
Rochester and George Motley of Roch-
ester and J. B. Beekman of Plainfield
remain.
Evening star., 1915-02-04

bat in the New York State League.
hitting 1923. Lee beat that with .339.
Griffith did not retain a string on
either of these players. Lee will get
a trial with the Browns this spring,
while Meusel has been turned over TO
Joe Cantillon in part payment for
Rondeau.
There is considerable class to the
individuals who own the American
League clubs. Col Rupert, president
of the New York club. is a wealthy
| member Of the jockey club and one
of the foremost American sportsmen.
Capt. Huston, his base ball partner, is
a prosperous contractor and engineer
who made fortune in Havana He
once lived in Cincinnati, and is a per-
tary of the national commission
Joseph J. Lannin. owner of the Boston
Red Sox, also is the owner of the
Garden City Hotel and much real es-
tate in Boston. Benjamin Shibe is a
big manufacturer In Philadelphia. be
{ sides being owner of the Athletics.
Connie Mack is his partner.
The Washington club is the property
of a local stock company, made up of
some of this city's most prominent
business men. and is headed by Ben
jamin s. Minor. an attorney. Charles
W. Somers, who was instrumental in
helping build up the American League,
is the owner of the Cleveland cub.
Frank Navin and W. H. Tawkey, IL
multimillionaire lumber merchant, are
the owners of the Detroit club. Chi
cago is owned by Charles Comiskey,
who has been identified with base ball
for more than forty years, while the
Robert Lee Hedges, formerly a manu-
facturer.
Evening star., 1915-02-04
KILLS cFF REPORT.
Ccrnie Mack Says He Will Not Sell
Oldring to Yankees.

PHILADELPHIA, February 4-Con-
rie Mack returned from New York late
last night and made an emphatic de-
NAL OF the report that he was going to
sell Rube Oldring to the New York
Americans.
The Ianks haven't made a bid for
any of my Players said the tall tutor.
and [ have no intention of making
any further changes on my team.
"Oldring is under contract to play
with the Athletics next season, and I
haven't the slightest idea of parting
with him. l consider him one of the
greatest outfelders in the business
lou Will find him in our lineup April
II. Notwithstanding the unfounded ru-
nlors that have been going about"