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The Cordova daily times., 1915-08-31
PANAMA CANAL DEFENSES.

good deal of discussion is going to the nature of the defenses intended to protect the Panama canal
 Ordinary fortreses have, in the present in Europe only able delay not to stand off army Can they be improved upon at Panama?
 Would it not be better expend the money submarines aeropanes and the wreess Or wait year two and Hayes Hammond L perfect his apparatus that he guide destroyer from the shore and destroy any hostile ship within miles of land? And the gun makers perimenting The Germans and French have demonstrated that the limitations of have not been reached Then if old Panama smells did three cannot some chemist utilize that ordor to make the German noXous gases like fresh bouquet by comparison?
 General Sheridan want to declare that earth banks made the best forts Earth banke with underground galleries in which guns could be loaded then raised and fired and then lowered again The most terrible fort that could be built the sthmus would be out of Panama fever it could be fined and at the right moment let lose It would in three days work a Senacharib destruction.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-08-31
THAT MAYOR OF ATLANTA.

The Atlanta mayor did not make fool of himself in San Francisco when he tried to justify the Frank murder but he did succeed in making clear that he born fool and vici at that When he justified mob violence he made clear that he has idea of the duties of czenshp conception of the need of obedience to the laws When he cautioned against returning to his state for the crime of having performed his duty God gave him to under his oath of he made clear that oath has somny for him that by his words he dsgracg the state which he holds to be the foremost state of the SOuh when closing he grao quen explained the sacrdness of the honor of the
 thoughts of his people, he made clear that he in ought to spend the balance of his life posing for vaudeville ing picture show In the long the writer knew several gentlemen of the order of mind this Atlanta mayor
 They most sensitive about the due to hear them tell it, but of them would have hesttated about borrowing $300 from the old black who nursed him when baby and then having absolute lapse of memory when the obligation became due.
 And the people of beautiful Atlanta elected this man mayor?
The Cordova daily times., 1915-08-31
THE PEACE RUMORS.

Peace have become persistent of lae but the from the battle field offers confirmation of them The kaiser evidently preparing for drive to the southeast to the west perhaps both the m Could he raise the siege that is losing around Constanope and then propose peace might lead negotiations Could he break the defense France take Paris and fea England and then offer to treat for peace judgment the offer would be secuted for the offer would really the making of subject of both France and Great Britain which would be nolerabe to both those powers 1t would just would be in Russia Germans capture Perograd They might take it and burn it. but that would make difference in Russia dete- ination. i u #e5
 The road peace for the kaiser lies to the southeast For him present the that assang Consantnope would present danger both Russia and Great Britain which neither wants to contemplate.
 Meantime the strain all the powers is becoming very great Germany training her boys and both England ano Canada have the height which first held to enlist by several inches.
 The pressure all around is reaching the point of the bearabe
The Cordova daily times., 1915-08-31

e1ouS! Gp1eq uosM uep!seId leq4 u1oes pnoM IT,, this cool defiance of his recent noe the London Stan
 ard the Arabic incident This is in line with the tats of all the English papers, They humorousy difficult for the moment deance of the latest English note to this government which practically told President Wilson that Eng
 fish violation of the rules of the is not matter that need deeply concern him.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-08-31

German socialists protesting against any attempt to the territory which German armies have taken because that seeds of that will be certain to gernate Right But if the kaiser wins this he is likely to hold to his newly acquired acreage until handsome indemnity paid
The Cordova daily times., 1915-08-31

sends his best wishes and kndes regards to the American people. Same to you, Carrie-nit!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
\ Budget System for the State.

Provision for a budget system Of handling the
states finances which is made in the bill intro
duced by Senator Sage and Assemb.yman Adler
is the logical and certainly the desirable way of
meeting the extremely serious situation which
exists. so-called budget system is now in oper-
ation but it consists merely in having department
estimates transmitted to the legislative commit
tees to be checked over compared with estimates
prepared by the Department of Efficiency and
Economy (about to depart) and embodied in
whole or in part in the appropriation bills. 1t is
better than nothing, but not very good, and its
operation is no protection whatever against spe-
ca appropriations
The method to be installed contemplates hav-
ing budget clerk on duty the year round, to
prepare estimates of revenues and of necessary
expenditures for department operation, interest
charges and the like. This budget would be pre-
sented TO the legislative committee by March /.
BY that time most of the special appropriation
bills-the grab bills and pork bills-woud be in
troduced. The whole question of appropriations
and of the financial condition of the state could
be taken up. There would be much less chance of
any jobs being slipped through by compaisant
legislators if the big necessary expenditures were
being considered at the same time.
II is no secret that the states finances are in
deplorable condition. special appropriation bill
of 1900, 900 or S5,000,O00-a large part of that
sum having been made necessary by Governor
Glynn's economy" Of refusing to make provision
in his time for legitimate state debts-is under
consideration. Extravaganza has run riot, and
the public must pay now, in all probability, by a
heavy state tax for the misruie Of the last four
years. Rigid economy must be the states policy
for years to come--not refusal TO spend money
for necessary functions of state, and not
penny-squeezing of the Gynn brand, but a con
sistent and intelligent avoidance of unwise and
expenditures and all forms of pork
in the appropriation bills. No one thing can CON
tribute more to the success Of such policy than
an inteIligently run budget system.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
Admirable Teacher Mother Decisions.

DR.. Finley's decisions in four more teacher
mother cases which were before him on appeal
were as Just as was his decision in the PelXotto
case. Mrs. Weeks. whose situation was exactly
that of Mrs PciXotto. was upheld and the board
of Education here was ordered to reinStatc her.
1t was only logical to dismiss the appeals Of Mrs.
Wagner and Mrs. Breslow, for they had not eX-
hausted their chance OF local remedy, in that they
failed to take their cases before the Board of Edu-
cation itself when suspended by the superntend-
ents. There can be no dissent either, from the up
holding of the Board of Education in its dismissal
of Mrs. Ortman (who concealed her marriage and
signed the payroll in her maiden name) on the
ground OF misconduct
In all these cases Dr. Finley has acted with
broad conception of the pubic's interest as well
as with proper appreciation of the individuals
He has reconciled the two admirably, without
bias and without the shell-backed attitude of the
Board of Education here. 1t is fortunate for this
city that so sensible and able an administrator as
he had the deciding voice in these cases, for other
wise the teaCher-mother controversy would still
be disturbing the schools and veXing the public.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
CitiZeness DeStinD.

The fashion which Nine. Schumann-Henk set
has not had many followers. In applying for
American citizenship Miss Emmy Destnn set
herself apart from the usual run Of opera singers
who come and sing but return home to spend and
live and die. Just why the call Of her beloved
Prague became weak does not appear. At any rate,
she speaks enthusiastically Of her to-be-adopted
and it is a pleasure to return the comph-
ment. Miss Destinn is a good American already.
Even those artistic visitors who do not dream
of changing nationality are not as snippy toward
our shores as once they were. score Of years
ago they regarded an American season as hard
trial, to be endured only because Of the fabulous
gold involved. We have come on since that period.
New York is still not Paris or Berlin or Rome.
But it has developed out Of small beginnings a
very real artistic life which in most respects can
hold its own with the offerings of any capital of
the world. This is no longer the Barbary Coast
of art.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
The Honor Treatment for Army CuIprits.

The theories of handling prisoners which were
tried at Auburn and which Thomas Mott Osborne
is carrying out in greater degree at Sing Sing
have been applied 20 the United States Army, 1t
seems The Trbune's Washington dispatches re-
port that deserters and soldiers who have over
stayed their leaves Of absence are now assigned TO
disciplinary barracks instead of to army prisons,
and, on an honor system, do hard drill and other
military work, rather than street sweeping,
scullery labor and similar forms of work reserved
for punishment in the past. The officers express
great satisfaction with the results of the new
treatment.
There is no reason TO suppose that the honor
treatment will work in every case with soldiers
any more than it will with prisoners in the state
institutions But it is the logical, rational method
10 employ in both cases. If man is hopeless!y
bad, menace TO the community beyond a perad-
venture land few are), there is nothing 20 gain
by crushing him under the old-stye discipline"
II there is some good left in him, encouragement
Of il under conditions where help and supervision
exist seent eminently fitted to benefit thu man
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
North Hackensack, n. J., Feb. 2, 1911;
FROM A YARMOUTH CRITIC
An Englishman Thinks America Should
Be Ashamed Of Its Silence.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | am a Yarmouth man brt d ana
born. | was at a Christian Endeavor
meeting last Tuesday night (l9th)
when the crash of bomb from Ger
man Zeppelin, accompanied by the
rumble OF falling houses, sent the
girls into Mysteries and broke up the
meeting. | FASTENED home. and found
my house intact, though within fifty
ward. Of the spot where one OF the
bombs had fallen. have notion that
the foregoing particulars entitle me to
say what am going 10 say.
In the first place, Yarmouth is not a
fortified town in any sense OF the word.
One 4-inCh gun was sent 10 Gorllston,
2 suburb of Yarmouth, few days ago.
When last saw il il was lying on the
grass, and il is not yet in position.
There are no other guns within miles
Of the town.
Now, the representatives OF the
United States government at the
Hague Convention, presumably with
the assent and concurrence Of the
American people signed an agreement
with other representatives OF other ma
lions that unfortfcd towns should not
be needlessly attacked, and in no case
without warning. II lnaL CCuLIdCL
meant anything. it meant that the
parties would see that it was carried
out. Have they done 50? Has the
United States government even for
mally protested? Was that contract
only another scrap of paper it would
be waste Of time TO discuss? A protest
from your government after Scarbor-
ough would have stayed the German
hand and saved Yarmouth. But you
did nothing, except, in your own YER
uacular, "sit On the fence" Are you
not ashamed?
Whether you print the foregoing or
not | do not care. but ] send it 10 you
personally as the editor Of, | suppose,
one Of the best American journals, that
you may know what a section, az any
rate, OF the English people think who
have been through the fire. We have
read American press comments and are
touched by their tone Of indignant
sympathy. hut is il 10 be no more than
sympathy. not even a public protest
from the American people en- masse?
cannot help adding this: II you or the
German Americans or any one outside
England think we are terrified" by
this dirty business, you have got hold
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
MTSCONCEIVED NEUTRALITY
A Readers View Which Ignores the
Accented Rules of international Law.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In relation to the European
war. is this country supposed 20 be
strictly neutral? If so, let me say
that it is very queer neutrality This
country is base Of supplies for any
other country that has the price, and IT
is TO tho interest Of owners of powder
mills. ammunition factories, etc, m
fact. Of any one who has goods to sell
TO keep the war going on. Otherwise
cur powder mills and other ammuni-
ton factories would not be running day
and night.
Neutrality evidently means going TO
church on Sunday 10 pray for peace
and signing contracts on Monday tor
supplies 10 keep the war going. II the
United States government stopped the
shipment Of any supplies to the ma
tlons at war the war would have TO end
for want of fuel.
ANNIE CLEMETT THOMA.
North Hackensack, n. j., Feb. 2, 1915.
Neutrality is fully defined by the
accepted rules Of international law,
and it is not non-intercOurse as this
reader, among others, considers. II Is
impartiality in intercourse with all bel
ligercnts and abstcntion from military
acts favoring any one nation.-Ed.I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
A MYSTERY
Can American Ships Be Operated on
the Same Basis of Cost as
Foreign Ones?

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: While am genuinely sorry for
the way my letter of January % has
caused you to founder about in your
efforts 20 Justify your editorial attack
on the shipping dill, which called forth
my letter, nevertheless, for the sake of
keeping the record straight, must up
set your editorial notation which fol-
lows my letter in your issue ot to-day.
You say: Mr.. HIPS free ship rem
edy included much more than the ad-
mission TO American register of for
eign built ships purchased by Ameri-
can citizens"
What? for instance. Though you
omitted to mention it in your nota-
ton, the President did suspend every
shipping regulation which he was EN-
powered TO, ard foreign built ships
under the American flag can now be Of
fcered and manned by foreigners at
the lowest rates of wages at which II
is possible to employ them; and the
disadvantage of American measurement
rules, amounting really to little, but of
which much has been made, has also
been suspended.
The only privilege of any conse-
ouerce not now enjoyed by foreign
built ships under the American flag is
the coastwise privilege, which privilege
is reserved exclusively for shipping
constructed in its own shipyards by
every important maritime nation in the
world. This restriction, of course, in
no way affects the foreign ocean trade
of the United States, which is the
trade under discussion.
Also, why speak Of the La Toilette sea-
mans bill as in any way affecting the
question Of American shipping, past or
present, when that bill has not been
passed? PHILIP MANSON.
Washington, Jan 20. 1915.
This letter raises two interesting
Questions: First, if it is true that
American vessels in the foreign trade
can now be operated on as low basis
of cost as any foreign vessels can be.
Why are not Americans going into the
ocean carrying trade and taking ad-
vantage of the inflated rates now paid
for ocean freight? Second, If it is well
known that American vessels can be
operated as cheaply as any other yes
sells. Why did the New York Chamber
of Commerce adopt a report the other
day by a nearly unanimous vote, in
which il was declared that there was
still a decided margin against the
United States in cost Of operation .
Ed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
This letter raises two interesting
A Protest from Afar from Bold
Reader Who Neglected to
Sign Her Name

o ne LUIIOI OF lie IFIUNUt.
Sir: The fact that Mrs. Herman dc
Fremery, alias Henrietta Rodman, will
conduct a department in your paper is
sufficient to make at least one teacher
never take up a Tribune again at
least as long as she has anything to do
with the paper.
There were few items Of news that
have recently read which brought me
more satisfaction than that telling OF
The firm action Of the Board of Educa-
ton in Mrs. de Fremery's case. For
The Tribune to encourage this bold,
wretched woman is scandal worthy
OF the yellowest OF newspapers.
A HIGH SCHOOL NEACHER.
New York. Feb. >. l9l,s
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
Let the Highway Department Settle
Down.


Mr.. Carlisle, accepting the inevitable with good
grace in resgnng from the Highway Department
at Governor Whitman's request, goes out Of office
under no such cloud as rested on previous Demo-
cratic officials in that department after the
Hughes commission was wiped out. He made no
signal failure that is, he made tolerable success
of what in many respects is the most difficult
place in the states service, and he preserved his
personal reputation.
The new Commissioner Mr.. Duffy, is per-
sonal friend of Governor Whtmans and must be
regarded as a personal appointee. OF him the
public knows nothing save that and the fact that
he served acceptably as a county official in Cort-
land County His appointment makes It certain
that there will be no tinkering with the highway
law this year, which is a good thing. The depart
ment has been a political grabbing since 1911,
when the Democrats ousted the Republicans and
began the grabbing 1t is high time to let IT set
tie down to road building undisturbed by politics.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
THE PEOPLE S COLUMN

of the wrong word Say "exaepcrated,"
and you viii be nearer. Talk about
German hate! It's child's play 10
what We are beginning to feel for them.
G. J. GOODRICH.
SO Wellesley Road ~. Great Var
mouth, Norfolk, England, Jan. %,
1918
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
The DIARY OF Our own SAMUEL PEPyS.

February with A. Brown the artist to
luncheon, and Jack Adams did challenge me to
game at English billiards, but when looked for
him he was gone, the boastful coXcomb To the
office then, and busted with this and that, and
with some success, too. Finished W. l.. Georges
"The Second Blooming" wondrous good book,
this day
Up and at work all the morning for c. Towne
the gazetteer, and did farish bit of writing,
too With W. Mackay to luncheon, and he very
droll, and made me laugh twice; thence to the
office by car; which took me hours; and to Mis-
tress Alma's for dinner, which she did prepare
herself; and very fair, too. So to the office, and
home and to-bed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04

and the community Of which he must form part
That should apply as well 70 army dlsclPnne d 10
prison methods.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04

You can purchase merchandise advertised in The
TRIBUNE with absolute safety-for IL dissstistsc-
ton results in any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
10 pay your money back upon request. No red tape
No clubbing. We make good promptly II the sd'er-
tisCr does not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04

personally. ! have not been persuaded" said Mr.
Harold j. llinman. the mac GRITTY leader-he may have
been persuaded mpcrsoualy that the extension OF
the suffrage to is a matter either of individual
justice or of governmental right Was everybody
personally persuaded one wonders, that The steam
boat was an improvement. shat the telegraph sim
plincd life's difficulties?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
THE LINOTYPEE LOOKS LIKE AN ACCESSORY
AFTER THE FACT.

The Evening Post copyreader who wrote the
Teacher Mothers Win and Lose" headline yesterday
never worked in the sporting department. If he had
the head would have appeared SCHOOL MAS
SPLIT DOUBLE BILL"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
FROM THE SIDE LINES
Iucretius: BOOk II, Lines LIZ.

"Suur. mari iGguo turbGrt6uS dequord t'hh''
It's sweet to stand upon the shore,
And watch the waves in wild commotion,
And to enjoy it all the more,
Because you are not in the ocean.
With war a thousand miles away,
One has natural prediction
For seeing pictures of the fray,
Next Sunday in the Feature Section.
Sweetest it is to watch the game,
From some serene and high position,
And watch the little humans flame
With love and purpose and ambition.
To laugh and cry while others act
The tiny drama Of an hour;
To yawn while nobler folks enact
The play beneath your Coming Tower.
To scan the purpose of the great,
The small, the mean, the mediocre;
The while they tilt with frolic Fate,
And fall a victim TO the joker.
But best of all to watch them glow
With straining toll and tense endeavor;
To see them near their goal, and know
They'll keep on nearing it-forever.
IRWIN.
Collegiate candor from the Columbia University
Alumni Federation Announcement: You will heal
rom authoritative sources and Columbia professor:
our aspects Of the war in Europe
We shall try 20 stop of at Corning, Ark. II W,
TO- we shall stay at the ST. James Hotel, which has
according to the letter head, las good salt and tooth
,lcks as any hotel"
You may recall the inspiring advice given 10 the
'oung man by Horace Greeley, founder OF the New
FORK Tribune.
Looks like that San FrpnciscO trip.
. j. J.. A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
This is the day to bundle up.

Why not put all those vari-coored shoes in a
bundle and give em away:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04

The sufs, bless en-, must have been paying lot
of attention 10 yesterdays doings IN Albany. Only
three suf organizations wrote to crave our forensic
or scriptory aid Seven day IS bog,c.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
SURFACE CAR SCHEDULE YESTERDAY ArtRsooa,


+S'ops coal only
no dining after leaving y. lith ST
so heat after .easlrG l--h -.
stops l.t If passengers.
'Suuucr .1lIe
Lyl'urs not top FEB. 3, 1915.
s'tGlIar called snowy grounds
81 like it because it is so free said CI'izeness
Emmy Destinn, referring to broad, geograph cally
land Our est. contemps The Masses and the CIV
York Call could write entire issue on that motif
A cynical acquaintance, who wastes his hours IN
studying politics, assures that he believes the
Shipping bill written by a shipping clerk
THE LINOTYPEE LOOKS LIKE AN ACCESSORY
AFTER THE FACT.
From the Tribune
a womsns gold watch set with
I'M his pocket unH ETOIN ETAOIN
gems and inscribed "P. +. IT, was
found in his pocket.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04

Collegiate candor from the Columbia University
Alumni Federation Announcement: You will hear
from authoritative sources and Columbia professors
four aspects Of the in Europe"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04

We shall try TO stop of at Corning, Ark. II we
do, we shall stay at the ST. James Hotel, which has.
according to the letter head, good salt and tooth
picks as any hotel"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04

Looks like that San FpnciseO trip.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04

You may recall the inspiring advice given TO the
young man by Horace Greeley, founder OF the New
York Tribune.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04

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