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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
MOST WOMEN WILL VOTE
But Comparatively Few of Them
Will go Into Politics"
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Just what do anti-suffrsgists mean
By the phrase go into politics.? | kno"
what it means in its ordinary sense, OF
course, but quite fail to grasp its meaning
when it is used as Mr.. Everett P. Wheeler
uses it in his letter which you printed this
morning. Do the anti-sufragists understand
that if the suffrage is granted to women
they will all ego into politics" in a body
II they do think that | don't wonder they
oppose it. | should myself. But | have al
ways understood that all the majority OF
sufragists are asking for is the right to vote
OF course the right to vote carries with II
the right to hold office, but | hardly think
that all women will ego into politics" any
more than all men have gone into them.
But | hope that the majority of women
will vote if the suffrage is granted to them,
and believe they will. ] cannot agree
with Mr.. Wheeler about the goodness of the
women who have the right to vote but do
not exercise it. Mr.. Wheeler would prob
ably be quite willing to admit that a man
who does not vote is bad citizen. | fail
to see why the same rule does not apply to
women.
Nor can | see why the stimulating of
wcmen's interest in questions of municipal
and national affairs by giving them a per
sonal interest in them can possibly Rave any
deteriorating effects on their ability to bring
up their children wisely and well. In fact
il seems self-evident that the more they
know about the conditions which their chill
dren will have to face when they are grown
and must in their turn take their places in
the outside world the better they will be
able to prepare them to do so. The great
trouble to-day is that the outside world has
progressed, but the home world has not. In
the old days, when our government was in
stituted, women knew absolutely what their
children would have to face, but to-day it is
the exceptional woman who has anything but
the vaguest sort of ideas about what the
world outside of her own narrow orbit is
like. This is due to the tremendous changes
in our national conditions of life. Women
are waking up to this more and more. and
this awakening is one of the causes of the
suffrage movement. But some stimulus is
needed. | have not the space here TO go as
deeply into this question as I should like to
do, but | hope TO be able to take it up be-
fore very long in an article.
We sutraglsts also believe In democracy
but We feel that in this country to-day the
civil rights of every individual are not as
well protected az is possible. We believe
that life has become too complex for sUh
protection to be possible under our present
system. America has always stood for free
dom and everything that is finest not only in
government but in her whole national life
We want TO see her continue to keep her
high place among the nations, and we feel
that she cannot do so If she keeps her pres
ent system. JAMES R. KEENE TAYLOR.
New York July 90 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
Vaccination and Tetanus.

If there were any reason to confide in
vaccinists it might be hoped that one of
their favorite arguments had been finally
disposed of by DR.. John F. Anderson's in
quiry into the occurrence of tetanus after
vaccination for smallpox. Such success
as they have had is attributable in large
measure to the skill with which they have
played upon the apprehensions of timid
persons, and to this end they have made
much use of the various accidents that
have occasionally followed vaccination as
a consequence of impurities in the virus,
faulty technique or subsequent infection.
The mischief is that there have been a
considerable number of such accidents,
and an INSCRIPTIONS critic can easily es-
tablish a case plausible enough to con-
vince the ignorant whose fears and preju-
dices they are accustomed to appeal to.
1t is true that as good case might be
made against the practice Of surgery, but
that is a point deliberately overlooked by
the anti-vaccinists.
DR.. Anderson's inquiry was carried on
for thirteen years. He, or his assistants
of the United States Public Health Ser
vice, examined specimens of vaccine virus
sufficient TO protect two million persons,
and in no instance was the organism of
tetanus detected. This negative result
evidently proves nothing, but DR.. Ander-
con's nol1irv want youch f,,r+bar He Sooly
the pains to procure particulars Of all the
reported cases of tetanus following vac
cination between the years 1904 and 1913.
Forty-one proved authentic. while in the
same period the number Of doses of vac
cine virus used in the United States
amounted TO 100000. From this it is
concluded" DR.. Anderson observes, that
had the vaccine virus used during that
time in the United States been at fault
many more cases of tetanus should have
followed vaccination"
There was not single case of tetanus
IN the army or navy, though the number
If vaccinations far exceeded half mill
ion. Among the cases that were reported
and clearly established large number
developed so late as to justify the conclu-
sion that the infection occurred ten days
or more after vaccination. The conclusion
is that when tetanus does supervene it
may generally be attributed with some
confidence 10 carelessness.
1t is not TO be expected that DR.. Ander-
sons reasoning will nave the slightest eff
feet on the opponents Of vaccination. Far
more likely is it that they will contrive TO
turn it to their own account if by any
sort Of tricl;ery they can do so. Some
years ago DR.. Eosenau published the re
suits Of an elaborate inquiry into the bac-
ierial contamination of dry-points and
glycerinated tubes, and as far as tetanus
was concerned his conclusion was sub
stan.ially the same as DR.. Andersor's.
But though he made this pei fectly clear,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
Pacifsn.
Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will this definition do for the new word
to 60 in the cyclopedia?
Pscifsm: A disorder of the mind, errone-
ously supposed TO grow from weak
ness of the spine. Comparatively new to the
Western world but always prevalent in
China; communicable by the exhalatons of
persons already afflicted. Notable British
sufferers in 1913, Norman Angel, Lord Hal
dane and Lord Morley The disease was
stamped out of the British Empire in 1914.
but persists in the United States to the pres
.ent time, July, 1915, ex-Secretary of State
William J. Bryan and Miss Jane Adams be.
ing apparently incurable.
The remedy is shock, the unfortunates
coming out of what seems to be trance
upon the receipt of astounding or heart
breaking news. Millions of Englishmen were
cured simply by reading OF the violation of
Belgian neutrality and the murder Of Bel
gian nOn-combatants. Millions of Americans
were shocked into their senses by hearing of
the crime of the Lusi,ania Prior to this
event President Wilson was so i'll that he
imagined American defencelessness to be di
rectly conducive to peace in Europe
Like measles, pacifsm has a German va
riety. This needs no attention, disappearing
sooner without any.
j. HOWARD COwPERTHWAIT
New York, July Is, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
The Leelanaw.

The first thing to be said about the sink
ing of the Leelanaw is that there is no
evidence in the preliminary reports which
warrants any conclusion that Germany has
been guilty of an unfriendly act.
On the contrary, the incident raises pre-
cisely the sort of question that can honor
ably and safely be left to arbitration, since
there is involved highly technical point
of international law.
The incident is wholly analogous to the
sinking of the William P. Frye. On that
occasion Germany admitted responsibility
and agreed to settle the damages. She
simply asserted that under her interpreta-
ton of the Treaty of 1928 such destruc-
ton of neutral vessels carrying contraband
was permissible. In our governments re-
ply this view was not accepted.
But there is a thoroughly sound basis
for the German contention, and the German
view is reflected in the Declaration of Lon
don. The United States can, then, afford
to leave the decision to The Hague since no
question of loss of life or property is III
voved and the ship was not sunk until the
crew had been warned and permitted to
take to their boats.
In his last note to Germany the Presi-
dent referred to the unusual conditions in
cident to the present war. We shall do
well in any case where the German con-
tention is plainly arguable to avoid any
appearance of extreme insistence upon
technical points or an overreadinets to
perceive in applicable incidents an obsti-
nate and unreasoning policy of destruction.
On the face of the facts as presented
there is nothing in the Leelanaw incident
to affect the German-American differences
now under discussion between Washington
and Berlin. The conflict in Interpretation
of an ancient treaty does not involve a
casus beW or even an outburst of resent
ment. 1t is merely ap incident in war
which calls for patience and self-restraint
Presupposing that Germany follows her
course in the Frye incident and accepts
responsibility and agrees to pay the costs,
the Leelanaw affair may be promptly dis
missed as of no international significance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
WOMEN IN BUSINESS
They Are Satisfied to Work Tor
Themselves and for Others.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In n recent issue Of your paper Ray
mond NJ. Thurston inquiries why so many fe-
males engage in business, when 1t is impos-
sble for us TO he associated with men with
out becoming coarsened. Then we wonder
why men jostle us and refuse to give us seats
in the cars. His silly persifage covers con-
siderable space regarding his prejudiced feel
inrs toward concerns where females are en-
ployed and states for fact that mo sane,
businesslike men employ females in prefer
ence to men" Having run out OF invectivcs
to describe tie business girl, he would have
us believe that he adores the good, modest
home girl" and hastens to inquire If the
former is superior to the latter.
In answer to his two direct questions
have this to say:
The majority Of US, rather than pose in
lowered organizes, awaiting the first
chance" prefer to exercise our right TO
earn a livelihood, thus relieving fathers and
brothers and contributing to the support OF
others who stay at home, and many unselhsh
women take pleasure in educating egotistical,
opinionated male products of the Thurston
type.
without Boosting Of our superiority, we ad-
nit that with our many advantages we are
less fearful Of responsibilities and better able
to meet reverses. That there are many
charming and capable women who perform
duties in the home of the most praiseworthy
character no one will dispute, but | call Mr.
Thurston's attention to the fact that the
small army of very young girls to whom he
applies such scurrilous names are merely at
fecting the dress and rejecting the manners
of certain class of female stay-at-homes,
and il this class would find a business career
perhaps we would read of fewer suicides and
embezzlements. A man may accuse himself
as Mr.. Thurston has done, but he has no
right to arraign the whole of his sex. Men
may swear without being offensive; only men
with yellow streak use vulgar and unbecom-
ing language before any one, at home or
abroad. Real men" do not jostle US, and
they have the same right to keep their seats
as we have to invade the field of industry.
Regarding the broad statement that mo
sane, businesslike men employ females in
preference to men" Gin stenographic and
bookkeeping positions), this alone shows how
lacking in knowledge is the man who would
revoutionize the business world he would
have the young man continue in the rut oper-
atng a typewriter or adding columns of
dumb figures throughout his entire life,
rather than employ a woman who might
marry. A high compliment to his sex. How
ever, the young men of this age are far too
progressive to indenture themselves out, as
it were; like tie young women, they are pro-
gressive and need no incentive from me.
If Mr.. Thurston Is a myth and the article
to which this is reply is the work of pre-
cocious Office boy, l am bound to acknowledge
he has got rise out of me. NJ. f. F.
West New Brighton, Staten Island, July %,
1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
Mexico and Belgium.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The distress and suffering in Mexico,
our next door neighbor are greater than in
Belgium, where we have dispatched our re-
lief ships. For this reason the President
urged upon us the need and duty of gener-
Gus contributions to the Red Cross in order
to assist the starving foreigners and resi-
dents in Mexico.
Yesterday we read: "Brigadier Genera!
Devol, general manager of the American Red
Cross. returned from the Texas border to-
day with the announcement that attempts
to relieve famine and suffering among non
combatsnts in Mexico were hopeless under
present conditions"
When we consider the anarchy, raised to
the nth power under the bandits and assas-
sins who have been ruling that unhappy
country, and contrast it with the reasonable
prosperity and reasonable safety OF the re-
public two years and eight months ago, when
Taft was in power and Henry Wilson our
honored ambassador, we can appreciate the
blessings which our medding and muddling
have procured for our neghbors.
JUNIUS.
Now York Julv "a 1913
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
"A Dark and Bloody Mystery"

The following inquiry has come in sc
many forms from so many correspondents
that it must evidently be regarded as
serious:
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: II is TO swear. Therefore, here goes:
Why in h and + does The Tribune
persist in advertising the sailing of cargoe'
of ammunition and thus assist in the de-
structon of cargo ship, passengers and
crew, which destruction il so properly de-
plores and condemns on its editorial pages?
1t is dark and bloody mystery of jour-
nalism that I can't fathom. F. II. L.
Warren, Penn, July "a, 1915.
Does it not suggest some further mys-
teries? Consider, for instance, the regu-
lar publication of weather reports, not
only in our own press, where they are of
little moment, but even in the English
papers, whose editors must know very well
what an important bearing the weather
has on the prospects of raids by sea and
air. Or consider the deliberate way in
which the same papers continue to an
nounce the daily rising and setting of the
sun. 1t is admitted on all hands. that
the conduct of submarines is attended
with many difficulties at night; why, then,
should not this valuable information be
withheld from their commanders?
The only possible explanation is that
the editors presume Germany's command
ers do not depend entirely on the American
papers for intelligence of this kind.
Though F. H. l.. is probably accustomed
to get such information through the press
the Germans could get theirs from the
same source as the reporters. The collect
ing of news is not magic gift and may
be compassed without a very elaborate
system of espionage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
Without Germany's Permission.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: | am handicapped by not being a
legible writer and also by not being in a
position to send you a typewriter letter, but
do not intend however, to be done out of
making reply to that part of your CORE
spondent's letter, signed IN. Flomenhaft," in
today's Tribune, where he says that chose
people threw their dice with death, and they
lost" They did not do any such thing.
They were not violating any rule of traffic
in going on the Lusitania, and they were not
warned not to go by the United States gov
eminent, the only government who had any
right to warn them, and whose President just
now is engaged in maintaining that right,
and who, in my opinion, was very slow at the
time the German people advertised that
warning in not then and there declaring it
an act of war, and who is also now, in my
same opinion, open to criticism for not going
right at it and taking fall out of Germany,
sooner the better, as we will then find out
who are Americans and who are Germans,
and when it comes to that there will be
something doing very quickly by Mr.. Fomen-
haft and his kind, as they know full well
the benefits of living in this great and
glorious United States, and it won't take
them long to get on the right side.
SAMUEL SAUNDERS.
New York, July II, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
The Cloak Trade Award.

The report of the Mayors Council OF
Cancellation in the garment trade dispute
stands out as model of sympathetic and
reasonable mediation. 1t is absolutely
sound from the economic point of view
yet it keeps in mind the natural and
necessary strivings of employees in all in
dustries for betterment of living con-
ditions and an elevation Of the standards
of labor.
The council properly rejected two ex-
treme demands of the garment makers
unions: 1t upheld the right of the EN-
ployer to control his own business, to
select his own employees, to discharge the
incompetent and the insubordinate and to
maintain shop discipline. Industrial eff
cheney cannot be attained under the system
of open competition unless the employer
has a free hand in administration and
management. The shop with lax disci-
pline and shipshod methods would have to
90 to the wall in business in which COM
petition is as keen as it is in cloak making,
and the workers insisting on special privi-
leges prejudicial to efficiency would find
themselves out of employment.
The principle of freedom of control was
also found to be in conflict with the second
chief demand Of the unjons-that in the
slack season work shall be equally dis
tributed among all wage earners of the
same grade. This demand, if yielded to,
would have led to permanent tenure, re-
CARELESS of conditions in the trade. Such
tenure, as the council justly points out,
would be an ideal status in a highly
stable industry. But it is impracticable in
a business subject to as violent expansions
and contraction as the cloak trade is.
The council does not discourage the
workers from hoping for future approx
nations to their ideal. But it holds that
for the present conditions can be improved
much more materially by a 10 per cent
increase in the rates of wages and by a
closer cooperation between the unions and
the manufacturers in removing causes of
friction in operation. Freedom to belong
to a union is guaranteed, and boards of
mediation are recommended to pass on
cases in which the workers think that they
are threatened with Oppressive action"
on the part Of an employer.
Finally, the Mayors Council undertakes
to make further investigation of condi-
tons in the cloak industry, with a view to
standardizing wages. and agrees to arbi-
trate certain questions still unsettled. The
work it is doing is public spirited and hui
manitarian. 1t will deserve the thanks of
the community if it can put on a thor
oughly sound and reasonable basis a trade
which plays so large part in this citys
industrial life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27

of unexplodcd German shells revealed the
presence of considerable quantity OF diff
ferent varieties of phosphorus, and as 1t
was difficult TO account for it upon purely
baIistic considerations, it was freely con-
jectured that the object was to make the
wounds more terrible
This hypothesis was not regarded as
plausible at that time, and so the use oil
phosphorus attracted much less popular
attention than the recent use OF chlorine.
But now that there can be no doubt abou.
the latter. it is at least conceivable that
the phosphorus was introduced for the
purpose of making the shells more deadly.
There can be no doubt that if it could
be brought into contact with the wounds
inflicted it might be useful, serving, as
was pointed out some months ago by a
member of the Preach Academic des
Sciences, to cause localized gangrene and
thus to afford convenient breeding
ground for the anaerobes that prevail on
the battlefields Of France and Flanders,
notably those Of tetanus and gas-gangrene.
In the common shell the phosphorus
was inclosed in a small cylindrical box
living in a cavity formed in the compressed
explosives, while in the shrapnel the in
terstices between the balls were filled
with the powder, and the balls being more
or less rough and irregular it occurred
to some observers that they might carry
certain amount of the stuff into the
wounds and thus cause considerable
trouble.
An enemy that thinks nothing OF
poisoning wells would probably not hest
tate at the employment of any method
that would render its shells more deadly,
but is it not possible to account in another
way for the use of phosphorus? Is 1t
not conceivable that the dense white clouds
produced by combustion would greatly
facilitate the business of locating the
shells? This explanation seems plausible
at least, and since the Germans have not
as yet claimed the tetanus bacilli and
the rest as their allies, we may for the
present allow them the benefit of the doubt.
1t may be noted, however, that the use of
pathogenic microbes has lately been sug
gested by DR.. Steinmetz as probable
weapon of the future.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
The Doubling Thomas.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The disciple of Dernburg, Bernstorf.
Ridder and others signing himself Wash
lngton' Collins" Is certainly we'll "fed up
with the German propaganda. and from his
note believes not that the German flag has
been swept from the seas by the sex mistress
and that the German navy is bottled up in
the klel Canal and afraid to come out and
night the 'ex-mistress." He also probably be-
lieves all German ships tied up here are
British. W. WAGHORN
New York, July %, 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
A Tax on Umbrellas.


tax on umbrellas would not add ma
terialy to the national revenue at such a sea
son as this. 1t was more or less seriously
suggested, however, during the Napoleonic
wars. Pitt was at his wits end for additional
sources of revenue. 1t appeared that every
thing taxable had been taxed, and in sheer
despair he wrote to a friend in Somerset
shire asking for suggestions. Back came the
reply: TAX umbrellas, and make the bishops
order the prayer for rain TO be read in the
churches till the end Of the war"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
md stated specifically that having ex-

and stated specifically that having ex-
amined many specimens he and his as
sistants were unable to find the organism
of this disease" yet by gross and deliber-
ate perversion of his words some leading
anti-vaccinists have made it appear that
his opinion was the direct contrary and
have repeatedly misquoted him by way Of
supporting their own mischievous argu-
ments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
Appreciation.
r Of The Tribune.

To TIE Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Kindly accept from a citizen and an
old reader of The Tribune my deep apprecia-
tion Of and admiration for the true, courage
Gus stand you have taken since the beginning
Of the European war for liberty, justice and
safeguarding the people and their interests.
Elizabeth, n. j., July %, 1915. P. G.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
Train All Girls as Nurses.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: II we adopt the Swiss citizen ''%,
training system we should supplement, II v
compulsory training OF the women 10 as,
nurses and to fill vacancies in the ign.
occupations during training periods 50 , ,
we can automatically run the tody pco'
II. II. RAhAS"
Washington, July %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27

Only little thing like calling Congress
together now seems to stand in the way OF
a real national movement for military pre-
paredness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27

Who is expected to inspect the steamboa
inspectors?