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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-30
AERoPLANE ENGINE NEEDS
Engineers Getting Together to Give
America a Proper Model.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The crying need in aeronauties Is for
reliable aeroplane engine, and so far as
aviation is concerned in the scheme Of mill
tary preparation with which the nation u
concerned, engineers, from utiltarian as well
as patriotic motives, can best devote Their
energies to the development Of an efficient
all-American power plant for flying machines
1t is fact that the American seroplans'
in its various types and designs, is to-day
generally much further advanced than !"
motor, for, while the manufacturers OF zero
planes in this country are able TO build ma
chimes whichs compare favorably with tn'
product of European factories, the constru'.
ton Of engines suitable for the operation OF
these craft has, except in the case OF one OF
two concerns whose foreign orders ha''
stimulated production, not reached the POM
where they would prove acceptable for us'
by foreign governments requiring CERTAIN
standard of efficiency and durability for VI.
service, and hence has not resulted in proc
uct good enough for use by this government
The aeroplane engine, while OF relatS.V
light weight, must not sacrifice Strength W.
lightness, as il must be capable OF operauAs
continuously for a long period. us de'ss
can only come as a result Of extended sn'
practical experience by competent engineers
Unfortunately, American engineers sns
builders have not had the incentive OF arg
orders, such as has been the case in hur0p'
for number Of years, which. OF course -.
counts for the lack OF enterprise here IN N''
direction. -.
The interest which the government IS "a
ing in aeronautics means that this eoho,., Nv
will now be changed, and the big prize wac
is TO reward those who place on the mara.
an aeroplane engine that is at less. " ~
peer Of the best European engines VIII :.
in the establishment Of large and luefS'''
industry. .,,
The Aeronautcal Society Of America 70 neP
alcng the cause of the American ser0P.s-.
engine, has arranged to hold large mee".s
on October 10, to be known as "Sympv,n,
on Engines" The meeting Will DC neT
the Engineering Societies Building ~ W"
Thirty-ninth Street, beginning at oeO'.
m. Engineers and engine manufacturers
invited to present at this meeting their We,
on design and construction OF the SeiVp,l
engine. preferably reading from eones tsI
written statements. so that each speaAei ~,
consume as little time as possioie' ~ ~a,a
that large number Of papers may Us Us 49,,
The technical board Of the society wiz y.
appoint other times for a more eOmp ...r
presentation and elaboration OF eacn "
separately, so that full benefit may % Si,
rived from each one. The papers anu ,sb
cussions thereon will be printed ana Bar
lished by the society under the Lee >
ridge Foundation fund. .si. ir.
Your cooperation in publicity OF W., ths,
portant undertaking is desired in order I'VE .sr
all those interested in aeronsutles na' vhes
an opportunity to attend the meeIins' W.
will be open to all. ,,pKyR.
Acting President, Aeronauticai s0''
An erica.
New York, Sept. 90, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-30
British Losses at Sea.

To correct the emotional impression
produced by the more or less spectacular
feats of German submarines, 1t is well IN
estimating the real value of this kind OF
warfare to consider the dry figures or
losses incurred by the war risk assocla-
tons under the British state insurance
scheme. A summary Of all losses since
the war began has lately been published,
and as the lists include nearly every Brit
ish vessel engaged in ocean trade, besides
majority of the large coasting steamers,
very fair idea may be had of the damage
actually done to British trade.
After year Of war the number Of yes
sells destroyed amounted to only a per cent
Of the total number employed. As to the
value of the cargoes lost in the same
period. it is put at G7,24O,OOO, while the
total value Of the cargoes carried-apart
altogether from those of the government
estimated at 81 500, 100000.
The loss, therefore has been at the rate
of about one-half of 1 per cent. 1t will
be seen, then, that German hopes are still
a long way from fulflment and that the
expectation that trade would be paralyzed
by fear has come to nought.
But the most surprising fact brought
forth by the figures is that, whereas in the
first six months of the war the loss was at
the rate Of two-thirds of l per cent, in the
following six months it fell to little more
than one-thrd of per cent. As the sec
ond half-year includes the whole period of
Tirpitz's much-heralded blockade, a true
estimate Of the Importance of that terri
flying enterprise is now possible.
The figures are really amazing. If any
one had ventured to predict in the first
DAYS of the war that after year British
supremacy on the sea would be so nearly
complete few would have dared TO believe
him. AS to the Germans, those who think
seriously on the matter must rea lie by
row that the submarine campaign is little
better than a very costly advertisement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-30
Trained Officers Our Greatest Need.

There is much wisdom in the conten-
ton Of Professor r. VI. Johnston, in his
article in last Sundays Tribune, that in
any military reorganization which the
United States attempts the chief concern
ought TO be the creation of an adequate
body of officers. Cone Of the most strik
ing lessons Of the war in Europe, con-
frming the experience of the last half
century. is that armies are efficient in dl-
rect ratio % the training Of their Off
GERS" says Professor Johnston. That
Judgment is one which we ought to bear
in mind when we are asked 10 base the
rational defence on rudimentary training
for large masses Of "citizenry" ard TO
continue to DO without an adequate regu-
lar army. with its greatly enlarged corps
Of regular officers.
Our greatest military shortcoming to-
day is the lack Of men trained to lead the
new formations which would have to be
called into the field i'm case Of war. If
we We're TO meet an invasion undertaken
by any FIRST class power, we should re
oure for our defence, as Mr.. Johnston
points out. a regular force of six or seven
army corps of about $4,000 men each,
capable Of being modified at any threat
ened point within two weeks after dec
laration Of war. If we had no such force
available we could never supply its place
with even three or four times that num-
Der Of second or third line men. For we
could not mobilize larger body Of second
and third line men and we should not
have officers capable Of putting them to
proper military use.
We may have UNFRAMED or partially
trained men in profusion. But where can
we look for officers who would weld that
raw material into real armies? In the
regular army to-day there are about 5000
officers. But one campaign against a for
midable enemy would reduce that corps TO
2 mere remnant Great Britain in the
first year of-ahe present war, with not
much more than $4,000 troops engaged,
lost about $4,000 officers. We could not
make good on a rate Of loss like that We
should be compelled 20 carry on the war
With second and third line troops, whose
luality would be still more reduced by
aek Of officers really fit 20 lead them
II is time for us to quit talking abou. an
armed citizenry" and 10 begin to create
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-30
The Washington Review.

Nothing is more familiar to-day than
the assertion that contemporary America
is a now and sadly decadent thing. Look
ing out upon recent history, upon the APP
rarcnt growth of a peace-at-any-prlce
shirt. which holds national honor un-
worthy Of national sacrifice, not Few
Americans in these days have rather bit
terlv asserted that the spirit that made
the nation, has vapished-that the brave
days are in the past.
Ignoninious as much that has lately
bappcDcd must seem, unattractve as the
newest pages in our history in the past
months have been, there is still in the re-
view that is taking place at Washington
perhaps the final review Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic, a cause for opu-
mlsm.
The sons and grandsons of the men who
fought the four glorious years Of national
effort through. either with Grant or with
Ice. cannot forget the inheritance that
IS theirs, cannot quite deny the legacy
that has descended to them.
No man whose father or grandfather
marched in the Army Of the Potomac or
that of Northern Virginia can really be
"too p.oud 10 fight" The generation
whose youth and early manhood was col
ored bv the stories Of how Gettysburg was
won and Charlottesville lost, how Sheri-
dan rode. and how Stuart charged, may
falter in its allegiance but it will not per-
manentlv disgrace the nobler past.
II Is probably true that never IN the
history of the United States has there
been time when real patriotism and true
national spirit was less apparent less dis
coverable. Something mysterious, be-
wilderine. almost disheartening there is
I'm an that the recent months have brought
and meant.
But If there were any one who DID des-
pair Of the Republic the thousands who
arc marching in Washington this week
would give him the lie. No nation whose
elder generation is made up of such men
can be permanently craven or cowardly.
National honor may temporarily be for
gotten: this has happened IN all nations
but with the awakening we shall have
new strength with the old.
The France whose patriotism has TO-
day seized upon the admiration and the
imagination Of the world is the France
which yesterday tolerated those who were
prepared to plant the flag on the dung
heap. Perhaps our own state is no better
than was that Of the French a decade
aro-but reviewing the last parade of our
own Grand Army, who can doubt that the
heart of the country Is as clean. as loyal
rs sound as ever?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-30
BETTER than the Present One.

Governor Whitman is doing good work
in urging the upstate Republicans to get
into line for the new constitution. His eX-
perience with state affairs is limited, but
already he has discovered the need of an
budget, if ever there IS to
be genuine economy in state affairs and
genuine concentrated responsibility for the
states financial administration. He has
recognized the absolute impossibility Of
putting the state government on proper
working basis without the department re-
organization proposed by the so-called
short ballot provision Of the new constitu-
ton.
The Governor doesn't consider the pro-
posed constitution a perfect document.
There is no voter in the state who would.
Yet he urges its adoption because its
merits stand out so that they more than
overbaance any shortcomings which he
sees. No reasonable human being can ex-
pect more. The proposed constitution Is
a real. distinct advance over the present
document. 1t carries in Itself more of
merit than of demerit. Those are ample
reasons for its adoption. No constitution,
no law, no ordinance or rule was ever per
feet when adopted or adopted because it
was supposed to be perfection. Human
nature cart accomplish perfection. Those
who urge the defeat of this constitution
because it isn't perfect are merely silly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-30
A Word for Mr.. Voorhis
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial "A Reorganized Flee
tions Bureau" you do ex-Superntendent Voor-
his an injustice The charges against him
were heard by Commissioner Mcmahon, OF
Rome. y. Y, and on Judge MeMahon's recon
mendation Governor Glynn dismissed tho
charges and commended Superintendent Noor-
his.
Controller Travis also Investigated the
Office OF the State Superintendent Of Flee
tions, and Mr. Travis commended TIE Office
for its efficiency. |, Of course, do not wish
TO crticise any good work that is being ac-
complished By Superintendent Marshall.
New York, Sept. l6, 1915. FAIR PLAY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-30

ships are built and sail the seas for profit,
and as soon as they lie idle in port profits
cease. Patriotism soon succumbs in cases Of
this kind.
However, let US be strictly neutral and
pray continually for peace We must not
forget that neutrality has new meaning
It means supply one combatant with arms
and ammunition, horses and food and lend
him the money to pay for same.
JOHN ADAMS MADISON
New York, Sept. 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-30
As Understood.
An erica.
New York,

To the Editor Of The Tribune. ,syasists
Sir: Recent statements Of the 'T p;Sbt IS
attack the ants poster Woman mean
the Freedom from Political Duties sa,v
ing an appeal for exemption from S.' Ss could
The most ordinary student OF hhsl'. ssr,sn's'
explain Of necessary that the ~Oi uu,;-susrs-
i: understood. The large body OF 10 treedOp
gists. enrolled and unenrolled' %"
from mems political duties n,c,N WOMAN.
New York, Sept. 20. 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-30

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. ~, NJ -.-r.-s,f.. ogden NJ. Kcit. President. "
V.-.r Rl-sr, secretary ard Trsasurcr Address lfl'u's
vu1firg No "a Na.esu Street. NeT lorh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-30

rHuRsp,y. SEPTEMBER 80. 1915.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01

have ridden in Pullman cars when
the day coach would have served. We
have found when the strain and
stress of hard times came that all
these things counted for naught and
that we could be Just as happy and
"leetle bit" happier living strictly
within our means at home.
With South Carolina driven by the
war into producing enough on her
farms to feed herself, and every far
mer living on his farm; with the
towns-people living within their
means; with the moral courage of
her people stimulated to the point
where they can resist the tempta-
ton of extravaganza, we shall within
another year have pulled ourselves
out of the hole of debt and despou-
dency by our own boot-straps and be
well on the road to real and lasting
prosperity.
The blessings, therefore. of adver-
sity are we'll worth cultivating and
are by no means to be disparaged.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01
The Sumter Herald says:
Divine Nature.

Nature is pitilcss; she never with
draws her flowers. her music hei
joyousness and her sunlight from be
fore human cruelty and suffering
she ovcrwhelms man by the contrast
between divine beauty and sncia
hideousncss. Snc spares MIN moth
ing of her lovelness, neither butter
fly nor bird. In the midst OF murder
vengeance. barbarism, be must fee
himself watched BY holy things;
he cannot escape the awiu! reproacE
OF universal nature and the implacablt
serenity of the sky. The daformity
of human laws is forced to- exhibit it
self naked amid tho dazzling rays oI
eternal beauty Man breaks and de
stroys; man lays waste; man kills
but the summer remains the summer;
the lily remains the lily; the star ro
mains Il star.-VictCr hugo.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01
Chivalry.
Anderson Intelligencer.
The toppy red bag, Sc

4 young lady from Tennessee ex-
plains that Southern chivaIrv" is an
inheritance from Colonial davs.
when women were very scarce ana
hence valuable" Sne adds thar
women are plentiful now" Pre-
sumably then, the South will ere
long be treating women in the same
cool. matter-of-fact way that is sup
posed to prevail in the North.
AS matter of fact. the Tennessee
girl was probably more than half
right. Women are no exception to
the rule good thinh "alued IA pro.
portion TO its sfcarc:ty. The Ameri-
can people as whole are still recog-
niZed as the most Chivalrous OF ma
tions. Some races, like the French.
may treat their women with more
elaborate courtesy; but nowhere is
the sex so highly regarded and so
much deferred to in essential matters
as in the United States.
And this is surely not because OF
any special virtue inherent in Ameri-
can men. 1t is because the American
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01
IT'S UP TO OFFICERS.
Walterboro Press and Standard

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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01
of the days dirge, prophetic
the years coming death.
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the years coming death.
But we may look deeper down into
the worlds beautiful soul. and with
the light of faith and love. the eve
secs in all, not death, but fruition;
not decay but change. The seed has
become the fruit. the glittering green
OF the harvest fields of ripe and
yellow grain.
The leaves will fall over valleys
withered and dead; the flowers will
droop and their fragrance exhale to
heaven, but in it all there is no sad
ness. What seems death is the
promise of fresher life. and across
the vista with its SHOWS and
frosts, April smiles sunlit, fragrant
with crocus blooms just as over the
gulf of death Faith sees the glow
OF the jewelled walls of heaven.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01
Evcry Home Needs a Faithful Cough
and Cold Remedy.

When seasons change and colds
appear-when you first detect q cold
after sitting next to one who has
neezed, then IL is that a tried anC
ested remedy should be faithfully
sed. "I never wrote a testimonial
efore, but, / know positively thai
or myself and family. DIR. Kings
lew Discovery is the best coug
remedy we ever used and we have
tried 1aAen all 50c and slice. 1
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01
THE BLESSINGS OF aDVER.
SITY.
Florence Times.

'io lhaI the d1nerence be
tween the optimist and the pessimis
is that the optimist sees the dough
nut while the pessimist sees the hole
BE that as it may it has strained tb,
most persistent optimism at times
uuring the past fourteen months r.
see any doughnut around the hole
me terrible and apparently causeIess
war goes on with little prospect OF
ending so far as we can discover ana
the resurces of the world are being
more and more taxed to meet the
drain OF its incomprehensibly i'm
mense economic loss
But there is now a silver lining
that appears about the rim of the
cloud. Adversely no less than pros
perity has it's lessons, and if we be-
heve the Scriptures of all times that
are past those lessons are the best
learned that the old world teaches to
Its restless children through adver-
sity. The lesson that the war has
been bringing home to people in this
country only in lesser degree than
to the people of the battle Scared
countries of Europe is that of
eeol'onls'
we reau Oh the extravaganza and
rove OF luxury that characterized the
latter years of the Roman Empire, of
The pomp and lavishness of the
rrehch' OF LOUIS NV, but at no time
!" 'i'e ehtire history OF the world has
'A'ia'asahce OF the rich and the
poor oe'h so without restraint as
"i'Hlh the hlteen years preceding the
oPe'''hE OF the historic August OF
l'ii' New devices OF commercial
'S'l' ne" ih''h"uS OF hnance; grcat
inventions ana expansion OF material
PIouuc'loh OF all Oh the essential
coh''houitles OF modern liie; quicken
Z" hioueS OF communication and
transportation all. nave contributed
10 the development of an expansion
III creults ana multiplication OF
business that created wealth with
such amazing rapldlty that the world
was swept "hoily away from her
The anchors OF prudence and cau-
ton were swept away with this in
creased wealth, accumulated largely
in the hands OF a comparatively few.
Moving swift into the ordinary
currents this causes corresponding
thriftlessness in the whole body of
our people. TO us slang express
sion, 1T came easy and went easy"
The extravaganza OF the rich and
well-to-do was mimicked by the mid
die class an0 the poor. There is no
one hVing IN this community today
VINO cannot run PACK over the past
htteen years ard remember how diff
ferent were the wants OF The family,
OF the man, and his wife, and the
boys and girls and by comparison
how the cost or high living has first
doubled ana then treDled the yearly
expense.
Ihere Is an extravaganza that 1t is
not Impossible TO commend. This
is the extravaganza OF the one who
VIII strain point to nave better
home, better education for his chill
dren, better health conditions in his
town. the extravaganza OF the man
who gives his wife the conveniences
or modern lie In the daily duties or
the home and to the children the
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01
Malaria or ChilIs E. Fever

Prescription No. 666 10 prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHillS 4 FEvER.
Five or ok doses will break any case, and
n taken then as tonic the Fever will not
return. Il acts On the liver better than
Calomel snd does not sripe OF sicken. 2Se
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01
the nationoi joy smoke

lleTe ISM { q bite in q
barrel Of this national
joy smoke.
Unlimber your old Jim
my pipe! Dig it out of
the dark corner, jam it
brimful Of p. A. And
m AXE fire with a
match I! Me-o-my!
You get acquainted with Prince
Albert in the foppy red bag, Sc; or
fidy red tin, zoe, but for the doubIe-
back -dction!joy, you buy a crystal
gfdss pound hunidor. And then
you're set! You see, IL has the
sponge n,oistener top and keen,
=. A. at the highest top notch poinf
Of perfection. Prince Albert IL oL,o
sold in pound and haif.pound tin
hunidors.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-15
AMERICAN Y.M.C.A. WORKER
WITNESSED VOLCANO ERUPTION

THE same mud that was blown
over the landscape like escaping
steam, flowed for twenty-four hours
down the mountain side, carrying
huge rocks and trees and in ever
widening stream, stripped a clean
path through the forest, a path a
mile long and four hundred yards
wide in its lower reaches. Into the
river bed, at its narrowest point, the
very portal of the valley, slipped this
stream of mud, building a dam OF
mighty forest trees and rocks. The
Azusagawa the chief affluent of the
Chinanogawa, the largest river of the
main island, was squarely stopped by
this stone and timber barrier which
must be full SO feet in height. The
waters of the river backed up to form
the lake and are now running over the
top of the dam, down a spillway in a
wild cataract"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-15
MISS HARRIS WAS HOSTESS

At her pretty bungalow home on
Harold avenue, Miss Elizabeth Har-
ris was charming hostess Wednesday
afternoon at very delightful porch
party, given complimentary for two
fair visitors, Miss Winifred Cannon, of
Jonesboro, and Miss Fannie Furlow,
of Vidalia. Four tables were placed
amid wealth of palms and vases Of
bright-hued flowers, and there the in
teresting game of rock was played.
When the cards were put aside a de-
licious salad course and bon bons was
served.
Miss Harris fair guests included
Misses Winifred Cannon, Fannie Fur
low, Margaret Wheatley, Isabel
Wheatley, Nellie Worthy, Naomi
Wright, Pauline Andrews, Mary Wal
ker, Frances Loving, Mary Sheffield,
Marjorie Kalmon, Agnes Gatewood,
Alice Johnson, Eugenia Warlick, Mar
iorie Brown, Clara Glover, Quenelle
Harold, Margaret Everett, Katherine
Buchanan, Mary Sue Chambliss.