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torpedo tubes and disappearing quick.
firing guns, superdreadnought of sub.
marines. as she has been called.
In his simple, direct fashion Mr..
FORD points out the folly Of all this
scientific straining after effect with
out solving the problem. He has
tapped his head aud evolved the true
idea. Any one with a few plain tools,
a little tin and fixings, together with
n gallon can Of gasolene. can put to-
gethcr "tbe little terror of the seas"
warranted TO run up and down creeks.
traverse lightly the Uneven bed of the
ocean. ride the waves like II decoy
duck. bob up when least expected.
aud put any fleet out Of commission.
Carrying a pill at the end of Il pole
she could touch off one battlcship
after another. In his illustration Mr..
FoBD goes back to the David and other
crude products OF our civil war, but
his is the original and unsophisti-
Gated mind. flint and finder of truth.
Cost of his runabout submarine a
fraction Of one per cent. Of the outlay
on a battlesblp, which is, say, SID
100000. For that sum n myriad Of
his little terrors could be built-it
would he hardly worth whlle count
ing EN-.
Yes. war would end on the sea-if
IIlNRY FoRD. philanthropist. could DO
The trick. lie has just begun to think
about 1t. and, presto, the runabOut {.
No more electrical propulsion under
water; %gasolene below as well as on
the surface. II is enough to make
an electrician go out and commit
hara -kirl. Plain HENRY Ford will
have no electricity in his ~battleshlp
killer: it Is a Wa ste Of space and ma
terlal when gasolene can do the work
80 smoothly and cheaply. What a
trea sure he would be to Won TIRPITz
The Eternal But It Is iii wi Jo-
sEPHUs DANIELS. no small submarine
expert himself, who will be the lucky
man. Mr.. DANIELS can now order
submarines by the gross and parts by
the million. lie will have the laugh
on NoN TIRPITz.
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mt cane was an island. has been a

ent cape was an island. has been a
long battle, first for franchise rights,
then with shifting, subtly hostile
sands. Now that the waters OF the
bays are mingled, and the inside
route. cutting Off more than seventy
miles Of some Of the most dangerous
coastwise navigation on our Eastern
sen front. through the shoals of Vine
yard and Nantucket sounds. where
ships 20 up and down by thousands Il
year-and some dozens perhaps In Il
year 90 down" to stay-now 1t is u
ridiculous. u dlsgraceful thing to have
conflicting interests in transportation
play the part of Il Culebra.
BY official report. in the past half
year eighty three tows, %aggregating
10 vessels, have gone through
without difficulty or accident. what.
ever the merits of the railroads plea,
aud the case is far from being one
sided, ii seems that the Massachusetts
commissions have done the wisest
thing in adi0urning sine die, subject
to renewal of the debate by either of
it's parties.
From the time when, in 1907. the
State Railroad Commissioners ar
ranged for the removal Of the Buz.
yards Bay station on the Cape Cod
division Of the railroad the cape ca.
nal has been overcoming difficulties
in a way that turns the sheer Of the
scoffer to a smile Of congratulation--
and depreciation of further hostllitles
of wind and sand and tide.
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The New Education.

SIN order that a man he successful
in a particular line" says Or. SiLAs
r. NEFr, principal Of the School Of
New Education In Philadelphia. "he
must use all Of his powers. mind, per-
sonaiity ana character. Tie reason
so few are successful is that the early
t~r'lning in our schools Is incorrect"
At the time when Dr. NrFr was say
ing this in Plttshurg Dr. JoHN GRIrR
HIBBEN. president Of Princeton Uni-
yeisiIy, was saying in Philadelphia
"Ic ! were asked 10 name the greatest
defect o: the present undergraduate |
would say i was his tendency TO post
pcne until tomorrow the task of to-day.
Colleges connive In this by making his
work agreeable; the teacher at once
heirs him over any difficulty. Men In
the world nus earn their daily bread
by the sweat Of their brows. but the
student can acquire knowledge quite
v!cariously, without Ia wing to exert
himself for it. He ould be made to
tnlHh HAS way out OF ulrncuItleS TOT
himself
Do these two great leaders in edu-
cation not know that they are pro-
pounding theories long ago proved TO
be fallacious? DO they not know that
the old idea that a student should
study has been abandoned. Have
they not heard that there Is n royal
road to learning? Why. bless their
dear old hearts, children In elementary
and secondary schools are not sup
posed any more to go through the
drudgery their fathers went through.
1t gives them nerves" DO these an
tiquated educators not know about
nerves? Shame upon them.
Some one should take them gently
aside and inform them that the school
boy and the schoolgirl now acquire
knowledge not by their own mental
efforts but through the labors of the
teacher, whose chief object Is to make
everything easy for the precious
charges entrusted to his care. AS for
the college student, President HIBBEN
merely states plaintively what every
one knows, that his diploma repre-
sents not his own achievements but
those Of the professors.
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SAMENESS.
An Attempt 10 Unrayel One Of the
Common Mysteries of War.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: How
futile and how shallow an Observation
on human nature It is to attribute tho
exclusive possession of any vice or virtue
to a large group OF individuals. and yet
how constantly prone we are TO commit
this error!
War by it's alignment Of group against
group strengthens his tendency as no
other condition does. Thus to this man
ner of thinking the Germans are cruel,
savage, arrogant. the British eter-
nally self-seeking and insincere.
Are not such congratulations contrary
to our real knowledge of men?
Is It not perfectly certain on rejection
that any large group of human beings,
call il race. nation or what not, posses
ses in its entirety about the same selfish
and altrulstic traits as any other race
or nation?
Individuals in any group may he as
vide apart in character as the poles, but
extremes about offset each other In any
large society. What then makes one
group act so violently against another
us in war IL a proper question.
The reason seems TO me to be that
whereas fundamentally nations are char
acteristically ahke they may at any time
assume an APPEARANCE of difference under
the stimulus OF a fixed idea.
Thus Germany to many has become
all shat is r%epugnant because she seems
to be acting under the impulsion of a
lust of power. a trait. however, poten-
TALLY common to all nations, even the
English.
Thus in any given case the deciding
point to be determined by those not a
party to the contest should he what ma
tlon's conduct In the long run is likely
to he most universally beneficial.
Nations like individuals are not in
varIably right, nor are they invariably
wrong, and il is Idle to argue that be-
cause a nation has acted reprehensibly
on one occasion 1t has stamped on itself
an indelible tendency for like unvarying
future action. Again. with nations as
with individuals live and learn" is the
only way. Il DELANo.
EDGEMERE. l. l.. September Is.
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DYNAMITE PUZZLE TO WILSON,
Garrison Not to Dispose Of The
Nsgdeburg ~ y. y. Harhor.

WAsuGNGToN. Sept. is r.. cas-" 81
the German dynamite ship VI -a'h re,
the presence Of which In New No~- rf''
hpr has caused much anxiety 20 ""' q
there, has been referred ~ Pres len,
Wilson for hual disposition
This action was taken rs ID "'-I' :
the decision Of Secretary 1f W.. 'in--
risou that the case Wa, NO Wt.r .
jurisdiction. lite has - informed F'
dent Wilson by letter, suggesting '.''
the Treasury Department, haN uC ''''''
dIction over port authorities. m -'' nse
final action IN the case. For 'H" -fs
cnt, however, the matter Is I'm l"' NJ
Wilson's hands.
While recognizing IN" d-.nw''r.
which the presence Of the " r',. Is
with her cargo of too. o0O pounds No. H'i
dynamite mas caused tho authors. -
New York. the War Department '''N
the position that IL had nu Grey
over the movement or dlspo-f n q,
vessels.
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Railway Trespassing.

Fatalities in railway accidents so
far as pa ssengers are concerned have
decreased in this country. Several Of
the most important railroad lines In
their campaign for safety have been
able To announce that no deaths have
resulted To travellers upon their roads
for periods ranging from II to five
years. Fatalities to trespa ssers, how
ever, have Increased prop~ortiOnnlly
seven times as much ms have deaths
Of passengers.
\ recent report gives the number
Of treslassers killed last year as
a,lil, and for the preceding twenty
five years rs ll3,4SD. This appalling
figure represents - per cent. Of all
the railway fatalities in the United
States, This percentage is remark
ably constant. As the RdiIrGU Age
GasCfte expresses 1t:
The more railroads there are and the
more trains there are run the greater Is
tne hazard that they Will kill persons
who persist in walking on the track, and
apparently the more people there arr
in the United States the more tres
passers there are"
The railroads have endeavored 10
have the States act and have also at
tempted to deal with 1t themselves,
They have pOliced their tracks and
have arrested trespassers, but ac.
cordang TO the court records these per
sons went unpublished because the
Judges refused 10 convict them and
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local authorities refused to stand the
expense Of their Imprisonment.
At the recent meeting Of the Asso-
citation Of Railroad superintendent
in San Francisco Il. W. CAMP said
that his efforts to interest various
State Legislatures in n bill to make
trespn ssing a misdemeanor were In
almost every case futile. Where 1T
received any favor at all the bill was
made almost imperative by limitation.
one instance that he mentioned was
n proviso that 1t should not apply
to pickets during a strike"
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n.Mr Won't TO the RACes.''

To THE EDiT0R OF THE SuN-Sir, am
very DESTROYS OF being set right on a mat
ter Of English grammar, The momentous
question l. simply this;
In a group Of three the question was
asked. "Who vent to the races?" The
answer was Father ana me-" Now, 49,
contends that Father and me- Is gram.
NAUTICAL, while "B" asserts that the an
swer Father and |" alone Is proper. !
shall be greatly Obliged II some ono will
tell me which one of the two IL right an
why, l. n. DouBr.
UREA, September II.
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Before the Board OF Estimate adopts
the ingenious plan of city financing
now urged upon it. under the terms OF
which appropriations would be made
for two months of 1916, in the hope
that the proposed home rule amend
proved and a new charter adopted. We
are sure that some member of that
body will read Section 226 Of the pres
ent charter. From il enlightenment
may be derived as to the statutory OBJ
legations OF the Board. which seem TO
have escaped the attention Of the au-
thor of this scheme.
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From an Optimist.

To THE EDITOR OF THIS SuN-Sir' From
out Of the heat and mugginess comes this
refreshing fact, THE last Straw" hasn't
been taboo this year on some day set by
supercilious youths.
II has been permitted to abide thu
weather ana keep cool the dome ~ the
bald ms well as the thistle top.
IT the weather forecaster has brought
about this cooling reform. he 10 to be
blessed and not condemned,
JAMES d DEWITT, ".
Nav HAVEN, Conn, September Is.
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Income Tax on Losses.

T" rHE Edition or THE SuN-NV, I write
"a ask my Inability To- the Income tax. 7
have an income Of 81, 800 and was foolish
enough a f"w weeks ago to lahhle In the
stock market, WITH the result that IN ono
~ my transactions | made a proht OF
1000 and later In other transactions |
madn loss amounting to $500 or course
"u my r%oguiar income Of s., 300 | am not
lith'e for tax, hut I am told that I must
add nay pro0ts to my Income, hut that |
cannot deduct my losses, II this Is trlr
! 50" am Table Tor my Income and prof
i's, which amount to .i.bO0. and MS an
unmarried man | deduct III" $4,000 al.
lowed me ana pay tax on $500, although
my income IS reduced by $500.
| am too poor to enter into a suit with
the Government, hut | am sure this would
not stand should 1t reach the supreme
Court. SPECULATION
New YORK, september II.
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Thompson. who was a Confederate soldier.
said he wrote all the poem except the
following stanzas.
The three stanzas were quoted. The
letter continues:
The poem was first published in the
Century Got July, 1855. II is entitled The
High Tide at Gettysburg, by an Ex-Con
federate soldier" and 1t is signed "Will
II. Thompson In that version the three
disputed stanzas. which are the twelfth.
thirteenth and fourteenth, appear. Reply
ing 20 a communication VI mine ON thia
subject II u. johnson, associate editor of
the Century. says: According to our docu-
mentary proof there Is no doubt whatever
as to Mr.. Thompson's authorship Of those
as well as Of the other stan2as OF the
poem" 4. r. BrHNs.
ARttSGToS HEIGHTS, Mass, July IS.
This evidently should have corrected
in the mind Of the editor of THE sun
the false impression produced by the
TimoS-Deniocrdt article.
In my reply | stated to Mr.. Johnson
that I knew no more han he as to
o such an error had crept nto the
Southern paper, and there the matter,
so far as | was concerned. rested,
I was not, and ! am not, a profess
sional literary man. My profession Is
the law. and such contributions as |
have from time to time given 10 the
magazines have been entirely apart from
the ordinary orbit of toll in which ms
life has revolved.
You are kind enough to say
The person who wrote these added stan
sas remains unknown to this day tie was
certainly a true poet, o. a quality that
Is decidedly uncommon. For Instance, the
lines:
"Who held the hope,
OF nations on that ~slippery slope"
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Montclair. always in the van OF re-

Montclair. always In the van Of re-
form. has adopted a cat license ordi-
nance. Spokane in Washington is
about TO do the same thing. and no
doubt other towns will troop In be-
hind. What liz there so sacred about
Thomas and Tabby that they should
escape tagging? why shouldn't they
contribute To the revcnu as the dog
on the premises does? He pays his
dollar every May day, and he destroys
no birds, whatever else may he charged
against him. II he is well trained he
does not lark at night In the hack
yard, hut vocally the cat is untrain-
able. He and she can make the night
dreadful. Nothing in nature Is so
nerve shatterlng as the amor us cats
yowl, and a cat fight In the garden
plot is the last straw. Humanity goes
out Of the window with the bootjack.
The wonder is that the cat has
escaped the taX raiser 50 long. It
must be out OF consideration for the
cat hugging sex. But with equal SUI
frage the paramount issue the cat
need no longer be n privileged mem
her of the community. Tag and bell
Thomas and Tahitha; the tag for
revenue. the bell to save the perse-
Cutcd Ong birds.
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That clutched and held that ,remblinI
hul"

The iron Will
THAT clutched and held that trembling
hill"
These lines as well AZ one or two others
were not written by any dabster In the
management Of words. They ought 70
Identify the real perpetrator OF the inter
p~olation. Just as brush marks or other
idiosy M ras sizes OF manner betray the
touches which Rembrandt or Whistler put
on o pupiiIs canvas.
This seems to imply that these four
concluding stanzas departed from the
literary characteristics Of the other por-
tons Of the poem and indicated an
alien authorship. I may be at fault
in failing to discover any change Of
thcuyat or diction that would suggest
that the poem had at any point been
touched by mothers hand or thought.
In sending the manuscript to the CEN
turn | accompanied II with "A brief letter
saying in effect that ! was proud to
note that the magazine was building
n monument to American and
valur and that | modestly ventured TO
send "a small stone to be used In the
South front"
There was no thought or intent upon
my part to make the poem a distinc-
lively Southern one. but to try to en-
body the feeling that on that Ridge the
South had failed. that there the Con-
federacy had fallen, and In a stanza
not incorporated in the printed poem
| mad said
The long gray bi.,ow, tempest tossed
Broke on a red volcanic coast.
And ghastly Jctsan, scattered wide.
Marked highest limit that the tide
OF mortal courage ever crossed.
But this stauza I eliminated as not
equal to the general flow Of the poem,
which | had attempted to build upon
strictly scientific poetic lines.
The poem, as representative Of the
South's highes, and grauiest advance
toward the accomplishment of an indie
pendent nationality. ended, Of course.
with the failure of the charge and
death or, Of a nation lost but the
a-tlel sttnzas were necessary 10 give
tho poem a meaning
The Conie5cracy was lost, Is 'ag had
shr.v,ilcd, rs charging cheer would
neycr again I've hclrd 80 far North. and
The world saw ~ gray gigantic ghost
rece1lug through the battle cloud ard
" seemed necessary that something
should De- said OF the lesson taught 10y
the tremendous conflict and its heroic
close, AMI | attempted to make the CON
Guiding stanZas a solemn comment upon
the meaning and result Of the colossal
conflict Swallowed forth in the prec g.
ing stanzas, the sublime Scholiuln hat
history has since written in deeds
stronger than any words.
WILL II ~TIIoMrsoN.
SEATTLE, Wash. September =
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Forty years ago all America could not.
without bills Of credit. raise 500. 900 to
defend themselves from an enemy at their
doors. NOW. In rpfouud peace. the taxes
pouring into the Treasury, without strain
or effort, iu.oG0.O oO. In the year 1850
there was perhaps not 10000 Of specie in
THE country. at pr,sen; the banks ~
Philadelphia alone have about ten millions
- dispose ~ beyond the demand ...
Divide the last forty years into -FOUR
periods, thou, supposing he ratio we're
duplicate, the revenues o. $4,000. 600 I'm
$500 VIII give FOR 1890. 100000; To-
1850. '..5oo.0Oo. for 1870. s1.2ao. 900. and
for 1850, dVe-eightAs Of a million. '..
Now ten. II We 70 orwtrd. not with
seNtupi" but merely with qudirupIe ratio.
for more periods pf twenty Years begin
ming with g 900, 900 sterling. we have for
l>!o 100000 and for lSiD more than
thirty million sterling Of revenue raised
from a p'puls ion which may then amount
To- thirty million Of souls. This indeed
seems ilnr"ssihle. hut did f. not seem
equally i'npossihio at the end ~ the
seven Wears wa that tho NOT revenue
II british America should OK. ed r. zoe. 600
sterling ny the end ~ me ,crturyH HAD
This hscn asserted on the Exchange o.
London IN 1850 would 4, not have been
laughed at IN 1850.
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CASH ~ CREDIT,
GOuyerneur Morris Did Some Inter.
estine Figuring in 1900.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. In
view of the present visit Of the foreign
hnanciers TO this country the enclosed
extract from a letter written by Gouver-
neur Morris TO his friend Mr.. John
PARISH. then OF Hamburg, may be read
with interest. The letter is dated WASH
ington. u. G.. December 20. 1900. Il.
NEW YORK, September Is.
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The Two Monitors.

without our hearts two figures stand:
Regret aud seif-forFetfulness,
Regret points back with withered hand
And cries; There lies Your happlnrss"'
Rut srlr-forgetiuiness looks out
From present pain and sorrow paSsed,
And, helping others In their doubt,
Finds rest and JOY and love at last.
DoHoTHY Hop1sos.
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our sympathy for the kind hearted
suffragette whose cloak was stolen by
an iinpostor she befriended would be
deeper did we not recall the fact that
most persons were glad to get along
without Cloaks at the time the gar
meat was taken.
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Tho recent heated term seemed to
show that the effect of IA high tenn
thCatriC system as il Is on mere
human beings, only those plays suf-
fering from radical weakness of one
kind or another succumhed to the
neat while the others continued quite
as sturdily as ever.
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solved

Kuicter-What would hapntn II an lire
force met an lmmoVAhle body
BOcker-The mule would kick itself
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The Hon. CHARLES DICK Of Akron,
Ohio, has announced his candidacy for
the United States Senate. a body in
which he once was numbered. The
restoration of Pacific JOE BAILEY. the
Great R~csigner, and CHARLES DICK to
power in Washington would be IA
glorious triumph for the popular cleo
tiOn OF Senators.
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The Peruvian plan for new taxes is
not "vell received by those who are
to- pay the imposts, The tax collector
is universally unpopular,
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" our FRONTS Eho taror US ,ri,h mann.
scripts dHd Illustrations for publication uisL
10 hare rejected articles reiHrBed MeD must
"a al cases send stamps for hdt purpose.
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BIgps Favored Plan.

The approval of the plan tu dispose
Of this sewage into Mohausic Lake rests
finally with Hermann NJ. Biegs, state
e mmissioner of Health. II was learned
to- ay that Mr.. Biggs was about to ap.
prove Of the plan when the storm Of
opposition from New York city lie.
veloped.
Mayor Mitchell called the matter 70 the
attention of the Governor and the hear.
ing is the result. Commissioner II
Health Biggs. who was appointed under
the last administration, has been per-
mltted to continue his work as state
Commissioner of Health under his
administration. and accordingly It Q
the belief Of the opponents # the plan
that the Commissioner II Health would
abide by and acquicse IN any sIgges.
ton the Gov ruor might make.
The opponents feel that i'm spite Of the
declaration of scientific engineer that
no DANGER will come from the cmu'y.ns
Of sewage into "A lake winch is me
source Of "A stream leading into 4 rcser.
voir there is always the possibility o.
concentrating the water supply.
state Commissioned Of Health Eugene
:. Porter. who was the predecessor u
Commissioner B!ggs. maintained that
the possibility IF pollution always e&.
listed while the treatment Of sewage
depended upon the exercise OF human
agency.
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London of1ce, Erlngham House. / Arun.
de. street, strand.
Paris ONCE, . Rae de Ia Mlchodlere, OF
Rue du Quatre Septembre.
washington Office, Hibbe Building.
BrOOkly n u.hCc. los Livingston street.