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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
No Berlin Muzzle for Harvard.


Professor Munsterberg has written
two big volumes, one interp -eting Ger
many to the United States and the other
interpreting the United States to Ger
many. Things happen occasionally which
illustrate better than any such scientific
dissertations can the real difference
between the German and the American
point Of view. That contrast is made as
vivid as possible in the correspondence
between Professor Kuno Meyer, Of the
University Of Berlin, and President
Lowell of Harvard University over the
recent publication Of prize poem writ
ten by a Harvard student.
Professor Meyer charges the Harvard
authorities with having countenanced "a
gratuitous and shameless insult" to Ger
many because two Harvard professors,
acting as judges in a student competi-
ton, awarded a prize to the production
complained Of. There the German point
Of view sticks out. According to it, the
officers Of a university must accept re-
sponsibility for the private judgment of
professors and the literary output of
students. Supervision Of thought as well
as of conduct is an ingrained notion in a
nation which knows no other form Of
government except government from the
top.
To Americans such a theory is odious.
Freedom Of speech extends here to all
even to professors and verse-making
students. The judges in the Harvard
contest were literary umpiros, not politi-
cal censors. The Harvard faculty is not
vested with the right to regulate the pri-
vate political opinions Of those who give
instruction or those who receive it. This
is free country, and even bad poetry has
its immunities. President Lowell, there
fore. stood on the Constitution and on
impregnable American custom when he
informed the irate Herr Professor that
free speech-howeve shocking to those
brought up to a strict avoidance of Males
taetsbeleidigung-wi remain the rule in
American institutions of learning.
It is the claim Of most German writers
that we are not capable of passing judg-
nent on the German case in the present
war because we do not understand Ger
man ideals and Kultur. Germans who
don't understand our ideals should there
fore be all the more chary about CRITICS
ing US. Harvard wouldn't look at all like
Harvard if it had to wear leather muz-
zle Of the Meyer-Berlin cut.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
Let Us Be Indulgcnt.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Ii is time for residents of the United
States to begin looking to the future, to that
future when the European war will be ended
and life will begin to flow along in its nor
NAL way. When that day comes we shall
have hundreds of thousands Of Germans in
this country, just as we have had for the
past decades. They have always been good
citizens, and they will continue to be good
citizens. They are our neighbors and our
friends. We must continue to be neighborly
and friendly with them.
This will be easier if we are inclined to be
friendly during these days of stress, If we
are neutral in word as we'll as action. We do
not have to sympathze entirely with the
German point of view in order to see that
the German has right to think he is right,
that he is honest and sincere and at times
has argument TO support his position.
No matter what the result of the war, no
matter where victory finally perches, the po-
sition of the United States will be stronger
If her attitude is fair, II she does not pre-
Judge and condemn on information that Is in
accurate and on statements often the result
of prejudice.
For the sake of the future let US as indi-
viduals be calm and dspassionate and show
a tolerant sympathy with the human frailties
OF the belligerents. We can believe that the
German nation has made q mistake without
showing that we believe the German people
are bad at heart r. c. STORM.
New York, April 2s, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

ton on which the suit Is based. II pre-
sumes, further, that in order TO protect
the foreign holdings Of an American citi-
zen the courts are goinS TO wander into
the domain of politics and try to regulate
the action Of the political branch of the
government. We have no law forbidding
American citizens 20 sell munitions
to the governments of countries at
war. The Executive Department holds
that under the existing international code
there is no warrant for prohibiting such
traffic. All the belligerents have an equal
right TO buy war supplies here. If an
American citizen finds that property he
owns in the territory Of bolligerent has
been damaged or destroyed, the govern
ment will probably help him to present
his claim through diplomatic channels
after the war is over. The courts can
not compel it to do more than that--or
even that if it doesn't think that the
claim is automatically defensible.
It would have been about as reasonable
on General Pearson's part to bring suit
to force the warning nations TO conclude
peace on terms which would leave his
German investments intact and TO require
the United States to 60 to war, If neces-
sary, to guarantee the stability Of those
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
Christian Science and Deafness.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribune Of April 81 appeared
q letter from a Captain Mathews, OF Brook
Ign, describing what he says was Christian
Science treatment taken some twenty five
years ago. This communication appears un-
der the caption Deafness Treated as Error.
Showing How One Patient Fsred Under Chris
tisn Science Treatment" Since the treatment
described by the captain is not In the least
similar TO Christian Science treatment 1t
seems proper and just to object to the state
ment as published
In the treatment described the patient was
informed that he was a spirit and not deaf
and that he must declare that he was not
deaf Now, this has certainly nothing to do
with Christian Science, which teaches that
God is the one and only Spirit, and that
healing is not brought about by any thoughts
concerning the human body or = personal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

self. Christian Science heals through the
power OF the mind that was also in Christ
the mind that has to do with God only, and
which fulfls the laws of God according to
the method OF Christ Jesus. II has nothing
to do with the manipulation or willing OF the
human thought in any direction. 1t is not
surprising that dependence upon such human
thought, directed, as your correspondent de-
scribes, contrary to his human reason, should
not have healed, but it is not fair to call
this the failure of Christian Science, which
through the prayer of spiritual understand
ing has healed many cases OF deafness and
all other diseases, evidence Of which can be
easily obtained upon proper investigation.
JESSE PICKARD.
New York, April %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
Mr.. Whitman's Ambitions.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | am indeed sorry that my letter
which appeared in to-day's issue, had given
you the impression that | was referring to
Colonel Roosevelt when | mentioned the Re-
publican party and its present leadership IN
this state. You would have given my letter
a clearer Interpretation had you made the
heading read whitman No Noses" for was
abiding 20 him, and no one else.
II the Progressive party in this state has
received new lease on its political life 1t is
owing to the efforts Of Dr.-Gov.-Pres-
idential Candidate Whitman, and TO the care
full nursing Of his efficient staf-the Repub-
lican majority in the Legislature. hope in
Justice to myself you will correct your mis-
take, and thank you for your courtesy.
PHILIP F. MAL0Y
New York. April 81, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
CONCERNING GAS
Use of Fumes Due TO Artillery De
terioration,


To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The one thing that Germany's press
agents in this country seem to forget is the
complete detachment Of which we are capable
in regard to the European war. As evidence
of this | might quote the bald, brusque, yet
complete, cable service our papers use.
Whatever the individual war correspondents
of the American press may have to say from
their particular angle, the cable news re
mains peculiarly unprejudiced because of its
essentially utlitarian nature.
This, however, has nothing to do with neu-
trality. And am glad to see that DR.. Dern-
burg, with the other German press agents and
hyphenated Americans within our gates, has
at last quit harping on that somewhat in
genuous theme. Emotionally we cannot be
neutral, any more than our German American
citizens. But the recent charges of parti-
atty on our part made by DR.. Dernburg re-
garding the German use of gas shells are
easily explained by refurbishing our memo
ries on the cables for the last month.
We have been thoroughly prepared for Ger
many's latest breach of the Hague rules. A
month ago we had barely got through with
the Dumdum charges, when we were told of
the gases spread By the French shells Now
melinite and lyddte and the charges used by
European powers in their shells cannot fail
to send out 4 certain amount OF gas, which,
If inhaled at close quarters, Is highly detri-
mental What of the suffocating effect of
the German 42's at Liege? But Germany,
with characteristic thoroughness, saw ahead
and anticipated the lack OF copper so neces-
sary for insurng accurate and indirect she'll
fire. She accordingly invented the gas myth
to Justify her new substitute. We now read
in the cables of her guns being fired from
a closer range, despite their heavy calibre;
all of which shows that the new device must
be justified, because it Is last resort for
German artillery.
OF course, the latest order to gather in
Belgian copper coins may serve the purpose
Of another weeks bombardment Of shattered
Rheims But hereafter we may expect gas
shells blasts of hot air and other devices of
scientific "frghtfulness" heralded in the
cables or from the German Ambassador or
DR.. Dernburg ALREADY PREJUDICED.
New York, April %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
For Humanitys Sake. -
tor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: upon the request Of the Russian
government" says Secretary Bryan, "and as
a matter of humanity the United States have
forwarded through their Ambassador Nor
genthau a protest to Turkey against the
massacres Of innocent Christians In Ar
menia."
whats sauce for the goose is sauce for
the gander," ! believed. But now | see that
the massacring OF innocent Jews, the pillag-
ing of their homes and the outraging Of
their daughters by Russian Cossacks do not
call for any protest "for humanity's sake
from our government, but the slaughter OF
innocent Christians by Turkish Cossacks
does.
And Russia protests! Such audacity
smacks only Russian. Good work for Mr..
Bryan. SAMUEL D0BRlN.
New York. April %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
An Amazing Lawsuit.

One Of the curiosities Of the campaign
TO compel this country TO modify its atti-
tude of neutrality for the benefit Of one
set Of the European belligerents Is the
suit Just brought in Wisconsin to fasten
a conspiracy charge on the Allis-Chalmers
Company. This company has contract
10 deliver certain war material 70 the
Bethlehem Steel Company, and the plain
tiff in the case, General Samuel. Pearson,
the former Boer leader, charges that such
delivery will constitute a conspiracy to
iniure him, since he has property in Ger
many and owns German government
bonds, and the munitions turned out by
the Bethlehem company. if they reach the
Allied armies may be used 10 help defeat
the German armies and thus contribute
20 a depreciation in German securities and
in the value Of German real estate.
This plea jumps any number Of fences
before il gets anywhere within sight of
them. II assumes what few friends of
Germany in this country are ready to
concede- namely, that even with the adj
vantage of a ready supply Of ammunition
from the United States the Allies are
going 10 defeat the Teutonic alliance and
make Germany pay a war indemnity
which will permanently depress property
values throughout the empire. How can a
Judge or a jury in Wisconsin determine
in advance whether Germany is going 10
lose or not and what effect the war is
eventually going 10 have on quotations
for German real estate or government
bonds?
Yet It is clear that II Germany is not
beaten and comes out Of the war either
victorious or on even terms with the
Allies, the ammunition sent TO Europe by
American manufacturers will not have
had any measurable effect in depreeiatinP
the value of General Pearson's German IN
vestments.
That is not the only eccentric sssump-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
To Stop Park Abuse.

In another column The Tribune prints
to-day q letter from DR.. William 7. Horna-
day relative to the Mayors undertaking
to stamp out abuse Of the public parks by
persons who carelessly or wilfully dehle
them with rubbish. Too hearty indorse-
ment Of this campaign cannot be given.
The parks belong TO the people, it is true,
but many who use them and enjoy them
treat them as If they belonged to some
body else. 1t is high time to stop the kind
OF use which after each Sunday, each holl-
day in summer, leaves the parks Uttered
with peanut shells, banana skins, lunch
boxes. discarded newspapers, with grass
trampled and shrubbery torn. The city has
too great a financial investment IN Its
parks. and their material and aesthetic
value Is too high for such treatment longer
TO be countenanced.
Much of this abuse, to be sure, comes
rather from carelessness and ignorance
than from righteousness. Ne ertheless
care and intelligence are not likely to be
propagated by the leniency with which
offenders have heretofore been treated.
Fair warning has been given by the
Mayor and the Police Commissioner that
after May l the park ordinances will be
strictly enforced and their violators ade-
uuately punished. A few severe sentences
ought TO have salutary effect in inculcat-
ing respect for public property and care
in its use, even by those who help to
nav for Il.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
Psychology and School Children.

From The Manchester GudrdiGn.
There are some interesting conclusions in
tho frst report OF the recently appointed
official psychologist TO the London County
Council-s post which is, believe, unique
in this country. Mr.. Cyril Burt's chief work
is in applying tests to backward children in
tho schools 20 ascertain whether or not they
are suitable for tuition in the special classes
for the mentally defective. Mr.. Burt hiss
examined over 1000 children 400 subnormal
children, 200 certified mental detectives and
about HOO normal children. The great ma
jority Of the 400 children who were pre-
sented by the teachers on the ground Of
mental insuffciency were found to suffer from
mere dulness, backwardness or special and
limited defects rather than from mental de-
fciency. Only twenty-four passed the medi-
cal examination for admission 10 a mentally
defective school. Mr.. Burt says there is a
striking disagreement as 10 where the line
between the defective and the ordinary child
is 10 be drawn, and remarks that school
progress is only . very indirect measure OF
mental ability or defect His conclusion is
that there is no one definite or constant men
tAl Characteristic in which children classed
as mentally defective resemble ono another
and differ from ordinary children. In intelli-
gence, as in every other quality, they overlap
enormously with ordinary children and are
not . separate class or species, but largely
simply the inefficient tail end of a more COM
p:ehensive normal group. Mr.. Burt's report
suggests the need Of more delicate discrim-
nation in the selection of children 10 be
elassed as mentally defective. He carried
out al interesting investigation to show the
influence OF loss of sleep upon school work
..kn al H.. u, III
Two groups. One group were allowed ts
Slsep for two hours daily in school, the other
group worked in the ordinary way Il was
found that among the children who were al
lowed 70 sleep those who suffered most frem
Jack Of sleep at home gained greatly in gen
cfal ability. In the worst cases tho gain
more than made up for the loss OF time
Experiments of the same kind arc going on
which Mr.. Burt says may show that lack o.
sleep may be ss damaging to school wsrk as
lack Of food
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
For Mercantile Honesty.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to congratulate you on the
support which your paper gave to the bill re-
lating to the fraudulent use OF family names
in business, introduced at Albany by the Hon.
F. R. Stoddard, jr., Int No. 1908; PIT. No.
I 1886.
II is a pleasure 10 tell you that this bill,
after being passed by the Assembly, was
passed on Thursday by the Senate, and now
requires only the Governors signature to
become law.
Again acknowledging your contribution in
connection with this bill in the cause OF
mercantile honesty, | remain,
PHILIP LIE BouTILLIER.
New York, April "a, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
To o. VI. Dennis.

o most industrious contrib
o busy bard, pray pause and listen:
Your stuff is good; your phrasing glib;
Your metres sparkle, CLINT and glisten.
Your muse, that never slumps to slang,
Has got mine beaten TO blister;
I cannot-ah, most pungent pang-
Approach, forinst, your Little Sister"
Your lofty aim, your classic themes,
Are such as win my admiration;
Your standard far above me CLEANS;
You have my fullest appreciation.
But pause and rest-you tireless cuss!
lmbibe. pray, some soporife;
For, what chance have the rest Of w,
While you remain so dsrned prolific?
A. p. W.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
"yITAs HINNULEO."

Horace: Book I. Ode %.
Why, Chloe dear! Afraid Of mel
How like trembling faun you flee
Which seeks on trackless mountain side
An anxious mother, terrified
At breathing wind and swaying tree;
II fails and quakes in heart and knee
If thorn leaves CULVER rustlingly,
Or lizards through dry brambles glide.
Why, Chloe dear?
No savage thought occurs to me,
No lion do / care to be,
come not with tigers stride.
Think! Thou are ripe to be bride.
Let mother go, and hear my plea.
Why, Chloe dear!
CURT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
The Coming Tower
Baseball: a Parable.

Ten f.rvld baseball fans, paying at the
gate,
Two got so much baseball served 10 them
in the newspapers during the winter that
they lost interest and then there were
eight
Eight eager baseball fans, glad 10 be alive,
Three OF them went up to the ball-park
one bright day, but found that the game
was not to be played, because o. wet
grounds, and then there were five
Five ardent baseball fans, hungry FOR the
score,
One grew tired OF the accounts Of Jump
ing" and contract-breaking, thea there
were four.
-Four rabid baseball fans, sitting In the
sun,
Wearied OF the poor craftsmanship, as
demonstrated by the Kauf incident and
then there was none.
No screaming baseball fans coming to the
game
"The business depression, the European
War, the California Fairs, automobiling
and golf" said the manager, have
killed the interest in baseball. Isn't It
a shame"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
A New Cancer Clinic.

An important announcement has just
been made by the directors Of the New
York Skin and Cancer Hospital. Accept
ing the opinion that the mortality from
malignant disease is increasing, and rec
ognizing chat there must be some consti-
tutional cause producing the disease
thew have decided to establish "a special
clinic for the medical treatment of suit
able cases by means other than surgical
operation
Though the aim Is avowedly "to extend
the benefit of medical treatment to those
desiring it," it may be presumed that as
far as new patients are concerned the
clinic is intended principally for the bene-
fit of inoperable cases. In this sense 1t
NAV properly be described as experimental,
and no one can justly question the hope
full conclusion that "if progress can be
made along the lines now instituted by this
hospital it will certainly be boon to man.
kind whose value cannot be estimated"
1t is a little disappointing, however,
that in notifying the public of this inter
esting departure the hospital authorities
were not more explicit. Directions with
regard to diet and habits Of living are
frequently given, Of course, to cancer pa
tients. but there is a hint in the announce
ment of some more or less definite concep-
ton of the conditions that favor the dis
ease and Of quite definite belief that
the disease is in some way associated with
the conditions of civilization. In fact, 1t
is positively stated that cancer lis very
rare or almost unknown among primitive
people"
So positive statement coming from so
authoritative a source must evidently have
some foundation, and since 1t is at variance
with the conclusions of many recent in
yestigators it is a pity that it was not
dealt with more at length and that no
reasons were given for the further state
ment that cancer must be due to some
constitutional cause" Statements so un-
qualified indicate that those who estab-
lished the clinic are in possession OF infor-
nation which has not hitherto been made
public. A further announcement Will
presumably be made before long.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
OUR OWN TRAyELoGUEs.

FP AIN the library catalogues OF ths Hotel
sinton library they spell hts name Henry hitehel
webster. The aforesaid library assays $50
transient nctiop, l.7es standard works and oofo
po.,ry. c. Dickens IL the only old-time author
who passed the censorship OF the foxy librarian.
cincinnati EDWARD HUNGERFoRD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
Historical Fiction.

Sir: Jamespipe this weeks "Colliers.'
Tale, "The Outlaw" Indicated time: Past six
wears. Based on Interior Department throw
ing out Alaskan coal claims. Chief figure,
specifically aged thirty-eight years, declaims
his father died for his country at Mucfrees.
boro, which was battled the first week OF
1868. w
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
Tho Complete Le,ts Writer.

tReceyed BY a chemical laboratoryl
Gentlemen: VIII you excuse IA N NJ. ~.
not answered before. the writer was out OF town
This week or the next surely We - M send ch~ck
20 cover your bill we expect 70 have back our
bank book balanced, that has been the Gauss Of
the delay. "
Your analysis was very satisfying and see.nt
our thanks. Trusting you Will not scare. Ne
remain yours very tTtIi Vs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

But baseball, the contention is, is
business and not sport. True. Yet why
should business men, as so many OF them
are, be such poor business men? As,
again, 80 many of them are.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

In New Rochelle is candid florist who
is capable of proving that one trial will
convince you. Trees and Cherubs
trimmed"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

Coming Tower, whose activities keep
us at the ticker good deal these days,
ran third at Lexington yesterday, and
part of our profits melted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

"vivienne says" writes Bah, "that she
can come back as we'll as Dulcinea. Still,
sauce for the goose is another mans
poison"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

II what we hear from Travelled persons
about English cocktails Is true, British
remuneration Of liquor has its joyous side.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

Coming Towers jockey ought to be
Sthenelus, "who"-Horace, /, l5-"f &C.
casion arise to command horses, Is no
sluggish charioteer."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

How the prohibition wave is rushing
over England 1t is hard to tell; but
Punch" Of April 81 has one whisky and
four mineral water advertisements.