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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
UEBER ALLIES.
Our Good Friend DR.. Croker and
No Elbow Croker Of the Stern and
ROckbound Coast.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-SN: |
had assumed that II DR.. Crooker's com
plant were just you wouldn't care
a tinker's malediction about his letter
or mine, and 40 II was an agreeable sur
prise TO find them digniied by editorial
notice.
Now probably read the brilliant
luminary as regularly as the worthy au-
thority on crustaceans or the laureates
of the law to whose counsels you com
mend me-. but IL Is apparent that ]
missed THE SuN of June I, because, as
now and then happens NJ OUR only news
stand. all THE SUNS had been sold be-
fore | got there. otherwise I would have
known that DIR. Crooker's coinmunica-
ton had, with your customary fairness
and courtesy. been given "a place in the
sun"
You have disarmed the good doctor
OF the imputation that THE u was
perhaps, like other newspapers. re-
strained in its freedom by fear Of Civ
ing offence to advertisers Of the bev-
crages Of Gambrinus and John Barley
corn. You have in this Instance proved
that It maintains It's best traditions OF
fearlessness. as becomes a great organ
OF public opinion managed by men Of
"answerable %corages."
The candid SUN must. however, ad-
I'M NNNNhN ~ >AStNN' RVtAA VehAt 80
It's playful sarcasm by claiming that "
copies OF the pape he had paid for had
been sent as requested his misjudgment
would not have occurred nor this cor
respondence have been provoked.
But. seriously. Mr.. Editor. one may
smile at you ironic slogan Prohibition
Ueber Allies" and yet be deeply i'm
pressed by the appalling economic waste
and moral degeneracy which the scien-
tihc study OF alcoholic drinking has dis
closed. II Is awakening the minds Of
tho thoughtful as never before. and
arousing n rapidly growing public SEN
timent. worldwide IN It's scope, which
cannot be silenced by sophlstries nor re-
strained by rldicule from seeking for
effective means OF controlling n terrible
blight that results in MORE human mis-
cry and costs moro In Inc and treasure
than war and pestilence combined.
Many may doubt the effectiveness or
the laws compulsions. however severe
but all must admit the supreme impor-
lance OF education on this profoundly big
subject. md therefore such oracles of
social uplift and moulders OF opinion rs
THE SUN a aid immeasurably by
opening their columns TO the pros and
| cons of It's fullest discussion. following
your example OF hospitality to the
truth. WILLIAM s. KYLE.
NEW YoRK. June q.
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Resurvey the Court House Scheme,
Mr.. McAneny.

The deplorable condition Of the
city treasury and the gloomy outlook
for the taxpayers, not only In 1915
but in the succeeding years until the
errors and extravagances Of the past
have been rectifed, impart to the dis
cussion Of the new court house prof.
ect a peculiar timeliness. IL is as
serted that the scheme on which
progress has already been made "a
w~asteful. that its engineering difficult
ties have not been sufficiently consid-
cred and that the ultimate cost Of
construction will far exceed the off,
cial estimates. These contentious are
denied by those to whose hands the
enterprise is committed, but a com
munity accustomed to pay excessive
prices for every utility II obtains rs
tens to them with a fear born Of long
and bitter experience.
Under these circumstances President
McANENY of the Board Of Aldermen,
who among the city Officers has taken
the lead In the promotion Of this
costly enterprise, might with entire
propriety resurvey the proposal which
now engages his support with the
purpose Of as%certaining 10 his own
satisfaction and that Of the taxpay-
ers whether its modification, post.
ponement or abandonment would be
beneficial to the city. Mr.. McANENY's
present conviction in the premises Is
unquesdonably based on a careful
study Of the situation. but the condi-
tons which existed when he first be.
came interested in the design have
changed radically. and the preconcep-
tions Of even three years ago have
been seriously altered by the prog
ress of events.
1t Is obvious that a monumental
civic centre Is not Immediately at.
talnable by this city. 1t may be that
a more modest court building might
be protltably substituted for the
mighty and ornate structure now
under consideration. We know tina,
a heavy investment has already been
made, and that this must be protected
and We urge Mr.. McANENY to devote
earnest thought to the possibility oil
insuring this protection, providing de-
cent quarters for the courts and al
the same time relieving the strain or
the taxpayers, whose limit Of endur
ance has been reached.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
6cnselcss Medical LEGISLATION,

The Constitutional Convention in Al
bany Is endeavoring ~ to reconstruct
the legislative powers as to preclude
waste Of time and money in the prep
aration Of new laws and to protect
the people against the inroads an
nually attempted upon established
laws by various visionary faddists,
impractical idealists and misguided
reformers.
Among those who unfatlingly ap-
pear in force before every Legislature
are the probably we'll meaning but
misinformed men and women who Of.
fer all kinds Of amendments to the
public health laws, which have been
long established and provide amply
for the protection Of the peoples
health and Of those who are author.
lied by the statutes to minister to
their maintenance.
The minutes of various committees
Of the Legislature testify amply to
the enormous waste of time incurred
by the members and by delegates of
medical men who are forced to ap-
pear as representatives. Of recognized
medical associations to protest
against the enactment OF absurd, off,
cious OF dangerous medical laws. De-
feat Of such legislation appears only
to stimulate to renewed effort these
advocates Of breaking down the es-
tablished public health laws. They
appear promptly. often with large
delegations, chiefly OF women. to I'M
press on Legislators the wisdom and
imperative demands Of their cause.
With zeal and perhaps other appeals
they argue, cajole or endeavor to
bully some too complacent meniEer
into introducing bills; they follow
them through the devious channels
until they are defeated. They are
never discouraged, for have they not
a holy mission? When the doors Of
the Capitol open for the next session
they are promptly on hand and pur-
sue the same course, needless OF the
time wasted md expense incurred by
the State or themselves. Least of all
nro they concerned with tho annoy
nnce and loss incurred by representa-.
tlv" physicians who are forced 20 mp.
pear before legislative committees to
defend tho people against the en-.
croachments skilfully planned and sus-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
Criminal Honor Systems.

In Sing Sing reliance on the Honor
system has resulted in the escape of
a criminal whose seclusion from So
ciety was thought by the courts 50
desirable hat u sentence Of from
twenty years to life had been imposed
upon him. In the State prison at
Joliet, Illinois, reliance on the same
system has resulted in the murder
Of the warden's wife under circum.
stances of peculiar ~atrocity.
While these events are probably in
themselves insufficient to shake the
somewhat enthusiastic faith in crimi.
nal human nature on which the
prison honor systems are based, they
will at least strengthen the more
pessimistic view. Moreover, those
students of criminal psychology who
hold that crime is a species Of insan-
ity will be pretty apt to regard the
Joliet case at least as cOnfirmatory
Of their theory. On this basis they
will not unlikely argue that as ghast-
~ consequences have followed over
confidence in lunatic asylum inmates,
so may like consequences be expected
to follow undue confidence In prison
inmates. Even In institutions where
a high code of personal honor among
those enrolled Is n primary assump-
tlon, the honor system has not in all
instances been an unqualified success
In view Of that fact its extension to
n great body of malefactors actually
convicted of every crime in the calcn-
dar from theft to murder might well
on general principles he regarded
with mlsgiyings.
Ultra uplift sentimcntality in the
management of heterogeneous ma sses
of corralled scoundrels has developed
prodlgiously OF late. In the State
~pcnitcntiary at Waupun, Wisconsin,
for instance, u own Sing Sing Is
in some respects surpassed. White
glovod table walters, an orchestra
during meals, nineteen or twenty dol,
lars ii month overtime pay. Saturday
half holidays for interchange Of m,
cial visits, an outing work camp q
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
Where Was the Republican Party
BOrnr

1t may be something in the nature
of news to even the senior class In
the Republican institution to learn that
the popular impression as to the time
and place Of its birth, or more ac-
curately perhaps, rebirth, is quite er-
rOneous.
1t was not in Pittsburg on the
memorable February ~, 1896, when
that brilliant journalist HENRY JAR
Wis RAYMOND, then but a month past
his thirty.siXth year, Lieutenant
Governor Of New York and virile
force in New York State and in ma
tlonal politics, issued that stirring APP
peal TO the People of the United
States" which resulted in the Phila-
delphia convention Of the next June
II and the nomination Of Fremont
and DAYTON, followed four years
later by the nomination at Chicago
of ABRAHAM LINCOLN of Illinois and
HANNIBAL HAMLIN of Maine-it was
not then and thus that the Republi-
Cuh party NdIllt lIlND btllE. i nt IKE
publican party was two years old
when the Pittsburg meeting was held.
1t was not born in Pittsburg either,
or even in the State Of PENNSYLVANIA.
II was born in a small cottage. still
standing and in good case, in the
pretty little college town of Ripon.
Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, and
several of the good people Of Rlpon
are now in the field organizing a
celebration Of the slxty-tirst ami
yersary of the event.
Just what may be the dorumen-
tary and traditional evidence in sup
port of this historical distinction for
I,ipon is somewhat obscure. None
the less the oldest Ripon inhabitants
nave 1t fast fixed in their memories
and beliefs that the first organization
Of n political character, since the dis
solution Of the party bearing that
name in 1889, calling itself "the Re,
publican party" was organized in
their town in the year 1854. As one
attesting exhibit at least they have
the identical cottage itself wherein
the birth took place. They have ARE
fully preserved it and It stands to
this day on the campus of coeduca,
tional Ripon College, destined, no
doubt, to he tho centre Of interest in
che coming celebration.
The date OF tho celebration is mol
az vet fixed, but II committee O,
&0sa's leading citizens have waited
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
Real Reform.

Through the lips Of DR.. Frederick
A. CLEVELAND, its director, the Bureau
Of Municipal Research contributed
this information to the Constitutional
Convention on Wednesday:
AT the present time there is no way in
which the people of the State can vote
on any proposition of State business"
Those who have not enjoyed the
felicity Of clearing their minds Of
misconceptions resulting from Oh
servation Of the political incidents
Of the State and from study Of the
Constitution may have conceived the
notion that under Section four Of
Article VII. OF that document there
has existed for years and now exists
a "way in which the people Of the
state can vote on certain PROPOSE
tons Of State business" Our own
impression was that the people voted
on the business proposal to enlarge
the Erie Canal and that they voted
on the highway Improvement scheme
now in operation. But II Or. CLEvE-
LAND says they did not, that settles
1t: they lid not. for he and his as
sociates are, as they frankly confess,
incapable of error.
Is there no delegate TO the Con.
stitutional Convention sufficiently pa
triotic and disinterested to y In
place Of the present imperfect instru
ment the s~ubJoined thoroughly salts
factory and simple substitute?
The State OF New York shall b.
governed by the Bureau OF Municipa
Research"
With this as a Constitution the
State might IN time approximate ar
ideal Of good government that would
satisfy the high thinkers Of the Blu
reau Of Municipal Research.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
The Scrap Of Paper Needed for
Travel

To THE EDITOR or TIM SIR: Rcia-
tive to the necessity OF Americans trav-
elling to England and tholr passports
! came across by the st. Louis on her
last trip TO New York, We had many
Americans on board who were furnished
with papers of identification or the re-
aulred passports those who had ncg-
lrctcd this duty were detained Mt Liver
pool. hut to M certain knowledge five
English passengers were Oh tho ship
with only tho shipnng papers they had
obtained upon paying their passage
none to the agent, They experienced
no difficulty In landing. II IL stlll an
unsolved riddle to mo why u distinction
Is drawn between AN American sailing
under his own flag and "A foreigner"
| belong to the last named class, hciug
an Australian, and | provided mNsrlf
with III" "sor.p 80 paper" 10Y VIII, "a she
Foreign Office In London grandilnquently
gives the holder many fictitious offers Of
assistance. IosE DARTI.E.
NEW YoRK, Juno 60.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
John Bull Will Really Get to Work.

IL is plain that the English people
has at last been compelled to acknowl-
edge the tremendous difficulties of the
struggle on which 1t entered last Au-
gust. Sclf-complacency and contempt
for the Teutons have been expelled
from the minds of those who in their
ignorance bclittled the might Of their
foes. The correspondent whose i'm
pressions of the British state Of mind
THE Sun printed yesterday recorded
the significant fact that optimism has
given place 20 pessimism that the
reverses of the Allies, the inability OF
the Kings soldiers to gain ground,
the situation at the Dardanelles, have
brought about A distinct mental reac.
ton, the effect Of which Is discern
ible throughout the country.
But this new attitude must not be in
terpreted as one of despair. Ii is more
likely to turn out the salvation Of the
empire. Under Its influence the Brit
fish will see the deficiencies and weak
nesses Of their military establishment.
devote themselves to their correction,
and apply their energy to the creation
OF n defensive and offensive engine Of
men and munitions sufficient &c the
magnitude Of the task they have I'M
dertaken. The efforts Of the clear
sighted men who from the first have
sought to bring their fellows to COM
prehension Of the needs Of the coun-
try will be received with sympathy
and not antagonlstically. and John
Bull will eventually exert all his
force where only a fraction Of It has
hitherto been exercised.
The depression that eleven months
of costly instruction has produced is
a far graver menace to Germany than
the reckless denial Of facts which
characterized the beginning OF the
world contest.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
Mr.. BURLESON'S POST.
His New York Service Is the Source
Of Many InconvenienceS


10 THE EDITOR OF IHE SCN-Sr! Your
recent on the inefiiciency OF
the postal service are true and fully
warranted, while tho letter OF John
Howard IN this mornings SUN. THE
Two Cent stamp gives experiences
which coincide with my own.
Approaching the New York post ONCE
building from Thirty-fourth street TO
mai a package. you climb say nifty
feet OF stone steps. enter the corridor
and travel about 175 feet 10 the des-
ignated window TO have your package
weighed.
Ascertain1ng the amount required you
retrace your steps 100 feet TO the stamp
window, where the requisite stamps are
bought.
To register tho package you travel
sixty feet around tho corner.
Then to mail II you travel back $50
feet In the vicinity OF the stamp win
dow.
All his could be obviated by having
the different windows close together. In
the express office, standing in the posi-
ton assumed on entering. dealing with
but one clerk you can have your pack
age registered and insured with but
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
THE FATE OF PERSIA.
An Excursion Into the History OF
Macedon and the War Lord.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir:
When Demosthenes strove TO wara
Athens oil the danger That was hanging
over her his hearers turned a deaf ear
because they We're absorbed in peaceful
commercial pursuits. and above al! re-
VOTED ut military service for any pur-
pose other than 10 resist an invader on
their own soil. Meanwhile an amoi-
t!ous autocrat in Macedonia was busily
preparing the most formidable military
machine the ancient world had ever seen.
When the machine was perfected and
the prcp!tious moment had come this
autocr4t attacked the ncighhoring Greek
Statts which. at the eleventh hour. COM
bined with Athens in an alliance to re-
s.st the aggressor. The carefully pre-
pared Macedonian phalanx soon crushed
the hastily recruited forces OF the allies
and all Greece was under the heel Of
Philip, the war lord.
Across the seas, in apparent safety
and sccluslon, there lay the great
SPRAYING empire OF Persia. Vast in
It's territory. immense in its population
and rich with the wealth OF the East.
this mighty empire viewed the dolngs OF
Philip in Greece with little concern. be-
cause the sea surrounded its shores and
1t was too big and opulent 10 fear at
tack from tho militant monarch OF
MaCedoH.
Soon afterward the ambitious youth
who inherited the inviucible military ma
chine that Philip had constructed fell
upon the wealthy and unprepared Per
slams. and in spite of the superior
numbers Of poorly trained warriors that
came 10 the defence OF the empire. Alex
and,r conquered 1t from end to end. AZ
his death the Persian dom!nions were
divided among his Generals.
This old ale OF over two thousand
years ago. taken in connection with the
familiar saying that history sometimes
repeats Itself, arouses certain anxious
trains OF thought at the present time.
II, G.. s.. NOBLE.
NEW YORK. Juns 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
To Some Thntte Void Reproachs Hymn
Thatte Hys IOoye IL . Grocer
Hys Daughter.

with sincere apologies 10 the shade 81
lIerr!ck.
Some People with n hnughtie Aire
Approache ande sage; "p'ye knowe, Sir.
Thltte thys fayre Maybe you've stated 70
lie youres IL neerc-relatrd 20
A Grocer"
Tier Face Is fayre: hor Forme divine.
Her Brautie Is ethereal.
shall two yougs Lives ~ quite 20 Wreck
because her Father trades In Break
fast Cercal7
80 longer frnnm1 Olympus 40
The GOODIES In thunder mutter.
Nectar. these modern days, Is Tea
And modern Manna's bread. yous ses
(Ande Butter).
E,che ~ MS twain wolde pins and die
The other hy f~Orstkcn,
Shal,e We Of Glnddencssr IA deprived
because her pnwrie IS derived
Fromme Bacon?
Forgetting ale, by allie forgot.
Willie marie I and Kettle,
Whyles l"ove psrvades thys stellar not
The greatest Thynss on Earths v not
6paghstHst
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
The Sultan IL Sick.

The sultan or Turkey, MAHoMMfD
w.. the head Of Islam and the thirty
sixth ruler Of the house OF Osman, Is
sick. Once such a report would bring
up visions Of royal relatives mys-
teriously poisoned, bowstrung or
dropped, bound and sacked, into the
dark waters of the Bosporus, and Of
fortune t%ellers, wizards and exor-
cisers crowding around the ailing
sovereign's bedside. Now the people
talk of prospective heirs and Of re-
gents, while the Sultan's Christian
ally commends him to Allah and
sends his ablest physician.
When the Young Turks lifted RAs-
Child Efendi upon the throne from
which they had showed his brother
ABDUL HAND they dragged a man
Of 65 from a palace where he had
been all his life scarcely more than
a prisoner. There was little about
him to remind Of the Bayezlds, Sui
aimans or Selims who had Turkish
hosts to conquer. In years Of inac.
tivity his body had grown big. big
in width. breadth and length, a bur.
den for his short legs. He was a
sick man then. On the semlik Fri
days the chalky paleness of his heavy
face and the dulness Of his eyes were
accumulated by the troops Of young
guardsmen in brilliant uniforms and
the officers %glittering in gold braid
who surrounded him. The picture
had in 1t moro Of pathos than i'm
perlalism.
III his seclusion he had studied
much Of European political institu-
lions and he had aspirations to gov
ern well. But a man of 60 who had
his first taste Of freedom when he
assembled the throne had few practi.
cal ideas to meet the conditions that
confronted him. When he went to
appeal to the loyalty Of the Alban!ans
on the field Of Kassovo, Macedonia.
he was the first Ottoman sovereign
TO visit his provinces on a mission of
peace. But the Albanians, who hal
imagined the Sultan had wings and
few Of humanity's frailties, we're dis.
appointed AT the sight of the heavy.
feeble man in a black frock coat, and
the mission failed. He seemed to
lack either the knowledge or the phys
ical force to combat the shrewd poll.
ticians around him and he became
merely a figurehead for the dominant
party Of the Committee Of Union and
Progress.
Many things may happen with the
passing Of this sick man. He may
be the last Of the Osmanli to rule In
Europe; he may be the last to bear
the honors and title OF the Caliphate
But he has been a part of the Amos,
forlorn hope to restore the glories OF
the empire. and has lived to see q
Turkish army with munitions of wal
and supplies making a desperate and
30 far successful attempt to hold the
almost sacred Dardanelles against a
great enemy. Report says that the
people demand as a regent a brothei
OF ABDUL HAND. The committee, nc
doubt, opposes this from fear that he
will. as ABDUL might have done, favor
the British. But there seems no good
reason to believe that he could thu.
reverse the Ottoman policy: It wa.
not the Sultan who made war, bu,
ENvEs Pasha and the war party O.
which he 10 the head, and this party
appears more powerful than ever.
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FROM THE PEN OF ADAMS.
How He Felt Of the Act which We
Celebrate on July Fourth.

To THE EDITOR o y THE SUH-Sir; John
Adams wrote July 2. 1916. 10 his wife:
The I'd OF July. 1876. will be the
most memorable epocha in the history
OF America. am apt 20 believe that
II will be celebrated by succeeding gem
erations as the great anniversary fes-
tival.
1T ought 20 be solemn!zed with pomp
and parade. with shows. games, sports,
guns bells. bonhres and Examinations,
from one end OF this continent to the
other. From this time forward, forever
more, on that day a resolu-
ton was passed that these
united colonies are and OF right ought to
be free and independent States"
Note that he names July .. not July
1, and too that he suggests the noise. SC.
J, c. II,
PITrsFIEtp, Mass, June 20.
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aimed by surreptitious or concealed

tanned by surreptitious or concealed
monetary interests.
It would appear a warranted pro-
cedure to incorporate into the new
Constitution a provision against leg.
lslative consideration Of all amend
ments to the public health laws
which do not have the sanction Of
the State Board Of Health. Since the
latter Is the official agent Of the State
in all health matters selected by the
Governor, who has the final decision,
such action would practically insure
the passage or failure Of the pro.
posed act, and thus preclude long
and costly hearings before legisla.
tive committees.