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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
Divided Households.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: As member of the New York Peace
Society may be permitted to register pro-
test in your columns against the action OF
seventeen members of our body who this
morning issued manifesto. not Endorsed by
our society, opposing an embargo on tho ship
ment of arms? These gentlemen and ladies
are violating the very principles for which
our body was founded 1t is deplorable. II
will have an injurious effect on our move
ment, which was inaugurated for the good Of
mankind
Among the names Of several Of these mani
festants there are persons interested In the
manufacture Of armament. They must not
have realized the harm they were doing a
noble cause by initiating this personal state
ment They are bringing upon our cause the
troubles which are now besettng the Ameri-
can Defence Society, which is charged with
being partisan. They are bringing upon US
the charges made against the Navy League
which also contains so many men engaged in
the making of war munitions.
There appears to be some serious defect in
our national organizing ability when ndi-
viduals creep into great movements of noble
purpose and thus defeat their aims.
+. B. MARKHAM.
New York, Sept. 6, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09

more murder. new outrage, greater N
suit. Let Mr.. Wilson and his advisers
look about them and little more care
fully into the minds Of their fellow-coun-
trymen. They will find a new spirit be
ginning TO stir. 1t is not spirit of vlo-
lence. but il is a spirit Of determination.
If there is nothing 10 be gained by pacific
measures-and so far the profit has been
measured in words and the loss in deeds
and lives-then the growing desire Of the
American people is that there should be
an end of pacific measures and resort
to something more definite.
Dumba should 90 home. lie should he
sent without delay and without the small
est consideration for his feelings o. those
of his country. The thing he did was an
intolerahle thing; if it was done al the
command Of his government it was an
act deliberately unfriendly.' To attempt
to make civil war in a friendly nation Is a
crime against that nation. Above all,
when the right thing to do is unmistaka-
NE lGL snI. W llSOIl anu lllo etN' lou '''''
slider that Americans are more anxious
that this should be done than they are
over the consequences Of doing it.
The frontier between an honest and
honorable desire TO keep peace and anthem
tic cowardice is hard to fix exactly. Until
it is approached Americans will give
every support to their President What
is becoming a cause for apprehension AL
over the country is the dread lest the
country and the administration are get
ting uncomfortably close to this frontier.
And there is no more cowardice in this
to-day than there was nearly a
century and half ago, when few farm
ers in Lexington and Concord challenged
the British Empire in defence Of rights
which were established neither in domes
tic nor international law.
Ambassador Dumba should have his
passports without eremony-Austria
should be asked to explain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
Octosenarian Editors.

The Tribune has been convicted OF an In
accuracy in reporting recently that Henry
A. Reeves of The Republican Watch
man of Greenport, l.. l., is the Oldest
editor Of a newspaper in the United States,
having reached the age Of eighty-three
years." Our Judge, jury and prosecutor IS
Mr.. Henry Frysinger, editor and publisher
of "The Delaware County Democrat" of
Chester, Penn, who announces that he VIII
be eighty-fve years old on the ninth day
Of next month, having completed his sixty
third consecutive year Of editing and
printing Democratic newspapers, and that
what is still better, he is in good health
and seen on the streets every day"
The evidence against US is, we must
admit. overwhelming, and while awaiting
sentence and possibly in the hope that the
court will feel all the more mercifuliy in
clined toward US, we should like to con-
graduate Mr.. Frysinger and TO assure
him that our mistake was not founded IN
our political complexion. In this matter
of the longevity Of editors it has been our
aim always to rise above politics, the more
so since the editing and publishing of
Democratic newspapers has seemed a han
dicap the survival of which appealed to us
as particularly meritorious. Mr.. Frysin-
ger is doubly to be congratulated.
The mistake arose, no doubt, from the
inability of the local correspondents at
Chester, on seeing Mr.. Frysinger abroad
daily presenting such an appearance Of
health and youthful vigor, to believe that
he could have reached the age to which
he himself confesses. Had one of them let
us know the truth in time the news that
Mr.. Reeves had reached the age of eighty
three only, after his comparatively tran
uuil career, would have been regarded as
unimportant. Even now we hesitate at
saying that MIR. Frysinger is the Oldest
editor in active service in the United
States, but perhaps we are safe in guess
ing that he is the youngest editor of that
age cxtant. And we wish him many happy
returns of the ninth day Of October.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09

about two feet long and any width or
thickness, and to the end of IT you naIl
firmly q narrow strip OF board or smooth
wood in such manner that the long end
of this strip projects some two feet or
little more az right angles with the side
Of the box Now to the lower side Of this
projecting strip you fasten the wheel ap-
paratus Of a pair Of roller skates. You
then. stand upon the board with one foot,
holding fast to the upper end Of the pack
ing box. and kick yourself along the side
walk with the other foot; or, if there Is
a slope TO the street Gas there generally
is in New York;, you put both feet on
the board and coast swiftly downhill.
As the packing box which makes the
upright Of this coaster is a perfect sound
ing board, the noise produced by a num-
Der Of these machines on the pavement or
sidewalk surpasses that of fusillade of
75s at Souchez.
But let this be remarked: Ours Is an
era of noise. Rafting trucks, buses,
cars. motors, horns, hucksters, beaten
pans, roaring coasters, all merely help
to express the Zeitgeist. AS to the chill
dren. New York rcjoices in high birth
rate and hopes to continue to do so. The
anti-noise crusade may have TO be post
poned until all vehicles so in the air
and even at that there is nothing noiser
than an aeroplane.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
The Grand Duke Goes Into Exile.

Berlin may not celebrate the transfer
of the Grand Duke to the Caucasus. There
may be no flags or cannon fire, but it is
hard TO believe that there will not be sin
cere rejoicings. Germany has so far
failed to capture the Russian armies, but
she has disposed Of their commander.
The little that has come TO US from the
eastern front has confirmed the earlier
feeling that the Grand Duke was great
soldier, the greatest Of Russian generals.
Even in defeat he has displayed rare skill
and-to the eyes Of all military observers
something approximating real genius.
But he has been defeated. His iron
discipline has antagonized the political
soldiers and the politicians who are not
soldiers. Disaster which does not seem
to be chargeable to him had procured his
downfall. He goes into something APP
preaching exile, and the CONSERVATION in
Paris and London is already patent.
Who is to succeed him in the field? Ger
tainly not the Gar. Conceivably it may
DC huSShy, AuC SSlClc a VI IIIC cal - VIZ
tories in Galicia, now commanding on the
Dvina and defending Riga. Possibly it
will be a man as little known to the world
as was Linevitch, when he replaced Kuro-
patkin in Manchuria. The parallel be
tween the fate Of the Grand Duke and that
of Kuropatkin will be in many minds.
Frederick the Great once said of one of
his commanders that while he was good
soldier he was unlucky, and his i'll luck
made him too expensive a servant. I'm
happily no one will feel now that Russia
has a man to replace the Grand Duke, and
the dismissal will seem greater disaster
than were those that have preceded.
a new anxiety has plainly arisen for
the allied nations They will have reason
to fear alike for the Cars choice of a
successor and for his own tenacity Of pur-
pose in the face Of other disasters
Germany will unquestionably recall
with JOY the fact that the change Of Cars
saved Frederick the Great and the change
of mind by Alexander ruined Napoleon.
Is Russia for a third time to serve Ger
man ends? This, even more than the fate
of Constantinople, will hold the attention
of the whole world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
NEUTRALITY A BLUNDER
Victory Would Be the Greatest Disaster That Ever Bete the
United Saes-Beter Take Our Stand To-day.

we are most vitality concerned? We need
not declare war or put armies in the held,
for by so doing we would do our Allies more
harm than good But we could take stand
and tell the world that we are not neutral
that we are for the Allies, heart and soul,
and bitterly opposed to Germany-that
henceforth we are going to do our best to
help the Allies win and to compass Ger
many's defeat Let Germany declare war,
if she must. but by the fortune of the stars
the greatest help we could give our Allies
would be not by raising, equippng and mu-
nitioning a large army and sending il abroad
but by lending them our vast wealth and
credit, denying it to Germany, doubling and
ouadrupling our muntion factories, settling
our petty differences with England in spirit
Of friendship. opposing Germany in all.
1t is ridiculous to say that great nation
of 1OOOOO,OOO, the richest on the face of the
earth, could not do more than she is doing
now. We are helping, to be sure; but by TAX
ing a stand with the Allies we could in
crease our help many fold.
The political effect alone would be very
great Il would influence every wavering
neutral Who can say that our action would
not turn the scale in the Balkans to bring
them in on the side of the Allies?
Then could we lift our heads like men, fac
ing the wor'l, saying what we really think
not slinkiAg under the cloak of neutrality,
unable to speak our minds, unable to do our
share.
We stand aside and watch the struggle,
fatuously believing it is none Of ours But
if Germany wins we should see too late that
it was our fight, and woe betide our coun-
try from that sad day forth.
Far better take our stand to-day, with
many friends, than later, all alone.
CONRAD HOBBS.
Boston, Sept. 1, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
The Wheeled Coaster.

Not much Roadway will be made by the
enti-noise crusade so long as there are
children on the streets of New York This
is n fact that the crusaders are always
forgetting, and it turns the whole move
ment into sort of Russian withdrawal
to a new line. As regards the fairly
thickly settled sections Of this metropolis.
quictudo must be synonymous with race
suicide, for all other noises are as the
"wcll-brcd whispers of drawing rooms
compared with the long, steady, Joyous
roar of the children who make the street
their playground.
No healthy child really needs the assist
ance of 4 mechanical device to make 2
noise Nature has furnished him with
shouting, screeching and whistling appa-
ratus which enables him, when his sonifer-
GUS faculties are fully aroused, to put
Stentor and the bulls of Bashan to shame.
Nevertheless, most of the tumult made by
children on the streets of New York is FRO
duced by variety of mechanical devices
which emphasize the natural outpOurngs
Of the juvenile heart. Cans tin pans and
retired tea kettles, attached to strings and
drawn gently but firmly over the pave
ment, contribute TO the uproar. Extra
shrill whistles, blown hy small boys riding
tricycles on the sidewalk, pierce the ears
of sufferers in the apartments above. Girls
load themselves into temporarily aban-
doned motor cars at the sidewalks brm
and blow discordant horns for an hour
at time. Boys initiate admirably the
deadly rattle Of the machine gun by beat
ing on soap boxes with sticks.
But recently all these devices have
yielded as noise producers to the wheeled
coaster. This apparatus is now in such
demand that thousands Of new ones are
mprcvised every day. In its simplest
md noisiest form this affair is produced
> follows: You take a packing box
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
An Early Register.
lFrom The Dnndee Adr,rtl.,r.

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth q reg
lister was taken, apparently with satisfactory
results, as regards men and munitions.
William Harrison, in his Survey Of Eng
land" work compiled during that period
writes; There is almost no village so poor
in England be it ever so smalD that hath
not sufficient furniture IN a readiness to set
forth three or four soldiers, as one archer.
one gunner, o.e pike. and billman at the
least. As for able meL for service
thanked be God!-we are not without good
store for by the musters taken in 1874 and
1915 our number amounted to l,l72,67A."k
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
The Egg of Neutrality.

To Che Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: ] send you fable. A quaint scholar
is carrying his one egg down the street in
- basket Some bad boys wish to break the
egg One twcaks his nose; one kicks him
gently in the shns and cries "'Twasn't IT,;
5ne gives him from behind impulsive assist
ances to locomotion. The scholar lodges and
twists and never says an unkind word or
takes his eye of the egg lie is prancing
and crawling; he is siding and suffering. He
is a pitful object; but his egg! His egg!
Moral There is no aim, says Emerson,
however noble which, if pursued for its own
sake. will not become stencil in the nos
,rils. JOHN JAY CHAPMAN.
New York, Sept. 6, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
Legal Holidays.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Is the Fourth of July legal holiday
and was it declared such by an act Of Con
gress? If so, in what year? W. K. B.
New York, Sept s. 1915.
There are no national holidays Congress
cstablisHe4 Do..o.,s Tor the District Of Co.
lumbia, the territories and the Federal res
cryauons The states make holidays 10 suit
themselves The Fourth Of July is a legal
holiday for Federal purposes and in all, OF
.,4riy all, the ststes.-Ed.l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
Land for All.
.itor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Why does Franklin Hopkins so sweep
ingly condemn the Walsh report and include
Henry George among those who have tried.
but failed, to find solution for our social
and economic problems? Mr. Georges solu-
ton is complete. His application Of the
Golden Rule recognizes the right OF man
to the earth. Moses recognized it when he
said: 1.-THE land shall not be sold forever"
and elsewhere the Bible recognized it in
stating that "The profit Of the earth shall
be for all" Jesus came, mot to destroy,
but to fulfil the law" on this important sub
ject, and the Golden Rule, if only moderate
ly applied must prohibit a land system by
which the few charge the many for living
on the earth
If the Federal government, to which Mr.
Hopkins points US, can, through taxation OF
the values of our natural resources into the
Federal Treasury, save u.s. let it do so. Much
better, though, if the states will abolish
all taxes but those on the value of land
and support the Federal government by con-
tributions from the states, as the state gov
ernments are supported by contributions
from the counties.
The problem is very simple. We allow
the few to own the earth in perpetuity-
fee simple" We must, as Moses did, re-
divide the land every fifty years year of
Jubilee, restrict the amount of ownership,
or tax the "unearned increment" into our
public treasures. Poverty, crime and dis
ease are increasing, while wars are waged
Tor the acquisition of more land. There is
aplenty for all of US, but We have not yet
learned how justly to distribute it.
JAMES p. KOHLER.
Brooklyn, Sept. 6, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
4 Friend Under the Shadow of
Chocorua.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: / wonder If you can imagine how
much good your editorials have been to those
who live away from the world up here in
he pines and rocks of New Hampshire.
What Is To BE Praised" is splendid. !
wonder also how many daily Tribunes go
INTO this state.
look for your paper as a blessed boon.
Il comes irregularly because of the wretched
postolice or mail service on this road, but
when it comes it's like a new sun.
Every good wish to you and The Tribune.
r. II. BARTLETT.
Chocorua, " H., Sept. /, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
Against Hyphenated Officeholders

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Where in the City of New York can
join an intensely American society whose
basic principle is the prevention Of Germans
or German-Americans, Austrians or Austrian.
Americans from ever being elected TO any
Office in any state in the Union or under the
United States government, no matter what
party proposes such eleetion7
JOHN LEHANE.
Brooklyn, Sept. 6, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
The Kaiser an Anti. y

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: do not think that attention -.
been called to the fact that Kaiser villa ,
is probably the most prominent anu-ssp,.j
gist. He believes that church, kitchen -.
children" should be enough for any ves
FAIR PLAY
= Tarrytown, N. Y. Sept. 8. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09

There really must be some mistake about
the report that the Colonel has gone TO Can
ada to shoot the Bull Moose Has the animal
become extinct in America?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER .. 1913.

Owned and Published daily BY The Tribune Assc' Aton
a NeH York coronation ogden N. Reid Fresiden,. y"
Vesuor Egers Secretary and treasure Address AH'uN'
Building No. is8 Nassau Street New fork
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-11-25
Fortunate Americans.

When the American citizen looks
abroad he feels inclined to give thanks
for the possession of a system of gov.
eminent which, despite partisan diff.
ferences, commands universal respect
and confidence. The exceptionally
high standard OF intelligence which
here prevails is a guaranty against
sudden movements In opposition to
the established order. The vast ma
jority Of the American people are
capable Of analyzing conditions. They
keep in close touch with the affairs
of the world and with the circum-
stances of their own land. They are
growing steadily in political acumen
and are becoming more and more efH-
GENTLY independent in their determin-
atoms. With every peaceful political
revolution they strengthen the nation
al foundations by providing outlets for
sentiments and dissatisfactions.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-11-25

III AM tUdnhlul tudI L nave IlO pO"Si
to feel the glorious sunshine or the
E gray rain. My heart fills with JOY
that | can see the leaves and the
sky and hear the music of the brook.
Grateful am l that l can appreciate h
height of the mountain or steeple and
the depth of the shadows, and l am
glad that | can be uncomfortable in
the intense heat or cold, for that
e a Joyous sense of relief when it
comes.
(WHICH one of US is not glad OF the
w power to Judge? From the many
Tecurrent cases we can induce a rule,
a law, a generality. And from this we
can make applications to specific in
stances. Is it not wonderful, and are
you not glad?
ySOR my power to decide for myself
am thankful. Ny freedom OF will
is q precious jewel that I pray ! may
duly treasure. No one can say what
l shall think, for that is my heritage.
My thoughts concerning life, death
and the hereafter, are mine, and l am
glad.
THEN there is this country in which
i 1 live. ! am grateful that it is
here, with water around it, and other
lands on the east and west. The lure
of the distant country will prevent US
from a narrow insularity. | am glad
that we car govern ourselves IN mat
tiers that affect ourselves. l I'M filled
with Joy that men are born free and
equal and can keep on living that way.
For the position of woman in this
i country may | ever be thankful.
She is not the draft animal of the
fields in some countries beyond. She
is not the chattel of the middle
She is not the spineless creature that
was a well-trained echo of another. A
woman is the equal Of nan now,
cept at the polls. For small favors I
am deeply grateful.
A NUMBER Of institutions Of learn.
~ ing are letting us in at the front
doors. If l wish to study sociology or
medicine or the languages, l am not
beaten into a pulp by s~cornful deans.
II 4 wish to write a book, need not
be ashamed and hide 1t under a sam
pier If hear anyone coming. Thanks.
awfully!
GLAD am I that I can earn money to
VI clothe, feed and shelter myself.
Father and mother should not support
an adult woman until another man Of
fers TO take up the burden. I am not
a hanger-on In the political economy
march. and ! give thanks.
nFA power of self-expression let me
~ v be ~forgetful. Let me be glad
that ! can sing when ! feel like it. cry
when am inclined to. walk when I
Want to ret AWAY. nlax wbon y fan~n1
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-11-25

According to the members of the
French Commercial and Industrial
Mission, OF which Maurice Damour Is
at the head, France is to spend $1,000
000, 900 In the United States on machin-
cry, to reconstruct her industries. de-
stroyed or crippled by the war. The
commission arrived aboard the new
liner Lafayette. None of the money,
said NJ. Damour. who posed especially
for this photograph aboard the vessel,
will be spent on ammunition. All will
be spent for agricultural, industrial
and commercial materials. While the
mission will not do any purchasing. it
will make arrangements for the pur-
chases, so that shipments may be
started as soon as there is definite
Indications of approaching peace. M.
Damour Is well known in New Orleans.
where he vas the former French con
su, general. He Is secretary OF the
committee of appropriations of the
French chamber of deputies.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-11-25
Assured of One Point.

Complaints about the milk had been
frequent and painful and free" that
morning, and the milkman quite lost
his temper when one customer dared
to ask him what he had been giving
the cows to eat lately.
Them cows is better fed, ma'am.
than many human beings l could men,
tim" he said. They live as we live
on the fat Of the land. When their
fodder isn't quite up to the mark, we
give them the best biscuits that
money can buy. You can believe that
or not, just as you like"
I'm not denying it," replied the
customer, tartly. What / say-and L
challenge contradiction on the point
is that it amt milk biscuits you feeds
'em ont"