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A NEGLECTED FOUNTAIN.
Some One should See That II Is Prop
erly Protected.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sir.
Under the IL" structure at the rear OF
Trinity Church. placed conveniently
near the curb. is a drinking fountain
for horses and other quadrupeds. or
its side facing the walk Is the inscrip-
ton This fountain was placed here
by a member of Trinity Church." OF
words to that effect.
Could this benevolent member of
Trinity parish, or any other interested
person, see the danger that threatens thu
fountain | am sure proper steps would
be taken To remedy the situation.
Repair work on street construction
Of some sort Is under way along the
street, Church street. | believe. and II
any care vas taken to protect the foun-
tain from injury II was not apparent
when | passed a few days ago.
The ground has been dug from under
meath 1t so that 1t seems that only the
water connections support the fountain.
A fire burns briskly during the day
two feet away bricks, sewer pipe.
pieces of lumber and iron are strewn
all about. and the receptacle contains.
in addition to several inches OF muddy
water, all sorts of rubbish.
Surely a framework could be built
around the stone to preserve Il for the
humane object for which ii was built.
Many people appeal to THE sun fo-
help in their difficulties and I write in
behalf Of the neglected fountain.
NEW York, August IS. f. \. Nc.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
Each Man Must Pray According to
His Own Light.

To THE EpIToR or THE SrS-Sir: The
devil, acute IN intellect and well versed
I'm Scripture. has more faith ard ph!los-
ophv than Perry !.ukens. for he conf
IDENTIFY suggested to Christ: "Comman I
that these stones he made bread"
II must he easier to make bread ou'
Of stone than stone out Of nothing. AMI
II the rock ribbed hills, ancient as the
sun. were made of other material. what
was that made from. and so on? That
is a truncated philosophy which begins
nowhere. Meanwhile, nevertheless, we
pray for daily bread made of wheat
and not Of stones" Nobody that I know
Of besecches heaven 10 send down z
square circle, The water CHANGED 10
wine was Of hydrogen and oxygen two
to one. No law Is without a legislator.
Now, the principle Is elementary that
a legislator can amend. abrngite or sus-
pend his own law. why Is ether not
subject To the law of gravitation?
M one but an idiot would pray for
what is intrinsically impossible. Peace
IL possible and men very reasonably
pray for 1t sometimes. when God made
the Kaiser lie maintained dominion over
him. II is difficult to say which war
ring nation is the guilty one, 20 We
alphabetically pray to Him who knows
all things.
Should our own nation 20 TO war we
shall pray for its triumph without con-
dltIon, for we shall believe II In the right.
All other peoples do the same, take
II, and for the same reason. God above
Is omniscient and infinitely just, almighty
also and Infinitely wise. He wisely
determines what prayers to grant, what
petitions to reject, 1t Is our business
TO pray according to our light,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
The Three Honorary Presidents.

The American Peace and Arbitra.
ton League Is not n pncifst society in
the obnoNiOis sense of peace at any
price. Nor il it an organization
created in the name OF peace for pro.
noting the military advantage OF 4
helligerent nation.
on the contrary. the emblem of the
American League Is the American flag.
It's motto is Preparedness and Peace.
Its platform calls equally for the iu-
dicial settlement Of international dis,
putes by arbitration when possible
AMI for adequate armament for ma
tIcnal security and defence.
The three Honorary Presidents Of
the American Peace and Arbitration
League are WOODROW WILSON. WILL.
IAN HOWARD TAFT and THEODORE
ROOSEVELT.
How can the third Honorary Prcsl-
dent remain in official association
with the first Honorary President,
when the third Honorary President
Is violently denouncing the hrst Hon.
orary President. not only for bringing
shame upon the country by repudiat.
Ing national engagements undertaken
nj The Hague hut also for bringing
heIplessness upon the country in the
matter or adequate armament for ma.
lional security and defence;
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WHAT SHALL THIS YOUNG
MAN DO?
A story Of Futile Efforts TO Enter the
Military Academy.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Each
day having read articles in the papers
about the appropriateness of our army,
| feel that | would like to tell you OF
the conditions that ] have found to
exist i'm regard to admission TO West
Point.
am a young man 10 years of age
and in good physical condition. THREE.
years ago | wrote a letter to my Com
gresham applying for an appointment
to West Point. Since then | have
written to over seventy Congressme3,
Senators, military men and two Pres
dents, as well as to Secretary Garrison.
Besides this / have seen several Con-
gressmen personally.
When l found that there was no
vacancy from my own district ! wrote
to outside men. And of course whe1
there was a vacancy from my distrIct
! applied for that. 1t has been my Gus
tom to get a list Of vacancies from h
War Department, so that the Congress-
men | wrote to were only men who. |
knew, had appointments. ! even Of
fered to move into their districts so that
the law requiring a candidate to be a
resident OF the district from which he
is appointed would be satisfied. But
either from political or other reasons
! am still without IN appointment.
| have been educated at a public high
school. have had a few months at a
West Point preparatory school ana q
year of civil engineering at the N1r-
ginia Military Institute tthe West
Point of the South. Should ] receive
an appointment now ! would DE ad-
mitted without mental examination be-
cause OF my work at tine virginia Mill
tary Institute, under a new ruling OF
the War Department. So You see the
only thing that IL holding me back ~
an appointment.
A brother cadet OF my Virginia Mill
tary Institute days. who IL now at Nest
Point and who IL a resident OF Mis-
sissippl. tells me that he Is tne hrst
man TO represent his district at West
Point In eighteen years.
IL 1t not a deplOrable condition whe"
a fellow wants to make the army h'5
career he cannot get an appointment.
while lots Of Southern and Western APP
pointments are unified for years?
! would rather not have this letter
published. but shall he grateful for any
article you may write on the subject
or for any aid or advice YOU can givs
me I'm the matter OF securing an APP
pointment. -
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D. August -.
FROM A MALE GYNEPHOBE.
Arnold Barrett's Eighteen Desplcable
Why's.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SCN-Sir: Why
do women want to vote when they don't
know how and won't be taught to get
of trolley cars correctly?
Why do women want to vote when
thousands of them. II it were stylish,
would go almost naked in the streets?
Why do women want to vote when in
the marriage ceremony they vow to
obey and be subject to the man.
why do women want to vote when
not one OF them in twenty thousand
knows how to properly keep house and
cook digestible food?
Why dc women want to vote when
not one in a million knows how TO make
good bread?
Why do women want TO vote when
millions upon millions Of them cannot
comb their own hair without consulting
mother or sister?
Why do women want to vote when
by their lazy habits they ALLOW them
selves TO grow fat and shapsless?
Why do women want to vote when
their very nature makes them 'catty"
and spiteful and vindiCtive?
Why do women want to vote when
they are never satisfied unless some
being or thing, man or fop, is con-
stantly dancing attendance ON them?
Why do women want to vote when
they cannot understand why men are
silly enough to marry some woman
they don't like?
Why do women want 10 vote when
the male population OF our insane
esylums is already large?
Why do women want to vote-to
make divorce easier so they can steal
away the other woman husband?
Why do women want to vote when
they are ever ready to listen to, To talk
and to spread scandal about other
women?
Why do women want TO vote when
they tell the shoe salesman that they
take No. LA shoe wien they could
not get their feet Into a EE?
WHY do women want To vote when
they imagine that every other woman
buys h-r clothes on the inSta,ment plan?
Why do women want to vote when
half their time Is taken up with pow
derirg their noses?
WHY d. women want to vote when
every one of I EN-, II they would bu:
tell the truth, prefers TO he a man?
Why do women want to vote when
they go into Mysteries II a little mouse
comes anywhere near them
VIII somebody explain, please?
ARNOLD r. JARRETT.
NEWARK. y. j., August 2S.
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Now in the heavens comes Virgo. in
her hand
Spica. the Ripened Wheat, while
round her lie
The uebulous fields Of life that We,
So all yield
The harvest OF the sky.
And fields nf waving grain lie meath
the sun,
Golden at touch of Midas Autumn's
hand,
with azure skies and bending trees out
spread
Above a plentcous land.
Behold, the Lady Of the World walks
forth,
STOPPING her sickle to the generous
Weld,
AS illafdig, Giver of the Loaf and AL
The fulness Of the field
As Ceres, goddess Of tie golden grain ,
AS iicbe, nearer Of the cheering wine.
Harvest and vintage gathering, while
the smoke
Covers the battle line.
Then arm, ye braves, and battling for
the right
Even as Se see it, wholly il maintain .
Your women shalt pluck the nurpl,
fruited vines
And garner the rich grain!
NJ u. BUTLER.
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Prom the Boston Adrerti,sr

~ sf'HN'f @hff
\ tract Of land comprising about IS 900
acres In Washington county, Maine. Is to
be used for the development Of a large
grazing ranch, and those Interested in the
enterprise plan to put about 5000 head OF
Western cattle upon II as soon as the
plans can be worked out. Soil experts de-
clare the soil as good a. that Of the blue
grass region in Kentucky, and It will be
sown with that seed, and the cattle will
be put on after the tract has been made
ready for Its proposed use.
II the experiment proves a succe. IL l.
reasonably certain that others will take Il
up Properly cultivated. a large area Of
New England soil offers the best grazing
area in this country. At present New Eng
land Imports almost It's entire meat sun.
ply, Yet this should not he so. Land Is
fairly cheap In many sections where graz
Ing and can be developed easily. The
original Investment would not he large.
considering the possibilities. While fl IL
true that the number of cattle I'm New
Eng and has steadily decreased I'm tn.
past ten years or more, the fact remains
that there has been no such decrease In
the value Of the cattle. 1t does not nav
to breed scrub cattle any longer. But II
does pay to breed the right sort.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29

for the British Admiralty, with all
It's power Of suppression, to conceal
the enemy's loss NJ fifty submarines?
Human nature could not stand the
strain-it would not want to. Vaunts
Of the achievement would soon fll the
air and spread to the four Of
the earth TO confound and dismay the
enemy and initiate British prestige.
1t would be worth a good deal to tn,
Government to be able tO say that
there was no longer a submarine peril.
What n triumph for the British navy !
We conclude that the tally Of Ger
man submarines disposed Of Is the
wish that is father to the thought.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
G THE FRIENDS OF THE SUM-
Why One OF Them Always Thinks OF
"The DaIryman's Daughter"

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Str: Now
that war between Germany and the
United States is happily averted, LEI
us turn our thoughts to more pcaceful
subjects.
In passing by the Tract Building tnow
the Sun Building) which l nave
lone nearly every day for fifty years,
the thought came to me. why do 1
always think OF The Dairyman's
Daughter" when I go by the Tract
Building? 1t is strange. but so 1t is.
When a boy In Ohio more than sixty
years ago a copy OF this old book pub
lisfed by the American Tract Society
was n companion book with Hannah
More's shepherd Of Salisbury Plain
and ! can recall how I used TO lie under
the trees in summer and pore over the
pages of these books. How peaceful 1t
seemed to he a "dairyman's daughter
OF a shepherd among the beautiful hills
and landscape of England.
Well, as | say in lodging through
the throngs Of Nassau street ] always
feel while passing the Tract Building
like saluting my patron saint the
"Dairyman's Daughter And the
thought came to me. who reads the
'Dairyman's Daughter Not one
in a million probably. although j sup
pose IL can still be found In print.
Peace to her ashes! II I ever get to the
blessed abode where no doubt she Is
I am going to call on the dear girl
and have "A long talk about old times.
While watching the workme tear
down the old Sun Building from my
perch in the Tribune Building my
thoughts go back to the long ago l
always had a feeling of great venera-
tion for the old building even though
Il was once the stronghold OF Tammany.
where they had their headquarters
llfty years ago. But 1t IL only as the
sun Building that 1t appeals to my
reverence and as I look down through
tie dismantled and fast disappearing
structure | can almost imagine ] can
see the machinery and paraphernalia Of
"A great newspaper still in motion.
How %glorlously IL has "shone for all
during all these years! And will no
doubt continue To shine at the old stand
in its new and revised and greatly
enlarged environment. T.. n. r.
NEW YORK, August 2s.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
U.S.. EXPORTS IN July
LARGEST ON RECORD
They Amounted to S2G7.97s.
900, as Against S15l.138,-
947 in July 1917.
A DECREASE IN IMPORTS

wAsHINoToN. Aug. 2S-FpIo, m.,,a
public by the Department of ,lfua,...
to-day show a slight dcclcas, a .r.
ports and a large gain IN export. Iur.,s
| July and the seven months ending 10
| July, 1915. as compared win ta..a
periods OF last year.
July imports tOtailed SllS,uy,.5-p '..
year, against s159,677,2gl a year AK.
July exports were the largest c,cr H..
corded for that month, being S@ss-.y,>.
$50, compared with sI54.l3,.s47 70.
July, 1914, and 800 ,990,77N for Ju.
1918, when the month made d a.w h...
record.
or July, 1915, imports. 6iG per cen.
entered free of duty, against -H2 re,
cent. in July last year.
During the seven months ending W.
July imports this year tutalled il,uu,.
eO9,4tl, against $l,liO. jg3,3i3 ID. 1874
a decrease of 1l.6 per cent. While a..
ports aggregated $l.969,7S7.49j Iu 1915.
against i ,2OO, 1882, l62 in 1914. d Ram
of 81 per cent.
For the month OF July. 1915. there WI.
an export balance Of Sl24.S7g,37U. NJ com.
pared with an import balance Of s5.5SS..
344 in July, 1914, and an export balance
OF S2l, 929. 0OS in July, 1913. For the seven
months ending with July the export hal.
ance fell only a little short 0f being
81 ,000, GOO, 900, the total being se6..
S7s.05i, against S6O,Sss,7Sa in the ms.
seven months OF 1914.
Gold imports in July. 1915, amounted
to Sl7,262,9SS. against S3.39l,7l5 ia
July, 1914: and gold exports in Jul.
last were s2,l9l,735, compared with
s33,669,424 in July, 1914
For the seven months ending with
July this years gold imports aggro
gated Sl62,lS7,37i, against S3i.l85l3-
in 1914, while gold exports Wee {9,77i.
262 in comparison with sll7,5i3,25s In
1914.
Thus there was a net inward golf
movement OF sl52.4l3,ll2 IN the rr.,
seven months of 1915 and a ne, out.
ward movement of sS~3,5OS,s2- Il q .h-
period OF 1914.
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ONLY 8 ~DREADNOUGHTS.
Representative Gardner Corrects the
MiscOunt Of u Correspondent,

To II EDITOR OF THE SUN-Su, In
a communication to THE Sun ON your
editorial page mention was made of
the fact that We haVo eleven dread
noughts in the United States navy.
This is an entire mistake. We have
only eight ~dreadnoughts I'm the navy,
OF which one, the North Dakota. is In
reserve owing To the fact that its tur-
biues are unsatisfactory.
Any one can easily convince himself
as to the number of our dreaduoughts
by looking at the August /. 1915, oopy
Of the Navy and Marine Corps List and
Directory.
The little navy men classify the
South Carolina and the Michigan as
dreadnoughts, but the Navy Department
does not 10 consider them and has rele-
gated them to the second line of battle
ships.
l'util the Oklahoma and Nevada are
completed We shall have only seven
hattleships in full commission I'm the
d"Teaduought class A. T.. GARDNER.
HAMILTON, Mass, August rs.
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A Dangerous Obstacle Removed.

Even II the more optimistic antici-
patfons regarding our controversy
with Germany prove fallacious,
enough Is already foreshadowed to
Justify the hope that a dangerously
obscuring cloud has been lifted from
the discussion.
Apparently the mischief made by
Mr.. BRYAS's childish, II not mali
cious, meddllng In u surreptitious
way with the grave affairs of the
Department Of which deplorHble cir
cumstances made him the titular
head has been largely overcome. To
this welcome clearing Of the atmos-
There We are presumably much In
debted to a radically revised mental
attitude on the part Of the German
Embassy, a change dating approx
mately from the elimination Of Mr..
BRYAN's opportunities for undermin-
ing intrigue.
In the interval btween that prOvi-
Dental event and the development Of
the Arabic crisis, the German Am
iassador appears to have entertained
n growing conviction that what u
Government said In its notes to Ber-
lin had at least some remote bearing
on what it meant. II the delusion.
fCstered by Mr.. BRyAN's back stairs
whisIerinys with the Austrian AM
bussldor. that our communications
were meant for home consumption
only and were u TO he taken 100
seriously" sill fingered in Berlin i
IL evident that II was d~lssipated. 81
far as the German Embassy here was
concerned. very soOn after Mr.. BRYAN's
exit from the Department.
From that time un. su'h glimpseS
as we gel of Count WON BERNsTORrF's
labors suggest something like feverish
efforts 10 free the German Foreign
Office from Bryanlc ohsessions. per.
sistence in which was daily becoming
more and more fraught with explo-
sive possibilities.
n was no light task. Whatever
confidence in Count Won B~ERNsToRFt's
soundness Of judgment may have ex.
listed among his official s%uperiors,
there was ever against his conclu-
si0ns and advice the emm rrassing 0ff-
Get Of prior private assurances ema-
mating from our own State Depart
ufent itself. That this has been a
continuing obstacle to a clearer I'M
derstalding in the alarmingly grave
questions at issue Is 80 wholly within
the probabilities as to I've practically
beyond doubt.
Happily that obstacle is now re-
moved. The last traces of Mr.. Bay
ANS disastrous incompetence are at
last TO all appearances cleared away.
What an all but pathetic r~etrospec.
tive vision is thereby revealed Of a
hsrassed President staggering 10 long
and 50 patiently under a burden No
appalling.
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!" the EDITOR Oh THE SrN-Sir. Soma
years ag" there was in your columns a
symposium ON what constitutes a gentle.
man. Among the various definitions hax.
srded for this hitherto i~ndehnable word
was one that stands out In my memory
IKE a lighthouse In a night of fog. II
was In substance that a gentleman Il,
one VINO never unintentionally gives Of
renee. The real origin OF this pearl n,
definitions was not given, or at least IA
not recall it.
\ snort time ago | saw In print this
same definition ascribed to Oliver Her
ford Now oliver HEREFORD did not father
II. He tells me he did not, but he think,
l.a~boucher" did. Was 1t really Labhy ?
Ana II not who was #? y, q. HnwEs.
New iogK, August -.
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The Census Of the Undersea Boats.

The story. first vOuched for by the
Irmy and NnrU journal, that about
atty German submarin have been
destroyed since the war began is CON.
tinually ~reapIearlng in one form or
another. II Is news, we expect, to the
British Admiralty. As for Grand Ad-
mira Won TIRPIrz. he could not hear
II with Il straight face. Doubtless The
uncanny method Of the British navy
In sinking the cnemy's submarines
and making a mystery Of the mat
ter Ia shake German nerves has
been fairly successful, but it will he
observed that the enemy's undersea
brals are active still.
Has tho German navy ever had
hfty submarines in commission from
first To last; 1t may he doubted.
When the war began the German navy
was credited in service publications
with thirty submarines. The estimate
was probably not wide of the mark.
A table showing the organization OF
the German high sea fleet published
last September made the fOtllla
strength Gin commlsslon) twenty-onc
vessels, cor threc-fourths Of completed
submarines" Construction has gone
on since as rapidly as possible, hut
W. must remember that it Is easier
IN build submarines than TO train
crews to operate them. Certainly new
submarines cannot hav e beer launched.
manned and cent TO sea in patches,
We know that submarine warfare has
~ no means ceased, and II fifty If
these vessels have been destroyed. the
expansion of the German submar lne
sotllls from the original sea strength
must he staggering.
Another thing, would It he possible
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
Is Green Tomato Pie Heavens Best Gin
To Man.?

To rHE EDITOR ~ TuE sumo, M
allen folks rejoice as much as do whom
THIS blessed season comes around Won
DER DO they look forward to IT. and
pin" when 1t Il gone II l. the time when
green tomato ME Jhouuds, which. II no,
exactly heavens best glIt TO man. is cor.
t"inly 81 doggone near II that there's no
A'e taking Grccu tomato pie with NH,
dice of preserved ginger In It, This is
written after the mira he ping, r.. W.
NuRruroRr. August Is.