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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
A Forgotten Victorian.

The fight against sentimentalism Is long and
hard one. 1t never can end. AS we start to brag
of some clearer view of old, foggy doctrine, up
jump the old ghosts to haunt u.s. AS long as we
retain our ancient capacity for self-deluson, for
refusing to look ourselves and the world in the
eye for reading events in vague conventional for
mulas, shall falter and fail like those true SEN
timentalists, Adam and Eve.
Yet here and there we do push on, as the death
of Miss Braddon" serves to remind us. LADY
Audleys Secret" was deectabe piece Of slush
and it matched so accurately the mid Victorian
mood that It carried far and wide 1t was as
unreal as a hustle or a waterfall of hair. It
represented life as it never was on sea or land
"a thing of pretence and elaborate, elegant
poppycock. 1t was pleasant sweet TO munich, but
it had no more relation to the business of living
than has a box Of chocolate creams.
We still must have our sweets, goodness knows
But even they have to be put up in different
form; and there is alongside of them vast
amount of good, appetizng food fit TO nourish
something besides a sweet tooth. Realism is not
much of a word TO conquer with nowadays. But
il had its day and served its purpose. and its
spirit is with US yet-just how completely it has
altered our whole approach TO books and the
stage we too often forget. When Diplomacy"
creaked in our ears recently it was just for lack
of reality, of life. We know now that heroes
and villains are not the simple things the Vic
torians led us TO believe. We are quite reconciled
to the human figure and the human mind and
heart, and we pretty generally insist that they
be shown 10 US more or less as they are.
The jump from "Miss Braddon' TO o. Henry
is quite as wide as il seems
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
Miss Rodman and The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A little later on you will prob
ably acknowledge that am telling you
the truth in saying that Henrietta Rod
man will do your paper no good, nor
will she do the cause of education any
good.
She is faddist who champions the
right of woman = hold two jobs a.
once and to draw pay from the city for
doing one of them. Progress may
change the plumbing in our houses ana
may change our transit facilities, ou'
there are some things that are eter.,
nally true and cannot change. One OF
those ia the spiritual as well as pnysl'
cal needs of growing child and the
consequent duties of motherhood.
| note that she is starting in 10 IN
stitutionalize childhood after the man
ner advocated by the Socialists "a ny
ii. patent process by means OF when
loving mothers may give the greater
Part of their time and vitality TO the
business of earning larger salaries, ana
then spend a little time now and tneh
N happy visitation with the little dar-
lings as a kind OF recreation.
Are you holding up Henrietta ROD
man as a model to American mothers
or American teachers, or whatG ! can
tell yo. that neither of them are golhs
to appreciate the model you propose.
JAMES F. B0YDSTUN.
Brooklyn, Feb. !, 1915.
III our reader had reflected before
he wrote he would Gave realized tnss
engaging Miss Rodman 20 get and edi,
rews is not holding her up as model
tor any one.-Ed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

mental waters singly, but must wait
until fleet of merchantmen has as
scmbled in the same port for trade
in the same nearby waters. Where
upon said feet of merchantmen will be
conveyed by few submarines and de-
stroycrs. Now, in the case of the trans
atlantic trade this difference would APP
pear: At the extreme limit of the cruis-
ing power of the submarine from Ger
man port submarine and destroyer pa
trolls should be established in the di-
rection of Queenstown, Ireland, and II
necessary to The requisite distance be-
You'd These patrols would render the
ocean lanes safe up to Queenstown.
At Queenstown the incoming liner
would he met by a convoy OF subma-
rines and destroyers and escorted TO
Liverpool. If two or more liners were
due about the same time the liners
would be halted at Queenstown until a
feet of them had assembled, when the
feet would be conveyed as above de-
scribed-the passengers and mail being
meanwhile disembarked at Queens
town.
JOHN ARMSTRONG CHALONER.
Gotham, Va, Feb. 2, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
"HYPOCRITES"
This Reader Praises the Photo Plays
Reverence and Beauty.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: One is not surprised NJ the
mental attitude of your correspondent,
Albert A. Moers, toward the perform
ance in the Longacre Theatre, for upon
looking over the assemblage it is evil
dent that many come there to see some
thing startling and 90 away disap-
pointed at the delicacy of treatment OF
the character of truth in "Hypocrites.'
| have seen the production twice and
would willingly pay TO see 1t again.
An acquaintance has seen 1t hve tunes
taking his family and friends after his
first view.
The ordinary scenic film" which de-
laved the satisfaction of your CORE
spondent's curiosity for one hour is
the finest scenic picture II has been
nv pleasure TO witness and might be
worth the price of admission alone,
The second half of the programme,
with its reverent treatment and beautl-
full music, is no less worthy OF the
high praise which has been bestowed
upon it by the theatrical and musical
critics and some of the editors OF our
daily and weekly press.
1. I am not connected with this or any
other theatre, production or film in
terest. My opinion is my own. and II
is supported by every person with
whom | have spoken and every review
have read. ROBERT ELLIOT.
New York, Feb. 4, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

have heretofore commanded our conf
dence are willing TO defeat the bill
because it did not originate with them.
During the years when the Republi-
cans were in control OF the Senate they
were practically 8 INIT in favor OF re-
viving American shipping by govern
ment subsidies, and they should be
consistent enough to favor any scheme
that not merely promises, as others
did, but makes certain definite and pos
tive results. II the ship purchase"
bill does not work out as IFS sponsors
anticipate the problem ia wholly within
the control of the government, and
there can be little doubt that the gov
eminent will be responsive 10 public
sentiment, so that the scheme can thus
be modified or abandoned after the
American shipping business is fairly
on its feet and able to float without
government aid.
The views I have expressed are no.
merely academic, but have been borne
in upon me by close study OF Ameri-
can commerce or. rather, the lack OF
tin many foreign ports as consul
general and consul general-at-lsrgs
under Republican administrations
New York, Jan. 80, 1915. c. VI. D.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
THE JUST AND THE UNJUST
A Readers Appreciation of The Trib-
une's Open Policy.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
/ Sir: The Teacher" who RETAINED
+ from lor purposely omitted signing
her name to the letter in which she
gave you fair warning as 70 when and
why she would cease reading your pa
per is a clear example of the spirit that
from all ages has hampered progress
and limited It's own field of vision. BE-
cause Miss Rodman, or another of whom
she did rot approve, has been given
space H. your columns she retires from
tho fray in injured dignity.
Does i ever occur TO such people that
your sense of justice in permitting such
people as she 10 air their opinions IN
your paper ought to win respect and
tolerance from her? Now, do not like
her spirit: her narrowness and deter
mination to remain narrow. but | am
going right on reading and buying The
Tribune because of the very policy that
admits Miss Rodman and Miss Rod
mans opposites. | like TO know that
one paper gives space to the Just and
the unjust, and implies, by so doing,
that the intelligent reading public can
do its own thinking and, after knowing
both sides of a question, draw its own
conclusions. This Is refreshing I'M
] illCdllOn.
But fancy any one so sure that his
or her opinion is the final and correct
one that he closes his mind 10 free
expression on the part OF others? Isn't
il deplorable? The only CLEAN Of hope
see for Teacher" is that she, | be-
lieve purposely, withheld her name. A
few years hcrcc let us hope that she
will be ashamed OF her position and in
that day will thank heaven her name
was not tackled TO the primitive view
point.
Such women as Teacher" are and
must be the burden" OF others who
are struggling to vantage point of
free speech, personal liberty and in
tellectual independence, and all such
women should hail with delight a pa
Der that opens its columns to all who
hold ideas pro and con on any ques-
ton OF the day.
e hope that one such withdrawal
as Teacher" will bring twenty sub
scribers who, seeing this attitude Of
mind, desire 70 prove that the prog
ress Of women can no longer brook
such narrowness and must put itself in
evidence against II.
HARRIET F. COMSTOCK.
Flatbush. n. Y, Feb. 4, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
INSPIRING MUSIC CRITICISM
An Appreciation Of Mr.. Krehbiels In.
terest in Choral Music.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: A reader of the unexcelled
Tribune for the last forty years-on
and nothing therein pleases me
more than the amazingly full, lucid
and inspiring music criticism, and, in
particular, the uncommon interest in
choral music, displayed by Mr.. Kreh-
biel with whom, by the way, have
no acquaintance.
Most students Of music in its broader
aspects are sorrowfully aware that
choral music is a sort OF Cinderella
among its melodious sisters, and that
in our loud and longitudinal New York
it languishes deplorably. This is not
strange; il. makes no appeal to the eye,
but 1t does make eXacting demands
upon ones powers of concentration.
Hence, despite its incidentally vast
value as social factor. choral music
does not "catch the crowds" nor, save
at rare moments, does it move our
metropolitan critics to uncomfortable
enthusiasm.
Mr.. Krehbiel, however, appears to
take as much interest in a poorly at
tended choral concert of unrestricted
local interest as in a socially exciting
opera premiere fraught With interna-
NAOidl NOHHONdNlOUs. MS hCCOuHt
last Wednesdays paper of the concert
of Walter Henry Halls Columbia
University Chorus was to my mind
ideal. 1t is the sort of notice that l
should strive 20 write were | such a
journalist. 1t was delightfully."- long,
breathlessly interesting, and in its
allusion to former productions Of the
works under review it was replete
with historical worth. For the intel
ligent devotce Of that sort of thing IL
was invaluable. A notice Of that type
cannot fail to be OF the most emphatic
encouragement TO those eager citizens
genuine altruists, most OF them
who are toiling to bring to exasperated
mankind a knowledge Of serene,
wholesome, truly democratic and en-
nobling form of music. am not writ
ing on behalf of Mr.. Hall. ! am no,
connected with his chorus, and have
reason TO believe that he detests me;
but from sundry efforts Of mine TO
make folk aware Of the worth OF New
York's oldest chorus, the 0ratorio So
ciety, have attained certain sort OF
experience that impels me to hold his
work i'm the loftiest esteem and TO
thus give voice 20 my delight in and
appreciation of Mr. Krehbiel's charm
ing and scholarly efforts 70 foster a
neglected form OF music.
WILSON A. BURROWS.
New York. FEB. 8. 1915.
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beginning Of the work which this new institution
can do. The business men Of America have clear
views which are not only entitled to influence
LEGISLATION and administration policies but which
are absolutely essential TO the formation OF ia
tional opinion. II is not a question OF small
sclf-scohing body of men. The chamber alreauF
stands as the most representative body OF ousi-
ness men the country has seen. 1t can focus al
Washington upon pending measures the facts and
reasoning of the expert business minds OF the
country. This service to the entire nation can be
of inestimahc value.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
STARVING ENGLAND OUT
Treating the Submarines a. Pirates Is
Prescribed,

To the Editor OF The Tribune:
Sir: Permit me 20 suggest that all
this vainglorious talk upon the part
Of our German friends about "starv-
ing England out" because few mer-
chantmen have been struck below the
belt by those thugs Of the sea. subma-
rines, is on par with the empty talk
in the early stages of the war concern
ing what Germans we're going TO do
with Great Brltain's contemplate lit
tie army" Grand Pirate Won Tirpitz
will find his pretty little murderous
scheme of sinking merchantmen and
scuttling away TO allow the crew and
passengers 20 drown like rats in a trap
punctured like the iridescent soap bub-
Bile il is 90 soon as Great Britain
wakes to the fact that history has re-
peated herself and that the same status
now exists in the home waters Of
Great Britain as existed in the good
old days OF pirates. SO soon as she
does, she will apply the same cure she
did in the days Of the pirates, 10 wit:
No merchantmen TO leave port for
trade in home waters or nearby Cont
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
The National Chamber of Commerce
and the Shipping Bill.

The power which the new Chamber OF Com
MERGE Of the United States can WELD was well
illustrated in the case Of the shipping BILL There
could be no questioning the sentiment of the
business men of America toward this strange
experiment, but how make that sentiment felt in
Washington? The newspapers Of the country
contributed much toward the defeat Of the BILL
but there can be no question of the powerful in
fuence exerted by the Chamber of Commences
impressive vote. The fact that the President Of
the United States and the Secretary Of the Treas
ury were present as guests of the chamber added
distinction TO the gathering and gave fitting sig
nifcance 10 its decision.
We are glad TO see in this incident only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
THE SHIP PURCHASE BILL
A Republican Criticises His Partys
Stand in Opposition.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you indulge me with WORD
Of approval of the letter you printed
from Wilmer Jay Smith protesting
against the opposition Of Republican
in the Senate to the proposed snip
purchase" bill?
II Is we'll known that many OF these
Republicans, under the leadership OF
Senator's Gallinger and Lodge, made
strenuous efforts TO carry through Con-
gress various ship subsidy bills, with a
view OF reviving the American mer-
chant marine. The bills they advocated
were intended to stimulate and aid prl-
vate and corporate ownership. Such
proposed legislation carried with 1t no
certainty that capital would invest in
such ventures, and, therefore, these
schemes were more or less problemat-
zeal, while the "ship purchase" bill,
now pending, goes straight to the mark
and makes the revival Of the merchant
marine a certainty
The principal objections that have
been urged 10 this scheme are that IL
would deprive capital Of any initiative
and destroy the American shipping
business already established; that
business must inevitably be conducted
at loss and that it would lead to com
plications with the warning nations in
Europe. As the government proposal
is wholly in the interest of the export
ing public and the whole enterprise
will be in the hands OF men vitality in
terested in the revival of our merchant
marine, is II fair to assume that they
would be less conservative and less pa
triotic than private owners engaged in
such business?
TIE proposed ship purchase" bill is
a more radical scheme than any which
the Republican Senators favored, but it
has the advantage OF getting immedi-
ate and positive results, and the oppo-
sition TO it as a party measure invites
the suspicion at least that men who
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
Reoreanizc the Public Service Com
mission
mission T.

The Public Service Commission as q whole
has cut q sorry figure so far in the legislative
investigation. Mr.. Mccall, its chairman, has cut
a sorrer one. The testimony of Mr. Whitney,
the secretary, was damning. He showed huge
and expensive machine grinding out a product
about as valuable as sawdust. Complaints have
usually been pigeonholed. Orders, when issued
have not been enforced. If the company under
fire wanted to obey them, well and good. If it
didn't, it sent an agent TO hold personal con-
ference with some commissioner, and the order
was modified" If the secretary wrote a harsh
letter TO a corporation censuring it for non-obe
dience, the letter was toned down by the com
mission so as not to hurt the sensitive feelings Of
the corporation officials. The commissions right
and duty under the law, to take criminal action
against corporation executives for noncompliance
with orders were never lived up to. Mr.. Mccall
on his own testimony, didn't have time to acquaint
himself with numerous details Of the commits
sions business, but he had plenty Of time to prac-
tise law. And he thought that the railroads were
doing about as well az they could be expected to-
Conditions, practices and views such as these
make state regulation Of public service corpora
tons joke. Yet the situation is not joke for
the public or the corporations. If public regula-
ton does fail, there will be a persistent and
vehement demand for government ownership of
public utilities which assuredy will not please the
directors and stockholders. For all practical pur-
poses public regulation has failed when a surface
scratching investigation dscoses things so bad
as the records Of the legislative committee now
hold. 1t has failed because the men in the COM
mission failed.
TIL. IL
commissioners have intelligence, public spirit,
aggressiveness and courage Time-serving poll
tcians with pro-corporation point of view
not contribute anything but failure to the work
Of this body, and the 1st District Commission for
four years past has been encountered with SUCH
The law is good and can be enforced. But the
commission must be reorganized first with the
wrong men thrown out and some right ones put in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
The Coming 7o2ver
THE SHEPHERDS RESOLUTION"

Shall |, shouting 20 the air,
Rave about the Folks who Dare?
Or endorse in torrid terms
All the movements Of the germs?
BE they brighter than the sun,
Quicker than a gatling gun,
If they be not so 10 me.
What care | how bright they be!
Shall ! take unto my heart
Every form Of phony Art?
Shall | call the putrid pure,
Be IL Love or Literature2
BE it purer than the snow,
Ivory or Sapolio,
II Il seem like bunk to me,
What care how pure it be?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
A Message from India.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: We Americans here in INDIA re-
joice in the support which you are giv'
ing TO Great Britain and her allies IN
this colossal war, and hope and pray
that you and all other leaders OF inc
American press will steadily upholi
our British kinsmen in this awtui
struggle. ALBERT NORTON, 3. u:
Boys Christian Home Mission OF india
Dhond, Poons District India, jan
/, 1915. .
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
Fair and Colder
readers
Horace: Book ]. Ode 9.

"Ttd,s ut alta s',t nire cordiinm'
Pipe old Soracte's lofty bean,
Sporting his heavy lid of snow,
The trees bent like soup tureen.
Believe me, it's some winter, DO!
The river is frozen tomb.
Come Thaliarchus, don't be slow
Cut out the gloom!
Stretch out your feet beside the fire;
Hand me the can of Sabine booze;
Let the immortal gods perspire
Der peace and war, but please excuse
Your uncle Horace. Shall hurry
To let myself in for the blues?
Well l should worry
Me for the lobster and the show,
The songs and skirts-you know NE, THAI
Two seats up in the bald head row
Why, JOY Is all my capital!
Nix on this old tomorrow fright,
Tomorrow is the gods, old pal,
To-night's the night.
o. NJ. DENNIS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
Breaking the Ice.

Breaking the Ice
When Homer only twenty-ons
Cut his initial lyric caper,
The Smyrna Herald" didn't run
A line about Il in the paper
When Virgil called copy boy
TO take his verses TO the printer.
Did Rome so off its nut with Jey7
Not that exact specific winter.
When Billy Shakespeare hired hall
And staged OF his early drammers
The audience as ! recall
Was fairly busy with its hammers.
When Byron later on embarked
On Art, and threw a pome together
The critics casually remarked
That II was simply lovely weather
When Browning bought fountain pen
And started in 10 be poetic,
The average British citizen
Was singularly apathetc.
Yes. yes, ! know-Tve mentioned i've
Who are bit above my station;
Tomorrow. though. shall derive
From them Hrle consolation.
C. s. X, in yesterdays Evening Mall
Well, it's tomorrow Stop your fears
That press and public will ignore you.
You beg for balm, old friend? we'll, here's
a little consolation for you:
Cease then to fear the press's power
Read these reviews and quote I'D Ill
(you KIN
Ow me): "a hit.'-7he Coming Toqve,.
"Success-a knockout. lew YORK. Cribuns,
Six cents loaf is a terrible price to pay for such
stuff as bread puddngs are made on.
Some time between the 10th and the goth Of Febru-
airy, Professor Meyer processes some severe calamity
will occur.
T. p. A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
Hurrah for Miss Rodman !

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Hurrah for Miss Rodman and
the new department. I've just got
your notice. I'll buy a copy at once
and every day. J. F. BERRY.
New York, Feb. /, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
THE SNOWSTORM.

Over hill and valley, how the snowfakes fly,
Coating all with Wilderness meath the wintry sky;
All the twigs and branches each have silvery
share
OF the feecy ice-dust blowing here and there.
On the steps and lodges hang the crystalled
drops,
Unseen where the arnor Of the river stops;
Now for shedding, skating, tingling thumbs and
toes,
Ere the sun comes smiling and his warm darts
throws.
MARY C. PTTRKE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06

We hone that the effort TO arouse "justlce" fol-
Ida SnifTen will not do her any harm, poor woman
Walloping tho conventions Is fine thing, especially
when the conventions ought TO he walloped And
adhering TO a principle is something to be valued
beyond expression. But just because one approves
OF beauty and considers the steam locomotive an
uelv object Is beautys cause advanced by ones walk
ing 70 San Francisco?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06

"Why don't you write about the higher things in
life?" asks II. c. D. "The way Old Sam Adams does,
for instance" Old Sans stuff yesterday was pretty
metaphysical, at that. Take the labels in mems
hats-thcres subject the heads Of most of our
readers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
MARY c. BURKE.

II seems we were wrong Lspplausel about the con-
sttutional amendment The resolution adopted by
the Legislature that the voters are TO decide
whether the constitution shall be amended to extend
the suffrage to All right. The point We in
sist on is that II is another Stuff triumph
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06

Suggestion TO sporting editors: When you print
the league schedules why not utilize the blanks for
saying that your paper prints the best baseball news
in the universe?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06

The Coming Tower accepts the invitation Of En-
pors Kansas include that city In the Grand Tour.
We should be there on Feb. % and should like
the banks to close.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06

Macmillan Foster thinks Bert Taylor's Men
tally Unempoyed' will serve, but he knows some
girls who belong to the Kaffee-Hags. You know;
everything extracted from the bean.