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that brought forth from the Lisbon Acad-
emv of Science protest declaring that
"tbere only remains to the academies and
universities of the whole world one thing
% do-to decline all intercourse with Ger
man scientific and artistic bodies whose
miserable and noxious spirit Is so clearly
shown by the document quoted"
There have been many other examples
showing a deplorable want of impartial
Judgment and sobriety among the learned
and il is very much TO be feared mat
Professor Metchnikof is too hopeful IN
attributing this weakness TO the popular
excitement of the moment. A year after
the Franco-German War Herbert Spencer
nublisbed n remarkable letter from Ger
man friend lamenting the extraordinary
change that had lately come over his
countrymen and in particular the sup
posed leaders of thought, the university
professors. who, he said, were rapidly ac-
curing the very vices they used TO ridi-
Guile in the French-a narrow and petty
Inationallsm, an minated DelleA III Ii'0 oNi
ficiency of their own country; In short, a
dangerous self-conceit, which must be pref
judicial to intellectual progress and learn
ing. He gave some amazing examples of
the ridiculous lengths TO which this new
German spirit had carried some of them
including the proposal Of one professor
that a national costume should be adopted
TO accentuate the independence Of his
country.
Considering how diligently many Of the
most eminent of contemporary men OF
science have fostered a spirit of vanity
and national rancor, it is idle to hope that
it will be abandoned merely because 1t Is
demonstrably silly and useless.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

tenn. The Court Of Special Sessions will
be relieved Of a great volume Of cases
which now clog its calendar, since they
can be settled by the magistrate who
hears them originally. Thus there may
be speedier justice, and surer, in both
small and more important cases. There
will be no necessity for sending poor men
guilty of some technical violation OF an
ordinance, at worst) to Jail for several
days or weeks because they are unable TO
obtain bail pending trial in the Court OF
Special Sessions. Children's cases and
municipal regulative activities may re-
ceive better and more expert handling.
This is a sound, constructive measure, ana
the committee of the Charity Organlza-
ton Society which prepared and backed
it deserves credit for its work. The bill
should receive the approval of the Mayor
and the Governor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
General Peace.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: OF all the generals Of the present
day it is probable none would be more uni
Iversally acclaimed than General Peace" 1t
is true the generals Of the war have per
formed valiant deeds and many Of them won
crosses Of great value, but the highest valor
is that which points to peace when the
lighting spirit of men calls for war, which
stands for arbitration by the reason, when
the greater number Of the leaders Of religion
politics, art, science, literature and other
branches of human achievement In Europe
have allowed themselves to be drawn into a
slaughter pen, as substitute for tribunals
Of peaceful settlement of international dis
putes
| A veteran general Of one Of the contending
armies estimates that between the present
position and victory lies the sacrifice Of six
millions and more Of the best of the young
men and boys of Europe. The question for
that general 10 answer is, Would the result
be triumph? Would not a victory at such
cost be the sorriest defeat? Arbitration
by reason is better than that by the sacri-
fee of several million young men and boys
and the destruction Of tens OF billions OF
Iunreplaceable property.
We would not have General Peace" enter
with a temporary truce. A peace league
among the nations; the prevention of the
causes Of war. as we'll as means for the set
Element Of disputes and the averting OF
crises between nations such as that which
started the present war-these are factors
which would prevent a return OF the scenes
Of carnage which have marked the recent
months in the centres of our civilization Of
the Occident in Europe.
c. E. PARSONS.
Grand Blanc, Mich, April %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
Why One Man Favors Suffrage.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Appearing in your paper from time to
/ time I have observed considerable comment
on woman suffrage.
My home is in Seattle, Wash, city and
state where this question has been debated
for years and where law granting suffrage
/ TO women has been in operation several
years. Since visiting here have been asked
if | am still for suffrage and why | wish
20 say that | am, and, in brief, the following
are a few reasons:
First-Every white SLAYER" in the state is
against it.
Second-Every exploiter of child labor is
against it.
! Third-Every antagonist Of the eight-hour
/ law for women is against Il.
! Fourth-Every enemy Of a compulsory
workmen's compensation law is against It,
/ Fifth-Every liquor dealer. distiller
brewer, divekeeper and hanger-on is
against it.
| Sixth-The fact that it brought about pro-
| hibition.
| Seventh-The fact that it brought the Su-
preme Court and the Legislature to a Just
appreciation of the duty they owed to
women.
Eighth-The fact that it brought more
power to the home, the shrine OF purity and
| liberty.
/ Ninth-The fact that 90 per cent OF the
men, many of whom were once opposed to
suffrage, would as soon sacrifice their char
ter to statehood as to deny the privilege TO
women to vote The remaining 10 per cent,
/ If there are that many, belong TO the unde-
sirabe classes above mentioned.
/ am in position to verify any Of these
statements with facts and figures. | have
the honor to be the man who as a state SEN
ator forced the suffrage bill through the
Legislature, the first in any state for four
teen years, and also 10 be the father of the
womens and minors minimum wage law Of
/ Washington, now in full force and effect.
GEORGE y. PIPER.
New York, April "a 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
Internaticnalism In Science.

With characteristic optimism Professor
Metchnikoff insists that there is not the
least danger of prolonged resentment
among men of science and learning in the
nations now at war. In France he thinks
he can already detect return to liberal
internationalism," and though the Ger
man character is to his thinking upon
the whole pettier and meaner In spirit
yet he is satisfied that in time it will
prove sufficiently adaptable. for, as the
learned world is not at war, so whatever
there may be to-day of national hatred
Sad jealousy is "too silly and useless for
scientific men to harbor."
His conclusion might be accepted if il
were established that scientific men are
guided entirely by reason. Unfortunately
nothing they have done in the way of con-
certed action since the war began justifes
the belief that they are less subject than
others 10 emotional excitement. The
famous manifesto signed by ninety three
German scholars and savants has been
recognized by all except their countrymen
as the widest, most arrogant and fantas-
tic document of its kind that the war has
vet produced. 1t was this extraordinary
achievement Of German intelectualism
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
S. Percy Hooker.

Ten years ago no member of the state
Legislature stood higher in the estima-
ton not merely Of his own constituents
but Of the people Of the whole state than
s. Percy Hooker. In the reorganization
Of the Assembly in 1906, when, after the
scandals of the Insurance Investigation,
the "Old Guard" was sent to the rear,
Mr.. Hooker was among the few whose
names were mentioned for Speaker, and
the mention Of his name was promise
Of better things.
The Speakership fell to James W. Wads-
worth, jr., who was himself enlisted in
the support Of Hooker. A year later
Hooker went to the Senate, and continued
there the work which had won for him
the steady appreciation Of so severe
critic as the Citizens Union Of this town,
which in its annual legislative reviews
paid full tribute to his honesty industry
and efficiency.
Political quarrels in the Republican
party in Western New York prevented
the denomination Of Senator Hooker, but
Governor Hughes named him chairman Of
the new State Highway Commission. In
this body he served the state with such
distinction that, when the Democrats
legislated him out Of office, the State Of
New Hampshire called him to direct its
highway construction, and this work he
continued for several years.
In any legislative period Mr. Hooker's
service would have earned honorable
notice, but in the corrupt and evil years
of decade ago it deserved and attracted
unusual commentator. Unhappily, pub
lie memory of honesty in legislative life
is all too short, and it is the vicious, not
the honorable, which survives. But in
the long years of his service at Albany eX-
Senator Hooker served the state hOnorably,
and his death now is a distinct loss to its
public life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
THE. DUTY OF THE HOUR
Some Comments on the President
Associated Press Speech.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Not as a Republican or Democrat, but
as an American, please grant me the priv
lege of uttering few words in support OF
President Wilson's speech before $50 mem
bers of The Associated Press at the wal
dorf, published in The Tribune Of April 20.
What readers of The Tribune are there
who can help believing that the great
thoughts delivered on that occasion will ind
hope and encouragement in the minds and
hearts in the great armies now IN deadly
combat?
The President at the outset assured MS
hearers in unmstakable terms that neutral
ty is the duty of the United States, and that
a mediating nation must master self, and he
declared this nation was bound TO play an
important part in adjusting the affairs Of
the world once the fighting is ended. lie
said the neutrality of the United States was
not petty desire to keep out Of trouble,
but because there was something so much
greater to do than fight. and that there was
great distinction coming TO the United
States-the distinction Of a nation of self
control and self-mastery." He claimed the
times behind US had been difficult enough,
but the times before US were likely to be
more difficult because it was clear that the
worlds affairs were drawing rapidly to a
climax, and at the climax the test will come,
both for the nations at war and for this
country. The President believes that this
country will be called upon TO assist in re-
constructing peace, and bids US have our
judgments prepared and our spirits chastened
against the coming of that day. More than
that, he asks his countrymen though not In
a selfish spirit, to put our country first
The whole drift Of the speech was clear
conception Of the duty OF the hour.
GEORGE F. TINKER.
New London, Conn, April %, 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
Spare the Dog and Spoil the Child

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | beg leage to answer the conserva'
tive and out-of-date sentiments Of CORE
spondent who wrote on anti-vivisection IN
to-day's Tribune:
All sane and thinking people should object
To practices of men who vivisect.
'Ts very we'll to save human life,
But never save it with dog and knife.
II toxins from a dog would bar the worst,
The dog, not man, should be considered first
Our children may be stricken and diseased;
The hungry monster. Illness, unappeased
VIII ravage till with toxins satisfied;
The little child meanwhile, no doubt, has
died.
But this is just; our children should be
slain
Before we put our animals to pain.
The typhoid grips: better the baby die
Than trouble with m'rous, trembling fly
To shoot deer for pleasure passes time;
To prick a guinea pig for life is crime.
If you would save the rafters OF your house
Contrive with crushing steel to catch the
mouse.
SO we'll exist, until Of health bereft,
Man will decay and animals be left.
RICHARD NJ BRICKNER.
New York, April 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
The Elatbush Crime.

The hideous murder of Mrs. Heilner
in Flatbush, charged against man whom
she had befriended, is one Of those crimes
which strengthen ones belief in the in
durable depravity of criminals. If kind
ness and sympathy and generous treat
ment could have had the slightest effect
on the ex-convict Hanel this Flatbush
atrocity would seem to have been an i'm
possibility. It's commission should give
those persons pause who just now are in
clined to wax unduly sentimental over the
ostracism of the outlaw, who would in
duce society to swing from an attitude Of
complete distrust to one Of indiscriminate
forgiveness and friendliness toward him.
the only one of his class whom a job in
Henry Ford's factory would not remould.
But this should not be construed as an
attack on prison reform. 1t is one thing
to give a prisoner chance to develop
his humanity and quite another to take
him to ones bosom after his release.
Thomas Mott Osborne has himself i'm
piled this distinction in saying: "Most
of those in prison should be there on gen.
eral principles, and probably, if the truth
was actually known, there are not half as
many men in prison as ought to be there.
do not hold that the inmates Of Sing
Sing have any rights. Society has the
right to exile them and to punish them.
But we have a duty to society, and that
duty is to make conditions such that the
men will not be worse when they leave
prison than when they entered"
In the reaction against society's are
long stupidity and brutality in her treat
ment of convicts let us not forget that the
majority Of men and women who get into
prison do so from an innate tendency to
crime-call it plain cussedness, or insanity,
or what you villa tendency for which
kindness in or out Of Jail is no specific.
Mrs. Heilner apparently did not know
that Hanel had served term. That fact,
however, does not destroy the significance
of her tragic death.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
For Old New Workers.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In the excavating work now going on
at the northeast corner of Twenty-sixth
Street and Broadway | noted to-day the un.
covering, at about twenty feet below the
street level, Of a futed column apparently
OF marble This aroused my curiosity. Wha,
Is a marble column about seven feet lone
and a foot or so in diameter doing under.
ground at this spot? That it has been un.
foreground for long time is obvious.
Possibly some Of your older readers NAV
remember what stood on this site before the
late occupant. The old Hotel Rossmore was
mere INTERESTED.
New York, April %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
Needed Court REORGANIZATION.

While Senator Mills's bill reorganizing
the inferior criminal courts here, as
adopted. is not so sweeping as was the
original bill, it retains most Of the
valuable features it had as first drawn.
1t will create a departmental court
for the hearing of cases involving vio-
lations of municipal ordinances, health,
labor and fire laws and the like. 1t will
establish a separate children's court 1t
will give TO magistrates the power to dis
pose on first hearing Of misdemeanor
charges in practically all cases save those
of petit larceny and malicious mischief.
These changes will constitute a great
Improvement in the inferior courts sys-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
Of the United States Boy Scouts

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In to-day's issue of several New York
papers, including The Tribune, there is A
news item describing the disappearance from
home Of boy who was discouraged because
he was behind in his studies at school Most
OF the accounts speak of him as a Boy Scout
but none Of them indicates the organization
to which he belongs.
Young Rogers is not member of the Boy
Scouts of America, which seeks TO cooper
ate IN every way with the school authorities
IN maintaining good averages in the school
records OF the Scouts. In many troops it is
the custom TO allow merits to a Scout on the
basis Of his standing at school. The fact
that the boy is spoken OF as a corporal" in
d!cates that he belongs to the United States
BOY scouts. LORILLARD SPENCER,
Scout Commissioner.
New York, April %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
The Suffrage Record.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: heartily agree with Anne Wren that
it is not fair to judge of the effect of wom-
ans suffrage by the states where it has only
been tested for two years
1t is easy the hand to be carried
away by new enthusiasm and on the other
to expect too much in a short time. We are
fortunate that we are not narrowed down
TO such small survey, but have other states
where it has been tested for from twenty 20
forty years We can look at the records of
Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado and
draw our conclusions from conditions tested
by years. HELEN KENT.
New York, April %, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
First Cousins to the Fiends.

Mr.. Towns, who has been so active IN
promoting anti-narcotic legislation in this
state, has been giving out some Of his
thoughts on drug addiction and tells us
among other things that every cigarette
inhaler is first cousin to an opium mend.
If this means that both are given to drug
addiction. it is an obvious and indisputa-
BILE fact. but something more is apparently
implied. for he remarks that in his expe-
rience he has found "three men victims to
one woman victim and ten boy victims to
one girl VICTIM" and that cigarettes IN
every case were the starting point.
Victim" here means presumably some
thing more than mere smoker; 1t means,
no doubt. a taker of cocaine, of opium or
one of its derivatives, or Of some other
drug in less common use than tobacco. 1t
has been alleged by other observers that
women are more often drug victims than
men; Mr.. Towns's estimate of the proper
ton in relation to sex is therefore worth
noting. But is his conclusion with re-
gard to the use of tobacco justified? Was
the smoking of cigarettes assuredly the
invariable starting point" or does he
simply draw this inference from the fact
that his victims used formerly to smoke
them? The question is pertinent, for
majority of adult males and large pro-
portion of adult females have at one time
or another smoked cigarettes.
There was a doctor Of the old school
who had a theory that the common all
ment known as cold in the head was
caused invariably by the ingestion Of cold
iouids He made it rule to ask all
patients who suffered in this way whether
some time before they had not drunk a
glass Of water or other unwarmed bever-
age, and very rarely indeed did he fail
to establish what ne regarded as the in
evitable Geological factor. There would
be almost as little difficulty in proving
tobacco the starting point of almost every
evil in the world, only the argument would
be more convincing if smoking were a less
common pastime. 1t is comforting in
any case to be assured that so great a ma
iority of smokers continue in the relation
of first cousins to the fends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

posed to this policy, and your headline EN-
phasizes this msconception. We are heartily
in favor of such policy, but merely insist
that the money to enable us advantageously
to adopt it, even at this belated date, must be
secured by taxing land values instead OF in
dustrv. JOHN MOODY,
President Business Mems Association to IN
tax Industry.
New York, April 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
A Correction.
or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Please accept our thanks for your
courtesy in noting, in your issue of this
morning. the campaign Of this association.
You have misconstrued, however, our att-
tude on the pay-as-you-go policy for public
Improvements. You state that We are op-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

Somebody Is always taking the Joy out OF
life. Now comes the declaration that the war
is causing huge exports of meat, eggs and
cheese from this country with a consequent
Jump in prices here and another wallop at
the thin wallet of the ultimate consumer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

The day of the police parade marks the
annual harvest of the pushcart faker.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

The war (for headline honors) in brief;
A lull on the Syracuse front; new drive near
Ypres.
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Headline.
Advertising pays
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ovro.t and rsblished daily BY The Tribune Association
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Veuor RoSels Secretary and Treasurer hnu'e'' '
Building. No. i54 Nassau Street. New norA
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1915-01-16

regularly made Masons Ia not clear. In
discussing the first cause I can but add
the average white American. also the av-
erage white American Mason. does not
seem to be inclined to Judge his black
brother according to his mental and moral
characteristics. but by the color Of his skin
In treating upon the second cause for
purposely and effectively prevents fra
ternal intercourse between the grand
lodges of white and black Masons which
bodies are to be found in most every
state comprising the American Union
Some of the white grand lodges in their
constitutions or codes of law plainly state
one Of the requisites for initiation into
the order Is that the person must be Of
the white or Caucasian race This, you
purposes Of the institution. While other
grand lodges do not go SO far with the
wording Of their codes yet 1t IL absolutely
impossible for dark skinned man to be-
come member In any OF their lodges ex-
cept he comes from some north African.
East Indian or some other countries
where the dark skinned natives are class
cd with the Caucasian race. Their lodges
win accept any one who does not boast Of
African or Negro ancestry. Being depriv-
ed Of the privilege of admission into
these white lodges the only recourse has
been for the black Freemasons to organ
Ire such bodies Of their own and In turn
grand lodges: hence the continental Ma
son will find two grand orients or az we
term them. grand lodges working in each
Of the American states.
Regarding the third cause. from time
to time when confronted with unques-
tionable documentary evidence the off,
GERS OF the white grand lodges have been
compelled to admit with considerable re-
luctance that the first lodge Of black Ma
sons AFRICAN No. 469) was as regular In
the manner of its establishment as were
any Of those composed Of white men
which came into existence during the
eighteenth century. But many Of their
members feel as did that great American
Masonic scholar. Brother Albert Pike
that before they will call a black Mason
brother" they would prefer to leave Ma
sonry.
Space will not permit me to discuss the
whole subject at q greater length than
have herewith. l only want to inform
you Of the one fact that we are unable
to impress upon the minds Of the white
grand bodies Of this country. and that Is
the black American Mason does not crave
social relationship with hts white CO.
worker In this great scheme of human fell
iowship. nor does he desires the absorb
ton Of his branch of the fraternity by
the white grand lodges All we ask and
all we want Is for them to acknowledge
before the whole world that We are
brothers Masonically and be accorded
such other rights due from one Mason to
another.