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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
WAR STORIES OF EXPERIENCE
Issue Taken with Mr.. Herrick's In
situation That They Are Not.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: According to Robert Herrck, in this
mornings Tribune all the stories by famous
war correspondents have been faxed" more
or less obviously, which is important II
true. He also INDUCES in thnly velled
slaps at the veracty Of men like Richard
Harding Davis, Will Irwin and Elmer Rob
crts, of The Associated Press.
Il is only fair to Mr.. Herrick TO say that
these stories Of fake are common enough
in Paris They emanate from a disgruntled
horde of journalists who have no chance OF
getting 10 the front, and adopt this manner
Of venting their spite against those who DO
One must be careful of ones facts when
discrediting the stories of others. Nh Her
rick says that French trenches are not
made for men six feet high" ! have before
me photographs Of Owen johnson IN the
front line trenches, near Bethany, and OF
Arnold Bennett in the French lines, on the
Grande Eperon of Notre Dame de Lorette.
These men are not much under six feet IN
height, and in each there is nearly two
feet Of trench above their heads. In TACT
in our swing along the front Rheims
Bethany. Poissons, Compiegne, Arras, Notre
Dame de Lorette and Ablain st. Nazaire we
seldom had to stoop, except in the boyaux' or
communicating trenches, and in the fearfully
battered bitches captured from the Germans
on the Notre Dame de Lorette hillside.
When Mr.. Herrick says no outsider has
witnessed a night attack by bayonet or a
night attack of any kind I'll believe him
But when he tells US that no civilian or cor
respondent has seen any real battle OF the
war il is question of what might justly
be called a real battle or real stormlng
of town.
From nv personal experience, ! know that
correspondents were present during TWO
DAYS bombardment Of Arras, when sheIls
we're exploding against the ruins OF the
Hotel de Vile and the cathedral was on hre
in three places. They were in the trenches
at Blangy, a suburb Of Arras, where the Ger
mans we're fifteen yards away in a part OF
the same building. and hand grenade com
bat was in progress. They were on the edge
of the Bots de Bouvigny while the position
was shelled bv the German artillery; on the
Notre Dame de Lorette hillside while eX-
plosive bombs fell near by and exhumed the
dead. and at Ablain St. Nazaire during the
heavy engagement of the afternoon of July g..
These were not, strictly speaking, real
battles. There have been no real battes
in the western area since the Marine, but
az least they gave the correspondents an
idea of what the present fighting is like with
out having to fake" it. WALTER HALE.
New York, Aug. 20, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
From a Sheltered Wife.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is a satisfaction well as a pleas
ure to read in your letters from readers SEN
timents on woman's suffrage expressed by
men as, for instance, in Mr.. Sherrill's letter
in tc-day's Tribune Although | have read
exhaustively on the subject and followed the
movements of women at the head of the
equal franchise campaign, as well as listened
to many speeches and lectures on the same
topic, confess they leave me very uncon-
WINGED that il will benefit women in any
way. whereas it will deprive them of much
that ! hold as a precious brthright of my
sex.
"Ihe hand that rocks the cradle is the hand
that rules the world" is one Of the truest
sayings ever written, to my mind Who has
as much influence over a child in its forma-
tive years as a mother? Or, who can inhu-
ence-subtly, | grant you-men as wives can,
when they have proven their worth in their
own destined sphere? am old-fashoned,
and rather glory in the fact, if it means that
| car continue to find the real and lasting
pleasure | do in my sheltered home life and
the many other joys that come my way; |
am even willing 70 acknowledge myself on
lower mental plane than man if by so doing
/ could continue TO receive from him the
homage and protection that | consider my
due HELEN MCALLUM.
IIightstown, n. j., Aug. %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02

case solely in incidents affecting only Ger
many and the United States. Our case
was the case Of all neutral nations, of the
countries which were small as we were
large. weak as we were strong.
Mr.. Wilson's supreme service is to man
kind not to his own country. 1t does rot
come from a successful avoidance Of war,
il comes from a victorious defence of civ
ilization. of liberty: not the liberty Of
his own nation alone, or primarily, but that
Of all nations He has maintained interna-
tiona, law. he has upheld civilization, he
has defended humanity-this is the great
service, this is the thing that Americans
hereafter will praise as they would have
praised it if to do it he had been driven
to take up arms. as other Presidents have
done in our history.
The greatest praise due Mr.. Wilson, in
the opinion of The Tribune, is for the
courage ne displayed after the Arabic in
frankly recognizing that the time for talk
ing was over, that the hour for action had
arrived. Had he, after the Arabic incl
dent, contemplated another note, another
exchange Of messages, we should not now
be approaching an honorable and final
settlement of our differences.
There are things worse than war, more
terrible than defeat and devastation. To
have yielded to the German claw of neces-
sitv" would have been to have consented
to national dishonor and cOnnived at the
destruction of international law. These
things we have not done. We have kept
the faith and maintained the right. Rather
than see the United States do otherwise,
many millions of men and women were
willing to make the supreme sacrifice. We
shall be grateful that it was not demanded,
but those who come hereafter will be glad
that even the shadow of this did not COM
pel the sacrifice of American honor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
Denmark and the War.
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In last Sundays Tribune appears an
article by Mr. Lathrop Stoddard dealing
with Denmark and the war 1t is admirably
written, and, taken as a whole, the author
is unusually we'll informed on his subject.
Yet he fails on the most essential point-to
give true impression of where Danish
sympathy and sentiment are to be found
in the present European death struggle.
Mr.. Stoddard says that the majority of
Danes want to keep out of the cockpit by
any means. So they do, and for that rea-
son have they been trying to live up to
neutrality in the strictest sense Of the
word. To do anything else would be play
ing with death
But when Mr.. Stoddard in his analysis
of popular sentiment in Denmark comes
20 the conclusion mat, after cYsid> ring the
wrongs done to her by England and Ger
many, majority of the better educated
Danes are pro German. then his views are
as wrong as can be.
Far be it from my dear little country
to firt with the Prussian eagle It's beak
has too long been tearing her flesh and
Grenchng her blood. Peaceful, liberty-lov-
ing Denmark and military ruled and ridden
Germany A fine alliance! What disgrace
to be a Dane should such thing come
about!
But no ar. The Danes are we'll aware
who thought and fought for freedom
through centuries, we'll aware that France
again is bleeding for civilizations sake.
While few individuals Of our degenerated
nobility may find humanity's progress at
stake with German Kultur and mlitarism,
the Danish people as a nation is heart and
soul with the Allies and their cause.-The
cause of liberty. C. HOEGSGAARD.
Newport, r. l., Aug "a. 1915
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Femalicious Demagogues.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: | was very much interested IN the
edfying replies to my letter, but was disap-
pointed to find that there were no answers -
which however, was to be expected, being
truly characteristic Of the feminist
Anent the latest manifestation Of feminis-
tic stupidity and arrogance, the so-called one
dav sex strike, it seems to me that these
femalicious demagogues have just about
reached the limit Of their depredations.
The idea the perpetrators of this idiotic
outrage are trying to convey is that modern
woman is capable of self-support. If this
be So why do they still possess the priv
ileges pointed out in my letter-to wit, main
tenance, dover, alimony, special protection
and so forth?
If the opportunity for occupation and pro-
duction exists, why do not women avail them
selves of it?
The facts in this case seem to point out
that there exists in our society large class
of grating parasiting females who, pro-
tected by the law, exist on the labor of the
much despised male (friend husband. eX-hus-
band, father and so FORTH.
Day after day these women, many Of whom
are active suffrage workers, use and con-
sumo perfectly good food clothing, shelter
and Injuries without ever producing so much
as one useful idea. How long will the law
protect hem in their idleness? When will
society put them to work? d. V. d.
New York, Aug. 81, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
Captain Won Muller Not Disciplined

To the Editor ofThe Tribune.
Sir A short time ago several of the lead
ing newspapers published an article stating
that Captain Erich Won Muller Of the Goeben
had been relieved from duty and recalled to
Berlin. owing 20 serious disagreement with
t, e admiral in command of the German feet
in Turkish waters, who held him account
able for the recent disaster to the Goeben.
knowing Captain Won Muller personally, I
communicated with relatives abroad TO aseer-
tain the truth of these statements and have
to-day received a letter with the following
information: Captain Won Muller was not in
command Of the Goeben, and therefore was
not responsible for her movements. He is
on perfectly friendly terms with the admiral,
who paid him a high tribute when he was
relieved from duty in order to accept a posi-
tion of honor, given him in acknowledgment
of his valuable services to his country.
Captain Won Muller has received not only
the Iron Cross, but also the Cross Of the
First Order, which is reserved for especial
bravery
beg that you will publish this statement
in justice to Captain Won Muller, who made
many warm friends when he visited America
as aid TO Prince Henry at the time of tn
Hudson Fulton celebration. J. c. D.
Madison, n. j., Aug. 20, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02

tain a practical monopoly by purchasing
or leasing or extra advantageous terms
the others they desire. State competi-
ton, whether in the sale of water or the
sale OF water-made electricity, as was pro
posed in the so-caled capitol district"
bill which Governor Sulzer vetoed, is the
hast thing they desire. 1t is essential to
have in the constitution a declaration Of
the states policy of government ownership
and operation and a grant Of power to
the commission to devise a practical plan
for carrying out that policy. Equally
commendable is the conventions refusal TO
grant permits Of occupancy to squatters-
rich or poor-on state lands.
The public has been plundered in fran
chise grants in perpetuity for all kinds
of public service corporations until there
is little left of interest to predatory plu-
tocrats in that line of endeavor There
still remains. directly the property of the
state and well worth stealing, much Of
value in lands, uncut timber and water ca
pable of making lights burn and mill wheels
turn. These things should be guarded for
the people Of the state as their last re-
naming possessions. The best protection
the Constitutional Convention can erect
will be none too good.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
The Drama Society's Work.

1t is a difficult and thankless task for
any organization built and operated by
human beings to act as mentor for a large
group of human beings in matters arts
tic. The Drama Society, now endeavoring
&c increase its membership SO that it may
be wholly se]f-suppOrting instead of de-
pending on the members of its executive
committee to meet annual deficits, does
rot base its claims to recognition on any
ability to set aside that condition. 1t con-
tends merely that it is able to render a
service TO its members in giving advice
about new plays worth seeing, which is
cheap at the price to them, and that this
qualification of playgoers seeking the bet
ter things of the drama is bound to be
practical help and financial encourage
ment to managers DESTROYS of producing
good plays we'll.
This organization is not calculated to be
of service to those who have expert knOwl
edge of the stage or sharply defined tastes
in play writing or acting. It's scheme of
ing by bulletins to its members the twelve
best" plays of the season is not for
them; it is rather for the theatre patron
of general, inclusive tastes, but not too
well lined purse, who wishes not to waste
his money on uninteresting, unworthy
plays and needs some advice and first
hand information about the new produc-
tons to keep him straight. For his sub
scription he gets this advice and two ex-
cellent orchestra seats for each of ten
plays he may select out of the twelve rec
commended, delivered to him for any date
he may select in the first months run of
the piece.
The playgoing committee, a miscella-
neous body Of laymen and professional
critics, naturally maintains certain more
or less arbitrary standards. Its work in
other years has proved that they coincide
pretty we'll as to artistic merit and recOg-
milton of interest with those of other pro-
fessional critics and the public. 1t does
not pretend to tell managers what they
must produce 1t merely tells the socety's
members when a manager has presented
l. play which, in its judgment, is worth the
members attention. This is powerful
lever for the uplifting of the stage"
Any manager is anxious to find plays
likely to obtain such a verdict, plus the
concentration of support and word-of
mouth advertising which follow it.
The Drama Society has no scheme to re-
organize or reform the theatre out of
"commercalism." 1t merely hopes to or
eanize a good portion Of the public in sup
port of good plays and make it easy for
it's subscribers to see those plays advan-
tageouSly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
ED I BuC SGRUGD ny GOD WIcb bHE5 che zeRL
7 SeRUGD my KInG, re W0uCD noe IN mine H6e
bHUe Cegc me nEKeD co NINE enemies. Shakespeare

army, suddenly assembled without organlza'
ton" or discipline, or officers of the least
knowledge of service, numbered 5,4Ol, oil
whom 400 were regulars, 900 marines and ~
sailors, the remainder being volunteers and
militia.
This same day, the day the army was to
meet its inevitable fate, August "a, 1t was
hastily formed in order of battle at Bladens-
burg, where. in the presence of the Presi'
dent and the Cabinet" it was attacked and
routed-with the loss of but 8 killed and IL
wounded
And what of the British force? The Brit
sh landed $500 trained regulars at Benedict,
on the Patuxent In the battle Of Bladens-
burg only part of the advanced division of
500 were engaged.
Five thousand four hundred Americans
routed by less than 1000 British, with loss
of killed and II wounded Were the Amer
leans towards? No. We're they organized
and trained? No.
AT O'Clock p. m the day of the battle OF
Bladensburg the enemy, without further OPP
position, marched into Washington" and, ac-
cording to official reports, "set fire to the
Presidents palace, the Treasury and the War
Office"
The next evening the British withdrew,
and "on the 29th the enemy returned un-
molested to his shipping"
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Annapolis, Md, Aug. 80, 1915.
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Orozco's End.

Pascual OrOzco, though in Mexico he
passed as a military commander, revo-
lutionary leader, patriot God save the
markD. was in reality simply an outlaw
whose status ranged from that Of bandit
chief to that of horse thief and murderer.
At the hands Of an American posse he has
met the fate reserved for his kind, fate
all the more fitting because his pursuers
diGn't know it was he they were hunting.
They were after horse thieves, raiders"
i'm the more euphemistic phrase, and they
got Orozco, to say nothing of Orozco's
secretary!
What a mirage it is, that of the Mexican
desert. which clothes these men with such
rainbows of dignity! General Orozco,
late military commander Of the State of
Chihuahua"; General" Villa-or is 1t
"Field Marshall? of Mexico" f;
General" Zapata, war lord, liberator,
father of his country, commuter IN cher
to Mexico City-all gentlemen of stripe!
So long as they remain enveloped in the
shimmering atmosphere Of their native
heath their romantically inflated person
alities are deemed worthy of moral APP
peal signed by the representatives OF seven
nations But once let their fortunes force
them across the Rio Grande against the
background of the orderly, prosaic Ameri-
can environment, there to shrink to their
true proportions, as in the case of the i'll
starred Orozco. and q. it is not considered
out of keeping to trail them with a pose
and shoot them down in ambush. With
apologies to Mr.. Raymond Hitchcock, "aint
it funny what a difference" just few
miles make?
There is one aspect of the Orozco case
which should silence forever certain apollo
gists for the men-of-the-hour in Mexico.
1t has been their habit to admit that some
of these leaders were bandits originally,
but were such purely through the pressure
Of Mexican poverty and tyranny. But in
Texas this pressure is absent. A man of
Orozco's intelligence and force could easily
have made a respectable living for hlm-
self and mis- dependents through honest toll
there. Yet he chose the other, the habltual
course. 1t may be that you can't teach
an old dog new tricks, but there is a good
deal to be said for congenital cussedness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
Protecting the States Resources.

Changes made by the Constitutional
Convention in the proposed conservation
article. with a view of keeping the forest
lands and water powers in the states own
hands for the public benefit, are eminently
desirable. They make that article stronger
than it was and much more likely to APP
peal to conservationists generally, though
they do not affect the policy, of doubtful
wisdom, of having this important depart
ment managed by an unpaid body of nine
men. The proposal, as it was before
amendment was forced by Mr.. Alfred f..
Smith, offered far too much opportunity
for the lumber and water power interests
to "pack" the proposed commission. The
amendment that no commissioner may be
engaged in numbering or developing water
power, or may even hold securities of a
company engaged in these industries, mod
ifes that danger. 1t is in line with the
provision in the conservation law and a
similar provision in the Public Service
Commissions law that no commissioner
may hold securities in any company which
would come under the jurisdiction of the
commissions
Even more important is second change
authorizing the commission to report TO
the Legislature a plan for state develop
ment and sale, either of water power or
of electric power developed from water
power. State ownership and development
Of its water powers is and has been New
York's policy, officially declared in many
ways, for several years. This policy has
had 70 fight the continuous, aggressive an
tagonism of private hydraulic interests
which, owning now a good part of the
states available power sites, hope to OBJ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
A Case for Sympathy, Not Censvre

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Such cold-blooded view of the Lusi-
tania massacre as that expressed by Helen
Bent in to-day's Tribune is hardly to be ex-
pected in the sex which. as the poet SAYS.
nature made to temper man.
Judge not, that we be not Judged" Yet
your correspondent naively declares that
the victims Of this ever memorable tragedy
were thoughtless, foolhardy crowd of pleas
ure seekers. Now, the Bent view is worse
than bent-it is warped, twisted and pain
fully perverted. Furthermore, it is thor
oughly selfish, because devoid not only of
reason, but of the one distinctly superior
quality of womanhood- sympathy
would like to remind Helen Bent, and
others like her. that when we renounce the
Declaration Of Independence we renounce the
right to life. liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness. EDWARD d. PAINE.
Boston, Mass, Aug. 81, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
An offence Against Free Speech.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: General Wood can better afford to
receive than Secretary Garrison can all I'd
to give a reproof in regard to the speech by
Colonel Roosevelt.
Colonel Roosevelt is an ex-President, which
position permits him perfect freedom OF
speech. The reproof given to General Wood
because such freedom was exercised, is a
prerogative in keeping only with monarchical
systems. where the people are slaves, OF
serfs, or poems. II reminds me Of conditions
in the Southern States from 1850 until 1863
Liberty and freedom Of speech are not lost
by either joining the army or becoming an
ex-Presdent, as Mr.. Garrison will find II he
will read the United States Constitution.
MILES II. DE LONG.
Schuyleville, n. Y, Aug 2S 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
A Nomination Cheerfully Seconded
The following communication has its
Gum, onpaal.

The following communication has its
own appeal:
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Down in Maine, here | read in "The
Boston Transcript" a reprint of your edl-
torial (Which Came First, Oswald or the
Egg To it "The Transcript" added an
Illuminating comment of its own. ! don't
mind telling you the thing made me hot
What a mistake the German Ambassador
in Paris last year made in not having a table
companion who could start a campaign to
discredit Joffre! 1t might have helped at
the Marine
If Oswald doesn't get his Iron Cross then
there's no gratitude among Kaisers
GEORGE REED THOMAS.
Bucksport. Me, Aug. 80 1915.
Judging from the number and character
of the letters received by The Tribune
commenting on the Bernstorff-V Willard in
cident Mr. Thomas's emotions are fairly
commonly shared by Americans.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
Praise for the Advertising Fight of
The Tribune.
Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: | note with interest your campaign
against fraudulent advertising and wish to
express my commentator of your activities.
There is so much talk to the effect that we
should not knock" but boost that lot Of
fakirs get by"-to the disadvantage Of hon
est people. Exposure Of those who deserve
exposure is, therefore, take it, to the inter
est of the well-meaning and right-seting por-
ton OF the community. WESTMINSTER.
New York, Aug. 81, 1915.
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You can purchase merchandise advertised
in THE TRIBUNE with absolute satety-ior
II dissatisfaction results In any case lhL
TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your money
back upon request. No red tape no qu'o-
bling. We make good promptly II the ad-
vcrtiscr does not.
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