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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-07
THE SUNDAY LIQUOR LAW

To The Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The first page of The Tribune this
morning rejoces my heart. I like paper
that does not hide the liquor question In
some corner Of an inside page. If The Trib-
une could be distributed in the homes of the
tenements there would be an uplift that
might close the back doors Of the saloons on
Sunday, even in the face Of our good Mayors
permission to keep them open.
How any sane man can give any more lib
erty to the liquor traffic to do It's deadly
work than the law allows passes my COM
prehension.
Why do the Mayor and the Police Commits
sioner desecrate the Lords Day by allowing
the liquor saloon to sell liquor in the back
room contrary to law? l asked three police
men on Sunday if it was possible to get
glass of beer, and they just grinned at me.
They were standing on corners and could
see men and boys going into the back doors
of liquor saloons; could see the covered beer
cans carried In and out
Do the young men in tho present admins
tration read the newspapers? Do they note
what is going on in England, or are they too
busy working up the efficiency of the de-
partments and building up the morale Of the
police? Perhaps they have not heard that
Lloyd George said that of England's three
foes, Germany, Austria and drink, tho latter
was the deadliest.
very much fear that II England hesitates
at drastic measures she will be lost. AS we
say of man who drinks too much that he
is his own worst enemy, so we can say it OF
a nation. If the Englishman will not give
up his whskey and gin and beer for the
sake Of his country ! am afraid his sea grit
walls will not avail to keep out the foe.
England need not blame the German If she
fails. Her deadliest enemy is alcohol and
unless she grapples with and downs that foe
she will find 1t hard to keep her place as one
of the great powers.
To come back home. think some Of our
young administrators will find it hard to
keep their places in public office If they
keep on thinking that the enforcement OF
law is a cruel hardship to the booze" sellers
and the bum; that it is shocking to keep
the "highball" from the society" man and
woman on the Lords Day. Why is it that
no sooner does a reform administration get
in than it begins to get "cold feet" on the
liquor question? One would think Il would
be easy to say to any volators Of the law:
There's the law and you must obey IT,"
The police do say that to BARRIERS and butch
ers and delicatessen shop keepers; and we hear
ot some of them being arrested and fined for
not closing on time on Sundays, but to the
open, shameless breaking of the law by the
liquor traffic on Sundays there is not peep
or mutter from the Mayor or police.
JAMES V. CHALMERS.
New York. May 3, 1915.
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fifty-fve years ago. Liberation by bar
gaining, redemption Of Cost provinces
by purchase, this is very far from the
older, Drawer method Of the greatest son
of Nice, whose birthplace Cavour sold to
France, to pay Napoleon III for Solferino
and Magenta.
Perhaps an appreciation Of this atti-
tude of a neutral and not unfriendly
world is beginning to drive Italians. Ger
tainly signs multiply TO prove Italian dis
satisfaction with the present role. But on
the anniversary of the sailing Of "The
Thousand" even Italians must forgive a
certain international contempt for the
auctioneer's flag flying from the Quirinal.
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JERSEYS Disgrace.

II would be difficult to fird language TO
condemn too severely the failure of the
New Jersey Legislature to provide funds
for tho annual encampment Of the Ma
tional Guard. Such folly, and in the pres
ent hour, passes all human understanding.
Precisely such parsimony as this ex-
planned the death lists at Camp Alger and
Chickamauga in the Spanish War. The
greatest advantage Of the encampment
for the guardsman is the training he there
obtains in taking care of himself. 1t is
an insurance against useless and unneces-
sary loss of life in time of war.
To the guardsman service in the militia
represents personal sacrifice. 1t is a gift
made by the youth of the country in the
name of patriotism. There is no prospect
Of proper reward. No hope of it.
But why this gift should be spurned,
why every opportunity should be seized
to make militia service less attractive, the
militia less useful, can hardly be ex-
planned. 1t is a folly beyond all pallia-
ton and approximates actual betrayal of
the country's interests.
1t Isl to be hoped tina, New Jersey will
find nb imitators in a policy which is a
disgraee to its public life
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Tax Land Values.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Controller Prendergast has issued q
statement of where 500 in taxes goes. He
has, however, committed a serious error in
his explanation of the figures, particularly
in his statement Of what the city debt has
been spent for. He says of items for the
city debt, interest of city debt, redemption
OF city debt and sinking fund instruments,
payable in 1915: These items represent
money spent heretofore for the benefit Of
every operating division Of the city govern
ment."
The Controller ought to know-and he
probably does know-that all municipal ex-
penditures increase land values and benefit
land owners. He is completely in error,
therefore, in his statement that the city debt
was incurred "for the benefit Of every oper-
ating division Of the city government"
The tenants and small home owners have
more than paid for every bit Of service they
have received from the government. In fact.
they have paid twice; first, to the land own
ers, and second, 20 the city government The
land owners have made billions Of net profits
out OF tenants and small home owners here
in the last two decades. Just as soon as
the people Of New York appreciate this fact
thoroughly We are going to secure our rsys-
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Wages and Protection at Sea.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir. Owing to the demand for higher
wages by an association composed Of masters
and mates, several companies are sending to
sea passenger carrying vessels insufficiently
manned by competent officers. The places OF
the regular officers have been filled, as far as
possible, by superannuated or inactive make
shifts This is a condition inimical to the
safety Of passengers and widely at variance
with Federal statutes.
In regard to the strike and the causes
thereof, the case of third officer will serve
as an example This man at some time dur
ing the night stands four-hour watch, when
he is the only officer on deck. He holds in
his keeping the lives Of the entire ships
company It would seem that this is an i'm
portant position, filled with grave RESPONSE
bilties. The companies recognize this by
paying a man 81 day.
In justice to the companies which have ad-
mitted the justice of the demand, 1t should
be said that the Gulf Refining Company, the
Standard Oil Company and the Ward Line
have already granted an increase in wages.
The others have avoided doing so only by
the dangerous practice above referred TO-,
hence little publicity may be decidedly OPP
perfume. j. r. kEIDI.
Brooklyn, May s, 1915.
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EAT POTATOES RAW
If You Do. You Need Nothing Else
and Feel Fine.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir. An account of rich findings respect
ing the food value of potatoes has been 60
ing the rounds of the newspapers. If the
diet experts of the home economics depart
ment of Cornell University are correctly re-
ported they present an admixture Of truth
and error that should not be allowed to go
unchallenged. Among the errors are the
claims that starch foods should accompany
meats in the dietary, that meats, eggs and
cereals produce an excess of acid, that vege-
tables, fruit and milk produce an excess OF
bases and that meat should be accompanied
by potatoes rather than grain to neutrallze
its acids.
There is not a word OF truth in any Of
these statements. The mistake made by the
experts is in considering all these forms Of
food in their effects after having been ruined
by heat in cookery. Of the uninjured arti-
cles these same claims cannot be made; so
they are not worth making at all.
The one great truth put forward In this
account or report is that potatoes are very
valuable article Of food, but it IS excruciat-
ingly laughable to note the childish limo
CenCe OF these WOuld-De SCIENTISTS. les, po>
tatoes are valuable. What is remarkable is
that they are a thousand times more valuable
than these or any other present day scien-
lists imagine. They do not need the aid OF
meat to make them valuable. They are just
as nutritious taken alone as Is meat. You
can nearly die in two weeks eating cooked
meat; more nearly die than If you were eat
ing nothing. But you cannot begin to die
on an exclusive diet of properly prepared
potatoes uninjured by heat, II you keep on
same for whole year. In fact, you will
not notice that your health has suffered at
all. l know what | am talking about, as
have been there" on both
Explanations are In order, but science will
have to begin over again. Possibly, when
we live year on diet of potatoes, we get
our nitrogen largely from the air, as do peas
in a garden. When you try this regimen
you, with your Scientific" preconceptons
will think you are dying from day to day;
but, keeping right on, you realize that you
never felt better in your life. But whatever
the explanation, facts are facts, and science
has not made a beginning as yet.
f. d. BRlNKERH0FF.
Fall River, Mass, May 1, 1915.
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A SQUARE Deal for Suffrage.

What the suffragists appealed to the
Constitutional Convention for IS what
every fair-minded citizen, whether pro
or "anti," must desire. They ask simply
that the suffrage amendment adopted by
two Legislatures and now TO be submitted
to the voters in November shall have a
square deal. The question of enfranchis-
ing women is too big and too vital for any
other treatment.
Under the provisions Of the constitu-
ton, any amendment made by the con-
vention to Section /, Article 2, which con-
tains the qualifications Of voters, would
supersede the equal suffrage amendment
adopted by the Legislature. Since that
must be submitted TO the voters, it would
profit the suffragists nothing if the con-
vention adopted the same amendment-it
would only divide the suffrage vote be-
tween the proposed new constitution and
the separate suffrage amendment.
The Republican platform Of 1914 rec
commended that "the Constitutional Con-
vention deal with the subject in such a
way as to insure, in any event, the sub
mission of this question to the electors Of
the state in 1916 as separate PROPOSE
ton without recommendation by the party
for or against it." That recommendation
is the only fair and honorable way TO
treat the matter, and there should be no
question of the conventions following the
party platforms suggestion. Like the
Republican party, the Democratic party
is pledged to q submission Of the suffrage
question to the voters this fall. Neither
party could afford, and surely they can
not desire, to have this issue voted on
under any but the fairest possible con-
ditiOns.
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THE LETTERS OF DULCNEA.

Grayce dear: I've just been to see "Ifs
Yeomen Of the Guard" and it's the eleverss.
thing! Gilbert and Sullivan, you nss,
Don't you just love their things' could
see 1.-THE Mikado" every night in the week
De Wolf Hopper is in this opera, and, u
course, he's always good, If you anow VIA.
I mean. He has such a sense Of humor, bs.
behind It all a pathetic note, II you know
what I mean. Tears, they say, are pretty
close to smiles, and think they're right !
wish we had a combination like Gilbert sra
Sullivan writing today. But their opens
are Just as good now as when they vsrs
written, and time, after all, is the only trv'
test.
Going TO play golf tomorrow. Play at +
mean. l don't play very well, but it's -
fascinating
Goodness! here it is May already! Honest
". I don't know where the time has gcnss
this year. I never knew a winter to hIF
so fast. But it always goes fast when yOsa
having a good time and believe in havr;
one now. We're only here once, you know
Fondly
Dull CINEA
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To Help Real Estate.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: / wrote Governor Whitman to call an
extra session for the relief Of real estate.
Hundreds Of city freeholders have asked him
to veto the direct tax bill for S19500,00O. We
also need an extra session to pass the Lock-
wood Ellenbogen building inspection bill, with
the Tenement House Department omitted,
which would, am confident, meet the ap-
proval Of acting Mayor McAneny. We must
also pass the Smith Assembly bill to amend
the tax law for the equal taxation Of the
Catskill Aqueduct lands belonging to the city.
The Mayor-to the surprise Of many law
yers and real estate men-vetoed the pur-
chasing agent bill Such bill should have
passed twenty years ago, and 1t can be
amended to meet the Mayors views.
There are other bills for the relief OF real
estate which should be passed, and the Gov
ernor should give New York its day in court,
as it were, by calling an extra session, which
need not last more than one week.
We cannot live another year under the laws
which now practically kill the real estate
business.
I suggest that taxpayers associations
throughout greater New York meet at once
and petition the Governor to call an extra
session of the Legislature on the above men
toned grounds ALFRED r. CONKLING.
New York, May 5, 1915.
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Good Advice.

From the editorial columns Of "The
Syracuse Post-Standard," a stanch Re-
publican journal, we extract the following
bit of common sense:
The Governor has before him legislative
appropriations in volume so great that d.
rect tax of S1.7O a thousand will be required
in addition to indirect taxes, 70 meet them
He has also a legislative resolution imposing
a direct tax Of $40 He may pare the APP
preparations item by item. He cannot pare
the direct tax at all. He must sign 1t or
veto it.
The Governor may cut million out Of the
appropriation bills, but he can't cut out Of the
direct tax the 10 cents put in to pay that
million. Foolish, isn't it?
The Governor will certainly disapprove Of
many items in the appropriation bills. The
appropriations are too large. They need
judicious but drastic surgery.
If the appropriations are TO be reduced in
large volume, what Of the direct tax? 1t will
remain. Is the general financial situation so
good that we want more money paid into the
state treasury than is needed? Hardly that.
An extra session Of the Legislature TO re-
adjust the direct tax to the appropriation
appears to be inevitable.
From "The Newburgh Journal" gener-
ally recognized as representing the views
of Ex-Governor Odell, we take the follow
ing:
The extravaganza Of the Legislature in
scattering public moneys has not endeared
that body TO the people Nh Whitman has II
in his power TO correct the slovenly work OF
the Senate and Assembly. If he stands out
against waste and reckless expenditure he
will find the people solidly behind him.
The Governor has great opportunity, by
doing what he ought to do, 70 put himself
emphatically in right with the people OF the
State Of New York.
These appeals from the Legislature
drunk to the Governor sober come from
upstate districts. Reading them, can Gov
ernor Whitman hesitate to veto a direct
tax bill which spells disaster for New York
City and political ruin for himself?
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The Successors of Garibaldi

Measured by the policies and methods
of the Italian Government, it is manifest
that the spirit Of Garibaldi has given way
10 that of Cavour. Were the great parti-
San leader still on earth, who can doubt
that he would have been in the Trentino
many months ago, that Trieste would
have heard, have responded to the call
that reused Sicily two generations ago
and supplied one Of the most remarkable
pages in all history?
II was the Italy of Garibaldi and MAJ
zini which all the liberal world loved,
cheered, championed in the last century.
Yet il was Cavour who made good by
statecraft what Garibaldi won by the
sword. who utilized for the making Of
Italy-the creation Of the modern king
dom Of Italy-the spirit stirred by the
greatest Of Italian republicans
To-day Italian policy rouses little OF
the scorn of the world, 1t is, after all, a
far cry from the heroism, the dauntless
and reckless spirit Of "The Thousand,
70 the cool calculation Of Sonnino, the
bargain and counter-proposition which
I'll the press Of Europe and tax the pa
thence of Berlin and Vienna only a little
more than that Of Paris and London.
1t is easy 70 be unjust. If Italy can
free the Latins of the Trentino and Aus
trian Adriatic provinces without war, her
statesmen will deserve well Of their coun-
try. War is too terrible, this war, Of all
conflicts. too frightful 70 enter, if a single
halfway 70 desired ends runs around it.
Yet on the anniversary Of Garibaldis
sailing, on the anniversary Of the start
for MARSHA, no one can mistake the fact
that Italian reputatiOn in the world falls
far short 81 the glory that was Italy
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More Than a Trife Late.

If the Hon. William Church Osborn
had been one-half as Independent in 1914
when the Democrats were in power at
Albany as he is now when they are out
Martin H. Glynn might have escaped dis
aster.
It is an interesting and stimulating
spectacle for Mr.. Osborn TO journey TO
Brooklyn to tell the Kings County Demo-
Gratis to wake up and escape Tammany
bondage, but there must be some thou
sands of Democrats in this state who
know that it was Mr.. Osborn's advice
that restrained Governor Glynn from
breaking with Charles F. Murphy.
Governor Glynn's declaration of indie
pendence was submitted to Mr.. Osborn
and on his advice suppressed. Mr.,
Osborn is not the first reformer in state
politics who felt it necessary to be practi-
cal at the real crisis Of his public career,
but he i5 the most recent illustration Of
the faulty of such a policy.
Neither Mr.. Murphy nor the Repub-
lican party has any need to worry over
any project for the restoration" of the
Democratic party which derives its inspi-
ration from William Church Osborn.
In Democratic politics Mr.. Osborn will be
best remembered by Murphy's indorse-
ment of his "uplift" programme, eff" as
the Tammany leader remarked, "uplift is
the word"
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Brains and the Ballot.
Z. D. BKINhEKHUFF.
Ill River, Mass, May 1, 1915.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: From some newspaper l copied the
statement of a man who says: "The fact
that women have not come out squarely and
told what they intend to do with the ballot
when they get it should be reason enough to
prevent any man with a modcum OF brains
from favoring female suffrage"
| should say that any man who would make
such statement had not even "a modicum
Of brains"
When boy becomes twenty-one years of
age or an alien goes to take out his papers
or a man or woman goes to register are they
required ito come out squarely and tell what
they intend TO do with the ballot when they
get it,?
The same writer said in effect that women
should not be allowed to vote because they
are not subject to military duty. | defy this
man to point TO a single state in this coun-
try or any other country which ever re-
CURED qualification for military duty as
right to vote. About half Of the people Of
this state who do now vote are not subject
to military duty, and many Of them never
have been.
When boy becomes twenty-one years Of
age or an alien takes out his papers, il he is
nearsighted or hard of hearing or cross
eyed or bow-legged, he is not subject TO mill
tary duty, but he is not denied his citizen
ship.
1t would seem that women, who alone have
power TO bring human life into the world
should have a right TO voice in government
as well as the men, who have a monopoly Of
destroying human life.
MALE "SUFFRAGETTE."
NaX York Nav & lalh
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The University Of Paris.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of May 8, answering a
query about the relative population Of the
universities Of Columbia, Paris and Berlin
you state for Paris that "the College OF
France has 1000 students" The College OF
France is an institution sui generis, which has
no unmatriculated students, and is only an
infntesimal part numerically OF the Uni
versity of Paris. The figures Of the latter
would under normal circumstances reach
about $4,000 students if | am not mistaken.
AT any rate, the visitors who attend the lect-
ures of the College de France would not be
included. TESTS.
New York, May 8, 1918.
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Mayor Mitchell After Grizzlies.

If, as some one has said, a mans char
acter shines more clearly in his play than
in his work, we have lately been finding
out all sorts of things about our Mayor
Not so long ago it was discovered that
Mr. Mitchell was a devoted dancer, fond
of the one-step, the hesitation, the lame
duck, the fox trot, light on his patent
leathered toes in time to syncopated tunes.
1t seemed to reveal the man as in fash,
after years of ponderous public appear
ance and political outpourings had hidden
his humanity in a fog.
But now there comes q revelation all
the more startling for our former glimpse.
Our slender young executive, so ascetic a
figure on the political platform, so debo-
nair on the dance floor, is yet a big game
hunter, truly Rooseveltian In his greed
for the chase. A dispatch from Cody,
Wyo., heralds his arrival there in
search Of grizzlies, the most ferocious and
deadly Of all big game, as any hunter of
experience will testify. "He comes with
the reputation Of being an excellent rifle
shot," we learn with pardonable amaze
ment, and is so intent upon his sport that
not even the "broad expanse of the prai-
rie country and the magnitude of the
Rockies" have turned his thoughts from
the trail on this, his first, trip west Of
the Mississippi.
Let US hope he bags his bear. One
could hardly wish for more conspicuous
proof that man may dance and dance
and be regular Teller.
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The Embusaues.
CF1on IN, Narchester GuardianJ

Prom The Manchester Gudrdian)
The French papers have been busy Of late
with the case of the "embusque," which is the
name given to the man who chooses a safe
job in the army. An incident seen last night
on the fringe of Soho suggests that it is also
applied TO those who do not choose the army
at all. A couple Of French soldiers over here
on leave (they were in joyous MOODY coming
down a side street, passed the kitchens Of a
well known French restaurant They were
attracted by the sight Of the cooks in the
kitchens and studied them Rttentively through
the grating. Then they began TO taunt them
with shouts Of "EmbusquGl" The harmless
necessary French cooks below, startled in this
rough way in their ambush were furious.
There was an angry gathering of pots and
pans, and an elaborate slanging match fol-
lowed between the cooks and the soldiers.
The language was rich and varied, and in the
storm the sharp word "embusqu6" SOUNDED
like bitter refrain.
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sia and France, whose aim It has been to
create a status qro in the Far East under
which China might enjoy peace and self
government and all foreign interests in
the republic should be impartially solidi-
fed and protected. Japan will risk univer-
sal condemnation If she seeks TO impose
her will on China simply because most Of
the treaty powers have their hands full.