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in the near future about "mob ideas, the
demand for consolation and escape from
the hard realities of life, and the con-
nection between such outbursts OF popular
fancy and the demands of "the suppressed
self" for expression. But extravagant as
these war stories are they probably show
a cropping after some of the mysteries
which slip through the fingers OF cur prac-
teal reason.
In the period just preceding the war
there was little room for the play OF the
imagination. Folklore had become purely
literary and academic. Utlitarianism and
efficiency had almost reduced men to ma
chimes; commerce absorbed every energy;
education was practical" even religion
was occupied chiefly with the conventions
of morality rather than with the eternal
mysteries. Possibly in the decades follow
ing the restoration. of peace there VIII be
a renascence of the creative imagination.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
War and the Imagination.

A new field for psychological study is
the effect of the war upon the mind Of the
age. 1t is too early yet to know just what
this effect will be. but few people will be
surprised by Professor G. Stanley Halls
discovery that the war is causing a return
to the older types of religious belief. The
significant thing about DR.. Halls account
of this religious reawakening in Europe is
that it seems to be less a return to estab-
lished doctrines than an outburst of
credulity which is almost primitive in its
The most improbable stories
of all kinds are widely circulated and read
lily believed by the people Of the bellg
erent nations. 1t appears that the fiction
that the angels actually appeared to men
at Mons and turned the invading Germans
back aroused such general interest that
the Society for Psychical Research consid-
cred it a worthy subject for investigation.
Such things would indicate revival of
medieval superstition rather than a return
to enlightened religion.
Psychologists offer various explanations
for these war myths. We shall hear much
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
Strong in the Faith.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have invariably voted the national
Republican ticket and am now stronger in
the faith than ever
1t will be my privilege and pleasure to vote
for Mr. Hughes, the progressive, and Mr..
Fairbanks, the steadfast Republican, for the
following reasons:
The Republican party is the party Of eff
cheney and execution. 1t is party of intel
lectuality and integrity. 1t is the party of
Lincoln, liberty and loyalty. II is the party
OF manhood and magnanimity. 1t is the party
Of performance, peace, prestige and PRIDE.
1t is the party OF patriotism, principles and
progress. 1t is the party OF protection, pre-
paredness and prosperity. 1t is the party OF
reform, regeneration and reunion. 1t is the
party of stability, craftsmanship and stead
fastness. 1t is the party Of sound money and
safety.
Mr.. Hughes. its present leader is bold,
brainy. brave, brilliant and broadminded. lie
is calm calculating, cautious and capable.
He is dignifed and democratic. He is liberal,
liberty loving, loyal and logical. He is safe,
sound, steadfast and statesmanlike. He is
patient, patriotic and practical. He is pro-
found, prudent and progressive.
Inc democratic parry - Nhe HVh-PiVBie'-
sive party. 1t is the party of disaster and
danger. It is the party of insincerity and
Inconsistency. II is the party Of ineificiency
and ineptitude It is the party of negationr
non-preparedness and notification. 1t is the
Larty Of reaction and retrogression. IL is the
uartv of stagnation and starvation.
It's present tituIar head is egotistical and
cnigmatical. lie is indecisiye and incapable
He is nsincere and illogical. He is narrow
non-practical and non-progressive lie IS
unsound and unsafe. He is verbose, visionary
and vacillatng. He is too theoretical too
psychological, talks too much, IS too much OF
note writer and is too proud TO fight
JAMES {. JENKINS.
New York. Aug. 81, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
Readjustment Demanded.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | don't know whether or not The
Tribune has a single track mind but IT
seems to me in this unfortunate railroad sit
uation you have, as usual, hit the nail on
the head" It appears that an erroneous I'M
preston is abroad that very small part Of
the people can, at will, act in such manner as
to jeopardize the welfare Of the whole pub
lie. and that the public is powerless to pro-
tect its interests.
The executives Of the roads, as well as
the employees, are servants Of the people, and
II either, or both, can. under the present
system. create conditions inimical to public
security an instant readjustment is de-
manded.
Let us rid ourselves Of this German idea, "
for if we cannot protect ourselves from dan
ger within how shall We do so from foes
without?
The plan Of settlement advocated by The
Tribune seems not only fair but imperative.
FAIR PLAY.
Pomfret Centre, Conn, Aug "a. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
Prussia's Defensive Wars.

&C. Grant Robertson, in the Times Of LondonJ
Bismarck repeatedly and explicitly in the
Rechstag justified the wars of 1864, 1866,
and 1870 as defensive is, as not
"willed" by Prussia. On the contrary. they
were wars forced" on a peace-loving state
denied its rights" by Denmark. Austria and
France. The argument. briefly, on Bismarck
ian principles is this: Prussias policy is
an "Inferessenpoldik"-a policy Of enter
ests" An interest" confers a right" The
satisfaction Of national interest" is there
fore the achievement of national rights.
If these rights" can be achieved by a com
promise-that is, by the complete surrender
of Prussa's opponents TO the demands based
on these "rights"-that is a proof of her
peace-loving nature. But if her opponents
refuse. then the war by which the rights"
are secured is a war forced" on Prussia
She has not "willed" it. 1t is defensive"
war to prevent the robbery of her rights"
by others Bismarck, not without difficulty,
converted his sovereign TO this argument. In
each casc--1SG4 1866, William was
convinced that Denmark. Austria
and France were resisting the rights" of
Prussia. and that war TO secure them was
defensive" forced" on the King, and just
The successful issues confirmed Williams
conscience and proved that Bismarckian prin-
eiplcs had the divine sanction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
GOVERNORS WHO COME BACK
MANY Are Renominated, but Few Are Re-
elected, Is the Sad Record.
r. tbc Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Some days ago ! noticed in an cdl-
torial article in your paper the statement
that the late Senator Platt while at the head
of the Republican organization OF New YORK
steadfastly opposed as matter of expectancy
the denomination of Republican Governors
That remark so interested me that, happening
20 be in the Public Library yesterday,
looked up the history of Governors in relation
20 succession.
Since the organization of the state gov
eminent in I777 New York has had forty
fouS Governors OF these only twelve, nav
ing served one term, were reelected, though
find that many were renominated, and
usually renomnated by their respective par
ties. The Governors who actually obtained
reelection were George Clinton. John jay,
Daniel d. Tompkins, Dewitt Clinton william
l.. Marcy. william II. Seward, Edwin ID. Nor
gan. Reuben +. Fcnton, John T. HOFFMAN,
David b. Hill. Benjamin b. Odell and Charles
f. Hughes.
Il will be observed that every one OF the
men who obtained a reelection is man who
can he included in the first class of Ameri-
can statesmen, unless short-sighted persons
object to Mr.. Odell on grounds which led
short sighted persons to object to the ad-
mission of Edgar Allan Poe into the Hall OF
Fame.
Morgan Lewis, Joseph c. Yates. Nathan
Pitcher. Enos T. Throop, William {. Bouck,
Silas Wright. jr., John Young, even Hamilton
Fish. Washington Hunt, Horatio Seymour,
Nvron II. CLARK. John A. King, the John A.
Dix who wanted any shot who hauled
down an American flag; Samuel }. Iilden'
Iucius Robinson. Cleveland. Flower. Morton,
Black. Roosevelt, Higgins, White, the other
John A. Dix, Sulzer, Glynn-for one reason or
another none of these was reelected TO sue
coed himself, and the only Governors who
with an intermission ever got the place back
again by reelection were George Clinton,
Dewitt Clinton and Horatio Seymour.
guess that Senator Platt early in his
career as the Republican leader must have
dropped into the Public Library in New York
CITY or the Educational Building at Albany,
or some such institution, and must have
drawn the inference from these facts upon
which you say he consistently acted until his
power gone.
ONE WHO HAS THE HABIT OF LOOKING
INTO THINGS.
New York, Aug. 26, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
Dissertation of the Dolls.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The announcement that certain women
Of this city calling themselves the Hughes
Alliance" intend to manufacture and sell
dolls and sachet powder to raise funds to de-
vote TO the interests of their candidate nils
me with horror and disgust. This is beyond
"the limit is the pink penultimate
That a candidate for such an office of I'M
portance and dignity as that of President OF
the United States should have this efeminate
and asinine movement connected with his
name is almost unbelievable. Is nothing to
he kent sacred and free from politics?
A doll has ever been the emblem Of child
hood; I is the personifcation OF that most
wonderful thing in Gods creation--a baby;
4 is the connecting link between grown-ups
and the fairyland of dreams which we left
so long ago. its name is symbolic OF Chris'-
mas and Santa Claus and happy birthdays
and all that makes childhood most dear. The
memories that cluster around our first doll
constitute our most sacred possessions, and
We cannot look upon one of the chubby races
so real and yet SO unreal. without a tuggihs
al the heartstrings. And how many children
are there in this big city who have never had
the Joy OF possessing a real doll? How
manv Of them have had to he content with
something their fancy called q doll, some
thing that mother made for them out OF old
rags in response to their childish pleadings
How many mothers hearts have ached at
holiday time with the longing to purchase a
real dolly. the od-fashoned variety with
cherubic face and Mary Pickford curls!
Far better that these women should turn
their !abors into channels Of usefulness that
will earn them the love and devotion of these
little ones. Let them turn their attention
to what is. after all, their natural sphere,
and work for the betterment Of the children.
In that way will the foundations be laid for
the higher citizenship vhch they profess TO
champion Let them sell shoestrings, UNI
brellas. feather busters, hairpins, but let
them not desecrate our most sacred memo
ries by dragging dolls into the political arena
SPINSTER.
New York. Aug. %. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
Once a Hero, Always a Hero.

There ought to be some convenient and
biting word to describe the unwilingness
of humankind to change its mind. Slug
gishness, inertia, cussedness-all have their
points. But they fall far below the TACT,
which is that human beings as weak as
iellyfish in their mental fibre will adhere
to their familiar rocks with the strength
and tenacity of a bat. The rocks may be
crumbling. they may have lost all the
merits which once made them desirable for
residential purposes, fish and tides may
have passed to other channels-the fool
jellyfsh hangs on.
Take the lot of the New York Giants as
a perfect example. They once were a great
ball team, as even the casual devotees OF
the sporting pages can recall. Mathewson,
Marquard, Murray, Snodgrass, Meyers,
Devore-it is list fit for the vers libre
Homer, searching for a modern catalogue
of ships to celebrate. Over all presided
the fire-breathing McGraw, then an unre-
generate umpire batter and advocate OF
baseball. All, all is now
gone-has been gone these many days and
years. Only hollow she'll remains. Yet
they are still the Giants, they still occupy
first place in the popular mind, and only
the beginnings of faint doubts can yet be
deserted in the hearts of the faithful.
Ask your office boy if you doubt. Ask
him who won "the game" He will come
back instantly with the score of the latest
Giant defeat, wherever it has happened
If he is from Brooklyn he may add that the
Robins won. The Yankees?-he doesn't
recall and yet the struggles of the Yam
KEGS have been quite the most celebrating
episode of the season. Perhaps this is an
extreme example Of hero-worship. Crowds
have focked to see the Yankees play and
the collapse of the Giants as the one and
only is lowering just below the horizon.
But the adhesive power of the human mind
still prevails to keep the Giants where they
don't belong and delay all rivalry.
A myth in the making we see here and
the historians of such matters might do
worse than take notes. Tickle, tickle, says
the prevailing view Of popular belief and
alteration. But that notion holds no truth
when it is heroes you have before you.
Heroes are slow to make. But once ere
ated, once you have poughed furrcwt
wide and deep across community's brain,
nothing but an earthquake can destroy it.
Or, to return to our starting point, the
jellyfish is wabbly when adrift, but once
attached he hangs on. OF such subjects is
builded the kingdom of heroes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
Emotional Utilitarianism.

Iron the London Saturday RsUiciC)
Books on political economy so called, put
us in mind of story about Charles Oar
win. Wallace asked his friend in 1881 to
read Progress and Poverty" a cocksure
treatise by Henry George Darwin prom
ised to try the adventure, though he ex-
pected to be defeated MANY years ago"
he wrote, 81 read some books on political
economy and they produced a disastrous eff
feet on my mind-viz., utterly to distrust
my own judgment on the subject and to
doubt much the judgment of every one else!"
A great and humble naturalist could not pos
sibly understand the bemuddled tenets which
economists decorated with profuse cobwebs
Of the study. He knew so much about the
rule Of strife among living things, while
economists rested their hypothesis of free
exchange on the comic assumption that hu-
man nature was lamb in its attitude to
strife. and that the great powers would re-
main at peace. A great many wars had been
fought. they said, but they did not come from
the Unborn belligerency of mankind; they
came from certain fallacies in statecraft and
from certain vices in kings. Correct these
vices and those fallacies, by bringing them
in touch with studious arguments, with eco
homie principles" and all would be we'll.
Wars would cease, and peace would begin
to reign for ever Then all nations would
have a common interest in trade, and would
exchange their products in the freest man
ner. each Of them enjoying a paradise OF
easy profits. This emotional utilitarianism
was mainly British
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
A Song for Camp Concerts.

tFrOn me BcstDihffSr tdfffff
Ne and Bill and Ginger
Sailed away to France;
Said goodby 10 Farver,
Landed back at Haryer;
Didn't have no chance
To parlez-vous at Harver or 80 unon me
spree,
But started touring Flanders
Ginger. Bill and me.
Since that time we've travelled
Ginger. me and Bill
Seen what's left Of Wipers,
Dodged the German snpers
Under Vimy hill,
Rested in the valley where somme goes o1'
20 sea,
And strafed the Boche at Montaubsn
Ginger, Bill and me.
When the war is over,
When we're done with guns
We three mean to 20, SIR.
Where We do not know, sir,
But far from any Huns,
And run farm or something, as cosey "
could be,
And no more France or Flanders
For Ginger, Bill and mel
b. Z. f.. France. silN'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
A Hero To Be Remembered.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: All honor to the memory Of John Full
ton. yesterday an inspector of the Union Rail
way Company of the Bronx! Noble soul!
As one reads in The Tribune of to-day an
account of the attempt by this gallant fellow
to rescue from death four small boys on top
Of freight car gripped by a live wire. one
eXclaims: Thank God for this mans unselish
deed giving his life 10 save others"
Perhaps these words may arrest the atten-
ton Of some man or woman blest with much
of this worlds goods who will see TO it that
a modest shaft be set near the scene of this
tragic event to tell the future passerby of the
glorious sacrifice that hallows the spot and
the name of John Fulton.
HUMANITY.
Washington, Aug. %. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The Tribune is greatly to be praised
for its editorials on the railroad strike.
The unintelligent attitude of the majority
of the newspapers has come as great sur
prise-or has the labor party put gag on
the freedom of the press?
OF course one understands the attitude of
Mr.. Wilson November is approaching, etc.
There are millions Of women, old and
Young. who have invested their savings or
small incomes in the railways as "a safe in
vestment." What Of them?
One read in the papers at the time of the
New York, New Haven g. Hartford suit
about the directors robbng the widow and
the orphan. What's the difference between
enc robber and another?
"A MERE WOMAN"
Stamford. Conn. Aug. 2j, 1916.
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the mistakes of the past are going to be re-
peated in the future. or are we TO learn les
son from the past that will guide US in the
future.
In answer to the oft-repeated statement
made by the friends of the President that
his diplomacy has kept this country out OF
war, should like TO say that the war has
not yet come to an end nor are the great
problems which its settlement will involve
yet settled. In other words, the fruits of
President Wilson's foreign policy are not yet
ripe When they are | am inclined to think
that they will be more bitter than sweet.
CHARLES Z. CHIDSEY.
Pascagoula, Miss, Aug "a, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
Lafayette Day.


Tie the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Quoting to-day's Tribune, "the move
ment to celebrate September 6, the birthday
Of Lafayette, as a national holiday is fit
ting tribute to the memory of great lib
orator" Yes, indeed; "never too late TO
mend" There may however, be objection 20
the imposition Of another holiday at this
time; why not By some possible readjust-
ment make Lafayette Day and Labor Day, an
nconsequential affair at best, coincident-
and while we are improving things discard
Columbus Day? JOHN Y. CULVER.
New York, Aug. q, 1916.
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To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Being a constant reader of The Trib-
une trust that am not encrosching on your
time in asking you to kindly give me
approximately the length of time il will
require the Germans TO reach Paris at their
present rate of advancement
Your reply TO the query of Mr.. William
Steuss Of August II as to when the Allies
would reach Germany was a good one. but
think you are cornered this time.
JOHN p. CULLEN
New York, Aug. 20, 1916.
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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-16
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Office of the Eureka Mining and Mill
ing Company, Limited, Wallace,
Idaho, November 3, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the board OF directors Of
the above named company. held on the
9th day of November, 1915, an ASSESS
ment OF eght-tenths Of l maj per
share was levied upon the outstanding
capital stock of the corporation, pay
able on or before the 9th day of De-
cember, 1916, TO c. A. Sterling, treas
urer, Wenatchee, Wash.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 9th day of
December, 1916, will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction,
and unless payment Is made before,
will be sold on the 9th day Of January,
1917, at 305 Third street, Wallace, Ida
no, at 500 p. m. Of said day to pay the
delinquent assessment thereon, togeth-
er with the costs of advertising and
expenses of the sale.
A. d. MARSHALL,
N16-D7-4t Secretary.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-16
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Office of the Iron King Mining Com
pany, Limited, Wallace, Idaho, No
Nember 9, 1916.
Notice Is hereby given that at a
meeting of the directors, held on the
9th day of November, 1916, an assess
ment of one (1) mill per share was
levied upon the capital stock Of the
corporation, payable on or before the
9th day of December, 1916, to Otto A.
OLSON, secretary treasurer, at the Of
flee of the company, Wallace, Idaho.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 9th day of
December, 1916, will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction,
and unless payment is made in full,
together with 25c, cost of advertising
for each certificate advertised, will be
sold on the 9th day of January, 1917,
at 300 p, m. at the office Of the COM
pany, Barnard block, Wallace, Idaho,
to pay the delinquent assessment
thereon, together with the costs of adj
vertising and expenses of the sale.
OTTO A. OLSSON,
Secretary Treasurer of the Iron King
Mining Company Limited; Barnard
Block, Suite IS, Wallace, Idaho.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-16
NOTICE OF AssEssM EMIT.

Office of the Atlantic Mining Com
Pany, wallace, Idaho, November 3
1916
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the directors, held on the
9th day of November, 1916, an assess
ment of one C) mill per share was
levied upon the capital stock of the
corporation, payable on or before the
9th day Of December, 1916, to Otto A,
OLSON, secretary treasurer, at the Of
fc9 of the company, Wallace, Idaho.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 9th day
of December, 1916, will be delinquent
and advertised for sale at public auc-
ton and unless payment is made in
full together with 25c, cost of adver-
Using for each certificate advertised,
will be sold on the 9th day of Janu-
airy, 1917, at 500 p. m. at the office OF
the company, Barnard block, Wallace,
Idaho, to pay the delinquent assess
ment thereon together with the costs
of advertising and expenses of the
sale.
OTTO A. OLSON,
Secretary Treasurer of the Atlantic
Mining Company; Barnard Block,
Suite is, Wallace, Idaho.