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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-16
"THE COMING HOLD-UP"
Hudson Maxim's Observations Con.
demned as Excessive.
To IN. Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I do not believe that the letter en-
titled 'The Coming Hold-up," by HUDSON
Maxim, in the issue Of March 8, should pass
without comment Perhaps It is necessary, IN
order TO bring tho people Of this nation to
realization Of the need OF preparedness, TO
criticise the condition Of our present lighting
equipment, yet do not think it necessary to
20 to the extreme in our word pictures.
When the present war is over Uncle Sam
is not going 10 find himself Suddenly looking
into the muzzles Of few hundred 42-centi-
metre guns" and numerous other smaller but
quite as destructive instruments OF war, FOR
the very reason that any one Of the nations
at present engaged will have suffered such a
financial and physical blow that they will be
unable 10 compete with US even with our
present and admittedly poor equipment.
am for preparedness which will protect
both the honor Of this nation and the safety
Of its people. Why should we fear Germany
Such fear would be founded upon specu-
lation rather than on any apparent actually.
By the time she gets by Englsnd's navy we
can battle her in rowboats.
Some Of US believe that our diplomatic re-
lations, especially with Germany, have not
been as ably handled as they might have
been; that our national honor has not been
properly defended. We do believe that II
the German Ambassador had been given his
passports together with his associates, Boy
Ed and Won Pspen, with whom he must have
been equally guilty. and all diplomatic re-
lations severed, il would surely have had at
least a great moral effect upon the German
Empire.
Again say let us prepare for our national
defence. but It il not necessary TO picture
such imaginative international complications
in order to convince the people of such need.
VOYLE A. PAUL
Stamford, Conn. March 9. 1916.
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pair the blunders Of the Administrations
military policy. Let them give us the
groundwork Of real army, amply OIL
cered intelligently organized and pre-
pared to do whatever work the country
may have to use an army to do. Our
whole military system has TO be broad
ened from the foundation up. The only
safe basis TO start from is a standing army
under the colors Of 100000 men, exclud-
ing the non-combatant services, with re
serve reaching 100000 after the machin-
cry Of intensive training and quick retire
ments gets TO work.
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"Neurotics as Soldiers.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your interesting article, "Neurotics as
Soldiers" makes it clear that the countries
which have compulsory military service i'm
pose an unequal hardship, if not an injustice,
upon those men who, by virtue OF their con
stitution or temperament, arc untitled for
the gross work Of throst-cutting, shooting or
bsyonetting human beings.
If cessation Of all war is too much 20 hope
for or expect in a too material world Ike
ours, there ought at least to be exemption for
the individual whom nature has kept out Of
the warrior class. ChocUn q son mcfier. No
doubt in France, in Germany and IN the other
countries having CONSUMPTION there are thou
sands whose lives have been sacrificed, no.
10 the actual impact Of bullet or shell, but to
the rreparablc shattcring Of their nervous
systems. These unhappy victims never could
make good soldiers, yet IL is not unlikely that
q large proportion Of them have been men Of
uncommon intellectual ability or even Of rare
talent From what | have read m Lom-
hroso's "Mcn Of Genius" am convinced OF
tina. probability. 7. Z. WOODWARD.
New York March IS, 1916.
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MRS. BORDEN TURNER'S FUND
Help Wanted to Support Fled
Hospital.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The comparative quiet Of Eitg
has come 70 an end. We are so aecustoru
now to rumors Of Germans massng in b..
GUM that we pay no attention 70 The tsls q
the villagers and the refugees and the solder
but suddenly last week the hospital was foo
ed with wounded Ambulances came IN 81
night and all day. and we IN turn sent or
ambulances back to the base hospitals and s
the railway stations with load after load o
wounded Who were not desperately III e
make room for those who were
Our hospital is strained 20 rs utmost Ca
nscitv. and although Flanders is stu siora
and desolatc. Il seems a. If there were % %
a constant strain upon our resources. We az
told that these attacks which f.l our beds =,
quickly with shattered men are out n''
prelude to what is 20 come
To meet the demands Of this teuIoc va
which goes on and which We sometimes ~
with despair will continue TO go on un'.i a.
the men of France are killed or maime'' y
need your help. CO..
our hospital was opened on July q 10"
then We have had eight hundred patients. r''
entv out Of the eight hundred have disa' w
others have been saved and sent into me u
terror. convalescent. As we receive Only I"
most seriously wounded. We feel that Wv
statistics arc a proof OF tne "orN W ''''
been able TO do.
To meet the demands of the spring ara " y,
MGR campaign We are NOW obliged % quiz ,
new operating room, % increase OUT h1''
staff and 70 lay in a large amount o. suPp.
Of all kinds. Our equipment ioo' heeu' -
slant renewing. n is orr endeaYor 70 :.
this field hospital Of wooden huis a. ene'
IN every way a. base hospital p0' ~
this We must have money
May ! beg OF YOU 10 help us' oui -.
lances are wearing out and our ns'.'.
and our pillows also. Surgical ins'r'l'-
have constantly 20 boz rep .aced. p'h|s
dressings. splintz. ch.oroior'n, ether a..
the innumerable surgical supplies me-. -.
And sometimes our courage 100 IS "'-.
an end. and our endurance. Our litils S'o'.
huts have been subjected 20 ne s'0r'I'
winter: and We ourscifcs. SURROUNDS.
fats of mud. shut In by curtains o.
must 90 on and on. struggi ng WIZ POI
mutila1ion and death. =.
We need your sympathy ana yo-.
Will you give us what we need ana help -,
com fort and TO heal the men who are ns-'T
for France? --,.,
Checks should he made out 20 he f.n'y
Loan and Trust Company, l15 FIN W,
and marked For Mrs. bordsh''''
Fund" T.
Hospital supplies may BE sent 20 We b,
lam Borden. 10 West Fifty fourth sirses. ...,
York City. or forwarded direct 90 ~
England. MARY hohpfN- q,
Ambulance Chirurgicalc Noble 10 az
Corps. Sectcur Postal Do, teo l' ~
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Put Him Back in Schoolroom
le Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: ! want 10 tell you how much I enjoy
your strong editorials. They are as fearless
as +. r.. and sometimes | could imagine that
he inspired them or taught some one how to
hit right out fair and square.
don't always agree with them but they
certainly arc not mush, or just words to I'LL
in. I, Of course. like your attitude toward
the German war lords. have many friends
Of German birth. but they do not uphold the
methods of the Kaiser. | certainly hope the
Republican party will be able to unite on
some one who will put Woodrow back in the
sohoolroom. I am for any Republican who
can win and think the Progressives who got
sore IN 1912 arc Just as good Republicans as
we are. who swallowed the Barnes medicine
ana have been sick abed ever since.
am surprised in reading the many sur-
gcstons in your paper that no one suggests
Taft. lie is fine man. Why don't people
onthuse over him like Hughes. Root and
ROOSEVELT X. EATON.
North Haven, Conn. March 10, 1916.
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ANY Republican an Improvement.

70 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: We seem TO be wasting much valuable
space In booming our favorite candidates for
President The big thing that should direct
our every energy is to get rid OF the great
incompetent at Washington. Any Repub-
lican candidate thus far mentioned would he
far superior 10 the polite letter writer OF the
White House.
That there Is wide demand for business
mans administration from every part Of the
nation there can be no doubt The political
contradictions and cowardly attitude Of the
present Administration are the worst that
ever afflicted this nation, and most people feel
this way about IL. Save for the wa- In
Europe, this nation would be flooded with the
products Of cheap foreign labor, as one re-
suit of the low tariff Democracy in power.
The horrors of Mexican anarchy can he
laid at the door Of Woodrow Wilson. The
miserable scuttling from the Philippines, tie
failure to protect the lives and properly Of
our citizens, the socislistic programme, con-
denim the Democratic party in power.
Our greatest duty, the thought OF every
decent citizen, day in and day out, shoul be
directed to soldifying the opposition TO an
Administration that has brought disgrace and
disaster TO the nation. Let's fight the real
menace and quit lighting among ourselves.
+. G.. Il. GORDON.
New York, March 10, 1916.
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THE. PRUSSIAN VAMPIRE IN POLAND
- Il, p p.. - Heal consequences
with German "
Of tn

Is by the toll Of the subiugs,,a
The session of March > Of the pns,;.'Ns,'.
TO longer gives us any illusions W. YET
ically clear truth the Germans ,cn,.sen.
fore the Poles, telling them plainly a.. b.
they possess must be German, for C.. 'as
must be greater, as German agricul,p,aIa'
psnsion must 60 eastward and lay tbs :. e.
tons OF its development in the poE,l '.''''
tories this and that side Of the Vis,nls VIII
THE opposition OF the Polish g.,
continues the "Dziennik Nsrodowv s''.e
voked merely derisiye laughter in q W''
scendants of the Knights Of the Cros, g.
tonic knights. for what means N. ..ss'
Of the impotent. if the vampire have! r,''es'
tangled them in thousands Of ten,s,l,ss e.
ready sits on the chest Of the nstio, -
out by the war and is sucking it 70, 49,. ..,'
year
"'VGe rictis. Woe to the eonon...,,.
cries the German. with Satanic snils -
he already is preparing plans 70 colon,, -
Kingdom Of Poland with Germans. ana a.
for the money OF the Poles. For Hinss,h..''
has already prohibited the sale az 80.
and any transaction in land. as thai .l,,'s
belongs to the Prussians. He has eve, ~
the price for an acre, and this a price ., \.
as only the war could cause through Ne 49,
ation. What formerly cost 100000 mari, (.
worth in the eyes of Hindcnburg lOoo -,
so much the German government has alr,,s'
resolved 10 pay the Poles for the land ~.
which they will be removed by force. For a.
not Deputy Fuhrmann publicly declsr, /.
the Prussan Diet at the session Of MARI
that in only three governments Of Rus.i,.
Poland the Germans, thanks to Hindenbr,,
will gain on the land OF the Polish pea,,,'
about three milliards of marks. while o, n,
whole extent of Russian Poland they VI
gain more than the war has cost theml
$50 the wretched mite Of land OF thu pola,
peasant is 20 pay the Germans for all Ia.
expenses of the war on all the fronts" saws 4.
"Dziennik Narodowy," In conclusion. pol.
Polish peasants Speak, for the sen,,,a
on you has been issued. You are to b. ;.
duced TO beggary, while on your modes. .,r
une the German will fStten and at mos. VI
bestow kicks on you, should he further ale,
YOU to work for him. Let him who's. sens,
have not yet been confused stand tod,
frankly, boldly, and decidedly on the sid. ,
those who 20 the cry Death 10 Polandp vi
reply, Death to Germany Let US all mi,
and arouse the whole world, in order 70 4,
liver both ourselves and the rest OF msnss
from the grip Of this vampire"
WACLAW PERK0wsKl.
New York, March 10, 1916.
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From a Stacker.
or Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: You clamored for war, impstienty,
and now you are going to get it. In week
We will be at war with Mexico. First you
wanted war with Germany. then Mexico.
then both, then either; like a schoolboy, you
constantly changed your position. You
fretted and fumed for war; gave no quarter
or peace to pacifsts, like me-
Now. go to it, Get your honor satisfied
and lasting peace Avenge the lives taken
and property. too, il you will, with thousands
Of times more lives and property. In the
language of Bryan, God bless you" Let
your victory be full in measure and positive.
Then II will run up the heavy toll OF Ameri-
can dead, poverty, sickness, manned and de-
10 carry the war on and 70 pay war debts.
Now your Editor and others like him
can go. Please do go. You are getting only
what you wanted.
Marshal your forces. Get your Marjorie
Sterretts" and the like together. Time is
brief. Send your appeal broadcast for all
TO come at once who have been csmorng
for war. Get them, every one. and send
them to Mexico. You better get busy, too.
for people like me. who do not believe in
war. in principle, will not respond to the
call for volunteers. Nor viii ( do so, either
Yet, in all other respects, can prove my
self as perfect and loyal an American citizen
any other person, barring none.
JULES CHoPAK, JR.
New York, March 10, 1916.
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Champ Clark Tongue.

To tlc Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Perhaps Colonel Bryan lof course
with no such intontion) performed sort Of
service FOR his country when he deserted
Champ Clark in the Democratic convention in
1912. and. throwing his influence TO Wilson,
secured the lattcr's nomination for the Pres
idcncy.
While no one questions Speaker Clark's
ability in certain directions. It must be con-
fcssed that he is painfully lacking in discre
ton. 10 cannot be forgotten that when Pres
dent Taft was working earnestly and appar
emily with every prospect Of success for rcci-
procity with Canada Mr.. Clark dumped the
fat uncorcmoniously into the fire by announc-
ing that Canada some time would be alb
sorbed by the United States. ] happened TO
be in Montreal at the time this untimely and
unfortunate remark was made and had a
chance to note its balcful effect.
Quite recently we had another example Of
Sneaker Clark's indiscretion m stating TO a
roportcr that the House Of Representatives
would vote 10 in favor OF the resolution
warning American citizens not 20 take pas,
sage on any Of the Allied ships devoted TO
passenger traffic. OF course, this utterance
By 80 important parsonage as the Speaker
Of tho House was Immediately transmitted 10
Berlin for the purpose OF embarrassing Presi-
dent Wilson's diplomatic negotiations with
Germany.
No man with 80 slight guard on his
tongue as Mr. Clark exhibited m the two
cases mentioned could be safely trusted at
the head Of this great nation. VI. r. K.
New York. ilarch 7. 1916
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Unprepared.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr. Wilson's limited punitive expcdi-
ton. without the cooperation of the Mexican
people, will have as much chance of locating
tho bandit Villa as VIC would Of spprehending
a criminal in our own underworld" were We
without a police or detective force. Their
triumph az Vera Cruz is still fresh in the
minds Of MeXicans; and Carranza. in order
70 make his position among his people secure.
would willingly lead them into war with
tho "Gringoes.'
We at this time, through neglect and stu
pidlty, are not prepared to fight any nation:
but IL is to be hoped that the recent Columbus
affair will awaken the sloepers to a realza-
ton that VIC must, on an extensive scale and
IN scientific manner, prepare to cope with
situations far more complex than any likely
to arise between this country and Mexico.
LONGWORTH GREEN.
New York, March Is, 1916.
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Send Some Volunteers.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Those who have followed with deep
interest the Mexican mixup from beginning
to-no, not end for God only knows when
and how will end tire fearful ENHANCEMENT
of the United States with Mexican matters
and who have looked upon it as q series OF
monumental blunders have some curiosity
at least 10 know just what the United States
has lost in it up TO date. in blood and treas
ure and The Tribune may be able to tell US
approximately as 10 the latter.
Some have actually referred to this hand
ling of the Mexican muddle as Statesman
ship and that another Lincoln" hand was
at the helm-this from any one Of promi-
hence is all sufficient 20 make the model
statesman of all the ages" turn over in his
coffin.
We are doing great work; for instance
the surprise and massacre at Columbus. the
absence Of warning picket guard, the fail
ure OF the machine guns. the burning Of the
hotel and capture of their cavalry horses
right under their very noses, yea, and the
six days advance notice TO Villa. Eve are
coming for you" shows how rapidly we arc
climbing the shining hill of progress in war
matters. Why not send few regiments OF
volunteers, who they say can never be de-
pended on? What about 1861 to 1865? Wha,
material part did the regulars have any
where in saving this Union?
GEORGE B. LOUD.
Past Commander, G. A. r., State of New
York.
New York, March Il. 1916.
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Meyico's Need.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: At the present time the United States
seems 70 know hardly what TO do in regard
to Mexico. Why not propose an educated
Indian as President of Mexico? lived in
Mexico all through the war with Macmillan
We lived in Monterey and there used TO see
Don Berneto Juarez, President OF Mexico.
He was an educated Indian, and fine man
and liberal man
On my last trip TO Mexico, just before
President Daz was driven out. | had a talk
going from Progreso 10 Vera Cruz with an
educated Tarascan Indian. | said to him. in
the course Of conversation: you have a
very good President in Daz, have you not 80
lie said: I'VE do not like him. will tell
you why. Go into the country and you SEQ
dire poverty; 60 into the elite, and you sec
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To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: During all the time the wilson Ad-
ministration has been appealing to the eoun-
try in behalf of preparedness a constant
menace of danger has persisted along the
Mexican frontier. Such raids as that OF villa
AZ Columbus were known to be likely. II has
been a matter OF common knowledge that
any dav. any hour, the emergency might break
wherein the United States would be COM
PEELED TO enter and police the republic of
Mexico.
Yet the American army has been on no day
ready 70 cope with the situation. No ore
claims that it is ready now. n it had been
ready. the raid on Columbus could not have
occurred. If il had been ready. pursuit
Of Villa would not have been necessary, or, II
demanded on some other account, might have
been ACCOMPLISHED with dispatch and success.
The unreadiness Of our military arm has
precise parallel in the unresdiness Of our
Chief Executive.
Had he been ready there would now have
long been obtaining a clear understanding
or frank disagreement with Carranzs re-
carding such matter as the pursuit of villa.
No fresh negotiations would have been re-
ouircd Indeed. an arrangement should have
been had before the dubious step of recog
nizing Carranza was taken. The Admins
tration policy has been to procrastinate, TO
delay preparation, to gloss over unpleasant
truths. and to avoid making decisions Of any
important sort.
The lives lost at Columbus would have been
saved b. preparedness. The preparedness
was possible IT. was demanded By every sane
consideration Of prudence and foresight.
One person above all is responsible for the
TACT that there is lack Of preparedness. If
the President had done his duty as prsc-
teal. efficient officer; if he had talked less
and done more. every ono OF those shot At
Columbus would have been alive and safe
to-day.
The United states should have been com
plc;cly ready for an invasion Of Mexico at
least two years ago. That it was not so
ready may be condoned But that there IS
unreadness now; that the massacre at Column
bus was invited and suffered how may this
be pardoned? How do these things square
with a profession OF peculiarly devoted con
scientiousness and most confident claim Of
personal suficiency in leadership?
FREDERICK PALMER LATlMER.
New London, Conn, March l3. 1916.
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American Art. and All

To the Editor Of The Tribune. -.
Sir: As unit Of the public an an =. =. u
an art student and one interested 20 ~ 80.
development Of the country. / beg ne y =,
tesy Of your columns 20 ask The f0'.I
hibition Committee. who have ~ 4
themselves final judges boo the mS'" ~,
American art, to qualify FOR The po''p' -.
have assumed and 20 answer 'he ''
questions: a.S, ~
Why are these two hundred p''h.~ n &
very best examples Of modern Aine' .''-,,, q
Why are they American Nha' ,o,.,e
clements. quality or quantity, DO ''''
that make them American s-cd,r
What is the difference pe'"''" AZ.
American art" and modern turop. -, -
Why turn public attention i0'
ment from modern European an AZ.
Why not turn public attention /, ~
Do they mean "by guaranteeins a, ~
the authenticity and conscientious"... rs
paintings shown" that they susrS"'
AS works of art? ,.,,r- ~
viii they really make me w.. ,.lus
secure" by guaranteeing The insfA'
these two hundred paintings. vehs
At the end of five years VIII 'H. n,;,. 70 ~
drcd paintings be worth the same ,h,r y
committee that is being asked iV' a,
day. aud will they legally guars.,s', 70 ~
ask all Of them and each OF ".-f
up their critical judgment" WIN pcoApk
Nsw York March 10. 1914
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To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In reply to the recent speech in the
Russian Duma by Foreign Minister Sazonov,
in which he said that from the beginning OF
the war Russia "had had inscribed on her
banner the reunion Of dismembered Poland,
the "Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung' says:
"The fate Of Poland has ceased TO lie in the
hands Of the Russian Ministry. The hands to
which Il is conided will protect it from re-
turn 20 Russian misrule, and will understand
how TO heal the outward and inward conse-
quences Of that misrule."
In the opinion of the same journal Sazonov's
statement regarding "the dreams Of plumber
and rspine," cherished so long By certain Ger
mans, should in reality be applied 70 Ger
m2ny's enemies.
So nobly do these words Of the semi-official
German organ ring. such bright picture do
they raise OF the future of Poland, that Il
cannot be wondered at that people of indolent
mind think that il is not the Entente Powers
that are battling for civilization and for the
amelioration OF the lot of the oppressed ma
tions Of Europe, but Germany and her allies;
il cannot be wondered az that unthlnkins
Irishmen are looking to Germany for justice
liberty, independence.
However, the number Of people still blind
to the fact that Prussia is menace TO the
world. that her mission is the enslavng OF
other peoples, is happily decreasing with each
day. Lord Northcliffe, owner OF THE London
Times" has told the Paris Temps" that "the
great majority of the British people to-day
especially the women the people Of England
Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New
Zealand and South Afrca-iinally realize
fully that to preserve their own liberty and
that Of the world the teeth and claws Of the
Prussisn tiger must be torn OUT
For those who do not yet realize this fact
the time will soon come. This result should
certainly be attained by knowledge Of the
fate really preparing for Poland by Germany
One did not have TO wait long for new Ger
man attempts 20 disinherit the Poles not only
from land in the section Of Poland within the
political boundaries Of the German Empire
before the war, but also from the land the
Germans thanks TO the successes OF then
troops. have seized from Russia in their pres
ent war. On March I there was introduced
in the Prusssn Diet bill for the COLOMBIA
ton Of the Kingdom OF Poland "a part OF