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She Promises THAT the divers aud
Rogers Shall Not Die Out.

To THE EDITOR az THE SUS- Nir: N'.'
facetious editorial article ~ "rr" "
ward Wulup,ts' has been read ..
West. We are immediate descent
of WolcOtts who pioneered from N''
England 10 the Western Iicscrv" w.
are proud tSat they helped Ia s"tt'" p '
country. TO establish fine fa.w-
found great cities there. We are
20 he the sons and daughters ~
sons and daughters, who p.o-eorcd =. %
st,ll further West ani there r''l "
the h%ardsh.ps Of frontier He In r e.
that more farms should hr cagva! $50
and more cities established.
Maybe II Is bad ,ast" 80 \" '.'. "
York for a birthplace, Eat 90
our ancestors well, and We tt =
good citizens and good AnGlyaH~. a.
thus worthy Of IA. Governors JJ.-''
soldiers. lawyers of our family '''"
| worthy past, THE SvN should .''''
thai such an ambition Is at least N
mcndable.
Nor shall We allow the licurys o- +"
divers or the Rogers 10 Vi" ".'
there II an occasional tNrl, pu' 20 '.'
to some ohiurltc daughtcr.iI-!aw Mo
has not fully learned to app'Cr.t'" -
good fortune In marrying into tie " E
| colt family. MARY WoIrorr plEllAA
MARION. Ia. August Ii.
The sun., 1916-08-17
MR.. HUGHES'S CAMPAIGN.
An .Admirer Of the President In.
bOsOms Him self About II.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS-Sir: Since
the ~nominatiop Of MIR. Hughes for
President your editorial articles nave
grown more narrow and higoted every
day. You continually praise Mr.. Hughes.
and tell us what he will do " he should
be elected hut on what ground can
you assure the voter that he VIII do as
well, or better. than the President?
In all Of Mr.. ilugNes's speeches he
not only fnds fault with the doings Of
President Wilson bu, he has failed to
let the people know what he himself
would havs done. or will do. were he
President. No one hut a narrow minded
partisan. sue as Mr.. Hughes has shown
himself to be. could make such empty
u]tterances. lie finds fault with tn"
President for placing Democrats In Of
fee instead of Republicans. but viii Mr..
Hughes promise to do differently
A. Governor OF New York Mr.. Hughes
was an utter failure. 80 from what
point OF view do you figure that he Will
make such a wonderful President He
says that the Administration has been
one ~ words. but President Wilson has
shown time and again what can ana
has been accomplished with words, Peo-
pie have never known such splendid di-
plomacy since the time Of Thomas Jeffer-
son as that shown 10y Mr.. Wilson. we
are still at peace with all the world. and
il IL all due TO the lcvelaradcdness ~
Mr.. Wilson and his tahine' No amount
OF clamor and empty prattle can stam-
pede him. Mr.. Hughes has no issue
whatever. and ! guess he knows il; 80
he starts out to make il "A campaign of
f%aultind!ng. lie IL like a spoiled child,
It Is a continual whine. and that IS all
there IL TO II.
II President Wilson and his Admins
tration have been 80 awfully inefficient
as MIR. Hughes would have W believe
what will Mr.. hughes do II elected &c
make his administration more efficient
Mr.. Hughes says that deeds. and not
words. are wanted. but President viii
son has performed many great decds
! Mr.. Hughes has got to show me, for
am from Brooklyn. j, l.. kETcHvM.
August ID.
The sun., 1916-08-17
WHY A COCKTAIL?
Or. Rather. Why should DR.. Slegert
BE Blamed for II?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. DIR.
Siegert had nothing TO do with the in
vention Of the cocktail. He was my
fathers family physician and I knew his
sons well. They were three In number {;
Carlos Damaso, Alfredo Cornelio and
Luis benjamin del Carmen. of whom
Alfredo OF Trinidad Is the sole survivor.
The doctor arrived at Angostura In
1890 with Baron O Eben. Graf Won
Luckner and Baron Won Lttzow. who
all enlisted under General Simon Boil
var, the liberator OF Venezuela.
In the campaign Of the allied nations
against Napoleon ]. the doctor served
as army surgeon with the Third Magde-
burg Chasseur Detachment Of the Second
East Prussian Infantry. and at Angos-
tura on the Orlnoco he was ~Surgeon-Gen-
eral OF the military hospital Of Guayana.
The doctor practised medicine in An
gostura and lived there until his death
in 1870. 1t Is true he also made a Bit
tiers. but 1t was a medicine and not a
cocktail. As for cocktails. ! don't think
he ever was In a barroom In his life,
although OF course this does not mean
that he eschewed liquor. Few people
did in the good old days. A. L.
NEW York, August l6.
The sun., 1916-08-17
Overlooked BY the Mutual Welfare
League.

IN n statement on the mental con-
dition OF n man convicted Of murder
and now locked up in II death cell Mt
Sing Sing. Dr. AMOs'O. Squire, head
physician Of the prison, recorded this
incident as Indicative Of the dOcility
Of his patient:
TO give you an illustration: Yesterday
was an awful day for him. and asked
him II there was anything extra, some
delicacy. he would like to eat. ! said:
"CHARIIE. I'll send you in some
chicken and have the people make an
extra good supper for you 50 l ordered
the meal, and when I went to see him
last night at 5 o'clock found that he
had not had any dinner at all they had
forgotten to give It to him.
'Hc was then getting his supper. bu:
he made no complaint.
Usually condemned men insist on
their full rights In like circumstances
and II anything is overlooked are sure
to remind the keeper.
Cnquestlonably, the subject Of this
neglect displayed an engaging good
temper when they" forgot to feed
him. 1t does more credit to the quail
ity Of his endurance than to his con
ceptiOn OF his rights. But In an
institution conducted In accordance
with the high humanitarian princi
pies that rule In Sing Sing, where
concerts. vaudeville shows. motor
picture exhibits and convict court.
relieve the mOnotOny Of existence. IL
It customary to forget the dinner hOul
Of men condemned to death? II 1t Is
does the custom not offer an oppOr
tunity for the Mutual Welfare League
to do something that, while 1t nigh
not attract public notice, would meas
urably increase the comfort Of thos'
whose state mt best Is pitiable?
The sun., 1916-08-17
The Bremen.

Come. Neptune. yield your trident up;
Mermaidens. twist your tails awry;
Now Jonah whale must pass the cup:
Go shear the locks OF lorelei.
Sea serpents. hide your humbled heads:
We %tritons. blow your horns In vain,
A newer glory overspreads-
The Mrs. Harris Of the main!
One day she locked at Marbiehead.
Where Ireson was wont to ride.
Next. like the dying buchanan, fed,
bridgeport her periscope espicd,
Though safely housed IN Baltimore.
She lays a course for Sandy Hook,
But fails and falls to oceans floor.
Where eyeless fishes try to look.
Yet In the far Sargasso Sea,
when morning breaks amid the weed.
The sporting dolphins on her lee
See her force throuKh at falling speed
From Fundy to the Lesser Keys.
Each port In turn has sought 70 sisir
The Mrs. Harris Of I seas.
The thing that yet IL but = name.
2Auasos Aoaals.
The sun., 1916-08-17
The Steel Ring Around Ger msny's
Last Colony.

The ring around German East
Africa has been gradually contracting
until nov there Is but little Of this
colony, the largest of Germany's over
sea possessions and the last that re-
mains to her, which Is not held by the
Allies.
The attack has been made from all
sides. The Portuguese. who nowhere
else were In striking distance of Ger
many. advanced from their colony on
the south across the ROvuma River,
The B~elgians, In their own land
pushed back to a small spit OF sand,
crossed from their Congo colony at
two points north Of Lake flanagan
! ylka. British war vessels patr0lled
the coast, aud n British expedition
entered the country from the north
nenr the foot Of Mount Kilimnnjaro
The German colony. like the Father
land, was held In IL ring Of steel.
The main objective Of all the ex
petitions has been the central railway
which the Germans had built from ths
The sun., 1916-08-17
DLSSEC7ZNC THE NEW YORK DEMO.
CRATIC ENDORSEMENT OF WILSON,.
Results Of . Thoughtful Survey Of the Words Of High Praise Written u
the Saratoga Gathering.

should read abundant prosperity amo,,
certain classes of the population I,
everywhere manifest as the dircc, rcsu,.
Of the war In Europe. /, exists in
spite Of. not through. the Wi!soran
legislation"
"He has repaired the neglect ~ a Ion,
period OF nearly continuous Republic,
ascendency by initiating tho. policy O.
preparedness for national dcfcu,,."
! had always supposed the Hon
Oscar Underwood OF Alabama. ina
father and u%nrelcnting champion II tn.
one battleship per annum scheme. ia
be a Democrat. II appears that vas
mistaken. According To the New Yo,,
Democracy. he is "A Republican
Live and learn! I had always sun.
posed that the decline Of our navy was
caused by the Democratic minority IN
Congress aided by the little army and
little navy men of the Republican jartv
II seems again that ! was mistaken. and
that II was the Republican party. moi.
outstanding the heroic efforts Of ~.
Democracy. who persistently. led hy tia,
eminent Republican Oscar Underwood
blocked "A larger army and navy.
As to the assertion that President vii.
son initiated the policy OF preparedness
this. for pure. cool gall trausccuds any.
thing that ! have ever heard.
Indeed II was mot then q Demo.
cratic. but a Republican PRESIDED who,
when Congressman Gardner sounded tie
alarm and called the nations atten.
tioA to the nations peril. said
YES. ! have been hearing - MS
ever since ! VAS six years old TIas
Is an academic question t. hc discussed
ACCIDENTALLY. This preparedness bus.
ness Is a species OF hystcria which ,he
people will forget in saner moments l.
was IA Republican President who fought
preparedness at every step?
II was a Republican Presidcu, who
backed the Infamous Hay bill. and after
feebly denying that he had been back
OF 1t conferred "A sinecurc upon It's an.
thor, who's name will live in American
history. but not quite perhaps AS liz
would wish to have II live were he 20
have a say In the matter.
Finally W. are told that "the I'm ?.
lean people will retain as president ",
man whose America first * not b..
promise but his Performance
When" Where? How? Not IN IN,
Mexican problem. when he ordered Amc
leans out Of the country because h.
could not protect them, Not when 3,
permitted his fellow citizens 20 b.
massacred by his friends Carriu2, a.,
villa. Not when he lifted the I'm ~,
on arms in Mexico though he was 'ol.
that it meant the killing of .\m"ri az
Certainly not in the l.usitirii 't>s
which has not We: been d~sdVowet ot r.
the other marine murder. IN al hes
cases IL has been my political ftir
and welfare first. then A'u.rlrt' Ar-,
Mr.. Mack. and tell us when Amer,
first has been "A "p,rfugmaI,o" wjt
Woodrow Wilson.
Sfi.As STArK wr,rVrr
The sun., 1916-08-17
THE GULF STREAMS ALIBI.
should the Earth's Magnetic Current
BE. Blamed for Our Weather?

To THE EDITOR OF The SrN-Sir: MAY
not the abnormal weather we have had
for the last few months he attributable
10 the recession OF the earth's magnets
current which was supposed to begin
about the year 1916 instead OF a change
in the Gulf stream?
As IL quite well known. the magnetic
took on its westward draft for
this locality about ,li0 years ago. reach
ing It's most westward limit this year
when 1t begins its eastward draft, OF
recession, which will continue for about
40 years. making 40 a for cacl
direction Of its oscillatory sway,
This momentous change taking place
approximately this year may have eff
fects little thought OF which our scien'
lists should ponder and investigate,
Il. V. f..
WEST HURLEY, August l6.
The sun., 1916-08-17
WAR IN ESPERANTO.
How the Scourse Of Man Appears In
the Universal Tongue.

To THE EDITOR or THB SuN-Sir: ]
was very much interested in the review
Of Andreief's 1.-THE Red Laugh" This
In an Esperanto translation published
In. Paris in 1906. and which a hardly
be as we'll done into English.
This work Of Andreief's Is published
In the same volume with a sketch OF
about 1900 words translated into Es-
peranto from the French OF Octave Mir
beau. and entitled '"rhey Were Fren-
sled" 1t Is almost equal In style to the
sketch from Andreief and Is very APP
propriately published with It In my
1905 edition. The preface to the volume
Ia so remarkable and has such an I'm
portant bearing on some present con-
ditions In Europe that I send you here
with a translation, believing that you
will he very glad to publish It in the
Interest Of many Of u readers who
have not the advantage Of knowing Es-
peranto nor its wonderful work in Eu-
rope in educating the peoples there to-
ward the international mind that will be
needed at the close Of this war.
My English translation cannot equal
the vigor and clearness Of the Esper.
anto version. but even as here given. ]
think 1t will be Of interest. The time
Is that Of the Russo-Japanese war:
Into the sequence u the abomina.
| tons already known Of the war the Fai
Eastern battles bring a new element OF
terror: frenzy. Many kilograms during
this long war have spoken Of officers
and soldiers whose reason could not en-.
The sun., 1916-08-17
Josephus Daniels Caught In On
lmpOstuPe.

Secretary DANIELS has the effrOn.
terry, amazing even In him, to claim
for the Wilson Administration the
lions share Of the credit for the
great naval building programme pro-
posed by the Senate and on Tuesday
accepted by the House of Representa-
tives. which had previously voted to
lay down five battle cruisers In 1917
and had refused to include battle
ships. The bill that will 60 to the
President. after the adjustment Of
minor differences In conference, au-
thOrizes four battleships and four
battle cruisers mt Once-that Is to say,
contracts will be made for them this
year and the keels will be laid In
1017-and a continuing programme
of ten ~battleships and six battle crui.
sers In three years. The last dread
nOught of the sixteen should be com
pleted in or before 1923. eight of them
IN three years.
An - Sutilh'hu StutVihtVht tNSuCu uy
the Hon. JosEPHus DANIELS after the
c%Onsenting vote by the House, thirty,
Ave Democrats holding out against
the Senate programme, he boosted
that the amended bill carried tn,
largest appropriation, 1915. ,OOU
that had ever been written into #,
naval bill In any country estimated
that $855.2S0 800 would be voted To-
the navy under the Wilson Admins
tratiOn as compared with mucl
smaller sums provided during tn,
Mckinley, Roosevelt and Taft Ad
ministrations In the years before tn,
great war In Europe; and cOmpla
Gently said that "the first recommen
dattPn eve made by II Chief Execu
tive for u continuing programme 70
The sun., 1916-08-17

naval construction was made by Pres
ident WILSON In his message to Con.
gress last December" Also MI. DAN
rELs exulted over 1.-THE eight capital
ships to be contracted for this year"
and the eight to be contracted fos
during the next two years." pointing
out that the programme adopted
"would alone make n much more pow.
erful fighting navy than the country
had when the feet went round the
world" Very true, but It was not the
programme Of JosEPHUs DANIELS and
WOODROW WILSON.
In December. 1914. more than four
months after the great war began on
the Continent Of Europe, Secretary
DANIELS, after sounding the Presi.
dent, dlsregarded the urgent recon-
mendations Of the General Board Of
the Navy, and submitted to Congress
the following absurdly inadequate
building programme for 1915, the sec.
ond year Of the war: two dread.
noughts, six %destroyers, eight sub.
marines or more, one to be Of e a
| going and seven or more Of coast
defence type, n gunboat, n oiler.
A storm Of protest rose mt once, In
the navy and throughout the cour..
try (; and 1t gathered volume and fury
until WOODROW WILSON and JOsEPHUs
DANIELS were driven into q policy Of
naval preparedness. In his report Of
December 1, 1915. Secretary DANIKL.s
presented n continuous five year pro-
gramme calling for two battlcships
and two battle cruisers In 1917, two
b~attleships In 1918, two b~attleships
| and one battle cruiser In 1919, two
~battleships and two battle cruisers IN
1920. and two b~attleships and n bat
tie cruiser In 1921. Congress, the
initiative and impulse coming from
the Senate. and mainly from the Re
! publicans. has now authorized nll
these ships. eight to be laid down
next year and oil in three years.
But JosEPHus DANIELS fails to
make a distinction between the two
programmes and would have the
country believe that 1t will " to
! WOODROW WILSON a debt Of gratitude
for the greater navy that should he
expressed In votes on election day.
Cnhappily. however, for the preten'
slOns Of JosEPHus and the political
fortunes Of his chief, Mr.. KiTCHIN,
the Democratic leader In the House,
has exposed both Of them. In clos
Ing the debate he testified that the
Administration, the Secretary Of the
Navy, and the chairman Of the Naval
Affairs Committee. had approved Of
his course when he attacked the Re
publican building programme rs ex
cessive, and later deserted him and
asked him to eat his words. Tns
truth Is that the Administration wa.
satisfied with the five battle cruiser
programme for one year which tn,
Democrats put into their bill. Doe.
not Representative PAGE declare thu
the Secretary said 1t was ms larg'
as the Administration would GO?
Surely there was never Il greater
huinbug than JOsEPHUs DANIELS, ant
he has only one rival.
The sun., 1916-08-17
Psychology OF . Real Estate Deal,

Consideration Of the treaty through
which we would acquire 1t. Thomas,
Santa Cruz and st. John Is to be has
tened ut Washington. The Danes are
more deliberate. They may have a
pleblscite before final ratification. II
that comes.
Rush the agreement through the
Senate, by all means. Denmark may
70 slowly. but why should we? This
IL one Of those transactions In which
the buyer Is the one who Is nadly Inn
patient, while the seller Is a leisurely
person who struggles with his con.
science and finally has to stitie 1t to
put the deal through. He is perpetu.
ally warned by the still, small voice
that he may get n better price Il
Whereas the buyer hurries In order
20 be rid Of the dlsquieting conviction
that he Is paying about i've times as
much rs he ought.
The sun., 1916-08-17
ROADLESS PANAMA..
No Hope Of Its Development Untll
Highways Arc Bait.


To THE EDITOR or THE suN-sir: Two
visitors to Panama from far distant
! lands. one from Ceyion. the other from
the Belgian Congo. were astonished to
find that there were no roads In an
anna. whereas in the countries from
which they came n may travel hum
dreds of miles by automobile. In fact
there Is not a single good highway In
the whole 10000 square miles OF the
lsthmian republic. I do not mean eplen-
did macada mxed roads. such as are be-
coming the standard In all civilised lands.
but good wagon roads. Only those who
have gone of the Canal Zone into the
republic know how bad the roads are.
The neglect Of the province Of Pan
m by the Government, Of Bogota for
centuries vas notorious. But the pecu-
liar geography Of the 1sthmus accounts
In part for the lack of wagon Dads.
With Its long shore line. indented with
bays and river mouths and nearly all
settlements on or neal the sea. the peo-
pie had the water as q e Of COM
i~hunication. while the extremely slow in
crease OF the population rendered going
back further unnecessary.
Now hat the republic n Its re-
sources have been brought to Internal
tional attention as q result Of the build
,n, =, ~. 49,, ~. .va.,,o, n, N. A..
.,,ioor,or, =, ,h. ,,tsr,or ha. becor.
nj, urc.n, ,.,,. rh,. -d.v.ionmert 4.
,r.a,,v h.m,.roa ~, IN. ,ock n, roaas
rrh. hioh ,.nd. "a, ,ho ,n,.r,or are muc,,
uor. h.o,,.,,,,. ...v 90. ,,ch In Mo-.
,,o,. harawooa ,i,,h.-. ,n.ro aro min.
cr.I, IN somc MACE. and tho soi, 4. Good
~, ,~ro,,c., aor,cyi,,re a,mos, overv-
:, horo Tho -,rar,nor,a,,or ouo.,ior
INNS, hs mo, hsfo,o much deveionmspt
win ,.to n,acc SCARCELY a ueek ma sses
,.,,,n,,, ,a,. =, .h,o.,r.oL c,,,, ,o,.
~, iifo ana c.roo ~ some launch or
schoop.r ho,na Sor coas,wise morris. n
,a, .o, "a n. .,ch a commor occ,r.
r,pcs NJ. % c.u.e business man in pan.
ANA a,d colon IN r.s,.e 20 emhar L unop
on,orpr,.e. ,nyo,vipv On. u.. ~ ,h...
launches and scbooner,. They are lef,
IN .,.,a.,se.,. mr. IN Oh. .~.,,,.r. In ,be
coa., town. vho are Obliged IN denend
! ,pop them
I, q. ute,v that corpora,,on could
obtain land Grant. On a liberal has,s as
hopus for tho cor.truc,,or NJ vood road.
>,os, 10 ,h. nr;vate can,,a, In panama
has cone into bulIainss in the ,ermina,
,.,ies of the canal. where the ,nves,men,
las hoo, highly reu,pera,Ive owing :,
tho demand for housing a large mart n,
The sun., 1916-08-17
POLICE EXAMINATIONS
Should Suspects be COntided 10 thu
District Attorneys ONCE!

your editorial article in regard TO the
third degree ! beg to differ witt you
when you say THAT the police II de-
t~ectivcs should not examine persons ac-
cused OF crime is impract!cable and I'M
desirable"
VIII you please explain why the office
or the District Attorney. supporting AZ
1t does Il stan OF able lawyers. should
not be invested with the sole authority
to get confessions from persons accused
of crimes and leaving the detention and
arrest solely with the police?
ADRIAN B~ovIEBAcH.
New YORK, August 16.
The sun., 1916-08-17

Returning from the West, I have Just
come across a brief notice stating that
the Democratic State organization OF
New York went on record In favor Of
a resolution indorsing President Wilson
and his administration.
The resolution was introduced by
Norman i. Mack. Democratic national
committeeman. and reads as follows:
We indorse the administration OF Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson. lie has met and
solved problems the most severe which
have confronted the country since the
civil war. With wise and patient states
manship he has kept the country at peace
when the world IL at war. Abundan,
thrift and prosperity throughout the land
have crowned his efforts. lie has repaired
the neglect Of a long period of nearly
continuous Republican ascendency by
Initiating the policy OF preparedness fol
national defence. To him IL due the Fed.
erai Reserve act. &C.
This precious Endorsement concludes
THE American people will retain as
President the mai whose America first
Is not his promise. but his performance
Let us review this document.
He has met and solved problems tho
most severe which tthc gentleman
meant TO use the word "that") have
confronted the country since the civil
war; What problems. gentlemen oi
the Democracy? The tariff: why. tao
months before the European war broke
| nut apiganfnrip in th. I..sf had
practically come to a standstiil. Hun
dreds Of thousands of railroad ears lay
idle all over the country. We were
threatened with a state of affairs more
serious than anything since 1907.
Surely the Democracy doesn't CLAIM
that President Wilson solved the tarin
problem. II so. wherefore all this tall
about tariff revision? No. this problem
he did not solve. Does the Democrac,
Of New York refer by any nance tc
the Mexican problem? Why. how DARE
they say that he has kept us out %
war? Was not the Vera Cruz inciden
AN act OF war? Was not the Carriza
incident war? The army OF young mel
rushed away from their families an,
their business TO the border Is the hes
proof OF the fashion In which tn,
President has solved the Mex!can prob
lem. Poor. bleeding. dls,raught Mex
leo. the plaything OF an opportunist.
Yes. this Administration did pass tn
Federal Reserve act. Probably a yer.
wise one. Enthusiastically 1t omi;te'
to give credit to its author. hat grea
Republican. Senator Aldrich.
The Endorsement proceeds: 'Abundan
thrift and prosperity throughout tn
land have crowned his efforts"
To begin with, thrift is "A quality an,
not a condition. While legislation ma
beget prosperity. thrift is general
innate. II may be cultivated in a pea
pie. but not legislaied into them. How
ever. this is Democracy's English, So d
not let us be too particular. This claus