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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-12
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L have recently listened to
the Victor Records of my
violin playing and have more
than ever been impressed by
the marvellous faithfulness
with which they reproduce,
or rather recreate the minutest
details of phrasing and every
shade of tone-color, In short,
the personality of the player.
Truly, Victor Records are
the last word of mechanical
reproduction and quite justly
does the civilized world all
over the globe today look
upon them as an inexhaustible
source of pleasure and educa-
ton"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-12
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"The improvement in Victor
recording during the past
years has been so great that a
singer is compelled to give
the matter of making Victor
Records the most serious and
conscientious consideration"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-12

"The Victor today is the
most relentless but the most
Just critic, as it reproduces
absolutely what the artist has
DONE"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-12

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Every true artist consist
emily endeavors to improve
tone production. The quality
of my voice in my Victor
Records is so perfectly repro
duced that when / study | use
them as a standard for COM
parison."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
Bring Out the Facts.

The proposal of Mr.. Dillon, State Com
missioner of Foods and Markets, that the
milk strike be settled by payment to the
producers of the price they demand, with
out recognition Of their union, is an impor-
tant concession. 1t must be understood
that this is made without authorization by
the Dairymen's League, of which this Off
cial is the accredited representative, so it
really represents nothing but mis- personal
backdown from the high-and-mighty attl-
tude which he has taken hitherto. The
mere fact that he has backed down, how
ever, promises we'll for settlement of the
trouble, for without the unusual use he has
made Of his official power it is greatly to
be questioned whether the strike would
ever have assumed the proportions it did.
With the issue of recognition of the
union out Of the problem, the only question
remaining would be one of profits That
has always been settled by the distrib-
uters with the individual farmers accord
ing to the quality of the milk delivered to
the pasteurization plants. So far as the
price to be paid by the public is concerned,
that has always been settled by the dis
tributers without possibility of appeal ny
Ire consumers. For that reason it is to be
hoped that while the entire controversy Is
nonding the investigation by Attorney
General Woodbury. may take shape. The
nublic's interests demand that there shall
be no milk trust" either one maintained
by the farmers who produce the milk or
the companies which distribute it in this
city.
Milk is virtually one of the necessities
Of life. It is only elementary fairness to
expect both the producers and sellers to be
able to obtain a fair profit on their work
and investment. At the same time the
rublic has a right to expect protection
against undue profits to either, made pos
sible by improper combination or DONNA
ton of the market. Official inquiry alone
can get at the facts, which are vital IN
forming a judgment preparatory to an
equitable settlement of the existing dead
lock
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
Moonshine About Zeppelins.
of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May say few words in reply 70 tne
letter in your issue of yesterday when is
headed 1.-THE Psychological Effect Of AT
Raids" and which is signed Kathryn H. Hill!
have just returned from England, where
| have spent the summer with brothers and
sisters and nephews and nieces who live IN
the suburbs of London, at Frinton on the east
coast and in North Staffordshire all OF when
districts have been visited by Zeppellns'
That there is some Apprehension among
nervous women and timid children Is unde-
niable, and the greatest military nation on
earth and its apologsts are welcome to what
ever pride they can take in that accomplish
ment; but that there is any wholesale panic.
that thousands have been killed or mutilated
or that thousands are camping out, not daring
to occupy their homes, is the greatest moon
shine that could be put in PRINT.
CHARLES w. HARRISON.
Trenton. n. j., Sept. 30, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
After Care in Paralysis Cases.
Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | wish 70 thank you for the amount
Of space you allowed the activities Of the New
York Committee on After Care OF lnfantile
Paralysis Cases in The Tribune of Friday
September %. have already heard from
anxious parents who had read the article
for advice as to after treatment OF
their children who had been afflicted during
the epidemic.
must compliment you on the accuracy and
clearness of the account and confess that
such cooperation as manifested by your pa
per is Of decided advantage to us in our
efforts to impress on parents Of afflicted chill
dren the necessity of vigilance in securing
the proper after care. Only by such vigl-
lance will perpetual crippling deformities be
averted in many cases.
At all times am ready to recommend your
PAPER as a truth telling and good producing
publication, worthy of its presence in the
hcmes of the best of US.
DONALD E. BAXTER, Director.
New York, Sept 81, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
Hanson Cabs Come Back.
OFrom the Manchester Guardian.l

(FT0n the MCncHcStcf CAuTullNJ
Some two or three years ago the London
Museum soemnly acquired satisfactory
specimen Of the hanson cab and presumably
placed it among their relics of superseded
civilization. Even at the time the acquisi-
ton seemed rather indecently in advance Of
the clock; and now the clock has been put
back so suddenly by the new petrol licenses
that from every large town comes the news
that the horse-drawn cab is about to chal-
lenge its petroldrven rival on more than
equal terms. 1t is the taxicab. it seems,
which will shortly be driven into the mu-
seums for the duration of the war-where
1t can sit and wiring hands or wall on its
hooter with habeas corpus freedom OF speech
and one or two other even more ancient but
recently uprooted landmarks. Meanwhile, II
the hanson cab is to appear in our streets
again no one will be very much the loser.
The hanson has a certain air about It, For
one thing. il is an eminently socable con-
veyance, UNDERLYING very emphatically in
deed the proverbial wisdom that two is COM
pany-for three constitutes an uncommon
crowd in a hanson True, those two are less
withdrawn from public gaze than IN the back
Of a taxi; but there is great deal TO be
said for seeing where one is going, with
nothing between ones gaze and the distance
save the ears of an active hack and the reins
descending, it might be from the sky, with
Jove himself guiding the passenger to ends
and adventures quite beyond the reach of
petrol There was a famous novel which
once dealt with the mystery of hanson cab,
and the ride which Henley and his lady took
through "the still, delicious night"-with
"the marked and cheerful tramp" Of the
horse breaking into its violated silence
has fixed for us, in the second of the Lon
don Voluntaries," as much of its romance as
any admirer could demand. In those days,
when hansoms were matter of course, prob
ably it needed poet to discover their
poetry; but there will be no excuse now for
any one who can climb into one without a
little apprecative thrill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04

These censors always suspect the moral
weakness Of the occupants Of the seat be-
side them at the theatre, of the reader
across the table under the reading lamp.
Fortunately their battle to impose their
narrow standards upon others is usually
losing one.
There is one phase of this matter, how
ever, which deserves a word-the effect
which an effort to put them under the ban
has upon so many authors. They forth
with begin to develop what is colloquially
known as "a case of swelled head"
They Immediately begin to see in it a
recognition of their resemblance to the
great ones who have been more or less
successfully submitted to the same treat
ment. to invite comparison with Flaubert,
Maupassant, Moore, Hardy; and if they
themselves refrain, their champions do 1t
for them. The haphazard nature of our
censorships invalidates all such fattering
differences. In fact, artistic quality is the
last thing they are able to perceive. Cult
ured public opinion invariably forces them
TO recede from their stand in the case of
art that is really worth while: they did not
dare to proceed further than threats
against "Tess" and GUIDE the Obscure"
AS for Mr.. Dresser, he was in a measure
justified in deploring the fact that his
name is not Dreiseryevsky, although he is
not a Dostoievsky, and never will be. And
as for Mr. Harr6, he might well ask why
his novel should be banshed from the Pub
lie Library when "Quo Vadis' can be found
on the shelves of all it's branches.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
OUT.OF.DATE CONVICTIONS
Failure of Mesrs. Roosevelt and Hughes
to Recognize Political Modernity.
To .be Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In recent issue Of your paper you
give prominence to Miss Ida TarbelPs de-
cision to support Mr.. Wilson and to her
declaration that she considers Colonel Roose-
Welt and his convictions out OF date.
1t is the purpose of the writer to prove
the correctness of her estimate OF that norrld
disturber Of Democratic peace, theodore
Roosevelt. He has been out Of date Tor
nearly four years, as the following counts
against him will show:
/ He has o. KID robust looking person
age. one Hughes, a heavy-handed sort Of man,
who seems as out of date as himself. This
Hughes handles facts in primitive manner
that causes shudders to run along Demo
cratic spines. The new attitude toward
fact is to consider it species of dynamite
Never approach it directly. Go around it.
.. Colonel Roosevelt has never appre-
ciated the up-to -dateness of certain single
track. narrow gauge mind, laughing rudely
as he watches the trains of thought rush
INC backward and forward and being side
tracked every little while.
8 When a thick, beautiful coating OF
rhetoric has been spread over our disagree
able national troubles, Mr.. Roosevelt, in his
cave-man way, begins digging around, ex-
posing what has been SO laborlously COW
cred shouting as this right?' us this
wrong?" Tut, tut, Mr.. Roosevelt, the new
word for wrong is expediency; the new word
for right is expediency; the modern dehni-
ton for both is the same.
A. Mr.. Roosevelt has crude, old-fash-
toned way of fighting his enemies land ours)
by dragging them into the open and calling
On us all to be judges, then rolling up MS
sleeves and wading in, to the great delight OF
coarse persons "a million or more), who
know what he is fighting for and why.
s. Mr.. Roosevelt has proved himself WIN
out the finer sensibilities. He never knows
when he is hit by an epigram.
STYLES change. Fashion travels in cir
Gle. That which is old becomes new. An
out of date man can be an up-to-date Presi-
dent Alasl Hughes is plain workman, un-
appreciative Of literary fowerlets. 1t Is
feared fine note writing will become lost
art.
Imagination revels IN the political house
cleaning to be done next March. When the
vacuum cleaner is emptied ! prophesy may
have Colonel Havey's luckD it will contain:
One misft Presidential hat, one pair gum
shoes (pussyfooting will be out of date), Zoo
(mis) statements in re United States navy
Author, Danels), one bag sugar, aosoluteiy
free; one empty barrel, one lot Mexican pot
terry (cracked), one ambassador lhoch! }, 1our
pens. MkS. CoNiMo.' H0i '
Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. %, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04

certain dangerous factory processes, at
various kinds of machines and the like. IL
required a recommendation at an extraor-
binary session of the Legislature 10 OBJ
tain law authorizing the Labor Depart
ment, instead of local boards of health, to
inspect mercantile establishments.
Not the least important of Governor
Hughes's accomplishments in this held OF
legislation was the passage of the SEMI
monthly pay law, which was vigorously op-
posed by the railroads. AS first passed 1t
did not contain appropriate penalties for
violation of its provisions. The Governor
saw to it that the next Legislature put
adequate teeth into the law. Yet another
statute significant of his enlightened atti-
tude toward the struggles of the workers
was a measure providing for the licensing
and regulation of employment agencies, to
protect the job seeker from exploitation
by the employment bureau shark.
"There are some who regard organized
labor as a source of strife and menace OF
difficulty" said Governor Hughes on one
occasion. 81 regard it as a fine opportu-
nifty for the amelioration Of the condition
of men working with no other purpose
than to make the most of themselves and
TO achieve something for their families.
Under wise leadership, with
statesmanike guidance, with sincere in
tention to promote the benefit of the com
munity and to secure honorable progress,
the mission of labor organizations is one
of the finest that any association of men
could guard"
Mr.. Hughes has been antagonistic to
labor organizations or bodies of laborers
only when they have failed to work "to
promote the benefit of the community and
to secure honorable progress" because they
have arbitrarily used power to further
selfish ends. His record shows that the
workers who guard their mission have al
ways found him loyal and valuable
friend.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
AN AMERICANS EXPERIENCES IN MEXICO
Abandoned by the State Department. He and His Fellow Counrymen
Manage to Shift Reasonably Well for
Themselves
Themselves.

productions Of the Secretary of States cable
telling the Americans in this country that
thew void be given no further protection.
cont think that it would be very good
campaign document.
"The government here holds all railroad
lines, large towns, cities and ports and few
man roaos. The rebels hold all the rest OF
the country, especially the mountains, and
the raids are rather increasing than decreas-
ing.
1--WE had a sharp raid here a week ago
last Monday. The rebels took practically
the whole of the town and held it for about
two hours and half. My house was in
rather prominent position and was sur
rounded by rebels, and the house was hit by
bullets IN some thirty-fve or forty places
az could see the fight very we'll from my
window, although I did not expose myself
more than was necessary, for good and OBJ
vious reasons About thirty men were killed
on both sides There was considerable loot
inc. The rebels came into town as in
fantry and returned to the hills as cavalry.
was net bothered in any way. | under
stand that there is some trouble further up
the rail- Dad tonight
"San Geronimo, Oaxaca, Mexico, Sept. IL
1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
Chaotic Literary Censorship.

Our never particularly discerning or
consistent literary censors have been quite
busy of late. There is the case of Theo-
dore Dresser, which, after the preliminary
steps taken by the Postoffice officials, seems
TO remain suspended in the air. linen
there is the case of Mr.. Harre's novel Of
classic Alexandria, which has been banned
by the authorities Of the New York Public
Library, at least so far as the book borrow
ing public of this city is concerned. And
some time ago there was the case OF the
Russian novelist who saw in neurosis an
instrument of evolution. He fell under the
ban of what is still currently, and most
conveniently, known as the Comstock So
ciety.
MANY censors and no standards-a con-
fusion of protectors of public morals who
have at different times endeavored to pro-
scribe Fielding, Paul Bourget, George
Moore. Thomas Hardy, 1bsen and "Parsii
fall" In nothing are we in America closer
kin TO England than in the haphazard
WAYS of our artistic censorships. Eng
land. to be sure, has its official censor, but
it has also its Noodles Library, which I'M
dertakes to decide what its subscribers
shall not read.
They order this matter better in France,
and on the Continent generally. There
the duty Of protecting youth against dan
gerous influences in literature and on the
stage is squarely put upon the right Shout
ders-those Of parents and guardians and
educators. We insist that authors and
artists and playwrights, publishers, editors
and theatrical managers shall perform
that duty for US. 1t simplifes our al
ready sufficiently difficult task Of educat-
ing a new generation whose individuality
has been made an object Of unreasoning
worship, but IL retards the development Of
our art, II keeps its Interpretation Of life
in the shadows.
Still, il is not only youth which we would
thus protect by proxy. There are many
among us who would regulate the tastes
and the interests Of our grown-up broth
ers and sisters as well, for their own good.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
Where Americans Are Unprotected.
or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: President Eliot in his paper The
Achievements OF the Democratic Party, IN
the October Atlantic" states:
ITO President Wilson's Administration the
country owes its thorough committal to two
polcies which nearly concern its righteous
ness and its dignity. The first of these poll
cies is-No war with Mexico. The second IS
No intervention by force of arms to pro,
tect on foreign soil American commercial
and manufacturing adventurers who OF tneir
own free will have invested their money or
risked their lives in foreign parts under allen
Jurisdictions
ask careful reading of the second policy.
In common with many other Democrats, do
not approve that policy, but, however that
NAV be. il raises this interesting question:
Would not that policy, in its logical appllca-
ton. govern the case of Americans who OF
their own free will risked their lives upon
a foreign ship under alien jurisdiction
bound for seaport of one of the belligerent
nations and bearing munitions Of war?
CHARLES A. BRODEK.
New York. Sept. 80, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
Woman on the Stump.

The trainload of women who are rolling
westward to address the voters of the
land are interesting as pioneers of new
stunt. There is nothing epoch making
about their aim, however. They are SIM
ply doing on the stump what any number
of women are finding it interesting to do
wherever talk is talked.
1t seems almost strange already that
women ever existed who shut their eyes
and ears to politics. However many years
it may take to complete the giving Of the
vote to American women, the essence of the
change is already upon us. Old-fashioned
buds are still grown upon the tree. But
they are dull blooms beside the later type.
Men who began by dreading the advent of
women with brains are the first TO be bored
when face to face with their old ideal. In
sensibly we are coming to expect women's
minds and tongues to contribute their
share to every kind of debate. The woman
who doesn't think is fast finding herself
alone against the wall.
At least that is the way the current
runs. And such a matter-of-fact proceed
ing as the women's tour for Hughes is
tiny log showing how fast the stream flows.
Twenty-Five years from now we shall prob
ably be wondering why society ever was
Ounce enough to do what it did-to shut
out from its most important concerns one
whole half of the human race and that the
most interesting. Naturally, politics has
been dull. What exclusively masculine
affair is not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
Time for Movies to Improve.
Prom the Los Angeles TimesD

From the Los Angeles Itmes.)
Since the first beginning of movies there
has been a wonderful advance in the me-
ohanical part; great strides have been made
in the purely pictorial features; but the lit
erature Of the movies has not advanced as 1t
should, The plays are not rs good as they
ought to be. The movies are still vamping
around with vampires and crooking with the
crooks.
There was time, several years ago, when
novelists and playwrights had a few such
spasms. They told stories about dope fends
and crooked detectives and tough women
blackmailers and other unlovely characters.
But they soon gave up these subjects.
In real life we do not care for dives and
we do not care for the companonship of
those who inhabit dives. If the literary por-
trayal is faithful representation of the
real thing then the crook story is quite as
unpleasant as the crook II it is not true to
life then it has no reason at all for being.
What applies TO the printed page applies
with greater force to the screen. There Is
really nothing interesting about the eternal
triangle" about tough detectives or in
famous burglars.
The chief reason why these characters
continue to inhabt and aifiict the screen is
the uneasy suspicion of the movie magnates
that they "bring people TO the box Office"
Of course, the exact opposite is the case.
The financial problem Of the movies is to
bring into the film house that part Of the
public which does not now attend such per-
formances. They will always be able to hold
the devoted "movie fan" This new traffic
is not to be induced by crude plays about
thu 0utter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
A Correction.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May I call your attention to an error
in statement of New York University quot
ed by you in The Tribune of September 25, in
en- article headed college Aids Jersey
Women? The statement reads, in part:
an New Jersey women have been stopped at
the teaching stage. The only institutions
which girls graduating from high schools
could enter were the normal schools and
training schools"
New Jersey Law School has admitted
women to all its courses since its organiza-
ton, and we now have a considerable number
Of women graduates successfully practising
at the New Jersey bar. Twelve women have
registered so far this year.
RICHARD d. CURRIER.
Newark, N. j. Sept. 26, 1916.