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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15
In Accord.
D 49, FdItor of IA Tribune.

10 the fQltOT OF Inc lIlDuuts
Sir: Please allow me to express my salts
faction in reading your editorial of the 10th
inst. entitled Magyar Anger" and par
tcularly with respect to its closing para
graph as follows:
German necessity has been above the
law for two years, but the law and not Ger
man necessity is prevailing. What is now
happening is worth all the waiting that we
have had and it is only a first faint promise
Of what is to come. Even our own murdered
women and children Of the Lusitanla will
not sleep forever unavenged, although their
fellow countrymen may be the only con
siderable fraction of civilized mankind
whose fears restrain them from participating
in the necessary work of bringing justice to
Germany"
look each day for your leading editorial
Immediately after reading the headlines on
the first page 1t is little unusual for one
H. seek out a column and half article, such
as it frequently is, and take it to mean
that The Tribune is getting back TO the old
DAYS Of Horace Greeley. when the most I'M
portant thing about the paper was his edi-
torial You voice from day to day exactly
nv feeling in regard 10 public matters.
CHARLES f. MANIERRE.
New York. Sept. IL, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15
Then and Now.

From The Boston IrarC'fr1
Although the cruiser Boston, now at Port
land, Ore, il to be sold for junk, there will
be no loud protest from this city over her
demolition and destruction.
Boston has no direct concern in her fate
As a unit Ct the famous white squadron,
when our later navy was in the making, she
was a thing Of grace and beauty, but no
modern war vessel is a JOY forever, and the
leader Of to-day is the derelict Of tomorrow.
They are still using the Texas, half sub
merged in Chesapeake Bay, for target and
other ships, still more important in naval
history than the Boston. have gone and are
going into the junk heap and oblivion with
out protest
Meanwhile. we have Old Ironsdes, sur
vival Of the era when the American navy was
used to protect the rights OF this country
against all attacks upon them. In that re-
spect, words have taken the place Of war
ships, without beneficial result, and 1t is
well TO preserve carefully the Constitution
as n glorious memento OF red-blooded, up
standing Americanism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15
Disillusioned Guardsmen.

tGirdrd. ~ The Philadelphia LEDGER
This bootless journey to the Rio Grande
will disrupt for good and all the State
Militia throughout the country. Such is the
opinion of ex-Mayor John Weaver.
"But our Pennsylvania Guardsmen." said
the man who once stood the Philadelphia
Republican organization on its head, have
behaved splendidly. Those boys are becom-
ing real soldiers"
The ex-Mayor visited the camp in Texas
for three weeks. His own son is among the
volunteers who went to the border to do our
country's fighting if any need be done. Mr..
Weaver told me yesterday that he believed
90 per cent Of the Guardsmen would resign
as soon as they got home.
Better pay and better cooks to prepare
food were two necessities in his opinion, to
keep a volunteer army intact Sandstorms
dust and rattlesnskes are the chief physical
drawbacks on the Mexican border One
young volunteer said to our former Mayor in
the midst Of binding dust:
81 thought We were to fight Mexicans, not
70 eat Texas"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15
New York's Community Chorus.

The American who is not professional
musician, or at least an amateur with
deep love for the art, does not take readily
to choral singing. Creditable choruses-
some of them of genuine excellence
abound, it is true. But the rather lament
able effect when an impromptu attempt
is made to sing "The Star Spanged Ban
ner" or America" at public gathering,
and the so-called congregational singing
in churches, even of the most familiar
hymns, show how little the work of the
trained bands of musicians really repre-
sents the ability or disposition of the
people at large to express themselves in
group singing.
For Mr.. Barnhart and his Community
Chorus, therefore, to have stirred a big
gathering in Central Park to a point
where the people actually sang songs be
cause they wanted to-even such widely
known favorites as "Old Black Joe" and
"My Old Kentucky Home'-is a distinct
achievement. To be sure, the circum-
stances surrounding the experiment were
such as should have produced q mingllng
of souls in song if ever such "A mingling
were possible. Nature contributed a mar
velous moonlight night, enhancing the
parks beauty and softening the defects
for which vandal man is responsible. The
many colored lights. the lanterns, the
singing of the Community Chorus, gave a
sense as of a festival occasion.
If it were physically possible to sing,
most persons would have wanted to do it
on such a night. And to New York S
credit be it recorded, thousands on thou
sands of those who were present forgot
the self-consciousness, the conservatism,
the fear of ridicule, or whatever inhibi-
ton ordinarily prevents them from lifting
up their voices, and joined together in a
burst of song which must have uplfted
and inspired each individual component
part of the vast chorus.
1t is to be hoped that this will not prove
to have been a single, sporadic outburst
of enthusiasm, to be taken a little shame
facedly. This great city is inclined to
fight shy of so-called community activi-
ties. Yet gradually that is being over
come in community centres, community
games, neighborhood pageants and the
like. Perhaps the future may even see
the New Yorker singing as freely and
spontaneously at public gatherings as the
German or the Italian now does.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15

thew will release several hundred thou
sand of their best troops. BY transport
ing these to the East the Germans, tenn
porarilv at least, will overcome the con
someone's Of the Runranian entrance and
the earlier disasters of Austria in Gallcia.
They may be able to push the Russians out
Of Bukovina and Gaicia, Rumania out OF
PENNSYLVANIA, and they will certainly be
able to relieve Bulgaria from any lmme'
date peril of invasion from the north or
the south.
But in doing this Germany would have
to surrender all the real hold she has upon
France. she would have to evacuate all
but a thin silver of French territory
she might have to evacuate most of Bel
gium. and she would have nothing to bar
gain with. so far as France and Britain
are concerned, if her success in the East,
assuming she met with successes, did not
nut Russia out of the war.
II is an exaggeratiOn to say, as is beng
said now, that the position of Germany Is
desperate. 1t is frankly bad, and 1t has
been getting worse for many months, ever
since Verdun eliminated half million.
first line troops. Complete German defeat
in the future cannot be avoided unless
the Germans are able, as Frederick the
Great was able, to break up the alliance
which was on the point of destroying NM
But Germany can keep on for many
months yet, possibly for two years, II
her economic situation is as measurably
sound as her military. Germany cannot
by keeping on hope to win on the oattie-
field. This phase of the war has resolved
itself into slow but steady grinding up
of German manhood by the vastly more
numerous Russian, French and British
troops.
If Germany shortens her lines in the
West she may be able to conduct one more
great drive upon Russia. This drive may
put Russia out Of the war, 1t will reheVe
Gernrany's allies for the time being; but
this is the last chance, and it leaves the
French and the British in the West free
to pile UP guns and munitions for new
drive in the spring made this time not IN
Picardy, but in Lorraine and on the edge
of German territory, for it must be re
membered that the moment that French
territory is free the French will turn
their attention to Alsace-Lorraine.
We shall probably get little real light
in the immediate future as to the decisions
of the conference in Berlin. We NAV
or may not see early changes in the battle
fronts, but there is no mistaking the fact
that at a grave hour Germany and her
allies are taking account of stock. They
all know now that the war is lost, in the
larger sense; actually the conference is
TO decide how the defeat can be restricted.
1t can only be restricted if the Allies, now
that victory is in sight, surrender cohe-
sion and mutual trust hitherto not sur
rendered in the darkest hours of the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15
"Rous;ng Our Antagonism."

To the Editor OF The tribune.
Sir: There we're hundred and-odd Amer
lean men, women and children murdered by
command of the German government in the
Lusitania. There has been absolutely no
apology, disavowal or reparation for this act.
There was a German Ambassador who ad-
vertised a warning of this premedtated MUIR
der in American newspapers, which was more
than a fragrant breach of diplomatic ETH
quette; it was an insult to the American peo-
pie. We had members Of the German km-
bassy, whose status in this country Is one
of courtesy. engaged unquestionably at the
instance Of their government in plots on
American soil against legitimate American
trade and against the law and order Of the
land. of all Of which the Administration had
complete and specific evidence. Did the
President seek retaliatory powers from Con-
gre5s against these hostile acts?
Lately the Allies placed on blacklist Ger
man firms in America controlled by Germans
whose policy and whose business plainly are
to assist the Allies enemies, and the Pres-
dent rushes to Congress and obtains retala-
tory powers against this perfectly legitimate
measure of self-protection. Will any Of
President Wilson's apologists make plain his
psychology in these matters?
Americans Of apparently similar psychol-
ogy are saying "the Allies do not realize the
mistake they are making in rousing our an
tagonism by this blacklist" Let these gen.
tlemen seriously consider the consequence Of
rousng the antagonism of the Allies. In a
year or two the world is going to be made
over By the Allies. When the Allies have
settled more serious matters they will turn
TO these gentlemen and say: "Now, sirs, we
are ready to deal with YOU" and these heroes,
with their present valiant chief, will be found
under the bed" leaving the American nation
70 foot the bill. C. G.. CAMPBELL.
New York, Sept. IL, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15
Clean Public Telephones.

To the Editor Of The Tribune -, I,
Sir: When the subject Of public hes..a ,
being so carefully considered one COMP n,
lively great menace has been OVERDOSE I'M,
the Department Of Health--that Is, the Wv
telephones. ,.,v
Many people who cannot have PIN
telephone must rely on those instance
stores, and in this way disease can spIva.
OF course we must have public telep"'
But why not keep them cleanT ~,
The Department OF Health could dNlo' "a,
city into certain districts and hire one ~ -,
to go around at least twice n week ~,
stores in his district IN which tneiv 81,
public telephones and disinfeet them "a,
task should prove to be too great io' -,
man in each part Of the city additional nN,
could be supplied. and in this way the pu -,
could be assured that they could use sf
means Of communication without any ''''
OF infection. -rp.
MALCOLM II. SANGks
New York. Sept II. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15
A Stanch Republican.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | am a live Republican in Texas
have voted the Republican ticket for James
Garfield and all Republican Presidents since
shall hail the day when our State Depart
ment will be moved from London back To
Washington.
| am one of two million men who would
gladly give up his life rather than submit TO
Fngland's confiscation OF our mails and ham
pering our commerce.
Thank the Lord, there will be change after
November II Hughes will get fine compli-
mentary vote all along this frontier from FL
Paso TO Brownsville, as We are the people
who have suffered at the hands of the Next
cans. G.. r. GOLDBECK.
Uvade, Tex, Sept. 8, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15
Free Trade "Disgraceful."

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: think "Pro.-B." is quite right as re-
CARDS killing the goose that lays the golden
egg if the United States hits back at the
blacklist After the war. | feel sure, never
again will the same freedom of trade be per-
mitted by the British people, and although
am only woman and poor letter writer
yet tariff reform, believe, would be the
greatest blessing for England, and the dis
graceful system OF free trade should have
been done away with years ago. TINA.
Brooklyn, Sept. 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15
Innocent No Longer.
.or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: With no more effort involved than III
being political party adherent, the Bystand
ers could organize by ward and district a
formidable majority, pledged to stand by our
city government in protecting the right OF
every citizen 20 proceed unmolested in the
performance of his daily tasks. The NAL
contents who ruthlessly ignore all rules and
let fly their kicks, no matter where they land
should have their violence met by our citi-
zenry. the Bystan~ers, who, having laid OF
the innocent, proceed 10 lay on what will
bring the most good to the greatest number
It's cure or endure everybody joint
A BYSTANDER.
New York, Sept. II, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15

Nv Dear Eliot:

France, august II, 1915.
Ny Dear Eliot:
The other day had a sad experience that
has had a most depressing effect upon ne
II is not often that we have the time to gv'
much personal notice % f1c wounded 1"
carry, as our job is 10 keep going and 90
back again and then again 70 the PosN 90
Secours for more wounded 10 bring to the
hospitals
At some distance from ono OF our advance
stations there lies a splendid battery Of %
French guns. clevorly concealed in the wood'
as only the French can conceal This battery
has been inhicting heavy damage on u.
Boches for weeks, and they have searched ana
searched for il. splsying the whole "ooi'
with shells and sending aerorlanes over
spy-which, by the way, the French aSs!'
promptly chase home on the run. wen
after weeks Of effort, finally ~ chance tns
dropped = shell near enoucs 70 the ba'eV
70 do a little damage. We brought 10 m'
hospital two wounded artilerj men, ana "
the brancarders tenderly lifted one OF W.
big fellows out Of the ambulance he streehsD
out his hand TO shake mine rnd thank W. W.
for the ride, though his face was gray WIZ
pain.
The m6dicin major, fire. skitul surg.'I
had his coat of as we came into me hosP'S'
and everything was waiti-v; directly 70 V,
operating table the WOUNDED Van went q,
was striped and every wound washed 'h'
properly dressed. The bes- New YORK I've.
pital could not have done D. IN a quicker '.
more efficient manner. As he was oe..
moved 10 give place 20 the next this Dig ~ =
fellow. who hadn't even Croaned during !.
all, asked for his little card case that naa W
photograph Of his little children IN IT, ~ ~
when it was laid on the stretcher oe..a' %.
he smiled at every one about him men :.
took him on 20 the main hospital. me ~,
day had a call az the main hospita. 20 N,'
three wounded, nearly recovered. 20 me ua.,
and 7 asked after my friend me oi'
said in his simple way: "Too had' ne m
already gone away. but Tho ether one WIZ
recover" d.
OF the three convalescent men ] too'
the train one was a Boche. and he was re.
ed Just the same as the French. me ~.
rital orderly shook hands and called WV
luck" TO each one. ,u,,
No sooner were we well on the roaa vs. -.
all were laughing and calling out tne ~.
windows. One fellow was sitting up en-
ing the ride. and the otter lad. whose -. -,
was one roll OF bandae :, he'd ro.eu -,
on his belly and had hp head hair ou' -,
front window. Singing and laughing ~ ~.
greeted the hospital train waiting on
track TO take its load TO Paris. kVeI 70
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15
An Uncon6rmed Report.
tor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Would you kindly let me know il The
Tribune has not published the official news
of the capture of the merchant submarine
Bremen by the English? II so, kindly let
me know the day of capture, the day Of said
publication and name OF place where incident
occurred. MRS. II. MAESTRO.
New York. Sept II. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-15
THE AMERICAN AMBULANCE CORPS
A Letter from a Driver on the French
Front.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: | beg TO send you for publication. II
you so desire, an interesting letter just re.
ceived By me from Nr Phiiin o Mills, OF
this city. Mr. Mills Is POW serving in France
as a volunteer with the American Volunteer
Motor Ambulance Corps. which nv brother
Richard commands. He Is . son Of General
Samuel L. Mills, OF the United States Army
now deceased and is very well known in tie
best society in New York
ELIOT NORTON
New York Sept. 10, 1916.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-03-16
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE.

Default has been made in the con
ditions Of the certain mortgage exc
cuted by Dakota Securities Company,
m~ortgdgor, to Dakota Mutual Life In
surance Company, of WATERFOWL. s.
u, mortgagee, dated November 8.
1913, recorded November 5, 1919.
at 1850 O'Clock a. M, in book
log of Mortgages, on page 1927, in the
Office Of the Register of Deeds Of
Codington County, s. D., mortgaging
the following described real property.
situate in said Codington County.
State Of South Dakota, to-wit: All
that part of Lots No. n ~. two
I'D. and three (3), In Block three (3).
of the Town OF Watertown, lying
south of a line Drawn parallel with
and, distant forty feet northerly from
the sontherly line Of said lots and
east Of q line drawn parallel with
ana distant ten inches westerly from
the easterly line OF said Lot three.
The default consists in the failure Of
the mortgagor to pay the semi-annuaI
installment OF interest Of one hundred
five dollars ($l06s001, due November
3, 1915. which remains unpaid. by real
son whereof said mortgage has elect
ed TO declare and has declared Sthe
whole OF sNAid mortgage debt 1 be
due and payable pursuant t prrovis-
ions forsuch election contained insthe
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-03-16

seemed to have had both hands or
arms caught in the wreckage, or PIN
Ined between timbers. The names
were already consuming the clothing
about his legs and in a or so
reached his face. he does not Know
who the two men We're, as he falled
to get a full view of their faces, oW-
ing to the smoke and heat. But win
reference to Mr.. Dooling's having
begged to be slain, Mr., Pope says
THAT he only ehard him grooming II
~calling for help He did not hear
him begging to be Pat out of his
misery. Mr.. Pope judged from the
position in which he was lying that
his back was broken or that he vas
so seriously injured as TO be unable
o nov his limbs, as he appeared to
be motionless. II am not sure he
added, but that had he been dis
covered earlier he might have been
saved. although it might have been
necessary 10 " an arm, or maybe
both. OF course, this IS merely ON
jectural. No human being knows
Some rather drastic criticism has
been passed upon certain of the pas
sengers for their seeming failure to
so to the relief of those in the doomed
coach. Mr.. Pope, regarding this. be
ing one of the occupants OF the coach
himself, says that the coach was jam
med down into the baggage car, the
rear end of the coach standing al an
angle, the upper end being fifteen or
twenty feet above the ground. He IS
inclined to think that from an out
Slder's standpoint ii must have
seemed practically impossible TO get
into the suspended coach to render
assistance. Those who We're in the
coach assisted one another to get ut,
all the men helping some one or more
out and accompanying the injured to
places of safety. None of those who
Went out came back. the obstacles to
re%-entering being, seemingly insur-
mountable for the brief time in which
there vas opportunity at all to fur
nish relief. Mrs. j. w. Anderson,
who was hurled through the bottom
Of the coach. managed to free herself
from the entanglements, and as she
dropped to the ground beneath the
wreckage her coat was on fire. She
simply slipped out of it, throwing it
away, and rushed back to the aper-
ture to save her children, which she
accomplished uliutl lltliitlluOuS ull-
ficulties. The second child to be
taken out by her had the lower por-
tons of its clothing all afire and was
burned up TO the hips.
Upon getting the patients to the
Smith home. those who were able set
about to render such help as posi-
BILE in dressing the wounds. A sled
had come up from Thomas and a few
of the injured had been taken to
Thomas, but the majority of them
were sheltered in the Smith home.
The relief train arrived shortly after
the victims had reached the Smith
home and had been cared for as far
as possible with the means at hand,
said Mr.. Pope, answering inquiries.
DR.. OBryan was on the train, and
after a brief inspection of the injured
this place FASTENED on to Thomas
to look after the needs of those who
had been taken there.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-03-16

LL-yE. -
Of said day, the following collaterAs
pledged as security for the paymest.
of said note, or as much thereof s9
may be necessary to satisfy tho
amount due on said note with interest
and costs: viz: Six sliaies of the q
ital stock of the WatertoWn Printing
and Binding Company, a corporation,
organized and existing under and By
virtue Of the laws of the State Il
South Dakota, with its principal OF
fees in Watertown. South Dakota,
represented by Certificate No. AZ. liz
sued in the name of D. F. Solbere.
and dated January 7, 1914, said shares
being of the common stock of saia
corporation, Of the par value of Fifty
Dollars each.
Dated at Waterfowl, S. D., this sth
day of March, 1915.
A. w. Ransom,
E.. M. Barker.
First pub. Mar. 9, last pub. Mar. 7Sa
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-03-16

mortgage. The amount claimed to be
due on said mortgage and mortgage
debt at the date of this notice is the
sum of three thousand one hundred
eighty-three and S0-100 dollars
~tsS,lS3.So) and statutory attorneys
fees of $500. The said mortgage is
now owned by the Dakota Life Insur-
Iance Company, OF W~atertoWn, S. D.,
being the same identical corporation
as the mortgage above named, the
change of mann of said MORTGAGE
corporation having been approved by
the Secretary of State of the State
of South Dakota by certificate dated
January 9th, 1915, reference being
had to the official records of said
Office of said Secretary of State. Now
therefore, notice is hereby given that
said mortgage will be foreclosed by
the sale of the mortgaged premises
therein and h~ereinbefore described, by
the Sheriff of said CodingtOn County,
or his deputy, at the front door of
the court house, in the City of Wa
tertown, in said Codington County,
on the 29th day of April, A. D., 1916,
at 10000 o'clock a. m. of said day.
Dated 1t Watertown, s. D., March
l3, 1916.
Dakota Life Insurance Com
pany,. formerly Dakota Mu-
tual Life Insurance Com
pany, Mortgage.
Hanten & Hanten,
WatertOWn, S. D.,
Attorneys for Mortgage.
(Firsc pub. Mar. IL, last pub. April 27)