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defective children in our schools. The whole
system appears to lave been arranged in
the interest of the plodding average, while
the brighter students are held back to the
pace of the slower ones and forced TO
waste a large portion of their time in
needless repetition or idleness until they
often lose interest and fail to acquire
proper habits of study.
When one thinks Of the minimum which
the American child learns during the first
eight years of our public school system 1t
is no exaggeration to say that bright
child twelve years of age could with proper
teaching learn an equal amount easily in
two years. When one compares the
general lack of thoroughness Of the aver
age high school student with the knowl-
edge possessed by the English or German
schoolboy of the same age it is hard TO
resist the conclusion that something is rad
ically wrong with the schools Of this coun-
try. Is not the trouble in part due to our
procrustean system, which is designed to
conform to pupils Of mediocre ability
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-07
The Young Turks.
" OF The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The announcement of the Young
Turks a body which Mr.. Morgenthau, the
former American Ambassador to Turkey, has
never stopped laudng) by the Grand Shereef
of Mecca shows that the barbarities of the
Young Turks have shocked even the
Mahometans, who are trying to wipe off
the blot en- their sacred religion by dis
owning the Young Turks
Will the Christians follow the example of
the Mahometans, too, and wipe of the blot
that is on the face of Christianity? Those
unfortunate Christians in Turkey are getting
massacred for the sake of one Christ only,
the Christ who suffered on the cross for the
sake of humanity and civilization, and the
women and young girls of them are suffer
ing with only one Marys name on their lips,
Mary, Mother Of Christ.
| do not think it makes any difference
either to Christ or his suffering followers
whether their appeals are responded to by the
Roman Catholics, Protestants or Orthodoxes.
Let any one of those denominations that
thinks it is entitled more than the others TO
the high title of Christianity step forward
first and try to put an end to those heart
rcnding agonies of those Christian nations
which have shocked the whole world.
s. A.
Southampton, Long Island, Aug. 26, 1916.
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To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We are told by the Germans, with
much virtuous boasting and canting self
laudation that they are demonstrating" the
Belgian industries. Poor, unhappy Belgium!
This is the final robbery of the stunned and
bleeding victim. Now the Belgans will be
stripped to the skin. Now every mine and
railway, every industry and business con-
Germ in Belgium will be controlled and owned
by Germans, and all the enormous profits of
that magnificent trade will pour into the
greedy and wardepleted pockets of the bank
rupt German Empire.
Let us hope, however, that when the Ger
mans have finally reconstructed tstolen)
everything in Belgium they will show a
little Of their famous and Characteristic Ger
man mercy and generosity; let us pray and
petition that they will charitsbly allow the
original Belgian proprietors of the "indus-
tries" to labor as workmen in the factories
which they formerly owned.
BERTRAND SHADWELL.
Chicago, H., Sept. 1. 1916.
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The Gifted Child and the Public
School.

At last the student who is most worth
education has found friend in the Gen.
eral Education Board. This organization
plans TO begin a series of Investigations to
determine how children of more than aver
age mental endowment may be discovered
during the years spent in public school
and to devise some plan by which these
more alert pupils may receive the add
tional instruction which they ought TO re-
ceive. From practical point of view it
would seem that the General Board is de-
vising no end Of trouble for the teachers
of this country. 1t is not always easy to
pick out the budding genius. There are
the hosts of fond parents TO be dealt with,
who will doubtless accuse the school
authorities of favortism if Johnnie or
little Mabel happens not to be included
among these youthful prodigies.
Moreover, it is not always the preco-
cious child who turns out later TO be the
person Of superior intelligence. A study
Of vaedictorians and many another youth
for whom "a great future had been pre-
6icted is rather dscouraging. And there
are always those unpromising youngsters,
like Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Edison,
who in after years astonish all their early
associates by becoming men Of the highest
genius.
However, the important thing is not that
our schools should be able TO foretell the
future career Of the student or to manu-
facture genius in the classroom, but to give
every one the kind Of training which is
best suited 10 his peculiar needs. No end
OF attention has Of late been given TO the
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nossible. but 10 do this would be infallibly
to throw America into the arms of Ger
MANY and make it the commercial and
financial ally of Germany when the war
ends and recon struction and the new COM
mercial conflict begin. The plans Tor eco
nomic cooperation among the Allies, after
the war, have reused much apprehension IN
America. and this apprehension has been
very cleverly fostered by German agents
and German intrigue. Threats now would
DO nothing to dissuade the President OF
the United States from acting on behalf
of American rights, but they would enlist
for him support which he does not now
possess and they might shape the whole
of American policy after the war.
The Tribune believes that a mistake
will be made in England and France If 1t
is assumed that Mr.. Hughes, if he is elect
ed. will advocate more benevolent neu-
trality than Mr.. Wilson has pursued. 1t
does not pretend to speak for Mr.. Hughes;
il has not the faintest warrant for dong
this, but it believes that whether Mr..
Hughes or Mr.. Wilson is President the
foreign policy Of the United States will
be conditioned upon the unmistakable
desire of the mass of the American people
to see American rights maintained and
maintained in the face Of British as well
as German interference.
There is no element in our population
of real political influence which desires
to see the United States adopt toward
Great Britain the policy of quasi-ally'
of an ally in all but actual participation In
the war. In saying this The Tribune
speaks as a newspaper which would gladly
believe such an element existed. But 1t
is the fact that is important. The fact
is that the mass of American people are
quite as reconciled to seeing the Admins
tration insist upon its rights in the face
of England as the mass of the British
people were reconciled to seeing their own
government insist upon the letter of the
law in the matter of the Trent in 1861.
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HORACE GREELEY'S HIEROGLYPHu
The Newest Version of an Old, Old Str
Hereabouts.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Reading the letter in your las! 7,
days issue by w. F. H., referring to e,
founder of The Tribune and his sppsw
excitement when he had been told By pa
ing acquaintance that he had "stopps! 7,
Tribune" brings to my mind one Of q,
numerous stories and anecdotes cn4i.t /.
this wonderful man.
Doubtless you and many others nr,nse
what an execrable writer he was ard p
trouble the printers had in decipherrs y
manuscript. This was in the days before q
advent of the stenographer, typevrlts' u
linotype, when editors wrote their edltorti
with pen and ink and read their ~
proofs.
There was one man among the composl''
employed who had great difficulty in rei:s
Mr. Greeley's writing, and with whom .
editor had expended all his patience "a o.
occasion when this printer had mad. y
Greeley's milk train" read "swill train a.
purity of a woman read "putridity o.
mummy" he sent for the offending prt's
and, telling the man he was discharged .
carelessness and inability, gave him %
to the cashier to pay him of.
The man, il is said, kept the letter, ~
in next door TO "The Sun Office applied '''
situation, saying he had letter Of r''''
mendation from Horace Greeley, whlca
presented, and which was accepted By "
Sum-" they being able only to make o1' J
Greeley's signature.
Another story is told Of another o. =
past famous editors, whose chirogrsphy p"
equal to if not worse than Mr. Greee'
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner, editor Of u
Hartford Courant."
One night one of the printers came |"
Warmers private Office and told him ne T"
decided to give up his position as 3 '''
rositor and enlist in the army. ], was ..
ing the war with the South Mr. N"-.
congratulated the young man on the seq
was about 70 take, commanding him i0' /.
loyalty and patriotism, saying ths. :
country was sorely in need Of just suea =
with the spirit he displayed.
"Oh, HE'LL" answered the man, w Z
that at all. have concluded that ! W..
rather go 70 the front and be sno' "
to have to read your copy any longeh
JAMES E. BEALb
New Britain. Conn, Sept. ., 1916
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Art After the War.

II was a great shock to some Of his most
ardent admirers when late gifted sculptor
"A modern among moderns, the idol OF the
literary gentlemen who explain the New
Art TO the vulgar-confessed very frankly
in a letter from the trenches that the war
had wrought a change in him, and that II
ever he came back he would probably re-
vert to his earlier manner and give up his
subtle experiments in the discovery OF
new formula for the representation Of
planes and what not.
There have been other disturbing indi-
cations of a decline of faith in the New
Art, whether in painting and sculpture or
in letters. Just as the thing was in full
swing the war came and spoiled 1t all.
PEOPLE who used to gloat over the pro-
fundities of cubists and vorticists and TO
struggle reverentially through pages of
Gertrude Stein suddenly ceased to take any
interest in these diversions, so that 1t IS
very doubtful whether crowd could be
attracted to-day by whole army of mod
ern nudes walking downstairs or whether
a second volume of Tender Buttons"
would find dozen readers.
For Mr.. Ezra Pound, Mr.. de Zayas and
all the other thoughtful persons who have
done their best for the New Art there IS
this consolation, that the New Art is not
the only art that has suffered by the war.
And if the cubistic, vortistic, synchromistic,
and futuristic factions have suffered, If
some of the most promising opponents Of
modernism in painting and sculpture have
been coarsened by life in the trenches,
they have not been more seriously injured
than the practitioners of older and more
firmly established forms of art.
The editor of "The Tailor and Cutter"
for instance, is quite as gloomy about
those who practise his art as any Of the
critics of the new school can possibly be
about the fate of their favorites. Yet he
takes a philosophical view of the future,
saving: "The man who has had to shut
up his business will probably never come
back to tailoring. The chances are that
he has found something he likes better. |
don't think many men are really tallors
for the love of the work"
The same may surely be said of the rank
and file of artists in other fields. So there
is still some hope for the New Art. The
practitioners, as well as the public, may
find something they like better, and though
there may be less Of the New it does not
necessarily follow that there will be less
Of Art.
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Mr.. Wilson's Career.
.itor of The Tribune.

o the Editor OF 1 ne Tribune.
Sir: The career of Woodrow Wilson for
the past forty-one months stands out as a
glazing kaleidoscope contradiction, mingled
with sciolistic legislation, dedicated to an
obsession of economic destruction born of
innate jealousy of commercial success. His
lunary logic well as the laws for which he
stood sponsor was changed by his vacllating
commands as rapidly as the phases Of the
moon. 1t might be we'll for the brotherhoods.
II they are confding their cause to him. to
read his Presidential record, beginning with
the platform on which he was nominated
which provided: I'VE favor a single Presi-
Dental term, and to that end we urge the
odoption Of an amendment to the Constitu-
ton making the President of the United
States ineligible for reelection. and we pledge
the candidate of this convention to this prin-
ciple."
This was supposed to have been written in
the platform by the matchless Machiave llian
hand of THE Disappearless Leader" who
afterward devoured this declaration with
greater fervor than he had ever uttered il.
and with this Incompatible gastronomic feat
he willingly suffered political efracement as
he donned the toga of Daniel Webster and
Elihu Root, that fitted his mental frame like
the great coat of Goliath would fl liliputian
His next sortie in the legislative arena
began when he sought to make sugar duty
free for the purpose Of keeping party
pledge and TO reduce the cost of living
Sugar was selling for four cents per Mound
when his tariff tinkerings began, and after
his many happenings with it it soon scared
to eight cents per pound. His disloyalty 10
his ne plus ultra Of all ideas, "a tariff for
revenue only" was abandoned, and he COM
manded Congress to place the duty back on
.ugar after the government had suffered
loss of nearly sl50000.O00. His "strict nc.
countabilty" note should have been ad-
dressed TO Huerta instead of the Kaiser. and
the arms and ammunition should have been
sent to the people Of Columbus, n. NJ. instead
of his pampered pet, Villa. who used them in
a murderous raid upon American men. women
and children. OF him il may be truly said
that he is the prototype of needless and un-
necessary haste and of effort misapplied. n,
is the living antithesis of psychological nc.
ton. the epitome of ceaseless error and with
his shamblng shftings of thought and with
"A nature that staggcrs all efforts to define il.
VS.. wooDwORTH.
Norfolk, Va, Sept 1, 1910
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An Official War Artist.
cFrom The Manchester Guardian ,

understand that a very interesting step
has Just been taken by the government in
appointing an artist to make drawings at
the front for the historical record of the
war. The artist appointed is Mr.. Muirhead
Bone, who is now a second lieutenant on the
staff and is already at the front engaged in
this work. Mr.. Bones position as drafts
man is sufficiently established to guarantee
general acceptance of the appointment
Although his work has only been before the
public some ten years, he has taken his place
among the masters Of etching who are col
lected by the state galleries Of Europe and
America
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-07
The New Transit Strike.

When the marlborough management
conceded-what it could not with shadow
of sense deny-the right of its employees
to organize, and then undertook to outwit
the union organizers, it laid the foundation
for the present trouble. The subterfuge
of forming the corporations own privately
conducted union and contracting with lndl-
vidual employees for an unbroken two
years service was clever one, from the
arrangements point of view. 1t was en-
tirey within the law. and. backed by pay
increases and improved working conditions,
showed every prospect of success. The
only trouble with it was that it was too
clever 1t spelled failure for future at
tempts of the Amalgamated unions organ
izers to unionize any big traction property
if it worked.
What is at stake in the present quarrel
is not now a question of hours or Of wages.
The marlborough has within short time
granted three increases in wages and has
improved the conditions of work mate
rally. 1t is greatly to be doubted If the
Anralgamated could have forced better
terms from the management for the work
ers if every one of them had been en-
rolled in its membership. The issue over
which the corporation and the men are
fighting is whether Mr.. Hedley's private
union or Mr.. Fitzgeralds countrywide
union shall prevail. The element Of col
lective bargaining" in it is pretty we'll OBJ
scured by the element Of labor union
politics.
Neither side has showed any regard for
the public. Both declared they would fight
rather than arbitrate, and they are selfish
" pursuing what they deem to be their
own interests at the expense of the people
who travel on the citys transportation
lines. The fact remains that, however
fagrantly the workers choose to violate
their duty to the public, the company has
a duty which it cannot abandon, and will
not be permitted to abandon. 1t must
operate its trains. The necessity for un-
interrupted transportation facilities aligns
the public on the side of the corporation,
now that the strike has actually come into
being. That is unfortunate, in view of
the equivocal position of the management
in the brief preliminaries. But it cannot
be helped. The public must have trains,
and the company must be protected when
it tries to run them, by the police, and by
state troops, if the police prove made
quate.
If the strikers are wise, they will re-
frain from any of the disgraceful acts of
violence which accompanied the recent
strike of the surface car men. 1t is bad
enough for the people of this city to be
subjected to the inconvenience and hard
ships which will be unavoidable while the
strike lasts. There will be scant patience
for the unionists if they adopt actual
physical violence as weapon in their war
fare in addition to the moral suasion" Of
the strike. No surer way could be devised
to lose whatever measure Of public sym
pathy they may now have.
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THE, IMMORTALITY OF WISCONSIN
Wbv Vote to Reflect the President Blind
nd Covardly Satesmanship-The Real Issue in the
Present Campaign.

our fathers we cannot choose TO perpetuate
cowardice, dishonor and degradation. II is
not question of money; it is the soul OF our
nation which is to be proved. Nothing could
be more immoral than to violate our ma
tiona soul by voting for Wilson; it would
prove the truth CT the assertions of those
who declare that we are all Senator Sorghums,
seeking only graft and gluttoning on the fat
from war contracts.
appeal to my fellow countrymen TO deny
once and for all at the polls that we are
grown gross and obese with rich living and
care nothing for the spiritual things OF exist
cree. If at the very edge of the seething
cauldron of war the people of backward
Greece refuse to abide the Wilsonian Constan-
tine and turn to the noble and liberty-loving
Venzelos; if Greece does this when the cost
to her is blood and suffering and DEATH how
can we tolerate a wisconsin here, safely
guarded as we are by three thousand miles
of ocean and the invincible fleets of the
Allied nations, when the only cost TO US can
bo the taxing of part of our profits or the
restricting of our swollen bank credits. | be-
lieve in America. | believe that on November
7 such declaration will be made as will for
ever prevent any party from daring again to
intrust its standard to a sycophant and a
tIme-server. I only blush to think that there
can be single American immoral enough to
vote for Wilson. Let the number of them be
so few that all men may know that only the
blind who cannot and the venal who have
been seduced by promises of Office can be
made to accept cowardice, impotency and ma
tional shame in this United States
BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD.
New York Sent l. 1916
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Acceptance.

We ask you for your suffrages. Pros
perity and Peace"
The Democratic battle cry! Long may
the tribe increase!
Come, vote us back in power to whom
your boarded wealth you owe.
Though I'll admit we made a few mis-
takes in Mexico.)
We kept the country out Of war, whate'er
the cost has been.
Lost property can be restored, but killing
mems a sin.
Our record in the matter stands for all
who care to know.
Though III admit we made a few mis-
takes in Mexico)
The practice of Protection we have placed
upon the shelf;
We think the country's big enough to
battle for itself.
We've seen at least that Labor is a match
for any foe.
(But I'll admit we made a few mistakes
in Mexico.)
So send us back to Washington the Treas
ury to rob;
There're still deserving Democrats who
need a Federal job.
I'm really not so bad a President as
proxies go.
(But I'll admit | made a few mistakes
in Mexico.)
A z. <.
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The Kilt in Ireland.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: May call your attention TO
statement reprinted from The NOTE
Post" of London in The New York Irloua'
yesterday, under the title AN Appe"
English Sentimentality' This article,
is an attempt TO make people believe %"
kilt is only two or three centuries 0''
was introduced into Ireland from Ens''"~
not only en- amusing instance OF NV a..
folklore has grown since the April rev.,
but an excellent example OF the a''".'
mind of many English people toward >" 80
is Irish In justice 20 the many io!S
men, feel that cannot let such sS'
pass unchalenged quote from = W.. !.
the recognized authority on early lr'sn ~
tory page $50 OF the second edition So,
Smaller Social History" published .!
mans, Green & Co. in 1908. The ps''s
is as follows: ,.-
"The Kilt.-The Gaelic form OF 'nrs .,ps
is celt (kelt). Of which kilt IS - al
rendering The word occurs so se'"' "a 3
is used so vaguely, that We might III, +
difficult TO identify the particular ..,.irt
designates, il the Scotch had no' %, ~
both the article itself and its name, >. ~
Highland kilt is the ancient lrish ee'S ur
kilt commonly falling TO the Knees r.,F
frequently met with on the figures " nss
scripts, shrineS and crosses, so ma .l,,s,
have been very much worn both oy s's.,iik
ties and laymcn. 1t appears in very ' a,s
form in the eleventh century '""'
given here Gig. 1901" o,coN0H
NoRREYS JEPHSoN o0o''
Shelburne, n. H., Sept :, isi''
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The Tariff the Issue.
ditor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Why doesn't Mr.. Hughes insist on the
conditions that the Democratic tariff brough,
about up to the beginning of the war; Men
were rapidly being laid off. factories closed
surplus left by Republicans used up and a
bond issue threatened. Why not stop his
hyphen talk and take up real issues? Presi-
dent Wilson can afford to rant about hyphens
because he hasn't anything to lose. He lost
them before this. The tariff is the issue.
l.. H. JOHNSTON.
Patehogue, y. Y, Sept 1, 1918.
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Southampton, Long Island, Aug. 26, 1916.