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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28
The Carrier" Problem.

The Health Department announces that
more typhoid carriers have been found here
in the last six months than ever before
since the Bureau of Preventable Diseases
was first established. In 1915 five cases
were detected, but in the first half of this
year the number of new cases was no less
than twenty-five. 1t is to be hoped that
they may all prove amenable to treatment,
for the chronic carrier is a problem as yet
unsolved.
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid
Mary, was the most notorious Of these I'M
happy sufferers. 1t cannot be pretended
that the way in which her case was dealt
with was satisfactory. She was a cook,
and it was obviously undesirable that she
should be at liberty to practise her calling
Accordingly she was placed under observa-
ton, and for three years she continued a
prisoner She did not improve under treat
ment, and so at last she was released, on
the understanding, however, that she
would give up cooking. Whether driven
/ by necessity or obstinacy, she soon re-
turned to her old occupation and by adopt
| ing a false name succeeded in securing a
Job in the kitchen of maternity hospital
After while her identity was established
and she was again placed in confinement
She is probably still under observation and
may remain prisoner for the rest of her
days.
1t is clear that in such a case as this
restraint of some sort is unavoidable. The
result of Typhoid Mary's excursion wa:
disastrous. 1t is said that after her re
| lease twenty-five cases of typhoid fever
two of which proved fatal, were traced
directly to her activities as a cook. There
was evidently nothing to do but to shu
her up and keep her out of mischief. Ye
| it is hard that there should be no better
fate for people who, while they continue {
constant menace to others, may themselve:
be in perfect health. If incurable carrier:
of disease prove to be comparatively com
mon, some provision will have to be made
for them sooner or later.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28
The Great Stone Face.

The Old Man of the Mountains, who has
been looking down Franconia Notch so long
that the Sphinx is an upstart by compari-
son, is in bad way. His forehead has
weathered until it threatens to crash down
into the valley, carrying nose and chin in
its wake. Governor Spaulding is consider
ing methods of prevention, and if iron
braces can help The Profile may yet be
saved and New Hampshire breathe again.
Like all the rest of the White Mountains,
the Great Stone Face is one of our Oldest
possessions, speaking socially, not geologi-
cally. When Anthony Trollope visited
America in 1862, he wrote:
"Now, l would ask any of my read
ers who are candid enough to expose
their own ignorance, whether they
ever heard, or at any rate whether
they know anything of the White Noun
tains. AS regards myself, confess that
the name had reached my ears; that |
had an indefinite idea that they formed
an intermediate stage between the
Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies,
and that they were inhabited either by
Mormons, Indians or simply black
bears. That there was a district of
New England containing mountain
scenery superior to much that is
yearly crowded by tourists in Europe,
that this is to be reached with ease by
railways and stage coaches, and that it
is dotted with huge hotels, almost as
thickly as they lie in Switzerland, l
had no idea"
That is something the way they impress
the average American visiting them for
the first time. We have plenty of historic
spots where great events have happened;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28
Perceive Jupiter!

To the Eiito- of The Tribune.
Sir: At this present time the planet Jupiter
rises about quarter past 9 o. m, rising
earlier and earlier every evening. Thus we
are able 20 see him before midnight, a bright,
goden-hued ornamental body, shining with a
clear. untwinkling light. As we know very
well, Jupiter is the largest Of the eight
greater planets-Mercury, Venus, earth, etc.
and next 10 our sun he Is the largest body
in our solar system. Indeed. he is about 1909
times as large as our world, his mean or
average diameter being some $4,000 miles to
the terrestrial mean diameter 1918 miles.
But the great planet Jupiter is not as
dense or solid as our earth, having only
about one-quarter Of our own planets dem
sity As result Of this lesser solidity
Jupiter, despite his vas. size. attracts bodies
20 his surface with only two and sixty-five
one-hundredth times as much power as our
earth attracts them. But this greater attrac-
tion or gravity of Jupiter would cause a 100
pound weight here on earth to weigh 265
hounds upon the sr-f~~~ - Iuniter. such a
weight weighing 2.7es pounds at the surface
of our sun.
CHARLES MEYERS HOLMES.
Aswton. Mass, Aug. 10. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28
The Live Coward vs.. the Dead Hero.
the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The foreeful peace "argument'-so-
called by Mr. II. P. Salpeter in his letter to
The Tribune-is no argument at all. The
statement that "Td rather be live coward
than a dead hero" is merely a statement Of
personal taste. Questions of morality,
questions of national welfare, have no rela-
ton to such statements of individual taste.
They are above them. | might say with per-
feet truth and sincerity that "I'd rather be
drunk debauchee than a sober business
man." but this would be no argument for the
morality of drunkenness or for the advan-
tages TO the national welfare of drinking.
1t is pity we have the skulkng coward
among US. He is an evil, but he has little
effect on the community. The brazen coward,
however, is a far greater menace in that
his very efrontery sways the opinions of
those who cannot reason properly. 1t is high
time this kind of "frankness," which unfor.
tunately you meet with 80 often NOWADAYS,
were exploded. No weight should be given
to an argument bearing on national or
moral questions which is based solely or per-
sonai preference. A. W. LAHEE
New York. Aug. "a. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28
Motor Cars and Speed Regulation.
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There are more reasons for than
against law requiring all persons to be
licensed who desire to run an automobile.
There is also urgent need for an insistence
everywhere that all speed regulations and
road rules generally should be rigidly en-
forced and officials of all grades of rank and
authority should in some way be held to
account for misuse or abuse OF authority in
condoning infractions Of the laws, ETC., i'm
posed penalties that make the object of the
laws farce and any other illegal or stupid
act or Interpretation of duty which only add
to the dangers to which the public is ex-
posed by careless, reckless and often Grim
inal disregard of the laws of the road. We
had trial in this village Mount Kisco)
last night. chauffeur Of one of the wealthy
summer residents of the vicinity was arrested
for speeding at the rate sworn to by the
officer who made the arrest-exceeding thirty
miles an hour within the village limits. The
trial took place before local country judge
ignorant of the law, whose other profession
is that of paperhanger. In defence of the
culprit several respectable witnesses, in pur-
posed conformation Of the offence OF speeding,
testified that they, too, usually rode to the
village station at rate exceeding twenty
miles an hour, though the legal limit was
fifteen. The judge had an excellent oppor-
tunity of indicating the law by tining on
their own confessions several otherwise very
excellent citizens, but he lacked perspicacity
and probably courage as well to add sub
stantial<sum in fines to our depleted village
treasury. He. however. Unexpectedly sus-
tanned the officer and fined the chauffeur IS.
What we greatly need in Westchester County
is state, or at least county, constabulary
free from the control and influence Of the
politicians. | hope we can get it this winter.
JOHN Y COLYER.
Mount Kisco, n. Y, Aug. %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28
Jlfsnticide by Blockade.

The benevolent DR.. Won Mach is deserv-
ing Of our compassion. 1t is true that his
whimpering pleas on behalf of starving
German children were founded entirely on
fanciful statistics and that after great
deal of fruitless lodging and quibbling he
was finally silenced with severe and hui
initiating rebuke from his own government
at Berlin. But it was not altogether his
fault that he did not know he was playing
the wrong game.
The attitude Of the German government
toward the British blockade alternates
with bewildering suddenness between
whining and clustering, and there was
formerly great deal of whining in Berlin
about the scarcity of condensed milk. That
is his justification. He could not be sup
posed to know instinctively when to turn
about; and it unfortunately happened, as it
has often happened before, that the official
attitude changed over night. And so it
came to pass that after Berlin had begun
to brag about the decreased rate of infant
mortality Dr.. Won Mach was still distribut-
ing piteous stories of the thousands, and
perhaps millions, of German babies doomed
to die
1t was necessary, of course, to stop his
untimely babbling, yet those who know
how industriously and with what genuine
humility DR.. Won Mach has striven to serve
his Imperial Master cannot but be sorry
for him in his present predicament. There
is nothing that pains him more than en-
forced silence, and though he is still at lib
erty to chirrup about art as he used to do
so preftiiy IN the davs before the war, yet
IL must DC confessed that the entertain
ment of young ladies with taste for cult
ure is a poor and unsatisfying occupation
for one who had fallen into the habit Of re-
garding himself as the unofficial repre-
sentative among barbarians of great and
powerful empire.
II is but just therefore to recognize that
in all essentials DR.. Won Mach was right.
He went wrong in saying that the brutal
English were killing the children Of the
Fatherland, but if he cid it was not that
he overrated their brutality. He simply
mistook the object What he ought TO have
said was that the blockade was directed
against our children-the children of the
United States. The truth is out now, for
one of DR.. Won Mach's most sturdy cham
pions. the "New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung,
has made the great discovery that the cur
rent plague Of poliomyelitis is kept alive
by the blockade and the blacklist, and thus
"innocent American children fall sacri-
fee to Albion's greed" This has been es-
tablished on the authority of an unhappy
victim of the blacklist who, it seems, used
to deal freely in suprarenal extract and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. These "indis-
pensable remedies" are now so scarce. ac-
cording to the "Staats -Zeitung," that "the
city is absolutely reduced to serum-ther-
apy."
So DR.. Won Mach is justified in all that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28
The Tribune Will Not Support
Governor Whitman.
We have received the following;


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Do YOU not think that il is about time
that YOU told your readers where you stand N
the matter of Governor Whitman! IL ne 1s
renominated at the Republican primary VIII
The Tribune support him! hhADHn'
New York City, Aug. "a, 1916.
The Tribune can not and will not support
Governor Whitman if he is renominated
II finds in its own comments upon his rec
ord. as it was being made, complete and
satisfactory reason for this decision. Hav'
ing criticised Mr.. Whitman's course, hav-
ing pointed out to its readers the injury
done this city by his financial policy, hav-
ing again and again disclosed its disap-
prevail of his administration, it cannot now
change its ground.
Had Mr.. Justice Seabury's political rec
ord been one-half as appealing as the
record he has made on the bench this
newspaper would gladly support him. But
it finds in his progress from economic
heresy to economic heresy, with the ap-
parent desire to enlist political following
of a sort, an obstacle to indorsing him
which it cannot at present negotiate.
As far as the state campaign is con-
cerned The Tribune purposes to preserve
complete freedom of action, criticising or
approving as the case may seem to II 10
warrant. This newspaper remains what 1t
has been. with brief exception, through Its
whole history-a Republican journal; but
it does not believe that any loyalty to party
can Justify its eating its own words at
the moment of a campaign, after having
spoken them freely and frankly over all
the roon,hs that have interviewed since the
last election.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28

reason and argument long afterward, but not
made red hot.
That is where Mr.. Wilson fails to under
stand the common man. He strikes when
the iron is cold-and no sparks fly. MIR. Wit
son was much disappointed at "the peoples
lukewarm response to his clarion call OF
"On to Vera CRUZ" He was no sooner in
than he began to devise ways and means
and excuses for getting out again.
History is now repeating itself in the
matter of the punitive expedition to capture
and destroy General Villa. 1.-THE people"
have lost interest And Mr.. Wilson follows
1.-The people,; he does not lead.
GEORGE HARRISON MADAM.
New York, Aug. 25, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28
No Contradiction.
Al. Editor ~ The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Is there not contradiction oe'".s.
the title of your leading editorial OF Aug g.,
25, namely. THE Failure Of the Direct -.
mary" and the first sentence in the see'.,
paragraph Of the editorial, which reaa' .
follows:
Every one knows that IL the Rspuo.
lican candidate for Governor were 70 "
nominated at convention Of party ieAo.
ers and delegates this year Goverh0'
Whitman would not be named"g 4,
In other words, does not your editof,A' :.
self really maintain that the direct pfi@' :.
ia going to force the nomination, and :.
how can you logically call the direct pri .~
failure LESTER l.
New York, Aug. rs, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28

Won can purchase merchandise advertised In
THE TRIBUNE with absolute safcty-tor
II dissatisfaction results in any case NE
TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your money oSCA
upon request No red tape. No clubbing we
make good promptly if the advertiser does not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28
s,-nscn,rrnoN RATES, Mall rO.t.ss RAID Out,id'
CANADIAN RATS TIE . :

ro,,,ra a, the ros,Once a, New York as Second GAS
$3.50 - Nail Matter.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-06-02
WORKING FOR LASTING PEACE.
Former President Taft Outlines OBJ
Jects of Peace League.

Former President Taft Outlines OBJ
Jects of Peace League.
Washington The League to En-
force Peace. formed year ago In In
dependence hall at Philadelphia, with
the aim of securing a lasting world
peace at the close OF the European
war; held its first annual meeting here
Friday and heard its president, Will
liam H. Taft. and other men promi-
nent In the country's affairs, state the
purposes of the organization and out
line what it hopes to accomplish.
Slight reference was made to end
ing the present war
The leagues determination to con-
fine its efforts to establishing per-
manent peace for the future was de-
scribed by Mr.. Taft as developing
from a belief that a definite purpose,
with limitations, was more likely to
be realized than if the league essayed
too much.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-06-02
WASHINGTON
BEAUTIFUL
National Capital Honored
By Travellers

Washington at this season of the
year is at its best World travellers
say that in May and June Washing
ton is the most beautiful city in the
world. 1t is this fact, no doubt, which
brings the tourists to Washington in
droves during the spring months.
Washington always has tourists, but
in the spring they overrun the town.
Few even old Washingtonians real
ize what makes their city SO superla-
lively beautiful in the springtime One
large reason is that Washington is the
only city in the United States where
the municipal authorities have com
plete charge of the trees of the city.
In most cities the residents are re.
sponsible for the trees and the result
is a hit-or-miss system that is not
likely to be noted for its beauty
In Washington house owner can
not even trim a tree in his own front
yard If he thinks it needs trimming
he reports the fact to the District
of Columbia authorities They send
an expert to see il the householders
suspicious are Justified. If they are,
the city tree trimmers. experts. come
out, and the tree is scientifically car
cd for. 1t is the same way In repairing
injuries done to trees by storms OF
other causes.
AS result of this system every
street in Washington has uniform
trees, uniform in size and kind Mas
sachusetts Avenue is street of lin.
dens. as beautiful as the lindens of
mores; New York Avenue is the street
of elms: the park in front of the
White House is lined with the ancient
Chinese ginko trees.
1t was because of this scientific
method of handling the city's shade
trees that Washington was the first
to discover the superior qualities of
the ginko as city tree. Biologists
soy that the ginko is the Oldest of all
trees. It's leaves are found in fossil
rock where the leaves of other con-
temporary trees are unknown. The
ginko is shapely in form and possess
es thick shade. Also 1t is tough, with
standing the hardest storms. Wash
ingron is doing away with maple
trees, beautiful, but too fragile-the
windstorms are constantly stripping
them of branches.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-06-02

,an training has been carried on this
winter at Fort Myer, Va, just across
the Potomac river from Washington.
Jnder orders from the Secretary OF
War the officers at this post have ta-
ken in hand twenty-four Washington
newspaper correspondents with the
view OF turning them into trained cav
alrymen. The drills are held every
Sunday morning about three hours,
and no other training is required.
The drills began last October and
they are still going on. Thus, some
thirty drills have already been had,
representing thirty days of easy
training. Yet in that time this platoon
has been training in discipline and
arget shooting, and sbecoming quite
proficient in horsemanship. The Of
ficers are 80 we'll pleased with the
rogress OF the work that they prom
Sc that certain Of these amateur cav
airymen will be able by next fall to
pass examinations and become com
petent officers of volunteers in the
event OF war.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-06-02
bULGAR|ANS HAVE
INVADED GREECE
THREE FORTS TAKEN IN AN
ENDEAVOR TO SECURE LEFT
WING AGAINST ATTACK.
Rejuvenated Serbian Army of Eighty
Thousand Men Transported to
Allied Base From Corfu.-Bat-
tie Raging at verdun.

London-From the French head
quarters in the Balkans comes tho
news that the Bulgars have occupied
the Greek forts of Ruple, Dragotin and
Spotovo, and were advancing from
Demir-Hissar toward Kaxalla.
The correspondent at Athens OF the
Exchange Telegraph company says he
learns from Saloniki that the Bulgar-
ians gave the Greeks two hours to
surrender Rupel fort. which is six
miles from the Demir-Hissar bridge,
recently blown up by the French in
anticipation of this attack.
Athens newspapers say that the de-
putation of German and Bulgarian Of
ficers in determining the surrender Of
Fort Rupel explained that its occu-
patton was necessary to secure the
Bulgarian left wing against an event
ual entente allied attack
Coincidental with the Bulgarian in
vasion comes a report that the reju-
venated Serbian army. the ancient
enemy of the Bulgars, has landed at
Saloniki to reinforce the British and
French troops already there. This
force has been estimated at $4,000 to
100000 officers and men. 1t was re-
organized on the island of Corfu
Occupation by the French of por-
tions of three craters formed by the
explosion of German mines In the Ar
gonne is announced in the official
statement issued by the French war
department Sunday afternoon. Re-
garding the battle for Verdun, it re-
ports a lively artillery duel to the west
of the meuse. in the vicinity of Dead
Man hill. and intermittent caHnonad-
ing on the right bank of the river. In
upper Alsace, the French checked
two attempts of the Germans to ad-
vance near Altkirch.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-06-02

and other places. Probably by fall
some twenty-five or thirty thousand
citizens will understand the rudi-
ments Of soldering and be ready to
serve in the defense of the United
States should there be a call.
In other ways, too, Washington is
receiving evidences of the interest
of the common people in military
training. The war department Is liter
ally swamped with applications for
civilians rifle clubs. Under the new
arrangement with the National Rifle
Club Association, the government fur
nishes arms, ammunition and instruc-
tion to citizens rifle clubs anywhere.
Any ten boys or men can organize
one of these clubs. get charter and
receive the army rifles to practice
with. The government also furnishes
liberal supply of ammunition. In
large number of cases the shooting
instructors can give personal instruc-
ion, but the various firing manuals
issued by the government are so COM
plete in their instruction that any
man can carry out the army pr'nci-
pies of correct shooting.
The result of this spontaneous
movement is that America in rela-
lively shcrt time is going to have
large body of men who Will under
stand army discipline, and what is
more important, who will know how
to shoot straight. Lord Kitchener
said that the great lesson Of the pre-
sent war is that straight shooting is
the prime requisite In soldier.
An interesting experiment In civil.