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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-07
Italian. and the Presidential Election
From ~ Corroccio)

From ~ Corrocciol
The "Carroccio" deliberately mas ao-
claimed from politics while the fever
80 tho present Presidential campaign
r;ses We could have discussed 1t with
Freedom and calmness, but the question
Of the hyphenlsm, once more drawn OIL
the carpet, has advised US to be silent
And we remained silent not because we
foared 70 come out Of the discussion
without honor and dissatisfied; put
rather because we know that, whiie .he
Presidential election goes on, ideas pe-
ing misunderstood, cause even mar
"a look as beam before the eyes OF
the ill-intentioned adversaries.
The Americanism of to-day, such as
the one defined and defended by VII
son. Hughes and (let US admit III also
bv Roosevelt, is the only one which we,
not only now, but always, have found
IN be natural, logic and honest Hence
our continual and irreducible OPPOSE
ton to an artificial, unconscious, mer-
cenary Decentralization of the foreign
ers here emgrated, wanted simply TOT
electoral purposes by the political Dig
OTIS: without any help to America, who
would only have forms variably snadeo
of unprepared citizens; without any
helm to the nation of their origin, VINO
lost all her influence on them; without
anv help to the individual who some
dav would wake to find himself neither
flesh nor fish, but a member OF the
ignoble invertebrated class OF the n.y.
phens.
To-day the friction Of reality has
proved us to be right Hence nothing
hyphenated Gny longer. Either Amerl-
cans or nothing.
Therefore, it is because we do not
want to be sssimilated with the Ger
mans. and also because we do not in
tend TO share with them the shame
which they have drawn upon them
selves, that the "Carroccio," born and
living exclusively to uphold Italian
culture and defend Italian interests in
America, being well acquainted with
the present political danger and re-
spectrum lOWdTu fiiiltl ltan HOoPASo4'N''
abstains from entering into the present
conflict. We only wish that the voters
of Italian origin would cast their vote
freely and uninfuenced. in order that it
may not be said that the Italians allow
themselves to be hired or to betray
the interests Of the nation whose citi-
zen they chose TO be. And this would
indirectly be an insult also to the ones
remained attached to the faith nation
ally Italian.
He who fully lives an American life
should vote for that candidate that
better answers to the requirements of
his own conscience. Let him follow
only that voice, and then he may be
sure that he is voting for that candi-
date who will more wisely and more
surely hold the destinies Of the L. s. A.
Only let him vote against
any German candidate or upholder of
German policy. This for the cause of
the L. S., which is also Italy's cause.
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The Oyster

ale was a bold man who first eat
an oyster" said Swift. We have the
evidence of the prehistoric shell
heaps that man has been bold ever
since first he reached the sea in those
far-off times. And even to-day, on
the shores of the North Sea, the
Kaiser is violently endeavoring to
open with his sword the oyster
which he claims as Germany's
future.
Truly, the bivalve is mans COM
panion down the ages, celebrated in
the literatures which history creates.
A delicacy highly priced, yet food
within the reach of the humblest of
US. Juvenal, in his Satires, gave it
a place Of honor at Nero's banquets;
Horace knew it and appreciated its
qualities. But, on the other hand,
Sam Weller pointed out to Mr.. Pick
wick that poverty and oysters al
ways go together"
How gustatory a place the oyster
holds in the ,literatures of the peo-
pies that are blessed in knowing
it; how poetic a one in those of
the peoples that only know its price
less daughter, the pearl, Shake
speare valued it most highly for the
gem and the imagery it flashed to
his genius. But, more just than
most poets who have sung of pearls,
he gave the humble oyster credit for
its supreme achievement. There is
the treasure of an oyster" which
the firm Roman to great Egypt sent.
What a vista the phrase unfolds of
history created by the translucent
sphere! Oysters have died in num-
bers untold that fair necks might be
loaded with the gem-have died
without a murmur, in ecstasy per-
haps over the knowledge that what
they yielded would adorn beauty and
enhance it.
Shall we deny such feeling to the
oyster, which leads a life of purely
altruistic service TO man, demanding
nothing in return but that the
waters in which it lives shall not be
polluted? Science has tested its
sensibility. even an oyster may be
crossed in love-" said Sheridan. Nay
more, Tombstone declared that he
would not be sworn that love might
not transform him into one. But the
oyster has kept its own counsel. Not
even in folklore, we believe, has it
ever spoken.
Wise oyster! And what an ex-
ample of wisdom to others, what an
inspiration for proverbial philoso-
ply. There is the pearl in the
oyster, infinitely more valuable than
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ALTRUISTIC GERMANY
American Prosperity Is Seen as a
Colossal Crime

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Would it not be advisable to
cast out the beam in our own eye be-
fore we insist on removing the mote in
the eye of Germany-since it goes
without saying, so long as we are not
concerned either with the causes or
objects of the European war, only in
tent on prolonging this money-making
massacre, we are guilty of a colossal
crime against humanity? Being thus
sordidy occupied. we obstreperously
threaten Germany whenever she makes
a move calculated to interfere with the
transit of our munitions to the Allies
and to shorten the white mans Arma-
geddon. Aye, we dictate in season and
out of season to the self-sacrificing
power who. in the hope to avert 1t alto
gether, put OFF mobilizing her army .
little too long. We even rcprobate her
when, having failed to avert this dire
struggle, she tried to make 1t as swift
and bloodless as possible.
II one judged America and Europe
to-day by their vituperative spokes-
men, their scribes and pharisees, one
would be tempted to believe that the
pessimistic assertions of Mr.. Chamber
lain applied with still greater truth to
the opening decades of the twentieth
century. This is how the learned
author Of "Thc Foundations Of the
Nineteenth Century" puts it: an the
nineteenth century We have heard so
much fine talk about the freedom Of
speech, the freedom Of science, etc; in
reality, however, we have been worse
cnslavcd than In the eighteenth CEN
tury, for, in addition to the tyrants
who have really never been disarmed,
new and worse ones have arisen. The
former tyranny could, with all its bit
ter injustice, strengthen the character;
the new, which is a tyranny proceeding
from and aiming at money. degrades TO
the lowest depths of bondage"
MARY IVES TODD.
n--iS a. On tofa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-07
Munsteryrad

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t was generally known eighteen
months ago that Professor Mdnsterberg
handed his resignation to President
Lowell on account of public criticisms
for his indiscretions of that period
indiscretions now repeated with an in
eptitude so complete as TO arouse
amusement without resentment.
The resignation was Of course not
accepted, the advantages Of martyrdom
being too obvious. but at that time the
terms in which It was rejected were not
announced. II is now rumored that
Mr.. Lowell told Professor Munsterberg
that he would not accept his resigna-
ton because il was not appropriate 10
the circumstances, but that a fitting
solution for his difficult situation would
be found if he would change the last
syllable of his name from berg" TO
grad
This is doubtless apocryphal, but
there is sense in which the
apocryphsl often contains more truth
than does reality. HARVARD 90.
New York. Nov. & I9l6
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the Niger in the woodpile, or even

the Niger in the woodpile, or even
the milk in the cocoanut "Dumb as
an oystero-we say it reproachfully'
impatiently, with irritation; but is
there not in this obstinate, golden
silence the wisdom of the ages
through which the bivalve has fed
and adorned mankind? And there is
the lesson which Boileau drew from
it, in Pope's translation;
There. take (says Justice) each a
shell,
We thrive at Westminster on folks
like you;
Twas a fat oyster-live in peace
adieu.'
A democratic friend Of man withal
the only article of our food whose
price has not risen in twenty years
and more-democratic notwithstand-
ing the place of honor assigned to
il at Nero's banquets, and Its EVIL
reputation of association with MD
night suppers, with roysterers and
MASTERS of substance. 1t Will do
honor to silver and finest china and
linen in palaces, or 1t VIII uncom-
plainingly accompany the humble
citizen home in a box. 1t is at your
service ever, succulent and inexpen-
sive.
Remember and honor it in this era
Of the rising cost of living. 1t IS
as nourishing and wholesome as 1t
is palatable. Our government at
least has recognized its virtues
Washington issued, some years ago.
a pamphlet giving many recipes for
its preparation.
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The War After the War
prom The Philadelphia Ledger

prom The Philadelphia Led1er)
Many Englishmen will agree with
the unnamed diplomat in Washington,
whose views were set forth yesterday,
that a trade campaign against the
Central Powers after the war would
not realize the expectations Of those
who advocate it. Business quickly for
gets animosities when a chance for
profit arises; even now, In the midst of
war, the British government is obliged
TO take measures to prevent its own
citizens from dealing with the enemy.
What would be feasible, and what the
Paris conference probably had chiefly
in mind, is such protection from Ger
man competition as would enable Bel
GUM and France to rebuild as soon as
possible their injured industries.
Probably. too, all the European coun-
tries will endeavor by tariffs to meet
competition from any quarter. But
anything like a boycott of any one of
them would be predestined to failure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-07
u. S. IN SANTO DOMINGO
A Spanish-American on the Wilson
Policies

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: have read in your paper some
editorial articles regarding President
Wilson's policies toward the Spanish
American countries. | agree with you
in the statement that Mr.. Wilson has
made many mistakes concerning the
Latin-American countries, with special
reference to Santo Domingo and Hayti.
AS stated by you, President Wilson has
violated the Dominican sovereignty by
landing soldiers there, resulting in sew
eral fights between Dominicsns and
Americans, and | believe, as | am a
Dominican native, that the trouble
between the United States and Santo
Domingo will be stopped if the Domin-
leans rights are respected.
The commander OF the American
army in Santo Domingo has sent a
statement to all the Dominican news
papers warning them against any ar
ticle appearing against the American in
tervention. This is a gross violation Of
the liberties of the press, of which the
people of the United States are so
proud. In fact, many editors have been
arrested and are still in prison for
publishing articles against the Ameri-
can invasion and these outrages.
! received news from Santo Domingo
regarding the American soldiers treat
ment of tho Dominicans and about
many outiages occurring to the Domin-
lean people. Besides all this, we are
still awaiting for the American govern
ment to take into consideration the in
justice they have done to Santo Do
mingo.
RADHAMES CORDERO.
New York, Nov. s, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-07
T. R. LED WORLD
IN Army AVIATION
Chester Tells OF His
Achievement

Colonel Theodore Roosevel,'s quick
perception of the possibilities in aero.
planes was proved when in 1897 ts
gave to the United States Army the
first aeroplane ever used for military
purposes. two years before any other
country took a similar step. His sere
nautical foresight has been further sui
stantiated by letter received recently
by Aerial Age" from Rear Admiral c
NJ. Chester. Admiral Chester says u
part:
at may not be out OF order at tbs
critical time of the country's history
TO tell little secret. In 1897, when
Mr.. Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary
of the Navy, and Professor LangleJ,
secretary Of the Smithsonian lnstI'u'
ton, was employed upon the problem
of aviation, a Senator went 10 Prssi'
dent Mckinley and told him that me
professor had expended all has avail
able means on the search for the laws
which govern mechanical flight ana
must have government support or give
up his efforts.
1.-THE President said he did not knos
how it would be possible FOR the go'.
eminent TO assist in the matter unde'
the law, but that il there was any MAJ
in the Administrator that could find
way to bring it about it was Roosevei,s.
Mr. Roosevelt took up the subject vi'1
his characteristic energy, and founa
that the fertilization board of the army
had an appropriation for experiment.
purposes which answered the requiYd
conditions.
"The world now realizes that tr'
successful accomplishment OF meehanl,,
cal flight is due more TO the studies
Professor Langley than 10 any o'ns.
cause, but it does not know that nv
professors efforts would have come /.
naught but for one Of the Roose'e"
nolicies
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-07
ALL INBOUND LINERS
DELAYED BY ST0RhS
California, Driven from Course
Arrives Four Days Late

Mountainous seas and head WINDS os'
layed all incoming liners yestetos,r,
Passengers on the Anchor Liner ~
fornia, from Glasgow, which was ig ~,
days overdue, told OF being driven y,
out of their course BY storms. Sesi'..
one day of clear weather markeo Wv
crossing. Tia,
The Carpathis, of the Cunsrd LIN LIN
was two days late, owing to the ne.yi
weather. The only passenger whS =.
not "pay tribute TO Neptune" was i'~
my, the ships cat. Il, ..,i.
The Calamares, from South Am~
can ports, brought tale OF hign
along the coast. DR.. W. l.. MOS. ,,s
Baltimore, was a passenger, relu '" !,
from a four months expeditioh a..
Northern Peru, where he mace
thropological and geological studies ,hs
DR.. Moss. who is the head OF
Harvard expedition bearing his I II
previously reported the discovery ,.s.
two ancient cities, in hitherto Ssro.
plored region in the valley Of the N ,as.
NON River. a tributary Of the Amis;,
He studied the diseases OF the in'"
in that district.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-07
MenocaPs Reelection

A few days ago General MenocaFs
supporters were on the point Of con-
ceding his defeat for reelection as
President Of Cuba. The city Of
Havana went against him. So did
Havana province, and early eturns
from the other provinces were I'M
favorable. 1t appears now that the
candidate of the Liberal party car
ried Havana, Matanzas and CANA
guey. But the Conservatives main
tain that President Menocal has won
in Pinar del Rio, Santa Clara and
Oriente, which three provinces out
vote the other three in the Electoral
College.
The election machinery is under
the control of the government, and
the Assistant Secretary of the In
terror Department announced on
Sunday that the returns received by
him assured General Menocal a sec
ond term.
Cuba is to be congratulated on
this result. The Liberal party,
whose Presidential candidate this
year was DR.. Alfredo Zayas, repre-
sents the more unstable elements in
the Cuban population. The real
leader of the party is ex-President
Jose Miguel Gomez. He has been
flrebrand in the islands politics.
Coming into power after the second
American Intervention, he subordi-
mated good government to partisan
advantage. He was not a statesman,
but simply a self-seeking and self
clarifying politician. His rule bred
many scandals. It was inefficient
and demoralizing. The voters turned
Gomez out in 1912 and elected Memo
cal, who had been the unsuccessful
Conservative candidate in 1908.
The Menocal Administration has
been a credit to Cuba. 1t has aimed
at giving clean government and de-
veloping Cuba's resources. Cuba has
prospered enormously in the last
four years. Foreign capital has been
attracted to the island, and there has
been a rapid increase in wealth and
population. In addition, political
tranquility has been maintained. The
Cuban people are accustoming them
selves to self-government. They are
cutting loose from the Latin-Ameri-
can traditions of noisy factionalism,
of the pursuit of the spoils of office
as the be-all and end-all of politics.
What Cuba most needs is an era
Of solid economical and industrial de-
velopment. Conditions now greatly
favor her. She can educate her
people and make them really self
dependent, if she has a breathing
space of ten or fifteen years. The
success of the Liberal party, under
its present leadership, would be
real menace to Cuba's welfare, since
that party stands for demagogic agi-
tation, factionalism and poor stand
ards of public service.
President Menocal's reelection is
therefore a welcome augury of con-
tinued progress in Cuba and of the
undsturbed maintenance of har-
monious relations with the United
States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-07
Listen, Brother!

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have written these lines with
the idea that the greater number of
Americans have not realized and do
not realize that, no matter what the
causes were of this great European
war, it became at its very beginning
not a war against France, not war
against England, not a war against
Russia, but a war against civilization.
1t became a war against civilization
when treaty became "a scrap of pa
per-" when the first non-combatant was
murdered and the first unwarned ship
was sunk, and not yet to the men and
to the nations who are fighting for you
this fight to uphold these laws, has the
official, moral support been given that
the situation demands.
walked through the marshes Of Flanders,
Hewn roughly by giant shell.
And / came to a forest OF crosses
That told me a story of hell.
And I paused TO think and to wonder,
When a voice called up TO me:
This have done for you, brother
And what have you done for me7'
listened. and just beside me
Spoke on that voice, so clear:
81 lived with my loved ones-happy;
Had all that made life dear.
But heard Of the broken treaty,
OF the millions who rushed to the sea,
So gave my life for this, brother.
And what have you done for met
For what II they'd reached the seashore.
After fire and bayonet and shell,
After outrage and murder and arson.
They turned that land into hell
And what il Paris had fallen
And given to them that key?
SO gave my life for that, brother.
And what have you done for me?
when, out on the stormy ocean.
With mono TO help at hand.
Men. women and children were murdered
Beyond the sight OF land.
What answer TO note and protest
'Gainst piracy on tho seat
gave my life for that, brother.
And what have you done for me,
''They dared raise thanks to Heaven,
They dared TO toast The Day
When all our dear-bought liberty
Lay PROSTATE meath their sway.
What all your forebears died for
No longer was TO be
So gave my life for you. brother.
And what have you done for met
''Do you think in days to come. brother.
When the tale Of this war is told.
Your part will be written in honor
Or tinged with the color OF goldl
It's not too late TO write there.
Ere turned the last page be-;
TIL do my duty by thee. brother
You gave you. life for me- "
Don't think your Wanted millions
Don't tend toward human greed:
Don't teach that strict neutrality"
Is an honorable. wholesome creed
| toast the glorious millions
Who died TO keep US free.
Go. do your part for your brother
He gave his life for thee
BEATRICE c. GLASS.
q
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WHY not the Czechs, who have devel'
oped a far greater intellectual unity
who have displayed far more de-
termined race spirit in recent years
A new Poland will seem a promise
Of a new Bohemia, and such a hope
l. realized. would raise a free Slay
state. not like Poland on the from
tiers Of Germany, but in the very
heart Of the Teutonic populations OF
Central Europe.
At the very outset of the war the
Russians promised the restoration
not of Russian Poland, but OF all
Poland. the reunion Of Russian, Ger
man and Austrian provinces, once
portions of the Polish Kingdom.
Russian purpose was to enlist the
LOYALTY of Russian Poles. So far as
we can Judge. this promise was ac-
cepted by the Russian Poles and did
thus accomplish its purpose. But Will
the much more restricted promise of
the Austrians and Germans win the
Poles away from Russia? One may
doubt it, although it is plain that
Germany and Austria are bidding
for Polish recruits.
Actually, it must be plain that the
Germans and Austrians have had re-
course to very dangerous expe-
dent. If they win the war they will
have raised up a permanent menace
on the east. a state which will seek,
as Sardinia sought in the last CEN
tury. as Serbia sought in this, to re-
claim other fractions of its father
land. If they lose the war they vii!
lave supplied to the Allies the war
rant for the erection of a Polish
state under Russian protection,
which shall include Posen, West
Prussia and East Prussia, which
shall give to free Poland not mere
" Warsaw and Lublin, but Cracow,
Dantzig, Posen and Konigsberg.
Unquestionably the raising Of the
Polish question will awaken echoes
in London and Paris, where the
Poles have many friends. 1t is
plainly intended to sow dissension in
the Allied camp, but, like many other
German calculations, it seems I'M
likely to succeed. Actually, the Ger
mans and Austrians have burned a
bridge behind them, a bridge that
they have hitherto hoped might serve
as a way for negotiation with Petro-
grad. They have declared for the
permanent separation from Russia
of an area quarter as large as
Germany, with a population Of above
100000.
Looking to the future, however,
we may believe that they will find
that the immediate profit, whatever
it may be, will hardly weigh against
the eventual peril the Polish ques-
ton has for them both.