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To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: ON ono Of the young men who will
cast their first vote next November. That
vote is going TO be for tho revival and
maintenance OF the honor OF the American
nation.
| have lived the greater part Of my life in
the Middle West. | was brought up on
stories about Washington, and have been
inspired by reading of his trials at Valley
Forge that this country might be born OF
liberty have read how Lincoln battled
earnestly and fearlessly, and finally died, 70
prevent this country. a little unstable in its
youth, from falling into fragments.
We have an ex-President living to-day who
protected and guided US and upheld those
ideals Of the boys Of '76 for seven years
During this time there was trouble in Mex
leo and trouble at home, but our honor and
our integrity remained unchallenged, al
though not a single American life was lost
IN battle. Yet some say that Theodore
Roosevelt is a dangerous man. He would
be dangerous for our enemies.
The influential men Of this country should
not be blinded BY politics and selfish aims
They should base their nomination upon the
issue Of "Cowardce Versus Americanism"
want the opportunity 70 cast my first bal
lot for Theodore Roosevelt.
HARRY z. HOWE.
New York, March 10, 1916.
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Executive License.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Mr.. Rukeyser's interview with PFo'e''
sor Beard in The Tribune Of yesterday az
yclops the unwrttcn fact that there IS CT
urely too much hexibility in our governmeN,.
That a President, whether he be a Roose''''
with n firm policy or Wiisonie yaeilla,O',,
may create an unanticipated and unn'en''-
rrime mnistership and command all the p'V
negatives OF such an office. while ho1ops
himself free from its responsibilities, pro-,
beyond peradventurc that our goverh'h'-'
gives entirely too much license TO rs eAe''
tive heads.
When We return TO form. when our f'''.
dents again realize that they are eNeeu"''
and not legislative, or judicial. mentors inen
and only then. will the stability OF our s0'.
eminent be assured. In other words 90
Presidents have no right 20 use the We
stick, urge their personal views upon t0s
gress and dodge the responsibility for th'''
acts. MAYER NJ SWAAB, "
New York, March 20, 1916.
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Mayor Smith Family.
Phiiade'phia E,cn,r7 Ledger

ifHiNdf ihfp tfeitin7 4f'uD''t'
If Mayor Smith chooses 20 surround him
self with an official family which is recruited
from his private family and the wider circle
of his friends there is no law 70 prevent
him.
SO far four men personally attached to the
Mayor have received positions of trust and
honor from him. His brother Joseph C., is
his private secretary, and in that post OF
confidence unquestionably gives satisfaction.
DR.. Krusen. family physician to the Mayor, is
Director of the Department OF Public Health;
the Mayors butler. whom fate could not con-
ceal under the name Of Smith any more than
il could balk the ambitions Of his illustrious
namesake, is TO be inspector Of elevators; the
Mayors son-n-law is TO be chief Of investiga-
tion for the Civil Service Commission.
Well. it is to be hoped that they will all
enjoy their work and will give good service
20 the city which pays their salaries. But
one wonders how many more relatives 20
far not disposed % the Mayor has.
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To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: "The Teutonic mind cannot grasp
certain motives which depend solely upon a
sense of honor or find birth in scrupulous
uprightness. That which we in our
trcmmellcd smallness call 'scruple' they pos
sees not; and to that cause must be igned
the reason that the great Teutonic nation
never understood Theodore Trist lis posi-
ton was to them an anomaly. They could
not realize that he was capable Of serving
two nations-Francc and England -honestl
at the same time, and so they distrusted hi
He was hated because he had dared 10 criti-
considered in Berlin as the ablest yet CON
ceved since armies first ruled the world
Added 70 this there was the ranking sore of
an unforgotten story, told bluffly and with
scathing sarcasm in French and an English
newspaper simultaneously the story OF a
dtstardly attempt 10 extract information
from faithful Alsatian peasant woman by
means OF what IL barbarous ages We would
have denominated infamous torture"
Inc above may be none the less interesting
because Il is an extract from the work of
hction called Suspense" written by Henry
seton Merriman (the English author. Hugh
;. Scott and published BY Oodd Mead & Co.
The copyright year is given as 1892. but the
author IN the preface states the work was
an early and immature attempt that was
Withdrawn from circulation IN England. The
sentiments as indicated above appear TO have
been written at least twenty-five years ago.
A. II. ROWLAND
Ridgway Penn March is ra1c
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To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: No German of education living on
this continent. certainly none thoroughly &C
quainted with conditions in Germany, shouId
be unwilling 20 admit that the German
crmy's mission has never been to preserve
the peace of the world, but 10 be used as an
instrument to bring about world-supremacy
and to force the other nations, either by
threats or by open warfare. 10 allow her 10
reach that goal.
The patient and subseryient German
michel" sarcastic aIiusion to the German
simplicity Of mind in Germany may not DC
able TO see through that scheme ] admit
The idea of championing German militarism
as existing simply for the sake OF preventing
war and defending Germany against aggres-
sion has always been considered as absurd
and ridiculous by German military officials
in the privacy Of their clubs and "otlcer'
casinos" Al the same time the military
caste realizes that their true aims must not
be paradcd before the general public in Ger
many nor before any OF the foreign nations
especially on this side Of the Atlantic, IN
order not to arouse any suspicion.
When the present German Emperor as
cended his throne there were millions OF
people of German descent or birth living IN
the United States. Together with the Ger
man newspapers they were considered and
rightly as loyal 90 tho United States, as
hostile TO prussan mlitarism and autocracy
end as unwilling 70 be used as tools by the
leaders Of the Fatherland. And the Amcri-
can people ia general were suspicious OF
William II. tho war lord. The German En-
peror therefore aimed a. and gradually sue
ceeded in winning the good will of the people
OF the United States in general and OF many
COMMUNICATIONS in particular, and he left
no stone unturned to make them unconscious
Instruments for furthering his ends. No
doubt his ultimate design has always been to
establish Hohenzollern rule in South America
and TO make the United States his willing
tool. Let us examine into his policy for a
few minutes
William II began by Systematically hob
ncbbing with the American moneyed arts
tocracy. going out Of his way in entertaining
these people lavishly and pouring attentions
OF every kind upon American plutocrats. In
Guential United States statesmen, Senators
and Congressman also came in for their
share OF marked courteses. Even so shrewd
an American as the Laird Of Skibo, Andrew
Carnegie. bent his knee under the spell Of
the adroit and versatile William II. The
Emperor posed as q democratic ruler filed
With love and admiration for the American
neople. as a man Of pence TO whom war was
abhorrent his army being in existence
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A Sensitive Berlin.

Sometimes the Middle West surprises
US. Due. perhaps, TO the timidity Of its
in Congress, we in the East
had come to regard it as the home of pro-
Germanism, or at least Of a rock ribbed
neutrality which defed assault, submarine
or other. Yet Topeka now sends US word
that the citizens Of Berlin, hamlet in
Bourbon (sic) County, Kan, have asked
the chairman of the State Board of Control
how they may go about it to change the
name of their town.
Accurate statistics are not at hand, but
it seems perfectly safe 10 say that hand
some majority of our forty-eight states
contain each Berlin. The Atlantic sea
board, predominantly pro-Ally, is peppered
with Berlins But not suggestion have
we heard from one Of these that change
of name would be welcome. They seem
content enough to worry along under their
handicap, though every citizen be called a
spy and every jitney U-boat, and cries of
Here comes Tirpitz" greet the sight OF
every set of venerable whiskers on Main
Street.
The good people Of Berlin, Kan, on the
other hand, have found the gibes Of neigh
bors and visitors, but particularly OF
travelling statesmen who make the town
an intolerabe burden. They Indignantly
assert there is not person in the town
ship or near it who sympathizes with the
German cause. They want no more
"hochs," in greeting, no more serenades OF
DIE Wacht am Rhein,' no more goose
stepping for their edification. What sub.
marine piracy had failed to do, apparently
ridicule has accomplished, and they arc
heartily sick and tired Of the very mention
of the outlawed nation.
But if Berlin, Kan, succeeds in changing
IT, name. won't some of our other Berlin:
follow suit? Here is a problem for the
Kaisers agents. Isn't there some way in
which they can brighten or bride travelling
statesmen into abandoning their criminal
conspiracy to make this name anathema!
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land" is indeed an ignored chapter IN his
tory, for there was such a conquest as truly
as there was Norman conquest of England
and il was largely contemporaneous with the
Anglo-Saxon conquest of England.
To-day, when the study of Irish history and
literature is being pursued in every uniVer-
sty and learned academy in Europe with
truly astonishing results, these facts are be-
ing canvassed as never before. Why, how
ever DO not our encyclopedias inform Us
that the real Scotia Of history is Ireland
that the real Scots were lrishmen (wltness
Stduius Scotus, Johannes Scotus Erigena
Narianus Scotus, Duns Scotus, etc., that
present day Scotland was Scotia Minor, nav
ing the same blood, language, literature,
customs, polity ad laws as Ireland, and all
the other facts these facts imply? And why
do they pretend that Lowland. or south scot
land. is Anglo-Saxon, when the only Anglo
Saxon settlement was in three counties
around Berwick, while Galloway, also the
most southerly part Of Scotland. has 22O
"cnoes" (the Irish word for "hill"), as Sir
Herbert Maxwell counts them?
J. b. BROOKES.
New York, March Il. 1916.
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Marching for Villa !

Bring the good old bugle, boys provided
il will tooO,
Bring it with spirit that will make the
Greasers scoot;
Bring it as we've got to bring it. down
Chihuahua route,
While we go marching for Villa,
CHORUS.
Hurrahl Hurrah. How unprepared we be
Hurrah, Hurrah! The flag that once was
free,
So We'll sing the chorus, and pretend it's
jubilee,
While we go marching for Villa.
How the Mex will Xxi! XII" when they
hear our mournful sound,
How like a million rattlers they'll be strik-
ing from the ground.
How we'll rush upon them (when our
commissary's found
While we 60 marching for Villa,
CHORUS.
Fetch the old machine gun. boys, the maya
zine wen cram
THAT is, if we can find it, the gun will
doubtless jam
Exactly when we need it, but we mustn't
give a damn.
While we go marching for Villa,
CHORUS.
Let us make a thoroughfare for Freedom
and her train,
4 thousand miles in latitude land then
come back againO
We cannot look behind us, for assistance
will be vain,
While we 20 marching for Villa,
We've been on the border, boys, since time
we've quite forgot,
Like dogs in leash we've dawdled while
our comrades have been shot;
You bet well get that bandit though our
carcasses should rot,
While we 20 marching for Villa,
CHORUS.
+. r. L.
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ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC VICTORY
Germany Agrees to a New Method
of Murder.
. tho Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | observe that an Administration
newspaper announces the resignation Of yor
Tirpitz as yet another triumph for American
diplomacy. Meanwhile it may be pointed og.
that within the restrictions imposed by the
British fleet the work Of sea sayaeery con-.
tinues. The effect is the same, but the
modus operandi has been slightly changed
possibly in Difference 20 the scruples Of
Washington, which heayes am audible sigh
of relief every time it is possible 20 attribute
murder on the high seas TO the instrumental.
ty of mine, or when. as in the almost for.
gotten case Of the IIesperian, IL is technically
possible to avoid the conclusion that the de-
struction was done by torpedo.
At the time Of the Persia incident YOU
were good enough 10 print a letter from ne
IN which ! pointed out that The Ieuionc
powers had only TO adopt the policy Of sink
ing ships when they could do so unobseret
and all would be well That prophecy sp
pears 10 have been abundant,y justified By
recent events I'm the ease of the sills
the comfortable theory Of a mine has appaf'
entity been accepted. although the balance
Of evidence appears on the whole 90 favor
the theory of a submarine Recent dis
patches seem 70 make 70 fairly certain that
the Tubantia was torpcdoed, get % Is almost
p foregone conclusion that the German gov
eminent, so far as Washington Is concernec'
viii receive the benefit OF the doubt and b.
absolyed Of responsibility on 'he Imposition
that the vessel may have struck mihe
Doubtless it was also a self-propc.led mine
which crossed tho wake Of the Fabre inei
Patria on her latest western voyage.
Now, even if we grant iu an these ard
other cases the somewhat improbable tneoi!
of mines, why, on that account should ne
German government be held gui.tessf
l. il was a mine that sank thc SlIus ana
another mine that sank the Tgoantia' the,
obviously those mines were laid by orders o.
the German government. for it is hardly .
reasonable supposition that the Allies wo''
strew the ocean highways with mines
sink the ships. whether their own or nes
trails, OF which they stand greatly IN nes'
And the only German ships which could rave
planted these mines are submarines. In'
logic Of the thing is inevitable. Ihe re'''
Of ten months Of negotiation over the L.'-
tania is 10 give the German government u"
permission 10 sink, with the aid o. s1o'",
rincs. any ships !: likes, armed or unaTn'.
with or without warning, so long as i USE
some instrument OF destruction other 'nA'
a torpedo
This is Presidcn. Wilson's vind.eaton O.
American honor and his avenging OF Amer
can dead I am sorry 70 obtrude these y
Elections on the general rejoicings over ,n'
fresh diplomatic victory but there are &C.
grees even OF the ignoble. and II seems |"
re rather less contemplate 20 recognize y
futility Of the product Of President Ni'sOs >
typewriter than 20 pat ourselves on m t
back over the shadowy concessions WHO
Germany has been pleased 20 make 20 Us,
New York, March Is. 1915 \
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,,erelv for the purpose OF defending the
La.berland and in order 10 serse as a
,nleudid physical training school 10 enAo'e
.bo German bows 90 become strong neal'n!
aler, and order-loying citizens. p,
In order 20 further his designs William IL
sert his brother. Prince Henry. on WISH 10
.to Tritod states. where the latter was re-
O. wed everywhere most enthusiastcaiI!
AIore and more the German newspapers j"
This country learned 20 sing 70 the frusslaH
r..ber than 20 the American tune. lhey los'
.boi- American character and became mete'!
oeents OF German ofticialdom. The editors
we're roval,v entertained by hrs majesty an"
fratornizeJ with German editors IN German!
v.Lo in turn paid frequent visits 10 me "''
man newspaper world in the OnIted H'a'eN
German militarism and German polltic"! con
ditions were no longer criticised 'he "''
uan-American alliance, hitherto mercy con
sidered a social institution OF Germans W
came a political power, fayoring men lot o.
flee with German leanngs rather thah con
sidering their Amerlcanism loge'he' VIZ"
the Irish-American League. TINS union was
20 represent and TO foster ahu-Ehe''S" 'o''
ing in the United States.
Sbo German Kriegcrbund COR league Of
former German soldiers) also became more
Ia
man military societies in this country MADE
pilcrimages to Germany to pay homage ana
profess undying loyalty for Germany IN inc
presence Of the Emperor and this IN thei'
capacitv as American citizens, having re-
rounced allegiance TO foreign princes
The exchange professors were another rae
tor IF value 10 the German KAISER. Grea'
exodus of American students to German UNI
vcrsities was the result Of exchanging pro
fessors. for even men like Professors Sloane
and Burgess returned TO America drunk with
Teutomania. All those people made Ilght o'
German militarism and German autocracI
end became arch defenders and blind worship
pers of William. To them mltarlsm wa
only a sweet and harmless and innocent lamo
They met officers and diplomats at the socla
parlor, where the latter acted the role OF
gentlemen with lamblke sweetness ana &c
lightful courtesy. and they were unable 70
detect the wolf in the heart Of the majority
of German army officers and diplomats Ia
Macchiavell
II is behind the high walls of the army
barracks where these officers show their true
nature. They act brutally toward their OWL
soldiers; how much more will they do so III
contact with soldiers of the enemy! The
American plutocrats, the statesmen, the pro
fesscrs, the students they all received theii
dose Of sand in die Augen" "poudre aux
yeux" as the French put it. The American
market was flooded with books written by
American Teuto-enthusiasts, intended to be
used by American students DESTROYS OF learn
ing German. Although the books, from a
literary point of view. are hardly worth the
raper they are written on. they are popular
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PEACE WITH HONOR
Preparedness and a Republican
President Are Essential.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the list of names suggested for
the Republican nomination for President
Hughes. Root. Roosevelt-why il not TAFT
also included? lie has ability, experience
and backbone equal to any, and more than
most of those mentioned.
The reason probably is the consensus OF
opinion that he could not be elected. Ad-
mitted: and the Same statement applies with
equal force to Roosevelt. IL goes without
saving that il the 100000 who voted for
these men in the last election were united
no Democra. could win. The 100000 who
voted for Roosevelt would never vote for
Taft; neither would the 100000 who voted
for Taft support Roosevelt; so what is the
use?
Eliminate both from the list as impossible
tiles. notwithstanding the fact that either
would be a monumental improvement over
the present incumbent. If either had been
President during the last two years, Ger
many, also Great Britain, would have yielded
20 the just demands which either would have
cxacted We should have had no war, and
the United States would have stood for
power and dignity, highest in the list of
neutral nations. A peace compelled il in
fntely preferable to peace maintained By
backdowns.
Neither should Hughes nor Root be men
toned. Hughes has his own place and fills
il full. Keep him there. Root in ability and
statecraft is tho peer of any, and if he
might be put back ten years in age would
be the model candidate; but no man past
threescore years and ten is able 10 stand
the physical strain incident 70 conducting
the arduous duties involved unless he might
have a new set OF arteries.
There il Burton. OF Ohio; Borah. Of Idaho.
not forgetting our own Mclean, of Connecti-
cut, either of whom. If nominated By a
united convention. would sweep the country.
We all want peace, but the peace which is
kept By yielding the rights Of American cit-
zens at home or abroad is peace without
honor. II is the towards peace; the peace
described By Patrick Henry when he asked ::
shall We acquire the means OF efTectual
resistance by lying supnely on our backs
and hugging the delusive phantom of hope ~
Only preparedness, conducted by real states
manship, can insure peace. Let Us in the
next election lay away in cotton the old
Democratic party which since 1860 has
pointed with pride to the past and viewed
with alarm the present until by fluke it
eliminated in Wilson, that's ALL" by unit
ing Republican and Progressive upon a can
didate who will compel and maintain such
peace with honor. albeit with force. if ne
cessary. ALBERT F. SHERWOOD.
Waterbury, Conn, March IS, 1916
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Scotia.
or Of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: was arguing with a friend over the
terms "Scot" and Scotia" when We decided
70 look the terms up in an encyclopedia. Il
is remarkable that in not single encyclo-
pedia could we find the true meaning and
history OF these terms, a misunderstanding
Of which has led TO ,nnumerable errors. Not
one educated man in a thousand knows tina.
the terms Scotia" and "Scot" were for cen
turtles applied TO Ireland and Trishmen alone.
though Usher, Protestant Archbishop of
Dublin. settled the question two centuries
ago with extraordinary wealth OF learning
| have never been able to discover why il
was that Ireland should have been known 10
the Romans as "Hiberna" in Casars time,
and then should later be known TO Europe as
Scotia" From 400 A. D.. when Seduius. the
theological Virgil, and Pelagius. prince Of
heretics. were the best known Irishmen in
Chrstendom, and onward almost 20 Reforma-
ton time. the phrase the Scots OF ireland"
occurs everywhere. ireland is known equally
as Hiberna and Scotia. Scotland is hardly
mentioned at all. but. being an Irish province,
conquered. coloniIed and Christianized by
Irishmen. il il known as Scotia Minor. or
Lesser Ireland The Irish Conquest % Scot
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No Traitors for Him.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The New York Tribune has been M,
chosen daily for the ffty-two years Of ny
public life. | cannot see how il is possible
for any person to think of Theodore Roose-
welt as the standard bearer of the Repub-
lean party. The humiliation we are no ID.
suffering as a nation through the weak and
vacillating foreign policy of the present adj
ministraton, the greatly reduced business
incomes, the shortage OF government reve-
nues. so sorely needed, are chargeable large.
ly 10 Roosevelt, who a political traitor
sought TO defeat and did defeat the nominee
of the Republican party for the Pres. dency
in 1912.
From the day | first heard Mr.. Rooseye',
speak while he was Police Commissioner !
was one OF his stanchest political support-
ers, up TO his Chicago convention TO disrup.
the Republican party. My first ballot was
cast for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 | have
been marching in that political company
since, and shall enjoy marching on so long as
1t is wise enough TO select It's standard
bearer from the many experienced leader.
whc have been loyal TO the welfare of tho
country through the agency of the Repuh-
lean party. | have talked with NAM who
think and feel rs | do in this matter.
However able "A traitor may be. deliver
me from any service to help his promotion.
GEORGE L. THOMPSON.
Sarasota, Fla, March 10, 1916