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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
Travel in England.
tor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: May | be permitted to make one or
two comments on a correspondence IN The
Tribune furnished by go. X" and M. D." re
travel in England? 80. K" asserts there are
police regulations In England which are un-
necessarily annoying to alien visitors. an.
D." dssents from this view with the gentle
condition, unless they have aroused the
90 X" promptly returns with the retort
courteous. II is rather pretty correspon-
dence as far as il has gone.
80. X" and an. D." both fall into the
error of making positive generalization
from individual experiences. The impressions
OF travellers are VIGOROUSLY at variance. The
real issue is not whether there arc police
regulations in England which some visitors
find inconvenient but whether such regus-
tions as there may be are warranted and
whether an alien is justified in making a
complaint in public print about them when he
returns home.
On 80. K"'s own showing he had to re-
port his arrival, his whereabouts and his
movements, so that the police might know
at all times his location as an alien. He
does not refer to any discourtesy. He may
have had to wait his turn at the police sta
tion a few minutes, and he no doubt had to
do the same at the customs the first thing
on his arrival home and later at the Grand
Central ticket window. 1t would seem to go
without saying that the British Government
is within its rights and justified at all times,
and particularly so at the present, in exer-
cising such surveillance as it chooses over
aliens in its territory. Great Britain at this
vital time is simply trying to curtail the ac-
tivity of spies, who to all accounts have al
ready worked infinite damage and to do this
all aliens must be under surveillance. Car
any man question the justice or the wisdom
of such action?
80. K" seems to be familiar with Germany
in peace times. Perhaps he may visit it in
war times and write letter about it when
and if-he gets home. p. d.
New York, Aug. l6, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
AMERICANS WHO DIE FOR FRANCE
Fathers and Mothers Of the Republic
Send Their Sympathy.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | inclose the translation oil lcttei
Just received, which explains ITSELF iou
will see by it's concluding paragraphs that
am asked to transmit it as message 10 the
American people, and especially to the par
ents of the young Americans who are fighting
in France.
The French people are the most grateiul
people in the world, and feel 1t duty 10
give their words as wide publicity as posi-
bic. The authors of the letter are trying 70
reach with their voice the very persons VINO
have been much in my mind OF late tine
fathers and mothers of those young Amer
cans who have died as bravely as my boy oleu
but who through the accidents Of war ana
chance have failed to receive that due need
of individual praise to which they arc so
well entitled, and which by this method inc
writer's Of the letters would seek TO nave do
far as may be replaced to them.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN
Barrytown, Aug. IA, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
Dredge He'll Gate Channel.

While members of the Rivers and Har-
bors Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatves were inspecting New York Har-
Dor yesterday to learn first hand its needs,
other Congressman in conference were
busy killing an appropriation of 100000
in the naval bill for the deepening of Hell
Gate channel This improvement is abso-
lutely necessary if the country's largest
battleships are to be able to use this chan
mel at any tide.
President Wilson has given his testi-
mony as to the desirability of this appro-
priation. 1t is not pork; it is prepared
ness. The expenditure would not benefit
the navy alone; it would be of great inn
portance to the greatest harbor the coun-
try possesses. On either count it would
be justifable. To reject it was lamentable
unwsdom.
In the ordinary course of events, rejec-
ton of an appropriation by conference
committee settles it for that session of
Congress. This appropriation is of such
merit and means so much in connection
with the naval expansion on which the
country is entering that extraordinary
measures are warranted. Whatever par
liamentary procedure is necessary to bring
the item before House and Senate for a
vote should be taken.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
Travelling in Safety.

(FroDi The Philadelphia IHQHircr)
In the last thirty months the Pennsylvania
system, including all lines east and west OF
Pittsburgh has transported 454,0OO'00O pas
sengers without single loss of life. This
is an astonishing record. 1t means that what
amounts to four-and-one- times the pop
ulation of the country have made a trip in
safety and the total mileage equals about
one-ninth the distance from here to the sun.
Compare such a record with the safety Of
The ordinary pedestrian. In this city during
the first half Of the year about sixty persons
we're killed by automobiles alone. Many
trespassers on the tracks OF the Pennsyl-
vania have been killed and many who have
not needed warnings. Unfortunately, some o..
the employees Of the company have lost their
lives, but the passengers have been trans
ported in safety. According to these figures,
the safest place in the world for man is on
one Of the PsnnsylyAnis trains.
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(Transation.)
UNION OF THE FATHERS AND MOTHERS
WHOSE SONS HAVE DIED FOR
FRANCE.
Barrytown, Aug. "A, 1916.

President NJ. Paul Leroy Beaulieu de Plnsttut
President Emeritus. G.. Maspero
Vice Presidents M. NJ. Louis Barthou Henri
Bonnet, Chassaigne -Goyon, Reuter-, IT,
Lecompte. Professor Pinard.
NJ. NJ. A. Berard and P. Ginisty
Treasurer Observation-Disclosures G. CadouX
Assistant Treasurer ........M. Ed Maroeau
Paris, July 10, 1916.
Sir: The Union of the Fathers and Mothers
Whose Sons Have Died FOR France an as
sociation founded to safeguard and to honor
tho memory of those who fall in battle -
decided at recent meeting to extend to you
its profound sympathy. The society regards
with equal reverence and admiration all
those who are fighting on the soil of France
for the cause Of civilization and justice and
who arc displaying heroism never sur
passed in history.
Our thoughts turn with profound gratitude
toward those children of the great American
Republic who have brought their manhood to
aid that cause and who have given or Of
fered their lives to it. Your son, SIR, ever
since he sought the field of peril and of honor
in company with our soldiers has by his ex-
ploits been an example to his companions
in arms He has been In the first rank OF
the heroes whose memory we shall cherish,
and when death claimed him and crowned
his brave sacrifice with honor the whole OF
France paid homage TO the noble son you
have lost. Our Union desires to tell you
that We share in your sorrow and IN your
pride.
We desire also that this expression of ad-
miration and sympathy shall serve as a testi-
mony of our gratitude to all those country
men of yours whose sons are fighting by the
side Of ours, and who will tomorrow share IN
the honor of a victory, gained through their
prowess. which the whole world will applaud
Will you not, sir, become our Interpreter
and transmit to your countrymen this mes
sage?
Pray accept the sympathy of the fathers
and mothers of France who are bowed with
the same grief that has come to you.
PAUL ROY-BEAULlEU,
President of the Union.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
THE BREED OF SWIVELLERS
Blame Rests Upon the Red Tapers of the
War Department.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The public places the blame of the
recent mobilization on the regular army
1t apparently ignores the fact that the regu-
lar army is made up of two distinct parts
first, the fighters; second, the swivellers, and
that even these must be judged by their acts
the goats separated from the sheep, the
workers from the red tapers.
The country has ever been exutant over
cur fighting regular and his immediate SUI
perior. They have carried the flag from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, from Niagara to Mex
leo, always with honor to themselves and
glory to the United States. The man behind
the gun is loved and respected by all, he is
the meat and bone of the army.
Now we come to the swivellers of the War
Department. They must be divided into the
workers and the red tapers. The workers
gave US the canal, our guns and our ammu-
milton, made victory possible.
But the red tapers! What did they do
They swivel and swivel and swivel out red
tape. They cannot rise above the red tape
Of their making. They are hopelessly behind
the times in common sense foresight, mod
ern business methods. The lessons from the
past have no meaning for them. The prob
lens of the future they do not face or can
not solve. But the red tapers know that to
work pull and keep it well oiled beats mill
tary efficiency They are the maggots on
the army meat. Without wandering far
afeld the red tapers might go to the Navy
Department and learn how to care decently
for the army dead, try to grasp the way the
navy transfers the bodies of our sailors and
marines from Vera Cruz to the New York
Navy Yard, and learn how the Presi-
dent could speak quite near the collins con-
tanning the men who followed the flag to
their eternal rest.
We certainly need promotion by elmina-
ton. Will Congress wake up and investigate
the red tape maggots?
MCOSKRY BUTT.
New York, Aug. IS, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
The Magic Ring.

Dull mortals who cannot sec beyond
their own short noses may dismiss Tody
Hamilton as plain liar. Let them, and
welcome. The particular magic of which
Tody was ringmaster is not for staked-out
clods. Such imponderable substances as
Joy and humor were his working material
and the American sky was his limit. AS
we'll apply a yardstick to the Milky Way
as talk of facts in the same breath with
spangles and elephants and the magic saw
dust ring.
A great clown, best describes him.
though he never stepped from behind the
scenes. His was the imagining of mar
velous hoaxes, the distilling Of adjectives
that never were on sea or land, the splash
ing of the great American circus tent with
coors that still amaze and cheer. There
might have been circus without Tody
Hamilton. But what mute, inglorious
thing it would have been
Other press agents come and go. ALTER
alton, snatched from the clouds, lives on
as the slave of blurbing magazine editors.
Other days, other adjectives. But Tody is
gone; the comedy is ended. We can only
hope that each year, munching peanuts
rapturously while Coralie hangs by her
pink legs somewhere between sawdust and
heaven, faint echoes of the thrilling, ire
mendous, tantalizing past will not fail to
return and bless us.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
Learn to Swim!
From The Minneapolis Jourr1D

From The Minneapolis Journ1D
That ancient device Of boydom, two fingers
held upright which, being interpreted,
means Lets go swimmin'"-is now the
popular signal. Swimming as diversion and
an exercise Crews in favor every year. The
multiplying attendance at the various NUM-
cipal baths is matched by the eagerness with
which the Sunday holiday crowds seek re-
sorts where bathing may be enjoyed Every
lake and river and creek has its sportve
bathers. Sunburn is the fashionable wear,
and bathing suits are de rigueur.
Health and happiness are to be found in
the waters, provided their cool embrace is
sought with discretion and enjoyed with
judgment. But every Sunday nowadays
brings its toll of deaths by drowning with
more or less regular additions through the
week.
Every outdoor sport has its risks. and to
each there is the sacrifice to be made OF a
certain percentage OF accidents. Yet it would
he foolish to give up the dement's of bathing
bcause nj the attendant risk. The better
way is to reduce that risk to the minimum
by the exercise OF common sense-and pre-
paredness.
The bounden duty OF every one who goes
into the water is to learn TO swim as quickly
ana as wei Us pOSSlDlts He bcSt NiHc "
learn to swim is in childhood but the art
may be readily acquired by any one who is
active enough TO go into the water at all.
Timidity keeps many bathers from learn
ing this very important art. They permit
nameless terrors to deprive them Of what is
at once great JOY and safeguard against
disaster Such persons should never go in
the water at all, except where there are ropes
TO mark the limits where they may go, and
guards to look after them.
It is true that one often reads Of good
swimmers" being drowned. But usually it
will be found that notwithstanding their
proficiency in ratation. they have shown bad
judgment-ta taking unnecessary risks, at
tempting foolhardy feats, or ndulging in too
violent exercise for their physical condition.
Many swimmers do not allow sufficient time
to elapse after hearty meal, after get
ting greatly heated up, but go into the water
too soon. Cramps are likely to seize those
who do not, take this precaution.
Bathing is like any other psstime. II
should be enjoyed in moderation and with
judgment Thus enjoyed. il is one of the
most healthful forms Of exercise known.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
New German Propaganda.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The new German propaganda fore
Swallowed in yesterdays Tribune will come
as delightful surprise TO thousands of loyal
Americans who are of German extraction
and sympathies. The studiously concealed
movements of the Dernburg- Albert organ-
cation have been slight to our political in
teligence and American standpoint. We re-
fuse to be tools in the hands of the Kaiser's
hoodwinked agents. We side with Germany
heart and soul, but do not want to be torn
away from the quick touch and lfebeat Of
our adopted land. which is foremost and up
permost in our hearts. We have therefore
not responded to the deadening influences of
the official propaganda which wants to mar
row our freely chosen Americanism and
ALLEVIATE us from our acquired social environ
ments.
The spirited appeal made by Professor
Horrwitz in The Tribune breathes the more
congenial atmosphere of individual freedom.
We have suffered from diplomatic secrecy
and appreciate his sense of academic liberty.
We have long waited for such a call, and
if Professor Munsterberg will only take up
the splendid suggestion and start non-off-
cial organization for the betterment of the
strained relations between our native and
adopted lands, German-Americans will gladly
come TO his aid and give him all the moral
and financial support which he needs. Official
Germany indeed has piteously failed in pre-
pairing the way for political and cultural
understanding between the too finest and
greatest countries of the world.
ERMAN-AMERICAN.
New York, Aug. Is, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
"The New Spirit in England. "
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: ! wish to thank you for your editorial
in to-day's Tribune on THE New Spirit in
England"
1t expresses exactly the situation and in a
manner that | have not seen elsewhere. II
America could only awaken and know what
her danger is! England lived in a fools
paradise because she was too great, too fair,
and too we'll developed to believe that a ma
ton could start out and war against mankind
to get its place in the sun. If our people
could only know the facts it would work
wonders to all of us.
Although the war is frightful thing and
has stepped the world in blood, it certainly
has emblazoned the word Service" in the
heart of every human who is doing his or her
bit to stay the barbaric thrust at the heart of
civilization. CLARENCE B. WOOD
Boston, Aug. l6, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
The Mortality of Cats and Dogs.
.ditor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: 1t would be interesting to have little
light thrown on the statistics published in
The Tribune Aug ID on the increase OF
mortality among animals, especially cats and
dogs The infantile paralysis panic resulted
in thousands of cats being sent to be de-
stroyed, not only stray cats but pets from
homes
Are these additional animals counted in the
report which states that in July, 1915, 9,9sS
were removed from the streets as against
the number in July Of this year, which is
81 093?
Statistics are very interesting if true, but
private deductions in this case would arrive
at the conclusion that the difference in these
two July records was due TO the fact that
many cats had been sent to be destroyed, not
that an unusual number had succumbed TO
any disease on the streets. NJ. MILLER.
New York, Aug. 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
Fair PLAY from Both.

It is a healthful sign that, despite the
annovances due to the tactics of the intol'
Grant and headstrong Mr.. Hedley, the
street railway employees have changed
their talk of calling a strike forthwith tc
announcement of intent to appeal to Mayor
Mitchell and Chairman Straus of the Pub.
lie Service Commission to right their
wrongs. That is a sane and strong posi-
ton. 1t shows they have due sense OF
their obligations to the public under the
agreement their representatives signed
when the late strike was settled in their
favor, and that they plan to live up to the
promises then made.
What is not so clear is the management
position. President Shonts appears to be
acting in good faith with the men. He has
shown himself throughout this controversy
willing TO meet the men fairly and to treat
with them on a basis of recognition of
their rights and the duties which the tran
sit company, as well as its employees, owes
to the general public. Unfortunately, the
attitude Of Mr. Hedfey, the company's OPP
Grating head, and of strong body in the
directorate has been neither so frank nor
so intelligent. The employees have been
forced to know that; the public has been
able to see it. The men dstrust Mr.. He'd
ley, and his conduct during the strike and
since has not produced any especial rea-
son for them to believe that signing the
settlement agreement reconciled him to its
terms.
The employees may or may not be right
iR.ther specific allegations of bad faith
against the company. That is q matter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18

for Mayor Mitchell and Mr.. Straus. or
duly constituted board Of arbitration, TO
decide. But it should be clear to Mr.. he'd
ley, and to the stubbornest reactionaries
in the marlborough directorate, that they
can escape serious trouble only by strict
good faith with the men and with the pub
lie. The agreement which ended the late
strike was not made to bind the men and
not the company. The public will not en-
dure danger of disrupted transit service
because of tricky corporation tactics any
more than it will countenance hot-headed
labor leaders in shouting Strike when ar
bitration has been promised.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | have just received an appeal from
German committee for funds TO be sent TO
Germany to help the innocent war-made
widows and orphans of Germany. While the
purpose OF the fund is unquestionably ad-
mirable and the good cause is not in the
least questioned. | notice that the appeal be-
gins with the words: "Untord suffering has
been brought to millions OF blameless nom
combatants through the terrible slaughter a.
the battle front" Does this intend to imply
that many of the German non-combatants are
not blameless. or does il mean that while the
non com atants are blameless the comba-
tants are to blame for the war;
JOHN McGREG0R.
ksw York Aur f6 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
people-to see them depicted in motion pict-

people-to see them depicted in motion pict-
ures?
Surely it cannot be enjoyable!
| also agree in regard to the deathbed
scenes. Every one can stand seeing the VII
lain come up Within fact, like it. AS
for shooting scenes, etcetera, unpleasant as
they may be, no one is unduly troubled by
them But when it comes to doctors inject
ing hypodermics and livid faces of little
children and gentle mothers and fathers this
is too much.
notice people-not in mourning, either
turning their heads away from such unnec-
essary scenes.
Why not omit these altogether? A word
of explanation would suffice. Let the men
who are trying TO improve motion pictures
think this over. l.. W. WENTWORTH.
East Orange, n j., Aug IS. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
The Narrowing Movies.
tor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | agree with j. W Townsend in re-
gard to the suggestive scenes introduced into
otherwise high-class motion pictures
On the majority of screens are enacted
the struggles between intoxicated or evil
minded men and young girls trying to pre-
serve their honor. ,
Such things may occur in real life, but il
il elevating for young people-or even old
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
DwindIing Self-Esteem.

To the Editor of The Tribune. n,
Sir: / see by the news columns 'na "a,
Kaiser says he docs not envy the ma" sa,
started the war" / don't blame MN. ID.
one thing seems evident from TINS Au !.
sion of the German Emperor; Az A''
/, beginning to lose his selt-esteem: nv
N.w york Au0 IT, 1915
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The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-11
DIED

Ira A. Richardson, we'll and ia.
vorably known here, died suddenly
at Garden City, Kan, of heart
disease last Monday, aged 55 years.
Deceased had been subject to
periodical attacks of heart failure
for some years past, and the day
preceding his death requested his
employer, Mr.. Roy Chinn, to allow
him brief respite, that he might
go to his old home at Garden City
and receive treatment, never realiz-
ing that his end was rapidly ar
preaching.
Mr.. Richardson leaves to mourn
his loss loving wife and ten
children, who have the sympathy
of the community in this their
darkest hour. Interment was at
Garden City.
Mrs. Buena Vista Honeystuffle
wife of G. W. Honeystuffle. died
last Saturday at her late home, just
north of Holly, of gallstones aged
So years. Deceased had been a
resident Of Holly about six months.
having been patient sufferer of
this dreaded malady for years,
when death came as a relief. In
terment at Holly cemetery.