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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
Tangled Intellectuals
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: eve are not so much for Will
son as Wilson is for US" appears on
posters in subways and elsewhere.
II by 1--WE" they mean the Democratic
party as it is at this time they may be
right in so far as the machine is con-
cerned, for its principal occupation is
to prolong its power with utter disre-
gard of the perilous position in which
the people of this country find them
selves. With few exceptions, | have
voted with that party for fifty years,
but have as yet found only one man
who intends TO vote for Mr.. Wilson
he is on the editorial staff Of Demo-
cratic organ-nor have I talked with
any one who knows of any one who is
going TO vote for the man who has
preserved the peace of the country
with honor"
Doubtless there are many Of the great
host of the unthinking who subscribe
to the sentiment of another poster
which says, 1--WE are happy. we are
prosperous, we are at peace" who do
not intend TO risk a change, and IT
may be that nothing short Of jolt
will stir them out Of the deep material
istic slumber that holds them fast in
the fools paradise.
The utterance Of that one absurd con-
tradiction in terms "too proud to fight"
should have served as a measure of the
intellectual, to say nothing of the
moral status of the college president
who uttered it-should have con-
WINGED even the average American that
such tangled intellectuals are menace
that may breed a calamity. Not this
alone, but the constant talk OF work
ing for humanity, of vague sentimen-
tality that begins nowhere and ends
IN nothing, should convince the intel
ligent observer that the small brain
capacity Of Mr.. Wilson has gone wrong
and is drifting with illusions of gran
deur into incipient insanity.
Let any one read dispassionately the
Omaha speech and see if he can find
in it any coherent purpose, anything
but the utterances of a distraught
mind. Unlike James |, who never said
a foolish thing or did wise one, Mr.
Wilson has never said wise thing or,
in so far as I know, done any but fool
ish things.
WASHINGTON BRIDGES.
New York, Oct. 20, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Irlpune'
Sir: Having been a resident OF Mex
leo for about eight years. and being
fairly well posted on conditions In that
country, II was with surprise and dis
pleasure that | read the statement OF
Mr.. Baker, Secretary of War, according
TO which our soldiers in the Revolu-
tionary War were "just as bad char
acters as the Mexicans." Was this
statement made out of sheer ignorance
or out of desire to mislead? What
ever the motive, it seems to me TO be
a gratuitous insult to the founders Of
this Republic to compare them with
the bandits and desperadoes masquer-
aiding under the name Of Soldiers" in
Mexico at the present time.
There are in the archives OF the
State Department in Washington many
reports on the atrocities committed by
the members of the warning factions in
Mexico. | say this unequivocally for
the reason that l have read number
of the consular reports on atrocities
in the districts in which | happened to
be, and know that they were duly re-
ceived in Washington, because they
were duly acknowledged by the State
Department
What act of our Revolutionary
forces in our fight for freedom can be
compared with the revolving atrocity
known to foreigners in Mexico as the
"Covadonga affair? One cannot even
hint in print at the full details, but
suffice it to say that four young Ger
mans, three men and a woman, we're
killed, stripped, mutilated in the most
beastly and horrible manner, after in
dignities of the most inhuman char
acter had been perpetrated on the
young woman.
Then there was the case of NJ
C (whose full name can be OBJ
tanned from the records Of the State
Department., an American farmer,
whose daughter and niece, young Amer
lean women, were wsntonly attacked by
some twelve or fourteen rufians in
plain view of the gentleman in ques-
ton, who had been tied TO tree to
witness the scene.
There is the case of Boris Gorow, an
American citizen who was killed near
the Buena Vista mine, in the territory
of Topic, and whose gold-filled teeth
were torn out Of his head and later
sold in the city of Topic. Another sim
liar case is that of John G. PsImenter,
who was killed and mutilated near the
FL Favor Mining Company's property,
at Hostotipaquillo, State Of Jalisco,
and who had the misfortune OF having
two gold crowned teeth, fact which
caused his murderers to break his
lower jaw to pieces with stones in or
der to get the gold out.
Again, there Is the case Of the French
hotel proprietress in Mexico City who
was kidnapped by Villa, then the pro-
tege of the Wilson Administration.
Governor Mier, man of some sixty
five years of age, who surrendered to
the Constituencies near Guadala-
jara IN 1914, was shot down in cold
blood by the young lieutenant to whom
he had rendered his pistol as sign
of surrender, and his body was then
hung up in the window of one OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
The Entente and Greece


Did the Entente Allies act hastily in
demanding control of the Greek war
ships and railroads and upsetting Con-
stantine's plans for grain and munition
magazines? On the contrary, the &C
ton was taken only just in time. For
the King had begun to accumulate war
supplies at Trikhala, in Thessaly, and
had prohibited the transportation of
Thessalian wheat. He was apparently
arming himself in the hope of having
an opportunity TO stab the Allies In the
back for Germany and Bulgaria and of
being able TO impose the will of Pots
dam on the people of Greece. 1t is odd
that Athens remains submissive and
that Morcs does not rise. For these
the liberators cannot wait. "The con-
stitution must be revered," says Vent
zelos, "even IL we have to march with
out Athens and Old Greece" And so 1t
seems that the glory Of the newer
emancipation Of Greece from despot-
ism, a glory that is in harmony with
her high traditions. may be achieved by
the Isles and Macedonia alone. As TO
the rest, For Greeks a blush, for
Greece q tear"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
AIR SUPREMACY
British Major Supports Complete
Domination

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Berlin dispatch of Sep
TENDER 16, by wireless to Sayville, in
discussing the German military au-
thorities' report on the Allies aero
plane losses in September, says:
This publication is illustrative Of
the worth of the declaration made by
Premier Asquith in the House of Com
mons that the British aeroplanes had
gained the complete domination of the
air. The Entente powers never give
precise detailed reports regarding the
successes they claim in aerial war
fare"
In order to supply the details which
the Germans so anxiously desire, allow
me to quote the report from letter |
nave just received from a major in the
artillery on the Somme and Ancre:
Our aeroplanes have established a
complete superiority over the Germans
at the front No German machine ever
crosses or attempts to cross our lines,
while at any time you can see twenty
or twenty-five OF our planes cruis-
ing about over the German lines and
spotting for our guns.
That explains the casualty lists. II
one of our planes is badly hit and
brought down it falls, as a rule, into
the enemy's lines, while their ma
chimes when hit, as they are in dozens,
fall into their own territory, and so
the Germans can more or less conceal
their losses.
"If one OF our fellows hits a Fokksr
and it does pretty steep nose-dive
he can guess he has bust it, but he
can't produce the corp. and the Ger
mans say it landed safely. Further
more, they keep out of the way of our
anti-aircraft guns, and are mostly only
open to attack by our planes, while
our men cruise about in hailstorm of
bursting shrapnel."
This description Of aeroplane activi-
ties on the Western Front apparently
explains Mr.. Asquith's declaration.
T. NJ. F.
Niagara Falls, N. Y, Oct. 10, 1916.
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OFFICE BOYS SCARCE,
SAYS Y. n. E. A. OFFICER
Maybe They've Found Education
Pays, He Adds

What has become Of the Office boy
s. G. McConaughey, secretary OF tns
employment department of the \. NJ.
C. A., would like 10 know the answer.
He says the mischievous little felio,
whose employer used to predict wou!a
become either a bank president or
burglar is fading from the earth.
an February, 1915, our department
had 100 calls for Office boys, as against
21S calls for the same month Tbs
year" he said. "And that isn I all, for
we simply had TO stop recording ne
applications, because we hadn't any
boys available. Formerly men paia
boys 81 a week, but now they are gao
to give them Sc and 81 if they can only
find them. Perhaps boys have founs
that education pays, and they are no.
thinking Of quitting school 70 take
job at a small salary"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
Can't Face Actualities
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The press teens with criticisms
Of President Wilson. He seems 20 be
always right in theory, or very often so,
but when he comes up against an actual
situation, such as the railway strike or
the European war, he takes to the
woods and goes in for "watchful wait
ing" have no use for that kind of a
man, especially in an executive Office.
SO IL was In Mexico, though there his
inaction was mingled with some inter
meddling which was quite inconsistent
with his theory Of letting the Mexicans
work out their own problems. The
mixture Of letting Mexican anarchy 60
on and Of intermeddling produced a
very unfortunate result. II he had in
sisted firmly on arbitration in the rail
road strike doubt II there would have
been any strike. Certainly the effect
Of standing up for law and order would
have been much better in the long run.
JOHN R. STRONG.
New York. Oct. 10, 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
Canada Is for Wilson

(Fro,r The ST. Louis Globe Democrat
There is one section of the business
world that is strongly for the reelec-
ton of Mr.. Wilson. 1t is comprised Of
the producers of Canada. The Under
wood tariff is exceedingly popular in
Canada. Every Canadian congratulates
himself on voting down the Taft reci-
procity plan. Under that Canada
would have been compelled to give as
we'll as take. Under the Underwood
tariff the United States does all the
giving. During 1913 s142,127 1882 worth
Of Canadian merchandise came into the
United States. Bankers and business
men expect the 1916 Canadian exports
TO the United States to reach $500 ,000,-
900. But the future will be still more
attractive if the present tariff remains
in force. The large ammunition fac
tories the British government estab-
lished in Canada will be diverted to
industrial uses as soon as the war ends.
Every British trade secret is now being
used in Canada. No doubt many dar-
ing soldiers, who have acquired spirit
of adventure, will rush to Canada at
the close Of the war and throw them
selves into the industrial battle With
the same vigor with which they have
fought the Germans.
1t should be recalled that Canada has
the power to tax exports as well as i'm
ports. The Underwood tariff put logs
and lumber both on the free list. But
Canada, while permitting lumber to be
exported free of duty, levied an export
tax on sawlogs. The consequence was
that American mills moved across the
border. They employed their labor
there. The laborers bought in the Ca
madam market. They paid taxes in
Canada. The same was true as to I'M
finished and finished steel products,
and the United States Steel Corporation
found it advantageous to build sl0,-
100000 steel plant on the Canadian side.
Consular reports early in 1914 told Of
the first great steel contract Canadians
had ever taken away from Americans.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
On Being Shocked

In that distant twilight Of long
ago-we have no wish TO reduce the
matter to bald, unyielding figures
when Trilby first strobe upon our
stage, it was Virginia Harned's bare
feet which chiefly stirred the public
mind. Were they really bare? Did
Boston stand for this? Why don't
the police interfere? Comment upon
the play itself was easily second TO
the excitement surrounding this
shocking indiscretion. When the first
shock passed and humor took its
place, "trilbies" actually entered into
the slang of the hour. A wild, mad
year,
Now, Miss Maud Allan presents a
new Salonre for cur edification, and
me assemblage of critics looks in
vain for indications that any one is
shocked. Wells or no wells, the show
IS all one to our town. If Trilby
should make her first appearance to-
dav it is safe to guess that her minor
nakedness would pass quite unno-
ticed. Feet are no treat to the mod
ern theatregoer.
Snickerers, of course, still exist.
They will always find something to
wink at, however few or many gar
ments may be. But the human body
is a distinctly less ribald object than
it used to be. Who knows but that
some day it may become almost re-
spectablel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
Invisible Government
from The PhtIadelphta Leda.


Mr.. Hughes scored a palpable hit
when he countered upon the Presidents
attack on invisible government" by
saying, 81 desire government through
two houses and not three" Mr.. Will
son has been fond of having personal
representatives and unofficial spokes-
men. The mysterious activities of the
Texas colonel may have been benef
cent; the public has no means of know
ing. 1t is better instructed as to the
results of Mr.. Lind's mission to Mexico.
In this case the President chose to in
form himself, not through the diplo-
matte channels that were open TO him,
but by the advice of totally inexpe-
rienced person who did not even know
the language of the country. No one
has had more to say about "pitiless
publicity" than he; no one has been
less ready TO take the nation into his
confidence. Whatever advisers Mr..
Hughes may select il he is chosen TO
succeed Mr.. Wilson, it is tolerably GER
tain that they will be responsible ad-
visers, whose acts will be open 10 crit
icism. II is possible that personal
government has its merits, but it is
not compatible with the principles of
democracy.
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pion Of economic and social revolu-
ton in the Latin-American states
and as an ultra-modern statesman
educated beyond merely national con-
ceptions of the use of national power.
There is no military venture in our
history as aimless and vacuous as
that which began with the fruitless
seizure and ended with the equally
fruitless evacuation of Vera Cruz.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
MR. BAKERS ODIOUS COMPARISON
The Long Record of Atrocities Committed by the Mexican
Revoluonists Proves Its Baseness and Folly-Was
1t Made in Ignorance Bad Faithp

government buildings Of Guadalajara
for two or three days.
Then there is the illuminating spec
tacle of the relative Of Huerta who OBJ
tanned admittance TO one Of the jails in
Mexico City and with his own hand
shot down a political rival, defcnceless
in a cell, and burned the BODY right
there. A similar episode was the
brutal murder Of the Federal officers
who had surrendered to General Obre-
gon in person in the city Of Colima in
1914. Another similar case was that Of
the murder of the Federal officers who
were lying wounded in the hospitsl at
Chihuahua by General Fierro, second
in command to Villa, in person. This
worthy, known from then on IS "The
Butcher" calmly proceeded from cot to
cot with & smoking revolver, stopping
only when he had to reload.
Then there comes TO me the memory
Of the Catholic nuns who were attacked
BY Villas Soldiers" in the city Of
Zacatecas, and Of their revolving ex-
periences.
Many of us have read of the Villa
leader who cut off the ears OF some OF
his prisoners and sent them TO the
nearest Carranzista officer. | person
ally have seen a man shot in the street
because he did not cry out "Viva Car
ranzal" as quickly as he might have.
In January, 1915, saw in the large city
of Guadalajsra four poor devils who
had been shot in the head with soft
nosed or explosive bullets at such close
range that all one could tell WAS that
they had originally had heads OF some
sort.
When did our soldiers whom Mr.
Baker has placed on a par with the
most savage, bloodthirsty, cruel scoun-
drels modern history records take six
teen inoffensive foreigners from train
and kill them in cold blood, as hap
pened at Santa Isabel? Mr.. Bakers
answer to this would probably be that
no comparison can be made in that one
instance, because there were no trains
to attack in 1776.
Is there anything to lead one for ar
instant to suppose that in IT'S ou'
soldiers went from town to town de-
handing ransom in the shape OF the
most beautiful maidens in the towr
under pain Of footing the place il they
were not handed over? Yet these
things were openly admitted in such
representative Mexican papers as "E
impartial" and "El Pals" back II
| 1924.
Does Mr.. Baker think that all the
consular reports Of outrages IN Mexico
we're cooked up" or even exaggerated
reiterate my statement that many Of
these cases are on record in the ar
chives of the State Department, ano
that before making such a sweeping
and odious comparison as he did Mr.
Baker should have taken the trouble tc
make at least a cursory investigation
of the material close at hand.
In justice to the men of '76, who were
rot "too proud to fight" who fel!, witt
Patrick Henry, that there were som'
things for which peace would not com
pensate, and who preferred death tc
bondage, let US do what we can e
throttle at birth this monstrous &C
cusation, bred Of Mr.. Bakers desire t
minimize the Administration mis-
takes in Mexico. o. L. X.
Flushing, Long Island, Oct. II. 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
CHURCHES AID ARMEN1ANS
Relief Fund Grows by Collections I"
Services

The second Of the Armenian refer
days designated by President wilson
brought encouraging results. Telepnons
reports TO the New York committee
from more than twenty ehurehes
showed contributions at morning ser.
vices Of $1,000 or more. More thSn
1000 volunteer collectors were at Wots
Arrangements were started al onee
TO purchase 100000 worth Of supplies
which will be started for Beirut on
United States collier sailing to-mor.
row. The generosity Of rice brokers
saved more than $4,000 in making the
purchases.
Western cities were unprepared loi
the campaign in many instances ans
the American Committee for Armehisin
and Syrian Relief will extend the COZ.
lection period for ten days IN tn0''
communities.
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TO ENROLL 100000 BOYS
Campaign for Winter Military lraih"s
Camns To Re Launched

A campaign TO enroll 100000 oois
for military training under the s.sns.
ard of the National School Camp Assv
citation and TO establish iumedia,oo.
winter training camps at New III
leans. Los Angeles and San Diego W.
be launched tomorrow evening ;,v
preparedness banquet ut the onNss'ns az.
Club. Lafayette Avenue and sos'r .,.
ford Street, Brooklyn. Genera -.
ard Wood and Herman A. meta
bers Of the advisory board OF sns
ISOLATION. will speak. Other msmosi,,sa
the board are Mayor Mitchell. hsmi
Fish. jr. and Rear Admiral NAtnSvss
r. Usher. commsndAnt Of the New ~
Navy Yard. -..'. -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
Why Not Michael Angelo?
the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: see that Mr.. Wilson is being
featured on the posters with Abraham
Lincoln. But why stop with Lincoln?
If this is to be a campaign for human
ity," why not introduce portraits Of
Michael Angelo. Shakespeare, Napoleon
Bonaparte. George Washington and
others who have from time TO time
SERVED mankind" in one way or an
other?
I make this suggestion TO the Demo
cratic National Committee, who seem
to be conducting a very serious cam
paign Of education.
ARTHUR WAPE.
New York, Oct. 10, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-23
Villa and Washington
70 the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: We now learn from n high OFF,
cial Of the present Administration that
our forefathers Of the Revolutionary
War were q bunch Of thieves and
drunkards and Gust Ms bad characters
as the Mexicans." To completes the
picture II only remains for our "patri-
otic" Secretary of War to compare
Washington to villa.
Does President Wilson stand spon-
sor for these outrageous utterances of
his Cabinet officer?
GEORGE II. HORNE, Jr.
Brooklyn, Oct 10, 1918
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rights or prestige, but merely to
"serve humanity" He is still "serv-
ing humanity" in Mexico-that is,
he is using his alleged Service Of
humanity" as a pretext for excusing
himself from the onerous, practical
duty of protecting American lives
and American property interests.
He may still suffer from the delu-
sion that he did mankind a service
in driving Huerta into exile. But
it is perfectly evident that he did
Mexico no service. AS to the United
I States, he now lets himself out by
admitting that he never had any
idea of serving this country when
ne sent our marines and sailors to
death in the streets of Vera Cruz.
The first of Mr.. Wilson's wars
with Mexico will therefore remain a
foul spot in American annals. Il
was fought under false pretences-
70 crafty a personal prejudice, 10
make good diplomatic boycott
which seemed about TO fail. Con-
gress was deceived into giving it an
e1 post focto approval. It did not
secure reparation for the insult 10
our flag at Tampico. 1t did not make
more secure the life or property of
any American in Mexico. II was
deplorable piece Of self-advertise-
ment on Mr.. Wilson's part, intended
10 exploit him az a meddler in Mex
ico's internal politics. as n cham