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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
Theory and Practice in Chemistry.

Professor r. G. DOMAIN. ia The Times. London
It is often argued that the university chem
ist is too theoretical" and does not under
stand practical" matters. Let us analyze
this argument. for it is of great Importance.
The university chemist does understand
practice" but it is the practice of molecule
Juggling that is TO say. the practice of the
analysis and synthesis Of chemical substances
in the laboratory. In this extremely impor-
tant business he is not only a skilled theorist,
but skilled practican. What he does not
usually understand is another theory and
another practice namely, the theory and the
practice of designing chemical engineering
plants and conducting and controlling chem
ical processes in factory. What is wanted
in the country is the production Of many
Young men who have received a thorough
preparatory paining in this second and
equally important theory and practice. There
is never any conflict between theory" and
practice" The failure to realize this is one
Of our besetting intellectual sins. and is based
on an entire confusion of thought This
mental fog has been more or less dispersed
IN the profession of engineering. II is high
time that it were dispersed in the profession
of applied chemistry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
The Peoples Navy.

The overwhelming vote in the House OF
2S3 to 81 marks the final discontinue of
the little navy men and promises the res
toration of the navy to its old position,
second only to the fleet Of Great Britain.
This is a striking victory for common
sense and foresight. 1t Is equally strik-
ing victory for the popular will working
against Congressional pettness and cow
ardiness.
The disheartening factor in the whole
for preparedness has been the
failure of our national legislators to re-
fleet popular sentiment. in apportionlng
blame there can be no question that Pres
ident Wilson's early sneers at all military
foresight and his prolonged reluctance to
lead take first rank. His final, belated
to the cause, expressed In an
emotional plea for the largest navy IN the
world, probably did more harm than good.
In the face of such vacillation and weak
ress at the head of the nation it is scarcely
to be wondered that action in the House
has been slow to develop and most diff
cult to conclude.
The present vote in the House is, there
fore. far more than a legislative victory.
1t is the visible record of a growth of
popular opinion in Overwhelming strength.
It signifies that the American people have
so progressed in conviction that not even
parochially minded politicians could ignore
their demand.
With such an example of slow success,
there is still hope that satisfactory de-
velopment of our second line of defences,
our land forces, may yet follow. The
debate must 60 on. From the present
Administration there is little to expect.
A new Congress may see the light. 1t is
for the voters to determine their needs
and resolutely demand that they be met.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
The White Folks Party.
ditor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of even date appears a
letter captioned ANY Change for the Better, y
and signed Texas. wherein appears this state
ment: Nevertheless, many Of these same
Democrats will vote for the President simply
because he represents the white mans party
Why any man of the intelligence evinced
by the author of this letter should have the
audacity in addressing letter to the editor
of The Tribune to designate the Democratic
party as the white mans party" as in dis
tinction from that party whose principles,
policies and men have guided the great Amer
lean republic through all the strides up the
ladder of civilization is a mystery to me. It
recalls that vulgar story told by one Of the
speakers at the 1916 st. Louis Democratic
convention, which is said to have afforded
much amusement to the delegates and visit
ors. The story was something like this An
old darby in Washington met some friend
soon after the adjournment of the Chicago
Republican convention and asked who ode
Republicans" nominated. Upon being told
that they had nominated Justice Hughes he
is reported to have exclaimed, "Das so"
Then he is reported to have asked "Who do
you reckon de white folks going to nomi-
nate?"
What purpose such story could serve in
great national convention is still mys-
terry. Was it an effort to east sur on the
whiteness of the Republican party? Was it
an effort to cast a slur on the whiteness of
William II. Taft, on the Wilderness of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, or on the whiteness of Will
lam Mckinley. or on the wilderness of Benja-
min Harrison, or the whiteness of James
A. Garfield, or on the Wilderness of rutherford
B. Hayes, or on the whiteness of Ulysses S.
Grant, or on the whiteness of Abraham Lin
coin? If the story was to cast slur on the
whiteness of these illustrious statesmen and
their associates, then who are the white
folks? NJ. II. BROfLES. ,
New York, Aug. II, 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17

lFrom The London Timesl

From The London Timcs)
In the green lanes of France you may meet
AT any time with men of all colors. There
are black men marching there, brown men
and bronze, besides all the English and
French sodiery. A while ago long column
swung along the.road to the tune of a melody
sung in time TO the marching feet. The tune
YOU would know. but the words would be new
10 you, or at least seem so:
He roa te wa XII Tipirere.
He tino maniac.
He roa te XII Tiperere.
HI taku kotiro,
noho pikatiri.
Hei kona rehita koea,
He mamaO rawa Tiprere
ka tae ahua.
On the under side of the world there is
land where the trees never turn yellow
where the summer is a fair divisio,. Of the
year, with month and half thrown in for
good measure. 1t is land of big spaces
full. broad rivers and turquoise lakes. In the
south there are great mountains. with their
peaks clothed in perpetual snow and their
glaciers moving toward the sun-bathed
plains. In the interior there lived race of
chivalrous warriors who fought great fight
against British troops. Now New Zealand
is as British as Sussex, and the spirit of the
,.ark-sRinned fighters who took up arms
against the redcoats has come TO France in
the Maori contingent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
Poor New Jersey!
New York, Aug. !

To the Editor OF ne Tribune.
Sir What is the matter with New Jersey T?
How many more years must this state be
represented in the United States Senate by
mediocrity? Are there no high grade men
willing TO run for the Senate. or have the
people become so accustomed to nobodes that
il seems hopeless to look for real talent?
Former Governor Stokes NAV not have filled
the bill ideally, but he would be infinitely
superior to anything in the Senatorial line
that the state has had for years.
Now that he has withdrawn his name, so
far as can be seen. the Republicans of the
state will be compelled once more to make
choice of mediocrity of perhaps a lower
grade than usual.
Poor New Jersey. When will it ever have
a Senator whose name it remember for
twenty-four hours?
VETERAN REPUBLICAN.
Ridgewood n. j., Aug Is, 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
THE FAME OF Mr.. MADOO
Why His Name Happens To Be Carved on
the Postoffice Cornerstone.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have read with both interest and
amusement the letter appearing in The Trlb-
une of August II wherein the name Of Mr.
william g. McAdoo is snatched from the
comparatively inconspicuous cornerstone of
Che building occupied by the postofice at
Camden, Me-, only to be blazoned across the
more or less public editorial page of The
Tribune.
Your correspondents sensitive vision APP
pears to have been offended because Mr..
McAdoo has obviously sought to confer upon
posterity at large a perpetual reminder of
mis- official utilization with the present Admin
istration. Mr.. Henry A. Wise Wood would
have spoiled the effect intended to have been
conveyed by his anti panegyric had he given
to your readers the entire inscription which
he found on the cornerstone, the same read
ing as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
Enacting a Lie.

The new and deleted Philippine bill as
it passed the Senate yesterday is much
improved over what it once was. The
House did splendid days work when it
killed once and for all the vicious Clarke
amendment, promising independence with
in a fixed period of time. The present
act provides number of changes in adj
ministration, some good, some bad. Were
it not for one utterly irrelevant clause in
the preamble it could stand as tolerably
satisfactory legislation.
That clause makes no actual promise
1t does not affect the actual provisions or
the law in any respect. Its one vice is
that it is lie. a clear, unmistakable as
sertion of what is untrue 1t is and al
ways has been the purpose of the people
of the United States to withdraw their
sovereignty over the Philippine Islands
and to recognize their independence as
soon as a stable government can he estab
lished therein, this clause declares. That
is not to-day the purpose of the people of
the United States. That has never at any
moment of time been the purpose of the
people of the United States. A majority
of the voters have always been solidly
against any such scuttling away from our
national obligations. In asserting the con-
trary Congress is stultifying itself, mis-
leading the people Of the Philippines and
writing a lie upon the statute books.
The situation in the Pacific was never
more filled with doubt than at the present
time. To turn the Philippines adrift is
to court disaster for them, to tear up our
treaty with Spain and beat a cowardly
retreat from our own obligations and OPP
portunities. We shall not turn them
adrft, and the defeat Of the Clarke amend
ment, despite President Wilson's support of
it, gave excellent evidence that even the
present Congress has no serious intention
of carrying its glowing phrases into action.
The preamble adopted is sham and
pretence. 1t is as futile as it is false and
dangerous.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
An Investigation Necessary.

The arrest in Brooklyn of well known
church worker, young woman of respec-
table family and apparently blameless life,
for soliciting a detective, brings sharply
before the police authorities the question
of vice squad methods which has been sim
merng for long. This young woman in
sists that, far from having solicited the
policeman, she was approached by him
and after preliminary conversation was
invited TO take him TO her apartment.
When she waxed indignant she was ar
rested, she says, and on the detective S
testimony she was convicted.
This is not the first time the public has
heard the story of the policeman who So
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
The Geodetic Horse Doctor.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR If the prescription by E. L. Jones. re-
produced in to-day's paper, is any criterion of
his qualifications as veterinary surgeon he
is manifestly as well equipped for the chief
ship Of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. His
prescription, as you will notice. reads:
Znc Splphatum should read Suphatis
Plumb Acetas Acetats
Pulv Alumen Auminis
Aqua Aquam
His Latin would not pass Al at Lloyd's,
and his measures are not in conformity with
the then official L. S. P. The incompatibiity
may have been INTENTIONAL; and he signs
himself dr." probably to impress Cor Horse
with proper sense of his greatness
A. 7. (.
Washington, Aug. IL, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
Doubts Japan's Aims.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Though it's rather bad form to dis
agree with an editor about matters pertain
ing to world politics, yet may have the lib
erty to voice my dissenting opinion on this
very interesting subject?
In your edition of today's Tribune there
is a letter written by Japanese editor, Mr.
Ozak. trying to make US believe that there
is nothing 10 fear from the new japanese al
lance with Russia. OF course. il all depends
on what is meant by fearing an alliance of
other nations which may affect our interests
We as a nation whose interests lie the world
over are vitality concerned in all the prog
ress of the world and the different usechi.
nations between the ruling powers of the
world. We are ever so much more interested
in the steps our neighbor of the Far East is
taking toward expansion and territorial gain.
Observing the most friendly relations with
Japan, we, nevertheless, ought not to shut
our eyes to the fact that Japan now virtually
controls the Far Eastern situation. And her
closer alliance with Russia and brotherly
compact with England all tend in the same
direction-the permanent strengthening of
that control.
doubt very much the FEASIBILITY of the
editors statement when he says that only
Japans magnanimity holds her back from de-
claring herself the virtual protector of China
from any European influence. Perhaps our
own well known principle of the open door for
China has something to do in this particular
matter. Under all circumstances we have 4
perfect right TO regard with suspicion all OF
our neiehbor's moves and analyze them TO
see whittier they are tending. And since the
end OF the Russo-Japanese War those ten.
denotes have always been directly at variance
with our own purposes. all assurances to the
contrary notwithstanding. S. ZARCK.
New York, Aug. 10, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
Belated Reprisals.

1t is more than half year since the
controversy over the case of the Baralong
was cut short by formal note from Ber-
lin concluding with this ominous threat:
Seeing that the British government have
refused any reparation for this shocking
incident, the German government find
themselves obliged to take in hand the
punishment of the unexpiated crime and
to apply the retaliatory measures which
the circumstances of the case demand"
The threat was not taken seriously in
England for the plain reason that no one
believed the Germans could exceed their
former savagery in the conduct of subma-
rine warfare 1t may be recalled that the
shocking incident" complained of was the
refusal of the commander Of the Bara-
long to give quarter to the crew of a Ger
man submarine which had been put out of
action when on the point of sinking
British merchant ship. The facts as pre-
scented by the German government were
formally denied by the British government
which suggested however, that this case,
together with three outrages alleged to have
been committed about the same time by
German ships of war, might properly be
laid before neutral court of inquiry, both
governments agreeing to abide by the de-
cision of the judges. The offer was indg-
nantly rejected by the Germans, who
thereupon declared their intention of APP
plying retaliatory measures.
Now at last they have decided after
seven months deliberation what "the cir
cumstances of the case demand" 1t seems
they no longer intend to conduct their air
raids with that scrupulous regard for the
lives of non-combatants which has hither-
to won the admiration and respect of the
whole world. In accordance with this new
policy Zeppelins, as we learn from wire
less dispatch from Berlin, "are now being
used against England, within the limits or
international law, without any regard for
the lives of civilians" Formerly, accord
ing to the report of the German govern
ment, "the unavoidable danger for the
civilian population was particularly con-
sidered," but such consideration is now i'm
possible on account of "the British gov
ernment's revolving attitude"
Oddly enough in the recent raids the
people of England were quite unconscious
of the new frightfuness. Comparatively
few were hurt, and, indeed, the theory
among the farming population was that
the Germans had set their hearts on de-
stroying the crops, so many of the bombs
having fallen in cornfelds. A more plausi-
BILE theory is that the raiders had no no.
ton where they were, and this opinion is
supported by their own account of the en-
terprise, including a visit to London which
it seems was purely imaginary.
The inability of the raider to pick his
target in the black of night from height
of several thousand yards is obvious
enough, but if further evidence were
wanted it may be found in the long lists
of women and children already killed and
wounded by German airmen. In seven
months they might surely have devised
something more alarming. The threat of
the German government to abandon hu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
WILLIAM G. M'ADOO,
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
OSCAR WENDEROTH,
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT.

If Mr. Wood cares to travel about the coun-
try he will find upward of some eleven hun
dred other government buildings with SINH
lar inscriptions Sometimes in place Of Mr..
McAdoo's name he will find that of Franklin
MacVeagh or of George b. Cortelyou. Both
of these gentlemen. it will be remembered,
were identified with past Republican admin
istrations. Very likely other names will be
encountered, as doubtless these pernicious
inscriptions were in vogue before Mr.. Corte-
you's time. Also, instead of Mr. Wenderoth s
name Mr.. Wood will find that of James Knox
Taylor, or. more latterly, that of James A.
Wetmore, the present acting supervising
architect of the Treasury Department. Any
Tribune reader who is interested in the
actual inscription on the New York Post
office cornerstone would be repaid by max
ing a special tri? to that building, which
may be found Immediately west of the Penn
sylvania Station. This postoffice-one of the
finest buildings in New York from an archi-
tectural point of view, and also one of the
most costly Federal buildings in the country
was designed by McKim, Mead White,
markable Pennsylvania Station.
When Mr.. Wood stated that the building
occupied by the postcffice at Camden, Me-,
has no connection with any other govern
mental DEPARTMENT he probably based his
premise on the fact that ne himself found no
evidence of any other departmental business
being transacted there. The building, how
ever, was erected under the supervision of the
Treasury Department, and the Postmaster as
custodian of the guiding, is responsible TO
the Treasury Department for its proper
maintenance II is frequently the case in
the smaller cites and towns that the Federal
buildings will house other departments be-
sides the postoffice as the United
States Court, the Bureau Of Mines, the Civil
Service, the Forestry Service, the Bureau OF
Animal Industry, etc.
Somewhere in the United States Constitu-
ton is a provision to the effect that Congress
shall have the power to build postotfces and
post roads Contrary to the impression OF
the average patriot, the building and con-
struction Of posto.iices are not done by the
Postoffice Department. This department only
looks after the postal business of the coun-
try and the transaction of the mails. The
Treasury Department, through the office OF
the supervising architect, has entire charge
Of the construction, maintenance and repair
of the following Federal buildings: Postof-
fees United States courthouses, custom
houses treasures. slb-treasuries. minis, as
say offices. appraisers stores. public stores
barge Offices. mmigl alton stations, quaran-
tine stations, marine hospitals government
exposition buildings, and also such buildings
as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
the new Archives Building, etc, in Washing
ton, and the new Bureau of Mines now being
erected in Pittsburgh. OF late years il has
been the custom to inscribe upon the corner
stones of these buildings the name of the
Secretary of the Treasury, the name of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17

supervising architect and the date of the
year. in which the contract for the building
was let.
This may explain to Mr. Henry A. Wise
Wood the ridiculous and inexcusabe appear
ance of the name OF Mr. McAdoo upon the
cornerstone Of the Federal Building at Cam
den, Me- A. II. ROWLAND.
Ridgeway, Penn, Aug. r. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
THURSDAY. AUGUST II. 1915

Entered At the Posornc, At New York " Second GAS
Mail Matter.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-07-31

vacation This natural for disposed to entertain
thoughts of long and arduou sessions time when persprg
humanity protests against labor where be avoided But
should also be borne mind that this that
the appointment OF commission nothing than shrewd
to take the Mexican question of the campaign The
administration perfectly willing acquesce any suggestion
that will down this specter of political panerng Mr. Wilson
must reckon with the people who have imposed
by the Washington of wolf hesitate about
needing further warnings emanang from that quarter The
patriotic people have been urged flock flag;
with Mexico only the question of hours officially
and OF all classes called to the coos There
for this dsocaton of business and
confirmed by copies of letters written by department
the effect that the border trouble had been patched up
the National Guards modified The Mexican
going be permitted archives of the
presidential campaign for the people demand change
on the ground of napac and valaton therefore
of mistakes be dragged the forum
other day rifng incident itself testified the dsepue of
the party at Washington steamship leaving
Francisco carried of mining returning
properties in Mexico which they had been ordered
Realizing the deception that had been praceed upon them they
returning in complete disgust determined pay
attention the outcries from Washington than they would
caerwaulng of backyard full of felnes dark night
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-07-31
A South American Hobo.

Santiago, capital Of Chile. is the
home of the roto Chileno, or broken
Chilean, most picturesque and unique
Of hoboes. The name is byword in
South America, and as far as that con
tinent Is concerned he Is unique type
We find rich people everywhere and
poor people everywhere. but In no 9th.
er South American country but Chile
10 we find this good natured, service
sble, deceitful. ragged. drunken. crimi
nal species Of tramp. He earns live
lihood by begging, doing odd jobs and
thieSing. The last is his mainstay In
his hands stealing has become a fine
art The Chileans have a saying that
he viii steal your socks without touch
ing your boots. A long, jointed wire
with hook at the end is his favorite
tool If window on the street is left
unguarded he will with this simple
contrivance successfully remove from
the interior everything but the heavy
furniture.-New York Independent.