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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
News from Special Sources.

The official Press Bureau in England has
Justly been charged with lack OF magma
ton. 1t cannot be said that the Naval
Press Bureau of Berlin suffers under
similar disability; if it has any weakness,
il is that its memory is not strong enough
to check and regulate the exuberance OF
it's fancy.
A new and wonderful guess at the cir
cumstances attending the loss of the U-Z9,
the submarine commanded by Otto we'd
dieen. has been given out for American
readers a year and four months after the
event. According to this account, the brill
liant officer met his fate in Cromarty Firth,
but not before he had torpedoed dread
rought battleship. The story is described
by the British Admiralty as "a fresh fab
rication," the truth being that the suoma-
rine "was rammed and sunk in the open
sea bv one of his majestys ships, in March,
1919 while she was attempting TO attack
part of the feet"
II NAV be questioned whether 1t is worth
while to contradict the fables OF the Ter
mans considering how brilliantly and et-
fectivelv they annihilate each other The
first news of the sinking Of the U-ZS was
Given out in this brief announcement pub
Tshed on March %, 1915, in the Englsn
papers: "The Admiralty have good reason
70 believe that the German submarine U-2s
has been sunk with all hands" The mo-
ment this information reached Germany
the official and semi-official purveyors OF
news proceeded at once 20 invent descrlp-
tions of the disaster. The gallant Otto
Weddigen was undoubtedly victim OF
British treachery. The Admiralty's an
nouncement was suspiciously reticent;
hence it was easy to believe that the sub
marine was sunk in some underhand way.
Probably a wicked merchantmen had
rammed her, and-oh, to be sure-what
could be more likely than that the chiv-
alrous commander was actually engaged at
the time in rescuing some unfortunate
British seamen? That was it! He was
treacherously slain by those he sought to
save.
So, without shadow Of evidence, with
nothing at all but the British Admiralty's
announcement to go by, the legend was
on the spot and supported as
highly probable even by such sober writers
as Captain Persius. About three months
later the whole German press published
the following official confirmation: with
regard TO the manner Of the destruction Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
FRANCE. AND AMERICA
The Dean of American Pays Tribute Beloved Ambassador
The Perfect Perfect Genene Which Characterize
With Americans Of Past and Present Days.

to which this book bears testimony in sc
many places. The great Turgot said of us
when We declared that governments derive
their just powers from the consent Of the
governed: at is impossible not to form
wishes for that people to reach the utmost
prosperity it is capable Of. That people is
the hope of mankind If this is not true OF
US now, we can yet make it so; and Mr. JUS
serand's book will help us to believe in our
selves and gratefully to remember the noble
people who have always believed in US.
Dir. Jusserand is necessarily never our critic
or our censor, in our past or our present, and
i: seems rather pity that some other large
minded, open-minded Frenchman could not
come to US at moment like this when our
facts could be studied and portrayed, as only
a Frenchman could portray them for the ad-
vantage of mankind elsewhere II we could
not nationally survive to profit by the picture
ourselves. AT Englishman could not do the
work acceptably; he might be as honest, but
he could not be so intelligent, and even in his
praise he would somehow let us imagine 4
reserve of blame; we should need Repub-
lican for the work, and an Englishman is al
ways a Royalist. Only such Frenchman as
we imagine could accurately yet allowingly
represent US to the future in the extraordi-
nary spectacle we present of an immense ma
ton bewildered by the worlds events, and in
their presence no more ready to assert itself
or its ideals than another great republic, say
the Republic of China.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
A Dissatisfied Republican.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When the Republican party nominated
Hon. Charles (. Hughes for President you
said that you would support him. Why not
make that support unqualified?
Stop publishing letters from disgruntled
Progressives who imagine they have griev-
ance against Mr.. Hughes. II they don't like
Mr.. Hughes they don't need TO vote for him.
Only they should have in mind that letters
knocking Hughes should not be sent 70 a
paper like The Tribune which has pledged
its support to Mr.. Hughes. Such letters
should 90 TO "The World"
Let US weed out the malcontents and put
our shoulders to the wheel for the Hon.
Charles Z. Hughes, the next President Of the
United States. AUSTIN X. WARDWELL.
Cambridge Mass Aug. 8. 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
Standard Traffic Rules.

Now that traffic regulation, with all us
nomp and panoply, not emitting the up
lifted. white-gloved finger OF the cop mas
nenetrated into the utmost recesses OF
CITY. town and village, the need Of uniform
traffic laws has become downright urgent.
The general idea is excellent, and 1t mas
ACCOMPLISHED much in the way OF safety
and expedition wherever introduced
The hardship on the travelling motorls'
has lain in the variable character OF the
rules to which he is supposed to conform
The village tinsmith or barber who dons
uniform Saturday and Sunday after
Moons and stands at the intersection OF
Main and Front Streets always makes up
in majesty what he lacks in experience.
IF his rules are familiar to visitors and
residents alike the likelihood Of mishap
or dispute is very materially lessened.
A standard code of traffic regulations
is exactly what the Safety First Fedora
ton has urged upon the New York State
Association of Chiefs Of Police assembled
at Kingston. 1t is a eodification OF the
rules obtaining in the principal cities OF
the state. Most of it is familiar to every
motorist hereabouts. If it were adopted
generally throughout the state, all motor
lists would gradually learn to conform TO
its provisions as a matter of habit and
the safety of all users Of the streets,
afoot or awheel, would be vastly increased
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
Covenanters.

When Sir Edward Carson declared that
it would not be a bad day for Ireland If
Mr.. Redmond and he were to shake hands
on the floor of the House of Commons he
shocked some of his more infexible follow
ers-the desperate loyalists Of the North
who still think themselves bound by their
Solemn League and Covenant to resist all
compromise and to defend the kingdom, If
need be, by taking arms against the Ming
himself. Their present differences and
dissensions recall the perplexities OF the
Covenanters of old:
The cause for which we fought and swore
So boldly, shall we now give Ger?
Then, because quarrels still are seen
With oaths and swearings to begin,
The Solemn League and Covenant
Will seem a mere God-damme rant,
And we that took it, that have fought,
As lewd as drunkards that fall out:
For as we make war for the King
Against himself, the self-same thing,
Some will not stick to swear we do
For God and for Religion, too
"The Spectator" justly observes that, IF
the Unionist party is now to be dissolved
by internal dissensions, there will be moth
ing left but a weller of warning groups,
distinguished now by the names Of party
leaders, now by those of particular locali-
ties, now by special policies" To hold
these groups together is prodigious task,
nor is it made easier by the conviction
that the immediate aim is a settlement
equally unsatisfactory to Sir Edward Car
son himself, to his avowed opponents and
to his Jealous supporters, the Orchards Of
Northeast Ulster.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
MIR. HUGHES AND SUFFRAGE
He Has Cast His Lot with Women Poll
heians BRED of Political immortality"

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: That Mr.. Hughes has fully and IN
equivocaly given his promise TO support the
demand for the extension Of the franchi.
to women to the full extent of his power,
whether personal or official, and TO hasten
this extension By further encroachment Of
the Federal government upon the rights OF
the states must convince the country cf his
courage and OF his honorable intention OF
dealing openly and fairly with the citizens
men and women, whose support he seeks.
This extraordinary step has doubtless not
been taken without a full consideration OF
it's political dangers. We must assume that
Mr. Hughes has counted the cost and is
willing to pay. He knows that the vast
majority of women will never forgive him
that he has betrayed them and their future
into the hands Of a noisy minority. he
says, ave must settle this question now.
His way of settling the question is to stop
the agitation by giving the clamorous
women what they demand. Had the so per
cent of unwilling women only known that
not right, not principle, not logic, but noise
and Importantly win in a great national con-
tention upon the issue of which the futur
of our democratic experiment hangs!
The advocates of suffrage have said, I'VE
will support only the man who supports Us,
and we will destroy the man who does not
wholly support u.s." The great struggle 10
which this country is involved is OF no mo-
ment to them. Woman suffrage or "let the
government go TO hell" as one OF their
popular speakers shouted at public suffrage
meeting
Mr. Hughes has cast his lot with these
politicians who arc born and bred OF this
political immortality He will have their sup
port. He will also have the support Of the
grea. body of women who oppose suffrage,
who deplore his act, because they will, with
the moral backbone bred OF anti-sufrags
principle, support even the man who be-
trays them so long as they believe ne will not
otherwise betray his country. Mr. Hughes has
won admiration and respect by his sound judg-
ment and his courageous integrity. We VIII
not desert our duty to our country in an
effort TO punish him for his betrayal Of U.s.
Mr.. Hughes has given his attention to
woman suffrage only as political question
There is much of danger and trouble 70
come of it politically, but that is Of little
Importance as compared with the vast
social revolution it involves, with the
terrible increase of economic attacks upon
the institution Of the family.
Mr.. Hughes has done, and will do, what IN
him lies to destroy democracy and 70 degrade
humanity again 70 that low state in whiea
men and women labor, fight and love on the
same moral and physical plane.
MRS. VIM. FORCE SCOTT
Yonkers. n. Y, Aug. 8. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
The Flower Of Mending.


TO T. S. after had bad certain dire adventures
When dragon-hy would fix his wings,
When snail would patch his house,
When moths have msrred the overcoat
OF tender mister mouse.
The pretty creatures go with haste
To the sunlit bluegrass hills,
Where the flower OF mending yields the wa,
And webs TO help their ills.
The hour the coats are va1ed and webbed
They fall into dream,
And when they wake the ragged robes
Are joined without seam.
Ny heart is but a dragon-hy,
Ny heart is but mouse,
My heart is but naughty snail
In a little stony house.
Your hand was honeycombed TO heal,
Your voice web 10 bind.
You were a mending-fower 10 me
To cure my heart and mind.
VACHEL LINDSAY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
The Appam.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: wish to refer you 20 the following
statements in your editorial Of this date con-
corning the Appam case:
"The Appam was lawful prize in so far as
she was taken by belligerent vessel and duly
condemned by a German prize court. Blu,
the question at issue was the question Of her
presence in these waters"
Since you admit that she was lawful prize
does it not follow that she rightfully be.
longs to Germany? Why then give her back
10 England? Why not order Germany TO tax,
the ship away from here if she cannot remain
here? The court might as we'll have given
her 70 Mexico or some other European nation
Why give her to England or any other nation
if she rightly belongs to Germany?
May ask you TO kindly answer these ques
tons either by letter or editorially?
CHAS. WHITE.
Pittsburgh, Penn, July 81, 1915.
The question was not one in which the
authority of the German prize court was su
preme. The Appam WAS taken into one Of on,
ports. The decision OF the United State.
District Court was made without regard q
the judgment Of the German prize court
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
The Police and the Car Strike.

Scant. streetcar service is attributed by
the operating officials, not to lack OF men
to run the cars, but to inadequate police
protection. Mr.. Shonts's ideas Of what
the police ought to do for the company
and Mr.. Hedley's ideas differ considerably
from those of Mayor Mitchell and Police
Commissioner Woods. The lnterborough
officials appear to think that the police
should act, in effect, as company guards.
Mayor Mitchell doesn't see it that way.
"The police are not going to be used as
strikebreakers," he announces. That Is
good, sound policy.
So far there has been comparatively
little rioting, and what there has been has
been well handled by the police. II the
strikers and their leaders are wise there
will be none in future, for every riot dam
ages their cause. But if there is dis
order. if property and lives are menaced'
the police must suppress it, as they have
been doing, promptly and thoroughly
That is their duty, and the public well
fare demands it.
That is quite another matter from act
ing as special guardians for each railway
man still in service, to segregate him from
union picketers. 1t is the companys Joo
to keep it's men at work and to furnish
reasons for loyalty sufficient to offset the
l,nionists' suasion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
For Positive National Spirit.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: From now until the verdict OF
November political logic will make eomie
sport Of fact and theory. Some things VIII
be wiped out and others rebuilt. One thing
will remain vital, however other things may
go-the national choice between a negative
and semi-negatiye spirit in government;
spirit that would not act in positive way
except under compulsion, or positive
spirit in government willing to assume, no'
avoid, vital action at the right time and IN
a way TO create national self-respeet W.
tainted by spirit of regret.
There is a mighty host, like myself
anxious to register their choice and place 10
control Of government a party that will gam
the consideration granted nation that has
sincere intent and desire TO protect i's
citizens II the Mexican masses had be-
lieved that we really intended and were de-
termined to protect all who had legal claim
to our protection, would they have murdered
our men and polluted our women? No more
than they dare murder and pollute German
or English men and their wives and dsugh-
ters
Tardy amends for neglect in prepared
ness by the Democrats may be overlooked
but not their lack of spirit worthy OF
great nation. J. L WELLS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
Jewish SchooIboys and Their Holidays
n the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I noticed letter sent to you by one
who calls himself "a Long Sufferer" That
person says that Jewish schoolboys play in
the street and sell papers on their holidays,
when they do not go to school.
This view of it is all wrong The reason
the boys and girls stay home from school is
because they are not allowed to work on
these holidays. This, however, does not
prohibit them from going in the street No
Jewish boy sells newspapers on holiday.
am a Jewish schoolboy and have been
absent on the Jewish holidays. have lost
nothing. | took my 7B tests and had the
highest in my class. / also did six weeks Of
sA work in SAL and got the highest there in
the SA tests.
You will notice in this letter that my
spelling and English are right, also my gram
mar. The other pupils can go on with the
work. The Jewish pupils will make it up.
If they don't, they can be left back. There
is no need, however, to stop the work on
their account. HAIRY BOROFF.
New York, Aug. 4, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07

U-29, it has now, as we hear from an au-
thoritative quarter, been learned from
special source that this boat was sunk by
an English tank steamer. This confirms
the rumors which were in circulation all
along that the boat fell sacrifice to
treacherous British cunning" Now we
have new story, and in another year we
may expect another version. Germany's
special source" is inexhaustible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
Treason"

Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, arising in
the Senate to defend the Wilsonian Next
can policy, so-called, denounces criticism
as Unreasonable" treason" shouts Ma
tional Chairman Mccormick when the
Presidents course in ordering the Ma
tional Guard TO the border and keeping it
there for police duty is assailed.
Manifestly the lea5ers of Democracy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
One Thing at a Time.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Why not do one thing at time! Let
US have settlement of the Lusitania case
before taking action against the British
blacklist. G. II. HORNE. JR.
Prooti--, Ave- rors
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-30

a certain extent solved by erecting
frame structures that can be readily
removed and taken to Belgium to re-
place dwellings destroyed by the war.
Governor Salvador Alvarado. of
Yucatan, Mexico, brands as lies the
press dispatches to the effect that he
had declared a state of war exists"
between Mexico and the United States
and that he had expelled Americans
from Yucatan DR.. Rendon, American
representative of the Yucatan Hene-
quen Commission, states that he is
daily in communication by cable with
Yucatan and can assert that the state
is tranquil and Americans and other
foreigners are in no danger
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-30
SANITATION GOOD BUSINESS

San Francisco1In its report on
camp Sanitation and Housing" the
state comm ssion of immigration and
housing offers this business-like illus
tration to large contractors:
Suppose a camp of 200 men with
pay roll OF $500 per day: If living
conditions are bad and the sleeping
accommodations make a reasonable
rest impossible, if the food is fly in
tested, and the toilets unclean and
revolving, the men become disgruntled
and dissatisfied and some become sick.
Experience has shown that often under
such conditions there will be a % per
cent loss of working efficiency, or
loss per day of 800, or $4,000 per
month The sum of SO per day, or
$500 per month, will cover easily the
cost of good aanitation. This camp,
therefore, can save $2,700 per month
by installing model living conditions
and do away with the serious handi-
cap VI an fNeI-qultliHS lolce' rev
employers of unskilled labor realize
their loss through soldering of dis
contented workers. Petty strikes and
a labor force continually quitting, both
frequent products of bad camp condi-
tons. often increases the cost of work
beyond the profit. Therefore, it is not
only to the interest of humanity, but
to your own interest to have a sani-
tary and 1ivable' camp"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-30
"JUSTICE!"

When in the course Of human events
it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which
have connected them with another, and
TO assume, among The powers of the
earth the separate and equal station
to which the laws of nature and
natures God entitle them a disrespect
to the opinions Of mankind requires
that they should declare the causes
which impeI them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evi-
dent that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain ina'ienable rights: among
these are life. liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. That 10 secure these
rights Governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed:
that whenever any form OF govern
menr becomes destructive Of these
ends it is the right of he people to
alter or abolish it and to institute a
new government
So =ayeth the Declaration of hide
pendence OF these United States of
America.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-30

Robert Mills, business agent for the
unions, was arrested for walking on
the city dock, a public thoroughfare,
intent on his own business, and it was
admitted az the trial that Commits
sioner Kelly had instructed his men
to intercept and, if necessary, arrest
any person who looked like a union
man, that passed through he blockade
erected, it is said, by the Iessees of
the dock.
What kind of am age are we living
in when men cannot go peaceably
about their business without inter
terence by the Cossaclls of the City
Hall? What right and by what power
does Captain Bamweu or Chief Of
Police Kelly keep Everett citizens
rom using the public highways? We
want TO know whether we are living
uder the Constitution of the United
States or the constitution of Chief Of
Police Kelly? We might expect this
sort of thing in Russia, but We should
not have to tolerate it in the United
States.
Was the police instructed to inter
cept the Tug boat owners or the
owners Of Everett shingle mills, when
walking on the city docks? Not so
YOU could notice it.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-30
JOTTINGS

Jim Larkin, the Irish labor leader is
about to issue a paper called The
Labor World" in Chicago An effort
viii be made to circulate the paper
among workers who are Irish born or
descent, to enable them to obtain a
true knowledge of conditions in Ire
land, which is impossible to get from
the regular newspapers.
Government ownership of telegraph
lines was favored by the convention
Of Commercial Telegraphers Union at
New York recently A committee was
elected to combat the anti-union tao
tics of the Western Union and Postal
TELEGRAPH companies.
Eneland's problem of housing
900 600 Belgian refugees has been TO
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-30

Judge Shakespeare, sitting at the
trial of Mills, ruled that he was not
guilty Of violating any existing
statute that the city dock was
public place, and expressed a doubt
as to the propriety of excluding union
men.
Last week John Clark, shingle
weaver, tried to secure the arrest of
Bill Wildes for Furnishing a gun, and
was arrested himself on a trumped-up
disorderly charge the police allowing
Bill Wildes Ga man who has been con-
vcted of gun play before), to go scot
free.
Do you think Mr. Everett Citizen,
after summing up these things, that
Chief of Police Kelly is competent to
hold office as commissioner OF safety?
Is this the kind of safety you desire
to allow a gunman to have preference
over a peaceful citizen, to keep one
class of people off the docks and
allow another class to go on? Does
not this show that he favors one class
of people more than he does another?
Is not this a violation of his oath of
office? Can you guess what class of
people he favors?
Have we got any use for car in
Everett?