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New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
had for such service Is what they have go'

had for such service Is what they have go'
since they left their state camps.
Mr.. Hay sees trouble ahead for MS
amateur military system. He Is getting
ont before the storm breaks. But no"
about the Administration which allowed
him TO dominate its councils-to decree
Secretary Garrison's exile from the Caoi
net? Is it also headed for the bombproof
An ingenious effort is being made by
President Wilson's apologists to saddle al
the sins of the army reorganization meas
ure on Mr.. Hay. "The World said yes
terday, with great austerity:
Toward the reorganization OF the
army Mr.. Hay has maintained writ
ually the attitude of an obstruction
ist during the present session. lie
nroved himself unrcsponsive to the
lust demands of the country for real
preparedness and threw his influence
as chairman of the House Committee
on Military Affairs against plans and
measures urged by the highest author
tiles and supported by public opinion.
"If in the next few years 1t should
turn out that the army reorganization
bill does not work well the failure
of the measure will be due chiefly to
Mr.. HAYS efforts to prevent the es-
tablishment of an adequate military
system The choice was offered MN
of advocating a carefully studied plan,
and he rejected it for one that he had
improvised according to his own mar
row prejudices. To him belongs the
responsibility of wrecking the Fed
eral volunteer army plan, which
against his opposition the Senate
sought to preserve"
How simple and convenient! The "high
est authorities" including the President
stood awestruck before the domineerint
chairman of the House Military Affair
Committee! According TO "The Worlds
theory, he was the wicked partner, tn
malign personality, who took advantag
all along the line of Mr.. Wilson's limo
cence.
Yet everybody knows that if the Presl
dent had had the moral courage to figh
Mr.. Hay and stand by Secretary Garrison
the country would at least have beer
spared the fatal blunder of the amalgama
ton of the state Guards with the regulars
as our first military line.
And this arch-enemy Of rational mill
tary preparation is now rewarded by the
President with safe post for life!
1t is an amazing comedy of politics. But
the end is not yet. Before long the high
est authorities" who consented to Mr.
Hav's reorganization makeshift may be
envying him the secure seclusion of his
judicial retreat.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
"Placating" the Irish.

Some hard questions were put to Mr.
Asquith yesterday about the proposed set
tlement of Irish affairs, and Mr.. William
O'Brien's was one of the most pertinent
He asked why the Premier would not post
pone all action till the war was over II ne
really desired to earn "the thanks of every
human being in Ireland" The answer, as
usual. was that the government had to deal
with a domestic and imperial emergency
and that consequently something must be
done.
1t is not satisfying answer, for what
it is proposed to do is manifestly displeas-
ing to all parties in Ireland. Even those
Immediately concerned in effecting the
compromise-Sir Edward Carson, Mr.
Redmond and Mr.. Devlin-make no pre-
tence to see much hope in it, and if they
have agreed to it, it can only be because
they could think of nothing better. 1t Is
only in England that the plan is regarded
with favor, for, as Sir Horace Plunkett
pointed out the other day, almost the en-
tire Irish press rejects it, not upon party
considerations but upon the general convic-
ton that it twill exasperate and not pla-
cate the majority Of the Irish people"
Home Rule is evidently repugnant to
Sir Edward Carson and his followers IN
Ulster as we'll as to the Unionist minority
in the rest of Ireland; mutilated Home
Rule act is no less repugnant to the Ma
tionalists. Sir Horace Plunketts plan
seems to be more or less in accord with
what Mr.. Asquith limited at long time
ago. 1t provides for an Irish Council to
take care Of the administration of the
whole of Ireland while the war lasts-a
council to be nominated by the Premier
His first concern is to take some step that
will do away with martial law. The ad-
ministrative machinery he believes could
be got to work in much less time than 1t
will take to install Parliament, and 1t
would be more efficient. He thinks politi-
cal leaders in Ireland "must find the praise
which is being lavished upon them in the
British press for uniting upon the division
of their country somewhat Calling" and he
believes that unity rather than division
should be the aim of statesmen.
Whatever may be thought of his pro-
nosal. which in so far as it has been made
public is vague, it is not less promising
than the plan now under consideration,
which seems only calculated to multiply
occasions of discord and in that respect
has already succeeded very well.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
gully IA, 1916
The Homeric Struggle That France Wages
with the Allies Aid.
To tho Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: As an Englshman born, and an Amcri-
can citizen and veteran Of the National Guard
| thank you profoundly for the noble and
beautiful sentiments expressed in your edl-
torial Of this date headed July Ii, 1916 IL
is tremendously gratifying to read such touch
ing references to the Homeric struggle IN
which France is engaged to repcl the ruthless
invader. am grateful to feel that so many
writer's of eminence in the United States are
in sympathy with the nation that sent Lafay-
cite Rochambeau and Dc Grasse TO aid the
American Colonies in their struggle against
an un-English. Germanic monarch who no
more represented the people OF England ana
the freedom for which they stood than the
hired Hessans whom he sent over IN the
effort TO subject them 70 his will.
France has been attacked-ruthlessly and
wantonly attacked-by the German colossus
And in the words Of your article-"France
has made her sacrifice. II remains now that
il shall avail She will fulfil her destiny.
The German Empire is not 10 rule in Paris.
Atrocities are not to be justified by success.
France faces in one direction. She waits IN
arms at Revigny and along the watercourses
of the North for the machine to crack"
And that machine is now about to crack
enfn-wth the aid of the millions OF Eng
lishmen and Irishmen and Scotchmen VINO
are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the
brave soldiers of FTancel L. X. Is.
New York July ID, 1916.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
Fighting Submarines with Submarines.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The arrival of the German submarine
Deutschland proves beyond the shadow of a
doubt that the Germans could at any mo-
ment by means of submarines, destroy the
entire American Atlantic feet as il crused
or lay at anchor in fanced security in port.
Then (supposing the European war 70 be
ended } the whole Atlantic Coast of the United
States would be at the mercy of the German
navy, and the German navy has no mercy.
Americas obvious defence would be to her
self possess an enormous number of very
efficient and very destructive submarines,
capable of sinking in the middle of the At
lantc Ocean every ship Of an enemy feet
before that feet could approach within a
thousand miles of the American coast. These
American submarines when not in use
should be kept, even in time Of peace. in pro-
tected docks or inclosed basins, where an
enemy submarine could not reach them. The
United States government should now, at
once. without delay or Congressional argu-
ment. order the construction Of an unlimited
number of submarines Of the very best and
newest kind and see that they are pro-
vided with skilled American mot German
American) commanders, and with loyal and
efficient American crews.
BERTRAND SHADWELL.
Los Angeles, CAL July -, 1916.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
A County Without a Railroad.
(From The Philadelphia Record }

(From The PhtlddeipHtn hcco'dl
Fulton County, as many persons know, Is
the only Pennsylvania county that IS un-
touched by a railroad-a very unusual state
of affairs that is no doubt responsible for the
fact that the population in this mountainous
district. lying on the Maryland border has
long been stationary or declining. Recently
a company was chartered to build line from
McConnellsburg, the county seat, to Fort Lou
don, and now it is stated that contract has
been awarded for its construction and equip
ment The automobile has helped to make
the beauties Of Fulton County better known
than they formerly were, and the new road
will make it further accessible. The southern
road across the state runs through Fulton
and is now largely used by motorists. These
have probably stirred its people up TO seek
ing closer communication with the outside
world.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
BLAMES ARMY SYSTEM
General Butt Demands Business Methodi
to Care for Soldiers.
To tho Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your Texas correspondent has evident
ly scented jealousy and friction on tie Rio
Grande. General Parker's explanation nper'
feet in peace times for small bodies OF men,
but what he does not know is the deliveries
failed because the outlet was overtiowed. War
strength issues for commands at war streng;
everywhere at once were unworksole over
night by the system.
In Europe, where annual manpuvres fc'
many generations have taught preparedness
immediate and complete, everything each ma,
requires for war is kept at his place Of "rer.
devious" his depot. Hundreds of Thousands
of men are modified overnight by many pow
ers of Continental Europe and are in thei'
places in their regiments next morning, drill
ing and undetectable from the men alreatI
found with the colors. This takes place ever
year and is all very simple over there.
But that is not what our system does. !
makes complication and tries to do the ir
possible, fails, then endeavors to explain. Ar
soldier who has to explain is wrong Unfon
unately for the System" acquisitions fG
every luiNS iol a "dt StEeHSlH EtblNtAI "e'
made by a New York colonel at the time o.
the Vera Cruz incident. The acquisitions wes.
through the channel and were everywher
approved, even by General Leonard WOOD
Storage rooms for the property we're read
and were TO be sealed and locked by the sys
TEN. Bonds against loss or destruction were
offered the system by the regiment. But 10
Nothing so near right, so simple and smackir'
of business methods, could touch the ire
sponsible, soulless system. The requistior'
we're not acted on. They are being filed nos
am informed.
Light weight uniforms were requisitionH
long ago by this state. Nothing doing until
our men are suffering heat strokes in Teus
and the System" is covering itself with aoE'
ers for its acumen on the Rio Grande in no.
letting them die.
Can you beat il? Well, am thinking th.
Guard will try to later, and Congress vii
help, too.
Let US have promotion by elimination. Give
General Leonard Wood the same free hand
which republican France gave General Jofre'
and the system will be replaced by something
simple and practical, able 20 handle the sup
ply departments of our small army in a man
ner worthy of the business methods found
our great corporations.
MCoSKRY BUTT.
New York, July Is 1916
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
Victor Chapman.

1t is not true he died in France;
His spirit climbs the serried years
Victorious over empty fears
And proof of Freedoms last advance.
The handful Of his mortal clay
May drift upon foreign breeze
To burgeon into flowers and trees
That make the diadem of May.
Himself still lives, and cannot die
While freemen shun the tyrant's heel,
While minds are true and hearts are leal
And men look upward to the sky.
Compact of elemental fire
And heart untouched by easy fear,
His vision measures fair and clear
The worth of ultimate desire.
For him no blight Of soaring age;
Eternal youth is his and joy
The cheerful gladness of the boy
Shall be his constant heritage.
Mourn not for that devoted head;
He is the spirit of our race
Triumphant over Time and Space
He cannot die; he is not dead.
BENJAMIN A. GOULD. Z
Toronto, July IA, 1916.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
Opposed TO Whitman.
tor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The tribune.
Sir: The inclosed clipping appears to in
dicate that Democratic and Progressive state
bodies are to oppose the reelection Of Whit
man. The writer is an old line stalwart
Republican who knows Whitman through
and through and proposes TO oppose his re-
election regardless of whatever ticket he
may be placed on.
You will no doubt remember the visit TO
your editorial rooms by Governor Whitman's $
secretary, and his threat 10 withdraw state
advertising unless The Tribune changed its
policy regarding it's attitude toward Whit
man. In "The Standard Union" of Febru-
airy IA, 1916, you will find these remarks to
have been made by ex-senator Brackett 81
think that Governor Whitmans reelection
would lead TO an open revolt in the Repub-
lcan machine in this state. His admins
traticn has led to deplorable situation. |
never expected to live to see the time when
Suffers administration was respectable in
comparison with another The Republican
party made a mistake when it nominated
Whitman, and now is the time to rectify that
mistake"
As a reader of The Tribune, would like
to be advised as TO what your readers may
expect from The Tribune from now on in
connection WIN lne nomination lor GoV-
ernor. Please bear in mind that there still
remains unexplained that booze bill of Whit
mans party to the California Exposition,
amounting to 20,760.43.
To my own personal knowledge, in one
single line of industry, there are thirty
thousand voters who are sure to square ac-
counts with Mr. Whitman if the Republican
party is foolish enough to give him re-
nomination. A STALWART.
Brooklyn, July II, 1916.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
MIR. Hay Runs to Cover.

The Hon. James Hay, though a great
legislative strategist, is poor open field
fighter. He has just effected quick re-
tirement under fire. Before anything like
complete test of his military reorganiza-
ton law has been made he has sought
safety in a bombproof.
The House of Representatives at the
next session will be pretty hot place for
the men who pushed through the IRA
tional scheme of amalgamating the state
Guards with the regular army as the coun-
try's first fighting line. The politicians
who favored that amalgamation were
gambling on the chance that there would
never be any occasion for calling out the
militia for first line service. So long as
the state organizations were only nom-
inally in the first line, drawing Federal
pay for home guard service, Mr.. Hay and
/ his lieutenants might have gone on for
several years claiming credit for having
given the United States thoroughly sat
isfactory first line paper army.
But the Carrizal skirmish cut short all
this promising speculation in army fut-
ures. The state Guards were called out.
They have been asked to make good on all
Mr.. Hays promises, and no one knows bet
ter than Mr.. Hay himself that they have
not nrade good and have no chance of max
ling good. Rather than see the expert
lment through and meet in Congress the
ho init dot teA nd
defeated. but who were better judges of
the needs of the situation than he was, he
gladly takes to the sub-cellar-to place of
refuge on the bench of the Federal Court
of Claims.
Discretion is in Mr.. Hays case the bet
ter part of valor. The National Guard
was ordered to the Mexican border on
June 18-just thirty days ago. From a
report made few days since to the War
Department from the Military Depart
ment of the East it appears that OF the
Il2S.00O Guardsmen summoned to service
! in this department only 70,77l had been
mustered in and only $4,000 were at the
border or on their way there. The Hay
mobilization has proved from the strict
military point of view little more than a
burlesque as far as concerns rapidity OF
movement, completeness of equipment and
the readiness of the men sent to engage at
once in the sort of service expected from
first line.
Full and free acknowledgment must DO
made of the admirable spirit of the men,
Of their zeal and willingness. But they
were asked to do something which they
were never trained to do and which they
should never be expected to do. They
were sent to the front as part of an ex-
perienced first line army; and yet the
only real training most Of them have ever
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
Dirty Milk Bottles.
New York, July 16, 1916.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: | think it my duty as a citizen. ara
your duty as an editor. to warn the peeps
are dirty inside. One is so accustomed
seeing milk bottles covered with dirt N"
ne is likely not to notice dirt on the inside
On June 2s reported case to the ps
partment of Health and TO Dr. Lueius =
Brown, director, by writing a letter and so'h'
IN person TO see him and 10 deliver the oo'',
To-day | am reporting the second case '''
am disseminating taking milk from the eVH
rany.
II our milk companies can be so eare'e''
in washing and inspection as 20 leave msTs'',,
and patches OF black dirt on the inside V
bottles it is time for people to demand 's.'
vice and adequate laws to cover such nes'
gence.
In the first case | reported there WIS.,
three-quarter inch margin Of black dlrI -.
ming half way around the inside OF ".
bottle. Without pouring the milk out y.
stick down inside and found the dir'
loose and in such condition as to inoi''.
that the washing process must be inem'''-'
as well as the inspection. -
When one considers that some people So !.
likely to use these milk bottles as reeep'.s..
for all sorts Of dirt and filth, il is ooV''.it
that most efficient and sanitary sys'e"
washing should be enforced. ,,~
PROGRESSIVE
Brooklyn. July II. Iais. =
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
Anti. Toxin for Snobbery.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Have just been patting on its human
back your What One Does Not Learn in
College We have always with US the snob-
the physical bluer- -blooded- -than-thou, the
moral holier-than-thou, the mental brainier-
than-thou. 'Tis germ that cannot be ami
hilated save by the generation OF the sane
serum OF humor, and when will the times be
gentle and reflective enough for the genera
tion of that blessed anti-toxin? d. s. G.
Douglaston, n. T., July l6, 1916.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
Willimantic. Conn, j

The Germans hold all four Of the
places mentioned. The line crosses the
Disc between Noyon and Ribecourt. The
French hold Scissors, but the Germans
are so near to the outskirts of it that
some of the houses are occupied by
them.-Ed.l
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
The Mast Cartoons.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: / am a reader of The Tribune and
have been one for five years. and il the
present state of affairs continues ! will be a
reader of your paper for a good many years
to come.
In the Graphic Section of to-day's Tribune
there is a series of cartoons by that eminent
artist, Thomas Mast, headed How Thomas
Mast, the famous cartoonist, viewed the
pacifsts and the foes of preparedness in the
'7Os, when a Democratic Administration
starved the army and navy and fed the pork
barrel" / was very much grieved and
chagrined that paper of the calibre OF The
Tribune should allow such hagrant mis-
statement to enter its pages. With the
knowledge of its First to Last-the Truth"
policy firmly believe it must have been due
to an oversight on the part of its editorial
staff, for from the day that Abraham Lin
coin was first inaugurated in 1861 to the day
that Grover Cleveland first sat in the Pres-
Dental chair in 1885 the United States had
been under the control of the Republican
party continuously. General Grant served
two terms in Washington from 1869 to 1877,
and was succeeded by another Republican in
the person Of Rutherford B. Hayes, who
served one term from 1877 to 1881. As this
covers the period mentioned in the Graphic
Section of to-day you can plainly see you.
error.
For the past two years there has been
much agitation due to our state of unpre-
paredness and the whole crime has beer laid
at the door of the present Administration
Up to the time Woodrow Wilson took
office, and with the exception of Grover
Cleveland, the Republican party had been in
power since the Civil War, period covering
hfty-two years; and the Republican party is
denouncing President Wilson for not accom-
plishing in three and half years what they
failed TO accomplish in half century. Theo.
oore Roosevelt held the office for seven and
half years and Taft sat at Washington for
four years; yet neither one of them accom-
plished very much in the way of prepared
ness, otherwise we would now be ENJOYING
that blissful state these professional agita-
TORS are yelping about. For no army or
navy could deteriorate very much in three
years without prolonged war to dismantle
them WILLIAM p NONauAN
Brooklyn, July Is, 1915
The word Administration" in the
headline was an obvious error. Mast was
striking at the Democratic majorities in
Congress which sought to starye the army
and navy in President Hayes's time. It
should be remembered that although Re-
publican Presidents were in Office during
the '70s, the Republicans did not have con.
troll in Congress after March 4, 1873.
So far as responsibility for neglect of
military preparation in recent years is con.
cerned, it must also be remembered that
the United States lived up to August I
1914, in the pleasant delusion that there
would be no more really serious wars Tho
need of preparation has multiplied hun.
dredfold since the European war began
So has the weight of responsibility for fail.
ure at Washington to prepare quickly in
tbe light of what has been happsnin~ IN
Europe for the last two years.-Eal
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
1.-THE, SUMMER OF DECISION"
The London Ouook Neither Britain Her Allies
Will Ever Acquiesce in Drawn Batte-Ihe Principles
for Which They Are Contendng

tance to Great Britain that those provinces,
with their vast mines, should be in the pos
session of her ally. When the tricolor
again waves over Alsace Lorraine We shall be
able to congratulate France upon recovering
her stolen soil stolen because it was an
nexed without the consent of its inhabitants)
and ourselves upon the fact that French sem
timent and our own interests are alike salts
fed
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
Man-Eating Flivvers.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Why have you not discovered tina,
the school of man-eating sharks now infest.
ing our waters is fleet of Henry Ford's
baby submarines, OF which the Germans
stole the plans? RICHARD KELLY.
New York, July IS, 1916.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
Geographical.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Do the Germans hold Chaunes. Roye
Lassigny and Noyon? Where does the line
cross the Disc? Who holds Scissors?
LAWRENCE.
Willimantic. Conn. July Is, 1916.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-18

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