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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
DISAPPOINTED
The Tribune's Reception of Mr.. Hughes
Address Resembles bad Grace
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | subscribed for your paper because
it is reputed and processes TO be a Repubi.
can sheet. Having lost patience with an.
other New York daily because Of It's bndy
perfunctory support of a Presidential candi.
date its own structures had shown while !,
Office to be failure, stopped it.
When | read your editorial rather conds.
scendingly disparaging Mr.. Hughess attitude
in his address of acceptance, it gave me the
Impression almost identically expressed BY
Joseph Irving Hermann in The Tribune Of
August 4. | may add that had been
tempted to write on the subject substantially
as he wrote you Why, let me ask, should NJ
Hughes needlessly provoke the opposition o..
any element of the electorate? His position
with respect to so-called German-Americans
was not in question, Germans the same as al
other classes of citizens having already been
told just what 20 expect from him on tia.
score.
The Tribune and everybody else knew, as
Mr.. Hughes himself no doubt had in mlni
that so far as the sO-callod hyphenates do OF
may hereafter support his candidacy, IL IS
and will be not because Of anything definitely
or warrantably expected of him, but TO pun
iSh his adversary for causes deemed, whether
justly or unjustly, to be offensive. From the
beginning of the propaganda favoring Mr.
Hughes's nomination. even the opposition has
found fault with nothing in his record, per-
sonality or fitness for the Office except tina.
he had been a highly respected justice Of the
Supreme Court. Was there ever another
such Presidential candidate?
Estimating Mr.. Hughes's address Of &C.
ceptance as a measurement Of the man,
would very much like TO submit in Gstihes-
ton of my position, this: During my pro-
tracted voting tenure as a citizen OF Reyo-
lutionary ancestry can recall no uttersnes
by candidate for Office more literally an
ideal declaration than Mr. Hughes's Csrnegs
Hall address of acceptance. There is lacking
in it not single mark of logic, finish. clarity,
grace, vigor, candor accuracy or argumenta'
tive fairness. 1t manfully shuns balderdash,
is chary of pledges of things known 70 os
problematical and throughout is admirably
poised, moderate, able, unanswerabe. From
end 10 end there is continuous ring IN us
euphoniously moving. convincing phrases that
il would seem even so able an editor as ms
Tribune's would shrink from attempting with
scant grace to disparage or otherwise beitus.
Such an act especially at this juncture ana
in professedly Republican newspaper. bea"
strong family resemblance TO not bad grace
alone, but worse faith.
| do not deny that am disappointed
JNO. Z. WILLIAMS.
Alto, Ga, Aug. 8, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
WHERE is THE WOMEN'S WOMAN?
A Plea That She Be Heard Against MIR.
Hughes and the Feminists.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: BY what method of reasoning do you
indorse the attitude taken by Mr. Hughes or
the Federal amendment for woman suffrage
By what right does any candidate assume
TO ignore the constitutional authority by
which each state has the power to determine
matters which concern its own electorate by
the majority of the popular vote?
In the great State of Ohio the question was
submitted to the voters in 1912 and lost by a
majority of $1,000. In 1914 it was again sub
mitted and lost by $4,000.
And now because your Republican nominee
wishes to cater to the women voters and not
to be subject to the nagging and harass-
ment of being tormented by the suffragettes
he proposes TO attempt the putting over of
the Federal amendment which shall place
upon the shoulders of all the women in the
country political responsibilities which they
do not consider it their duty to assume and
against which tremendous majority Of the
husbands and fathers of the nation are at
tempting to protect them
The whole human race passes through the
body of woman. The whole body polite
passes through her hands in that formative
period of life when good citizenship may be
taught and fine character established. Are
the women who have failed in their God
given function of bearing and rearing now
to be given the vote to attempt to right
wrongs for which their own inefficiency has
been 10 blame? And are our daughters 10 be
brought up with the disrespect for mother
hood that the feminist sutfragists teach upon
every turn? In heavens name, where are we
to look for adequate protest against such
heresy if not to the men whose names are
heraded from sea to sea, and who strive for
leadership? Why is it that the women's
woman may not be heard?
KATHARINE H. TALBOT.
President Ohio Association Opposed to Wom-
an Suffrage.
New York, Aug. g. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09

Dear Dad: | wrote you short letter a
few days ago just TO let you know was all
right. and this is another with the same mes
sage-though have more news to relate this
time, as have just returned from long
reconnaissance over the German lines.
| had known for some ten days or more
past that | was due for the next reconnois-
sance but decided not to tell you about it
till was safely back again. as it might only
make you anxious and would certainly do no
good. But now it is all over and you may
as we'll hear the story. ] shan't have another
to do for at least three or four months.
We started yesterday morning at a. m,
and our objective was three or four towns
about twenty-five to thirty miles over the
line. There were to be nine machines in all,
five F. Els, two 3. Els and two Nieuports.
The last are very fast scouts, whose job was
to chase and attack any hostile machines en-
countercd. They (thc Nieuports), however,
never turned up, and we went without them.
Three F. Els led the way in line followed
close behind by the other two, and the two
B. Els (mine was one) brought up the rear.
The idea was to fly as closely together as
possible, because the Hun won't attack a big
formation as a rule preferring something
safer in the shape of single machine.
All went well at first, and we climbed up
to seven thousand feet, keeping well together,
and then the leading machine fired green
light, which meant that we were to cross the
lines and make for our destination. A few
minutes later my machine began to give
trouble and couldn't get it to climb any
higher. By the time we reached the lines
was about one thousand feet lower and half
mile behind the formation, which ought by
rights to have waited for me when they saw
couldn't keep up but didn't.
A shower of shells greeted US as soon as
we got over, but the aim was bad and we soon
got out Of range. 1t took just over an hour to
get the information we wanted, and then we
started for home. We had just got in sight
of the trenches again, some miles ahead, and
was congratulating myself because all the
Hun airmen seemed to be asleep, when my
observer pointed backwards at something.
looked round and saw Fokker coming along
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
In Reply to Mrs. Scott.
Iitor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir The letter from Mrs. william Forse
Scott, published to-day, recalls a fable re-
carding a group of women who ordered din
ner in a restaurant Noting among the meats
roast chicken, which none of them liked, they
arose and demanded that the manager should
forbid roast chicken being served to any
one. When the manager refused TO grant
their request, they went out and organized
the Anti-Roast Chicken League.
II the Mrs. SCOTS don't want 10 vote, al
they will have to do, after suffrage is grant
ID, is 20 continue to stay away from the polls
No one is going TO put ropes around their
recks and drag them there.
BY the way, the absurdity OF the Ants in
giving their support" TO any political can
didate amuses me. What support" have
they, or any voteless individuals. to give
And how can they manage it when "woman's
place is in the home? That last argument
also amuses me, when | see the Mrs. John
Martins rushing all over the land to pro-
claim it.
But there is one thing in Mrs. Scots let
ter that demands serious consideration.
When she states that zone of their popular
speakers "at a public suffrage meeting
shouted, Woman suffrage, or lot the gov
eminent 60 TO hell" she mu5J state that
zpeaker's name if she expects any sane per-
SON to believe her. GENEVIEVE MURAT.
New Brighton, Staten Island, Aug. 7, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
An Inevitable Word.

The cant of the trenches has grown at
so prodigious a rate that in two years ar
occasional language nearly unintelligible
TO the stranger has been established in
the armies at the front; or, rather, sew
eral languages, for there is a French jar
gon as well as an English jargon, and
doubtless the Russians have expanded
their vocabulary, too. Readers of the
English reviews are familiar with some of
the newly devised terms of art in the Brit
ish army, as we'll as with Tommy's ex-
traordinary efforts to adapt French words
and phrases 10 his own uses. But the
poilu has shown genius infinitely moro
fertile in the creation of neologisms, and
portions has already been built up that a
curious philologist has thought it worth
while to prepare a dictionary of pGrgot
poilu.
a great many of these words will prob
ably die a natural death before the war
is over, but reasonable number will
surely survive. Singularly enough, young
as they all are, it is impossible in most
cases 70 trace their origin with any GER
taintv. Even the familiar Boche, now a
word in worldwide use excepting only
Central Europe, presents difficulties
which the philologists Of the future will
hardly overcome. On this point the COM
piler of the dictionary is disappointing.
He accepts the conventional explanation
Of AHcmaad p bdche, whence Alboche, or
boche for short. The meaning would be
German blockhead" This will not do.
The variant Alboehe is possibly the earlier
Of the tw;. but, as a reviewer in "Ths
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
No Discrimination Against Women Doctors

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR In this mornings Tribune | notice
letter signed by DR.. Rebecca Teichman, in
which the doctor states that she was refused
an appointment by Dr. Wilson, in charge of
the Willard Parker, Riverside and Kingston
Avenue hospitals of the Department of
Health, on the ground that, though doctors
were needed, there was no room for women
physicians, and, later, goes on to make tn
following statement: ~ am a graduate of a
recognized medical college, but / am n
woman; therefore cannot help in this fight
where help is so badly needed, while under
graduates who are fortunate enough to be
men are accepted with open arms"
The facts of the matter are these: DR..
Teichman applied for a position as resident
inferno in the hospitals of the Department
of Health. The doctors dormitory is occu-
pied wholly by men, and it would not be
practicable to have a woman physician live
there. There have been women internes in
the department hospitals at times when thu
nurses dormtories were not crowded, and
they were housed there. At the present
time the nurses dormitories over
crowded, owing TO the large number of addl-
tional nurses who are now in service, and
there was literally no room where a woman
physician could be placed. | am informed
by DR.. Wilson that as soon as the new staff
buildings of the hospital are completed it
will be possible to accept women as internes
on exactly the same basis as men.
In all other parts ci the department women
physicians are employed on the same terms
as men, receiving the same salaries and do
ing the same work. In the Bureau of Child
Hygiene, out of III medical inspectors
(physicans) employed, twenty-three are
women; in the Bureau Of Laboratories, out
of twenty psychologists employed, twelve
are women. There is absolutely no dis
elimination in the Department of Health
against women
I feel that DR.. Teichman's letter gives such
an erroneous idea of the attitude of the De-
partment of Health toward women as sex
that | shall be greatly indebted il you will
publish this correction
S. JOSEPHINE BAKER,
Director, Bureau of Child Hygiene,
Department of Health.
New York, Aug. 8, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
Licenses for Cats.
r Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Nav an interested reader of your
interesting paper respond to your interest
inc editorial on cats? Why not place cats
in the same category with dogs, as Mr.. For
bush suggests? Oblige their owners to IL
cengc them and collar them and be response
bic for their welbeing? There is no more
sanitary creature than a well fed cat. The
first thing it does after a good meal is 10
clean I'D its coat but when underfed IT
hasn't the necessary lather handy for this
function. 1t grows careless, like many an
underfed human being, and then by the same
analogy is a prey to disease, especially IN
its coat. which becomes a germinator or
heaven knows what. The more sanitary the
city the less chance is there for stray cats
20 frd any food at all.
All the cats not privately licensed should
either be humanity disposed of or taken over
by the city as city employees, badged, fed
at stations provided for that purpose and
kept as ratters. 1t is a mistaken idea that
a cat when properly fed ceases TO be
hunter. II il is sport al all, It Is dead
game sport. The only difference that feeding
makes is in its treatment Of its prey. which
il will play with and torture instead OF de-
vourine. An underfed eat is a menace and
is good for nothing. At the best 1t has none
of .he Spartan virtues Of the dog but there
IS not a creature even Of the human species
that responds more alluringly you have
intimated. TO proper food and affection. Why
not introduce the London institution Of the
cats meat man? CRAZE GklSWOLD'
New York, Aug. 5. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
Enjoying the Summer.


There is less sickness as a rule in hot
weather than in cold, probably for the reason
that in the summer every door, window, crack
and crevice is OPEN and the good outdoor
air that is so valuable 70 the health of the
body comes in.
Babies flourish in summer heat, If their
food is properly cared for, and elderly per
sons luxuriate in It, "Sweltering" seems TO
be uncomfortable, but it is as easy to enjoy
the sensation as TO suffer from II. Here at
least the mind cure is remedy, especially
for all other persons IN the vicinity. They
do not suffer from your complaints.
The author of the once popular song, 1.-THE
Good Old Summer Time" made fortune
and deserved it. The songsters try nobly TO
do something with winter, but the metre
gets cold feet.
Summer is passing. Next week il will be
August and then you know what shortly
fellows Some one in the family will be pull
ing off the last leaf on the calendar on the
wall and exposing the Hateful year of 1917.
Can you believe it?
These things being as they are, it behooves
the sensible person and the philosopher TO
make as much as possible Of the passing
summer Of 1916. and to be enjoying the feet
ing year to the top of his ability.
1t is summer; as De Quincy put it, cal
mighty summer" The streams OF life are
running bank fall. Get out and battle in
them before the morning shows a skim Of
ice across their surfaces
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
Why Not Arbitrate ?

Why cannot the railroad workers WIG
have voted to tie up the transportation
systems Of the country take page out OF
the book of the streetcar workers here, who
are to settle their grievances by arbltrI-
ton? Members of the Big Four" are in nc
such straits as were the local traction en-
ployes. The railway workers are union
lied thoroughly, and the companies make
no objection to that or to meeting 81
conference with their representatives
Whether or not their wages and hours are
all they ought to be, at least these men are
the best paid of railroad workers. There
is no more reason why they should moi
arbitrate the matters of hours and pay IN
dispute than was the case with the switch
men, who have agreed to leave their de-
mands in the hands of board of arbitra-
ton under the Newlands act.
The big Four" members are among
the most intelligent wageworkers Of the
country. They cannot be ignorant Of The
disastrous effect of the strike they have
voted forts effect on them, on the
thousands and thousands Of other railway
employees who would be thrown out OF
work by it with nothing to gain if it Won
on every business, every household in the
land. Their leaders, on whom will rest
the actual responsibility for calling a
strike, if one is called, are not ignorant #
what must result
Every facility for impartial arbitration
by government agency, exists. Is it pos
sible that the union leaders, with their
knowledge, their intelligence, will force
their fellows and the country at large into
the horrors of a general railway strike
when other workers recognize their duty
to the public and arbitrate questions just
as vital?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
Reforming the Scot.

It is recognized in all the countries az
war that the abuse Of alcoholic beverages
is productive Of perncious consequences.
Most of them, if not all, have devised
special measures to deal with this manifest
evil while the war lasts. This circum-
stance has naturally encouraged reformers
everywhere, and it is not surprising that
in countries or districts where the evil IS
most apparent enthusiasts should be cry
ing out for further restrictions.
The Scots are VIGOROUSLY drinking
people, and it is true perhaps that the
measures for liquor control have not
worked quite so we'll there as in other
parts of the United Kingdom. But that
very fact ought alone to serve as a warl-
ing to those who are endeavoring so
earnestly to force total prohibition on the
whole population. The Scots are a proud
folk, and they would resent, and justly re-
sent, such coercion when applied to them
alone. Imagine the howl there would be
in Ireland if a similar measure were to be
discussed even in an academic way.
Another consideration is the unlikeli-
hood of the results justifying so drastic n
reform. AS the Scottish Secretary put t,
tactfully enough, to the influential deputa-
ton that waited on him the other day.
1T is conceivable that resentment might
be demonstrated, and that far from i'm
proving the output Of material with which
you have to carry on this war that output
may be limited" That, to say the Least,
is putting it mildly. If Scotland is really
"enslaved to the liquor traffic" as Sir
John McCallum insists, it can hardly be
expected to submit with a good grace 20
methods that England and Wales and Ire
land have hitherto refused even to discuss.
The problem is not so simple as these re-
formers are disposed to think.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09

desert island has departed. Occasional
novelists still experiment with the motii'
but it is only in half-hcarted way. They
lack the vision, the inventiveness, the cour-
age Of loneliness. This is gregarious
generation SO they must needs spoil II
all by the introduction of woman-a
problem, the obsessing problem of the day.
whereas such an isle should be the one
place where the tired reader should find
refuge from its complexities. Conrad, to
be sure, knows the lonely places in the
businesses of lonely seas and does not fear
them. But he is man of genius, an ex-
ception to all rules.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09

ticular purpose After the children are dis
charged from the hospital the great ortho-
pedic problem will have to be met by the
various agencies and institutions existing
for that purpose. Many of my personal
friends and some strangers are still sending
me money to be used for the sufferers in
various ways, and whatever | receive | am
expanding to the best of my knowledge and
ability. For example, have just purchased
three dozen small chairs with trays for the
two and three-year-olds who are able to sit
up and feed themselves.
desire to have it distinctly understood.
however, that am not the treasurer or Gus
todian of any orthopedic or philanthropc or
ganization or fund, and that we have in
Brooklyn various bodies organized for those
specific purposes. LOUIS c. AGER.
Brooklyn, Aug. 7, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
Vivid Account British Flying Corps Reconnaissance O rJ vb and
TwoFo kcrandaB
iomc-tM Times

on till thought I was about home. Tk.a
.but off and came down below the eioes.
(which we're almost on tho ground. only !.
discover TINT was entirely lost. | FELT en-.
tain was somewhere near home, 50 con.
tinucd 10 skim about above tree tops. hop!r,
10 pick up some landmark ! knew. and hndl,,
none. After wandering around for son.
time land getting back to the trenches again
and side-slipping hopelessly on every turn I
had TO give it up. made successful lsa!.
ing in a field and discovered that was Just
three miles behind the lines and about ni..
from our serodrome. Then we dragged u,
machine down into hollow (lest the Ger.
mans should see IL from one Of their bal.
looms and send shells over and examine.
the damage We were hit N 80 places alto
gether. There were IL shots through Ii.
tail plane elevator and rudder, ) through ii,
fusilage. 7 in the LEFT places, In the rigt.
planes. / in the engine, in the propells,
two struts were shattered. one incidence VII.
shot away. and the aileron wire also. Prse.
tcally every part Of the machine was hi;
but we escaped by fraction Of an inch /,
one or two cases.
Well. was not feeling as 81 as I Nigh.
especially as had been up since 3:i5 wit.
nothing to eat, and it was then 7:45), an!
hardly liked the idea of flying the maehi..
any further in that condition. So, having
found out that there was a telephone abos
two or three miles away, walked there and
rang up the squadron. About i0:l5 a ca,
arrived with spares and mechanics, who re.
paired the machine as far as possible and
fitted new propeller. got away eventual!
at 1880. and landed here about 10 minutes
later and was very thankful 10 get SON,
lunchl
The general came over this morning 70 SCI.
me and my machine and he seemed quit
pleased that / managed to get away with i
and said needn't fy again for a couple o..
days If | did not feel inclined. So ! have
had good rest to-day, but tomorrow stall
20 up again if wanted.
l9516-I was unable 10 finish this lett,,
last night. as it got so late, and now I hay,
missed to-day's post, as / have been most o.
the afternoon ranging one OF our l2-inc.
howitzer batteries on a German balloon shed
some five miles over the lines. Luckily h.
wss very clear day and | could see ii.
shells burst without going far over. We
blew the shed TO atoms in twelve shots, 50 I
am quite pleased with the days work.
And now think this is about all the neEs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
Not Up to Whitman's Standard.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribune of August 5 appeared
story in which two state leaders lash Cow
ernor Whitman.
want to express my wish that all Of our
Senator'S and Assemblymen at Albany we're
men with Governor Whitman's standard OF
ability. honesty and good sense. We should
then not have so much rubbish on our siatu"
books
The charges that these Senator'S maze
against Governor Whitman are absolutely
untrue W. D. MACDONALD.
Yonkers, n. Y, Aug s, 1915.