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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
FEDERAL PAY FOR THE STATE MILITIA
The Provided Hay and Chamberlain Bills Repre-
Only Return for Valuable ServiceIhe Work
National Guard Private Officer Does

lis to-day constantly growing more efhcleni,
and more effective, and IS now not at all
similar to the Revolutionary article.
II furnishes a splendid foundation for tur-
ther progress, and if the right Of the Fed
eral authorities to properly train and control
the guard and TO avail themselves OF its ser
vices, whenever and wherever they are need
ed is in doubt A matter upon when tnere
are two sides) this doubt can and should pc
removed by Constitutional amendment. Inc
guard as whole is willing to give the
greatest measure of service which IS per
mitted.
II IS unwise to surrender that which you
have for an unknown thing, unless your pres
emf nossession be wholly worthless The
guard is far indeed from being wholly worth
less and it were the part of wisdom to I'M
prove it and enlarge its usefulness.
There Is general agreement among mill
tary men that some form OF universal mill
tary service modelled along the lines OF the
Swiss or Australian system is what we
should have. Unless we do have it in some
fashion (for stern necessity will surely force
il upon US some day., until all are sub
iected TO the burden now borne by lew,
those few who fill the breach for the benefit
% the rest should be accorded some measure
Of appreciation.
No man who earns his salary should be, or
is. accused Of taking pork" when he re-
ceiyes il. and in justice to the guardsman
the public should remember that he to-day
earns every cent that it is proposed to give
him. and that under the proposed bill If he
does not perform the duty he will not get the
pay. hbOhIb u " rbc"',,
First Lieut.. &. A. c., y. G.. y. J.
New York May !, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
Material for the Wastebasket.

Governor Whitman should veto the
Cristman Wheeler bill establishing a
board of censors for motion pictures as a
bureau under the Regents. That proposal
is foolish and harmful There is no need
for any censorship other than what now
exists: the good sense and the good taste
of the managers who produce pictures and
the public which pays to see them and
the statutes against indecency and i'm
morality enforced by the police. To that
is added the work Of the National Board
of Censorship of Motion Pictures-a non
official body of experts, made up of per-
sons eminent in business, in philanthropy,
in professional life, who act as advisers
and critics for the producers of pictures
before they are released for public exhibit
ton.
Official censorship by jobholders might
register a different opinion from that OF
these experts and from that Of the pro-
ducers. But there is no earthly reason to
suppose that it could be better, wiser,
purer or more Of a protection for the
public.
Aside from the foolishness Of the pro-
posal, there must be considered the innate
viciousness of it. AS the late Mayor
Gaynor so sagely said, there never existed
a censorship of anything which did not
do infinitely more harm than good. There
might Just as well be a censorship Of plays,
of books, magazines, newspapers, as Of
motion pictures. Indeed, there might bet
ter be, for with few exceptions the pict-
ures exhibited to-day are made with more
scrupulous care to exclude suggestive sit
uatons and smut than many books and
magazines.
In principle the bill is unwise; in prac-
tice it would be farce and fraud. 1t
should never have passed the Legislature,
even if the clerical lobby backing it was
unquestionably sincere in its views. Gov
ernor Whitman will serve the community
well if he throws it into the wastebasket
where it belongs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12

was not greatly concerned about observing
the rules of civilized warfare or that the
Imperial Chancellor and the Foreign Min
lister were unable to control the policy OF
the Admiralty and the actions OF naval
officers at sea. Does that condition con-
tinue? Are the new promises of the note
of May going to be worth any more IN
the long run than were the promises given
after the Arabic was sunk?
That is a question which the latest Sus-
sex note does not answer satisfactorily, IN
view Of its failure to show what punish
rent was inflicted on the commander who
torpedoed the Sussex and then offered an
alibi worthless to the point of ludicrous-
ness even on its face.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
THE ARTIST AND HIS HIRE

Id the Editor "a M Tribune.


Sir: The return of Ralph Blskelock is
suitable moment to reopen matter which
has already received some attention in France
and England, the question OF an artists claim
to the product of his work There have
been so many instances Of works of art ben:
sold for immense sums while the author OK
them or his immediate relatives are in actual
want that it has been suggested that an
artists financial interest in his work should
not necessarily end when a munihcent patron
has browbeaten him into accepting small
price for it. Degss sold a picture long ago
for $40 which recently fetched 100000, the
record for living mans work. II anybody
produces something which is worth 100000
at any time, clearly he was underpsid AZ $40.
81 am a racchorse," was the masters com
ment: 81 am worth only my bushel OF oats
But Degss is not in needy circumstances,
or he might have been tempted 10 wonder
what any one else had done 10 his early can
vas 10 increase its value by f39.9sO. The fact
is that his own genius and the reputation he
has acquired through his own endeayor ere
ated that difference. and in like circumstances
an artist should reap something Of the spec
ulator's harvest
II has been suggested that an artist should
receive a percentage on every public sale OF
his pictures. on an increasing scale, from l
per cent to 20 per cent for fifty years after
the first sale. TO be paid by the seller auto
matically into a common fund upon which an
artist could draw on furnishing proof of den
tlty.
This would be only pin prick 10 the deal
ors' profit on the work OF distinguished
artist while tho case Of the failure would
offer even less affection.
STEPHEN HAWEfS.
Nassau, y. r., Bahamas, May I, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
Is the Play the Thing?

II is unqualifedly not the thing, if you
take the word of any tired business man.
Plays, like pictures, or poems, or novels,
are Just fluff. They amuse you or bore
you. depending upon your particular taste.
But they have no more relation to the real
stuff of life-to the ticker, the putting
green and the family-than, well, flower
bed has to the dinner table. Your wife
sticks few daffodis on the centrepiece
by way of cheering up the look Of things;
but their food value is nil.
1t is an extreme case TO put up on the
other side of the argument, but there is \
play of to-day that is Enthusiastically some
thing other than fluff. Justice" we mean.
A work of imagination, it bites deep into
almost every one that sees it. 1t does not
relate to golf or bank accounts. 1t does
touch life-the community life that we all
lead. with vice and crime and mistakes and
failure not so very far around the corner
from the best Of us. Taken literally, 1t
does not apply with complete accuracy to
the facts of crime and punishment in this
state. Lawyers have pointed out that
Galsworthy's victim would have been more
gently and sensibly dealt with under our
Penal Code. It's power as work of art,
expressing a general truth in terms of par
ticular human beings, is not the least
weakened. however. The central idea, the
destructive, sensclcss rigidity of legal pro-
cedure. is brought home as not all the lect-
ures Of the most eloquent prison reformer
could do it, "Unacknowledged legislators
Of the world" poets were called by Shelley
And such art as Galsworthy's makes good
the idea.
How about the cases not eXtremc-the
story by Mary Roberts Rinehart; the revue
by George NJ. Cohan, the Birth Of Ma
ton? We'll, their effect upon our logic and
our point of view may not be as obvious.
But their entrance into manners and talk
and lives is Just as certain and often quite
as powerful in producing an effect. Take
for instance. that Fundamental quality Of
our national make-up--sentimen IT
Graves sweet. comforting, unreal, unirank
acknowledgements it and is in 1urn kept
alive by it. Art thus reduced TO its lowest
terms docs not get very deep under human
skins. GLORY bcD Most Of ITS content
rolls off Immediately as vanish the plots of
novels from the brain Of the inveterate
novel reader. But little or big, your book
or your play is life, at least as much life
as the murder around the corner and this
months bills. That friendly, cheerful, un-
heroic five-cent weekly is probably more
influential visitor in your home than Is
your best friend.
That is the point which a sight Of Jus
tice" can bring home, making US perhaps
lust a shade more discriminating in liking
or disliking what we read or sec next. Let
us say, as discriminating as in picking an
office boy or the summers Straw hat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
The Cards Stacked.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The mass Of Republicans in Indiana
arc for Roosevelt, but the cards are stacked
against him.
Last winter the Republican state district
and county chairmen made 10 the Progress
siycs coalition proposed that one-hali
the delegation TO the national convention
should be Progressives and one-hslf Repub-
Leans. The proposal was accepted and the
parties came together promptly.
At the state convention, however, they gave
the Progressves three delegates and took
twenty-seven "stand-pats." These twenty
seven would rather cruelty Roosevelt than TO
support him.
DO not be dcluded into the belief that
either the press or the people will have any
influence. l.. ". VAIL.
Goshen, Ind May s, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
A Protest.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: As descendant Of line of ancestors
who fought TO give America the independ-
ence that Nine. Gadski enjoys. | protest
against her singing in the coming produc-
tion TO be held in the Yale Bowl. Her dis
loyalty TO America. the great-hearted, trust
ing country, the very source of her existence,
is too shocking for words.
AN AMERICAN.
New York, May II, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
The Death of Free Speech.

To tho Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Last Sunday tho city authorities pre-
vented memorial meeting for the victims OF
the Lusitania.
Our citizens should wear mourning for the
death OF the right Of free speech, as we'll as
for the American men and women and poor
little babies. savagely and senselessly slain
from ambush, and whose murder has not as
yet been avenged. EMMETT HARRIS.
New York, May ., 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
No Canadian Despair.

To the Editor ofThe Tribune.
Sir: Fortunately England knows her chill
dren better than even gifted and extremely
readable editorial writer OF another natioa-
atty can hope 10 do.
She does not need to be assured that rs
Canadians neither accuse her Of failure or
despair because OF visions OF the gobble
uuns getting us CANUCk.
New York, May 3, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
Democratic Opinion.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Ask twenty Democrats whom they
would like to sec the Republicans nominate
for President. and fifteen Of them will an
swcr Roosevelt" Why? Try il.
r. c. OWEN
Albany, y. Y, May 10, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12

"Threc Scotch Socialists Sentenced 10 Prison 49,
Newspaper Headline.
Were there that many?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12

You can purchase merchandise advertised
in THE TRIBUNE with absolute safety-for
II dissatisfaction results in any case The
TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your money bacE
upon request. No red tape, no clubbing. We
rake good promptly IL the advertiser does not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12

Owned and published daily ey The Tribune Assccauon'
~,u Yo-s co-rorstcn ogden Reid President g. vernon
Roeer. Vice President; r. VI waldo secfe'sy. =. -
s,t,, Tresslrer Address Tribune BUILDING -. Nassau
STREET New Ncrk
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12

Entered At n. Posio-ce At New Iorf a. second Ci's
Mail Matter.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATTs-By Mail. Postsse raid. outside
o. Greater New York
D,r, a Sunday mo Isl Daily only. month. 80
p1iiv 4 Si-dsv NOS 4 2S Daily snv. months. 500
Daily SUNDAY. S 50 Daily only yeu... nv
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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10

This paper has no retraction in
the Ma jor Motion affair. 1t thought
then and knows now that no i'm
proVement was made: by his promo
ton. Booker Il. Washington :;
palllatlon gave us double work for
manhood rights not only in the
South but the North as well for
untold years to come, and his sue
cessor ambition is to be patted on
the back and be called a good
darkey - to the lower regions with
tn good darky class. ANY nan
who goes back ON his wife when
abused for Contending for II I
rights paid for to ride in a Pullman
car, is unfit to lead and tea our
children.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10
EASTERN PANHANDLE
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
VIII Meet Here Next Wednesday
Morning at the Hotel
Berkeley.

The regular quarterly meeting OF
the Eastern Panhandle NJ 5dical AS
ISOLATION will be held wednesday.
June ID, at II o'clock at the Hotel
Berkeley. The program:
Treatment of Pelvic inflammation,
Disease in Young Wowen"-Dr. J. M.
Hundley, Of Baltimore, Md.
Some conclusions from the Recent
Diptheria Epidemic in Martinsburg
DIR. holland M. Canter, Of this city
The treatment Of New Groyths with
Radium ILLUSTRATED
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10

We read with pleasure the State
pride OF reward for the best bird
houses. They are useful things -
some wise pers ms claim they are
the spiritual outgrowth Of the hu-
man family. While we think diff
erently, we do confess they need
protection yet, it seems to us that
reward for people Of dark colors
for building and living in the best
homes, would please the allwise
Cod much better. Why not make
it allowable for them to move out
of alleys into better quarters and
give to every one a reward who did
for himself on the bird line in good
homes? Think over it and come
TO sense Of your duty and you
get by fer greater Cody reward.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10
BY Roosevelt settling the anthra-

BY Roosevelt settling the anthra-
cite coal strike; reinstating Miller tn
the government printing office; his
stand on sound money; his action
III the Plus Fund; his splendid con-
duct in the Venezuela case to the
tribunal ut the Hague, and causing
the Alaska boundary to be amicably
and equitably settled, places him
Tar above his competitors in wisdom,
manhood aud will power to do
things in behalf of peace and broth
erly love the universe over.
He boldly advocated an open
door fol- China; he defended tie
christians in Turkey; and spoke in
no uncertain tones in condemna-
ton of the nassacres of Hebrews
In Russia and Roumania.
He dined and lodged Harry Bur
leigh ~ The executive mansion OF
New York; dined with WASHINGTON
in tie White House; made John X.
Ly nch temporary chairman of the
National Convention in 1884; closed
the post office in respect for Miss Cox
and stood by DR.. Crum to the last.
All men up and no man down was
then and is now his propaganda.
Grant and Lincoln excepted the
colored people never had a better
TREND in the nations capitol, and
had it not been for that political hyp-
ocrite of hypocrites, Taft, he never
would have turned out those SOL
dlers at Brownsville.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10

When one looks carefully over
the problems of life amid it's
complexities and mans duty to
man, how must the Negro, denied
his rights though All American cit
izen feel? III education and moral
development he is hampered. JUS
tice should rule. There should be
no separate schools, no ii1ncrow ell
forcements nor ipfringements of any
kind. Uutil the foregoing prevails
divine justice will be withheld and
vexatioa upon vexation crowd Oh
this nation.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10
WEATHER MAN IS
HOLDING BALANCE
urday Afternoon Depends Upon
Him.

If weather conditions are favorable
the Auburndale driving club will give
splendid program Of racing at ths.
Eastern Panhandle fair grounds Sa;-
ufday afternoon. The program ar
ranged for Decoration Day will be
negotiated The track has been work
ed and placed in first-class condition.
and several horses have shown they
are in form, but it all depends upon
the weather.
AT this time it doesn, look very
favorable, but all are hoping that the
sun will shine tomorrow, and if II
does the track will quickly dry and
be ready for use.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10
Senator A. r. Fall Of New Mex.

Senator A. r. Fall Of New Mex
leo sad the following:
President Wilson's policy in
Mexico has been one mistake after
another. Every step he has taken
has been wrong. Every step has
increased the contempt Of MeXiCans
for us, has enhanced the DANCE to
American lives and property in
Mexico, and held the United States
up to the ridicule Of the great ma
tons of the earth
I have always said that give The
the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry the
two Negro outfits and ! could
march from the Rio G1ande, cap
ture Mexico City, and hold it
against all Mexico.
The authority that removed the
patrols along the border,' conclu-
ded Senator Fall, was responsible
for the Columbus massacre. l be-
lievc that authority was the State
Department.
If all Americans would have the
same respect and faith in us, what
a happy country this would be.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10

If ignorant people could only re-
alize that they will be slaves as
long as they remain so, surely they
would begin to enlighten them
selves, for wiser men will SO regard
and use them. Manhood is the lc-
yer which can lift US up and out of
our mlry condition, without it we
must stand where the hoof stands,
compelled to bear the burdens Of
life.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10

Iowa didn't measure up to her
usual standard in voting against
woman's suffrage. He who fails to
see the hand writing on the wall of
woman's right to vote, is half blind
in one eye and worse in the other
IF women can make home heaven,
boys and girls great men and wo-
men and keep the churches going
why cant they vote2 They can t
do worse than men.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10
KN0DE GRADUATES
WITH HIGH HONORS
Local Young Man COMPLETES Cours.
at Maryland Agricultural
CoIIeqc

Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. lsnode, OF West
king street, returned this morning
from the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege, where they attended the com.
mencement exercices last night. al
which their son, Kenneth T., gradual
ed with high honors. The exercises
said to have been the most elaborate
IN the history of the school, and the
class of As completed the course with
the highest average ever made by any
class. Governor Harrington attended
Mr.. knode made an excellent record
during his four years of college work
Iii his freshman year he was a mem
Der of the student conference commit
tee, president of the class, and a
member Of the baseball and football
teams
AS sophomore he was class pres
lGent, member OF the student con-
creme committee, member of the base
ball and football teams and a corporal
company "A.
He was president of the Junior
class, secretary of the literary SOC
lety, first sergeant of Company A,
captain Of the baseball team, mem.
Der of the football team, and chairman
of the program committee
During his senior year he was
president Of the chemical society,
chairman Of the program committee,
vice president Of the literary society,
captain Of the baseball team, member
or the football team, and commission
ed second lieutenant of Company A.
For the gold medal three Students
competed, it being won by Robert
White, but honorable mention was
made Of Mr.. Knode, who discussed
the stomach in his thesis. The young
man will play this season with Lonac.
ching in the Potomac League and
EeXt fall will enter the University Of
Michigan at Ann Arbor, and study
medicine
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10

The newspapers are talking about
the Negro delegates at Chicago in
a way they never have before.
Some say they were huddled togeth-
er III groups, sitting on boxes etc.
That they are not in demand as
heretofore, when they were button
holed and used to suit the bosses.
They also say that they are not
seeking quarters from the whites at
their expense, but paying their own
bills. Good for them. A few are
styled wealthy" - standing on
their manhood-good for that also.
From it, plainly it is seen that a
new issue is coming to the front,
and they must be reckoned with.
Heretofore, i'll National Conven-
tons, they have been used precise
" as they were in reconstruction
days, but if the politicians will take
time to read the Awakening of
Hezekiah Jones. and take heed,
they can stay III power, otherwise,
otherwise.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-06-10

fusihG to have white bishops over
them. If they served God in sla-
very in that way and spirit that
brought on the war, why cant they
serve Him more faithfully and bet-
ter, though only half free to be
wholly free with their own bishops
to stop the curses above named?