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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06

constitutes the real problem which she
presents in this form Gould any human
being do what am doing in the way am
doing it,"
So that now we are implicitly invited to
admit that it is easier to compass a per-
feet imitation than to produce tumble OF
odds and ends governed by no rules except
those established by the jumbler. Clearly,
then, Patience Worth is obliged by the
new rules to depend entirely on her own
literary merit, for no one surely could
pretend that it was impossible for hu-
man being to collect the words she uses.
If it is not beyond human power to verify
them. it is not beyond human power to
find them. Hence it follows that the ques-
ton she puts to US has to do not with the
mere gathering of words and phrases but
with the use she makes of them. Her
challenge in effect amounts to this: Are
my writings works of superhuman genius
It is proper to leave the answer to
spiritists and critics of letters, but it is de-
sirable that the question should be pre-
scented clearly to them. If it be Compare
lively easy" to initiate a particular style, it
is nranifestly much easier to create lit
erary patchwork unconfned by rules. Such
a feat would not in itself be too difficult
for an ordinary human being. Patience is
right: the question is whether human
being could do it in the ,CGy she IS dong 1t.
In other words, does her genius surpass
that of all human authors? If not, the evil
dence of her ghostliness is gone. But
whatever the answer it must be clearly
understood that her merits cannot be de-
cided upon archaeological or pathological
standards. She must be judged in future
as we judge Shakespeare and Gertrude
Stein.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06
Fair Profits Wanted for Both Sides.

To the Editor OF The tribune.
Sir: The Borden and Sheffield Farms COM
panies have been so powerful the individual
dairyman has had no choice but TO accept the
price put upon his product, whether it paid
anv profit or not. The farmer knows that
vast fortunes have been made out Of the dis
tributing end of the milk business. Do you
wonder that he wants a fair price?
Remember, the dairy farmers day begins
at 1880 a. m. and lasts until p. m, or later,
and the cows must be MIXED on Sunday as
well as other days.
1t is true We need the middlemen, but is
there any reason why it should cost so much
more to put the milk on the market than 1t
does to produce it?
Please consider the following prices which
the Sheffield Farms Company paid for the
months of April. May and June, 1915:
For milk complying with the state standard
testing per cent butter fat-in the month
of April they paid the munifcent price of
21-47 cents per quart. For grade "a" milk,
testing per cent butter fat, they paid
24-47 cents per quart. In May for milk
testing 4 per cent butter fat they paid
24l-47 cents, and in June 2 Ss-47 cents per
quart. The consumer paid 10 to IL cents all
the time.
The farmer does not wish to make the
price higher TO the consumer, but he thinks
between these prices there should be fair
margin Of profit for both middleman and
farmer without increasing the price to the
consumer. A FARMERS WIFE.
Coleman's Station, n. Y, Oct. 2, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06
Our Youngest Major General.

IRON The Philadelphia Ir9uirer.)
Galusha Pennypacker, who has just died,
was not only the youngest general officer in
cur Civil War, but was one of the most use
full. Had it not been for his many wounds
there is no doubt that he would have risen
to command of the army, as he would only
have been eligible for retirement eight years
regiment, he was a major at seventeen a
brigadier general and brevet general at
twenty-one, having served in as many battles
as one man could have done. and having re-
ceived many severe wounds, on account Of
which he later retired from the service. At
twenty-five he was colonel in the regular
army, an achievement never parslleled in this
or perhaps any other country save by per-
sonal influence.
General Pennypacker had not the slightest
military training. but seemed to have been
born for the field. He served many high Off
GERS and always with distinction, and is one
Of the few men Of less than army command
rank mentioned by General Grant in his me-
moirs. He will be best remembered as one Of
the three brigaders sent under Ames TO take
Fort Fisher, in January, 1865. II seemed n
hopeless task, since the assault was directly
against we'll constructed Notifications and the
force was weak. Yet it proved successful at
bloody cost and was blow to the Confcd-
eracy from which IL never recovered; was,
in fact the death knell Of Confederate hopes,
as IL cut of the last resort of blockade run
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06
Naive Self-Assurance.

Mr. William F. McCombs has sent out
this letter soliciting support in his cam
paign for election to the United States
Senate:
Nv Dear -. The very grave domestic
and international problems this country must
solve i'm the next few years make 1t espe-
ciallv important that the State of New YORK
he represented IN the United States senate
bv men thoroughly equipped to tulhl the
duties OF their office. inspired by real de-
sire 70 serve the nation and determined 10
nrotect the interests Of our state, which smell
ters one-tenth Of the population Of the coun-
try and pays a very large proportion Of the
total taxes raised for the support of the
Federal government.
Nav not count upon your support IN the
present campaign? IL seems TO me peculiarly
necessary that the men Of achievement IN
our community should rise above considera-
tions Of party and preserve the mental stature
Of the Senate.
Thanking you in advance, am, my dear
-. Very truly yours. w. F. M'COMBS.
There is no false modesty about this
naive appeal to "men of achievement in our
community" to preserve the mental stat
ure of the Senate" by helping to elect Mr..
McCombs We learn from sketch OF Mr..
McCombs's career, in "Who's Who IN
America" that he was born in Arkansas
md came to this city to practise law in
1901. His only public activity here has
been his management of Mr.. Wilson's cam
paigns for nomination and election IN 1917
We certainly do him no injustice in say
ing that he is as yet in no position to claim
any representative quality as New
Yorker. He is very nearly stranger to
the interests of the state-to its history,
its traditions and its habits of thought.
He owes his nomination for the Senator
ship solely TO the favor Of Tammany Hall,
which is accustomed to reward with such
honors Democrats from Southern states
who settle here and are willing to look to
it for political membership and promotion.
The question whether or not the mental
stature of the Senate will be preserved
by Mr.. McCombs's election we leave to be
fought out between him and the present
membership of the greatest deliberative
body on earth" But whatever may be his
own mental stature" he is plainly not
fitted by residence, acquaintance, training
and associations to represent New York
in the Senate with either efficiency or dis
tinction. II would be an egregious blunder
for the people of New York TO send to the
Senate a man who has lived in this great
community so short time, who has never
served it in any public capacity, however
minor, and who has never had an adequate
opportunity to put himself in touch with
its interests and its life.
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The German Element.
n. Y, Oct. 3. 1916

To the Editor of The Tribune.
sir: Your editorials on the European
crisis are to be commended; they arc con-
else and to the point
Although any fair-minded person would
agree with your views, there are always TO
be found certain elements, who, though
fully aware that this war was brought
about by long prepared plans of Germany,
will not De honest with themselves and con-
fess the wrongs of that country.
Y has been said quite frequently by diff
ferent correspondents to various papers that
the Entente are fighting as much for us as
themselves, inasmuch as we stand for the
same ideals II this be so, how, then. in
all common sense, can any true American
wish to hamper the british or their Allies
by constantly making representations of
their method of blockade?
II, as we have been instructed by num-
Der OF cur most prominent and learned
Americans, who have frequently travelled in
the war zone, it is to our interest to see
the success of the Allies, then it is our duty
TO make the burden of the Entente AS light
AS possible. No American wishes instruc-
tons on this grave crisis at the hands of
the German element in this country. Amer
lea is no place for those immigrants whose
heart ard soul are with the country of their
birth or that of their ancestors.
A. EDWARDS.
West Orange, N. J., Sept. 20, 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06
The Conventional Sex.

The hard, round, shiny derby hat is once
more mounted on a million male skulls and
once more freedom DROPS her head. What
hope is there for a sex so bound to stupid
CUSTOM The chained eagle on stump at
least longs for better things. These derby
wearers snap on the letters themselves
with a whole windowful of rich and varied
headgear to choose from they push IN to
buy the conventional worst.
Men have delighted to picture weak
woman as the slave of fashion. She
changes her figure, her weight, her COM
pexion, her very habits of life, whenever
society directs. Poor silly creature! Yet
for the few superficial conventions OF
women, what of the endless solemn and
immutable laws Of the sacred masculine ex-
istence? Sticking to an eternally unbe-
coming derby hat just because every other
fellow does is surely not less hidebound
than buying a new bonnet TO look gay In
The same is true of the whole sad: drab
uniform to which the male sex has sunk.
When you come to the dignities of life
mighty man is an even more pathetic COW
ard. Women like short cuts and take them
merrily. Your true male is ever afraid OF
being conspicuous, of attracting attention
of appearing not to know. Pride holds his
neck stiff and his lips shut. On any auto
mobile trip it is Henry who will not ask
the way because he feels obligated to pre-
tend that he knows it-and therefore wan
ders around Robinhood's barn while Jane
pleads for a query. Some ancient halo OF
omniscience probably accounts for this
trait, though goodness knows that every
wife sees through such tactics before they
are begun. Also it is the male who will
not be shouted at What wife has not
been abashed by the unseeing, frosty
silence accorded her for a raised voice, the
raising being the short and obvious method
of communicating an idea through door
or across a hall?
The one consistent habit of woman is
her unexpectedness. The average male is
Just about as unexpected as derby hat
If this seems too depressing a view of j
great and noble sex it should be remem
bered that the annual return of the derby
hat is a most depressing moment-anl
that if the hat doesn't fit you needn't pu,
il on.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06
A New British Habit.
IRON The Manchester Guardian


We acquire new habits as we learn new
disciplines in war time. One of these is the
habit, surprisingly grown this year, of gum
chewing. 1t appears that the consumption in
England has gone up more than skiold in
three months, and that since the beginning
Of the great advance chewing gum has taken
its place among regular army rations. AL
though the Canadians demanded it, we may
not put the blame on them. The simple ex-
PLANTATION seems to be that munition workers
and soldiers on the march and in the trenches
wanted something to chew, and gum, being a
more or less innocuous commercial COM
modify, has leaped into an immense popular
ity. The result is likely to be that at the end
Of the war England will be on the way 10 being
a gum chewing country like the United States
The chewing of gum may not be a particu-
larly injurious vice, but it certainly is not a
pretty habit. The traveller in America is
apt TO find himself drawn into a fascinated
study of its manifestations. He sees the
conductor and the liftboy, the girl clerk and
the "salesady" rhythmically working their
Jaws as they go about the lesurely business
Of the day, and as his eye ranges along the
corridor of the subway or the elevated train
he begins to marvel at the waste of power in
the moving mandibles Of a million sober
citizens. There is clearly satisfaction in
the exercise, and possibly a more positive
solace than is to be obtained from cigar
cite. 1t may be argued that the American
chin owes something of its force to the
chewing habit practised from infancy. BE
that as it may, it seems likely that one more
link in the community of ideas and habits
has been established between US and our
cousins across the water.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06
"Blighty."
{ The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Without wishing to precipitate philo-
logical discussion in your timely columns,
should like to offer the following remarks on
the origin of the British soldiers war-slang
word "blighty."
In India the word "Bilayut," or "Bilayat,'
is found in the vernacular to stand for Eu-
rope or European, and in this lngua-franca,
used by the Urdu-speaking north and the
Hindi-speaking east, west and south, has been
corrupted from the pure Urdu word OF the
north, "Wilayat." Urdu is q fairly classical
language, largely made up of Arabic ana
Persian elements, brought TO India by the
Mughal conquerors and engrafted upon the
native Hindi, which is of Sanscrt origin.
Thus wiayat is really an Arabic word, mean
kingdom, a province. But in its corrupt
form in the vernacular it became with Ind
ians and Europeans Bilayut. Thus soda
water is called Bilayati-pani, or European
water.
The origin and subsequent popularity of
blighty tentatively explain as follows: The
sentimental hope of the average soldier or
civilian in India is a speedy or temporary
return TO England at the close of service.
More than a brigade of French's contempt
BILE little army" was made up of British
troops from India whose Indian service was
nearly over and were thus cheated of their
return TO England or Bilayut. When these
Anglo-Indian veterans were wounded and sent
across the Channel they at last achieved their
desire, and their "blighty wound" was nat
urally adopted by the new citizen army.
W. G. TINCKON-FERNANDE
Neu York Oct g. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06
THE MILK FARMERS PROTEST
Only Means for Meeting tho Conditions
tIaF Faced for Yea.-Th ReunM
Condition DC MOI Improve Of Business

League and its demands. At the same tim.
would like to suggest that The Tribune
send reporter into the rural dairy district.
to secure q just viewpoint on the present.
situation.
The Borden and Sheffield Milk compan.e, IN
their recent statements have constantly "a.
ferred to the strike as the result Of agi.a.
ton from an outside source. This Is untrue.
The difficulty has not been the result Of
month or years agitation. but has come q
the result of several years OF financial losses
The margin between the amount received
in the milk check and the amount paid out
for labor, grain and stock has been so small
that it has left nothing for interest on the
capital invested or for the labor Of the
owner and his family. Milk at the price,
which have been paid to the producer the las,
few years has been produced with the IN.
paid labor of the women and children as the
sacrifice.
A condition such as this cannot long con.
tinue unless the United States is willing to
have the independent land-holdng dairy
farmer a thing Of the past, and to have In
his place absentee landlordism with all its
evils and the peasant scale of labor. The
milk company has set the price which the
farmer is TO receive for his produce and the
feed dealers have set the price for grain
until the farmer has been screwed into re.
bellion and organization.
This organization has come in the form Of
the so-called "Dairymen's League" Its on.
GERS and leaders in each section are farner
nd ia m
and right for the farmers to have soma
voice in the price which they are TO receive
for their produce. Borden's and Sheffield
have widely advertised their increase in the
price of milk to the farmer. This increase
Is about one-half Q cent quart The league,
after a careful investigation of figures,
maintains that the farmer cannot afford u
sell his milk without ono cent increase per
quart. Individual farmers all over the state
find that they must have this increase a. the
minimum. Il is true that since the strike
began the league prices have been offered In
few places. The league is fighting now for
universal price throughout the state, and
this could not be obtained if individual con.
tracts are made. An individual can accom-.
plish nothing in fight of this kind. 1t re-
quires organization, loyalty and sacrifice 10
all concerned.
The farmers Of New York State regret the
hardship that this strike will cause the con-
sumner. They feel that an investigation will
prove the justice Of their demands and that
the milk dealers can we'll afford TO supply
milk to the consumer with no increase N
price. The farmers do not wish &c lower the
standard Of the quality of their milk, as the
statements of Sheffield Company might lead
one to believe; they wish to receive price
which will enable them to produce even
better milk at price which every American
citizen has a right to expect for his labor.
A. MACDONALD.
! Delhi, n. Y, Oct. 2, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06
An Unful6Iled Campaign Pledge.

IL is not alone for bread or milk that
the unfortunate ultimate consumer has to
paw higher prices these days. Whether ne
takes his bread with New York state
cheese only, or with beefsteak and various
vegetable accomplishments, each Item IN
the meal makes bigger hole in the family
purse than it did year ago. Even the
humble onion costs a deal more. Restau-
rant prices reflect this advance IN the cost
of foodstuffs-in fact, some of them an
ticipate it. Even boarding houses and the
table d'h6te restaurants Of the side streets
have fallen into line.
America is prosperous, and there are
Jobs for all who can work. Yet ever and
anon comes tale from some social worker
of a hard working family where meat
even a cheap cut, is a most unusual Wand
the butcher around the corner laments that
his business is suffering because only the
very wealthy can afford to buy as they
used to do; the greengrocer near by repeats
the story in terms of potatoes, cabbages
and fruits. In spite of overtime work,
bonuses and raises in rate of pay obtained
10y various labor unions, the war prosperity
seems not to have reached many classes
Of workers, while the raise in prices Of
foodstuffs has hit all.
One of the pledges of the Democrats
four years ago was to reduce the cost OF
living. Their campaign orators are sim
gularly silent on this unfulflled promise
this year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06
The Public Needs Protection.

1t is 10 be regretted that the conferences
10 settle the milk strike have again come
to naught. Against their wishes and
judgment, the distributors have made
big concession in agreeing to pay the price
demanded by the farmers. This is elo-
quent testimony regarding the difficulty Of
their present position, it is true, but it
does show certain regard for the babies
which need the milk 1t might well serve
10 bring some concession from the dairy
men, who are holding out for a six months
contract at the new price, instead Of the
contract for one month, which the com
panies are willing TO make.
This city will welcome an ending Of
the milk shortage, which has already
brought its pinch 10 the poor. The longer
it continues, the greater must be this hard
ship in intensity and scope. But what is
desirable is not a makeshift settlement,
such as is in prospect, but settlement
based on well-established facts, one which
the public can understand thoroughly
through knowledge of those facts, and one
WHICH ny us yuhLlSt VIII Si't dooNi diSC
that the trouble will not arise again. Such
assurance could not come even from a six
months contract. The present negotia-
tons take into consideration only the
farmers and distributors. Certainly, if
the companies pay the increase 10 the
farmers, that increase will come out Of
the consumers, and, it may be, little add
ed 70 il. Against this the public will have
a right 20 protest, unless it can be proved
satisfactorily that the prices 70 consumers
heretofore have been 200 low.
The public is in the unfortunate posi-
ton Of needing milk and having 10 buy it,,
no matter what the cost It's chief hope
now is in the result Of the Wicks legisla-
tive committees investigation, which
should be able soon 70 report with author
ity az 10 the cost Of production Of this
necessity, the cogt Of handling it and the
profts-or losses-which existing bust
ness conditions yield. From It's report and
the results Of the Attorney Generals in
yegtigation the consumers should be in pO-
sitiOn ~ obtain information which during
this controversy they have had 10 obtain
from the warning factions, necessarily
prejudiced sources. On such unprecedented
information might be hhscd appropriate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06
Spelling a Street.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: For some weeks past 7 have noticed
certain sections of the city that are usually
we'll kept Uttered with papers and other
refuse. have in mind particularly a block
in Harlem on the east end of which there are
rows Of private houses and well-kept dwell
ing houses. Further west, on both sides of
the street, there arc stores, and it would
appear that all their paper is swept into the
street The sidewalk is ever full of garbage
and bundles of paper. This small part Of the
street not only endangers tho health of the
other citizens and breeds vermin and other
annoyances, but det-acts materially from the
good looks Of an otherwise respectable street.
Is the Street Cleaning Department becom-
ing lax in its duties? Cannot these few care
less. untidy people be prosecuted by fine or
imprisonment when they jeopardize the
health and wellbeing % their fellow citizens
and when they destroy the general good ap-
rearance Of the city,
CONSTANT READER.
New York. Sept %. 1914
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price from time to time as will best advance
their interests. Must the producer deal
alone with this present master Of the rate
for both producer and consumer, or should
the producer be permitted through an open
organization TO contest the question with
the secret organization of the distributor
The latter appeals TO the public who need
milk for support as against the farmer, on
the ground that the latter keeps the milk az
home which the people need. But the public
should remember that the distributors can
have all the milk they want il they will pay
the price asked. which is believed to be just
bv men who have given the subject careful
consideration. ALTON b. PARhhh.
New York, Oct. 4, 1916.
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rout, south of Lebanon; Syria, south OF
Damascus, and the Sanjak Of Jerusalem, ex-
elusive of the city and environs, which should
be internatonalized, comprising about $4,000
square miles, should be created into Jewish
state, under the joint protection Of the pow
ers, similar to Armenia. The Jews have
legitimate title to the land in question.
They have moral and physical fitness for
sef-rue A Jewish state within the proposed
boundaries would not conflict with the vital
interest of any power. Moreover, by the
creation Of a Jewish state a most practical
and generous step shall have been taken for
the solution of the Jewish problem.
A STUDENT OF NEAR EASTERN AFFAIRS.
New York, Oct. /, 1916.