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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-26
Show Up the Spenders.

Controller Travis says he is ready and
willing to perform his duties under the
law, SO, unless an appeal by the Attorney
General results in upsetting Justice Has
brouck's ruling, the states auditing officer
will have TO examine the expenditures OF
the Panama Pacific Exposition Commits
sion Such audit will be due almost entire
ly to the efforts of the Brooklyn Young Re-
publican Club, which, refusing to be thrust
aside by political and legal difficulties, has
fought persistently to force a complete
disclosure of where the money went. Its
further purpose is to fight to force restitu-
ton of some of the money expended, AMI
in that the public must wish it as much
success as it has met in its preliminary
campaign.
Nearly 100000 Of good public funds
went for the Expenses" of the commission.
Of that the Brooklyn organization insists
that more than $4,000 was spent waste
fully and wrongfully, and should be re-
funded to the state. Whether any Of the
waste and extravaganza Of the various
iunkets, from the Governors down to Con-
troller Travis's, including Mr.. Yale's many
trips to the Coast, can be reached under the
law, will have to be decided later in the
courts. The fact remains that politicians
of both parties seemed to regard the ap-
preparations for the commission as a pie
from which they could pull particularly
desirable plums, safe from any interior
ence but that of the Legislature which
granted the money, and as many of these
politicians were legislators or state Off
GERS that interference was unthinkable
The public already knows that Senator
Bussey spent 81 or So of its money for
each meal; it knows that the Governor
cook large party to the Coast at heavy
expense; it knows that Controller Travis
and his family saw the fair without going
into their own pockets for the expenses.
The public wants to know a great manv
more details, and it has a right to know
them. Whether or not any of the money
so spent can be recovered by future
legal processes, it will be a wholesome
thing. likely to prevent such riotous
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-26
spending of public funds in future, for
names and details to be entered on the
records.
Sleeping Out.
records

Sleeping out is wonderful experience,
but il is not sleep. That is the conclusion
toward which we are driven by cloud
of witnesses and very minor laboratory
exnerinrnt of our own. There is poetry,
the RHYTHM of the universe, the music OF
the spheres and more nature study than
John James Audubon and Jean Henri
Fabre ever crowded into a similar point
of time. OF actual slumber there is not
enough to keep healthy katydid out OF
mischief; and from our brief researches
it is our opinion that katydids have con-
stitutional aversion to sleep by whomso-
ever sought.
On the face of things there should be no
vast difference between bedroom with
the windows open and the regulation sleep
ing porch, rooted over and entirely sur
rounded by mosquito netting. Yet there 49,.
You move many thousands of years back
toward the happy arboreal days when you
cross the threshold. You cease to be a
man in a box and you become an animal
entirely surrounded by other living things
An offshore swim, stark naked, as COM
pared with the conventional besuited dip
from the beach, furnishes an accurate par
allel. That is one reason why you do not
sleep. The whole feel Of the thing is as
full of thrills as a night of stars on hill
top. Even a little of old, cave-days pre-
caution starts in your blood. Sleeping
among dead things-beds and walls and
can give up and lie like the
other logs around you. With growing
things close about, you cannot afford any
such surrender.
Going on to plain prose, there is also the
item of plain uproar that never knows an
end. Sounds which seemed mild enough
heard through a window take on new life
outdoors. The crickets start by filling the
whole bowl of things with a thin, high din,
rather pleasant than not. Katydids, as
large as bass viols, to judge by their scrap
ing, are easily the worst affection. Such
items as tree toads and screech owls and
bullfrogs and hound dogs are narcotics by
SO much for the constant, all
night performers. The irregular motifs,
the fivver starting, the rooster Growing,
are far harder to accept. In short, If
silence is what you are looking for, the
blessings of outdoor sleep can be easily
initiated by placing your cot in the north
east corner of Wagnerian orchestra, be-
tween the kettledrums and the bassoons.
Yet you like it and take sleep enough.
That is the paradox we are told and believe.
The little old bedroom seems irritatingly
little and repressve afterward. The few
broken hours of half-sleep out-of-doors do
the work of the whole long, log-like night
within. 1t is an adventure. 1t is not sleep.
But it works. Will some outdoor expert
tell us why?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-26
MIR. Bacon's Americanism.
ditor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: | read in The Tribune this morning
the kind Of Americanism which America re-
qures, as defined by the Hon. Robert Ba-
con, candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for United States Senator. He declared
in his statement that America demands an
Americanism so intense as TO fuse race, birth
and social condition into a common nspira-
ton, common faith. disloyalty to which is
dishonor and disgrace" | was so profoundly
impressed with the beauty and humanity of
the spirit tersely and uniquely expressed
that | am constrained, with your courteous
permission, to make this brief comment, lest
it may have escaped the notice of some few
whose attention might incidentally be called
to il hereby.
The kind of spirit which Mr.. Bacon would
inculcate would place the thought. expression
and conduct of the American people on so
high plane Of civilization and enlighten-
ment, humanity and justice as forever to
Danish unholy sectionalism from the govern
ment at Washington, snnhilate unseemly
segregation in the departments and restrain,
and even terminate, widespread lswlessness
throughout the country. Such spirit would
not only make secure and perpetual America
as "the land Of the free and the home of the
brave" it would transform the Republic into
an abode of peace, contentment and happi-
ness. NJ. Il. BR0YLES.
New York Aug o. 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-26
Shaving the Poilu.

In the early days of the war Tommys
toilet was an occasion of constant wonder
and admiration to the poilu. 1t was an old
tradition on the Continent that no English
man could long survive without his bath,
and out Of this there grew great variety
of astonishing and more or less improb-
able stories of how certain British troops
had been surprised and captured by the
willy Germans while engaged in the incur
able national pastime of the morning tub.
These may for the most part be dismissed,
together with the delightful German
American legend about Sir John Jellicoe's
feet caught off the Jutland Bank as all
hands were lolling in their hammocks over
afternoon tea and cigarettes. 1t is true,
however, that the British soldier was
solicitous about his person to degree that
amazed his gallant ally, and the habit of
shaving has been kept up in the trenches to
this day as scrupulously as any article of
faith.
There were probably some sufficiently
potent and practical reasons for the regu-
lar use Of the razor, for after two full
years of war an order has been issued, di-
recting the soldiers of the French army
to clear their faces of all hair, excepting,
at the most, the upper lip. "Dans parmee
Franchise" said q colonel of the Terri
torials somewhat more than a year ago,
"on dot etre poilu ct non sans poll" This
no longer holds good in the literal sense;
experience has proved that the beard, how
ever decorative, is not useful ornament,
and it will in future be impossible for Eng
fish writers to praise the stalwart French
warrior by likening him to "the Crom-
wellian Ironside with rudy face and
brown beard under low steel bonnet"
But the poilu will still be the poilu, de-
spite the efforts of early war correspon-
dents to account for the then unfamiliar
nickname by reference to the difficulties of
shaving in the trenches. There never was
any reasonable excuse for this interpreta-
ton, and let US hope that the new order
will put an end to it. "If | be shaver,
said the strong man of the Scripture,
"then my strength will 90 from me and
shall become weak and be like any other
man." But that is not the case of the
poilA His hairiness is constitutional, and
for the right Interpretation we should
rather go to Rabelais and consider what
the midwives said at the birth of Pan
tagruel: al est ne tout lie poll: il fera
chooses merveilleuses."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-26
The Death of Art.

Mr.. George Moore has satisfied himself
that art is dead and that we have en-
tered a period as barren of painting, lit
erature and music as were the Dark
Ages" He has discoursed on this subject
at great length with an American writer,
John Lloyd Balderston, who reports the
conversation in the current "Fortnightly
Review" 1t is a subject on which he has
meditated for years; and when he had ex-
pounded his thesis to Mr.. Balderston, 81
do not know" he said wistfully, "why |
have never written it,"
But surely Mr.. Moore has forgotten.
Is there a reader Of his books who does
not know that he gave up all hope Of art
long since? 1t was in the vague belief
that something of the sort might possibly
be made TO flicker in Ireland that he set
tied in Dublin. "All Europe" he wrote
sixteen years ago, "has been visited, and
art never returns to where she has once
been. So whittier will art go?
In what country will art suddenly appear?
In the Soudan or in the Transvaal? Or
will art rest for a space in this forlorn
Atlantic island, reknitting herself to the
tradition which existed before England
was, in gold ornaments and scrollwork and
in many tales of chvalry? Will there be
a reblossoming of the ancient language,
or shall we save some account of Shelley's
tongue which has declined elsewhere into
neologisms and archaisms"
His conversation with Mr.. Balderston
sounds so exactly like him that it must be
nearly a perfect reproduction Of his own
words. But the thoughts are not new.
When Ireland failed him his only hope
was gone. Manet and the Impressionists
were the LAST painters; music ended with
Wagner and literature went out with the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-26
Travel in Countries at War.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: From this somewhat remote pfaes
have noticed the correspondence in LEV
Tribune regarding the conditions imposed '.
aliens now visiting England. The erpetenv..
of 80. K" is similar TO ny own. bn.s.
citizens are not required TO report 70 =,
police. but no one can enter "prohlo"..
area" without a permit. Continually
have to report to the police is irritating
any one, particularly so to those whose uI.
is limited. Rehashing the account OF ons'
self, already given in the first place ana
corded in the identity book, seems futile
deed foolish; yet this examination
dulged in by police officials everywhere ~.
goes, when merely stamping the identity 00yi
and comparing it with ones passport sn0u,.
be sufficient. Should the visitor not eonpn
with the police regulations, or violate NE
fine of from forty to one hundred poun''
NAV be imposed, or Imprisonment, or o0'''
No. England is no place for Visitors
present. nor any Of the countries al wa,
they are excellent places to avoid. u sno'..
be noted, however, that the restrictions ~
the Continent are much more onerous ~
those Of Great Britain.
Portland. Ne. Aug. q. 1918 A.A4s~eI
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Not a Square Deal.

II is natural enough for the railway
brotherhoods, adopting the highwayman's
methods. to cry "Stand and deliver" That
is the attitude of capital, or Of labor, IN
differently. as either believes it has the
other at disadvantage and seeks to ad-
vance its own interests. The unionists
think that they have, in their threat OF
general strike, weapon powerful enough
10 force compliance with their demands,
and obviously they are just as anxious as
a highwayman would be for investigation
Of the merits of their claims.
The vice of the situation is that they
are not holding up the railroads, as prop
critics. but the entire country-the vast
population which those railroads serve, as
well as the individuals directly interested
in their ownership. President Wilson has
characterized the proposed strike as
disaster" It would be-a disaster which,
if it extended beyond few days, would
pile up horrors unimaginable. Against
such q disaster, from any group in the
country, whether capital or labor, the
country has a right to be protected, even
as Grover Cleveland protected it once be-
fore, or as the government Of France pro-
tected that nation.
Yet President Wilson, insisting that he
is acting for the public, has made himself
a partisan Of the men, counselling the rail-
roads to surrender to their demands. Now,
the men may be right and the railroad
executives all wrong in their statements.
The public does not know, and cannot
know. as affairs now stand. Neither does
the President know. What the public does
know. and knows thoroughly, is that the
American way Of doing business is not to
WELD to the hold-up. Having all possible
sympathy with the desire of the worker to
better his condition and bias against
capital" in general, the average Ameri-
can is vet wholly and fundamentally in
favor of the square deal. And gradually it
is being borne in on the people at large that
the railroad managers, who after all repre-
sent only the large number of investors IN
the securities of the roads, are not getting a
square deal, either from the comparatively
small body Of employees who insist on
higher wages under guise of obtaining
shorter hours, or from the President, who
has taken sides in the controversy, in con-
tradiction Of his ostensible attitude of rep
resenting the neutral public.
There is one sure and certain way in
which to settle this case fairly, squarely,
without subjecting the public to wide
spread disaster. That is for the President
to tell the unionists that they must prove
the merits of their claims before an i'm
partial tribunal The railroad executives
already have asked for such an investiga-
ton. If the men, under such investiga-
ton Of the facts, can show case one-tenth
as worthy Of support as that Of the coal
miners they need have no fear that they
will not obtain all they ask. The public
would attend to that. But the public de-
mands square deal, and the present lay
ont is NOT that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-26
A Sad Comment.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Sad but true-your comment on the
New York primary this morning.
Does anybody suppose that if Roosevelt
had been nominated at Chicago the situa-
ton on the Republican side would be what
it is?
The truth is that the Democratic party
has Wilson at its head and the Republican
party has-hss-eh, let's see-what's his
name? Oh, yes, Hughes.
ROBERT DUNCAN.
New York. Aug. 25. 1919
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Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-22

about in a space built around rec tangular arrangement of feed racks in the center. The number of animals which the barn will house Is deter mined by the number which can be accommodated at the feed rack with out crowdiag, and the size of the space around the rack should be made such that the cattle may move about and adjust themselves in comfort.
 The barn should be provided with sufficient storage capacity to hold enough feed for the number of cattle to be housed in the structure, and from the standpoint of convenience 1t
 must be fitted in such a way that this feed may be easily given to the cattle. The eiirnination of manual labor is one of the largest items which has entered into the recent development of farm-building architecture. It neces- sitates the arrangement of all farm buildings f1 such a manner thet ad- vantage rney be taken of the modern labor-sayiny devices which farmers have found so valuable. Farm build ings are no longer thrown together with the sole purpose of making them large enough and strong enough. Several large firms are now keeping extensive departments in which the entire lime of their trained men Is de- voted to careful planning of fnh
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-22

and the feed racks, but there Is still Q very generous space allowed in which the cattle may move about There are no dark corners in this part of the barn. The doors are so distributed that the cattle may be driven into the barn from three sides.
 The arrangements for stock feeding are very satisfactory to stockmen who have tried this plan. It furnishes a correct solution of the problem dur. ing any kind of weather.
 A further important point which should be considered in the construc, tion of a barn of this type Is ventila- ton. A large number of cattle housed together in a building require a large quantity of air, which must be kept in constant motion, the fresh air he ing drawn in near the bottom of the structure and the foul air being dis charged at the top. Air should not be allowed to recirculate through the stable, since on its first passage 't Is robbed of much of the oxygen whlcS it possessed upon It's first entrance inro the barn. ventilators which are placed on the highest points of the roof are very necessary. The cattle barn shown here has two good yenti- lators on the roof, which pull a draft no matter which way the wind blows
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-22
structures The result is a constant

structures Tae result Is a constant improvement in sanitary conditions and methods of maintaining order on the farm.
 In the accompanying perspective and plan is shown a beef-cattle barn, G feet in width by So feet in length. which Is well arranged and designed to meet ail the latest improvements in this type of structure. Space for loose stock is provided for on both sides and one end of the barn. Feeding is es- pecially well cared for.
 Storage for roughage reaches from the concrete floor to the peak in the center of the barn and spreads over the floor of the wings above the cattle on both sides and at the far end. By noting the size of the various parts of the barn 1t will be observed that the combination of the center portion with these wings afford considerable mop room. which will hold great deal of alfalfa hay or other feeding and bed ding roughage for winter use.
 The center part of the barn above the concrete foundation is built of up- right posts, which reach to the plates and are braced in a strong and durable manner. This construction permits easy moving of hay by rolling it down from the high center. Outside of the center area the barn Is flOored to make the stable werm and to extend the storage space clear to the low roof a; the sides. All hay and roughage Is taken in by horse fork through the large hay 3cc: e .s S.oE--a :Ii Sy ::aso stacker at threshing time. The hay door slides vertically and is balanced by weights, this being the most satis factory method of construction when this type of roof is used.
 In addition to the o3tside concrete foundation wall, which is carried up about foot and one-haf above grade the whole stable is floored with con.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-22
After the Attack.

Five o'clock. Sudden calm. We hes itate, surprised a little. like the hare after the passage of the hunter. We raise our heads and inspect the hori- zon. Yes, 1t is really over. We crawl out of our holes and walk around a bit.
 We climb down into the ravine at the bottom of which there runs a little stream. colored with blood. Never mind. We are thirsty. We drink of this water. and fill our canteens. We gather together our dead. Alas, there are many of them. The stretcher bearers carry away the wounded. We deepen our shelters, and link them to- gether in a sort of line of trenches. We must be ready to defy any other at- tack.-Louis-O s-Octave-Philippe. in The Atlantic.
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ful of pepper cOrns. Add two cup fuls each of boiling water and toma- toes. Cover and bake in a slow oven three and half hours. One-half hour before serving time, thicken with three tablespoonfuls of butter mixed with the same amount of four. Remove the onion, carrot, pepper corns and parsley and add cupful of peas Serve hot, on the croquettes.
 Ohio Puddins.-Mix and sift two and one-half cupfuls of four, one-half cup full of sugar, three and a half tea spoOnfuls of baking powder and a fourth of a teaspoonful of salt; cut in third of a cupful of butter. Bes, one egg, and add a cupful of milk. Combine the mixtures, beat vigorous ty; turn into a buttered mold, cover and steam two hours.
 Ohio Sauce.-Cream a half a cup ful of butter, and gradually beat in cupful of brown sugar. When the nixture is well blended add four table spoonfuls of thick cream, a little at a lime, then add two tablespoonfuls of chopped pecan meats, two tablespoon fuls of chopped dates. and half tea spoonful of lemon extract.
 Prune Ice Cream.-Cover a cupfuI ,f prunes with cold water and let stand over night. Cook in the same water until tender in the morning. re- move the stones and put the fruit through strainer. Add a cupful of sugar. four tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. a pinch of salt and one and a fourth cupfuls of heavy cream whipped. Freeze as usual.
 Rice croquettes With Cheese sauce Make seasoned rice into croquettes snd add cupfuI of grated rice to a thick rich cream sauce. The sauce may be made with rich milk as the ,neese will acd richness to the sauce. Serve hot, surrounded with dumplings.
 Boston Brown eread.-Take a cup ful of corn meal, two cupfuls of rye meal, a teaspoonfuI of salt. half cup ful of molasses. a teaspoonful of soda
 "a pint os sour milk: beat yell to-