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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
DR., Slieer and the Stage.
tor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: think you should have added one
sentence to what you say in this mornings
issue concerning DR.. Slicer having made
ringing speech" shortly after he came to All
Souls, in New York, on the immortality oil
the stage" as you phrase it. Long before
that DR.. Bellows, the former pastor OF the
church, had taken up the advocacy and de-
fence of the stage in way to Crafty the
most eminent members of the actor fraternity
1--WE have an old letter Of John Brougham's 10
him, thanking him), and DR.. Slicer took an
attitude similar to that which his predecessor
had taken. At the meeting at which the
ringing speech" you allude TO was delivered
the programme called for a discussion" be-
tween DR.. Slicer and the late Bronson How.
ard, the dramatist; but there was no real
Mr.. Howard told me afterward
that his and Dr. Steers views were so nearly
identical that there was no room for dis
cussion, and none took place. What he said
after DR.. Slcer had spoken was not discus
SION; there was no difference between them
OH which TO base any discussion
GEORGE X. BISHOP.
New York, May 80, 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
AMERICA AS A STATE OF MIND
How Influences That Lower Are Necessarily nmicalgh
Deeds Must Square with High Words-Thc FuiEty
of the Mere Spelbnder.

of greatness. Far be it from me to quarrel
with Mr. Wilson for changing from some of
his earlier views; if his tergiversations were
steady progress upward | should delight TO
sit cross-legged by the waysde to applaud
But when without rhyme or reason he chops
and changes, when he spins to the four winds
Of heaven like the rooster atop of an Okla
homa silo when he whirls like a dervish 20
the direction in which he thinks a handful
of votes may be lurking, his inconsistencies
breed pity and contempt rather than admira-
ton. Hark how he loves to steal the thun-
ders from the mouth of Jove, but listen to
the penny-whistle voice with which he echoes
them back; note the Midas-touch with which
he turns them into pork. Preparedness
Yea, verify, with due provision for payment
Of a militia, some of whom may have votes
and perhaps nice little side dish of a gov
eminent armor plant Americanism? Yes
yes, certainly, and a nice little feet of gov
eminent owned merchantmen to carry the
house flag of the Pig Rampant. Mexico? Well
perhaps that has not turned out quite right
but at least few factions can say that they
have not had the United States government,
support at one time or another. And guns
and munitions have never gone in at more
than one door at a time. like the acrobat
diving through the trick house in a vaude-
Vile show. Free sugar and free trade! Quite
right, until we need the money from tariffs
to be used for the comforting of deserving
Democrats. Panama tolls, secret diplomacy
intervention in Mexico, single term of office
tariff commission, ct cetera, and so forth
und so wciter 7-Pavlowa herself cannot spin
so fast.
And note how we'll he keeps the wondrous
mental machinery with which he accomplished
these kaleidoscope shifts fabricated with the
sweet balm of rhetoric. Never does his. press
ure gauge fail to show that his oil Of fine
phrases is flowing; the grease cups of his
vocabulary are always turned down. Blu,
even so, the oil has not yet been made which
will allow him to 60 from full speed ahead
into reverse without little clashinc Of the
gears; no graphite, whether in transmission
case or the more deadly pocket pencil, can
quite achieve the unbelievable.
Were we all young ladies about to graduate
from finishing school, we might be hypno.
tized to his siren song and neglect to observe
whether his acts squared with his assertions
But being hard-headed and horny-hsnded
coming from Tuscaloosa, Tucson and Mem.
phremagoE, We see through the veil of glis.
tening syllables he spins before our eyes and
look for acts to equal the rich glimmer OF
promise; but, alas. we look in vain We who
are the state Of mind which is America mus,
have high deeds 10 square with high words
before we believe in keeping a spellbinder
in Office.
BENJAMIN APTHoRP GOULD.
New York, May 81, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
Britain's Faults.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I'm Canadian. with four sons I'd .,
tive service for the British Empire. Nstuf''
ly | have felt hurt at some OF your res."'
editorials and have come TO the conelus'''
that though The Tribune is pro-Ally II Il Nv
cidedly anti-Britsh as well as anti-GermS"
am sufficiently posted in history to An0'
that Great Britain suffered many lneoh'."
fences during the American Civil war Us
cause she believed the principles at s"N'
were the same as those she mad upneio ~.
ing the wars of her own revolution. pu''"s
the Spanish-Amercan War, when the u"
tions of the continent of Europe threaten =.
to intervene for Spain, Britain said h."T :,
OFT" Has The Tribune forgotten TINS
trouble should arise and America be tnr..,
ened in the future, TO whom would she wv
for sympathy, Where would she get III
Ii i'll becomes America to proclaim Nv
trality when her own civilization Is IN ".
balance. The Tribune has given Us So
splendid editorials, worthy of the oes :.
journals, but the undercurrent OF hosuin! :,
everything British creates an impression
insincerty and distrust which must senVs.
ly initiate against the aim 1t has IN W..
Britain has her faults, but the gen' =,
tenor of her policy is the development ~
democratic liberty. and for this she Is
ing to make the utmost sacrifice. Cri,s',,s.
is all right, but when it develops into ~"
ing" we feel it is time to squesl.
c. W. FORD
Montreal, Canada, May rs, 1918 -y
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
DECADENT MOVIES"
They Are Deemed To Be Growing So Bad
Censorship Is Necessary.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A few days ago you published let
ter in regard TO motion picture censorship.
Despite the fact that he is a scenario editor
himself he favors censorship and believes
that it is badly needed.
The writer has seen many thousand mo-
ton pictures, and has come to the conclusion
that censorship is necessary. Certainly there
seems no length to which the producers, N
their desire TO feather their own nests, VIII
not 60; moreover. the tendency is constantly
becoming worse. Now certain things are per-
mitted on the screen which would have few
years back invoked storm of criticism.
The comparison made by the movie pro-
ducers of their industry with magazines and
newspapers is absurd and nonsensicsl. Inc
reader of a magazine, for instance, II n
comes to an article or story which is oojee'
tionable. can pass it over. But IS TINS tIs
Of the movies? Most decidedly not. OF course,
9 person could leave theatre or close MS
eyes during the showing of an objeetlonses
him, but unfortunately this is not practesoe'
Apparently the producers are unwilling 70
Glsinfect their own products, and It there
fore appears necessary for the public 10 tss
hand
The National Board Of Censors could, u
so desired accomplish a decided reform, 0u'
it certainly is not doing so at present
Hundreds of thousands of small children
witness films each day which would be SUIT
able for presentation only before an audien"
composed of the most hardened persons.
Photoplays in which criminals are snoNa
in favorable light are generally frownsa
upon, but how much worse are those in VINCE
immortality is cheapened and in many cases
made to appear as though justified.
A state board of censorship such as hey
have in Ohio and Pennsylvania may not %
necessary, but, on the whole, am eonyIneea
of one thing too much censorship is oe''e'
than too little.
A BELIEVER IN CENSORSHIP
Hartford, Conn. May 30, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
The Poet in His Own Country.

This country needs some mechanical in
vention which will popularize good poetry
in the way that the photograph has
aroused interest in the best music. Walt
Whitman's birthday has come and passed,
and only a little company of radicals and
Whitman enthusiasts took any notice Of
the occasion. We do not know how to
honor our men Of genius. That Is prob
ably why we have so few Of them. There
is no country where the poet, artist or
philosopher has so little recognition as in
America. The public knows all about our
prizefghters; it is tremendously inter-
ested in the batting average Of the ball
players in the big leagues. The reading
public even snatches up with eagerness
every detail in the morbid life history Of
the condemned murderer and poison ar
fist, but it is bissfully Indifferent to the
great thinkers
Had Whitman lived in any one Of the
"benighted" warning nations Of Europe
he would doubtless have become national
hero by this time. Other nations have
never been able to understand our indif-
ference to Whitman. The story is told that
two cultivated young American women
while visiting England once called upon
the poet Tenhyson. Naturally, Tennyson,
who was an admirer of Whitman, began
talking about the old Bard of Camden, and
learned to his establishment that his callers
did not know whom he was talking about.
Turning to an Englishman present he said.
"Only one poet in America, and they never
heard of him."
There might have been some excuse for
the neglect of Whitman by the preceding
generation. People in those days, espe-
cially Anglo-Saxons for whom even Shake
speare had to be expurgated, were not used
to such outspokenness as confronted them
in a few of Whitmans lines. But pres
ent reading public which can stand the
tainted fiction" of some of the story mag
azines could hardly object to Whitman on
the score of "indecency." That contro-
versy is over now anyway, and such pas
sages at most formed very small part of
Whitman's work. There is the poem Drum
Taps" republished recently on this page
of The Tribune, which contains timely
message for the American people. In fact,
there are many such poems in which the
spirit of America finds its richest and most
perfect expression. Walt Whitman was
the great poet of democracy. He wrote
for the common man, and it is one of the
strange ironies of. fate that the man whose
cause he championed as no one else has
ever done is apparently the last man to
discover him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

ing the nation more readily from its
stronger drink; the other Is that beer in
toxication is the most insidious OF ALL
and the hardest TO extirpate once II has
been acquired. Here, too, a system OF
progressive taxes is likely to DO intro
duced as the safest means to an end. But
there are rabid prohibitionists in Nus
STA as we'll as temperance advocates ana
believers in a middle course, and II ap-
pears that even there the Liquor interests
are seriously to be counted with. Tout
CONNIE chez nous.
Certain it is that Russian observers OK
rect a reaction after the war from inc
readiness with which prohibition was nc
cepted at its beginning. It is here that
the crisis will arise, because it will be no
longer. then. a matter of the imperial ukase
but of the attitude Of the Zemstvos and other
local governing bodies, and OF the mass OF
the nation which they represent Prohi'
bition by a stroke Of the pen has been an
interesting experiment from the first-i'
had an inspiring quality when millions
upon millions of men accepted and vel
coined it with patriotic devotion. But the
proof of it is yet to come. 1t is then that
the experiment will be watched by all CIV
ilization, which, by the way, is the only
mart of humanity that habitually gets
drunk because it is Gust a way Of being
happy"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
In Defence of the Metropolitan.
, the Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: As Metropolitan opera patron allow
me to express my appreciation of lette,
printed in yesterdays Tribune. "W. ] G.
has the art of answering adverse criticism in
calm, convincing and courteous manner
had been somewhat disturbed nv M
KrehbiePs remarks, and found myself ready
TO find fault with the management of tho omar,
house in wholesale fashion. But after mail.
ing an honest study of your correspondent.
forceful questions | am free to admit ,ba,
under the circumstances New York is gettins
the best opera" in the world.
JANE WILLIAMS.
New York, June /, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
What Women Are Thinking Of.

If the list is to be made out on the basis
of those magazines which for purposes OF
Identification are called funny it would be
short and simple and run as follows;
The new cook.
The last bridge game.
The baby.
Plain and fancy taffeta.
On the other hand it is possible to take
tie programme of the 10000 clubwomen
now assembled here and deduce quite an
other set of facts. You can conclude that
vomen's minds are focused with avidity
upon no less varied and weighty topics
than these Eve choose at random:
Library extension.
The power Of an artistic environment
Home economies.
The Lincoln Highway.
Pageantry.
Town and country planning.
The Rev. Percy Stickney Grant.
Twilight sleep.
The Gary system.
Suffrage.
Peace.
It is a confusing contradiction, and we
turn, with such experience and observa-
ton as can be assembled, to construct
the rather obvious theory Of compromise
Neither the funny magazines nor the Cen
eral Federation tell the whole story
Women are thinking of both taffeta and
suffrage. You may by picking and choos-
ing Law hold Of an exception that includes
the one and excludes the other from her
repertory. But she is far from typical OF
her day and generation. Do you see some
male scoffer curl naughty lip at the no.
ton that women, regular women, are act
ually thinking real thoughts about libra
ries. environments and poets? Well, let
us not exaggerate. The intellectual ma
chinery of the female bears an amazing
resemblance to that of the male. Just as
the nightiest husband devotes the bulk d
his speech and brain power to next week
stock market and last weeks mashie
shots. so his wife may be conceded to have
only odd moments and a minority of her
intellectual appetite left over for high
thoughts. That is the way of humans
outside of nronasteries and Cambridge
Mass.
At that, the prize must go to women, we
suspect. They do almost all our church
going, the great bulk of reading and most
of our theatregoing. Ideas, as such, have
rot for them the disagreeably naked and
shocking mien that they have for most men
Except during the week or two before cleo
ton there is really no masculine list what
ever which we could construct to offset the
table of Federation topics. We can snifi
at odd-moment cerebration about anything
But let US not delude ourselves into think
ing that the great American habit is other
wise for either SEX And there is at least
a certain pertinacity about the feminine
recollection for odd-moment thinking that
is worth remarking. If enough odd mo-
ments are put together side by side vii
they eventually stretch from here TO any
where? Some such mathematical problem
as that is the real feminist question of the
hour, perhaps. Of it, before returning tc
our golf and merely as a precautlon
against remote surprise, let US Tin the
words of Mr.. George Cohan upon the lips
of Mr.. Richard Carle) make note.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
THE TRUTH ABOUT BOHEMIA
New York
" oem Unwilling
EopcWM BE

uu:.. nosi,ion OF Bohemia The three men
oored nv question together, interested
't,Lo,,t excitement, without gestures, and
in a level voice:
apob.nia il free-thinking, as 10 Ffsncss
"poligion has lost its hold upon our peo-
pie" ~ . -,
49, Ioyel eoor Of ethics independent Of re.
ligion." a. UouLo,
nonbnroia was Protestant when Austria con.
orored her. The Catholic state religion vas
rois,ed on the people, who, under ofcisl
a1nsspre had 10 accept it or suffer for Their
aouyictions. The larger part Of Bohemia
L.oaroe oeicially Catholic, but the next g...
orotion found Itself, as our friend says, Be-.
,,,oon two chairs Bohemans are not ire.
i;o;ous. thew do not know at which altar to
,,or.hin. and that in itself is a tragedy for
which Austria is responsible.
add thereto the fact that the Cstholi,
olorgy il dependent on the good will Of VI
mo and conducts itself accordingly. What
onnedsnce can a community have in a prizes,
81 whom they know that, for the sake Of HI,
lob and the prospect OF promotion, ne Is
a traitor TO Bohemia
PriestIy Coercion.
"Here is a true story: Not long ago I
snoke 70 an old Bohemian immigrant, a WON.
an over sixty. who told me she had gone %
confession before undertaking her long jour
nov The priest asked her whether she h,d
ever harbored bad thoughts against Aus
,ris and the Hspsburg dynasty. What did
,or savq I asked her. 1 didn't answer
Che said. but if he had read ny thoughts
a. that moment. he would have been sure 70
refuse me sbsolution.'
about those soldiers bullets" put in
Mr. Grepr. editor of "Hlss Lidu" 1.-The Vote.
~ the People"), whose father was psrlia-
rnertarv leader of the Bohemian Liberal,
and owner Of the most widely circulated
newspaper in Prague for more than thirty
years. and in whose family there are severs
officers in high command. II Is not runor,
but fact. that Bohemian soldiers have been
shot down by the hundred because they re.
fused to play their allotted part In this In
iouitous war. If they had rot been pru-
IDENTIFY distributed throughout the Austrian
army, whole regiments would have been
stood up against the wall, facing firing
squad. But even disseminated as they vers
and never enough of them together to have
chance in mutinying, many and many Of
| them preferred execution 10 fighting FOR
/ Austria, their tyrant.
Disaffected Soldiers.
"There was only one wholly Bohemian
regiment at the beginning Of the war, the
2sth Infantry of Prague, and that didn't las,
long. Most OF its men surrendered to the
Russians in Galicia; the rest were disbandsd
and the name of the regiment was wiped Of
| the record.
Bohemia has always been friend Of the
| Entente powers" concluded Mr.. Capek, "and
now she is looking TO their victory for her
own salvation. her freedom from the leu.
/ tonic yoke. 1t is likely that, even in the
| event of a German-Austrian victory, The
Dual Monarchy would be disrupted, being
/ enfeebled by the war and unable TO resis.
the will Of the Bohemians, Slays and MagysEs
to become independent" I. {. FAY.
/ New York, June /, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

cs-ae,d made his nomination for himself IN 1880
after he took up the gavel. Can Harding do as much
in lslG?-The World.
The wiclder Of the gavel at the Republican
National Convention of 1880 was not James
A. Garfield, but George F. Hoar. The latter
was first chosen as temporary chairman and
then continued as permanent chairman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

You can purchase merchandise advertised in
THE TRIBUNE with absolute safety-ior
il dissatisfaction results in any case The
TRIBU Ne guarantees 10 pay your money oach
upon request. No red tape, no quibbling. We
make good promptly il the advertiser does not
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Mail Matter
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

If the list is to be made out on the basis
of those magazines which for purposes OF
Identification are called funny it would be
short and simple and run as follows;
TIL ,or, nonL
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-07-08
DELINQUENT TAXES AND DE
LINQUENT TAX NOTICE

To the following named persons
and all owners or claimants to the
personal property and real estate,
and the Improvements thereon, Or
improvements where assessed scpa-
ratelv hereafter described, known or
unknown:
JOHN Z. CROSS-WN Of NH.N
and E2 OF NWI4 and NWA OF
Sec. /, T. Is n, r. 10 Z. Valuation,
$4,000; 100 acres; state patent
NWAof SEA Of Sec. 50, I. ID
n, R. 10 f. Valuation, $4,000;
total valuation, $4,000: state PAT
ent; 50 acres. Amount OF tax,
$4.35; 70 per cent Delinquency. 45c.;
cost Of advertising, $500; total,
SOS.
MARY \. CROsS-sEH OF SWN
Of Sec. le, T. 20 n. r. % T.; 40
acres; state patent. NEH OF SN Il
OF Sec. 80, It's n, r. 20 f; AZ
acres; state patent; total valuation,
500. Amount OF tax, Sl.45; 10 Per
cert delinquency, 15c. cost OF ad-
vertising, $500; total. $500.
You and each OF you are hereby
notified that the tax upon your prop
erty for the second >installment Of
the year 1918 is now delinquent. anc
YOU are further notified that unless
said taxes are paid on or before the
third Monday in july, 1910, to-wit;
July II, 1916, your property will be
sold at the Court House door in Car
son City. Ormsby county. Nevada, at
, O'Clock p N. OF said day to pay
said taxes together with the 10 per
cent Delinquency and the cost Of ad-
verti,ing. and You are further noti-
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-07-08

fed that such sale will be subject to
redemption within six months after
the date Of sale by payment OF all
said sum together with 3 per cent
per month thereafter from date OF
sale until paid
DANIEL f. MORTON,
County Treasurer and ex-Officio
Tax Reviewer.
Carson City. New June p, 1916.
Office of County Auditor and Re
corder, Ormsby County. New.
Notice is hereby given that the
foregoing list contains the names OF
all delinquent taxpayers, a descr1p-
ton of the property upon which the
taxes are delinquent, together with
the amount of taxes due upon said
property as shown by the delinquent
tax list for the year 1915 as returned
to this office bv the County Treas
urer and ex-Officio Tax Receiver Of
Ormsby county, state OF Nevada. and
is a true copy OF said delinouent tax
list now unpaid.
c. r. DAKE,
County Recorder and ex-Officio
Auditor OF Ormsby County, New.
Tune 23-td
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-07-08
NOTICE TO PARENTS

Teaching for thirty-two years in
Carson, my reputation as a teacher
is established, My work has been
attested by Zcch, Iisser, Sherwood
and Paderewski. Do not employ
teachers that stay only sin months,
but engage an experienced teacher,
especially for a child. At Muller :,
PHILIP KRALL, Teacher of planu
and Harmony. j2S-lm