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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-17

Ills a m, then adjourned till after
noon. The next day fifth day of the
cOnventiOn) Clark's vote reached its
high tide, with 55415 on the 18th bal
lot, to Wilson's 356. Most of the
Harmon men had gone over to Clark,
who was kept from the nomination
by the two-thirds rule. The cOnven-
ton adjourned over Sunday, and on
the sixth day of the convention Mon
day. the Wilson break started on the
28th ballot, when KeTn's 81 Indiana
votes we're swung, giving Wilson
43712 to Clark's 1881. On the sew
enth day of the convention, the
fourth day of ballOting, and the 46th
ballot, Wilson was nominated. Mar
shalls nomination as vice president
followed.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-17

Within walking distance of Chi
chester, England, is the Rising Sun
in North Bersted. This small inn
contains a room every inch of which
is covered with postage stamps. Cell
ing, walls, doors, chairs, tables, pic
ture frames, every part Of the room
except the floor is thickly covered.
Fully 100000 stamps are pasted up
and 100000 more hang in the fes-
tOOns.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-17
ELE91gER- NVoIIeS

he baby the family Charles Hughes Republican ond
presidency will be the little
daddy" elected The picture Hughes pet
canary in the Hughes home in Washington
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-17
SERIOUS

SERIOUS
Rich Father - Are young Simp.
sons intentions serious, Marie?
Daughter-NO, but they will be.
He's running into debt frightfully.-
Puck.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-20
New Anti-Aircraft Guns.

The official accounts of the anti-aircraft
guns mounted in the Pennsylvania and
Nevada are, of course, very vague, but 1t
is announced that forty such guns are al
ready built, and this is reassuring If they
are half as efficient as they are reported
to be. Three years ago we had no guns
of this kind; now our ships are to be
equipped with what Mr.. Daniels describes
as 1.-THE most effective anti-aircraft guns
in the world" And the boast is probably
justified if they are capable of doing all
that is attributed to them. 1t is said that
they have a vertical range of $4,000 feet.
Comparisons are difficult because we
cannot be certain of the ranges of foreign
guns. The Germans are supposed to be
very well equipped in this way, but accord
ing to the experience of French and Brit
ish airmen hits are rarely scored at more
than $4,000 feet or so. Sometimes, how
ever. machines have come under fire at
greater heights, and it is recorded that an
officer flying at 14,5OO feet observed shell
bursting about 1000 feet above him.
In his testimony before the aircraft in
ouirv in London the other day General Sir
David Henderson remarked that one lieu
tenant in the British service had in his
possession a fuse of German anti-air-
craft shell marked $500 metres, that is,
about $4,000 feet. He himself did not be-
lieve, however, that the Germans would be
likely to waste much ammunition on air.
planes at an elevation of 10000 feet.
Hence, if our guns are capable of doing
mischief at $4,000 feet it may well be that
they are superior to those in use abroad.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-20
The Turk as Enemy.

From The Manchester GUARDIAN
The student of race characteristics wouid
have difficulty in finding knottier prooiem
,hor the Turk. Our War Office has just COM
mented on his chivalrous and humane treat
ment of the garrison of Kut. All through the
Mesopotamia campaign he has behaved with
oxemnlarv courtesy The notes that Nur-ed-
hin Pacha had occasion from time to time 10
address to General Aylmer would not nave
disgraced Saladin in his passages with Oeur
do Lion. Turkish officers have taken ad-
vantage Of a truce now and then TO apologize
for the scandalous irregularities committed
nv their Arab allies; they have shown quite
remarkable consideration in such matters as
the return of lost kits they have given to
our wounded in their hands every comfort
available, and TO our officer prisoners every
honor 10 which their rank entities them.
General Townshends arrival in Constan-
tinople seems to have been something OF
triumph. and, if reports are true, he is now
lodged. with two aides de-camp and a retinue,
on very pleasant island in the Sea OF
Marmora. in conditions that must soften even
the bitterness of the loss of Kut. Men re-
turned from Galipoli tell the same tale. They
will remember the Turk as an enemy who
would not fire on the Red Cross, and who
showed a regard for the decencies OF war
from which his allies in Europe might well
learn.
Yet this people that has so well preserved
the tradition of knightly fighting is response
bic for the most dreadful massacres that
modern times have known. The troops who
would scorn to purloin wounded British SOL
der's kit will apparently drown a shipload
of Armenian women and children without a
qualm The Turk, il seems is Jekyll TO his
equals and Hyde TO those he considers his
interiors The Christian, perhaps, has not
much to boast about at this time; but that,
at least, is a point of view from which bis
religion saves him even in time of war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-20
LORD HALDANE'S "1MPUDENCE"
He Is Rebuked by a Rival Admcnishs Of
England and America.
LIST -
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: read Mr.. Wray's article about Lord
Haldane's warning to England and America
preparedness.
think Haldane should try his hand a. any.
thing except warning What the Duke o,
Buccleuch said to him was good enough for
him. Haldane did nothing for England from
military point of view except TO make her
the joke of the Continent The day after L.
brought his rotten territorial forces schem.
before the British House of Pariamen,
showed how it must absolutely fail. Il did
so. Anybody that knows the Englshmar
which no Englshman does, would have know.
that it must DO so. blame Haldane btterlJ
for the death OF scores of thousands Of gal.
liant Britishers, slaughtered so that he Nigh:
keep his billet. | have the records Of ny
dealing with Haldane's rotten act in case any
one desires 10 see them.
Now, as 70 Haldane's wonderful awakening
to the grievous necessity of England and
America for commercial preparedness. let n,
say that he is a little late. | have been din.
ming it into English ears since 1907, but the,
Haldane had nothing TO gain by screaming
about it. Perhaps he thinks that by doing 80
fat job for him.
In Wake Up, England" (p I'D, published
so long ago as 1907, wrote: "In technical as
in other education the state should make il i.
duty to encourage and stimulate By even
means in its power the intellect and inventiT,
faculties of its people The Englishman !,
clever enough if he gets a fair chance. His
own people, the cosmopolitan sentmentaists
the pro-Boers, pro Germans, pro-gypsies, pro.
anything but-Engl ishmen, see 70 il that eyey
one is attended TO but poor, patient long-suf.
fering John Bull. Really he is a silly Old
person. Is it any wonder that have ceased
TO regret that an not his brother, but an
glad to remember that | am his son-and
want him TO remember it,
Haldane is supposed 20 know something
about education. Can he be responsible fo'
the following sentence in the inteviev
speaking of education in England and Ger
many: Our circumstances are not dissmilsr
Elementary education up 70 the age OF four
teen runs on much the same lines in boin
countries?
| think this, to put ii mildly, will amgse the
Germans that happen 20 read it, Haldane
utterly unfit even for a politician. He does
not know men or business, and it sayors Of
CHASTITY impudence for him in present crcun,
stances TO start lecturing England sns
America.
When it comes 10 the United States requir
ing warning about technical education iron
Haldane it will be about the end Of ever,
thing. Why has he bottled up this wonderiH
knowledge all these years? Possibly for IN
same reason that cost him his reputation
England, as ! warned him in THE Empl'
Magazine" would be the case.
PA VALE
New York July Il 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-20
NO REBUKE FOR BRANDElS
The Tnbune's Report Of Last Sundays
Conference Is Challenged.
To tho Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | have known The New York Triburr
too many decades not to know that it stands
for the truth. Why then did you print such
n report of the conference of last Sunday 7
And why those misleading headlines!
Your headline is Jews Rebukc Brandeis
for Unity Plea" Dr. Magnes, DR.. Schulman,
| myself and many a man there made plea
for unity. No one rebuked us for so doing.
Dr. Magnes objected to the plan Of unity sug-
gested by the Philadelphia congress meeting
a few weeks ago, or to part Of it, which Mr..
Justice Brandeis, as its delegate, was in
honor bound to state. Mr.. Brnndeis was not
personally "scorned and rebukcd." ms your
report has it. Nor was the Philadelphia
congress movement "scorned and rebuked,"
for it was resolved that the executive should
send a delegation to the body Mr.. Brandeis
represented in order to find a plan for CO.
operation and union. Why did not your re-
port record this action, due to the speeches
of Judge Mack and Judge Sanders? That
Mr.. Brandeis is personally ready to meet to
hit out plan of union | know, for he said
as much 10 me a few minutes after he left
the meeting.
Your report says Mr.. Schiff was Kissed six
weeks before. Mr. Schiff never was and
never could be Kissed in public gathering
except by lunatic.
You say further that the editor Of THE
Forward" exclaimed There are higher things
than the Supreme Court of the United States.
The crowd Kissed" All the more to the
credit of the crowd, which thus expressed not
rebuke of Mr.. Brandes but hearty respect
for him and for the Supreme Court Of which
he is a member.
You say "the meeting was composed al
most exclusively of conservatives in Juda-
ISM" Not so, for saw reform and radical
Jews there, and they spoke more often but
Just as earnestly as conservatives or ortho-
dox
You say "Mr. Brandeis represented the
radicals" Is this meant for joke! MI
Brandeis is known TO all Jewry as leader IN
Zionism, the great Jewish movement so ire
quently referred to at that very meeting,
movement distinctly rejected by radical
Jews, a movement emphatically supported by
conservative and orthodox Jews. To call a
Zionist radical is joke
You say "Mr. Brandes represented the
radicals. in that way being dramatically OPP
posed to Mr.. Schf." Why bring in Mr..
Schif? He is not Zionist or promoter of
that movement of conservative and orthodox
Jews, though certes he is not a radical.
II your readers were only Jews we could
afford to let your report go with an amused
smile. But you have many Christian readers.
Why mislead, why not educate toward those
ideals for humanitys veal which are to be
the Towering of these Jewish movements
called congresses. conferences, Zionism. etc.
They all aim at removal of civic, political
and religious disabilities. so TO make human
brotherhood fact They all aim at quick
ening of the spirit of righteousness and JUS
,ice on earth H. PEREIRA MENDES,
Minister Spanish and Portuguese Congrega-
ton, New York
New York, July Is, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-20
Mental Disorders Among Soldiers.

DR.. Georges Dumas will probably be
supported by most observers in the opin-
ion that the fatigues and shocks of war
are accountable for fewer cases Of insan-
ity than was at first supposed. 1t is not
always possible to determine the causes
of mental arrangement, even roughly, but
among the cases that come before the medi
cal officers in the base hospitals it is easy
TO eliminate a considerable number which
might appear to the casual and inexperi-
enced observer to be attributable to the
stress of battle.
Thus, DR.. Dumas remarks that, although
in cases of general paralysis the delusions
of the patients are commonly associated
with the war, yet there is no reason what
ever to believe that the disease is precipi
tated by the life they lead. He notes thai
among 1888 insane patients who came un
der his observation only 80 per cent were
general paralytics, very small proportion
when compared with the average admis-
sions to civilian hospitals. But though he
seems to draw from this the conclusion
that the life of soldier at the front has
no influence on the development Of this
form of insanity, allowance must surely
be made for the relative care used in the
selection of soldiers. Moreover, even
though a fairly large number were pre-
sumed to be potential paretics, the proper
ton returned to the hospitals might pos
sibly be reduced by the number of the men
tally unstable who would almost certainly
be affected unfavorably by life in the
trenches.
1t does not appear TO be DR.. Dumas's
intention to deny that the war has been
the occasion Of considerable variety of
functional nervous disorders. But in these
cases, too, it is of course necessary to make
full allowance for the possibility of an
original weakness which is often demon
strable. The coloring of decisions and
Authorizations by recent experience at the
front is TO be expected, and it would be as
unreasonable to attribute the insanity it.
self TO those experiences as it would be t.
attribute the insanity of patients in our
state hospitals 10 the current events with
which their disordered imaginings are so
commonly associated. These are the &C.
casion but not the cause of their perverted
fancies.
There remain a considerable number Of
mental cases which may properly be at
tributed to the war, in the sense that the
war has at least been the chief determin-
ing factor. A considerable proportion o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-20
The Commuters Badge.

Whether it is to be regarded as badge
of honor or badge of slavery, the com.
mutation ticket of the hardy perennial
commuter is the last thing he wants 70
exhibit. He will fight like three Dull
calves and miss his pet train to avoid ex-
hibiting it to the man at the gate IL d
new conductor should by any chance ask
TO see it twice he will foam at the mouth,
herate the entire road and system and
plot revenge forthwith. A robust ana
combative breed, fully informed as to It's
rights. is the commuter Of to-day, vastly
improved in spirit and pride since the de-
nartment stores took to delivering at his
front door and made it unnecessary Tor
him to fetch and carry baby carriages and
lawn mowers and baskets of peaches and
what not.
Unfortunately for the railroads, COM
r,utation tickets offer a fruitful field for
cheating. and the sensitive feelings OF 'he
honest commuter are not the only things
70 be considered. The Long Island Kali
road has gone the length of ordering a ire
ouent inspection of all tickets. four
times between Patchogue and New YORK
is the report of one victim-a distance OF
fftv-six miles. That seems to be ruDDihe
il in. But the Long Island road has been
q particularly heavy loser, and the extreme
measures are doubtless necessary for the
+;r,o boinc ONLY little while ago the
New York Central gave out some heaVv
figures of losses suffered through ticket
frauds. Evidently the practice is constant
and hard to control.
of course the bulk of such sharp prac-
tice comes from plain cheats. but we
wonder if a fair fraction does not now
from pretty reputable consciences that
would not dream of cheating any one else
but consider a railroad fair game. we
have seen such. The psychology may be a
little difficult to analyze, but at bottom IL
is. we suspect, another consequence Oh Vle
old "nublic be damned policy. Almost all
Of our great railroads are headed IN an
other direction now, and another decade
,,,;u doubtless see the new attitude estaD-
lisbed for both parties. With an honest
and obliging public servant on the one side
and boosting instead of knocking COM
router on the other, suburban life Will be-
come truly pastoral in its sweetness ana
placdity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-20
THE. ALLIES LONG AND BLOODY TASK
An English Exaggerated and Misleading
Ideas-Not to Win Territory but to Make the Enemy
Incapable of Holding 1t Is the Goal

Allied operations, and it is clear that the lay
man owns neither the training nor the lnfor-
nation which would enable him to form a
just estimate. What we may conclude is that
so soon as a combined offensive on all fronts
is established, in accordance with common
plan of campaign, the Allies will be on the
road to victory. But their first task is not
to win territory. but TO make the enemy inca.
pable of holding it. The people at home must
accustom themselves steadily to contemplate
the painful fact that an offensive must in
yolve heavy losses to the Allies. 1t is the
only known method of winning victory, ex-
cept the method of enforcing a strict block
ado at sea, which method the government
have not yet seen fit to adopt for reasons
known only to themselves. The task con-
fronting the Allies is long, bloody and diff
cult. The end is not in sight All the people
at home can do is to insist that the soldier.
shall be fully supplied. to endure with con-
stancy and (above alb to determine that
there shall be no faltering and no compro-
mise This thing must be fought to q finish.
We are TO see TO it that sacrifices have not
been made in vain, and that the heritage 10
the next generation for which our seamen
and soldiers are giving their lives is be-
queathed whole and unimpaired. The best
backing that we at home can give to our
splendid men at the front in these days is By
showing an unshakable constancy of mind,
proof against success as we'll as against dis
appointment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-20
MIR. Bennett VS.. MIR. Howe.

On any fact or judgment this commu-
nitv will be slow to hold with Congress
man Bennett against Commissioner howe
This is the predispostion, and the whoie
manner of Mr.. Bennet's attack confirms
IL What Mr.. Howe's radicalism has to
do with his administration of Ellis Island
we await to learn. He has earned the
name of a sincere and efficient public SER
want and it will require a good deal more
than Mr.. Bennet's tangled eloquence IN
behalf of a former client to prove the con-
trarv. We have no doubt that Congress
feels the same way.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-20
England VS.. Britain.
New York, July Is, 1915.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your interesting article Of yesterday
comments upon certain local jealousies con-
corning national appellation which exist in
the British Isles; these arise from differ
ences of racial origin. Broadly speaking,
there are but two races, the English anglo
Saxon, Danes and Normans) on the one hand,
who inhabit the whole of England proper and
considerable portion of Lowland Scotland,
end the Celtic or Gaelic races, on the other,
comprising the Welsh, the Highland Scottish
and the whole Of the native Irish apart from
the descendants of English and Scottish set
tiers in Ireland. The purely English popula-
ton predomnates in numbers over all the
rest combined in the ratio Of about four to
one; it is natural, therefore, that the term
England" or "the English" should so fire.
quently be used to express the whole people
of the United Kingdom. But there are other
and stronger reasons.
England as such, has enjoyed a much
larger renown and played an infinitely greater
part upon the stage of nations than the other
sections of the British Isles; of these latter
i. may be said that only Scotland ever at
tanned TO real nationhood at all Ireland and
Wales were never firmly consolidated as in
dependent separate kingdoms under one ma
tive head or sceptre. and have never exer-
cised the slightest weight in European coun-
ellis and politics. England, on the contrary,
for many hundreds of years before the pres
ent union welded commanding influence on
the Continent, due to the power, enterprise
wealth and prowess of her people. Cressy,
hgincourt, Poctiers, were all fought and won
ht~f no liSh eli ,pIa md tba
Great Armada was beaten back by English
ships alone. It is no wonder. therefore, that
throughout Europe England" is the uni
versal term employed by statesmen to desig-
nate Great Britain and Ireland. Eighty two
per cent of the men now fighting England's
battles on land and sea Englishmen born
and bred, according to official announcement
in the House of Commons.
Incidentally, may observe that the Eng
lsh people proper never went about in blue
paint (woad), as you genially seem to hint.
This was an aesthetic penchant Of the an
cient Briton Of the time of julius Caesar
The first ancestors of the present English
the Angles (hence the name) and the
Saxons, who invaded and conquered England
in the fifth century after the final withdrawal
from the country of the Roman legions. They
drove the ancient Briton into the mountains
of Wales, where he still remains, and occu-
pied all the rest of the land. The Danes and
Normans (Northmen) appeared later to join
in the fun and TO claim their fifty-ffty land
more) wherever they could get it, Finally
these three brands of the oldtime pirate
Viking shook down together and blended into
one homogeneous people. 1t is significant
that they all hailed originally from the same
parts Scandinavia and the wilds of Northern
Germany and are thus racially of almost
identical blood. ENGLISHMAN.
New York, July Is, 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-20

broke up the Balkan Alliance and pro
cured the second Balkan war. To-day Ser
bia is an ally of one group of powers, Bull
garia of the other. Greece Is torn by the
partisans Of the two warning systems.
II Austria and Germany win Serbia
will disappear, Greece and Bulgaria Will
become Austro- German vassals, and Ru-
mania may fall to the same level. Turkey
will be Teutonic "place in the sum-" and
the Russian road to warm water will be
blocked by German forts and ships at the
Bosporus, as it is now.
If Austria and Germany are beaten,
Russia will get the Straits, become the
dominant force in the Balkans, and at
no distant date absorb all of Asia Minor
from Smyrna to Erzerum and from Trebi-
zond to Bagdad. France will have Syria
and Britain the balance of the Arabian
segment of the Osmanli Empire, as well
as Egypt.
Either way there will be a liquidation
of the Eastern Question, but if Russia
has her way the liquidation will be more
complete, more likely to be defnitive. We
may all live to see Russia seated at Smyr-
ma and become a great Mediterranean
power.
At all events, Britain and France have
set their seal to the Constantinope bar
gain. Russia has bought their claims to
Turkish influence in Galicia and Poland,
and she has paid good price. The fate
Of Constantinople is now being settled be-
fore Lemberg and in the Carpathians. A
century of British diplomacy and policy,
many centuries of French policy, have
gone by the board. The road to Constan-
tinople may run through Berlin, but it does
not pass through London or Paris.
The really momentous changes flowing
from the war must come in the Near East
and in Africa. We are beginning to see
clearly what some of them may be, and
it is no longer to be doubted that if the
Allies win the real prizes will fall to the
Slav. His hour seems to be at hand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-20

those commonly listed under "shell shock
NAV be counted among them. DR.. Dumas
refers to the frequency Of temporary blind
ness, mutism, deafness and other seem
ingly hysterical symptoms which nave
been commented upon by many Observers
A curious circumstance, recorded by an
other physician, is that the wounded are IN
the main immune from shell shock. 1t may
be possible in time to draw some useiu'
theoretical conclusions from the largo
amount of material provided by the war.
Some clincians, by the way, who nave ha'
much experience are already inclined 70
believe they have evidence enough to DIS
credit Freud's belief in the invarlable reia-
ton of the psycho-neuroses to "sex-com-
plexes.'