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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
FOR A CONSUMERS UNION
Cooperation Might Protect Them Against
Trusts and Middlemen.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

| To the Editor of The Tribune.
| Sir: We hear much of unions nowadays, OF
printers plasterers', bakers and painters
unions. We read each night and morning
about strikes of car men, milkmen, railroad
men and other men.
! We also know a great deal about trusts.
Big trusts which TO very large extent fix
the prices we must pay while we can pay
those prices.
We have to do at every turn with meaner
trusts-the combinations, real, although un-
expressed, of ruthless storekeepers, who
stand between US and the middlemen. who
stand between them and the big trusts, which
bar the producers from the middlemen, the
retailers and the consumers.
The cows give milk as usual and the hens
don't strike. But day by day the prices set
by the trusts, retailers, middlemen and the
original producers of our food and drink
grow higher. The fish trust sees to it that
we don't get fish cheap. When there is too
much fish it throws back few thousand tons
or so into the sea. That keeps the prices
right. The milk trust is as careful not to
allow US 70 get too much milk. And when
God sends US plenteous fruit and grain har-
vests the dear trusts save us from the sin Of
giuttony by burning the superfluous wheat
or corn and letting the ripe plums and APP
pies, rot in countless orchards. That also
helps.
Society has come TO be too complex in this
country. Though there is plenty for US all
here, we can't get It as we should-on honest
terms. And why? For just one reason: Be
tween the producers and the consumers stand
criminal trusts, greedy middlemen and sordid
storekeepers.
Eighty or ninety millions in this free-and
easy-land are being defrauded, bullied,
cheated and impoverished by about ten mill
ions, who will soon all own houses and autos
paid for by the consumers.
Is it not high time that the stupid, vast
MAJORITY am part of it-began to organize
in sef-defence?
Trades unions do good service to their
members. Why should there not be con-
sumers' union-or, if you will. ten thousand
consumers unions-to check greed and thiev
ing?
The eighty or ninety millions who do not
produce, but who consume, might all be pro-
tected if they would only get together and
form cooperative societies. One thousand or
ten thousand persons organized, each con-
trbuting, say, IS or $50. could. through their
salaried agents, buy wholesale and then re-
tail 20 themselves all they need. 1t is quite
simple. But-we shall have to get together
Meanwhile our pride might not be very
greatly hurt if our state governments and
governments and even our Fed
eral government did something quickly TO
protect US from oppression.
"Paternalism" is not our ideal, but il ex
lists already, II is implied in the very fact
that we have government A VICTIM.
New York, Sept. %, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
Nathan Hale's Monument at Huntington
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of September % saw
letter from Mr.. Ralph X. King, of Brooklyn
in regard TO Nathan Hale. Mr.. Kings letter
describes the bowlder marking the spot on
which Nathan Hale is believed TO have been
captured, and says that on one side appear
the words Erected by the Colonial Society
of Huntington in 1905" These words do not
appear anywhere on the bowder. Instead are
these expressions attributed TO Nathan Hale:
IL will undertake it. | think owe TO
my country the accomplishment of an
object so important and so much desired
by the commander of her armies. Yet
am not influenced by the expectation of
promotion or pecuniary reward. | wish
TO be useful. and every kind Of service
necessary for the public good becomes
honorable by being necessary. II the
exigencies Of my country demand a pc
culiar service its claims TO the perform
ance of that demand are imperious."
81 only regret that have but one life
to give for my country"
This bowlder was not erected in 1908 by
the Colonial Society Of Huntington, but by
George Taylor. II was taken from a field
near by and placed in its present position in
1897. JOHN TAYLOR
Huntington, Long Island, Sept %, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
OBSTACLES TO FOREIGN TRADE
Some Defects in Pointed by One Who
Has Been Salesman Abroad-Lack of Adaptabilty
the Greatest Drawback.

Preventative was making friends and gathering
information which later proved to be price
| less"
Another point which tells against our man
ufacturers Is that when business is good II
this country the foreign or export bushes:
| is neglected, deliveries are outrageous anc
the customer has to put up with "the neares
/ in stock" TO what he ordered. You can Civ,
reasons for this TO man in Cincinnati, fol
example, but unless you're on very friendly
terms with your Continental or South Amer
lean customer-and not always even then
/ he cannot be made to understand why he
should take something which is not exactly
what he ordered, even if it is supposed to be
an improvement.
Many American manufacturers are sending
abroad young Americans with no experience
whatever in foreign business or with for
egners, and often speaking no language but
English They are cheap, of course, but for
the most part are objects of pity and some
times of dislike by the foreign customer.
myself met two such in Italy last year-they
could not even tell the conductor Of the train
at the frontier what baggage they had, for
,he spoke no English and they no French or
Italian. What could they possibly do in in
terviewing a customer?
l. Now, when you are making so much
profit here, is the time to spend a small pro-
portion of it in establishing foreign connec-
tons not with view TO immediate orders or
returns, but so that you may have standing
when the war is over. You don't hesitate 70
spend $4,000 or $4,000 in advertising here
spend some in q personal" advertisement
abroad
g You must have representative who has
had experience with the nationaites to
whom he goes and who speaks their language,
or even French.
3. You must be prepared to follow the
course of procedure-wthn limits, of course
that he advocates, to supply the kind of
goods that the customer wants. even if it is
not standard with you, and to be reason
able, even in war time, in your terms of pay
ment.
4. You must be absolutely sttaight and
aboveboard with your customer or agent. The
Latin is especially quick to see and resent
anything which savOrs in any degree of Slim
ness" and is just as quick to appreciate
straightforward dealing. The words "Palabra
de lngles" have special meaning in Argen-
tina-Pd like to have them changed to "Pala-
bra de Americana"
Since the above was written see that the
Merchants Union OF Argentina has come to
the point of suing one Of our largest indus
trial corporations for bad faith in the fulfil
ment of its contracts. | gather that the
trouble is rather one of misunderstanding
than actual bad faith, but undoubtedly Ar
gentina thinks it is bad faith, and that is
enough. TOM BIFN
Maplewood, N. j., Sept. 26. 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
War Words.

The Boer War momentarily enriched the
English language with number of words
which, with few exceptions, are never
heard nowadays. They have been retired
from active service, to linger forgotten in
the pages of our dictionaries. We no
longer "trek"; hills are no longer "kopjes" (;
the meaning of 'laager" and "veldschoen"
is being lost. Only one of all these words
has survived in England-"to Stellenbosch,"
which, fifteen years ago as now, means the
retirement Of incapable officers. Many
have been "Stellenbosched' in all the
armies of this war-more in Italy, it is
said, than anywhere else, after the recent
Austrian offensive. American humor has
tentatively substituted the verb "to Wis
count out" suggested by the consolation
prize given to Field Marshal French by
the British government when it called him
home.
American humor was the first, too, to
see the possibilities of the word "strafe."
II is now, we understand, in current popu-
lar use in London, but one doubts its
chances of survival. The Oxford under
graduates phrase from the front, owe
parasanged a good many miles to-day" is
clever, but too recondite "Schrecklichkeit"
is having its vogue. 1t fills need which
its exact English equivalent, "frightful-
ness" does not seem to supply. Who re-
vived the term "Hun" it were hard to say.
From France we have "Boche," of I'M
known derivation, locally used long before
the war. The French make a distinction,
thus far not adopted in England or here,
for the "super- Boche," meaning a Prussian
as distinct from "Boches" in general
From Germany we have the &C. |. vs.
"Churchill's Innocent Victims"-but it is
British humor, coined by British war pris-
oners 70 describe the captives Of the Ant
werp venture. Then there is "Anzac," in
vented at Gallipoli- "Australia-New Zea-
land Army Corps"-a SPLENDID "portman-
teau word" which some Englishmen are
trying TO spoil by turning it into "Sanzac,"
in order 20 include South Africa as well.
"Goulash Ca non" is German for a field
kitchen. No cry like that of Canned beef"
in our own Spanish War has yet risen
from the trenches Of the combatants on
either side Then there is the queer use
Of "dud," as applied TO aeroplanes and
shells. A "dud" aeroplane is one that does
not work properly, "dud" shell one that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
Oyster Troubles.
Prom The Nctc Haven Journal Courier

Prom The Ncto Haven Journal Courier)
AS predicted in this paper several weeks
ago, there will be no oyster set" this year
in Connecticut, Rhode Island or New York
waters. Following a statement by Frederick
l.. Perry secretary of the State Shell Fish
Commission. made over a month ago. that
there would be larger oyster "set" this
year, "The Courier" made inquiry among the
growers and found that Clerk Perry's state
ment was entirely misleading and that all in
dications at that time pointed to q failure of
the set"
This failure is now an established fact, and
in the interest Of accuracy the following is
reprinted from the current issue of "The
Fishing Gazette:
There is no question now but that there
will be no oyster set in any of the seed-pro-
ducing states, the largest of which is Con-
necticut followed by Rhode Island, New York
and New Jersey. This condition shows. first.
the necessity of lowering taxation on oyster
grounds in all Of the states mentioned in or
der to allow oyster growers to continue the
cultivation of oysters. Otherwise they will be
forced out of business by the present ex-
cessive taxation, not TO mention the talked of
increase that some persons, ignorant Of con-
ditions, feel to be justifable. In the second
pIdce; tHe lack OF set SHOWS the vital neceS-
sity Of keeping up prices on marketable
oysters, not in any one section Of the coast,
but at all points, north and south. Indica-
tions now point to lack of oysters in the
very near future. Without set there will be
no seed, and without seed eventually market
able oysters will disappear. Advices from the
South show that dealers are asking more
money for their oysters than ever before
Northern shippers must do the same"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
VENIZEL0S THE MAN
To Him the Greek People Should Consds
Their Destiny.

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: One Of the many periods durirs
which France has provoked the admiration
of the world was during the years OF her
revolution. Financially she was completely
exhausted. Inside she was Riding herself Of
the tyrants on the throne, proclaimng II.
republic one and undivided; and abroad be,
armies, the armies of the republic, under
such generals as Bonaparte and Hoch,, vss
victorious against the European coalition
Victories inside and outside have a,wli
dated the France Of to-day and hsu. I've,
the world a most valuable lesson and prof
that the best ruler Of any country is the pss.
pie themselves.
May we hope that the same will be the csa
of Greece to-day. News comes from Athens
that the revolution Is broken, that as |.
grows the King is living with his family 10
his country palace, intrenched. How foolish
As though trenches can resist the voice Of
the people. II seems from the cables ths.
the great Venizelos is in absolute control o.!
the situation. Let US hope so. Let Us no.
be afraid OF the revolution il this is the only
way by which the honor, the dignity and the
future of the nation can be restored. lie.
the Greek people realize that it is high tin.
to rid themselves Of that despised and vile
instrument of Kultur, that paid agent Of the
Kaiser, whose only dream and object were 70
sell his country to the Huns. Let the Greek
people follow the example Of the French,
their brothers, their friends, their benefsc'
tors, and have the invention Of Dr. Guillotn
working again 70 clean the nation OF all hs
torturous instruments Of the German propS
ganda.
The world Is too far advanced In civl!'s
ton nowadays for kings and empsrot
Democracy is the only form Of goyernnea'
fit for the people of the twentieth een'rT
nation will be governed By On'a
their blood and religion. Had Greek Se'
sitting on the throne or a President o.
republic he would not have reduced ~
country to such a point of degradation a.,
financial ruin as did the despsed prince I"
yesterday. the brother-in-law Of the ks'sS
who comes out frankly and without snsn,
that he has pledged his T''o
to the German Emperor 70 remain nea'rs,
regardless of the interests and the future :"
his country
Let the Grecian people understand that ID
the person of Venizelos they possess h.a
such as is seldom born. a man who warts |"
make a great Greece and knows how 70 90 y,
ct the Grecian people confde their desHh's'
n him and we are convinced that suea
man, helped by people with patriotism ~.
lash, such as the Greeks are, Is IN pos'ss..
% accomplish wonders, and let Us hope 'a''
What is happening now in Greece is the H
ginning of a new, prosperous and g lo,,o''
IRA. +. p. NESI hENI'
New York, Sept. 25. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
Books for the Wounded in France.
o the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May have a corner of your paper
TO ask your readers for old magazines and
books TO send to the wounded soldiers in
France? Several steamship companies give
us transport for them free. The men look
eagerly for something to read, and in an
appeal received recently a doctor at the
front says: Books are good tonic for the
men, May | also ask that all who are kind
enough to answer this appeal will mark their
packages for the Liverpool Field Hospital in
France, care Of the British War Relief Asso-
citation, SAG Fifth Avenue, New York,
New York, Sept II, 1916. CIR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
BURY Them"

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Writing TO my brother who IS u "a ,
soldiers home) the other day, rems''''
that / felt like skulking around Ike e.s
with my tail between ~ legs. lie reP"' =,
81 have all along felt much as yoi-0H1s
more so. If I had ten years, win iH s.
hrmities, of my shoulders, and me
cient means, my disgust with the On'.I Iva
States Of America is so intense that ! w.
throw back my pension into the face o. Va ~.
government. go to England and there ' .ss.
out naturalization papers as British ~
ject." -.
Merely winning won't wipe away ""
shame of il. We've cot 20 bury them.
GEORGE D. POND
Leonia, n. j., Sept Is, 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28

To the Editor OF The Tribune. 80,
Sir: Bacon would have won had nc 81,
candidate half as long rs Calder "a,
was defeated by Wadsworth, ana ne "a,
been fixing up his fences ever since nc !,
been diligent and persistent, which seem.
be the way Offices are obtained OF Isl" ~.
One reason why Hughes is so aeeep'A' "a,
candidate 10 me is that his nomina'.0" "a.
unsought by him; he was nominated 10 ~, ..r.
of the politicians. who consented or ~
"'''' - d" ''"' Vi '"' c. scHMp1
Yonkers. N. Y. Sept 20. 1916. -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28

file now put on his leadership. He is max
ing hopeless fight for New jerseys cleo
toral vote. just as he is for the electoral
votes of all the other normally Republican
states in which he won four years ago
through fractional division now complete
ly effaced. Unable to control his own party
in his own state, he cannot win there or
elsewhere against reunited Republican
marty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
He Is Supporting Wilson.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: viii you please publish in your col
umns whether Charles W. Eliot is supporting
Hughes or Wilson in the Presidential cam
paign? know that DR.. Eliot was for Wilson
four years ago, and should like to know hi.
present attitude on the Administration.
row YORK, Sept. 70, 1919 A. b. G.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
His Time Too Short.

Leonia, n. j., Sept. Is, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28

Yonkers. N. Y. Sept 20. 1910
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-09-28
HERE: IS COURSES
IN NIGHT SCHOOL
FOR YOUNG BRIDES

For the young miss Of near-marriage-
able age, who contemplates taking the
great step some time or other in her
near or far future. Richmond high
school night school is going to offer
an opportunity to get acquainted with
the when, where. how and why of
practical home making. The course
ITSELF as announced by Principal
Pickell of the high school this morn
ing, is entitled: Home making course
for women.
The course, which is incorporated in
the list of thirty-nine lines of work
offered at the Richmond high school
night sessions to open Monday even
ing, October 9, will be under the
direction of an advisory committee Of
Richmond women, according to the an
nouncement of Principal Pickell to-
day.
The home making course will be de-
cidedly practical and vocational. Prac-
teal cooking, dietetics and menu plan
ming, serving, elementary sewing,
dressmaking, elementary and advanced
millinery will be included in the list
of home arts" to be offered the wom-
en- public of Richmond.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-09-28
MORE BOYS WANTED
BY HIGH ACTRESSES
IN DRAMA SOCIETY

WANTED-Several young male stu
dents, who have pleasing manners
able to converse well, who are enter
tanning and who have some histrionic
ability. Apply to the secretary of the
Richmond High School Dramatic So
ciety, r. H. S.
Board of Directors of the R. H. S.
Dramatic Society, an organization
which includes in its personnel an
unusually large number of girl stu
dents, but few of the opposite sex, is
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of publish
ing the above want-ad in the columns
of the R. Fl. S. Weekly.
From perusal of the following list
of charter members, it becomes ap.
parent that social activities of the so
ciety would be greatly augmented by
the addition of at least number of
boy students: Instructors, Anna L.
Finfrock, Donna l. Park and Messrs.
B. w Kelly, Herschel Nicholson, Muir
ray Shively, Guerney Stidham, Ed
mund Sudhoff, Lawrence Chrow, Garlic
ton Smith, Paul Heironimus, Lester
Letter, Harold Norris, Julius Tietz;
Misses Blanch Hampton, Maxine Muir.
ray, Janet Seeker, Mildred Nusbaum,
June Robinson, Louise Mather, Vera
Pfafflin, Helen Lyon, Juanita Wicket,
Helen Johnson, Letha Chrow, Helen
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-09-28
NEW MADISON NEWS

Mike Miller and wife of Newton
Kansas, have been here several days
with w. c.. Gauby and family. Mr.
Gauby and Mr.. Miller are cousins. :.
Chas. Morris and wife of Wheeling, w
Va, Chas. McNutt and wife of Lewis
burg and Mrs. j. NJ. Frick and son
Paul, Of Greenville, were the Sunday
guests of w. G. Gauby and family.
w. F. Heller and wife and large
number of helpers arrived home Mon
day from East Windsor Hill, Conn.
where they had been gathering shade
grown tobacco.
Visit With Murrays.
Misses Gladys Purdom of Xenia, and
Ruby German and Adelaide Croy OF
Troy. were over Sunday guests of O.
G. Murray and wife. . . Miss Clara
Schehl has returned to her home at
Butler Pa, after a visit here of sew
eral weeks with the Max relatives. e. .
Friends here have just received an
nouncement of the marriage of Joe
Ray of Greensburg, Ind, to Miss Ruth
BEEN of Summit, o., which occurred
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-09-28
NIGHT SCHOOL
OFFERS COURSES
IN ALL BRANCHES

Public night school which opens at
the high school Monday evening, Oc-
tober 9. and closes March Z, offers
thirty-nine lines of academic. COM
mercial and vocational work. The
school will be open to all persons
over fourteen years of age who are
employed during the day. Tuition is
free.
Principal Pickell Of the high school,
who will direct the work, today an
nonuced that students may enroll Oc-
tober 4, 8, ard 6, from p. m. til p.
m. Students may enroll at the high
school building, Room 20, or by phone,
1411 School sessions will be held two
nights each week-Monday and We'd
nesday nights from 7:10 to $40.
Lists Of the Courses.
Academic, commercial and pre-voca.
tional courses offered this term are:
English for foreigners, advanced En-
glish, debating and public speaking,
penmanship, commercial arithmetic,
bookkeeping, typewriting. stenography,
commercial law, craftsmanship, shop
mathematics, bench work, printing,
forging, free hand drawing. machine
work, physics, chemistry, physical
training for women, pattern making,
mechanical drawing, architectural
drawing, sheet metal drafting, auto
mobile work
Home making courses for women,
under the direction of advisory COM
mittee of Richmond women, are
Practical cooking. dietetics and menu
planning, serving, elementary sewing,
dressmaking, elementary millinery, ad-
vanced millinery.
Vocational shop courses for men:
Pattern making, printing, carpentry,
machinist trade, plumbing, forging and
moulding, electrical work, mechanical
drawing for carpenters.
Other courses will be offered for
which there is sufficient demand.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-09-28
CURED HIS RUPTURE

was badly ruptured While lifting a
trunk several years ago. Doctors said
my only hope of cure was an opera
ton. Trusses did me no good Final
ly l got hold of something that quick
ly and completely cured me. Years
have passed and the rupture has never
returned, although l am doing hard
work as carpenter. There was no
operation, no lost time, no trouble.
have nothing to sell, but will give full
information about how you may find
a complete cure without operation, if
you write to me, Eugene M. Pullen,
Carpenter, 1880 Marcellus Avenue,
Manasquan, n. J. Better cut out this
notice and show it to any others who
are ruptured-you may save a life or
at least stop the misery of rupture
and the worry and danger of an opera
tion.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-09-28
DEBATERS TO HOLD
TRY0UTS ON OCT. 4

R. H. s. debating team, personnel
OF which is yet to be selected, in all
probability will have its first skirmish
of the fall term at Marion, Ind, the
date not determined Mr. Null, head
of the high school public speaking
classes, and who will again have
charge OF the school representative
debating team, is at present negotiat-
ing with Marion school authorities for
the debate there.
Despite the fact that all but one
member of last years team is lost to
the school through graduation, Mr.
Null feels confident that team the
equal of last years unbeatable one
can be developed from the material
in the Hi English classes julius
Tietz, of the 1916 team, and William
Haberkern, winner of the Central
Association contest, are the veterans
of the debating classes.
Debters of the r. H. S. will stage
their first preliminary try-outs Octo
her