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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06
A Bolshevik Scheme

In the tumult CT campaign conjecture
ever what a Socialist victory here would
mean too little attention has been paid to
what Socialist administration of this
great city would mean. Mr.. J. G.. Phelps
Stokes, who has not been without standing
among Socialists, has shed a light on that
phase Of the question by one illustration.
The Rand School Of Social Science a So
cialist institution Of which Mr.. Hillquit has
been prominent officer, recently published
pamphlet entitled "The City for the
Workers" Discussing strikes, this docu-
ment remarked:
The crowning infamy Of all was the be-
hayior Of Mr. Mitcheps administration in
lie car strike Of 1916. The car
companies were infinitely more important
% the administration than any number of
strikers. What should the Mayor
have done in this case and in all strikes
that have come up? II Mr.. Mitchell had had
the interest Of the people at heart
he would have said TO the employers .
during the strike your shop or factory re-
mains closed, any attempt 70 open IL will be
treated as an attempt 20 incite TO violence.
and you will be prosecuted for that crime
That would be the right way TO handle an
Industrial dispute.
ln other words, if Mr.. Hillquit became
Mayor and another streetcar strike oc-
CURED, he would use the police to prevent
operation Of the transit system. If a small
rumber Of the electric light corporation
employees walked out, he would treat "as
an attempt 10 incite to violence" any effort
by that corporation to operate the plants
which supply current for street lighting.
The gas companies must shut up shop at the
bchest Of a handful Of striking employees,
abandoning their contracts, violating the
terms Of their franchises, neglecting their
DUTY 10 supply this commodity TO the mill
ions Of people who depend on it for light
and fuel, or else be treated as criminals
BY the city authorities.
The idea in too absurd 10 treat seriously,
and yet it is put forward seriously by Mr..
HillIuit's brand Of sgitators. What il
means II that a handful Of strikers,
whether right or wrong, whether they were
violating agreements or fighting agree
rent~breaking employers, should receive
government support in preference to the
great body Of the public-that a part
should invariably be greater than the
whole. Nobody short Of Bolshevik or an
idiot would contend this; tho vast body Of
labor unionists, 20 whom the idea IA mani
fsrty intended % appeal, would DO the
first 70 repudate an administration which
undertook 10 carry out 20 silly policy.
Yet the Socialist machinery which is back
ing Ir. HilIquit has been responsible for
distributing this leahetl and there ia no es-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: thank you With all my heart for the
admirable articles which you have written on
the war and Rumania's part therein. 1t Is a
satisfaction for US, and for me especially,
to see our situation justified by pen as
competent as yours. | am convinced that
your analysis, so penetrating and so hlled
with sympathy for my nation. will soon en-
tighten many important personages IN Amer
lea as TO the enigma of the Rumanian re-
treat, and at the same time as to the real
worth Of our little army. II during recent
days | have encountered much sympathy IN
the circles which have visited, this must
be attributed in large part, in my opinion,
to the benevolent attitude of the press tow
ard US. and the warm appreciation of our
cause exhibited by you in The Tribune.
am very grateful for this.
4 Fight for Deliverance
For US Rumanians this war is a question
Of life and death On our success, Of which
we have no doubt, depends the life of our
race. We are absolutely satisfied of this,
and il is because Of this conviction that our
nation, not only that of the free kingdom Of
Rumsnia, but also that still under the Aus
tro-Hungarian yoke, is sacrificing all that it
has, both in lives and property, for the sake
Of victory Rumania has declared war in
order to deliver the Rumanians OF Transyl-
vania and Hungary, and Of the Bukowina,
and at the same time TO free itself from
the economic pressure Of Austria and Ger
many, which was sitting us, and which, little
by little, was being transformed into politi-
cal domination
The Rumanian people in Hungary were
threatened with extirpation. Four millions
OF Rumanian inhabitants Of that state were
subjected &c all sorts Of vexations, inflicted
on them by the dominant race because they
wished stubbornly 10 preserve their language
and their life as Rumanians. In 1907 Count
Apponyi, who in 1906 was engaged in propa
ganda in Washington for universal peace, in
troduced the celebrated law which bears his
name-"The Law of Primary Education
transforming our schools into institutions
for the propagation of Magyarism, introduc-
ing instruction in the Hungarian language
for twenty-seven hours a week and closing
more than six hundred Rumanian primary
schools. More than three hundred and fifty
Rumanian villages were left without schools
of any sort. And all this in schools for
which the state was not paying a cent, and
in territory where, except for the mixed pop
ulation of the cities and certain colonies es-
tabished expressly for purposes of Magyar
cation. all the inhabitants were Rumanians
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06
The Enemy at Home
Must We Fight Treason Here as Well
as Soldiers Abrosd9
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; One cf the tragedies Of the war IS the
disloyalty Of Socialists TO the highest aim OF
socialism. viz. the progressive development
Of cooperative international federalism.
II the war should end now its result would
be universally regarded as an Incompatible
triumph for the German arms.
Militarsm would be perpetuated in Ger
many, and the fear of this would compel most
of the other nations to arm against her future
aggression, and would prompt some others to
ioin with her Peaceful internationaiism
cannot progress so long as the PrussIan
menace exists. The only choice will lie be-
tween allegiance to one camp or the other
The Socialist insistence on immediate peace
rests either on a pro-German bias, open or
secret, or upon the unwarranted assumption
that with the world against her Germany can
not succeed in any event, and that conse-
quently the sooner hostilities cease the better.
The shock Of the Italian disaster should
end this fiction.
Germany has put Serbia, Rumania and
Russia out Of the war. France is brave and
desperate, and with England falls back on
us. This is now our war in terrible earnest.
The Hillquit vote will disclose to our
selves, our allies and to Germany the dan
ger from the enemy at home-whether, n
addition to fighting Germany. we must also
contend with open treason here. 1t is well
that we should learn now whether the danger
ls great OF small. CALVIN TOMKINS.
New York, Nov. 4, 1911.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06
n J. Liquor Dealers Not on Record

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial of to- day, "Why De.
lay Suffrage" you say: "Who is opposed TO
suffrage? The suffragists announced that
careful search revealed only three orgarizs-
tions in the country which had publicly COMO
on record against votes for women. These
three were the Pennsylvania Liquor Dealers
Association, the New Jersey Liquor Dealers
Association and the Union League Club Of
New York" ! wish TO state, as campaign
manager OF the Women's New Jersey Asso-
citation Opposed TO Woman Suffrage during
the campaign against woman suffrage in 1915.
that the same statement was made az tha,
time by the suffragists and was denied b.
George T. Carroll, president Of the liquor in
terests. He stated that no action had been
taken b. them on the question of woman suf.
frage. which denial appeared in the rcws-
papers at that time.
George T. Carroll president OF the Nev
Jersey Federation of Liquor Interests. head
quarters at Newark, states to-day that there
has been no action taken nor resolutions
passed on the subject matter of woman SUI
frage by this association. And there never
has been" | will thank you If you vii.
please make this denial as public as pos
sible.
The suTragsts in stating that these tnree
were the only organizations IN the country
which had publicly gone on record against
votes for women" evidently preferred 90 for
get that the New Jersey Federation Of LABOR
after having given a complimentary vote Tor
woman suffrage for twenty-six years, gave
large majority against IL at their convention
during our campaign, when the question had
become live issue
They also forget that there is large ma
tional organization Of women opposed 70 their
own acknowledgements who feel regret inst AZ
this time they should be forced 70 enter into
political controversy CLARA VEIN.
Legislative Chairman Of the New Jersey
Association Opposed TO Woman Suffrage.
Elizabeth, y. j., Nov. 3, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06
Run1ania Part in the War
Fo, Her the Conflict Is Question of Life and Death Nation
Br a Rumdnidn Officer

and knew no other language, because they
never had any use for one.
The iniustices of administration, the crimes
of the gendarmerie (who have killed IN the
last twelve years more than three hundred
Rumanian peasants without any cxcuse), the
assaults which were made continually on our
culture and on our development have MADE
US look forward with a verltable fever 10
that war which was TO deliver us. All those
Of our people in Transylvania who could get
away are to-day in the Rumanian army OF
in the armies of our allies. As in my case, 8
multitude of young Transylvanians, both IN
tellectuals and peasants passed over the
frontier into Rumania. The Rumanian army
contains to-day among its soldiers more than
1000 officers and 10000 men of Transyl-
vanian origin. A part OF those who did not
have the opportunity TO escape and who were
forced to 90 into the war in the ranks OF
the Austro-Hungarian army surrendered 10
the Russians. The number of Rumaniar
Transylvanians taken prisoner by the Rus
slams is about 100000 men. with $500 OH
GERS. At the moment when Rumsnia declared
war all these asked TO be sent as volunteers
TO the Rumanian front against Austra-Hun-
gary. Unfortunately, politics and the trou-
bles in Russia prevented for long time the
realization of their wish, and-according to
n letter which | have received from Jassy-
il was only in July last that the first regi-
ment of these volunteers arrived at Jassy
TO go TO the front.
In Italy there are almost 10000 prisoners
who have asked the same thing. The Tran
sylvanian laborers who had come to Canada
are now in the Canadian army.
The Principle Of clinical Frontiers
In the United States we have 100000 Ru-
manians; but all the younger element OF
these are already in the ranks of the volun-
teers. At Youngstown, Ohio, from which |
have recently come, there were go Rumanian
volunteers, who are to-day somewhere in
the military zone
The question now is to put all our force
at the disposition of the Allies. And we
will do so. The victory of our allies is
our victory. Their flags are our flags. We do
not wish to Cypress anybody; we demand the
ratification of our political frontiers in ac-
cordance with the clinical limits Of cur race,
and we will respect the same principle where
others are concerned. That is also the po-
litcal principle of the United States in this
war It will be one of the most beautiful
days in my life when, having finished my
propagandist mission under your starry flag
which is mine also by inheritance, for my
father has been an American citizen for
some time-I shall depart, with my Ruma-
mans enrolled in your army, to continue my
duty Somewhere in France" T. \.
New York, Nov. I, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06
Going Too Far
tor OF The Tribune.

10 the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: | disepprove so strongly Of the dsei.
sion OF the Metropolitan Opera Company in
cutting out the German operas that I am
writing to you hoping that you will use vour
influence to dssuade them from such ,
course.
have been subscriber OF the orera for
years consider myself and my family truly
patrotie-two of the family are serving In
inns war; which is proof OF our patriotism.
cannot see why to listen to German opera
S"ouId put us down as pro-German, and the
"rUs'S VINO would sing fol us are Americans,
or the important ones have THAR patpraliza'
ton papers
II IS absurd to listen TO the protest of a
lew VINO are going entirely too far. and surely
are not musical in any sense.
MRS. W. GAYER DOMINICK.
New York, Nov. Q, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06

if the spirit of unity which saved France,
which has saved France dozen times in
the past, is manifested in the Italian Pen
insula, the present German eruption may
turn out in the end to have been bless
ing. In the presence of this storm Italy
may at last take her place among the
great peoples of the world, proving by the
fortitude and determination with which
she meets the terrible and terrific blow
that the work Of the last century was final.
and that the Italy men dreamed of and
died for through all the nineteenth century
has realized the dreams.
We are seeing one Of the most dramatic
and terrible dramas in human history. We
are seeing a nation tested in the fire Of
defeat; nation which has had In modern
centuries a long story of suffering, of mis-
cry; which has been again and again cut
to pieces and parcelled out among va
rious princes; which has been time after
time the battle-ground of great nations
To-day the problem is not primarily mill
tary, but moral. If the Italian people
rally; if the Italian people respond as did
the French three years ago, the disaster
of the Isonzo will prove to be the founda
ton stone of Italian unity in the future.
Every American must wish and hope
and believe the best for Italy in these ter
rible hours. The Italy of the Risorg1-
mento won the affection Of the English
speaking peoples the world over. The names
of the Italian patriots of the last century
were on the lips of every man and woman
who loved liberty in the days before Ma
poleon III decided TO take arms against
the Hapsburg dynasty and in some slight
measure to repeat the victories Of the
Great Napoleon on the Plains of Northern
Italy.
Since that brilliant time Italy, in be-
coming a nation, has lost something of
the glamour she had for the world. The
struggles, the difficulties, the problems Of
the new Italy have been too little under
stood beyond her frontiers. The contem-
porary generation has forgotten much of
the nobility of Italy in the great days be-
fore Solferino and Magenta. They have
remembered Garibaldi, perhaps, but they
have forgotten not only the rest of Carl
baldi's Thousand, but those others who
were the architects of Italian unity.
To-day all that was done half a century
ago is put to the test. To-day the ultimate
test of Italian nationality has come. The
real answer to the German invasion must
be made by the Italian people. If they
march to the frontiers as the French Rev
olution marched in 1892, the Valley of the
Pc will be the graveyard of Prussian hopes.
and some now obscure Valmy will take its
place in world history. On the other hand,
if the Italian people do not respond, the
invasion will stop neither at the Brenta
nor at the Adige, and Italy will be lost to
herself first and TO the world for long
years hereafter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06
Christmas for Our Soldiers

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: would like TO suggest that every one
set aside one-half OF the money he purposes
spending for Christmas and contribute to III
enormous Christmas fund for the soldiers
or. more than that. would not all be WILING
and glad to go without any Christmas CIV
ing or Christmas receiving for ourselves io'
the sake of helping out the men who mo
risking their lives for us? vote that this
movement be started at once, either through
the daily press. the Y. N. C. A, or the kea
Cross. ALEX. TAfLon'
New York, Nov. .. 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06
The Women. Fight for Freedom

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir; When the men fought for their free
dom the women helped.
when the men fought FOR the Union and
the freedom Of the negroes the women helped
when the men fought for the freedom OF
Cuba the women helped.
"hlIe the men are fighting for the free
dom OF the world the women help. Now the
women ask their freedom. What are the men
going to do? A. G.. WETUEREIJ.
New York, Nov. 2, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06

Gaping the fact that it IS intended as a
promise.
It is inconceivable that sensible Ameri-
can voters will aid in any such Russianiza-
tion of this city, where they must live and
tnil
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06
A Forgotten Proposal
To the Editor Of Tho Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Dir: What became Of Judge Barlow's sug
goStion that United States transport ships
returning to this country bring German prs
oners?
The recent fate of the Antilles raised the
query. MoNTAIrK
New York, Nov. 9, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-06
a German-Born Candidate

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | inclose an editorial with reference
to Albert H. F. Seeger. Could Germany ask
more than to have him elected to the SUI
preme Court bench? W. l. K
New York, Oct. %, 1917.
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Mail Matter.
The Washington times., 1917-03-26
HOLY NAME BODIES
TO OHAVE big PARADE
Marching Bodies From All BaIti.
more Archdioceses Will
Be in Line.

Members of the Holy Name societies
in Maryland, Virginia, and the Dis
trict will meet in Washington on
April % to determine which city in
the archdiocese of Baltimore is to
have the annual parade and demon
stration of the organization next
October. Officers of the Archdiocesan
Union OF the Holy Name Society will
be elected, and plans for an expan-
sion of the membership will be out
lined at the convention.
The Washington branch of the So
citty, including societies in twenty
seven Catholic churches, will meet
at the Church of the Nativity on April
10 to discuss the possibility of Wash
lngton being selected as the city for
the street pageant.
The executive committee OF the
union met yesterday at Immaculate
Conception Hall and made tentative
plans for the April meeting. The
convention will attract upwards Of
The Washington times., 1917-03-26
RAEMAKERs, FILMS.

The managers OF the Washington
Branch OF the British-American War
relief fund have obtained for their
benefit at the residence of Mrs. Gaff
lS2y Twentieth street, next SatIr1ay.
at 3:3O p. m. and next Sunday at =
p. m, an absolutely new film showing
the ItItch artist Raemakers drawing
his 10 nous war cartoons.
At the same exhibitions, Capt. Ian
Hay Beth OF the English army will
give Il talk on his own experiences at
the front and will show in addition
an exclusive official British war
film.
The proceeds OF these entertain
ments go to the Washington Branch
OF the British-American War Relief
Fund, which during the last two
years has sent to Great Britain every
week one or more cases of hospital
supplies, garments, linen. blankets
and knitted articles.
The Washington times., 1917-03-26
FLAYS THREE CLASSES
Pastor MaeMurray Declares They
Are Excess Baggage Of Church.

Hypocrites, iconoclasts, and para
sites were fiayed by the Rev. John
NacMurray in q sermon yesterday
morning at the Union n. E. Church
"Excess baggage in the church of the
Living God is made up of persons
who. by their lives, acts, and views
hinder the progress of the Christian
church and retard the coming OF the
Kingdom OF Jesus" said the minister
They may be divided into three
classes" he said; "hypocrites, who
put on a mask and play at being
Christians; iconoclasts, who would de
stroy the best traditions of Chris
tianity, and parasites, who feed on the
life OF the church and give back moth
ing but revilings and curses"
The Washington times., 1917-03-26
WOMEN TO INVITE
NAVAL VOLUNTEERS
Mrs. George Dewey to Issue
Call for Recruits to Femi-
nine Reserve.

Mrs. George Dewey, widow OF Ad-
miral Dewey, as president OF the
woman's Section of the Navy League,
will issue call to branches of the
league all over the country, urging
women to enlist in the naval reserve,
IL was announced today.
Miss Elizabeth Poe, on behalf of the
league, said there are opportunities
for fifteen additional Washington
women to enlist as resident members
OF the encsmpment of the National
Service School, from April 16 to May
?, at Chevy Chase.
More than 200 resident students
have enrolled.
There are special opportunities for
enlistment in day classes. said Miss
Poe. A hundred more Capital women
can be enrolled in this division.
Four additional scholarships. estab-
lished today for the opening course,
will be awarded students selected by
the National Special Aid Society OF
New York, the woman's branch of the
American Defense Society, the Ma
tional League for Woman Service, and
the National Security League.
Twenty-one resident and three day
scholarships had been announced pre-
viously. Six were given by Col Rob-
ert NJ. Thompson, president OF the
Navy League, for Washington Girl
Scout captains, and six more were
given by q friend Of the school for
Washington Y. w. c. A. members.
Other scholarships have been awarded
the Girls Friendly Society OF WASH
Ington, the, Navy League clerical
force, the National Geographic So
ciety. and one each to the Army. Navy
and Marine Corps representatives.
Among Washington women registered
for the first course are Miss Blanchard
Scott, daughter of the Chief Of Stan Of
the Army and Mrs. Hugh L. Scott; Miss
Margaret Fahnestock, Miss Eudora
Glover, Miss Georgia Schofield, Miss
Anna Hopkins. Miss Carolyn Nash. Miss
Lillian Birney, Miss E7linor Warheld,
Miss Nellie Johnson, Mrs. Howard
Hume, Miss Natalie Sumner Lincoln.
Miss An1e Tracey, Miss Julia B. Whit
ing, Miss Sophy Johnston, Miss Lillian
Hendricks, Miss PortiR w. Wagar, Miss
Susan E. Renwick, Miss Virginia Hunt.
Miss Frances McIver, Miss Sophia
Fearce Casey, Miss Emily 6. Water
man. Miss Ethel Allen, Miss Josephine
Davis, Miss GLADYS Sullivan, Miss Vio-
let Wakefield, Miss Mary Harper Clark.
MISS rlOTenCe m. Mills, onis. rEahSis
Fulton Powell. Miss Z. Blakemore,
Miss Nancy C. MIley. Miss Millicent Nc
Carthy. Miss Margaret NJ. McRelvy.
Miss Doris F. Perkins. Mrs. Rosalie Nc
Kee Shelton, Mrs. William H Stayton.
Miss Ruth Tanner, Miss Ada NJ. Wat
rous. Miss Mary B. Clark. Mrs. John
w. Davidge, Mrs. Mary Wright. Gill
Miss Margaret Niche. Miss Laura r.
Parson, Miss Isabel Rives. Mrs. Ernest
Wilkinson. Mrs. Lewis Warfield. and
AiSs Mary Baker.