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before their shrine the Maid will still be-
stride her charger, symbol Of the heart,
of all that most swiftly and most simply
touches every type Of man.
We are swayed by our hearts. Long
after the cold-blooded theorist, working
out on paper the artificial solidarity which
he mistakes for the true brotherhood OF
man. shall have demonstrated to his own
satisfaction the absolute necessity OF
making friends with Germany" Rheims
will give pause to all men who can feel as
we'll as think. And the Kaiser will have
done it. Not until he and his kind, he
and his millions. have done penance IN
sackcloth and ashes will the penalty OF
their blasphemous destruction lose 1.-THE
of its weight.
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The Disappearance of Young Girls

The disposition to sneer at Mrs. Humls-
tons opinions with respect to young giris
who disappear will be seriously hanrpered
by the facts. terrible and unmistakable,
which but for her opinions, backed by
resolution and ability, would still lie hid
den beneath the cellar of Cocchi's bicycle
shop in West 127th Street. II is no time
to reassert old conclusions and easy eX-
plantations. Every energy of the citys
investigating forces must be devoted 10 fol-
lowing the trail thus far uncovered and
determining without preconceived theory
or bias the whole truth of Ruth Cruger
disappearance and of other disappearance
which bear resemblance to it.
The first question to be examined is the
aspect of sinister police influence when
has come to the surface. The peculiar
episode of West Eightieth Street adds fuel
to the suspicious already aroused by the
extraordinary stupidity of the detectives
involved in the case. Commissioner Woods
has taken the right and honorable course
to be expected of him in frankly conceding
the stupidity of the police work and inves-
tigating its suspicious features with every
resource at his command.
Beyond this housekeeping within the
Police Department lies the broader prob
lem raised by Mrs. Humiston. Her charges
amount to the assertion that gangs organ
lied on large scale are preying upon the
young girls of the city and that large
number of the disappearance passed over
without explanation represent violence and
murder. Commissioner Woods has ex-
dressed his wish to aid Mrs. Humston in
the examination of these charges. Ger
tainly her evidence deserves all respect
and protection. The citizens of New York
can be satisfied with nothing less than a
complete overturning and determination of
this whole tragic and terrible problem.
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"Kerb" and Curl"
Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Although DR.. Murray in the second
volume Of his monumental work, "The New
English Dictionary" page 1860, says under
curb Usually spelled kerb," it should be
borne in mind that this remark applies only
to usage in Great Britain. The form curb,
a contraction of curbstone, for stone set
on the outer edge of sidewalk to retain the
soil and prevent it's being pressed out OF
place by the weight of the paving stone or
that of the persons walking over it, is dis
tnctly American. The spelling is one which
we have preserved, but which the English
have corrupted. DR.. Skeat in his "Etymologi-
cal Dictionary" says clearly that kerbstone is
a hybrid, but as an enthusiastic simple speller
he defines it "a phonetic spelling of curb
stone"
In connection with this, it may be of in
terest to your readers to know that this
word owes its application to the protective
structure that served as a framework around
the top of we'll and into which the lid was
fitted This was also called "coaming," some
times spelled "combing.' The form "kerb"
for a retaining stone is of comparatively
modern usage, as, indeed, are the curbstones
themselves. FRANK ii. NlLElELLf.
New York, June l6, 1917.
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To Russia via Prison

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Permission to attend the SOCIALIST
convention at Stockholm, Sweden, was denied
TO Socialists in the United States. Is 1t no'
possible that Emma Goldman and her ssso-
ciates, knowing that, being anarchists, they
could not 90 to Russia otherwise, are deho'
erately trying to be deported so as TO resen
Russia?
They cannot do much harm here, but ID
Russia they would be as dangerous as spar"
in a powder magazine, and might cause
disturbance which would enable the Germans
to reinforce their Western line with troops
which could then be withdrawn from tnel'
Eastern line. Little things may have Jar
reaching effect to-day. and We have seen 'ne
power TO incite feeble intellects which some
Of these agitators WELD.
trust that the press will sound a warning
against thoughtless deportations Inc ohl!
deportation, | believe, which should oe ussD
against those who try TO strike at our eoun,
try from within is TO a warmer place Una"
Russia. and could best be carried out SONIC
sunrise by firing squad. o>,
MALCOLM ROSS MATBESoN'
Brooklyn, June H. 1917.
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Treating Anarchists Too Kindly

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | see that in New York court a
man said he was citizen of no coun-
try. Why then did not the judge tell him
that he had no protection under our law or
any law, and that he could be assaulted and
maltreated with impunity by any one stronger
than he. and that his appeals to the police
would be of no avail?
1t is because all of us are too kind hearted.
We let these anarchists 90 on in their own
sweet way, sowing seeds of fanaticism and
disloyalty everywhere, the harvest of which
we are too blind to take notice Of Goldman
and Berkman should be dealt with in truly
German style. Pay these beasts in their own
coin Do unto them, as David Harum said,
as they would do unto US, but do it first.
Like Prussianism, which seeks to dominate
rightly or wrongly, it should be taught les
son, and that teaching can only come through
the total elimination of all power to act.
Prussianism and anarchism "est delenda,'
like Carthage of old. LEWIS NICKERS0N.
Attleboro, Mass, Juno II, 1917.
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A Moratorium for Soldiers

| The question raised here regarding the
| liability of enlisted men fer payments on
leases and kindred civil contracts seems to
have been settled satisfactorily in Penn
sylvania. A law passed there two years
/ ago, and upheld in the state courts, eX-
empts men mustered into state or Federal
service from any civil process" 1t pro-
vides that no civil process shall issue or
be enforced against any person mustered
into the state or Federal service during
such time as he shall be under orders or
until thirty days thereafter, provided the
statutes of limitations shall be suspended
on all claims during that time. In other
words, service under the state or nation
/ is to act practically as declaration of a
moratorium affecting civil claims for the
period of the service and thirty days adj
ditional.
Enactment of some similar statute by
this state, or, still better, a national
statute of similar provisions, may easily
become necessary as a result Of the draft
and the taking over of National Guard
units into Federal service. For the heads
of families of moderate means, in cities
particularly, a lease is the regulation
thing. The man dependent on his earn
ings only for livelihood who enlists or is
taken for service under the draft can
scarcely hope to meet his rent payments
from his soldiers salary. Lacking some
variety of moratorium, he must face the
worry of prospective dispossess proceed
ings against his family. The man buying
small home on the instalment plan, or
by mortgage arrangement with build
ing and loan association, must face the
prospect of losing what he has paid in
and the home itself if he cannot keep up
payments, a practically impossible situa-
ton on the ordinary enlisted mans pay,
Not even a liberal allowance for de-
pendents, eked out with what the woman
Of the household could reasonably expect
to earn, could take care of such payments
in most cases.
This is problem state or Federal gov
eminent. or both, will have to face. Real
estate owners and those whose incomes are
derived from the investment of money in
mortgages cannot be expected to view the
prospect with any degree of pleasure.
However, the war is bound to bring many
drastic changes into the life of the land,
of which a moratorium for those who
follow the coors may well be among the
least
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The Cruger Case
What Are We Going To Do About
Girls Who Disappear

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Now that Ruth Cruger's body is FOUND
what are the people of New York going to
do about it? Are they going to sit quietly
in their homes. read the newspaper accounts
and then forget all about 1t; or are they
going TO show a sense OF righteous lndlgna-
ton at a Police Department which is so care
less that this mystery might never have been
solved were it not for the untiring efforts
of private individuals? Commissioner Woods
saws he is going TO make thorough investl-
cation. We are so used to thorough investi-
cations" that somehow or other such state
ment at this time does not seem very con-
vincng nor very encouraging.
Here is an opportunity for some OF our
wealthy men or women to come forward and
aid in one of the noblest kinds Of social SER
vice work Mrs. Humiston has proved her
ability in handling this case. Why cannot
fund be raised probably to be called the
Grace Humiston FUND.- to enable her TO con-
tinue her work of investigation? A person
like Mrs Humiston working with the honesty
OF purpose and integrity that she has shown
in the Cruger case, and free, as she is, from
political entanglements, could do wonder
full amount of fine work in helping to clean
up the foul spots Of our city.
Ruth Cruger is only one girl out of thou
sands that disappear annually from New York
City alone This probably is not generally
known, because only isolated cases find their
way to the papers. There is strong white
slave band in this city that could and should
be broken up if the police did their proper
duty. This seems the opportune time to start
crusade to break up this band Are the
citizens of New York going to insist that this
be done. and will they support this work
financially?
MARGUERITE A. SAL0MON.
Brooklyn, June Is, 1917.
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May 8, 1917.
| am so glad to have received your letter
and to now tell you how delighted we all are
over here that your great country mas Jolheu
France and ourselves in this big world strug-
gle for freedom. It has cheered US all IN
the big task we are carrying out, and we All
look forward TO seeing the Star-Spahsleu
Banner Did tell you that in my own reGi-
ment (the y commanded for four months
an American company? There were 20 OF
them-every one T. s. A. citizen, but call
ing themselves Canadians, English or any
thing else in order to enlist and fight. ana
we'll they have fought. | have seen some OF
these American lads during the last month
Some have won decorations, others nave
made the greatest sacrifice Of all. those
that remain are as proud as can De tha'
America is now taking part.
must not say just where am situated az
present, but it is close up TO the mucn al
yertised Hindenburg line. | wish you could
see the liberated country through which we
have been pushing back the German rear
guards. have been in village after village
where never a she'll has fallen and where no
fighting has taken place. Every house IN
them has been blown up, every scrap of fur
riture either carried away or burned after
being smashed and every single fruit tree
chopped down. In most cases even the ordi-
nary trees around cemeteries and by the road
side have shared the same fate, and | have
walked through many trampled gardens
where even each rose tree has been broken
off short near the roots. Every church |
have seen has been blown up. and at one place
that | was at week ago every decent look
ing grave had been rifed. Yet in these very
churchyards the Germans have always LETT
one beautifully kept part where their own
dead are buried. In many cases artinciai
wreaths, flowers and even tombstones nave
been taken from the French graves TO put
on those of the German soldiers.
They trust US to show the respect and
honor TO the dead that they themselves nave
never shown 10 others.
You have TO see all this TO believe it, for
really the sight of these once beautiful WI
lagos in this countryside all deliberately de
stroyed without any military necessity makes
one wonder if one is fighting meh or devils
After a years fighting against the Turk |
say without hesitation that with all his nat
ural fanaticism and cruelty to n-Moslems
he is a far cleaner fighter than the German
and less coldblooded. ] know that most OF
my men felt quite kindly tolerant toward
Johnny Turk" when not actually fighting
him. and when he was wounded or prisoner
they would give him their last drop of water
or cigarette After seeing those wrecked
homes, however much the size of their own
houses in England, they are beginning to
regard the Germans as beasts.
As look back over this letter 1t looks to
be almost the epstle of a war correspondent
You must excuse all the talk of war, for here
it is difficult to forget It,
In France We are not allowed to use a
camera, but when am in England will GER
tainly send you some Egyptian snapshots
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ITO be continued.)
The Flag Day Speech
Full of Purpose and a Timely
Warning to Prussia

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir No public act, no public statement, has
appeared in many, many months that has the
world significance Of Mr. Wilson's Flag Day
speech, with its warning against bogus
peace.
| believed and believe his message to Con-
gress. in which he judged the imperial des-
potism of Germany and rendered the wealth
and the men of America to the cause Of hu-
mainly. without obligation or advantage pos
sible, the loftiest state paper ever drawn and
become fact. The Presidents Flag Day
speech is different-different as the needs of
the hour differ. The Flag Day speech is full
of purpose, opinion, plan; it is even better
il is timely warning to Prussia that we UNI
derstsnd and that no counterfeit peace need
be rendered. Balfour-that fine old philoso-
pher and statesman--understood and at once
asked England to read that speech
The world at large little realizes how a
peace proposal might be framed seeming to
yield everything. yet gaining and holding fut-
ure potential supremacy, the very present
ing of which in itself would or might serious
ly embarrass America, and at least give the
Hohenzollern group new lease with their
people and some further strength with the
pacifsts.
Mr. Wilson knew this; he admits he knew
II, and We hope he has forestalled every eff
fort to hold or trade their booty, others chat
tells. for their own immunity.
There is one great reason and great an
swer which can forestall any consideration
of any peace tender at this time without
loss to US in refusing it. and that is-Amer-
lea will treat with no invader while he holds
territory he has invaded.
In other words. Mr.. Wilson. standing on his
lofty platform of his own building. simply re-
plies to Williams message: There can be
no discussions Of peace while you are in Bel
GUM or France" GUTZON BORGLUM.
New York, June is, 1917.
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The New French Pantheon

Amongst the phrases destined to survive
this war there is only one which promises
to rank in expressiveness and vitality with
GAS cruel as Boche' That is the phrase
GAS stupid as a German" Sooner or
later the typical, spectacular movement of
the Kaiser's Sacred Cow, the Great Cen
eral Staff, turns out to be blunder. The
invasion of Belgium brings England into
the war, and Zeppelin baby-kilers, mobil
lied to discourage her people, raise up
multitude of conquering soldiers. Inc
United States, fouted as negligible, is at
last drawn by the ruthless submarine
campaign into the circle of Germanys
foes, and the nervous blufings in her press
show how sorely she regrets it. lnsensate
devastation in Northern France, from the
killing of fruit trees to the swinish viola
ton of graves, all supposed to further the
process of bleeding a people white, serves
but to kindle new fire in the veins of an
avenging host. And now in its turn comes
the Germans due reward for that fine
flower of German stupidity, the persistent
demolition OF hnelnlS.
"The Germans without reason" runs
late dispatch from France, continued to
lombard the town of Rheims, on which
1000 shells were fired to-day" Had the
Boche gunners heard perhaps the news
from Paris, that the French government
has determined not to restore the cathe-
dral, but to hang up in its ruins the battle
flags of the Allies and to dedicate it for
ever as a pantheon for the unknown dead
of all the armies fighting in France!
Surely there could be no outcome of Ger
man stupidity so harmful to Germany as
/ this. and one could well understand how
( the Kaiser would now be only too glad to
blot out by complete destruction all evil
dence of his original mistake. For this
pantheon will hit his country hard when
peace comes.
The Kaiser must know, what the dullest
schoolboy could tell him, that the most
/ favorable peace is going to mean heavy
| burden for him and his people, that the
sooner French hatred dies down the better
| it will be for him and them, and that he
must think of German trade, TO say moth
| ing of German comfort, in thousand
phases. There win be monuments all over
France TO keep hatred alive, but consider
the overwhelming, worldwide significance
I Of this one, reared, as it were, by the
Kaiser himself The stupidity of 1t, the
/ illimtable, ineffably German stupidity of
lit! To have secured with his own hands
the creation Of the one everlasting re-
proach, the one undying appeal to the
| Imagination Of mankind against the Ger
man spirit!
81 will not call him King" said Joan
the Maid Of the Dauphin, until he shall
have been anointed and crowned at
Rheims On that talismanc point France
was with her, and TO this day Republican
/ France preserves in its soul a kindred
/ legendary emotion for the most renowned
Of all her fanes. Upon her Pantheon at
! Paris she has inscribed her tribute-"Aur
/ grdnds Hommes Ia Pdtrie reconn1isdnte'
and before its portals she has placed
Ie Penseur," an image Of thought. This
new pantheon she gives not TO her great
men, not to her men Of fame, but TO the
unknown dead who have saved her. and
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Where the Heart Is
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Please just few lines.
Mr.. Pfalzgraf seems TO be by name %"
heart German, and, besides that so0'
American. That's why he stands up lot i'e
land, India and Egypt and finds 1t neeesss'.
to remind our President not to forget 'ne''
countries at the final settlement.
Mr.. Pfalzgraf can rest assured those things
will not be forgotten, but please let Us -,
settle with the so-called fatherlsnd' "h'''
his good heart still hangs.
AN OLD READEh'
New York, June Is, 1917. =
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doubted that officials are often very $40"
to recognize the merits of new inventions
and that red tape often interferes with the
dispatch of business. But, with due allow
ance for these undoubted truths, 1t is clear
that our correspondent was too impatient
II often takes more than fortnight 10
decide on the merits Of an inventlon-even
a very simple" one-especally when nun
dreds of others are clamoring for trial at
the same time.
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end say: I'm time Of war prepare FOR
peace"
There are too many men in Congress
who have not yet learned to take govern
ment seriously. But they will learn. Ma
tionality, unity, efficiency-these are the
ideals of to-day. Why not begin to get
into the habit of thinking Of them also as
the ideals Of tomorrow?
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The Beast at Close Quarters
An Intimate View of the German s
Dirty Work
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: am incosing you herewith copy oil
a letter I have just received from promi-
nent officer in the active English service.
II is so full Of interest and narrates at
first hand occurrences that we over mere
have but vaguely CLEANED that believe the
publication of the letter in your important
journal NAV serve further to awaken Amer
leans who, among other things DOUBT tne
unspeakabe acts of barbarism OF our enemy.
As have not the written permission OF
my friend to publish this letter. still l am
convinced he would find no objection to help
ing the cause, especially if all names his and
mine, are eliminated. ~
New York. June Is, 1911
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In This State Only

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir; Please let me know through the col
umns OF your paper if the war census regis
tration is compulsory in every state or in
the State Of New York only.
ELSIE BURTON.
South Orange, y. j., June IS, 1917.
This is a New York State affair.-ED.
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SHERIFF'S SALE

GEORGIA-Ben Hill County.
Will be sold on first Tuesday in
May next before the courthouse door
said county, within legal hours of
sale, to highest bidder for cash. the
following property.
One-live passenger Overland auto
mobile No 1908.
Said property levied upon as the
property of ]. M. Lee to satisfy exc
cutlon issued from Ben Hill Superior
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Bank, of Atlanta, Ga, against ]. M.
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in possession of Wesley Akridge.
This April g. 1917.
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1T Sheriff.
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