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Provision for Mental Detectives

The annual report Of the State Board Of
Charities calls attention once more to the
scandalous insufficiency of the hospitals
and asylums provided for the care of the
feebleminded. Whereas the state and city
institutions are incapable of accommodate
ing more than five thousand or 50, the
number of mental detectives in the state
is estimated at about 10000. In reality
this is very moderate estimate, and 1t
may be presumed that in the opinion of
the board the 10000 ought all be under
institutional care.
One recommendation is that the compile
ton of the Letchworth Village be FASTENED.
At present it is unable to take in more
than 300 persons, while it ought to care
for at least 5000. The cost of enlarging
it will amount to about $2,000,000 but a
much larger sum will be required if the
urgent needs of the state are to be met at
all adequately The board estimates the
necessary outlay at not less than $l2.500,
600 and suggests IAN annual appropriation
of $2,500,000 until the state has increased
its asylum capacity sufficiently for the
custodiaI care of the mentally defective
who require segregation
Another useful suggestion is to extend
facilities for clinical examination in such
sort as to relieve the reformatores and
penal institutions at present burdened with
detectives who ought to be dealt with in a
more intelligent way. What we undoubt-
eddy need is the establishment Of such
clearing houses as that which was estab-
lished here about four years ago at the
suggestion of the Charities Commissioner
where doubtful cases could be examined
and distributed according to their indi-
vidual needs. Obviously, however, we must
first of all provide institutions for the care
of those who ought to be segregated, and
this should be done without delay.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
For What Does the President Stand!

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The cry TO stand by the President Is
naturally popular one, made to appeal TO
the patriotism of the citizen. But must not
the President stand for the honor, the dig
nifty and the ideals of the nation TO be worthy
of asking the citizens to stand by him? The
same cry could have been MADE in President
Ruchanan's time when he was prostltutlng his
great Office by shipping guns into the South
The same Of Johnson when he was tried and
very nearly impeached.
Should we sanction the actions Of Presi-
dent under the guidance Of the peace loving
Bryan who shipped guns to Villa in Mexico
TO murder our own citizens with. President
who finally surrendered to Mexico, President
who qualities every positive statement he
makes with two negative statements, Presi-
dent who surrendered TO Samuel Gompers
now talking about fighting the Kaiser
Isn't it time for the press in general and
Americans who believe America is worth
saving to cease being blinded by this cry OF
STAND by the President? No man honors
the Office of President of the United States
more than l. Let the President prove to
Americans by actions that he is worthy OF
the traditions and ideals of the country be-
fore they place such great confidence in his
courage, character and ability.
HENRY ". GLEN.
Cortland. y. Y, Feb. p, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Lithuanians Are Loyal to America

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Lithuanian Leader Dr. John Sziapas
OF Scranton, Penn, president Of the Lithus-
nian independence Fund, before mass meet
ing OF Lithuanian speaking peoples assembled
in the Lithuanian National Hall last night
read this resolution:
I've Lithuanians stand behind Presiden,
Wilson, and our duty is 10 be first good
Americans in the present international stua-
tion. We stand behind the President and
are ready TO give our lives in defence of the
rights and noble principles of our adopted
country and IN the interests Of humanity.
1--WE Lithuanians Of the United States have
foresuorn allegiance to the unjust and tyran-
zeal government Of Russia and have proudly
received the boon OF citizenship of this great
Republic MICHAEL STAKENAS.
Brooklyn, March ], 1917.
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Spurious Alsaians

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The wave Of patriotism WHICH "a
February 3. has swept German re''denH !.
this city to naturalization Offices rs SIM.
in its intent to the activities Of certain y.
mans TO represent themselves As A's'.,,
Unfortunately for these pseudo A''ss.
there is a certain dialect spoken ~ ~
with which the Germans are unfsmilS' 4,
which is one Of the few things 'nS'
Prussian conquerors OF 1870 have no' "
able to seize or eonhscate.
"The Friends Of Alsace- Lorraine -.
ISOLATION organized and fathered
French Institute OF Arts in the United -. 4,
has deemed il advisable, in the presen', ,.,
cumstances. 10 impose a test on al * .s
tians. That test consists IN eonNe's,
in Alsatian dialect with the person eA"'s,
Alsatian nationality. IL has proved q.
the surest and most effective way % ~,
masking those who in fear Of eone, "A
ton camp assume nationality whien
theirs. JONAo Lif 80
Vice President Of "The Friends OF As''
Lorraine
New York, Feb. 2s. 1917.
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"NO CONSUMPTION" IN 1863
The Present Patriotic Protest Against
Serving the Country Not the First
70 tho Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir. A recent letter in your paper by Cen
oral WinCa.e reveals the fact that among
other mushroom organizations there has
come to life mo Conscription League.
Perhaps We shall hear no more Of It, but |
commend to the consideration Of its mem
bers, by way Of warning, the brief history
of an ant-con scription league very informal
" organized in New York in July, 1868.
The league emphasized its disapprovai OF
conscription b. burning down the Negro Or
rhan Asylum at Fifth Avenue and Forty-sec-
ond Street incidentally and to further point
tho dsapproyal Of tho league they hanged
number of colored men to the then preva
lent form Of lamppost, which lent itself
conveniently 10 that form OF protest. 1t
burned down two or three buildings in which
we're recruiting Offices. II paid visit to the
armory at the corner of Seventh Avenue and
saith Street the ianitor of which secured an
adjournment of the meeting by touching on
cannon which stood at the corner whereby
some thirty or forty members OF the league
were permanently incapacitated for iurther
activity. and some Of them so much reduceu
that there was nothing for the coroner to sit
upon.
It's final wnd-up was on the following sun
day morning. when troops from the regular
army marched up Broadway from the Bat
terry. The procedure of the army was simple
and effective. Wherever they found meet
ing Of the anti-conscriptOn league on one
Of the side streets they wheeled company
facing down the street east or west ana
shot with accuracy and elaboration until all
the members OF the league who we're capable
Of doing so had vanished.
This discouraged the league. and there IS
no record of any formal dsbanding quite
a delegation met involuntarily in Roosevelt
Uospital but it is not recorded that they
passed any resolutions. have no knowledge
Of any further activity Of the league from
1Seg 70 date CHARLES +. MANIERRE.
New York. Feb. IS 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
FINE BUT TIMID LANGUAGE
Difficulty of Standing Behind a President
Who Always Steps Backward

To the Editor of The tribune.
Sir: The late procurement of the Presi-
dent before Congress is the most wishy-wasny
statement conceivable. In spite OF its hne
language. what does it amount TO! he TIM
idlv asks permission to do what ne had
nerfect right 10 do, and ought to have done
an the day he broke off relations with Ger
many. namely, arm our merchantmen, in
stead of waiting nearly four weeks TO make
up his mind.
Then he accuses the ship owners of timld-
itv when it was obviously his duty to protect
them By furnishing arms or a convoy.
Finally, though he has not the courage 10
do anything that might irritate the Germans
he wishes to get rid of Congress and get
them to give him permission TO carry on
half war all By himself, suppose the kind
of war ne has been carrying on IN Mexico
for four years a now-you-see-it-and-n ow-you-
don't kind OF war.
We are asked to stand behind the Presi-
dent, and the whole country would be only
too glad TO, if only he would not step back
ward on to our toes.
Mr.. Wilson seems horribly afraid of his
own brave words when he has uttered them
and has TO get Bryan, in the first place and
now Daniels. to say he did not mean them
or else he writes another note, weaker than
the first. that takes all the vigor out of it.
Mr.. Wilson started out as the champion oil
humanity and the rights Of neutrsls. He has
thrown overheard both. He has even given
up American rights and suffers the lives oil
women and children to go unnoriced, so long
as he can keep us out war. oh, for man IN
the White House!
Suppose Police Commissioner Woods should
announce that a band of gunner had broken
loose in New York, and were shooting people
right and left, and so AS not TO irritate them
and prevent bloodshed he had shut the police
up in their station houses and requested cit-
zens to stay in their houses and not venture
on the streets, as he could not protect them
without bringing on a state of war. How
long would he remain Police Commissioner?
ELMER W. L0NGFELLOW.
New York, Feb %, 1871
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makes the mere existence of many Ameri-
cans a nightmare now?
We are going TO war with Germany be-
cause sooner or later we shall be unable
to escape war with a nation whose inter
national policy is that Of the man-eating
tiger. Will not the American people per-
ceive, will not the President now directly
lead them to the perception Of the fact
that peace is impossible, and always has
been impossible, since Germany adopted
the policy of assassination and accepted
the doctrine that there was no right but
German right and that the German army
was its prophet?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Qui Vive
Qui viyc? Who passes BY up there?
Who moves what strs in the startled air?
What Whispers thrills, cXults up there?

Qui vive? Who passes By up there?
Who moves what strs in the startled arr!
What whispers, thrills, cxults up there?
Qui viye?
"The Flags Of France"
What wind on windlcss night is this,
That breathes as light as n lovers kiss,
That blows through the night with buglc
notes,
That streams like a pennant from a lance,
hat rustlcs, that floats?
"The Flags Of France"
What richly moves. what lightly stirs,
Like noble lady in dance,
When all mems eyes arc il love with hers
And needs must follow?
"The Flags Of France"
What calls to the hcart-and the heart has
heard,
Speaks. and the soul has obeyed the word
Summons, and all the years advance,
And the world goes forward with France
Gith France?
Who called?
"Thc Flag Of France"
what hies-s glory, through the night,
While the lcgIons stream line Of light,
And men fall 30 the left and fall to the
right.
But they fall not?
"The Flags OF France"
Qui yiyc? Who comes? What approaches
thcrol
What soundless tumut, what breath in the
air
Takes the breath in the throat the blood
from the heart?
In a fame Of dark. 10 the unhcard beat
OF heshless feet and an unseen drum.
without CLINT Of barrel or bayonets glance,
They approach they come Who comes
Hush HarkD
Qui vive7
"The Flags Of France
Uncover the head and knecl-kneel down,
a monarch passes. without n crown,
Let the proud Gears fall but the heart beat
high:
The Greatest OF All is passing by,
On it's endless march in the endless Plan:
"Qu vive7"
The Spirit Of Man"
90 Spirit 81 Man. pass onl Advance"
And they who lead. who hold the van?
Knee down
The Flags OF France
GRACE ELLERY CLAIMING.
parf. 1911
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The Treason of Two American Women

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The waters surrounding the British
Isles are great battlefield. The navics of
England and of Germany are every day
sinking every enemy boat they can reach IN
the effort 10 starve each other-a method
started by England as her idea Of "clviized
modern warfare The danger of sailing IN
these troubled waters is so great that the
English managers OF the so-called American
Line will not risk the loss of their property
by venturing from the safe seclusion of our
ports.
Yet in the face of these well known facts
and warnings Mrs. Hoy ard her daughter
chose this time to leave the security OF their
home in Chicago TO defy the conflict where
lighting was thickest, that they might reach
their beloved England. Naturally they per-
ished in the attempt.
Their yielding TO caprice or lucre was not
patriotic, il was n tratoTous act. whose only
result would be 10 njure the United States
by pushing US one step nearer the abyss in
which Europe is engulfed
Neither our rights nor our honor made 1t
necessary for these foolish women to act so
rashly TO our nations hurt. This senseless
braggadocio threatens to emhroil our beloved
country in war with n nation with which we
are Mt peace. II this he not treason on the
part Of these women, what is ~
T. NJ. WILLIAMS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
The Views of One American

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: One can easily sympathize with the
editors Of the New York daily newspapers IN
their grief and indignation over the failure
OF the President to take some definite ac-
ton that will plunge US at once into the war.
What il he waiting for? Doesn't he realize
that IL our munition makers are unable TO
ship their products abroad it means n serious
loss in profits TO them? Besides. the news
papers are pledged (for n consideration TO
do all they can To promote this fight. and
they intend TO see it pulled of Mt all haz-
ards =. A. HOWARD.
New York. Feb. os, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Time to Declare War"

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial to-day, Time to Dc
clare War;" is an in suit TO our Admnistra-
ton.
You say: "It faces an overt act 1t can
hardly explain" BY what right ask you
do you dare so to beittlc the Administra-
ton? What has it left undone to encourage
you to make such misrepresentation such
msstatements?
DO YOU never read the NOTES? Do you
never study ULTIMATUMS?
The Laconia is like case to the Lusitana
the Arabia the Suffolk, the Fry, the Law
Oh, why waste ink?
Has the Administration ever fsltered OF
hesitated in explaining these? I. {. {.
New York, Feb. %, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
A Modern Sir Thomas More

UrODi Inc Times LOidohl
It is to the spacious days of the early
Tudors that the mind naturally reverts III
dwelling on the personality Of the late Duke
Of Norfolk. But the character which rises
to the Imagination as suggesting a spiritual
prototype is rot that of one Of his own an
cestors, but that Of Sir Thomas More. Al
though he did not possess the profound learn
ing and literary gifts OF the author Of the
utopia" and would himself indeed have
smiled at the comparison, he had in reality
many characteristics in common with Henry
WIS Chancellor. There was in them both
a peculiar combination Of qualities not very
often found together. They both combined
the capacity for intense loyalty TO causes and
to individuals with great personal ndepen-
dence; they were both courageous and yet
cautious in public affairs; both were Of an
open temper and yet had marked gifts Of
diplomacy; they both frankly acknowledged
the facts OF life and the weaknesses of human
nature, and yet preserved an Undmmed sense
OF the ideal: they both combined an ardent
seriousness with boyish galety and humor
that nothing could qucnch. There IS a strong
likeness even in the quality of their most
trivial tests which seems TO make quaint
echo through the centuries. Like More, too
the duke combined an eager and active inter
est in public affairs with the most marked
taste for domestic life. Both revelled in tie
humors end tender cayety Of home circle.
Both. while stern with themselves, were in
clincd to think that life should be made easy
20 others. Both had passionate love o.
their country and profound loyalty TO their
sovereign None could be found more typl-
cally English, none ever loved their country
better. none were ever more devoted TO tho
Sec Of Rome than were Thomas More and
Henry Fitzalan Howard.
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VI
Peace Federation, 70 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
Dear Madam:
Three letters come to me in the mail this
morning signed with your name as secretary
of the Emergency Peace Federation. You
urge me to send contributions to the FEEDER
alton and you say:
"Organize meetings, small or large. Get
peace speakers before every possible audience.
Write to your newspapers and induce others
TO do So But most important Of all, keep
the letters and kilograms flowing in steady
stream to the President and Congress for
the next ten days. If you have access to a
number of people who would be interested
wire US at once and we will send you postal
cards containing printed instructions so that
you need only supply the addresses
These and other suggestions made in your
letter to the effect that | help to tie the
hands of the President of the United States
in a critical time and to deprive him of the
power to protect the lives of American men,
women and children seem 10 me to be wholly
unworthy any American citizen claiming title
TO the heritage of our forefathers Funda-
mentally YOU and your associates are anarch-
lists. If the use of force to protect the lives
and personal rights of citizens is wrong
then all government is wrong and ought to
be abolished. I can understand the pro-
fessed anarchist view and can even respect
it. But the position that you and your asso-
cates seem to hold can be understood only
if construed as cowardice or duplicity. In
any event it does not seem to me to be en-
titled to respect. ! may respond to your
plea to send kilograms TO Washington; but
if so, they will bear far different message
from that you counsel me TO send.
EDWARD J. WHEELER.
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To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | enclose letter just written TO the
secretary of the Emergency Peace Fedora
ton. in reference to an appeal, which also
enclose. IL you care to publish this letter
1t is at your service.
EDWARD J. WHEELER.
New York, Feb. %, 1917
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A Question Of Gender

To the Editor of The Tribune. -
Sir: Is our government neutral OF ns~
New York. Feb. ea IsiL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
The Pacifst Appeal

We do not desire any hostile conflict "lth the
Imperial German Government we are 'he s','ee'e
friend, of the German people and earnestly desire
TO remain at peace with the Government which
speaks for them"
Woodrow Wilson. Addressed to Congress. tebru-
airy 3. 1917.
EMERGENCY PEACE FEDERATION
Object: To Keep America from war and
Its Attendant Consequences.
Room 90l, 70 Fifth Avenue. New YORK
Feb q, 1917.
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Dear Friend:
Americas destiny rests IN the hands OF
the folks back home whether We are
plunged into a senseless war or whether we
Keen our heads and act with sane delibera-
ton depends upon what we say to Congress
and the President.
81 would rather know what the people are
thinking out here around their quiet fire
sides" said President Wilson on his historic
Western tour. than TO know what is going
on in the cloakrooms Of the Capitol
Every hour. especially during the next ten
DAYS. is fraught with the most imminent
danger. Only the folks on the farms the
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Mr.. Whceler's Reply

Miss Leila Faye Secor, Secretary, Emergency
Peace Federation, 70 Fifth Avenue. New
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coast Of the Channel are beginning to have
American annexes TO their cemeteries.
Hundreds of Americans are in enforced
exile in Europe, abandoned by their gov
eminent and forsaken by their country
men. Our ships hide in our own ports;
Americans abroad are the objects Of pity,
charity, contempt, as the case may be;
those who 90 down TO the sea in ships 60
under the shadow of the assassin and with
out even the sustaining thought that a
government will honor what it did not
protect.
We are going to war with Germany be-
cause il is not possible to live in the world
with nation protesting and practising
German ideals and not fight. To-day, as
on all days since the morning of the Lusi-
tania, the mass of his fellow countrymen
would follow Mr.. Wilson if he would only
trust them and believe in them enough TO
act, if he would only lead instead Of
cropping, not after the light, but after that
national sentiment which always responds
to brave appeal and never TO timid search.
For thirty-one months we have been
neutral in the struggle between civiliza-
ton and barbarism between humanity
and brutality. We have pretended that the
slaughter Of our fellow countrymen was
accidental, that the massacre Of women
and children, not few American, was
unintentional we have taken counsel with
our fears until sef-defence has come TO
seem unwarranted provocation and voy-
aging under the American colors at sea
reckless challenge 10 another nation. And
what have We escaped? Have We even
avoided that sense Of humiliation which
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-04-15
.SSl,erne .Spdlacit.

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eingefunoen ibren geliebten Gbef Die
belten @liidpiinlme 3u ii6crbringen
6orlnter oub Der 9uartiermeilter
ser Gonlpognie, Serr George Silling,
Der am ieIben Gage ouf einen 21-jdb-
riqen fr0bli6en Gbefrieg 5uriid-
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flong.