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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-22
Undervalued Librarians
Pay Them as Much as Stenographers
and Floorwalkers
TO the Editor of The Tribune.

o the Editor OF ne lGlDune.
Sir: As a steady client of the New York
Public Library for the last twenty-three years
I take. quite naturally, lively interest in
every movement tending toward the better
ment of the service of the great public insti-
tuition which on its present site, has become
enc of the civic centres of our metropolis. |
wish, therefore, to ndorse with all the
emphasis | am able to command, the elo-
quent appeal, based on rrefutable facts, by
Miss Mary Frank, in behalf of very sub
stantal increase in the wage scale OF the
employees of the Peoples Universities Litera-
rum on Forty-second Street.
Whenever | see those learned, studious and
Jealous men and women at their work, ever
leady to aid the hundreds of embarrassed
readers in their search of information and
inspiration, and then think of their ridicu-
lousy, yea, outrageously small remuneration,
| cannot help blushing.
Mayor Mitchell and his Board of Estimate
are no professional scholars, but they are
learned, intelligent, practical professional and
business men. They will, therefore, after
taking the matter into due consideration, GER
tainly agree with my ranging of public
Libraries of the size and Importance of the
New York Public Library among our univer-
sity institutions and, as the peoples uni
treated by our municipalities with at least
the same loving care as the members of the
university faculties are treated by their
boards of trustees.
There are IN our city few self-respecting
business men of even average size who would
dare offer to their typewriting girls and other
clerks very few OF them have ever seen the
inside of a high school-salares which our
Board of Estimate unblushingly pays to col
lege graduated librarians. | am sure the
head foOrwalker at Mays or Altmans gets
a salary equal to that of four to five chiefs Of
departments of the New York Public Library,
learned men and women who are watching and
classifying and handing over the counters, not
women's knickknack and inery, but the treas
ures of human knowledge.
The financial and aristocratic centre of the
United States is rich enough and ought to be
sufficiently undetermined and generous to pay
living salaries to the peoples efficient teach
ers and faithful servants.
ISIDOR SINGER
New York Sept Il, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-22
Not Downhearted
,ditor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: THE Oklahoma Farmer" issues A
broadside telling how "The Nation Called
and Oklahoma Responded" The following
were the statistics:
Last years crop of wheat, corn and oats,
nnety-eight million bushels; value SSSOOO,-
600. This years crop, ninety-sx million
bushels; value, sl44,OOOOOO.
Two million bushels less, but $4,000 900
more for the Oklahoma farmers.
"Are we downhearted?" asks the editor.
ave are NOT the editor replies.
II this is the way everybody else is going
to respond to the nations call, God help the
nation MOHAWK
New York, Sept 10, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-22
tised by the prince and by the petty as

tised by the prince ana NY '"e Pe''1 90
sassin.
Has the time come when the American
people will see the problem of the world
as il is? Is the time approaching when
they will cease to talk about peace and
recognize that the problem of the hour is
TO maintain war against the wlckedest
and the meanest assault mankind has ever
known? There is nothing German in this
world of to-day that does not on analy-
sis reveal the same component parts. The
condition of being German is the condi-
ton of sharing in German crimes, will
ingly and readily. How can ono live with
people dedicated to such doctrines as the
German people have dedicated themselves
to? How can one do anything but fight
and continue to fight a nation which,
when it has the power murders, massa-
cres, destroys in the open sunlight without
shame, and when it lacks the power seeks
by every insidious method to attain its
end, the ruin of the country which wei
comes it's ministers and its citizens, offer
ing them friendship and asylum?
Argentina knows what the German
means now. You can't deceive any cti-
zen of Buenos Ayres about what the
German is in the world since a German
Minister recommended that Argentine cit
liens be murdered and Argentine ships be
sunk without trace" The world is
finding the German out. The Bernstorff
incident is minor detail. The thinner
mann proposal to divide our territory be-
tween Mexico and Japan is an incidental
detail. The Lusitania is only symptom.
Louvain is only a symptom. All these
things are but minor symptoms of one
disease, which is Germanism. They are
manifestations of the one peril, which
must be fought to the end.
Before this war is over there will be
few American citizens who do not know
the German animal as he is. Their sons,
their husbands and their brothers on the
Western front in France will by their OBJ
servations and by their sufferings supply
the same testimony for the United States
that the Canadian troops have supplied
for Canada and the Anzacs for Australia.
We shall see what the German is by what
he does. They have found these things
out in Europe. We are finding them out
in the United States. When we have
learned there will be a great silence
among those still murmuring about peace
with reconciliation and without victory.
Meantime let us be grateful for what
we have escaped, grateful for what the
world has escaped, and resolved that there
shall be no peace or compromise with this
German disease. One will not hate Ger
mans, as one does not hate typhoid. One
will not think with passion of German,
as one does not think with passion of a
man-eating tiger. But as anger and pas
sion are out of place, so also are all
thoughts Of peace and reconciliation.
Either Germanism must die or civiliza-
ton must die, and it is better to die fight
ing the German in the trench than to live
in the world where German knife and
German poison are an ever present dan
ger for those whose rights and whose
liberties interfere with the supremacy of
Germany in the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-22
Our Friend" Bernstorf

he would be very dull American VINO
found reason for surprise in Mr.. Lam
sings disclosure Of yesterday. The notion
that Count Won Bernstorff was primarily
and only incidentally a representative of
his government and his nation at Wash
ington is pretty we'll established in the
American mind already. Most everybody
Of ordinary intelligence knew what Bern
storff was doing two years before he was
sent home. 1t is interesting to know that
Mr.. Lansing has now discovered what
everybody in Washington knew years ago.
Yet it is useful to have this Bernstorf
message made public, because it serves to
call attention once more to the German
idea and the German spirit as it has
worked out in the last few decades. The
business of a German diplomat, his chief
occupation, is to intrigue against the gov
eminent which receives him in the inter
est of the country which sends him. He
hires assassins, he hires pickpockets, he
hires agents provocateurS, he mobilizes
the underworld to attack public officials
of the government to which he is accred-
tied. This is the German diplomat.
As for German diplomacy, as The Trib-
une said the other day, it is used as the
facade for murder. 1t seeks to persuade
peoples whose rights Germany means to
invade, whose citizens Germany means to
kill, that it is their moral duty to submit
to these things, as it is Germany's inner
ent right to do them. But because there
is a suspicion in the German mind that
Stupid" governments will not submit to
these things German diplomacy seeks to
sandbag these governments.
What on earth is the use of talking Of
peace, reconciliation, anything but war
with a nation which holds to such ideas
as these? For quarter of a century
German ambassadors and ministers all
over the world have been intriguing and
plotting, corrupting and debauching, for
the sole purpose of permitting Germany
to commit crimes in the world and escape
the punishment thereof. German diplo-
macy has borrowed the methods of the
Malta and covered them with the uniform
of diplomacy. 1t has stolen the historic
procedure of the highwayman and sought
to transform it by decorations bestowed
by the Kaiser himself.
Was there ever anything in the world
more grotesque and more atrocious than
this whole German thing, this disease of
Germanism, manifested by symptoms now
familiar to the world? Those who stand in
the German way and are within the reach
of German power are massacred. The
countries which are beyond the reach of
German arms are assailed by intrigue
Newspapers are bought, public men are
hired, fools are enlisted, knaves are pur-
chased-all that Germany may steal
something that is not hers, that by dig
ging in the sewers she may attain her
"place in the SUM-"
There is a oneness about all these Ger
man phenomena. The shambles of Lou
vain, the murdered children and the vio-
lated women of Belgium and Northern
France are no more characteristic evil
dences of Germanism than the almost
equally despicable offences of Bernstorff
at Washington and Bulow at Rome The
same slime attaches TO Germanism prac-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-22
The American View

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Please add my warmest approval OF
the able answer of d. VI. Hermalin to ]. l.
Magnes as published in The Tribune OF
September 49, Mr.. Hermalin fully repre-
sents the American viewpoint, heart and
soul. DR.. Magnes does not.
s. S. RUSKAY.
New York, Sept. 19, 1917.
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A Word for German Music

New York, Sept. 90, 1917.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-23
EPISCOPAL PUBLICITY
Pref N a. Crawford of X. S. A. O.
HeaCs Diocese Department.

The Episcopal diocese of Kansas has
a committee on publicity. at whose
head is Nelson A. Crawford of the de-
partment of journalism at K s. A. c.
The work Of the committee is the eff
fective and proper dissemination of
church and religious news turnout the
diocese, and the presenting of the
same to the general public. A report
has been made by this committee to
the diocesan conveption now sitting
in Topeka. The report is in the form
of a five page printed pamphlet.
1t recommends the appointing in
each parish of a publicity agent.
whose duty it shall be to gather and
prepare for publication all news of the
parish, proper for publication. This
pamphlet sets forth the qualifica-
tons necessary for the publicity
agent, and also gives most explicit
instructions as to the kind of items
the papers will accept, how to prepare
the items for publication, and when
the copy should be delivered or
sent in.
This pamphlet is said to be unique
in the history of church publicity.
The other members of the public
ity committee are the Venerable
Creighton Spencer Mounsey. arch
deacon of the diocese. Topeka, and E.
E, Murphy, Leavenworth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-23
FINISH HIGH SCHOOL
Oakland District to Petition to Com
pletc Structure.

A meeting of the voters of the
Oakland school district was held
Tuesday evening. The meeting was
for the purpose of receiving and act
ing upon the report of the building
committee appointed at the last meet
ing. As soon as possible a petition
will be circulated among the voters of
the district. asking that a special cleo
ton be called to vote bonds for the
amount required to complete the high
school building.
When the structure was first built
only half of the building originally
planned was erected. 1t is now plan
ned to erect the other half which will
provide twice the number of class
rooms now in use and an auditorium
which will seat about 400 persons
Oakland has no building large enough
to use as a general auditorium and by
the completion of this school a much
needed improvement will be given the
city.
The investigation committee found
the school very crowded. The halls
and cloak rooms are being used as
class rooms and the teachers rest
room is used as recitation room.
About 500 pupils are enrolled in both
the high school ana the grades.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-23
LOOK over SITES.
h. and L. of S. Men Visit Five
Topeka Offerings.
Location of Home May Be De-
cided This Week.

Prospects that Topeka will land the
100000 Knights ano Ladies of Sc
curity home grew brighter today
when three officials of the order, all
Topeka men, were appointed to look
over the sites offered for the home
here. The lodge committee is COM
prised of j. NJ. Kirk patrick, national
president; J. d. Abrahams, national
secretary and w. A. Billy, national
treasurer.
Accompanied by a committee from
the Chamber of Commerce, the lodge
committee today made a personal sur
vey of all five sites which the Cham
Der of Commerce has offered to pre-
sent to the lodge for the home in To-
peka. The sites are of 800 acres each.
In addition to the sites the Chamber
of Commerce has secured options on
zoe acres of land adjoining each site.
In event the lodge locates the home
on a site offered by the Chamber of
Commerce, it will purchase the zoo
additional acres under option.
The Chamber of Commerce COM
mittee taking the X. & L. of S. men to
look over the sites was headed by S.
E. Cobb is chairman. He is being as
sisted by Stanley Medlicott, c. b. Mer-
riam and E. H. Crosby.
Executive officers of the knights
and Ladies of Security announced to-
day that the location of the home
would probably be announced the lat
ter part of this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-23
TO BEGIN WORK SOON
Construction on 100000 Santa Fe
File Building in Six Weeks.

The contract for construction of a
three-story fireproof files and storage
building here by the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railway, the erection
of which was announced several
weeks ago in the State Journal, will
be let in about ten days, Fred c. Fox.
general manager of the company, said
today. The structure will be located
in the shops district on East Fourth
street opposite the Railroad Y. NJ. c.
A. The front will be on Fourth street
facing the Christian association build
ing.
The building will cost 100000. The
front half of the basement and first
floor will be used for storage of I'M
claimed freight The rear of the
basement and first floor will be &C.
cupied by a supply of stationery. Of
flee and shops records will be kept on
the second and third floors. The
building will be 100 by 200 feet.
Construction Of the building, which
will be of concrete, will begin in two
or three weeks after the contract is let.
1t will take that long for contractors
to get sufficient material on the
ground to start work. The site to be
occupied is now lumber yard.
Erection of the building was planned
last winter In conjunction with the
building of a new ten-story office
building duplicating the present mod
ern office building of the Santa Fe on
Jackson street The new office struc-
ture will duplicate the south building
and will stand on the site of the brick
building which is to be torn down.
Construction work on the Jackson
this spring. Erection was postpone1
until next spring, however, because OF
the fact that material could not be
obtained in time for immediate work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-23
COURT SETTLES ROW
Guthrie Knisely Front Porch Affair
Ends Without Costs.

Cyrus Guthrie, real estate dealer,
was acquitted of the charge of an as
sault upon f. j. Knisely. in police
court Monday afternoon and was so
pleased over it that he wanted war
rant for Knisely charging an "unpro-
yoked attack but Maurice Locke,
police Judge, talked him out of it.
The big row which landed both men
in police court started over window
screens. Mrs. Wright is a tenant in
one of the Guthrie houses at 424 Mad
ison street-or was. Guthrie's agent
was unable to collect the rent so the
landlord raised his umbrella and
trudged down to see about it.
I'll not pay the rent until you fix
these screens" said Mrs. Wright, ac-
cordirg to the testimony.
Then you'll move" said Guthrie.
Just then Knisely, a boarder. took
a hand. In the quarrel that ensued
Guthrie landed twice on Knisely' :
head with his umbrella. the testimony
showed. Knisely entered the house
for artillery, but when he returned to
the front porch Guthrie was out of
range Knisely obtained warrant
and case was tried without dana ge to
either.
Mrs Wright moved, it is said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-23
ARMY APPETITE HUGE
Officer Rockies Add Pie and Fixinss
and Pay rs Cents Extra.

Fort Sheridan, Ill, May 23.-The big
question before the officers training
camp today was-pie.
appropriation of So then rs cents a
day for each man. for the main
tenance of its five thousand students
at Fort Sheridan. Mess officers wish
ed an improvement in the food and
did their planning on the basis of 81
a day This left a deficit of 25 cents
a day, to be paid by each man. But
it's means pie and maybe "fixins.''
Most of the men are counting on
$1Oe a month salary from the govern
ment and would make good the daily
deficit from this. If the bill contain
ing this salary provision fails to pass,
goodbye pie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-23
GUST PACIFIST PARTY
Hotel Proprietor Makes a Discovery
and Lochner Makes Exit.

New York, May 23-Manager John
G. Rivers of the Holland house, Fifth
avenue, can't see Louis P. Lochner and
his staff of pacifists, either with his
glasses or without them.
He proved that today when, getting
his pincs- nez back from the oculist
after a two weeks absence, he noticed
that Locaner was advertising a ma
tional pacifist's convention at the ho-
tel and remarked:
Not if l know it" Then he or
dered the Lochnerites out. They hur-
riedly improvised headquarters in an
office BUILDING and are busy today ad-
vising delegates all over the country
by wire of the change in location.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-23
SUSPECT is A SUICIDE
German Found Dead in Row Boat in
Lake Pontchartrain.

New Orleans. La, May 23-The
body of a man who committed suicide
by poisoning. found drifting in a row
boat on Lake Pontchartrain Sunday
was identified today as that of Fred
erick Schroeder, 50 years old. a native
of Cresfield, Germany, and once United
States consular agent at Cologne.
Federal authorities said he had been
under investigation suspected of pro-
German activities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-23
NAUGHTY SNAKE THAT BIT
ACTRESS TO WEAR MUzzLE

Chicago. May 23.-Gertrude
Hoffman, classic dancer, was con-
sidering the advisability of muz-
zling her pet snake today.
While she was dancing last night
the reptile bit her on the left leg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-23
Mistaken Headache Remedy Fatal

Washington, May 23-Mrs. Mary
Louise Hull. 46, wife of Congressman
Harry Hull, of Iowa, is dead here to-
day as the result Of mistaking BIZ
chloride of mercury tablets for a head
ache remedy. She is said to have
taken twelve of the tablets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-23

The Talmud enumerates rue among the
kitchen herbs and regards it free of
1.-THE as being a plant not cultivated in
gardens. The name rue occurs only in Luke
xi, A..
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-10
TO SETTLE WITH NORWAY
Germany VIII Pay Damages for Loss
of Life on Norwegian Boats.

Christiania, Feb. 8, tyia London) -
II is announced that Germany has no.
tilted Norway of her intention to pay
damages for loss of life on Norweg-
ian boats torpedoed in the Arctic
Ocean and also for those killed when
two Norwegian boats were sunk in
the North Sea last fall. These cases
have been the subject Of prolonged
negotiations Germany supulates
that the payment is made without adj
mission of any violation OF interna-
tional law, but out of humane and
sympathetic consideration for the
hardships suffered by the families of
the dead sailors.
The long wrangle over the political
situation in Norway has been ended
by the decision Of the party control
ing Parliament that there shall be
no reconstruction OF the Cabinet.
The retirement OF certain Ministers
demanded by the leading newspapers
has been one of the principle bones
CT contention.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-10
TWICE PROVEN

II you suffer backache. sleepiess
nights. tired, duh days and distress
ing urinary disorders. don't expert.
ment. Read this twice-told testi.
mony. It's Bennington evidence
doubly proven.
Geo. Woodland. lip Union ST.. Ben.
nington. gave the following account
Of his experience on December 10,
1905: Il suffered from dull. heavy
pains just over my hips and morn.
ings my back was stiff and lame.
Sometimes ! could hardly stoop over
and the kidney secretIons caused me
much annoyance. particularly ct
night. | used several kidney medi.
cines without relief and finally took
Doan's Kidney Pills. They gave me
quick and effective relief"
On August %, 1916 Mr.. Woodland
said: Il still have the same high
opinion of Doans Kidneys Pills. They
have never failed TO give me good re-
suits when ! have had occasion to use
them"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy--get
Doan's Kidney pills the same that
Mr.. Woodard has twice publicly
recommended. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, n. Y
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-10
VATICAN MAKES PROTEST
German Blockade inrerieres Serious
iy with Church Affairs.

Milan. via Paris, Feb. THE rela-
tons of the Vatican with American
Catholic bishops are. according to The
Secolo, seriously affected and almost
prevented by the German blockade
notice, and protest has been made to
the nuncios at Munich and Vienna.
n Vatican circles II is said that
the Vienna government has replied
that liberty of communication will
remain assured for letters passing be-
tween the Pope and the cardinals and
also for the Vatican diplomatic pouch.
The Secolo says the Vatican considers
the blockade will be the cause OF ma
terial damage through interference
with the tribute OF Peter pence
which lately has fallen off in Europe
and was being generously supple
rnented by Catholics in the United
State5.