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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06
Get the Right Man!
ever new

After three years of backing and filling
the Legislature has finally passed a bill for
the creation Of mounted state police
force. The state is to be congratulated on
this action. The spur of a war crisis was
needed to bring it about, for bitter as OPP
position to this measure has been, it could
not stand against knowledge Of the worth
of the proposed force in releasing Ma
tional Guardsmen from police work for
military service. Yet it is not primarily
as war force, but as a body of peace
officers in the years to come, that the police
will be most useful to the state.
How valuable the new agency proves
must depend largely on the man who is
selected to be the head of the force. Gov
ernor Whitman in making the appointment
cannot do better than to follow the eX-
ample of Governor Pennypacker of Penn
sylvania. That cranky but astute official,
after a canvass of possibilities, asked John
c. Groome. a young Philadelphia business
man with military experience to take the
post. Major GroOme finally consented,
with the proviso that he have full author
ity and full responsibility and the demand
that the politicians be made to keep their
hands off absolutely.
To that he stuck, backed by Governor
Pennypacker, and he was right. Politics
and policing don't mix. 1t is particularly
necessary that Governor Whitman select a
man not politician and capable of telling
any politician to mind his own business,
because the provision for civil service ap-
pointment of policemen was cut out of the
bill. Thus, if the force is not to become a
haven for jobholders and political hacks,
the man who organizes it must have I'M
usually high qualifications-mos of all,
brains and a backbone.
Governor Whitman will have no more
important appointment than this to make
in the remainder of his term. The super
intendent must appoint and organize his
men; ne must choose their equipment, dis
trict the state for patrol duty, draw up the
department rules and regulations, instruct
the men in them and in points of law en-
forcement, and above all instil into them
a code of personal honor and corps spirit
such as Commissioner Woods has been 50
successful in developing in the New York
City policemen. As commander Of body
organized on a military basis the superin-
tendent Wi! have 90 be leader; he will
give the tone TO the whole organization.
This is no job for parlor soldier or a
politician. Only the best man to be found
will be good enough to make and keep his
men efficient, honest and impartial.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06
To Be Paid in Full

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: President Wilson in his address said:
I'VE seek no indcmnities for ourselves, no
material compensation for the sacrifices we
shall freely make"
On the contrary think we shall expect the
German government or its successors to meet
IN full with compound interest and penaliz-
ing additions the cost in blood and treasure
for all we have suffered TO date and OF this
war to which We have been forced.
Is it proposed that we shall incur debt
Of billions for our posterity? Is it proposed
that we shall suffer the indignities offered
by Kaiser and Junkcr and force no tribute >
Wherein is it selfish, as President Wilson
suggests in that line: "Just because we fight
without rancor and without selfish Object
1t is not selfish to compel justice, to exact
payment of our war bill from taxes levied on
a defeated Germany. Now is no time for us
to toss a indicated cake to Cerberus. When
are we to be through turning the other cheek
to the Attila who sends his soldiers forth as
Huns?
President Wilson needs to have his people
with him. To hold his people he must wage
war on just basis. When we defeated
Spain We took from her Cuba and the Philip
pines; we made her suffer made her feel de-
feat. Our allies of the Entente have sensi-
bly, declared their determination TO fight until
they win full reparation and full guarantees.
We do not want Germany's territory, nor do
we want to pay her debts. Let Germany
meet with cash the loss her folly has in
CURED. EDWARD B. LENT.
Freeport, y. Y, April 3, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06
Mouthings Of Disloyalty
So the Pacihst Talk of Universal
Brotherhood Appears to Critic

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Could anything more completely sho"
nm those people who call themselves pac'-
fists" than the acts of some OF them ana
Tho srceches of others these last few days
No not these things show conclusiyely just
whore they stand and just what they really
are? What can we think of party OF people
who call themselves "paclhsts' and say they
believe in universal brotherhood "heh one
of ,bcir number. upheld by the rest, calls
..hrothor" a coward and strikes him IN the
face because that brother conscienuously
differs with him? They are not against hgh'-
inc, sc their actions show plainly; they are
only against fighting the Germans whose
rulers started this inhuman struggle LOT inc
same reason that Bannwart struck senator
od,o because other nations did not agree
with them.
At a meeting in Carnegie Hall last night
another Of their ilk said he would form
rovoIution in this country to prevent war.
II o,bor words, he would fight against TINS
country before he would against Germany.
What then. does his ''paciic' ana universal
brotberbood" vaporings amount toE
AGAIN. Mr.. Pacifst, is your home your
,rother. wife, daughter sister, sweetheart
safe from the ravages of an inhuman mon
ster because you hold pacific ideals! Even
II that were so, others homes and others
womenkind are being desecrated; and wheh
Won seek TO prevent the United States from
entering the war in order that it may sooner
no brought TO close, and your brothers
soon.r freed from its cruelties and from the
forces that brought it about, your pleas OF
universal brotherhood" become merely the
mouthincs of cowardce or disloyalty.
As a party, they should be given just one
more chance. They have done all they could
do TO keep this country from entering the
war. Now that the country has spoken for
war in terms not to be misunderstood. Will
they come in with us and say as an immortal
patriot said in other times: "My country;
right if possible. but my country, right or
wrong" Remember that he who is not with
rs is against US" Mr. Paeifst, it's up to you.
MRS. c. b. FANCY.
Forest Hills Gardens, N. Y, April 3, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06
War Against Prussianism

20 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Let me join in the general and gener-
Gus applause of your leading editorials Of
yesterday and to-day. admire beyond words
Of mild expression the thorough manliness,
the loyal Americanism, Of your editorials
You are a hard fighter against pOltroonery
and hesitating stiffness and. ergo. frank
supporter of outstanding, forward-moving
courage and honor.
Permit me one suggestion. already al
mirably expressed by George Coflng Warner
ESD in a letter published in The Tribune
about a month ago;-let us not refer to the
government and country of the Kaiser as
German" and Germany" or to his subjects
as Germans" but let us clearly differentiate
that detestabe military oligarchy personfed
in the Kaiser from the sturdy, honest. patient
German folk of the real Germany. The Ger
many of Luther, of Goethe and Schiller, Of
Schumann and Beethoven, will again be the
Germany of tomorrow, and, God willing, a
free untrammeled Deutschland.
Let US accentuate the difference between
Prussian Kaiserism and militarsm and the
land and folk our Germanic peoples love.
Let US make it easier for them and their
kin the world over to see and realize that we
have enlisted TO destroy the barbaric autoc-
racy of the ancient Huns and present
Tirpitzes.
Let US help our Germanic fellows to bear
into the consciousness of their loved ones
in Germany that we have Joined the Scotch
the Irish. the French to set the Germanic
peoples Of the Kaiserreich free.
D. y. HARPER.
You Y orE Anril 4 1917
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To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The editorial in your issue Of yester-
day. "A Great Document" Is the finest edi-
torial | ever remember having read. APP
pearing in a great and highly respected Re
publican newspaper, newspaper that has not
hesitated to severely criticise the admins
tration Of President Wilson when it thought
he was wrong now comes out in an editorial
which is classic, commencing the President
for the action he has taken.
II seems to me that nothing evidences to
the world more strongly the unity of the
American people and their patriotism as is
shown not only by your editorial but by the
practical unanimity with which the American
people stand behind the President.
The trend Of events in the past few years
inclined some people (among which | include
myself with the fear that American patriot
ism was not what il had been i'm the past. and
there was fear also wnen It came to the
test there might be lukewarmncss exhibited
which had never manifested itself in the past
history Of the country, but all these fears are
groundless your editorial makes us all, ir-
respective of party feeling, proud Of being
Americans and of having such an honest and
fearless champion as yourself.
feel quite sure in expressing these views
am simply echoing the sentiments Of a very
large majority of patriotic Americans in this
country. LOUIS {. TETARD.
New York, April 4, 1917.
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Children's Guard of Honor

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Memorial Day was instituted by he
Grand Army of the Republic as a day sacred
to the memory of the vast army which has
answered roll call for the last time To "a.
few veterans remaining it is still solemn
and sacred day. They are ever and always
true to the object to which the day is dcdi.
Gated.
To nearly every one else it is a hurrsh
day, nearly as noisy a. the Fourth Of July
1t is some weeks before May 30, but pro.
gramme has already been laid out and
adopted. it seems. morning paper says:
rs. r. Guggenheim has addressed a letter TO
the Public Schools Athletic League, Of which
General George W. Wingate is president,
promising to raise the necessary funds for
great patriotic parade of public school chill
dren, and personally guaranteeing TO provide
the money to make up the deficit should there
be any. The parade will start about O'Clock
The parade of the National Guard on that
day will be over by noon.'
The little bronze button is not seen on the
city streets often, and there are too many
young people that do not know its meaning
when they see it, but there are still many
veterans left to sorrow over their fallen CON-
RACES. WONDER Wnen tney Will march on
that solemn day? Probably before sunrise
or after sunset. as the rest of the day seems
to be occupied.
As far as my knowledge extends, in all the
villages where there is a Grand Army post
the children act as a guard of honor TO the
veterans when they march to and from the
cemetery, and both are proud of the honor
the children especially so. 1t is a beautiful
and touching sight to see them marching
sedately together, the one so near the end
of the journey. the other at the beginning.
/ am heartily in favor OF the chldren's
parade. but wish they could march with the
veterans Of the Grand Army.
c. J. GREENLEAF, G. A. R.
Frceport L. L. April 3, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06
Citizenship of Children

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: In this time of repeated questions re-
garding the right Of citizenship, the following
questions come up and ask that your vaip-
able paper answer them:
/. If American-born man and wife are
travelling in Europe ana child is born, what
nationality is it?
.. Is child born in this country Of alien
parents an American citizen or not. and why!
CARLOS ESCALA
New York March 81, 1917.
Il. 1t is American, according to our
statutes.
2. The status of a child born here OF
alien parents is not entirely clear. Chez
Justice White, in the case of Minor vs..
Happersett, decided in the Supreme Court,
said: THE Constitution does not IN
words say who shah be natural-born citl-
zens. Resort must be had elsewhere to
ascertain that. At common law it was
never doubted that all children born in
country of parents who were its citizens
became themselves, upon their birth, cltl'
zens also Some authorities go further
and include as citizens children born with
in the jurisdiction without reference to
the citizenship of their parents. AS
this class there have been doubts, but never
as to the STD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06

standards were too high, fault that was
soon discovered and gradually remedied.
But there is reason 70 believe that Tor
long time after this political considera-
tions continued to affect the business OF
recruiting. If at first the medical exam
nations were too exacting, they became
under the threat Of compulslon not ohiy
lax. but almost farcical.
This circumstance has been attributed
10 the zeal of those who would at all costs
nreserve the voluntary system. Likewise
when the voluntary system had fallcu,
these same politicians. 1t IS SAID, dlo al
they could to secure the rejection or eN-
cmption of those nominally subject to ma
tional service. However that may be, 1t Is
commonly admitted that the number oil
oycmptions was excessive. This fault has
been partly remedied by limiting the mum
her of protected occupations and by the
appointment of medical boards TO check
the work Of private doctors, who we're not
always conscientious in the granting oil
certificates. Nevertheless, it is believed
that a great many have been rejected VINO
ought to have been recruited, and thaI
many who were convalescent six months
ago or more are now quite fit TO serve.
The conditions which have led to the IN
PRODUCTION of this much criticised measure
NAV in fact be regarded as an after-eiiect
of the inadequate voluntary system.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06
Kultur and the Negro
No Inprobability in Attempts 10
Foment Insurrection
TO the Editor OF The Tribune.

TO the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The article in to-day's Tribune intimst-
ing that the Germans are starting up an IN.
surrecton among the negroes Of the soutb
is not improbable After Zmmermann's nro.
posal, 70 tho German Ambassador in the eitv
Of Mexico. 70 turn the Southwestern STAT,
o. the United states over 70 Mexico and "a
get Mexico and Japan 10 make war on d,
and the other criminal acts and bedevil.
mcnts that the Germans have been engaged
in in this country, we ought to be fully
prepared 10 believe them capable OF any.
thing; and we should not allow ourselves 10
be blinded by thinking that it is only the
Hohenzollcrns and the Junkers who ar.
wicked and that all the rest Of the German,
are good, amiable, kindly fellows.
Let Us not forget their kindly treatm,n.
Of the Belgians and their devastation Of Ii.
fair land Of Northern France in their recen,
retreat; and let US also remember that ten
thousand Of our own Milwaukee Germans as.
scmbIed in the largest hall in Milwaukee las.
year and vociferously appauded the pres
dent Of the National German-American Al.
lance when he said: Eve have long suffered
the preachment that You Germans must al.
low yourselves 10 be assimlated. You mus,
merge in the American peoplen But 70 on.
will ever find us prepared to descend to an
inferior culture. No. We have made Il our
aim to elevate the others 70 our level.
We will not allow our two thousand years
culture to be trodden down in this land
Many are giving our German culture 70 thl.
land of their children, but that is possible
only if we stand together and conquer that
dark spirit OF muckerdom and prohibition.
just as Segfried slew the dragon"
New York, April 4, 1917. KULTUR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06
A Parable Of Peace
Should We Answer Sin with Sin or
Overcome Evil with Good?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following true story illustrates
the difference in the point of view. wife
was watching at the bedside of her dying
husband at the dead Of night, when masked
robber stood in the door. She made mo-
ton Of silence and handed him her basket of
KEYS. which lay on the table before her. In
the morning when she went downstairs she
found the basket Of keys on the dining room
table and the silver in its place. Nothing had
been touched.
Years afterward respectable looking man
stopped her in the street and said; you
don't remember me, ma'am, but | was the
man who broke into your house on such
date, and you saved me from being a regular
housebreaker.'
Now. if it had been the husband who had
been watching beside his dying wife when
robber stood in the door, there would proba-
bly have been a conflict The wife might have
died of shock. The husband might have
been Killed before her eyes The benighted
soul OF the burglar might have been hurried
all unprcpared into another world The
least that could have happened would have
been that the robber was overpowered and
sent to prison. with no certainty that he
would come out any better than he went in.
Which is best, peace or war? Shall we
answer a sin with sin, or shall we over
come evil with good? NJ. l.. B.
Westfeld, ~ Y, April 4, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06
Enviable, but Unpopular

In these days Of the high cost OF living
the lot of the farmland should be happy
one. His not to worry about the rising
prices of seeds. of fertilizer, Of foods; he
only has to pocket his wages and absorb
the big meals his outdoors life necessItates'
Nevertheless, though seemingly to be en-
We'd he is not satisfied.
The Department Of Labor estimates
that the farm laborer who draws S27.oO a
month and his keep" is really receiving
500 a month. In spite Of that, 10 per cent
Of all the farm laborers in the country last
year quit the soil to take factory jobs a
majority of them at less than $50 MONTH
The condition is much the same where
wages are considerably higher. In many
sections of this state where days pay runs
from S1.75 to $3.50 and board IT IS we'll
RICH impossible to get workers. lhey pre-
fer "war bride" wages at some munitions
factory. even if they actually lose money
On the transaction, as the Department OF
Labors figures indicate.
The city is familiar with the problem
il another guise-that of the domestic
o., serving maid. A servants wages and
GARD and lodging cost amount to con
siderably more than she could draw as
factory operative or store girl, yet
MANY a girl prefers to take job where
she considers herself cher own boss and
where she works regular hours. She
NAV not live so well; she may have bad
even insufficient, food; she may have to
double up in a hall bedroom with some
friend. but she handles little more money
each week. even if she doesn't keep so much
Of if. she has certain definite free time for
recreation. and she has opportunities for
social intercourse denied to her as house
worker. Just as she feels that she Is one
stem up in the social scale when she eX-
changes her domestic service of an midi
vidual for the service of a firm or corpora
tion the farmland feels that he has pro-
crossed when he quits "the boss and has
TO consider only the orders of a factory
foreman. an employe like himself.
An eight-hour day has been proposed as
one solution of the domestic problem. If
the farm laborer could get anything ap
preaching an eight-hour day he might not
he 50 eager to get factory job.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06
a Plea for Universal Training

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: / suggest service for one month, and
for one evening week for thirty weeks, each
year for three or five consecutive years; one
evening a week for thirty weeks each year
for two additional years; compulsory for all
men in good health at the age of twenty; all
of these during the five or seven years sub
ject TO call in case of war.
All employers to hold positions open
Build armories and ships and provide en-
campments
Encourage athletics, but prohibit dancing
Enlarge West Point and Annapolis, super
vised By three army and three navy officers
and three business men. $.
New York, April 3, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06
Pacihsts the Real Patriots
tor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Why do people make distinction be-
tween "pacifsts" and patriots? Why not
"paciist- patriots" and ar-patrots"?
Looking at them both with cool mind, it
would appear that the pacfst-patriots come
nearer being loyal to their country's good
than the war-patriots," for they do not want
It weakened by senseess blood-shedding. II
the United States sends is forces OF men.
food and money to Europe there will be en-
emies lying in wait to stab it in the back
when it is weak. Has the war strengthened
any of the European countries?
The war-patriot would bleed this country
white for his own glory, which is only an
other name for greed and selhshness.
JAMES PARKMAN.
New York April . 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-06
The Battle Hymn Of the Republic

Nine eyes hare seen the glory Of the com
ing Of tie Lord;
lie L tran, ping ont the rirtGge ichere the
grapes Of ,crath are stored;
lie hath lsosed the fatefM lightning Of HIS
terrible, s1Vjft sOOrd;
His t77,th is marching or.
7 hare seen Ham in the wdtch-tires OF
hundred circling camps;
Then hare buildcd HIM an altar IN the
eveninos deus and damps;
/ can read His righteous sentence 6y The
dim and for-ing lamps.
His day is marching on.
hare read a fery gospel, 'crit m bur-
nished ro1cS Of steel;
AS 20 deal qcith my cOntemners' so 'ctA
you my grace shall deal;
Let the hero, born Of 'comon, crush the
serpent NTH has heel
Since God is marching on
He has sounded forth the trumpet that
shall neuer call retreat;
He IS sitting Out the hearts Of men before
His judgment seat;
on. be s1cift, my soul, to onslcer HIM be
jubiLdnt, my feet
Our God is marching on.
IN the beauty Of the lilies Christ acos born
across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that tronsrg-
urcs you and me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die to
make men free,
Willie God is marching on.
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First of England's Four BIS
CFrom The London Daily Telegraph

CFrom The London Daily Telegraph
"The Elton College Chronicle" records an
interesting debate on the Beer Question:
which took place at a meeting of the Eton
Society. The debate was opened by the Mar
quis Of Worcester, who said he was in favor
of complete cessation of beer drinking till
the end of the war; because of the loss in
foodstuffs. Mr.. w. II. VI. Noel opposed the
motion, on the ground that beer was nour-
ishing and substitute for food. lie traced
distinct relationship between beer and
beef, and reminded his hearers that England
was made up of four Bs-beer, beef, bread
and the Bible. lie asked those present
whether they could really forego their daily
glass OF beer between schools at "tap."
. The president (Mr. II. +. ". Kinders-
ley opposed the Down Glasses" movement,
and the House" divided. with the result
twelve to nine in favor of the opposer.