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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-13

began to think After all it might be
as he had said. The thought that
there was some other woman in his
life was somehow Unthinkable. She
must be more sure. But the evidence
was-NO! no! she must be more sure.
At dinner he talked glibly on all
sorts of happenings, and she answer
ed as though nothing had occurred.
The next evening he handed her a
small packet Opening it, she found
a nendant set with a turnOuise
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
The Lyhching Record for 1916

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In view Of the widespread discussion
Of the causes back Of the migration Of ne
eroes to the North, it 10 timely 70 consider
the lynchings for the year just closed find
according TO the records kept by Monroe y.
Work. head of the division Of records and
research of the Tuskegee Institute, that in
1916 there have been isty-four lynchings OF
those lynched, fifty were negroes and four
were whites. This is four less negroes and
nine less whites than were put to death in
1915, when the record was ifty-four negroes
and thirteen whites. Included i'm the record
arc three women.
Fourteen. or more than one-fourth Of the
total, lynchings occurred in the State Of
Georgia. OF those put to death forty-two,
or II per cent of the total, were charged with
offences other than rape. The charges for
which whites were lynched were murder.
three; suspected of cutting a woman, one
this was a Mexican).
The charges for which negroes were put TO
death were: Attempted rape, nine; killing
officers of the law, ten; murder seven; hog
stealing and assisting another person 10 es-
cape, six; wound.ng officers of the law. four;
rape, three; insult two. For each Of the fol-
lowing offences one person was put TO death:
Shaping boy, robb.ng store, brushing against
girl on street, assisting his son, accused Of
rape, TO escape; entering a house for rob-
berry or some other purpose; defending her
son, who, in defence Of mother, killed man:
fatally wound.ng q man with whom had
quarreIled, speaking against mob in act Of
putting man 20 death, attacking a man and
wife with club.
Lynchings occurred in the following states:
Alabama, one; Arkansas, four; Florida, eight;
Georgia, fourteen; Kansas, one; Kentucky,
two; Louisiana, two Mississippi, one;
Missouri, one; North Carolina, two; Oklaho-
ma, four; South Carolina, two; Tennessee,
three; Texas, nine
ROBERT r. MOTION,
Principal Tuskegee Institute.
Tuskegee. Ala. Dec. 81. 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
The Delayed New Years Eve

The cork having been taken out Of the
bottle on New Years Eve, there should
be little surprise that the delayed and
much heralded celebration planned for
Monday night failed to pop. Delay is
fatal TO more than one enthusiasm. All
New York greeted 1917 in one fashion or
another at the moment Of It's arrival, and
it was asking the impossible to expect a
general riot of public hilarity twenty-four
hours later.
The distinction which our astute hotel
keepers failed to appreciate lies between
our professional and our amateur pleasure
seekers. The former are to be observed
hard at work any night Of the year that
you will drop in at our best theatres
restaurants and dancing rooms. They are
out to have a good time, and they propose
to be thrilled and amused and titillated If
it takes all night to do it. They are bored,
naturally. But what else is there to do?
Some Of these come from distant points;
the handsome majority form our well
known pleasure class, OF which MI Dla-
mond Jim Brady is the brightest star.
They can rightly be counted upon to par
take Of any machine-made JOY.
Our amateurs are quite another mat
ter. They exist in larger force than the
cynics concede. In brief, they do not have a
good tine unless they have a good time. If
there is fun to be had in an all-night
cabaret they are delighted to 60. If
New Years Eve really thrills they join
the chorus with avidity. This year they
we're bored by the thought Of a machine
made celebration a whole day late; so they
simply stayed at home. The hotels had
the professionals as usual. The general
never began. On the whole,
we rather like the episode, as demonstrat-
inc that even in jaded, blase New York
gavety is not TO be manufactured for the
asking.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03

tho remedy, somebody must be able TO
diagnose the disease Of war. DR.. Hall sees
hope in the direction Of Freud's studies.
There are the efforts Of the depressed
primitive instincts and emotions to break
away from the complex conventions ana
routine of civilized life and to revert to an
earlier stage Of evolution. There are GER
tain effects Of crowd suggestion on the IN
dividual which create a new type of con
seriousness when the common life is DIS
turbed. There are certain abstract ideas,
like the spread of Kultur and the sacred
destiny of the state as an end in itself,
which easily become idols demanding hui
man sacrifice.
Until psychology is able TO elucidate
these mental causes Of war, eyaluate them
and offer counter suggestions, will not
most of our schemes for universal peace
continue to be about as fruitful as the
medieval incantations with which our an
cestors tried to drive away epldemics OF
cholera and black plague?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
A Morally Sluggish Nation
tor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The several letters published in Sun
days Tribune in response TO its inquiry as
70 the most significant event Of 1915 should
serve to stir our sluggish American livers
and help TO repair the moral Indigestion
which seems to have affected 20 startling
degree our patriotic sensibilities. While all
the letters are excelen; reading for the
complacent American, whose name is legion
as it would appear, that Of Or. Manning in
its true analysis Of the situation and the
spirited Interpretation Of our duty is spe-
eially commended TO all who really love this
country.
! wish that the country clergy would
awaken to a more spirited and spiritual sense
Of their duty In order that the little com
munites ia every village and hamlet may be
awakened. as they need 10 be, TO a more lively
and intelligent participation in our momen-
tcus national affairs. Patriotism in our
country churches and schools is, 10 say the
least strangely dormant in many communi-
ties. A short time ago Cardinal O'Connell,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
Pensions for Police Horses

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Considerable publicity has been given
in the New York papers recently concerning
the sale OF old police horses in New York
City. If recall correctly, the term Of ser
vice Of these hard working animals for the
city government in preserving the peace and
saving human life has run anywhere from
fifteen to twenty-three years. As a reward
for faithful service the older horses are an
nually converted into equine junk by an ap-
preciative and grateful municipality.
II would seem as II the great city Of New
York could afford to pension and care for
these old horses which have worked so long
and faithfully for the city, getting only bed
and board as a result Of their nerve and
muscle rackng labors. It certainly strikes
as unfair an outsider with humanitarian
sympathies that these veterans should be
turned over TO junkmen and pedlers to end
their days, too frequently. in suffering and
misery, unless private individuals happen 70
intervene to prevent this unhappy end.
Why not pension the police horses of New
York City? II would serve as an excellent
example for other cities throughout the
United States and would be in accordance
with the spirit Of the times
W. o. STILLMAN, President,
The American Humane Association.
Albany, y. Y, Dec. 80, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
a Revival

1t is so difficult to account for many
current phrases, popular say
ings and similar trihes that the recorders
of such curiosities are often fully justified
in the free use Of hypothesis to explain
their origin and significance, nor can any
one Justly quarrel with the laborious col
lectors of accidental war literature if at
times their fancy gets the better of them
and discovers a mystical relation between
the stirring days we live in and such
things as the cant terms and songs Of the
trenches.
But occasionally these ingenious chroni-
clers give too free a rein to their magma
ton and for the sake of historic accuracy
it is proper to expose the error. however
plausible it may be- Some American read
ers are a little tired of the following verses
which for some months have been going
the rounds Of the English papers as a
typical product Of the war:
The Bells Of He'll 90 ting-a-ling-a-lin
For you, but not for me.
For me the angels sing-a-ling-a-ling
They've got the goods for me.
O Death where is thy sting-a-ling-a -ling?
0 Grave thy victoree?
The Bells Of He'll 60 ting a-ling-a-lng
For you, but not for me!
1.-THE Spectator" speaks of this thing as
"the strangest song Of all at the front,
and the gifted essayist Mr. E. V. Lucas
moralzes upon it awfully in this manner:
isn't that wonderful? And incredible!
It is not exactly religion, and yet it is
religion. Fatalism with faith Assur-
ance with disdain. The very aristocracy
of confidence. And only the new British
soldier could sing it."
Perhaps the new British soldier is the
only one to sing it to-day, but Mr. Lucas
may be assured that it was current in
civilian circles long before Kitchener's
army was ever heard Of. He speaks Of it
as "springing up and spreading probably
as mysteriousy as a folksong," but in that
sense it is no more mysterious than scores
Of similar parodies.
The idiotic music-hall song on which il
is founded-"She only answered 'Ting-a-
ling-a-ling' lis in all probability Of Eng
lish origin. As to the parody, it was cur
rent in this town about the same period
and was wholly forgotten until after at
east fifteen years the new British soldier
dug it up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
Psychology and War

According to DR.. G. Stanley Hall, the
military efficiency of France and Germany
has been greatly increased by the applica-
ton of psychology to the problems Of war.
If a scientific knowledge Of the effect on
the human mind Of war in all its stages is
necessary as part Of the programme Of
preparedness, it is also a necessary part
Of any effective peace propaganda. Pos
sibly one Of the reasons for the present
weakness Of the peace movement is the
common habit Of pacifsts Of ignoring the
psychological causes of war. Much as all
normal people desire peace on earth, we
are naturally suspicious Of the peace pro
gramme Of any one who is obviously IN
able to understand the deeper human side
Of war.
Here, for instance, is the favorite dogma
Of that ardent pacifst, the socialist. 1t
is all a very simple economic fact. This
whole horrid business was forced upon an
innocent and peaceabe humanity by a
few ambitious rulers and greedy capital
lists. The people have never wanted the
war and have no heart in it. But does
this explanation explain even the conduct
of the socialists themselves? Any one
with human sympathy or imagination
enough to feel the force Of the heroisms
and patriotic ideals which inspire the men
in the trenches of France must find this
economic theory of war unconvincing.
Equally unconvincing is that school Of
pacifsts which looks upon the war as a
wicked piece Of apostacy from the teach
ings of religion and morality, which they
seek to remedy by preaching brotherly
love and the general advantages Of peace.
From the European point Of view such
moralizing is mawlish and insulting. Re
ligious and moral ideals are the very
things for which these people feel they are
fighting.
A third species of pacifsm, also want
ing in psychological understanding Of war,
is what might be called the legalist type.
The pacifsm Of Mr.. Taft, II. G. Wells and
others is Of this kind. The war is ex-
planned as a defect in the political organ
ization Of civilization. The forces Of
human life have not yet been wholly re-
duced to law and order The remedy pro-
posed is more elaborate and universal
development of political machinery-a
United States of the World" to use a
recent phrase Of Wells. Tagore, on the
other hand, thinks the curse Of war has
fallen upon Western civilization just be
cause we are over-deyeloped politically.
He thinks the weight of our impersonal
social mechanism is killing our sense Of
individual responsibility and crushing out
our natural affections.
Are any Of these congratulations based
upon a careful psychological study Of war
and its causes? Before we can prescribe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
Salary Roasting at Albany

II is reported from Albany that almost
every department head has recommended
20 the budget committee increases in sal
aries for clerks, the total mounting to hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. This is not
much Of an item in budget which, long In
advance of its presentation to the Legis-
lature, is announced as likely to be many
millions of dollars larger than any prede-
cessor. Yet when the item of personal
service has been increasing by leaps and
bounds the unfortunate public which has to
foot these bills-especially public duly
warned that this year again big direct
state tax is to be levied-may be pardoned
for wincing somewhat. In passing, it may
be recalled that the appropriations for per
sonal service last year exceeded those Of
the previous year by more than 100000,
and exceeded those for 1914 by more than
100000.
All this is hard to reconcile with a re-
port not so very old, but apparently buried
and forgotten. in which Senator Horton
and his Civil Service Committee, after in
vestigating the state payrolls, reported the
discovery of extravaganza, waste and in
efficiency and declared it would easily be
possible to save the state 100000 a year
in this item Of personal service.
Jobs were multiplied unnecessarily, &C
cording to this report. By eliminating
useless jobs 100000 could be saved with
cut harming the states business. There
was lack of preliminary training in the
iobholders, and many of them were not
qualified at all to do the work they under
took. There was no standard Of work,
either as to quality or output; neither was
there any fair system Of grading an en-
ploye's work in considering his claim to
promotion. Consequently, many were
overpaid. while some. doing good work,
were underpaid. Dissatisfaction was rife;
there was a notable lack of esprit dc corps;
therefore. the states work suffered. To
remedy these grave conditions a system Of
Standardization was proposed-but it never
got anywhere.
Before granting the desired increase IL
might be well for the Legislative Budget
Committee to exhume the Horton report
and study it. OF course, it is not half so
popular to cut salaries or to discharge use
less employees as it is to raise salaries,
when that indefinite quantity,
the public, furnishes the money. Never
theless. the budget makers are under no
compulsion to spend the states money, if
it can be saved without damaging the
tate's interests They viii find them
selves a lot more, popular, indeed, if they
save it than if they spend it. Perhaps
Senator Horton can show them how to
begin the saving.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
Mr.. Britling's AmericanismS
or Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Isn't it just H. G. Weiss tronscen-
dent genius for observation which causes
him to make Mr.. Direck say things which
Mr. Direck himself senses will put him wrong
with Mr. Drifting as a representative cult
waited American? Mr.. Wells is nothing il not
subtle in the delineation Of character. His
artistic temperament makes him sense that
the resultant reaction to the constant nip
ping in tho bud of all the amable Mr. DirecKs
academic and ponderous platitudes would be
10 render him self-conscious, and that in
turn would naturally make him utter express
sions foreign 70 his nature and training
We all do the same when we are self-con-
scious. Have you forgotten yourself at that
funeral or wedding when, instead OF saying
and doing something on which you might
have proudly reflected sfterward you just
stood like a great BOBBY and Jelly said moth
ing? The one thing that human nature can
be counted on for not doing is what is eI-
pected Of il.
Dear Mr.. Direck at bottom, in spite Of his
unfortunate education and natural pedantry,
was very human and lovable. as Mr.. Wells
proves before he gets through with him.
H. L. A.
Upper Montclair, \. j., Jan. 1, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
THE BURDENSOME VOTE
Not Overwhelming, Declares a Man, Even
as Compared with the Matinee

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: One who signs herself IAN Anxious
Woman" in this mornings Tribune seems so
sincere in believing that the right to vote
would bo a burden that she is deserving Of
an answer. There may be many who hon
cstly believe this anti-sufrsge slogan whose
attention should be called to the facts.
have been voting for forty years and
never heard Of voting as being burden"
before the slogan was Invented by "antis.'
| do not believe there are many American
born women who have so little intelligence
that voting or knowing how to vote would
be a burden"
OF course, some foreign born women, as
men, have not sufficient interest in this coun-
try TO vote, but there is nothing compulsory
about voting, and those who are not inter
ested or who are so stupid that it would be
burden" need not suffer.
II voting were burden" it should be
placed upon women and the men relieved Of
IL. because the women, as division of peo-
nle. have more time to devote to such Ques-
tons than men have. A woman who has a
home provided for her by man and raises
her average of three children ~ lifetime
has more time even in the performance Of
her duty as n mother than a man, who
has TO provide the home and living for the
family. This is proved by the fact that wom-
en- are found in the great majority In the
parks. the matinees, the churches and in
summer resorts. AN ANNlOUS MAN
New York Dec. 30. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03

sounder than the judgment Of our govern
ment Spain has wisely preferred to do
nothing precipitation try to fit the act
of Intervention in behalf of peace to the
hour when Intervention may be equal!
welcomed to both sets Of belligerents.
The Spanish note says: Spain, how
ever. will suspend all action until the time
when her efforts and work In favor OF
peace can be more useful and efficacious
than ~ the present time
That is a wise conclusion. 1t would have
been much better If our government had
read the signs of the times more accurately
and had withheld, at least for a season, ITS
recent peace note.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
IN PRAISE OF Mr.. MABIE
A Steady, Strong, Serene Influence for
Good in American Life and Letters
ID the EdItor Of The TrIbune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you permit me a little space "a
your columns IN which 20 pay modes,
tribute to the memory Of my friend for near.
ly fifty years, Hamilton W. Mabie, who dec
last week?
Personally in his home Mr.. Mabls vH
ever the genial host and interesting CONVEX
sationalist. On the lecture platform he Vas
fully the equal as an orator OF George VIII
am Curtis, and in his many books descrip,iT'
Of scenes Of natural beauty and Of historic
or literary interest he stood equal II noi
superior to all his contemporaries. Because
while his was a spirit ever dwelling upon
the deepest things in nature and human lie
vet his essays were written in such a SYN
pathetic, companionable way that no reader
could fail TO give to him his love and eona-
dence. AZ Stonewood, my sisters home IN
summit, there was tall old oak in front
of the house that Mr. Mabie admired snd
loved as much as I did myself, and this tree
always reminded me Of his beautiful essay
Oh "Repose," wherein he says: There =
nothing more impressive as an exhibition o.
power than the expansion Of a great tree ana
it's power of resisting the storms and WINGS
but that process is soundless; eternal siiehes
seems TO brood in the shadow Of this miracle
Of strength and dignity" This richly s''
bowed lover of all that is most impress"
and refined in literature was also ever '''
useful citizen in his own well loved hon'
town, as well as the faithful yestyman j.
lis home church. As associate editor O.
The Outlook" Mr. Mabie was. as Or. Aoo'N
las well said. zone Of the clearcs- and mo"
effective interpreters Of life through li'e'''
.ure, and his death is a great blow
In this relation love 20 recall Mr NAB"
own words, for he says. to prove these Wv
relations Of literature 20 life: Its dlsun''',
characteristic is not extent but quality 9.
knowledge, not range but vitality, not se0P'
Of activity but depth Of life. Il is 10 "'is
the process by which a man takes the ~o''
into mis- nature and is fed. sustained and eh,
larged by natural, simple. deep relations Az
fellowship with the whole order Of things y"
which he is part"
And as my friend and former pastor, hshl.
van Dyke, puts it. Mr.. Nhb.e'5 books 'sho.
hat tranquil intimacy with the loiIss
thoughts and his writings and perse na...
have been a steady. strong, serene inhaeH''
for good in American life and letters
JOSIAH c. PUMPELLi'
New York, Jan. /. 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
"Nick Carter"
lFron 1he phLLaa.-nhla Irqairer

tFrom The Philadelphia Inquirer
The death Of the writer who concealed him
self under many names but was best known
as "Nick Carter" is an event which should
not pass unuotced. There was time when
cold Seuth" divided with him the sdmTa-
zion Of the small boy, but his fame had grown
rather dim Of late. There are those who
affect to believe that stories Of the mick
Carter" kind ought not TO be permitted to
Youthful minds. Mr.. Tozer himself never
took that view. He held that the thrills he
gave his readers were quite as legitimate as
those TO be found in the pages acknowledged
as literature One thing IS certain-the etcr-
nal boy will always demand adventure hot
from the grill and 4 it is clean adventure 81
will do him no harm, even II now and then it.
leads him 20 emulate bis chosen heroes. The
injury done is 70 taste rather than morals.
But If the classics do not appeal, there are
many worse books than the "Nick Carter
tales for young imasinations to browse in.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
"The Issues"

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: You cannot imagine, Mr. Editor, how
thankful | an for your noble and compre-
hensye presentment Of "The Issues" in to-
days editorial. Il is a painful thing 70 be
ashamed OF ones country. Patriotism and
shame cannot live together. Weak, wabbing
wisconsin is the sole cause OF my shame; yet
here are cripple minded partisans who couple
Wilson with Lincoln, which seems but little
short Of blasphemy; note the dawdle that has
been going on for two months between a ma
tion Of cutthroats and the great Republic.
Much pessimism however, may ind an ex-
PLANTATION in Professor Conkln's president
slying: at is terrible TO realize that most
people are irrational" JAMES RICALTON.
Mavlewood. y. j.. Dee. 80. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03
What America Wants

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Hurrah! am all for the suggestion
Of c. NJ S. in to-day's issue, what America
Wants" Lloyd George in England and T. r
in L. s. A. and the world can be assured o.
a proper ending TO war
GEORGE r. CARTER.
New York, Dec %, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-03

of Boston, spoke in New York on the subject,
"a noble address, full Of patriotic ire. / was
in hopes that his speech would be reproduced
and scattered over the land, so inspiring
were his words. l wish there were more Of
such addresses by the clergy.
JNO. Y CULVER.
New York, Jan. 1, 1917