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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-06
Who Is Responsible?
An Indictment of the Community
for the Fate of Ruth Cruger

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The tragedy of Ruth Cruger. moving
as it is is not the question that torments
our social conscience to-day. We brood and
shudder over the fate of her sisters by the
thousand who were not sufficiently fortunate
TO die at once and whose end, relentless as
her own. grows by delay only the more
terrible. Well might she say to them, in
the words of the Roman matron, Pate, non
laedet." She died; but her end, though bitter,
was noble. and the one we would choose for
our own sisters in a like case.
So we arc all peering now, with fascinated,
horror, into the abyss of the underworld.
We have always known it was there, but we
have agreed for the most part to ignore it;
10 shut our ears TO the moving cries that
rise from its depths.
For have We not made this underworld
ourselves you and /, the best people? Col
lcge boys and young business men, sowing
their wild oats, and older men, who sow them
till the end. Demand and supply; the upper
and the neither millstones; the best people
and Cocchi, and his friends, the "white
slayers" The upper and the neither mill
stone do not meet, for between them is-the
women.
Evidently for this condition there is need
of a remedy. 1t must not go on. Hence
let us reprimand the police. And then for
get it.
It is certain that we will not face the
fact that we are the upper milestone. The
demand is with US; We are not going to
trouble about whence the supply is obtained
7 o consider so were TO consider too curously
There is, then. no help for this situation.
as long as humans will recognize only a
proximate and not an ultimate responsibility.
No doubt the Kaiser would be highly indig-
nant at being called a murderer. The
Kaiser did not kill the women and children
of Belgium; he only issued the orders that
rendered their survival impossible. We-you
and do not drug. STAY and coerce young
girls we only pay for them on delivery.
Thus in "A complex civilization il can be
arranged that no one is responsible for any
thing. which is "A great gain. Commenting
on this fact. Bernard Shaw has said that
IL Is not possible 10 save your own soul
without saving society at the same time. IL
is literally impossible to save our prospec-
tive white slaves without saving society at
the same time. We cannot do it without
adopting sincere and lofty morality. And
there is not the slightest chance Of this.
As long We support this institution of
vice, we condemn thousands to the fate of
Ruth Cruger. or worse; we do it with our
eyes open. and we do it because our pleasures
are important enough in our eyes TO Justify
this sacrihce-on the part Of some one else.
This is the indisputable fact.
So there is only one thing to do about IL;
and that is, to refrain from the hypocrisy
Of reprimanding the police SO doing. we
may keep one little rag Of honor.
Y. X. SMITH.
Syracuse. n. Y. July 4. 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-06
Intern All Germans
We Are Repeating England's Mistake
in Treating Them Gently

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Our government claims to have prof
tied by the experience of England during the
present war and to be avoiding the mis-
takes England made. In many respects this
claim is undoubtedly correct, but in one i'm
portant particular we are making the same
old error England made and seem likely TO
suffer from it just as England did.
That mistake is in the treatment of the
German in our midst. England tried treat
ing him decently. but by his own actions was
forced to finally intern him. intern every
one of him regardless of every consideration
except that of the safety of England War
is war, and no child's play, or time for half
measures; and as war is conducted now by
the Germans, being polite and nice and gem
tie is simply to play into the hands Of an UNI
scrupulous enemy, an enemy who has abb
soutely no regard for honor. decency, nu-
manity or anything but his own interests as
he sees them.
The news of yesterday and to-day alone
shows the need, the vital need of locking up
every German in the country. OF course
that would mean that thousands upon thou
sands of perfectly innocent people would
suffer, but that cannot be helped; we must
protect ourselves first. Intern every Ger
man or suspicious character, and you will find
less ships sunk or damaged in our inland
canals, less fires in muniton plants, less
strikes and less spying We will have 20
come to it, and the sooner we come to il the
better. c.
New York. July 8, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-06
Alien Landholders


Secretary Lane wants Congress to do some
thing about the vast tracts OF unused land
that foreign syndicates and individual own
ers hold in some Of our Western and South
western states. The figures as to the ex-
tent of these holdings come as surprise
to most Of US. Attention has recently been
called to them by the sale by Chancellor Won
Bethmann- Hollweg Of large tract that he
has owned in Texas-perhaps confession
on his part that he has given up hopes OF
budging Mexico's lost provinces out from
under our flag. Naturally, Secretary Lane IS
not inclined to dispute the titles to the for
eign holdings. but he wonders if there IS not
way to enact legislation that would obiige
the alien owners to use the lands more gen
orally for crops or for livestock raising
They tell of a Dutch syndicate which owns
500. 900 acres in New Mexico region
nearly as large as Massachusetts-and of a
German American syndicate which, curiously
enough, has its Office in London, that owns
$50. 900 acres in the same state. One British
syndicate owns 100000 acres-an area
larger than Delaware-in Florida. and an
other owns 100000 acres in Mississippi.
There are two British syndicates that own
about 100000 acres each in Missouri. The
list is long one, and there is an amazing
number Of aliens. individuals and corpora
tons. that own tracts of 100000 acres or
more in the United States. Alien landlord
ism is never popular in any country. Secre-
tary Lane has touched on a matter that We
shall hear more about in years to come.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-06

pledge each other to perseverance in the
cause of worldwide freedom and democ-
racy. We both also pledge our support to
the other nations fighting to strike down
military terrorism and despotism.
That is the ruling spirit in to-day's ex-
ercises. The people of New York welcome
the spokesman of a new Russia, strength
ening the bonds of old friendships, allied
with US now in arms and in aims, fighting
shoulder to shoulder with us for new or
der in the word-an order of peace, CO.
operation and civilized progress.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-06
Protecting the Conscientious Oblec'"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There are some phrases IN me ~. ~,
dents draft statement deserving OF more -.
cursory notice by every liberty loving ~ \
can: "Our armies at the front wy
strengthened and sustained II they oe
posed of men free from any sense
justice in their mode Of selection 4.
Whether, as sometimes happens, v" ~,
plication of his words cut deeper INA. a.
author himself intended, We eSnho' -,
But he has. believe. JUSTIFIED Us 20,
GLIDING that the conscientious o0'
Using the term in its broad sense ...s
protected in his moral and politlesi 80, -.
BY the exemption boards. Indeed al,
the Presidents words before US tnst ". -.
heart of hope in this very point =" .,,.a
out them. the glarng absence o. ~
conscientious exemption. would resI n,,,s
to the unwilling belief that he mao ,,r
nothing from England's unneeessa''" =
full experience. a., h,, 70
BY all possible means. let US h0'. .,.,rf
this that, so far as may be- OUT ~. ~
army &c. be composed OF nv -,s
from any sense of injustice IN wv, ~. o:
of selection" And in New forS' W." ~, ,,ss
boards have not yet been appoiheo, .,nt
free man see to il that their peu",;,r,ha
such as to safeguard that nrs' .;.res
American right of freedom OF eons.'.,,,tss
Only so. believe, shall we %sr.oss;.
that the fears for our democracy 80 oil, ~
ly expressed by pacihst bodies GEM. n, a
the Peoples Council in I,s1ry,cArA
founded. TRACY ~ Al
Hartsdale. N. Y, July 8, 1911
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-06
Free Russia-Greeting!

City. fling out the welcoming flags, once more,
And let US greet Free Russia's embassage.
An old. old friend is standing at the door
As any one may trace on story's page!
Pead there: Twas in a wasting wars third
year,
when menace stood to rive this land apart
It's North and South; and skies were low and
drear;
And men fought on with little hope or heart
None cried to US of all the doubling Powers,
"Stand fast, thou. Freedoms rampant q.
Only one
Dawnward in Europe those blacklist
hours,
Said. silently, This wrong shall not be done!'
Then. ships Of hers into our harbors rode
These, through our Eastern Gate, those.
through our West
For Unity her mighty hand she showed.
And faltering hosts Of ours TO victory
pressed
Now. all are linked in bonds Of faith and
truth.
Ally of our allies this friend OF yore
Who drops her age. who enters on great
youth
So. fling the welcoming banners out. once
more, EDITH VI. THOMAS.
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months, gave up the effort and entered
officers training camps.

months, gave up the effort and entered
officers training camps.
In one of his brilliant economic studies
Professor Thorstein Veblin has written
fascinating chapter on the art OF borrow
ing. showing how nations which have not
originated but borrowed the cultural and
industrial conceptions Of other peoples
have succeeded in utilizing and developing
what they borrowed beyond the use made
Of it by the originator. He cites In proof
innumerable historical instances, to which
America Of late years could add hundreds
Of striking examples. Aeronautics is only
one. But now that we are pressed by ne
cessitv. let us disregard the fact that we
built the first heavier-than-air flying ma
chine. Let US remember that we have
fewer aeroplanes and fewer avlators than
any other great nation.
For once let us turn borrowers. Let us
borrow unbushingly anything and every
thing in the aircraft of other nations that
is better than our own. Let US borrow
freely from our allies in organizing our
aerial service, and the powers in Wash
ington will soon find that it does not re-
ouire college graduate to pilot an aero
plane and shoot rapd-frer. Finally, let
us borrow and act on the idea, which is
pretty well established, that we cannot
win the war unless we have an overwhelm-
ing preponderance in the air. And let us
start borrowing right away.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-06
Italian Photo Plays

Kenneth MdcGoCGn 80 Sercn Art7i
1t was out of Italy that the first long photo
play came. and out of the studio that gives
US "Christus." From the days of "Quo Nadis,'
the pioneer made by the same Cines Of
Rome, through Julius Caesar antony and
Cleopatra" "Othello,' "Cabiria," and now
"Christus." Italy has given US dignity, solid
ity. elaboration, visual beauty, a knowledge
Of what pictorial art had been and rever-
ence for its place in life and for such kin
dred matters as literature and the heroic
traditions of the stage. added to splendid
photography and the best Of laboratory work.
Some of these excellent things our studios
have only Just mastered. some are still out
of our reach; yet when America sees this
newest work Of the Italian camera It may
well thank the god or the imp of the lens
that our own pioneer movie" people knew
next to nothing of art and the traditions OF
pictorial beauty. ignorance kept them close
TO the possibilities Of the thing itself. They
studied the new mechanism as they used IT,,
and by trial and error they worked out a
technique all their own. The Italians stud
led the theatre the picture gallery and the
art photographer, and set up a menage q
trois i'm the name of cinema. In flash they
achieved a beauty and majesty which our
people can touch only haltingly to-day. But
in a million flashes our people have achieved
q human expressiveness which is the origi-
nal and vital technique of a genuinely new
art
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-06
Let the Japs Help

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Japan is ready and willing 10 send an
army fully equipped anywhere it will help
the cause OF the Allies. With such assist.
ance the English could bring the Turks to
terms in short order. Why not let the Japs
help? Many of your readers are waiting
anxiously for an answer to this question
HIRAM {. TODD.
Saratoga Springs, N. Y, July 4. 1917.
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MIR. Pitney's Figures
They Are Doubted and CRITICISED as
Exaggerating French Losses

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The statements by your former Paris
CORES pondent, Mr.. Pitney, in your issue OF
Yesterday. as to the proportion of the French
population actually enlisted in the armies OF
the republic and as to the number Of French
soldiers KILLED" naturally provoke inquiry
into the sources of Mr.. Pitney's information.
One in six, he says, of a population OF 49,
600 900 has been actually enlisted in the ar
mics of France. That means military forces
Of 6,5OO,OOO.
Other than Mr. Pitney's statement there
have been no indications OF French armies
even approaching such numbers The num-
bers of army corps and Of divisions give no
hint Of any such numbers of troops. Inc
fact, stated in the same breath by Mr.. Pitney
that the class OF 1918, "including cripples,
affords no more than 225OOO men seems quite
at variance with this total of 6,5OO,oOO.
No other great nation has, apparently,
approached putting one in six OF us
population under arms. That would mean
100000 German soldiers, aside from Aus
trian troops. The usual estimate of the
portion of the population capable of mill
tary service is one in ten, which would
allow of French forces, military and ma
val. of about 100000. And there IS
much to indicate that the forces of the re-
public have not greatly exceeded that number.
One in eight of the population would give
approximately 100000 troops of land and
sea. Save for Mr. Pitney's statement, what
indication is there that the French have had
greater number?
If Joffre and Foch. Petain and Nivelle have
had such numbers of men as Mr.. Pitney sug-
gests, instead of inferior numbers, have they
shown themselves the generals we have sup
posed them TO be?
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Entered a. ,he rcs,orce a. New York Second Class
Mail Matter.
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100000 Killed?

Even more striking is Mr.. Pitney's state
ment that approximately 100000 French
troops have been "killed.' Even if an en-
listment of 100000 French has been Sc
cured, where is there room for 100000
killed?
The French are occupying close to 300 miles
OF the Western front, and they are not re
curing the British TO hold more than 12O
miles There is division Of Russian troops
in Champagne, but, except for that slight re-
enforcement and a nominal force Of Portu-
guese troops, French troops hold the entire
line from just north OF ST. Quentin TO the
Swiss border. They also hold part Of the
Belgian front near the North Sea. And they
hold this great frontage in such force as to
have made the wonderful attacks on the
Chemin -des-Dames and on the Moronyillers
heights, while resisting the attacks around
Verdun and the st. Mihiel salient. An aver
age of 5000 a mile Including, of course, i'm
mediate reserves of that 'front.' from st.
Quentin 10 the Swiss frontier would be
small. Less than 1000 to the mile seems i'm
possible. But even 1000 to the mile means
100000 French troops on the Western
front There is every reason to think there
are over 100000
Sarrail has unquestonably 10000 French
troops on the Macedonian front.
Calculating the Total Forces
Then there is the French navy, which ac-
counts for at least 10000 more.
Mr.. Pitney suggests also free reserves
aside from the 1918 class. apparently, as
they, according to our best information, are
not yet active troops of at least 100000, and
there is the 1918 class, including cripples,'
of 225,O0O.
Then the Germans hold between 100000 and
100000 French soldiers as prisoners of war
Nor are such fortresses as Toul and Belfort
denuded of troops.
We have then:
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Whu Russia Needs Finland
Blu Iuan Norodny

D;ce-Presdent The RussianAmer Asatic Corporation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-06

active service KILLED" 100000, we have a
total of 4,625,OO0 French troops accounted Tor
If France, by supreme efforts, has managed
10 get 100000 men into her armies of land
and sea, this leaves TO represent the wounded
either still in hospital or unable to return
TO the ranks total Of $4,000. And even
this number must further be reduced because
there are soldiers in all parts OF France OF
whom we have taken no account.
Frankly. a total Of $4,000 wounded to
100000 KILLED" is a proportion that over
taxes ones credulity.
Moreover, the 100000 KILLED" for France
alone is nearly double the German losses in
KILLED" on all fronts. And the Germans
have fought the Russians. the Serbians, the
Belgans and the English besides the French.
Economy of Life
II has also been signal feature of French
generalship throughout the war that it has
guarded the lives of its men. On the other
hand the Germans have been prodigal of the
lives of their men, who have generally at
tackled in mass" formation. There are no
reports Of French losses in attack to CORE
spond with those of the Germans at the
Grand Couronne or at Verdun.
The economy of French lives at the Somme
as compared with the English expenditure of
lives there was noted by all. Since July !,
1916, the British have been as active as the
French. British total losses in "killed" bear
no relation to Mr.. Pitney's 100000; not even
# they be multiplied b. three.
Mr.. Pitney has no official figures Of French
"klled." Surely he has some special sources
of information which he regards as reliable.
VIII The Tribune furnish its readers the data
so that they may judge for themselves Of the
accuracy of the conclusion?
SELDEN BACON
New York, July {, 1917.
New Britain herald., 1917-07-20
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teddy SAYS Law
BREAKERS MUST GO
Airs. His Opinion on Race Riots
and |. ". W.

New York, July 2O.-Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt in a letter made pub
lie reiterated vigorously his denuncia-
ton of the assailants of negroes in
the East st. Louis, ILL.,, riots~and adds
demand for the punishment of mis-
conduit by the Industrial Workers of
the World and the cOunterlaWleSS-
ness provoked by that organizations
Colonel Roosevelt's letter was a reply
TO Victor A. Olander, secretary-treas-
urer of the Illinois State Federation
If Labor, who had sent him a report
II tlpk committee on labor of the
sIllinois State Council of Defense, find
ing that the East st. Louis riots were
due to economic conditions.
Colonefa Roosevelt said that he had
assumed that the cause of the riots
was racial, and he denied that he had
charged crimes committed on ne
eroes against organized labor in the
speech which Samuel Gompers, pres
tdent of the American Federation of
labor, undertook to answer on July 6
at the reception to the Russian COM
mission at Carnegie hall. Colonel
Roosevelt's letter says:
81 made no such accusation, until
the fact that there was at least a
measure of truth in the accusation
Tad been, in effect, set forth by the
beciaI representative of organized
labor at the meeting at which 1 spoke
and by the kilograms quoted in that
| speech
| Elsewhere in the letter Colone,
roosevelt calls attention to state
ment attributed in the newspapers tC
Michael Whalen, president of the
! Cent,al Trades and Labor councils OF
East st. Louis, who is reported to
have said: THE chief objection to
the negroes is that they would moi
strike" Colonel Roosevelt continues
II hold with the utmost intensity OF
conviction that it is absolutely i'm.
New Britain herald., 1917-07-20

possible for us to succeed along the
lines of an orderly democracy. a demo-
cracy which shall be Industrial as we'll
as political unless we treat the re-
preston of crime, including crimes of
violence, and the insistence on Justice
obtained through the enforcement of
law, as prime necessities. I, of course
refuse, under any conditions, to accept
the fact that certain persons decline
TO unionize and strike as warrant
ing their murder, or as warranting any
kind of violence against them
But I must go much further than
this. L will aid in every way in my
power to secure by governmental, as
well as private action, the remedying
f all wrongs of labor and in so act
ing I shall pay no heed to capitalistic
opposition. But I refuse to treat any
industrial conditions as warranting
riot and murder and I condemn all
persons, whether representatives of
organized labor or not, who attempt
to palliate or excuse such crimes, or
who fail to condemn them in clear
cut and unequivocal fashion"
Colonel Roosevelt writes that if
there has been wrongful promotion
of negro emigration to the north, the
government should step in and rem
edy it, but that the thing that comes
first is the punishment of murderers.
He continues:
Recently the I. W. w. has been
guilty of all kinds of misconduct, and
has been acting, as in effect, a potent
ally of Germany. with whom we are
at war; and finally their lawlessness
provoked an expulsion of counterlaw-
lessness. Of course the Government
should repress both kinds of lawless-
ness. 1t should prevent all lawless ex-
cesses against the I. w. w. and it
should also act on the cry that these
excuses are fundamentally due to the
previous failure of the Government to
deal in drastic fashion and with all
necessary severity with the turbulent,
lawness, murderous and reasonable
practices which have been so COM
New Britain herald., 1917-07-20
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.
Mrs. Margaret Renehan.

Mrs. Margaret Renehan, IS years
old, widow of James Renehan, died
last night at St. Mary's home, West
Hartford. She formerly lived at "A
Vine street and leaves two sons, John
Renehan of this city. and James Rem
chan Of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Rene
han was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
but spent the greater part Of her life
in this city. The funeral will be held
from St. Mary's Home, West Hartford,
at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Burial will be in the old Catholic
cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1917-07-20
Financial
STEELS ACTIVE IN
EARLY DEALINGS
Rails Fail to Show Form-Dull.
ness DeSCends at Noon

Wall Street.-Dealings at the out
set Of todays session were usually
light and restricted to the more pop
ular issues. Changes were confined
to fractions, gains exceeding Declines
Trading broadened during the fore
noon, all the steels including equip
ments being represented in the adj
vance of 1 to 8 points. Rails, how
ever remained inactive. At noon the
market leaped into extreme dullness.
New York Stock e. change Quota
lions furnished by Richter & Co..
members of the New York Stock Ex-
chicago. Recresent-1 t7v F. w. Eddy,