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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-15
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
HIGH Fire Insurance Rates
Reasons for the Official Inquiry Into
Their business
tn the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In a recent issue OF your paper Mr..
Edwin o. Torbohm, of Brooklyn, undertook to
prove that / was wrong IN even suggesting
that. in view Of the fact that so much Is
being expended annually for fire prevention
fire insurance rates might be lower than
they are. Such comment as have heard on
Mr. Torbohm's sermon on the duty of tax
navers 10 contribute willingly to whatever
the traffic will bear" does not lead to the
conclusion that his arguments are convincing.
He takes as his text single paragraph OF
my statement. The portions not quoted by
him show that the Board of Estimate is so
seriously impressed with the discrepancy be-
tween fire insurance loss and fire insurance
premiums collected as to have thought II
necessary to take official cognizance OF the
matter.
Mr.. Torbohm says that the intent and pur-
pose of fire prevention ordinances are to con-
serve human life. Taxpayers will tell you
that while some are designed for this pur-
pose, some appear TO be for the sole object
of causing money to be spent. They Will also
tell YOU that some of these requirements are
said by those interested in fire prevention TO
be for the purpose of saving property; ana
these are among the most expensive.
Mr.. Torbohm overlooks the fact that the
tall buildings are the new and hreproot
buildings in which the fire loss is negligible
Mr.. Torbohm is also mistaken about the
authority of the Health Department and the
Fire Department over private dwellings.
He should indeed, direct his Gliding
against the Board of Estimate, whose resolu-
ton provides the request for investigation
of the fire insurance situation.
On July 10 that body adopted resolu-
ton asking the State Commissioner of lnsur-
ance to make thorough examination of the
seeming injustice between fire insurance
losses and the fire insurance tolls of the city,
with a view to establishing fire insurance
rate for the city in keeping with the hre
hazard"
He might also direct his criticisms against
the Fire Commissioner, who has more than
once publicly called attention to this situa-
ton. On pages % and "a, Fire Department
Report for 1916, the Fire Commissioner says:
"The property owners, in my opinion, have
not enjoyed the reduction in rates to which
they are entitled on the basis of improved
FIRE protection, due to high pressure water
system, improvement of fire apparatus, in
crease in fireproof construction and the ex-
tension of fire prevention measures"
As matter of fact, the proposed state in
vestigation might with advantage cover a
wider field than that of fire insurance losses
and premiums.
RICHARD o. CHITTICK,
Executive Secretary, Real Estate Board of
New York.
New York, Aug. 16, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
True Sympathy With Russia
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The Peoples Councils claim to
sympathy with redeemed Russia is false
one.
1t is with the worst, the anarchistic, ele-
ment in Russia, released incidentally by the
righteous overthrow of Czar-made law, that
the Peoples Council group sympathize,
having in fact done so much to promote it by
emissaries from the United States cooperat-
ing with German agents. Their desire is that
this anarchy may be favored in Russia so
far as 10 prevent her armies from repelling
the enemy at the gate. Meanwhile their
efforts at home are devoted to "sympa-
thetic" creation of anarchy in the United
States for a similar end.
True sympathy with Russia is to be shown
for that wonderful patience" of her people,
now beginning hopefully TO reassert itself,
in obedience to self-made law and to military
authority for the great war of world free
dom. ERVING WINSLOW.
Ipswich, Mass, Aug. IS, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
The Last Parade

4 The Grand Army of the Republic
marched in parade up Beacon Hill yester-
day and, all too likely, Boston there saw
the last considerable gathering Of these
veterans in a national assembly Only
eight thousand veterans formed the line.
OF these five hundred came from New
York. The years take a heavier and
heavier toll. Only memories will soon be
left to US of those who fought in the last
great fight for human liberty.
Time makes swift changes and often
oxaggerates the differences of half CEN
fury. Warfare has been revolutionized.
The blue uniforms of the COS seem ancient
and out of date. The whole scale Of the
present strife is so vast that the battles of
the Civil War appear petty by compari
son. We feel that we have new and more
difficult problems, more confusion, les
sharply defined issue, more doubt.
Yet, fundamentally, nothing changes.
The parallels of strategy with the Civil
War are amazingly close. The battle of
the Allies has become a close repetition of
the pounding process by which alone, in
the end, Grant and the Union prevailed.
Nor was there really less confusion then.
In fact, the North held treachery and sedi-
ton and doubt such as we know to-day.
And victory depended upon exactly the
same devoted self-sacrifice of the youth of
the land that mingles our cheers and our
tears to-day. The white haired veterans
of 1917 were the boys of '61. AS they pass
one another on parade we see the farewell
of one brave generation to another not less
brave and devoted and ready, we conf
IDENTIFY pray and know.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
Get the Truth to Germany
,ditnr of The Trihnne.

To the Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: 1t seems to me that most unlocked
for opportunity, which appears to have es-
capped detection, is suddenly placed at the
disposal Of the Allies by the peace proposal
of the Pope. ! refer to the possibility,
heretofore apparently unattainable, of get
ting the whole truth at last before the Ger
man and Austrian peoples.
Let the Allies make it a condition, before
handing their reply to the Pope, that such
reply be published in its entirety in the
press of both Teutonic monarchies, the Vati-
can to see that such promise, if elected, is
faithfully carried out.
If Germany and Austria decline to give this
agreement they will by their refusal show
'bad faith at once. II they accept, then be-
ieve the Allies will be able, by embodying in
their answer irrefutable facts and arguments
Of which the common people in Germany and
Austria have for obvious reasons been kept
in ignorance, to go long way toward Great
ing an overwhelming sentiment in those
countries for just peace, such as would be
acceptable to the Allies.
The details of such reply think we can
safely leave to be worked out by the Presi-
lent and Lloyd George. j. G. DREYFUS.
New York, Aug. II, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
The Meanest Stacker

A second warning 20 gasolene MASTERS
has been issued. 1t was needed. Judging
from the continuous honk-honk Coney
Island-ward and up and down Broadway
and Riverside Drive, the first warning fell
on deaf ears. 1t was considered harm
less joke by the joy riders and pleasure
speeders. Should one swear off on auto
MODELLING, either as a convenience or a rec
reation, merely because the government
was short of gasolene for military uses?
Absurd!
There are many kinds of slackers. One
may feel some pity for the poor devil who
shrinks from conscription. He is asked to
give up his life, if need be, at his country
call. One can even appreciate the pangs
Of the Stacker who wants TO dodge war
taxes. "You take my life when you do
take the means whereby ! live" said Shy
lock, But when man refuses to surren-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
More Bungling Censorship

tFrop the army and Navy Register
Secretary Baker has applied TO the War De-
partment form of censorship that enlarges
the Importance and influence of the commit
tee of public information of which Mr. George
Creel is the head. An attempt is to be made
to have no information of any sort given out
to the representatives of the newspapers, who
must apply to Mr.. Creel's office for what they
want and wait until it is obtained for them
by the committee agents, after it shall have
been determined whether or not it is proper
to divulge the facts. This is one of the grav-
est mistakes that the Secretary of War could
make. He may not succeed in shutting off
the press from the information which it is
desirable to obtain, and perhaps that is not
his intention; but he has made it extremely
difficult to obtain news to which the public is
entitled and which may not be secured by the
process he prescribed
II has not been necessary at any stage in
the proceedings since the war began for the
military-naval authorities to place extraord-
nary and specific restrictions upon the news
paper men who have conscientiously OBJ
served the admonition of the departmental
heads and refrained from printing news that
would obviously be harmful to the govern
ment The latest rule simply magnfes I'M
duly the Importance of the public informa-
tion committee without providing any sddi-
tional security against the revelation Of mill
tary secrets. 1t is a somewhat poor return
for the service that the newspapers have
been rendering the War and Navy depart
ments and establishes a complicated and
vexatous system that could be reduced to
the simplest, most effective and generally
satisfactory operation by designating an
army officer such as General Mcintyre and a
naval officer such as Captain Belknap in the
War and Navy departments, respectively, to
regulate publicity in military naval matters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
Call Them Yankees
he Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As citizens of the United States are
known in all parts of the world as Yankees,
and our soldiers are Yankee boys, why not
call them so? The word Yankee is thor
oughly American, being a corruption of a
word meaning English, which was first used
by the Indians. Signifying excellent 1t was
used as a favorte cant word in Cambridge,
Mass, as long ago as 1913.
1t is not without a kind of interest that.
according to the old cabalistc system of
numbers-as related in the aphabet-the
word Yankee is equivalent to nineteen, and
nineteen is set down in this system as signi-
flying esteem, honor and success.
To shorten "the Yankee boys" to "the Y
boys" would make name, in way, more in
innate and indicative Of the kind Of regard
every patriotic American must feel for our
soldiers. Taking this last as single name
and computing it as SUCH according TO the
system of numbers as we find it in the
Cabaa and as il was taught by Pythagoras,
il makes four, which is said to mean endur-
ance, discovery, accomplishment and realiza-
ton of hopes.
We Yankees have ever fought for freedom,
Justice and true democracy and have never
yet known defeat. As Yankees let US fight
on with our allies in this war until complete
victory is won. Meantime let our soldiers be
known as "the Yankee boys or "the Y
boys" A. VAN HOESEN WAKEMAN.
Mount Vernon, n. Y, Aug. 16, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
In Belgium's Name

Our last visitors of state from an Allied
country, the Belgian commissioners, make
the fitting climax. In their restrained but
poignant message on behalf of their devas-
tated country they sum up for Americans
the whole meaning of the war. Their fate
pictures more forcibly than any words that
peril to civilization which we have Joined
hands with our allies to destroy.
Theirs is a striking banner, individual
and beautiful. 1t it good for us Americans
to become familiar with it. For it SYM
tolzes aptly all that individuality and
beauty of a small nation which the German
idea held as less than cannon fodder when
il INSTRUCTED for day the German way to
power. By her devotion to her national
ideals, by her swift decision to die on the
battlefield rather than sell herself into
slavery, Belgium earned the right to rank
with the great nations of all time. Her fame
stands secure. We of America are proud
to do her honor. We are thankful that at
last we have the right to greet her as an
ally and that in rendering our sympathy
we are making ready to back our emotion
with the sterner stuff of deeds.
Belgium must and shall be free. Bel
GUM must and shall be restored. Such is
the pledge which this Republic devoutly
makes to the greatest of small nations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
The Hylan Mystery Solved

1t may be mystery to the great body of
citizens of New York why Judge Hylan,
practically unknown outside of his own
borough, has been selected as Tammany S
candidate for the Democratic nomination
for Mayor. 1t seems to be an even greater
mystery to a number of the elect who used
TO think they knew what was going on in
the inner councils Of the Wigwam. But l.
is no mystery to the man chiefly concerned,
end, as is the duty of all good candidates.
he has given the information he possesses
to the world at large.
at is a triumph of the people," insists
Judge Hylan. TThe people | have met tell
me that it is triumph of the people, and
shall stand by the people in the future as
l have stood by them in the past"
This explanation is so simple that it is
a wonder there has been so much doubt, Sc
much speculation, about the subject. Indeed,
the answer ought to have been apparent to
everybody from the start. Judge Hylan
'the peoples choice" obviously could not
fail to become the choice Of Tammany, be-
cause it is the unbroken record of Tam
many to search vigorously for the mar
who would do the people good and then
nominate him. Tammany and Hylan-
joint servitors of the people. Tammany,
Hylan and the people-there is trium-
virate to rule this devoted city far sur
RAISING Sport, Joke and Two-Spot. tina.
other triumvirate which once held forth
in Fourteenth Street. Truly, this is bit
of the "uplift" Murphy said he favored
some time in the not too distant past. II
is more than that; it is a foretaste of
the millennium. 1t is almost too good to
be true.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
Liquor Traffic in Virginia

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR The action of the voters of the State
Of Virginia in nominating a candidate for
Governor who is opposed to national prohibit
ton is proof that the Hobson scheme for a
national prohibition amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution is not regarded with favor
even i'm dry states. Virginia has adopted
statewide prohibition chiefly because Of a
desire to keep liquor away from the colored
population. It's laws permit the importa-
ton for individual use of larger quantity
of liquor than the average per capita con-
sumption. but under the Reed "bone-dry'
law enacted by Congress the supply from
wet territory has been cut off. The half
million or so of Virginians who have been
getting their accustomed beverages by ex-
press are naturally disguised and have taken
the first opportunity for showing that while
they are opposed to the retail sale of liquor
they believe in the right to shape their
liquor legislation without dictaton from Con-
gress.
The people of Virginia hold that the regu-
lstion of the liquor traffic is properly one OF
the police powers reserved 10 the several
states, and they see no reason why the ma
tional government should interfere, either
by direct legislation or constitutional amend
ment. MODERATE.
New York, Aug. Is, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
Americas War Aims
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to hail your editorial,
Americas War Aims" of August II, as one
of the most timely, strong and luminous pa
pers ever published by your unrivalled
Tribune. It is very unlikely however, that
YOUR discussion of that subject will set at
rest the foolish and hypocritcal statements
of the so-called pacifists, but it will go a
long way to strengthen the faith of those
Americans who pray for the triumph of right
and Justice at all costs. II must also be con-
sidered a splendid retort to the peace pro-
nouncement of Pope Benedict, prefer I'M
ouestionably most agreeable to pacltists,
who do not want to realize that the accept
ance Of such a proposal would amount to a
betrayal of the millions that have laid down
their lives for the future of a civilization
which either must go down or rest forever
on predominance of right over might.
Furthermore, is it not suggestive and IL
Eliminating in the extreme that no German,
whether Socialist or a Junker, cares to
discuss the origin of the war and the re-
sponsbility of the clique that concocted, pre-
pared and started this monstrous and devil
ish onslaught? Yet there can be no peace
worth anything that does not definitely es-
tablish the said responsibilities. The Allies
of the Entente wish nothing more than to
investigate that momentous question upon
which all depends. CHARLES f. RIVER.
Ottawa, Canada, Aug. Is, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
Hot With Indignation

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In your paper Of Sunday, August z
under the head of "Menus That hep "
Food Administration" Miss Virginia u
ter Lee makes a careful housewife loot !"
a child and feel hot with indignation.
She laws out menus Of dried pnesPpt
chilled tomato bouillon,' canteloupe" -
As far as | know, none Of these tnihn
very cheap. and when a family OF four h''
to limit their food expenditures |" N'
week is il not preferable to have plenty "
one or two nourishlng things, and not PH,
tend to have elaborate menus thar "Nl'
like those ordered by dyspeptic gentensa
q first class restaurant?
Imagine a three-egg omelet for -FOUR w
pie! 70.
Where on earth does Miss virgins 'A'
ter Lee market? A four-pound cnie"1 :,
two-pound steak and one-pound sl'' /.
ham all for S2.02! Do tell Miss Lee " Wv
me her shopping address.
Since Miss Virginia Carter Lee y W.
through your paper to "help the 1000 !,
ministration,' might suggest that she 'H'
to prevent butchers from throwing s,p
chicken heads and claws Il believe w
sometimes throw away the giblet'' "', ,
They make a delicious bouillon and sr' VIZ
nourishing. IA,
| hope that in her next articles w.
are to be next articles) Miss Virgins ~
Lee will give us some good, SOUND n'''-
ton, and not merely irritation. ..ov
Port Washington Park, L. J., Aus. TO- ''''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
Tattooed Senators
,From The Baltimore Sun.


Senator Chamberlain did well in picturing
Gore as one of the wouldbe assassins of his
country. But Gore himself supplied a
phrase which truthfully describes him and
the whole dirty dozen" who have made i
their special business to harass and embar
rass their own government. He talked
about "tattoong" the term "recede" on the
foreheads of the Senate's food bill confer
rees. We thank him for the word. He.
Stone, Reed, La Toilette and their associates
in the anti-American campaign are experts
in this art. They began to tattoo them
selves with strange pictures and devices OF
Prussian origin before the beginning of the
war, and they have added fresh German
symbols to their personal adornment and
identification whenever there was chance
10 do the country a disservice. There is
scarcely spot on their Senatorial bodies
now on which there is not some pro-German
figure, or from which their beloved Emper-
or's face does not stand out as a token of
their disloyalty to their own people and
their own land.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
Disintegrating Religion
Why the Episcopal Church Is Eel, !.
Fill Definite Need
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF Inc tribune.
Sir: The letter by tx" on church condi,;...
which appeared in Saturdays Tribune i. !.
teresting if only for the element Of ira
which it contains. At the same tim. a.
condition of affairs which he describe, !.
peculiar to the newer forms of religion o,l,
and is due primarily to their fatal tend.,,,
toward disintegration. This being IA, c,..
one finds il difficult to understand WIN n.
Episcopal Church is included among tho,,
guilty OF this error.
It is obvious that tx" can know no,hir, a,
the Episcopal Church, its history and tnSl.
tons, or he would never include Bapt,,,
and Episcopalians under the same elassss,.
ton, as he does in the statement thar al.
majority of the members scarcely k,o,,
whether they are Baptsts or Episcopsli,,,
or what not" II is equally obvious tia, !.
can know nothing Of the Episcopal ord.r a,
services. or he would not fall into the ava,
of stating "a large part of the member a,
even the smallest church have nothing :,
distinguish them from their neighbors .ero,,
the way"
W men we sptdh VI similarity IN rtlfie,
we refer TO customs, ceremonial forms ,sS
beliefs. which two or three churches Of an.
ferent faiths hold in common. Thus, IL ~.
were to visit the two cathedrals, St JOB,
the Divine (EpscopaD and 81. Patriet,
Roman Catholic, he would find many point,
Of similarity between them, just as ne vOuB
find that they both differ very material,
from the non-sacramental churches "aen.
the way"
It must also be remembered that an Ep,
copalian requires sacramental baptism ia in
fancy, and confirmation, absoution and u.
sacrament of bread and wine in his rip.,
years. 1t will therefore be apparent to ~
that an Episcopal church for an Episcou,
congregation is as much "the meeting Of /,
definite need" as is the establishment oi
Roman Catholic and Russian churches 70,
members of their respective eommuniors
J. +. RITTER.
Highwood, n. j., Aug. 10, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
The Peaceful Boche

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: We constantly hear from u', ~,
apologists that from 1871 TO Angus"
Germany was always at peace ana NS
one uniformly pescesble first class ~
From 1903 to 1907 the Herrero war " y.
man Southwest Africa was the most ~
contested war between whites ana p -.
known to the twentieth century. fVe w r.
sand German soldiers and settlers aHS
600 to 10000 natives persisted. ,.,s
In 1897 Germany seized Kisu-ensu ~
Of the murder Of two Catholic m'sslD -. ~,
and ratified the sabre to such an eA'.- /,
when in 1900 the Chinese Boxers 80,
war with the world it was primarily 80 -, =
of Germany's acts. The German Mih't
China was the foreign official AGAIN" :, ~
the Boxers struck their first bIo"s, ..,t
Boxer war Of 1900 that followed al
IS the leader of continents! EuiVrN ;,yr
Field Marshal Won Waldersee as 'he -
national commander in chief, ana ,sss.s
Hun-like war without quarter ~ -
1891. 1892 and 1905 and 1906 Gern'SH' ,.,.
three times at war with and hhsy ,,sL
duered the Arabs and blacks IN haS esf.
Won Wissman, Karl Peters ana 0'"s 4
man commanders wsged aggressive Or,
conquest with the utmost feroe'y ~
hundred and twenty thousand nA',',,, ~
estimated to have fallen in the la''
three East African wars alone lat y
German propagsndists are As s,r Ger
the facts Of modern history as n,pHu
man statesmen are indifferent 70 'h' :, s,t
Of treaties, which they describe srrs
scraps of paper. HENRY A. f'
New York, Aug. Is, 1911