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BUD L. HUNT.
Fairmont, N. C.
Jan. %, 1917.
The Robesonian., 1917-01-29
STATE NEWS

w. G. Snuggs, chief of police of
Norwood, was shot and killed Mon
day by one Kirk Furr, several of
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11
Who Wants the Subsidy?

The struggle of certain publishers to
avoid paying a fair second class mail rate
is an indication of fundamental instability
that is startlingly in accord with their
actual record. If we look at the chief
benefciaries of the fiat rate subsidy we
shall find a class of publications practi-
callv worthless in themselves and fire.
ouently harmful to their readers. We
refer to the numerous periodicals known
familiarly as mail order journals"
With few exceptions, these papers, of
negligible editorial content and sold at
rdiculousy low subscription price, de-
pend chiefly for their existence upon ad-
vertising of the most deceptive and vicious
nature, and upon mailing rate that IS
acknowledged to be far below its cost.
So long as the government subsidies
these publications they will continue to
food the country with the type of adver-
tising of which fake automobile, oil and
mining stocks, crooked agents wanted ad-
vertisements and patent medicine cure-alls
are mild examples. When they are faced
with the necessity of paying their fair
share of the cost Of postal service the en-
suing adjustment of their finances will
mean an increased subscription rate that
will bring with it a demand for worth
while editorial matter and clean adverts-
ing columns. Those who can not or Will
not 90 on this basis will meet the fate
they deserve.
With rates for first class mail to be in
creased one-half, postcard rates doubled
and parcel post shipments taxed, will the
mail order publications that form large
part of the second class mail be bolstered
up by the continuance of the present no.
torous undercharge?
Now is the psychological time for pub
fishers to accept postage rate that IS
inevitable" said Senator Simmons, chair
man of the Senate Finance Committee, the
ether day.
Pass the zone system bill, gentlemen of
the Congress! Desubsidize the mail order
journals and put the second class postal
rates on a business basis. You will re-
move at one stroke condition which the
fraud order division of the Postoffice De-
partnent, the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World and honest merchants
everywhere have been fighting for years.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11
Army Nurses and Orderlies
n. c. O.'s of the Hospital Corps More
Learned Than Red Cross Women

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: read your article on Red Cross
nurses in The Sunday Tribune, your editorial
on Monday and the letter from f. B. Mace.
in to-day's issue.
can no longer refrain from asking you
and your correspondent to what extent you
have investi I'D, and what you personally
know to be 4 etruth in this question of rank
for Red Cross nurses, and their being under
the command of inexperienced orderlies?
Do YOU or your correspondent understand
the army organization of the Hospital Corps ?
Do you believe that one out of ten graduate
nurses (the term used here applies to those
of the female SEX, can pass the examination
required for non-commissoned ofhcers OF
the Army Hospital Corps?
A non-commissioned officer usually of the
grade of sergeant acts as ward master in an
army hospital.
Do YOU understand what the term orderly
means in a civil hospital?
DO YOU realize that the average man of the
service Hospital Corps has broader knowl-
edge Of the nursing profession, as applied
TO the masculine sex, than the average nurse
in civil life?
have no desire to belitte the work per
formed by the nurse of the Red Cross anc
kindred organizations. but | do wish to tell
YOU that /, with eight years service, have
seen as many mistakes made by nurses as hy
the members of the Hospital Corps. If you
could receive the candid statement of the
medical officers of the navy, you would find
that four out of five, and perhaps much
larger percentage, would declare IN favor OF
the non-commissioned or petty officer IT,
preference to the nurse.
A woman, whether nurse, stenographer or
scrubber, receives much greater considera-
ton in military circles than in civil life.
There have been to my knowledge only very
fow incidents of disrespect shown to nurse
in the navy, and these were severely pun
ished.
In conclusion, beg to remind you of the
caption at the top OF the first page OF your
,orsnaner: First to last-the truth: News
Editorials Advertisements"
CHIEF PHARMACISTS MATE,
Brooklyn, June S, 1917. Us. Navy
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11
A Small Education Board

Bv approving the Lockwood bill estab-
fishing a uniform law governing boards OF
education in this state Governor Whitman
has signed the death warrant of the big
board" of forty-sx members in this city.
After next January the local Board of Edu-
cation will consist of seven members, two
residents of Manhattan, two of Brooklyn
and one from each of the other boroughs.
There has been great diversity of opinion
regarding the wisdom of this policy for
New York. It has been fought in and out
of season by certain element in the Board
of Education, and even President Wilcox
has expressed doubt about the ability of
board of seven members to keep up with
the work. The fact remains, however, that
this new law brings the metropolis into
line with most of the other big cities of the
country. No other municipality of I'M
portance had so large a board as this
city's. and many of them are operating
successfully with boards as small as the
proposed one, or smaller. They don't ap-
pear to have any greater trouble IN han
ding their educational affairs than New
York has had, either.
The small board will concentrate and
define authority and responsibility as
board of forty-six members never could.
There is every reason to expect from seven
members an expedition and a precision
in the transaction of business which have
never particularly characterized the oper-
alton of the big board. There is every
reason to expect proper response to pub
lie sentiment, which sometimes has come
grudgingly-as in the case Of the mother
teacher controversy-from the big board.
Ii does not appear as likely to The Tribune
that the small board will be political"
board as that many individuals of power in
a body of forty-six members would under
take to play politics with educational mat
ters. The change has been advocated by
educational experts and large body of
progressive citizens keenly interested in a
betterment of our school system. Gov
ernor Whitman has done well to sign
tho hill
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11
Standardize Navigators?
Perhaps, but Can You Standardize
Experience and Horse Sense?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of the Sth inst "Nep-
tunus Rex" speaks OF standardized naviga-
tors" and I most heartily agree with MN
that there can be no such animal until you
standardize experience and plain horse sense
combined with the necessary technlcai
knowledge acquired from technical DOCKS
which have not yet been standardized.
Most any college bred youth can learn the
book part of navigation (but not IN TWO
months), but then put him on the deck OF
shin in a gale of wind with lots oil passing
clouds through which the sun shines occa-
sionallv. give him a sextant and see where
he lands you.
Or put him in charge OF watch on snip
going eighteen or twenty knots IN just
ordinarily hazy weather and run among
feet of schooners all on different tacks.
| could 90 on indefinitely and cite cases
but it all comes back TO experience, backed
up by scientific knowledge, that goes TO
make a first class seaman in these days OF
steam and speed.
The NAVY Department has seen fit TO grant
commissions to almost any one who owns a
cat or motor DOal, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. $500
amount of ability. Now the merchant SER
vice is to be given a similar dose OF incom-
petence.
The writer has followed the sea for over
twenty years, from ships boy on a salllnS
ship to master in steam, and stll studles'
and, what's more to the point, learns.
My old commander. the late Captain VI.
J. DAILY, himself an officer under the famou,
Captain Samuel r. Samuels once remarked
to me that he had been going to sea ior
thirty-fve years and was just beginning 70
find out something about it. And he was a
successful skipper, both financially and pro-
fessionally In fact, no finer seaman have
ever met or heard of.
/ will not suggest any remedy-it is too
obvious to any of my calling who may read
this-a and at this time experience and ability
are at "A discount. But perhaps later
shall. when the powers that be wake up to
the fact that we are here, loyal and ready
as always with both advice and personal
service AN AMERICAN SHIPMASTER.
Peekskill, y. Y, June .. 1917.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11
Historical Notes on Faust

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have read with much interest the
recent article in your paper headed The
Unpopularity of Vernacular OPERA and was
particularly attracted by its historical refer
ences, as for several years past | have been
accumulating data for the purpose of writing
a history of grand opera in Philadelphia.
According to my records Lewis Halam, who
brought the first regular theatrical troupe 10
America, produced ballad operas in tae last
half Of the eighteenth century. The first per
formance of what we now call grand opeil
in Philadelphia is attributed 10 John lncle-
don, in 1923, at the Walnut Street Theatre
this city, although it is possible New YORK
heard opera before that.
Looking over my scores Of Faust
various editions, find that in the Schirme'
edition it is said that the first performance
Of the opera in America was given in New
York. November %, 1868. This is an error.
which. in the interests of historical accuracy,
| thought you might like to know Of The
first American performance of Faust was
given in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia,
November IS, 1868, one week earlier than the
New York performance. 1t was given by Carl
Anschitzs German company. and sung N
German. The cast was: Marguerite, Mare
Friederici; Sicbel, Herr Gross; Martha Nine
Berger; Faust, Franz Himmer; Mephis-
tophees, Herr Graf; Valentine, Heinrich
Stenecke; Brander, Herr Scheee
It may also interest you to know that the
first time Faust" was sung in English was
in the Philadelphia Academy, by the Caroline
Richings Company, November 90, 1857, and
the first time Charles Santley, the American
barytone, sang Valentines aria, Even BRAY
est Hearts," which Gounod wrote for him, in
America was in the same house, when the
opera was again sung in English by the Parepa
Rosa Company about 1871. The same night
Zelda Seguin, as Sebel, sang for the first
time in America the aria when Love Is
Young" in the third act. II is OF interest 70
note that at the American premiere the part
of Sebel was sung by a man. This, however.
was the only performance in this city IN
which this part was not assumed by woman.
Another matter Of interest is the curious fact
that Philadelphia heard the opera in Ger
man, Italian and English before she heard 1t
in French. the language in which it was writ
zen. JOHN CURTIS.
Philadelphia, May 30, 1917.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11
"The Best in the World"

Soldiers, sailors and airmen,' recites
the prayer for our fighting men nowadays
In which classification the United states
marine scores exactly twice. When lying
becomes a shade more convenient ne VIII
undoubtedly take to the air as well; at
present he only does every possible KIND OF
fighting on land and water-and few I'M
possible ones besides.
That does not do justice TO his tuii
achievement. either. He is not merely an
ordinarily handy man with all the TOOLS
of warfare, but a crack fighter all along
the line. Jack-of- -all-trades and master OF
none does not apply to the United states
marine. Just because he is the most all
around, useful fighting man we possess
and has a habit of turning up convenient
" at Peking or the FIJI Islands whenever
the first gun is fired he has gained more
fighting experience than anybody else
THE only reason United States marines
did not stand at Concord Bridge was be-
cause there were then no United States
and no marines.) With such a record OF
"frst ashore" there has been ample op-
rortunity for the corps to win the ranking
assigned it by an English officer as tine
best equipped, organized and most efficient
body of its size in the world
Therefore this week Of recruiting
wherein Major General Barnett plans to
fill his ranks to the newly extended limit
of 80 900 men has a special call for young
Americans. 1t is a chance, and probably
a last chance, to enter the war with this
corps in which the whole nation takes
especial pride. Unless We greatly over
estimate the adventuresomeness of the
Younger generations, General Barnett VIII
get his men with a rush. They need not
worry about the rest. They can be as
sured of the best of training and place
on the firing line by the side Of the wlsest
fighting men we possess.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11
Speed Up Food Control!

Delay in Congress in granting Mr..
Hoover the powers he asks to stabilize
food prices and control food exports may
prove very costly. Concerns in neutral
countries, neighbors to Germany, are bid
ding eagerly for American food supplies.
They can afford to pay an artificial price,
for Germany is drawing on them for every
bit of food which they can release, and
Germany's need practically regulates con-
ditions in their markets. The government
should, as a military precaution, be en-
powered at once to take charge of food
exports.
More than that, the just demands of our
own people have to be considered. The
protest made to Congress by representa-
tives of labor in the non-agricultural in
dustries is illuminative on this point. How
can labor be expected to do its utmost in
the prosecution Of the war. and do it cheer
fully, if the government keeps on lodging
the duty of assuring a fair distribution
Of the food supply assigned for domestic
use? Discomfort is bound to come if the
evils of food speculation and exploitation
are not eliminated. The new food con-
troller must have authority to put a
limit to the prices charged for necessaries
of life. That is an essential war power.
The great mass of the people would balk
at any scheme of rationing under which a
large part of our food production was re-
served for the use of our allies in Europe
and the remainder was left in the hands
Of unscrupuous middlemen, to be sold
here at famine prices.
Food regulation which is not complete,
and therefore equitable, will be failure.
Until there is some guarantee of stable
and reasonable prices, under government
control people of small means are likely
to adopt a "watchful waiting" policy
toward war work The government is
now urging them to buy Liberty Loan
bonds. II cannot count upon a cordial
response until it first proves its readiness
to protect the public in the matter Of food
prices.
Selfish interests are at work in Con-
gress to minimize the powers Of food
controller. Greed and privilege are plot
ting to make government food regulation a
failure. But food regulation is the real
key to a successful and united prosecution
Of the war. The food measures pending
in Congress should be strengthened and
speedcd up. Confidence in the govern
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11
A Nation Of Savages

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: When will the American people va"
I'D and realize that they are fighting some
thing more formidable than fifty kaise".
They are fighting the traditions and well
trained feelings OF a whole people.
The needless cruelty, the shocking bsros'
rism of German conduct can only be res'e'
By those who go near to the seat OF war. Law
year in France heard discharged trene'
soldier tell his experiences in German!
where he had been held as a prisoner Wn''
dangerously i'll and mutlated. One OF ~
legs had to be amputated, so, as soon as :.
could - moved from the hospital near Wv
front, he was sent TO Switzerland win s'
eral hundred other "grands blesses. Y.
his way through Germany, when the 0rs
train paused at German station, ne COW
see from where lay, too sick and weak
raise his head, how German women came
spi; at the blinded or legless or armless SO
ferors.
Only those who have seen young mahnV.. y.
shorn of all the pride and strength OF ~
youth-who have seen the cheeriulness -.
patience of the poor fellows, can resliIe - :,
pathos of such a spectacle-the desire
show respect and sympathy Is so un' A..
that tiny children stop their play TO onei s-'
passing wounded bunch OF grimy h0"e''
This feeling is universal. .,.
No, it is not universal Germany iies e.,
side the pale of ordinary human feeling, So
is dehumanized. o. my American s1S'si s.,
think of the women, Germen womeh' vi
could spit at wounded, suffering n .I,
The Kaiser's guilt may be heavy, but s-'.. -.
the brutality of the German people n
consistent for one leaders responslpii'!
is the whole system of German tnousa.
their bad wicked training, which mas
them a nation of savages. ,.s.
II we Americans can help to give 'ne'e ,s,u
pie bitter lesson-if We can maAe ~.
lose faith in the practical value OF .hi.
fulness"-then we may save the h''e I'd
dren of Germany. through the suherlhs q
humiiations Of the present gener''sSna .
Germans; the future Germans may Ian. "n
God of love and true, broad hun,an''s 's,,ss.
ism which will make them somewn"s .;ous.
the German "fatherlanG' in their cons su
ness of a broader fatherland, emora'i"S
the children OF men. .prv.
HELENE wooD;sToSs"
New York.-Juns.Sv- 1917
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11

cred pieces of pork" political grabs which
il is now sought TO get away with on the
plea of patriotism.
No such grab should have chance OF
succeeding, now Of all times. The country
is preparing to levy many drastic taxes
and is offering a huge bond issue in order
to raise funds to carry on its share IN the
war. Nobody can foretell how long the
war will last or TO what eXpedlents the
authorities may be driven to obtain money
to prosecute it, Economy is being urged
on private individuals; states and munich
palities are giving up temporarily improve
ments and public works which are deslr-
able and necessary, so that the money and
workers thus released may be diverted to
uses more strictly emergency uses. Inc
nation has no money to waste IN making
SURVEYS for projects which will never be
carried out or for improvements 70
creeks where rowboats are the prevailing
type of craft.
Every doubtful item-and, according TO
some of the bills opponents, good many
of the proposals in it are doubtful-should
be eliminated before it is voted on. If they
are not, the measure ought to suffer the
fate of its predecessor, and the country
will be left without certain much needed
improvements to its harbors and water
WAYS because some greedy politicians cared
more for pork" than for the nations
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11
Pork

Opponents Of pork" in the House Of
Representatives have made a good begin
ming in their fight against the river and
harbor bill, masquerading as prepared
ness measure. Not so bad, because not so
all-inclusive Of pork" as the bill which
was defeated in the Senate at the last ses-
sion, the present measure is nevertheless
by no means the kind of bill which should
be enacted when the country needs every
man and every dollar at work to full value.
II contains some items which are genuine
preparedness proposals, such as the ap-
preparation for harbor improvement here,
intended TO furnish safe entrance 10 the
Brooklyn navy yard for the biggest battle
ships either from the Sound or the ocean.
But its sponsor, Mr.. Small, has had to
admit that some Of It's projects are more
intimately associated" with national de-
fence than others-that ia, that there still
remain In the bill some Of the time-hon-
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11
Music for the Wounded

The recruiting play "Out There where
in Miss Laurette Taylor took care of
hospital ward, TO her own glory and the
considerable discomfort of its inmates, as
signed to music somewhat dubious part
in convaescence. Miss Taylor's music
succeeded in being very sour stuff, being
the work of a musicless cockney, and drove
the soldiers to despair. Yet when a new
case was carried in fresh from a charge
and more or less drugged with opiates she
soothed him marvellously by chanting
"Rock-a-Bye Baby" quite out of time and
tune.
Now comes Miss Lena Ashwell in an
interview from London in "The Globe" TO
give music a controlling part in hospital
regimen. Says she:
We have been absolutely astonished by
the favorable effect Of good, simple music
on wounded, war-worn soldiers II is re-
garded as the best medicine at the front
the thing which reestablishes the nervous
equilibrium more quickly than does any
thing else. Frequently we have known
stretcher patients brought in muddy and
before food drink surgical attention.
Miss Ashwell is organizing concerts for
the soldiers in France at the rate of 5000
year, and she ought to know Of what she
speaks. But also she might indulge in a
little over-enthusiasm permssiby. And
we suspect she has here. Music, whether
an organ in the street or the best of sym
phony concerts next door, is pretty dis
turbing for anybody not three-quarters
convale5cent. 1t has its use in mental
cases and it helps pass the time, like three
decker novels for the long, slow pull when
you are almost well, but not quite. AS
applied TO stretcher cases Miss Ashwell
is not much more convincing than was
Miss Laurette Taylor with her magic
lullaby.
Soldiers at the front are another mat
ter. They sing themselves constantly, and
probably nothing has done more to inspirit
New-York tribune., 1917-06-11
The Spring6eld's Kick
Not Nearly as Bad as Its Bark,
Says an Expert

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Concerning that article on the
Springfield rifle by a civil engineer in Fri
days issue, | wish to state my experience
with the gun. | am a mlitiaman, and for
three years was able to make fair show
ing on the indoor range at the 23d Regiment
Armory of Brooklyn. At Peekskill, where we
had rifle practice once year, | was only
able to qualify for the afternoon shooting,
shooter or experts class. Here | did not
make very good showing. The last time
I was there, however, | caught myself winc-
ing. not so much at the noise and recoil of
my own gun, but from the deafening, ear
splitting crack of the rife next to me.
Should the man on either side of me be
little behind the line the detonation was so
sharp as to really hurt my ears. If | moved
back on a line with him the result of my
fire was the same on some other fellow, and
should he move up on line with me some
other man that was back even with him
would have the same bad effect on his ears.
In short, every one must be on an exact
line to minimize the trouble. This particu-
lar afternoon | stuffed my ears full of cot
ton and stuffed them well. The difference
was startling. ! not only made sharpshooter
but expert. and shot better than any one
else in the company. | have never had
sore shoulder from shooting with one of our
Springfelds, but have never shot more than
a hundred shots in a day. have seen many
that have had sore shoulders, but | have
never seen a case that was not caused by the
improper holding of the gun and could not
be remedied; this for the hundred shots a
day, you understand. | believe that the
sound has a great deal to do with the ner-
vous troubles which cause yanking and clos.
ing of eyes when shooting, but feel, how
ever that the recoil of the gun for a num-
ber Of shots over hundred must affect the
riieman also. Both faults can and should
be remeded ! also believe that the sight
ing on our rifles is not the proper kind,
but that has all been discussed before.
THORNE f.. LLOYD,
New York, June 6, 1917 Sergeant