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?Hatter.
The TribOM VaT-M Its Lest endeavors to insure the
trustworthiness of every advertisement it prints and
to avoid th?- Hitiliration of all advertisements contain?
ing NiWeedinj statements or claims.
No McNamara Tactics from the
Mail Drivers.
Tht si liking mall drivers and cbaaaTcdri nay or
may not have bad some merit in their ciim-. If they
had, a dynamite plot BUC? as was iiuiicitt?.'?! l>y tin
t?-stiinony -which caused the federal grand Jury to
issue warrants for several of the union leaders was
the suri'st way to kill it. If they had not, theirs
was nut even the frail excuse of virtue driven to
desperation and violence by oppression.
in spite of the tad that the general community is
the sufferer by any labor dispute, the public Is Bl
ways inclined to the side Ot the laborer againsl the
employer, and desirous of s??eing the laborer get a
"square deal.*' But the fairness and success <>t
arbitration proceedings and the general rough Jus?
tice meted out through agreements between em?
ployers and committees of employes. In everything
from clothing trades disputes to the railway em?
ployes' demands, have convinced the public that the
strike Is n pretty poor weapon for everybody con?
cerned, and one to be used only as a last resort.
If the mail drivers' union bo proved to have made
plans to bl?nv up mail wagons and the gangs O?
the company which transports the mail between
apostofflces here, it will have succeeded only in
placing ? heavy burden of popular disfavor and
distrust on unionism. Betterment and progress, for
the public or small groups of individuals, don't come
by Haywood and McNamara methods.
Safety on Excursion Steamboats.
The isnsftir of the Iron Steamboat Company
protests bitterly against the application of the La
Follette bill so as to compel excursion boats to have
the same equipment of lifeboats and seamen that
?"?can liners have. arguing that such craft should be
treated as -river and harbor boats," and that great
ptrecautlons for safety are n<-e?lless because during
the greater portion of their routes these steamers
"could be 1 ?cached or run on a mudbank in five
minutes or less."
It may be that BUCh vessels should be differen?
tiated from oceangoing craft But that should not
mean any relaxation of requirements for safety. In
some respe.-ts there is more danger to a frail river
steamer, crowd?-?! to the rails with excursionists.
tbongb or.ls half a mile from shore, t lia n t<> a pon?
derous liner In mid-Atlantic.
When memories of the General fclocum have van?
ished It may be conceded that "river and harbor
boats-- nei^i no lifesaYing sci-vi?-e. because they can
be run ashore in a few minutes?as was the ('eneral
Sim-urn. Brit the ('eneral Slocum is not yet top*
gotten.
" Tuberculosis Day."
As a holiday or a red letter day in the calendar
'?Tuberculosis Day" would have an insufferably
grewsome sound. Y?-t it might be doubted If there
would be a date more significant of practical good
to bodily health than that, if it were appropriately
observed.
In some respects, it Is to be feared, harm has
been done by the overdevelopment of a morbid self
consciousness on matters of sanitation. It is ii??t
pood for people to feel their own pulses or take
their temperatures every hour, or to imagine the
existence of deadly "germs" In e\ery article of
food or drink that has not been artificially ster?
ilized. But much more good has certainly been
achieved, especially in respect to tuberculosis, by
dispelling the false traditions which surrounded
the disease and by teaching practical methods ot
?voiding it. of preventing its transmission and.
in a large proportion of cases, of curing it.
The setting apart of this day of special effort
may thus result in much good. It would be worth
while if it did nothing more than to remind people
that the plafiue which a generation ago was still
considered the deadliest of all and the most hope?
lessly incurable has already been subdued to an
extent that makes its remission to ? comparatively
minor place seem practically certain and its com?
plete conquest by no means impossible.
Accept the Migratory Bird Law.
Attorney General Carmody iias brought down a
storm on his head by questioning the constitutional?
ity of the law recently passed by Congress for the
protection of migratory birds. Bird lovers, who
want all feathered creatures to live, and sportsmen,
who want game birds properly protected part of the
year so they may be killed the rest of the year
without exterminating the species, alike are pro?
testing against his opinion. They take the view
that migratory game birds form a valuable source
of food supply, and the songbirds and other wild
creatures of the air are of such immeasurable value
ill protecting the crops of the country from Insects
and kindred peats thai Congress was well within
its function in adopting a law which would operate
to protect all the country from the sellishness or
carelessuess of I few states.
It Is true that this law would take out of the
hands of the state authorities to a considerable ex?
tent the right to fix oyr?n seasons for game birds.
That would not operate as a hardship, though, to
anybody except pothunters; and even they would
eventually benefit by the greater supply of game
which conservation brings. Years of effort and
study have proved that nothing short of federal
control of the situation will yield adequate protec?
tion to tiie migratory bird?, because nothing like
unity or harmony of states' action can lie obtained.
There is DO (jiiestion about the desirability of su?-h
protection or Its urgent rii-e?!. If the Conservation
Commission of this state, which SSkod Mr. Car
?jjoU/'s opinion, desl?es really to fulfil its mission |
it will not pet at naught the pood work of this bw
for the ?tike ?.f asserting a legal technhality of very
doubtful worth.
Refuting "Red Light" Literature.
The wholesale ?irrest O? g sang of young men
charged with operating ao proeojtttg in g depart
ment store waiting room hrings the coinjilete vlndi
?cation Of the "red light** tiran?a and "red lisht" lit
'?'rature?also its refutation. They?? worthies?roost
' of thein already on their way to the workhouse
? lived up to the liest traditions ?if their literary ex
pouents in dress, manner of approach nnd the like.
! Bui their intended victims did not Mick to the rub's
j of the same at all. It was due to the complaints of
shopgirls who had been approached that the work
i ings of the gang came to th?1 attention of the man
? acera and Start detectives. And it was due to Mie
I cordial co-operation of some <?f the best looking of
! the intended victims tlmt th?1 ?vidence was ?>l>
| talned on which the "white slavors" were nrrest<?d
I and several of them convicted.
Therein lies a hint for buddln-* authors, sociolo?
gists, purity leaders and all others interested. It is
?piite poealhle that some gllio fal; victims to "wliite
slavers" in dance halls, stores and cheap theatres
! through innocence and Ignorance Hut apparently
! the average young woman who is perforce bronghl
j into contact with this mlserabl?. specimen of hu
j inanity is ?piite as a hie t<> teco-gnlge him as g go?
j ciolocic.nl Invest Icutor would be. and equally aril ling
i to help eliminate him from the community.
An Indian Summer Snowstorm.
The WOO Of Cleveland is a prim reminder of man's
helplessness In the grasp of the element*. A hnrri
I cane sweeping the sea or the (?reat Lakes might he
expected to work havoc heyond the power of man's
prevention. Hut here was an Indian summer BD0W
storm paralyzing for days the activities of a great
<ity equipped with nil the appurtenances of modem
science, and entailing wholesale destruction gad
death.
Recollection*? of what New York suffered in Its
one blizzard, now nearly a generation rc, mibt
restrain us from cerisnriou?-noss against Cleveland
for not being better able to cop?? with this ?reek's
storm. But it Is permissible to wonder at the fail?
ure of inventive enterprise to provide some ways
and means Of protecting transportation and com
munlcatioi? from the paralysis which la reporte?!
Klectric cars are blocked as badly as ever were the
?>ld horsecars. nnd the mo?l modern methods ol
Btonge and distribution of food supplies fall to pro?
tect the city from the menace of famine
An International conference is now considering
the assurance of greater safety t sea. of which
there Is much need. There is occasion to consider
whether something cannot also be done |o protect
communities on land from m4**rtoOTOloglcal disasters.
There ought to be some wjiy nf maintaining the
ncessary activities of life in spite of an Indian
"rammer snowstorm or a llareta bHssard,
The Founder of Cold Storage.
The death ?'f Charlea Tailler present- a lamentable
example of the failure of an Important inventor t?>
secure for himself even a tithe of the benefltg and
profits whi?-h h?1 beetowed upon the arorld. He died
at the gge Of eighty-six, in actual di?stituti?'ti. after
years of neglect and dependence upon chanty.
Yet lie was the founder of one of the moa! Imp?t
tant teeton in the traft?? and industry of the world,
namely, artificial refrigeration aa applied to trans?
portation, Storage and manufactures. It whs nearly
forty years ago thai the tir>t cargo of froten meal
was shipped g?**ross the ocean in a vessel equipped
with cold Storage compartments according to bis
d??sipn. To-day the \ allies of sinli shipments amount
to hundr??ds of millions of dollars every year.
It was als?) largely from Mr. TeUler*s Initiative
that there were developed other gppHcationg of re
friiteration, gucfl as cold storage warahotjsee, I???
maklngt the artificial OOOltng of hotels and theatres,
the cooling and storing of beer und milk, cooling
processes in steel manufacture and in the sinking of
mine shafts, artificial |cg skating rinks, gnd many
others. As lately as last y??nr a new deelccatlng
process invente?! by him at the age of eichty-foiir
was put into practice? by g largo corporation.
His case provides a striking contrast to those of
some Inventors who so enrich themselves tbrougb
close monopolies of their works as to provoke de
manda for the abolition of the patent laws.
Colleges for Snobs and Others.
One of the liveliest movements of the hour is the
effort to make our colleges nuire democrat!'1. There
Is n??t much agreement as to method. But altnoet
the country over undergraduates nnd graduates are
Hp In arms and eager to attack the demon of snob?
bery.
As to the right and wrong ways of appioa?hing
the problem. Mr. .lohn (,'orliin presents some ex
ceedingly clear-cut hleas in the current "Century.''
Harvard claimed Mr. Corbin's early < ??Heg?? years
and Oxford his later. So that he sp??aks from a
pretty catholic experience, and. bp It added, with
no perceptible squint toward his own homes ??t
learning.
For his text there Is the classic tale of the Har?
vard professor, walking the college yard, who asked
a troubled und forlorn youth, "Are you looking fot
anybody'." "I don't know anybody this side of the
Bocky Mountains." came the amu-ver. Of guch is
the wilderness of the "outs" in our large rollggta*.
And, on the other hand, for those who would be
"ins" there lies a period ?if campaigning which Mr.
Corbin very accurately ?ompares to the feminine,
business of social climbing.
How avoid all this and permit undergraduates to
come together, man t?> man, on their merits'' Mr.
Corbin's recipe is frankly based on the Oxford and
Cambridge idea. There a man rubs Into immediate
friendships by reason of his residence in his col
W'ge. The English college is small enough to be
thoroughly individual. It is large enough to give g
student the spirit and life of the whole institution.
Tor the men nf special distinction there are the
clubs which fuse the colleges into one powerful tra?
dition, working In a directly opposite direction from
the narrowing American fraternity or society.
Just how these principles <*an be transplanted to
America is another matter. Mr. Corhln points out.
how the Harvard Vnlon, modelled after the Oxford
I'nion. failed utterly. He also disapproves the ?piad
system Which President Wilson ndvmuted for
Princeton during g late unpleasantness In that insii
tiltlon. The scheme was too mathematical, too ar
titiciiil. he seems to hold. |?ermitting none of the
natural, sturdy indivhluality whi?h Is the strength
Of 1h?' Knglish c?illege.
l'or a move in the right diiwtlon Mr. Corhln
ehooeea the new ri'sidentlal hulls at Harvard Three
?>f tfcsse nr?? l?i house the entire fr??shmaii ?lass,
each a complete community lu itself, with dining]
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ONLY AN AMBASSADORSHIP.
BRYAN Pindell, of Peor?a, for Petersburg?
WILSON Why, of course! Who is he?
hall, athletic l?eme, et.-, of hi <>"ri. 'I lui?-, tor one
\o:w Hi any rate, COtnmuultlea more ?.r less in the
manner of an BngHsta COlles-a are to l?e developed
As for Mr Richard Btofer, of Yale, who started1
iiiui-h ?>f the presen! unrest, Mr. Corbin maker* tin
timorous suggestion that perhaps if residential
i halls were established In Men Haven the opper c
' societies niigiit serve a nsefnl snd proper purpose,
ti?>t unlike that of tlie Oxford and I'anihrldge clubs.
A Chl***aa*0 man says his whlokeri ni?- tun Only
means of llvstshooA a oonstltusni <>f "Jin Ham'?."
If our loen] mail truck chsufTeuri do not abate '
their zeal for st.. .,i they will i>e no better than the
.?.?i. riding royalties or Europe.
Oelnware ?-Unies t.. the ?at?, -inn?- tails as her
BtatS embl? rn.
what0 Prance th?- land of gallantry, dei
"votes for women'".' Truly, the "age of chlvslrj Is
cone." I if /i s*4Waaf<.'
THB TALK OF THi: DAY.
'. They were from where nil New Yorker? come,
I They stood on a busy downtown corner, waiting to
?ross, while streams of trucks Snd wngons and
autos surgid up and down. The reassuring wave
..f the traflk "-quad "cop*' failed te lure them from
the curl?.
"Jed." said the elder <-f tic- pair "11 'pears to me
'sif these people wsa 'way behind "" their haultn'."
"Holy mackerel!*' roared Crsbshaw, up the dumb?
waiter shaft. "Why do you i-i'1 that "O'1 record
01 '?' snd over aRain with?.ut a Chang??""
"Because." Pennyptncher snurtly ahoutod down, "i
hate tlM darn think', ?ml I Want i?> wear It out, no I
can throw it away.** Judge.
Overheard on the top of ? 'bus!
"What's the mourning decoration doing over the
Ientrance to the National Deniocratle Club?" naked
s man of bis oorenanloa when they came sbrsast of
the place that Croker made his bsadquartsrs when si
the zenith <?f his powers,
"i don't know." exclaimed the man addressed, ?*un?
?less h is because they believe Ifurphy really nave i
ba?-k that fUfiOO." ?
Nell -He says he has OOVOr had n mal in love.
H.-lle I suppose not. He has SlWays bOOB In h?\e
with himself .?--Philadelphia Record
UNf'LK SAM. TAKK KOTICat
Oh, Uncle Sam! oh, U?eta Sam!
Perhaps yyu do not glvradamn
flow many victims you create
So long as mails don't gel there late,
Hut, Uncle Sam, nay, If you kill
The helpless victims off until
T'.iere are no people left here, ?ay.
There'll be no malls to haul away.
Then, Uncle Sam, what will you do
With all your auto tnnks when you
Have Juggernauted those who could
Have helped you and your trucks make goodl
W. J. LAMPTON.
Motorist (who ha? run over a patriarchal fowl) ?
Hut the price is very high. The bird's In his second
' chlldbood!
Irish Peasant It's the thrue word fer honor's
epekln'; thim young chickens la terrible dear at thlH
saison.?Punch.
It doesn't take much to tie up trame in New York.
! A small brown and white owl which came fluttering
j around Hen Franklin's head from the general direc
tlofl of * "It y Hall Pail! caused a blockade In Park
I How for five minutes one day recently. Nobody
I knew what brought the ?tranger into the whirl of
j downtown (?otham. But twenty newsboys, boot?
blacks and chauffeurs began to Jump Into the air In
| vain efforts to grab the visitor, and a big crowd
| collected to watch them. Finally the owl, in Its
efforta to escape, dashed against a window in The
Tribune Building, and was captured, half stunned,
by an agile youth, who scaled the wall. He received
j a few scratches, but bore the bird away In triumph,
to bestow on a fair friend who types letters.
"Mamma, was that true aliout your ha\lng a
'friend in M'-xi? ?> when that last war stattet!, and
?about a cannon ball coming right through the house
and knocking their piano all to smithereens?"
"Perfectly true, dear."
"And did tiny have any little children who had to
I practice on their piano?" _
i "Yes. they have two little Rirls nnd a little boy."
"Mamma, don't WS never have no war? in this
, cuuiitti ?"?Housto? ??..-?
THE PEOPLE'S COLUMN Anr?u^J^7,ior
A COOL HEAD ON MEXICO
English Adventurers Should Not
Force Our Hand.
To th? Editor of Th? Tribune.
Sir Under her constitutional President
Mexico eras better off then aha bas bean
? r ever eoilld be under Muerta. Let all
the ?.??"rid wnrn a usurper not to flout the
Isa arhlcl government? have ail too siow
it?.fully, net up.
What It English capitalists have in
cressed our dlAeultles In Mexico? \ fes
adventurers da not represent th?? English
nation. At haart aTSrgtaad in "anana. Ka?
? t aav? risen to any moagalttoa
.? ?.um ponrers have iione so not by
trampling upon liberty hut by arraying
tl einaelTsa In one way or another as Its
champions
Al! that the. situation requires In cool
hilada and steady hunda.
J O. MAX W KM,
Ilrooklyn. Nov. 11. 1013
THE GREAT EGG PROBLEM
Keep Hens Is the Only Solution, Says
an Expert.
Ti. Hi.- Bdlt? Of ThO Tribune
Mr: Among the baadlnga m your to?
day'a paper there la n. column entitled
i im heil Thotaaand Women in ?'?'
' ? m ggfg w.u.'' Tlil- gppeara to me like
meat things aromen plunge into so often.
without tirst going Into th?" aeenrate de?
tail? <>f tii?. matter in question.
Here are a f? >? facts irhlcb ***?>? be of
Intetreat to readers "f thai col?me from
on?? ?ho Is only ton anxious to keep the
pri ,. .in?.? n ?and imn had esperten? thai
fail regarding the difficulty In doeag tala
i ?i?t Heptemher, In arder to aapplaoianl
H . ? 1 Lim my o\\ n farm, I
Senl OUt 1.011 rwtlce? to farmers who are
making a apajdattj In agg praductlan of?
ferlng them a fair prtca- that is. I canta
shove the highest market qaatstkm,
?Thick started In *>rtobar with ::t cents.
The n ill) quotation la not settled by ooaav?
mlssloa men, as these hull?.s ?i|ipenr to
think, hut by th?- illff.riiice hetween th??.
supply nnd the demand Out of these no
tl??cs I have otily had about twenty re?
pitas nCMpttng my firm as a means of dls
paafag at their aerara, not Itaeaaaa say
t.-rnis w.-ie not satisfactory, but h**caunc
their hens wer?? not laying. < >f course,
storage ????? we do not know aafcrthlng
? il'out. an we do not handle thi-m. Hut it
may be of interest to people to know that
high prices are v? i... <lls.'m-re?-able to firms
handling strictly fresh eggs, nnd It stands
10 reason that eggs boiisht from the
faitiiet ut B ??iits cannot l>o sold for M
cents, and tho fainn-r Is only too anxious
to have low prices. It costs Just as much
to maintain a 500-hen plant producing at
the rate of 10 per cent, which Is a ?rood
averajre at this season, as It does later on
t?i proiluc,. ;,n per cent or 60 per cent. The
outcry of the Housewives' League seems
a little childish, as the sggg will remain
on the hanils of the farmer, who w_l find
it ?'beashar to dispose of hla eggs In his
own n.duhborhood than to ship th. in to
New York if the prl??<?n are not so that
they will he able to make a bare living.
As to ('?ri?an, Austrian and English
eg?*?, being imported, this has been tried
with very poor results, as the sea air la
found to ba aery injurious to ?ggs and
the fiuality will be very poor and very
unhealthy.
The best and most reasonable solution
would be for this league to go on a cam?
paign to persuade every land or plot
owner to k??ep a few hens in order to in?
crease the supply of eggs at the bad sea?
s' n, viz , from August 1?> to January 1. I
repeat that the price Is I Sg UM led by th?
BUPply, not by the commissioner, and
that the Ilous?.wives' League will Injure ?
the commissioner more than the dealer hy j
"boycotting." K l'()RI.ANL>.
No. KJ West 40th street, Nov. 10, 1913.
AN INDORSEMENT.
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: May I ??rave your Indulgence to
(n*>atsplt?0*1 rally apeahlng) extend my hand
[to Mr Walker, and say "Thank you." for
'h's Intelligent letter, published In Istur?
! day'? Tribune ?,n "l^trty an?l City Bus!
< ri.-ss -Mr. Plrd's Methods Ar* I'amned by
? a Progressive"?
Permit me abo to doff my hat -to Mr.
Its? MscAdsm for his ?.pinion esprossed
In hla letter, also published In your 1st?
? urday Issue, under the title "I'proot Tsm?
msn-f." ERNKST P. glaOCUM.
i \. W York. Nov. 11. MS.
DEDICATING INFANTS
It Is a Risky Tusiness. an Observing
Reader Remarks.
, To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: gome time Bge a poet Of more or
less repute referred te what might happen
to the best laid plans of mice and men.
Hut mice and men go on laying their
plans Just the same.
(?ne of the most ridiculous of these well
laid plans Is that Just ?-hi-onl'-lo?! in con- |
nectlon with the dedication by the parent
of a year-old son t?> ? certain form
of missionary work. In the tirst place?
?Heb a dedication <]>,ea DOt deserve to
? ad, li?'<-aiiKe the child has a right
t?. choose its own course of action, With?
i? .t any r> gSld what?-ver for the ?ourse
laid out for tt by Its parents, nnd some
tens of thousands of young nun and
msldsni tak?. Sdvsntage Of this opportu?
nity eseh year. Id the second riace. the.
i exp?rience of a targe army of proud
parent! "ho have ehOSSn professions for
! their children early In life, orilv to tea the
boy picked for the pulpit mining drinks at?
the bar, the boy chosen for the ermine
i twirling the bail on the diamond, the boy
I trained for S college professorship be
i Coming a cleric In a grocery store, should
\ oon*/lt*-ce the parent that It Is l?lle to dedl
cats an Infant of twelv. months to an>
! thlna*.
! Children do now and then follow in the
footsteps of their fathers, but it is not of
i?? coN that the first John Allants d??li- ;
catad his sun to the Presidency, <>r that
i the elder I'ltt ever dedicaUd his son to
! the post to which he attained. It Is all
very well to dedicate monuments to t
1 ? .tuse, as they lack that quality known ,1s
j freo moral agency; It Is well enough for
i a man to dedicate himself to some great
i work. Hut It Is a poor day's work when a
! parent dedicates a son?or a daughter?to
1 a task which that child may repudiate at
the flist-snpportunlty. F. I*. OHTON.
I Brooklyn. Nov. 9, 1918.
FROM AN IRATE PARENT
Children Must Attend Schools?But
There Are No Schools!
To the Kdttor of The Tribuna.
Sir: The law requires that ever> child
of achool age shall attend school, and
provides a penalty for failure to observe
Its requirements, but It does not provide
a penalty for failure to provide adequate
fncllltles in the way of accommodation in
connection therewith. A law of this char
SCter is unjust and an outrageous farce,
Inasmuch as all children should le
placed on equal terms. In some sections.
1 of the city parents are lined for disre?
garding the law, while In others some
?are not admitted to the schools on *ac
! count of the lack of accommodation. The
i law cannot he Invoked to compel the au
I thorltle8 to give these children a fair
| deal. Bvsa the children who attend the
part-time sessions are not being treated
fairly, because others who receive the ad?
vantages of full sessions are outdistancing
I them In the quest of an education.
j At the beginning of the school terms
In February and September of this year
a son of mine was reje?ted. If 1 lived
In certsln sections of the city therms a
probability that I would have been^ined
for neglecting to send my son to school.
In my neighborhood they v. Ill not furnish
my child with accommodation, yet I have
no redress, and my son Is losing the ad
Mintages accorded other children by the
refusal of the school authorities to fur
Btsk hli.i tuition
if I had tin) means 1 woul?! resort to the
courts for redress, hut the cost of employ?
l?g counsel precludes this course I ?rouldi
however, welcome an opportunity to coo?
tribute to the extent of ray ability in
support of a movement to rt medj the <\
plorable educational COftdll
have prevailed year after rear, artth se
prospect of improvement.
The present law should hj.amendefi to
make it operative both ways T
would have amrb> eeatlng sccoi
uons for all. Our officials have tx
iroasly lasasetanl in failing to aatictpati
the needs of the city in ke.-ping pace wttl
its development. There ahould be no fur?
rl.er appropriations f.?r other public worlu
until the school facilities meet Um
qulrementa They sti??uid then be
talm-d on the proper basis sad new
mltted to lag behind the growth ??
tattoo, JAS. w. BBLUNOBR
No. MM Hoe ave . The Hronx. Nov. ?1,
IMS,
AN HISTORIC CHURCH
More Facts as to the Church of the
Divine Paternity.
To the Kdltor of The Trlhune
Fir: In your issue of this date. ref*-rnn|
to the seventy-fifth anniversary of the es?
tablishment of the parish of the church
Of the I'ivine Paternity. I MS :... nettSt
of the location of the building as 1 recall
it. Dr. Chapin's church, known as the
"Fourth Universellst/' stood on the
northeast ?-orner of Murray and Church
streets, and probablv remained there until
|SJgj
You speak of the congregation occupy?
ing a church en Duane street. Th? only
church building on this street that l can
mcall was Or. Alexander's riSSUJltfltal
hu? in. on the south? ist coiner of '.'-an?
and Church streets. These two churches.
with St. Peters ami St. Pads, were
? ited as the origin of the name of the
street, but UMSO Who kBOW award I I ??
honor to St. Paul's.
WIM,IAN R COCK 0*41).
Piainflehi, N. J., Nov. in. 1013.
WHO WAS THE DICTATOR*
To the Kdltor of The Tribune
Sir: Being deeply Impressed hy the close
and accurate reason of MAs Av?rai?
American Male,'' which so dearly de?
monstrates the hopeless Inferiority of thi
male, it would deeply Interest the writer
to learn Whether th? views which he ex?
presses were evolved entirely by himself,
or whether he was SSS'StSd by 0B0 of the
superior aex.
OBOHOri I M0BBW00D.
New York, Nov. 11. 101"
SUPPORT FOR GEN. BINGHAM.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The proposition to have ?."eneial
Hingham again ns New fsrk*i l'o'i?'6
Commissioner Is Indeed truly ?r"M0U< kt 'or
the plain reason that no qualirhattos '?>?
a publi?- post- esp. dally so dtfteult ? I""1"
as is that of the head of the N?-w >'ork
Pillee Department-equals that of ? ?"**?"
rlteine eipmlenoe long fully tried "ut
and never found wanting. A. U B
New York, Nov. 11, 1913.
A TAR HEEL TRIUMPH.
Prom The Chsrtaeton Kowa and Courier.
one hundred tbouesad men sis ?aid tlJ
bave handled pick and shovel on North
Carolina's "<?ou?l Roads Day." This la a
triumph. A few Tar Heels have been
known to work now and then, but to
make 100.000 of them do It at the sam?
time Is unprecedented.
POKER AND THE INCOME TAX.
From The Haltimore Sun.
A New York capitalist raises the ques?
tion whether his poker losses of $1.W?
a year ar? to be deducte?! from his In?
come as listed for tar.ation. If poker >?
his regular business Secietary McAdoo
might decide the ?1.100 Is exempt. But
with a man who loses ll.iuo a year poKer
is not an accompllslrment or a profes?
sion; It is an infirmity.