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Germany'? Year at Sea.
In surveying the fortunes of German
arms in the past year it was manifestly
impossible for the most B&nguinc patriot
ake it appear by any means that the
exploits and actual achievements at s? a
.is gratifying; ami reassuring to the
an nation as those on land. Captain
us, on? of th< ' ami most
tworthy of the German naval
chroniclers, has presented the present state
(Taira in as favorable a light as it will
when we compare his review of
the year's event ? extravagant pre
wer? i urrenl in the early
month at war it is plain that the Ger
. populace, misled by indiscreet en
thttsiasts and with little knowledge of
.'. warfare, must to-day be suffering
under son disillusionment.
There are perhaps not many German
critics so genuinely simple as our own
Herr Rid e wildest of his com?
ments and prophecies were matched by
German.- who probably knew better, such
M the ridiculous Reventlow. With all his
desire to make the besl of a discouraging
case. Captain I' unable to justify
the prom ilish proph?
naval man himself, he is clearly aware of
Germany's naval
ar. He points out that the enor
: uperiority of th< pposing
Germsny determined "the principle of
in harbor while at
tempting ? enemy through
r warfare, particularly with aub
? m I mines to a point where the
? will offer some
It is amusing to se?
? quencea with the
at in the first twelve months
"it ha.- been possible sorely to wound the
. ? d the very
utmost ? aid, for Captain
Per,-: irse aware that the British
yvith all allowance for losses, is at
Ml as it was when the war
began and that the r.H?i.- against the Ger?
man fleet are now greater than ever.
Nine months ingenious Hen
Ridder thought * reasonable on the
gth of a few submarine successes to
anticipate that the fleets would "meet on
end of the year
1915." 11 ? !y such an event
appears to-day!
? ? warfare on com
! ? i . with ex?
empli? ? fail to see
that with the complete ex
maritime commerce
age done by the U
? rita himself
mk ychologica)
Er ' with
that "the submarine danger
uno' weighs like a nightmare
washed
land. igh "view,- may differ
I." yet
"the rally cherished in
1 narine campaign
will ind for
peac? singularly modest
ambition as . with the brave
boast thai with the United
Kingdom wou ?? hroupht to a
Standstill by the German blockade.
Captain P? r iver, 1. not in?
clined to make too much of the occasions
Which were hailed by less prudent patriots
at glori '.. triumphs. He is discreetly
pilent on the subject of the bombardments
of the English coast and he does not try
to show. SB Herr Ridder did, that Admiral
von Spec's victory off Chili was won
against odds, or that the sinking of two
of Cradock'a cruisers was, as "The
Evening Post" hysterically maintained,
"a smashing blow to Hritish naval ?'lis?
tige." He attributes it i uperi
?uity of armament on the German suie
and pointa out that in the few naval
lights that have occurred in the present
war tin issue has always depended on
gunfire, in conclusion he is obliged to
stick in the main to generalities, to con?
trast the "offensive spirit" of the Germans
with the caution of the British, and to
dwell particularly on the overwhelming
material ad vantage of the enemy. He
makes out the best case possible for Ger?
man hopes, yet when all is said there is
little in his summary to encourage the
enthusiastic expectations of a year ago.
Dictating to Cupid.
It would be interesting to know, if a
collection of statistics on the subject wire
possible, what percentage of young people
make resolutions concerning marriage -
for example, at what age they will accept
the yoke, at what income, under what
auspices?and what proportion of these
fulfil the conditions they set themselves.
A very small proportion, probably, par?
ticularly among the young men, who are
supposed to have the advantage of initi?
ative in such matter? and who commonly
consider themselves quit? capable of de?
creeing their own matrimonial destinies,
but who fail miserably at the pinch.
Among the young women, whose role
in COUrtship i* popularly considered ti
passive (an age-old fallacy), there i
l>e more who manipulate their fortune
suit their self-imposed retpiireme
But certainly not enough more to
courage the member! of the now dul
girl Itudentl at the Harvard Sum
School, who, it is reported, have prom
not to marry before tiny are twenty
years old or to become the wivei of i
whose incomes fall below $2,000 each
nually. It is safe to predict that (
!hr?i' modest pledges,, unless the
Studentl are more or less than htm
will be more honored in the bri-ach thai
the observance. Lore laughs at s
dictation.
An American Atrocity.
l-'rom time to time since August 1,1!
Americans have been expressing t.
unofficial sense of outrage in behalf
civilization over the reports of ntroci
perpetrated by belligerents in conque
territory. At peace and in possession
their senses, they have unmitigatcdly c
demned the acts of unnerved soldiery
the midst of war's chaos and have piou
refused to believe that Americans un
the most provoking circumstances CO
be guilty of such appalling deeds.
But, unfortunately for their self-iste
on this score, extended and strengthei
over a year of European bloodshed, tl
are now confronted with the account o:
lynching at Temple. Tex., which for sh'
barbarism seems unsurpassed by any
the atrocities reported out of the war zo
And these countrymen who burned 1
negro in their public square, who repe
edly pushed him hacj. into the llame.? wh
their boys and girls applauded, and w
- a last concession to insensate fu
hanged his charred and dismembered bo
to a telegraph pole, were not driven m
by the strain of war. While at peace a
under the protection of their own la
they simply relapsed into a savagery
amp?ete as ever Red Indian display
dancing in glee about his tortured enerc
Though one of the most ghastly lync
inga on record, this mob murder at Temp
Tex., is only one of a long list of simil
atrocities to which the ?neater part of t
country has contributed. Would soldie
? ! from such a population refra
in time of war from the inconceivable br
talities toward those they hated and d
spised of which they are capable in tir
nt peace? Can any American put th
question to himself without acknowledge
in deepest humility that no longer may 1
point the finger of scorn across the watei
Rights of "Bloodless Healers."
The decision of the Treasury Depar
ment establishing the right.? of ostoopatl
under the new anti-narcotic law is in r
way surprising. In those states where tl
?n type of bonesetter is admitted I
registration on a par with the phj
he is to enjoy the same privileges a? tr
physician, and ,the Bureau of Narcot
Drug? has accordingly been instructe
that in such states the applications h
osteopaths must he honored impartially
This is no more than reasonable. It
idle to attempt to curtail their freedom i
?rinor matters after placing them on a
equality with medical practitioners i
matters more essential, once it was d<
cided to grant them their present priv
leges ihey were justified in expecting mon
nor is it possible to gee why in this pai
ticular their h.lom should be curtaile
if it was proper to grant them greate
freedom in other particulars.
Similarly, before long the optomi
will probably be clamoring for privilege
at present denied them, and in reS]
those they enjoy already it is highly pro!
able that further concessions will b
Having won the inch, they wi
hardly fail to claim the ell.
Rome and The Hague.
When, recently, hope.? were held out o
Benedict XV's initiative in an attempt t
re-establish peace, the Hutch government
? e of the neutrals most vitally inter
ested. decided to send a ten porarj and ex
traordinary envoy to the Vatican, in orde
to keep in direct contact with the plans o
the Holy See. Hitherto the Netherlandl
had been represented diplomatically on!;
at the Quirinal.
The appointment of this envoy to th?
Pope has produced an unfortunate effec
upon Italian susceptibilities, or, rather, i
has brought to the boiling point resent
ments that had been simmering there sinc<
the great powers placed the organizatioi
of the nnw forgotten Albanian gendar
merie in the hands of Dutch officers. In thi
hotbed of Austro-Italian intrigue? which
Avlona and Durazzo were at thai time
these Hollanders, placed in an alti .
impossible position, were openly accused by
the Italian favoring Austrian in?
fluences.
New fuel was added to the flame when
Italy declared war, for the Dutch press,
although largely anti-German, pointedly
expressed its most unflattering opinion of
the step. So now Italy has chosen to
see the hand of German diplomacy in the
appointment of the Dutch special envoy
to the Vatican, He. ?1 is believed and
openly asserted in Rome, il nothing less
than a disguised substitute for thi
man and Bavarian envoys to the Holy See,
who were recalled from their posts on the
Italian declaration of war. His hidden
mission, according to this view, is to re?
store, via The Hague, the interrupted com?
munication between Berlin and the Vati?
can.
Whatever the truth of these rasp
i* is evident that the usefulness of this
Dutch special envoy in the interests of
peace came to an end the moment he wai
appointed. Indeed, the position of the
Netherlandl in this war is as uncomfort?
able diplomatically as h is economically. A
portion of the French pre?> has beei
rying on an embittered campaign a.
the country ever since it decided, however
great its sympathy for Belgium, n
,)ffi-r itself as a second victim of German
ruthlessness; and part of the English prest.i
has openly threatened it with the lo of
its colonies for the RIM reason.
Floating mines are being washed up Ml
its shores by the hundred, a surprisingly
large number of them "unidentifiable" as
to their origin; its merchant ships are held
up with admirable punctuality by H? it i h
patrol-, and occasionally an Hnteitwabod
applies to its fishing smacks the now fa?
miliar method. With the export of German
coal forbidden, Holland must rely for its
fuel supply upon England, bul its sub ??
?juently increased demand on the English
market is there looked upon as prima facie
evidence of the ultimate German destina?
tion of the increase, and the same holds
good of the country's increase?) need of
cotton, part of which, especially in the
form of yarn for further manufacture, it
formerly obtained from Germany.
As for the future, the conviction is gain?
ing ground in the Netherlands that an Al?
lied victory would mean a forc?d cession
of the right bank of the Scheldt to Bel?
gium, with, as compensation, a slice of
German territory, which the country doei
not want, and could not possibly hold. It
is not too much to say, in all seriousness,
thai in this war Holland is deciilcdly "in
Dutch."
The Cotton States Are Learning Their
Lesson.
The South is learning again the lesson
it learned in lSOl-Vi??and then forgot.
It is trying to get away from the great
dependence on a single crop. Cotton WM
and is the staple of the Gulf States. But
it is a staple whose value is determined
largely by the condition of distant for?
eign markets, and whose sale may be
curtailed disastrously by a great war.
Wb.cn the Southern states seceded they
found themselves rich in unsalable cotton
and pool- in food supply crops. From
1864 on the Southern armies were al?
ways short of provisions and forage. The
confidential letters of Gen? ral I.ee to
President Davis, recently published, show
how constantly the fear of starvation or
semi-starvation haunted Lee's mind, and
how seriously the lack of food supplies
embarrassed him in his military activities.
Last summer the cotton planters had
another great shock. They thought that
they had entirely lost their market in
Germany and Austria-Hungary and f?
that their exporta to the rest of Europe
would also be materially cut down. In
their distress they turned for salvation
to a scheme of financing a storage of the
1914 crop until the European blockade
should be lifted.
They were mistaken as to the 1>
the German market. As The Tribune
pointed out the other ?lay, Germany lias
probably obtained this year more than
75 per cent of her normal cotton supply?
most of it going in through neutral coun?
tries. Our total cotton export for L914-'15
will not fall more than 10 per cent below
the total for 1913-'14.
Nevertheless the South has taken no?
tice of a precarious situation. It has
begun to strike a better balance m agri?
cultural production. According to esti?
mates of "The Manufacture!-' Ki^cord,"
of Baltimore, the Southern states have
incrensed their grain production this year
by 292,021,000 bushels. Among the big
gaintrs are the cotton states of Alabama,
with an increase of 16,905,000 bushels;
Arkansas, with 23,591,000; Georgia, with
18,701,000; ! i na, with 16,248,000;
Mississippi, with 19,914,000; Tenn?
with 1 1,886,00 I; Oklahoma, with 41
and Texas, with 58,695,000. The Smith's
train in grain production is "J.1 per cent,
while the gain of the country at large is
only 5V4 per cent.
This is a sensible readjustment which
ought to continue until the cotton
get away completely from the notion that
'.;.-?? to put all one'a eggs m a single
basket. Grain and foodstuffs will un?
doubtedly remain a* a premium and cotton
at a discount as long as the war con
and for ;. ?Me period after
peace comes, while th.- exha i ted nation
are recovering their productive energy.
Seven hundred and thirty mur
dime each are a refutation of th?
of loving."
Ford Hopea to Live and Work Till 85
Head li
Why the arbitrary limit?
a
It il heat wave that come-- to a
?eck end.
College Bred Farm Hands.
an.)
adventur . . . among college
stuilents of New England was put in evidence
lay when thirty seven of them left for
t, Kan., ..nd the wheat tie!?).-, after hav
ing s;gned rontia>
Employment bureau in Boston. Men
from Harvard, Tufts, Boston College, Holy
"tute of Technology and Wei
ieynn were included, and they have been
promised *'?' a day. with board and lodging, by
Kansas jrrain growers. The men par their
own fares, and expec* to be gone until ths
opening of the fall term. We are told that
"many of them are athletes and expec I
hardened to * Ane mettle to ro on the jrrid
iron in October" Ar.other party is being
gathered to leave som<* t me next wed
-, ment
bureau is m the imn igranl s'ution on Long
n Boat ?!
Junius Brutus Booth at Waterloo.
?? ?
Many years ago a visitor.?' hook was kept in
the farmhouse of La Helle Alliance, and in its
pages, on June 3, 1826, a tourist from the
? I S'ates raadc the following entry: "I
this day vii ? aid of Waterloo, where
Napoleon, by the misconduct of an onV?
: to yield the palm i
pcrioi may one day
? ?
eentra
?mature oppoi te I i 'unius
- Booth, c ?
?lui not grant the i
? ? ?mething i-l-?- eama to ,
ly-nina year? lat. r 1
? ? actor, shot ? l Ineoln m
Ford's Theatre, ..
thai et Earope, lo it?
centre. I
THE COURSE OF THE WA]
Germany's Position Compared
That of the Confederacy.
To the Fditor of The Tribune.
Sir: As it looks now, the German ar
will have accomplished their work on
'i frontier by the capture of Wa
und the rout of the Russian armie?.
.; a suitable guard against foray
Ought to be possible for the Kaiser to
Some 4,000,000 troops across Germany to
western front and begin his drive on Ci
and Paris by the first of October.
This seems to be what the grim Kitch
and the silent Joffre have been waiting
so patiently, and for which they will be .
prepared. .
By that time the arms and the msn
the three lines of defences will be com*.
and the more millions of Germans that
burled against these entanglements the n
food there will be for machine guns
".soixante-quinzes." No one doubts that
(?ermans will come on with the same bra'
rind recklessness that the Mahdists sho
at Omdurman, but are they not liable
meet the same fate? It is absolutely ne
,?ary that they should conquer the French
English by the same irresistible drive I
swept away the hosts of Russia, but is
physical.*/ possible? It was just such a s
ation which compelled Lee to attack
dread height? of destiny" at Gettysburg
after that to Btand at bay for nearly
years while the South bled to ?lei
All this time the Italians will be hang
on one flank of Austria and the entire rr
tary strength of Turkey will be needed
hold the Dardanelles, while fresh arms
ammunition will be pouring aero.s.? the
lantic to the Allies.
I no' Germany in precisely the same c
Southern Confederacy for
in at the end of August, L843. It I
two years of almost uninterrupted victoi
redit, and all Europe was sure tha'
would emerge victorious, but the iron r
was ?ill around it, and it only required
bulldog tenacity of Grant to draw this r
tighter and tighter until the South *
strangled.
?Veely stated that it is never possi
completely to crush a nation, but can Germi
expect to fare any better than the South d
The lattcr's military power was so en
plctely crushed that there never has b4
even the possibility of its resurrection,
surviving population was treated generou
and allowed to pursue all forms of industr
activity, but its army and navy vanished il
the shades of historv, and will there rema
XOTA BENE
Floral niufT. Fla.. July 2-i, 1915.
"We and the English."
To the Fditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Xo one can be more grateful for '
support rendered the Allies by The N(
York Tribune than the undersigned, and
recall that it was by the courtesy of yo
paper that I had the privilege of bceomi
a contributor to your correspondence c<
umn as far back as 1SR8. I am the mo
sorry on this account to read your lead?
?'We and thr English," in to-day's issue.
You have always freely acknowledged th
the Allies are f.ghting the cause of this con
try, which is wholly wrapped up in that
the Allies. This is surely 'rue, and it al
is as surely true that on this account tl
United Stares is reaping the maximum ben
? ' with the minimum of co?t. Granted Fn
land's blockade is injuring rhis country
a cer'ain extent, I should have supposed *h
in 'ill the circumsrances it would have bon
this calmly and patiently.
Anything ?har the Allies can do indivi.
ually or collectively to bring this war to i
only logical ronclusion- viz.. the utter d
of Germany is to the interest of tl
whole civilized world in general and to th
country perhaps in particular. That th
blockade is injuring Germany is evidonc?
by the erfort? that country is making t
upset it, a.id by the fact that she is willin
? o mitieite to a great extent her submarin
warfare against Fngland in return for h*
calling off the blockade, a bargain whic
would he very much on the side of German;
ns she well knows.
Germany heera" this war and Fncland wi
finish it, and th 'hour in any wa
belittling her Allies, all of whom have fough
most gloriously and valiantly, but Brital
can and will ?ro further rhan any of th
-, and il i? that country whieh will fui
the de frrace. Fngland's huge ra
source? are by no means exhausted, and it i
that < my has abou
cd her zenith of power and will r-ro-,
weaker week by week, whilst KnjrlanH wil
stronger and stroncer from th
I d.
Surely, with the next to nothing that thi
eountry i? losing in thi- >"amc struggle, i
can afford to be patient, even at the rosr o
a little inconvenience and treasure, and con
sent more cheerfully to all the Allies are do
attain their much desired end.
H vVILLOUGHBY
New York, .Inly 29, 1
German Arbitrariness.
To th" Fditor of The Tribune.
? T.eelanaw ea?e brings to lijjh* ,
inomaly in the German position
Great Britain and her Allies having e?'ah
tual, hence legal, hlnckad?
arrainst German commerce throuerh Germar
??t neu'ral por's, the German Fn.
rcoi ? ?. 1015, ? "retalia
tory measure" w-iereby a number of .
inherently incapable of any use for war pur?
. among them flax, were added to the
lolllta contraband." It was under
conditions that a ?hip carrying a carpo
of flax was destroyed. The only use of flax
wh;ch occurs to the mind as making
?ation in the present war is
in the form of a handkerchief, which in the
? of an allied soldier might serve Hi
an emergency protection against Germany's
asphyxiating cases.
The time h,.s come to take up with G?r
m?ny 'lie , . e-'^rr the csn make
law ' -If by calling enythil .
I." The sinking of an Am?
erican sh : of 'he presence of a
cargo of flax on hoard is another proof of
the ruthlers arbitrariness with which Ger
? mdamental principles of in
law. MAURICE LEON.
J ? ... Jal?, :?:. I
Deportation Demanded.
S Fditor- of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you kindly inform us w! 1?e
ites does not enforce the law for
? ng undesirable aliens. Their un?
doubted activity in the seven recent fires
hips, in the organized
all the armament plant? in New
d, at the Standard ? >j 1 >*rds and else
* rely to the fact that
.a should be at one .? tously
eed.
.A buy a country
n?a she could place thee people
there. . ? undesinu until
ind where thi ; ir-ue
their nefarious schemes wil -
IgO to the world at :?r?;e
Yoik, July 2''., lilt, M. ' i' I
"THE CITY OF THE BROKEN HEART."
MORE WEST POINTS NEEDED"
Our Land Grant Agricultural Col?
leges Might Give Adequate
Military Instruction.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial on "More West Points
Needed" Intere ts me. Is the general public
aware that there is a chain of government
schools giving more or less of military in?
struction now existing: in this country ? I
refer to the land grant colleges established
by Congress by the Morrill act in 1862.
Having in mind the ?lifticulty in obtaining
trained officers at that stage of the Civil
War, it wai especially enacted by the legis?
lators of th< ?e ?lays that military science be
included with the agricultural and mechanic
art- in the rc<i>iired curriculum of those
colleges.
As a result, we have fifty-one of these engi?
neering schools in the various states turning
out men trained in technical subjects ~nd
wi'h the rudiments of a military education,
imparted by regular army officers detailed
for the purpose,
The land grunt colleges include, among
others, Massachusetts Institute of Technol?
ogy, Cornell, Purdue and the great state uni?
versities of Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Cali?
fornia and Pennsylvania, with universities
of Porto Rico and 'he College of Hawaii,
making at the present, time a total of fifty
one.
The scope of th??e land grant colleges is
little undei aven by their own alumni,
but they represent the strongest educational'
fores in the lan?l to-day. This educational I
force is partly military. When, some months,
since, it was thought expedient for the gov-,
ernm?r.' to estabbsh ne* Weat Points in;
each state, some of these land grant colleges!
then- abilit] 'o reach more available!
young men a* lesa additional cost through
preaent in titutiom than by any other
method.
They purposed raising the standard of
mili'ary training of all ?tudenta and afford?
ing some of them the opportunity of special?
izing in military arts. We find that the
ralty of Illinois, with an attendance of!
mere than li.non, has added artillery equip?
ment of about M'iO/kiO by state appropri?
ation, and Ohio State University, with an at?
tendance of 5,000, has arranged a course in
military engineering as soon as the govern?
ment has made a teaching force available.
With this strong chain of colleges much
advance could he made in the training of
aviators. With their trained athletes and
engineers a constant stream of experts in
this field could he started by the installation
of one or more machines at ea'-h institution,
for a large campus and enormous .shops are
to be found at practically every one of th?'S<>
schools.
Cornel!, Massachusetts Institute, Louisiana
and ?oma of the seaboard and island uni?
versities are so situated that they could have
a submarine squad.
Practical experience of at least a year or
?o in the regular army after graduation from
any of these lar.d grant schools would
a r?serve oil of th" very highest I
grade "t colleges are airead)
rig Weat Point . as ii evidenced by
scores of their graduate;, who are efficiently
serving as officera of even high rank in our
army to-day.
These land grant colleges were founded to
vecome supplemental y Wist Points. Their
growth hai been phenomenal, their efficiency
marked. Their technical training in this day
of machine guns, cement trenches, automobile I
and vast railroad equipment is easily the peer;
of West Point'?. A greater attention to mili-!
tary science will give our country a stream I
' H! ers from twoscore sources to augment)
the most thorough tactical work of our awn
West Point. We have more West Point-. Wei
should u?e them. GEORGE N. COLE.
New York, duly 26, IMS.
Training of More Officers.
To the Editor of The Tribu- ?
Sir- Perhaps the most practical resource,
under possible conditions, for increasing the
number of officers for the army would be by
' our existing military* establishment at
West Point. That is to say, the cost perl
eapita of educating an officer with an ad
?? in the element of time, based on the
relative expenditure involved in the. enlarge
ment of the present equipment and the dupli?
cation of a similar establishment elsewhere,
would probably be largely in favor of the
West Point institution.
It may be feasible, too-indeed, it may
turn out to be very desirable under a certain
state of affairs to adopt temporarily and
adapt an abrnlg-ment of the existing course.
While this w.mld, for the time being, modify
the long prevailing high standard of prepara?
tion, it only needs to recall the history of
past conditions that have occurred in our
army organisation in times of urgent need
to justify it.
Meanwhile there is the national guard.
Taken seriously, expanded and trained after
the manner proposed by General O'P.yan, and
approved by experienced army officers, its po?
tentiality as a resource in possible crises may
well be considered worth while. Fostered by
the government and by concerted action of
all the states, it could be made in re i
national guard. JOHN Y. CULYER.
New York. July 2?, 1915.
Republican Sentiment in the West.
To rhe Fdiroi of The Tribune.
Sir: Your advice to Republicans to sup?
port Wilson for President if German sedi
tionists continue to threaten him is timely
and eminently patriotic. And they will do it.
They will do what the war Democrats did for
Lincoln in l*??<\ and the seditioni.-t? of
1916 will get the answer that the secession
? In that memorable year. There is no
room in this country for a naturalized citizen
who will conspire again.?' a President for do
ing his duty, arid President Wilson is doing
his as nobly as did rhe martyred Lincoln.
There are twenty-five or thirty of as Repub?
licans in one family connection, and Wilson
would fret every on? of them on such an issue
.: - jrou present
"By heck," this country shall not be
manized 'he ballot box will .?etfle that No
Kaiser, or "Kaiserliche," me'hods for this
country. The Germans who are here e;or
wiselj away from such conditions, and it is
amazing thaf any of them should want to
sow the seed of such government here. Mr.
Hryan is finding out in California that no
body wants war. but that the country is not
for a "molly coddle" peace. Rryan's betrayal
of Wilson has caused him many a sneer since
here. H? is treated respectfully -
Americans usually respect free ipeech i not
?o in Germany) but behind the respect
there is manifest a contempt that he must
feel if he has any feeling.
It is surp' -e how Roosevelt sen
timen' is again on the rise. For every Rryan
?wmpathi.'er 'here are twenty for Ron
The "sponge" men may he found siding with
Bryan, but the men who "produce" are again
for the man with the "punch.'' Even German
sympathisers have no faith In Bi
sincerity. They thir.k he is playing a ?tame
for Bryan. Who knows? He ha-- played so
many. Resinning with 1891 . been
"heads I win, tails you lose" with Bryan ever
and always.
That man Fourcorr.ers, a prototype of
Johann Moil, who conducts n German
propagandist newspaper in 'he Fnglish Ian- i
guage in your city, who ag Mr.
? praises and damning Mr Wilson -I
do not know whether he is an American citi?
zen, but I do know that if he conducted him?
self against the government in his native
Germany as he has against our povernment
here they would jail him in a jiffy for
treason. And yet we permit him to sow the
SOtds of assassination with hardly a protest.
"How long, oh! Lord, how long""
CONRAD SCHWEITZER.
Los Angeles, Ju!> 28, 1915.
P. S. I am not of German origin as my
name might indicate. My ancestors were
Swiss. (*_ s.
Three Questions.
To the Editor 'of The Tribune.
Sir: Kindly let me know through the col?
umns of your paper (1) if there was any
undersea boat used in the Revolution of 177S,
21 when the first successful undersea boat
was built and in what country; i3?
Petersburg and Petrograd one and the ,
P?a??- READER.
New York, July 27, IVIT..
I li No. (2) Drebbel, a Hollander, resident
in England, is said to have constructed such1
a boat in 1620. Other experimental boat.4 i
were built in the eighteenth century. The
first used for offensive purpose with some
that of the American. Robert
Fulton. It wa. built ia 1S01. .3; Yes. I
ON FOREIGN MANNERS
German Courtesy Much Mori in
Evidence than English.
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: It is with great interest that I re??l
each day the letters in y rlttea
by persons of many opinion -qually
certain of their staterr.
Before the sinking of th? I I *??
told by a lady with whom [ wa?
I was the first really neutral person she had
met. With the sinking of the ! laitaaia my
feelings swung, not away fi >;?-rr?n
people, but away from the
ho stands for. Of course, we
with the Belgians from tl
uame of Albert, King of th? thrills
?h<- h?art of every man. But
the really glorious French I rrsit?
-,' deserved To-day, aa
best friend we have ?moii,- I
As for England and tl - ??h, I hav?
never been enthusiastic o They,
one and all, patronize Amei
us, though the Engl
blameless in the matter. 1
?he silly way in which Ar ?'?'* wo
often aped the English sad
vors has been anything bu* a ei ta u? a?
a nation. 1 say this as an A
American of th3 tenth g Na*
England ancestry, all o<
of pure English stock, carr- B8 *3nt
twenty or thirty years of the ' *
the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
From the very fact that I am of pure Eng?
lish blood comes the fact that I ? iBBOt en
:he patronizing of the na' of r.tir
band toward us. (Of cours.-, just at presen*
'.he English want our sympathy and s ipport
and probably are gomewha' " (0*'
'ird Americans.! When tl KtT '*
over the best ?hing that eon ta Enf
land would be for real Ar. er ta abso?
lutely ignore English peop! T tr,,{
us as courteously as they d vn P'?"
pie.
\ for Germany, one of the ! ; ?st sam?
mers of my life I spent two yean ago la that
ful country, and I ck ? inti"
matcly some very dear German ft 'Tids. Of
course, we know the German's I ible manner!
our servants have better man ers than
one sometimes sees amoi g h |h Dorn
Germana and 'heir mann- -.vomen
[t m?T
be that I was fortunate i -'?w ,n
::ngly fine set
but to mo their mannet
to me were so exceedingly Buper
.y?ii the manners of South en
have the finest manners i.
seem lacking.
In Germany I've known
have a young naval effle? ? ^
| at the same wat?
ward and salute rre. tell me Uld ***
it would be a great pleasure I
rentleman afterward told t araa as
American an,', a stranger, a
gentleman he fell it a pri
courtesy to a foreign gentian " '" Amer?
ican watering places ee
small and select German I
that American gentlemen, if tl
all, only do so in a guard d
v.ay to find out. if pa
advantage to them to know one.
Moreover, I have entered a German r!-?9
and within less than ten m ' ' *ren"
fieman there has, as a matter
asked to be pre m>>. I've knoas
what it is in American clubs, avea as *
guest, to stand ten minut.
with American gentlemen all about aie, *n4
not ?me venture a word
teay to me. Unfortona
Germany's crudities but not our
The only gentleman ? "hl> *.
aver rude to me ?
way, about the handsome-' r ***.'
k him one hour I
to request a presentation to "the Americas?
and then he a.. h. al?
though I afterward learned he spoke L"*"*
llsh, but would not utter a word ot th? ? 8?BB
laagua HERB AMERIKA.
Dark UAtbor, J??v, -Uly M, IMaV