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An Inconceivable Blunder.
Any delay on the part of President
Wilson due to his desire to possess him?
self of every mves-mry statement and
affidavit incident to the form.il authentica?
tion of the case of the United State
against the Gorman Empire arising, from
the murder of American citizens on the
Arabic will be endured with patience and
without protest.
On the course that American policy
must follow, on the essential step that must
he taken, there is no division of opinion.
All question of future policy was disposed
of when the first news of the massacre of
the Lusitar.ia came to these shores. It
was the sober and solemn resolve of all
Americans that such protest as could be
made to Germany, such diplomatic repre?
sentations as were left to be made, should
be made on the completed crime; that
there was left to diplomacy only The duty
to make clear to the Gorman statesmen
what would be the consequences of another
slaughter.
Germany heard our protest, listened to
our warnings, and with polite insolence
declined to moderate her policy or give
even the .""nullest attention to our de?
mands. We talked to her of the assassina?
tion of Americans and she replied by
vague prote.-tations of friendship, coupled
with arrogant statements of the condi?
tions under which she would refrain from
the killing of Americans on the high seas.
We laid before her the case of America
against Germany, incident to German
murder of American citizens, and she re?
plied by narrating her wrongs suffered at
British hands.
So far diplomacy had done its work.
German Statesmen were in possession o?
the facts of American purpose and policy.
Germany wan informed of American de?
mands, of American determination to pro?
tect its rights. To the final warning,
couched in language as plain as it was
destitute of violence of tone or temper,
fhe returned no answer in words; that is,
no ansver in words spoken by her
diplom:-'- *'? the American Government.
What the real atisvver of Germany was to
b. Wi: *u~t forth in all the public state?
ments of the ?German leaders and printei
| in the German newspapers. While her
statesmen were silent, Germany's press,
which i i ;? the creature of the govern?
ment, openly affirmed that German policy
would nol be changed, that to murder
there would be added more murder, that
?there was no right but German necessity.
To this informal notice there is now
added the formal notice that the sinking
of the Arabic and the murder of other
Americans furnish. It is an answer, and
it is a complete answer. It is all tho
answer that any nation, any statesman
charged with the duty of maintaining
national honor and defending the lives o*
American citizens can need or ask. It is
an answer written in blood that carries a
force beyond the power of documents of
state written only in ink.
It is, then, inconceivable, it is beyond all
thinking, that the Prendrai of the United
States should again seek by any exchange
of views, by any direct or indirect com?
munication with the German Government
to give to Germany one more chance to
demonstrate her contempt of a nation
whose citizens she has murdered, whose
rights she has invaded, whose protests
and warnings she has treated with a con?
tempt which is beyond anything in the
whole history of the United States. As
well might the state confer with a common
assassin as to his views upon an atrocious
crime committed by him as that President
Wilson should have further traffic with the
ministers of the German Empire.
Delay that is incident to the authen?
tication of the American case by the
evidence of American citizens is wholly
justifiable. But delay that is due to a
new approach to German rulers, a new
appeal to the reason of those who are
directing that polity which has put Ger?
many outside the boundaries of the
civilized world and made German a name
hideous in the ears of all civilized races,
this is but a policy of cowardice and -a
counsel of fear. It is parleying with tho
murderer and inviting him to furthe?
killing.
No one will now quarrel with President
Wilson for his moderation in the put
.Any mistake that was made was made by
a whole nation. So far his actions have
been in complete accord with the will and
wish of his fellow countrymen. What he
has done to keep peace, to avoid the break
with Germany, was done in the honest
hope that despite the outward evidence*
of madness there still survived some
fraction of sanity in Berlin and that con?
cern for the primary doctrines of humanity
had not utterly vanished from Wilhelm?
strasse.
But all this ended with the Arabi.*.
There German answer to American de?
mands was written in characteristic Ger?
man style. There was an end to word-.
To deal with Berlin again is to confess to
a lack of eieential manhood; it is to write
American statesmanship down no
I calm but as cowardly.
We are done with Germany, anil it
i no more murders of American oitizc
i bring: us to the point. Lot Mr. G
I come home with the least possible <
\ Iaot Count von l.ornstorfT be provided
Jhis passports and interrupted in his
|of corrupting German-American cil
and subsidizing American publica'
He is in this country henceforth onl
embodiment of the German statesma:
which has been disclosed to America
'murder.
The defence of national honor, the
tection of American lives is somei
which the President of the United S
can do with full assurance that he
have behind him Americans of all far
?and parties. For what he does no Ai
can will criticise him, no American
withhold that support to which he ii
titled. A whole nation will march
its President to the defence of nat
honor. It is only a failure to act v.
will arouse the opposition and invite
criticism of his fellow countrymen.
Without impatience, with confid?
with loyal sympathy, the -American p<
are awaiting Mr. Wilson's action,
there is one thing that he must rememb
the time for dealings with the Ger
criminals is over. Diplomatic relat
jwith Germany are henceforth imposs
New experiments with Rerlin can
end in new assassinations; such ex*
ments would but delay necessary ac
and destroy public confidence. Never a]
can Mr. Wilson hope to speak for a w
nation with assurance so absolute, i
domestic support so unanimous, as to-d;
First of Chemiotherapists.
Paul Khrlioh's name will be associ*
'vaguely in the mind of the average rea
with the celebrated synthetic drug km
as salvar?an, or f>0fi. In reality this '
but an incident of his profound roscar."
in pathology and chemiothcrapy; had
merely hit on a remedy, however valuf
in the treatment of one of the greai
scourges of the human race, he wo
hardly have won recognition through
the world as one of the most illustrious
?all pathologists.
Hitherto the overwhelming majority
'useful drugs had boon discovered by a?
j dont. Therapeutics was an art depend
'largely on luck. Try everything was
i rule. and. as it has been well said, tre
?ment consisted in putting drugs of wh
jwe knew little into bodies of which
!knc\v loss. The production of new dn
land chemical compounds was incesaa
?but thoir value was established in the nu
?empirically and is so to this day. The
suits have sometimos boon happy, but t
method is haphazard, and though it a
doubtless survive for ages to come, the ?1
coveries of Ehrlich and his associates a
followers have been momentous enough
justify faith in a method more exact a
more scientific.
The problem of the chemiotherapist wh
confronted with the case of one infect
by.a living microbe or parasite is, in p?a
language, to find a drug that will destr
the parasite without injuring the host.
is- a question of sterili7,ing the patient,
destroying the infecting agent, by wh
Fahrlieh used to call thrrapia xtcriln
magna. The possibility has been esta
lished in the treatment of yaws, whii
commonly yields to a single injection
|salvarsan. But not all diseases are equal
amenable to treatment, and in some ci
eumstances the parasites become extreme
resistant. "If we campare the fight again
parasitic disease! with a state of wa
faro," as Ehrlich himself put it., "we fii
.that, on the one hand, groat battles a
( fought which may lead to victory in tl
[course of one or two days. In coml-atir
Ibacteria such a victory would compare wii
\therti]/ia maftna Etonians. If, on the othi
I hand, a fortress is to be taken, months ar
leven years may be required."
Ehrlich went about his researches wit
?perfect order and method. His task waa 1
i find drugs that would act as diainfectin
agents without injuring the patient, sul
stances thai were parasitotropic, to use h
i term, and not organotropic. The invest
g?tions upon which he entered involve
'extraordinary patience and industry, bt
lit would be a great mistake to regard hit
^merely as a painstaking laboratory workei
?Without an extraordinary imagination h
never could have accomplished his groa
work. H?r speculative inquiries into th
?problems of immunity were very fruitfi:
and have had an enormous influence; per
haps there is even a tendency in som
quarters to accept his conclusions to?
'much as gospel and to regard his ingeniou
?and useful hypotheses as incontrovortil.l
I dogma.
The Industrial Commission's Work.
It is not to be wondered at that thi
i United States Commission on Industria
?P.elations split into three groups of mem
i hers, drafting different reports, as a resull
?of their country-wide investigation. It it
rather surprising that a body made ur
ia< this one was, of representatives o(
'opposing interests, having thoir owr
'strong individualities, prejudices and
?points of view, should not have submitted
even a greater number of cures for the
|disease of industrial unrest. It is, on
the whole, significant and important that
'there was anything like so much agreo
j merit on the general causes and on
the steps to abate them as a study of the
i summaries of the various reports shows.
Chairman Walsh early in the course ot
the investigation committed himself hear?,
and soul to the radicals, much to the
horror of all reactionaries and conserva?
tives. With him went the members ap?
pointed to represent labor. Professor
Commons and Mrs. Harriman. named ti
i?.prisent the pul.lic, form a sort of "mid?
dle of the road" group, outspoken in de?
nunciation of existing conditions and
thoroughgoing in advocating political and
social remedial measures; yet the repre?
sentatives of the employer class. Masara.
Aishton, Ballard and Weinstock, in ganara]
.* u'ree with them, although they submit cer
tala dissenting opinions and nn indictment
of organized labor's misdeeds.
It is not necessary to go to the Wnlsh
report for a recitnl of labor's grievances.
That is contained in the memorandum
signed by the employer representatives,
?who draw an indictment quite as strong a1?,
though loss vehement Bad rhetorical than,
that in the chairman's report. Attempt'
to stifle labor unions, to throttle courts
and legislatures, to exploit women and
children, the hiring of gunmen and des?
perate characters in labor troubles, the
suppression of free speech, the bribing of
labor union representatives, arc charged
by the employers against some of their
fellows.
Neither is it necessary to go to the ex?
tremists' report for radical recommenda?
tions. Chairman Walsh and his associates
iist four chief causes of industrial unrest:
Unjust distribution of wealth and income;
unemployment an?! denial of opportunity to
earn a living; denial of justice in making.
I interpreting and administering the laws,
and denial of opportunity to form effective
labor organizations. As the outstanding
! recommendation they urge the passage of
an inheritance tax law which shall confis?
cate all over the sum of $ 1,000,000 in any
estate. The revenue thus raised is to be
devoted to extension of education, develop?
ment of social services and extension o?
constructive works and development of
natural resources of the country. The
Commons report, having recommended the
creation of a great industrial commission,
to make permanent what this body jus:
passing out of existence tried to do, urges
to support it a heavy inheritance tax.
This is not to be an extreme measure fo'
the confiscation of wealth in fortunes of
more than $1,000,000, but nevertheless a
heavy tax, sufficient to amass a "Federa!
fund for social welfare." The differenc?
between that and the Walsh recommenda?
tion is in degree only.
Of the value of these reports to Con?
gress as a basis for action it is impossi?
ble to judge now, with only hastily pre?
pared summaries at hand. As Professor
Commons and Mrs. llarriman point out,
there isn't much use in discussing new or
additional legislation while there exists so1
near a breakdown of the present laws in
the administration of them. What con?
fronts Congres* as a result of thesp repot' ?
is approximately what confronts any state
legislature seeking to deal with the prob?
lems of social welfare and the "invisible
government," and the task is far too huge
for any lawmaking body to tackle in one
comprehensive scheme of regeneration. In
all probability the permanent value of th"
commission's work will not lie in its ree
ommendations. but in the fact that it vva
a huge machine for collecting and reconi
ing grievances and ideas. Though s??m<
of the "information" thus obtained may be
biassed, as certain members of the com?
mission in-i.-t. it is on record for what it i.
worth. And inevitably, as a result of i'
all, workers, employers and public at large
have been made to think hard and deeply
about betterment of conditions. Out of
that some good?however slowly?must
come.
Letting Santa Claus Through the
Blockade.
Santa Claus is undoubtedly one German
whom everybody approves. It seem.*
rather difficult, despite their close re?
semblance, to believe that he and vor
Tirpitz can be of the same race; that one
who exists to gladden the hearts of
children can share the same country, t >
say nothing of the same planet, with one
whose aim it is to scatter their little
liodi's over the waves. Yet such seems
to be the case, and besides their race.
girth and style ?>f whiskers thev have in
...
i common also their ingenuity.
Of course the Russian and English and
[French children have been forbidden to
have anything more to do with Santa
1 'laus because he is a German, just as their
?elders have been forced through belligerent
i animosity to forego German music and|
Gorman beer. They will have to put up'
this Christmas with the toys of some'
domestic substitute whose fingers can't
possess ?piite the same degree of sympa?
thetic deftness in their fashioning. But no
such prohibition applies yet to American
children, except in so far as the British
Order in Council in seeking to punish von
j Tirpitz has blockaded Santa Claus, and?
now it seem? that this order has been
niodilied.. A shipment of things valued at
$1500,000 (a to be let through from Rotter?
dam and included in it is to be a large
consignment of German-made toys.
Hurrah for Santa Claus, the blockade
runner!
"Fair Play" is entitled to rank now at nn*
of the best -euer*.
Petrograd may turn out to be St. Peters?
burg after all.
Unset Diamonds.
it'um Th' Du,. /.?? A,ti ertteer i
The prohibition of the importation into
Great Britain of unset diamonds, save under
special licenie, is aimed at preventing money
for the gems reaching Germany through Hol?
land. This is a wise precaution, although it
would appear fairly ea?y of evasion, for it is
no difficult matter to provide a itone with a
cheap temporary setting. Undoubtedly (?er
niiir.y must have in reaerre a large number
of stories from her Southwest African I
which are now in our possession. We know
? hat our own great combine, De Beei
such a reserve of stones that if all the prod-?
uce of Kimberley were placed upon the niar
ket at once diumonda w.,u.i ',, live shillings'
S carat. It is fairly obvious that the Father- i
land also has some nice little packets of dia?
monds, a sale for which it would welcome.
Bulgaria and Macedonia.
?/?rom T',- ?H tar ,
The claim which Bulgaria is alleged to be?
making for Macedonia as the price of her in?
tervention in the war is founded on the facC
that in far distant tin?-- the debatable coun-!
try formed part of the Bulgarian Empire. The
Bulgarian r*>ar Bimeon, who reigned from
.. 127, eonqaered almost the irhi
Macedonia, and one of his immediate -
sors made if the centre of his Kmpire, fixing
his own residence at Prespa. Bulgarian
dominion over Macedonia ended in the thir?
teenth century, but the Bulgarian Bishopric
(?i Ochnda continued to exist until 1767.
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDEN
i Presence Anachronistic in
School System.
To the Editar of The Tribune.
Sir: Owing to limited finance?, our
tern of summer schools and vocational sch
has been in part disorganized this sum
and reduced appropriations for kindergar
and for teachers' salaries are now being
sidered. Hut why shall that part of
school system so indispensable to the pe
be made to suffer? Are tber? not mean
retrenching in departments of our ed
tional machine less necessary? I refei
the office of district superintendent.
Why not abolish the office?
As it exist? to-dny, it Is an anachronl
hang-over. It is a vestigial remnant in
public school system.
In the simple days when Kiddle, Fann
Jenes, Jasper, et al. were superintende
the superintendent performed the functi
now sub-divided among superintendent,
sociate superintendent, district superint
dent, examiner of teachers, examiner of puj
departmental head and specialty supcrvi
To-day the district superintendent is effi
tionated. To-day the city superintendent,
his eight associate superintendents, in tl
offices at Fifty-ninth Street, are in const
touch, as an inspection of the rapidly gr
ing list of public schools in the teleph
directory will attest, with each and every
of the five hundred schools and high sehe
in greater New York.
A rigidly detailed and a meticulously
nuto course of study proscribes for the ir
viilual classroom teacher, divested of in it
live and option, the exact work of each grs
Heads of department and supervisors in ei
school are assigne?! to direct an exact i
exacting application of this course of stu
A study of the gradual development of
system, both in the classroom and fr
above, shovvs that the office of district
p? rintendent is superfluous.
By stress of growth and time, the distf
superintendent has virtually become not h
more than a transmitter of messages betw?
the city superintendent and the school pr
eipal. Yet the $5..Mill salaries go on.
Is not the time ripe for a change?
To those who are cognizant of the magn
cent development of our public school s;
tern since the advent of Dr. Maxwell, it
evident that the merit system of promoti
has developed a superior grade of classro.
teacher. Owing to the high scholastic
quiremeata for periodic promotions, a r?
of teachers has arisen that Joseph knew n
Teachers in the classroom b-aring the tit
o? A. M , M S.. I'd. M., I.I.. I!., H. .1 . I'h.
I'. Se, I?. I'll., etc., indices of scholarly atta:
meat, ere more common to-day than was t
title of 15. A. or B. S. in the so-called go
old simple days. These titles as a rule ha
been earned b*S energetic, ambit inns, enth
siastic young men ami women, futilely fr?
t;ng at the limitations imposed by ordina
m rci'uircments lmi-borsepower <i
namos ?li.ing (-horsepower work.
Why r ? ite these young teachr
at their present average maximum salan
of 12,100 to perform the simple duties ?t
being carried ?mt by th.- office of district s
periatendenl ':
A the ' > I ?s about thrity of these fun
ries, it would easily save Sioo.noo a ye
to the taxpayers, without in any way dimi
ishing the efficiency of the mainstay of tl
school S] ten namely the classroom teac
er or crippling or abolishing n>
classes for the sake of false economy, i
being compelled to seek retrenchment at ll
expense of the class least able to afford it
namely, the primary teachers and kindergar
r.ers. The present incumbents of the office i
di trie! superintendent could with safety 1
s.nt back to the system as teachers and pri
ripais, thereby adding to the effectiveness ?
the teaching force of ou' city of whose pr
? v they bare long so proudly and pul
licly prated.
Eventually we must do it. Why not now.
New York, Aug. 18, 1916. U. C. Y.
Oh, for the Old-Fashioned Girl!
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I am old-fashioned enough to thin
that the old-fashioned girl the one who w?,
content to preside over the home with th
oldtime ?trnr: fulness and womanliness- is th
better girl as compared with the up-to-dat.
going, man-competing one who is wil
,ing to give up her home privileges for th
sake ' ' dollars she gets in busines
Th?- erstwhile customary ?.ir <>f d?
tranquill ty does not seem to pervade the al
mosphere when women gather nowadayi
They used to guide us serenely through lif?
and few if any of us could escape their subtl
and all-pervasive influence; but now has al
this changed forever? What is to become o
woman's mystic and resistless charms, he
great spiritual influence, upon which mer
m.j.n depended so much'' Pity the vagarie
of ?. poor bachelor who is moved to tears am
pity ?m observing the performances of suf
[ragettes and the awful up-to-daters. Oh
woman, whither art thou bouiul and wha
will the reckoning be?
Won't some Kood genie give us the old
oned women, the ones whose lives wen
SI open and as sunny as the days in June
and between whom and those around then
there were no timidity and lack of frankneai
and who were the true missionaries in th?
world, rising above reserve, misgiving ant
repining, and making all around them mor?
beautiful and glad by the sutiny inspiratior
of their presence? Oh, woman, do not turr
mere man out of Paradise into the nightmare
of what you are driving at! Come back t(
your own true self and make glad the heart!
of countless Dantes weary of the chaotic
state of affairs.
JOHN I BHERBILL, JR.
Colorado Springs, Aug. If, 1915.
Jewish Mass Meeting.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: An incidental reference to the Frank
|y made at the mass meeting of the
Jewish Congress Organization Committee,
held in Cooper Union last evening, was, in
the account of your newspaper, given pub?
licity which was all out of proportion with
the real object of the gathering.
The mass meeting was planned several
weeks ago and, as was previously announced
in the various newspapers of the city, was
held with the object of furthering the move?
ment for the calling of a congress of repre
tives from all Jewish organizations to
deal with the great crisis which present
fe, and with
the problem of the disinfranchisement and
II of a large portion of the J
' ' this subject that the
prominent speakers and heads of large
?"gun; entitled with this movement
? Ives, and it is very strange
that the reporten should have missed the
main point of the addresses, repeatedly em
? 1 by a number of speakers. That the
n America feel it their duty to help
brethren in Europe at this
y wish? to act in a repre-j
ind democratic manner which
should be in keeping with American methods!
? denced by the unusually large assem?
blage which this ma-s meeting and the two|
overflow meetings brought together.
? s. RICHARDS.
Executive Secretary Jewish Congress Organi?
zation Committee.
?New York, Aug. JO, 1015.
THE COST OF FRIENDSHIP
" D?EL1BERATELY UNFRIENDLY "
Comment by Tribun?- Readers on the Sinking of the Arabic and the Demand That Relation, with
Germany Be Severed.
a Cowardly and Characteristic.
To the Fditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Let me congratulate you on the
splendid editorial in to-day's Tribune. It is
heartening reading, and it demolished the
argument which will he made that as no
American. was murdered America has no
grievance in the Arabic incident. The insult
to and contempt of this country ?re there,
though the attempted murder of defenceless
American citizens may have been unsuccess?
ful. The failure, however, was due to no
emi??ion of scientific and precisive endeavor.
But yesterday the people of Germany
would have been appalled at the practices of
tiieir obsessed and blood-drunk masters,
while to-day their minds, naturally ductile
and now entirely an?l purpoiely poisoned, ap?
plaud every crime committed in the name of
Germany, against whomsoever it may be.
A nation gone mad.
The German naval officers intended to mur?
der the Americans on the Arabic, and may or
may not have done so. There are but few
unhyphenated Americans in this country who
ignore the fact that Germany to-day is at war
with this country. At war in fact, though
lared. Spins lire everywhere; propa?
gan,lists are spreniling seeds of discord in
every corner of the land; our economic con?
ditions are threatened, and efforts are bein;r
p.ade to rend the country into warring fac?
tions a cowardly and characteristic method
o? warfare with a country which has been
ratient beyond reason. Will the President
( rder the representatives of the German gov?
ernment out of the country diplomatically, or
will he allow the people of this country to
attend to them undiplomatically?
JOHN LAR KIM.
New York, Aug. 10, 1915.
"Magnificent."
To the Fditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial of this morning on
"Deliberately Unfriendly" is magnificent. It
ig the appeal of sublime and outraged
patriotism rising in its righteous anger to
tit-h' the cowardly tyrant who would crush it.
History teems with examples of outraged
patriotism fighting for its life and emerging
gloriously triumphant; emerging from be?
neath the iron heel of tyranny to the divine
light of liberty!
This last atrocity of fiendish Germany can?
not, must not, be tolerated. The, German
Ambassador in Washington mu3t go. Am?
bassador Gerard must be recalled. If Ger?
many wants war she shall have it. Wt
have done everything within the bounds of
honor and lelf-respect that could possibly
be done to avert the war which Germany is
determined to thrust upon us. We cannot,
we must not, longer temporize.
The issue is Civilization! That is the
stake. Germany has cast defiance at her
face, determined to destroy her. Germany
must be brought to her senses; Germany
must be abased; Germany must be crushed!
That ii the cry which fills the heart of every
lover of liberty; that is the tumultuous
pulse which makes ?very drop in every vein
of every free born man pulsate with the
sublime passion which made our fathers cry:
"Give us liberty, or give us death!"
MALCOLM FRANCIS JOY.
New York, Aug. 20, 1915.
It Expresses the Plain Truth.
To ?le Euitoi of The Tribune.
Sir: Again I feel it my duty as an Ameri?
can to thank you for your editorial "Delib?
erately Unfriendly." Strong, stern and can?
did, it has expressed limply the plain truth
that should be self-evident to every mind.
N. ? one word in it should be changed or
omitted. You have stated in plainest terms
what all Americans should think and feel, and
ink and feel, BO far as I know.
The last word states the case of the World
vs. Germany. "And in the crime of the Ara?
bic the last thin disguise has slipped from
German beast, ami we see the fact as it
i- hut we see it unafraid." The duty of
to-day ?s to end all relations with a nation
that has trumpeted m?gt brazenly its con?
tempt of all the laws of God and man in iti;
voii-H?; and in itg deed? of unspeakable sav?
agery, o? imaneiy brutal ferocity, has lllu?**'
I trated its words to the horror of all m.in
j kind not "made in Germany."
There is but one course that leaves u* with
[a sbrefl of self-respect, after all the long
rutfering patience shown by our President,
his sane restraint and his plain warnings.
| That is to give Herr von RernstorfT his pass
j ports and recall Mr. Gerard. .Ml beyond that
. rests with Germany. F. R. XAS M
New. York. Aug. 20, 191.*,.
Appreciation.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: M/ homo is in one of the pi
'cities of th > Middle West, but I have been
spending an extended summer vacation among
the New England hills and seaside resorts.
I have been an attentive reader of Tho
Tribune nearly every day in the week for a
?good many months, and as an editor of ?
I good many years' experience, a Westerner,I
?an independent in politics and a "lover of1
'peace," I desire to express my high sp|
tion of the vigor, independence and stalwart
.Americanism of your editorials on the Euro?
pean situation. I admire and approve your
hearty support of President Wilson in the'
arduous duties that he is called to ?
and the evident sincerity and great patience
and ability with which he has thus far met
the trying and perplexing problems that have
confronted him. I can sincerely lay all this,
although I, like yourself, was not an advocate
of his election.
I find myself, in perfect accord with the
position you assumed in your Saturday's edi?
torial that the time has come to send the
i German ."imbn-sador home and to recall the
I American Ambassador from Berlin and sevei
I all relationship with a nation guilty of such
crimes as that government has been com?
mitting. And, although an advocate of free
and more freedom of the press on
general principles, I believe that such pub?
lications as "The Fatherland" and a few
'other German-American journals ought to be
suppressed as soon as it can be judiciously
done, and which no doubt will be done if
i the course of the German rulers should lead
to an open rupture between the two coun?
tries. W. W. DOWLING.
Short Beach, Conn., Aug. II, 1915.
An American's Gratitude.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Accept an American's heartfelt grat?
itude for your editorial this morning call?
ing for action against Germany.
, Xo other American newspaper has so in-.
' sistently and so proudly upheld honor and
liberty since the Lusitania was sent to her
doom with our citizens on board.
And now the sinking wituout wirning i?f|
the steamship Arabic has inspired mother i
strong and patriotic appeal in yotir editorial
page.
Ye?, it were better for America to perish i
with colors still flying than to accept a cow?
ard', choice, and better for humanity to go'
down to ruin, honorable ruin, than to bow
? to the dictates of the insolent Teuton.
Seabright, X. J., Aug. 20, 1911. F. E.
The Example of America.
! To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Regarding your e?litorial and car
? toon in this morning's issue of The Trib
| une. may we remind you, in the words of our,
?honored President, that ".America was born
i a Christian nation," and "the example of1
! America must be a special example"?
The Christian motive demands no less ofI
! the nation than of the individual. How often
shall my brother sin against me and I for?
give him? "I ?ay unto you not until seven
'.'.mes, but ti n tri I seventy times seven," saith
the Master.
The time has not arrived when this Chris?
tian nation may withdraw its relations from
an erring brother nation, now in the gnr
of the ,.:i," i! Them?) li, l-lOi.
Standing firm upon the fundamental princi?
ple of Christian conduct, this nation can
face the whole of Europe and Itl ar.ti-Chns
tian war and "see it'unafraid"
M. ABRAHAM, Messenger.
Xcw York, Aug. 20, 1915. 1
Send Their Ambassador Home.
To the Edit* of The Tribune.
Sir: I am but on.- '. i?ti*i,
but I wish to expiegs my hearty apprecia?
tion of the strong ? '-* P*"*r
this morning, "Del?bci ll idly."
If this and namei '" kiai
could really id ? ** wo?"
po Itivelv km '' *? ,re*
American eitiiena ar -.no ??
.???rain way. round witk that
.. band in ! rutile. I h?'?
diacovered I I ' ' *n* *?'*
irishmen think we will ? ',-.y*!*.n|
but Ulk. Well, it is now ? ? ' Send
their ambassador home an,i ant i?.'rmany ?a
the list K?? the most hated I
I am for the in?!-' '* of. mrT
rabid German and tl etr sympathi?.?.*?
loeislly, financially, any way to show them
our disgust and contempt. Such a conn?
would soon produce I ' "??M Ttich
the Kaiser even in h
Let us all bo-.. thl da*tird
plunderbunders. r- * '
New York. Aug. ?W, '
German Treatment.
To the Editor at Tli
Sir: Your editorial In The I r hune of "M
date, "????.ilen-...;. ,** baa bw";
read and is thor. ... '? '">' mt\
need not tell you of I * 'hreatening
ntire world ,)f ?*n,*?
II in the present war You full? ?"**
prec?ate that. We h I hlf/'?
in the impudence, a "';.'
shown by Germany in ?
and contempt for us in their drowninf "
our people en the high issi. 1 th0UiB'
?rould luggeat to y? ? caption
another editorial in The Tribune. "Sp?*
the Face sad Kicked ",icr"
about their treatment /"onmF
XA : i' iXAL PRlpi
New York. Aug. ?, '
Poor Publicity.
To the K.iitor of The Tribune. .
Sir: ?'an you enlighten me srhj ? *
much publicity is given to cerUi? 'aft* ".
rmrding the poor condition of our ?rm
navy. If any foreign power waa?! dat* ^
cerning our navy or '- w0 ' a
have to read the newspapers It 88?
good way for any country to get P?';??'
it certainly does not arome much r*-m?'
arouses, rather, a certair. sense *?? "
that the official! to whom the nation! a?um*
is left in charge had fallen down ? ?*JJ
Why not keep a few vital facte oi th* coi
try's fighting condition t0"a"e ?"?TOlt
Gloversville. N. Y.. Aug. II, IM*
Should Arouse All Citizens.
Tc the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorials of late on *.h* ^
issues are fitly spoken and should ir?**??
action all citizeni with red corP?,*'"Ul.
their blood for the protection of what
great Republic stands for. 4_.??**?
The ringing word? "The day of Ami"
has come" ?should bring forth enoujh ot
Americans with the i ??* '^^Zum
1776 to bs able to switch off into obli"
the convention which will be cslled to stm*
in Chicago on September S. How a ?
American can aid. either bv word or .le??.
"frienda of peace" movement under th* P
ent conditiona is beyond my conception. ?
must belong to the clase of women th*'
not bring forth malea to tight for the P"^
ciples of this Republic. ??j
They are not even milksops Good "?
doegn't build up auch individual!. JW #{
afraid to take up unarms in d***ne'-l
theifc country, ?nd their influence ?houio
be spread abroad through The Tribune. ^
Westport, Conn., Am/
"Do It Now."
To the I .; t? c of Th,? Tribune. .j
Sir: I heartily approve of your ?Jr j,
?Deliborstolf Unfriendly" in thu m?n,'"Jfi?
iiaue. It is -*sime to act. and "l'<* ?' "
? hould be our- -dof-an. G. C. THU..1/**
t?rooklyn, Aug. 20, 1515.