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In THK TRIBUNE ??ith absolute safet??for
if dissatisfaction result? in uny case Nil
TKIBI NE ?;uaranle4s to pay ?mir m.u . ;
back upon ret'uest. No red tape, no i|uib
bli-ig. We make ??i/od promptly if the fld
vertiarr does not.
Eliminate Htxlge-Podge Control!
It is to be. hoped that the invest u
of the Stiit?- Board ? >.' < nanties authorized
by Governor Whitman will not Ix> CO
to the management of the institutions.
That is important, of course, and that is
the point of the attack made I.y Mr.
Kin<7*.?bury. Charitiei Commiaaioi
this city. But back of that is the whole
richeme of handling these institutions by
the state, with local superintendents, ?ocal
hoards of trastees, the State Board of
Charities and the Fiscal Supervisor of
Charities all mixed into a hodge-podge
of i-ontrol, which the Governor, with sin?
gular mildness and conservatism, call.?
"unn?'c?'.??:iiil** and unfortunately compli?
cated." Affairs cannot he satisfactorily
handled in any institution when authority
and responsibility art? not sharply defined,
nor can there bo true economy?the reali?
sation of a full hundred cents' worth for
every dollar expended-while the present
mixed conditions persist.
When Mr. Hinman was majority leader
of the Assembly lie made a study of the!
control of state institutions and later pre-:
sented a report, in which he -
In six year? tho cost of maintainin?- the
inmates In the ?-roui?? of charitable institu?
tions alone ha.? increased over 20 per cent
per inmate. In thi 'hree years ending Sep-.
tember 80, 1912, the state spent for new,
buildings, improvements and betterments in
this f-ro'jp over |2,000,000, r.nd yet the apf-re
piitc capacity of those institutions increased ;
only a trifle over one thousand in that period.
The answer Is found in the fact that there;
are to-day more state departments assist-j
lne> In running these institutions than there
are institutions, and their powers, duties and:
responsibilities are so interlocked that the
transaction of institutional business is very
slow and very- expensive.
What was true when that report was
.?lo is no less true now. It is desirable
tnake it certain that no ward of the
t?te Buffers ill treatment or lacks proper
care and attention in any institution. Hut
tho surest way to have desirable results la
to have some simple, definite system oil
governing these institutions, of checking
up the work done by their attendants and
superintendents and of auditing the ex-1
penditures made on their account. In ;
selecting as the commissioner to make the
i-ive?.tigation Mr. Charles H. Strong, for
years president of the City Club, Governor
Whitman has chosen a man of ahU I
experience broad enough to make him
competent to inquire h phases of
this great problem. The r.fih-ers of the?
State Board of Chai c promised j
their hearty cooperation in his work. Bee-1
ommendation? for a much needed reeon*
struction of the state's policy ought to
result from the inquiry.
The "Lokal AnzeigerV Discovery.
It ha? often -.eon alleged by the G*tr?
mans that as soon as Admiral von Tirpitz
undertook his great project of "starving
Kngland" the British Admiralty gave
secret instructions to the masters of all
British merchant vessels to fly neutral
flags in the proclaimed zone. This cir?
cumstance has been used occasionally as a
sufficient excuse for unprovoked attack?
on ships of other nations, hut the actual
words of the supposed instructions were
never made kr
The ''Lokal Anzeiger** now publishes a
si ries of documents which may or may not
be genuine. As it i? Captain Kiihlwi-tter
who ??ouches for them they must be re?
garde'! with Borne suspicion, but, suppos?
ing; them to be authentic, what do they
prove?
The first is undated ard Is supposed to
i>een given out by the Admiralty in
'he ?ar^y days of the submarine campaign.
It cautions the of Briti-li ships
.-?gainst showing house flags or other
marks of ident.'
o use neutral flags or none at all In the
danger zone.
The second, marked "Confidential" and
ated March 13, ?ays down rile* with re?
gard to the flags to be used on several
route?, and another points out the im?
portance of makini' every possible effort
ta? escape when a submarine is Righted.
It is conceivable that th<- v. instructions
/??ere given. If so, they must be r> ,
as reminder?, for neutral flags lure el?
??ays been turned t., aeeooot pretty freely
-i warfare of thi? kind, ar.d mcrchan* ***.
'i convenu nt!;,- ? ,-:,,?.
have general1-. | : Kiir.l'
?.vetter .??<? [__* ? lKri\<\.
?i order ??.huh MJri a.
If a ?uiii- ahsad
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was ind red on
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titsttoveiv of '_ ? ' '**?' tn'
Jjogger iiank,^?)g?-tfi?:i with the ?
circumstance of the destruction of II. M.
S. Ii| pretation of faeti la
?.pen to i- >n. Hut if the documente I
it genuine it e?n only bo said of
I them thai they have a very plausible look.
One Million for War.
simultaneous appearance of two
??ms in yesterday's news dispatches
rhonld ? certain piquancy fot
American leaders. One comea from Lon?
?'un saying that "Th?.' Evening Standard"
.1 i ity. "The Daily Dispatch" o? Man?
cheater and other British papera have fol
the lead of "The Daily Mail" in re
fusing to print any more ?if Mr. Henry
Ford's advertisements became of in- op
?n to the Allied loan recently floated
The other, which bean a Detroit
r nouncea that the Canadian branch
of the Ford Motor Company has subscribed
1,000,000 toward Canada's domestic war
What, after all, is the price?in kind
; d quantity?which advocates of peace
at-any-pricc are willing to pay*.' Mr.
Bryan only a short while ago indicated
irpriee and silent displeasure on re?
ceiving in public the ki.ss of a bearded
German, ar,?l yet how small a portion,
relatively speaking, was this hearty and
?us careas of the debt which all thor
OUgh-going pacifists have indicated their
lesire to meet? Henry Foi'l, the man
who has promised millions for peace, is
now depicted giving a million for war, lest
Bed partiality should interfere
'wi'h his profits. A merely potential 1??
frightena him.
The suspicion escena hound to gain head?
way not "nly that pacifists make timid
debtors, but that Mr. ford is typical of a
majority of our fellow countrymen
clamoring for peace-?-their insistence will
last while peace promises a cash balance;
:the price they are willing to pay is limit?
lesa ??nly when computed in national honor
and the lives of women and children.
Fee Splitting Among Doctors.
Not only for the honor of the profes-j
sion but for the sake of the public at i
large it la to be hoped that the County!
Medical Society will take a ?lefinite stand
on the iniquitous custom of secret fee!
splitting. It is not to be doubted that iuj
recent years this system of commissions
has spread to such a degree as to be ac-|
reptil! to-day and commonly practised even
by -nme who pass as respectable members
of their calling. Indeed, there is reason to
believe that a few years ago, after steps
had been taken by a powerful body of
physicians to condemn it utterly, the
would-be reformers were obliged, in view
of the surprising strength of the opposi?
tion, t?i content themselves with a com?
paratively mild and insipid protest.
The abominable abuses to which such a
system is subject are sufficiently obvious,
and the poverty of many practitioners is
a poor,excuse. If fee splitting is defensi?
ble on any score, there can be DO reason
for secrecy; let it then be practised openly,
that the patient may know what he pays
for. Secret transactions of this sort be?
tween practitioners and consultants can by
?o means be defended unless the art of
healing is to be reduced to the lowest com?
mercial level.
Shut Dangerous Factories!
The Industrial Council, an advisory body
to the State Industrial Commission, has
recommended the adoption of a rule re?
quiring the closing of factories where
there is failure to remedy conditions dan?
gerous to life. There is much f> recom?
mend that course. It would, by its sum?
mary nature, put an end to the present
almost endless quibbling and delay result?
ing from inspection, issuance of remedial
. defiance of property owners, rein
in, more defiance of property own
ere, further reinspection and all the tech?
nicalities of legal proceedings to enforce
compliance with the orders.
Undoubtedly attempts to enforce such
? drastic rule would precipitate lawsuits.
But these could be hurried to a decision
by the courts, and it is hard to see on
what ground there could be a verdict
against the state. Once established, such
rse ought to work wonders. The ten?
ants of a building the owner of which un?
duly delayed compliance with the law
would be protected as to life, though made
:!fer the inconveniences of a tempo?
rary stoppage of employment. This
would be bound to be temporary, for the
owner would take no chance of *? long loss
"i revenue from his property. Thus there
should result protection for the workers
[and reasonably prompt obedience of the
??rders of the Industrial Commission, which
? ever, by lessenii.tr need for so many
tors ami lawyers save the state
some money.
It is manifest that the present system
however good the laws in themselves
may be. This change in the method of en?
forcing them gives much promise and is
; suredly worth trying.
No Reason for Mercy.
j., returning a verdict of manslaughter
? an autOOObilist who ran down
and killed ? flagman of the Long Inland
. Qoeeni Comty jury has taken
B Strong position against reckless drivers.
T? ?mu,;.y in the case showed that the
flagman, endeavoring t<i carry ont the rail?
campaign against motor car drivera
Abo dash ?cToaa the tracks, disregarding
and onciirrrng trains, had halted a
of cars. Conroy. the driver found
guilty, broke out of the line and tried to
the ? M ing,. knocking down the
aan, who died of his Injuries.
II would i?- haul to final a ease more
?I ?.f the practices of that deas of
Th? Igt, he must have known
were halte?) that h
approaching, he endnngeied his
ife and the lives of his paeeengera m ?
' to ero - '?he tracks. His gain,
. d ha re been merely a few
i ?-i that he risked see?
lie failed in his purpo&c, and
killed a human being put there to save
such at him from their own folly?
The jury, in its wisdom, recommended
mercy for this offender? po.-sibly 1
he has made a payment of money to the
widow of the man he killed and has fore
sworn the automobile hahit. If ever a man
deserved to pay the full penalty for his
acts, this one does. Only through convl -
tion and adequate punishment in such
?ases can there be hope of protecting the
general public from th.- O? the
madness which seems to p me il di?
vidual* once they take the Iteming wheel
?,f a powerful motor car.
System Triumphs in Football.
The one elded score at the Hai
Stadium on Saturday reprs anted not so
much a Harvard victory ever Yale Bl ?'
triumph of the newer football over the
Older football. At Princeton two weeks
before a team playing the new game skil?
fully defeated a team p'aymg the new
game somewhat less skilfully. At I am
bridge an eleven playing the new game
superlatively overwhelmed S S I
only strength lay in an imperfect ma
of the fundamentals of the older game. It
was an uneven struggle, to v.'hich there
could be but one outcome.
The new football has COUM along very
fast When Percy Haughton began to re?
eonatrud Harvard's playing system ?
about seven years ago --he faedti the prob?
lem of creating a scoring attack. The
rules handicapped the offence and made it
an enormous task to carry the ball by the
! use of running plays beyond an opponent's
15-yard line. Harvard won from Yale in
1908 through a field goal Vale won in
1908 through two Aeld goals. In lui" and
1911 scoreless games were played. In
1912 UM New Haven team cn
! Harvard get bei first touchdown again-*
Yale under the new rules. She didn't gel
'another until 1914, an?! until Saturday's
game no touchdown had been scored
against Yale on the home grounds under
the new playing system. Yale has not
scored a touchdown against Harvard since
1907.
But all the time Haughton had been
building up an offence that would carry
the ball across, the goal line in the teeth
of the masterly defence In which the big
Eastern football teams have always bean
grounded. Sol Metsger, the Pennsylvania
player and coach, formerly Th?- Tril
football expert, ?lei tared after the 0-0 |
with Yale in 1911 that Haughton had prac?
tically worked out his problem. It was i
true prophecy, as the games of 1912
against Princeton and Yale proved?
The West about this time had devel?
oped the forward pass as an aid to scor?
ing, and in the Bast drop-kicking of goals
from the field was resorted to universally
as an alternative to carrying the ball over.
Nevertheless, Haughto" kepton solidifying
ami strengthening the running attack. He
got into it the final punch which it ! .
long lacked, and now he has carried i' so
far that for the last>w.. sea i OS Harvard
has been able to defeat both Yale and
Princeton without depending on point?
made through goal- from the field.
Compare the old scoreless and touch
downlesa games of six years back with
the quick scoring action of U>-dayl At
Princeton this year Harvard scored from
midfleld on three plays a line buck, a for?
ward pass and a masked run. At Cam
bridge she ia-orcd from her own territorj
?m a single run and made other '
downs in short series of running .
Even the forward pass was hardly
to supplement the deadly concealed run?
ning attack.
This new football ?I the product of keen
Intelligence an?! ripened team play. The
complication and mystification of the at?
tack give it its power. Football U
?far more than ever a game of skill It
i has risen far above the old level of brute
torce, of individual strength crudely ap?
plied. There must he brains behii d the
'play?a nice adjustment of meal b I
A good team is a highly developed organ
Ism which reaches its. fullest efficiency
gradually and comes with a rush at the
last
Strategy, coordination and Intense ap
plication are the things that ...un! in the
new football. Individuals do nol make a
team. It must have a common spirit and
ia common guidance. The cogs must fit in
the machine. That is the chief lesson of
the game of Saturday. The ?
system, the better the eleven Hnr
victories this year again vindicate tl
'ootbali. Ti.t-y should have r,i) sting for
defeated rivals, to whom equal disc |
and application will also open the way '.,
-uccess.
Percy Haughton went to Plattsbnrs Pos
?his had something to do with Yiilt'
humili:.tion, such is the efficacy of prepare?!
? -
War it.? nest-?? mi SriSM Orrn.in eri
slst ?ays the ?-unfll.-t irUJ 1
nils'
But neat-eggs arc usually sterile.
-?
Are the British tiring of a commander who
ll French in raine only ?
The Spell of College Sport.
11 ?""? "" emrwHjm .
Whether old fofi? i i. ' lb .' or ;.?:, the
fact remains that the average eollsgs arad
gr??tes! latereet In his alma v.-...
?Masares1 by results In test
For proof witness the jabilatiofl of Vale mei
and the fame that has seme to Bhevlin. Grad<
uate bodies of all eelltgas are more or
leas epenly eeaeeraed that . ? e u?.
terial shall be pei - iiadod I
toward the ol?l campes, That ta
tab? - I'nii'i'i'ii s forms need nol Jo*. 11
The alumnus as a rule Is bi I ? il sd with
? hi'ii its aadergrada? I
m baseball aad football. Here it s coi
with lots of human satars in ?
Th?- side shows sre hold i
place which Weodrew Wilson ?
to dealers whea prealdeal of Prineeten de
spite all the > rltiea of the modern U ?
may say in ?l?>. 1'ah rah rah for M
tarioes teaml The ? toi
be eeateat with such eeaseioasaeas ?>f theii
.. v. 11 progress as auj aoase to tbem, fo
aere bosiaees far them Whea schol
..rhhiji and vu-tory m athletic were, ge band
in hand the StadlOnS can l.av.- BOmS ?>f the
glerj in.? of sport a- b "?tier
i scterisUe i? uui ua iuo ?Jvcliuo.
A SENTIMENTAL VIEW
Wha* One Canadian Thinks of An?
other's Reading of History.
, ? ie Ed 'or of The Tribune.
Permit me to make a brief reply to
my misguided fellow countryman "Canadian,"
Inke- ?nek a charming sugg*:?tion for
that ease on- el?e ha?
?? ereaghly Bi tl at Ii
it out of his head that
- to be liberally pan!
for b? . BBS ??'"'. i I rn?4' -
cer who ' | '
n. But thai II too much to hope tor;
II his attention to
iiance of history implied in i..
'. England : I : ted thi Hoi
ru.- D BI ??uni its inception. If he will
just recall the Venezuela incident. It ap
?o be I rue that England did do so at
the time of the Spnnish-Anierican War.
Why? because by that time Germany's navy
? come formidable, and England v. sated
a futur- ally again??. Germany's ambitton
ifl South America. That is a perfectly legiti
mate reason, certainly; but there vas noth?
ing altraiatlc about it. "Canadiai." la lihe
who Brants great credit for
dinner quietly.
I | conduct of England ?i iring
Far il concerned, "Canadian" ap
equally ignorant of history. At that
I ---la played precisely the sanie
ting England's interference,
gland played in 18'J8. England tried to
gl | a EuropaBfl eoalition to interfere in the
war, and Russia ?nt a fleet to Kew York
r, while refusing to reply to the English
'ion. If "Canadian" calls that the
?fullest support" from England he may he
? jesuitically quibbling and mean the "fullea!
?uppt South, reckealag in the Ala
iii.nii.
To talk of England fighting for h urnnri i '. ?
;!.?? NapolMnic ??-ars i?. simply pifle.
ting for horse!'-; the 1'rer.ch
'.- ??>-re lighting for hum-tint' , flfl :
found they ??ere deceived, ami
that it was only Napoleon they fought for.
end came. Nevertheless, in that great
ton ilid about four times as
much for hum.it.it;. a England, who fought
| for everj ritten anil tyrannic dynasty Ifl
Europe, flnd at the ?'nal peace saddled bs
man? of the old feudal masters back on to
the people as possible.
?aivelliag sentimentality in reading
ry gi\e? me a pain. England is a
m irvelloui country, with a history of ?*!o
Bchieve?aenl in many ways. Granted.
Granted tonally that Germany started thi.?
: ? . ? Belgian i? deeply ?. :
and outraged. What Im? that to do wit'.
:.' plain rifhl ? ? stral ? He
? ? tdiai " Eagiaad ii fighting
for humanity. Boahl England la fighting to
porta out of German hands;
natural thing to do, sad within
her rig!,', i -it BOl solely for humanity.
I do BOl know whether to marvel more at
the general ignorance or the sefl timen tal ity
of my good countryman. M. B.
New V<.iK, Nov. 12. lOlS.
We Invite Plunder.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
How much longer ??ill the American
re ' bey insist that the ad
tration at Washington fake Immediate
r.c'ion ai I prepare thia .'our,try to resist the
Other nation '.'
? ?? : blood, and whei
. . ,-. u ! ihould thi
? kin in power, the American
? be surprised to see Europe
i leepted I and make war
Europe will be badly in
I this war is tinished.
Id be far richer than It
d the only place that Euro; ?
? ? ? ? . iry ??ill be
. Spain,
othei ? nation i com
,ke war country) we
? ? ed a well trained army and
, ??? ? ml d?fi M-- per
nes and aubaaai i es and
e
- : What would
this city do if we had only a ?mall polic.?
? - ? ? gines ? We woald oe
? ? w I thi thieves and thugs that
are now plentiful in this country. The same
Ben this country and
the thieves ati'l
'he prey.
m| robabla to man]. hut it
? i.-ul eery likely te happen. France
i rope thai would be
a i, us. PAUL BB0WN.
II
Some Civil War Reminiscences.
?
Sir: I ad I turdy, patriotic snirit
? W G. \'a?h, and thank him for the o>r
I now ? .her thnt Vallan
. I ad '?' en mi ? bi re - the hue to
da.
to n ; v. hat thai splendid son o'
Ohio, James Abran* Garfield, said of that
We need more men of Gerfleld's
: d love of country in the,e Wilsonian
nd watel ng days of peace at any
"iliiln't raise my boy to be a
?? en.
I bai that f e i reflect ? ig on the
I might have said I
t ? New Vork to bear the ??ar
Ko, I know the mettle of the
Weet, North and South, who fought for
ie darfc da-, -, i served four
?enrs Ifl the L'd Mar? land Veteran Volunteer
Infantry," from good old Baltimore "Mary?
land, If] Mai viand."
It wakli AM up to think of those days
?vhen for nearly I year we held each other
. aad lived in trenches most of th
rid could not stand up straight in the
daytin ?' being tnnde ?< ?arget of;
. d en;Tce for tob?ceo ?v:th the
Sad sang revival hymns; ?vhen
' Ifl singing "We Shall
?l the River. By had H?." etc.
W'o have thi same loyal, brave men read]
!". them, and sweet peace and
. we shall ? ?
CAPTAIN Wll.l.lAM II MATREWfl
? . Nov. It!. Hit,
The Size of the Navy.
Id* II of I I Tribune.
Regarding the ils? of the uvy there
are aaany eanlietlag opinion?, but whether
IVOI a large or a small navy
? ggl? ..nt of the plan, aa
I that our navy should be equal i or
?vy, Eaphemiema
ere ? . ..--.- eeand to
' ? ? flll po - ble require
? eoma - to gett lag the
? are eery ranch la the
ght .. ? : to commit the nation
I rat? Biai by pronouncing tor a
seeoad only to Great Hritain.
It is a? if a political aspiran! -liouM re
te be Vie? Preei?eal of the United
but on ne soeeual t.. ever bocean
I II F.
i .New Vork, .Nov. 11, 11*15.
??NICE KITTY!"
COL. ROOSEVELT ON BRITISH PREPAREDNESS
His Remarks in "The Metropolitan" Were Only Incidental and Intended to
Help Emphasize a Warning to Heedless Americans?A Reply to
Mr. T. Kyle Dawson's Recent Letter to The Tribune.
To the F?litor of The Tribune.
Sir: I am Interested la Mr. T. Kv!p I>;
son's letter to you in which, he take-?
??eptioa to something I said. He Is evidoB
alladiag ta some quotation cabled to Ensjli
fr??m sa artieh of min<, in the Novena
"Metropolitan," called "T! .?? Dal
: States to Its Own People."
Mr. Dawson's article i-1 eve.lient in ta
and temper. I regret that he should c
l?ently be misinformed as to what my arti
really was. This is not my fault. This
the fault of the correspondents of the Ei
lieh papers in this country, who,
Tim afraid our own correspondents
ease would act, have cabled over only wl
they regarded ?ts the s? ?
article the part i
s matter of fact, the article reflected on *
l nitrd St.i'i
I? reflected on the attitude of our peo]
in remaining rapine and utterly failing
nahe any preparation. I aas
rarely with the United States. 1 instanc
the troubles of England at the moment or
in order to point the moral to ourselves; a
I spoke in far more severe condemnation
us than of England.
Mr. Dewaea? for example, defends t
Hriti'h army from what he imagines I sit
and declares ihat the army has shown
stage B it if he would looh at my ?
tide he ??Old see that I particularly mi
of Eagtaad that "her old! irs at tho fro
haVS behaved .-plendidly " He ipeahs of tl
immense amount thai is being done by En
land now and says: "Probably if Ameri
attempted sach a gigantic task she wou
nsaha far asare serioas blnnders than ba'
been amde la this coaatrj " One of the se
teaeea in my article to which Mr. Daws?
exception runs ss follows: "The ir
i?ttant point for as to remember is ihat
1 ngland hns not ?i'.tie wi-l! she has done il
finitely buter than we would have ?lone."
Again, ;? | of Mr. Oliver's boo
"Ordeal by battle." I saidi "I wish thi
every American weald read Mr. Oliver's boo
end woald r?tal ? that everything there sa
? . bath the shortcoming and the nee<i
of the English people applies with
fores to the ?taserieaa people al the preset
" In another part of the article I said
'The United States has signally snd t
! tn keep Its promises made in th
Hague convention and te stand for righ
Instead, it ha? taken refuge in the world
old neutrality between right anil wronf
which i? always no debasing for the ma
practising it. As has been well said, Buch
rcutral 1? the ignobiest work of God." Mi
I'awson practically admits what I aay whe:
he says that unquestionably the governmen
has made serious blunders, but that "all th
members of the Cabinet lived for peace am
had not been schooled ever to think of war
: deed, I am fairly correct in sayiag tha
every member of the Cabinet has declare?
that he thought war was not possible, a
? i-- ?' a form that woald have endangere?
the British Kmpire."
This is merely another and a no i?-;
rorc way of stating just exactly what !
Stated. The members of the English gov?
ernment are not to he excused for theii
blindness, which made thi m tak?- such ?
ritw and act on such s view and harm theii
country by the way they acted on such I
view. Lord Roberts eras preaching prepared'
.ear in and year out; and the very men
who most needed to profit by his teachings
; ml wheoa daty to the nation it was to protit
by his teachings were sneering at an?l even
openly assailing him and eontemptaeasly re?
. iting his advice. Theee mni ware not be
baviag a whit worse than mir own leaders
Of the stamp of htoeara. Wilson and Taft;
? i dead, se the whale, they were hohaviag
rather better; and. of COUS S, there were not
more than a seers or BO uf members of Par?
liament, and ti ess of low position, who
?hould be stigmatized u being intellectually
m the class of Mr. Bryan.
Hut the fact remains thai the government
aad the people .,f Engiaad, not only during
!h?' last derail.', but f,M BOVOral decades, h iv.'
Bhoalatet] refaaed to face their problems,
the problems abroad and al homo, as the Got
?man leaders faced theirs. We have been
worse and not better than England In this
rratter; and. a? I raid ?n my frtiele, I con
demn ua mor? than I do England. I spohe
i~ follow- of Germany in the article In ques?
tion :
"Most certainly we shoald avoid with hor
tor the ruthlea and brutality and the
cynical Indifference to International right
which the government of German?- ha
during the past year, and we ihould ihufl as
we would shun the plague the production in
?hi? country of a popular psychology like
? hich in Germany has produced B pub?
lic opinion that back? the government in its
actions in Belgium and eheeri popular songs
?hieb exult in tl ir of women and
children on the high si - But if we relue
the heritage bequeathed to us by W .
? .! laved for '.i- by Lincoln we will at
once begin the effoi I te the <
-v which : not only mill
it bIbo locial and Industri il."
Now, Mr. Dawson must remember *hat I
was not thinking of England at all ??-hile I
was writing my article. I. of course, had no
? ? .t what I sail ?? ould be read m Eng?
land I urea my oun fellow
countrymen. 1 was not endeavoring to save
their feelings. I was endeavoring to put the
truth before them as in my judgment it
needed to be pu'; I was urging preparedness
? them? and when such was the ea?e I WBI
eo* more ?villing to bunk the facts a.s to the
English ?ocia!, industrial and military short
lue primarily to lack of real fore
thoughl and preoarednesa in advance | than
to blinh the fne's a? to the moral shortcom
? I Germany'i ruling class.
In ?o fat as the German people as a whole
an concerned, looking at them in sections
BS, I believe in them with all my
I and though :,' the moment the
'?i Le united behind the hideous and dreadful
of "schr.-cklichkeit," ?,et I cannot bu*
? ? that in the end they will realize how
lamentably they have been misled and will
ft rce their governing class to alter nn atti?
tude which, if persisted in. must make Ger?
many the permanent enemy of every free and
right-thinking country in the world.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Oyster Ray, N. V.. Nov. l'u. IflS
An Inspiration for the Honeless.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As a graduate of Cornell I'niver ?ty
I desire te pen my indebtedness to Booker
T. Washington, whose books "Up from Slav?
ery" and "Character building," which I hap
pened to come upon as a cashi.-r when nineteen
years old, so inspired me to learn that I de?
termined to give up business for college.
Had I my say, there would be a place In
the public school curriaulum for the compul?
sory reading of "I'p from Slavery" and
"Character Building." Gary system and
others take notice! And why not? Isn't a
very large part of our education devoted Wo
stimulating the ambitions by the principle
of emulation (competition and comparison)?
The life of the slave born negro Booker T.
Washington must move the most hopeless
white youth.
Hooker I'. Washington was teacher a? ?veil
..- Iflepliei For the city lad, more likely to
become a business man than not, he had a
me ?age, based upon a practical, ideal com
mercial vision. No kind of labor, if only
service, ems too humble for I>r. Washington
to idealise, to glorify. As he says la "Char?
acter building": "Edurution is meant to
give it? that culture, that refinement, that
??Inch ??ill make us deal truthfully ?vith
our fellow men, and will make us see ?vhal is
li.-aut i ft. I. elevating ano inspiring in what
God and man' ha? cn-ated." I know that
! ewe much of my o?vn joy of life and my
ijrmpath] qrith labor to thi? optimistic pou.;
.f riew. And ?an commerce's c?ptalas and
crew? have any too much of it'.'
Then, too. ,.?ery ??lute reatler would have a
deal more sympathy for the negro, have more
faith in his possibilities and more faith in
mankind Ifl genera!, and so be more willing
tfl lend a helping hand. All of which wouKI
help minimize our race problems and in
,i.:i.'ir fund of happineaa both alwaya
ihle AN INSPIRED WHITE.'
N.w York, Nov. 18, HUG.
PROF. USHER CORRECTED
No Basis for His Assertion of Con?
federate Military Superiority.
To the Editor of The Trtboae.
Sir: In The Trihaai ' wmhse
7, you publish viry proi
page sf your s,i
ele by Pro ? ?? ; ! ?1.
"Is Adeqeate Prepon da? ' ?f
?. B-V
I, us on. ? ' Army
'from the h. ginning of th" ! towHh'
, in a few W< ? T.'.tn
'torested in tic pn lei I I r*''
liaee I am well aware of tl ? :;'cf- that
had not John B. ?' ' *et un'
ii. r Pn sid? at Be? hai in, ta i im
: all the arms and USB initfc BU
rn to
?Southern ?i- | trmyweeld
have bee i '.
entering thai b i
.- ?.
? - a 1 r? ad in the 1
fessor 1 teraaa
provc I then
r eqaipp? d Uni? ;
., ? ; .
ty on "pn paredn?
Pi??'"' isor Roland G r*
any found:.' ? ' l^t
o'"t-rei eated Act
tones have published for hall taata
i "the Confederate army aun ^n:
to last about 600,000 ii..
Usher had In ? a a careful
; things he BO
hai ? kaown thai I eentj j
a ich iv.
?found a rooter of the trooi
'Carolina Into the Confederate
ling their number to hav?
'he cellar oi '
S'a hville, was found the r? ?I
Sent from Tennessee to th?
sr was 1-"
? Kvar.s's "School History
"G?orgie furnished about 121
Confederate Army." an I then I
tber on repeats the old >ar-:.
erate Army numbered from I
800,090 i.i.-n."
I>i?l aay o
of "600,000 m?'ii from ffi
to think of how
? heir own people " If the I
<;.?orgia, Toaai
?
. CHA;!!.lis
been w bo lived In the '
joined the Southei B Col
Ceaetaeivo avid
data, BOW shows that the ?"?/ ArBaf
Bomberod from I i
400,000 men, enlisted, mind yo:i. !? .- the w?r
The Haien Army had, if flirured o-. *un'- baOBs,
less than _,0?>??.i>00 men. The I B SB Army
held the outside linee, and alwa;. ? i? ene
mies in the rear which require! ; .rl of its
force to look after.
"Lee's veterans'* ultimately boCBBBS !?#
ged" because military skill an I
the part of commanders of the ' ' Army
ami Navy and their advisers block ' r
ports IM closed their Mr.es of communica?
tion so that supplies were unobtair.a'
With ubsolute knowledge to-di.
disparity between th-> HaiOB an.l C< ?'-?derate
forces m pooitivs eoaflid ?a? negl ? ? ?**?
until the last year of the war the number
of troops engaged on either every
battle Was v,ry ? i . rlj ? i? <me, where Is the
evidence that "Lee's raggS I ' ' 'oV?
themselves a better army than the vastly
better equipped ' ' OB troops"?
If Professor Reload 0 Usher*! ass?
is true, that Lee's army ??? " Xn-n
Grant's irmy, and his inferential chaii.
rect that Lee was a better geaeral than
?.rant, end Johnston more able than Sherman.
why did riCtOVy fail '?> pi-rch a".
of the Bonthera Confederacy, and why does
one lag :?' d.?\ float over a commun country
from ocean to s roen and lakes to Helft
high time thai the sort >'f boeh which
Prof? ? ? aid pee i along '
We of the I'nion Army do not belit?
tle our one-time foes. They fought well and
bravely. Bal BO army on earth ever ei
cellc?! in bravery, in military ability or ,n
achieved i.-ults the I'nion Army whs?
feated "LOO'S veterans" and held the United
States as "one eouatry and oae ?.pie, ?nder
..ne Mag" ALBEIT E. BUOLfil
Flushing, L. 1., ?Nov. 8, IVltV.