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TR1BI as to pay your money
back upon set, N" red tape, n<> quib
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German Naval Policy.
Dr. Schott spoke so frankly of Ger-j
'? naval Impotence in his recent ad-i
re the Austrian Geographical
Society that it was reasonable to suppose
his government was willing to let the peo-?
now the true state of affairs at aea. j
the other day, however, an official |
announcement was published showing that,
a part of the fleet had failed to discover a!
lh ship anywhere after having
again "Eearched the North Sea for the,
enemy." It seems, therefore, that the fic?
tion of disputed command of these waters
i.m '> to hearten the German
rtheless, It is probable that by dc
th? people wiil be taught to revise1
original conception of the function
of the German navy. In the early days of
the war they expected too much, not only
because their heads had been Htuffed with
the nonsense of such impostors as R?vent-'
but because they had been misled
even by their own government. If their
expectations lad been realized the British
navy by now would be reduced to an
equality with their own, Instead of being
strong 'ion than ever before.!
On ? "Staats-Zeitung," of
this quite confident a year ago,
nnd It was only reflecting the hopes of the,
Gerr- ? at home.
Naval men in Germany must havo|
know- e popular hopes were more!
or Im l, and, indeed, some of the \
sobe:, I, such ns fnptain Persius, i
?inga. But it is;
only of late thai S signs of a gen-j
?? r i onciled to a new ,
and more reasonable understanding of the,
navy's services, Notable indications of;
this change of mind may be found
in various phi-? la probohle that,
have been
prom; ljuarters.
:' a recent !
when com-1
? th the Idle that was soi
I year ago. Thus, in defining its
purpose ir. the war he writes in the
Nachrichten":
Wfthoat M the enemy would Ho thick be?
fare our harbors In the Battle ar.d the Korth i
cur armies would have to
reckon with hostile forces landing on our
coast? at any moment, and thus tyinp up
in. Without
?nportant way Into the i
open, lip.. would have
be?n ' the war.'
eoald have brought en
? ? ' ressnre to bear on Denmark.
I d might have ter
0 joining the
te; without It ? " T>pt- of thej
riet the Knflish d??.,nt na
over the sea would be hopeless.
This is all very modest when we con
that was Indulged
in f.( '. ? rubninrine cx
lt that
"the ?of armor covering a
? s that "to
DSt an over
would be heroic, but. would
not be war," v I n?aining intact
it render?, "th< rmacy at sea
only : ?! nnd conditional."
I* might havp been well to let the peo?
ple ? that this was Its most
1 ei from the
first ? '.. and. though still
I 'ess to prevent a con
? roops to the Contins?? I
b I sing it C'.n
ace, and the German
a should ? rstand
a of that m . iently
yed or
ition Is to be
?. fores would be
for the dda are
against the Germa*
? ma'ns Intact it continues
? which the enemy can
? '
Compensation for Federal Workers.
In all ST erf preparedness de
of en ergency rove
nue-' >i at Cong?on
will not fail to act tl n, as it did
lact, on the Ml] ? . .:d the
? law for injured
-al emplo;. laajxe, which
will again be hand!"! bv ffamisaonlalllS
?
i by ?he Federal Bu?
reau of I. n and its enactmen*.
is desired by thr oA kail who have to do
with caws of Injured swhajj for the
Ma, who Ii
?\m rieaa Assnetatsot. for
Lasso* ?elared the sfJssf day
that the law of IMC, which it is props ad
? ?'? th<- worst of its kind in the
? - ni 'i? igraee." Under it
O? the half million
ra are not entitled to corn
perHa'.on f'<r nJtttiefU and the injured
worker may not sue the government to
recover damages, as he might a private
or corporation employer.
Most of the states of the Union?thirty
three, to be exact?have workmen's com?
pensation statutes, and all of these oie
rated far in advance of the one for the
handling of cases of injured Federal im
?. There is manifest Injustice in this
Ion of social Justice, the grosser be
? cause the employe has no right to sue for
?something resembling a money value for
I his injur.es. No particular opposition to
this bill has been manifested. It merely
I failed to pass?was overcome by the
inertia of the b.g, s'.ow-movir.g Co.
? It should meet no t.uch fate this session. It
deserves to pass; it ought to he passed as:
a matter of decency and justice.
Mr. Ford's Return.
The mists of conjecture for tho present
'obscure Mr. Ford's retirement as com?
mander of the expeditionary army of
peace. If he is seriously ill, a report
. every one will hope is untrue, it will
seem rather surprising that he should Im?
mediately undertake the stormy return
voyage to these shores, to be tossed about
for another fortnight of extreme dis
comfort and without the inspiration of his
crusade to brace him. But if he is simply
di?gusted with the discord among his fol
and the small measure of success
for his mission in sight, there will be
every disposition, though sympathizing
with him in the pain of his long delayed,
awakening, to condemn him as a quitter. |
Really, Henry Ford haB a great deal to
answer for to his fellow citizens. Having;
watched the Spirit of '76 and of *81 go by|
the board they clung all the more desper-,
ately to that of 1898, when General Coxey,
at the head of his regiments, braved the
mighty forces of ridicule, dissension and
discourngement and marched to the very
portatif, of the national Capitol, penetrating
tho enemy's stronghold. But Mr. Ford?
has not come within sight or sound of the
trenches; he has penetrated only the fringe1
of hostile territory, and apparently he has
abandoned the whole business, deserted his :
fellow pilgrims after n final disgorgement
of coin, and fled the limelight in panic. ]
Americans have often proved themselves!
fatuous idealists, but they have never be-!
fore been known as quitters. Is Mr. Ford
to add this final humiliation to the accu?
mulation of their shame? Is he t? bring
this one remaining tradition of a noble
past crashing down about our ears?
In Search of a New York Husband.
Any lady, whether she be widow or
spinster, greatly strengthens her plea for
a New York husband when she complains
of lonesorneness in Chicago. New Yorkers ;
who have travelled that far know what it
moans to be lonesome in Chicago, to be sur-j
rounded by the native and adopted sons of
that articulate city, each one bent upon
impressing the visitor with the gTandeur;
of the municipality which bathes its toes.
in Lake Michigan, and with the decadence,!
prehistoric squalor and insignificance of
that poor old parent, Father Knickerbock-!
er. Barred from a share in tho communal ?
pride which sustains and stimulates every
Chicagoan, increasingly conscious of his
lowly origin, unprepared amid salvos of;
tics, the Neu Yorker in Chicago can
at last find solace only in a rendering of,
the famous refugee ditty, "Be it ever so.
humble, there is no place like home."
? 'he. lady in question (we refer now;
ti Police Commissioner Woods's recent cor- !
respondent) immediately weakens her!
requosl that he fin'] her a husband be-'.
tween thirty and forty years of age, by
?ulding: "I do not care for a young man."
In these parts no youngster in his thirties
will relish such blindness to his abounding;
youth. If, on the oth*r hard, she bad said,
"I want a young man, but do not care for a
boy," how completely diplomatic and ap-j
pealing would have been the expression ;
of her desire. But she has lived five
years in Chicago, and under these clr-?
[citmstances one should not expect a per
' fection of diplomacy eve-, in a widow of
y-five "with a sweet little girl four
years old." Beside?, she may be judging
of ages frcm Chicago models.
Weeding Out Criminal Defectives.
Police Commisse.per Woods's SStablish
?ment of a laboratory to examine prisoners
t? ascertain whether any are mentally de?
fective is a? notable an advance in polier?
et hods ns was the establishment of the
[Bei-tillon system of records. It marks the
'end of a hit-or-mi.?s scheme of doing bus?
iness and the beginning of a modern, sci?
entific attack on one of the problems which
confront the police.
It is a fair'y well accepte'! th.iry that
all crimii.aN are of abnormal mentality.
' Assuredly some of them are, not in any
! POO, but broadly?imbecile,
? minded, derrvriernte. In the two
n onths during which this laboratory has
?*. operation Pr. Bisch, of Columbia,
;;? .i Inspector 1'aurot, who are In charge,
a ?certa in cd that about 5 pe*- cent of
the prisoners brought in for the line-up
1 ? fore the deteClives are unnormal men
On that scale, some thirty per-sons
r those aiTfSJtad <ach day are irrespon?
sible.
Among the cases already handled by
ihoratoryi one may be selected a-;
t\pi*al of the value of this work. This
? was ar?osted fur assaulting and
lObbil in a cifrar Store, 'in'
?o shoot him, and for . firing
i! ihotS at tho policemen who finally
'? ! sata. His mental development
was found to be that of n boy of e.ewr
He had a long criminal record, be
; innit r in 1'tOT, when, arraigned for grand
<? was suspended. In the
? | year ho veen! t" Elmira on that
charge. In lf?13 he wns sent to the Erie
County penitentiary, and the next year he
VraS sentenced to ?ight months' imprison
BSjrt In the same institution for assault
"'his prisoner is n< w serving a sentence of
i ten years in Sing Sing on the robbery
icharge, though his condition in til proba
Mlity will simply be made, worse by this
tiBposal of his case
New York State is not well provided
with initituttons t~> handle criminal de
tectlvea Under this new scheme, how
? "ar, reports are to be made to the mag
i trates, who will take what action seems
? la such cases; and the Department of
Correction wfl] segregate and give spscia
core to such feeble minded prisoners as
are committed to Institutlona und-:
jurisdiction. Thus, In connection with the
iaw which ?roc
now year, these prisoners, hitherto hai
nir.ais with normal minds, may be
?.reated until discharged us cured, or may |
bo permanently segregated ^ institutions,
for the feeble-minded This will i
the public of a twofold weight?the ex
bones of the constant rearrest and retrial
f these individuals and the menace anfi?
ng from criminal acts on their part fo:
ehich they are not altogether responsible.
Loans for Firemen.
It Is rather a sad commentary on the
?condition of the members of one of the
most efficient branches of this city's ser-;
vice that an institution such as the New
York Firemen's Emergency Fund has to
be established. This, described as a phil?
anthropic association "to emancipate the
firemen from the shackles of the loan
shark." is to lend money to firemen on
their notes when approved by the captain
of the company in which they serve, or
the advisory board, made up of Fire De
pi.rtment officials, for a term of eight
months at 4 per cent. Such terms are bet?
ter than firemen can now obtain from any
regular loan organization, and, to judge
from the cases which come before officials
of the department when men are oued for
loans and the like, will be a genuine god?
send to many overburdened firemen.
The firefighter starts his service at
$1,000 a year. The first grade fireman
receives 11,400 a year. He has expenses
for uniforms and other things which a
person In private employment at a similar I
.-alary would be unlikely to have. To be
sure, he may look forward to retirement
on a pension when disabled, or to a pen?
sion for his widow if he be killed in per?
formance of his duty. These advantages,
however, do not pay the landlord or the
grocer.
The "smoke eater" is a good, sturdy citi?
zen. He asks nobody's sympathy In his
difficulties?and for that matter his are
no worse than th? policeman's, and proba?
bly not half so bad as many an overbur?
dened clerk's in this great, wealthy city.
There will be general sat is'action, though,
that through the generosity of the incor?
porate? of this emergency fund the tem?
porary anxieties of many members of this
faithful band may be relieved and their
minds be clear of worry in the midst of
their difficult and dangerous service.
Secretary Dsniels's high regard for the
opinion of the Generul Poard of the Navy is
always subject to a discount of from SO to 75
?er cent
Well, at least, the shop girl? are out of the
trenches until next Christmas.
Big Business and Little Business.
(From Th* PMlilelpMr? LfdiW.)
The Federal Trnile Hoard has rediscovered
an old fact. Little business does tl,
business of the T'nited States. In the ?.?Trre
pate, little hus-iness Is by lai partant
than the trust?, which bnlk so large tr. r?Fu
!sr fancy. Another oH fn<"t rediscovered by
the Federal Board ?nd reported by Vice
Chairman Baric** is thut a . <. per?
ce.tage of si! business In America is a dead
failure. Ten out af every twenty-five bosl
concem.?, iayi Mr Hurley, ssi
?.rotit? whatever. Nine others out o:
twenty-five- e?rn sbove 16,000 s real
four hundred snd sixty two bustaesi I
? ?<?? .- holo Isnd do s yearly busi?
ness of 15,000,000 or more. This does not in?
clude railroads, banks and public utility com?
panies.
One business out of every fifty does s
baalneBS In excess of |1(0OO>OOOI but the
number which earns ? profit of that magni?
tude la very ?mall. It Is a wholesome 'hing
however! that li divid? ? -\rner
ira Is not deterred by the corpses which
i ?trew the road to business succ?s.-. Thou
sands actually fall every year, but many
succeed in e small way. srvl the ?um I
thoir trade eelipssts what the nrreat trust? do ,
Take the so-called daer Trust it ?ells bat
n ?mall portion of this country's manufac '
turud tobacco. Take the gieeorj state cha?ne'
'and the drug store chains. They are t jtalh
outclassed by tie segregate pt trail,- secure!!
i by independents Mr Blatte*/ ? lifbt little
1 business I? ?till supreme, and our hectic '
brained legislators ought to remember that!
, when enacting laws fon 'he regulation ot
bnslaeea.
Enough Censors Now.
(From Th' Pre latsSSfsN
A bill for a Federal Commission to regs
lata nioiior. atetares is one that run be
tracked in Congress without detriment to'
the interests of the country. The police'
powers of the states In which the fii
ted nr- broad e::ou?th to insure the
- Sslea of improper pictures. So far as
! is known, local censorship meets all reason
? menta.
j A Federal Board of Censors with er. army
?of Inspect.?? -j.ke UsTg? I
?the national Treasury w;thout rendering any!
'commensurate '? .. WOrk'
'proposed -onld ie supe.f.uou.- This Is no
tima for the creation of us il? Wash?
ington. With new taxes in tig | the ;
is in no mood to pay the ,-.j ex.
penses of more anr.ece?!>ary commission?.
A Merciful Reform.
i svejasj ra? f--t Los.,? /,?-? .
The St. Louis Banker?' Club favi ,
? less dinner*' on Tuesday evening which was
greatly enjoyed by the diner?. To other or
'ganizations which have soi | ftn(]
'severely from the after-dinner ora'or, and'
yet do not ?ee their way c!-;.r to accepting
?he hi roic solution of ? -? ; ,,s hanker*
we desire u ssjggeel i mil let n ?
Why not give the uftcr-dirner orator '
to print," Be < ?.
the speakers it has not t.me to hear"
poee that each guest, on leaving a formal
banquet immediately after the r?rR,. Rn(j
seltzer had been enjoyed, ?hould he pisas alad
. little bach containing the sai ? ?
?anecdotes, etc., of th? ...
"ho evening;' Th's he could enjoy at nis!
lisnsure or consign unread te oblivion. i
SPfcCIAL LIBRARY CARDS
Withdraw-in? Them Puts a Handicap
on Re?eerch ?nd Scholarship.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
-: Let rn? follow the letter In thi? morn
tag's Tribune regarding the withdrawal of
special ttuder.t and resesrch cards by the
' rary. I feel that your correspondent
ha? understated the case It 1? moat unjust
thai the library authorUles withdraw a priv
i!et*e that has been In operation, to m?, for
the last six years, and doubtles? to hundreds
ef workers alonsr professional lines, to say
nothtng of students. This privilege la In
operation at ?11 the libraries in larjre e'.'ies
la this country, end is a very necessary one
For the student In a large city booka relating
to special phaies of his course are at a pre?
mium In the college library, and the dty
library Is his only other sourc? of ?upply
And these books are of no us? unie?? they
can ba u?ed at leiaure, not subject to re?
turn for a reasonable period. Who could
master Kant's categories on the time allowed
the averag? library card? Who would re
member, in course of ?uch strenuous mental
dlgt'SMon, to r?turn the book for renewal
periodically to escape the annoyanc? of
Bnesl And this applies also to the research
and professional worker.
If the expensive luxury that the city has
invested in cannot be used to its fullest ca?
pacity and Bdvar/'ipe by citizens, then 'he
library is not fulfilling its function. Th?
only excuse the officials can offer I? that
these books are out of circulation for toe
long a time on the special card. Well, I can
prove from personal experience that these
books, by their nature and contents, are
attsSty on the ?helves but for th? special
student and worker.
As for special work in the m?in hall of
the centrnl building, nothing it mor? dis?
tracting or Impossible. After waiting for
an age, the various book? aro ilowly assem?
bled, and at a crowded tabl? their heavy and
Important content? are expected to be di?
gested in the space of, let us say, nln? hours'
work, with sightseers ?nd c?sual roader?
providing constant irritation and distrac?
tion. What is more, if the officials feel that
these books are really out of circulation
when on a special card, they have a rule
prof-'ctlng them from abuse of this privilege
by which on notice or reque?t they can re?
call any of these books. I fear they aro
trying to pretend an economic presture In
recalling those card?, which are of little or
no expense. And when we consider the func?
tion of this costly ?ystem to the city the
question remains: Are we taxed to have
the library SI emporium for light ephemeral
fiction, or is It to serve the purpose It was pri?
marily created fur?to facilitate study and
scholarship among those who cannot run and
read? TAXPAYER.
New York, Dec 23, 1915.
British Prisoners and U. S. Officials.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
?ir: It was ?uprested to me that these
extracts from a letter received last week
from England might be of Intawwt,
tilts A. P. UVING8T0N.
Canon City, Col., Dec. 15. 1915.
"We are praying that America nay cease
diplomatic relation? with Germany, so that
So possible to transfer the care of our
prisoners to Switzerland, Norway or S
my so hates the Americans that sho
le nothing for them, ar.,1 British pris?
oners ?uffer accordingly. No man in tho
? tret was more splendid than Gerard or
ek, hut they aro poweriess, and our
; i or mon pay for it. It is partly the fault of
'he British government as to regulations, etc.
France thra has done wond'irs, but
then France is I ntal und know?
her Germans, and Spain his baan ?anally.
This la net ' r a re?
tained disabled P. Y. man and an army M. D ,
and it It nil first land -ard irhat we have
I about our men I* a ?. fact.
Naturally, we mint bear with the United
Hmba?sy as long a? they are there,
? l prays for than, to he recalled The
tat nil Fay Nana Cartil vovld have
i if In th? ease "f any ether neu?
tral power. No senior official would receive
Whitioc'"., er, rather, Hngfa Gibson. V.
excuse that he Is keeping on It! <
lint of the Britith pi '
? f, lint the I irtaacnt
must know th" facts, ftfj "'. I>. friend has
told th? War OAtes lhat he kr.n-v?, of the
ramps of Hn?i?h prisoners, and that
when the I'r.ited StAtes officials ask a:
?*ey are nut off arid can get no answer.
?an ambulance worker, only ?peaking
IB and German, a fellow pri.'ooer. bad
one of tl ir.ps In th? Baltic
i U This also Is a fact, that for
?orne obscure reason they are won? toward
cavalrymen than otm-r.?."
Not a Municipal Undertaking.
?or of The Tribune.
I should like to correct a few misap
nsiens concerning the Cemmaalty Tree
of Llg ! shins in Madleen Square
for a ' ttnat rive.
I h i. Il it is a city un?
dertaking, and therefore paid for by the mu?
nicipality Thi? is not the cas?. A ?Itall
entirely saoDJ SOU?, stands back of
thii tree Any one may become a member of
reap by sending a contribution to the
Trr-e of Light account, Plaza Branch, Union
'i erb City Theae con
tnbu*
rnther heavily on ti ?
* tplril and ldi>a!:sm oi .
j?r-i of th? <hnstmaa feeling th I
swept all over the country. The Community
"nas Tree I, - - an American cus?
tom, glittering through the arlntei i .^hts in
? und cities from one coast tS I
fri.m the Canadian to the Mexican ;
Tin- ?id.son Cempeny giv?? the current for
lighting of the tree
M It ; lid for, except the singing, the
??a, led by Victor Harris, giv.t.g ot'
'
BILDEOAROI BAWTBOBNI
York, Dec. 23, 1'J15.
They Have Done So.
ter of The Tribune.
Sir: May I ask why stenographers do
not combine and form a strong ??..
phers' Mutual Protective and Help League?
There is no class of workers in America who
? ague of protection, help and ad?
vice so much as tho young women stenogra?
phers of this country.
i um told there ?re 40,000 in New York
.--.?rpose 10 per cent of 'hem
M tents a month .>ach;
this v ? . Desiact fce ? ? r cent;
fot neridng expenses, ?nd there would be
11,200 a month for assisting those in dis
'or a weeklj- sura in case of illr.iss or
ce and assistance in
? SI lag te sue or ! I |
? !'., to pr.pasrate a mnveTient for every;
? ? r to have ?* a ?reek, and again te
anata of ?orne exp?rience.) matrons
lid jro for edhricsa, encour-|
Bt and consolation and to ?rhetS beg
enold * . r many trouble?, tr?ala andj
temptation?.
H?re is a ?plendid opportunity for a New
Kr* Ud-, with a wide rar.^e of experience,
and plenty of Uisur?, anxiou? to be:..lit
? Bf hor ?ex who work for a living.
J. T. DAVIES.
No? Tors. Dtvsv. IS. lfiltv
-DO THEY WeANT ROOSEVELT?"
^ a. ? /- a sa t ?a, ?f TKrm Being Enthusiastic for the Colonel?-TL
Repli? to This Question Still Crowding In. a Great Nlajonty of Ir,em tS? g V.ew-On. *
Public Seem, To Be for Him. Whatever the Republican ^^?^"^Jf? *"" "?"
Reader Suggests the Reconciliation of Taft, Root and Roosevelt.
i To th? Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The New York Tribune ha? been in
the writer's hone for three generation?, end
| he eery much doubt? If Horace Greeley pre
' ser.ted ?uch ?n tutorial page to his fore
! father? a? has obtained sine? the Inception
of the European war
lent is an organization R>
j publican; first, because he believe? In Repub?
lican principles, and, secondly, because he !? a
firm believer in organization I*, i? obviou?
ir.at the former triumph of Republican prin?
ciples has been largely due to the mastery
of Republican organliatlon.
Your powerful appea. for Roosevelt support
cannot be directed successfully to Republt
can? who ?till posse?? fealty to the Republi?
can psrty except by direct appeal to their
i American citizenship. Th?y have not for
' ?rotten that the rr.an who bad been mon
j honored by th? Republican party In hi? gen
: eration set out deliberately to wreck and
! destroy it!
While the Republican party has not for
j gotten the betrayal of Roosevelt in 191:2
, perhaps it has forfjlven him.
The Tribuna cannot lose ?Ight of the fact
that as Horace Greeley defeated Seward in
1 the Republican National Convention in 1860.
at Chicago, so in that same city in 1916 ex
i'resideni Taft and Senator Root can defeat
Roosevelt.
Th? three leading statesmen in America
to-day are Roosevelt, Root and Taft, the
three men who are most qualified, by expo
rienc? and the confidence of their country?
men, to rescue their country's lost prestige
and to preserve her honor and her institu?
tions. These th.ee statesmen hold the future
of their country In their own "hands. Th?
Republican party cannot be utilized as an in?
strument In the salvation of the country ex?
cept through the reconciliation of their
broken friendships.
With these three foremost statesmen recon?
ciled the citizenship of the nation would
1 rise en masse to their support and to that
of the Presidential enndidate for whom they
should jointly invite the suffrage of tholr
countrymen.
No one can question the unselfishness of
Mr. Root and Mr. Taft. Would that the
same could be said of Mr. Roo?evelt!
U the New York Tribune, the most power?
ful wielder of public opinion In America to
? d?y, should direct Its appeal to Roosevelt.
j Root and Tnft to reconcile their Individual
innd party difference? in the interests of their
country It would bring about its own answer
? to ita vital editorial, "Do the People Want
; Roosevelt?' HOWARD C. GRIFFITH^
New York, Dec. 20, U<15.
Pledged to Roosevelt.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I have votsd the national Republican
ticket regularly since I860, when I voted for
?Lincoln. I have always been "rogulur" ever
since a lad of slxte?n, when I shouted for
"Fremont and Jessie." I received my Repub?
licanism from Th? Tribune when Its editor
was Horaco Greeley. I have read Tho Trih
jUn? regularly for over sixty years. 1 first
j read the weekly, then the semi-weekly and
later the daily. I have always, been a trreat
admirer of "Tf-diiy" and voted for him until
if Roosevelt had been President last year
?there would have been r.o "backdown" by the
UattasJ atetes, nor any divided sentiment, a?
i "ow, a? to where we ought to stand.
We would all have beesn with our
deader This war would have been ?topped
<?re this. Roosevelt would hav? found a way
-.) sad this strii- ar.d kept us free from en
rangement He Is a man of action and
thous/ht I sincerely wish to be ab!? to cast
my fifteenth ballot for him next November
1010), and shall do so If he receives the
Repablfeea nomination at Chicago 1 ?ald in
1912 and later that I would never vote for
him again, but I have repented, as many other
?"old fellows" have dono. The one danger to
Ith? Kepublicsn party Is Its control by th?
corporate Interests and the old "stand-pat?
ter?." Let us all stand united for the best
i man, on? whom the country needs, Theodore
I Roosevelt. WILLIAM at PECK.
Dumont, N. J , Dec 18. 1015.
"We Need Him."
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The man who disrupted the Repub?
lican party Is the man who can unite It again
I thank you for your farsightedness In rec
?ogrtizinR that Roosevelt is the one candidate
for the Republicans to nominate In 1916 and
: for extending an opportunity to the public
? for expressing themselves. A? one deeply In?
terested in what is for the public good, I be?
lieve that Roosevelt is far and ?way th? best
man for the Presidential chair In the preg
|nant years just before the American nation.
Righteousness I? of ?quai valu? with peso?.
It never pays to rob Peter for the ?ake of
, Paul. The national conscience of America has
been ?o blunted during th? last four years
that It will require a man of unu?ual calibre
to meet th? emergency and give the nation
its vision of principle, without which "the
people perish." Such a man Is Roosevelt
He is not a politician; he Is not a pedagogue.
He is at once an idealist and ? statesman.
W? need him.
THE REV. CLARENCE H. HEWITT.
Hudson Fall?, N. Y., Dee. 19, 1916.
T. R. and Peace with Honor.
; To the Editor of The Tribune.
| Sir: Why do we want Roosevelt? Be?
cause w? know him (and tnut him) as w?
I know no other man who I? fitted for the high
office of President And secondly, th? other
nations of the world kr.ow him.
When President Roosevelt said "Haiti" th?
pcho "Hal Ha!" would not resound aero??
the water.
We want peace with honor, and therefore
we want Roosevelt. H.
Crafts, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1915.
The Republican Alternative.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May I add one moro answer to your
?question, "Do They Want Roosevelt?" Do
the bosses want him? No. Do th? people
want him? Yes. They wanted him in 1908
?and he refused their call. They wanted him
j in 1912 and the bosses cheated him out of
the nomination.
Do the Republicans desire another four
I years of Democratic misrule? If not, they
will have to do one of two things?either
nominate Roosevelt or a man whom Roose?
velt can support; such a man as Justice
Hughes or Senator Rorah. If the owners of
th? Republican party j Harn??, Penro?? &
Co.) will not permit this they can look for
; ward once more to carrying th? state? of
j Vermont and Ctah, with eight vote? in th?
I Electoral College. GEORGE H. HORNE, Jr.
Brooklyn, Dec 20, 1&15.
To the Editor of Th? Tribun?
Sir: In two recent rtjorou? ??lto?^
timely and significant indeed. Th? TrtataJ
ha? to say that the present gen?r?t!?B v^
little respect for political parti?? ?a?* t^
for politician?.
The Tribune Is exactly right Ir tjj'.a. ?A.
"national ferment," a? you aay, thi? ?*?
strengthening sentiment, ha? b??r, niais?
sweep ?teadily for th? pa?t f v? year? \\ ?^
manifested, after three nv-ntr.? of orfsuls?.
tion as the National Progressive P???, ,
a total of nearly four and a nth aijjj?,
vota?; that I?, about 600 000 mor? this a?
epubltean csndtd?te rec?tr?d
Of cour??, now that the Pio|rr???ir?t to
"back in the fold" the Bull M..ci? t. ^
But 1? 1ST Only last y?ar Goverr.or Hi?.
?Tohn?on. the Progressive, rar. a? ? Pro????,
sive for reelection. The registry ?howa^ ?kg.
the Republican? had ?nrelled n?ny ??,.
voters than the Progresilvei and D?mo?r?u
put together. And, of eoir?e. th? S|?fa?jSSjj
h?d much to say of a deceased Moos,?, ??x^
people are tired of Teddy." laid th? r???fl??.
ary element, "and we've had enough of 'Hal.
Hiram"'! But Johnaon, as a Prcsri*?!?!,.
was returned to office by an o\enrhilalw
vote, a plurality bigger, both in number ui
percentage of the total vot?, th?a th?t ?f uT
Governor in th? hlitory of th? ?tata
So it go?s. Mr. Editor; many of th? U*ou
are "back In th? fo!d"i but why? Th? ?>??*>
ment which you know ?nlmat?? th? m?n aa4
women of to-day and wa? ?rg?nli?d la uj
a? th? National Progre?slr? P?rty enon?, 14
?hackled or ttayed. Will th? Republican?ife.
to it? ?xprtnlon?or will lvlt h?r? to bj ??
peated?
In conelntlon, a word about th? MSjnjg.
? who la to boat Mr. Wilson Your Kings???,
I ' of last Monday) correspondent manda?,
Taft, Borah, ITadley, Barton and Wi?ki,?j,
aisert?, "The nominee will b? 'r?g-)l?r' ax
will b? nominated by 'regulen.' " Ai ? ?*.
American "with msllce toward r.om, butin).
1 net? in th? right," a? deathlei? Line?is m
, sincerely said, doetnt it s?err. I'terly |?w?|.
lble that not one of these men who in
?jockeying for position in th? rac? for th
! trusteeship of thla land of th? fre? bsiit,
' the tem?rity, the American manhood, to H.
I clare himself on the I.usltanla m?ii??rt, 1
crime which out-Herod* euch affair? u taat
of th? Alamo and dwarf? the Black Hoi? if
?Calcutta? ARTHUR A. GILLf*
ElUnrlll?, N. Y., Dec. 21, 1915.
A T. R. Follower.
To th? Editor of The Tribun?.
Sin As an American, I re'olce ?rcwdtnfi?
on th? fact that w? have one man who bat
j the couraga of his convictions ?nd It Ml
' afraid to denounce In the most fitting tti
prop?r word? the vacillating forelirn policies
of th? present administration ar ! th? ????
temptibl? and despicable policios of that????.
at-any-price portion of our peoyl?. 1 am glad
! to be a follower of Roosevelt, and f r h'.a I
. will ba, If I am the last on? in his run.
! Your position, as ihown by y.mr editorial?,
! I? ?imply superb. I am now a ragnlsi ruin
of your paper, and that I an aal ?ion? !:
this regard, in thi? Quaker City, ii ihm
by the fa?*, that my request fot aa#ga
Il often met by 'he reply, "All out," suid nit
ouly ?ftsr repeated requeata ?t dlffirat
standl that I get what I want. Ml? flsT
- - ' i'ion In Philadelphia ?qua! t*-at of Un
York! WILLIAM H !' ;BS<W.
Philadelphia, Penn., Dec 22, 1.1'..
SNOWBOUND IN CORNWALL
The Arctic Experiences of One Countryman Only Fifty Miles Above the
City in the Blizzard of 1 9 1 5? 1 888 No Longer a Winter
to Conjure With.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
: If Now York got rain last Monday Ir
; stead of snow It has no proper Idea of ho'
?ho rarrinjr snows up?fnfe that day beat a
record! of the b'izzard of 11-8?. Fiftee
tljou?and BSea are working at this writing t
I or?! over the telephone wires from Corn
wall to New York. This letter goes by th
I rat mnil slr.ce December 13.
And what a story of stoppage of rommu
m ?nd actual distress ther
? ta tell I BvOB r?t this fifty-mile dlstanc
from New York ea.-h man is cut off in hi
own house snd i. - Ma own way bac!
? lization. On''s own story, therefore
il really all one has to tell, amplified a litt!
i'hhorhond rumors. These last are oni
? II of lonely houses, ch:l
dren in want of food, sieh people who canno
? red to. The Hazard of 1915 ?OOJM
? ? ?
T was raucht in a ?hooding shack on i
Meadas morning started th?
' saewfsll Throughout the day thi
il besjaa to rise, but not noticeably. Th?
? of It came In the Bight, Tuesda;
Imoralag I saw Isipenetrabla masses of whin
blown up to the door. It was 7 o'clock am
.ilk had come from the f..rmer wh(
? |S It at thi? hour. ! climb?"' through t
booldore, I
This eeadition? so near New York -at firs?
d ?auehabl*. I tried the 'phone. By i
m'racle it ?as then working as far as th?
- why my weekly
- day.
"I trues? you ' ? v what you're up
.'?.??red. "Our man trot caught
? nnd you He had to leave the horsed
ind issi ???? ? li ? to a
? the night there, and
i that he's started digging
i Baissai i Th? boss lot eat
I bal me I
live upstairs. You can't get through the
re here."
! remember I told him jestingly that he
leky to be camped with all that food.
But It was no jeut My own groceries
?rere up another mountain All I had for
arealrJ -nlmcn and cheese -rr.v
last ?applies *?'. a I ran, no water, even, for
the ?priai itaaea up a path.
When I realised I hid no wool for the fire
? it- ai'cuuomed place,
row invisible well, I weat back to bed to
?
With money enough available, I was re
duced suddenly to the lowe?t terms of living
Already I fei? 'he need of more areakfaat,
I looked at mj dog and he ?ragged his to.il.
Mo, I wasn't quite n primitive man.
1 rang up the trusty farnvr who owned the
hack and was informed that his son had
? tarted my wny two hours before. He was
?sets aoeeatned tor his boy th.ui for me??
natural, but not comforting.
I ' | sign af milk or
man, ai ' ? from hta place took twenty
minutes ? rdli srily.
I aegaa to realise that there had been a
blizzard!
The fOB shone brightly on hank? of ?now,
? srabl? as aCOSS waves, but more slnis
( r because ?till.
It was pretty, too. Far away and below
anil the radiant Hudson enticing sight for a
nsSS who dabbles In water colors but I wi<
not that man. I was a hungry max, facing
lalmnl* Wunar1n??a>
1 One hour afterward I saw a milk pail sd
vanc'r^. It eerrte in n ?u-'er, plunging, halt
ty, In the hand of what it took field
?" to make out as a man. He was com?
pletely white caked with whit??shivering
r a weight of white.
VYhan he came in my door at last 1 burned
come poorly written novels. How I wdsh 1
dared thank their author?!
I shared warm milk with him. He told me
what had come upon the countrysid?.
There were great drift? be'ow as high as
a house. He had walked on stone wall? and
'?pon the tops of wire, fences, oven then up to
his waist. Occasionally he had been over his
head. Then It had become a matter of crawl
in-? on hand? and knee? without appreciable
progress.
I know alt this waa trie because I tried II
the next day myself. It. took me five hours
to get mv milk over a distance corresponding
to the walk down Fifth Avenue from Forty
.-econd Street to irty-third.
Be* on Thursday I managed to dig half
this distance to meet him digging; toward me
would make an interesting psychological
study of how much a starving city man can
do f< r bread I worhed from in the morning
until 8 at night with a coal shovel that got
heavier and heavier and left my hands like
raw tomatoes.
This pvh brings me now not only food but
information, my 'phono having died away to
? ?? on Wednesday
I got groceries to-day By the way, have
you ever tried cold ham, bake,] potato??, a
glass of milk and some cheese after four
fasting?
I have h?ard that the grocer's horse* wer?
due out after two days without food, one
being dead. The roof of a garage m the
village caved In from the weigh? of snow,
ruining four can and perhaps the owner. The
II being ?lowly dug out. the po
ter assisting, Bince no mail has yet come in.
?> men working in shifts made the
mai ras?-?'"le up to my farmer's. It
*ook them five days for rive mile?.
The 'phone man who repaired my wire and
told me of the men working or. the New York
connections had many pathetic stories of the
He said the 'phone, workin-.r
from here to N'ewburgh, saved a child's life
on Weslatsday A frantic farmer at Well's
Cate, a bastid aearai here than N'ewburgh,
tried to get word to Dr W(nt?r. a Cornwall
??.at his boy was dying. Baring
ro 'phone, he set out on the m o mir. g o?
Wednesday at 4 o'clock, walkine All that
.?ay he strucgled through th? drift?. At 10
?hat night he was far from Cornwall, ?till
alone, still struggling Almost demented, he
came uron s hones with a 'phone.
The telephone central go?, the doctor's di?
rections after detailing the symptoms The
? II * | h as '?' the i oor farmer's house got
an imperative message The owner was a
pood American, who struggled over the wastes
with it to the niother. The boy la recovering,
'hough the father is eri'ieally ill.
I'p in the mountain? the 'phone wire? are
all down. I have tramped up there, and hate
to think of the poor families I have seen go
lag through what I did for longer than I did.
Farmhouses, of course, have resources that
an improvident city man, overconfident with
a 'rhone and a checkbook, does not know.
Even so, the more I hear of thi? blizzard
of 1915 the more I reslize that the blizzard
of 1888 can no longer be th? pride of the
reminl?c?nt. READER.
Cornwall. N- Y. Dao? IS. 1S1?.
A WORD FOR THE NIXRO
His Value as An Asset In Military
Preparedness.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Gratlen Csndace, a negro fron Oat?
deloup?, proposes In the .Tfoaet, Ch?mb?r d
.Oeputles a measure adsles d ? Kt>T?r?mert
?onsiders likely to help stem the ttde of 0e>
?ran victories and prc?erve th.. beasa ?noil*
I lependence of England, France, Rust?s tal
?the countries opposed to tl - '"? trsl Empire?
iGerville-R?ach?, from the sam? W?it Indas
j :olony and of African uauo..- :, i m ? aSSaj
|gul?hed Vice-Pre?ident of the '')-?rtb?r d
1 Deputies. A brother of Ml eai H ?bl? o>
I ?onisl administrator, levarlas is H?r??H?,?
i colored man of Cuban birth .s ? 'read
?eputy, a no'ed joun.?:?' sad ?dueatteosl
| ?former ?jid MlatstSf of Pel ITsiB?
i No on? will ?ay that the dignity ?r.d peeei
! if Franc? have suffered | > WE a*
?ognition ami appropriate *? rasast as *j|
?'?lents of these ar.d other eltlsesi of ???*
oeicent. in the United Italie, i.thooit? tW
oassing of Booker Wa?h;r.gv.? ? SM brOt|St
?from the whole country the admlssles to?*?
|visiblo proportion of negro blood doe? SI?
?impair the ?rholeiom? n-. irtabI sal of ? bees
?full of sen??, tn? mere ailegatior tost ?
manifestly white woman who had euc?MifSW
directed largo bus;ne>* ? . ? wm tl?
'daughter of e New Orleans lises f? i
considered a sufficient;;; serle? r?fie-t?*a
upon her charac <r a-, : ? * "' r*n?|*
her incapablo of prefer?s dlspeslsf of Si
fortune. .
Time wa? when "ev^ry gee . -? '*J
dead I rid an," SO thai 4 ^
vision of a w:jrw?rn around th?- farr.'..? BSJ
the chief msrk of dietlaetioi ?1 * ''?? WF
??torn from Oklahoma. A : ?d iaaa| *?**
icans now think of the "u
chusetts colonists ? :? i ? ?r
? v.:.! r?-(;u:re a leaf ?? - tS ?tt:**|
e like result. Heal I ' ra*lr
said of th? Reeonnt.-uc.ion, th? feel '?jS
ihat the ?strgreizute eapac
Americans of negro deeceal
to that of all the black or 1 !. '':
France, and among the e r ?*?* **,
not wanting men of co:. - '?' * '
civic virtue. Yet not one of these nts* 'P**
tor his pt-ople ar.d hi* MBBtrj ':< L^"
<re?s of this Battes?,thoagb the l^Mp?**? *J
I'.uwaiian and the Porto Kicnn are b*U?
after a fashio:., and even joba like th? "?''
try to black Hoyt! ar? the peri; -:?- ?' ?
lerving Democrats" as laeoee ' ?? !
"charge" of possessing Mg
are of harboring a kr.
language and of the diplomatic proptietil*
This country is now at fever beet ?***-.
necessity of "preparcdner-s" fof ?r-y e?j.
ger.ey in the BBtlsaal life ?VUI >yJ *^j
until the supreme hour of aeed ?rnYi*,|i
mohlltsa for the fullest BStlOBSl ?SfVsSJ
neglected torces of the 10,000 000 ("ri**?
of Booker VVs-hingt'.n, lu Coaisd R**T
and Antonio Maceo4 Or ?rill feo r?,!"''r,??
a leaf from the censored book of th? IW*
in India and begin to root out th? ?'?"V.
discontent and the gnawing ?ens?- of tSJSl
from the oosom of your clored peoP1*^ i
Soaping to no one the opportunity to Pr**lL '
appropriately for the service of h II <0? -U.
even though in fo doing you make it P^*!
that a descendant of black Anuric-sn ?',f**?j
not? th? color, for ther? were and ?r?
will be white slaves, too, of both SSf*
long as yuu persist in keeping black ?
may break a cherished Image of the A*T
ican people bv eating unnoticed s *?n*T^
in th? Whit? HouseT JOSE CLARAS
New York. Dec. 18. 1*14.

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