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Mr. Wilson's Broken Pledges:
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in the last thr. ? yeara President
Wilson has left behind him a long
trail of broken pledges. The Tribune ;
intends to recall some of the breaches '
of faith of which he has been guilty.
Not all of them (because they are
fai too numcn.us), but enough to
show what littlB confidence can b*
p'aced in a statcsman who seldom
coneerns himself about living up to
his promi?er. or his words.
Mr. U randb'acy for re- ^
election itrelf represents a broken
pledge. Tho pledge in this case is ,
not one which ho made on his own
bchalf. Hc probably would never
have volunteered it. lt was fastened
onhimby I "" P?rty declara?
tion. It wa.-? made for him by the
Democratic NationaJ (Vnvention of
1912?put into the Democratic plat
form on which he was to stand as a
hinding assurance to the country of
his devotion to the principlc of a '
Bingle Prcsidential term.
For this reftaon -t!.e pledge to
which Mr. Wilaon subsenbed when
he accepted the Democratic nomina
tion and sought election on the Dem?
ocratic platform differs material !v
from the pledpes made by other
Prcsidents not I " rc4-!ection.
Mr. Cleveland, for instance, inti
rrrated in B state paper, written in
the course of hia first administra?
tion, that he would not be a candi
date for another term. Colonel Roose- '
velt announced on election night in
IC'04 that b* would not f-eek renomi
r.ation. But these were mere ex
prcssions of personal opinion and in
tention. They were not made before
an election, for the purpose of in
fluer.cing votes. They did not con- \
constitute a preelection contract such
as Mr. Wilson made with the voters \
who supported. him in 191'J.
The makers of the Democratic
platform of 1912 did not simply com
bjH the party in a general way to
the single term policy. It did not
merely recomrrreiid that a Democratic
( ongress should Bubmit to the state
legislatures an amendment to the
Constitution making a President in
eligible for reelection. It went much
further than that. 11 expressly
pledged the candidate of the conven
tion of 1912 to an acceptance of the
single-term principle. Here is thr
one-tcrm plank of the Baltimore
platform:
"We favor a single Presiden
tial term, and to that end urge
the adoption of an amendment
making the President of the
United .States ine'ijrible for re
el4>ction, and we pledge the can?
didate of this convention to this
principle."
The makers of the platform knew
exaetly what they were about. They
knew that the proccss of constitu
tional amendment is slow and
us. They foresaw that even if
h Democratic CoflHTBBB should be
chosen in 1M2 a one-term amend?
ment might still be unratitied wh?n
the campaitrn of 1916 came 01
they p>?4gBd tha canditiatB ror Pres?
ident to tl BB, makinjr
it incumbent or. him, if elected, to
orm to the theory ar.d j.
of the amendment, whether it had
then reached ;ho BtflLg* of ratifica
tion or not. Mr. Wi S.>ur..l.
if he accepted the platform, to dern
II own action in 1910
the sincerity of the Democratic
party's b**)ir? I - | President
from the temptatio:i to BBB the fVBBt
power of the Pl | rce his
renomination and <!(?'?','.n.
Hb did Btand on the \u mocratic
platform ar.-l v.as tlottoiu
jeople ?t1*p*et*d his loyaity lo the
aintfle term p'^Hjr*'. DBViag the cam
j-aign Mr. firyan, to Brhoin, more
than to any one ajaja, i.' BajaajdJ },r
nomination, laid great BtaTBBB on the
e.ne-term deelnration. The President
allowed Mr. BaTjran'l BBrfntad assur
rncea that the declaration meant.
what it said, so far as the Demo?
cratic eandidata wa? eotaesnisd, to
rjaar4 BratfcaBJt a proter-t. lf?
repudiaU-d th* pie/lge- aa he wmm
bound ir. botVBf U> do If hr- ir.*?
He wai < |
tbe expli'it underftanding that he
?! |i** u\i to th* laflfai iani <u
laffBtaon.
The Derr.'/erata in f'ongreaa tc,k
taai flaltlnann plaCfimn bbiIqiibIi". At
the short r.'-*?:ori followinjr Mr. Wil
'*d to
submit a single-term constitutional!
amendnrent. The House. which was .
Democratic, was ready to follow the
Senate's lead.
Then Mr. Wilson intervened. He
was ashamed to oppose the amend- ,
ment publicly. So he wrote a pri?
vate letter to Representative A.
Mitchell Palmer. to be shown in con?
fidence to Democratic members of
Congress. This letter saw the light
only a f4*w months ago. at the open
blf of the present campaign. ln it
Mr. Wilson pleaded with the Demo?
crats in the House to sidetrack the
Senate's amendment. He did not ?
want to be precluded from seeking
a ret-lection. He sai<l that by 191H
there would be a nation-wide pri?
mary in operation for the nomina
tion of Presidential candidates, so
that a repetition of the scundals of
1911 would be avoided. As for him- i
self. he promised not to use the power
of thfl Prosidential office to promote
hifl own renomination.
Afl ? prospective distributer of
Federal patronage, it was inevitable
that Mr. Wilson should have his way
?rith tho office-hungry majority ln
the House. The constitutional
nmendment was smothered in the
House Judiciary Committee. The
Baltimore pledge, so far as Mr. Wil?
son and the Democratic majorities .
in the two branches of the 63d Con- i
press were concerned, became fl
mere "scrap of paper."
Mr. Wilson did not even keep his
promise not to use the power of the ;
Presidency to promote his own re?
nomination. The first thing he did
wa tfl bestow the office of Secretary
of State on William J. Bryan, the j
only Demoerat powerful enough to
contflflt with him the leadership of
the party. Mr. Bryan, out of the
Cabinet. might have been the head
(f a forinidable opposition. In tho
Cabinet he became at once a minor
figuro. and he laeked the courage to
ruit until his prestige was complete?
ly wreeked. Mr. Wilson's whole Ad?
ministration has been a bid for re?
nomination and reolection, capped by
the recent humiliating surrender to
the demands of the four railroad
brotherhoods.
There has therefore been nothing!
balf-hearted about the President's
repudiation of the one-term pledge.
It has been a thoroiighly self-con
tained. coollp premeditated perform
CT\ce?a piece of personal and politi?
cal perfidy of which, happily, there
are few parallels in Ameriean
politics.
More Money for State Parks
This city has a peculiar and per?
sonal interest in the adoption of
Proposition No. 1 which will be sub
mitted to the voters at this election.
It is for the ratification of a $10,-1
000.000 bond issue, the proceeds to
be devoted to the purchase of lands
for state park purposes. Of that
cum $2,600,000 il to be devoted to1
the r.equiring of additional land for,
the Palisades Interstate Park; while
.S7,.r>00,000 is to purchase land for
the extension of the Adirondack and
? il] sections of the Forest Pre
t-erve.
The Adirondacks and the Catskills
cre merely names to a great body of
NflW Vork's eitizen3, but the Pali?
sades Park is right at our doors?a
big strip of woodland country, dot
tfld with lakes, combining all the de
iights and beauties of wild forest
land with the conveniences of near
1 y pleasure resorts. Thousands on
thousands of people from this city
find happiness and health there. This
season l..r>00,000 persons visited it.
On the shores of one of its little
lakes 5,000 boy scouts camped, while
near by was a camp for 1,000 work
ing girls. The fast motor boat and
the humble canoe tie up at the nu
merous landings along the Hudson
!-hore. Up at Bear Mountain a
jlayground, baseball diamonds and
tennis courts have been built for
public use, while at Hifhland Lake
visitors find rowboats for their use
without charge. There is probably
no forest park B0 near any great
(i'y in the world which has the
beauty and the practical utility of
this one.
At present land which should be
inchided within the park boundaries
bej ptirehaaed for prices consid
erably smaller than what they will
1 <?, inevitably, in a few years. It is
the part of wisdom to make the flX
tension BOW. MorflOVflr, if the state
da the proppflfld SJ.r.oo.ooo pri
hafl? ngrtai to raifle
a like sum, to bfl devotod to th- pur
? land. the building of roads,
. of imall lakes, shelters, the
r-eplantincj of denodad tracts with
. and the 1. i
WHfa this su;n of $.",,000,000 ln
hand, tha originaJ plans for the In
. Pai k, to extend from tho
.? in Near Jorae* up the Hud
?-. Nflflabaifljh Bnd ba far west
" intains, can be
plfltfld. Th" famous
of thfl Hud an arill ba pro
farthor Bpoliatfam by
'juarrym'-n. A park ot inestimablf
;..!.'? bfltn gr.en io tho
paopte.
flVhilfl _i Bflfld for extending the
Adirondach ar.d Catflhill parks
-. paraonal tfl most Sew Yorkers, it
ialiy inpOTtant. The state bl
? ixad the ntCafls i'y of pre
? ? forasta. Yat In th*
. ? ? tataoan
I than half the tUnhflfad land. lt |fl
? lai i tha* is cate from thfl
i hnabflnMUL Mvch af the Adiron
dadsfl ar.d CatflWttl has bflflfl Cul
bare of aoft wood, hard wood, even
of pulp material and saplings ftt
<.nly for burning. Few owners ofj
mountain land have had the fore-'
sight or the public spirit to reforest
their holdings. The result is not,
only the temporary menaco of disas- j
trous forest fires which grows out
of these indiscriminate lumbering
cperations and the danger to the,
?upply of timber. Far more serious
is the prospect of diminished rain
fall, of gradualiy wasting streams.
of sharp and extrome changps of
climate, which go with the denuding
of the Rtate's mountains.
It t>ehooves New York State to ac
quire additional forest lands while
she can. Her conservation policy il
well established and is working well.
P.eforestation of bare territory is
tei::" conductcd scientifically and
succe-sfully. For their value as
playgrounds and health restorers,
for their economic value, the public
neadfl all the wild lands its money \
can buy. The referendum should bci
approved.
William M. Chaie
Chase was or.e of the most useful
painters we ever had. The promise
of American nrt which glowcd so
brijrhtly in the work of Gilbert
Stuart, when he acclimated the great
eighteenth century English trndition
in this country, rani.lly faded, and it;
was not until some time after the
Civil War that we were once more
set upon the right track. Then,'
a'igain, we went to Europe for our
inspiration. When Chase Yvent there
in the early seventies he sought a
Cerman master and chose Piloty, of
all men in the world. It was, nom-;
ir.ally, a stcp backward. But Frank
Duveneck was also in Munich at that
time, discovering Rcmbrandt, and in \
the long run it was his broadenin.tr
influence that opened Chase's eyes to
th* art of painting as distinguished
from the trade of picttfre making.
There hangr. in the Visitors' Room
at the Union League Club a canvas
of Chaao'a, "Ready for tho Ridc,"
Yvhich is perhaps the best of all the
souY'cnirs of that period in which he
fonned himself and brought preeious
r.timulus to his fellow artists at'
home. It is a landmark of our great
campaign in the seventies dedicated
to "art for art's sake." Chase came
back from Europe with that fronzy
for the rheer delight of painting
which counts for more than any
thing else in the makinjr of a true
raintor. He was in love with his
craft, intent unon extortinjr "qual?
ity" from pure pigment, absorbed in
"values," in the nuanc?s of tech
nique. And he was so clever that he
could do almost any thing. He tried
to do it, to paint Yvith the flashinjr
brilliance of Fortuny, with the sol
ider rnastery of Alfred Stevens, ex
perimenting always and nearly al?
ways making tho cxperiment worth
while.
Almost more important than the.
success which he won for himself in
any of these ventures was the im
petus he gave through them to the
new movement in American art. If
amongst the pupils at the Art Stu
dents' League or amongst their eld
ers in the Society of American'
Artists there stirred a fresh en-!
thu.-iasm for pood drawinsr, good
brush work, good color, it was in gcn
19*001 measure Chase's doinr;. As a
painter and as a teacher he yvbs all
nnd workmanship, and one has
only to glance over the dry bonea
that continued to lie about in that,
transitional period to realize the hijrh
value of his services. It is for what
he did then and for his loyalty ever
thereafter to honest technique that,
every one who cares for the integrity ,
of American art should do honor to
his memory.
Armi and the Barber
The recent Freneh army order de
priving the potiu of his beard has
been followed by a British army or- '
der penrritting Tommy Atkins to
shave his upper lip. Hitherto the ,
mustache had been an indispensahle
part of the Pritish soldier's make
up, not even officers being at liberty
to dispense with it. Some years ago,
ir,(]"t-d, Yvhen I/>rd Wolseley was
commander in chief, the prevailing
faahion of clean-shaven faces threat
< ncd tO make headway ariiomr the
subalterns, but it Yvas prornptly
checked hy an order directing their
attention to the established regula
tion and advising those who la
the traditional adornment to take
such steps as might be necessary to
promoto its prowth.
This recommendation was said atj
the time to have CBttBBd some con- '
?ternation and perplex.iy among the
younper sort, and may possibly ac?
count for the atrocious rnooVrn style
of growth known as Um toothbrosb
nrustaciie. It is not fhr*n to all men
ta bjtobj b dacent face of hair ln eon
formity with the standnrds of other j
days, and I uld bfl more rr-a
?onablfl than eloail having ariiong (
who found themscives unable
to eOBB forth anythinp better than |
? strajrgling crop of bristles. But j
I [ne* thi:; BfanplB solution was forbid
il'-n it Ii conJBa*tar*d that the boob
-.red to BBtabllafa B new fashion,
I nd the abortive Charlie (haplin af- j
1 air which came to be aflVctod a few
yoaxti ifo in Um BrHisb army mtsj
adoptad not for lt* iirtrinak baaaty,
bat ln olH-di'-nce to militarv Bj
sity, a eondition which is supposcd
t* atxeomm b |t*b1 raricty of atrocl-l
ties.
There :eeni* for thr rent to be
some occult and unaccounta'de rela
tion between the businesses of the
soldier and the barber. An English
writer, commending the recent order
and recommending complete liberty
in such matters, remarks that "in
Elizabeth's time every man who was
a man, soldier, sailor, or civilian,
wore the full complement of hair on
his face"; but that is hardly true.
In any case the soldier wore it with
a difference, or Shakespeare would
r.ot have spoken of him particularly
as "bearded like the pard." In
Prussia and Austria the soldiers
wore fierce mustaches at a time
when all civilians were smooth-faced.
Again in the 30's of the last century
the sappers alone wore beards in the
Fl*nch army, though in the course
of time the fashion came to be com?
mon. Beards came back in England
during the Crimean War or shortly
after, as any one may convin.ee him
jelf by turning to the pages of
"Punch." that most trustworthy
cfcronicler of passing whim3 and
modes, and they came by way of the
army.
For many years the British navy
I.as stuck strictly to the close
cropped beard as the only eonreiv
able alternative to clean shaving:
the mustache is a thing unknown to
officers or men. On the other hand.
neither beards nor bare face;* have
hitherto been permitted in the army
?the mustache has been. as it were,
an essential part of the military uni
form. It has had a fair trial in war
time, and. considering thfl results as
shown in the current portraits of
hrilliant young officers, no one can
seriously regret that it is no longer
eompulsory.
Fewer Books Publishcd
From t/w I'/it'cirfw-i/.i i IMeer)
One result of tha increased cost of
paper la a decline in the number of
books publishcd in this country. This
refers not only to titlea, but to total
Of volunics. In these days the
puhli-hcr has to be a courageous aoul
if he patfl a book on thfl market. Paper.
ink, biadlag and swei-ything that aaUn
into bookmnking have gonc up, but lt
is almost Impoaaiblfl to increase the
seiling price of tho book. The decline
in thfl last four years has amounted to
40 per cent, ?o far as titles are con
cerncd, but there is no way of nadiflf
out exactly how many actual volumes
have been issued.
There is an lmpression in the book
trado thflt tho actual number of vol
umes printed annually has been about
stationary ior some t:mc. This is due
to the fact that so many readors con
sult public libraries or the r.vo-cent li
brarics at the drug s>tores und seldom
buv books Olltrifht Thus the actual
number of rflfldflra Incrflflflfl*. altl
the output does not. lt is iBBfllfl
to note that the decline Ifl output ia
most notable in fiction. Thi; is rather
gratifying. We have often flrofldflrfld
why some novcls were flflhliflhfld, be?
cause it seemed impossible thflt enough
pflrflflllfl eould be satistled with auch
pabulum to justify the outUy. A good
many publishers seem to havo a no
tion thflt as they aie in the BflfliBfl I
they must print som-thing and tak-*
chantfla on profltfl. This year nove's
are fewer and general ly bflttflr. Poetry
BhflWfl Blaaflflt Bfl dfldiflfl, arhllfl essays
end aerious books increase ln number.
This fall we ahflll see fflWflr war book?,
because of the cost of production. HflB
dreds of titles hflflfl been IflflBfld liBflfl
tha conflict begun, but it cannot be
Bflld that many of them have perma
Bflflt value, and only B few of them have
proved really profitable.
Cleveland and Wilaon
. i . ' i
Orcarionally somebody tric* to de
prlflfl Richard Olney of due credit for
the fflmooi VflBtXBflla mesaage. Aa afl
ma'ter ?f fflCt, M r. 01fl?7,flfl Secretary
of Stfltfl, drafted thfl message and
tiH flditfld it. Th.s i.
tho eofldfldiflg portion flf the mesaage
as drafted by Mr. olney:
". . , or h11 the calamities to which
a great nation can subject itself none
are more to be deprecated or more tfl
be shunned than thoflfl which follow
from a supine submi-'sion lo wrong and
lnjustlce and the consequent losa of na?
tional honor and aelf-respect."
Thia Ifl the edjted portion aa ra
ceived by Great Hritain:
". . . there is no ealamlty which
a great nation can invite which
equals that which follows supine sub
on to wrong and iajlistiea and thfl
I on loqflflflt loss of national Bfllf-lfli Bflfli
and honor, beneath flfhleh Blfl shielded
and defended a people's safcty and
tffl tflflfl fl."
(Jrover Cleyeland was a great Prflflt
dent, a great patriot and an effective
editor, even though as flditfll hn
dra;;ged "which" four times into thfl
foregoing partial sei.tee.ee. Hfl BTfll
not as flflflflt ill bis patrioti.-m as
Wflodlfll* Wilson. and neither was hfl
eloqe.ently rflflfltfliblfl.
History Re written
. /-. mn 1 aa / Mflaaapofli ' ?? * i
Shall we rejert tha established fflflta
of history nnd our fondest ideals and
Bflhfltltfltfl thfllflfflf B picture, for in
stance, of Villa and his Mexican ban
dits who, Bflflflf Bflflfl, are no VflTBfl
than our Hevolutionury fathers shoot?
ing down BBfllflflfld Bflflfl and women?
If Mr. baker ls right, Washington, who
pjrfljflfld his men at Valley Forge, "?
-, our Mhflfll hl tone ure wrong
and should be rewritten. Pflrhflflfl Mr.
Haker would llkfl the job. Or if Mr.
Bflhflr ii right, then we should Iflflflfl
ofl talking abflfll 'he vfrtoflfl of th*
Ameriean nation onil should flbflfldoi
the Idflfllfl whlflh hflflfl rustained flfll
people Bfld our aoldiers Ifl tilne., llkfl
those of the Kevolution, thflt "trj
men's souls."
Panch and George
Whflfl ViIIb camped.at VsllflJI Pfllffl
That m< mr.r-ihl" year,
Thry'd ( it till morning, he and Gflflrgfl,
A ilrinkin' riim and beer!
Thfly cut up aflflflflthiflg awful llkfl,
These two flhflBdflflfld I'bIs;
robbfld thfl eharchflfl on the klkfl,
Aad Birtfld ?itl tha ga!?!
T'nen here'. tn I'aneh, who helped fll
win,
And here". to Hnrker Hnker
Bflt here's thr Big Tflflt, Iflt'fl go Ifl
Ai.'t lirar some otlier fak-i !
LAlll. SIMONSON.
THE HATTERS' CASE
Attacki on Mr. Hugbei for CourtV
Deciiion Are Dbingenuoui.
I To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: An attempt has been made to
: attaek Mr. Hughes in connection with
the "Danbury Hatters" case. lt la not
worth wasting words to elaboraie tha
proposition that the country at large
'will always resent any attempt to pun
i ish a judge for having decided an in
dividual case in accordanee with his
nwom duty to administer the law as he
flnds it laid down for him. The opposit.
proposition would repel in its mere
statement every voter who sought the
good of the country at large and every
intelligent voter who sought his own
good. Who among us would desire
to teach our judgcj to be venal ?
Though in :ome particular case one
might individually benerit by the result
all others would bo injured, and in re
' gard to all other cases the same would
be true. An enlightcned selfishness if
nothing else would keep our reasoning
straight in rclation to our prefcrer.ee
for an upright or for a dishonc.-t ju
dieiary.
An honest judge renders his opinion,
or, if it be an appeal on which he la
associated with other judges, gives his
I voice, in BCCOrdaBCB with the eaae
which is presented, and in appellate
I cases under the special limitations
which the law places upon him as an
appellate judge. I.aymen often do not
I understand just what that last phraso
means. lt means that the judges
, of an Appellate Court do not have
i the whole rnatter before them, but
! are limited by law to rcviowing the
allcged errors committed on the trial.
If the taking of certain steps during
| the trial ia neglected by one side or
I the other the door is closed as to the
' matters which might have been re
viewed on appeal had those stpps been
i taken. By no poaaibillty can an Ap
I pallat* Court take eognizancc of that
v.hich is not before it. That was the
yituation in the "Danbury Hattera" CSBB
when it came before the Supreme Court.
1 <!n BOt say the result would have been
different, Nelther I nor any one can
aai what the result would have been
haid a different "case" been presented to
?Le Bapraaaa Coarl
Mr. afanhall lB a signed Interview
on the subjeet a few days ago pointed
rut that the court araa largely limited
as to the questions which came before
it by the fact that the cause went up
in the tirat instanco on a demurrer,
but he overlooks a further fact which
placed oxtreme limitations upon the
court in dealing with the case itaelf
8 hen it ultimatcly c.me before it. It
nppears from an examination of the
record that no niotion to BaBBaiBfl was
made ?n behalf of the 170 individuai
defeadaata nt the closo of the plain
tiff's case on the trial, nor was any
rnotion made on th".r behalf to diamisa
' ,-.t the eloae al tha entire ease, nor
v as any request BBBda at *he rlote of
the ca^e that the court should direct
a verdict in favor of the individuai de
fendants. Poubtler-.- the eounsel for
these defendants had their own reasons
v. ith which I am not familiar for adopt
ir.g the rourso they did. I am in no
wise undertaking to criticise their con
duct of the cause; I am but stating the
fact. The result of the absence both of
any motion to diBBaisa and of any re?
quest for the direciion of u verdict a*
to these defendants was to limit the
Supreme Court when the cause came
before it for argunu-nt to a considera?
tion of certain narrow and technical
questions and to their consideration
alone.
That is to say: the Supreme Court
was at libeify only to consider lm
Whether evidence which was both pre
judicial to those defendants. and at the
tanie time inrompotci'.t, had been both
admitted on the trial, and its admi:.
^;ou had been exrepted to, and (b)
Whether the Jada* arasidlB*j at th?
trial had embodied in his charge to the
,iury matter prejudicial to those <>
fendants which had been excepted to
on their behalf. ia other words: the
questions actnally before the Supreme
i < ourt, and the only queitions before
it, wr-f distinetly of ? r.arrow aad
technical character. It would have been
.-i violation of its duty had the court
considered anything but such matter*
as were laivftilly beforp it. I'nder these
circumstances it is palpahle that tht
attempted attaek on Mr. Hughes in this
matter is disingenuou^.
CHABLES BTEWABT DAVISON.
Xew York, Oct. 2i>, 1916.
Peace and Horace Greeley
To the Fditor of The Tribune.
Sir: It seems that "first to last the
truth" applies to trlvial truths and
not the great truths of humanity
Kor rxample, you devote more than
B page of your Sunday issue to a sin?
gle example of what you call "fake
udvertising." Of how much conse
nuence do you think it is that silk
ilresses are sold above their value,
compared with the possibility of de
creasing the duration of the Great
War and the chance of raving hun
dreds of thousands of lives? Think
ef how much pain mothers and wld
ows could be naved, nnd not, of a few
women who could buy a silk dress for
a little mt>re or less money.
(an you not muster the same cour
age of Horace Greeley, the eminent
founder of Tha Tribune, when ba
brought about a meeting between
Abrnham Lincoln and rommissioncr*
roprOMBtiBBJ the Cofifedeiate Btat*
in the bope cf BBBt*BlBg the end B*
ihe Civil Uar? Could you not make
yo-ir BBMBBB* of truth ring truer If
, you headed a movement which would
rnhble the greatest n^utral nation to
i.elp the smallcr neutral nations and
I rlag some kind of a programme by
?;.-? af ?BggBBtiaa to t'ae attention of
Barring nations leadlag toward the
thi r dlffetBaaaa I
BtatBGAKET LOHING TimMAS.
York, Oct. 24, 1916.
[Horace (irecley's peace mission
(allad l.e?nii-e th*r* w;:s only one
way by whi'h thfl Civil War could
be ended. The Tribune believes any
similar etTort now would be equally
Iruitless. It also believes that the
pa*v ? of th.- world horeaftcr can only
le assun-d by the def-at of Germany
on the batt'ii'licl.l. Appomattnx and
not a B*8*t*J a '11 intcritioned
t.ut in tha larger \ icw foo!i.;h, put B
term to the Civil War. What Braj
true ln lk<*l il true now, and wbat
was iicce-;sary then il '-iiually necc ;
? ary BOW. P**C* ran only come when
? . aitk d, and it la not set
tied. Kd.J
ATHLETICS FOR COLLEGE WOMEN
A New Organization Offers F.xercise for Alumnae in and About
New York?Riding and Swimming Most Popular?A
National Intercollegiate Associatioh Is Proposed
1*0 the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Fxercise, real, invigoratinjr, j
nuncle-trainini? exercise, has become,
so necessary to city dwellers with.n
the last few yofltfl, and the lack of |
proper facilities for exerelsing has been ?
ffllt flfl kflflflly by collcge graduates, ?
who lonrr for their old, stnnuous :
gflBMB) that the readers of The Tribune
r.iay be intcrested in one succeasful at?
tempt to solve the probiem.
The Ir.tercoltegiate Aiumnse Athletic
Association was orgBBtflfld last tpring
for the purpose of providing inexpen- ;
alrfl athletic facilities for college
worr.en in and near New York. The work
andcrtflkflii by the orgflfliflfltiflfl was be- '
gun fou** years ago by a Bflsflll commit- :
tee of Rarnard alumn.e, eonsisting of ?
Miss Lillian Schoedler, chairman; Miss
I Uflbflrg and Mrs. Schuyler Imbrie. j
The committee reserved the gymnasium |
of TflflChflTfl College for a smail group '
. ?' B .rr.ard girls and their friflfldfl one |
.. week. Soon the glad tidings of ,
thfl fflfl BWflitiflg nlumr.ac ut these .
Monday evening fllflflflflfl spread, and the j
rflspflflflfl was immediate. A elflflfl in i
horseback riding was begun, and that, '
too, grew rapidly. The idea of inter
tolieptatc atlilet.es for alumna? proved
so attractive that it soon became diffi?
cult for the three pioneers to manage
the work.
At the end of four suecessful years |
the overworked committee organized (
the Intrj-collegiato Alumna Athletic j
AasoeifltioB, arith a statT large enough
tfl handle the increasing volume of
bflfliflflflfl. Bflflflfl colleges are repre- i
Bfllltfld on the board of directors, *he j
principal olhflflrfl of which are Miss
El Ifl A. '" rg, Harnard, president; Miss
AgBflfl Morrow, Hryn Mawr, i ecretary.
ar.d lliaa Lflcila Cochran, VflBBflT, treas
urer. Thirty-f.ve colleges and univer- !
Fities, bo:h here and abroad, contribute
to the membership.
The large number of college women
whfl are iatflfflfltfld makes it possible '
for the a sociation tfl offer the tflTJ
bflflt facilities for nthletics at a frac- ;
tion of their cost to an individual. Any
Ifltfl of any women's college of rcc
ognized atflading is rligiblo to membrr
ahip, and credit for two years' college
work flfltitlflfl one to associate member
ship, With fllmoflt the same privileges. ,
No one need be excludcd by expense,
for the annual ducs are |2 just enouph
to eoflflf ranniflg flxp?na?a. The, fees
ehargfld for the different sports aro the
actual cost prices.
Horseback riding has proved BB"
tremely popular, and this year three
large classes are scheduled in New
Vork and one in Brooklyn. The classes,
which are ofTered at remarkably low
. present a motley appe.irance,
earefree and unconventional. bloom
er.i and middy bloflfl? are scen bflsidfl
chic habits from fashionable shops.and
graduates of the class of '16 gayly
comparc opinions of their mounts wi'.h
gimy-haired alumnse who praduaicd
thirty years ago. Drilla, conducted by |
the ring rnaster, begin t'ue evening, and .
Red Hover, the horseback version of j
EIZABETH COXE
TOWEDINSPRING
Her Engagement to Chap
lainl. P.Riddle,U. S. N.,
Announced
ouncement is made of the en?
gagement of Miss Klizabeth Davies
( o\e. dflttghtflr of Mr. and Mrs. Mac
grane Coxfl, of 170 West Fifty-ninth
Street, to Chaplain Truman Post
Hiddie, I'.S. N., con of the late Tru
?iar, P. Biddlfl and Mrs. Riddle, of St.
l.ouis.
BJlsa Coxe, on her father's side, is
? frflflt-grnnd Iflflgfltflt of the late Gen?
eral ThonUfl L I?aviei, of Pough
?, N. V., who for more than tifty \
iear.' Idaflnt flf the Pough-^
? National Hank. The lalter'sj
grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Davies, ,
of Utehflflld, ' onn., was graduated
from Vb!i in 1751.
dn her mother's sida Miss Coxe ia a
great-grandduughter of the late l'eter
Townaflfld, of Southfiolds, Orange
Cour.ty, who ia a young man made
the first bar of railroad iron rolled in
thi.s country. His grandiatner, also;
l'eter Townsend, forged tha great
chain which General Washington in
1778, had atifltehcd aeroaa the Hudson
<?,.?,., | ofl Ifllflfld to West
prevent thfl Brltiflh ahips
| | | ozfl'fl brother is
.. , Imflflt on the Mexicnn
bflrdflr. , ,1
Liflfltflflflfl' Kiddlo is a graduate of
Yale. Clflaa To. After a year of Ptudy
ln' EurODfl he entered l'nion Theologi
cal Seminary, in this city, from which
he was -raduated in l'.'H. Bfl flrflfl
for two years an rissistant in St.
George'd Chureh, thia city. He is now
<m duty ns chaplain on the battleship
PflnflflylTflflifl. Tho wedding will Ukc
place in the spring.
The new home of th4? Club de Vingt, |
ln Bflflt Fit'ty-eighth Street, opened
last night. Ihe deeorations bflflfl been ]
done by Robert Tittlfl MeKflfl Bfld I Bg
gest a country caf6 on the out.skirts !
of Tuais. Africa. The rfllfll cai'e and
gflrdfln tttoet have been Bflirifld out as
ible to give a tropical at- .
no iph
A ; upper of eurried dishes was ,
??rvfld by a Bfltira Lfl tflfltflflsfl. Many
?rflrfl gi-.cn, the largest one
bfling o'ie by alrfl. R. T. Wilson. Her
? inellldfld Major and Mrs. Cor
nflliUfl Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. .1. Gor
dun Doflglflfl, Mr-. Helmont TifTany,
Mr. BBd Mrs. J. LflurflBfl Van Alen,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles flfl Looaey Oel
|ir. Bfld Mra. William May
Wright, ill aad Mi u Oliflflr Penn.
Mr. and Mrs. Fcrsyth Wickflfl, Mr. and
Mr.-. Allarj GouTarnenr Wellman, Mr.
?ii..1 Mrs. J. Philifl Bcnkard, Robert
. AJcxfliidflr D. B. I'ratt, Elbridga
i hadwiek and A.hbel H. liarncy.
Olivcr H. P. Bfllmont had us
Afltb II Ifldor and Mrs. (Jer
?rd and Mra. Hermann Oalriahfl. Others
n-ho ii ar? re Mrs. August Bfll- ,
, . ? ? Jfli Ooflld, Mrs.
r M. I.eeds. Mrs. William Disaton |
And afra. Jfliflflfl '!? Klddflr.
A eostiime Halloween dance will be
iriven thia flToning flt thfl Blflflyy Hol
loflr Country I lub.
Mn. Hermann Oelnchs gave n din
i. r last night at tha RiU-Carlton for
An.i.a fldor and M . Jamaa W. Gflrard
?nd aftcrv.ai.l tflfll hflf gBfl ' '.
in number, tfl the theatre.
Mlflfl Pflallflfl PUkfl, dflaghtor oi I
Arthur D. Pi k? and tl
.,? MorriatowB. W. l . flrill ba naarrlad
ta ?/, Palmfli Lfltchford, an Novflmhar
2K, in St. Thomas'.. t huich, thifl city. '
Goir.g to Jerusalem and the other
gumes which follow soon make aecom
plishcd *iders of the most timid be
ginners. The more advanced riders
end the evening with poio practice. In
the spring and fall. when the weather
is fine, the flBBBBB ride outdoors.
Tcachers College gymnasium, the
gymnasium of the Brooklyn Trainin*
School for Teachers and the swimming
pool of Pratt Institute have each been
reserved for one evening a week, and
more than two hundred member* have
enrolled for the activitics they offcr.
Swimming is so popular that the classes
have to be divided into shifts, which
take their turn in the pools. Ha-sket
bail is also in great demand and the
games promise to be very exciting, for
matches are scheduled between the dif?
ferent colleges and every team la cager
to fee champion. l'"ancy daadag and
folk dancing are found to offer p'.enty
af exorcise. and there are excellent ar
rangrments for bowling and gymnasium
work. Tha classes are graded and :n
charge of goed instructors. In arrang
ing the schedu'.es ia very arduous task)
on effort is made to put each member
in the same class with her fnends, for
tho plcasure of the evening is never
sacririced to athletic proticiency.
Field hockey at Van Cortlandt Park
on Saturday afu-moons has attracted a
team of star players from the var-ous
col'.e^es, which is hard at work pre
parlng itself for future BUatcha*. A
consuming amhition to beat the invin
cible all-rhiladelphia team and rumors
of coming challenges from several col?
leges snur them on. A class in fene
ing under the best instruction, but at
bargain dav rates, will meet once B
week. An interested friend has offered
;.. pnze pair of foils to be competed for
?? th- end of the year.
Skating ia also provided for, and
plans for indoor tennis are being made.
Inquiries about any of the activitie.,
of the association may b* dirccted to
the executive secretary, Miss Kathanne
Kcob, 100 h'anford Avenue, Ilu.-h
in?. N. Y. ,
The eagerness and enthusiasm witn
which college women have taken ad?
vantage of the arrangements offered
hv.-e faroved that the new organizatlon
fills a long felt need. HusineBB women
and teachers who are exclu.ied from so
many pleasures by the exigencies of
their long working hours welcome the
opportunity of exercising and at tha
same time renewing old college friend
ships. Most of the classes are held at
night in easily accessible places. The
policy is to make plans for athletics of
a? many different kinds, at as many
different hours and in as many local
ities as possible; to provide exercise
for every menber at a time and place
convenient to her.
Many inquiries have come in from
other cities, and it may be that in time
the New York association arill be only a
branch of the Nationul Intcrcollegiate
Alumnir Athletic Association.
AGNES MORROW, Secretary.
New York, Oct. 25, 1916.
HUGHES IS SAFE,
BARNES INSISTS
Will Carry State by at
Least 60,000 ? Also
the Nation
William Rarnes. without ^wishing to
appear to take any active part in the
campaign, yesterday corrected some of
the misapprehension in regard to the
pluralities which hia county. Aibany,
would give Charles K. Hughes on No?
vember 7. Hc said Mr. Hughes would
carry the county by 8,500, a plurality
wh.ch is 2J60C larger than it has ever
K'lven to a Repuolican Presidcntial can
didate.
lt was with reluctance that he was
led to discuss the politieal BitB*tl*B
out-ide of his own county, wh.ch he
said he "knew about," but with per
sistent prodding he tinally declared it
?o be his belief that Mr. Hughes would
carry New Vork State by at leaat 60,000
plurality. That was certain. He was
absolutely confident that Hughes would
be elected. The state ticket would run
ahead of the national ticket, 'no said, if
the election were held now, but it
would be about an even matter by elec?
tion time.
"I have just returned from a few
days in Aibany," said Mr. Bara**, "I
um not takititf any parl in the cam?
paign, except that l expec ta OT* Ida
? Hughes naatiag in Aibany next
Tbaraday night Then- -.- u rather
arida mi. apjirehension re^arditig plural
Itiea la AMbaay County, owing to the
fnct. that in local elections the Repub?
lican pluralities havo been very large.
In lS!>t> the Republican plurality for
Preaident in Albanv Countv was 4.500;
in ll?00. 5,000; in 1904, 6,000; in 1908,
8,000; ni 1912, 3.500. Our eanra**,
whieh ll usually accurate, is practically
coraplatad. It show., abont MM f(,r
Hughes, and the state and local tickets
will be hicher that i?, if the election
were to-day. The HuRheii plurality
may exceed 8.500, but I am conftdent it
will not fall below that. I see no rea
ori to believe that conditions obtaining
there are diffcrer.l than elsewhere in
the state."
Mr. Barr.es was asked why Hutrhes
nt the preaeat time was running below
the state ticket.
"Because a number of Republicans
have been niisled by the Adamson wage
law." he r.-olicd. "I bflieve they will
return to their former allegianco. I
have no doubt that the work to I .- d -ne
between now and election arill eonvinca
many that the interost ef tha eoontry
iir.d of ;' ? -n-.seives daaaand I
of Mr. HBghaa. Haghti will raeeiva
by fully tJoOO the lartce-'. ploralitf ever
giT< b a eandidate for Prasideat la Ai?
bany Caantj "
Mr. Baraaa said the increased vote
in his baiiiwieh waa due to the raptd
ii-.<-rea?e of Republican enrolmeBt,
ega rr. ?. ;.' ..?'? tha i lactiea
ot Wilson in 191'.", BtBOUBt I : '?? B(
leaat 10,000 votea by 1914, b*e*a ?
the .niury done to indutry by the
tariff law.
Mr. Baraaa belleva* thi.t tha li^ures
in New York St*tB in the BBtlOfl i eiec
will ran no .? to ,!." b
Hughea>Hearst Qabaraatorial cai
Ir. HughcM had 64.000
plnralltjr. Ai to th* aational election.
Mr. Baraaa deelarad that Hnghea w? .'..'
bo elected without a doubt. b*l
perhans r.ot m> lurge a Republican
plurality m BOBBB Ifl the pa-.;.
a
nWriea'a' KiBg Opens New Cf.ua!
Reriiri. ; ? ? , Bar
villa, \. T.). The new Trolpa tt.
Canal, In Bwadra, hai baaa a**B*d by
Kinir Guatava, says the Ovei laaa Newa
\ - . rha ?...!-..il aatahliahea cbbi
municatlon Batwaaa Wem-r Laaa and
the North Sea, nnd requned B*VSB
yoars |g couaUuctioji.
OHIO IN DOUBT;
G.O.P.SEEKSAID
Whirlwind Finish Asked
to Swing State Into
Hughes Line
-
By S. _ EVANS.
Cleveland, Oct. 26. It ia unexampled
prosperity rather than peace which
gives the Republicans of Ohio causa tj
worry. Boiled down, that is about a!l
there ia to the Ohio aituation, a laxy
contcnt with things* as they are. If
the state can be waked up in the next
ten days there is a good fighting
chance to awing it into the Hughes
! column. If conditiona remain bs they
! are it is extremely probable that Ohio's
! twenty-foug electoral votes will be east
? for Wilson.
It will be indeed remarkable if Wil
? son carrics Oi.io, for on the basis of
p-ist performar.res he start?* rnor* than
100,000 vote.4 behind. Fewer ot.zep.a
of this state voted for him in 1912
, than voted for William Jennings
' Bryan in 19''**. And the Demoerat.,
when they talk to you in sober earnest
i and not vainglorioujly, do not ver.tura
I to claim more than the -cantirst kind
; of a majority for Wilson, althoufh
i some of them are beginning to hint
| darkly at a landslide "which might
' even carry Pomerene acros." Hardly
? a Demoerat, ln the cities along Laka
i Krie at lea.st, who does not admit that
i Mvron T. Hernck will be elec'.td
! United States BflflfltflT.
Republicans Fighting Hard
The Republicans all through tha
northern part of Ohio are very decid
ed'.y in the dOBsBfl. They appear to be
so dcep in thfl slough of de>pond that,
in the view of an flfltflidfl observer at
\ least, it will take dynamite to get them
'out. Raymond Robins here ii ( tflfl
land the other afternoon exploded some
of the kind flf dynamite "?? badly
needed. (Jld Prflgfflflfliflfla and "old
guard" Republicans, not tfl epeak of
(jU'.te a few Democrats, raid that was
the kind flf campaigninj** wmch would
\ct win Ohio. But they don't want
any more of Fairbanks. If Roosevelt
can devote a little time to the state
that would do a lot of good. The peo?
ple here seem to be in 8 peculiar mood.
I". Ifl fl radical, prOgTflflfliVfl and kter.ly
diacriminatii : I
Active Republicans, fpeaking only of
Northern Ohio, are veiy much d;sap
pointed in the cr.mna.ign management.
1 They t-ay Mr. Hfltneld, tha state chair?
man, is an BflBfltflflt* and that he has
not been backed up properly by ?he
national committee. The various cour.?
ty organizations were chilled in soma
piaces at the t-'art of the campaign
by the organiration of branches of tha
Hughes A!lia**ce. That is eapeeially
true here in < '.cveland. The Cuyahoga
County oiv: ?*ct*> as ?? " wert
embarrassed.
There aie t**lree BCBflrflU battlaa go?
ing on ia the itfltfl, BBd thfl -ictory in
one does Bflt BppCflT tfl depend on how
the tide setj ifl the other two. Thera
is the battle to carry the state for
Hughes. the result of which is so much
in doubt that it is probably flccaiata
. to tav that at thifl moment it inchne4
toward Wilson. There is the campaign
to elect Governor Frank B. Willis over
former Governor CflX, wh eh il hanj
ing in the halance. but rather inchr.ed
toward Willis. Fir.ally there il thfl
Hernck-Pomerene battle for theLr.Ued
States Sene.torship.
situation in Ohio
If there is any'hir.g to profevional
opinion . partv workers on each IMBI,
to the obfl4?rratlon of nflwapflflflf rr'"
who know the fltfltfl and its recent p<>
litical historv, tfl ? ' ' ' ?'?r'A;'
-orts and to the apparcnt trer.d, th'
Ition in Northern Ohifl may be *x
prflflflfld in percer.tages as follows: Her
rlek, N per c, Bt; WUllfl, U *** cent;
Hughaa, 47 per cen1.
The material pi perity "f int luw
is tremendou?. Tr.e banks are bulg.rg
arith money. The cheapeat form of un
|?d labor eflfltfl 12.81 for a:
hour day. and lfl aeflrcfl ?
chanics are pocktting in lOBfl in,tar.es
a? high as (M flfld |M n wecK. Ma***
ngers of faetoriflfl are mak.ng miprove
ments out of earningi on'.y and are la>
ing un big rarplusefl i .' com
Ing of a ra.r.y day. Never before in
the history of the stfltfl were the mer
Cflntile, ma.-iufacturin-r Ht.d t.naneiai
ationa in meh ? healthy state.
The state of mir.d of the people of Bfl
cla.ses is epatflBtad. They are not
K pfllitiea. . ? m
T-e AdfllMOn law i?sue. as the Dem?
ocrats a-e boginaiag to aa i oattfl tfcaw
?arpriae, is ? two-fldgfld iword. ??* )?
th* othflr way. if'
is true not aaly flf thfl haalflflaa ?om
munitv. Democratic members of wtiicr,
syerfl revoltfld by the aet.on of thr""
partv, but true ftlgfl of the railroad nun
nnd "the union labor men gaflfltflUg.
Congrevs can legialatfl wages up, W:
ut, Cflflgnaa bIbo can leg:slate wagf
down. ? '?'?ri ?- P?*ltlc'' ?nt0,
atrictly economic quesf.on "* Bonl.
thing they hnvc- been warned ?>?>'"?'"?
their teachers a:*.d leaders for )?' *
It is deeidedlv true to aay that the aq
nmson law il much more a **???"
weakness than of atrer.gth tfl the Vtm
ocrat.j.
Worl; of nemorrats
Thfl Democratic BBBaBfligB bflfl ??8(* ^*
ndvantage of a much I ?'P'flg
support than the liepub '-can campv
has had. Not that thfl R?P???
newapapera are not loyal and afffletna.
but the BflflrapflBfli-a Bupporting ?i*? ,
are of wider mrtuer.ee, B?eBfl?lJ>
KTflfltflr circulation. This n>ea:is.mor?
,n a state likfl thifl, which even U t
' la't four vears has increased largei, ;
populatioa, tha iBerflflflfl being maae up
ly of mechar.ics
hopeful thing. from the r.e
eoo point of rlflw, ??^???'2J!
that litflrfllly thousands of her *?"' .
are "on the fflBCfl." Thfl Btateean J
ba won for - . -' '; b;, " ,
mitUd that thfl ap?Br?m '?rl"
?n ba
'^fore
election it looked very much Uka ?;>? f
Ohio woke up 1 ' y ",.,,,
traaefl, voted right aad flflghad about't
Tha Rapul licaai a
V- rrc T.es are scared. Aad w ??
' , do
t fellowa arhfl can d?
v. t ndera la a few
PRINCETON DEDICATES
NEW DINING HALLS
President llibbeit SpCtlU H Ex
erciscs in the Commons
?eton. K. J.. Oct Jo _*MSf
John I nibben ar.d K.ehard llf?
of tho Ute ex-Preaid#Btflja
ophomor* lU;.";/{,,p,
?a Baw 1500.500 dmmg
Idingfl four in Bumfl*
were ma !'>' ?? Klll?f.,**._i