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Jfetu Jtork tlnbune First to l.aht?the Truth: News? Fdltoriah?Advertt?ement?_ raUDAT, otToiiK.K v.. vno. Ownefl BBB BBBl I r T. " aaawelatJon. a r,lt"" ? arv > I A^ur'**. Tribune BulKHna, 154 Na.??au Btraal ?aaa. OCsXtrriOH RATBB B? Btafl. Toat aa Paid. outalda ' Ii;, a Bam.. i a?..i l . *? " ' r. aaaoa.. 1.88 . , A - >, 1 jrai ..W MBBBBBB B*TB* OUtaPUW B***B. t.avii.i ? S,:AT, I ' <*a riaf vi vay ? T'AIIY ONLT Ot* ?**r 6?;Or.? ,?ai .^" TaILY -.Ml " "NLT- ? (?oa m<r!l ' -1 ?-? >*?*?*. .-J, ot* r*?r >"? >?".*-M r.it*rfd at ?>-? 1 - * ?< rJeW Tork aa Btatter Yon fan purchase merchandise ad aertiaed in THE TRIBUNE ?ith abso lute s.fe?y-for i. 'M^^,^ mlt* In any case IIIK TKIBl>r. ruarintffs t.. pa> jour mone> hacK upon requ^t. No red lape. No quib hling. We make good promptb U the advertiser d<xs not. Mr. Wilson's Broken Pledges: I 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