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THE SUN, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1914.
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Why?
It it n pleasure to answer the ques
tion so mutably nskoil hy the writer of
thin letter, nlbelt lie hns jierhnps tuo
rlslil n iirlt of clnsslllrntlon :
"To TitB Editor or Tnr Sun Sir; It
la disappointing to see Tun Btm turn Its
back on a rigularly nominated Republi
can, nnd especially a man of Mr. Whit
man's ntilllty and character. 1 have not
yet observed nny Rood reason offered for
your declination to support him.
"The frothlngs of Mr. Roosevelt against
Mr. Whitman certainly cannot appenl to
you, nnd surely they havo not been the
rauso of your decision to oppose Mr.
Whitman's election, Pray tell us Just
why no shouldn't vote for Mr. Whitman.
"Wo need all the Republican Governors
nnd all tho Hepubllcan Representatives
and Senators no can get to save this
nation. TIio Democrats have nil but
ruined us now, ns you have so often and
so ably jointed nut. TUB SUN Is good
ltcpubllrnn paper, notwithstanding what
you may say to the contrary, nnd as the
party needs you 1 hope there Is mill time
for you to render your usual valuable
service. J-
"New York, Octobor 16."
Tin: St'N Mipports (ioveruor (Slynn
beeaiiM! It bellove-i him the llttest, the
one lit. cnudlilnlu for liU post, lie hns
experience nnd knowledge of Ktntc af
fairs ulttniititl ns Comptroller, ns I-h'U-tuinint-Governur
nnd (ioveruor. Tins
most Imperious need of tho State of
Sew York 1 economy, (ioveruor Cly.nn
pruetWes It. enforces It by his veto,
lie has it veil the State millions of
money. Ills detestation of extrava
gance Is not lhe empty mouthing of
platforms. lumuxTatle or Kepnhllcan.
It Is a faet. Wo Judno him or nny
lody else In ollletf hy what ho has done.
It doesn't malio a wilt's worth of dlf
ferenci! whether tho next (ioveruor of
Now York Is a Republican or Deino
erat. It makes a difference to the
Itocketbook of every citizen of New
York whether that (ioveruor effectively
opposes oxtrnai.'unt appropriations nnd
wasteful ndhiinlstratlou.
Mr. Whitman Is a capable District
Attorney. Let Him stick to his Job,
whoso requirements he knows. What
does ho know about the business of the
State? To that ho would come, It
elected, with everythlnc to learn. Tan
Sin prefers not the Democrat to the
Uepubllcau bill the expert to the he
dinner. Tin: St'N, wlllrh by the way is far
from espouslUK the theory that "the
Democrats lime nil but ruined the
country," hopes sincerely for a stron?,
united Iteputillcan party, but what sort
of Itepubllcan is Mr. Whitman? Where
18 ho at? A little while ai?o he was
lllrtlni; with the I'roKressIves. Ills
Keidtls Is for tho Straddle, not tho
StralRht. Kiou If he had anything
like the positive, practical quallllca
lions of (ioveruor Ui.yn.n, his political
methods are too furtive and Until, his
political equilibrium Is too unstable,
his political position too lioKuy anil un
certain, to be trusted by Hepubllcuns
or to permit him to become a Itepub
llcan leader or a centre of Hepubllcan
uulty In New York. He Is it Whit
luanlte. l'roposi'd I'lTver-lon of tho In.
conic Tn .
If the new Tre.-iMiry rulliiK on the
Income tax means that citizens will
not bo allowed to deduct from their
iifcscsM'd totals actual looses accrulm:
on bona llile sales id' securities or real
estate. It Is outraKcous; no court
in
tlm world would uphold it. If it men
fins
that holders of stock will -not bo n
nt
lowed to deduct theoreticnl or contl
u
iront losses, losses whlcli inlirlit
or
would result from a sale that was not
made, the ruliim is fair enouuh, pro
Wiled It be made Millleleiitly broad
coier theoretic or contingent cal
lo
us
some time In the future, cuius whl
1 1 eh
juluht or would result from a Kilo that
U not mad'.1.
The proposal to lax n citizen upon
his losses on tho pretence that a m
of property Is not traillim clearlv b
loncs to the tealiu of comic opera. Tho
notion that a man may end a bnsl
ue&s year tens of thousands of dollars
poorer than he begun It, that, In fact,
he may become a bankrupt, and still lie
exacted to pay Income tax on net In
come for net Income Is contemplated
In every seuteucn of tho law-Is the
sort of Idea thai the late W. S. fin
mm would hae revelled In. It Is only
one step further to lutllctlng u penalty
on every one who falls to earn nn In
dium hlKh enough to bear the tnx.
Am for the plea that the Government
needs the money, It pimply has nothing
to do with the case. Tho Govern
ment's necessities nro no excuse for
contorting n Htattitn to mnko It cover
robbery. The war tnx measure Is
being jmasetl precisely to meet this
condition of the Government's tlnnnces.
If It does not cocr nil deficiency rea
sonably to be expected there Is still
ttnio to amend It. However oppressive
It tuny become, tho burden Is prefer
able to placing the entire community
nt the mercy of n tnxgnthorer's whim
with the alternative of prolonged nnd
expensive litigation.
This ruling verities one more of tho
many fears which havo been expressed
nil nlonc that the Income tax was cer
tain to bring with It endless Injustice
nnd vexations which would make It
one of the most galling nnd uniwpulnr
itssatilts upon personal rights ever en
dured by Amerlcnns.
The WnrnliiB nnd the Wesson.
Itepresentntlve A. 1'. (lAimNr.n of Mas
sachusetts, who served on the staff of
(lenernl Jamhs H, Wilson In tho Span
ish war, ngnln sounds the wnrnliu.
which hns so often fnllen on denf enrs.
thnt the country Is not only unprepared
for n wnr thnt mny come nt short no
tice hut la nctunlly deficient In equip
ment forlioth the nrmy nnd navy, upon
which It relies for defence. Mr. (Iaiw
tttn In not nn alarmist, and he Is not n
Jingo. Ho hns fortltlcd himself with
the unanswornblo fncts.
The nnvy could not he mobilized to
day with n fighting complement. It Is
thousands of sailors short. Moreover,
three years nre required to mnke n
mnn-of-wnr's man. It has torpedo tubes
but fnr from enough torpedoes for nc
tlve service. Of battle cruisers It has
none, nnd but threo fnst scouts. The
submarine llotllln In few In numbers
Hnd contnlns ohsoleto types. It would
be no match for elthor the Oermnn or
tho Ilrltlsh llotllln In elllctency nnd
execution. The nnvy needs n good
msny more destroyers. It Is nn old
story thnt the nnvy is fnr behind Kng
lnnd or Germany In drendnoughts.
Turning to the land forces, Itepreien-
tntlve CiAnnnr.n shows that they do not
constlluto n modern nrmy capable of
giving battle to nn nrmy of Invasion.
Of regulnrs we have only fCi.OOO. nnd
00 per cent, of the organized mllltln.
120,000 on paper, did not qualify ns
third class rlllemen last year. In nr
tlllery, the nrm that hns been so terri
bly effective In the great wnr In Kn-
rope, we nre lamentably defleent, even
lacking battle ammunition for the Held
guns we have.
All these facts have been presented
before, without duly Impressing our
easy going, optimistic, fatuous eople.
Hut presented again In the light of the
tragic experience of Knglnnd. which re
fused to heed the warning cry of Iinl
ltonr.nT.s and Is now paying the griev
ous penalty, the truth should nrotisothe
American people to take nctlon before
It Is too late.
The Taxation of Human llrriitli.
Prom Hay Shore comes a communi
cation with this as the essential part :
"Why Is It The Sun Is for Ouynn? We
are taxed for everything but our breath.
and I expect that will come next."
This nnswers Its own question. Men
with Ideas nnd purposes like Governor
Glynn's concerning State expenditure
nnd State Income are nbout nil that
stand between our esteemed fellow
citizen In Hay Shore and the ultimate
assessment and taxation of the car
bonic ncld gas he exhales.
Tommy AtUlns nt the I'ront.
The spectaclo of German legions
inarching through Hnissels singing
"Deutschland Uber A lies" with a
mighty volumo of sound hns profoundly
Impressed observers. German soldiers
take wnr seriously, one might say de
votlonnlly. They do not skylark. They
see no sport In war, nor affect to.
They never speak flippantly of the
perils and hardships of tho campaign.
Very different Is the maimer of the
Hrltlsh soldier, and the Germans con
sider his attitude townrd lighting frivo
lous. A reader of the Ixnidou 7'unr
writes to It to say thnt some one "by
quoting n mnrchlng song nctunlly wing
by our soldiers In the Held hns uncon
sciously plnc'ed n wen pon In the hnnds
of the Oermnn press." In tbe song oc
cur the lines:
"Send out my mother, my sister and my
brother,
Hut, for goodness snlie, don't send me."
This lllppaney Is i fnvorlte with
Hrltlsh regulnrs, who havo little music
In their souls but n good deal of humor
of the music hnll kind. "Think," writes
the Kngllshmnn who Is sure thnt Tom
my Atkins will be misunderstood In
Germany, "how this will read duly
translated Into German. Tho Hrltlsh
mercenary, Imploring his superiors to
despatch to the front his femalo rela
tives In preference to himself -what n
picture, of cowardice and callousness !
The fact that It Is Impossible to con
ceive of German soldiers singing such
n song will no 'doubt be duly noted."
In certain quarters, yes; but of design
to disparage the Hrltlsh soldier. Among
German troops nt lhe front who have
seen Tommy Atkins light there will be
no disposition to hold him chenp be
cause ho sings a music hall song that
tickles his seiiKo of humor. Neverthe
less It Is true that German soldiers
would not be heard singing such words
and they probably marvel that the
enemy ciui be so lightheaded,
lo humor Incompatible with tho dim
gcrs and discomforts of the front? It
Is nil n matter of temperament. Some
worthy people In Kngland have been
trying to compose marching songs for
tho Hrltlsh soldier In I'rnme. Samples
nre nhstirdly stilted nnd stndglly sen
tlmental. Tho war poets have been
warned that the men on the firing line
much prefor to ronr out "It's n long
wny to Tlppornry" to tnktng their war
songs from bookish patriots nt home.
So t ho Tlppornry Minnly" remains the
Joy of Tommy Atkins, as n "Hot Tlmo
In tbo Old Town To-night" was the
wnr song of tho Amorlcnn soldier In
Cubn nnd the Philippines In 1803.
There Is much testimony to tho sky
lnrfclng nnd Jollity of the noldlors of
Sir Jour? FnKNCil's nrmy, which re
minds us thnt Oenernl Ian Hamilton
In his "A Staff Olllcer's Sernp Hook,"
dealing with whnt ho saw In the Mnn
churlan campaign, Riiys that the Japa
nese soldier who goes into battle ex-fn-cls
nnd nsplres to die, whereas the
Ihigtlsh soldier expects to be lucky
enough to escnpe denth nnd It Is not
attractive to him ns n patriotic duty.
The point of vlow accounts for tho
cheerfulness In tho Ilrltlsh trenches In'
Frnuce nnd for tho soldiers' spirit of fun
and Indulgence In football nnd other
homo sports when thoynrenot lighting.
A correspondent of tho Vclit I'arttlcn
In nn nrtlelo entitled "A Week With
tho Hrltlsh Army" says thnt Tommy
Atkins "Is ns merry ns he can he, nnd
he continually sings tho populnr re
frain 'It's n long wny to Tlppornry.' "
At the same Umo he Is "untiring on tho
march,' n "splendid shot," nnd his
'stnmlun Is marvellous."
lately (ho Cologne tiazrtlo hns been
telling the Hrltlsh peoplo thnt they do
not understand the "high seriousness"
of war or Its "mornl lmportnuce," nnd
tho common uso of sporting. terms nt
the front Is cited ns proof of the In
dictment. It Is true thnt the Hrltlsh
rnnlc nnd file nre nddlcted to the uso
of such terms In the campaign, but the
hnblt In like tho turn for skylnrklng
nnd boyish fun which the (iermnns
cannot umlerstnud nnd regard ns friv
olous. After nil, Is not tho checrlness
nnd humor of Tommy Atkins n safety
vnlvo for tho deeper emotions called
up hy wnr hut repressed In him that
ho may nddress himself with n stout
heart to the stern work ho has to do?
And does not tho German find his re
lief In singing the serious nnd Inspiring
wnr hymns of the fntlierlnnd?
Tho Mttlo Still House.
A Sun correspondent nsked If it wns
true ns stated In K V. Hiiowni-.'h "Thu
Kverydny Life of Lincoln" that In the
cnnvnss for Senator In lflfiS Doror.AS.
accused Lincoln of "keeping n grog
gery." Tho mythology of Lincoln,
snide from the false quotations which
nre nlwnys turning up, seems Inex
hnustlhle, nnd the "groggcry" Is mi old
figure In It. The l'lttsileld l'.agla hns
looked up tho Llncoln-Douglns debates
ngnln, nnd llnds Dowlas nt Ottawa
August L't. 1WS, protesting that he
meant no unkludness to his opjonent,
whom he had known for nlmost twenty
live years:
"There were many iKilnts of sympathy
between us when wo first Kot acquainted,
We were both comparatively boys and
both struggling with poverty In a etrango
land. I was n school teacher In the town
of Winchester nnd he was a nourishing
grocery keeper In the town of Salem."
Of course If he kept n grocery In the
days of his young manhood he sold
rum. Wot goods wero nn Invnluable
sourco or attraction of custom In the
"store." Deacons vended W. I. or
whiskey or gin. A grocer, a grog-
seller; but Lincoln, sneaking whimsi
cally In the third rson In rhls same
Ottawa debate, denied that he had ever
groeerod :
'The Jutlgo Is wofully nt fault nbout
his early friend Lincoln being a 'trroccry
keeper.' I don't know a-s It would bo a
great sin If t had been, but ho Is mis
taken. Lincoln never kept a grocery
anywhere In the world. It Is true that
Lincoln did nork tho latter part of ono
winter In a little still house up at tho
end of tho hollow."
1'roni this little still house nt the end
of the hollow grew Douolas'h grocery,
which wns transformed Into n "grog
gery.'' Only the other day some of
our correspondents were hunting for
Lincoln's Internal revenue license or
hud seen It or n fneslinllo of It. It Is
possible euouglt thnt Lincoln's "sa
loon license" exists In facsimile as nn
omnnicnt of mIooiis. The House that
Jack Hullt Is the progressive order of
tho architecture of myth. Our Massa
chusetts contemporary quotes without
naming, n precaution we regret, :i
mythical anecdote begotten of tho gro-
cery-groggery myth :
"in ono of tho fnmous debates Douulab
accused Lincoln of having sold liquor
over the bar. Lincoln retorted by eaylng,
Mr. Dot'dLAS Is quite right. I did sell
liquor over a bar. Hut while I was on
the Insldo selling It, Mr. Douulab wns
on thu outBldo drinking It ' "
So the Lincoln legend making or folk
history goon on; nnd Mr. Kooskvllt
hns many unknown eollnlmrators. Pos
sibly some wag will yet build tho little
still house up nt rhe end of tho hollow,
discover It and get an ns.voIatIon to
buy It. The renewed Interest In Lin
coln's "liquor license" may IniUcnte
that ho In to figure ns a witness against
tho Drys.
Civilization Advances.
While It Is truo thnt humanlly moves
slowly In Its upward course, that It
does make progress townrd better con
ditions Is undeniable. In nothing Is
the mnolloratlon of man's lot more dis
tinctly shown than In the gradual
emancipation of war's Inspiring and
directing geniuses from the rigors of
war Itself.
1'rliuovBl men fought iih Individuals,
and for many centuries after organiza
tion within the trlbo had become a
fact, even after nations had nrlsen to
divide theonrth between them, tho great
and powerful were compelled to pre
sent themselves on the bnttlo line, each,
regardless of his rank nnd lmportnuce,
subjecting himself to the same dangers
that surrounded his vassals mid re
tainers. Kings led their troops to con
lllct nnd not Infrequently a king would
sustain wounds In nctlon, Just ns did
combatants of lesser degree
Hut with the advance of civilization
this exposuro of the ruler's person Is
looming unnecessary, nnd hence un
common. Of nil the monnrchs' Involved
In the present Kuropcau wnr, only
Helgluin's King has nctunlly been
physically endnngorod. King Gforoc:
leaves lo others tho direction of his
troops; tho Knlser, most military of po-
tentntes, awaits, fully decorated, with
gaudily uniformed escort, tho event of
hnttle, to ride triumphantly through
the conquered territory; Czar Nich
olas approaches the bnttlo lino only
when thero Is pnuso In the attack;
the Trench President lnsiects when
French General believes nil Is safe.
I'nfortunntcly, younger tnombors of
the ruling families still find It advis
able to go to tbe front tn wnr, nnd In
somo enses nro compelled lo endure
hardship. Hut tho gratifying rise In
culture which hns genernlly relen&ed,
nfter long ages, the titular commnndefs
of nntlonnl firmed forces from tho ob
ligation of endangering their persons,
leaving to men of lessor degreo tho
risks Insepnrnblo from pnrtlclpntlon In
nttnek nnd defence, will lncrenslngly
nffect their Juniors, until cventunlly
they loo mny eliminate themselves
from the thentro of wnr, nnd thus pro
tect their Invnltinblo lntoguraents from
tho risks to which common men nro
culled on to cxposo their skins.
The Importance of the action tnken
by tho Peace Conference at Aguai
cnllentes In declaring Itself the supremo
power In Mexico depends far moro upon
Mexico than uport tho Conference.
Tho death of Vernona Jahpicau will
bring n pnng to many who havo passed
tho crest of life's hillock as they recall
her statuesque Impersonation of Cousin
7c6c In tho original "Plnaforo" cast
nt tho old Kagle or was It already tho
Standard? theatre. With the memory
of her nlerclnir declaration that "Wo
are his sisters nnd his cousins nnd his
nunts" comos tho ghost nlso of tho In
imitable Tom Wiiiiten, tho natural born
embodiment of tho most characteristic
flguro In the Gllbertlnn galaxy, Wns
thero ever a more dellgOitful bit of
fooling, nnd wns over a ship moro com
petently manned nnd agreeably girled?
It stands to reason that an Kmplrn of
400,000,000 can never lack men. This war
for us haa hardly begun. Loudon rimes.
It Is mngnltlcent when such resources
nro stated with spirit nnd resolution,
but numbers may bo of no avail when
a modorn army Is needed to do battlo
with a perfect fighting madhlno which
can bo set automatically tn tho Held.
Amerlcnns should tnko heed.
Tho Idea of stopping tho guns on
Christmas Day la radiantly beautiful,
but only a dream. The fighting spirit
la an essential of warfare. Tho Im
petuous ardor of attack, tho grim reso
lution of defence are tho very stuff
of which tho battle Is mado, and It would
bo fnmt generalship that would take
the risk of chilling tho soldier's soul
for any n- n-tnllltary consideration.
Thero Is nothing cynical In this atti
tude. It Is tho stem reality of tho case.
War is a serious thing, tho most serious
thing In tho world while It lasts. The
obligation on the commander In tho
field Is tho most compelling In life. It
Is not merely the safety of his armies
thnt Is nt stako but the fortunes of his
Government and his poople. Ho holds
them In tho hollow of his hand. A
moment's weakness, a single hesitation
may bo fntal. Thus It comes to pass
that all ordinary sentiments of beauty,
mercy, generosity not only seem but
are secondary to tho Imperative duty of
winning or nt least exercising tho un
flinching and unrelenting will to win.
Men who will shell nnd burn their own
homes to drive tho enemy out nro not
likely to be stopped or stayed In homage
to tho abstraction of peaco, however
sacred, however dazzling ItB apparition
may bo to them. It Is part of tho terri
ble pathos of war that probably In tho
breast of every soldier tho Christmas
Ideal will bo presont on tho greit day
in tho form of a desiiernto yearning In
the depths of his naturo even while tho
flamo of battle glows In his eyes.
Primaries cost women I S53. lT'tulUne.
A regular bargain prlro. It ought
to bo entirely satisfactory, considering
that tho men nearly all pnld for their
fun in four figures.
Homli Throwing a Keed of Itiimnnlt)!
To the HiiiTon op Tuft Sun Sir: In
one of your reeont numbers you direct
tho question to -Mr. Muenstcrberg ns to the
psychological reasons tho Germans may
havo for throwing bombs Into French
fortresses.
Permit mo to answer that tho Germans
nre moveil by humanitarian reasons to
do so. This may sound somewhat peculiar
to you, ns your sympathies with tho Kng
Ush may prevent you from seeing thlni?s
as they really are Put If you will con
sider .that timely throwing of bombs Into
fortresses certainly creates a panic among
tho non-combatants, thereby causing them
to lleo .from the dangerous city, you must
admit that tho number of casualties
among non-combatants Is thereby dimin
ished. Tho .throwing of bombs over Paris cer
tainly has greatly helped to depopulate
Paris, so that If Paris finally will be
twmbarded tho number of killed and
wounded non-combatants will be consider
ably smaller thnn If no bombs hnd been
thrown.
There you nro I Wnr Is war, It Is no
child's play ; and those who help to reduce
casualties are the real humanitarians, not
those who try to nrouse tho feelings of
all "mnlo and femalo women."
Otto II, Miller.
Mount Vernon, October tT.
A Cne of l'ersonsl Siitlifnetton,
To the Kni-ron or Tub Hon Sir; There
Is ono thing nbout tho coming election
that gives mo stronc personal satisfac
tion, In thnt It will afford me a chanco to
vote against Mr. Whitman, an opportun
ity t have desired over since he bexan to
Imitate Jerome, but have been dented be
cause I did not llvo In Manhattan Ilor
ous'h. K. J. S.
New York, October 17.
Siubiiiarlnes.
To the ICniTon or Tim Sun Sir: Why
should not the song lie "Deutschland
unter alles"? 11.
New York, October 16.
Old Tiuhlnnixl Alliterative KMlmnte of Thl
Newspaper,
To tub KniToii or Tim Sus sir; Althoueh
I deplore your politics and nbhor your ar
rogance, I commend your courtesy, delight
In your dignity, love your literature and
worship 'your wit. Walter I, lUnLtT,
fltUTsa, H. C October 1.
At the Dentist's.
To Till) HniTOB or Tj Sl!S Sir- I nuked
thU queetlon of my daughter lint night!
"Did your little daughter mike murh !um
when the dentist was nillng her loeth to
ilayT" My daughter replied! "She never
opened hr mntitli," It,
Nltw Vonit, October
A Nearly 1'erfeet tie-Mi Hoop.
from fA McClurt, ra , Plain Dtaltr.
The eleventh annual bean eoup and re
union has paMed Into history. Only one
regrettable phsie of tne event li noted, that
of the dTUnki, Hut thou conditions will
eilet as long a there It acceei to the drink,
fhytlo Logic,
Lire i of proteins all remind us
They may make thtlr lives sublime
And In dying leave bthlnd them
Fat. men on the shore of time,
It, S, H.
sivsw A'n would politics.
A Method of Apiieal That Can lie Made
to Work llotli Hnts.
To thu KuiTon of Tim SUN Sir: Last
Sunday night 1 dined In a restaurant (not
a very Idgh pttced one) where the or
chestra, which consisted of only a pianist
and a violinist, played among other selec
tions ono from Puccini's "La Ilohemrt."
H wns generously applauded by tho dlncmj
although tin npoclal mark of attention
had been paid to tho preceding selections,
but somehow there was a distinct feeling
that tho players had Infused a different
sentiment Into their Interpretation of this
number on tho programme, and It pro
duced a sjKjntaneous response from the
listeners. This sot mo to thinking about
modern music In goneral and thnt at the
Germans In particular,
Tho muslo of "La lloheme," It Is itruo.
was written by an Italian, but tho subject
was furnished by a I'renchman, nnd this,
after nil, created tho Initial Inspiration
for the composer. Tho combination of
tho two has touched tho souls of hundreds
of thousands of peoplo, both In America
nnd In Kurope. To bo surj, the subject
matter of tho book has beon criticised by
somo of our purlsta ifrom a high moral
standpoint, but tho truth of tho nbovo
statement Is nevertheless unassailable.
Then I began to think of the war and
of Pclglum and Maeterlinck, This led mo
to Debussy and his marvellous Interpreta
tion of "Pcllcns nnd Mollsnndc," Debussy,
a Frenchman. Then I thought of Tschal
kowsky, tho product of that scml-barba-rous
(7) Ilusxlan roco that tho Germans
toll us Is such a ,mcnaco, nnd of his
wonderful sympnoif.es, particularly tho
"Pathetlquo." Now, said I to myself, what
has Germany done for u7 Oh, yes,
there Is lllchard Wagner, who died In
1883, thlrty-ono years ngo. Ho wns a
very great composor, and although I have
heard all his operas, while trulv appre
ciating tho glorlns of them, nevertheless
many a yawn have I tried to suppress In
o doing. Put I cannot recall any such
efTorts In listening ,tn tho rrentlons of
4lie great Tschalkowsky, whoso life closod
nil too soon In tho year 1893.
And after the war, what? If tho Hus
sions nro to be driven back and tho Uel
glans nnd tho French annihilated so that
tho Inspirations provided by such writers
a Murgcr and Maeterlinck will bo for
ever crushed out, I can seo but one result
should tho Ocrmans win. Their mu3lc
publishers will be compelled to work over
time printing Kaiser Marches and Huldl
gungs Marches until tho day when Onbrlol
shall blow his horn to summon us nil to
tho flnnl march that will take proccdencu
oven over that of tho Kaiser.
Nnw York, October 17. Amadio.
w:si:citATios' or the vlag r
Its i:se on the Stage to I (rape the IMump
I'lgiirantrs of tho Mallet.
To the i:pitor or Tub Son Sir: As
my ancestry In this counry stretches
back of the Itevolutlnn, I may perhaps
be excused for sensitive patriotism. Last
night I sat In a llroadway thcatro and
recalled some noble Arjierlcnn verso by
It. II. Pcnnctt:
hats nrr!
Along the etreet there eomee
A blare of bugles, a rurile of drume.
A flaeh of color beneath the sky!
Hats off I
The flag Is paselng by!
Hlue and crlmeon and white It ehlnei
Over tho tteel tipped, onlered llnee.
lints ?!
The colors before us fly;
Hut more than a flue Is puilne by.
Pei fights and land lights, grim nnil great,
Kought to make and to isve the State:
Weary marches and sinking shlpe,
Cheers of victory on dying Hps.
Hiual Justice, right and law.
Stately honor und reverent awe,
I'rlde and gUry and honor, nil
Llvo In the colore to aland or f.ill'
This flag, this sacred symbol of free
dom and opportunity for millions of man
kind, wns before mo upon a glaring stage,
draping nnd developing the opulent
charms of n number of femalo dancors
In a lively ballet. Not elmply the red,
whlto and blue colors, which aro often
ued without offence, hut the .Stars and
Htrlpes themselves, degraded to an equal
ity with tho tinselled and spangled gar
ments nnd tho painted pnstelxmrd trump
cry that form tho lcgltlmato trapping of
extravagant spectacles such as these.
1 thought there was a national regula
tion agaltift such use of tho flatr. If not,
to the multitude of laws could not this
one more ho profitably added?
I havo been attending thu Now- Tork
theatres for more than fifteen years, be
ginning as early as parents with tho
opinions of tho Inst generation would per
mit. 1 have seen some pretty raw stunts
pulled off by tho metropolitan manager,
without any noticeable disturbance of my
sensibilities. Put I balk nt this, which Is
new to me nt least, for It se -ins that iho
colors should be used to cover the human
form only when that f o -n Is tho dead
or dying ono of a patriot who has lived
for tho flag or fallen In Its dofenre
D. M, Oor.TPCinv's.
Littlb Frmnr, N. J., Octols-r 10.
Major lllgelnw on (he Hjplirn.
To- tub Koitor or Tins Hun sir: In
Thk Sun of October 14 "A Non-hyphenated
American of (lorman Nationality"
truly remarks: "We hear of Oerman-Amer-tcans,
Irish-American, rarely French
Americans or Kngllsh-Amcricans." If ono
rarely hears of French-Americans U Is
because there aro few French-Americans
to henr of. As to IlngllHh-Anierlcans or
Anglo-Americans, one does not often hear
of them, but one constantly hears and sees
the parties themselves. If a hyphenated
American Is objectlonnblo ho Is no less
so for not hearing tho name that properly
applies to 111 m.
The term Oerman-Amerlcun did not
originate, 1 tako It, with Herman-Americans,
but was coined for them by their
non-hyphenntod fellow citizens. Oermnn
Americans may be pardoned If by their
adoption and use of It they seem to eug
gest Mint Anglo-Americans nre not tho
oifly AmcrlcnMi,; tho flrst settlers. In
America, not tho only ones.
We shall not drop a designation ns long
as wo havo the thing designated, nnd our
hyphenated citizenship Is not destined o
bo abolished or extinguished unless It
bo by expanding from Its Internntlonil
to u cosmopolitan typo corresponding lo
the character of our population. Lot us
hope for hucIi an evolution. "Hands
across tho sea" should mean for us pooce
nnd good will, not solely for Oermany or
Franco or Ireland or England, hut for
each nnd every foreign country, for ono'
as much ns for another, nnd for nil only
less than for our own.
John IPauLow,
Highland Falls. October 17.
Impreselnns on (miIiil- I'mler r.llier.
Alone? Oood (od, can this be I
To etnnd here shrinking In the dark?
Have life and living passed t by
And left no shadow, elgn or mark?
What la this night of drifting dreams
That filter by like flakes nf enow?
I feel but cannot hcer the ecreams
Of teething souls, lashed to and fro.
What am I? Fettered, bound or free,
T' bo rn dumb, so deaf, so blind?
Your swirling veils nre choking niel
Ah, can ye not eniiff out my mind?
A pu!r seems pounding In my head:
1 cannot think. Have I a soul?
Have I hon born, or am I dead?
Is It not ewj-atohed upon the scroll?
Tn-ilar," "-i-morrow." What le time?
I'm ttlfllng! Heaven pity met
Is this ran penalty fnr crime?
O (lod, Is this eternity?
MiHTIU II. THOMAS.
Oir I.tui, Conn,
I'roducers.
Rome one raises chickens,
" best,
" mushrooms,
" cheese.
" fflneent,
(Chinese do this well)
Hut he who gets the headlines
Is the one who raises hell,
1L A. If.
THE BLACK CltOSS APPEALS,
Funds Needed nt Oneo fnr Distressed
Job Hunters.
Tho IJIock Cross, an Illegal corpora
tion In tho Stato of Now York, appeals
to all susceptlblo citizens for contribu
tions In largo sums for tho relief and
support of Indigent candidates for ofllee.
Through Its executive commltteo and
ofllcero William Church Osborn, chnlr
rnan: Frederick C. Tanner, chairman,
nnd Theodoro Douglas Itoblnoon, chutr
fnan, tho ofllco of treasurer bolnp; per
manently vacant through a deadlock
tho HIack Cross Issues tho subjoined
statement of present conditions:
"Hecuuso of tho sovcro summor nnd
winter campaigns to which tho votors
havo rccrmtly been eubjected our treas
ury Is empty and wo nro compelled to
turn denf cars to tho pitiful candidates,
party managers nnd district workers
wiho rely on us for assistance and sup
port from tho opening to tho closo of
tho canvass.
"Unrensonnblo restrictions that havo
been Imposed on us by tho exposure of
tho manner In which political trcasuro
chests havo boon emptied In tho past
hnvo cut us off from tho rich sources
of supply on which our predecessors
confidently relied. m
"An unaccountahlo belief thnt most of
tho money given to political committees
in previous years has been wasted pos
sesses the common people, to whom, ns
Is well known, our organization Is
devoted.
"Our coffers, onco replenished without
hesitation by tho patriots of n former
nnd less sophisticated gen?rntlon, nro
neglected by their successors.
"In consequence of theso lamentablu
facta, wo find It extremely dlfllcult to
rnlso tho dough. In splto of our pro
testations of disinterestedness nnd lofty
intention.
"Wo nro thereforo compelled to make
this appeal to tho voters, Irrespectlvo
of party, rnco or mental competence,
to come to our aid.
"Should they refuse so to do tho ring
Ing of tho welkin trust cense, the flood
gates of oratory must bo closed, nnd
.tho electornto must bo nllnwed to choosa
tho officers -of Htnte, count, city, town
and village without tho nld of self-sacrificing
rhetoricians, widely circulated
campaign documents and tho essential
roorback of honorabln fame.
"To avert this unprecedented nnd In
tolerable sltuaton tho Ulack Cross has
been formed, and urges each and every
citizen to contribute liberally.
"Let th iso who havo money give it
In largo amounts.
"Those who havo no money may bo
able to ilielp by pending to tho lllack
Cross, In strict confidence, tho names
nnd addresses of thoso who, being
weak mlndtsl and tho custodians of bank
accounts, nsplro to servo thu fitnto as
members of unpaid commissions, and
In nppolntlvo otllces for occupancy of
which confirmation by tho Scnato Is
not reaulred In view of tho Pennl Law,
tho Mack Cross makes nn promises.
"Wo especially dcslro the nnmes nnd
addresses of nil subscribers to the IJuy
a Hunch of Parsnips movement. Terms
mndo known on application by lotter
enclosing sclf-nddresscd stamped en
velope. "Tho accounts of the Mack Cross vr.W
bo audited nnd nil expenditures mado
by it will bo certified by tho Double
Cross, nnd its books will be produced
on tho nubpiDns, duces tecum of any
regularly drawn Orond Jury."
.1 VETEHAX PllEACllEll.
After HO Vcars In tho .MlnNtry Dr. Vasnr
Sllll Aililrcic Congregation,
i
To the Editor op The Sun Sir: In
these days, when no much Is Bald cbout
n(to limitations, It was refreshing to listen
on Sunday last to a clergyman of eighty
who preached n sermon In commemora
tion of thn sixtieth nnnlvcrsary of his
entrance Into tho ministry. Ho Is still
halo nnd hearty, nnd until a few months
ago, when his physician prescribed rest,
ho occupied a pulpit In somo church al
most every' Sunday.
Tho Hev. Dr. Thomns K. Vassnr, to
whom I refer. Is a natlvo of 1'ough
keepslc, and began preaching at the ago
of twenty at Amenln. Afterward he had
congregations nt Kansas City, Mo., Flem
Inglon, N. J., nnd later at Newark. A
few years ngo he removed to Elizabeth,
near which city ho has a son, bearing tho
samo name, In the Haptlst ministry. Dr.
Vnsar preached on Sunday In Elizabeth
with almost his old vigor, nnd without
notes. Ho said that so far ns his knowl
edge extended thero was but ono clergy
man, a pastor of ninety at Ncwburg,
who hnd been In tho ministry for as long
a period ns himself. Dr. VnsHiir. In tho
previous week, celebrated tho flfty-thlrd
anniversary of hln marriage, and on tho
same day went to Newark In nn automo
bile to attend tho twenty-fifth nunlversary
of tho mnrrlngo of a daughter. lie told
mo a few years airo that ho had officiated
at more than one thousand ifunerats, and
that only a few months nno ho was pres
ent In Ilrooklyn nt tho anniversary of a
couplo whom he united In marrlago fifty
years ngo. Dr. Vassnr was chnplaln if
tho ISOtli New York . Volunteers nt
Gettysburg.
My own advice, at tho ago of soventy
four, to thoso who complain nbout grow
ing old, Is to keep young In spirit and
not worry. Edward Kirk Drake.
Elizaurth, N. J October II.
4'nn't Oct Ills Money llacli.
To tub Editor or Thk Sun flfr: A
an old and constant reader of your most
enterprising paper I como to you for
advice.
Somo two months ago I deposited with
the Treasury Department a sum of money
to bo mado payable through tho State De
partment to my daughter, who nt that
time wns In Oermany, but she left bofore
tho payment could 1m made. I have been
trying, unsuccessfully, to get a refund of
tho money. Every time I write to tho
Department I get nothing but sweet letters
In return giving reasons, to mo they do
not seem valid, why tho money should not
be refunded,
If you could .tell mo how to go nlwut It
so that I can get my money back, for I
really need It ns much ns tho Government
does, I would be obliged.
My reason for not signing my name
and address Is that so many Investiga
tions nro going on now that I am afraid
tho Hon. Secretary Hedlleld might find
tlmo enough to malio me an object for a
psychological Investigation. X. Y. 7..
,-SEW York. October 17.
Ask your representative in Congress
to mention tho matter politely to Mr.
Ilryan.
Tile Extension Hog.
To thk Editor or The Sun sir- Hef
erenco has often been mado In Tin: Sun
to the "End Seat Hog." Will you devote
a little space to that other vnrlety nf sent
Iiok who spreads his legs far apnrt nnd
extends his elbows nnd In other wovs
makes hlmsulf offensive to thoso next "to
lilmf
Ho Is a oommnn gnrden variety of hog
fuuiid on all cars at all t.Aune. Suhim
thlng should bo done to suppress him.
Often he Is fat, sometimes lean, nlwnys
with Important airs. Tho nobody homo
variety, A
Nkw York, October 16,
Thrt Awful Alternative.
Knlcker Jones says he la doing night
WOT.
Bocker Yes. he has to get the children's
examples or else write their excuses.
Deadly.
Kntoker Has (Smith a new war idea?
Holrer Te mount 'em on roller skates,
PEACE WATCHWORD
OF GREAT PAGEANT
New York's Trmlo Tercentcnarr
to Ho Mndo n Vcstlvnl
of Optimism.
Willi LAST FOtt A WKKK
Three hundred years ngo this m.ith
flvo Dutch whips returned to their h-.'
ports of Amsterdam and Hoorn and ie
ported lo the States Ocneral of the fi.it., i
Netherlands that over on thn Isl.mi
Manhatln they hnd built a trading statini
and begun trading with the imtlvis f,
furs. That was twelve years before u,,
first permanent settlement of New Am
sterdnm, but It marked tho beglnr.ig ,.f
Incorporated trade botween the old uun
try and tho now.
It Is to celobrate that' beginning of
trndo In New York that tho city Is i ,iw
In tho midst of preparations for a fstu,i,
that In somo respects may outdo the Hud
son-Fulton Celebration. It Is known
Uio Commercial Tercentenary of .N
York, and though It begins In less than
ten days and lasts for a week the
Jorlty of tho local Inhabitants know noth
ing of the party In store for thi m.
This Is briefly what Is going W h;irpr
Religious denominations will unite Huiri,i
afternoon, October 20, for a service In t,i
Hippodrome. John D. Crlmmlns nnd 1 1
Hev, Dr. Christian F. Jtelsner hnv ,ir
ranged to havo Hlshop Orecr. li'd r,n'
Farley, Illshop U I). Wilson nnd Itabhi
Menden, ns well as representatives from
the municipal, Stato and Federal govern
ments present nt a mass service, ut wbli i
1,200 singers will tako part.
Tho next evening, Monday, there wl !
bo a musical festival nt tho City College
nnd on Tuesday night another at trie
Washington Irving High School.
Thn automobile pageant Is on tho srhrd
ulo for Wednesday night. Flvo thoiis.n, I
motors will line up and paws through tt-"
city, according to Edward Hngaman Ha,,
tho secretary of tho commission in chair.
Gov. aiynu and his stuff will lead A
floral division. In which automobile
mostly privately owned, havo entered m
tho proviso of being decked with living
flowers, Is to bo a part of tho spectacle
F.Inbornte Antomobllc Jlrcnrnllons,
Thoro Is also a division of machines l
which automobile dealers havo cntorel
One manufacturer Is preparing nn claim
rain windmill effect nnd another a trrmen
dnus butterfly. A group of mnchlt.
ringed up with grotesque features I
comic characteristics Is also a part of the
parrulo. Ixitor comes a section of auto
mobllo trucks showing commercial lndu
tries. The lino of march Is down llroad
way from 12Sth stroct to Fifty-ninth
street, across to Fifth avenue, south to
Thirty-third street nnd then west and
north up llroadway to Columbus Circle.
Thursday evening has been chenin a
theatre night, and llroadway managers
havo tho chance of devising speclnl at
tractions for the town's visitors during
he nhow week.
Some Idea of tho Interest which this
carnival week has aroused up-State -evident
when It Is seen that Mayors from
every large town nnd city, especla.
through tho Mohawk Volley and o
through Rochester to Iluffnlo, will con
down themselves or will send their rig'
hand men. They nro all members of ti
commission ex olllclo. Friday evening
these hundred nnd ono Mayors aro gues
of tho city at a reception it the Metro
polltan Museum of Art. Samuel W. Fai
child, ex-presldent of tho Union LcagU'
Club, Is In charge of that.
The event of 'the week, thouith. Is save '
till Saturday night, the evening of th
81st. This Is Hallowe'en, and If plans en
right It will put the town In a cay hum,'
for tho approaching election night. It -to
be a commemorative pageant, but m i
than that the commission In trying '
Infuse Into the people the Idea of celebra
tlon, tho Idea that wo have a lot to l
Joyous over, that In Bplte of war nn i
hard times talk we have maintained cu
peace and havo our commerce. The
want to make the night of tho 31st om
of optimism and by an inspiring spectar
lighten tho hearts of thoso who think the'
nro weighted down by physical nnd mei
tal depression.
The Ideas which will ennetnntly recu
In tho festival parade will bo historic
commercial, patriotic and of peace. Ever'
Iloat and every horse will bo decked v. It ,
the commission's flng bearing the wor I
"Commerce nnd Fence."
Dlsnltarles that usually have watch ar .
ward over public doings will lend and n
view the procession. The chief facter
this will be nn nrmy corps of horee drnwt
flnnts. The magnitude of this division -hard
to estimate. Of the 1 DO floats soni,
few will require forty horses. A Ilronkh
brewery company hnvlng one of tli
largest floats will surround It by fort'
mounted muslclnns,
Thn New York Central will Join th
pageant with the Do Witt Clinton trab
tho first to run on tho Central's lines. !
I'osslblo this train, which with the ei
glne tender nnd threo conches Is eight'
night feet long, will travil the route unde
Its own steam. If not, it will be mount"!
on a flout. Following this exhibit th
railroad will havo drawn n papier in i'
model of tho latest typo of englno, nlne y
fiet long.
f ontrnstlner Hudson lllirr Hunt".
A modtl of thn Clermont, the firs'
steamboat on tho Hudson, will nppea"- on
tho lloat of tho Hudson lllver Da' i.i'"
nhend of tho model of tho new llendrlci
Hudson. Forty herdsmen will drue .
herd of cattle down Fifth nvmun ns
part of tho exhibit of tbe American lb '
Company. An Ire cream cnmpiny wl'
make nnd servo Ice cream on the rout'
nnd tho samo with a bnking e mo r A
milk company will enter flvo llonts.
llaltlmorn will send thirty floats t" !!
New Yorkers of her Industries. Sin'it
will send six nnd Rochester, I'll' a ' 1
HufTaln each one. Several New V"
newspapers will enter lloatu A nous
them the Stnnta-y.ritHng, which, ace 'rd
Ing to Louis A. Ames, thn head of th
pageant division, will exhibit a T'ii'
monorlane, No ono nt thn commits' i '
ofllco could tell whether this would Hv i
"peaco nnd commerce" flag.
Floats aro only n part of tho llulio'i
e'en pagennt. Thero will be ci - i
containing commi rclal boards, th-i'nb' '
of commerce, merchants' assoc nUoi
committees from tho exchanges ' '
otlo nnd peaco societies lire to lnve :
Rendition.
Some of tho New Yorker wh
said they would participate 1n this
and commerce colebrntlnn and will I i
In tho pageant, arcornfng to Mi
aro Jacob H. Schllf, John D. lt"'-l- ' :
Jr., Judge Alton II. Parker, Chnun '
Depow, George W. Perkins, S mi i ; 'v
Falrehlld. li V. Itiynton, I term im l: '
dcr, Admiral Robert Peary mid O '' ! '
son A. Miles.
NO MAULS FOR EUROPE TO-DAY,
Two .Hlcniiialiln Snlllnus Announce-'
for Tnea5n7,
No slenmehlps carrying Kurnjienn rr''
will sail from this port to-day or to
morrow On Tuesday the Nor-.i".'im-American
liner llergensfjord, for H 'C"
will take mall, closing at tho i,''rv
Post Offlco at in A, M for N ''
Hweden, Denmark, Germany, A tfir '
Hungary nnd RiiHJia and for nthe- r "
tries (except Luxemburg) when '"'
addioised,
The Italian liner San Oucllelnm, ta "r5
fnr Naples on Tueeday, will carr ' "
closing at thn General Pott off'"
iiiln A r i,..l.. A,,utl., Tin, nr
I,, m ,, ,i,t), ,iunuii ,." -
nermnnv. Iliilo-urln. Iliimnitl.i. 'I i i
tswitzerland, Oreoco nnd for other co
fxoTrt l-uxemhllrirl when sno l.l- )
ad-
dressed.