anaheim-gazette 1918-06-13

CLASSIFICATION LISTS TO BE REVISED HALF A MILLION MEN WILL BE ADDED TO CLASS NO. 1 BY THE NEW ARRANGEMENT ENLISTMENTS OF 1918 REGISTRANTS CURTAILED BY ORDER OF PROVOST MARSHAL CROWDER With the double purpose of increasing the number of men available for military service, and of insuring fairer administration of the selective service law, Provost Marshal General Crowder Saturday telegraphed governors of all states asking immediate reinvestigation of the draft classification lists everywhere. Class 1, already exhausted in some localities by the repeated calls, contains 28.7 per cent of all the registrants, according to the national average, but percentages in the 4500 local exemption board districts vary most materially both up and down from the average figures. By "slacker marriages" and ungrounded claim of right to industrial or agricultural exemption, Gen. Crowder believes some registrants have imposed upon the local boards to escape service, while in other districts an application of the rules have been stricter than intended. Governors and appointees are asked to investigate DRIVE FOR NURSES The Pacific division of the American Red Cross has extended its drive for nurses to continue throughout the week, according to the announcement made by Miss Lillian L. White, director of the bureau of nursing for the division. Originally the drive, which started June 3rd, was to have continued for a period of ten days, but it is evident that that time will not be sufficient to enroll the quota of 610 nurses allotted to the division. Miss White figures that at least 800 applications must be on file to assure the requisite number of 610 enrollments From al laccounts there have not yet been 800 applicants. In fact, it is doubtful if over the 610 allotment has been covered even by the applications. There seems to be a question on the part of many nurses as to whether they will have the same standing by enrolling through the Red Cross as they would have if they enrolled directly with the Army and Navy. Surgeons General Gorgas of the army and Braisted of the navy have asked the Red Cross to enroll these nurses. They will be a part of the army and navy forces and come under army and navy regulations. The enrollment was put into the hands of the American Red Cross because it was thought that organization was better equipped to get the desired results in the shortest possible time. If the Pacific division is to go over the top, as it has done on every occasion in the past, it will be necessary for nurses to file their enrollment applications before next Saturday. GET READY FOR OUR VETERANS! Secretary of the Interior Franklin ALIEN FEDERAL REGISTRY ALL ABOVE 14 YEARS OF ENEMY NATION BE OFFICIALLY REGISTRATION BUREAU HEIM WILL BE ESTED AT POST O All German and Austen females, 14 years of age objects of those government in the United States between Monday, Wednesday, June 26. Posmaster Ahlborn will registration, his office postoffice. German alien females the registration bureau days mentioned, with four photographs of them inches square, on light and light paper. They ed fill out three affidavit include answers to the tions: 1. Name, and all other time used, including arried names. 2. Present residence. 3. Length of residency going place. 4. All other places since January 1, 1914. 5. Birthplace and date. By "slacker marriages" and ungrounded claim of right to industrial or agricultural exemption, Gen. Cowder believes some registrants have imposed upon the local boards to escape service, while in other districts an application of the rules have been stricter than intended. Governors and appeal agents are asked to investigate and upon evidence to ask boards to reclassify men. Assistance of the public through supplying information to the boards also is asked. It was said Saturday that, with the gradual exhaustion of class 1, unskilled farm laborers whom the boards have been allowed to place at its bottom will have to go to cantonments. There will be no change in this policy, and the only relief, it is declared, will come from enforcement of the "work or fight" order generally. Provost Marshal General Crowder announced Saturday that the class of 1918 registrants will not be allowed to enlist in the navy or marine corps, and that no voluntary inductions will be granted until order and serial numbers have been assigned. After members are assigned registrants may enlist if they obtain certificates from their local boards stating they are not within the board's current quota. It is expected that the rearrangement will bring into class one more than 500,000 men. Cases where registrants were married after passage of the draft act will be carefully considered, and if evidence warrants classification in class one, boards will proceed to reclassify them. Married men whose wives have sustaining incomes probably will be reclassified. "This office has reached the conclusion," said Marshal Crowder, "that corrective procedure can be made most effective by revision by the local boards with the hearty and active assistance of the government appeal agents and members of legal advisory boards. "You will therefore issue instructions that they shall immediately proceed to a careful examination of all the questionnaires and records in the classes of cases hereinafter indicated and make such recommendations to the local boards as they may deem necessary." "Local boards, government appeal agents and members of legal advisories should direct special attention to the American Red Cross because it was thought that organization was better equipped to get the desired results in the shortest possible time. If the Pacific division is to go over the top, as it has done on every occasion in the past, it will be necessary for nurses to file their enrollment applications before next Saturday. GET READY FOR OUR VETERANS! Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane spent a few days in his old home in California recently, on his way to Hawaii on some government errand. He stopped long enough to declare a conviction which every patriotic heart will take to itself. At a meeting of the Commonwealth Club, among other things he said: "At the conclusion of the war the United States should be able to say to its returned soldiers: 'If you wish to go upon a farm, here are a variety of farms, of which you may take your pick, which the government has prepared against the time of your returning. You are not to be given a bounty nor made to feel that you are a dependent. On the contrary, you are to continue in a sense in the service of the government, but instead of destroying our enemies you are to develop our resources.' The work other than the planning, you will do yourself. You will be allowed to make your own home, cared for while you are doing it and given the land for which you can pay through a long period of years, perhaps thirty or forty years'." What less can we do for these noble boys who are holding our front abroad, this week, against the very acme of cruelty and abomination than to rehabilitate them in happy living when they return? And this noble impulse to honor and provide for our beloved youth, grown in a year to be veterans for humanity's sake, is to surely prevail among citizens of all our allied countries, for the harder they strike devilish greed and inhumanity the more tender they become in their love for their fellow men who bear their burdens. Two principles are announced this week by cable as underlying the Australian system of repatriation: First, that the true purpose of repatriation is to secure the re-establishment of returned soldiers in the industrial life of the community to the fullest extent that circumstances will permit, and, second, that as a soldier abandoned by his civil calling to serve and light paper. They will fill out three affidavits include answers to the questions: 1. Name, and all other time used, including any rides names. 2. Present residence. 3. Length of residence going place. 4. All other places since January 1, 1914. 5. Birthplace and date. 6. State partiolar follows: Single or non-residence, and citizenship husband; if widow, give citizenship of late husband with present whether or not judicially been obtained, when divorced, state when a state name, residence, citizenship of each former name of all children birth and residence; state have now or have had arms for or against them and its allies during this period. 7. Occupations, if January 1, 1914; if not in business or other self, state name of place cipation. 8. Arrival in United ship, and name under was made. 9. Have you ever governed service? 10. Have you since reported to or registered country than the United Government service or itary, naval or other any other purpose? 11. Have you ever naturalized in or taken persons of natuarlizing States? 12. Have yo uever partly or wholly in an than the United States. 13. Has your press applied for naturalization out first papers of the United States? 14. Has your press or been naturalized partly in any country United States? 15. Have you ever of allegiance to any nation other than the United States? 16. Have you ever or detained on any state when, where "You will therefore issue instructions that they shall immediately proceed to a careful examination of all the questionnaires and records in the classes of cases hereinafter indicated and make such recommendations to the local boards as they may deem necessary. "Local boards, government appeal agents and members of legal advisory boards should direct special attention to the following classes of cases: "Class Two A and B; class Three A, B, and C; and class Four A. Thousands of registrants are now in class four who should be in class two or class one. Government appeal agents should be instructed to appeal every case where the classification is not convincingly correct. "The activities of local boards, appeal agents and members of legal advisory boards is not limited to the classes of cases above indicated, but the same corrective measures should be applied to all other cases of deferred classification when the same appears necessary. "Local boards should set aside a special week in June to conduct examinations of doubtful cases. Classifications should be scientifically adjusted now so as to avoid the necessity of proceeding to the deferred classes. The remedy is yours to apply. "It is important also that corrective procedure should be applied where necessary in case of boards showing unusually high percentage of class one. Where there are no apparent explanations for such high percentages you should make inquiry of the proper boards with a view to ascertainting whether the boards have correctly applied the regulations." Of the 133 registrants 21 years of age who registered in this district June 5th, 131 are white and two Oriental. There are 112 native born citizens and one declarent and 20 allens. Of the allens one is a Greek, one Russian, two Japanese, one Turk and 15 Mexicans. The one declarent is a Swiss. Rolla Luhring of Anaheim, recently with the Union Oil company at Norwalk, has been inducted by the local board into the 158th field hospital company, Camp Kearny and was entrained for camp Friday. First, that the true purpose of repatriation is to secure the re-establishment of returned soldiers in the industrial life of the community to the fullest extent that circumstances will permit, and second, that as a soldier abandoned by his civil calling to serve the state, it is the duty of the state to sustain him until an opportunity for such re-establishment is assured. Sustenance, therefore, will be paid to men who, after discharge from the army, are seeking employment or are being trained in technical schools. Returning soldiers will be prepared and installed in whatever vocation their desire and physical condition best fits them. They will have money to start in small business or trades or land for farming. And all these things will be prepared beforehand, for surely no grateful country will permit its heroes to linger in doubt or discomfort. Surely all of us who are denied the privilege to strike for a holy victory can strew flower of love adn gratitude on the returning pathways of those who win it! Failure of a German to complete the re-establishment specified time, imprisonment and duration of the war. A female, irresponsibility or parents, ed States, and subject thereof, is an and is not required she has become natural an oath of allegiance she has married a ALIEN FEMALES REQUIRED TO REGISTER ALL ABOVE 14 YEARS, CITIZENS OF ENEMY NATIONS, MUST BE OFFICIALLY LISTED REGISTRATION BUREAU IN ANAHEIM WILL BE ESTABLISHED AT POST OFFICE All German and Austro-Hungarian females, 14 years of age or up, subjects of those governments but resident in the United States must register between Monday, June 17, and Wednesday, June 26. In Anaheim, Posmaster Ahlborn will conduct the registration, his office being at the postoffice. German allen females will apply at the registration bureau between the days mentioned, with four unmounted photographs of themselves, three inches square, on light background and light paper. They will be required fill out three affidavits, which will include answers to the following questions: 1. Name, and all other names at any time used, including all former married names. 2. Present residence. 3. Length of residence at the foregoing place. 4. All other places of residence since January 1, 1914. 5. Birthplace and date. Value First Clothes Made by Michaels-Stern & Co. The most important thing to consider in buying clothes this year is something you cannot see, namely—VALUE. But you may be sure it is there, in heaping measure, if you buy the clothes that for more than fifty years have been made to conform strictly to the creed of “Value First.” Double Breasted Suits Are Now the Fad PRICES $22.50 and $25.00 To go with these suits we are showing extra Pants made of White and Stripe Serge at $6.00, Exceptional Values. JACKSON’S MEN’S WEAR SHOP YOUR MONEY’S WORTH ALWAYS ANAHEIM of Germany, who has not acquired his naturalization in the United States, and martial relations have not been terminated by death or divorce, and she has not resumed her American citizenship. Any American woman who marries a foreigner, takes the nationality of her husband: At the termination of the marital relation by death or absolute divorce, she is presumed to retain the same, unless she makes formal renunciation thereof before a court having jurisdiction to naturalize allens. Females born in, or residing as German subjects in Schleswig-Holstein, ANOTHER DAMAGE SUIT Today another action for damages was brought against W. E. Wright, Fullerton rancher. Lieutenant J. C. Hayden of the Santa Ana Home Guards is the plaintiff and he asks $5150 damages for injuries received when he and three other guards officers were run down by Wright’s automobile, which, it is alleged, he was driving while intoxicated. Several days ago Lieutenant Elliott of Santa Ana sued for $5150, and Lieutenant E. H. Smith of Orange will immediately start action for the same amount. and light paper. They will be required fill out three affidavits, which will include answers to the following questions: 1. Name, and all other names at any time used, including all former married names. 2. Present residence. 3. Length of residence at the foregoing place. 4. All other places of residence since January 1, 1914. 5. Birthplace and date. 6. State partitions as to family as follows: Single or married; name, residence, and citizenship of present husband; if widow, give name and citizenship of late husband; if not living with present husband state whether or not judicial separation has been obtained, when and where; if divorced, state when and where, and state name, residence if living, and citizenship of each former husband; names of all children, sex, date of birth and residence; state whether you have now or have had any relatives in arms for or against the United States and its allies during the present war. 7. Occupations, if employed since January 1, 1914; if not employed, but in business or other occupation for self, state name of place, date and occupation. 8. Arrival in United States, port, ship, and name under which entry was made. 9. Have you ever been engaged in governmental service? If yes, specify. 10. Have you, since January 1, 1914 reported to or registered with a Consul or representative of any other country than the United States for government service of any kind (military, naval or other service) or for any other purpose? 11. Have you ever applied for naturalization in or taken out first papers of natuarlizatin in the United States? 12. Have yo uever been naturalized, partly or wholly in any country other than the United States? 13. Has your present husband ever applied for naturalization in or taken out first papers of naturalization in the United States? 14. Has your present husband ever been naturalized, either wholly or partly in any country other than the United States? 15. Have you ever taken an oath of allegiance to any country, state or nation other than the United States? 16. Have you ever been arrested or detained on any charge? If yes, state when, where and on what she has not resumed her American citizenship. Any American woman who marries a foreigner, takes the nationality of her husband: At the termination of the marital relation by death or absolute divorce, she is presumed to retain the same, unless she makes formal renunciation thereof before a court having jurisdiction to naturalize allens. Females born in, or residing as German subjects in Schleswig-Holstein, subsequent to August 23, 1866, and now dwelling within the United States, are, unless naturalized as, or married prior to April 6, 1917, to an American citizen, required to register. Females born in or residing as German subjects in Alsace Lorraine subsequent to May 10, 1871, and now dwelling within the United States, are, unless naturalized or married prior to April 6, 1917, to American citizens, required to register. ANOTHER CHAPTER The difficulties of Mrs. Anna G. Walters of Anaheim and Geo. A. Fox, a Los Angeles real estate man, have again come into court at Santa Ana. This time the case is a civil one. Fox is awaiting trial in Los Angeles on a charge of embezzling money from Mrs. Walters. Fox was arrester first several weeks ago on the ground that he embezzled $20,000 from Mrs. Walters. That case was dismissed after a reconciliation. Later the reconciliation gave way to grievance, and Fox was arrested in Los Angeles and is being prosecuted there on another charge of embezzlement. Two civil actions have been brought at Santa Ana. Each complaint alleges that previous to July 16, 1917, Fox met and made love to Mrs. Walters. He told her he was unmarried, and wanted to marry her. She said he made plans to take Mrs. Walters to Canada to be married there. In order to facilitate the handling of her property he got her to deed it to him. Deeds were for a lot at Laguna Beach, worth $1000, and for a fine orange grove at Anaheim, which grove Mrs. Walters says was worth $75,000. It is alleged that Fox sold the grove to F. M. Moore and a man named Starr for $53,000. These two men are accused of being parties to a fraud that Mrs. Walters says Fox perpetrated upon her. She alleges that he was married and that other of his repre- Fullerton rancher. Lleutenant J. C. Hayden of the Santa Ana Home Guards is the plaintiff and he asks $5150 damages for injuries received when he and three other guards officers were run down by Wright's automobile, which it is alleged, he was driving while intoxicated. Several days ago Lleutenant Elliott of Santa Ana sued for $5150, and Lleutenant E. H. Smith of Orange will immediately start action for the same amount. Captain A. E. Koepsel is attorney for the plaintiff in each case. A complaint asking damages in his own behalf will be filed within a day or two. Altogether the damage actions against Wright will probably total $20,000. OUR MERCHANT MARINE The steady growth of the American merchant marine in all classes of vessels was revealed Saturday for the first time since the war began, in statistics from the department of commerce, showing that in the first five months of this year there have been built in this country and officially numbered by the Bureau of Navigation, a total of 629 vessels, of 687,-055 gross tons. The merchant fleet of the United States now amounts to approximately 10,000,000 gross tons, not including merchant craft under control of the army and navy as transports and supply ships. At the beginning of January, 26,742 merchant vessels of 9-,343,224 gross tons were flying the Stars and Stripes on trips across the Atlantic with food and munitions; into the Caribbean and Pacific with American products for foreign customers; and on the lakes and rivers of this country as part of the nation's domestic transportation system. This tremendous fleet is second only to the merchant tonnage of Great Britain. It includes all the new vessels built under the direction of the shipping board and thousands of other ships, smaller in individual tonnage but greater in aggregate carrying capacity which play so large a part in commerce and the maintenance of a favorable balance of trade. There has been a steady increase in new ships this year, the May tonnage being three times as great as the January output. In the first month of 1918 there were fifty seven ships, of 64,795 tons, given official numbers. In February, 84 ships, of 111,601 gross tons, were numbered. March saw a notable jump in the pro- applied for naturalization in or taken out first papers of naturalization in the United States? 14. Has your present husband ever been naturalized, either wholly or partly in any country other than the United States? 15. Have you ever taken an oath of allegiance to any country, state or nation other than the United States? 16. Have you ever been arrested or detained on any charge? If yes, state when, where and on what charge. Are you on parole? 17. Have you a permit to enter forbidden areas? 18. Languages spoken, written and read. The president's proclamation of April 19, 1918, explains the various classes of women who must register as follows: All natives, citizens, denizens or subjects of the German Empire, or of the German Imperial government, being females of the age of 14 years and upwards, who are within the United States and not actually naturalized as American citizens. Female natives, citizens, denizens or subjects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are not required to register under the president's proclamation of April 19, 1918, nor under these regulations, unless they come within the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Failure of a German allen female to complete the registration within the specified time, is liable to restraint imprisonment and detention for the duration of the war. A female, irrespective of the citizenship or parents, born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is an American citizen and is not required to register unless she has become naturalized in or taken an oath of allegiance to Germany, or she has married a citizen or subject It is alleged that Fox sold the grove to F. M. Moore and a man named Starr for $53,000. These two men are accused of being parties to a fraud that Mrs. Walters says Fox perpetrated upon her. She alleges that he was married, and that other of his representations to her were false. The court here is asked to set aside the deeds made by Mrs. Walters and the deed made by Fox to Moore and Starr. Arrested as he was leaving court when his hearing on one charge of embezzlement had been continued, G. A. Fox, former financial manager of Mrs. Anna G. Walters, faces a second charge of having appropriated for his own use money belonging to his former employer. The automobile of Fox was also attached in a civil suit. Testimony concerning the sale of Mrs. Walter's Anaheim ranch by Fox was given at the hearing on the first charge, alleging the embezzlement of $5100. This case was continued until June 18. The second complaint charges the embezzlement of $60. Mrs. Walters visibly affected by the strain of the hearings, declared she had laid aside her dislike for publicity in prosecuting the case and that she merely was seeking justice in the hope that other women might be spared from men seeking their money. "I have been a good woman and have worked hard for my money," Mrs. Walters said. "He obtained most of my money, but I can make another start. I have just perfected a patent and am working on two other patents." but greater in aggregate carrying capacity, which play so large a part in commerce and the maintenance of a favorable balance of trade. There has been a steady increase in new ships this year, the May tonnage being three times as great as the January output. In the first month of 1918 there were fifty seven ships, of 64,795 tons, given official numbers. In February, 84 ships, of 111,601 gross tons, were numbered. March saw a notable jump in the production of small ships, numbers being awarded to 138, the tonnage being awarded to 138, the tonnage being 147,145. The record in April was 165 ships, of 163,050 tons, and in May 185 ships of 194,464 tons. In a single month this year the American merchant fleet has seen a growth almost as great as during the entire first year of the European war. MR. DEBBS IS LOYAL Eugene Victor Debbs of Terre Haute, Indiana, the man who has been a candidate for president of the United States more times than any other living man; one of the most prominent Socialists of the country, has definitely lined up with the American wing of the socialist party. The socialist party ran onto the rocks of kalserism at the convention in St. Louis last year, when the members were controlled by Victor Berger and Morris Hilquit and their pro-German sympathizers and a platform that made every true American blush with shame was adopted. Mr. Debbs was the candidate of the Socialist Democratic party for president in 1900, and of the Socialist party in 1904, 1908 and 1912. He has issued a call for delegates to the coming Socialist convention to declare pro-ally fealty; and with this veteran leading the patriotic section of the party, there is little doubt but what the St. Louis platform will be repudiated. Mr. Debbs began life as a railroad fireman on an engine running out of Terre Haute. Later he became secretary of the Firemen's Brotherhood, and then president of the American Railway Union. He was the leader of the great A. R. U. strike, which involved railroad workers all over the United States and was the cause of many thousands of his followers losing their jobs before the strike collapsed. Mr. Debbs served six months in prison for contempt of court. This wandering agitator and fluent writer has had a loyal following that has never deserted him. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT SPENDS HUGE SUMS The army ordnance department has negotiated approximately 12,000 contracts since this county entered the war, involving within $175,000,000 of the total funds available for the department for the present fiscal year—$3,383,286,045. Additional contracts totaling $1,503,703,741 have been entered into on the authority of congress pending appropriation of an amount aggregating $1,671,466,750. The magnitude of the task of the ordnance department financially is evidenced by the disbursement recently in a single day of more than $25,000,000 on ordinary contract vouchers. Disbursements for the month of April, 1918, ran to $356,884,863, an interesting amount as compared with the $5,059,264 disbursed by the ordnance department in April, 1917. These disbursements were made at the office in Washington. Amounts disbursed at government arsenals are not included. One check recently drawn by the ordnance disbursing officer for ordnance material was for $18,750,000. One requisition made recently by this same officer on the treasury was for $169,000,000. This is the largest single requisition ever made by any U.S. disbursing officer. Prior to two-months ago, before the ordnance department established 11 district offices which zoned the country to expedite payments to contractors and relieve the strain upon the main office in Washington, the disbursing officer at Washington signed from 500 to 3000 checks a day. Louis Beddigg, formerly proprietor of the Mason theatre in this city, died recently at his home in Oakland. Mr. Beddigg was well known in Anaheim and Orange. (ADVERTISEMENT) (ADVERTISEMENT) Reasons for the Attacks on Mr. Hearst The Ossining, N.Y., Sentinel of May 23 publishes the following leading editorial: "A JEALOUS RIVAL'S FAILURE" It is a compliment to our good nature as a people and our real democracy as citizens that few of us have become excited by the vicious attacks of the New York Tribune upon Mr. Hearst and his newspapers, the New York American and Evening Journal. The other great cities of the country where Mr. Hearst publishes newspapers do not at all reflect the New York Tribune's hostility and excitement. In fact, even in New York City the daily newspapers other than the Tribune fail to publish the daily reports of what the Tribune's agents are doing here and there to stir up hatred and animosity against Mr. Hearst. The public never treats seriously attacks founded on jealousy and chagrin. Manufactured "protests" always react against the originators, and the present attitude of the New York Tribune disgusts honest patriots. With our usual good nature, therefore, we may now perhaps be permitted to ask our readers to analyze for themselves the causes underlying the Tribune's Spring drive against the Hearst fortifications. Mr. Hearst's newspapers in New York have the largest circulations of any newspapers published there. Their combined circulation exceeds 1,100,000 copies daily. The Tribune's circulation is about 100,000 copies daily. The Tribune would naturally like to have that one million copies daily of circulation that Mr. Hearst has over and above the Tribune's circulation. What more natural than for the Tribune to attack Mr. Hearst? Furthermore, and still good naturedly, it must be remembered that the interests that own the Tribune also own a part of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad. It is wholly legitimate for those interests to own stock in the New York Central. But Mr. Hearst has attacked the New York Central for its plans upon Riverside Drive, and indeed for other causes. Furthermore, and still good naturedly, it must be remembered that the interests that own the Tribune also own a part of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad. It is wholly legitimate for those interests to own stock in the New York Central. But Mr. Hearst has attacked the New York Central for its plans upon Riverside Drive, and indeed for other causes. What more natural than for the Tribune to attack Mr. Hearst? Departing from the Tribune for a moment, and to seek another example, let us refer to the New Jersey incident, where an attack upon Mr. Hearst's newspapers was made by a Mr. J. Osgood Nicholls. It turns out that Mr. Nicholls, while a New Jersey patriot by night, was by day a New York attorney for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. Mr. Nicholls has a right to be an attorney for the Interborough. But Mr. Hearst has attacked the Interborough through a number of years. What more natural than for Mr. Nicholls to attack Mr. Hearst? And let us remember, still good naturedly, that while election day is a long time off, the politicians are busy. The politicians of all parties do not want Mr. Hearst to be a candidate for Governor of New York State. Mr. Hearst has antagonized the politicians. What more natural than for the politicians to attack Mr. Hearst? We venture to say, with continued good nature, that if Mr. Hearst will cease his support of the President and the Cabinet he will silence some of the attacks now made against him; that if he will abandon his advocacy of public ownership of public utilities, his fight against the New York Central in the Riverside Drive matter, his opposition to the methods of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the voice of slander and vituperation will become still weaker; that if he will tell the politicians that under no circumstances will he consent to be a candidate for Governor this Fall, he will become almost popular in some small sections of the community; and then if he will turn over that surplus circulation of one million copies a day to the New York Tribune he will be regarded at last as a real patriot.