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11 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1917. uhYrc Thouaht on Public Questions Peoples Page GERMAN DEMOCRACY LOCAL DRAFT BOARD THANKS EAGLE FOR-HELP IN ITS STRENUOUS WORK BROOKLYN BOYS ARE NEITHER "YELLOW" NOR "UNDESIRABLE" T. R.

SETS EXAMPLE FOR ALL AMERICANS "OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN" Editor Broklyn Daily Eagle: Our son, Eugene Stevens Black, 24 years old, July 21, 1917, enlisted July 6, was sworn in July 7, Company Twenty-third Regiment, Brooklyn, N. going down July 6 to their armory, Some Served With Credit on Border "Brooklyn American" Mentions One in Particular. Chairman Hoilingworth Also Praises Hh Associates and Describes What They Did. order from the adjutant general was to prepare for physical examination, and to examine enough men to fill our quota which was 240. We began our physical examinations on August 2.

Our method was to notify 1G0 men to appear, daily in three different periods: No. 1, from 10 to 12 a.m.; No. 2, from 3:30 to 6 p.m., and the last from 8 to 10:30 p.m., sometimes extending to 11:30. This was kept up for nine days, with only one While a great amount of space has been taken up in tho daily papers about the boys of the Brooklyn regiments who have taken "French leave" nothing has been printed concerning the boys of the Sixty-ninth who you will find are doing the same thing every day, without the same provocation, and nothing is printed about them. As to the charge of being "mammas' boys," the boys of the Twenty-third plead guilty, but find that the proper home influence and love of his parents help a great deal toward the morale of a soldier.

I think when the final test comes, the boys of the Sixty-ninth will find that their Brooklyn comrades will be both able and willing to uphold the honor of their country and the 166th Infantry. BROOKLYN AMERICAN. Brooklyn, September 3, 1917. How About the Eats at Camp Mills? Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I have read with great interest your article on Colonel Hine of the 166th Infantry, now at Camp Mills, and I am very glad to learn what a lovable man he is to the men under his com mand, as I have a son in that outfit, and it gives great pleasure to know that he will be well taken care of. I would respectfully suggest that the Colonel's attention be called to the eats served to the men, as my son Informed mo today that his breakfast consisted of one frankfurter, a cold potato, a slice of bread and a cup of coffee.

That menu does not seem to me to be sufficient for a healthy young man, who has a hard day's drilling before him. CONSTANT READER. Brooklyn, September 3, 1917. WOULD INSURE PEACE President Puts It Squarely Up to Them-Will They Accept It? Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The President's answer to the Pope's peace proposal has clearly removed all doubt and skepticism as to America's stand In the warand at the same time plainly stated the terms on which peace may be concluded. President Wilson has once more issued a document which furnishes further proof of his sincerity of purpose, honesty and uprightness in object, astuteness in diplomacy and statesmanship, stoutheartedness and magnanimity acainst the enemy and love for all humanity tiiauniiiu.

This last word of the President will at last put a silencer on those who have heretofore tried to criticise his actions and distort the meaning of his speeches and manifestations. Peace, or the continuation of war, is now squarely put up to the German people, with whom (the President once more unequivocally pointed out in the note to the Vatican) we have no quarrel, and it is that people that can bring the slaughter to a speedy termination by grasping the opportunity to Join the issue with the greatest of men at Washington, who so readily undertook to become their liberator and emancipator. They need not fear a dismemberment of their country. They need not fear a humiliation of their pride as a great nation; they need not fear the so-much-spoken-of "crushing" victory, for the President of the United States of America, the Free Government of New Russia and his Holiness, Pope Benedict, are outspokenly agreed that there must be peace without victory, In order to be lasting. The President is only anxious (in order to promote a complete democratization of the German people) to help them by his peace terms to win and accomplish that for which they have been laboring ever since the es7 tabllshment of the German Federation by Bismarck a government of, by and for the people.

The age of "Divine rights" for princes has outlived its usefulness, and crowns and scepters must be relegated to the scrap-heap. The over-lords have had their day, and Wooarow Wilson, the idealist and constructor, is zealously working to reap the harvest of the war by proposing a new and revised formula for the construction of a new brotherhood of manKlnd. I. J. LEHR.

351 Atlantic avenue, September 1, 1917. SAYS A GOOD WORD FOR BROOKLYN BOYS Manhattan Woman Believes Mineola Camp Needs Probing. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: So much has been said regarding the "lemon" which the Sixty-ninth Regiment received from the various companies that I feel duty bound to resent the insinuations cast upon the Brooklyn boys in particular. If the truth were known, perhaps the contrast between their own orderly camps and the one at Mineola where the majority sleep on the ground and tho food is rank was too great. Much praise was given in a recent issue of a Manhattan paper to Captain Fiske for his boys of the Seventh.

Any simple minded person can readily understand why. There is too much money in the Seventh for one thing, and, secondly, all big men are at the head, who would not stand for criticism such as we are reading at the present which is most unjust to the different regiments to which they belong. If blacking young men's eyes, which is also said in the article referred to to be a part of their military training, then the camp at Mineola sure needs investigation. One could look a long way to pick a better body of young men than was sent to Mineola from the Twenty-third and Fourteenth regiments. And will you please tell me why so much praise for the Sixty-ninth? The Twenty-third has been on guard duty for many months and it made a far more soldierly appearance as it passed down Fifth avenue than the Sixty-ninth.

Brooklyn may well be proud of its sons of the Fourteenth and Twenty-third regiments. A NEW YORK WOMAN. Manhattan, September 2, 1917. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I have read with a great deal of dissatisfaction the various criticisms of the boys of the Fourteenth and Twenty-third Regiments, who have taken "French leave" from their camps at Mineola. There seems to have been three charges made against them, namely, "yellow," "undesirable" and "mammas' boys." In regard to the first, when the names were called in the various companies, there was a vigorous protest made by those who were left behind, and all sorts of offers to exchange places with those who had been drafted.

This effectually disposes of the charge of being "yellow." As to the "undesirables," I will quote the case of one boy from the Twenty-third which is a fair sample of the large majority from that unit that were drafted, also from the Fourteenth. This boy enlisted In the Twenty- third in January, 1915; attended every drill. Including the ten days at Peeksklll until mustered into the U. S. service July 2, 1916.

He served nearly seven months on the border, and on his regiment being mustered out in January, 1917, resumed armory drills until again called in the U. S. service; did guard duty up the State for four months or more, until transferred to the Sixty-ninth. After all this service and perfect military record, he found, after reaching the Sixty-ninth, tnat he was classed as un desirable, and he, with all others from the Twenty-third, has been subjected to the jeers and taunts of his future comrades. This is only one case, but it applies to a large majority of the boys from the other Brooklyn units.

ARENEGROESIANTED IN ARMY AND NAYY? One Who Has Given Son for War, Asks for Fair Play. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I wonder if you would print a few words from the pen of a negro. You can, perhaps, realize our timidity in writing, when you realize that we seldom see anything good said of us in the papers only the bad. It seems to me and to many of my race that "our country" is living up to the idea that this is a "white man's country" and a white man's war. The President has called to the colors all male citizens of military age.

We are citizens of at least one half of the country. Yet it is being constantly impressed on my race that we are not wanted. We are beginning to understand that we are not wanted either in the army or in civil life. The great State of New York has recruited tho Fifteenth Regiment of Negroes. I have contributed my all my oldest son who is just 17 years of age.

Now comes the news that they are not wanted in Spartanburg tho Twenty-fourth Infantry or the Eighth Illinois Is not wanted in Texas. As far as I can see they are only wanted around cantonments to do the rough work or to get the camp ready for the white soldiers'. After fifty years of freedom and of devotion to the flag unequalled in history, we are not good enough to be commissioned a lieutenant in the army or to do anything in the navy but to "wash down tho decks." Have the white citizens ever stopped to consider what the consequences might bo if the idea becomes firmly fixed in the minds of these millions of negroes that they are not. wanted? When the country needs the help of every man in it, Is It wise to antagonize the whole negro race and make them secret enemies? We are beginning to think. We are becoming educated.

We have been slapped in the face so often, we have boon abused, persecuted and segregated so long that we are becoming sensitive. I am giving my son; many negro fathers have done likewise. For what? A little fair play, a little of that "Christian chartty" which makes the whole world kin, a modicum of justice, would make of us tho most patriotic, loyal and devoted raco in America. We ask no special laws or favors; we ask no "coddling." We only ask simple justice and liberty to occupy our "place in the sun." If we are not wanted in the army and navy, tell us so plainly and disband the regiments and send them home. PAUL FULTON.

155 Carlton Brooklyn. Mr. Calvert Says He's Neither a "Scold" Nor a "Shrew." Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: It is related by James Boswell that a lady once asked Dr. Johnson how he came to define the word "pastern" in his dictionary as the knee of a horse, and that instead of making an elaborate defense, as she expected, he at once answered, "Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." What other answer than this could be given by your correspondent, M. Burns," if asked why, in The Eagle of August 30, ho applied the words "scold" and "trousered shrew" to the most celebrated American of our day? I base tho inquiry on my knowledge of some of the books that are written concerning Theodore Roosevelt, and on the assumption that Mr.

Burns the initial letters conceal the writer's sex, and so I shall regard the gender as mascufine is entirely ignorant of any of these books. That is no excuse for paining the Colonel's admirers with a disrespectful letter. These books are in every branch library. No one at all familiar with them will find in them the marks of a shrew, perverse-ness, violence and malignancy of temper. Colonel Roosevelt's picturesque and eventful career has been traced, from his youth to the White House, by many hands, clearly, proudly, lov ingly; and there is nothing to blush for in the portraiture.

Born to wealth, he has lived in the limelight, even in that fierce light which beats upon the presidential chair; and he is spoken of, reverently, as the typical American, because, in the various phases of his life a3 student, legislator, commissioner, ranchman, hunter, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, soldier, Governor, Vice President, and President first by accident and then by popular election he has shown us, by his own example, what a true American should be. When the European war broke out, we were told that we need not be armed; that our morality and our geographical position were safeguards enough. These men got rattled; but, presently, the Roosevelt clarion was heard all over the land, echoing in rich, loud tones, "Prepare ye, for the German peril Is at hand." So the Colonel scolded, and we stirred ourselves. Then he scolded with a powerful blast, "Be Americans, all of you, and help the Government win!" And he gave his most costly offering, four sons and a son-in-law, to help the Government win. Will you not join me, Mr.

Burns, in respect and admiration for our Will you not devoutly wish with me, and many, many more, that when the war is won his young men may be restored, safe and sound, to that peaceful zone where first they learned from him, by bright example, that "The path to duty is the way to HENRY MURRAY CALVERT. Brooklyn, September 3, 1917. SIRS. SHL'LTS IS SHOCKED. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Has the declaration of war caused us to deteriorate in refinement of speech? Designating certain of our boys as "skulkers" and "slackers" was punishment enough, but when they are.

called "yellow bellies" I think the limit has been reached. As war and retrogradation are synonyms, believe mc, if peace is not soon declared we will all chum with the alley cat. JENNIE L. SHULTS. 1255 East Fortieth street, Flatlands.

WHY TEACH GERMAN IN LOWER SCHOOLS? Costs City $500,000 and Noth ing Is Gained by It. Editor Zrooklyn Daily Eagle: Because of the many communications appearing in our daily papers I am Impelled to tell the parents of pupils in the elementary public schools that, unless I have been very much misinformed, or the ruling in regard to the teaching of foreign languages has recently been changed, they are allowed some option in the matter. The ruling was that instruction in a foreign language should not. be introduced unless a certain number of the parents of children entering the seventh grade requested it, and that any child might be excused from it on written request of the parents, made when the child began the seventh grade. Languages do not count toward graduation; indeed, they certainly militate against it, because of the time taken from the really valuable subjects.

The time spent on foreign languages in elementary schools is wasted. I say this advisedly, for as a school officer of nearly twenty-five years standing I am convinced, end many well informed parents and persons connected with the schools recognize that the children get nothing worth while from it. If a pupil leaves school at the end of the eighth year the instruction received is too limited and superficial to be of any value, and if a high school course is taken the work done in the elementary school has to be repeated. Those of us who were connected with the schools around 1903 or 1904 remember that it was decided to discontinue foreign language instruction. Later it was decided to retain it.

Its retention was not due to any pedagogical reason, but to the activity of the late Herman Ridder. We remember how, realizing that their arguments had fallen on rather deaf ears at a public hearing, he and other Germans went to the then Mayor, George B. McClellan. His well known sympathies and his desire not to offend the German vote, mado it easy to secure a ukase favorable to German. Then, quite reasonably, French, Italian and other foreign language speaking residents demanded that their children should be instructed in their mother tongue.

Luckily their political power was not equally strong and our schools did not become Towers of Babel. Mr. Ridder apparently frankly said that his activities were due to his interest in the circulation of the Staats Zeitung. It seemed bad enough that our children's education should be the handmaid of a daily paper's business prosperity, but we now must recognize that the truth was even worse, and that Mr. Ridder's statement was but a bit of "camouflage," and tnat his paper came second to his hope for the success of "Der Tag" and for German dominance of the world.

Last spring the local school board to which I belong sent resolutions to the Board of Education, protesting the teaching of foreign languages In the public schools. In tho year 1916 this instruction cost over $726,500, of which nearly $500,000 was for the teaching of German, and we believe it unreasonable to take that amount of the taxpayers' money for what is really an unnecessary luxury. CORA L. MAGNUS. 28 West Ninety-sixth street, an entire stranger, to enlist, after hav Mg gone to Brooklyn to persuade a chum, If possible, to enlist with him somewhere.

My wife and I visited our son August 8 to 12, just passed, receiving from the officers at the armory with whom we came in contact the essence of courtesy. To an old New Yorker upon my return I advised the quality, "officer and gentleman" in particular to Lieutenant F. D. Mayor with whom we came the most in contact applied in every sense of the expression to the officers and those we met at the armory. F.

B. BLACK. Kansas City, August 29, 1917. OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS DOING GOOD WORK Turning Out Boys and Girls Who Become Leaders. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: In Sunday's Eagle a paragraph In your "Weekly Labor Market Review," seems to me to demand a reply.

It reads: "The New York public schools are doing: their work, but try as they may, they cannot bring their graduates to the realization of the tact that success In any position can only be attained through application and sticktoittve-ness." I am not a school man; only a parent of children who have been graduated from the public schools. Nor am I holding a brief for the school authorities, nor the principals or teachers. I dislike, however, to read the criticisms of the schools, which have become so common during the past few years. They are the shining mark at which everyone in the city takes a fling, including the Mayor and members of the Chamber of Commerce. If the schools are so bad, isn't it strange that there are so many men and women carrying on the work of the shops and factories, offices and banks In the city, and doing it well? All of these people do not come from abroad or from the country; the vast majority have come up from the public schools of New York City.

True, too true, a multitude are hewers of wood and drawers of water. They never will be anything else. They are poor creatures who could not be taught anything in the schools worth men. tioning. They left as soon as they could, and drifted Into the unskilled class, where, as a ruie they will remain.

Dr. Maxwell, the city superintendent, has spoken of this class on numerous occasions, advocating for them instruction in mechanics. the mechanical schools and tho technical schools are not for these boys and girls. Such schools today are filled with the ambitious pupils, who are going to become foremen and superintendents, or high-grade mechanics. The boys and girls who leave the pub.

lie schools before they have completed the eighth grade becomes the errand boys and girls or take the lower places in factories and stores. They form the army of cheap labor. The pupils who graduate from the grammar schools with honor, those who enter high school and continue to tho end, those who go still further, into technical school and college, they are the ones who must of necessity be in command and lead. They do not apply for positions in dry-goods stores nor are they found In the mills or factories, excepting as skilled leaders. But there are thousands of such being graduated every year from the public schools.

PARENT. Brooklyn, N. September 5, 1917. DEFENDS RUSSELL DUNN Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I take the liberty of writing to your newspaper in order to explain fully the nature of the campaign until recently led by Russell Dunn of Brooklyn. I do this because I am sure that there has been a grave mistake made by the press of this city in regard to Mr.

Dunn. All of Mr. Dunn's talks were essentially patriotic. The speech at Madison Square, just before his arrest, was the quintessence of patriotism. Furthermore, the only people that Mr.

Dunn attacks are radicals of all brands, from birth-control doctors to the Suffragettes that picket the White House. Mr. Dunn has done recruiting work for the Sixty-ninth and Four teenth regiments, and at present he probably has more menus in tnese regiments than any other man in the city. And, last but by no means least, Mr. Dunn attacks no race or religious belief, but slackers of all nationalities and creeds.

Last Saturday ho men tioned only two men of those whom he attacked, and these two were Georgfl Kirkpatriek and Patrick Quinlan. He has never in all his three years of speaking mentioned the Jewish race or tho word Jew. I feel certain that when The Eagle has heard the truth about Mr. Dunn's campaign it will lend him its full support. E.

DOLAN. Brooklyn, September 3, 1917. PRESIDENiYoKED NATION'S SENTIMENT "A Perjured Government Must Stand Aside." Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: President Wilson voices the sentiments of the nation and of the world in his refusal to accept tho word of the Kaiser. Without malice toward the German people, he takes a stern view of the necessity of real character in negotiators. A perjured government must stand aside for the real people.

Only when the Chancellor Is responsible to the Reichstag and the Hohenzollerns are overthrown will there be any beginning of the end. A young Brooklynite, subject to the draft, expresses an increasing American sentiment in these words: "I feel deeply regarding the war and our part in it. I believe not only that everyone should do his or her but that everyone should do his or her absolute best and most. I think we ought to throw the limit of our strength into the fight from the outset, and I hope to God the Kaiser and the German people, who delight in kissing his foot, will get such a bellyful of war, with all Its German-made horror and ghastliness that for a decade to come they can only gasp amid the wreckage." With this view the La Follettes, pacifists, Socialists and other traitors will not agree, but wait until one of our warships is sunk or a regiment destroyed and see if spies and slackers will get off so easily. CHARLES S.

HARTWELI JPomona, N. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The members of Local Board. Division No. 61, wish to thank tho management of Tho Eagle for the invaluable help given to them through the past seven The members of the board attended the lectures given in your Auditorium, and through the information (rained there were enabled to begin their work with a fair chance of success. The lecture by Roscoe Conkling was especially helpful, because it gave us a line of action from which to start, and from which this board has not deviated since.

At all times since then we have had the privilege of calling up The Eaglo for information and aid of many kinds. This was always given by Mr. Crist and his assistants. Please accept our thanks. On July 14 this board received its registration cards for Division 61, the last but one to receive them.

Our division has an approximate population of 32,000 total intabitants, and a military enrollment of 3,252 men between the ages of 21 and 31 years. On Sunday, July 15, we began the work of numbering the registration cards, giving them their serial number. This was done by shuffling the original cards, the same as would be done with ordinary playing cards. After numbering the cards from 1 up to and including 3,252, we had to find each corresponding duplicate card and give to it the corresponding number on the original one. From this point we made two separate lists of rial numbers following the regular rotation of numbers, without regard to alphabetical arrangement, which was called the Serial List.

The next list was compiled in alphabetical order with each name's serial order or number. These lists were quadrupled for the convenience of the quarter master general and others. After these had been completed came the drawing for order or call numbers in Washington. The majority of people know that the first number drawn in the Capitol was No. 258, thus giving to Serial No.

1, its first call. After the drawing at the Capitol was finished the local boards had a breathing spell waiting for the mas- ter sheets. Then came the numbering of each person on the list, with the corresponding number from the mas- ter sheet, thereby giving each person his serial and call number. This part of the work being completed, our next SOME "GUMPS" ANNOY BY THEIR STUPIDITY Jonathan Ballou Points Out Their Follies and Worse. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The word "gump," according to the dictionary, means "a foolish person, a dolt." That this is a correct definition is proved daily by anyone who uses eyes ana Drums.

i For example, there is the person who sweeps the sidewalk against the wind. Many householders and their servants are guilty of this foolishness. I havo seen street sweepers work the same way make a great dust and doing poor work. I have seen painters, kalsomlners and whitewashes begin at the bottom of a job and work up instead of starting at the top in the proper way. Many janitors clean the halls in the same wrong way.

Then there is another class of "gumps" who are thoughtless and inconsiderate: I refer to the man who throws his cigar stumps, match ends, cigarette boxes, papers, in his neighbor's yard instead of his own. Also to those who throw dirt and refuse out of windows, regardless of where it lands; or who use their neighbor's yard as a receptacle for old cans or any old thing they wish to dispose of. This is a constant source of annoyance in all sections. Many flat dwellers are guilty of this meanness, and ought to be punished for it. The shaking of rugs from windows and beating of carpets on roofs and in back yards is against the law, yet it is a frequent occurrence in Brooklyn not only in the tenement district, but also in the be3t residential sections.

Then there is tho worst offender of all the one who expectorates from car windows and railroad stations into the street below, with no thought or care of or for the pedestrians there. Will it ever be possible to punish men, women and children for these and other acts against decency, law and order? The "Golden Rule" seems to be entirely forgotten by some of our citizens. Would that their eyes could be opened to their selfishness, misconduct and egotism. The sanitary police have done much good in many ways. To a great extent they have curbed tho spitting habit in cars and public places.

Perhaps they could stop carpet shaking in back yards if they tried to also the throwing: of rubbish into the streets by the general public. I hope they will start such a crusade. If parents would instruct their children more as to tho little decencies of life, and their duties to the community, there would be a better class of citizens generally and gradually as the years flow by. The "Golden Rule" is a good creed to work and live by. Teach it to your children, my neighbors, and live it yourself.

JONATHAN BALLOU Jr. Brooklyn, N. September 1, 1917. SUGGESTIONS FOR EBBETS Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: No doubt Mr. Ebhets feels that owing to the II.

C. of L. he has to charge a high price for entry to his ball field. I cannot afford his price, hence have had to stay out have not seen a game of baseball thifi year. I hope that Mr.

Ebbets and his partners have made money tills year. They would have made much more had the patronage been greater. The problem is how to attract the larger patronnsre without loss to the owners of the IJrroklvn Btseball Club of the National Lenrpie. My suggestions to this end nro as follows: First Cut salaries of the players to the pr per figure. of them are overpiid now.

it i'l only a matter of time when thin will have to be done. Why not now? Second Suppress all rowdyism, whether by the players or the fans. Too many fans are offensive to regu-Mnr patrons, with their vulgarity, yells, profanity, bottle tin-owing, ball stealing, crowding, etc. Third Lower admission prices at least half. Motion picture houses are making mure ivumev at 15 cents than they did at 2fi it ml 50 cents.

M. M. CHESTERFIELD. jNRKlilyn, Sentsmbsr 2, 1517. day's intermission.

On August 12, we decided to stop all physical examinations because of a notification from Mr. Conkling's office that our quota had been reduced to 134. The reason for this was because of the patriotism of 106 men from our division having enlisted voluntarily in the service in various branches. From this on our work became lighter, the physically unfit being granted discharges, exemption claims properly supported by affidavits, passed upon, and those not entitled to exemption or not having claimed such were accepted and became members of the draft army. We have today 160 men, qualified and acepted, thus leaving a surplus of 26 men over the draft quota who may be needed as substitutes for those who may not be able to pass the army doctors.

We have been able to accomplish this for several reasons. Our corps of volunteer workers I cannot thank too much, and this is the only reward they have had. Their names are too numerous to mention individually, but their services were invaluable. Our Thomas A. Clarke, placed his office force at our disposal.

Dr. John E. Dusseldorf has been on the job early and late, and his unfailing application and cheerfulness has con tributed in very large measure to our success. The 1 volunteer doctors who aided him in his work deservo the same praise: they are the most Indus trious and unselfish "professional men whom I have ever had the pleasure to meet, and so our task grows lighter, the intense heat of the summer is almost forgotten, the quota is ready and I tender my heartfelt thanks to the loyal American gentlemen who have "done their bit" to help Uncle Sam in his hour of extremity. God bless them all.

CHARLES O. HOLLINGWORTH, Chairman. 918 Gravesend avenue, Brooklyn. P. S.

I had almost forgotten the janitor and his family of P. S. No. 130, who have aided us in every way to make our work a success. Thank you, Mr.

Boyle, on behalf of the board. NO REVOLUTION CAN COME IN GERMANY Reason Is, Says Mr. Gillies, Its Soul Is Paralyzed. Editor Brooklyn Dally Eagle: Observation shows there are three kinds of souls among men a soul that Is always awake, a soul that is asleep and a soul that is paralyzed. A man with a soul awake sees quickly and takes action.

Such a man is Theodore Roosevelt. No one disputes his being intensely awake. A man with a soul asleep sees slowly and must be shown. Until he awakes there is no action. Woodrow Wilson's soul has awakened and we behold this nation taking its rightful place again among the leading nations of the world.

Tho soul that is paralyzed can never see things at all in the clear light of fact. La Follette's soul is paralyzed. So are today's persistent pacifists and "conscientious objectors" of the war. They will never see clearly. This same principle applies to a nation, in the light that the war has thrown on Germany's blindness to see things clearly.

Her soul is paralyzed. Not only her government, but the people as well. The sooner President Wilson awakes to this fact the less handle he will give Germany. Neither is there any necessity of handing her the straw of telling her she is undefeated. This simply delays the fear that it must be a surrender to end the war.

For it must come to that, just as it did to the people of the South in our Civil War. No revolution can come from a people whose souls are paralyzed. If you diagnose Germany's case, as the North did the views of the South, you will see it must be a complete surrender to bring this war to a close. LESLIE P. GILLIES.

Brooklyn, September 3, 1917. SOLOMOX, SOI BOX ORATOR. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: For the past two months soap box orators have been very prominent in Manhattan and Brooklyn, but it took Charles Solomon to Introduce a new kind of speaker, namely a soup box orator. His speech was delivered Monday evening at the corner of Sixth avenue and Ninth street from a soup box, and the speech was soupy. EAGLE READER.

Brooklyn, September 4, 1917. WANT MORE BOOKS FOR BOYS IN NAYY Miss Walters Will Call for Them if Notified. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I want to thank the readers of your paper for their prompt and generous response to my previous appeals for reading, matter for the young sailors on the receiving ships in the Navy Yard, and I want to ask for more nooks and magazines, and lots of them. The officers In charge claim it would be impossible to send too many books and magazines down there. "That is what is most needed and right now to help make these boys content while waiting to be sent out to the fleet," they tell me.

There are several thousand young men there at present from good, refined homes up-State, the Middle West and from the. South most of them are without friends or family in this part of the country and they are waiting their turn to be sent to do their duty for humanity. Meantime it is rather lonely for them; there is little to do except read when there is anything to read often there is nothing on hand. If any of your readers care to help make these young men happy with donations of reading matter and will address me care of Brooklyn Eagle, Bedford Branch, or will phone Bedford 4864. I will ba glad to call and collect all contributions.

(Miss) M. F. WALTERS. Brooklyn, September 3, lf17. NATIONAL SERVICE FLAG, A GOOD IDEA Writer Says They Could Be Used to Help Patriotic.

Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The person or persons who thought out the idea of a distinctive flag to be flown from a home, indicating one or more from that home is serving his country in either Army, Navy or Marine Corps, was a grand inspira- tion. -Why not give the possessor of those i flags every encouragement possible? lt There are many fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, wives and daugh-ters, who could at the present time start up a little cigar, tobacco, sta- tionery, newspaper or notion business. I know of no better means of giving help to those wholly or slightly dependent on those now serving our flag. Tho distinctive flag would be our guide, and is it not possible that soma newspaper or philanthropic person could start a fund, from which small loans could be made to those desiring to start such a business. I myself would walk several blocks to patronize such a place, in preference to places I now patronize, which are -breeding places of anti-draft and agitation against war, under the cover of Socialism.

Again, it would bring home to those of a pseudo-American type the fact that true Yankeelsm is slow-i ly but surely rising against its de-famers. JOHN J. CONNELLAN. 2523 Avenue Brooklyn. GUN LAW TOO DRASTIC Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I'l I am glad that the police are using discretion in the matter of the Sullivan gun law, applying it only to those found carrying guns or pistols without permit, and under suspicious cir cumstances.

smiq Should the law be strictly by search of homes, flats and resl dences generally, then there would trouble for nearly every one has a revolver for defense and protection against burglars and no permits to keep ono taken out. I think the law should be amended to protect innocent owners and holders of revolvers, while holding to a strict accountability gunmen, thugs and loaf- ers, who carry them or use them iW legally. The law is too drastic as it now stands. M. M.

C. Brooklyn, September 1. 1917. "Electric Way" New York City. mi Clean, SmoothTrans-Moimftain Travel via the To the Pacific Northwest The "St.

Paul 's great achievement, the electri- ficttion of 440 miles of mainline through the Belt, Rocky and Bitter Roots has established a new era in railroading the electric. No trailing smoke hides mountain splendors travel is clean, smooth, silent Giant electric locomotives fed only by the limitless power of mountain waterfalls haul the famous all-steel trains "The Olympian" and "The Columbian" over the mile-high passes of tie Continental Divide with ease. And soon steam will give place to electricity in the as the railway is electrifying the 211 miles of main line through this range of mountains. When next you journey to Spokane, Seattle, Ta- coma, Portland and other Pacific Northwest Cities enjoy the delights of electric travel via the Chicago, Milwaukee St Paul RAILWAY CttcUlficalhn and aatern bend literature fm on nqettt. COBB, General Agent, Passenger Rlfttf K9M1 1200 Broadway, i'l.