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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, lftt7. PEACE TALK! would viin-i-lj possible to pit 'dght. surreptitious rice. The situation Is analogous to that of communities whbh dry and in which "blind tigers" and "bootleggers" spring up.

In such communities the old topers still get their drains, but the boy docs not get drink because the "bootlegger" is afraid to trust the boy. In communi ntarl 4ft CONCERTS IN MANHVTTAN. ihiilily. the city and the railroad com pany. The outlook for real transit be-tweeu all the central and eastern part of Brooklyn- and Manhattan has never been so bright.

With regard to the Railroad the steps of progress are not yet made public, but enough Is know make it highly probable that the road! will be built by the city and operated combination of the trunk line. railroads upon terms which have as yet been fully formulated. That step, when it is reached, will do for the commercial development of Brooklyn what the dual subways will do to ward its growth in population. Through the waterfront Industries which this railroad will bring, work will be pro vided for many more thousands here. The dual subways will make available home sites for millions in territory which us yet Is open country.

Whether the prosperity of the country at large Is to be permanent or not may be open question, but once these two 1 provenients are assured, the prosperity of Brooklyn for the next dozen or fifteen years will be put beyond the shadow of a doubt. CHARLES DANIEL BAKER. The sudden death of Charles Daniel Baker is a shook to many old residents of Brooklyn, who knew him in one or another of the relations of life, and come to appreciate his uniform poise, uniform kindliness and devotion high ideals. A deacon In Dr. Cad man's church, a Freemason, a member of the Royal Arcanum, he of Brooklyn, born at T2 Myrtle was in September, 1S77, that the first number of "Our illustrated monthly, "Charles D.

Baker, Editor and Proprietor." appeared. The was at 27(1' Quiney street. Ar about greal clergymen, especial a I clergymen. ere starred. The Rev.

Dr. Henry Martyn Scudder, the Rev. Dr. Joseph T. Duryea anil the Henry Ward Beecher were among the number.

Half an hour before death, to a gathering of Eagle Mr. Baker had been telling how he got the article in the January, 1S78, ber by Dr. St. Clair McKclway. Rev.

Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage, and how Dr. McKclway had made it a free contribution. In September, 1S7S, "Our Neighborhood" took a new name, "The Brook lyn Advance," and Dr.

L. P. Brockett was taken on as editor, Mr. Baker remaining as proprietor. Gradually a list of contributors, including Edward Eg-gleston, Dr.

Cuyler, Allan Forman, William H. Maxwell, now Superintendent of Public Instruction; John Hab- berton, the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott and other well-known men hnd been secured. The venture came to an end in February, 18.S2, but it is not likely to be forgotten by those who love Brooklyn and her history.

After that Mr. Baker was for a time an editorial writer on the Standard Union. Then he became Long Island editor of the Brooklyn Daily Times, position, which be held for several years. He made friends all Island. It was a striking tribute to his personality that he was chosen president of the Suffolk County Asso ciation, though a Brooklynlte.

For six years Mr. Baker had been on The Eagle staff, in the news depart ment, and of late as book reviewer. A man of literary tastes, his later work appealed to him strongly. Whatevet he did was done with Most of it was done with enthusiasm. Passing at the age of 70 years, he leaves a record of which any citizen might be proud; a record of worthy effort, of devout life, of character that deserves emulation.

"SAVING BANKS A SPECIFIC TERM. The decision of State Attorney Gen eral Woodbury that national banks in this State cannot use the term "i ings" to designate the department der which they accept time deposits, as permitted under national law, is reasonable and equitable, though on superficial examination it seems to attempt regulation of creatures of the Federal Government We suppose no one would deny that Congress, if it chose, could make every national bank under the Federal Reserve System a savings bank, and no State law would have any bearing on the question. But this Congress has not done, and there is no ground for any theory that it intended to do so. New York is proud of its savings bank system. Investments are so guarded in this conservative State that de pnsitors get almost absolute protection against the frittering away of their principal through wildcat exploitation.

We have a right to protect, this system against any misuse of national bank Indeed, all financial history shows that between discount banks and sav ings banks a great gulf ought to be fixed. Elasticity must govern the for mer, at least so long as all business rests on a plan of discounted com cial paper. Rigidity should govern the latter so long as they are trusted with the accumulations of the thrift of the common people. The further they an kept separated the better for both In A CLEANER TOWN. It was tO be expected that, when once the organized payment of "pro tection" to police officials by vicious resorts was broken up, such re themselves would flourish much less openly and that their number would decrease.

That expectation has been fulfilled. according to the report of the Bureau of Social Hygiene, of which John Rockefeller Jr. is the head. That report notes ft decrease during the year In all those resorts for which Hdvertls Ing, either overt or furtive, was possible, and a slight increase hi fly-by- 4 ils highly the right kind of mm to deal with it the services (he mug kind are worth leu than nothing. The paj provided (or in cither fur too high 01 fur (oo low.

it is princely for tact; purity it Is beggarly for the competent. Bui it Is typical of "team work" by Congress, to which Judge Gary should have more particularly addressed him self. There Ik no scarcity of knowledge In the National Legislature, hut of the right kind Is needed. Also, a little wisdom. WORLD PEACE IN THE FUTURE.

All Americans whose intelligence ii not dominated by their emotions must applaud the stand taken by William E. Borah of Idaho when he spoke in the Senate on Friday last during the de-hate over Senator Hitchcock's resolu tion to indorse the President's note to the belligerent nations. Before dealing with whnt Senator Borah said, it might he well to recall the text of the resolu tion which moved him to a protest of uncommon power. The resolution was as follows: Resolved, That the Senate approves and strongly Indorses the action taken by the President In sending the diplomatic notes of December 18 to the nations now engaged in war, suggesting and recommending that those nations stute the terms upon which peace may be discussed. The blanket character of this indorsement would have committed the Senate not only to the proposition that an early statement of peace terms is desir able, but also to the pledge given by toe President In that portion of his note which reads thus: In the measures to I the people and Clover United States are as vit rectly interested as th means to be adopted to relieve mailer and weaker peoples of the world of the peril of wrong and violence is as quick and ardent as that of any other people or Government.

1 hey si nil 'I'1 ii. mid i eaaer. In en- 11 V. ends when lite war is over, with even Influence ind resource, at their com- We have italicised the concluding sen-nce in the above quotation because Senator Borah made it the text of his remarks, and because the Senate, recognizing the gravity of the point raised, so amended the resolution that indorsement of the President was limited spe cifically to his request for a declaration of terms. We do not think that Senator Borah exaggerated the liabilities involved in President's promise of co-operation veeu the United States and foreign Powers when he characterized it on the hand as a commitment to employ military and economic resources to the limit to compel European or Orien tal nations to submit their future dis- to arbitration, and on the other pledge to refer issues vitally af fecting our own interests to the judg- of a peace league in which foreign influences, some of theni hostile, would probably predominate.

No President pledge the people of the United States to a policy which must Involve them In every foreign quarrel. Any action he might take In that direction would be invalid without the sanction of the Senate and, by amending the Hitchcock resolution until all danger itanglement with foreign nations eliminated, the Senate sustained Mr. Borah's protest against giving this sanction prematurely. It may he that public opinion In this untry will yet go to the lengths which Mr. Wilson apparently favors.

But for the present it will be content, we think, with the cautious policy of the Senate iving the affairs of the future to-red for by the future itself. The prime need of the civilized world, of Inch as a nation we are a consider-lile part, is a just peace. As to a ague for the enforcement of peace In the future and our participation there- can afford to wait until we know under which the war is to ttled! and the disposition of the at. belligerents toward universal arbitration. BROOKLYN'S CHANCES BRIGHTER.

The two things which have held back he growth of Brooklyn for the last dozen years or more are the failure provide transit for its people and idequate freight facilities for the development of Its superb waterfront. It a good omen that the difficulties in he way of both these undertakings teem to be melting away together. There are many details to the corn-ilex trnnsit plan by Colonel Williams, and it is not to be expected that agreement upon all of them car. ached at once. A way toward men! is opened, however, by the do o'f Public Service Commission-raus and of Colonel Williams in latest letters.

Both the Com mission and the railroad company are looking for a common ground on which the connection between the Fulton street elevated and the subway can be carried through, and that is half the battle. Colonel Williams has made that his demand for the abolition car rentals which the company pays for the use of the Brooklyn Bridge Is not a price set upon his ns in regard to third tracking Fulton street, but is a return for the investment of added cap ital which the change of plan will Im pose upon the compnny. The oompaiy Is willing to spend the money, hut it ought to have interest on its Invest ment, a point which the Commission practically concedes, with agreement the Justice of the payment, a way each It will be found. A station at this end of the Willlamsbunu Bridge la needed to do away with the shuttle on the elevated to tlie Broad way Ferry, and with a like disposition nit fgreenjeat a way can be ties newly turned to prohibition there is often tierce discussion as to whether the amount of sales has been reduced, but this report insists that there la doubt of the substantial reduction of vice In New York along with the closing of many of Its most public habitations. The credit for this change the report attributes chiefly to the changed attitude of the police toward a business Which was once a source of revenue to some men in the department.

On that point it says: For three years an able, upright, clear-headed and high-minded Police Commissioner has pursued a sound and consistent policy, with all the backing, moral and official, that the Mayor could bring to his support. The results are obvious: The police force has steadily improved in morale and efficiency; a new standard of public decency has; been set and maintained. That tribute is well deserved and most observers of city life will in dorse it. JUSTIFIABLE RESENTMENT. When a distinguished citizen and Jurist is invited to address a meeting held to protest against the way Germans have treated the Bel glans, he has no reason to assume that attacks on a President of the United States, whom he admires, will be made a feature of the speeches at such meeting.

Everybody in America re grets what has been done in Belgium. Most of us detest the spirit and the method of the occupation. Bu saults on our President have no place iiL that sort of demonstration. Hence Judge George Gray of Dela a member of the joint Mexican Affairs Commission, showed only justifiable resentment of a bitter excoria tion of President Wilson's methods at the Philadelphia meeting, and showed it in an-entirely dignified way when, instead of speaking, he said: "I cannot participate in a partisan meeting. James M.

Beck has a right to his views about what our Government is doing, a right to express those view; in any proper time, at any proper Uplace. To lug partisan criticism into Belgian protest meeting was bad te. It deserved the rebuke it got. Judge Gray is to be thanked by broad minded Americans for doing the right thing in the right place. A JOB FOR MR.

PERKINS. The State Department dealing foods and markets has been under John J. Dillon as Commissioner, and Mr. Dillon has at least been energetic and earnest in using his powers. If he has not wholly succeeded, that is due to tlie broadness of the problem and larrowness of possible or practical State interference with the processes mmerce.

Now it is understood at Albany that Mr. Dillon is to be super seded, that a new department is to be established with George W. Perkins aj its head, and that, the Progressive leader or "angel" is to use his bust keenness and his broad knowledge of economics to bring down the cost of living. Incidentally, he is to get salary of $7,500, if the plan goes through. Mr.

Dillon has been drawing If Governor Whitman backs it, the legislation is likely to be secured. We have no desire to condemn the ex periment in advance. We know that the problem ought to be solved. We know that Mr. Perkins, who contribut or to the Whitman cam paign fund, is above mercenary consid- ions: that he will think of a salary mly an honorarium; that he may i use his private means If that is ssary to accomplish what he wants ecomplish.

ut why the salary? We ought to Vol I Slate a class of mel pable of devoting themselves to pub service for the usefulness that is in We ought, to welcome such men tr wer as well as to prominence. Cyn- are bound to say that the $7,500 ill come in handy for a successor, if Mr. Perkins gets tired of the Cynics will accuse the Governo planning to create a new job, which he expects eventually to fill, not with Perkins, but with a man useful his personal political machine. It would be wise for the Governor to look al le matter from this angle, which ssume he has not done. There is ery easy way of forestalling critl-Ism.

and the policy of doing so is self vident. NURSES OF OUR CIVIL WAR. Iiere are said to be about 100 still iving of the 7,500 women who vol unteered as nurses. Only two of these, Mrs. Jane Johnson and Mrs.

Anna P. ing, were present at the special serv- in honor of Civil War nurses held iterday in the Eighteenth Street M. Church, Manhattan, the first service of its kind. The movement started by General George B. Loud to do honor to lese women, now all far along in a i is likely to spread.

The Eagle yesterday told of the death Mrs. Rebecca Ellison Gray at her une, N-17 Pacific street, who was with tlie Army of the Potomac as a field and of whom "Fighting Joe' Hooker said, "She was one of the brav omen I ever knew." It took nerve re for the wounded on the battle field while the shells were still flying. It took endurance to witness the trage dies of the field hospitals. The most llstingulshed of all the army nurses nas Dr. Mary E.

Walker, best known' for her advocacy of reformed dress. At it age she Is still living on her old homestead near Oswego. She is the woman ever granted ft medal of bj Congress for valor on the field mid she draws a little pension. Thi Paper hu a Circulation Larger than thai of any other Evening Paper of ila clan in the United Statea. Ita value a an Adver-tuing Medium is Apparent.

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IVEltTISINfi RATES. OUR TRAINING FOR AN EFFORT. Remarkable as they are, the stt ments made by Judge Gary regarding trade conditions in this country will cause no surprise. As far as they relate to the iron and steel industry, not only are they extraordinary, but they have exceeded all predictions. For more than a year demand has been far greater than supply, production lias been per cent, greater than ever before and the wage scale the highest ever paid.

Unfilled orders break all records and uneaneellable commitments eover full capacity for 1U17 and part of next year. Of course, these conditions are representative of the general situation. As Judge Gary says, the picture of financial, commercial and industrial growth and magnitude presented can be realized only by those who study the facts and figures. Unfilled orders and irrevocable; contracts guarantee persistence of demand, so that whatever vicissitudes are encountered in other lines iron and steel plants will continue working to capacity for more than a year. This much is assured.

But sooner or later will come the necessity for dealing with "a supreme effort." It will be made when the nations now In arms substitute commercial war for battlefield activities. Judge Gary challenges contradiction when he says It is apparent that, as a nation, we are to a certain extent up in the air; that we have no sure foundation for a continuance of present volume and profit, and jthat it is obviously the better part of wisdom to prepare for unfavorable changes. Thoroughly equipped for the contest, the nations will re-enter the industrial arena with a grim determination to excel. Forewarning does not necessarily Imply forearming. It is not the first time Judge Gary has told us what to expect.

He was even more apprehensive a year ago than he is today, though he loses sight of none of the danger signals now. However, the only essential difference is that we are a year nearer to peace, which is to say the interval between industrial paralysis elsewhere and the "supreme effort" has been shortened by that length of time. The effort is coming so much the sooner. As set forth in the statement, a few of the requisites in demand are courage, caution, justice, co-operation and conciliation, plus the absolute necessity that employer and employee marshal their forces. The lessons to be learned are hard.

The nations at war are in a grim school. Elsewhere, the stern necessity that knows no law accounts for thorough equipment, if not the grim determination to excel. Elsewhere, cooperation, team work, training to the last ounce, sacrifice and discipline are included In the factors; here, In most lines of trade, the almost universal effort is to shorten the work of the day and in not a few of these lines to curtail the output. Lest tendencies of tills sort be not sinister enough, the Adamson Law is to be so amended that only in cases of emergency shall railroad employees be permitted to work more than eight hours a day. To that extent their freedom is to be restricted.

Mr. Adam-son says he thinks that under the law as now phrased men could be put in jail for working more than eight hours, but he proposes to make assurance doubly sure. He fears that the carriers and the trainmen contemplate or may have come to some "collective understanding," and he will have none of it. This co-operaflon as exemplified at the national capital. This is how our resources are to be mobilized.

Time and a half for overtime for an add! tlonal hoar la thrown into the discard and nothing Is said as to what becomes of the right to enter Into contract. It Is characteristic of the framer of the law thai he should be unalterably deli termlned not only to make a notable addition to the list of criminal offenses but to give to the alleged beneficiaries what they neither want nor ask for. Bvcii the brotherhood chiefs balk at this alleged in. NowIhtc does learning appear to lie more difficult than at Washington. If W'vhere, teachers -are ncclt.

I th mean by huch actions as this," said the Judge in a lenient tone, however, as he knew the man, an elderly German, to be a simple, straightforward person. "Veil, your honor, I vill explain," said the juror. Mr. Jones finished mit his talking my mind was cleared all through, but ven Mr. Smith begins his talking I get all mixed up again already, and I says to myselfi 'I better leave at vonce, und stay avay until he Is done, because your honor, to tell the truth, I didn't like de vay der argument was going." Cleveland Leader.

Personal and Impersonal of explanations. What Germany must soon have Hcrr Burbank who will grow mi to outshine the wonderberry. John D. Rockefeller Jr. is a good man to have in this town when a Gor-dian knot is to be cut with a pocket-book.

Some day he may decide to pay off the city debt. George Bernard Shaw says the war may run 100 years if the people are fools enough to let it. Shaw's moder ation is one of the great surprises of the conflict. Buffalo Bill lived tho part he played on the stage. At the old Odeon in Williamsburg he Introduced the realism of waving prairie grass.

A dim light made it impossible to see the string. Our technic has advanced, but the old thrills are never experienced. Buffalo Bill long ago learned that his audiences had grown sophisticated. Representative Murray Hurlburt is determined to make New York harbor navigable for our greatest warships. Time and again he has sounded the alarm in Congress.

Must we wait for a war to learn that we cannot use our ships to defend New York harbor because we have not worked the dredges in Buttermilk Why are our other representatives so naca-ward in this matter? Do they not accept the fact that New York is the metropolis of the nation? If they do, how can they stand back while these figures are illuminated by the energy and intelligence of Mr. Hurlburt? New York City is not asking tor pora. one Is asking for a channel. Professor Frank W. Taussig of Harvard has accepted a position on tho Tariff Commission, which is supposed to take the tariff out of politics.

Dr. Taussig is a professor of political economy. His book, "The Tariff History of the United States," was published in 1909. He knows the subject, Aoes he know the Infinite num-of adroit tricks which have made tho special Interests solid through tar- lanlpuiation i nair ino ujg men in Democratic party are lukewarm he tariff. Let one of the big mart-- ufacturers see them in private and pledges of tho Democratic plat form count for little.

Many Republi- aro at sea on the tariff. In 1920 the tariff is to be a live issue. The high cost of living compels people to look to all causes that may have a lug and in the tariff, they will tlnd things to be exphiinod. The peo-ivlll want to know why under a cent, duty only 17 i per cent, goes ages. They will also want to know Chump Clark, who said he would burn down the custom houses, believes In taking a $30,000 building for a small tow r.c lln I I Mo.

Why must wo put what wo get tho Uirlir tutu Dr. Walker had studied medicine before ar began, and was peculiarly fitted for her work. Surgery has changed, asepsis has taken the place of antisepsis very large- ven field hospitals have changed for the better since the days of Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, since the period of our Civil War. Yet the devoted women now serving at or near the front on Europe's long extended battle lines have perils and strain different In kind but not less in degree to xperlence. They, too, are patriots, and they are doing their duty splen didly.

Brain injection of salvarsan is said prolong the lives of victims of pare sis. Nothing more is claimed, as yet. The doubtfulness of this advantage be appreciated by plenty of men are not heartless scientists. Nobody expects Dr. Felix Adler to make his eschatology jibe with that of the Rev.

Billy Sunday. Ethical culture as as much to do with Hades as i ith Sunday, which Is nothing ai But Dr. Adler will never draw Sunday To Jacob H. Schiff at his seventieth milestone Ills race and the world tender gratitude. He has had a notable a career full of prosperity and of good deeds made possible by pros perity.

"Many happy returns" is the universal sentiment. And now the I. W. W. threatens close up tlie biggest Minnesota plant add to the publishers' trouble about getting print paper It was bound to A new way of becoming unpopular was presented to the Hay crowd and they simply had to embrace it.

The hungryness of Hungary is forced the world's knowledge as Budapest wspapers are smuggled out. Even Englishmen must have some sympathy feudul land which never wanted uid a land where the people hav. been kindly and courteous to aliens ithlu their gates since war was forced upon them. BEST HAND-PICKED JOKE. A small boy appeared at the back door a neighbor's house, in Hunting Park venue, a day or so ago, and said to ic matron who opened the door: "Good' morning." "Good morning," the housewife re turned, somewhat curiously.

1 came over to ten you somctnmg. "Well, what is It?" "Last evening my papa was angry be-uise the water boiled out of the steam- under the rolled oats." "Is that so?" "Yes. And then he made up his mind to fix the steamer so that It couldn't happen again What i dot" nil i the and soldered Y'es, and What do ladder?" Philadelphia Ledger. THE CONFUSED JUROR, A Cleveland lawyer tells how, during trial, one of tho Jurors suddenly so from his seat and flew from the iurt room. He was, however, ar-sted in his flight before he had left building nnd brought, back, uhould Ilka to know what yon and Homer at Metropolitan and McConiiack at Hippodrome.

Mischa Elman played violin numbers with more, if possible, than his usual singing tone in the Metropolitan Opera concert last evening. His selections were Lalo's "Symphony Es-pagnol," the Mendelssohn-Krelsler "Song Without Words" and Sarasate'8 brilliant "Caprice Basque." Seven encores partly satisfied the big audience, Mme. Homer sang a dramatic arrangement of Hood's "Song of the Shirt" and an aria from Goring-Thomas' "Nadcshda," her final encore being "Comin' Through the Rye." Mr. Carpi, tenor, sang well, but with tremolo, an aria from Boito's "Mefis-tofele." A delightful fantasy, Mous-sorgsky's "A Night on the Bald Mountain," was played by the orchestra, directed by Mr. Hageman, other numbers being the "William Tell" overture and Nickel's "Marcho Militaire." The Hippodrome was packed last night with lovers of John McCor-mack's singing.

His programme was largely that which the Irish tenor is to sing in Brooklyn, at his recital in the Academy of Music, on Sunday next. Schubert, Handel, Rachmaninoff and Brahms numbers were given and there were many encores. Mr. Mc-Beath, violinist, played solos on the (luariKTius instrument, recently bought by McCormack. Edwin Schneider played accompaniments.

Vladimir Dubinsky, 'cellist, gave his first recital this season in the Princess Theater, Manhattan, last evening, Joseph Adler at the piano playing Davidoff's Concerto No. 4 and numbers by Popper. Mrs. Rose Kramer-Roenau, contralto, sang an aria from Donizetti's "La Favorita" and other numbers. METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE.

A "popular price" "La Boheme" drew a crowded house for the Metropolitan opera on Saturday night. Tho cast was the familiar one, with Frances Alda singing the leading role, Mimi; Edith Mason, a very vivacious Musetta, and Botta, Scotti, Didur and De Segurola, happy but penurious Bohemians. The artists were in splendid voice, especially Alda and Mason, raja conducted. It was a splendid performance and the audience was en thusiastic. On Saturday afternoon the opera at that house was "La Travlata," and the old-time favorite by Verdi was heard by a large audience, Mme, Hempel again charming with her col-orature, and others In the cast con- tribuhng a full share in the fine performance.

Mr. Papl again conducted. Since strikes at the railroads no passes bill to tax baseball" makes Albany ii cards have gone out possible friend, tax agitation will come to ee Opportunity means i end. Each Sonator, bill May, like an Assri iblyman, write hlnv 'ho rules aro net changed that apply to the game; ind Albany's always and strictly tlw SSUne. tLs aW.