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no '8 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1910.

CONTRIBUTORS' FORUM-NOTE AND COMMENT BY EAGLE READERS. WHY BLAME ROOSEVELT. experiment may illustrate this idea: Cut the spiral springs of a gas hose Into a ARE LAWYERS J. P. Morrison Complains Tha' Judges Are) Not and Piles Protest.

i KONY that is not too con- coaled, Hie gentle Ironv that knock, one -down with a poker, will be noted in ran- Duer's letter oMnst week which watt rathcr friendly to Dr. Cook. Miss Bonnett of Manhattan Rives a liirdseye view of the Importance to the future of the AnMirlclm peopIe of glacier ana 6.100 feet above the sea. Instead of Mount McKlnley, twenty miles Jistant and 20,390 feet above the sea. Had not this mistake been made one' might be more charitable about the polar matter.

As to that, we had the sworn statement of Bob Bartlett, McMillan, Borup and others that Cook's two Eskimo companions stated (each separately) that they did not go out of sight of land, and now in the December Cosmopolitan we have the absolutely disinterested RtaFprnnnt nf Paul I Rnlnev the managers of both parties that only the ablest minds available should be sent to represent us. The Republican party has in the past twelve years sent conspicuously unfit representatives to the Senate, aud until Elihu Root took his seat New York was not on the map, in so far as the Senate was concerned. We know Ellhu Root as being astute, able, practical; an example not of amiability, but of hard-headed usefulness, of great and distinguished mental grasp. The Democratic party must match Mr. Root or it will lose In the comparison.

Now, then, what does the Democratic party propose to do In the use of the first real power they have wielded In this Editor, The Brooklyn Dally Eagle: I have noticed that lawyers are iocIr- cumscrlbed in tbelr criticism of tha judges that I can understand why they are reluc-j tant about Baying anything as to thU method and manner of certain Judges, pre-i'J siuiug iu ma supreme uourt, Alngs County. I had business in court the other and I was surprised to observe the; bullying tactics ot the justices I always believed that lawyers were of-If fleers of the court, tind that thev wnrei. entitled to courtesy and Y- A'S U-IKT l.um.l ClTlug the Centre street loop to the B. It. with the suggestion that ex- empttuu from taxation might persuade several otner tug cumuiureiui uuu in tlustrnu corporations miouu us 'trusts- to take a large part iu city improvement, even iu city luutiuca- tion.

Itobert 1'. IVnraed finds a topic the Union Itank situation. He thinks the sooner restitution suits are begun against the bank wreckers, and the sooner prosecutions are begun the better it will be for both deposltois and shareholders. George ISariies lVnuock is stirred to indignation by the suggestion that we should have a large standing army. Taking the view 01 ar mat dames missel! i.oweu took, which was also the view of Tolstoy, he is against both army and navy.

He has full confidence that American raw recruits could wipe off but from what I have seen It looks to); me as toougn tne supreme court judge: considered the lawyers servile, and nofi entitled even to common courtesy. This treatment of lawyers may be the, convention of the day. but if the char- ha. acter and standing of the present prac-Vi tlslng lawyer warrants the Tuillvlns' which he receives, and the reflection as'-4 the face of the earth any force the oiiio, where a third of all the voting Japanese could ever land here. population is said to have sold Us C.

Taylor explains fully why In votes. Edward I. Meglll protests Such business as the manufacture against the habit hoodlums have of of shoes, the demands of labor for 1m- snowballing Long Island Railroad proved conditions In this city must be trains. "Observer" objects to sign-limited. As he points out, the product honrds In the neighborhood of the of the shoe factory nere lias to com- Iirooklyn Institute Building on Eastern pete in the rpeu market with the Tarkway.

product of shoe factories run in places J. F. Morrison alleges that lawvers where homes are built by carpenters ate "bullied" bv justices In Brooklyn getting $2 a day, and where living ex- courts. E. scores the delay "in penses are much less.

To hand over paying for land condemned bv the city, the market to concerns in such towns W. I. Lambert has a few words of ap- would not benefit the shoe mauufac- preciation for Mrs. Alma Webster titter's workers In any degree. Mrs.

Powell's work. The letters generally Annie S. Peck enters into a defense of are full of individuality in today's Commander Peary, answering Mrs. J. Forum.

to als credit, tben what are litigants to do? Were not the Judges lawyers once. I and are they not servants of the public? Or do' they think that after they have' been elevated to that exalted position of Supreme Court justices, and are roceiv- 117,500 a year, that they are then the! masters of the practicing lawyers, whoi must obey every crack of their whip and' be cowed at the ring of their voice, like? -the dog which is kicked by the 'Weary) Willy on the country rood, because' thati. uog aares to come out trom tne otner, nt Ik. mi uici 1 11 111 iuun. 41, him? J.

F. 1788 Broadway, Brooklyn, CITY SHOULD PAY DEBTS. A Word for Those Whose Property! Has Been Condemned and Taken. Editor The 'Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I feel that the Controller and the City of New York would do better than con tinually talking subways by paying those who loBt their properties through condemnation some three years ago In con nection with the Manhattan Bridge pay some of their debts and then talk sub ways. 1 Some of these people are enduring hardships and finding it hard to eke out a living, as all that they possessed has been taken from them, and from present appearances have no prospect of getting what should have been given to them Immediately when their holdings were taken, not years thereafter.

J. E. B. December 22, 1910. TO ALMA WEBSTER-POWELL W.

I. Lambert Indites a Few Lines of Verse and Prose Ap- preciation. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Will you kindly print this public ap preciation of the efforts ot Mine. Alma Webster-Powell, public-spirited, generous-hearted woman, noble leader ot a struggling class: Fieht on! Take courage, brave soul, Thy cause is Just and true. The still, email voice within thee Doth calt the win of uod, and you Must don tha armor of light and truth.

Take up the ewird of strength. Beat down the wane ot ignorance, Of vulgar pen and Insult sent. with the tender spirit ot tne Fear not the undealrea notoriety, inina uni? or humanity. 1 The love ot man le the love of God, The real, the perfect Christianity. With reference to the article written tn rinf.ma 1 am mnvari tn write 4 these few lines in appreciation of your.M lese few lines In appreciation of I handful of little sections of two or three coils each, separating the coils slightly and shaking them In a receptacle, they will hook together into a ball.

This Il lustrates the making of an atom. So science is leading the human Intellect up to the rational conception of a concrete God and a concrete immortal soul, the new energy and the new spiritualism that the Wizard would like to find. WILLIAM HEMSTBrJET. Brooklyn, December 24, 1910. TIMBY AND THE MONITOR.

Brooklynite Who Once Had Faith in Ericsson Appeals for the Doctor. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: As one of the petitioners to our gov ernment for the removal of the remains of John Ericsson to his native land (Sweden) In an American man-of-war, I not knowing the true history of his connection with the Monitor, and as one of four men of this city who constituted a business men's board of Investigation, petitioning the President to act in be half of Dr. Tlmbv in the Court ot Claims; and having known Dr. Timby and the justice of his cause so well; and having been an ardent friend and ad mlrer of Henry Ward Beecher; and knowing Mrs. Virginia Chandler Tltcomb and the enduring, patient, unselfish and unparalleled service she rendered Dr.

Timby. his family and her country, I do know It, I am. perhaps, qualified to say: Whoever Joins in the indorsement and carrying out of this patriotic movement will not only relieve the government or a most embarrassing situation oy molting out the stain hitherto resting upon it bv reason of its delay la obtaining the facts and acting thereon, but hav ing the facts now exposed for the puo 11c consideration, will justly place themselves high In the already large list of American patriotic citizenship. ONE OF THE COMMITTEE OF FOUR. Brooklyn, December 22.

1910. BRIBERY IN OHIO. W. C. Taylor, Who Has Memories ot Adams County, Writes His View of Subject.

Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I happen to know well this Adams County, 0., which Is disfranchising so many of its "leading citizens" for selling their votes. One of my first assignments In early newspaper work was to gather up a "follow" story concerning the lynching of a young negro by those same "leading citizens." They treated me well gave me a piece of the rope and a cane cut from the limb of the ash tree they hung him on and he really deserved hanging, having beaten to death an aged couple who had reared him from babyhood, to rob them of the price of a young calf he had seen the aged man sell. There are Just two points I want to touch upon. First, the people of that region have some redeeming traits. They are not wholly depraved or immoral.

The vicious vote-selling that has gone on for years comes about partly because they have never seen this offense in Its true light. The people there have sensibilities, and the scalding floods of contempt that have been poured upon Adams County will sting them into improvement and there will be a change. The second point is" the punishment that is being dealt out will be effective for five years anyway. They are being disfranchise for that length of time, and will be subject to Imprisonment in tho penitentiary if they even try to vote. Why shouldn't they be disfranchised? If a man cares so little for his birthright as an American citizen that he will sell it then he should be deprived of it, not for a term of years but for life.

When a man sells his vote let It be "once for all." He is not fit to vote; his voting is a menace to decent government. That cure should be of wide application. No need to point the finger at Adams County, nor to take on virtuous airs. How about Kings County, also Queens County and especially New York County? Was the like never known there? In my opinion "It's been heard Wherever there is Belling of votes the application of the Adams County remedy would be effective. If politicians had any honest desire for an honest electorate they would not oppose the enactment of laws efficiently to check such traffic.

Disfranchise the seller; open the way for the buyer to furnish state's evidence: there is the prescription in a nutshell. There is no other country on earth where vice and ignorance are permitted yea, besought, Importuned, actually paid come rorth and take-an eaual share with the best and wisest in governing the nation. The great dead weight tbat holds bade political improvement and makes the American city a grotesque failure. from any standpoint of rational business, is the fact that It Is made easy and profitable for all the fools and criminals of the community to vote. And a man who Bells his vote Is both a fool and a criminal.

Disfranchise him and decent, economical, orderly government will be easy to come by. WALTER CAMPBELL TAYLOR, Brooklyn, December 28, 1910. SNOWBALLING L. I. TRAINS.

"Dangerous Practice," Says Edward Jj. Megill, Who Asks Police to Stop It. Editor Tbe Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Snowballing Long Island express trains seems to have taken a fresh hold. While passing through East New York toward Brooklyn at 5:30 this evening a ball struck the pane of glass with such force, opposite where I was sitting, that It at tracted the attention of all In that part of tho car. Had It struck a few Inches nearer the center It would undoubtedly have crashed through and caused me severe injury possibly the loss of both eyes.

it is a very dangerous practice and should be scheduled for abolition by the police. EDWARD L. MEGILL. 1198 Pacific street, December 23. 1910.

AGAINST SIGNBOARDS. "Observer" Regrets Defacing Landscape in Eastern Parkway Section. ot Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Passing in a Flatbush car, I was horrified to see on the north at the entrance to our boulevard the Eastern Parkway signboards ad. irtislng some minor plays. Is tt possible that, with thousands of dollars spent on landscape gardening In that Immediate vicinity, and with the beautiful building of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences overlooking It, these unsightly signboards should remain one single day? By what right and by whose authority arc they there, and why are they allowed to remain there to outrage the sight of any person of taste who may visit our city, not to speak of their evil effect on our growing citlasens? OBSERVER.

Brooklyn, December 1, 1910. -v: ork. Many have had tbe great satis-M of knowing that there are Inl'j factio Bela xokaji Is Sure New York Ke- publicans Were Saved From Worse Defeat. Editor The Brooklyn Dally Eagle: The eyes of the American people are focussed on Theodore Roosevelt, who Is soou to make a two months tour through the country, visiting, outside of the New England States, practically every state In the Union. About 3,000 invitations have been extended to the Colonel to speak at small and large places.

Just think of It, 3,000 Invitations. That means something, there is significance In that, Is there another man In this country, or for that matter, In any country in the wide world, a man holding no office, hav ing no patronage to distribute, no means of rewarding his friends, admirers and followers a private citizen whose popularity Is so great as to receive such an unheard of large number of Invitations to address his countrymen? No. Most emphatically, no! Theodore Roosevelt, the noble commoner of America, is the only -man who has such a grip upon the people. And this Is the man whom some wiseacres consider a political corpse. If those people will take the trouble to Inform themselves properly, they will find that the Colonel has not lost his political influence, and that he is stronger aud is growing stronger every day with the people, than he ever has been.

It is conceded by those reformers who may be called practical politicians, that if Colonel Roosevelt had not taken part In the fight In the State of New York, the Republican ticket would have been defeated by at least 250,000, Instead of by a measly 65,000 votes. Why the small State of Ohio, the state that President Taft came from, went Democratic by 100,000. New Jersey went Democratic, and so did Massachusetts. Why in the name of common sense should Roosevelt be held responsible for the Republican defeats in those states. Is there any Justification for It? Absolutely none whatever.

Distance. African Jungles And the want of the Marconi system have not dlmln-. Ished his reputation, nor cooled the admiration of his friends, admirers and followers In his native land. His home coming was welcomed by hundreds of thousands of his countrymen from all over the United States In his native city, and millions of people greeted him on his sojourn throughout the states last fall. Private citizenship is his only portion fraught as it is with so many things that mean power, that one must study In order to contemplate what is yet within his prerogative.

Great are his responsibilities, and still greater Is the confidence that the people repose In him. He occupies a unique position, and strange as It may seem, no person preceding him has been so honored by the people. BELA TOKAJI, President National Roosevelt League. New York, December 26, 1910. HEMSTREET ON EDISON.

A Suggestion That the Letter's "New Energy" May Be Only Another Name for Deity. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: There were published in a Manhattan paper recently the follow esoteric-occultisms, or occult-esoterisms, from Thomas A. Edison: "The origin of human energy has not begun to be explained. The brain does not think, It Is nothing more than a phonographic record. I am tired of electricity, I want to discover a new energy.

I don't believe In spiritualism, and In regard to our hereafter, I am from Missouri. We are matter and we go back to matter. Our bodies are motors that use some unknown energy. First let us solve the unfathomable law of light and gravitation, then we may be enabled to solve the source and destiny of mind." Let us see. Mr.

Edison, like many other gifted physicists, stops short of the self-evident truth that there cannot be any energy without mind back of it. Dead matter cannot move itself. All his uncertainties may be cleared by the one concrete assumption that mind is in and of matter. Everything shows this. The systematic processes of the ether by its electrons building up the atoms of all kinds of matter, animate and Inanimate, is by law, plan, Intelligence and design.

We can never escape this deistlc argument of design. The nucleus of a germ cell and of the protoplasm that transmits the chain of heredity- contains all the potentialities of life and design, as much as a full-blown Adam does. In the cell of a flower with its exquisite pattern and the first cell of any embyron, there Is present a living genius like the potter with his clay. A man who can look upon a new-born babe or the mountain laurel and say there Is no God Is simply a Jackass. God's intelligence is immanent everywhere.

In the crystal and In the egg alike. No human intellect can give any reason why God's mind may not have a body as well as man's mind. For the cosmic Intelligence there Is a fitting body In the cosmic lumlnlferous ether, the two forming a cosmic ego. The Intelligent electronic atomic and chemical action of the ether indicates mind in the ether just as much as a -watch Indicates a maker, or a book indicates an author. "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." The lumlnlferous ether contains a cosmic mental ego just the same as man's physiology, which was made out of tbe contains a mental ego.

This may take time to penerate our savage sen-sorlum. The cosmic ether may, for all we know, be an organization of some kind. It is just as comprehensible that the omnipresent ether Is the omnipresent God as the fact is comprehensible how an animal organization is a sentient being. God is matter. Is the "new energy" that Edison is looking for.

And here Is spiritualism for Mr. Edison and his colleagues. Scientists have agreed that the ether Is universal and Immortal, that not a particle can be added to or taken away from It. It Is coexistent with the omnipresence, the omnipotence and omniscience that we have commonly ascribed to the Almighty. It comprises the soul of man, the "spiritual body" asserted by St.

Paul, which, with spiritual culture, established our Immortality. The fittest survives. Given a mass of ether with its inherent aspirations, there Is a soul. "In righteousness is eternal life." Thus science la reaching back to revelation. The human soul is a rayon a fulguration of God's own personal, ethereal dynamic essence, one with Him.

We are not absolute egos, discrete from Him or from one another. Sympathy, love and Intuition show this. Intuition and a prior wisdom are inherited knowledge and spiritual telepathy. This discovery of the ether uud its laws Is the foundation of all concrete theology. It explains concretely, "God with us," "The All-seeing Eye," "the Resurrection." An etherlc soul cannot die, but a conjectured soul has never lived at all.

If we need a body here we shall also need a body there. As to Mr. Edison's mystery of gravitation, scientists have already told us that "electricity is only the motion of the ether," that a current like a silken thread will, by Is incomprehensible speed, drive hundreds of tons through our streets, that it is "squirming with energy," and that a "thimbleful of It could propel a battleship." They have also called It "fluid steel" and have discovered that its motions are "spiral." We can easily see that the spiral squirming of these electronic "steel" vortices hooking Into or Interlocking with each other by the energy of God's will bark of them, drag all things with them, as all physical matter Is one with the ether. Newton's earth and apple are Blmply by their radiating electrons corkscrewing themselves together. Simple physics! The following in contl.ol of wntpr ower.

(m the of a Vnitei gtntos to cimimcey M. Pe- tln.pe sav a word for Edward M. Shepard, Eugene A. Vau Nm a aml 0. S.

am, waiter B. as anxious to have the state well represented. Luke O'Brien has a notion that John II. McCooey Is the man to take Ropow's place. Bela To-kaji offers a derense of Roosevelt against the charge of responsibility for Republican defeat in the last election.

William Hemstreet has an interesting communication reviewing the ideas of Thomas A. Edison on immortality. "One of the Commitee of Four" seeks to back up the claim of Pr. Timby to re0OKaition as the real inventor of the Monitor. "Walter Campbell Tavlor gives some of his of Ar1nm fonntv.

There is but one man in the next Congress who will vote as the people desire, and he is Victor Bcrger, the Socialist. The agents of criminal wealth are well aware of this and are anticipating the bullet, when our people awaken to the great fact that they are to be robbed of their now supposed victory. Hence the outcry of predatory rich for a larger mob of blood-thirsty soldiery. Some of these agents' of plutocracy prate of what Japan could do: that this much over-rated band of heathen could land on our shores two million soldiers, so-called. Suffering Mikado! How we ten million men who have voted out of office the sponsors of standing butchers wish the Japs would land their battalions.

Wo would see that no one escaped to "carry t.f; news to Mary." To with a standing army! GEORGE BARNES PENWOCK. New York, December 20, 1910. SHOE FACTORY WAGES Cannot Be Boosted Above a Figure That Makes General Competition Possible. Editor The Brookolyn Dally Eagle: There is one point In connection with wages paid by shoe manufacturers which should be considered by those who are actively engaged in the present controversy in Brooklyn. A shoe manufacturer, wherever located, must meet competition from all over the United States.

Furthermore, this activity of competition ha3 reduced profits until the question of adding a single cent to the manufacturing cost of a pair of shoes Is a very serious question for any shoe manufacturer, in Brooklyn or out of It. In a strictly local trade, such as that of carpenter, bricklayer, stone mason, plumber, roofer, when workmen combine and force up wages, all the contractor needs to do is to charge It up to the owner of the building. The progress of wages has been upward for years in these trades; the landlords have paid each year a higher cost for improving their property and have, in turn, charged it up to the tenants. The situation Is not at ail affected by the fact that carpenters will work for $2 a day, and be glad to get it, in country towns, because the product of these carpenters is houses, which are not transportable. They do not compute with Brooklyn houses.

It is otherwise with shoes. There are scores of factories established in the same towns with the $2 a day carpenters. The shoe workers in these towns enjoy the advantages of cheap living, and, consequently can accept a lower rate of wages. Their product, instead of being stationary like that of the carpenter, is Just as easily shipped to any point In the United States as are the products of the Brooklyn manufacturers. I believe the general public Is grossly misinformed as to the amount of profit per pair in shoe manufacturing.

I have carefully estimated the totals of shoe manufacturing in the United States, as shown by Government reports, and find that the average profit per pair is only from four to eight cents. There is probably no line of manufacturing of equal importance in which economy of operating and the prevention of waste has been carried to as high a point as in the modern shoe factory. The narrowness of the margin of profit shows very clearly that when one single department of a factory demands an increase in "wages amounting to 5 cents a pair for a single operation, as has been done In Brooklyn, I am informed, they are making a demand which is tremendously high in percentage. I want workers to get all that they are justly entitled to; but I cannot see how any set of workers can benefit themselves permanently by Jamming their employers headfirst into a stone wall of Impossibility in the matter of price-competition. Shoes cannot be made In Brooklyn or any place else except upon the basis of a wage scale which shall measureably conform to "the wages paid for similar work In other lo calities.

This Is not an argument It is merely a statement of an Incontrovertible economic fact. WALTER C. TAYLOR. New York, December 24, 1910. ANNIE S.

PECK ON PEARY. Mountain Climber Answers Mrs. Duel's Eefense of Dr. Cook, Very Seriously. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle May I be permitted space for a few comments on the letter In your paper of any ai)Use on Cook.

He simply said at I the beginning that Cock was handing the publlc a gold brick and that he had not been at the North Pole April 27, 1008, nor at any other time; since then abso lutely nothing. The greater part of my remarks dealt I with Cook's pretended ascent of Mount later denied by Barrill. As nnuf, loici 'ti'iinu ijy Dill Till. AH the lady says, "When one reaches the lop of a mountain one knows where he Is at. If she will read in the current (January) Metropolitan Magazine the ar- I tide "Sleuthing on Mount McKlnley," by Hclmore Browne, she will find positive evidence to which six trustworthy ner sons will swear (two professors and three fellows of the American Geosranh- leal Society), that Cook ascended a rock only 250 ect above the surrounding wo our midst some Splendid and heroic women, and that as the pioneer among a noble character filled with good endeavor, you are actuated only by an earnest desire, with a holy purpose to make vour life useful and valuable to that one of these two companions, Ptook- ashoo, declared to him last summer that Cook did not go out of sight of land, in which case Cook must have known that he was at least four hundred miles from the Pole.

As I held and expressed to all I met the same views from the first I can hardly be accused of seeking the popular side now. As to Peary's proofs, let me Inform Mrs. Duer that they were presented and passed upon a year ago, not by persons who would not know a proof if they saw one, but by three of the most competent men In this country, whose verdict has been accepted by the scientists of the world, as the seven gold medals brought by Peary from Europe last summer and the three from our own geographical societies bear witness. It Is a poor, but far too common sentimentality that has all pity for the criminal, be he robber or murderer, and none for his victims and their friends. If opinions were based on reason, evidence and knowledge.

Instead of Ignorant and unfounded prejudice, justice, the rarest of the virtues, would oftener be secured. Charity should not lead to credulity. When a man has again and again Deen convicted of falsehood, to put faith in any of his utterances is folly. ANNIE S. PECK.

Hotel Alabama, New York, December 22, 1910. WATER POWER THE KEY To Future Prosperity, Miss Bennett Writes Asks Mothers to Form Conservation Clubs. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: With recent water power development there has arisen a situation which should interest vitally every woman In the United States those who deem themselves rich, those who live on moderate income, and that large army of women who earn a small dally wage, for It concerns the cost of living. We must hve food, clothes, heat and light in order to exist. Soon the water powers are to provide us with all these essentials.

Hence the 'importance of a thorough understanding of, what this development is going to mean to every Individual housekeeper. It is stated that only about one-fourth of the coal now used will be needed in the near future. Men who stand as authority on questions concerning electrical engineering prophesy that within ten years ail necessaries, as well as numerous labor-saving machines, will be produced through water power development "white coal." Wherever a river exists, science will harness it to a dynamo. No Aladdin's lamp could perform such magical results as will science when she applies her magician's wand to the productloa of electricity. When the time comes for the construction of a series of dams on each river, with large power stations providing electrical energy in a radius of from one hundred to two hundred miles, it is very evident that large amounts of capital will be required to carry on this work.

The question immediately arises whether these rivers, which are ours by divine right, shall be banded over In perpetuity to a few corporations who will thus have the privilege of dictating to nearly 100,000,000 people the prices of food, clothing, with the power to reduce the wage earner's salary to the lowest possible sum on which he can exist; or, shall these rivers with their potential power sites be controlled by the Federal government and leased to moneyed Interests, under reasonable contracts, so that it will be within the power of the people at any time that they feel that these Interests are abusing their privileges to force them to reasonable terms. A favorite argument of the moneyed interests is to the effect that in order to invest their money for development purposes they must own forever the water power sites. On the contrary once they own these power sites we, the people, lose all power to force their development, nor can we regulate the cost of food and clothing, nor protect ourselves against any abuse they are minded to inflict upon us. Switzerland and France, who lead the world in water power de velopment. have placed their power Bites under government control.

This works well for individual manufacturers and for the people generally. At present, laws governing sites are, inadequate to protect the people's Interests. The only remedy for this lies in a sweeping public opinion which will force Congress to enact such laws as will meet the present situation. Such an opinion can only be created through women's Influence. Something must be done, and done immediately, or this question will be beyond our control.

This winter there are several bills before Congress which, unleBS counteracted, will place great blocks of power sites in the hands of a few corporations. Any woman can assist this movement who ill use ber influence in her own family and community. Why not get up a mother's club in your neighborhood, asking the children's school teachers to help to organize it? Send to me for reading matter and Information. In this way you will be helping your husbands and children's future welfare. Through this reading matter you can learn any particulars in regard to power site developments end what It is going to mean In your own home, and just what legislation is necessary to protect your home against encroachment of monopolistic influences.

Au authority says the nation owns the undeveloped power sites in national forests and on public lands of the West and South. As the Federal government has a right and duty to compel the power companies to develop them properly and fully; to pay a reasonable rental; to give the sites back to the pub-lie after a reasonable time, say fifty years, so that the leases may be renewed on terms dictated by the better knowledge of people as to their rights. Power companies should furnish all facts relating to cost of construction and operation, and submit to such regulation of service and prices by the state as will allow fair returns for the money invested. Violation of any of these conditions should work a forfeiture of the lease. This system has been In vogue In the national forests for many years with very beneficial results to all concerned.

It should be extended to power sites on the public lands which have been withdrawn under Presidents Roosevelt and Taft: also the power sites on the nav igable rivers In all parts of the country, because the consent of Congress must be given before any power dams can be in ft navigable stream. Power Rites which are neither owned by the Feder.il government nor situated on navigable streams should be developed under state laws, imposing like restrictions. ALICE BENNETT, 419 East Sixtv-fnurth street, Manhat- tan, December 26. 1910. AS TO THE SENAT0RSHIP.

Viewe Expressed by Brooklynites or. the Proposed Choice of Mr. Shepard. The last census has shown that New York State has one-tenth the population of the entire country. We are only entitled to two United States Senator, and with this small (com paratively) representation allotted to us, we are entitled and should demand of a suffering people.

state In so many Will they send a man of the ability, character, wide knowledge and mental stature of Edward M. Shepard, and thus match, if not overmatch, Elihu Boot, or will they send a "handyman," only useful for the safe conveyance of patronage In the event of a Democratic national victory in 1912? Edward M. Shepard is also a master of detail, a qualification essential In a statesman, a member of the upper branch of the National Legislature. He Is amply qualified to take his stand on the floor of the Senate and in open review pass upon the Important questions now pending, or to make known the wishes of his constituency, and would command the respectful attention of his auditors. Democracy now has its opportunity.

It is before the bar of public opinion. Let us hope that our leaders will be wise: that our Legislature will be Just to the people and themselves, and send Edward M. Shepard to Washington as Junior Senator from New York. With Messrs. Root and Shepard as our Senators, New York State will have the representation to which she is justly entitled.

EUGENE A. VAN NEST. Brooklyn, December 24, 1910. Walter B. Brown's View.

Editor The Brooklyn Dally Eagle: All citizens, both Republican and Dem ocratic, have au Interest in the coming election of the Senator, but there are some things that Republicans and enlightened Democrats may well view from the same standpoint. It was a matter of deep regret to me that the people saw fit to nut the Democratic party in power. The people wero warned that It meant the Tammanylzlng not only of Kings County, but of the whole state of New York, and nothing more clearly shows this than the present Henatorsnip muddle. Whatever may be the shortcomings of the Republican party, aud particularly that part of It organized in Kings County, no one doubts that if the Legislature were Republican and an eminent Kings County Republican were concededly available and qualified, the local Republican organization would not only stand be-' hind him. but would do It In a way that would reflect the credit upon the leaders.

But what do we see in Kings County now that the conditions are reversed? The presB all over the state almost concede the Senatorship to a leading Democrat resident in Kings County, and yet so far as the Democratic organization Is concerned, there has not been the slightest attempt to grasp the prize. It cannot mean that the Democratic citizens of Kings County do not wish to have the honor of the Senatorship come to them, and It can only mean tbat the Tammany organization has throttled all expression of sentiment by the Democratic organization on this side of the river. What a spectacle for enlightened Democrats t) contemplate! If Tammany does not control the present Brooklyn organization, why does the latter not come out in support of Mr. Shepard? There Is no need, however, for the citizens of Brooklyn to despair. There will be another election next year, and If there Is not a Democratic organization that dares to express the wishes of Its membership in Kings County, we at least have a Republican organization that will submit to no dictation or repression from any man or organization outside the county.

If Brooklyn and Kings County are to maintain their political Independence, It is apparent that It can be done only by adherence to the regular Republican organization, and the great mass of independent citizens must In the future throw the weight of their influence to that organization. The spectacle of Shepard, smothered in the house of his friends, at the behest of Tammany, and to the scandRl of county, state and nation, demands that Kings County turn again to the Republican organization as the only organization loyal to Kings County. I suppose, as a Republican, can very properly be regarded as a busybody for passing criticism on the present situation, but there are one or two phases of the question that affect every citizen regardless of party. Senator McCarren, whatever we may have thought of his ethical code, stood stolidly for the political Integrity of Brooklyn. This was Important, for at times he.

as representing his organization, was the sole bulwark between Brooklyn and Tammany, and on him even we Reoublicans had to depnd to prevent this disastrous Invasion. We. who are the fellow-citizens of Mr. McCooey and esteem him consider that he owes to us. his political opnonents, at least this measure of protection.

He Is now face to fare with his supreme opportunity to vindicate his leadership. He must show now whether, after all, he Is a leader of men. WALTER B. BROWN. Brooklyn, December 21, 1910.

A Republican for Shepard. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: If, as it appears, a Democrat Is to be elected to succeed Chauncey M. Depew, thereby Implying a Republican will not be elected, would it not be magnanimous on our part, I mean the Republican party of the state and myself a small part of It, to come out strong and full for Edward M. Shepard, who will. If elected, measure up to the highest standards of require ments of all loyal citizens of this state? I do not know whether this would be practical politics or not.

It would certainly demonstrate tbat if the Republicans can not have the office, they can at least show their Interest In the welfare of the state by helping to give the Democrats of their good Judgment and hearty support. It is said Mr. Shepard has Democratic enemies. Well, as the late T. DeWltt Talmage once said.

"A man without enemies is a man without a great character or Individuality." These enemies could easily be offset by the thousands of Republicans who want the best men In office. I hope this line will stimulate some leading Republicans to start a movement in favor of the election of Edward M. Shepard. O. S.

RITCH, M.D. 75 Halsey street, December 24, 1910. LUKE O'BRIEN'S CHOICE. John H. McCooey, Ee Thinks, Should Be Elected United States Senator.

Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Please permit me to say a few words about a distinguished citizen of lofty character and rare eloquence, a man well read and deeply learned. He has held several prominent posts and performed the duties of them Illustriously, and has never deviated from the path of democracy, and recently achieved a marvelous victory. This loyal man Is John H. McCooey Wo suggest him for United States Senator from the 'Empire State. Is to: To take your choice those That best can aid yuur action.

"SHAKSPEAR." Mr. McCooey Is spccklessly clean-noted for tact Is the best-best, the very best, and he ought to be senatorial exalted and sent: "Where nit the best and stateliest of th land." TENNYHON. LUKE O'BRIEN. 141 North Sixth street, Brooklyn, December 25. 1919.

"GIVE PARKS TO TRUSTS." tn Eeturn for Non-Taxation a Lot of City Beautiflcation Could Be Secured. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Anent your editorial in to-day's paper advocating the gift of our parks to the Academy of Design, I would suggest that you might go further. Tammany Hall (now homeless) would no- doubt greatly appreciate Washington Square for the site of a new building, while the Steel, Oil, Copper and Provision interests might perhaps be willing to beautify Central Park If suitable inducements, tay remission of all taxes, were offered. Sugar, always closely identified with Brooklyn, would improve the Williamsburg Bridge Plaza and the Iriterborough and B. R.

T. might draw lots for choice of Fort Greene and Prospect parks. Should it be found afterward that New York was running short of parks, more could easily be bought by exempting other bonds or raising assessments. Cartoonist Harding was not far from Tight in depicting the consumers Christmas stocking. A lemon is ell the citi-en seems entitled to F.

V. MORRELL. 177 Quincy street, Brooklyn, N. Y. UNION BANK MISDOINGS.

Eobert F. Penraed Calls for Prosecution and for Bestitution Suits. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: All sorts of rumors are around about the Union Bank's administration under and during the administration of the regime In control prior to Its first failure. Are the state officials looking Into Its affairs of that era? If there were misdoings should not the state bank examiners have found them out and reported them to the proper officials for court action? Is It too late now for such Investigation? If not, should the authorities now In charge of that broken bank go into the criminal work thereof, or must It be done ly others? I should think that the stockholders would be decidedly interested as to this and would try to save themselves from assessment which they might do if they could recover from those who It Is asserted have obtained the bank's funds Illegally and immorally. The depositors are also Intensely interested In such an investigation and should 'act with the shareholders and directors an effort to recover and regain moneys that rightfully belong to said Union Bank rond Its depositors and stockholders.

Finally, if there be guilty ones, who 'can be so proven, proper punishment should be meted out to them. Will it be another case of neglect, with the guilty escaping and the Innocent parties doing the suffering? ROBERT Y. PENRAED. Brooklyn, December 22. 1P10.

WAR HE CALLS MURDER; Standing Army, Butchers; and He Would, Incidentally, Wipe Out the Navy Also. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I have observed that immediately following an unexpected ballot victory by the people agents of the predatory rich get very much alarmed as to the inadequacy in numbers of the standing army. Just now it is one Dickinson, tacked by the Taft administration, who 'urges a tremendous increase to the fcutcher class. The "standing army" should be abolished. And.

so. too, the "standing navy." These are costing the wage earners all they can earn. Honest folk have no use have never had a desire for standing armies of any size. We- had but a handful of standing army when Uncle Abe called for 300.000 fighters and we won. Oh, for one good old hontRt Uncle Abe now! And talk about fighting! Why, bless your heart, the Japs would not know whether they were going a-fot or a-horseback if that old-time fighting class got after them.

The predatory rich need the standing army, of course. Those looted the Kill plnos of their hard won victory with a Long may our land ne bright witn such spirit and power for genuine uplift. Would that we might have many more sacrificing, serious-minded beings. Then this cold world would move qji hs never before. The brotherly and sisterly love among God's creatures fiand that most Christian command, "Do tfinto others as you would they should do ulto you," might have increased W.

I. LAMBiSKTE Brooklyn, N. December 22, 1910.1, BRIBERY AND THE POLICE. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The recent excellent work of the p- lice in restoring two kidnapped children to their parents in this borough brings to mind a crime committed about two years ago. In which I am doubtful if Jus tice has been done.

A woman ticket agent was brutally as saulted one night at her post on the Fifth avenue L. Two Italians were and a few days later an attempt was made to bribe tbe policeman in the cast. Two would-be bribers were taken red-handed, and In the police court were released on ball. The first pair was sent to state's prison for long terms of im prisonment, but the second pair is still at liberty. Would not this be a good time to bring this case to the attention of the Grand Jury? When a member of the police force shows conclusively that there are capable and decent men on the force, political influence should not deter the prosecuting authorities from backing up such an officer.

SOUTH BHUUItLin. Brooklyn, December 24, 1810. WORK IN THE SCHOOLS. Cooking Is What Girls Should Know, but Mothers Should Teach It. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I read In The Eagle Sunday an article entitled "Brooklyn's Cooking Crusade, In which I was much Interested.

I wish the mothers ot Brooklyn would take the matter up, for I think It is up to the mothers to do so. Our children have too much to do now in tbe schoola. Many things that should be taught at home are left to the Bchools, and it it is tbe moth er's fault let us get after the mothers. What our children want to learn in the schools are the three Rs and learn them well. Let the mother teach cooking and sewing as our mothers did.

The girls thirty years ago were not above doing housework. Now it is impossible to get help of any kind and girls would rather go to business than do without a domestic and help at home, WhoBa fault is this? Thirty years ago mothers did their own sewing, looked after their house. The? also entertained more than we do to-day. because it was true hospitality given ill their own home, not at restaurants or ho tels. What they read was worth reading, not some of the books we have to-day.

Cut cooking and dancing out of our schools and teach good, plain English, writing and arithmetic, also teach them to like to read good literature. If our minister would orcasionallj preach and our teacher teach that it laj In our power to make this a great nation, but only by earnest labor In all lines, not by frivolity. Have evening classes in our schools for domestic science. If you will, for our older girls and mothers If they like to go, but don't put any more on our school children; rather reduce the work and make It better. G.

F. a. Brooklyn, December 19, 1910, standing army; those shot down working- this date from Mrs. J. Duer? I am and women as they have time and sorry tbat she read my interview with so r-saln battled for their rights, with standing army.

Whirever the poor ar, "ule (ar0 a8 t0 fancy thdt any part of oppressed there you will find the savage what I said was repeated from Peary. As I soldiery in large numbers. matter of fact Poary has never poured And how patient art the poor. But there 'will come the time when this astonish ing patience will exhaust and then the standing armies and other enemies of law and order, together with their evil sponsors, will be swept further into outer darkness than a pigeon can fly in a year. Ail that Dickinson and br, crowd de sire of a large standing file of murderers when the folk, who voted their cronies tucu, iim an- biiiiiKini-r out of office realize that the majority of the men they have elected to office are of the same thie- ish clan they have put out.

The people have voted take all of the tax of of food and raiment. Will they get this wolfish desire? Coming events cast their shadows before. The people will get their wish where the chicken got the axright in the neck,.