Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-10-20
|Wm E, Writ MILLS
new YORK LETTER
New York, Oct. Is, 19

eidoscopic country! Only the other
day the one thought Of Woodrow Will
son was as the bridegroom-to-be
proudly escorting his fiancee to the
atre and ball game. His success in
happily ending all diplomatic contrOv-
ersies with Germany had faded from
the picture. The eager public expecta-
ton of vigorous handling of England's
interference with American commerce
was for the time forgotten in gallant
tributes to the woman chosen to be the
first lady in the land"
But the hands swing around the
clock and the President is again the
politician, bidding in graceful phrases,
over the heads Of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, for another
| term at the White House on a plat
form of Americanism first. And the
the same text. And so the battle Of
1916 is on.
| Some of the real facts about the
loan to England and France are com.
| ing out. The loan was not greatly
over-subscribed, and the amount was
made up by bankers and ammunition
makers, which amounts to the latter
accepting five-year notes for their
goods. In order to unload the bonds
upon the public the price has been
cut three points and force of 700
expert statesmen have been organized
to market the bonds, but this will not
be an easy job.
And the fact that leaked out that
this business is not to end with this
half billion loan, but that the foreign
~ 10nV1 n Ic ciN q CT n n q.
gotiate a series of such loans. The
result of their efforts will depend up
on whether the American public de-
cides to invest all it has gained thru
the war in the paper of the Allies.
The possibilities Of America for the
immigrant were dramatically Illus
trated here this week, when Jacob H.
Schiff, the banker, celebrated the fif-
tieth anniversary of his arrival in this
country by presenting to Barnard Col
lege for Women half million dollars
to erect a students hall.
The New York 'World" has resum-
ed it's exposures of British interfer-
ence with American commerce, re-
vealing that English cable censorship
is costing American firms millions in
ruined trade, business being diverted
to English merchants and the growth
of commerce between America and
neutral countries being restrained.
There are surprising turns of for
tune in this world. A Roumanian Jew
sings at his work as truck driver.
BY chance an Impressario hears him,
and Morris Horn is being trained for
grand opera.
The iron horse" will have to look
| to it's laurels for speed. Locomotives
have made 120 miles an hour for short
distances, but in the automobile races
here the other day Anderson sustain
ed a speed of 102 miles an hour for
| $50 miles.
An effort to commit husband to a
sanitarium because of his jealousy of
his wife was halted the other day by
Judge Niemann, who ruled that jeal-
ousy, however obstreperous or un-
founded, was not in itself an evidence
Of insanity.
| Again the old familiar cry Of Hard
Times" has been sounded by one of
the advance agents of the historic par
ty of the full dinner pail" but incon-
veniently enough one of his fellow
partisans in the State administration
brings out on the same day that there
are 222,025 automobile owners in this
state.
The persecution of the Jews in Rus
STA and in Russian Poland has become
an issue in the New York daily news
papers. Heretofore only the surface
of the Jewish problem has been skim.
med, for Russia was able to suppress
the facts as to the terrible events
and the only information obtainable
was from private sources. Some time
ago Secretary Bryan cabled to the
American Consul General in Warsaw
for information as to the condition OF
the Jews, but with Russia in control
it was impossible to get the facts
Any Jew disclosing information would
have endangered his own life and sub
jected his people to fresh persecu
tons.
But now trustworthy non-Jewisf
American journalists are getting the
facts and these Investigations are be
ing published in the newspapers O.
this city. The terrible fate of thi:
dispersed race is making deep i'm
preston here.
The Boy Scouts Of America are be
Y ing attacked with rare impartiality a.
r too military and as not militar.
b enough. The fact is that the training
:. | of a ROv Scout does not include tn
l. manual Of arms, but it does give hin
t every other qualification for a goo
/. soldier, in teaching him hiking, camp
ing, endurance, self-reliance and disc
n pline.
The moves in the new war theatr
in the Balkans have profoundly still
red pro-Ally circles here and it is MOI
able that the ablest of the pro-All
newspapers frankly admits the sci
iousness of the situation, with scan
concern for English sensibilitie!
pointing out the probability Of estal
fishing a Teutonic thoroughfare t
Constantinople, the possibility of for.
ing Russia to a separate peace, an
the menacing of the British empire
in Egypt and India. But after MAJ
shalling these facts with force, al
hitting the possibility of German VII
tory, the reviewer brushes his ow
fears as having no more basis than tn
imaginative audacity" of the Te'
tons.
People familiar with Balkan c0nd
lions are not surprised at the develop