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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

government, but newspaper comment
finds little in their activity in the West
beyond lawlessness.
THE Boston Transcript" characterize
ton is Unreasonable organization" in an
editorial which criticises the President
for faltering at all in dealing with the
disturbers. 1.-THE Rocky Mountain News"
appears to discount any belief that Ger
man money is back of the I. w. w., but
adds: AT any time the !. w. w. has no
place in this country. Just now, it is
red rag" 1.-THE Detroit Journal on the
other hand appears to believe foreign in
fluences are in the plot, declaring: When
the German agents are rounded up and
the German money taken from the |. w. w.
leaders, there will be swift end to the
disturbances"
The effect of the Bisbee deportation,
in which some 1920 Of the disturbers
were sent out into the desert, is to waken
criticism of the method of dealing with
them, without arousing sympathy for the
wanderers. "As absurd as it is unlaw
full is the description "The Chicago
News" gives the proceeding. And "The
St. Louis Republics" phrase is, "a con-
spicuous exhibition of bad citizenship"
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understanding disappears to commanders
them and notably speed up construction
But "The World" is in no humor for
delay. 1t says, under the caption Make
Them Work or Quit:
"Unless Major General Goethals and Chair
man Denman of the Shipping Board can COM
pose their differences, the best thing that the
President can do is to remove both OF them
and appoint two men who are more interested
in building ships than in exploiting their
personal differences.
Neither Of these men is worth anything to
the government in his present position, how
ever, unless he will do the work that he was
appointed to do
THE sectional aspects of the draft CEN
sus have irritated the Northern
press. The local editorial writers con-
denim the apportionment roundly. THE
Sun" says:
"Thc charge that the figures of the draft
census have BEEN so juggled as to throw
wholly disproportionate share Of the liability
to military service upon the people OF the
Northern states is too serious to be dismissed
lightly.
American municipalities are not accus-
toned to protest against being officially cred
tied with superabundant population. They
all aspire to bigness. Even New York is not
exempt from that form of vanity. But when
It's population was suddenly boosted 7OS,0OO
over the highest estimate heretofore made
the authorities were at first pleased, then
puzzled, then rudely awakened BY recognition
Of the fact that they would have to furnish
conscripts to represent the 7Os,Oo0 non-ex-
istent New Workers."
"The Evening Post" lays the trouble
to a stimulated imagination. 1t says:
"The chief trouble is due to the amiable
lightning calculator in the Census Bureau.
He has been taking pencil and paper and in
creasing the population of the United States
at an astonishing rate. He may have the pa
triotic motive of proving TO the bewildered
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
he American Press Is Keeping Its Eye on Berlin

if, as the oldtime novelists used to say, 'by
dint of close economy we will be able -
exc out miserable existence."-Los Ans
geles Times.
Having nothing much to put in, Spain
has decided to stay out of the war.-St
Louis Republic.
The South wants all of the jobs, most
of the revenues, none of the taxes and
mighty little of the draft. Its patriotism
Is such that it is willing, if necessary, to
use every last drop Of the North's re-
sources to win the Philadelphia En-
quirer.
Won Bethmann- Hollweg makes way fos
a pinch hitter.-Seattle Post-intelligencer
Somehow one can't help but suspect thas
the new King Of Greece is making mis-
take by quarrelling with Premier Veni.
zelos.-Indianapolis News.
In thinking over the further crueltie1
the Kaiser might infict upon his people.
we thought of this: He might abdicate In
favor of the Crown Prince.-St. Louis Re-
public
If Max Harden says nothing and saws
wood for a while he may be President
some day over there.-lndanapolis Star.
With price of 100000 on his head
General Chang Hsun, ex-dictator Of Chins,
probably will shave himself for the next
few days.-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
With the Crown Prince in Berlin for Z
conference. no wonder the Germans gained
eight yards-Boston Transcript.
Former Gar Nicholas, it is reported
wants TO buy Liberty bonds, but possibly
what he wants is to get out on one.-Cht<
cago News.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

OAMUEL STRAUSS, in his interesting
weekly paper, The Villager," dag
noses the censorship problem, in so
fs' as it touches the press. He begins by
noting that
A natural impulse before the unseemly
rHddle over press censorship which the su
a'ritiss and the newspapers have accom-
hhed. is to use harsh words and charge
Nh sides with motives. A second thought
's'fairs the easy Indictment; one who only
''gns the process Of thinking the problem
Trough must be convinced that it involves
etieult and deep-reaching conclusions.s
IL censorship were only a matter Of
'ssulating large business, Mr.. Strauss
INKS II might be handled much as the
government is handling the liquor bust
ness or as it may later approach the man
@scfurers Of pleasure automobiles"
nothing more than the process Of edit
- printing and distributing newspapers
's's involved, we should be able 20 announce
NN the conditions of war required news
OPPRESSION, and there make an end Of the
-''"' But one does not search far into
~'O'lness Of publishing newspapers before
-7sis discovered the element which makes
''ries,e complex Of what seems on the
''1see very simple"
Aout technical military censorship, this
"'sr feels, there is substantial agree
Hat:
20 one denies that the best laid plans Of
~''sis and generals depend for their sue
upon secrecy. The newspapers are
as 70 suppress all such information, but
y want the suppression 70 be voluntary
rsnged b. themselves. They are will
have censorship, but they do not want
T'shsor. Such compromise holds within,
h compromises, the seed OF disaster.
Nhat neeos Withholding now ~ only
'naI; new reporter, leaning still on
college diploma, or any man in the
wi knows that tho sailing Of transports
"ng troops or the details Of General
""s return arrangements must be kept
=" cover for tine. But IL will be only
I'VE while before there will be presented
''''h' not only beyond the ability Of the
.~~''iy insxpsrt but beyond the common
80 strength Of those engaged In a highly
.ps'p'Ys business. A this nation APP
.<n.s the fighting line and touches points
''H'set with thousand war facts, there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
In the BleacherS

If Foreign Minister Zimmerman has
resigned from the German Cabinet, we
hope his successor will not insist upon
handing Texas back to Mexico.-Da!las
News.
At last Germany wants to see some
thing more turning up than the KaiSer's
mustache tips.-Boston Herald.
1t is rumored in photograph circles that
while Uncle Sans favorite record is
Selections from The Draft Patriotic
potpourri," the Kaiser is playing nothing
hut Gotterdammerung." - Philadelphia
Evening Ledger.
The Chinese Republic came back like an
srmy mule that has been slapped from
behind with a spade.-Minneapolis Jour
nal.
The President of Cuba, who has 'sus-
pended the constitutional guarantees" ap-
parently still shows the effect of gener-
ations Of Spanish Observation-Disclosures
Star.
Maybe they call him Imperial Chancel,
lor because he has to take so many
chances.-Chicago News.
With more than billion bushels in
crease over last years production in the
principal food products it begins to look as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
A Simple Barometer
OF do not have to invest in baA
rometer, or expend your personal

moisture by hurrying to the near
est observatory" whether at drug stor6
or at a weather bureau, to ascertain The
degree of humidity. From Power" one
gets this hint:
"The instrument in the Weather Buresu
kiosk marked relative humidity is supposed
to show the percentage By weight Of water
vspor in the air, 100 per cent being when
the atmosphere can hold no more in the
form of steam. The maximum weight Of
steam that the atmosphere is capable Of
holding is dependent on and increases with
an increase OF the temperature. The action
Of this hygrometer depends on the expan-
sion and contraction in length of hair or
fibre as it increases or decreases in moisture
content
Another device for measuring the re's-
tive humidity is a combination consisting OF
two ordinary thermometers. one having the
bulb covered with wet cloth or a wick ex.
tending into a vessel Of water In the use
of this instrument the wet-bulb and the dry
bulb temperatures are taken. II they are the
same, the humidity is 100 per cent, but when
there is a difference it is necessary to con-
suit tables in order to obtain the relative
humidity"
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The Censorship

will be as many times more difficult as more
frequent decisions to be made. The mere
self-imposed obligation Of carefulness on the
part of The editors will fall wofully short Of
the tremendous requirements, and before we
find it out great harm may be done"
The natural tendency" of newspapers
generally to oppose censorship has not,
in the opinion Of Mr.. Strauss, been dimin-
| ished by the administrative blunders." He
! finds that the Bureau of Public Informa-
ton was "a most unfortunate result of an
effort to provide a euphemism for the
word censor" And he believes that the
newspapers are on Historically sure
ground" with their readers when they pro-
test against regulations that may restrain
criticism Of the public administration" If
it were possible to pigeonhole debatable
war news, an easy adjustment might be
reached:
"But as a matter of fact, relatively little
information can be so clearly defined. The
most part lies somewhere in an uncharted
and constantly variable twilight zone"
For instance:
"Should the facts about defects in arms or
ammunition, a condition like that uncovered
by Lord NorthclifFe's newspapers in England,
20 unpublished lest the enemy read them, or
should they be printed to bring the pressure
Of public censure on hose responsible :"
Such great difficulties, Mr.. Strauss be-
lieves. make the perfect solution impossi-
>, T.. ,ooro tbop Indictment on "these
borderland facts" one must not hope. But
Of one thing the writer is sure: The CEN
gorship should not be vested In single
individual. He notes that
"The censorship board in Switzerland con-
sists OF five members, three, as we remember,
chosen from among the military and naval
officials and two from among the newsmen'
In such board the minority guides opin-
ion. but does not decide IL; no newspaper
man is forced TO rule for or against MS crazy
and verdicts can never be charged to pro-
feSsional or business interests
And the conclusion insists that
whether there be one man or FIVE TO
guide our war information, there should oe
no more turning Of corners before unaVo.h-
able facta and no more attempts 10 niue
realities by giving them pleasant names
Either there is a censor or there Is no cen
sorship. The public should be given franh
and honest notice that war requires READ
iustments OF our daily portions of news thLt
those readjustments will be made unhes'-
f.atingly and ruthlessly when the military SIT
uA,lon 50 requires but in the hope that tne
net will gather in a minimum OF information
which relates to the forming Of our political
opinion"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

@NE of the newest internal develop
ments of America, which is being
brought more and more into public
notice, is the laying out, marking and i'm
proving of national highways. The
growth of the automobile industry and
popularity of auto tours, some of which
are often transcontinental, are largely re-
sponsble for the countrywide interest in
this improved highway movement. In the
rear future America will have number
Of highways equal to those over which
Ioffre at the beginning of the German in
vasion of France in 1914 rushed his
troops and thus was able to stem the Ger
ran tide and save France.
This instance should demonstrate to
patriotic Americans that good roads are
form of preparedness of immense mill
tary value in times Of war and greatly
conducive TO the interests of commerce
end pleasure in time of peace. The idea
has been promoted by private individuals,
small companies, and of late years by asso-
Citations formed by the combination Of in
terested groups all over the United States.
Evidently auto touring will continue to
grow in popularity. People are beginning
70 realize that vacation spent out Of
doors is most beneficial, and, in fact, is
good financial investment, because of the
greater business efficiency to be gained
from improved health from automobiling
end camp life. The romance of camp life,
with its fragrant scent of wood fires and
appetizing odor Of open air cooking, and
the tranquil rest at night with the starry
sky for roof, is appealing more and more
to the extent that transcontinental tour
lists of late years have numbered some
prominent and wealthy people who for
merely travelled amid the splendor of a
Pullman parlor car.
For all tourists the Pixies Peak highway
offers numerous unique attractions. One
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

and iron element" that holds the German
reins. And "The Herald" with little
faith in a potential German desire for
freedom, adds: at is nothing but defeat
in war that will terminate the war"
But there is no standing still, in war
much less than peace. So THE Milwau-
kee Sentinel" begins an editorial, "Abso-
lutism in Germany is prepared to make q
far sterner fight for existence than abso-
lutism in Russia" and ends it, Master
ing the present political crisis with the
high hand may lead to greater ones here
after. German autocracy must win the
war, and that soon, or reckon with Ger
man democracy for its failure and the
dreadful cost Of it."
"The st. Louis Republic" believes the
only hopeful sign in the situation is that
the Junker triumph may bring its own
remedy in the augmentation and speedy
triumph of the opposition" "The In
dianapolis News" fails yet to find the
Cabinet changes "of any great signif-
canoe as bearing on the question Of peace
or war"
"The Chicago Tribune" says at is our
work." and goes on with an implied de-
fence of American sincerity by declaring:
"Our desire springs from no mere med
dlesome eagerness to prescribe for Ger
mans the form of government under
which they shall live; it springs from
our wish for Germany we can trust,
and shake hands with, and welcome into
the brotherhood of modern nations"
AS for the effect on Germany itself,
The Philadelphia Ledger" finds the posi-
tive stand the Reichstag has taken "is a
long step in the direction Of parliamen-
tary government; but it is not revolu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Little Beyond Lawlessness in
the |. w. w. Demonstration y

THAT either Denman or Goethals
must 20 so that decision can be
reached is the opinion shared in
common by the New York newspapers,
which deplore the recurrence of the dispute
over wood and steel ships. They place
speed and action above the personality of
either men or materials. Under the cap
ton zone or the Other Must Go" "The
Sun" says edtorially:
"The responsibility for the continuance up
to the present time of this situation, so un-
necessary and so distressing, is with the Pres
ident of the United States. He alone holds
the KEY to the deadlock. If he has hestated
10 use more than palliatives until now in his
attempts to bring about solution, it is no
doubt because he has hoped against hope that
harmony and cooperation might come at last
without peremptory measures on his part.
"And we are getting no ships. We are
getting no prospect of ships so long as Cen
eral Goethals and Mr.. Denman are permitted
to counterfeit each the other.
"The thing cannot go on. II is becoming
farcical in one sense, tragic in another. 1t is
high time for the President to act"
"The Evening Post" hopes for an early
agreement. 1t says, rather alphabetically;
"The Goethals-Denman controversy-or
sauabble-is deplorsble enough, but it need
not be regarded with as much concern as if 1t
we're summarily holding up shipbuilding
throughout the nation. We have been offi-
cialy informed tina. there are more than
1 500, 900 tons Of ships building for private
account. Work proceeds with unchecked vigor
on them though it is impossible till the mis-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Dethmann-Hollweg-a
"Sacrihcial Ofering"

It is fairly well agreed that the
Esiser's friend, the Chancellor of ten
DAVIS ago, was the sacrifice to a mutter-
no populace. 1T looks very much as if
chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg were
-be sacrifcial offering to save the
Kaiser" declares 1.-THE Detroit News"
And there is little doubt shown that the
,oup-if it was a coup-will fail in the
end to save the dynasty, although "The
Boston Herald" appears to find in it only
+, prolongation of war, with the appear
,nce of new barbarities from "the blood
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
New York Opinion on the Ship Dispute

Kaiser that there are $50, 900 900 people in the
limited States to fight, but the immediate re-
suit is both to bewilder and exasperate the
citizens who are made the victims of the CEN
sus estimates
While THE Herald" places all blame on
Congress, thus:
"At bottom the responsibility for the draft
confusion about which members of that body
are endeavorng to make so much and IN
which some Of them profess to see sinister
sectional purpose, rests with Congress Ihere
would have been no confusion or possioiIlty
of Misunderstanding il the act of Congress
providing for selective draft based upon
population had specified how population was
to be determined"
THE local press caught up the new
L British Royal House of Windsor as
2 fancy morsel. 1.-The Times" says:
King George has chosen a venerable name
for his house Mr.. Kipling irreverently an
ticipated him in 'Ere's to the Widow at
Windsorn"
"The Sun" makes this comment:
"In taking the name of the House of Wind
sor the British royal family identifies itself
with a place which has been the seat Of Eng
lish kings since William the Conqueror; in
fact. the Saxon kings had residence before
the Norman Conquest at Old Windsor, two
miles away
"Windsor has always been the chief resi-
dence of English sovereigns. Many Of them
are buried there in the vault below St.
Georges Chapel. Perhaps no English view IS
more familiar to Americans than the picture
of the castle taken from the Thames"
THE World" says:
ITO purge it of the German sound of names
like Saxe-Coburg, Brunswick and Hanover,
the royal house of Great Britain and Ireland
will hereafter be known as the House of
Windsor.
"Racially, the British royal family is as
Teutonic as most families in Germany. George
I, German, married a German, as six of his
seven successors on the throne have done"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Civic Ambition and the
Draft

ID RESENTMENT over matters connect
IN ed with the draft has arisen in I'M
expected quarters. The Census Bureau
apportionment of men to be taken from
different sections of the country has
caused several large and ambitious cities
to decry population figures that at other
times they might welcome. And Congress
hears the charge that Democratic shrewd-
ness is sacrificing the North for the
South, where proportionately few soldiers
will be taken.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Tropical Raiss

Tropical rains are Of relatively Short
duration. by reason Of the small number
of cyclonic storms in the tropics, and this
duration is fairly uniform throughout the
year.
The heaviest general rainfalls in Porte
Rico are associated gith West Indian hur-
ricanes. The historic hurricane Of August
s, 1899, precipitated rainfall equivalent q
Lib tons psr acre, - -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
CAUTIOUS world watches Ger
many. 1t is a world that re-
fuses to be tempted into easy

- - - -
fuses to be tempted into easy
..cuiescence in peace and will rather con-
.;rpe the present sacrifice of blood than
10 any Indifference to its beliefs give
cav to a possible future sacrifice of
;issls and blood together.
In this attitude America appears to
lave its share. Newspaper comment on
ne mini.try troubles in Berlin shows
p,tle uncertainty anywhere as to what
.#ect it should have on American action,
tOvever confusing the changes in Ger
rsny may be. And as for guessing
hat present fate the gods may have in
,.ore for the Germany they have first
-.ade mad, newspapers point shrewdly to
ne increased incentive to revolution that
ne probable Junker triumph gives the
German people, but evince no willingness
q draw back from the fight, if fight it
must be.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

ticn, nor anything like revolution; and
1.-THE st. Louis Post Dispatch" adds:
"The greatest menace confronting the
power of the German rulers is the grow
.ng strength of the Reichstag," even find
ing a parallel between the development
of the Reichstag and the Duma.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

partisan or sectional issue, but a good
many Northern people are getting FESTIVE
over the way in which the South comes
out best in everything at time when we
are all urged to abandon partisanship."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
The Future in America
and Radicalism

TT is apparent observers of the great
i drama have discovered that regard
| less of American unselfshness in enter
ing the war there will be compensations
that we cannot escape. Thus "The De-
troit News" asks:
"Can we, if we would, return to the old
economic order after the war is over? Is
the United States, in common with the Euro
pean countries, being irresistibly drawn into
a modified form of state socialism, COM
munism, cooperative industry-call 1t what
you will-from which there will be no tu-n-
ing back? War is teaching us that
the same means by which we now unite to
spread devastation can be used to spread
happiness, prosperity and contentment Co.
operation in peace time would give every
worker a larger share of the rewards Of pro-
duction, more of the leisure that now is ex-
clusively for the idle rich and the beggars,
more education, more appreciation of the
finer things Of life, more opportunity to de-
yelop the best that is in him."
Little Beyond Lawlessness in
the !. W. w. Demonstration ,r -u7 .-
Among radical groups in America,
however, there is tendency to doubt
American willingness to accept such
changes as a compensation, and CORE
spending radical move to force them on
the nation. Possibly the Industrial Work
ers of the World might be listed among
such believers in radical philosophy Of