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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-21

Togiak Bay, Alaska, March H.
Trader Bartlett of Togiak is man
who has expected little of life. And
he got just about what he demanded.
Trader Bartlett married an Eski-
mo, like many men in the lonely
north. Those who DO not marry call
these others "squaw men," though
there is no opprobrium in the term.
His wife was a faithful, if unde-
monstrative mate. She cooked and
stitched and kept the humble home
clean.
1t was what Trader Bartlett ex-
pected. That was why he had settled
down there after years Of rowing the
seven seas.
To complete the measure, nature
gave him four children, in due time.
In his humble way Trader Bartlett
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-21

prospered. He sold bacon and beans,
sugar, flour and tea to the eager pro-
spectOrs adventuring into the Kus-
kokwim. And if ever the lust for
quick, raw gold shook him, he mas
tered it and stayed with his store and
family. He was content.
Like many another ''squaw man,
Bartlett never learned the language
Of his mate, nor she his. Their wants
were so primitive, their association
so simple, that few words suficed.
The children, as they grew up,
learned only the mothers tongue.
The father spanked them at times,
played with them occasionally and
gave them an affectionate bear-hug
now and then. But to his babies he
remained a strange, silent man to
whom they could not prattle and
pour out their little joys and griefss
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-21
.QUAW MANo CAN'T TALK no CHILDREN

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
Why Not Abolish
Women ?

.r1HE following interesting and often
" pungent tid-bits are assembled from
J. an essay on woman appearing
fwh,re it would seem to be safesD In
The Unpopular Review;
nan can do nearly anything woman
Except bear and suckle children, and
wonan. if relieved Of all other burdens,
hs made 10 give birth TO a progeny Of
.-.ntv or more. A tyro in economics can
that one woman with twenty sons is bet
=: ,bsn twenty women with one son apiece.
yonen do the cooking, nursing, and SO on,
Il, ,inee being here, they must make them
..,vss useful, but they regard it as a
,-,s~.rv Men make a business Of it, and
~, is one reason why the world prefers
them.
:. setion we read of mans love for wom-
~. in history of his devotion to men. He
..ldon feels an unselfsh attachment for a
--.,,n unless it has been instilled into him
duty. His mother he esteems because
81 her love for him.
Write an article derogatory to men, and
4. will never be published. There is no de-
- for il. Publish a diatribe against
~onen. and the paper containing it will 90
Ike hot cakes
Then. if you 60 to the bottom Of things,
nan do not really love women. Yet neither
a. women love women-much Any landlady
ill tell YOU that she objects to them as
Aosrders, and just watch any grown woman
a -FOUR acquaintance who has to live in the
lopse with another adult female. Why,
no,ber and her own married daughter are
A,ppier under different roofs!
babe in arms will go TO a strange man
4, preference to a strange woman. So will
. dog.
And woman herself may be proud Of her
r.rsonaI charms, but never of her sex. Most
venen had rather be men. The average wife
thinks more highly of her husbands judg-
u,nt than of her own, and cares more for
Al, and her children's welfare than for her
eva
The male sex is the only one ever in
sors.d BY all religions. We know the atti-
tude of some of them toward woman.
Smallpox was endured as the will Of God
ell incubation was discovered, but it is IN
uu.l now. In time girls may be as rare.
A woman will be needed to perpetuate the
nee. but everybody will want somebody else
10 furnish them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
New Standards in Testing Steel

conclusions concerning the design and the
strength Of steel columns.
1.-TWO different ideas were incorporated in
the design Of the test columns. The columns>
of one group, constituting the tests made for
committee Of the American Society Of Civil
Engineers, were OF solid section; that Is,
without lattice, in order to furnish infor-
nation on the dependence Of column strength
on slenderness ratio and on the shape Of
cross-secton.
mo one could have predicted in advance
Of the tests that a certain pair of columns.
for instance, would not show substantially
equal strength, whereas in the testing ma
chine one Of these was found to be over 80
per cent weaker than the other. Such diffeg-
ences occurred again and again. They form
the most prominent feature of the results OF
the tests. Equally large differences OF
strength may occur in the steel columns used
in bridges and buildings"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

"A voice-'Why don't you 60 yourself,
you old blowhard"
az am identified, young man, with a
Arkymedian leaver which moves the world,
said the Editor, wiping his auburn brow
with his left coat-tail. 4 allude, young
man, to the Press. Terms, two dollars a
year, invariably In advance. Job printing
executed with neatness and dispatch"
4 ND with this Dust of elekance' the
n Editor introduced Mr.. j. Brutus
Hinkins, who was "sufferin' from an at
tack of College in naberin' place" and
who felt that somebody ought to save
Washington.
This was the meeting at which party
of "wimin" carrying guns as belligerently
as any Command Of DEATH" and headed
by Betsy Jane, called for results,-and
got them.
"'war meetin's, said Betsy Jane, lis very
nice in their way, but they don't keep
Stonewall Jackson from comm over to
Maryland and helpn' himself to the latest
beef critters. What we want Is more cider
and less talk. We want you able-bodied
men to stop speechifyin' which don't
amount to the wiggle Of sick cats tail,
and 90 to f'tin. Otherwise you can stay
to home and tax. keer Of the children, while
we wimin go to the wars!'
"Gentlmen,' sed l, that's my wife. Go
in, old gall and I throw'd up my ancient
white hat in perfeck rapters.
ais this roll book to be filled up with the
names Of men or wiminT she cried.
with men-with men' and our quoty
was made that very night"
We may we'll repeat A. Wards conclu-
sion: there is great deal of gas about
these war meetin's; in fact, war meetin'
without gas would be suthin' like the play
of Hamlet with the part Of Othello left
out"
Ward had no patience with the practice
of waging a war by argument. When we
consider with what vastly greater dispatch
Lincolns Congress met demands, we can
imagine how much stronger than these
might have been the words in which Ward
would have addressed the legislators Of
to-day:
1--WE don't lack great Gen'rals and we GER
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

"ESTING material has become one OF
the most important factors in pro-
duction, and the war has made the
standards still higher because of the de-
mands for accuracy in measurement and
uniformity in material. Specifications are
more severely applied in industrial orders
than before, and now that the government
has become the large buyer, especially of
steel, testing takes on added significance.
"The Engineering News-Record" says of
the recent applications of material tests:
1.-THE completion Of the remarkable series
of column tests conducted at the Bureau Of
Standards during the last three years permits
of presenting a brief summary of the re-
suits. This series, the largest consistent
group of column tests ever made-in fact
virtually the only important modern series
lays new experimental foundation for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
Artemus Ward on the Civil War Draft

Baldinsville residents who supported Mr..
Wards patriotic efforts to stir the town.
Together these two got up q mass meet
ing which was a great success, according
to the writer's own report.
eve held it in the open air round
roarin' bonfire. The schoolmaster was the
first orator. He's pretty good on the speak
He said this inactivity surprised him. What
do you expeck will come Of this kind Of
doin's? Mill fit 'Hooray for Nihil!' l
interrupted. Fellow citizens, let's give
three cheers for Mill the man who ftn
The schoolmaster turned a little red, but re-
peated, Mill fit! Exactly I sed. Mill
fit. He wasn't strategy Teller Our ven
cradle friend said the sehoolmaster, smil-
in pleasantly, isn't posted in Virgil NO;
don't know him. But II he's a able bodied
man he must stand his little draft"
4 LII Of this is very broad, too broad,
- perhaps, for those Of US who have
learned nicer distinctions between wit and
humor. But there is compensation for
not little of the breadth in the existence
Of considerable depth. Underneath Arte-
mus Wards "goaks" lie grave truths. 1t
is hoped that such exhortations as the
following from his Fourth Of July ora
ton made Baldinsville think as well as
laugh:
az said the crisis had not only cum itself,
but It had brought all its relations. It has
cum, said with evident intention Of
maxim US good, long visit It's goin' to
take OF its things and stop with US. My
wife says so, too. This is good war. For
those who like this war it's just such kind
Of war as they like. This war
hain't been too well managed. We all know
that Whist theny We are all in the same
boat; II the boat goes down we 80 with her.
Hence We must fight. It ain't no use now 70
talk about who caused the war. That's
played out. The war Is upon us-upon US
all-and we must all fight. We can't 'rea-
SON. the matter with the foe-only with
steel and lead"
These are no funny words; they are
very serious words indeed and faught
with meaning. They are words that reach
out and take hold of US; they have been
lying silent for many years; would that
they were on more lips to-day!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

the landlord, lis the stage. Sixteen able
bodied citizens has lately bot the stage line
between here and Scootsberg. That's them.
They're stage drivers. Stage-drivers is ex-
empt!' I saw that each stage-driver carried
letter in his left hand. The mail is
hevy to-day said the landlord. 'Gin'rally
they don't have more'n half dozen letters
tween 'em. To-day they got one apiece ~
CTAGE-DRIVING, however, was ardu-
- Gus. There were more pleasant means
of exemption. Patriot Ward found DR..
Schwazey, one of Baldinsville's leading
citizens, in the village oyster saloon in a
state of mind which showed he'd been
"histin' in large supply of what Ward
delighted to call "scintillation." whats
the matter with the eminent physician"
inquired Ward. "This," he replied, "this
is what's the matter-1'm a habitooal
drunkard! I'm exempt"
But it was not such jovial evaders Of
the call to duty who elected the sharpest
thrusts. Ward aimed higher up, and his
comments on Editor Slinkers of the
"Bugle-Horn of Liberty" must in their
day have caused "sum squirmin'."
"And how ist it with your inquired Of
the editor of The Bugle,' who sat near me.
4 can't co. he said, shskin' his head in a
wise way Ordinarily I should delight to
wade in gore, but my bleedin' country bids
me stay at home. 1t is imperatively neces-
sary that | remain here for the purpose Of
announcin' from week to week that our
gov'ment is about to take vigorous measures
to put down the Rebellion"
A. Ward is convinced that were it not
for this heavy responsibility "this illus
iris man would enlist as a Brigadier
Central and git his Bounty" Mr.. Sink
ers is allowed to amplify the explanation
Of his position at the historic war meetin'
at Baldinsville which was better attended
than the Eclipse had been. He was chair
man of the meetin' and he arose and got
up and said the fact could no longer be
disguised that we were involved in war.
"Human gore said he, SIS fowin' All
able-bodied men should seize a musket and
march to the tented field. | repeat it, sir,
to the tented field
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

Psychological Association. DR.. Dearborn
a psychologist with several works already
to his credit, regards "blood pressure as
the most sensitive bodily index of mental
action" He finds that imaginary events
affect the arterial tension almost, If not
quite, as much as the real physical event.
Worry and anxiety keep the pressure high,
while happiness and content make it low.
The tests were made by continuous" rec
ord, and betv cen nine and ten thousand
records were &aken before the conclusions
were drawn. The experimenter finds that
the systolic tension represents rather the
mental variations, while the diastolic ten
sion is more dependent upon vasomotion,
being more somatic and biologic. The &C
companying chart is taken as an example
from among the innumerable registerings,
the "hemobarogram" reading being self
explanatory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
War Socks by Machine

The demand for this knitting machine
is SO great that the factory at Buffalo has
been unable to make prompt or large ship
ments. 1t takes a month to fill an order
and the machines are delivered three at
time. They cost SIT apiece. Besides
cocks, it is possible to knit >wristlets and
sleeveless sweaters on them. Wool may also
be bought from the Vacation War Relief
Committee, which has made an arrange
ment with wholesalers by which it gets
special price on yarn for relief purposes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
estate Nature"
and War
1OTHING daunted by the war, the

n 1OTHING daunted by the war, the
~ philosophers and theologists pro-
- coed to build up moralities and
ideals Of peaceful human conduct Victor
S. Yarros, writing in "The Public" uses
the remarkable analyses Of Professor L. 2.
Jacks, editor of 1.-THE Hilbert Journal" ~
the basis Of his own discussions of human
nature. Mr.. Yarros says:
Men fight, Mr.. Jacks told US early in the
war, because it is their nature to fight;
because they are still half savage; because
they are narrow, psrochial, tribal; because
they dislike the unlike and either hate or
despise every foreigner.
Further evoution-and it may require
mllennia-wil slowly eliminate war, as past
evolution has abolished the duel, the private
feud, the rule of the strongest or Of the mob.
The tribe made way for the nation; the ne
ton was transformed into the federal re-
public: in time certain forces and factors
that are even now at work must bring forth
q federation Of declarations, world repub-
lie. with international tribunals and inter-
national machinery lor INC maAH'0h""S0 w.
peace and justice
This view, expressed not in anger or
cynicism, but in regret and sorrow, seemed
quite sensible and rational. But Professor
Jacks did not long remain satisfied with
such simple ideas as these. he recanted and
publicly withdrew his charge against human
nature. No, Wholesale murder, rapine, de-
81 h..
debited TO human nature. That would be
cruel Islander. Human nature is not so bad,
not so depraved. An alibi must be found.
Professor Jacks finds it in state nature
The crimes and atrocities we could not COM
NIT as human beings we are induced to COM
nit, OF bring ourselves to commit, as rub
jscts OF members Of state. The present
war Is the expression Of q naturc that Is
lower than that Of the average human being.
It is In the name Of patriotism, country, the
state, that the average inofensive individual
goes forth to slay and rsvage without cause.
What we must reform, then, is state nat
ure. We must, therefore, sxalt the individ-
ual and subordinate the state. We must
shake off the tyranny Of the state. We must
place the responsibility for all action on the
individuals who act, and accept no excuse
based on the idea that responsibility may be
shifted or avoided"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

Diesel made its appearance and to-day prac-
tically all the worlds submarines use this
type of engine for surface propulsion. There
are few high-speed steam submarines in
service in Europe, but these have been built
only because it has been impossible to pro-
duce a Diesel Of the power required in The
limits Of space and weight allowed by these
boats.
"The Diesel type engine is the ideal engine
for submarine on account Of its low fuel
consumption, compactness, absence Of ex-
cessive heat radiation and ease of stopping
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

$4,000 pairs of socks have been made, dur
ing the past year. The majority Of these
have been returned to the organization,
which acts as a clearing house for clothing
donated to European hospitals and SOL
diers' families in France. But there is
rothing to prevent the purchaser making
socks for her friends or tie soldier MEM
bers of her family. When she buys ma
chine from the Vacation Association, how
ever, she must not sell her socks to COM
mercial organization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

tainly don't lack brave sojers, but there's
one thing l wish We did lack, and that's our
present Congress. l venture to say that il
you sarch the earth all over with ten
horsepower mikriscope, you won't be able
to find such another pack of poppycock
gabblers as the present Congress of the
United States Of America. Gentlemen Of
the SENT & of the House, you've sot there
and draw'd your pay and made summer-com-
plant speeches long enuf. The country at
large, incloodin' the undersigned, is dis
gusted with you. Why don't you show US
statesman-sumbody who can make a speech
that will hit the poplar hart right under
the Great Public weskit? Why don't you
show US a statesman who can rise up to the
Emergency, and cave in the Emergency's
hesdw
Indeed, Ward went so far as to confess
that at a special Congressional election in
his district he voted for Henry Clay. 81
admit that Henry is dead" he explained,
with terrible sarcasm, "but inasmuch as
we don't seem to have live statesman in
our National Congress, let us by all means
have first-class corpse"
w ARD took care that his charges
w against the dsputers and the
slackers could not be made g. boomerang.
He raised and drilled a company In Bald
insville, basing his organization on that
shrewd observation Of human nature which
is his striking virtue. "Havin' noticed
a gin'ral desire on the part Of young men
who are into the crisis to wear appylits,"
he explained, IL determined TO have my
company composed exclusively Of ofissers,
everybody to rank as Brigadier Gin'ral."
The following were some Of the questions
to which he subjected his recruits:
at trust you with a real gun, how
many men Of your own company do you s1-
peck you can manage 70 Kill duhn' the
war;
"Have you ever heard of Central Price,
of Missouri, and can you avoid similar ac-
cidents in case Of battle?
"'Have you ever had the measles, and II
so, how many?'
"'How are you now?' &c, &c CSome Of
the questions was sarcusstical)"
The schoolmaster was one Of the few
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

4 KNITTING MACHINE that will
~ enable its operator to finish sock
every twenty minutes, or twelve
pairs in an eight-hour day, is being demon
strated by the Vacation War Relief Com
mittee Of the Vacation Association, Inc,
at the old Colony Club, 122 Madison Ave
nue., every day from IL o'clock until l.
This organization, which works in CO.
operation with the American Fund for
French Wounded, has been responsible for
the sale of $50 machines on which over
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

war will, in all probability, not be an ever
lasting peace. Who can hope for that?
We whose country has so often been in
vaded must therefore prepare to defend
ourselves, and as the new battles may very
likely have to be fought on the ground on
which our armies are now fighting. our
descendants would be justified in reproach.
ing us if we were so shortsighted as not
to avail ourselves of the present favorable
opportunity Of examining the geological
character of the different battlefield"
No commentary necessary. "Vorsicht"
Is indeed "die Mutter der Weisheit"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
The Diesel Submarine Engine

and starting This last characteristic,
coupled with absence Of smoke pipes, ETC.,
is most important, as it allows quick sub
mergence.
Like the gasolene engine, the Diesel en-
CINE is built in both the two and four-eycle
types, the four-cycle engine being the more
popular. Revolutions range anywhere from
800 to $50 per minute for the submarine en-
gines, but the tendency to-day is for slow
speed reliable engine, and speeds Of over
400 revolutions per minute are seldom met
with"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

TIME Diesel oil burning engine is the
prevailing type used in submarines.
- The submarines development in
recent years has hinged on the Diesel
engine, and to-day one of the main things
that limits the size of the submarine is
the ability to produce a submarine Diesel
engine of sufficient power, says Motor
Boating:
"The early submarine boats were small
affairs driven by gasolene engines, but this
type OF engine was discarded as soon as the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

A NEW method of mind analysis is
N the product of tbe research work
Of Dr.. George V. n. Dearborn, OF
the Sargent Normal School, Cambridge,
Mass, whose studies in blood pressure as a
record of emotions will presently be given
to the scientific world in book form. Ad-
vance sheets of DR.. Dearborn's work, The
New Blood Pressure, a New Method OF
Mind Analysis" now made available to
the public through The Tribune Review,
yield the following glimpses of the novel
theory, as illustrated by what DR.. Dear
born calls "hemobarograms," one Of which
shows the blood-pressure record Of the
emotion Of love.
The research work was done mostly at
Harvard University, and the results have
already been presented TO the American
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
Studying the Battle.
fields

A THIRST sight it might appear that
~ the work of the stratigraphical
- geologist, the palsontologist or
the photographer might be of domestic or
academic interest, but would be unlikely to
influence the course Of a worldwide war.
Let US listen to the following outburst
of Teutonic paleontologist In khaki:
"The peace which will conclude the present
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

emotion OF dSdppo'n'
concerned IN dA
recalled men'de
(dias Ct 76r When the stimulus
uo the s fell continued up When the young woan ors
lneres minutes
like that arriving at rest IN eoo" e@"
initial Is minutes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
IF WE think of Artemus Ward at all,
we think of him as a person who

IF WE think of Artemus Ward at all,
we think of him as a person who
made "goaks." London remembers
him as a young American who solemnly
lecturei to hilarious audiences about the
Mormons. He died fifty years ago and
that is plenty long enough to blot out a
funny mans memory.
But Artemus Ward was more than a
funny man. He was funny man on the
right side of great moral issue, and he
had a pitiless eye for the standings and
the leanings and the warnings of his
fellow men for the wrong side. This is
why he lives at all. The account of the
draft in Baldinsville is funny, but to
read it in these days is to recognize not
only its funniness but its truth, not only
it's broad absurdities but its sharp satire.
The people of Baldinsville are not stran-
gers to US. Zone young man who was
drawd," reported Ward, claimed to be
exemp because he was the only son of q
widow'd mother who supported him."
Another who sat on barrel and smelled
strongly of something strong declared
that "he'd be Dam if he'd go to the wars"
We know them both. There are places
larger than Baldinsville to-day where, to
use Wards own "jew desprit," patriotism
is considerably "below Par-and Mar
too"
81 hadn't no sooner set down on the piazzy
of the tavoun (thus Ward writes) than I
saw sixteen solitary hossmen, ridin' four
abreast, wendin' their way up the street
What's them? Is it cavalry" That said