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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27

had to fight over on the Somme, in Cham
payne or before Arras.
II is clear that for Italy, as for the other
Allies. time has become dubious ally and
there is n new incentive to push forward
with all energy. Possession OF Trieste
would probably consolidate Italian opinion
behind the war. A third campaign which
failed and was followed by general
peace discussion and possible prefer by
Austria Of the Trentine district might
produce differences and disorders in Italy
at least comparable to those which have
taken place in Russia.
There is, then, every reason to expect
that this third campaign of Italy, now
begun with considerable initial success, be-
tween Tolmino and the sea, will be more
fiercely pushed and more energeucaiiy
maintained than any campaign Italy has
vet made. If it succeeds it will certainly
give Italy Trieste. If it fails it may
easily be followed by an attack by Austria
through the Trentino, where an Austrian
attack only just failed of success while the
Germans were battering at Verdun.
1t is by no mean beyond the realm OF
possibility to say that the Central Powers
are planning to end this year with some
success over Italy which will correspond
in a measure with their success over Ru-
mania last year and have greater moral
effect upon the world than did the Runran-
ian disasters of last fall.
In a certain sense the Italian campaign
will be the barometer Of Austrian condi-
ton. and we shall be better able to judge
the strength of Austria as the weeks OF
fighting on the Carso and in the Julian
Alps continue. In the meantime Italy has
opened her offensive with local success
which, if inferior to that Of the British at
Arras, compares well with those of the
French from Scissors to the Rheims sector.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
A Memorial for Mr.. Choate
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The undersigned, blind women OF
New York Association for the Blind >"
asked me to act as their spokesman III '
gard to starting a fund for a memons' "
our beloved president, Joseph II. oa"
We all feel that Mr.. Choate's death nsr
sonal loss to each of US, for he was W
vitality interested in helping TO bring w
through Work to the blind. =.
The first time that Mr. Choate came =
Lighthouse it was my privilege 70 "a" 4.
tation from him. He was then soIS'ns =
US very weighty problem and the ~
was an important one. After the le1se.
finished Mr. Choate looked at the ysf~ !
dots and said in a puzzled way. "Whs. ~
you do with it now!" wait and ses'
the reply. read the letter back, ana -
stopped Mr. Choate came over and CAV
couple Of approving pats. have ~. |.
those pats always. That was really W.
ginning Of his interest in us. a.
Il was a privilege 70 have known "a ~
we all did here at the Lighthouse. Inc
Women's Club has voted $40 toward 's'
mortal, and the undersigned have easa
scribed so cents for the fund. 80
For NJ. Agnes Stafford. Dora Fichts,
Day. Katherine Devlin, Mary 3. ~
and Theresa de Francis.
New York, May "a, 1917. ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Discouraging the Ghosts

A casual perusal of the British daily
papers during the last year or so makes it
plain that in England, at least, the war has
proved an inestimable boon to the gentry
who make their living by calling up ghosts
and supplying the bereaved with more or
less vague and impertinent messages from
the next world. The vagrancy and
amended witchcraft acts have, however,
been turned to account so often Of late
and so many hopeful mediums and dab
blers in occultism robbed of their means Of
subsistence in the police courts that the
revival of sorcery will be shortlived I'M
less the magistrates can be persuaded to
look with a more benevolent eye on paid
practitioners.
Sir Oliver Lodge is profoundly uneasy
on this score. For many years he has
been earnestly engaged In psychic re-
search, and it is with the greatest concern
that he observes the increasing number Of
prosecutions for clairvoyance, even though
some of the offenders may be impostors
Accordingly, he has thought it his duty to
protest as follows against the undue ac-
tivity of the courts in this matter:
The present persecution is bound to have
detrimental effect upon perfectly honest
people who, under sufficient difficulties al
ways, are exercising faculty they do not
understand. but whose nerves are now
strained to breaking point by the constant
fear Of police spies and arrest The genuine
medium is as necessary in the study Of
psychical science as is the telescope In the
study of astronomy. and damage to either
instrument must inevitably impede progress
1t is all very we'll to say that the unpaid
medium is. untouched, but I'VE are deal
ing" Sir Oliver psists ont with sensitive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Postmasters and the Liberty Loan

Why has the machinery of the postal
service not been made use of in floating
the Liberty Loan? There are more post
offices than there are banks. The Post
office Department has its representative
in every town and village. 1t is the one
governmental agency which comes into
close contact with every community
with every man, woman and child in the
United States.
There is no reason why every second
class. third class and fourth class post
master should not be a bond salesman.
He has already been made recruiting
agent for the War Department and the
Navy Department. The government pays
him So for every volunteer recruit he Sc
cures for the Army, the Navy or the
Marine Corps. He has also been qualified
to serve as a registrar for the execution
of the selective CONSUMPTION law and
notary to administer oaths to other regis
trars. He is manifestly the proper man
to represent the Treasury Department
in pushing the sale of Liberty Loan
bonds in the small towns, the villages and
the rural districts.
Persons outside the larger cities and
towns are expected to buy bonds directly
from the Treasury. Unless they have bank
accounts (which not many of them have)
they must send money orders or cash in
registered letters to Washington. This
costs something, and, besides, going to that
much trouble is likely to discourage SUBJ
scribers. The cost of correspondence and
of the transmission of funds ought to be
borne by the government. Some serious him
ORANGES to popular subscription would be
overcome if every postmaster were author
lied to receive offers and to deliver bonds
after full payment has been made.
Here is a chance to attract the small
investor in the back country. 1t is inn
portant that the sale of the present bond
issue should be widely diffused. The
American public must be educated to buy
ing government securities. Our people
have never acquired the habit, as the
French artisans and peasants have. The
best possible advance agent for popular
war bond sales is the second class, third
class and fourth class postmaster. Why
isn't he already at work?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Cut Out Slap-Stick Patriotism
tFrom The Philadelphia Inquirer

There will be very general sympathy with
the object of the bill offered in the House
Of Representatives at Harrisburg which aims
to discourage what is best known as SLAP
stick patriotism" The resolution declares
that 1.-THE Star-Spangled Banner" should not
be incorporated into fantasy or medley and
should only be sung or played at appropri-
ate and opportune times. It aims, in q
word, to surround the national anthem with
the dignity which it deserves and which Is
necessary If it is not to be brought into
contempt and ridicule.
There are some things which cannot be
regulated by law, and patriotism would seem
to be one Of them. Things Of this kind
are usually matters of taste, and where q
man or a collection Of men is devoid Of
this quality it is mighty difficult to inculcate
1t by law. Nevertheless, the resolution In
question is opportune, and it may have the
effect of stopping the indiscriminate use Of
the inspiring anthem, which must be treated
with reverence, and which should not be
utilized by takers and others for business
and mercenary purposes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Hard Times for Panhandlers
(Fron. The Detroit Journal

The Attorney General Of Tennessee has
adopted a policy with a great slogan" Work
war or workhouse." He intends that there
shall be no idlers in his state. Those who
escape the military draft and who will not
work voluntarily for wages offered and paid
shall work against their Wills for no wages
at all.
The time is ripe for breaking up the big
army Of the Sons Of Rest. 1t has been toier-
atcd so long that what was an easy-golng At.
titude toward tramps has come to seem to
them to be a constitutional right. Every
mans arm is needed now--in army or navy
be permitted, simply because it cannot be az
forded.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
An American College to An English
I~:,>x,;x,,
FROM The Spectator.

lFrom The spectator.)
Oxford, when I remembered thou hadst been
Two years engaged in this most holy war,
My heart with bitterness and shame was sore,
Because as yet had not felt the keen
Sweet pain of sacrifice that others bore.
Now when know that perforce must share
That sacrifice, it seems like death to say:
LET It be so! What others bore, I bear.
Let them 60 forth. ] would not have them
stay"
should hold
So much for them Of work and love and mirth.
Yet God forbid that we should be less bold.
Less strong than you 10 save blood.stained
earth
What though our hearts are broken by the
toll?
Their death shall save alive the Nations soul.
n. B. 8.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
tFrom The Detroit JosrsaD

An army man advises women NOT =
socks for soldiers. The governme'' =
buy the things, he says, for 10 eenu =
whereas no homemade socks can
structed for less than so cents.
Sock-knitting may be misdireeseo :
But it isn't misdirected sentiment
very good thing for . soldier to hs.s -
thing on which he knows some soee -,
has put in precious hours Of labor. -
tsins that invisible line between -
home which is priceless 70 the 49,
and is never scorned BY his older
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27

This is the last Of Mr.. Gleasom's series
OF articles on the changes Ddr has pro-
duced in English life. The articles hare
Just been published in book form By the
Century Company, under the title INSIDE
the British Isles"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27

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,BrBrvNE sih absolute safey-for II disa'is'a 'uon 49,
10 sry case TIE TRIBUNE guarantees 70 p" 'O.r -
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Evening star., 1917-09-07
WARNS COAL
OPERATORS TO OBEY LAW
Price-Fixing Act Not Passed as
Bluff, Says Senator, and Will
Be Enforced.

Senator Pomerene of Ohio, author of
the provision in the food control law
for the fixing of coal prices, and who
has taken especial interest in executive
action under the law. has had a long
conference with DR.. Garfield. in charge
of coal price fixing. AS a result of that
conference Senator Pomerene has given
out a statement in which he says:
Information comes to me from many
sections of Ohio and of the country
generally to the effect that there is dis
position among many of the coal oper-
ators to ignore the prices for coal re-
Gently fixed by the President
IF any of these operators feel that
Congress passed the law fixing the
prices of food and fuel as a bluff. or
that the executive department was not
serious when the prices were fixed. thew
had better accept word Of friendly ad-
monition.
THE law has teeth in it, Severe pen-
alties are provided for asking, demand
ing or receiving higher prices than
those fixed. or for refusing to conform to
regulations which the government NAV
make. The law will be and ought to be
vigorously enforced. and l am confident
that DIR. Garfield will be firm in his pur-
pose to enforce it both in letter and in
spirit for the relief of the public.
II hope the coal operators and dealers
will be patriotic and humane enough to
comply with this law without making
it necessary to invoke the criminal
penalties"
Evening star., 1917-09-07
GERMAN ALRlNEN DROP BOMBS
ONAMERICAN WAR HOSPITALS.
KILLING THREE, WOUNDLNG l9


LONDON September 1.-The Germans yesterday made an
aerial attack the American hospitals occupied St Louis
Harvard contingents situated village, killing officer
of the American Army Medical Corps and woundng three others
severely correspondent British headquarters
telegraphs today.
Of sixteen
five of the latter being Americans.
by German hospitals
has been received today by the War Department
have been the last fort
night August hospital behind the was
thirty persons including twenty nurses
Wednesday night last there another attack the
pa persons being killed and tweny-sx wounded in
effort which carried intervals during
than six hours
Evening star., 1917-09-07
ENTIRE R|BOT CABINET
VOTES TO QUIT OFFICE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. September THE resigna-
tion of the Ribot ministry was decided
upon unanimously after a cabinet
meeting this morning.
President Poincare has asked the
premier and his ministers to withhold
their designations until the presidents
of the senate and chamber of deputies
have returned to Paris to discuss the
situation.
The presidents of both chambers have
been summoned to Paris by telegraph.
The Matin, discussing the ministerial
situation. says that Premier Ribot's alb
sence at the Marine celebrations inter-
rupted his pourparlers, but that it is
certain that the premier handed the
collective resignation of the cabinet to
President Poincare at this morning S
cabinet meeting. The President, con-
tinues the newspaper. after the custom
ary consultations with the presidents of
the senate and the chamber ef deputies
II certain to ask NJ. Ribot to form a new
ministery which is not likely to be
completed before next week.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
ARRESTED PICKET MAY
LOSE PLACE IN SCHOOL
Miss Fotheringham, Teacher in Buf.
falo, Censured for Activities
Near White House.

BUFFALO. N. Y, September 7-,,s,
Margaret Fotheringham. arrested u,ith
other suffraeists for picketinx in front
OF the White House. will be dismissed
as a teacher Of domestic science in the
Buffalo public schools IL DIR. Henry p.
Emerson. superintendent of education
has his way.
L have received many protests
against continuing Miss Fotherinsham
as a teacher" Supt. Emerson told the
school board at its meeting last night.
1T is no credit to the city to have on
its pay roll teacher who persists In
insulting the President of the IySitad
States
ent to prefer charges aeain.t Nj.
Fotheringham for being absent frn1o
her duties without leave. oii
Evening star., 1917-09-07
Output Not Affected.

Representative Sherley asked further:
TT is not true. then. that you have
In any serious way had your output
stopped or lessened from the govern
ment factories by virtue of manufac-
turing difficulties?"
NO. answered Gen. Crozier.
"Have there been any reflections OF
any moment in connection with the
cartridges; in particular. their inabil-
ity to fire when used in machine guns%
None sufficient to cause US anxiety.
Cartridges for machine guns have to
exhibit a degree of excellency and par
ticularly a degree of uniformity which
is not necessary in cartridges which
are fired from rifles. although We try
to fire the same cartridges from both,
and generally do.
In starting our new contracts We
have endeavored to perfect the specifi-
cations SO that the requirements of
them will insure ammunition which
guns. and in doing SO some of the man
ufacturers claim that we have made
specifications that we have not manu-
factured to ourselves: in other words,
that our own manufacture has not lived
up to those specifications. and in some
cases that might be true.
But there is no general difficulty and
no general complaint from the service
about the unsatisfactory character of
the ammunition. and there is nothing
to cause us any apprehension that our
ammunition will not be supplied with
sufficient promptness because of rejec-
tions due to poor manufacture"
He said further that in case ammuni-
tion was shipped without machine gun
test it should be specifically marked
with that Inflammation.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
PRESIDENT URGES VOTES
FOR WOMEN IN MAINE

BANGOR. Me, September 7-Presi-
dent Wilson expressed his interest in
the equal suffrage campaign in Maine
and urged all democrats to support the
cause at the special state election next
Monday. in letter received by Mrs,
Deborah Knox Livingstone, Chairman a
of the Maine suffrage campaign com.
mittee. Under date of September 4 the
President wrote:
May l not express through you nv
very great interest in the equal suf-
frage campaign in Maine? The pledges
Of my party are very distinct in favor
Of granting the suffrage to women by
state action and / would like to have
the privilege of urging all democrats
to support a cause in which we all be.
lteve."
Evening star., 1917-09-07
Maximum Fare 5 Cents.

The orders stipulate that the rate of
Iare over any route shall not exceed
cents for a continuous one-wav tr;n
within the District. and that a card
! having the words. Fare Cents" shall
be displayed conspicuously on the We
hlcle, SO as to be read easily by
the terminal points of the routes also
shall be indicated conspicuously on the
vehicle. it is prescribed.
Jitneys now using the restricted sec
tions OF streets mentioned in the or
ders may continue to operate over
them until November l, after which
they must designate new routes in
their license applications. 1t is un-
derstood that about fifty applications
for jitney routes, many Of them desig-
mating some of the streets affected by
the new ruling. are pending before the
commission. In such cases they will
be denied.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
BELGIANS REFUSE TOFLY
FLAGS TO HONOR KAISER

LONDON. September Ut is re1,.s
by the Amsterdam correspondent of tha
Exchange Telegraph Company thar
when Emperor William visited BrusssIs
last week on his way to the FIandars
front the populace refused to comnlv
with a request OF the authorities to
display flags.
Instead they remained indoors and
drew the window blinds on which thev
inscribed: CLOSED for national mourn.
Ing" The streets were deserted excent
for the soldiers and police,
Evening star., 1917-09-07
PACIFISTS TOLD TO MOVE.
New York Landlord Orders Peoples
Council to Vacate Offices.

NEW YORK. September THE Peo-
pies Council of America was reported
to be looking for combination of suit
able offices and friendly landlord to-
day, following notice served upon the
organization yesterday that 1t vacate
the premises on 5th avenue where its
present Offices are located.
The order to move is effective Sep
tember IL, and was issued by the land
lord. it was-said, following a notice
from the police department. that the
INV was being violated.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
JITNEYS RULED OFF
CROWDED STREETS
Cannot Operate on Conqested
Downtown Thoroughfares,
Beginning Nov. I.
FARE REDUCED TO 5 CENTS

Orders restricting the operation of jit
neys in the District, which, it is estimat
ed, will necessitate changes in at least Z;
per cent of the jitney routes as now
maintained. were issued today by the
Public Utilities Commission.
Following an exhaustive study of the
situation, the commission arrived at the
conclusion that congested traffic condi
tons made imperative the ruling off OF
Jitneys from certain fhoroughfares.
Streets Closed to Jitneys.
The streets that will be closed r.
transportation service of this charac.
ter. as enumerated in the order, are
the following:
Fourteenth street from Massachu.
setts avenue to Pennsylvania avenue
Fifteenth street from New York ave.
nue. to Pennsylvania avenue.
New York avenue from 18th to 18th
streets.
F street from 7th to 18th streets
G street from 7th to 18th streets
Ninth street from Massachusetts To
Pennsylvania avenues.
Following the street car strike last
winter. jitneys appeared like mush-
rooms under temporary regulations an
proved by the commission. Approri
mately 400 licenses were issued by the
District 1t is estimated that only he
tween fifty and seventy-f1ve of the
routes licensed at that time now are In
operation. AA'
After the settlement of the car strike
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company asked the utilities boa rd 70
put an end to the operation of fitnevs
over thoroughfares paralleling the COM
panys lines. 1t was pointed out that
tne company paid taxes and in other
ways shared the burdens of municipaI
government which in no part were
borne by the jitney concerns
In arriving at it's conclusion the rom.
mission. as far as its orders Indicate.
sideration, but rather upon the fact
that 1itneys should not be permitted to
operate over certain sections of thor
ougniares where traffic already is
Evening star., 1917-09-07
Many British Recruits Obtained.

NEW YORK, September Brig Gan.
w. A. White, head Of the British recruit
ing mission in the United States. declared
on his return to New York from a tour OF
the country that ''the war feeling Is deep
ening every day from east to west
During his trip recruiting Offices were
opened in the most important cities from
coast to coast. British recruits are being
obtained now at the rate Of 100 day
the country Gen. White said.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
NAB SOUTHERN I. W. W. CHIEF.
Federal Authorities Arrest Pedro
Ysasi at New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS. September Fed
eral authorities here today arrested
Pedro Ysasi, secretary of the local
chapter of the Industrial Workers OF
the World. and alleged to be head Of
that organization in the south.
The authorities stated they suspected
Ysasi of trying to foment strikes in
lumber camps and other industries
throughout the south.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
LUFBERY ADDS eleventh
GERMAN PLANE TO RAG

PARIS. September -Sub-Iieut
Raoul Lufbery Of Wallingford, Conn
a star aviator of the Lafayette esca
drille, flying September and S, brought
down his tenth and eleventh German
airplanes.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
Frances Biggest War Budget.

PARIS. September THE budget
committee of the chamber Of deputies
have commenced an examination of the
war credits demanded for the final
three months of 1917 The total
amounts to 11,200. .000. 900 francs, the
highest since the war began.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
Not to Import Porto Rican Labor,

BOSTON, September 7.-William M
Wood, president of the American n
Woolen Company. issued formal de-
nial today of recently published reports
that the company had planned to bring
a number Of Porto Rican laborers to
this country. for employment in its
mills.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
Likely to Forget Privations.

whatever terms Germany might now
bring herself to accept in order to re-
cuperate her strength for another ap-
gression, her people would soon forget
had to endure and would remain con-
I(soafixa,ad Saxnnfl, I2a n