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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Niagara Falls and Preparedness

iron Metnliurg.crl and Chemical Eh0ihetrh0'
Congress is now considering permanent
legislation in reference TO the diversion OF
the Niagara River. So far as the efficient
use of the water allowed By the international
treaty is concerned the proper course oil
legislation is obvious. The pioneers IN the
development, the plants now existing at Nj
agara Falls, should be enabled in the one
case to use water to the full capacity for
which it is constructed and in the other to
use sufficient water TO permit reconstruction
so as to bring up the efficiency to the high
est point attanable by engineering means.
We might well take an example from Canada
where the ideal is the fullest development
possible at the maximum efficiency. There
a canal starting from the upper river viii
carry the water to Queenston Heights, thus
taking advantage Of the greatest head that
can be obtained. This, also, is the very
ideal Of the eectro-chemist since the future
of his processes depends on vastly in
creased production Of electric energy. This
should be the ideal Of every one protesting
a desire for preparedness for war and peace,
but is this the ideal Of the Washington poll
ticians
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Birth Control in Germany

From The Tincg Of LOHd0HJ
Although it is difficult TO sift the truth
from the reports which constantly reach
Holland Of increasing mortality in Ger
many. there is enough evidence in them to
indicate a decline in the national vitality.
Apart from causes connected with the war,
there are others affecting the birth rate, 10
which attention is drawn by the German
press, which comments on the shameless"
extent TO which recourse is had 20 artificial
means Of restricting the natural growth Of
the population. Strong measures, II would
appear are being contemplated by the au-
thorities 10 counteract the fatal effects Of a
policy Of calculated stcrility. In addition,
there is an enormous falling of in the num-
Der Of marriages. In Berlin the number OF
marriages has been declining; in 1918 there
were 1922, and in 1916 1896. With this
decline there goes decline Of births and
large number Of deaths.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Helm for Overworked Mattresses

II is earnestly to be hoped that the Com
mittees on Labor and Industries of the
two branches of the Legislature will act
favorably on the Graves Marsh bill for a
fifty-four hour week for women restaurant
workers. hearing on this important
humanitarian measure is scheduled for
next Tuesday, which should produce IN
formation enough to convince the legls-
lators of the desirabilty of its passage, If
they are not already in favor Of it. The
bill merely brings under the general fifty
four-hour law for women workers the res
taurant employees, now excluded from It's
protection. 1t places them on an equality
with women who work in factories and
stores.
There is need for such protection. In the
state there are $4,000 women employed IN
restaurants, mostly at hard, strength-taX-
ing, nerve-racking work. They carry
heavy trays of food and dishes, they are
constantly on their feet, they work under
tension in order to fill the orders of GUS
toners who are, or think they are, IN
hurry. Those employed in kitchens are no
better off than the mattresses. For most
of these workers long hours are the rule.
Investigation by the Consumers League
showed that hundreds Of them now work
twelve hours a day, seven days week.
while many put in as much as fifteen hours
a dav. One twenty-year-old girl, this IN
vestiqation showed. was on duty 122 hours
q week.
These conditions are as bad as those OF
the cannery employees disclosed by iegis-
lative investigation a few years ago. The
Legislature passed laws protecting these
workers from exploiting employers, but
has ever since been importuned to break
down that legally erected protection. II
is to be assumed that employers will raise
objection to the legal protection sought
for the women workers in the eating
places. but that is no reason why they
should be needed The police power OF the
State should be used for these girls and
women in the restaurants, the largest
group of women employees now without
legal protection against overwork and
long hours. as it was for those Of the
canneries.
This bill is IA health measure-a measure
for fostering the health Of the community
rs well as that Of the workers, for these
overburdened women could spread prob
ably have spread, diseases to which they
are particularly liable because Of their
lowered vitality. 1t deserves to be passed.
and passed promptly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
To Our MIR. Howells

1t is so easy to feel warm, personal
affection for the kindly, sturdy, eighty
year figure of Mr.. Howells that the oc-
casion is not an easy one for careful esu-
mate or accurate gratitude. Yet some
word is surely due to record the very
great debt which every American OF a
Younger generation feels toward our great
American novelist. 1t is vast and slow
business upbuilding the American idea;
perhaps a certain vastness and sloWhess
of Mr.. Howells himself are the qualities
which make him loom so large IN that
process. Whatever his shortcomings, pet
tiness. the small outlook, the hasty gen
ordinations. are not among them. If he
did not write the great American novel
one is tempted to say that 1T Is because
II was not there to write. Of his personal
greatness. the wealth of observation
thought and writing, one feels oddly sure.
The close kinship for the Russian nov
elists which Mr.. Howells felt and preached
was undoubtedly a great influence IN his
life. Yet it was the kinship of the larg-
est ideals, never of small detail, never
Of mere style or manner. The realism Of
"The Rise of Silas Lapham so
many Americans are proud to look to
as one of the few outstanding monu-
ments in their literature-fows not
from any imitation of an alien model but
from the demands of the authors essen
tial outlook upon life Mr.. Howells saw
life with the clear eye Of great artist.
He refused to blur its outlines with easy
emotion or sentimental faith. His work,
he conceived, was to set down what 1t
was possible for him to see and compre-
bend. American life, fairly and truly
seen, stands on his pages.
1t is natural that so feeling, Mr. Howells
should at eighty retain an altogether
catholic sympathy toward the youngest
and most experimental activities of the
American mind. Vers Hbre and George
Conan, the interest is one. Our huge,
rambling national mind is stirring itself
toward expression, and true American
like Mr.. Howells finds nothing of 1t alien
to him. With the set standards Of the
learned critics, who conceive there to be
some stability in form and manner apart
from ideas and essence, Mr.. Howells has
shown scant sympathy. Thus it is be-
cause Americans to-day as ever feel that
Mr.. Howells is one of them that his birth
day means so much There is triumph
of truth in his outstanding gray head that
stirs US to pride and thankful good will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

of morality and thrift which are even yet
probably as familiar in rural New Eng
land as quotations from Holy Writ.
But the oldtime almanac has vanished
or is now preserved only in libraries and
the collections of literary curiosities. 1t
served useful purpose in its time, and
one of similar kind would be much more
acceptable to-day than it's modern sub
stitute, the patent medicine almanac.
Whether it would be profitable is an
other matter, and that, of course, in these
times is a controlling consideration which
accounts probably for its disappearance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
CITY PASTORALS
Poem To Be Danced

From Pociry)
Can a poem say my heart
While ! stand still apart
myself would be the song.
myself would be the rhyme,
Moving delicately along;
And my steps would make the time
And the stanzas be my rest.
What can I say with the words OF my Ups
Oh let me speak from my toes tips
Of my treasure and zest'
Dancing. | can tell every sweet
Slow and soft, soft and feet
Dancing, | can tell every Ill,
All my Utmost wish fulfil;
All my sorrowing / can heal.
Oh, to reveal
With the bending Of my head.
with the curving OF my hand
What no poem has ever said,
What no words could understand!
Things for a book too sad too gay,
The verses Of my feet would say
Telling sorrow. telling delight
Into the very marrow OF mems sight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Keep 1t a Separate Department

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: / beg to call your attention 70 the
editorial which appeared in your paper Of
March p, 1915, which read, in part, as fol-
lows:
Regard for the pennies Of the poor N
these days Of unemployment and high cost
Of living should dictate the speedy death Of
the bills at Albany abolishng the Depart
ment of Weights and Measures and creating
bureau for similar work 10 tho Agri'
cultural Department. There is no mo"
wholesome force FOR trade honesty in nc
state than this same department To make %
a subordinate bureau in an alien department
would be to rob it of most Of It's usefulness
Il would hold little terror for that meanes'
Of thieves, the shortweghtcr."
Your remarks az that time are again mso'
timely by the effort now being made py
means OF the Wicks Foods and Markets Dill
to subordinate the Department Of Nelgn"
and Measures. There .is neither rhyme n0'
reason for having weights and measures
which concern every commodity sold 10 ''s
state, administered by a department "hVs'
interest - in agriculture and FOODS o"''.
There Is no protence that cltner economy
superior efficiency would be obtained, ana y
mas boen shown, on numerous occasions y
other states, that the subject OF weights 'ao
measures can only be adequately enforced %
q separate department. n.
This attempted subordination OF. the ~
partmcnt Of Weights and Measures, "n''a
occurred hrst under Governor Sulter' 'ne
two years ago under Governor Whitman s"S
now for the third time, ;hould be dispose "
forever. The Department OF Weights e.s
Measures is no longer experimental u "a ys
been run most efficiently and eeonomi'',s
and its usefulness has been limited ohV ~
the failure Of the Legislators 20 give !, W
needed facilities. These destructive raids ="
the department which have never been yuss
ned by the raiders, succeed only in prevents
the passage % certain constructive leS'
ton which the experience Of the oep"s
ment in the past has shown TO be neeessss'
and in hamperiug the work Of the dePa.
ment, and the consequent benefit 70 ths P'N
pie. NATHANIEL l. eN-'A
New York, March I, 1917 -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
KULTUR'S VICTORIES IN NORWAY
By JOHN G.. HOLME
From the Land aud Water Edi,.

ried TO a German prince. The wedding pres
ent might have objected. Besides, the so
called colonies Of Great Britain are practical
~ independent nations and not Brltains to
give or barter away. Possibly the argument
of England's opposition to Germanys ambi-
tions of colonial expansion rests on the mere
fact that the Kaiser and his statesmen felt
that Great Britain might nave objected, as
Great Britain did eventually object, TO a re-
vival of that ancient institution Of the Ger
man states, robber baron raids.
DR.. Ibsen has made big capital out Of
Greece, stating that England's pretensions Of
being the protector Of small nations have
tumbed to the ground in her treatment Of
that country.
Chief of the German Propaganda
In spite Of the opposition they have met in
Norway. both DR.. Ibsen and Bjornson have,
stuck TO their guns manfuly. Bjornson has
been recognized for more than two years as the
chief agent Of German propaganda in Norway
and the other scandinavian countries. Some
time ago he invaded Denmark and was SEIZED
uled TO give a lecture on the war IN Copen-
hagen. As the son Of his father, and as
man who has gained considerable popularity
on the stage both in Norway and Denmark he
was courteously received by well filed
house But when he had been duly intro
duced and app'auded The audience struck up
"Tpperary" The audience sang, then laughed,
then applauded and Biornson gracefully with
drew to the wings without saying q word.
To a certain extent, no doubt, DR.. lbsen
is swayed in his views by Swedish sentiment
He was for several years before the split be-
tween Norway and Sweden in the diplomatic
service, and for some time in attendance on
King Oscar He took little or no part IN the
fight for separation Of the two countries, ard
retired to a literary life afterward. He is
man of exceptional ability, the author Of sew
eral books on political and sociological sub
jects, and has produced at least one play Of
high merit. Bjornson has inherited The in
pulsive temperament OF his father, but not
his genius for artistic expression. He Is gen
orally regarded as a clever actor and an able
theatrical manager, but not an intellectual
force
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
The Door

Love is a proud and gentle thing, better
thing 20 own
Than all Of the wide impossible stars over
the heavens blown.
And the little gifts her hand gives are care
less given or taken.
And though the whole great world break
the heart Of her is not shaken.
Love is a vol in the wind, viol never
stilled.
And mine Of all is the surest that ever God
has wilcd;
I shall speak to her though she goes before
me into the grave,
And though drown in the sea, herself shall
come upon a wave;
And the things that love gives after shall be
as they we're before,
For life is only a small house and love is an
open door.
ORRICK JOHNS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Almanacs and Calendars

Recently the first book printed in Penn
sylvania, an almanac for 1886, was sold
in this city for 81 $50. 1t is little 16mo
of forty pages compiled by Samuel Atklnk,
Student in mathematics and astrology,
and bears the imprint of William Brad
ford, printer. who came to America only
the year before the almanac was pub
lished The fact that it was compiled by
a student of mathematics and astrology
brings it into the usual class of earlier
almanacs, in which appeared not only the
results of mathematical computations
necessary to an almanac, but also matters
pertaining to astrology.
The fact. moreover, that the first book
printed in Pennsylvania was an almanac
indicates the popularity of that formerly
universal guide and counsellor of months
and seasons in the American home, a
place it still holds, slough in greatly modi-
fed shape. in rural households and many
city homes, though the calendar, which con-
tains merely the days and can be compiled
/ by any one, is rapidly taking the place of
the oldtime almanac. To the business
mans desk the calendar is a necessity,
the almanac merely convenience for oc-
casional reference.
OF calendars of the olden time we still
have among the earliest illuminated manu-
scripts examples that go back about
thousand years, as in the old Saxon cal
endars. In these we find, too, the begin
ming Of the almanac custom of indicating
the general character of each month by a
picture, such as a blazing log fire for jan
uary, the ploughing Of fields in March,
blossoming meadows in May, gathering Of
the harvest in July and August and the
apples and vintage of September. In the
roval library of France the rare and beau
tiful Hours of Anne of Brittany" has a
calendar prefxed TO it inclosed with a
colored margin, and each month is beauti-
/ fully symbolized, such as a snowy land
scape with falling fakes of snow for De
cenber. AS to the illuminated and col
ored pictures preceding the months Dib-
din says:
II is really impossible to describe many
Of them in terms Of adequate praise. The
downy plum is almost bursting with ripe
= ness; the butterfy's wings seem 70 be
in tremulous motion, while they dazzle
you by their varied lustre; the airy in
sect puts every muscle and fiber into
action as he insinuates himself within
the curling of the crisped leaves; while
with dew or coated with the finest down.
Yet, exquisite as are some of the Illus
trations and poetical in their conception,
in the same calendar the Flemish illumi-
majors depict fat pig hung up by It's hind
legs, it's throat just cut by the butcher,
who stands by viewing his work with
honest pride while a Flemish damosel
holds beneath the still bleeding pig an
earthen vessel to catch its blood for the
famous black buildings Of early days.
In these old calendars and almanacs
we find, too, sayings still common in cur
rent speech in regard TO weather and
signs and seasons Of the year. Later in
I New England the almanacs inculcated the
stern religious tenets Of the Puritans,
| Tor which Ben Franklin in his Poor
Richards Almanack" substituted sayings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Diseases of Airmen


From leakage of petrol spray the pilot
NAV become dizzy. and the exhaust gases
from the engine-carbon monoxide and di-
oxide-may cause headache, drowslness and
nalaise. The rarefed air at great eleva-
tions may induce the symptoms well known
in balloonis.s. and Wells refers to a case OF
frost-bite in an airman who had been eX-
posed TO "a degrees Of frost at an elevation
of $4,000 feet. Psychasthenic symptoms
namely. loss of self-confdence and the re-
sulting mental worry (aerosthenia)-are not
uncommon. and prove that the victim has
mistaken his sphere Of activity. Flying IS
undoubtedly the job Of young man under
thirty years Of age, and not every young
man is temperamentally or physically fitted
TO carry it through Perfect eyesight IS
necessary 10 insure safe landing, correction
with glasses being not without its dangers;
perfect hearing is essential to detect the
first indications of engine defect, and free
movement of the joints of the lower limbs
to control the steering gear. Fits and
tendency to faint absolutely deter the
aspirant from the air service. In one re-
markable instance at Hasar an airman who
tainted. with the result that the aeroplane
Owed nose downward 1000 feet into a
ploughed field, escaped with such minor in
iuries that he was at first extremely loath
70 give up this branch Of the service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Men-Folks

When / look at men, sometimes
can hardly tell how it is
But when | see them,
Walking about,
Doing things,
Talking and planning,
So busy, so serious
(Only children could be,
Only children,
So seriousD-
A feeling comes over me as II were Nou
And looked forth from a great distance
On all the humanness of the earth
Compassonately. 1870.
HELEN HOYT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Official Foresight

tFrou. The London Saturday Rerict.l
As an example of the prcscience of COM
nttees and Inquiries and their kind we ought
70 look up the report OF the Royal Commits
sicn on Food Supply in Time Of War, which
was appointed on April 81. 1908. "Not only
Is there no risk" say in effect the royal COM
nissioners. "of total cessation Of supplies,
tut no reasonable probability OF serious in
reference with them; and even during a
maritime war there will probably be no ma
tcral diminution in their volume"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

Of a time which has vanished-a time OF
superficial optimism, cheap thinking and
cheap and empty talking. America has
turned her back on all that. The Congress
which dies to-day was a survival from
past which all good Americans would
row gladly forget. May we never see
It's like again
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-10
WHAT THE WOMEN CAN DO

o Bemidji She
increasing production
worth of food she raises
addition feeding the people Of
fighting
While
daughters much in garden and
this crisis them
a a wedding
WOMAN HAS PRINCIPLE
welfare
the soilng of hands.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-10
CRANKs

things with.
political social grind
them.
coffee
wells crankbe things
crank But the to turn
him around and give him a swift kick IS I
another
Oganiza
, ton What's the fellows? /
confdnay that things all right
q
We notice in the admontion enist dollar
! Gosh! We're the recruiting officer. -@
phenomenaly Butt
4 a a spud?
of these gladstone there's
a
of
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-10
MISGUIDED THRIFT Is DANGEROUS

MISGUIDED THRIFT Is DANGEROUS 4
confront this mis-
sraus president
Of the American Society for Thrift.
which
camities
thine would wheels in
dustry, but especially NOW.
destructive constructive
conditions provident
impGov1do1k
suddenly
their
nation running short OIL
responsibility feeding allies
living and
suit clothes, of hat,
capital
employment /
needs
the We going
world doing this stand
foresight
beings should while yng
hesitatebe
obligations today America still the
weakling
nation
today is intelligent, productive, constructive thrift"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-10

India's peanut crop is said to be phenomenally l;
no wants to substitute peanut for spud?
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-02-24
TOMORROW IS CLOSING
DAY OF zion REVIVAL

Tomorrow will be the closing day of
the evangelical revival meetings which
have been held for the past two weeks
at the Zion Evangelical church at the
corner of Tenth street and First ave-
nue. south.
Friday was one Of tho best days Of
the two weeks series under Evangelist
Baitinger. There was a splendid at
tendance at the afternoon prayer SER
vice held at the home Of Mrs. Mary
Teichmann. 720 Fifth street south.
The evening service was especially
good. Rev. Baitinger's text was taken
from Daniel 5::7, which reads: Thou
art weighed in the balance and found
wanting
Some of the points from the evan
gelist's sermon were:
Gods weighing Is just"
God does not bring condemnation
upon you, you bring condemnation
upon yourself"
1.-THE church is instituted by God,
and will stand forever"
"Woe unto the individual or nation
that is trying to steer clear Of God,
the Maker and Master Of the uni
verse;"
"It does not pay to make light Of
Divine things"
"You may deceive your fellow-men,
but you will never deceive God"
This evenings service will be for
the benefit of the "Dorcas" and
STANDARD Bearers Sunday school
classes Tomorrow win be the closing
day and 1t is expected to be the great
est day of all. There will be holy COM
munion services in the evening and
reception of members. The evening
meeting will close with a chautauqua
salute.