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The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-10-20
IL MALCONTENTO NELLIE.
SERCITO TEDESCO

Observation-Disclosures, presiden-
te del partito Socialista tedesco al
Congresso socialista ora Inaugural
to Wurzburg, parlando della pa
ce, ha dettO:
"Se Oggi 81 dovesse domandare
per plebiscito il parere del popolo
tedesco circa la pace 81 pu6 essere
sicuri che move decimi del voti sa-
rebberO per una pace mediante ac-
cordi.
L'altro leader socialista, Schel-
demann, riferendosi all 'incidente
del ministro della marina, Capel-
lie, ha dichiarato:
Il fatto e che Sc il governo W.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-10-20
LA GERNTANIA In BRUTE ACOUE
UN ALTRO INVERNO DI
GUERRA SAREBBE UN SUICI.
DO PER LA GERMANIA

ROma--Che al Vaticano prevail
gano impression di foschi COLOR
sulla situaziOne politica in Germa-
MIA E dimostratO dial fatto che nei
circoi vaticani preVale Iopinione
che qualora avvenga una crisi mel
GabinettO tedescO con un nuOVo
cancelliere, in sostituziOne del dot
tor Michaelis, la pace sarebbe as
sicurata e senza lunga dilazione.
II Pontefice poi-si aggiunge-
fermamente convinto che PAU
stria sarebbe sempre prOnta a con-
cludere subito una pace separate
Sc non ne fosse impedita dalla
Germania.
L'Austria sarebbe disposta non
solo ad accordare lie .autonomia a
parecchi Stati, secOndo la loro di-
versa nazionalita, ma altresf a RI
,conoscere independence della Po-
lOnia, a cedere il TrentinO all TIA
liza fare Important concessioni
per quanto riguarda Trieste.
InOltre lie persone pi1 illumina-
te della Santa Sede ritengono che
il Kaiser ormai riconosce egli stes-
so che un inverno di guerra sareb-
be il suicidio della Germania; egli
per6 non pu6 SECURE i propi i'm
pulsi per che E soggetto ALA po-
derosa influenza dell 'elemento mi
litare, il .quale oggi 81 sente rinvi-
gorito per i successi della fotta
germanica mel golfo di Riga.
E siccome un cambiamento oggi
mel Gabinetto non potrebbe a me-
no di indebolire l'elemento mill
tare, cost questo combatte e ia
quanto E in suo potere per impe-
dirlo.
Oltre ci6-si dice mel Vaticano
in Germania 81 e Ormai cOnvinti
che la guerra non pu6 assoluta-
mente essere continuata pi1 lun-
go. In sOstanza ora nei circoH Va
ticani, un tempo cosf pessimisti, 81
comincia credere che la pace e
possible sia conclusa prima della
fine dell 'annol
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-10-20

.Nulla, per6, { riuScito al atte-
nuare l'ardore dele nostre infa-
ticabili truppe, lie quail hanno con
tinuato a ratforzare difese ed a
prepararsi ALA nuova avanzata.
Quantunque non sia state detto
apertamente dial commando supre-
mo, e opinione generate che duran
te l'inverno non 81 avra alcuRa so
sta nellie operazioni.
e, difatti, intenzione del gene
ralissimo s Cadorna approfttare
della lotta che 81 combatte al from
tie russo per colpire gil austriaci
prima che abbiano il tempo di in
Ware grand rinforzi sull 'Isonzo.
II nemico, battuto sanguinosa-
mente nell ultima offensiva ad est
dell Isonzo, perduto il Monte San
to, il San Gabrielle l'Altipiano di
Bainsizza, non ha avuto ancora l.
opportunita di rafforzare lie sue
linee.
| nuovi attacchi dovranno ap-
punto colpirlo prima che suoi la
vori di difesa siano compiuti.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-10-20
$4,000 ALL AVIATORE CHE
BOMBARDERA' BERLINO

Londra-Un signore di Man.
chester, W. H. Ven6, ha offerta un
premio di $4,000 al primo aviatore
che riuscira a bombardare Berli-
no.
Egh ha fattO questa offerta per-
cha ritiene che un bombardamen-
to su Berlino avrebbe maggiore ef-
fetto politico militare di tutti i
bombardamenti fatti sui villaggi
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-10-20
L L'INSEGNAMENTO DELLITA-
LIANO IN FRANCIA

PARIGI-L 'insegnamento dell
ltalianO in Francia prende serio
sviluppO. Rispondendo su questo
argOmentO, il MinistrO dell 'istruzi-
one francese scriveva ultimamen-
tie:
Il 'insegnamento dell 'italanO
negli istituti secondari francesi E
state oggetto dele mie cure e di
quelle del mici immediate prede-
cessori. Da due ami Hauvette.
professore ALA Sorbona state in
caricatO di vedere in quail istituti
potesse essere introdotto l'inse-
gnamento della bella lingua e lie
sue ricerche hanno portato ALA
creaziOne di numerose cattedre,
specialmente nei licei e nei collegi
femminili. Sara poi tentata una
proVa che non manchera di giova-
re grandemente allo sviluppo del
lie relazioni intellectual ira due
paesi: sOnO stati designati profes-
sOri italiani di scuole secondarie
a insegnare la loro lingua nei licei
francesi professor francesi a oc-
cupare attire cattedre negli istitu-
ii italiani. "
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-10-20
LA RIPREiSA DELL OFFENSIVE
SULL' ALTIPIANO DI BAINSIZZA

Roma-Le uItime notizie dial
fronte lasciano prevedere m i'm
minente ripresa della offensiva
sull 'altipiano di Bainsizza, ad est
di Gorilla.
Difatti il communicate del gene
ralissimo Cadorna annunzia duelli
vivacissimi fra le artiglierie av-
versarie, il che prelude Sempre al
le battaglie campai.
Come e facile immaginare, il
nostro commando mantiene il pin
geloso segreto sui suoi piani.
Nulla esso laScia trapelare, giac-
che uno del segreti del suoi sue
cessi sta mel cogliere il nemico di
sOrpresa, vibrandogli il colpo dove
memo Sc 10 attende.
NOndimeno 81 prevede che la
lotta verra ripresa, malgrado il
tempo sfavorevole.
Nei giorni scorsi lie pioggi ave
vanO convertito estesi tratti di ter
reno in altrettanti laghi, ostaco-
landO, cosf, il trasporto del grossi
cannoni.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-10-20
CONFISCA DI FERRO ED AC.
CIAIO

COPENHAGEN La sempre
crescente dificolta di ottenere ac-
ciaio e ferro per usi di guerra ha
motivato un decreto imperiale col
quale lutte lie partite di ferro di
acciaio per uso cOmmerciale, sono
confiscate. II detto decreto prof
bisce l'uso del ferrO dell acciaio
senza speciale permesso.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-10-20
GRAVI SINTOMI DISSOLVITO.
RI NELLA RESISTENZA
TEUTONICA

WASHNGTON-n Department
to dello State, su notizie basate in
rlinea uficiale, ha dichiarato in u
no degli ultimi suoi rapport che
lie condizioni dell 'esistenza della
nazione tedesca vanno afievolen-
dosi ogni giorno di pi1. LIE trup-
pc sono insoddisfatte, cost pure
la marina; l'ultima rivolta del ma
rinai di Wilhelmshaven ne una
prova evidente. Anche la posizio-
ne del Cancelliere Michaelis E as
sal scossa, 81 crede che la crisi
81 allarghera ancora di pi1, in mo-
do da rendere necessaria la nomi-
na di un nuovo Cancelliere.
PER BOMBARDARE BERLINO
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-10-20

ole cOlpire tutti coloro che furO-
no parte pi1 memo diretta negli
ammutinamenti degli equipaggi
dele navi da guerra mel Baltico,
esso dovrebbe agire contro cinque-
cento persone allo stesso tempo.
"Non passa giorno che non ven-
gano a moi lagnanze di soldati; e
moi abbiamo aperto uno speciale
ufficio con l'incarico di appurare
la verita delle cose che ci vengono
espOste.
LA cosa pi1 importante non e
parlare scrivere di queste la
ma di eliminarne lie eau
Sc.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-10-20
UN REGGIMENTo D'INDIANI

WashingtOn-Uno del Regimen
II americani destinato a cOmbatte-
re IN Francia verra costituito in
teramente da indiani dell Okla
homa.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03
ONE KIND OF GRAFT

Since the foundation of our government it has been
the rule that an officer in the army or navy must make his
way by merit, and that in those exceptional cases where
men are promoted over their seniors in rank exceptional
service must have been rendered. And even this does
not always suffice. 1t will be recalled that when Presi-
dent Roosevelt advanced Richmond Pearson Hobson sew
eral numbers for his feat at Santiago and General Leonard
Wood in the same manner for distinguished military
achievements there was considerable critiscm directed
against him. Yet both of these men had proved themselves
in actual service to be worthy and meritorious. No one
doubted or questioned their ability to fill admirably the
the quality of the service which had won for them their
recognition. If there was criticism under circumstances
like these, it is not at all remarkable that the floodgates Of
wrath are opened wide as a result OF President Wilson's
action in jumping his close personal friend, DIR. GraySon,
from his place as eleventh past assistant surgeon to the
rank of rear admiral OF the navy, promoting him over the
heads of I27 of his seniors and boosting him in rank and
pay 400 points. The men over whom Grayson has been
promoted are deserving men and qualified men, most of
them old in the service and many of them getting along in
vears-men who have fought their way up by merit in
stead of presidential favor. Grayson has had no real serv-
ice in the navy and yet is nominated for rear admiral. Can
you imagine a greater travesty or a more glaring injustice?
DR.. Grayson is patiently nominated not for merit, but
for favor, and if he were half a man he would decline an
honor to which he has no shadow of a claim or title by any
right save that of pull. He has been the golf partner of
President Wilson for several years; he framed up the
match between the president and the widow Gait and final
ly he married the ward of the presidents wife. He acts
as White House physician and is virtually a member of the
presidents family.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that the United States SEN
ate will flatly repudiate this miserable effort of the presi-
dent to use his office to place the unworthy before the
worthy, and that it will refuse to confirm the nomination.
If Grayson has not the manhood to refuse a prize that
Justly belongs to another, the prize should be snatched
from his greedy and inscriptions hand.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03
CLEARING THE CAR CONGESTION

Now the interstate commerce commission has SET
itself to a task that will provide a real test of its powers
and ability. 1t proposes to clear up the existing freight
car congestion, relieve the stress incident to enforced
shortage of transportation facilities in producing sections,
and to establish a balance that will restore normal cond1-
tons throughout the country. First off, it issues an order
to all railroads requiring that all cars be returned to their
owners within a specified time. After this is accomp-
lisled. certain regulations needed to keep cars moving are
TO be enforced. Obstacles to be encountered by the COM
mission in its crusade are mainly those responsible for the
abnormal situation in the transportation industry. This
General distribution has been neglected in favor of the
special service of the export trade with a resultant block
ade that has been seriously reflected in arrangement of
business in other sections. The most serious of present
factors is that while the suffering sections of the country
are clamoring for relief, others are demanding cars that
more goods may be sent to the seaboard. If the interstate
commerce commission succeeds in unsctambling this ONE
lette, it will do more of real good than it has yet achieved
in all its previous history.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03
FITS, CHICKENPoX AND UNIVERSITIES

When a business concern employs a man to supervise
a factory enterprise, it seldom chooses a school teacher.
If a first class educational institution wants an efficient
educator or instructor it seldom chooses a salesman
from a shoe store. In the ordinary affairs OF lite a Dlack-
smith would find difficulty in securing employment as a
matchmaker, and the best rancher would be OF little
service in a printing office. 80.
But the state of Nevada, in the supervision of its chief
educational institution, has been pursuing consistently
a board of five regents to supervise and control the uni
versity. What proportion of them ever had university
experience of any kind2 What proportion ever had such
university experience as would have been, or might have
been, of value to the state in the positions to which they
were chosen? And let's ask again, how many OF them
remained in the position of regent long enough to learn
what either their own university or others were doing, or
under what policy they were guided?
And then, to make a bad situation worse, the leg1s-
lature, whose membership in general knew even less and
cared even less, has found excuse about once in two years
to investigate the university and the regents.
And SO matters have gone from bad to worse, until the
climax was reached last Saturday when the regents last
elected credited their election to the alleged fact that the
university was an issue in the campaign, and they were
elected upon that issue. And these very regents, at their
very first meeting, proceeded to create a vacancy IN the
presidency that they might secure a new president to
bring the institution "up to modern university standards
Where will they find him?
Where is the man big enough for president of any
university who would accept such a position at the hands
of such a board, i'll the face of such a record?
The question answers itself.
And then to make matters worse-if worse were pos
sible-the legislature is asked to approve a bill that will
fix the tenure of the president at four years and make
him subject to a divided authority.
This bill, presented by Booher of Elko, is a forcible
reminder of the doctor who always cured" chickenpox by
inoculating for smallpox, and that other doctor, of whom
we have all heard, whose universal panacea was a nostrum
that induced fits He could cure fits. There was more
sense in either of these cures than in Boohers.
There is a solution of the university problem ready
made and at hand. 1t is found in the management of the
best universities and colleges of the United States. And
men capable of successful service as a university president
are not accepting political jobs with a ~fouryear tenure.
These regents should be appointed and not elected.
The period of their tenure should not be less than nine
years, subject to removal or recall. A majority should
never retire at one time, and the alumni of the institution
should have a voice of real power in the selection of these
supervisory officials.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03
A HORSELESS CIRCUS PARADE, NEVER !!

The gas-driven, se1f-propeled vehicle is threatening
the horse in his last trench. Already Dobbin has been
driven from the plow; the prancing, high-headed steppers
no longer make the boulevard a thing of life, and daily the
great work teams are becoming fewer on the city streets.
On top of all this comes the announcement that the horse
is to be banished from the circus parade, and that the
summer will see the glittering pageant so by on rubber
tires, pushed or pulled by a ~chugging motor. Here is cause
for sorrow, indeed. What JOY or comfort can there be in
a band wagon without its ten or twelve beautiful dappled
horses, caparisoned in full panoply and spurning the
ground with dainty steps as if winged and eager to fly?
We may reconcile ourselves to the thought of a general
leading his army while reclining in a softly upholstered
touring car, and the spectacle of the courier, careening
across the landscape astride a snorting motorcycle, does not
shock us, for in war as an industry the machine has super
coded the animal. But the circus, if anything, should be
sacred to the horse. The clown or the bearded lady might
be spared, but a horseless circus parade-never
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03
THE REAL

Farm products raised last year have a value of thir-
riculture, thus breaking all previous records. This does
not mean, however, that the crops were larger than ever
before, for they weren't. The value was occasioned not
by quantity but by the European war, which has practi-
caly doubled the prices farmers have received for many
of their products. And the end is not yet in sight. The
give promise of being even higher than those of last year.
The American farmer has certainly come into his own.
As to the jewellers in towns and cities-well, the good
Lord, Who doth the ravens feed, and providently caters
for the sparrow, will have to comfort them.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03
CHAMP CLARK-EARLY BIRD

The prize for the first glimpse of the first robin has
not yet been pulled down, but the announcement OF
Champ Clark that he will be a candidate for the demo
cratic nomination in 1920 marks him as the presidential
early bird To be sure, Champ adds the little condition.
If the sign is right which means that the prospect OF
victory will have to be very bad indeed to keep him off
the track.
What Champ Clark's already announced candidacy
for 1920 presages for the democratic party Is a purely
speculative question. Looking back to Baltimore, it is
hardly to be expected that he will be the preferred heir
apparent of the Wilson dynasty, nor is it within the prob
Bryan element.
Yet be it remembered Champ Clark carried the demo
cratic primary in Nebraska in 1912. Can he do it again?
Will the same forces that backed him then be behind him
for another try? If it should get down to a choice be
tween Champ Clark and Bryan, what would Nebraska
democrats do? What would the west do?
Far be it from us to play the oracle for our democratic
friends, but here are some Interrogation points for them to
juggle with.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03

The chief trouble with William ]. Bryan in his adj
dresses before state legislatures is that he is too liberal
with gratuitous advice. He assume to know exactly how
all governmental affairs should be administered, and he
does not hesitate to rebuke as crooks and reactionaries all
who refuse to subscribe to his revolutionary notions. Yet
Mr.. Bryan himself in the only opportunity ever given him
to direct governmental affairs Numbered most dismally,
and in his disastrous flounderings embarrassed and hui
inflated the nation in a hundred ways. His advice is ex-
cellent in that as a usual thing it points out a path it is
wise t. shun.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03
GERMAN PAROLE VIOLATIONS

The South American countries are Just finding out
that German paroles are easily violated; paroles are worse
than scraps of paper because they are merely verbal. To
parole prisoners of war or informed men of war is to give
them their liberty to a certain extent. But the Germans
down there do not make any bones about breaking such
promises and making their getaways. From one port
some SO, it is complained, put out to sea and Joined prob
ably the raiders now operating in those waters. They NAV
have taken some of the informed ships with them. This be-
comes a serious matter for those nations. Under interna-
tional law they become responsible for damages incurred.
We have no right to permit the outfitting of expedi-
tions in our waters, and when we permit such things to be
done we become liable, as England was held liable for per-
hitting the Alabama to put out of her waters during our
civil war. England is said to have millions in such claims
piled up against us, and under our own ~precedents we are
to be held to pay.
The recent trial in California in which a German consul
general was found guilty of helping to organize expedi-
tons, explosion plots and so on will go far to help establish
the British claims against us. In the eyes of England and
the allies we were responsible for what Consul Bopp and his
associates did while they were on our soil. In the Bopp
case the surprising thing and the bold thing was the fact
that these things against our neutrality were perpetrated
by an official of the German government, a consul of that
government, and it is to be presumed that the German gov
eminent, or at least the German superior representatives in
this country, like Won Bernstorff, must have had KNOWLEDGE
of such transactions. The Bopp moneys must have come
from official sources. And only last Friday Bopp was
toasted and applauded at San Francisco at a meeting at
which it was announced that he would be given a higher
post by his home government. This is in line with the hon
ors conferred on Won Papen and Boyd after they had
been invited to leave this country for this countrv's good.
That fine old song, Feed the Baby Onions and You
Can Find 1t In the Dark" loses its force TODAY when
onions command the price they do. Only plutocrats can
afford to resort to an e%xpedient so extravagant
How much water plunged through the Wall street
leak is of little consequence. The main object of the in
quiry is to find the parties who pulled the plugs.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03

If the present emperor of Austria and Hungary had
been the emperor in 1914, it is believed, there would have
been no war. He would not have permitted unhridled
diplomats to transact such business with Serbia. There is
at least a good supposition in that statement. The old
emperor probably hardly knew what was being done in
his name BY the extreme war lords who had control of his
diplomacy, headed by Berchtold. The clique that was
then in power wanted war and they prepared their note to
Serbia with that intention and the Vienna newspapers so
recorded public sentiment at the time-when the Serbian
reply was received they announced that it meant war and
they were glad of it.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03

Those German submarines and commerce raiders are
at least assuring us that we shall have anyhow one live
industry when the war closes-that of ship building.
When peace comes, all the shipyards in the world must
work overtime for wears to restore the worlds tonnage.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03

The army insists it was not its fault that 1t did not
accomplish what it set out to do in Mexico. Political con-
siderations anticipated military results. Viewed from the
standpoint of military duty the expedition won laurels for
itself and credit for the service. Return to Gods coun-
trv' ends an awkward situation.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03

Secretary Lane ponderously admits that the so-caled
Mexican conference "has had no concrete results Just
what does he call the expenditure of something like $780,,
and paving the expenses of the opera bouffe commission
ers ? It strikes us that this bill of expense is very painfully
concrete.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03

The Bethlehem Steel company counters on Secretary
Daniels assertions by offering to build two of the four bat
tie cruisers at the same cost as the two built in govern
ment yards, besides agreeing to have the ships ready tor
service ahead of the government ships. The offer blows a
gaping hole in Secretary Daniels assertion of "exorbit-
ant bids"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03

The New York daylight saving committee has an I'M
sympathetic report from Alaska with the suggestion tina,
up there it is necessary to blindfold the chickens to get
them to roost. How different from New York!
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03

The American public is still bearing in mind, however,
the very salient fact that Wall street gamblers didn't pick
that peace note tip out of the atmosphere. 1t came to
them from some person.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03

A woman member OF the Chicago school board &C
cuses school principals with preferring shapeliness to tai
ent in selecting women teachers. Evidently the accused
principals are mere men.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03

Likewise in the case of cold-weather fires, an ounce
of prevention is worth a pound of cure.