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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-21

The Public Ledger is authorized to
announce Mr.. Fred W. Wells as q
candidate for County Assessor, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic
Primary in August.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-21
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For County Assessor

We are authorized to announce
Elmer l.. Donovan Of Sardis precinct,
as a candidate for Assessor of Mason
County. Subject to the action of the
Democratic sPrimary August, 1917.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-21
Fer County Judge

We are authorized to announce
Frank H. Clarke as a candidate for
County Judge Of Mason County, sub
ject to the action Of the Democratic
party at the August Primary.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-21
q For County Jaller

We are authorized to announce Mr.
John B. Furlong, as a candidate for
Jailer Of Mason County. subject to the
action Of the Democratic party at the
August, 1917, Primary.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-21

We are authorized to announce ].
p. Gather as candidate for County
Judge, subject to the action of the
Democratic party in August Primary,
1917.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-21

We are authorized to announce Mr.,
Henry R. Childs as candidate for AS
SCISSOR of Mason County, subject to the
action Of the Democratic Primary, Au-
gust. 1917.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-21

Life is made up not of great sacrifices duties of little
things in which smiles and ndnesses and small obligations given
habua what win and the heart
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30

the protection Of the people, must perform
that duty.
1t is generally believed that the commits
sioners are clothed with authority to stop
all boarding and the acts Of the proftecrs,
and that they have in their service . great
force Of men who can unerringly detect all
wrong and imposition on the peopl'.
Under these circumstances, why is IL that
people cannot get coal, and why is there
scarcity of food and why are the prices
mounting?
Men, women and children throughout the
land are giving of their means and making
sacrifices to aid this. They must not be en-
barrasscd, and everything that tends to
divert from this great purpose is disloyalty.
and those, whether they be profteers or Of
fcials, who seek their own end are guilty
of treason. RESULTS WANTED.
Richmond Hill, n. Y. Nov. 26, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30
Dealing With Enemy Aliens
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent ~. H." in your
issue Of this date has hit the nail squarely on
the head.
But why shouldn't this country, after being
a. war since last April with brutal, savage
conscienceless empire, sailing under the
black flag, be placed under martial law at
once? Does anybody doubt the result?
War is force. War is hell! That was the
way Germany declared war. In few hours
the entire German Empire, a homogeneous,
united nation, was under martial law, with
ths military power and all the force and
preparedness OF the nation to back up sucn
a declaration. Hence, with her interior lines
and one directing head over all the Central
Towers, her success thus far. (See ex-Ambas-
sador Gerard's last chapter in his book, MY
Four Years in Germany-Germans in the
War;
Ii these thousands OF German sympa-
thizers now under suspicion. many under
surveillance by the Secret Service agents,
are not arrested al once and disposed OF IN
the manner urged by 81. H." then they
should be interned for the duration OF the
war, or, at the very least, they should be
deported and sent TO fight for their beloved
fatherland.
sugge sted this as long ago as last May in
letter to the Council of National Defence,
only urged that they should be sent over
through the submarine zone on our troop
transports and armed supply ships, four or
five hundred at time, first advertising the
lumber, time of sailing, ETC., in the New
York papers in the same manner as Herr
Barnstorf did the sailing OF our American
women and children on the Lusitsnia, and
through the danger zone searchlights playing
upon the American flag and the legend in
letters six feet high: There are hundreds
OF German rescrvsts, spies, traitors, paci-
fyts and German sympathizers on this ship,
r,sny Of them 'yons,' all lovers OF the father
land"
expressed my firm belief then. and my
judgment has not changed since. that such
a plan would be the most effective means YET
tried out, not only of cleaning up this situa-
ton in our rear, this nest Of dangerous alien
enemies, so that my son and the thousands
Of gallant American soldiers now with Persh-
ing in France can fight without feeling that
they have a rope around their necks, but in
a few short weeks it would absolutely solve
the entire U-boat problem, which has been
such dangerous menace, and still is most
serious drawback to our becoming an efi-
Gent force "over there" in fighting these
hellish Hohenzollcrn Huns to dead stand
still.
AN OLD SOLDIER OF THE CIVIL WAR
AND INDIAN WARS.
Washington, D. C., Nov. &c, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30
Rationing a Nation

Admiral Jellicoe has been subjected to
g great deal of censure in and out of Par
lament because he said lately that the
war was "all but Won" 1t was apparently
overlooked that he added "You haveionly
TO set your teeth and the war aCiH be won"
That, however, was undoubtedly the point
he intended to lay most emphasis upon
the necessity of setting your teeth; and he
meant it to be taken to heart by all, COM
batants and -combatants alike.
The same thing has been said in rela-
ton to the tonnage shortage without caus-
ing so much severe criticism, because 1t is
commonly understood that the problem
may be met by more or less self-denial on
all hands, but only in that way. Whether
it can ever be solved without compulsory
rationing is still doubtful, for though the
spirit be willing there are many difficulties
in voluntary rationing quite apart from
the weakness of the flesh.
Advice on diet has been given by the
British Ministry Of Food to many classes
to men engaged in very heavy industrial
work and agricultural labor; to men at
ordinary industrial or other manual work !;
to unoccupied men or men whose work is
sedentary, and TO women under the same
conditions. They have been told how many
pounds of meat and bread they may eat a
week; how many ounces of other cereals
and how many of fats and sugars; they
have been instructed in what they should
allow for the weight of bones in the meat
they buy and in what proportion poultry
and rabbits are to be reckoned in COM
parison with beef and mutton. But how
many will take the trouble to work out
their proper allowance by the card?
1t is perhaps no wonder that there is a
great deal of clamor for compulsion. Yet
there are objections to it which are not
sufficiently considered by the critics of the
government. In the first place, great
Zeal of difficult and costly organization
would be necessary, and, as the Director of
Food Economy has pointed out, great
deal of labor would have to be diverted to
this purpose which is now more profitably
employed in other ways. In Germany II
is admitted that the results Of compulsion
have been in many ways unsatisfactory
Food tickets have resulted in the very
evils they were meant to overcome. For.
gerry and dishonesty are common; tickets
are bought and sold openly, and the
profiteers arc profiteering as fiagrantly
as ever.
1t is for these reasons, among others
that the British government has decided to
put off compulsory rationing as long as
possible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30
Intern Enemy Aliens
II Russia Had Interned Germans
There Would Be No Bolsheviki

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If early in the war Russia had IN
termed all German subjects; if Immediately
following the declaration Of war Italy had
interned all Austrian subjects; if the United
States. upon the declaration Of staie OF
var with Germany, had interned all German
subjects-there would not now be the Boil
sheviki revolt in Russia. the collapse o.
Italy, military machine, the waterfront and
r,uni.ion plant fires of America-and what
next no one knows.
The New York Tribune is influential enough
TO in,uxurate 8 movement that will result In
the immediate internment OF every enemy
alien within our border:--every one, without
fear or favor. We owe it TO the best OF
America. manhood-best physically and
mentally-who arc cover there and here
training for the battle that is to make the
world safe for the future and what there is
left Of this generation.
Wake up. Americans, or the Germans VIII
DO it for u.s. The enemy within our gates is
working increasingly.
CARROLL B. MERRITT.
New York, Nov. 81, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30
II. M. S. Hush.Hush

Tn. naval critic Of "Le Temps" NJ. A
Rousseau, was lately allowed to visit the
British Grand Fleet, as well as some OF
The more important dockyards in England
and Scotland, and in an entertaining series
Of articles presumably authorized by the
Admiralty has been describing what he
sew in more or less detail. He speaks more
freely on some points than most visitors
have been permitted to do, and though MS
information is provokingly abusive and
vague on the subject of new construction,
the hints he drops are sometimes interest
ing enough to arouse the curiosity OF the
reader.
He speaks of the extraordinary length
Of some of the latest vessels, compared with
which. he tells US, the Queen Elizabeth or
the Tiger would appear quite modest
Standing in amazement at the great d.
mansions of one of the new slips. he asks
if vessels Of a thousand feet are building.
But his guide only smiles in an absent
minded way. The speed-well, the trials
will of course show that, he is told. AS
to the development Of power, why it is a
question of boiler more or less, you know.
And tho armament? All, that is entirely
the Admiralty's affair-the builders know
nothing about that
In a word, he is discreetly silent on
points Of interest, but he lets us know that
lie has seen and been on board one or two
Of the so-called mystery ships, (which we
may call battle-cruisers," OF which there
have been so much rumor and so little def
mite news. an one OF Them" he says, "the
smaller of the two, the -, we were re-
ceived most cordially in the officers quar-
tiers, on passing through which was truly
astonished to sec two of the officers playing
at billiards. 1t is true that the ship was
ct anchor and in the most sheltered Of
roadsteads, yet think the - must have
a notable range Of stability to justify the
instalment of permanent billiard table"
CAS- a matter of fact, billiard tables are
now comparatively common luxuries in big
ships.)
ne tcIlS Us iiotIiiiS VI 'Hcii SPSSN N|HNNPS
that it surpasses that Of the swiftest pre-
war cruiser and is sufficient to be "a guar
antee against the torpedo" and with regard
to the main armament he only says that
the guns fire two shots a minute" and
that, according to German memorandum,
they weigh Is tons and throw projectile
Of S85 kilos"-or. ,947 pounds. The i'm
proved fire-control system is described as
truly remarkable" but no particulars are
given.
In short, the account is far from salts
flying, but it is the only account we have
had.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30
The Needs Of Negro School

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Through your paper desire to call
attention at this season Of the year to the
needs of negro schools in the South, which
are doing a deserving and farresching work
in the training Of negroes for real service at
home and abroad. The light in these schools
must be kept burning, or else the race will
have little hope for the future.
plead for increased contributions to all
of them, for, no matter how poorly equipped
some may be, they have done heroic work for
the uplift Of the negro and a work Of real
sacrifice, which. fear. is not as yet fully
understood by the American people.
The National Training School, Durham, y.
c., will be glad to have clothes, books, house
hold or farm materials, money or anything
useful, which may be distributed among its
students or help deserving families in the
community. They will be Of great help and
will be carefully distributed. In fact, they
will be genuine and appreciative Christmas
gifts.
While not forgetting the brave soldiers in
the trenches Of whatever nationality or race.
who are fighting on the side of the Allies
for the supremacy OF right. let us not forget
the negro at home, who, against odds, is max
ing brave fight to At himself for the pres
ent and the future. Let US, also, let down
our buckets where we are.
JAMES Z. SHEPARD,
President National Training School.
Durham, n. c., Nov. 20, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30
An AUGMENTATION Clearing House

The Americanization Conference Board
recently established as clearing house
for all Americanization work in New York
City came not day too soon. In peace
time such a coordination of Americaniza-
ton activity would have been desirable,
but with the war-made necessity of hav-
ing all the foreign-born in New York
(Which comprise about 80 per cent Of the
population thoroughly in sympathy with
American aims and principles, the stand
ardization Of all work toward this end
was imperative.
The new board will work through
agencies already established, settlements,
neighborhood associations, church socie-
ties. 1t will make no effort to set up
new machinery. 1t will do much, how
ever, to unite the activities Of these organ
izations, to supply standards and to solve
the problem Of Americanization by an
organized, city-wide campaign instead Of
by haphazard and local methods.
Mutual problems Of various organiza-
tions will be thrashed out by the board
and disposed Of in uniform manner; the
lessons learned By one community will
save experiment in another; and, best of
all, waste and loss in duplication Of effort
will be minmized. The big neighborhood
association and the small civic club, both
of which have been struggling single
handed with the question Of making
American citizens Of aliens, will profit
alike by the new Capitalization plan.
The alien, under the programme out
lined by the board. will be treated with
entire sympathy. The board has no wish
10 apply by main force an artificial
veneer Of red, white and blue patriotism
Of the lip serving variety. It's ambition
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30

by states or subdivisions Of states to their
own officers. But the Sixteenth Amend
men to the Federal Constitution gives
Congress- unconditional power TO tax in
come from whatever source derived. When
Charles L. Hughes was Governor of this
state he objected to the ratification by
New York of the income tax amendment
on he ground that the amendment would
give power to Congress to tax income
from state bonds as we'll as the salaries
Of state and local officers. The language
of the amendment certainly ccnfers au-
thority to do that very thing.
In ordinary times the ancient dispense
ton from Federal tax burdens granted to
state or local officeholders might be dis
missed as a harmless inconsistency in
legislation. 1t is more than that now. 1t
is an annoying piece Of favorltism--a
glaring exhibition Of unfairness.
The issue of favoritism came to the
front in our recent municipal campaign.
In the large sense it had proper place
there. But there was also tinge Of
irony to its use in so far as possession Of
the offices at stake carried with it both
exemption from military obligations and
from Federal income and excess earnings
taxation.
This is no time to perpetuate invidious
distinctions between classes Of citizens.
Congress ought to put all citizens on the
same level with respect to military Service
and war taxation. 1t should repeal the
tax-dodging subterfuge by which its own
members have been exempted from the in
dividual excess earnings tax. Having
atoned for that bunder, it can consistently
tear down the sheitering barriers which
it has heedlessly erected about other
Federal and all state, county and city
officeholders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30
More Silver Currency
,r,or 1,b. phiIodelpl,a inquirer

From The Philadelphia Inquirer
Warned by the situation last summer, when
the price Of silver rose we'll above dollar
an ounce, the United States and Great Britain
ere taking steps to secure needed supplies
b. contracts with producers which will pre-
vent a corner in the market. The price is
said to be very close TO a dollar ounce.
So far as this country is concerned it will
be a good bargain. Even at q dollar an ounce
there is a, large profit in making subsidiary
coin, which is all that is contemplated. The
half-dollar is not half so heavy as a dollar,
and the dime is far from being a tenth Of it.
The profit is such that a private corporation
would prefer mnting TO operating a gold
mine.
The demand for silver is due TO the in
crease in wages all over the country, the
amounts which must be paid in war take: and
to the increasing population. Just now the
minis are working twenty-four hours q day
to Try to catch up with the demand for
pennies, but silver will have its turn very
soon. This year about S2o,o00,O00 in sub
sidiary silver will be issued, and it is ex-
pected to increase that sum next year.
The situation is such that the government
is justified in making such contracts, but
if the Mexican mines were reopened at full
blast there would be enough silver to supply
al! demands. France has not yet announced
the amount Of silver she has coined since
the war began, but it is very great. Some
persons have a fear that the world will go
on a silver basis after the war. The real
fear is not that, but OF commercial conditions
which may disturb the whole world. No one
can foresee what is going TO happen, but just
now sound fnancicrs are not alarmed over
the increase Of subsidiary silver coinage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30
Gently Sidetracked
OFrom The Boston HerGid)


There are interesting stories behind the
transfer Of William ". Ingraham from the
post Of Assistant Secretary Of War to that Of
Surveyor of the Port Of Portland. He fell
easily and unexpectedly into his post in the
War Department back in the days OF peace,
when he had Just been defeated for second
term as Mayor of Portland and was making
a vacation trip 10 the South. A plum be-
longed to Maine, and Senator Johnson took
pleasure in passing 1t on TO Mr.. lnsrshsm
Some persons in Maine smiled, but stories
soon began to come from Washington that
he was an earnest, If Intellectual, exponent of
preparedness, when his superiors were COM
placently content with the unfortunate pro-
grsmme Of procrsstinstion. Later visitors to
Washington have told Of differences between
Mr.. Ingrsham and Secretary OF War Baker
because Mr.. Ingrahsm went ahead and did
things that he thought should be done when
his chief was absent from the city.
Now that Dir. Baker has . Cleveland en-
rineer AS his first assistant there will Pre-
sumably be more harmony in the department
And In sending Mr.. Ingraham back to Maine
the Administration escaped the necessity OF
giving the fat job Of Surveyor OF Portland to
Loui. J. Branr. who had the Endorsement OF
the DemoeratIY state committee. the national
commltteemandrom Maine snd the leaders OF
the party generally.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30
Rodin and Rimmer
the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: All the obituary notices of Auguste
Rodin speak Of the rejection by the jury OF
the Salon of 1877 Of his age Of Bronze" on
the charge that it was Il fake Almost
twenty year. before that date the same back
handed honor was paid to a young American
sculptor by Jury Of the same Salon, and for
the same alleged reason. Both Of these young
and unknown men had made the grave mis-
take of submitting TO a possibly prejudiced
jury a figure in plaster of the size of life.
The honor Of Rodin was established few
years later, his age of Bronze" was accepted
and a replica Of it adorns our Metropolitan
Museum. To William Rimmer, Of Boston, vim
dicaton came later and honor posthumously.
His Failing Gladiator" the statue he sub
mitted to the French jury, rejected BY them
on the ground that no sculptor then living
had the art nor the science TO create such a
figure, ergo: that it must have been moulded
on the life (in spite of the fact that the pose
of the figure precluded such a possibility,
this "Falling Gladiator" lay for many years,
almost forgotten, in garnet Of the Cooper
Union. saw it there in 1876. Some years
later il was taken to Boston, where, believe,
it met with appreciation. At last, only quite
recently, through the efforts Of Mr.. Daniel
French "a pupil Of DR.. Rimmer), and under
his personal supervision, the plaster figure
was run in bronze.
It stands in the Metropolitan Museum, in
the Hall Of American Sculpture, at q stones
throw from the age OF Bronze" in the hall
below. N. MONTGOMERY.
New York, Nov. "a, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30
An Urgent Need
Inwood House Pleads for Help IN Us
Work of Saving Girls

Tc the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Thousands Of men are comlrs w
New York City each day from the t1s~'
and concentration camps in search OF IT,
ton and recreation. With this added o,sE
and complication We are facing the ns's -,
caring for the unprotected girls OF m; ~ !,
who have been weak enough TO y'fss
temptation.
The Magdalen Home-under its new L.
Ct Inwood House--hss had this problem ,Ss.,
10 those with which it was ALREADY oeH~'
We are giving our girls the chance tao =
sadly need, training them in habits o. 70. -,
living and right thinking, training those "a
have become mothers TO live up '" -
ideals of motherhood, equippins them ~.
education aud industrial training 10 sDYy.
themselves as good citizens, ana - =.
friendly care and supervision "heh '"''
turn to community life. a.,
But we are suffering financially, nov 49,
from the high cost Of living, but also ~.
the large demands for Red Cross way ss -,
etc., made upon the public. The con'ih'. -,
cannot afford to have Us leave uno0Ie =,
thing we now do TO protect and care w. /,
girls of New York, and yet II they w. n
give US financial support our WORK h'''
tempered. ,,,,;
May We ask the courtesy OF your ~
in putting this appeal before the puonIi . :.
urge that all who can help Will seho r.ot
tons to the treasurer. Mrs. Ste1ms p;,,
Inwood House, Dyckman Street anu
Road, New York City? ,,,rr
CORNELh T. EMMbI,
q, President, Board OF Managers OF
House. New York, Nov. q, lsi"