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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25

the nation with official permission. There
was no addition made to the disclosure OF
fact. but the opinion of the editor OF line
Washington Herald" was displeaslng 10
Mr.. Creel-that was all. Was it enough
No one can guess what Mr.. George CreeI
would have done to the editor OF line
Washington Herald" had he been able to
add legal discipline to moral castigatlon'
Since he had no such powers, the incident
ended there, with the comment Of the editor
of "The Washington Herald" upon the eio-
ouence Of Mr.. George Creel alone lost.
For the sake of the American tradition
of free speech The Tribune trusts that
Congress will not consent to the creation
of situation in which the editorial policy
of American newspapers will be subject to
the telephone industry of Mr.. George Crecl.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
A Common Sense Veto

No resurrection of an ancient law and
no revival of a scandal llS years old are
required to justify Secretary Lansing's re-
fusal to allow American Socialists to par
ticipate in the Stockholm conference. That
conference has been engineered in the in
terest of Germany The German govern
ment IS the controlling influence behind it.
The only purpose which it can serve is a
German purpose, since the no territorial
conquests, no indemnties programme tan
insincere one on Germany's part) which
the conference is to be asked to adopt is
Germanys chief reliance in her present eff
fort to SOW discord between Russia and the
other Entente Allies.
German, Austro- Hungarian and Bulga-
rian Socialists will go TO Stockholm as in
formal agents of their governments. They
will carry out instructions which have been
given to them. Schedemann, the leading
figure in the German delegation, has been
sent on government missions before. He
visited Italy before Italy declared war on
Austria-Hungary with the object of hold
ing Italian Socialists in line for policy of
neutrality. He is supporter of Beth
mann Hollweg. He is still running err
rands for the Kaiser.
He and his associates want to use the
Socialists of Russia, Of the United States
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Bungles

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: But few days ago the American peo-
pie were electrified by the news that an
American destroyer fotila had arrived in
British waters. Finel Great More power
to the navy! Next day. however, came the
humiliating dispatch that the British Admi-
rally had to issue clothing to the sailors
suitable for the cold climate OF the British
waters, because our Navy Department, with
admirable hindsight, had forgotten that the
climate of the West Indies and Great Britain
is not the same Bungle No. Identical with
1898. when the troops to serve in Cuba were
issued the same ration used by the troops sta
toned in Alaska.
Now the disgraceful fact. that the gunners
on the Mongolia have been provided with am
munition manufactured in 1898 (almost
twenty years ago. comes to light Bungle
No. .. The death Of the two nurses is de-
plorable, but 1t will not be in vain, for sooner
or later the American people will awaken to
the fact that if the war is to be prosecuted
successfully the rotten timber now supporting
the different departments at Washington must
b. thoroughly chopped out.
Here we are at the very beginning of the
war face TO face with two absolutely avoid
able bungles of the Navy Department. These
bungles, no doubt, would have been concealed
from the public had the press gag bill" be-
come law, and, to my mind, the publication
of such mistakes is the best argument against
the bill. Is it fair to ask the fathers and
mothers of the country to send their sons to
battle under such an incompetent system?
IL seems too bad that President Wilson
does not put TO practical use his sharp
shooter Machinist" simile and send the able
editor back to his county paper and the emf
nent lawyer and erudite historian back to his
law Office and put in their places fighting,
ed-blooded men of technical training.
We have given the President almost every
thing he desired-even helped him out with
his friend Grayson-and, in my opinion, he
ought TO consign these two beautiful political
gems Of ncompetency to oblivion. The Amer
lean people are YEARLY waiting for such a
move; pretty soon they will demand it.
GEORGE A. FERGUSON.
Perth Amooy, ~ j., May %, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25

and of the neutral countries Of Europe as
catspaws to pull Germany's chestnuts out
of the fire. The Russian Socialists nave
fallen in with this programme for reasons
Of their own. They are anxious TO revise
Russias outstanding agreements as to
peace terms with Great Britain, France
and Italy. They are therefore using par
ticipation in the Stockholm conference as a
sort of strategic threat. There will be no
British or French Socialists at Stockholm,
because the British and French Socialists
see through the German scheme. All we'll
informed Americans also see through it
including the more American leaders of the
Socialist party in this country.
For every reason American participa-
ton in the proceedings at Stockholm would
be most unfortunate. Few people abroad
realize how unmportant and unrepresent-
ative of American feeling is the radical,
international. Germanized wing of our So
cialist party-the wing which asplred to
represent the United States at Stockholm.
An entirely false impression would have
been given of American sentiment in re-
gard to peace terms if delegates chosen by
this small, exotic clique were allowed to
pose before the world as spokesman for the
United States and to enter into discussion
of peace terms with scarcely disguised
agents of the two Kaisers.
The international Socialist conference IS
a snare and pitfall. Some of the Rus
slams, for Interior purposes OF their own,
may be willing to seem to fall into it. But
the governments Of the other countries at
war with Germany have every reason for
vetoing any association on the part OF their
citizens or subjects with this disreputable
enterprise The Logan law, passed in
1899, is a sensible one. 1t could be invoked
to punish self-appointed American dele
gates who try to discuss peace conditions
with German emissaries. Fortunately, the
State Department has another hold on
these would-be plenipotentiaries. 1t can
refuse them passports-and has done So.
1t has put its boycott on this fraudulent
international gathering. Therein it has
shown excellent judgment. 1t is the gov
ernment's business exclusively to conduct
peace negotiations. That duty cannot be
delegated to volunteer Socialist politicians
or to any other group of private citizens.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Trials of an Organ

From the editorial page of our neigh
Dor 1.-THE Times" we take the following:
No decent American newspaper fears
just censorship; only the vipers dread It,
The World.
The American Newspaper Publishers
Association has voted unanimously against
press censorship. Does "The World con-
slider itself to be the only member Of this
body that is not viper? If 1t does, why
did it vote exactly as all the vipers did,
against the enactment of any censorship
law?
1t is a little unkind of "The Times" to
produce the record in this fashion. OF
course, as every one knows, 1.-THE World
is occasionally little slow in catching the
tune when the Administration calls it, and
then has to make up by the vigor of its
playing for the hardness of its changing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
City Peoples Land Hunger

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1t is not often that | see a discus
sion Of the food question which goes down
to the fundamentals as thoroughly as the
article on the food question in Sundays
issue by Stoughton Cooley. In that article
he suggests an answer to the inquiry that
has been in many minds. as TO why at a
time when we are told that every square
foot Of ground available for cultivation
should be utilized there should still remain
such large undeveloped tracts, in the vicinity
Of great cities. 1t seems clearly a waste Of
energy and labor to transport foodstufs over
long distances when they could under wiser
regulation be produced nearer home
have been much impressed in casual con-
versation with men who are mechanics of
different kinds by the fact Of how strongly
the instinct for gardening survives Italian
immigrants particularly have shown wonder
full industry in trying to develop little
patches of garden in the most forbiddng
locations.
You have done the people service by
calling attention to one means by which
the land hunger of the city people can be
assuaged, IL not satisfied.
JOHN J. MURPHY.
The Bronx, May %, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
A Foolish Analogy
Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In his letter in this mornings nv,
protesting against your editorial "pe''s
die Them" the publisher OF The s'. !,
bile Dealer and Repsirer" says: There
more reason why second-class business ~
be conducted by zones than for !e''e'
TO be conducted in the same manner =.
II it is fair for one class il is far ie'
Whether the zone plan be desirsoe " =.
the reasons in favor OF il for seee"' =
matter. as distinguished from first ei''~
so obvious that it is astonishing that any
should overlook them: -
l. In the handling OF letter the ioAs
lance transportation is a triAing 49,
while in the handling Of second-clsss
il is a large part Of the cost. -
2. First-class mail as a whole NOR !.
pays for itself, while seeond.elsss me-" -
whole is carried at a loss to the go'e's-.1
8. The carrying Of letters Is the
purpose Of the Postofice. and the iihs a.,
drawn in the extension OF its fune''o" .,,,r
the principles of that extension are ~.s,ss
for special determination in eaeh -
Nobody would propose, for example 's- -
be transported oy the r0''0" RI
New York, May 81, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Land Plenty, Laborers Few
Decline in Farms Not Due to the
Taxation System
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The Tribune of May 90 has very able
article by Mr.. Stoughton Cooley, entitled
"On the Trail of the Food Shortage" Per-
haps The Tribune does not recognize that it
is engaged in a single tax movement. By
taking advantage of the public interest in
the war and the food shortage the author
has clevery inserted a single tax wedge,
which may be enlarged in the future.
The single tax advocates think that every
thing painful in the body polite, from back
ache to corns. can be cured by the single tax.
The fact is that the present food shortage
has no more to do with the system of taxa
ton than it has with the planet Mars. Forty
years ago, when we had the same system of
taxation as we have now, farming was our
most prosperous industry. That it has de-
clined gradually is due to many causes, but
principally the fact that the cities have
grown at the expense of rural districts. La
Dor has left the farms and all because, while
other industries had the benefits of coordina-
ton and organization, farming has been left
to individual effort, mostly of very crude
F, kind. For the most part the farm is the
product of labor. The value of raw land is
very little. A farm is like factory in that
it will produce about what is put into it and
no more. To claim that the farmer should
have land free to carry on his business is
about the same as saying that a merchant
should have store free venture to say
that farmer who wished to set up in bust
ness needs no greater outlay Of capital than
the average storekeeper. There is plenty Of
land to be had, but few laborers.
Within the past year lot of farms have
been sold in the State Of New York within
one hundred miles Of the City of New York
the farmer can do business, as you see, is
very slight. but he has not availed himself of
the cheap price Of land because farming has
not paid, and it has not paid largely because
the distribution and the sale of his products
in the cities have not been made the subject
Of proper markets and regulation by the
government.
The State Department of Agriculture re-
ports that of about q, 100000 acres of land
lin the State of New York only s,250,OOO are
cultivated, and that Of about 100000 in
habitants of the state only $4,000, or about
per cent, are farmers. In many cases the
value of farm lands is less than it was fifty
years ago, when the system of taxation was
the same as it is now.
Much land remains out Of use simply be-
cause there is no one to use il. The owners
would be very glad to have it used. In many
cases they would let a tenant have it if he
would pay the taxes. To say that increasing
the taxes on such lands will compel owners
TO put them into use is simply foolish
dream The lands will be put into use when
the distribution and sale of the products will
be profitable enough to induce the farmer
to stay on the land and cultivate it,
CYRUS c. MILLER.
New York, May 81, 1917.
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For Liberty and God

For Liberty and God
h, qlorv majestic, immortal,
The LIGHT Of the World IN her hand
Liberty stands at the portal
That leads TO the Beautiful Land.
And ND through the bottlc-scorred ages,
Ont Of the Beasts black thr0H,
Led bp their heroes and soges,
The unfions hare GnsCcred the call.
Thopqh Royed and betrayed and defeated
u, the misfs Of the centVricd night,
Then hare cherished the dream till they
qrcoicd
The rapture Of freedom and i9h'
And there on the heights they have
pliqhted
This rog Of the conquering brare:
"TiH as brothers all men stand united
The free shall unshockle the SLAVE"
Through the hopes and fears Of hundred
years
On the soil of a virgin land,
A newborn race has reached its place
A place that the Maker planned
In the smiling lea of the shielding sea
II has grown to its great estate,
Untouched by the blight Of grasping might
Or the whitening creed of hate.
One faith alone have its people known,
One duty, alone, they see,
And upon their shrine is the truth divine:
"God makes His children free
g
Mock not Columbia's name!
For this is the sword that patient Lord
Has forged for His hour Of fame
For those who sleep dark fathoms deep
On the cold, harsh oceans bed,
For the weak We slew with your blood
stained crew.
For the loved and helpless dead;
For the babes whose laugh we cut IN half,
For the mothers who watched them die,
For the brothers We gave to the hungry
wave
Unable to make reply;
For the oaths We broke in the flame and
smoke
OF the fair fields We betrayed
For the fate We planned for friendly
land
While We sought her kindly aid;
For the horror wrought and the terror
taught
Wherever your hand has reached,
For the Devils rite of ruthless might
That your living guns have preached;
For the ravished homes and the crumbled
domes
That have felt your poisoned breath.
For the crushed who kneel at your chariot
wheel
And pray for the boon Of death;
For every crime, in Gods good time
Ye shall know your sin and shame,
When. for every wrong, the free, the
strong
Shall strike in Freedoms name!
Yet our righteous wrath but lights the
path
That leads to the distant goal;
We follow afar a nobler star
Than vengeance for our dole.
The Power who swayed while worlds were
made,
Who breathed hope into man,
Hath raised us high beneath His eye
To serve His larger plan.
The despot smites. the Finger writes
And through the quivering air
A message comes on throbbing drums
That call the free TO dare.
The thunders crash, the lightnings flash,
Day drags on leaden wings:
IT'S thus the sun shall sink upon
The Twilight of the Kings!
Take heart, Take heart! On we who
smart
Beneath expressions rod.
Free millions rise to sacrifice
For Liberty and God!
The land that Freedom blest at birth,
With flaming weapon drawn,
To save crushed and trembling earth
Genes striding with the Dawn.
STANLEY J. QUINN.
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DOES A DOG REAsoN7

Who can say whether or not a
dog thinks7 Cold scientists may
say that a dogs thinking proc
esses are merely the operation Of
instinct. Those of us who have
now or have had in youth one
or more dogs in the close circle
of our friendship will be apt to
say that an intelligent dog can
be considered really intellectual
that he reasons things out for
himself and quite as often fol-
lows the course of reason as the
average fool man or woman!
But what we started out to say
vas this: That "kazan" is one
of the best animal stories that
has been written in many years;
ranking with "Rab and His
Friends" by DR.. John Watson,
and old, old "Black Beauty" 1t
has no element of obvious hu-
NOR, but devotion, courage, sac
rifice, resignation, love and pa
thos are woven into the tale
with utmost skill. James Oil
yer Curwood is to be congratu-
lated for his authorship of this
story, and we feel that we can
congratulate ourselves in the
possession Of it for serial use.
THE EDITOR.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-10-30

Then q little more-inches at time,
along the floor He was halfway to
her-half-way across the room-when
the wonderful sounds grew very soft
and very low.
go on he heard the man urge in
a low, quick voice. "Go onl Don't
stopI"
The girl turned her head, saw Ka-
IAN cringing there on the floor, and
continued to play. The man was still
looking, but his eyes could not keep
Kazan back now. He went nearer,
stiI nearer, until at last his outreach-
ing muzzle touched her dress where 1t
lay piled on the floor. And then-he
lay trembling, for she had begun to
sing. He had heard a Cree woman
grooming in front of her tepee; he had
heard the wild chant of the caribou
song-but he had never heard any
thing like this wonderful sweetness
that fell from the lips of the girl. He
forgot his masters presence now. Qui'
city, cringingly, so that she would moi
know, he lifted his head. He saw hel
looking at him; there was something
in her wonderfuf~eyes that gave him
confidence, and he laid his head In hel
lap. For the second time he felt the
touch of a woman's hand, and hi
closed his eyes with a long, sighini
breath. The music stopped. There
came little fluttering sound above
him, like laugh and a sob in one. HI
heard his master cough.
"Tve always loved the old rascal
but I never thought he'd do that" h
said; and his voice sounded queer t.
Kazan.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-10-30

He meant no harm now. He would
kill for her. He cringed toward her,
inch by inch, his eyes never faltering.
He heard what the man said-"Good
heavenl Look at that p'-and he
shuddered. But no blow fell to drive
him back. His cold muzzle touched
her filmy dress, and she looked at him,
without moving, her wet eyes blazing
like stars.
"See !" she whispered. "Seel"
Now his muzzle travelled slowly up
ward-over her foot, to her lap, and
at last touched the warm little hand
that lay there. His eyes were still on
her face; he saw queer throbbing in
her bare white throat, and then a
trembling of her lips as she looked up
at the man with wonderful look. He,
too, knelt down beside them, and put
his arm about the girl again, and pat
ted the dog on his head. Kazan did
not like the mans touch. He mis-
trusted it, as nature had taught him
to mistrust the touch of all mems
hands, but he permitted it because he
saw that it in some way pleased the
girl.
"Kazan, old boy, you wouldn't hurt
her, would your" said his master soft
ly. 1--WE both love her, don't we, boy
Can't help it, can we? And she's ours
Kazan, all ours She belongs to you
and to me, and we're going to take
care of her all our lives, and if We
ever have to, Wen fight for her like
h-l-won't We? Eth, Kazan, old boyT
For a long time after they left hin
where he was lying on the rug, Ka
zan's eyes did not leave the girl. Aftel
a time his master said something, anC
with little laugh the girl jumped vi
and ran to a big square, shining thini
that stood crOsswise in corner, ant
which had n row of white teeth longe
than his own body. He had wondered
what those teeth were for. The girl
fingers touched them now, and all tn
whispering of winds that he ha
ever heard, all the music of the wa
terfalls and the rapids and the trill
ing of birds in springtime, could no
equal the sounds they made. 1t wa
his first music. Slowly he began slinl
ing toward the girl. He felt the eye
of the man upon him, and stopped
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CTo BE CONTINUED

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bargain sale that she really waDtA
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Recommend
Neighbors.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETI-
TION FOR PROBATE.
Those who object to liquid medi-
cines can procure Peruna Tablets.

In the Probate Court of Boundary
County, State of Idaho.
In the matter of the Last Will and
Testament of Henry Sawyer, de-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given, that a
petition for the probate of the will
of Henry Sawyer, deceased, and for
the issuance of Letters Testamentary
to A. p. Bailey and Herman H.
Taylor, has been filed in this Court,
and that the date Of November 10th,
1917, at 2 o'clock p. m. of said
day, at the Court Room of said
Court, at the Court House in Bon
ners Ferry, Boundary County, Idaho,
has been appointed as the time and
place for TIE hearing of said petit
ton when and whore any person
interested may appear and contest
the same and show cause, if any he
has, why said petition should not
be granted.
Dated this 29rd day of October,
1917.
E. r. HENDERSON,,
Probate Judge, Boundary County,
Idaho. oct23-nov6