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New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

in the "open door" when Japan puts it
back upon its ancient latch
Turn we dizzily southwark and there
Brazil is discovered in the act of ere
nouncing her neutrality and taking a
position short of war; in sympathy with
the United States. Strong pressure is be
ing brought to bear upon the Argentine
to do likewise. The same kind of embargo
pressure is being brought to bear upon
Holland and the European neutrals who
need our surplus of food and raw ma
terials. Sweden has retaliated by with
holding her millions of feet of wood pulp.
an action calculated to bite the American
press.
July is a blood red month in history.
July 4 is the red letter day on our cal
endar. July IA is Frances patriotic day,
Canada celebrates July /. Brazil and
other nations won their independence on
July days. And now Russia celebrates
with a deeper red. Kerensky has chris
tened his fighting battalions the July
Regiments" and presented them with red
revolutionary flags, at which good people
blink their eyes.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08
PART V EIGHT PAGES

manifested their patriotism by safeguard.
ing their civil policyholders against war
risks on soldiers. This Brobdngnagian
stride toward state socialism will cover the
military army, but the suppression Of all
attempts to furnish the industrial army
with either life or employment insurance
may safeguard the nation against COM
pleter state socialism.
Meanwhile the men-at-arms are not slow
TO test their rettle in useful service at
home. At East ST. Louis the state militia
helped to make the world safe for democ-
racy" by patrolling during the race riots.
At Bayonne the bayonets Of the state mi
litia brstled inside the fences of the In
ternational Nickel Company's stockade,
ready to suppress the two thousand strik-
ing workmen who might offer violence in
their demands for Is per cent higher
wages. At Boston enlisted men made
short work of socialist-pacifist parade
which flung on its banners the legend,
"The United States Has Ordered 100000
Cofiins," and after riotous hour the SOL
diers in uniform compelled the paraders
to kneel and kiss the flag for democracy's
sake.
Canada. our nearest ally, initiates US
in our popular conScription programme,
though not without hating and difficulty.
It is not so easy TO be democratic in Can
ada. There are not only the French, but
also the Scotch Canadians. The French
speaking Canadians feel that conscription
is aimed at them. Men like Henri Bouras-
sa. Armande Lavergne and l.. p. Gauthier
talk treason and hint civil war. But the
opposition to conscription cannot be ap-
praised in terms of French Quebec alone.
The Hon. Sidney Fisher, former Minister
of Agriculture, falls foul of "those who
say that conscription would be defeated in
referendum, and yet who oppose ref
crendum and call themselves democratic
Fisher contends that "a large majority OF
the farmers of Ontario are opposed to con-
scription" by parliament which sits ille-
galy.
Our neighbors are thus seen TO be hav-
ing less easy time with war democracy
and drafts than we are having.
Quebec, however, is much more resigned,
because she has no notion of accepting
conscription. Passive resistance" is the
thing. As Jean Baptiste is represented
as saying: Put the French-speaking
Canadian in Jail? Very well; there are
100000 Of him.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08
The Kitchen Crop

EOOD for humanity is still the pas
sionate quest Some reassure US
that the worlds food supply will be ample
unless drouth befalls; others will not be
consoed by the knowledge that the race
has fed itself without zone Hoover for
many generations.
Some strive to conserve the food pro
duced so that the hungry nav of Europe
be filled; others think to double the visible
supply by doubling the price and still
others to increase the supply by cutting
the price.
New York is having a taste Of food
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

of saving food" and to the restaurants, OF
which New York has 1000, employing
800 900 persons, and doing an annual busi-
ness of $1,000, 100000. From the garbage
cans of a sixty-family apartment DR..
Lucius p. Brown, director of foods under
the Department of Health, rescued ten
loaves of bread, five pounds of meat, three
pounds of cake and one pound of cereal,
possibly on a slack day.
Some controyersiaists avow that the
placing of society upon bread tickets and
the distribution of meat rations would al
ford thousands of the poor more and richer
food than their stomachs could stand.
Nothing on the political horizon indicates
that such people need stand in any fear OF
such a fate, though President Wilson Is
determined upon price regulation for
wheat and coal and possibly other commod-
tiles in the large.
The largest reason for the prevailing
high price of meat is the placing of an ini-
tial order for 397,63S,240 pounds of beef
for the army by the Quartermaster Cen
erals office. Other items are 29,0OO,OOO
pounds of coffee, 4SO,OOOOOO pounds of
potatoes. 3OO,O0O,OOO pounds of -four and
100000 pounds of butter. The men who
will eat this food are drawn in large part
from food producing industries, nor are
the cantonments likely to yield much from
the planting.
Prohibition is but another phase OF the
food question as placed before Congress
President Wilson had just got through be-
ing characterized by the National women
suffragists as "the one great obstacle to
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

sS5,,'"' Hsuan Tung, aged eleven years,
i aa'e made this poor child say that he
= '' On reforming the nation to which
). 'sp'olie had brought such disorder"
-. ..-sa' Il Yuan Hung is said 70 have
800 and in dire punishment the
: ,'~ hss commanded that he be made
.. =" o. the first class" Others say
49, ,r''ident is in jail. Southern China,
80 70 republicanism, will not ac-
-, The Northern Manchu pig-tail
49, Ne Cantonese England is re-
n,g. a. having helped destroy the re-
! :, m larger world policies. Japan
o. T-'<o of having stimulated disorder.
'" IN China, with Japan AZ the in
~ 70 thus almost assured. Mean
Shsls Sam may get his feet pinched
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ress. such was the ~armistice" sought by
Germany, such the truce with the Bear"
Though this serves its dramatic purpose.
the total effect may be overestimated, for
Russia is not thought by London military
experts to be equipped for a general Of
fensive.
Meanwhile the simple Russian So
cialists have made DR.. Karl Liebknecht,
the German Socialists repudiated leader,
and DR.. Friedrich Adler, the Aus
trian Socialists repudiated leader, hon.
orary members Of the Russian Congress.
These gentlemen are in dungeons in their
respective countries, and there the Austro-
German Socialists are said TO be content
that they should remain.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08
The Slav Peril

KERENSKY, the impassioned figure
IN who leads free Russia to who knows
what goal, is neither ruthless Attila
from the Ural plains nor an embittered
Mirabeau from the schools Of Moscow,
nor yet conquering Napoleon from Kron-
stadt. New world revolutions give birth
to new and composite types Of leaders who
WELD new terrors, if not to the lowly,
then to those in high places.
The "Slav peril" of which the Germans
craftily warned US, has put off the spurs
of autocracy and put on the boots of the
peasantry. and there are those who be-
lieve that with these boots it may be
bent upon the destruction Of existing
forms of government in Europe from
Petrograd to Madrid. Is Socialism, then,
the new "scourge Of Cod?
From London and Copenhagen como
warnings that the Germans are not ripe
for democracy, that the Wilson appeal for
peace through internal German reforms
has been lily received and that German
Socialists have little in common with the
Russian or the American and English
Socialists. When the faithful "Tageblatt'
blatts feebly about the, well, rather too
conservative Chancellor, the sign Of DEM
ocracy is insufficient.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

UeH ceH the tporId must turn upon lis arts.
Ind all mankind turn pifh it, heads or tails.
Byron, Don Ju0n
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

The thrilling attack of German sub
tarines upon the Pershing expedition IN
saocean and again near the French coast
s'sals the accurate work of such German
F'ss in New York. Secretary Daniels
sesed his stars that he was able to an
ionce the miraculously safe arrival OF
r troops in France. To the thrill Of dan
e'' at sea, Of American gunnery IN
ston and Of safe landing has been added
q thrill Of an American parade in Paris.
Consider the chagrin Of Hindenburg at
u safe landing Fer he has just as
'ist the Germans that the submarine
ND win the war before the Americans
I'D arrive" trusting the while to the
pes and 70 the submarines to waylay
S'T American troop ship so that the
tsfrean soldiers Will arrive at the
n'nn Of the sea.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

Aliens in the United States enjoy I'M
nunity from draft, and immunity also
ron the censorship, likewise from injunc'
tons against giving aid and comfort to
tie enemy, judging from the extreme
wernment laxity toward them as noted
II the press. Germans carry on a mer-
aant marine insurance on a large scale
I'D avail themselves Of important ship
llg information, which information there
i nothing to prevent them from dispatch
,g in cipher 10 Germany by relaying to
Ngth America and Switzerland.
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But while most of these things are as
Opaque as mud, the glorious Russian drive
is as clear as daylight. This much even
business intelligence understands. ke-
rensky and his horde Of idealists are bent
upon striking down the exterior foe. And
how freed men do fight. Under Nicholas
they fought like dumb, driven cattle. Un-
der Kerensky their freedom strikes terror
to the foe.
Leading 100000 men to victory in East
Galicia, Kerensky gave the world thrill.
In the towns of Koniuchy and Brzezany he
ca ptured first 10000 and later 5000 Aus
trians and Germans. And General Hugh
L. Scott was privileged TO be an eyew1t'
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% the East We witness a titanic up
s''il, still in the tremor stage. Chinese
S&s'lonarles have restored the Infant
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

Fast st. Louis fared up on the map with
\ ugly social eruption. Negro workmen
vrre invited to the Northern plants by
nplOyers who seek the cheapest labor.
ne white workmen resented this colored
ivasion. As if to rebuke the meliorists
vbo talk Of "the democracy Of the world y
he white people of East st. Louis, pas
sysy aided. it is said, by even the State
NINA, killed. twenty-nine negroes, IN
clutng women and children, and burned
800 negro homes. No particular outburst
Of resentment against this Northern vio-
lsrce manifested itself in the Northern
press but the Southern press is quick to
apitalze it and to impress it upon the
tsAhng negro.
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or, own continent appears compara-
e.v ouiescent. though constitutions are
-, rprooted and men yesterday un-
-, are to-day issuing ukases from
T...;,v+on and Ottawa. Food Dictator
u..-s- has Joined hands with Canada's
~ censor. W. J. Hanna, but beyond
=, hardy utterances and various or
-. rbicb have not all been obeyed food
ENG and food selling and food consum-
;,,re following their accustomed course
p,odigiOus debating is going on in the
c,,ad though, outside of "The Congress
laval Record" little is printed concerning
asss Gas effusions, against which Uncle
c,m wears a mask. Food bills, taxation
Hl, and appropriation bills are still on
4, FIRE while Washington swelters in the
,s,t The only persons who lem to be
,,v;nr any attention to Congress are the
woman suffragists who got
,bsnselves into jail for their pains.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

,uE World in Panorama reveals
strange disorders. The days when
,bere was babel in Babylon. when
.,.ue hovlcd,' when Paris fought ,.,n IN
80 ..-srirc legions-these were lack
y \. .'' lotus-eating days compared with
- . ,g,,o5.apd-thunder interval in which
t,isf lives have been caught.
= n, crowded hour" brings US a Chinese
ys,st pr5yokes japanese lust for
=, ':,.i. domination, throws Brazil into
-. s..,snt with the Allies of Europe, eX-
~. civil war feeling in Canada, a tre-
'..5og, Russian drive in Galicia, and
:. -,,cbing of American armies in Paris
.rss rs enough Socialist parade
-, and race riots for mess.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-16
VENICE BOMBED
FROM CLOUDS
AUSTRIANS ALLEGE THEY DROP
FOUR TONS AND CAUSE NUM-
EROUS FIRES.

Vienna, Via London) Aug 16.-Four
tons of bombs were dropped by air
planes Tuesday morning on the Mari.
time arsenal at Venice, causing a mum.
ber of conflagrations, according to the
official statement Of the Austrian war
office.
The announcement follows:
I'm the Italian theater, numerous air
encounters occurred over the Isonzo
Tuesday Five enemy aviators were
brought down. As a reprisal for the
last aerial attack on Pola, a large num-
ber Of airplanes attacked the maritime
arsenal at Venice early Tuesday morn
ing
Notwithstanding weather condi.
tions, strong gun fire and the enemy's
defending aviators, ours met with very
good success. We observed from a low
altitude good hits by heavy and light
bombs, OF which four tons were dropped.
Conflagrations were observed.
Three of our airplanes are missing.
The enemy torpedo unit retreated before
our flotilla which covered the aviators
and enemy bombs were dropped unsuc.
cessfully on thi fletilla and Parinzo Ia
seaport Of Austria-Hungary in Istra)
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DENOUNCED IN ARGENTINE.
Effort of HohenzoIlerns to Escape. One
Newspaper Saws.

buenos Aires, Argentine, Aug. 1e.-
Comment on the peace proposal OF the
proposal of the pope is generally pe,.
simistic. The leading Argentine nexs.
papers recognize that certain points ara
eo'incident with the ideas OF Presiien,
Wilson, but that the conditions and
propositions OF the pope will not be ao.
cepted. They WILL however. servo bet.
ter to know the state OF mind OF the
Ieuton chancellors. tho Teutons per.
hitting the pope better to appreciate
on what side are justice ana right
Certain newspapers bolieve tina, do.
spite the good intentions OF the none.
his propositions are injurious TO the al.
lies fayoring those responsible for the
war
III Diarce. despite Its Roman Catholic
1enoe-ay' declared tho declaration by
the pope has created a painful impres.
lon' II appears to be an effort 10 save
the central empire. ~.
Ia Epoca, the presidential par,v or.
gan, says the Hohenzollerns want IN
ivoii the punishment Of crimes asains,
humanity. Tho pope could not refuse
to propose peace. but this proposi.Ion
will fail.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-16
MANY GERMANS
DIE At HILL 10
ENEMY LOSES MORE THAN THREE
REGIMENTS IN TRYING TO
HOLD LENS REGION.

Canadian Headquarters in France,
Aug. 15.-(By Canadian Press Limited
The Germans are now fighting with
great tenacity to maintain their pre-.
carious hold on the central portion of
Lens. Throughout the day they have
been bringing up fresh troops with
(which to carry on counter-attacks.
'DThe original German force which met
assault was pretty well accounted
the attacking force. It consisted
70 battalions Of the 165th regiment,
tw, Of the twenty-sixth, two of the
l56th, and one Of the 293rd. German
regiments consist of two battalions each
and after the battalions of the three
first mentioned regiments holding the
trenches had been put out Of action
the reserve battalions were moved up
hurriedly. At 8 o'clock, while headed
toward Hill 70, these battalions were
caught under our artillery fire and dis.
persed.
The enemy leaders next called upon
the fourth guard division, which had
been held on this section Of the line for
such an emergency as that which con.
fronted the defenders of Lens. The
guards proceeded toward Bois Hugo
with the evident intention of retaking
Hin 20. They. too. were caught under
our artillery and machine gun barrage
and so roughly handled that two at
tempts to advance had to be abandoned.
Hill 20 was not even seriously men,
aced during the remainder of the day.
A short way to the north between st.
Laurent and Lens, the enemy recovered
portion of the line Of reserve trenches,
the possession Of which lessons for a
moment our pressure from the north.
Artillery and machine gun experts
have just explained that the enemy
position is an impossible one. and that
II he can not drive us Off Hill 20, he
will have to get out Of Lens.
Our casualties can now be spoken OF
as light.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-16
WAR SUMMARY

In the three sectors Of the Franco.
Belgian front. the French and British
have won new successes In their oren.
sive operations, which are once more
in full swing. Attacks were made by
the British in Belgium near Ypres. by
the French on the Aisne front near
Dixmude in Belgium. The ground won
by the British in yesterdays brilliant
attack near Lens including the highly
important Hin 20, was held in face OF
all German counter attack. General
Haig reports.
While the British were consolidating
their new territory near Lens and dc
Tending II against German efforts. they
struck another blow about 80 miles fur,
ther north. on wide front east aud
north OF Ypres. The official report
from London gives few details OF the
battle, but says progress Is being made
The French. with Uss Stance OF British
troops on their right. attacked German
positions on both siies OF tho road b
tween the towns OF steensrlte and Dix
nude, eight miles apart.
Paris reports that an objectives were
gained and that a crossing OF the Steen
beke river was forced.
The French and British are making
further progress on the right bank OF
the river.
Marked success was won by the
French on the Aisne front. A strongly
held system Of trenches on front OF
one kilometer south OF Allies was
stormed and four German counter.at
tacks beaten or.
The French also made progress IN
the vicinity OF Hurtebise monument.
The Austrian war office announce,
that four tons Of bombs were droppot
upon ,he maritime arsenal IN Venice OF
Tuesday, causing a number OF fires
Three OF the Austrian airplanes ar,
missing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-16
BRITISH OPINION SARCASTIC.
Peace Proposal From German Brain is
Contention.

Aug. 16.-The text of the
papal peace does not remove the ad.
verse impression produced here by the
publication of its summary. On the
contrary. 1t strengthens the conviction
that the note is inspired by the central
powers and the opinion is that its pro.
posals are impossible. The editorials
express much respect for the pope and
MS profession OF perfect impartiality.
but regard him unable to appreciate the
matter at issue.
The Times says the allies are bound
TO reject his plan Of settlement which
proves more pro-German and more anti
ally, even than the summary. The
peace he proposes would be a German
peace and ii is impossible to read the
scheme without a suspicion that IN,
note itself and choice of the moment Of
Its issue are the outcome Of German in
spiration. The allies. continues IN,
Ilmes' have the same end in view a,
the pope but are convinced that il can
not be attained by the means he ad
Verted only by a victory in the field.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-16
:DRAF 7 DENOUNCED
ON SENATE FLOOR
SENATOR vARDAMAN Is HOSTILE
TO WAR AND ARNIING OF
AMERICAN NEGROES.

Washington, Aug. Ex-senator Var
daman, speaking in the senate today.
denounced the war as a quarrel between
rulers, instigated by commercial ban
dts" and a reproach to Christian civ
ilization. He also denounced the draft
and declared the president made a
mistake when he called the negro to
arms.
Il maintain compulsory military train
ing viii leave a problem in this country
more difficult Of solution, more disas-
trous, fear in consequence than the
sudden emancipation of slaves a half
century ago." Mr. Vardaman said. Il
believe the preservation OF a free gov
ernment in America will be as difficult
a problem after the war as to overcome
our chief antagonist --Germany-now."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-16
WILSON CONSIDERS
Pope S APPEAL
GENERAL OPINION IN OFFICIAL
CIRCLES is THAT PEACE PRO-
POSAL WILL BE REFUSED.

Washington, Aug. 16.-The text Of
Pope Benedict's peace note received
here early today in cabled dispatches
from London discloses that it does not
differ from the unofficial outline prev
iously received.
The foundation stones Of the pope's
proposals for ending the world war are
reduction Of armament, freedom of the
seas, settlement Of all international dis
putes by arbitration. and that there
shall be no retaliatory struggle for &C.
onomic world supremacy after the war.
publication here today of the text
of the pope's proposal gave officials and
allied diplomats opportunity to make a
closer study of the vatican's move for
peace than was possible from the ad-
vance outline. Officials, while evincinR
much interest, refrained from making
any comment pending receipt Of the
official text of the pope's communica.
ton nor would they intimate the nature
of the reply to be sent the vatican. The
official text was expected momentarilv.
The text Of the communication served
to strengthen the prevalent opinion that
there is no likelihood of the proposals
being accepted in their present form.
Allies VIII Refuse.
That public opinion in the allied
countries, insistent on a favorable de.
cisive elimination of hostilities, viii
cause the offer to be rejected was gen.
orally conceded here.
Action to put into effect plans of
leaders to forestall any attempt at open
discussion of peace in the senate ap.
peared imminent when that body con.
vened today. Present plans call for ex.
iecutive sessions to consider closing the
doors for peace debate. Senators of the
so-called pacifist group were expected
to oppose the secret session program.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-16
BRITAIN S WHEAT
STORES GROW

London, Aug. i6.-Premier Lloyd
George, speaking In the house Of COM
mons this afternoon, said that this time
last year the wheat In this country
amounted 10 $3.50. 900 quarters and that
now It Is s,se0OoO quarters. The stocks
OF oats and barley. he declared. also
was higher.
Mr.. Lloyd George said the acreage
under cultivation showed an increase OF
100000 n RESET ay5afffu. OF 23l56s66
100000 acres. The condition OF food
supplies was very satisfactory. Tho
premier added that there had been an
increase in the sugar reserve.
'The government has come to the con-
clusion." Premier Lloyd George said.
"that with reasonable economy there Is
no chance OF starving ENGLAND out.
"The admiralty plans for dealing with
submarines have boen increasingly sue.
cessful"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-16
ARE AMERICANS
I. ON BATTLE FRONT?
WOUNDED COMING IN is REPORT
MAY REFER TO MEN
WITH ENGLISH.

London, Aug. 16.-According TO the
Daily News, some wounded American
soldiers from the western front have
just arrived at the hospital at Bath
Washington, August l6.-Nether the
war nor navy department has any in.
formation on the reported wounding OF
American troops on the western front.
Prompt official announcement is prom
ised when information is received pro-
vided II is not incompatible with mill.
tary interest.
Dispatches from the American train.
ing camp in France last night said all
the American forces in France We're re.
viewed yesterday indicating that the
entire body was still in training.
The American military authorities
have made elaborate preparations for
treatment in American hospitals in
France Of the wounded who ordinarily
would not be transported TO England.
The report Of the London newspaper
may refer TO wounded Americans serv-
ing with the British armies, Of whom
there are several thousands.