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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
Ambulances for Italy
Poets Committee Has Raised
$I23,40Q.08

Robert Underwood Johnson, chairman Of The
is raising funds for ambulances in Italy,
which it is buying by cable and delivering Ia
the Italian government, announces that the
cash receipts up to noon Of Saturday, No.
vember 10, are s113,40o.0s. Adding 10 this
$4,000 assured from five special subschp.
tions of $4,000 now under way, the grand
total is S123, 4000S. During the week 5000
has been received from Charles L. Huston
Coatesville, Penn, in honor of King Albert
of Belgium; S1,975 from friends of George
Edward Woodbury. to complete fund Of
$4,000 in his honor; sl,956 from the Womsns
Athletic Club of San Francisco, through Mrs
James Ellis Tucker; $4,000 from Mrs william
Reed Thompson, Pittsburgh Penn; s2o@
from the City Athletic Club of New York;
s798 from Hunter College Committee, to com.
plete fund of $4,000 for ambulance in honei
Of Professor Helen Gray Cone; $50 from Mrs
Henry F. Kidder, and SAT from the CREOLE
ltaliana, of New Haven, through Laura W.
Hermance, treasurer. Miscellaneous con!ri-
buttons have amounted to sl16.l0.
The report shows that this has been
good week for the fund, but in view Of the
messages which the committee has received
by cable from Mr.. H. Nelson Gay, its reore'
sentative in Rome, urging it TO send large
sums for immediate use because Of Itsy's
perilous situation, the committee is redoub-
ling its efforts to complete its fund. To this
end it earnestly appeals for continued con.
tributions, and especially for checks OF $1,000
or Of $4,000 to be drawn to the order OF
George A. Plimpton, treasurer, and sent /"
the chairman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13

labor troubles within the shipbuilding IN
dustry or for the obvious shortage OF out
side labor capable of being diverted to
shpbuilding.
The problem of shipbuilding was not
taken seriously enough at the start. The
fiat theory was popular then. And latterly,
since the actual dimensions Of the Job have
begun to be realized, there has been
natural disinclnation to abate claims
which were based on hopes rather than on
actualities.
We face now serious disappointment,
so far as concerns the readiness Of our new
merchant feet to do the work assigned to
it in our early war plans. Most Of our cal
culations will have to be revised, and IN
due time the government itself will prob
ably revise them. There is great gain,
however, in the public admission now
made Of relative failure in the last eight
months.
We have not yet got into the war in
the true sense-in the sense of devoting
our entire thought and energy to its tasks.
After having done our shipbuilding on
petty scale for so many years, it is still an
extraordinary test of the adaptability Of
our industries to set TO doing it all at
once on a gigantic scale. We shall worry
through on our merchant marine pro-
gramme. Yet it is useless-indeed, it is
no longer possible-to conceal from our
selves the consequences of the two initial
setbacks in tonnage planning and con-
struction which have hindered our progress.
In spite of them, and guided by an expe-
rience which we have paid high for, we
must now push on with desperate energy
to the original goal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
The Fur Craze
lFron The Phnodelphia Inquirer

From The Philadelphia Inquirer
Annual sales Of immense quantities Of pelts
at ST. Louis and New York indicate that next
season the women folks are going to pay
we'll for their furs. The whole animal king
dom is being searched for skins, and even
the harmless, necessary cat must contribute.
As for the muskrat and other pelts which
once were considered vulgar, they have now
reached the ranks OF aristocracy in price
and in the persons of those who wear them.
The old-time favorite furs Of fashion have
attained high values.
Not all Of the furs in market are for style.
Armies demand many and a good deal Of the
fun is removed to make hats and other arti-
cles. But the women are responsible for
most of the high prices. Nowadays they
must have furs in the hottest weather and
this all-the year-round demand Is 10y 10
the furriers. II is fortunate that the art Of
preparing furs has reached such a stage
that tho humblest skin may be camoufsged
TO look stylish-at least for n time.
All this is rather hard on the animals,
which seem to be disappearing from the best
hunting grounds. II would make an old
Hudson Bay trader weep TO see tho prices
now commanded by pelts which at one time
he would have held in contempt. Grea. Brit
ain and France looked upon the New World
more as a source for furs and FISH than for
gold and silver, which appealed to the Span
iards and wrecked their national vitality.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
Keep Them All in Service!

Secretary Bakers suggestion that
large proportion of the officers to be COM
missioned at Plattsburg and other train
ing camps be sent back to private life on
leave and without pay has provoked a
general and emphatic protest. That pro-
test is justified. Nothing could do more
to lower the morale of the Officers Reserve
Corps than such cavalier treatment of the
men who have accepted the governments
invitation to enter it. To give success
full aspirant for a commission a speeded'
I'D, intensive training and then turn him
back into civil pursuits, to go through a
dangerous stating process, would involve
a vast wastage of military effort. 1t
would be a patent reflection on the eff
cheney Of War Department methods.
The public cannot understand why every
graduate of the officers training camps
should not be allowed to go ahead perfect
ing himself in his technical duties and
completing his general military education.
Are the newly created officers to be rusti-
Gated solely as a matter of economy? Such
economy would mean wasting at the bung-
hole while saving at the spigot. The petty
gain on salaries would be Offset hundred
times by the check given to the creation
Of an officers corps adequate for our new
armies.
The public judgment Is that more off,
GERS, and still more officers, are needed
and that there is ample use for all the
graduates the training camps can turn
out. We shall be short of officers up TO
the very end of the war. The experience
of all the fighting nations proves this.
Why, then, interrupt the education Of a
single man who has shown himself COM
petent for a commission? A second draft
is in sight, and after that a third draft.
How can any one, therefore, dispute the
common sense of the proposition that every
available officer be kept at work where he
belongs-in active service, subject to war
discipline and imbibing the spirit of the
trenches and the camps?
We are confident that Mr.. Baker will
withdraw his suggestion on strictly mill
tary grounds, even though he were dis
posed to leave out of account, as a senti-
mental consideration, not to be regarded
in war time, the grave personal injustice
done by his contemplated order to hun
dreds of winners of commissions who
have responded Fundamentally to the
call.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
The Status Of MIR. O'Leary
Why the Brooklyn Peoples Institute
Withdrew Its Invitation
To the Editor of The Tribune.


Sir: May | make a statement relative TO
your report of the meeting at Court Square,
Brooklyn, held last evening, to discuss "New
York's Food Problem ?" A talk on "The Police
and Street Meetings" had been contemplated
for last night and speakers had been APP
preached. Deputy Police Commissioner Cod
ley had been invited, as had Cleveland Moffett.
jeremiah A. OLesry, with whom we had been
in correspondence as early as last July, prior
to Secretary Lsnsing's revelations, was also
of the number. After these revelations we
were in grave doubt as TO the proprety of
holding the meeting. A letter from Mr.
Moffett, in which he reserved the right to
withdraw il Mr.. OLeary was TO be the speak
err determined us TO give up the meeting.
Letters were Immediately dispatched to all
the speakers withdrawing the invitations to
speak and an entirely different meeting on
the food question was arranged To the great
surprise Of the chairman, Louis II. Pink, Mr..
OLeary appeared last evening, stating that
he had received no letter apprisng him not
to come. The letter TO Nr. OLeary, which
has not been returned to US by the postoffice
officials, follows:
October 81, 1917.
Mr.. jeremiah A. O'Leary, "a Jumel Terrace. New
York City.
My Dear Sr Referring 70 your letter Of October
26. may say that II has been the endeavor Of the
Brooklyn Forum TO present for discussion topics OF
timely interest always trying 10 present the various
points of view each subject, allowing questions
and free discussion from the floor Upon considera-
ton. however, have concluded that Il probably
would be impossible 10 confne the meeting planned
for November IL within the narrow lines we had in
mind-vz., the propriety of using the streets
meeting places during the present crisis-and that
the meeting would result in the raising OF broader
issues. which we had not intended TO project.
IL would therefore wiser TO devote the meet
ing 10 the discussion Of other subject asking
the privilege of Withdrawing invitations 20 the
speakers. We indeed grateful TO you for the
consideration Of our request.
Again thanking you heartily, I am, very sin
cerely yours. SEYMOUR BARNARD. Director
Mr. Serri, the representative Of the Federal
Food Commission, was in no sense a substi-
tute for Mr.. Moffett, as stated in The Tribune.
He was the official speaker Of the evening in
our discussion on the food question, In which
Mr.. OLeary's remarks had no place.
It is apparent that, due to some misunder-
standing, notices Of the meeting originally
planned were circulated from some source
other than this Office
SEYMOUR BARNARD,
Director The Peoples Institute of Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, Nov. IL, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13

London and Paris and Rome, but it will be
heard also in Berlin, which understands no
other language. Not since the European
War began has Mr.. Wilson spoken with
so much Of authority. He has asserted
his leadership in his own country and he
has pointed the way to that victory which
can be lost by the nations fighting Ger
many only if their spirits are weaker than
their weapons and their resolution less
than their opportunity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
War Conditions in New Zealand
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following extract from letter
dated September IA from my brother in New
Zealand may be of sufficient interest for pub
lication:
when occupied the home farm had al
weeds cut once year. This usually took
man about ten weeks $3.50 acres). We wers
not by any means singular in this. There
are thousands of farms in the Wsiksta
where 1t takes man anything up to three
months in the year TO keep small farm
clear Of blackberries. You will remember
what pest sweetbriar, gorse, etc, were IN
your time.
81 don't think it likely that land will 50
down in value, as all produce is so high IN
price. The great difficulty is to get it away.
now that there are SO few ships. Most Oh
the freezing works have built extra storage
chambers for this seasons butter. II"
papers are not allowed TO give any shipping
news, so produce may be going away WIZ
out one hearing about it.
AT recent sale of fat stock here (Wsi-
kato) short-horned bullocks sold for so,
Herefords for CAT and wethers at f12 los
apiece.
THE number of men who have gone 70
the 'front.' from mere Is i9,VOo, ana teinIV'
ments leave every month $4,000 mem. Iroos
ships are conveyed by Japanese warshps.
We had 5000 casualties In the Messinss os''
tie. There will soon be no young men. sA'
cep.ing Austrians. left in the country. Their
are 5000 Austrians in Auckland Provinces
II is supposed that they were sent here to y
the army OF occupation after the Cenuss
Powers had won the war. As there are W
many to intern, Parliament Is talking aessy
conscripting them and making them vs."
for the same pay as our soldiers are So
ting. Benzine Is IS. q gallon hssv
now. II is a wonder IL Is not higher, 50
sidering the amount they require In Eurey.
They say that at the battle Of Messines y
tanks alone used about two million gsilc.>
RICHARD c. RATHBoRN0I
New York. Nov. 8, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
The Ship Board Shake-Up

Control has shifted again in the man.
agement of the governments great ship
building enterprise. Within six months
there have been two crises and two reor-
carnations. This is depressing record,
however reluctant the country may be, for
obvious reasons, to contrast the deficiency
in results it indicates with our original
high hopes.
Denman and Goethals fell together,
after long period of unseemly wrangling.
Denman was an incubus from the start
bungler, who should not have been per-
mitted to hold office for day after diplo-
matte relations with Germany were broken.
Goethals did the country at least one SER
vice. He punctured Denman's fantastic
wooden ship programme. With Denman's
exit we got new Shipping Board, and Ad-
miral Caps displaced General Goethals as
manager of the shipbuilding corporation.
Now Capps gives way in authority to a
new director, without military or naval
connections. Failure, comparative, per-
haps, but still failure, is thus the govern
ment's own verdict on the first eight
months Of mercantile marine construction.
Such failure may have been inevitable.
What is certain is that our shipbuilding
expectations were oversanguine. There has
been too much talk and too little fulfilment.
Denman thought he saw wooden ships as
sembling on every sheltered stretch Of
beach along the two oceans, whereas, as
Goethals rudely pointed out, the birds were
still singing in the trees out of whose tim
bers this fotilla was to be constructed.
They are still singing in most of those
trees. For steel construction material and
plants were in being, in a commercial
sense, and available TO a certain extent.
Yet labor was lacking, and is still lacking.
And time was factor which remained
highly intractable.
The public was deceived, and the gov
eminent itself may have been msled, by
the ease with which our new armies were
created. The conditions in this field were
the reverse Of those in the feet-building
field. Armies have been created by fiat.
But mere fat cannot assemble and
launch oceangoing ships. The government
shouldered along to the people the labor
Of carrying the selective CONSUMPTION law
into effect. The draft machinery was
created by voluntary effort. Citizens, serv-
ing without pay on enrolment boards,
made up the draft lists and passed on the
eligibility Of. their fellow citizens. The
draft was glittering success, because the
cooperation Of the people was all that
was needed 10 make it such.
| But building a feet could not be passed
along 10 the people in mass, or even to the
existing industrial agencies. 1t required
creative action at the top and vast or
ganization Of facilities all the way down
the line. On paper IL was possible 10 figure
out tonnage next spring or next summer
equal 10 our war requirements. But all
these calculations were contingent on prog
ress according 10 prearranged and ex-
tremely optimistic schedule. Sufficient al
lowance was never made for delay or con-
fusion inside the directing corporation, for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
Seize and Sell the Foods

Apparently the vast quantities Of food
stuffs, cattle feeds and other materials
discovered in storage by Secret Service
agents fall into two main classes-those
boarded by spectators seeking top-of-the-
market prices and those boarded by Ger
mans or German agents with the idea of
shipping them into Germany through neu-
trail countries, or directly into Germany at
the end of the war AS to the German
property there is no difficulty. 1t can be
seized and thrown on the market, with due
regard to this nations necessities and
those Of our allies, and it should be. 1t is
intolerable to think of an artificial short
age in any article of food contributed to
in the slightest degree by enemy aliens or
their hyphenated agents here.
As to materials boarded by spectators,
the situation is slightly different. Under
existing laws limiting the storage period,
this supply would come into the market in
time. But meanwhile its being withheld
might create genuine hardship. Of this
Mr.. Williams, Federal Food Administrator
for this state, and DR.. Moskowitz, Munich
pal Market Commissioner, are plainly
aware. They declare that food specula-
ton is dangerous now and promise severe
penalties for offenders. The penalties can
not be too severe, and the laws under
which these officials are working in all
probability will have to be amended to
IL g. al
ready stipulated. 1t is manifest that the
crisis through which this nation is passing
has not yet affected certain minds. Food
sharks are endeavoring to extract huge
profits, despite the necessities Of indi-
viduals and the country. For them the
fines and Imprisonment which Mr.. Will
Jams predicts will be none too good
A certain amount of food storage is in
evitable and desirable under the distribu-
ton conditions by which this city is sup
piled. That is greatly different from the
deliberate boarding of foods to run up
prices. Mr.. Williams and DR.. Moskowitz
may be relied on to detect the difference
without difficulty. They have two weapons
to use in the public's interest-frst, the
power of publicity, the disclosure of the
names of those who are holding quantities
of supplies in storage; second, prosecution
by the Federal government or seizure and
sale, in accordance with the state food law,
of the Goods boarded. These weapons
should be used to the limit.
Whether the hoarders of food materials
be actually Germans and pro-Germans or
merely profteers, the effect on the people
here is the same. Food boarding is the act
Of an enemy Of this nation. 1t imperils the
country and the country's war aims. 1t
must be stopped, and no procedure is too
summary and drastic to use in stopping It.
Those responsible for the holding of the
millions of dollars worth of foods and
feeds found by the Secret Service agents
have had their warning. They may con-
slider themselves lucky that they got the
warning instead Of prosecution this time.
/ If they do not mend their ways the officials
must substitute for warning the processes
Of seizure and sale.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13

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Entered q, II. Posonos at New Yorf As seoOnd Class
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-23
RECALL LIQUOR
LAW RULINGS
Question of Admitting Dis
titled Spirits TO u. S. Up to
Attorney General.

WASHINGTON, oct. o5--Iustruc-
tons to all customs collectors
throughout the country to admit TO
entry distilled spirits produced
abroad prior 10 oct last. either
for beverage purposes or for other
than beverage purposes" were made
public and recalled within the space
of "a few hours Monday By the treas
my department.
These instructions were recalled,
high officials of the department tax.
ing the stand that the question was
one OF such magnitude that Atty.
sen. Gregory should pass upon il.
The issuance Of the instructions
which were sent out by Asslstan,
Secy Rowe last Saturday was based
upon an Interpretation Of the food
and revenue laws given by Law
renee Becker, solicitor Of the treas
ury department. an official of the
department OF justice. Mr.. Becker
ruled that the revenue law approved
oct. repealed provisions of the
previously enacted food control law
which daily prohibited the impOrta-
ton OF any distilled spirits Now
the question has been placed before
the attorney general himself for a
decision and in the meantime the
food law prohibition remains in eff
feet.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-23
KRUESBERGER IS
To De AVIATOR
South Bend High School Ath-
Iete is Now at Fort
Thomas.
arDRA9 FAaER
BY CIINS. W. CALL.

Jimmie" Kreuzherger. 626 Port
age av. prominent high school
athlete of the last few years. left
Monday morning for Fort Thomas,
Ky, to join the aviation corps.
Kreuzberger was yell master at
the high school for two years. but
it was as member Of the track
team that he gained his greatest
reputation. He ran i'm the 100 and
200 yard dashes. but his speciality
was the quarter mile He was un-
doubtedly one of the fleetest middle
men i'm Indiana, and during mis-
career at the local high school he
amused a total of 1S4 points for
his team. This is "a greater number
than any other athlete at South
Bend high ever scored. At the dual
meet with Gary last May Jimmie
stepped off the quarter mile in So
seconds fiat
Kreuzberger also did much run
ming as a member of the different
i'm the various munich
pal outings the last few years. Last
August i'm the annual intra play
ground games held on oliver field,
he won the 100. go and 44O yard
dashes fin easy style. an accomplish
mcut worthy of "a much more ma
tured athlete
Jimmie" is "a big rangy fellow.
the kind that stand up best not only
ftr .+HI.tf.. Eftt ian oil fpqfC Of
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-23
NOTICE. STUDENTS OF THE
SOUTH BEND BUSINESS COL
TEEEf


The committee in charge of the
annual Halloween event, to be held
at the =. b. b G. Friday evening.
oct. 20, at $3.50, cordially invites
your presence Program. refresh
ments, etc. This invitation is extend
ed 10 all students, ex-students and
friends. -Advt.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-23

WANT 4 GANfEe
G~>yL

The 8rownson Chicks Of Sotre
Dame issue = challenge % any team
in the city averaging .30-135
pounds FOR q game 81 football. Fo-
eau,es call Bell phone % and ask
zoe vfnfam Barbour