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Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-08-23
Trzech polskich ch}opc6w 81
ME W nurtach rzeki

Buffalo, N. Y. w Erie Beach,
W micjscu kapielowem, = utopi-
10 sic zarazcm trzech polskich
ch}opcow, jak r6wniez 26-letni
mlodzieniec - W miejscu SPECIAL
ME ia kapiel urzadzonem, w kt6-
rem woda nigdy mad cztery sto--
lpy g}ebokoSci ME przybiera, a
|podczas wichru, wezbra}a najwi--
|doczniej znacznie wyzcj w wiz
wciagniete zosta}y ofiary.
Nicszczesliwymi ch}opcami So:
karol Zawadzki, syn znanej ro--
dziny z pod mr.. 1179 Sycamore III.
15-letni Jan Wonchnik, = wnuk
PAM Patrzykowskiej 16 ]etni
Bernard Karmolinski, syn znane-
go obywatela Z pod nr. 1155 Gene
lsce III.
26-lctnim m}odziencem, kt6ry
r6wniez znalaz} smierc W nurtach
|rzcki Niagara W Erie Beach =
LEST Robert Decker.
! Ch}opcy polscy bawili W gosci-
}nie u PAM Metelskiej, kt6ra wraz
Il pania Patrzykowska i pania
Wonchnicka ma lato W Erie Beach
zamieszka}a.
Jak to zwyczajem TAME bywa,
ch}opcy poszli do specyalnie UREA
dzonego miejsca kapielowego,
gdzie znajdowa}a sic wieksza licz
ba starszej m}odziezy, W tenn TAX
lie i Decker i kilkanascie dziew--
czat i m}odzienc6w, kt6rzy specy
alnie do Erie Beach zawitali, by
spedzic dzien ma wycieczce i roz-
rywce.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-08-23
Pacut, katem swoich
d1eci.

Aresztowanie Antoniego Pacu-
ia, lat 10 liczaccgo %rosjanina, Fam.
pn. 244O Clyborn ave-, oskarzone
90 o barbarzynskie obchodzcnia
sic Z swoimi dziecmi, jest wypad-
klein tcgo dnia, 0 kt6rym dis roz
pisuja sic wszystkic obcojezyczne
gazcty chicagoskie.
Pdicya PREY Sheffield ave-, 70
sta}a zawiadomiona przez SASHA
dow Antoniego Pacuta, re starszy
syn 1O-letni Franciszek przywiaza
ny IN }ancuchu W domu ojca, b1a
gal .losem przez okno dochodza-.
!cym kt6rego dosiegnac ME mogf:
by 90 uwolniono z wiezienia.
Wyslani dwaj %sierzanci, zastal1
|mieszkanie Pacuta zamkniete
przemoca 90 otworzyli. Oczom ich
przalstawif sic widak, wcdle 1ch
|opoviadania, nastepujacy:
Franciszek starszy, 10 lat llcza'
Icy syn Anton Pacuta, Mai ia re-
lkach kajdanki, cd ktorych pre-
|chodzi} sic ma szesc stop dfug1 Ian
|cuch przymocowany do pulapu "
.|Spizarce.
Drugi z k%ajdankami poiaczon!
}ancuch, przymocowany byf dc
sciany W mieszkaniu a s}uzy} dc
krepowa4ia m}odszeso syna dzle'
wiecioletniego Emilia, ktory jed
|nak W chwili gdy sierzanc1 weszl
do domu ME by} ma kaJdankl "a
kuty, gdyz musiaf wyszorowa'
szczotka podloge W czterecn IL
bach mieszkania.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-08-23
Niemcy spalili katedre W
St. Quentin.
Rabuja domy, }amia meble, siej'
pozoge j straszne zniszczenie.
poru1 % ciornnio HolDiorz,

~ ~ ~ OOJ0
pozoge i straszne zniszczenie.
Paryz, % sierpnia. - zonierze
niemieccy spalili onegdaj katedre
W mieScic St. Quentin. Katedra ia
Ey1a jedna Z najdrozszych i maj.
piekniejszych budowli we Fran
cyl.
Przyczyna tcgo jak najbardziej
barbarzynskiego postepku jest do
tychczas nicznana. Poza miastem
Quentin widac zdaleka w p}omie
mach licznc wioski i miastcczka
francuskie.
Wzieci do nicwo]i francuskiej
:jcncy niemieccy powiadaja, re
miasto Quentin z~osta}o komplet--
ME zrabowanc i ograbionc. Mem
cy wywiezli wszystko, 60 tylko
przcdstawia}o jakakolwiek war
toscc, a czego ME mogli zabrac, to
%zniszczy]i. Nawet i mcblom ME
dali spokoju, ale potrzaskali jc W
kawalki i p]orozrzucali pc pod]o--
zach.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-08-23
Buduia nowy ko$ciol.

Praca OkOlO Zak}adania funda-
mcnt6w pod nowy ko$ci6} sw. Ka-
zimierza, PREY 22ej i Whipple III.
Jest juz prawic IA ukOnczeniu.
Skoro tylko fundament, kt6ry
jest Z konkretu, n~a]ezycie wysch-
ME, nastapi budowa mur6w, kt6-
lie beda Z cegly. Uroczystosc pos
wieccnia kamicnia wegiclncgo cd
bedzie sic prawdopodobnie w piel
VISA niedzicle przysz}ego micsia.
ca, t. ]. 2go wrzesnia.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-08-23
I Aushyi.

Zachodzi Observation-Disclosures,
Zc mocarStwa %centralne Ofiaruja
Polscc utworzenie Ola niej regcn
cyl Z trzcch wybitnych poLskich
MEOW stanu L ministeryalnym ga
hinctem i Rada stanu do pomocy.
W sk}ad tel Rady stanu niema
wejSc Mkt cz]onk0w obecnej
Radv. a to Z teyo powodu, lie stra
ella ona W Zupclnosci z%aufanie
narodu.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-08-23
lime walk napowietrzne.

LOnOyn, 10 Slerpnla. - Ma "a
rhodnim froncic W tyyodniu MI
nionvm za>trZclono OGDEN ia
acroplan6w niemicckich - W tenn
81 zni>zrzonych kompletnie, a
rcSzta ciezko uszkodzonc. Il tegoz
tyyodnia anyiclSkich maszyn brak
4Otu. w novel bitwie we Flan--
drvi W cia"u jcdnego dnia 10 ma
SYN zniSzcZono. a 20 nszkodZono,
- WSrod walk napowictrznych
minioncgo tygodnia lotnik fran
cuSki, Guyncmer %zaStrzellf swe
sissy i 52yi acroplany niemieckie
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-08-23
Teutoni popieraia pokojowy
plan papieza.

Rzym, % sierpnia. opnhl'--
kowanc tn dziSiaj dcpcSzr powla
data. lie Nicmcy zapcwnily paple
ia Bcncdykta o Swojrm moral
mem poparciu jcyo propozycyJ po
kojowych.
AuStrya. natomia>t, poSunela
sic jr>zczc dalc,i. gdyz oSwladczy
la Swoja gotowoSr rozpoczrc1a ro'
Rowan pokojowych.
Zaznaczono r0wnicZ, W WsZySt.
kic krajr nrutralne, wlacznlc *
Szwa,jcarya, popra pokojowy pla'
papir>ki.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-08-23
Napadn!ety ciezko pobity.
Grond Ronids Mich Iu1dWI

Grand Rapids, MICH. IuuW1K
!Gigowski, zosta4 napadniety przez
bande w}oskich strajkujacych ro-
botnik6w gdy wraca} cd piracy z
fabryki Valley City Desk Co. PREY
'Buttcrworth ulicy i ciezko pobi-
ty. Rannego zawieziono do szpita
la. Po]icya jest zdania, re W}osi
mysleli, lie Gigowski by} jednym
Z polskich robotnik6w, kt6rzy wr6
eli do piracy W kopa]ni gipsu kom
panii American Cement Plaster
Co. 20 nieudalym strajku.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-08-23
Bernstortf ma bye ambasado'
rem " Tmcyi.

Berlin. % sierpnia. - Przepo--
wiadaja, re hraFia Won B%ernstorft
tvly niemiecki ambassador ola Sta
now Zjednoczmych, ma bye "a
mianowany ambasadorem W kon
stantynopolu.
Hrabia Won Bernstorff Jest do
brZe Obeznanv, ze stosunkami W
Turcyi i IA Ba4kanach.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-08-23
0dni6sl cielkie okaleczenia.g

WInnebeK, Aan. FfyderyK Nd
lex, robotnik sekcyjny, zatrudnlo
ny PREY kolei Canadian Pacific
W Grant Point, Man. odni6s} oneg
daj w~ieczorem bolesne obrazenla
W rezultacie kolizyi dw6ch trese
mex, jednej gazolinowej, ma kto--
rel jecha} sam, z druga reczna o.
pcrowana przez jakas niewiado-
ma osobe. Malek ma zlamane re-
bro, ponadto odni6sf ciezkie Okla
leczenia g}owy i twarzy.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-08-23
Ze spraw Polskich.
Londyn % sierpnia

Londyn ,Z3 s1erpn1a. 1eco
tcr's Limited'' donosi, il weole
o,rzymanych przezen z pe"neso
zrod}a informacyi Niemcy maJa
.uczynic W niedalekiej przyszfoscl
znaczne ustepstwa i koncesye TO-
.lakom, kt6re jednak beda zawa-
runkowane zgoda ma ME.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Escaped German War
Prisoner Seized Here
Soldier, Posing as Norwegian,
Had Been Teaching in a
N. Y. Private School

William Steinford, a Germ'n artil'
leryman, taken prisoner by the frencf
in the Champagne, only to escape ans
make his way from Frence 20 Bermuda
and thence to the United States, was
arrested by members of Inspector Trr-
ney's bomb squad yesterday srd sent
to Ellis Island.
Steinford, known in New York as
Peter Stephenson, Norwegian, was
petty officer in the German ormy. After
his capture he was taken to the French
prison camp near La Rochelle He es-
capped, and making his way to French
port. slowed away aboard the steamship
Portland, which took him to Bermuda,
where, on his story that he was Nor
wegian, he was allowed to land. There
he shipped for the United States, ar
irving here in May, 1916. Since then
he has been engaged as teacher, and
was thus engaged in a private school
at IS West Eighty-ninth Street wh2n
arrested.
Steinford, who is twenty-snven yeas
old, told Assistant United States At
torney Knox that his chief difficulty in
reaching the United States lay in the
fact that for six days on board the
Portland he was without water. In that
period he lived on a small amount Of
chocolate.
The technical charge against Stein
ford is that he violated the immigra-
ton laws.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Proposed Body Will Look
After Non.Military Re-
quirements of Entente
Favored by House
1t Will Also Keep Allies In
formed of Central Powers
Political Activities
[Staf COrrespondeRcel


WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-The Allied
General Staff, or war council, will meet
twice a month in Versailles, it was
learned to-day. A necessary corollary
of the war council, it was stated in
high Entente quarter, is an economic
political council, which should have its
headquarters in Europe. preferably in
Paris or London, and representatives
in America, whose chief function woulc
be to determine the needs of the in
dividual Allied belligerents and TO de-
eide upon priority of shipments.
There was said TO have resulted the
greatest confusion from a lack of au-
thority, except that OF the American
government, &c make decisions and to
arbitrate as between the heads of the
various Allied commissions established
in the United States FOR purchasing
supplies. The American government
has been unwilling 10 assume responsi-
bility for decisions on account Of its
lack Of information upon which de-
cisions might be based. and it was inti-
mated that Lord Northcliffe, head of
the British mission III this country;
Andre Tardieu, chief Of the French
mission, and Colonel E. VI. House,
President Wilson's representative at
the Paris conference and temporarily
on the inter-Allied war council, are
agreed that the economic and political
council must be created.
The political functions of such a
council. it was pointed out, would not
relate TO war aims and related ques-
tions. but to the non-military require
ments Of the allied countries which
tHsy themselves may be unable to
satisfy without allied assistance, and
also TO the treatment of neutral coun-
tries and to the word-situation in gen.
eral as it may affect the conduct Of the
war.
The formation of the economic coun-
Gil is expected by Entente diplomats
here to result from the Paris confer
ence, which opens Thursday. This
body would pass upon every question
relating to the assignment of ships for
the transportation Of war supplies, and
also direct the filling of orders in con-
sonance with military requirements in
particular countries.
The economic council, as described
to-day, will coordinate closely with the
permanent military council. from which
it would receive its information con-
cerning the various belligerents' mill
tary needs. and one of the suggestions
has been that it supply the military
council with political and other data
concerning the Central Powers and
their allies. The economic council. in
stead of meeting periodically, as the
war council is expected to do, will be
continuously in session.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Glasses Must Pay Masses,
Saws Moscow BolskeUiki

LONDON, Nov. 26.-Moscow is under
the complete control of the B)lshevik
military committee, according to the
Petrograd correspondent Of "The Daily
Mail" who visited Moscow last week.
NJ Moralofu, private soldier, has
been appointed commander in chief of
the Moscow military district.
The relations between the classes
and the masses are more strained than
ever before, and the masses are being
told that the classes will have to pay
their wages. The Bolsheviki nave or
dered the banks not to pay out more
than $50 rubles weekly on each nc
count, but, according to the correspon-
dent, the average family in Moscow
cannot exist on this sum.
In calling attention to the fact that
no statement of the Russian State Bank
has reached London since that for the
week ended October %, "The Times"
Gays it is not aware whether the omis
sion is, connected with the activities OF
the Bolsheviki. 1t adds that current
belief in well informed circles is that
the actual gold holding of the bank
has been removed safely from Petro-
grad, and it is not likely 20 get into
the clutches Of Lenine.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Fraternizing Is Reported
On Russio's West Front

PETROGRAD, Nov. 25.-(British Ad-
miralty per Wireless Press. To-day
War Office announcement reads:
Northern Front-The fighting was
limited to fusillades and scouting en-
gagements.
Western FrontThere were fusil-
ladies'. South Of Lake Narocz. near the
villages of Skrobova and Obokhvsht-
china, fraternizatiors were observed
Southwestern and Rumanian Front,
There were fusillades.
Caucasus Frcnt-In the sea coast
region, southwest of Gumishkane. our
forces repulsed attacks by strong Turk
ish parties.
"Aviation-On November %, south o.,
Volotchisk, a French battle plane
brought down German machine The
pilots were made prisoner South Of
I Husiatyn our aviator, Ensign Smirnofr.
attacked two enemy machines and
BROUGHT down one Of them. thus secur-
ing his ninth aerial victory. The enemy
machine was DESTROYED and the aviator
killed. South Of Czernowitz, in an
aerial encounter. an enemy machine
was brought down in the enemy's
/ lines"
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Russian Titles Are
Abolished; Corporate
Property To Be Seizd

PETROGRAD, Nov. 26.-The Maxi
maiist commissioners have proclaimed
the abolition of class titles, 1istinc-
tons and privileges. All persons
henceforth are "citizens Of the Russian
Republic"
The corporate property Of mobiles
merchants and burgesses, according to
the proclamation, must be handed over
to the state.
Proclamations have been posted al
leging that the bourgeoisie is blocking
efforts to provision the army and TO
provide funds for the support OF the
government They are signed by
Lenine and Trotzky. Another procla,,
nation forecasts wholesale arrests ana
imprisonments at Kronstadt, as II IN
structs soldiers to disband committees
opposing the Bolsheviki programme
and to arrest the members.
The Committee on the Salvation OF
the Revolution, in a proclamation 70
the army, declares that the last step
of the Bolsheviki is final rum ior
Russia. The proclamation says:
"The Allies will consider all Rus
slams traitors. without resources, Rus
sia will be a prey 70 any one who
chooses to pluck her. Abandoned, you
will be at the mercy Of Germany, and
will nave to beg on your knees for
clemency. This is where Lenine and
Trotzky are leading"
The only possibility of saving the
country, it is pointed out. IS for the
army to refuse TO carry out the arms,
tice proposal and demand that legal
measures toward peace, which might
find support from the Allies and lead
to TIE accomplishment desired, be
taken.
The Bolsheviki have taken over the
state bank in Moscow, whose vaults
are estimated to contain 7OO,OOO,OOV
rubles.
The peasant congress of the Tomsk
West Siberia) has sent
message 10 the All-Russian conference
of the peasant council at Petrograd, ex-
pressing disapproval Of Premier Le-
mines land decree.
The congress declares that super
vision Of land affairs must be left IN
the hands of the peasant congress until
the constituent assembly meets.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Russian Soldiers,
Driven by Hunger,
Desert in Droves

LONDON, Nov. ga dispatch to
Reuters, Limited, from Petrograd,
dated November 21, says:
Thine commanders at the front con-
tnue to send in most ominous dis
patches concerning the exhaustion Of
supplies ana reports of forthcoming
hungry hordes of soldiers invading the
centres Of populati
A disptch to the Exchange Telegraph
from Copenhagen gives similar reports.
II saws adyices received from Russia
describe the situation as more desper-
ate than, and assert that the country
is on the verge of bloody civil war.
According to this dispatch. the Rus
sian newpapers "Volya Narodna" as
sert that the Russian armies on the
Northern front have been several days
without food. and that soldiers daily
are leaving the front in hundreds or
are dying in the trenches from cold and
hunger. The newspaper adds that mu-
tinies due to hunger have broken out
on several parts of the line.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Russia's s Second Army
Approves Demand for
An Immediate Peace

PETR0GRAD, Nov "a Delayed
A congress of the Second Army, with
one dissenting vote, has passed reso-
luton approving ell the measures pro-
mulgated by the Council Of National
Commissioners. including the decree
for an immediate armistice and peace
and favoring the government of the
Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates.
The resolution appeals TO all SOL
diers not to support Premier Kerensky
and the Provisional Government gen
erals against the people" The most
striking passage in the resolution fol-
lows:
"The Second Army, with arms in its
hands, will defend the authority of the
Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates and
the national committee. At the first or
der of the military revolutionary com
mittee Of the Second Army, which is
clothed with full power, we will ad-
vance as one man against counter rev.
olutionists in the rear as well as at the
front.
ION our part we are taking all meas
ures for the removal of counter revo-
lutionary elements from the comm and
ing personnel OF tie army, for the i'm
mediate characterization Of the army
and in particular for the transfer Of
the higher authority in the army to
elective bodies"
Real Admiral Ve~aeryski, in an.
nouncing his resignation as Minister OF
Marine. gives as his reason lack of SYM
pathy with the course of the govern
ment of the Workmen's and Soldiers
Delegates relative to an srmistice. lie,
however, eXhorts his subordinates TO
continue TO carry on the work OF the
department.
With reference 70 the order of the
military revolutionary committee for
the dissolution of the committee for
the salvation Of the country and the
revolution, the secretary OF the saliva.
tion committee, mild hammered
woman. who declined to permit the use
of her name, said:
"We refuse to dissolve under any
circumstances. they did not elect us
and cannot dissolve us. They may
arrest and confne us in the Fortress
of St. Peter and st. Paul, but that Will
only prevent US from performing our
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Where Mr.. McAdoo
Was a Pioneer

Ia, drawing upon Mr.. Vanderlip, Mr..
Morgan and many other Of the nations
greatest fnanciers TO help in the CO.
lossal task of financing the war Mr.
McAdoo has shown more vision than
Mr.. Baker. 1t wasn't vision but sheer
iron necessity that brought the Ship
ping Board to bring Joseph Powell, of
the Fore River Shipbuilding Company.
and Henry Ford into its counsels. and
to seek Homer FERGUSON, of the New
port News Shipbuilding Company, as
one of its chief executives. If it is aot
vision, il will be necessity that will
bring Mr. Baker to follow in the way
already pointed out; which will be the
way this country will finally organize
for the war.
The weakness of the War Depart
ment is the weakness of a small organ
ization suddenly grown big. Authority
is not properly delegated. Men who
were used to doing everything them
selves are still trying TO do everything
themselves. Secretary Baker himself
is not free from this weakness. He
gets down to his Office early every
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27

Academy. were guests at luncheon Oh
GABRIEL Hanotaux, president OF the
Franco.American Commission for the
DEVELOPMENT of Political, Economic
Literary and Art Relations;
This afternoon Colonel House saw NJ
Klotz. the French Minister Of Finance
with whom he discussed hnancial az
fairs. This conference, in effect, was a
continuation of that held with NJ h'o'S
on his recent visit to London. VI.
Admiral Benson conferred win Wy,
Admiral de Bon, chief OF 'ne rlehtn ~
the general naval situation, but par
ticularly concerning the disembarSa-
ton Of troops and supplies at French y.
ports. Admiral Benson and Commander
Carter later visited the aviation camp
and witnessed tests and flights of vari-
Gus types of naval aircraft.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27

, .vowal by the United States Of the
reasons why this government could not
consider az this time either the cesss-
ton Of hostilities or the negotiation
, " peace.
Would Hope to Reach Masses
: The elements in Russia which such
. declaration would be intended to
reach. il was pointed out, are not the
3 intelligent classes, nor even the mod
crate Socialists, but the misled ignorant
masses who are swayed by tho promises
Of the Bolsheviki that they will share
, in a great distribution of the land; that
commerce and industry will be put in
: their hands, and that the consummation
b Of their programmes, economic and
asrarian, is prevented by continuance
, % the war.
! All indications are, according to dip
ilomatic authorities, that the Bo!sheylkl
: are losing the confidence of the people;
some of the Socialist factions which
formerly supported them have become
Gisafected; the peasants are not in
sympathy with the Maximalist policies,
,and some Of the most important work
ing classes, such as the railway en-
,ployes. oppose the Maximalist course.
me CUlfA ODckGNlt III NhN NRy ~
'schieving an early overthrow of the
radical regime, however, was said to
.lic in the fact that there is no cohesion
,amorg the elements in opposition 20
sthe Bolsheviki. The policies Of former
Premier Kerersky, which destroyed
discipline in the army, converting 1t
VIRTUALLY into q mob. are held 10 be re-
,sponsible for the failure of military
slCadcrs TO effect the downfall Of the
,asurping authority.
Danger Cor Russia is seen in the re-
ported shortage of food in the north
tcrn armies. Should foodstutTs not be
Supplied. il is feared, there will be
,great pillaging. Some authorities say
that the soldiers, if driven by hunger,
will 90 TO Petrograd and constitute. a
tmost serious menace to the Bolsheviki
power.
The northern armies are stationed
chiefly ir the Baltic provinces. closest
70 Petyograd. II was believed that
'stacr Russian armies also would be
Affected by any shortage o. provisions.
Observers here declared that disinte-
Grafton of the military forces by short
.cce % food and supplies would cause
tremendous dissatisfaction and re-
action against the MaXimalists.
Z The armies, although poisoned by
German propaganda, have not been
wholly deceived by the Bolsheviki, and
would follow a strong leader if one ap-
,peared
In no quarter was there any disposi-
ition 10 believe that the Austro-German
.armies would attempt to take advan-
'tage of the demoralized condition Of
Russia 10 advance, in the event of
iiailure TO conclude an armistice, as
winter has set in, and the enemy troops
would be exposed TO great privations.
In diplomatic circles there is be-
lief that before the winter is over,
moderate elements in Russia will sue
.eeed in restoring an orderly govern
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
German Socialists
Deceiving Russia

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 26.-The Leipsic
"Volks Zeitung," the chief organ of the
German Independent Socialists, prints
an attack upon the majority Socialists
in connection with the Russian devel
opments. 1t accuses the majority fac
tion Of shaving given their Russian
comrades false information about the
situation in Germany"
The "Volks Zeitung" declares the ma
jority Socialists have assured the Rus
slams that the German government, in
the East, will respect the rights of ma
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27

WASHINGTON, Nov 26.-The rumor
that a civilian will be put in virtual
charge of the manufacture of ordnance
for the army and that General Crozier
will be sent to France is only rumor'
1t is impossible to obtain confirmation
of it. But it is in that direction that
things are moving. And sooner or
later there will have to happen IN
the War Department what has nap
pcned in the Shipping Board and also
in the Treasury Department.
This is not said in especial criticism
Of Secretary Baker. He has. on the
whole. performed a difficult task une1-
rectedly well. But he could have done
il better if he had drawn upon the
business skill of the country. as Mr..
McAdoo has done and as Mr.. Hurley
is now doing. You cannot point to any
Frank A. Vanderlip in the War De-
partment drawing his dollar a year, nor
to any Henry Ford. nor has it become
known that any invitation has been ex-
tended by that department to any Ho-
mer Ferguson to join its forces.
And it is a pity that this is true,
for now that a way has been found to
use the big men of the country. with
out disturbance to those in authority,
the biggest undertaking the nation mas.
spending probably sS,OOO,OO0,OO0 year,
should have half dozen of the coun-
try's biggest men in it.