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New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Abhor Deeds, Not People

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: l have read with much interest the
different opinions on the subject "To hate
Or not to hate" and wish to add little more
We are told to "abhor that which is evil,
cling to that which is good" Abhor is per-
haps an even stronger word than "hate" but
in this case was used of things, not people
We are also told to "love your enemies, do
good to them which despitefuly use YOU"
Isn't this the point which many lose when
they speak Of the Germans?
Abhor their evil deeds, but love them
enough to show them their very great errors
and, by our actions in the midst of their
brutality, the superiority of the Christian
belief over their Kaiser worship. If we hate
them how much better are we than thew
But If we do good to them in spite of their
wlckedness, are we not showing ourselves as
possessing the greater moral power?
ETHEL WILEY HILL
Bellows Falls VT, Feb. 10, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
No Change in Zoning Plan

Mayor Hylan's ousting of the entire
personnel of the Board of Standards and
Appeals may be merely preliminary to
distributing these places among "deserv-
ing Democrats" of the Hylan persuasion.
Then, again, taken in combination with
the previous abolishment of the Commit
tee on City Plan, it may mean drive on
the zoning regulations adopted by the
late Board of Estimate and Apportion-
ment, to which regulations Mr.. Hearst,
patron of the present executive, was de-
cidedly hostile.
On either basis the action is to be re-
GREETED. The ousted men constituted
board Of experts in their feld-the en-
forcement of building standards and re-
quirements and the administration of the
zonng regulations. Some four thousand
building cases are now pending before this
body. Its ability and impartiality are tes-
titled to by the fact that only couple of
appeals to the courts have been taken
from its decisions, and the one decision in
these cases has been in the boards favor.
But Mayor Hylan has pronounced against
experts" so probably the board was
doomed because it was expert in it's field.
On the second count, the action would
be even more regrettable. The zoning
idea, with its concoGHtant of the limitation
of building heights is inseparabe from
genuine progress and sound development
in this city. The regulations now existing
were fought over for long time; they
evolved out Of the confusion of MANY
plans. Not perfect, they nevertheless rep
resent wholesome force for stable real
estate values and logical city growth. The
fact that Mr.. Hearst opposed them is moth
ing to their discredit. 1t would be a sad
thing for the city if this plan were now 70
be overturned, or minimized or greatly
altered. Real estate men have accented
1T and conformed to it. Rentals and tax
able values are based on it. 1t would cost
the city much money, and it's citizens much
more, to change this plan now; and, this
reasonable and logical .zoning policy once
having been adopted, it would cost the CITY
much more than money if it bach-tracked.
If all Mayor Hylan is after is the jobs,
the public will have to be content while he
parcels out the patronage. If he is plan
ming raid on good and wholesome plan
for better New York, he may count
on hearing from the public no muff1ed
protests
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Why Not Married Teachers

The resolution now pending before the
Board of Education permitting women
whose husbands are in military service to
be employed as teachers sounds like an
echo of the "teacher-mother' controversy,
which the courts decided in favor of the
teacher mothers and against the Board
of Education. OF course, it should be
adopted. Why it should require the stress
of war and the urge of patriotism to
force the board to grant permission to
married women otherwise qualified to be-
come school teachers after having once
resigned is incomprehensible, but so it is.
Now that there is small Board Of
Education, with women members, and
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
We Cannot Do Without Him

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: VIII you allow me to ndorse what
Clara Styles has said in to-day's Tribune? !?
We cannot do without our Teddy; we
cannot think of this world without him !"
Some of us have been so stunned and
stricken by the bare thought of such a pos
sIbllity that we have been unable to express
our grief and dread, and The Tribune's loving
tribute was truly comforting The woman
who brought single rose to the hospital for
nim' saying that he had "been kind to her."
is but one of many thousands. If every one
TO whom Theodore Roosevelt has been kind
and helpful were to bring him. each of them,
only one simple flower, his hospital room
would be smothered in roses!
MS death would be national calamity.
we are all praying that God will assuage his
pam and spare him to his people and his
country. 1t is unthinkable that we should
do without him. CHARLOTTE STANLEY
New York, Feb. II, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
The National Guard and After

To the Editor of The Tribune. -.
Sir: With your corresp spondent of fa's 10. !,
/ sympathize, but I cannot agree with 81 = +
writes. The deed has been done, and e0A' :,
tions cannot be restored. The ap'bitloass. -, ),
ticers of the late National Guard who i0su'. .
through the Hay bill have succeeded ~. y
to be hoped none will be able to manu-,
the new New York Guard by any eh.sHs
ment with the Federal service. That - - :.
no oath to the Federal Constitution =
quired
The National Guard is dead and tness
no resurrection. The G9th was the pss's
the 165th; into it was poured 500 men -. :,
from five regiments, 7th, 18th, lath, z'u ss, Il
list, 1900 men. 1t is no longer ths ~ Il,
simply the 165th Regiment, n. a -,
list has been distributed among seven W, =,
units, the 7th and two other reginehss. q q, /.
moulded into the 107th, and so on un.s =
identity of the old Guard was allowed - :, !,
main. And only as individuals ca" ~,
wander homo after the war to seeA
old alma mater. u,e
The state authorities are required 10 W. !;
tain an armed service. In orsaniS,"S u,
they have dore the best that can pe "a
and have given each unit the des'ssss ~ b
Of the old regiment it replaces, thai ~ s,,sI
tegrity and traditions might be rs's ss y:
AS rule they have been organized " ..,,i
erans of each regiment. Technically
ing not the same, practically 1t is'
generation will not know the dlfeieHss II
am sorry it is so, but it seems the oss 4
could have been done l have server
forty years. a. ~
New York, Feb. II, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
The New Golgotha
TINE good Lord Jesus. for all

TINE good Lord Jesus, for all men,
T. Hung long upon the tree:-
And now the great red tree is raised
High for all men to see,
And France. beloved Franco, is nailed
For right and liberty
For love of men long years ago
The Blessed Saviour died;
And now for right and liberty
1.-TWO godheads side by side)
Our France, our own fair human France
Is daily cruciied.
The good Lord died for humankind.
For beggars as for kings:
And now all hail to France, all hail,
In riven flesh she brings
Her very self in sacrifice
For two most godly things
For right, the very heart of God
For liberty, His Son,
Our France now pays the heavy debt
Until Gods will is done:
Her sons, on grim Golgotha, fall
Like blood-drops, one by one.
JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
The Conviction of Bolo

At the front France has fought the
Boches with furious energy. Up to re-
Gently she has not shown the same sort of
energy in defending herself against the
Boches in her rear.
Behind the line there have been Ger
mans, near-Germans, pro-Germans dis
guised as pacifsts, base traffckers with the
enemy and politicians hoping to come into
power through inducing the French peo-
pie to accept a German-made peace. More
greedy and materialistic than Lenine and
Trotzky, who delivered Russia to the
Kaiser, these Boche agents have been
seeking, not to advance the visionary
cause of social revolution, but to reap per-
sonal and political profit out of the be-
trayal of France.
For long time the French government
allowed these underground intrigues to
ripen. Politicians of influence were in
volved in the German propaganda, and
their ability to strike back in the Cham
Der OF Deputies was overestimated. So
the hidden drama of infection and treason
unrolled. The public caught occasional
SAAAhE'oSo VI AZ eilAOuSii IlCiOtlCS Ike CIc
Almereyda suicide Cor murder), the
Bonnet Rouge" and Turmel scandals, the
Bolo Pacha exposure and the repeated
outcroppings of the insidious activities of
Joseph Caillaux.
At last the hour came for France to
awake and to draw the sword against
these internal enemies as unsparingly as
she had drawn it against her foes without.
The man arrived with the hour. When
Clemenceau took the Premiership he
pledged himself to ruthless campaign
against all traitors. He has kept his
word. The conviction of Bolo is the first
fruit OF his policy-a warning to all the
Shiny brood of German go-betweens that
reasonable activities can no longer be
sheltered by political influence.
Bolos guilt was beyond question. He
will be the first to die. He will die be-
cause France now has a government which
is resolved to upturn corruption, whoever
IS tainted by it, and to punish crime, how
ever formidable may be the political con-
nections of the criminal
Other trials for intercourse with the
enemy will follow-Caillauxs among
them. Their results can be awaited with
confidence. France has drawn the sword
and is ready to strike.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Not So Bad as 1t Looks

The average reader is always at loss
to interpret statistics. He doesn't carry
in his mind such things as "peaks" and
upward and downward curves" So he
is excusable if he feels little creepy when
he reads bald statement like this (Which
came from Washington Yesterday: "Ship
tonnage sunk by submarines in 1917 was
nearly three times as great as the total
of production in the United States and
Great Britain during that year"
He may remember that Sir Eric Geddes
talked recently about holding the subma-
rine about level and that Admiral Sir John
Jellicoe said at Hull on February 8: "By
late summer-about August-I believe we
will be able to say the submarine menace is
killed."
Does the rate of U-boat destructiveness
IN 1917 discredit the optimism exhibited
by the British naval authorities? There
is where the necessity of Interpreting the
Washington statement comes in.
Putting the total destruction in 1917 at
100000 tons and the new shipping pro-
duced in Great Britain and the United
first glance discouraging. But the dis
couragement is lightened when the curves
of destruction and production are studied.
The ravages Of the submarine were great
est In the early part of the year The
chart of fluctuations published in The
Tribune on February 1 last showed that
the high point of destructiveness was
reached in February, 1917, the month
when the new German policy Of indis-
criminate warfare went into effect. In
that month the U-boats were sinking ships
at the rate of 100000 tons wear. There
was sharp decline in March, sharp rise
again in April, a big drop in May and a
further big squirt IN June. But between
July !, 1917, and February ], 1913, there
was an almost uninterrupted decline.
Since October l last the destruction has
been at the rate of little under 5 400 600
tons year. The effectiveness of the
u-boat was reduced al per cent between
February and October, 1917.
Now as to requirements. Great Britain
produced 1,163,474 tons of shipping last
year. That total will be exceeded this
year, Sir Eric Geddes says. The United
States produced 901 ,223 tons. But Amer
lean production in 1918 will probably be at
least three times as great. 1t has been
estimated as high as 100000 tons. But
accepting 100000 as a fair guess, and
allowing for a British production of AGO.
600 tons, the American and British re-
placement would be only 100000 tons
short of the total loss indicated by U-boat
operations since October last Japanese,
French, Italian and neutral construction
was not included in the 1917 replacement
total It is estimated at about the same
figure as that for the United States
9ol,2 ,22o tons. If that rate of production is
maintained in 1918 the Allied and neutral
production will be almost equal to the
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15

now that women are citizens with votes,
all this fol-de-rol about married and un-
married women teachers ought to be
swept aside The question should not be
whether woman applying for teachers
job is married, but whether she can do
the work. If she can, and is willing to,
why should she not be employed? Good
teachers are scarce. Marriage frequently
enhances a woman's teaching ability. In
any case, the test should be the indivd-
uals ability, not her matrimonial state
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
No Commerce With the Enemy


The defeat at St. Louis of Mr.. John T..
Adams for the Craftsmanship OF the he
nuhlican National Committee had in 1t
nothing personal. 1t was on clear cut
national issue Now that the clrcum-
stances have been fully detailed in all the
newspapers, it is worth while to empha-
size the fact.
Mr.. Adams had the misfortune to be-
long in a strongly German community.
The war by curious chance found nm
travelling in Germany. He wrote back
to newspaper in his home community
strongly defending the cause OF Germany
and bitterly assailing England.
In the invasion of Belgium Mr.. Adams
apparently could see no wrong he
viewed it with German eyes.
Nor did his feelings change with after
events. The sinking of the Lusltanla
filled the majority of the American peo-
ple with feelings of horror. 1t did not
so stir Mr.. Adams. A few days after
his name was to be found amid long
list of German citizens calling for con-
vention to urge peace. Its object was
clear 1t was to oppose the entry of this
country into the war On the side OF the
Allies.
So far as we are aware, Mr.. Adams has
publicly shown no change Of feeling. He
has written other letters to the news
papers, but never, so far as we are aware,
in whole hearted approval of Americas
resistance to German aggression.
This was the plain issue put before the
gathering at ST. Louis. 1t is to the high
credit of the members of the COMMITTEES
that. although large majority of them
had gone to St. Louis pledged to Mr..
Adams. their support was withdrawn
when the facts were made known.
There was no other course possible.
The Republican party is party of 10y
PEOPLE, in tremendous majority, the Re-
publican party stands back of President
Wilson. stands back of the Allies, stands
back of the war.
There can be, there will be, on the
part of the Republican party no COM
merce with Copperheadism in this crucial
trial of democracy. The party could not
afford by the selection of man of MIR.
Adamss associations to have the faintest
tinge of suspicion cast upon it's motives
or its acts.
Mr. Adams is, we believe, man of
high standing and recognized ability. 1t
have withdrawn from the contest and him.
self placed Mr. Hays in nomination. For
the same reasons that necessitated his
rejection as chairman we regret that at
this time he should~not have effaced him
self still further and withdrawn from the
vice-chairmanship as we'll. If he remains
he should promptly indicate in public
letter that his own adhesion to the cause
of his country is now absolute and that
nc has no sympathy and will have no traf-
tic with any covert disposition to engage
on the Republican side any Of the ele.
ments of disunion and disloyalty,
Germany has given to the world the
example of a united nation. America
can do as we'll
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15

You can purchase merchandise advertised IN ' 'ns
TRIBUNE with absolute sateyor " dissatisfaction reuss
In any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your money
mack vuon request No rcd tape No auihblin9 we maSs
Good promptly II tho advertiser does NOT.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Those Seafaring Flivvcrs

To the Editor of The Tribune "A
Sir: Henry Ford wants name ~
new little submarine ehasers.
Why not "sea-cooties"? ~INS
ALVIN n. HIGGlse
Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y, Feb. u. iss's ! s,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
,,r,,BrR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Te Associated Press exclusively entitled 10 he uso 'o
,cmhucaon of all news dispatches credited 10 II of no.
Otherwise credited In paper and also the local news o
spontaneous origin published herein go
All nights republication OF all other nA'e' '' ~
also reserved
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15

Owned and published daily by The Tribune Association
New York Corporation Ogden Reid President: G. Vernon
Rogers. Vice President f. A suer. Treasurer Address
Tribune Building l5a Nassau Street. New York. Telephone
Beekman 5000.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
GUARANTEE

Entered at the Poson,ce at York Second Class
Mall Matter.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-23
MEYER IS GIVEN
WORK WITH ARMY
Assistant to Secretary Lane Now
Captain in Aviation Branch
of Signal Corps.

Herbert A. Meyer, assistant to
Secretary of the Interior Lane, has
been commissioned as a captain in
the Aviation branch of the Signal
Corps and assigned to active duty
in the field. Mr.. Meyer has had
charge of affairs in connection with
the construction of the government
railroad in Alaska. The duties per-
formed by Mr.. Meyer in the interior
department will be handled by
Assistant to the Secretary E. C.
Bradley. Mr.. Bradley will also re-
tain his present assignment includ-
ing the bureau of mines, the reclaim
alton service, and certain Indian
matters.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-23
WIRE GOING OUT
FOR NEW PHONES
Several Coils Will Be Shipped Out
the Line on Saturday for
New Work.

For the purpose of extending the
telephone line to serve the needs of
the camps that will be established
beyond Residency 4 (43-mile) in the
direction of the branch line to Lig-
mite, several coils of wire aggregat-
ing about four miles. with all the
necessary implements, fixtures, ETC.,
for the setting up of the line will
be shipped out to Residency on the
train leaving Saturday.
The telephone construction gang
will probably leave very shortly af-
forwards, and will set up the line as
rapidly as possible.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-23
CREW AND SUPPLIES
LEAVE FOR CAMP 81

Foreman Charles Wermundsen
and his crew, who will drive the
piles for the bridge across Little
Goldstream, left this morning to set
up camp and get everything in read
mess for commencing operations.
Two teams with the camp equipment
and supplies and the messhouse
crew also left for the scene.
The party exepect to be able to
set up camp and return to Nenana
with the teams, when the balance
of the outfit and the piledriver will
be hauled. Operations will be COM
menced in earnest just as soon as
the piledriver has been set up.
Bridge Inspector Leon P. Shoe
maker, who will be in charge of the
camp, will leave for his station in
few days.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-23
IS READY
TO PROTECT BANK

For some time past teams have
been busily engaged hauling piling
from the woods in the neighborhood
of Camp Is and beyond and unload
ing them on a section of the grade
near Residency 3 (35-mile), recently
completed under contract by w. J.
Lynn and George Gotto & Co. The
piling will be used to prevent bank
erosion and to protect the grade
from possible encroachments of the
Nenana river at this point.
Piledriver No. 2, which is now en-
gagged in finishing off the upper end
of the big dam across the head of
Lost Slough, will be hauled to Resi-
dency 3 for this purpose as soon as
the work on hand has been COM
pleted. The work remaining to be
done on the dam will probably con-
sumo a week more. T.. >.::...
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-23
BUSY FRE|GHTNC
SEASON NOW OVER

The busy season of reighting be-
tween Camp 9 (20-mile) and the
more remotely located camps of the
Alaskan Engineering commission,
may be said to have come to an end,
until such time as the trails will
again be in condition for wheeled
traffic. All of the necessary con-
struction material and supplies have
reached their respective destinations,
and with the dispatch on Saturday,
from the corral at 20-mile, of a
load of feed, the last of the pro-
vender needed for stocking the big
feed cache established just across
the river from Residency 4(35-mile)
had been safely shipped before the
trail had gone to pieces. A few
light loads of perishables may oc-
casionally be sent out the line, and
these will be handled by the Com
missioned-owned teams.
Several head of privately owned
stock that had been in the employ
of the Commission during the busy
period, have been released to the
owners and brought to town; he
Commission having no further need
of them for the present.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-23
ARE
BEING EXAMINED

The medical examination of Alas
ka registrants, under the selective
service regulations, are now being
held every evening at the office of
the Local Board No. 10, a. the
Commissary building of the Alaskan
Engineering commission.
Twenty-Five registrants have been
examined TO date, twenty of whom
have been passed and accepted FOR
the draft.
Examinations will be held daily
at the Commissary building, COM
mencing at $50 p. m. and will con-
tinue until all registrants presenting
themselves have been examined.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-23
Jury SAYS VED|N
FAXED AFFIDAVIT
Owner of Claims on Poker Greek
Found Guilty on Charge of
Committing Perjury.

Gus Vedin, we'll known oldtimer of
the Fairbanks district who was plac-
ed on trial before Judge Bunnell
on the charge of perjury, in con-
nection with the filing of certain
affidavits of labor, was found guilty
on three charges.
The government presented a very
strong case against the defendant
and it was predicted early during
the proceedings that a verdict of
guilty would be returned The prop
erty on which the assessment work
was alleged to have been done, is
located on Poker creek.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-23
Department of the Interior

Alaskan Engineering Commission
Nenana, April 16, 1918.
To All Concerned:
A complete inventory of all nu-
applied material will be taken as of
April 80, 1918. The store depart
ment, Nenana; 35-Mile store, and
43-Mile store will be closed during
the taking of inventory, April 29th
and 3Oth. Timekeepers who handle
commissaries will be expected to
take inventory of all commissaries
on hand as of April 30th.
1t is requested that all foremen
anticipate their wants for these two
days.
HOWARD P. CURTIS,
General Storekeeper
Apprived: R. B. WARD,
Acting Division Engineer.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-23
RIGGS EXPRESSES
THANKS FOR WIRE
New Governor Appreciates Action
Taken Recently By Local
Commercial Club.

Secretary H. B. Joseph, of the
Nenana Commercial club, is in re-
ceipt of a telegram from Governor
Thos. Riggs, Jr., in which the new
appointee expresses his appreciation
of the message of congratulations
sent him several days ago by the
club and indicates that it his inten-
ton to visit the Interior country on
an official tour during the coming
summer.
The message is dated at Seattle
and is as follows:
MANY thanks your telegram. Will
be with you all again this summer.
BRIGGS"
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-23

Piling Going to Coldstream for Con-
struction of Railroad Bridge -
on Little Goldstream.

A contract has been let to Mr..
James D. Mcmahon for the hauling
of 100 linear feet Of piling, from
the Commission yard at Nenana to
Goldstream Crossing, in the immedi-
ate neighborhod of Camp 81. The
work is to be rushed to completion
in short order.
The piling will be used to drive
the necessary bents for the bridge
that will span Little Goldstream.