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New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
The Victims of Shell Shock

1t is unfortunate that the remark of
Surgeon General Ireland before the SEN
ate committee as to the sudden cure of
1000 cases of shell shock should go out
to the country with the implication it
did. The Surgeon General observed that
all but about 800 had been promptly
cured with the signing Of the armistice.
"1t was," he declared, "the greatest ex-
perience in psycho-therapeutics on re-
cord" We do not suppose that DR..
Ireland remotely intended this as
sneer at the victims of shell shock, but
it would be so interpreted by the average
careless person.
The remarkable thing about this cure
is, first Of all, that probably, even as
badly stated by the surgeon general,
the report is true; and, secondly, that
precisely this cure had been predicted
by at least one prominent investigator
in this field. Some time ago DR.. T. H.
Ames suggested that this would happen
with the return of peace. Yet it would
be grossly unfair, and DR.. Ames had no
such intent, to suggest that shell shock
is not a real disease and that there was
anything in the nature of malingering
on the part of it's wretched victims. DR..
M. Allen Starr reports over $4,000 cases
in the British army alone. Fifty
thousand men are not taken out of the
ranks and sent to hospitals for imagi-
nary troubles.
The interest of shell shock lies in the
fact that it seems merely an exaggerated
form of some of the most common ner-
vous disorders of everyday life. 1t
seems simply an acute form of the very
familiar hysterias which have of late
years received so much attention from
the new school of psycho-analysis headed
by DR.. Freud. Like these, shell shock
appears to be a sudden reverson to
stages of mental childhood and even of
infancy. 1t seems primarily :. break
down of the adult mentality, or, if you
prefer, breaking through of the
strongly repressed infantile instincts
and impulses. It's more accentuated
form is the hysterical paralyses and
"traumas," which are among the most
battling and inexplicable morbid condi-
tions with which the physician of to-day
has to deal.
In way it is no more a wonderment
that a great number of cases should be
cured with the return of peace than, for
example, that an exhausted fire fighter
will recover with rest and proper treat
ment. The condition of shell shock seems
precipitated by the strain of war con-
ditions. 1t is essentially an uncon-
trollable infantie fear. With the ces-
sation of the cause the symptoms ought
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
The Traitor

(Fron, The Neto WitneSs)
81 NE moment till I've smoked this Gig
" arette,"
He said--his back against the harracs.
wall
With folded arms and still eyes strangely
He puffed it slowly in the sight Of all.
Their hands upon their rife stocks, they
saw
Ths glowing tip and the grey smoke
ascend;
And as h aicked the ash away with awe
They looked or him who once had been
their friend.
His eyes cleaned dark above the cigarette
Till absently he flung the stump aside,
But if with fear, defiance or regret,
They never knew who watched him as he
died.
W1LFRID WILSON GIBSON.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
No Magic

In countries where we now have but an
insignificant volume Of foreign trade the
proposed plan would undoubtedly create
steady demand for our money, our carriage,
our raw material, our findings our semi
manufactured articles, our machinery, etc.
All this, taken in the aggregate, would in
sure a very much larger volume of foreign
trade and would yield very much larger
net return than is possible through the
sale Of manufactured goods under the
sample trunk system.
Of course, the proposed network of fac
tories could not be expected to spring up
of a sudden, like Minerva fully armed
from the head of Jupiter, complete and
efficient. 1t would, on the contrary, be of
slow growth The proposal could be
started on a very modest scale Say
factory is started as a sample test in
given field; if it met with success it would
lead to the upbuilding of other factories
in the same field.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Twisting the Gables

Some years ago Mr. Vail and the able
heads of the telephone service conceived
the idea if not of a merger of the tele-
phone, telegraph and cable systems, at
least of a close-working arrangement,
and to that end purchased working
control in the Western Union which car
ried with it an extensive interest in the
cables The scheme in time would no
doubt have taken in the wireless systems
as we'll. The Western Unions chief
rival, the Postal, strenuously resisted
this ambitious plan and the Attorney
Generals Office lent such vigorous sup
port that the scheme was abandoned.
Then comes the war, with the equally
ambitious Mr. Burleson in the Office of
Postmaster General He is an ardent
advocate Of government telephones and
telegraphs and Of governmental under
takings in general. Under the war
powers conferred upon the President at
a late date the telephone and telegraph
systems are seized and put into Mr..
Burleson's hands. Finally, as the armis-
tice is signed, the cables also are looped
in to his strongly prehensile grasp.
Then, at Mr.. Bureson's right hand ap-
pears the benign and leonine figure of
the extremely able head of the telephone
company as special adviser. From this
extremely advantageous and strategic
position Mr.. Vail seems in fair way to
realize his ambitious project.
The latest chapter is the suit of the
Postal Telegraph resisting the rental
award as pure confiscation, the refusal
of Mr. Ward to accept Office under Mr..
Burleson, and then Mr. Burlesons retail
alton excluding Mr.. Mackay and Mr..
Ward from any participation in their
own company. A disinterested public
will probably feel that this unseemly
quarrel has gone far enough No ade-
quate reason has ever been given for the
seizure of the cables. 1t seemed a pure
product of Mr.. Burlesons Unsuitable
bureaucratic impulses. In every other
direction governmental control over in
dustry and business is being given up
and the country's activities brought back
to normal basis. The sooner Mr.. Burle-
sons hands are despoiled Of his latest
depredations tho better. Governmental
power is not proper instrument for pri-
vate revenge.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
A Week of Verse
A Sibelius Symphony
tFrom Contemporary verss)

tFronn Contemporary Verso
r GAZE down at the orchestra tonight:
l. Massed horns and drums and spidery
violin;
Black -shouldered forms; shirt-fronts of
chalky white;
Uplifted elbows and down-pressing chins
close my eyes. Borne on a woodwind's
note,
Plaintive and primitive and questioning
leave the schooled musicians there, and
float
Into the sad joy Of Finland spring.
Loud brass and drums crash in with strident
blare,
In dancing steps as rude as Morse gods
play;
Harsh, jocund, colorful, it rocks the air,
The pageant of pleasant holiday.
The rostering dies. In somberness and
pain,
Deep tragic chords evoke the heavy sight
OF men who wind across a sullen plain,
Ice-gripped, to leave their dead in pagan
night
Again the spirits cry; the wild blood's fire;
Woodwind, and savage brass, and drums
mad roll:
Contending passions! Purpose and desire,
1t Is a nation cropping to1cdrd soul.
META MARQUIS.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Could a Democracy Do It,?

There is, besides, another point for con.
sderstion. We have been repeatedly told
that in Germany the fostering of foreign
trade was broadly given the right of way.
That is to say, if an industry was started
which the government thought desirable to
push forward all obstacles in its way were
brushed aside. If an item required it, it
given special subsidies and privileges,
special transportation rates, special fiscal
advantages, special diplomatic and consular
services; and if an existing law stood in
the way, that law was, in that instance, set
aside.
Now, would we be willing to do ali these
things? Could we do them even if we
wanted to? Do we not see that only under
an autocracy is it permissible to do what
Germany has done to foster foreign trade
Do we not see that such things are not
permissible under a stable, constitutional
democracy?
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Foreign Trade Zones

In substance, under the proposed plan
the foreign trade markets of the world
would be divided into zones, each with one
or more manufacturing centres, each Of
which may be designated as an industrial
and distributing base for the zone. Take.
for instance, the Mediterranean basin as
ore of these zones. Draw line from Glib
raltar to Syria and let the countries
north, south and east of that line form
that zone, with Italy as its base Similar
zones could be formed in other parts OF
the world, as, for instance, in the Scandi-
navian countries, in Central America, in
South America, in Russia. etc.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
see-England and America making gest-
ures at each other in this fashion!

England and America making pest-
ures at each other in this fashion!
Fancy, then, what the enemies Of
Ahglo-American understanding can and
Will be able to make of the statement by
Rear Admiral Badger, chairman Of the
executive committee of the General
Board OF the Navy, before the House Ma
val Affairs Committee last week, that the
second largest navy is not enough. Ger
many" he said, possessed the second
best navy in the world. 1t proved to be
not good enough" And this, he thought,
was the great lesson of the war.
A more ill-timed occasion for such a
statement of American naval policy
could not have been invented.
This is no time to be discussing oues-
tions of competitive naval policy Thev
are relatively trivial.
Shall the great English-speaking peo-
pies join their strength in full under
standing and employ it to keep the peace
of the world forever?
1hat is the paramount question. Let
1t be answered in the affirmative and
every other problem will take it's proner
place.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
The Wolf Ever Faithful

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l was much interested reading your
editorial this morning on the respectability
of "The Tiger; also on another page quo
tations from Mr. Hornaday, Bill Snyder and
Cunningham. Sorry you did not particular
ize the wolf, much maligned animal who,
l hear from good authority, never has but
one mate. If she dies or is killed, single
life for him afterward-of course, more or
less selfish, as he does not have to feed her
pups. st. Francis of Assist used to lecture
them on their pervert ways and they would
adopt his point of view, coming to the town
to be fed by the people, instead of feeding
on the people who happened to stray into
their neighborhood. F. S. CHURCH.
New York, Dec. -, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
TROM time to time the American or
the British commercial traveller |

ERoM time to time the American or
II the British commercial traveller
appears on the scene, exhibits his
samples and in the usual busnesslike
way calls for orders. The German trader
on the ground is not disconnected a bit,
for he knows by experience that these
travellers will receive no orders. The
American commercial travellers rush for
orders is much like a sKlrmish; the Ger
man makes of it siege. The American
runs in and runs out of given territory,
quite often without any orders; the Ger
man stays, holds on and squeezes out all
the business to be had. 1t thus comes to
pass that the German is master of the
situation. He knows how to curry favor,
how to knuckle down, how to cave in. In
fact, he is protean and eel-like in his
suavity, master of the art of ingratiatng
himself with a customer. And for all
these reasons the German merchant Is
able to build up and substantially hold the
said markets all to himself.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
A Much Larger Net Return

And right here the question arises, Why
should the American people go out of their
way to engage in the task of helping to
build up industries i'll foreign countries?
Should we not be building up competitors
who would not only be likely to spike the
guns of our foreign trade, but who might.
in time, even throttle us in our home
markets?
At first glance this would seem to be the
case, but some reflection will show that
there is LITTLE to fear from the Legitimate
competitor. For instance, the most force
full competitor Of the United States is
Great Britain, and the most forceful COM
petitor of Great Britain is the United
States; yet, notwithstanding, the United
States is Great Britain's biggest customer
and Great Britain IS the biggest customer
of the United States
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Love in Sussex

(Fror. The Poetry Review, Of London
WHEN the light is brief
w And the travail long,
When the tree has lost his leaf
And the bird his song,
And the tragic flowers,
Frozen in the SOIL
Scent no more the sterile hours
Of so doubtful toll,
Lo, the clock shall ring
Over the old church square,
And the marshland moon shall bring
Twain to wander there
To remember all
Once beheld and heard:
Brown leaves rust.ing to their fall,
Laugh, and winged word,
Stream enstarred and still,
Gate and tower and strand,
Rocks in wrath upon the hill,
Glance, and taken hand,
Dew-belled meadow path,
Simmer of early air,
Warmth and reverie of the hearth,
Silence, and touched hair!-
Is the light now brief?
Is the travail long?
Has the tree lost now his leaf
And the bird his song?
W. B. NICHOLS.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
| Am No Flesh
{ From AtnsIee's)

NFT0nt AtnSIce5)
7 MUST have fallen in pool of you,
j. l am so drenched-all through-with
loveliness.
am no flesh, but sunlight on the sea,
Nor blood, but music, pulses in my veins.
cannot bear this overmuch excess
OF love! l want myself Of flesh again,
Clean dry of you and wrapped in darknesses
or my own will, for this is not to be.
The world is better, with it's measured wavs
Counted delights, its limits to all things,
Its woven tapestries of days and nights.
Its little walls where guarded weakness
clings
And lifts itself on tiptoe to desire
Your beauty singled in rising start
SALOMON DE LA SELVA.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

Of manufactured goods would tend to give
rise. And finally, while the importation
of manufactures is usually hindered by
camors for a high tariff, no such him
drance is placed in the way of the i'm
portaton of materials required for
home industries.
But how could such manufacturing
centres with their factories be built up?
Would local initiative suffice? No, it would
not; the potentialities may be there, but
they will have to be awakened supplement-
ed by American cooperation; by American
capital, by American genius, by American
skill and trained under American expert
guidance
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
The Blind Poet
"a Blind Man Speaks)

"a Blind Man Speaks)
uron, Contemporary Verso
T THREAD wilderness of night
l. Unshot by star or cresset- boil;
But ah! the pageants of delight
That throng the forests of my soul!
I dwell within house unlit
By candled glow panelled CLEANS;
But ah! the vivid guests that sit
Within the chambers of my dreamsI
I sentinel q midnight camp
Unframed by sun or bivouac-fres;
But ah! the shining troops that tramp
Around the tents of my desires!
| climb mountain, midnight drowned.
Ungirt by glade or lanterned vine;
But ah. the splendid hosts that crowne
The glowing hilltops of my mnd
HENRY BARNETT
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
The Highest Question

1ne I1ASneSt question
Four and half years ago, as now
we know, three nations had the power
to decide the fate of the world.
One was seized with a horrible lust
to decide it alone by archaic force. For
daring to do that she has been disarmed
and chained.
Now there are two. These two speak
the same tongue. They are, as we be-
ieve, highly qualified to bear aloft the
torch of human progress. They have
only to reach out their hands and take
control of such circumstances as shape
and alter the destinies of mankind. 1t
is an august opportunity, unique in his
tory, rich beyond imagination in poten-
talities of achievement.
And how do they approach it?
By beginning at once to discuss in
an acrimonious manner whether one
shall be trusted to have a bigger navy
than the other.
By force of circumstances America
finds itself engaged in a navy building
programme which rivals that of any
other power on earth. That any other
power on earth turns out to be one
only-Great Britain. And then una
wares, without thought, certainly with
out any national reflection, the Ameri-
can people become committed to a
phrase-"freedom of the SEAS" 1t
means what you intend it to mean.
If you mean only that the seas shall
be free in time of peace there is no
point to it at all, for the seas have been
free in time of peace.
If you mean that the seas shall be
free also in time of war you mean some
thing the implications Of which are
startling in the extreme to the people
OF Great Britain, for had they been un-
able to control the seas they could not
nave beaten the demon power.
But for the British navy, which con-
trolied the sea, Kultur would now rule
the fate of the world. Every one knows
this. Only an Englishman can really
1eel it. And, feeling it deeply, he inter-
prets our phrase as a challenge to Brit
Ism naval supremacy. He cannot help it.
Let us not deceive ourselves as to
what we are talking about.
Last week there came by wireless
from the United States ship George
washington the following inspired
political message:
There is every indication that in his
utterances in France the President will
make plain his proposition that all come
10 the peace table prepared to make sac
''hces for lasting peace and that armed
domination by any one shall cease"
Ihe one most notable case of armed
domination present in the minds of peo-
pie is Great Britain's domination of the
sea oy reason of having the greatest navy
the navy that beat the demon power
ihls message was outgiven from the
residents ship. 1t must have been in
tended to produce a certain effect. 1t
uiu. The next day there was this decla-
ration on behalf of the English govern
ment by Winston Churchill, Minister of
Munitions:
We don't intend, no matter what argu-
ment and appeals are addressed to u.s. to
lend ourselves in any way to any fetter-
ing restrictions which would prevent the
British navy maintaining its we'll tried
and we'll deserved supremacy"
That is very definite. 1t had been in
vited.
T6ut what spectacle for the world to
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Fugitive
(Fron Ainslee'S)

(Front Ainslee'S)
THANkS be to God, the world is wide.
l. And am going far from home!
For forgot in Camelot
The man / loved in Rome.
And | forgot in Kensington
The man loved in Kew,
And there must be a place for me
To think no more of you!
.--.-~'-t EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

largely to disappear. That consider
able percentage do not is sufficient proof
of the reality and the severity of this
strange psychosis. The shell shock vic
tim is as much entitled to sympathy as
any other wounded soldier.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Trade by L11plantation
By David Lubin

Mr. L~bl the extraordinary person
o9naI idea founded the International Institute of Agriculture at
Rone 0h1ch supported By all the progressive
vord He proposing theory govern the conduct of
foreign trade.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-24
LABOR BOARD
MAPS PROGRAM
A Workrnen's Compensation
Act Is Principal Point
Discussed

X Fargo, n. D.. Dec. 24.-organized
1abor's legislative program was
mapped out and approved at, a meet
ing of the board$3of |. directors OF the
North Dakota Federation Of Labor at
"a meeting held in Fargo on Sunday
afternoon. the principal point In the
program being p workmen's cornpen-
sation act, drawn by John Andrus Of
the League for Labor Legislation, OF
Washington. providing for a monopo-
listic state insurance fund.-.
The compensation act has been
completed and IL. ready for introduce
ton at the opening of the coming ses-
sion of the North Dakota legislature.
1t has been framed, it is, understood.
by agreement Of the Federation of
Labor forces and the Nonpartisan
league, and will become the admins
tration measure at the coming ses-
L.sion.
N Two years ago a state insurance
workmen's compensation act was be.
fore the legislature, but failed of pas
sage. Roughly, the proposed bill clas-
sites industries, and provides THAT
the industries of each class must car
ry the burden Of paying compensa-
workmen in each individual class
Thus the printing trades would, for
instance. carry the burden Of paying
all compensation claims arising In
that trade; packing plants would pay
all compensation claims arising in
that class. etc.
Under the bill as drawn, agricul.
tural labor and household or domestic
labor is not protected.
Other measures approved by the
Federation Of Labor board follow:
Minimum wage and hours fol
women.
Miners inspection law -,
Longer polling hours in cities ovel
5000 population, to permit laborer'
to participate in elections more freely
than at present. The bill probabl!
will extend the closing time to I
o'clock.
Controlling. street occupation b.
children. fixing IA years as the ag'
limit for neWsboys.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-24
r MAN TELLS
OF SINKING OF A
GERMAN SUBMARINE

Fargo, N. D.. Dec. 24.-There is
one submarine e buried in a u
boat on the bed of the Atlantic that
Major j. P. Aylen of Fargo, who re-
turned. to the city after long service
with the United States medical corps.
believes experienced thrills allotted
to be but comparatively few men in
the process of leaving this life.
That particular crew and their SUB
marine went to the bottom Of the ha
under we'll directed shots from a
British transport, carrying American
troops, and aboard which Major Ay-
len was the, commanding medical Of
ficer.
THE submarine was sighted a short
distance off," said Major Aylen to-
day. THE commander, who had pre-
viously been decorated for sinking q
German submarine, ordered full
steam ahead directly at the subma-
rine. which sought to maneuver into
II was at about the sea deck when
the submarine alarm sounded, and
made my way to the ship hospital
to supervise the loading Of our sick
men \into the lifeboats.
I'm cutting the path of the subma-
rine, the transport PROV was not deer
enough to catch the submarine, but
the undersea craft was caught under.
meath our ship. and was rolled oyer
and over for the full length Of gu,
vessel.
when the ship passed over the
lsubmarine. it came to the surface
still rolling around. and about thai
time the aft gun opened fire and the
submarine was quickly sent to tho
bottom. ~
1T have frequently wondered JUS
what sensations yer being expert
enced by the members of that subma'
rine crew as they felt their craft re-
volving, but its safe to say they were
lanythinc but pleasant