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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Food and the
Fighting Man

1T Colonel Repington has his desired
comb out, and the comb reaches apri-
culture, we shall have brave regiments.
including your own, with empty CEN
teens, which is form Of military STRAIT
egy that seems to require further cx-
animation. Napoleon was, of course,
not colonel, but only "a little corpo-
rail-" yet he knew thing or two when
he said that an army fights on its belly.
Napoleon was never the man to talk
airily, as our colonel talks, about "the
DOGGY Of starvation"
But are all people in England, France
and Italy so fortunately placed? am
afraid not. The mails have brought me
papers and letters which show that the
serious position Of affairs, obvious to
me before set sail at Christmas, has
grown, If anything, worse. The other
day my wife paid four shillings for
rabbit which would have been worth
only few pence before the war. She
bought that rabbit in order to exc out
her shortage Of meat. For 8 pound or
two of beef she stood for a considera
Die time in a queue. Yet we do not be-
long to what is called the working
class. For year there has been no
butter in our house, and in December
margarine began to fail, because the
national factories had not got into full
operation.
sol,
before the war now occupies hours.
and the constant daily worry Of 1.-THE
steady, persistent use Of prices-the
uncertainty-are enough to wear down
the strongest nerve. I am not sur
prIsed that East End women have Wis.,
tied Downing Street in order to tell
Mr.. Lloyd George about it. Some wears
ago women in Paris visited Versailles
in order to tell Louis XVI about IL
About that time there was a creature
called Foulon who talked about "the
bog'e OF starvation" and ggested that
the people might eat grass. He came
to an amusing end.
In due course I shall have to wr;+a
more about this food question. But I
would beg Of your authorities at Wash
lngton to pay no heed to the kind of
information" the stupidity of which
am exposing. Your three European
allies need every cargo that you can
send across. And you cannot send too
quickly.
This brings me to the sagacious
counsel which Colonel Repington offers
to our Prime Minister about labor
Last week wrote at length upon the
great underlying spiritual forces which
are moving the nations as this war pro-
ceeds. There is not a country in the
world where labor is not drifting more
or less rapidly toward the left. need
not mention Russia or the Dual Mon
archy, for there the trend is obvious.
But Germany is now rent by more
militant socialism than she has ever
known since she became an organized
state. Even in your own country
seem to detect straws which show how
the stream is flowing. The Presidents
action in reference to Moneys re-
trial at San Francisco is surely very
and We have the great cf
forts made BY Mr.. Samuel Gompers to
prevent breach between Jewish
union in New York and the America
Federation Of Labor. In your labor
organizations, as in ours, you have
maj ority" and minority" parties
the latter inclined to be "internationa
and even "pacihst-"
Now az I understand the matter. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Heroines of
War Industries

But does wheat alone equip an army +?
Is no word due to the millions and
millions Of British girls who may not
indeed be ploughing the soil in every
case, or tilling it like the wife in Mil
let's picture, but who labor not less
honorably in our she'll factories, take
duty on our railroads, perform the
rcughest work in our hospitals, drive
our motor vehicles of every kind, staff
our public departments, sweat and toll
IN our engineering sheds? Delicately
rurtured women have for years been
sacrificing their beauty, the whiteness
Of their hands, their health, their
nerves, on tasks which their ladies'
maids would not have deigned to per-
form before the war. Believe me, it is
little hard that such efforts-the
very utmost Of which nature is cap
able-should be held up as so very
slight q thing by gentleman who, so
far as I know, is not working as these
girls work, in forge, or on the land,
or scrubbing hospital floors, or watch
ing for long spells rapid and dan
gerous machine, or standing in all
weathers on the footboard of motor
bus. Millions of these heroincs arc in
spircd not only by love of country, but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
The Material Problem of Man Pouuer and Food
Supply Met With Courage and Wisdom The
Moral Appetite for Final Victory Still Unabated
Their Bearing On Americas Task in the War

spread che fiction that millions OF able
bodied Englishmen are being withheld
from the service Of our common cause.
spend good deal Of time in your
picture palaces, and have noticed that,
while full, though not too full. Justice
IS done to the doings Of French, Ital-
ian and, Of course, the American
forces, all Of which is right and proper,
the British contribution-r speak only
OK my own Decentralization not al
ways appear quite 50 prominently with
the others. Our humdrum contribu-
zion IS, as it were, taken for granted,
or perhaps you have had enough Of
our war films. Anyway, I make no
complaint. We deserve no special
thanks. We have merely done our
duty. We would have been craven
hearted towards if we had done one
whit less.
But what are the facts? In normal
times there are, roughly, ten million
male wage earners in the United King
dom-boys and men, whose ages range
from fifteen to seventy years or over.
one-half Of these males, or very nearly
one-half, volunteered for service of
their own free will. Under conscrip-
tion more than half are now serving
or have done serving, being either
With the colors, or dead, or discharged
Tor wounds or disease. 1t is quite
true that some four or five million
wage earners remain.
But who are they? First. the lads
under eighteen; second, the grand
fathers over forty-two or forty-three:
third, the medically unfit, and fourth,
lndispensables. What is the use of
building elaborate railroads behind the
lines in France if you paralyze your
railroads in the United Kingdom Are
you to close down your coal mines,
shut up your furnaces, silence your
FORCES, deplete your reserves of shells
and, finally, dismantle your farms Z?
Germany does not make that mistake.
Colonel Repington tells us that she is
to have 200 divisions on the Western
front Of $4,000 men apiece. Let US
suppose that be is correctly informed.
This is. on his own showing, three
million men--only three million men.
Yet Germany's population is greater
by 90 per cent than that Of the United
Kingdom. 1t exceeds the whole white
population OF the British Empire. And
that empire has raised seven and a half
million men. She must have fully five
million men now serving in her navy
and army.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Ireland To Be
Won by Justice

Ireland has not yet obtained home
rule, nor will she ever bargain home
rule against CONSUMPTION. The reason
why home rule is delayed has been the
attitude Of the very Ulster extremists
for whom Colonel Repington reserves
his commentator. Indeed, I 60 fur
Their. What would be said in America,
in the British dominions, and at the
peace conference, whenever that shall
come, if England brought her rifles to
bear on a reluctant squad Of irish
conscripts7 We need Irelsnd's help.
We need it badly. But the only way
to win it is to do justice to Ireland,
without haggling or Interior motive
to do justice because it is Justice
and until justice comes about it is
idle to talk Of CONSUMPTION.
Besides, Ireland has another value
which Colonel Repington would be the
last man to recognize. She is helping
TO feed England, France and Italy. She
has recently put 100000 acres, or
whereabouts, "under arable." She has
pIoughed up those acres. Is the har-
vest to 60 unreaped? With all the
inducement Of fixed price for corn,
Britain-with eight times Ireland's
population-has not increased her
arabic land, believe, by so much as
the above additional area in the sister
isle. And why? In Britain, as dis
tinct from Ireland, there has been in
sufficient labor on the farms. 1t is
no use offering the cultivatof 60 shil-
lings instead Of so shillings or even
Is shillinss u quarter for his grain if
he cannot be sure Of horses, of me-
chanical appliances all, OF la
bor-during all the months which must
intervene before his outlay returns to
him in not unhandsome profit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Child raining at Home
BY Mothers Who Have Been kindergarten Teachers

This Is tho fifteenth Of Of articles prepared under the d
the
aarn Assocoton Each acritten bu ho has her
training INTO practice with her Children she
has learned If find this helpful
out reaching
oil the mothers counry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Statistics in France

G. B.-France is not poor in large
families. At the beginning Of the war
official statistics established the fol-
lowing data: There were about 12,5OO,-
900 married people. Among these were:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Explaining Mountains

Another time my boy asked the ques-
lion, "How are the mountains made ."
10 explain to HIM I took two apples.
s:ett,nY one i'll tho window and letting
~ sarivel uQ. and baking the other al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Queries and Answers

ters of credence- gives notice Of his ar
rival to the Minister of Foreign Ar
lars Secretary Of State) of the coun.
try to which he has been accredited.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
The Call for
More Soldiers

Sir Auckland Geddes is our Director
OF Natlona! Service. Recently he called
for a further 436,oO0 men, not, OF
course, entirely for the army. 1t is a
tremendous demand, but Colonel Rep
ington treats it as If it were mere
tride. Suppose that we did raise the
age limit from forty one years to forty
five. It would deal staggering blow
at our financial credit, for the men
above forty are keeping our revenue
going; but let that pass. Assume that
during war finance can 60 to the devil,
what would the entire five-more &C.
curately Your-years mean? Not very
much. Already the men who entered
the army at the age limit of forty-one
two years ago have reached their forty
third year, so that merely to raise the
limit to forty-five would bring in only
two years drafts, with numerous ex-
cmptions. So far from there being
this surplus Of man power in Great
Britain, say that our military num-
bers have grown to the margin Of
safety, and, according to many people,
have passed it. At this moment we are
having to take men out of the army
and set them to build ships and plough
the land.
Colonel Repington might have spared
his comments on British women. All
honor to the brave French mothers and
sisters who have taken to ploughing
French soil! How they managed is u
miracle, but France has been, to
greater extent than Britain, an agri-
cultural country, possibly because at
her revolution she disposed once for
all Of her landed aristocracy. The
French peasant has been, from the days
Of Joan Of Arc to our own, one of the
noblest figures in Christian civilization
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

every Irish conscript will demobiiize
a British trained soldier. And who
are the men that are chiefly to blame
for public opinion in 1reland7 Canada
and South Africa and Australia are
loyal enough, because these common
wcalths have home rule.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
in our ranks are so distressinxlv

in our ranks are so distressinrlv
meagre.
Now, the late Lord Salisbury once
advised US ordinary people to study
large maps before VIC talk about for
eign affairs. Few Americans realize
how near England is to the lines in
Franco and Flanders. In the North Of
London have heard the rcverberation
OF the big field guns across the Chan
mel for hours at time. 1t took me as
long last week to leave my club in New
York; and arrive at my hotel in Wash
1ngton IS it would take reinforcements
stationed somewhere in England to
reach a point Of danger on the lines
somewhere in France. Britain is simply
a base for France, and hundreds Of
thousands Of soldiers constantly pas,
to and fro.
Your notion that your troops and
ours too are stationed in England be-
cause England fears invasion or is
thinking of her own protection in that
regard can be dismissed as q clever
invention Of the enemy. 1t is easier
to feed soldiers in England than across
the channel. There is more accommo-
dation for them. 1t may be that
France herself prefers such an ar
rangoment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Britain Pulling Her Weight in the Allies Boat?

would be to disgrace Britain in YOUR
cycs~-to give your mixed population
a handle against us---and to provide
material for pacifist and ro-German
agltators. If Great Britain Ia a pas-
sengcr in the Allied boat, why, in Gods
name. should she be fcd and clothed
and supplied with munitions? She
would not deserve it.
Those Who Make
The Aeroplanes
It so happens that for years have
lived in the very district Of Hendon,
near London, which Colonel Repington
particularly assails. He says that at
6 o'clock in the evening you may see
there any day hundreds of able bodied
young men who ought to be in France
pour homewards from certain works.
1t is the same, he says, all over the
country. But, let Us take this case of
Hendon. There is not a church or
chapel there which has not a roll of
scores-many scores--of men serving.
In my neighborhood there is hardly a
young man to be seen except in khaki
and on leave. What are those manu-.
featuring works? Why di not Colonel
Repington tell you in America that
Hendon is headquarters Of tho aero
plane industry? Does he desire,
by depicting our staff Of highly skilled
mechanics, to blind the eyes Of the
army? In that event he must settle
scores with Lord Rothermere, brother
Of Lord Northcliffe, who, like your
Cabinet, is developing a huge air SER
vice.
Every process at Hendon that a girl
can do is done by girls. But there is no
moro highly technical labor in this
civilization Of ours than tho adjust
mcnt of aeroplanes. A hairbreadth Of
error means life dashed to pieces.
Casualties among pilots are already
terribly severe, and if they are not to
be multiplied, we must reserve the best
of our skilled fingers to deal with this
essential war industry. Indeed, FREE
quent debate on this very matter have
disturbed the serenity Of the House Of
Commons. So far as Hendon is con-
cerned that is the sum and substance
of the whole position.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
The Facts About
England's Man Power

Let US next consider man power on
broader lines. ! hold no brief for
one Of our writers, Mr.. Lovat Fraser,
but do agree with him when he en-
tiers q protest in the columns Of our
"Daily Mail" against military gentle
men Of the Repington school who
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Invasion Story an
Enemy Invention

am we'll aware that when the cost
OF the war to US rose to nearly forty
millions Of dollars daily, our Parlia-
ment appointed committee of in
Quiry, which in its report expressed
establishment at the vast numbers Of
men held by US in readiness for emer-
gencies. 1t will always be matter for
argument whether these reserves have
been eXcessive-a needless burden on
our financial and industrial resources
but against what eventuality were
we holding them? Mile by mile we
were taking over line from the French.
When the Italian army broke, British
troops, with the French, hurried to
the rescue. Our military advisers are
+ convinced that, despite all objection,
they have not over enlisted for the
army. Indeed, they call urgently for
the speedy addition of your gallant re-
Inducements to the Allied lines. And
with the possibility of q long war
staring US in the face, it would indeed
be serious matter if there were not
somewhere among the Allies an ample
balance Of trained manpower to mako
good the wastage which must occur
before your full strength is concen-
trated in Europe.
Colonel Repington thinks that Mr.
Lloyd-George has been dealing in a
weak fashion with Ireland and with
Labor. Let me say word on both
matters. ] declare with confidence that
no English speaking nation will ever
submit to CONSUMPTION, except by its
cwn consent. You may bring this
kind Of conpulsion to bear on indi-
viduals within nation. But no Of
ficials. can ever coerce the majority of
nation into bearing arms, where that
majority resists. Whether we like it
or not, that is he position in Ireland.
What is the use of raising 100000
unwilling Nationalist soldiers if it
means garrisoning the country with
100000 other soldiers who are now
employed tt fight the Germans, and
not their fellow subjects in Munster,
Leinstear and Connaught? On balance,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-05-10
SCOUTS HUNT STATE FOR THE
4 BARBERRY

- A. G. Ruggels, state entomologist'
with his headquarters at University
Farm, has started scouts out over the
state to begin statewide hunt for the
common barberry, which is menace
of wheat and other grains.
~ The Minnesota Commission of Public
Safety few weeks ago issued an order
that every owner or agent of property
on which common barberry plants-not
the Japanese barberry-are found
should dig up and destroy such plants.
The commission instructed Mr.. Ruggles
to see that the order was carried out,
and these scouts are being sent out in
compliance with these instructions
Those wishing aid in identifying the
common barberry as distinguished from
the Japanese barberry can have It IN
the form Of Special Bulletin S on "' ~ e
Common Barberry-An Enemy OF
Wheat prepared BY F. n. freeman emf OF
the division Of plant pathology and
botany at University Farm, if they Will
address Office of Publications, Univer-
sity Farm, st. Paul.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-05-10
!. BUILDING BIDS WANTED

Bids are wanted BY the st. Nichaels'
congregation of Buchanan for the build
Inc Of q parish house. Contract Is to
cover only labor Of house above the
basement, materials for the building TO
IS furnished by the congregation.
plans and specifications may Be seen 1t
the parish house at Buchanan. The
right to reject any and all bids is re-.
served. Bids must be submitted by
Nav Is, 1918. For further information
address Rev. M. Hherer, Pierz, route I,
s-3t The Building Committee.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-07
Power To Declare War
Includes Power To Make
All Citizens Go To Front
Continued from Page ~

"First. we are of opinion that the
contention hat the act is void as a
delegation of federal power to state
officials because Of one of its ad-
ministrative features is too wanting
in merit. to require further notice.
Second. we think that the conten-
ton that the statute is void
vesting administrative officers with
completely adversely settled as to re-
decided cases. A like conclusion also
adversely disposes of a similar claim
concerning the comforting of judicial
power. And we pass without anything
but statement, the proposition that an
establishment of a religion or an in
reference with the free exercise
thereof repugnant to the first amend
ment resulted f rom the exemption
clauses of the act to which we at the
outset referred, because we think its
u~nsoundness too apparent to require
US to do more
"Finally, as we are unable to con-
ceive upon what theory the exaction
by government from the citizen of
the performance of his supreme and
noble duty of contributing to the de-
Tense of the rights and honor of the
nation as the result of a war declared
by the great representative body of
the people can be said to be the i'm
position of involuntary servitude in
of the prohibitions of the
thirteenth amendment, we are con-
strained to the conclusion that the
contention to hat effect is refuted by
it's mere statement"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-07
AUSTRIAN AIMS AS DEFINED By
A SOCIALIST DEPUTY.

In the course of a recent debate in
the Vienna rcichsrat the Czech So
cialist leader. Stransky, violently at
tackled Germany and sharply criticized
Count Czernin's peace program. Re-
ferrinE to Germany. Stransky said it
was the fatal desire for the predomi-
nance of the German nationality in
Austria which had brought on war.
But for that the concessions offered
by Serbia would have been considered
sufficient. Europe would stand a
strong Germany, but not two strong
German empires side by side. gov
erned from Berlin. Perhaps, after all,
Great Britain, France and America
are not so simple as to fight merely
for the freedom of the Poles, Be-
rather for political reasons. for secur-
ing the guaranty of an Austria inde-
pendent of Germany and not ruled
from Berlin. 1t has been asserted
that the alliance with Germany is in
dissoluble, but nothing on earth is
indissoluble. Even if the union is so
firm, circumstances ne arise to
render it's continuance impossible, be-
cause they affect not only the policy
but the actual existence of the coun-
try. Referring to Count Czernin. he
called the counts peace conditions
nothing but phrases. They were no
conditions at all. but only a designa-
ton of the situation which should
prevail after peace. They were not
even, as the count modestly claimed,
his W ideas. but were made in
America" that is, they we're President
Wilson'S ideas put forth at a time
when America was at peace -
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-07
$50 TONS OF CANDY
PURCHASED BY ARMY
Y. M. c. A. FOR FRONT

Fifty tons of lemon drops. fifty tons
of chocolate. fifty tom of gundrops!,
That is a big order of sweets with
sugar as scare as it is, but it repre-
II a single purchase of the y. NJ.
G. A. for candy stock for its canteens
and huts with the American army at
home and abroad. according to in
formation just received here. The
boys in khaki love sweet things-and
the Y. NJ. c. A.. is almost the sole
agency to supply them.
Even before General Pershing
recommended thai the Red Triangle
take over the management Of the
whole canteen system In France, or
ders had been placed for the entire
output of a lemon drop factory and
for the period Of the war! This
means about is tons a month for use
in this country and abroad.
An official report Of articles shipped
to France for Uncle Sans nephews
during December alone includes the
following: $4,000 tins of canned
fruit: 100000 dozen packages OF
crackers; 100 tons cocoa; 100 tons Of
sugar; three carloads of flour. 1000
dozen tubes of tooth paste; 100000
packages of chewing gum; 400 tons OF
milk. nut and sweet chocolate; 1900
boxes of cough drops. The budget for
the month appropriated $500, 900.
The Y. NJ. G. A., it is stated in the
report. is shipping each month to
France 5000, 900 sheets of letter pa
per and 1000. 900 envelopes. Supplies
are sold to the men at practically
their cost to the Y. NJ. c. A. Station
cry, however. is for free distribution.
When the troops TO- forward into
the trenches, Y. NJ. C. A.. supplies Of
chocolate and coffee. sandwiches and
cocoa are passed out at no cost to the
men.
Many of the supplies needed abroad
arc now being shipped overseas in
trunks belonging to secretaries. who
are allowed 900 pounds of baggage.
but donate a share Of their allotment
to Red Triangle supplies for the sol