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New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Flying by Taxi

Down in,Atlantic City regular SER
vice for aeroplane rides has been main
tanned for two years or more, at the
modest charge Of s25 for a ride of about
fifteen minutes.
Gasolene consumption in fair grade
aeroplane works out at around 10 cents
q mile, or, say, Sc or SO an hour. 1t is
not much more expensive than a very
fast motor boat
Overhead charges are, of course, very
high, but they would scarcely work out
at much more perhaps than $4 or SIS
an hour, SO that at S25 an 'hour there
ought to be a steady and very hand
some profit.
IN II fast plane the trip to Philadel-
phia could now be made in an hour: to
Washington or to Boston in two hours
and half
Some Of the large planes in service in
England AND France have carried as
hi%n as twenty passengers and a pilot.
There is no reason why they should not
carry at least five or six passcn-
gers for fairly long distance fights.
~ TO Boston or to Washington There
ought to be good profit in such ma
chimes in fares at $l0 or $12 an hour.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
The Cotton Prohteers

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Within the last few days the chap
ters OF the Red Cross have been ordered to
double and treble their output of surgical
dressings. They are composed Of cotton.
in one form or another. On account Of the
unfair and grossly cxorbtant prices asked
by the cotton profiteers the Red Cross is
getting for it's money about one third the
quantity of material it should
President Wilson is vested with authority
to fix a price on cotton. We remember that
last year he squeezed the last cent out Of
the owners Of coal. Because the growers
of cotton arc 80 per cent Democrats he
deliberately refuses to put price on cot
ton. The Southern patriots CD have an
nounced that they depend on the Adminis-
tration and their majority in Congress to
sec that their income is not interfered with
Let our troops suffer.
This is only one instance of the daily cx-
hbitions in Washington of a sordid parti-
sanship. L. r.
New York, April 8, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Edith Wharton's New War Charity

1he splendid work which Mrs. Whar-
ton and her associates have been DOING
tor the tuberculous soldiers of France
IS, we imagine, we'll known to most of
our readers. Practically since the be-
ginning of the war Mrs. Wharton has
dropped her literary activities, except
those which would aid directly in tho
work she has undertaken, and given her
full time to the Allied cause.
Mrs. Wharton now cables that there
is urgent need for the establishment of
new chidren's emergency hospital for
the refugees who are pouring into Paris
since the present drive began. She saws
that the need is desperate and that the
French government will assist if her
committee can provide a building.
The Red Cross has taken over part of
Mrs. Wharton's work in France. bnt
these hospitals are supported entirely
by voluntary contributions.
Mrs. Mary Cadwalader Jones. of q
East Eleventh Street, has issued an an
peal for subscriptions, and we hope that
the response will be commensurate with
American generosity and with Mrs.
Wharton's own unselfsh devotion.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
AS Preposterous as

'fron' The Cincinnati Timcs-Storf
upon the advice of Captain A. Wells
ingram OF London, New Workers have de-
clded not to minimize the danger of an air
rad on their city, Doctors, nurses and
police officials already have held a meeting
to prepare for relief work.
Ihls seems absurd. Thousands of miles
oi acr'ai ~hvel over the Atlantic Ocean.
ana no nope OF return if the raid should
other"'se De successful! Why it is pre-
posterous-as prepcsterous> az whom +ho+
gun first spoke in the forest of St Cob.;n
ana It's she'll exploded within the confines
OF taris, after travelling scvcnty-six miles.
a Hight of almost four times the distance
heretofore known to experts in ordnance
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Wagner's S Message
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: am sorry to read your editorial al.
vising the banishment of Wagner's works
from our concert halls. You base vour
argument on the claim that the German
spirit is expressed through his music.
Inc editorial impresses me especjallv
coming as 1t does on Good Friday. a dav
which has been set apart at the Metronoli-
tan IN the past for the representation Of
"Parsfal.' I happened to be ar the ner-
romance last Good Friday, the very day
war was declared. At that time | could
not help but feel the marked contrast be-
tween the present German spirit and that
which pervades Wagner's dramas.
"Parsifal" deals with the futiltv and re-
dcmption Of sin. 1t sets before Nc xer,,
poignantly the ideal of self-sacrifcs and
service to the noble things in life. Moth
ing further from present day Germany can
be imagined. The whole idea of the "Bior',
is that the remuneration of moral law -
satisfy personal Cor nationaN gain is
punishable by death and destruction
Wagner wrote of it: at has passed like
a breath, this race Of the gods; the treas
ure of my sacred knowledge | leave to the
world; 1t IS no longer goods, gold or sacred
pomp, houses, courts lordly marni6cencc
nor the deceitful ties of dark treaties. nor
the harsh law of hypocritical manners. but
only one single thing, which in good as
IN eVli days makes us happy-love."
AS you say, ms mature music superb as
IL ls' carries message no less powerful
because uttered through strings and braxscs
instead of the human voice" But the mes
sage at this time is thoroughly wholesome
ana anu herman. JACK M.vGILL.
Orange. N. j.. March 20, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
No Thoroughfare
It IS unfortunate that "they shall not
By Haywood Broun

4 A0 unfortunate LnAC CNcy SNall not
pass" has been so generally accepted
here as the equivalent Of "or, ne
passe pas," for the translation fails to
catch the spirit of the French battle cry.
There is a note of high resolve in "they
shall not pass" but also suggestion of
desperation. 1t is the cry Of Thermop-
yl@ rather than Verdun.
ION ne passe pas" is stronger than
that. 1t is a phrase picked out of the
worl-a-day world. The words are used
on signs indicating that roads are under
repair, and the strength of the slogan lies
in the fact that it is entirely casual. This
quality adds fnality to the phrase The
possibility of challenge is simply thrust
aside. Of course the tense adds not a
little to the effect. The future can never
convey the same sense of surety us the
present. Even the awkward literal
translation zone does not pass" is little
better than "they shall not pass" but as
matter of fact we have phrase which
approximates the French closely. mo
thoroughfare," is what the poius said.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Give the Oldsters a Show

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: There are thousands of men beyond
inc heht'ng age (forty-five ycars) thor
oushiy capable of doing Office and clerical
wo'h' ohly 100 anxious to do their bit, who
~, mouio DC happy to find place to serve
'"e'r country and thereby release for active
service the corresponding number Of vonno.
swivel chair warriors. N"e
Let us older men push the pen while our
younger men push the automatics.
A As-YEAR-YOuNG AMERICAN
hoston, Mass, Aprl 3, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
The Bulwark Of Kultur
nErom The phiiadelphin jvo,i..,,

fFrom The Philadelphia inouirc,9
Not only North America, but tho whole of
America must become n buwark of Ger
manic kultur, perhaps the strongest fortress
or the Germanc races. That is cvcrv ones
nope who has freed himself from his own
local European pride and who places the
race feeling above his love for home. Also
South America must and can easily become
habitntion for German or Germanod
rhees! Klaus Wagner, "Kricg," 1906 pages
l65-l66
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

Commercial flying, In solidly built
planes, doing not over eighty or ninety
miles an hour, would probably show a
remarkably small rate of accidents. The
war has shown an astonishingly low
mortality in aeroplanes. We do not see
why taxi service between the larger
cities should not soon be put on a COM
mercial basis
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
The Modesty of Greatness
(From The Washington Star,

Hfom The WASHINGTON starr
vi course you don't believe everything
you rcad?"
NO." replied Senator Sorghum. "Motestv
would forbid me to indorse fully everything
my publicity experts PIT out abou. me dur.
ing campaign time"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

k<T BELIEVE that the time has come
when we should give serious con-
slderation to the education of those
who cannot read write in the United
States. The war has brought facts to our
attention that are almost unbelievable and
that are in themselves accusatory There
are in the United States Cor were when the
census was taken in 1910) 5,516,163 persons
over ten years of age who were unable to
read or write in any language. There are
now nearly 100000 men of draft age in the
United States who arc, | presume, regis
tered who cannot read or write in English
or in any other language
Over 100000 of the iliterates in this
country were twenty years of age or more.
This figure equals the total population of
the states of California, Oregon, Washing
ton, Montana Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado,
Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and
Delaware. The percentage of illiterates
varies in the several states from ~ per
cent in Iowa to 20 per cent in Louisiana.
More than 10 per cent of it was in thirteen
states Half of the llitcrates were between
twenty and forty-iive years Of age. 1t has
been estimated by one of those concerned
with this problem that if these five million
and half illiterate persons were stretched
IN double line of march at intervals of
three feet and were to march past the White
House at the rate of twenty-five miles day
1t would require more than two months for
them to pass. Over SO per cent are white
persons, and Of these 100000 are native
born whites.
The Economic Loss
Il beg you to consider the economic loss
arising out of this condition. If the pro-
ductivc labor value of an iliterate is less
by only so cents day than that of an cdu-
Gated man or woman the country is losing
So2oo00,o00 year through iliteracy. This
estimate is no doubt under ratlVr than over
the real loss. The Federal government and
the states spend millions of dollars in try
ing to give information to the people in
rural districts about farming and home
making. Yet 100000, or 10 per cent. of
our country folk cannot read or write a
word They cannot read bulletin on agri-
culture, farm paper, food pledge card,
a Liberty Loan appeal, a newspaper the
Constitution of the United States or their
Bibles, nor can they keep personal or bust
ness accounts. An uninformed democracy
is not . democracy. A people who cannot
have means of access to the mediums of
public opinion and to the messages of the
President and the acts of Congress can
hardly be expected to understand the full
meaning OF this war, to which they all must
contribute IN llfc or property or labor.
1T would seem to be almost automatic
that illiterate man cannot make a. rood
soldier in modern warfare Until last April
the regular army would not enlist litter
ates, yet in the first draft between 10000
and 10000 illiterates were brought into the
army and approximately as many near-illit-
crates.
"Thcy cannot sign their names.
"lhey cannot read their orders posted
daily on bulletin boards in camp
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
War Woodwork Troublesome

ffom The Washington starr
c speaking OF the war;" remarked Senator
ooreh"m' IA great deal of the trouble
seems to be with the woodwork"
"Thc woodwork ?"
"Ycs. Too many mahogany dcsks ,,a
not enough ships"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Her Sacrifice for Arts Sake
From Thc Fioridn 7,l,oo.-,t,,a,.

N'om The Fioridn Tinos Union)
mere was young maid in Dcs Moincs
Whose father had oceans of concY
But she pincd for the stage
And to be all The sngc
so she's doing u vaudeville tonnes.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
1917 4. d.
Reroiuttou


Peroiution
Dawn comes out Of the east,
Dawn with tumult Of flying horses;
White clouds of springtimc,
Careering, galloping
Stallion on stallion charging
Westward, to the horizon;
But in the midst OF them
Rides Liberty unbound.
Her tossing, golden hair
Is mingled with the sea of names;
Her voice cries, "On, you wild ones,
Stop not nor falter."
Ont Of ten thousand trenchc,
A million weary eyes
Shall see her pass across the plains,
And cry, Come fastcr!'
million starving ones
Shall smile at her,
Shall stretch out their cold hands to her
Before they die.
million broken ones
Shall make their bodies
The pathway for her feet
a million eager ones
Shall leap forth from their trenches
To follow her command. ag
Lake the great flame of noon
She shall spread out her wings,
With song of victory.
Like the great flame of noon,
She shall spread out her wings;
And grant us all we longcd for. could Y
find
The peace SURPRISING human understanes
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Who Goes There?

Franklin K. Secretary folocing
to the President Hoke
Seers, choimem
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

'They cannot read their manual of arms.
"They cannot read their letters or write
home.
"They cannot understand the signals or
follow the Signal Corps in time of battle.
"There are 100000 men who cannot read
or write who may be dAfted within our
army within the next year or two. Training
camps for soldiers not equipped for
school work, and the burden of teaching
men to read the simplest English should
not be cast upon the officers or others in
the camps. We should give some education
to all our men before they enter the army.
"There is even larger problem than this
that challenges our attention, and that is
teaching of the English tongue to millions
of our population. DR.. John H. Finley, pres
ident of the University of the State of New
York. in recent speech presented this
picture WHICH he found iii one of the can
tonments:
The Struggling Sentry
How practical is the need of language
in this country common to all tongues is
illustrated by what l saw in one of the great
csHtonments few nights ago. In the mess
h;si, where | had sat an hour before with a
co:crany of the men OF the National Army
few small groups were gathered along the
tables learning English under the tuition Of
some OF their comrades, one of whom had
been district supervisor in neighboring
state and another theological student In
one of those groups one of the exercises for
the evening consisted in practising the
challenge when on sentry duty Each pupil
OF the group (there We're four of Italian
and two of Slavic birth) shouldered in turn
the long-handlcd stove shovel and aimed it
1T the teacher, who along the side of
the room as if to evade the guard The
pupil called out in broken speech. "Halt.
Who goes there?" The answer came from
the teacher, "Friend." And then, in as vet
unlntelligible English (the voices Of innu-
merable ancestors struggling in their
throats to pronounce it), the words, "Ad-
vance and give the countersign." So are
those of confused tongues learning to speak
the language of the land they have been
summoned to defend. What commentary
upon our educational shortcomings that in
the days of peace had not taught these
men, who have been here long enough to be
citizens (and' tens of thousands of their
brothers with them), to know the language
in which our history and laws are written
and in which the commands of defence must
now be given! May the end of this decade,
though so near, find every citizen of our
state prepared to challenge in one tongue
and heart the purposes of all who come with
the cry, "Who goes there ?"'
What ] have said here leads to a rc-
spectful request that you give early consid-
Grafton to House bill 6,49o, which provides
for modest appropriation for the Bureau
Of Education to begin and conduct vigor-
Gus and systematic campaign for the eradi-
cation of adult illiteracy. If the bill can be
passed soon specia! attention can be given
to teaching illiterate men of draft age and
especially those who are classified in
Glass A."
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Russia
By John Gould Fletcher
From "Poetry''

(These are tho last three ports ~
aarrctave poem IN the April numb,
Of "Poetry.")
The Troublous Times" -As
Darkness broods over the east.
Over the plain, that land of horses;
Darkness and wintry silence
And death.
Far away to the west
Hangs a great crimson fire;
1t is the sunlight departing
Over the plain.
Rise Of the House Of Romanor:
Peter the Great 16e9-1725
Out of the west there rides
The horseman Of the twilight,
The great pale horseman
Whose name is Death.
And he carries in his hand
lash Of thongs;
And he has power to slay
With hunger
And the eagles of the west
Pass after him;
Sea-eagles, unsated,
Fan with their dark wings his face.
Darkness settles faster
Upon the plain;
But the man on the gaunt gray horse
Rides on.
On to the north
Where blue-white light family glimmers
Over the black pinc-f forests,
Over the frozen seas.
Founding Of Pet,ograd,
The third capital Of Russia
Two cities have long ago fallen,
But there is one city to found yet
city of dreary phantoms,
A city of death.
AT the edges of the north,
At the borders of the locked sea,
The pale horse rears
And stands.
Darkness, total darkness!
And in the darkness
Furiously from east to west
The winds go forth to battle.
Oppressive rule-stirri,,gs Of revolt
But the souls of them that we're slain
And buried beneath the granite
Rise up again at midnight
And cry their final cry:
How long, how long the darkness,
How long wilt not avenge us?
For here our blood is written
On every inch of soil;
For here our cause is crushed
Under the hoofs of proud horsemcn
For here our cause is forgotten,
Dead in the utter darkness"
SO they cry all together,
And only the silence answers;
But the power of that silence
Has given them power to live
And they go out to the streets of the city
To speak to all hearts at midnight,
How the last seal will be loosened,
The final trumpet blown.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

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THE FLEET AS A VICTORY SYMBOL

TNHE dramatic instinct of patriotism
highly developed in most OF our citizens,
should enjoy at least a portion of the sat.
isfaction for which it longs when a great
squadron composed of numerous capital
ships of the navy returns to American
waters on the day after Christmas.
Inevitably both those who witness the
wondrous review at New York and those
privileged merely to read of it will feel
that here at last is concrete expression
of an instrument of victory revealed
speedily enough TO be in dramatic SYM
pathy with the sudden end of the war.
In the most impressive terms the spec.
tacle will spell final triumph. The navy
save for the minesweepers and transport
service, has superbly completed its work
The end will be inscribed in one mighty
chapter of war history when Admiral
Mayo's magnificent vessels steam into New
York Bay.
1t is fortunate that the navy, through
its mobility, is thus enabled to crafty our
feeling for situation" since the army
drama continues to be loosely knit. The
ideal armistice season would be accom-
panied by a monster parade of the over
seas doughboys. Conditions under which
the Civil War was fought permitted of
the kind of final staging in whi h mankind
delights, when short time after Lees
surrender the mammoth Grand Army re-
view was held in Washington.
AS 1t is now. and altogether unavo.dabIy
SO. the feast Of military victory must for
many months be chiefly mental, and the
clean-cut manifestation of the naval arm
has therefore rare and vivid virtue. 1t
gives pent-up emotions authentic and
tangible NOT .Jhment. the first which they
have really had. The fleet should be as
proud OF filling this significant function
as we are of 1t for all the iracles 1t has
wrought and all the sacrifices and hazards
ii has undergone.
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PSYCHO.THERAPY

CHELL sh, ok is one of the mysterious
~ maladies with which the physicians
nave had to deal during the war. It's VIC
Some have been made dumb, others have
suffered from amnesia or loss of memory,
still others have come to consciousness
after the first shock with no memory of
anything that happened since their first
youth and II ey have tried to lake up life
again where they left it ten or fifteen
years ago. Sometimes the most trivial
things have restored them to their normal
selves, and at other times they have failed
to respond to the most earnest efforts put
forth by their physicians.
For example, one man who had lost the
powers of speech put the lighted end Of a
cigarette in his mouth in a fit Of absent
mindedness, and astounded his attendants
by bursting into profanity. Thereafter he
had no difficulty in talking. Another man
who thought he was about twenty years old,
although he was nearer forty, and had a
wife and had lost little child, was re-
stored to his normal condition when some
one showed him one of the garments which
his baby had worn.
The surgeon general of the army has
lately reported one Of the most remark
able instances of recovery thus far on
record, for he says when the news that
the armistice had been signed reached a
hospital in France where $500 victims of
shock were under treatment more than
1000 Of them recovered at once and have
had no return of their old SYMPHONIC. "It
was the greatest experience in psyche
therapeutics known" he said. This is a
conservative description of il.
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statement would indicate that unstable
radicals in Europe were plotting to obtain
the cooperation of Mr.. Wilson in scheme
Of social revolution. But this is far from
true.
Socialism in Europe, as a matter OF fact
has an aspect not suggested by socialism
in America. 1t is an Intellectually directed
party, representative of vast masses OF
relatively conservative opinion and the
accepted medium of progressive legsla'
ton. The French Socialists fought through
the war bravely and desired the defeat of
Germany, although at times opposed to
some of the various cabinets.
The influence Of the Socialist party in
France is due in part to the intelligence Of
its leadership and in part to the fact that
life in the oder countries is stratifed in a
way that makes socialism the party of a
vast element heretofore disregarded by
politicians.
The conditions that make socialism aC-
ceptable to many millions in Europe do
not exist here. No party so definitely
founded in a class consciousness can de-
velop in this country so long as we remain
a nation of individualists, with freedom OF
opportunity of action everywhere to in
spire individualism.
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THE RUSSIAN RIDDLE

NNCE again the statesmen of the Allies
" have to admit grave diplomatic errors
in Russia. The cables are saying that an
adequate method for dealing with the
problems of .ussia will be the first and
perhaps the gravest concern of President
Wilson and the others Who are to have
a part in the conferences preliminary to
the formal assembly of the peacemakers
at Versailles.
With the Bolsheviki the Allies will not
and cannot deal. The Government at
Omsk is apparently disintegrating. Mean
while Russia, largely as the result of dip
lomatic laundering, remains a riddle and
menace to the order of the European con-
tinent.
The old-fashioned craftsmanship of the
Allied countries wouldn't lelp kerensky
until it was too late. 1t ha been charged
in the Senate of the United States that
friendly cooperation Of t c sort that might
have neutralized the menace of Bolshevism
was refused at a later date when it was
appealed for The whirlwind was left to
brew unhndered Now we have to deal
with the consequences, and no one knows
how to begin.