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New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

whole nasty mess Of accusation and sus-
picion in two articles of three or four col
umns each--no, not the whole, but as
much as it's respect for the law of libel
will permit it to print. And on May 2
"The New York Times" utilizes this same
material on which to build it's accusa-
tions against the Aircraft Production
Board of "a gigantic conspiracy" and
clamoring for an inquiry by "a Federal
grand jury"
1t will hereafter be shown how far the
charges discriminating Mr. Borglum are
supported But this at least seems clear,
that, while Mr.. Borglum's wild accusa-
tions were being made public by the War
Department and exploited in the pro-Ad-
mnistration "World" and the pro-Ad-
ministration "Times," the accusations
against Mr.. Borglum were apparently
suppressed. They do not seem to have
reached the President, for he seemed to
continue his confidence in his unofficial
Investigator until April Is, and it is not
until May 1O-that is, six or seven weeks
after giving out Mr.. Borglum's defama-
tory charges-that the accusations
against Mr.. Borglum are revealed.
1t is a tangled skein.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Reprisals


began to talk of bombing open Ger
man towns in reprisal for London air
raids a pharisaic outburst in this country
denounced the bare, brutal thought; the
welkin rang with the righteous protests of
the safe and superior. But We are not
three thousand miles away from the war
to-day; rumor persists that American pris-
oners are being cruelty treated in German
camps, and the cry for reprisals bids fair
to be as loud as was the protest against
them, the clamorers insisting,
though on some new discovery, that reprisal
in this sense is not actuatcd by feelings of
anger or revenge, but by justifiable desire
to protect our men, This is precisely
what reprisai has always been. "Retala-
tion," reads our own Instructions for the
Armies of the United States, will never be
resorted to as measure of mere revenge,
but only as a means of protective retribu-
ton" England has but recently notified
the German government of her intention to
put measures of reprisal into operation in
which English prisoners have been receiv-
ing in German camps, but the motive s
nothing so puerile as spite. The only pos
sibe argument against reprisals is that
they do not accomplish their purpose; if
the employing of German prisoners on work
within the nineteen mile zone behind the
firing line does not force the German goy-
ernment to adhere to it's agreement Of April.
1917, in regard to British prisoners. then
this particular act of reprisal will have
proved useless, but no amount of moral
specuating decide the matter.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Tennyson Foresaw Poison Gas
(From The Montreal star

tFrons The Montreal STAR
Most people are aware that Alfred Tenny-
sor predicted aerial warfare in mis- Lock
sley Hail." but how many know that he
also predicted the use of gas in warfare?
The first mentioned prediction is the well
known couplet:
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and
there rain'd CHASTITY dew
From the nations airy navies graphing in
the central blue"
The second prediction is the penultimste
verse of the famous poem and is in these
words:
Comes vapor from the margin, blacken-
ing over heath and holt
Crammng all the blast before it, in its
breast thunderbot."
But these are not the only prophecies OF
the late Poet Laureate. In "The Princess"
he foreshadowed the women land workers
when he said:
the land, he understood for
miles about was till'd by women"
And again:
and close behind her stood eight
daughters of the plough, stronger than
men; huge women blowzed with health and
wind, and rain and labor
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
For Gree" Political Teaching

Announcement is made that the
wealthy patroness Of liberalism who has
financed semi-socialistic weekly in New
York-very successfully, it appears
will try another venture. This will be a
new and "free" college of political sci
ence, unburdened by college presidents or
trustees tainted by reaction or associa
tion with ''the interests" The college
faculty will run itself, and its professors
may not be summarily fired" at the be-
hest of some grouchy old money-bags on
the board
1t is chroniced that of expenditures
"90 per cent will be for brains and 10 per
cent for administration" We take this
to mean that the president will not be
lodged in a 5000. 900 house while the fac
ulty is allowed the privileges of very
modest cottages.
We cordially welcome the experiment,
if only as protest against the fatuous
introduction of the "star" system into
American scholastic life. No one ever
heard of president" of Oxford or
bonne. And it is to be noted that
scholarship and research seem to thrive
in an inverse proportion to the promi-
nence, power and emoluments of this
peculiarly American institution.
We doubt not that the reaction against
it would have come long ago but for a
curious fact. The public victims of the
System" are the hearings and their like,
whose exit excites scant sympathy frcm
more sober thinking folk. We hear little
of cases like that Of Simon Patten or Pro-
fessor Veblen, and not at all of hundreds
of lesser Sights to men Of Independent
mind. The real bale and bane has been
the subtle sitting of the collegiate mind,
and this the larger public understands
only in the vaguest way.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Not Worth One Grenadier

When Bismarck, disgruntled over involun-
tary retirement from the chancellorship in
1890, publicly confessed TO the infamous
game Of treacherous duplicity he had played
against Austria Hungary for the period
1884'90, the Germans were practically
unit in stating that their ally's Balkan
policy was "not worth the bones of one
Pommeranian grenadier," an expression
used before by Bismarck in relation to the
Balkan situation as whole.
Germany was not exposed to any danger
of being crushed when the Iron Chancellor
concluded in 1884 with the St. Petersburg
government treaty which assured Russian
neutrality in case Germany and France
came to hostilities, and German neutrality
in the event of Russian-Austrian war
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Papered Germans
By Captain Fl. B. G. Pollard
ONDON, May From March 1, 1918.

II ONDON, May From March 1, 1918.
the Berlin housewife has been faced
with new peril for no paper or
cardboard or scraps thereof may be In
cluded in the dustbin under a penalty Of
s5 for each offence!
The Industrious German has made the
best of bad job. His natural genius for
the manufacture of inferior, non-durable
and inexpensive rubbish has come we'll to
the fore, and the paper fibre industry has
advanced wonderfully, paying enormous
dividends-on paper After the war there
is no doubt that there will be some attempt
to food the worlds markets with these un-
desirable substitutes for good natural wool.
silk and cotton goods; but for the present
there is ample demand for them in Ger
many, where any wbven material that will
cover the nakedness of the people is badly
needed
At an exhibition of fibre and paper ma
terials organized in Berlin by the Imperial
Clothing Office all kinds of goods were
shown The best of these were the
Stitched" or "wadded" clothes, consisting
of layers of several kinds of paper fabrics
stitched together in close mesh by ma
chinery. The inside layer is made of
paper wool, but though soft and warrn the
clothes are expensive and have a deplora-s
BILE tendency to dissolve if caught in
shower of rain.
Quilts, dressing gowns, imitation fowered
silk jackets and waistcoats, underclathes
and even paper oilskins for submarine
crews, were shown. large section was
devoted to the paper novelty" lines, where
"tastefully designed and decorated' rub
bish of all kinds was exhibited. The mill
tary section displayed paper saddles and
harness (for export rather than for use in
the German army, paper sand bags, towels
and variety Of pressed cellular cardboard
cases which are said to be nearly as good
as wood. Besides these but useful
goods, soft flowing mixed fabrics of arti-
fetal silk and paper-sutable for ladies
and children's dresses"-(to quote the Der
liner Tagebatt' of March 5, 1879, were
also shown
These goods are all duly praised by the
press, but the preference shown by the Ger
man people for real material-when they
get it's traceable in another adver-
tisement column: sef
For sale, batiste silk 1879 per metre.
Japanese silk 16 /6 metre width. Crepe de
Chine 30/."
These figures speak for themselves.
The German breads a government levy
upon his slender boards of old clothes, for
a Berlin paper has revealed a government
plot to seize all male civilian clothing, leav-
ing each person two suits and no more.
Both the "Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger," March
6, and the "Deutsche Tageszetung," March
6, hope that these steps will not be neces-
sary-but they do not appear optimistic.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
An Opportunity for the Very Rich

No good American likes to read of
Liberty bonds being sold below par. 1t
may be quite unimportant The utmost
decline thus far has been small. 1t is no
doubt simply barometer of the money
market. But the effect, none the less. is
unpleasant.
Dozens of plans of stabilizing have
been proposed. But as Secretary Nc
Adoo remarked in his testimony, any at
tempt by the government to "peg" the
price would be simply to make the bonds
a demand loan. And this is not advis
able
The government cannot do it. No
single individual could do it, not even
Mr. Rockefeller or Henry Ford. But it
occurs to US that possibly an unofficial
agreement among our very rich men
might achieve the end desired. Suppos
ing a hundred of our richest men. includ-
ing the presidents of our great banking
institutions, were to say publicly, or lust
among themselves:
We pledge our fortunes to the
maintenance of Liberty bonds at par"
These men could do what it would be
unwlse for the government itself to do;
1nat Is, they could simply ask any firm
or individual offering Liberty bonds for
sale the reason for that sale and the
name Of the bona hde sellers. Without
this information they could ask that no
broker undertake such sale. Where
perfectly good reasons existed tho hond.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
In Memoriian

(From The Westminster Gasette)
Captain T. p c. Wilson, Sherwood Forester
Killed in action, March 24)
The larks are happy in the sky,
The little lambs are gay,
And under blossoming orchard trees
The children shout and play
Hid in the hazel coppice green
The love-mad thrushes sing:
All Earth's unheeding things are glad
For glory of the Spring.
Be gay, you silly innocent lambs.
For he who loved you we'll,
That you may frisk in quiet fields
Has paid the price of He'll.
You thrushes, drench with song divine
Your leafy solitudes;
His voice is stilled that you may nest
unharmed in English woods.
And you, you little children. plav:
How should we wish you sad?
For he was young, and he has given
His life to keep you glad.
TERESA HooLEY.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Unfit to March
tFrom Euerybodu's maoosi,e

tFron Eoc7ybodU's Aa0dsfne)
United States Senator Howard Suther-
land, CT West Virginia, tells story about
mountain youth who visited recruiting
Office in the Senator's state for the purpose
Of enlisting in the regular army. The ex-
amining physician found the young man
sound as dollar, but that he had fiat feet.
'.I'm sorry" said the physician, but III
have to turn you down. You've got nav
feet"
The mountaineer looked sorrowful. mo
way for me to get in it, then - he inquired
~ guess not. With those fiat feet o.
yours you wouldn't be able to march even
Ave miles"
The youth from the mountains studied
moment. Finally he said: I'm tell you
why ! hate this so darned bad. You see.
walked nigh on to one hundred and ntsee9
miles over the mountains to git here, ana
gosh, how hate to walk backl
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Outraged DupHcity
By Gustav Miller

A FTER they had denounced the French
~ Premier Clemenceau as a liar and
"A cast suspicious on Count Czernin,
the Germans, especially the German news
papers, and most of all the pan-German
publications, breathed indignation because
Emperor Charles of Austria, in March of
last year, had sent to his brother-n- n-law,
Prince Sixtus of Bourbon Parma, letter
reading in part:
II beg to convey privately and unofti.,
cially to President Poincare that l will
support by every means and by exertng
all my personal influence with my allies
Frances just claims regarding Alsace~
Lorraine"
The apologies, made by the Austrian
press to appease the Germans, that Emperor
Charles had acted under the influence Of
his consort, and also Charless own insin-
insinuation that the confessor of EN-
press Zta had forged the letter, were alto
gether super1uous.
Charles had two good arguments, accord
ing to the official German standard of sim
cerity and honesty.
First, he could quote the former German
Chancellor, Won Bethmann- Hollweg, who
tried to justify the violation of Belgian
neutrality by dcnouncing solemn and
binding treaty "scrap of paper" And
the outlook of the Dual Monarchy, in the
spring of 1917, when the Sixtus letter was
written, was as dark as dark can be, so
dark indeed that Austria was thousand
times more justified in applying the claw
of necessity" than Germany was in August,
1914.
Second, the Austrian Emperor could
argue that he followed only the example
of Bismarck, who rhapsodized on, by
Charless bitterest critics, for the German
Russian Rueckverscherungs (Reinsurance)
Treaty, which was praised by the Prussan
junkers and their organs as the accomplish
ment of the highest type of farseeing
craftsmanship. Even radical German news
papers justified it as a measure Of precau-
ton
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Mention Verboten

is It Was edited in
"The Nev York Ameyi-
can."
The Metropoli-
tan Magazine and
'Collior's Magazine
and a Nezc York
n e7cspapor have con-
sistently upheld the
war. :"
Golfers" h a s
been attacked by
Mr.. Creel. .
He also has attacked
The Metropolitan
and q Nez0 York
" e1cspaper."
"All of these quo
tations and many
others like them
may be found in re-
cent issues of a Nesv
York Newspaper"
"By turning to a
Nezo York Nezcs-
paper of May s, 1918,
Postmaster Burleson
will find an ardent
tribute made by the
former German cor
respondent of the
'Koelnische Zeitung'
to Mr.. Hearst and to
Mr.. Hearst's editor
in-chief, Mr.. Arthur
Brisbane, for having
been auxiliaries of
valued influence to
Germany"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Why She Couldn't Spell
(From The Boston Transcrspt)

Old Mrs. Donahue managed to get along
in the world in spite of her educational
deficiencies. One day she was called upon
by lawyer to sign rather important
paper.
You sign it yourself, young man, an
IN make me mark" said the old woman.
Since me eyes gave out I'm not able to
write wurrd"
How do you spell ?" he asked, his pen
poised above the proper place.
Spell 1T whativer way ye Place" said
Mrs. Donahue promptly. "Since l lost me
teeth there's not wurrd in the iwurrld
can SPELL"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
A Stranger, He Took Us In
tFrom The Columbus Dispatch,

UlSDufCh)
1t seems impossible that our bewhiskered
and benevolent-looking old Indian guest
Rabndranath Tagore, whom we dined and
wined as far as his religion would permit
US to do few years ago when he was
over here plotting with German spies
against our neutrality, could be associated
with those rude gunmcn revolutionists who
mussed things up in court at San Francisco
the other day, but the evidence is against
him.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

could be taken over. But we imagine
the total offerings would be relatively
small.
This seems to us opportunity to per-
form real patriotic service, and one
that would be highly creditable to the
doers.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

From the te1t of Mr..
Roosevelt's reply to Post
master-Generdl Burleson.
The Metropolitan
Magazine and Col
lier's Magazine and
The New York Trib-
une have consistently
upheld the war :"
"'Collier's' has been
attacked by Mr.. Creel.
He also has
attacked the Metro
politan' and The New
York Tribune"
Cali of these quo
tations and many
others like them may
be found in recent
issues of The New
York Tribune.
"By turning to The
New York Tribune of
May 8, 1918, Post
master Burleson. will
find an ardent tribute
made by the former
German correspon-
dent of the "Koel-
nische Zeitung" to
Mr.. Hearst, and to
Mr.. Hearst's editor
in-chief, Mr.. Arthur
Brisbane, for having
been auxiliaries OF
valued influence to
Germany. :"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

That treaty was in force while the Triple
Alliance, to which the GermanAustran
Alliance had been enlarged by the accession
Of Italy in 1883, was in force
In the course of controversy between
the Berlin "Vossische Zeitung" and the
Hamburger Neueste Nachrichten" as to who
was responsible for the estrangement of Rus
sia and Germany and for the RussoFranco
Entente Cordiale, Prince Bismarck stated in
the Hamburg paper of October "a, 1896:
"a good understanding between Russia
and Germany was, however, restored at
Skiernewiece soon after the accession of
Alexander III Gear of Russia), and con-
tinued unaltered until 1890. Down to
that year both empires were completely
agreed that if either Of them were at
tackled the other would remain 'benevo-
lently neutral.
cat the time of the Crimean War Rus
sa found herself confronted by France,
England and Italy, while Austria threat,
ened to adopt similar attitude, should
Russia refuse certain cHYcessions, and
Prussia, the last of the Russojhile Powers,
was, with difficulty, * trained from com
pleting the anti-Russian coalition. We
do not say that a repetition of such a
complication is probable, but we find it
intelligible that so powerful and i'm
pregnable state as Russia should think:
We must try to retain in Europe a trust
worthy ally"
VO CQuSe TOT SnQn7G
Later Bismarck appended the interesting
statement that the treaty was only con-
cealed in Difference to the wishes of Russia.
In this respect the Hamburger Mach
richten" of October 81 1896, said:
"The Russo German negotiations of
which spoke belong to history and to
the archives. From the beginning there
was no need for to keep them
secret. The secrecy was due solely to the
desire Of Russia, and the situation from
which that wish formerly now no
publication would have been in the inter
est of Germany, since for US there was
for shame in the whole affair,
but, on the contrary, good reason for all
peace-loving partisans of the Empire, to
look back upon the occurrence with salts
faction. :.
"The assertion that the Russo German
agreement which lapsed in 1890 was in
compatible with loyalty to the Triple Alli-
ance is baseless in the eyes of all who
are acquainted with the agreement"
1t should be noted that the Russo Ger
man reinsurance treaty was concluded be-
hind the back of Germany's allies. 1t was
an agreement which made the Austro- Ger
man Alliance superfuous. Nevertheless,
"there cause for shame in the whole
affair" That was the opinion not only OF
Bismarck and the Hamburger Neueste
Nachrchten," but Of the overwhelming ma
jority of the German people. What cause
for shame, one must ask, is in the Sixtus
letter, according to the German standard
of morals?
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
A Week of Verse
Whom the Gods Love

From The Dosioncr)
4 II, NOT because Life is so fair
~ And Death so gray
Do we lament you over there,
Dead yesterday!
Until the end your world was whole
No vacant place
Tormented you and haunted you;
No well-loved face
Appeared to you in ghostly dream
Harassed by pain,
Exposed, on some grim battlefield,
To wind and rain.
see you, smiling as you march,
Your bright head high,
Along flag -emblazoned street
Beneath blue sky.
I see your beardless boyish mouth,
Determined sweet,
| feel the breeze, soft from the south.
And hear the beat
Of drums that throbbingly mark time;
The Avenue
Repeats the echo like a rhyme
But not for you'll
.
| ceased to pray that you might stay
Or here or there:
l came to see that Life is gray
And Death most fair!
You went while living still was sweet
Without stain,
Nor ever learned that Youth is feet,
That Love is Pain!
ELIZABETH NEWPORT HEPBURN.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Here We Rebuild Clock Towers

From The Philadelphia Public Ledger
They are scrubbing the outer walls of
City. Hall. That is as deep as the cleaners
ever get.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy
(Frons PoetryD
Mans music changes
With the changing of his hours.
Though birds trill the same sonos
They trilled on Petra's towers.
Always
From olden Railways
he led to beauty's ample rooms
Gut to her rain-drenched gardens frond
ou' 10 her suns beyond
beyond.
AM did we call his art whim,
Before we woke to him?
High above war
His music, rising past the stars.
Is heard at heavens door.
Heaven opens to the soul of song,
And unto art that never ends
The soul of song ascends.
AGNES LEE.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
America

QFrom The Pagan
extravagant ~.~4
And that your women were too free and
open;
That your children had no respect for age
And that you gave no thought to the past.
They said you had no artistic sense
And accused you of setting up an altar
To the Almighty Dollar America!
And they smiled when your name was men,
toned.
But yesterday
There marched an army down the street.
An army Of brave-eyed men with boyish
mouths,
Straight-backed and proud in their new
found mission,-
The saving of the world!
And yesterday somewhere
at
A white face foated
With empty eyes upturncd to an unseeing
sky.
ana yesterday in barren field
mere boy fell from his perilous
work on high,-
While great ships heavy with substance
Plough stolidly through the deep
O America!
You are the hope of the world to-day!
GRACE C. BOSTWICK
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

The Assccf Is exclusively entitled to the use
,r ynu,bcation Of all dispatches credited to II or
not otherwise credited in this and also the LOCAL
OF spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights OF republication OF all other matter hefeih
reserved
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

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TRIBUNE with absolute safetor II dissatisfaction re-
suits In any The TRIBUNE guarantees 10 pS IT,
We make good promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

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AT THE LASALLE.

Mary Picllford, who still heads
the list of popular screen stars, is
featured at the LaSalle theater to-
day and tomorrow in a charming
western romance entitled "M'Liss. -
This delightful idyl of the days of
40 ranks as one of the best of the
tales written by Bret Harte, with
the California setting that he knew
so we'll The success of this piece
as a legitimate drama in bygOne
years is a matter Of theatrical rec
ord. The picture follows closely
the literary and stage versions. and
the love of this little mountain maid
for the polished school master still
forms the basis Of the entertaining
plot. The role is one that offers
manifold opportunities for the di-
minutive Miss Pickford and permits
her once more to put and gallop
about with flying cu~ls-which is
the way the world first knew and
loved Little Mary" "A cast of UNI
usual excellence is seen in her sup
port. Such favorites as Tom Neigh
an. Theodore Roberts. Tully Mar
shall and Winifred Greenwood are
prominent.