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New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
The Impatience of Theodore
Roosevelt

There is certain disposition to criti-
else Theodore Roosevelt for what is
termed bis ultra views regarding the
war. 1t is not all captious criticism.
Some Of it is thoughtful and not un-
friendly, with the idea that he has taken
an extreme position, that he has been
impatient and faultfnding. Much of the
picture is true. He has been impatient.
He has taken what may be called an
ultra position. 1t is true that he has
found fault.
But we should like to point out one
very distinct fact. Theodore Roosevelt
from the first day we entered the war
has stood unreservedly and whole-heart
edly for throwing the complete strength
OF the nation into the war. For that mat
ter he held this position, preached this
doctrine, long before we entered the war.
He preached the draft, he preached
preparation, he preached the sending of
the largest possible army to France
from the beginning. Now, the fact we
wish to point out is that the country is
not growing away from Theodore Roose
velt's position. 1t is growing toward it.
1t has been actually moving toward it of
late, very rapidly. This is true not
merely of the great mass of the people.
but OF their representatives at Washing
ton, and of a great number of news.
papers that were lukewarm, and perhaps
also of some members of the Cabinet and
of the President himself. Practically the
whole nation now is unreservedly for
throwing the whole strength of the ma
tion to the side of the Allies.
This was not true year ago TODAY.
although we had then been officially at
war with Germany for more than two
months. 1t was not true full six
months ago. We had almost said
that it was not true, in the fullest sense.
three months ago. To-day the whole ma
ton stands where Theodore Roosevelt
stood one year ago, and two years ago.
and three years ago-in point of fact,
ever since the day when by the sinking
of the Lusitania Germany declared itself
an outlaw and the enemy of civilization.
We do not mean to suggest that this
overwhelming national sentiment now is
the result of Theodore Roosevelt's i'm
passioned propaganda. We do not mean
to say that he was its sole leader. But
we DO wish to .say that he was very dis
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26

tinctly leader-a leader in the highest
and best sense--a man who saw, far
ahead of many others, what ought to be
and what must be, and then threw his
whole heart and soul into bringing ma
tion, and many reluctant minds, to his
point of view.
1t would be absurd to suggest that all
of the reluctant-minded have come to
Theodore Roosevelt's position because of
his arguments or because Of sympathy
with him or his views. But it is not be-
yond the bounds of probability that
many have come to unqualified ad
herence, unlimited adhesion, to the Allied
cause because Of his great weight with
the people and because of the fact, as it
daily became clearer, that the whole ma
ton was coming to see this war with the
same eyes, the same head and the same
heart as Theodore Roosevelt.
We repeat: He may have been impa-
tient; he may have found fault. But we
think that most Americans of whatever
party color, if they now have any re-
grets whatever, have these because we
could not earlier have come nearer to the
ideal set up year, or two years, or
three years ago by Theodore Roosevelt.
If this is not one Of the highest stand
ards of leadership we do not understand
the meaning of the term.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26

and l began to realize the danger that we
slapped our masks on our faces and Law
down fiat in the road
Hundreds of rattly tin cans Aying
through the air at once 'plomping' and
sizzling make one big constant rattle that
gets on the nerves. The trouble is that
you don't know when one is going to wcb-
BILE over into your exact position.
ut got too hot in the road and we de-
cided to do little manauvring. We
crawied along until We came to an aban-
doned French trench line, and this seemed
one of the most welcome places that ever
occupied. Every half minute it sounded
like one was rafting straight for that
trench.
"Then the enemy began to mix them with
high explosives The gas had been bad
enough, but this made it worse We de-
cided to make c dash for the Ford. We
reached it, cranked up, turned around and
dashed out of that gas area much faster
and much noisier than we went into it.
That noisy Tin Lizzie responsible for get
ting us into the trouble, made noise enough
to drown out even the high explosive as
we dashed for the rear.
"Down the road not far we met an am
munition train rattling along toward the
gas area from which we had just departed
Not a man had on his gas mask We
stopped the train and masked every man
before they ratified away into the darkness
through the poisoned air ahead"
The American soldier has been thorough
ly trained to take all precautions in gas
attacks. The two officers suffered for three
days with marked dizziness and heavy
heads, but fully recovered
Mustard gas affects the mucous men,
brane and after few hours the nose, eyes
and mouth begin to smart and burn If it
pentrates to the lungs it is usually serious.
An American private caught in a recen,
gas attack, now in hospital was turned
completely black by the effect of the gas.
His skin is the color of Chocolate" ne
gro. He will recover, but must peel"
deeply to become white again.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
July 18th

Nancy, the French city where children
study while German shells fall, is to
celebrate July 4th. So is all France. This
is tribute to America, the act Of a
warm and appreciative friend.
Why should not New York reciprocate
by celebrating July 14th, the great
French holiday that commentaries the
fall of the Bastille and the advent Of
liberty to France? Why should not
Yonkers and Montclair@and Chicago
and Denver and San Diego? Why should
not all America unite in throwing hats
in the air and cheering France, France
the sufferer, France the victor, France
the greatest hero Of the war?
We are beginning to know now what
France has done through four long
years. Hers has been the largest portion
Of tragedy from those first days of
August, 1914 Hers was the stricken,
invaded lan0. Hers mas Oeeu Vie III Ieae
est loss, in blood, in life. At the Marne
she beat back for all time and for all
our civilization the onrushing hordes of
the new barbarians. She did it with
inferior equipment, outnumbered, by
sheer force Of will, OF spirit, of immor-
tai, unconquerable courage.
1t is under Frenchman that we all
fight to-day. To deliver the soil OF
France from the invader is our first OBJ
jective We are proud that it is So.
Our hearts are full of gratitude to her
for all that she has done and does. Ad-
miration is on our lips.
Let US say what we feel on the 18th
of July from one end Of America to the
other Three cheers for France, brave
and beloved friend!
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26

to the adequacy of the defence Of the
l. w. w. leaders at Chicago? While tens
of thousands of young women and others
are combing the country in the prosecu-
tion Of the war savings thrift cam
for high emergency $4,000 is a con-
siderable sum to be raised in a country
that is endeavoring with all its energies
to make effective assistance in helping
to save civilization.
There is time for free speech and
there is a time for war.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
Looters at Odds

To the victor belongs the spoils But
the rub comes when there are several vic
tors. Human nature makes the allotment
Of booty among the partners in interest
very dangerous process.
Turkey and Bulgaria have fallen out
over the disposition of the territory sur
rendered by Rumania as the price Of
peace. In the Reichstag Saturday For
eign Secretary Won Kihlmann admitted
the seriousness of the clash. "The ques-
tion of the Dobrudja," he said, cor of the
compensation due to Turkey, if this ques-
tion is settled in the Bulgarian sense, has
in high degree excited public opinion in
both countries, which are looking with
keen attention for every expression of
the Central Powers"
Won Kuhlmann was foresighted enough
to stipulate when the Rumanian treaty
was drawn that the Dobrudja should
pass into the control, not of Bulgaria,
but of the Quadruple Alliance. Dissatis-
faction with this settlement has forced a
change of ministry at Sofia. The north
ern Dobrudja was taken from Bulgaria
and given to Rumania by the Treaty OF
Berlin, at the close of the Russo Turkish
War. The southern strip was annexed
when Bulgaria was overwhelmed in tho
Second Balkan War. All this territory is
Bulgarian. The Bulgarian government is
demanding its restoration just as vehc-
mently as it is demanding the cession of
Macedonia
But here the Turk comes in At the
end Of the First Balkan War Bulgaria ap-
propriated large part of Thrace Tur-
key in Europe was cut down to narrow
strip of territory encircling Constanti-
nople If the Balkan map is to be altered
to Bulgaria's advantage, why shouldn't it
be altered to Turkeys advantage? Why
shouldn't Thrace be "restored.r as we'll
as the Dobrudja?
The collapse of Russia has fired Turk
ish ambitions. The Porte has taken
Russia's place as the leading power in
the Caucasus, in the Black Sea and Cas-
plan Sea districts, i'll Persia and in what
used to be Russian Turkestan 1t is
AoNAAlS CAdlHi " luG CIlIued. III cN
poets to dominate the Black Sea. and
wants Germany to turn over to it the
sequestered Russian Black Sea fleet.
Pan-Turanian propaganda has made ex-
traordinary progress in the Near East.
The Mahometan populations there have
been solidified to remarkable degree by
the utter breakdown of Russian power.
The Brest-Litovsk and Rumanian
treaties opened a path for Germany to
Siberia and the heart of Asia But they
have excited other cupidities than her
own. The puppet states allied with her
must be placated and humored. Austria
Hungary wants Poland Bulgaria and
Turkey want something equally substan-
tial out Of the great divide
Can the Eastern spoils be apportoned
without shaking the Quadruple Alliance
to pieces? 1t is delicate problem for
German diplomacy, which has never been
noted for tact and self denial in the dis
tribution Of military loot
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
The Hearst Within Our Gates
| Issued by The Vigilantes J

Issued ny Inc VlGhantesJ
No. VI
Hearst Opposed Sending Troops Abroad
Stripping our country Of men, money
and food is dangerous policy .
Every shipment of food and military
supplies from this time on is blow
at own safety
"New York American" April II,
1917.
Mr. Hearst controls the following pub
Hcations, with a total average daily cir
culation of 2572,s85 for the Hearst news
papers, and total average circulation per
issue of 2,2sl ,627 for the Hearst maRa-
zines.
The New York American
The New York Evening Journal
The Chicago Herald and Examiner
The Chicago American
The Boston Advertiser
The Boston American
The Atlantis Georgian
The Atlanta American
The San Francisco Examiner
The Los Angeles Examner
The New York Deutsches Journal (diseou.
tinued April 21. 1919
Mega=inss:
The Cosmopolitan
Good Housekeeping
Harper's Bazxr
Hearsts
Motor
Puck
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
Mustard Gas
Desperate Adventure in a Tin Lizzie
By Wilbur Forrest
Copyright. 1918. by The Tribune Association
" yITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
" FORMING PORTION OF FRENCH

w 1ITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
w FORMING PORTION OF FRENCH
ARMY CORPS IN PICARDY.-
Running into gas attack in noisy auto
mobile in blissful ignorance of the situa-
tion until the pungent odor of mustard
begins to creep into your nostris is one Of
the war experiences which an American
captain--a doctor from Holyoke, Mass
says he doesn't care to repeat in this war.
Add to the above your best imagination
Of an inky black night narrow shell-holed
road near the crossroad entrance to shat
tered front line village and you will have the
stage setting for the doctors first expert
ence with gas and high explosive as he told
1t to The Tribune correspondent to-day.
The enemy threw $1,000 missiles charged
with gas and punctuated the performance
with an ample quantity of high explosives
on the night in question. Here is the doc
tors story:
sWe we're bowling along over the road
with our motor making nearly as much
noise as the din ahead in and around the
first line about half-mile away when the
air began to give off peculiar smell. The
major, in the car with me, hadn't noticed
it, so I waited until we passed a group Of
soldiers with their gas masks on. Then
yelled "Gas!" About 800 yards ahead
heavy she'll broke and we stopped the car.
Much to our amazement, after the noise Of
the car had stopped, we found ourselves in
the middle of a gas bombardment. Shells
seemed to be hitting everywhere in an area
Of about ten acres, and they were different
from any shells I had ever heard before.
They dropped by singles and in fiocks.
"a gas shell comes through the air with
a sound something like tin can would
make if you filled it half-full of rocks
and threw it as hard as possible. Others
come through the air with gurgle, or per-
haps more like some one nearby was gar
Cling his throat. They strike the ground
with plomp,' but without any other noise
to speak Of. Then they 'sizzle' like escap-
ing steam from an engine. This last noise
is the gas coming out, and it tells you to
put on your gas mask and do it quick
They were falling so fast when the major
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
The Real MARTYR
(From The Chicago Neps,

(From The Chicago Ne.cs)
mother was showing her small son the
painting of the martyrs being thrown to
the lions, and in solemn words was trv;nr
to impress him with the terribleness of tbs
ahair, when suddenly he exclaimed: "Ob
look mamma, there's one poor little lion
away behind. He won't get a bite.p
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
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s~s Associated Press is exclusively entitled 70 t'e u
sr rxx,bcstion dispatches cre1iteo 10 u
not Otherwise credited in this paper and a'so ui' ~
oov,s Of spoutsneous origin published herein
An raxhts Of republication OF all other matter hes"
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
Let's Make 1t the Last Tin.

tFram The Chicago News,
WIN the slowing up of the German drive
" IS about time for Won Hindenbure to die
again.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
The Acid Test

tFrom The Emporsa Garesfe)
man should not be considered fas g
old ss long as he has perfect confidence Y
belt.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-04-04
EMERSON

Floyd and Virgil Warm entertain
ed company form Riverdale Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Clark spent Sun
day at their daughters Mrs. A.
Maurer.
Fred Siefka, wife and baby, Mrs.
day with J. II. Peters and family.
II. Raines and family spent Sun
r. Wardell and Arnald Noack spent
Sunday at the home of their mother
Mrs. H. Siefka.
Lewis Mann entertained relatives
from Alma over Sunday.
Elmer White and family spent Sun
day at Mr.. Myers.
Mr.. Shillington has moved onto the
Mrs. Lowell place.
Jack Walker has moved on the
farm where Mr.. Shillington lived the
past year
The Mission circle will have their
annual thanks Offering dinner Friday
April at Milton Presler's.
The young peoples S. SIS class
met at the home of Mrs Reed Thurs
day evening.
Considerable whooping coughs in
the neighborhood yet.
Carl Sefka spent the latter part
of the week in Saginaw.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-04-04
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PhonsN

DR.. ID. A. Curtiss has purchased the
residence on Sexton street Of Lee
Watson.
W f. Swope and family Of River
dale were Sunday guests of the for
mer's sister, Mrs. Thos. Crawford,
and family.
Miss Susan Zubler, who is teaching
in Saginaw, spent Easter with her
parents, II. j. Zubler and wife.
Clarence Emery made a buiness
trip to St Louis Friday.
Miss leila VanAlstine Of Riverdale
was the guest of Marguerite Crawford
Sunday evening.
Friends here have received the an
nouncement of the safe arrival in
France of Earl Guthrie and Irving
Snyder.
The concert given by the Alma Coll
lege glee club in the Cong1 church
last Tuesday evening was well at
tended and the audience was greatly
pleased with the excellent program
presented
MISS Ihelma Stevens returned
Sunday to the Ypsilanti Normal after
spending the spring vacation with her
parents here.
Mrs. G.. Doane and little daughter
Of Gladwin came Friday for a visit
with her parents, John Allen and wife.
Easter was appropriately observed
with special services at the Congre-
gational church Sunday. The church
was made beautiful with decorations
Of cut flowers and foliage and flags
while the pulpit was draped with the
service flag. A large chorus choir
under the direction of Miss Linda
knoup rendered several anthems. In
strumental music was furnished by
Miss Ethel Sabin. pianist; Miss
Gladys Sabin, organist; Mrs. Chester
Jenkins and Mr. Clartnce Hopkins,
violinists, and Mr.. A. Stetzler, cor
netist. A vocal solo by Miss Knoup
and a violin solo by Mr.. Jenkins were
especially enjoyed. Emil Nagel, one
Of our soldier boys, gave an interest
ing talk after which Rev Brown
closed the program with short Eas-
ter screen.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-04-04
BRECKENRIDGE

H. J. Zubler was in Saginaw on
business Friday.
Miss Flo Mcleod of Alma spent
the week end with her parents here.
Miss Roberta Reed spent Easter
with friends in st. Louis
Miss Erma Gates of Alma college
was the guest of Miss Ellen Doty
over Easter vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Watson and son,
Don, motored to Elsie Saturday to
spend Sunday with relatives.
Mrs. George Randall and daughter,
Gladys, moved Saturday from the
Selleck house into Mrs. II. Sections
house.
Mrs. Thos. Crawford spent Friday
in Saginaw.
Mr. and Mrs Charles Hynes and
daughter, Lanai, of Wheeler were in
town Saturday.
Miss Ilah Modge spent the week
end in Saginaw the guest of her sis
ter, Lucille.
Miss Grace Falor of Alma visited
friends here last week.
The Misses Ellen and Edith Doty,
Nellie Milligan, Marguerite Crawford
and Gladys Sabin, who are attending
Alma college spent the weekend with
their parents here.
Fay f. Anderson who is a member
Of the Alma college glee club is with
the club this week on a tour through
the thumb.
Miss Dorothea Swope Of Riverdale
spent the weekend with her cousin,
Miss Marguerite Crawford.
The Ladies' Aid society Of the Con-
gregational church gave their annual
Easter Tea in Zubler's hall Friday
evening.
Bertrand f. Sibley of Ann Arbor
came to Breckenridge 20 spend the
Easter vacation with friends.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Martin w
Muscott Tuesday, March 26th, an
eleven pound daughter.
Mrs. Wellington Cruson of Saginaw
was the guest of Breckenridge rela-
tives last Tuesday.
Mrs. w. 7. Warren Of Bay City,
Missionary President OF the Saginaw
District, spoke in the Congregational
church Sunday evening.
Miss Blanche Bailey was in Alma
Sunday evening calling on friends.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-04-04
If | Were a Farmer

If | were a farmer | would keep at
hand a few reliable medicines for
minor ailments that are not so ser
ious as to require the attention Of a
physician, such as Chamberlain's Collie
and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel
cocplaints.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for
coughs, colds and Group.
Chamberlain's Linment for sprains
bruises and rheumatic pains.
Chamberlain's Tablets for stomach
troubles, biliousness and constipation
This would require an outlay OF
only Sl.10. BY having these articles
at hand il would often save the trou.
BILE Of trip to town in the busiest
season or at night, and would enable
me to treat slight ailments as soor
as they appear, and thereby avoid
the more serious diseases that so Of.
ten follow.
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WHEREAS: There has been a petition filed
| in the office Of the City Clerk of the City of
Alma. Michigan. praying for the vacation,
discontnuance and adjustment of all that
portion of the alley lying between lots IS and
90 Hall Sharrar Riverside Add. City Of
Alma, Michigan. public alley OF said City
of Alma, said petition being duly signed by
all of the adjoining and abuting property
owners on said Alley and,
WHEREAS: BY unanimous vote Of the
Common Council of the said city Of Alma,
taken at the regular session of the Common
Council AT the council chambers in said City
of Alma. on Tuesday the 22nd day of January.
A. ID 1918, the Street Committee was in
structed TO Investigate the matter of vacating
discontinuing and abolishng said alley, and,
WHEREAS: In pursuance of such instruc-
tons the said Street Committee have made
such investigation and have reported 20 the
Common Council that it appears that the
puplic will not be injured Inconvenience
nor public travel in said city become impeded
by the discontinuance or adjustment of said
alley, but on the contrary thereof. that the
public interest in said city OF Alma will be
and become benefited thereby.
NOW THEREFORE BE TT RESOLVED. BY
the Common Council of the City OF Alma,
Michigan. regularly called and duly in session
that they deeem It proper and advisable 20
vacate. discontinue and abolish said alley be-
tween Lots 6S and 90 Hall Sharrar River
side Add. City Of Alma, Michigan. and.
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, BY said
Common Council Of the said City Of Alma.
Michigan. in session as aforesaid, that the
m. said day at the council chambers in said
City Hall in the said City Of Alma. Michigan
be and whore the said Common Council of
the said City Of Alma VIII meet for the pur-
pose of hearing any and all objections that
may be made TO the vacation, disseminating
and adjustment Of said alley. and.
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, BY said
Common Council Of the City of Alma in ses-
sion aforesaid. that due notice OF said meet
ing of said Common Council for the purpose
of hearing said objections together with a
copy Of this Resolution be published in the
Alma Record newspaper pristed and pub
lished and circulated within the said City Of
Alma said publication To continue in said
newspaper once in each week for four con-
secutive weeks from and after the date of the
adoption of the Resolution
Dated Alma, Michigan. March 18th. A. ID.
1918.
CARL =. GALLAGHER.
City Clerk.
u. W. ADAMS.
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