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New-York tribune., 1918-08-24
On Taking Chances

Everybody has to take chance to
have any fun in life-to have any safety
in life, you might with accuracy say.
But there are sensible chances and
foolish chances, and the risk that the
Sheepshead Bay Canoe Club took in
towing strings of laden canoes in the
open ocean distinctly belongs in the
latter class.
A canoe is one of the safest craft
afoat, in it's own waters, in proper
hands. 1t is one of the most dangerous
in a seaway for any one not a crack
swimmer and prepared for an offshore
wrestle in the water. The route that
these canoes took brought them clear
into the open sea. There was nothing
nearer to the southeast than the coast of
Africa - excepting Ambrose Channel
Lightship and the Uboats. The tragedy
that happened, one of the worst pleasure
boating catastrophes these waters have
ever seen, might with luck have been
long postponed. But it was inherent in
the situation and the risk was beyond,
reason. <
A dory is a bad and risky boat in
rapnls; it is the safest thing at1oat in an
ofIShore gale. A canoe shotfds be kept to
it's own job and not asked to undertake
work for which it was never designed.
That is the moral of these unfortunate
and needless deaths in the pursuit of
pleasure.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-24
lnuinc;b[e

r OUNAlN is ruined, Rheims is ruined:
but
The noble lore which dgnified the
first
Is only the more vitality dispersed,
Whilst in each Allied home. each trench
and hut,
From the North Sea to Palestine and Kut
The spirit of the other safes thirst,
Which, for the Teuton, haunts him thouob
Immersed
In beer and blood and mocks his boastful
strut.
Belgians were scattered by the feral fail
Swung by the threshers Of the Battle Lord.
The flesh and steel of all tho French NAV
To stem the onslaught Of a hestial horde.
But Belgium is force no man csn isu
And that which France is laughs at mortal
sword.
RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-24

more likely is that the attempt will be
to turn the Germans out Of this region,
out Of their great salient facing Paris,
by attacks upon the sides, attacks made
north Of the Disc and of the Vesle, in
Picardy and Artois, on the one hand, and
in Champagne, on the other. Unless all
signs fail Mangin is about at the limit
Of his progress, and the Germans, hold
ing their old line, from the Vregny
Heights, northeast of Scissors, to the
Disc, below La Fere, will be able to
stand firm.
On the other hand, from the Oise to
the Scarpe, between Noyon and Arras,
there is likely to be a considerable pc
riod of Allied advance. The German
| here is retiring, as he retired in 1917, to
escape an uncomfortable position and to
regain his strategic freedom. But in
1917 he stole away between frost and
thaw in the March time, when he could
not be watched by airplanes or promptly
followed because Of the condition of the
roads. He can't steal away now; the
moment he begins to draw his guns and
masses back, before the retirement is
completed, a British or a French army
strikes suddenly, takes men and guns,
upsets the German plans and compels
the German to turn round and fight back
under the worst possible conditions.
1t is essential to recognize that the
German is not being driven from posi-
tions he intended to hold permanently
A general adjustment was for him an
inescapable consequence of the Marne
and Somme defeats. We are not, by
brilliant and successful attacks, hustling
the German toward the frontier, each
day winning new victories, like those of
July Is and August g. What we are do
ing is exploiting our victories of those
dates to their fullest extent.
The rearguard operations of the Ger
man since he was beaten at the Sommc
have been, on the whole, far less sue
cessful than those after the Marne de-
feat. He lost 10000 prisoners in the
first two or three days at the Marine and
not more than 5000 in the next two
weeks. But having lost 10000 at the
Somme in the first three days he has
certainly lost 1000 more since includ-
ing 10000 in the two days of Mangin's
stroke between the Disc and the Aisne.
A retreat after defeat is the most diff
cult of all military operations and at
best one of the most costly, and Foch is
making it expensive to the limit.
On the other hand, we must not exap-
gerate our success. We shall encounter
the German in his new positions present
ly, and then will come q pause Of prem
aration unless Foch has already pre-
pared another offensive in a new sector
When the German does reach the limit
he has fixed for his retirement we must
expect very great battle, in which the
German will seek to regain the initia-
tive and thus escape from the incessant
agony of these never ending blows
struck by his active enemy. But we are
in the period between battles now. a1-
though the rearguard operations fire.
quently involve more men and guns than
fought at Gettysburg or Waterloo.
The real struggle between Ludendorff
New-York tribune., 1918-08-24
Slackers 4?

The heart of Mr.. McAdoo was in the
right place when he called all who sell
their Liberty bonds slackers. But his
tongue missed accuracy by good Bit
1t is true that 20 American should sell
his Liberty. bonds if he can possibly
avoid doing so. He should think twice
and dig deep into his resources before
adopting this last resort. But there are
cases of necessity where an American
is perfectly justified in turning over his
bonds and need have no sensation of
guilt from doing so. Any number of us
overbld our hands in the first flush of
enthusiasm for a Liberty Loan. This
may have been indiscreet but these over
subscriptions from the individuals view
point, were well meant and should cer-
talnly entail no recriminations as a CON-
sequence. In some cases there was MOTH
ing for bondholder to do except convert
his bond into cash when the pinch came
and he found it impossible to be as pa-
triotic as he hoped.
The country needs all the straininp
to save and invest that its men WON.
en- ana children are capable of. The
risk of this Stacker talk is that in future
loans Americans will hold back and NOT
subscribe to their limit for fear Of in.
curing somebody's curse il they should
fa'l OF their hopes and be compelled to
sell out. The situation calls for sense
and clear statement not indiscrim;nate
name calling, we suggest.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-24
Without Conditions

There is little doubt that Congress will
broaden the conscription age limits, in
GLIDING men between eighteen and twen-
ty-one and men between thirty-one and
forty-fve. The War Departments rec
concentrations respecting the new age
limits have been embodied in both the
House bill and the Senate bill.
Having authorized conscription on this
wider basis, it would be exceedingly fool
ish for Congress to impose limitations on
it's grant Of power. To provide that Ger
tain Of the new classes shall be called
first and certain others called last or
that some classes shall be exhausted be-
fore others are drawn on at all would be
to tie the hands of the military authori-
ties. Latitude in such matters is indis-
pensable Congress should not attempt
to interfere in the details of draft adj
ministration. It ought to confne itself
to laying down general principles.
Nobody can tell in advance how many
men a particular class will yield. And to
compel the government to comb out first
the classes which are least productive
those from thirty-one to forty-five--is to
invite delay and imperil the General
Staff's programme for speeding up the
war.
Registration, examination and classih-
cation take time. If every claim for de-
ferred classification in the higher classes
must be settled before the lowest classes
are called these lowest classes will
be practically unavailable for several
months to come. Yet General CrowC}er
counts on getting less than 100000 men
from the registrants above thirty-one
and about 100000 from the registrants
below twentyone. To pass a priority
amendment such as various members of
the House Military Affairs Committee
are advocating would mean scrapping
of the War Departments plan to have
100000 American soldiers in France
before next summer.
1t is noteworthy that most of the COM
mtteemen who want to call men below
twenty-one last belong to the group
which tried to defeat the first conscrip-
tion act and who have been supporting
the policy which Mr.. Baker described the
other day as that of those who would
proceed somewhat more leisurely and do
it later" They have consistently OBJ
structed the effort to develop our man.
power speedily and to use "force to the
utmost
These men are survival Of the James
Hay regime in the Military Affairs Com
mittee. He was the great proponent of
.!ulnlprreparedness. The miserable fasco Of
army reorganization which bears his
name-the Hay act of 1916-put back
the modernization Of our military estab-
lishment at time when rapid prepara-
ton was sorely needed. 1t helped to de-
lay for more than year our participa-
tion in the war on a scale commensurate
with our resources.
Mr.. Hay packed his committee with
pacifists and "anti-militarists. Have
these cave-dweIlers not done cnough To
hobbSe the country? Men are needed in
vast numbers to end the war and end it
with the least cost and sacrifice. The
only thing to do is to give the War De-
partment free hand. The Adninistra
tlon must conduct the war. II has the re-
sponsibjlity. Give it the power. Let it
call out any class or all classes, in what
ever order and to whatever extent it NAV
think necessary.
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New-York tribune., 1918-08-24
History of the News
The Cossock

ECENT events in Siberia and other
~ sections of the gradually evolving
new Eastern front again call the
worlds attention to the Cossacks, who,
under the Cars, formed curious kind of
democratic military Junkerthum, from the
Amur River the extreme northeast Of
the empire through Central Asia to Oren-
burg and the Black Sea.
They certainly possess one trait which
wins in advance our sympathy for them:
they hate and dctesU the Germans. The
Cossack officers often refused even to eat
at the same table with the German officers
who permeated the whole Russian army
under the old regime.
The popular idea that Siberia was SUBJ
jugated to Russia by handful of Nolga
Ccssacks whose hetman. Yermak, is repre-
sented as having offered the immense Tar
tar kharate TO Ivan the Terrible in 1882
So, is losing ground under a closer study
Of the facts The truth is that Western
Siberia was voluntarily colonzed by the
people of Eastern and Northern Russia be-
Lore and after that period To these free
colonists we must add involuntary coloni-
zation by political exiles, started in the
year 1893, the date of the murder of the
Czarowitch Dimitri, and by criminal exiles
whose first caravan started on its melan-
choly trip in 1854.
The original Cossack communities on the
Dnieper and Don we've formed as q protest
against the complicated Russian state ma
chinery and the economic condition con-
nected Herewith. The Cossacks are
racial unit with strongly developed ma
tional sentiment which has persisted to
this day, III spite OF their ultimate sub
mission TO Russia and the destruction Of
their Old organization. The Ukrainian
problem which must have already caused
more than one sleepless night to William
II and his advisers, cannot be fully under
stood without a knowledge of the, it is true
somewhat complicated Cossack situation
Few people, for instance, are aware that
the Cossack regiments, even as early as
Peter the Great and Catherine II. were
more dependent upon the Department Of
the Interior than upon the War Depart
ment
At the time Of Car Alexander 1901
'25) the Cossacks of Siberia formed two
distinctly separated groups: the town Cos
sacks. kind of police force, and the bor-
der Cossacks (Lneynyie). Some of the
national traditions of the European Cos
sacks, which are now to be found among
the Siberian Cossacks. we're brought 70
theN by the Dncper ard Ukraiaian Cos
sacks. many thousands of whom were sent
into Siberian exile in 1867. after the rising
OF Rasin, and in 1897, after the Ukrainian
revolt
There were about 100000 Cossacks In
Asiatic Russia at the beginning of the pres
ent war. each family owning about 100
acres OF land. of VIII ich. however, hardly ~
per cert was under cultivation in 1910.
One Of the consequences of the Russian
Revolution was the unison of the Asatc
and Euronean Cossack regiments (voska)
under the leadership of the Don Cossacss-
In Siberia the Cossacks play quite role
in the internal affairs of the country, form
ing very respected social class kind OF
bourgeois farmers DlDEROT, Jr.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-24

conscription, against taxes to support
the army, against anti-sedition laws. 1t
was natural that he should be rewarded
with what remains of the vote that used
to be controlled by the German-Ameri-
can Alliance. 1t was natural, also, that
he should win the vote Of the Non -Parti
san League, against which the Nebraska
State Council of Defence had waged
bitter fight on the grounds of disloyalty.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-24


ing forward we have no parallel in
the four years Of Western warfare, un-
less it be in the retreat of Joffre's armies
after their initial defeats at and beyond
the French frontier. Exactly four years
ago French armies, having been beaten
at Mohange, Neufchateau and Charleroi,
together with the British army, compelled
to break off its battle of Mons to conform
to tlc retreat Of the French armies, be-
gan that strategic withdrawal which
terminated only in the great return to
the offensive which was the Battle of
the Marne.
Like Joffre, Ludendorff is now retir-
ing after defeat and with the fixed pur-
pose Of returning to the offensive when
he has recovered from the effects of his
recent defeats at the Marne and the
Somme. His retreat is, like Jotfre's, a
fighting retreat, and we must expect
that behind the cover of this resistance
Ludendorff is working out new plan,
plan which must carry with it some des-
perate effort to recover the offensive, at
least for two or three weeks in the clos
ing hours Of the campaign.
1t is the purpose of Foch, on the con-
trary, SO to maui and smash the armies
involved that instead of being able to
form a strategic mass of manpuvrc.
that is, a fresh striking force, Ludendorff
will be obliged to use up such reserves as
remain to him now in preventing the re-
treat from becoming a rout and the
withdrawal from degenerating into dis
orderly flight. In these terms the pres
ent phase of the struggle is unrolling
under our eyes.
1t is mistake to think Of the present
operations from Scissors to Arras as a
battle. The German is declining battle
in the larger sense. He has made up his
mind to retreat, as q result Of defeat: to
retreat until he reaches certain prede-
termined positions and has achieved GER
tam essential rganizations. He wants
to get back with as little cost as possible.
Foch means to harry and hustle him.
compelling him to stop and fight, to fight
artillery with infantry and machine guns
after he has withdrawn his own artil
lery. to fight under unfavorable condi
tions and to hold positions far longer
than he had planned to hold them, thus
paying price out Of proportion to their
temporary value to him.
Unless all signs fail the limit of the
German retreat will be the Hindcnburp
line, from which the French and the
British are on an average between fif-
teen and twenty miles distant still. But
between the Disc and the Aisne Manpin
Is now almost twice as near to the part
OF the Hindenburg line which turned
around the st. Gobain Forest, and this
is at once the strongest and most i'm
portant single stretch in the whole Hin
denburg system If this sector between
La Fere and Laon should be pierced
then the Germans would have to retire
close to the French frontier, from the
sea to the Mcuse.
But there is not any real reason to
suppose that Mangn can smash his wav
through this defensive line. What is
New-York tribune., 1918-08-24
Montclair 8 Angelus

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; Your suggcstion\of an "Angclus" !.
eSce''e"1. IL Is recognized here at the hour
OF IL. And the bell Of the "Old First" Pres
oyterlan Church is rune at that hour every
day. EDWIN ru,pp1c
Montclair, N. j., Aug. Is, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-24
To Be Admitted

,Fro., The Ind,aaapolts NetrN
II must be admitted, however, tnat ING
Kaiser has come nearer fooling all his peo-
pie ali the time than any other ruler.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-24

to say, in the first place, to whom we
shall sell The Tribune, and, in the second
place, what price shall be paid for it by
New-York tribune., 1918-08-24
A Lucid Interpretation

tF'om Thc DoHos Ncus,
A. %e understand it from the cxnlano.
''""S % '"e German war correspondents,
Won nhdenburG heightened his lines in
order to shorten them.
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reserved.
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Old Stuff, Bill: Old St,HI

tFron The 81. Louis Post -Disnotch
Like all defeated camnaign MANAGERS tbe
Kaiser is claiming everything
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F0ch s. Present Aim

By Frank Fl. Smonds
Copyg 1918 BY The Tribune Tribaue)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-06
Sports in General.

Baseball as played indoors during the winter months in the United States is proving remarkably popular among the allied soldiers in France. It is played, of course, out of doors, but the large indoor ball is used and the rules of indoor baseball adhered to. It seems to be an easier game as we'll for the British soldiers to learn than the more scientific and technical outdoor baseball. It is quickly learned, and it's caibre is not too high to admit an. amateur. The English soldiers find that any good cricket player possess es sufficient qualification to feel at home in a few innings.
 On athletic fields and aerodromes all over France, one may see scores of British, Canadian, Australian and American officers and men, playing indoor baseball with vim and eager ness never displayed at cricket. :,
 "Indcor baseball knocks cricket into a cooked hat, declared the star crick- eter of one of the Guards regiments the other day. Probably the quicker action, the wider inclusiveness of the game, and the laughs it arouses am- ong the players and spectators-to, say nothing of the roofing and appeal more to the soldier in rFance than the more serious and sedate game of cricket, and the equipment is simpler and cheaper.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-06
TANKS RESCUE MEN 0N THE JOB FROM
 TIME 0F ARRIVAL
Ready to Receive Wounded Men Shortly After Arriv-
 ing on Firing Line.

With the American Forces in France, Oct. 5.-Within forty minu- tes after arriving at an advance sta ton behind the firing line some of the mobile operating units attached to the Amercan Army are ready to receive wounded soldiers for major operations. Ordinarily the unit is stationed near a base hospital to await a call from near the firing line. It consists of siXty-tWo Officers, fif- ty nurses and nearly 200 enlisted men and is composed of five sections, each of which is a complete operating group with chief surgeon, and an assistant. Students from the Uni versity of Cleveland and who were trained at Allentown, Pa., compose the majority of the enlisted person. nel
 Having arrived behind the firing line, the unit unloads it's equipment and provides beds under canvas for wounded men and must provide all the accessories of modern hospital for immediate use. The operating pavilion is tent erected over me- tai light, the outfit includes X-ray plants and sterilining appliances. Electricity for light and tor opera h9n of the X-rav outfit is supplied by a motor and dynamo carried on a truck.
 By these advanced methods surge ons are saving human lives today in cases where a few years ago the pa- tient would have been counted as <mortally wounded. This is partly due to the fact that with this modern equipment and swift movement outfit the most difficult and delicate opera tion may be performed oftentimes sound of the big guns along the line of battle. :. Some of the best known surgeons in the United States are engaged in this work and daily and nightly are performing operations during battle which would have been impossible in previous wars.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-06
GRAVE IS DUG AND FUNERAL ID OCCUR
 0N DECEMBER 20
Of Major League Baseball at Annual Meeting Ill
 New York City.

o. New %, York, Oct. 5 Correspondence ol The Associated Press).-Maior league baseball, in so far as it con- germs e. the National League, will be of !lclaiiy terminated at the annual meet ing or the association to be he'd in this clty on December 10. At the gather ing the senior organization will for mally wind up the business affairs of tne season just closed and enter un1on hiatus which will remain undis- turbed until such time as interna- tlonal affairs appear to warrant a revival of the professional end of the national game. VI '''e :, lhls, at least, is the intention of the magnates at the present time and nothlng short of a most sensational change Tn the war status within the next two months will cause an shift m the plans of the league. It re- cures a long period of preparation and much detS6 work, prior to the opening of each pennant race, and it IS recognized that in the present un- settled state of baseball affairs it would be impossible to renew the operation of the circuit without am pie time in which to formulate ar- arrangements. A declaration of peace coming late next Spring would prove of little value to the big league clubs, according to the opinion of prominent magnates.
 It has been pointed out that the players of the various teams would be scattered to the four points of the compass; that some of the baseball parks will have been adapted to oth- CT forms of business; that problems would arise during the re-adjustment period which have never confronted baseball homogeneous and that the best policy will be to make haste slowly. General opinion appears to support the idea that new and bet ter order of profession baseball will come forth at the proper time but that much of this advantage would be lost if the big leagues rushed blindly back to the game at the first hint of an opening.
 It is understood, however, that the magnates will not tie their hands by any definite statements or arrange ments but will leave the affairs of the organization in such fluid states that business can be resumed at the proper moment with as slight jar as possible. The office of the lea que will be continued and Secretary Heydler will, in all probability, be re- elected to his present position with full authority to act for the league in all matters which have heretofore been in the hands of the president as we'll as the other elective officers of the league.