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New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
Justice to Army Surgeons

The acuteness Of the disagreement be-
tween Major General Gorgas and Mr.
Crowel, Acting Secretary of War, is
somewhat mystifying. The latter has
shown good deal of resentment because
General Gorgas went over his head in
urging Congress to create certain num-
ber of brigadier generals in the Medical
Corps. Except Gorgas himself, there is
now no officer in that corps with higher
relative rank than colonel. Many dis
tinguished surgeons have recently entered
the army medical service. They will be
called upon to direct hospital work on a
scale hitherto unknown in our army. They
find already that they are hampercd-
especially at the front in France-bv
lack of adequate rank, being outclassed
by line officers doing less responsible
work and by medical officers in the other
Allied armies with whom they come ia
contact
When eminent surgeons like the Mayo
brothers, of Rochester, Mimi, appear at
the capital and make out what seems to
be satisfactory case, that case cannot
be demolished offhand by a suggestion
that rearrangement of grades in the
Medical Corps might lead to embarrass-
ing demands for similar rearrangemcnt
in the other staff corps. The War De-
partment doesn't want to be stampedc1
into creating lot of brigader generals
for the Pay Corps or the Judge Advo-
Gates Corps. Possibly it doesn't want to
stock up with brigadicr generals in the
Quartermastcr's Department. But log.
cal consistency in dealing with the vari-
0us staff corps is at this time neither a
necessity nor a virtue. The Medical
Corps ls going to play an exceptionally
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
Spending Daylight

one OF the most interesting by-products
OF daylight saving promises to be an in
creased interest in athletics-not merely
vlcarlous athletics, wherein you put down
the price of a ticket and thereby hire
experts to play ball for you for an after
noon while you sit back behind a palm
leaf fan, but real exercise-gardening
golf, tennis, tramping, swmmng--all the
host of things American business men
have talked about with sigh of regret
and so seldom have done.
1t is a clear hour of daylight that is
now to be added to our daily afternoon
schedules. You can have your dinner and
exercise after it--or dine late, with tho
extra appetite Of exercise to helm. SIM
set throughout June and July will be we'll
after o'clock. Even the harried COM
muter will have at least two hours of dav-
light if he is minded to push his dinner
hour onward to dark. That is the ideal
arrangement beyond question = when
housekeeping systems permit. The late
dinner hour of the English, at which
we Americans have always shifted is
likely to become exceedingly popular
this summer.
Put down your war garden first on the
list. Then plan for steady run of dailv
exercise. Stop talking about being chained
to desk. You will soon begin to save
daylight; see that you spend it wisely.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
A Doctors View

why so hot, little man." Mr.. Emer-
son thought the quiet stars might say.
An eminent physician would have US take
much the same view of the shortcom-
ings in our preparations for the war.
Why, he asks, expect efficiency or bust
ness methods in a democracy, or in any
Kind Of government? Government, in
his view, cannot be efficient or business
like, for the simple reason that it is run
for and by the inefficient and unbus-
ncssike-that is, the great mass Of the
people.
The number of men who can make a
success IN business is painfully small
not one in a hundred Of those who try.
There is only one millionaire to about
every seven thousand people
The business man cannot get on at
Washington, because the methods that
make him successful are impossible in
Warrington. And it is not much differ
ent at Westminster or on the south bank
of The Seine.
But this is ccrtaiu~dcmocrac is more
lr Iess governed by opinion. IF public
opinion is slack, government is apt 10 be
the same.
Criticism implies q vivid and quite
heartfelt interest. No doubt it is irr.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
Explainers Of America
(t'ront The GIobe)

That George Creel, chief of the so-caled
Department of Public Information, has not
changed his mind as to what constitutes
good American propaganda is shown by the
announcement that Charles A. Beard, for
morly professor at Columbia University, has
been chosen to head group of college men
to be sent abroad to explain the United
States and its motives in the war
Professor Beard is the author of a book
bearing the title can Economic Interpreta-
tion of the Constitution of the United
States" This volume is devoted to proving
that those are mistaken who ascrbc our
Revolution and the institutions it developed
to love of liberty CIR justice. 1t is Il rcwrte
of and application to America Of the famil-
lar Teutonic theory Of economic determina-
ton. Washington, it appears, owned land
in the Northwest whose value would be en-
hanced by the establishment of a nation.
and Hamilton and his friends owned gov
ernmcnt bonds that they wanted paid. So
they were for union for selfish reasons,
and only gulliblc people will esteem them
patriots who unselishy devoted thcmseve
to the advancement of the public good. One
can imagine, holding as he does to MARKHAM
ideas with respect to history, with what
energy Professor Beard will combat the
charge of European radicals, who describe
America, as Trotzky does, as land of
plutocratc capitalism, where the exploited
masses groan in misery.
Joined with Professor Beard as an official
interpreter of America is to be Frank p.
Walsh if he will go. Mr.. Walsh, it will be
remembered, was chairman Of the indus
trial commission, which has been a mine of
comfort to all whose dogmatism or whose
interest leads them to sander America and
the spirit of its life.
If Mcssrs. Beard and Walsh arc to 20 it
seems gross discrimination not to send
Morris Hillquit. lie is quite as explicit
and as plausible an exponent of the MARKHAM
doctrine that all wars spring from capital
istc imperialism and that being at war, tho
United States must necessarily be engaged
in an imperialistic enterprise
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
The Use of the Rich Man

Though the late Mr. James Stillman
gave freely at times, he was not known
in his lifetime for prodigal gifts. He
belonged more to the saving type.
Probably it would be regarded >as the
height of paradox to suggest that in
modern industrial state, like America,
this was among the most useful, if not
actually the most useful, of types pro-
duced. Yet such was the belief, for ex-
ample, of Simon Newcomb, one of the
very finest American minds.
The contention is this: In a modern
society, such as ours, the vital need, for
progress, is money-capital. So that
next to the inventor and improver the
most useful citizen is the saver.
Something like ninety-fve or ninety
seven out of every hundred Americans
spend every cent they can get, no matter
what their income. They save nothing.
A man like Mr.. Stillman probably never
spent more than 3 to S per cent of
the income of his later years. Mr.. Rookie
feller does not spend, for his own person.
al needs, per cent.
Yet the money they saved is always at
work. The whole community gets the
benefit of it,
That is the difference between the
spender and the saver. Yet in this queer
world Sonly the spender is looked upon
with favor.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
Soi!ed Germany

'ffon the Nc,c Yorker Volks>cituuo,
lie, us become honest again!" calls in
an article the "Dcutsche Zeitunc" (Rcr,in,
Inc paper says that German burcaucr,cv
or all ranks is in danger Of losing it's rorn.
ta'Ion and honor. You cannot post a trunk
without the apprehension that it will hn
roooed. The German imperial postoiricc is
very unsafe depository; there is hardly
an honest commercial class in cxistenc. ~
germany. Proftecring hourshcs worse
.nan ever. Every German is compelled to
oecome e', contrabandist and hoarder. 1t
further says: "The whole German nconln
II, from top to bottom soied with dishon.
estv to such an extent that the Judges "
'ne courts refuse to administer Justice be.
cause they themselves arc conscious Of hs.
ing culpablc." " 'e
10 TINS the "Noksbatt" our party orr,r
III h"I'e' remarks: "Thc 'Dcutschc Zeitnne,
as', "shS NOW all TINS has been made possible.
ana demands that we become honest as,sin
~ Is pity 1t does not Indicate in what ", wa"
'"'s cah DC done so long as the war lasts"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
If Wadsworth Were Brave
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Who is Senator Wadswortn ''"1
proposes to eXalt his individual Wls's. i
the recognized law Of the land! he a'''
present office by virtue OF the ansau'
to the United States Constitutloa ~
ing for the direct election OF ''''
Twelve states did not ratify that y
ment, and had it properly forced !" {
Senator Wadsworth's S solicitude IN H'
The sixteen so-called antisutfrage - -
misplaced. Those states can pf0'e"
selves from the Federal suirass
mcnt without the Senator's ass'sus
only needs the refusal of thirteen ~
defeat ratification, so if the siSses- N
do not want suffrage, they can pie'
legislatures from latifying. ,g]
fear Mr.. Wadswoith's real ~
opposition IS simply that ne a0s.
woman suffrage and wishes py ~. ~. II
represent merely himself ana WA
is an untenablc position. He rcn'ss M
the small boy who, not wanting
castor oil, gives all sorts of reasV, V. III
does not want TO take 1t, eN,sss
one, which is that it tastes SO 'ea ',s,
Why not be brave and 1sA' - . sis
cine and see how much better wv
Mr.. Senator? pocrE
Chairman National AdS's0''
New York, March IL. lsls'
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
In Wettest New England
From The Springfield Republican,


There were nearly 10000 more arrests in
Boston in 1917 than in any previous year.
The total arrests were 10S,556 Drunken
ness is officially assigned as the cause of
73 1898; and of the excess of arrests over
the year 1916 no less than 5000 were due
to drunkenness. Put in another way, two
thirds of the arrests in Boston last vcar
were due to drink, and due to drink also
were two-thirds of the years increase in
the arrests officially reported
The sensational, one might saw the start
ling, significance of these statistics covcr-
ing the city of Boston is that they confirm
the report of the state commission to in
vcstigatc the drink evil submitted "a H.,
Legislature IN the spring of 1914. The com.
mission showed that since 1901 TN, n,,mhn,
of arrests for drunkenness in Mnssnnhn
sctts had increased SO per cent, which wos
enormously disproportionate to the increase
in the states population in thcvsame ncriod
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20

important role in this war. 1t deserves
is entitled to any moral and professional
recognition which may help to add to its
efficiency.
All that the Medical Corps Of the army
asks is treatment approaching in fair
ness that accorded to the medical corps
of European armies and to the Medical
Corps of our navy. The Medical Section
of the New York State Committee of the
Council of National Defence has pre-
pared table which shows the percentage
Of general officers in the medical corps
Of other armies. Italy allows so per
cent, France AT per cent, Great Britain
Ito per cent, Germany 20 per cent
Austria-Hungary .6S per cent and
Japan .89 per cent. The United States
navy allows so per cent. But there are
no general officers in the American Army
Medical Corps, except the head Of the
corps, who is major general &c oficio.
One of the bills pending in Congress
would allow "a per cent of general Off
GERS to the Army Medical Corps, 1.64 per
cent Of colonels and 1862 per cent Of ma
jors. The Owen amendment, so called,
would increase the percentage Of general
officers to so, of colonels to and of ma
jors to 8. These are not extravagant
concessions to q mania for rank. They
represent sensible readjustment to new
conditions
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
Americans All

A rabbi, an Anglican clergyman and
Cardinal Farley, all on one platform
working for the Knights of Columbus
Fund. We have seen many prejudices
and animosities melted by the fire of
patriotism, but the present get-together
spirit of the Catholic drive is as fine
and striking an exhibit of unity as has
come to pass.
And the war has but just come to
America! Religion, like all our faiths,
knows where we shall any of us come
out. Very likely where we least ex-
pect There can be no question, how
ever, Of the lasting human good that
comes to all of us from the spirit of
generosity and fellowship that this
knights of Columbus drive symbolizes.
Whatever our divisions of faith, we
are one people. We are one people
fighting for one common ideal. In
a sense that none of us has dreamed
or realized we are all friends and
brothers. Over in the trenches they
know this truth. We are doing we'll to
catch a glimpse of it so early and put
its principle to practical use.
Let everybody lend hand to the
X. of c. drive! You will be better
American for sharing in this as in every
other vital aid to the soldiers, your
soldiers, our soldiers, at the front
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
The Entente Speaks

The war is restored to the plane of
faith, where it belongs.
In the flaming statement issued to the
world yesterday through the British
Foreign Office by the Supreme War
Council of the Allies definitions are
swept away There is no discussion OF
the conditions or principles of peace.
The Russian government, "in mood Of
singular credulity," made the fatal mis-
take Of thinking that by persuasion it
could "obtain that democratic peace
which it had failed to obtain by war"
The council bitterly notes what hap
pened to Russia when "the German peace
was translated into action" and asks:
Why waste time over Germany's
pledges when we see that in no period Of
her history of conquest has she
exhibited herself cynically as de-
stroyer of national independence, the i'm
placable enemy of the rights of man and
the dignity OF ClVlllZeQ naClOnS
The councils reason for asking that
question is obvious Time and strength
are wasting on the thought of victory
by negotiation. Peace parleys have
taken place on the assumption that
honor existed in a German pledge.
The councils reason for issuing such a
statement at all is equally obvious.
Peace" it says, sis loudly advertised
The peace that is being advertised by
many different names is in every guise
German peace. There is yet no other
kind in sight; but, says the council
In so far as the issue depends on bat
ties yet to come the nations whose fate
is in the balance may surely put their
trust in the armies which, even under
conditions more difficult than the present,
have shown themselves more than equal
to the great cause intrusted to their
valor.
That is where the Allies stand.
Where does this country stand?
We know; but does the world know?
When last heard from in the court of
open diplomacy we were holding par
ley with Germany on four test prin-
cples of peace. Germany answered by
accepting the principles and challeng-
ing us to induce the Entente to accept
them.
We have not spoken since.
The Entente has.
This unexpected restatement of it's
position may we'll become one of the
memorable documents of the war. Is
sued as an ultimatum of the Supreme
War Council of the Allies" it contains
in the first paragraph the information
that it was produced by "the Prime
Ministers and Foreign Ministers of the
Entente, assembled in London"
That does not include the United
States
We shall have to speak for our
selves.
Our silence is challenged
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
More Frishtfulnes'

To the Editor Of The lrip""s' =, ~
Sir: regret that you sa" al y
Professor TcufelsdroechSs tNs
tioa of Hylan's prose sohh'. yaIa
the jellyish and Mr. Hearst ,.,,ss'|
safe from these coarse ie"ss NJ
The next thing. | suppose ,..,,,siI
viii bs tearing up Mrs. Leo n1
to An Expiring Frog ,srRlf
Hoboken, N. j.. March y
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20

vITHOUT American backng-an en-
M thusiastic, olchcartcd and,
what's more, a pretty solid, sub
stantial support from the United States
Japan will not go into Siberia. Not very
far into it, anyway. Why? The reason Is
rather primitive, rugged and elemental, but
it has all the beauties of simple truth
because she cant. That's all.
Writers for Hearst papers can make the
obliQue-eyed, monstcr-visaged blood
thirsty soldiers of Japan all the
Asian Continent with a few lines of Grim
son phrases. They can do that in no time;
it does not cost them cent. When a
mere, common, ordinary, earthly govern
ment like Japan's, which has no magician's
wand handy wishes to move army of
quarter of million men it feels the need Of
money at oncc--a great deal OF money.
And when Japan moves the said army into
Siberia, never exactly the Garden of Eden,
and especially not since the German prs-
oners quartercd in that part of Russia sud-
denly changed their role from being the
war prisoners under the Russian soldiers
to the commanding officers over the Boil
sheviki, Japan has got to send food for her
soldiers there which will require more
money than ever. And if her army is ex-
pected to stay and maintain the line of
communications for 5000 miles clean to
the neighborhood Of the Uras and defend
the northern frontiers of British India,
why then it means more money still. II
means $4,000, ,000O to $4,000 100000
wear. The total revenue of Japan for the
fiscal year of 19l7'lS is estimated at 7l4.
534, 4,127 yen, which is less than 1857 0,000
in American money. Just one years bill
of the Siberian expedition to Japan means
somewhat more than ten times the present
annual revenue, both ordinary and cXtraor-
dinary, counting in all the incomes from
the government railways, monopolies and
so on Four billion dollars is good deal
more money than she has; it is a good deal
more money than she raise through do
mestic loans Never mind all this talk of
war prosperity OF Japan; it is pitifully
small compared to the enormous profits
which the United States has made out OF
the war
Now where is the money going to come
from? Certainly not from England, nor
from France nor Italy. Nowhere whatso-
ever if-if the United States does not want
to help Japan in this matter
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
The Size Of the Job

Suppose now that a miracle happens
these are the days o. wonders-that Japan
can get the funds for the Siberian cxpcdi-
ton. Fighting the German oficcred army
Of Bolsheviki in Siberia, fighting the or
ganized army of Teutonic veterans out Of
the prison camps of Siberia, armed and
supported by what Germany will undoubt
edly be able to send out to them from
Europe once she has the command of tho
Siberian Railway defending the northern
frontier of India from them, keeping down
the pious desire Of the Mahometan, Dun
gan, krei and kirghiz trbesmcn for loot
ing and murder, from kindling the Central
Asia into holy war-all these take
good many guns and a deal of munitions
And guns and munitions cannot be con-
jured out of the air. Even if Japan is equal
to manufacturing all the munitions and
arms she requires for the Siberian cxpcdi-
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
Hoping Against Hope

fFront Thc Charleston Neirs u,rd Couier1
Inc Wisconsin Senate having admins
tered rebuke to La Toilette, perhaps the
United States Senate may pluck up courage
enough TO do likewise
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
The Commuters Kiss

'ffom 7hc San Francisco Chromiclc)
The husband who forced kiss on his
wife was evidently not commuter. The
average commuters wife is lucky if she
catches one on the run between cofTcc
and the car.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20

tating. But if nobody paid them much
attention except to shout friendly
At boy" once in while, would in
dustry in the government service be
what it is?
Criticism has uses, and an effective
1nl1,n
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
His Defective Mentality

fFrom The PhiiudeIp lnquiror)
In all probability. if that man down South
who got eighteen years for stealing ham
when he hungry had been caught blow
ing up muntion factory he would have
been gently interned and fed On ham and
other delicacies for the period Of the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-20
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