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Evening journal., 1918-10-01

freedom. something that win help them to build char
acer and something that VIII appeal TO and develop
their patriotism
Home and vacant lot gardening in cities, towns and
villages have been dgnned and made popular de-
gree that practically insures them prominent place in
the school system Of country 1t would be dflcut
to estimate the educational and material value of such
results.
The United States School Garden Army was organized
in March of 1918
President Wilson set aside $4,000 from his National
Security and Defense Appropriation promote the work
for the first six months He has since appropriated
100000 to carry the work through another ten
months.
Two main purposes prompted the planning OF the
United States School Garden Army: Increased food pro-
ducon and training of school children In thrift indus
try service, patriotism and responsibility.
The necessity for man-power being felt This
especially true in agricultural pursuits Not alone
were the drafted young men going from the farm but
great numbers of farm employees being attracted
to the cities by higher offered In other industries
II the millions Of city boys and girls could be induced
to give their leisure time to cuvatng the thousands
Of untitled land in front and back yards and va
cant lots OF Cities towns and villages. II would
suit in substantial increase in food production and
improvement in the quality OF coming citizenship.
The Bureau of Education undertook to accomplish
this through the organization OF the United States
School Garden Army. II is educational problem and
be solved with economy and efficiency only by the
schools
The plan OF organization nvolves general d.
rector who is responsible for organization propaganda
and administration Regional directors who are charged
with the responsibility Of writing instructions upon
gardening that will enable supervisors and teachers
take garden company successfully through season.
though not expert gardeners. These Instructions
have been put in ea1et form and sent from the CEN
trail Offices 10 all who applied for them Assistant
regional directors who work under the regional director
and whose duties similar 10 those Of the regional d
rector excepting that Of writing garden leaflets Coopera-
on with State Councils OF Defense through State repre-
sentaves appointed by them The army plan Of organlz-
ing school boys and girls into companies OF $50 less
under the direction OF garden teacher captain first
lieutenant and second lieutenant An insignia for each
enlisted soldier. double bronze bar for the captain.
single bronze bar with two stars in the border for the
first lieutenant and star for the second Lieutenant
and combination bronze and black enameled bar for
privates
Delaware and all other States in the Union have felt
the stimulating effect OF the work Of this Juvenile Army
OF Production. which has accomplished much with
such comparatively small expenditure Of public funds.
Evening journal., 1918-10-01
THE pEnPLE 0r HIlNLANn.

wy HEN America first set foot in the world some
w OF tried TO fool ourselves into believing that
not fighting the German people, that we were
engaged upon the highly important task Of trouncing
the German government-the Kaiser and his gang OF
robber-cuthroas. And to this day American
citizens wrap themselves In the cloak OF ignorance and
talking about not warning against German people
but against German rulers.
Let not listen to them They are deceved-or they
are trying TO deceive us.
We lighting the people OF Hunland well as their
Hohenzollefns and Hndenburgs.
The people OF Hunland lighting us
They not only fighting u.s. but they are robblng US
They not only lighting and robbng but they are
mistreating us They killing boys "Over There"
They are misreatng our boys they have captured in
battle They robbins these American boys they have
taken. And IL isn't the German Kaiser the German
generals the German government that's doing the
robbing. The German people guilty.
Complaint made TO German General Xyiander
that Germans robbng American prisoners Of their
watches and rings He investigated issued an order
threatening Germans caught in committing such thefs
This German general found his people guilty They
the people some foolish Americans like 10 call our
friends" asserting that not at war with them
but with their government
The people Of Germany are at war with US They
are truly Hunnish In their warfare just their govern
ment is. They reveal the Hun within them by robbing
their prisoners-our sons
Evening journal., 1918-10-01
WHAT IL MEANS.

THE people Of the United States now insist that the
hight go on until Germany. her rulers. people and
armies surrender Internationally This state Of determ
nation was reached after 10 became clear to us that the
Huns will not consider any other determination of the
war as German dsfeat-nnal and decisive
We do not want TO begin preparing for another war
Immediately after the peace conference and that we must
do If the Huns are not beaten into unconditional sur
render
We do not want TO st at the peace table and trade
colonies or privileges to the Huns for Belgums freedom
serbas, Rumanias, Frances, Italys. Russas, Monte
negro's
We do not want to talk then about the restoration Of
lands devastated by the Huns
That is not the time TO barter with Germany over
her paying the price for the war she started that price
being eparaton to the peoples she has harmed for the
damage she did them.
We do not want TO have treat with Germany on the
subject OF German mllitarism and Hun power lust
And II we fight until the Huns surrender unconditlon
ally we will not have to do those things
We bury German mlita-ism and greed withou,
asking the Kaiser's permission.
We compel Germany TO free all soil she has taken
by conquest and all peoples she has enslaved
When Germany surrenders Internationally the peoples
who love liberty, who believe in the principles OF
democracy who respect the rights OF other peoples and
other nations. will write the terms of peace and will die
tate the things Germany must do and must not do
II the Allies unable 10 do this, the will have
to be fought all again. All the lives which have been
sacrificed will have been given in valn All that have
done our children win have TO do-and more.
Evening journal., 1918-10-01
TIE CHAMPION LIAR

~ all liars history has passed along TO the present
~ day generation. and OF all alive none can hope
TO with that unusually expert fasehood manufac
turer holding down the job of imperial chancellor OF
Germany
Hertng has the same low regard for truth that his
imperial master has for the lives OF human beings hls
six sons excepted and the rights of other nations
For instance, take this statement Count Hertng made
before the Reichsiag: From the nrst day we waged
Of defense We invaded Belgium only to defend our
selves"
Does the burglar break into house TO defend himself?
Does the gunman shoot his marked victim in the back to
defend himself? Is it in defense OF self that the brute
wrongs woman2 The beast slay wounded and cap
tyes? The savage destroy churches hosptals9 The
murderer Kill little children?
For No.. 1 liar Hertling came remarkably near the
truth though. in portion OF the above assertion In
saying, 1--WE waged Of defense" he is right IL one
only to the day that the Allies turned the Huns back
toward Berlin Since the minute Yanks and French be-
gan their drive the Marne the Germans have waged
Of defense. Their war of orense ended Here
after they will be on the defensive. 1t will be a war
of defense for the Hun from until the day when he
hrows up his hand and surrenders unconditionaly
However. that doesn't keep US from the belief that
nature produced greater liar than old Hertlng.
Evening journal., 1918-10-01
SCHOOL CHILDREN AND WAR GARDENING.

w HAT has been accomplished by the United States
w School Garden Army in six months is set forth
eneertainingly in an official bulletin just issued
AZ SHOWS that million five hundred thousand boys
o es have responded to the call Of the President and
r ~ III lhe United States School Garden Army
..4 thousand acres Of unproductive home yards and
i,' ' nave been converted into productive land
- .s'sase an equal acreage now used in truck
eauenns Tor the production Of other foodstuns moro
'n' iOr war purposes. 1t viii also Relieve ,o,.
por.1'on congeson through home eonsumn,,oD =, ha.
produced fOodstuns consumption Oh nome
Fifty thousand teachers have received v.,,,.,,.
ton in gardening through the garden leaNes
experts. written by
Boards Of Education and other civic orv,r,,.,.-
have been influenced to give financial and moral s,'n
to the school and home garden movement and 70 49,
extra salaries for supervision and teaching
Hundreds of thousands OF parents have become inter
ested in the garden and are working win
their children In home gardens Salt Lake City alone
$500 mothers representing sixywo parental associations
actively supporting food production in the schools
Thousands Of civic. commercial patriotic organiza-
tlons have become interested in the movement and are
giving 1t hearty support.
One and one-haf million children have been given
something to this summer; something that will help
carry The burden Of their country in this struggle for
Evening journal., 1918-10-01
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1918.
GERMAN IN CHURCH.

~, HE villagers OF Brussels Calhoun county ILL.,, have
Il decided that American church is no place In
which to preach in the German language Be
fore the war came to America there was preaching in
German by the pastor OF the St. Matthew's Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Brussels The sermon, singing and
praying was done in German. The church members
were Of German parentage.
But shortly after the United States went TO some
OF the sixty members Of that congregation started
movement which in fact is a righteous OF loyal
American objection to anything Germany These church
members asked the pastor to preach his sermons In
English asked that songs and prayers be in English
lie refused and continued using the language OF the
Kaser's Huns.
One by the congregation quit that church because
OF the Germansm on the tongue OF the pastor Today
only six members of the sixty hear those German Ian
guage sermons and sing those German words and bow
their heads in German prayers The ftyfour Americans
have hired preacher Of their and hold services
in English in the village schoohouse. They have asked
the Illinois Council Of Defense to take TO stop
the German speaking pastor from using the German
language in what their place OF worship.
BY way Of emphasis let us call attention to the
Of OF the ny-four who refuse listen TO German
sermons, German prayers and German songs in an
American church-Kulp Goetze. Kinder. Nolte Krause
Hermann, Wieneke, Moerlein.
Evening journal., 1918-10-01
Gel Rid of Kifch n!
(From the New York SUM-

I Wherefore 1t becomes the cardinal
duty OF American voters to get rid OF
Kltchin.
Kitchin comes from Scotland Neck, N,
G. But you do not need TO live in
Scotland Neck, N. c., to vote against
Kitcnin. You do not need to live in
North Carolina to vote against Kitchin.
Any man or any woman that has bal
lot in any district Of the United States
can vote against Kitchin. All that
American voters have to do to vote
against Kitchin is TO vote for Republi-
can nominees for the House Of Rep
resentatives, wherever they may be.
This Is the way to get rid OF Kitchin
II anybody says that this would be
war politics when such politics stands
adjourned, the right answer is that not
by one-thousandth part is II so much
politics, war or any other kind, as it
Is sanity, not so much politics as II is
patriotism
II anybody says that to elect Re
publican majority 10 Congress would
deprive President Wilson OF ITS sup
port in his conduct Of the war, the
statement simply isn't true. That argu-
ment itself is no more than slippery
political dodge. Who is there now in
the House or in the Senate, Democrat
or Republican, that fails TO vote the
moneys that Mr. Wilson's administra-
tlon needs for the war? Who is there,
Democrat or Republican, that fails to
vote the guns, munitions, soldiers, sail
ors, ships that Mr.. Wilson needs for
the war? Who is there, Democrat or
Republican, that fails 10 vote to give
him the railroads, the telegraphs, the
telephones, that he needs for the war? =?
Who is there that fails TO vote to give
him anything and everything he needs?
Do the Republican members OF Con-
gress ever fail in any single particular
10 give President Wilson, for his con-
duct Of the war, the fullest and the
strongest support Nobody will hon
estly say so
With a Republican House, President
Wilson would still have the votes TO
support his conduct Of .he war, and
they would be intelligent votes. They
would be sound votes. They would be
competent votes.
But when the American voters had
overturned the Democratic majority in
the House. which created Kitchin, the
prime revenue maker for the country,
and which remains responsible for him,
then, as chairman OF the Ways and
Means Committee, as a figure OF ma
tlonal prominence, as a member OF Con-
gress is the very least degree notice
able, Kitchin would disappear as COM
pletely as II dropped through a trap
door into the cellar Of the Capitol.
Get rid OF Kitchinl
Evening journal., 1918-10-01
With The Paragraphers

irst baseball in itself Is good game and inter
s osens game nobody could deny. but played by the
@ II Is certainly 'mucker" game TO a de-
gree that is not true Of any other and the state of pub
ionr s W anu manners will be appreciably elevated
ns @ IN a state CT suspension All too clearly,
@ ana one as sordid and as ruthless as exists
h,i u tne country. 1t does not even produce men
posrus mat strangely few Of the professone1 nI
tbe ne ensss LOT war that would be expected from
Tribune. e neio-New York
Evening journal., 1918-10-01
IF POSLAM CAN
HELP YOUR Skin
DO LET IT

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faction for you In being the means TO re-
lieve and eradicate eczema or any stubborn
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at once. They will seem ever so welcome
II you have suffered long. There Is no
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little does much because II Is highly
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Sold everywhere. For free sample. write
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St, New York City.
Urge your skin TO become clearer,
brighter. healthier by use Of Poslam Soap'
medicated with Poslam.
Evening journal., 1918-10-01
The Final Talk"
This is Our Final Word on the
Subject of Gas Rates

We told WI operating
conditions that make the proposed necessary.
We ehavepr the of
froma the
the operating
We submitted proof of the
In petition officials testified under
a
will be only glad to furnish
sion o. 70 ourc
evidence andfa
In of to the o
for the the
the o. VI petite for relief
that
ito voluntarily
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New-York tribune., 1918-12-10
Information by Truckloads

What will the peace conference do
with the three army truck loads of docu-
ments the George Washington is carrying
for its enlightment? Even this is but
part of the information the government
is prepared to furnish; Colonel House
has more of it atRaris. There should be
plenty of pleasant reading for wet
Sunday afternoon in this travelling IL
brary. No fewer than a hundred and fifty
experts go along with the truck loads
prepared to minister to the Gargantuan
thirst for knowledge. Will any delegate
refuse to drink deep of the Perian
spring? 1t is incredible, indeed, that time
which might be spent in delving into
religious development and customs" will
be spent in such dull, practical matters as
trying to make the Balkan peoples agree
like birds in their little nests
The noble hundred and fifty must have
worked hard to make the three truck
loads "a photographic collection alto
gether unique and valuable" The fu-
neral baked meats of war have hotly fur
nished forth the marriage tables of
New-York tribune., 1918-12-10
Air Mail

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I read in The Tribune TODAY tbe
statement of the Postmaster General that
the airplanes which fly daily, except Sun
days, between New York and Washington
are carrying seven and three fourths tons
of mail month Does this mean that this
air route is making a profit of 500 dav
more or less? In view of the mysterious
character of good many of the statements
which come from the Postoffice DEPART
ment, 1T seems to me that your Washington
office would do good thing by getting
little more detail to support this news item
The weight named equals $4,000 ounces
a month, which, divided by twenty-sx days.
makes 1928 ounces day. or 4.769 ounces
each way daily. The rate charged for let
ters, as / understand it, is (minus the 10
cents allowed for special delivery six
cents an ounce. This makes the gross in
come per single trip $2S6l4 The weight
which has been given includes, probably. the
mail bags, but, on the other hand, many let
ters paying six cents weigh, no doubt much
less than an ounce apiece.
This sum ought to leave handsome profit
for the government. 1t would seem that
there are large numbers of people in Maui
York. and also in WASHINGTON. who wr;+a
their letters in the morning and are anxious
to have them delivered at the other end of
the route in the afternoon. AS most bust
ness offices do not open until o'clock. and
as the mail must be ready to start at some
time between 10 and IL, this very large
number of letters evidently is prepared in
a good deal of haste.
Or is the airplane mail swelled by letters
which start from Boston or Richmond. or
some other place or places outside of New
York and Washington? S. G. r
New York, Dec 6, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-12-10

strange as it may seem), imported from
the Russian. Their method and manner
of irritating plain humans are not so
far afeld. For superiority is their main
quality, as in the Mugwump. But it is
a new brand of superiority 1t is men,
tal not moral-or if moral, that aspect
is unstressed. Your true Mugwump
was better, honester, holier man than
any one else; and knew so. "Holer
than thou" was the phrase The men,
bers of the choicest intelligentisia, those
reading The New Republic let us say,
are wiser rather than better, more
learned, more rational, more impartial
"Crolier than thou" as Greenwich Viii
lage irreverently puts the thought.
In Russia, where the name originated,
there was point to it. Intelligence is
there, as has been abundantly demon
strated, the portion of few. If we
mistake not the word entered this coun-
try through our East Side, direct i'm
portation from the Pale. The gorgeous
conceit of our American intellgentsia
was to pin the name on themselves, as
if here in America, as in Russia, intelli-
gence was the property of Few, and
of their particular few who wrote or
read The Neo Republic and signed petit
tions against war and victory ard for a
League of Nations that would be nice to
Germany
In the current number. of The Dial we
come upon Mr.. Randolph Bourne re-
marking, of nothing in particular, that
"a large part of the hopefulness, the
spiritual comfort of the Middle West, of
its sturdy belief in itself, must be based
on the infieXible reluctance of it's intelli-
gentsia to any such set of ideas" The
intelligentsia of the Middle West! Why
not equally Cossacks and steppes! Tell
this to any soviet of Kansas City poets
and see what they will say. Some folks
are more intelligent than others in the
Middle West--as elsewhere. But nobody
has monopoly on the word--not while
William Allen White and B. L. T. and
Vachel Lindsay yet wave.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-10
The Fear of a Labor Crisis

Washington seems obsessed with the
idea that if half million or more men
are kept indefinitely in the camps some
how "a great labor crisis" will be avert
ed or STAYED off. Officials of the
Administration are reported as in state
of great uneasiness. And yet, says Mr..
Field, almost without exception Sena-
tors and Representatives are besieged
by employers among their constituents
to ask that War Department red tape be
cut so as to get men out of the army
and into particular factory or business.
The ways and thoughts of Washing
ton are sometimes past understanding
We have chronicled that the National
Organization of Farmers Associations
estimates a shortage of three million
men on the farms. Supposing it is only
half that many, or only third That
is still goodly number. The Ship
ping Board asks for 100000 more
skilled workers. The subway runs
placard on every car of it's trains say
ing that every man in the army will
find his Job waiting for him when he
gets back and that no present empoye
will be displaced. Such is the shortage.
Because few munitions plants, air
plane factories and the like are ending
their period Of feverish activity, and
because great cancellations of war
orders are being made, there seems to
be an impression abroad that some
thing more than hundred million peo-
pie in this country have suddenly ceased
to need food, clothing and other neces-
saries of life, to say nothing of luxuries.
And at this particular moment these
hundred million people have command
of more ready money than they ever
possessed before in their lives There
is general testimony that merchants
stocks of goods are low. Our normal peace
time exports are just getting under way
again. The surest way to stave Off an
era Of great activity and prosperity
would, it would seem, be to prolong as
much as possible the dislocation of a
large rumber of highly desirable men
and keep dangling in the newspaper
headlines the threat of "crisis."
New-York tribune., 1918-12-10

peace. Did any peacemakers ever before
have such stores of intellect to draw
upon? Old Metternich and Talleyrand
kept their records in the tablets of the
brain. They were familiar with "stra-
tegic frontiers" of course; but it may
be doubted if they ever gave thought
to irrigation" or "crops and livestock"
The new diplomacy is more comprehen-
sive. A pleasant time will surely be had
by all on the mornings when "geograph-
ical interpretations of problems Of terri
torial waters" and tariff routes in re-
lation to boundaries and material re-
sources" are discussed.
Let observation, with extensive view,
survey mankind from China to Peru"
DR.. johnson would have been delighted
with this practical application of his
somewhat Pathological advice If the del
egates get half way through their pro-
gramme they will have made amazing
progress in the task of laying the foNn-
dations of that new world we are hearing
so much about
New-York tribune., 1918-12-10
The New Mugwump

1t was certain moral chestiness that
gave distinctive pose to the old Mug
wumps of the Evening Post school,
Superiority was their second nature So
sure were they of their excessive virtue
that. all the rest of the world were as
naughty nothings. The irritation that
they inspired in the general public was
exactly that engendered by the too good
boy at school-of the "Rollo" book breed.
The new Mugwumps differ materially
from the old Their name, proudly yet
delicately flung from the lips. is wholly
new. "intelligentsia' with hard "g,'
New-York tribune., 1918-12-10
Hudson Sailors

- REAT, broad stream:
~ When | am brave,
Will you carry me along
To your mother, the sea?
Ive heard your mother, the sea- Groom afar
"They were brave"
AS she cradles their bodies
They were brave"
Your child-echo grooming US here.
| want my body to be firm,
Ny face and eyes smooth;
When | go there must be pride
In my final thought; equality
With my eternal fellows; shadow
Must greet shadows with clean hand.
This is no time to take me, stream.
My death must be like theirs!
And She
She who stands behind me,
Wistful, glad and nodding me courage
She, too, must be able to Groom,
He was brave"
ALFRED KREYMBORG