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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
The Proud Germans
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: A correspondent in this mornings
"Times" philip Gibbs) INDUCES in maudin
sentimentality over the tragic fate" that
has befallen the proud" people of Germany
in being under foreign rule. Proud! re
gods! as Penrod says. Is a nation proud
that after committing unspeakable crimes
on defenceless people including women and
little children, sets up frantic pleas for pity
the moment its brutal career is checked
Is nation proud whose women for four
years have gloated over the possession of
stolen goods sent them by their thievish
relatives from the private wardrobes of
French ladies'? Do proud women write to
their men to loot as much as possible?
Is nation proud whose cowardly navy,
after skulkng in safety through the whole
war, comes out Of hiding at last only to
surrender to save their precious skins?
Is nation proud whose still unbeaten"
army, being forced off foreign soil, laid
down its arms rather than fight to finish
to keep the enemy out of the Wanted
Fatherand?
And, finally, people be called proud
who for four long years starved the little
children of France and Belgium. and then,
dreadng in advance the pangs of hunger
for themselves, begins at once to whine for
food to an outraged world?
If this is pride the word has lost its
meaning. L. F. INCLUSION.
Dobbs Ferry N. Y, Dec 16, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
Distinctly Disappointing

(Fronl The London Daily Chronicie)
Economy in the saving of stationery by
the of envelopes two or more times
in the post may sometimes be carried too
far for the recipients peace of mind Yes
terGay morning there came to our break
fast table a foolscap packet addressed to
the writer. There was a crown embossed
on the flap, and Sir D. Probyn's signature
the face. Visions of honors, royal
invitations and other courtly marks OF
pleasure faded from our mind as we drew
out communication from publishing
firm, which was using again an envelope
addressed to it by Queen Aexandras comp
trolier.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
Our Biggest Shoe

On September - the plotting out of the
where the American army as such fought
its campaign and won hands down.
And then began in earnest the retreat of
the Germans.
With the British still delivering their
Boche staggering blows-to which the Bel
gians and our two and later two more div-
sions added their comparatively small but
we'll directed might-and the French thrust
ing without cessation between St. Quentin
and Scissors, two American armies entered,
September 26, upon a drive through the
Argonne and along the Meuse to cut be-
tween Sedan and Montmedy the German
main railroad line of retreat
1t was our second and biggest show, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
Our Muzzled Thinkers

From an austere, albeit somewhat
cryptic, correspondent in The Neav Re-
pu6t1c comes throb of repressed suffer
ing which has touched us deeply. 1t con-
Germs our thinkers, referring, no doubt.
to our serious thinkers, those little
groups, scattered here and there, that no
matter how finely frail or frailly fine
they may be, are still the leaven, the one
ray, the oasis of light, and other things.
to redeem our otherwise dull, perverse
and sodden world. Our thinkers-an
article by Professor John Dewey is the
teXt-have, it seems, not so much been
muzzled; they have muzzled themselves
out Of the same feeling Of patriotism
which has led others to France" Who
does not thrill at the thought of this fine
repression? Where others fought and
some died, the Thinkers Among Us have
periodically refused to think aloud
But these Tactics of Silence, powerful
as they were, are no longer effective. We
read:
"The first-may l call it the minor >
partly through these tactics of silence
but if we are to win the bigger objective
must see 20 it that the silence is now
broken"
We can almost-might we say almost
tragically?-hear it breaking!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
To a Child

(Frona The Neto Statesman,
q nee in a golden hour
~ Spring brought sign to you,
For the dark house door stood open,
And peeping through,
Out of the solemn gloom of the hall, you
found
Daisies a-wink in the wind starring the
sunfecked ground
Now has destroying time
Shut to the heavy door
Against you, little one,
And the daisied floor,
And tracery of boughs on morning grass,
Have silent stol'n away where ali things
lovely pass.
Yet each returning spring
Opens with magic key
Times door, and small within
You stand and see
Where still for sign. the daisied track
appears
Spreading it's windblow white and gold
down all the years.
R. MANNING SANDERS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
A Week of Verse
Bethlehem

From Rcedys Mirror
COLD was the earth and all the stars,
~ But Mary Mother smiled
Where in the manger of an inn
Lay warm the Holy Child
The OK was host upon that night
Unto the King of all;
He gave for incense meadowy breath,
For shelter his rude stall.
Not all the cold of earth and man
Can pierce the heaven mild,
Where warm against her leaping heart
Mother clasps Her Child.
o miracle of utmost love,
How God grew greater when
He stopped to be helpless babe
Beside the hearths of men.
long ages since-and still in joy,
In loneliness and tears,
We kneel unto Little Boy
Who smiles down through the years.
WILBUR UNDERWOOD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
The Garden Under Lightning

(Frour The Pagan
nUT of the storm that muffles shining
~ night
Flash piteous roses CHASTITY sweet
And lilies far too white:
There is pang of green,
terror of familiarity:
see a dripping swirl of petalled things
That l once tended happily,
And paths l surely walked in that other
life
Day.
My pale ghost-garden gbbers at me
Beckons horribly
And vanishesi
LEONORA SPEYER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
Starting Wrong

The threatened tie-up of the Port of
New York by a strike on the harbor
boats is bad beginning fer peace times.
The case is much confused. The boat
owners feel that they ought not to be
subjected to fresh demands from. the en-
ployes six months after complete set
Element of the difficulties was effected by
arbitration through the National War
Labor Board. Most people will think
that this is, of all times within the last
four years, the most uncalled-for, in gen
eral, for an increase of wages, in what
ever form they take, and that if the
award made on July II last was fair
the question ought not to be reopened
now. The presumption is that the award
was fair. 1t was made by board COM
posed Of seven members-one represent
ative each from the departments of
Labor, of Commerce and of War; two
from the employees, one from the rail
road administration and one from the
boat owners. 1t was accepted by both
sides. Since then there has been no APP
preciable further rise in the cost of
living.
Every worker ought to know the B G
of the problems involved in the return of
our industries to d peace basis and the
relocation of from two to three million
workers as demoblized. Unless our
mills and mines and all means of trans
portation and communication are kept
running on full time, the transition to
peace will be extremely difficult and re-
suit in large unemployment Wages are
now at an unprecedented level, and this
+ means a high cost of production in every
line. A great part of our prosperity is
conditioned upon the sale of our surplus
manufactures abroad. This is irpossi-
bic if wages and production costs are inn
possibly high. If wide Unemployment
should result from overnight wages, no
government or combination Of operators
or of workers could keep them up. The
nation would go bankrupt ii it tried it.
SO much for that side
The boat owners are willing lc rrai-
trate the demands for higher wac, but
refuse to submit to arbitrator ti'n qoes-
ton of basic day Few will T.. n1le 20
understand the basis of this Abstraction.
1t is not made clear by the btS* c7rneys'
statement. If the award Of The board
of arbitration last July was just and
acceptable to the boat owners. and r the
demands Of the unions are now unjust,
as the boat owners hold what would they
lose by agreeing to submit the length of
the working day to arbitration, just as
much as any other point? Surely, fair
and intelligent board of arbitration can
consider all these questions just as COM
petently as the far more intricate ques-
ton of wages.
Industry cannot be necessarily arbi-
trating disputes. There ought to be some
means of impartially determining wheth
or q fresh inquiry ought now to be con-
s;dored within six months after full in
vest;oation such as was given this case
The nresent agreement is binding on all
nart;es until next May 81, unless sooner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
The Caves
From To-DQ4jl

(Frons To-Day
r IKE the tide-knocking at the followed
IL cliff
And running into each green cave as if
In the caves night to keep
Eternal motion grave and deep
That, even while each broken wave repeats
Its answered knocking and with bruised
hand beats
Again, again, again,
Tossed between ecstacy and pain,
Still in the folded hollow darkness swells,
Sinks, swells and every green-hung hollow
fills,
Till there's room for sound
Save that old anger rolled around;
So into every hollow cliff of life.
Into this hearts deep cave so loud with
strife,
In tunnels / knew not
In lightless labyrinths of thought.
The unresting tide has run and the dark
filled,
Even the vibration of old strife is stilled:
The wave returning bears
Muted those time breathing airs.
How shall the million-footed tide still
tread
These hollows and in each cold void cave
spread?
How shall love here keen
Eternal motion grave and deep?
JOHN FREEMAN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22

NOME of our people, with more enthu-
siasm than knowledge, have been talk
ing and writing as though our sole
effort had "won the war;; though there
we're not allies that had been fighting with
immortal valor and sublime sacrifice three
years before took place at their
side; though their repeated, powerful
blows had left no impress upon the enemy.
In part such pretension is the national
tendency to "boost"; in part it is a desire
to honor Americas sons
But our soldiers who have fought in
Flanders or Picardy, on the Marine in
the Argonne with and alongside British and
French and know the fields where, outnum-
bered and unprepared, our allies resisted
attack upon attack of fierce German on
slaught, will be the first to resent this I'M
intentioned but implied injustice to the
fortitude and service of those that live and
to the heroism of those hundreds of thou
sands who, while America yet "too
proud to fight" gave their lives that the
world might be free.
These boys, our boys, returning and still
on duty cover there" made good. That is
sufficient for America to pledge and to re-
member; and enough of praise to give them.
No Boosting Needed
They need no boosting; on land and sea
THEN deeds speak for them Fresh eager
lads, untried for the greater number, many
with but few weeks training, others with
next to no preparation, they bore them
selves with courage equalling that of their
ripper experienced comrades and allies;
IL L. I
ligent fervor of British and French best;
and all did what was asked of them.
Occasions there were when particular
British, French American units were given
their privileged opportunity, and keenly
seized and glorously used it, but there was
not then nor can be conjured separate
credit for the one which did not, does not
recognize its dependence on the others.
Ten months after the landing of our first
eXpcditionary force in June. 1917, we had
our first baptism of blood in the raid by
regiment on the German trenches at Seiche-
prey. and q month later, May 90, 1915 our
LIST Division captured Cantigny after an
artillery preparation, mostly French, which
wiped the little town off the map.
In early June at Belleau Woods and
Chateau Thierry we stopped the advance
of the Germans whose general attack on the
Marine was definitely and finally broken
few days later by the French under General
Gouraud before Chalons; and in the Cen
eral Foch ordered counter offensive which
followed, July 1S-with its subsequently
continued drive toward Forest ST. Gobain
by General Wangn's gallant, answering
storm troops-American soldiers. brigaded
among the French by divisions to the mum
Der of eight, took a conspicuous and i'm
portant share both east and west of Sois-
sons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
The YelI01u Germans

The German had shot his bolt The first
Marine indicated he could not win, and Ypres
and Verdun proved it. He hadn't the stuff
in him to beat the British-F French combina-
ton of grit and fervor He could never
have broken the spirit that held his hordes
at Verdun at Ypres, or that stood between
his desperately flung numbers and the
Channel ports And though he had forced
them back at times and might again give
them anxious days. he lacked both the
power and the spiritual quality to deliver
a Knockout. His reach and strength and
speed were diminishing his heart was
yellow, is yellow as his abject surrender
and subsequent whining emphasize He's a
gutter, as always he has been when I'D
against a real fight, and the British and the
French, especially the British, had his num-
ber They would have carried on and he
wouldn't have-and they would have beaten
him before the end of 1919
SO at the eleventh hour we came with a
rush and our weight, added to the superb
fighting and endurance of our Allies which
had battered the Germans, was just enough
to tip the delicately balanced scales in 1918
But can't claim to have "won the war"
that cannot be said of any one of the Allies.
If England's Contemplate little army"
hadn't sacrificed itself through the splendor
of its fighting in 1914, there would have
been no need for a second German try for
the Channel ports. and the first Marine
might have been different story
If the French army hadn't held with
amazing devotion and pertinacity against
superior numbers through the long terrible
months of l914-15, the war would have been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22

lFron The Dfdl)
The rustling summer of your heart
l. Where limpid butterfly emotions
Are tangled in sun strands, and all is
tinged with young loves,
There grows an old, twisted tree
He seems to wonder how he came
To all the light and warmth that whisks
endlessly past him.
He is an old, half-withered sorrow,
And he bears for your skipping joys a sad
friendliness.
MAXWELL BODENHETN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22

sefous thing, as the economic craft not
rarely illustrates. But no political
economy may be worse yet-as the food
administration has conclusively proved.
Inc law or supply and demand IS still
Valid, outside Mr. Hoover's office,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
When the Addressee Is a Hun
From Tho Columb,n Rsco,d,

From The Columbia Record
Funny world! Colonel Whttlesey was
decorated with real gold medal for saw
ing GO to hell" while most men are dec
Grated with paste in the eve for the
same thing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
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yss san purchase merchandise advertised IN the
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va make good promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22

because our objective was the Germans
pivotal position and therefore vital, the task
was the most difficult before the Allies and
became increasingly difficult as the Ger
mans drew all possible reinforcements to
oppose us.
Twas campaign of brilliant conception
and magnificent, tenacious endeavor which
only the armistice November 10 could
halt, and must take place among the great
campaigns of the war forever to shed its
glory upon the staff that planned and the
officers and the soldier boys that carried it
through
We Turned the Scales
Yet let us also never forget that it was
the French either flank of the Americans
that made possible the brilliant successes at
Beleau Woods and at Chateau Thierry-
Scissors; the British hammer that aided
Americans to break through elements of
the Hindenhurg line; the persistent, furious
attacking of British and French in the west
that helped the Americans 10 carry home
their drive in The east
SO let US keep our feet on the ground
and look facts squarely in the face. AS
Marshal Joffre says, our weight
turned the scales,' but if the British and
French had not been fighting and killing
Germans for practically four years, the
weight added in 1918 couldn't have
turned the scales this year. And if the
British fleet hadn't kept the seas free of
German dreadnoughts America could not
for another year two have sent food or
troops to thus add her weight-and the
Germans would have had civilization by the
throat
That was real freedom of the seas" of
which we are now having so much discus
sion.
And if we had not turned the scales vic
tory surely would have been delayed but
not lost If America had not come in Ger
many would not have been beaten in 1918
perhaps not until 1920, but even without
soldiers success finally would have come
to the Allies, in my judgment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22

tRecentlv Returned
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GUAR ANTEE

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Mail Matter.
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PAUL ELDRIDGE.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-01-30
LINE is DRAWN AS
TO COMPENSATION

In making out his income tax re.
sarn The farmer Il allowed to Deduct
the oonpensatie to zen en-
rloyees but a line Ii drawn as to the
compensation OF women employees
lf a woman's entire timo is employ
Cd il taking care ~sf the milk and
cream prepared for sale, in the pro
duction Of butter, cheese, etc. the
care Of milk cans and churns. or II n
separate table is maintained for
farm laborers and her services are
entirely in the preparation Of their
meals and caring for their rooms,
The compensation paid her Is a do
ductible item. II, however. she Is en-.
ployed in caring for the farmers
household, no deduction can be
claimed .N
Income tax returns must be filed
with the collector OF internal reye,
nue. in the district in which the tax
payer lives on or before March I
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-01-30
LOCAL CHRISTIAN
EKDEAVlRS UNITE
Tonight TO Celebrate Anniver-
sary Of Organization.

This is Christian Endeavor week
throughout the world, the FIRST soci-
ETY. being organized ON February 2,
1881 by Rev. Frances u. Clark, who
is also called Father Endeavor Clark
and efforts are being made to get
the people better acquainted with 6.
K. principles and we want the coop.
Grafton Of all Christian people, The
societies now number about 10000
and the membership over 100000
scattered among every nation in the
world. The society Is Inter-denomina-
tional in It's scope and this Is one Of
the reasons why It has such grip
upon the people. Tho members Of
the G. E. are doing q great work also
during our nations present crisis in
helping wherever they can and doing
their bit This evening at 7i45 o'clock
there will be 4 meeting in obsery-
ance OF G. e. week at Second U. 3.
Church and on Thursday January 81
at same hour the regular monthly
meeting Of the union at the same
church. The public is cordially invlt-
cd and urged to attend these meet
ings
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-01-30
EACH RlRDMAM HAS
HIS IRREGULARITIES
10y lnternatIonaI News servioel

10y international News Service)
Pittsburgh, Jan. 30.-That aviators
have their own peculiarit.es in driv-
ing and can BIO identified as certain.
IS as the telegraph sender can be
recognized by the receivers was IN
dicated by the story told here by
Lieutenant r. G. Searson, OF Pitts
burgh. now a member Of the Royal
Canadian Flying Corps.
when Major Bishop, the Ameri-
can flyer, who has won so much fame
at the French front takes the air,
said Searson, she can be easily iden-
tilted. The machine moves With the
instinct OF a bird, so graceful and de-
void Of jerks Is the movement. When
Captain Vernon Castle mounts, even
Il one does not see him enter the
machine before he rises, his pres
enee is betrayed BY the planes DecuI-
lar display Of dancing IN the ar, AZ
We call it.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-01-30
GETTING JUNIOR
AUXILIARY READY
Children Who Collect Maya
zines Will Receive Credits.

The Chapter School Committee
met in the Ladies' parlor at the Y.
NJ. G. A. promptly at 3 o'clock satur
day at the cali Of the chairman Prof.
N. L. wachtel.
The following members were pres
ent. Misses Logan, Marten. Heelen
smibling and Holt, Prof. Wachtel
and d, H. Dodd
Mrs. Virginia Faulkner President
Of the local Red Cross Society. was
present and after distributing addi-
tional literature to that already Civ
en- out at a previous meeting, offered
some valuable suggestions.
After free. round table discus
sion as to the program made in or
ganizing Junior Auxiliary Societies
in the city schools. the work al
eady accomplished. and the best
method OF procedure TO secure sue
cess, the following business was
transacted
Mr.. Dodd moved that the children
be recognized as Junior Red Cross
members and be entitled to wear the
oflcial button Whenever they have
contributed % cents in cash or It's
equivalent in work. or in approved
magazines. The motion prevailed.
Miss Martin offered motion that
If. case school is unable to pur-
chase material for sewing, tAat that
school may apply to the local chap
ter for supplies before the school
has been organized as a Junior Aux
isiary Chapter of the Red Cross So
Getty. The motion was unanimously
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-01-30
'UToS USED TO HAUL
BOOZE ARE AUCTI0MED
tsy international News Service,

(By international News Service)
Oklahoma City, Okla, Jan. Co.
The seeker after bargains in auto,
obiles had a real festival the other
ay at the sale Of three cars. con.
lscated by county officials. whose
wners were using them e haul
looze.I
The three cars not having been re-
eemed. were sold under the ham
e-.
One man, Doc Beatty, Of Jones
ity. bought q car, whose owner put
a fight with officials In which two
en- were shot for s135.
Constable John A. Denny bought
he oneriest' Of the three cars for
So
A negro named Holland bought
be third car for $3.50. Later he re-
used to pay for his purchase. sher-
Il G. S. Johnson declares he will sue
he negro and force payment