davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-10-10

William Crane-individual ex
hibit, 9Th mangle beets, Sd string
beans. lst.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-10-10

table beets, 3rd;
Ellen Thompson-individual ex-
hIbii, lst parsnips, 2nd; cabbage,
9nd
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-10-10

Vera Richardson-trio, 3rd
black spanish, lsf.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
:" The Last Quarter of an Hour "

The one phrase of the war, the words
that best sum up ouY battle and our task,
the words to save us from both elation
and despair, fell recently from the lips
of Premier Clemenceau ave shall win
the war in the last quarter of an hour
he said.
There is no easy victory in this pict-
ure. 1t looks to desperate struggle oil
giant losses, Of swaying battle lines, of
advances and retreats. Of bright morn
ings and dark nights, of days and
weeks of yielding strategic ground, of
mishaps and local disaster. 1t locks as
well to an unfaltering WILL tenacitv
that knows no defeat, that rises above
every depression and returns blow for
blow until, there in the last round, bat
tered, gasping, we still hit-and win.
The phrase is good medicine for easv
optlmists and easy pessimists alike.
WAIT for the last quarter of an hour In
the meantime, fight, fight, fight.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
Inconsideratc

1t is inconsiderate, to say the least.
for all those women of Goshen, New
burgh and points west to up and regis
ter on the very first day. There is such
a thing as secmliness and letting an en-
emy retreat gracefully. The remnant Of
anti-suffragists is refusing to retreat, to
be sure. They are showing all the symp-
toms of the Old Guard at Waterloo, and
it is not easy to combine grace with stub
bornncss.
But the new voters might at least pre-
tend to be little backward and timid
and start at the sight of a ballot box
and cXclaim upon the horror and diff
Guilty of so public and masculine a labor.
To hurry in ahead Of the men as if the
thing was what they had always wanted
and to register like veterans as if moth
ing was easier explodes so many anti
suffrage theories at once that we own 20
tinge of real sympathy for Mrs. Wats-
worth and her faithful few.
Isn't it time for some Society for the
Preservation of Historic Landmarks to
intervene?
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
Rumor-Mongering

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: A rumor that the "Fighting -"
had been wiped OUT in the German Of
fenslve was started a few days after the
drive began, started undoubtedly with
malice. and has been passed on and en-
bclished by ignorant gossips.
have not seen any reference to it in
the papers, but it seems propc~ that some
thing should be said. There appear to be
few people in the city who have not heard
it, and there must be many who are pullible
enough to believe it.
The latest version that has come to nv
cars is this: The -th was sent into battle
under an English division commander, and
forced to take the front rank and bear the
brunt of the shock. When the men of the
til perceived that they were being "sac-
riiiced" they turned and fired on the Brit
ish, who "annihilated" them with artillery
fire.
The same kind of rumor factory was busy
in Paris with it's "telegrammcs de con-
cicrge' in the early months Of the war,
but the rrcnch people have since made
rumor-mongcrlng disreputablc. Is it not
time to begin campaign of education In
this country that will make people ashamed
to help German propngandists by repeating
their hes? WILLIAM A. BIRD, dTH
New York, April 6, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
There Is a Barrier

Says our neighbor "The Sun; "Be-
tween the enemy alien voter and the
November Congress ballot box there is
no" no visible barrier and no possibility
of erecting one"
That is much too pessmistic. The
states which have foolishly given the vote
to aliens may not find it convenient to
amend the suffrage grants in their consti-
tutlons before the November election.
Congress may fail to pass the Flood bill
prohibiting aliens from voting for Presi
Dental electors, United States Senators
or Representatives 1t may fail to sub
init the Kenyon amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution restricting the suffrage
to American citizens. Yet there will still
be a means of barring Germans and
Austro-H -Hungarians from the ballot box.
All Teuton subjects here have lost their
civil status. They are now under mill
tary control. They may be interned; :;
and For many good reasons they ought
to be interned. Sending them to intern
ment camps would end the possibility of
their registering and voting. For we
assume that no state government would
have the effrontery to appoint commits
sioners to collect ballots in the intern
ment camps, in the same fashion as bal
lots have been collected in the military
cantonments.
The Federal government has these
enemy subjects in it's hands. 1t owes
them merely physical protection under
the rules Of war. Intern them and the
alien vote problem-as we'll as every
irritating problem raised by an improp-
er Interpretation Of their status-will
disappear.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
Destroy the Hyphen!

A committee Of the United States
Senate is still taking testimony about the
activities of the German American Ali
:tncc. Why lumber up the record?
The alliance belongs to Il past which its
members ought already to be busy trying
to live down. 1t was an outcropping Of
an Odious plot hatchcd in Berlin, to llccp
alive here the spirit Of separatsm and
disloyalty. Its members were to be
neither Americans nor German Amer-
cans, but militant American Germans.
The United States was not even 70 come
out at the little end Of the hyphcn.
That time has passed forever. We have
reached the stage Of utter disilluslon-
mcnt" so far as the Kaiser's masquerade
ers in this country arc concerned. The
public will set its face against violence to
German subjects here, whether pestifcr-
Gus or not. But it wants to sec the
hyphen taken out and hanged as high as
Haman.
Why linger along at Washington and
Albany? The time is overdue for the de-
structon Of the main stem of the ALI
ancc's underground railroad-and all its
branches.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10

trains up the steep grade between Albany
and Schenectady. The single-span bridge
would cost some S3,000,000 more to cor
struct than the one with piers. The rail
road is now under government operation.
Money saved in construction costs. monev
saved in operation, must be counted
money saved for the people in this time
of emergency.
Vastly more telling in its effect on the
war situation is the cutting down of shi D.
ping time between East and West by two
or three days. Enactment of the Sage
Welsh bill into law will delay. if not
permanently defeat, the cutoff improve
ment. Albany would benelit-that IS,
would retain what it now en- Joys in tho
way of railroad facilities. The detriment
to the country's transportation system.
an integral part Of its war machinery,
would be incalculable. Despite all the
capitals citizens have said in advocacy
of this measure it remains an express
sion Of local pride and local sellishness
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
Albany or the Country?

II is to be hoped that Governor Whit
man will not sign the Sage Welsh bill
he effect Of which would be to block TIE
Casteton cutoff plan by compelling the
erection there of single-span bridge
across the Hudson or none. On the plea
that any other than single-span bridge
would interfere with navigation of the
river the City Of Albany is for the bill
Because the completion of plans an
proved by the War Department and ad-
vocated by the New York Central Rail
road would practically double the freight
carrying capacity Of the Central system,
saving much time in transmission of
freight between the seaboard and the
West, the rest Of the state-the rest of
the country, for that niatter-is against
the BILL The situation, therefore, is AL
bany against the country.
The contention that a doubla-suYn
bridge would be unsafe is contradicted
by General Goethals. He fails to see,
moreover, that the proposed bridge would
hamper navigation. What he does see
and sees clearly, is that single-span
bridge would require so much more steel
than a bridge with piers that $4,000 tons
deadwelght Of ocean going steamships
could be built with it. With the country
at war, committed by the President to
the use Of the last ounce Of its resources
for war work, this is an important con-
sidcration.
by the completion Of the Castlcton cnt-
Off Albany would cease to have its pres
ent importance as n railroad centre. Ru'
The freight congestion at West Albany
would ccaae, and the railroad would avoid
the expense Of pulling heavy freight
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
Why?
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR l have been thinking of asking YOU
a question for some while, but | hesitated
because in such times as these a great
newspaper is besicgcd by so many ques-
TONERS Still it is question an answer
to which in your lucent and vigorous
manner would be, know, an inspiring pro-
nouncement OF immense value.
Your editorial this morning, "They Are
Crlmlnals' encourages me to put it, 1t is
this:
Why is Mr.. La Toilette Ito name no others
of his kidney dangerously at large when
humble, unprivilcgcd traitors arc speedily
rounded up and severely sentenced?
Possibly there is some "tweedlcdum and
tweededee" distinction between his widely
influential activities and those of much less
influential persons now serving terms. but
this is no moment for US to measure dis
tInctlons which are not differences, and it
seems to me that time has come for a
quietus to be put on Mr. La Toilette similar
to that which NJ. Cemenccau had the cour-
age to put on the (to adjective it mildly)
unpatriotcd Caillaux
RICHARD LIE GALLlENNE
New York, April 8. 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
Carson Can't Be Chancellor
From The London Cbron;.,,,

From Tie London Chron;clel
or reward Carson, in returning to the
par should have before him Years of rich
retaining fees and bountful refreshers He
IS the one advocate whose career we can to
some extent predict-at any rate. in a mega
t'Ve sense. He can go no higher with us.
except IN point of reputation and income.
ne can never be judge of the High Court:
ne can never be Lord Chancellor. We have
TO remember that, before crossing to Eng.
iaho ne was Solicitor General in his native
lanc' ihat fact debars him, by statute,
IRON. ATTAINING the bench or the woolsack
in England.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
Behind the Lin.
By Wilbur Forrest

~ BOARD SECRETARY R.vn>
~ SPECIAL TRAIN IN PasEs PpaaERs
March 13 (By mail.-so..a aaNCs
Var Baker and General Persb;ns Of
expert narrators of negro stories 1pe We 0ot
a great port, where large Ame,;o.' s's'a
are building, the Secretary and 00ch
were much interested in the welfara semen 81
listed negro workers. Conseouent,,. !" En-
reriences of the day caused we es
dinner. 'ef a
"l walked up to very black neyro,
the Secretary, "and asked him if IN. s sas
was all right He said: 'Yas. sab 1000
but amt quite satisfied with ~; 0'''
bread ' ss'
Whats the matter with the bread.
oval, boss, dey gives all these :,
niggahs two and three slices of broad VIA
me, can't get ovah one slice, and -. '4'
min dat when l holds it up to nah
can see de moon rise right through i, ~
This man. continued the Secro,.
"was having lunch at the time and .sl.,
him to show me his 'moon-rise' bread :.
was at least two incncs thick, and rea, e..
white, army bread at that"
This story reminded General Persh;,.
across the table, OF negro who was wo,t
lng some time ago at another French ro.
This fellow related the general a;,
sisted on being sent to the hospital to b.v.
his mead treated. He said there was som.
thing the matter with it. He was finally ;,
lowed to enter the hospital, where the sn,
gcon questioned him about his malady.
"Reason knows they's somethin' ma,
tah nah head is that l'se over here in A.
wahAand any niggah dat's ovah here M,
sho must have somethn' mattah with Ii;
head"
Then Secretary Baker thought of anotbs,
one
"Theie was a traveller in West Virgin,
VINO had occasion to hire a negro driver n,
a trip.
"'What's your namc?' he demanded
"'Alah name, sub, is George washington
"'That's a very distinguished and well
known name
"Yas, suh' responded the negro; I've
been a-drivin' round these parts now for
bout thirty years.
General Pershing told the last one:
ga negro stevedore working at one of the
ports had heard q lot about the submarine
warfare. He began to get little nervous
about getting home. He approached one Of
my officers when he had worried quite a BIT
and said:
"'Mistah Officer. wants t ask eff you'll
give me some advice bout a very important
mattah. What | wants TO know is this: Is
they any way to get home walkin', mean
besides goin' on one of them boats? Is
positively worried "
And then the dinner conversation drfted
to the topic, "How to Speak the French Lam
guage."
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10

brave ones hold their tongues, whatever
confronts them. The towards can stand
everything except that one fate. They
are bold as brass until the shadow Of
death LOOMS. Then no friendship, no
faith exists but to be betrayed.
The words are falling at Paris. Will
some of them reach neutrality-suspicious.
New York? Who knows! What vast
relief to those circles which have been
sympathetic to Bolo and his masters
when his tale is told and the worst is
known,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
Lest We Forget Serbia

There comes a time when the power
to feel is checked by excess of feeling,
when terrors so accumulate that terror
itself is dead Thus, German deviltries
in Belgium have so possessed the i'm
agination of the world that it has be-
come difficult to visualize the sufferings
OF the other victims of brutal oppression.
q have supped full with horrors
Direness familiar to my slaughterOus
thoughts,
Cannot once start me"
The Kaiser is as free from the COM
punctious visitings of nature as Macbeth
was, and even those who most detest
his villanes cannot quite escape the
hardening process. Yet the latest re-
port of atrocities in Serbia may we'll stir
renewed Indignation. Austria and Bull
garia, apt pupils of Germany, are COM
mitting the atrocities in this unhappy
Matchmaking, as recent report sub
mtted by the Serbian Socialist party
and published by the Serbian Press
Bureau at Washington puts it, "a per-
manent war upon a peaceful popula-
ton" What is nominally government
of occupation has become "a punitive
expedition" Every principle alike of
law and of humanity has been cast to
the winds.
There is no doubling the truth Of the
report. 1t is too explicit, too convince
ing; it harmonizes too we'll with former
tales of cruelty and oppression. 1t is
the story Of Belgium all over again
The very first act of the Austrian
conqueror was to intern the civil popu-
lation to the number of 100000 or
more. Most Of these were wage earn
ers, the only support of their families.
In this way thousands of women, chill
dren and old men were left to die of
starvation. Nor could they easily have
survived in any case. AS in Belgium,
all material Indispensable for production
was "requisitioned"- the wise
call it-and taken across the frontier,
while shops were pillaged by official
order, and even the carts and oxen of
the peasants were stolen from them.
Burke may have known Of no way to in
dict whole people, but the disciples
of Kultur have learned how to obliterate
it. What violence began, robbery has
ended. The last resources of the Serb
ians have been swallowed up by "an
elaborately subtle system of fines" The
instruction given by Germany has been
bettered, if that were possible
1t is not easy to find language to
characterize this treatment of unhappy
Serbia. But the plainness of the facts
should move us more than elouuence.
The report says that the restoration of
the country after the war cannot be ac-
complished save by the most generous
assistance. Perhaps some of those
punitive indemnities" which kind
hearted pacifsts shrink from might help.
Now that the hearts of the American
people have been steelcd by the near
approach of the war to the men who
carry their flag, now that the President
himself calls for 'forcc, force to the
utmost, force without stint or limit"
there may be less said Of peace which
would leave the victims of the Hun un
AVENGED
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10

Justice Miller, of the United States Su-
preme Court, TO designate our form of
government as democracy, but in the
true sense in which that term is properly
used it is about as far from it as any
other of which we are aware
Let us consider for a moment the mon
and conditions of the Revolutionary pc
rod, along with the belief that the Con-
stitutlon is sacred, for-all- time docu-
ment, handed to a reverent posterity by
superhuman beings. We have the idea that
every man IN the whole thirteen colonies
grabbed a musket and took the 1ield
against England. AS a matter of truth
over one-third of the population of the
colonies did not approve of the war and
took no part in it.
"Then, now, the office holding clacs
did not change capitalism, commercial
ISM, the professions. Your 'conscrvativeG'
OF the present day were either Tories or
downright Loyaists. The war that thew
were powerless to prevent cast them down
from the seats of the mighty, and sent
them scudding into hiding or actual exile.
Men with democratic ideals came into
power and gave the world that immortal
Declaration of independence.
About the only thing allowed the peo
pie was the right to elect a House Of
Representatives, but every care WAS
taken to see that this directly elected
pody should have no real power. The
PRESIDENT was to be chosen by an electoral
college, the Senate by legislatures, and
the Federal judiciary was to be apnointed
for life by the President
Here was where thew pot IN tbe;r fnoc+
work. To the judicary-not chosen h,,
the people, not responsible to them in
any manner, and holding Office for life
they gave the right OF absolute veto
on all Federal and state legislation. Not
expressly, mind you, for as Gouverne,~
Horrs craftily expressed it, that would
nave alarmed But the judiciary was
given the power to interpret the Con-
slllutlon and to pass upon the consti+u
tlonaity of all legislation.
Even as 1t was, the Constitution barely
shipped through But it did slip through.
and from the very first the iudiciar.,
real and intended masters of the povorn-
ment-proceeded 70 Justify the faith re-
posed IN them by the consprators against
democracy.
This, then, is the history of the Sacred,
document the palladium Of American lib
ertles> that we must not touch"
Yet, Mr. President, with that sort If
man holding absolute power over the
news service as far as he can hold Il
writing that kind of article, we aro
about to pass a law that would mare
HIM subject to its provisions and land
hlm behind prison doors. If that he +r,,e
ought this man to be permitted to hold
mat place and ought not the Senate of
lhe United States to ask for his re-
moval because Of these seditious utter
ances? Is he worthy to hold that pos
ton OF trust and responsibility and
power IN this government while we are
'lghtlng to make the world safe for the
klnd OF democracy that has the Presi-
aency and the judiciary and the legisla.
tive branch of the government each in
dependent of the other and all upon a
'lrm basis that we believe is constitu-
tlonal and enduring?
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
The Going

>Htf say it is piteous thing, and vain.
L For us to pour our rich young lives
Upon the rank, blood sodden plain.
They do not know
Ihey cannot see t is a better thing
For life to 30
Like radiant torches, qucnched
When burning high
With that ethereal light,
Than wear down, dull and slow.
Through dark night
And with sick waverings die.
L. V. THATCHER,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
Sound Advice for Whites Also

'Irom Iho Nc,o Orleans Times Picavunr)
Professor l.. NJ. Favrot, of Baton ROUGE.
sa'd IN has address to tho negro statewide
Civic League:
Il haven't any patience with this talk
about the good German people. There amt
any such animal. If the Kaiser and Won
hlndcnburg and all the other military lead
ers were to be killed thcrc'd be thousands
Of ether Huns clamoring for their places.
Lets quit this snivellng and patter
about doing our Bit We've got to make
mp cur minds to do our damnedcst,"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
Bolo Talks

It is safe TO guess that these are
nervous moments for number Of distin-
guishcd and undstingushed citizens Of
Paris and the world. When Bolo Pacha.
at the foot Of the scafo!d, opens his
mouth and begins TO talk there is no
knowing where the words may fall.
That is one czcellency Of the death pen
atty for traitors anI for spies The
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10

You purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safety-for II dissatisfaction
suits in any THE TRIBUNE guarantees TO pay your
back Uron request No red tape. No GubbinC.
We make good promptly II the advertiser docs nos.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
,tr,rrrR or THE Associated PRESS

Tho Associated Press is exclusively entitled the
for republication OF all dispatches credited to 1t
Otherwise credited in this paper and also the local
Of spontaneous origin published hereiA.
All rights Of republication OF all other matter herein
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
B. l.. +. on Airplanc Output

tTron' Thc Chic1go Tyibunc)
INC French have thousand eyes,
And the ,Hanks but one.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
CHAR AkIEE

Entered al The Postorlcc at New York Second Glass
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-04-10
Creel Censors the Constitution
congressional RecOrds account Of the debate on the
F'l'O1'l
Sedition 6ill)

SENATE
Thursday, A pru i, 1918.
"a /TR. WATSON: Mr.. President, I
lVI find, reading "The Rocky
Mountain, No,1,sN Of tho 1d4h
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-06-27

recate the strides in socalled so
cial legislation nor in improve
n.ent of educational facilities,
and yet we actually doubt wheth-
er the net value of all these to-
gether will exceed the reforming
power of the stroke of the pen
whereby the stamps were bro't
into existence.
As they adhere physically to
the card, so they literally, if only
spiritually, bind men, women and
children together in their reDub,
lie, the peoples own affair. Pa
triotism, service. thrift, compe.
tence, good business, safety. av.
ailability to all, a national part
nership-what offers so much?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-06-27
Injustice Rectlhed.

The Common Pleas court in
Franklin county has ordered DR.,
William H. White re-instated as
chief medical examiner of the
State Industrial Commission. The
Democratic state administration,
wanting DR.. Whites place for
good Democrat, preferred char
ges against him. Although these
charges were not sustained, Dr.
White was removed anyway. The
Common Pleas court held that
the Civil Service Commission
erred in refusing to permit DR..
White to introduce evidence tend
ing to show that his removal was
sought on political grounds.
Had there been no appeal to
the courts, DR.. White would have
been dismissed illegally and with
stigma on his professional STAN
ding. Had there been no appeal
to the courts, he would have been
unable to show that the whole
thing was a political scheme. As
it is he had to make a costly legal
fight to preserve his professional
reputation from unjust charges.
Yet the Cox administration
would have us believe that there
is no politics during the war
Ohio Republican.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-06-27


The needs and habits of sheep
differ widely from those of hor-
ses, cattle and swine, but pre-
sent no problems that will not be
met by interested study and OBJ
servation supported by satisfac-
tory returns. The boys in sheep
clubs have mastered the princi-
pies of sheep raising is ample
proof of this statement.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-06-27

Here are some figures about
what can be expected of a back
Yard flock. Each hen in her pull
let yeal should produce 10 dozen
eggs. The average size of the
backyard flock should be at least
10 hens. Thus each flock would
produce in a year 100 dozen of
eggs which, at the conservative
value of 25 cents a dozen, would
be worth S25. But the 100 dozen
is more important than the $25.