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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

Morayia, Silesia and Bohemia, the last
mentioned lying between Berlin and
Vienna The Bohemians are the Czechs.
They are ready to form q republic with
the Sllesians, Moravians and Slovaks. To-
gether this group forms the so-called
Czecho-Slovak nation. The people of the
Kingdom of Bohemia have long had nation
alstic ambitions. The Slovaks have been
oppressed so severely by the Magyars,
who have sought forcibly to impress the
Magyar language and customs upon the
ether races Of Hungary Greater in num-
bers than the Nagyars), that they are
ready for union with the Bohemians.
Practically all Of the littoral of the Adr-
attic. except that occupied by Italy. is
Slavic. If this section of the Balkan
region should become either a Slavic fed
Grafton or be occupied by Serbian king
dom and a Jugoslav federation. it would
serve 20 shut off what little would be left
OF Austria from the Adriatic and give the
control of the Danube and the line of
the Oriental railroad to Constantnople
and the East into the hands of the Slavs
and the Italian-Slav entente, should the
plan reach frution
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
The Enemy. Alien

A Bavarian who refused to register as
an enemy alien has just been sent to
the Essex County, N j., Jail for forty
five days. For the same offence another
German subject has been sent to the
same Jail for ten days.
Such sentences are farcical We are
IN state of war, and every enemy alien
who avoids registration thereby CLASH
fies himself as spy. He renounces
the protection we owe him under civil
lied military usage
France, after three and one-half wears.
finds 1T necessary to take very drastic
measures against enemy aliens. A law
viii be passed providing that those who
have not presented themselves for rcpis
tration by certain date will thereafter
be treated as spies and shot We ought to
begin to take the problem of the enemy
alien at large within our borders as
seriously as France takes it. Failure
to register is not venal offence, to be
put on the same level as disorderlv
conduct, punishable by conventional
Jail or workhouse sentence. Every
enemy alien under cover is a potential
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Summer
Cfrom The .Nou Stutes,no

oFrom The Netp Statesman
When Summer comes he wakes fire,
deeper far
Than skin, flesh, bones-burning to where
those rivers are
That run branch like about nv being.
Then all my hearing, smelling, touching
seeing,
Arc Of the red and fame like things of the
earth.
Where rose these fiery fountains? Where
was | born
So filled with Summer? In an all-golden
On the Egyptian sands had my birth?
BY the heat-tremblng Nile
Have | not watched the scarlet ibis mile
after mile
Wing their long, level way through the b]nc
air?
In an Arabian desert have l lain,
Where my hair
Fell tangled on my eyes and dimmed the
pain
OF the sheer-falli-r sun?
All ! have ever done
Was in midsummer madness, and NV mind
Is Hack with thunderstorms, and no chill
wind
Blows in my veins with sleep.
SO must this ncver-dying body keep
All of Times heat;
And something in me falls from head to
feet
Remembered from the warm, primeval mud.
dark rose golden rain,
Sinking and surging up again.
Tlnc!essly flows through this unquct blood
ERIC EARNSHAW SMITH.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Yesterdays Instalx1ent

After Colonel House had taken Arma-
geddon into his confidence and Armaged-
don had failed to heed his warning, but
one course lay open before him. That
was to return to the White House and
urge instant preparation TO meet the on
coming peril Each step of the war he
had foraseon with extraordinary pre-
science Now he perceived at glance
that his own country lay prone across
the path Of the beast. He, and he alone,
could save.
Without an instant's hesitation Colonel
House urged the prompt modifying OF
the moral forces of America and the dis
patch Of every note that the country
could write The burden was crushing,
depressing. Stronger men might have
whimpered under it. But Colonel House
stood fast.
The New Year dawned with peace
trembling in the balance. Had Germany
only wanted peace, peace would have
come almost any minute. AS she did
not prom The EueRing Posts Comic
History Of the War TO be contiued)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
General Goethals's Return

Last summer, when General Goethals
was summarily dismissed by the Presi-
dent from his position in the Emergency
Fleet Corporation, it was almost tragi-
cally felt that q great reputation had
been furnished and the glory that re-
fected from one of the greatest achieve.
ments in American annals had been
dimmed.
The builder of the Panama Canal had
been, as it were, bracketed with an OBJ
scure lawyer from San Francisco.
1t was said that "the benevolent die
tator' of Panama had carried the sense
of his achievement into his work at
Washington, and endeavored to play the
same role there. Or that his great work
was done. Time has quickly repucliated
these aspersions. A few months ago.
when the delnquences of the War De-
partment were disclosed through Sena-
tor Chamberlains famous attack, it was
General Cocktails who was recalled to
help bring order out of chaos, and as
acting quartermaster general, to speed
up CIlc war WORK..
Now he has been named assistant
chief Of staff, and, in addition to his
other activities, will have charge of the
division of purchases, storage and traf
fic. The energy and insight with which
he took hold of the tangled situation
which he found, and the rapidity with
which results began to appear. proved
that the fame he had attained as d.
rector of perhaps the greatest physical
undertaking ever made by man was not
an accident, nor had the executive
genius which he there displayed begun
to pale.
The American people will read the
news with a deep sense of satisfaction.
First from the feeling that there is =
new spirit and a new kind of ACTIVITY in
the War Department, and, secondly.
That splendid career is being rounded,
out IN fashion commensurate with the
nations judgment of a man.
II the new spirit in the War DEPART
ment IS the work Of Acting Secretary
Crowcn, or, with him, Of Acting Chief
OF staff General Peyton C. March, it is
deVoutly TO be hoped that when Score.
'ary Baker returns they will not H.,
molested IN their authority, nor their
activities interfered with in anv WON,
'""e suggests return to a regime that
was a national humiliation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
England

From The Poetry Rorie,u London)
Like some good ship that founders in the
Like granite towers that crumble into
dust,
SO pass the emblems of thine emery.
But O immortal Mother and august
Ardours of English saint and bard and king
Blend simply with thy soul, even as their
bones
Mingle with English soil Their spirits sing
great song lordly as is a loud winds
Dccayed by gold and ease and loathly pride
We had forgot our greatness and become
Huxtering empire builders, and denied
The excellent name Of freedom
till the drum
Woke glory such met the eyes of Drake
Or Alfred when he saw the heather break!
Where shall we find thee? In the avarice
That robs our brave adventures? In tho
Spelling our splendours? In the sacrifice
or tears we wrung from Ireland? Nav.
thy name
Is written secretly in kindness
Upon the patient faces of the poor
In that good anger whercwth thou didst
bless
Cur hearts, when beat upon one shaking
door
I'H hands of hell Whether before
the flood
We sink, or out of agones reborn
Learn once again the meaning of our blood
Laughter and libcrty--a sacred scorn
Is OURS rrevocably since we stood
And heard the barbarians' guns across
the morn.
THEODORE MAYNARD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
The Tribune's Poll for Head of Our
Schools

The Tribune presents this morning an
interesting poll on the choice of new
head for the public schools of New York
City.
This poll is from among two hundred
Of the foremost educators of the country.
chosen simply for the positions they oc-
cupy and their standing in the educa
tional world.
The poll deals, first of all, with what
might be termed the ideal candidate;
that is, the ablest man in the United
States, and, secondly, with the abest
man now in our present school system.
In this connection correspondent
writes to ask:
"Whv, if Dr.. McAndrew is generally
recognized by competent authorities as
one Of the most capable superintendent
and progressive educators in New York
City could not such be chosen
surprising that the choice is to be linn
tied to a New York City man."
The reason is not far to seek 1t is
clearly set forth in our article on an
other page. The situation is this:
We have new School Board Of only
that the votes of one or two members
may be decisive; that is, the individual
Importance of each member is greatly
enhanced.
The board is appointed by a political
Mayor. And it is now an undisguised
fact that the Mayor and the forces be-
hind him purpose more or less to dictate
the selection.
1t is evident that any member who OPP
poses the Mayor might be marked for
punishment.
Under the new law the Superintend-
ent of Schools will have considerably
larger powers than heretofore He will be
at the same time necessarily more sub
ject to the especial views or whims of
small board Of seven members than
larger board of more diverse interests
This is the first time in twenty years
that the Board of Education has had the
choice of a new Superintendent There
is the most vital need that the new head
of our schools should be man of the
most commanding ability and able to lift
our schools from the rut of routine and
outworn methods into which they have
fallen.
We are sure that the Board of Educa.
ton, when it comes to make actual
choice, will realize it's great responsible
lty, refuse to take dictation from any
dark, political forces and make it's deci
sion without reference to questions of
race, creed or party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Country Housework for Women

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: We hear SO much about farmers
needing help.
The farmers wives need help also, and II
seems at this time, when many men nave
gone to the war, that there must be plen'!.
of women that understand all kinds Oh
housework who would be willing to go in'o
the country, where they would have goou
homes, besides earning a living.
If the city woman could only get ava!
from the idea that work in farmhouse Is
too hard!
There are many farmhouses in these days
that have all the conveniences OF the ci.y
house, besides the advantage of country af
and living.
VIII you please publish this and perhaps
it will change the thoughts Of some women
or give them new idea of how they eau
help?
1t is unfortunate just now that our nahe
and place of residence are so very Ter
man, but assure you we are very pasrio''
and are doing what we can TO help win th''
war. MRS " F.. LICHTENHAN.
Germantown, N. Y, April II, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
A Week of Verse
The Camerons at Karadzakoj

from The Poetry Rerictr, London)
NIGHTS black tent in the east is torn;
cold wind tosses the uncut corn;
And the shivering Struma fields are spread
With mist that beneath the dawn grows red.
Over the bridge and through the trees
Swing the Cameron companies.
Silent, unwavering, eager, strong
To battle to battle, they swoop along
As swirls thro' a rock-wal'd creek the tide
To assault great cliffs on the farther side
With laundering shock and high flung
SO on the new-made bridge go they.
Another mist, like hideous pail,
Shall hover all day where the fierce shells
With deadier force and louder roar
Than Atlantic waves on Cornish shore.
Those fields shall be Redeemed again to-
night,
But not, as now, with delicate light.
For tomorrow the Cameron tide will he
found
To have ebbed no whit from the blood
bought ground.
j. D. NJ, Captain. Cameron Highlandcrs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
A Billion BIGGER

Mr.. Judson c. Wellver, "The Globes"
correspondent at Washington, sends to
his paper cheering word.
Taxes under the new revenue bill of
last year may exceed the provisional
estimates by billion. They may reach
four and a half billions, instead of the
three and half billions estimated.
Over 100000 persons may pay in
come tax, instead Of less than half
million two years ago. and, altogether,
Mr.. Ford and Mr.. Rockefeller and the
rest Of the six billonaires and their
near cousins may pay total tax of
three billion dollars.
Up TO two years ago receipts from this
source did not reach a hundred millions.
The implication of this is very large
and very heartening. 1t means that
business is good. 1t means the nation is
making noney-tremendou money. 1t
must be, in order to pay three billions in
income and excess profits taxes.
Think Of it. The like has never been
known in any other nation ON the face of
the earth.
We hope it will relieve those apprehen-
sive persons who feared that business
wag going To suffer with nation spend
ing nine billions for war.
We hope these staggering figures will
reach Ccrmany--and lodge there. Your
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Portugal Returns

1t is almost a round four hundred
years since the name of Portugal led
all the rest upon the rolls of European
statecraft and adventure. Now her
name reappears in history at Laventie,
near the Flanders line, taking her small
share in the fight for civilization.
Her old glory came as swiftly as it
went 1t came not in Europe, by thrash
ing over old boundaries that spilled the
best blood Of France and England and
Spain for centuries, but by adventure
overseas. A great commercial empire
it was that grew to supremacy in the
three centuries from Denis to John III,
from 1925 to 1857. Prince Henry the
Navigator carried the Portuguese flag
far southwark in his search for an east
ward route to the Indies Vasco da
CANA rounded the Cape of Good Hope
Madeira, the Azores, Morocco, Brazil
and the islands of the East! From Lisbon
to Sunda Straits the flag of King John
flew
The collapse came swiftly. Conquer
ors and earthquake worked their ruin
and the empire overseas all but van
ished. 1t is a new Portugal that fights
by our side in France to-day But her
spirit and courage are old and tried. In
the romance Of nations there is no more
striking and spectacular figure than this
oldtime hero returned to the lists.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Exile From God
tFrOnn Rccdy's Mirror

tFrom Rccdy's Mirror
90 not fear to lay my body down
In death, to share
The life Of the dark earth and lose my own
IF God is there.
have so loved all sense of Him, sweet
might
or color and sound
His tangible loneliness and living light
That robes ME round
If to His heart in the hushcd grave and dim
We sink more near
1t shall be wcll-living we rest in Him.
Only | fear
Lest from my God in lonely death | lapse.
And the dumb cod
Lose Him, for God is life, and death, per-
haps,
Exile from God.
JOHN HALL WHEELOCK.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
A Nelu Alliance

A recent dispatch from Rome indicated
that definite step had been taken to bring
this propaganda to fruition. Representa-
tives of the Italian and Serbian peoples
have signed an agreement establishing
principles for the friendly and permanent
alliance and the adjustment Of territorial
claims between Italy and the ,lugoslavs lin
lstria and Dalmatia) The right of nation
aiities was recognized and also that of the
Jugoslavs to institute q state of their own
according to the principles previously
agreed upon by the Jugosavs and Serbia.
The unity of the Scrbians and The Juro-
slavs was recognized, the disputed territory
of Damatia was awarded to the Jugoslays.
the rights Of minority Italians being pro-
tected.
The other movement is the pooling Of the
national interest of the Poles, the Czecho
Slovaks and Serbans and the other
branches of the Jugoslavs. All are in q CO.
operative spirit.
An examination of the chronological map
OF Central Europe makes clear the sirnif
canoe of the centrifugal motion Of the va
rious Slav groups. The Poles, whose terri
tories once extended to the Baltic, still
ethnically touch its shores A striD ex
tending along the west side of the Vjstula
to the Gulf of Danzg is occupied by Poles
Poland would set up republic if she be-
came Independent again.
Adjoining Poland on the south are the
Slovaks of Hungary, who occupy the south
ern slope Of the Carpathan Mountains
from Prcssburg on the west to the Buko-
wilma on the east. On the same parallels
of latitude and contiguous on the west arc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
The Cry Of $4,000
By II. F. Sherwood

"HE recent reception of the Polish mil
itary commission by Mayor Hylan in
the City Hall was significant in ways
which, perhaps, the sandy Commissioned
executive of this city did not recognize.
There a reason why members of the
Czecho- Slovak National Council and repre-
sentatives OF the Serbs shared in the
speech making and in the welcome to the
commission. 1t was not by chance that the
Polish lion, Ignace Paderowski, spoke sym
pathetically Of the similarity OF the aims Of
the Poles Czecho -Slovaks and Jugoslavs.
The significance shows day in Rome,
where a meeting of representatives of Great
Britain, France, Italv and the oppressed
peoples of the Austro Hungarian Empire,
the Jugoslavs, Rumanians, Czecho- Sovaks
and Poles is being held to take UP the dis
cussion of military AID political plans in
relation to the Dual Monarchy. 1t is be-
heved here that this presages a military
movement of immediate interest.
This meeting marks the approximation of
two natonalistc movements in Central and
Southern Europe which have a marked in
terest for those who hope for the defeat Of
pan-Germanism. the spread of democracy
and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Dual Mon
archy.
One set in motion in Italy by the disaster
at Caporctto and the retirement to the
Pave has resulted in practically a reversal
of Italian foreign policy regarding the east
ern shore Of the Adriatic. The new point
of view is based cooperation with the
Jugoslavs. The policy of force has been
given up. This signifies the abandonment
of impcralistc aims and the victory or
liberalism in Italy. For more than two
months campaign has been in progress in
Italy leading up to an agreement with the
Jugoslavs which would at once serve as
diplomatic attack upon Austria's flank,
bring about the accomplishment Of Italy's
aims through friendly cooperaton and be
in harmony with the democratic detectives
of the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

Uncle Sam was getting a little fat and
pursy, and so loaded down with gold was
he that when he decided to go to war his
movements were unexpectedly slow.
But those pocketfuls of gold are being
put to good purpose. And we think we
see the sweat Of honest anxiety and gen
uine hard labor on his brow now.
Our men are ready, and we are build
ing the ships to send them. And we have
the billions ready to build all the ships
and send all the men that will be needed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
and the
Senator Cunmins and
President

n Il notable speech OH L lNs'y 'SShooo-
Cummins. of Iowa, declared that:
at is Just as disloyal for the President
or any one else connected with the gov
ernment to denounce members of Con-
gress for the manner in which they dls-
charge their duties as it is Tor members
of Congress to denounce the President
It is evident that the Senator's con.
tention will not hold water. For ex-
ample, Senator La Toilette had main
tanned a position on the war as dlsloyal
as any rabid German sympathlzer could
wish. We venture to say that at least
half the Republicans of Senator Cum
mins's own state would vote to expe Sen
ator La Toilette from the Senate because
of his utteranceS.
1t is evident that if the matter were
serious enough or a real crisis arose it
might be highly justifiable for the Pres
ident to speak his mind. The particular
criticism which Senator Cummins re-
sents may have been merely an outburst
of Impotence or temper. 1t may have
been in bad taste. But if in the Presi-
dents judgment it was justified, he had
the right, and perhaps the duty.
Why? Because we are at war and
because under the Constitution the Pres
ident is commander in chief of the
army and navy, and under multiplied
acts of Congress extending over the whole
period since the government was formed
the President is especially charged with
the safety of the nation in time Of war.
His responsibility has been enormously
deepened by the present Congress; at his
own behest, it is true, but nevertheless
with slight opposition.
Now for the main matter. Senator
Cummins wishes that the President
could come to an understanding with
Congress so that the two branches of the
government might pull together for vic
tory, instead of at cross purposes.
Every good citizen desires this. Prob
ably the President himself desires it.
Yet this is the extraordinary situation:
that if he chooses to ignore Congress
and make the conduct of the war his own
personal affair there is practically no
way to prevent him.
Practically the entire power of the
President over the conduct of the war
could be taken away as we have said, by
single vote of Congress. But that
would require a two-thirds majority in
both houses, which is impossible
At present, by act of Congress, the
President has autocratic power. The
Burleson- Overman bill would simply give
him specific authority to cut red tape
and effect congratulations which prob
ably ought to be made and made quickly
Such is the popularity of the situa-
tion-that is, the form of our govern
ment and the personality of the Presi-
dent--that Congress is practically forced
either to give him absolute authority or
divest him Of practically all authority.
The alternative is impossible There
fore, we believe Mr.. Cummins and other
Senator'S are wrong in opposing a meas
ure which makes the responsibility un-
equivocal.
Why not squarely face situation
that cannot be altered?