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New-York tribune., 1918-09-12

man@uvres, is a war offensive. The Ger
man has merely begun to change the
method by which he Will continue to seek
victory in this war; profit from the
contest, which will leave him in
stronger position than he occupied when
the war began and from which he can
later resl'me the war when he has again
completed his preparations.
We are, then, approaching a far
graver crisis than that which existed be-
fore the Second Battle of the Marne.
Then Foch was in reserve, ready. We
have no Foch to direct the diplomatic de-
fence We have no unity of command,
and it is doubtful whether we have quite
achieved a unity of purpose compre-
hended in q determination to achieve a
military decision.
1t is emphatically not true that we
have yet achieved military decision in
this war. The German armies have suf
fered disastrous defeat and have re-
treated in some disorder and at a high
cost. But all this happened to our
allies in March, April and May and vet
did not prevent them from making their
recent offensive with such great success.
1t is not even certain that we shall be
able to drive the German to the Belgian
frontier this year, although the signs re-
main promising. Everything now de-
pends upon the weather. Last year and
in 1916 bad weather robbed the British
OF the fruits Of their campaigns in Flan-
ders and at the Somme. Equally bad
weather would probably hold up Foch
now and again save the German.
Pending military decision, all nego-
tiation is nonsense, means nothing more
nor less than deciding how great victory
we shall allow the German While the
armies in France are unbroken, German
success in the East will insure eventual
German gains from the struggle. While
the German armies are unbroken all Ger
man proposals are merely an extension
Of the front, are military maneuvres as
frankly as was the Hindenburg retreat
of 1917
The worst possible mistake now con-
cevable would be the assumption that
Germany is beaten and has quit. So far
the German armies have not been as
heavily defeated in the summer as were
the Allied armies in the spring German
peace agitation now is only change of
strategy, with the preservation of the
essential purpose, which has always been
and remains-profit for Germany as a
result Of the war.
The German has shifted his policy. He
has abandoned the Napoleonic concep-
ton of European and world domination.
lie is now concerned with the Frede-
rlckan conception, comprehended in the
TACT that having seized Silesia Frederick
the Great kept it in the face of all Eu-
rope and through a seven years war. We
may have beaten the would-be Napoleon.
but we shall accomplish nothing decisive
until we dispose of the contemporarv
Frederick. Any gain for Germany as a
result of this war means a lost war for
all of u.s.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
To T. p. s.

MASTER of multitudes, we who ride
1V1 may read
Daily the screed of thy pragmatic wit;
Chastened is he who selfish rights would
plead;
Corrected they who idly thought to sit.
SO do we learn, while dangling from thy
straps
Like hangmsns victims from the galows'
towers,
Whose wifu vices wrought their own
collapse,
Somehow the fault is very largely ours.
And though the throng across our forms
shall tread,
Through strong propulsion from the rear
applied,
We can but blame the pseudo needs which
led
These millions at the selfsame hour to
ride.
Unto these foolish millions teach thv feor
And to their nickels shall they add thv
praise;
Do thou direct, philosofnancier.
The rough adventures of their traficksd
days.
SEYMOUR BARNARD,
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
Daylight in October

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I have been hoping that some one
else would express the idea that it is mis-
take to place the date of changing back
of the daylight-saving time to the former
time as late as the end of October. | noted
that England wisely had appointed Septem-
Der ~ as the day for the change. During
October it will surely be necessary 70 nse
artificial light hour earlier in all fac-
tories and places which open early in troll
ley cars, and in so many homes wbers
employees must rise early.
Would not this necessity more than off.
set the saving?
1t would surely be far more comfortable
for every one to rise an hour later after
the beginning of cool weather. Will not
some one uphold me in this matter before
it be too late - G rp
New haven. Conn. Sept. 0, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12

at the siege of Troy was influenza; and
a plague of 412 'B. G. described by Hip
pocrates, the "father of medicine" had
many of the symptoms Of the disease.
All authorities are agreed that the great
European plague of 1910 was influenza,
that the epidemic returned at intervals
of about one hundred years for time,
but that improved methods of transpor-
tation and consequent improved facilities
for spreading the contagion have short
ened this period in recent times.
An interesting fact connected with the
epidemics is that invariably they have
been accompanied by some such phenom-
ena as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
extremes of heat and cold, such as
marked New Yorll's coolest winter and
warmest summer this year; unseasona-
BILE cold such as damaged Germany's
crops last spring; displays of the aurora
borealis, rare instance Of which was
seen in New York last spring; dense, i'll
smelling fogs and plaques of caterpilars,
such as are now affecting England.
The disease has had already as many
names as lives. The facetious knights
of the time of Queen Bess dubbed their
visitor "the newe acquaintance" 1t is
the irony of fate that the name by which
it is now generally known is a lasting
monument to the linguistic shortcomings
of early English physicians. Italian
writer's, describing an epidemic Of the
disease, spoke of "una influenza FREDDIE"
(inhuence of cold). English doctors
supposed the Italian word for "infu-
ence" was the name Of the disease, hence
"inhuenza."
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
A Cross-Continent Flight Soon

Both for distance and time, the fight
Of Aviator +. Y. Gardner from Chicago
to New York has been many times ex-
ceeded. Air journeys of 1000 miles have
been made this year, and in endurance
contests fiers have held the air con-
tnuously for nine hours or more. But
the trip from Chicago in a single day
has hitherto baffled some of the nerviest
of our birdmen, to say nothing of Miss
Ruth Law. Gardner is the first to
achieve it.
Time will tell whether a real service
can be maintained. The difficulties are
great and the cost is high. Even
after he had reached New York the
aviator was two hours in trying to find
Belmont Park. He finally landed in des
peration in field, narrowly escaping a
serious accident. In the prevailing mist
the signal fires could not be seen. That
illustrates one of the problems involved
1t IS not an easy matter to put up sign
posts several thousand feet in the skv
and yet some method must be found to
enable pilots to sight landings.
Hardly less spectacular was the flight
OF companion aviator Max Miller cov-
erlng the same route from Chicago in
an actual flying time of hours 32 min
utes. That is wonderful speed, and sug-
gests that a 'cross-continent flight NAV
not now be far distant.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
A Possible Coal Tragedy

What the reckless use Of coal in need
less industries may mean in the actual
loss of human lives was pointed out by
?. B. Noyes, head of the coal conserva-
ton division, in an address at. Cincin-
natl. Speaking to the engineers there
gathered, he said the danger of short
age IS by no means past. He thus warns
us of the nearness of an Impending cat
astrophe," a "silent tragedy:
We cannot fill Pershing's orders in full
because the United States cannot make
sufficient steel this winter A shortage
in steel results almost entirely from lack
of coal.
Keep this in mind and then look for
ward to the events Of the coming spring.
We shall have the drive. We shall sue
ceed In 1t, but some time in February or
March, or whenever the time has come
General Pershing will sit down with
pencil in hand and will figure up the
exact deficit in the filling of his orders
for munitions.
With military formulas now we'll recog-
nized he will figure in place Of those
munitions how many extra men must be
put into the battle to be killed This is
no fanciful statement. 1t is now pos
sible to treat in any aggressive move
ment, the question of munitions or Of cas-
ualtles as interchangeable quantities. SO
many thousand American youths must be
thrown into the hopper for every thou
sand tons of munitions which are short.
This is not pleasant reading If Mr..
Noyes has stated the facts, Mr.. Garfield
ought to put it squarely to the country
that we cannot go on as we are going.
nation which is sending three millions
of its best blood to France will not
needlessly will it that "many thousand
American youths must be thrown into
the hopper for every thousand tons Of
munitions which are short" In the re-
markable response to the request to save
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
Liberty Bond Tax Exemptions


In his letter to Chairman Kitchin Sec
retary McAdoo urges that in the new
Liberty Loan all holdings of 100000 or
less be made tax exempt, instead of
$4,000 or less, as now, at least for the
war period. Further that this exemp-
tion be extended to all holders of the
prior loans. not now tax exempt, up to a
limit of 5000 for each individual COM
pany or corporation. The measure is
urged with view, first of all, to stabiiz-
ing the prices of the several Liberty
loans, but most Of all to insure the sue
cess of the coming campaign.
The wisdom of this proposal is evident
the moment we consider the actual hold
lngs OF wealth in America and the pos
slble sources for the new loan. There is
an inveterate belief, widely prevalent.
that the rich men of the nation have
ample means to subscribe for all the
funds needed, and that if they do not so
subscribe they should be compelled to
do so. This is the favorite scheme for
"conscripting wealth." AS a matter of
the income tax, there are only 2O6 indi-
vlduals in the United States with in
comes of a million dollars or over. and
the total Of their declared incomes is
less than half billion-about S462 .OO0.~
600. Of those having $4,000 a year or
over OF income there are less than $4,000,
with total income of less than three
billions-$2,7 79S, 100000.
For the coming year the government
expects to raise $S,00O,0OO,OOO in taxes,
nearly $4,000 100000 from the income
tax, the larger share of which will fall
upon these richest $4,000 persons. That
is, the tax will take one-half or more of
their estimated incomes. Supposint
then, that they subscribe every dollar of
the remainder. this would. according to
the available figures, then furnish on]v
about 10 per cent Of the additional SIG
oOo,O0O,O00 which the government now
computes it will require.
The remaining fourteen or fifteen
billions must then come from people
with incomes below $4,000. Rv the
further and show that it must mainlv
come from persons with $4,000 income
or less, for the extremely simple reason
that the slender number of fortunate
persons with incomes between $4,000
and $4,000 year would equally fail to
make up any considerable part of the re-
quired amount.
or the new campaign the government
hopes to round up total of five or six
billions at least. 1t is evident that with
the drastic taxes on corporate and COM
pany earnings under the new bill sub
scrptlons from this source, which have
previously been heavy, will of necessitv
be very considerably reduced. And these
same taxes mean a corresponding decline
IN the bond buying power of all those
who derive their incomes in whole or in
part from stock dividends. 1t follows
therefore, that if a new loan is not
popular loan in the widest and fullest
sense 1t will inevitably fall short Of ex-
pectatlons and needs. BY widest and
fullest extent we mean the participation
of millions of farmers and cotton n1ant-
ers ana the more prosperous wage earn
ers, who have hitherto not been heavy
subscribers.
In urging Congress to make the new
loan as attractive as possible Secretary
McAdoo has behind him the best tnan-
clal judgment Of the country.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
Extending the Front
BY Frank II. Simonds
(CoWright 1918, Neao York Tribune Inc)
TNIlE words of Burian and the tumors

rENHE words of Burian and the tumors
\ of Cabinet changes in Berlin are
not to be read without careful re-
lation to the military situation. Unlike
ton between diplomatic and military
weapons in the pursuit of victory--abso-
lutte or relative.
What we now have is the beginning of
the German attempt to extend the front.
TO take an illustration: Several times
during the war the German has chosen
to relinquish the offensive, or the effort
to regain the offensive, on the West front
in order to conduct an operation else
where which he deemed more important.
Thus in 1915, and again in 1916, after
the Verdun failure, the German assumed
defensive attitude in France and Bel
gium while he concentrated his reserves
upon the task of disposing of Russia
In 1917 the campaign strategy was
little different This time the German
undertook, while maintaining his Western
front at the cost of the strategic retire
ment to the Hindenburg line, to attack
Allied communications by his ruthless
submarine campaign seeking victory
through his campaign on the sea. 1t was
only in the present year, after the Rus
sian collapse, that Ludendorff returned
to the ideas of 1914--the pursuit of an
absolute military decision by the decisive
defeat Of French and British armies
before America could arrive.
This campaign has failed. No abso-
lutte military victory is now or hereafter
possible for the German. But relative.
an approximate, victory may yet be had
if the situation on the Western battle
front can be stabilized for time and
during. this time the diplomatic attack
upon the Allies, exactly analogous to the
submarine campaign of 1917, can be
pressed.
Germany now seeks to save her gains
in Russia and in the Balkans. If she
succeeds in doing this she will have won
the war, even if she evacuates France
and Belgium, cedes Alsace-Lorraine to
France and compels Austria to make
concessions to Italy in the Trentino and
; about Trieste But while the Diplomatic
operation goes forward it is necessary
that the German lines in France and
Belgium hold, and the interdependence of
military and diplomatic operations is
manifest.
German strategy is patent enough. 1t
is now the mission Of the army to check
or delay Allied advance for the balance
of the present campaign-for eight
weeks at the outside At the end of this
time German iplomacy-using the for
mula of kuehlmann, now repeated bv
Burian and by every German commenta
tor, that no military decision is possible
will point to still unbroken German
lines and demand a conference-a nego
tlation or discussion around the table.
Now, all this must be clearly foreseen
and guarded against The German
peace offensive, like all previous German
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
Ode to Mount Vernon
(Fro,n Life)

(From Life)
~ ONE, let US give Mount Vernon due
~ applause!
No, not because
She is, as people say,
Not more than thirty minutes from Broad
way;
Nor yet for churches, parks and schools
And country clubs and swimming pools
And forty thousand population
according to the last enumeration).
Why praise her, then?
Because her patriotic Board of Aldermen
Have banished for this term of war and
stress
The yellow peril of the daily press
So, hail! Mount Vermont
Bright may your beacon burn on,
The first
10 turn down Hearst!
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
A Jitney Prince

tFrOr The Montreal Stdrl
A facetious London journalist has mo
named the Kasers unfortunate ofspfp'
the Half-Crown Prince. If ne had e''
travelled on this side OF the Atlantic >
would have known that the name is uhs''
able. A half-crown is worth twice as "0''
as thirty cents.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12

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stands why.
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indispensable Equipment.

Farmers are more conservative in
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ter you generally find the articles
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conditions. In recent years such
as automobiles, tractors. trucks, en-
gines, ETC., are considered necessary
equipment. In fact these machines
have been the means of profitable
farming and educational advantages
for the children in many instances.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-10-09

than one made OF
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Chocolate Milk Shake.-Melt four
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CoIored Men Sent to Camp
2O4A SSA
Sewer.

SSVtST.
TIE following are the names of the
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ield last Wednesday morning for
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John C. Longstreet.
James Blocker
Frank Harris
Willis Williams
Jasper Slaughter
Horace Chinn
Calvin Price.
Jno. W. Peterson,
Willie Hillery
Yancy Stevens
Burrel Lanham
Charlie Thurmond
Robt. White
Gordon Williams
Geo. Curry
Tom Oliphant
Frank Weaver
Charlie Jones
Otis Drummings
Jno. H. Brown
Sampson Cheatham
Johnnie Darns
Thos. Harling
John H. Callahan
Joseph B. Mosely
Geo. NJ. Bussey
Thos. Lee
Jno. Frazier.
Henry Nance
James Daniels
Lewis Curry, Jr.
Paul Collins
Tom Brunson
Geo. Love
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Charlie Williams
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Eiigah Settles
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TI1@ KITCHEN
We get back u mete as we measure,
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ure
For justice avenges each slight.
SUM Eff DRINKS.

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