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New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
First Utilize the Ships
We Have

M .anntrn nnnplNq; T.. We ear, are crying in this
SHIPS: to meet the shipping situation Do
you not think, Senators, that while we are
struggling for a great accomplishments IN
mat direction it would be worth whlo ~
centralize somebody's attention on cett;ne
cfhclency out of the ships we have? thint
1t Will do no harm to say SO, because Cav
many knows it a good deal better than tho
people OF the United States, that we havo
been so unable to adjust ourselves to Off
clent activities that our ships TO-DAY ora
employing seventy days in round trim
between the American ports and the nort,
we use on the other side of the Atlant,c
wnlle an efficiently loaded and unloadeI
snip ought to make the round trim j.,
thirty-five days. What is the result vs.
are losing just half of American effic;enc,.
ana effectiveness, because we have NOT VII
learned how to do things, or we have been
lacking in dcvoting the administrative ~.
tentlon to problem that ought to "a
solved If America is to win the war An1
1t must be won! 1t is just as Important
TO handle the ships you have effectively 80
IL IS TO make heroic struggle to secure
more ships.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Patriotism and the Presi-
dent

CENATOR LODGE. There is tendency,
perhaps more than tendency, to make
the test of patriotism blind, unques-
tioning support not only of the President
himself, but of every one whom he sees fit TO
appoint to position Of responsibility. 1t is
our duty to support the President as the
representative in the highest office of the
American people to the utmost of our power,
but never beyond what our conscientious
convictions of duty to the country and the
cause demand. Many years ago in a very
familiar poem Lowell wrote:
The side of our country must oilers
be took,
An President Polk, you know, he is
our country,
An the angel thet writes all our sins
in a book
Puts the debit to him, an to us the
per contry.
AM John P. Robinson, he
Sez this is his view O. the
thing to T.
The first four verses involve a syllogism
of which the conclusion, although obvious,
Is lacking, but the John P. Robinsons are
as plentiful now as they were then. The
highest allegiance, as said the other day,
is to TIE country and the cause and then
to the President and 20 the men who repre-
sent that country and that cause in the field
Criticism may be false malevoent, and
harmful, just as the falsehood which drips
from the lips of interested fattery may be
pernicious, but honest criticism may we'll
be helpful. The man who tells the truth
as he believes it in proper way to those
charged with responsibility must not be re-
garded as an enemy by the men to whom
ne offers the truth or the facts as he under
stands them
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

that has been appropriated has been spent.
Mr. THOMAS. Of course, we always
spend the money that is appropriately as
far as that is concerned That is truism.
But if it be fact that the Mexican gov
ernment which we have recognized has ap-
pointed the commission there is great need
of its doing something at the present time.
The Rio Grandc River is like the South
Platte, of which Artemus Ward once said
it was river of wide circulation and small
influence.
Mr.. OVERMAN. Mexico, think, is now
making a claim against this government
for million dollars.
Mr.. THOMAS. If Mexico has a claim for
only million dollars we ought to pay it
before it gets bigger, because million
amounts to nothing nowadays. The people
Of my state and the State of New Mexico
have much graver claims against both Mex
leo and the United States.
Mr.. OVERMAN. What is the claim in
your state?
Mr. THOMAS. For interference by this
treaty of the right to appropriate the waters
Of the Rio Grande. The Senator is refer
ring, think, to Elephant Butte Dam, which
is not in my state. We have dams, but
the adjective which precedes them is not
always Elephant" Laughter
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
The RiOCrande Is a Shifty
Stream, According
to Senators
In short, it isn't a satisfac-
tory boundary line.
Is drawing a salary to be
classed as work?
An adjective not always
elephant

Mr.. SMOOT. Mr. President, we all know
AvA that Mexico has been in war for the
last four or five years, and yet every diplo-
matte and consular appropriation bill dur
ing that time has carried an appropriation
to enable the commission to continue the
work to be performed under the treaties OF
1884, 1889 and 1905 between the United
States and Mexico.
mr.. President, know that there is a
treaty between the United States and Mex
'co, az recitcd in this provision, but the
money thai has been appropriated for the
last four or five years has been paid for
salaries and that alone. No work has bccn
done, unless you can call the drawing Of n
salary work. The border il in no condition
10 allow the work to proceed, and VIC arc
again appropriatng money for that very
purpose.
asked how many years it is going TO
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
The Fellows of Whom
One Hears Less

- ENATOR HOLLIS. Mr.. President we
~ have heard great deal about the
patriotism of the dollar-a-year men who
nave come to Washington and are contribut-
ing ,nelr "hole time t. the government for
dollar year. We have heard son,aw,,..
less about the young men who arc draftod ~
serve on the firing line for $50 or s35 q
month They are required to give all their
time to the job for which the government
has drafted them; and is it any hardship an
one OF these supertnanciers who are to man
age this great central bank, receiving n sal
ary OF $1,000 annually, that he shall dc.
vote his entire time to the lob that hc ia
called TO perform? 80
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

into the electrical atmosphere Of the
Senate when he talked for brief ten
minutes about what America had failed
to do.
1t was Senator Poindexter, however,
who made most of the thunder of the
afternoon session, much to the delight
of the galleries, which were unusually
large.
The Senator from Washington is
tall man, with a voice that makes up
in volume what it lacks in distinction
of enunciation. He is a Republican, and
his attack on the Administration con-
duct of the war made the division Of
parties on the Senate floor clearer than
it usually appears in the early after
noon, when Senators are indoent and
full of peace, and apt to sit wherever
fancy has led them. Senator Chamber
lain, returned from several weeks in the
hospital after an operation for appen-
dicitis, sat quietly in the front row of
the Democratic side of the Senate, and
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
he Battle in Picardy Strs Washington to New War Vgor

to get it through, was both born and
educated in North Carolina. He is a
man of medium stature, with rather
worn countenance, ard gray hair that
testifies to his sixty-four years. He is
more the provincial lawyer in appear
ance than most members of the Senate,
but does not, on the other hand, evince
the respect for the dignity of the Senate
that most Senators like to show. His
career includes school teaching, private
secrctaryship to two Governors Of his
state, five elections to the state Legis-
lature, state Legislature speakership,
presidency of a railroad, two presiden-
cies of the state Democratic convention,
a state university trusteeship, a Presi-
Dental elcctorship, a defeat for the Sen
ate once by combination of Republi-
cans and Populists. He is a son-in-law
of former United States Senator who
afterward became Chief Justice, A. S.
Merrimon, and was himself three times
elected to the Senate. He was the first
Senator elected to the Senate by di-
rect vote of the people: His term ex-
pires in 1921.
N1OW and then the early stretches of
l y the war are reviewed here in the
light of subsequent events. One story
which has found the light has to do with
the state of Europe in the months of
1914, before most of America knew that
the status quo of Europe was going to
be kicked over. The story, as it is told,
is the story of a letter, a letter written
from Geneva to America, dated March
10, 1914, declaring without reserve that
Europe would flame with war within six
months, that every government in Eu-
rope knew it, that the deep water chan
nels of Geneva were full of the minnows
Of rumors and that this time there was
no doubt that the great conhagration
was at hand. Geneva at that time was
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
The CAPITAL Awakes to Great Duty In Congress the Spirit
of Fresh Effort Is Electric Stories of the
Wars Beginning Still Circulate

back of him fully half of the Admins
traton Senatorial forces.
The PoindeXter attack finally aroused
Senator Overman, whose fatherly face is
usually decorated with large pair Of
gold nose glasses. The Senator from
North Carolina rose from his seat in his
excitement and carried the attack into
Republican TERRITORY.
Sometimes silence is golden" said
Senator Overnlan, adding that if the air
programme was wrong and the rest of
the military establishment of the United
States inadequate to the crisis before
it, it was enough to have Congress know
it without alarming the people of the
country a bout it. Senator Poindexter,
with no abatement of breath or power,
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

disagreed strongly with this view Of the
matter, disagreed in language that left
no doubt of it's emphasis, when he spoke
of "a scandalous behavior in covering
up things that are true" Senator Over
man proved a hard mark to shoot at,
because excitement or some equal stress
made him walk all around the back of
the Senate chamber before he finally
disappeared through it's doors.
The galleries seemed to know the
show was over for time. The au
dience thinned out in a few minutes
when the regular order Of business
started with the clock pointing at 2
O'clock
CENATOR OVERMAN, who somewhat
~ regretfully announced, a few weeks
ago, that the Presidents bill proposing
to add to the Executive power for war
would have to be fought out in CON-
mittee (agreement lacking) and who has
since taken an active part in the fight
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

thing courageous and something under
zation and Of cceptance
of a great duty which has been forescen
but not until now entirely taken in.
The superficial aspects Of it are in
the groups standing about bulletin
boards, on the streets and at the clubs,
the swift response to rumor, the spread
ing eXpanse of newspaper extra edi-
tions on street cars. Intangible move
ments of this kind lend themselves
easily enough to romance. They can be
exaggerated out of all proportion co
their actuality, yet it is true that Wash
ington has been in a frame of mind to
believe anything. The declaration of
stertorous Teutonic waiter in Wash
ington hotel cafe that the Allied army
had captured 100000 German troops
was only one strand Of a web of Yumor
that spread all over Washington in an
evening this week. 1t even escaped over
the wires to New York, whence it re-
turned to Washington as an unvcrified
rumor.
The more profound indications Of the
Washington metamorphosis arc in the
churches, the grave countenance of the
government in its scrutiny of war news
and in Congress.
THERE have been indications for sew
L eral weeks that Congress is restless
and ready at any moment to break into
open discussion of the present cond-
ton of the nations preparation for war.
The actual explosion came on Tues
day, without a great deal Of notice, I'M
less it might have been previous mu-
tual understanding on the part of the
legislators who took part in it,
General Woods testimony before the
Military Affairs Committee may have
had something to do with it, but at least
Senator Lodge threw heavy voltage
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
An Adhering Member:
One Who Sticks
From a debate on an In
ternational Prison Com
mission appropriation in
the Senate

NJ r. POINDEXTER. should like to
AVA ask the Senator from North Caro-
lima question, since he has referred to
several of these commissions and interna-
tional bureaus.
Mr.. FLETCHER. yield to the Senator
from Washington.
Mr.. POlNDEXTER. What is the exact
meaning of the language used at the bot
tom of page II in -hc item for the Inter
national Prison Commission? | notice that
there is an appropriation thereof the large
sum OF $3.50 to maintain what is called
IN the bill an "adherng member" What
KIND OF member is an adhcring member?
Mr.. sMOOT. One that never lets co.
Laughter.
Mr. PO1NDEXTER. What is the differ
ehcc between the udhcring member and
tho other members?
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
By Ralph Block
Washington, March %.


w 7HEN the United States went
wv to war it had to go about
building war machine and at
The same time developing a capital. One
process was conscious and the other
wasn't, but by all odds the uncon-
scious process was the swiftest and the
most adequate. Certainly, Washington
does now, probably for the first time
since the Civil War, represent the kind
Of cosmopolitan leadership that might
be expected of the capital city of
great nation.
Yet even so select gathering has had
to take it's time to fuse, to amalgamate,
to become a community There are
good many branches of purely govern
mental activity in Washington, and the
ends of each are far removed from the
ends of others. The central core is, of
course, about the executive and legis-
lative branches.
1t may have been this newness which
has given to Washington in the late
months of 1917 and the early months of
1918 at once an air of garish activity
and at the same an appearance of list
lessness with respect to the actual busi-
ness of war. 1t is possible to speak of it
with some measure Of retrospect be-
cause the last week has seen the devel-
opment of a subtle change in the at
mosphere of the capital.
The obvious conclusion would be that
the hot breath of the battle in Pcardy
had begun to scar the mind Of Washing
ton. But it is not enough to say merely
that, for it implies a temporary excite
ment with all the languors of reaction
and relaxation to follow; and the waking
up of the last ten days appears in many
ways to be something deeper than that.
1t has something stern about it, some
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
A Unanimous Amend
ment
1nent

Ma R. GALLINGER. Mr.. President, it is
qualification to me to be able to offel
an amendment to this bill which think will
not be objected to by any Senator. 1 call
the attention of the Senator from North
Carolina to page 16, line 10, where the word
corporation" has not been changed, as it
has been throughout the entire bill, by
spelling it with capital and putting it in
italics. The Senator will observe that is the
only place where that has not been done.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Mr.. SMITH, of Michigan. He sticks, of


Mr.. SMITH, of Michigan. He sticks, Of
course.
Mr.. SMOOT. He never lets CO.
Mr.. POINDEXTER. The ordinary mean
ing of the word "adhere" is "to stick to-"
Mr.. SMITH, of Michigan. Certainly.
Mr.. OVERMAN. This is to send man
to Europe. 1t is an appropriation every
year to give man a little trip and he
adheres to this sum of money so that he
can go abroad. Laughter.]
Mr.. POINDEXTER. l suppose the word
is used there feelingly and intelligently.
He is glued on to it probably
Mr.. OVERMAN. He is plue6 on ~ T.
MIR. POlNDEXTER. So that he cannot
be Jared loose. Is that the purpose of
the word?
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Lines i

When the centuries behind me like
fruitful land reposed,
When I clatng to all the present for
the promise 1t reposed.
When I dapt into the future far as
human eye could see,
Sa1o the vision of the aUorld and the
acomder that acould be.
Yet doubt not through the ages oar
Increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are qridened
avith the process of the suns.
Quoted in the House by MR.. GREEN,
of Iowa.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Lines i

Lines
To the victims of the Tus-
cania, sunk February s.:
On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, qcith solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.
Nor shall their glory be forgot
While Fome her record keeps,
Or Honor points the halloaVed spot
Where Vclor proudly sleeps.
Spoken in the House by HON. ED
WARD E. BROWNE, of Wisconsin.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

" IHEN the United States went
wv to war it had to go about
building war machine and at
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-18

THAT would open the transfer the whole tax burden to land
2That would strike of Constitution the provision that Morality
and Patriotism shall be taught in schools. .-.-..
3That would remove SAFEGUARD against fraud in hand
ling North Dakoas $60000000 public school fund. ~
4That would make possible public debt ABSOLUTELY
WITHOUT LIMIT.
5hat would open the place the hands oo pow
to appoint state and county officer and euen
ant governor excepted. ... 49,. =:.~
THAT would eliminate the possibility of settling labor troubles by
state tribunal Of Cancellation. >..
7hat would make possible IN TIME OF WAR for any able bodied
to hire another to fill his place in the Army: :>...
8hat would permit illegal combinations for the control of prices
the state.
9That would make possible for less than majority extend
strict the right of franchise. T., :
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-03-06
Shark Fishing an Industry.

Shark fishing has evolved from a
sport to an organized industry in the
Pacific waters OFF the southwestern
coast. The skin of various species of
the fish when tanned forms a tough,
durable leather that Is In considerable
demand. and the oil that Is extracted
from the carcass likewise has CONNER
cial value. OF late japanese syndi-
cate has undertaken the exploitation Of
this long-neglected field and, as a re-
suit, large numbers of sharks are being
captured. The mottled skins of the
tiger sharks are being made into slip
pers, belts, gloves and other articles.
while those of the great blue and bask-
ing sharks, which are especially thick
and strong. are used for purposes that
demand long-lived material.-Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-03-06
MRS. MOSES oorrLE.

Hannah H., wife OF Moses Cottle, died
Sunday at her home at Ellsworth Falls,
after an illness OF several weeks, following
a shock.
Mrs. Cottle, whose maiden name was
GrindIe, was born in Penooscot seventy
three years ago, but practically all her
married life of more than fifty years had
been spent in the community where she
died, and OF which she was a useful aud
esteemed member.
Sympathy goes out to the aged husband
now in feeble health. She leaves also
three daughters, Mrs. Ashie Thayer and
Mrs. Walter Scott OF Massachusetts, and
Mrs. Augustus Bragdon of Ellsworth, one
son, Charles ). Cottle, of Ellsworth, and a
stepson, Frank Cottle, OF Ellsworth Falls
| also a sister, Mrs. Nancy Gray, OF Sedg-
wick.
The funeral was held at the home yester-
day afternoon, Rev. II. w. Conley officiat.
4 ing.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-03-06
OLD METHOD or TRANSPORT
Raft as Used In America Today Has
Its Counterpart in Every coun-
try In the World.

"The raft has been used fer centu-
ries for carrying various eargoes,
writes Day Allen Wiley In st. Nicho-
las. at carried Egyptian cotton on
the Nile; il is in service on the Kongo
river liz Africa and the Gauges In In
dia; but the raft which is Its own
cargo is that composed Of logs-a
method of water transportation that
originated in Nova Scotia a half CEN
fury ago.
"Tree trunks cut from Nova Scotia
forests were moved on wooden rollers
to one of the harhors, where the logs
were piled in layers and bound to-
gether with twisted wire rope. The
raft was TO be taken to lumber mill
on New York harbor, where the logs
were TO be cut into timber for building
purposes. To haul the raft while on
the sea, one end of heavy wire rope
was fastened to its bow, the other was
secured to the rear deck Of steam
tusboat- II started on its ocean jour
ney. but never reached its destination,
for a gale of wind sprang up, the tow
ing rope parted, and the raft drifted
out to sea. Later, some of the logs
were found washed ashore on the Nor
wegiaR coast.
IN the Northwest the transportation
of lumber In RATS is very extensive.
They are Of enormous dimensions. in
shape closely resembling a cigar hav-
ing its greatest number at the middle
and tapering TO poiat AT both ends.
While these RATS are Of varying sizes,
the smallest usually contains at least
five thousand pieces of timber, ranging
from 50 to 40 feet in length and from
two 10 nearly five feet In diameter at
the butt.
Consequently, some of the RATS
made In this peculiar fashion are near
ly as long as the largest transatlantic
liners, measuring no less than $50 feet
from end to end"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-03-06
GEORGE Z. FTFIELp.

George +. Fiheld died yesterday morn
ing OF pneumonia, after short Illness.
Mr.. Fifield, during his residence OF nearly
twenty years in Ellsworth, had many
friends, who learned OF his death with
regret.
MIR. Fifield Nas born in Bangor sixty
four years ago, but for many years was
in business in Danforth, as a tinsmith.
He came to Ellsworth from Bucksport
some eighteen years ago, to enter the
employ OF the late F. b. Aiken. For the
past seven years be had been employed
by j. p, Eidridge.
HIS wife, who was Lucy E. Haley of
Topsham, died about four years ago. He
leaves one son, William. OF Danforth, a
daughter, Mrs. Charles Grows, OF Brook
Ign, n. y, and brother living in Bangor.
He was a member OF the Danforth lodge OF
Masons and Bangor lodge oil Elks.
There will be services at the Congrega-
tional church here tomorrow afternoon
at O'Clock. The body will then be taken
to Dsnforth for interment.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-03-06
CRANBERRY Isles.
SEAL HARBOR.

Mrs. James varnum is in Bar Harbo-
hospital for treatment.
Palmer seavey and wife OF Sutton have
been spending few days With hrs sister,
Mrs. Aubrey Alley.
James Dodge, " DO is employed in Dex-
ter, is visiting his parents. he took the
physical examination at Old Town but
was rejected.
Merrill J. Taylor, who enlisted in the
navy some time ago, died of spinal menin-
gifts at the hospital at Portsmouth, Va,
last week. Mr. Taylor married Miss
Marcia Gsteomh, daughter of John Cat
CONT and wife OF this place. He leaves,
besides his wife, two sons and one daugh-
ter. The funeral was held in Bangor
Sunday. with military honors.
Mar g. p
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-03-06
Effect of War on Trade.

II would be impossible TO give in de-
tail the effect Of the European war on
American trade, but partial statements
show the approximate effect on some
branches of trade. Thus II appears
that during the first 90 months of war
our exports Of articles used expressly
for war purposes amounted to 81 ,092,
So. 249 The smallest shipments were
In the opening month Of the war. Aug
ust, 1914, when such exports amount
ed 20 only Ss,551, OH and increased al
most steadily up to March. 1916 when
the total was 114,326, 1926 For the
20 months the exports of explosives
amounted to S166 1855; gunpowder.
S104,605.7S5; cartridges, s403oS.617 !;
dynamite. SPILL orb; commercial au-
tomobiles, $50, 667, 125; mules. S30.026.-
59l; horses, S125,241, 2o6; airplanes,
7,401, 707; firearms, 500 40.9S1: mis-
cellaneous iron and steel, including
empty shells, Sill. 603316: rubber. in
Guiding auto tires, S3s,S5S, 76S; barbed
and plain wire, 50. 4S5, 1856. According
to statistics Of the United States de-
partment Of commerce, more than
three-quarters of the total export
trade of the United States in 1916
went to the allied nations of Europe.
and this including only war exports,
and not provisions or foodstuffs.