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New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
The Marines Have Come

It's dull American who doesn't feel
moved to throw his hat in the air over
the news from the Marne. There will be
time for patience and sitting tight later
on. Let US be proud and happy to-day
that our men have signalled their arrival
upon the most famous of battlefelds with
new and glorious victory.
We don't think Americans will be un-
duly puffed up. We knew before they
went to work that our marines we're as
good as the best. There is no famous
unit in all the world that can beat them
in personnel CIR morale or downright man.
to-man fighting ability The marines
were bound to make dent in the German
helmet whenever their wallop was turned
loose. The job they have done is exactly
the kind of hard hitting that was ex-
pected of them by all observers. Ameri-
cans or not.
We think the chief emotion that will
follow in the hearts of most Americans
will be thankfulness that we are in time,
deep thankfulness that we can already
begin to strike blows side by side with
our battle-worn allies. Our men come UP
new and eager. They bring fresh
spirit, fresh confidence, that must be a
blessed and heartening relief to the vet.
eran French and British with whom they
stand. We cannot bring a new bravery
to that glorious line. We can and do
bring new nation, unwearied, untouched,
in numbers without limit,
The European battlefield has seen no
omen carrying such portent to the Ger
man nation as this small but sweeping
victory by American troops.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08

sudden access Of unprecedented wages
and the unsatisfed demand for every
kind Of labor inevitably bring a CORE
spending scale of expenditure among the
masses.
It is not alone the extravaganza of the
rich that is promoting the present high
cost of living, but also the extravaganza
of the wage-earners, the planters and the
farmers, who have never known such
prosperity. Taxation alone can reach
this extravaganza, and in order that it
may be reached every one, the thrifty
as we'll as the thriftless, must face his
added burden. 1t is a gratifying thing
to feel that we have at the helm Of the
government finances man with clear
grasp of the situation and the blunt
courage to meet it without paltering or
demagogy We beg to felicitate Secre-
tary McAdoo's admirable exposition of
fact
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
The Big Spirit

Foreign observers of our conduct in
war are amazed at the spirit in which
radical economic measures are accepted,
almost without comment. Suddenly the
government announces that it has laid its
hands upon the entire American output
of steel and iron. No legal processes
were required. 1t was necessary only
for the War Industries Board and the
American Steel and Iron Institute to sit
IN conference for day and adopt joint
resolution morally binding upon every
member of the greatest industrial aggre-
cation in the world. 1t is agreed that no
iron or steel shall be delivered to any
one Tor any purpose except on priority
certificate from the War Industries
Board. When the wants of the govern
ment and the Allies have been supplied
in logical order private consumers may
have what is left for non-war indus
tries, under the eye of government and
subject to it's continuing pleasure.
This might be very startling news, but
it receives only perfunctory attention.
Not single newspaper thought it worth
front-page display. In Wall Street the
price Of United States Steel common
was affected hardly at all. 1t is re-
markable demonstration of how industry
may be modified by assent. The power
of the War Industries Board is increas-
ing by virtue of it's own works. 1t ap-
peals to the right-mindedness of men
and it plays fair, and the response is
what we see. The credit belongs to B.
M. Baruch. He is the liaison officer be-
tween government and business. BY his
genius for effecting great arrangements
we are evolving a Ministry of NUM-
tions. You may call it what you like.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Up to the Red Cross

The Raker bill for the reorganization
of the nurse corps of the medical de.
partment Of the army could be passed if
the war council of the American Red
Cross would only recommend it's passage
as an imperative necessity.
Why the Council withholds support
from this deserving measure is puzzle.
The Red Cross administrators themselves
accepted high military rank because they
found that without the insignia of au-
thority they were seriously handicapped.
The lack of relative rank also handi
caps the devoted and capable women who
have gone into the nurse corps of the
army medical department. They dis
charge professional functions similar to
those discharged by the surgeons of the
Medical Corps. They do an officers work.
but they lack the outward signs of rank
which would define their status as su
perior to that of non-commissioned off,
GERS and hospital orderlies. The Red
Cross is an auxiliary organization-out-
side of the army. The nurse corps
should be staff corps-inside the arinv.
IT rank is needed by Red Cross officials
1t is doubly needed by nurses.
Every trained army nurse should have
at least the grade of lieutenant. Notice
by Congress that real nurse staff corps
IS to be created would be the greatest
possible stimulant to the present cam
palgn for the recruitment of 10000
Skilled army nurses.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08

I'm PRESIDENT WILSON'S recent address
at the Red Cross meeting in New York
City he raises the question concern
ing our army, "Why limit it to five mill
ion"? The answer which suggests itself is
that such a limitation would not be neces-
sary because of lack of patriotism or un-
willingness to serve, but that it would be
forced upon us through our inability to
manufacture sufficient ammunition because
Of shortage of platinum
The government has been trying to meet
this situation by communicating platinum
IN a general order on March !, and again
on May Is, by more inclusive order, in
Guiding iridium and palladium, but releas-
ing 25 per cent of the jewellers stock for
commercial usage. Those charged with
building dam across the platinum stream
to store up it's waters extended the dam
two-thirds of its needed length (mporters
and refners) whereupon through the re-
naming space manufacturing iewellersl
platinum flows into the already green fields
of non-essential adornment And the dam
builders rest contentcdly upon their abors.
opllvlous to the important role of this rare
metal in the winning of the war
And the dam has been purposely built
short of completion for in reply to remon-
strances it was asserted that the present
measure would furnish adequate supplies
for ammunition manufacture. (But on
now large an army are they basing their
calculations
Ihus Is begun the great gamble, under
official authorization, between the paltry
profits of the jewellers and the limitation
Of the number of men in our army-unless
some of the future drafts fight without
ammunition and without supporting artil-
lery, depending for their offence and de-
fence upon the bayonet alone
is there to be still further destination of
our limited supplies of these vitality impor-
tant metals?
1t is time for some one to put the dam
completely across
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Disgraced Harmonies

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Monday afternoon we were as
founded by news of the latest sample Of
Prussian warfare.
Monday evening, at the commencement
exercises of one of our leading schools of
music, in an auditorium usually devoted to
this art, parents and friends of the grad
yates were invited to hear this nearly all
German programmes:
Overture, "Egmont" ......... Beethoven
Two movements from Concerto in
MINOR. Chopin
Fantalsle ............G Georges Hiic
Song of the Rhine Maidens from
Twilight of the Gods". ... Wagner
Introduction and Allegro Appassion-
ato. .............. Schumann
Romance and Tarantella. .Helmesberger
Overture, "Ruy Blas". Mendelssohn
Waltz, Stories from the Vienna
Woods. s.................J. Strauss
With the temper of our people what it is,
and not eight hours after the newest mur
derous adventure of the Germans, this time
within our very gates, within gunshot of
our homes, was made known to u.s. our
minds still stunned by this further ad-
vancement CD of "Kultur," we were asked
to listen to Rhine Maidens and to Stories
from the Vienna Woods the civilizing in
tuence of which made possible the sinking
of the Lusitania, the massacre of the Ar
menians, the cutting off of the hands of
poor Belgian babies as they were raised in
supplication to the deflers of their mothers.
the bombing of Red Cross hospitals. the
perpetrating of atrocities too horrible to
contemplate and unparalleled in history.
And not only this but among the students
who played this German music were mon in
the uniform of this glorious country. Was
1t right to ask them to do it? Was it right
to them?
am not taking from Bach and Beethoven
and Mozart and Haydn and Schubert and
Schumann the place that is theirs in music:
but it is entirely possible to make pro-
grammes Of other than German COMPOST
tlons, programmes containing such names
as Chopin, Saint-Saens, Cesar Franck.
Debussy Mcdowell, Grieg, Elgar, Berlioz,
Icnalkowsky and many besides
Was this an intentional insult, or was It
in the worst degree a manifestation of bad
taste and want of tact that is incompre-
hensible except in German?
Let there be no more of it!
AN AMERICAN AND A MUSIC LOVER.
New York, June 8, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08

The Hearst White Peace Propaganda
From The Ne,o York American
December 90, 1917: "While the white
nations of the world, including the United
States are destroying one another, ex-
hausting their resources, sacrificing their
men, Japan, leader of the yellow nations,
is increasing her wealth, extending her
trade, enlarging her territory and includ-
ing within her control the immense re-
sources and the enormous population Of
Western Asia"
January 8, 1918: every day that the
present European war lasts the white races
are becoming weaker and poorer and less
numerically, and less able to dispute with
the yellow races the domination of the
world. . The only battles which
count are the battles which saved the white
race from subjugation to the yellow races.
F.. Russia was the great buffer be-
tween Europe and Asia. Germany
and Austria, the second line of defence, we
are endeavoring to depopuate and destroy.
, Is it not time that the white
tions settled their quarrels among them
selves and made preparations to meet their
real danger?"
January II: "The suiciding white race
February 27: laid in ruins
the civilization of the white race"
April s: ". this unhappy, suicidal
white world.
oers circulate in Germany, and have by
At our exercises against Germany are to
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
White Peace Propaganda

lhe German White Peace Propaganda
From the Deutschc Taseszeitum0
ION the other side Of the Atlantic, in tho
meantime, Wilson is manufacturing SOL
diers. In his own words he is stamping
armies out of the ground, minus equip
ment, minus training and minus leaders
or a general staff and lacking any kind Of
organization.
mot long since he laid emphasis on the
fact that five million men would not satisfy
MS iron resolution He has just given
assent to an enactment which provides that
every youth who has attained the age of
twenty one since June 5, 1917 must enroll
That is the way the Americans fight against
hated 'mlitarism.'
"But he knows very we'll that these fig
ures will play no part in this war Perhaps
the situation in the East and the treaty
between China and Japan are causing him
to reflect. 1t would almost seem that
preparations are being made hastily for the
contest over the future power in the Far
East for which the Americans and the Eu-
ropeans who survive may serve as leaders
and instructors"
Or is it merely that the Hearst pa
their editorials suggested the thought tt
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
The "Alien Stacker" Muddle

There IS reason for complaint at the
long delay in fixing the military status
of resident aliens. Our draft system will
remain confused so long as the govern
ment fails to lay down a clear rule of
exemption or liability
All aliens were included in the orig
lnal draft registration on which state
quotas were based. Enemy aliens have
been generally excluded from service.
But not all of them. According to the
report Of Provost Marshal General
Crowder, made last December, 12,959
Germans and 92,199 Austro- -Hungarians
were called by registration boards and
928 Germans and 1928 Austro-Hun-
garlans were conscripted. Nineteen hun
dred and two Turks and Bulgarians were
also drafted. There ought to be no diff
ticulty in laying down a clean-cut rule
for enemy aliens. They not only ought
not to be drafted into the army. but
they ought all to be interned.
Then comes the group of neutral
aliens. We have treaties with some neu-
trail countries by which we grant their
citizens or subjects here immunity from
consumption. The State Department has
asked for general exemption of neu-
trails. This request is in accord with
American policy in the past. Neutrals
might be drafted for war work; thew
ought not to be expected to fight. Yet,
according to General Crowder's figures.
55,901 neutral aliens were called by con-
scrlption boards and 11,2O6 were sent
into the army
The biggest alien group is that of sub
Jects or citizens of Allied nations. OF
these, up to December last, 772, ,744 were
registered, 281 1882 were called by boards
and 49,276 were accepted for service
The status of co-belligerent aliens is
chaotic. Congress has tried to straighten
II out IN various ways, noted by Repre-
sentative Rogers in his speech in the
House last Wednesday. The Senate
passed the Chamberlain bill providing
Tor the drafting of all aliens except en-
emy aliens and neutral aliens protected
by treaties. The House passed the Bur-
nett bill providing for the deportation
OF all aliens who should claim exemption
from service on the ground that thew
were aliens. The House Committee on
Foreign Relations requested the Secre-
tary OF State to negotiate treaties for
the inclusion in our draft of the subjects
OF foreign countries (enemy countries
excluded) residing here.
Yet nothing has happened Secretary
Lansing obtained treaties with Great
Britain and Canada and had treaties with
france and Italy in sight. The British
ana Canadian treaties were submitted to
the Senate last February. They were
Withdrawn in March Congress has
taken no definite action. So the situa-
ton remains unclarified.
II the State Department is not able to
obtain treaties Congress cannot be ex-
pected to delay much longer in STRAIGHT
eh'hg out the manifest inconsistencies Of
our present "alien Stacker" policy.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08

President Wilson and Food Admins
trator Hoover together have probably
defeated a preposterous ATTEMPT on the
part of Congress to accomplish nation
VIDE dryness as by one heroic drink;no
bout after which there should be moth.
ing lett for temptation This was to be
oone by an amendment to the agricultu-
RAJ appropriation bill already adopted
Oy the House, stipulatlng that no monev
could be spent under the general terms
OF the Dill until the President exercised
the power conferred upon him by the
1000 control act to prohibit the manu-
facture of beer and wines. The d;st;n.
ing OF. liquor is already prohibited but
there is still a large stock of whiskev in
the country. Suddenly to stop the pro-
ductlon OF beer and wines would in.
evitably divert the thirst to whiskev.
The consequence would be "an orgy of
drunkenness" which Hoover declines to
be responsible for. Prohibition should
be achieved, if at ALL he thinks, by direct
legislation. The President thinks so. too.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08

of Canada's acts will be prohibition of
spring shooting from the time the birds
begin their flight until they reach their
breeding grounds and during the time
they are nesting
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Coiled in the Flag-Fiear-s-s~t

mind excited over 'he yeho"
the Europe continues
Asiatcs The follows:
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08

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money back request. No red tape. No ouihblnu
We mako GOOD promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
The Great Gamble

4 bst1act from "The Journal of Industrial and
Engineering ChemiSsrv' Of the A Anlericun
chemical Society.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08

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preparations for with
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
GUARANTEE

Entered 1t the Postofice at New York 4
Mail Matter
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-01-03

wasn't very long
since Old Year
had visited them
so they were quite
familiar with him
October tossed
some of her pref
ty leaves into his
face. This was
her way Of kiss
ing.
November look
g d hale and
Hearty and De.
fember in snowy
robe carried n
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-01-03

Christmas tree over Ii .nu.'.r.
After exchanging hauy greetings
with the whole company Old Year
stepped up to June ami asked her to
open the ball with him. For reply
she strewed him with her petals. and
, then such dance began rs never
was seen before1 TIL Minutes flew In
by the windows, ana the Seconds
jumped out Of the cracks in the
Ice floor. Everyone was giddy with
JOY and excitement, aud Old Ycar.who
a few hours before was mcditating
by the fire, now danced tin even lively
June began to weary. Then he took
sweet April In his arms and the little
red feet and legs positively twinklcd
round the hall. March executed
Wild dance with October. and blew So
..drI 10, us Of his partners dress
'',te o;.,"u Oye! the door.
~ ha!f past eleven some Of the
minutes STRAINED out that supper was
so.,,L, and Oh Year and his friends
lie" IL take their last meal together.
Livery imaginable dainty was on the
table aad the dancing had made the
jewellers hungry.
The Minutes and Seconds ate like
lightning, and then enc after another.
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By KIN HUBBARD

Liyin' beyond tn oui skirts o our
incomes Is another habit that is
worse than either smokin' or swear
IN an a habit that IS doin' much {
create a widespread dis'rust in so-
ciciy Robin Peter III grocer, {
pay Paul, III auto dealer, Kin have
but one result.
We never hear o our women folk
maxim any New Years resolutions.
Theirs many things they might re-
solve { do besides cuttn' ont eggs.
Their resolutions might have a
bllghtin' effect on clubs an L.llia-l
rooms an other refugees fer tn hem
pecked an homeless, but they would
help t revive that fcclln o love m
respect fer women that seems t be
goin' out o style these days.
Good resolutions accompanied by
a great flare O. trumpcts last about
as long as an ice cream cone in a
Turkish bath. Tn Teller who BOASTS
that he's goin' t quit smokin' never
throws his pipe very fer, an tn fel.
Ter who proclaims from a store box
that he's thro' with III demon rum
is about as reliable as tn statesman
who says he's thro' with tn Repub-
lican party.
Let's do somethin' original this
year an gather up a whole lot o.
nasty little characteristics an try Z
do away with 'em fer good. We've
all got EN-. II You can't find EN-
ask somebuddy who knows you t
point EN- out. They're there.
Theirs lots o folks who don't
r'. '- smoke or swear er drink who |
mean tra"
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-01-03

No sooner is tn spirit o Christ.
.a giyiu' exhausted till we're seized
with tn spirit o retrenchin' an,
after a season o spcud,u', with tn
View Year jest around tn corner We
uuconsriou,ly fall int a retrospec.
.'e mood an take q personal invoice
an solemnly resolve { make a better
howin' both morally an financially
at tn close o tn comm year. So
Ne start or tn New Year with lofty
resolutions. Ven quit drinkin' or
chcwln' or smokin' or swcarin'.
Maybe our new resolution II include
all of EN-.
But We never seem Z think O tn
many other things we might elimi-
nate from our program fer tn COM
IN year that would not only better
our chances in tn hereafter but
which would make tn path o life
far plcasanter fer those who by force
o circumstances are compelled t toll
crate us.
So let those O. us who are perfect.
aside from smoAin', drinkin', chew
in an swearia', dig around n little
an see If We can't find a few things
besides tn ole moss covered habits
aforementioned that we could cut
cut with profit Z ourselves an those
We minglc with.
Next t thinkin' only O. ourselves
tn worst habit is tryin' { save
Nerthing we make. | don't know
which teller a community has tn
least regard fer-th one who licks
Up ever penny he gifts his hands on. !
'r tn Teller who holds on { ,ror' I
eant that comes his wav b.
Ny suspicions
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Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-01-03

throwing ITS petals all over the floor
ana a little man stepped out. He was
Whlte from head to foot.
Bless me : II you aren't Brother
! JahuaryE said the old man. "What
brings you to visit me? It's only the
uirsy-hrst OF December"
nut LIN last January" said the
niue ieiiow. oid Year laughed. "Of
course you are. You came In my
""'stcoat pocket and popped out be-
l..c me o'Aefs-ticy we're AFRAID o.,
90, cod -.
"a SAD Jod haven't quite forgot
-" ms 40" A't'G' Ola Year, Ne
"", ms '"n'e "a great scheme for to-
''H. Nete GONG 10 feast You Ia the
re- Fa'"ee ." i''"c Mountain. We
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lightning, and then on
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-01-03

felt a little sad
a, b o Il t saying
good by to his
friends and a
tiny bit jealous
about New Years
arrival.
As he sat there
muSlng a pretty
little snow flower
dropped on the
floor at his feet.
You beautiful
thing he cried.
Where did YOU
come FROM
As he spoke the
flower. expanded,
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with electricity, ind they talked very
fast.
Old Year pattcd them kindly VII.
his big hands, They few round him
very quickly, and In somc magic wa,
ola Year was carried Ia the top /.
The mountain. There he saw M.
dWful Ice palace and over the door W.
written In huge letters "lu Honor oi
Old Year"
Accompanied by the Minutes az
seconds Old Year entered the palac.
ald IA the great bright hall he "a
IL! Of hls dearest friends, the Mont,
= ny beautiful they looked la at,.,
t''lrS abya, the hall.
H.arars, February aud March
6 : together Ia q 'r,nl-.'.-
' lrse IN the rli