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New-York tribune., 1918-03-11

the governments suspicion, we see the
perfect symbol of victory.
We have not seen the books. The
government will examine the financial
transactions. But without seeing the
accounts, on our faith in American bust
ness we say unreservedly-
The Hog Island job is clean.
We stand or fall by it. We like the
risk
And when the results of the invcsti-
cation have justified our faith, we trust
that the government will handsomely
withdraw its aspersions
And we trust, even more, that the
government will take the Hog Island les
son to heart and recast it's attitude tow
ard American business in fundamental
way; that especially it will perceive the
fairness and the extreme social i'm
portance of having the evidence before
branding American business on mere
suspicion.
That has already happened to the coal
people, in spite of Secretary Lane. It
happened to the Base Sorting Company,
which was branded as a "synagogue
ring" 1t happened to Eisenman, whom
General Goethals afterward exonerated.
1t has happened to the American Interna-
tlonal Corporation. 1t may be happen
ing to the packers, who are now under
investigation. We know nothing about
the packers. We merely protest against
the presumption Of their guilt being pub
llshed broadcast daily at the instance
Of the investigator who, besides repre-
senting the Department Of Justice, is a
candidate for Governor of California.
If the packers are suspected, investi-
gate them properly and decently; and
If they are guilty of profteering in war
time, do anything that seems adequate
to punish them; but do not lynch them
on suspicion and try them afterward.
American business is beginning to
have some very painful thoughts
1t is often and gratuitously reminded
that capital cannot strike"
1t would be terribly disastrous for busi-
ness to become as suspicious of the gov
ernment as the government is of busi-
ness. The misunderstanding has not
reached that point yet. But it is waning
in that projection.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-11
Whose Responsibility?

We reproduce, on this page, from the
current North American Review" de-
tailed statement from the Japanese side
of the negotiations for obtaining ships
from Japan.
The situation in a nutshell appears to
be this
We have present capacity for ship
steel of above three and half mill
ion tons.
This would build roughly ten million
tons of steel ships
At present indication we cannot pos
sibly use one-third of this ship steel ton
mage this year. Two-thirds is going to
waste!
Japan asked for one-sixth, then one
tenth of our capacity.
Enough to build million tons of new
steel ships.
And we would have had the ships!
Not next year or next fall, but we should
have had deliveries beginning last No.
uember!
Now we have none. None are build
ing in Japan. Why? Apparently to
gain small advantage on the price.
While Rome burns!
We have drawn attention before TO
this incredible situation. Yet even now.
when we know that the need is dire, that
our own programme is wofully behind.
negotiations still drag.
M. Togo states that England has Of
fered S40O ton for these ships. We
offer half this! Haggling while Ger
many marches on!
We have the steel. The Western rail-
roads are not congested. Yet we will
neither pay a price which Japan feels
she can accept nor give her the steel to
make ships to sell to our hard-presseo
ally.
The public will read this formal state
ment from the japanese with strange
feelings. What sort of apprehensions
are behind this persistent refusal to gain
Japan's help in strengthening the weak
est link in our whole war chain?
New-York tribune., 1918-03-11
John Stuart MIL for John Shelton
Williams and Others

Mr.. John Shelton Williams (of Vir-
ginia) appears to be the chief financial
and economic adviser of the Administra
ton. He is the Controller of the Cur
rency in sense never before known
and is an ex-officio member of the Fed
eral Reserve Board.
Secretary McAdoo (from Georgia)
appears to place great confidence in Mr..
Wlllams's financial acumen and to share
his economic views. And the same ap-
pears to be true of the President, who
is also from Virginia and Georgia.
And in all financial legislation Mr..
Williams appears to be studiously con-
suited by the Democratic leader of the
Senate, Mr.. Simmons (of North Caro-
lina), ard the Democratic leader in the
House, Mr.. Kitchin (of North Carolina>
AS to the infational character Of tho
proposed war finance corporation bill,
Mr.. WIllIamss views seem also to be
shared by Mr. Paul Warburg, of the
Federal Reserve Board.
Mr. John Shelton Williams is the
fowery champion of cheap and plentiful
credit. lie does not believe that the
outpouring of billions Of new bank
credits since the war began is respon-
sble for the painful rise in the cost of
living. Mr.. Williams apparently does
not believe that the volume Of money
and credit has anything to do with prices
at all. And this idea appears to be
shared by the Secretary of the Treasury
and the other Administration leaders.
The Tribune has been much criticised
FOR It's Insistence that the Administers
ton is being committed by it's Southern
leaders to policy of initiation.
W. should like, for the delcctation 1--WE
New-York tribune., 1918-03-11

ency to substitute arbitration agreements
for battleships. He remained valiant
Big Navy man and challenged on every
occasion the reckless sentimentality of
those who wanted to treat the navy as an
institution which was slowly losing its
reason for existence. That was the idea
which Mr.. Daniels held when he took Of
flee and which found expression in his
policies up to 1916.
1t is greatly to Mr.. Meyers credit that
he clung unhinchingly to, the opposite
view. He tried to get ships-and always
more ships. He also Sought to modernize
naval methods and to instill the idea that
a navy is never a navy unless it is thor
oughly prepared to fight. He tried to
abolish useless navy yards, to introduce
order into the clogged and congested de-
partment bureau system and the accounts
system and to emphasize the need of real
military direction for the naval establish
ment. He was an administrator cf ad-
vanced ideas for his day, and he also had
the personal force to make his ideas felt
which can be said of very few Secre-
taries of the Navy.
The war has taught US many lessons
In the light Of those lessons it is easier
1or the country now to do full justice to
what Mr.. Meyer did and what he stood
for
New-York tribune., 1918-03-11
ITO be comcluded)
A Question of Fats

From The Westminster Gaeette)
We have grown SO accustomed. in these
days of war foods, to insist on the necessity
of "fats" in our diet that question which
was put to a gathering the other night has
come, to me at least, Us shock A gentle
man who is described as "Drector of the
Avalon School Of Health" was lecturing in
Brighton on the afolly,' of eating cooked
food. He told mis- audience that he, VINO
dieted himself on peculiar lines, was able
as result, to "take disease germs by the
spoonful without harm" and insisted thas
the condition of his body was that OF
decent hare-without an ounce Of fat on II
AS specimen of lis days "rations" De
said that he had taken pears. apples, mus
and cocoanut flour. all uncooked, in the cary
morning; some lettuce leaves, with tomato
and ashallot, at ! o'clock; and at puoHe.
dinner in the evening a hors d'osuvre OF
chopped apple and onion, with nut cream
vegetable salad and a fruit salad
"Where do you get your fats from?' lazy
in the hall asked. "Where does the COW
get her fats from ?" he asked, by way :"
rejoinder. And am still puzzling to solve
the riddle.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-11
A Scotch Housing Scheme

(From L. s. Commerce Reports)
In reference to town planning actiS'"s
in Dundee, it was recently reported tina. ..s
subcommittee of the Dundee Town Plannus -
Committee had adjusted number OF ae'sA. y.
IN connection with certain proposed hous'as
schemes in this locality. ..,
Among the points decided were the w, s.
lowing: That the houses to be built snSu'ss
vary from one room to three sooms, ohs !.
per cent to BE of one room; that each houa,
should have toilet, scullery, larder, eosl y
bunker, fixed cupboard, fixed dresser ~. ~.
cooker; that no baths be provided IN W
houses, but that baths be put up in sps.
clal building, from which there would ~
be system Of heating and hot water sup. y.
ply for all the houses that space should s
provided for allotments for the tenants sns
Fairgrounds for the children, and for
bowling green in city park that grouas
should be reserved for washing housss's
baths and day nurseries; that no high sens.i
ments be allowed, that blocks of houses s. -
short lengths should be erected. with ~.
space at front. rear and ends. -sesl -
New-York tribune., 1918-03-11
George Won L. Meyer

George Won l.. Meyer will be remem-
bered chiefly for the work he did as Sec
retary of the Navy. 1t was important
work. He entered that office at Il diff
cult time. Our initial New Navy pro-
gramme was nearing completion and
there was noticeable ebb in enthusiasm
for naval increases. The dream of uni
versal peace through arbitration had
captured. the imagination of idealistic
and isolated America. Why build battle
ships when it is so much cheaper and
easier to negotiate peace and arbitration
treaties? That question was raised more
and more between 1909 and 1914, and tho
more it was raised the harder it was to
get Congress and the country interested
in maintaining our earlier pace in naval
expansion.
During Mr.. Meyers Secretaryship the
Democratic party recovered control Of
the House of Representatives and one of
:, the most discouraging things he had to
lace was decision by the Democratic
caucus TO stop battlcship construction.
This decision was ultimately reversed.
But the House Naval Committee became
and remained an obstructive agency. All
It's influence was cxerted to slow down
our naval progress, and within a few
years the United States had to yield sec
ond rank among the naval powers to Ger
many
Mr.. Meyer fought this dangerous tend
New-York tribune., 1918-03-11
The Shearing Of Rurnania

AZ bieSt-LiCOVSk the German diplO-
mats veneered their purposes with hv-
pocrisy. They were there to dismember
Russia. But the operation was excused
on the ground that Germany was merely
offering the detached parts of the empire
the boon of elf-determination." Self
determination, that is, with Germany
acting as referee and stage manager!
With Rumania no affectation of altru-
ism or disinterestedness was thought to
be necessary. Self-determnation has
disappeared from the Teuton phrase
book. Rumania is ordered to stand and
deliver. The Dobrudia is taken from
her-not alone the new Dobrudja dis
trict, which she acquired from Bulgaria
after the Second Balkan War, but the
older district which she received from
Turkey in 1878, when the greater part
of her own province Of Bessarabia was
assigned to Russia by the Treaty of Ber-
lin. All her holdings south of the Dan
ube vanish and she is cut off from Con-
stanza, her chief Black Sea porS.
Under the German plan the entire
Dobrudja is to go eventually to Bulgaria
But for the present it will be held in
common by all the Quadruple Alliance
powcrs-a useful mortgage on the 10y
atty of Bulgaria. On the north and west
the Rumanian boundaries are to be rec
titled to meet Austria -Hungary's demand
for better strategic frontier. Eco
nomically Wallachia and Moldavia are to
become a satrapy of Austria and Ger
many.
In spite of the reported terms of the
new treaty between Rumania and the
Lenine government, there may be a secret
understanding with the Germans that
Rumania is to be compensated by a
cession to her Of the Russian province
of Bessarabia, which her armies now
partly occupy. Germany could afford to
consent to tnat, since she has bound Ru-
mania to offer free passage to Teuton
forces going to take possession of Odessa.
Rumania is even pledged to expedite the
movement Of those forces. So Bessarabia,
whose eastern boundary runs not far west
of Odessa, would serve as a convenient
base for German operations against that
port if the new Ukrainian republic is
ever misled into taking it's independence
seriously.
German plans for the spoliation of
Eastern Europe have taken shape with
spectacular suddenness. They are not yet
completely rounded out; for Austria II un-
gary's claims on Serbia, Montenegro and
Albania remain to be liquidated, as we'll
as Bulgaria's claims on Serbian and
Greek territory. We now see the Teuton
plans, however, in all their nakedness.
They translate into reality the widest
dreams of the widest Pan-Germans.
Gorged with her Eastern booty, Germany
is now the most formidable power be-
striding the world. Yet there are people
in this country and in England who still
talk about the hopeful possibilities of a
peace Of accommodation with the mill
tary autocracy which has just brutally
sheared Rumania and broken Russia into
fragments.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-11

hope) Of Mr.. Williams and other lead
ers, and as a gentle. reminder to Mr.
Paul Warburg, to make quotation of d
little passage from a fairly we'll regard
ed authority upon this question. The
doctrine is not new
The passage is from Mills "Political
Economy" written three-quarters of "a
century ago:
Having now formed a general idea of
the modes in which credit is made avail
able a substitute for money we have to
consider in what manner the use OF these
substitutes affects the value of money, or
what is equivalent, the prices of com
modities.
"Other things being the same, an in
crease of the money in circulation raises
prices; a diminution lowers them. If
more money is thrown into circulation
than the quantity which can circulate at
value conformabe to it's cost Of produc-
ton, the value of money, so long as the
excess lasts, will remain below the stand
ard of cost of production and general
prices will be sustained above the natural
rate.
But we have now found that there arc
olHer thlngS, Such as banknOtns. bl'ls Of
exchange and checks, which circulate as
money and perform all the functions OF
it, and the question arises. Do these vari-
Gus substitutes operate on prices in the
same manner money itself?
II apprehcnd that hanknotes, bills or
checks, as such, do not act prices at
all What does act on prices is credit
in whatever shape given, and whether it
gives rise to any transferable instruments
Scapablc of passing into circulation or
not"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-11

.ows,ea ars rsa.sShcd daily sS TIC Tffsi-e Ass'iA,'
a New SvSN Cospc<aston, oSsct Sssd freidcae "
vers< Roscxs Vice President. Richard H. Lee Secrsa.5
F. \ Sutes. TreNsvr+. Address. Etb.te S""ushs. 's
Nassaa ssrsSk. NV YorN Ts,y<trse ls>s%assa sVV"
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
TEXANS ORGANIZE
new STATE SOCIETY
Lone Star Commonwealth Natives
Expect Large Membership.

Texans in Washington organized
a State society at a meeting held
last night at the residence OF MAJ
William C. Harllee, United States
Marine Corps. Cato Sells, Commits.
sioner of Indian A fairs, was elected
president; Ben. 1. Prince, tax asses
sor for the District of Columbia,
treasurer and Miss Mary X. Brooks,
secretary.
The board OF governors is made
up of Chesley w. Jurney, private
secretary to Senator Charles A. Gull
berson, chairman; Assistant Secre-
tary OF the Treasury Thomas B
Love; Assistant Secretary of Agri-
culture Clarence Ousley. Walter S
Gard. Ben L. Prince, Chester Har.
rison, Frank P. Lockhart, Mrs
Morris Sheppard, Mrs. William C
Harlee, Mrs. Frederick E. Earring
ton, Mrs. Alvin B. Barber and Mrs
Joe H. Eagle.
The club. because Of the large
number of Texans in Washington
believes it will have a larger men,
bership than any other State society
here. The purposes will be social
and to contribute to the compiled
history of the Lone Star State, the
only one of the forty-eight COM
monwealths, which surrendered its
sovereignty as a republic to be-
come member of the union.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
RAIL TIE-UP
FORESEEN AS
WORKERSQUTT
Union Official Tells Wage
Commission Also Of
/ Coal Waste.

Paralysis is threatening the rail-
roads Of the country because Of short
age Of labor.
Testimony to this effect was given
yesterday before the Federal Wage
Commission by Timothy Shea, acting
president OF the Brotherhood OF Lo-
comotive Ffremen and Enginemen,
THE conditions OF employment OF
locomotive firemen on many OF the
roads" he said. have become so in
tOlerable that thousands OF men have
left the service. The railroads are
finding themselves without adequate
labor. Through short-sighted policy
they are losing the men who know
the Job. They call the men Unpatri-
otic for wanting prevailing wages. We
call the railroads slackers for not
sharing their war profits with the
men who make them"
With hundreds OF thousands Of tons
Of coal indiscriminately loaded into
railroad locomotive tenders, a Eigan-
tic waste Of fuel was described. The
coal, It was testified is not weighed or
checked but fed the engine boilers ac-
cording to the judgment OF the fire.
men.
Secretary Lane declared the com,
mission is anxious to determine n
bonus system can be put into opera
ton to conserve fuel. Shay replied
such a plan would not be practical
under existing conditions.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
| Amy and Nay GeEyS@ EyS@
Best Service Column in fie CITY

otherwise, the fact that criticism Of
superiors and the spreading Of false
reports which would tend 70 IN
ture the military service constitute
breaches Of military discipline.
5. None Of the foregoing applies TO
troops in Europe. The command
ing general, American expeditionary
forces, will establish such regulations
In this respect as the situation may
seem to him to require.
The object OF this order Is TO satisfy.
as far as is compatible with the pro-
lection Of military interetts, the nat
ural desire of the people to keep in
touch with their soldiers representa-
tives. 1t IS. therefore, expected that
ell concerned will comply with both
the letter and the spirit of its pro-
visions.
None OF the foregoing applies to
press dispatches filed from national
army or National Guard cantonments
or camps by regularly paid newspa-
per correspondents not in the military
service. Their copy will not be cen
sored by military authority. but the
camp commander will instruct them
that they must rigidly adhere TO the
requests for secrecy. with respect to
information OF value to the enemy, a.
defined in the printed card sent out
by the committee on public informa'
ton. On violation OF these request;
the offending correspondent will be
deprived Of the privileges Of the camp.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
CHAPTER III.
i Go to Church.

Upon enlistment We had identity
disks issued to US. These were small
disks of. red fiber worn around the
neck by means of a string. Most of
the Tommies also used a little metal
disk which they wore around the left
wrist by means of a chain. They had
previously figured it out that If their
heads were blown off, the disk on the
left wrist would identify them. II
they lost their left arm the disk
around the neck would serve the pur-
pose, but IL their head and left arm
were blown off, no one would care
who they were, so it did not matter.
On one side of the disk was inscribed
your rank, name. number, and bat
talon, while on the other was stamp
ed your religion.
c. Of E, meaning Church OF Eng
land; r. c.. Roman Catholic; W..
Wesleyan; P, Presbyterian; but If
you happened to be an atheist they
left it blank, and just handed you a
pick and shovel. On my disk was
stamped c. OF E. This is how I got
it: The lieutenant who enlisted me
asked my religion. I was not sure of
the religion Of the British army, so
answered, "Oh, any old thing" and
he promptly put down c. of E.
Now, just imagine my hard luck.
Out of five religions 1 was unlucky
enough to pick the only one where
church parade was compulsory!
The next morning was Sunday. i
was sitting in the billet writing home
to my sister telling her of my won
derful exploits while under fire-all
recruits do this. The sergeant-major
put his head in the door OF the billet
and shouted: &C. of E. outside for
church parade!"
I kept on writing. Turning to me,
in a loud voice. he asked "Empey.
aren't you C. of E.?''
answered, Yep"
In an angry tone, he commanded,
Don't you yep me. Say. Yes,
sergeant-major.'
I did so. Somewhat mollified, he
ordered, Outside for church parade" "
looked up and answered, 'T am
not going to church this morning.
He said, "Oh, yes, you arer'
I answered, 'Oh, no, I'm not!"-But
went.
We lined up outside with rifles and
bayonets, 120 rounds Of ammunition,
wearing our tin hats, and the march
to church BEGAN. After marching
about five kids. We turned on the
road into an Open field. At one end
of this field TIE chaplain was stand
ing in Timber. We formed a semi
circle around him. Overhead there
was black speck circling round and
round in the sky. This was a Ger
man Fokker. The chaplain had a
book In his left hand-left eye on the
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
STOP DANDRUFF
HAIR GETS thick,
WAVY, BEAUTIFUL
Girls! Draw a Cloth Through Your
Hair and Double It's
Beauty.
Spend a Few Centsl Dandruff Van.
ishes and Hair Stops
Coming Out.

To be Possessed ofsa head Of heavy,
beautiful hair; soft, lustrous, fluffy,
wavy and free from dandrufr, is mere
ly matter Of using little Dander-
inc.
1t is easy and inexpensive to have
nice. soft hair and lots of it. Just get
. small bottle of Knowlton's Dander-
Inc now-all drug stores recommend 1t
apply little as directed, and with
in ten minutes there will be an ap-
pearance of abundance, freshness,
fiufriness and an Incompatible gloss
and lustre, and try as you will, you
can not find a trace of dandruff or
falling hair; but your real surprise
will be after about two weeks use,
when you will see new hair-fine ana
downy at first-yes-but really new
hair-sprouting out all over your scalp
|-Danderine Is. we believe, the only
sure hair grower. destroyer of dan
drum and cure for itchy scalp, and It
never fails to stop falling hair at once.
II you want to prove how pretty and
soft your hair really is, moisten a
cloth with little Danderine and care
fully draw 1t through your hair-tak-
ing one small strand at a time. Your
hair Will be soft, glossy and beautiful
In just a few moments-a delightful
surprise awaits everyone who tries
thts-Ady.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
INVENTOR WILL TALK
ON UNSINKABLE ship
Expert to Have Opportunity Thurs.
day to Describe Product.

William l. Saunders, OF the navy
consulting board and devisor OF a
ship which he says is unsuitable. will
confer with Secretary OF the Navy
Daniels on Thursday.
Mr.. Daniels said that he knew in a
general way of the work which Mr..
Saunders had been doing and that
the Navy Department had afforded
him every facility. The Secretary said
he was without knowledge of the de-
tails OF the proposed ship. but sup
posed 1t to be a development OF the
bulkhead system. for some time en-
ployed in the navy.
There will be a loss OF from 10
to 20 per cent in cargo capacity and
an increase in the difficulty of cargo
handling" said the Secretary, but
this may be more than compensated
for by the increased safety"
II Mr.. Saunders wants an armed
guard on his ship for her first trip
across in defiance of submarines and
without convoy he can have one Sec
retary Daniels said.