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New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

passed in it's present form. This careful
regard Of the government caused the men
to be drilled with broomstcks as safety
first caution They were then unaccus-
toned to firearms.
Then a fier on aeropanc news absorbed
his next effort. He it was who inserted in
the thrilling serial dubbed the "Oficial
Bulletin" and edited by the official bull
head, language which led the unsophisti-
Gated citizen to believe that hundreds of
aircraft had gone to France and that thou
sands more would be ready in few days;
that the whole European sky was to be
blackened with them in little while. He
was told by the senior Senator from New
York (Mr. Wadsworth) and other members
OF the Committee on Military Affairs of the
gap between fact and fiction before it was
published and yet it appeared, and Mr..
Creel laid it on an individual named Strun
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

swers. One is that the preacher should
ignore the perplexity and the strain and
divert his hearers minds to thoughts far
removed from the chaos and the problems
OF the world in which they live. The other
Is that the preacher should fairly face the
ci'hculties and perplexities that sometimes
make the world seem like chaos and, with
out any attempt to divert his hearers
minds from their troubles, show them the
order that lies behind the apparent chaos
and the purpose behind what seems pur-
poseless. The religion that seeks refuge
from struggle is the religion of the Buddh-
ist and Of the monk. The religion of the
Christian Is of the other sort; it does not
avoid struggle, but accepts it as the price
OF victory; it does not avoid perpexities,
but searches them to find the truth
"ln days like the present there are two
types of preachers, corresponding to these
two types of religion"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

ing our right TO hold our seats longer.
Elections would be going on all the time. It
uld intensity the peoples interest in pub
lie affairs and create civic enthusiasm. No
adjective under the superlative degree
would be permitted by the press censor.
Campaign extravagances would be promoted
by chronic excitement. Hysteria would be-.
come a regular occupation and tom erament'
or "state of mind" excuse anything. ,
Mr.. Creel says:
Morality is of small account and intel
lectual endeavor is now so little paying
proposition that only fool will work at it."
This explains Creel's appointment and
most Of his payroll. He further illuminates}
US by saying America is "a of COM
mtrcial sharks willing to devour one an
other"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

by tho Senator from Indiana INF. watsonl.
l quote:
Nobody then spoke in whispers, nobody
spoke in conversational tones--we screamed
The press enlightened it's readers with
tropical epithets and red headlines. 1t was
a waste of ink to use an adjective less than
inc superlative. He vows on page 100 Of
his evidence
Never again will they get me upon a
public PLATFORM"
Once short time ago he made speech
in New York church. Excitement, or the
novelty of being within sacred edifce, or
a relapse into his natural temperamental
exaggeration, made him refer to Congress-
as slum scenery. His July a, 1917, U-boat
chapter was not an amazing yarn; it was a
psychological extravaganza 1t is so ex-
planned in cold type. We marvel at his self
restraint. Was there not an opportunity to
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
= Eashioning Phrases as
L on d Pallet

He selects his words fastidiously. shading
his meaning like one of the old masters
mixed his colors. The readers head buzzes
when he is told the Secretary can keep three
or four stories told him by as many meo up
in his dome all at one time Instinctively
we think of the juggler who entranced our
boyish attention by keeping up gorgeous
maze of whirling balls with no perceptible
effort except fixed smile. Suddenly he ap-
pears mingling with ambassadors, the wise.
the good, fair FORMS and hoary seers; he
turns aside in the twinkling of an eye to
mediate, while contractors hang in midair
and profteers wildly clutch their pocket
books in deafening silence. "Yes" or "No"
comes with decisive ring in his voice, and
hundreds of millions of dollars gush from
the public treasury on his nod Then the
earth temporarily resumes its customary
revolution. Five stenographers then rush in
He dictates to nearly all of them at once
Others linger in hailing distance as re-
serve if, perchance, some of the overworked
functionaries should drop dead Immense
bundles of documents of state appear. in
which he immerses himself lost in pro-
found vacuum of sublmated thought. The
shorthanders flee madly from the incarnated
human tempest, waving their notebooks
omlnously. Now the landscape fades away
IN a haze of tobacco smoke. Gradually the
scene reveals a briar-root pipe, with the
Secretary of War attached, reading his
Theocrtus or Juvenal or a bioprapnv of
Tom johnson or work on three-cent fares
From this deep dream of peace this override,
Boswell blazes the film with Bakers trim tn
war-swept France. We are permitted to
gaze upon the greatest Secretary of War the
world ever saw. Stanton struggles dimlv
mo view, merely as basis of comparison
to enable our staggering mentality to gain
last loop Of Baker walking serene on the
summit Of inaccessible grandeur before we
lapse into Inconsistencies. The peer1ess
st.ategist and warrior finishes the moving
theatre by remaining for hours in the
trenches and dugouts in mortal peril from,
pursuing she'll ard scattering shrapnel Here
the dazed audience disperses In the con-
suming major portion of the scene forpot
the prose prologue OF Round the Clock
with Baker" as this horrible phantasma-
goria of adulation is called Here it is-,e+
me give it for the benefit of the Senate. for
fear that it might escape in "the wreck of
matter and the crash of worlds" / shal,
now quote literally. Perish the base thought
that could improve on the original:
There he goes now" remarked one of the
ONCE force who sit working in the room out
side Secretary Bakers Office There he
goes, in his Palm Beach suit, with that little
old soft hat on his head. Just as friendly
and natural. Nothing pompous about him.
should say not Just as easy and demo
cratic as an old shoe!"
Mr. PRESIDENT. after enduring this from
Creel, the terrors of Hun invasion are
considerably mitigated. We await our fate
with caimness and fortitude. Nothing can
be worse on either side of the grave. II has
almost converted me into a Uniyersal;at--
hell has nothing like this.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Don't Spread Pa
t1riOtism Too Thin

TN THIS characteristic manner, Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt makes a plea in
the July issue of "The Metropolitan" for
intense nationalism." Discussing the
various types of internationalists he
comes to the conclusion that
"ths great has offered the supreme
test of the only kind of nternationalism
worth talking about, the nternationalism
which implies power and courage and dis
interested willingness to sacrifice much in
order to put down international right
When the emergency test was thus applied
the professional internationalsts showed
themselves sorry crew The really power
full men of intrigue and action who pro-
fessed 10 the doctrine have been the eff
cient and evil tools Of Germany autocracv,
militarism and international tyranny. The
milk and water intellectuals who prattled
about the doctrine have been the timid and
inefficient tools of the same foul masters
The great war for international right
and justice has been carried on by the
men who were nationalists first. patriots
first, Ftenchmen or Englishmen or Italians
or Americans first; and who were able to
serve humanity at large precisely because
they possessed the soul qualities which
made them proudly devoted to their own
nations, and proud to fight for their de-
voton. At this moment the menace of
peace which will consecrate German wrong
doing comes mainly from men who profess
& wordy internationalism. 1t is the ardent
nationalists. the ardent patriots of the
United States and of the free countries of
Western Europe who are too proud not to
fight to the end for Belgium and Serbia
and all the small well-behaved nations who
are primarily threatened by the German
horror.
There is no limit to the greatness of
the future before America, before our be-
loved land. But we can realize it only if
we are Americans, if we are nationalists,
with all the fervor of our hearts and all
the wisdom of our brains. We can serve
the world at all only if we serve America
first and best We must work along our
own national lines in every field of achieve
ment. We must feel in the very marrow
of our being that our loyalty is due only
to America, and that it is not diluted by
loyalty for any other nation or all other
nations on the face of the earth ONLY
thus shall We fit ourselves really to serve
other nations, to refuse ourselves to wrong
them. and to refuse to let them do wrong
or suffer wrong"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Inc Golden Book Of CONGRESS
- rNATCR SHERMAN--Who Is the pub
lie censor at this time? One person,
as a matter of fact, is now that au-

~ENAToR SHERMAN-Who Is the pub
lie censor at this time? One person,
-. as matter of fact is now that au-
~ thority His name is Clsel The
s.4est SYNOPSIS that ever headed any written
.omnosition have read is certain trans
,.,;on of "Don Quixote-' 1t reSsdss
4chapter XLI-That gives an account Of
.,;nes which you will know when you have
read it
more luminous heading for the activi-
,;ss Of the Committee on Public Information
.ould net be devised After you have read
what Mr. Creel said before tho sub-com-
rrittee Of the House Committee on Appro-
nrjations you certainly have an account of
things in about l67 pages The prodigal
expenditure of s1,250o0o is, however, the
only tangible thing that remains. 1t is a
tangled plexus OF divisions and payroll and
temperaments- Sometimes good horse is
co overturned that he breaks down in the
,ace. 4 business is frequently organized to
death l have known corporations all of
whose majority shareholders were salaried
officers There were so many executives and
managers that nobody was left to work and
Il uerished from congestion of the payroll
The Committee on Public Information, re-
ferred to in the House hearings, is suffering
from similar malady. 1t has multiplied
itself until it possesses vast plurality of
functions
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infectious diseases, he explains the depot
brigade intirmarv-

infectious diseases, he explains the depot
brigade inhrmary-
(which is not really an inirmary, but an
inspection centre, the Selective startino-
point of making men fit to fight Hither
come the men already passed by the civil
ian examining boards (by no means a deci-
sive test, as will presently appear) to go
through diagnosis unequalled for thor
oughness and technique in any clinic with
which | am familiar Well or i'll. every
new cntrant must pass through this mill.
Anything abnormal is swiftly de-
tectcd, and the man, often quite ignorant
that there is anything wrong with him, is
set aside for thorough going over, with
a little blue chalk mark crossed on his
breast"
There are those, Mr.. Adams points out,
who anxiously hope they are fit for ser
vice, who appear to be in perfect health,
but who are discarded. There are those
who hope some apparently serious defect
will save them from induction who are
disappointed. And there are those. too,
who deliberately conspire to camoufage
themselves for candidacy in Glass Y, who
find various kinds Of efficient traps set for
them.
In conclusion Mr. Adams gives ample
proof for holding that
"if Uncle Sans fighting men are rigidly
protected they are by no means coddled.
The camp life is exacting enough for the
most Spartan standards"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

Unshaken, proud, that does not pale.
And you are nobody, my dear:
"Une vraie CANINE" who does not quail,
Who knows not fear.
Rattle your sabres, Lords of Hate,
Ye shall not force them to their knees,
A street-girl scorns your God, your State
The least of these
LEE WILSON DODD, in The Outlook.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

dark picture of the results of
Ia an imagined German victory
in the July issue Of "Scribner's, s." 4"
though he assures US that he is one of
domination ''to which the Germans have
set themselves is too much for any nation
to accomplish and maintain as a perma-
nent achievement"
compromise, in the opinion of Mr..
Moore, would only give Germany a
chance to recuperate and then to enter
upon a military programme as we'll as
one Of propaganda more astounding than
her present efforts, which might eventu-
ally give her the power for which she
has been struggling, and then he SAYS:
"This brings us to the last alternative
victory. There are men in the United
States who see danger in victory for either
side Having devoted their attention main
ly to social problems, they seem unable
wisely to comprehend international affairs
They cannot see the bludgeon that is be-
ing swung over heads, so blinded are
they by the beams in American and British
eyes. According to their contentious our
American leaders are not to be trusted to
administer international justice, and vic
torious Britain will only take the place to
which Germany aspires. Ignorance or
prejudice is the basis of any such asser-
ton. British statesmen for many years
have been willing to enter an Anglo-Ameri-
can federation on equal terms, and British
interests both on the Atlantic and Pacific
are identical with those Of the United
States, while British ideals are similar
The democratic colonies Of Australia,
Canada and South Africa are factors of
overwhelming influence. President Wilson
has evidently come to an understanding of
the necessity of this alliance and hesgis
undoubtedly proceeding with its consum-
nation, though wisely avoiding any aocu-
mentary pledges. These are unnecessary;
the circumstances have already accom-
plshed the fact. Furthermore, we have the
league of nations for which the best minds
in England, France and the United States
have been striving. There is no other
alternative for the other nations, even
ultimately, including Germany, but to ally
And while a German hegemony would be
founded on Tear, league with an Anglo
American nucleus would hold respect and
administer justice. The British would op-
pose us and we should oppose them when
ever there appeared to be unfair develop
ments
"The one hope for the Allies and for the
world is this league. The alternative is
mllltarlsm on more gigantic scale than
we have yet known, with three great
factors, the German, the Anglo American
and the Asiatic competing in armaments
ard intriguing against each other If the
war sustains what it has already brought
about, the league of Allies. including the
United States, it will warrant its gigantic
cost. The Western front has been called
unbreakable by no less man than Lloyd
George, and it may be such; but the in
ternal condition of Austria Hungary where
the people have not been made fanatical in
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
A Little, Grimy-Fingered Girl

LIE Place du Theatre Framcaise, Paris,
February, 1918.
A LITTLE y-fngered girl
4 "A In stringy black and broken shoes
Stands where sharp human eddies swirl
And offers-ne7cs:
News from the front, LImtransigeant,'
M'sieu, CONNIE d'ordinaDe?" Her smile
Is friendly though her face is gaunt;
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

There is no guile,
No mere mechanic flash of teeth,
No calculating leer of glance. :.
You wear your courage like. wreath,
Daughter of France.
Back of old sorrow in tired eyes,
Back of endurance, through the night
That wearies you and makes you wise,
see light
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
reaching in Var
lnne

Hrg'HE OUTLOOK" for July 10 asks
and thus answers an important
and perplexing question:
What is the duty of the preacher in a
time of strain and perplexity? To this
question there are two contradictory an
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Keeping u on the Magazines

struments of Hohenzollern ideas, and will
not continue to suffer interminably, will
eventually cause the collapse of that en-
pire, bringing down the Prussan structure
behind it,
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Defeat, Compromise
or Victory

FREDERICK MOORE paints
~ dark picture of the results of
an imagined German victory
in the July issue of "Scribner's, >"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-23
Doctors and the Demon

One of the first things The Tribune
did when it undertook to present
searching discussion as to what would
be the effect of the complete suppress
sion of alcohol by "bone dry" prohibi-
ton was to ask the opinion of a number
of our leading physicians. 1t is already
painfully evident that they disagree as
radically among themselves as do ordi-
nary men and women.
Thus DR.. Abraham jacob. Nestor of
the profession in New York, says fatly
that prohibition would not increase the
general health and happiness, that many
find an indispensable solace in fer
mented beverages, and that nobody be-
lieves that prohibition would increase the
mental and bodily vigor Of the nation
except prohibitionists.
DR.. 1sham G. Harris at the head of
the Brooklyn State Hospital, is of lust
the opposite view. He thinks that COM
pete suppression would do most of the
things that DR.. Jacob says it would not.
He is mot satisfied that any evil would
follow the suppression" and believes that
while it is true that 'it is the abuse and
not the proper use Of alcoholic liquors
winch causes so much trouble, if we
eliminate the use there will be no oppor-
tunity for the abuse"
Dr. Carlos f. Macdonald believes that
prohibition would eventually result in
great benefit mentally and physically
to the country" but DR.. Robert Abra-
mans IS not so sure, and while admitting
the evils from the use of liquor does
not believe that prohibition would fos.
ter the national welfare. DR.. ]. Rvrna
is Of the same vein, and believes that
prohibition would do more harm than
good.
Dr. eugene Lyman Fisk has scant
respect for the friends of moderate use
UNLESS alcohol is present in a sufficient
quantity to produce narcotic effect
there is no need for it TO be there at a,l~
The only excuse that can be offered for
alcoholic indulgence is that "it breaks
down the barriers between men and
eases lifc's strain; but the price of this
IL heavy increase in mortality"
DR.. Frederick w. Seward brusbc,
aside all thought Of federation and is
quite sure that "wc arc now BEGINNING,
to understand that alcohol is one of the
rnosts4 prevalent and potent causes Of
hurnan dcgencracy." And 30
when we add to this consideration
thu manifold evils. social. criminal and
New-York tribune., 1918-04-23
Freedom Stands With
| Ter Back to the Wall
By Theodore Roosevelt

terrible Of
allies
shame dreadful sterrble ehour
for
Our allies in the
@ - ~ -
a over year OF war the have aid smaller
hefo ruined hardly
and Italy has the field
almost hard pressed
France.
And let remember
ha prsse Italy,
gallant fighting
nave all other
epoach that
due
our the
those responsible failure
the warning
with which we have acted we hepy dted
in
But they
feel
let others fight with
bodies for the fire in their
The the
swift ubant dy might
onlv if we force
forward
Therefore, the still the
search
hour shall be wasted until
daunted stride forward the goal of the
New-York tribune., 1918-04-23
Following the Clean

Be a conservative and you will have a
lonely cid age. Witness the fate that
has overtaken historic Dennett's in our
own Park Row. 1t was a pioneer in the
quick lunch field, dating from the birth
of modern American hustle and the dys-
peptic lunch that feeds it. 1t looked as
secure as the City Hall. Yet because It
clung to its Bible texts and refused to
CLEAN and glisten in the newest style, +
has gone the way Of all immobility.
1t seems comfortable and cosey to refuse
to hustle and let the whole new world
slide by unroticed. And, according to the
cynlcs, you have only to bidc your time
to see all the old stuff come floating back
again. Right at the moment there is re.
vlval OF Victorian furnishings, for in
stance--if not exactly antimacassars, at
least wax flowers and other what-nots
that made homes Cutlery a couple of
generations back. There is something in
the cyclic theory of progress. The
trouble is that it does not help the indi-
vidual hold-out He dies and is forgotten
long before his cycle has a chance to
return.
These are the days of trim, spotless
furnishings. Take care of your glare
and noise and calories and your custom
ers will take care of themselves. (They
literally do in the self service restau
rants.) Home furniture follows suit.
Even piano legs have felt the call of
chastity and neatness. They are as trim
and delicate as saplngs.
Will they in their turn be thought
meagre and scrawny some day, and will
our grandchildren revert to buxorn Vic
torian underpinning in the pianos of
1850? Very likely Even Bible texts
may return to quick lunch rooms and
hygiene insist upon a proper allowance
of dirt for all who would be happy. But
that will be too late to save Dennett's.
1t is frsly business following the
CLEAN. Friskier to-day even than in the
dashins Victorian days of which Alfred
Lord Tennyson wrote. But it is the onlv
really safe thing to do
New-York tribune., 1918-04-23

financial, which result from the use of
alcohol, we are amazed that so monstrous
and destructive an agent can hold tolcr-
ance among intelligent beings
But neither DR.. Stewards amazement
nor his views on the effects of alcohol
are shared by many other physicians Of
equally high standing. Thus DR.. A. a.
Brill believes: "By far the greatest ma
jority of chronic drinkers belong to
the mentally deficient types who can
make vice of almost anything. Taking
away fermented liquors will not give
them new brains" His own experience
has led him to believe that the amount
of crime and insanity usually ascribed
to the use of alcohol is "grossly exag-
gerated''
More radical still is the novel view
put forth by DR.. David Orr Edison. He
sees in the craving for liquor not body
hunger, as of food and water, but the
effect of brain hunger--a starved
mind. The human species, he holds,
must incessantly satisfy the instinct to
achieve" to do things which will bring
to the Individual feeling of impor-
tancc or usefulness.
He may do this in day dreams or in
fancy, and if these do not suffice the
starved soul will fly to alcohol or drugs
And DR.. Edison cites the breakdown of
Russia as an example of what complete
suppression might mean in the United
States.
All this conflict of opinion among
presumable experts is perplexing. Of all
the people in the world who ought to
have pretty clear idea about the prob
lem, 1t would seem to be doctors. Yet.
presented with the same facts, we find
them ranged on opposite sides.
1t is evidently puzzling matter. We
wish our physician friends could address
themselves to this phase of the problem:
In the last ten years the average
American has drunk five times as much
booze, measured in gallons, as did his
grandfather before the Civil War. And
this is in the face of the fact that
nominally the United States is now two
thirds "dry."
II prohibition has been at all effective
then those who still drink must be drink
ing still more.
What is the clear evidence as to the
comparative mental, physical and moral
Vlgof OF our own generation as COM
pared with that of, say, sixty or eighty
years ago?
Has 1t gone up or down?