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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
PROTECTION FOR EXEMPTED MEN

New York Commercial The experience to which New
Workers were compelled to submit recently in order that a
fet alleged slackers might be dragooned into the army, nat
my be- made least offensive in the future. The cases which
caused The greatest inconvenience in last weeks series of out
RACES were those involving men just under or over the draft
age, who were, of course, unable to produce any instant proof
that their ages placed them outside the provisions of the Sc
lective service act.
Would it not be feasible to devise a card system for
youths under the age of i8 and men who have passed their
forty-sixth birthday? Federal cognizance ought to be taken
of some such plan so that men who are not liable to the draft
law but whose personal appearance makes their age a doubt
full quantity to strangers, might dodge the indescribable hu-
initiation and inconvenience to which thousands of them were
subjected during our miniature reign of terror? The draft
boards of each district might be empowered to issue creden-
tails of some sort to all within their jurisdiction who care to
take the trouble of giving evidence regarding their age, and
such credentials would guarantee against a recurrence of last
weeks affair.
There are thousands of men nowadays who have taken
such good physical care of themselves that they pass for a
decade under their true ages. These men, when over rs, may
expect many embarrassing moments in the remaining months
of the war unless they take the trouble to carry satisfactory
proof in the form of a birth certificate, draft board credential
or means of age Identification. Such an arrangement would
be a great Improvement over the present hit-Or-miss plan of
accosting every man as a Stacker unless he is in the short
work which it would entail for the district draft boards would
not seem to be out of proportion to the value of the service
given.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
A GOLDEN AGE

By degrees this country is going into the business of
making war. The process has been slow but sure ever since
we entered in the allied cause. Publication of the new pri-
critics list by the war industries board marks a further step
in the elimination of unessential industries. Hereafter only
work. in other words. essential work, will be able to plead
exemption from war drafts of labor and materials. 1t is
plain that unless the war comes to a speedy end there will be
comparatively little employment except that which contrib
utcs either directly or indirectly to the success of the cam
raign now being waged in Europe. Other industries will
come almost to a standstll.
This diversion of effort, whether mental or physical, into
the comfort or the earning power of the masses except to the
extent that men are withdrawn from this country to foreign
fields and lose their lives in the struggle. There is more
work to be done now than ever before, and never were the OPP
portunities for remuneratve employment as great as they
are today. Mechanics are in urgent request at high wages.
The same is true of all other classes of labor. although in
varying degrees. Money in circulation per capita is the
highest ever known, and in spite of the fact that its purchas-
ing power has been reduced materially, the working classes
are more prosperous than ever before; have more to spend,
and ae spending more than in any previous era of the nation.
This is literally a golden age, but it is also true that the
sudden accumulation of wealth is turning the heads of classes
unaccustomed to such swollen incomes. Money is being
wasted in frivoliies which should be invested in Liberty
bonds and put in savings banks. Never have the poorer
classes had such an opportunity as the present to lay aside
which workers in the campaign to sell thrift stamps and Lib
Garner. It is literally a charity to force reluctant people to
buy war savings stamps and war bonds, which will be worth
more after the war than they now are.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
HAVE THE WOMEN LOST INTEREST ?

New York Commercial: The friends of woman suffrage
appear to view the result of the recent primaries in New York
state with mixed feelings. The first appearance at the polls
of a sex allegedly frail naturally excited a good deal of curl
osity from friends and foes alike, but now that it is over it is
hard to say whether the cynic or the optimist have the last
laugh.
If any one thing has been shown it is this, that it was the
vote and not the voting that women wanted. Having won
their long contention for equal rights in selecting those who
are to govern them, it appears that they intend to take the
will for the deed, and let men do the deciding in the same old
way. The further evidence that the addition of women vOt-
ers has not altered the percentages of comparative party
strength goes far in de%molishing the bogie cOnjured up for us
by those who believed that the admission of our mothers and
sisters to the polling place would shake the foundations of the
state.
One imagines also that the picture given the people of
states where suffrage is not yet a fact will serve to allay the
opposition to votes for women which still obtains, especially
in the east. 1t may not be taken unkndly if we say that
President Wilson has probably viewed the result with quiet
amusementTh frantic attacks made on him because he re-
fused to accept equal suffrage except as it is, a problem for
each state to settle. now seems to have had little justification.
Woman suffrage will almost inevitably become a national
fact. but it will no longer excite the feeling and passion which
have sometimes gone with it in the past.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
WATCHING DEMOCRACY'S FLEET

New York Commercial: Jersey commuters whose time
and inclinatiOns allow or lead them to use the ferries in going
to and from their work, enjoy a species of patriotic thrill de-
MED to those who use the underground mode of transit. War
has brought to the river a constantly varying picture which
no other generation of commuters ever witnessed and Whlch
is to be hoped will never be seen again. This is the coming
and going of our transports, with SET, determined faces show
ing at every port hole. ladder and deck as they swing down
to the sea ON dcrocTacvs crusade.
II is the flagship of the fleet. however, that gets the ma
ior share cf attention. When this magnificent craft is at her
Ioboken dock. all committing eyes turn eXpectantly to hef
on lie morning and night ride across the Hudson, unul the
e>I~eiant tmrty slip finally greets one, usually in the morn
inc. Then sets in a sort of daily suspense and flutterlng OF
heeIts for a number of days that seem like ages, but as a
matter of fact are remarkably few, until the black shadow be-
hind the early morning mist again shows the splendid vessel.
fit carrier of freedoms host, home again in safety and
triumph.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
WILSON AND THAT FOREIGN RIP

English papers have revived the suggestion that President
Wilson visit Europe They have reached the conclusion that
such a visit is not only desirable but probable. A cor
respondent of the Manchester Guardian reported in a recent is
sue that he was in a position to state positively that a presi-
dental visit had been decided upon. Commenting editOrially
the Guardian finds a precedent for the president leaving the
boundaries of the country i'll the visit of President Taft to
Panama. Many believe there is a law which commands the
president to remain within the United States during his in
cumbency of the office. There is no such law, but Taft was
the only president who ever took a trip out of the country.
Technically, of course, the Panama canal is in United States
territory. and if President Wilson is looking for a precedent
lie is not likely to find it in the Taft invasion of the isthmus.
Among the reasons urged for such a visit the desire for a
better understanding between the statesmen responsible for
the conduct of the war through personal contact is the
strongest. The question turns upon whether the end sought
is worth the risk. The world has not forgotten Kitchener,
time of his death.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
FINANCING HIGH-PRICED COTTON

The approaching maturity of the cotton crop, coupled
with a price for that staple of approximately 80 cents a
pound, must soon bring to a head the most difficult problem
facing the credit machinery of America. There have been
many meetings and conferences, but talk, unfortunately, won't
finance the crop, neither will it provide warehouse facilities
for the millions of bales to be offered for sale and shipment.
There has been a good deal of talk about the part accept
ances are to play in moving this years cotton crop, but most
of this talk had in mind a much more conservative price for
cotton than the one now quoted. Acceptances are the ideal
credit vehicle for the ordinary transaction of business, es-
pecially that based on staple goods, but they are emphatcally
out of place when used in such a gambling proposition as the
purchase of cotton at 80 cents a pound. A banker or investor
whose only possible gain from the financing of acceptances
is an interest earning of four and ne-half to six per cent a
year will hardly be willing to advance money on acceptances
when the price asked for one pound would have bought six
or seven pounds only three years ago.
No matter what method may be finally evolved for the
purchase of this years crop, it is plain that more money will
be required than the finances of the country are in shape to
advance. The needs of the government come first and after
that the banks of the east and the north, which furnished
cotton funds in past years, have their hands full taking care
of borrowers nearer home. The single avenue which will
place no undue strain on the facilities of business will be to
have the producers of cotton hold their crop longer than US
ual and dispose of it as the normal rate of consumption may
require.
The winter wheat crop has practically all been marketed
and paid for and the same will soon be true of the spring
wheat crop. This operation has required a vast amount of
money, but bankers were able to advance practically the en-
tire purchase price of the crop against the proper sort of col
lateral, knowing that they were protected against loss by the
fixed price for wheat named by the government. If such a
fixed price existed for cotton, the financing problem would be
much simplified, although not solved by any means.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
WE MAKE WAR

"Je fails la guerre, /" declares Premier Clemenceau, when
details of his administration of the affairs of France are criti-
cised. Il make war" is his reply both to questions of his
critics and pleas of political favor seekers.
Matters of domestic policy, distribution of favors of state,
relations with personal friends and enemies, must go over
board for the time with the lion of France; have gone over
board, in fact, ever since the day that he took the helm in
the war-driven country. They will wait, "Apres la guerre,"
that phrase that springs to the lips of everyone in France so
often nowadays; that is Clemenceaus appointment for all
matters not actually connected with the prosecution of the
war. "After the war" there will be time and occasion for
routine matters of life. But now, they make war.
This war is not one whit more important to NJ. Gemenceau
than it is to every citizen, man, woman and child, of the Unit
ed States. He has had placed upon him a heavier response
bility for its conduct, heavier only because it is larger in its
scope. 1t is no greater so far as the obligation to carry on
personally is concerned. He is no more a part of it than
every one of us; and his duty is no keener.
II make war" is the slogan for everyone who considers
himself, or herself, a part of America now. Matters of per-
sonal interest, personal luxury, personal grievance, have no
place in the present scheme. After the war-that is the time
for their consideration. We may live up every cent of our
earnings if we see fit; we may take three months of vacation
every summer if we like to live that way; we may buy elabO-
rate shoes if that is our taste; we may change Jobs every time
the whim strikes us; we may consider our savings and ex-
|pendiures Of money, time and work no mans business but
our own after the war.
But for the present we are not concerned with rewards
and grievances; with luxury and loading; with very much of
anything except that thing which has become the life of the
country.
We make war.
The phase of wa%r-making concerning us at present is
shaping our affairs to take our share of the Fourth Liberty
Loan.
Anaconda S~tandard-While they won the race to Paris, it
may be doubted whether the Americans can beat the kaiser to
Berlin.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
STACKER

New York Commercial: Attorney General Gregorys
frank acknowledgement of the errors made by agents OF the
department of justice in the recent Stacker drive which had
such unfortunate results for New York city is probably an
~effectual guarantee against repetitiOns of similar illegal pro-
ceedings. There will be little opposition on the part OF the
people to Stacker hunts conducted in a sensible way by ac-
credited officers of the government, but the wholesale Isl 0
men in uniform and volunteer patriots" from notorlety-seek-
ing societies will never again be tolerated. The flnal results
of the drive were ridiculous as compared to the trouble II
caused. and it is encouraging to hear from Mr.. Gregory that
he has expressly forbidden his subOrdinates to use the tao
ties complained of. We shall await with interest an an
nouncement from the department that the men who disobeyed
their instructions have been dropped.
William II can still congratulate himself; he Is a neck
ahead of Charles and Louis XVI-Anaconda Standard.
Newark News: This is the open season for hunting
slackers. and there's no limit either.
Atlanta Journal: "Amercans take town on German soil.
Keep your eye on Berlin.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
TICKET SELLING EFFICIENCY

Whatever may be ones opinion regarding the present ad-
ministration's policy toward the railroad or the final fate of
the lines, there will be little disagreement with the plan for
consolidated ticket offices. This matter was discussed on and
off for years by railroad passenger officials, but the small
jealousies of competing roads always prevented a try-out of
the plan. Now that it is actually in operation, practical pas
senger men say that it will never be done away with.
There is no good reason why every article of commerce
should have a common market place except transportation.
1t is much as if the stock exchange were dispensed with and
purchasers of securities required to visit one of 48 brokers'
offices to make their deals. That is the exact number of indi-
vidual ticket offices which the four consolidated offices su-
percede. Undoubtedly this is one of the moves made neces-
sary by wars emergencies which will be found equally con-
venient in time of peace.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21

Detroit Press: Boy-Ed has been telling the Ausrians
that the war is not popular in America. No wonder the Aus
ans are starving if that's the kind of stuff they are being
fed on.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21

Anaconda Standard: The kaiser wants the world, the
whole world and nothing but the world, but he'll have to be
content with the hell he's getting instead.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21

Butte Miner: 7. r. says win this wal and prepare to
fight the next one; but it is certain there never will be an
other conflict started by any Hun kaiser.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21

Detroit Free Press:-Three German generals have been
cashiered for neglect of duty along the Marine. The crown
prince is the only one whose excuses will be taken.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21

Louisville Courier-Journal: Was it the Czecho-Slovaks
who put the trot in Trotzky?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21

Toledo Blade: Let hoarders hoard Liberty bonds and
War Savings stamps and all will be forgiven.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21

Anaconda Standard: Another regret of the German
army is its lack of facilities for dropping out of sight like a
U-bOat.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21

And there's life enough in the old land for one war-gar-
len crop after another-Atlanta Constitution.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21

Newark News: This is the open season
slackers, and there's no limit either.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21

Anaconda Standard-Wh1e they won the race to Paris, it
may be doubted whether the Americans can beat the kaiser to
Berlin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26

perative that he be on the spot, not some thousands of miles away.
 Aside from practical reasons, the Presidents visit to London and Paris will be unique and memorable chap tar in American history. He is the most forceful personality developed by the war and much of the credit for the vi' tory over Germany belongs to him. It will be profoundly moving to see the way Europe testifies it's ad- miration for the man whose principles have been accepted by the world as the basis for shaping future interna- tional relations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
"A SONG OF THE ENGLISH

 grest the came me the Need Till the Sou As the In the fah of on 
 In the little children lay died the n
 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
KOSHER AND HOHENZOLLERN

From the New York Times.
 NALUTATION and health to MT. A. N S Wheeler of the University of t~O North Carolina, who begs the Times to "send radio to Germany ask ing Karl Rosner to forward at once an up- -to-d date account of the glorious doings of the Kaiser" It is good to see that the most innocent of imperial his- photographers, the sweetest of contem- that ever steered an Emperor to film, Is not forgotten in the misfortunes of Ger many. Because William has abdicated if he has-sha1l Karl abdicate, jump off the intellectual throne, hide from the world like Nebuchadnezzer gone to grass?
 What did Mr. Emerson say about the great mans friend being greater than the great man? Nowhere else does Will helm live so vividly and so humor- ously as in the lyric rigmarole of Karl. No doubt Karl Is with his hero now in Count Von Bentincks castle, posing him for the film, picking up the pearls and rubies that fall from those seldom closed lips. In his busy days at his old job Wilhelm had to pass 50 much oi his time changing his uniforms that with the utmost desire and volubility he could not utter all the thoughts that arose in him. Now shall not Karl show him to us as a quiet. plain, country gentleman. thorough bourgeois. the model of "a democratic constitutions King and Emperor, provided In any ad-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26

Joining country the political intelligence oftices should advertise for such an of- ficial?
 Shall we not see the new patriot King taking his plain Dutch breakfast of cheese and gingerbread and eggs with spinach? Behold on the film the immortal
 mustache. military and heavn defying no more. It has been trimmed to syrn- belize and regret the diminution of Ger man territory. It droops at the ends, in- dicating noble sadness. As you see him in his morning coat, not too we'll cut, he might be a socialist deputy, a member of the socialist government, & retired head waiter of the AdIon. a, sau- sage seller with a poetical temperament, Changed as is his exterior. '-is 'eart is true to Poll" ~Ah. let the people hear. that in these grave hours am near, and my wishes so with them" 'sYess the crown prince is on an island. Hes always was collector of Napoleoneanaj love the firm land. I wish to be near
 my people when the hour of cooperation strikes.
 Karl shall tell us of the Emperor that
 ~as. listening to the terrible orches- fa' of Count Won Bentinck's cocks and 1 suinea hens and kennels, serenading the
 moon and the dawn and Wilhelm. Karl
 shall so up to a tower of the castle and | hear once more the beloved voice fore
 tell "the harnessing of the rays of the sun and the recovery of the ocean's in-
 nermost treasures" Especially of the in-
 nermost treasures. The future of Ger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
E < T Should Meet Here a Year Hence

E7FHE Southern Commercial con- ll gress will hold it's tenth annual meeting in Baltimore next month. The programmes are always full of inter est. Large questions are discussed by men of national reputation and at the forthcoming meeting an exceptionally strong array of talent will be in evil dance.
 An effort should be made to bring the Commercial congress to Birming- ham in 1919. Few national or general conventions are so largely attended as this southern body, and none assem- hles greater number of distinguished delegates. It is estimated that five thousand will be present at the Bal tiinore gathering.
 Most of the important cities of the south have entertained the congress, aineng them Nashville, Memphis, At lanta. Mobile, New Orleans and Nor folk. Surely Birningham's turn has come.
 At the Mobile meeting in 1913 President Wilson was present and made notable speech, and ever since that occasion the prestige of the con- gross has steadily risen.
 Birmingham is popular conven- tion city. It was so even when our hotel acconlmodat were distinctly limited. Today Birmingham is one of the best hotel cities in the United States. A convention of any size can be we'll cared for. Let the Chamber of Commerce and other civic associa- ticns join in an invitation to the South ern Commercial congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
sHAKEsPEARE IN AN AIR RAID

From the Kansas City Star.
 How E. H. Sothern ''carried on" dur ing an air raid on the western front and entertained American troops while boche aviators were dropping bombs is told by Daniel A. Polling, temperance worker and author of Huns in He'll who was in Kansas City the other day
 A big entertainment, with Sothern as the star, had been arranged in Young Mems Christian association hut at Chau- mont, which was American headquar- ters at that time. General Pershing and Bishop Brent were among the guests. Sothern had barely started his reading when an air raid signal was given, lights were put out and the bombs be- gan to fall. For a moment there was intense excitement. Then Sothern re- sumed, quoting from "The Merchant of Venice in clear voice that rang throughout the hall:
 .'The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven upon the place beneath
 The crowd laughed, became quiet and the entertainment went on.