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New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
From the NeW World

The warriors cry of the olden days
companies the American crusade to Euro
pean battles. just as the Indian warrior
of the New World smeared his face with
frightening colors and adorned his head
with feathers when he went forth to battle,
in order to decorate his wigwam with
few scalps of the pa]eface, in accordance
with tradition, so the modern American
sends ahead of his black and white troops
a fearful noise, wild cry of his might and
greatness Instead of the colored face and
the eagle's feathers on his head, he places
the modern equipment of cable, telegraph
and dinner speeches. interviews and press
notices.
For months past there have appeared in
the French papers regularly whole columns
of description regarding the effort and the
tremendous exertions of the Americans en-
tering war. There may have been good
reasons for this; the French population
was getting tired of the war, and looked for
the American aid like old Noah looked for
the dove of peace, and needed some stimu
lation.
And SO they gladly intoxicated them
selves in France with the magic image of
the irresistible America, whose mighty
power was to drive back these Boches, that
would be unconquerable behind the Rhine,
and which was to bring the sister nation
the final victory that would not come.
But this American attempt to create a
sensation in France is not all Curiously
enough, they seem to think it necessary il
Washington to embrace peaceable little
Switzerland in the domain of the Ameri-
can war and victorys intoxication, Where
fore is quite nexplicable.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14

Sudermann was celebrating him when
he wrote of the last Of the Ostrogoths,
yet without any reason-for the Hohen-
zollerns, since Frederick the Great, have
been generally gun-shy, and Frederick
the Great ran away from his first battle.
Prince have viewed the fighting from OBJ
servation points at d very safe distance.
Now Sudermanns glorification of
Teuton kingly valor reads like hollow
and sickening travesty. The arch
posturer and movie picture actor who
strutted in the foreground Of the Ger
man war of conquest and filled the air
with his mock-heroic declamations is a
shivering and pitiful fugitive. He SUNK
away from his defeated armies. Even
Napoleon III, another imperial barn
stormer, had sufficient sense Of stage
propreties to wish to die at the head of
his troops before Sedan. William II
had no such instinct. When the crash
thinking of surrendering. But he was
concerned personally only about making
a getaway to neutral territory.
Teja shared the privations of his
troops and died on foot at their head
William the Second sneaked off to Hol-
land in an automobile, followed by a
train de lure, stocked with provisions
and carrying retnue Of servants. He
abandoned his family His only thought
was to save his own skin. The Grown
Prince was no less chicken hearted.
But he had the good fortune, it appears,
to be shot by his own troops while try
ing to escape from the German lines.
A king should know how to die. The
contemplate mouther and gesturer who
held Germany hypnotized for so many
years, and who impressed the outside
world for a time with his fustian great
ness, lacked even that modicum Of
equipment for the kingly Office. He
lived an impostor and a counterfeit. He
has chosen to die one.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
BACK HOME STUFF
Pedro Joe

Pedro Joe was sometimes called
Whitewash Joe. He did all the odd kali
somining jobs around town and put in
glass windows. Some said he was a
Spaniard, and others said he came from
Austria. He talked with an accent and
was steady drinker. He lived in the
stable in the alley back of Schreck's
meat shop.
He used to be up every morning at
4 80 o'clock, and was always the first
customer at the Blue Goose There had
been stories that he killed a man once,
but he seemed harmless and very fond
Of children. He used to cut baskets out
Of buckeyes for them, and he could
make a noise like a sheep and initiate
sawmill buzz saw.
In the spring Pedro Joe used to go
back of Reservoir Hill, on the lower
river road, and gather herbs, and he
hung them to dry outside his shack.
There was talk that Dr. Cromlish got his
famous recipe for Cromlish's great
blood restorer from Pedro Joe. Pedro
Joe always had a cough, and people
would see him on the streets gasping for
breath and sometimes splitting blood
They never thought he would last
through the winter. But he lived to be
eighty light and died with the smallpox
at the county poorhouse.
DR.. Cromlish paid all of MS funeral
expenses. Not soul went to his fu-
neral but the undertaken and the Rev.
Alva Gee. DOM.
The dear old "Euening Post" havinq
lifted up its voice to demand that ann
'sew epidemic Of influenza be "mipped IN
the bud" at is 'eoao IN, order for some one
to erpress the hope that the totals OF
neao cases IN the old epidemic drop aoith
sickening thud.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
Mr.. Creel Signs the Armistice

Ii any one retained any doubts of peace
the emergence of New York from it's
mysterious camoufage as can Atlantic
Port" ought to remove them finally. No
longer shall we read of arrivals from
Europe who entered this unnamed spot
and 'motored at once to the Biltmore."
We must still forbear to mention we sup
pose, the name of the town Of - in
France, at which is located American
G. II. O., as not more than most of Amer
lea has known for many mysterious
months. Mr. Creel purposes to remove
one bandage at a time, we presume, lest
our eyes be blinded by the light.
One other vast result of Mr.. Creers
cessation of hostNties leaps to mind.
That is its effect upon the paper situa-
tlon. When the c. p. I. closes up and
its rivers of pamphlets and oceans of
circular letters and Niagaras of docu-
ments cease to flow, there will be enough
paper released to print everything that
anybody in the world could ever possibly
think of printing-with enough spare
tons left over to fill the sky with Victory
paper every time band goes by
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
Who said ST. Helena for the Hohenzoliern?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Suggestions of St. Helena in connec-
ton with the exile of William II are to be
regretted. No American needs to revise his
opinion of Napoleon's ambitions to appreci-
ate the fact that ST, Helena is sacred
ground TO the dearest friends we have on
earth. If William is to be sent away,
Devils Island, in French possession, has at
least an appropriate name.
But is there any use bothering with him
on about him? Any comparison of his case
with Napoleon's confers the dignity of
supreme greatness upon merely vicious
accident
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
The Best Of EUerything

The delegates to this American prop
ganda are supported BY many powera
words through official and unofficial peopA
SO have these days few members Of The
American Congress, which came to seek II
formation on the situation in England, mad
great noise. Reuter- took charge Of ii'
matter and sent to the Swiss press quite
voluminous account. The account is
powerful that some of ii must be preseTH
from oblivion. In the first place fs
naughty Central Powers, who will absolut.
ly not understand that they simply h'Fs %
disappear with Americas entry ino "s
war, are told that America has 250VeR"
men able to bear arms They state nS'
America can feed all the peoples Of fFsn'''
Great Britain, Italy and the United Ss's'
and still furnish all the Sighting troops o'
posing the Prussian militaIism their u
tons
The American soldier was wonderful az
wonderful his weapons and equipments. b
clothing was Of wool that Of the CeFH'-
soldier is probably Of pasteboard?); he ."
the best shoes America had so many rln@
that each soldier got two. Every Ve''
there were manufactured 54,2l1 mot ~
212) rifles and 5000 machine guns. ii
American army had 2,0oO,oOO,Ooo Of car,
ridges for machine guns and received e's,,
day 100000 more, in addition to ''S",
shells. The account says further thai e's,, "a
week there were manufactured l'OVVT'
shells for precision (here there IS sV''
thing not quite right in the multlpiicS''''
And what gas there was, poisonous =.
burning, in the American army Ihe "
man leaders would have TO regret tnen y
barian war methodsl They say io'''..
at present America is making 25'oO0 ss' '@
planes, and they had in America alone =,
600 fiers. The American aeropianes wv.
cross the ocean in twenty-four hou'S
throw a rain of death and destruction w.
Germany. They continue in this IONS
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
Germany Is Beaten

And as final apotheosis; "GermsN'
beaten!" roll Of drums, aOurish'ns
trumpets. why asks the -. -
ished European. You have not to ssI. -.
must believe. Faith transports noun .,,.
Germany, trembling on account 0i -,
TRADES and boastlngs, will imme''~ ~,
throw away her weapons and moe - q.
corner between the Aisne and the oia-
frightful war painting of military s'a'. .ss
will show its effects in the German ~ S..3
Or might something else happen' ~ .,,,,
the Central Powers take it Upon snens. ia,
to stand the test and let the AM
schoolboy in the world war do his is'.s ~.
The future will decide this. For "s 4.
ent it would seem ss if in place y s.d,r.
wisdom of the great mind" at the =, s,rt
of the Mississippi there had CONS
of intellect
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
Every Inch a Kink

There are kings-and kinks. William
II was every inch kink.
Hermann Sudermann. one of the Et-
erary celebrities of modern Germany.
ana IN the most of his work symbol of
IT'S decadence, wrote in 1896 a one-act
historical drama called "Teja." 1t was
bit Of incense burned at the shrine of
'eutonic mllitarism-a sentimental
supplement to such treatises as General
Von Bernhardi's "How Germany Makes
War"
"Teja" dealt with the tragic episode
of the death of the last king of the
Ostrogoths, whose forces were cooped
up near Mount Vesuvius by Narsos. the
great Byzantine general. Tbev were
enveloped and starving Teja, or Teias
tneir ruler, decided to die fighting the
fee rather than surrender
The evening before the last battle his
eounsellors and his Arian bishop bring
aim wife, SO that he NAV know
why the Goths love death"-meaninp
hat the northern warriors always died
raivalrously in defence of their wives
SID families. 1t was the Goth and an
1euton ideal of military and per
ua honor
William II mas always assumed the
J'euton and Gothic military virtues. In
MS own eyes and in those Of his de-
Iudcd people he also was a Teja-a
knightly figure clad in shining armor.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14

that during October every three days thsrs
will be in a single shipyard 5000 ton ship
launched, that the factories of single Est
manufacturer turn out every ten miuutss
Cor was it hours? p q completely finhts3
automobile, that daily (or every minuts-
it is impossible to keep up with the space e
time) 10000 rifles, millions of cartridge
etc, are furnished for the American army
that there are in the American ground
billion tons Of coal and similar materisl
that there will be sent four million trees to
France, that the American trousers and
boots get larger, that the American SOL
diers love above all colored sugar candl
sticks, etc, etc Uncle Sam stands befoi.
the Liberty Statue in New York Hsr-
Dor, brandishes his sword and shield, and
cries Europe to perdition. The picture Of
the modern Homeric hero.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
A Path to Disaster

We are indebted to Senator Poindexter
for reminding us that state Of war ex
lists between the United States and Ger
many. One might almost have forgot
ten it.
We may have finished the physical
part of the business. There is yet a
peace to win against rising odds. Ger
many plays the game Of diplomacy
deeply and with Teutonic cunning.
The German government apparently
is not on speaking terms with Great
Britain and France. 1t addresses the
Allied governments only through their
American associate" 1t began the
armistice negotiations in that way 1t
now makes it's protests and prayers and
threats, not to all the governments, but
TO one
At Versailles, as President Wilson
publicly announced on Monday, reso-
luton was unanimously agreed upon
pledging all possible aid to the Central
Powers to avert famine.
Yet the German government appeals
to President Wilson to act, to exert his
influence, to mitigate the conditions
to consider the feelings of the German
people and to save Germany from star
walton. And President Wilson in reply
says that if the Germans will maintain
order in their country he will be "readv
to consider favorably the supplying of
- 4oyx
g the matter Immediately with the Allied
governments up with them a
matter which, according to his own an
nouncement, had already been dealt
with at Versailles.
All this is very subtle matter.
Senator Poindexter thinks, as we
think, as a great many people must feel,
that the implications are wrong, and
that all these asides between Germany
and the United States tend in a certain
direction Why should the United
States sact as a mediator between Ger
many and the Allied governments?
Sure this situation does not make for
diplomatic unity, which now is as essen
tial as military unity was
So Senator Poindexter has offered a
resolution declaring that in the present
war the cause of the United States
against the Central Powers is identical
with that of oar allies, and that the
ulterior purpose of Germany's conduct
is to bring about a division of interests
among her enemies He proposes that
the United States shall be an "ally' of
the nations arrayed against Germany,
and not merely an "associate," and that
the United States as an ally shall sign
the pact of London, thereby binding
herself, as the others are bound, to con-
duct no separate peace negotiations, to
debate no separate terms, to have no
separate discussions.
That is sound American sentiment,
and we support it,
Disaster lies at the end of the sepa-
rate path we have unwittingly entered.
In little while it may be too late to
turn back,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14

To assemble court of lawyers to try d
man whom the whole world has slresdv
convicted is silly. If he had ten mlli0.
lives and each one separately taxable and
in writhing agony couiJ be put to dests
every day for ten million days he would net
at the end of that time have expiated hi,
crime.
So let this outcast live. Outcast be mus
be wherever he lives. he cannot live to.
long, for every day cold, fearful drops will
stand on that mans trembling flesh, ut
never can he close his eyes except to Sc.
the sights of Bosworth Field.
LEMUEL ELY QUIGC
New York, Nov. 13, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14

Now that it is all over, Argentinians
are sorry they didn't get on the band
wagon. Mass meetings and street dem
onstrations in Buenos Ayres are ex
pressing the dissatisfaction with the
Executive who declined to sever rela-
tions with Germany after Congress had
voiced the national feeling for such a
break
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
SHOES G. SHIPS G.
SEALING WAX
UNCLEANi

UNCLEAN!
Outside the ancient walls of Jericho
They sat or crouched. loathsome, piteous
row,
With feshless hands outstretched and sup
plant mien.
They walled their dreadful cry: "Unclean
Uncleani"
The casual traveller, with quickened pace,
Passed on the other side, nor turned his
face
Except he chsnced in charity TO pause
And toss coin. The pack, with greedy
claws,
Fight for the meagre aims and then again
Take up their moan of misery: "Uncean!"
Outside the pale Of truth and right and
grace
There stands to-day a loathsome, lerrous
race,
A thing apart. Crouching behind the wall
OF countless mangled dead, they suppliant
To beg an aims. And one, with frenzied
eye,
Uplifts his wiehered hand, and, craftly,
Implores with anxious, fevered lips for
"Peace"
Humanity, with steps that never cease,
Walks the other side. Her shuddering
mlen
Proclams that covering thing, "Uncleanl
Unclean!"
Where is he now, All-Highest One, your
Gott?
Perchance he sleepeth, for he hears thee
not
Aye, call him louder! Louder! Yet again!
All other cries for aid were surely vain.
Not all the waters of the Rhine that surge
Nor the eternal fires OF Hell can purge
Your scarlet sins. For all Eternity
Be it your doom to cry in agony,
Unheeded and unheard, unfelt, unseen,
Behind your CHASTITY wall; "Unclean!
Uncleani"
VIDA SALVAGE OWENS.
Hurry up 1cith the peace conference"
moons Germany, and she, of course, is not
going to delay 1t by loud and lengthy
protest aDhen the Allies tell her achGt is
ANNA tn bU71re13 tO her
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14

With no more Germans to kill, what
are our men in France going to do for
amusement? It's up to you, folks.
You're sure to find some one to give
your answer to to-day
F. F. V.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
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New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
CARDROOM EPITAPHS

BILL GOOF HAS LEFT US SPEEDILY.
HIS LOW DOWN SPIRITS STRUGGLED
FREE
I HELD THREE ACES-SO DID HE.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14

Owned and published daily New York Tribune Inc
New York Corporation Ogden Reid. President "
Vernon Rogers Vice President n lee Secretary
r. A. Snter Treasurer Address Tribun' builoinR IDA
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New-York tribune., 1918-11-14
Vida SALVAGE OWENS.

Hurry up Nth the peace conference"
moons Germany, and she, of course, is not
going to delay 1t by loud and lengthy
protest aphen the Allies tell her phdt is
going to happen to her.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-14

tSHiOIAiNy uilueI NillCu we i've as we
should he to the Hohenzolern or Haps-
burg rule, which was for them but an
intermediate stage between slavery and
complete liberation.
new war of ideas has begun be-
tween Central Europe and the Western
nations. 1t may lead to a new war
before the old war has finally been
liquidated. 1t seems bound to lead to
new horrors and fresh anarchy. 1t may
preclude any settlement such as the
league of nations provided, because
the Germans and Russians of the revo-
luton may refuse to deal with nations
which they regard as reactonary and
capitalistic. To national war interna-
tional class war may now succeed. will
now succeed if Germany and Russia can
bring it about.
All of which is sound reason for in
dulging in no immediate expectations of
a return to old conditions of peace and
quiet. 1t took Europe more than twenty
years to E1uidate the French Revolu-
ton, even temporarily, and the Russian
Revolution is still less than two wears
old and still spilling over into adjoining
nations.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-26

opening had filtered through her slum- Der. She hesitated an instant. not through fear, because in the months of living alone fear had utterly forsaken her; but hope had leaped so often, only to fall sickeningly, that she was half persuaded 1t must be a dream. Still the impression strengthened. She slipped out of bed. The deer Of the bedroom stood slightly ajar.
 Bill stood before the fireplace, his shaggy fur cap pushed far back on his head, his gauntlets swinging from the cord about his neck. She had left a great bed of coals on the hearth, and the glow shone redly on his frost-scab- bed face. But the marks of-sstter trail bucking. the marks of frostbite, the stubby beard. the tiny icicles that still clustered on his eyebrows; while these traces of hardship tugged at her heart they were forgotten when she SEW the expression that overshadowed his face Wonder and unbelief and longing were all mirrored there. She took A shy step forward 10 see what riveted his gaze. And despite the choking sen sation in her throat she smilel-for she had taken off her little, beaded moccasins and left them lying on the bearskin before the fire, and Ee was staring down at them like q map fresh wakened from dream. unbe ieving and bewildered.
 With that she opened the d,for and ran to him. He started, as if sae had been a ghost. Then he opened hf,y arms and drew her close to him.
 "Bill. Bill. what made you so .png" sf., whispered. "I guess 1t served me right. but 1t seemed never- rlding time."
 What made me so long?" he echoed, bending his rough cheek down against the warm smoothness of hers. Lord. l didn't know you wanted me- I ain't no telepathist hon. You never peeped one little word since l left. How long you been here?"
 Since last September" She smiled up at him. Didn't Courvoiseurs man deliver message from me to the mine? Didn't you come in answer to my note?"
 Great Caesars ghost-since Sep tember-alone You poor little girl !" he murmured No, if you sent word to me through Courvoiseur l never got 1t. Maybe something happened to his man. left the Klappan with the first snow. Went poking aimlessly over around the Finlay river with a couple of trappers, Couldn't settle down. Never heard a word from you. I'd
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-26

shmells und dirty streets iss a ravage of tuberculosis. Der balance iss not true. Und in der own way der rich iss full off drouble-drunk nit eggcite- ment, weary init pleasures. Ach, der woods und mountains und streams, plenty off food, und kindly neighbor -iss not dot enough? Only der ab- normal wants more as dot. Und dink der drouble iss largely dot der modern, high-breSsure utilization makes for der abnormal, vedder a man iss million aire or works in der brewery, content ment iss state off der mind-und if der mind works init logic 1t will content find in der simple dings."
 It sounded like pronouncement of Bill's. But Lauer did not often grow serious. Mostly he was jovially cheer full, and his wife likewise. The North had emancipated them, and they were loyal to the source of their deliver ance. And Hazel understood, because she herself had found the wild land a benefactor. kindly in its silence, rest full in its forested peace, cure for sickness of soul. Twice now it had rescued her from herself.
 November and December went their appointed way-and still no word of Bill. If now and then her pillow was wet she struggled nightly against de- pression. She was not lonely in the dire significance of the word-but she longed passionately for him. And she held fast to her faith that he would come.
 The last of the old year she went little abroad. ventured seldom beyond the clearing. And on New Years eve Jake Lauer's wife came to the cabin to stay.
 
 Hazel sat up, wide awake, on the in- stant. There was not the slightest sound. She had been deep in sleep. Nevertheless she felt, rather than knew, that some one was in the living room. Perhaps the sound of the door
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-26
When Letters Were a Euxurs...

In our modern speed of rnfitc~ufs travel, and the consequent facfEfssess. in the transmission of man matter aEx over the civilized world fs fs x3sY; enough to look back to the tinae wAs4sa letter writing was 2 luxury iadzsgedE in only by few, and communication, between friends at distance wen nigbs an impossibility. In its first appESex-- ton the word post" meant courzexss or carrier of messages.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-26
Oh. to feel the wind grow strong Where the trail leaps down. l could never learn the way
 And wisdom of the town.

She blinked. The town-it seemed to have grown remote, q fantasy in which she had played puppet part. But she was home again. If only the gladness of 1t endured strong enough to carry her through whatever black days might come to her there alone.
 She would gladly have cooked her supper in the kitchen fireplace, and laid down to sleep under her own roof. It seemed the natural thing to do. But she had not expected to find the cabin livably arranged, and she had prom