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New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
"Don't Tell Mother
I'm Hurt

One boy told NE to write 70 his mother,
but be and say nothing about his being
wounded. told him the War Department
would have already notified her, and if he
should say he was feeling all right it would
cheer her up. He was one living bandage
from his head TO his feet; never saw so
many wounds; and when | told him his
mother would know ne was hurt his face
cloudcd and he said: "They shouldn't have
told her that; there is absolutely nothing
the matter with me, and she VIII be
worried. She has three boys over here, and
/ can't nave her worried about me-
Some of them told me they had nobody
at home. | asked if | could send a card to
some friend, and one fellow said: "Nobody
in America is interested in me-" I said
"Don't say that. because you couldn't 60
into town in America to-day where you
wouldn't be lionized." He looked up quickly
and said: "Why is that tod him it
because of the wonderful work he and
his comrades had been doing at the front
You should have seen him brighten up ana
he said: "Well, by gosh we sure have got
those Huns a-runningl' took my cue then
and found that it was something that made
were saying about them Several asked me
If there had been any accounts in the Paris
papers about how the people back home felt
about IL, and | could see the heads on all
the stretchers in my vicinity turning to
listen to me when | told them the bells in
New York were rung and the crowds cheered
in front Of the bulletin board
1t was lovely to see the delight with which
they would discover friend in the crowd
Some fellow would be brought in, and boy
would cry out: "Ilcllo there. Bob. thought
sure you were gone One boy told me he
was worried about his brother as when they
charged and he was struck his brother was
right by his side. He said: 81 have seen
my friends killed right by my side and if
they got him I'm glad | didn't see it,"
must tell you about the German prison
ers, who | think were about the sorriest
looking lot have seen. 1t was hard
to associate German frightfulness with this
poor looking lot. There were certainly
contrasts among them, too | saw an Old
white haired man, who could easily have
been a great grandfather, sitting dcjcctedly
with his head almost resting on the shoul-
der Of mere boy Some we're seriously
wounded, but others were able to walk. One
man had most of his face blown off and was
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
New England's Diminished Lustre

The death Of Senator Gallinger, Of
New Hampshire, has prompted many re-
Elections upon the Senate, past and pres
ent, but his removal emphasizes most
of all the diminishing power of New
England in that great body. This will
be clear if we go back to the Sixty-first
Congress, in session in 1906.
In the Senate of that year the New
England States were thus represented: :
Maine, Eugene Hale, William p Frye;
New Hampshire, Jacob II. Gallinger,
Henry e. Burnham; Vermont, William
P. Dillingham;, Carroll S. Page; Mas
sachusetts, Henry Cabot Lodge, w. Muir
ray Crane; Rhode Island, Nelson W.
Aldrich, George P Wetmore; Connecti-
cut, Morgan G.. Bulkeley, Frank B.
Brandegee. Of these delegations only
that of Vermont remains the same in
the Sixty-fifth Congress-
The Sixtyfirst Congress was not per
haps especially notable in the personnel
of the Senate. There was no lack of
medic critics. 1t is probable that the
average of ability is as high in the Sixty
fifth Congress as in the Sixty-frst. Of
the sectional swing of the leadership,
however, there can be no doubt.
The leaders Of the Senate in the Sixty
first Congress were Aldrich, Hale, Frye,
Gallinger, Lodge, Crane, Dolliver, Pen
rose and one or two others. OF these
the first six represented New England
States. The Senate was, of course, Re-
publican, but, regardless of that fact,
these were the names of national repu-
tation. OF these six New England lead
ers only Lodge now remains, and his
voice is most often heard in protest He
is now the minority leader. Brandegee
IS still Senator, and a useful one, but
hardly leader The departure of au-
thority is most noticeable in the case of
Maine. Hale and Frye were mighty
men in counsel and influence Since the
resignation Of Hale, in 1912, Maine has
sent five Senators to Washington, and
they have been the least vocable of all
the members Of the Senate. Doubtless
they were and are faithful, useful Sena-
'olo, puI WHO can recau Chelr names!
Not so many years ago Maine had Hale
and Frye in the Senate, Reed and Ding
ley in the House and Chief Justice
Fuller in the Supreme Court. all at the
same time.
The titular leadership of the Senate
is now in the Southern delegations.
Whether these include the real leaders
none can say, but it is obvious that the
leadership has passed from New Eng
land.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

figures anew for a single reason. There
is a disposition to believe that if the
tank should continue to demonstrate its
tremendous advantage in the struggle
we have only to rush over considera-
bic number in order to 90 through the
German lines, as if Germany, with
steel capacity and an industrial energy
twice that of all the Allies combined,
and exceeded only by the United States,
would in the meantime not enormously
increase her own production of tanks.
This much seems fairly certain. If the
tanks and the new tactics which have
been developed with it have the decisive
value which has been attributed to them
by General Mangin, and many Of the
military experts, that advantage will
mean swift and intensive manufacture
Of tanks by Germany. There is nothing
which means long delay for such pro-
gramme in Germany any more than in
the United States. 1t is heavy stuff. 1t
is more or less standard stuff. BY next
spring it is not at all impossible that
NNiA man. NOUIN ie1'C III LiAC iiSiQ pCi maps
more tanks than the Allies are counting
on. This might very seriously change
the face of the fighting and the issue of
next years campaign.
We do not think it is given to any
human being, military or other. to pene-
trate very far into The future. The tank
is the one big surprise in an otherwise
dull, monotonous and commonplace war
After its first exploit it seemed relative
lN failure. Then, of sudden, with
the new and lighter types to form a kind
of new machine-like or machine-gun
cavalry, it has flashed forth as the fore
front Of the most brilliant episode of
the Allied side of the war. The cautious
and the slow Of mind bid US to indulge
IN no exalted hopes. 1t does not seem
to US that the path to victory lies in ex-
cessive caution. For aught that any
human being can say now the tank might
be the decisive event of the struggle.
The utmost limit Of what we could trans
port would, it would seem to the Impair
t!al onlooher be the minimum of the pro-
ductlon programme, with liberal mar
gin to spare.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
A Serbian Epitaph
(From The Westminster co--,,<

fFro5n Thc Westninster Gazette,
After the retreat Of the Serbian army across n.
mountains Of Albania, in 1915, the survivors VIM
reached lhe coast shipped to Corfu usrs
ana In the neighboring island of Vdo many NJ
them died TO begin with. at the ra,e NJ bun
dreds a day Some OF them werc buried at sea
Others lie In common graves. In the midst Of tho
mounds which mari, their resting place ard which
vary IN size there stands cross On it tx n
Serbian inscription, written by the poet v Stanj
miroVic. which may bn translated thus:
NJ EVER a Serbian flower shall bloom
L In exile on our far-of tomb.
Our little ones shall watch in vain:
Tell them we shall not come again.
Yet greet for us our fatherland
And kiss for us her sacred strand
These mounds shall tell the years tn he
or men who died to make her free.
-Translated by l.. r. WARING.
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To a Little Girl Who Died
CFronl Sc,1bners Mooo.i,e

From Sc1,bner's MnOn=ine)
SAW you only once or twice,
IL And then thought you very nice.
Like other little girls
With curls.
In lace and futtering strings
OF ribbons, and silks, and things:
But after time I scarce recalled trace
Of eyes or hair or any delicate grace;
| knew no more your face
And then | heard you had
died;
And drawing to lonely place aside,
Unseen OF ail-ths is a secret true
Between Us two
In that most lonely, lonely place aside
| cried
Now scarce do remember any trace
OF your lost innocent face;
Yet sometimes, sometimes, when SO.
little girl such as you used to be.
Her ways, her eyes, her hair,
Or some slight thing that little childr.n
Il shakes The heart of me
JOHN BUNKER
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to his mother, and they usually neglected
to give you any other address, just
".Hother,' and would seem almost surprised
when you asked the name.
Many faces were pale and drawn with
suffering, but dldn't hear a murmur while
| was there, and you couldn't get one OF
them to admit that he was seriously hurt
| saw boys with their arms and legs ampu-
tated. and they were always bright and
cheerful. Sometimes they were rather proud
of the number Of their wounds, and one told
me with the greatest pride that he had
eight shrapnel wounds
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

PARIS, July 25.
4 tTER ! had spent a few quiet days
~ and felt that l would be able to do
something strenuous without killing
myself in the attempt, ! wanted to help at
some Of the stations or hospitals in town
with the wounded. Mrs. Folks, wife of the
Director Of the Department of Civil Affairs,
whom | met on the boat, had charge of all
relief work done at the stations, so | ap-
piled to her, Offering my services, and she
very gratefully and promptly accepted them.
The wounded had been streaming into
Paris through every available channel. and
there was urgent need for stretcher bearers
and help of every kind. | was assigned to
one Of the receiving stations, and my hours
were from 8 in the afternoon until II thar
night.
There were rows and rows Of ambulances
waiting for the wounded, and things We're
exceedingly quiet when arrived every
body snatchng a little rest while waiting
for the train. The building through which
they pass was built by that American angel,
Mrs. ". X. Vanderbilt. Everywhere one
goes there is evidence of the lavish use OF
her money to do some good 1t is very
loHS, One-SVoly Dui!ulliE, ana Wits putll cary
in the war On one side of the nall which
runs the length of the building, are the
Offices, canteen, rooms for the nurses. etc;
on the other is the huge room which ac-
commodities the wounded. There are
benches for the walking patients and racks
upon which to place the stretchers You
understand, this is merely clearing station
for wounded who are taken Immediately
from hospital trains to the various hospi-
tails in Paris
About o'clock our first train came in
containing $50 wounded Americans, hand
full of kilties, few Arabs and French and
1873 wounded Germans. Perhaps you have
seen pictures Of the United States hospital
trains. They were perfectly marvellous to
me. have never seen anything complete
as they are.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

all bandaged except slit FOR his eyes
Many were emaciated to the point Of bent
ready TO drop, and others were more robus
looking. Our boys certainly made a splen
did showing by the side Of them. All o.
them, sad to say, are so young, but ! hay'
never seen q cheerier bunch Of men, smiling
up at you when the very beads Of agOn,
are on their foreheads. They are willing
TO give you their souvenirs which they hav'
been able to hang on TO, though we wouldn'
take them. One boy insisted that | TAT
some of his German money, assuring me- HI
had loads of it, so have l-mark piece
and 2-mark piece.
They can't saw enough for how well takel
care of they are by the army, and also tf'
Red Cross, Y. N. c. A. and the Salvation
Army. Told us how the Red Cross mel
went right up to the front with them ID
their rolling kitchens, with not even gui
to defend themselves with, and expos'f
themselves to all sorts of danger in order
to give the men food and tobacco
The Kites were big, tne-looking fell'"S
tried to write postal for one 70 his VIE
and had not the slightest idea what ne
was saying to me. The boys SAID they VEN
up to the front playing their bagpipes ''''
they were going 10 4 party.
sent postals all over the United Staaa
and even to Norway. Sent one for ma
from Opelousas, La.
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4 History of
Each Case

Each man has pinned 10 nm ns'o'
of his case, his name. company, etc. ln''
we saw had only had their first dressas
and were sorry-looking sights, with 'n'
clothes still on, except where they had 0s'
cut away They were taken as quieAY
possible to the various hospitals IN fS'-
and Will be evacuated further south as ~
as they have bec~ operated on here II a''
cssary or found able to go on
The American girl ambulance drivers VIZ.
working all night to and from the hosp'A.
The French wounded | saw were ns''.
all older men than our boys One was 's
i'll and dclirious; the French nurse t00 >
he was calling for his children.
l can't begin to tell you all of the 'h'.
they told ME or wha: | saw during ~
two days I worked there. When =. -.
home Monday night at - o'clock tr'O
go to sleep. for WAS simply dead ~, -,
but the minute | would shut my eyss
picture came back of those rows anu
of s,retchers. bandaged heads arms :,
legs, and always a smile for you "He"
spoke to them. r.
Tuesday night while We were "a'''ns =
the next train some Of the boys VIZ E
sing, and presently others wou'o w. II.
Before we finished the French po'i'' -.
crowded around. and they replied wiz" I'D
of their war songs. viii never i''e'
night as long as live. Nj
| wish | had time to write you NV" u.;s,
| have written th,s under diiticnl'es' =. 81
| had the power to give you the P''.s P..r.s
have il in my mind Of those WV, ,.,,,s
boys have never seen Suoh ~, 4
and courage not 4 murmnr ou' o' V
them
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Long, Long Thoughts
Metamorphosis

III MeLamOrpnOSlS
(From Tho Atrantic MonthIu)
CNOMEWHERE on the ocean is
~ The boy who brought our groceries
Before the war began.
His name is Willie, and he took
The orders daily from the cook,
And wrote them in his little book,
And carried off the can
In which we keep our kerosene.
He wasn't very neat and clean
But now so neat and clean he is,
The boy who brought our groceries,
And stands so straight,
You'd never know him for the same
Stoop- p-shculdcred, careless boy who came
And often got lot of blame
For bringing things so late.
He was shiftless, goodness knows
If he had ever brushed his clothes,
But now a soldier man he is,
The boy who brought our groceries,
And gone to shoot a Hun
Sunday he called on Cook, to say
Goodby before he went away;
And Pop shook hands with him that day
As proud as any one.
He is 50 soldery and trim,
We all are proud Of knowing him.
From the CONTRIBUTORS CLUB
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Slogans

The slogan adopted at the Congress Of
Allied Women in Paris is high and fine
and big:
Bslsere Victory'
Think Tictoryi
Preach Victoryl
Live Victory'
But the stuff that makes victory is in
the wild new slogan from the trenches:
He'll, HeaUen or Hoboken by Christ
mas!
There is the spirit that no German will
ever understand.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
A Week of Verse
Stonehenge

From The Spectator
CAUNT on the cloudy plain
~ Stand the great Stones,
Dwarfed in the vast reach
OF sky that owns
All the measure of earth
Within its cloudhung cave.
Dumb stands the Circle
AS on Gods grave.
But Gathering with horses
Up from the valley,
With horses and horsemen,
At trot, gayly
Dragging the limbered guns
Youth comes riding
Easy sits, mettlesome
Horses bestriding.
Fast come the twinkling hoofs,
Light wheels and guns,
Invading the upland,
And sweep past the Stones.
Giant those shapes now
Over them tower
Times dark stature
Over youths feet hour.
Ribs of dismemoried Earth,
Guard what you may.
The Immortals also
Pass, nor stay.
LAURENCE BINYON.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Leading Americans

The Washlngton Times, which Arthur
Brisbane edits when he is not editing
the Hearst Chicago paper, is in the quest
of 1.-The leading American. We read:
ITO pick the leading American citizen
would mean the consideration of long
list Of names and a wide range of accom-
plshmcnts.
These are some Of the names that
come promptly to mind:
General Pershing, Gen. G. W. Goetha)x.
Il x-P re s d e n t Dr.. Simon Flexner
Roosevelt, Josephus Daniels,
OK President Taft Newton D. Baker
Henry Ford, Chief Justice White
"Thomas Edison, Emile Berliner.
civilian G.. McAdoo Frank A. Vanderlip.
John u. Rockefeller Cardinal Gibbons,
DR.. {. II. Mayo, Bernard Baruch,
John Burroughs, Luther Burbank.
"Charles NJ. Schwab, Edward n. Hurley,
Louis D. Brandeis, Admiral William $.
Sims.
"A Washington youngster was asked
the other day who he thought was the
greatest man in American history. We'll,
he said, Il suppose George Washington,
hut I'd a good deal rather be Douglas
Fairbanks
Maybe you Will think Of men whom
you consider worthier the title Of lead
ing American citizen than any named
above. Certainly you will think of others
entitled to be named with them"
To be sure there are others worthy Of
consideration for the title of "leading
American citizen" Some of them must
doubtless have occurred to Mr.. Bris-
bane. Perhaps it was a certain profes-
sional delicacy that caused him to omit
these conspicuously missing candidates:
William Randolph Hearst, who had
himself celebrated last Fourth of July as
the greatest publisher the world had ever
known.
William Bayard Hale, who was hired
by him to promote German-American
understanding
George Sylvester Viereck, who first
nominated him for Governor of New
York State
John +. Hylan, his greatest admirer.
Edward A. Rumely, his bette noir.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

The newsdealers marked for discipline
by the city are referred to by Mayor
Hylan as those not selling ''the daily
papers"
There are sixtyfour daily papers
published in this city. Does Mayor
Hylan mean all Of them?
The offending newsdealers are re-
ferred to by the Commissioner of Lii
censes as those who are mot serving the
public as was contemplated when
license was issued by the city"
But there are no stipulations in the
license as to which of the sixty-four
daily papers newsdealer shall SELL nor
as to whether he shall sell all of them
nor as to the price at which he shall
buy any of them.
Acting Park Commissioner Muldoon
says "the Mayor has ordered the revoca-
ton of the permits of dealers refusing
to accept newspapers for sale"
Does he mean that newsdealer must
sale, up to all of the sixty-four daily
papers published in this city?
The evasion is palpable.
In all the greater city there is not one
newsdealer who ever handled all of the
sixty-four daily papers. 1t is prepos
ferrous to think that any one should
What the Hylan administration means,
but what it hasn't the courage to say, is
that the newsdealers must handle the
Hearst papers and all the papers that
support Hearst, and must handle them at
the price Of S1.40 per hundred-or lose
their licenses
This we call oppression. The city au-
thorities we'll know it to be SUCH and
hesitate to go through with it. Threats
to revoke licenses have been addressed
to newsdealers in general, so that no
individual has grievance in law on
which to proceed against the city When
it is pretended that license is to be can
celled an unknown man appears, writes
the word reuoked across the back of the
paper, without signing it, and goes awav.
What dignifed performance for the
city to be engaged in,
1t evades legal responsibility for mis-
using its power to coerce and oppress
the newsdealers and expose itself to
ridlcule. 1t is afraid to say what it
really means. It will not define it's own
position
When the notice first was circulated
that permits Of anti-nearst newsdealers
would DE revoked on the pretext that
they were not "selling the papers" we
sent reporter to ask Mayor Hylan
three questions. He sent back word that
he wished them reduced to writing. We
wrote them out and sent them back to
hlm IN that form, and as they are still
unanswered we now ask them publicly.
The questions are:
% Does the city administration take
the position that the ncwsdealers. in
order TO serve the public as was con
templatcd when the license was granted
oy the city" must sell all papers?
'2) II so, are the newsdeacrs OBLIGED
TO resume the sale Of the German lam
guage papers which they have banished
from their stands?
l3) Have they any less right to refuse
TO sell the Hearst papers than they have
70 refuse to sell German language
papers?
Meanwhile, the monopoly called the
American News Company, which con
trols the distribution Of all morning
papers, and the Publishers Association,
which is supporting Hearst, have under
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

taken to say that The New York Tribune
shall not be delivered to anti-Hearst
newsdealers, nor to any newsdealer at
less than $1.40 per hundred copies, al
though The Tribune's price is $1.20.
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'H>M XernR~.s,M.,
/ Heroes All

o c. rgaudor
O. America that 1actf. u
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Owned ard published daily by The Tribune Association.
New York Corporation. Ogden Reid. President: @.
Vernon Rogers Vice President Richard H. Lee Secretary
E Suer. Treasurer. Address, Tribune Building. loA
Nassau Street New York Telephone. Bsekman 5000
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Oppression

The newsdealers marked for discipline
by the city are referred to by Mayor
Hylan as those not selling ''the daily
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filtered at the Postonlce New York sccond Clms
Mail MattT
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES-By NAH. including Postage:
~ THE UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OF GREATER
NEW YORK
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ever understand.
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January Sale of Furs

Hundreds of new blouses.
$3.50 and $500 Blouses, SIS
New SILK elouses In tailored and
dressy styles, With hemstttched friiis,
lars, tucked Jokes, Venice and fiiet
lace trimmino-ehoice Of crepe do
chimes, talseta silks, faces and aeor.
oette ceepes-both white and coiors.
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NEW SWISS PRESIDENT
i THANKS U. S. FOR AID
Sees One More Bond Between Re
,:publics-Nation Will Fight Any
" one Who Violates Neutrality.
~ the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
GENEVA, January Felix Calender,
the new president of Switzerland,
sends the following New Year message
to America through the Associated
Press:
si.'At the moment of assuming the high
functions to which the confidence of
the Swiss people has called me, the new
himself the Interpreter of the entire
Swiss people in expressing to the re-
public of the United States Of America
its gratitude for the new proof of
friendship which 1t recently gave to
Switzerland in formally engaging itself
measures to assure the revictua1ling Of
lis populatiop-measures whose happy
effects we await with confidence.
,,''This proof of sympathy which our
great sister republic has kindly shown
US will henceforth constitute one more
bond between our two nations. united
already by traditional friendship based
upon the common ideal of liberty and
democracy.
I'm this terrible world war the Swiss
people only ask the belligerents and the
world to respect Switzerland's territory
and independence and to allow it to
I've and work in peace. It has and can
loyal neutrality based upon its SOW
eFeignty as necessary condition Of its
Independence. This neutrality and this
Independence the Swiss people firmly
are determined to defend at all costs
against any one who would attack
them.
I'm affirming once again this resolu-
ton. we are certain to be in q COM
fnunion of sentiment with the Ameri-
SAn people"