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New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

has given many pictures from the different
special correspondents, telling Of Amer
leans within sixty feet Of their German
enemies There is the vivid picture sent
by Thomas NJ johnson to "The New York
Evening Sun" shortly before the last
artillery brush, not the least of which is
typical American trench humor:
"Wc stepped down from the firing step.
The glory of seemed utterly absent.
From that lonely gray wilderness we heard
splashing water. A trench soldier came tow
ard us saying, Join the navy and see the
world He chuckled he passed in water
up to his knees The spell is broken by such
men. Nothing matters.
"We slipped and waded through upward
Of mile, and that trench at one time
was only sixty yards from the Germans We
didn't talk, even in whispers Then we came
TO a smashed up place where three men had
been killed Here said the major, "a big
she'll exploded, and we walked down through
the crater without more being said.
"'We got over the top here said the
major. IT'S all smashed up here. Walk
singly, five yards apart, SO if they see US
they won't get more than one or two'"
"The American trenches" runs another
dispatch, 'are all in more or less marshy
ground, making the use Of 'duckboards'
necessary at all times, except when the
trench water and mud are frozen.
"In every dugout the soldiers work al
most constantly at the pumps, keeping out
the water which seeps in. But the watery
conditions unfavorable for trench rats,
and few Of them seen. One unit spent
more than a week in the line before seeing
rat, and he apparently was in hurry
to get some place where the ground was
drier.
I'm some places the artillery is on ground
but little higher than the trenches although
number of our batteries manage to keep
dry feet most of the time"
Another writer, Lincoln Eyre, made
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

to sleep with the owls. Their nights are
without mystery. They eradicate even the
odor of the gathered harvests, and for them
winter retains memory of summer
When food is mentioned, one easily
guesses that the Sammy, used to his Amer
lean sweets, ice cream, cake, soda water,
chocolate, not to mention turkey and
chicken, finds in his meals his greatest war
burden. In the trenches, of course, things
are very simple. AS one dispatch says:
"All the men apparently we'll salts
fed with the food. Two meals a day are
always served, and sometimes there are
three. For breakfast the men frequently get
a large bowl of oatmeal the principal
dish, while at dinner there is beef or some
other meat and vegetables. Supper some
times brings bacon, corncd beef hash or
ca1ncd salmon There is always good white
bread made from American -four, and plenty
of it,"
But out of the trenches what little
tragedies are revealed to an observing
French correspondent, writing to the Paris
"Journal":
II know that after their arrival it was n
very great disappointment to them to find
themselves still fed on canned meats. Since
they sailed they had been fed on nothing
else Now, in poking his nose into one
corner after another, one of the soldiers
discovered, in a pigsty, young porker
regalng himself sugar beet leaves. Their
favorite vcgetable The soldier approached
the pig and, lifting his hat, said politely:
Dear pig, whom I may also call our ally,
if you will give me part of your rcpast
YOU may have this whole tin Of canned
meat
And he added, as an extra inducement:
"Ill even open it for YOU
The pig made no response. But war is
war. The American helped himself
Nov they all the beet leaves One by
one they pass before the cook, who gives
them slice of the whitest possible bread.
potatoes and beef in gravy. While they wait
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
O Captain! My Captain!
BY Walt Whitman

0 Captain! lily Captain! Our fearful
tip is doAe;
The ship has weathered every rack. the
prize we sought is won.
The port is near, the bells I hear, the
people all exuting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the
vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer; his lin. ara
pale and still
My father does not feel my arm; he has
no pulse nor will
The ship is anchored safe and sound: its
voyage closed and done.
From fearful trip the victor shin come.
in with object won:
Exult, O shores, and ring, o bells,
But |. with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Why America Plays Up Trench Raids

wv THY do American newspapers give
wv such prominence to the death of
four men in the first line
trenches? DO the English papers treat the
death of four British soldiers with equal
Importance, or the French papers go into
like paroXysms over the death of four
French soldiers?
The value of news is comparative. After
the French and the English have lost not
thousands but hundreds of thousands in
battle the death of four men is of i'm
portance to the families of those concerned
but otherwise it does not take a large
place in the national life.
With Americans, on the other hand
their soldiers are now for the first time
actually holding a section of the battle
line, and what their soldiers are doing in
the front trenches, how they comport them
selves, whether they fight we'll or i'll when
there is chance to fight, is Of the highest
Importance to the American nation. Il
makes important news. Every detail hclps
to form judgment of what can be ex-
pected in the future, when really bic.
things are to be done. The death of four
Americans in the trenches is important
not only to the families of the dead but to
every American who has the honor and
future welfare of his country at heart
Moreover, the Importance of a trencl
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Labor
1T OYALTY LABOR WEEK" begins

& VI ALLY LABOR w EEK" begins
to-day. Under the auspices ci
the American Alliance for Labor
and Den ocracy, organized labor will hod
demonstrations throughout the country
tor the purpose of arousing spirit of
greater unity and enthusiasm for Amer
ica's cause.
The backbone of the newspaper dealers
strike IN New York City is broken, accord
ing 10 latest reports at the time The Ne
we" went to press, many of the strikers
navlng accepted the terms of the pub
fishers.
Ten thousand girls, members Of the
international Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, quit work in this city for an s.:
Eer cent increase in wages for piece work
ers and 81 week for week workers, also
a forty-nine hour week.
lhe Commercial Telegraphers of Amerlca
nave set April % aside as "open organi'
zatlon" day. An attempt will be made to
organize all the telegraph operators Of the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph sys'
tens. They have given notice to the com
panies that any attempt to punish en-
ployes for joining will be followed by an
order for general strike
Between 1000 and 1,50O weavers IN
Philadelphia have struck FOR Is per cent
advance in wages and changed working
conditions.
Streetcar service in ST. Louis has been
completely halted. The striking motor
men and conductors are demanding IN
creased wages, revision of working hours
ana dlscontinuance of alleged unfair dis
cflmlnation in favor Of women conductors
The 1,20O longshoremen who quit won
on the piers of the Southern Pacific Steam
snip Company voted to submit their gr'es'
ances to the local adjustment board OF Tue
United States Shipping Board.
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young man."
"Well, mother, didn't know it mvself
until yesterday. I never saw him with a
uniform on before. ."--Yonkers Statesman.
Mrs. A-Are you troubled much in
your neighborhood with borrowing?
Mrs. B.-Yes, a good deal NV neigh
bors never seem to have anything I want.
Transcript.
"Hi, Bill! Here comes a gas wave"
"Thank heavens! This toothache's al
most killin' me."-Cartoons Magazine.
He--Are you fond of indoor sports?
She-Yes, if they know when to go home.
Tiger
My son has some grit in him, can tell
YOU" said father. "Been eating war
bread, I supnose ',-Liverpool Post.
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served to heighten the morale Of n. ::
fantry, who, as one correspondent wr,.A ~
"Chuckled to-day when he was to,a
the barrage came right slap down =. Nv" ~
Dutchman the minute he started to oct e.. 'ae
" hile the artillery commander chucki.a ssa'
he showed reports that our barraye w w,
beaten the German barrage bv .,:Na haa
seconds" i1y
The glory Of these short bouts won. :.
the artillery, but the men in the trena.' "
were the ones to face the supreme to..
In the words Of one dispatch:
"Thc men conducted themselves we'll d..
the enemy bombardment Several wonnsss yong
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
/ rance

TT is France, however, that in point of
Il space receives the most attention in
magazines of the moment. "Why France
Wants AlsaceLorraine," in "The Worlds
Work. is not so new as the account of an
Allied dream easily pictured in the title,
"Bordeaux-Odessa versus Berlin Bagdad"
What is suggested is railroad roughly
following the 45th parallel from Bordeaux
to Odessa, crossing the Berlin-Bagdad
route at Belgrade, and implying a stretch
of territory favorable to the Entente that
would sever the Mitteleuropa scheme at
the waist.
Other views of France at war may be
found in Francis B. Sayre's article on
the Y. NJ. c. A. at the front, in "Harp-
er's,' and in Octave Forsant's chronicle
in "The Atlantic" Excepting School Under
Fire A Record from Rheims which ends
with this comment:
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
y Few Miles Long, but It's Front Held by Sammie>

ME United States is now holding a
sector of the Western front under
battle conditions-not big Sec
tor, but real one. The official admission
o TINS fact-suspectede ever since the Ger
mans on November 13 reported the pres
ence OF American soldiers near the Rhine
~ssrne canal. in Lorraine-gives pause.
hack~of-the-ines stories by press corre
spondents are now thing of the past:
the picture of American troops in battle
with Germans changes from imagination
to reality
Under what conditions, then, and where
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Germany

or number of articles directed at
~ Germany as point of vision per-
haps the most notable this month is the
first of q series in "The Worlds Work"
by John r. Rathom, editor of "The Provi-
dence Journal" telling of German in
trigue III this country unraveiled by the
staff of that energetic paper. In this ac-
count is given the radio message sent
from Berlin to the German Embassy at
Washington ordering the publication of
an advertisement warning passengers
against sailing on Entente boats--the
now famous Lusitania warning. The orig
inal message was as follows
From Berlin Foreign Office
To Botschaft. Washington
669. (44-W( Welt nineteenth fifteen
warne 175 20 l stop IT'S l 2 stop durck
622 stop 19 z Is stop Tx Il 3 6.
Translated from page, line and word"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

Of this war, nor is it difficult to understand
why we have enlisted in it.
1T is war fer the fulflmcnt of that
}rayer for new birth of freedom, not only
tor our own, but for all the nations of The
earth-the Allied nations, the neutral ma
tons, yes, and even for Germany itself. Let
US nope that this war will not cease until
that prayer is answered."
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

they initiate the cries of animals, whistle,
sing and accompany themselves by beating
with their forks on their mess plates. And
that makes a drol contrast with the very
grave and serious appearance Of these big
fellows, in their long coats, which recall
those worn by Javert and Jean Vatican.
"The big Americans smile, roll their eyes,
and, happy to talk about things which
even the mention of makes one more hope
fui, tell these little fellows that, for certain
holidays, their government is going to send
them turkey and sweet potatoes But this is
only promise yet without confirmation.
"They dream of that promise in eating
their daily ration. In the evening they eat
it in the dusk, their feet muddied, their
mess platters in their hands, out in the cold
and the fog
Intimate Pictures Of the War
1 Locked Country
Now that the men are in the trenches,
what do things look like? The last week
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

night visit to the American sector for
"The New York World" Soon after pass
ing dugout, popularly known as the
"Waldorf," the party entered the commu-
nication trench, where appeared again
the old enemy, mud:
"Thousands Of duckboards are require
20 floor the liquid mud at the bottom Of
every trench. Again and again in the course
of our promenade we plunged into water
and mire up to thighs. Some trenches
have been wholly untenable. We traversed
one which engineers had put in commission
only the night before. The firing trenches
in little better condition.
"The major gave US brief description of
the lay of the land. The trenches at this
point form rounded salient SO that the
Germans, whose observation facilities, owing
to the high ground back of them, are better
Than ours, are able to enflade certain parts
o. line. The ground on which the op-
POSING lines laid is quite fiat and at
places marshy it is impossible to dig
trenches. Liaison' patrols unite the open
spaces
"A man needs to be good swimmer for
that work. the major said. Some of these
sWamps are regular lakes.'"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
The Americans Have Carried On
l In Fine Style

Under. such conditions within the last
week, American infantry, brilliantly sup
ported by American artillery, have
ciashed repeatedly with the enemy, sus-
tanning casualties, yes, but inhcting losses
equally as large, if not larger. Particu-
larly striking was the twenty minute
"strafing" that the Sammies gave Fritz
one evening, tearing up a large section
of front line trench and probably break
ing up local attack. AS one correspond
ent wrote:
ut was very lively and spectacular
affair. The bombardment extended over a
considerable area, and for a time the whole
sky was lit up with the flash and flicker of
guns and the play Of rockets of all colors-
red, white green. and yellow-as our infan-
trv or that of the enemy sgnalled back,
Give us barrage,' Don't give US barrage,'
or gas shells coming"
Indeed, one French artillery officer.
who served at Verdun, praised the work
of certain American batteries as "almos.
perfect" This good work, incidentally.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
ln The American Magazines

NtlE monthly magazines for Febru-
h AIRY are unusually full of good war
articles, though a few, such as
"The American Magazine" lean some
what to the idea of the "magazne busi-
ness as usual seeming as yet not will
ing to admit that the biggest interest to
the reading public is the war.
Russia
y Ok views of the Russian muddle.
Il which ever finds new and undaunted
interpreters, one may turn with profit to
the February issue of "Munsey's." in
whicn Frederick Austin Ogg, of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, asks and answers
may angles of the question, "Is Russia
in Dissolution?" In "Hearst's" Charles
Edward Russell defines a "Bolshevik."
having had excellent opportunity to gather
material while With the American mission
in Russia last summer. Something more
picturesque is "Miss Americana" from
the hand of Olive Gilbreth, starting in
serial form in "Harper's" William Hard
lightly dramatizes the Bolshevik attempt
10 Split the German in the "Metropoli-
tan, giving the narrative of an imagined
lnterAlhed Conference at London, "a
project leveled at two possibilities which,
1t Is submitted. can never be attained sep
arately: First, to drive a wedge of genu-
inely democratic truth into Germany; and.
second to lay the tentative foundations
OF genuinely democratic international
order "
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

"The result of the investigations that I
made shows that during the thirty months
that the schools were open thirty-sevcn
shells fell upon the school buildings. and
two Of them went through the roof-luckily
while the children were absent-into the
rooms where the sessions were held every
day. More than thousand projectilcs of all
cailbres fell within space of less than 100
metres from the schools. in which space they
Killed seventy-siX grown persons and eight
children who never attended school. Not a
SINGLE teacher or pupil was wounded"
Away From the War
THOSE who fee war discussion or find
a time for other matters will find excel
lent diversion in Meredith Ncholson's "Chi-
cago" ("The Valley of Democracy"O, in
this months issue of "Scribner's" Champ
Clark's biography begins in "Hearst's," :"
while "Harper's" is publishing the let
ters of James Whitcomb Riley. In the
American" one finds Harold Bell Wright's
first magazine article, war throb, en-
titled "The Sword Of Jesus The inter
csting personality section of this maya
zine is frightened by intimate views Of
Edison and the famous Mayo brothers of
Rochester, Mimi, who have made it a
pleasure to occupy the operating table.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
A Smile or Two

<<N 1HY, daughter, you never told
w me before that you loved this
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

in the "World Almanac for 1915 this
read: Warn Lusitana passenger(s)
through press not voyage across the At
lantic."
The same magazine contains an illumi-
mating article by J. B. W. Gardner, war
expert of "The New York Times" show
ing how Germany is already planning the
next war. Closely related to this is Frank
II. Simonds's account Of "Germany's Sec
ond Peace Offensive" which failed at
Brest-Litovsk, to be found in "Thc Review
of Reviews" Secretary Lansing's article
in "Munsey's' on "Our Present Foreign
Relations compliments the foregoing.
The Neutrals
4 est to view Of the starving neu-
trails, pictured by Edwin Bjorkman in
both Scribner's" and "The Worlds
Work" 1t is not a cheerful picture. AS
friend Of the author remarked last July
in Christiania, "We have nothing but
the cruX of the peculiar situation which
the war has created in the small northern
countries. To them the war has come
carrying fortune in one hand and famine
IN the other They have never been richer
in the one thing supposed to be capable
of procuring everything else. They have
never been so poor in all those things that,
under normal circumstances, make money
worth having"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Intimate Pictures Of the War
l Locked Country

Now that the men are in the trenches.
what do things look like? The last week
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-11-14
ToWNsLEY THANKS -

Gratitude and thanks ara
words to try to express our daan 49,
probation to you, our dear Bos S s.
friends, for your very generous go, ~
given US last Tuesday evepiro s'.'
I. W. c. A. meeting. But ~ s
without the givers is bare. s e =.
good it makes US feel to know ts NJ
we have the best wishes and pr.s ~
Of you dear people. s's
We are unworthy of the or...
favor you have shown us in this 49,
in our lives and we want e .ss 49,
you that we viii ever hold von I.
grateful remembrance. It is inst IS. s
you good Bogalusa people to j 49, w
the top even in showing unmari,ss
kindness to a departing parsop ~ rs
his remaining family.
We are yours in grateful apprs.;.
ton, 1S'ar
REV. AND MRS. A. /. ToWNsr.E,,
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-11-14
Government Still
To Control Roads

Washington, Nov. Winthrop
NJ. Daniels, chairman of the Inter-
state Commerce Comnissino, said in
an address today that railroads after
the war will be operated under either
entire government management AID
control, or private management With
government supervision of financing
and elimination Of competitive waste.
He was speaking before the annual
meeting of the National Association
of Railway and Utility Commission
iers, a body Of state representatives.
Chairman Daniels expressed doubt
that the present government man
agement without ownership could be
continued satisfactorily in peace
times. With restoration of private
management, he said, competitive
waste should be eliminated by per-
petuating the Railroad Administration
plan for curtailing unnecessary pas
senger train schedules of parallel
roads, and hauling freight over the
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-11-14
WHEN THEY COME HOME?

LIFTED TIE RECEIVER OF THE TELEPHONE.
and almost dropped again surprise For the voice
was that of my good old FRIEND and supposed him far
away in France.
What back so soon?" exclaimed. Detailed for
special duty?"
YES back" he answered; and it struck me that his
voice slow and older though the weeks of his alb
sence had been years. "Back-but not for special duty
Tlere-thereis another reason"
And then knew that he must be wounded
Wounded-while here at home, still pursued nv
ordinary course. Wounded to protecfmy home Wound
eC--tO keep my children safe.
Itcame over of sudden, as it never had before
that am debtor to him to amount that never can
repay.
They will all be coming back before long Some
wounded; some grown strangely old. But most of them
well and normal enough, thank God.
And we will stand along the sidewalks to see them
pass. How shall we feel that day. wonder
viii their eyes say to us, eve were hungry for bit
Of sweet and you did not think to send it :"
We were cold and you let the hut fires die; we were
lonesome and The movies stopped because there no
funds to carry on"
Will that be the message of their eyes to us?
Or shall stand confidently in their presence greet
ing them who have nothing to repent
men who in their absence gave freely of wealth.
and time that there might be warmth and cheer and com
fort over there?"
They are coming back some day-perhaps before we
think
And what will be the message Of their eyes to you?