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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
After the War
nRoF. FRANZ OPPENHEIMER, Of

i Berlin University, has taken a
glimpse, in recent address, into proba-
BILE conditions in Germany and Europe
after the war. He estimates that the
number of killed and disabled for all the
European states will reach 25,O0O,OOO to
S0,OOO,0OO. "That will cause" he says,
ian advance of Is to 100 per cent in the
value of labor" AS for wages, they
twill rise by successive stages, beginning
with agricultural labor and extending to
the factory workmen. The purchasing
power Of the German home market will be
increased by at least 81 ,000, 100000 through
this increase in wages.
Anticipated arrangements in factories
can no longer be afforded. Only the manu-
featuring concerns that are best conducted
and have the most highly perfected ma
chinery will be able to pay the high wages.
Tho perfection Of economic methods, the
stretching Of the nerves Of production to
their utmost capacity, which Rathenau
thinks should be brought about through
state interference, will take place of itself
The number Of all laborers and employees not
absolutely necessary, like agents and COM
mercial travellers, will have to be reduced.
In consequence Of the high cost OF labor
the value Of land will fall Large landed
estates cannot be. kept up, and they must
be made free for the settlement OF peas
ants. Everybody will have to work to his
utmost capacity, and owing to the intelli-
gent application Of labor Sta product will
increase despite the reduced numbers Of
workers. Strikes will scarcely ever occur
again.
AIN consequence Of the high taxes few
persons will create landed estates for pur-
poses Of ease and enjoyment; land will, ON
the contrary, be owned for the most part as
q mesns Of production. Capital will there,
fore increase rapidly, and the damages OF
the war will be restored at an equal pace.
The healing process, however, can 70 for
ward only when business is guaranteed
fFss market and manufacturers preserve
H. Instinct -o3 workmanship"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
7ashington and the Stranger Who's Inside the Gate

after April 6, 1917, there was scarcely
a real eating place left in Washington
anywhere.
It is even hard to find them now
There are so many people in Washing
ton that your desire for quality in food
cannot be strained, and you can be
thankful to set your teeth in anything
that yields and can be masticated. For
city that needs vitality for the big
job Of the present, Washington has even
now the poorest selection Of eating
places of any big city in the United
States. I have no doubt that when
Washington fails at anything the eat
ing places are to blame. There are a
half dozen of them here that undoubt-
eddy share between them the blame tor
the failure Of the airplane programme.
That an army fights on it's belly is as
true in Washington to-day as it was
when Napoleon or any other of the half
dozen claimants to authorship first
said it.
The situation when it comes to liv-
ing quarters is worse, and more di-
rectly related to the history of Wash
ington previous to April of last year.
Without factories, great growing in
dustries or trading houses Of any kind,
and lacking strategic commercial po-
sition to stimulate it's growth, Wash
ington had little demand for further
living facilities. There was a normal
growth, but it was singular city, in
that you could go around it for miles
without finding any of those pastures
marked out with street signs and cut
up in unsliced building lots that trans
form the environs Of every other ambi-
tious and aspiring community in the
country.
Washington is built like most of the
cities in the East. 1t has miles of
country around it, but that didn't stop
the original settlers from putting thet1.
houses next to each other like cheese
boxes, as was the Continental fashion
of that time, and the fashion has con-
tinued until it is permanent matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Subtle Poison at Which
the Sedition Bill Is
Aimed

CENATOR M'CUMBER. had before me
~ yesterday, Mr.. President, newspaper
which is published in the State Of Mime
sofa in foreign language. I could not
read one word in that paper, but there were
two cartoons in it which impressed me, as
I looked at them, with the belief that the
editor of that paper was disloyal man and
ought to be out Of this country and not in
it. There was nothing in those cartoons
which would possibly subject him to prose-
cution, but there was sufficient in them to
indicate a sentiment of disloyalty, lack
OF sympathy, and a purpose to impose that
sentiment upon the readers of the paper.
Then made inquiry of some one who knew
the gentleman who edited this paper, and
was told he was one of the most disloyal
men in the United States. If you should
read that paper you would probably find
that there has been nothing ever said in it
in support Of the great American cause.
1t is such persons who are liable to be
caught by this proposed law, because, hav-
ing in their hearts a hatred against our
cause, they will sometimes lose discretion
and will give utterance to sentiments which
ought to send them to the penitentiary.
Such persons ought to be prosecuted upon
general principles, and if we shall at some
time get something against them which will
enable the law to get hold of them and dis
pose of them as they ought to be disposed
of | shall not worry. I know hundreds and
hundreds of people in the United States
who are saying nothing to-day. Why? Be-
cause of the fear of just such law as this
one which is proposed. / hope the law will
be so strong that we shall keep the fear of
the Lord and of the government in their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

Now, when you buy house in Wash
ington you really buy just so mucn
right to space in brick structure ~.
stretches all along one side of b,oct
The airy spaces and backyards and s;d..
yards and orchards Of more lonely West.
ern cities exist here only in dreams
At any rate, when the invasion heoa.
there were just so many Of these hor.-
together with variegated assor.rrs,4
Of apartment buildings, and no no,.
than enough to go around. Rents wen,
up and leases were transferred SO manv
times that houses and apartments !,
Washington began to acquire pedigree.
of kind to make blue ribbon Aired.v.
ashamed of himself. It is no unicorn
mon thing now to find an apart,ner.
that may once have rented for xso
renting for $500, and the h;ohs,.
priced apartments have gone up in m.
portion. The johnson rent profteer;nv
bill will undoubtedly level some a
these extortionate prices for she!tar.
but the real estate man is not To 4.
done out of his profits by mere act -
Congress. The law now in Washington
to the home dweller appears to be either
to buy or move, and in the buying tn.
real estate man, as has frequently been
pointed out, sees to it as a rule that
his pocket is amply lined
The situation that Washington nors
finds itself in puts great question nm
to the government. Nobody wants To
invest anything in Washington, build
any house, put up any apartments, open
any new restaurants, because there's
no telling when the war will end. and
"pouf," the scurrying, rushing, careless
extravagant population that has turned
Washington inside out will have van.
ished back where it came from.
So far as can see there's onlv ona
thing for the government to do. Il
will have to subsidize the war and sea
that it's made a permanent thing. Then
maybe Washington will get real move
on itself and begin to look after the
stranger within the gates.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
By Ralph Block
Washington, May 9.

wv WASHINGTON, there is no
M doubt Of it, is become the
w perfect chameleon Of Amer
lean cities. Its colors' change
as rapidly as the colors of wheattield
in the passing afternoon sunlight. But
its change is now all in one direction,
more people, more traffic, more buzz
and hum. May is here, and with it a
memory of the Washington leisurely
people used to know. The trees have
burgeoned, the grass in the parks is
lush and ripe and the overhanging
foliage does its best to give the splen-
did avenues an atmosphere of languors
and luxuries. But even so prodigal ana
respondent natural dress cannot hide
the modern excitements underneath,
the jerkiness and fever of a city that
is now inescapably caught in the wheels
of the machine and rushed forward to
a stranger and less comfortable des-
tiny.
A month in the capital makes as
much difference now as a decade made
before. The traffic is amazing. To
care for it sagacious military nina
has invented a little lookout for the
policeman whose fate puts him at the
intersection of any one of the frequent
five corners. Balmy temperatures used
to change Washington, sent every one
out to the country. But the country is
crowded now as much as the city, and
cottages or the usual refuge of city
folk have long been occupied as homes
by those who could find no hospitality
in the city's border.
Among the changes is the fact that
Washington has new hotel, rather
modern hotel, with an orchestra that
does not disdain to play a jazz tune
once in while. By that you can tell
it is new; but scarcely by any other
mark; for the demand for room is so
great that the new hotel already looks
as well accustomed to it's job as any
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
DOuse That
Glin1!
TINE following observation rela-
tive to the reception Luna re-
II ceives in Paris when she is full
comes from "Collier's":


comes from "Collier's":
The phases of the moon have long been
held to exercise a serious influence mon
earthly phenomena and human affairs, Old
is the legend that children born under :
new moon are sickly or weak-minded; old
the superstition that a full moon favors the
growth OF cucumbers, potatoes and turnips
But in the Paris of the late winter and
early spring of 1913 full moon had quite
other significance. 1t meant that Just before
IL reached its fulness, trains leaving the
city were uncomfortably well filed with
nervous gentlemen of middle age, or over,
conducting their families to points south
or west; 1T meant that when one asked the
Partisan to dinner next Monday he was
as likely as not to say: Monday? But
Monday the moon is full, and my wife is
rather nervous about dining out when the
moon is full. Make it two weeks from Mons.
day, and I'm sure We'll be glad to accept
For to the Partisan of 1918 the full moon
had signified, in anticipation at least, re-
turn Of the Gothas. Not in terror, for Paris
is not easily terrified, but in mild disillu-
stoned humor, the wits of the City of Light
(but nowadays not too much light rally
one another upon their preference for DIM
ing at home on probable nights Of raid
Why die uselessly? is the excellent phi
losophy. 1t is only the American who has
never yet seen a raid who ventures ont
neediessly; unless, indeed, he is news-
paper man, and newspaper men don't msttcr
anyway. Yet it is in one of the most ne
spectacle of Paris newspapers that we find
some excellent fun apropos of these same
air raids. 1t is writer in the Journal des
Debats' who recalls the place of the full
moon in poetry-and Musset's rare Ball
lade la Lune,' du passaat bemie.
"The Japanese have loved the moon, in
their brief snatches of lyric, their wonder.
full concentrations of mood in few syl-
tables Of phrasing. Full moon,' writes ono
Of them:
Full moon,
And all night I've walked me
Round the lagoon.
"Here is another specimen Of japanese
moon verse:
Tonight, that the moon is so fine,
Is he in his hut,
The hermit?
"But here, according to the cynicai
Partisan, is the way the poet of Nippon
would write his poem-if Yokohama were
as near the German lines as Paris is:
Full moon.
Some wise man tell me how to
Douse that glim!
THAT perfect moon poem also measures
Twelve syllables!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
The Soldier From the
BackwOOdS
HENRY ROOD, in 1.-THE Century
L l. Magazine" writes:

MdSdA1Ic, WIlJcSs
SIT is said that the least promising ma
terial for our National Army comes from
the Businesses Of the Maine woods, the 81
Lawrence forests, and correspondingly re-
moteS regions of the country. Such men
may be descendants of American stock for
century or more. Most of them are mus
cular, powerfully built, with heavy thighs
stout arms and legs, and broad shoulders.
Yet many are unevenly developed, a. =
shown by their narrow, CONSTRUCTED cheats.
their limited lung capacity, their Doves
backs. Living far from the worlds aet'vl-
ties, out of touch with modern progress
they are slower Of thought, speech and -
ton than the town-bred men, whose wsN
have been sharpened by q broader nes
Also, as rule, the city-bred man is apt 9
take more kindly to disciplins than fnsI
young farmer or the young backwoodsman's
In public school. in business Office, stores
shop or factory, the city man i aceuss.
toned to work under direction Of other
to obey orders, and ability to obey ozaes|
Is the root, basis, Foundation and ksyss
combined o. sucesss- H. Ax5nyspx.innss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Reviewing Capital
Thankful Ones Teeth Into
Mastcated." But the Lodging Proposition Is Worse!

Helvetians. There were the rather
sober hotels for Congressman and their
wives, full of Congressmens young
daughters, who went to boarding
schools in Washington for finishing.
Then there were one or two pretentious
hotels to make aware those people who
had the means Of patronizing them that
they hadn't made any mistake in COM
ing to Washington. The rest were for
small fry, who had to have a shelter
and food. There were, even so, few
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Lincoln and
the War
ORD CHARNWOOD contributes
to "The New Europe" an ar
4 ticle under the above title. in

IL ticle under the above title, in
which he aims to point out the
lessons which our side in the war might
learn from Lincoln's career. The fol-
lowing extract contains what is best in
the article:
1.-THE message of Lincoln is that of a
man who was utterly brave and utterly
gentle; equally tenacious of his sternest
and his mildest purposes, because both
were needed in his Astounding love for
men; incapable, therefore, of those vacil-
lations and illusions, for which clever
people can always give reasons, but which
are caused by the WEAKNESS Of protracted
pain. We need neither labor after
close analogy nor miss an obvious exam
pie The South was deluded and heroically
persistent in delusion, but it was not cor
rupted. and the faults even of it's mis-
leaders were passionate rather than
sophisticated; emphatically, the South was
not Germany, nor South Carolina Prussia.
Yet Lincoln's treasured precept, Judge
not may now, as then, have true as
we'll as false application. The German
revival Of the ancient cult of cruelty is
an uglier enemy than was the combina-
ton Of disunionism and slavery. Yet it is
the product Of a dollhouse, and may perish
even from the German mind on the one
condition that it is beaten. In any case,
now, as then, inconclusive war would be
the worst offence against that charity
which was in Lincoln.
at needed no intellectual penetration
to show us when the issue had to be
Joined with Germany; the test of modern
craftsmanship will arise when war is over
and the newborn league Of nations de-
mands lasting constitution. Yet, here,
too, the patient watchfulness of the great
American, and the gift he showed from the
outset of his career of facing present
fact without loss of far-off hope, is the
pattern to statesmen of wisdom which
common people will follow"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

good restaurants, not in any degree up
to the tasters' paradise Of New Orleans,
but at least respectfully aiming at the
mark of good food. They couldn't have
had the authentic spirit, however, be-
cause when alcohol decamped from
Washington for other abodes the eat
ing places lost their verve and their
elan and all the other qualities for
which the French have better words
than the English. When the Americans
captured Washington, about six months
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
x The Golden Book of Congress X

say, judging from this and in answer to the
Senators on the other side, that their
standard bearer is not with them. Lincoln
says:
II can no more be persuaded that the
government can take no strong meas
ures in time of rebellion because it
can be shown that the same could not
be lawfully taken in time of peace than
I can be persuaded that particular
drug is not good medicine for sick,
man because it cannot be shown to be
good medicine for we'll one.'
Mr.. President, we are a sick mana very
SICK man-and this measure proposes medi-
cine unpleasant to take; but sincerely be-
lieve that if we take it we will be very much
better, and for that reason l shall support
the bill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

place, to make Washington as provin-
cial place and as lacking in the COM
monest ingredient of the American
character, colloquially known as pep,
as an American can imagine one of
his own cities could be. The cities of
the real South were to Washington as
Rome used to be to Helvetia, so far as
sophisticated energy was concerned.
The hotels of Washington and the
restaurants were divided into three
parts, which is again reminiscent of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Single-H

IL ON. WILLIAM P. BORLAND. Ger
4 many is nation of 100000 people,
inhabiting restricted territory of some
what limited natural resources. The United
States is nation of 100,000,000 people, in
habiting a boundless empire Of almost un-
touched natural resources. Our people are
just as intelligent, just as resolute, and
just as skilful as the inhabitants of Ger
many, and it is manifest that with an equal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
A Sick Mana Very Sick
Man
Another County Heard
From in the Overman
Debate

MIR. PHELAN. l resent any accusation
AvA OF usurpation or the countenance of
usurpation or the conformation of usurpa-
ton in any vote cast for this measure.
Woodrow Wilson has been accused by no
one Of coveting power. He has been cast
by fortune in the place whore he has to
exercise power, and he only asks the means
by which ne can, consistently with the Con-
stitution and without usurping powers, do
his work. / say this is war time. "Diseases
desperate grown by desperate remedies are
relieved, or not at all";; and we are now re-
sorting, l confess, to desperate remedy.
But there is authority for it in no less a
leader than Abraham Lincoln quoted in the
eloquent speech recently made by the stand
and bearer Of the Republican party, Mr..
Hughes. in the recent campaign; and / may
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

deaths, and at the same time allow other
men to loaf in the streets or retard pro-
duction that could save the lives of hun
dreds of thousands of our soldiers and the
soldiers of our fighting allies, is worse
than a mere national blunder, worse than
a mere national injustice. 1t is national
crime without pallation or excuse. We
should proceed Immediately to organize the
entire manhood and womanhood of this
country into mighty and invincible army
Of producers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

hearts until we get out of this war, and
then wish there was some possible way of
separating the black sheep from the white
and sending the black ones out of this coun
crv' Tor the man who cannot appreciate
the justice OF this world war against military
autocracy and whose heart does not respond
to that sentiment in loyalty ought never to
be allowed to claim this as his country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

degree of thought and preparation this
country, single handed, is more than a
match for the German Empire in any ma
tional contest. (Applause.)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Two Ways of Looking
at It
Senator Overrnan Defends
His Bill to Extend the
Power of the Executive
Senator Vardaman Quotes
Thomas Jefferson

IA r. OVERMAN. 1 deny that this
MI is revolutionary measure, and
I deny that Congress has in any
IL. 1: 1.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

Wv WASHINGTON, there is no
Nv doubt of it, is become the
perfect chameleon Of Amer
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-01-01
Acids Endanuer Ships.

ShipmaSters dislike carrying drums
Of acid where they cannot be reached
readily. A Chilean ship, the Japan ADJ
vertiser says, recently put in at the
Falkland islands leaking badly. Her
cargo was made up of drums of acid
and chalk. The acid had leaked from
the drums and mixed with the chalk,
forming carbOnfc acid gas in the hold.
This gas is deadly and the crew could
rot make repairs. Meantime the acid
lad gathered at the bottom Of the held
and eaten away the iron frames of the
ship.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-01-01
Shelters i'm the Stone Age.

An Arab tribe in Palestine still Oc-
cupy the mountain caves, and tribe
of cliff jewellers has been recently
found in Mexico, writes cOrrespon-
dent.
The conical hut of the reindeer
epoch, built of branches and twigs,
succeeded the cave. The. main prop of
these earlier huts was tree, around
which branches were fastened, the
spaces between the twigs being filled
up with rushes, turf, grass and clay.
= Nan was then able to cut wood with
stOhe axes, to combine various ele-
ments for his protection and defense,
and to become more powerful aggres-
sor in the animal kingdom. 1t was q
step, and but step, in advance.
Then followed the third and last
period of the stone age, represented
by the cavernous dwellings construct
ed of gigantic monolithic stone,- and
rooted over with the rough branches
and trunks of trees.
The famous dOlmens, cromlechs and
similar gigantic structures Of stone,
hitherto supposed to be the work of
the Druids, are now believed to be the
remains Of the neolithic age.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-01-01
HAS BIBLE PRINTED IN 1920
St. Paul Woman Possesses Relic Yellow
and Wormeaten, Which Has Been
Carried Through, Many Wars.

A Bible printed in 1920, the year the
Pilgrims landed in America, is in the
possession of Mrs. May L. Abbott Of
st. Paul. 1t is worn and bent from
being carried for many years in a sol
dier's knapsack, as well as yellOwed
and wOrmeaten from the passage
through nearly three centuries. The
book was purchased by Mrs. Abbott's
husband, the late William L. Abbott.
printed at London by Bonham Nor
ton and John Bill, Prints to the
Kings Most Excellent Majesty, Ammo
Domini 1920" is the announcement the
title page carries, and the excellent
workmanship of the volume proves the
ability of it's early producers.
The Bible, Mrs. Abbott says, could
tell interesting tales If it had the gift
of speech. It was carried through the
peninsular campaign in Spain, at the
battle of Waterloo. at the battle Of
New Orleans, and at earlier battles in
this country by Sergt. William Kay of
Nottingham, England. Inserted in it's
pages are sheets bearing a recon-
mendation of Sergeant Kay for pen
sion.
He gave it in 1870 to William
Holmes of st. Paul, who was it's own
er until its sale to Mr.. Abbott.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-01-01
Teach Feet to Point STRAIGHT.

The human foot is wonderful in It's
formation; the &c bones and Intricate
arrangement of muscles make it sus-
ceptible of a high degree of training,
as one observes in fancy skating and
ballet dancing. But it is sadly ham,
pered in it's practical activity by be-
ing encased in leather and having to
support the weight of as we'll as to
prOpel the body forward. To over
come this as far as possible we should
learn to walk with the feet pointing
practically straight.