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New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
A Bird's-Eye View of
Books and War

Al a general bird's-eye view Of the
mT this money is to be expended,
iss is a statement of the work which
ii: Library War Service has accom-
bTshsd up to October /. 1t has estab-
lhhid forty-three Libraries of $4,000 VOL
umss in the larger training camps. 800
IN tie smaller camps and army posts,
lss in naval and marine stations, $50
branches overseas, 1,547 branch Libraries
and stations have been established in the
huts, canteens. clubfcoms and hostess
houses, 406 vessels and naval stations
have Ihraries. and there is a deck IL
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Books as al, Antidote
For Going Nuts!"

Lieutenant Derr, the son Of Rheta
Childe Dorr, who has just been nvalided
home, tells of an experience which he
had sitting cramped up all day in dug
out with five or six companions waiting
for the darkness to come on SO that
they could get another crack at the
Bochcs." They had nothing to read but
an old n1agaaine, which they divided and
devoured, advertisements and all.
"Going nuts" says Lieutenant Dorr,
L; one Of the few things that the boys
In the trenches dread, aid nobody back
nome can ever realize\what books mean
in relieving the mental and nervous ten
sion of the trenches when the men are
relieved and come out. After days of
action any sort of book is big mental
antidote in forgetting the horrors that
they have seen and gone through. The
men who go nuts are those who can't
get their minds off Of it. Can you mag
inc how much good a rattling adventure
story would do ti1em?'
It's the same story with the men in
the navy. The crew Of the submarine
destroyer hail with childish delight the
instalrnent Of the little library of fifty
books which is placed on shelves neatly
fitted under the berths and which they
can exchange at any port where the
Library War Service has station.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

as library is crowded from morning
till night with men in all stages Of con-
valescence, from those who are wheeled
across the covered passage from the
ward by white robed nurse to those
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

spect the building materials that go into
every building that goes Up: why should
we be less careful Of the building mate
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

rials of the bodies of little men and
women in the making-their food?
We owe a debt to The Journal of the
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

who wander about froiA one bookcase 10
another. apparently quite hale and
hearty.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
SsaAe Professional Aspects
u Housekeeping

And new comes The Journal of the
AMERICAN Medical Association with a
msly word on the dignity Of dietetics-
sounds ponderous, doesn't it? II isn't.
ma n one Of the few authoritative tech
ssa journals extant tha. has enough
Aflts and breadth to be illuminating
tie everyday person The Journal
a editorial OR aW az Time Difficulties
Frsstiaal Dietetics" has this to say
soas The new movvnen. III home eco
Nsniss:
IN the face of such emergencies it
- eses tAe medical profession to vel
Mae and encourage In this country
senent that In destined to bring help
Stimulus in meeting these problems
We art Of living. HOME ECO
HXN4Ss HAS roo LONG BEEN
AED on AS A FAD. Rule Of
sau san0 methods are no longer synory-
49, Sss with household arts. Witness the
- with which substitutve cereals
NJ N !. oeen employed in cookery through
Ae United States within the. last
4 ~ months. From the primary schools
~. ;s colleges for women our girls are
sag taught the dignity of home eco
r~aaand 49, ana the underlying sciences. Our
Ks.sssion Is all too slow in realizing
a nee newer forms Of theoretical
- National education actually are
M "a 70 mean, not only 10 the hos
N Institutional distitian and TO the
~ nurse, but also TO the nation At
-. let US dignity the art Of
A.s paragraph ought 10 settle any
sss s Al to the professional status OF
~ splng. If your housekeeping is a
- ssefsly, with no content of "why
O. L.'sssitre." that Is because you have
Asai Of your iob~-not because the
s !, I ssysins one.
M, us have been able to forget
fsoon On What It feels like to
9 our regular Job aftAr read.
var news Or to bAnish from
ES y'sion his picture Of the fool
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
By ANNE LEWIS PIERCE
Dtrector. TrTbnre InBtifrfk

N0ME people cat for fun, some az
{ background for conversation, some
as a foreground for smoke; some
sas 10 they can go on, as we stoke fur
me-; and cfhsrs 'Ffpve" their food as enc
niys sursets and the odar OF flowers
sams eat anything that will not give
hsm Indigestion and others cat what
they know viii
There is the High Table at Kings Col
sgs where there is always a feast of
reason and flow Of soul along with the
fsoa and drink-and thsre are family
nbiea where all the sorrUws and petty
Hfisatlsns of the day and the shortcom-
np Of the family ars discussed; where
RzlaOnigus discussions and argument
make Ii impossible for the digestive
|Hlers to Hpv'
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
A Fine Type Of Camp
Library at Pelham Bay

Many Of the camps have new library
buildings in charge Of trained libra
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
THOSE WHO KNOW

TT is the habit of most people to suppose
= that all wisdom is to be found in exalted
places. Thus it is usual to assume that
President Wilson or Generalissimo Foch
or Lloyd George or Pershing know all that
ID to be known about the reactions and
terrors of war.
On the Walnut street bridge yesterday
an old woman stood alone at the rail and
waved her handkerchief to a blot Of smoke
far up the tracks where a train filled with
drafted men had Just disappeared. Her
eyes were wet. She waved her handker-
chief after even the smoke had vanished.
Then she folded her hands on the bridge
rail and prayed for the safety of her son
IN the far countries.
HE was my one lad" she said, land
he was never a night away from me
before"
Is 1t too much to say that such a one is
in some of the matters related to war
wiser than any mere statesman?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
CASLESS SUNDAYS

A UTOMOBILE owners seem resigned,
"A after a day of feverish resentment. to
the prospect of gasless Sundays. The
chauffeurs of the rich will have an op-
portunity to go to church; and, indeed,
there will be in some minds a sneaking
notion that the fuel administration didn't
issue Its order without a thought of their
pressing spiritual needs. Traffic police.
men, Jersey constables, walters at road
houses and the chap who is taken along
on motor jaunts only because he doesn't
mind changing a tire will learn how to
keep the Sabbath. Lazy men will begin to
relearn the trick of walking.
And yet, and yet!
The automobile at its best isn't an i'm
posing affair of plate glass and nickel
plate and a fortune in extra tires bullying
from the rear. 1t is the smaller, noisier.
Less svelte c~ontraption that takes the
family of a hard-worked citizen out into
the country once a week for a sight of
the sky and a Whit of fresh air. Under
the neto order the real 1~cdsters of gaso-
line, those pho can lie all ueeE in an
automobile, aren't hurt in the least. They
can regard Sundays as intervals of nov
city and rest. 1t Is the man who cherishes
q hivver as his one luxury who is to feel
However you look at the latest fuel rule,
It appears like something that might be
improved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
TALKATIvE CONGRESSMAN ABROAD

HONGRESSMAN ERNEST LUNDEEN,
~ OF Minnesota, and Congressman Charles
b. Dillon. of South Dakota, both of whom
are listed among the men who opposed
obstructed American war measures
In the House, are touring Europe with a
congressional commission. They have
been refused permission to visit the Brit.
ish battlefront and are now under investi-
cation by American and English military
authorities because of what seems to have
been loose talk aboard a vessel on which
they reached England.
Talk Is a habit encouraged among men,
ters of Congress by national patience, ira
dition and the rules of the Congressional
Record. No one yet knows what the con.
OCCASIONAL commission expects to accom-
plysh by its sightseeing tour OF the bat.
t1efronts. 1t would nave been wiser had
the House selected for the foreign trip
men with sense enough to keep their opin.
~ to themselves. This is a trait that
haa been observable in every official visi-
loor from an Allied country to the United
otosL And we venture to believe that
Gnnb inflicted ON these laxative Con-
nen viii cause . break between the
nfkA1s . Krs1and.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
Levity by the Learned

"NoNsENsE, perhaps, but, oh, how
~ precious!" wrote w. S. Gilbert In
Patience" The rhapsody is justified. The
art of nonsense is. indeed rare and deli
cate. A worthy visitor to its exclusive
field is dead in Boston. Arlo Bates, pro-
lessor of English literature in the Massa.
chusetts Institute of Technology, was
known for many other things besides fun
making. He wrote admirable verse and
a series of novels characterized by keen
psychology and graciously pellucid Eng
the creation of EPrince Vance is not on
record. There are owlish individuals who
might describe a work like that delectably
amusing and fantastic tale as an indiscre-
ton. 1t is to be hoped that Professor Bates
failed to heed them. This little story,
although perhaps as infrequently associ-
ated with its authors reputation as THE
Wrong Box"-that gem of ~"judicious lev.
ity"-is with S~tevenson's fame, remains a
delightful specimen in wise foolery. a
cousin of "Alice in Wonderland" far dis
tant. it is true, but still related.
In this connection 1t is pertinent to note
that Professor Bates himself was said by
irreverent pupils to resemble the immortal
walrus of Through the Looking Glass"
Reference to the above facts may shock
alleged "intellectuals." but assuredly they
should inspire a peculiar affection for a
polished literary craftsman In the hearts
of any willful band of readers gifted with
the sense Of nonsense"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

close to success, Mr.. ofbbss work was
done under a mental strain and pressure
that can hardly be conceived by the
civilian onlooker. That his health should
rave suffered under the burden of a task
which puts so great a load or the nerves
and senses of a spirited chronicler was,
unfortunately, almost inevitable.
1t is a matter for congratulation that
Mr.. Gibbs has now been able to resume
his work as spokesmanin.chief for the
British front line. And it is happy indeed
that Mr.. Gibbs's notebook again becomes
serviceable to the public at a time Of
such improved prospect. Even in the few
weeks he has been away the whole aspect
of affairs has changed. 1t Is Mr.. Rosner
who had better take a vacation now.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
HAS GERMANY WOMEN SOLDIERS?

DEPORTS that women have been found
~ fighting in the German trenches, that
they have been killed or ounde while
chained to machine guns in the uniforms
of men, are too insistent to be altogether
disregarded.
Germany has manifested an odd genius
for finding the weak places in the Allied
defense and in the Allied psychology. A
Government that mutilated infants and
permitted women to be murdered in their
sleep might not be averse IN a final des-
perate crisis to letting women go out for
it to fight off disaster or invasion.
What would the Allied soldiers do II at
some time or other they were sent against
women machine gunners or against regi-
ments of women? The soldier himself
surely would have a hard time trying to
decide whether to kill or be killed. One
instance reported semioficially from a base
hospital a day or two ago is significant.
A youthful American, badly wounded. wept
on the operating table as the surgeons
prepared to give him ether. He had gone
through a terrific action with sailing gall
lantry. 1t wasn't his wounds that hurt
him.
81 shot a woman" he said before he
became unconscious. She had a ma
chine gun and was dressed like a man. I
didn't know until I tried to bandage her
shoulder where my bullet WENT"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
PHILIP GIBBS RETURNS

ID EADERS who follow the Philip Gibbs
~ dispatches from the British lines, and
who have missed them during the last
several weeks, will not be surprised to
learn-as Mr.. Gibbs admitted in his STORY"
yesterday-that his absence from the front
has been due to Ill health.
Mr.. Gibbs's record of faithful and in
tensive chronicling under the severest
conditions has been a magnificent one: he
is on the ground during and after every
action of the British, questioning sur
vivors and prisoners, and compiling an
accurate and vivid picture Of the move
ments. During the terrible days of the
spring y early summer, when Luden-
dorGs western lungs came 70 perilouslx
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
HENRY FORD. DEMOCRAT

THE rejection Of Henry Ford as a
L senatorial candidate by the Republicans
of Michigan and his nomination by the
Democrats fixes the party status OF this
pseudo-statesman beyond cavil or doubt.
The race will be between Mr.. Newberry,
Republican. and Mr.. Ford, Democrat. But
this Is a superficial distinction. The race
will really be between Mr.. Newberry, a
man who has believed in defending ma
tional honor by force of arms and who
has been giving his services to the nation
in a military capacity for many months
along with the services of his two sons,
and Mr.. Ford, a pacifst. opposed on gen.
eral principles to all war, with no con-
ception of the great issues at stake in the
present conflict, who has used his infu-
ence to keep his son out Of the army and
has said that the flag is nothing, only a
thing to rally around" and is urged upon
the voters of the State by the Endorsement
Of the President.
Michigan is a Republican State. 1t
gave Mr.. Hughes a plurality Of $4,000 in
1916 and in the same year elected a Re.
publican Senator by LOG 900 plurality, and
is represented in the House by eleven Re-
publicans and two Democrats. Under or
binary circumstances Mr.. Ford would be
overwhelmingly defeated as a senatorial
candidate on the Democratic ticket. 1t
remains to be seen whether the presiden-
tial Endorsement will be enough to induce
the voters to send him to Washington to
sneeze when Mr.. Wilson takes snuff.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
THEY DO THOSE THINGS WELL IN
FRANCE

A SPANIARD arrested in Paris on the
~ charge of attempting to inform the
Germans Of the arrival of American troops
and the location of their camps has been
convicted and sentenced to death.
But a man does not have to give aid
and comfort to the enemy in so direct a
way to suffer the death penalty in France.
The men engaged in helping the Ger
mans here would do we'll to profit by the
fate of this Spaniard while there is time
for American public sentiment will grow
more unrelenting as the casualty lists in
crease in length.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
Member of the Associated Press
LIKE MASTER, LIKE MAN

DATROLMEN accused of highway rob-
= berry? What else can one expect Of
weak-minded underlings when the men
higher up disregard the law and wink at
its violation by their subordinates?
Highway robbery is no greater offense
against the law than is the participation
of policemen and other city employees in
politics. Yet the powers that be appoint
men to jobs in the City Hall that they
may lave time to devote to politics.
Like master, like man. is an old rule
that seems to be working twenty-four
hours a day, even in these times when
certain social reformers are telling us that
six hours is enough for a days work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
THE HIDDEN ROAD
in the Brooklyn EaGlA

nc YOU look for a lane that is longer
- Than boulevard, avenue, street,
A way that is made for the stronger,
A path for wandering feet?
Then listen! I know of a highway
That turns into tracks little known,
The spot for a vagabond's byway,
To claim all the world for your own.
A riband where colors are lighter
Wandering, mystical moon;
And the stars are all winking the brighter
With jewels for nights in June.
Where music and laughter are flying,
And each has a poem to give,
And one never gossips of dying,
Because Of the joy that you live.
And it's oh! for a wind hat is blowing
And touching your cheek with a kiss,
A song that is rising and flowing,
And it's there you will find all this.
But I can't put your feet on the byway;
I can only beseech you to start,
For the road Is called Happiness Highway
And it ends and begins in your heart.
Charles Divine, in City Ways and
Company Streets"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

QUIZ
1. What colonial dependency Of Great Britain
Ia characterized BY the initials q. 8. AL
e. What is tho capital Of Tennessee?
8. Who sid "A thing of beauty Is q Joy for
:. WHIT s:s.. !; the or's'nAl meaning Of liable
s. What Ia the standard coin Of Italy?
q. who sssassinated President Garnelds
T.. What people invented our system Of nunss.
q. When was the Paris communes
0. Who IL Prime Minister Of Canada?
10. Who wrote the words Of 1.-THE Msrssiuaiss"S
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
/. The prominent American preIats now critt-
caIly Ill Is Cardinal Farley.
ing trenches.
s. The oldest PLAYHOUSE in America is the wal.
nut Street Theatre. Philadelphia. erected
past geoloGical periods.
s. Bette noire,' used " specify ones pet ahomi-
orally means "bIaek beast"
one whose body Is isswhere or I toni
from which one has risen.
I. The ;hs nsss sts., wss: ssu ssr i, ys X: i :: : NJ: 1T. %;ss,
8. James J. Cerbstt. ense p~n.ilistIc ehamplsn q
the world ate. his y!.cto.y over S,oAG!, 1.
Q. "stenewan' ysskson's real nams was Thsnas
10 ri e .,. s = ..: ssi -1 !. r. s:'s sis ~
L A0 ffI..N*Z
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
Quite q Contrast

Governor Manning. of South Carolina, who
has six sons in the army, all of them headed
for the front, presents another striking con-
trast to the Kaiser and his six prineelsts
safely hiding In bombproofa. New York
Evening Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

The assures that have appeared in the
City Hall suggest that the cracksmen who
have been making merry in it's vicinity all
summer are getting holder than ever.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
IT is fortunate that statesmen-that is.

TT is fortunate that statesmen-that Is,
men with experience in dealing with
the practical questions of national and in
ternational politics-will sit at the peace
table, and not such men of letters as Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle.
We all %sympathize with the point Of
view of Sir Arthur. as exhibited in his
article in the London Standard, an epitome
Of which has been cabled to this country.
1t would satisfy a poetic sense Of justice
if Germany were Invaded and laid waste.
and if the peace treaties were made in
Potsdam, and If Germany were compelled
to pay an indemnity equal to the war ex-
penses of all the nations fighting her.
DUT 1t is probable that the world will be
- we'll content with something far short
of poetic Justice.
TT IS a little premature. however, to con-
L slider the question Of indemnities so far
as to fix specific sums which Germany
must pay. But there Is one form which
indemnity should take that would satisfy
the conscience of the world, and That is
the repayment to France by Germany or
the billion-dollar indemnity secured d. the
end Of the Franco Prussian wal and the
ceding of Alsace and Lorraine back to
France.
TIME exaction of this indemnity was one
i of the most outrageous acts in the his
tory Of civilization. The war was forced
-.- T.s,.~ hy Corpnorv and II WAS
forced through the lying telegram which
Bismarck sent from Ems, after the inter-
view between the French ambassador and
the king Of Prussia. in which the French
ambassador asked the king to agree never
to consent to a prince Of the house of
Hohenzollern sitting on the Spanish
throne.
THIS lie started the war which resulted
L in the defeat of France. Germany COM
PEELED the nation which she had forced
into war to reimburse her for its cost and
took In addition two provinces OF French
territory. The billion dollars put Germany
on her feet and made the creation of the
present German Empire possible.
THAT empire is therefore built on a
L lie.
TINE Prussians discovered in 1870 that
L lying and making war were profitable.
They decided in 1914 to make war and lie
some more. They started the war and
falsely accused Russia and France, In
turn, with starting it. They violated their
sworn word by invading Belgium and
calling the treaty which they ~iisregarded
a mere scrap Of paper. In brief, they
began the war by charging the foundation
of lies on which their empire rests in the
hope that they could enlarge the SUPER
structure as they had done in 1870.
TIME war, then, is being waged by the
L Entente Allies to prove that truth and
righteousness will prevail in the long run
and that whatever nation builds on lies
LAYS its foundations in shifting sands.
before the war is over the German
ID statesmen will discover that they have
forfeited the confidence and trust OF the
civilized world. II they do not know 1t al.
ready. They will learn that no one will
accept their word nor put any trus. IN
their treaties, and that the nations Eight
ing them will not be content with any
peace which leaves the Germans In "a,
M E
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
An Altruist

Did your garden help things alongr"
Yes answered the patient man. 1T
helped the neighbors to raise some Of the
finest chickens = ever saw."-Washington
Evening Star. ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

Jack tabout to go)-Hallo! It's raining.
Betty-Take fathers umbrella, then he'll
be glad to have you call again.-Boston
Transcript
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

Since its tariff collector has been
wounded in the border fight it will be diff
cult for Nogales to deny that it Is a town
of savage customs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

Now that Austrians are in Alsace the
possibility of a great new Allied advance in
that region comes nearer than ever.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

II the Spaniards read modern history
they will derive comparatively little comfort
from the news that the German Foreign
once intends to be conciliatory. A report
on the temper of U-boat captains would be
more to the point.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

Would you say that
We'd Cry 1t Aloud! the military men who
are said to be engaged
in inspiring confidence in the German peo-
pie were the first 90 put the con in conf
denca2
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

Dispatches say the Lusitania assassin
who was reported caught in an Austrian
submarine is still at large. Of course he Is.
The Lusitania assassin lives in Berlin and
he rarely goes to sea.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

Don't Let Caruso has Joined the
1t Worry You New York police re-
serves. And some one
who read the glad news called up on the
telephone to remind US that the prison to
which he may send his first prisoner is
called Sing Sing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

Joseph Caillaux's determination to ask
the French Government for no favors happllv
relieves CIemenceau of the bother of grant
ing him any.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

Hawaii's recent successful development
Of molasses as a substitute for sugar wins
new laurels for a big stick policy,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29

A little while ago Germany was defying
the world. Now she is conciliating Spain.
Times change!