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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
HE Emotions of Gold

ne other day very clever man. late)v
returned from England, said to us that
after the war gold would be dcmone.
tlzed. lie repeated the Bismarckian
phrase that there is not enough gold to
go around, not enough for the worlds
exchanges. He was quite sincere.
we wonder if we shall ever have done
with the delusion that either the kind or
amount of money in country. or in thu
"orid, makes any especial difference to
anybody, so long as the amount of it
ooes not change rapidly. Mr.. BRYAN
and fanciful Finance seem still oer-
vasively alive.
Gold will not be demonctized after
the war, but it is to all intents demone-
tlzed now. Nobody can take any GUAM
1lty OF gold out of the country or a
creditor enforce large payment in
gold even though it be so stimulated in
the bond
Does this make any notable difference
either IN internal or foreign trade? Suh-
stantlally none at all. What does mat
Ter is tor the supply of money (of all
k'nds) to be violently altered This is
what has happened in nearly all the
trading countries, and the result has
peen great rise in prices. This has
brought an enormous amount of dis
comfort and real suffering to MANY and
prod1glous gains to others.
The thrifty and all that huge class
whose salaries and incomes are more or
less fixed have had their slender earn.
lngs and savings cut in half. What thew
have lost has been transferred to othore--
largely to the spectators, the land own
efs, the factory owners and wage earnorc
N all the favored lines These have
been enriched incredibly, and it is parflv
due to so or 55 cent value Of the
dollar SO that a million now means M
more than half a million when the war
began. Why has all this evoked M
storm OF protest? Partly because of
general ignorance and Indifference.
partly because the disadvantaged classes
have been none too we'll Gked-bavo
hltherto had more than the common
snare. This economic revolution has
been wholly in the sense of Rrvs,,ic
fnance and stirs the same emotions tb.+
brought 100000 votes to the hanno,
OF the Peerless One
Inc rich man and the saver love gold
because 1T is symbol of power
great number hate it because It is q 70
hinder of defeat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Baseball or War

The decision of Secretary Baker to end
the favoritism that has been shown the
baseball players was bound to come. The
small numbers involved could not affect
the principle at stake. Here was group
of our huskiest YOUTH the best material
for soldering the world around. And
they were exempted upon the easy-going
theory that the pleasure of stay-at-home
crowds was more important than the
war
The whole psychology Of this theory
was wrong The deeper we go into the
war the clearer we see our mistake. Our
fighting men in France are not getting
any exciting seventh innings, nor need
we get them. Recreation is as necessary
for US as for the men at the front. But
it must never be permitted to interfere
with the making of war. That means
ball players; it means each and every
American, old and young.
We must reduce our recreation and so
plan it that it does not delay one stroke
of war work The sooner we all realize
this the better. We can think of no more
wholesome illustration Of the truth, no
better way of bringing it home to all
America, than the present act of draft
ing ball players, great and small, heroes
or bushers, simply because they are good
American fighting material.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Was II a U-Boat?

The unnecessary official mystery
thrown about the sinking of the San
Diego is in striking contrast with the
War Departments celebrity in comment
ing on the progress of the Franco Amer
lean offensive in Champagne. While
Secretary Baker was forecasting last
Friday the fall of Scissors the Navy De-
partment was leaving the newspapers to
make what they could of rumors and
survivors tales concerning the loss of an
armored cruiser just off the entrance to
New York Harbor. If German subma-
rine had got in SO close to our harbor
waters the public was entitled to know
that fact. And if the incident was a
mystery to the department, that should
have been promptly announced. The Sat
urday morning papers assumed that a
torpedo from German U-boat sank the
San Diego. The department did nothing
to demolish that assumption. Yet there
was much room for doubt. and presenta-
ton of the uncertainties of the case would
surely have been in order.
1t would be extraordinary if a U-boat
had reached the neighborhood of Fire
Island and yet had sunk no merchant
shipping. 1t would be a strange de-
parture for submarine commander to
turn away from unarmed or weakly
armed merchantmen and take the risk
of attacking a warship--especially
warship Of an obsolete type From q
military point of view the loss of an
armored cruiser like the San Diego is of
much less consequence than the loss of a
frcighter.
" hat grounds are there for charging
the disaster off Fire Island to subma-
rine? In the absence Of any other evil
dence of U-boat activities at the mouth
of this port, the theory that the San
Diego struck mine would seem to be
more reasonable. But in either OF any
case full information of facts and prob
abilities Should have been given to the
public. The people along this coast will
not be pancstricken, even if they realize
that our defence against U-boat incur
slons is far from complete.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

employees in other departments whose
pay at present falls below the demands
which living costs make on them. The
city's business, like private business, has
been losing men in two directions-some
to military service and some to employ
ers who pay higher wages. This cannot
go on indefinitely. Public employment
offers certain advantages in the way of
permanent tenure and retirement funds;
nevertheless, these may be offset by high
er wages. Workers follow wages. AIDE
quate wage revision inevitably results.
Also, there should follow revision of
city expenditures in order to save for the
taxpayers at least a portion of the salary
increase by the cutting out of unneces-
sary jobs and fancy salaries for politi-
clans who got their places by pull. Econ
omy is urged on the nation as a war
necessity. City governments should not
be above this any more than the indi-
vidual.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
The DANGEROUS Age

When is the dangerous age? Always \
little around the corner from where your
particular philosopher happens to be To-
Gated, says the cynic. But there are gen.
civilizations of some standing, and the
war is adding a new and important one,
true Tor men, at any rate, it is contended.
This particular dangerous age was de-
scribed by French lieutenant as begin
ming around forty and being those years
when man still feels young and can, in
fact, as result OF his years of experience.
do everything more skilfully than ever
before in his life, but cannot, in purely
physical contest, maintain his skill or his
pace. The sense of ability in these dan
gerous years is very great and very real,
but fatally deceptive. You feel better
than ever before in your life. And you
are better-while you last.
But in any gruelling contest of bodies
where stamina counts, where nerves
must hold not only through the first and
the tenth hours, but through the twelfth
as we'll, the man of forty not only fails
but fails suddenly and fatally, led on by
his false sense of ability.
Deceptive, treacherous years they are,
rather than necessarily dangerous For
1t is only on the purely physical side that
the failure comes. Mentally a man
grows, or should grow, better and better
And woman, too. If you would go to
war you must be sure that your task
does not ask the impossible of your body.
That is the immediate moral for the man
or woman over forty. But for the rest!
Listen to Mary Roberts Rinehart nurse.
mother and novelist, speaking at forty
one:
With the possible exception of starting
any taxing physical work like hospital
nursing, should urge every woman to
prepare for her best service at forty. or
forty plus. Let no woman who has
crushed down her dreams of q career be-
cause she was not free to start till middle
age be disheartened.
Careers, by all means. Start them
whenever you will--at sixty-six, as did
DE Morgan, if you prefer The more dan
gerous the year the better 1t is only the
bayonet and the aeroplane and such like
toys Of youth that must be denied YOUR
dangerous old codger Of forty-odd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

Upon the horizon OF dreams.
"here orient kingdoms browsing wait
The lordly tourist, Nature seems
AS quantity patterned as plate;
Alive, perhaps, in shape and hue,
And flashing galy on the eye;
But could you fling on all the true
Hard CLINT and glaze the hyacinth dive.
You'd say-you braggart of the west,
Who think you need but stamp to crack
The globe-that such world at best
Was but world of brio -brac-
hemisphere that had no soul
A colored willow pattern bowl,
NO" III that porcelain world is set
The far blue peak called Nan-ti-San.
Where yearly in a concourse met
he fervid gather, every man
In snowy robes, and each a-strain
10 hear the bowed, slow chanting nriest
While in the suns enkndled train
Day flowers to splendor in the east.
And many a one so longs to keep
That hour forever beautiful,
lie seeks the hills lip, takes the lean
And~cracks his little china skull.
saint? most inferior clod?
Come. sir, would you do that for Cod
ALBERTA VICKRIDGE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
The Hearst Within Our Gates
Issued by the VigilGtes)
From Berlsu Hi!te, September

From Berlin HUE, September 1870
"A great movement toward peace has
broken out in the United States, and this
is being furthered and nourished by the
Hearst newspapers.
1.-THE defeatst' editorial from The New
York American Of July 28, 1917, entitled,
The Attitude of the Hearst Newspapers Is
INDICATED in Striking Manner by the Re-
port of Our Army officers Who Have Just
Come From France, appeared under the
following dates in pro-German papers: The
Spanish "A. B. c. August Is, 1917; Vienna
'Fremdenblatt,' August %; Hamburg Frem
denblatt,' August %; the 'Continenta!
Times September 8; Cologne 'yolkszei-
tung,' September II; 'Frankfurter Zeitung,'
September 81; 'Kreigh Aeitung,' September
81; Hamburg 'Fremdenblatt (second re-
print), September FL; Berlin Tageblatt,'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

and colleges which can keep up the sup
ply of doctors and for the protection of
the health of the general public which
must Garry on" here at home In this
plan the government will unquestonably
have the hearty cooperation Of the medi-
cal profession. At conference of hos
pital executives and surgeons held here
recently just such general survey of
military and civilian needs and the ap-
portionment of physicians to meet them
was advocated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
More Pay for City Guardians

Recommendation by the Board Of Est-
mate and Apportionment of an increase
in pay for policemen and firemen now re-
ceiving less than $1,000 year is a SIM
pie act of justice. This will affect only
part of the forces--the junior grades,
who do not form majority of the men
IN either service. Yet it is they who
need the aid most. Undoubtedly this in
crease will be followed later by similar
ones for the other grades and for city
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

October %. This is typical of the extern
sive use made of Hearst editorials in Ger
many"
Mr. Hearst controls the following
publications, with a total average daily
circulation of 2,572,885 for the Hearst
newspapers, and total average circula-
ton per issue of 2,291 ,627 for the Hearst
magazines:
Newspapers:
The New York American
The New York Evening Journal
The Chicago Herald and Examiner
The Chicago American
The Boston Advertiser
The Boston American
The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta American
The San Francisco Examiner
The Los Angeles Examiner
The New York Deutsches Jonrn., fi;sco,
tnued April Il, 1919
Magazines
The Cosmopolitan
Good housekeeping
Harpers Bazaar
Hearsts
Motor
Motor Boating
Puck
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
German Conversion
lFrom yhe Ott,,rn ,,...,,

'fron' The ottoica Cstiseu)
Inc Prussian War Minister has an
n0uhced that all German prisoners of war
repa'nated from Russia will resume their
m''l'afy service after short furlourh.
ferhaps Mess9s. Lenine and Trotzkv NAV
say mat the repatriated prisoners have
oeen educated to convert their German COM
RACES into revolutionaries. But under the
present pace Of the German military ma
ehlne they seem more likely to be converted
into cannon fodder
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Vigor and Sound Health

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to thank you heartily
for the vigor and sound health of your ea''
torial page of this date. Every line OF 'hs
whole page speaks with and for what zee
to be truth and honesty. incidentally, Inc
Meanest Breed" surprises me by its kee'
knowledge. NO German excepted hurts
for l have many friends among them. n"N
alas. "gotter hand it to YOU for psrsp''
cacity. h.
New York, July Il. 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

CRAFTSMANSHIP itself has it's humors.
y Ever generous of sulphur, Saratoga
Springs, now in full foliage, first
q battlefield, then a racecourse, then
gambling hell and finally a health resort for
politicians. The gambling hell is now
museum, and ones only speculation is to
sip the waters, but not too deeply to affect
sound judgment on worldwide crisis. The
city has built convention hall where five
thousand can pack in, and the Republicans
gave splendid show to the British flag,
which would have been impossible few
years ago. In the speeches there was
marked absence of egotism, and the only
people who blew their own trumpets be-
longed to the bands, of which there were
two, one in each gallery to right and left
Of the platform. Over the "Star-Spangled
Banner" sometimes the best band won and
sometimes it was the other.
The best parallel to this convention
would be a free church council in Britain,
attended by rural and urban delegates, with
not too many ministers. The proceedings
opened with prayer or invocation, in which
the highest sanctions were claimed for the
duties Of citizenship. The address Of the
chairman, J. Sloat Fassett, contained more
references to the Deity than the average
sermon in many British churches. The
higher the note the more instant was
the response. Much of what was said by
Eiihu Root might have been uttered by
divines in London, like DR.. Clifford DR..
Horton.
One realized the secret # Mr.. Roosevelt's
power. He is sure of himself, Of his cause.
can say what he wants in few and forcble
words, is always on the aggressive and is
moved by simple, generous emotions
One or two things we're little surprising.
Much was said about winning the war. but
little that heard about Il league Of ma
tonsat any rate, on the first day, before
MIR. Taft arrived. The industrial position
was indicated rather than analysed Prohibi-
ton was avoided.
Amusing attempts were made to round up
the unrepentant Senator Wadsworth for
the Federal amendment on woman's suf
frage, but the Senator stood pat The
presence of women in the convention did
not seem homogeneous, which fact is in
itself a tribute to the who formed
the main body Every one was in earnest,
and no wonder. The Empire State is about
rs big as Britain and contains population
like that of Belgium Electing a Governor
means much, and the Governor when elected
means more. as time SHOWS.
On the tone Of the convention ! may per-
haps speak with some frankness. The ira
ditional idea of American politics is utterly
out of date This crowd was not thinking
of rewards Offices, still less Of what
Americans call graft" The men they
wanted to boost were the men who have
most ruthlcssly stamped on these things
And it is the same with the Democrats
Both parties want TO win the war--both
parties would also like to win against the
other-but neither party plays for money.
Nor do the leaders desire knighthoods and
baronetcies.
In these and some other respects British
politicians need not assume the slightest
superiority over their American comrades.
reform movement is sweeping over the
United States which may actually leave US
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
The Russian Menace

(Fron, The Philadelphia Public Ledger
England is covered with bushes because
Kerensky kissed Arthur Henderson, 1n'
British labor leader Think OF an Englisn,
man, nourished on beef and red gravy anu
open-sir exercise, being kissed like th'"
publicly.
Suppose kerensky wanted to kiss inc
President, would Mr. Tumulty have 70
take it?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Two rize Poems

Westminster
Gazette continues to cheer Its readers with liter
airy problems and prizes. There guineas for
AN account which Boswell might have given Of
the scene in which Dr. johnson and Mrs. Thrale
together filed In their Registration Forms for
weekly ration OF two of tea" There
other guincas for the best rendering of Shakes
pearian passage into Greek iambcs And on
Here are the two prize poems, with the editors
comment resulting from request for poem
containing the line, "A coored willow pattern
bowl
1t may be that only Goths, Visigoths
and Vandals can tolerate the willow pat
tern on anything but plates and in any
color but blue on white, as most of our
competitors insist or insinuate this week
Some of them just ignore the idea that
willow pattern is ever seen in anything but
one color and write about blue birds on
bowls with enthusiasm and very little
originality. Others sniff, like this
This is the bowl the sentimental,
The sham aesthetic, the temperamental,
The Jacobean and-cretonne :.
This is the bowl they dote upon.
And this the tombstone Of their soul,
A colored willow-p pattern bowl.
But poems can be made about things
which an educated taste in china2Yill not
endure.
Many years ago, three year-old, stray
ing into her grandm others kitchen, was
bitten by Maria, the cooks spaniel, who
found the baby's grasp Of her silken ears
as painful as it was meant to be affection
ate Grief and pain and the overwhelming
pathos OF a bandaged was assuaged
by the enlargement of bowl Of brown
sugar, the dark-brown, sandy kind The
child of
with a silver spoon held in the left hand.
which couldn't be slapped now that the
right one was wounded. The bowl stood
on Il white scrubbed table under an open
window. Tamarsks were in flower out
side, and beyond them were the sandhills
and the seq. 1t was hot sunny morning,
aud as the sugar (there probably wasn't
very much of it) did it's work OF consola
ton, pink and blue figures on a brown
bridge, not far from an apple tree with
green apples on it, appeared inside the
bowl, and were more consolng than the
sugar.
1t was in the hope of provoking the poem
which by this time might have grown out
Of that memory of scent and sound and
port after storme seas that we set our
line for this competition, but that particu-
lar poem has not come in and VIC there
fore divide our prize between Miss NJ Snow
who seems 10 have written a prologue for
certain much advertised war novel. and
Miss Alberta Nickridge, who would have
had the prize whole if she hadn't made
horizon" dactyl Almost all the other
competitors described either their own
rooms or a curiosity shop.
A colored willow pattern bowl
Is in an old house probably.
Where everything is beautiful
AND every one is miserable,
Because they're Tories, don't you see?
six pence-halfpenny ut-gIass bowl
Is in new house probably,
Where only books are beautiful.
And every one is sensible
And happy, just like you and me-
NJ. SNOW
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
The Collapse of the South

From The Des Moass Register
In one day last week there were twenty
seven divorces granted in Houston, six
divorce suits were filed and only two mar
riages solemnized. The spirit of June does
not seem to be in evidence down there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
GUARANTEE

You purchase merchandise advertised IN INT
TRIBUNE with absolute saetyfor II dissatisfaction re-
suits in any tn TRIBUNE guarantees 10 pay your
money hack upon request No red tape. No auno"ns.
We nj AXE scod promptly II the advertiser does not
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FOR republication OF dispatches credited to 1t or
otherwise credited in this and also the local
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All rights republication OF ali other matter herein
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
When the Fleet Comes In

tfrom Contemporary Verse;
TIME diamonds Of the moon lie scattered
l. On deep of ebony,
While eastward the galeon of the dawn
Looms up from the open sea.
Her battle lanterns the morning stars,
Her sails of saffron and blue,
Her pennant agleam like the crimson cross
The old crusaders flew.
And in the shadow of her sails
There move those dark, grim shapes,
The mighty vanguard Of the fleet
Slow steaming for the Cupes.
Black and majestic silhouettes,
And sinister of line;
But they bring the breath of dawn with
And the scent of deep sea brine.
DOUGLAS CARY WENDELL.
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Owned and published daily ny The Tribune Assccist'cn.
New York Corpcratiou. Ogden Reid, President: a.
Vernon Rogers. Vice President Richard H. Lee Secretary
T. A. Suter. Treasurer Address Tribune Building. l1A
Nassau Street. New York. Telephone Beekman 5000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
A Week of Verse
The Drafted Mountaincer Statutes
tFrom Contemporary verse;

ne DraItcO lWOuntdlnCcI OdIulCo
tFrom Contemporary verse;
TIME high and silent hills arc part of him;
l. lie knows the creck-bcd road, the tug
and sway
or pines above tho mountains windy rim,
Touch of the dawn and dusk. His un
marked day
He used to spend working the rusty ground
Beside his hut, or browsing at the door;
Few words he had for menthe peaks
around
Gave him companionship and some hing
more.
Here in the narrow camp he cannot find
His world; orders and uniform are
strange;
He tries to learn, but is too slow, too blind
With distance and the sleeping skies, to
change.
When he sautes--for all the noise, the
crowd,
1t is as if hill had strangely bowed
HORTENSE FLEXNER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

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IN The UNITED STATES: OUTSIDE OF GREATER
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-07-31
MRS. BELLE DRAY
LACKED NERVE
FORCE, SHE SAYS
But That Was Before Nerv-
Worth Came - the Res
cue Made Over Her
Health.

The rescue was needed and the bless
ngs il brought were enough TO en-.
,huse Mrs. Dray. This is what she
aid to Lima's Wentworth druggist:
Buffers Drug Store-For more than
! year have been in a terribly nerv-
GUS condition. Could not sleep but
tossed around the bed all night. My
stomach and digestion in bad shape
Did not have the nerve force TO prop
erly digest my food Lost weight and
was very weak and in a run down CON
ditiOn.
| took one bottle OF Wentworth and
now | CAN SLEEP THE WHOLE
NIGHT THROUGH. My stomach and
digestion are fine. No more nervous
ness and am gaining in weight and
strength | certainly recommend Merry
Worth to all women
MRS. BELLE DRAY.
1873 n. Central Ave, Lima, o.
Your dollar back at Cranes drug
store. Fairmont. il Wentworth does
not do for you what it did for Mrs.
bray.