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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Let Us Test Prohibition

There was much legitimate criticism Of
the roundabout and uncandid fashion in
which prohibition, as rider to an an
preparation bill and as pretended war
measure, reached our statute books. But
these regrets are now academic, and we
think the utterers of them are losing
sight of very practical benefit which
this legislation offers. That benefit is a
temporary but thoroughgoing test of the
doctNne of nationwide prohibition.
The progress of prohibition in this
country was slow and steady before the
war. 1t was greatly accelerated by our
entrance into hostilties. The Federal
amendment now pending has been adopt
ed by fourteen out of the thirty-six states
necessary to ratify it. What effect the
returning soldiers will have upon this
slow process no one can say. But what
we submit as the sound and practical
course is general postponement of the
constitutional issue until the bulk of our
soldiers are back and until the temporary
test Of prohibition to begin next July has
been fairly made.
The law which the President has now
signed presents an admirable alternative
to hasty action upon the Federal amend
ment. Once the constitutional measure
were adopted it would be practically i'm
possible to reverse it. The law taking
effect next July can be continued as long
as is necessary for thorough test, mas
much as it can last throughout demobili-
cation, and that is bound to be a slow
process. If prohibition under it is a sue
cess and wins the approval of the Amer
lean people, the adoption of the Federal
amendment by thirty-six states will fol-
low swiftly and inevitably and without
any interruption in "dryness." On the
other hand, the country will be free to
make whatever decision it desires if pro-
hibltlon should prove a failure.
We greatly hope that the New York
Legislature and the other state legis-
latures sitting next year will take this
frank and sensible course.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Immense and Important

Gle succeeded in a short time in making
the committee organ Of immense poIiti-
cal Importance which not only stimulated
and consolidated the internal forces of the
United States, but carried the words of the
President and of America to Allied and neu-
trail countries.
"a man of vibrating emotions, vigorous
personality and a powerful and active
writer, he brought into his profession the
frondeur' instinct and the love of the
struggle for the sake of the struggle. Nat
urally he could not escape from the tiercest
attacks. But the man went through the
storm working for the nation. The attacks
were repeated, but Creel triumphed over
them"
The article mentions further how salts
fed the President with the activity of
the committee and cites the Presidents re-
marks, which give much credit to Creel's
work, and himself continues: "In the enor-
nous work, which has Il great Importance
Tor the country and is guided by such a
superior mind, the President has found in
George Creel a cooperator of an unusual
personal interest on whom he can fully
rely"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

we declared war against Germany, this
feeling of horror, of loathing, which Ger
man atrocities have created would be too
intense in most communities to permit
bringing any large number Of Germans
here, even as prisoners of war. particu-
larly If there were any question of their
remaining after the war was over. No
doubt, many of these mon are fairly de-
cent fellows, guiltless of crimes against
humanity. But there would inevitably be
some murderers of old men and children,
some ravishers of women, some detilers
of churches and looters of homes among
them. And few would be free from that
twisted moral sense which sets the Ger
man apart from every other people.
The old Germany, the Germany Of
Christmas stories and fairy tales, has
gone. Prussianism has destroyed it. We
are dealing now not merely with "a gov
eminent, but with race that cannot
he trusted. The pariah of nations must
serve long apprenticeship in the wilder
ness before she can be taken into fell
lowship again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
CamouAaged Troopship

Boston Harbor
From This DAD
THE ferry turns;
l. And there,
On the starboard quarter,
Thrust out from the vapor-wall Of shins.
Color
Against the perpendicular:
ObliQueness.
In front of the horizontal:
crenellated edge.
A vessel, grooved and conical
Shell-shaped, flower flowing,
Gothic, bizarre, and unrelated
Black spirals over cream-color
Broken at halfway point
A slab of black amidships
At the stern,
Lines:
Rising from the water,
Curled round and over,
Whorlcd, scattered
Drawn upon one another
Snakes starting from still ocean,
Writing over cream color,
Crashed upon and cut down
BY fiat impnging horizon.
Drowned hair drifting against mother-of-
PEARL
Kelp-aprons,
Shredded upon yellow beach;
Black spray
Sailed over cream gray wave tops.
You hollow into rising water
You double-turn under the dripped edges
of clouds,
You move in a hundred directions,
And keep TO a course the eye cannot see.
Your terrible lines
Are swift as the plunge of kinghsher;
They vanish as one traces them,
They are constantly vanishing.
And yet you swing at anchor in the gray
harbor
Waiting for your quota of troops
Men will sail in you,
Melted in whrlng paint,
Held like brittle eggs
In an osier basket
They will sail,
Over black skinned water.
Into distance of cream color and vague
shadows hotted blue
The ferry whistle blows for the landing.
Start the engine
That we may not block
The string of waiting carts
AMY LOWELL.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Needless Torture

The casualty totals now suddenly given
out by the War Department are amaz-
ingly large. They call for prompt ex-
PLANTATION and, above all, a speeding up
of the publication of the remaining
names. How the department has fallen
SO far behind, how the number of
wounded shows such an unexpected jump,
while the number of killed remains dis
oportionately low-the whole mass of
figures stirs a number of insistent que
ries that must be answered.
The total wounded in action as re-
ported up to yesterday numbered A.
0S4 in the army and 2,42S in the
marines, or q total of 1852. The
final total is now given as 1865.
That is to say, but little over quarter
Of the wounded have been published. On
the other hand, the deaths from all
causes now reported already total over
$4,000, as against final total announced
to be 2,169. With these figures belongs
the bewldering fact that a semi-offcial
announcement from Washington recently
gave the total Of all casualties as about
1907 900.
Whatever the explanation of these dis
crepancies. the one necessity now is speed
in publishing the names of the remaining
casualties. Every day of delay means
just that much more torture, not for a
few of US, but for the bulk of the entire
country. At the present rate of publica-
ton it would take three or four months
to complete the list of wounded. Surely
the War Department can hasten it's re-
cording and transmission processes and
shorten this suspense
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Meet the BoLsheuist
Te the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
CIR: We in America should take the
~ spread of the Bolshevik movement in
Europe very soberly, for if it gains
great dimensions there it is not likely to
pass by the United States This country
contains a large class in full sympathy with
the utmost aims of the Bolshevik revolt
ton.
second attempt OF Germany to conquer
the world, dating from this time, is quite
probable. Its nature would be a proletar-
ian conquest, but with the German proletar-
ians and intellectual radicals in control.
Germany would thus, after all, force her
ideas and her kultur on the world To eff
feet this end great deal Of fighting is still
necessary, so that the German proletarians
will need the German fighting classes. II
this is the covert plan, the present revolu-
ton is semi-fictitious and thoroughly su~
perficial
If by pretending proletarian revolution
the Germans can project the flames of Boil
shevism over Europe and America, their
chances of obtaining world dominion are
still very strong. In all the countries OF
Teuton camoufage is quite equal TO this,
and the yellow appeal of the German wom-
en- to Mrs. Wilson for an effort to soften
the armistice, prompted by the German
diplomats, would be good German play
But | repeat, we must take all this very
soberly. And we ought to ask ourselves
how the situation can be met. Are we, the
Allies, going to allow the Germans to shift
US into the place where for four years We
have held the autocratic German govern
ment? To say to the world: There is
your reactionary group of nations now, and
we must destroy their governments and
ruling classes? ?" The success of this scheme
might even yet, strange as it seems place
the Hohenzollerns on the throne of the
world.
If we soberly face this issue, as sooner
or later we must, our true policy is first so
to deal with the American proletariat as to
make it impervious to German Bolshevisrn.
We must weld it into the nation to q de-
gree never before done. The American
proletariat has ideas of better and juster
world order. We ought to ascertain what
those ideas are, and so far incorporate them
IN our American system as will firmly IN
corporate the proletarat itself into our
national substance.
The best way to bring this about is by
convention of representatives of all Ameri-
can classes and interests. How can we
bring about a new and genuinely brothery
relation of all Americans, so that instead OF
being class and trade antagonists we be-
come friends? That is the question TO
solve. And if the American people would
voluntarily solve it Immediately or honest
ly begin the solution of it, there would be
no German Bolshevism here. whatever
might happen in Europe
MORRISON I. SWIFT.
Boston, Nov. is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
The French Spelling
To the Editor of The Tribune

TO the Editor of The Tribune
Sir; May we be permitted to call to
your attention the fact that in the various
newspaper accounts of the important
affairs now transporting in the reconquered
provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, the geo.
graphical names mentioned are ALWAYS
spelled in the German fashion,
While realize that this has unfortu-
nately been the enforced spelling for the
last forty-seven years, we feel sure that
when you reflect that many of US have dur
ing this time always continued the French
chirography of these names and refrained
from using the German spelling, YOU can
be sure it jars upon US in these happy
days to see this Teutonic form constantly
employed.
We are venturng to send you herewith
list of the French form of the PRINCIPAL
cities, and if these can be hereafter en-
ployed you will be comforting the great
est favor upon all our compatriots.
FELIX WILDENSTEIN
Secretary Association Generate DIES AL
saciens-Lorrains d'Amerique.
New York, Nov 20, 1918
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
kossuth's Two Dreams Come True

Listening to the messages of good will
and amlty passing between America and
England, it is curious to recall that it
was Magyar who first sounded the
note of blood brotherhood between Great
Britain and the revolted colonies that
still remembered the Revolution and
called upon the peoples Of the two ma
tons to stand together in the great and
inevitable struggle that was coming for
the freedom Of the world. The Mag
vars, forgetting for time the teachings
OF their great leader and taking up arms
against that American and English
coalition for freedom for which Louis
hossuth pleaded, are reported to have
returned to his ideals and set up the
republic which was Kossuth's dream.
The chronicles of the time relate that
the trees of Battery Park were hung
with clusters of small boys, who had
climbed to their branches to view the
landing at Castle Garden of Kossuth.
hero of Hungary's ill-starred struggle
tor independence, who came to America
as the nations guest sixty-seven years
ago next month. There may be vet liv-
ing in New York some Of those tree
climbing boys who were in sound of the
speakers voice when he delivered the
prophetic message he announced he
brought from England His declaration
that he did not come as a representative
of diplomacy, "whose secrecy is the curse
of the world" has familiar sound to-
day. His message, he said, was from
Che people of England to the people of
the United States. 1t was:
"That the people of England, united
to you with enlightened, brotherly love.
as they are in blood, conscious of your
strength, as they are conscious of their
own, have forever abandoned every sem
tlment of irritation and rivalry, and de-
sire the brotherly alliance of the United
States to secure to every nation the SOW
erelgn right Of nations against the en-
croaching arrogance Of despots; and,
leagued to you against the league of
despots, to stand together with you, god
father to the approaching baptism of
European liberty"
Kossuth made his message of good
Will the theme of numerous speeches
throughout both America and England.
lie foresaw the great struggle which has
just closed and welcomed it as necessary
TO the success of the principles of re-
publlcanism in which he believed.
great question was soon to be decided bv
force of arms, he said, "a question which
shall decide the fate of mankind for
centuries"
"The question is none of scanty or
partial interests" he said. at is none
of a noble commiseration for the mis-
fortunes of an individual or of one coun
try. 1t is a question of universal inter
est, in which every country, every people,
are equally interested-I say equally in
terested. No country, however
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
The Roman Legion

Biasi further describes the various ac-
Invites of the Committee on Public Infor-
nation, refers to all the different organiza-
tions developed by the committee, cites
daily bulletins which were sent to the
papers for the War and Navy Departments,
the Department of Justice, the War indus
tries Board, the War Trade Board and the
Alien Property Custodian; the Geographic
censorship, which Creel took under his per-
sonal supervision, and developed the whole
cable and radiotelegram system into
powerful weapon of propaganda, which was
enforced also by motion pictures, by lect-
ures and by special articles published in
different papers; further-the official bull
letins and pamphlets; especially the institu-
ton of a Foreign Press Bureau
The work in this department had much
to deal with Italians, who were numerous
and had many resources at their disposal
and excelled by their entire devotion 20 the
United States. This department, the Gro
man Legion Of America" has branches all
over the country.
The work of the four minute men and tba
various inspiring posters are mentioned. and
connected with the latter is the name ~
Charles Dana Gibson. A recent arrange
ment, Biasi says, has transferred the entire
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

proud its position, can avoid that share
OF the consequences of this comprehen-
sive question, which shall decide the ap-
proximate fate of humanity | scarce
need to say that this comprehensive
question is whether Europe shall be gov
erned by the principles of freedom or
the principles of dcspotism. E.
Shalt freedom die away for centuries
and mankind become nothing more than
the blind instrument Of ambition?
The despotc governments of Europe
feel their approaching deaths, and there
fore they will come to the death strug-
gle. And hope this struggle is I'M
avoidable, and because it is called forth
by them it will be the last in mankind's
history"
Unavoidable it was, although Kos
suth, despite his ninety-two years, did
not live to see it. He, in exile, and his
country's oppressor, Franz Josef, on his
throne, lived down through far more
than the allotted span of life together
Kossuth died in 1892, but the Emp eror
whom he mathematical as thou beard
less young Nero" lived to start the "un-
avoidable conflict" and possibly to re-
call in his last days the voice of Louis
Kossuth crying:
"You and your treacherous house
shall stand no longer!''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Onrepentant
(From The Nc1o Witness)

(From The Nc,o JYitness)
TN THE soft days before l sinned
a. Through sheltered paths took my way
Great walls did shield me from the wind
And faint through roses shone the day,
Pensive and virtuous, half alive.
dreamed away the unnoticed hours:
The busy world a distant hive
Half heard behind the sway of flowers.
And this has gone, and now know
Life, grim and naked! Her great seas
Brighten and rouse me. Her winds blow
Freezing, and quickening as they freeze
Old Dame Dishonor shares my bed.
Truly the hag hath wrought me i'll.
Yet lusty children hath she bred
Whose names are Patience, Courage. Skill
The vulture. Shame, crawls near to wrench
My hope, my name, my loves apart.
And 10! hold my desperate trench
In darkness. and am glad at heart
Satan has caught me in his gin
And shut me round with hideous bars.
But clearer, from my pit of sin
l mark the everlasting stars!
GEOFFREY HOWARD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
A Race Apart

1t would be too much to expect the
Germans themselves to understand the
strong feeling of hostility to them as a
people which this war has developed.
There are those in the Allied countries
who do not understand it, who would
have US deal with them in defeat as
honorable enemies. But all great Nep-
tunes ocean cannot wash the blood clean
from their hands. To the man of or
binary sensibilities the thought of hav-
ing any dealings with them at all. even
over peace table, is repulsive That
is one reason why opposition to the plan
of bringing German prisoners to this
country crops out whenever the sugges-
ton is made. Something is to be said
for such a plan from purely economic
point of view. There is room for these
prisoners on the returning ships, and the
problem Of feeding them would be less
difficult here than in Europe They
would probably make good workers, and
good workers are badly needed in these
times of labor shortage. Many of them
would desire to stay here after the war
is over and be accepted as good citizens.
Without discussing the possible dangers
of such an addition to the population,
without recalling how Germans who have
long lived among us and had become
presumably good citizens played the part
of open or secret enemies even before
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

The President sends, when he deems it
necessary messages to the people, and Creel
and his staff act the town crer. He is
the shadow of the President, but a shadow
of flesh and bones, of sharp and quick
intellect, bundle of vibrating nerves, an
immediate and precise interpreter of the
high ideals of the Executive, an elctrofying
anlmetor of splendid political sensibility
In Europe the Honorable Mr.. Creel would be
at similar post, would be political
'gros bonnet and parliamentary worker
OF great value and averse to Corridor
policy
The President knew his man, and he is
the proper man at the right post From his
high post George Creel serves now his coun-
try with the same love and fervor with
winch he served the difficult, but always
noble and fine, order of journalism"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
The Case of Mooney

The red flag defenders of Tom
Mooney are seeking to build class war
out Of his punishment. Their extrava-
giant cries of "Martyr." awaken suspi-
cion and resentment. The country is
not to be inundated by threats.
But the case for Mooney rests at bot
tom not upon propaganda or Indictment.
1t rests upon justice. The judge who
presided at his trial has declared that
the evidence which convicted him has
been discredited. President Wilson HIM
self appealed to the authorities of Cali
fornia in MONEYS behalf, and that ap-
peal disseminated doubt of his guilt far
and wide. The doubt persists. 1t
exists side by side with an intense dis
like of the methods used by MONEYS
friends and associates to secure his re-
lease.
Therefore we urge and ask for an
exercise Of clemency by the Governor of
California. We are aware Of all that
state has undergone at the hands of our
American Bolshevik. We feel every
hesitation, in ordinary cases, to inter
fere with the local processes Of a state
government. We plead for new trial,
if that is legally possible; or if not, for
a pardon. We do this because we think
only such action will satisfy the funda-
mental sense of justice of the American
poCnlo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
A Week of Verse
Wander in the Thought of Thee
(From Atnslocs)
II WANDER In tho fhnnrht nf 4Laa

NFVOm Ntf6tfCS)
I WANDER in tho thought Of thee
a As in cloud of perfumed air.
Swcet~burdened as a homing bee
with powdered gold from field and hill,
Or happy ]oitcrer at Loves feast
Having in breast and hands and hair
Loves tender fragrance round him still
AS homeward through deserted ways
He turns reluctant, when the east
Pales with the dawns first azure ravs.
% Love, | would 'twere mine this night
To sleep and, waking, find thee near
TO know once more tho joys knew,
The whispered promptings that invite
The soft endcarments that ensuc.
Now on the staring walls down here
The freight fades; around my room
The silence throbs, 80 still it Is.
From wood and moor the winds recede
And leave them voiceless as the tomb.
How Love revives on nights like this,
When Want is magnified by Need!
ALAN SEEGER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
The Hon. George Creel
".Shadozu Of the PRESIDENT


ZNOMPARING Lord Northcliffe and
Z Georges Clemenceau to "America's
creating and active journalistic
force-George Creel," who was selected by
the President and "has become his shadow"
Biasi tells that Creel had not been very
widely known before, except as a militant
journalist as a strong writer and wise
ganizer, having conducted a weekly magazine
in Kansas City and later daily paper in
Denver The war put Creel in the focus of
the nations attention, when the President
created on April Ia, 1917, the Committee
on Public Information and put Cree at its
head.
"Wilson's choice was wise" he continues.
"ln a short time the Committee on Public
Information became a very essential organ
of the nations defence. Creel had found
an appropriate field for his intense activity
and became the mouthpiece of the official
spheres.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
The Eleventh Hour

Wilhelm Hohenzollern is religious
man. He reads the Bible Perhaps.
like most ignorant men, he is supersti-
tious. If SO, his kind friends in Hol-
land might call his attention to the
curiously important part the number
eleven has played in the history of the
little drama in which he started out as
the hero and ended as the arch villain.
The war came to an end on the elev-
enth hour of the eleventh day of the
eleventh month. Turning to the elev-
enth verse of the eleventh chapter of
the eleventh book of the Bible we find
this:
wherefore, the LORD said unto
Solomon, Forasmtch as this is done
of thee, and thou hast not Kept mn
co0emamt and my statutes, auhich
haze commanded thee, / aoW surely
rerd the Kingdom from thee, and aUiU
giue 1t to thy seruant"
A curious analogy surely. The hard
headed will find it an odd coincidence of
no significance. Wilhelm Hohenzolleru.
breeding, with the faces of starving
women before his eyes, the cries Of chill
dren in his ears, his world dream shat
tered, his kingdom gone, and the shadow
of his own doom lowering near, NAV see
in the Bible verse a prophecy that has
been all too we'll fulfilled.