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New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
A Voice From the Past

1t is always pathetic for hero to live
beyond his time, and that was the fate Of
the great "John L." We have had meas
urably thrilling prizefghts in the last
decades, but nothing remotely to compare
with the sort Of national excitement that
attended the punch in John L. Sullivan's
two fists. BY rolling Caruso and CLONE
Run" Baker and Charlie Chaplin into one
we might achieve an approach to the sort
of national godship that crowned the dome
Of "the big fellow"
Times change rapidly, but fashions in
heroes change even more rapidly. A crowd
of newsboys could always be found faith
full to the tradition of old "John L." But
for most Americans Of to-day he was dim
bulking figure long since vanished from
active thought. Indeed, what place had he
in an age that leaned strongly toward
pacifsm and prohibition! The age Of the
punch was John LIS age When the punch
began to depart from drink and fist alike
there was scant room for a hero who
"never let go" of his enemy whether it
happened to be flesh and blood opponent
in the ring or irewater on the bar.
A brawny, generous, warm-blooded citi-
zen was John l.. Sullivan. No doubt he
bad his shortcomings as a national hero.
But, also, he had his points. Who knows
how far the years Of a war may go to re-
establish some, at least, of his glory
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

About the only grumbling that I heard was
from some OF the boys who wished that they
had been created horses or mules. so to g.
the rations. But we were willing to pei
along with parched corn for a time, because
we all had parched corn. If some had been
teasing on roast Vermont turkey, oyster
dressing, cranberry sauce, Long Island duck
ling and the like, there would have been q
ructlon and general stampede.
[ went out with "thc cane" one night no+
long ago. 1t is not composed Of gangsters
and gunner, but Of bright, refined youne So
clety people OF both sexes. From 6 O'Clock,
p. m. until the next morning we ate, or
tried to eat, three big, rich meals of the rich
ana expensive food that this city is cana
pic OF providing for those that wish to nav
10Y such things. There were two or +broo
ootSles, none of which was left emnt,,
incy only slipped of the contents. We vast
ed or could not eat at least three-fourtbs ..
tne 1000 served US. We visited three shows
mere are scores of such gangs" hitting the
'r"li OF waste every night in this old town.
ai'u 'hls VIII continue until they are placed
y" fatiohs. They say it is no ones business
80 long as they pay the bills, but it is They
40 not produce directly single grain OF the
1ooo tha1 they waste, and it is all needed,
greatly needed. l have been in the shadow
"1 repentance ever since that night. But the
gangs" are playing the game in the sam-
careless fashion. Rationing, so much and
no more, would wake them up and make fins
men and women out of these careless round
ere.
With this system put into general ursc.
eicc we could furnish our allies and our
own brave soldiers with all needed supplies
give them courage and hope and win this war
m the right way by sacrifice and the blessed
ness of service c. J. GRrrNI.EAF
Dep. PATRIOTIC Instructor. G. A. r.
New York, Jan. 1s, 1918.
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To America
lErn,, mn U.,

lFrons The Westminster Ga.ette)
Whatever penman wrote and orator
Declalmed, | could not, for the soul of me-
Deem that the West had lost of liberty
All but the name, and feared the noblest
War:
Of them and theirs I was not ignorant nor
Had failed to learn what impulse set them
free
When alien kings held England's heart in
fee,
And what in conquering they had battled
for.
klnsmen! see, in these dark pregnant hours
Of shadow, when the heavens are cast
With smoke of ruined fanes and ancient
towers,
While throttled peoples yield and nations
die,
Tho morning star Of vengeance shine at
last,
And hear your armies thunder prophecy
MORLEY ROBERTS.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Shows of Yesteryears

Nobody takes quite as much JOY out Of
life as the weather expert. After we have
endured untold hardships of temperature
he can always fish some distant day or
month or year out of musty record to
prove what tender blossoms we are. Or if
he cannot do that he reduces the figures to
averages, and what is left!
That is what he has done now with the
worst January that New York has known
since the glacial period. He comedies the
point that it is the worst in thirty eight
years of the Weather Bureau. But only
by 2.3 degrees The average for the month
was Fl above. That is nine degrees below
the 80 degrees which is normal for Janu-
airy. But in 1893 the average for the
month was 23.3. And in 1904 it was 24.1.
Almost we seem like hagglers over an i'm
material nothing, with our pneumonias
and our Blue Mondays and our shivering
shins.
And as if that were not enough, the
weather expert leads out the year 1898 in
a blare of trumpets and announces that it
boasted a January with a snowfall of 2O.3
lnches--as against a paltry 1876 in the
January just past. Also, there was 1886,
with 1876, and 1905, with 1913, to their
credit. Temperature is something, but
snowfall is more, and who are we to brag
with only 1876 to boast of? 1t is small con-
ISOLATION that the normal for January is
81 and that we have just exceeded that by
almost five inches
Statistics may be all very well for
finance and politics, and even art $50 far
as art is question Of auction sales). But
for the weather they are as far aside the
mark as "Blow, blow, thou winter wind!"
is from a Weather Bureaus ingratitude.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Americans, Hail!

(Fron Tire Ninstsenth Century,
Frank offspring Of that all-adventuring land
Where, in the petty fray Of Lexington,
Thrice fifty summers down the wondrous
Past,
Began no less O duel than Of Night
And Morning, that was world-watched eight
loud years,
Till Morning triumphed, and the watchers
knew
Americas soil and soul for ever free:
O If you fight as we'll upon our side
AS once you fought against us, how can then
This cause, which is your own and ours and
Mans,
Do aught but conquer? You are come to us
Full of the strong wine of your Western air,
Full of the marrow and the sap of life,
Full of the tingle Of youth and maiden valour.
You come as Spring comes to the winter fields
When she has hovered long betwixt II will''
And many coy 81 will not"; for even so
You hovered, haltng bctwxt "Yea" and
WILLIAM WATSON.
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the last time before the committee of tho
Chamber that was investigating him he found
snow falling when he left the Palais Bourbon
There was only one taXicab in sight and
four men were in it. Caillaux went to it.
You are the detectives who are shadowing
me?" he asked. EYES, they replied "Then
take me home!" said Caillaux, getting in with
them.
When the war broke, however, he was so
dscredted with the people that his public
appearances were very few, and he exercised
his power from the rooms of. his political
club in the du Valois, and Caillauxs fol-
lowers came to be known as "the rue du
Valois crowd" More peace talk, and more
persistent, came from the rue du Vaois than
from all the rest of France put together
When the Germans made their great attack
on Vcrdun, in February, 1916, the rue du
Valois was convinced that the great fortress
could not hold out two weeks, and they
preached their belief openly and broadcast
"And thcn,' they said, "France will have to
surrender and Caillaux will have to be called
back to power to restore the country. For he
is the only man who can do it,"
Destroy France, Rehabilitate CailIaux
SoNo, CSoiiHiSii d'lu NdlilduA was tnc
motto of the rue du Valois
They would have destroyed France then. if
they could. They would always have de-
stroyed France to relabilitate CaillauX
His appearances in the Chamber were al
ways the occasion for remark. If Caillaux
came in and took his place--well over on the
Left and about half way up the incline
there was sure to be a whispered buzz Of
query among the Deputies and in the gal
leries as to why he was there. 1t was gener-
ally when there was to be an important vote,
something on which the life of ministry
might hang when he came to the Chamber,
but he rarely stayed for the vote A little
time of shrewd watching, few minutes
whispered conversation with Ceccaldi, and
Caillaux would unostentatiously disappear,
the polished man of the world slipping out
of a noisy crowd, just before the vote was
taken.
Then Ceccaldi would play his part. He
would move over to the centre of the Left
and gather in front Of him a great collec-
tion of the little leather cases in which are
kept the blue and white slips with which
voting is done in the Chamber Of Deputies
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When Germans Rise

Human events in Germany are seen as
magnified. What seems significant may
be only grotesque. Much is invisible. Add
Guilty of understanding Germans at all and
you have the materials of a waking
nightmare.
Masses of people apparently rise up and
demand both bread and peace.
The military commander Of the Bran
denburg district, which includes Berlin,
threatens to shoot them-strikers on pur-
pose and any others by accident who hap
pen to get in the way.
Then the government will starve them.
Strikers shall not eat.
There is meanwhile a state of siege in
Berlin.
But who are these masses? Their old
Socialist leaders in the Reichstag and the
trade union organizations appear to dis
own them. Yet factories close because of
the strikes, even munitions works.
If the situation is as serious as it looks
through the haze it is the beginning of
decentralization in Germany If it is not
as serious as it looks, it may be only
fantastic.
One has to remember that the manner
in which the German differs morally from
the Anglo-Saxon is illustrated in his way
with rebellion. The Anglo-Saxon is at
home with rebellion. He understands It,
The German is afraid of it, He meets if
with cruelty that arises from the emo
ton of panic. The military commander
of Brandenburg may only symbolic the
German parent who knocks down the re-
bellious child and then thrusts it into q
dark closet until its hunger shall both
break its spirit and move him to forgive
it. We incline to think that is the case.
But Germany will some day come to the
breaking point. Having schooled our
selves against believing what we wish to
see, we may go to the other extreme and
disbelieve everything, and then be aghast
at the realities disclosed by a sudden lift
ing of the haze
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lowers voted the same way. He must havd
had some wonderful system of intelligence to
know just how to distribute those little slips
In order to give just the appearance he
wanted to the vote.
Caillaux and Ceccaldi, A baneful and por-
tentous combination! Caillaux was bald,
with fringe of pink hair, a pink mustache
and his highly polished crown colored a
delicate pink Ceccadi was bald, with a
fringe OF hair Of deep and angry red and
bristling beard of the same incorporate
hue. He initiated his masters dress, but
could never achieve his manner. There was
some thing brazen about Ceccaldi. Caillaux
was smooth, polished, delicate.
His defect was his voice. 1t should have
been powerful, resonant. At least, it should
have been musical. But it was high and
thin, almost ridiculous.
On the day of his defence before the
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The Need of Sacrifice
A Plea for Rations as Against Care
less Spending
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: This nation needs spirituality 1t
needs the spirit of sacrifice. 1t needs the
spirit of service. 1t must have these entities
in order to win this war and be worthy Of
the victory. We are beginning to get just
the faintest touch of war. Death lists, de-
parting soldiers, shortage of sugar, high
prices, a famine of coal in cold weather.
More serious things are coming. They will
be serious in just the proportions that we
are unprepared for them. Profit fixing and
price fixing will not bring about the best re-
suits. Evaslons are too easy In many cases
these laws seem to stimulate the spirit Of
greed, selishness and duplcty.
fair and just rationing system would
help US physically, mentally morally and
spiritually. 1t would give US just view
POINT. 1t would give US a faint idea of what
others have suffered al'their lives. ltwould
bring home the fact of what others are doing
Tor our safety at this very hour. More than
any other movement, it would lessen discon-
tent and bitterness. 1t is the inequalities
the injustice in life, that breed and foster
dl0content with conditions. Were I one of
the survivors putting off in an open boat from,
our shipwrecked vessel, I hope l should be
content with an equal and just division of
the 1000 and water. And would deem il
unjust if some were getting more than their
share
AT one time during the Civil War we drew
daily ration Of few ears of corn per man
only this and nothing more. We had Ia
J husk, shell and parch it as best we could
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
The Pirates Victims
What the Sailors Society Has Done
to Help Them
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS some mlsunders standing has
arisen on the part of newspaper CORE
spondents concerning the work of my society,
which is the oldest organization for sesfsr-
ers, may state the following facts:
l. when we claim that, among other sct'v'-
ties We have this year alone assisted some
1000 victims Of German piracy, tho claim is
N absolute accordance with the facts. II
need be We can produce our records and sup
ply the evidence
:. This claim, based upon work done, con-
veys no ;mputation that kindred societies are
not doing work equally excellent. Indeed, our
own staff has now and then COO perated heart
liy with other societies and hopes to be per-
mitted to do SO again.
s. Under present conditions a little over
tapping is, am afraid, inevitable. We avoid
1T whenever we can, but when this mercifu'
work needs doing, and when nobody else IS
DONG 1t. we step in. Need we offer any
apology for doing so?
d. suggestion has been made that VI
should attend to the moral and spiritual vel
rare OF sailors. We Are doing that, but "
also consider the fact that the sailor is
creature Of Aesh and blood. Hence, when b
Steps ashore, shivering and starving, "
ciothe him and feed him, We doctor him sse
nurse n'm back to life, then we psy his fass
and send him rejoicing home.
T. E. DAVIES.
General Secretary. British and Foreign
Sailors Society.
Wakefield House. Cheapside. London E q
,, England Dec ~ 1917
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
A Volunteer Shipbuilder Armv

Vlce-President J. W. Powell of the Beth
lehem Shipbuilding Corporation said last.
Friday, before the Senate committee that
II the United States is able to produce
three million tons of new shipping this
year "it will be accomplishing a wonder
full feat"
But three million tons of new shipping
this year will not win the war.
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board
said In New York On Friday that his board
had asked Lloyds for an independent
survey Of the existing shipbuilding plants
and plans, so that the board might have
an impartial estimate to compare with it's
own. Lloyds reported that if the existing
plants could be run at capacity an average
OF ten hours day they could produce
something like 100000 tons of steel shin
ping and about 100000 tons of wooden
shlpping-about four ard half million
tons IN all The plants are not now rum
ming at anything like capacity. And Mr..
Powell in his testimony made clear sume
OF the reasons. One was that labor il 80
highly paid that it will work only three
or four days in the week, and if the
weather is unfavorable the attendance will
drop as low as so per cent.
We need. and we have staked the repu-
tatlon of the United States on, production
Of six million tons. And Chairman Hur-
ley declares that If the plants could be
run at capacity, in three shifts of eight
hours each, the six million tons could be
produced The plants, the plans, the ma
terials are ready. All that seems needed
IS to get the materials to the yards and
find the men to put them together.
We have now some of the ablest trans
portation men in America at work on the
freight problem That problem must be
solved or the whole nation will suffer SO
seriously that we can make no effective
contribution to the war this year, either
in men or food or munitions or ships. Ii
mast be solved
And we must have thamen. a nation Of
a hundred millions cannot have its will
baffled and made impotent for the lack of
finding, in other industries, 100000 or 300,-
600 mechanics. 1t may be that we have
already conscripted that number, or near
L. At the meeting with Mr.. Hurley an
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LAURENCE B1NYON
From Home
November 13, 1915

November 13, 1916 VIZ
Cfrons The English Rcrie1D)
The pale sun woke in the eastern skv
And veil of mist was drawn
over the faces of death and fame
w men you went up in the dawn.
With never thought of fame or death
only the work to do,
"nen you went over the top, my friends,
And not there with you.
Inc veil is rent with rifle flash
AND shows me, plain to see,
Battle and bodies of men that lived
And fought along with me.
o God! it would not have been so hard
If I'd BEEN in it too,
But you are lying stiff, my friends.
And l not there with you.
So here sit in pleasant room
BY comfortable fire,
With everything that a man could want
But not the hearts desire.
SO | sit thinking and dreaming still.
A dream that won't come true,
Or you in the German trench, nv friends.
And l not there with you.
LIEUT.. E. "A. MACINTOSH, MI G.
(Recenty killed in France.)
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
The Dead to the Living

(From The London Tines)
y you that still have rain and sun.
Kisses of children and of wife,
And the good earth to tread upon.
And The mere sweetness that is life.
Forget not US, who gave all these
For something dearer, and for you!
Think in what cause we crossed tho snas,
Remember, he who fails the challenge
Fails US too.
NOW IN the hour that shows the strong
The soul no evil powers affray-
Drive straight against embattled Wrong.
Faith knows but one, the hardest, wav.
Endure; the end is worth the throe.
Give, give; and dare, and again dare,
On, to that Wrongs great overthrow,
we are with you. of you; We the pain an
Victory share.
LAURENCE p1NvOAr
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

Chamber Caillaux minced his way down the
gangway and up the steps to the tribune,
wearing previously fitting morning coat,
drawn in at the waist with single button
and with his monoce dangling from broad
ribbon. One felt that he overdd it. On the
day of tragic climax he dressed the fop And
his piping voice emphasized the costume.
Even from his own followers he could not
bring results.
The Chamber remained cold 80 his most
dramatic efforts, except for a few cheers
from the Left that lacked the deep tone Of
sincerity. And the bulldog Clemencesu
brought him down.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Peace, Pessinism and CMlzaux


Joseph Caillaux was always more OIL less
man ofYmystcry in French politics, even in
his days Of greatest power and Importance,
when he was prominently before the public
as Minister and Premier. This was largely
because he was not only a politician but
financicr as we'll, and, as so often happens
when those two meters are combined the
public had great difficulty in deciding where
the one function ended and the other began
At the time of the Agadir affair there came
into existence story about Caillaux that no
dcnals from his friends could silence. 1t was
said that the settlement as proposed by him
was much moro favorable to Germany than
that finally reached and that this settlement
had been arrived at by Caillaux in q secret
correspondence that did not pass through the
usual official channels. By accident the let
ters were found and Cail1aux was accused at
meeting of the Ministerial Council. AS one
may suppose, the meeting was stormy, but
the result was that the CaillauX secret pro-
posals were withdrawn, while France made
the best settlement she could under the cir
cumstances and the whole affair was hushed
up for the credit of the country.
The Man of Mystery
1t was with the shadow Of this affair and
the greater shadow Of the Calmette affair
hanging over him that the war broke, and
Cailaux became more than ever the man of
mystery in French politics. He retained his
seat in the Chamber of Deputies, but ap-
peared none too often at the sittings and no
1nn y
followers. Yet from behind the red beard
Of Pascal Ceccaldi, Deputy from the Aisne,
his chief lieutenant, he was the most sinis-
ter influence in the Palais Bourbon.
There were two sources from which
Cailaux gained his power. everywhere
potent and one psychological. French polit-
ical campaigns very expensive affairs
Caillaux is a very wealthy man, and at the
last French elections he put up the money
that enabled many Of the Deputies to win
their seats. They repaid him by their al
legiance And as he had carefully chosen
his men with view to his future policies
they were in the large majority of cases quite
willing to follow him through thick and thin
without the necessity Of persuasive argu-
ments
On the other hand, Caillaux's favorite pose
that Of man of the world. There was
no better or more carefully dressed man in
Paris, nothing of ostentation, but much of
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By Fred B. Pitney

ments overcame their scruples And they
trailed him and worshipped him as genius
or god
Paris is amusing itself with a story about
him that we'll illustrates his sang froid. The
Sunday afternoon on which he appeared for
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

One by one the Deputies Of the Left
Csillaux's followers, would come to Ceccald;
and receive from him the slip to drop ;nto
the urn.
Not all received blue slips O. white r.
was rarely, indeed, that all Caillaux's fol.
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metcuous polish. And he was extremely
ready and sophisticated. No situation found
him at loss; there was no argument for
which he was unprepared. By his manner
alone he subdued his followers-by compari-
son uncouth-and by his sophisticated argu-
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A Flashlight
From The Po0

From The Pagan
Star-eyed and eager-lipped,
she Is like petulant zephyr
That whirls impishly among the trees
Just to shock the placid leaves
Into a. gossipy flutter.
MAX ENDICOFF
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

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