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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-23
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Cotton Fixing nnd Liberty Loan

q am afraid that if there is an at tempt to fix this years crop of cotton" said Judge G. J. Sorrell of Dadeville. that it will materially affect the south $ Bonds, not only in the country, but in the small towns. as millions are dependent on cotton.
 .'I am sure there will be no stacking, but to fix a price of 25 cents would so cut off the purchasing ability of farmers that it might make very serious situation in our people raising their quota I am for standing by the government, but I hope something can be done to tide over a sit uation that is most serious
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-23

"A new type of bombing plane is planned which will carry a real ar tillery. The time Is coming when air fleets viii largely do away with rixht- ing on land and sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-23

IAlthough most of the nations brew
 CTS have prospered exceedingly and
 can afford to retire from business. they can't help wondering what will become of the nations thirst without them.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
Take Off Your Hat
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May ask your advice? What is a
woman to do when she is watching a parade
and the men beside her refuse to lift their
hats when the flag passes by? The occa-
sion was the Liberty Loan parade, and the
flags these men refused to salute were those
followed by the mothers carrying service
banners. There were white women and
colored women, working women and ladies
in rich furs walking together, all with the
same beautiful expression of pride and sad
ness. 1t was a moving sight, and | cannot
understand how any of any nationality,
creed or color could have looked on without
showing respect to them, if not to the flag.
| said, "Please take off your hat" several
times, and finally they very reluctantly and
sullenly touched them with the tips of their
fingers, though numbers of men all along
the line had their hats off.
Later I asked policeman If he could
have compelled them had I appealed to
him, and he said he could not, as there was
no law compelling man to salute the flag.
The men were young, we'll within the
draft age, pasty faced, foreign looking, like
the thousands you every day at the
noon hour crowding Fifth Avenue between
Thirty-frst and Thirty-fourth Streets.
Which suggests another question: "Why
are these young foreigners allowed to re-
main here, getting good wages, while loyal
Americans are training or fighting over
there? |. f.
New York, April 81, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30

day, and we believe that there are many
others strong in the counsels of the gov
ernment, like Professor L.. S. Rowe, AS
sistant Secretary of the Treasury; Pro-
fessor T. S. Adams; Representative Car
ter Glass, of Virginia, and Mr.. Delano, OF
the Federal Reserve Board, to name only
a few who are of the same view.
We hope that within another six
months the further rise in prices which
is inevitable under the present conditions
will have so thoroughly fixed in the pub
lie mind the relation between initiation
and the cost Of living that our future
financial policy and financial legislation
will be in the path, of rectitude and
sanity.
The surest way to bring about social
disquiet in the United States is to kite
prices to the skies, necessitating fantas-
tic wages in special lines like the war
industries, bringing discomfort and suf-
fering to countless others.
We hope our inf1ationist friends, in
cluding our neighbors OF "The Times"
will ponder carefully Mr.. Warburg's fine
statement.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
Wanted: An American Communique

The conduct Of the war is in part a
problem of psychology. Much depends
on the manner in which the public's de-
it's aspects is responded to.
1t is a mistake to raise barriers be-
tween the civilian population at home
and the army at the front. There is
legitimate military censorship. But at
this stage Of the war censorship of the
earlier rigid type is rapidly losing its
value. The war has become test of en-
durance on a single front
Our government has erred so far on
the side of overcaution in withholding
news about actions in which the Amer-
can expeditionary forces have taken part.
This silence doesn't mystify the Germans.
They know when and where they have
fought against Americans. In fact, the
public here has had to depend on Ger
man communicates for direct informa-
tion about these clashes.
At Seicheprey, for instance, the biggest
battle in which our forces in Lorraine
have so far figured, the German official
bulletins gave us the first and only details
we have had. They were colored, doubt
less, in Germany's favor. But our COM
mand in France contented itself with
merely denying some of the German
statements.
French, British and German COM
muniques appear daily in our news
papers. Why is there no official Ameri-
can communique?
1t may be said that our troops are en-
gagged only infrequently and in small
numbers. But Americans are now fight
ing with the French in the tremendous
battle on the Somme And in Champagne
and Lorraine there are likely to be many
other minor battles like Seicheprey.
Public interest in even the smallest of
these engagements is intense. 1t ought
to be grati6ed by regular official state
ments, promptly issued. We know that
we are in the war, but we are not allowed
to feel it sufficiently. Press bureau elab-
orations in Washington are failure
What the country needs is genuine COM
munique from American headquarters in
France, in military form and carrying
its own earmarks of authenticity.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
be disappointe

The relation of the American Museum
of Natural History to the war may not
be obvious to those unfamiliar with this
highly efficient institution. But it has
furnished the head of one of the forestry
divisions of the American service in
France, the chief Of the division of ex-
hibits of the United States food admins
tration among other experts, thirty
three employees in active service, an ex-
hibition of food values and a handbook
on Health in War and Peace" the sug
gestion and advocacy of various unutil-
lied food fishes, the spread of Mandan
corn for arid regions and a wealth Of
other contributions of scientific knowl-
edge applied to war needs. The city is
proud of it's museum. 1t richly deserves
the larger municipal appropriation and
endowment which it requests.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
Believing Greatly

Seeing is little clearer, the mists
of depression are little thinner since
Clemenceau's immortal thought of VIC
tory in the last quarter of an hour. The
phrase appears at length in "The Even
ing Post" in a translation of his speech
of defiance in the Chamber of Deputies.
His words were:
The conqueror is the one who is able
to believe, for a quarter of an hour
longer than his adversary, that he is not
conquered.
No man can say how close We are to
that last quarter of an hour. But, near
or far, we must learn to wait for it as
stanchly and resolutely as does this
great Frenchman. It would be pleasant
if we could win the war swift and soon
by some brilliant stroke No faintesr
hope of such a victory is now to be
seen. Were it conceivable, we ought to
put such easy optimism behind us.
We must put aside every thought and
emotion save our duty to labor for VIC
tory with all our energy to the end. We
must face and discount the prospect Of
gruelling weeks and months of waiting.
In our labor, we must learn the French
lesson of patience, of fortitude under
retreat, under disaster.
So may we train our minds and hearts
that we shall enter the last quarter Of
an hour believing that we are not con-
quered." To quote again from the
speech of Clemenceau:
My foreign policy and my home policy
are all one-foreign policy, the war
home policy, the war!-always the war!
Russia betrays us-I go on with the
Rumana is forced to capitulate--I go on
with the war. And shall keep on to the
last quarter of an hour-for it is we who
shall have the last quarter of an hour!
Always the war! Only by giving
heart and soul, devotedly utterly, to
the one cause can we hope for that faith
by which alone is any war won.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
Back Up the Guns!

TN the reeking ranks Of the flaming guns
i Where Britons and Frenchmen grapple
the Huns,
Who would not join them, side by side,
To stem the rush of the German tide?
Who does not long for the naked steel,
The burn of the red-hot piece to feel,
The cuddled cheek against kicking stock
In the line that holds like the living rockt
All cannot rife and bayonet WELD;
Some to the shop and some to the field.
But he whose fighting is only work
Let him see that he does not shirk,
Let him hurry with boarded pence
Bonds to buy for the lands defence.
Buy with labor and buy with sweat,
Buy with savings and buy with debt,
Buy for ships and the flying men,
And then turn back and purchase again.
For what shall he profit who stands aside
In days when men are tested and tried,
Who proves untrue to his country's call
When others have offered their one and all
DYSART M'MULLEN
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30

New Workers and all lovers of fine
music will read of Major Higginson's
retirement from the Boston Symphony
with very deep regret. For more rea-
sons than one. This fine organization
was almost entirely Major Higginson's
personal creation. 1t was very remark
able thing that in this Boston banker
there should have been found such al
most unerring judgment in the selection
of men and conductors and such tact
and decision in administering the affairs
of the orchestra. 1t is, we imagine, al
most unique in the whole range of mod
ern symphonic societies. What conse-
quence the transfer from one-man con-
troll to board Of directors will have on
the Boston Symphony must remain to be
seen. We trust that all misgivings will
be disappointed.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30

phia stands branded city before the
world because its Police Department
couldn't or wouldn't eradicate vice
which endangered soldiers and sailors,
and the Federal authorities had to inter-
vene. Here there is no such problem to
solve. The problem is merely to re-
strain the city's chief executive, sworn
to administer the laws for the peoples
best interests, from destroying an
organization which has labored devoted
ly, disinterestedly and with notable sue
cess to protect and benefit the public.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
The Solace of Dreams

When we go to sleep we do not die; the
mind is not dead. And the brain does
not stop working. This is clear from a
variety Of evidence, as, for example, the
extraordinary regularity with which some
people wake at certain hour in the
morning (and insomniacs at night). Will
lam James records that he was able to
wake almost at the exact minute each
morning.
Even in sleep the mind goes on. Ac-
cording to the newer psychology, when
we lose consciousness we simply sink
back into a world of dreams. What is the
function of this dream life?
Apparently it may be a great solace
A quite exquisite example is cited in a
work of curious interest on "The Dreams
of Poets," from the conversations of Eek
ermann with Goethe
By day this very quiet, shy and not
overly favored little man had to GO
through the rather monotonous work of
writing out the masters manuscripts, his
letters and the rest. How ardently he
must have longed to be like the man of
genius to whom he was attached, the
friend of the great, the fattered of kings,
the beloved of all the beauties, is revealed
in dream which he records.
He is standing in an unknown region
among a number of unknown men, all
young and vigorous, with splendid bodies
and commanding mien. And they are
about to swim across to a farther shore
Ga symbol Of life!) and urge him to go
with them. "But l am not young and
vigorous, and strong swimmer" he re-
plies, "and I should be ashamed to be
naked among YOU" They reply: "What
fool you are-you are as young and Of
as splendid body as We" "And if you
don't believe it," said one, "take mine" "
He does.
So he casts off his garments and
plunges in with the rest and swims vic
toriously to the farther side. Flushed
and exhilarated by his exploit, he walks
down the sands, quite unashamed in his
nakedness.
But he is disturbed at the thought that
his friend may wish to take back the fine
supple body he now occupies, and finally
asks if this must be so. But his friend
replies: 'Not in the least, keep it as
long as you like"
He is overjoyed, and records that whle
he felt that in all his sensations, thoughts
and memories he remained wholly him
self, yet there came to him in his dream
the thought of complete independence il
our souls and the possibility of future
existence in another body!
The symbolism is simple and the mean
ing clear. 1t is an admirable example o.
the modern view that all dreams are wisf
dreams, and that in our dreams we liv,
the repressed or buried life that goe
down under the pressure of everyda!
reality.
When we wake refreshed in the morn
ing from "dreamless" sleep it is ap
parently because our dreams have beer
pleasant and through the night we have
been able to achieve all that our arden
souls desire. When dreams are troubled
it is because even in our dreams we have
not been able to attain all our wishes.
This is why our dreams may tell u:
ofttimes of unsatisfed longings, which
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
The Order Of Balb Instituted

(From The Cincnnati Times-Star)
care you Balb ?" asked Judge Yeatman
of friend, Tuesday.
"No, am not Balb-why?"
"Well, l can make you one very easily"
replied the judge.
"What is Balb?"
at is the great order of Uncle Sam. Just
subscribe for Liberty bond and you will
be Balb. Buy Liberty Bond"
Judge Yeatman thus gave the Liberty
bond drive an original name.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
Shall New York Be Branded?

1t is a scathing arraignment of Mayor
Hylan's conduct and aims regarding the
Health Department which DR.. Amster
has delivered in presenting his resigna-
ton as Health Commissioner He took
office believing in the Mayor, determined
to work with him. After only three
months he concludes that it is impossi-
BILE to continue in Office longer with
due regard to self-respect and my pro-
fessional ideals"
The list of specifications, or charges,
accompanying the resignation is strik-
ingly similar to the one written by
Police Commissioner Bugher when his
self-respect, too, rebelled at Mayor Hy-
lan's methods. There is the same record
of an attempt to dictate departmental
conduct-in fact, to run the depart
ment-through subordinate whose ap-
pointment was compelled by the Mayor
There is the same account of an en-
deavor to grab department places.
But the import of DR.. Amster's
charges comes closer home to every
household in this community than Com
missioner Bugher's even. The outgoing
Health Commissioner tells of recon-
mendations for the appointment of
nurses in the Bureau of Child Hygiene,
of inspectors in the Bureau of Prevent
able Diseases and men in hospital staffs
which the Mayor ignored. He recounts
orders to abolish baby health stations
and the pigeon-holing of a request for
an appropriation to renew the depart
menus antitoxin fund. He tells how
his communications touching the accu-
mutation of huge masses of ashes and
filth in the streets and along the water
front were ignored. Finally, he gives
the details of the Mayors order to dis
miss the expert directors of the special
bureaus of the department, and the de-
mand, only yesterday, for the dismissal
of DR.. jacob, one of the most eminent
and respected medical men in the city,
from the Commissioners advisory
council.
All these things imply either lam
entable ignorance of the value and
Importance of the communitys health
and the means by which it is pro-
tected or a shocking disregard of its
vital Importance. They constitute, as
DR.. Amster has we'll said, ga serious
menace not only to the people of this
city, but to those of the whole country
as we'll" Fortunately, there is slight
prospect that they will be carried out
Whatever the Mayors state of mind re.
garding New York's wellbeing, the
Federal government is not Indifferent
This is now a port so important in the
nations war scheme that direct intima.
tions have been given that the gov
ernment stands ready to step in to pre-
vent by its powers a lowering of health
standards and disease prevention work
which might easily endanger the health
of the country and imperil the wa,
programme.
But what shameful and disgracefu
thing it would be if the Federal govern.
ment had to take this action Philadel
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
Coiled in the FLAG
II e a r S-S-s-S-S t

Nea0 York american, January 6, 1917.
When they Senator Lodge and his
kind assert that this is war on the
part of the Allies to secure human lib.
critics, free government and the safety
of small nations in Europe, and on the
part of the Central Empires to de-
stroy human liberties, free government
and the safety of small states in Eu-
rope, we wonder that they can keep
their faces straight.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30

Fifty thousand illiterate Ukrainian pris-
sent home with ir~ their hands TO
spread German doctrine among their fell
low countrymen was one of the propagan-
dist methods of Germany, according to the
admissions of General Friedrich in the
Reichstag. German parliamentary reports
are now heavily censored, but much can
still be learned from them, says "The
Times" of London, and the published re-
ports Of the debate in the Main Committee
of the Reichstag on the Ukraine peace sup
ply interesting evidence of the propaganda
Systematically carried on in the German
prison camps:
"The subject was raised by Polish Dep
uty who complained of the organized anti
Polish propaganda which the German gov
ernment has for a long time been conduct
ing among Russian prisoners from the
Ukraine. General Friedrich admitted that
"a few dozen Ukrainian prisoners had been
sent into the occupied territories to in
struct the population there about Germany
and that the $4,000 Ukrainian prisoners
have been taught in Germany to read and
write, so that at home they will spread the
truth about Germany
'The minority Socialist Herr Cohn,
thereupon observed that both Germany and
Austria Hungary armed the Ukrainan pris-
oners before they sent them on their mis-
sion, and said that Germany was deliber-
ately inciting prisoners to commit high
treason"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
Ground Glass

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: The following appears in. to-night's
Evening POST:
Allied optimism would be u, 1stified
to-day if it meant persisting in the war
instead of discussing peace with rea-
sonable opponent"
VI course, it is imbedded in a mass of
metaphysical observation upon the war
amounting to "all is lost, therefore he
optlmistic"-much in the manner that
ground glass has been found in dough.
OBSERVER.
New York, April 81, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30

seem strangely to take their fight when
we drag them into the light of day. 1t
is these secret longings, which even our
dreams may not satisfy, which seems to
explain so much unhappiness. But for
the most part our dream life seems of
unaloyed enjoyment, and it is this rather
than sleep itself which is "tired natures
sweet restorer"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
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New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
But Why Do They Cross a Road

(FrO1n TIE ChtcUDo NeicS)
A scientist has discovered that hens lay
eggs in the daytime because at night they
are roosters.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30

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We make GOOD promptly IL the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
GUARANTEE

Entered at the poscflce New York Second Glass
Man Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
With the Enemy
The Neso york Trsbmns
Foyet0n Press Bureau

PREPARING for after the war Germany
l. has lust reorganized the Ministry Of
Imperial Production, which had first been
formed last October, with the aim Of or
ganizing Germanys resources SO that they
might be of the greatest possible use to
Germany after the war.
"ln conclusion, we wish to say that the
Ministry of Imperial Production has accom-
plished very much in regard to the distri-
button of freight space after the war. An
organization has been formed which already
comprises 90 per cent of all German ship
owners. With the help ofethis organization,
in which only two German steamship COM
panies are not included all the tonnage will
be placed at our disposal. The organiza-
ton will report to the Ministry of Imperial
Production on the existing tonnage and will
see to it that German ships will be en-
ployed exclusively in furtherance Of Ger
man interests"
Berlin-Tokio is the newest war cry in
Germany, bred apparently from the Rus
sian conquests. But it is not universally
popular. In fact, there is great objection
to it in Bavaria, and this objection is
voiced forcibly by the "Muenchncr Neueste
Nachrchten," which says:
"No, if Germany does not want the world
to become Anglo-Saxon she must involve
herself as little as possible in Russian and
Balkan deals, and she must endeavor to
keep her rear in the East free, in order that
she can turn to the West with the greatest
possible strength. In the first place, as
| long as England and her allies are not ready
| for an agreement, her action in the West
| must be military; after the it must
| also be economic. The world sea and all
that borders upon it is of more Importance
| to US than Berln-Tokio. II lose the
war, this purely Eastern Orientaton can
be only substitute at best. Our vital ee-
ment is the free sea; BerlinTokio is cul
de sac. Doubtless we could do all sorts of
profitable deals there-but never conduct
world policy"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-12-07

ported 10 have halted the airpiane
work. What? Why, It had only
Just b.gun!, We were promised
$4,000 pianees by the last Of July Of
last year, Figures received from
France show loss of American
planes during the war of 265; on
hand when hostilities ceased. TAO.
This includes a considerable number
OF planes purchased from the French
so that in spite Of all creeiisms to
the contrary Pansy Bakers airplane
program produced considerably less
than 8 per cent promise, at an ex-
penditure of one billion dollars,
There was $40 per capita of the tax
payers money wasted because Of
Democratic delay on this one phase
of the var alone, and the ordnance
collapse Is now subject of discus
sion.