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The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-09
POWER PROJECT 0F CANADA AT
 NIAGARA FALLS

BUFFALO. N. Y. Aug. a.-One of the greatest water development prof ects Of the many centering about Nj. agara Falls has been launched on the Canadian side of the river. It con templates an immediate production of &oo,oo0 electrical horsepower. or equal to approximately one.half the present total development on both sides of the river. and il may expand to l.o00.0 .0o0 horsepower
 Actual work on the new channel was begun recently by the Ontario hydro commission There were no ceremonies, and the launching of the work was virtually unknown to the general public. The channel will en- circle the city of Niagara Falls. Ont. running from the Welland river, a tributary of the Niagara above the cataract, to the escarpment below Qucenston heights The power house will be located on the river level al most at the foot of Brooks mOnu- ment
 The channel is the first one planned to get the full benefit of the differ. enCe in level between Laks Erie and Ontario approximately 900 feet The old companies. with penstocks located close to the foot of the cataract. get a head of about 200 feet. The addi. tional 100 feet head, 1t is estimated, will make it possible to develop the 3Oo,o0o horsepower with the same flow of water required to develop 1ooooo horsepower at the falls.
 While the units under construction for the power house are planned to produce only o0,ooo horsepower. the canal itself will be built to allow q futur" flow of water capable of treb- ling this volume
 The Ontario hydro commission is a provincial body, appointed by he On. tario government It distributes power to Ontario municipalities within radius of 2oo miles of the falls at lew cost \ large part of the current generated on the Canadian side for merly exported and distributed by an American corporation. has been cut off. Canadian power for Canadian in dustries has been the motto sf Sir Adam Beck, chairman of the cornmis. sion. and war conditions have brought a specdier application of the policy than had been expected.
 TO replace the Canadian current thus lost, a stream generating plant has been built here. with an ultimate capacity of 10000 horsepower Steam plants and water power plants far down the state have been drawn upon to keep Buffalo factories going. Part bl tue current llblll tue ne" hNhlt plant will he available for American industries. but only those engaged in war work. Sir Adam has announced
 Under the treaty between Canada. Great Britain and the United States the diversion of water on the Cana dian side is limited to 3G.OO0 cubic feet a second. The limit on the American side is 2o0oo feet
 Canada already has authorized the diversion of all but coco cubic feet of her allotment. Under special war permits the American companies ar" also within a few hundred feet of their limit.
 The new channel will carry off ahout 10000 cubic feet of water second. This will ncccssitatc some rcadiust- mont cf the allowances of the other Canadian Companies unless the treaty Is modified. This has led to suGGos- lions of consolidation of all the Cana dian companies and the 10o0, ,0N0 hOrSenOwCr deVolOnment
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
The Turning Tide

AS in great music the harmony may
be suddenly overlaid by melody, so now
to the faith that abideth in us there is
added new note, which is the hope of
the ends beginning. The ear may hear
and the heart may stir, but the hand
must not relax. 1t is not enough that
the U-boat is defeated. 1t shall be utterly
destroyed. Yet we may take JOY in the
thought that Germany has at last de-
SPARED of winning the war with that
abominable weapon. Lloyd George an
nounces that shipping now is pro-
duced by the Allies faster than it is
sunk For the first time we can see
over the top of that beastly menace. He
adds that the submarines are being de-
stroyed faster than Germany can build
them. This is to have taken the most
formidable first line of all. He is sure
there will be another great offensive on
the West front, but the defence has been
greatly strengthened in men, morale and
experience; and we know, as the enemy
knows, that each day henccforth until
the hour of victory the weight on cur
side will increase out of Americas
boundless resources in man power and
munitions. The tide is turning. And
we have only begun!
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
A New Source of Labor

Announcement through the United
States Employment Service that the La
Dor Department has $4,000 Porto Ricans
ready to augment the unskilled labor sup
ply here should be gratifying to employ
ers. This is but drop in the bucket Of
demand, to be sure, and a good part of
the drop will be taken for war work on
government contracts. Nevertheless, this
plan shows a reaching out for the much
needed unskilled workers which should
offset certain contentious of employers.
such as the one that Chinese labor be i'm
ported.
The Porto Ricans are Americans. Thew
are not Asiatics. Their being here will
not produce any of the vexing problems
which the bringing of Chinese into the
country would start. Neither will there
be great difficulty about getting them
here, since they are to be carried on the
return trips of government transports.
SO far as it goes, the plan is distinctly
advantageous to the United States, and
should serve at the same time to stabilize
labor conditions in Porto Rico.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
Women Make Ready

The women of New York will have
their first experience in party enrolment
to-day, and judging by all the signs
many women already are more lleenly
interested in the occasion and know more
about their responsibilities than many
men. There is tagging remnant. There
is much educational work yet to be done.
Yet we think every one, suffragists in
cluded, has been astonished at the speed
and enthusiasm with which women have
entered upon their new duties to the
state.
And they purpose to enroll as citizens,
not as suffragists, or as sex. The old
divisions and classifcations have van
ished in a few short months. Suffrage
is in New York settled and accom-
plished fact. The first prophecies of evil
have already been shown to be false and
unfounded. The real test, the long test,
now begins. 1t is good omen that the
women of New York enter upon their
first step with zest and intelligence, show
ing an interest in party affairs and
realization of their Importance which can
be hopeful example and hint for all too
many men,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
Pity the Poor Male!

A groan now and then reaches us
pushed from the lips of distressed male,
distressed because his life is confused and
disarrayed by the appearance of women
where they are not expected. On trains,
as guards, for instance. When they are
homely, or their uniforms are homely
(as they most awfully are in Mr.. Shonts's
bifurcated realm), they annoy one, just
annoy one. That takes a lot out of
man. And when they are beautiful, and
their uniforms are attractive (as they
unquestionably are in the Hudson Tubes) ,.
that takes lot out Of a man, too. He
can't read his paper as faithfully as he
Should-the regular mornings terrific
gunfire preparatory to the great drive
may escape him altogether.
This is pity, and we mean to be SYM
pathetic. But the ways of the male are
old as the record and there is no question
how their course runs. 1t is novelty, fem
mime novelty, that excites and thrills the
male, whether the novelty be new short
ening of skirt, limp Jersey-like frocks
that cling and cling and cling, or some
body's else wife. 1t is always the new
girl that gets the casual flowers and the
looks.
So we say to these perturbed males,
wait. For a few months you will have
your disturbing moments, your annoying
thrills. Then you will grow so accus-
toned to the female guard that you will
not notice her existence She will no.
come as the ticket chopper or the Con-
gressional debater. She might wear a
bathing suit, and your morning pape4,
would hold your gaze unwaveringly She
will become even as last years wife.
You might notice her absence. But her
presence would make no impression what
ever on your retina.
Pity the poor male, yes. But don't
take him too seriously
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
How to Save Russia

To the Editor of the Tribune
Sir: Russia needs Lafayette to bring
order out of chaos. The man who could,
in my opinion, infuse the Russian national
conscience with Americansm and weld our
two countries into friendship with bands of
everlasting steel is Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt.
He, more than any other man, could stiff
fen the backbone of stricken, misguided
and suffering nation. And he would no
doubt rejoice over the opportunity.
Let us send Colonel Roosevelt to Russia.
The Russians are fine people, We need
their friendship and they more than any,
thing else need ours. They need our moral
support as we'll as our financial aid.
Colonel Rooscvelts name would do much
toward revivng the dropping spirits of the
stricken peasants. He could show them that
America is willing to help in every way.
LOUIS Fl. CHALIF
New York, May %, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
Aniiens

4 MEMS! Amiens! Amens! I hear the
~ bells
OF your cathedral calling loud on God
To shield the sacred precincts where once
trod
Peter the Hermit from Apollyon's shells,
From sacrilege too base for infidels.
From beasts whose object is to have their
nod
The law from Cork to Nijni-Novgorod,
Converting Christian homes to servile he,ls
Amiens, your builders lived when war was
war!
Amlens, you were fortress of the soul!
Your trinity of porches could restore
Peace to the weary, make poor cripples
whole:
10 some your silent majesty meant more
Than right divine" to play Cmsars role.
RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
No Tolerance

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: recent issue of "The Dial" con-
tains an article on American intolerance
The point of the article seems to be that
the dominant" class in America is jealous
of its prestige" and is aided by the war in
opposing a "true cosmopolitan democracy"
Also that lamentably intolerant in
our viewpoint toward our enemies.
To quote: "Our best people have ap-
proved some of our worst excesses or have
excused them as being inevitable"
Also: "Our certified Americans educated
in the theory that the world war was
struggle for Anglo-Saxon prestige"-
And: "The enemy within is our enemy
only because we make him so.'
The dictionary gives the word intolerant
as unwilling to endure contrary beliefs"
Now, l would like to suggest that the
above article is twofold misleading. And
at this time criminally so. Can the author
of it name the dominant" class in Amer
lea? 1t would be very hard to do so at
this time, when bankers are the backbone of
our war preparations, when manufacturers
are serving the government. when million
aires sons are in the ranks, farmers are
prosperous, and the immigrant of year
ago is accepted by our best blood as a
comrade in the war.
The article in "The Dial" is misleading
in another sense, for it decries intolerance.
When the first British soldiers went to
France they were tolerant of their enemies.
one sportsman is of another. They
learned their error speedily.
We were tolerant, the country and Con-
gress. of German submarines, and we were
rewarded with the thing that is best called
"frightfulness" by Germans themselves
The Italian and Russian soldiers were be-
trayed into tolerance of their enemies only
to face invasion as the price of their mis-
take.
If General Washington had not been
hotly intolerant of weakness we might
never have had the United States of Amer
lea. And if General Grant had not been
intolerant of halfway measures the United
States of America might not have lived.
If the early Christian disciples had not
been intolerant of idolatry, how would
Christianity have been established? If
Luther had been tolerant of certain wrongs.
would there be Protestant church to-
day? If Pasteur had been willing to
endure" disease. how would his invaluable
ant-toxins have been discovered?
Intolerance is our best armor-for those
of US at home-against our enemies. Espe-
cially when we are offered, via Berlin, a
fruitless peace. We tried tolerance too
long. And we are beginning to see that il
does not work.
The article in "Thc niai" would be first
rate if it turned around and pointed the
other way. At present it has Hearstian
tone. That is bad thing to say about it.
But is not Hearst the leading disciple OF
tolerance" in this country
HAROLD A. LAMB.
New York. May 10, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
Repatriate Them
To the Editor Of the Tribune

TO tHe Cu1tor CT thc Tribune.
Sir; When the conflict now raging in
Europe is over l would suggest that all
German Americans and Germans in +h;s
country who all through this world calam.
ity have felt so loyal to their fatherland
in spite of the constant pilinp ", of ;nd;s
putable evidence of cupidity, rapine vas
salage and wanton murder, be forced to re-.
turn to Germany This is the only wav anv
OF these patriots can be induced to nrove
their loyalty to Willy and aid in rehabil;-
tating the home cf kultur, for they we'll
know what a pleasant task-confronts them
spending the rest of their lives under heavy
taxation IN order to pay for the disaster
brought on Germany by the mad Kaiser
and his band of hcll-hounds,
FREDERIC Z. MOWLE
New York, May 90, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25

No other country stops drafting men at
thlrty-one. There are many men above
thirty-one without obligations to de-
pendents. Why should they escape ser
vice while men under thirty-one with de-
pendents are sent to fight?
Broadening out the draft would give
the government a freer hand to deal
Justly with the economic necessities of
the situation. 1t would produce far
greater equality And unless we prac-
tise inequality on big scale, we cannot
raise the army we need from the limited
classes which Congress has so far desig-
mated for military service.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
Predatory Cats

Despite the opposition which it encoun-
tered in the Legislature Governor Whit
man has signed the bill permitting the
slaughter of cats found hunting birds
which are protected by law Henceforth
it will be legal for any person over twen-
ty-one years of age who possesses a
hunting license to kill cat discovered
with a protected bird in it's possession
or caught in an attack on such birds.
The measure was designed to aid in
the conservation of game birds, which
have suffered from the depredations of
cats, and song birds, many of which are
tremendously valuable as destroyers of
grubs and insects and eaters of seeds of
noXlous weeds. 1t was substituted for
the bill of last session providing for a
cat license, which failed to become law.
On its surface this is not especially
Important legislation, yet it will doubtless
tall into the class with the measure per-
mltting the destruction of dogs caught
worrying sheep, which has been a pro-
life cause of neighborhood dissensions.
Pet pussies which take no heed of bird
protection will be potted and local feuds
Will arise over their graves Neverthe-
less, even if mistakes occur and family
Toms and Tables succumb, the purpose
sought is a good one. The hunting in
stlnct cannot be eradicated from the fe-
line breast, no matter how much good
food is provided at home Young game
birds, young rabbits, songsters by the
dozen are killed by many country cat
in season Moreover, cats multiply
rapidly and run wild, when they become
more destructive than some of the wild
enemies of bird life. Even in the city
tramp cats invade the parks and become
pests, to be hunted by the park. guar
dians.
In its defence it must be said that the
cat itself is u destroyer of vermin, but
there is considerable question whether
the good it does balances the harm. At
any rate, the burden of proof is now on
the cats-or on their owners.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
The "No Limit" Arnv

The mo limit" army which the House
Committee on Military Affairs has voted
to authorize will have no rigid limit writ
ten into the law But it will have more
or less definite limit, fixed by the man
power which is available under the
selective draft acts and the acts amenda-
tory thereof. The President cannot call
into the military service persons not sub
ject to draft under existing laws.
What would be the strength of an
army raised by utilizing the man power
now at the disposal of the government?
General Crowder's report of December
20 last furnishes pretty complete infor-
nation on this point, if it be assumed
that the regulations framed for the mus
tering in of the first quota are to remain
unchanged. The registrants between
twenty-one and thirty-one years num-
bered 9,586,5O8. Of these 3,O82, ,949 were
called for the first quota, and 1,057,363
were accepted. The yield was, roughly,
one out of three. At the same ratio.
those still uncalled last December &C.,
503,599) would yield 2,227,246 additional
men.
Estimating the regular army and the
former National Guard organizations
(raised through volunteering) at 100000,
we had about 100000 soldiers in sight
last winter. The 2,227,246 to be pro-
duced from the uncalled registrants
would bring the total up to about 4,2OO,-
600. The new law drafting men who
have reached twenty-one since June S,
1917, will add, perhaps, 100000 to 600,-
900 more. So that, if the exemption
rules remain unaltered the strength of
the army will be little short of 5.00O.-
900.
In one respect the rules have been
modified by clarifcation of our policy
toward resident aliens. Neutral aliens
are now automatically exempted. Sub
jects of Allied nations are to be released
to service under their own colors, if thew
so elect All aliens ought to be excluded
from the draft rolls. In the first quar-
ter 467,713 aliens were called and 76,545
were accepted. If all aliens are exempt
ed the total of drafted men still avail
able will be reduced by 131, ,434. If aliens
now in the service are discharged or
transferred there will be a further loss
Of 76,545.
Instead of being an army without
limit" the array contemplated by the
amendment to the army appropriation
bill will not run much over 4,5OO, 900. Its
strength can be increased by narrowing
the exemptions, especially the exemption
granted because of dependents. But that
would involve radical modification of
our policy of recognizing claims of fami-
lies deprived of support-a step which
the government may be very reluctant to
take.
We should certainly aim at an army
with minimum strength of from 5O00,-
600 to 100000. The easiest way to pro-
vide sufficient man power for such an
army is to raise the maximum draft age.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
Mystihcation
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: In the issue of The Tribune of the
goth of March last appeared dispatch.
from San Francisco to the effect that
submarine of the Dutch navy was captured
at Batavia by sailors from the interned Ger
man steamer Won Luttwitz, who succeeded
in putting to sea. "A
With reference to the above, beg to bring
to your notice that there is no foundation
whatsoever for this report and that The
New York Tribune has apparently been the
victim of mystifcation.
would be much obliged if you could pub
lish in the same paper that you have been
officially informed of the total non-exis-
tence of any of the facts reported in afore-
said news item. W. DE BEAUFORT.
Chargee d'Affaires of the Netherlands
Washington, D. c., May 21, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25

peal to disaffection and disloyalty.a There
is the essential difference.
Time and intent determine the pro-
priety of words. 1t seems never to occur
to those irreconcilable radicals who con-
fuse freedom of speech with license that
there is such thing as freedom of self
restraint for common cause.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25

the glass and then wallow like pigs in
the mire and blood. Up to this time
wine to the value of millions has already
been destroyed and many more millions
will be lost in the same manner The
sale of these valuable goods to Sweden
would have brought US large sums of
money or great quantities of other mer-
chandise of which the country is greatly
in need, especially raw material, ma
chinery, medicines, etc.
The gentlemen at the Smolny Insti-
tute have awakened too late to a realiza-
ton of the situation. They now threaten
to punish drunkenness with the severest
penalties. But drunkards are not afraid
of punishments, and they go on destroy
ing the goods which long ago should
have been requisitioned and used for
the welfare of the whole impoverished
population.
During the days of the progress of
drunkenness human beings were shot
down like dogs and the cold-blooded de-
struction of human lives came to be
commonplace daily occurrence. In the
newspaper "Pravda" the pogroms of
the drunken mobs are written up as the
provocative acts of the bourgeois
which is clearly Misrepresentation, the
employment of pretty phrase which
can only lead to the further shedding Of
blood
Theft and robbery are increasing from
day to day. The practice of the art of
taking bribes is becoming more and
more widely introduced and our new
officials are already as we'll trained in
the art as those who served under the
Cars government. The dubious ind;-
vlduals who have assembled around the
Smolny Institute do not even hesitate
to lntimidate the frightened citizens.
The coarseness of the representatives
OF the government of the "People's
Commissioners" has aroused universal
protest, and yet these representatives
speak In grieved tones. The various
petty officials who hover about the
Smolny Institute appear to be drunk
with sense of conquest and regard the
citizens as if they were the CONQUERED
acting even as the misguided police of
former days were in the habit of acting.
They shout and scold and give COM
mands to every one, just as of yore the
village sheriffs would treat the inhab-
ltants of the obscurest rural districts in
kanotop or Tchsuloma, and all this is
done IN the name of the "proletarian,
IN the name of the 'socfal revolution"
But in reality it represents only the tri-
umph of the beast over man, the as
cendancy of the Asiatic spirit which still
dwells among us, the ugly growth upon
our soul. Where, then, is that spirit
which expressed itself in "the idealism
of the Russian workingman" whom Carl
kautsky has so enthusiastically eulo-
gized?
Where is that which is supposed to be
incorporated in the morality of social
ism-the new morality?
l expect that one of our "realists in
politics" will answer me contemptuouslv
with the usual phrase:
"What is it you wish? Do YOU not
realize that this is the revolution?"
No! | do not recognize the unmis-
taxable signs Of the social revolution IN
this association of geological instincts
1t is combination of the feelings If
our lower selves, without socialism
without the spirit of socialism, without
the psychology Of socialism.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
Revolution or Pogroms?
By Maxim Corky

Maam Gorky the noted Russian syorier
Saunkoa
suppressed
Ruo?" the of
himself the Soviets Peoples
revolutionary
Russkaya Vedomoo published
suppressed
hat @ me@t The article reprinted
the
fromw which the English translation
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25

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are also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
Coiled in the Flag
II e a r s-s-s-s-s t

Ne,o York American, January 10, 1918.
Let the Red Gross Exhibit Not Only
Competence but Courtesy.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-25

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