davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
Counting the Many
~ Cravestones

In saying that Mr.. Schwabs appoint
ment came year too late however, one
sounds note that recalls to many ed. .
tors the disappointment that lies in the
wake of the American shipping pro-
gramme. "The New York Sun" partcu-
lary has long memory. Without rails
ing sternly recriminatory voice "The
Sum- counts the gravessones somewhat
as follows:
The bill creating the Shipping Board
became law on September 7, 1916, or some
586 days before Mr.. Schwab's appoint
ment. The boards members were ap-
pointed December 22 of the same year.
The board was organized on January 81,
1917. It was April II before the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation was born.
The first casualties occurred on July
"a, when both Goethals and Denman re-
signed, Mr.. Hurley becoming chairman
and Rear Admiral capps general man
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

ager. Before Mr.. Piez was made general
manager, on December H. Rear Admirals
Capps and Harris had both occupied and
vacated the same position Now Mr
Schwab steps in as the fifth general
manager in a little less than year, NOV
ing the press to believe that the track
meet through that particular Office has
stopped for good.
Apparently only one matter seriously
concerns any OF the press With regard to
Mr.. Schwab With many others. "Thc
Springfield Republican" fears that Mr..
Sclwab will slight wooden and concrete
ships. The most tonnage by any and all
means is "The Republicans" idea of Mr..
Schwab's duties:
General Goethals made a mistake, as gen
eral manager of the Emergency Fleet Cor
poraton, in allowing himself to be preju-
diced against vessels constructed of wood:
he seemed to be influenced in his view by
the steel makers and certain shipping inter
ests. Mr.. Schwab has been steel maker
throughout his career, and he may 6aslv
and naturally regard steel as the only suit
able material for shipbulding. Yet, if he
rises fully to the emergency, he must ap-
preciate the necessity for utilizing all proc
esses and materials out of which ships
can be made and brought quickly into use.
IF MIR. Schwab will please give wood and
concrete show-expcrimcntng to the us-
most with concrete he may prove himself
to be the miracle worker in the building Of
ships for whom the country has been wait
ing
Naturally the press has much to say of
4hN v,,t,1 E,. r,c
driver for the Carnegie Steel Company
to be steel king of his time. He is of
German descent and is now ffty-si years
Old He has mastered the steel industry
and virtually created the plant at South
Bethlehem that is greater than the Krupp
works, and perhaps the greatest single
industrial organization in the world. He
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
The Man Power
L Of Ireland

And yet the man power of Ireland in
comparison with the number of Irish
men from America and the British col
onles who are now fighting for humanity
Is a negligible quantity. According to
the 1916 report of the registrar general
the total number Of men of military age
IN ireland was 1927 of whom 245,S75
were considered indispensable to agri-
culture Since 1916 some million ard
half acres in Ireland have been placed
under cultivation, in addition to the
acreage which engaged the attention Of
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
E0e'ybody's Glad Schzvab Is TO Head the Fleet Coyb1

q ARELY has President Wilson
EN made an appointment which
Id "A meets with such unanimous ap
prevail from Democrats Republi-
cans, Socialists, capital and labor as has
that Of Charles M. Schwab to be director
general of the United States Emergency
Fleet Corporation, if press reactions arc
q safe index.
Ia spite Of Mr.. Schwabs associa
ton with big Business" that part of
the country which cries out against
profiteering, particularly labor and tho
Socialists, stands enthusiastically back Of
the new shipping king. Although Mr..
Schwab is a Republican, not an echo of
partisan strife follows his naming In
deed, the press is all but overwhelming
Mr.. Schwab with expressions of conf
dcnce in his ability to turn the big trick,
Of bridging the Atlantic and defeating
The Uboat. "The Right Man in the Right
Place" "Schwab Gets Busy "Schwab
VIII Succeed Where Others Failed" and
similar headings adorn literally columns
Of laudatory editorials on the Presidents
decision TO draft one of the biggest big
Business" men in the country. The only
regrettable feature about the appoint
ment, according to general comment is
that it came year too late.
Mr. Schwab's induction into the SER
vice OF the country without upsetting
and retarding the shipping programme
recalls to one portion of the press
the number of Americas "big" men
already in service. One counts of
on ones fingers such names as Baruch,
on the War Industries Board; Goethals,
as quartermaster; Stettinius, for pur-
chascs; McRobcrts, for ordnance; Jack
ling, for powder; DaWson, for the Red
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
OF the Sim Fein, and of the

is the man who, at the outbreak of tho
war. took the first boat to England and
personally saw Kitchener, returning with
contracts for millions of dollars worth
OF supplies which, as the Germans now
admit. played no small part il holding
back the Hun from the Channel ports.
New be has given up his connections
with steel and, asking only the close CO.
operation Of his associates, has stepped
into the place of greatest responsibility
in the Emergency Fleet Corporation
without for an instant stopping the
wheels of shipbuiIding.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

Cross; Replogle, for steel; Requa, for
copper; John N. WHY'S; Hoover. for
TODD; Garfield, for fuel and Crowell as
Assistant Secretary of War, not to men
ton Mr.. Piez and Mr.. Hurley, Mr..
Schwab's assistants.
As climax to all these names the ap-
polntment of John D. Ryan, Montana
copper king, fnancier and railroad man.
as director of aircraft production practi
cally completes the equipment of the ma
tion's war machinery with high power
men.
The government is learning" COM
ments "The Detroit Journal" character
lzlng the informal conscription of Mr.
Schwab as a veritable revolution at
Washington.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
y 1SlOn

XX 7HENEvER you meet really sue
VE cessful business man, and have ar
opportunity for conversation with
nm, you can have an example of what
mean when ! use the word vision as the
heading for this. The business man who
makes solid success always looks further
than the simple commercial transaction.
Suppose man is in the business oe
making nails If he buys so much iron and
pays so much wages for that iron to be
wrought into shapes with Aat heads and
sharp points at a defined dIstunce between
each other. and then sells them As nails Il
price which allows him a margin aft~r
paying all his costs. he makes q profit, but
he is not q real business man.
1t is necessary, and it is expected thai
a nail maker should do more than this
de should see those nails packed in the
right Kind of bags or boxes for trans
portation, SO that they will arrive in re-
spec'aoie condition He should see those
very nails driven into pieces of wood in
building, and he should see those same
nails forming small but vitally important
part in holding that building together. upon
which condition the safety of many human
beings and the preservation Of much solid
value IN commodities might easily DEPEND.
II he sees so far, he will make better
value and get higher prices and more profit.
in word, better business, He will cea.e
to be mechanical medium for changing
the shape of bar iron in return for labor
ers' pay, and will become a business man
who undertakes his due responsibilities in
the world, receiving compensation accord
ing to his power.--G. E. Whitehouse. in
Forbes Magcxins.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
fratricide. He even speculates about
the future government of Ireland:

"And now for the future! This much
seems certain-the restoration of the old
Parliament House, symbolizing the sover-
eighty OF the ancient kingdom of Ireland
within whatever federal system the British
Empire is wise enough to borrow from the
Constitution Of the United States. The
election of members must naturally be more
democratic than in the old days Otherwise
the glores CT Grattan's Parliament may be
expected to return. Whatever government,
however. is elected in Ireland will find its
work more economic and industrial than
oratorlcal and doctrinare.
THE most fascinating question is now
who is to be the first Irish Prime Minister
for which there were three candidates-the
late and Iamented John Redmond, the con-
ciliating and successful Sir Horace Plunkett
and the constitutional Sim Fener John
MacNeill"
And there is manifest curiosity in this
country and lack of authentic informa
ton as to what form the convention has
provided for the government Of Ireland.
regarding which ''The Evening Public
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

estants, and in the six remaining coun-
ties of Ulster there are sixty-five
Protestants to every thirty-five Roman
Catholics. Ulster would permit her
Catholic counties to be ruled from Dub
lin, If the true and Protestant Ulster
could be governed from London. She
would perhaps go further than this. The
situation is thus explained by 'Ths OF
iowa Citizen:
The plea for the exclusion of the six
Ulster counties rests on events dating back
to the fight of the earls' in 1908 Plan
tations of the south and west of Ireland
had been tried rather disastrously under
Edward VI and Queen Mary. Where they
failed the Stuart Kings succeeded. In 1908
ONeill, Earl Of Tyrone, and ODonnell, Earl
OF Tyrconnell, fearing an attack by James
/, fed from Ireland to the Continent James
seized their lands, the greater part of the
six Ulster counties, and established on them
three classes of colonists from Britain:
'Undertakers,' who were either English or
Scotch received 1000 acres each, on which
they were to establish English or Scotch
tenants; servitors,' who were Protestant
Irish, received 1900 acres each, and might
take Scotch, English or Irish Protestant
tenants, and, hnaiiy, old natives who
ceivcd f000 acres each. and subdivided the
land among Roman Catholic tenants who
were permitted to evade the Act of Suprem-
acy, which recognized the King instead of
the Pope as head of the church. Further.
thousands Of confiscated acres of the
O'Neiils and O'Connels were granted to
Protestant churches and educational nsti-
tutions, Trinity College, in Dublin, receiv-
ing some 100000 acres. Companies of Lon
don merchants also received large grants
and changed the name of Derry, the place
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

this quarter lillion men two years ago.
or the remainder it was estimated that
about 40 per cent were physically unfit.
This would leave, on the basis of the
1916 figures. about 100000 available for
service. Since then there have been
10000 voluntary enlistments in ireland,
SO that the figures point to possible
total Of not more than 100000
The British Minister of National Ser,
vice stated in the House of Commons cn
January ID, 1918, that, under the one
item Of ''provision of men for the armed
forces of the crown" the empire had
contributed 100000 men since war
broke out VIZ:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

Ulstermen and Sim Feiners are to-day all
Of one mind. But their unity is based upon
opposition to the policy of conscription to
which the British government is commit
ted. Not only the leaders of these erst-
while warning political parties have reached
common agreement, but twenty seven
bishops, representing fourteen hundred
Caholic priests throughout the country, have
signed a manifesto under which, in a pledge
administered Sunday, nine -tenths Of the
Catholic population of the country ex.
pressed the intention TO resist CONSUMPTION
by the most effective means at their dis
nosal'
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
Ledger" of Philadelphia, speculates as


Although no official announcement of the
conclusions Of the Irish Home Rule Con-
vention has been made. "The London Ex-
press" gives what purports to be sum-
mary of it's plan. It's provisions are, briefly:
IAN Irish Parliament in Dublin.
ment
Military service for the Irish.
Safeguards for Protestants.
A new customs arrangement
The announcement by The Express that
Ulster IS to be included within the plan
ought to be taken as matter Of course.
The convention was called in order that ali
phases OF irish opinion might be repre-
sented. Ulster delegates were present. They
nae to 60 or admit themselves as irrecon-
ciiaoless unwilling to accept any plan which
they did not make.
Assuming that the forecast cf The Ex-
press is trustworthy it is easy to point out
the controversial features. The extreme
Nationallsts have sought to set up an in
dependent government in Ireland that
should have no connection with the Parlia-
ment at Westminster. They have carried
then point in part. The setting up of a
farhament in Dublin has been admitted all
along as the first essential in any Home
kule plan 1t remains to be seen whether
Great Britain will consent TO the creation
of an Irish Premier responsible to the
Dublin Parliament. 1t would involve con-
cesslon TO nationalism which Great Britain
has not hitherto been willing to make and
would place Ireland at once in the same
class with Canada and Australia. Her ron
nectlon with Great Britain would be re
tanned only through Governor General an
pointed by the Crown"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

Three other interesting opinions OF
Mr.. Schwab's folIow:>
Il have always made il rule not to
have any relative connected with one Of nv
plants. And with strong minded wife. be-
heve me, that required good deal Of nerve
The man who is given great author;ty
usually does not have to exercise II. but
man must have it to do things
Il have never yet seen man who could
do real work except under the stimulus Of
encouragement and enthusiasm and the ao
prevail Of the people for whom he is work
ing"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

yond" in "The Fortnightly Re
view, Archibald Hurd writes
"Bcfore the peace was broken in the
sumner OF 1914. the majority of the peo-
PIE Of these islands were impressed by the
double peril Of invasion and starvation.
through the Influence exerted by an enemy's
surface ships. How do we stand In those
respects The German raen-of-war, which
were thought 70 menace our island se-
cnrity, dare not stir beyond the gun and
mine protected we. triangle o. Ualxoland
The enemy has been thrown back on a
p'Icy Of evasion, employing the submarine
and tie mine, and making tip-and-run' ex-
eursions. Those arc considerations which
may, perhaps with advantage, be borno In
.f''ho AT moment when, owing to the col
'apSe os Russia, the naval situation has un
a@rgone change calculated to test British
nerve.
|onvoy incidents ox losses dae TO
sADnaarine action may occur more frequent
~ hs onieers Of the Board Of Admiralty
nay De cHaagef, but Whatever the varia-
f}ors made from time TO time in the ncr-
sonai equation, ashore or aeoat naval war
Anust pc fought IN accordance with imrne-
moral principles and those PRINCIPLES per.
siss, however impatient public opinion NAV
ee. The gea drama IS always klow. os the
tWenty years Of the Revolutionary and Ma.
ps!eonie wars remind us, and asyavx viii no
sfow, because the weaker enemy Possesses.
~ ne has always possessed, the facility OF
hsding in defended ports, with the initiative
sf bis command, in the meantime resor.ine
- eyasive operations, such NJ raids ard 81
iaekg On commerce.
Az Admiral Hahan has declared: The
control Of the sea, however real, docs rot
imply that an eDeny's single ships or small
sGnahyeas cannot steal 0nt of port, cannos
efosz more or Jess fseqpented tracts Of
oeean, make harasslng deaceuts upon un-
protected points Of a long coastline. enter
I oiee.aded barbors. On the contrary, his
Tory has hhown that SUCH eyassons are vi.
vsys Dossibie, 70 some extent, to the weaker
pSrH, hewsyer greas the inequality Of
nsHW streukth.s~
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
To My Head Clerk

10 you know
What lies under the hedserow grass
stalks?
Have you seen
Where the frogs close their bronze eyes,
Has the plover
Screamed you field away from her four
eggs?
Or has it been always thus
With ledgers and q buxz of nothinrs?
Iris Barry, in The Eooisf.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

l. flrcQ states MAKES IL CiS2f
1hat the American people earnestly de
sire Home Rule for Ireland, no less
earnestly favor conscription in Ireland
on precisely the same basis applied to
England Scotland and Wales, and that
they deeply deplore present condition.
in that most distressfu country"
which now initiate against both con
scription. Home Rule and bid fair to
withhold the man power which ought
now to be employed il driving back
the Hun.
TO many Irishmen,' Arthur Draper
cabled The New York Tribune. the
principle Of Home Rule is a greater is
sue than those for which the Allies arc
sacrificing so much. There may be little
patience with that attitude, but it must
be accepted as fact There may be
little sympathy for the Irish, but the
situation must be faced as it exists"
But in the same cable dispatch Mr.
Draper thus visualized the most extra
ordinary phenomenon the Emerald Isle
has afforded since the invention of the
art of printing:
ireland is finally united. Nationalists
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

The seal of the United States air ser
vice, which is stenciIled on the wings of
all American aeroplanes, is a blue field
with white star, "a the centre of which
is red baIL-Gos Logic.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

(CompiIed 1,.om the Stotesnoas Year
Book
a 7 THE census Of 1911 thn principal
IA religious professions of Ireland
K "A recorded as follows Roman
Catholics 3242,67O; Protestant
Episcopalians, 576,611; Presbyterans, 44O,-
525; Methodists. 1882 All other profes-
slons were 68,031. The ajorty of Roman
Catholics in Leinster, Munster and Con
naught was overwhelming. In Ulster, the
Protestant stronghold of ireland, there was
Protestant majority in all except three
counties, but Roman Catholic plurality, as
shown by the actual figures: Roman Catho.
lies. 690,816; Protestant Episcopalians, 366 :
773; Presbyterians, 421.41o; Methodists
4s,S16; other professions, 53,881
The total population of Ireland in 1911
vas classified as follows, by occupations:
Professional class. 141 1874; domestic class.
17O,749; commercial class, 111l43; agri-
cultural class. 7S0,867 industrial class. s13.-
397; indefinite and non-productive class.
772.e29; total population. 1890, PIC
The estimated population of the registra-
tlon area of Dublin in 1914 was 4Oe .OoO
The estimated population Of Belfast at that
time was 3o9 ,o00.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

of the oaks to Londonderry. This system
produced piebald northern province. the
Scotch and English tenants who were seat
tered among the Roman Catholics holding
their land on the understanding that they
should receive direct support from the Brit
ish Crown and people"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

Wild talk is still the order of the dav.
Leslie says, though both Dillon and De
valera are considering whether it will
be worth while to keep up the old
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
Nerve

NRAWING to its conclusion his art-
4 y Gle on "The North Sea and Be-
yond" in "The Eortnipht Re-
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

A SURVEY which has now ex-
tended to practically every I'M
- portant newspaper in the
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-06
ENGLISH PROBE
SHOWS CRUELTIES
IN HUN PRISONS
British Jurist Reports Petty
Tyranny Of German Com
ImanderS Made Up True
H0rrOrS0f Camps.

LONDON, Dec. 6. British wireless
SerVice.)-The c~ommandants of the no.
torious German prison camps Of the
Hanover command, who subjected Brit
ish OFFICERS to gross in~disnities and bru-
tal treatment, have been exposed in the
latest report Of Sir Robert Younger,
Judge of the high court OF justice, and
his committee, which has been dealing
with the treatment by the enemy Of
British prisoners of war.
The committees report says il is not
IN the great events, involving at least
one case of homicide and which will re-
ceive special attention on some other
occasion, that the true Significance OF
the German horrors Is to be found, but
In the petty tyranny constantly eXer-
cised; the punishment Of men for so
called offenses, needless restrictions and
the o~verbearing conduct Of the German
administration.
The report says that In 1917 Gen. Won
Haenisch, In charge of the prison camps,
carried out a system Of coercion in con-
junction with Capts. Niemeyer, twin
brothers, commandants respectively at
HolSminden and Kalusthal.
Cen. Won Haenisch is termed an I'M
reasonable and cruel man, endowed with
a violent temper. He took every OPP
portunity to curtail anything which
would make the prison life less irk-
some. He called the prisoners dogs and
pigs, as also did Gen. Pavlovski, in
spector-general of the Hanover COM
mand.
These are our enemies" Gen. Won
Haenisch told the commandant at APP
pei. Don't forget to treat them as
| such" He was speaking Of French Of
flcer prisoners. In the presence OF Ital-
ian prisoners, Gen. Won Hasnisch said:
These are our would-be allies. DO
not forget that"
on reaching the British sector of the
ing of the British, II am hoping every
day to receive the order to send some
OF these people to be put up behind our
lines to be shot by British shells"
Capt. Niemeyer, of Holzminden, is
spoken of as the 'personification Of
hate" He would swagger up and down
the camp n demand to be saluted on
every passage. Those who refused to
salute were sentenced to from three
to Eix days In cells. The senior Brit
ish officer who complained of profiteer-
ing in the cahteen was sent to another
camp. Niemeyer rejoiced in f%lourishing
his revolver on all occasions. He misled
the neutral representatives on their Wis
its to camps,
The other Niemeyer, the report says
lied to the prisoners. to his superior Of
ficers n to the representatives of the
Netherlands legation, He suppressed
evidence by having prisoners removed
to other camps. On one occasion he or
dered an officer to get down on his
knees before him. Refusing to comply,
a sentry was called forward and forced
the officer to kneel,,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-06
NO RECOGNITION
FOR HUN COUNCILS
BY j. s. LEADERS
American Generals Refuse to
Recognize Workmen and
Soldiers in German Districts
Now OCCUPIED.

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF
OCCUPATION, Dec. G, (By courier to
Nancy. BY the Associated Press.)-
Official recognition by Maj. Gen. Jo-
seph 7. Dickman's army of the Ger
man soldiers and workmen's councils
has been denied. Every effort by the
delegates assigned to supervise the af-
fairs in the districts occupied by the
American forces or TO have the Ameri-
Harry A. Smith, in charge Of civil af-
fairs, adhering TO the policy that he
must treat with the de facto authori-
ties.
Members OF councils, who now are
only civilians since the soldier men,
bers departed with the army, repeat
eddy have called at headquarters to
explain their connection with the new
German government and to assure the
American officers that they only de-
sire to exercise certain supervisory
ment. This vas the role they had had
prior to the entry Of the Americans
but the Americans have insisted that
it IL quite enough to deal with one
faction, and so long as honest CO.
operation Is accorded this policy will
be continued.
The members OF the councils have
protested that they are not in accoro
with the doctrine OF Bolshevism and
declared that they only desire to bridge
over the gap Of the transition period
which should end in February, when
a constituent convention will be held
Until the American forces arrived
there had been communication with
the government at Berlin, but the reg
ulations incident to the occupation have
made that impossible now.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-06
RUMANlA GIVES CROSS
TO GENERAL PERSHlNG

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-King Ferdi-
nand of Roumania mas awarded the
cross of the military order of Michael
the Brave to Gen. PersnIng. The state
department nounce that the king
has sent to Gen. Persning this tele-
gram:
my feelings Of profound gratitude for
the gallant part displayed by the
United States troops in the victory
of right and justice, l beg you, sir, to
accept the second class of my military
order Of Michael the Brave as a token
of sincere admiration n friendship"