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at all about that Wherefore the farmer
IS ready to run neck and neck with the
Spectator for possession Of these lands.
There is not the least need nor any real
justification for the Intervention of clever
middemen to bring the lands into use.
Another factor will help nightly in set
Ting this matter properly. The South is
: planning to take hand in every construc-
tive industry which may be based upon the
use OF her numberless raw materials She's
ready for that; she's bidding now for the
men who will make it possible. In the time
coming she viii be in the market for all
manner of skilled workmen. And she knows
well enough that she cannot get them un-
less she can insure the best of living con-
ditlons at reasonable cost. The American
skilled worker just won't live out of tin
cans and paper boxes He must have a
real food-the best He'll insist upon good
fresh meat and plenty of (which means
that the South must go into meat growing
for her own home markets He'll insist
upon abundance of the best dairv prod
ucts-which means that the South must go
INTO dairy farming as a business. He'll
want quantities of fresh farm stuff. every
day of the week, instead of taking it for
Sundays and holidays only-which means
that Southern farming must be able to
supply this demand.
Say what you ike about the offer Of
higher wages; talk yourself black in the
face about soft climate, and all that; the
plain fact is that the skilled American
workman just won't try to get along on
diet of salt pork and turnip greens and corn
bread. The food question, more than any
other-more than all the others pat to-
determines whether he's WILLING %
live end work here or there. lie wouldn't
take job laying golden pavcments in the
New Jerusalem if the table living weren't
up to the mark. IF the South wants him.
she must feed him And the South knows II.
In time past, many and many Il promising
industry has blown up in the South Tor
exactly that reason. And now the South
has quit trying makeshifts and expedients
for meeting the condition Labor simply
won't stick anywhere if it can fare better
somewhere else. In short, good modern
farming, diversified farming, must be for
the South as for every other region tho
very bedrock of sound industrial develop
ment. There is no alternative
The South shrcwdIy secs that period
Of land booming, however interesting or
exciting, would seriously handicap the
business of productive farming and would
delay the whole of the industrial scheme
upon which her mind and heart are set
SO she'll have none of it if she can nos
sibly manage to head it off
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
McAd00's Mysterious Move

its futjlty. The Administration is now in
the hands of two Cabinet members from
Texas, and Mr. House, also of that state;
OF Mr.. Baker, who was born and educated
IN Virginia and only recently moved to
ONO, where he entered public life
There is not left strong man in the
Cabinet, but 1T is believed that majority
OF them are of socialistic leanings. That
is what makes the retirement of Mr. Nc
Adoo the more lamentabe He was an
able, safe and sane man"
There is little but praise for Mr.. Nc
Adoo's career prior to his resignation.
The New York Globe" says of him:
"lie has steered middle course LAYING
on New York a burden not always fair, and
yielding at times too much to Kitchinism.
but never TO the extent of provoking in
surrection. The highly successful cam
palgns for the Liberty loans, of which Mr.
McAdoo was commander in chief will long
be remembered AS Webster said of Ham
llton, so it may be said of Secretary Nc
Adoo, that he struck the rock Of private
riches and abundant streams of wealth
gushed forth
"The New York Times" thinks it a
pity that
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thing very discredtabl to our country"
But 1.-THE Philadelphia North Ameri-
can" bluntly calls him "the gutter" in
an editorial from which is quoted
The Secretary goes out of his way to
impress upon the public that his service to
the nation has been performed at serious
financial loss to himself The emphasis
may have been used in order to discredit
reports that he had not suffered heavily
IN this respect. One undoubted merit of
his statement is that it does not invite
admiration on the pretence that the de-
cision is an act of patriotic self-sacrifce.
Mr.. McAdoo does not invoke the lofty sem
timents which he urged upon his country
men in his eloquent appeals to stand by the
government at any cost
And now, while a million young Amer
cans are to continue at their posts of duty
abroad for $50 a month and up, the Secre-
tary coolly announces that he cannot afford
to serve the nation at $4,000 year, and
must abandon his work at crucial time in
order to make money. From any other
member of the Cabinet or at less trou-
blous period in the nations history, Mr..
McAdoo's decision would have no omnous
meaning. But coming from him, and in
view of the responsibilities committed to
ms care, 1T reveals a concept of public
duty which reflects upon him and will 20
further to confirm the belief that personal
interests, and not public service, control
the whole Administration.
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1.-The niggardlincss of our democracy tow
ard its servants has again compelled pub
lie officer Of the first order of worth ana
capacity to resign an i'll paid office at a
critical time to repair his private fortune,
no small part of which has been spent to
pay his living expenses while in Office"
Of his ability, THE Washington Post"
comments:
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, who
is to leave the Cabinet very soon and who
will quit as Director General of Railroads
in January, is the recipient of more offers
of good jobs than any other man in the
country. Big business concerns are after
his services and are willing to pay him as
much for one month as the government
pays him for whole year A man of his
capacity and proved ability can dictate his
own salary when signing up with business
establishment"
Very unfortunate thinks "Thc Balti-
more Sum;
"To say that the government of the great
United States must be deprived Of the ser
vices of such a man because it cannot pay
him a living salary is to confess some
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to spend his furlough in this little bath
ing resort by the sea, to which he had
addressed his letters to her the summer
before.
"You should have prevented me from
coming if you will not permit me to
express the feelings which you | beg
your pardon. | make you think that
am a brute"
What an idea"
But, yes. | could not 60 away with
out telling you-that | love you. There
IS too much Of the romantic in our adj
venture. dare not reproach you for
that, since your kindness has made it
worth my while to have been down there.
However, when 1 am no longer here
won't you remember this evening with
little of the same emotion which mas
ters me? | have loved the tender ca
maraderie of your letters, their indul-
gence, their sprit-that which they have
carried to me-down there at the front
of the sense of motherliness and of
youth. You couldn't even suspect the
value or all tnat 10 an orphan like me-
To-day | am sure that | loved you
from your very first letter. have loved
you with all that is in nle-with a love,
ardent and respectful, which can no long
er be silenced. beg you, mademoiselle,
listen to me. Ny love cannot offend you.
1t seemed to me at the front that I was
enduring everything in your defence.
And didn't know your age, your sta
ton or even what you looked like. But
| read into your heart, and you unfolded
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Finally, because she grew silent and
ceased to smile at him-beautiful. suf-
fused with the melowness which tinged
the sky, reflection of the enigma of
the approaching twilight on her delicate
face-he confessed the great happiness
which possessed him.
"Never, nowhere, have been as
happy, mademoiselle, as 7 am now"
Take care. We agreed
'But you consented to our meeting,
after three years of correspondence"
Il consented only when you pressed
me to do So
'Do you regret it,"
81 don't know how to make compli-
ments."
"That is one, mademoiselle.
can involuntary one, in any case. And
You wrote me one day Nothing ought
to be Involuntary
What day that was. We were'--
With gesture he waved away the
hideous memory which would have
peopled with dead men and with scenes
of violence the little bay, on which the
sun was sinking below the almost mo-
tionless waters The breeze brought
from afar tho sound of a cannon shot, of
another, of third.
Il was going to recount to you an
hour Of war and they call me to order"
They listened. But nothing came in
from the sea but the rolling Of the surf.
She retained an expression of anxiety,
each of her hands clenching the sand
which it had scooped up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

your intelligence to me. You have sur
passed all the images which I formed
of you. You resemble them all little.
J see my ideal at last. | love YOU |
have written you that a soldier has no
right to become engaged before the end
Of the war. 7 take it back. That is all
l can say. If it is egoism-and admit
that isl hold that one can tolerate a
certain egoism in US who fight. Am
] not right, mademoselc?
yes"
"Well?"
81 should like to give you an an
swer'---
He looked her straight in the eyes.
They unveiled themselves slowly. She
believed that the falling night would
conceal the happy smile in them, whose
sweetness she could no longer conceal
II am afraid of catching cold" she
said. Shall we go in?"
Because of the disappointed look on
his face she insisted:
"Get up and help mep'
ooh, Pardon me" he said, apollo
getically.
When he had pulled her to her feet
she did not loosen her hands from his,
and drew him gently toward her.
you see, my father is on the terrace
Of the villa. He is looking at US. And
tell you that am infinitely happy that
you love me, Pierre
"Mademosele"-
''Io on may kiss me. Papa Will say
nothing. He expects it. Mamma would
be with him if there were not a game of
bridge They knew that you would kiss
me, perhaps, on the rising of the first
star. 1t has risen"
~ love you"
Il am not at all romantic, am T."
Il adore you"
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to hurry, and he'd need to be tough
skinned sort Of person at that to make any
Roadway against the South's born CON
ceptions.
But that isn't all. There is Secretary
Lanes fine programme, conceived just in
the nick Of time to forestall laundering in
the South. That programme is receiving
the South's hearty cooperation Already
quietly, the Souths raw lands of every
type are being surveyed and catalogued
and studied. The work isn't gaining much
publicity, but public sentiment is strongly
favorable. If there may be Federal CON
troll or reasonable measure of Federal
counsel and aid in putting the lands di-
rectly into the hands of users the pains
of booming will be cut out automatically
They won't even start
This must not be lost sight Of In the
new time the arabic lands Of the South are
not to suffer neglect That is inconceiv-
able. Conditions which have held them out
OF use for SO long past and gone.
When all is said the human race doesn't
value land according to its power to pro-
duce cotton or jute or post timber or to-
bacco, or any other strictly commercial
crop. Get right down to it, the world-old
and unchanging standard of valuation is
the power to produce foodstutfs
In the South, proof of this power has
been lacking. When the rest of the coun-
try saw the South spending its cotton
money regularly in buying foodstuffs from
distant markets, the rest of the country
concluded, not ilogically, that for some
reason the South couldn't produce the food
crops in competition with the North and
West The failure was charged, not to
the native disposition of the people where
1t belonged, but to something radically
wrong in Southern conditions or in the
character Of the lands themselves. And so
the demand for these lands did not become
acute. The Northerner, with his own sound
experience to back him, argued that no re-
glon can be ndustrialy secure WHICH isn't
self-supporting. He thought everybody must
understand that. He refused to believe
that great group of states deliberately
wouldn't feed themselves if they could. His
reasoning did not make him keen to venture
southwark. Before he could be strongly
persuaded, there must be a demonstration
of the South's ability to supply herself
with food
War time has afforded that demonstra-
ton in full measure, pressed down and run
ming over. The farmer-f folk of the nation
know now to a certainty that the South is
able to produce every staple food crop in
rich abundance, and at costs so reduced as
to spell double the profits possible to the
prairie man. No longer is there any doubt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
BY William r. I.ighton

We'll known writer of shor, stcrics: known better
still as journalist sud Interpreter OF southern
and Western opinion.
TN THE first year of the war the South
Jared hard. You know why. II was
because the states of the South, one
and all, had almost no industrial rat
ing, save IS producers of raw materials.
chiefly cotton and lumber. And the first
effect Of the war upon those industries was
to take the bottom out of them and loosen
ali their ribs. The South got no benefit.
but suffered severely because of the 1914
and 1915 boom III foodstuffs That was
because the Southern states were not pro-
dueing anything like the food consumed by
their own people, but were regularly draw
ing their supplies from the North. Corn.
wheat, oats, potatoes, beef, pork, canned
stufs-make the list as inclusive as YOU
like, excepting only rice and sugar, and
you Will find that every commonwealth OF
the South was an importer of every item
Of food staples. With their principal raw
material revenues suddenly cut in half
they had to pay almost twice over for food
supplies. For time the experience put
them almost on their uppers
That is all past You know what has
happened to cotton and lumber prices since
1910 And you may have been following
the almost heroic effort of the South to
feed itself from its own lands. 1t is a
fine story, not to be told here in detail.
For the purpose Of this argument the facts
boil down to this:
In the matter Of ready money, realized
from the boom in her chief raw materials.
the South is fat with prosperity Cash is
piled up everywhere; credit is easy; and
the temper of the people, with their peck
cts stuffed to bursting, is complaisant
Nothing like this has ever happened before
in these states.
This prosperity has been begotten and
bred by the 1t is not to be credited
TO Southern genius or cleverness The
Southerners did not themselves engineer
the better prices for cotton and lumber.
World conditions made the markets and
insured the profits. The men of the South
had nothing more to DO than to pro
ducc much as they were able to meet
demands eagerly waiting. 1t isn't distort-
ing the facts at all to call that "easv
money"
Now that the is finished and we have
to reckon with after effects in the indus
tries what is likely to happen in the South
Since the South's part in war work. as
compared with that of other regions. has
been in only moderate way constructive,
how may she go on with her life? viii
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
A Thunderclap Casualty List

u I WAS with mingled emotions Amer
leans learned that their total casual
-4s- ties in the world war were nearly a
quarter of million-236,117, &C
cording to General Pershing's report
and that 52,169 Americans had given
their lives abroad. There was relief on
knowing the toll and surprise at its
extent.
Only two weeks before there had been
a reassuring statement from Washing
ton that
Careful estimates based on knowledge of
the battle conditions in the days imme-
diately preceding cessation of hostilities
lead officials to believe that all unpublished
and unreported casualties will not exceed
thirty thousand"
Although the public generally knew
that the casualty lists we're far behind
the fighting, it was not quite prepared
for so large list of unreported casual
ties. "The New York Globe" states the
situation frankly:
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civic and industrial interests as n CITY
and for her ambitions as the capital OF
new empire Mayor Martin Behrman is de-
claring:
The end of the world war will find all
the Allied countries, with the exception of
the United States, wofully short of man
power Every inducement will be offered
our soldiers to settle permanently in those
countries. Canada is already conducting
gigantic and persistent promotion cam
paign IN periodicals throughout this coun-
'ry' seeking to induce our young men to
settle there and in a measure renlace
Canadian losses the battlefields of Eu-
rope. If we are to minimize our loss of
citizens through such cause, we must Of
fer them something worth while in our
own country-and we have it here in the
South. For the tens of thousands
VINO Will not wish to return to indoor &C.
cupatlons the North and East have moth
ing to offer except WORKOUT, exhausted
farms, or farm lands so high in price as
to be utterly beyond the reach of the
average man. And there is now no possi-
bliity of these men reaching Northern
farm lands in time to put in crop for
next season. But the South has
millions of acres of virgin farm lands, so
low in price as to be within reach Of every
one, and in a climate where the ground
can be cultivated and crops grown at any
season of the year. The nation
has right to, and an emphatic need for,
the undeveloped resources of the South.
and we should fail in our duty as patriotic
Americans If we should withhold KNOWLEDGE
of these resources from those who could
and would take advantage Of them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Its Present Assets i'm Land and Money SAFEGUARD to
the Nation in the Return to Peace
and Business

'chlufing INTO remote parts of the earth
Mexico South America, the Far Northwest
american money will undoubtedly seek
possession of this undcvclopcd wealth with
IN our own boundaries
This will be particularly true of the
rich but unused arabic lands in the South
ern States. Food production, ample for
the worlds needs, will be the first large
concern of peace. The world has been on
rations long enough. And here in the South
arc millions of rich, idle acres to be turned
to account. When there was no sharp
pinch of hunger to stimulate their use de-
mand Jagged. 1t won't lag now
If the South will submit to it she may
enter at once upon a land boom. In the
past her idle land has been at once her
greatest asset and her greatest liability
She has not learned fully to appreciate its
value. Speaking in the larger terms of
comparison with other peoples, the South
erners have not been farmers. Conditions
throughout the South prove that. Leaving
cotton growing out of the account most
of the examples of truly successful farm
ing in the Southern States have been de-
velopcd by outsiders. The prosperous small
rather hard to find.
And so it happens, naturally enough, that
the South has looked upon her raw lands
as something to unload upon the outsider
for whatever they would fetch Values
have never been stabilized anywhere in
any rational way by an understanding Of
the lands earning power. Selling prices
are matter for shrewd bargaining There
has been too much surplus to permit the
fixing Of values according to the supply
and demand theory. Time was, less than
generation ago, when corn was to be
bought on the farms in Nebraska for 10
cents bushel, and no takers Surplus
mountains of surplus which nobody wanted
determined price. Nobody bothered to
talk about feeding value or production
cost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
wv T LILLIAN GIBBS M'ADOO set
NA the country guessing when
w he stepped down from a posi-

he stepped down from a posi-
ton only less influential than
that of the Presidency. A drain on his
health and his personal finances-those
were the reasons he gave for resgning
as Secretary of the Treasury and Di-
rector General of Railroads. No one
doubts that his explanations were the
truth and nothing but the truth, but
were they the whole truth? "The Provi-
dence Journal thinks not These are
its declarations:
That the basic reason was not inability
to live upon the salary paid, but total
disagreement with the set purpose Of the
President to impose government owner
ship or government control of all public
utilities;
That he-the Secretary never been
public ownership man and was deter
mined not to remain in a Cabinet fast
drifting into that policy;
THAT recent experience not only
strcngthened his hostility to such owner
ship, but brought him into continuous and
acrimonious discussion with the President
and some members of Tie Cabinet more
Eoi N4NNldIly IcSdrUlNS tue 1uLurC OIL tnG
railroads;
That nc vigorously opposed the seizure
o. The cables, which was sanctioned by tho
Presidents
That two other members OF the Cabinet
snare his frame of mind, as does also
COLONEL House, who reached the parting
81 the ways with Mr. Burleson several
months ago, and
nat be has no Presidential aspirations
nut desires only not 20 be put in a false
light
The Philadelphia Press" suggests an
other reason:
His letter of resignation is dated No
'cmner ID On that Same day tho news
papers first published the announcement
mat the President WAS considering ooinr
abroad IN connection with tho rcacc ne1o-
uatons and only waited to hear thc oni,-
Ion Of the country on the question. That
opinion was adverse. Perhaps MIR McAdoo
SHARED IN that opinion aud shared il ,tro,-
~ or perhaps his rendering his ,esicns-
ton at that particular time il only = coin-
cidercc"
Since Mr.. McAdoo has been generally
''sdrded IS the most likely Democratic
candidate for President to succeed his
1ather-ln-law, some observers we're Ger
lam to regard it as political move.
mat IS the Interpretation of "The Phila-
ueIpnla Inquirer" from which is quoted:
seems certain that tho next national
poHtcal campaign Will be fought out large
~ on tho sociallstic issue All indications
Gro 10 the effect that the present Admins
'auon Will favor permanent operation Of
railways, telcgraphs, telephones and other
ueiNtlea by the nation. Nothing moro
melancholy could be CONTEMPLATED. as il
would mean constantly decreasing efH-
c'ency in service. greater cost Of trans
por'ation and the building up of the most
colossal political machine in the history
OF the world Government operation OF
always has everywhere been n failure
and always must be.
1t seems likely that in 1920 we shall
nave another such campaign as that of
1875 National ownership and operation
WI at first appeal to the masses as much
90 aid the free coinage of silver. but in the
Meantime experience ought to demonstrate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Hood reduction
The Test

There's no boom temper in that. Other
communities by the score are thinking in
those terms, preparing to meet the future
in just that fashion. If you would let
the South alone, permit her to choose her
own way of managing things, most as
suredly she would take matters in her own
hands and do what she could to insure
legitimate use, instead of crazy exploita
ton Of her assets The boomer would have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Mot Inviting
L y A Boom

The South has been in pretty much that
condition this long time with her undc-
veoped lands. If she doesn't promptly
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translated by William l.. Mcpherson

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