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New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
7ashington and the Stranger Who's Inside the Gate

after April 6, 1917, there was scarcely
a real eating place left in Washington
anywhere.
It is even hard to find them now
There are so many people in Washing
ton that your desire for quality in food
cannot be strained, and you can be
thankful to set your teeth in anything
that yields and can be masticated. For
city that needs vitality for the big
job Of the present, Washington has even
now the poorest selection Of eating
places of any big city in the United
States. I have no doubt that when
Washington fails at anything the eat
ing places are to blame. There are a
half dozen of them here that undoubt-
edly share between them the blame tor
the failure Of the airplane programme.
That an army fights on it's belly is as
true in Washington to-day as it was
when Napoleon or any other of the half
dozen claimants to authorship first
said it.
The situation when it comes to liv-
ing quarters is worse, and more di-
rectly related to the history of Wash
ington previous to April of last year.
Without factories, great growing in
dustries or trading houses Of any kind,
and lacking strategic commercial po-
sition to stimulate it's growth, Wash
ington had little demand for further
living facilities. There was a normal
growth, but it was singular city, in
that you could go around it for miles
without finding any of those pastures
marked out with street signs and cut
up in unsliced building lots that trans
form the environs Of every other ambi-
tious and aspiring community in the
country.
Washington is built like most of the
cities in the East. 1t has miles of
country around it, but that didn't stop
the original settlers from putting thet1.
houses next to each other like cheese
boxes, as was the Continental fashion
of that time, and the fashion has con-
tinued until it is permanent matter.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Subtle Poison at Which
the Sedition Bill Is
Aimed

CENATOR M'CUMBER. had before me
~ yesterday, Mr.. President, newspaper
which is published in the State Of Mime
sofa in foreign language. I could not
read one word in that paper, but there were
two cartoons in it which impressed me, as
I looked at them, with the belief that the
editor of that paper was disloyal man and
ought to be out Of this country and not in
it. There was nothing in those cartoons
which would possibly subject him to prose-
cution, but there was sufficient in them to
indicate a sentiment of disloyalty, lack
OF sympathy, and a purpose to impose that
sentiment upon the readers of the paper.
Then made inquiry of some one who knew
the gentleman who edited this paper, and
was told he was one of the most disloyal
men in the United States. If you should
read that paper you would probably find
that there has been nothing ever said in it
in support Of the great American cause.
1t is such persons who are liable to be
caught by this proposed law, because, hav-
ing in their hearts a hatred against our
cause, they will sometimes lose discretion
and will give utterance to sentiments which
ought to send them to the penitentiary.
Such persons ought to be prosecuted upon
general principles, and if we shall at some
time get something against them which will
enable the law to get hold of them and dis
pose of them as they ought to be disposed
of | shall not worry. I know hundreds and
hundreds of people in the United States
who are saying nothing to-day. Why? Be-
cause of the fear of just such law as this
one which is proposed. / hope the law will
be so strong that we shall keep the fear of
the Lord and of the government in their
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

Now, when you buy house in Wash
ington you really buy just so mucn
right to space in brick structure ~.
stretches all along one side of b,oct
The airy spaces and backyards and s;d..
yards and orchards Of more lonely West.
ern cities exist here only in dreams
At any rate, when the invasion heoa.
there were just so many Of these hor.-
together with variegated assor.rrs,4
Of apartment buildings, and no no,.
than enough to go around. Rents wen,
up and leases were transferred SO manv
times that houses and apartments !,
Washington began to acquire pedigree.
of kind to make blue ribbon Aired.v.
ashamed of himself. It is no uncom-
mon thing now to find an apart,ner.
that may once have rented for xso
renting for $500, and the h;ohs,.
priced apartments have gone up in m.
portion. The johnson rent profteer;nv
bill will undoubtedly level some a
these extortionate prices for she!tar.
but the real estate man is not to 4.
done out of his profits by mere act -
Congress. The law now in Washington
to the home dweller appears to be either
to buy or move, and in the buying th.
real estate man, as has frequently been
pointed out, sees to it as a rule that
his pocket is amply lined
The situation that Washington nors
finds itself in puts great question nm
to the government. Nobody wants to
invest anything in Washington, build
any house, put up any apartments, open
any new restaurants, because there's
no telling when the war will end. and
"pouf," the scurrying, rushing, careless
extravagant population that has turned
Washington inside out will have van.
ished back where it came from.
So far as can see there's onlv ona
thing for the government to do. n
will have to subsidize the war and sea
that it's made a permanent thing. Then
maybe Washington will get real move
on itself and begin to look after the
stranger within the gates.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
By Ralph Block
Washington, May 9.

wv WASHINGTON, there is no
NA/ doubt Of it, is become the
w perfect chameleon Of Amer
lean cities. Its colors' change
as rapidly as the colors of wheattield
in the passing afternoon sunlight. But
its change is now all in one direction,
more people, more traffic, more buzz
and hum. May is here, and with it a
memory of the Washington leisurely
people used to know. The trees have
burgeoned, the grass in the parks is
lush and ripe and the overhanging
foliage does its best to give the splen-
did avenues an atmosphere of languors
and luxuries. But even so prodigal ana
resplendent natural dress cannot hide
the modern excitements underneath,
the jerkiness and fever of a city that
is now inescapably caught in the wheels
of the machine and rushed forward to
a stranger and less comfortable des-
tiny.
A month in the capital makes as
much difference now as a decade made
before. The traffic is amazing. To
care for it sagacious military nina
has invented a little lookout for the
policeman whose fate puts him at the
intersection of any one of the frequent
five corners. Balmy temperatures used
to change Washington, sent every one
out to the country. But the country is
crowded now as much as the city, and
cottages or the usual refuge of city
folk have long been occupied as homes
by those who could find no hospitality
in the city's border.
Among the changes is the fact that
Washington has new hotel, rather
modern hotel, with an orchestra that
does not disdain to play a jazz tune
once in while. By that you can tell
it is new; but scarcely by any other
mark; for the demand for room is so
great that the new hotel already looks
as well accustomed to it's job as any
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
DOuse That
Glin1!
TINE following observation rela-
tive to the reception Luna re-
II ceives in Paris when she is full
comes from "Collier's":


comes from "Collier's":
The phases of the moon have long been
held to exercise a serious influence mon
earthly phenomena and human affairs, Old
is the legend that children born under :
new moon are sickly or weak-minded; old
the superstition that a full moon favors the
growth OF cucumbers, potatoes and turnips
But in the Paris of the late winter and
early spring of 1913 full moon had quite
other significance. 1t meant that Just before
IL reached its fulness, trains leaving the
city were uncomfortably well filed with
nervous gentlemen of middle age, or over,
conducting their families to points south
or west; 1T meant that when one asked the
Partisan to dinner next Monday he was
as likely as not to say: Monday? But
Monday the moon is full, and my wife is
rather nervous about dining out when the
moon is full. Make it two weeks from Mons.
day, and I'm sure We'll be glad to accept
"For to the Partisan of 1918 the full moon
had signified, in anticipation at least, re-
turn Of the Gothas. Not in terror, for Paris
is not easily terrified, but in mild disillu-
stoned humor, the wits of the City of Light
(but nowadays not too much light rally
one another upon their preference for DIM
ing at home on probable nights Of raid
Why die uselessly? is the excellent phi
losophy. 1t is only the American who has
never yet seen a raid who ventures ont
neediessly; unless, indeed, he is news-
paper man, and newspaper men don't msttcr
anyway. Yet it is in one of the most ne
spectacle of Paris newspapers that we find
some excellent fun apropos of these same
air raids. 1t is writer in the Journal des
Debats' who recalls the place of the full
moon in poetry-and Musset's rare Ball
lade la Lune,' du passaat bemie.
"The Japanese have loved the moon, in
their brief snatches of lyric, their wonder.
full concentrations of mood in few syl-
iables Of phrasing. Full moon,' writes ono
Of them:
Full moon,
And all night I've walked me
Round the lagoon.
"Here is another specimen Of japanese
moon verse:
Tonight, that the moon is so fine,
Is he in his hut,
The hermit?
"But here, according to the cynicai
Partisan, is the way the poet of Nippon
would write his poem-if Yokohama were
as near the German lines as Paris is:
Full moon.
Some wise man tell me how to
Douse that glim!
THAT perfect moon poem also measures
twleve syllables!"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
The Soldier From the
BackwOOdS
HENRY ROOD, in "The Century
L l. Magazine" writes:

MdSdA1Ic, WIlJcSs
SIT is said that the least promising ma
terial for our National Army comes from
the Businesses Of the Maine woods, the Sr
Lawrence forests, and correspondingly re-
moteS regions of the country. Such meh
may be descendants of American stock for
century or more. Most of them are mus
cular, powerfully built, with heavy thighs
stout arms and legs, and broad shoulders.
Yet many are unevenly developed, a. =
shown by their narrow, CONSTRUCTED cheats.
their limited lung capacity, their bowea
backs. Living far from the worlds aet'vl-
ties, out of touch with modern progress
they are slower Of thought, speech and -
ton than the town-bred men, whose wsN
have been sharpened by q broader nes
Also, as rule, the city-bred man is apt 9
take more kindly to disciplins than fnsI
young farmer or the young backwoodsman's
In public school. in business Office, stores
shop or factory, the city man i aceuss.
toned to work under direction Of other
to obey orders, and ability to obey ozaes|
is the voot, basis, Foundation and ksyss
combined of sucesss- H. Ax5nyspx.innss
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Reviewing Capital
Thankful Ones Teeth Into
Mastcated." But the Lodging Proposition Is Worse!

Helvetians. There were the rather
sober hotels for Congressman and their
wives, full of Congressmens young
daughters, who went to boarding
schools in Washington for finishing.
Then there were one or two pretentious
hotels to make aware those people who
had the means Of patronizing them that
they hadn't made any mistake in COM
ing to Washington. The rest were for
small fry, who had to have a shelter
and food. There were, even so, few
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Lincoln and
the War
ORD CHARNWOOD contributes
to "The New Europe" an ar
4 ticle under the above title. in

IL ticle under the above title, in
which he aims to point out the
lessons which our side in the war might
learn from Lincoln's career. The fol-
lowing extract contains what is best in
the article:
1.-THE message of Lincoln is that of a
man who was utterly brave and utterly
gentle; equally tenacious of his sternest
and his mildest purposes, because both
were needed in his abounding love for
men; incapable, therefore, of those vacil-
lations and illusions, for which clever
people can always give reasons, but which
are caused by the weariness Of protracted
pain. We need neither labor after
close analogy nor miss an obvious exam
ple The South was deluded and heroically
persistent in delusion, but it was not cor
rupted. and the faults even of it's mis-
leaders were passionate rather than
sophisticated; emphatically, the South was
not Germany, nor South Carolina Prussia.
Yet Lincoln's treasured precept, Judge
not,' may now, as then, have true as
we'll as false application. The German
revival Of the ancient cult of cruelty is
an uglier enemy than was the combina-
tion Of disunionism and slavery. Yet it is
the product Of a hothouse, and may perish
even from the German mind on the one
condition that it is beaten. In any case,
now, as then, inconclusive war would be
the worst offence against that charity
which was in Lincoln.
"It needed no intellectual penetration
to show us when the issue had to be
ioined with Germany; the test of modern
craftsmanship will arise when war is over
and the newborn league Of nations de-
mands lasting constitution. Yet, here,
too, the patient watchfulness of the great
American, and the gift he showed from the
outset of his career of facing present
fact without loss of far-off hope, is the
pattern to statesmen of wisdom which
common people will follow"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

good restaurants, not in any degree up
to the tasters' paradise Of New Orleans,
but at least respectfully aiming at the
mark of good food. They couldn't have
had the authentic spirit, however, be-
cause when alcohol decamped from
Washington for other abodes the eat
ing places lost their verve and their
elan and all the other qualities for
which the French have better words
than the English. When the Americans
captured Washington, about six months
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
x The Golden Book of Congress X

say, judging from this and in answer to the
Senators on the other side, that their
standard bearer is not with them. Lincoln
says:
II can no more be persuaded that the
government can take no strong meas
ures in time of rebellion because it
can be shown that the same could not
be lawfully taken in time of peace than
I can be persuaded that particular
drug is not good medicine for sick,
man because it cannot be shown to be
good medicine for we'll one.'
Mr.. President, we are a sick mana very
SICK man-and this measure proposes medi-
cine unpleasant to take; but sincerely be-
lieve that if we take it we will be very much
better, and for that reason l shall support
the bill
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

place, to make Washington as provin-
cial place and as lacking in the COM
monest ingredient of the American
character, colloquially known as pep,
as an American can imagine one of
his own cities could be. The cities of
the real South were to Washington as
Rome used to be to Helvetia, so far as
sophisticated energy was concerned.
The hotels of Washington and the
restaurants were divided into three
parts, which is again reminiscent of the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Single-H

IL ON. WILLIAM P. BORLAND. Ger
4 many is nation of 65,OOO,Oo0 people,
inhabiting restricted territory of some
what limited natural resources. The United
States is nation of 100,000,000 people, in
habiting a boundless empire Of almost un-
touched natural resources. Our people are
just as intelligent, just as resolute, and
just as skilful as the inhabitants of Ger
many, and it is manifest that with an equal
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
A Sick Mana Very Sick
Man
Another County Heard
From in the Overman
Debate

MIR. PHELAN. l resent any accusation
AvA OF usurpation or the countenance of
usurpation or the condonation of usurpa-
tion in any vote cast for this measure.
Woodrow Wilson has been accused by no
one Of coveting power. He has been cast
by fortune in the place whore he has to
exercise power, and he only asks the means
by which ne can, consistently with the Con-
stitution and without usurping powers, do
his work. / say this is war time. "Diseases
desperate grown by desperate remedies are
relieved, or not at all";; and we are now re-
sorting, l confess, to desperate remedy.
But there is authority for it in no less a
leader than Abraham Lincoln quoted in the
eloquent speech recently made by the stand
and bearer Of the Republican party, Mr..
Hughes. in the recent campaign; and / may
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

deaths, and at the same time allow other
men to loaf in the streets or retard pro-
duction that could save the lives of hun
dreds of thousands of our soldiers and the
soldiers of our fighting allies, is worse
than a mere national blunder, worse than
a mere national injustice. 1t is national
crime without pallation or excuse. We
should proceed Immediately to organize the
entire manhood and womanhood of this
country into mighty and invincible army
Of producers
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

hearts until we get out of this war, and
then wish there was some possible way of
separating the black sheep from the white
and sending the black ones out of this coun
crv' Tor the man who cannot appreciate
the justice OF this world war against military
autocracy and whose heart does not respond
to that sentiment in loyalty ought never to
be allowed to claim this as his country
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

degree of thought and preparation this
country, single handed, is more than a
match for the German Empire in any ma
tional contest. (Applause.)
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Two Ways of Looking
at It
Senator Overrnan Defends
His Bill to Extend the
Power of the Executive
Senator Vardaman Quotes
Thomas Jefferson

IA r. OVERMAN. 1 deny that this
MI is revolutionary measure, and
I deny that Congress has in any
IL. 1: 1.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

Wv WASHINGTON, there is no
Nv doubt of it, is become the
perfect chameleon Of Amer
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Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-13
Wonderful Opportunity.

Any young man of 18 or nearly
Is years of age who has completed
a High sciool course and who fails
to take advantage of the offer of the
government made thru the State
University aid d number of COLLEGES
of the state, is very foolish. The
government Offers to pay board,
lodging, t9ition and provide uni.
forms and 10 give the boy $50 per
month " hile he attends such school
or college provide ne takes the
military course provided by the U.
S government. AS these youths
are in the draft any how and will
Ii beIy be called to service next sum-
m ct il the war continues, they are
very foolish not to accept this
ch ance at schooling for which the
government pays.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-13
Pastor Gives Reasons

Rev. Charles burden, pastor of
West Park Baptist Church, st. Louis
has abundant reasons for the posi-.
ton OF himself and church in sup
porting the Liberty Loan and other
agencies of the Government. The
reasons he outlines are as follows:
i. We are an evaneelistic aeen-
cy, and we believe that every dollar
spent in driving back the Hun in
Belgium and Northern France is an
ev aneelistic dollar.
q. We are an American Church,
and We believe that American
Churches must support the Ameri.
can program. Prayer must be
backed by sacrifice.
g. We are the exponents of JUS
tice and liberty in the earth, and we
believe the cause of justice and
liberty demands our fullest alleei.
ence.
4. We are the followers of Christ
and we believe that if he werN here
in person he would be found in the
trenches of Europe. The cause is
his He could not be God and be
neutral at such a time.
IS. We are the preachers of free
dom for all, and we believe that
the stronger must help to bear the
burdens of the weaker nations. Bel
gums crime in German eyes was
her weakness. Our strength is our
opportunity, not to plunder, but
to save.
e. We have seventy.two stars on
our service flag, and we believe that
these constitutes 72 vital reasons
for doing our fullest share. We
must match their self-devotion with
our self.deuial.
~ This is not President Wilson's
war, nor Mir. McAGoo's war, it is our
wal. and we believe that our sacred
honor is pledged to the most vigov-
GUS prosecution of it. All the
wealth We have is nothing compar.
ed with the task of maintaining
our honor"
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-13
Free France By October?

Expulsion of the Hun from
France in October. say in six weeks
from now, is cautiously predicted.
II shows great confidence in the
possibilities OF the near future. but
Dol as much as d prediction six
weeks ago that the Allies by this
time would have crossed the Hinden.
burg line and would have destroyed
so much of the enemy forces, the
Chief objt ctive of all the war.
And with France unshackled in
October, it is TO much to hope that
given favorable fall weather, We will
have the Hun out of the greater
part of Belgium by Christmas, when
we consider the great number of
men Marshal Foch has not yet
utilized il the drive?"
The Allies have won limited sue
ceses in the past. when they hardly
deserved to win. Often they have
lost when they deserved to win, or
have attained only partial victories,
when they deserved to win more de.
cisively. But they are winning now
because they deserve to win and are
winning on a tremendous scale be.
cause they deserve that, likewise.
One mystery about which the world
will be very curious, until explana-
tions come in is how they manage to
get 'heir heavy guns forward at
such speed, often keeping up with
infantry advancing a mile an hour
and moving forward over new and
broken ground more rapidly the
German guns can be moved back tC
the rear over lone.Occupied ground
This was a problem that entered
into many bitter allied disappOint
menIs in the past, but evidently il
has been solved
We have reached the stage O
swift, decisive. terrific movement
in the war. With the splendid in
crease in Allied efficiency, on tn,
one hand, and the clockwork me
chanism of German war making
shattered and disarraDfed, on tn,
other almost anything is possible.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-13
Wearing Old Clothes.

We shall have much greater need
to ecOnomize in food aud in fuel
this coming winter than last WIN
ter. Everywhere in the world
there is Q great scarcity of wool and
while for the sake of health we
should dress comfortably in winter,
it should be made disgraceful to
dress extravagantIy. There will he
nothing so vulgar and so fer from
good form as to pay undue atten-
tiCn to ALLEGED fashions" as regards
costume In every other country
on earth, all. people, whether rich
or poor, are thankful if they pos
sess supply OF old clothes, aid
they regard it as patriotic to bring
to light discarded things and leave
the entire new wool crop for army
use. This is 10 minor affair, but a
deadly serious one. Last year hun.
dreds of our boys died in the camps
because cold weather overlook them
before the Quartermaster's Depart
ment had got their winter Uniforms
eEd OvercoSts ready. Civilians will
have to buy many articles of dress;
but it will help all trades, including
he clothing uade Itself, if every
man, woman and child gets as
much wear as possible out of gar
ments already in hand
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-13
Important Notice.

Having been reclessffied by the
District Beard and placed in Class l
| an liable TO be called now at any
date and am therefore forced to
close up my business in order to be
ready to answer the call. All those
ewing NE on account are asked to
please come forward ard settle im-
mediately SO that / can close my
books and my business.
L. l. Lane, Tailor.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-13
Stockholders Meeting.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Farmers & Merchants
Telephone Co. of Monroe City, Mo.
will be held ar the office of the
Company at ten O'clock A. NJ. Sat-
urday October 5th 1918. Tor the
purpose of eIectine eleven directors
to serve for the ensuring year, and
for the transaction of such other
business as may be desired.
l. o Wilson, Pres.
H. J. Riley, assistant Secy.