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New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Starch Idols
By Sarah Addington

WAR makes heroes, but it also breaks
w them. For though the butchers boy
may become a god overnight by marching
to war, other young idols-of draft age
may just as suddenly be robbed of their
brightness, and though they try hard to
swagger and swank in Norfolk suits and
fedoras it's an impossible job in a world
of khaki and blue.
There is that handsome young devil the
Arrow collar man, for example. Time
was when he was adored by women, emu.
lated by men and envied by "ad" artists the
world over. But now, though the same
square chin and the same blue eyes com
bine to make the same face that so long
charmed his subway admirers, something
very definitely is missing, and that some
thing is uniform.
Of course, it is easy, too fatally easy,
to pin the white feather on every civilian
lapel these days, but with the promise
OF the we'll known healthy glow" and the
ruddy cheek of the collar man, one won
ders whether it could really be fat feet or
just wife and children that keeps him
out of uniform, practically the last Of
his brothers-in-ads to enlist We've never
seen his feet; ne may not even have any,
but with all his confreres gone to war-on
placards and magazine covers--is II toe
much to ask that we be allowed at least
to know his classification?
Our heroes cannot be slackers: at least,
they ought to wear an exemption button
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
"The Likes of They"

0NE more plucky old ship gone down
~ Ten men shot in an open boat
Six more widows about the town
One more little account to note
And if she'd gone down to a decent crew
It's little there'd be to pay;
But God, I'll do what a man can do
To punish the likes of they
Oh, never Fritz shall sail
On a ship that sails with me,
Never box or bale
That smells of Germany.
Never the likes of they
Shall soil the English shore
Till the seamen Of England say
you've settled the seaman's score"
l used to think that the saiorman
Whatever his alien breed might be,
Was somehow built on a healthy plan,
And much of piece with you and me;
But men who laugh when good man
browns
Are made of a different clay,
And I'd sail with the scum of the worlds
worst towns,
But not with the likes of they.
No, never a Fritz shall sail
On a ship that sails with me.
Never box or bale
That smells of Germany.
Never the likes of me
Shall touch the German shore
Till the men who have shamed the ses
Have settled the seamen's score.
Easy, maybe will the world forget
The dirtiest work that these have done.
The kings may pardon, the priests may pet.
The carrion thing they now call Hun,
But man who's clung to drifting oar
And watched for sail all day,
He won't forget when there amt no war
To HE'LL with the likes of they.
SO never Fritz shall sail
In a ship that sails with nc,
Never box or bale
That smells of Germany.
Never can me or you
Be mates with the spawn of Cain
Till the dead have had their due.
And the seas are clean again.
A. P. HERBERT.
copyright. 1918. by chappell Co.. LTD
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Liberty In a Maelstrom

new Middle Europe is arising on
the ruins Of the Quadruple Alliance.
The old orders there are going the wav
OF the old order in Russia.
Ferdinand, who sold Bulgaria to Ger
many, abdicated a few weeks ago. His
son and successor, Boris, has now been
deposed. Emperor Karl of Austria-Hun-
gary has been left without state and
without subjects. Four new revolution
ary republics have already been pro-
claimed within the former boundaries of
the Dual Monarchy. And even the Ger
man All Highest is awaiting a summons
to join the melancholy colony Of mon
arcbs in exile.
In Bulgaria Stambuliwsky, the peas
ent leader, only recently released from
prison, heads the agrarian republic. The
Eu!garians are democratic people. The
exotic Czarism of Ferdinand had not
greatly affected the national life. There
Is no industrial proletariat in Bulgaria
to give backbone to a terroristic revolu-
ton. like that which Lenine and Trotzkv
have conducted in Russia. There is lit
tie Of the spirit OF class warfare between
:te working people and the bourgeoisie
Hu:garia's turnover does not, therefore.
threaten political and economic ANARCHY,
although Il may set loose temporarily
some destructive forces. Bulgaria will
.ettle 1o"r. i. cn,y in order TO save her
p.csc II .he .ainily OF nations
How '.oout Austria Hungary? There
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SuuQenly, the German would face q
disaster. All his vast armies and ma
~erial would be shut up in Western Bel
gum, with only the railroad lines
through the Liege gateway to Aix-la-
Chapelle available for evacuating them.
Whatever happened elsewhere on the
whole front, from the Meuse to the sea,
the German had to hold the back door
open to permit him to get his men and
munitions out of France and Belgium
Thus, when we attacked on Septem-
Der 26 and promptly overran his first
line, taking Montfaucon and a series of
famous fortified villages, he had to rush
division after division down to the dan
ger point to avoid . supreme disaster.
And these were the divisions on which
he had counted to hold the British up
at the Hindenburg line. Without these
divisions he could not make head against
the magnificent offensive Of Haig. With
out these reserves he could not rein
force his troops between Lille and the
sea.
And even with these troops he could
not permanently halt, ne could only de-
lay, American progress. For four weeks
our new troops fought his veterans in
the wastes of the Argonnes and west
of the Meuse. There was nothing spec
tacular about it. The battle was a new
Battle of the Wilderness every day. We
took villages and wood lots; we lost them
and we retook them. Some day the real
story of this month of fighting will be
told, and when it is it will be an endur-
ing cause for gratitude to our troops
who took on this gigantic task, mex
perienced as they were, and carried it
through.
In the end we wore the German ouu
Division after division arrived, went
into action and melted away under the
storm of our heroic infantry. By the
beginning Of last week the signs were
unmistakable. The German could not
stand the pace. And on Friday we had
the news that our men were through
the last line and spreading to the open
country beyond. Forty divisions of
German troops, a full quarter of his
available divisions, had been used up
in the month by us, and the road to the
middle Meuse was open. We had
broken through and German lines were
in retreat from the Disc to the Chiers.
Our army was far younger than the
British army at the Somme, less experi-
enced and led by less experienced Off
GERS. We had the advantage of the
lessons of later months, and we had the
generous assistance and cooperation of
our allies, British and French, but with
all recognition of these circumstances
and with no desire to emphasize COM
parsons we did break through and we
did drive the Germans, after just one
month and few days Of battle.
do not believe any military man in
the world would have dreamed six
months ago that an American armv
could achieve what our First and Second
armies have achieved before Verdun in
the last five weeks 1t is a truIy great
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06

feat, obscured by the even greater feats
of our British and French comrades else
where. 1t lacks the brilliance of the
British achievement in breaking the
Hindenburg line, which is one of the
great triumphs of this and of all wars
but it surpasses greatly all that we could
have expected or hoped for our men in
their first campaign. And its conse-
quences will change the war map Of
France. 1t should result in the evacua-
ton of Northern France west of the
Meuse.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06


of crumbling thrones and an
clent states, we were not able for a brief
moment to fix our attention upon the
achievement of our own troops, which, if
small measured by the mighty events
now in progress, is not less real and
potent contribution to the common
cause. Our Battle of Verdun, now ris-
ing to victory after five weeks of inces-
SAINT effort and patient sacrifice, is not
merely victory in the greatest battle in
American history, measured by the
number of men engaged on our side and
on the German, but it has been major
contribution to Foch's greater successes
elsewhere.
The task set for Pershing's army was
difficult in the extreme. 1t was our mis-
sion to attack the German where he was
bound to be strongest and where the
natural obstacles were most formidable.
The whole German front from the for
tress of Metz to the sea swung on the
hinge Of the fortified positions between
Metz and the Argonne. If you broke
the hinge the whole door collapsed. AS q
result, the German had fortified this
hinge with the utmost care and inge-
nuity. Westward his line could swing
backward from position to position. but
here, if his first and second systems
were forced, his communications were
gone.
AS he stood on September 26 the Ger
man faced south from the Meuse hills
north of Fort Douaumont and east of the
river, holding the tangle of hills north
of the Forges brook, which > had
crossed himself to take Hill and
LIE Mort Honme in the Verdun time, to
the Argonne, which was an inpenetra-
BILE thicket. The country was an ap-
proximate wilderness, tange of hills
and woods and marshes, worked by four
years Of shelling, transformed into a
region of desolation.
1t was exactly the same sort Of coun-
try, piece Of the country, which saw
the Battle of Verdun, in which in seven
months of effort the German was able
to advance less than that number of
miles, using the best of his veteran
troops and concentrating there the
greater part of his vast artillery train.
Foch was setting for Pershing the prob
lem which had baked Falkenhayn.
Our troops had before them on Sep
tenber 26 two distinct series of posi-
tions. with many intermediate and
switch lines, making a fortified zone
nearly a dozen miles deep. If they pene-
trated this they would come out on more
open ground, but, what was more inn
portant, they would arrive at a point
within easy range of the Metz Mont
medyMaubeuge railway, the great line
Of lateral communication of the Germans
feeding the Western front. If this line
were cut, then the Germans would have
to retire to the line Of the Meuse and
the Dyle, the line from Metz, through
Mezieres and Namur to Antwerp.
More than this, if we broke through
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Terms!

Or October % the American govern
ment said to Germany:
1.-THE President has therefore trans
mitted his correspondence with the
present German authorities to the
governments with which the govern
ment of the United States is associated
as q belligerent, with the suggestion
that if these governments are disposed
to effect peace upon the terms and
principles indicated their military ad-
visers and the military advisers of the
United States be asked to submit to
the governments associated against
Germany the necessary terms of such
an arnnistice."
On Monday the terms of armistice were
agreed upon between representatives of
tae Allied governments and the Presi-
dcat's personal representative, and yes
terday the Allied governments, calling
themselves such, replied to the American
government, with whom they are "asso-
eiated."
The reply in brief is this:
For the terms of armistice tell Ger
e.aes to apply to Marshal Foch.
Zs for the conditions of peace, the
terms and principles indicated By the
Am<-;eon government are acceptable to
the Allied governments, prorided (1(
that full compensation be demanded
from Germany for all the foul damage
done TO :he population and property of
she Allies by land, sea and air, and (2)
that the Allied governments be left free
to issst upon their, oyn Interpretation
Of the ambiguous phrase "freedom of
the seas"
In so far as it concerns peace condi-
tions, this is not the Allied governments
answer to Germany 1t is their answer
to the American government, which had
challenged them on the fourteen points
The American government has trans
mitted the Allied governments whole
note to Germany, with statement that
It concurs therein.
\ The Allied governments, therefore,
Y have added fifteenth point, which is
for full reparation, and have refused to
be caught in the vagueness of one of the
original fourteen. That is much to
have been gained. The price we pay for it
is apparently that of obliging ourselves
and the Allies on this modified basis to
receive Germany into a peace confer
ence.
It is compromise. The conditions of
peace ought never to have got into con-
junction with the terms of armistice, no
more in the case of Germany than in
that Of Australia Hungary or Bulgaria OK
Turkey.
Through the Offices of the American
government Germany has apparently es-
capped the utter disaster of unconditional
surrender.
The armistice may involve the confess
sion of full military defeat, but Germany
has already obtained conditions of peace.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
The Breaking Point

When 200 Naval Reserve ensigns ar
rived at Annapolis recently for course
of special training the iron entered the
souls of several old petty officers who are
acting as instructors in small boat work.
For here we're men whom they had to
teach, yet were their superior officers
and would have to be taught politely.
One old boatswain's mate steercd his
awkward crew about the waters for an
hour, correcting their all too apparent
faults in a temperate and deferental
fashion. At last, with face purple from
suppressed emotion, he spoke:
Begging your pardon, sirs"--casting
scornful eye over the splashing oars
men-"but Pm obliged to say that I've
been in the navy twenty years and, if
you'll excuse it, sirs, | never saw such d
damned weak-backed, swivel necked,
awkward bunch of slobs in all my serv-
ice, sirs."
Listen, folks, several of you We haze
fem standards and even more occasional
principles, bit aUe don't use Uerse in
aUhich slime" is coupled qcith "line."
We're not peevish or anything. We jatst
WoM't.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Provocation Enough
lFrom The Kansas citu star

One of the stories Captain BILL" Payton
writes home from training camp in the
South, where he has been. recalled from
France to drill soldiers: "A colored SOL
der was taken before the judge charged
with carving up an ebony friend. Iee
judge said: why did you get so angrE
and cut this fellow UP SOP I wasn't sore
at this boy, judge the soldier explained
But last night when | went down to see
my gal, finds this niger dere, and DAT
didn't make me mad, but when l got close
up in my soldier clothes and saw dis mig
ger fannin' my gal with his exemption
card jes got so pizen mad I jes nachaiis
carved him up"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Murder

The other day British seamen stepped
to the fore again and refused to carry
Arthur Henderson, British labor leader
and pacifst, out of England to France.
Thereby they renewed and lived up to
their resolve of months before when they
refused to carry British pacfsts to the
Stockholm Conference, even though the
British government was consenting. The
British seaman, plain laborer, be it re-
membered, is the bitterest enemy Ger
many has gained in the war. He is the
stanchest opponent of a compromise
peace. Why?
1t need scarcely be argued that the sea
the one most precious gift. The Mig
CARDS and misers of life are shore
breed. Adventure and peril make the
days work of seafaring. 1t is not any
small fear of death that makes the Brit
ish seaman thus wrathful and resolved
Two main facts are the explanation,
we suggest. One is that the British sea-
man, more than almost any other men,
Der of the civilized nations, has seen with
his own eyes the brutal German murder
er at work. The Belgian has seen more
and worse; so have the French, of the
devastated towns. So have the Serbs
But few enough of these victims have
lived to tell their tale; and of the living
the vast majority are still held in brutal
captivity by the retreating Germans
Tho eo.1oro ~ Croo+ pr;%o;r l,o1,o
messed the U-boat atrocities month by
month, year by year Their own ranks
have been terribly thinned. More, they
have been called upon to witness again
and again the horrible slaughter of
women and children beyond the power
of human memory to forget.
For the second reason, there is the
simpler, straighter code of seamen.
Bravery is their habit. The unwritten
code of the sea is stronger than all the
statutes. The plain merchantmen with
out number who have fought off U-boats
have shown the way for all brave men
everywhere. What must such men
necessarily feel toward the most cow
ardly Of murderers! 1t is the sea it.
self, a thing of noble and heroic ira
dition, that the U-boat crews have
stained.
We print in another column some
verses, "The Likes of They" which ex-
press something of the British seaman's
attitude. These lines are not to be dis
missed as buster or brag. They accu-
rately record fact. The union stands
pledged to q boycott of German sailors
and German cargoes after the war. And
we think the boycott will stand.
In short, to the sailor cowardly mur-
der is cowardly murder. If there are
any fine distinctions suggested as lying
between officers and crews, he has seen
no visible signs of them. German sailor
men have shared in the murders. They
must share in the guilt. They may stop
numbering when compelled to. They may
wash off the blood and put on clean
clothes. But they will still be murder
ers. They will still be brutal towards.
They will still be unfit to sail on de-
cent, honest vessel.
Is the law of the land more indul-
gent to the murderer and the coward
than the law of the sea?
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
SHOES G. SHIPS g.
SEALING WAX
SERENADE

SERENADE
Dark is the garden of Lady Of Dreams;
Moon elves are kissing the lips Of the
rose.
Lancing the shadows, the slim fountain
CLEANS,
Wavcring, swordlikc; to guard your
repose
God spreads the star-studded folds Of
His skies,
Purple and silver, lest saints pcering
through
Heavens high portal and meeting your
eyes,
Cast away glory to walk earth with you
So you may slumber screnely, it seems,
flushed lies the garden, oh, Lady Of
Dreams.
Now the moon walks through the Mead
ows of Sleep,
Slender the sickle she wields mid the
wheat
OF ripening planets, star-poppies to
reap,
Wonderful harvests to lay at your feet;
Dream flowers, sweet with the breath of
the sky,
Dream flowers wet with the Milky Ways
spray.
flushing his footsteps the night wind
goes by,
Soft past your window creeps brownie
and fay.
Dark lies the garden and all that it
deems
Worthy you, waits on you, Lady Of
Dreams.
There's one objection to prescribing an
OUTWARD attitude of political neutrality;
yo,s forfeit the loao pleasure of saying
81 told you so" on a morning like this.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Premature Oscillation

From The Christian Science .Monitor)
Even strangers kissed each other on the
streets Of Berlin last Saturday so glad were
they that any kind of peace seemed to be in
sight. And these are the people who, a little
more than four years ago, started out light
heartedly upon world war. Their kissing
may prove to be as premature as the cheer
ing and bell-ringing which they have in
duged in at intervals in the meantime.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06

The city of Cleveland has adopted
beautiful plan for honoring its soldier
dead. For each name on the civic honor
roll victory oak" is planted on one of
the city boulevards The tree bears the
name of the man for whom it is planted
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06

That minor enemy, the cootie, also is
crying "Kamerad!" Shipments are 60
ing overseas of large quantities of a
trench undergarment, chemically treated
to be vermin proof. The process was
perfected in the laboratories of the Uni
versity Of Iowa.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06

Some of the brewing establishments
are soon to be transformed into dehydrat
ing plants--an eminently fitting change
from "wet" to "dry."
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Hurrying Home
(From The Keoh,.h f1o,s

(F'rom The Keokuk Cote CitDN
1t is said that General Pershinp is of
Alsatlan descent. Well, it looks as if the
general would celebrate Old Home week
In Metz.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
People Are Doing 1t

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Why not subscribe our letters:
yours for unconditional surrender?
J. II. NETTLETON.
New Milford, Conn. Oct. is, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06

When nation quits folloaoing its king
1t Immediately begins to chase him.
F. f. "
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06

Here lies at rest Adolphus Blight:
He'll play 10 more with us at night;
No more he'll say. I'm fifty light"
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w re SHOULD be little less than
wv human if, even amid the crash
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There's one objection to preserving an
OUTWARD attitude of political neutrality;
you forfeit the loao pleasure of saying
81 told you so" on a morning like this.
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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-25
Ne7gS From the World of Sport
.ROLLA MAN IS
CHESS CHAMP

William Widmeyer, Rolla, is state
chess champion for 1918 by taking
first honors in the major class in the
ninth annual tournament of the North
Dakota State Chess association held
at Devils Lake. He won nine games,
and tied one. Second honors In the
event went to Earl Fleming, Fargo,
and third to Carl Nelson, Cando.
stevens and Schlichting, of Devils
Lake, were tie for first place in the
minor class, each having nine CANT S
won, and one lost.
Devils Lake was awarded the 1919
tournament, and Edgar Anderson,
Crazy, and ]. e. Burtscher, Devils
Lake, were reelected president ana
observation-disclosures, respectively, of
the association at the annual business
meeting.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-25

The curious thing is that in
spite of his unquestioned superb
GRITTY over all the other heavy
weights. Fred Fulton has never
been able to muster a real fol-
lowing. He would have little
trouble In coaxing Jess Willard
back into the ring IL he had
enough enthusiastic supporters.
Willard shows so little inclination
to box Fulton or anyone else that
nothing short Of a real public de-
mand Is likely to bring him to It.
No one seems to really believe
that Fulton would put up a real
night against Willard and yet
there's no denying that he's the
best now active in the class. He
is only 26 years old and q fine
physical specimen. He has knocked
out most all of the heavyweighta
he has met In the past two years
III he had the good fortune to
gather a flock of supporters about
him he would have been some
what nearer the crown than no IL
today.