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New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
The Shangulation of Russia

There was a fine rhetorical flourish in
the recent protest of Tchitcherin, the
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs:
"We have accepted their meodts viveradf;
why do they strangle us?"
But German strangulation of Russia
goes on, m,odus vivendi or no modus
Uiuendi The Teutons have lately taken
possession of the whole northern coast
Of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov,
as far as Rostov-on-Don. They have
gone even further. They have set up a
pro-Teuton government in the province
of the Don Cossacks and proclaimed its
independence of the Moscow regime.
Germany has just aided Finland, now
dependency of>the Kaiser's, to enforce
claim against Russia for an outlet on
the Arctic Ocean. A part of the Muir
mansk district has passed into Finnish
hands. Presently Finland may discover
that she has an enforceable claim on the
whole Arctic littoral as far east as the
White Sea.
Now Germany is demanding the sur
render of Russia's Black Sea fleet. She
threatens, if she doesn't get the fleet,
to continue her appropriations of Rus
sian territory. The Russian government
is willing to transfer the Black Sea fleet
to German control for the duration of
the war, but only on condition that Ger
many doesn't use the vessels. But Ger
many wants to use them to help the
Turks to take over the Trans-Caucasian
provinces allotted to them by the treaty
of Brest-Litovsk. If she gets the ships
she will use them on the Caucasus
coast, whatever the terms of the con-
tract; for she cannot afford to lose any
time in exploiting the precious oil fields
between the Black Sea and the Caspian,
whose chief port of shipment is Batum.
Germany is going to treat Russia as
she has treated Belgium and Rumania.
She recognizes Russia as an independent
state, but only for purposes Of camou-
flage. What she wants in the ancient
Romanoff empire she will take, treaties
and protocols Notwithstanding. You can
not argue over the rights of man or the
rights of nations with bandit who has
halter about your neck. The strangula-
tion of Russia may be slow. But, as
things look now, it will continue until
the victims last kopeck i@transferred to
the strangler's pocket
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
Wasting
And Scrapping

There was no time to sit down and leis-
urely experiment with few motors until
everything was just right. If that had
been done it would be months yet before
we should have quantity production. Some
body in the Signal Corps had grit enough
to plunge ahead and take all the chances
there were of wasting and scrapping. There
has been plenty Of both.
Literally there have been thousands of
alterations. Of course, many of these al
terations have delayed production, but the
delay on most parts is included within the
delays made by the important ones-of
which the chief, would say, was the
eleventh hour strengthening Of the con-
meeting rods. The country is sore enough
now over the delay in producing aircraft
in large numbers but imagine its state of
mind if preliminary experimentation had
proceeded until last February without any
attempt at quantity production in tho
meantime!
Owing to its great refinement there were
vastly more changes in the Liberty motor,
after the production of parts in quantity
began. than in ordinary quantity produc-
ton Of anew thing. but all manufacturers
know that, no matter how long and careful
preliminary preparation, no complex ma
chine ever gets into successful quantity
production without many changes becoming
necessary. A great many Of the changes
are unimportant and some are in the direc-
ton Of simplifcation--that is, they abolish
the necessity OF doing something that was
at first required. Probably some Of them
are mere whims of engineers-another
phase Of the mania for perfection. A largo
amount Of costly scrapping has occurred.
but not SO much as the public has been led
70 believe A considerable portion Of the
changes did not involve backing up. They
were directed to be made at convenience
They were in the nature of Improvements
these particular changes-that were not
considered essential. Parts subject to such
changes that were already male were used.
and at convenience the manufacture,
turned to the improvements. Even most Of
the light connecting rods were found adap-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10

One would like to know, too, by what
authority police inspector in this city
takes steps to organize Women's Police
Reserve, the members of which are to
make house, toulouse canvass, demand
ing signatures from every member of
family to pledge cards affirming allie
glance to the United States. Since when
were American citizens bound to affirm
their loyalty at the demand of any person
in uniform, or with badge, who may
happen along? Attorney General Gregory
has publicly disclaimed any support by
the Department of Justice for any of
these unauthorized proceedings, but there
still remains the duty Of following them
up and giving them their quietus.-From
The Neau York Evening Post.
Why such irritation? To affirm ones
loyalty is no hardship. Attorney Gen.
eral Gregory might very much better
authorize these proceedings than to dis
claim them. A Women's Police Reserve
to card every adult person in the coun-
try, citizen, alien and enemy alien, is
not bad idea. 1t is something the De-
partment of Justice ought to have done.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
By Theodore M. Knappen

facturers on time. Express was as unre-
liable as freight. The only way to get
things was often to send a messenger for
them. New plants had to be built or old
ones so transformed that it amounted to
the same thing. There were not enough
toolmakers to go around-and the toolmak-
ers knew it, Detroit alone lost IS, 900 work.
men to the army or to other places.
1t takes something like 1,400 machines
and $4,000 tools to supply factory with
equipment enough to turn out, say, fifty
motors a day. Consider the almost in
credible amount of thinking, planning, de-
signings~ drafting and tool making that in
wolves. There are more craftsmen work
ing on the Liberty motors in some of these
plants than there are employees all told in
some fair-sized factories. And every oper-
alton met some unexpected delay on ac-
count of the abnormal condition of war
time. Delay piled up on delay. There
being no men, thousands of women had to
be trained to operate machines.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10

first degree. Crimes punishable by
death or life Imprisonment are excepted
from the list. Therefore for murder in
the first degree the old common law rule
persists, and it is legally possible in New
York State to convict for murder in the
first degree and put to death a child
above seven years Of age
We will not argue the murder excep-
tion in the Juvenile Court law. 1t is
illogical and absurd. 1t is, in this day
and generation, barbarous. Only one
other state in the Union, Georgia, follows
New York in thus limiting the children's
court jurisdiction. This limitation in
the law should be taken out at the ear
liest possible moment.
Furthermore, the age limit of general
jurisdiction should unquestionably be
raised. We are already tagging behind
the progressive and intelligent states.
California has gone the whole distance
and given her children's courts juris-
diction up to the age of twenty-one. There
is much to be said for the logic of this
rule. But the prevailing limit is at
present eighteen years, and we think
sound progress would fix this limit in
New York-an extension of two years,
from sixteen to eighteen. Presiding JUS
tice Hoyt, of our Children's Court, urged
this change in his last annual report,
tory of the subject.
The Tribune will urge, first, that Paul
Chapman shall not be put to death-a
small item, perhaps, but large symbol.
The. Tribune proposes, therefore, to
urge upon our Legislature the passage of
laws which will end once and for all
time even the possibility Of such blot
upon our judicial records as this execu-
ton would be.
The war has made us careless Of
bloodshed in a noble cause, lives given
freely for great purpose. BY this very
loss and sacrifice, however, it has made
US more saving of life, of youth, espe-
cially, from waste, from wanton losA and
destruction. A large field lies here. The
whole care of children, legitimate and
illegitimate, falls within it. Soon there
must come in America, as in every other
country, revision of our laws, revi-
sion Of our hearts, that life, all life,
shall be held more sacred, that no drop
Of human blood that can be saved to the
glory Of the race shall be wasted
We know of no way in which this labor
can better be begun than here and now
doing justice and right by Paul Chap
man and the boys like him who shall
follow after.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
cumrnfftRe, whRrr the ruw may go On be-
hind closed doors.

cunInILR&, WnErC CnE cUW may go On De-
hind closed doors.
Some one suggests that the fai1ure to
adopt the resolution once it had unfurtu-
nately got introduced would be comment
newspapers. Thereupon Mr.. Ridder, of
s'The New Yorker Staats-Zeiturg,"
makes the amazing statement that he
could speak for the American news
papers of New York; he could guaran-
tee, in fact that none of them would
comment unfavurahly upon anything
that happened at the meeting.
The Tribune, so far as we know, is
the only New York paper that has done
so; but this we believe to be an accident
No other newspaper had reporters at the
meeting.
The picture is finished with one more
stroke.
At meeting of American citizens Of
German origin, called for the express
purpose of arranging a Commandment
can loyalty demonstration apart from
the nationwide Loyalty Day movement,
it is impossible to pass resolution con-
demning the German government, the
German Kaiser and the Prussian mill
tary autocrats!
That is German-Americanism And
n-Americanism is divided loyalty.
Imagine how eagerly this news will be
read in Berlin. VIII the Kaiser not re-
serve an Iron Cross for the Rev. julius
Jaeger, the American citizen who did
him The service to pronounce him a
democrat in New York Thursday night?
And one also for Mr.. Ridder, of "The
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung," who helped
to put aside resolution that condemned
him?
Mr. Ridder and Mr.. Hearst have to-
gether invoked the Constitution of the
United States against municipalities
that have dared to bar their papers.
Is there sense of humor in Ger
many?
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
Buy the Mail Tubes

1t is singularly unfortunate that there
should be the existing deadlock of Senate
and House members of the conference
committee on the postoffice appropriation
bill over the appropriation for the pur-
chase of the pneumatic mail tubes Both
houses of Congress approved the service
and the principle Of government capture
of the facilities when they voted for the
appropriation bill. Both houses went on
record against the proposal of Post
master General Burleson that the tubes
be abolished, and the natural assumption
was that they accepted the arguments
presented in favor of the service and the
record Of experience with it in five great
cities Of the country.
To abolish the pneumatic tubes would
be to impose on the business of the coun-
try great and unwarranted hardship
unwarranted at any time, and in this
period of postal service disorganization
almost disastrous. So far as this city is
concerned, any suspension would be, as
Borough President Bowling has truly
said, deplorable. resulting "not only in
harm to business interests" but increas-
ing danger from motor vehicles" and
adding ito present wartime congestion
in principal highways" The tubes ex.
pedite the transmittal of first-class mail,
making it possible to obtain speed in the
dispatch and delivery of letters which
could be obtained by no other agency
Thus they contribute in great measure to
the postal facilities of this, the most
profitable and most important postoffice
of the country. A committee Of Congress
has made exhaustive inquiry into the
matter. has approved the service and has
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
True to His Race

(From the N. Y. Rail,oaps Employees Mc0orsns1
Pat was taken prisoner by the Germsns.
They liked him and decided to save his life
One thing they did not like about Pat was
he would always say:
"Gee, didn't we Irish lick hell out Of you
Geymans7"
Pat said this so often that the German
officer got tired Of it and one day went up
to Pat and said:
Snow, look here. Pat, the next time yos
say that, We will have TO shoot you"
Pat promised not to say it again, but 2
week later the officer heard him ssy'
Gee, didn't we Irish lick he'll out Of yos
Germans I" and he was ordered shot. They
marched Pat out and stood him against
the wall. The officer told Pat he wousc
give him one more chance II he wcuse
swear allegiance to the German fag- Lis
looked sweet TO Pat, 30 he consented.
After swearing allegiance, Pat smiled sAs
said. "Gee, didn't them Irish lick he'll ess'
Of u 0ermansf*
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
The Ne1v Ladyiis1,1
By Sarah Addington

THERE is new shame in Washington
Square, fresh tragedy that has come
into the lives Of the villagers to mako
even those rebels of the Land of -the-Smock-
and-Sandal blush with unaccustomed
warmth.
For, after all, Balance must be Maintained.
you know, and when women 90 too far. we'll,
it's dregs in the cups Of the Little Groups of
Serious Drinkers to whom humiliation is q
new ingredient and fear new taste to the
tongue. For, Of course, it is the women, a
scandalous trio of them, who have smashed
all the idols. Nobody but women could
have devised such fendish way Of descend
ing upon the heads of the innocent villagers
descending upon the heads" is the word
for-yes, that's it-three of them have act
ually gone and allowed it to grow, and il
that isn't revolution among radicals. what
pray, is? Three feminine heads in Wash
lngton Square that were once thatched with
only the barest essentials of yellow. black
and auburn hair are now coming out exu.
berantly into long. exotic braids, fulsome
dangling curs and womanly scallops and
coils. Can you wonder that all the rest of
EN- gather excitedly around tables by night
and cluster at the paint pots by day to dis
cuss the awful decline of art and woman? /.
"The question ISL as Anne put It the
other night "What shall be our Attitude
There's 1rma now actually wearing net.
OF course we can't stand for that"
"No, of course not" chimed in tho other.
smoothing their boys pompadours and their
little girls bangs lovingly. "Nets are en-
tirely taboo. Irma will certainly have to
move up to Riverside Drive and be lady or
get job on Wall Street. Nobody but q
lady or Wall Street girl wears net"
Then in the glum silence that followed
Freda spoke.
Its really very courageous of them, YOU
know, to come out in the face Of all thu
laws and customs"
eyes," agreed Bernice And then, with
sudden inspiration, "Why, they're the real
radicals, after all, in this. suppose"
"Yes. but there's limit even to radical
ism," said Anne, and then she raised her
glass.
And so it was, in the shadow of the Arch.
that the Old Guard of the village pledged
their allegiance to the old order. Short
rations in hair, for the duration of the war
at least And even at the risk Of being rcac-
tionary, the most dread epithet, the dear
old-fashioned things are going to stick to it.
Arant woman quaint?
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10

recommended that the government pur-
chase it With this recommendation the
business elements of the community and
the nation are in accord. Considering the
value of the part the tubes play in the
commercial life of the United States, the
sum required for their purchase does not
seem too large. The present disagree
ment of the conference committee should
by all means be resolved into a decision
to authorize the expenditure, SO that this
extremely vexing matter may be settled,
once and for all
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
Nobody
kneu, Hou

The Signal Corps engineers in this mat
ter Of alterations have been overblamed.
Most Of the changes were suggested by tho
manufacturers themselves as they went
along. In fact, President Macauiey Of the
Packard Company says that 95 per cent Of
the alterations were recommended by the
makers. If the engineers had had years OF
previous experience in planning and making
air motors they would have had many more
parts right at first. Nobody had ever man.
ufactured motor like the Liberty before,
and we had but little homo talent to draw
on and little could be spared us FROM
abroad.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
Out of Past
Experience

The experience of the motor makers with
the Liberty motor connecting rods is not
exceptional. For example, the Nordyke
Marmon Company once manufactured and
shipped more than 1900 cars of new
model before they discovered that q steer
ing rod knuckle was too weak And yet
they had not started production until an
experimental car had run 10000 miles on
rough roads.
The brunt of the cost and vexation of the
numerous alterations has fallen on one or
two manufacturers, chiefly the Packard
company. The two plants of the General
Motors-the Cadillac and the Buick-and
the Ford plant did not begin work on the
Liberty motor until the Packard and Lin
coin companies were we'll along-and the
same thing is to some extent true of the
Nordyke & Marmon Company, which
cleaned up" an order Of 1000 Hall-Scots
motors for training planes before turning
to the Liberty motor. The most Of the
complaining has come from the smallest
plant of all-the Trego-which had had no
previous experience that warned it what It
might expect.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
Cheerful Posf-Morten1s

table to use in the flying boats Tor the
navy.
Scrapping is always a great element In
the cost of manufacture. One automobile
scrapping is the largest item.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
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republication OF al dispatches credited TO II or
not otherwise credited in this paper and also tho local
OF spontaneous origin published herein.
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reserved
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10

1.sss :s::ss: :':: :' tn: ?: s.ss:': s:';
plant--and the tour took day
and half-President Macauley casually
remarked that to maintain daily output
of about twenty-five Liberty motors it was
necessary to have 10000 cylinders in some
process of manufacture. And they are
very difficult to mill. Many are spoiled in
the process. There are hundreds of ma
chimes. each one limited to some small but
essential part of the work. Quantity pro-
duction Of motors is wonderfully compli-
Gated matter.
Yet it would have been simpler, it seems,
if we had given the job to piano makers
or corset manufacturers. 1t appears, ac-
cording to the swvel-chair critics, that a
momentous mistake was made when the
making of the motors was intrusted to
the automobile manufacturers. For my
part 1 don't see who could have been ex-
pected to succeed with the manufacture Of
motors if it was not the automobile manu-
facturers, whose business it has been to
make motor car engines in enormous num-
bers.
Involuntary
Selection
We Had only two or three air motor
plants in the country when we got into the
war, and they had, or were given, plenty to
Jo ;,,r rroIuriuc ho;r turoS nf
The same course was followed in Europe.
1t was the obvious thing to do. A list Of
the air motor makers of Europe reads like
an automobile directory There are, for
example, the Rolls-Royce, the Sunbeam, the
Fiat, the Isotta-Fraschini, the Renault, the
Hispano-Suiza, the Lorraine-De Dietrich,
the Mercedes end the Benz.
The automobile men were just the men
for the job, and yet they have failed to
come up to public expectations, or their
own, for that matter, in arriving at guam
tity production in hurry. Why? In gen.
eral because of too much optimism. In
particnlar-because,
First-With all their experience they
OlQH IcdllAo Iho olAACuAkicS VI Quoublty
production Of such q delicate and complex
mechanism as an air motor.
Second-They did not make allowances
for the abnormal conditions prevailing in
all industries on account of the war, condi-
tions which upset all calculations as to the
supply Of labor; materials and machinery
and the time of delivery.
Third-The numerous and almost contin-
uous changes that were made in the designs
oftp parts of the motor from the time pro-
duction began until within few weeks
Nothing
On Time
1t takes more time and care to make
every single part Of the Liberty motor
than 1t does Of corresponding parts Of the
ordinary automobile motors. Exactitude
down to one-two- thousandth Of an inch Is
required in many places.
The makers Of machine tools were over
whelmed with other war orders, good work.
men were scarce, the auper-excellent ma
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10

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We make good promptly u the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
GUARANTEE

Entered at the postofsce at York Second Glass
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-06-10

wv ASHINGTON, June 7--As we were
wv walking through the Packard
plant-and the tour took day
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The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
BERLIN CONTROLLED
MEXICAN WIRELESS.
More Than Twenty-Five Plants We're
Serving Germany During
The War

Washington, Dec. 12.-More than
rs wireless stations in Mexico were
under German control during the
war, Edward Nally, president Of
the Mareoni Wireless Company Of
America, told the House Merchant
Marine Committee today while tes-
tifying in opposition to the bill pro-
posing government monopoly of ra-
dio stations in the United States.
"The Germans were in full con-
troll of the wireless stations in Mexi-
co" said DIR. Nally, telling of an in
vestigation made last year Of the
Mexican wireless situation by an
agent of his company.
although the Mexican govern
ment claims title to all the wireless
stations he said, "the apparatus is
strictly German and there have been
German operators in every one Of
the 20 odd stations. Moreover, there
have sprung up government electrical
shops with German superintendent
and the whole system has been super
vised by German radio experts who
were formerly employed at Sayville
and Tuckerton, ard on the German
liners which were informed in this
country at the beginning of the war;