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New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

so as not to disturb the nightingale
which sang in the lilac bushes. Doubtless
his mate listened to him with delight as
she sat somewhere, half asleep, on her
eggs. | came back very sad, very un-
happy. Warriors like me have no time
to stop to make nest; and you will
never be charmed by my songs. :.
"Fate has smiled on me to-day, per-
haps because on awakening | gave a
little laugh. kissed my old hostess,
who was coming down the steps, her
wooden shoes in her hands | called her
grandmother Pardon me; you are
going to laugh at me. But at this mo-
ment l feel like a little child. | hold
my face up to every passer by, as if
they all are anxious to caress me-"
One day he surprised Lie by appear
ing. Bold as a page, but blushing like
young girl, he called her Madame and
pressed her to his heart, as if he had
found a long lost love.
Watching him, she recalled the Bac-
chus who supports Silenus in the Jardin
du Roi He had the freshness of the
dawn and the opulence of spring. He
was here to continue the beautiful race
which fiourishes under the sun. She re-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

pointed, changed, twisted around or war;
departmentalized since we made our be-
lated and unprepared, but no less Ameri-
can-spirited, entry into war.
"The navy-and the vertebra Of the navy
are the bureau chiefs-has not been adul-
terated by sleepy pacifsm. Without any
where near the expansion needed to meet
the threat of war which was needed by the
army, it was the navy-our navy, under
the much belabored Daniels, too-which
back in 1915 began hammering on Con-
gress for appropriations, and began in its
own organization to clear decks for action.
This explains in part why the Congress
sional Investigations of navy affairs have
resulted in findings which are, as they say,
breed of cats exactly opposite Of the
sickly litter which has been squirmng on
the steps and in the corridors on the other
side of the War and Navy Building
"On the day we went to war, or rather
upon the day we declared war-Germany
knew we were in war long before we knew
1.-THE navy had some $4,000 regular Off
GERS and men, and the Marine Corps
little over $4,000. About year later we
had more than 100000 regular officers and
men-more than 100000 naval reserves.
$4,000 marines and 10000 or more of Ma
tional Navy Volunteers and Coast Guards.
We had come from less than a hundred
thousand to more than third Of million
men. There are now more than 100000
men in the naval service, including ma
rines and reserves. The navy says that it
has enlisted for war more than 100000
tons of additional shipping, about five
times the number of ships of peace times
and this includes more than 800 auxiliary
craft patrol vessels and the like.
"1n spite of the impressiveness of the
navys expansion figures there is every
reason to bear down again and again ON
the need of completely sufficient present
and future defence of America. The navy
is the basic hope of complete defence.
Here is something worth printing in
italics; it. is worth saying over and over
again. 1t is worth pasting in every Ameri-
cans hat. 1t is worth printing and hang
ing at the foot of each bed where each
pair of eyes in the United States can see
it in the morning. The navy knows it.:
"Armies are sensatio,al. But 1t avas
and IS the British and American napies
aOhich can and wiu save the aUorld
Without an American mauy no army of
ours can strike al, offensive bloa0, avith
a real American 'aavy no foreign armY
can eUer strike a blow at as. The navu
is the key of our self-respect and our
self-defence. So 1t aUiU be until the sea
is solid.
81 spoke with Franklin Roosevelt about
that. He said that victories and defeats
of armies are always by battles, and bat
ties attract attention. 1t is navies which
win bloodlcss noiscess victories. And
there is a phrase for that
"When you can bottle them in, there
is no need to battle them doaon.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
.NE morning Lie found in
her mail letter which began
. thus:

Madame:
am poor fellow who spends his
time watching you wherever you go.
tell you this SO that you will not be
surprised if you see me dogging your
steps. But you never turn your
head. You have never look at me.
You go along TRANQUILITY, serenely, as
if you never felt my heart roll along
with the pebbles which you send fly
ing with the tip of your little shoe.
Lie read no further. She crushed the
sheet in her hand. Then, since the i'm
pertinent missive was plainly signed,
"Roger Bernal, poilu," and contained also
the writer's address, she put his master
piece back in an envelope and remailed
it to him.
1t was the time when Mars was alb
sorbed in his business of life and death.
A sense of anguish hung over men and
things. Lie, completely absorbed in an
intimate personal grief, showed little in
terest in the continuing misery of the
war. But now the sinister days Of 1914
came back again. The exodus from Paris
recommended and the cannon awakened
the dead in their dusty shrouds.
One morning Lie received this note
MADAME: We are under fire. There
is rampant of dead men in front Of us.
Soon it will be our turn I am goin., to
do my duty. Pardon me if cannot die
without telling you that die thinking
of you"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
Futurisn
There Is>a New Radical
Party in Italy, and This
Is What They Want
~ T. MARINETTI, the we'll known
X Paris futurist leader, is now
- . in Italy, where he is one OF

L. MAklNEIIl, the we'll KNOWN
Paris futurist leader, is now
- . in Italy, where he is one Of
the main organizers OF the
Italian Futurist political party and
founders of the Italian futurist organ,
the "Italia Nova" In outlining the
aims of the newly established party
Marinetti writes in one of the first issues
of that Futurist organ:
81. The Futurist political party wants
a free and strong Italy, no longer subject
ed to her great past, to the too much loved
foreigner and to the too much tolerated
priests.
"2. Italy only sovereign Revolutionary
nationalism for the liberty, welfare, phys
ica! and intellectual betterment, force,
progress. greatness and pride of all the
Italian people.
"3. Patriotic education of the proletariat.
Struggle against analphabetism. Abolition
of many useless universities and of class
ical instruction Technical instruction
obligatory. Gymnastics obligatory. with
penal provisions. Education III the open
air. Schools of courage and Italian spirit.
"a. Reconstruction of Parliament by an
equal participation of industrialists, agri
culturists, engineers and commercial men
in the government. The minimum age limit
for Deputies to be reduced to twenty-five
years. minimum of lawyer deputies (al-
ways opportunists) and minimum of pro-
fessor deputies (always backward).> Aboli
tion of the Senate. If this rational and
practical Parliament will not give good
suits we will abolish it and introduce a
technical government without Parliament,
consisting Of twenty technical men elected
by universal suffrage. We will replace the
Senate by a controlling Assembly consist
ing of twenty young men under thirty
years Of age, elected on the basis Of uni
versal Suffrage. Instead of the Parliament
of incompetent orators and of invalid
learned men moderated by Senate of
men on the point of death, we will have
a government of twenty technical men stim-
ulated by an Assembly of young men under
thirty.
"5. To substitute for the present rhetor-
ical and peaceful anti-clercalism an anti
clericalism of action. Our anti-clericalism
wants to free Italy from churches, from
priests, from monks, from nuns, from
Madonnas, from wax tapers and church
bells. :. Our only religion-Italy of
tomorrow.
"6. Abolition of marital authorization.
Easy divorce Gradual devaluation of
matrimony till the coming of free love
and of children of the state.
~. Maintain army and navy till the dis
memberment of the Austro-Hungarian En-
pire. Then diminish the forces to the mini
mum.
"8. Preparation for the future socializa-
ton of land. Free justice and judges to be
elected.
"The political Futurist movement which
we are founding to-day and which we will
organize after the war will be entirely dis
tinct from the artistic futurist movement"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
Max ing Good

ME following paragraph from an ar
ticle in "L'Illustration" (Paris)
puts succinctly the feeling of the French
for Americas effort:
The United States offers to the world
the example of "a great democracy that
knows what it wants, that states its posi-
ton clearly and then carries it out in
actlon. During these grave hours which
we are now traversing each one OF us may
turn confident eyes toward the country OF
washington. America keeps all her prom
ises; indeed, she fulfls more than she
promises"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

"There is then, in this time of reckoning
for our unpreparedness and our belated
putting our shoulder to the help Of the
Allies satisfaction ready for the heart of
any American who meets, face to face, the
men and the organization of the navy.
"'The sweet breath of hard sense, simple
machinery, individual responsibility. and
the efficiency of trained men come out from
those DOORS said one of Americas big
men,
"It is true. Take McGowan's office. He
is Paymaster General and Chief of the
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. He does
the paying and the buying. He remains
unmultipled and without titled advisers.
The principle that it is just as simple to
deal in terms of millions as in terms of
cents is not forgotten in any panic or
hysteria of war. No welfare workers or
philosophers with commissions moisten
McGowan's ear. Jobs to do slide from his
desk down, not from the bottom upward to
his desk
"1n his office looked for chairs. There
was none but his. No one sits down in his
Office casionally-McGowan. The
contractor must say and go. No Congress
man may linger. There is not even
cuspidor. If Congressman goes to
Daniels or MCGOWAN to sell something for
a constituent they say that he is told that
unless he has a financial interest in the
proposed contract he comes under the rule
against negotiating with any one who has
NO financial interest in the contract to be
discussed. 1t is the gentle politeness of
a stone wall
"McGowan has q large force. but not
nearly as large as many government Offices
would require to handle the same volume
of business. The few in the old State.
War and Navy Building sit in Offices be-
tween which all the doors which creaked
open or forbade entry for many dusty
years have been unhinged and taken away
Loafing cuddies and whispering lockers for
titled gentlemen have been knocked out
If you serve under MCGOWAN and put in
your desk paper upon which is printed
or typed or written any government bust
ness, you have exhausted one out of Just
three chances given to break the rule be-
fore you are fired AS result the papers
which come to your desk with date an
them will not linger long upon it's top
without a reckoning. There is nothing
like days job in doing nothing but push
ing the governments business ahead to
suppress the tail-feather Official said some
one.
"The navy, because of the simplicity of
it's organization, has less chance for the
tail spreading of the swivel chair cult
which has invaded the army-to be sure,
it has not completely avoided the inevita-
Bile msfortunes which result from failure
to distinguish in rank, power, uniform and
prestige the 90-day' officer enlisted for the
duration of the war; and the regular and
sometimes life-trained fighting man, who
for years has crawlcd up the hard ladder
of promotion. But of the pasty-faced,
mustachioed youths who come down to
breakfast at the Shoreham or ihe Willard
in funk one day and in uniform the
next the navy commanders only a small
percentage"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

TIVE navy operates ID d0u0ly 20 on faith
and on works. The public hears
little about it, but knows that
without the navy the great work
abroad would be impossible. Its works
are doubtless many, but the quality Of
them for reasons of strategy must re-
main under cover until the end of the
war makes disclosure possible. In an
article entitled, "The Navy-Praise
Bet" in the September number Of enc
Clure's," Richard Washburn Child tells
a few things about the navy that help
in the understanding Of the part it is
playing in the war:
said one of it's bureau chiefs to me- 1T has
the reputation of a batting average of
1000, and it's hard to keep that average
through a season.
Henry Ford, who may be awkward in
statecraft and pacifsm, but who knows eff
cheney in organized human effort applied
to materials came down to Washington
when war was upon US and took look at
the navy. He said: 4 always said I had
one of the best organizations in the world.
but to the navy take off my hat
"Are all the good things they are saying
about the navy true?
"Plenty of Americans are asking.
"The answer is an emphatic yes.
zones nose can almost smell that yes
when it first sticks itself into the machin-
cry Of the navy. After a thorough inves-
tigation the yes will help you with your
bag to the station and make you say, If it
were all as good as the navy, as clean, as
simple and as free from buncombe, boasts
and botches, then we would have war
machine indeed!' ....
There is nothing wrong with buck pass
ing. You can tell good organization when
you see the buck always being passed down.
ward; you can tell bad one when you see
it being passed upward.
"The navy by this test outstrips any
organization in the war machine
at is simple. One assistant secretary.
Franklin D. Roosevelt who is one of the
bright spots in Washington, because his
eyes on the doing of the job. He thinks
of the job and not of Franklin D. Roose-
velt, the next election, nor of taking
out membership in the parlor Bolshevki
which has its hand in the affairs of other
departments just now, dverting its atten-
tion from winning the war by planning
vaguely to make an easy world And, per-
haps, to be mentioned first the good eff
cient bureau chiefs and the chief of opera
tions. The American citizen can congratu-
late himself on the fact that none of these
seven heads has been shifted, replaced, ap-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
Keeping u p on the Magazines
India and That "Lit-
tie KnucklebOne
of an Island''

\NGLAND means some time to
give home rule to India on the
@ basis of the Montagu recon-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
Translated by William L. Mcpherson
Copyright, 1918, bv The Tribun

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-28
Demand for Trial =
of Wilhelm Grows
Thruout Germany

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2S.-Popu-
lar demand in Germany for trial of
the former kaiser at Berlin Is grow
ing. according to diplomatic advices
from Berne.
The recent disclosure concerning
the Prussian responsibility fori the
war has given impetus to the demand
that Wilhelm and his war lords be
made to answer for their crimes. the
cables stated.
The decisive character OF the Ba-
varian disclosures are beginning to
be generally understood. the advices
declare.
The Germans no longer attempt to
deny that the government of Will
helm ii. not only wished the war to
break out. but that they also prepar~
cd and planned for It.
The revelations do not allow any
doubt to be preserved that the Ger
man government is indeed response
BILE for the war and the invasion OF
Belgium.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-28
QUIET REVOLT
/ BY AMERICANS
IS PREDICTED

WASHINGTON, Nov. as.-while
President Wilson In pr~paring his
message 10 congress on reconstruc-
tion. departments OF the government
are beginning to sound the keynote
Of the adfuinistration's attitude to-
ward labor and industry.
President Wilson Is expected TO
deliver his message Monday or Tues
day. just previous TO his departure
for France.
The United Press has previously
outlined its general trend which. in
a measure. has been further fore
cast within the last few hours by
government officials.
Chairman Baruch. OF the war in
dustries board. predicting prosperity
and insured employment for labor.
declared significantly that the work
ingman hereafter Is entitled to a
greater share in the profits OF the
industry"
He suggests that this win be ac-
complished because "a far better un-
derstanding exists between capital
and labor than ever before"
Walsh Issues Warning
Joint Chairman Frank p. Walsh.
OF the war labor board. issued a
statsxnent. warning against "the
amazing proposal advanced in GER
tain rcacuonary quarters that the
country's industries should return to
the prc.war basis Of wages and
hours" Walsh said. however. that
II certain self constituted spokes-
men of industry. In their fatuous
disregard for things as they are. in
sist upon reaction as expressed In
their threatened extension OF the
hours OF labor. wage cutting and
like practices. the Industrial work.
ers may take their threats serious.
ly. make common cause with the
farmer and agricultural laborcrs
and. thru peaceful political means,
take charge OF and operate the gov
ernment solely In the interest Of the
producing masses. changing our
present Industrial and economic sys.
tens with n thoroness and swiftness
unparalleled In the history OF ma
TONS"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-28
Mllie's New
Island Abode
Not So Bad

LONDON. Nov. 2s.--Brit1sh Ad.
mirAity wireicnl--The Amsterdam
correspondent OF the Morning Post
gives a description Of the former
crown princes new abode at Cosfer'
land
This place. q house OF eight
rooms. Is thoroly suburban. with its
front garden and flower beds" the
correspondent said. In fact. II fs
just the sort OF place one might ex-
pect to pay two or three guineas
week for, furnished. mt Herne Bay
or Felixstowe, neither better nor
worse
The men servants are German.
The only person in uniform about
the place Is the orderly. The table is
laid in the modest dining room and
thru the folding doors one sees a
not too new billiard table.
ION the sitting room table are the
family portraits, including one OF
Friederich Wilhelm himself.
The island is by no means unat-
tractive. II lies not far southeast OF
Texcl. and between 40 and so miles
north OF Amsterdam Some eight
miles In length. its greatest width
Ii about five miles"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-28
TEUTON TROOPS
! DON'T SEEM TO
FAVOR ''REDS''

LONDON. Now 2s.-The poatf1cn3
pendulum In Germany. witch haa
been swinging between conservative
socialism and BolsheviEn. seems for
, the present to have halted midway.
giving reasonable promise OF some
sort Of unified government. with
which It win be possible for the al
lies properly to negotiate peace.
This situation Is largely tho 70
suit Of the forefulness. OF Kurt Els.
nsr. pren6dent Of the Rss1xian re.
public. who gave the federation to
understand that Bavarin and the
other states win not tolerate either
the old gang or the Boisheyk dic-
taforship.
The social democrats under Phflip
Scheidemann. and the independent
socialists under DR.. Haze. altho
Temporarily partners In the socialist
coalition. are stili rivals, as for
mcrly.
Moreover. each is now especially
suspicious OF the other.
The Independent socialists believe
the social democrats. who Opposed
the revolution. continue to be domi-
mated by the old regime. At the
same time the social democrats ac-
cuse the independents OF Bolshevisn.
altho the latters leaders repudiats
the charge
In the meantime, Karl Ljeh-
knecht's Spartacus or Bolshevik
movement must be reckoned with.
Its scope Is uncertain, owing to its
underground methods. II Is prob.
ably growing In tho industrial re-
gions. but apparently Is making NO
headway in the army.
Many soldiers organizations Al
ready have strongly resolved to sup
port the present government and na.
tional assembly. Therein. together
with natural Teutonic tendencies to-
ward organization and discipline
probably lies the assurance that tho
new Germany win not follow In Rus
sia's footsteps.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-28
Maj. VIM. Than
Gets Mew Rank

NEW YORK. Nov .s.---Mal- VIM
.Thaw. OF tho 1osrd u. s. aero squad
ron In France. the famous American
aoc. has been promoted to lieutenant
colonel. according TO an announce
msnt made today by Alan r. Haw-
ley. president Of the Aero Club Of
America
Col Thaw In only 2s ycarr old
ard becomes ono Of the youngest
coioncis In the United States or al
lied srmiea He was awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross. with
two citations. recently. by Gen.
Pershing. He has also received 4
number Of French awards.
The Aero Club OF America. In ap-
probation. has awarded the clubs
medal OF valor and diploma to Col
Thaw and to the French aces. Capt
Guyncmyer. Lieut.. Fonck and Lieut.
NunRcsser.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-28
PERU OBJECTS
TO CHILEANS'
TREATY STAND

SANTIAGO. Chile. Nov. 2S.-~Thc
scrap Of paper" has appeared In the
controversy between Peru and Chile
under new name.
The Peru Students association. In
answering the invitation OF their
Chilean colleague to work for friend
ship between the two countries. re-
fused unless Chile disavows the
Ancon treaty and gives back the
provinces OF Tacna-Arica and Tara
paca-
The Pcruy,ans referred to the
treaty as chiffon paper"
The Peruvian consul at Valparaiso.
who sails for home tomorrow. pro-
tested against peaceful demonstra-
t,on in which young men paraded
the streets as protest against
Peru's efforts to influence the Amer
lean, European and Argentine press
TO sympathizc with them In the
present controversy.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-28
Fairies, Elues, Sprites
Will Entertain Riddles

shine. in mountain hooks. the
drowsy fairies who. as fairy tales
tell us. rest in the day time. will
sleep until the coming Of night and
moonlight. Santa will see that they
are awake by sunset to begin the
night reveIs.
Snowflakes. glinung and white.
will put an end to Santa's Joy. He
is used to them. but snow means
work for him, and away he will
roll an he came, In a huge SNOWFALL.
or course all the service" boys
and girls will be there. Santa
makes only one request. that every
little dependent Of a soldier or sailor
call for an invitation at Red Cross
headquarters, 315 University St. In a
hurry. no no won't be over.rushed
lgctting presents Just before his day
of days,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-28
SENATORS PLAN
OPPOSITION to-
WORLD LEAcuE

WARRINGTON. Nov. 2s.--PubIic
consideration OF the peace treaty BY
the senate will provide obstacles TO
President Wilson'S plans for a
league OF nations. II u In incor-
pornted In the treaty. according TO
senators who have canvassed the
sentiment Of open diplomacy"
The danger such situation
would present may cause many
senators who at heart favor open
discussions. to vote against them on
the ground that they would provide
the means for stirring up public
sentiment against the league Of ma
tons In this country.
Such agitation. IL is believed. will
put the United States In n humiliat.
ing position before the allies and
the central powers alike.
Nevertheless. a treaty which pro-
vides for, or pavcs tho way TO a
league OF nations or an information.
nj organization for maintenance Of
world peace, will be flcrcciy op-
posed by n certain senate group,
Senator Reed--arc not all actuatcd
by a common motive. Some Of
them oppose the league because
they believe the United States
should return to it's before the war
Isolation and preserve that inde-
pendcnce from Europe which
Washington counselcd.
These senators would be for the
league II they could be shown that
IL will not entangle the nation in
Europe's family sauabblcs." nor
involve the maintenance Of a big
military establishment there mt
huge expense.
Others fear that certain well es-
tablished party principles with re-
spect to trade and commerce could
not be freely operated IL the
United States belonged to a league
which. under President Wilson's 8
peace terms. doubtless would have
power to limit trade determinations
This group is composed of those
who want an economic boycott Of
Germany and measures aimed at
nations now our associates. but
which after the war viii compete
with this country for the worlds
trade