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New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Thrift! Thrift!-Horatio"

This year the wage earners. farmers
and tradcsmen of the United States will
nave tens of billions more to spend than
they had three years ago If the total
vas twenty billions then. it was not less
than thirty-fvc or forty billions last year;
and it will be still higher this year.
How much Of this is patriotic America
saving to save democracy to the world?
There is painful evidence that it is not
saving much more than in ordinary times
Mr.. Hoover has been telling US this week
that in spite of enormous traceablc saving
in the use Of meat for example, in the
hotels and among the we'll to do. the per
capita consumption for the whole country
is higher than last year. and uneXample0
probably in the history Of the world And
the sale of almost every form Of luxury is
at high tide. Extravaganza unequalc
rules among the masses Of the nation.
And the Kaiser smiles.
Democracy in Europe must be saved.
for, as Professor Zeublin so graphically
puts it, We must have democracy every
where or nowhere. 1t is a war Of factories
and dollars. If eight million or more men
and women in this great Republic can sub
scribe to a $50 Liberty bond, eighteen or
twenty millions ought to be buying 50
war saving stamps They are not-not
half or quarter or tenth this number.
New York has set the pace so far. But
we should be a beacon light to the nation.
For tonight Director Frederick W. Allen
mas organized a fine meeting in Carnegie
Hall. And we hope that it may mark the
opening Of a great national campaign
Two or three billions in war stamps
jcom our workers would be magnificent
message to their brothers in England and
Franco.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
The New Crime
We Should Get Rid Of Our TROUBLE
Making Sandburs

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIT: A new crime is taking shape before
our eyes. When those who practise it mix
~lth our usual citizens our troubles begin,
ard traitors and profteers seem TO have a
'ree field
Shall we, then. tie up the whole OF life in
red tape and embargocs to check them. Or
scrap our government machinery? Far from
i. We depend upon The willing encrr, and
enthusiasm Of officials and workers for
the great tasks before Us. ard no amount. @,
compulsory regulation can ever take its
riacc. We'd much better get rid Of the
troublesome individuals, the base metal. Free
institutions were meant only for the upript4
aad public spirited, anyway, and no others
reed claim their protectou
Our disasters and troubles Of late mief. :.
09 traced TO such individuals. but who tina t
complains dares name the man he holds
guilty? How shall we identity these trouble
makers: They may always be distinguished
py giving the preference to self-intercs ST
aTainst duty TO the public No name for
tnem mas been found bad enough. but they
ere sandburs, whose hostile prickles radiate
from self and good for nothing but a
boufrc.
What shall we do with them They must
Be hand picked first Our courts have dc
cided that there is such a thing as an habitual
criminal who must have permanent SEN
tcnce, and they belong in that class. We
want no more encounters With a sandbur OF
tEcachcry, trickc,y or proiteerinr. and Il e
up TO u.s. to see that they are personally
and permanently disposed Of This Will he
some trouble. and Americans hate to make
trouble or call names, but i. has got to be
done
he guilty Individual must he removed from
EuDhc affairs, whether he is coal baron
"no lets his mines lie idle, or the one who
orders the vile Passaic water into the glasses
81 unsuspectng thousands, or the one Who
times a ncwsboys' strike to keep important
rows from the public, or lets soldiers freeze
n the name Of military red tape The proper
Place for such gentry is in the chain ganr
.noVelllng snow and coal. before this winte:,
is out. ]f our legislatures and courts cannot
te made to sec II that way, j. will be nigh
time for each citizen to sit as Judge on the
Instance he may meet and say:
Ky Jupiter. sub, hold you personally
responsible for this outrage on the public,
III give you five hours to leave the country
lut after that III shoot YOU on sigh. like a
dog, suh.' PLAIN CTTIZEN.
New York, Jan. IS, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Thrifty Housewives

To The Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: think must all know thrifty
housewives who often "keep the fire in" in
kitchen and living room through the entire
cold season. This object is not simply COM
fort and saving Of labor, but economy Of fuel
They know that if the coal fire goes out
1t must be built UP and coaXed up with plen-
ty OF wood-that a cold stove doesn't respond
like warm one, and that a cooled off room
needs extra fuel to get back the desired tenn
pcraturc.
This is one OF those homclv bits Of wis
dom of the thrifty housewife that when found
II is we'll worth while for wiseacrcs to make
noto OF.
When there is no coal alas and ulach.
why it must be brought from where it is at
all costs. And care needs be taken that it is
all coal, Wit hno admixture of slate!
DAME DURDON
New York jan % lg1S
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Our Army in France
1t Is Holding a Few City Blocks Out
of 400 Miles

To the Editor of Tho Tribune
Sir: There appeared on .hc front page Of
to-day's Tribune a headline which reads:
"American Casualties Indicate Occupation of
n Trench Section. Pcrshing Reports Five
Wounded in Action, and List Of Killed Is
Growng.' Several weeks ago another New
York paper published map of some eighty
miles Of the French front, with statement
that on this part of the front the American
forces were holding the line
Statements put in this way would mean
llttlc if people in this country had an un-
derstanding OF the scale Of operations in
France and the relation thereto Of casual
ties. But the size of the thing does not
seem to have penetrated 1t is common to
meet people who believe that our forces arc
already i'll the line in considerable numbers.
Inc newspapers largely responsible fo4'
inns impression because Of the way news
is presented
Now, we know that NJ. Tardeu, of the
French High Commission, stated in an otli :
c;ai letter last August that the actual length
of the front in France was AGO miles, and
that the part held by the British armies was
So miles The lengths Of line held have not
changed materially since then. The official
lists of the British government show a cas-.
ualty rate of 10000 to 100000 men KILLED.
10 1000 a day. While these numbers include
1o1ces in Macedonia, Syria and Africa, the
latter 90 not represent any appreciable pro :
PORTION OF the losses and we may say roughly
that the British casualties arc thirty five to
forty men a day for each mile Of front held in
France. llilarc Beloc some time ago stated
that the French army had calculated the
German losses at an average Of 100000 q
month. This is $500 a day, and equal;
y y mill Of frou
n France. While these figures may not be
exact they will serve to give an approximate
idea of the rate of wastage
When the loss OF Americans killed, captured
and wounded reaches average Of five Il
da1 we may assume that we are holding the
equivalent Of four five New York city
blocks in length out Of a total front as long
as from New York to Cleveland. And when
our list of casualties reaches an average
figure of 500 men day we may be holding
a line as long as that now held by the Bel
GIan army (seventeen milcs) And that
length, which is at least one hundred times as
long would be indicated by q loss such as
that announced to-day, is only onc-twenty-
ilth OF the whole French front 1t is needless
- say that when we have a force on the
front large enough to be CT any material
assistance our casualty lists will be too long
to be published in the papers at all
The Allies hailed our entrance into the war
as the decisive factor for victory. We glad
iy accepted the compliment. They expect us
to live up to it. In the meantime would it
not be better for the newspapers to help the
people Of this country realize what efficient
participation viii mean and what the sacri
fees must be, rather than to lull them to con
tcntment with the impression that we are
al.eady doing something worth talking abous
on the fighting front:
HUNTlNGTON ADAMS.
New York Jan 2S 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30

was mistake in another way. 1t inflated
the quotas Of the states with a heavy alien
clement and, in SO far as alien exemption
claims were made and allowed, it threw
disproportionato and unjust burden on the
native and naturalized population. Under
the policy outlined in the treaty with Great
Britain and Canada Allied aliens Of mill
tary age will be debitcd from our military
population or put OH the same basis as our
own citizens. Neutral aliens will prob
ably be stricken entirely from our regis
ter Of cligibles. And these changes will
greatly reduce the original discrimination
against the states-New York among
them--in which our alien population is SO
largely massed.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Equal Opportunity

10 the tUltOr OF The Tribune.
Sir: | am thoroughly in accord with the
sentiments expressed by "a Working Womanr
n your issue of Saturday. Equal opportunity
l,'litcaly and industraliy is all women ever
asked; it is all they want. The Womcn's
I:ade Union League is committing n grave
error in fostering q bill limiting the hours
OF iahor for women alone. The passage Of
such Legislation would force women out Of
many we'll paid employmcnts, where they at
present work on an equality with men, into
the lower paid occupations where women
alone are employed. I was pleased to learn
that Miss Rankin has announced that she
wa oppose anv legislation so framed AS to
oiticrentatc between the sexes
To reap the full harvest of our recon,
victory in obtaining equal suffrage We must
= OF. stand under the banner of equal
opportunity. BUSINESS WOMAN.
New York, JAM rs, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Fighting 1t Out

There is good deal in the notion taat it
does not make nearly as much difference
which side you take on subject so long
as you take some side--so long, that is to
say as YOU are not a mere lazy passive
resister. The Tribune has a real liking
Tor the attitude Of the anti sufTragists Of
this state who propose to fight the ballot
with all the power that the ballot gives
them. They are going into the primaries,
they are going to do the things that men
voters ought to do and do not, in order to
elect legislators who will vote for the re-
peal of votes for women.
IT suffrage cannot stand such opposition
it is wrong and will be repealed. II it is
right, the work Of these opponents viii
demonstrate its rightncss and strengthen
he cause. There seems to us far more
danger to the future of women in the in
difference Of some Of their sex than in all
,he anti-sutfragists 1t is the Indifferent
male voter, too careless to go TO primary
800 forgctful to register. too lazy to vote.
Who has done more than any other factor
u limit the effectiveness of male suffrage.
Woman suffrage is threatened by the same
Indifference.
More power to the fighting anti-suffrag-
ists We wish they We're pro. But at any
rate they are con. And that is whole lot
better for everybody concerned than that
they should turn away from their new OBJ
legations with a yawn Of indifference.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
In Training With Base HOSPITAL

For we have gone to school to pain,
And learned the A B C's OF death.
In the one-syllabled words of war;
Measuring this years refrain
That carols youths last given breath
Rich in its efforts still in store
AS children strum out melodies
How unlike our other learning
or Chaucer's knights and Shclley's rhyme
The legends OF old pageantries.
And sage saws Of mans discerning
Well knowing in how brief a time
Just at the choicest hour OF day.
We should be back again at play.
JOHN CHAPLIN MOSHEE
Armory, Troop B, Albany, N. Y.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
The Right Way

ashln9ton dispatches report the con-
clusion Of an alien draft treaty between
the United States and Great Britain. its
terms to apply also to Canada. One more
inequality in our selectiyc conscription ac.
Is thus removed and at the same time a
considerable man power, hitherto only par
TALLY available, is released to the three
governments involved.
The new agreement will subject to draft
in Great Britain and Canada American
citizens between twenty-onc and thirtv-onc
years of age who arc now living in those
countries. 1t will subject to draft here
Britons and Canadians living in the United
States who are between twenty and forty.
But any American drafted in Great
Britain or Canada will have the option Of
returning to the United States for ser
vice. Similarly, Britons and Canadians
drafted here may elect to enter the British
and Canadian armies.
This is sensible arrangement The
United States wants to avoid committing
itself to the dangerous principle that
American citizens residing in /: foreign
country arc liable there to forced military
service. But III the conscrpton act half
lay effort was made to include all resi-
dent aliens-Gcrmans alone excluded in
oar eligible military population. The right
to claim exemption was not denied But
many aliens of nationalities allied TO the
enemy were accepted by the registration
boards. Many neutrals were also taken. In
these cases the drafted men waived eXemp-
ton. Many subjects and citizens Of the ma
tons allied with US have also been sent to
the camps under similar circumstances. Net
the Whole procedure was irregular. 1t ran
counter TO our own construction of inter-
national rights. 1t would have been bette,
at tho start to have put all aliens on a
deferred list, pending negotiations with
neutral and allied powers regarding their
status.
by treaty We now obtain unQuestioneC
power to draft Britons and Canadians. and
Te shall probably be able to obtain SINH
Tar sanction from the governments of
France, Italy Serbia. Rumania, Greece
and Portugal That is the falrest and
safest way to settle the question: We con-
ccdc to other nations the same right VIC
.>sk for ourselves.
The inclusion Of these two classes of
aliens in our available military population
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Why Not Export Corn?
If It's Good for Us, 1t Should Be
Equally Good for Allies

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: / have just read the courteous and
informing letter by Mr.. Clark I. Durant. as
sistant to the food administrator at Hart
ford. Conn.,, in reply to my letter which APP
peared in a recent issue Of The Tribune
under the caption, export Corn
The writer says we must send the grain
lhat our allies are used to. as we haven't the
tlmc or means to instruct them in the use Of
corn. The belief that Good will win the
war and the watn Of it will lose it, was my
only object in advocating tho shipment Of
corn. We all know that, save as we may,
We self-sacrificing people of France and Eng
land in this terrible crisis, then what is
wrong IN the suggestion that VIC send few,
million bushels of corn ground and kiln dried
to hel pout the shortage Of whcatc
He says corn will not keep as well as
wheat. 1t has been proven for wears past
that 1t Will, and thousands of tons have been
sent over the seas and used as human food.
AS Tor the teaching of its preparation, given
the meal. a pot, water, q little salt and n
fire cornmeal mush is the simplest food on
earth to cook. When the American Indian
showed our ancestors corn he made them
his debtor for all time. 1t didn't take them
llVeu on it, grew and thrived on it and until
tn" deeper soils Of the West brought forth
wheat IN immense quantities, il was their
man gram sustcnancc. am sure our allies
VIII eat 1t before they will starvc. and am
also sure they would be Il long time starv-
ing on il.
Mr. Durant says we "havc in part forgot
ten the use of cornmcal in vast areas of the
Cnlted States True but it is also true
"A Nln
extent that it is coming TO its own again
and is being used extensively here in the
efforts TO conserve wheat for export TO our
friends on the other side. which is very COM
mendable. but I still ask. Why not let the
hes assist in the substitution? Let the
government go on with the milling of mixed
grains and increase the percentage of corn
rye, oats and barley, and yet. at the same
time. send over supply Of the real stuff
our biggest food crop.
Stretch our wheat as far as it will 90 j,
will not reach. Then why not face the nd,
Instability of splicing with rn to fill the
dencIt: SO far as there being no time Ia
ou'ld and equip for the grinding and curing
OF corhmeal IS concerned the war may last
'oF years yet. and the food question is fun,
as Important as are ships, guns, munitions
VI e'oshihs. W e are not ready with any oi
these yet, but We on the way and speed
lns up and By the time The ships are read,
to carry 1t the meal food can be ready to 90
When a cantonment like that Ayrc can be
built in three months, with water sewer
heating and housing systems to accommodate
$4,000 soldiers. 1t is idle to assert that ",
cannot build and equip mills to grind mill
IONS OF bushels Of corn, if such process i,
necessary and practical. in order I'd assist
IN winning the war via the food route.
ALBERT +. SHERWOOD.
waterbury, Conn, Jan. 2S, 1915
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
III Faut Bien Que Je Nive'

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May contribute my mite to the dis
cussion now going on in the columns of your
journal regarding the origin Of the famous
phrase, 81 do not see the necessity OF it,?
According to Voltaires. "Commentairc his
toriouc sur les ouvrcs dc l'autcur dc la Hen
riade,' the Abbe Desfontaines, scribbler and
libcllst (1695-17A5), on being brought up
before Copltc d'Argcnson 'I652-l72N, the
intendant Of Paris, for some grave literary
indiscretio!l, pleaded, By way Of excuse, "Il
Iaut bien quo JIG vivc" or must live some
how"l. To this Argenson replied, "Je men
vols pas la nccesstc." Quitard, in his "Dic-
tionnairc dcs Proverbcs" (Paris 1912, y. Cos .
points out the origin of the saying in Tertul-
ians "ldolatria, Chapter ), where, with ref
crencc 10 the Church's condemnation Of the
trade of idol making he meets an identical
objection on the part Of the Christian artiii-
GER in the same way. Jam lila objici solita
vox: non habco aliquid quo vivam. Distric-
thus repercuti potest; vivere ergo habes"
("Of course the usual objection is made: 7
have no other means of living"D. To which
may be somewhat sharply retorted: "is there
any necessity why you should live?'
ADOLF BONSKr
Now York Jar 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30

If the Secretary Of War knows almost
everything, excepting shells, is that not
marvellous enough?
What would Senator Frelinghuysen
have?
No superman could do what Mr. Baker
expects himself to do
What Mr. Baker and Senator Freling-
huysen together expect the Secretary Of
War to do is utterly inconceivablc.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Amelita Galli-Curci

Without its hero and it's heroine its
brilliant tenor and it's supreme soprano,
the world Of opera would soon be as dead
as a burnt-out planet. Opera is an art,
extraordinarily personal, which exists by
grace of your Malibrans, Marios, PATHS.
The musician may protest, the composer
despair; but without great interpreters
their genius will be hclplcss The lyric
stage lives Of glamour. for glamour, by
glamour. 1t is the divinity that doth hedge
the tenor and the soprano, rather than the
genius that uplifts the solitary composer,
which fills the opera houses of the world.
And when 4 new singer swims into our
ken opera receives a new lease of life.
Such a singer appeared at the LeXing-
ton Theatre on Monday night, when
Amelta Galli-Curci made her New York
debut in Meyerbeor's "Dinorah." Not
since that night fifteen years ago, when
Enrico Caruso made his first appearance
as the Duke Of NIantua, has the opera
tentment. We had thought that the great
coloratura soprano had passed from the
stage with the passing Of Marcella Sem
brich, though Lusa Tetrazzini had brought
back momentary brilliancc. Now we
know that we were wrong; that the great
tradition continued by Patti, Melba and
Sembrich lives in this young Italian, who
two short years ago was unheralded and
nrrcfjcally 11OkpO,vD
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Ccrmania Delenda Est

To Inc Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: How would it do to adopt "Gcrmania
Dclcnda Est" meaning Germany must be de-
stroyed, as common cause universal motto
among the Allies" Being in Latin, it would
be in the same language with all the nations.
1t is from the words of Cato, the censor. who
closed every speech with "Carthago delcuda
est sgnifying the necessity Of the destruc-
tlon of Carthage. Carthage was reduced to
ruins. W. L. CAMPBELL, NJ. D.
Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 26. 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Dastardly and Contemptible

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The people of these United States
know that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is a
better citizen, a truer patriot, and a more
perfect type of American than exists else
where today-dcspite Senator Stones das-
tardly and contemplate attack upon him.
JULES Il. GIMBERNAT.
New York, Jan 22, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30


,urnalists went to Washington resolved
} make the Secretary Of War sec the war
5 people were seeing it from the outside
Ic listened sympathetically for more than
hour and said: 81 can understand how
may seem that we are not doing all that
Q should. But you do not know what it
to bo inside the dilemma. One day it
will seem clearly that there is the line of
ast resistance, and we are about to act.
shen the next day it will seem that no,
lcre is the line. Possibly the very next
ay fresh information sweeps all our
lans away and discloses third line of
ction. And so it is that we allow our
hnds to play over the whole situation,
eeking continually to find the right way"
ile said virtually the same thing on
1onday. He complained almost with irri-
alton Of the rapidity with which changes
AXE place in warfare. They make per-
ectlon so difficult. Still the ideal Of per-
cction may be insisted upon. A perfect
'ifle. A perfect plan. A perfect atti-
ude.
n Perhaps never in one continuous sneecb
'ince the world began has one man .on,
pared and judged so many different things
sanitation, pathology, ordnance. inter-
('1aneabllty, factory technique, ballistics.
construction, finance, industry, transporta-
sion, strategy, statecraft, psychology and
10th.
1t was astonishing that one man shou]d
oe able to touch so many subjects with
hat tinality. He passed from one to an
,ther. moving rapidly but not in haste,
Weaving as he went personal defence of
'ich and wonderful texture. 1t might
lave becn-one is almost persuaded to say
t ought to have bcen--a perfect thing,
out, alas. nothing ever can be-
Senator Frelnghuysen interrupted to
isk if it were true that Americas she'll
making capacity had shrunk 70 per cent
md whether the War Department had all
he she'll capacity it needed. Mr. Bakers
answer was:
II DO not know
How could one man knowseyerythings
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