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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

of the Department of Civil Affairs of
the American Red Cross, in a statement
of the work Of his department, which he
calls can International Adventure"-
"the work on the front line does not tell
the whole story of civilian relief in the
great battle of 1918. There is the work in
Paris and the work in all the rest of
France. For the refugees, starting in a
little corner of the North Of France, poured
out in great stream south and west--to
Brittany, to Touraine, Burgundy, Provence
and the Basque country. Wherever they
went they found the American Red Cross
awaiting them. The machinery which had
been organized to care for the repatriates
coming back to France from behind the
German lines Immediately transformed
into great organization to establish the
refugees. The Paris bureaus were stripped
and emergency groups sent north and south
and east and west. Others gave up their
sleep to work through the night in the sta-
ton canteens"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

The good effects upon home politics
are pointed out by the "Gernania," now
the most influential Catholic organ:
Belgium is the most important question
raised by the war, and with the Chanceliors
clear statement regarding it the Internal
political situation can now be considered
as no longer strained"
But Theodor Wolff Of the "Berliner
Tageblatt," probably the most infuenV@
editor of Germany, reminds the Chan-
cellor that " for nobody outside OF Ger
many is Belgium even q question OIL
argument" and he adds:
AT the beginning of the war Germany
entered into very definite obligations ~
garding Belgium, and even if these coi'sS'
tons did not exist the Belgian question 'o'
most people in the world is merely pisia
question of right"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
From La Baionnette

sand people here and thousand people
there, families separated without any Of
the individuality and self-respect OF home
and family life, means fever OF unrest in
the nation. To find work for people planted
suddenly where work for which thev are
trained may not exist at al, to reunite
families, to give them again sense of per-
sonality, of usefulness to the community
and the nation, is the task that is being
faced to-day. A beginning has been made,
but only beginning"
In page after page of fascinating
reading, Mr. Folks describes the thou
sand and one activities of the organiza-
tion--the care of the wounded, the re-
Mobilization of the mutilated, and the
provident care Of Frances childhood,
the coming generation-then sums up as
follows:
at is an international adventure upon
which the American Red Cross has entered
in its work for the civilians of France. 1t
is chapter in the history of the war diff
ferent from any chapter in the history Of
any previous war. 1t is an expression Of
Alliedship IN new language.
armies have crossed oceans before this
to fight beside other armies, but never be-
fore, in war time or in peace time, have
battalions of doctors and nurses and social
workers, of business men and professional
women, crossed the sea to aid in fight
ing tuberculosis and infant mortality, in
reconstructing shattered villages and shat
tered hearts and hopes. The civilian work
of the American Red Cross in France is
unique; it opens new vistas in international
relations; it starts new hopes of the world
that will be after the war"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

industrial tems-distribution. So, too
with supply and transport, which is just
another kind of distribution made poss ible
by invoking every rule of the business
game.
Study the system and you viii find the
whole armament of scientific trade war
fare. You will encounter charts and dia-
grams of Office and staff organization that
will apply to any money-making establish
ment regardless of output. In the follow
up Of army supplies you will see that
every tin of jam is traced to the ultimate
lighting consumer. You will discover proc
esses of economy that turn over John
Bulls taxes half dozen times, although
originally intended for a single outlay. You
Will meet with battle salvage that redeems
the debris of war, ranging from the nails
IN timber trench support to twelve-inch
gun. Under this drive for war commodi-
ties new industries have been created and
old ones revived. A gigantic mechanism
has been set in motion that. while dedi-
Gated to war, is paving the way for more
efhclent, more orderly and more eco
nomical peace.
victory in the war may or NAV not lie
IN the kitchen, but no one can denv that
1t IS very likely to perch on the banners
OF the best fed armies. From Darius to
Napoleon the empty stomach has been first
aid to defeat Many can lead troops: I
can feed them was one of Wellington's
proudest boasts"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

the fact that the business of war as repre-
sented by the supply and transport of the
British armies is nothing more or less
than colossal piece of merchandising that
has become triumph of Standardization
what scientific efficiency experts have
preached to American factory owners for
application to the arts and crafts of peace
full pursuit has here reached the last de-
gree Of practical Interpretation for the
maintenance of the war of wars 1t ex-
presses the genius of organization of
hundred United States Steel corporations,
Standard Oil companies and International
harvester companies in one 1t is
super-corporation, knit by iron discipline,
fed by fire and driven by an energy that
would kindle and keep an empire. Apply
1t to purely commercial enterprise and it
would yield welnigh fabulous profit.
Yet the men who operate it are in the
main soldiers who grub at prosac desks,
bathing each day with questions of raw
materials, overhead costs, production,
transportation and distribution. Although
unlimited financial credit is behind them,
they must account for every dollar they
spend In providing for the battefelds of
war they parallel nearly every problem of
the battlefelds of business. War as waged
to-day is merely bitter and bloody compe-
tltion between nations In the operations
of an army in the field you have, for ex-
ample, the working out, with men and
guns, of the most difficult and costly Of all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

these opportunities If the German idea of
righteousness is written into these two
peace treaties, then nothing is left for the
world to do but to fight on against the dan
ger that Germany may write another like
them"
Summarizing the speech, "The st.
Louis Republic" writes:
"Von Hertling reveals a situation in
which the Allies may have peace by open
ing negotiations with diplomatic thimble-
rigger, who is the creature of the military
command, upon the basis of document
which promises nothing and leaves linden
burg and Ludendortf full scope to claim the
earth and the fulness thereof"
After anticipating that Germany will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

the predatory imperiaists," is what
THE Philadelphia Public Ledger" sees
in the speech. After noting many points
overlooked by Hertling, the paper con-
cludes thus:
another little thing omitted from the
calculations of the German theorists is
that the Allies propose to drive the Ger
mans out of Belgium before the war closes.
They will not buy them out. If it takes
ten years they will bayonet them Quit"
Of the reception of the speech by the
German press we are not adequately in
formed. Some of the moderate and Lib
eral organs, indeed, were quoted in the
cable dispatches as highly pleased, but it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
From Nebelspaltey, Zurich

executed was almost Incredible The two
motor trucks and the Ford which belonged
to the construction camp were hastily
placed at the disposal of the population
and sort of dry-land ferry service was
established back and forth to the bridges
over the river Somme. American military
engineers had built these bridges for the
British army. American motor trucks, in
charge of American Red Cross men, now
evacuated the civilians. The American re-
lief staff in the town of Ham began an i'm
mediate evacuation of it's small store of sup
plies. AS at the construction camp, it's cars
organized ferry service and carried eX-
hausted civilians beyond the danger zone
The chauffeurs drove again and again into
the bombarded towns to bring out the last
remaining families. One of the chauffeurs
in a camionette drove into Ham with three
fiat tires on broken down springs and car
ried out six wounded British soldiers"
Mr. Hunt goes on to tell in detail of
the various organizations at work and
the systematic manner in which their
work was accomplished, then says:
"From the human side the evacuation is
and always will be indescribable. 1t was
vast lava flow of men, animals and materials
Every little countTyASoaa land .avery high
way was damned With the, en- dress lines of
camions moving back to the aviation camps,
pulling out immense guns, salvagng mill
tary supplies of all sorts, and at the same
time removing the civilians and their little
possessions. The immense Importance of
the agricultural work in the devastated dis
trict was symbolized by the presence of bat
teries of American tractor ploughs, shut
fling along in the midst of conveys of
camions, and by the yokes Of oxen or teams
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
proving so helpful a pattern for Ameri-
can organization. He declares

proving so helpful pattern for Ameri-
can organization. He declares:
romance all its own. The endless chain
OF army supply, geared as it is to the most
incessant and unfailng of all demands
the appetlte-has annexed the whole world
of output 1t reaches to the waving wheat
domain of the Argentine, to the f1cecy cot
ton belt of our own South, to the rolling
oat realm of Canada to the dripping oil
fields of Burmah, Mexico and California
Into its hungry channels flow the products
of the watts and tanks of Chicago's Pack
lngtown; the bench and mills of New Eng
land, the canneries of Australia. All lands
and all f1ocks are stripped for its needs.
1t has recruited a host of workers as huge
as the battling armies it sustains, to the
insatiate end that the wheels of war he
kept whirling.
while it involves millions of men. re-
quires an expenditure of billions of dollars,
taps the entire universe and provides a
continuous procession of supplies, it is
dominated by man who can sit at
desk in faraway Office, the absolute CEN
tralization of the whole ramifed activity.
How is it possible when the seven seas
have become the graveyards of transport;
when human life is as candle in the
wind when half of mankind is bent upon
destruction?
The answer is easy. 1t all results from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

and again, hauling out wounded Tommies
and wounded Americans. A portable ktch-
en-, installed at Compiegne on the exact
spot where Joan of Arc captured, pro-
vided tea, coffee and other refreshments to
ten thousand soldiers and civilians daily
At the Red Cross headquarters in Com
piegne chocolate, figs and meat were
served to hungry soldiers passing con-
voys. These Red Cross canteens were ex-
tended throughout the district, and the
total number of soldiers served per day
reached an average of more than twenty
thousand. The canteens we're one of the
simplest and most striking manifestations
of the American Red Cross spirit of SER
vice. They served Frenchmen, Britons,
Italians and Americans alike"
After citing numerous other instances
In which the Red Cross had freely given
its service, Mr.. Hunt quotes from let
ter, written by one of the field workers,
and referring to the destruction of the
newly patched buildings and the freshly
sown fields, the following inspiring para
graph:
"When the material works were lost the
best of all remained-that best which, after
all, the inner purpose of it all. The
influence of neighborliness, friendship,
kindness, sympathy-these are made of
stuff that no chemistry of war can crush,
any more than death can cut off the infu-
ence of mans personality We face half
years work torn to pieces. Yet believe
the influence of our work will live in the
lives of our French neighbors and in our
own lives. | believe the fact of the final
sacrifice will deepen it's effect"
But" says Mr.. Homer Folk, director
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
in history, the Bureau of Reconstruction
and Relief faced the colossal ruins

g. At the heart of the destruction
wrought by the Germans, in the valley of
the river Somme, it began patching up
houses and stables for the returning peas
ants. 1t shipped into the devastated region
food, clothing, furniture, kitchen utensils,
building materials, seed, farm implements,
small livestock and barnyard fowls 1t
acted on the principle that to produce food
in France is to save tonnage from Ameri-
ca; to produce it in the war zone is to al
leviate the burden on the railroads, and
both will help win the war"
Life was finally "breathed" into the
ruined farms.
"The desecrated lands were just spring
ing to life again. The first sprouts of
spring wheat carpeted the valleys; daffo-
dis waved in the wind; the fragrance of
cherry blossoms hung in the air In the
crispness of the early morning gangs of
French workmen in the two big Red Cross
barracks were just getting ready to go to
their work when the British town major
came in we must evacuate your workmen
across the Somme,' he said. All civilians
are to be sent beyond the river at once"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Keeping the Pot Boiling in Switzerland
NHE famous strategic retreat had
\ turned the evacuated portion of
France into a desert of ruins,

"a
France into desert of ruins,
writes Edward Eyre Hunt, chief
of the Bureau of Reconstruction and
Relief of the American Red Cross in
France, in an inspiring pamphlet pub
1ished by the Red Cross:
"On the 18th day of March. 1917, the little
towns and villages along the banks of the
Somme, the Disc and the Aisne were burn
ing like bonfres, and Allied airplanes
sweeping back from patrols over st. Quen-
tin plunged through clouds of black smoke.
1t was great but tragic day for France.
The German armies were in retreat but
they had taken their revenge by systemat-
lcally burning or blowing up every house,
every barn, every stable and outbuilding
in scores and scores of villages and steal
ing or destroying every agricultural ma
chine and every vehicle in the region they
we're forced to leave. They chopped down
the apple orchards and felled avenues of
ornamental trees They poisoned or de-
fled the wells They sawed through the
spokes of cart wheels They even stole
the bobbins from sewing machines They
took every farm animal, barnyard fowl and
rabbit in the countryside They deported
most of the heroic population which had
remained under the constant menace of the
guns since August, 1914, and with patient,
painstaking deviltry laid waste the land
So it desert which the victorious
French and British armies occupied in
March, 1911"
With courage unparalleled, perhaps,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
T sAAC F. MARCOSsON, in his last
book, The business of War;" pub
r. lished by the John Lane Com
pany, writes:
pany, writes (:

ain the glamour of battle heroism the
world loses sight Of the mechanics Of war.
1t is more thrilling to have an emotion
about forlorn trench hope led to victory
than to hear about a supply column that
reached the front under storm Of shells.
Yet the courage Of the transfers who face
death with only the reins in their hands is
fit to rank with the valor Of the fighting
men armed with guns.
"War has become a business. It. is the
worlds supreme task at this moment
Business as usual has gone into the scrap
heap along with many other illusions that
clcvgcd effort and begot costly optimism
In the early days Of the conflict. The one
definite work Of civilization is to win the
was. The pain to victory is through or
ganization>
mo military establishment presents
such picture Of closely knit endeavor as
the British army. The immortal first seven
divisions who dashed to the relief of Bel
GUM and laid the first Ango-Saxon sac
rhce on the altar of freedom were the
nucleus of the mighty host on which the
sun never sets to-day. In less than three
years Britain has created AN institution
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

Aftas assertla THAI "Hertaing is a
greater fool than ne world is willing to
believe if he expects to bring about a
peace conference by any such statement
Of policy" 1.-The Philadelphla Press" re-
marks:
III this is the beginning Of the German
peace offensive it is q poor, clumsy. alto
gether unpromising beginning The Ger
man government has either failed to under
stand or has deliberately ignored the new
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
ommies, Also, Were
/ Taken Care of

Montdidier, Lassigny and Noyon had
to be evacuated, and on the fifth day of
battle Amiens came within range of the
guns. More than fifty thousand people
left the city.
""The American Red Cross during this
time had chiefly served civilians, although
more than one of its trucks, with mat
tresses placed at the bottom to prevent too
much jolting, had gone back and FORTH time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

can well be imagined that the organs of
the stalwart pam Germans, from which no
expressions have reached US, are deeply
disgruntled over the promised abandon
ment of Belgium.
ga great step in advance" is what
the "Frankfurter Zeitung" says of the
speech, and it thinks that there is now
no obstacle on Germany's side to the
ending of the war"
This cheerful view is from the radical
"Vossische Zeitung":
"Chancellor Won Hertling's statement on
Belgium was made with defniteness which
always hitherto has been lacking. The
Chancellor's thorough exposition Of his con
ception f the Belgium problem will silence
chatter about German statesmen being IN
tentionally silent on this subject or express
ing themselves with studied obscurity."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
"a Scornfuly Replies to Hertling- Page One

unconditional and complete - 1t must be
and it must be effected as an act of Justice
and not factor in the arran cement of
the bargain which Chancellor Won Hertlinr
has in mind"
"A very warlike peace talk" speech
is characterized by "The Buffalo Elk
press" which concludes it's editorial
thus.
German peace talk does not mean any
thing more than It has in the past
and all that it has meant in the past has
been peace that will leave Germany sub
stantia1 victor And German peace talk
VIII not mean anything else until there is
a radical change on the front lines
The Providence Journal reached this
conclusion:
TT Count Won Hertling means, by his be-
lated remuneration of Belgium, that Ger
many VIII give up the little country pro-
vded she is permitted free hand in the
East, he merely confirms what has often
been said about the chief Teutonir ambi-
ION But the Allied nations are more de-
termined every day the war goes on that
Germany shall not only relinquish Belgium
hut abandon also her fatuous vision Of en-
pire in the direction of India
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

THE Chicago Evening Post" accuses
the Chancellor of testing when he speaks
of a righteous PEACE" since Germany
had an opportunity at Brest~Litovsk and
again at Bucharest to show what she
means by that term, for
THE world knows what she did with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

idealism which animates the Allied war
aims Failing to gain peace by conquest, it
has resorted to blackmail; but, as it will
soon learn, neither will this method do"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
\ Wandering Tale of
n Bravery and Service

cit is impossible" Mr. Folk continues.
"to tell briefly the story of the Red Cross
help to the refugees
"The story wanders over the whole map
of France. The task of answering not
merely the immediate needs but the perma-
nent necessities Of these families is only
begun. TO provide food and shelter for
these hundreds of thousands of people is
something, but more must be done A thou
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

ton Of Germany and the German nation.
He knows, however, in his heart that the
destruction which the Allies intend to
achieve is that which will forever wipe from
the earth baneful and brutal autocracy
which, as long as it existed, would menace
human rights and liberties'
"a fascinating example of tight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
hen They Carried the
L People to Safety

The arduous task of moving the
herded civilians, with their hand bag
gage and livestock, out Of danger, fell
to the American Red Cross.
"The rapidity with which the order was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

rope work. with oscillations to placate
the hungry proletariat, while pleasing
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-01-23
TELLS OF PLOT
TO Menace j. S.
SHIP PROGRAM

Seattle's shlpyard- have been
Invaded by workers under enemy
Influence To spread ~ folded
arms" policy that VIII slow up
the governments shipbuiiding
program.
This was the declaration Of
4. y. Attorney Clay Alien, la nm
address before the Municipal
league. nj the Masonic club
rooms. Arcade building. Tues.
day afternoon.
Many members Of the I w. w,
he said. were spreading the folded
aims" propaganda, after being ad'
vined To keep out of jail at all costs.
and. for the time being, 10 abandon
sabotage.
Women. according TO Allen. can
greatly aid the secret service by Oh.
serving the actions OF suspicious
characters in their ncighborhoods.
noting when they com. and go and
what they carry Minute Men. too.
he said. have been OF great aid here.
Can Heat Secret Service
when you get the women work
Ing. youll have an organization that
will beat the best secret service IN
any country" he declared.
by watching their neighbors. who
act suspiciousiy. 10 see whether they
carry away HuitraHes and packages.
80 out at night or have many WISH.
tors. IN. women get information that
would take special agent at least
two days TO obtain"
Attorney Allen appealed for sup.
port Of all bankers. pointing out that
all money for propaganda comes
4 thru the hanks. Any suspicious
transactions should be reported 10
federal authorities. he said
Agents Advise I'm
German agents have advised the
II. W. W. 10 abandon sabotage and
, promote the folded arm" policy. 20
as 10 slow up industry aE much as
possible. and ntiii keep out OF sail. &c
coriing 20 Attorney Allen.
The Minute Men are keeping pub
lie officials on their toes. he said
I, was the Minute Men and n few
other patriotic citizens who brought
change In tho police department.
according 90 Attorney Allen. lie
mentioned the cns. Of sheriff N
Western Washington. who recently
phoned him for advice In making a
raid on AN l. W. W. rendezvous.
IF l can't DO Il. the Minute Men
here will" Attorney Allen said the
sheriff told him.