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New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
The Way of Epigrans

We have received a number of letters.
one of which is printed elsewhere on this
page, disputing the form in which The
Tribune recently quoted General Nathan
+. FORESTS famous epigram on the art
of war.
1t is natural that there should be diff
ferlng versions. Forrest did not reduce
his epigram to writing. There is no
authentic original of it in black and
white. So memory, Imagination and
critical selection have been left to do
their work.
That is the way with spoken epigrams
Fosterlty accepts the form which suits il
best-often form which the maker him
self would have preferred, if he had
thought of it.
What did Forrest say? All our critics
agree that he didn't say: "I got there
first with the most men," Given For
rests "cracker" Southern dialect and his
general idiosyncrasies in speech. some
SAVIOR of bad grammar was needed to
make his happy condensation of the phi
losophy of military strategy racy and
characteristic. A personal flavor and
uncouth form could only help to give +
dramatic emphasis.
We used the phrasing which has been
most commonly accepted. The common
Judgment is unerring in such matters.
"hat 1t takes to will live; what does not
appeal to it will be discarded. So we
stand on: Il got there firstest with the
mostest men,"
There is a touch of genius in that
winch accords exactly with Forests rus
tlclty, simplicity and naive intellectual
vigo1.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
than any of the Allied fighters have ever
flown in action

than any of the Allied fighters have ever
flown in action.
The enormous power of the Liberty motor
IN proportion to its weight has given us
tWo-seater that can outrun and outfieht
the very pursuit machines for our failure
10 develop which there has been so much
criticism This is another chapter of the
legend that has enshrouded the Liberty
motor. 1t is the most powerful flying motor
the world has yet developed. 1t can climb
with unprecedented rapidity in the right
sort OF plane, and it can overhaul or run
away from any enemy. It gives a two
scatter plane every advantage over single
scatter except in the matter of quick
maneuvrability.
But greater than it's merits as a motor is
the manner of its production by machines.
1t thereby solves the problem of supply.
The time is comparatively near at hand
when the six factories that are now at
work on it will be able to turn it out at
the rate of 800 a day or 1850 month.
1t took many years to develop quantity
production of automobiles. The task of
attaining quantity production Of Liberty
motors has been performed in less than
year.
Perhaps it might have been done sooner
1t was believed that it could be so done.
The disappointment about the Liberty motor
is neither in the motor nor in the actual
time it has taken to attain production. but
only in the failure of fact to fulfil the
prophecy. We have done wonderfully, but
not so wonderfully as we foretold. Cast
the aircrafters into outer darkness if YOU
will for their shortcomings as prophets, but
give them just reward of praise for the
actual achievement.
AS we rushed through the air behind the
machine-made, quantity-production motor
we passed over the great Dayton-Wright
factory where they are making planes by
neutrality-suspicious. methods to match the
machine made motors
What the prophets wrote has been full
filled.
Their chronology was poor, but their
vision was clear
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
A Hospital for Negro Soldiers
o the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: am Southern woman and know
what the negro has meant and does mean
to this country. No foreigners have come
to our shores thet more deserve our helm
Than 40 tney. At present the negross Of
New ork City are making drive for : ends
TO ouiid the McDonough Memorial Hospital.
wnefe our colored troops coming from the
WAT zone VIII be taken care Of. Thousands
os negroes are helping us fight for democ~
10y 10y ~ Is az little as we can do to help
70 me viii be turned over to the drive COM
mittee's treasurer, Dr. William jaw sch;cY-
felin, ITO William Street
HELEN S. WOODRUFF.
no. Ia East Sixty-eighth Street, New York
May 25, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
Why Not Wipe Out the U-Boat :?

There is disposition, especially evil
dent in Washington, to think the SUBJ
marine peril is passing. The sinkings de-
cline steadily. New construction is now
well under way, and the French Minister
OF Marine claims that the U-boats are
being destroyed faster than they are be-
ing built.
But is that reason to take our ease?
The submarine has been the deadliest
weapon of the war. All the artillery,
all the infantry, all the battleships. all
the millions of tons of explosives and
projectiles the Germans have shot into
the air have not inf icted the damage,
nor cost the Allies so dear, as two or
three hundred u1tersee boats.
They have destroyed or crippled or
kept IN harbor more than one half the
ocean-going tonnage of the whole world.
BY forcing the convoy system, devious
routes, no lights, they have cut down
the effectiveness of what remains nearly
one-half more. They have DESTROYED
more tonnage than all the Allies, includ-
ing the United States, can rebuild in
the next two years. They have pre-
vented, and still prevent, effective aid
to Russia.
They are still sinking more ocean
going tonnage than all the yards of the
world were building before the war.
The U-boat menace is still here IT,
still forces, and will continue to force.
the convoy system. Yet-and this is the
amazing thing-American engineers in
the service Of this government have cer-
titled that the U-boat could be wiped ont
of the sea not merely now but for all
time-so utterly destroyed that no ma
ton would ever build another. Whv is
this not being done?
Are the bureaucrats of the Navv De.
partment Indifferent to this possibility?
The development of the submarine de-
tectors is complete success. It is one
OF the great scientific achievements Of
the war, and perhaps Americas one
greatest contribution to the technique of
war. All that is now needed is a fleet ~
hundreds of swift chasers equipped with
these devices literally to bomb tha
U-boats out of the seas.
Are we building this fleet? We are not.
One man, one frm-Henry Ford's-has
an order for one hundred of these
chasers, equipped, according to our in
formation, with propeller drive which
Will, II it does not render them useless
Tor this work, impair their efficiency
by halS Our information is that WIKI
out interfering in any way with existing
ship construction it would be possible to
oulld and equip 800 or more of these fast
destroyers in the same time.
Where is the opposition?
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
What 5 In a Law?
BY the Rev. Percy S. Grant.
OF the Church of the Ascension

4 LAW like the prohibition law could
~ not De expected to stand upon the
DOCKS OF a state or nation unat-
tended by other laws or social underta k;no
that would assist its success. Tho noo;n
1ear that has in any way appealed to ma 90
result OF the prohibition law is what
ooccors call the law of substitution. do
NOT mean the substitution of other kinds of
alcoholic drinks in the place of those ord;-
narlly sold in the saloons, such as na+er+
meolclnes, etc., but the substitution of
orugs or OF other habits of life that in
some way stimulate or satisfy the nervous
system. ~0'
abnormal physical conditions. which nroe
lnolVlouals to various forms Of dangerous
1 neurotlc satisfaction, are largely matters
Ina. proceed from the social and industrial
habits of our day. 'A-
- Al men are worked too many hours: if
s1ey Work under unsanitary conditions: if
;II 10y ate gwen TOO little pay to buy nour-
,en!ng 1000; II they live in tenements that
lack ventilation and fresh air: If thev '.'rs ~
products OF general educational and 90
clai system which prevents their wives from,
understanding how to cook or how tn take
care OF home, or the simpler laws of
nyglene-all these provocatives of nerve
irfiCa1lon and weakness will stand in tho
way OF the success of the prohibition 1au,
, ne very state of mind which urges nro-
nlDltlon-the idealistic desire for frar
nesn and blood, less human wreckaoe and
more emclent use of food production and
more etflclent mental and physical lahor-
should consequently be deeply concerned ~
improve environment so as to help the law
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31

TIL have to raise the pay of my clerks
again, and perhaps my rent will rise.
I'll have to widen my margin of profit.
Therefore, the price of shoes will be in
creased Sl.50 pair"
Multiply this instance a thousand
times, in all the processes of production
and distribution, and you will begin to
realize what we mean by universal prot
iteering. 1t is largely owing to the antic-
ipation of still higher prices. Every
body who bargains and sells adds to his
price the increase of costs. plus some
thing for safety against the further rise
of those costs by reason of everybody else
doing the same thing.
This happens always when prices are
rising 1t has happened in every great
business boom you ever knew 1t is now
more conspicuous, owing to the attention
it receives on patriotic ground, but
wherein it is greater in degree than ever
before in lifetime's experience it is so
because the degree Of credit imitation is
unprecedented.
So long as imitation continues un-
checked prices will go on rising, and so
long as prices continue to rise this kind
Of profteering will battle both the con-
science and the love of country.
There is one thing more. 1t is very
important. People soon learn by ex-
perience that in time of rising prices
moneys buying power is less and less the
longer you keep it. The way to get most
for your money is to spend it at once.
Tomorrow it may buy less. Therefore,
the frail habits of thrift are relaxed and
the impulse to spend is enormously
strengthened. The sense Of values is i'm
paired. Nobody knows what thing is
worth, and everybody expects it to cost
more tomorrow Reckless spending
causes prices to rise still faster, and this
intensifies the whole train of phenomena
already described.
Instances of immoral profiteering, in
which persons, mainly spectators, act
ually grow rich in the confusion, are
perhaps numerous; but relatively they
are rare among 1oo,ooo,oo0 people, all
profteering in self-defence.
The opprobrious term of profteer is
applied mainly to the rich; but as a
great majority of the rich derive their
income from investments at fixed per-
centages all of them are made poorer by
rise in prices. If Bolshevist only
had the financial sense to know what has
happened since the war began to the
value of that capital which he hates so
deeply he would feel terribly swindled.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
Rank for Army Nurses

War has changed in all its aspects-in
none more than in the kind of care now
given to the sick and the wounded. Bv
the introduction of modern surgical
methods and scientific nursing hospital
wastage has been reduced in a startling
ratio
Our antique military organization has
yielded slowly to innovations. In that it
mas been true to form. 1t looks back
ward instead of forward. For that rea-
son it is still thinking Of the army nurse
in terms of the era Of Florence Nightin-
gale or Clara Barton, and not in terms Of
the profession of nursing as it is splen-
dldly and thoroughly organized to-day.
The trained nurse is a factor of the
highest value in modern war; She gives
her brains as we'll as her hands to the
service OF the sick and wounded. She is
not an automaton. Yet our War De-
partment still classifes her, SO far as
authority goes, with the hospital orderly
"a man without technical knowledge and
resource, hardly the equivalent of the
ordinary practical nurse. The specialist
OF high education and qualifications must
work alongside the orderly, and, though
obhged to direct him if he is to accom-
plish anything, is vested with no power to
give him orders.
In the army rank alone gives author
lty. Therefore those on whom RESPONSE
olilty rests must have the prestige of
rank. Great Britain and Canada have
recognized this in their army medical
departments. They make their nurses
offlcers for the same reason that they
make their surgeons officers. In the
queen Alexandra's Imperial Military
Service matron in chief has the relativa
rank OF lieutenant colonel or major of
the General Staff. Matrons, sisters and
staff nurses and all line nurses have the
relative rank of lieutenant. This e;ves
them authority over non-commissioned
officers and hospital corps men, Canada
has similar system.
Mr.. Raker, of California. has intro
duced bill in the House of Representa-
tlves to reorganize the nurse corps of
the medical department, making it a sen
arate staff corps. All the members If
the corps are to have relative rank as
commissioned officers, the superintendent
as major, the chief nurses as first lieu-
tenants and the nurses and reserve
nurses as second lieutenants. In each
army serving abroad there are to be one
director and two assistant directors, with
the rank Of captain.
This bill ought to pass. 1t would wipe
out the crudities Of the present period of
transition between the ancient system Of
army nursing and the modern system.
1t would give the nurse Of professional
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31

quote his language--than the FIRST" in the
Englishman's version.
Another quotation vouched for by Con-
federate officer, who heard the original as
1t came from Forests lips, throws light
on his readiness in a crisis and his terse-
ness and eccentric speech when surprised.
While fighting superior forces and hard
beset on the main front, book-taught
staff officer brought the alarming news
as he supposed-that the Federals were
marching up on the rear of the engaged
line of battle.
oval. when we turn round wunt we be
on their rar?" was the cool chiefs naive
comment, and he at once ordered an about
face and headlong charge by reserve bat
talon. OF course he would meet this new
danger, of course surprise the foe by un-
heard of tactics and of course stampede
him and see his back.
GEORGE LANGDEN KILMER.
Brooklyn, May 20, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
And they said it couldn't be done
"'Urejszst TO Forrest''
0 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Traditions formed in Civil War
days regarding General Nathan Bedford
Forests everyday speech do not seem to
support the attempt in Mondays editorial
columns to correct General Maurice's quo
tation of famous epigram. General
FORESTS military tactics and mode Of
thought, and did so in correct English,
either from choice or because he was
quoting he found it.
Samples from Forests lips which his
contemporaries preserved in notes or their
memories show that he used the vernacular
of his class and section, Tennessee and Mis-
sissppi, in the SOS The writer has
talked with Federal and Confederate off,
GERS who met Forrest during or immedi-
atelv after the war, in which he won fame
on account of his all-round unconventional
methods, and as rule they said that his
spoken utterances had been misquoted or
purposely distorted for effect by the early
exploiters of them.
One of my informants had been captured
by some of FORESTS command, and he
afterward lived a few years in what was
known as FORESTS country" This was
Mayor y. j. Smith, 4th Indiana Cavalry
Major Smiths version of the epigram came
originally from a Confederate major who
had served with--perhaps under--Forrest
as follows: "Gittin' thar fust with the most
men,"
This rendering was recorded in print
twenty years ago from notes freshly made
and verified as substantially Forests
words and style by those in position to
know the facts. These authorities re-
ported him as invariably saying thar" for
there" "rar" for rear" 'hyar" (mon-
osyllable) for here" "bust" for burst"
"fust" for "irst," and so on. Hence the
"there" and ''frstest" in The Tribunes YER
sion seem more unjust to Forrest--in The
Tribune's sense that it is unjust to mis-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
Liberty Wings
By Theodore M. Knappen
'usMay. Aenl 7, isIA

IN AYToN, Ohio, May 2e.-we Were
darting through space at 130 miles
an hour when we drove through a
fleecy cloud, six thousand feet above Dayton.
didn't know it then, but Howard Rinehart,
the pilot, told me SO afterward
That cloud was symbol
In Washington the day before an aero
nautical authority" had called me aside
to give me grave counsel in this man
ner: Don't let them fool you. have rex-
son to believe that no Liberty motor has
ever been in the air yet" Then he told
me how no good aviation motor could be
made by machine processes. In the pres
ence of authority I was dumb.
The thunderous buzz of the mighty motor
that was now projecting US through the
air at a rate at which few men had ever
flown before was the answer
We were shooting through the cloud of
ignorance regarding the Liberty motor. The
reticence of the Signal Corps, the vocal
abilities of the enemies of the motor and
the we'll known difficulties that have been
encountered in its production have created
generally believed legend of the failure
Of the Liberty motor.
Seeing is believing. The legend was be-
ing demolished at better than two miles !
minute
The motor that was developing this speed
was just plain Packard production Liberty
motor No. 533. Three or four weeks ago it
was pile of about 1900 parts These
parts had been quickly put together st
Detroit, rushed to Dayton, placed in
De Haviland 4-and now the composite was
climbing the stairs of the skies faster than
the finest handmade motor the wonderful
machinists of France, England and italy
have ever produced
And they said it couldn't be done.
The wiseacres have been telling the pub
lie that after all the Liberty motor would
not develop speed, that it is only medi-
ocre creation at best, but here we were
shooting through the blue in a two-seater
faster than any German ace has ever sped
horizontally in a single scatter and faster
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
Rheims Is Not Dead

p HELMS is not dead. She lives iorsys
AA What of the foe, with his foul q
deavor?
He left her. soul. which will rsrssh nevs
Hs~ stones are flung, as q h..teg warnlag.
A Fa~mless heap. for the ages scorning;'
Her Aour is fixed at her last glad mornlr
Her beauty and pride are rent asnndef,@
Gut her fall was heard as . call Of thun&G
Her broken light is star Of wondeIs IS
Where loss and ruin and death assault Ia
The songs of worship shall never faitefs
They have raised to heaven her mighty Al
Still are her golden censers swinging;
Her silent bells are ever ringing
Through lost aisles sweet with bygoae
ing.
Rheims is not dead. Her splendid So
Shall be writ in gold when the world isl
saints Jsapns still kneels at her sd
glory. s
MARION CoUTHoUY SMI1
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31

attainments the status which she de-
serves. It would protect her in her work
by vesting her with needed command. 1t
would help to guarantee sufferers in hos-
pitfalls the benefit of much larger meas
ure of skilled attention.
We have many things still to learn in
war. One of them is that command must
90 alone with competency and RESPONSE
bllty, no matter whether the uniform
il wcrn by man or by woman.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
Military Precision
1Fron. The Boston Tyo.s--,,

II O"' IHe boSfoh 7fdNscrfpf)
colored drill sergeant is reportad \
saying to his squad: "Now when / riveI
de word OBJ commsn' Eyes rieht,' want,
70 heah every niggah's eyeballs click"
Apropos, tho story is told Of Grant beinl
offered battalion of backwoossmen. III
admired the fine physique of the men, hui
had his doubts about their training.
Colonel" said Grant, "I'd like to -
your men ct work. Call them TO attention
and order them to march with shouldaYed
arms in close column to the lsfs fank.r
Instantly the colonel shouted 10 bis
troops: Boys, look wild. thar, Make ssady
to thicksn and go left endways. Tote yepg
guns. Git!"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31

1t seems incredible that the Adminis-
tratlon, with all it's skill in popular psy-
chology, would be so fatuous as to ;ntern
General Leonard Wood for political
reasons. A martyr may be more danger
Gus than hero. And yet, since political
intultlons are most likely to go wrong
IN moments of supreme confidence. one
cannot be sure.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
How the Mother Knew
tFrom Llopd's Neus ro,d..,

5TToW LloDd's Nous. London1
"eish soldier wrote at the head of his
lese1, nfalch yn dagrau" and the censor.
eVlaeh'y assuming this to be a Welsh
motto, allowed it to pass. The mans mothar
however, was able to read the nhrsss -.
arm IN tears" and from it she eatbered
that her son was somewhere near Arman-
there's.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
The New Date Lin.

tFrom the ciepetand Prais Dealer,
We are looking eagerly forward n the
time when, instead of "sem ewhsre in
France" the letters from onr bows w,l, \.
dated from Somewhere in Germany"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31

you can purchase merchandise advertised IN ahe
TRIBUNE With abs ute safetsor II dissatisfaction re
uits In any ease THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
noney back upon request No red tape. No ouihbllne
We make GOOD prom pity II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
GUARANTEE

Filtered at the postofce at New York Second Class
Mall Matter
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-19
PIERCE co. JOINS
$1,000 LIMIT CLUB

The latest member of the Thousand
Dollar Limit Club is Howard Clark,
president of the PieroC Manufacture
prevail of the War Savings plan by
frequent encouragement in the past
and this latest endorsement in the
form of a $1,000 subscription is highly
appreciated by the War Savings COM
mittee.
J. Biehl, delicatessen dealer at 1858
East Main street. has turned in a
record of sales of War Savings
Stamps which is a pleasure to the
War Savings Committee. Mr. BiehI
has sold over $3.50 of stamps to his
customers and is continuing to in
crease his sales right along.
Another evidence of what can be
done in selling stamps is reported by
Sperry, Hutchinson & Co. where at
the Broad street store the original
capital invested in War Savings
Stamps has been turned over more
than seven times.
The War Savings Committee is
continuing its work on the develop
ment of the idea of broader distribu-
ton through all of the merchants in
town carrying the stamps. At the
present time 500 agents are in active
service but a special effort will be
made by thee onffttee to bring into
the service at least $500 more places,
including all of the merchants in the
city.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-19
BRITISH PRESS
SUPPORTS new
APPOINTMENTS

london, April 19.---W1th few excep-
tons the British press supports the
changes in the cabinet announced
yesterday.
The Daily Mail which is among the
exceptions, says that in order not to
embarrass the government the North
cliffe press has refrained from criti-
cism Of many a mater that needed it.
land it is protesting now against the
political re-shuff1e which gives office
to feeble politicians like Mr Cham
berlain, who is publicly saddled with
responsibility for the Mesopotamia
failure"
'SThe Northcliffe press" it adds,
with every relative Of the boys whose
names are published in the casualty
lists had expected better things from
lNr. Lloyd-George than indulgence in
the old game of political juggling in
such a. tremendous hour"
On the other hand the Daily Tele-
graph says the abilities of Mr.. Cham
berlain will assuredly prove Of great
value. The Graphic, in recalling that
Mr.. Chamberlain in the house of
commons a. few weeks ago made an
attack on a certain section of the
press, says:
'cHe is now subjected 10 a counter
offensive