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FOR SALE-Two mules. Price
$500. Wind, eyes and work guar
anteed. Apply Geo. F. Bierhorst,
Vaudeville, La. 1870
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-07-20

FOR SALE-Tin cans for fruit
and vegetables. Cheap. Alexius
Bros. & Co., Inc. 100
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12

unfortunatel: he does not define the
nature of those plans, and the only names
he mentions in outlining his ideal council
of strategists afford no clew. Admiral
Degouy is indeed known as powerful
advocate Of offensive warfare, but if Mr.
Wilson has been able to make out from
the interesting book lately published by
that distinguished critic exactly what he
would do with the fleets, he must be
singularly skilful in reading between the
lines and filling in the many blanks and
hiatuses for which we are doubtless in
debted to the censor. Admiral Dcgouy
may have a very definite and very OK
cellent plan, but what is it?
Possibly Mr.. Wilson is in the secret, but
so far neither he nor any other critic has
given it away. However, one Of the con-
crete grievances is now removed by the
organization of board which will be able
to consider operations of war freely and
unencumbered by other considerations
So manifest an improvement in the ma
chinery of the Admiralty will doubtless
be welcomed on all hands.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
New Rochelle Enlists

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR New Rochelle Saloons Fight Clos
ing Order" is the heading of news article,
with an Albany date line, printed in The
tribune OF this morning. The last para
graph Of the article is as follows: "The
dry order was issued December Ia, when
New Rochelle was crowded with recruits
who could not be accommodated at Fort
Slocum, across the Sound"
ms is true, but not the whole truth.
The important fact is omitted that a week
after the recruits had gonc-and the emer-
gency past which made expedient the clos
ing OF our saloons-full consideration was
given by our former Mayor Grifing to the
matter of resembling the order. and that
ne, with the approval Of a great majority
OF our citizens, decided to continue it in
force for the duration of the war
And how else could we have decided? To
resume the sale of liquor in New Rochelle
would be to deny to own sons the pro-
lection we gave to the sons of other com
nunltles temporarily in our keeping
Another fact that has bearing upon the
situation is that Fort Slocum is not "across
the Sound" as you say, but is hardly more
than mile from our City Hall. Some
twelve thousand soldiers are quartered there
and are our guests when on leave MANY
are the same fine boys we fed and sheltered
and protected from liquor, two weeks ago.
Are they less deserving OF that protection
now that they are in uniform? When these
boys go cover there" and others fill their
places at Fort socum, should they not be
protected, too?
Make no mistake Liquor is not going to
be sold in New Rochelle "for the duration
of the war;; bat we want the people at large
to kno" all the facts NJ. r. WELLER
New Rochelle Jan. 2 1913
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12

shifted a little from where it used to be.
The problem of the proper housing of
workers has always been with us. Social
workers, volunteer organizations, have
undertaken to cope with, it. The gov
ernment has it within its power not only
to attack the problem Of housng-any
housing-but the problem of proper hous-
ing for the men whose efforts will help to
win the war not less surely than those of
the men in the trenches and on the ships.
1t is to be hoped the formation of some
kind of government housing bureau will
result under the direction of men wise and
energetic enough to work out both phases
of the question soundly and promptly.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
A Naval General Staff

The promised creation of "what will
in effect be a Naval General Staff" must
apparently be considered not as a rcvolu-
British navy, but rather as another step in
a process of reorganization which began
nearly year ago. Though it is reported
that there will be no titular change in the
Board of Admiralty, it may be presumed
that in effect d new board will be cstab-
lished with the First Sea Lord as chief of
the staff, the principal purpose being to
free the hands of those concerned in the
conduct of the operations at sea.
Many critics of the navy have COM
planned that in the past the British Ad-
mralty has shown little or no strategical
originality or adaptability, the common
complaint being that strategists have been
discouraged and that the conceptions
prevailing to-day are of another age.
Great possibilities have been foreseen in
the appointment Of young men free from
traditional opinions and prejudices, and
the assurance that in making some new
appointments "no regard has been paid
10 seniority VIII UOuDuleSS Dc cause OIL
singular satisfaction to those who are dis
satisfied with what is called the ''passive
strategy" of the day
The recent establishment of the Naval
Allied Council failed in any manner to
meet the demands of these critics. Thus
Mr.. II. w. Wilson, who at first saw in it
"some faint hope of better strategy"
complains that in effect "what has hap
pened is that the British Admiralty has
camouhaged under another name the same
personnel which is responsible for our
passive strategy" What he had hoped to
see was council composed of "such
French officers as Admiral Degouy and
Captain Baudry and the pick Of the brains
in the American navy" associated, of
course, with those anonymous younger
officers" in the British fleet Of whom we
have heard so much.
1t is made plain that what Mr.. Wilson
is itching for is an offensive war. "There
are excellent young officers now on the
various war staff departments Are their
plans being carried out?" he asks with all
the significant emphasis of italics. But
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
For a Permanent Fuel Administrator

Ic the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The recent period of extreme low
temperatures, coupled with the scarcity of
coal, suggests the desirabilty of a perma-
nent fuel administration In the past the
country has depended upon what might be
described as an accidental distribution Of
coal, and there has been scarcely winter
Tor Years when some sections have not suf-
f"red IN consequences
1t would be the business of a fuol con
missioner. or whatever he might be called to
plot the whole country and ascertain bv
a careful collection of statistics the rroh
a9io requirements of each locality Bv So
curlrg regular reports from the railroads
OF all shipments of coal, both hard and soft
he should be able to know with reason,
able accuracy which portions of the country
were getting too little too much coal
and IN ample time, in the fall would he
III a position to so direct shipments that
no fuel famine would occur at any point
If he found that an insufficient ouant;tv
of coal was being mined to satisfy the needs
OF the country it would be part of HI.
duties TO take effective measures for sneed.
ing up production. Such an Office ;f 500
fully organized and efficiently conducted
would be worth all it would cost and mnch
more NJ ~
New York, Jan. ., 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
War Bread

(f rom The Chicago Trbuuc,
An incidental benefit from war NAV be tho
discovery Of wheat BY Americans Their
knowledge of this grain has been limited by
experience with flour which came from
wheat. War regulations will give them a
flour which is wheat -four, flour not de-
rived from wheat, but consisting of wheat.
They have been told that the refining proc
csses which millcrs found necessary in salts
flying public demand produced a flour which
made Il less palatable loaf than the whole
wheat loaf. Their own tastes denied that or
ignored it. They have been told that the re-
fning resulted in a loaf from which whole
some qualities of wheat were eliminated.
That made no impression. They have been
tod mat there was great deal of waste in
the refining. That made no impression. The
American wanted refined flour and white
loaf and got it. Now war necessity REQUIRES
mat more of the wheat be kept in the -four.
and necessity may develop new national
habit
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
The Franchise for Women
Irom Tho Vancouver SuN

FrOnt IN" lOnCOut'r Sun)
One Of the first questions with which the
Dominion Parliament will be expected to deal
at its next session is The extension of the
franchise to all the women of Canada In
the recent election many women voted for
the first time, but owing to causes about
which it is nov useless to argue the privi-
lcge was restricted to those having relatives
in the overseas forces. This restriction the
public will look to removed at the earl-
est opportunity A promise TO that effect has
been given and should be observed
Liberals in the last Parliament, without
reference to their position on conscription,
supported the contention that both sexes
should be on an equality in the matter of
the franchise. Presumably the differences
which have since arisen have altered no
hody's views on this point.
The Union government also is pledged to
this reform. In its first official manifesto the
new administration has enumerated among
the projects to which it is committed "the eX-
tension OF the franchise to women, with suit
able provisions for enabling married women
to determine their nationality and to obtain
naturalization, notwithstanding marriage y
This pledge should be carried out The war
has brought to women the burdens and sacri-
fees Of citizenship. 1t should also bring
them its privileges and responsibilities
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Landlords Couldn't Get Coal

10 the Editor of The Tribune
SIR: Answering j. L. s. in his complaint
about landlords I would say this simple
minded gentleman should investigate condi-
tons before making a statement.
Hundreds of landlords and agents had
coal contracts signed already in April 1917
q was one Of them), but we absolutely could
not get our supply of coal.
We were promised time and again we would
get supply in October November after
the navigation was closed on the Great Lakes
The landlords who obtained coal here in
Brooklyn during the summer were mostly
German enemy aliens. You had to wear the
Hun stamp your face to obtain coal. Some
of these German enemies have right now
four years supply in their cellars.
This is the condition, and the Federal Fuel
Administrator has done absolutely nothing
when notified of existing conditions
If j. L. S. desires to have heat for next
winter let him get busy and help US down
the Huns first at home. A PATRIOT
Brooklyn JAM s. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Realities in Ireland

A painful impression seems to have been
produced throughout Ireland by the re-
cent activity of German submarines in the
destruction the other day Of two vessels
bound for Waterford. Not n member of
either of the crews was saved, and the
Mayor of Waterford and the Lord Mayor
of Dublin have opened funds for the sue
cor of the families left destitute. cor
respondent of "The New York Times"
who has visited Waterford speaks of the
bitterness Of feeling among the people, re-
marking that formerly he had often heard
it said that the Germans would not think
Of attacking an Irish ship. Gwen sea-
men," he adds, "were induced to believe
this"
Such tragic events may serve at least
to correct the deiusions of a credulous
people and save them from the unprn-
cipled leaders who persuaded them that
the Germans were their friends and ap-
pointed saviors The cynical Indifference
toward the war which some of these
schemers have long endeavored to culti-
is cause of increasing resentment else
where One whose home is in the West
Of Ireland has lately given an account of
a journey she made in train filled with
countrymen on their way to a coursng
match. She contrasts the wealth Of food
in the dining car with the scant fare she
had found during a sojourn in England
and then proceeds as follows:
The talk was all of sport and coursing,
and only one mention of the war, when
man threw down the "lndcpendent"
with sncer: 81 the beautiful
Britishers have to retire at two points"
did feel so and miserable, and could
only think Of those patient queues in the
Edgeware Road waiting for hours to get
one-quarter pound Of margarine, sugar,
tea; and then of men all over the
world defending Incidentally Ireland
that they might sneer and eat and go to
races, and not lift finger
The truth is that in many parts of Ire
land they have not felt the effect Of war
at all. A lecture delivered in Cleveland
by Mr.. Wesley Frost, our former consul at
Queenstown, is said to have produced an
infinitely stronger impression among the
people when reprinted in the Irish papers
than all the news of battles in months It
was only the plain story Of what resi-
dent in Ireland had seen, but it conveyed
sense Of reality and proximity which the
ordinary war news Of the day did not. In
the recent exploits of Sim Feins 'galant
ally" realism is intensified
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Poland and Lithuania
They Should Be United by Bonds of
Friendship and Tradition
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l sorely regret that Mr. stakenas
should fail TO see that it would be preferable
for the Lithuanians 20 live on friendly terms
with the Poles than to be devoured BY
the Germans. There is, however no other
choice for them.
What Germany wants is a small Ljtlu.
ania small Poland, small Esthonja.
small Courand, each country indeDendent.
each country to be easily conquered and
disposed Of. What the Poles want IS re-
public similar to that Of the United States
and composed of all the territories which
formed the Polish Republic before the par
titlon. united by bonds of friendship and
tradition with Lthuania each country to
nave its own independence its own Ian
guage, its own administration, but both
countries to have one armv. one navy
common commercial interests. as we'll as
one aim, the same as in the past. i. G.,
the Illustration OF Germany's plans for
world domination
lhere never was any Polish persecution
OF any language, creed or nationality as
long as Poland retained her independents
Years before the famous union OF Poland
with Lithuania. whose Official sanction bY
the representatives. of both nations took
place in Horodlo 1413), the Lithuanian
princes, cheftans and practically all the
ruling classes had adopted the White
Ruthenian language
The first translation of the Bible into
Lithuanian done by a Pole Hcinsk
Dy name, as lar back as the seventeenth
century. 1t must also be added that such
Poles as Baranowski Drozdow ski. Iwinski
and Nolonczewski have taken most
tive part in the revival and the development
OF the Lithuanian language in the first half
OF the nineteenth century The above his
torical facts give a good idea Of the per
secution of the Lithuanian language by the
Poles
When Mr.. Stakenas states that Mickiewiez
Kondratowicz and Narbut were Lthuanians
he is not absolutely correct since Mickiewics
and kondratowicz, ethnographically speak
ing, were of remote White Ruthenian origin
as their names indicate
Take Mickiewicz. Could he not have writ
ten in Lithuanian if he had chosen to?
He was outside of the Polish jurisdiction
AS to "the great soldier Rascnsxko,
Lithuanian son." l surmise this is an at
tempt to Lithuanianize kosciuskos name.
While admitting that there might have been
some White Ruthenian blood in him, we
must remember that he took pride in con-
slderlng himself Pole, and claimed this
nationality when fighting for the lnited
States in America for Poland and Lithuana
III Europe when representing Poland at the
congress OF Vienna, and finally when end
ing ms glorious days an exile IN Swlta-
erland.
The statements of Mr.. Stakenas serve only
to prove that the most ~llustrious among
those whom he claims as Lithuanians did
consider themselves as Poles, since tney
called themselves Poles, wrote in Polisn'
fought for Poland and loved that Polish
mother country W.O. GORSK1.
New York, Jan. 8, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Caspar Whitney

Beginning tomorrow, The Tribune will
publish series of articles by Mr.. Caspar
Whitney on conditions in France, the con-
dition of France itself and of the Amer-
can armies cover there
To an American public which has been
familiar with Caspar Whitney's writing
for nearly a quarter Of a century The
Tribune does not have to say any word of
advance praise or give any assurance of
its own confidence in the accuracy of his
observations.
Prior to the entrance of the United
States into the war Mr.. Whitney had been
for many months working with the Bel
gian Relief Commission in Northern
France. His sympathy with the Allied
cause was proven in that hardest of all
missions, and what he observed behind the
German front gives peculiar value to his
testimony of conditions on the Allied side.
Before MI Whitney went to France for
The Tribune he sought an opportunity to
serve his country directly. Failing to OBJ
tain this, he joined The Tribune staff with
the purpose and hope, through its columns,
of serving the common cause of all the
Allied nations, and it is in this spirit and
with this purpose that his articles have
been written. They are the work of dis
tinguished journalist, who at this time re-
CARDS even journalism as incidental to the
larger service. What he has written for
The Tribune he has written not to make a
newspaper story but in the hope and with
the desire to contribute to the success of
cur struggle by explaining something of
the difficulties and the obstacles that lie
ahead.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Houses for War Workers

While the cry from Europe and govern
ment officials here is for ships, ships and
more ships, Mr.. Ferguson, president of
one of the great shipbuilding concerns, tes-
tlfies before q Senate committee that the
chief obstacle to output now is lack of
housing accommodations for the workers
in the shipyards. Moreover, this is gen
eral problem, not local one in this par
tlcular case. What is true at Newport
News is true at Newark, at Newburgh at
practically every community where a ship
yard exists or has been established or
where big new plants have been erected
to rush work on government war orders.
The Importance of this situation cannot
be overestimated. 1t is even more press
ing than the labor shortage. which the
government has undertaken to eliminate
by the reorganization and expansion of
the Federal employment service to mobi-
1ize workers where they are needed most.
1t is idle to obtain the men for a given fac
tory if no places exist to house them after
they have been obtained. "There is no limit
to the number of ships this country can
build if it really sets itself to the task"
Mr.. Ferguson told the Senate committee
"But it cannot be done without man
power, and man power cannot be obtained
unless housing is provided"
Real estate Development the profit
taking or speculative building of peace
times which has kept the supply of houses
about equal to the demand heretofore
has failed. That failure is due to many
causes-shortage of men and materials,
a lack of private capital for such enter
prises, high land values and the like. The
chief point is that whatever it was worth
under ordinary conditions private supply
ing of houses in war work centres is out
of the question now. Private enterprise
cannot measure up to the job; the COM
panies with war contracts cannot divert
capital and energy to it. The logic of
such condition is that the government,
with its vast powers and capital, will
have to step in to do what private en-
terprise is unable to do. but what must
be done nevertheless.
Mr.. Ferguson's testimony so stirred Of
ficialdom that the Shipping Board has
made an appropriation of S 100000 to
meet requirements at Newport News. The
promise is made that the matter will be
taken up at other places as soon as gen
eral appropriation bill can be passed.
On two grounds this government activ-
ity should be undertaken. The first Is
the need for getting its war work done s;
the second is the opportunity that would
be thus afforded for taking the lead in
a social movement which demands vigor-
Gus treatment. If the housing of work
ers in war time is such grave problem,
it is only because the emphasis has been
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Putting the House Together

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: | have read in to days Tribune Of Mrs.
Phelps Stokes's plea to her "brethren," the
German Socialists, that they should rcadmit
her into their ranks again. also an interview
with her husband who, according to A state
ment prefers to remain a plain Democrat
But Mrs. Stokes seems to think that nothin1,
but socialism can democratize The world.
would like to ask Mrs. Stokes if she thinks
that the German Social Democrats in Ger
many consider themselves deceived bv thc
haIsers appeal to them, when he started tho
war under the pretence that it was a defence
hght! The enthusiasm which this BODY
showed IN the beginning makes me believe
that those great rcformers were as anxious to
get to Paris as the Kaiser was And it was
only when the United States entered the con-
test and the Boshcvik recently ba)ked
against peace terms, which too plainly
showed the real object Of this war as far AS
Germany is concerned, that I have seen thar
the German Social Democrats have made any
efforts to have peace "without anncxations
and ndcmnities.'
Thus, after what have seen Ay the con-
duct of the Socialists since the war started r.
cannot be accepted as q matter of "prncplev
whatever their spokesmen now shout in the
way of mo annexations," but rather SIGN
that the game is upthe kaser's game. in
which the Socialists Loyalty joined, and
that they all see the handwriting on the wall
he defeat VIII be victory for American
democracy against socialism Wherever wa
may find it. | am glad to sec tha, Mrs
Stokess husband has decided to stick to the
ranks of the victors the American demo-
Gratis ERNST BYSTROM.
Brooklyn, Jan. :. 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12

also remember that at is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great task remain
ing before us; that from these honored dead
we take increased devotion to that cause for
which they gave the last full measure of de-
votion; that we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain; that this
nation. under God shall have new birth of
freedom. and that government Of the people,
by the people, and for the people shall not
perish from the earth"
c. ]. GREENLEAF,
Patriotic Instructor, G.. A. R.
New York, Jan. s, 1918.