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The Washington times., 1918-03-04
PROPOSALS

OFFICE OF THE COAMISsIONE EItS. DIS-
TRICT OF COLUMBIA. FEBRUARY -.
1918. SEALED PROPOSALS will be received
at the ofnce Of the Secretary Of the Boa rd
Of Commissioners. Room 5O9, District Ruild-
ing. until o'clock 4. NJ. March -, 1918. for
making alterations and doing cell work at
Police Station No. !. located on Volta Place.
between Wisconsin Avenue and 22Td street
Northwest Washington. u. g. Blank forms
OF proposal. plans, and specifications may ls
obtained from the Chief Clerk, Engineer De
partment Room ~. District Building. \ de
post OF hve dollars will he required from
bidders TO insure the return Of the plans and
specihcations. LOUIS BROwNIOW. JOHN
G. d. KNIGHT. ". GWYNS GARDINER.
Commissioners. .. e.
The Washington times., 1918-03-04
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The Washington times., 1918-03-04
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE

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ter; plenty wood. on r. ?. D.: will all %
easy terms or exchange for D @. su6uFbaD
property Of not less than ave AcroA Aplly
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New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
The Women Candidates

Among the various permutations and
combinations possible in analyzing the
number eleven which covers the women
candidates in the primaries in New York
City, it is interesting to note that only
one Democratic woman is DESIGNATED as
the organization candidate, against five
Republican women who are "official."
Although there are six women running
under the sign of the star, only one has
the authority Of the Tammany organiza-
ton, whereas no Republican woman has
had to buck her party leaders to enter
the race.
This 100 per cent record for the Re-
publ1cans, however generous to the wom-
en- it may seem, has it's political urge
back Of it, naturally enough. For no
one of the five has walk-away ahead
OF her after the nomination at the pri
mares. They are all in either strong
Democratic or contested districts, and
they have been designated largely ybecause
the leaders have thought that if any Re-
pubhcan> could wrest the districts from
Democratic hands a Republican woman
could. The theory is that at this, the
women's first election, the woman vote
Will so almost solid for woman candi
date, no matter how much splitting Of
the tickets it may require So it's a
woman's success or none for the Re-
publcans in these districts, and on the
women they pin their hope.
g r,ll
the woman vote by running women for
ofhce. But how secure is a party whose
women at the first shoot of the gun set
up in business for themselves over the
heads of the carefully selected organiza-
ton candidates? Is there to be unrest
among the Democratic women? Will
they not accept the party mandates as
they are sent out? There is not much
to hope for from the regular" Tam
many women, the wives and mothers Of
loyal organization men, but New York
City in this first enrolment of women
has produced a good many women who
are Democratic nationally and indepen-
dent IN city politics. Many suffragists
nave thought it wise to belong to Presi-
dent Wilson's party; other women who
might have been Socialists on domestic
policies have rejected the Socialist party
on account of the anti-war programme
and have gone into the Democratic party
TO uphold the government during the
war. So all are not faithful Tammanv-
ties, and If even one of the five should
be nominated Tammany would have
cause to do some long thinking.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
Garry On!
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | am sending to you herewith what
] have termed "The Cripples Ten Com.
mandmcnts" in the hope that by publish.
ing them in your columns you will help to
lnstil fortitude into the thousands of Amer.
lean boys who will return from war dis.
abled. | have been minus an arm and q
leg for thirtythree years, but | have made
good:
1.-The cripple who uses the word Cant
is apt to be selling pencils on the street
corner before he dies
"A man is crippled just so far as be
let's his brain make him a cripple.
"a man is worth $3.50 per day from
his collar down. If you have lost limb
you have not lost much.
4-The average cripple does not believe
in himself, otherwise he would not have .
hard time to get position.
Don't ask a man how much he will
pay when you ask for work; get the job
and show him you can produce; he will
pay you all you are worth.
6-The right kind of cripple is an ssss.
to his employer instead OF liability
"A cripple who does not lose his pep
when he has lost his limb will make good
nine times out of ten.
8-1f you did not make good before los.
ing a limb, the loss will not add to your
earning powers.
Don't be q ouitter. r. won were the
only cripple in this country you might kick
but there are 100000 more cripples and
hundreds of these have made good
lo-Cheer up. F. r. BIGLER,
Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Dis.
abled Men, New York, Aug. g. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
"This Intolerable Thing"

Wars of aggression, wars of defence,
have been fought before-usually with
some right and some wrong on both
sides, usually with some compromise,
some adjustment, as means of peace.
This war is like none other in that there
can be no middle ground between victory
and defeat Unless "this intolerable
Thing of which the masters of Germany
have shown us the ugly face, this menace
of combined intrigue and force which we
now see so clearly as the German power"
is crushed, all the stupendous sacrifices
it has entailed will have been made in
vain.
Intrigue strikes from within, while
force strikes from without. 1t works in
every part of the world. 1t uses the
vilest instruments. 1t fosters treason in
the ranks Of Germany's enemies. 1t seeks
to destroy even those nations with which
Germany is at peace.
There is nothing surprising in the
story of the activities Of the German
Embassy at Madrid. They were paral-
United States was still neutral. Money
was dispensed from Madrid as from
Washington to foment strikes, to para
lyze industry, to damage property, to at
tack the government. Attacks on Span
ish ship owners, attempts to blow up
bridges, conspiracies with anarchists, in
elements to revolution-th is no nov
city in any Of these things.
But the publication of the facts in a
Spanish newspaper, though the govern
ment tried to suppress the issue, has
stirred Spain. Coming after the sink
ings of Spanish ships, it is creating Bit
ter resentment. Even the action Of the
government, whether dictated by fear or
sympathy, can hardly dissipate that feel
ing. For intrigue often loses the game
by overreaching itself. With such ex.
ampes of "the intolerable Thing" no
neutral can but pray for deliverance
from it,
No nation ever carried the unscrupu-
ltus policy of debasement alike of enc
mics and of friends as far as Germany
has done. She leaves dirty trail everv-
where; whatever she touches she befouls.
Yet there are those among US, there are
those even in England, France and Italv.
who continue to play, willingly or unwit-
tlngly, the German game. To them this
Thing is not intolerable.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
Are WomenPeople?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Why all this talk about woman,
way Of saluting the flag? Why should she
not salute it? And why should she have
special way of saluting it? Are women
people? And if they are people, is the flag
not the same to them as to men?
AS human being and citizen of this
Republic have long practised saluting NV
flag exactly as man salutes it, and ex-
pect to continue to do so. Hand on the
heart, indeed! My hand goes up to NV
forehead, and will go there as often as
please, and stay there as long as I please
The salute is not mans monopoly-not
even soldiers monopoly. We are all in
Uncle Sans army to-day and we should all
salute our flag in precisely the same wav
NO other suggestion is admissible.
All women should simply adopt the
proper salute at once and stop all discus
sion about matter SO obvious. If we are
to have special salute why not have a
special fag-slightly inferior? Or sne-
clal brand of patriotism?
Owing to custom-and hatpns-I can't
raise my hat. But l can raise nv hand
and shall always do So Who has the
r'gn' 10 stop me? M. c. SMITH.
East Orange, N. j., Aug. 10, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
Picking Up the Fl

Simple spelling is all very well, but
when it makes you look like a German,
down with it! That is the motto of
Galesburg, Ill.,, birthplace of Chairman
Hurley of the Shipping Board, soon to
take its place on the maps as Gales
burgh.
So goes the procession the country
over. Berlins and Bsmarcks long since
resolved upon turning over a new leaf.
There could be no question Of their
shame. But the "burgs" were slower to
feel the urge, and for very good reason.
1t is sheer coincidence that gives them
Teutonic look. Galesburg is no more
German than Canterbury Cathedral. in
TACT. The American burg" in Gales
burg, like the "burgh" in Pittsburgh,
halls straight from the English "bor-
ough" or the Scottish "burgh." Both de-
rive originally from the same Anglo
Saxon root as "bury,' and neither is anv
more German than is any other good
Anglo-Saxon English word. So it is the
mere appearance Of being German that
stlrs Galesburg. Pittsburgh, having
clung to its ''h" despite all the simple
spoilers could do, has nothing to retract.
incidentally the trend of place names in
England has been to preserve the "bor
ough IN full-as in Petersborough.
"Burgh" is the Scottish form, and that.
as every one who has ever heard Scot
tlsh tongue roll forth Edinburgh knows.
IS not pronounced to rhyme with Pitts
burgh, however full of Middle West "rs."
So to go the whole distance sensitive
Galesburgians might insist upon Gales
borough; and Mr.. Carnegie might learn
to say, what should come very readily
from his Dunfermline tongue, Pitts
burro
Stranger marks have already been left
on the map by the war. An English
phllologist was recently much perturbed
to discover on his war map of the Franco
Belgian frontier a new town, to wit
Dozenham. The termination was near
Flemish, as in Ebblinghem, Boeseghem
etc. he wrote to his newspaper a query
which was presently answered from q
correspondent in the feld-by and with
the censors permission-to the effect
that Dozenham was usually spelled Dos
lnghem and was not nearly so Flemish
as 1t appeared, being one of three Brit
lsh hospital centres named respectively
Bandaghem, Dosinghem and Mendinp.
hem.
There is also the Bois des Americans.
And the marines have just begun to
hight! By the time our armies get to
Berlin there will surely be enough out
standing names to rechristen every
burg" in America.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
Editors Of Kansas

The editors Of Kansas had race in
the Republican primaries of that state
last week. AS was fitting, the fastest
pen-pusher won. He was none other
than Arthur Capper, who, being Gov
crnor, aspires to be Senator. Since the
Governor happens to be publisher Of
the Topeka Capital and seven other Jour.
nails whose editorial support he managed
to enlist, it was natural that he should
roll up vote greater than the total of
his three opponents. For former Sena-
tor Joseph l.. Bristow publishes onlv the
Salinn Journal and the Kansas Form
Journal, and Charles +. Scott had to
content himself with laudations from the
Iola Register, which he edits. Of course.
former Governor Roscoe Stubs, who
does not run newspaper, never had
chance to be Senator. Of the four can.
didates for Governor, Editor Henry
Allen Of the Wichita Beacon won q
sweeping majority. His nearest rival
was W. Y. Morgan, editor of the HUTCH
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
The German Is About

The latest feat of the Imperial Ger
man Navy, a mustard gas attack upon
the State of North Carolina, is so ridicu-
lous and childish that it is hard to take
it seriously. Yet six men-non-co comba-
tants, of course-were overcome, and
there is no earthly reason why a sub
marine, Gott helping, should not succeed
in gassing few women and children on
a beach somewhere. The vicious ralevo-
lence Of the deed is quite as colossal as
its stupidity and absurdity.
1t is an excellent thing that the Ger
man, with all his technical skill and cum
ming, is so stupid at heart. Such an un-
conscious revelation of German charac-
ter as this U-boat gave, small but be-
yond debate, is an excellent lesson to
those overtender Americans who have
clung to the deluson that there was
some exaggeration in the Allied estimate
of German character-that in short,
our noses deceived u.s.
There comes to mind the classic de-
scription of Cologne by Coleridge:
l counted two-and-seventy stenches,
All we'll defined, and several stinks
Also the sequel of these lines, even
better, worn from much quotation:
The river Rhine, it is we'll known
Doth wash your city of Cologne;
But tell me- nymphs, what power divine
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
What or who in the generations to
come will be able to wash out the smell
of gas from the German?
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14

insoV News. The two lawyers who
aspired to be Governor were promptly
eliminated by the editorial steam roller.
The Democrats, in keeping with the
trend of politics in Kansas, nominated
for Governor W. c. Lansdon, editor of
the Salina Union. But since Kansas is
normally Republican state, the chances
are he will go down to defeat before Edi
tor Allen, of Wichita. The popularity
of the Wichita editor may be Judged by
the overwhelming majority accorded
him, although he did not appear before
the voters once during the campaign, be-
ing absent in France in the service of
the Y. M. c. A. But the Kansas City
Star kept him in the forefront by print
ing from time to time his accounts of the
doings over there. His only message to
the voters was the one just before he
sailed
"If you want me to serve as your Gov
ernor will gladly do so, but you must
nominate without my help
Politics and journalism seem to mix
we'll in Kansas. Two newspaper men
still remain aoof Why is it that Will
lam Allen White and Walt Mason can t
break away from the Emporia Gazette
long enough to have a fling in politics?
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
Picnic Time and Rural Parks

This is picnic time for all America
and countless parties comfortably
campcd along the roadside SUNDAYS. and
weekdays, too, testify to the renewed
acquaintance with the country which the
motor car has brought There is now
thanks to the immortal Henry and his
competitors, car for every fourth fam
lily in the whole Republic, to say nothing
of the thousands of trucks which are in
telhgently put at the disposal of the en-
ployes by the owners on Saturday after
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
To the Bitten

It is hot weather, and any pest is irri
tating. The suffragettes who are picket
ing the White House are easily the most
irritating pests of summer rich in
humidity, mosquitoes and every other
small annoyance. The most the women
of the country can expect Of their Sena-
tors is that they shall retain enough of
their sense of humor and perspective to
see how very microscopic are these
parading pickets. They represent nobody
except themselves. They grossly mis-
represent the great body Of patriotic
American women who wish the vote to
help their country-not to peck at it in
it's hour of need.
We don't blame any Senator for get
ting hot and angry at the paraders. We
only ask him to cool off when the wealth
er moderates, and not visit the sins of a
few dozen addleheads upon one-half of
the nation.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
Nights Vineyard
By Captain Lord Dunsany
TT SHOULD never he lost s;.h.

I SHOULD never be lost sight ~ a,
i the actual date of peace is OF scarc.,.
any Importance in comparison :, :.
permanenco And the permanence of Ma.
will depend upon the establishment a, .
structicn of the ideals that are the oh;...
of the war.
The object of the invasion Of R.,.;u.
was threefold: First, to grab Belyiu.
second, to grab Paris; and third, to ws.,.,
and intimidate the rest of the World .,
put the idea musically. Deutschland uh.,
Allies. That began the war. The obiee, ,t
its continuance is to prove that the inv.
sion of Belgium and the snatch at p..:.
are the right way to behave and that ,b..s
who talk of the rights of nations tall ~.
sense
If this object is attained no one will
dare any more to interfere with tho ".
Lord whenever he chooses to enter D.,
gum, or any other country, any more th..
any one interfered with Ahab when h. g..
to walk IN the vineyard he had rccs,.,.
got from Naboth. This object will \. -.
tanned if peace comes at time whom ~.
German Kaiser is still in posito, :.
telegraph, or to sing, or say, that with N.
help of God. who is undoubtedly with him
and his own destructive sword. he has .,..
iously burned Rheims, or sunk q bosn..
ship or bombed Margate, or don. snv o,h..
abomlnable thing whatever. A malefact..
proved to be right by force of arms uoul.
IN that case be in position TO revers. ~.
laws and ethics of the world
The disaster of such an event woula \.
widespread over the world, affectjns NJ,
only the Allies. Those that are now rsn
trail would call themselves nations h. :.
precarious right, and never know m uh..
day that right might not be taken swav .,
the War Lord took it away from Bs,.;uu
and Luxembourg. And Austria. Turl.r
Bulgaria. having sold their souls 70 ths
War Lord, would get pretty much the sam.
terms as one gets in such deals with II.
devil. '"'
The world wants a peace that shall \.
permanent, not good German neace not :.
peace of peaceful penetration, no, f.w
fallow years for Krupp to work In hi,
STOCK; and, above all. the world has had
enough of the All Highest War Lord .ra
the deadly harm that he has done IN u,,.
what are left of us want no mora ~ h..
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14

amendment to the draft bill, applying
the work or fight" rule in the broadest
possible manner. The amendment says
that no person shall remain in deferred
classification because Of employment IN
an essential industry unless "he shall in
good faith continue, while physically able
to do SO, to work at and follow such oc-
cupation, employment or business, and If
he fails to do so he shall again become
subject to the draft
Here is a real guarantee of an unin
terrupted development of man power in
war work-a safeguard against inter-
ruption through strikes. 1t is a piece of
positive and courageous legislation. 1t
leaves nothing to the caprice or political
pliability of administrators. 1t says to
everybody: '"Work or fight"
Mr.. Baker may try to have the amend
ment killed. 1t clashes violently with his
ideas. We hope, however, that the Sen
ate and the House will follow the Sen
ate Military Affairs Committees lead
"Force without limit" is the true pro-
gramme of the United States. Mere
political considerations must be thrust
aside. In that respect the action of the
Senate committee is most hopeful. 1t, at
least, is going to stand for full employ
ment of our labor resources and dras-
tic application of the theory that if de-
ferred class conscript will not work
proftably and continuously at home he
must 90 to the front
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
Man Power to the Utmost

The Senate Committee on Military At
fairs is taking the new conscripton legis
lation more seriously than the War De-
partment expected to see it taken The
committee is putting teeth into the new
act which should have been (but were
not) in the present act. 1t has adopted
Senator Reeds amendment making all
draft registrants in war industries or
other essential occupations amcnable to
the work or fight" rule
The committee aims at getting the
maximum Of benefit out of the new call
on man power and out Of the War De-
partment's work or fight" regulation.
The department wanted to apply that
regulation very sparingly 1t contem-
plated driving baseball players, domestic
servants, waters and other non-produc-
tive workers into war industries and es-
sential occupations. 1t intended to make
deferred draft classification dependent
upon mans engaging in useful employ
ment. But it did not intend to make de-
ferred classification dependent on
mans continuing unconditionaly in such
employment.
Secretary Baker has said over and
over again that he was opposed to put
ting any constraint on labor employed in
war industries. The Senate committee
has frankly challenged him on that
1oint. 1t hag adopted an anti-strikc
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
A Horn-Book Rhyme of
German Rule

II he German Rule began to be built
Il When the blood of Abel by Cain was
split,
And it extended its black domain
Under the Five Kings of the Plain.
The brutal Tartars and Genghis Khan.
Who warred on heaven and beast and man
by whom the life of nations was split,
We're partners of the Kaiser's guilt
BY sure descent and lineal claim,
BY true inheritance Of shame,
BY pillage, rapinc and torch.set Ares.
The Hun shows true to the form Of hi.
sircsl
HARRY KEMP.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
Thank 7. r. for Pershing

From The Los Angeles Timcsl
Critics of General Leonard Wood sas.'
at him because he was promoted by F1s'',
dent Roosevelt in defiance of the rules %
seniority But so was General Persh'ns'
He was promoted from captain o. w
United States cavalry to be a brigso''
general by Roosevelt, He never ~'s
major or lieutenant colonel or coione' V
the regular army. General Fred fu"s'S.
too, was promoted by Roosevelt 1--WE
colonel of Kansas regiment to brissos'
general, and later a major gene's' -.
Roosevelt. What would have oeen
careers of Pershing and Funston II
dent Roosevelt had not delivaSed tho ~ 3
that released them from the oonoss'
army routins3
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
The result is a

moons and Sundays. The result is
real rural invasion.
This exodus is not without discom.
fort at times to the farmers and owners
of country places, who have often to
complain of disturbance from over
hilarious parties, and sometimes serious
vandalism by the thoughtless and the ILL
minded. Moreover, it is often hard for
the touring multitudes to find agreeable
places in which to lunch and roam and
take their Sunday ease.
There is no reason why these SHOULD
be shut out from the woods and streams,
nor, on the other side, any reason why
holders who have spent much time and
money to create lovely and attractive
places should be rudely invaded by any
passerby.
The obvious solution is more frequent
rural parks The late Mr.. Hartman
did munifcenty in buying up a huge
stretch back from the Hudson and Great
ing the Interstate Park; and all about
the storage reservoirs Of the big cities
like New York are enchanting hooks and
by-places to rest the overwearied. But
these are relatively few and could be
supplemented with most excellent re-
suits
The war, as every one knows, has
heavily depleted the country and further
accentuated that seemingly never-ending
crowding into the cities which gives
pause to many thoughtful mind. This
newer urban population, even more than
those hardened to the bang and clatter
of cluttered city life, has need of the rec
reation in country lanes and shady
places. And country land is now rela-
lively very cheap.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-14
Leather Up-Heels
DoUn

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The subscriber respectfully sus'
gests tax on all boot and shoe heels over
three-fourths Of an inch high, the tax 70
be in proportion to the height OF the sss'
Leather is still going up Why not bring
heels down by method which will bensh'
every one concerned? The only ores wn'
Will suffer are the orthopedists- and tns'
can afford it. f. S. NICHOLS.
York Harbor, Me. Aug O. 1915