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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
Soto Voce

THE latest Hun method of propaganda
= by whisper-has moral for US in this
country. If Germany in her esperation must
employ women to make "sotto voce remarks"
in theatres and public places in order to
encourage the people, it is for Us to dis
courage the whisper at home Whisper
methods show that the Hun realizes the
psychological value of such channels. News
which is whispered to you as a great Sc
cret is often received with more credence
than II 1t were shouted from the housetops.
sense of sharing in secret predisposes
the listener to believe the story which must
be told soto vocc. That way rumor grow.
The dropped voice, the murmured Have
you heard -' which preface more or
less clrcumstantial story do more to spread
false news than proclamation through a
megaphone. 1t IS generally bad news that
sets two heads noddng. The whisperer
revels In disasters If you tell him good
news-even in whisper-he doubts it.
Don't DISQUALIFICATION Express.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
I Nhen They Were All
B Heavily Beaten

OF tho remaining, at the most 1855 d.
visions. sixty were drawn up both on the
front line and in immediate reserve for
what was to have been the decisive bat
tic, great offensive on either side of
Rheims upon a front of fifty miles, the
offensive of July Is which failed. Some
forty more were held in general reserve
that is, they were not engaged, even on
the quiet sectors of the line, and could be
summoned at short notice to whatever
point seemed to offer 4 chance of success
extensively or defensively to need sup
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
THE Enemy Still Held
Il the Initiative

In the mean time, the Allies, in spite
OF the rapidly arriving American con-
tingent, still had an inferiority in num-
bers, nor had they the initiative-that
is, the power of deciding where and
when troops must concentrate. They
were still anxiously dependent upon the
enemy's initiative
Now look at the present situation,
that which has provoked the enemys at.
tempt at negotiated peace,tand note
the contrast. To-day, or rather ten
days ago, the total German divisions
in the west were but 1911, of which
twenty at least were not available for
action. In place of 1856 divisions avail
able tor action certainly there are not
more than III available, and at this
actual moment this is not much. Four
teen divisions were broken up TO fill
gaps and divisions that we're so organ
lied as not to be at full strength The
Allied numbers one is not allowed to
give. Theirs is now a large, rapidly
growing numerical superiority.
But the mere fact of reduced numbers
and divisions facing an increasing num-
Der of opponents is only half of the
story When the offensive of July Is
was launched by the enemy, exactly fifty
miles of the front--just over 10 per cent
of the line-was what the French call
"alight that is, intensvely engaged
The remaining 400-odd miles were quics-
cent.
To-day everything is "alight' from
the marshes of the User to the Mouse
81 per cent of the hnc-and some three
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

Nor is this ALL At the moment of
since the counter offensive was launched
by the Allies and the initiative and vic
tory passed over to them. AS | have
said, this period accounts for 100000
prisoners and 5000 guns, but quarter
of this total in prisoners and third of
the captured guns belong to the last ten
days alone.
Here is yet another way of putting
the situation: The number of Ameri-
cans (not the total Americans, but the
trained troops entering the feld) dur
ing this short period is greater than all
the German recruitment of this year,
quite apart from the French and Brit
ish recruitment which is available If
to these numbers one is permitted to
add the contrast in munitionment and
aircraft, the conclusion would be still
more striking.
Turn from this matter Of numbers to
the main lateral communication of the
Allies, the. Calais Amiens- Paris Chalons-
Nancy railway, was cut in two places.
The total enemy lateral communication
through Metz, Mezieres and Lille was
scores of miles from the Allied guns
To-day the latter is uncut, but at three
points our guns are already at twelve
fifteen and nine thousand yards range,
while the former has been completely
restored. The enemy is ''out of range"
of it everywhere
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

crs and 5000 guns, and in total
casualties he counts certainly not less
than 100000, and probably much more.
Another way of putting it is that one
man out of ten all told and one of every
seven in the infantry who answered the
rollcall last July is now a prisoner, and
three men out Of ten in the infantry at
rollcall eleven weeks ago--that compar-
atively recent date-arc to-day in the
hospital, missing or dead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
One Must Figure Well
~ in Advance

We begin with the unborn child. OF 100
possible births, ten are lost in advance.
Of the remaining ninety, no fewer than
fifteen die in the first year. Among in
fants the mortality is thus rs per cent, or
much higher than that of modern army
in active service over similar period.
Roughly, the loss is 10000 a year, Of
which half should be saved-hrst, by notify
o ing births as soon as they occur, which
has been very useful; and, secondly, by
establishing mothers welcomes, where in
struction can be given in advance of birth,
and where the babies can be weighed and
watched Such measures in Huddersfeld
rapidly reduced mortality from 1873 per
thousand to eghty-five per thousand
Next take infants up to five years old.
These arc no longer welcome in the ordi-
nary class rooms, which were never in
tended to be nurseries. Therefore, the
plan is to multiply such day nurseries where
the child will be cared for when the mother
Is at work, whether in the home or in the
factory. Trained nurses are needed for
this system. Also the children will be
under constant medical supervision. Good
habits must be begun early and physical
weaknesses can best be corrected at the
outset. 1t is in the creche and the open
air playground that we hope to stamp out
tuberculosis. From this period onward mcd-
cal inspection of children and treatment
where necessary will be an indispensable
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

'lil4uIcH dCL VI unprecedented
Importance. The author of this
great statute is Mr.. Herbert Fisher, Min
lister of Education, who was discovered by
Mr.. Lloyd George. He came from Sheffield
University and is not a politician, but a
professor, and he cares nothing for parties.
AT the moment the act is a scrap of
paper, and it will take years to conquer
the territory thus mapped out. 1t applies
only to England and Wales, but a proper
'lonate amount of money will be given to
scotland and Ireland to spend as they
wish in their schools Also the universe
tics are omitted.
With Oxford and Cambridge empty Of
undergraduates, we shall have to make a
fresh start with our colleges after the
war. Lord Haldane's idea is to divide the
country into educational dioceses, in which
the schools will be like churches grouped
around the colleges and cathedrals Every
area would have an intellectual centre for
'"c encouragement Of its teachers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

German line now is like loom with a
shuttle of moving divisions rushing up
and down its lateral communications to
save what can be saved as each sector
is threatened in turn.
That is the first numerical aspect Of
the cnemy's situation, and it is grave
enough in all conscience. Here is an
other. Since the counter offensive the
enemy has lost on this front alone more
than a quarter million of mon in prison.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

part of our national system. The work of
doctors, many of whom must now be WON
en-, will be more and more preventive of
disease, where hitherto we have been bat
thing with disease which could have been
prevented. In many centres the school
meal will become as regular a feature as
the industrial meal in the factory. 1t
teaches cleanliness and good manners. 1t
safeguards the digestion. 1t relieves the
overwork Of many mothers in small homes
The act strikes a final blow at child
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

quarters of the German electives arc
engaged there. The consequence is that
of the cncmys III divisions available
for action 10 less than 1870 are inten-
sivcly engaged, given The briefcst inter
walls Of rest III turn, and then, Of neccs-
sity, thrown back again into the fur
mace. Ten or eleven at the most remain
dspcnsablc, apart from those actually
under fire. The general reserve has
wholly disappeared and the harassed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

At fifteen the child is free to earn money.
But the rule will be that until the age Of
eighteen they must attend continuation
classes for $50 hours year, which is
about four and half hours a week. En-
ployers must allow time off so that their
boys and girls may keep the schedule. At
the moment we have neither the buildings
nor the teachers to make this scheme COM
pusory, and the law will not be enforced
for seven years. During that period the
classes will be voluntary. Afterward the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

labor even in the Lancashire cotton trade
The school age is raised to fourteen, and
any locality which likes can make it fifteen.
Pupils may stay on later if they like
Slowly but surely are rising to Ameri-
can standards in these matters. The big
gest fight will be in the agricultural dis
trcts, but some hostility will be mitgated
by introducing into the curriculum feat
ures like gardening and wood OF metal
work, with sewing dressmaking and cook
ing for girls.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13


days after they are written.
h do not know what fate will by
that time have befallen the
eneny's desperate attempt to save him
self at the last hour by a negotiated
neace. but I know very we'll why the at
tempt was made and hope to be able to
communicate that knowledge.
To do this is all essential at this criti-
cal moment in the war, which will either
release civilization or condemn tiff the
crisis is mishandled-to a series of in
ereasing misfortunes.
Briefly, the enemy sues for an easy
pcacc because he now knows that he is
beaten irretrievably; that there now can
be no counting upon mere delay. He
fears he cannot stand on any line for
long. That is the whole meaning of his
move.
The military situation explains it fully,
nothing else explains it at all. I will be-
gin by setting down certain facts taken
lrO!N NIuSISuN NlSN pOilito. geographical,
political and numerical, which illustrate
the truth of this.
Let US begin with the state of his num-
bers, for numbers are at the root of every
military situation. The turn of the tide
came eleven weeks ago, just before the
counter offensive, launched July Is just
before the turning point Of the war.
The Germans then had upon the West
crn front between Switzerland and the
North Sea exactly POS divisions. At
least twenty of these were incapable of
action upon the front. They were not
destined for it and would never appear in
Inc. They we're recruited from men of
age, Of past experience in war, or of
physique which rendered them fit for
nothing more than work upon conmuni
cations, in garrisoning and generally in
auxiliary work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
re Hun lntrgues for Peace Because He Is Badly Beaten
The Foe Wants to Save What
He Can Out of the
Wreck
What
Especial Cable Dispatch to The Tribpne)
Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune Inc.

Bulgaria and the crushing of Turkey has
obviously not only broken the enemy's
block politically, but it has created a
new southeastern front which will in
evitably empty Albania and the Danube
and also, probably, cause guerilla way
fare in Rumania Morally it has done
much more. 1t has declared to lesser
neutrals that her dependents no longer
rely upon the victory of Prussia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

period of attendance will be rot only
mandatory, but increased to 800 hours
year. The physical training will not be
military, but will be based on the Swedish
system. The great thing will be to keep
the children in touch with good influences,
to guide their reading, to organize their
recreations, and to keep them out of harms
way.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

in our national life Of which we have long
been heartily ashamed We have learned
much from American enthusiasm for edu-
cation. 1t is possible that in some details
Americans may find our experience inter
esting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
The Silk Hat Persists

These advertisements clipped from issues Of
English magazines show that the style of the chooboys garb
hasn't altered Years, with their varied vcssitudes
and go, but the Eton jacket and the silk hat remain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
By P. w. Wilson

NDER the stress of war the
British Parliament has carried
~ childrens act of unprecedented
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
He Fears He Cannot Stand ON Anv
Line for Any Length
of Time
Author of the Great War; Most DISTINGUISHED
Military
BY HILAIRE BELLOC

~HESE words will appear many
days after they are written.
II do not know what fate will by
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-25
- - - - - y -
LORD sALlsgURYs eLUNDER.

in 1890, when the relations between the Brit
ish German empires of the cordial descrp
ton. of the greatest ndiscretons COM
mtted by an English premier place-the turning of
Hegoand the kaiser in return for the protector
of Zanzibar says the New York Herald.
Lord Salisbury then directing the foreign affairs
of the empire. in addition being head of the
ment He approached cautiously by William IFS am,
bassador at London With true Prussian craft the lat
ter pointed that the rock in the North Sea
Great Britain and that his desired
only for sentimental
After alas his excelency suggested-what wasn't
than small German resort under foreign
flag? The prime minister saw light through Prussian
eyes, announced his decision parliament and there
discussion the subject
Great Britain woke UP a few days after the bargain
had been made Every German ship available was
dressed with flags and took part the that
take possession And hardly had the stand
ard of the been raised than work begun
on the Notifications which make the island a
side the allies from August 1911 until
short time ago.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-25
GERMANY NEVER LET UP.

That the Germans for moment let up
their nhuman treatment of allied prisoners. not
when they that the end was near is evidenced by
dispatch from British headquarters in France telling
the first batch of released British pr
oners
Men who had been the prime of life when they
taken prisoner only last March, scarcely able
stagger allied lines and numbers of them
The story of their narrowing condition has been
described by eye witness.
along the roads that lead to the allied lines from
territory still hands there pass today
newly released from prison camps Belgium. The sight
OF them makes ones heart ache They are mere
shadows of in and tatters, stumbling along
rough their eyes strained for the
first glimpse of the allie dkhaki. The opened
the doors of their Thursday morning and told
them they could go. They walked into free air like
in dream, and upon highways that would
take them to outposts OF the halted allied Emp
ty handed, without great protect them from
ter air. of them indeed with nothing a fragment
of old tunc pinned across their bodies they
walked the weary road towards home scarcely able to
keep upright. Some Of them died upon the way. and
their bodies lie in rough graves where they fell 9th
barely kept body together until they came
last into the hands of their lines
The who composed it bore little resemblance to
British soldiers They German caps and the hor-
rble prison uniforms which them look like German
soldiers and at first who received them
believe they their people. They came from
prison camp at Halle of Brussels whore they had
been employed in loading ammunition. chiefv bombs
for aeropanes which attacked behind the alHod
them were taken prisoners iurfne tho
ing around Gvenchy Festubert and the Ivs lost M-~ch
and April These prisoners had only hath oieh
months They herded ike cattle and fed far less
One boy of twenty might have been lad Of ten so
shrunken his body from systematic starving MANY
of them We're dsfgured by untrimmed boards and
ged hair and their faces and bodies +h
It is impossible to give ADEQUATE picture Of
che
first to divisional rest and when the had
been medically examined they sent 70 he neere-.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-25
ON LETTERS FOR SOLDIERS.

Keep writing to the soldier boys overseas Don't
think that they viii be by Christmas they
won't See that nice fat letters the folks at
home get 10 them. and DO 1T NOW Write them cheer
full letters. George AIDE has sample letter whose lines
you might follow. Read it and follow
Dear Elmer: The leaves the have turned
golden yellow or bloodred and they lies a mat
under the trees, and there is haze pipe smoke
country boys who gets bushel for shuck
ing ordering fuzzy around
them the same the Yale students A good
many Fords buzzing up and down Main street and
nearly every has lady in the back seat PEG
pie who haven't received any mail for eight years ex
cept the SearsRoebuck catalogues. still going
postoffce twice day
The soda fountain at the drug store has become
special department sale witch hazel and cough
syrup Well the flu has about flown and those who
didn't have it regard their escape an evidence Of
moral superiority In the grocery stores you
them asking that all sugar we GET? Everybody Is
wondering when peace will come especially the lads
who well under AS The stove board or strategy
meets each evening at the pool and if they could
get word to General Foch would all be except the
shouting in about ten days. The school children have
borne up with great fortitude while kept away from
their studies BY the closing Political orators we're
the real sufferers They found wa; impossible to save
the country while wearing Influenza mask Red Cross
busy ants although some of the officers
are privately criticized being 'bossy The well
known ughtwad Mr. ---, who owns 24O acres of land
and has bureau drawer full chatte mortgages wa
finally bounded into buying $50 Liberty bond and con-
tributing IS to the War Work campaign. Now he goes
around looking if had robbed him a lung
The who has fighting in France is proud
she speak old bachelor. Doug Fairbanks is
popular the movies. The girls continue
their clothes few and brief possible If they
we're Belgian refugees we would pity them Wages are
high
The intermittent son of toll who is worth s175 a
day demands six and gets FIVE. Raking up leaves now
under the head of skilled labor Every Sunday
of them boys in blue khaki home and
whatever has been accumulated around the house
week They look better than they did in civilian clothes
At a little conference held the depot platform yes
terday and presided by travelling salesman from
Chicago. it decided to show mercy the kaiser
The Saturday night trade is greatly worried the
hell
p S.-An the lumbago and asthma victims above
the of As still wishing they enough
and husky enough to get into the blamed thing"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-25
LYNpoRA NEEDS HELP.

One Of the greatest p.obleAs Of the rcconstruc
on period that confonts the city Of Hann nd is the
r at sctlem mt VIII Oh bald ng up til f'l nom. !
nd ~ in he south part of tn city. What A.
ids e to Gary, North Harbor Ind tarbor
yndora hive is to the city Of Harl,iond.
Out there Is growth. progress. development. ener-
hat needs 70 be looked after by the city Of Hammond
other parts of the city be standing st but Eas.
Hammond is like rapidly growing child that needs new
clothes and parental II she city is to let l,ndora
lust grow like Topsy in Uncle Toms Cabin She may
rue IL for years to come. L is city within city and
growing by leaps and bounds needs new school
stores and the CRY for houses painful and
evidently unheard The city admn'seraon could crown
Itself with glory by looking we'll progress Of Easr
Hammond and see that it gets the things md
must have. There is way Hammond to grow bur
towards the south and is high time p that
fact.
The Chamber of Conon if it is alive needs
If Hammond can never be of service to tho bust
Of the than by to the moods of
Lyndora, or as it used to be called. East Hammond
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-25
FINNISH PEOPLE REJOICING

Many Finnish people Joined in the publications which
attended the announcement that the The
spirit with which they received the is reflected
editorials printed in the press At
the first ntimation that hostities finished the
valeht, Finnish non-sociaist daily of Duluth MIMI
out with the following editorial:
1T seems that the United States has accomplished
the first part of its task said the Pavaeht The
dsturber of world has been overthrow and the
only thing remaining is that the second of the work
shall be accomplished in equally brilliant manner
viz the recognition Of the independence of the small
nations, and their emancipation from oppression and
bondage. Let hope that this vii to pass and
that every nationality that has suffering under
foreign yoke shall be liberated its chains that it
shall stand forth free people the larger ma
tons and that these shall included our old
home. Finland.-Le be confident that those things
for which the United States called the boys fight
the freedom of the world and the rights of small
nations. will be realized"
Similar sentiments voiced by the New York
rTutiset. Finnish liberal trweekly It said: Great
the present time, although preceded by and
pain Happy seems the moment when the deadly work
the battle field shall cease and the nations may
turn in peace to continue their orderly development
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-25

MEMS idea Of sport is funny when
- I e take q day or and 60
purse - nav ror !, WV" ii'0O :" ''e'
mn, .rt,,.,-.
little
RAItrwtct- No.. ,.@,a
~
Wiih.N We dared TO suggest that
Cd red-dannel -
PrTTrC0 en- amt +ha
SILK KNOCKERS
tionaI holiday
wa haven, o,onrb boitdavs nov and
the hard-worked bankers
DFSERVI7 q Few more
NOTHING exci,es orr ,or,nasston
more than
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-25
1T MAKES HIM
WANT TO FIGHT

Do they like THE TINES?
Here a missive from Pr. Al. A.
Skurntz. Battery a. 18th F. A.. A.
+. r.. Il write you with great
pleasure and certainly do thank
YOU for THE TIMES. It is the best
l have read in France for the news
in in ii from the homo towns makes
me feel good and I want to go out
and lick couple Of Huns. ! have
been in seven different battles and
came out @. X. in each one. saw
Try Chayken. the old TIMES sport
writer in the 18th F. A., and all
the Hammond boys are getting on
fine. I remain as ever. a good Ham
mond sport"