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New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
A Good Crowd

When the lid comes off you see what
is underneath. What this old town and
it's suburbanites, from goodness knows
how many miles around, and it's visit
ing soldiers and sailors did in its cele-
bration gave pretty clear view into
the character and essential stuff of New
Workers and Americans.
That view is of as decent and cheerful
and well-behaved crowd of humans as
ever cut loose. Every one who was in
the human whirlpool on Broadway Mon
day night bears the same testimony.
Drunkenness was the rare exception
among civilians, as among men in uni
form. Roughness was almost always
good natured and amusing. The police
stood about grinning cheerfully and
stepping in with a word of warning
only in the exceptional cases when Jokes
were carried too far.
There was no need to make arrests,
and almost none were made. The police
showed admirable tact and sense. They
were as typically American in their
self-control and good nature as the
crowds themselves. Altogether the city
did itself proud.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
Sentence

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: For five generations no citizenship
for a German in any other country? Very
moderate your proposal. Shall we let any
Of them visit our shores-even visit them
for the same period Of timer Is the Ger
man "reservst" who "chucked his Job" in
West End Coney Island saloon to go
over there and agonize our boys with
poison gas to come blithely back when
Coney opens its season In the spring7
Ye gods! We excluded the Mongolian
for the comfort Of such as these!
Is q complete loathing for the German
beast consistent with ones faith and hone
and charity? think So think the peo
pie of America feel So They couldn't buy
the toys wrought by people who cut off
tho hands Of little Belgian children.
Words and phrases pail upon US TODAY.
Who tells US to sing no "hymn of hate" is
out of tune. This week the printing house
which is conducted in connection with
"The Amityville Record" turned away
some orders for printing in the German
language. Intolerant? Maybe. Tolera-
tion of the beast of mankind must be about
as contracted as you propose this morning
in your editorial headed SENTENCE" Only
more 30. CHARLES F. DELANO,
Editor "The Amityville Record
Alnityville. N. Y, Nov. 8, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
The Great Slump

A stale, fiat world we live in? No
news worth reading, nothing worth do
ing except celebrating what is past and
dead? Well, what else could any one ex-
pect? We have been living on romance
and adventure, the greatest adventure in
the history of the world, for four years
now. The mornings cup Of coffee has
been drunk to a daily accompaniment Of
colossal deeds that packed newspapers
front page with headlines and crowded
ordinary American local doings off the
stage altogether.
Such has been our scale Of life and
diet of excitement. Now, with few
strokes of pen it is all withdrawn. We
may see trouble and messes and more
fighting. But it will never be the same
The curtain has been rung down on the
greatest Of all human dramas and we
are left with little save to put on our
coats and hats and wander aimlessly and
pop-eyed out into the old familiar world,
now so far away and forgotten and alien
and-dull.
1t is great slump we are going
through, and we shall not gain anything
by blinking our eyes to it. We have
all Of US done hard and disagreeable
tasks gladly and we'll. Our soldiers
have done dangerous and deadly tasks
as well. The general spirit has been
one of enthusiasm and glad sacrifice.
Now a very different set Of motives, a
wholly changed frame of mind, uprises.
We find ourselves back in our old 1914
grooves-and we do not fit thenl-or if
we do fit them they seem very shallow
and straight and dull.
Anything that comes now is an anti
climax. However blood may run in the
streets Of Berlin, the news will never
have the thrill Of that vast duel on the
fields of France, the greatest tourney
in the annals of combat.
The slump for soldiers and sailors
will be worse than for plain civilians.
The old William James quest for moral
equivalent for war will face them in a
quest for an equivalent for the advent
ure of war. There are plenty of ad-
ventures left. There is the sea, neg
lected by Americans for many decades
There is overseas trade. There is the
world Of international politics, now at
our gate. There is the whole tangled
web of reconstruction, social, political,
economic. But it is gloomy, boring
outlook by comparison, at best.
Lucky for the old human machine that
it possesses such amazing powers of ad-
justment to environment! 1t found it.
self in great war and enjoyed it. 1t
will undoubtedly make something Of
plain, dull peace before long!
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
Lucifer

Isaiah xiv: 9-21
g. He'll from beneath is moved for thee
to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up
the dead for thee, all the chief
of tina earth; it had raised up from their
thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto
thee, Art thou also become weak AS we?
art thou become like unto us?
II. Thy pomp is brought down to the
grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm
is spread under thee, and the worms cover
thee.
12. How art thou fallen from heaven
o Lucifer, son Of the morning! How art
thou cut down to the ground which didst
weaken the nations!
13. For thou hast said in thine heart,
will ascend into heaven, | will exalt my
throne above the stars of God: | will sit
also upon the mount Of the congregation
in the sides of the north:
IA. 1 will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; will be like the most High.
15. Yet thou shalt be brought down to
he'll, to the sides of the pit
i6. They that see thee shall narrowly
look upon thee, and consider thee, saying,
Is this the man that made the earth to
tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
IT, That made the world as wilderness,
and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened
not the house of ais prisoners?
49, All the kings of the nations, even all
Of them, lie in glory, every one in his own
house.
10. But thou art cast out of thv grave like
an abominable branch, and as the ralment
Of those that are slain, thrust through with
sword, that go down TO the stones of the
pit; as a carcase trodden under feet
20. Thou shalt not be joined with them
in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy
land and slain thy people: the seed of evil
doers shall never be renowned
21. Prepare slaughter for his children
for the iniquty of their fathers; that they
do not rise, nor possess the land, nor all
the face of the world with cities
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13

Slovaks should be brought home as
quickly as possible. They engaged in the
wastes of Siberia in one of the most
romantic and heroic adventures Of the
war. They renewed Allied hopes ct
period of deepest gloom. They won
freedom for Slovakia, fighting 1000
miles outside it's borders. They should
participate in the creation Of the new
Czecho-Slovak state, whose emergence
has been due largely to their almost
legendary exploits and sacrifices. The
proper climax to the Czecho-Slovak
drama in Russia would be march
west through delivered Russia and
Galicia to that recreated Slovakia
whose national redemption it's peoples
have dreamed of for hundreds of years.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
Why Not Try This First?
tFront Ltiel

tFYort Lfje)
The Peace League of more or less bel
ligerent nations suggests that we might
have, just for practice, a peace league on
a smaller scale right here at home. How
would peace league composed of Theo-
dore Roosevelt Henry Ford. Robert La
Toilette, George Creel, w. R. Hearst, Ogden
Reid, Henry Cabot Lodge. W. H. Hays and
Joseph Tumulty do for starter?
The rules could be catch -as catch- can.
three-ounce gloves, with ample police pro-
lection.
If among these gentlemen harmony could
be established, then a permanent peace
basis for the world at large need not be
considered impossible.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
The Kaiser;s Trial
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: After reading your article in The
Sunday Tribune, "Lauzanne Wants Kaiser
Put on Trial." l sincerely hope / am only
one Of the many who feel that their own
sentiments have been precisely expressed
Cannot something be done to promote
such trial as Stephane Lauzanne speaks
Of? The Tribune has done so much along
lines Of taking up and promoting things OF
Importance. Certainly movement to
punish the Kaiser and his officials is
thing of worldwide interest and should be
heartily indorsed.
(Mrs. Joseph H. EDNA V. GREEN.
Passaic, NJ j., Nov. 10, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
SHOES g. SHIPS g.
SEALING WAX
"MIKE sCoTT-No ADDRESS. 3"

(Amercan Casualty List.)
Just homeless, rowing sort of chap,
Gayly knocking round about the earth
Into any decent kind OF scrap
SO it were but big enough of girth;
Glad to get his chance to mix it rough,
Fight for freedom on the fields of France,
Show himself of Scottish Yankee stuff,
Teach the Huns lively back-step dance
First and foremost where the fight was hot
Just Mike Scottl
Mike, who cared to give them no address:
Named nor friend nor any kith or kin,
No acknowledged old home town to bless,
No loved hearts to spur him on to win:
Leaving not an eye to scan the list,
Recognize his we'll beloved name,
And be sure the jolly Mike they missed
Played so we'll this last and greatest
game;
Yet we know he fought most soldier-like:
Right there, Mike!
Though no record stand Of whence he came,
He has made his record with the rest;
Played his part out on the fields of fame,
Been among the men who backward
pressed
All the flower Of the German line,
Taught the Boche respect for Yankee
blows:
Where Mike hailed from needs no special
Mike himself knew, and the Kaiser knowsl
Knows and trembles! Whence? Enough to
say U. S. A.
WALsTON soUTHwICK.
The Kaiser, tho Crotor Prince and the
whole General Staff haze fed to the
Netherlands and we ,uouldn't blame the
good Dutch burghers bit if they raised
q howl for protective tariff on imported
cheese.
There are just about 100000 rea-
sons why you should give every nickel
you can to this war fund drive, folks
They are in France. and several thou
sand more reasons have been arriving on
each transport.
You blew yourself to Liberty bonds
You weren't doing any one favor by
buying them. Let's see how generous
we are when we aren't getting anything
out of it ourselves.
Every show you deny yourself this
week can be made a spree for the men
who have been doing your fighting for
you. Every box of candy you don't buy
when you want it can be made gift to
those who really need sweets.
Let's 60 over the top for those who
have been going over the top for US!
The Kaiser has deserted his country,
thereby beating the country to it by a
few short hours.
SEVERAL TUTs!
Mary has little calf
And with this fact before US
We plainly the reason why
She can't go In the chorus.
JOHN DOE.
Those Guys Would Do Anything
f. F. V.-Might the Hohenzollerns
not refer to the present cessation of
hostilities as a "disarmistice"?
VEGETABLE"
Apart from mild case of shell shock,
caused by exploding auto mufflers,
And three new corns born of the
march of thousands across our feet,
And twlnge of regret that those who
held the world safe for democracy
couldn't hold their liquor little less os-
tentatiously,
And little WEAKNESS when regarding
the civilian of draft age who now de-
mands bloodthirstly to be led against
the Germans,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13

In Illinois prisoners are helping win
the war. More than six hundred have
been paroled from the states peniten-
tiaries and put to work In the Rock
Island arsenal Most Of the money they
aarn is sent to relatives and dependents.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
HoW to Restore Louvaiiy,

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: notice a call for aid to restore
Louvain University. There is only one rea-
sonable way to restore it. That is to trans
fer to Louvain. the equipment and library
OF a Prussian university, preferably Berlin.
New York, Nov II, 1913 LEO STEIN
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13

When the folding trench cap replaced
the American campaign hat for overseas
wear hundreds of thousands of felt hats
were checked in to army supply SER
geants Now use has been found for
them. With felt from the hats and cloth
from torn uniforms the salvagers are
making soft slippers for wear in hospi-
tails
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
A Certain YeIlowness in Kings

Plain, common murderers have often
showed complete pluck and sportsman
ship. Having done their deed, they
have given themselves up and taken
the consequences. Apparently another
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
The Clearest Voice
(Noventber Eleventh.

(Noueniber Eleventh.
THE golden voices of the bells break WIZ
L sudden laughter
Leap the sirens golden-voiced, the pesA' V
autumn sky
There are voices everywhere, singing s'"s
ing, singing,
"Jesu. Saviour. peace is come
Thy blessed peace is come.
The dark hills break into singing,
And the broken valley places;
The wind strewn seas, white with gulis'
in deep voice, ,,s
And there is singing in the invisi0ie '''
of sky.
Yet clearer than all these
In the full streets Of great cities, ,,s
On the hushed front OF the gray oa''''
Up the lonely forest passes
And in the rocking breast of the seS.
All, the clearest voice sings unheaiu
In the heart of One, alone,
OF One who walks with bended ness
Unseen of all the throng.
"Jesu, Saviour, peace IS como
Thy blessed peace is come
FLORENCE RIPLEY MASzpss
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
A German Threat

The German governments note to
President Wilson is despicable mixture
Of whine, wheedle and threat. That is
to say, it is familiarly and character
istically German.
The German government requests
the President of the United States to
arrange for the opening of peace ne
gotintions.
The German government, for the
purpose of acceleration, proposes first
Of all q preliminary peace.
The German government is pdrticu-
larly anxious for the negotiations to
begin immediately.
The German government has ac-
cepted the terms of the armistice be-
cause 1t had to do 80, but 1t disop-
pr0ves Of them and most solem,aly coils
the attention of the President of the
United States to the fact that they are
likely to produce feelings IN the Ger
man people aulich wiu make 1T ampos-
sible for them to subscribe to just
and durable peace.
The German government is afraid
that If 1t fulfls tho terms of tho ar
mistice millions Of German men, sUona-
en- and children ariu st0rve.
The German people therefore re-
guest the President to use his infu-
e'sce to mitigate these fearful condi-
t,ons.
That is the note. 1t remarkably con-
firms the fear expressed by Herr DR..
Muehlon, formerly of Krupps, who was
disillusioned about his own people, pub
lished his opinion of them and then went
into exile. He said: "The peril of the
hour is that the Allies may become kind
and humane and extend the hand of
sympathy before Germany is ready to
confess the wrongs she has done and
make restitution"
Obviously Germany understands nei-
ther her own position nor ours.
She is a prisoner among nations-a
criminal prisoner.
Her life was spared because she put
up her hands.
The act Of physical surrender was one
OF self-preservation. She acquired there
by neither merit nor virtue.
Her fate remains to be decided.
In the mean time she will not starve
She is in the hands of people who do not
starve or torture prisoners.
A little humility would become her
as much as anything could. To set up
her wishes and preferences, to propose
means of accelerating negotiations. to
prepare beforehand the ground of alibi
by serving notice that the German peo-
pie at heart reject an armistice on which
the ink is not yet dry-this is truly
German.
So far we have spoken of ourselves
and our allies collectively. We wish to
say one thing more for ourselves-for
the American people alone.
We are not the keepers of Germanv's
pride or dignity or stomach. We are not
Germany's advocate among the Allies.
We resent the implication of her solicit
ing the President to procure mitigation
of conditions. If she wishes to make
representations of that character let her
make them to the authors of the armis-
tice.
Already we recognize the signs of a
German propaganda to be addressed ia
the maudlin sentimentality of the Amer
lean people. 1t is dangerous gas. 1t is
the beginning of an organized effort ia
produce separate emotions among the
Allies. Therein lies the only hope of
escape from what Germany fears to her
hearts core. We call it JUSTICE.
- -
A Certain Yellowness in KINGS
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13

pleasantest armistice signings we ever
celebrated.
The Bolsheviki, Chester, are the peo-
Pile moa0 engaged in Kicking Mitteleuropa
right IN the mitteI. f. F.V.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
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republication OF dispatches credited to II or
otherwise credited In this and also the local
Gews Of suuntaneous origin published herein.
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also reserved
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13

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a New York Corporation. Ogden Reid. PRESIDENT
Vernon Rogers President Richard II Lee secfeesJ
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New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
Peace Problems
BY Frank II. Simonds

Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune Tnc.)
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13

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HE actual signing of the armistice not merely deal
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
Those Guys Would Do ANYTHING

InUse GuyB VOuId Do AnythinG
F. F. Wright the Hohenzollerns
not refer to the present cessation of
hostilties as "disarmistice"?
VEGETABLE"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
India S Coal Supply

THE war has forced India to depend
upon her own supply of coal and
has; drawn attention anew to her large de-
poslts. For the last ten years, one is told
in the November issue. of "The Geographic
cal Review (New York;, India's output
has been gradually increasing as a conse-
quence Of the extension of railroads and
the development of industries. In 1915
the production increased to more than
100000 tons, i. e., more than double
the amount produced in 1905 India now
not only supplies her own needs, but ex-
ports TO Ceylon and the Strait Settle
ments.
lndia's coal deposits are scattered we'll
over the east-central part of the country.
The reserve field in Assam is calculated
at several billion tons. All these are
Mdsozoic and Tertiary beds. The de-
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Hosting Machinery That
Is Helping to Win
the War
TT is customary to think only of guns

III is customary to think only of guns
and ammunition. observes a writer
in "The American Machinist," in CON
nection with the mechanical side of
warfare. Yet there is hardly class of
machine which doesn't play role of some
sort. For example, this writer points
cut:
There are three types OF cranes in use
at three widely separated points of the globe:
On the historic Marine, at the Arctic port
of Archange and in shipyard at an Ameri-
can point, all helping in different ways to
win the war
"The unloading of coal in a secluded spot
with no sign of dock, may play even a
greater part than the handling of freight at
the great docks at Archangel, since the col
lapse OF the Russian resistance-even though
it be as temporary we hope--makes what
is loaded or unloaded at that point of little
immediate concern to The crane in the
American shipyard may yet play the most
important part Of all; because the building
of ships is to be of the crucial tests Of
endurance and Of constructive capacity in
The months to come.
"Thc American shipyard crane is known as
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

posits of Bengal and of the newly created
Province of Bihar and Orissa furnish over
80 per cent of the present actual output.
Two single fields, those Of Raniganj and
Iberia, contain reserve Of 22,000,000,-
900 and 51S,000000 tons, respectively In
Central India and the Central Provinces
few mines are actually in operation, but
large quantities Of good coal have been
recognized, while in the Godavari basin,
extending from near the coast along the
Godavari River, important reserves are
believed to be probable. Up to the present
time the labor supply for the mines has
been derived largely from the agricultural
population. But gradually permanent
mining population is developing
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

pound pressure is through 2-nch nipe
connected with the pressure pipe of pump
ing engine, and the discharge from the
wheel is connected to the pump suction.
The engineer claimed that the cost of cur
rent was considerably less than two cents
klowatt hour
'ln another plant visited the generator
was driven as shown in Fig 2. Two heavy
IRON columns (d) were erected near the
fywheel of the pumping engine and two long
screws (e) were secured to them, on which
two bearings (c) could be raised or lowered
at will to bring the leather covered pulley
OBJ in contact with the lywheel. By this
means the station was electrically lighted,
otherwise oil lamps would have to be used"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
A Potato Famine in E6vpt

THE recent potato famine in the land of
the Pharaohs came quite as reve-
latlon even to the people otherwise famil-
lar with things Oriental. Very few sus-
pected, indeed, how many among the fela-
heen on the Nile depended on potatoes in
their daily menu. Fortunately the sweet
potato, Of which there is always an ample
supply IN the country, came to the rescue
and so did the military authorities, who
happened to have a surplus on hand. "Thc
New East" points out that proper arrange
ments have been made to avoid in the
future the recurrence of similar inter
ruption of the food supply, doubly dan
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
The Potash Industry of the
United States

\ CCORDING to No. 335 of "The Press
"a Bulletin" of the United States Geo
logical Survey, Americas potash produc-
ton, which made it's first modest bow in
1915, for the first half Of 1917 had risen to
$4,000 tons, valued at nearly S6,O0O,OOO.
The principal sources Of this output were
natural salts and brines and kelp, respec-
lively accounting for about one-half and
one-fourth of the total; alunite, dust from
cement mills and blast furnaces, miscela-
neous industrial wastes and wood ashes
contributed the remainder. The greatest
single source, supplying one-third, was
contributed by the Nebraska alkali lakes.
For a further increase of the precious
product one is invited to look to the newly
discovered deposits of Searles Lake. De-
velopment has, however, been held back
pending legislation on the status of pot
ash bearing lands.