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New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
The Miracle of the Aeroplane

The lghtcst and relatively, perhaps,
the most highly powered Of our auto
mobiles-so familiar that it has become
a national stitution-weighs, with pro-
visions, nearly a ton. 1t is of 20 rated
horsepower. Few Of the modern aero
planes, except the swift little scout
planes, weigh much less than this, and
many of these are being equipped with
engines of 150-horsepower or more.
Few of our largest automobiles have
engines Of more than 90-horsepower, and
they are rare. The new twelve-cylinder
Liberty motors will develop more than
400-horsepower, and it is understood
that the new Handley-Page planes being
built in this country will have two Of
these engines. In England they have
been equipped with a pair of engines
with over 900 combined horsepower, and
the day seems not far distant when they
will be as heavily powered, proportion
ately, as the fast little scouts and Spads;
that is, they may easily have 1900 or
1000 horsepower.
Running at twenty miles an hour, the
most efficient of our automobiles takes,
roughly, about a gallon Of gasolene an
hour. And they run on the ground. Re-
cent tests in Washington, averaging the
results of nine aeroplanes, flying total
of 113 hours and consuming 1877 gal
Ions of gasolene, showed an average con-
sumption per machine of twelve gallons
an hour. Among these planes was a
400-horsepowcr Liberty motor plane.
using seventeen gallons an hour It
could not have weighed much less than a
ton. And it goes through the air at a
speed of eighty or ninety miles an hour.
In other words, the larger machine car
ried each hundredweght of plane and
engine distance of around eighty miles
per gallon. We doubt if anything dreamt
of in the Middle Ages in the way of
worldly miracles could have surpassed
this triumph of modern mechanics. Bear
in mind that one of these Handley-
machines has carried twenty passengers.
besides the pilot, to height of 1000
feet, and this has been done with two
driving motors, averaging a little over
two pounds per horsepower for the en-
gine, and we begin to get some sort of
image of what this achievement means.
How and in what way the great planes
Of the future will be developed is as vet
hidden. Our fancy is that it may be in
the direction of great quadriplanes, or
even great multiplanes, which will thus
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
Advertising the War

The darkened signs or Broadway will
do more advertising than they ever did
when blazing away to bedazzled theatre
goers. And they will advertise the right
thing at last-the fact that we are at
war and that waste Of anything is a
crime and an offence to our men fighting
in France.
1t seems an insult to the intelligence
to labor the point of these sky-sgns. Yet
they have persisted for the most part
without hindrarce, and there have been
those to talk of hardship and depriva-
tion. There will be precious little more
Of such talk, we think, now that the
cables read as they do read Hardship
is a funny word for Broadway, deprived
of it's cat chasing a spool, yet still un-
bombed, ungassed and very safe.
There must be relaxation and enter
tainment. But there must not be
splurge or luxury or waste Even if the
line is not exactly definite, there can be
no real difficulty for anybody in drawing
it in his own personal concerns, and
there can be no possible question that it
includes, with space to spare, the waste
full scintillations of Broadway.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
Miners

The war has sent US on many errands
of discovery in our own national house
hold. Every day we find out and ap-
praise the merits of some hitherto over
looked member of the family.
Here are the coal miners
Working in obscurity, living in commu-
mites apart, they have been very little
known as people. They became vague
menace when they threatened to strike.
At other times they were forgotten.
All at once the essential task of fuel
ling the world war is in these unknown
hands. Miners become important to a
democracy. We go out to get acquainted
with them. We find that they are people
like the rest of us, that they earn rather
more money than the average American
III less time, that they like their work.
live we'll and are fond of rude pleasures
and alcoholic relaxation. They want to
have their war and their peace at the
same time. They hate like the devil to
work an hour or two more day of their
own free will, but would attack coal as
their brothers in France attack the Ger
mans if they could receive some adequate
moral appreciation. They won't do it for
money, but they will do it for a SYMBOL
Patriotism is no exclusive thing. Miners
are ardent patriots. They buy Liberty
Bonds and contribute literally to the Red
Cross and all other auxiliary war organi-
cations. The only ones among them who
do not wear patriotic buttons of some
kind wear tar and feathers. Yet it is a
medley of races and a melange of Ian
guages. These men have been left large
~ to their own devices since thew came
to America. But they have somehow
soaked up the democratic war spirit.
They would rather fight for the nation
that has ignored them than dig coal for
it in peace and prosperity. They are a
bold, free lot, brave and venturesome,
loving real leader and full of latent
enthusiasm which can as easily mine
coal as kill Germans, provided it has
the right kind of direction.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
A World Safe
For Baseball

Hitherto Americans have visited Europe
not in order to see Europeans, who doubt
less are very uninteresting especially to
Baedeker, but in order to see buildings
and mountains and museums. And English
men visiting America are too apt TO tell you
about Niagara and the Brooklyn Bridge. the
Woolworth Building and Grants Tomb. But
the most wonderful thing in America is. sf
ter all, the Americans themselves. their wav
of looking at life, their hospitality. their
eagerness and their ideals Millions of neo-
pie never read books, and for them hase-
bail may be the talisman whereby wa shall
know each other better I understand too
that 1T Is game where ladies NAV briny
their fans If some one would writa a
baseball dictionary it would be helpful.
would make only one suggestion. Rase.
ball is something more than a ceremonv
ana you must not expect our leading peo-
ple' like King George, or even Lloyd George.
TO play with the skill displayed bv Bllv
Sunday when off duty. Lloyd George does
not even preach the same wav az Ril1v Sun
day. and the same is true, dare saw. Of
elemenceau With great respect NAV be-
pardoned for limiting that even Presiden+
wilson pitches" with prudence bone
however that in due course we shall be able
TO MT the sawdust trail and shake hands
with the stars.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
1t Comes OFF

Under the stigma Of nameless re-
pudiation by his own party at Saratoga,
Hearst sent Arthur Brisbane to knock at
the Whitman door, and in The Evenan9
Journal of yesterday there was an in
gratiating attack upon Whitman's op-
ponent. Lewis, who earned Hearst's en-
mitv in the Bolo Pacha investigation
conducted in this state for the French
government.
Nobody would have believed for one
instant that Governor Whitman would
accept anything from Hearst, directly
or indirectly-nobody except Hearst,
who judges others by what he knows Of
himself. That is more than anybody else
knows. And nobody but Hearst will be
in the least surprised by the statement
issued last night on Mr.. Whitman's be-
half by Mr.. Cocks, his campaign manager,
saving: eve will not stand for any
Hearst support, and you cannot make
this statement too emphatic"
What was coiled in the flag comes off
on the hands.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
Horses on the
Cricket Ground

When [ left London Lords cricket ground
at Marylebone was a camp, where horses
were grazing, yet this ground is sa led as
the centre of cricket in the English speak
ing world. 1t was there that patien
American watched the university match be-
tween Oxford and Cambridge for three
whole days and then inquired when the
game was going to begin. Baseball has al
ways seemed to us to be little hurried
People actually run about. After the war
cricket will have to be learned over again
At the universities rowing has almost
ceased and there is no annual boat race on
the Thames. Some golf is played and very
little lawn tennis, but only by persons over
fifty. Even ladies avoid carrying golf clubs
in any well-lighted thoroughfare, and golf
balls are at fabulous prices.
Horseracing barely survives, and only for
the sake of the pedigree. Country amuse-
ments, like fox hunting, shooting and fish
ing, are almost oblterated
There is no motoring for pleasure | am
told that in 1917 only four automobiles
were sold to private persons, and in
stead Of petrol-or gasolene, to use your
word-the motive power is coal gas, carried
in great bags on the top of the machine
You will thus see that while we do not COM
pare sacrifices with those of France.
Italy, Serbia and Belgium-still less with
those of Russia-we are doing what we can
to display the spirit which has led Ameri-
cans to dispense with baseball
1t is quite possible that good may come
out of This evil. What seems to be han
pening is not that you are stamping cut
your national game, but that you are carry
ing it across the Atlantic and introducing r.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
A Good American

The campaign for the Governorship
of New York is young yet. There have
been preliminary conferences at Sara
toga Springs and also at the St. Regis
Hotel, in this city. Obviously, the final
alignment is yet to make.
But there is one unmistakable fact in
which every American can rejoice. That
is that in proposing Cap Smith for the
Governorship the Democratic delegates
have named clean and loyal American
who can look any Of the tribe of paci-
fists and pro- Germans and defeatists in
the eye and tell them to go where the
Kaiser will soon be free to join them.
Americanism was the controlling issue
at the Democratic convention And it
was answered in the right spirit. Not
b only the enemy but so much as compro-
mise or paltering with the enemy was
swept out of the hall so swiftly that
agents Of disaffection could only pack
up their speeches and flee for cover.
The counter thrust led by Samued Sea-
bury not only wiped out the Hearst
salient but captured it's guns and de-
stroyed the whole offensive power of it's
attack.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
The Misquotation Of Engineer Wig

We are glad to see that the Portland
Cement Asso citation is giving wide dis
trbution to the denial of Chief Engineer
R. j. Wig that he had said concrete
ships could be counted on to last only
from one to three years. Mr.. Wig is
at the head Of the concrete ship division
Of the United States Shipping Board,
and expressly repudiates having said
this or anything that could be construed
into such statement. On the contrary,
he now declares that recent tests of con-
crete structures in sea water have shown
that concrete ships will last years with
out any protection whatever.
BY the application Of protective coat
ings, with which the board has been ex-
perimenting, it now seems probable that
a concrete ship can be made as perma-
nent as steel, if not more so. This is a
far greater measure of durability than
any of the original advocates Of con-
crete ship construction had ventured
even to suggest.
Engineer Wig goes on to say that
"few people realize that the concrete
ship is actually 20 per cent lighter than
the wood ship, if built of a new concrete
mixture developed by the Emergency
Fleet Corporation. 1t is so light, in
fact, that block of it floats on the
water, and yet it makes the kind of
concrete possessing twice the strength
of that used in ordinary building con-
struction."
The possibilities Of concrete cargo
boat construction are simply enormous.
If we had got busy last winter and let
the contracts it would easily be possible
now to turn out 100000 or 100000 tons
of these ships per month. We cannot
understand why with the present steel
shortage, which was known and foreseen
then as clearly as it appears to-day, the
Shipping Board should still continue its
policy of playing with this immense pos
sibility as if it were kind of war toy
not to be trifed with too much
If DR.. Schwab could only give lit
tie attention to the concrete cargo boat
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26

approaches, has seemingly awaited tip
from Washington that never came. 1t WAS
satisfied to display merely n perfunctory
opposition to Hearst SO The Tribune,
shinnyng not on it's side and submerging
partisanship, for it was obviously to Re-
publican advantage to have Hearst nomi-
mated, has won the honors of the occasion
II The Tribune has contributed the pub
licity that made the nomination of Hearst
impossible, former Judge Seabury among
individuals is entitled to Distinguished
Service decoration. Benedict Arnold, on
his black charger, never more directly rode
at the enemy at Bemis Heights than did
the judge when he brought in and forced
tho passage of his eliminating resolution.
"Packy" McCabe, of Albany, tried to break
the force Of the resolution by moving its
passage, saying there was no Democrat in
New York to which it could possibly apply,
"much less any man whose name has ever
been mentioned here in Saratoga" but he
knew he was officiating as an undertaken
at the obsequies of the Hearst candidacy.
OF Alfred E. Smith, who received the
conventions Endorsement, it is customary
to speak we'll. In a record of offce-holdng
which has occupied his adult manhood he
has shown more intelligence and character
than is expected of Tammany. He shines
by comparison amid the darkness of his
group. Judge Seabury was accurate when
he characterized Mr.. Smith as "the best
representative of the worst element in the
Democratic party" One looks in vain in
Mr.. Smiths record for any affirmative in
dependence He has doubtless sought be-
ing man of prudence, to have good orders
come from headquarters, but when thew
came whether good or bad he obeyed them.
Men OF his quality are the most effective
supporters of the Tammany system, and
thus are most responsible for it's continu
ance. Murphy realizes the need of window
dressing, of having with him such men
as Smith to take the curse off normal Tam
many.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
A. E. f. Chivazry
Elizabeth Shep'ey Sergeant, IN The
Ne1U ReWtbHc
THE American women in France every
where meet from the A. E. F.. q blend

where meet from the A. E. F. a blend
OF chivalry and frank and simple
friendliness that warns the cookies of thar
hearts. An American schoolteacher, elderly
and porty, a worker in q Red Cross cantaen
that had to be evacuated just now on tho
Marine, writes as follows of what happened
to her during terrible air raid:
Il stationed myself at the canteen door.
calling out to the French soldiers where
their shelter was, but long before the n1aca
was empty the machine gun bullets were
sweeping the streets outside and the sbrsn-
mel was raining down The American how.
complete strangers to me--came y, i,
the darkness, and one said in the onintes4
tone of authority: Get between us. ladvp
They tucked me up against the side Of
the canteen and stood one on each side of
me- had no trench helmet, so one Of them
took off his sheepskin driving coat ona
folded it up and put it over his head and
mine"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
lTranslstion.l

Nancy, 26 June. 1918
g. We have the greatest sdm-
ration for what the United States has
accomplished and especially for the mag
nificent fighting spirit-the cran,' as our
poilus say in their trench slang - which
animates your officers and soldiers. This
spirit is a most happy surprise for US
and something of a revelation. We could
not in reason be sure of 1t beforehand.
There was an unknown quantity there for
US. The American nation is composed OF
very diverse elements, many of which have
had no share in war for long generations.
What military virtues would animate such
a people? To what degree would they have
a fighting spirit, and against Germany, from
whom old, ancestral hatreds separate
them?
We Finland it is q marvellous phenom-
cnon-that this fighting spirit has reached
at once the highest degree If the Amer,
can army had not been moved by this war
like ardor, nothing could have inspired it
with it,
1t has it; it has it with an intensity to
which our veterans pay homage In It
there is an unexpected and unhoped-f for fac
TOR winch presages victory We shall wip,
not tomorrow (let US beware of all dan.
gerous illusions; q sustained effort will be
necessary, but We shall win"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26

among other nations. | sometimes think
that if Germany had played game like
baseball she would have worked off her sur
plus energy and incidentally learned to
spect people other than herself.
At any rate, if the free peoples of the
world are to live happily together in the
future they must play together as we'll as
work together, and I look forward to the
time when there will be baseball leagues
all over Europe, with the United States
valantly struggling against overwhelming
odds to maintain her preaminence against
powerful rivals like France, Britain and
even Montenegro. The great advantage of
baseball is that it takes less time than
cricket, though I must tell you frankly that
Tor persons of leisure, with ham sandwiches
IN the pocket and lemonade at intervals.
there Is more philosophy in cricket wider
opportunity for meditation and longer in
tervals for considering the mutability of
human fortune. I sometimes think that
cricket has been deep and devilisf device
Tor misleading the innocent enemies of
britain into believing that she has fallen
asleep. 1T IS about the most vigorous thing
we 90, and yet nothing seems to be happen
ing. 1T is this profound dissimulation which
has earned for US a high reputation for
hypocrisy. If we play baseball we shall
start by walking, and not too quickly
In international sports there is. of course.
danger of intense rivalry breeding resent
ment, especially if there should be any dis
pute with the umpires. Ny own view IS
that all such contentious should be referred
to the Hague Conference before war is
/ actually declared. If, however, we do not
take these competitions too seriously they
may supply a most valuable common in
terest and opportunity for mutual hospi-
taIity.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
The Kaiser
On Hearst
From an article by DR.. Arthur
Davis, formerly fhe Kaiser's dentist.
reprinted from "Thc World" yester-
(CopDright bD The Mcclure Ncwspnpcr
SUudic0te)

(CopDright by The Mcclure Ne7Dspnpcr
SDndicdte)
In the winter of 1916 we were talking of
the sentiment in America and the convcrsa-
tion turned to Bernstorf
"Von Bernstorf has been doing verv good
work in your country the Kaiser COM
mented.
"Well, your majesty" l replied, at is
said in America that if he had not been
such a clever diplomat he would long ago
have been compelled to leave"
From all I hear,' the Kaiser said. che
hasn't had very easy time of it. The
American press whole has been con-
spicuously anti German although | under
stand that one of your newspaper pub
fishers has been friendly to US. Mr.. Hearst,
for instance, has helped our cause very
much in your country. He has been telling
the truth about affairs, which is more than
most OF the other papers have been doing"
Just before the King of Greece abdicated
the Kaiser referred to the attitude of the
American press again. "The way the Amer-
can ne vspapers and the press of the Allied
countries generally are presenting the Gre
clan situation to the world is absolutely
false and disgrace" he declared bitterly.
"Ihey are entirely misrepresenting the
facts. Mr. Hearst is the only one, as far
as | can find, who has revealed the real
conditions and told the truth about them
My, wonder what the people have to saw
now that MIR. Hearst has finally exposed the
whole thingl" 1t was only a short time
afterward that the King abdicated and re-
vealed nmistakably which papers had cor
rectly interpreted the trend Of Grecian
policies
The Kaiser spoke to me many times about
the writings of William Bayard Hale.
Have you been following Hale's arti
cles?" he inquired. "What he is writing
about the war is excellent and is really the
best material published. He voices NV
sentiments exactly, and it would be we'll for
every American to follow this writer's
work"
had to confess that there was one
American at least who was not only not
following Hale's writings but had never
heard of the writer, and the Kaiser seemed
to be somewhat dspleased.
He referred to Hale several times subse-
quently, and in the meanwhile had ascer-
tanned that the man in question was the
representative in Berlin of the Hearst
newspapers, and subsequently learned that
he had published q book called "American
Rights and British Pretensions at Sea y
which explained at once to me whv tho
Kaiser was SO enthusiastic about him.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-26
The Germany That We Fight

w are nldkilS war OIA CIiO 1cI1Hdu
government, but not on the German
people" That is a statement we often
hear 1t has an air of pleasant sophis-
tication which appeals to those who lack
a close acquaintance with modern Ger
many and the modern German character
There never was any foundation for
distinction of this sort. Say what you
will about the helplessness of the Ger
man people in the hands of military
autocracy, the fact remains that the
German people have fought this war.
And they have fought it in a spirit en-
trely different from that of the people
of Austria Hungary, for instance. They
have fought the war not merely out Of
loyalty to the existing dynasty and the
existing political order, but for what
they themselves expected to get out
Of it.
If support for the theory of a clear
rift between the German government
and the German people and of unwilling
participation in the war on the part of
the latter could be found anywhere, it
would be found in the diary Of DR..
Wilhelm Mihlon. He is bitter critic
of the deliberate policy of the German
government which forced war on Eu-
rope. He would gladly have testified to
the existence of an anti-war sentiment
among the German people. Such oppo-
sition would have mitigated his own
painful sense of isolation. But he could
not testify to it, because it did not
exist. He says frankly, on the other
hand, that all classes of Germans well
coined the war as a relief from the diff
ficulties Of Germany's pre-war situa-
ton
AS to the ruling classes-the military
autocracy, the industrials, the profess
sional men and the leaders in education
they had all long ago embraced the
doctrine of military aggrandizement
"They want to lie in the beds of other
people and don't mind being stigmatized
as barbarians for wanting to do so.
Plunder was the watchword of the
dominant classes in Germany
But how about the lower classes?
On this point DR.. Miihlon writes in the
very first days of the war;
"No wonder that the German proe-
tarat welcomed test; that it saw itself
relieved of an Alp-like burden when it
realized: Now things have broken loose
and we shall soon know where we really
stand
Zone can almost say that what the
result might be was wholly subordinated
to this deeper thought: Anyway. we
couldn't have gone on like this much
longer; clarity must come; the burden
must be shaken off. IF it goes badly for
us, then we shall start again, with new
bearings, more modest, simpler, more
sympathetic, better. If it goes WE'LL then
We, the people, have done the work. We
can demand that we shall lead in the
future life more worth living and that
we shall come to an understanding with
our present enemies, as soon as those
enemies, who now surround u.s. msjudge
US and plot against us, are overthrown {"
And Of the Socialist leaders, whose