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New-York tribune., 1918-03-15
Communicating Hollands Shipping

The decision of the Allies to COM
mandeer Dutch shipping in their ports
for use during the war accomplishes
complished by diplomatic agreement.
German threats alone deferred the
Dutch government from putting it's sig
nature to the compact--a compact as
beneficial in it's results to the owners Of
the shipping and to Dutch commercial
interests as it is helpful in military
sense to the Entente powers. Seizure
has therefore the advantage Of allow
ing the Netherlands to claim coercion
and thus to blunt the point of the griev-
ance on which Germany's menaces of
reprisal have been based.
Germany has repudiated all the obli
cations of international law in her deal
ings with enemies and with neutrals.
She is an international outcast. Yet she
still has the effrontery to call down VEN
geance on neutral powers for waivers
of privilege which she considers noxious
to her and benevolent to her adversaries.
In strict law Germany has no case
against Holland, nor even against the
Allies, for the seizure of the Dutch
ships There are international prece-
dents under which a belligerent may
seize neutral ships for war purposes,
especially if complete compensation is
intended to be made to their owners.
Oppenhem shows that Germany exer-
-L4 &c
in 1870-'71, when at war with France.
She will challenge it now, just as she
freely sold munitions to belligerents in
other wars but in this war called high
heaven to witness the infamy of the
sale by citizens of the United States of
munitions intended to be used against
her
The technicalities of the comman-
deering of the Dutch ships may be put
aside as unimportant. The Dutch own
ers profit by it. The Allies add about
100000 tons to their own slowly de-
creasing store of tonnage. Only Ger
many is hurt, and she has hardly
friend left in the world to share her
sense Of injury.
She may buster about chastising Hol-
land for an involuntary manifestation
of unfrendliness She has recently
taken the same high tone with Sweden,
Denmark and Norway. But she will
hardly venture to add these countries
to her present ring of enemies. Were
she sure of ultimate victory she would
not hesitate to seize and annex all of
them. But her appetite to date is
greater than her power. She must get
the upper hand on the high seas before
she can consolidate her present con-
quests on land or stretch out for other
conquests. And the addition Of 1,0OO,-
600 tons of Dutch shipping to the re-
sources of the Allies is but another
guarantee, that Germany shall not
achieve the mastery of the seas-the
one thing that she needs in order to
bring the war to stalemate.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-15
Pesma O Pesmi: The Song ol
Song

From the Serbian OF ovan Jovanovl'eh
- oNG famed across the earth like ns'
~ sun,
Chasing the hollow shadows OF despair
Where sadness holds its court, and doN
fulness,
Song enters in and dwells as comforter
Whore men stumble and fall, song lenas
hand:
Where JOY already is, song is its savio''
Song can express what has no other spee'''
Song can console the inconsolabe;
And where men grope beneath the we's''
of doubt
Song strikes the spark that makes 'a''
see again.
Song cannot as vapd playthlng se''s
She is being sacred. and as pure
AS any star that studs the tirmame"'s
High born she is. and incorruptiDse' .a
Nor can she give her gifts from any svs ,A
But from heart OF honor and o. y
The bard still sits beneath his aseiess ~
Calls back the fading dreams OF otns' .s;is
Breathes through mems hearts ana
into the soul.
And if, in spite Of all his martyrdo"'' 10.
The Serb still lives and VIII fofe''' 4,
'Tis song that bears him up glorious md
For song knows naugh, Of hate al"
il is .Aas
That lights the thousand windows
soul ~ i
She flowers in faith her every us'
hope. .rpASe
HAMILTON FISH ARMSts'ss
New-York tribune., 1918-03-15
Regulate Building During War

SIR: in your issue of March 8 you have
an article headed Liberty Corps Will Show
Heroic Efforts in which you mention n
shortage Of labor
IN New York City. on West Scventy-third
Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam
avenues, there is now being erected an
apartment house. counted thirty mon
working on this building the other dav.
lherc Is also church building being erect.
ca on West Sevcnty-hrst Street, near
Broadway. "N"'
II there is a~lahor shortage, isn't it time
!" discontinue non-essentials, such as both
w., ". .".sc' Nv inc present time? suggest
Tint they regulate building permits ns
very desirable war measure.
New York, March IL, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-15
Error in the Perspective

1t is easy to misconstrue the verdict
passed by the House Naval Affairs Com
mittee on the work of the navy. That
the navy should make a vastly better
showing than the army in the first year
of the war was inevitable. The navy
was reasonably we'll prepared for war.
The army was pitifully unprepared.
Any comparison which manufactures
credit for the head Of the Navy Depart
ment or discredit for the head of the
War Department out of the inequality
of performance is based on a grotesque
distortion of values.
Consider the condition of the two SER
vices when we declared war For twen-
ty-five years we had been building up
modern navy. Not long ago we stood
second only to Great Britain in naval
power. Then we dropped to third place
"a little below Germany. We we're
producing high class naval ordnance and
uper-dreadnoughts Of the Pennsylvania
type. We were in many ways up in the
van of naval progress.
But our military establishment was a
relic of the distant past. We had an
army inferior to that of Serbia or Bull
gara or Greece Relatively to our popu-
lation and resources we were outclassed
in military unpreparedness only by China.
We had no modern equipment Of any
sort-except, perhaps, rifles-no heavy
field artillery, no light field pieces, no
fo~,
field training.
In order to build and handle the fleet
the navy had had to develop shipyards,
gun factories and armor plate factories.
1t had had to create the technical facili-
ties for equpping modern vessels and
had learned how to train officers and
men to operate them. The personnel
had been raised to high level of eff
cheney.
In the army, on the contrary, stagna-
ton prevailed. In a toy establishment
no real organization was needed. We
had 5000 commissioned officers in 1916,
and suddenly, in 1917, we needed $4,000
to 100000 We expanded the enlisted
strength from 100000 to nearly 2,000,-
900. We had to create arms, ordnance
and equipment out of nothing for this
vast new establishment
A comprehensive naval construction
programme had been authorized by Con-
gress in 1916. When war came the per-
sonncl was doubled, not multiplied
twenty times. The organization already
created was elastic enough to absorb the
new personnel. 1t went on functionng.
1t is not surprising that the House COM
mittee found it efficient. 1t would have
been surprising if it had shown a lack of
efficiency.
But to attribute this showing to the
civilian head Of the navy is to create an
altogether artificial perspective We
have irst class navy because the navy
itself has strivcn for more than two
decades to be prepared for war. We are
short Of an army prepared for war, not
because Of what Mr.. Baker has done or
failed to do, but because the military
New-York tribune., 1918-03-15
A Lesson From Johnny Reb

tFrom The st. Louis Repub'icl
Failing to get all the wheat they want
the people of Europe viii eat corn. This is
the Inference we draw from the announce.
mcnt by the food administration that the
government will need 100000 bushels Of
corn day during the next three weeks for
EXPORT
Possibly some of it may be intended for
our own armies. If it should result in 8
more extended use Of corn for food N
Europe the war would have its compensss
ing feature. Armies can live and fight on
it, as the Confedcrates showed during ou
Civil War, when for days at a time 'he'
had nothing but parched corn to eat.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-15

establishment was kept so long ludi-
crously undersized, swathed in red tape
and compelled to limp along under an
organization entirely out of touch with
1914.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-15
Reasons for Thankfulness
(From The Oklohon,n Ne,,,

(Fronl The Oklahoma Ncmsl
lhc world is being flooded with Trotzkys
DOCKS. but ior which we should all be
thnnkful-~hc has not announced TINT bo
is going into vaudeville.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-15

You can purchase merchandise advertised In The
TRIBUNE with absolute sateyfcr dissatisfaction re-
suits Ia THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
money back upon No red tape. No uulbb'ny
We mako good promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-15
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the Use
republication OF all dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise this paper and also the local
OF spontaneous origin published herein.
rights of republication OF all other matter herein
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-15
GUARANT se

Entered a, the Postonrc a; New York Second Class
Mail Matter
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14

Macmillan Harden has como TO
tho defense OF Prince Lichnowniy
German Ambassador 20 Great Britain
In i9ia. who recently barred neEoua-
tons Just prior TO the outbreak Of
war showing the German rcnponsi.
blllty and who said "Thc German
government deliberately destroyed
the possibility Of peaceful settle.
mcnt"
Harden says. ITO such a pass has
the German national conscience been
reduced that today one hears not one
word 81 homage 20 the generous In.
trntiona of a prince u.lchnowHkyl
who entered the lists In defense OF
democracy
"Onc NIGH, hold ones peace In 81.
lent contempt but Tor the fact that
after three and q half years 81 war
the rrlchatag. Htili turning deaf ear
to every appeal for "A thoro and indie
pendent research into tho origin 81
tho war. continues 60 believe thru
thick and thin Ia tho legend ~ \ per
fidloua aggression against Germany.
and TO bang the door In the face of
any body who has tho courage 10
throw doubt on ~.
The august party leaders vent
their spite on tho author Of memoirs
which were inadvertently published
and passed as contrahand 60 foreign
countries. They treat him u.irh.
nowskyl az tho he were maniac. an
idiot. as their grandfathcrs treated
bismarck when he had not yet
reached his fame
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
Tel Star Bodrder
10 Leave Your Home

Dear Miss Grey: / am In love
with woman. have lived with
her ono year today. She goes under
my name. and her father lives with
us. or he In supposed 10 be her
father. as far as I know She L. 50
years old. and doesn't work much
! have bought her good many
things and she says she is not ready
TO marry. We were to have been
married year ago. but she has
kept putting II off. have paid all
tho bills and have acted the man
started TO live with her on the prom
- n marriage. My wages are $50
TER week. and II takes d; all 10 live.
Do you think she Is sincere. or ~
shc just working mo for a living
for tho two Of them have fur
nished home complete and she
claims every thing belongs TO her II
Nc should part. could she hold the
things that have bought and paid
for. such "a piano and household
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
Confused Ouer
Draft Matters

Dear Miss Grey: ! am now -. tho
I was two months too young. 90 reg
lister last June have recently mar
RED. after being engaged year OF
more. and have bought furniture
There Is 30 much talk Of second
draft that I hesitate 10 begin house
keeping Am I liable 20 be- called
SOON J. G..
The second draft which you
hear about refers 20 the second
calling of men already regis
tered Thousands Of men are yet
uncailcd who registered IN June.
1871, SO. under present regula
lions. unless you enlist you are
not likely 10 see service soon.
There ~. however. bin pending
Ia congress which requires men
10 register as they become n. II
this bin becomes a law. you viii
be classified AZ the present regis.
uauts are Inform yourself about
this classification BY getting
copy Of qucstionnalfc and
studying IL.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
Are YOU Still
YOUNG AT HEART?
Then Why Look Older Than
You Feel?

Every woman f. as young as she
looks. 40 why let sentiment or prcju.
dica prevent your keeping youthful
~ long as you wish
Not long ago many women would
not use face powders or cosmetics.
To-day. practically every woman
knows their need ana uses them
This IL equally true 81 the hair color
rcHiorcr Thousands OF women keep
their hair dark and youthful with
. ban Hair Color Rcstorer II IL not
a dye. but a delightful toilet prcpara.
ton which brings back the color and
gloss az gradually and evenly as the
natural renewing % the hair Itself
q ban will not stain tho scalp.
wash or rub OF. and docs not inter
fore with washing or waving the
hair Keeps u glossy and healthy.
Guaranteed TO satisfy or money rc.
funded
Sold by all good druggists every.
where on Money Back Guarantee.
Price Use.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
Confessions ofaM1fe

Of course YOU understand can real
Is do nothing. as you hold most eV.
cry share OF stock. hut I expect he
wanted me to understand that | was
not 10 oppose 3 our ideas IN any way
When be- was talking with me
Just before you went away. he told
me that YOU had made a business
man of him that when YOU were
first married hr had resented your
Interference greatly. but he had
come To see that you we're a better
business man than he
Hut you both were little out OF
patience with me when I insisted
that ! should vote my own stock at
that memorable meeting. when YOU
two men had decided We would turn
the concern into a trust"
Yes. MarEir. We were assentcd
Jim. but / see now you were right d"
Thank YOU" said gravely
"NoA, want 10 talk over further
changes in the concern" said Jim.
81 can't do Il just yet. Jim" an.
awercd. II almost feel aa tho I never
NHAAAAhNA ~ AAhth hAHAAAfHHH WIN any
one again. and besides. am sure
there Ia nothing OF Importance to be
discussed
only do this. Jim. old friend OF
Dicks and mine keep on with the
details OF the business just as YOU
did while Dick was sick. and let me
cut Of u Tor while. unless some
thing comes up IN which I must be
consulted IA chief stockholdcr
A. I was talking with jim. my
ono idea was TO get rid OF him. 80
that | could SO up and read that
manuscript Dick mad left for me
You know. my only cuufidant. that
told you about Il some time ago.
Wen, az that time ! had read only
the first chapter. and then ! pa, the
book away unui was stronger and
better able TO read u calmly.
The first chapter began.
To my wife Margic
Il am writing these lines knowing
that very soon | shall have left her.
never 60 return and I wish in after
years. u have TO go before my boy
il born that she shall know me a.
well az do ms SELF. 80 that she can
make my boy know his father 80
well that he may sidc.atcp mas vices
and keep clos. TO his few virtues.
Il wonder. MarEir dear. II in your
heart YOU think / have any virtues
at all7"
read this far. little book. and
then closed the page while l looked
bac., over my ifc with Dick. and
found. one by one. his many virtues.
II can tell your ron. Dick tstrangc
that he should he so sure hiH post.
humoua child would be som. that
you were one of the most iovablc
men I ever knew when you would
permit yourself 20 be lowed said.
IAN men loved you. dear Dick. and
80 did most women"
That night determined TO read
Dicks httlc book piccemcal when |
became lonely and wanted 20 get
near to him IN the never. never land
To which he had gone
After Jim went away for dear old
Jim always understands my moods.
and he senHcd | wanted to be alone
for some reason again got out
Dicks book
!, was very different from mine.
being an old ledger. and I found he
had begun Il the evening OF the day
when Or Nlrot had told him hc only
had short time 20 live
TO lie Continued
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
<I e4tcts Es GAuthiD. Gcx

have a liberty bond WHOM "" WouI0
Ike to sell nn that would help W
out We would appreciate your ia
formation where 10 dispose ~ ihi'
bond NEEDY
DO not dispose Of your Eov
eminent bond unless sou have
exhausted every other resource
The bond represents your SAY
inRa and every family should lay
away something from its in
come Tho Liberty Bond is the
best Kind ~ Investment, and VIII
roon bee worth more than you
paid for II n you are driven 90
dispose OF the bond. YOU can sell
IL al almost any bank
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
Applying This Paste
Actually Removes Hairs

Merely applying an inexpensive
paste to a hairy surface. say beauty
specialists. will dissolve the hairs.
This paste IL made by mixing a little
water with some powdered delatone:
after about minutes 1t Is rubbed
of and the skin washed. This SIM
pie method not only removes every
trace OF hair. but leaves the skin
free from blemish. To insure sue
cess with this treatment. be careful
10 get real delatone. --Advertisement
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
ST. LOUIS OPPOSES
SlX-CENT FARE RATE
FOR STREET RAILWAYS

ST LOUIS. May IL Tho city 81
st Louis win appeal the decision OF
the public service commission.
granting the United Railways a o.
cent fare rate and charge for
transfers.
Mayor kicl has announced the
city would ask rchcaring.
The railways company virtually
agreed today 10 grant the employees
an Increase OF 10 cents an hour,
based on the commissions ruling for
the fare increase
The question 81 increased rates re-.
suited fruru street ear strike. The
ton 90 meet the demands OF the
lions 20 meet the demands of the
men.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
The Rights Of
q DirOrced WOnlnn

Dear Miss Grey ! am going q
Rot divorce from my husband. 90
he has been too mean 10 live with
any MORE AFTER | am divorced ear
I buy property in my name. or i'
there any certain time must wall
after that A WIFE
After you obtain your divorce
decree. you may enjoy the same
property rights you did when
you were single You do not
have to wait any certain length
OF time after the divorce Is
granted.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
WANT u. S. TO RETAIN
R. R. IMMIGRATION MEN

An appeal TO the Seattle Chamber
OF Commerce and Commercial Clue
10 join IN an effort OF commercial
bodies OF the entire Northwest TO
get the government to retain the
services OF immigration agents OF
railroads. has come from the com
missioner OF immigration OF Mime.
sofa.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
MARGIE BEGINS To READ
DICKS MESSAGE

must have looked surprised when
Jim said ho know ot our first quar-
rel
"Marglc. pick knew that he hrd
not long Go live before you went TO
California In fact he lived six
months longer than pr Nirot told
him he wouki before you both went
ON the trip lie made all his ar
rangcments for a quiet demise while
YOU were out there.
Above all. he told me that | must
not interfere with anything YOU
might want TO do with the business.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
Meet Hdif Van
X Mdrri1Uc ddrice

- huFftHUf uitt'
Dear Miss Grey. because "A great
sorrow came into my mothers ne.
she IN making lifc miserable for my
sister and I am 20 ana my sister
Us 20 Naturally. We meet young
men ana want TO associate with
them have a friend who IL Nv
fully nice. but because some ~ his
family have done wrong. my mother
condemns him. aud snys girls are
better or single than married Now
dear Cynthia. know there ARE q
great many divorces. but don't YOU
think Il rs principally because men
and women don't meet each other
half way AGATHA.
Yes. do The secret 20 sue
cessful marriage lies ia the sim
pie little rule OF always meeting
each other half way.
In many eases what your
mother says has proved true.
Marriage Is gamble. but every
one wants to play his hand just
as your mother and father did.
when they got their marriage II
ccns" Your mother should try
60 help you by guiding. rather
than by trying 10 lead. She has
lived many more years than YOU
ana should understand human
nature and lie much better than
you. For this reason you should
listen. There may be traits ~
character that her experience On
RbleH her 20 see IN this young
man. that neither you nor any
other girl Of your age would see.
Not all people who seem nice"
are nice. So don't be 30 resent.
ful toward your mother. but try
60 cultivate q spirit OF coopera-
ton between her and yourself
When you marry you want TO
make sure that you are taking a
husband who viii meet you hair
way. or the rule won't work.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
EDUCATOR RECOVERING

BERKELEY. Cal. May 10 Hen
Allen. director OF education Of the
L. s. food administration. was Re-
ported greatly improved today fol
lowing a nervous breakdown and an
attack % rheumatism. lie IN In n
local ranl,arium. Mrs Allen ia cI
p~ct~d here from Washington IN a
few days
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
PEEL OFF CALLUS SEES
WITH THE FINGERS

Hard skin" or callus spots on the
sides or the bottom OF the feet peel
right Off without pain or soreness.
after you apply little Freczone.
says a Cincinnati authority. This
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14

Los ANGELES. May i4-Ioel
Smith. editor Of the "Knocker." con
victed 81 using the malls IN scheme
20 dcfrNud. is under sentence 10
serve two and half years az Nc
Nell's Island prison.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14

ether drug loosrns tho
dead. callused skin 30 Il
pccls off with the fingers
A quarter ounce %
frcexonc costs but a few
cents at any pharmacy.
but II sufficient to re
move every corn or cal.
lus from ones feet. This
Is the only way " free
the feet from corns and
calluscs without sore.
ness. danger or Infection.
After tho corn or cal.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14
Turning a Liberty
Bond Into Cash

Dear Miss Grey. We are mar
ried couple with a small family and
much In need Of immediate cash " e.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14

goods We get along well. with the
exception that / want 10 live honor
ably and IL doesn't seem TO bother
her What is your advice
j. y. r.
Leave at once. or. better stlll.
make your star boarder leave.
since IL Is your home. This state
does not recognize common law
marriages. consequently the
woman can claim nothing that
belongs TO you.
st---------
T \ THRIFT STAMP n day
will keep the Hun away.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14

In spite of the producers demand that we
show it at dollar a seat-and everyone who
has seen it admits it's worth tin spite of
the tremendous rental cost of the film, in
spite of the length of time it takes to screen
it. we show it at
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-14

ius Is lifted away the skin beneath -
pink and healthy. and not sore. ten
der or even irriatcd.