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New-York tribune., 1918-07-11
Military Comment
By William l.. Mcpherson

TNH HE Allied operation in Alba
MIA held the centre Of the
stage yesterday. 1t is
"side-show" feature But it may
have appreciable moral as we'll as
military results.
The Allies have advanced fifteen
miles in southwestern Albania and
have thoroughly defeated the oppos-
ing Austro-H Hungarian forces The
front on which the fighting of the
last 'few days has occurred stretches
east sixty miles or more from the
Adriatic Sea to the Devoli River.
The Devoli runs northwest through
the mountains and then turns in
big curve to the southwest, to empty
into the Semeni River Some dis
tance west Of the Devoli the Csum
River runs north into the Semeni.
The general course Of the Semeni is
from northeast to southwest.
The Italians in the coast sector
have made the greatest gain in ter
ritory. The former Italian positions
lay along the smaller river Voyusa,
fifteen miles south of the Semeni
and paraleling it. In this sector the
town of Fieri was taken on Sunday
or Monday. Now the Italians have
crossed the country between the two
rivers and are on the banks of the
Semenl. The Austrians have retired
hurriedly and in disorder.
Further east, where French and
native Albanian troops are fighting,
considerable progress has been made
north along the two sides of the
Osum River. Berat, the most i'm
portant interior town in southern
Albania, lies on this river, and the
Allied forces are now very close to
it. They are also driving the Aus
trlas5 back still further east in t
mountainous Devoli section.
Essad Pacha is said to be leading
the Albanian contingent. He has
figured for many years as the War
wick Of Albanian politics. He went
to Germany at the head of the dele
gatlon which offered the crown of
Albania to Prince William Of Wied.
lie was the power behind the throne
IN the first months of Williams
opera boutfe royal tenure. Then the
Austrian coterie about the King
conspired to eject Essad He was
arrested on charges Of one sort or
another, but was allowed to seek ex-
lie in Italy.
In Italy he became the recognized
head Of the anti-Teuton. pro-Italjan
faction in Albania. After Willj7m
1led IN panic from Durazzo. intimi-
dated by miniature revolution
staged in the hills little way back
from the coast, Essad went home
A-N N~Se'hiC q Virtual UlCt3tOr Gllr- /
ing the early stages of the world !
war.
lie was friendly to Serbia. and in
the fall Of 1915 helped the defeated
Serbian armies to escape THROUGH
Albania to the Adriatic. The Ans
TRAN occupation drove him again
INTO exile. But he still has inf1u-
ence and following, and he NAV be
able to make trouble in the Austrian
rear by stirring up the mountain
tribes to cut the enemys lines of re-
treat
The Allied forces have a great ad-
vantage in being near good sea
bases. The Austrians are shat off
from the sea and must depend on
long and tenuous communications
through the nearly roadless noun
talns. For them hurried retire
New-York tribune., 1918-07-11
"Ey Dannable Warfare"
Is U-Boat Death Verdic,

LONDON, July 1o.-"Lost their lives
through the damnable misuse of war
1are, was the verdict of coronar's
Jury IN an East coast port, after inyes.
tgating the deaths of two fishermen
Killed by shrapnel from a German SUBJ
marine, which opened fire on an nm.
armed trawler without warming.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-11
Soop Shortage ir, Germany
Brings Wew Skin Disease

(Correspondsncc Of The Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM June GA new dis
ease which recently appears in Ger
many, is attributed to the shortage of
soap SO far the German health
autnorities have been unable to find a
remedy for the ma'adv. which is called
"tricofta" and affects the skin and
hair. The disease is caused by lack
OF soap and unsanitary conditions re-
shifting from II
New-York tribune., 1918-07-11
Heavy Fighting Around
Chafecu Thieyry Iy,,pends
(Ru The Assoc;rtcd praso,

VbD nc Ass0clC{cd Press)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE MARINE, July 1o.-The fronts
west and east of Chateau Thiarry where
American troops hold positions have
been unusually quiet, but it is be-
lieved that heavy fighting may break
out at any moment.
Last night the enemy artillery fire
was far below normal. Tho American
gunners maintained an intermittent
bombardment OF the enemy lines, espe-
clally in the region of Hill 204, west
Of Chateau-T inrrv
New-York tribune., 1918-07-11
Troop Train in Wreck;
7 Cars Overturned

SHREVEPORT. La. July 11.-sswn
cars of a troop train on the Vicl.sbuY
Shreveport & Pacific Railway are re
ported to have turned over near
Haughton. La. twenty-four miles essi
of Shreveport.
At 1890 a. m. two relief trains left
for the scene of the wreck.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-11
Proud Of Ny Boys!'"
Is ColoneEs Comment

Il surely am proud OF my boys" was
Colonel Theodore Rooscvelt's comment
when shown at the University Club last
night the dispatch announcing that
Quentin had brought down his first
German airplane.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-11

ment would mean a great disaster,
paralleiing, on a small scaie, their
headlong retreat from Serbia in the
first year Of the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-11

their lines $50 yards on front Of
1,200 yards.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-11
Will You Go To France?

Mr.. L. d. Pouch at 81 Madi'@
.Auenue aiN gre you full iHf0r'S
ton. See him today.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-11
u. S. FHers Go
so Miles Into
German Lines

Continued from page !
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Fomenting Bolshevism

Our financial columns printed yester-
day an extremely interesting chart which
showed the relative increase in the retail
prices OF food, as compiled by the United
States Bureau Of Labor Statistics, and
the average weekly earnings of 100000
factory workers in New York State
The graph showed that where earnings
had gone up 40 per cent food prices had
risen just half again as much. And it is
to be noted that the increase in earnings
by no means indicates a corresponding
increase in wage rates. A large part or
the whole of the increase might be repro
sented simply by full time employment.
AS matter of fact, the increase shown
is due partly to full time and partly to
increased wage.
This picture Of actual conditions pretty
effectively destroys the illusion that infa-
-tion of prices necessarily means prosper
ity for the workingman. SO far from
that, it may be the reverse.
Wages practically never go up as fast
as prices.
Now note the result All the working
man knows is that larger earnings buy
less than before. His real wages have
fallen. In the midst of a vast prosperity
he is sitting at Barmecide feast
Is it any wonder that he is discontent-
ed? And resorts to strikes to increase
his wage? He is not a Stacker or a
criminal.
Ignorant newspapers, demagogic poll
ticians, even men in high places in the
government, we regret to say, feed him
up with the idea that he is the victim of
combinations, trusts and profteering
scoundrels.
Of the actual causes of high prices, a
wild imitation of the credit power of the
country, he has not the remotest thought
And there is practically no one to tell
him. This folly has more to do with
fomenting Bolshevism than any other sim
gle cause.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Briggs and Evervthinp

inc Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | was interested in vour mcssaco to
'hc New York merchants in to-dav's Trih-
uhe. so much appreciate the stand that
you have taken in regard to truthful adycr.
using 'hat feel it my duty to tell you that
appreciate it and that | want to do all
can TO hcip you make your policy success
bought this little Corona tvpewr;ter
which am using because I saw it adver.
used IN The Tribune My husband bought
O-oan har cutter because he read the nd
IN inc Tribune. Gimbes advertised in
your paper on March 81, and the next dav
bought among other things bracelet watch
made by firm unknown to me and which
J most certainly would not have purchased
II Glmbels had not advertised in The rrib.
unc' In other words, | much prefer to
shon with tho merchants who advertise in
The Tribunc'
with best wishes for your success. am.
sincerely yours, MABEL G. M'CALLuM
r. S-Mr. Briggss cartoons alone arc
worth many times the price Of The Tribune.
There is just ono thing more | wish you
could do and that is lengthen the "shoes
and Ships and Sealing Wax"
4 Yonkers. N. y, April II, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Pagan and Inhdel

A Turco-German offensive against
Jerusalem is announced. This gives
Lieutenant General Baron Won Ardenne,
opportunity to commit CHASTITY pleas
antry.
He says, with the smuggest air of Ger
man pietism: at is a satisfaction to US
Germans that the struggle for the Holy
Places is again proceeding with German
arms, as in the time of the Kaiser Bar
barossa."
Frederick l, known as Barbarossa, led
crusade for the recovery of Jerusalem
from the hands of Saladin, the great
Saracen warrior. Wilhelm II is spilling
German blood to restore Jerusalem to
brutal Moslem ruler. Those Germans
who still claim to stand within the circle
of Christendom must have a queer sense
of humor if they can get any satisfaction
out of Baron Won Ardenne's ingenious
parallel.
The Christian world was thrilled few
months ago by the news that the flag of
Islam had at last ceased to wave from
the walls of Jerusalem That news
didn't thrill Germany, because Germany
has already reverted, in everything but
name, to ancient paganism. The Teuton
heather and the infidel Turk now raise
their hands to tear down the cross and
restore the crescent. Pagan and intidel
march together in brotherhood
Barbarossa, so legend tells us, sits in
his cave in the Thuringian Mountains,
awaiting the day when the German peo-
Piles shall again need his leadership. Is
it not enough to waken him from his
long sleep to know that his successo. on
the German throne is fighting alongside
the Turk for the e-Moslemization of the
HOLY City?
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
By JAS. J. WALSH. Nj. D.
(Fellow Ncso York Academy of Medicine. Memb

VI e''o'o NcW o'H Acddefny OF Medicine Mer6cr
OF Stats Of Various Hospitals)
Can man live without stmulants? Will
drinking alcoholic beverages drop out of
the social psychology? l suppose that YOU
mean, can man live without narcotics? AL
coholic beverages, it is now we'll known,
are never stimulants. They are always
narcotics. Men have taken them with the
idea that they stimulated them What
really happened, however, as the effect of
aicohol, was that they felt better The
heart goes faster, but not because it is
stimulated, but because the brake is taken
Off, Alcohol takes the brake off nearly every
thing. Men talk more, they eat more than is
good for them. Their nhibitions generally
are removed. They quarrel easier. Sex inhi-
b'tlons are lifted. The hard things of life
seem easier under the influence of narcotics.
they took opium in the Orient, hasheesh in
the Near East and whiskey in the West Men
nave always found some such means of re-
llevlng the tedum of existence | think
that they will continue to do So But then
am one OF those who holds very firmly to
the opinion that human nature has never
changed. Prohibition would probably make
the generation more efficient, but then |
think that efficiency is the eighth deadly sin.
1t Is good thing pushed to an exaggera
tlon. ! think that it would be wrong to
take the geod feeling that follows tho
taking Of mild narcotic out of life. Life ;s
too hard for most men without it. The
abuse of narcotics is serious, but the old
Latin proverb is that from the abuse of a
thing no argument holds against the use
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15

ting more and more congested. Progress
ahead must therefore be halted, unless
the heights of Messines and the position
at Givenchy are either taken by direct
attack or are enveloped. The main fight
ing of the last three days has been for
the Messines ridges, which the British
captured last summer in one Of the most
brilliant operations Of the war. Hin
denburg is trying TO make this position
untenable by taking Baileul and work
ing around to the west and northwest of
MeSsines
The battle is still active. But the
strength of the defence and the offence
has been more nearly equalized.
A further German advance to Haze
brouck would threaten the Allied line
north from Ypres to the North Sea. But
even a German success Of that dimensions
would mean less than the capture of
Amiens, with control of the Somme to
the English Channel. And the situation
Of the northern British armies is less
perilous than was the situation of the
British armies on the Somme four or five
days after the great St. Quentin often
sive began.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15

woman of the Mayors Committee of
Women on National Defence down the
line and back again
Think it over, Mayor Hylan. Even if
the technicality existed the thing to do
would be to legalize the splendid organic
growth of the Department Of Health, not
to wipe it out and begin all oyer again.
The Health Department and the child
welfare work of city like New York is
the last thing of which we should make a
political football.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
By WILLIAM A. WHITE. NJ y.

superintendent Of United States Government
Hospital for the Insonc)
You have asked two questions of mo
winch are apparently intended to relate to
each other. namely first Can man live
without stimulant? and, second, Will drink
ing alcoholic beverages drop out of the So
cal psychology?
FROM these questions Judge that alcohol
Is considered as stimulant. OF course,
this is quite contrary TO all of our present
0knowledge in regard to the effects of al
cohol Alcohol, far from being a stimulant,
Is depressant. The reason, however, that
alcohol has such hold upon people should
De considered not from the physiological
but from thc psychological standpoint, and
when soseonsidered it seems quite apparent
That the reason is because it breaks down
lnhlb'tlons and releases tendencies which
otherwise are kept submerged, the general
result being that the conventional re-
atralnts are removed and the demands Of
personal responsibility temporarily ahros
gated and replacsd by Il sense of fraadum
und puwer.
The drinker is iir thin way relieved from
the tension and strain incident to the de-
mands of reality and Can drop hack into u
Arld az fantxsy. These demands Of real-
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
"The Worlds Greatest"

Effectng the purchase Of a box of
matches, after some difficulties and hesi-
tations, we observe that it is, per label
'the worlds greatest match" 1t is a
very good match, but we should probably
not have been aware that it was the
worlds greatest if it had not been for
the label
Having our shoes shined, we notice
that the noble Greek who performs this
salutary service uses a brand which is
"thc worlds greatest blacking." The
polish we get does not strike us as aston
ishingly superior. Many other things
bear similar label.
One of Mr.. Hcarst's numerous publica-
tions is proclaimed as ''the worlds great
est magazine And following his lead.
an excellent Chicago newspaper an
nounces itself as "the worlds greatest
newspaper" 1t is very good paper, but
as we read it we little fail to be imbued
with the sense Of it's supreme greatness.
Still, it may be there.
Is the public very much Influenced by
all this bunk and brag and buncombe?
Is it an incorrigible and ineradicable
trait or lingering relic of the days Of
Colonel jefferson Brick and the United
States that Dickens described in his
"American Notes.?
And isn't the blink of the bunk about
PLAYED out?
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
The Battle in Flanders

The German offensive in the north SO
far is the offensive against Amiens over
again, only on reduced scale
The two operations have been identical
in method. The German advance in
Flanders has been on the whole propor-
tlonate to the pressure eXerted. 1t has
been held within bounds by nearly nor
NAL resistance. The advance from St.
Quentin was disproportionate because it
was accelerated by the breakdown of the
Fifth British Army
Compare the progress made on the two
fronts. In the first three days of the
Somme offensive the Germans advanced
about twelve miles on fifty-mile line.
Then the advance began to narrow. The
dislocation of the front held by the Fifth
British Army, to the west of St. Quentin.
made progress easier at the south than
at the north. So the wedge was driven
In faster below Amiens than above it.
The British held in front of ,Arras and
at Albert. But further down the Ger
man columns reached Mareui and passed
Montdidier.
At the tip of the blunted wedge, to the
north of Montdidier, the penetration cx
ceeded thirty-fve miles. The Somme
salient is now big bulge, contained on
the north by the British positions east of
Arras and on the south by the French
line running east from Montddicr to be-
low the Forest of St. Gobain.
In Flanders the German attack was
made on much narrower front-twentv
miles against fifty. The operation was
subsidiary one. 1t was intended to help
out the Somme offensive, which had come
to a halt. After six days fighting in
the north the Germans have pushed an
other blunted wedge into the British
lines. Moving northwest they have reg
lstcred an advance Of about nine miles
IN the centre. The wedge is sharper than
the Sommc wedge, for on the twenty
mile front progress has been confined to
the t"elve-mlle space between the Mes
sncs ridges, on the north, and Givenchv.
on the south.
The British are holding the northern
heights, which command the open plain
over which the Germans have pushed for
ward. They are also holding fast at
Givcnchy. The present German position
is therefore contained from the north
and the south, just as the Somme posi-
ton is. The wedge cannot be driven
further with safety SO long as the Brit
ish armies hold their. threatening posi-
tions or the two sides Of the salient close
TO it's base.
An offensive which seeks to break
through needs elbow room. The Ger.
man salient west Of Armenticrcs is get.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Irish Still
gle cause

Hope not for miracles, lest they hap
pen.
The Irish question is not settled. 1t is
perhaps not meant to be settled Does it
not contain the immortal principle of
contradiction?
: After eight months of arduous labor
the Irish convention reports. Sir Horace
Plunkett says there has been "laid
foundation of an Irish agreement unpre-
cedented in history"
Any foundation of an Irish agreement
would be unprecedented. So far Sir
Horace is right. But is there that foun-
dation?
The Ulster Unionists issue a report
protesting against the charmans i'm
plication that any measure of agree
ment regarding Irish self government
has been reached.
The Ulster Unionists are for conscrip-
tion and against Home Rule. The Irish
Nationalists are for Home Rule and
against conscription. Lloyd George had
the strange audacity to tie Home Rule
and conseription together, Gin conse-
quence of which," says the American
correspondent of The Associated Press,
"the situation as regards Home Rule at
present is that nobody wants it,"
81 may assume a knowledge of the
broad facts of the Irish question:" said
Sir Horace Plunkett, snoring up before
hand the walls of the Foundation of an
agreement unprecedented in history"
against the attacks of the Ulster people,
who would, of course, deny it's existence
OF what use are the broad facts?
One-quarter of the Irish and a large
majority Of the English see alike, for
reasons racial, religious, economic and
imponderable.
Three-quarters of the Irish and a
small minority of the English moderately
agree, mainly for the reason that they
violently disapprove of all the others.
The English government cannot do
anything with Ireland without fighting
her. 1t must choose whether to fight the
Ulster Unionists, who want conscription,
don't want Home Rule and would as lief
fight for the one as against the other, or
the Nationalists, who are three-quarters
of the Irish population, and would sooner
die for Home Rule than be conscriptcd
1t IS easy to say that quarters of
the Irish ought to prevail But it is
easier still for the Ulster Unonists to
say that if quarters Of Ireland may
threaten to secede from Great Britain.
so may Ulster, which is onc-quarter of
Ireland, threaten to seccde from Ireland.
Why not?
Meanwhile the House of Commons. in
passing the new man power bill, has
voted conscription in Ireland, with the
Irish Natlonalists protesting hysterically
and predicting that it will take an Eng
lish army to get the conscripts out of
Ireland.
The ugly charge Of disloyalty lies i'll
against Ireland. She has given already
more than 10000 Of her sons, and is
willing enough to give more, or, as we
think, TO give all, only provided she be
allowed to give in her own way.
There is something inexprcssibly pa
thetIc IN the proposal to raise men so
rapidly by volunteering that the British
government will be ashamed to procced
with conscrlption. 1t is startling for the
deep glimpse it gives of a misllndcrstand
ing both unnecessary and tragic.
Irish loyalty has the quality of love
IT gives itself. 1t cannot be taken bv
force. IL can hardly be taken for
granted.
Iba Iyish wsys not mad, for this
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
By PROFESSOR CHARLES
BENEDICT DAVENPORT

director for Department Of Experimental Evolu-
ton, Carnegie instituted
One of the first psychological effects of
drinking alcoholic drinks is to render more
or less Ineffective the inhibitory mechanism.
10 person who has had drink the world
takes on brighter aspect, and his limi-
tatlons seem for the time to be overcome
His fundamental instincts are now able
to work themselves out, and especially the
sex instinct, as the most fundamental of
all, has full play. The mantle of respccta-
bility, with which we all, as members of
society, clothc ourselves, falls off. We re-
veal ourselves naked and unashamed as
the kind of human animal that our specific
constitutional traits make us. Alcohol in
word, permits. free individual expression;
but it is prcjudicial to the preservation of
the morals
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
By EUGENE LYMAN FISK, M. D.
lMcdical Director. Life Extension


Can man live without st;muants:
Interpreting stimulants as connotlns su.D
drugs es caffeine and cocaine, 1t may 's.s :.s
ly be said tha. not only can man i've WIZ
out such drugs, hut If he vii! fol!o" .Al
simple laws Of health he VIII be happier 60"
healthier without them.
Alcohol is not stimulant, but falls WV.
In The class of narcotic drugs, suea =. -
opium, ether and chloroform. 1t 10 ~
pressant and not stimulsnt, its appass.'
stimulation being due to the fna! oep's.
sion of those brain centres that govern c..'
duct. or, to put the matter in palmer Ans'
Saxon. which keeps q man from E,sk'nS
fool Of himself.
live without such drugs is answers. ~,
millions Of r,cn who do live without .Isod .as
and who keep healthy and have Ss''
times" that will bear analysis. .u.,.
In TN inveatigat;on Of insurance pow.
holders 1t WAS found in two ia9se .na
panies that ca per cent in one company -.
6o per cent In another company ws'' .n.,. ~.
drinkers. In ar investigation OF ths vi, ~.
ta!!ty experience Of British compsn's. ,..,.
total abstainer was found to have . Z. ~ Il
tality ratio 27 per cent lower than ..a.,ss .ae.
the moderate drinker. In IN inves1tssss .s.ss
OF the experience Of forty-three Amslsty s"ty
life insurance companies the STEADY 10.
drinker of more than two beers or ons 1.rt.
of whiskoy. or their alcoholic squN.'s,ss 4
had q mortality Of SO per cent IN s"''s'
the average class of policyholdSrs. -.
There in abundant evidence that ,,,.,. Va. II
jority Of men in this country drink ns.s, ...,s1
at all. and there is also abundant e'iu.I n"I
that wherever alcohol is found we the
higher death rate. This evidence :. ~
mortality records is supported by ''' ..,s.
dence OF the laboratory, which show, IL
cially the experiments Of Bencd'e,; I..sf..
Carnegie Institute. that even sria' "ssa1
age doses of alcohol depress the nSt -. stt
system and impair the efficiency o. ~
culation.