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New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
The Immortal Pole

Few deaths in the war have touched
Americans as did the death of young
Jean de Reszke, only son of the great
Jean, honored and beloved They are
priceless memories which we cherish
from that great artists reign upon our
operatic stage. Sympathy to-day in his
tragic sorrow is small return. We can
only assure him that it is heartfelt and
widespread, and that the lapse Of years
has not dimmed memory or weakened
gratitude.
Here is a rare and noble strain Of
blood. This young Pole who died for
8Erance and her allies may we'll stand in
our eyes for all that immortal race who,
in exile and affection, have given so
largely to humankind and have never
lost faith in their land Americans,
surely, need not be told their story. The
hand of Kosciusko was written upon the
hills of Saratoga in another and earlier
line of trenches, lost now to sight in the
weathering of time, immortal upon the
pages of our history
Splendor of imagination and warmth
of heart flower there with a peculiar dis
tinction, with simplicity, with nobility.
The greatest living master of English
prose, the greatest living figure in Eng
lish literature, was born a Pole. Few
nobler figures have the fortunes of war
displayed than our own Paderewski, his
art laid aside, his every thought and re-
source devoted to the rebirth Of the
Polish nation, which suffers hundred
deaths but never dies.
To that Poland, immortal, unconquer-
able, whose white eagle once more floats
upon the battlefields of Europe, our
friend of DID, our ally that is to be, hail
and victory!
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
The Infant Industry

The Milk Committee makes an esti-
mate of nearly 100000 babies born in
the United States in the calendar year
of 1917. Of these only one in ten died
within the first year. In New York
City the rate was still lower, only about
one in eleven. This is a wonderful
record. 1t is not much more than half
a century since the death rate was
twice this. Even in New York ten
years ago it was so per cent higher
8.8 per cent now, 1876 per cent then.
Three-quarters of century ago in
many countries the death rate was
above one in three.
But the still more remarkable part
of the story is that in some communi-
ties in this country the death rate is
now less than half the average. They
deserve to be named. The five under
fifty per thousand births are Berkeley
and Alameda, CAL; Everett and Brook
line, Mass, and La Crosse, Wis. 1t
is evident from this wide distribution
that what these cities can do all cities
could do. This has been abundantly
shown by the work of the maternity
committees, in England, where the in
fant death rate in some of the factory
towns has been cut down thirds or
more.
There seems almost no limit to what
can be done. There is little commune
in the south of France where, in ten
years, thanks to the intelligent hygienic
methods adopted, not single baby died
within the first year of it's existence.
That, for nation of 10o,ooo,oOo, is
perhaps an unattainable ideal, but the
saving of 100000 infant lives per year,
by the simplest hygienic means, is clear
ly within reach
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Viva l'Italia!

All Americans will join in congratu-
lating gallant ally on splendid mill
tary achievement, the more splendid
because it follows defeat and depres-
sion. Young Italy's proud motto.
"Italia fara da se," achieves new
meaning and new glory. Italy has
done it for herself, but also for her
allies, and her achievement must be re-
membered gratefully by all Of us who
will henceforth share the profits. The
Teutons, who expected to find another
Russia beyond the Alps, have encour-
pass" has been as successful an inspira-
tion to brave men at the Piave as it was
at the Marine.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25

gic. They have no attachment to the
Soviet government, which is itself
mere she'll, without authority or power.
They would not resent Allied interven-
ton any more than they have resented
German spoliation. Probably less. 1t
seems clear that small Entente force
would suffice to take over the Siberian
railway system from the Pacific to the
Ural Mountains and to rescue the
greater part of Russia from the mis-
cries of Soviet rule.
The Czecho-Slovaks have done what
appears to the outside world an in
credible thing simply because they had
the will and initiative to do it. Is there
no lesson in their performance for those
who make mountains of the physical
and political difficulties of taking steps
in Russia?
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Measuring the Wind In the Dollar

We don't know how many of our read
ers took the time carefully to consider
Professor Kemmerer's fine article on
Sundays financial page 1t was need
fully little technical, but it was an
extremely interesting attempt to meas
ure how much the dollar has lost in
value in the last two or three years
and why-that is, how much air had
been forced into the present-day dollar
and how much it is thereby lightened.
We find great many people still puz-
zled about imitation and it's effects. Our
financial editor very cleverly defines it
as chat which makes Sc loaf of bread
cost 10c." Literally it means "filling
with air." You initiate balloon, you in
fate your chest, and in just the same
way you initiate the dollar. And Just in
proportion as air is lighter than gold
you reduce the weight" of the dollar,
and therefore it's buying power. Just
at present the buying power of the dol
lar is equal to about IS cents, as COM
pared with three years ago. 1t is quite
literally full of air. How did this air get
there?
Professor Kemmerer shows that in
the four years from the year before the
war the quantity of goods produced in
the country and the actual business
done grew about 21 per cent. We know
that in a rough way there is no very
great increase this year over last In
the same period the amount of money
in circulation increased about as per
cent, l. e., twice as much. The amount
of gold in circulation increased nearly
80 per cent and bank deposits about
IS per cent.
So, whether you think of "money" as
just coin and paper, or coin and paper
plus bank deposits, the expansion of the
money volume was all out of proportion
to the actual growth of business. And
that's the whole story.
AT any given moment the average Of
prices we pay for things is just bal
ance between the tide Of money and
the tide of business. Too strong a tide
OF money, and prices go up. AS we
noted the other day, the rate at which
the tide flows is just as important as the
quantity. That's where the old static
quantity theory Of money fell down.
Professor Kemmerer shows that the de-
velopment Of the Federal Reserve sys-
tenn, in reducing the required reserves
and making collections and clearings
easier and generally stimulating bank
ing in this country, has done its part in
helping to speed up circulation and fur
ther disturb the balance.
But, of course, the main thing was
the influx Of billion Of new gold.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Bolshevisn

A news dispatch from Moscow says the
Bolshevst Minister of Industry and Com
merce has announced that the Soviets, in
order to meet their obligations (D to
Germany, will be compelled to borrow a
large sum of German money, and that as
security for the loan Germany will re-
ceive the right to exploit some of Russia's
natural resources.
Here is infinite irony.
For Germany it is now cheaper to buy
than to take by force what more she
wants in Russia. And the Bolsheviki,
who are neither anti-German nor pre-
Ally but who have pretended to be bent
upon the destruction of the capitalistic
order, come at last to an economic ar
rangement with Germany on a capital
istic basis. The apology for them is that
they are irresponsible. Yet they have
the power to sell Russia.
1t will be said that this country might
have forestalled the enemy by offering
the economic aid which now is about to
be accepted from Germany. But Ameri-
can money and goods loaned to Russia
under the Bolshevist regime would al
most certainly pass into German hands.
And we have been warned that to accom-
pany such aid by display of protective
force would ALLEVIATE the Russian people
and cause them to say that they were
being exploited by a capitalistic coun-
try. That would seem to us, of course,
to be a gratuitous suspicion on the part
of the Russians. But, then, what shall
we say Of those in this country who con-
tinue to cry out against Allied interven-
tion in Russia on the ground that it is
solution urged by capitalists for gross
and sordid reasons?
1t is disloyal to say any more that
the war is itself a capitalistic enter
prise supported by Wall Street The
repetition of that monstrous absurdity
is rightly forbidden. But while Ger
many exploits and loots Russia through
the Bolsheviki it is permissible for all
those who have saved themselves from
jail by imprinting wry kiss upon the
flag to characterize in sinister manner
beforehand such action as the Allies
may presently be obliged to take.
1t is hard enough to explain the be-
havior of the Russian Bolsheviki by any
theory acceptable to ones faith in human
nature. But American Bolshevism is
contemplate. One of it's leading ex-
ponents is vain and empty intel-
lectual' who. himself under Indictment
as a war obstructionist, scolds the gov
crnment for not recognizing Leninc
and Trotzkt in scurrilous periodical
which has changed its name along with
the pretence OF changing its heart
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
The Czecho-Slovak Intervention

There is one vigorous and militant
element in Russia which does not accept
the Lenine Trotzky Man Without-a-
Country theory. The Czecho-Slovaks,
who gladly deserted the Austro- Hun
garian armies to become Russian pris-
oners, have country. 1t is not vet
on the map. But they are as ardently
attached to it as if it were a political
reality instead of political prospect.
They are ready to give their lives for it.
The Czecho-Slovaks have been freed by
the Brest-Litovsk peace and the break
down of the Russian government. They
do not intend to go back to Austria
Hungary. They want to fight against
the present monarchy, not for it. They
are willing to accept portation to
Vladivostok. But since the Lenine gov
ernment, under German pressure, has
refused to allow them to make their
way to the Pacific, they have retaliated
by seizing sections of the Siberian rail-
road and cutting off communication be-
tween Siberia and Russia.
They are little band, comparatively.
isolated in the heart of the former Rus
sian Empire. But since they have
something to fight for and have heart
in fighting, they have so far more than
held their own against the undisciplined
and feeble Bolshevist Red Guards.
Colonel George H. Emerson, an
American railroad man sent to Russia
to reorganize the Siberian system, and
now in Hardin. says that there are
about $4,000 Czecho-Slovak troops in
Russia and Siberia. Others put their
strength as high as 10000. But a
force is there evidently considerable
enough to hold long sections Of the
transcontinental railroad and to cut off
Moscow from Eastern Russia.
The exploits of the Czecho-Slovak
troops throw clear light on the mill
tary situation in Russia. The vast
mass OF the people are inert and lethar-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25

chiefly in 1916, and the huge expansion
of bank credits and deposits which was
piled up on top of this. The tables com
piled by the Princeton professor show
this lunninously and in detail.
Professor Kemmerer was pioneer
in the endeavor to put the modern, or
kinetic, theory of money on firm sta
tistical basis. The figures he is now
able to produce reveal how admirably
the theory is standing the drastic test
that the war has applied to it.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
War Vacations

What shall one do with ones vacation
this year? Shall one flee from the war,
and, if so, where is that region? No.
So long as this struggle between civili-
zation and savagery is on we must wait
We cannot go beyond the range of the
morning and evening paper, beyond the
reach of the fateful telegram. And to
be at play at all while our heroic men
are "over there" makes one almost seem
a Stacker.
But there is one refuge. 1t is that of
service. There is lack of workers
everywhere Willing hands were never
in such demand. We may, therefore,
find it expedient, instead of playing, to
take up some simple form of important
work and make vacation out of that,
The work should be we'll within ones
powers, not too strenuous, and radically
different from the ordinary tasks. The
air of the hay field is not less fragrant
and invigorating than that Of the golf
course; the aisles of the orchard may be
as rich in inspiration as those of the
forest; gardening has charms as we'll as
fishing; the social joys of Red Cross
circle are not inferior to those of a
bridge party, and, after the routine of
the schoolroom, even cooking and domes-
tic arts may take on rare interest.
Such vacation practice would not only
afford the rest which complete change
of occupation supplies, but would give to
the strained and pent-up spirit that
peculiar relief which comes from worthy
self-expression-th translation of noble
feeling into useful service. 1t would
bring comforting sense of "doing ones
bit" toward lifting the vast burden of
the weary world.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25

ITERE are some little flashes at gust
~ a fen of the things that ace saeo
- aOhile ave Uent through Britain
and Fra1,ce-n tour lasting foe aceeks,
IN 1ohich aue soav and sow until oar eyes
oched avith seeing and oar minds baked
at taking IN any more of the anatltitudo
of strange impressions.
In London one evening at a banquet in
the House Of Commons a newspaperman
came and asked me a question. We talked
for few minutes. I asked him what he
meant by the metal badge he wore. obs
charged from military SERVICE" he said. So
close to his spine that it could not be re-
moved he carried a German rifle bullet.
About five months in every year he is
helpless paralytic. In the other seven
months he works at his old profession
journalism, as the English newspapermen
all call it. He regrets nothing He is glad
to have seven good months out of each
twelve.
There's naval lieutenant in London whose
experiences put most of the paper cover
thrillers to shamea He enlisted in the in
fantry when war Began. After some months
he got sick and was invalded home, dis
charged. When he got strong enough he
went into the aviation service One day
he was shot down from height of 1000
feet. That would be enough for most men,
but this slightly built youngster was still
alive, and, being alive, must serve on So,
when he got strong enough he enlisted in
the navy. He may never fully recover from
the shock of his fall. His nerves play tricks
on him yet, but he's serving his country's
cause.
We strolled over battlefield guided bv
a French captain. Don't pick up anything
until you have asked me about it," he
warned emphatically. An untamed West
e1ner among us forgot the warning i'm
mediately and picked up hand grenade.
The French captain was all a-furry in q
flash. Didn't I tell you not to? You
might blow up the whole lot of u.s. Put it
down carefully-very carefully. You can
never tell what those things will do" And
that uncertain grenade was deposited GIN
gerly in the mud by most contrte West
erner. There was something tender and
respectful in his manner as he placed that
little iron devil back in its cradle of mud.
We passed through French village-one
of many. American soldiers were billeted
there with the villagers. One Yankee bow
was leading recalcitrant calf for French
woman, just as her own son might have
dcne Another was playing with two little
| French children-a boy and girl-just as
their elder brother might have done Across
an ancient bridge over a soft, slow moving
stream strolled lad in olive drab with a
sweet, simple maid of provincial France,
just as they do in Iowa and Illinois after
the band concerts on Saturday evenings.
These soldiers Of America seemed at
horne in this little French village-thev
didn't seem like strangers at all. There
was the wholesomeness Of home atmosphere
about them. 1t was good to see.
The American and French soldiers fra
ternize Immediately" said an American can
teen worker who was once a Washington
society girl. you'll see the Yankees and
tho poilus walking along arm in arm.
though perhaps they can't understand a
word OF what each other is trying to saw.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25

Ysu purchase merchandise advertised in THe
TRIBUNE with absolute safeyfor dssatlstactlen re-
cults In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay yeur
nones back request. No red tape. No ou'bb''ng.
va mske good promptly u the advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Land Values in France

Gram The Charlestos Ne,os- Courier,
The most expensive thing in the world is
that strip of ground which the Germans
have just purchased in France.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
MANNER or THE ASSOCIATED pREss

The Associated Press exclusively entitled to tho use
Tor republication u all dispatches credited TO II
pot otherwise credited IN this and also tho local
fews 0 spontaneous origin published herein.
All risLs OF republication OF all other matte, herein
sye also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Almost a Defornity

tFrom The Detroit Free Pressj
Speaking German is no longer an accom-
plishmant: it's liability. s
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25

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Looking backward now to the anxiety
and apprehension with which the AL
lied publics have regarded the Italian
front for more than six months, recop-
nlzlng the extent to which Allied conf
dence has been temporarily weakened
by German successes on the West front.
1T is impossible to exaggerate the value
OF the contemporary Italian triumph or
to overestimate the contribution Italy
has now made to the common cause.
Whether Austria collapses in revolu-
tlon or retlres to sullen and passive
defensive, it is hardly too much to he
heve that Austria has shot her bolt for
the war and that Germany will he left
single-handed to face the great Western
powers in the DECISIVE campaign Of the
war.
The military value of the Italian enc
cess on the Piave is considerable locally
and bound to have influence on the othar
fronts. The political Importance is
tremendous, and it's effect in Vienna IN
Sofia and Constantinople, as we'll &C j.,
Berlin, can hardly be oversta+ad
hunger offensive, conducted bv ono ~
the Central Powers, has resulted ~
In the conquest of food but in ~. ,a..
of great battle. S'
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25

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New-York tribune., 1918-06-25

There's bond that's deeper than language,
and that surmounts language. Somewhere
underneath uniforms and their talk they're
the same kind of boys. That's the only
way can figure it out"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-08
ALLIANCE DISSOLUTION
CAUSES CONSERVATION

AMSTERDAM. June The
statement accompanying the ,olun-
tary dissolution Of the national
German-American alliance. made
public al Philadelphia on April II
last, is arousing doleful comment in
the German neWspa pers which re
viNe earlier complaints that German
Americans never came up To- tine
expected support az kultur In the
new fatherland
The only explanation. says an
article in the Lokal Arseiser Of
Berlin. is that the majority of Ger
man emigr3nts are insufiCienuv
equipped with that commodity
Our optimism regarding the part
German Americans would PLAY was
based upon true German serUi-
mental and naive Ideas concerning
foreign politics. Now We have
awakened from the dream and have
found that their supposed allegiance
TO then. Old homeland ideals is mere
empty sound
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-08
DATES FOR HEARINGS
OF TAX COMPLAINTS

The ~ Joseph county board OF
review will have been in annual
sess.on a week today and have had
no complaints 10 hear from a single
taxpayer in the county The fol
Lowing days have been set aside by
the board 10 hear complaints from
The different townships OF the
county.
Today-CIay and Harris twps
Mondsy-Penn twp. and Osceola.
Tuesday - Center and Greene
twps
Wednesday - Union Twp. and
Lskeville.
Thursday-Liberty twp. and North
Liberty.
Friday-MadisOn Twp
day-Lincoln twp. and Walk
crton.
Yesterday and Thursday were for
Warren. German. Olive twps. and
New Carlisle
Taxpayers OF Mishawaks will be
heard from June / 10 Il. in
elusive. and those or South Bend
from June - 70 July .. inclusive
The last named Date completes the
GC-day session.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-08
3 AUTOISTS ARE
KILLED BY TRAIN
Two Die Instantly, and Third
SuCCumbS in Local
Hospital.

Three persons are dead, two killed
outright and the third dying at Ep-
worth hospital, this city, d short
time later, as the result of train No.
Il on the Michigan Central crashing
into an automobile at Sandy Beach.
near New Buffalo, Mich, early last
night.
The dead are DR. J. Livingston
Wilgus. prominent Chicago physi-
clan, and his wife and daughter.
The automobile was hurled many
feet from the tracks and Mrs. Will
gus and her daughter instantly kill
ed. DR.. Wilgus still showed signs
OF life when help arrived.
While the dead were being taken
10 Niles, Mich, Dr.. Wilgus was
rushed 10 South Bend and was taken
immediately 70 Epworth hospital.
where physicians made a hasty ex-
animation and found il necessary TO
smputate his right leg. The ampu-
tation, however. proved powerless to
save the physicians life He died
soon after the operation took place.
The party was on its way TO Chi
cago after a tour through Michi-
san.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-08
Patrolman Lee
to Face Charges
by Leo Leblanc

steps are to be taken to bring
the attention OF the board OF safety
10 the actions of Patrolman Lorenzo
u. Lee on last sunday night when
ne arrested Leo Leblanc, 1905 :.
Fifteenth ST.. as a suspect IN the
Mishawaka murder case.
just what kind of charges are TO
he filed against the patrolman have
not been determined. but the Red
Mems lodge, of which Leblanc is a
member. has fostered the young
mans cause, and proposes 10 leave
nothing undone 10 obtain Justice
In an effort TO smooth things
over. Chief Kline Friday morning
had Leblanc brought TO his office.
where Lee was ready 10 apolosize
for his brutal treatment Leblanc
refused 10 accept any apology, how
ever. declaring he was going 10 see
the thing through.
Tn chiefs action surprised Lee
Blanc. who had read the statement
made by Kline a day or SO ago. to
the effect that Lee was entirely
within his rights in striking Leblanc
iu the face. even though the youns
man offered no resistance