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The daily progressive-miner., 1918-02-08
RECOMMENDS PROHIBITION

HONOLULU. Feb. S.-General Wis ser. commanding The Hawaiian de partmeat o; war, today replied 10 the departments query. indorsing prohi- bi.ioa. The general recommends its a appltcauon 10 the entire territory.
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WEATHER REPORT

For he 24 hours ending D. Iii. |. last night, precipitation 1.50 in. [ maximum temperature 39', mini . mum 3l' above. .
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MOVE OF BOATS
 COrTHPOIND

Prince John Monday niga-. Jefferson Sunday niga-. Spoka1s Saturday.
 N0RTEDOIND Admiral Erans Friday : 7. m. Northwestern Sunday 2. n Despatch Monday. Princess Monday. City ot Seattle, Thursday.
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LONDON. Feb 9.-The Belgian gov srnmenr has been advised that the American Red Cross has placed al it's disposal ,wo million francs for the re lief ot the Belgian refugees The money is available ar once
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Wisdom is good investment re- ss-dless o1 tae price you have D pay for t.
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By Fred Lockiey


 An armv that is not fed cannot fight Oregon can furnish the spruce for the feet Of air ships and Oregon can do much toward furnishing the food for the fighting men,
 But food and supplies have ceased 10 be state problems, they are 10 long- er even national problems. The rais- ing, the conserving and the shipping Of food is an international problem We in the United States are destined to be dominant factor In the winning of the world war against autocracy, We have the men; the money, the mu' nitions and most important Of all the food, so the internationalization and wise distribution Of food stuffs is a problem that must be handled with wisdom if we are to help win the war for liberty, justice and democracy.
 In speaking Of the fair allocation Of the worlds food supply, Herbert Hoov- CT said; "The internationalization of food supplies available for the use of the allies will at once wisely econo- mize the food itself, the available ton mage for it's transportation and the money necessary to pay for both food and tonnage. It will prevent selfish manipulation and speculation, and consequently prevent the unnecessary sky rocketing of prices now so waste ful Of the war crisis of our allies and so cruel to our own people-cruel not only to our own people of limited means but dangerous to our social or der and hence to the unity of our ef- forts in this titanic struggle"
 Hoover From Oregon.
 Oregon is furnishing not only spruce and wheat, men and money but she has furnished the nation the man to ad- minister the conservation and distri- button Of the food supply of the allies Herbert Hoover, the man in whom is centralized the control of the worlds food problem, and who is coordinating our food supply with that of our al lies 50 that waste and competition
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-02-08

Better one enemy that you are sure of than dozen doubtful friends.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

during Rooscvelt's administration on a
special mission said at the time to have
had bearing on proposed friendly inter-
vention between Russia and Japan.
Sir Cecil, who is ffty-cight years old,
was graduated from Balliol College, Or
ford. He was clerk Of the War Depart
ment in Pail Mall before his transfer to
the Foreign Office. where he acted as pri-
vate secretary first to Lord Granville and
aftcrward to Lord Roscbcry during their
respective terms Of Office as Minister Of
Foreign Affairs. He has been Commits
sioner Of the International Debt in Egypt,
Minister Plenipotentiary both in Persia
and at Stockholm, and from 1903 to 1906,
during critical times of popular uprising in
tho Russian capital, was first secretary of
the British embassy at St. Petersburg
(Petrograd). He acted as British Minis
ter and Consul General in Persia for two
years and as Minister to Sweden four
years. He succeeded Viscount Bryce as
Ambassador to the United States.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

tion the government was quickly led to con-
template the very extensive 'scrambling' Of
the roads, and the pooling of them on
scale never before attempted by the
most daring Napoleon OF Finance OF course,
the government purposed itself to be the boss
of the pool Now, suppose that the pooling
OF the railroads proves to be unden iably in
the interest Of efficiency and economy. as
we have doubt it Will, what next? After
the war, are we going back to the old futile
methods and inefficiency? II not, and we
don't think are, how will the wartime
efficiency be maintained? BY perpetuating
the government-controlled pool? Or by let
ting private management maintain rational
degree Of pooling?
eve might raise similar questions concern
ing other matters rsthc control OF the wheat
market, food conservation, the coal supply,
and what not. The government is taking
hold of them ALL like benevolent despot,
for our good. More power to it! What we
want now is to win this war; no matter how
many pet theories of political economy arc
laid upon the shelf 1t is to be hoped that
the people viii not only acquiesce in bat also
will loyalty and energeticaly cooperate in
the new system, until that end is gained But
1t is with equal earneatness 20 be hoped that
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
"Are We to Have Benevolent DespotlSm? p

is a question which George Har
vey asks in the january number of
'I'lle North American Review" 1t
is question which, he believes, "may be
asked in all seriousness" Is one Of the
American by-products Of this war to be a
benevolent despotism, making permanent
what eHigency has made an imperative
temporary necessity? Is the government
to remain in control Of industry? Colonel
Harvey discusses the question in these
words
"There is a familiar saying. that that is
the best possible form of governments; the
truth of which we do not concede, though
We cite it for reminders sake. There is also
strong tradition in favor of such sys-
TEN in war, Macaulay makes The Elder
Consul, AN aged man and wise,' remind the
Conscrpt Fathers; and it is upon tina, prin-
ciplc that have invested the President,
and under and through him various boards
and missioners with extraordinary and
autocratic powers. and that We have acoui-
esced III and even spplaudeG such dictatorial
acts as never before wou'd have been toll
Grated for moment. In the Civil War the
national government was charged hiehy By
the CoppeInedOS, inc feODle S council and
pacifsts of that timewith violating the
Constitutional rights of the people. But its
most extreme measures were mild and tri-
fling compared with what is now being done
every day without delnuv comment-save
from Il few Bolshevia pac;fsts. the copper
heads Of this time. In the crucial days of
John Adamss administration alien and sed-
ton laws were enacted which then were, and
ever since have been, regarded as odiously
oppressive and dangerous to liberty. Yet
they were innocuous by the side of what is
now in force, to which all tho people, save
the Bolsheviki say 'Amen''
Nov, we are not protesting against these
things. On the contrary, ~c heartily approve
them. We invoke the strictest enforcement
of these laws, strenuous they are; and ii
We were to offer any criticism it would prob
Gus enough, and that they were not enacted
or being enacted not euforccd as
promptly and as uusparingly as they should
have been. We try to he cool and sclf-re-
strained, but we confess that il iilled US Will,
indignation 70 see enemy aliens left free to
proWl at Nlll around our docks and shippine
and munitions plants aud elsewhere and
then TO hear Of important Information being
betrayed to the enemy, aud of fires on ships
and explosions in factories. "A little more
grape Captain Rragg!' said general who
knew his business, at a decisive moment A
little shooting at sunrise would have rid us
OF few German spies, and would have saved
many good American lives.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

tating. The war--our entry into t-brought
things to a crisis, and the government jumped
in as the autocrat, dictator, despot, of the
shipping world The result is that our COM
mercal marine is being rehabilitated by
the proverba leaps and bounds, and at the
end Of the war may be the biggest in the
world. Now, in order to maintain that
rine, will it be necessary for the government
to continue in ownership and control, or will
private enterprise prove sufficient to keep
it going at the standard which the govern
ment shall have set?
"Another case The railroads. They have
been so monkeycd with and whipsawed that
we don't wonder at their not having ex-
hibited a. super nillennial degree Of perfec-
tion though in the circumstances We think
that they have done amazingly we'll. But
see: little while ago, for the suppositious
sake of efficiency, the government insisted
upon 'unscrambing' them. All pools and
combinations were broken up. Systems were
dissolved. No two roads within hundred
and eighty degrees Of latitude or longitude
Of each other were permitted to be under
the same management or to be managed in
concert. The result was--well, never mind
But, anyway, under the stress Of war and it's
requirements Of the most efficient transporta
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

nation will desire it's retention: Frankly,
while we wish for the greatest possible sue
cess and benefcence Of the war measures.
war measures, most earnestly hope
that there will be no desire, and no occasion
for desire, for their retention after the
war. But we serve notice here and now that
it rests with the American people to deter
mine whether that shall be the case or not
and that if they do not want both desire
and q. demand foY the benevolent dcspot;sn,
to arise, they had better bestir themselves
to head off such calamity.
"The whole question turns upon the point
Of efficiency. We have learned, or we arc
learning quite rapidly. the need Of such eff
cheney before the war we never so much
dreamed Of We arc attaining such eFi-
cheney. and are going to attain it in q very
high degree. And having attained it, we
shall, let US devouty trust, insist upon re-
tanning it. But how? Must it be kept by the
same methods by which it was Won? If the
dictatorship teaches us efficiency, must we
retain the teacher in order to keep up the
practice Of the lesson?
Here is an example: Before tho war we
did a tremendous lot Of talking about re-
Mobilization Of the American commercial ma
rine, but We did very little actual rehabil-
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Ferdinand and Charles of
Ru1nania

K1NG FERDINAND of Rumania, who
IN it is reported has abdicated in favor
Of Crown Prince Charles, succeeded to the
crown on October 10, 1914, upon the death
of his uncle, King Charles. Ferdinand
was the third upon whom the choice Of
heir apparent fell. His father and elder
brother, having preferred peaceful life
in Germany to the responsibilities Of ruler
ship in Rumania, declined the crown. Both
of his brothers, Prince Wilhelm of Hohen>
zollern, head of the non-reigning branch
of the Hohenzollern family, and Prince
Karl Anton, are generals in the German
army.
Little has been recorded of Ferdinand's
life. The following brief sketch appeared
in The Tribune in 1914, soon after his
accession to the throne:
"Born on August "a, 1866, he has wait
ed since March 18, 1889, to take his place
on the throne, that being the date of the
royal decree which made him the heir ap-
parent. According to such accounts as
have gone abroad, he was not over-anxious
to wear the iron crown.
"Described as a lover of science and the
quiet life, the fact that he was to see
middle life before entering upon his re-
sponsibilities may have troubled him little.
Threatened with tuberculosis, he has done
little sOldierinp which means that in sOmc
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
y usiness Men and the Government
- Must Go Hand in Hand

Two tnlngs are necessary to relieve US Of
the necessity Of continuing q benevolent
despotlsm. One is, for business men to rec
ognize, to accept and to practise the lessons
which the government is presenting to them.
Jhey must act upon the principle that what
ever the government can do, they can do;
and that in the new era which we arc enter
ing 1t Is necessary for them to do il, if they
are to remain in business at all The other
Is, Tor the government to give them fair
chance to do this. 1t would be intolerable for
the government to handicap any industry
with veXatious conditions until its efficiency
vas badly impaired, and then take control of
1t itself and, by abolishing those vexatious
conditions, make easy its restoration to eff
Cheney, and then make that a pretext for
perpetuating its control. Men and CORPORA
tlons must have the same chance to succe.A
that the government has: the same freeS,,rn
IRON hampenng and oppressive conditions
We confess to cherishrg old fashioned
indlvdualistc notions to so <.cat degree
tnat we prefer government which confines
Itself to governing to ore which undertakes
TO run all the businesses of the land It is.
III our view. the province of the government
to see to it that businesses are conducted
honestly, and in way compatible with good
morals and the public ',olfaro Within such
limits and under sucf control business is
best left to private initiative But the GOV
crnment must set bounds and fl rules within
which business success will be possible. and
business men must learn that success is nos
s'blc within those bounds. 1t will be one of
the greatest of all the by-products Of the war
to have both tnosc lessons so fully learned
that with the return of peace we shall return
rom government administration to private
management without the slightest mnair-
ment of efficiency or integrity 1t can be
done, of course
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
1ere Can't Be History Without People to Make

ground that her work had "ceased to be
local in character" and therefore could be
better handled by the Police Department,
first came into newspaper prominence IN
1916 as one Of the five lawyers whose
efforts saved Charles Stielow from the
electric chair and committed his sentence
to life Imprisonment. Mrs. Humiston OBJ
tanned a confession from Erwin King of
the murder for which Stielow was accused,
a confession which, though now regarded
as true, King later repudiated with the
declaration that Mrs. Humston had
offered him for it a bribe OF $4,000.
1t was Mrs. Humiston's s solution of the
Ruth Cruger murder case that led to her
appointment last July as special police
woman. Through her Investigations in
! this capacity she obtained the evidence,
she says, upon which we're based her
camps-the charges which, denied, and as
yet improved presumably had something
to do with the revocation of her appoint
ment.
In statement recounting the history
Of the events which she feels were re-
sponsiblc for this summary action on the
part of Commissioner Woods, Mrs. Humis
ton declares that during the last four
months she has found 220 missing girls,
who have been returned to their homes;
has received $500 vice complaints and
investigated 383 reports Of missing girls,
n.
through the Police Department.
Mrs. Humiston's appointment was an
nounced on July 21. Immediately after
ward she made application to Governor
Whitman for power of subpoena Of wit
nesses, but this was refused.
On August the Morality League of
America, organized by Mrs. Humiston,
made application to the Supreme Court
for a certificate of incorporation.
On August Ii Mayor Mitchell appointed
a committee of men and women to work
with Mrs. Humiston in her task of finding
missing girls, and this committee i'm
mediately adopted plan to have a "city
mother" for every Assembly district.
On August 16 the Ruth Cruger Emer-
gency Fund was organized by fifty prom
inent New York women Gas financial aid
to Mrs. Humiston in fighting the white
slave traffic" The announcement has
just been made, however, that the organ
izers of this fund had parted company
with Mrs. Humiston early in October be-
cause, according to the chairman, 1--WE
could not work with her"
On August "a plans were announced for
| the formation of another organization fol
carrying on the vice investigation, to be
, known as the Grace Humiston League, fol-
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

which a campaign was to be made for
81 ,OOO,O 900 endowment fund.
Mrs. Humiston, who was Miss Marv Gr,..
Winteron, was graduated from New You.
Law School in 1904, and admitted to II.
bar Immediately afterward Two ve.,.
later, as Mrs. Mary Quackenbos, her nam.
after her first marriage, she succeeded !,
getting the death sentence of Antoinett
Tolla committed TO seven and half wear,
Later she proved to Governor Whitm,,
that Gennaro Mazzella, sentenced to d;.
had acted in self-defence against the B]a..
Hand. In November, 1916, she was n,
pointed by United States District A..
torney Stimson special assistant in invest,
eating peonagc cases Of persons induc.a
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Clemenceau ''the Tiger

M c. DE CHASsAIGNE, the London
A' correspondent of the Paris
'Flgaro," in a sketch Of Cemenceau in
Land and Water" narrates the follow
ing incident to illustrate the cool courage
of the French Premier:
1.-TWO years ago he visiting very ex-
posed part of the front. An aide camp was
sent to him by the general in command of
the sector, begging him to withdraw to
place of safety. NJ. Clemenceau said to the
officer: Look there at that poor child
lying dead yonder wires. He was young
most likely he loved life and love, and now
he is dead. Why should be frightened of
death? I no longer love women and I am
dsgusted with menI don't care if die
to-day And NJ. Clemenceau, worthy of his
nickname of The Tiger remained TRANQUILITY
where he was, within range of the enemy's
guns"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

Young Americans need discipline. In this
service army she government can teach ther1
order and train them to work. They should
have few hours Of gymnasium and drill, and
tive or SIX hours ii work in factory every
day. Near each cncampment there can be
located few factories for tractors and other
implements that farms4need.
"Our branch assembly plants for motor cars
have proved tn US that the Who'll, Of a factory
does not have tc be congested in ore place
One mother plant can send the patterns raw
castings and forgings to dozens of branch
plants, each employing 1000 or 5000 men. De
s'gning and management will centre at the
mother plant, 80 that supervision Of these
branch plants will be simple.
"a part Of this national training army of
young men can De moved to places where big
work for the nation is under way They can
build dams, straighten rivers, develop irriga.
ton work and aid in constructing good roads
that will bring our people closer together In
this way the worhmen would always be kent
near to the land.
"The United States must save its labor
power. sportation for armies and SUD-
plies is basic need Of war time Railroads
alone cannot handle the freight The Germans
are reported to have moved recently an army
OF e0O,oOO men from the Eastern to the West
crn front by auto trucks. The Ford plant can
produce 1000 one-ton trucks daily, and it's
production can be increased in a few weeks
to 5000. Each truck can haul eight soldiers
with full equipment
During the first month our shop could fur
nish trucks to haul an army of 4sO.O00 men
thereafter for 100000 men in each month
Zach workman can manufacture truck in
fifteen days.
I'VE are ready to furnish the government
these trucks at shop cost without profit.
Will take no profit from anything produced
tor any government during the war. despisc
the prohteer who makes money out of the
war;
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
A Noted Suffrage Leader
Gets an Interesting Gov
ernment Commission

n AIRS. NORMAN DE X. WHITE
IV HOUSE, who goes as a govern
mcnt cmissayy to Switzerland
shortly to direct campaign to interpret
Americas war ideals there, was given
credit for "leading the suffragists" to vic
tory last November. AS chairman of the
New York State Woman Suffrage party
she spared no effort to crown the Issue
with success.
The campaign ended, Mrs. Whitchouse
turned her attention to the question that
seemed to be occupying the minds Of skep
tics ''Now that you have the vote what
are you going to do with it," and inaugu-
rated a comprehensive campaign in the
city and state to prepare women to use
the ballot intelligcntly. Under her direc-
ton every Assembly district in the state
has schools to teach women civic policies,
schools to teach immigrant women Eng
lish and TO become citizens instead of
mere voters, 1t is thought that this
Americanization work, as much AS her
leadership Of the suffrage cause, had to
do with her selection for the educational
campaign abroad, which she Will carry on
under the direction Of the Committee on
Public information
To Mrs. Whitehousc, who is South
erner by birth and who lived in New Or
leans up to the time of her marriage suf-
frage meant practically nothing until less
than five years ago. 1t was the unkindly
reception of the suffrage parade in Wash
ington in 1913, at the time of President
Wilson's Inauguration, that first reused
her sympathies and interest. In the New
York parade three months later she
marched. Then she Joined the Woman's
Political Union, and though she had said
she knew how to do nothing but "dance
and 90 to dinners" her efforts from the
first were recognized as being SO valuable
that in the fall Of the same year she found
herself elected to the leadership of the
18th Senatorial District. Then she made
her debut as a soap-box orator. In 1915
Mrs. Whitehouse became chairman of
the New York State Woman Suffrage
party, succeeding Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, who resigned to head the national
association.
Mrs. Whitehouse rallied the sutfragists
of the state last spring, after war was
declared, to campaign for war work, and
as a result Governor Whitman was offered
the services of 500 900 women for military
duty in any capacity in which they might
he needed. This action reused the ire of
.he sufragist members Of the Woman's
Peace party.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
It's Now Sir Anthony
Hone

\ MONG the names that appear in th.
u list of those upon whom peerags
have just been bestowed by order Of the
British crown is that of Anthony Hope
English novelist.
Anthony Hope Hawkins, to call him by
his full and less familiar name, is the Sec
ond son Of the late Rev. f. c. Hawkins
who was vicar of St. Brides, in Fleet
Street. He was educated at Marlborough
and at Balliol College, Oxford, and in
1887, at twenty-four, became barrister
Of the Middle Temple.
In 1908, having safely attained his for
tieth year, and having been looked upon
as q confirmed old bachelor. MIR. Hawkins
married. His wife was Miss Elzabeta
Sheldon, New York girl. whom he met
on shipboard while returning to England
from an American visit.
The novelist has been spoken Of by an
American interviewer as being extremely
quiet III manner, extremely charm
ing and witty, and one of London's after
dinner speakers most in demand"
Several years ago another newspaper
correspondent wrote ''t!c has the nice
slouchy look of the Englishman who, no
matter how busy he may be, gives the I'M
preston of unlimited leisure, for the Law
of social London demands that you must
act the hare and look the tortoise. There
are certain peculiaritics of dress which
are characteristic, the coffee-coored vast
coat, the loose bow-shaped tie and the hlgn
collar with a bread gap in front when
has from time immemorial appealed to III
erary workers."