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New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
No Time for Curiosity

Chicago will have no more Correct
time" telephone calls after May /. And
there is a project to end all curiosity calls
here. This is small reform, but an i'm
portant one-important not only for the
time of operators saved, the making for
telephone efficiency, but for the lesson to
curious questioners the country over.
This is no time for idle curiosity and
all the waste that it implies. Asking the
time of Central is petty convenience
that we all enjoy occasionally, but that
we all can just as we'll do without. The
same is true of all the other curiosity
calls, for baseball scores, to find out
where a fire is, or what-not.
National efficiency is the product not
alone Of large organization and effort at
great enterprises 1t is equally the
product Of small economies, of petty in
diyidual savings and self-denial and
work, work, work at the daily job, in or
out of q trench. Idle curiosity, on a telc-
phone CT anywhere else, means just SO
much waste, so much inehiciency. The
telephone company can teach US all a
lesson that we can practise in everything
wa fO
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Tilting the Burden

The House Of Representatives is to be
asked to recede from the amendment to
the new draft quota bill which gives
credit to states for army and navy volun-
tcers, including National Guardsmcn
called into Federal service. Recession is
urged by the provost marshal general on
the ground that if credit is given for
volunteers some states will have to con-
tribute much larger percentage OF men
in Glass than other states will.
This is curious argument. If it is
the purpose OF the universal service law
TO equalizc state contributions to the
armed forces Of the nation, credit al
lowed for volunteers certainly helps TO
carry out that purpose. 10 refuse such
credit will only aggravatc existing dis
eriminations.
General Crowder has presented list
Of eighteen states which viii be required
to furnish moro than 50 per cent Of
Class men under the law az it passcd
the House. These states have sent rca.
lively few volunteers inty the army and
naxz. They arc expected TO make up
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
More Women
Doctors
To the Editor of The Tribune.


Sir: The orgy of cultured atrocities at
which an astonishcd world stands aghast
has stimulated uncounted and discounted
reserve forces to a supreme effort which
has burst the bonds of precedent and the
hoary fetters of tradition.
In Europe medical women, at first un-
welcome in the hospitals of the Allied
forces at the front, are now in complete
charge of ten of those hospitals, where the
highly skilled surgical and other care is
administered entirely by women
A good type Of these trained British
women was the Scotch Dr. Elsie Englis,
who led n regiment through frozen passes
in Serbia to safety at the sacrifice of her
own precious life.
Fighting every step Of the way for per-
mission to follow her own natural in
stincts and serve poor, tortured humanity,
the woman physician has proved her
worth, and now urgent calls are coming
from abroad for American women physi-
Clans to comc and 90 their bit and their
best for what is left of broken men,
hunted women and starving children
A hospital completely stated by women
s now asked for devastated France; an
other military hospital, completely stated
by women, is wanted Immediately in Ser
bia. The Red Cross has sanctioned both
projects. Dr. Franklin Martin. chairman
Of the General Medical Board, of the Coun-
ell Of National Defence, says that over 33
per cent Of the practising women doctors
in the United States have registered for
war service with the General Medical
Board, and that women physicians will be
called upon for tho military hospitals in
France if the emergency becomes so great
that it will be impossible to get man doc
tors.
Few seem aware of an undoubted fact.
that America is facing a probable famine
of physicians. Except in New York City,
the number Of students entering medical
colleges has greatly decreased Already
hospitals are suffering from lack of in
ternes. England and France at the pres
cnt time arc short of physicians, and the
situation will be still more acute next
year. The war shows no signs Of abating.
There is one way to avoid a serious
shortage in the future supply, and that is
to present the matter to young women who
are able and willing to render this patri-
otto service. Induce these young women to
enter Grade A medical colleges this fall
so they may be ready when their services
arc required. 1t is too late to begin the
building, of ships when they should be
ready to sail
committee has been formed to raise
funds for the purpose Of assisting patri-
otic, ambitious women to a mcdica! col
legc education as a war measure. Contri-
buttons will be gratefully received by the
undersigned.
MAUDE GLASGOW, NJ. D.
Chairman, Committee Womcn's Medical
Association, III East Eighty-third
Street.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Hands Exposed

In Lithuania. too, the high-handcd
methods of the German military were ex-
posed in the course of this debate. Here
it was chiefly DR.. David, majority So
clalist and one of the most thoughtful
speakers in the Reichstag, who let in the
light. David said there was an opposi-
ton party in the German Empire which
was aiming at ends quite different from
those of the governmental opposition
that was seeking annexations and was
trying to sdetrack self determination.
Many persons in the military admins
tration of the East, he said, belong to
this opposition party He admitted that
the German government meant we'll, but
inquired whether it possessed tho
strength to carry out it's will; and he
added that after what occurred at Brest-
Litovsk it almost seemed necessary to
answer this question in the negative.
The whole history of Germany's course
III Poland, said David is to be explained
by the activity Of this opposition party.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
In Defence of Names

Names have a way Of landing on their
feet Call snub-noscd Huck Finn of Il
boy Ellsworth dc Peyster Smith and he
will go through boyhood very comfort
ably as Pic-face and carry on through
college as Dippy. Look at Huckleberry
himself! Syllab!cs mean nothing in the
young life of the world and no amount
of them that you pile on can keep a
good boy down. One way or another
the truth will out and name the right
name, spite of parents, priests and the
intolerable inheritance of family Jaw
breakers. The exceptions, where person.
aity is blanched and beaten under and
finished by name, only prove the rule.
The truth has an even better chance
right from the start, where it is not
red-faced, bowling infant concerning
which there must be prophecy. Dogs,
horses, estates, sleeping cars and yachts
are more OR less completed articles by
the time title is due Stupidity occa-
sionally triumphs; but neighbors and
friends and the fates Of instinct and
chance usually prevail for the best,
prevail far oftener than popular belief
credits, is our point.
Sleeping cars, for instance. Think Of
all the jeering levelled at the Pullman
car poets! Yet no names in history were
ever more descriptive than these pom
pous mouthfillers. All the heavy, elabc-
rate mahoganyveneered discomfort of a
steel coach sings in "Hildegarde" or
"Marmaduke." Country house names
have also come in for much ridicule.
Yet we never heard one that did not
somehow express and reveal not only
the facts of the spot, but the subtle
overtones of the family character as
well. In poor taste and trite or preten-
tious or far-fetched, yes. But look at
the family before you condemn. Talk
OF dreams and suppressed desires!
Give US the name of family's country
estate and we will guarantee to describe
their whole secret spiritual nature at
glance.
What, then, of Mona Lisa, the pup
that won the winners ribbon at the
French bulldog show the other day?
Well if you loved Mona Lisa and gricved
over her loss from the Louvre YOU have
a right to criticise. But the other school
OF commentators who always thought
her no more than sly mink, and mean
one at that, will be on your heels to
applaud.
No, names, we insist, are all right.
They are the chief chance that most
humans have to become artists and
create something out of language. And
the batting average is high. You can't
say more for Homer, who named the
ships.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29

Mr.. Unterrnyer's Patriotism

Thanks to very frank address the
other evening, we now know, in part, Mr
Samuel Untermyer's financial contribu-
tions to the war. He makes public the
fact that to the first loan he subscribed
for $2,000Q00 Of bonds, and was allotted
$600,000 For the second loan he sub
scribed for 81 900 600, and was again
allotted $600,00Q and he is now willing
to subscribe for another S500,O0O, al
though, as he explains, he has been COM
PEELED to borrow and still owes most Of
the money with which to pay for these
bonds; and this condition will continue
until such time as other securities can be
sold to advantage.
In other words, Mr.. Untermyer, while
nominally buying these bonds with ac-
cumulated riches, in reality uses them to
extend his credits at the bank therefore
he adds to that expansion or initiation Of
bank credits which most economists hold
to be the cause Of the enormous rise in
prices and the present cost of living and
the consequent cost of the war.
We do not wish remotely to suggest
that Mr.. Untermyer's action in subscrib-
ing for $1,700,0 900 worth Of bonds is not
highly laudable, and that it is not far
better to do it this way than not at all.
The government must have the money.
Nor could any one urge that it would
have been nobler if Mr.. Untermyer had
sold other securities in order to make this
subscri ption, for if this were general
among rich men it would obviously have
a serious effect upon the market and
therefore upon cur whole financial situ-
alton.
We merely point out that such a sub
scription is not the same as if it had
been paid for with cash or from savings.
And we mention this not because it is q
serious matter, but because Mr. Inter
myer is very prominent man, as we'll
as q rich one, and because recently he
has quite violently assailed our war tax
alton.
Mr.. Untermyer believes that ths taxa
tion is already dangerously confiscatory
and ought not to be carried further. We
pointed out the other day that even four
billions Of taxes now would be the equva-
lent of only about twice the very slen-
der levy of national taxes in normal
times, because the general run of prices,
and therefore the nominal income of the
nation, are now about twice what they
were three years ago, and Federal OK
pcnditure was even then at a rate of
around billion year.
We likewise pointed out that England
with not more than third the national
income that we have, will raise almost the
same amount in taxes this year, and
therefore that relatively England's pres
cnt taxation is at least three times that
OF the present rate in the United States.
We do not believe in conhscatorv taxa
tion any more than does Mr.. Untcrmycr.
And there Is very obvious limit beyond
which such taxation defeats itself. We
simply wish to point out that something
like per cent Of our income this year
can scarcely be regarded as coming under
this designation The interest in the
matter lies in just such disclosures az
that which Mr.. Unterrnycr makes Of his
method Of buying bonds. For the nlos2
part, taxes are paid out Of income, and
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Against the Wall

with our backs to the wall."--Ficld Marsht
Douglas llaig, April l3. 1915.
(From The Out;oolt)
OD spare thee rot, America,
~ This pentential day!
Against the wall, in Flanders,
The nations stand at bay;
And thou, the strong, the mighty,
A laggard at the fray!
God drive thee hard, America,
SO hestant, so slow;
God smite thee in His anger,
And fling thee at the foe;
The last black drega Of sacrifice
May it be thine to know.
God save thee, O America.
The glory and the fame,
Once thy fathers. be thy children's,
Not thine the dcathless shame
That freedom fell in Flanders
Calling upon thy name,
THERESA VIRGINIA BEARD.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
conscriptlon purposes:

The quotas of these eleven states arc
debated. The q-o.as of many other
states have beer! greatly inflated. New
York's population for conscription pur-
poses was padded about 100000.
If the second call does take over so
per cent Of Class / men in the states
which are behind in their contributions
no injustice is done to them. They will
simply draw up abreast Of other states
which have exceeded requirements.
And so long as the erroneous popula-
tion estimates used in the original draft
allotment are allowed to stand, the eleven
favored states in the foregoing table will
continue to shift on other shoulders q
part of their own military burden.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29

deficit in their man-power contributions,
Why shouldn't they be?
1t is a singular coincidence that eleven
of these states were strikingly favored
in the original allotment of state quotas,
their population having been reckoned
far below the true figures. We give in
the following table their population ac-
cordng to the Federal census of 1910
(Which has naturally increased since)
and the population ascribed to them in
1917 for conscription purnoses:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29

there is no very good reason why they
should not nearly always be. Heavy
taxes, therefore, do not mean a corrc-
spending expansion of bank credits and
corresponding increase in the cost of
living.
Borrowing at the bank on securities to
pay for bonds does both these things.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Moral Gymnastics

The majority parties finally agreed TO
report resolution to be passed along with z
the ratification of the treaty with Russia.
demanding that the government act IN
harmony with the declaration at Brest-
Litovsk in favor of self-determination
for Poland, Courland and Lithuania;
that steps be taken at once toward es-
tablish!ng state institutions in those
countries, with native administrative
officials; that the existing representative
assemblies be placed upon broad basis
and that the, arrangements desired by
the assemblies hitherto existing m
agreed to as soon as possible.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
QuarrelZing at the Cibbet
Hanging the Moral Phrases
in the German Reichstag

The military wanted to hem in Poland on
the east and mutilate it on the west.
That all this criticism of the military
power was directed against Hindenburg
was pointed out by Count Westarp, the
Junker- Conservative leader. He regret
ted that David had publicly taken a
stand against Hindenburg and the ST.
preme army command, and said It was
the affair Of the Imperial Chancellor to
contradict the view that military patty
was compelling him and his government
to adopt a policy which they did not ap-
prove. This looked almost like taunting
Hertling with his powerlessness to do
anything against Hindenburg and the
military administrations
Amy Grounds
Westarp also referred to the attitude
of the Poles and the question of annex
ing certain strips of Polish territory out
of strategic considerations. He did not
believe that the Poles would be inclined
In any case to enter into close relations
with Germany. Anyway, the foremost
consideration for Germany was to get
security on its eastern frontiers
whether you call that securing the
frontier or annexation" added the
Junker. "is Indifferent to u.s.
Dr. Stresemann, the National Liberal
leader, grovelled before the military
power still more Extensively. Also dis
cussing the question of the Polish from
tier, he said: "If the supreme army
command declares a change of the from
tier to be necessary from military
grounds, then political considerations
must yield to such measure"
This uttterance was seized upon by
Ledebour for most merciless thrust at
Stresemann. He said that Stresemann
reversed the words of Marquis Posa in
Schiller's Don Carlos: Prince give
the people liberty Of thought" and said
instead: Herr Field Marshal linden
burg! I renounce all thoughts of my
own. You command me what l am to
think" Which brought ou. roars OF
laughter at Stresemann's expense. Lede-
bour followed up this by saying that
the Reichstag majority had made a
great fiasco of its peace resolution of
July 10. "You have been taken in tow
by Count Westarp. There is an uncon-
cealed annexationist bloc from Westarp
to Scheidemann.'
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
i

1t seems almost incredible that the De-
partment of Justice is as naive as it
pretends to be- In it's efforts to cancel
lne effect of testimony before the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs touching
the presence Of thousands Of unknown
enemy aliens in New York City, now the
most important military port in the
world, it has issued a reassuring state
ment through the Committee on Public
Information.
The reassurances are mainly three, to
wit:
1) That the volunteer registration Of
male enemy aliens has been completed.
(2) That so far as the list Of volunteer
registrants has been checked up by the
New York police the indications are that
''the number Of alien enemies who failed
to register is inconsiderable."
CD That mo instances are known to
it of dangerous enemy aliens now at
large in New York City.
What number of unknown enemy aliens
in New York City would the Department
of Justice call considerable number?
Does the Department Of Justice be-
lieve Dangerous" enemy aliens, that is
to say, German spies, are going to dis
cover themselves and register in volun-
tary manner?
Does the Department Of Justice know
that the port of New York is full of in
formation of the utmost military value,
such as no newspaper would dare to print,
and that it lies absolutely open to Ger
man spies?
1t is too grotesque to be argued.
Every troopship that has sailed from
this country since the war began could
have been easily and accurately observed
by German spies.
To enemy aliens is reserved the right
to travel on ferryboats in New York Har-
Dor, and from ferryboats all overseas
troop movements can be observed.
Coincidentally with the statement is
sued by the Department of Justice to be-
little the spy menace in New York, the
papers of this city printed the illumi-
mating fact that an enemy alien who had
been refused "first papers" because of
his disloyal sentiments was still engaged
on government work of a secret and deli
cate character in the Brooklyn plant Of the
Sperry Gyroscope Company. This came
to light accidentally, on the mans second
application for papers, which was re-
iected
But this is not an unusual case. Enemy
aliens are retained as skilled mechanics
in many plants that are doing fine and
exacting work for the government. 1t
is held to be necessary because American
skill is lacking. That may be valid
reason why enemy aliens should be SO
employed, but it follows by no means
that they should be allowed at large
with government secrets in their heads,
and, as has been several times accident
ally discovered, with American plans in
their pockets.
All enemy aliens ought to be interned
and placed under military jurisdiction.
That need not interfere with their work.
The German government knows more
about some of Americas war activities
than the American public knows. This
is proved by what is published in the
German newspapers. How much more
there is unpublished only the German
government knows.
The enemy alien problem must be
treated radically. The problem begins in
the Department Of Justice.
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New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
The Advanced Dresse.s

we like democracy; we love it: but &C.
caslona!ly we are tried and worried bv
1t and never more SO than on being COM
PEELED to view the clothes of democrocv
as advertised in our best magazines. We
say compelled, yet the word must be
defined Who can help being thrilled.
FASCINATED, held spellbound, when. hav-
ing jumped from page 21 to page SO in
pursuit Of ones favorite heroine. ono
jumps again to page so and there comcg
smack upon page Of ravishinr clothes
Tor young men chat would knock tho ov,
cut of Beau Brummel or even RunEor
Bean. 1t was the latter young mans
nope and ambition in life some dav 1o
gam courage enough to become an sad.
Vanced dresser" These young men Of
the magazine page arc not only al
vanced drcssers but glory in the fact
lney loll about a lovely maiden. fairlv
drunk with careless case-whi|c a h,t-
tlcshlp or a Rolls Royce or a polo cauo
or some such tride yaps at their feet in
an effort to attract their bored attention
one Oh these young men-usually tho
snappy young father of sixty-is a]wavs
dressed IN model labelled "Conserva-
tive But the word is used without e,-
thusiasm. And the facts are that tho
nifty little touches by which these ad-
Vanced clothes arc always distinguished
have been the mcrest shade toned dow,
II Freshman" has a half-button coa+
conservative" has a one-button coa+.
the belt in the back is semi-attachoa
the pockets point east instead Of north
east.
The war got after the advanced
dresser some time ago. Nifty STYLES
must depart, cuffs, belts, patch pocket,
ana all, 1t was announced that there
might be wool for the soldiers. They did
not all depart, as the current works of
art disclose And now the president of
the National Association of Merchan,
TaIlors issues q further warning. with
threats of Il governmental decree in the
background.
More power to the war Democracy
IS tough bird and has survived decades
OF btundering end awfuness and abusc
1t might we'll survive clothes -foryoung-
men. And again it mightn't. A nation
OF advanced dressers in war timcl We'll
1t would have to be an awfully safe
world to be safe for them
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
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for republication all dispatches credited TO or
not otherwise this and also the local
news O. spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights republication OF all other matter herein
are also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29

For vetoing the bill to abolish the
State Fish Culturist Governor Whitman
is to be highly commended. The measure
apparently was the result Of personal an
tagonism toward the present holder Of
the Office, Mr.. Titconb. At any rate, r.
was i'll advised. Once New York States
streams were pretty well "hshcd out"
Then the state began TO build fish hatch
cries and, under the direction of experts.
to rcstock the waters. Great benefit has
resulted from this. The present fish
culturst has not only carried on this
wise policy but has planned to extend
it to the propagation Of saltwater fish,
which he believes TO be feasible.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Saying Verboten

But even that did not satisfy the rul-
ing military clique. 1t went so far,
Ledebour said, as to prescribe to this
convention what resolutions it might
adopt; and it even sent in Sample
resolution" which demanded the separa-
ton of the Baltic provinces from Russia
and their erection into state with the
support Of Germany. But only one Of
the eighteen councilrnen voted for this
resolution. Hence ''the German (mili-
tary) administration thereupon obtained
another declaration of the Provincial
Council, the composition of which is
known"
1t is thus that the German military
men are reversing the we'll known
maxim Of Clausewitz that war is the con-
tlnuation of politics; in Courand poll
tics is the continuation of war.
But Ledebour laid bare some other
matters which the military men would
have preferred to keep dark. According
to his showing, the participation of the
Let's IN the council was itself transpar-
ent fraud. The Lettish small land owners
were nominated, he said, by local mayors.
who were themselves appointed by tho
military authorities at the suggestion of
big German land owners. "And that"
added Ledebour, sarcastically "is called
a representative assembly of the peo-
ple!"