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New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
kindergarten
Finance
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS George L. Record is an avowed
candidate for United States Senator in my
state (New Jersey), may I not have the
pleasure of answering his article "Surpus
or Much?" in your issue of April 5, 1918?
His financial views would be disgrace even
in a kindergarten and to limit the personal
expenditures of all incomes to $4,000 a
year in time or any other time would
produce Immediately the greatest panic this
country has ever seen.
To support his theory he uses Mr.. Rookie
feler as an example Briefly summarized,
this is what he says: "Mr. Rockefeller sub
scribed $20,000,000 to the last Liberty Loan.
The money is spent for things that in
evitaby disappear, leaving the government
in debt to Mr.. Rockefeller at per cent in
terest. We should conscript the $40, 900 900
from him in direct taxes and give no bonds
in return"
am not Mr.. Rockefeller's publicity
agent nor have l any knowledge of his
financial affairs except that which is COM
mon to all through the press. Did Mr. Rec
ord ever hear of such thing as personal
income tax? Does he not know that the
government is taking away or conscripting
at least one-half of Mr.. Rockefeller's in
come? Does he happen to know what
amount Mr.. Rockefeller has given to the
Foundation named for him, and the extraor-
dinary amount Of good that it has done I?
How much has been given by him to the
Red Cross or other worthy objects? From
all Of these he receives no return or in
terest, at least not in this world
"The poor soldiers who survive this war
will on their return be compelled for
generation to give UP substantial part of
their scanty earnings to pay back Mr..
Rockefeller the money loaned" Nonsense;
they will do nothing Of the kind Mr.. Rookie
fcller and other rich men will pay back the
money loaned and the interest thereon
themselves through the Federal inheritance
tax and their continual large income tax,
and the small incomes will hardly be
touched, as it will be by the above means
and not by unfair tariff taxes.
If the would-be Senator is sincere he is
financial ignoramus, and if he is insincere
he is trying to get votes by dcceivng the
people. IRVING II. BROWN.
PlalnAeld. N, J.. April s, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08

time it's craving for the unpopular con-
tinues. 1t thinks the community con-
spiracy Of evil and pro-enemyism becomes
its latest enthusiasm.
In America this type of mind has Of
fered fertile soil to enemy propaganda.
In other lands, even in peace time, the
libraries have an efficient check on the
circulation of books.
In the New York Public Library the
reading room is free to all, and there are
many books that are avowedly pro-Ger-
man, that deify the German war lords
and praise the German achievements and
aims. These ought to be withdrawn
from general circulation.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08


nNh who subscribes for Liberty bond
and gets credit as patriot for do
ing so is not acting patriotically il
he Immediately sells that bond; that is, un-
less he imperatively needs the money, says
Secretary McAdoo. 1t is not the mere sub
scription that helps the government; it is
the actual loan. Shifting the bond to some
ono else does not help.
The same objection lies to EXCHANGING
Liberty Loan bonds in trade Merchants
offering to take Liberty Loan bonds in ex-
change for merchandise are doubtless
actuated by patriotic motives, but such
transactions tend to defeat a primary OBJ
ject of the bond sale, the encouraging of
THRIFT and the discouragng of expenditures.
Bonds so exchanged are in most cases i'm
medlately sold on the open market which
tends to deprcss the market price and af-
fects adversely the sales of future issues.
Secretary McAdoo expressly states that
there is no desire on the part of the gov
ernment to prevent or interfere with egit-
innate trading, in good faith, in Liberty
bonds.
1t is one Of the great objects of the
treasury Department to have these bonds
hcld as permanent investmen by the peo
pie and paid for out of savings. thus at
once providing funds for the government
ana conserving labor and material.
lhere are the soundest reasons for hold
ing Liberty bonds. Their quotation under
par on the Stock Exchange means ]oss
only to those who sell. The financial his
tory of the United States shows that in
times OF peace all of it's bonds have gone
above par some as high as 1879. The tre-
mendous growth of our resources and of
our trade, our domestic trade alone hav;no
increased from S30ooO,00o,0o0 to, $4,000 :,
ooo.ooo IN the last four years, warrants the
pellef that our government bonds are the
soundest investments in the world and
WIN the restoration of peace conditions
VIII command handsome premium in the
market. ''A WV
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Hard Jobs
By Haywood Broun
THE agitation against "sv;,s
chair soldiers" "slickersn .s,

ME agitation against "swivS
chair soldiers" "slickersn an,
"bullet-proof uniforms" vii, j.
more harm than good unless it becom..
discriminating. 1t is an evil thing tA,,
any one should seek to avoid ardnm.
field service by forcing his way into som.
non-combatant branch of the service. hm
it is worse that ungenerous repro,A
should be laid upon every officer who !,
kept at home. If it were General Persh,
ing's privilege to destroy twenty men !,
the German war machine he would nm.
doubtedly pick at least half of them from
behind desks. Some would be as far
from the battle line as Berlin. There am
little smiling men III swivel chairs who
are worth many regiments, and even
divisions. A few words on a Typewriter
may win or lose hundreds of machins
guns. The scratch of a pen can set an
insurmountable obstacle in front Of an
army corps. The war itself may hang
upon something in the upper right-hand
pigeonhole Of a desk.
In no war has the work Of the men be.
hind the lines been so important, but
even the biggest Of these office Jobs is
thankless, and the nation is making the
duty still more arduous by talking as il
every officer not in the Picardy line were
q shirker. Most good desk men want to
be with troops. There are scores Of off.
GERS in France who have had sufficient
influence to fight off non -combatant jobs
in which they were 95 per cent efficient
in order to gain places in the field where
their peculiar talents had much less play
We must make the lot of the officer who
stays home bearable. If he is best fitted
for a desk job, there he should stay. In
nine cases out of ten he will be unhappy
in being kept at home, though good
enough soldier to say nothing about it.
1t is unjust that these good and useful
soldiers should be subjected to reproach
which properly belongs only to few.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Coming

We took up the sword because all the
uses of peace had failed with Germany.
Nevertheless, we continued to believe
in the power of words.
In our own inconsistent, romantic wav
we believed that we were fighting, not
against the German people, but for them.
to save them from their rulers; we be-
lieved that if only we could translate that
emotion into German phrase and drop
it anywhere east Of the Rhine by air
plane the wretched victims of Junkerism
would be moved to rise and declare them
selves free, which event would end the
war
But, alas! there was no such German
phrase.
Then in a perfectly fatuous manner
we talked of victory by diplomacy and
carried on an open air parley with the
same autocratic Imperial German Gov
ernment which we wished the German
people to rise up and destroy.
If both the wicked Imperial German
Government and the impenetrable Ger
man people thought us little mad we
do not wonder.
All that is past.
1t has taken us year to reach what
L:
at Baltimore defined as the moment of
utter disillusionment."
In that moment we perceive clearly
for the first time the truth that the only
argument the Germans will understand
is the argument of force-that the only
thing in the world they will respect is a
power that can crush them.
Therefore, says the President
Force.
Force to the utmost.
Force zcithout stint or l;miH
Now, thank God, we are in the war!
There shall be no more of that flabbv
intellectual debate as to the merits and
socialness of peace by diplomacy as
against a military victory.
Henceforth peace by diplomacy shall
be understood to mean peace by defeat.
"Talk will not bring peace" said Sec
retary McAdoo, launching the third loan
at Philadelphia
He supplements the President.
Clearly, change has come over the
spirit of our war making
Now for the first time we grasp the
sword firmly and trust wholly to the
business of our quarrel.
Germany's Gott help Deutschthuml
We are coming.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08

NATE is vagarious. Especially in a re-
public Consider William Gibbs Nc
Adoo, the many functioning. To him,
besides other authority of summtal great
ness, has come the continental power that
Hartman planned till ambition sapped his
life, that j. j. Hill once dreamed of and at
tanned In quarter of the nation He is
master of all the railways of America. He
has but to set his Office boy to turning the
crank of the mimeograph, and ,750, 900 rail-
way employees and officials stand at attention
and prepare to carry out the instructions.
AT the click Of his telegraph key $4,000 loco
motives may move cease to move. At
his Whim the whole commercial circulation
system of this vast Republic may be re-
versed
He is the manager of property worth
twenty billions of dollars. At his beck and
call, equally with the humblest fagman, are
the kings and captains Of that tremendous
lmperium in imperio, the railway system
of America-the same railway system that
in its component parts has at times ruled
pretty much all America. To him has
been given the power on behalf of the gov
ernment to do those great things that the
government has hitherto prevented What
IN private hands was crime has become
in his a virtue. What great railway men
vainly longed to do is his to do And he
does it with them. With them he is weld
ing their properties together, with the whole
hot blast of war aiding him. in such ms.a-
ner that they will never get them back in
recognizable form-if they get them at all.
Steps
Every general order is one step further
in the articulation Of the railways Of Amer
ica; each new step in comprehensive man
agement ties them tighter and tighter to
the government. Drafted to serve McAdoo
in his transportation unfcation of the ma
ton are the very men whose genius and
talent were once used to foil the govern
ment they now serve. Their great abilities
are being utilized to do what their private
ambitions and interests prompted them not
to do. To undertake this work they have
forsworn allegiance to their corporate mas
ters and parted with the larger part of
their salaries. Private control of the rail
ways is verify in process of being hoist
by its own petard. This is patriotism.
McAdoo is making the railways efficient
beyond their former efficiency because he
has the power for efficiency that was denied
to their private managers. He is admittedly
doing better than they did, because he may
do what they were forbidden to do. In
comparing national administration with pri-
vate administration this wide difference in
controlling conditions will be overlooked.
Success is credited to the succeeder And
yet he might have made a botch of it. He
might have been tempted to failure by the
magnitude of his power.
Army Railroading
The army has botched industry for war
by trying to handle it militarly. AS poll
tican McAdoo might have botched the rail-
ways by endeavoring to handle them po-
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Still Pounding

German pounding on the sides of the
Montdidier salient continues. On Satur-
day and yesterday a push was made at
the extreme end of the southern leg,
southwest Of Laon. But no perceptible
impression has been made in the last two
or three days on the Allied lines.
1t may be accepted that these local
positional struggles will go on. linden
burg has committed himself to an at
tempt to break through in the West at
what was formerly the junction point be-
tween the French and the British sec
tors. He cannot afford to stop. That
would be to confess failure
Moreover, if German strategy COM
PEELED the present offensive it must also
compel a persistence in the offensive un-
til German striking power is exhausted.
Here is another parallel between Hin
denburg's operation against Amiens and
Falkenhayn's operation against Verdun
Last winter German strategy had two
courses to choose between. 1t could elect
to remain on the defensive in the West.
trusting to wear out the Allies on that
front while retaining the profits of Rus
sia's dismemberment. There was a risk
IN such course, but it was diffused
risk. Success would have to depend on
the developments Of 1918 and 1919
necessarily tedious, and speculative so
far as the effects Of Americas appear
ance on the battle line were concerned.
The other course was to strike for an
immediate decision while German man
power was still only a little past it's
peak This involved bigger gamble.
But it responded to the combative in
stlncts OF the German military leaders,
and also vaguely appealed to a people at
home weary of war.
There must have been differences of
opinion before the decision was taken.
Won Ludendorff is reported to have said
recently, after verbal clash with the
Kaiser at Grand Headquarters: "T am
only soldier, and my great desire is to
end the war" That may throw some
light on the choice which led to the pres
ent offensive.
O"o, OS4liS III dS lar as thCV are. the
German armies cannot conveniently
pause or quit. They must follow the Of
fensive through, if it is within their
strength. Their present position must
be improved, whether for purposes of
advance or for purposes of extrication
they haven't enough elbow room in the
salient which they have thrust out from
the southeast toward Amiens. Thew arc
almost within sight of Amiens. Whv
should they quit fighting if thew still
hope that they can take that imnortant
Allied base?
Operations like those of the last few
Gays tsome major, most of them minor\
are therefore likely to be rencated
There will be many fluctuations still on
the semicircle from Arras 'round r.
Amlgny. There can be no equilibrium on
the present battle line. Either Germany
must make further bids for a more dcG-
mite result or she must rcarrnnoc bor
front, dig in for safety and rcassume ho-
defensive Of the last two years.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Well Kept Military Secret
(Fr0m Tho Philadolnhtn T,,r,,.

From Tho Philadelphia Inquirer,
Although we have been scanning the
papers with more than our usual care to
say nothing of greater amount of avidtv.
to save our life we haven't been able "a
learn what really happened after Secre-
tary Baker and General Bliss retired tn
that wine collar
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
The Pacifst Newly Defined

From Tho Chicago Tr1bunc>
Mr. JOB Hedges, who spoke in this village
yesterday defined pacihst as the illexti-
mate offspring of a hope and a regret.
Which is the most complimentary thing wo
have heard about the pacifist for some
time.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Germany's Execution of Priests
(From The Charlotte obserper)

tFrOM The ChdrIOffe OOScrpcr)
Two Catholic priests have been executed
in Brussels on the charge Of being spies.
Another instance of the exercise of might,
which may not prove right, and which
therefore may cause another batch Of
trouble for Germany.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
The N. c. of Being Decent
.E,n., rA. A4Ah..A. f,ioi

tFrom The Atchisoa Globe 4.
Occasionally it occurs to one that :" 'ssa ~,
great deal to be decent. Socrates MA
executed because his virtuous life exec. ~.
envy. However. good many Atchisoh -. -,
pie need not feel alarmed. for ii they III III
get executed it will be for some 0'"
reason.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
One MuffZer
ITO THE Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: l mailed the 1ncloSed letter for
publication because it shows that our
knitting is of practical use and does bring
cheer and comfort.
Early in the war (191415), when knitting
for the soldiers, friend suggested that
sew my name and address on mufTler.
few weeks ago l received the following
letter from a sister of the soldier who had
worn my mufer.
CATHERINE B. ELY.
New York, April A, 1918
January 23, 1918.
East Street, Klday,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Dear Friend: No doubt you will wonder
whom this letter is from, but felt it would
be nice to write to you. Yesterday my de-
ceased brothers kit bag was sent home to
us. In the bag was a large, gray scarf, and
IN one corner there was this inscription
sewed, with best wishes from an Ameri-
can" with your name and address. I want
to take this opportunity of thanking you on
behalf of the family for your kindness. Let
me say we looked on the scarf with break
ing hearts, and l am sure you will under
stand our feelings.
The scarf had been worn lot, and, al
though it had been steriized, you could see
the dust of the trenches on it. 1t was so
touching to hold the scarf that had been
around my dear brothers shoulders.
Now | want to tell you about my brother
He was an "Anzac" and brave soldier, only
twenty-one years old he would have been
this coming week. He was missing since
August 26, 1916, at the battle OF "Moquet
Farm" After twelve months had elapsed he
was posted as killed, and the sad part is we
do not know his end. But we know, if
killed, he is safe home He was every inch
little gentleman, and as soldier brave;
so your fingers worked scarf that has en-
crcled hero
know that if he did not write and thank
you for the scarf he would give such
broad smile as he put it on and would say:
Good luck to the Americans; this is
bonza warm scarf" l can fancy hear him
say it.
wish to say here how thankful we Aus
trallan people to the attitude your
country has taken in being an ally in this
great war l wish our country had been
conscripted as yours is
Have you ever met any Australian bows ?
Perhaps they will strike you as rough dia-
monds, but can tell you their hearts are
large; some may appear rough, but never
Judge them by that; get to know them and
am sure you would take to them.
would like to tell you more about our
country, but perhaps some other time.
might tell you we have put the scarf awav
and will treasure it,
With kind regards, remain, L. W.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08

You can purchase merchandise advertised ~ The
TRIBUNE With absolute safsty-tor " dlssat:saouon @ ,~
suits In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
back upon request No red tape No au!hn'ln9.
We make good promptly II the advertiser does NOT.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08

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for republication dispatches credited TO It
otherwise credited In this and also the local
news OF spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights republication OF all other matter herein
are also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Army Railroad;ng

Army Railroad;ng
The army has botched industry for war
by trying to handle it mlitarily AS poll
tician McAdoo might have botched the rail-
ways by endeavoring to handle them po-
litically. The temptation was great, the
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
GUARANTEE

Entered at the Postorce at New York Second Class
Mall Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08


New York Corporation. Ogden Rad. President VI
Vernon Rogers Vice President Richard H. 1e secretary
+. Suffer- Treasurer Address Tribune buliolhs. '''
Nassau Street. New York. Telephone. Beekman sooo'
SUBSCRIPTION RATES-By Mail. Postage Pa1d OIL
side o. Greater New York
IN THE UNITED STATES: OUTSIDE OF GREAtAn
NEW YORK
lyr 6mo mo. mo
Daily and Sunday. ...... $3.50 1918 *s-oo s''s "a
snndsv ~ nr1v ''''''''''' soo 80 rs .c5
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CANADIAN RATES
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70 HQue and Hold

Nrom The Oficic1 Buuetn)
NNE who subscribes for Liberty bond
and gets credit as a patriot for do
ing SO is not acting natrioti callu IL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-31
CIPHER REVEALS
LUSITANIA PLOT
John X. RatII0m. Editor OF Providence
Journal. Proves That Great Sea
Horror Was Planned.

New York. Jan. 31-Proof that Ber-
lin directed the sinking of the Lusi-
tania was contained in cipher mes
sage made public, for the first time, in
all article in the Worlds Work Maya
zine for February, out today.
Here is the cipher message:
"From--Berlin Foreign Office.
ITO Botschait, Washington
1863 (44-W-Welt nineteen fifteen
warne l75 l stop 175 stop durch
60 . 4 stop to 10 Is stop Liz II !
456."
The article exposing the cipher is
from the pen of John R. Rathom, edi-
tor of the Providence Journal. which
has unearthed and made public nu-
merOus German plots. 1t dlscloseS
that the key to the cipher was con-
GAINED in the New York World Alma
mac for 1915.
= The first set of figures. 175 20 |, re-
fer to page 175 in the World Almanac
and the first word in the twenty-nintn
line, which is ''Lusitania."
The next set of figures, us 2, refer
TO the first line on the page and the
second line on the page and the sec
ond word, which is passengers.
j. The next set of figures is 622 2 4;
s622 is the page in the World Almanac;
2 refers to the second line on the page,
and 4 to the fourth word, which is
-press"
. The next set Of figures, 10 49, the
~ refers to the nineteenth page of the
Almanac; 7 to the seventh line, and IS
to the eighteenth word in that line,
which is not
= The next set of figures is Liz II 2
6. LIX is the number of an adver-
using page in the World Almanac y IL
Is the eleventh line; 3, 4, 5 and 6 are
the third. fourth, fifth and sixth words
On the page. which, incidentally, is an
advertisement Of the Scripps Motor
company, and the fatal words are
.'yoyage across the Atlantic"
3 The translation. therefore, is:
2 Warn Lusitania passengc Isl
through press not voyage across the
Atlantic"
: Mr.. Rathom, in his article. which
gives in detail the methods he used
in unearthing the work of the German
agents, says the code message came
through from Nauen. Germany. to Say
Vile, Long Island. at 2 O'Clock on the
morning of April 20, 1915. All ef-
forts 10 decode it failed. until one of
fhe Providence Journal men happened
10 remember that on the morning of
rs receipt Prince hatfield of the
German embassy staff had been very
anxious to get hold OF a New York
World Almanac.
The first two words of the message,
-Welt German for World, 1915"
gave the desired line on the key.
The now historic advertisement OF
'ae German embassy appeared in the
New York papers two days later. 1t
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-31
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