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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-04-02
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SronbhieIn,

ffal anlGgge ell Spaliangeritatton /
@ingpaagen pcb a9ocnGs. Get for
b~ereoenbe Mrbeibe begpnoer feritfom-
menbe 3rebog, oe Stationen ifal
ipttes / 9riit I. gpr,T. Gen bill be-
ffipitiae ca. 40 Monb.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-04-02
YQe frr brufnet.

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22-aaria @ut, Son al Senrif Bent
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gjsnnem SIen o. aae fire omfom.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-04-02
StatsraaS 4. 2splano fuIbte ocr

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gen ira one Sob billet iom ocn
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tires H9ffe. s 1898 oif ban inb /
Steeiis onoet Winiiterium % par
ienere Weolem al glebra Winiiteri.
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bar ban Tom Weolem al MiteIien5
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holm % oct foIot / bans 9oo at for
mioIe De iioitc SorbanbIinaer meaem
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mems SpIsSring blep 2eoIauo 0or.
ges fsrite llocnri9sminilter % inbIo
fig / benre Stiuing itor Sortieneite
peo Srganiiotionen al Oct me &C.
partement. Otter WideIienS Nj.
gang / 1907 Ytoo 2spInno ct @arS
3ib iom Resierinssdei. iubtil ba,,
blep aileIt al @unnar &nuoIen. Get
pareoe imiolertib life lGnge, isr ban
after blep foIot iii aongcns Raaos-
boro, benne9ong iom &irteminiitcr
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-04-02
Yin iyulfebpiifule.

Ielie fra aongspineer bar Singer
Serreositpre garanteret ct 2aan Cau
$4,000 aroner til en- mn Soltebei-
ifole / @ingcr. Otter Spfororin1
bar Sfoleinipeftsr Sageitao crflG.
ret fig piaie til at opertage Stolcn.
Oct er @enitgell, at SfoIen ifol
bore iaang til Soften.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-04-02
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OVOI N~HU0HUBeFN TUI @I"NNUHH
mer MI. Get piier &ciuItatet al Den
SolfetRaine, Tom bleo ioretaget fam
tibig meo MISREPRESENTATION
! geepnbeIIen Of 6ebruar Waaneb.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

'ant country is certainly governmental
invasion of business with vengeance.
Some further light on the purposes of
TINS remarkable innovation lies in the
additional announcement that:
Zone of the chief objects which the
company will have in view will be the
encouragement Of private capital to en-
gage in trade in Russia and Siberia as
shipping becomes available for the pur-
pose. Its policy will be to cooperate
with. encourage and promote such trade
with Russia as will assist in the rehabli-
tation of her economic life and to cover
by its direct operations only such por-
tons of the field as cannot at present be
served readily by private enterprises"
Nor is all this tentative plan for the
future. Before the general or business
public hears a word of it the corpora
ton is already in operation. 1t has
ALREADY begun the transaction of bust
ness by the dispatch nf three vessels
from the Pacific Coast to Vladivostok"
The public is further advised that "by
addressing the Russian Bureau persons
interested in Russian trade may receive
more detailed information
We shall follow the operations of this
company with great interest. Many of
our large corporations, the Harvester
Company, the Singer Company, Mr..
Ford's auto works, the Crucible Steel
Company, the life insurance companies
and host of others, already have large
investments in Russia, many of which
are now, to all intents, pretty much a
dead loss. Is "The United States Rus
sian Bureau, Incorporated" to attempt
anything in the way of rehabilitation of
American enterprises already in Russia,
or the rescue of their plants and fund.-
from the pirate crew IN whose hands
they are now? Proper aid to PROSTATE
Russia is clearly one of the greatest
problems that face this country and the
Administration. But is a governments
owned trading corporation, under the
direct control of an extremely active,
able and highly sophisticated politician,
and purposing to engage in a miscel-
laneous barter of boots, shoes, tooth
brushes or hair dyes, an effective and
statesmanlike approach to the task?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Burlesonized Mails

"ThA Rutland Herald" tells its readers,
under Brattleboro date, that relatives of
Miss Marion Rice, who is Red Cross
nurse in France, have just read
letter from her IN which she wrote that
the day before the mails brought her "a
Christmas package which was mailed in
Brattleboro in November, 1916. Miss Rice
added that the contents of the box were
edible, a fact which speaks volumes for
Vermont cookery.
The deliberate progress of this box and
its ultimate delivery bring much comfort,
or should, to some thousands Of people who
have mailed like boxes to members of the
American Expeditionary Force. These
boxes may be years in transit, but event
ually they will reach the addresses As
late as 1887 grizzed veterans of the great
war, then home and engaged in peaceful
pursuits, Will be gladdened by the receipt
of boxes of cigarettes, cake and candy
shipped to them by friends in this country
in 1917. The mails may be slow, but they
are frequently sure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

to escape payment both of the Internal
war debt and of the vast sum in repara-
tons owed to Belgium, France and Grea.
Britain and to the other maritime ma
tions whose shipping the German U~boats
destroyed.
The returning soldiers will decide
whether Germany is to remain real ma
ton, economically able to discharge its
peace obligations, or will be split into
minor states, all seeking to minimize and
dodge reckoning, or become a Bolshe-
visit mock commonwealth, with neither
the power nor the will to pay. 1t is
gloomy prospect. Germany's reconstitu-
ton may easily become as serious prob
lem to the peace conference as Russia
is. The Germans .Bolshevized Russia
Now that crime returns to plague and
destroy them And Germany only year
ago imagined itself morally and materl-
ally qualified to conquer the world!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
What Sort of Decorations?

We cannot see why there should be
any serious quarrel between Mayor
Hylan and the Fifth Avenue Associa-
ton over the decorations to greet our
returning soldiers. The two plans pro-
posed are fitted to two entirely different
types of parades. The sole question to
be determined is which sort of pageant
the city is to make ready for.
The scheme of the Fifth Avenue As
ISOLATION for an avenue of the States"
was conceived to greet mixed divisions
of the Rainbow type. And surely if our
city is called upon to welcome men from
all the states such a setting is admira-
BILE. The method of letting each state
decorate it's own block needs to be care
fully controlled by a central authority
in order to obtain some unity of design
and to prevent blunders And it offers
a courteous and effective way of uniting
the countrys interest in national occa-
sion, and considering the large number
of other state Americans in our town
the scheme is simple and practical.
But are we TO nave such parades1
Mayor Hylan understands that demob-
ilization at camps will present such ma
tional shows. If he is right we shall
have only our local units, such as the
Twenty seventh Division, to greet; and,
unquestionably, for such a parade an
Avenue of the States possesses no fitness
whatever A return to the general de-
sign of the Avenue of the Allies would
be far more suitable and would better
symbolic what would be passing in our
hearts.
We hope the Mayor and the Fifth
Avenue Association will first ascertain
from the War Department who is to
parade and will then get together and
decorate to suit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

HHE beginning of a propaganda de-
signed to abolish the greatest of
all the gains of this World War
will surprise no one, but it should carry
universal warning. The Peace Con-
gress soon to meet may or may not sue
coed in creating a League of Nations,
with the power to regulate international
relations for the future. All this will
be experimental, but nothing is more
certain than that there can be no League
of Nations unless it is founded on the
understanding and mutual gratitudes
which haze been created between the
United States and the nations with whom
it has been associated in the great strug
gle.
To those who know contemporary
Europe there is something almost pa
thetic in the eagerness of French, Brit
ish and Italian peoples of the mass OF
these nations, to demonstrate their graft
tude for aid given by the United States,
aid which, however decisive when it ar
rived, would have been useless if the
British and the French had not held the
! line against German barbarism for more
shan three years.
Nor is the emotion confined to Europe.
1t is a fact known to every one that
there is in this country to-day totally
new sense of responsibilities and of asso
Citations in the business of the world.
And underneath this is the substantial
foundation OF respect and admiration
for the two great nations which have
faced German might for the four years
of war. The mass of the American peO-
pie long ago demonstrated their deter
mination that the French should have
Alsace- Lorraine, even if the winning of
it involved an American campaign
against Metz and Strasbourg, with all
the inevitable carnage
Precisely in the same way the mass of
the American people are agreed that
there shall be no limitation by the Peace
Congress or elsewhere of the powers Of
the British navy, which has been the bull
wark of the Allied cause. There is a
new and a real sense of appreciation
alike of the magnitude of British effort
and the loyalty of British purpose in the
United States. There is general I'M
derstanding that the British nation has
advanced over far more than half the
distance which has separated two peo-
pies speaking the same language and
meaning the same thing by the words
which they use
Sensible and informed Americans
know that the British and the French
people are eager to preserve and expand
the friendship cemented by the blood of
the men of all three nations shed in the
recent struggles The great basis for
international peace is international
friendship and confidence, not written
agreements whether these agreements
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
The New Diplomacy

Did secret diplomacy of the oldest
school ever achieve such amazing mys-
terry, such complete concealment of
world secret under one mans hat as that
accomplished by President Wilson work
ing in the name of open covenants of
peace openly arrived att?
That phrase is like the other phrases
Of the fourteen and the six and the four
the whole world possesses. 1t means,
like them, everything or nothing. The
world has possessed the phrase ''the free
dom of the seas" for many years. 1t
gained no new notion of its significance
when Mr.. Wilson adopted it, The same
is true of a league of nations. To further
his conception of these two phrases Mr..
Wilson goes to Europe, against the will
of the bulk of the nation. Yet he has
never confded in the nation to what
sense of these words he holds or in what
sense he proposes to fight for them. He
has never explained these views even to
the Senate, which shares with him the
constitutional authority over treaties.
By the appointment of the most dis
tinguished minds of America to the peace
conference he might have done much to
reveal the aims of his diplomacy. At
least he would have granted certain
securities of conference and debate and
joint wisdom. That, too, he has denied
the country.
We reach almost the eve of his depart
ure in this state of utter mystery and
doubt In these last hours, when it is too
late for the nation to discuss or reply
Mr.. Wilson proposes to appear before
Congress and state his views. He may
say much or little But he cannot remove
the extraordinary impression which his
method has produced he cannot, in this
eleventh hour, replace secrecy by open
discussion; he cannot receive from the
country and bear with him to Versailles
the views and mandate of his nation. He
will go to impress upon the peace con-
ference his own personal views, shared
possibly with Colonel House, shared pos
sibly with few other intellectual init
mates, but kept, until too late for criti-
clsm, from the American people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
The Chapman Case and After

Governor Whitman has made wise
and ;'ccurate disposition of the Chapman
case. To have permitted the execution
of this boy would have been to permit
grave blot upon the judicial record of
the state On the other hand, to have
pardoned him or sent him off with a
light sentence would have been an en-
couragement to crime by youths Of an
age especially subject to the teachings
of an object lesson. No tenderness for
the young can be permitted to imperil
the safety of society.
There remains now the larger and
more important problem of dealing with
the Paul Chapmans of the future. AS
The Tribune has repeatedly pointed out,
the present law is egregiously out of
date. 1t must be brought up to the
standards of current wisdom and con-
science. There must be no exceptions
to the jurisdiction of our children's
courts in the case of crimes punishable
by death. And the entire jurisdiction
of these courts should be extended two
years, up to the eighteenth birthday.
The Tribune hopes that the state Legis-
lature will find time to press these
changes to an early passage. The risk
of another Chapman case, with its posi-
bility of the legal killing of a child,
must be removed from our Penal Code
as speedily as possible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
One Holding Company
for Railroads
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The resignation of Secretary McAdoo
brings the railroad question to the front
an acute issue.
1t is generally conceded that the railroads
must not be made the football of politi-
clans, nor again the football of specula-
tors; hence, we cannot consider the pres
ent system the old one
1t is generally conceded that they must
be cooperative, not competitive, and that
they must be run by railroad men.
The railroads themselves have shown
how this result can be obtained. One big
holding company is the answer. 1t might
have nothing but bonds, which could be
guaranteed by the government If this
holding company has no common stock. it
becomes a real public service corporation,
in which capital gets a. fair return and
labor of all kinds, from the manager down,
can be paid in proportion to service rem
dered There are no obstacles in the way
of such plan, under which we should get
all the benefits of government ownership
without its dangers.
Moreover, it would give opportunity
to the great railroad managers of the coun-
try, many OF whom are highly patrotlc,
to serve the community.
This is no new scheme; it was proposed
before the government took over the roads.
1t is brought up now because we are rap
idly being brought face to face with
most delicate problem, the solution of
which will be a most important factor in
our economic development in the years to
come. II. L. CAN'T.
New York, Nov. 25, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
The Greatest Thing of All
By Frank H. Simonds
(Copy,lght, 1918, Nesc York Tribune hc)

be guarantees of neutrality OF constitu-
tons of League of Nations. The best
promise of peace in the next generation
is the public sentiment of France,
Britain and the United States with re-
spect of each other, represented in the
men who personally share the senti-
ments Of their people.
Wars-it's a mere platitude to say it
are the result of the jealousies and mis-
understandings between nations. The
best guarantee Of peace is mutual I'M
derstanding plus respect. There never
was a time when respect and gratitude
for America were greater in the world.
Only Americans can destroy that basis
for the future, which is patent to any
but the most prejudiced. The greatest
gain in all this sorry business Of misery
and slaughter has been the creation of
League of Nations, not by treaty, but by
common association and sacrifice in a
noble cause.
1t would be better for this country to
send no one to the Peace Congress, to
withdraw its armies from Europe and
make a separate peace with the Central
Powers, preserving the friendship of its
present associates, than to sacrifice that
association in the eager desire to eX
plot that friendship in the formal Ian
guaga of constitution of the world or
in the effort to impose upon two great
nations, who have made sacrifices for
the common cause tenfold as great as
ours, restrictions which would imperil
their future, while merely gratifying our
vanity or ministering to our real or sham
idealism.
AS long as the United States stands
with France and Britain, bound by COM
mon purposes and enlightened intelli-
gence, the peace Of the world is assured,
and it is threatened the moment these
nations begin to drift apart. Whose in
terest then is served by manufacturing
hostility, Misunderstanding; by the cir
culation of absurd and unfounded libels?
The very worst danger at the present
moment is not that the British or the
French will resist American suggestions.
Rather it is that they will make sac
rifices of their own just rights which the
American people do not ask or desire
hut will be represented to the British
and the French as American desires.
The association with France and
Britain is not marriage Of convenience.
1t is not on our part merely passing
arrangement. The mass of the Ameri-
can people are thinking of the British
and the French in wholly new terms
This is the greatest thing of all in the
present situation. Let US trust that our
French and British friends will recog-
n;ze that this is the real fact in Amer
lea, and that any one who suggests any
other condition misunderstands or mis-
represents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The ingenious methods of Mr. Theo-
dore P. Shonts for herding his human cattle
in the different subways of New York City
are admittedly beyond all praise, especially
that generous foresight which has provided
straps for the swayng mortas in the
rush" hours
From the expression on the faces of these
dear people between South Ferry and 18TH
Street and Broadway the experience must
be beatific. and no doubt for those who are
tall. or even of good medium height, bless
inrs for Mr. Theodore Shonts emanate from
their hearts all the way; but for little
woman who has to travel on the subway
every day it is little short of torture to be
flung about ct every stoppage, and l know
that many time a seat has been offered to
me by some gentleman if only to preserve
his headgear and cravat from my frantic
clutches in Nh effort to keep the perpendicu
lar
Of course, having paid my fare, wouldn't
think of demanding seat but would like
to offer the suggestion to our good Mr..
Shcnts that he should provide alternate
log and short straps, so that short people,
too, might enjoy .he rhythm of the sway in
peace and comfort.
EMMA TEMPLE SCOTT.
New York. Nov. 81, 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Romance
From The Pagan

From The Pagan
THE house next door is of bricks.
l. Soft, old, brown bricks,
A vine climbs up the side,
And sparrows chirp in the vine;
They twitter, and chirp, and murmur
In the twilight and at dawning.
Some folks hate the English sparrow.
But to me the wall and the vine
And the twitteriug Of the sparrows
Is as romantic as nightngales
In the garden of some old castle.
ADAM PEARSALI.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
A Week of Verse
Promise of Spring, 1918
d'ron The English Revtc,o)


Fron The English Repfctp)
THE boy-sun laughs, and Day
L. Scatters his beams
Where the youngling shadows play;
And in the wounded fields
The buds break, and pout
Their lips to the mornings kiss.
And where
But yesterday thousand loves and dreams
Moved to their close,
The rusted wire is fair
With Needless greenery.
And soon the rose
Shall make of this
Mould of young sacrifice flaming rout
Of passionate bloom that yields
The largesse of their brief mortality.
And wondrous, clear, across the breeze
Again | hear the Suffolk seas.
And fair and fleet over the grass
| hear the feet of children pass
And where I stand, by many graves,
Are cliffs and sand, and hurrying waves.
And where the guns lie hid to stay
The river runs through yesterday.
STEPHEN SOUTHWOLD.