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New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
Michael
By Haywood Broun

I\HE man who gave Michael said that
he Shetland terrier Frankly
| don't believe there is any such
thing; unless Michael is it, But there is
denying a Scotch strain of some sort.
There is good deal of John Knox about
Michael. He recognizes no middle ground
There difficulty, for instance, in CON
vincing Michael of the wckedness of some
manifestations of the grossness which is
mortality, but it has been impossible to
make him accept any working compromise
such those by which men and dogs live.
He can see reason why there should be
any geographical limits or bounds to bad
ness.
There is q certain fierce democracy in
that. Michael thinks no less of backward
or sidewalk than he does of parlor Or
perhaps it would be better to say he thinks
no more of parlor. Repentance comes to
him more easily than reformation And vet
| have an enormous respect for Michael's
point of view as understand it, He doesn't
want to burn, of course, but he has no
patience with dogs who blandly hope to
attain salvation by leading lamppost lives
In some things I would have Mcnael
more practical That man who brought hli
here said that his father was an excellent
mouser. l have come to wonder whether
the legitimacy of Michael is beyond ques-
ton. Doubt struck me the other dav IN
the kitchen when I saw an ovcr-venture-
some mouse clingng precariously to .
window curtain and swinging back and
forth not more than foot from the ground
Look Michael" | said, cts mouse!"
%.,s
as "Voila sousmarin!'' or "It's gold.
pardner!" or something of the sort, but
Michael looked at my finger instead of the
mouse and wagged his tail. He backed
away from me playfully and bounced around
a little and barked. Indeed, he backed
into the curtain and the tail Of the mouse
went swish, swish across his back. but
Michael continued to wag. have some
little hope that this particular mouse will
not come back for Il time. He was visibly
terrified, but of course it would be impos-
slble to predict any permanent condition of
shock At any rate, by supreme effort he
mastered his panic. Wrenching himself
loose from the curtain, he jumped and
landed on Michael's back. Then he hoped
to the floor and disappeared behind the DO
tato barrel. Michael sat down slowly and
scratched himself
Last week l thought detected a real
fusion of Mchaels undoubted idea]ism
and direct practical action. Somebody
brought THE New York American" into the
house and left it on the floor. When
came IN | found that Michael had torn it
to shreds He had been particularly Sc
we're with the editorial page. | patted him
and gave him some warm milk To-day I
discovered he had mutilated third edition
Of The Tribune. And upon inquiry
learned that he would chew almost anu
thing except "The New Republic" His
teeth are not quite sharp enough for such
Heavy paper yet. 1t is just possible that
there is some more subtle reason for the
exception. Sometimes I think that Michael
has Nav Republic" mind
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

enemy agitator who would try to disturb
the loving brotherhood of Czech and
Teuton, Pole and Austrian, Magyar and
Jugo-Slav-to incite Bohemians, Ru
manians and Italians to discomfort with
the benefcent Hapsburg rule!
Here is where the shoe pinches hard
est. The Baron says that he doesn't in
tend to indulge in useless indignation or
whining But his heart is torn because
enemy propagandists "want to paralyze
us with an offensive Of irritation" This
is deplorable. But for this alien propa-
ganda, we suppose Bohemia would be to-
day loyal and tranquil kingdom; the
South Slavs would be blessing the gov
ernment at Budapest instead of cursing
it; the Poles would be clamoring against
incorporation in new kingdom of Po-
land the Czecho-Slavs in Siberia would
be fighting with the Bolsheviki instead
Of against them, and charges would not
be made on the floor of the Hungarian
Chamber of Deputies that Vienna had
sent Hungarian divisions to slaughter on
the Piave.
Austria Hungary may have been "a
product of historical and ethnographical
necessity" But that necessity can exist
no longer in world of freedom and JUS
tice. Baron Burian knows this as we'll
as anybody else. Hence his pathetic in
dignation. He whines, whether he thinks
he does or not. And whining is self-con-
feSSiOn
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
Intern Them!

The German bomb squad has not vet
been put out of business. Two miscreants
were caught red handed on Friday night
trying to set off a detonating contrivance
which would have wrecked two big war
plants at Irvington, n. j. One Of the
men trapped claimed to have registered
as an enemy alien. The other, whose
status is not clear, said he had been
called into military service under the
draft act and had been put in one of the
deferred classes.
1t is painfully evident that many Ger
man agents are still at large here.
Nearly every day brings news of arrests
on charges of violating the espionage
acts or the laws relating to intercourse
with the enemy. But, unfortunately, the
government clings to the policy of hunt
ing down individual enemy aliens and
enemy agents after they have committed
crimes, or indiscretions on which a case
can be made against them, instead of
going to the heart of the evil by intern
ing them before they have chance to
do any damage.
lnternment on a large scale is the real
remedy. Enemy subjects confined in an
internment camp are relieved of the
temptation to go out and blow up
munltion factory to the glory of the
Kaiser. They are under the watchful
eye of the government and can be set
to doing useful work. They are also safe
from mob violence, which the government
justly demecates. But what an in
centive it would have been to mob
violence, directed against even innocent
enemy aliens if the Irvngton war
factories had been blown up and a part
OF the village had been blown up with
them,
If the incentive is removed, there will
he little occasion for lynchings Why
not remove 1T as far as possible by
putting enemy alens-especially enemy
Germans-behlnd wire fences? Manv of
them doubtless want to keep the peace.
But there are spirits among them SO
lost to any sense of gratitude to the
government for its over-lenenr policy
and so infamed with the German pas
sion for frghtfulness that no com
munlty can count itself safe while enemy
subjects enjoy freedom of restraint
which may be put to hostile and criminal
uses.
We have been too scary about employ
ing the power of internment. 1t would
he better to go to the other extreme. For
under the uSapeS of uar ,,o o1,,o 49,
protection of internment to possible
victims of popular indignation and ex
cltement. We therefore defend ourselves
and defend those enemy subjects whose
intentions are innocent when we put
them, along with the evil-mindcd among
them, where they can neither be harmed
themselves nor do US any injury.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
Liberty Taxes

The Ways and Means Committee of
the House has agreed to raise the tax on
excess war profits to a maximum of 80
per cent, where now it is 60. That is an
achlevement. 1t is easier to denounce
profteering than properly to tax profits,
even for Democratic Congress. which
IS thought to have no tenderness for
wealth.
Taxation ought to be definitely and
scientifically related to price fixing. When
those in charge of the industrial side of
the war fix price, as for steel or coal
or copper, which will keep production at
rs maximum, they know beforehand that
where one producer will make barely a
hving profit Il gains of another viii be
unreasonably high. One may make )
per cent against the others so or 500
per cent, both producing the same COM
modify and selling it at the same price
why? Because production takes place
under many different conditions. One
mans costs are very much higher than
another's. One can produce copper for
or cents pound; another cannot
produce 1t for less than or 10 cents.
Those who fix the prices are resolved
70 stimulate production to the utmost
That is their business. They haven't
time to bother about the man who makes
FANTASTIC profits. 1t is the business of
'he governments taxing power to attend
10 nm, so that with one hand shall be
recaptured in taxes what has been al
lowed to escape from the other. It is
awkward, but it works-or it would.
But what has been going on? At one
end OF the Capitol men have been arbi-
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
The Hearst Bubble
lkT\HE CHURCHMAN," the official or
gan of the Protestant Episcopal

Church, and "The Rocky Noun
tain News" among other periodicals, have
drawn comparisons between the lives OF
Hearst and Mitchell
"The Churchman" editorial follows:
"Whilc the young patriot who gave the
City of New York the c1canest adminstra
tion which that city has ever had was in
training in the South preparing himself to
fight for his country, the man who through
his string of newspapers has done perhaps
greater damage to America than any other
American citizen has had it in his power
to do has been toying with the ambition
to be Governor of the State of New York.
Hearst was one of Mr.. Mtchel's most bit
ter enemies. The clean frankness and
white light of the Mitchell administration
were discomtting to Hearst He has always
loved the dark. He could not help but hate
a man like Mitchell, who did his deeds in
daylight. Major Mitchell gave his life for
the country he had served with chivalrous
fidelity from the day he went into public
life Hearst lives on to be a plague to de-
cency.
"And yet there are United States Con-
gressmen who were willing to be this mans
guests at junket, coming all the way from
Washington to New York to accept his hos
pitality What contrast, the young ex-
Mayor on the eve of his death in South
ern camp and Congressman frolckng in
New York with Hearst-the journalist who
smirches the honor of everything he
TOUGHEST"
"The Rocky Mountain News" of Denver,
has printed the following editorial:
"Six months before, in answer to the
Hearst yellow journals, the unthinking
electorate drove Mayor Mitchell from an
Office that he had filled with conspicuous
ability. 1t was said then, and it was
repeated with greater emphasis after his
untimely taking off, that he was the fittest
man by odds that ever held the Office He
had given careful study to municipal ques-
tons before taking hold. In office he was
fearless and just. He refused to lick the
heels of men like Hearst, and he could not
be bulldozed by powerful sectarian influ-
ences into doing what he believed to be
wrong
"When Mayor Mitchell appealed to the
public the second time he failed because he
had risen above the prevailing sentiment in
New York; in other words, he gave the
people d StIlCleT administrator tnan thew
collectively cared to have His defeat was
taken as a great triumph for the reptile
press that had bounded him day in and
day out brutally and mercilessly. On the
strength of his defeat Hearst was extolled
as the Democratic dictator for the city and
perhaps for the state.
"But the inevitable reaction set in and
it was hurried because the administration
chosen through the Hearst pro German in
fuences proved itself inefficient from the
start. The Hearst bubble boom burst the
first time it was blown. People began to
feel they had committed blunder in fol-
lowing the Hearst lead In sorrow and
with feeling Of shame in their hearts
they did what they could to make amends
at the bier of the former executive of
greater New York"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
V acuurns

CFrom The Christian Rc0tstcr)
Among the answers to questions at q
school examination appeared the following:
"Gross ignorance is 144 times as bad as
just ordinary ignorance"
"Anchorite is an oldfashioned hermit
sort of a fellow who has anchored himself
to one place"
"The liver is internal organ"
Vacuum is nothing with the air sucked
out of it put up in pickle bottle is
very hard to get"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
Dark Days in Kansas

(From The Hotrard (Kan) CourarD
Don't criticise the editor because he
don't get out splendid paper every week
Some weeks there's no ads, no news-no
anything doin' that would make the paper
interesting, and if the editor had brains
enough to make every paper hummer in
spite of such handicap he could make big
money somewhere else and wouldn't have
to edit paper in small town.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

The latest addition to military wisdom
is contributed by the Rheinisch- West
!al'sche zeitmg, which says: "To have
the initiative does not consist in attack
ing, but also in letting oneself be at
tackled at the proper moment" That let's
everybody out Even the Grand Dnlo
Nicholas didn't lose the initiative when
ne travelled all the way back from the
Dunajec to the Pinsk Marshes
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
$1s7,ooo,ooo

Certain obvious problems present
themselves. There are first the priori-
ties to be settled. The Young Mems
Christian Association would probably
come first being the largest. Naturally
the second In turn would be at a disad-
vantage, the third would be worse off
than the second, and so on down to the
end of the list. By the time the sixth
drive began the impulse to give would
have been very much spent, for it would
then be perhaps January, with one an
peal right after another since early
autumn. And at that time another Red
Cross drive would be in view.
1t has been proposed that these six
organizations should unite in single
JOINT campaign, asking for the aggregate
sum required and dividing the proceeds
among them according to a prearranged
scheme of allotment. All the money
might be collected in municipal war
chests. The War Department. it is
understood, would favor this plan. It
has been already indorsed by many
bodies, such as chambers of commerce
and state councils of national defence.
There is something large and salts
factory IN the thought of just giving all
that one can to the magnificent work
performed by these six organizations
giving 1T all to one common fund for
subsequent distribution. The SIMPLICITY
ol tne plan recommends it highly. Much
waste and confusion would be eliminated
and-what is not to be forgotten-frail
and irritable human nature wou]d ho
spared the STRAIN of successive and un
ending appeals.
Stlll, there are objections One could
not give to one without giving to all. nor
TO one unless to all the others bv nre-
determined prorate. There could he M
direct appeal to preferences. specia] fool
mgs and social and religious attach
menus. II you say that there should be
no preferences, special feelings. etc
1hat IS all very true, but it leads RIGHT
away to another question. IF tboro
snoolo De no separateness of feeling in
the giving, why should there be anv
separateness of organizations IF all
SIX organizations are to be financed as
one, why shouldn't all the work ho
merged, thereby eliminating not onlv +bo
waste entailed where each one conducts
It's own drive for money, as heretofore
pur o. also the waste of maintaining six
dlfterent organizations to spend tho
money! 1t may not be valid r,,o,+;.
ana we 90 not venture to answer it. We
foresee only that it will be raised per-
maps Tor the present it is enough to de-
c'oe whether, all emotions considered AZ
much money can be collected by one Joint
campaign as by six separate drives
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
A lob for T. r

From, The Cincinnati Commercial y,rbune,
We are not professional Roosevelt
booster but would like to see the Ad-
ministration quit hating him long enough
to make him one of the peace commissions
ers when the time comes for their selec.
ton.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
1t Can

tFrom The Louisville Herald
1t is suggested that America cannot help
on the Macedonian front because she is not
at war with either Bulgaria or Turkey But
a little technicality like that can be rene
died, can it not?
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
The Drift Eternal
By Crantland Rice

Lieutenant, 1f5h Field Artilcry A. e. f.
Tribune
THERE'S q long dull hike II dustD, cr1sy road
And you nomder how they are back home;
There fifty pounds of packing for all day load
And qcondcr how they back home;
There's billet be ooing 1Ohere the floors bnre
And n night wind ashes from the damp air,
But think about it and to
As avomder how they back home.
Yonve finished ranging 0ith your guns in place.
And aoonder how they back home
The ghosty darkness settles and the fac
But Wonder how they back home;
You're along through shado the
And the haze barkcd their the Hun the p
But the echos hardly settled breath of q refrain
Till wondcr how they back home
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

A FORMER city editor of "The Lon
~ don Times" said to me:
"In my little home town of 5000
there were 300 widows as the result of one
action, and I could take you there and show
you one whole street of mourning as the
result of one naval action"
This, as we'll as anything, testihes to
the part Britain has played in the great
war.
Britain hasn't advertised her sacrifices
She has just plugged along, doing the thing
that had to be done. The heart of Britain
bleeds in sience-but it bleedsl
NJ ANY an ancient and honorable instl-
IVA tuition is getting the blade tucked
in under its we'll known fifth rib in this
world war. This fact is more thoroughly
appreciated in the lands across the sea
than in our country, because the
process has been going on longer over
there
In Britain one of the doomed institutions
most cherished by those who were on the
recipient end and most hated by those on
the other end is that of domestic service.
Domestic service, of course, being the po
lite name for household work.
Domestic service in England before the
war was no sinecure. 1t was nothing to
boast of. Because domestic service cost
little to the employer it the more un-
desirable to the worker If a servant
could carry water cheaper than it could be
piped, why pipe it?
But the war has changed all that There
are two reasons: Higher labor cost and
the experience of women in industry that
is at once more remunerative and less
stricting. In plant I 500 women
doing the work of machinists. Most of
them had been in domestic service. Most
of them will not return to it voluntarily.
"Why should we?" asked a husky lathe
operator. Few in England attempt to
swer. Most If them freely admit that the
typical English domestic servant has gone
where the woodbine twineth, or under the
bridge from where no water runs uphill.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
A Woman s Salute
To the Editor of The Tribune.

y Ine CulLOr Oh Inc IIlDune.
Sir: Regarding the letter and editorial
"A Woman's Salute" surely it would make
US all more comfortable and give US
greater feeling Of belonging" if we had A
standard method of showing our pride in
and love for the flag
However, scarcely think bowling the head
would exactly fit, for with me there is al
ways an unconscious lifting of the chin and
a jubilant feeling when the flag passes, not
feeling of humility.
Why not the regulation salute Of stifFened
fingers to the hat brm No hat that tho
soldier or sailor wears is any different from
woman's hat. No brim, you say; we'll
what Of the Yaphank has or those of the
Aviation Corps, the sailors "beanieo A
salute is possible with them. And school
children have always saluted from the fore
head. NJ. MAUS
New York, July "a. 1913
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New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

HAVELOCK WILSON, an Englishman,
Il L helped organize the first union in
Germany. Wilson is head of the powerful
seamen's union, through which British
men are demanding and pledging boycott
of German trade after the
For about two hours one afternoon
listened to Wilson as he gave his reasons
for the boycott. Physically Wilson is
slight Both legs are crippled and he
walks with peculiarly built canes.
Wilson said that when the war began the
British seamen felt it their duty to care
for the German members of the organiza-
ton who barred from the sea as
enemy aliens. They asked and got permis-
sion to build and maintain for these men
model intcrnment camp. All went we'll
in this camp until the Lusitania was sunk
An entertainment had been planned for
the day following the sinking Wilson
went to the camp to tell the German sailors
of the sinking and to tell them that OF
course, in view of the tragedy, there could
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

NJ ENTlON of the 3o2d Engineers has
1VI been made in these jottings at an
other time Colonel Sheriff. gave US
memorandum of the nationalities in his
regiment. According to him there are in
his command, aside from those who may be
designated rs pure Americans, Austrians,
Serbs, Italians Poles. Lithuanians, Rus
SLAMS Hebrews, Creeks Englishmcn,
Frenchmen. Swedes, Norwegians and Ha
waians. And you'd never think it to look
at them.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

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New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

Lenlne now says he owes the German
Kaiser S3,ooo,ooo,oOo. Why not print q
nice $3,o0o,o00,ooO Soviet ereonb,c cl w ana q
mail it to Berlin?
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

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Wars Odds and Ends
By Chester M. Wright

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France
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safcb-for II dissatisfaction re-
suits In case the TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
money back request. No red tape. No aulbhllng
We make good promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I would like to call your attention
to a movement started last winter by some
of the clubwomen as a salute TO the Aae
and anthem. Stand with head up and right
hand on heart You will find many women
already using this salute.
IDA LATHERS.
New York, July "a, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: With woman in the war" often
times much more Loyalty than man, why
should there be any difference in her salute
of the flag? And why, to both men and
women, should not that salute be a. raising
of the right arm, with the hand pointing
toward Old Glory? This would be an in
spiringly visible pledge of fealty
Such salute has much to recommend it.
First-lt would be uniform
Second-It would be beautiful.
Third-It would partake of the form of
an oath-as in court
Fourth-It would be iovful, and not
mournful, as is the case now when we bare
our heads. We bare our heads and bow on
solemn occasions, at funerals, but we
raise our arms and shout at what inspires
US to patriotic exclamation
Flfth-It would be merciful Both nneu
monia and sunstroke would be discounted.
SlXth-lt is more convenient and practi-
cable Taking off ones hat in a crowd with
ones hands almost pinned to his sides is
not an easy task, and often results in ruin
to ones headgear. Putting the hat over the
heart has been abandoned as unnecessary.
costly Gas to crushng) and smacking of
bathos.
Let us raise our hats to the ladies, bare
our heads and bow at obsequies, but when
1t comes to saluting the flag let US have
salute that makes no distinction between
men and women; one, besides this uniform
lty, that has the qualities, as outlined. of
ease, convenience, beauty, inspiration, Joy
and loyalty. FRANCIS WILSON.
New York, July "a, 1918.