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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
Modern Currency Reforms

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EToHMs = SplA raTTo H EETr
w. ~. xxi. 5s4 The Ma milan compan
This is thoroughly workmanlike
study Of five recent experiments IN
eurrcncv reorrani8nf or In onrh of
he cases dealt with the monetary sys-
tcm of a dependency, or Of separate
minor state like Mexico. has been adj
ustcd to meet modem monetary condi-
ions 1t is interesting to study these
experiments in the maxine. They ofor
= the economist a coveted opportunity
10 employ what might be called the
laboratory method-an opportunity of
rare occurrence in economic research.
Professor Kemmerer sets forth with
.rcat particularly and clarity the
processes by which the evil effects Of
a general decentralization Of silver we're
ncutrnlizcd in India. always a great
absorbcr Of silver and a partisan of
silver coinage; how Mexico established
he rold standard, vet without fully
liscontinuing the use Of silver: how
he same object was attained in the
Philippines and in tho Straits Settle
mcnts, and how Porto Ricos curious
iduciary standard was discarded at
the instance Of Congress for the
American gold standard. The book is
irtercs ting to read as we'll as valuable
for reference purposes. 1t reflects the
spirit of critical research which for
sore years past has DISTINGUISHED the
work Of Princeton UNIVERSITIES up-to-
late faculty group of writer's On eco
comics and history.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
Economics of War and Peace
Literary News and Miscellany

est, and least likely to lead to embar-
RAISING conditions after the war. tt
has, it is true, been marked with some
strange alterations, particularly the is
suance of paper money by the govern
ment Yet it has avoided the immense
and menacing eXpans on = cup .enlsm
for inhation--of currency in which
France and Germany have engaged.
The imitation in the latter countries
has been due, of course, 20 me
enormous needs OF the STATE. II is to
SUPPLY not the monetary wants Of the
nation but the i-cal needs of he gov
eminent; and the inability to discliml-
nate between those two reQuirem ents,
and to provide for them separat ly, is
the weak point perhaps h. danger
point, in the systems OF those coun-
tries. That France will avoid reallza-
ton Of the peril, and viii maintain
her credit unimpared, the author evil
IDENTIFY believes. That Germany will be
alb e to Go so, at any rate In her hour
of defeat-that is another story.
The keen analysis OF our own con-
dition and operations down to a year
ago, and the suggestion of lesson; for
ourselves to be derived from the ex-
periencc Of the other powers, make
this tinc treatise Of iAcs.i,nable va ue
to every hnancier and student Of COM
mcrcial, industrial. fiscal and govern
mental affairs, while appendices con-
tanning the texts Of the pertinent fiscal
laws OF the four nations. charts show
ing in graphic form the fluctuations OF
trade and fnarce, and many 9th de
tails, make the book most useful and
convenient for purposes of reference.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
The Lesson of Poland
Victim of Prussian Greed and
Intrigue

roLlrICAL HISTORY OF POLAND. By Edward
H. Irwinski -Corwin Ph. ID Illustrated svo
PIP 62S. Polish Book importing Company. Inc
Among the many books indirectly
called forth by the war none could be
moro timely than this history Of
country which looms large on the Pc
litical horizon and plays an important
part in the problems which Europe
will have to solve when the war is
over. Nor does this alone make the
book so significant at the present time.
A history of Poland is not only Il
record of the POLITICAL social and eco
nomic development of that country,
once one Of the largest and most pow
erful in Europe, but it is also = his.
tory of Teuton greed and Teuton in
trigucs to attain the object of that
greed. DR.. Corwin has based his work
mainly upon Polish sources. But being
q resident and citizen of this country
he stands sufficiently aloof to insure
for his work a larger perspective; and,
familiar as he must be with the CEN
turtles of suffering that the Polish pee
pie have endured. he has carefully
avoided the sentimental note which so
often Greens in when the fate of coun
tries like Poland, Belgium and Alsacc
Lorraine is touched upon.
Although the book is called "Politi-
cal History" the author introduces as
poets of the cultural life OF its people
whenever the occasion presents itself.
At the very beginning he calls attcn-
ton to the difference between the char
actor of the old pagan deitics of the
Poles, beautiful. kind, generous, rs
Walhalla. If, in the valuatio of the
great men and women of Poland. no
seems at time to go too far. we must
remember that we know very little Of
that strong. chivalrous and freedom
loving people. whom seven centuries
of Teuton perfidy and five of Musco-
vito persecution could not crush It is
we'll tc be reminded of the feet that
Copernicus was Pole. that Joseph
Sirius anticipated Harvey's theory Of
circulation. that the University of Cra-
COW was founded as early as 400. that
the Globus Jage'lonicus is the first
hHoWH Que w HiHHtiOn /tUtrlcd. tIdt
the Cracow edition Of Ptolemy. pre-
pared in 1912. was the first to contain
man of North and South America.
etc. The few data concerning Poland's
cultural life are sufficient to stimulate
inouirv and make one desire to pet
full picture Of it. It is we'll to learn,
too. that the first Polish statute, that
of Wislica (19AD, admitted the evolu-
tionary conception of law in the state
ment:
No one should wonder or condemn
if. with the chance Of times. the Gus
toms ard laws also change.
Tie hahoas cornus act was also Sc
cured nv the Poles almost q century
before that of Fnoland. and the prin-
cinle of "no taxation without renre-
sentetion" was viporouslv FOUGHT for
as far hack as the fifteenth cpntur7.
Liberal as were the views of the
Polish people with reference to the
government. thew were no less SO in
matters of RELIGION. The disciples Of
Huss. the Bohemian reformer. found
many adherents. The Reformation Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
Interests of Various Nations
Personalities From ManyL ands
By Willis Fletcher johnson
By Willis Fletcher johnson

Luther was ardently welcomed. The
Dlssidents, as the non Conformists
were called, formed large and i'm
portant element Of the population, and
their struggles with the Catholic
Church entered deeply into the politi-
cal struggles of that time.
AS DR.. Corwin traces the long sue
cesslon of wars which the Poles had
to wage against foreign trouble makers
and aggressive neighbors, one is often
reminded Of the words of Schiller, who
said in his "Tcll':
"The meekest cannot live at pcaco
If wicked ncighbor lies in wait"
The quotation is as pertinent with
reference to the Poland that was as to
our allies to-day. Throughout his mar
rative is lucid and concise. If in somo
parts his style rises TO dramatic in.
tens!ty, it is only too comprehensive
son of that unfortunate country
could hardly speak Of the tragedy OF
the three partitions and of the epic Of
the Polish legions without some emo
ton. The facts in that story of in
tcrnal discussion, of class struggles
and of foreign cabals arc nowhere
obscured. If at times they suggest u
pessimistic outlook upon the future ct
Poland, passage in the authors
preface SOUNDS q note of hope:
AS long as Russia continued to be
a rapacious imperialistic autocracy,
Poland's future could only be dark
one. The relations, however, Of ar
Independent Polish state with prop
erly drawn boundaries to a truly
democratic and unaggressivc Russian
republic cannot be anything but
ncighborly and harmonious.
One is tempted to add-provided this
republic gets rid of the Trotzkys and
the Lenines and other pacihsts, spies
and "agcnts provocateurs" taking their
cue from the Wilhelmstrasse!
TIE book is richly illustrated and
full Of information about country and
a people rather neglected by the
makers Of books. For the key to the
pronunciation of Polish names, one
must be especially thankful.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06

time finance, the destruction of wealth
by war and, the limitations of credit.
The specific discu SONS Of ma onal
fiscal and credit systems in the present
war, which form the greater portion
of the book and invest it with its SUI
preme value, are confined to Great
Britain, France, Germany and the
United States; quite properly, since
these are practically the on nations
whose finances are of major sig
nificance. In the case of the United
States, consideration stops with our
entrance into the war, and i there
fore, devoted to our opor tons as a
neutral power profound aff cted BY
the belligerence OF the nations With
which we have long been most intimate
~ related. One of the salient features
is a careful and notably impartial com
parison of the ways and means by
which these nations respectively met
the initial shock and crisis of the war
and by which they have since been sus-
tanning its unprecedented burdens.
In this comparison it appears obvious
~ that on the whole the British system
OF credit has been the safest and sound
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06

Some Timely Volumes
About the War, Its Antecedents
and consequences

Robert ]. Mcbride & Co. have just
published the first American edition
of Frank ]. Adkinss admirable Ills
torlcal Backgrounds of the Great
War" (12mo. PIP. 1922, and we under
stand that it has been placed in the
libraries of all the army environments
of the United States. 1t is we'll worthy
OF such adoption, and Of inclusion in
the Library OF every person who wishes
20 be we'll informed concerning the
antecedents, remote and proximate, of
he war. 1t is a philosophical review
OF the histories of Germany, France
Great Britain and the Slavs.
Longmans, Green & Co. publish
French Windows" by John Ayscough
l2mo. PIP. 1860, group of papers
about the war as seen by sympa
thctlc observer, paying fine and worthy
tributes to the soldiers of the Allies
and filled with gentle human touches
OF compelling pathos and ofs idyllic
beauty.
Z. P. Dutton & Co. send US "The
Problem of Human Peace by Malcolm
Quln (Svo, PIP. 275). 1t relates not
alone to this war, but to war and peace
IN general, and considers the question
OF the extent to which it may be pos
H4DAS " prevent IuICUcF wars ana TO
preserve the peace of the world. 1t is
avowedly written from the point of
view of scientific Catholicism"
Doubleday. Page &. Co. have issued.
under the title of blown In by the
Draft" a collection of camp stories col
lected by Frazier Hunt at one of the
army environments (12mo, pp. xxi. 1927.
Most of them have already appeared
as newspaper spondence, but they
seem worthy Of preservation in a more
convenient form; and they have been
enriched with a preface by Colonel
roosevelt, an Introduction by General
Evan M. Johnson and illustrations by
Captain j. s. S. Richardson. Thew give
q v'vaclous and most interesting view
OF army life in preparation for the
great war.
The Macmillan Company issues J. A.
Hobson's Democracy After the War"
{. Emo PIP. 212), in which a modified
SOCIALIST view is taken of the economic
aand political issues which will con-
'front.' tie world in the reorganization
or afalrs which will accompany the re-
'ishmort of noaca
DR.. Richard C. Cabot's draining and
Rewards of the Physician" is a fresh
and vigorous discussion of the oppor-
tunties. duties and rewards of the
physician, and Of various practical
phases of professional ethics, which
should be profitable reading for all
practitioners of the healing art. Illus-
trated limo, PIP. 1873. J. B. Lippincott
COmpanv) fP'iieo'o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06

were not, when written, intended for
publication, for which we are grateful,
the result being that they are just
about as chatty, spontaneous and
frank as it is possible to imagine let
ters to be.
We were reading another book the
other day. written at about the same
time and about the same. events, by
about the most different person from
different point of view from his, that
you can imagine. But the striking
thing is that the two have precisely
the same dominant motive, which is
that German intrigues caused the Boil
shevik revolution in Russia and that
Lenine, Trotzky and the rest are Ger
man spies or tools. 81 could show the
whole world" says Mr.. Thompson,
that German intrigue was the cause
of Russia's downfall. German intrigue
working among the unthinking masses.
condition." And in these luminous
pages he does show that to the world.
AS for Lenine:
Lenlne might say that he is not
in the pay of the Germans, but, take
1t from me, Germany is not giving a
special car to any one to travel
through Germany and back to Rus
sla, who is at war with them. The
best thing for Russia to do is to kill
Lenine.
1t would be impossible in review
several times the length of this to give.
an adequate idea of the wealth of in
teresting matter that this volume con-
talns. or Of the profusion of fine illus
tratlons with which it is enriched It
is one of the most intensely, intimately
and vitality human" documents of the
Russian revolution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
Sinews of War
Finances and Credit Systems of
the Belligerents

CREDIT OF THE NATIONS: A. Study Of tho
EuroLetn War. BY j. Laurence Laughlin Phi.
y. Emeritus Professor Of Political Economy in
the University Of Chicago With charts and APP
pandcos. $40 PIP. XII. 4o6- Charles Scribner's
The advent of our third great war
loan and the proposal Of a compre
hensive and drastic scheme Of govern
mental control of CONNIE cial credi S
give peculiar timeliness to the appear
ancc of this monumental volume. Pro-
fessor Laughlin has long been one Of
our keencst students and most authori-
tative expositors Of both mcrcaa lie
and public finance, and he thu b j. gs
to the consideration of the transcendent
fiscal issues OF the world war an ex-
ceptional degree Of authori y, happily
conjoined with lucid, attractive and
convincing manner of expire ssion. Deal
ing first with the general conditions
of industry and commerce, as they were
before the war, and with the facts and
causes of Germany's phenomenal de-
velopment he traces the la ,ionship
between those things and the war it eff.
There follows searching considera-
ton of the general principles of war
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
A Wandering Printer

SEVEN LEGS ACROSS TIE SEAS by Samuel
Murray Illustrated. Svo. PIP 40S. Mofat.
Yard & Co
We have often thought that the ideal
way to travel about the world is to go
with what YOU have on your back and
in your pockets, and nothing more 1T
saves a lot of bother with customs off
GERS and porters and who not SO we
have fellow feeling for Mr.. Murray,
who had his clothes and union
card, and with that equipment
travelled more than 10000 miles in all
the continents Of the globe. and saw
ten times as many interesting things
as the average luggage laden globe
trotter. He observed int 'ligently and
dlscrlmlnatingly, and he has an inter-
estlng and vivacious way of telling of
what he has seen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
From Don to DOT
Unconventional but Illuminating
Letters From Russia
DONALD THOMPSON IN RUSSIA BY Donald
Thompson. With numerous photographs by the

DONALD THOMPSON IN RUSSIA BY Donald
Thompson With numerous photographs by the
author Svo. pp xii. 1853. The Century Com
pany.
"Don," who signs all the letters of
which this most vivacious volume is
composed, is Donald Thompson him
self, newspaper photographer, who
late in 1916 went to Russia for a seven
months time of his life" and DOT"
to whom they are all addressed, is Mrs.
Thompson, to whom he promised. like a
dutiful husband. to write every day.
Whether he actually wrote the 212-or
observation-disclosures for which that
contract called dcponcnt saycth not,
but he certainly did write lot, every
one of them as entertaining as the
climax of a "best seller" and as full
of information and suggestion as the
proverbial egg is full of meat They
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06


Sayic With introduction by Nicholas Murray
Rutler With frcntlspicce and map Svo pp 2S2
The Fleming H. Revcll Company.
The former head of the press bureau
of the Serbian Foreign Office has here
written most comprehensive and in
forming book, dealing primarily with
the Southern Slavs, but necessarily
treating more or less Of all the peoples
and problems of that Balkan PENN
sula which has not inapproprately
been called the lumber room of Eu-
rope. 1t gives a succinct but sufficiently
inclusive history of the Serbs and Bull
gars, a spirited narrative of the pres
ent war and a thoughtful analysis of
present conditions and forecast of
what the future should in equity be.
The relations between the Serbs and
Bulgars naturally command much at
tention, and while the strong contrast
between the two is doubtless somewhat
overemphasize by the writer's per-
sonal predictions and resentments
we must regard it as largely just and
accurate, and certainly as informed
with a thorough knowledge of the sub
ject.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
Books of the Week
Biography and Memoirs

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06

A new book from the battle front by
Boyd Gable is promised for spring pub
LEGATION by f. P. Dutton E. Co. The
stories in this book deal with all the
various branches of the service-infan-
try. artillery, tanks and aviation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
TWO WAR
YEARS IN
CONSTANTIN[OPLE
DR.. Hoyvy SfueyrY,er
ForT7,er CCrreSpo dent
"Coko ne { ozcftc'

An exposure of Germany's meth
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who dared to tell the truth"
Sketches of German and young
Turkish ethics and politics.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
THE WESTERN FRONT
Official Drawings by Muirhead Ro,.
Made for the British Government

Here for the first time are broucbt !.
gether the series Of official DRAWINGS " =.
Muirhead Bone of battle scenes IN ns ~ y
Western front 1t is a veritahle ~ nc
toral history of the War. treasnps pc,
house Of vivid and enforceable scsnsS
which can never be caught again bu s .s'
brush or pencil Of any artist, becc,ssa.ss
they deal with men, as well as u w;ss
ruined towns and cathedraIs raa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
DOrarA
e OOrAS
Worth
knowing

Introduction by Sir Douglas Haig. "' ~
To children and grandchildren sneak n.
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which hold
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
A I rouble Centre
Problems of the Peoples of the
Balkan Peninsula

SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE BY vladslaw r.
Savlc. With introduction by Nicholas Murray
Butler With frcntlspicce and map. Svo rp ESQ
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06

Selections revealing the mind and
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06

- RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06

A book of thrilling adventures in
a sailing canoe in the tropics. A
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Illustrated. 12mo. Net, $500
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06

ga rollicking romance in which a
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The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-04-12
0:anath Mesa.
A Red Cross Benefit dance and

A Red Cross Benefit dance and pie
social will be given at the Gransth
!. mesa school house, Saturday night,
Nerii 20. Boys bring your best girl
a girls do your bit by bringing pie
NWill Spyers expects to help Uncle
Sam by making his land do more work
this year. so he has rented it to J.
SELL.
" Trimble was q mesa business caller
Saturday.
Carl Scharnhorst was caller on the
mesa Monday. 3.
Mrs. Ben Fitzgerald ~ sequite
i'll. The doctor was calledT Stay.
The little Pryor girls are 'the sick
list this week.
A. Lucia helped Mrs. A. Hoppe of
Dolores, make her war 6" den this
week.
L. E. Brown moved his family =.
their ranch west of Dolores Wednesday
A Liberty Bond sale and school
meeting will be held Friday. April IL.
at the school house.
w. W. Dunlap is hauling logs to the
mill this week.
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-04-12
Get Your Wheat to Market at Once.

The entire wheat supply of Colorado
must be turned over to the government
at the nearest mill or grain elevator
before May l. according to an order
issued by Herbert Hoover of the U. S.
Food Administration and approved by
the Southwestern Food zone of which
Colorado is part. at meeting held
in Kansas City, April A.
All wheat tanned over to the govern
ment voluntarily by the owners will! BE-
paid for at government price. If it is
necessary for the food administration
to seize the grain, the hauling charges
to the mill will be deducted from the
price paid for the wheat.
Drastic action of this sort was
deemed necessary by Hoover because
of the imminent danger of whea
famine before the next crop can be
harvested.
Orders have also been issued for all
persons who have more than thirty
day supply of flour on hand to report
to the U. s. Food Administration in
Denver or to the nearest county food
administration or his deputy before
May LIST.
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-04-12
Some narrow-minded individuals re

Some narrow-minded individuals re
gard newspapers as free public utilities
which should be compelled to publish
everything brought to them. Persons
regarding this paper in that light might
as well get the idea off their chest.
The cost of the type composition con-
tributed to war matters by this paper
in one week exceeds the sum that most
of these knocking wiseacres have parted
from during the whole course of the
war.-Chaffee County Democrat.