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The Mena weekly star., 1918-05-16
MUST PAY UPKIEEEEP| OF INVADING HUNS
Germany's Army of Occupation Tn Rumania to Be Maintained at Ex- pense of Country-Treaty Gives
 Huns Best of Everything.

Amsterdam, May 9.-The peace treaty between Rumania and the cen tral powers provides among other things the following:
 For the present, railways, posts and telegraphs will remain under military administration and will, in accordance with proper agreements be at the dis posal of the authorities and popula- ton. As general rule the Rumania courts will assume jurisdiction in the occupied territories to their full ex- tent.
 Huns Retain Wide Powers.
 The allied (Teuton) powers will re- tain jurisdiction as we'll as the power of supervision over those belonging to the army of occupation. Punish able acts against the army of occupa- tion will be judged by it's military tribunals and also offenses against the orders of the occupation administra- tion. Persons can only return to the occupied territories in proportion as the Rumanian government provides for their security and maintenance.
 Must Support Hun Army.
 The army of occupation's right to requisition is restricted to corn, peas, beans, fodder, wool, cattle and meat from the products of 1918, and furth- CT to timber, oil and oil products, al- ways observing proper regard for an orderly plane for procuring these com modities as well as satisfying the home needs of Rumaria.
 From the ratification of the treaty onward the army of occupation shall be maintained at the expense of Rumania.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-05-16

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New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
A Weeks Shipping Losses

Striking as the improvement is in the
latest return of British losses at sea,
it would be folly to conclude that the
U-boats are weakening. 1t is we'll to re-
member that, though there are only six big
ships in the current list, there were three
times the number in last weeks, as we'll as
in that Of the week before. One good week
cannot be accepted as sufficient evidence of
permanent Improvement; it might be due
to weather conditions, to some shift in the
field of operations or to other obvious cir
cumstances having nothing to do with anti
submarine work. Besides, we have no way
of guessing at neutral losses.
1t is encouraging, however, to be assured
that the extraordinary activity of the enc
my in the last week of December and the
first Of January has not been sustained.
The number of targets was only slightly
less than in the preceding week and greatly
exceeded the number given in the list pub
lished on January 2. Another point is that
of fifteen vessels attacked five escaped
not a very high percentage.
Reports of dissatisfaction in Germany
at the results OF the submarine war must
be received with caution. According to a
dispatch from Geneva, there has been a
serious mutiny among the submarine crews
at a German base, and it is rumored that
thirtyeight officers were killed. This may
OF may not be true, but considering the
source it would be idle to take it seriously.
Moreover, considering the state of affairs
son to give way to utter despondency.
Neither, it may be added, have we.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18

now has experts of his own rcdrawing
that plan.
The recourse meanwhile was to expedite
the movement Of coal by priority orders.
In one instance the entire output Of minc
was allotted by priority to each OF five
distant consumers. In another instance,
the total output of West Virginia mine
was ordered by priority to New England
at a time when there were no cars to haul
it and when. if it could have been hauled,
it couldn't have been delivered to New
England because the traffic gates were
iammcd tight
In both instances The communities
normally supplied by those mines were left
without fuel and had to bid wildly in dis
tant markets for it, The Navy Depart
ment had 100 cars Of coal moved by prior
ity to Philadelphia, when it didn't need it.
The navy, by priority orders, moved 900
carloads of logs to Hog Island, where it
couldn't unload them. Multiply these in
stances many thousand times and you be
gin to have some notion of what has hap
pened to coal. Every instance Of wasteful
is an instance of coal waste,
because it takes coal to move trains. The
railroads use nearly 80 per cent of all the
coal produced in the country
The "coal people," the railroads and in
dustry together could solve the situation
in thirty days, and, in ninety days, by a
2oning system of distribution the coal
supply could be increased until there
would be more than the country could
burn; but the coal operators are sus-
pected of being anti-Social industry is no.
trusted and the railroads are reserved for
an alibi. IF the worst happens the Fuel
Administration will say that the railroads
conspired to lie down on the job
The Senate is lucky. If, at it's request,
the Fuel Administrator had postponed his
crder subsequent disasters would have
been laid at it's door.
But that Dr. Garfield is wrapped about
with preceptorial majesty which is i'm
pervious he would resign.
People are very patient.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
Daylight Saving Next

One result of the coal crisis will be the
collapse Of the opposition in Congress to
the passage Of a daylight saving law. Sum
mer is the best time to save fuel and to
store up local fuel reserves We see plain
ly now that the failure Of the Federal Fuel
Administrator to work out plans for coal
distribution away back in August and
September was one Of the main causes of
the under-supply from which the whole
Eastern section of the United States is
now suffering.
If a daylight saving bill had been passed
by Congress last April we could have been
adding all summer to our reserve fuel
stocks. The value of such a measure of
economy was obvious. We could have
spared the fuel needed to supply one hour
of artificial light daily for 1873 days. That
would have meant, according to estimates
made by the commercial bodies supporting
the BILL a saving of 100000 in lighting
charges. What is more to the purpose at
present. it would have left at the beginning
of the winter an additional supply of sew
eral million tons Of coal in the hands of
transportation agencies or consumers.
Every big nation in Europe discovered
soon after it was forced on a war basis
that summer daylight saving was worth
while. Great Britain had turned down the
idea before the war Parliament nersuad-
ed itself that the economic ADVANTAGES of
the change were exaggerated and that
they would not compensate for the
annoyanccs caused to worshppers of
the old fashioned routine of the chro-
nometer, who thought they couldn't rise
with clear conscience at a. IN. or c0iov
a meal at noon if they knew that the s,n
was an hours journey away from its ac
customed place in the heavens. But war
smashed all those queer superstitions. The
warning nations have not been too pro,,d
to save money and increase their economic
efficiency by manipulating the clock. That
Old fogy notions like those of Representa-
tive Adamson, former chairman of the
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
Export Corn

Io the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When we have a. bumper crop of g.
ooo,ooo,ooO bushels of corn, why must we
send only wheat to our allies? If corn is q
food for Americans, why not for Europeans ?
Inns question has often been put during
the last year, and the only answer thus far
heard is that cornmeal will not keen in
transportation as Will wheat -four. ] have
seen no DENIAL OF this assertion, but is it true
IN history of my native town of Derby.
conn, 1t IS stated that in the latter part of
the eighteenth century mill was built and
operated Tor the main purpose of grinding
corn tor export to the West Indies. This
meal was kiln dried and would keen for anv
iehSth or time in any climate. This was dur
ing the period between the Revolution and
the hrst few years of the nineteenth century
me Derby Fishing Company owned and on
Grated fleet of small vessels for the West
mana trade. These took out principally salt
codfsh and cornmeal and brought back sugar.
ii'o'asses ana rum. My only point in this
fragment of history is the meal.
It cornmeal could be prepared to keen in
"efnltely by the crude possibilities of kiln
orylhg century ago. what is to hinder tho
science and mechanical skill of these davs
from preparing ii large scale for exnort :,
IL Is certainly a muscle and fat producing
1ood. lhe manstay of the New Enpland
iNoPie' 'iohi lHe landlnS at Plymouth TO
TWO hundred years thereafter was the corn
o:n---mush and milk, mush and ntolasses,
cornofead' divers kinds of puddngs, baked or
boiled, furnished muscle, bone and fat for
growing children and adults as we'll.
10 the Oft repeated assertion that Fnro-
peahs 90 not Know how to prepare cornmeal
LOT food the reply is easy The methods
OF preparation are very simple and easily
put into practice '
list of printed formulas might 90 into
each bag or package, and any people that are
N straits for food, as are many of the Allies
at THIS time, can easily follow and even i'm
prove them. "
We spend s5o,oOo,ooo in building a shin
yaro ara or cantonment Why not spend a
h'liion or two in mills for grinding and pre-
paring for export part of our biggest food
CROP especially now that Mr. Hoover figures
fhat all OF the surplus wheat has already oonc
abroad and whatever more we send must bo
saved by all Of our people in foregoing its
use ana substituting some other form Of grain
Tor bread? Let the Allies assist in this sub.
sttuton. ALBERT T. SHLpWooU
Waterbury, Conn, Jan. IA, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
No Retrial for the Dismissed Teachers

The new Board of Education is thor
oughly justified in refusing to reopen the
case of the three teachers, Messrs.
Schneer, Schmallhausen and Mufson
who were dismissed by the old board on
charges of disloyalty. 1t has troubles
enough, and problems enough to face
without going over the work already done
by its predecessor. There was no oues-
tlon of the competency of the board to
act. Having acted, it had disposed of the
matter. The appeal for a reopening of
the case is merely trying to drag back
water that has gone over the dam.
If the dismissed teachers feel they
have grievance, that they have suffered
wrong which remains to be righted,
they have before them an obvious course.
They may take an appeal from the old
boards decision to DR.. Finley. State
Superintendent of Education. Or, if DR..
Finey's remarks about the need for un-
questioned and unquestionable LOYALTY
from school teachers indicate to them the
unlikclihood Of any reversal of the deci
sion against them, they have still another
course; they may take the case into the
courts on writ Of certiorari, as they
half threatened to do when they were dis
missed.
In any case they are not without the
opportunity for appeal--the chance to
have another day in another court. While
that awaits them, if they seek it, the pub
lie is not going to be much concerned
over applications to the court of original
jurisdiction for another trial, even if the
personnel of the original court has
changed
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
Seditious Books
itor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
SIR Every patriot throughout the country
is in sympathy with the efforts of the Vigi
lantes to induce the librarian and trustees Of
the Newark Public Library to eliminate the
seditious and trcasonablc books which Miss
Smith discovered.
The Tribune is doing fine work by giving
SO much space to this very important mat
ter, and | hope most earnestly that in few
days we will be told that the good work
has been crowned with success, and that
these pcrnicious and subtly dangerous books
will disappear from the Newark library.
Meanwhile, we are all thankful to Miss
Smith and the other Vigilantes for what
they have done. The country at large is in
sympathy with all such noble and patriotic
effort. God bless the Vigilantcs-all and
every one. May they hourish-root and
branch-and continue their crusade against
evil and treason in this and in many other
useful fields of activity
KENYON WEST.
Montcair \. j.. Jan. l6, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
Poetry and the War
prejudice

Mr. Mascticld was drawing literary his
tory with Il very free hand when he pre-
dictcd a Romantic period in literature to
follow the war. Perhaps both his prcdic-
ton and the Interpretation of the past on
which he based it are true. But there is
much to be said on the other side. He
quoted with approval the remark that the
Romantic Movement in England was "thc
worlds regret for the French Rcvolu-
ton" Our next literary movement, he
prophesied, would be similar turning
away from war, a movement of escape
and deliverancc
Now, the Romantic Movement in Eng
land had certain fairly recognizable be-
ginnngs before the French Revolution
was heard Of. Such names as Thomson,
Gray, Goldsmith belonging entirely in the
eighteenth century, were at the least
straws in the wind Burns died in 1896,
a figure very difficult to classify with
what had gone before. 1t was highly
intellectual period that reached it's climax
in Pope, Addison, Swift, by 1850. BY
the natural swing of the pendulum that
shifts the centre of human interest from
reason and criticism to imagination and
creative work, and back again, a Towering
of emotion and imagination was the nat
ural sequence to be expected of the nine
teenth century.
Did the French Revolution cause the
Romantic Movement? Or did the Ro-
mantle Movement cause the French Rcvo-
luton? Perhaps it is farer to say that
both were the fruits of the same rena-
scence of freedom, Of imagination, of
new life, in human souls Let us agree
with Mr.. Masefeld that great literature is
not likely to come contcmporaneously out
of the furnace of war AS for the fut-
ure, what it holds depends upon larger
factors than mere fatigue or grief or re-
llef. 1t is too soon to see in true per-
spective the forces which ride the world
to-day, and therefore much too soon to
predict what form that small part of life
which is literature will assume in the
century to come.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18

House Committee on Interstate and For
cign Commerce, should have been permitted
to sidetraclS the daylight saving act last
year is only another proof that Congress
didn't fully realize that we were in war for
many months after we took our plunge
into it.
Chairman Sims, Mr.. Adamson's success
sor, is now in favor Of initiating the sound
example of Europe. SO is President Wilson.
SO is everybody else in Washington who is
not a passionate sticklcr for astronomical
accuracy. SO we shall soon see the day
light saving bill passed and sgned-an
other instance of the triumph of necessity,
to say nothing Of reason, over inertia and
prejudice.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
The Trouble With Paci6.,.
They Attempt to Solve Probl.n.
With Head Alone
To the Editor of The Tribune

J y tHe GultOI OI Inc II1Dunc
Sir: In talk and discussion =, ~
structivc Pacfism" at the Church of ~. :, W.
siah Sunday evening, December 30. NJ, .''
Haynes Holmes said: 81 am a non.r..;-' ''a'
When Germany broke through into ''AS =.
and Belgium it would have been h... ''a's
there had been no opposition to the aav,.
Of the Teuton army better if the ma, 1'
continued working in the field and tho asa
III the kitchen" Mr.. Holmes also h.. '"'s
the fact that "Amerca had not risen '"sf =.
great opportunity and assumed nan,..'
tant attitude toward Germany"
i know of no pacifst except Mr. H..
for whom l would not have a profound
tempt had he expressed such sentmen,.
know Mr.. Holmes, however, is to lov. !. !"
He is sincere. No one can question b...
age. That his attitude is essentiap.
Christian he would. of course, denv
Yet Jesus was in no sense of the word ,.s .aa
resistant. The ethics OF Jesus are h., s..
upon justice. When Christ drove thu r..' ,.H
changers out Of the Temple He poin.ss
way toward American participation n :,
great war. Mr. Holmes says that an.. w.
in thousand really thinks And We. cs..a
was not essentially thinker, but fool.
governed less by His head than by His s....
One of the most hopeless things abon, a.
extreme pacifist is his lack Of respon,s :.
particular evils. He lacks the indigns...
which is based upon the fundamental etb;.t
conception of justice. In his attenn. :
solve all problems through the head .I.''
he too often exhibits an attenuated and =
practical idealism which IS both futile =.
un-Christlike. Germany to-day is an
cellent example of the mistakes that s,p,r
from the. denial of the emotional guide n.
state philosophy is purely materisl;s.
mechanistic, Biological matter of thehs,,
only. The atrocities which she plans M
carries out are the result Of a systen,..
attempt to atrophy the heart.
The instructive, healthy, emotional pro,sr
based upon the fundamental ethical cones.
ton of justice is lacking. Philosouher
among them Emerson and Bergson. bsv
praised the sanity and healthfulness Of n.
tuition and emotion as a guide to ac.ior
When Mr. Holmes, therefore. says that aus.
one man in a thousand thinks" he neelsc,,
the better part, namely, that nine hundr.
and ninety-nne men out of thousand fss
And it is this feeling of indignation. base
upon the instructive and Cnristlike idea =
justice that has prompted the civilized worg
brutally broken all the laws. both of COD s,;
of Man. WILLIAM BRADLEY OTIS.
Department of English, College of the Ctr
of New York
New York, Jan. /, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
A Change Of Heart
oFroo1 The Milicouhcc Jon,.aoN


The Milwaukee "Sonntagspost," SUNDAY cd.
ton of the "Germania- -IIerold," the local Ger
man language paper, has printed "unity
edition." prominent Milwaukeean-in fact.
secretary Of the Merchants and Manufacture
ers Association, has written the chief ed
torial article, "Loyaty to Flag and Country. "
The "Germania- lIerold," the daily. has re-
Gently Endorsed the loyalty candidate in the
Senatorial campaign in the Sth District. It
has espoused Americanism against German
Socialism. 1t has condemned the incessant
appeal to God on the part of the Kaiser and
acknowledged some of his many mistakes.
This is good start on the right road. But
there is much more to be DONE
Several months ago the "Ilinois Staats-Zci-
tung, once one of the worst offenders against
unity in the United States, began a course
which has since proved to be one of thorouph
Amcricanism. "Thc Journal" acknowledrno
n change for the better already begun. hopcs
the "Gcrmana-llerod" Will emulate the ev
ample of the "Staatz-Zoitung" 1t wishes the
"Gcrmania-lIerold' steady increase of the
Amcrlcanism it has begun to indorso
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
An Alternative
Cut Out Bulk of Was Done Once and Shall
for a Week -

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Instead of closing everything down
by making it illegal to work Mondays
would it not cause far less disturbance loss,
waste and distressand give very much more
aid in relief of the coal and freight trans
portation situation--to cut out for a week
or SO all passenger traffic except one train
each way day for mails and the rush hour
communication trains.
The shortage of coal is not comparable
needed can be mined; the only difficulty is
to get it hauled to where it is required
We're the roads cleared for twentv-four
hours a day by complete cessation of
passenger traffic, and before the moment this
was to be brought into effect there were
drawn up an efficient plan ready to be put
into immediate operation for the utilization
of the entire force Of the passenger service
men, engines and even cars if necessary
for the swift moving Of coal and other
freight the present disastrous and disgrace
full block ought quickly to be cleared away.
Cessation of passenger traffic for n while
would mean little Inconvenience but any
thing that would keep factories going
and at the same time end the freight trans
portation deadlock is worth any inconveni-
ence. The drastic holiday proposal comedies
that.
If a New Yorker wants to go to the theatre
ne must book his seat several days, sometimes
weeks ahead. In the emergency which now
exists 1t would not hurt us ovcrmuch if
we had to book ahead few days for rail
way journey. At the worst we could in most
cases do by mail, telegraph or telephone all
that was necessary for BUSINESS.
EDWARD T. TANDY.
Norl, To,,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
Close the Rum Shops

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: In connection with the effort to savo
light and heat, why doesn't somebody in au.
thority suggest closing some of tho thousands
OF rum shops in the city? Incidentally. this
would be an enormous benefit to the com
munity in other ways.
Even without closing them, if they were
forced to reduce the blaze of light which
OBTAINS IN most of them, cutting it down 70
" "a' was necessary for carrying on their
BUSINESS 1t seems to me an enormous SAVING
could be effected IPVIN(: pI,TNAM nIv Hv'"s
New York, Jan. 1s, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
Patriotism or Low Pay?

To the Editor Of 'yhe Tribune.
Sir: 1t requires no large measure OF ''., >,
ligence to pierce the thin veil that hidss :, ;,
hypocrisy Of those who seek to expo" =
work of women in war time. =.
Mr. Hedley is quoted in The Tribune d, = !,
ing that there is, of course, no neeu :
women conductors to work at night. W..
thclcss, the first woman conductor 50"
on a Broadway car bound for the bat'e',, &,
11:45 p. m. And night before last D. =
same late hour, | found woman coh'"
on Thirty fourth Street crosstown oS',
man in uniform Cd and two civillshS
treating her in a very impudent manner. :,
To those especially Interested IN "0''f 4
work standards it viii be interesting " .a =
out how mucn patriotism figures IN ss
women as conductors and how much INV
sire to employ women because thes !
cheaper than men. NJ "
New York. Jan. 10, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
Among Us Mortals'
iitor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: All want to say is that in the thir
Teen years or my life during which | have
seen and observed people. have never, even
IN the LenoX and Lexington Avenue cars
seen a group of such looking faces as those
\" E. Hill portrays in Among Us Mortals',
every Sunday.
think that page would be my favorite II
there were fever long noses and big mouths
what Mr.. Hlll has the people do is funny
and true, but pretty people often do foolish
tnlngs' too lRMA d. BRANDEIS,
New York Jan. 16, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
Il Do Not See the Necessity
TO the Editor of The Tribune.
when the devil was sick,

"When the devil was sick,
The devil a saint would be-
When the devil was WE'LL
The devil saint was he"
Sir: The powers of our commercia]ized
theatres, feeling the pinch Of lean times and
ostcnsi IDLY outraged at the suggestion that
government (Which is regulating all clscl
should approach them, begin to talk mucb of
how indispensable they and their enternriscs
are. Which provokcs Dr. Johnson's retort TO
Boswell, who had remarked that one must
live Sir" replied Dr.. johnson. 81 do not
see the necessity 1t would, perhaps. be diff
hcuit to recall Il New York theatrical season
more devoid than is the present one Of al
most everything that gives to the theatre
o'stlhc'on' justification social use.
Inc show business" (for thus do thc now
ers dignity their necessary and benefcen+
profession) really should be made to undor.
stand more fully than it has vet that a larro
por'lon OF the public never enjoyed uavinr
eNofbtant prices, and under unusual cors
o.uons VIII not pay them for the privilero
oi Witnessing two and one-half hours Of
mediocre play and tenuous ability.
New York, Jan. 16, 1918 q sp
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
The German Ocean
Irom TIC Iondou Clobc)

10" A'c london Globc)
Maps published as late as the end of tbo
seventeenth century call the North Sea the
"brltisn or German Ocean, and prior TO the
pee'hh'hg Oh the nineteenth century English
ocean and "Brltish Ocean were more com
mon than either "North Sea" or "Ccrman
Ocean" To use the last in respect Of = sbeet
OF water which only washes a small stretch
OF German coassllne represents unnecessary
pandernc to tboche arrogance.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
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