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New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
The Professors
Way
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In "The New York World" of Satur-
day. October 26, 1918, there was special
article by Professor Henry c. Emery on con-
ditions in Germany. Professor Emery is
stated to be forty-six years Of age, to have
been gradu ted from Bowdoin College and
to have "afterward studied in Germany" He
has been in Germany some seven months
One of the headlines to Professor Emery's
article reads "Alies' Invasion Would
Check Democracy" That is typical ex-
ample of the kind of phrases that tend to
kill thought. Professor Emery at the end
OF his special article says: eff, under new
democratic government, Germany must suf-
fer invasion, that would end democracy for
a long time"
The issues of the are being deter
mined on the field of battle. The professor
seems to be anxious to shift the scene Of
the contest from the battlefield to the lect
ure ROOM Apparently. according to the pro-
fessor, the peace council will have the quail
ity OF German constitutional convention.
The professor will know more Of the feeling
o. the world outside Of Germany as he nro
crosses westward out Of Stockholm. Stock
holm, anyway, does not seem to be a. fruit
ful soil For the growth of disinterested
thinking. The people Of France and of C rea+
Britain and of the United States are rather
unanimous in the feeling that if the German
people separate themselves from their rulers
the separation will come as the result of the
war and of warfare and Of military re-.
verses, and not the result of civilian
argument from the outside or inside.
German militarism, embodied in the Ger
man army and the German navy and the
German submarines and the German war
parties, is the deadly thing, the deadly sub
stance. The Kaiser and his brood are hu+
the shadow. The war has been waeed to
destroy German militarism and not to bring
about certain constitutional reforms in
Germany.
Millions of men have died that Germa,v
might be disarmed and rendered imnotent
Those who have died have done their mart
What they fought for must not be given I'm
'oy .nose VINO remain JOHN QUINN.
3 New York. Oct rs. 1918,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
Blue Goddesses

Like the bluebirds of autumn. first
one alone, then a pair, then tlocks. the
new frocks have fluttered forth upon
Fifth Avenue. Did the dressmakers of
Paris feel that uniform must some
how be achieved for women? Or did
they simply become weary of styles, as
they SO long had been, and resolve that
something, anything, must be done? We
can leave it to the interpreters of fash
ion to debate; the thing is here.
The unobservant masculine eye might
be puzzled by these new apparitions-so
absolutely like all that has gone before.
so absolutely different. The dark blue
happer frock is no new thought in it.
self. But these easements, long and
sheath-like of skirt and very high and
chaste of collar--it surely took true
imagination and ingenuity to make in
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
Rats

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Why, when so much effort is being
made to conserve food, can we not do that
which would so much, viz, set day
(annually) for the killing of rats, mice and
other vermin?
Think only of what would happen if
hundred million people, more or less, made
up their minds to get at least one rat or
mouse on a certain day.
1t is said that Great Britain, of which the
area in comparison with that of the U. s. A.
is inconsiderable, suffers an annual damape
from rats alone estimated at s20O, 900 900 at
least. And then think of the diseases Of
which vernin are the carriers, identified
and unidentified. 1t is said that rats cost
each inhabitant Of the British Isles daily
what would buy man here copy of The
Tribune each day, to wit, two cents.
RICHARD c. RATHBORNE
New York, Oct 80, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
SHOES G. SHIPS G.
SEALING WAX
IMPOSING SENTENCE

William of Hohenzollern, to the barl
Author and instigator Of this war,
Why all this trickcry and camoufage7
Think you by idle promise and mirage
OF peace-a Hohenzollern- Hapsburg peace
To gain respite or n glad release?
Singer Of phrases. Monarch Of Hypocrisy,
You pratte of New Democracy?
You speak of Constitutions and Reform,
OF Revolutions born of stress and storm7
You yield Alsace- Lorraine to France, you
say?
(We mean to take 1t, William, any way).
And, what is this: "Only for Honors sake
Will extend my hand this peace to make"7
Madman and Monstcrl Think you through
out this land
There lives one base enough to touch that
hand,
That dripping hand that penned the Aus
trian note,
While Prussian hordes defenceless Belgium
smote?
That dripping hand that, with imperious
wave,
Doomed Lusitania to a watery gravel
Touch that polluted palm, whose crimson
stain
Shall brand you ever with the mark Of Cain
William Of Hohcnzollern, pay the pricei
Speak not Of respite nor of armistice,
That under cover of the darkness pail,
You may repair your battered Iron wall"
And, freshly fortified with men and guns,
Let loose once more your horde Of hellish
Huns
Peace you shall have. Aye, you must pay
the toll.
And may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Vida SALVAGE OWENS.
The tighter tho Kaiser sits, the further
he'H fly 1ohe,, tho 6lotU-of comes.
Jazzing the A. r.
Sir: Let's find the human strain in this
ceaseless flow of A. Z. reports. To-day we
are told: "The last to arrive at the confer
ence Marshal Foch. He was alone,
without aid or orderly"
One can picture the marshal's entry, fol-
lowed by the spontaneous "Hal, Hail, the
Gangs All Here" And then, "Well, what
will we do with him, 2" when some
one mentions the Kaiser HILARY.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
Political Profteerine
From The Boston 9ranscript,


Because the United States has been lend
ing money to Italy at the same rate Of
interest that our government pays for the
money, the Democratic National Commit
tee, was made clear in our Washington
dispatches yesterday, is bombardng the
Italian press and the voters OF Italian orr
gin with an appeal to vote for Democrats
candidates for Congress on the score Of
their obligation to the Democratic party
Could there be baser insult to the Amer
can citizen of Italian birth than this widely
circulated reminder" and appeal? C4ld
there be, indeed, a more direct insult to
the American citizen of any origin?
The reminder" insults the Italan-born
citizen by assuming that he is susceptible
in casting his vote (although his allegiance
is now wholly TO the United States) to the
consideration that money has been loaned
to Italy in the war; it insults him by say
ing, in effect, that he is not governed IN
his vote by his view of his duty in connec-
tion with American affairs, but by the pre-
tended advantage OF his native country. 1t
insults his intelligence by the assumption
that he will not know what really TOOK
place. And it insults the American citizen
of any origin by, in effect, setting up an
interested party motive for deliberate
act of national assistance to an ally in the
prosecution of the war.
Nothing that the Democratic Nationsl
Committee has done in this campaign Is
indeed, insulting in more ways than TINS
bit of propaganda with the Italian press
this reminder that "up to September l.
1918, we the Democratic Administrator
have loaned to the the Italian governments
S760,0oo,C00" 1t certainly basely insults ths
Republicans IN Congress, who have sup
ported all the financial war measures OF tns
Administration because it was assumeo
that the Administration represented tne
whole people in these matters and was dong
what it did in an honest, bipartisan enoss
to win the war. Not so, says the Demo'
cratic committee; it was all done for po'r
tics. particular and special attention nas
been given, advocated mostly by Den0
cratic members Of the House and Sen
ate" this reminder" goes on, "to the SHIP
ment of wheat, meat and ether foodsiah'
to the people of Italy, thereby relieving sais
fering and want. 1t was Democrats
Senator who took steps to expedite 'a'
shipping of coal to Italy. To vote for nee
of President Wilson's party for the UnIseS
States Congress and Senate is an apPF
citation and approval on the part Of Ausn'
cana OF Italian birth and extraction y
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
McAdoo Meals
By Sarah Addington

1 ENG female, with all the cerebral lmi-
~ tations that condition imposes, we have
not the ability 20 determine whether Nr.
McAdoo handles the money and runs the
railroads of this country competently or
not, but by the same token we do know
calories when we see them, and we state
that as dietitian our Director General Of
Railroads, our Secretary of the Treasury
Will rank with any prize cuok in the coun-
try.
When the dinner bell first rang for the
Srailroad dollar meals" many q stout heart
and stouter digestion quailed before the
hideous prospect Of eating what the rail
road administration set forth without choice
or alternative. But with that good old "un-
conditional surrender" glare in their ewes
American patriots stalked out to the diner
just the same, vowing by all that was holy
IN the annals of cookery to swallow their
pride-and their dinner-in this last dash
for Berlin.
But for once our fear was without fulfil
ment. That same man who has wrung our
bank accounts dry for taxes and loans and
IS already blithely talking about the ffth
attack upon our purses, he who has made
the cost OF travelling a thing to be en-
dured but never mentioned. has produced
out Of hand a meal, perfect in its balance of
protein and starch, unparalleled in its ar
rangement of sugar and fat-in short,
meal "as is" meal, too rare accomplish
ment in these days of shortages galore and
infations ad infnitum. Atom for atom.
calory for calory, it is weighed and
blended, to combine into a whole that plus
the service and minus the jerk any house
wife would be proud to serve, and for half
the price your favorite restaurant would
charge.
For this one mortal benefit. At least, M
McAdoo Will go down in history
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04

the name of war economy a style so
peculiar and inevitable and expensive.
Sombre has been one criticism of these
dark blue draperies. But this all de-
pends whether you view the frock as a
thing alone or as companion piece for
an olive drab uniform decorated with
shoulder bars and service stripes. There
Is the secret Of the blue goddesss sue
cess. She Is not meant to fly alone.
She is but background, silent, re-
served, dignifed, but oh, SO neat, so at
tentive, so proud, SO extravagantly eco
nomicali What hero could wish for
more!
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
Anen!
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

TO The Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: May say "Amen" to a heartbroken
mothers prayer published in yesterdays
tribune? feel like. shouting from the
housetops: mo peace without unconditional
surrender."
Shall we send those we hold dearer tba,
our own lives only to stop the Hun tenn
porarily, only until our sons sons shall have
grown and they, too, have to be sent 10
satisfy the blood and world dominion Inst
of the beast or his progeny?
More power to The Tribune for its rod
blooded American standl
ONE WHO WAITS.
Aetuchen. N. J., Oct. "a, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
IF Not

Those who ja.ree with this point
Of view ought frankly to tell Ameri-
cans where the difficulty lies. Can any
enc fairly suggest, in face Of the above
facts, that Britain is selfish" because she
does not overrule her associate common
wealths on matter where they will pay
the price? After all, our rulers made one
such mistake at Boston, and we were
taught lesson; our teachers were George
Washington and his American soldiers. We
do not wish to provoke the George Wash
ingtons of Cape Town and Sydney and
Melbourne.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
Personal Punishment
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: There must be personal punishment
for the SUPER criminals of this war. They
must be brought before an international
tribunal, tried for definite violations of in
ternational law (ike the ravishing of Bel
gium, the sinking of the Lusitania, the
bombing of Red-Cross hospitals, the starv-
ing and brutalzing Of helple~s civilians on
land and sea- and sentenced to personally
pay the clearly provided penalties for these
crimes, SO that posterity may never forget
their wickedness. Napoleon Bonaparte was
personally punished for his crimes. Charles
Stuart was personally punished Nicholas
Romanof has been personally punished
And now William Hohenzollern must be
personally punished.
No money indemnities, no territorial ad-
justments, no overthrow of Prussian autoc-
racy can relieve their arch-criminal and his
guilty advisers from their personal respon-
siblity for this war and it's hideous conse-
qucnces. They must suffer in their own
bodies for their own sins. The dead would
rise from their graves on the battlefield if
these monsters of cruelty and rapacty es-
cape personal punishment
I believe that an overwhelming majority
of American citizens will cry out in horror
against any peace that does not provide ade-
quate personal punishment for thosa who
deliberately by their own acts brought upon
the world the greatest misery mankind has
ever known. CLEVELAND MOFFETT.
Member Board of Trustees. American Ds.
fence Society.
Now York. Oct. 80, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04

Sol Ullman deserves the support of
every patriotic voter in the 9Th As
sembly District. He is running as the
Republican and Democratic candidate
for Assemblyman in an effort to reclaim
the Sixth from Bolshevism and to defeat
Elmer Rosenberg, the Morris Hillouit
Socialist, whose record at Albany has
been an affront to the good American
ism Of this constituency. A vote for
Ullman is vote to redeem the lower
East Side from pacifsm and pro-Ger-
manism.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04

T Asst week you dealt in The Tribune
with the suggestion from Washing
ton that the "sefish" aims Of the AL
lies in Europe might take the edge off
American enthusiasm for this war of JUS
tice. One of your contemporaries, "The
New York Sum-" limited at the possibility
of differences between American and Eu-
ropean diplomacy over the future Of the
German colonies. While I am entirely
skeptical of any trouble over this matter,
will you allow mo to put the case as it pre-
sents itself to our statesmen?
With the approval of all sovereign coun-
tries in North and South America, the
United States has decided to resist any
transference to Germany of territory with
in the zone Of the Monroe Doctrine. If
Great Britain were to cede Jamaica to q
central European power the operation,
though legal would be opposed-whch
means that 1t would be vetoed--by the
American republics.
Free to Hate Huns
South AFRICA and Australia and New
Zealand are not subject dependencies but
elf-governing dominions. Their views of
international questions are voiced through
the British Foreign Office, but already they
are developing independent relations with
the American administration at Washing
ton. To these direct diplomatic proceed
ings Great Britain takes no exception and
is not in position to take exception
These three dominions have the same dis
like as the American republics for Germany
as q territorial ueiphbOr
IF Britain Tried
II Britain tried to force Germany on
Australia or South Africa those free democ-
racies could sever the link with the mother
country or take the fate of the former
German dependencies into their own hands
and annex them.
This is not 3 British question except in
so far as it is an Australian and South
is stronger than the Irish South Africa
is actually governed by Dutch, who still
speak Dutch. And in the Far East, over
Kiaou- Chou, Japan has assumed toward
Germany precisely the same attitude She
has seen what use the II Hohenzolerns made
Of Helgoland, free gift from Britain, and
she wants Monroe Doctrine in the Vel
low Sea. Japan, New Zealand, Australia
and South Africa are following precisely in
the footsteps Of the United States in their
quiet determination to keep Germany at a
distance from their new world, which is as
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
A Sign of the Times

Cfrom The Cfeueland Plain Dealer
When the most wasteful nation in the
worio learns to save peach stones and
nutshelis it's sign that something i'm
portant has happened in the world.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04

George Sylvester Viereck, the most
lmpudent of all the immune pro-Ger-
man propagandists, recommends SUD-
porting the President.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04

4 fter 'eudi'ag the peace terms imposed
on Turkey ace are Inclined to believe that
the Allied ansaOe, TO Germany is destined
to become ON. fooorite Bat of literature.
For Turhey, after oll is only the crani-
ndrs Gccomplice. +. +. V.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
CARD ROOM EPITAPHS

JOHN BUNK rs GONE. IT'S SAD, SAD
NEWS.
THE THOUGHT OF HIM WE CANNOT
LOSE
NOT WHILE WE HOLD THESE I. 0. us.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
MrMBAR or TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associscd Press exclusively entitled 10 the
republication OF su dispatches credited TO Il
Otherwise credited in this and also the local
Of spontaneous origin published heredn.
AL rights republication ef All other matter herein
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04

important to them as the new world Of
America is to Americans.
Is the above attitude reasonable? Let US
see. Australia and New Zealand are wholly
dependent on overseas communication with
the rest Of the world. If Germany set up
naval bases in the Pacific Islands or if she
wrested from Holland foothold in New
Guinea she could isolate the democracies
Of the Southern Hemisphere isolate them
not only from England, but from America
Indeed, America is nearer. Does any one
in his senses think that the statesmen
of these commonwealths, having watched
Germany's use of submarines, would be
other than criminally negligent if they per-
mitted such proved danger to approach
their shores? 1t would mean that, having
fought for liberty, they would be left worse
off than before-in the years when Ger
many, for her own reasons, wanted to keep
the British Empire neutral.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
Light of Experience

In the of South Africa, what Amer
lean opinion has to deal with is Dutch or
Boer opinion. The Beers have been beat
en- by the British and they have beaten the
Germans, yet they prefer the British with
their faults to the Germans with their vir-
tues. Anyway, they will not have Germans
on their frontier; and why?
1t is not sentiment; it is hard common
sense. They think that Germans drive ma
tives to revolt; they also fear lest Ger
mans may arm natives against the whites.
In sentence, they dislike an authority
near them in Africa which aims not at the
unity and wellbeing Of Africa, but at the
advancement Of country thousands of
miles away. 1t is not Mr. Lloyd George
who argues thus 1t is General Botha it
is General Smuts; generals, be it noted,
who less than twenty years ago commanded
the Beers against the British.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
MONDAY, NOVEMBER A. 1918

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New-York tribune., 1918-11-04

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Entered ,se roetcrce at New York second Glass
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04

But ] couldn't get any further. | sat up
all night and pored through Webster's un-
abridged, Rogets Thesaurus, Crabb's Syno-
nymes and, finally, certain notable histories
of phlology.
By this time was all het up.
"Why not" reasoned in the dead hours
of the night, "send the uncompleted limerick
on to F. F. V. and let him ask his ardent
followers to finish it?
FELIX ORMAN.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04

GUAHANleh
81 feu purchase merchandise advertised In THE
rheuNE with absolute safsty-fcr II Dissatisfaction rc
ssits 10 THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
sack request No red tspe. No auibb'ins.
ste make seo5 promptly II the advertiser dccs not.
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New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
An Appeal to the People

F. F. ": Your lament, with the tradi-
tion Of that famous Monk OF Siberia in
mind, started me off on this near-limerick:
There once was newspaper columner
Whose life it grew solemn and solemner,
Till of wit he despaired
And in gloom was ensnared,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-04
GUARANTEE

Entered st tho rostcrce New York Second Glass
Mail Matter
The Washington herald., 1918-11-09
SENATE COMMITTEE
PROBES EXPLOSION
Witnesses Testify $4,000 Heavy
Shells Wrecked New Jersey Plant.

Perth Amboy, N. j., Nov s.-Fifty
thousand six-inch shells, containing
10000 pounds of INT. formed the
greater part of the explosives which
wrought death and damage at Nor
gan, N. j., on October 4, according
to the testimony given today before
the Senate Committee by T. S. Gill
lespie, head of the T. s. Gillespie
Shell Loading Company. whose plant
was wrecked.
Questioned by Senators as to wheth-
er he was more concerned by the
property loss than the loss of life,
Gillespie replied:
'"The property loss does not con-
eern me. 1 didn't lose one cent by
the explosion, the entire damage be-
ing borne by the government. /
deeply regret the loss of the most
perfect shell loading plant in the
world"
Maj. F. L. AnterseH and Capt.
Thomas w. Hanson, of the n. j.
Military Reserve, testified that they
visited the plant the day after the
explosion. entered the grounds with
out opposition, broke the wooden door
off a INT magazine, counted 1,5OO
boxes of the explosive and then left
the building. They said they were
met only by an aged man on guard
with broken gun and no ammuni-
ton.
The Washington herald., 1918-11-09
NO RELAXATION OF
COAL CONSERVATION
Peace Will Not Effect Government's
Program Immediately.

No immediate reduction OF the gov
ernment program for production or
conservation OF coal or oil during the
winter will follow the actual signing
OF the srmistice terms by Germany.
Cessation Of hostilities will unQues-
uonably tend to relieve the demand
for bituminious coal to supply ths
needs of the navy, but there will be
no sudden relaxation Of present regu-
lstions Of the Fuel Administrator
during the approaching cold season.
Upon the actual signing Of the arm
istice, Director Garfield will probably
make a definite announcement detail
ing the future plans Of the Fuel Ad-
ministrstion. For the present. he in
timated, requirements Of the govern
ment, from the viewpoint Of the re-
construction period which will follow
peace, will necessitate a full capacity
Of coal and a continuance OF existing
conservation measures.
DR.. Garfield did say. however, that
the famine conditions Of last winter
would not be repeated. The point he
desired to impress upon all consumers
OF coal was that the only change from
present governmental regulations OF
coal production and distribution would
be a gradual one, and that while he
was sstisfiel that the American house
holder would not suffer for want OF
heat this winter. coal should be used
sparingly both for domestic and tn
dustrial purposes -