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New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Brothers

tFrofn The Tonchstone)
Between the booming of the guns
We heard a nightingale,
And that was when his eyes went out
And his lips turned pale.
Inc great guns thundered from the north.
The rifles cracked at hand:
There were no clouds to break the skv
That covered No Mans Land.
Kept my watch and stood my turn
And next day charged the foe:
And now about my crimson chores
unmoved, serene, | 60
But when calm peace comes, and at last
War ends her vivid tale
| hope that I may never have
To hear a nightingale
MARY CAROLYN DAVIES.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
SEEGER

The shapes of waking moments wearied
him;
Heroic beauty stirred him as he silent:
And so he lived his youth, and so he crept
Back to old shadows, beautiful and dim
But at the call to arms his eyes were grim
Dreams must be saved! So he, the dream
adept,
Seeing young Death afar where horror
swept,
Leapt with a lovers trembling in each limb.
tie sought her out he knew to be his maiden.
And cried to her he famed for as his
bride;
The laundering guns were viols for bis
suit,
And IRON shards his couch. The dav was
laden
with scent Of deadly blossoms. and he
died.
And now, wrapt with his maiden. he is
mute HANIEL LONG.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

Russia was the dogma of International
ism honored. And in attempting to ap-
ply it the Russian social revolutionaries
betrayed Slavdom and sold themselves
into German slavery.
All the civilized nations have taken
easily to the forms and methods of the
socialized state. BY so doing they have
at the same time strengthened their
bonds of nationality. The war has shown
the world the baselessness of the inter-
nal class warfare theory. The prole-
tariats and the bourgeosie, everywhere
except in Russia, have been, drawn to-
gether by patriotism and true sense of
common interest.
Thus one great illusion of the modern
socialists has been broken in the hard
school of war. Yet the organizing power
of the socalistic ideal has remained. And
so long as it remains Karl Marks place
will be secure as one who has vitality in
fiuenced political and social progress.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
to see. We have hardly dreamed Of it's

to see. We have hardly dreamed of it's
possibilities.
In the old dimension we can imagine
an unlimited army.
But in the new dimension imagine an
unlimited air fleet.
Imagine, on the side of the Allies, not
10000 bombing and fighting airplanes,
but 50,000
The offensive power of really huge
air fleet has never been calculated. Its
potentialities of destruction, as for lay
ing waste crops, crushing factories, keep
ing railways and bridges in constant dis
repair and annihilating warships in the
bottle, have hardly been considered
We are matching Germany in the old
dimension with man power and guns, and
will ultimately exceed her resources in
those terms, but could we not also, at the
same time, be preparing to overwhelm
her in the air?
Once we have imagined it, the remain
ing difficulties are merely technical
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
His Home Towns 5 Opinion

1'o" INC san francisco Bulletfr)
The Rev. Henry Frank. pastor Of the
feopie's Liberal Church, ends vigorous
summary of Hearst's late activities with
the suggestion that "it is time that the
Federal authorities investigated and dis
covered the real underlying cause for this
sinister attack upon one of our allies" BIT
Is there need Of an Investigation to deter
mine what Hearst is up to and why? One
might almost as we'll start an investigation
to hnd out whether or not the circus has
come to town. Mexico and Japan have long
been Hearst's aversions, Germany, more o.
less openly, one of his favorites Heart
stood for maintaining alleged American
property rights in Mexico by armed inter
ventlon, with all its horrors, when ths
humane sentiment of the country was on
the other side; he tried by lies and IN
nuendoes to embroil us with Japan-a resuis
devoutly desired by the Wilhelmstrasse'
but when the President proclaimed ~s'
rot for plunder or race prejudice, Dus
against Germany and in the cause OF n1@
manity, Hearst hung back.
Is there any need Of an investigation
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Nut Sundae Socialists
By George Horace Lorimer
Contributed to tie National Security Leaoss

A S AMERICA has turned her facs
N toward the enemy, every dirty cur
"A in the country has snapped at her
heels. We have found that enemy in.
trenched in America as we'll as in France
sapping in our schools, undermining in our
press, burrowing in our municipal and stas
governments-sniping whenever a back has
been turned.
Added to all these forces, selfish, graft
ing, sinister, we have the class appeal-ths
easiest of all with the uneducated or half
educated foreigner, who has been class
ridden all his life, without the opportunity
that he has over here to become a member
of any class for which his brains and his
will to work qualify him. AS the appeal
to discomfort, to class, is the easiest, SO i'll
offers the best field for the demagogue. the
CRATER, the cheap intellectual" lime
lighter. It's apostles, "men with soft hands
and hard faces" with hard hands and
soft faces, are everywhere just now among
labor, bidding it take advantage Of the ma
tion's need; among farmers, telling them
that they are getting deal. They
search out particularly sore spot local
grievance in each town and county, and
base their appeal on that. Last and least
are those fatuous fools-the nut sundae
Socialists from the ranks of the self-styled
"lntellectuals" and the well-to-do lemon
pop Bolshevik uplifters-preaching some.
thing, they don't quite know what and
urging anything, they don't just care what
so it keeps the spotlight on them They
are self-sacrificing idealists to the last dol
lar OF the other fellows business, but hard
as nails in their own affairs.
They look like formidable lot but they
are not. These men are simply scum
pikers, grafters, liars and demagogues-in-
sincere, selfish and dishonest-who will
run like rats once America recognizes that
even rats can spread malignant disease
we must start by cleaning them out Of
the schools the press and the government
The man who plays partisan politics and
appeals to class and race is self-exposed--
work against him; vote against him; throw
nm out Never mind what he calls himself
Republican,, Democrat, Socialist or Nom
rartlsan Leaguer-the label is camouAage
we need brains. honesty and Amercanism
TINS year 1t is better to keep ten men out
OF office on suspicion than to let one traitor
IN. And not all the traitors are Germans
or pro-Germans. There is something pecul-
iarly vile about the American who tries to
make money or office out of this war-who
whlle other men die for an ideal. snouts
out gold or place among the graves
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Where the Aircraft "Conspiracv"
Comes From

United States Senators like Mr.. Brande-
gee, of Connecticut, and Mr.. Hitchcock,
of Nebraska, and influential newspapers
like "The New York Times" to say moth
ing of Mr.. Frederick w. Barker and his
Aeronautical Society "of America" con-
tinue to fill the public mind with the idea
that the delay in the aeropane pro-
gramme is the result Of huge and in
famous conspiracy" ON the part of Of
ficials of the United States government
TO betray this work in the interest, of
Germany.
Other Senators add timely suggestions
OF monstrous graft-in the expenditure
of the $8O0,000,O00 appropriated by Con-
gress. "The Times announces that Sec
retary Baker, and perhaps the President
also, will investigate these charges "at
once," as if these charges were new and
as If Secretary Baker, and the President
as we'll, had not every interest and every
human motive to have exposed this "vile
plot" two months ago-if any such scon
spiracy" existed.
Mr.. Borglum's report, as we have re-
lated, was made public by pro-Admin
istraton organ last March, and it had
then been in the hands of the President.
and its contents generally known in
Washington for several weeks.
If these "conspirators" had so grossly
misled Secretary Baker, as "The Times"
insists they did, and made him the LAUGH
ing stock of the country, would not a
natural revenge have prompted him to
bring the traducers of his own standing
and betrayers of his country to immed;-
ate justice?
Why should he, of all men, keep the
crime" secret? And why does "The
Times" continue to palm off these scan
dalous insinuations and charges it has
made as if they were based upon some
newly discovered facts? AS "The Times"
itself well knows, these new facts do not
exist. Both Mr.. Borglum's "reporti and
that of the Aeronautical Society are now
stale stuff.
AS to this latter organization tbo
fact is worth printing that it has as.
sailed almost every act of the Aircraft
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
The Hearts Response

When the returns are all in it will
doubtless appear that the New York dis
trlct, with 13 per cent of the country's
population, has taken one-third of the
Liberty Loan.
Therefore we need not sit in the ashes
of humiliation merely because we failed
to reach our goal" which was to take
half the loan. We have heavily ex
ceeded our quota" which was the part
allotted to us.
Several days must elapse before the
returns are complete, but it is known
that the third loan will not have been
as heavily oversubscribed as either the
second or first. There are reasons and
compensations:
The first loan was at 315 per cent and
convertible dollar for dollar into the
bonds of any subsequent loan bearing a
higher rate of interest. The second loan
was at per cent, also convertible dollar
tor dollar into any subsequent loan bear
ing higher rate of interest. The third
loan, just closed, was at Az per cent,
and did not carry the conversion privi-
lege, because, as Mr.. McAdoo said, AZ
per cent was interest enough for the
government to pay for Liberty funds,
and it would not be increased.
This seemed very important matter
to many large investors, who could i'm
agine the government having to pay
higher rates Of interest in spite of it's
present optimism; but it did not matter
to people generally, because the average
man is inclined to agree with Mr. Nc
Adoo that Il per cent is as much as the
government ought to pay.
For this and other purely financial
reasons the third loan was less attrac
tive to large corporations, to banks for
their own investment, and to many pri-
vate investors, than the first and second.
but, thanks partly to the manner in
which it was handled and partly to a
higher emotional interest in the war, it
appealed much more widely to the peo-
pie.
Nearly one-half of the first loan was
subscribed in amounts of S2b0.OO0 or
more.
More than a third of the second was
subscribed in amounts of 100000 and
up.
The third loan has been sold down on
the ground, where the people are; and
much more than ever before the buving
of Liberty bond has meant doing with
out something that money could buy for
personal qualification.
In naming the terms he did Mr.. Nc
Adoo probably intended to try less for
the support of the banks and corporations
than for that of the people, and he is to
be congratulated on the result.
The third Liberty Loan was not pri-
marily financial operation. 1t was an
affair of the heart. That is what Lib
erty Loan should be.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Production Board and nearly every one


of it's members almost from the begin
ming. Last August it began an un-
scrupulous campaign against the action
of the Aircraft Board in securing from
all the different aeroplane producers of
the country an agreement for cross
licensing." This agreement threw open
to every contractor for government aero
planes all the inventions, patents and de-
vices of every maker in the country. 1t
seemed an ideal arrangement. The plan
was submitted to the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, of which Mr..
Charles d. Wolcott, director of the Car
negie Institution and long at the head of
the Smithsonian Institution at Washing
ton, was chairman, and was given the
full approval of that body.
This action and the members Of this
committee were assailed by Mr. Barker's
some huge grating scheme, and the de-
partments of War and Navy were bonn
barded by Mr. Barker and his aids in an
endeavor to prevent the carrying out of
this arrangement.
A 'report" on the subject was drawn
up by the same committee, consisting of
a patent attorney, the general manager
of the Sun Typewriter Company and
Mr.. Leon Cammen, which also prepared
the report" on the aeroplane failure"
which "The Times makes the basis of
its present slanderous accusations.
This Aeronautical Society "of Amer
ica," as we have pointed out, has at it's
head patent attorney, "who has been
interested in aeronautics since 1912; a
vice-president, who never had anything
to do with designing or building an aero
plane, and among its leading lights at
least one other patent attorney who
seemed vitality interested in the cam
paign against the Aircraft Board, in
augurated last summer It's member
ship, SO far as we can discover, seems
chiefly limited to Manhattan Island and
Brooklyn. Mr.. Gutzon Borglum became
a member Of it in the latter half of last
year and was elected director last Feb
ruary.
Senator Brandegee holds up to the coun-
try for credence as "a highly technical
and skilled association" and it is on a
report" prepared by this distinguished
committee of "experts" that "The
Tines is willing to build up charge of
conspiracy and betrayal against officials
of the United States government and
present members Of the United States
army.
We again express the hope that
Federal grand jury" for which "The
Times" clamors may speedily pass upon
this case and make clear whether this
bold and dangerous conspiracy" exists
or whether the whole thing is a deplor-
able piece of journalistic defamation.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
The Ultimate Superlative
(From Harper's Mogasine,

In rural school of Maryland a teacher
was endeavoring one day to make clear to
her class the degrees of comparison of
adjectives. To make sure she was under
stood. the teacher called on each pupil in
turn to give comparatives and superlatives
of adjectives which she named One little
chap was asked to name the comparative
degree of "sick"
Worse" said he
The teacher decided that she could best
show him his error by letting him go on
and asked, sweetly, well, il worse is the
comparative Of sick what would you give
the superlative ?"
Dead" was the instant answer.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Stretcher-Bearing on the Somme


From The Westminster GasetteD
We toiled and stumbled with the burden
Each at the other hated even moro
Inc mud than the blind Fury's whine and
roar;
Strained eyes across the bowling solitude
10 see by flashes where our landmark
stood
The ridge, the spectral branches of Hieb
Wood.
Seemed that churned wilderness of track
less slime
An evil dream of earths chaotic prime.
Or OF its crumbling fate in unknown Tina
"A breather.-Lower!" We halted with q
groan,
Half to the knee in mud, tongues drv as
The Burden spoke in a mild. wandorin,
tone,
You're doing grandly, boys. A night vou,ve
had!
Rough luck for you the going's been so had
AND hundreds more to come poou
lad, poor lad!
RICHARD CAPELL.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
THE TERROR

From Asago to Cambria,
From Wilma to the Aisne,
Each night the ghosts of soldiers say,
Don't let us die in vain"
Ihat they should come so far is strange,
Since death lays men so still,
but who can say where dead men range,
Or how they have their will?
SO through the night their tramp I hear
Briton and Frank and Russ;
And through the night the thing they fear
They whisper deep in US.
How shall we find a way to heal
The terror of the slain.
10 seek them out, and make them feel
They have not died in vain?
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Karl Marks Centenary

y
More than Proudhon, more than any
other Socialist pioneer, he is now recog-
nized as the father of modern socialism.
And that-in the present hoodtide of
socialistic tendency-is high title to
distinction. All the more so since, when
Marx was building his system, fifty or
sixty years ago, the antithetic individu-
alistic, 1aisse1-tdire system of the Mill
school was at the peak of it's prestige.
The reaction from Mill and toward
Marx has been the great economic phe-
nomenon of the last half century. Marx
passed for a daring nnovator and
startling revolutionary when he and
Engels drew up the manifesto of the
Communist Leagues first congress, held
in London-in 1847. But how moderate
that document looks now!
1t contained ten demands, six of which
were these:
GU A progressive income tax.
(5) Capitalization of credit in the
hands of the state by means of nation
al bank with monopolistic privileges.
60 Naturalization of the means of
communication and transportation
GU Extension of productive enterprise
by the state, with the reclamation of
waste land.
(9) Combination of agriculture with
manufacturing and the elimination of
the distinction between town and coun-
try by more even distribution of popu
lation.
(10) Free education in public schools
and the abolition of child labor in fac
tories.
The other demands-hardly more dar-
lng-were for the abolition of private
property in land and the application of
all rents to public purposes (much the
same as the Henry George objective) the
abolition of rights of inheritance. con-
A1iscation of property of emigrants and
rebels and compulsory labor, with the
establishment of industrial armies, esne-
cally for agriculture
The Great War, with it's enormous
pressure for naturalization. has driven
the MARKHAM philosophy home as nothing
else could have done. The power and
activities of the state have now been ex-
panded beyond all precedent. Any re-
action from state socialism will probably
be slow and difficult.
On the political side, therefore. the
war has given Marx an extraordinary
vindlcation. Yet curiously enough. it
has also shown the weakness of one
highly important phase of his teaching
that which emphasized the necessity of
class warfare within the state and the
extension of that warfare beyond the
state by the creation of an internation-
allied proetariat.
The international proletariat has been
the biggest tzzle of the war. 1t wouldn't
junction. The national instincts of eyerv
intelligent proletariat were too strong
for the theory of international class soli-
darity. German Socialists supported
Germanys war of national aggrandize-
ment French, British and Italian So
clallsts stood with all other classes in de-
renee OF the state to which they owed al
legiance.
only among the visionary Bolshevik
leaders and the childlike proletariat If
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Well, Business Before Pleasure

tFron. The Ostce1o Times,
Some one inquiries what is the mos.
markable work by any poet SO far IN isls, =
Well. so far as heard it was the WORK = =
the poet who is running lathe in an ~
plane factory at Swissvale, Penn.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
,erusrR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated exclusively entitled to tho use
for republication Of all dispatches credited to OF
not credited in this and also the local
news Of spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights Of republication Of all other matter herein
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

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New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Light

We remember we'll the gasp with which
an intelligent New York audience received a
lecturers assurance that by the events fol-
lowing on the Brest Conference.-The march
through the Baltic provinces, the treaty
with Ukraine and nia-Germany had
pretty nearly Won what she set out to win
in this war. The audience had read it's
morning newspaper, but Reval, Pinsz Res-
sarabia, Batoum and Kars were mere names
until lecturer with a wall map let in sud-
den light.
There are working for the Committee OF
Public Information, Mr.. Creel testifes, 3 900
historians, which is some two thousand
more than we thought there were in the
world. Among them they have produced in
the past year twenty-five pamphlets, one of
winch we would mention excellen,
example OF propaganda, the only sort Of prop
aganda that can have a place in this coun-
try. Under the title German War Prac-
tices, this pamphlet is q compilation of the
many documents, such orders of German
administrators, protests from various bodies
and testimony of reliable witnesses concern
ing the German occupation of conquered
territory. The material brought thus be-
tween two covers, is exceedingly valuable;
having official sanction, the work measures
up to its authority, and the reader hears
throughout the 100 pages not the senti-
ments of partisan editor but the authentic
voice of Belgium.
This is the sort of achievement which, mul-
tplied to meet even small fraction of our
educational needs, could justify bureau Of
propaganda.
The people can be pretty we'll trusted to
feel right about this war; to make them
think right is the purpose of propaganda
For propaganda is not "promoton" Prop
aganda is education by plain facts and we
have grave need Of it.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
No. III

In the twelve months of it's existence Mr..
Creeps committee has itself marked out
the distinction we are endeavoring to make.
We have before No. II of the commit
tees "War Information Series" pamphlet
contrasting the German war code with the
codes Of the United States, Great Britain
and France. The first part of the pamphlet
is true propaganda; it affords the reader a
sketchy but sound notion of the German
war code and its brutal difference from the
war custom of the civilized nations The
kriegsbrauch i'm Landkriege is f-suffi.
clent: translated and put into compact form
and simple language the damning facts are
more than enough to insure any readers
right judgment, without further word from
editor or whomsoever. Yet the Committee
on Public Information could not forbear and
an excellent piece of propaganda concludes
with an irrelevant effort to prove Mr.. Will
sons distinction between the German gov
eminent and the German people!
Whenever the Information Committee has
stepped outside the province of propaganda
INTO the province of publicity, whenever it
has attempted to manipulate the public mind
instead OF informing it, the effort has met
with just criticism and fat failure. "The
ofhcial Bulletin" published daily by the
committee, might have based a slender justi-
heation for its payroll on its presentation of
Official rulings from the administrative de-
partments, but when pages were given to
1ull length speeches by Administration
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
A Week of Verse
Dead Men Tell No Tales
(Front Poetry.)

(Fr0nt PoetryO
THEY say that dead men tell no tales!
Except of barges with red sails
And sailors mad for nightingaes;
Except of jongleurs stretched at ease
Beside old highways through the trees:
Except of dying moons that break
The hearts of lads who lie awake;
Except of fortresses in shade,
And heroes crumbled and betrayed
But dead men tell no tales, they sayi
Except old tales that burn away
The sitting tapestries of day:
Old tales of life, Of love and hate,
OF time and space, and will, and fate.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
RANTEE

Entered a. tho Postonice York Second Glass
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
STAR-DUST

SIAK-UUSi
Where past Time the roads 20 far,
Uttered with dust of sun and star,
With sundered string and arrow sped
The angels of the Lord lie dead
There lads of the impassioned races
Reflect the night skies in their faces
Boys eyes, boys thoughts and bodies bright
Are changing to eternal light