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New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
quantities than the concrete. This is
the claim made for it.

quantities than the concrete. This is
the claim made for it.
The cast steel ship asks for no ship
steel, for no such skilled labor as the
rlvetcd ship. And yet, so far as the
public knows, the Shipping Board has
not spent a dollar nor let single con-
tract to test out this new plan.
We devoutly hope that the President
is rot correctly reported in the Wash
ington dispatch to "The Times" of yes
terday where he is being represented as
expressing satisfaction" with the pres
EFT outlook. Tho ''rrcsent outlook is
that We shall rot complete in the next
twelve months onc-haf nor probably
one-third as many ships as we ought to
have and as we drefully need.
If the Presidents interest in the CON
crete ship has at last been aroused, may
&c not hope that interest may also be
found for the welded steel ship, pro-
nosal which We believe has been for
some time urged by one of the Prcsi-
dents own Cabinet?
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Lawyers, Lawyers, and No End

"The whole subject of aircraft pro-
duction is to be thoroughly investigated
by committee of three" so runs the
dispatch, "of which H. Snowden Mar
shall is chairman
We are a little curious. Why Mr.. H.
Snowden Marshall?
Mr.. Marshall is not member of Con-
gress, not a member, SO far as we are
aware, Of the government, nor of the
Advisory Commission which has done
such valuable work for the government.
He is, if we mistake not, lawyer Mr.
Marshall was the former United States
District Attorney in New York, and
gained especial publicity in the spectac-
ular trial of Miss Rae Tanner.
The difficulties of the Aircraft Pro-
duction Board appear to be difficulties
of production. One might imagine that
they could best be solved by commit
tee of production experts. When did
Mr.. H. -Snowden Marshall qualify as an
expert in aeroplane production, or in
any kind Of production?
And is this sort of thing never to end?
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
The Remedy for Spies
Fron, The Charleston Neue oud Co..

Nro"1 The Charleston Nc,cs and Courier,
Nothing which was said by DR.. Henry van
DyAe IN his splendid address on the war
brought greater applause from the aud;enco
winch packed the Garden Theatre than h;s
vigorous protest against the present k;d
grove methods of dealing with spies and en-
emy agents. DR.. van Dykes hearers were
WIN h'm heart and soul when he declared
mat the time had come when tho Un;tod
o."tes government should shoot or hanc con-
vic'eo German agents instead of sendino
them to comfortable internment can,ns 10
North Carolina, where they can plav tennis
ana otherwise enjoy themselves. At almost
'he same time that Dr. van Dyke was ex-
pressing that opinion here Senator Hard;nc
OF ONO, was declaring in an address at Balt;'
more that "in justice to these 100 600 ooo
american people there is but one place for
tne man with the bomb and the torch: that
place is against the wall"
There is no mistakine the tcmncr >+ho
people regarding this matter. Thov dos;ro
'ha1 the spies and the enemy agents shall
ses what they deserve. The people dos;ro
1hls not because the American pcorlo aro
oloodthirsty; they desire it because +ha,
h'io" what they owe to their own sons md
nfo'hers who are offering their lives tha+
TINS country may live
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Launching the FIivver

Once f1lvver, now an eagle! It is
rapid promotion, but that is the way of
the war. Every owner of land-going
Hunk-o'-tin will take proper pride in
the new submarine chasers to be built
on the Ford plan and to be named by
Mr.. Danielss order Eagles. Horns will
toot a little louder, corners be cut a
little sharper! Hail to the Tin Aphro-
dite of the sea!
1t is the great rehabilitation of the
war, that chief remoulder of the de-
splsed into heroes. No ragtime bones
on baclwoods circuit was too mean to
jeer at a fivver before the war. Now
thousand-a-week comedians on Broad
way chant the hymn Of Hunk-o'- tin and
their voices choke in the process. What
the flivver did and does for the wounded
in France has wiped out the old score
and chalked up a credit item that makes
the f1ivver an honored sister of the tank.
Flighty, huttery little chips of the
old block these Ford chasers will be, we
suppose. Rather hard to steer, all for
leaping clear out of the sea and landing
a dozen waves off the course But
nosey, persistent little devils-with end
less power and knack of roaring ahead
on one cylinder or no cylinder-spite
of all the rules of mechanics and the
Seven Seas
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
The War Ferment in Congress

War means destruction. 1t also means
reconstruction. Habit and precedent
lose their authority when they are chal-
lengcd by the experience which nations
acquire when they go en- war basis.
We Americans have been ultra-con-
servativc in OUR respect for established
governmental methods. Now we are be-
ing startled out of our complacency. The
very citadel of governmental standpat-
lsm-Congress itself--is being invaded.
The presentation of the bills which Rep
resentative Mccormick has just intro
duced for the creation of a budget svs-
TEN would have been considered a piece
OF sardonic humor only few years ago.
Congress wanted then to go on doing
business in the old way-the way of the
grandfathers. 1t loathed the idea of q
budget SYSTEM and it was quick to stamp
the life out CT the modest innovation in
responsible accounting for which Presi-
dent Taft asked a trial.
But what is happening now? The Nc
Cormick measures are starkly revolu
tionary. They lay hold of the two pill
lars Of the old order in the House-the
Ways ard Means. Committee and the Ap.
preparations Committeeman smash one
to flinders upon the other. Both COM
mlttees are to be abolished. and in their
stead there is to be a budget commit
tee, which shall have power to increase
estimates OF initiate appropriations only
by a two-thirds vote.
Our present system reverses the natu-
raj order cf responsibility for and con-
troll of national expenditure. The Nc
Cormick bills seek to cure that inversion
They seek to make the executive branch
accountable, as it should be, for the ap-
preparations used in running the govern
ment, and to make Congress responsible.
as it should be, for the auditing of ex-
pendltures. To the friends of the prcs-
ent system this represents change in
comparison with which change from
Czarlsm to Bolshevism seems mild. They
will gag with horror at it. But thcv
Will have to consider it and, eventually
to yield to it, for it means a return from,
unreason to reason, from chaos to scien-
tific order.
That will be one Of the good works
OF the war, which is already making
even routinc-ridden Congress recen-
tive to new thoughts. to ideas of eff
cheney in government which it formerly,
ostrac;zed.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
We Vote for Il

The Hon. Nelson N. Lampert, Of Chi
cago and Baseball, demands government
al control of sport He has written to
Secretary Baker, but the Secretary is
away.
The matter should be brought to the
attention of the President A Secretary
Of Athaletics would he a distinct addi-
ticn to the Cabinet. We are for It. And
we propose the Hon. Ban johnson for the
job. Or, failing him, the Hon. Jess
Willard.
1t is clear that with the present high
resolve to extend the sheltering arm and
soothing hand of the government over
everything from pork packers to potato
pcelers our one great national JOY
should not be neglected.
We are for the governmental regula-
ton of sport with a whoop; and if Ban
OF Jess has no spare time for the job
we are sure Secretary McAdoo has.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18

tlons. The whole country knew that the
cost of supplies and operation was going
up with all the rest Of cur aercp!aning
prices
The whole country knew that the rail
ways were losing their best men to the
munitions shops and elsewhere because
they could not Fay the wages that war
industries could, that their equipment
was suffering, and that capital was very
difficult to get
Everybody knew, save the Rip Van
Wrinkles who had absolute power over
rates. Now, after nearly nine months,
they allow Is PEE. cent advance.
1t was q vitality needed war measure.
Vet this numbering body could not act
The railroads and the ratc-making power
had to be taken out Of their hands to Get
even this belatcd raise out Of it.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Words in War Time

Most successful writer's set great store
by the trick Of understatement, but Gu
riously enough this effective literary dc
vice has been practically discarded by
both sides in the war. With the single
exception of President Wilson's remark
I'VE have no quarrel with the German
people," no spokesman of either side has
sought 70 gain an advantage by con-
scious underemphasis. All writer's of
communicates and most correspondents
seem intent in fingng. their phrases just
as far as they will go. 1t is rare day,
indeed, when an attack is not "completely
successful" and invariably call objec-
tives" are gained. From the beginning
we have had full grown statements about
the American army at home and abroad.
Both defenders and critics of the War
Department have shown a fondness for
rounding out their remarks. One side
will speak of organizations which have
almost ceased to function, and the other
will reply with 100000 men and then
leap to hundred miles of line. Our
propaganda, also, has been framed to
batter down rather than to insinuate 1t
makes little difference to George Creel,
for instance, whether he is sinking sub
marines for Independence Day or shoot
ing writer's for "The independent" He
always fires both barrels at once and
follows it up by hurling the gun.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Will II Be So Long

The United States Shipping Board was
formed December %, 1916, three
months before our formal entry into the
war. 1t was organized because of the
terrific dearth of ships, the threat of the
ruthless" submarine campaign, the fam
tastic prices being paid for new tonnage,
ship plates and the like.
We entered the war when we did
chiefly because of the RUTHLESS" SUBJ
marine. The enormous losses which it
caused were simply appalling. If they
could have been kept up they would
have swept the Atlantic bare and left
us impotent to send food or munitions.
to say nothing of men and guns.
The feasibility of concrete cargo
boats was urged upon the Shipping
Board as early as last April 1t took
nearly nine months to bring about the
formation in the board of a concrete
snip department. The first concrete
boat, which with the proper encourage
mcnt might have been ready last fall.
has just been launched.
Since last June the board has been
urged to experiment with welded cast
steel ships, the method by which Ger
many is said now to be building it's sub
marines with such speed. For aupht
that any one knows, the welded shin
might be built faster and in greater
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Toad Eaters
By Herr Professor Diogcnes Teu-
jclsdrocchk
rE1HE TRIBUNE confesscs to consid-

y Wiz / ND ONE con! eSStS " CVtStI-
orGble satisfaction ct the discorery
- IN New Yorh-at great age it Is
t,'uc, bit stM intellectually actiuc--of the
distinguished German thinker srhosa mas
terpiecc, Die KIeider, ihr IVerden msa
WUhen," Thomas Carlyle analysed IN his
"Sayto5' Pcsartus'
Frankly, it gives me the greatest pleasure
to comply with The Tribuncs request for
light ON the meeting Of Messrs. Hearst and
Hylan and the toad and jellyiish at Palm
Beach. Impartial pacfst though I have
been since September G. 1918, the date of
my arrival in America, cannot reprcss a
sincere satisfaction over this opportunity of
demonstrating to America the methods of
scientific research Of q land that once stood
in loco PARENTS to me.
Again say, | am impartial. Mr.. Hearst
is one Of my intimate friends I have bowed
eleven times to Mayor Hylan--tivc times
while sitting by ny window as the Broad
way express went by and six times from
the curbstone IS | lodged the mud fro,n MS
matutinal automobile l aavc kept hornc.!
toads as pets. ard | have known seventeen
jellyfish, not wisely, but TOO we'll.
1t was therefore with little surprise that
l read the following statement from the
Mayor during his sojourn in Florida:
We the beach yesterday and iellyfish
had closed about little toad. Hearst nickcd it
away with the end OF his cane and said "W,.y lei
the poor little thing suffer- I think that typiic;
what l like in Hearst 4
To Impress the reader with the strength
of purpose which must ever be the Teuton's,
| must confess that the mellow vein OF
humor present in every German heart and
head very nearly led nc astray. For time
found to my horror that I was contemplat-
ing the compilation Of Nonsense Cookery
Book on the model of Edward Lcar's. Fort
unately, had only just begun upon the re-
lation of B. r. T. jams to jcllyfish when
the wlckedness Of my folly struck home ana
turned remorsefully to the best procedures
CT German research
Only once again did tho fatal mellowncss
OF cur racial nature assal me- When had
put the weakness from me | found on nv
note pad these lines of an uncomnletcd
poem:
The Mayor and the Publisher
Were walking hand in hand
lhey wept like anything to see
drama on the sand.
Why should it suffer-" William said
Said Hylan, "Aint he grandr'
The time has come" the Mayor said.
10 talk Of many things
OF B. R. r. and P. S. c.
or Brooklyn. Queens and Kings;
or whether jeyfish eat toads
And whether Hearst has wings
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
The Voyagers

(From The London Wesfm'HSs" AZ. seyc1
Beyond those dark trees. under wv
stars,
Opens a gulf Of twilight mystery s,y,h
On which the ships of night are se'''as
Whittier none knoweth, never 70 ie''
Unl;ghted, cbon black from pro" " .,,osN
They pierce the purple distance
up .husja
As birds among the mountain 'n'
clouds .,n
That veil the wondrous glory OF '''e ...u
No signal f,ares. no word of last ,a.ss . - o
Troubles the silence; glad are ''e'
Into the ocean of forgettulness .s,as
That rounds our life with endless VA s.,u
And we who watch them. with 0u'
load ~.
or memory that saddens all our aas.
Shall once embark, shall sail Ds'''
shadow sg
Unto tho land Of loves eternal wsysr ,;,r u
=. 3. sPnIe .I|
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
"And Undoubtedly Will Cause
imitation ?n

We are interested to find in "The
Journal of Commerce" the followinq.
"As the demands of war increase now
industrial undertakings incident TO this
war activity spring up. These new
undertakings must be financed. and
permitting them to 90 into the open mar
ket to bid for capital causes interest
rates to advance. The War Finance Cor
poration may, and undoubtedly will cause
imitation, but it is considered the lesser
OF all the other evils which might come
upon the country should the govern
ment not take hand in tho matter
1t is a radical departure This is con-
fesscd not only by members of CONGRESS-
but also by financial authorities in thn
Administrations
The Journal of Commerce. as orr
readers are aware, has taken upon itself
to defend the government against the
poisonous doctrine' that credit cxnan-
sion has anything to do with the soaring
cost Of living. Possibly it will explain.
then, how the War Finance Corporation
bill may, and undoubtedly will, cause
innation."
II not prices, what will! it initiate?
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Rip Van Winkle

The almost hopeless unwieldincss of a
governmental body for quick action has
new example.
Last June the railroads filed anew
their application for an increase of retes.
which the Commerce Commission had de-
MED them.
The whole United States knew that the
roads were being called upon to carry
volume Of freight Of unsxampled proper
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Down to the Minute

efrom The Los Angeles Timcs)
nse cahpot wlther nor custom stale the
,nllhite , variety of Mother Goose. It seems =
but yesterday she wrote: '''"S
"Rub-a duh-dub.
Three men in tub
Hh ana now. now DO You think they got there?
mhc Daniels, the Baker,
The ordnance maker
They all jumped out of n Derocvo4.
lwaa enough to make man stare"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
The Invisible Weapon

The enemy is resorting again to his
invisible weapon.
A peace offensive is taking place. Its
extent and technique are not yet fully dis
closed. The Kaiser's three allies-Tur-
key, Bulgaria and Austria Hungary
have made direct overtures to American
representatives at Berne, and Berlin
more or less directly has submitted terms
to France Italy and Belgium.
At Washington it is said that Presi-
dent Wilson is about to appeal again to
the liberal sentiment of the world, not in
the interest of peace principles, as before,
but in behalf Of the sword as an instr,l-
ment more suited than diplomacy to the
.vork of stopping Germany in her sud-
denly accelerated career of megalomania.
That is to say, we are now about to
go on the defensive against German
Gas attack.
The President, it is rumored, will put
a quietus upon peace talk.
It is devoutly to be hoped that he will.
We had written chat he can and will"
but his power over human emotion is in
fallible. With word he can lead the
people out of the fog in which they have
wandered, "make their hands to war and
their fingers to fight" and release their
minds from a dangerous delusion.
Thought of peace by diplomacy is a.
fantasy full of disaster. It's implical
tions are sinister.
Mark you this: If we were sure of
gaining military victory over Germany
this year, or next, or at all without an
enormous sacrifice, we should not be
thinking of peace by diplomacy. Nor
would Great Britain. Nor would France.
Peace by diplomacy is peace by nego-
tiation.
Any peace by negotiation that you
can possibly imagine at this time would
man peace.
Therefore, the thought of peace by di-
plomacy is in effect thought Of defeat
Only Germany can afford to think of
peace by diplomacy. Yet it is a thought
that has been loudly discussed among US,
and supported for great variety of rea-
sons, ranging from the radical intellect
ual to the pro-German.
"The New Republics" reasons, of
course, are radically intellectual. "All
over Europe" it says, "the people are
war weary. They cannot for
much longer warm their chilled bodies
at the smouldering ashes of their earlier
hopes and fears and passions"
"The New Republic is thinking not of
war or peace but of politics, which is to
it a cold and scientific passion. Only in
that way can one account for the evident
fact that it forgets what it is saying.
For it says, in effect, that the first hopes
and fears and passions with which the
world undertook it's defence against Ger
many are no longer valid, wherefore we
shall have to find new and better hopes,
fears and passions!
1t adds that the people of the Allied
European countries twill never be per-
suaded to undergo the additional sacri-
fees and sufferings which will be needed
to defeat German aggression by an ex-
elusive programme Of military victory"
But suppose they are not persuaded
what then?
Germany is ready to arrange Brest-
Litovsk conference with the representa-.
tlves OF any people who can be no lonoer
persuaded to undergo the additional
sacrifices and .sufferings."
That is the answer.
Rsr N~- v1y.l7
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Correctly Defined

.e E'om The Phiadcphia Record,
s;,onaa. ,, "'e a aynonyme for painful
si.ence, 81" s"'d the novelist, looking un FROM
',on.;n,, a's wo.k' Well, talkative woman In n
mn".s u.".'s''s chair with rubber dam in h,r
the helpful friend. W ~ suggested
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18

The refusal of the Allies to take part
IN the Brcst-Litovsk conference was their
second mistake. 1t was almost fatal
George Syl0cstcr VieyccL,. Maych 6, in
'Thc american Weekly"
Why is the Department Of Justice so
tender with this scurrilous enemy?
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18

What Shall the Harvest Be2
tFron The Atlanta Constitution
Shut off the poems to the sprinu pardon
and turn on the hoes!
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18

Owned and published daily by The Tribune Association
New York Corporation. Ogden Reid. President: g.
Vernon Rogers Vice President Richard r. Lee Secretary
+. A. Suter Treasurer Address Tribune Building. io4
Nassau Street New York. Telephone. Beekman 5000
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-06
Statement MADE BY BAKER STANDS
Brest- Litovsk Farley Reported Broken Uf
Some of Bakers Replies to
Considerations of Critics

Senator Weeks
$4,000 ships available
tary Baker replied that he did
estimate
When asked concerning his statement that probably million
pend wholly American shipping his calculations.
Senator Hitchcock asked
the committee the basis his
would be in France by
mot in the
IN the adjoining and it in three seconds"
When questioned by Hitchcock,
statement estimating the number of United
able to send France this shipping
the secretary replied
factor, but the controlling factor.
the Nebraska senator
Mr. Baker read his original
million half
and that the Of forwarding them
asking for the basis of country
that not unpromisng that would million
in France in 1918," persisted Hitchcock
Il anxious tell
ay Baker asking that he be permitted
Turning the question of
FrelngMysen asked Secretary Baker thought
health Of the we'll in hand"
yes" replied the secretary.
soldiers during
added the
winter had been that of the troops would be moved
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-06
WAR SUMMARY

Raiding operations and artillery
duels are increasing on the west.
ern front as the time for the be.
ginning of the spring operations
approaches.
There has been lively aerial and
artillery fighting on the American
sector northwest of TOul. The
skies have cleared and the Ger.
mans are reported to be lombard.
ing villages which they had left
untouched for many months.
Entente airmen have been active.
British flIers on Monday dropped
three tons of bombs and accounted
for eight enemy airplanes with the
loss Of one machine. On the Ital.
ian front Italian and British ayia-
tors have brought down Is enemy
machines, while the Germans have
bombed Padua.
In Russia. the situation appears
less favorable to the BOlsheviki. A
decree by the Bolsheviki govern
ment separating state and church
and confiscating church properly
has aroused the opposition Of
Archbishop Tikhon, the patriarch
Of all Russia. who has called upon
his followers to defend the church.
The clash between the government
and the church Is said TO be up.
preaching an acute sfage-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-06
Il KAISER SPIES
| ARE HELD GUILTY
Franz Won Rintelen and 10 Other Ger.
man PlOtters Get Maximum Pen.
atty in New York.

New York, Feb. 6.-Franz Won Rim
telen, German naval officer and re-
futed member OF the German war
staff, was found guilty. with 10 other
defendants, in federal court here last
night of conspiracy to destroy food
and munitions ships of the entente al
lies by placing fire bombs in their
cargoes. Judge Howe Immediately
imposed the maximum penalty of is
months Imprisonment in the federal
penitentiary at Atlanta and fine Of
$4,000 on each of the prisoners.
pleas of lack of proof, sickness, re-
cent marriage and ignorance of the
laws of this country" Judge Howe
said, will not influence this court in
imposing sentence.
These men have been found guilty
by an impartial jury of American
citizens and the crime calls for the
severest penalty. I regret that it is
not more severe"
In instances where the defendants
now are serving sentences under pre-
vious convictions the present penalty
will take effect when the term of the
first punishment expires. This ap-
plies to Won Rintelen, who was con-
victed last spring of conspiracy to
cause strikes In munitions plants and
was given two years and six months
, al Atlanta.