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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28

Mining Scientific Press: The phrase latter the war" is
not vet applicable to current conditions; we are in the midst
of the interval between war and peace called an armlstice;
whereas actual fighting has ceased, except in odd corners OF
the map, the preparedness for resumption of war prevents an
immediate return to the normal. A legal state of war persists
and the special powers given to the government have not been
repealed.
1t is well that no sudden change in administrative func-
tons is possible, for a complete relaxation of control would
involve woeful confusion. Meanwhile the rehabilitation not
only of the armies but of the industries created for purposes
of war is proceeding in an orderly way. Much will depend
upon the manner in which it is done.
Our stock of patience will be subject to large drafts, for
most of us are in a hurry to return to the pleasant ways
that we connote with the phrase before the war" and we
shall have to submit to a good deal of official regulation be-
fore the specter of war is finally laid in the sunlight of peace.
Those that are engaged in mining will have to suffer from
many annoyances and uncertainties before things become as
They have comported themselves periodically during the great
they were, if they are ever quite the same, which is unlikely.
unpleasantness and they will be reasonable during the process
of reconstruction, while on guard against the impositions
placed upon them by sundry profieers whose Vaccinations
have been hidden under the dollar halo.
The war has shown the difficulty of regulating industry
without enlisting the services of those directly interested in
the commercial phase of the industry, thereby giving monOpo-
listic groups the opportunity to gather information and to use
tactics calculated to strengthen their grip on the small pro-
ducers of metals.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28
PROPAGANDA

Concurrently, on this side of the water, we have had a
series of pre-war transactions laid bare. The operations Of
the German propagandists, both in this country and in Ger
many, are beyond comprehension, almost. The testimony
now disclosed shows that the propaganda makers were in this
country before the war was declared. That the kaiser and
his gang decided on the war definitely at the meeting at Pots
dam on July 5 of the fatal year has been so we'll established
that we need not do more than alude to it here. Following
that. on July 10. after the kaiser had HE'D himself to his yacht,
the civilian employees whose business it was to propagate
"kuItur" in foreign lands were told to be ready to start on
their mission.
The United States was their first and special care. They
came talking neutrality and peace on the part of America and
to justify the war on the part of Germany. They reached
high places Immediately. Even congressman were seen with
out the congressman knowing it, and the president of the Unit
ed States issued a proclamation of neutrality in which he
said that we must not show what side even our feelings were
on. The German emissaries here rubbed their hands and sent
back word that America was coming to all right, all right. All
that the Germans wanted was the good will of the rest of the
world while they wiped France and England off the map OF
the world. 1t S a marvellous story of industry and psychology.
The German system started out well, but the system finally
broke down-and it broke down because it was wholly found
ed on lies, lies, and then more lies, and the makers OF the war
and of the lies had never heard that Lincoln once upon a time
had said that no one can fool all the people all the time.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28
A VELVET WINTER

1t is always deeply satisfactory to the phho'op"'-
rad the fashion notes and learn just how ana why "u" aoa
make the sudden changes in shape, in color IN eVeF" Ips
entering into their personal appearance tht 'hey ~. 80
now for instance. we are face to face with a veiVet "n'o.s
we are assured. Why? Because OF the fuel snorcae0' =
Won please, and the desirability of more warmh IL )"
meats. the fashion expositors dare swear.
This. at least, they assert in one paragraph VIM -
next conceding that blacks were never so low. All o"0"
tai motif, it is remarked in passing. Whatever 'e
the motif. everyone will admire the ingenuity OF We mou,
who pack on velvet because of empty coal bins ana 'hen 'aho
as much of it off the spine as custom ana nature WIZ pol
NIT. Just how many masculine splnes Would accept '"'n
delightful inconsistency, we wonder.
Ever since Ben Franklin started America on Its super
heated way there have been a few rooms In alhose any
American house where almost anyone could wear II o.ion
tai costume. But that surely does not explain te Iimsy
dresses of the empire, which, so far as they went, coVereu
one-half of Europe for a batch of years. Thoroughly hea'eu
houses are a very modern invention and are still uhkho"h
to much of Europe and the British isles. Nine. hecamler, III
her exquisite frock, may look as if she could be happy ohiy
i'm a steam-heated Harlem flat, but she really existed, anu
that very cheerfully, in a Paris that knew only frepiaces
and imperfect, newly invented stoves. That central nome
fire of earlier American life, the base burner, was not put
ON the market until 1880.
No. the other theory is much more simple ana more
easily squared with the record. Women, as to their spines,
and indeed any portion of their anatomy summoned forth
by fashion, have no sense of heat and cold whatever. The
tender, shrinking debutante has always been a harder plant
than her supposedly robust brother. Velvet for men, per-
haps, yes. Velvet for women is carrying Goals to Newcastle.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28
WAGES N G.

The wealth of the United States is estimated at $25O,OOO,-
900 900: it's annual production, $50OO0,OO0,OOO. Six per cent
of this total wealth is Si5OOO,OOOOOO, which is 30 per cent
of it's annual production. From these figures, speaking ap-
proximately, it may be assumed that 70 per cent of the cost
of our total annual production is the cost of labor and 30 per
cent is the cost of the capital, which includes the natural re-
sources as well as the machinery of production. Should
price levels be reduced to 60 per cent of the present levels it
would mean that the earning capacity of the United States
would be reduced from $5O,OOO 100000 annually to S3OOO0,-
900 900 annually. If the reduction of labor and capital shall
be uniform, it would mean that capital would earn SO per
cent or nine billions Of the total earning power of the ma
ton, while labor's wages would be reduced from thirty five
billions to twenty-one billions. =
If the 6 per cent level is the basis to which BUSINESS
must return in order to be normal, and in order that we may
find market for our surplus goods in foreign markets, then
labor must be brought to see that that price level is alto
gether the best for him as we'll as for the employer. Best
for the wage Garner because it insures continuous employ
ment without reducing the purchasing power of his earn
ings.-The Mining Congress Journal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28
OUR NEW FINANCIAL HEAD

Mr.. Carter Glass is, if we mistake not, the first news
paper man to become secretary of the treasury. His life has
been one of notable simplicity. He was born in Virginia, a
few miles from where the president was born, and only two
years after. There he grew up, became a newspaper pro-
prietor, state senator and then congressman, and there he
still lives. This is his eighth term in congress. He had
taken no very conspicuous part in that body until, as chair
man of the house committee on banking, he had charge of
the federal reserve bill. 1t seems universal testimony that
in the ahndling of this measure he showed a clear and re-
markable grasp Of the problems involved, that he fought
steadily against the inclusion of meretricious features in the
act, and displayed a notable and tenacity of purpose through
out the long discussion of it. AS much as any one man. the
credit for it's passage in its present form is his.
The advent of Mr.. Glass to the treasury portfolio will
understanding and a clear and cool head are deeply needed.
His influence and his acts may be most salutary. It is
well known in Washington that Mr.. Glass has regarded the
policy of the federal reserve board with grave apprehension,
as calculated to be subversive of the very ends for which
the federal reserve system was established. Certainly no
one ever dreamed the reserve system would, almost Will its
full formation, be made a vast engine for credit initiation.
with the inevitable attendant effects upon prices and busi-
ness. There was a substance Of justification in the ex-
tremities of war That justification is now gone. A secre-
tar yof the treasury who will guide this country out of a
period of gross initiation and back to a sane basis of bank
ing and finance will win high fame and do his country a
great service. This is the opportunity that awaits Mr.. Glass.
Among those whom the president had under consideration,
perhaps no more fortunate selection could have been made.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28
THE CONTRAST

New York Tribune: AS the armies of the allies march
into Germany they cannot help but remember what they have
left behind them in France. The scenes of desolation wrought
by the Hun come wildly before their eyes. The ruined
churches, the stricken homes, the devastated fields-these
remain poignantly in their thoughts. And then they see
about them a land untouched by war, where folk eat, drink
and are merry. Perhaps life does not go on the same as it
did in former days, but the difference is not startling. By all
accounts the Germans show few signs of suffering. They go
to the theaters, they fill the restaurants, they live comfort
ably, if not happily. Some privations they may have en-
dured, but they bear few marks of these. They greet the in
vaders sullenly, but the old arrogance of the days of peace has
not departed from them. When General Won Einen speaks of
the victorious German soldiers he finds many credulous be-
levers.
LOCKER here, upon this picture, and on this" Think
what the Hun has done in France and in Belgium! What
must these French and Belgian soldiers who have had all that
makes life dear swept away from them feel when they see
their brutal oppressors exempt from all they have endured?
1t is not surprising that their advent was dreaded by their de-
feated enemies. Had the Germans been marching into France
after FreQchmen had ravished all the lands to the Rhine, it
is easy to imagine what they would have done. To imagine
Frenchmen giving them cause for a terrible retaliation is
more difficult. The dshonOr of making war like savages be-
longs to a single nation. But most of us impute to others our
own feelings. The Germans are no doubt relieved of a great
that they understand it.
An Englishman who visited a German internment camp
IN England SAID TO one of the prisoners: Why, you are bet
ter fed than am" "Of course" was the reply, "you English
are afraid of u.s."
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28
POSITION

Mining-Scientific Press: Anacondas position in the world
of mining is being steadily aggrandized by its purchase OF
stock in other large enterprises. In 1915 the Anaconda Cop
per Mining company acquired 10000 shares in the lnspira-
ton Consolidated Copper company and 10000 shares in the
Greene-Cananea company.
BY the end of 1917 its holdings had been increased to 2oO,-
900 shares of Inspiration and $4,000 shares of Greene. 1t is
reported that William B. Thompson's holdings of Inspiration
stock was sold on the market some time ago; this would eX-
plain his resignation of the presidency of the Inspiration COM
pany and the election of C. F. Kelly, who has been acting as
president of the Anaconda during John ID. Ryans devotion to
war work.
The aggregate output of copper made by the three COM
panies mentioned amounts to the magnificent total of 420 mil
lion pounds per annum.
While we are always inclined to regret the extension of
control over a multiplicity of enterprises, because efficiency
is not increased and moral responsibility is usually decreased
after a company's operations have reached beyond the magni-
tude favorable to economic work, we recognize that the Ana
cOnda management has been marked by an enlightened spirit
and that if any company is to be aggrandized in this way then
the Anaconda is the one least likely to abuse its power as a
controller of industry.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28

1t may be noted that there has been some modification of
the foreign attitude toward the presidents freedom of the seas
doctrine, and the presidents Interpretation of that doctrine, it
may be added, has been undergoing some sea changes. The
ocean trip was good for him and he will see the English and
the French views still more clearly when he talks with the re-
spOnslble statesmen of those countries. The sea power is
still decisive and for England it is tantamount to existence
itself. The seas are free-and they ought to be free for Eng
land to maintain a navy that can inspire its own life. If the
British navy had not been in being the German rule would
now be fastened upon all of Europe and it would be threaten
ing America itself. This we must always keep in mind.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28
THE AERIAL GINMILL


Airplanes are being used to smuggle booze into FL
Dispatch.
The air is free, or seems to be,
And so, perhaps, to you and me,
When gentle booze is contraband
And prohibition stalks the land,
A small announcement may be sent
By some most enterprising gent,
That he has opened a cafe,
Where, any hour night or day,
He stands prepared to serve the crowd,
Behind some rolling thundercloud.
So we will fly up in the sky,
And, feeling thirsty, you or I
Will find, way up above the land,
That cabaret, SO swell and grand;
And, rocking blithely in our plane,
Well crook our elbows once again;
Then where the snow and r~aindrops meet,
AT altitude five thousand feet,
Well see that while the sunshine plays,
That moonshine lights and cheers our ways.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28
SOB STUFF

Philadelphia Inquirer: "The Crown Prince cried while
signing his remuneration" German ENJOYS sobbed when they
heard the armistce TERMS" "Dr. Solf pleads for help for Ger
many" and so on and so on.
One always expects a whine from a beaten bully. but the
concerted bleat of the former German leaders is nauseatine
and disgusting.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28

Father and are down and out" says the scion of the
HOhenzollerns. 1t were to be wished that the world would
could accept that fact and forget about them, instead of hay
ing them every day paraded under big headlines. What dn-
ference ought the pair to make in the world now? Can't we
forget them?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-28
WOMAN VS..

About the most striking feature of women as they take
their place in political life is an innate and natural antipathy
to Bolshevism. The Battalion of Death set the example by
fighting .Lenine and Trotzky. Mime. Breshkovskaya, Grand
mother of the Russian Revolution" refused to follow the red
flag when it became stained with the new tyranny of the
Bolsheviki.
In England the leaders of the womans movement dis
played great patriotism and a vision. They abandoned their
fight for the vote promptly and transferred all treir great
ability and influence to the organizing of the nation against
the Germans. Mrs. Pankhurst and her daughter fought Wig
orously the whole pacifist Bolshevist movement in all its
forms.
Here in America our women, too, have been jealous and
sure in their patriotism, in war spirit, in opposition to the dis
integrating forces of red-handed radicalism. Now comes the
women's national committee of the American WOmans De-
tense society with a stirring call to women to fight the red
flag and all its works.
Is it too soon to generalize concerning the masses of
women? Perhaps. Yet, have we not always known which
was the more practical, common-sense sex?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16
GERMAN PRESSURE
FORCES CZERN|N To
QUIT PREMIERSHIP
Austrian Minister Resigns
Following Frances Exposure
of Emperor Charles Treach-
cry to KaiSer'S Schemes

AMSTERDAM. April 15.-Thousands
OF persons gathered in the streets Of
Prague. capital OF Bohemia, on Saturday.
denounced the Germans and cheered the
entente and President Wilson. says a
dispatch from that city 10 the LOkAl
Anzeiger. OF Berlin.
All the Czech members OF the 2arlia-
msnt and party delegates. together with
SlOvene and Serbo-Croat delegates met
in the town hall and adopted d mani
festo. The crowd gathered in the streets
outside the hall in support OF the policy
Of the delegates. The principal demon
stration occurred at the close OF the
meeting. The feeling against Foreign
Minister Czernin was shown by the
shouts of disapproval with which his
name was greeted The crowds dis
psrsed singing anti-German songs.
A conference OF representatives #
all Czech parties at Dux, the dispatch
says, unanimously opposed the stsblish-
ment Of a German-Bohemian province
asserting the Czech minority in the
German speaking region would resist
Garu11 r7fZarforf fp The utmost
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16
ARREST Of WOMEN SPIES
WILL FOLLOW NEW LAW
More Than a Hundred Are
Under Surveillance of the
Authorities

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Many Ger
man and Austrian women were under
surveillance by government agents and
viii. be arrested and interned as soon
as President Wilson signs the bill
which includes women in the class of
enemy aliens 1t was said today the
number is more than 100.
In anticipation of the action by the
government a number of the most dan
gerous German and Austrian women
have left the country recently, officials
said today. Enough remain, however, to
make it advisable, officials believe, to
prevent them from running at large
within the United States and gathering
information on war activities. The wom-
en- under surveillance, il was said to-
day, include the wives of prominent
German and Austrian business men, par
ticularly in and about New York
Arrangements probably will be made
to intern some of the women in camps
with their husbands and limited house
keeping arrangements may be provided.
Unmarried women will be cared for in
special camps.
Property in the possession of the
women interncd will be taken over by
the alien property custodian. Many Ger
mans who have been informed turned
their holdings over to women, il was
said today.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16
Czernin Resigns From
FOREIGN MiniSterShip

AMSTERDAM, April 15--COunt Ger
min. the Austro-Hungarian foreign min
lister. according to a dispatch from vi
emma. has resigned
Emperor Charles accepted the resig-
nation and entrusted Czernin with the
conduct OF foreign affairs until his sue
-cessor is appointed
An official statement received here to-
day from Vienna asserts that the latest
statements OF the French premier. N.
Clemeneeau. concerning the converse
tions between Austria and France res
gardfng the possibility or opening peace
negotiatiOns do not alter the situation
as regards the majority of Count Ger
Minis declarations. The Austrian for
eiEn ministry. the statement says. is IN
able TO ascertain who was responsible
for delivering TO the French what is
said 70 have been a forged letter. sub
stitutSd for the letter which was to have
been delivered Neither Prince SiNtus.
whose character is beyond suspicion.
nor any one else is accused OF falsi-
fication. continues the statement, which
concludes
The affair is herewith declared to
be at an end"
Count Czernin did not know of Em-
perez Charles letter to Prince SiXtus
France had initiated the conversations
with Austria, according TO a Vienna
dispatch TO the Lokal Anzeiger of Ber-
lin On learning OF the letter he re-
signed but yielded 10 a request that
he remain in Office until the conclusion
OF the peace agreement with Rumania-
The recent publication BY the French
government OF the futile peace appeal
sent out by Emperor Charles OF Austria
Hungary in March, 1917, and the efforts
OF the emperor and the Austro-Hun-
Earizn foreign Office to explain this let
ter 20 the satisfaction of Germany and
the German emperor, probably were the
most potent influence in bringing about
the resignation Of Count Czernin.
Since he was appointed foreign minis
ter on December %. 1915. in succession
70 Baron Burian. Count Czernin has
been very active in attempting to bring
about peace and the moderate tone Of
his speeches has been in sharp con-
trast with that OF the German chancel-
tories ard The foreign secretaries. How
ever. his participation in the forced
peace upon Russia as well as that upon
Rumznia, did not show that his actions
kept step with his words
Started Peace Offensive"
In the peace offensive of the pres
eut year. Count CzeInin in the Austrian
reichsrath on January IS suggested an
exchange OF views between Austria
Hungary and the United States. He an
nounced also that Austria based her ne
gotiations with Russia on the policy Of
no annexations or indemnIties. but
there always was some doubt whether
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16
SENATOR STONES FUNERAL
WAS HELD ON MONDAY
Death Comes as Result of
ParaIytiC Stroke on Last
Wednesday

WASHINGTON. April 15.-Wash.
ington turned from it's war du.
ties today to attend the funeral OF
Senator Stone. of Missouri. chairman
of the senate foreign relations com
mittee, who died at his home here yes
terday as the result of a paralytic
stroke suffered last Wednesday.
. 1t was announced that the service
would be conducted at p. m. today
with Rev. ]. Forrest Prettyman. chap
lain of the senate in charge. The
family and a congressional committee
will accompany the body TO Jefferson
Wednesday at the Missouri capitol
Burial will take place at Nevada, Mo-.
Senator stones old home.
Senator Stones death removed one of
the most picturesque and influential
men in the senate. AS chairman of the
foreign relations committee, he held
great power. He also was a member of
The important finance committee, and
had much to do with shaping the war
tax bill passed last October, and the
war finance corporation bill recently
passed.
Senator Stone was serving his third
term in the senate and his sixth In
congress. He was in the house three
terms, and came to the senate in 1918,
succeeding Senator George Graham Vest
He also was governor of Missouri, and
had served many years on the Demo-
cratic national committee.
Stone long opposed war between the
United States and Germany and owing
to his attitude the war resolution sought
by President Wilson was engineered
through the senate by Senator Hitch
cock.
After that time Stone was attacked
bitterly on many sides and there was
strong urge that he be unseated as
chairman of the foreign relations com
mittee. The effort was unsuccessful
Thereafter, however, he never partici-
pated IN the White House councils.
At Senator Stones side when he died
were Mrs. Stone, and the senator's three
children, Mrs. John M. Parkinson, St
Louis; Miss Mabel Stone and Judge
Kimbrough Stone. of the United States
district court for the Kansas City dis
trict. ...-