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New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Berger, the German lingo
From an Editorial By Louis Boum Struooe"
Magazine of International Socialism

TIME election of Victor L. Berger as one
of the delegates of the Socialist party
of this country to the contemplated In
ternational Socialist Peace Congress is one
OF the most disgraceful things that have
happened in the entire history of the party,
and calculated to do it infinite harm. This
action should be reversed as speedily as
possible, and before the harm done shall
have become irreparablc.
Ever since the outbreak of the great
world war Victor L. Berger has been con-
splcuous in the advocacy of everything that
tended to help the success of German arms
and in defending the worst excesses of Ger
man imperialism. In doing he has re.
pudiated every principle of Socialist inter-
nationalism and has treated with the great
est contempt and contumely the anti-mil-
ltaristic position and the peace professions
OF the Socialist party of America. A born
Jlngo, he has been a German jingo and an
American jingo by turns contriving syn
thesis of the two which has become familiar
under the name of Hearstism, an attempt
to put American jingoism at the service OF
German Imperialism
When the German cohorts succeeded in
wping Serbia off the map in the summer of
1915, Berger's milwaukee Leader" pub
lished an editorial eulogy of this enter
prise, advocating the permanent Germaniza-
tion of the Balkans and approving highly
of the action of Messrs. Scheidemann and
company for supporting the Kaiser in his
Balkan expedition.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
A Gallant Australian

lhere was a Western youth and gal
lantry in Captain Knyvett that all who
saw hlm felt and admired. 1t was p
privilege Tor this country and this ctv
10 know him. He summed up in his career
all the gorgeous courage with which tho
Anzacs hurried to the call of ENGLAND
half around the world Catastrophe was
their portion at Gallipol, but through no
fault of theirs. In the whole field of war
no braver, better soldiers have fought
ehan these lean frontiersmen of the Br;t.
1sh Empire in the Antipodes.
captain Knyvett died of wounds re-
celved at the Somme. He died workin,
10 the end for the cause of the Allies
"A Liberty Loan speech was his last mes
sage to America. We salute his memory
ana through him his brave nation. our
allies of the Pacific.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Qpen the Doors

In the present drive against the spe-
cial bureaus of the Health Department
the phase which has most alarmed the
public is that the Enquiry" or examina-
tion is conducted in secret. For secrecy
in department graft hunts there is precc-
dent, but the only mention of graft in
this case was plainly an afterthought,
brought forward by Mr.. MacBride, Of
the Civil Service Commission, when the
fire on the ar-chamber proceedings had
already become hot. The inquiry started
as an endeavor to ascertain the legality
of the creation of certain of the bureaus
at least, SO it was proclaimed by the
Hylan administration.
If this inquiry, examination, investi-
cation or whatever kind of proceeding it
is is really meant to serve the public, the
doors of the star chamber should be flung
wide open. The public should be invited
inside, to hear whatever transpires. No
question of legality of the establishment
of the bureaus could be prejudiced by the
widest possible publicity. This is the
peoples business. Anything affecting
the Health Department, tending to
change its organization or operation, af-
fects every resident of this great city.
All are entitled to know what is being
done, why it is being done, how it is be-
ing done.
Omen tho doorci
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Make 1t Into Bullets

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is fitting that the statue of Fred
erlck the Great should be put out of sight
from in front of the War College in our ma
tional capital. 1t is too bad, however, to put
it away in the cellar.
Its 1,4O0 pounds of good bronze should be-
recast into bullets or bombs and used to kill
Germans, and if one should, at venture.
mt the Kaiser, we would all shout "Glory.
\hallelujah!"
= Old Fritz was the real starter of this war
when he set on foot his plan of militarism
looking for\world domination. The present
oeast OF Berlin has spent his life develop
ing and preparing to complete his ancestor,s
Beelzebubian designs.
FIRE the old statue back at the donor in
conical or spherical sub b-divisions, and fire
hard. A + SuFpwOOD
Waterbury, Conn.,, April IS, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Our German-Born Doctors

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Due to the large number of physi-
clans required for the medical needs of the
military forces, there is already noticeable
shortage of physicians in the United States.
Yet, owing to rule of the War Department
which prevents the commissioning of men
born in countries with which we are now at
war, some physicians, including myself, will
be drafted as privates, and thus are unable
to complete our training or serve efficiently
in our specialized capacity
In order to provide properly trained doc
tors for the army without stripping the
hospitals of medical men nternes are COM
missoned in the medical reserve corps, bu.
are not called for active service until thew
have completed their interneship. The War
Department thus recognizes and provides
for the imperative needs Of the civilian pop
ulation and at the same time assures itself
of an adequate supply of properly trained
men.
1t takes ten years to train DOCTOR seven
months to develop a soldier, and as both
are vitality necessary, it seems contrary to
our generally efficient war preparations to
draft surgeon as a private on account OF
accident of birth.
Physicians and surgeons who cannot be
mssioned should be put in the class for
limited service as doctors. If they are then
shown to be capable and loyal they could
either be commissioned or placed in
hospital service here at the discretion of
the surgeon general. Thus they will be of
maximum value to the country at time
when every single highly trained man is
needed in his proper place.
LEOPOLD BRAHDY. NJ D.
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, April
10, 1913
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18

are disloyal in one place may be proper
in another.
The amendment now pending makes it
disloyal to do or say anything to obstruct
the sale of United States bonds, Except
by way of bona fide advice to an in
vestor." That is to recognize the fact
that you may discuss Liberty bonds and
government finance in Wall Street as it
would not be patriotic to do in Wisconsin.
These are distinctions which all critical
commentators have had to keep steadily
in mind. Self-imposed restraints have
been, and will continue to be, much more
effective than any the government will
think of imposing.
1t would astonish the government in
fact and especially the Committee on
Public Information, to know how much
journalistic truth the newspapers, for pa
triotic reasons, omit to print.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18

tragedy and viciousness far beyond the
average of American village life. The
explanation is in the village, once thriv-
ing on prosperous mill, since become
hopeless, declining community, mill shut
down, houses decaying, pathos in every
face and home. Our New England has
its plentiful share Of such. Cali is
changed save the river and the hill"
That is the secret of "Spoon River" and
it is as the record of failure, of an
American community passed over and
forgotten, it's face turned to the past,
that the book is to be judged.
But what spot for loveliness and in
innate, homelike comfort A large share
of Middle Western character owes it's be-
ing to just the sort of scene pictured in
this article by Justine Craven Chandler.
Not rugged or stimulating countryside,
let US agree. But of sand and calm, slow
eddies and trees and grassy slopes it
would be harder to construct dream
country more livable. Huck Finn, Pen
rod and a certain boy named Abe Lin
coln-when you are developing a breed
of men we suspect there is nothing quite
SO important as it's swimming holes, it's
flshlng grounds and the look of it's fields
and streams.
Spoon River" as Mr.. Masters pict
ured it was only small back eddy on
stream, the great stream of Americas
Middle West, as true-running and fair
as eyes of man could hope to see.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
American Opera

In the ten years of Mr.. Gatti-Ca-
sazza's management of the Metropolitan
the latter has seen four long operas and
three short ones from American COM
posers-that is, if we count Mr. Gil
bert's ballet, "Place Congo" an opera.
The list includes Mr.. Converse's
Pipe of Desire; Professor Parker's
Mona; Mr.. De Koven's "Canterburv
Pilgrims" and Mr.. Damrosch's "Cyrano."
besides these there was Victor Her
bert's one-act Madeleine" and this wear
Mr. Cadmans two-act opera "Shanewis. ,"
IN addition, the Chicago Opera Com
pany has produced Mr. Herbert's "Na-
toma" and Mr.. Hadley's "Azora," and
there may have been two or three others.
1hls IS for nation of hundred mill
IONS, which probably spends more on
music than any other country, Germany
not excepted. Supposing that there are
at least one or two hundred composers
who in the last ten years have tried to
write an American opera; this means
that maybe one in fifteen or twentv. or
thirty has had a chance of production.
we recently saw list of five hundred
new operas which had been produced in
Germany since, if we remember. Wag-
ner's death. 1t is not improbable that
Italy and France could make an equal
showing, at least in combination.
This, against gross total of perhans
hfteen or twenty American operas at
the outside in the same period, means
that the foreign composer has had At
least show of getting his works pro-
duced, while the American composer has
not. How can an American opera be de-
veloped under such conditions?
Very recently box at the Metrono1;-
tan was reported as selling at S20O,0oo
Out of 10000 or 10000 American mill
lonalres it would seem as if there m;pht
De found one who could afford to oire
s2oo,ooo toward the production of
American operate works If our COM
posers could be assured of, say, five new
productions year for five years. twen-
ty-fve in all, out of the lot there n,;oht
be two or three which would give birth
to real American opera.
Mr.. Cadman's "Shanewis" is nroof
that the germs are here.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Limited Truth

:. An amendment to the espionage act,
now IN conference between the Senate
and House, provides that any one who
shall utter, print, write or publish anv
language calculated to cast CONTEMPT or
scorn upon, the government, the Presi-
dent, the Constitution, the flag, the army
or the navy shall be punished by fine
OF $4,000, or imprisonment for twenty
years, or both.
. Inc Hearst papers have attacked it
as an attempt to make mere words
unreasonable. They have called it law of
.teze md3esty. Otherwise very little has
peen said in the American press about
at. Nobody seriously believes that a sane
government would ever undertake to SUP.
press proper criticism in this country.
tor that such an attempt, if made. copld
possibly succeed.
At the end of the amendment II 10 rro-
svided that nothing in this act shall hs
construed as limiting the liberty or i'm
pairing the right of any individual to
publish or speak what is true, with good
motives and justifable ends" And If
that clause were not written into the law
1T would be read into it by the first court
called upon to apply it,
The intent maketh the offence.
What maketh the intent is another
question, to be determined in each case
ny the rules of common sense.
The use Of proper criticism was per-
a 49, rS6 nknw
time; and, on the other side, never were
its responsibilities 80 difficult. There
is continually danger that legitimate
criticism will be confused with disloyal-
ism or that unfayorable comment on the
conduct Of the war, no matter how much
deserved, will be distorted to the ends Of
m American propagandaa. Words which
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Enemy lagos
TO the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR; Those who have worked eagerly for
continental solidarity and American entente
cannot but feel panied to see such films %
Douglas Fairbanks "Hcadin' South" f." "El
Americana" ETC., constantly ridicul;no
Latin Americans and woundng susceptibil;.
ties, IN these times when teamwork is 90
urgently needed
Inc strong narcotic of intense persistent
enemy propaganda needs no such help. It
is sinister and efficient enough, and God
Knows we DO not have to play into their
nanas Dy offending and irritating our pro-
sp.c''ve 1r'ends and customers whose atti-
tude toward this country is s,ou1,, h,t
surely becoming more friendly and would
De much more so if the activities of tho
enemy lagos could be more effectively
curbed. PICuApD pAI1.o
New York April Is, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
A Shipbuilder for Ships

We do not know that Charles M
Schwab will be able to perform miracles
in the building of ships. He has record
for such performances.
The United States Steel Corporation
was largely his projection. When it was
formed it was incomparably the largest
business enterprise ever put under a
single head. And after seventeen years
it still so remains.
The Bethlehem Steel Company, now
the greatest war and munitions produc-
ing plant in the world, unless Krupps
has been tremendously enlarged during
the war, was almost wholly his personal
creation. When he took hold of it ten
years ago it was minor enterprise.
But, miracle or no miracle, the fact
remains that he is by training and ex-
perience probably the ablest man who
could be found in the United States to
head the shipbuilding work. This is the
vital thing.
1t is a question of principles, and not
of man. There was need at the head
Of the shipbuilding work for a man of
the largest experience in shipbuilding,
and especially, at the present time, steel
making. And man of vitalizing energy,
with record for success.
~ Charles M. Schwab represents all of
these qualities in preeminent degree
We believe that no appointment which
President Wilson has made since we en-
tered the war has given the country such
a deep satisfaction and such new feel
ing of confidence as this
1t seems confirmation of the best hopes
held out by the Presidents friends.
Coming upon the heels of the appoint.
ment of Mr.. Edward R. Stettinius as AS
sistant Secretary of War, in full charge
of purchases; of General Goethals as Act
ing-and very active-Quarterma
General, and the surprisingly effective
work of Mr.. Crowell as Acting Secretary
Of War, we believe that the country may
now feel that the President has turned
in earnest to the task of securing the
. most effective business administration
for the material side of the war.
Perhaps it would be invidious, after
, this splendid advance toward a goal
which the whole nation desires, to urge
further steps at this time. With the
Presidents evident determination, they
will perhaps come in due course.
: We can only venture to hope now that
the preferment of Stettinius and Goe-
thals and Schwab and Crowell means
i, that in due course other positions of vital
. Importance will likewise be filled by the
; ablest and best fitted men who can be
found.
: We believe it would need but few
more strokes such as the appointment.
OF MIR. Schwab in order that a thor
oughly united support should come spon-
taneously to the President from Repub-
licans and Democrats alike.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
For the Knitters
o the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
o'r: In letter received from an Ameri-
can nurse In France is this request: "Please
tell everybody to give their bows s,eevo
less sweater knitted with double warn .,d
knitted socks. We have tried to r;c +hon.
OUT but few skip u.s. In nv snare mo.
ments have taught the men to Init
,':s SOCKS on sock knitting machine; thew can
Knit pair in less than an hour"
n,., f. s. j.
Newark, N. j., April 13. 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18

1t is not, we believe, disparagement
OF Secretary Bakers evident and ADM.
rable qualities to say that the events in
his absence have demonstrated that b;s
is not the type of mind fitted for the rost
important rost in the Administration
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Germans for Cargo Ships
(From The London Globc)


For sheer downriehtncss commend no tn
the correspondent of The Daily Mair-n who
advocates, tout court, LET every cargo ship
OF OF more than 1.600 tons carry at least two
German officers with guard, who will
Immediately shoot them if the vessel is
'orpcaoea.' That as T. Atkins, Esq, would
say s'rikes US as "the stuff to give them"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Haig's Exhortation Explained
(From Tho Times y, r,,.,

(From Tho Times OF Cuba,
The following sketch of Sir Douo,as
Haig by Cockney Tommy is ronp tbo
rounds: "'Ag, e don't syc much. n don,..
e don't, 80 to syc, sye nothnk; but wot g
don't sye don't mean nothink. not 'arf; and
when g do sye anxthink, my Gawd!"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Sound Sense From Senator Sorghum

tFrom The Washington Starr
You don't seem deeply interested IN m
vestigation 2"
Il am interested" replied Senator Sof.
ghum. But can't help regrctting that !ns "a
time and trouble used in the average q.
vestigation could not have been applied =,
averting the trouble in the Arts place.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Tabloid Battle Verse
From The otta,ea Cttfsen,

fFrom The Otta,oa Citiscn,
IN regular Niagara of war poetry we
conhdehtly submit the following gem. which
Tor ,aoio'd satisfaction as we'll as metr,cal
e"cc''emce' n" IS deserving Of some kudos:
we've stopped the Bosche,"
Said General Foch.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18

rialism in its nefarous work of raping Rus
sia and strangling the revolution.
Whenever extraordinary occasion
arises and Mr.. Berger wants to convey some
special message to the world he usually has
himself interviewed, Hearst fashion, by his
own paper. Such an occasion arose when
Germany started on her march into Estho-
MIA after Russia threw away her arms. And
Berger was equal to the occasion. On-the
same day that his paper brought the news
of Germany's march into Esthonia, Wash
lngton's Birthday, he published an interview
with himself on the front page of his paper.
IN which he frankly took German imperial
ism under his protection and openly put his
stamp of approval on what the Kaiser and
his cohorts were doing in Russia.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
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New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
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Associated Press is exclusively entitled TO the
republication Of all dispatches credited to It or
otherwise credited 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., 1918-04-18
Not That

Creating independent states" Berger re-
ported himself as saying, "is not annexing
them to Germany.
Poland, Courland, Lithuania, Esthonia,
L'Vonia and Finland are to be independent
states, which, according to the London YER
sion, means that they are annexed to Ger
many. The average reader will not be able
TO make out the sense of this At least we
SOCIALISTS stand for the right of every ma
tlonallty to assert itself and to live its own
national life as far as this is possible. No
nation can do so without being independent
in its own internal affairs
Il fail to understand how Poland will be-
come annexed to Germany by being declared
an independent state, especially if the Po-
lish-speaking part of Austria and of Ger.
many (Galicia and Posen) be included In
that national unit
-! fail to see how an independent Finland
Will mean that it is annexed to Germany.
The same holds good for an indenendent
Courland, Esthonia and Lvonia."
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
With Hearst

And when, year later, Hearst and other
jingoes-some American and some German,
and some both-tried to embroil this coun-
try in war with Mexico, Berger loudly de-
manded war, in defiance of the Socialist
party, which was holding meetings protest.
ing against such a war. Berger's enthu-
slasm for Mexican adventure by the
United States was so great that his then
puppet in the Mayors chair of Milwaukee
ordered that the day when the Milwaukee
National Guardsmen were to leave for the
Mexican border be kept as public holiday,
so that the citizens Of Milwaukee could give
our boys" proper scnd-off for the ex-
pedition which Berger evidently believed
would keep them employed in Mexico long
and proftably. "The Milwaukee Leader"
even went into the flag business so as to be
able to supply its readers with American
flags for the joyful OCCASION
When the Russian revolution broke out.
and it was feared at Berlin that it might
lead to reorganization of Russia's military
resources and vigorous prosecution of the
war by the new Russian republic, Berger
heaped abuse upon the Russian revolution
lists, informing them at the same time. how.
ever, that they could redeem themselves hv
making separate peace with Germany. and
advising them to lose no time in doing so.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18

Entered at the Posonice New York Second Class
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
The Gall

mus does our American Scheidemann ou+-
do his German original. For Philipp Scheide-
mann did not have the gall to pretend that
Germany was creating 'independent states"
out OF dlsmembered Russia. This brazen
appreciation of the Kaiser's handiwork wos
lett Tor his American representative Ano
as. II In desire to add insult to ininrv
berger hypocriticaly refers to noss;hie
inclusion of Galicia and Posen in the nav
Follsh national unit" although there ls not
man IN Germany or out of it that believes
sucn thing possible and although Berrer,s
own favorite Socialist party in Germanv has
expressly declared itself against it.
And this is the man who is to renr.,on+
the American Socialist movement Mt an In
ternational Socialist Peace Congress,
Berger should be recalled at once And
the Socialist party locals who want their
party represented at the International So.
clahsS Peace Congress, whenever it comes
Dy real Socialist and not Hindenhnro
Socialist. should lose no time in n,oy;rn f.,s
his recall. 1''
AS we go to press the news comes that
Berger was indicted under the espionaoe
act; this is unfortunate, as our svmnath;es
are naturally with all those under prosecu-
tioh by the government. But this must not
aeter re us from doing our duty by the party
Inc matter is entirely too important to
permit such considerations to influence us
IN the least. We cannot permit the govern
ment TO impose upon US undesirable leadcra
by indicting them.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Peace Zealotry

CuCe AeulOLTy
During the terrible days of the last
months of the "pcace negotiations" between
Russia and Germany "The Milwaukee Lead
er" did it's best to discourage the 6ehtins
spirit of the Russian revolutionists and
!ne'r sympathizers in this country, search
ing Tor precedents in American revolution
ary history to justify separate peace. In
ms zeal for separate peace he even went
TO the extent of prasing the Bolshcviki-
whom ne hates and despiscs for their inter
national'sm-when they seemed to be in
clined toward separate peace
But all this is nothing in comparison to
mr.. berger's latest feat in International
ism" la Berlin and Potsdam.
when the world stood amazed and horror
stricken at the dsmemberment of Russ;. hv
Germany and the strangling of the Russian
revolution by German militarism when Cor.
many was actually marching her army into
de1enceess country, into country that
mas thrown away her arms, Berger ACTUALLY
came out with a defence Of German imne.