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New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
"Fabricated Ship''
(From The Outlook"

4 OOKlNG beyond the welter Of the
present struggle, what is the augury
for the future? What does the
fabricated" ship mean to shipbulding, not
only of America but Of the world, and what
does it promise for the merchant marine of
the United States? When u-boat warfare
shall have gone the way Of TIE Monitor
and the Merrmac will the vital impulse
that arose to overcome it pa. s away as
well? 1t does not seem likely. AS the
Monitor and the Merrimac rcvoutonized
the navies of the world, making them iron
instead of wood, so the Fabricated" ship
seems destined to revolutonize shipbuld-
ing 1t does not seem likely, when once a
way has been demonstrated of building
shlps both more economical and more eX-
pedltlous than the old way, that the old
way can survive. The new ships arc in
all respects good as the old. In fact, it
would seem in many ways that they should
prove better. Every component part is pro-
duced by specialist in his field. The as
sembing is supervised not only by experts
in shipbuilding, but by experts in the man
ufacture of the parts. The finished ship is
the product of the maximum combination
OF efficiency
1t seems likely. then, that the country
that leads the world in factory efficiency,
ttat has become preeminent in the manu-
facture OF structural steel, having adapted
these two national assets to the building
of ships, will become preemnent in that
held also. 1t is difficult to see how ship
yards in any part of the world can here
after afford to build an apprecnble num-
Der OF vessels in the old-fashioned wav
The ships that carry the bulk of the worlds
cargoes, that are seen in every harbor and
roadstead from New York to the Cape of
Good Hope, will be the Fabricated" steel
frelghters. For time the fast passenger
liners and other special typcs will continue
TO De built from special designs. But prob
ably even these will later yield to the new
era in the mean time, and long after the
war is over, America will be called upon to
make up tho tonnage deficit of the world.
with the disappearance Of the made-to-
order method the advantage in cost to the
European builders through their cheaper
labor Is liable TO disappear. Higher Amer
lcan wages may be offset by this greater
e'hciency The initial advantage of the new
method will certainly be ours; by all that is
American it should be permanent
Ihat we shall grow into great sea
power is gradually becoming the fordcst
hope of every American The fabricated
ship has given the necessary Impetus; the
people must do the rest. Thus the nation
OF the skyscraper may become also the
nation of the ocean leviathan, and in that
manner not only "scrape the sky" bus
sweep the seas as we'll
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Inspiration

Saturday evening in New York the
President spoke on war and peace for
the first time since that day in April
at Baltimore when he thrilled the heart
and caused the hand of democracy to
tighten upon the sword with the words,
Force, force to the utmost, force with
out stint or limit, the righteous and trl-
umphant force which shall make right
the law of the world"
And now he adds that 1--WE are not
to be diverted from the grim purpose of
winning the war by any inslncere ap-
proaches upon the subject of peace He
has tested those approaches, and pro-
nounces them false. II now recognize
them for what they are he says They
contemplate Accommodation" on the
West with the unconquered Allies, pro-
vded Germany may have a free hand in
the East "to carry out purposes of con-
quest and exploitation.
That is the temptation the Germans
have prepared. They are willing to
make peace with England and France
and the United States and Italy in ex-
change for the right of conquest in the
East.
To yield would be disastrous both
morally and politically. 1t would mean
to abandon Russia for q new scrap Of
papar 1t would give Germany an en-
pire unparalleled in modern times, with
ultimate power of life and death over
democracy on earth. 1t would be politi-
cal suicide for all of us.
But when he commits US to the propo-
sition that we shall "stand by Russia as
we'll as France the President is think
ing Of the moral values first. They are
permanent. Everything we are and may
be has been consecrated to what is, as
the President historically says, perhaps
The only unselhsh war the world has
ever seen. We are embarked upon
desperate, magnificent adventure in n.lrc
human faith. There is nothing VIC want
for ourselves. In Germany's cynical
philosophy this is either madness or
nypocrisy
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Those Riverside Qdors

According to the report of inspectors
of the State Board of Health. who have
been investigating the cause of the evil
odors of which residents of the upper
West Side complain so loudly, the CITY
OF New York is not guiltless, although it
is one of the complainants in the case
OF the New Jersey factories against
which proceedings have been brought.
The city dump at Ninety-sixth Street is
held to be the cause in part Of the dis
comfort to which this section has been
subjected.
1t behooves the city administration to
clean its own house before going further
with the case against it's neighbors. Not
much progress can be made toward safe
guarding the health and comfort of the
Riverside Drive neighborhood even bv
penallzing the New Jersey factories in
the way proposed if the city itself does
not remedy the conditions at the dump.
about which State Health Commissioner
Blggs has written to the CITY Health
Commissioner.
To abate the nuisance from New ,Jer-
sey requires long legal proceedings. To
cure the evils on this side would REQUIRE
only action by the heads of city depart
ments-the Health Department and the
Street Cleaning Department. Remedial
action for the benefit Of the public. like
CHARITY should begin at home
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Types That Were
Already Developed

Further, the types of motor trucks regu-
larly produced in this country for ordinary
commercial uses are largely suited to the
special needs of military service This is
because, as iii the case of passenger auto
mobiles, American motor trucks for many
years have generally followed in design and
construction the lead of European trucks,
and the development of the latter has been
influenced largely by military dictates. This
resulted from the subsidy systems pertain
ing in France and Germany for many years,
and established in the other countries
abroad before the outbreak of the war
Under these systems the purchaser of a
motor truck built according to government
specifications, and practically complying
with all these specifications, received an
nually sum of money amounting to as much
as one~quarter Of the purchase price of
the truck. In return the owner had only to
keep the vehicle in good operating condition
at all times and to turn it over to the gov
ernment on demand in case of war The
purpose of these subsidies was twofold-to
encourage the of motor trucks by busi-
ness interests and individuals, thus increas-
ing the number available in case of need,
and to have these trucks adapted to military
requirements.
Thus with motor trucks, as with ava-
ton motors the War Department would
have done better to have adopted at the
outset proved types and proceeded at once
TO their manufacture in quantities, and
meantime in an experimental way
deavored to develop better types, with a
view of their adoption for 1919 or later,
when they had demonstrated superior merit.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Was Napoleon a Prophet
(Fvom The Houston Chron,cle)

'.TOi 1 nc houston ChTOntc{c)
Napoleon Bonaparte predicted that with
IN one hundred years Europe would be
either Cossack or republic
The Cossack has passed, shot to shreds
by the belchlng cannon of PrussiaD autoc
racy. This leaves the republic alternative.
France is republic. Its tricoor waves
over bleeding, but not broken. land.
France once conquered Europe, all except
England, and then lost world dominion
through the power of that same England
france now fights with England Descend
ants of the men who broke the Austrian
power at Austerltz and shattered the sword
OF italy at Marengo are once more in battle
array The resources of the world are
theirs and the hope of the world is with
them.
Only the Prussian fighting machine now
stands between Franco and Siberia. Tho
frusslan fighting machine is being dashed
to pieces against the British lines, which,
II they yield to-day, will strike harder
than ever tomorrow.
The Prussian fighting machine has
broken the power and destroyed the eff
cheney of the Cossack The Prussian f pht-
ing machine has wiped out all of the small
national boundaries except those of Holland
and Greece. If it in turn goes down. France
VIII find situation made to order for the
rcpublcanzng Of Europe
Is 1t too visionary to suggest that the
trcolor of France and the Stars and Strines
may yet meet at the Siberian frontier? :?
The United States, through Alaska, already
is at the borderland of Siberia. Through
the Philippines the United States is at tho
borderland Of Manchuria
Can you visualize two republics stretching
north from tho Mediterranean Sea to the
Arctic Circle and south from there to the
Gulf of Mexico?
Is the dream of Napoleon to become a
reality? VIII Europe be republic touch.
ing hands with the mighty Republic of
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
His Due

1t is opposed to all ideas of democratic
equality and subversive of all standards
OF good citizenship that those who serve
their country at the front should lose
their votes. Power is thus taken out of
the hands of the nations frst-lne de-
tenders and given to the stay-at- homes.
The War Department decided some time
ago that soldiers abroad should not vote
this fall. Military considerations con-
trolled that ruling. The military au-
thorities didn't want to be bothered with
holdovers from peace status Ike bal
lots and election booths TIE political
and moral effects of denying suffrage to
the soldier were ignored
Secretary Baker now shows a dispo-
sltlon to reverse the Acknowledgement or
der. He says that # the states devise
method of taking the vote which will not
interfere too seriously with military
routine he will allow polls to be made in
France. Most of the states have liberal
laws governing voting by citizens in the
military service. Commissioners collect
ing ballots enjoy wide latitude. There
is no reason why they should enforce an
elght-hour election day and hold a stop
watch on voters who are temporarily &C.
cupled in a front-line trench.
Voters in the service should have the
heneht Of every concession and every
doubt. The voice of the man who fights
Tor his country is the last voice which
ought to be choked into silence bv politi-
cal or military red tape. He is doing
more of his bit than the man back home
who can walk around the corner and de-
posit ballot
AS a matter of conscience we cannot
afford to disqualify the soldier voter be-
cause of absence on duty. From the
point of view of justice and patriotism
1t would be better to postpone all state
and other elections until the war is over
than to so ahead with them and count
the citizen soldier out.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
St. Paul Martyred Anew
From The Hnrtfnrd l,o...a.N


The Bridgeport Post" is we'll edited and
interesting, but it is not free from the hu-
man element and falls into error like its
contemporaries now and then, one of these
occasions being on Tuesday when it ran a
half-column of book reviews One of thes,
the last, appeared as follows:
in tho Footsteps of st. Paul" bv Francis
+. Clark, author of "Old Homes of Nav
Amer'cans,' etc, is an account of the ];fe
and labors of st. Paul in the light Of nov
sonal Journey TO the cities visited bv tho
Apostle. '"e
Now the time for all
all god st. Paul Wien
In the Footstep of is. f
Jauu now the Life and Labors
of st. Paul in the personal
Journcwy of the Citl les visiter
oq the Apostle st. Paul now
the time for all god men TO
come to the and mis- the ime
1t was st. Paul who said of h;mse,f +h.+
ne was I'm perils of waters. in neri)s oe
robbers, In perils by the heather in ner;ls
IN tne city but one thing was spared him
until centuries after his martvrdom and
now that has come. At last the Anos,1a
to the Gentiles has been in peril hv ths
Office boy 0S '"s
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20

"Mlttel' is word to conjure with in
TIE imaginations of the German empire
builders
First came Mittel- Europa. That robust
conception is now almost an established
fact. Germany has conquered by alli-
ances Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and
Turkey. She has absorbed by force Ser
bla, Montenegro, Albania, Rumania, the
Ukraine, the Crmea and the rest of the
Russian Black Sea provinces, Poland,
Llthuania, Courland, Livonia Esthonia
and Finland. She has become virtual
master of Sweden and Denmark. Only
defeat in the field can lessen her grip on
this aggregation of subject European
states.
"Mltte-Aslen" would naturally be the
next dream of German empire. A basis
Tor 1t already exists. The approximation
OF Southern Russia and Trans Caucas;a
gives Germany an easy entrance into
fersla and Turkestan. The restoration
10 turkey of her Asiatc provinces would
carry the German overload to the Per-
sian Gulf. Central Asia would lie omen
to him and India's security would be
threatened as 1t was never threatened
by RUSSIAN encroachment. Should Ger
many WIN the war a German Middle
ASIA would soon be linked up with
German Middle Europe The Teuton
travels by land. Flushed with victory
nothing could block his progress toward
the roof of the world" into AFGHAN
lstan and Tibet, into Tartarv and
Western China.
There is still third vision cher;shod
IN berln--a '"Mittel-Afrika." Our Lon
don correspondent, Mr.. Draper. renorts
the revival of the German Middle Afr;c,
project fioated before the war bv Ger
man leaders who thought that it could
be realized without war; 1t did. in fact
make some progress toward realization
through diplomacy, and the Lichnowskv
'apers and other recent disclosures indi.
ate that Great Britain, at least. was
strongly inclined to permit the creation
OF an enlarged German colonial empire
The pan-eermans, j course, shifted
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Abandoned Liberty Trucks
By John r. Eustis
Director of the Independent Motor Seruice
(Reprimted from The independently

NF MORE than passing interest and
significance is the action just taken
by the War Department at Wash
ington in practically abandoning the
called standardized or Liberty motor trucks
in favor of the regular models of American
manufacturers and supplanting the two
men who have been in charge of motor
truck production for the army. The an
. nouncement to this effect reads: 1.-TWO Of
the three types of Liberty trucks have been
abandoned for the time being. Christian
Girl, of New York, formerly in charge of
truck production has resigned and returned
to private life. General Chauncey Baker,
in charge of production for the Quarter
master Corps, has been transferred from the
National Army, resuming his rank as colonel
in the regular army. He has been sent to
Chicago. new department is being
ganized to take over the production of
motor trucks for the army"
Without doubt this decisive action has in
no small measure been influenced by the
public discussion of the troubles of the Air
craft Production Board and of the Liberty
aviation motor. Like the latter, the Liberty
motor trucks were heralded as the result
of intensive cooperative effort on the part
of American truck engineering experts and
destined to revolutionize military motor
transport. In both instances the products
failed to come up to the predictions of their
sponsors either in performance or quantity
production
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
The Record

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The girls of the Julia RIcnmsn
High School secured, in the third Liberty
Loan. subscriptions to 1896 bonds. max
ing an. average of twelve bonds girl. Inc
total amount reached WAS s2,ls9.ooo.
CLAUDIA POPOFF.
The Julia Richman High School, Amster-
dam Avenue and Seventy Stree
New York, May 16, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Natural History Confused
lFroll The lgorldl

tfrom The World,
There can be no doubt whatever that tho
esteemed Tribune has managed to get tn.
more or less honorable goat of Mr.. Will
lam Randolph Hearst.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Trust and Distrust

He had flashes now and then of positive
genius-such flashes as his father had not
dreamed of-but he Offset them by defvinp
common sense. He trusted men who ;a the
end betrayed him. He distrusted others
who were blndly loyal.
Heredity in part explained his character
He was the son of a shrewd, level-headed
Scot and brilliant, although strange and
erratlc Irish woman. His bright impulses
ne owed most to his mother. To his fathe,
he was indebted for his once logged pluck
and his journalistic enterprise.
Most OF the people who were thrown in
contact with him. as his assistants or sub
ordnates. would rather think of him. now
that his life is done. less as their fellow
man than as their leader. Yet even as
leader, to be frank, he was trying. and A.
most times hard to deal with The habit
OF unbridled wealth and power had made
hlm despotic. He had a streak of tn.
Ncronic in his nature.
We who had toiled for him for strenuous
Years were always conscious of our inse
curlty Yet we obeyed him and took risks
fo1 him unshrinkingly. There was a good
side, If there may have been a bad side. to
the "Commodore's" methods. His personal
interest in all we did was a powerful stim
ulus. We knew that if we failed in anv
instance our heads were more than likely
to be forfeit. But we knew also that our
success would be rewarded
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
GUARANIEE

GUARANTEE
YOU purchase merchandise advertised In thS
TRsuNE with absolute sateSor II dlssatisfact'on re-
suits In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
hack request. No red tape. No auhbino.
We make good promptly II the advertiser does rot
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
No Policy

Unhappily, the "Heralds" had no policy.
They did not strive to guide or uplift the
public. We members of the staffs OF the
two "Heralds," published in New York and
Paris, were before all else trained to re-
Card ourselves as accurate news gather
crs. We were required to get the news at
any cost, though we were not required to
lose our self-respect. The great questions
of the day we dealt with indirectly, not as
matters as to which we should have convic-
tions, but as magnifed news items. Ex-
cept when Mr.. Bennett wrote an article,
the editorials of the "Herads" had no
meaning.
To the Comm odore' a good journalist
was the journalist who could foresee
"whcre hell would next break loose
nose for news, in other words, was the first
attribute which the late editor demanded
of his "employes." His ideals of course,
we're far from high But, none the less, SO
long as he lived up to them his New York
paper was beyond doubt power. For
brains, as brains, the Commodore" cared
little. He used to say that he could buy
them by the pound Nor to be just, did ne
care more for sensationalism than for in
tellectuality.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
A -Neronic Editor
Recollections Of Working for
James Gordon Bennett
By Charles Henry Meltzer

O. LOWLY, but surely, the great 6opra,
~ in now almost vanished groun 80
American editors have crossed tha
bar The last to go is that much liked
much dsliked, and much envied Journalist
James Gordon Bennett
The late owner of the Paris and Nom
York "Heralds" stood by himself. Tbouvb
an American, few knew him over here. For
nearly half memorable century he had
lived in France. He had grown To lows
France as second homeland But. while
French ways and folk were dear to him. At
hears he still remained a good American
Self-exiled though he might be- he was
very sensitive to all that touched tb;.
country and its honor
By his intmates (of whom he had no.
many, and by the members of his stats
whom he called his "employes," James Cor
don Bennett was as a rule referred to a.
the Commodore" To even those who had
known him long and closely to his dving
day he was a disturbing paradox He was
very human, yet could seem inhuman. He
was hot and cold and kind and cruel. At
times he could be generous to a fault. A.
other times he could be utterly ruthless.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
One Sin

Next to nose for news, he set store
on discipline. The objectionable sin, as
he saw things, was not ignorance or drunk
enness, or sacrilege, Observation-Disclosures
lmpulsive though he seemed and some
times was, there moments when ne
needed his own motto, LA mutt porte
conseil" He also, on and off. consulted
people as to his enterprises, though not,
perhaps, just in the usual way.
when I am doubtful" ! remember ne
once told me, about this or that | consult
my secretary. After that | consult my
cook. IfAboth OF them approve what have
planned ! know l must be wrong-anu
drop my plan"
At the bottom of his nature lay-suspl-
cion. He had been i'll used they say. wneh
he was young and green, by a person IN
whom he had had absolute confidence 10
his own sorrow, he could never quite foFge'
the experience.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Strange Erronds

No matter where the "Commodore"
might be. he watched his papers with an
eagle eye. We "employes' very seldom
lad dull moments We might fall asleep
one night in France or Spain. The next
day might find US on the road to Egvpt
Ne went our ways, at brief word. ike
soldiers. Ours not to reason why. even
when our orders seemed ncomprehensible.
once | was sent off to Madeira without in
structions. ] was expected to find out en-
route why | was sent there Not long be-
fore that, when mere beginner, | was
dispatched to Rome-then quite unknown
to me-to induce the Pope not only to be
interviewed and say something to me- but
to unsay an important statement as to his
irish policy. But nearly always, having
faith and grit. we managed to accomplish
the tasks sot for us.
Those on the "Heralds" who were world
ly wise fought shy, when they could do so,
of their despotc chief, He had an un-
pleasant trick of exalting -to abase men
The favortcs of Prince Hal were much as
we were. | recall certain night when, as
we were straining nerves to bring out
"The Paris Herald we received a visit
from the "Commodore." He was in his
mos. Neronic mood that night When he
left us, after stopping all our work, he had
cabled instructions to New York which dis
missed a managing editor.
With all his faults and he had his flll
share of them. James Gordon Bennett
could inspire his men. He encouraged
them to superhuman effort, if he dis
couraged them by superhuman cruelty.
We fought for him and obeyed him with
cut question. 1t was "go and he goeth,"
in the literal cense
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use
otherwise credited in this and also the local
news OF spontaneous origin published heran.
All rights OF republication OF all other matter herein
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20

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~ MORE than passing interest and
. } significance is the action just taken
~ by the War Department at WASH
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20

production
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
"Mittel" Madness
nypocrisy.

"Mittel'' is a word to conjure with in
TIE imaginations of the German empire
builders