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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
The Merchant Ship Programme

Gradually the estimates of new mer-
chant ship tonnage to be produced in 1913
are being debated. The figure set last
fall by the Shipping Board was, roughly,
100000 tons. Subsequently the chairman
of the board explained that this was not
to be taken IS an actual promise Of 6,000,-.
600 new tons, but that it merely meas7
ured the scope of the boards programme
as it stood some months ago. OF the
100000 tons about one-t third consisted Of
foreign merchant vessels already under
construction here which had been COM
Wandered by our government.
At the Senate shipbuilding hearing the
other day Mr.. Ferguson, the president Of
the Newport News Shipbulding Company
told the Senate Committee on Commerce
that the American output of merchant
shipping this year would not exceed 5000.
900 tons. This estimate may be little
overcautious, yet the delays with the ship
building programme have been so pro-
tracted and the changes in the organiza
ton Of the Shipping Board and it's auxil-
larry bodies have been so numerous that
optimism in this field is now at a sharp
discount.
1t would be better in fact, since we have
fallen so far behind our first roseate sched-
ules, to put the soft pedal on grandiose
expectations. We may thus avoid an un-
pleasant surprise at the end Of the year,
and will certainly cause less disappoint-
ment to our allies. We may not at the
outset have greatly overrated our ship
building facilities. Mr. Ferguson, prac-
teal ship man, who ought to know, says
that the shpyards already built and those
building could turn out 100000 tons
under proper conditions" and that 'the
country could, if put to it. add still other
yards and produce 10 1000 900 tons year"
But the task of developing this energy was
placed in highly unskilled hands The
Denman regime was a nightmare Of in
efficiency Since Mr.. Denman went back
to San Francisco to practise admiralty law
there have been three changes in the man.
agement Of the operating branch of the
Shipping Board. AS result the great
acceleraton Of shpbuilding which was to
occur in 1918 will have to be postponed to
a later date.
1t does no good to lament wasted oppor-
tunties. Nor is it of any advantage 10
try to cover up record of partial failure.
In shipbulding, as in ordnance construc-
ton, we shall have to make the best Of a
situation that was mishandled 1t is one
consolation that the destructiveness Of the
submarine has been checked to some cx-
tent and that even the Germans now con-
oede that the U-boat cannot win the war.
But the Allied merchant feet can win it by
assuring the American armies in Europe
ample communications with their base.
Let US 90 on, then, building ships as fast
as we can. not with the idea that we are
going to accomplish anything wonderful
this year, but with a fixed purpose to ac-
complsh something really worth while be-
fore the end of 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
Loyalty Tests Next Year

oFront The Dos Moines CapitaD
Next year will be q political year Many
thousands Of Offices to be filled 1t will
be a dangerous year in some respects unless
We all keep our heads How many candi-
oates for Office next year to be reelected
Will be found making unpatrotic pro Ger
man pledges in order to secure the votes OF
those who are less than halfway loyalo How
many candidates for county Offices will keep
their mouths closed, being afraid to talk in
favor OF their own country lost they sacri-
hce pro-German votes? When men are car
oidates they naturally wish to be elected,
end it has been the American political way
to give out whispered pledges and enter into
secret combinations or treaties which NAV
De necessary to secure votes. As we have
SAID. next year viii be a strenuous wear for
patriotism. We suggest that patriotic soc,-
cites with or without name be organized
where there may not be any to-day. to oo-
pose treason and to line up traitors whcr
ever they may be found. Before the YEAR
1918 is closed there ought to be thousands
of disoyal or semi-disloyal men put into
stockades until the war is over
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
Failed as interpreters

Its members have been too long away from
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They haven't eaten
brown ON boths.des at Childs's They dom
know why Henry Ford is popular in the Mid
Gle Vest 50 the picture they gave the
French OF our early reaction to the war was
inaccurate. and when we really came the
French were puzzled by cur attitude Then
we failed 70 make use Of those oldtime resi-
dents, working them into our scheme. where
they could have served US we'll by their
knowledge of French ways and Of the Ian
guage. And in the larger work OF interpreta-
ton they in turn have failed US. II they had
ever really known the people back home they
would have understood the first hundred
thousand that fell homes.ck into France.
They didn't explain US to the French We
are rough-neck. low brow, noisy crowd. We
like baseball and movies. And underneath u
all, Underneath the slang and rough house
we're homesick and lonely. We're as hom.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

Liason is a famous word in Europe 1t
means all that goes with smooth understands
ing, good will, welloilcd approaches. 1t
means the fluent use Of the tongue of the
other fellow, The social manners that don't
offend, the proper introduction, the luncheon
chat opens the heart to large plans, the in
serton Of new ideas in an expansive moment.
1t is all that goes with evening clothes and
group custom. 1t is courtesy and getting in
right That failure in connection which
tends through much Of the American effort
is largely an ignorance of the language. That
is threc-quarters OF the difficulty. We don't
speak the language, and we don't care to
the persons who do. 1t is in small part a
difference in social manner We are abrupt
swift to the point, with an off-hand slang
humor conccaling kindness. The French
have fundamental courtesy that expresses
itself in every act of life, business dealings,
we'll drawing room routine. The officer
has it equally With the host in his home.
This difference in manner, springing from no
difference in hospitality good nature is
as difficult to overstride as a difference in
taste for jokes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
High Prices Irritate

Hgh prices at first found him Indifferent
for he didn't know the value of the strange
new paper money. He tore it in two: he
burned it up. He threw it recklessly at the
shopkeeper. But he soon found That this
car"lessness left him with no spending money
within week after payday. Then the high
prices OF things began to irritatc him Taxi
cab drivers, BARRIERS, shopkeepers (some of
them) charged at rate beyond that of a
mining camp on gold strike. pair Of
worthless sochs cost me 80 cents in the viii
agc of A bedroom with No ,y;,do,
and unspeakable local conditions cost mo 81
for the night. There is little group with
acQuisitive fists vNo are operating on .ha
American army like cgalized pickpockets.
These are all little things. Neither Ameri-
cans nor French in the mass are guilty. A
few pirates on one side and muckers on Tho
other have done the national good name n,nch
harm. All together the experience has hosn
the growing pains OF young democracy
caught IN great adventure, and the chanc-
ing reaction of a mature race sad in It's
long endurance and suddenly iol.cd bv n
novel invasion. The trouble is that there
has been nobody to explain the two peonles
to each other.
You must write an article ON svn,nto,,, >,
sa'a an American woman long resident in
far'S. You and ne have seen the armies
mobilize; the civilians respond. We have
seen var fever and war WEAKNESS. blundor-
ing, graft all the round And now com. tho
new arrivals and they go through the sam,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

sick as the Australians in London. We Tie
person who,likes us-we like him a lot. Ns
Ike the movie that looks Ike honse-Charey
Chaplin ard the sad-eyed Holly MCGUIRE and
The rest of the reels, just as they'd run to
night in HaIsted Street. We like the tunes
we used to know, down 70 the last one We
picked up as we went aboard the transssr
at Hcloben-poor guy that went aboard and
came abroad.
We like the stuff that tastes Ike home
the Bull that smokes proper, net the stringy
sour stuff they sell you. And we'd neve,
taste the bum wine and "Tantasiesp at all
Kirsch and brandy and the like Of them il
we could get within four thousand miles Of
an honest-to- gawd soda water, with the little
lump Of cream floating and crying to be res
oued.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

ly, why we must fight and to what end we
must fight. Mr. Wilson has sent the
world back to the trenches with new en-
thusiasm and new inspiration; he has
manifestly demonstrated that without vic
tory there can be no peace, but without
fighting there can be no victory
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
The Clash Of Ideas

One of the most famous Americans in Paris,
: man Of international reputation, told ne:
II went to General - and offered MY
services as lason officer. He treated me like
his boot
One of the organizations began It's
Paris experience with a board Of advisers,
loade tip OF men who had adm mustered relief
work through The three years Of war SO
sharp the clash OF ideas that the board
resigned.
Great Britain has established It's own cen
tres CT organization and social life for the
soldiers. Several French cities are to-day
british cities in certain districts. 1t looks as
if our army and attendant organizations VIII
do likewise. They Will run their life in their
own way The older group will be for the
most part displaced.
This is already taking place with the
Oeuvres. began this article by telling Of
the multitudinous separate pieces Of relief
work. The Red Cross began absorbing these
unrelated agencies and centralizing the man
&gemcnt inside its vast all powerful organiza-
ton. 1t was the American principle Of the
trust applied to the sacred egoisms ard ear
nest altruistic efforts of these older residents.
Hero is whore the tiericst and most inais-
nant protests have been leveled by Ameri-
cans at Americans. But the inevitable proc
css continues. II is hard to be supplanted
In 2 good many ways that American COLONY
IS better than the rest OF us. 1t is mainly
made UP Of high minded persons. emincntlv
respectable, socially eligible. From the be-
ginning Of the war it busted itself in good
works, with generosity of purse and utter de-
Votion of time It's feelings. sensibilities
sympathies are altogether on the side Of the
angels. 1t has befriended France in a modest
efficient way. and it endeared tho nan,e of
America to the French during two and p hall
years OF agony in France answered by nc5.-
trality in America. And vet--
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

ISIDOR

The corner where he sat
Was gnomed with naughtiness
His nickname was "The Sprat,"
His size was even less.
Poor wide-eared little lad.
so dirty and so bad,
Just once found your heart
And there were aches in there;
let still you play your part,
Eliish and debonair.
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DAVID

David, you failed
iet every face is dim but yours.
David, you failed
Yet still see your hands
You will always fail
You are too big to succeed
In the swift years before death.
FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
erdant Boosting

Next came the early vcrdant boasting Of
'resi. vital unframed army Some of the
men told in the hearing of French officers
how they were going to crumbc the Ger
mans on the first rush. "Wc've come to win
the war; This naTvcte is unavoidable in
soldiers who have not tasted the Western
front. In itself it is bad thing. 1t goes
with youth and energy. But when repeated
to veterans who have wcat hered three wears
it hurts.
A nation ought not TO be blamed for the
weather Of its country, but it is blamed for
its weather. Now, nice weather is alto
Cethcr the thing one is used to- 1t has moth
ing TO do With rainfall ard wind vcloctieS.
Billiards. cyclones and washouts are merely
the hostile comments Of non-residents and
sensational newspapers. Its a mist" said
the Edinburgh folk to me, as | sloshed my
bicycle through busy rain. Maine men love
their fogs and Arizona dotes on a drouth.
\ new kind of weather is being applied TO
our American temper. The wet chilly DAYS
OF the Continental winter are severer on our
men than the hard dry cold of our Northern
states. 1t is probably true that three-ouar-
ters OF our army have never in their life no
fore been shvering cold day after day. for
weeks on end. They are used to coming in
from buffet in the open to the roaring
kitchen fire or the heated living room. and
spending al the waking indoor hours in ALSO
lutte comfort of warmth. But in the winter
Of the provinces there is penetrating moist
chill that clutches the core of ones BODY and
never shakes loose. Drizze and mud and
eaden skies heavy on a boys spirit 1900
miles from home
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
School Room Sketches
(Frou, Poetry)

FROM Poetry)
AMERICUs
A little pulse throbbed in his throat
When he recitcd Hon1ely things,
Wee thoughts like grubs, had fairy wings
For him. His dark eyes held the sun
Mystical; in room unit,
He was my taper And the tune
Of his voice was like the laugh in June
Or child surprised with lovclness!
RODERICK
The STRIPPING Scott
His cold proud face had troubled me
What had known Of him.
Then one day as he stood, gray-eycd austcre
knew.
A shining ribbon from girls brown hair
Had brushed his hand upon the desk
He drew back slightly.
Cromwell CROMWELL
taqdcr if in Scotland
LUCRET[A
\ our beauty is as russell fruit
Sun-w warmed, fragrant
In a northern room
Down in your eyes hear the young girls sing
In Toedos summer fields.
Your step is firm as though it trod the grape
And your dark head is high as though you Dor,
To me brimming gourd.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-28
TIE DUST MAN -
6
REz II

Ut was a warm lazy morning. and
III when SaIly's mother gave her the
III buster and told her to dust the
u Iving-room, Sally went obedienuy
to the bright pleasant room, anf>drop-
ped into a big chair that stood in the
Sunshine She intended TO begin dust
ing in just a few moments.
As she looked around at the smooth
polished top of the lving-roOm table,
and noted that it was glazed with dust,
she wondered idly how dust could &C
Icunulate so fast. It seemed almost
as though some one brought it pur-
lposelv to make her work. She didn't
IfeeI like busting every morning, any
way.
The piano was SO dusty that she
asked herself if she could have for
gotten il Yesterday. And as she stared
at it. and thought what fun it would
inc to get up and write her name in the
dust. if only she weren't so lazy-she
+oDDled back into the depths Of the big
chair. went fast asleep, and dreamed
about the Dustman.
The Dustman was nimble, busy lit
tie fellow. He looked Ike an elf, and
was exactly the color of the dust which
he scattered over the earth. II he'd
stamp his foot great clouds Of dust
shook from him an enve!ODCd him like
cloud. If he'd wave an arm, or even
shake his head the dust fen from him
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-28
MY PLAYMATE

TkNOW boy named Emerson.
b Oh! he and | have so much fun
He helps me fly my big bird kite
And brings me to my home at night
When fall down and stub my toe
| don't cry, though it hurts me 50.
When Emerson Is standing by.
For he says | must never cry.
He knows what makes my muscles
grow
And shows me how a boy should
throw.
He tells me | must never fight
Unless | know I'm in the right.
He doesn't wear long trousers yet.
But he will. very soon. | bet.
If | don't know how things are done
| ask my playmate. Emerson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-28
FOWARD'S NIGHT TRIP

W~ OWARD NASH, TO his disgust
- was compelled to leave the
~ Nash's mountain camp in Sep
b rCmber Tor preparatory school
Towards mother mildly suggested
that he remain another week, for the
first week OF school didn't amount to
much, so she reasoned, and Howard
did 50 want to be with Joe.
Joe was Howard's older brother
who had actually seen service over
seas and was home on leave to thor
ouEhIy reCupGrate. He had been
wounded four times, but was not
permanently out of the service, and
expected TO rejo.n his regiment
shortly
Towards awe and respect for the
brother four years his senior had
grown by dizzy leaps and bounds. Dur
ing the TWO months they had been to-
scther Howard Swallowed him, ears
constantly alert for the least word
relative TO the world war. Howa I'd s
father would listen to no entreaties
when The poStpOnement of Towards
departure for school was preached to
him. Unlike his wife he thought that
a good start for the year depended
largely upon the first week. So How
ard left.
AT the conclusion of the first school
month Howard was so engrossed in
selling Thrift Stamps that a long dis
tancc phone from the camp, bidding
him come up for the weekend to say
good bye 10 Joe, who would begin his
Journey for the front Sunday, found
him entirely unprepared.
Unfortunately, Howard had a class
at four o'clock Friday afternoon, and
this made It entirely too late TO catch
the old stage, which ran into the
mountains. But the distance over
mountain trails TO Camp Nash was not
very Ereat--a stretch of some twenty
I'VE mIes-and Howard had "hiked"
it more than once. When anyone had
been at the camp a buggy had usually
met him half way and then he had
rather enjoyed the tramp. So this
time, daunted by neither the early
stage nor the four O'Clock class, How
ard decided that he would tramp the
distance and Joe with his mother were
10 drive down the canyon a ways and
pick him up.
Late Friday afternoon looked stormy
and Howard was very much afraid
that il was raining hard at Camp
\tsh- 1eIHd PS Joe ana MS mO'her
wouldn't meet him; but Howard was
determined 20 go nevertheless. His
Impotence was hard TO conceal when
his chemistry professor asked him 10
stop a moment after class. There
were others he talked with first, too.
WITH Howard he went carefully over
a test paper in which he had been
ppoInted- Howard fidgeted and
finally told his instructor that he had
long tramp ahead of him and so
was finally dismissed. The talk had
delayed him almost quarters Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-28

know if the busting were done Sally
reused herself hastily and set to work.
She thought what a funny dream she
had had. That night she thought
about 1t again when she heard the
wind raging vehementIy about the old
house.
sand Storm" muttered sally's
father, as loose dirt and tiny pebbles
were blown against the window.
ooh, the dustr breathed his wife
with the anxiety of the model house
wife. sally, youIl have to get up
early in the morning to begin busting
in the living-room.''
AS Sally busted the next morning
she wished fervently that some one
would capture the Dustman. There
was certainly ample evidence of the
frolic he and the Wind had had the
night before. The window sills were
$50 buried in dust and dirt that Sally
needs must get dust-pan and brush in
order to remove all signs of their
mischief.
Every stick of furniture had to be
gone over twice in order to remove
all traces of the storm. Dust was
even ground into the outer edges of
the big rug. Books had to be taken,
one by one, from their inches and
busted.
Before Sally had finished her task
/ she felt as tired as she did after a
/ Thorough cleaning day" when every
thing was washed and secured and
swept and polished with the same
vigor that a house-cIeaning always de-
manded.
/ Such storms. as the one of the night
before, were rare. but Sally firmly be
lIieved, for a very long time. that the
! Dustman of her dream had more to
do with il than people knew.
And whenever she felt like com
| planning Of the everyday busting. she
would recall the big storm that the
/ Dustman had brought in answer 10
! her last complaint, and she'd close her
lips tightly and go briskly about her
work.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-28

it he boosted himself up a tree ia r
enough to glimpse the light. He did
not intend to lose sight of it.
1t wasn't so far as he had at first
supposed, and as he approached he
saw that it glowed from the tiny win
dow of a prospector's cabin. The
prospector had gotten his weeks mail
late that afternoon and his interest
in recent war news had kept him
awake and interested until this I'M
usual hour. The knock at his door
made him start and stare.
Howard did not recognize the griz-
zled old man who opened the door,
but the prospector knew him and
called him by name. When Howard
explained that he had missed the trail
the old chap grinned.
Il reckon you got onto my trail
leadin' to my new claim, Howard Bet
you's goin' 10 jump it, he chuckIed,
your trail turns to the north for
about two hundred yards then due
west again. You can pick it up down
there by that old ore dump"
With a word of thanks Howard
went on.
i was almost two hours before nc
topped the rise where me little cabin
was located anc the thick pine wood
whispered a welcome. It was 2.3O
2. NJ. when he strobe into the tent
he and Joe shared
Nobody but me. joe" he an
nounced carelessly as Joe turned
quickly over in bed.
Why didn't You meet me?"
The startled Joe sat bolt upright
Wei I'll be blamed" ne SAID in
astonishment, ''wherc have you
been ."
Howard hated to confess it to a
soldier, but he made It brief Got
lest When do YOU leave. Joe?"
In the morning. orders We been
changed" Joe replied.
Gee, Wasn't 7 lucky to get here
observed Howard exuItantly.