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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-02-21

All kinds of Job-Wo rk at this office
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
The Cotton Price-Fixing Committee

1t is not easy to understand the violent
opposition Of the Southern Senators and
congressman to the appointment of a
committee to fix the price of cotton. If
we are to have price fixing at all, surely
1T should apply equally to the chief
products OF all sections, and most of all
to the commodities deeply affected by the
war. One of these is cotton. AS we
have pointed out, more than half the cot
ton of the South is used directly for war
needs. This is true of hardly any other
basic commodity save iron, and per-
chance copper. Yet cotton alone has
been exempt from government regula-
ton.
Six of the eight members Of the com
mittee to consider the cotton problem
are from the South. Professor Thomas
w. Page, of the University of Virginia.
is chairman. Of the remaining seven
three are cotton growers and one =
cotton factor. That is majority. A
fifth is former president Of the Cotton
Manufacturers Association. Only one.
retail merchant from Omaha. comes
from outside the cotton industry. Surely
such committee could scarcely do grave
injustice to the cotton growers.
In fixing price for cotton commensu-
rate with that, for example, received bv
the farmers for their wheat, there is no
possible sectional issue, save as it is
raised by the Southern representatives
themselves price for cotton COM
mensurate to 1925 wheat would be about
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26

of the public schools of the South of
England-which is much the same as
that of most Of the university graduates
one would meet in London. The "r"
vanishes utterly in all the words Of the
nerve" type. He uses various vowel
symbols to indicate the resultant sound
in such words as mother" "war." fire.;
but "r" is discarded in accordance with
the facts.
One keen observation of Jones's is the
use of what he calls the "r-linking."
There seems to be tendency in "rs' as
in chs" to appear unduly when they are
suppressed. Such vulgarism as
"drawring room" is a familiar enough
mispronunciation. What Jones discovers
and records is that a very large minority
of his educated English speakers tuck in
a barely audible "r" for convenience
sake when talking quickly in such a
phrase as "idea of it"-so that it sounds
"idearofit" A large part of Eastern
America does likewise, we are inclined to
believe on the word of observant West
erners, who, giving a natural vent to "r"
where it belongs, are not tempted to in
sert it where it has no business.
AS a further illustration of the neg
ligible "r" there is an amusing item from
that excellent book, the Concise Oxford
Dictionary" That work does not give all
pronunciations or attempt fine distinc-
tions. 1t seeks merely to give rough
guide to the reader in a hurry, quite
along the lines Of the French pronun-
Citations given on this page. Turn to
"idea" in the Concise Oxford" and you
will find it's pronunciation shown as
"ider" with long mark over the &C."
Why this startling addition Of an "r"?
Simply because the Englishman's tongue
does not pronounce the 81" at all in that
combination, and the resulting sound
that it suggests to his tongue is just the
succession Of vowels that the editor
wished to indicate. Our Nerve"
Chapelle is an exact parallel for Ameri-
can tongues-east Of the Alleghanies at
any rate.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
Germany Embraces "The Tines

What was feared has happened.
The shocking Misrepresentation of
American sentiment by The Ne1U York
Times in it's editorial embracing the
enemy's proposal for a secret peace par
ley produced an effect in Allied countries
which was not beyond our reach, except
perhaps among paciist elements, who
are fabulously nourjshed by the slightest
sign of detection. Now comes word that
the editorial is being furnished to the
German press as proof that "despite
press accounts representing American
opinion as unanimously chauvinistic, the
opposition has proved by The Ne,v York.
Times, which advocates the acceptance
of the Austrian proposal, the existence
of peace current in America"
There will be price to pay for this.
Afterward as we know, The Times un-
wrote its words, under pressure of out
ragged public feeling. But will the Ger
man people hear Of that?
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
The Closed Clubhouse

There will be certain venerable habi-
tues of the nineteenth hole to split their
souls with wrath when their beloved
clubhouses are closed for the winter.
But golf clubs ought to be closed for the
winter. 1t is, or should be, the senti-
ment Of their members that they be
closed. The order of the Fuel Admins
traitor is sensible and fair and the will of
the general public.
We have still long way to go, we
Americans at home. before we are wholly
IN the war. 1t is for it's sheer extrava-
gance, quite as much as for it's use of
precious fuel, that the country club house
in winter is to be condemned. Amuse
ments we must have, yes. But they
should be conducted with the same rigid
economy as our households. We have
cut deeply into our spendthrift habits.
We must cut far deeper yet before we
can look our fighting men in the eve and
feel that we have not failed in our lesser
share Of the battle.
This applies up and down the Ameri-
can nation, with very few groups ex-
cepted. The country golf club is a large
and conspicuous item touching only the
especially well-to-do. The example of
it's closing can suggest lesser retrench-
ments IN the vast majority of lives.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
Belated Pay

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Referring to the article published
in to-day's issue entitled Delay Eliminated
in Paying Soldiers" l note in the first para
graph thereof the statement that voluntary
allotments are being sent to relatives with
only slight delay, according to Brigadier
General Woods. acting quartermaster gen.
eral
am unable to match up his statement
with the facts l know them. AS an ex-
ample, my son, who is now in France in the
3O9th II. +. A. Battery A, whose allotment
to his mother of SIS month is not being
paid promptly. On the contrary, draft
covering the allotment for June was re-
ceived in July, and nothing since that time
Since l am informed that this is not ali
exceptional case, it would seem that such
statements misleading. Why not pub
lsh the facts?
Yours for victory. c. c.
New York, Sept. "a, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26

expect to see an Allied thrust upward
to Prilip from Monastir.
Success in the present offensive will
thus Immediately turn the Bulgars out
OF all the Macedonian country west of
the Vardar as far north as Veles, and
by lnterruptlng the communications be-
tween the Macedonian and Albanian
armies of the Central Powers compel
the latter to retire northward out of
Albania, for it has no decent communi-
cations by way of the Adriatic seacoast
Such double retirement will have po-
lltlcal as well as military effects. Bull
gara will not quit the Central group as
long as she holds, with their aid and con-
sent. her Macedonian conquests of 1916,
but If she loses these then she will be
faced with protraction of the war and
no likelihood of further reward. rather
the certainty of greater losses.
At the moment we have to watch the
advance of Serb and Allied forces down
the Cerna toward the Vardar, the posi-
bic capture Of Prilip and the expulsion
OF the Bulgars from all the trans-Vardar
districts. This would constitute only the
first, but still a very considerable, step
toward the liberation of Serbia If the
advance could be pushed up the Vardar
as far as Uskub it would mean the lib
Grafton of all of Serbian Macedonia
from the Bulgars and would Law the
foundation for a real campaign of Jugo-
Slavic liberation next year, with Bel
grade and the middle Danube as mill
tary objectives and the opening of COM
munlcations with the Austrian Serbs and
Croats as the political objective.
We must not expect too much in the
balkans this year, for the fighting season
is rapidly drawing to close and the
sno" Will appear on the higher noun
tains IN the next month The real value
of the new thrust is the eventual threat
which 1t carries to one of the Central
Powers, already weary Of the war and
beginning to be disturbed by the long
series Of German defeats. But it is es-
sentlal that we in America should be on
our guard against a very real Bulear
propaganda existing in this country.
which advocates buying off Bulgaria at
the expense of Serbia and Greece. If
tins should happen Bulgaria would be
tree to repeat her several acts of treach-
cry and Germany would retain her act
ual domination of the Balkans.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
About Foreign-Made Aspirin

Dr. Charles A. Herty, DISTINGUISHED
American chemist and former president
OF the American Chemical Society," drew
attention in an open address at the Ex-
position OF Chemical Industries to a curl
Gus case OF governmentally backed
campaign in favor of foreign-made asni-
rh. DR.. Herty charged that this adver-
tlslng campaign "is being carried on bv
American directors appointed bv tho
Alien Property Custodian, and with the
American directors emphasized in the
advertising matter"
There is nothing secret about the prepa-
ration Of aspirin. 1t is simply deriva-
tive of ordinary salicylc acid. and is now
being made in large quantities bv Amer
lcan firms. Official tests have shown the
American product to be of equal purity,
and, therefore, of identical medicinal
value. And yet the foreign-made asnirin
sells IN large quantities at prices greatly
anovc the American article. Very skilful
advertising has spread the imnres-
SION that the foreign-made product is
superior, and a great many Americans
lgnorantly refuse to buy anything but
the German-madc drug.
ASPIRIN ranks after Quinine as one Of
the familiar household remedies. Dr.
herty has done an excellent part in
drawing attention to the fact that it is
also made in America.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
A Lesson From the Enemy in De-
hydrated Food

We are very smart people, but some
times we are a little slow, slower per-
haps than we realize. In spite of the
enormous rise in the cost of food (and
everything else) we have been very slow
to take advantage of the new methods
for drying vegetables. Germany has not.
According to recent census, Germany
has something like 1000 plants now for
this purpose, and the work has been car
ried so far that a recent article upon the
subject gives the following figures
Seven hundred factories for drying
potatoes, $50 for drying corn, 400 open
drying plants for various products 25O
vegetable desiccating factories, % milk
drying establishments and 400 plants
especially for the drying of cabbages The
hgures given as to the total amount of
dried products are enormous And this
goes far to explain how it is that Ger
many has been able to get along so we'll
with apparently very short crops
Much the same sort of DEVELOPMENT
has also taken place in Holland, where
three years ago these processes were un-
known. But in the United States thus
far the drying of vegetables has at
tanned no general popularity. Energetic
propaganda has been carried on, both by
the Agricultural Department and bv
others. But it seems to take the actual
pinch of privation to force widespread
use OF any new idea. Yet our food bill,
as Mr.. Hoover has shown, amounts to
much above ten billions, and even a say
ing OF as much as 10 per cent would rep
resent whole billion of dollars that
could go into Liberty bonds.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
22 cents. The government could not
longer ignore a market price Of 81 cents
to 38 cents
The Marriage Bar

The explanation given by the Army
School of Nursing, through Miss Anne
Goodrich, for the exclusion of married
women from the Student Nurse Reserve
is hardly adequate. Miss Goodrich says
nurses must be soldiers, ready to take
orders at any minute, and explains that
married women, with their family ties
and obligations, could not be called with
out notice for immediate and emergency
service.
This is an unwarranted assumption
based on distinction not made by the
government in accepting men for mill
tary service. The army and navy do
not exclude married men from service
on account of marriage per Sc. Actual
dependence is the ground for exemption,
not the marriage relation itself. A man
with a dependent mother, for example,
has an equal claim for exemption with
the man whose wife is dependent, per-
haps, potentially, a stronger claim, as
a mother, being older, is less likely to
be able to shift for herself. The same
lines could be drawn for women in the
nursing service. BY no means admit
those women who are needed at home
they probably would not apply anyway
any more than take men into the army
whose enlistment would work intoerablc
hardship at home. But by all means ad-
nit the women whose husbands and sons
have gone to war, whether they are in
France, in camp or down at Washing-
ton. There are many such women eager
to take the nursing course, and mar
rlage, if it does not carry with it the
dependence of children or invalids,
should not be a bar to the service
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
Retribution
IIT A vICToIRE," of Paris, gives the

IIT A vICTO1RE," of Paris gives the
text of q series of letters found
on captured German soldiers
which reveal how deeply the German morale
Is undermined by Allied air raids on Ger
man cities and the German reversals at the
front. One of these letters, written in
Cologne, says:
Eve have not had moment of rest. The
enemy raiders are coming here almost
every night. Last week they came here in
the daytime. They have done a great deal
of damage. One bomb fell in the Haupt
strasse on a strectcar. Many people were
KILLED or wounded that OCCASION A few
lays later the aviators came back again.
There were still moro victims. Nothing is
said about it in the newspapers
Another letter, written to soldier from
Mulhem- Ruhr, says: eve have reallv be-
come alarmed by the last air raid on Co.
logne. There were 55 people killed and IS
wounded. We could hear from this citv
the rumbing of motors, but we could not
see any aeroplanes because they flew at a
very great height. In Thyssen the people
had to seek refuge in shelters specially con-
structed for that purpose. But, thank the
Lord. we have been spared this time! Never
theless, | think 1t is only matter of time,
and pretty soon our turn will come, be-
cause I'm sure that the enemy must have
discovered the great factories over here"
Here Is letter from Otfersheim. dated
July 90, 1918: "Since full moon the enemy
has been paying visits night fter night
Because of them have to undergo very
great suffcrings. When will come at last
the hour when we will be able to saw hero
is peace? Why do we have to suffer So
much? Hunger, worries and sutferinrs
have made me and papa sick; We have lust
had the Spanish grippe; that's what thew
call 1T here, but IN reality we are sick be-
cause there is not enough food"
One letter refers to an explosion in tho
krupp works:
Did you hear about the accident in
kleltch? The Krupp factories were blown
up mere yesterday at 1 | o'clock in the morn
ing The explosion is due to some plot
1t is even rumored that they are goinr 70
blow up all the Krupp factories so that
they might put an end to the war It isn't
allowed to say anything, because thew
threaten with punishment. 1t has heen
forbidden to go to Kieltch to see the place
where the catastrophe took place; the news
papers don't say anything about it. In
broethcn all the windows in the stores vera
broken during the explosion"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
'sYf''

(Crovtno Mr. kiplin0's indulgence on rnerit--ef
the cause,
IF YOU can see that White is Black, and
Il Black is surely White;
If it is clear that Right is Wrong, and
Wrong is always Right;
If you can show that Cruelty is Courage
high and true,
And prove that Falsity is Faith, which men
should speak and do;
If you nave learned that Perfidy is Honor,
and that Brain
Is Treachery- betrayal of the confidence
you gain;
That Kindness is Stupidity and Pity lack
Of Strength;
That Courtesy is Cravenness; and you be-
hold, at length,
That Brutishness is Brilliance and that
Feeling is but Fear;
If Savagery is Saintliness you worship ard
revere;
If Basphemy's Religion, and a just and
loving God
Is Satan, while Beelzebub leads you with
smiling nod
If Virtue is but Vice, which poisons Power
to rule mankind
To torture, slaughter, rape, enslave and
blight both soul and mind
Then, son, you're qualified TO take the Ger
man by the hand
And say "Ah, friend we supermen each
other understand"
REM REMONT.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
Gratuitous Offence

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: call your attention to a soujb in
last nights Evening Journal" under tho
caption of "Tad's It'd Bits"
This paragraph was handed to me bv ono
OF the men in the station, and the amount
of publicity which it has created. n1us tho
amount of i'll feeling, has led me to write
this letter. wherein | wish to saw that Pal
ham is not loating ground, as the imnres.
sion would take form from the nhrasa
Take in the service flag, mother. Pm safo
at Pelham Bay" In fact, nearly 20 OO0 mon
are daily engaged in dilgent application
to study and hard intensive training from 6
O'Clock IN the morning until 8 at NIGHT
These men are not loating, and. as Won nm
doubtcdly know. TO combine seamansh;n
with the amount of drilling which thew
have is somewhat more of n task and ON
tails little longer period of study than tho
ordinary routine in the army; consequently
" mans training period extends over two
solid months NEAL. r ANDREU,c
Managing Editor of "The Broadsjdc.v -
Naval Reserve Training Station. Pelham
Bay, N. Y, Sept. H. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
The Negligible r

Try II on your own tongue. .NerVe"
Chapele was the fashion in which the
French pronunciation of that famous
town was roughly indicated on this page.
And some of the rigid of mind objected.
10 all of whom we say, try it. If you
are from the South or East your "Nerve"
Will be as close to the French "Neuye"
as any American tongue is ever likely
to get, an extraordinarily close translit
eration in fact.
The trouble is all with that most tricky
OF consonants, "r." We all think we
pronounce 1t because we see it there in
the word. The average Easterner will
be lnsulted if you tell him that he sounds
the "r' not at all in such a word as
nerve" But he doesn't. Neither does
the Londoner. The man from CHICAGO
does, the Scot does. The man from Cali
fornia does slightly. The New Yorker
simply couldn't if he were to be hanged
for his failure. The consonantal sound
OF the "r' is utterly ignored bv his
tongue, and a neutral vowel sound is all
that comes forth, very much resembling
the French ecu" and not far distant
from the umlauted German o." if we
may revert for moment to an obsolete
tongue.
The dictionaries are largely responsi-
bic for this fashion in which we deceive
ourselves as to our pronunciations. Thev
are the work of men trained through the
eye, seldom the ear. The true expert
in phonetics is a rare bird Usage as
to the "r" is blatantly conflicting in
America; so all our dictionaries retain
the 81" as a symbol in their pronuncia-
tlons. They discuss the usage of the
East and the South, but cling to tradi-
tion in their detailed record. Even the
New English Dictionary, with all its
monumental wisdom, preserves the "r."
inverted, as symbol in its pronouncia-
tions, while conceding that in educated
English speech it is, in these cases, as
dead as Queen Anne.
The only work we know which impair
TALLY records the facts of pronunciation
Is the English Pronouncing Dictionary"
by Daniel Jones. This observer, for
one great gain, does not attempt to estab-
ilsh an ideal standard or even set I'D
good speech as opposed to Dad" much
less consistent utterance He merely
seeks 10 record the actual pronunciation
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
What's In a Liberty Loan

To raise a war loan of six billion
dollars in twenty-one days will be
an incompatible achievement.
But we are an Incompatible peo-
pie. preserved by many miracles
and nourished by the richest fore
thoughts of nature.
We have hourished without los
ing our faith.
We are the biggest, richest
strongest, most resourceful nation
on earth, moving swiftly upon an
avenging errand in the name of
common humanity.
Can we raise six billion dollars
in twenty-one days?
The question is gratuitous. Let
us ask ourselves rather what it
will mean to have done it.
The arithmetic of money is but
a measure of necessary, useful
and pleasurable things. The
fourth Liberty Loan, when all
subscribed for, will mean that we
have definitely obliged ourselves
collectively to do without six bill
ion dollars worth of food and raj
ment, baubles and luxuries, metals
and chemicals, bricks and bonbons,
service and leisure-all in order
that the government may have
them or their equivalents for VIC
tory in war.
And all of the things we do
without will be in time returned
to us with interest. One is almost
ashamed to think of that. 1t ought
not to be emphasized.
The greatest of all means to
victory is something money can
not buy-something you get with
your birthright here and some
thing you give without asking the
rate of interest.
Pit that into the Liberty Loan!
New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
In France, July, 1918.

In France, July, 1913.
Your letters arrived after what
"the battery's" most unfortunate day
in over a months hard fighting, and
needed good mail from home About
o'clock this morning 210 she'll landed be-
tween the first and second guns and nearly
ruined the position. The mere mention Of
"210" means little to you, but we by this
time are quite familiar with them and
don't exactly love 'cm. When they sail
overhead, as most Of them do, it sounds
like an iron foundry mounted on an ex-
press train, and if they hit near you it is
even worse. They make holes % to 80
feet across and 10 feet deep, depending on
the condition of the soil, of course, and
when landing in a forest make the trees
look pretty sick for about fifty feet around.
BY strange good luck there were only
two men in the area that this shell ruined,
and they were completely buried in the
trench where they we're sleeping Neither
was even scratched, but one was gone be-
fore we could dig them out The other, a
fine little Scotchman, had hardly reganed
consciousness before he began pleading not
to be sent to the hospital. When told he
must go, he said: "Well, I'll get a pair of
new breeches out of it, anyway" He needed
them. There were probably dozen other
men within Is feet of that shell crater,
but not one scratched. But later an
other shell fell not far from group of
men, killing two and wounding four. could
not have picked out six men whose loss to
our battery would have been greater, and
some / loved like brothers. Mail from
home helped lot that night Gee! what
wouldn't [ give for little visit there
Aside from the pleasure of getting home,
I'd like to be in America long enough to
see how people feel about the war There
Is no fear over here as to it's being SUD-
ported and prosecuted vigorously enough
not bt But if Germany, feeling the
weight of our numbers and realizing our
determination, should try to make peace
as quickly as possible-even a peace at the
price, to Germany, of great renunciation-
is America on guard and determined to re-
sist temptation? It's the one greatest
danger we have to face and the great fear
of those on this side For those of YOU at
home whom I know I feel perfectly safe,
but how about the country at large? hope
the temptation to yield to an early and
therefore inconclusive peace will not prove
as lnsidious as it easily might
We can, and must, finish the Job we've
started, come what may! AS matter of
fact, have no fear we won't.