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The Washington times., 1918-11-15

V on remember IN fhe last story
" 5Puss was, ins. the. rickshav,
drawn by great big i'm
-,a.ua .korlr. a n
The Washington times., 1918-11-15
This Dau= in Orr EisLoEH..

THIS is the anniversary of the drawing Of the Articles
of Confederation in 1777, by the Representatives of
Congress Each State TO retain its independence and
sovereignty, but all to be united for the common de-
fense the conederacy to The Called The United States
of America" - - F! ffs
The Washington times., 1918-11-15
Fj0rd and FdreIceU.

THE word "ord from the old Morse. survives in
the modern words firth and FIRTH" is connected with
the English fare meaning to travel and used in the word
farewell" and ant most probably in the first instance
says the author of Norwegian Pictures. water safe for
navigation on account Of its sheltered position.
The Washington times., 1918-11-15
WY AR gifts from one country
NI to another are still in
" fashion. In the early days
Great Rrftain raceiyed

w f9snidS f9 a"2'hs5 f6 the are s4ris s;l aaga i9
Great Britain received
many elaborate presents including
cheese from Canada and riches from
India. America, through its De
partment OF Agriculture. has now
received A valuable collection OF
dried fruits and seeds from his high
ness the Amir Of Afghanistan.
His highness Is prompted primar-
lily by the desire to benefit Amer
ica. but is il possible that he also
hopes 10 tempt some examples rT
American manhood to his hsiatir
soil when the war is over? The die:
he offers is something Of an induce
ment. and the American experts are
particularly enthusiastic over the
samples or dried white mulberry.
which in AfEhanistan forms one "
tho chief articles of die.
II the great plains Of America one
day blossoms with white mulberries
we will have the Amir to thank for
it,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

sccosting the men who hanno.
pass. Similar behavios. was eu sa b
the Bowery. Christie Street and a, VI
downtown districts. o'ass
The writer vas not q social .
er and was not engaged in pa,h's' th.ois'
material on vice. He dill. howersrs hasi ing
at the fate of his coreliy;on;s..' i's'
thought persecution die. psrhans afs
one more degradation to his ps. rs. sas
nc wanted to De Convinced. ana ~ peopk
the trouble to look into the fso.o ~ zoos
those women whom he susnee.ays sses Of
Jewessas. To his delight. ne discsaa dTscsea q
that women Of his faith Wv. ..vsefed
among them. Speaking to neias, i.s 20;
'hey admitted, TO .nc credit ssD9fs 81
Jewish woman. tia. she did m. W sas
so low in spite OF her poversv s'.oF
misery. e'ey ahd
Jewish immigrants tho, b.
mock into NeH YORK by tic han han t.
daily. They settled in the nn,.usand' nnoraas D!
trlct. the lower East Side. T..s' Tba.. cis-
~ contact with the outcas.s gsns T
shuddered. Ii eTer enc ys.o~e5 ineg
test against such situation tba q Pc
laughed at him and told 4ho .ae' pvie'
norm to shut up. W'e:l-to-ao css.f. cs,sef-
nei2hborhoods we're. co.apa "a ivsi..' siis''!i''
munc against The intrusion Of sn.i = IN
undeslrabl , element. Nhye b. Ben a.
as free and trne Americans. tno,. NaaS' s.u
now 10 assert their rights. and H. a'ea
tnand TO drive away tie evil from ,,'t tss g.
doorsteps was properly .leeded '"e'
It did DC. take ioac fer the r.
many police 10 become acoaaintoa 81 81
the psychology Of the rev Jew;sb Nl,l al
rivals. sS'sh a.
The Jew who came from Puss;.,
mania and Ga.ic;a knew. M, in INV MI
quence OF sad experiences. thu, s'sSe. .F
police was .hc cxnrass on O; sas sas...l .ne
nent, and voc 10 tl,e Jen- who 49,
antaSon'ze ary government reoressn,s 60
tive. Police brutality o. the Old W., W..
taught t.ie Jew 70 be submissive a.. ~
pogroms arranged b. the sovernmsr. a~.
impressed him with the fact that ,. c,a.
ing ms eyes 10 the misdeeds Of Il,
ru,ers Is considered virtue. "s
In tne course OF time thc evil heo.,..
50 widespread. so grea. and so Sarirs
'..at every Jewish neighbo~aood w.,
rolntcd out as the dumping ground fl.
,ne OF Et:cS.S @. S0ciei,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Iiddish Press Made
Continual Protes:

Among every group Of humans ths,,
are invariably such persons that if N.
ponds OF restriction are locsened IN.
cerclicts take advantage of Il n.
weak Jewish youtf. who did not GO. :.
proper schooling or who did not eet A.
;'Is maze training from his parents nr.
gagged IN the hard struggle for ev;.,.
tncc III strange land. became contain.
mated in the foul ar which environss
nm and ended by becoming u cadet q,
a nrofessionel seducer OF women.
"aat happened to the Jewish you,
also harpened to many Jewish erl
me lodlsi press, even the one boueS.
ry ian'nany Hall for campaign DEP.
poses. Aevcr ceased protesting acains.
ms state o. things. Bu. Iammanr
iiA4! Enew .le tinlid Jewish frame q
.iiHd. and tnNs continued is evil orsc.
tice urahashed.
The Jewish riGet became also n gan.
per and sangster. The latter W,
ready 10 commit even murder for min
Good. tender Jewish mothers crs
ana wept. but OF 10 avail. A 900
many Jewish parents wished thev HI,
renamed III Russia and become yictm
OF pogfoms rather than live to seq tbei
children grow into wonanhood an.
manhood amid such Surroundings. The
ought not to lie blamed when thcy a,
serted that Russia, with all he~ evils
was preferable to America, which too;
away their offspring and gave them Il
Moloch
Not until The administration O.
Mayor Gaynor did this situation IN.
defgo any noticeable change. Rut i
TOOK Mayor Mitchel's strong. fearles,
and energetic work Of reform to hiring
ABOUT complete metanorphosis H.
cieansed all the districts. and the Jew
isn districts II particular, of this
EVIL and rid the city CT almost ever
Il, alssoiute woman. cadet and gangster
me Jew breathed freely once NOR
and his heart was filed with true
gfaoitnae TO the man who helped save
hls daughter from an ABYSS of fin
ana his son from ruin and crime Hsd
Mayor Mitchell been a candidate year
ago ne would have obtained every Jew.
ish vote IN the greater city. But what
was II that changed the minds of :hs
'e"s. VINO were in duty bound to sup
port the Mayor, who had done 50 much
Ior good government which cleared
1nelr name and rescued their children
from dreadful pitfalls7
There lies the rub.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
four armies on this front, was in rtt
treat
Road Choked Like
A Sewer With Dead

At daybreak enemy cannon got our
range. acropl3nes dropping smoke
bombs to better indicate our position
Shells killed dozens of men and horses
at time, tore wide red gashcs in the
road. 1t was soon chokcd like a sewer
s;en lost all soldcrly training, reverted
to what they had been before the war,
became once moro thieves, clerks,
plumbers, thugs, day laborers
At the bridge entrance across the
Natlsone River into Cividalc whole
acres of ground became covered with
frantic men. Airmen hombarded us
despite the efforts OF the Italian scouts.
Swooping low, they fired a lcaAen hail
from their machine guns. Fallen men
died iii the mud like fics in pigsty.
saw two soldiers fighting like devils
for the possession Of a plank both
wanted to use in swimming the river.
skirtca the crowd and swan the swol-
len stream
In Cividale there were new scenes
Of horror, women running to and fro,
unOeCluCO as TO Whelner 10 1D2uQOn
their homes, terrified children crying,
houses full of wounded, streets
crowded with soldiers struggling over
pieces OF bread, officers giving COM
mands no one needed, and all the while
steady movement toward the Udinc,
SIX miles away.
clear-eyed young mother, holding
little boy by her side, stopped me.
"What's The ncws?' she demanded.
Must go?'
"Yes," l told her: "better be dead
than risk falling victim to the blond
beasts"
| offered to take her to Udinc. She
gave me a piece Of bread and cheese
from her precious store, and in mo-
ment we we're off
'We'd better take the railroad track"
advised, knowing in what an awful
condition would be the main road.
Others before us had thought of the
railroad. The trains had ceased run
ming, blocked by the rifles and baggage
which soldiers had thrown on the
tracks as they fled. The roadbed was
Uttered all the way with such things.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

rear. There was no answer. He
dropped tho receiver in despair. The
wire had been cut. The general of
the brigade sent out cycle messengers
for help. asking our artillery to pound
the enemy. We waited, waited, suf-
1ering from an ever increasing fire
from the Germans, who had by now
turned our two first lines against US.
The wounded piled up on top Of the
dead. There was no one nor room to
care for either.
Finally came the answer to our call
for help: eve are being pressed on
the whole line; you must hold out
let your men get a taste of real war"
So help ME God, that's the message
we got. And yet we have been put in
the coward class.
We knew we were doomed. 1t was
death during daylight to stay and
death to go. We held on, minute by
minute, hour by hour, killing every
mothers son Of German who tried
to break through the barbed wire pro-
tections. We blew up the tunnel ways,
for we knew they would surely try to
get to US when night came.
Word reached us, In that curious
way news has of travelling, that in
truth the troops to the north at Capo-
retto had deserted to the enemy-So-
cialsts from the Tuscan provinces,
where German propaganda had been
most cunning. We also heard that our
Caproni scouts had gone fifty strong
and bombardcd these dcserters, so they
could not profit by their dishonor.
AS the darkness grew we could see
by tho rocket flares the Germans pre-
pairing to storm us, With hand grenades,
poison gases and all other deviltries.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
How the Plot
Was Arranged

We have liddish paper in thi,
city named "Tfc Jewish Daijy For
ward" It prctcnds to be socialls.ic
out It's ways are mysterious. Inciden-
lally this sheet has Il larger circuls
Iion than all other Jewish newspapers
Dld 1T combine to help Tamr1any Hall
elect its officers? This we do moi
know. We were not present at Their
conclaves nor at any deal. if there was
such. But what we do know is con
elusive. 1t actually supported Districi
Attorney Swami, Tammany Halls
candidate. The Job was cleverly done
me representatives of "The For
ward" who nominated the Socals.
ucket, put Up a dummy for District
Attorney. Among Jewish circles ru-
NOR was spread that it was Mr.. Swami
who had liberated the Jewish strike
leaders, accused innocently Of all sorts
of crime and whom the capitalists de-
sired to execute for murder. II was
thus the duty of every Jew to re
elect Mr.. Swami, man whom capital
lists cannot swerve from his allegiance
to those who toll.
The most interesting part, howevei'
IS the mayoralty campaign. Hlliqu'
was the Socialist candidate None al
ticipated his election. But everybody ID
tie midst of the Socialists knew that's
vote FOR Hillquit meant one less feI
Mltchei; that those same voters woue
support Mitchell in q choice betwesa
Mitchell and Hylan. What could the.
say against Mitchell? They corcoetso
the legend that if Mitchell we're defes,
ed and Hlllquit elected peace would tei
low Immediately because the war Wa
declared by Wall Street, By capital ii
whose interest Mitchell was serving.
All that Mitchell had done for the
SAVING OF Jewish homes. Jewish honor
and Jewish deccncy was brushed ASIDE
1t was one great ou,burst against tps
war of capital and against Mitchell. sns
"catspaw" Of Wall Street. They ons'
did Hearst n every respect and sue
ceeded in alternating the Jewish vo',,
ers from Mitchell. TO the delight u
Murphy, and thus Tammany Hail cams
INTO power again.
I'll Judge Iiyian follow in the foos,I
steps of his Infamous predecessors shs
cause again contamination oil ~. w.
Jewish districts? We hope not. Wv
trcmhle at the thought. aud we shu6ds.
AZ the contemplation OF a regime y
New York City where the good work u
Mayor Mitchell should be undone.
What pains us most is shat the jew
whom Mayor Mitchell helped e" -
habilltaic themselves IN the eyes ei ,''
world, have brought about mis- deiss"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Twelfth Battle
Of Isonzo Was Over

By sudden whiriwlnd movemcn; in
the crowd, caused by the dropping Of a
bomb, | was thrown into its centre at
the bridge entrance and was fairly
pushed across. Once over. didn't care
what happened. | saw stalled Re8
Cross motor pulled out of the road.
with its occupants all gone. Therein
climbed mechanically, and dropped ex-
hausted upon its floor. slept good
dozen hours, the first real sleep had
had in four days. When | awoke it
was Monday afternoon. looked out
The road bridge was no longer there
nor that of the railroad below. Our
troops We're still coming across, how
ever. swimming as they could. Hun
dreds were drowning. The five English
batteries Of artillery left on the Carso,
after the Italians had returned the
other French and English batteries
previous to the offensive, came across
on RATS.
Finally the Italian troops reformed
somewhat behind the Tagl;amento, the
rout became more o. a retreat. and the
twelfth battle of the Esonzo was over.
leaving a part Of the ltuian army
wrecked, for the time. and almost as
poor as when it started out so bravely
from the Tagliamento two and a half
years ago with only few field guns.
Copyright, 1918, by Edward MarshalD
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
The Cry Was
Each for Himself

"Every man for himself" was the
word passed to US. We set out, the
few hundreds remaining. toward the
rear. Paths there were none. The
Boche artillery had cut up the ground.
fell into great black holes freshly
smelling Of new earth. Others yawned
about me in the brilliant light of the
night rockets flaming through the for
est. Tree branches swayed about me,
quivering from the explosions of our
artillery booming miles away. futilcly
answering Mackenscn's maids.
The earth rocked. Comrades dropped
headlong as they ran. Bits of lead
and steel spat about us with the smack
OF heavy raindrops. Surely the last
judgment could be no worse.
The twelfth and last battle Of the
1sonzo was being fought and lost this
dreary night upon the tops of those
two mountains Of Santa Maria and
Lucia, whose pretty names Knocked ME
like the music of operas heard in bet
ter days. l staggered on in the dark
ness, faint from loss of blood and
hunger, taking the down grade into the
valley Of the tiny river ludrio.
How rapidly the leak was widening
into torrent daylight Of the sccoad
day showed me. All the roads in sight
were filling with stragglers, with
wounded, panic-stricken, betrayed SOL
dlers, fleeing as myself to escape can't
urc, to be sent to work and starve in
Austrian mines. The waysde was lit
tered already with wounded and diving.
One poor crazed soldier. maddcr than
all the rest, naked, running barefoot
and straight as an arrow, swiftly as a
Greek messenger, believing as he ran.
seeing nothing, yet never stumbling.
dashed down the main road through
the lines OF stragglers. At last hc
leaped from the road over the embank-
ment and pitched headlong down the
mountain side.
AS daylight grew stronger could see
the road ahead dotted with lone lines
of motor~drawn artillery coming up
the valley, too late to stop tho leak
Nearer up and more swiftly came doz
ems of motor trucks filled with reserve.
In the lead WAS an automobile full Of
officers At the sight of the fellows
hot-footing it away, they drew their
pistols aud began to fire.
"Fhia way out" exclaimed o,in,,,
somehow thinking OF the end of -,
New York movie show, as tho toremoat
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Old Hotel Porter
Refused to Flee

somehow we founl ourselves near
the courtyard of the Hotel Italia, which
| had known in happier days. All the
occupants were gone save the old por-
ter, who, remembering me, told me he
was going to stay.
i ran away from Trieste at the be-
ginning of the war to escape the Aus
trians, but this time stick" he said.
We begged some food of him, but he
said he had none left, that gold could
no longer buy food. An American cor
respondent rushed up just then and
reminded the porter to take care O.;
his trunk, left in his room. AS .ho
United States was not at war with
Austria he thought it might be re
spected.
stayed in Cdinc until midnight, wit
Messing the looting of the city by the
famishcd hordes that continued to ar
rive. heard that Cadorna in his
rage had had airmcn lombard the de-
serters Of the Second Army, who were
partly responsible for the wreckinr of
our front. | also met soldiers cominr
IN from the Carso section Of the Isonzo
who told me the Third Army was re-
treating, though in fair condition. saw
ing many of their cannon. Too, the
word was passed from somewhere, that
our new line would be that established
before the war by General Polio be-
hlnd the Tagliamento River, some
twelve miles toward Venice.
again took the railroad track out
OF the city, the main road running
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

of the mob fell. jumped over tho
stone fence and loped along under it
until l got past the nastily disposed
| officers, who little knew how fearful
was the leak they had been sent 20
mend.
Alpini Troops
Die to a Man
The main road was fast becoming
hopelessly iumbed between those re-
treating and those trying to get for
ward to hold the mountains. cut
across country toward Cividalc. One
fellow met told me- the whole of the
line had held except where the pressure
had been put on the two mountains and
little 10 shc north, where an attempt
was being made to break in behind
Cdlne, the army headquarters. Three
regiments Of AlpiNi. he added, had died
TO the last man at Monte Masgiorc, de-
lending this entrance to Udinc.
That evening l crept into a school,
house, deserted since the war, got fresh
water. ate few crumbs Of bread had
lett and slept upon doormat of rae
carpet. Hours later ! was reused by
the tscmble from some gigantic ex
poslon. ! afterward learned it was
that Of huge quantity Of munitions
stored across the river on Bainsizza,
/ munitions meant to be used to invade
Austria, and now being blown up by
our Caproni scouts to prevent the
enemy from using them.
After the trembling ceased | was
startled to hear the liquid trill of a
nightingale in the tree branches, sing
ing all unmindful of the thunder Of
cannon. took to the road. The night
was filled with noise. with the spark,
of rocket trails describing their rapid
arcs.
BY now the leak had become a flood,
The dam had burst. The Germans
were crowding us. Every road lead
ing to Cividalc was jammed with
officers and soldiers, weeping and
cursing by turns, some we'll. some
wounded. There were broken down
automobiles, cannon, trucks stoppcd
III their tracks, masterlcss horses, kick
ing mules, meek little donkeys hitched
to great two-whecled carts from Sicily.
The whole mass moved slowly, every
effort to get ahead merely checking
progress. The entire Second Army.
once perhaps the strongest of Italy's
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
-
Je1os Are Led Astro,
Usually Wise People Sacrifice
Friend to the Moloch of Capitalism
By D. NJ. Hermalin
Leading Hebrew and Yiddsl Author and Editor

here are moments in the seeth-
ing caldron of human life when
reason and truth are stranyIed
ana lies and passions are permitted to
reign.
Demagogy is enthroncd and holds
sway over the destines of communi-
'les' cities, peoples, nations-aye, over
the greatest portion of civilized hu-
manity.
IL the ruin Of public Official is con-
templated all that one has to do ;s n
brand him As a capitalist, or at least as
oe'ng IN league with capital. BY circu-
latlng such rumors, by advertising such
assertions, the person put forth as a
target Is doomed No matter how
honest. how upright he may be, the
damage is irrcparablo.
ms procedure is prevalcn. now al-
most everywhere or wherever certa in
perverted theory Of economies has been
preached. The damaging influence can
be detected in Russia, in Japan. in
france, in New York, and it APPLIES
even in small hamIots.
"A good many honest and upright men
have been sacrificed or the altar Of this
monstrous Idol. One Of them was John
Purroy Mitchell, Mayor Of the Citv of
New York.
OF course. the election in New Yors
o1'y IS over. Tammany Hall has sue
ceeued IN eiecting lis officials, and
hoeh1ng can change this decision for
'he next four years at least. Should
'nesc oiliclals choose to give New York
0ity All administration similar to the
ones lammany has given US in the pasi
excepting the Gaynor administration
'hcn no one else win regret it moro
'han the Jews Of this metropolis who
heiped to elect Judge liylan b. voting
Tor Il!lguit and against M;.chol
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Bride From Altar
Joins the Rout

The crowd became more varied the
further we got. At Rpolto ! saw "a
bevy of little girls all dressed in white
coming out of a church where they
had received their first communion. All
joined us as they were. Somewhere
else | saw a woman in her wedding
dress and white slippers tramping in
the muddy road. already separated
from her husband. Peasants fleeing
from the mountains that here dominate
the plain joined US, some carrying
chickens tied under their carts. others
trying to drive their cattle and hogs.
The crowd got panic fits increasing
IN frequency as we nearcd the Taglia-
mento. Reports ran along the line that
our troops were blowing up the bridge,
others that the Germans had posses
sion of it. This meant the tramping Of
women, Of wounded. the fright Of
mules, the curses Of men.
Then for time all settled down to
the dreary, cheerless tramp, tramp
When we came to the bridge, . wooden
the crowd, unable to pass quickly, was
thrown back upon itself, forming a
deadlock
Frightful struggles took place to get
in the entrance line. Babes in arms
were sutiocated. People abandoned
their bundles Of riches. Automobiles
were overturned and flung down the
banks. Crazed men unhitched horses
and tried on them to swim the stream,
running high because OF the recent
rains. We were more and more fire.
quently bombarded by aeroplanes
Women sa. down refusing to move and
were trampled where they sat. A banker
from Udinc, loaded with steel box
OF gold and paper money, wildly and
vainly offered 10000 francs to the
driver Of motor about to take its
turn at the entrance to give him ride.