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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Vac Victori

(from a Little People,
From the West minister Gazette,
a your decree we die or live.
~ Our goods are yours to burn y,
bind,
Our honor which we would not give.
You cannot take. All! fools and blind
nat conquest wins you innocence,
what mastery heart unstained?
Your power is but impotence.
Your gain-what is it you have painodo
what though your ships should ride tho
seas,
your armies sweep from tide to tide.
Man lives by higher things than tbcs.
You shall go back unsatisfied
ana not tomorrow or day
J ne scales are set, the balance told:
lncy still have Judgment who bctrav
lhc'r Christ for glory or for gold.
The fruits of victory are sweet
"'ue on 10 reap your just reward,
Ride on in arrogance, to meet
inc Angel with the flaming sword.
+. II. b. l..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
The Pacifst

Every one of US has an enemy within
seeking continually to betray the castle.
1t is the perverse thought that fights on
the other side 1t is the impulse to &C
cept the adversary's case and surrender
ones OWL 1t is ones alien part You can
not define it very clearly. Yet every one
knows what it is
The pacifist, we think, is the total en-
bodiment of that perversity. He fights
on the other side He cannot help it.
He sees the enemy's case in a good light
and is moved to make it look even better,
not for any reason in morals or logic,
but entirely because it is the enemy's
case We mean the real pacifsts, not
the camoufaged propagandist We mean
pacifsts like Arthur Henderson, for
merfy member of the same British War
Cabinet which now refuses to pass him
to Switzerland, where he would confer
with Dutch Socialists about certain let
tiers from enemy Socialists; that is to
say, German peace proposals. 1t is i'm
possible to believe that Arthur Hender-
son is pertidious, or consciously disloval.
He IS pacitist who cannot help taking
the enemy's part
This amazing human contradiction is
now Illuminated in a new and unex
pected manner. Hitherto it has been
possible to argue that the pacifst who
continually reacted with receptive
mind to any overture of peace from Ger
many was governed by the feeling that
Germany could not be beaten wherefore
the sooner the war could be stopped by
agreement the better But now. with
the German army on the defensive. its
tradition Of invincibility broken, all hone
Of military decision utterly gone, and
with the German Foreign Office making
frantic efforts to start peace mannuvres,
the pacifst is where he has always been.
He thinks on the other side
In his speech last Wednesday Lloyd
George said that when the Germans
began their great offensive last March
suddenly there was withdrawal Of all
peace tenders Peace talk sud
denly ceased You could not hear
bells stopped
Until that moment-until Germany.
gambling on a military decision in the
West, withdrew her peace offers, all the
pacifsts in England, France and the
United States supported the German
idea Of peace by diplomacy.
The German military gamble fails.
peace oyertures are renewed, and the
paciflsts in all countries respond like
automatons.
With the Allies for the first time TAX
ing the fight to the Huns, with victory
at last feeling and not an idea. with
Lloyd George saying that the end Of the
'unncl Is in sight and Petain that the
ziorious end is almost in vicw--with the
Whole trend Of events in our favor
Arthur Henderson and his jicutcnants
Tould Immediately post Of to Swtzer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

land to receive German peace proposals
from Dutch Socialists!
We think of it with as much charity
as we can, allowing for the contra
dictions of the human mind. We can
even explain it psychologically. Yet as
a matter of historic truth, pacifism
would have betrayed the world into
German peace at any time in the last
four years that it had the power to do So
1t is, in any light but its own, an ugly
and alien thing
Who fights on the other side even in
thought is an enemy within.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
The Roadmakers
A Story Of the Garrison Of Kut

Story Of the Garrison Of Kut
(from the Londo Daily TelcgrapAp
J., over half the garrison Of Nut including at
have died in captivity
rg1HE Je7os they toited for Phoraoh
ind grod0ed beneath his rod,
For Phoroah's hand zcos heaUy,
1Hl the people called on God.
4nd God shozicd signs and sconders
10 set has chosen free
Ind broke the rod of Pharaoh,
Ind smote the land of Pharaoh
And slesc wtth plaques his first born
HIS armies in the sea.
You were five to one, but fled from as on
many stricken field,
We fought you all the sweltering seasons
through;
And when you hemmed us in at last and we
were forced to yield,
We struck our flag to hunger, not to you.
You lied to us with courteous speech, and
we believed you then,
To learn, too soon, your honor's little
worth;
To-day but few left alive to tell the tale
to men,
But our blood cries out against you from
the earth.
Famshed and spent, across the water,
beastlike you drove as on
And dubbed to death the stragglers by
the way;
Our sick men in the lazar-huts you left to
die alone,
And you robbed the very dying as they
lay.
Naked and starved, we built your roads
and tunnelled through your hills,
And you logged US when we tainted at
work
Fevered, beneath the sun we toiled, wracked
by the winter chills,
Till death released us, kindlier than the
Turk.
Inc wastes through which you herded US,
the barren ways we came,
Where the weak fell out to die beside
the track
The remnants Of your armies shall he hunt
ed through the same
With the sword of our avengers at their
back.
And the tunnels that we drove for YOU, the
roads that we have made
Shall be highways for the armies of your
foe
We shall mock you from our graves. tina,
in what we did as slaves
We helped, we too, to work your over
throw.
He0rtbroken and forsohen
Our CALGARY zee trod,
YET 1ciM or faith unshaken
We turned from you 10 cod;
-fnd COD has greatly taught as
10 count OR losses gain.
Since 7ce stho fought for Enqlond-
Hcre, too took thought for Enoland
IN bondage zrrougM for Englund-
1nd haze not died in rain.
BY A PRISONER IN TURKEY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

Mr.. Baker holds that married man
ought not to be put in the position of
having to claim exemption; that the
rules should determine the classification
and that in a selective draft all moral
responsibility should be assumed bv the
government. That is point of view
which might have been urged before, un-
officially, but for the reluctance on eve,v-
body's part to complain of any feature
OF draft procedure, lest criticism be ex
plotted as opposition. Obviously. it is
not tar that the registrant who has =
wife and children to think of should he
asked the question: "Do you claim ex-
emptlon?" That makes it necessary for
the right sort of man to choose between
domestic responsibility and devotion to
MS country. 1t should be enough for
HIM to declare the facts. The classifca-
olon' as Mr. Baker says, should be deter
mined by the rules-provided that there
snail be left to the Individual the ner-
sonal privilege Of waving exemption if
ne wishes to do so. The question ought
not to be asked. But in a case where
the rules exempt the man who wants to
serve he should be permitted to wa;vo
men, and his choice should weigh.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
A Week of Verse
The Prayer Rug of Islam
(Frotn Poetrp)


(Fron Poetr)
"A N EN- there are who live among flowers
NB And the coors of the rose are
A. known to them in the seed
Even as the hands of woman in the dark
Make of the shadows garden,
Filling the night of her husband with
fragrance.
Men there are who know the stars:
To them, the night sky is velvet wool
Crossed with the tints of jewels and April
waters.
1t is carpet infinitely patterned,
Whereon the Poet-God lies. half dreaming
Amid the perfect and the boundless
Yearning for the usefulness Of things i'm
perfect.
And so making the Song that is Humanity
Even so am ! to the roseate carpets of the
Orient.
The Magic of Khorassan weavers is known
The dyers of Khiva and Damascus,
And the Arabian dreamers in purple.
The resonant color-singers of old Turke-
stan,
Have come to me out of the dim shadows
Of the carpet-bales,
Under the pickering gas-jets,
In the back room of little shop on upper
Broadway.
AJAN SYRIAN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
In1proUised Workers

The workers are nearly all native Maine
men, 1t is remarkable evidence of
American adaptability and quckness Of
grasp that not 5 per cent of the force
OF ','oo men at this yard knew anything of
shlpou'ldng before they came to work in
TINS yard. They were mostly house and
barn carpenters and, curiousy enough.
motormen. Having had experience in
handling motors the motormen easily
learned the art of operating comnrcssed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
he Vice President Analvzed

'From The GreenuiNe NewsD
Nice-Presldent Marshall has accurately
described his position: "Thc Vice President
OF the United States is like a man in q
catalept'c state; he cannot speak, he cannot
move; nc suffers no pain. and yet he is
perfectly conscious of everything that is
going on about him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
| orpedoes Explained

From The McAlcster vcns-cap,ton
Somebody offers an illuminating sugges
ton as to why that U-boat captain wasted
three precious torpedoes and several dozen
shells in the sinking of tueboat and =
couple of coal barges He thought il was
Sunday school excursion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
The Great Baseball Match

We will give our readers ten guesses
and wager that they cannot in all of them
discover what our Army and Navy base
ball teams did to each other in the course
Of that justly celebrated game played at
Chelsea, England, on the Fourth day of
July in the presence of King George,
Queen Mary and whole paragraphs of
titled and distinguished guests. They
chivvied each other. If you don't believe
it here is the uerbatim report from "The
London Times" giving at length the
Thunderer's impressions of the great
game:
"The dignity of cricket it dsowns; the
tremulous tumult of football is as the
recreation of we'll hammered mice by COM
parison to it. The players live on
springs, possessing the activity of high
grade machine They think by lightning
and field, catch and throw with the Ger
tainty Of a stop-watch. AS if the chaff of
the spectators were not sufficient for
them, they chvvy one another. The
pitcher can grin diabolcally, if he be
good pitcher, and his comrades are there
by reassured and the striker daunted
The catcher is padded like an armchair
and must be able to take punishment with
the calm of a prize fighter"
Leaving Technology aside and getting
down to essentials, we think "The Tines
has got the feeling Of the game amaz-
ingly we'll. Our sporting experts have
had their fun with the British wander
ings amid baseball lingo. Yet what could
be expected? The interesting point is
that England is taking to baseball with
zest and appreciation and observing not
only the tine points of the game itself,
but also that aura OF informal ritual
without which baseball might as well be,
we had almost inconsiderately said.
cricket.
The "rooters" naturally claimed first
attention in "The Times" American
roofing has always been an alien and
amazing thing to Englishmen "Root-
ers," explains "The Times" "are the
zealots who assemble in companies to
now their respective sides to victory"
Judging by this match" 'The Times"
estimated the Army rooter as "a tame
and inarticulate creature compared with
nm of the Navy, whose voice is that of
ocean storms" Considering the august
company and the scene and the occasion,
we do not wonder that 1.-The Times"
thought 1t worth while to set down the
songs the Navy sang; and for the proper
history OF this epoch-making occasion we
copy them here:
The Navy sang like this:
Give em the axe, the axe. the axo
GIVE EN- the axe the axe, the axo
Where? where? where?
Right in the neck, the neck, the necko
Right in the neck, the neck, the necko
There! there! there,
Who gets the axe,
Army VERY loud)'
Who says so?
Navy! (Much loude,)
Then it sang like this:
one two, three, four, five SIX, seven,
All the Navy goes to heaven
When We get there we will veil.
Army Army go to " (groan).
The strain changed with the words.
Strawberry shortcake, hucklcberrv Mo
Victory!
Are we in it? Well, l gucss!
Navy, Navy! Yes, yes, yes,
we leave it to our readers. with all
their mastery Of pungent Amcricanjsms
whether they could give better sum
mary Of the great day than this last
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
The Bright Lights of Kansas
From. The Ostoeoo !nder,,de,

'Froo: The Os,oe0o independently
nose bright lights that visible across
the landscape in most any direction Won
may choose to look these nice nights are
not trains on the Katy or frisco; neither
are they automobiles freighted with iov.
riders. They are tractors busily engaged
IN turning under the stubbe for what is
confidently expected TO be the largest wheat
acreage ever sown in this part of the state,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
A Correct;on

from a Sold'er's Letter to The Knobnostcr f,c,N
=" hen a Boche finds himself in a tight
place he Marbles out Knmerad, I've rot
w'fc and three children Then one of onr
boys sings out: You're a damned lior
'0uVe got widow and three orphans"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

heart, like all Englands, overlooking
with cordial good will toward the land of
baseball: ut cannot be denied that the
two great nations were just making an
afternoon Of it,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
His Chin His Guide
From The Kansas cry Tim

From The Kansas city Times
After studying the Crown Princes per
sonal map, THE Mexico Ledger" decided
that instead of following his nose he was
following his retiring chin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Bolo Didn't Mind

'''o'" me Philadelphia Public Ledge,
Apparently the last thing New York
po'ltc'nn Of either party wishes ia to be
known as n friend of Hearst
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
The Machine Takes Its Place in the
War

Almost every report Of the last few
days has carried headlines such as these:
"TANKS FORCE CONTINUED
GERMAN RETREAT" LOW FLY
ING AEROPLANES POUR BOMBS
AND MACHINE FIRE ON THE
FLEEING ENEMY" "WAR AUTO
RAINS DEATH ON TRAPPED GER
MAN STAFF" "MACHINE GUNS
DELIBERATE A REGIMENT"
This is to say that at last modern in
ventlon and present day industrial de-
velopment are beginning to play their
rlghtful part in the world war
We have this thought Since April 6
of last year this country has produced
something like a million and half or
two million automobiles. Making tanks
IS not terrific task like, for example,
making aeroplanes. 1t might have taken
SIX months properly to tool the factories
Then suppose we could have produced
and sent to France by this time even a
few hundred thousand tanks. We don't
know just how they could have gotten
there, but just suppose thew could.
Events since March, first in the German
drive, now in the success of the Allies.
have shown that it is possible to drive
the enemy from the trenches into the
open. If we could have now in France
100000 tanks, could the whole German
army stand against them?
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-08-21
VICTORY IS IN SIGHT

General March chief Of the American
army staff declares that three million
American soldiers will next year break
through the German lines wherever or
whenever they will. We now have over
three million men under arms. about
oue-halr Of them In France and the
other half in environments In America
We arc preparing to add about three
million more to this great number. In
n few months time. we will see IN
France from four to I'VE million Am"rl-
cans. the largest army ever transport
ed across n great ocean and 4 number
in excess of the force sufficient to win
victory according to General March.
We have heard enough and learned
enough oc IN" fighting capacity Of tho
American boys we have sHnt To Europe
10 be convinced that they are not lack
ing in tho highest qualities Of courage
and endurance. Every day gives us
more confidence in their ability to meet
any zoe which Germany and Austrln
may send against them. Every day
Strengthens our own determination {"
send then, in such numbers and 10 equip
rhcrn in such manner that victory Will
h., quick and certain. Tho "nd Of this
horrible night mare Of war approaches.
We begin now clearly to sec what is be-
fore us, TO measure and TO realize the
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-08-21

There are Ave children In the Ia"'-
ilv of Georgia Sampson, who washes
cIothcs and windows and floors, 10 carr.
n living for herself and the hVe anu
10 make life roster for her patrons.
There Is 10 ono To help Win ,'ic
living because Jim. Gcorsias e'n'ao'e
husband. saw At to wander too tar mo
rhc turbulent stream which appeal"o "
his SPORTSMAN instincts and 1t carf'cu
him off his feet ,,,o
While she was hanging out l'ne
+u,1 NJ snowy-white. wet clothes .nc
other day, her employer was helpins
her and getting the ever present NaI"e
of Georgias conversation at the sain'
time and the question Of household en-
penses arose. ,vetun.
TT takes right smart lot OF hus'iin
now" Georgia commented through tn'
c,otbespins in her mouth. TO 90 "
nrv,bine that's gotta no done. VIVA.
With payin' for my Liberty BonuS a.l''
buvin' what we gotta cat. 1t Keeps f'c
sure busy" 49,. ,
That's splendid Of you 70 ouy a
b,,d" her companion said. I know
thot Il must be a good deal for You 10
try"
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-08-21

ceased TO be deadly menace. 1t mas
hecn overcome bur not cNtlngulsheu.
The submarine still has power to de-
strov Il slow and unEuardcd merchant
ship: It still has power to sink an &C.
rassional fast passenger vessel and 10
compel careful escort Of transports. 1t
cannot however prevent American sold
iers from crossing To France. 1t cam
not prevent us shipping food and sup
plics in enormous quantities.
1t cannot starve Great Britain or any
one of the Allied powers. Gradually
too VIC may be sure that its importance
will diminish.
Of all the hidcous mistakes made IN
history the most costly and the most
,crrible for those who made 1t was the
unlimited German submarine warfare
It vas the browning mistake which
finally brought America into this strug-
rle. without il our entrance into the
war would have been delayed indetin'
Itcly: certainly 1t would have been
postponed. The submarine did not
bring Great Britain TO her knees but II
did bring America to the relief of the
free nations OF the world and IT has
brought and will bring destruction up
on the heads of it's authors.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-08-21
A TIME FOR SOLEMN
WARNING

r ,bn ryra ponS used in the Ter
oocs nropasarda is the threat TO
dos,roy the cities. towns ana lar''H "
r,harn France and Belgium that nave
"a, vet been laid in ruins German
,,.s,onsrs almost g1eefully contcn-
-,ot, tho prospect of making desert
Of all the Allied territory no" he'o ~
rho Germans. 1t would seem th"l wv
Tim. has come for the Allies TO f'f'Ae
n, effective answer to these threats.
r:,,rrnany should be given distinctly
- understand that every French or l'''-
y;,n village destroyed. every mouse
,.ed,essly burned. every farm r"ihe''
I'll, r,.,n IN tho end tho destruction
-, that much German property. More
,,,n that. il will near the addition VI
enormous sums 10 IN" it'u"'''i'''''@
,rbich Germany is going |" have 10 pay
for his wcr. Still NOR" than mat IL
sbo,,ld mean personal punishment MOI
IN nnes but in tn" prison ana Oh ''
scatfold for the mon r"SponSlo'e lo'
,ox, outra.as' II is Impossible 10
,,,o,t,.. of eternal j,lstic" that Will not
..,,,,r. an accounting Tor the innun'"F-
able crimes laid at III" doors OF H'''
. .,,,,-S These crimes cannot
,o n,;d for N dollars and cents. IN
,,.,;,n for them cannot be made BY the
lose az either property or terri'SfS'
f:u;1t is. and always has been personal
,,,d norsonai guilt ought to be- Drou6n'
bo,,a % tho men responsible for II.
,r,ie wor will not end in triumph
for right and decency. in triumph Oh
a,,,ocra,it ideals and of justice until
W. p,urderers who sent the Lusitanla
tn tho bottom. who have slain by the
hundreds and thousands. the old m'n'
women ard ->hT1dren Of Belgium ana
,,orthern France. who have needlessly
DESTROYED villages. towns and 1a'T
conntry-s.dcs until these murderers'
, rohbers and ravtshers IN their own per-
sons pay the just penalty for their mis-
. daedS