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New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
I TWo Ausfrians Seized
For Disloyal Talk

ELIZABETH, N. j. April 1.-two
Austrians whose persistently sighting
remarks about this country are said
10 have eliminated in the exclamation
Io hell with the United States!" have
been taken into custody here. At the
plant of the Roxylite Company, at
Hillside, where they were employed
loyal wcrkmen declared that if this ac-
tlon had not been taken they had de-
cided to deal with the Austrians them
selves.
The men, who arc Joseph Frcndryk.
twonty-scven, and Peter Kawznski.
twenty eight, are being held on tech
ncsl charge Of disorderly conduct
pending investigation. United States
Attorney Charles d. Lynch has the
case IN charge. Frendryk, he has as
certained, is without a registration
card, while both the accused men. who
have been in Hillside only fortnight
came from the Port Newark Terminai
Shipyards.
The recent fire at those yards"
SAID United States Attorney Lyncn.
has not yet been explained. There
were, it will be remembered, some yerv
curious features about it. 1t NAV be
that we shall learn something very in
teresting from the prisoners.'
The arrests were made Yesterday
following a petition from the worK.
men which was got up by William A.
Mergott
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
+ ar1ners Holding
Back Potato Stocks
Urged to Release Millions of
Bushels They Have
in Storage

The New York State Food Commits
sion, in a statement issued yesterday,
declares that farmers in this state are
holding back millions of bushels of last
years potatoes. Accompanying the
statement is all appeal to the farmers
to release these potatoes al once.
George l.. Bennett, Assistant Director
Of Trans nsportation, has sent through
the county farm bureaus a circular
to all the farmers in the state point
ing out that because farmers were
urged to raise huge quantities of pota-
toes last year, and many farmers
refused to ship in the fall, when prices
were low, "there are left in the farm
crs' hands, according to the latest re-
ports, several millions of bushels. a
tremendous amount for this time of
year."
The circular explains the scheme
under which the food board offers to
guarantee the farmers 80 cents bushel
for all No. ! potatoes they will send
to the city and asks for the farmers
cooperation.
The Federal Food Boards milk ex-
hibit has been removed from the Grand
Central Station to Hudson Park Branch
Library, &C Leroy Street, where it will
open to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Professor Thomas TO
Be Arraigned To-day
Man Found With Army Officer s
Wife Charged With Dis
orderly Conduct

CHICAGO, April 14.-Professor w.
|. Thomas, Of the sociology department
of the University of Chicago, arrested
in a hotel here last week after he had
registered with Mrs. +. M. Granger,
wife of an army officer now serving in
France, will appear in the morals court
tomorrow to answer to a charge of
disorderly conduct.
Mrs Granger, for whom warrant
also was issued on the same charge,
although it was not served because Of
her illness, is still prostrated at the
home of Professor Thomas, where she
was taken by Mrs. Thomas, who is car
ing for her
Meanwhile investigation into the
case is being continued by the Federal
authorities. District Attorney Clyne
said tonight. 1t is not expected, how
ever. that anything will be done until
after the city prosecution. University
of Chicago trustees also have begun
an inquiry, but no action has been
taken
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
[Stuf Correspondence

CHICAGO, April 14.-"Fink" Nc
Donald, of the United States Depart
ment of Justice. shouldered his way
through group Of hostile-eyed Wob-
blies and entered l. W. w. Hall this
afternoon, where large crowd had
gathered to hear Ralph Chaplin, in
dicted editor of the suppressed |. W. w.
publication, "Soldarity," tell "the truth
about the persecution of hundreds OF
members of the Industrial Workers of
the World.'
There was conspicuous bulge on
each of McDonalds hips that spoiled
the lines of his coat and utterly ruined
the afternoon of many of those IN the
audience, for the government agent
once carried red card, sang Wobbly
songs and otherwise comported hlm-
self so much like working stiff that
they elected him secretary of one OF
there this afternoon who would have
been glad of chance to trough house"
Mcdonald but they were deferred by
those big As automatics on his hips.
Mcdonald enjoyed the meeting in
tranquility, except for an occasional
sibilant cpithct that reached his ears.
Officers Of Same |. w. w. Local
Chaplin, the speaker of the occasion.
is particularly bitter toward Mcdonald,
for the secret agent worked his way
fully into Chaplin's confidence while
they were officers of the same I. w. W.
local. Chaplin recently declared that
Mcdonald could make better "Wob-
bly," speech than he could, and Chaplin
is one of the best of the I. w. W. talk
ers. So it was cruel surprise to learn
that "Fellow Worker" Mcdonald was
government "fink," which is l. W. W.
argot for spy
Mcdonald heard nothing downright
seditious this afternoon Chaplin told
his audience. though, that:
"Penitentiary sentences are being
framed up for many hundreds of work
ingmcn whose only crime is having
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Result Ominous
For German People

Now, comparing the annual interest
charge with the savings of the people
as given above, We reach result
that certainly has an ominous mean
ing for the German people The debt
cost is already 72 TO rs per cent Of
the peoples savings savings
ir year-be it noted-of great pros
perity. BY the end of this year--if
the war still goes Oh and the monthly
SS93,000000 recently admitted by
Count Roedern-the annual interest
charge will rise to 80 or 95 per cent
of their savings in 1912.
This fact is already looming large
in the minds of German financial au-
thorites. 1t is looming larger, doubt
less, than they will admit in their
public utterances. More than year
ago DR., Havenstein, the president of
the Reich shank, conceded, in conver-
sation with Oscar King Davis that a
war debt of S00.0O0,O0O would con-
stituta the danger limit for Germany.
will have been passed at the end of
this month by more than S6,000,-
100000
But circumstances have more re
Gently compelled DR.. Havenstein to
move up his danger limit. In a public
speech last September he argued that
the German people could very well
bear an annual interest charge of ST.
50o00,000, which would represent g
debt of about S35,000,0OO,O
But the interest charge will not
represent the only financial burden
laid upon the German people by theil
military lords. There will be a huge
pension appropriation every year fol
many years to come.
| At this time the number of soldier:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
2 Alien Women
Arrested i'm Raid
On keg Mountain
Six Men, German, Austrian
and French, Also
Rounded Up

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, April IA
Six men and two women, ell aliens,
were rounded up this morning by the
emergency force of Sheriff Nossiter.
They had been living in the same
frame building, on Keg Mountain,
where the Sheriff made a raid last
Sunday morning.
The raid To-Day was the result of
information furnished to the Sheriff
by deputies watching the place for a
week. The prisoners were brought
here, and to-morrow will be turned
over to the Department of Justice in
Manhattan.
The Sheriff said all were we'll sup
piled with money and we'll dressed,
and claimed to be tourists" who were
stopping at the place for couple Of
days. No registration cards were
found on any of them, the Sheriff
said.
The Sheriff some time ago received
information which caused him to keep
the house on the mountain under sur
veillance. and in a raid on it last Sun
day morning he made three arrests.
One of those arrested at that time
was one of the prisoners to-day. A
few cameras were found in the build
ing.
The prisoners. al about thirty
Years old, gave their names as Louis
kukowtz and his wife. Tcssie, Aus
trians; William Herzenham and his
wife. Rosie. Germans; Paul Wittig.
German; Max Krasnogowski, German;
Herman Rudolph, German. and Fred
erick Schill, French.
The Sheriff said they were held as
suspicious persons, but intimated the
Department of Justice might prefer
more serious charges against them.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Desperate Condition Of Gernanys Finances
Significant in Explaining Present Drive

people since then. Some public men,,
indeed. are still toying with the
thought of getting some sort of money
profit out of the war showing what
awful things will happen to Germany
"lf we cannot exact good war in
IDENTITIES from our enemies" But
cool Judges of the situation, men like
Or. Dernburg, have been asking:
From which of our enemies? France.
they say, is not able. after all these
years OF war, to pay any indemnity at
all; and we have no means to conf
pei England and the United States to
pay one, even if We win clear mill
tary victory.
That statement of the case fits the
hole so exactly that even stalwarts,
whom we mean when we speak of the
Junkers, Pan Germans, Prussan ars-
tocracy, are beginning to speak the
language of remuneration. Thus at
recent meeting of the Reichstag DR..
Roesickc, the president of tnc Agrarian
League, admitted that the old Hclffe-
rich idea of war indemnities had dis
appeared. Owe must bear the debt
ourselves" he concluded resignedly.
"And the Imperial debt" he added,
us growing into incommensurable
proportions; we must soon ask our
selves whether we can bear it,"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Phillips, Paci6st,
Planned a Refuge
In Canary Islands
Asked for Passport, but In
stead Will Get a Ticket
! Back to Upton

Charles Francis Phillips, New York's
young pacifist orator and conscientious
objector, wants to go to the Canary
Islands. 1t was revealed yesterday
that he has asked his local draft board
for permit to procure a passport to
take the journey.
But Phillips is not going to the
Canary Ialands; he is going to Camp
,Upton--so the officials of his draft
board say.
IL "as On Saturday that Phillips
made known TO the draft board his in
clination to depart from warring Amer
lca Tor the comparative calm of the
Canary Isles.
u happcned that it was also on Sat
urday that General Crowders office
ruled that the Camp Upton authorities
we're IN error in discharging Phillips
from army service on the ground that
he waz felon. having been con-
yicted of anti-draft activity.
And it was on this same day that
Washington officials announced that
Phillips' local board did not need any
orders from Washington to rcccrtify
Phillips for service just to 20
ahead and do it.
Martin Conboy, director Of the draft
in Mwe York City, said yesterday he
would confer with Phillips local board
to-day, regarding ways and means Of
once more placing Phillipa in the ser
vice of his country.
Benedict Erngtein, member Of Phil
iips's local board, said:
"The board will gladly give Phillips
passport, not To the Canary Islands
but 10 Camp Upton. The board wants
10 sec Phillips as Upton, the same AZ
every other abIesbodied youth wboxc
turn has come. II MAS not the board's
fault that Phillips war turned back
vhsn he Ess sent to camp originally.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Money alks, Says Day
Criticising Food Board
Commissioner of Public Mar
kets Contrasts Swift e. Co.
and Baff Sentences

A contrast between the sentence i'm
posed by the Federal Food Board on
Swift & Co. and that imposed on Harry
hatf, who was accused of ovcrcharging
for eggs, was drawn by DR.. Jonathan
c. Day Commissioner of Public Mar
kots, in an address in Coorer Union
last night
I'm not accusing the food admins
tratlon,' he said, "but am saying that
money talks too much, even in war
time. Swift g. Co.'S punishment is only
less of license to sell eggs in New
York for thirty days. Harry Baff's
punishment is loss of license for the
duration of the war, in New York and
everywhere else. | don't say that Harry
Baf doesn't deserve this, but money
talks
member of the audience asked DR..
Day why meat was much cheaper in
Minneapolis than in New York, and the
latter replied:
''The charge is that practically every
little meat retailer in New York City
is owned body and soul by the packers.
For this reason an unfair price is i'm
pooeu upon NeW IOik consumers. Inc
only way to cure it is to destroy the
power of the packers to control"
81 have not found anybody in the
Federal Food Board or the State Food
Commission who has thought about the
consumer" he said, after pointing out
the need for bringing food to the public
direct from the producers.
On three months tour to the Pa
citic Coast and back last summer, l
found the whole country just reeking
with produce. That food is not getting
here, and prices are high. 1t is not
because the farmers don't want the
food to get here, but because others are
interested in keeping it out.
Eighteen million pounds of food
stuffs were wasted on the piers of New
York in the month of January, accord
ing to Department of Health figures.
Don't believe that the middlemen paid
for that"
DR.. Day explained his scheme for the
creation Of 81 great food receiving ter
mnal in each borough. and told Of the
municipal food ,ccciving stations at
Hamburg, Berlin and Munich, which. he
said, "ofIer the finest examples of what
a great city can do.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Hunger and Debt
Pinching Country

Hindenburg might have "played
safe" by holding his hires and letting
our side attack him. But he knew,
and al! Germany knew. that they could
not hold out to the end of such de-
fcnslve method of warfare; it might
well last two years. more. whereas
hunger was pinching everywhere, and
the national debt was assuming abso-
lutely crushing proportions. Hence
one more desperate sash for the goal
And if the dash fails-what then?
1t is contrary to all my Dredilections
to make predictions, but I cannot re-
sist the conviction that the German
government would ia that case make
a much more urgent bid for peace
than we have yet seen. The talk of
their military men about being able
to fight on indefinitely is a sheer alb
surdity, Just as is the boastine of the
German financial press about "the in
destructible financial power of the
German people On the contrary. the
end of their financial resources is in
sight, and the fatal day cannot be long
postponed.
This huge German dcbt. il nav he
remarked finally mas q cheering side
for all Of Us who are lighting Ger
many. The burden OF debt that will
weigh upon the German people after
lnc war VIII prove the most potent
peace stimulus with them that could
possibly be applied. Already German
writer's arc saying that Germany can
not return to the old competition OF
ornaments if it would; that it is a
sheer imnossbilitv to continue army
and naval expenditures even on the
scale maintained before this war. let
alone the new and immensely larger
scale demonstrated in the campaigns
Of the past four years to bc necessary
IN any competition that aims to f,1oct
tho new conditions.
The great war debt viii work for
peace; but it will also work foi. some
thing else 1t will force the German
people to brace up politically They
are already thinking They arc put
ting their probes into such oues-
tions as these: Why has all the world
risen against them? Why does all the
world hate the German military ma.
chine? Why have the German mill.
tary leaders had the power to take in
hand completely the destinies of the
German people? Cannot the German
people be masters of their own desti
nies?
That war debt will prove a mighty
healer Of blind eyes, unless the Ger
mans have an utterly different human
nature from the rest of us.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Figures Based Upon
German Authorities
EXPENSES.

That these figures. are not mere
fancies of mine was indicated clearly
enough in the course of the above
paragraphs; they are based upon ex-
cellent German authorities, partly
upon official statements. That they are
not extravagant figures is confirmed
by other German estimates of total
taxation after the war.
Georg Bernhard has recently said in
a public lecture that the total taxa
ton national. state. and municipa--
Will reach s3,I0o,O00 900. But this
estimate is too low Count Prcysing
said in the Bavarian Reichsrat in the
speech quoted in my last article, that
the total--ln the sense just given-will
reach $4,640,O00 900, or four times as
much as before the war. He reaches
this larger total by assuming a con-
siderable further increase of the
national debt for purposes of carrying
out restoration work of various kinds,
setting the colonies upon their feet
again, and other purposes. Preysing
says further that German taxation
after the war will equal so to GO per
cent of the aggregate gross income Of
the people.
Al this same meeting of the Rechs-
rat Won Brcunig, the Bavarian Minis
ter Of Finance. admitted that the i'm
perial budget alone would show aftc,
the war an increase of S2,3S0 0OO,0 00(
over the pre-war budgets Now, the
total for the year ended March 81
1914, was ss54,ooo,ooo So this otiicia
authority already admits total bulge
Of 1924 100000. He includes an esti
mate of $714,o00,o00 for military pen
sions.
Thus there is high official authorit,
for saying that imperial expenditur,
after the war will be from $1,23OOOO,
600 to 1,3300O0,00O greater ever,
year than the aggregate savings o
the people before the war. And al
this is just snapshot taken of th
growing SNOWFALL of debt as it roll
past US at this moment. But it i
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
U.S.. Agent, Once |. w. w. Office,
Braves Throng of "WobbGes >

opposed the interests of tho n..e.
ing lumber, copper and ofber !proiteef.
-, Mob law" Chaplin said Az ~ trusts trusts
mas mas oecn publicly preached and and pIs,as Ishs
onS orgaflaers saei nave been hanged tsru'a aau91
hno al ,Ieathered, deported and bea,sn 'S,Fsd %
ny 1hc armed thugs of big busjnsssaa ussa up
5ynching mas been advocatsySs
usea against union men under tha a. sad
charge of disloyalty. Lvnch;n,an ,ne iaise
dlsioyalty and lawlessness Of s nr,es y the
ms is period of world cr;s;n ;sa'eeS
you think it right for the ,.S,s. caa;. 10
ciass to attempt to crush tho ap'slst uat
1he miners, lumberjacks and ans: a,noh af
ufal workers. upon whose IL ass'eat-
government must depend. NOT ."'vl "n, 'Ne
win the war but to save tbo WV n.u,y 9nly to
starvation ," '"e "ofid from
Resembles Jack London
h Chaplin's resemblance to The It,.
Jack London is remarkable Ny w lals
the likeness. W comment on
At the conclusion of the snee,, :.
audience sang Hold the Forts Frts'm ,,.ln Ins
a Hock of "Wobbly" sisters rsalNs wne
contribution boxes, reaping hp passed
OF coin that would gladden. q aba aaLses' Lse'
OF a Fifth Avenue preacher 'Ae Asa''
Coal black Benjamin Harrison r,...t
er was one of those present This ai,o. at,ss'
noon. After the meeting he expounSsd r,s.
10 select few his views or the orir. cor;r.
a.malgamation OF whites and necrOas rOs"''s x
America. Fletcher was born ;n ' r. R.,,, y
more and calls that CITY his homo '',l' sl
though he usually appears at s, tha srs, s..
nlnt of discomfort among erouns NJ NJ
negro laborers. '"r' Vi
Tomorrow another attemut will h..
made ir Judge Landis's court to oet y :.
jury to try the l. W. w. active snir,s eli
who are charged with seditious ron, con.
spiracy. '''N' WIZ
Nobody is a leader in the T. W W
The officers of the organization ap
merely "active spirits" At the omen.
ing OF court tomorrow there should b,
ll5 defendants, for three more of The
1855 indicted have been rounded IN dur.
ing the last week and brought to chi.
cago
The "Wohhlies" expect the trial +,
drag along for most cf the summer
They have sent notice TO their wit
Eesses asking them to hold themselva,
IN readiness TO be called to Chicago to
testify socn after June |.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
How Long Can
Burden Be Borne?

Can they bear it? How long can
they bear it?
Let us examine some of the chief
elements Of the problem. 1t was
shown in my last article that the
national debt will reach $30,0OO.OOO 900
by the end of this month, or about 40
per cent. of the national wealth, ac-
cordlng to Helfferich, and 81 per cent
according to Georg Bernhard. Now
upon that debt? Most of the war
bonds have been brought out at per
cent; and the floating debt is prob
ably bearing interest at as high a
rate. Only a rather small part Of the
var loans has been in the form of
Treasury notes at Az per cent. Also
the old debt Of about S1,2O0,O0O 900
from the ante-belum period bears in
terest at from 3 to 4 per cent.
1T may be assumed therefore that
the interest burden by the end of this
month will reach the rate Of S1,45O.-
ooo,0oo year, rather more than less
And what relation does that sum
bear to the annual savings of the Ger
man man people? DR.. Helfferich estimated
the aggregate income of the people for
1912 at 0O0O0O,O0O marks, or s9,
5O0,00O,000. The living and other pri-
vate expenses of the people. he as
sumed, absorbed about $4,000, 100000 of
that amount; taxes in all forms called
for another $1,666 100000, SO that
there remained something like S1,9OO.-
100000 to $4,000, 100000 as the annual
saving Of the people
That amount is what they had left
over for investments of all kinds. Of
thelr savings they put about s72O,-
ooo,ooo in 1912 into stock exchange
securities of all classes, which-it is
highly interesting to note--s less
than half of the present interest on
the national debt. The rest of
their savings went into other securi-
ties, building operations, investments
abroad and miscellaneous channels.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15
Shot Dead as Baby Is Born

NEWARK. April II. Luigi Colombo,
1orty-thrce ycars old, Of Golden Street,
ms city. was shot and instantly
Killed early to-day az he stood in his
w!fes bedroom caressing the tiny head
o! his newborn babe. Joseph Dol
pio thirty-two years old, boardcr,
charged with the shooting, escaped bnt
was caught hiding in IA cellar a blocI
away. His actions caused the police
TO send him TO the city hospital for
observation.
Mrs. Colombo, when her husband
fell to the floor. collapsed, and Is re-
Dortcdz to DO in serious condition.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15

We have deferred recertifyng him only
retain him if we sent him second
time. The next quota leaves for camp
about April 25. The board will doubt
less act in plenty Of time for Phillips
to catch the train with this quota
One draft official pointed out yester-
day that while Phillips cannot 20 to
the Canary Islands he might be able to
get the job Of caring for canary birds
in the front-line trenches, where the
songsters are used to detect the ad-
vance os poison gas.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-15

and improved cultural methods, and in
spite of all that is being done there
will without doubt be much poor corn
planted. Thousands of bushels will be
saved to the states crop, however,
through the wedding out Of poor seed
by tests.
Investigation has disclosed that large
quantities of seed corn are unfit for
planting. This seed is the result of
late maturity last fall, early frosts and
unusually severe temperatures early in
the winter.
1T was stated that seed corn testing
campaign has been inaugurated in tho
state and that community corn testing
centres are being established.