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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
What To Do With Henry

It is clear that the restless activity,
the unusual vision and the quite mar
vellous capacity for organization and pro-
duction Of Henry Ford are not being
utilized at anything like 100 per cent
efficiency. We say this quite seriously.
Henry Ford has made the most re-
markable and the most enviable success
in industry. AS a captain of industry
he is one of the greatest Americans we
have yet produced. Measured by any
objective standard, his achievement
stands out above those of any other man
of his day.
Almost single handedly he has built up
one of the greatest manufacturing en-
terprises in the world. With this he has
won one Of the largest fortunes ever
known. And he has achieved this not
through any patent monopoly, but act
ually by fighting, single handedly, the
attempt to introduce monopoly into the
motor business. And he has won with
out hint of unfair or oppressive
methods.
Mr.. Ford believes that we might go
far toward winning the war if we were
to build a huge feet of little ''two-man
tanks" He says that we can easily build
100000 in a few months if we get at it.
We do not think that Mr. Ford or
any military man could say decisvely
whether or not such little tanks would
be of great value. Certainly Mr.. Ford
cannot-at this distance from the the
atre Of war. His idea smacks a little
Of his proposal to build a swarm of tone
man" submarines.
Like Mr.. Edison, Henry Ford is an in
ventor and a man Of vision Out Of
multitude of ideas a few perhaps are of
wide, practical value. One of them might
be of overwhelming service.
We owe it to the men at the front to
utilize every ounce of American inven
tiveness and resources. Why should not
Mr.. Ford and perhaps dozen or a
score of other noted Americans, inven-
tors and engineers be sent to the battle
fields to study the problems with their
own eyes and at first hand? They might
do much.
But we hope Mr. Ford will not be sent
to Europe before the order for "a hun
dred" submarine chasers is enlarged bv
at least four or five fold.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
On Easter Dav

1t was true German luck that one of
their long distance shells hit Paris
church on Good Friday, killing fftyfour
women. 1t was a glorious item on the
rolls of frightfulness. 1t was typical of
the German way of assaulting the human
spirit-by battering, manning and de-
stroying human bodies.
And it was typical of the Allied cause
that the assault, so far from accom-
plishing it's aim and striking down the
spirit of Paris, stirred afresh holy
wrath and only served to strengthen the
French resolve to yin at any cost. No
where does the blindness of the German
to the things of the spirit show forth
more clearly than in this sort of mis-
judgment.
1t is the blunder of Golgotha over
again. If man were a body only there
might be no victory over the Germans
to-day-any more than there could have
been a victory after that first Good
Friday. We celebrate to-day, whatever
our particular faith, the unconquerable
human spirit against which no power of
earth or evil, neither terror, nor death
itself ,>can prevail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31

Of Montdidier, around to Lassigny.
From the Lassigny front French coun-
ter offensive has been indicated, and the
Germans a1e evidently trying to antici-
pate it. 1t is of vital Importance to
them to relieve the pressure on this side,
just as they have relieved it in part on
the other side by fattening out the
northern side Of their salient!
Yesterdays earlier reports from the
battle front strengthen the theory that
the main German effort to break through
will be limited to the Montdidier front.
Here German progress has been steadi-
est. On the other hand, failure to dis
lodge the French from their positions
between Montdidier and Lassigny has
made further penetration to the west
extremely hazardous.
There is no close analogy here with
the exposure of the German right flank
toward Paris just before the Battle of
the Marine. Then Won Kluck's right
wing was entirely in the air. It had 10
be rebuilt, when Maunoury's army came
out Of Paris, and this rebuilding dislocated
the German centre. In the Montdidier
position the German line must be broken
frontally by the French before it can be
enveloped. In this war sal;ents have
stood up against very hard pounding.
The most extreme example of this de-
fensive formation is the German salient
to and across the Meuse, at St. Mihiel,
below Verdun. 1t is shaped like a mag
net and is extremely narrow But it has
been held ever since the autumn of 1914
The first big phase of the Battle of
Picardy seems to be ending. 1t will enter
it's second phase with the counter stroke
which is evidently being prepared by
General Foch.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
Seeing Up

MAJOR General Goethals's observation
that boards are long, narrow and wooden
is pointed by the strike cloud which now
hangs low over the port Of New York
A labor problem requiring for its solu-
ton only tina. "a few men representing
the government, the employees and the
employers be given power to act and then
locked up in a room together and made to
have 1t out has become miserably en-
tangled in the formalities of official pro-
cedu~e
Nearly year ago certain groups of
tidewater workers began agitatings for
higher wages. In the late summer they
prepared to strike to enforce their de-
mands. A strike was averted by agree
ment to refer the dispute to an adjust
{ ment wage board representing the Fed
erai government. This board in Novcm-
Der made an award, intended to be effec
i've as Of November /, by the terms of
which the men received some of the in
creases asked for. The award. thouoh
unsatisfactory to the men, was neyerthe-
less accepted by them.
Four months later, after persistent re-
fnsai On the part of boat owners to paw
the new scale Of wages, the men not I'M
reasonably held that by the non-fulfl-
ment Of the award they were released
from their part Of the agreement, where
upon they made new demands and threat
ened again to strike.
second time strike was ayerted.
The men received the specific promise
that the National Adjustment Commits
sion Of the United States Shipping Board
would bring about full settlement. In
stead Of that the dispute was referred
back TO local board, with the under.
standing that the new demands would be
acted upon an soon as the old award had
been made effective.
The local board, by threatening TO use
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
Another Lynching?"
. the Editor of The Tribune.

. tne EulJOr OF The Tribune
Sir: have read with approval your cdi-
torial of this morning. entitled "Anothcr
Lynchng?" but you might we'll have been
more severe in your treatment of Mr. David
Lawrence, the Washington correspondents Of
The Evening Post" By what prerogative
does he. characterize as EXTREMISTS and
atarmlsts" Senators who question the eff
cheney of the Administrations method of
carrying on war? What right has he to hint
That they are devoid Of patriotism or are
actuated only by unworthy motives? These
mon are loyal Americans and irrespective
OF party, have given virtually unstinted sum
port to the President According to Mr.
Lawrence, any one who hcstates to avow
most implicit confidence in our military nro
ccdure is an alarmist or an extremist
f!easc put me, who twice voted for Mr.. Will
son. IN that category, together with manv
thousands who did the same.
resent the lmputation that criticism Of
the Administration is giving aid and COM
Tort to tire enemy. To my mind the Gov
tremlsts are those who would force rs To
declare the Presidents conduct lmpeccahle
MY WISDOM supra mundane. Shortly aftei.
our declaration of war against Germany
you published letter of mine setting forth
Frances urgent need Of help as it had been
depicted to me while on visit to that
country. Almost year has elapsed, and
wha' mas the United States done? Our peo-
PIE are entitled to know. 1t would be na-
t'ohaI disgrace if, in this their hour of ex-
IRENE trlbulation, we should fail the Allies
altogether or even seriously fall short NJ
what we ought to have done. For dis,o+or
to them we shall be held accountable in his
tory. In the midst Of such momentou. is-
sues the fate Of individuals becomes nettv
and unimportant. We owe duty to civil.
'zation, and may properly demand to know
how our commander in chief and his aids
arc prosecuting the war. Unless we arc to
ignore Lloyd Georges plea for our imme
date help, this ought to be done.
j. HAMPDEN DOUGHERrY.
New York March Is. 1918
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
A Week of Verse
Concerning Decadent Nation
(Fron, The Ne,o York Evening Posn

(Fron, The New York Fuenino Post1 a
BATH. rTsn s6w 5s & to a a s on March e. IA The
~ OLD there Tommy! They come, Pc
Il tain's odoriferous life guards
Slouching with rife and bomb and varied
assortment of blankets,
Tinware, onions and stews, and the smile
that ne'er failed them at Verdun.
France from her white bled veins still
squeezes a cup for TRANSMISSION.
Hold there. Haig you! They come! Their
saucepans CLEAN like the helmet
Of Roland, Joan, Bayard-and a minimum
quota of cannon.
Three hundred miles of front, half-hun-
bred more hardly matters.
France once more is at work spiking the
Hindenburg schedule.
Belgian called and thew came, this feeble
folk from the boulevards,
Frog eaters sadly addicted to peg-top
trousers and absinthe,
Came in their paper-soled shoes and leaped
at the Kaisers machine guns,
Caught the blow full in the face and reeled
back to Marine and to glory.
Serbia called and they came: con the banks
of the Struma our soldiers"---
"Our troops in the bend of the Cerna"-In
the Salonica sector our soldiers
Spaded and feseered and fought and smoked
their notorious tobacco,
Wond'ring what it was all about, but alors,
ca VA tres bien, n'est-ce pas?
Italy called and they came: "Our regiments
marching through Brescia'--
"On the heights Of Asago our troops"-
Oh, tight-lipped anonymous poet,
Your day and your night conn lnques-
pronounced as do it in Kansas
Show down-and-out Frenchmen just raising
Sam Hill in the Mediterranean.
Stand there, Britain! She comes-France Of
the scant forty millions,
Done for three years ago, white-blea by
Hindenburgs schedule.
France of the Lafayette touch gives still one
more twist in her life veins,
Sounds the call of Verdun and leaps
Hold, Haig! She is coming
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
The Pipes

(From The No,c statesman
With the spring long buried springs in my
heart awaken;
Time takes the years, but the spring he has
not taken,
My thoughts with boys wild thoughts are
mixed and shaken.
And here amid inland fields by the downs
green shoulder
I remember an ancient sea and mountains
older,
Older than all but time, skies sterner ana
colder.
When the swift spring night on the sea and
mountains fell,
In the hush of the solemn hills rememoe:
we'll
The far pipes calling and the tale they hae
to tell. ROBIN FLOWER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31

far that ones neighbor at dinner asks,
"What is your opinion about revolution
here?" with much the same pcrfunctory
smile as would go into zone lump or two?''
Yet we can understand the "average
man; he has never educated himself to
think His roots in the past reach down
scarcely further than the first page of yes
terday's newspaper, and it is not surprising
that chaos shall succeed when war upsets
the little stock market universe, all built on
the Wednesdays lying between Tuesdays
and Thursdays. Just better than year
since it was Uncomfortable" that America
would ever be at war; it is conceivable
how anything and everything can happen to
US. with you Americans" Russian mod
crate declared to us the other day, "every-
thing that is not black is white"
81 was inclined to disapprove of the Boil
shcviN," said the charming hostess, taking
the professors arm when dinner was an
nounced, "but l remembered that after all
America is the product of revolution" The
professor tried to explain that there are
revolutions and revolutions; that although
America declined any more of Eneland's
management and insisted on setting up her
own housekeeping, she carried forward all
the sacred traditions, all the tried and
tested prescriptions of Anglo-Saxon civiliza-
ton. So
Had We Bolshevism
"Bolshevism," declared the professor. "is
different matter. 1t is a scornful def
ance not only of an existing form of gov
ernment, but OF everything else that has
preceded. Had we Bolshevism in America.
my dear lady there would be no Trinity
Church and certainly no Cathedral of St.
Jonn the Divine; you would see no can and
any college campus; there would be no
courthouse, for the law would have been
burned. Most of all, there would not be
tolerated that admirable heritage from our
fathers, yours and mine, that instructive
aversion to violent upheavals and noxious.
alr-hlled theories on which the fathers
counted to safeguard from abuse that Con-
stltutlon they bequeathed u.s. IL suppose
there is difference" agreed the hostess
pleasantly. II don't believe l ever thought
of it just shat way"
A difference indeed! The difference be-
tween life and death, between order and
chaos, between law and anarchy And vet
now many of those who are lightly seeing
r re- headed triumphantly by l.
w. WIS and all the other dreamers thou
sana times disproved how many of these
nave ever thought of it just that way?
All the greater need, therefore, for cour-
ageous thinking and plain speaking by those
', M"ose voices happen by circumstance to be
the most easily heard. Revolution for this
country could mean nothing. fatlv hnt tbe
overthrow of the Constitution. and wa .re
OF the opinion, as will be most Americans if
ever they are forced to the choice. that such
change for the sheer sake of annearinc
progressive" would be worse than mad,
ness. '''"0-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
He Can't Do 1t
From The .ManuIncturcra. RecordA

Give BILLY chnncc 20 bit the devil and h,s ,.
nrr at eiosc range He c"i'd help Tremendously ~ ,
he out :" hohenfo'rh'sn ana 10 Hohcnxollern
Ism into lc-banlofe Evening sun
Even Billy Sunday cannot do the imnos-
s1blc. Hohenzolernism and hell arr ono
and the same thing, and you cannot nut
either one into the other any more than
at present, for each is already in the other
to the limit Of capacity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
Earth

{rron, The BoolndD
This is the Earth
Brown clogged and dull,
Turned in wet, sticky burrows,
1t sleeps in the still evening
OF some late autumn day.
Ages ago tides rose against it,
And heaped it thus in shelving folds,
And monstrous scelv creatures
Swan through .aosc tides;
Ages ago men hunted on it,
Seeking amid the frozen spaces
For furs and food
Ages ago men fought for it,
Struggled and died
For foothold in these scanty fields.
And now at last
The earth cries out for food.
This slave Of man has too long given its
harvests,
1t asks the life it gave be yielded back to il.
In the autumn evening,
You can hear it plainly,
The cry of the ancient earth.
Moaning and tossing,
Under the heavy steel rain that falls on i
from heaven;
Crying for blood, blood to make fertile
Its growing barrenness.
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
The Not w. K. Rookie.
ffro7n Euerubodj. Hou1A;,o

tFrom EuervbodUs MdgaA,o)
The day after the second draft quota had
reached Camp Devens rookie strolled inSo
camp after dark. AS he was going past a
sentry, he was challenged.
"Who goes thcre?"
Machine gun 301," answered the rookie
advance to be recognized"
"Aw, you don't know me. I've only been
here n coupla days"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
Republic or Revolution
(From The Villaaer)

ITO THE Democrats of New Jersey Mr..
Wilson has written what to us seems
most confounding, most dlsquietlng,
letter. We are not Of those who would pick
word from the context here, phrase
there, and on these unrelated fragments
build up fantastic Interpretation; it is
only because Mr.. Wilson's words bear out
his general policy, as vaguely it has been
indicated in these past four years, that
find any more than passing significance in
his latest statement. every sign OF these
terrible days Of var and revolutionary
change" wrote the President, when eco
nomic and social forces being released
upon the world whose effect no political seer
dare venture to conjecture, bids us search
our hearts through and through and make
them ready for the birth Of new day.
The days Of political economic
construction which are ahead of US no man
now definitely assess"
What concretcly the President has in his
mind when he talks OF Revolutionary
change" We do not profess to know, but what
he puts into the minds of the great mass of
this unthinling people we cannot help but
know. A leader who has seemed to sympa-
thize with the philosophy of Nikclai Lenine
and Leon Trotzky cannot look forward to
Revolutionary change" without awakening
IN the popular mind the notion that govern
ment here well as government in Russia
is to experience violent overturning; when
the highest official Of the country declares
that emo political dare venture to con-
lecture" what the new "economic and social
forces" released by this war may accom-
plish he intimatcs that the Republic is no
longer moored to the traditions and prin-
ciples in which it was founded, but drifts
helpless upon the times.
A man who is engaged in work which
brings him into general touch with the East
Side opinion in New York City was telling
us the other day of the tremendous revul-
sion of radical" feeling in favor of the
President and his policies within the last
month or two. "Since his message to the
Bolshevki his name is cheered to the roof
OF every Socialist and ultra radical gather
ing" our friend declared The fact is sig
'nlhcant. We state it only as straw to
show how those among us who are nearest
to understanding the Bolshevst purpose an
praise Mr.. Wilson's meaning.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
Dangerous Tvaddle

However, it does not matter half so much
what the New York East Side thinks about
this government and its ability to endure in
the form in which the fathers cast it as
what the great American public, the public
OF Name and Delaware. Iowa and Kansas,
'hlhks or the subject. There is already an
unWholesome amount of dangerous twaddlo
going on in circles whore straighter thouoht
and firmcr faith might have been ovnoctod
and 1T is here that the loose sanction of the
Presidents words, the Presidents acts and
the Presidents emphasis, all in the djrec-
ton OF Revolutionary changes" NAV work
much harm. Indeed, it is already gone so
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31

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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-04
FOURTEEN HUN AIRCRAFT
BROUGHT DOWN IN ITALY

by Associated Press
ROME. February 2.-Fovrtecn enemy
airplanes and 4 captive balloon were
brought down Yesterday on tho Italian
front. Heavy artillery flshting is in
,aW-ogrc>s along the lower Pave River
Following iS the official account Of
these operations:
There was moderate artillery activ-
'yity from StciNio to tho Piave River. and
moro severe artillery nghtinE along
tho lower reaches OF the river The
enemy exploded mines without success
in the Pasubio area. ratrol encounters
took place on the hills northeast OF
Monte Grappa.
Favored by fine weather. our aerial
forces, with tho effective cooperation
Of our naval planes, engaged in con-
siderable activity against enemy mill
; tars ohjcctives. our aviators yeSter-
day hcmha rGcd concentration points
and crossings OF highways along the
!. enemy lines OF communication on The
= asiaEo plateau. our bombing machines
last night damaged the plan: operating
iae aerial cable line between Caldo-
raZ2o and Monte Revere.
Eight hostile machines were brought
DOWN yesterday. six others were shot
down by British nviators. who also set
Grc to captive balloon along the
Piayc."
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-04
SITUATION is TENSE
Delay in Giving Argentina News rs 20
sinking of Ship Iina Aroused
Nation.

BCESOS AIRES. February 5.--Thc
tense situation caused by tho .ini!ns :
OF the steamship M!n!stro !riondn
while Nyins the Argentine nas and thu
recall os IN, Argentine military at
taches at Berlin and Vienna was IN
ahated to-day.
The Chilean government has In
a,ructed It's minister here to keep post
cd on the international attitude OF the
Argentine government.
IN TO lato tonight there was no
definite news IN regard TO the c.nl.irc
OF the steamship. and The government
vas prevented from formulating i
definite policy. The newspapers. how .
ever, contain bitter criticism Of rhe
consular and diplomatic corps at Ma
drid. Paris and Rome. ]. 10 maintained,
they should have tho facts by nov.
The Brazilian minister here left for
homo tonight, following banquet
which was attended BY number OF
government officials and various msm.
hers Of the diplomatic corps.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-04
BUILDING CONCRETE SHIPS
Emergency Fleet CORPORATION IN.
airendy Contracted for Four aud
Pllns for More

WASHINGTON. February 3.--Four
concrete ships are under contract for
the Emergency Fleet Corporation. In
ADDITION plans and specifications for y
standardized S,500-ton dead weight
concrete hull are expected to be ready
Tor bids b. the end of the month.
Agitation for concrete ahips has been
active In the Senate shipping invea-
tsation In the last few days. notably
~ 10y Robinson. a Chicago contrac.
tor but the Shipping Board and the
rect CORPORATION. It was learned, had
taken action III regard 10 the roncrr,c
huliS as Ions ago rs December 81.
IN tina, date tho department. or con.
crete &hin construction OF E!nerSency
ieee corporation was authorized, i,
Was learned Months Of investigation
on the subject had been spent by the
Chited States Bureau OF Standards.
within the last few days the dc.
paFtment has been organized complete
~. II has been placed under James
o. Heyworth.