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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
# American Life Is Opening to a New Chapter

roads, and Illinois has gone her $4,000 600
Better Then there is Secretary of tho In
terror Lane, with his present reclamation
service and his spacious scheme of ultimate
reclamation of all the waste land of tho
country Irrigation projects already planned
and surveyed and laid out in the ordinary
course of the work of the reclamation ser
vice could give immediate employment to
loo,ooo men if Congress were to supply the
funds. With the launching of the greater
project of reclamation and it's feature of
ready made farms, work could soon be pro-
vided for 100000 men.
The rate of rehabilitation of the army
and navy will be a great factor in the
solution of the reimbursement of human
units. Until the soldiers are back i'm
mensc numbers of temporary workers in
both essential and non essential industries
will hold their places and if the soldiers
drbble back to civil life there will be little
dlslocation Hence students of the post
pellum labor question are calculating on
how long it will take to bring the army
back from France and are advising that
the men in camps and environments at home
be released gradually and as civic life di-
rcctly calls for them. instead of en- massc
1T IS hoped that large numbers of the SOL
dlers in France can be diverted for period
to~helplng in reconstruction there and in
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Belgium, or in policing the defeated coun-
tries. Indeed the shipping situation may
be such that it will actually be necessary
to seek employment abroad for the men
while they waiting for the tagging
ships. Britain moved about so per cent of
our soldiers overseas, but no agreement
was made concerning their return. The
men of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
and Canada, many of whom have been
abroad for three or four years. anxious
to get home, and they arc likely TO have
the first call on British ships Ii we were
to turn all our ocean tonnage to the task
of bringing back the American soldiers it
could be done in short time. But the
national life and wcllbeing as a whole de-
pend largely on keeping up a minimum OF
foreign commerce. The soldiers must not
be brought home to country commercially
paralyzed because of the effort TO get them
back promptly
Rehabilitation, CT supreme Importance TO
the individuals and families it VIII deal
with, is relatively an unmportant problem
because of the comparatively small number
of casualties and the excellent health that
has prevailed in the army The surgeon
generals Office will begin this work, and
the Federal Board for Vocational Education
and the Red Cross will carry it on. The
total American casualties in the war prob
ably do not exceed 100000. and the number
of permanent crpples will not be more than
ten or twenty thousand Unlike England
France and the other countries engaged in
the great war, America will not be land
of cripples for generation. A kind Provi-
dence has spared us that trial, and there is
no doubt that the impaired men will be
looked after and assisted ito get on their
feet" as no wounded soldiers ever were be
fore.
50 far the problems of immediate read
juatment are being dealt with by many
different agencies which formerly worked
toward war and are now working toward
peace. There is no readiustment or recon
struction board, commission or adninistra
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Earms and
L. Highways Need Men

Another sponge that is counted on to soak
up many of the war workers is agriculture,
from whose toilers large numbers were di
verified to war work The farms of the coun-
try are shorthanded, but it is going to be
a very difficult matter TO get large numbers
of the former farmhands to go back to
the soil. Town life has spoiled them for
rural life. They have come to love group
work and the crowd. They prefer excite
ment to placidty. Inevitably there will be
a period of unrest and instability. Between
the war job and the final peace job tenn
porary employment will be necessary. This
suggests the stimulation of all possible
forms of emergency employment. Fortu-
nately large field of that sort is available.
Public improvements of all kinds have been
delayed or suspended during the war. 1t is
, estimated that public works have been
duced at least 25 per cent. If the Federal
government, the states, counties and cities
should at once begin to make up for lost
time projects already decided upon and
in no sense merely work-supplying enter
prises it is believed that they could provide
employment for a million men for ninety
days. New public Improvements could take
care of hundreds of thousands more.
There is no question that a great era
of highway building is about to begin, and
prompt action would start much of this in
time to mitigate if not prevent the suffer
ings of unemployment. Congress is ex
pected to go in for great scheme of ma
tional roads, and the various states are
tackling the road problem on scale hth
erto undreamed of. Pennsylvania has Just
voted bond issue of S50,000,oOO for state
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step forward toward better world. 1t is
realized that the group or groups of men
who are to deal with these subjects must
be ready, on the one hand. to accept what
is practical and timely and what is adapt
able to the American genius, and be ready,
on the other hand to reject the pure theor
lists and the paper schemes that Will rise
like mushrooms hot and moist night.
The idea is to take advantage of the
present state Of public opinion before it
shall begin to solidify as it gets away from
fusing events, in order to crystalline 1t IN
the end into attachment to new ideas of
the relations of men to one another and TO
the state This is an of good feeling.
Men have become benevolent under the
softening influences Of sacrifices and united
efforts for the common good Thinking OF
the public interest supreme III war, they
are now inclined to think Of it as supreme
in peace.
Around a thousand conference tables,
where harmony instead of discord was the
object of all, capitalists have come to see
from the viewpoint of the manual workers
and the latter have come to and under
stand the problems of employers. 1t may
be superficial view, but it would seem that
in America the war has tended to abolish
classes and social groups rather than to
give them sharper outlines.
Talk about Bolshevism in America the
public mind now stands is merely the intel
lectual diversion of dilettante philosophers
who think that whatever happens in Eu
rope may, and perhaps ought, to happen
here At the moment all America seems to
be agreed that this is a goodly land, the
best Of all, and that it is the firm purpose
of all to make it better still. All classes are
receptive; one is any longer dogmatical.
Everybody has his eye better future,
but all are anxious not to lose what we have
in the quest of something better. Anyway,
whether we shall go further along the road
or not, there is no denying that we have
done some travelling since the began
and that there is no chance Of the footsteps
being retraced.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
nn the Threshold
~ Of Events

SO much for what the thinkers are thinks
ing of and the dreamers arc dreaming of.
Their thoughts will take form and their
dreams assume substance, so far as our
generation Is concerned. largely according
to what is decided and enacted in the next
two years, the two years of Elasticity that
the students expect to precede the con-
gealing of public opinion. What is accom-
plished will depend in great degree, they
say, on how successful the builders of the
new time may be in appealing to public
opinion and in shaping it along sane but
progressive lines in the next few months.
Publicity is to be the alembic. The influences
that converted a hundred million pacifsts
into relentless combatants for noble
cause wall be, if the champions of the new
era nave Their way set to work to stir the
people up to a great forward step in social
and economic betterment while the going ia
good.
The manner in which the reforms of re-
construction are brought before the people
and the way IN which public opinion ia
crystaillzed WILL it is held by the advo-
Gates OF reforms, be the real test OF our
democracy and of the sincerity of the nro.
LESSONS OF good will now heard on all
sides. If selfish interests are held in chaclr
and every encouragement is given to a full
and free discussion OF the many and various
problems with full confidence on all sides
mat such consideration will eventuats
IN measures for the general good, regard
less Of their effect on special interests. it
IS confidently believed that all measures
decided upon will be in line with the or
DERBY evolution of the American democracy.
ana that there will not be the faintext
danger of there appearing here the wild
ana erratlc efforts to reform by force and
bitter class legislation that are the menace
Of Europe to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

ton. A few weeks before the armistice
was signed the President did request
Messrs. Baruch, Garfield. Mccormick and
Hoover to begin to consider unscramblng
plans, but they were too busy scramblng
right up to the moment the last gun was
fired to pay much attention to the new task.
There has been much talk of the creation
OF an executive comm ssion to deal with
adjustment but at this writing no action
has been taken in that direction though
there have been many conferences at the
White House relating both to the proxmate
and ultimate problems the war has left
behind. 1t is expected that the President
will deal with both phases in his annual
message to Congress next month. The gen
eral impression is that the President is
convinced that the agencies that have made
war will be able to make peace though they
may leave behind them some rcsiduary
legacies that will fall to those to whom
may be ntrusted the colossal task of for
muatlng policies for the new era
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
My, What a Mess They Made!

csts, policies and parties, likely battle
royal between the legislative and cxecu-
tive, also between conservatives and lib
erals. Reconstruction problems Of this
nature may be divided into two classes.
First Those that call for prompt solution
in order to maintain the stability of indus
try and labor and prevent economic deprcs-
sion and unrest and that arise directly from
the unsettlement of society by the war
effort.
Second-Those that relate to elemental
recoHstruction-in fine, to new order of
society,"
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M any Boards;
AVA None Authoritative

The division of planning and statistics,
under the direction of Professor Edwin
K. Gay, Of Harvard, is striving to get a
survey Of the whole field This division
is a sort of statistical pool of all the war
administrations, whose business it has
been to secure information and statistics
and then digest them as basis for the
plans of the war administrations 1t re-
Gently sent out a QUESTIONABLE to all the
war industries in which it sought such
information as the amount of floor
space used by war work, the proportion
Of orders emanating from the Allies and
from the government, and the proportion
of civilian orders being filled or waiting
Just what use will be made of this in
formation when it is collected and
digested does not appear. So far as can
now be ascertained there is nobody that
can make authoritative or intelligent use
of it as a whole but all Of the war adj
minstrations can make some use of it.
The War Labor Policies Board and the
war labor administration generally are
intimately interested in the conversion
problem, because they see the most diff
cult side of the immediate work of stabil-
ling labor, not in the returning soldier
but in the returning war worker. The
soldier, it is argued, will find his niche
more easily than the war worker. So,
we find the labor planning people Won
dering what can be done to help the re-
organizing and reconvertlng manufact-
urers and they are even entertaining sug-
gestions that the government, through
the War Finance Corporations, the Capt.
tai Issues Committee, the Federal Re-
serve Board and Congressional legisla-
ton, should come to their assistance,
even to the extent of guaranteeing the
risk of turning munitions plants into
peace goods producers.
The demoblizaton of troops and of war
workers is g subject that Supremacy inter
ests the various forms of labor administra-
ton. 1t is realized that to A considerable
extent the returning soldiers will have to
be assisted in finding employment and in
getting to the part of the country where
each man, according 30 his qualifications,
can be best utilized. But the soldier prob
lem is viewed rather as one Of displacement
of persons at present employed. AS a class
the soldiers arc superior to those who have
taken their places Their former employers
will be glad to get them back and glad to
get rid of the substitutes. Placing the sub
stitutes is the problem. Large numbers of
them arc women. Many of these will gladly
return to domestic life, but others will be
workers henceforth indefinitely and efforts
must be made to place them. 1t will take
time at best to find employment for the
displaced war workers and transport them
to their former homes or new abodes. The
fields of employment that are open to them
are in the revival of the abolished or re-
stricted non essential industries, in the war
plants that are to be converted into peace
plants and in the factories which existed
before the war; but have been diverted to
war manufactures and will now seek to re-
turn to their normal production.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
The First Step
Toward Chaos

Inc War Industries Board and the
var Labor Administration are strug-
sung with the first phase. Neither really
"'a any plan, though both are now try
"e 70 evolve plans. Because there was
~ policy the first thing that was done
''S an impulsive rush to cancel con-
"asss and suspend production. Hun
eoS OF thousands of people who were
Jung busily and happily two weeks ago
= now jobless and futureless, and pro-
''s'ns strikes are already in evidence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

WORLD bewlldered by war now
~ turns wearily to the laby-
< IA rinthine task of reconstruction.
Taken by surprise and thrown
without warning into by far the great
sst armed struggle of all time, the
bruised and shattered nations emerge
from the bloody conflict to find that it
s not only Belgium and Northern
France and Poland and Rumania and
Serbia and all the other regions that
armed hosts have trampled to tatters
that must be reconstructed, but that the
whole structure Of modern civilization
has been shaken and shattered by the
vast commissions of the war of the world.
Tme-honored traditions are condemned.
encient institutions are overthrown, and
mankind finds that the whole order in
and by which it lived has been wrecked,
oven as the Cathedral of Rheims has
been hammered into a ghostly ruin of
the grandeur that was. The modern
Huns marching with lust and avarice
and ruthlessness to world conquest, have
been beaten by the united hosts of civil
ization But the titanic struggle of
right and might with wrong and might
has ravaged the world; and mankind
finds itself housed in civic and economic
ruins which give it no shelter or COM
fort after the weary years of tense
struggle We have all been warriors in
this WAL We fain would lie down and
take our ease, but conqueror and con-
quered alike must turn with tired minds
and sore muscles to the conquest of
peace The world must be rebuilt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
4 merlca Has
"A Not Escaped

Even we in America have not escaped
Physically, we have suffered little from
the war. Of all the nations involved
the war has come nearer to being for us
an episode rather than an epoch in our
the chapter of war as something ended
and finished apd go on to the next chap
ter. We are not as we were. The war
has profoundly altered us, and even the
outwardly fair and massive structure of
our national edifice deceives none. We
too must rebuild. Caught unprepared
Tor peace, as we were for war, we are
bewildered. Something, many things,
must be done, but nobody knows how
We swarm energetically but aimlessly to
the task, confused by multitude of
counsels and myriad of advisers. We
lnstinctively react to the warning pains
that tell of injured tissues and useless
limbs, but we react as a man fighting in
the dark with an unseen opponent whose
blows he feels but whom he does not
locate.
First of all we have to deal with the
mechanical readjustments of industry
and Socety-the putting back in their old
places of all the things, policies and ac-
tlyltles that were altered or dislocated to
turn the nation from war to peace. After
an ordinary war that would be the sum
Total of readiustment. 1t is process
That would take care of itself in the long
run, but that can be greatly facilitated
and eased by thought and intelligent
effort and planning. 1t is problem that
can be solved without great suffering to
ne Individual or the state, by intelligent
direction in comparatively short time,
Or 1t will solve itself in somewhat
suffering. 1t is the immediate post
oeium problem 1t is one of readjust-
ment, replacement and local repairs and
'emodelings rather than Of reconstruct
'on' This problem has three phases.
flrst-The reconversion of the war
industries to the uses of peace.
Second-The rehabilitation of troops
and war workers.
Observation-Disclosures of the soldiers
whom the wounds and diseases of
war have permanently impaired
and of the families that have been
affected by the casualties.
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TNhe Second Phase Is
d. Reconstruction

After reimbursement comes reconstruction.
Here is whore wise men will fall out and
inferior men will come to grief Here is
where there will be a great clash of inter
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BY Theodore M. Knappen

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Taken by surprise and thrown
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-26
TiGERs EASILY. '|I|,
 DEFEAT E zEBRAS
Little Rock High Romps Over Bas- setts Five in Two Games Yester-
 day and Last Night.

Coach L. E. Bassett's high school basketball team was defeated at the hands of the Little Rock five in both games at Little Rock yesterday and last night, the dapitol city basketeers having an easy time and using second string men at various stages of the game. ..f u..~t-@
 The first game, which started promptly at 3:45, o'clock yesterday af- ternoon, resulted in a 76 to 16 walk over for the Coach Quigley's aggre- gation and the performance was re- peated at the night game, the score being 75 to 14.
 The games yesterday and last night however, are the first Coach Bassett's boys have played out of this city, and as they all inexperienced the contests in Little Rock cannot be used as .i basis upon which the outcome of the remaining games of the season are to be judged. Alexander. substitute on last season's team, is the only veteran of the bunch.
 The following are the line-ups of the two teams:
 Tigers Positions Zebras Powell co.,. .Forward Hensley Craig .... .... Forward .... Alexander
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FLOOD OF RHINE
 COVERS COLOGNE
Much Damage Is Done to Provisions Stored in Cellars-TrO0ps Sent
 tO Aid Inhabitants.

Washington, Jan. 25--A flood re- ported in the upper Rhine valley has inundated the city of Cologne, destroy ing quantities of provisions stored in cellars, dispatches received here to- day said. In some localities the rise of the river was so rapid that the peo- pie had to be aroused by the tolling of bells. Troops were sent to aid the inhabitants The tributaries of the Rhine also are overflowing, interrupt ing railroad traffic, while many com munities in the valley of the Moselle are completely cut off. Railroad tracks are said to be under water in many places.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-26

(Continued from page one)
 In an address before the Japanese diet, Viscount Motono, the foreign minister reiterated the views previ- Ously expressed by Premier Terauchi that Japan was in full accord with her allies in the war. and that it was her intention 10 maintain tranquility in the far east.
 On the battle fronts the fighting again has died down to small pro- portions. only bombardments and small infantry operations having been recorded.
 The Russian chief of staff reports demoralization among the Russian soldiers on the eastern .front. The soldiers are desertng in large num- bers, reserves are declining to come up for relief of the men in the trenches. and at points there are only PAS infantrymen to the mile. Fra ternizing between the Russians and the enemy is going on to marked degree. The chief of staff recom- mends that the army fall back to nat ural defenses for reorganization.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-26
GORGAS TELLS OF
 HEALTH CONDITIONS
Says Crowding Men Into Camps Not Ready for Them Is Cause Of Epidemics of Disease.

Washington, Jan. 2o.-From Sur geon General Gorgas the senate mili- 'tary committee today sought light on health and sanitary conditions in the army, resuming it's investigation sus- pended few days ago to present the reorganization legislation, about which centers the committees row with the administration. General Gorgas reiterated statements made in his official reports to the department after a tour of inspection that the crowding of >men into cantonments and camps not ready to receive them was largely responsible for the cpl denies of disease which have ragged at some of the posts. He agreed with other officers who have preceded him on the stand, however, as to the necessity for hurried training.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-26
RAZORBACk SCHEDULE.
CSpecial.)


 Fayetteville. Jan. 26.-Four games have been definitely arranged for the Razorhack schedule for next season Arrangements for three other games have been nearly completed and Man ager B. x. Wilson of the team is fry- ing to get still another game. which will make total of eight games. Fol- lowing is the schedule as tentatively arranged:
 Hendrix College at Fayetteville October ..
 Rolla School of Mines at Fayette' vile. October F.
 Kendall College at Tulsa. october 26
 Rice Institute at Fayetteville. Oc tober 19.
 Louisiana State University a, Shreveport, November ?.
 Oklahoma University at Fort smith November 16.
 University of Texas at Austin Thanksgiving day.
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Known by Sire of Jeweiry.

Immense earrings are perhaps the most curious of al! ornaments of the Marco Lagoon tribes. Each tribesinnn tries to wear a bigger ring than his ueighbor. for the larger the ring the greater is it looked upon as the high est-priZed mark of the greatest beauty and distinction. In fact, so great is the rivalry alnong the warriors of these tribes that many of the lucklasS natives have been known actually tc tear the lobes of tAeir ears rseat through in their trenzied efforts to break all records for wearing the largest carrings.