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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
The Relative Position
OF y. S. and Britain

For the serious thing is that in
January British production fell to
about 10000 tons. That is at the
rate of only $4,000. tons a wear,
which is not nearly good enough. I
assign no explanation. You have
weather and so have we. You have
trade unions and so have we. You
have shortages of material and 50
have we. You are rapidly increas-
ing your navy and so are we.
But here is, obviously, a reason
Why we should put forth even great
or efforts per man than YOU do.
You are laboring to carry help to
otners. 1t is for others that thou
sands of your citizens, unaccustomed
TO the sea, are recruiting for YOUR
navy and your growing mercantile
marine. Doubtless they are obevinp
their country's call, but none the less
they are carrying food and convov-
ing troops away from their country.
They are not bringing these rein
ioTcements to save their country.
NO enc in America will starve if the
ships do not sail But many people
N Italy. France and England will
starve if the ships do not arrive.
This being the case, must ex-
PLAN that many men have been
taken from our shipyards for mill
tary service and cannot be in two
places at once. ! must also make it
clear that Glasgow has been some
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
A Toulousian Should
Sing. If He Can


Yes, one must live. doubtless, but
not by bread alone, and God forbid
that Toulouse, city of song, capital Of
King Rene and Of the Courts of Love.
should ever descend too prosaically
and completely into economics-should.
in capitalizing to the utmost the
white coal" Of the Pyrenean water
falls, and in developing electricity, its
making, its furniture factories.
its powder works and cartridge plant
and arsenal. with their tens of thou
sands of workers. lose its love of tho
arts. its perfection of the arts OF love
and life! 1t is not only war that France
WAS made for, when all is said; and
isn't Toulouse turning out plenty OF
powder and cartridges and soldiers?
Why. shouldn't the Toulousian sing,
also, If he has tho heart?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
BY Barton Blake
TOULOUSE, February ~.

(APTA1N DASH. Partisan de-
Z core, and retired from the
army eighteen months ago for
serious wound that does not show,
Captain Dash ISLANDERS Toulouse, with
reasons enough. | suspect it is be-
cause he would much rather be running
his own factory, in suburb Of Paris,
or else in active service, instead Of
being assigned to job in the great
powder works that the war has brought
to the ancient capital of Languedoc.
Anyway, he talked like this at dinner:
"When the war began, people down
here at Toulouse said: But this isn't
our war! The Germans never do
anything to US You see, the Ger
mans of the French revolution
airy wars, the Germans who entered
Paris in 1914 and the Germans whom
we threw back from Paris at the Marine
never did reach Tolouse. Down south
here the tradition of hatred based
upon direct contact, such as you find
Normandy, is totally lacking. And you
don't know how provincial we French
are, in spite Of being an old nation.
For that matter, you are not in France
at Toulouse; you are in the oldtime
capital Of Aquitaine, the city of the
Roman counts of Toulouse, the Tolosa
of the Consuls.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
7s VIII Win or Lose War in Next Eight Months

OF these vessels will be finished
toward the end of the year.
Take Hog Island. The schedule
gives no compilations, am told, until
October l. But after that date one
delivery will follow another very
rapidly. Here then you see why
many competent authorities speak so
definitely about the eight months
period. When October comes not only
will Hog Island but many other of
your shipyards display their real ca
pacity. Vessels now maturing will
come on with rush. Or, to be more
accurate, ships now being construct
ed will yield the first fruits in actual
tonnage.
am informed there was delay
last year in getting to work. Ap-
parently orders to proceed were is
sued in many cases about the month
OF October. This means that by next
October American industry will have
had twelve months clear to show
what it can accomplish. There have
been SO many prophecies that l will
not add mine to them. But / say
b!uhtly that | am far less anxious
about the ultimate result than I am
about the intervening months-the
best months for submarines
through which we must grimly hold
together.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17


N.agazine' and after reading 2
whoiiy delightful homily by Colone,
roosevelt upon the dignity of
backing boots-I have added this
literary gem to my selected ex-
Tracts-1 came upon criticisms of
america and American statesmen
which made me feel as if I were an
eavesdropper who overhears voices
not intended for him. Of course.
we have brilliant penmen in Eng
land who fay alive our illustrious
personages, and good fun it is,
when there is nothing else to think
about. But I hope that Mr.. Will
iNln Hard will not mind my saying
that to his question, "Ts America
Eonest?' l would myself reply in
the affirmative, and that no real
purpose is served by clever COM
parsons between events in Havti
end events in Belgium. TO me,
tllled to the brim as I am with the
situation in Europe, the one thing
tEat matters is not the commissions
OF Hayti or even Santo Domingo or
Costa Rica, important though these
are, but the urgent need for en-
durance until November /. If we
can carry on till then the war will
be won, even if it be not ended.
If We fail the war will be lost.
While Tonnage
Dwindles the Need Grows
The man who put his finger on
the spot was Mr.. Mark Sullivan,
who wrote recently in "Collier's"
on ships. The incoherent restless
ness in Britain is due to the fear
lest the construction of merchant
men may not overtake the sinkings
by mines and submarines. While
tonnage dwindles the need for ton
mage grows, first, because your
forces in Europe are increasing,
and, second, because the campaigns
in Mesopotamia, Palestine and Sa-
lonica tend to develop.
Figures have been constantly
given in your press-not always
the same fgures-and, very rough
ly, l judge that the position is
somewhat as follows:
Before the war there was ff-
ty millions gross tons of shipping
in the world Of this, about one.
fifth has been sunk. Another fifth
is supporting armies, and we have
therefore to carry on with the re-
naming three-ffths. There has
been new construction, but, broad
ly, thiss only balances the usual
wastage Of shipping and the intern
ment in German ports of over two
million tons. There you have, in
a nutshell, the situation And we
have to ask ourselves, first, what
shall we lose in ships this year?
and second, what shall we build?
On February Sir Eric Geddes,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
She Spoke Profoundly
About the Wines

ut has to do with wine, monsieur"
she explains. Before the war no one
was too poor to have plenty Of bread
and plenty of cheese, and plenty of
wine. All the hotels gave a itre OF
wine free with each meal-but we had
to give that up last fall. And to-
day many families in Toulouse can
not afford wine at all. 1t makes Il
difference, for this is region of wine,
and wine is a food as we'll as bringer
OF content to the heart and the soul
"Does monsieur know how cheap
was wine in Toulouse before the war ,
Of course, this hotel had very adj
vantageous prices; in good years the
wholesale rate we paid for our table
wine was four sous litre-in other
years never more than six sous-lcss
than six cents. monsieur! And now
twenty-four sous!
Yes. as monsieur says, the butch
cries are full of meat, but the price
is high; only those who earn good
wages can buy much Of meat, and
though the bread is better than gen
orally perhaps. one cannot buy too
much bread. But what has increased
most in price, by proportion, is the
wine. Barring out wine at luncheon,
AT dinner-that is a grave change, as
monsieur knows the Midi we'll enough
to realize. So they are wrong, mon
sieur, who say that war has brought
no suffering to Tolousc."
Madame has spoken, and, I think,
profoundly. Depressed by my talk
with madame, l ascend to my chamber
and spread on the table the "Tele-
gramme de Toulouse" There is
serious article by NJ. +. Larru.
"Whatever the Indifference of our
electors and orr funct; orories in
respect to economics, | believe" writes
NJ. Larru, that the actual crisis will
have shaken their apathy, or at least
will have shown them that the func-
ton of peoples representative car
ries with it other responsibilities than
those Of mere Office holding. 1t is past
cur time of songs; for one must live
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
gary.
The Prime Factor
Is Sea Power

/ notice that even Mr.. Balfour,
the most skeptical of our diploma
lists, admits this possibility. Such
detection would isolate Germany
from Southeastern Europe, but
let the optimists remember-it
would leave her with a clear road
through disorganized Russia And
Oh that basis, as President Wilson's
message to Moscow proves, there
can be no peace. Germany is again
Offering such terms to Italy,
France. Belgium and Serbia, but
again Germany will be answered
With negative Ny reason for
discussing the eight months period
IS not to prophesy on easy victory,
but to examine the real factor
which will determine the events
therein.
That factor is sea power.
The other day in my innocence
picked up "The Metropolitan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

what affected by the great difficulty
we have in persuading Ulster to ac-
cept Home Rule. Also there is the
curious and most complicated trouble
with the Amalgamated Society of
Engineers, which stands aloof from
other trade unions and virtually de-
mands for its members a partial i'm
munity from further drafting into
the army.
There Is Also
Naval Expansion
An immense expansion of tonnage
from October onward is, then, the
vital factor which makes ultimate
victory certainty. 1t means men.
food, supplies, munitions pouring
into Europe when Germany is feel
ing the full effects of exhaustion.
But there is another element in the
affair which we must not overlook.
Mercantile tonnage is vastly impor-
tant, but SO is naval efficiency. And
your navy, like ours, is graphing
more and more vigorously every day
with the U-boat menace. Immense
fleets Of destroyers, in numbers
wholly unprecedented, are making
the ocean very unhealthy for under
water pirates. should like to see
it calculated how many U-boats dis
appear for every ten merchantmen
sunk. Germany has to build very
fast. Nobody knows or at any rate
nobody will say how many hundreds
of U-boats she possesses. But it ap-
pears to be agreed that the number
sent out at any given moment is
quite SMALL score or two, at most.
This means that the vermin can be
hunted with concentrated vigilance.
For the crews of the U-boat-men
with wives and families-men of
flesh and blood and nerves--it is not
much consolation to torpedo an
enemy merchantmen if the risk to
the assailant Of encountering a hor-
rible death amounts to an increasing
percentage every time you try it on.
And this / take to be, in broad out
line. the position.
Still, having put the best face on
the outlook, you must expect that
the Allies in Europe will feel the
stress and strain of the next few
months very severely. That is in
evitable. All the talk about rations.
the prosecutions for boarding, the
political crises, the symptoms of
restless uneasiness are so many evil
dences from the other side Of what
people are going through Nav
Providence give them courage. pa
tience, forbearance, faith.
And may you, who are associated
with them in this desperate struggle
against wrong, realize how impor-
tant is speedy cooperation-how lit
tie time there is to be lost-how ur-
gent is the need for the relief which
you are so ready to afford.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Quick Handling of
Supreme Importance

Something also will be gained by
ALLEGATION of cargoes on your side
and by the adoption of rapid meth
DDS of handling ships when they en-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

-1HE mail has come in from
London and for two days l
J. have been immersed in Brit
;sh newspapers, varied at times by
LIMO and intimate private letters
s,,od with all the hopes, fears,
.ronv privation and glory of a
-ssst nation wrestling in the throes
= its ultimate destiny. With the
,hole world in such chaos, it is per-
hsns no wonder that ones mind
.hould be left in confusion by the
aveat masses of detail which have
~ be mastered before one can OBJ
coin any clear noson how things are
,eally going q E. other side.
But by a p, es 5 Of gradual sift-
mo am now :, e 10 fix my atten-
inn on cert,.e definite period
a. eight month duration. Within
that period all authorities agree
that the war will take a turn, for
better or worse. The period opened
IN March /, 1918. 1t ends on No
vember /, when winter approaches.
Sir John Jellicoe, our admiral,
homes that his mind will be at ease
BY August, which is within the
neriod. Mr.. Prothero, who runs
our agriculture, looks for happiness
BY October, which is within the
period. President Wilson told the
farmers that the war would be de-
cided this year, which suggests the
veriod. And Wall Street is bank
ing on victory within the period
which frankly I consider to be reck-
less. No wise man will go further
than to ask whether during the
period, which means this summers
campaign OH land and sea, we are
likely to achieve the detachment
from Germany of any of her allies,
and in particular of Austria Hun
gary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

The average is 1914 big ships and
~ small ships week, which figures
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
There Was a Battle
There in 1914

$50 when the Germans decided that
Alsace- Lorraine was not enough, and
that they would take an extra slice of
Lorraine plus the Basin Of the Bricy.
with it's minerals when the Germans
OF 1914 poured over tho frontier ne
their ancestors Of the Seventeen Nine
ties and Of 1914 and Of 1870 had done,
Toulousians asked one another: Is this
really our affair? And for long time
they hardly knew there was war at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
They Love to Praise
Military Glory

"They talked war at Toulouse before
1914-yes, indeed for they talked
everything, and talked it exceedingly
we'll; the Midi is the Ireland Of the
French Republic. People here were
either very royalist or very imperial
ist-unless they were very Socialist
Toulouse, or its envirohs, gave to
France a Jean Jaures, and at the
same time erected a statue to it's Cen
cral Dupuy and its 32d dcmibrigade
with a chauvin inscription to the effect
that Napoleon was perfectly easy at the
battcl of something brother because
his precious Toulousians were there
They loved to praise the military
glories, ct Toulouse, precisely because
they had not suffered from war. Now
they know more about such subject
and talk less about them, and begin TO
like them better, if you ask me.
On the '70s, or the '80s possibly,
they gave the city two streets that
run for moro than a block or two
since the old city was laid out much
like your downtown Boston in America.
And they named the two new thorough
fare rue Alsacc LORRAINE and rue dc
Metz But that was only gesture;
it mednt less than God bless you!'
What did Toulouse know, or what did
Toulouse care, about the Lost Prov
inces'? Gambctta, who came from an
other southern city, said, after the
Franco Prussian War: Let us never
mention Revenge and Rcparation, but
let US always think it and prepare it,
Toulouse may have talked about the
Lost Provinces, but never thought so
much about them ms America, even.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
By P. w. Wilson

american Correspondent of The London 5>o;,, Ma,uo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

@APTA1N DASH, Partisan de-
Z core. and retired from the
army eighteen months ago for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

~r1HE mail has in from Magazine" and after ,:
London and for two days wholly DELIGHTFUL how'll, ~ ~
have immersed in Brit Roosevelt unon 49, INV
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-08-12
President Sanfuentes Be- Iieves Commercial h. terestS Are Paving
 Way to End Feud.
L AST WAR RANKLES
Loss of Provinces to Chile Still BotherS Peru and Is South American
 AIsaCe-LOrraine.

SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 12.-The message read recently to Congress by President Sanfuentes expresses the opinion that commercial inter- ests are paving the way towards more amicable relations with Peru
 But the long-standing difference between the two republics caused by the seizure of the Peruvian prov inces of Tacna and Africa by Chile, the features of which make it the Alsace-Lorraine case of South Amer ica, is still kept alive, and is ag- gravated by the fact that diplomatic relations are still interrupted.
 The vital question of the re- turn of the provinces which Peru has been demanding for more than thirty years with constantly in creasing insistence remains unset led.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-08-12
MANY WOMEN FIND WORK IN
 UNIFORM SHOP
Philadelphia Government Uniform Factory En- pIoyes Only Women;
 100 Added Daily.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10.-One hundred women workers are being added daily to the force at the fac tory established here by the Quar- termasters Department for the man. ufacture of army uniforms.
 It is a mo man factory" not a man being employed there. It now has about 2,000 women at work. The force will be increased as rap idly as women can be obtained until 5000 are employed. The plant is organized as model factory with lunch rooms, rest rooms, hospital, recreation center and welfare work CTS. Pay ranges from SIP week up. All sewing is by piece work. Expert operators on the power-driv- en machines can earn from $20 to $50 week. The factory will eventually be one of the largest in the country. It will be in opera tion for several years, it is predict ed, as it's establishment is in line with the new policy of the Govern ment to manufacture its own army clothing.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-08-12
AMERICANS ARE LEARNING WAR
 CAME IN BOOKS
American Library Associa' tiOn Books Attract h. tereSt of Soldiers and
 Sailors in War.

WASHINGTON, Rug. 12.-Ameri- can soldiers and sailors in training at home or in service overseas are learning the game of war ''on their own hook This is the use they are making of the Library War Service, conducted by the American Library Association, for the previous idea-and it was that of some li- brary workers-that the library service would be mostly for recre- ational purposes is beinig disproved by the heavy demand for books on military and naval science and re- lated subjects.
 In nine months after a most hum- ble beginning, the Library War Serv- ice has become the most 'universal library in the world. In brief. its accomplishments include: 36 camp library buildings; 41 large camp libraries established; 91 hospital and Red Cross houses supplied with books; PIP libraries in service; 237 small military camps and posts equipped with book collections; 249 naval and marine stations and vessels supplied with libraries; 1923 branches and stations placed in Y. M. c. A. and Knights of Columbus huts, barracks and mess halls; 3S5,- BIO books shipped overseas; All, ,505 books bought, most of them techni- cal; 2,100,000 gift books in serv- ice
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-08-12
ONLY FULL GROWN
 TURKEYS MAY BE USED

In the effort to stop the wasteful practices of slaughtering broiler tur- keys-those weighing from two to four pounds-the Food Administra-
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-08-12
TAXES

Notice is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Juneau, Alaska, has fixed the rate of tax levy for the year 191S-19 at the sum of fifteen (15) mills on each dollars of assessed property; that the taxes are now due, and will become delinquent on October 10th (lO) nineteen hundred eighteen (1918) at the hour of six o'clock D. m, and unless paid prior thereto ten per cent. will be added to the abount thereof, together with in terest thereon at the rate of eight per cent. per annum from the date of delinquency until paid; that the said taxes are payable at the City Clerks office in the City Hall.
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, this 5th day of August, 1918.
 R. B. COLE,
 City Clerk.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-08-12
SERIAL 02757.
United States Land Office, Juneau,
 Alaska. Aug. 5. 1918.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that John Rustgard of Juneau, Alas ka, assignee of Martha Goad, widow of Charles Pinkney Goad, has filed in the U. s. Land Office for Juneau Land District, at Juneau, Alaska | his application to enter, under and pursuant to Section 2306 of the Re- vised Statues of the United States, la Soldiers Additional Homestead, the following tract of land, situated on the northeasterly side of Gastin eau Channel, adjoining the shore thereof. and approximately one-half mile Southeast of the City of Ju- neau, in Latitude 5S' IF 30" North, Longitude 134o 23' West, in the Territory of Alaska, designated as U. s. Survey No. 705, and more par | ticularly described as follows, to- wit:
 Beginning at Corner No. 1 | Meander Corner; at line of or dinary high water of Cas- tineau Channel; not set; thence North 019 chs. to Witness cor ner to Cor. No. 1 MIG; whence U. s. M. M. No. bears South IF 4O' West 58.02 chs. distant, anu Noi. 4NO. oul. ASo. II s. A. H. of c. w. Fries bears South 52' 03' East 4153 chs. distant; 1915 chs. to Cor No 2; thence West 1.90 chs. to Cor. | No. 3; thence South 7.64 chs. to Witness corner to Cor. No Meander Corner; 870 chs. to
 Cor. No 4 MIG; not set whence Cor. No. 1 Utah Lode Sur. No. GAP bears North 43'
 or West 768 chs. distant;
 thence meandering along the
 line of ordinary high water of Gastineau Channel South 450
 15' East 1.20 chs; South 60' 30' East 1.21 chs. to place of beginning.
 Containing an area of 181 acres.
 Magnetic declination 310 5O' East.
 U. s. M. M. No. is brass
 plate set in concrete on extreme
 North end of Juneau Island.
 A duly authenticated copy of the plat of said Survey No. 705, to- gether with notice of the said ap- plication to enter was duly posted at conspicuous place upon said premises on the 3rd day of August, 1918.
 c. B. WALKER, Register.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-08-12
BADGER WOMEN
 COME TO. AID OF
 FOOD SITUATION
Female Relatives Wealthy Families Work in Agri- cultural Canneries
 to Save Food.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 10. -- Wives and daughters of wealthy cit izens in the Wisconsin pea canning districts have entered the canneries to aid the labor situation. On Sat urday they line up for their pay en- velopes and receive minimum wage for their ten hours work.
 Forty per cent. of the pease can ned in the United States are put up in Wisconsin plants.
 Earlier in the season pea packers expressed grave fears of serious labor shortage and pointed to the Food Administration request for all the peas possible. KTk'
 George P. Hambrecht, labor com missioner, after conference with Food Administrator Hoover, sent labor commission employees into all homes and, obtained pledges from women in all walks of life to work in the canueries if called upon.
 Then a conference was arranged with the packers, who were inform ed that they would be provided with help if they paid the women a min imum wage, established ten hour working day except in an emergency and then not more than twelve hours, and made proper san itary arrangements.
 The packers signed an agreement, the women who had pledged their services were called on, the response was most satisfactory and the can neries now are operating with a full force.