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New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Our Muzzled Thinkers

From an austere, albeit somewhat
cryptic, correspondent in The Neav Re-
pu6t1c comes throb of repressed suffer
ing which has touched us deeply. 1t con-
Germs our thinkers, referring, no doubt.
to our serious thinkers, those little
groups, scattered here and there, that no
matter how finely frail or frailly fine
they may be, are still the leaven, the one
ray, the oasis of light, and other things.
to redeem our otherwise dull, perverse
and sodden world. Our thinkers-an
article by Professor John Dewey is the
teXt-have, it seems, not so much been
muzzled; they have muzzled themselves
out Of the same feeling Of patriotism
which has led others to France" Who
does not thrill at the thought of this fine
repression? Where others fought and
some died, the Thinkers Among Us have
patriotically refused to think aloud
But these Tactics of Silence, powerful
as they were, are no longer effective. We
read:
"The first-may l call it the minor >
partly through these tactics of silence
but if we are to win the bigger objective
must see 20 it that the silence is now
broken"
We can almost-might we say almost
tragically?-hear it breaking!
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
To a Child

(Frona The Neto Statesman,
q nee in a golden hour
~ Spring brought sign to you,
For the dark house door stood open,
And peeping through,
Out of the solemn gloom of the hall, you
found
Daisies a-wink in the wind starring the
sunfecked ground
Now has destroying time
Shut to the heavy door
Against you, little one,
And the daisied floor,
And tracery of boughs on morning grass,
Have silent stol'n away where ali things
lovely pass.
Yet each returning spring
Opens with magic key
Times door, and small within
You stand and see
Where still for sign. the daisied track
appears
Spreading it's windblow white and gold
down all the years.
R. MANNING SANDERS.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
A Week of Verse
Bethlehem
(From Rced1s Mirror,

From Rcedys Mirror
COLD was the earth and all the stars,
~ But Mary Mother smiled
Where in the manger of an inn
Lay warm the Holy Child
The OK was host upon that night
Unto the King of all;
He gave for incense meadowy breath,
For shelter his rude stall.
Not all the cold of earth and man
Can pierce the heaven mild,
Where warm against her leaping heart
Mother clasps Her Child.
o miracle of utmost love,
How God grew greater when
He stopped to be helpless babe
Beside the hearths of men.
long ages since-and still in joy,
In loneliness and tears,
We kneel unto Little Boy
Who smiles down through the years.
WILBUR UNDERWOOD.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
The Garden Under Lightning

(Frour The Pagan
nUT of the storm that muffles shining
~ night
Flash piteous roses CHASTITY sweet
And lilies far too white:
There is pang of green,
terror of familiarity:
see a dripping swirl of petalled things
That l once tended happily,
And paths l surely walked in that other
life
Day.
My pale ghost-garden gbbers at me
Beckons horribly
And vanishesi
LEONORA SPEYER.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Starting Wrong

The threatened tie-up of the Port of
New York by a strike on the harbor
boats is bad beginning fer peace times.
The case is much confused. The boat
owners feel that they ought not to be
subjected to fresh demands from. the en-
ployes six months after complete set
tlement of the difficulties was effected by
arbitration through the National War
Labor Board. Most people will think
that this is, of all times within the last
four years, the most uncalled-for, in gen
eral, for an increase of wages, in what
ever form they take, and that if the
award made on July II last was fair
the question ought not to be reopened
now. The presumption is that the award
was fair. 1t was made by board COM
posed Of seven members-one represent
ative each from the departments of
Labor, of Commerce and of War; two
from the employees, one from the rail
road administration and one from the
boat owners. 1t was accepted by both
sides. Since then there has been no ap-
preciable further rise in the cost of
living.
Every worker ought to know the B G
of the problems involved in the return of
our industries to d peace basis and the
relocation of from two to three million
workers as demoblized. Unless our
mills and mines and all means of trans
portation and communication are kept
running on full time, the transition to
peace will be extremely difficult and re-
suit in large unemployment Wages are
now at an unprecedented level, and this
+ means a high cost of production in every
line. A great part of our prosperity is
conditioned upon the sale of our surplus
manufactures abroad. This is irpossi-
bic if wages and production costs are inn
possibly high. If wide Unemployment
should result from over-high wages, no
government or combination Of operators
or of workers could keep them up. The
nation would go bankrupt ii it tried it.
SO much for that side
The boat owners are willing lc rrai-
trate the demands for higher waa.e, but
refuse to submit to arbitrator ti'n qoes-
tion of basic day Few will T.. n1le 20
understand the basis of this A.tirction.
1t is not made clear by the btS* c7rneys'
statement. If the award Of The board
of arbitration last July was just and
acceptable to the boat owners. and r the
demands Of the unions are now unjust,
as the boat owners hold what would they
lose by agreeing to submit the length of
the working day to arbitration, just as
much as any other point? Surely, fair
and intelligent board of arbitration can
consider all these questions just as COM
petently as the far more intricate ques-
ton of wages.
Industry cannot be incessantly arbi-
trating disputes. There ought to be some
means of impartially determining wheth
or q fresh inquiry ought now to be con-
s;dored within six months after full in
vest;oation such as was given this case
The nresent agreement is binding on all
nart;es until next May 81, unless sooner
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
The Caves
From To-DQ4jl

(Frons To-Day
r IKE the tide-knocking at the followed
IL cliff
And running into each green cave as if
In the caves night to keep
Eternal motion grave and deep
That, even while each broken wave repeats
Its answered knocking and with bruised
hand beats
Again, again, again,
Tossed between ecstacy and pain,
Still in the folded hollow darkness swells,
Sinks, swells and every green-hung hollow
fills,
Till there's room for sound
Save that old anger rolled around;
So into every hollow cliff of life.
Into this hearts deep cave so loud with
strife,
In tunnels / knew not
In lightless labyrinths of thought.
The unresting tide has run and the dark
filled,
Even the vibration of old strife is stilled:
The wave returning bears
Muted those time breathing airs.
How shall the million-footed tide still
tread
These hollows and in each cold void cave
spread?
How shall love here keen
Eternal motion grave and deep?
JOHN FREEMAN.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

NOME of our people, with more enthu-
siasm than knowledge, have been talk
ing and writing as though our sole
effort had "won the war;; though there
we're not allies that had been fighting with
immortal valor and sublime sacrifice three
years before took place at their
side; though their repeated, powerful
blows had left no impress upon the enemy.
In part such pretension is the national
tendency to "boost"; in part it is a desire
to honor Americas sons
But our soldiers who have fought in
Flanders or Picardy, on the Marne in
the Argonne with and alongside British and
French and know the fields where, outnum-
bered and unprepared, our allies resisted
attack upon attack of fierce German on
slaught, will be the first to resent this un-
intentioned but implied injustice to the
fortitude and service of those that live and
to the heroism of those hundreds of thou
sands who, while America yet "too
proud to fight" gave their lives that the
world might be free.
These boys, our boys, returning and still
on duty cover there" made good. That is
sufficient for America to pledge and to re-
member; and enough of praise to give them.
No Boosting Needed
They need no boosting; on land and sea
THEN deeds speak for them Fresh eager
lads, untried for the greater number, many
with but few weeks training, others with
next to no preparation, they bore them
selves with courage equalling that of their
ripper experienced comrades and allies;
Al- L. I
ligent fervor of British and French best;
and all did what was asked of them.
Occasions there were when particular
British, French American units were given
their privileged opportunity, and keenly
seized and glorously used it, but there was
not then nor can be conjured separate
credit for the one which did not, does not
recognize its dependence on the others.
Ten months after the landing of our first
eXpcditionary force in June. 1917, we had
our first baptism of blood in the raid by
regiment on the German trenches at Seiche-
prey. and q month later, May 90, 1918 our
1st Division captured Cantigny after an
artillery preparation, mostly French, which
wiped the little town off the map.
In early June at Belleau Woods and
Chateau Thierry we stopped the advance
of the Germans whose general attack on the
Mame was definitely and finally broken
few days later by the French under General
Gouraud before Chalons; and in the Cen
eral Foch ordered counter offensive which
followed, July 1S-with its subsequently
continued drive toward Forest ST. Gobain
by General Wangn's gallant, answering
storm troops-American soldiers. brigaded
among the French by divisions to the mum
ber of eight, took a conspicuous and i'm
portant share both east and west of Sois-
sons.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
The YelI01u Germans

The German had shot his bolt The first
Marne indicated he could not win, and Ypres
and Verdun proved it. He hadn't the stuff
in him to beat the British-F French combina-
ton of grit and fervor He could never
have broken the spirit that held his hordes
at Verdun at Ypres, or that stood between
his desperately flung numbers and the
Channel ports And though he had forced
them back at times and might again give
them anxious days. he lacked both the
power and the spiritual quality to deliver
a Knockout. His reach and strength and
speed were diminishing his heart was
yellow, is yellow as his abject surrender
and subsequent whining emphasize He's a
gutter, as always he has been when up
against a real fight, and the British and the
French, especially the British, had his num-
ber They would have carried on and he
wouldn't have-and they would have beaten
him before the end of 1919
SO at the eleventh hour we came with a
rush and our weight, added to the superb
fighting and endurance of our Allies which
had battered the Germans, was just enough
to tip the delicately balanced scales in 1918
But can't claim to have "won the war"
that cannot be said of any one of the Allies.
If England's "contemptible little army"
hadn't sacrificed itself through the splendor
of its fighting in 1914, there would have
been no need for a second German try for
the Channel ports. and the first Marine
might have been different story
If the French army hadn't held with
amazing devotion and pertinacity against
superior numbers through the long terrible
months of l914-15, the war would have been
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

lFron The Dfdl)
The rustling summer of your heart
l. Where limpid butterfly emotions
Are tangled in sun strands, and all is
tinged with young loves,
There grows an old, twisted tree
He seems to wonder how he came
To all the light and warmth that whisks
endlessly past him.
He is an old, half-withered sorrow,
And he bears for your skipping joys a sad
friendliness.
MAXWELL BODENHETN.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

sefous thing, as the economic craft not
rarely illustrates. But no political
economy may be worse yet-as the food
administration has conclusively proved.
Inc law or supply and demand IS still
Valid, outside Mr. Hoover's office,
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
The Wind

From The Pa0an)
THE wind is the mighty broom
Il That time, the ancient scaveness.
Is sweeping with
Sweeping old leaves,
Old humanities,
Old earths
And now and then,
A dizzy star,
A withered moon,
Hang on, entangled,
Like spiders broken webs
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
When the Addressee Is a Hun
From Tho Columb,n Rsco,d,

(Fron The Columbia Record
Funny world! Colonel Whttlesey was
decorated with real gold medal for saw
ing GO to hell" while most men are dec
Grated with paste in the eve for the
same thing.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
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New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

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New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

because our objective was the Germans
pivotal position and therefore vital, the task
was the most difficult before the Allies and
became increasingly difficult as the Ger
mans drew all possible reinforcements to
oppose us.
Twas campaign of brilliant conception
and magnificent, tenacious endeavor which
only the armistice November 11) could
halt, and must take place among the great
campaigns of the war forever to shed its
glory upon the staff that planned and the
officers and the soldier boys that carried it
through
We Turned the Scales
Yet let us also never forget that it was
the French either flank of the Americans
that made possible the brilliant successes at
Beleau Woods and at Chateau Thierry-
Scissors; the British hammer that aided
Americans to break through elements of
the Hindenhurg line; the persistent, furious
attacking of British and French in the west
that helped the Americans 10 carry home
their drive in +he east
SO let US keep our feet on the ground
and look facts squarely in the face. AS
Marshal Joffre says, our weight
turned the scales,' but if the British and
French had not been fighting and killing
Germans for practically four years, the
weight added in 1918 couldn't have
turned the scales this year. And if the
British fleet hadn't kept the seas free of
German dreadnoughts America could not
for another year two have sent food or
troops to thus add her weight-and the
Germans would have had civilization by the
throat
That was real freedom of the seas" of
which we are now having so much discus
sion.
And if we had not turned the scales vic
tory surely would have been delayed but
not lost If America had not come in Ger
many would not have been beaten in 1918
perhaps not until 1920, but even without
soldiers success finally would have come
to the Allies, in my judgment.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

tRecentlv Returned
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
8" Who Won the War;"
By Caspar Whitney

Special correspondent of The Tribune in France
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
SUNDAY. DECEMBER %, 1918

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New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
GUAR RANTEE

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Mail Matter.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

srrscRrTToN RATEs-By Mail. including Postage:
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PAUL ELDRIDGE.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
LEONORA SPEYER.
Survivor

CFron The DiaD
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-23
THE "FLu" IN MASON COUNTY

Nothing swept country years that has claimed such
toll ntered with business and social
life like the Spanish influenza which to be the
Our Mason county which only few days prded her
being the sanitary counties the United States
Despite the fact that county last spent
thousand dollars in Sanitary Survey the "Fu germs
rich field here and of citizens have
been claimed by death.
Although Mason county said by experts be of the
sanitary counties in Kentucky and although she the only
Kentucky which had had Sanitary Survey the
uenza in this county much than the
most of the Kentucky counties.
One good thing least from the Sanitary Survey
during the influenza epidemic and that the full time health of
Without his efforts conditions might have been much
No city had corps harder working learned and
successful physicians than Mayse and they deserve much credit
for their unng efforts to stop the spread of the epidemic here
Miss Annie Casey who Mason county has learned love for her
sefsacrcng abors and her efficient assistant Miss Wangford
have been in the thick of the fight day and night and much credit
due them
Our capable and wise Health Board to be congratulated
for its very wise handling of the epidemic The members without
pay called from their business and have time
and thought hundreds of matters that have arisen.
The epidemic here has been bad but should be thank
full that has been and that have had such protection
from very efficient corps of physicians alert Health Officer
sfsacrfcng Public Health Nurses and wise Board of Health
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-23
A NEW OBSERVATION BALLOON

iItaly's success in aviation is TO
longer subject of discussion; not
only the individual records of Italian
aviators speak for themselves, but al
so the daily work of the Italian planes
on the Italian or French fronts are
hard facts that the world at large con-
cedes. The Caproni, the Fiat, the An
saldo, and the pomilio companies are
daily producing many aeroplanes, and
the Italian aviation has actually re-
cord of speed in production, efficiency
and thoroughness. But, not only in
aviation, but also in aeronautics Italy
has come to the front There is, for
instance, new observation balloon
that is now about to be used by all the
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-23
TOO WEAK TO WORK
Vermont Woman Tells How She Re-
gained Her Health

Albug, VT was rundown, no APP
petite, and too weak to do my house
work-medicines did not seem to help
me until tried Who'll soon noticed
an improvement, and am now well,
strong, and able to do my work. -
Lillian Babba.
The reason Vinol was so successful
in Miss Babba's case, is because it
contains beef, and cod liver peptone5,
iron and manganese peptonates ana
needed to build up a weakened rur-
down system, make rich, red blood
and create strength.
John C. Pecor Drug Co. and j. Jas.
Wood G. Son, Druggists.
P. Sour Saxol Salve stops itching
and begins healing at once.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-23

allied armies, which is the invention
of an Italian army officer, Major Bras
soni of the Italian army engineers.
The particular merits of this balloon
are the extraordinary stability and its
power of suspension; moreover a
most important factor there are abso-
lutely no meal parts exposed that
might cause any damage by electric
ity; this allows the observers to stay
up, even in an electric storm, without
>any more danger than the average
tree. The observers basket communi-
Gates with the crew on the ground by
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-23
MAYsv1LLE's NEED OF A Y. M G. A.

1t will be but few days until soldiers in American
will begin arrive home with their honorable discharges and begin
to take their accustomed places in business and social life
In only few months will marching back
and they too will fall back into their niche in civil life
All of influence Young Men s.
Christian Association since they have been members of the army
they will be at home but short time until they will begin
the need of gathering place where they the little
pleasures and comforts offered them by the Y while khaki
Maysle and Mason county offers such gathering place
heroes and their brothers
lie colors except pool rooms.
The great need oa Y NJ c. A. Maysvle county
apparent and the demand will be that opinion
that one of the first time efforts should
fcient to establish branch in this city. The project will
hearty support from soldiers.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-23

Restrictions placed of the movements of ships it
thought by the secretary of the United States navy safely
removed This and the lifting of similar bans upon information
gether with promise the effect that cenorng
will be taken by the ordinary person pretty
that the world has been made safe democracy
tian Science Monitor.
There be such thing freedom
careful of everything he tells another of the of
which he tells it. while the who compelled
self things which he would give the world to tell feels little better
off than slave. 1t grand feel the shacke dropping off,
glorious to hear them fall
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-23

There $4,000 soldiers who died the
their lives amounted 17000000 What
be scattered the soldiers families Surely parent
careful of the interest of his children Uncle
of the boys who went out to fight for the old flag Nothing
be charming than the oude nation for the
boys who stood bt in the days of its peril It great
ment to the boys when called the future
country will watch them every loving parent
The soldiers clothed and fed better than they
at home and when they died there left
were dependent upon them Isn't this great country2
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-23

means of a wireless telephone. Six
months ago this balloon rose to a
height of 10000 feet over London,
which in itself was a record for an
observation balloon.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-23

Try a Ledger Want AID. 1t Pays
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06

WILL pay $1 an acre cash for any land
 in Alabama. Write J-26 care Age-Her-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06
FARM AND TIMBER LANDS

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 FOR RENT-Eighty-a farm 6n miles from courthouse, to a reliable party; will sell mules, cows, hogs, chickens, wagons and farm imple- ments. Address 1901 s. 21st.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06
FARM AND TIMBER LANDS
By C. H. Green, Rental M


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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06
FOR RENT

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