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nizing Company by deed dated Jlae

nizing Company by deed dated Jaae
8, 1894.
|. Terms of sale-One-third cash, and
the balance in equal instruments, pay
able at one and two years after date,
the deferred payments to be evidenced
by the notes Of the purchaser or pur-
chascrs to be secured by first deed
trust on the property, and to bear III
terest at s per cent per annum, o. al
the option of the purchaser or par
chasers all cash may be paid
A deposit Of two hundred and iftv
dollars will be required on the day Of
sale, and the balance of the purchase
price must be settled in accordance
with the above terms within fifteen
lays thereafter. Conveyancine Il. /
cost OF the purchaser or purchasers.
GARDNER L. BOOTEE,
BRAINARD w. PARKER.
GS-td Trustee:
The above auction sale IS postponed
to take place at y o'clock, noon. Q.
he premises, on Tuesday, April IL,
1918.
GARDNER L. BOOTHE.
BRAINARD ". PARKER,
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Mr.. Vanderlip's Retirement

Secretary McAdoo pays tribute to the
fine work Of Mr.. Nanderlip in creating
and directing the war savings organiza
organization is to be placed under the
supervision of the Federal Reserve
banks, and Mr.. Vandcrlip will resume
his duties at the head of the National
City.
1t may not be amiss to recall. that
when he opened the war savings cam
paign his blunt dcnunciation of the
pleasure as usual" doctrine brought
down upon his head a storm Of criticism
and abuse. 1t was somehow imagined
that this country could produce the nine
teen billions of goods and services which
the government then sought out of the
air, and with no restriction of the usual
expenditures for luXuries and eXtrava-
gances. 1t was even then clear that the
man power of the country was 100 per
cent employed and that the only pos
sible way to get the needful supplies and
munitions was to cut down all needless
outlay sharply and immediately. We
now know that the inability of the gov
ernment to spend anything like nineteen
billions the first year was due to ust
this inability to turn the tide Of national
activity into war work.
The strenuous endeavors now being
made to do this are ample vindication of
Mr.. Vanderlip's position.
Two Or three years ago. in describing
this as "a nation of economic illiterates,"
the head OF the National City Bank.
warned America rs Of the consequences
which might hoVv from this preoccupa-
ton with individual concerns. We have
already had our lesson. Shall we find
the same escape from similar misunder-
standing of the large problems which the
war and it's close will bring?
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Ceorgia Next

First Mississippi eliminated Varda-
man. Then South Carolina rid itself of
Blease Both Senators went down be-
fore Presidential condemnation at the
primaries.
AS one Of the "wiful twelve.' Thomas
". Hardwick the junior Senator from
Georgia, has earned the displeasure Of
Woodrow Wilson. The Presidents
power in the solid South will be put to
its third test to-day. In the Georgia
campaign he has gone further than in
the other states Not only has he ad-
vised against the return Of the incum-
bent, but he has set his stamp Of ap-
proval on one of the other candidates.
William J. Harris, whom the Presi-
dent appointed chairman of the Federal
Trade Commission, goes before the Dem
ocratic voters to-day with the expressed
approval Of the White House. His
loyalty is unquestioned. So is that
Of Representative William Schley How
ard, who is also opposing Mr.. Hardwick.
Mr.. Howard has supported the Adminis-
tration war measures in Congress-
AS between candidates of equal 10y
atty the President has announced his de-
termination to snow no favoritism. Su-
perfcially it might seem that he has de-
parted from that stand in Georgia. 1t
was last April, before the Howard can
didacy had been announced, that Mr.
Wilson fixed upon W. j. Harris as the
candidate to prevent the return of Hard
wick to the Senate Later, when Repre-
sentative Howard wrote to the President
that he had decided to become a candi-
date, he received from the White House
one Of the briefest acknowledgements on
record Il am keenly disappointed"
With the loyal vote divided to-day
Senator Hardwick may be renominated
His chances are helped by the county
unit system which prevails in Georgia,
by which candidate who polls plural
ity vote wins the county's support in
state convention.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11

miles and in the number Of freight loco
motives and of cars waiting in shops for
repairs.
We pointed out last month that it is
much too soon to pass any judgment
upon the effects of government opera
tion. 1t is quite possible that the real
improvements that have been made have
not vet had opportunity to show in the
figures as to freight movement. But it
is certainly very striking that, in the
face of tremendous war activity and
heavy pressure upon all forms of indus
try, the total traffic should have shown
no increase. 1t seems to suggest that
the railroads had in 1917 attained their
maximum carrying capacity with their
present equipment and facilities. The
new equipment ordered by the govern
ment has not yet come into service, and
the railroads, of course, are in competi-
tlOn with the wars demands abroad for
the output Of car and locomotive shops.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Needed: A Phonograpb

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Over on Liberty Island there is
lonely base hospital which for some time past
has been the special care of the National
Honor Guard of the United States. We have
looked after the boys as well as we could,
but as the base hospital is only one of the
many activities of the Honor Guard and we
are not rich organization, we are not able
to supply all the small needs and comforts
that come to our notice.
There is thing just now that these
lonely soldier boys need to cheer their soll-
tary moments Of convalescence, and that IS
phonograph. They have plenty Of records
but no Instrument
May we take the liberty of asking through
the columns of The Tribune for such gift?
Should any one wish to give an instrument
outright it may be sent to the Post Hospital,
Fort Wood, Liberty Island, New York, OF
funds to be expended for such a purpose
may be sent to the national headquarters,
81 West Twenty eighth Street, New York
City. DOROTHY HOAR,
Captain National Honor Guard of L. S.
New York, Sept. 10, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Colleges as Training Camps

Transforming the colleges and univer-
sites of the nation into training camps
for thousands of soldiers reverses the
process Of hammering spears and swords
into scythes and pruning knives. The
cloister-like quiet of quadrangles long
devoted to the studies and pursuits of
peace will give way to martial music
and the noise of the marching of many
feet
What great thing this is-the col
leges and universities giving their ser
vices to the nation in the work of
training our soldiers. Thousands of
men from eighteen to forty-five, who
never dreamed Of going to college, will
join the students army training corps
and receive brief instruction at these
training camps, which will be typical
melting pots of democracy Brief as the
courses will be, the soldiers will be
speeded on their way toward becoming
technical experts in some branch of
army service, will acquire some knowl-
edge Of college life and methods of
study, and may lay the foundations for
professions to be adopted when the lreH'
is over. And who will say that the -ol-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Scotching aMenace
(From The Worlds Workl
T>HAT inhexible Republican standa

T>HAT inhexible Republican standard
bearer, The New York Tribune,
has rendered striking service to
the Democratic party. Day in and day
out for the last six months it has re-
minded forgetful public Of the pro-
German record of William Randolph
Hearst.
Bolstercd by the abortivc public APP
proval of the Speaker of the National
House of Representatives and cor
poral's guard of colleagues, who, as
Champ Clark boasted, "stand by their
friends" Hearst appeared at Saratoga
as candidate for Governor at the Demo
cratic state conference
Samuel Seabury, former judge of the
New York Court of Appeals, who was
the Democratic candidate for Governor
two years ago, offered a resolution
straight from the shoulder:
"Resolved, That this conference of
Democrats of the State Of New York do
renew to the President Of the United
States their whole hearted support and
confidence in his magnificent struggle to
make the world free for democracy, and,
as an earnest Of their loyalty, repudatc
every trucker with our countrys enc
mics who strives or has striven to cX-
tcnuatc or excuse such crimes against
humanity as the rape of Belgium, the
sinking of the Lusitania and the Ger
man policy of assassination by subma
rines; who seeks or has sought to SOW
dissension among our allies or now seeks
to capitalize by election to public office
the latent treason whose total annihila-
tion is the most pressing need Of the
hour"
This was unanimously adopted
Whether these events had any connec-
tion nobody seems to know. Hearsts
'American" says they had not 1t says
that "discredited" politician offered the
resolution amid a torrent Of jeers just to
hear himself talk and that it was,
adopted because it had no possible appli-
cation to any one present.
However, Alfred E. Smith, President
of the New York Board Of Aldermen, an
upright and able man, was thereupon
unanimously selected as the candidate of
the convention. A good deal of the
credit for saving the Democratic party
in New York from Hearst belongs to
The Tribune.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
New Republicism

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Allow me to add my congratulations
on your exposure of the decadents Of our
"lnte elligentsia." These detached and dis
dainful persons are unquestionably one of
dangers now, and trust you will con-
tlnuc reducing their pompous pretension to
speak for all liberals Their fundamental
difficulty is that they do not know what to
make Of moral Indignation. Acknowledg-
ing no moral absolute, they stand in clown
ish embarrassment before the soul of Amer
lea sworn to punish the deviltry that has
brought woe on the world.
To the decadent the possession of moral
indignation is incompatible with clear
head and fatal to constructive statesman
ship, whereas to-day it is the imperative
requisite of d clear head and of construc
tive craftsmanship. The decadent would de-
priye our share in the war Of its essential
Justification, i. e., its moral vigor. and un
der pretence of calming our ferocitv would
restore all the inquities that we are in
arms TO destroy. Keep after them You
won't find it much of d strain on YOUR mind
and you will do service to the preat
cause. WILLIAM L. Sullivan
Mount Gretna, Penn, Sept. &, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Seif-Scrutir,y

Registering under the new draft law
tomorrow by men eighteen to forty
five, inclusive, and filling out afterward
the questionnaires should not be regarded
as a perfunctory process like registering
for elections. 1t is a special and unique
duty. When a man registers he cnrolls
himself as potential soldier of the
United States. lie is fulfilling one of his
constitutional obligations as a citizen,
taking the first step toward bearing arms
for the Republic.
The succeeding steps in the selection
of this citizens army will be taken in a
regular and orderly way. His own
fellow citizens-the members of local
boards, assisted by competent advisers
will make the actual selections for the
army. Nothing could be fairer or more
democratic. Men who claim deferred
classification on occupational grounds
must show clearly that they are entitled
to it. The burden is upon them. Are
they engaged in essential industry? Are
they essential to that industry?
This will involve a taking stock Of
personal worth, a searching of heart an
inventory Of accomplishment on the part
Of millions of men. When has there been
such self-analysis on so vast a scale
before?
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Six Months of Government Control

Definite figures are now available as
, TO the Railroad Administration for June
and for the six months ended June 80
last. 1t is noteworthy that the sixth
month shows practically the same oper-
ating results as the previous five. There
is in this month the same slight falling
off in the total amount of freight han
died, in the average mileage made by
each car and locomotive and in the aver
age number of tons hauled one mile by
each car and each locomotive
There was an increase in the average
number of tons carried by each car, but
the average trainload was the same as
in June, 1917. There were also slight
increases in the number, of freight car
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
The Opera Season

The Metropolitan Opera Company has
issued it's announcement OF plans for the
coming season, an announcement of nov
elites and revivals which would be praise
worthy even in times of peace. That
Signor Gatti-Casazza has been able to
offer such richness of operate fare
despite the war and it's discouragements
is truly extraordinary, and once again
the Metropolitan proves its title to the
first opera house of the world.
We are not, OF course, going to have
any opera in German, though we are to
have one German opera sung in Eng
lish-Weber's "Oberon." As this opera
was originally written to an English text
it is really an English opera, whatever
may have been the nationality of Carl
Maria Won Weber Wagner is again to
be totally eliminated The Metropolitan
management evidently refuses to con-
slider him as belonging entirely to the
old Germany, which nobody hates, and
believes that his art shows strong traces
of pant Germanism.
In the Italian field pulses are set beat
ing by the announcement of the world
premieres Of three one-act operas by
Puccini, while there is to be, what is
strange to state, the first performance
at the Metropolitan Of Verdis LA Forza
del Destino.' These operas, with re-
vival of "Crispino e la Comare," ought
to satisfy our Italian friends, while to
France the Metropolitan pays homage
by the production Of LA Refine Fla
mette," of Xavier Leroux, and of Gou-
mods *Mireille.' In addition Russia
will give US Stravnskys charming bal
let, "Petroushka."
Most interesting of all, however, is the
announcement of the production Of two
one-act operas by absolutely unknown
American composers. These little works
were submitted to Signor Gatti- -Casazza
by their authors and accepted entirely
on their merits. 1t is of good omen to
find the Metropolitan going beyond the
names of established local composers to
discover the genius who is to create
American opera. None of these estab-
hshed composers has yet proved himself
such q genius, and it is at least possible
that either Mr. Breil or Mr.. Hugo may
produce something which will more
nearly approximate our ideal of an
American opera than did Mr. Parker,
Mr.. Damrosch, Mr.. De Koven, or even
Mr.. Cadman. Perhaps, after all the
pessimists may be right and America,
like England may continue to be land
IN which opera never can take root But
it is evident that this will not be the
case if the Metropolitan can prevent it,
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
The Washington Family in the Wan

The Washington Family in the War
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: What are the descendants of the
family Of George Washington doing to help
win the war? This question has been asked
of the writer and through the press several
times, and while it is impossb ble to make
complete answer without making an inves-
tigation, a brief statement of the facts, as
related to the descendants of General
Washingtons brother, Colonel John Angus
tine Washington, will show that they are
we'll represented in the military service of
the United States.
Lawrence Washington, who is the son Of
the last owner OF Mount Vernon, has five
; sons in the army They all volunteered as
privates. Two Of them have received pro-
motions and third son is now in the OIL
Gers training camp at Quantco.
Lawrence Washington's sister, who is the
wife of Beverly D. Tucker Bishop of South
ern Virginia, also has five sons in the army
three of whom volunteered and two were
drafted while completing their courses at
school.
Irvine Keyser and John Stewart. Of Balti-
more, who are great -grandsons OF Colonel
Lewis William Washington, of Virginia, are
also in the service, and Lieutenant Bushrod
c. Washington, of Washington D. c., and
his son, Bushrod, are in the army and are
i'm France.
Lawrence Washington, of Westmoreland
County, Va, had son in the army who
lost his life in France about three months
ago.
Captain Thomas c. Washington and his
brother are making enviabe regulations for
themselves in the favy, bat they arc of
another branch Of the family and Colonel
Nlorvinc c. Buckley now military attach6
to the American Embassy at Rome, is de-
scended from of General Washington's
brothers. WASHINGTON
New York Sept :, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
To France

Lafayette Day: September 6, 1918
NTHERE st. Louis and his knights
w Made the cross their star,
Left the gay and smiling land,
Battled long and far;
Where the Maid rode gallantly.
Armed and purely proud,
Where her soul broke from the fame
Like a silver cloud;
Where the dawn Of freedom shone
After long unrest,
And the soil was red with blood
In the furious quest;
Who're they watched Us overseas,
AS her light grew clear,
And the sword Of Lafayette
Followed without fear;
Where beside the immortal Marine
Twice they felt the glow
OF the angel of our God
Pressing back the foe;
There our sacrifice is poured,
There our hearts have met;
There, where mighty spirits shine,
Greet us. Lafayette,
MARION COUTHOUY SMITH
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
F och 5 Next Step
By Frank H. Simonds
(Copyrjeht, 1913, Nerc York Tribune Inc.)

engaged, are to be reckoned with in any
extension of the battle to the wings now
We saw in the case Of Ludendorff's Of
fensive last spring that when he had ex-
plotted his success Of March 81 to the
utmost, and the coming of Fayolle's
troops had pulled down the advance and
saved the whole Allied fortunes in Pi-
cardy, Ludendorff had to choose between
another Verdun campaign before Amiens
and a shift to new field. He unhesi-
tatingly chose to change his field and we
had the April 8 attack in Flanders and
the May u attack above the Asne In
early April Ludendorff recognized that,
given the condition of transport and the
necessary delay in getting up munitions
and guns, he could not attack his foe
before that foe had prepared defence
systems in front of Amiens which would
hold. We had, too, while the situation
still seemed critical, the unqualified as
surance Of Foch that the Germans would
not advance further and that Amens was
safe.
Foch is now in Ludendorff's situation
with respect to the line between Arras
and scissors. He must attack with bad
communications behind him. He must
attack an enemy in positions Of the foes
choosing served by admirable communi-
cations, or he must transfer his activities
to the tlanks. That he will go to the
f1anks seems an inevitable consequence of
IL.
t1anks, to the fronts between Cambria
and Ypres on the north and between
Rheims and the Argonne on the east
with the possible extension of the latter
front by the addition Of sectors between
the Moselle and the Vosges, that we must
now look for decisive effort.
In military language Ludendorff has
declined battle along his whole centre
from the Scarpe east Of Arras to the
Alsne east of scissors. He has drawn
back that centre to a fortified position,
difficult Of access because of the devas
tated area before it. He has at the same
time stood fast on his tanks, save for a
local retirement on the Lys salient. He
thus expects an attack upon his hanks.
just as he did in 1917, after the Hinden-
burg retreat, and has prepared for it.
Foch has exactly the same problem TO
solve now that Nivelle and Haig tackled
unsuccessfully in April and Nav of last
year. His difficulties are the greater be-
cause we are almost at the end of the
1lghtlng season, while Nivelle and Haig
mad the whole summer before them when
they began.
In sum, it seems to me certain, now.
that we shall see in the next few DAYS
STRIKING developments between Cambral
and Ypres and between Rheims and Yer.
dun. These developments probably will
take the form Of attacks by French and
British armies, but they may disclose
German counter offensive since it is es
sential for Ludendorff to regain the inf-
tlatlve for the moment at least, and he
can gain it only by attack. Finally, Lu
dendorff's attack if made from the CEN
tire would be subject to most of the diff.
cultles Of Foch, after it had made a litt,e
progress, and might invite heavy blow
on his fianks, which are now moro vul>
nerable Therefore we may expect that
the Germans will react on the fanks if
they react at all
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11

~ VOW that the enemy is substan
q TALLY back behind the Hinden-
burg system Of defences from
Lens to Nailly, thai is, from the Deule
to the Aisne, new problem presents it.
self to the Allied commander in chief
Since August Foch has been able in
successive attacks to take advantage Of
the vicious situation in which Ludendorf
involved himself in the great offensive of
the spring and summer. He has eXacted
a high price of the German for his reck-
lessness but that price has now been
paid. At the Hindenburg line a new
maneuvre must begin.
Now, it is perfectly plain that Foch
has to choose between two courses. He
must seek to follow up his partial sue
cesses, which have produced a wide
swinging German retreat, either by
frontal attack upon the Germans in their
new position or he must again resort to
partial blows with the purpose to turn
the Germans out Of their present posi-
tions by the threat of development and
capture.
If Foch chooses the former method we
shall have one or a series OF great from
tai attacks taking place between Arras
and scissors. We shall see the armies
of Horne, Rawinson, Debeney, Humbert
and Mangin hurled against the army
group including the German armies Of
Marwitz and Hutier and commanded by
Boehn, the expert in retreat, who has di-
rected the recent withdrawal. On the
other hand, if Foch prefers to use the
turning method, we must look for at
tacks in Flanders and in Champagne,
and possibly in Lorraine--in Flanders by
Plumer's Second British Army, in
Champagne by Gouraud's Fourth French
Army and in Lorraine by the group of
French and American armies under the
command Of Castelnau. Both in Flan-
ders and in Lorraine we may expect to
see American troops play considerable
part if The operation shifts to these
provinces.
AS between the centre and the fanks
the choice is clear. AL the way from
Arras to scissors the Germans have
created great desert, and the Allied
armies have now advanced from fifteen
to thirty-fve miles over wasted coun-
try, lacking in communications and in all
resources. To bring up heavy guns and
munitions over this region will be con-
siderable task, and without the guns an
assault against unbroken lines would be as
costly as that of Nivelle at the Aisne last
year or of Haig in the Passchendaele oper-
alton Only if the enemy had been driven
in complete rout into his new lines
would further attack be justified, and
there is nothing to suggest this. Civil
War memories will recall Grants mis-
taken effort at Cold Harbor and see
Foch's problem as it exists.
1t is only on the fanks that our allies
can at once approach the German posi-
tlon under cover Of their own heavy
guns. In front of Arras and north OF
scissors, that is, on the fronts of the
armies of Mangin and Horne, the devas-
tated district is narrow and the problem
of getting up guns and munitions SIM
pier. That is why the main fighting action
Of recent days has been by these armies
and Why they are already squarely at
and, in the case of Horne, within the Hin
denburg defence system. Thus VIC may
fairly calculate the armies of Horne and
Mangin, although they have been already
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Who Wants to Eat?

NFrons The TaNcon'cr SuD
In Scranton, Penn, the Mayor ha. for
hidden the village bellies to kiss the sol
diers who pass through the town en- route
to France. lie acted on complaint of the
Red Cross. which claimed that the kissing
ipterfered with the task of feeding the SOL
d ers.