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New-York tribune., 1918-05-18

faithful and deserving employees, the
postal clerks and letter carriers. The
Senate has passed an amendment to the
postoffice appropriation bill providing
for an increase Of 5000 year for clerks
and letter carriers and percentage in
creases for certain other classes of en-
ployes. The House has passed sepa-
rate bill of about the same provisions,
so there is little doubt that the increases
will be authorized, after conference, at
these figures, which are higher than the
recommendation of the Postoffice De-
partment-a fiat increase of $120 year.
For the carriers particularly this is
victory to which they are entitled. It
has been many years since they have had
their pay raised In the meantime the
general cost Of living has gone up tre-
mendously, and certain items which af-
feet them because of their work, such
as the price of shoes, have made extra
big holes in their purses. Their task is
physically hard and demands consider
able intelligence, so that, with compen-
sation remaining stationary, they were
falling far behind in life's race. The
carriers and their comrades, the mail
clerks, serve the government honestly
and we'll. They deserve this recognition
of their service.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18

we can give them, will meet and master
that attack. The Allied line may be
pushed back here and there, but the AL
lied spirit and the Allied armies will re-
main intact
In the presence of the decisive battle,
which we are going to win, Mr.. Balfour
does well to clear the air of all peace
clouds. We shall need the best possible
visibility to deal with our enemy as he
means to deal with us. We shall not be
able to talk with him until we have
beaten him. The defeat of the German
peace manmuvre is preliminary but
essential detail in the defeat of the Ger
man military maneuvre soon to come. 1t
has been defeated, just as the military
maneuvre will be defeated. 1t is time
for the guns to resume the discussion.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
We Begin to Score

COMMUNICATES have become almost as
familiar an institution in America as
box scores. We may have disagreed
with Kansas over the pronunciation of
the word, but there has been utter una
nimity as to the interest of the thing.
No breakfast has been complete without
them for so long a space of time that it
is hard to remember an era when there
were only scores and weather reports to
grow excited over.
1t is, therefore, the mark of a new
chapter in the war for all of us that our
first american official communique" has
at last come through. What has gone
before becomes mere warming up. Now
begins the game. 1t is good to see the
end of the weekly essay that has been
issuing from Mr.. Bakers Office and to
find in it's place these hard military
facts.
May they always be just that! The
truth is what America needs, glowing
and hopeful when it is actually that,
grim and dark when fate is against us.
We know so little of the war at first
hand, and it must essentially remain so
far distant, that we shall always be in
danger of careless thinking and soft feel
ing. We shall be subject both to need
less depression and unwarranted hope.
The whole truth, told daily, without fear
or favor, is the one sure creator of a
clear vision and sound national morale.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
The Whispers

LIE HEARD in the night their voices,
l. L The whispers that would not down.
Above the calls of the city,
Above the streets of the town.
Across the surge of the ocean,
From under the far worlds rim,
Faint, yet unceasing. insistent,
The young dead called to him.
Brother! o Brother!" they whispered
eve are alone in our paint"
BY day to his busy Office
Would come their whispers again.
Then hushcd grew the citv's murmur,
All dark would the sunlight be,
And dull in his ears the throbbings 1
Of far drums under the sea.
0 young dead, called from your labor
To sleep in soldiers bed,
To march through the gates of anguish
Alone and uncontrolled
Give place for this new-found brother
Who shoulders the heavy load.
And comes at your whispered chaiienSe
To journey the painful rcadl
DySART McMuII1a
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18

With Rosalie, long, slim and so dead
~ to embrace, now stand Mireille and
Mary Magdalene, the two great French
guns that have put the German super
guns out of business. We should like to
know how Provence and Palestine came
to furnish these two pet names. Also.
why they are women, not men. AS with
Rosalie, however, such baptisms are un-
registered and beyond all tracing. Beau
tlful and dear and deadly-therefore a
woman, perhaps. AS for ugly and hate
ful Bertha, Busy Bertha of the smoky
shells, she is Boche and doesn't count.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
The Other
Gutzor1 Borgl11111
By Ralph Block

stretched tight over his knees, in seated
position on a bench, and a coat wrinkled
with the strain imposed by his long frame.
Barnard can testify that we haven't yet
got over our prejudices in favor of the
SNUG and immaculate. But Borglum re-
fused to impose a dogmatic Lincoln upon
the public. Instead he went to all the
sources he could find, and out of them
built up Lincoln who is understandable
and still, with all his clarity, remains
great. "God built LINCOLN in the backyard
of the nation," Borglum wrote once in ex-
planning the process of his study of Lin
coin, and it was that kind of Lincoln that
he was not afraid to show.
Ecstasy
Several others of his works are we'll
known; the equestrian Sheridan in Wash
ington and the fine statue of James Smith
son in the Smithsonian Institution. New
York has his figures of the Apostles in
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; and
Princeton, where he knew Woodrow Will
son, commissioned him to do the gargoyles
for the '79 dormitory An artist once wrote
"No art is great without ecstasy" Borg
lum has worked in that belief. Every
thing he has done discloses some con-
centraton of essential emotions.
he mas llVeQ actlVely. He has had many
interests. He has been devoted, to the
creation of machines as we'll as of images.
His neighbors in Connecticut know about
the road he built and the motor truck he
designed to run. on it. Perhaps only Gut
zon Borglum out of all the sculptors of
the United States would have had the cour-
age as we'll as the interest in great projects
to make the attempt to carve a Confederate
memorial on the face Of Stone Mountain,
near Atlanta. Then, he invented the
strangest of all flying machines.
To Look At
He is not tall, but gives an impression
of good height. Badness reveals mas
sive head, sets off the depth of the eyes
and accentuates the fneness of the nose.
In the slope Of the cheeks from high
cheek bones and the well moulded and
sensitive mouth and chin, Borglum is an
artist. The rest of him thinks.
Not everything Borglum has created has
been marked by clarity. Much of it has
inclined to mysticism. 1t may be that
quality in him that explains his hesita
tions and his blundering in the world of
reality.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Shearing Diplomats
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: "The science of creating and trans
hitting public opinion under the influence
OF collective emotion is about to become
the principal science of civilization. to the
mastery of which all governments and all
powerful interests will in the future sd-
dress themselves with every resource at
their command"
This quotation from Mr.. Benjamin Kidds
book "The Science of Power" points out
what in the future may we'll be one Of
the most important branches of govern
mental activity
The question arises. "What can or
should be done by the United States to
develop this science in its relation to for
eign countries ?"
1t has been said that there are fewer than
one hundred men in the United States who
think internationally. If this is true, the
commanding his subjects to go forth into
the world in search of knowledge is apple
able to US also. 1t is imperative that ws
conserve and utilize the experience and Wis
dom of the few men who. have knowlsdC
of international relations.
1t would seem that there might Be 4
council on foreign relations or house Of
diplomats, which should comprise in its
membership. ex-ministers and ex-ambassa-
dors of the United States and other Amer-
can citizens who have done constructive
work internationally. This council might
be controlled by board of governors,
somewhat as the Federal Reserve Bank Is
controlled, who should give their undivided
attention to the question of foreign rela-
tions, each governor specializing on the
country with which he is familiar; it should
be as independent of politics as the Su-
preme Court; it would act in an advisory
capacity to the President and departments
OF the government if called upon. It's head
quarters should be in New York. Its
method of operation might be somewhat
similar to that of the Roman College OF
the Propaganda, that is, through intensi-
flying and multiplying the personal equation
by conference and exchange of thought
rather than by publicity. As a sheep
sfrorn of it's wool to be converted into
cloth, SO would the international expert b
shorn of his knowledge, that it might b
placed at the disposal of the government.
Such board would tend to stabilize our
foreign policy and give it continuity
It would also operate to maintain a happy
medium between secret diplomacy and the
tendency of the people to take diplomscy
into their own hands.
LINDSAY RUSSELL.
New York, May 13, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Federal Equipment
(From The RaiLavau Re1iew) }

4 S A MERE matter of fact the gov.
~ ernment is ordering about two
thirds as much equipment as the
railways did in the year of their greatest
distress under oppression, and. less than
one-half as much they have averaged
through the years Of feast and famine
There are over $4,000 locomotives in ser.
vice. The new order will increase this
number by about IN per cent. But these
new locomotives are to be modern in siza
and power; hence we may say that each
of them is equal to two average existing
locomotives, and the increase is per cent
IN total tractive power. There are some
2,6o0O0o freight cars; hence, orders for
100000 increase this by per cent. or con-
sidering the high capacity of the new cars.
we may say that the total car capacity is
increased per cent The RAILWAYS have.
always done much more than that. even in
their worst years. and when there was
comparatively little demand for additional
capacity. For more than six years thew
have averaged car orders SO per cent
greater than the Control" has now tout
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
More Pay for the Mail Men

vi all wage-earners struggling with
the increased cost of living the small
saiaried worker has been most unfortu-
nate. He belongs to no union which can
make demands on the employer and en-
force compliance. Usually his work is
OF such nature that he cannot quit and
go into the factories which are now pay
ing their laborers and unskilled hands
rates which skilled mechanics would not
have scorned three years ago. He has
been ground between the fixed compensa-
ton and the ever-mounting prices Of
food, clothes and housing.
At last Congress has recognized this
evil condition affecting Z large class Of
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Back From Torment

The British public seems to have been
taken aback by the news that France
and Germany have reached pretty COM
plete agreement for the exchange of
prisoners. Exchange arrangements
have, in fact, been in force between
these two combatants for more than a
year. Under them large number of
the inhabitants of the invaded districts
of France-mostly old men and women
and children below fourteen-have been
repatriated.
Prisoners of war and men of military
age have been exchanged only if physi-
cally disabled by wounds or illness.
They have been transferred to Switzer-
land and interned there at the expense
OF their respective governments. Re-
Gently all prisoners have been sent to
Switzerland who were over certain age
and had been imprisoned two years
or more. The larger agreement Just
signed provides for the release of about
$4,000 civilians and soldiers who have
been in military or internment camps
for at least year and half. Ger
many and Italy have also concluded an
agreement for the release of sick and
crippled prisoners of war. But the
scope of this is very limited because
Italy has few German prisoners.
France has been the chief victim of
German barbarity. She has a terrible
score to settle. But in spite of that she
has wisely consented, in the cause of
humanity, to deal with Germany. in the
matter of exchanges of prisoners and
lnterned civilians, as if Germany were
still entitled to consideration as a scru-
pulous observer of the laws of civilized
warfare. She rescues her own flesh and
blood from torment at the price of an
apparent concession of Germany's status
as military equal.
Germany's motive in agreeing to ex-
changes is purely selfish. She is glad
to be rid of the care (?) of old men.
women and children in the occupied dis
tricts. She no longer needs French pris-
oners for the labor she can get out of
them. She is retaining hundreds of
thousands of former Russian prisoners
and has the labor of the newly con-
quered and appropriated Russian prov
lnces to draw on. She can afford to as
sumo certain Difference to honorable
military traditions, since such Difference
Will no longer cost her anything.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Mr.. Balfour on Peace

Mr.. Balfour has performed a useful
service in his recent utterance in the
House of Commons, provided that the
emphasis is everywhere placed upon that
portion of his remarks where the en-
phasis properly belongs. And this is
the portion containing the statement that
the Central Powers have never at any
time made any honest or reasonable prop
osition for peace, but have invariably
used discussion of peace for the purpose
of dividing their enemies.
1t is, of course, true that we, the Allies,
have been and are willing to receive and
discuss any offer of peace made in good
faith. But the Germans have no inten-
ton of making any such proposition, and
when they talk peace they are seeking to
disorganize the armies in front of them
and the publics behind those armies for
purposes which are military. They are
aiming to repeat their achievement of
last year, when they first disorganized
the Italian people and the Italian army
by propaganda, and then attacked the
army and won one of the great victories
of the war.
We are going to win this war upon
the battlefield, and not until we have won
the war upon the battlefield will it be
possible to discuss peace with the Ger
man, because not until he is defeated
will the German make any proposal of
peace which has an honest purpose.
There ought to be an end of this eternal
searching of our own consciences, of the
doubts and hesitations, fomented in
enemy quarters, as to the Righteousness
of Allied purpose, in the presence of the
fact that our enemy and the common
enemy of all of US is using peace as he
uses poison gas-to prepare the way for
a massed attack.
Mr.. Balfour has demonstrated the
falsity of the specific German charge that
France was committed to a policy of
aggrandizement, that England had blind
ly accepted French purpose to restore
the frontiers, not of 1870, but Of 1914,
or Of 1889, along the Saar River. This
was characteristic German attempt to
fasten upon the enemy a purpose Ger
man in it's character, with the idea of
shaking the faith of French, British and
American peoples in the Allied cause.
Mr. Balfour has demonstrated that
our British ally and all our allies are
acting in good faith with respect to us in
keeping us informed of what is going on.
1t was Austria, and not France, which
prevented the transmission to America
and to President Wilson of the dishonest
peace proposals Of last summer. And
with Mr.. Balfour's frank statement there
disappears the last reason for believing
that it was at any time possible during
last year to reach an honorable settle
ment. This fallacy was long held and
used with the deliberate purpose to in
jure the Allied cause in all the Allied
nations.
The enemy is preparing to strike us
upon the Western front. He is prepar-
ing to strike that blow which he hopes
will give him decisive military victory.
Before delivering the blow he is seek
ing to get as great an advantage as DOS
slbie by more talk of peace, which he
hopes will weaken the morale of the
troops he means presently to strike with
every fiendish weapon in his whole
arsenal Our allies, with such help as
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18

Mr.. Creel has notified Congress that
ne holds it in the highest esteem. Whom
ne said in New York that because he
didn't like Summing he wouldn't at
tempt to explore it's heart he had been
speaking for more than an hour on
every phase of public misunderstand-
ing" Then some one asked him sillv
question, to which he returned "a quick
and thoughtless answer that lent itself
to exaggeration and distortion" So that
incident, ne thinks, should be closed. Mr..
Creel must not be asked any more sillv
questions.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
His Own World

But for the real Borglum, for the best
understanding of an Imagination that
somehow has become enmesbed in a web
of unfamiliar things, it is necessary to go
to his studies of Lincoln. One of them
rests in the rotunda of the Capitol,
massive fragment, only head, but tre-
mendous symbol of the great tragic faith
In human beings which made the Emanci-
rator. The other, finer and more COM
plete evocation of Lincoln, was unveiled
in front of the Essex County Court House
in Newark by Theodore Roosevelt in 1911
Even scant seven years ago it took
daring and artistic sincerity for an Amer
lean sculptor to do anything so unconven-
tional "a to show Lincoln with his pants
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
All Is Lost Save Dishonor
(From The Portlomd Press,

(Fronn The Portldmd Prcss)
"The New York Evening Post" has an
editorial asking: "Has Germany lost her
reason?" That was conceded some time.apo
What we are seeking now is to infiict more
material losses.
(From The Toronto Globe)
There seems to be a unanimous verdict
among its contemporaries that "The New
York Evening Post" is one of the slowest
newspapers on earth. After over three
years observation it gravely asks in an
editorial headline: "Has Germany Lost Her
Reasonl"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18

N AoHlNGION, May 17.-"Who Is
w Gutzon Borglum ?" one Senator
asks another in the course of a
debate on the aircraft scandal.
"He is a great sculptor, like Saint-Gau-
dens," says the one addressed.
Barring the fact that he isn't at all
like Sant-Gaudens, that the Borglum pres
entation of life is as far from the cool
austerity of Saint Gaudens as one artists
work could we'll be- from another's, that
answer is generally correct. He is
great artist in many ways, proba-
bly, one Of the few authentic and genuinely
American sculptors. George Grey Barnard
only elaborated an idea that Borglum orig
mated in his various studies of Lincoln.
Yet being great artist, and having drawn
from the world of art, which is in con-
temptation always one of perfection, an
entire theory of living, he has turned to
the world of practical affairs and failed
in his application of it. Let us say that
the imperfections of the practical world
are to blame for it,
1t was world in which man like Borg
lum could be born, grow up, develop into
figure known in all the cosmopolitan
places of the world and be unknown to
80 per cent Of his own countrymen. Let
him once fling his name into the boiling
pot of politics and the country marks his
name as one to be remembered.
Out of the West
Borglum was born in Idaho His father
was a physician. From his parents he
inherited various infusion of bloods,
French, German, Danish and American. He
got to Paris in the nineties, studied at
Julien's and the Beaux-Arts and surpris-
ingly found his way into the Salon when
he had been a student barely six months
He studied in Spain for while, hid away
in the mountains of California, and then
went to England. where he made a repu-
tation for himself. He was a painter
then as we'll as a sculptor and some of his
decorations now can be seen in public
places in Leeds and Manchester The Eng
lish public liked his galloping horses, al
though none of them reached the point
Of passion he was able to touch in later
works. One of his Indian groups, "Pur-
sued," showing two savages on madly flee
ing ponies, rests somewhere in one of the
Kaiser's palaces.
For all his foreign training, his art is
American. 1t may have some intensity in
it of other strains, but under all his
strange titles is an aim to express what
is native to this land of plains and noun
tains. "The Mares of Diomedes," dyna-
mic group Of unleashed, struggling horses
now in the Metropolitan Museum, is not
classical, but rests actually upon an effort
to represent the horse thief in action The
naked Hercules is really an Indian, one
of the Piutes or a Sioux that inhabited
the country in which Borglum spent his
early days.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18

Kerensky is coming to this countru
in the role of the Man Who Was. Nav
he accumulate here an experience and
a political and moral backing which will
send him back to Russia as Man Who Is
To Be.
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-16
day school, but are not sure yet.


Mr. and Mrs George Givens and fam
lily and Centred Givens visited at the
John Peterson home Saturday evening.
Miss Edna McElhaney, who is at
tending school in Salem, spent Saturday
and Sunday with home folks.
Charles Morley, who was hurt aOine
time ago, is reported to be recovering
nicely.
j. B. Peterson butchered a prize hog
one day this week. 1t weighed 500
pounds on foot and when dressed weigh
cd 450 pounds, which is only lU ~
cent loss in dressing. A record that
is hard to beat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orle Humphreys and
daughter motored to Salem last Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. ePterson and sons
motored to Salem Saturday and on re-
turning in the evening they had slight
accident. On account of the dense fog
Mr.. Peterson could not see the road and
drove down the bank by George Gill
hams. The windshield was broken and
other small damages were done. No one
was injured.