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New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

that these protected him from the authori-
ties and the patriotic people of England
UNTIL in the words of Tupper, 1--WE realized
that Hun is only a Hun
"When the war broke out" says Tupper
jim much the same soft tone Judge Newton
Morris, of Marietta, Ca, tells how he saved
the body Of Leo Frank from the mob that
would burn it, or as Bat Masterson used in
the days when, as the boy marshal of Dodgc
City, Kan, his gun barrel had as many
notches rip saw, "when the war broke
out and the. authorities took 5000 German
sailors off British ships in British ports
we insisted that they should not be treated
as prisoners or as enemies.
"These men had been our shipmates.
They were members Of our union, many of
them Of five, ten, fifteen years. standing.
We had had no trouble with them They
were, thought, our brothers. And be-
cause we thought them brothers, those
German shipmates of ours, we went to the
authorities and insisted that they should
not be locked up in Jail or confined in in
ternment camps.
"'These Aen,' said we, ARE our fellows.
They are not responsible for the war Thew
did not bring it or. They have nothing
to do with it. 1t would be crime to treat
them as though they we're. Take them off
the ships, ay but turn them over to us
that we may care for them
"Wel the authorities turned them over
to us, though I must say, as l see things
now, to their credit, with i'll grace. We
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
\ fired the
L a Great

But what, before | end this rough cata.
logue, is to be said of Lloyd Georges
mysterious ally, now engaged in stabbng
the statesman he has upheld and encour-
aged since the first months Of the war,
Mr.. Georges strength lay with the British
people, and he should have known it. There
was nothing for him in any kind of sup.
port. He could not fulfil high DESTINY
by playing with Alfred Harmsworth, Lord
Northcllffe, any more than by accepting
the aid of that strangest of Labor cham
pions, Havelock Wilson, of the Seamen's
and Flremen's Union, Or of that indefinitely
more marvellous phenomenon, Horatio Bot
tomley, the editor of "John Bull" Why
should Lord Northcliffe, having impelled
the Prime Minister to declare for gen.
eral election, now be deriding and threat
ening him? The answer is not difficult to
indicate. Lord Northcliffe knows as we'll
as any man in England what the common
man is likely to be saying tomorrow. He
resents the influence of certain politicians
upon Mr.. George. He knows that Mr.
George cannot get away with any pro
gramme of settlement and reconstruction
so long as he is associated with certain
type of reactionaries. He would doubtless
argue that the best, and the only way Of
helping Mr.. George to a fresh lease of
power is by publicly driving him to a
breach with the most powerful of his pres
ent colleagues. He is certainly aware that
the soldiers vote will not be orthodox Tory
or Liberal. Alfred Harmsworth knows why
Horatio Bottomley's paper is the most
popular of organs with the private soldier
who comes nearest to the accepted type
Of Tommy Atkins. He realizes that this
powerful member of the new constituency
Will demand political and social changes
OF a sort not in the least like what Lord
Curzon and Mr.. Bonar Law will want to
put over. Hence the eleventh hour assault
of the popular Northcliffe papers, with the
London Times" looking on in carefully
framed detachment The next move is
plainly indicated Should the Lloyd George
majority in the new Parliament correspond
with Lord Northcliffe's expectations, he
would be furnished with ample evidence in
favor of his contention that the new blood
he is demanding for the government must
be of the real right tinge
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

situation? Certainly Winston Churchill is
exception, and an exceptional individual.
Ten years ago he was direct competitor
with Lloyd George for the leadership of
the Liberal forces and the nation. He has
power and energy and more than strain
of genius. He is a great speaker-not, like
Mr. George, a brilliant extemporizer; but
thorough, massive, convincing There is
English orator of his time whose
speeches make more excellent reading, and
in delivery they are tremendous. And Win
ston Churchill is very remarkable cam
paigner. Not Lloyd George himself is a
greater asset to his party during an cleo
tion, as Churchll's achievement during the
Liberal triumph of 1906 abundantly proved.
To-day, however, he is not counted among
the national leaders. In the George gov
ernment he is Minister of Munitions. AS
such he carries the unpopular burden of a
department which comes into conflict with
the immense and varied army of muniton
workers. And-a point of far higher seri-
ousness-Winston Churchill, rightly or
wrongly, has been made to bear the major
part of the blame attaching to the terrible
adventure Of Gallipoli in 1916 He has
bitter and unrelenting enemies, chiefly in
the party which he deserted during the
free trade fight fifteen years ago. But
neither they nor his own failures avaled
to keep his election speeches this week
out of the cables.
There remain the Labor leaders, At the
beginning of the war Arthur Henderson
was the official chairman of the Labor party
and therefore its spokesman. When Mr..
Asquith, in 1915, formed the first Coalition
Cabinet Henderson went in as Minister of
Education. In December, 1916, he was the
representative of Labor in the new small
War Cabinet (only five or six members J
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went surety for them and their good be-
havor and made them our guests, the
guests of our union. In England we main
tain several homes. The largest Of these is
IN Northamptonshire. There we took 1000
of these fellows, housed them, clothed them,
fed them better than they were ever clothed
or fed or housed before in their lives. The
best in the land was theirs-there was full
and plenty in England, then, you know, and
our treasury was fat
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"A NATIONAL election wl'nouc 'he
~ clash of two contendng leaders is
4 -A- an almost unheard-of thing The
public temper and habit demand
the contrast. Without it battle at the
polls inevitably lacks reality Given
Douglas for Lincoln, Disraeli for Glad
stone Lloyd George for Chamberlain, and
the populace is happy in the fight. But If
there's no duel of champions to typify the
grapple of forces, how shall the voter, man
or women, put any punch into the ballot
paper? He cannot. No matter how mo-
mentous the issues, unless they embod-
led in human shape the ordinary citizen
feels that he is somehow being cheated of
his inalienable right to the pursuit Of hap
piness--the game of political football, as
Lloyd George calls it., being we know,
an expression of the greatest happiness of
the greatest number.
In England to-day there is no duel of
was Lloyd George election. 1t would
seem to have little no meaning apart
from the position, and future, of the pres
ent Prime Minister. And Mr.. George has no
single antagonist. Mr.. Asquith was not fight
ing him. On the contrary, he has declared
that coalition candidate who is a good
Liberal need fear the attack of the Liberal
machine. Arthur Henderson, even, was
not directly fighting Lloyd George. He
appeared to take for granted that the
Prime Minister would be confirmed in
power; and he announced that the Labor
party was prepared to support the coali-
tion government within wide limits. And,
although Lloyd George is not the Conserva-
tive leader, and the extreme Tories
have neither love for him nor trust
in him, the official head of the Conserva-
tive party, Bonar Law is Lloyd Georges
closest ally. He signs election mani
festoes Jointly with the Prime Min
lister. By an oddity of circumstances,
the irony of which will not be lost upon
the American public, the one prominent
public character who stood as an Oppos-
tion champion during the election cam
paign is Lord Northciffe-the man to
whom, it is commonly said, Lloyd George
owes his accession to the first place in the
British nation two years ago. The discus
sion of this interesting phenomenon one
may defer to later paragraph
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
By John J. Leary, Jr.

~ THIS side of the Atlantic it is
q b difficult to understand the bitter
~ ness with which the seamen's
unions of Great Britain insist
that British ships shall carry nothing of
German make German origin for seven
years in penalty for the sins of the u
boats.
We know the Englishman to be hard.
two-tsted fighter, a bit slow at times in
getting started, but good finisher. We
know him also to be consistent-I almost
said obstinate-in his ways.
But we also know that, like most hard
fighters, the end of the fighting finds him
good winner or better loser; that the end
Of the fight usually squares the account for
him; that win, lose or draw, he is inclined
to shake hands with his adversary and like
as not become his good friend, his GUS
toner, his pal. Hate is not speciality of
his. It is not his habit to long "strafe"
anybody or anything. In fact, he rather
prides himself on leaving hate to others.
The difficulty disappears, however, when
one listens to the story Captain Edward
Tupper, general organizer of the Sailors
and Firemen's Union of Great Britain, has
come to America to tell Listening to him.
one realizes that the movement and the
feeling inspiring 1t are of slow growth, that
time the German sailor. was the protege of
the men with whom he had been shipmates,
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
he English Election a Battle Without Blo0dshed

created by Lloyd George. In the following
spring he went to Petrograd as special en-
WOW from Britain to the new revolutionary
government of Russia. Returning in Au
gust, 1917, to England, he fell out with his
colleagues over the projected international
Labor Conference at Stockholm, and, after
sharp controversy with Lloyd George, left
the Cabinet. Freed from official bonds he
took a prominent part in the reorganization
Of the Labor party and the preparation of
it's war and peace aims, and to-day is leading
the party which put some 200 or 300 candi-
dates in the field against Conservative and
Liberal supporters of the Coalition.
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M acDonald
1v1 and Others

Henderson, Of course, is by no means ~.
full representative Of British labor. p,,.
say Macdonald is a far stronger ana :.
they say, more magnetic personality. mr.
ing the war he has shared with Phil,
Snowden the odium of unpopular v;avvs
but at no time, even when his onin;ors
were fercely resented, has ne failed -
secure tribute of admiration for his Gin.
cerity and force Snowden and he togetbe,
make a formidable platform combination
Both are great speakers. Robert SmilEs
wields a power over the northern miner,
rarely equalled by any Labor leader Of
the generation. J. H. Thomas, general Sec
retary of the Railway Mems Union. r..
Gently performed great job in the endins
of the railway strike; but the result. an
parently, is to cost him his place in the
union.
G. N. Barnes, the Glasgow engineer, Hen.
derson's successor in the War Cabinet. has
not achieved eminence in that position.
One of two Of his colleagues among ths
Labor ministers have done extremely well
but none of them can touch the remark.
tive of Lancashire cotton, who goes befora
his constituents wearing wonderful halo
With the exception of Mr.. Hoover, he is
the one food controller in the world who.
seemingly, is ready to stand up to anv
test, cinfident of triumphant issue
And he is to ne the representative of Brit.
ish Labor at the Peace Conference.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
By Andre Cheradame
Copyright, 1918, Neav York Tribune Inc.

Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune Inc.
~ %HE wish dominating the Allied peo-
"a pies is certainly that the peace con-
n ference shall establish a just peace.
This is so not only because the
triumph of right conforms to the moral
conceptions of the Allies, but, also, because
the public opinion of the Entente under
stands that just peace is the surest guar
antee against future wars. But in order
ito be just it is not necessary to be weak or
to be duped
The Allies have shown themselves weak
and dupes SO long that it is essential and
urgent to realize whether it is just and
whether it conforms to the necessary quail
ties of the peace to respond to the constant
appeals to Allied generosity made by the
Germans. These questions must be ex-
amined not theoretically, but practically
that is to say, to learn what will be the
practical effect of such such a decision.
The principal and even the only argu-
ment of those who are the partisans of the
policy of generosity consists in saying, "If
wev are too hard on the Germans, we will
develop their hatred and they will begin
again. Therefore, to be generous to them
is of the means to prevent a renewal
Of the war;
At first sight that opinion seems reason
able, but it is easy to show that it is
shared only by those who do not know the
Germans and their psychology.
The problem is not to act toward the
Germans according to our individual ideas
or preferences, but to use the methods best
tod Of +Lo;1 +oJ,
achieve the desired end of preventing a re-
newa of the war.
No one can deny that sDr. Muehlon, ex-
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
W7 ounded Germans Shoot
w Their French Benefactors

For example, soldier or a stretcher
bearer finds wounded German on the bat
tle1eld The Frenchman leans over to help
the German, to give him a drink or to lift
him on to the stretcher Many times the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

tional war policy, produced a year a., :,
powerful memorandum on war and psses
aims which received the Endorsement 80 y.
Lloyd George and practically Of presia.S.
Wilson, and may, in due time, be in q ~ 49,.
tion to command the balance of votes - .s
House of Commons. "s
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

more completely than he the Victorian idea
of liberalism. But no one gives the i'm
preston of greater remoteness from the
rising forces of the new time.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Many Champions in the Field, but the Lloyd George
Fight Was With Buttoned
FOiIs

Of the work Of governing the British en-
pire during the last two years.
But, further, is it not a noteworthy cir
cumstance that the war has brought out
no important new Liberals? Three years
ago many had high hopes of Sir John Simon.
He is still of the age that, in political Eng
land, Is regarded as early maturity. He is
a fine flower Of Oxford political culture. He
is extremely able, hard worker perfect
speaker in the leading academic style. More
over, he has presence and charm and fine
character. But Sir John Simon will not
have a great future in the House of Com
mons. He is an advocate of the highest
talent and may have almost anything he
wants at the bar. But he leaks the par
liamentary instinct and to the British peo-
pie he is unknown. There would seem to
be other among the younger Liberals to
whom may look for conspicuous lead
ership in Parliament or the country now
that Asquith has become one of the Elder
Statesmen and Sir Edward (Viscount) Grey,
sadly broken in health, sits in the House
of Lords. 1t is difficult to see the challeng-
ing new time ahead being dominated by
good Liberals of the older and quieter type
like Walter Runcman and Herbert Samuel.
OF Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for
India and chief author of the scheme
of Indian reforms now under discussion,
one would speak with less assurance He
is energetic and highly adaptable.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

The folloaving article scas acr'ittem be-
fore the English election, bat the euents
of yesterday by no saeans lessen the
value Of these observations. They do
instead give point to them.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

turned back to the Germans-would be at
the expense of their French and Belgian
victims. Practically, then, this so-called
generosity" to the Germans would in fact
only add to the suffering and losses Of
their victims.
The matter becomes particularly plain
when one examines the question of America
feeding the starving people of Europe If
America can feed all Europe, the question
of whether food should be sent to Germany
will not arise. The French as we'll as the
Americans agreed that one must not
let Vanquished enemy starve. But as
every one knows that America cannot feed
the whole world at the same time, here is
an excellent reason, as yet unexplained
to the public, why Germany should be put
in the last place.
The Germans, and hero is an important
point that has not yet been sufficiently
emphasized, conducted the war ethnographi-
cally. That is to say, not only did they
try to kill as many as possible of the
enemy soldiers, but they undertook chiefly
by starving, to wipe out the greatest pos
sble proportion of the Slav and Latin
civil populations, even when they made a.
part Of Pan-Germany Their aim was to
assure after peace was declared prepon-
derance for the Germans through the di-
minution Of the peoples who were instinct
lively hostile to them.
There is no doubt that this result sought
by the Pan -Germanists has been obtained in
a very large measure.
Nj illions of Russian Men and
IVA Women Destroyed
Last summer the Austro- German Wichtl
declared in the course of meeting in Styria
that IN four years, by the combined effort
of the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Xes-But Winston
Il Churchill ?

Quite SO, the reader may say, but surely
there is one Of the younger Liberals for
whom a great place is reserved-Winston
Spencer Churchill. Is he not certain of
future, and should we not expect him to
be vigorous and pervasive in the present
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Nj illions of Russian Men and
AVA Women Destroyed

Last summer the Austro- German Wichtl
declared in the course of meeting in Styria
that In four years, by the combined effort
of the German troops, the war and hunger.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
By S. K. Ratclife

A NATIONAL election without the
"a clash of two contending leaders IS
4 A- an almost unheard-of thing. The
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

m THIS side of the Atlantic it is
difficult to understand the bitter
ness with which the seamen's
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
Antiquity of Jerusalem.

The wonderful antiquity of Jerusa.
lem has only been appreciated in re-
cent years. Up to so years ago., OBJ
serves the Chicago Examiner, it was
thought that Jerusalem was of little
importance as a city until it became
the "City Of David" king Of Israel.
But with the discovery of the Tel-el-
Amarna tablets in Egypt new light
was shed upon the history Of the sa-
cred city. There were found six letters
written by the king of Jerusalem to
the Pharaoh of Egypt, dating from the
fifteenth century 3. G. The name Of
this king of Jerusalem was Abd-hiba,
or, as some scholars read the cunei-
form, Abd-sadak, and he writes to the
Pharaoh beseeching him to send SOL
.diers, almost as the Turks must have
sent messages to Germany asking for
re-enforcements that they might save
the day.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
Train the Memory.

The memory is a faculty which
through patient practice may be cult
waited and trained to a wonderful de-.
gree. Morphy, the celebrated chess
player, could play several games OF
chess simultaneously without seeing
any of the boards on which the various
games were being conducted. 1t was
a peculiarly impressive sight to see
him standing in the middle of the floor,
with his arms folded, defending him
self and attacking the various Oppo-
nxnts, with the position of the chess
men on the several boards always in
his minds eye, observes a writer. The
noted Jesuit Father Suarez was said
to have known all the works of st. Au.
gustine by heart. These consist Of
eleven large volumes. Pascal is said
never to have forgotten anything he
read, and the same is told of Grotius,
Leibnitz and Euler. Themistocles
knew the name of every one OF the
twenty thousand citizens Of ATHENS.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
Where Cyclones Originate.

The most violent cyclones originate
in tropical ATTITUDES, in the Atlantic
ocean to the north and east OF West
InTan islands, and in the Pacific, in
the China sea and in the neighborhood
of the philippine islands.
The reason they are so destructive
is because they are carried such great
distances by extraneous influences. The
West Indian cyclones are attracted
toward the Gulf stream by the great
volume of heated air which always
hangs over it and follows it's course /;
so the cyclones of the Pacific follow
the course of Kuro Siwo, the great
oceanic current which passes around
the East Indian archipelago, the shores
of China and the Japanese islands.
Cyclones may be anywhere from so
to 500 miles in diameter and MAY
travel over a path 5000 miles n ex-
tent.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22

FIatdweller Prefers Distressing Noise
Made by Cornet Tooter to Man
Who YeIls "Murder" in Sleep.

"We lived once" said Mr.. Flatdwell-
err, "in the same house with an anna
teur cornet player; and we thought
then that if We ever got out of that
house we should be happy. 1t didn't
seem as if we could ever have, in any
other place, SO distressful a neigh
Dor.
"But in this house that we have
lately moved into we heard the first
night we We're here the cry of
"'Murder! Murderr
"We sat up in horror; listening and
wondering what we ought to do; but
the next moment we heard q female
voice saying:
"'Edward! Edward! Wake up!
Mercy! WHAT'S the matter?
and then we heard, in a mans
voice: '
"My gracious! I'm glad that
wasn't true
"This was a great relief to us, of
course, as no doubt it was to Ed
ward; but then, as we pulled the bed
clothes up again and our head
touched the pillow, we reflected that
the novice struggling with a cornet
had once seemed the worst thing that
could happen to us; but now we knew
better. AS between him and a neigh
Dor prone to a nightmare, give us, oh,
give us, every time, the amateur
bugler."
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
War Curbs Suicide.

Sir Bernard Mullet, registrar gen.
eral of the British empire, announced
recently. that suicide had fallen off
strikingly in England since the begin
ming of the war. The explanation is
that the national unity of feeling, the
subordination of self and the sharing
of sympathy on all sides makes the in
dividual's personal injuries less I'M
portant and induces him to forget his
own desperation. Personal i~ndulgences
and excuses of immortality, causes OF
insanity and melancholia, are curbed
and minimized naturally by the econ
Dmies enforced upon the populace.
Discipline in eating, dressing, working
has also a beneficial effect in keeping
the mind sane and free from morbid
broodings.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
Church Gives Every Man.

There is q little French church In
the heart of Philadelphia which has
given and given to the great world
strife, ever since the war began, life
blood and widows mites, and in the
face of poverty Is still giving, giving,
according to a Philadelphia correspond
ent.
Not one man between seventeen and
fifty years old remains in the member
ship of the little church of st. Sauveur.
All are at the front, some are with
the French army, some are with the
United States forces, but all have gone.
All are fighting for the same great
world ideal.
They have left mothers, wives and
little ones who do not complain, but
give to the last penny, not only for
those they love, but for the relief of
all suffering.
Nearly all of them are working peo-
pie, but. in addition to the struggle
for bread and butter, they have found
the way to adopt and support -four or
iphans in France. In addition to the
'incessant knitting and sewing for the
little war orphans here these brave
women have also found time to make
and send countless wooden comforts
and relief supplies to the war victims
III France and Belgium, the orphans
and the wounded. They also subscribed
to the starving Armenians.