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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Things To Be
Dealt With

What are the specific problems Of Amer
lea that the people must learn to recognize
before they can begin to solve them? Our
labor will have to be reabsorbed into
peace industry, industry itself will have to
be reorganized, internal trade and foreign
trade put on a stable basis, agriculture
stimulated, our financial system readjusted
and extended to care for the increased de-
mands of our new position in peace, men
and families and homes rehabiitated. re-
sources and raw materials freed of restric-
lions on their use and public utilities rcor
gained on whatever basis Congress declares
legal in defining their after-war relation
ship to the people.
The United States will have q tremendous
international prestige when the war is won.
IT It's idealism is to be maintained in actual
processes, the potential threat which ac-
companies great power residing anywhere
will have to be minmized and deprecated
by great wisdom in the handling Of il.
Asiatlc and Central and South American
relationships, commercial as we'll as purelv
diplomatic, will have to be readjusted with
delicacy and understanding This will be
reconstruction that will necessisate much
more than the half knowledge we have re-
lied on in the past.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Fast Freight by Canal

Announcing the opening of a tri-weekly
fast freight service between this city and
Buffalo by way of the Barge Canal, Gen
eral Wotherspoon, State Superintendent
Of Public Works, declares: "Whatever
success may be achieved will depend en-
trely upon the shippers, and the scope
and extent of the service will be con-
trolled wholly by the demands of the
traffic"
There should be no question of the sue
cess of this service. 1t will be open to all
shippers of carload and less than car
load lots. The rates will be about IS per
cent less than rail rates. Joint rates
with connecting carriers, both rail and
water, will be fixed so that shipments
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Drawing the Line

Pendlng the enactment of a new child
labor law, the Federal government has
discovered itself to be by no means
poWcrless to protect children. The De-
partment of Labor has issued instruc
tons to all employment directors of the
nation under the United States Employ
ment Service in states where the state
laws establish standards below those of
the Federal law, recently declared uncon-
stltutlonal, to observe the former Federal
standards. That is, the government de-
clares to employers that while the law it
approved has been overthrow it's poll
cles are to be observed by Federal Off
Gals. In practice this means that in
many OF the Southern states the Federal
employment directors will not place chill
drer under sixteen in mines and quar-
rles, or children under fourteen in cam
nerles, mills, factories or manufacturing
establishments, or children over four-
teen but under sixteen in establishments
winch work more than eight hours day
or SIX days week.
More than that, this ruling in effect
says to employers in those states and to
the states themselves: "These limita
tons on the employment of children are
what the Federal government believes to
be for the benefit of the young and of
the country. The government will not
aid you in placing in industry children
who ought to be in school or at play IF
you employ children under fourteen or
work children under sixteen more than
eight hours day the Federal autho7i-
ties cannot now punish you for it. but
want it distinctly understood that Won
arc acting contrary to the best Judgment
OF the Department of Labor at a time
when every loyal citizen should be co.
opel ating with the government to the
full extent of his ability"
What the government cannot do bv
law this establishment of a standard q
guide for the moral measurement of en-
ployers, cannot be expected to do COM
plelely. Nevertheless, the action of tho
Department of Labor should be produce
tive of much good. 1t makes more clear
the line between employers who refuse
to grow rich from the labor of exploited
children and those who have no scruples
II they can get the dollars.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14

the Inter-Allied War Council in favor OF
military as we'll as economic interview
ton had some reverberatons in Wash
ington. A dispatch to "The Times
dated July 6, reported:
Authoritative announcement is lack
ing, but long conference. held at the
White House this afternoon between
President Wilson and his closest advisers
on international, military and naval
affairs is understood to have resulted in
decision to permit this governments
attitude toward Russia to be guided by
the best thought of its -belligerents."
The next day brought qualifications.
A dispatch to "The Times" said:
"While it is understood that President
Wilson and some Of his principal adj
visers have not receded from their opin-
ion that it would be an unwisc thing to
use force in Russia without an invitation
from the Russian people themselves, it is
realized that conditions in this respect
have changed, and some, at least, Of
those who supported the Presidents
judgment in the beginning have modified
their Judgment"
Confidence increased q little the day
following, when another dispatch to "The
Times" said:
ut is now concluded that conferences
in progress contemplate sending with the
commission into Siberia force that will
be able to give protection not merely to
the personnel of the commission but to
such local governments as are estab-
hshed by the Russian people in the por-
tons of Siberia into which the influence
OF the commission penetrates"
But rebound was already under way.
On July 10 an Associated Press dispatch
made this singular announcements:
"The remarkable success of the Czecho-
Slovak legions in resstablishing law and
order in Siberia and in overcoming armed
opposition from former German and Aus
TRAN prisoners of war has had the effect
OF suspending the preparation of plans
by the Entente Powers and the United
States for the organization of an inter-
national military force to campaign in
Siberia"
The recession continues. On July IL
a special dispatch to "The New York
World" announced
ut is about decided that Russa's sal
walton is to be attempted through the me-
dunn of commerce."
Are we drifting back to where we
started? The Czecho-Slovaks have done
nobly. Are we going to ask them to
keep on doing all the work, besides un-
derwriting all the risks which they must
run unsupported in the heart of Siberia?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Vue la France!

4 YE, Vive Ia Francel Comrades, she shall
"A not fall
Though every furrow Of her fields run
red,
And of her sons they heap ten million
dead,
Millions again shall answer to her call.
We, the last legion, rebels, dreamers-all-
On the brave barricades where she bled,
Be it our glorious privilege to shed
Our hearts blood, lest she know the Ger
man thrall.
She shall not fall There is no other light
Save the white flame Of her unconquered
soul.
She is the hope of freedoms renaissance.
This be our battle cry, now when the night
Broods blacklist and the storms Of hell
about her roll:
tout court. tout court, enfdnls! Vipe la
Frdncc!"
WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
The Bridge of Faith
tFrom The London Dn;h rr,-oe,,

tFrom The London Daily Espress)
PRESIDENT WILSON remains an
idealist. In speech to group
of Mexican editors he defined the
principle underlying the foreign policy
of the United States as always to stand
by the weak nations To Mexico and the
other Latin American republics the
United States desires to play the part Of
benevolent big brother. Throughout
the world she is the declared champion
of the small and the weak. America
asks for nothing for herself. The New
World has come in to help the Old World
to save itself from tyranny and destruc
tlon--and for no other reason. The Will
son lnternationalsm is so far away from
the mutual jealousies and distrust that
have prevailed in the world hitherto. al
ways making for war and rumors of war.
that 1t may seem an unattainabc dream.
a promised land seen from a Washing
ton mountain top, but not to be reached
by mortal feet Dreamland can. how
ever, be entered over the bridge of faith
1t is something that Mr.. Wilson's Greco
and his ambition are accepted by the
most vigorous and the hardest headed
people on the earth. But first suspicion
must be removed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
The Lane
Without End

If we leave reconstruction in the sphere
of vague ideas, where it is now, how
ever, we will not reconstruct. We will
end by putting a new chimney oil an old
roof. First of all, we shall have plan.
And it will have to be plan adjusted to
our own American temperament England
was facing an enormous readjustment i'm
mlnent and on a huge scale, when war ar.
rived. So was France. SO was Belgium. AT
that very moment, we as nation and as
people were barely treading the entry to
the lane of social and national readiust-
ment. Now, because liberal thought has
been developed and stimulated in England
1t has been suggested that we take it over
principles and practice, for our own case
Our case is immensely different Our
temper is different all that we have put
behind US is different Our state is built
on a different plan and different scale
We contain and operate d whole body of
relationships which are unique TO US and
which make US people demanding a treat
ment drawn from the inward law of our
own condition.
But England has done one thing at least
that the United States can look to with in
terest 1t has created Ministry of Recon-
struc ton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
The Epic Makers

oh, FOR another singer
~ Like them who sang of old!
They made the cruel tender;
The made the coward bold.
They sang the sinews into men,
The heroes into fight;
They sang the sun into the dawn,
The stars into the night.
But we on whom the awful ends
Of all the world are come
Cry, ana the muses. answer not:
The oracles are dumb
Yet who of all that thrilling choir
Had our high theme for song?
Such rapture Of endeavor!
Such agony of wrong!
"The face that launched thousand ships"
Out of the Argive Bay
Was it more fair than Freedoms
Which launches ours to-day?
To our success King Arthur's knights
Drink in their ghostly hall.
The shadows of our battling arms
Through far-otf ages fall
How shall the mighty theme be sung?
Our words are wan and cold
If God would send singer now
Like the great bards of old!
1 saw a scaling eagle.
Up azure spires he ran,
Throated with thunder bowelled with fire
A bird with the brain of man!
| saw million poets
On Flanders hcaving plains,
And all the harps since Homer's
Were drumming in their veins.
| saw the blue lanes boiling
Around the rushing keels-
Keen eyes upon the castles,
Bold hands upon the wheels.
l the wolfsh faces
Sharpen with sudden fear:
l heard the old gales laughing
"The Argonauts are here!"
And / cried. "To the brave forever
The singingleaves belong
Hail to the mighter minstrels!
These are the sires of songi"
WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14

the house.
being used for aeroplane engines now"
l demonstrated.
81 didn't mean just castor oil" an
swered R., with characteristic frmness
81 meant things for all emergencies
began by buying q book entitled "a
Layman's Handbook of Medicine" by DR..
Richard Cabot, of the Massachusetts
General Hospital. l am still in THE
Gastro-Intestinal Tract" but already
have found it a tremendous comfort.
skipped over Anatomy and Physiology
rather rapidly. 1t always makes me feel
little brittle when | consider how deli
cate is the human mechanism feel a.
most like new brand Of dollar watch
which has just entered quantity produc
ton. One can't help fearing that jewel
or two is missing and wondering how
the handspring is holding out
The doctor is more engaging when he
drops the scalpel and begins general ob
servations. "Sleep all you can he writes.
"You cannot overdo it." That was reas
surfing. I wonder if Shakespeare had that
fact in mind when he exclaimed, Lie on,
Macduff"
On the very same page I found, There
is no medical authority for the daily cold
bath for every one" That is the sort Of
thing person wants to know | also like
DR.. Cabot's stand on vacations. Gwen
month is not always enough" says the
learned physician.
Throughout the book I was impressed
with the progress of medical science. TIE
number of remedies and methods which
are known TO be useless is constantly
growing. The medical profession has been
largely converted TO the philosophy OF
John McGraw. 1t believes in waiting EN-
out. Take fainting, for instance In the
old days it was necessary to burn feathers
and fetch ammonia and cold water Now
you can dispense with all that.
Inconsistencies" says our authority
whether from being stunned by blow
or from fainting. needs no treatment
There is no danger of people dying from
want of attention under these conditions.
We may hurry them back 20 consciousness
but if We do not they viii come back just
o>~NAASt
anything at all"
Fits are just as simple. 1--WE are safe IN
doing nothing. Nobody can stop fit or
cure it, and in almost every case the per-
son comes out of it without any perma'
nent damage. There are little things 70
do which think have already mentioned
such as putting cloth or something De-
tween the jaws so that he will not Di'e
his tongue. But even if we fail to do thess
things it does not make any special OIL
ference"
At the end of the chapter on "Emef-
gencies" l found 81 do not really know
single medicine that I think is necessary
to keep in stock in a house"
1t almost seems as if poor hounceu
laissez faire had at last discovered sp''
to lay its head. Now, l keep just one SOW
ereign remedy in the house in case any
body else is taken ILL., That's pass "
the ball game
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Our Siberian POLICY

What is the Allied policy in Siberia,
where the heroic Czecho- Slovaks have
done invaluable work for the Allied
cause and are still being left to their
own resources?
The Inter-Allied War Council has a
plan for backing up the Czecho-Slovaks
and reaping the fruits of their exploits.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Washington on July contained this
statement:
Immediate intervention in Russia,
both military and economic, has been
urgently recommended by the Inter-Allied
War Council and by General Foch The
councils report has been in the hands Of
President Wilson since July 8, and the
diplomatic representatives of the Allies
here believe that he will concur in it,"
What Plan has our government? The
public doesn't know. All it knows has
been gathered from press reports from
Washington describing presumably with
intelligence) the Administrations reac-
tions to the extraordinary situation in
Siberia.
On June 18, about the time that the
outside world was just beginning to
awaken to the Importance of what the
Czecho-Slovaks were doing, a special dis
patch to "The New York Times" from
Washington informed us that
$50 far can be learned no sympathy
for the Czecho-Sloyak movement exists
among those officials Of this government
who believe that the Russian situation
will adjust itself They hold that as
military factor the organization Of former
prisoners will have no effect"
An Associated Press dispatch of June
"a thus summed up the Administration
orientation of that date:
"The Entente Allies are now earnestly
seeking solution of the Russian prob
lem-one which will assist II sdent
Wilson in the execution of his pledge to
stand behind Russia-and latest reports
from Europe indicate that progress is
pelhg made However, it cannot
yet be said that any agreement has been
reached. In fact inquiry at the State
department was met to-day with the re-
Spouse that nothing has yet occurred to
warrant any change in the policy which
has been adopted by the United States"
About this time it was announced that
our government favored sending an
economic commission to Russia to helm
along in the work of financial and indus
trial reconstruction. A dispatch to "The
Times dated June 26, said that
The whole project ACCORDING to in for
nation received to-day, is of an economic
and non military character, and there is
good reason to believe that the Admins
tration will not tolerate any suggestion
that the upbuilding of Russia shall be
accompanied by force of arms
All show of military force will be
avoided"
Enforcing this view Of non-militarv
action, an Associated Press dispatch of
June % said:
plans of the American government for
aiding Russia in rehablitating herself.
which became known to-day reveal that
the first step contemplated is informal
assistance through American business
and industrial leaders, and DISPOSE of
widely published reports that diplo-
matte or political mission would be the
means of carrying out President Will
sons promise to stand back of Russia"
The announcement of the decision Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Town
(From The English Rerie,c)

(From The English Reriew)
r ONDON,
IL Used to wear her lights splendidly.
Flingng her shawl-fringe over the River.
Tassels in abandon
And up in the sky
A two-eyed clock, like an owl
Solemnly used to approve, chime, Ginning
Approval, goggle-eyed fowl.
There are no CLEANS on the River,
No goggling clock
No sound from ST. Stephens;
No lamp-fringed frock.
Instead
Darkness, and skin-wrapped
Fleet. hurryng limbs,
Soft-footed dead
London.
Original, wolf-wrapped
In pelts of wolves, all her luminous
Garments gone.
London, with hair
Like forest darkness, like marsh
Or rushes, ere the Romans
Broke in her lair
1t is we'll
That London, lair of sudden
Male and female darknesses.
Has broken her spell
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Snap Shots of Foreign Authors
(Fr0m The Bookmon)
BARRIE

(Fron The Bookmam)
BARRIE
DUCK
Il Fathered and mothered him
In some Gaelic moorland manger.
Ariel sistered him
10 dellcacy of wit
That descends like butterfly.
Cousin to Merlin he knows
The secrets Of cloud and rain.
OF rainbows and crooks of gold,
OF children and Of birds
And, knowing these,
What secret is there left?
MAETERLINCK
1t is thrilling but terrible
To wander through the vaults,
The echo-haunted crypts
Of your Fomorian imagination.
1T is maddening, crushing,
To see the blind grope hopelessly,
To hear the dumb choking for speech
And to be utterly helpless.
Drops oozing from the corbels
Eat slowly into our temples
Like water dripping on stone.
We know the joy of children
Released from a closet,
When carried to heaven by your bees.
RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Futile or
Significant?

We have already begun to take thought of
the matter. The Council of National De-
fence is making survey of the ground
The State Department is awake to its infu-
ence on the relationships of a new foreign
trade Secretary Lane not only writes
about the resources Of our unused lands and
their possible uses in reconstruction, but
has his department studying the subjec-
The Treasury Department has its hands full
now, but the Department of Commerce is
preparing figures on the commerce of the
day after Tomorrow. And what are the
new efforts of the Labor Department in
effect but ground plan for reconstruction?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Life in The Furna ace
By Ralph Block

5~ !. tSs a 's' phrase %ta tue:
quality Of all phrases, it is full of
danger. 1t can easily falsify the thing it
means to stand for. 1t can grow so com
mon on the tongue to lose the distinc-
ton it must have to achieve its ends 1t
can become drab, like efficiency" or stag
ger down the paths of time a vague
and murky figure lost in the msts of gen
eralization.
What is reconstruction going to be? 1t is
coming whether any one wants it or not.
Is it going to be primarily industrial,
matter of tariffs and rates and wages, cf
economic statistics? Or will it be social
or, better, human? What kind Of life do
we want in the world, our world at least
when the is won? 1t was Lloyd George
who said that life had become so fluid IL
the furnace of the war that it would take
any pattern stamped it when the war
was over. For lselves, what will that
pattern be?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Hail, France!

It is with reverence ana admlraVloil
that dim the eyes and halt speech that
Americans turn to greet their oldest and
dearest friend, their best and bravest
ally, on this her day.
The story of France is the finest and
rarest in the world. 1t is the story of
romance come true, of the small torch of
faith and hope and beauty burning on
through long years Of doubt and depres-
sion and despair, to blaze up into flame
of consuming glory and passion when
the winds of heaven called.
1t was an impossible task that faced
France in August, 1914. Only now that
we have come to perceive the true inten-
tons of Germany, her long years OF plan
ming, her manifold maneuvres of prepa-
ration, her training of whole people to
hate and to kill, can we realize the mon
ster it was that crossed the fields of Bel
gium and flung forward at the throat of
France. With the Kaiser we're numbers,
we're machines, were all the powers of an
evil imagination and brain.
Against Germany was a nation OF
peace, a nation of liberty. Let US always
be thankful and let us always remember
that the manhood of democratic France
had been trained to fight, however loath
they were to draw the sword. Let US
never forget, too, that gallant handful of
superb soldiers, her utmost, that England
threw to the aid of her beset ally. But
it was the spirit of France, her naked,
shining soul, that won the Battle of the
Marne. Never in the history of the world
was there clearer prevailing of will
over matter, of courage and faith over
darkness and wrong. Some of the
grandeur Of the victory came straight to
days. Each day and month and year
has added to the glory. If France had
done mourning else ucT ldllc WOulu w
secure through the centuries.
How much else she has done, driven
thereto largely by our own ignorance
and delay, Verdun and <he weary
months make answer. The sword flashed
in the sun on the Marine has never fall
tered since, whatever the night, what
ever the suspense. Her deeds have been
the rallying cry for all the world. "Press
where We see the white plume of Henry
Of Navarre!" echoes again, with all the
forces of truth and right to answer
1t is not a debt that we pay. What the
world owes France is beyond the price of
generations. 1t is the soul of the world,
in peril, that we worship, and to whose
defence we would devote our lives.
France, the banner of righteousness and
honor; France, the ally that knows no
compromise; France, of clearest vision
and glistening mind; France, the bravest
fighter of all battles and all time-her
we would aid. We cannot picture our
civilization without her. We could not
believe in justice or truth or right if she
should fall. To France, complete and re-
stored, with all her children at her knees,
Alsace and Lorraine among the rest, we
pledge our faith, our honor and the last
drop of our blood!
Thank God, we are coming! Thank
God, we did not fail in the test of ma
TONS May our sword never waver until
victory is secure!
But above all else, thank God for
France
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
AS England
Sees the Problem,

The section of the War Cabinet report
which deals with this question is illuminat-
ing. 1t reads:
parliament and the country were not
slow in realizing that there was coming
into existence a series of questions of