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New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
The Thief of Joy

1t was the absolute spontaneity of
Thursday afternoons explosion of joy
that marked it off from every other cele-
bration we can recall. No one had really
dared face peace. 1t was too good to be
true-it and all the gains which it signi-
fled for human beings the world around.
So when it burst unexpectedly upon us
through giant hoax-there were no
preparations, no set attitudes, to greet
the glad tidings. There was only spon-
taneous eruption Of long pent-up feel
ings, gushing forth to find their own
natural channel Of outlet. For those
first early hours after the supposed news
arrived the doings we're an utter improv-
isation. People laughed and sang and
wept and cheered and talked to strangers
and marched and countermarched and
waved, and altogether dumped their emo
tions out upon the highway exactly as
they flung papers from their office win
dows.
Can such celebration be repeated?
When the real news of peace arrives
S1ldl We nave announcer ColcDratlOn as good
and joyous as those first hours? Hardly,
we think. The edge has been taken off.
What is more, even on Thursday the
celebration had become formalized, had
begun to run in routine channels, by
nightfall. Broadway became more and
more like an election night as the hours
passed. To be sure the doubts cast upon
the news undoubtedly damped some
spirits and took the thrill out of the
evening. But, even more, the first spon-
taneity had worn off, Hearts were still
af1ame, but there was need of forced
draft and fresh fuel from new recruits
to keep the thing going at full tilt.
Anticipation is, in truth, the real thief
of JOY. The best times are always the
unexpected ones. 1t is not the parties
that you plan for weeks and look for
ward to that come off There must be
surprise and novelty and freshness to
yield the last word in happiness and
thrill. That we had on Thursday after
noon. The real thrill has passed, never
to return.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
A Certain Transaction
cFrom The Rear Estate Record and Gu,

tf'ro'n The Rent Estate Record and f,.id,,
Former Ambassador James ". Gerard
and his wife have loaned William Randolph
Hearst $l15,000 on some of his real estate
holdings adjoining Columbus Circle. The
loan, which was recorded Tuesday. was
made on the group of flats and dwellings at
ol5 to 1886 West Fifty-eighth Street and
BIZ to 324 West Fifty-ninth Street. bought
hve years ago by Mr.. Hearst with view to
putting up tall building to house his
various publications. The Gerard loan is
at the rate of per cent and calls for a
monthly payment of $4,000. The property
carries three prior mortgages aggregating
S42l,S00, and is held in the name Of the
Veronica Realty Corporation Mr.. Hearst's
other holdings on Columbus Circle are the
American Circle building. two story
structure occupying the site of the old
Durland Riding Academy on the Circle.
broadway, Central Park West and Sixty.
second Street, in which arc the uptown Of
noes OF the Hearst papers, and the former
virginia Hotel, on the south side of the
Circle, bounded by Broadway, Eighth Ave
nue. and Fifty-eighth Street.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
A Plea for Attila

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you permit me to make plea
on behalf of Attla and the Huns whom
he commanded?
1t has now become almost universal
practice in the daily papers to speak of
the Germans as Huns and do not believe
that the average reader realizes what an
injustice Is done to those so-caled bar
barians of the fifth century
1t is recorded Of AttiIa that, although
he and his legions overran and DESTROYED
cities, when he implored by Bishop
Lupus to spare the city Of Troyes in
France he yielded to his prayers.
When Attila crossed the Alps and was
marching against Rome, Pope Leo l went
to his camp, on the banks of the Mincio
River, and begged him not to pursue his
victorious course to the gates of Rome.
Attila again yielded, and recrossed the
Alps.
We do not hear that Emperor wilhelm or
his hordes paid any attention to the PRAYERS
OF Cardinal Mercier to spare the cities and
the people of Belgium, nor do we find anv
record of Attila's "barbarians" shifting
babies on their bayonets and performing
the other ingenious and unspeakable atroci-
ties perpetrated by the Germans.
If historical epochs could be reversed
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
Huns in Haste
possible

On receiving the terms from Marshal
Foch, to be accepted or rejected in
seventy-two hours, the German arnistice
delegates asked for permission to confer
with German Grand Headquarters, men
toned the difficulties Of the journey to
and fro and how time must elapse, and
begged for an immediate cessation Of
hostilities. We have not the exact words
in which Foch refused; we have only the
French communique, which reads: "Our
progress was renewed this morning on
the whole front"
Perfect answer.
Time now is very precious to the Hun.
Retribution batters at his door. His
house has taken fire within. Lucky for
him that civilization has not forgotten
how to receive white flag, though in
the hands of those who have grossly
dishonored and betrayed it.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
Hun Dialogue
from The Viua1er

a IkEAI deal is packed into :. brief
~ letter which the respected historian,
w. Alison Phillips, addresses to
THE London Times" DR.. Phillips warns
us against falling prey to the well-known
Prussian dexterity of dialogue and he takes
Tor his object lesson that most successful
of German war makers who once wrote: "yf
there is anything to be gained by being
honest, we will be honest; and if it is
necessary to dupe, let us be roeues." DR..
Phillips reminds US that it is precisely
Frcderick's methods which have served.
and may serve again, the Germany of 1918.
From day to day" wrote Frederick in
his Seven Years War" "the war became
more difficult, and the risks and dangers
constantly increased. Although the Prus
slams were fortunate, fortune several times
betrayed them. Therefore the only
resource left consisted in dividing and
separating the powers which had formed
the anti-Prussian alliance With this object
in view, negotiations were entered upon
both in France and Russia" In 1850
Frederick humorcd the mcgalomania of the
Car and wrung victory out of the sjtua-
tion; in 1918 Won kuehlmann dealt quite
as skilfully with the diosyncrasies of Boil
shevlsm. We who are at present leapued
against Germany are weakened by no such
common dementia as the Red Philosophy.
but DR.. Phillips rightly cautions against
the possibility that some of the colder de-
mocracies" be led into a trap by their "cen-
erous sentiments" And he adds, delicatelv
though not at all obscurely, "the only sa f.
thing for them is, realizing their nmita
tions, to trust those who have made q
study of diplomacy-thc most pcrilous Of
all the arts for an amateur to dabble in -
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09

ough investigation, and final judgment
must be reserved until all the facts are
known. But on the face of the report
there is a certain amount of relief and
reinsurance for the American public.
The hoax was at least not disgraceful
deception by news gatherers. The dis
tinction between careful and careless
news agencies remains, but the graver
aspect of the blunder is dissipated.
The fashion in which the newspapers
Of New York City displayed the hoax is
another matter. The dispatch had every
semblance of truth when it first arrived
and it's publication was amply justified.
But when Secretary Lansing's denials
began to arrive, incomplete as they
were, there was clear reason at least to
question the original news, there was an
urgent duty to make clear to the public
just how the probabilities of fact lay.
This The Euening San did in it's late
editions fully and fairly. The Globe
and The Post not having carried the
original cable had nothing to retract.
AS for The Evening Journal, it, of
course, screamed the hoax without any
effort at qualification or accuracy
Worse, the next mornings American
attempted to keep alive the fake by the
cheapest sort of verbal trickery. 1t
carried in huge type the words Eight
ing Officially Stops and in small type
below the fact Of the cessation of firing
on the small front across which the
German delegates crossed. The Evening
World initiated The Erening Journal.
1t, too, screamed "The War Is Over" all
afternoon and evening, printing the
Lansing denials as inconspicuously as
possible
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09

effect that one of her two Senators must
come from the Eastern Shore counties
and the other from the Western Shore
counties. The Legislature which elected
George L. Wellington in 1896 violated
that law, since the other Senator, Arthur
Shore. But the Senate accepted Mr..
Wellington's credentials, holding that
local disqualification of this sort was
matter for the state to observe or not, as
it felt like it.
Governor Edge gets his title from the
people of New Jersey. 1t is sufficient.
Nothing contained in the New Jersey
state laws or constitution can possibly
impair it.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
Suffrage Through Opera Glasses
(From The chrtssion Science Monit

(From The Chrtsfior Science Monitor,
The United States Senators who used
field glasses to look toward the foot of
Pennsylvania Avenue when the suffragists
were picketing the White House, and who
rather enjoyed "the joke on the President"
must not take it to heart if the President il
looking through opera glasses up Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, toward the Capitol, at inter-
walls in these days, and, as relief from the
tedium pf official duties, drawing measure
Of enjoyment from the picketing to which
the Senate is subjected. There is ALWAYS
something of interest going on in Washing
ton, at one end of the avenue or the other.
so that at the worst all tho Senator'S have
to do is bear with their present trial smil-
ingly, and wait
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
The Great Hoax

The statement Of Admiral Wilson is
An amazing one. 1t only intensifes the
mystery Of what must now rank as one
of the greatest hoaxes in newspaper his
tory. What was the "offlcial and au-
thoritative information" which deceived
an admiral of the United States Navy
port concerning one of the most impor-
tant items of news ever printed? What
was the terror" that misled the repre-
gentatiyes Of the United Press and for
which they we're ''in no wise respon-
sible"?
There is surely room here for thor
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
Unready

That we should be unprepared for
peace, politically and economically, is
not surprising. We have been much pre-
occupied with war, and, besides, we are,
as a people, wont to be optimistic about
anything that has not yet happened.
The situation is full of very disagree
able possibilities. In yesterdays Trib-
nne there was dispatch from our
Washington bureau calling attention to
the fact that there are many ideas about
how we should get back to a peace basis
and no programme, just as before there
were many ideas and no programme for
getting ourselves on Il war basis. Con-
currently, there is the news that Mem
bers of Congress will demand an imme-
dlate and drastic curtailment Of war ex-
pendtures, together with reassuring
statement from the War Industries
Board that no war contracts have been
cancelled. Obviously, however, the time
is near at hand when large war contracts
will abruptly cease. What then?
1t is probably true, as our correspond
ent thinks, that as it is with us so it is
also with our allies. The task of beat
ing Germany left very little time for
thinking in concrete terms of the prob
lens of transition.
But we know that the enemy has a
peace programme. Elaborate plans are
laid for restoring German trade. There
is intact in this country German ma
chine ready to launch campaign of
rehabilitation as soon as peace is de-
clared, if not, indeed. on the signing of
the armistice. The propaganda will be
both political and commercial. 1t will
not lack for funds, nor for the materials
Of suggestion. Great Britain will be at
tackled by innuendo. Differences will be
magnified and distorted. The German
thing will be defended by many voices
and in many tongues. In England and
France and Italy and Russia and Japan
other German propagandists will be
playing complementary tunes, trying once
more to destroy amity and human trust
in the world, to the advantage of German
business. SO it was before and so it will
be again, unless, as we hope, the Senate
committees investigation of the Hearst
Brisbane-brewers scandal shall disclose
the sources of German propaganda and
the ramifcations of sinister thing so
deeply rooted among us that the war has
hardly touched it at all.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
BACK HOME STUFF
Andre LeClerq

Andre LeClerq came from France the
year ofs the yellow fever epidemic. He
settled back home in the Rance property
overlooking the levee Oh Front Street.
He was a great student and had the
finest library in town. He always wore
g shawl and a plug hat, and had spells
of gout He never spoke to his son, Ollie
LeClerq, after Ollie married the Marshes
hired girl.
Andre LeClerq's wife died before he
came to America. For forty-fve years
he called regularly on Tuesday and
Saturday on Miss Liza Sands. Miss Liza
was blue-blood, branch Of the Ken
tucky Sandses. She lived in fine old
Colonial house on Court Street
She wore a big cameo breastpin that
had been in the Washington family, it
was said, and net over her hair. Miss
Liza had carriage, and in the summer
evenings her black man Hannibal would
drive her around the public square while
the band played. She always sat very
stiff
The only time Andre LeClerq and Miss
Liza Sands were seen together in public
was at the dedication of Gallia Acad-
emy, when Governor Bushnell spoke A
good many people wondered why they
had never married. Some thought it
was on account of Ollie LeCleru's mar
riage. Others said it was because Miss
Liza was year older.
During the blizzard Of 'S6, when the
Ohio froze over, Andre LeClerq was on
his way to the Sands home on Xmas
Day with copy of "Longfellow's
POEMS" He fell in front Of the tannery
and broke his hip. He was carried into
Miss Liza's home, where he died ten days
later. Miss Liza never went to the
funeral nor was ever seen except by old
Hannibal and DR.. Cromlish, the family
doctor, after that.
"1t was a strange love affair" thev
say back home
In uieav of the last Presidential elec-
tom and the last governmental election,
and the recent alleged drmistice, it mioht
be better not to publish any news until
the day after. T. r. ".
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
Prussia Bites the Dust
BY Frank II. SiInonds
Copyright, 1918, Ne,c York Tribune Inc.)

NINCE another Prussian King sent
~ his wife to plead with Napoleon in
the far off Tilsit time, no such hu
initiation has ever come to Prussia as
that comprehended in the appearance of
the representatives of Prussianized Ger
many seeking under a white flag to obtain
the terms of arnristice from a Marshal Of
France. To sign these terms or to reject
them would signify little-the crowning
humiliation has come with the confes-
sion of defeat. Here was the ultimate
demonstration Of the fact that mill
tary decision had been had in the war.
And at the hour when the white flag
was brought to the French lines British
armies were passing the battlefield Of
Mons and approaching that of Waterloo,
American soldiers stood victorious in
Sedan, French armies were sweeping
forward from the Disc to the Meuse and
France was all but freed from the in
vader's armies.
There will be those who will regret it
If the ultimate circumstances of victory,
the pursuit of the routed army, the repe-
tition cf events on the Venetian Plain
last week are not permitted, and the
German army does not, in fact as in
effect, meet it's Waterloo But contem-
porary regrets will play no part in the
verdict of the future, which will see that
the German military power was broken
in battle and avoided supreme disaster
only by ignominious surrender.
The war will now end in a military de-
armies have been expelled from France,
pursued over hundred miles of con-
quered territory, compelled to surrender
100000 men and 5000 guns, forced to
testify by it's conduct to the fact that its
leadership had been surpassed, it's force
broken, its power abolished. In word
before an armstice comes the military
tradition of the German army, the tradi-
ton of Waterloo, Sadowa and Sedan, has
been destroyed.
-Four years and four months ago tho
German military leadership, confident of
its strength, assured of its weapons, ar
rogant beyond anything in recorded his
tory, challenged the organized and un-
organized forces of civilization to mortal
combat. They thrust German sword
through all the covenants and commands
Of civilization and of justice.
Bursting upon an unprepared and un-
suspecting world, they were, despite
their incredible strength, checked by
France on the battlefield of the Marne,
encircled by the British fleets, and, like
Napoleon, condemned to ultimate defeat
when at last the forces of freedom could
organize.
In that long and terrible period of de-
lay German armies swept Eastern
Europe, crushed Serbia and Rumana as
they had broken Belgium, overturned the
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
Ancient and Modern Zooloov
tFrom The Hortford, Couron.)

IFrorl The RartIora Couront)
The esteemed Outlook" recently told
the story of the young soldier in France
who was having q very hard time irving
10 drive mule through a gate; and who
feelingly remarked that he didn't see a,ov
old Noah could have got "two of these
blighters" into the ark. And "Thc Outlook
very properly, seriously and truly stated
that Noah didn't have to trouble about
any pair of mules in the good old days.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
The Plant of the Plane Builder


The Plant of the Plane Builder
What is the best of all wonderful dope.
Raise of nickel an hour.
What is the gist OF my prayer and my hope
Raise me nickel an hour.
Daily hunch for this bountiful boon,
Extra tyro-ffty to come to me soon;
Foreman, pay heed to my pitiful tune.
Raise me nickel an hour
Make it come quick, cause the weather is
Raise me q nickel an hour
Make it come quick cause Pm fast growing
old.
Raise me nickel an hour
Inside, at night I am pacing the floor.
Outside, the wolf is encamped at my door.
That is the reason Pm asking for more.
Raise me nickel an hour
Maybe I'm worth it, or maybe Pm not.
Raise me a nickel an hour
But I'm giving you all that I've got.
Raise me nickel an hour.
II you will focus a critical glance
Straight at the threadbare old seat of my
pants,
Foreman, you'll grant me this needed ad-
vance.
RAISE ME A NICKEL AN HOUR.
LESLIE ALAN TAYLOR.
The signing of the arm,istice can a,erer
be as delightful aUhem 1t does transpire
as 1t was avhen 1t didn't
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
The New Business
BY H. l.. CAN'T
Production Engineer

w the Central Powers crumbled N
all sides? 1t does not take NM,
insight to realize that this sudden an,
widespread collapse is due primarily h
the lack of economic strength, or !,
other words, the lack of ability on Il,
part Of the industrial and business sv,
tenn to supply the armies with the means
to fight. This is further emuh.
sized by the fact that the army of Ce,.
many, which has the best economic sun.
port, is admitted by officers returning
from France to be still unbeaten. Mill
tary strength, therefore, is based abso.
lutely on economic strength.
The collapse of Russia after the reye
luton was an illustration of the fact
that political power unsupported BY
economic power is futile.
From the above illustrations it is css,
that in the organization of a state We
must first organize in such manner
to produce the greatest possible economi
power If there has been in recn
years doubt as to the relative economic
effectiveness of competition and cp
operation in the production of eeuanie
power, the war should by this time have
removed all possible doubts on that sub
ject. This is illustrated by the fOlluT.
ing facts:
Germany before the war developed th
greatest economic system in the world
because an autocratic military powsl
forced business to be in some slight d.
gree cooperative and to recognize ID
some slight degree its social respmd
bility.
In England, France and the Units
States it was found on the breaking out
Of the war that a purely competits
business system WAS absolutely incsp
bic of giving US the economic strengn
needed to fight, and we attempted a
establish the cooperative principle
our production and business systems
rapidly as possible. The fact that n
did it in crude way and with man
blunders does not indicate that we hsH
not yet found the proper basis for d
efficient cooperative industrialism.
Without any shadow of doubt, th
we can accept the fact that the succE
full economic state Of the future MS
be based on cooperation. II, then,
determine the principles on which @
operation can be firmly established VI
shall have determined the. principles %
which the economic state must De ossS
Cooperation is possible only vn3
there is mutual confidence, which mean
that we can have no cooperation IN Opa
ness as long as secret agreements eAS'
The fundamental principle OF coops's
ton, then, is-no secret agreemen"
cny KIND.
We have recognized this as poah'
principle-no secret political tresS~
the publication of all campaign
penses, etc. AS business principe
have recognized it in the abolition 81
bates in railroad freight charges -
in the governmental fixing Of prlcs'
If this principle is firmly estaOn'D
and universally acknowledged a'~
all of the other principles OF co0r.
tion become secondary-the most lnr
tant two of which are abolition ..
cial privilege and of reward OUT " =
portion to service rendered
Ny conclusion, then, may be saa.
up in few words. Your ec0'" -
system must eliminate not on'y
diplomatic agreements, but, wia' y
important, secret business agree'us'
New-York tribune., 1918-11-09

mighty Russian Empire and spread ruin
in Northern France and Italy. By the
sword they created the mightiest mill
tary empire since the Roman era, and at
the moment of supreme power ruled from
Antwerp to Riga and from Hamburg to
Bagdad
But as their empire was built by the
sword, it has been destroyed by the sword.
AS Napoleon's empire crumbled after
Leipsic the German empire fell to ruin
after the Second Battle of the Marne
Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, marching
under German command, have been con-
quered in three battles and have surren-
dered without condition.
The early laurels Of the German mill
tary chiefs have withered in the frosts
Of recent defeats. In the Second Marne
the Third Son1me, the Battle of the Hin
denburg Line, and now in the final strug-
gle between Sedan and the Scheldt, Ger
man armies have suffered cycle of dis
asters which has destroyed the old legend
OF invincibility. Those who sought to rule
the world by the greatness of their mill
tary strength have been beaten until the
good German sword" is falling from
helpless hands.
More than all else we have been fight
ing the German military power. From
August, 1914, to November, 1918, it has
been single issue. The world had to
choose between being soldiers and becom-
ing slaves. 1t has fought, it has con-
quered-the German military machine
has been reduced to a complete and hope
less wreck.
German leaders have been outgen-
eralled, German soldiers have been out
fought; of all the tremendous and AFRO
CANT tradition Of invincibility there is
left just nothing. A beaten system must
now surrender it's weapons; we are liber-
ated by military decision from the peril
Of serfdom-and our liberation is as COM
plete as victory can make it. Not even
German can again believe that a Ger
man machine can conquer the world
the effort of William II to achieve world
mastery has failed like that of Louis
XIV and that of Napoleon.
The ending of the war will bring
! new horizons; the military aspects must
necessarily be forgotten for the time.
Yet even in that hour it will be essential
to recognize that it is the military decision
that makes all else possible. A drawn
battle, peace by negotiation before the
German army was broken, would have
left the task to be completed by new
sacrifices and new suffering. The Ger
man knew only force, could understand
only force and would yield to nothing
| else.
Peace without victory was impossible,
but peace after victory-peace after the
German sword has been broken-may
open better future for all mankind.