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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
Centence Inadequate for
~ the Offence

"These men, some of them caught red
handed in bomb plots, murder conspiracies
and corruption intrigucs, have been given
maximum sentence when convicted that
IN many cases have been exceeded by Amer
leans convicted of stealing the very neces-
stiles of life. Known and avowed enemv
aliens have been coddled and petted in in
tcrnment camps, some Of the most beautiful
and delightful spots having been selected
and fitted for their full comfort. There is
at this time practically no personal danger.
except brief incarceration, involved for
bomb agents Of the government that shot
Edith Cavell
That is why Prayer was lynched. His
dlsloyal uttcranccs were legally punishable
very lightly. These miners knew that If
one Of them had said in Germany about the
Kaiser what Prayer said In America about
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
lie Was Shielded by
l / Prison Walls

The report got about that Prayer had
made some remarks at Maryville, a
neighboring town, which were disloyal.
He was lodged in Jail at Collinsville and
concealed when mob formed to mete
out punishment of it's own making. Many
of its members, according to press re,
ports, were under the influence of liquor.
The story of the mans alleged offence
grew. From tar and feathers the pun
ishment demanded for his supposed dis
loyal remarks at Maryville became hang
ing. The victim was dragged from his
hiding place in the city hall, and despite
his protests Of loyalty was hanged. He
went TO his death bravely, the leader of
the mob admitted, and asked to be buried
wrapped in the American flag.
The strongest expressions are to be
found in the press denouncing the act al
the worst sort Of un-Amcricanism. Ac.
cording to "The Indianapolis News" the
lynching was nothing less than MUIR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

sacrifice. The sigh of relief that went up
at the discovery that life was at last worth
living, if only because of it's brevity, was
echoed in the poetry of officers as it drifted
back from the trenches.
"The eternal questions will beat in again
after the new order is established. Is
living wage the final answer to the home
sickness of the human spirit? Does a ma
terialistc conception of life satisfy the
longing of the heart? Are the claims of
beauty met by uniform rows of neat little
dwellings and by sanitary factories? Have
we really crossed thesgreat divide and ar
rived finally in the sunshine? One doubts
it. The life Of the spirit is not so easily
satisfied. But as in the present war of
arms political differences are buried, art
and poetry forgotten, and all the national
will focused on this one thing to do, so in
this greater struggle the vast complexities
of life are overlooked for the sake of q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

Courier" remarks, "There is no surer
way of encouraging lynching than that
of ignoring the conditions out of which
it grows.
cat the bottom Of the resort to mob vio-
lence is always, in the beginning, feeling
that for some reason the ordinary proc
esses of justice are not to be trusted to
deal effectively with the case in hand
Lynching in the West of horse thieves for
merly fourshed because there were no
courts or else the courts were too far dis
tant to protect the community against these
offenders. Lynching in the South of the
assailants of women was excused because
an outraged public opinion rejected the
idea that the victim in these tragedies
should have to tell her story publicly. But
experience has shown that once men begin
to take the law into their own hands the
tendency is to extend and multiply the list
OF offences exciting a quick use of the rope
or worse.
All our experience in these matters has
cried out warning against the dilatory
methods of Congress and of the Federal
authorities in bringing halt to the activi-
ties of spies and of enemy aliens and pro-
German sympathizers."
In other words, Collinsville exhibited
a violent form of what many people in
the United States feel-that the enemy
agent, caught with bombs and instru-
ments of sabotage, is having too easy
time of it. "There will not be any gen.
eral denunciation of this act in Amer
ica,' 1.-The Macon Telegraph" is so bold
as to say, for the reason that "the Amer
lean people are very resentful of the
treatment given to out and out agents of
the government with which they are at
war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
Only One Thing To Be
Seen

:" lTH every hour that passes tnei'
w is less and less doubt that we al.
returning to fight between liberty ahs
tyranny on the simplest terms. we WIZ
not say that democracy is being tessea'
for the English poor have never been 81
lowed to have democracy. But we "
say that their capacity for democrat
is being tested; that their potentlai Wv
tory over plutocratic shams manutacF
ured for them in the past is being 'sss
ed. The ordinary Englishman has ise
OF old fallacies to pierce before ne caa
see anything. But if he can do it tne's
Is only one thing to be seen.-IhS W'~
Witness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
FEW weeks ago the following
editorial appeared in "Leslie's":
EVERY pacifist is an ennn,u

Every paclhSt is an enemv
Every one who stands for negotiated neace
is giving aid and comfort to our foes.
And peace that would leave unsettled
the vital issues OF the war would be only
an armistcc.
"Within two decades the world wou1d be
plunged into a still blooder war. and our
children would be driven to finish the struc-
gle for freedom which in our confidence
we left incomplete.
WOE to England, France and America ;f
they leave such legacy to the next rencr-
ation
Already we have talked too much nhout
peace. The frequency of our peace deAni-
TOMS Berlin and Vienna interpret as signs
of weakness.
Among tho armies at the front there arc
no illusions. Soldiers know but one wav
to win. The Allied armies in France know
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
(From "Inside the British Isles")

LLOYD GEORGE is not afraid of
h being himself. He is as daring
in his comments on men and
things as Mr.. Roosevelt, as charm
ing as the late William James. He is used
to being loved. The lines about the eyes
reveal man who works his purpose by
geniality in flow of fun and charm and
sympathy. The political battles of twenty
years have left less impression on his
spirit than the victories he has won as a
peace-maker and harmonizer.
He ends talk by being more completely
the master of your thought than you are
yourself. He states it clearly and beauti-
fully, and reduces it to a programme of
action.
ITO understand your people, or any peo-
ple," he said, "it is necessary for one to
pass inside the temple"
He practises what Sainte- Beuve preached,
that to know religion you must be wor-
shipper inside the church. So week by week
Sainte- Beuve became mystic and pagan
and an epicurean as he served up the soul
of the writer whom he was interpreting.
This is the high gift which Lloyd George
possesses. He can step up to the very altar
of mans most secret belief. This is the
gift which has made him the one Briton
who is perfectly understood in France. He
spoke only a couple of sentences inside the
citadel Of Verdun, but they revealed to
France that he knew what that symbol
meant to them.
"For in his last moments he becomes
something other than the grim fighter and
the adroit politician who uses all the tricks
of the game. Suddenly for his hearers,
and Unexpectedly to himself, he lifts by an
exquisite imagination to the place of in
sight, and becomes the voice of obscure
people, and understands men he has never
met If he talks with sangy person, he
discharges himself in vivid, staccato
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
<<TNSIDE THE BRITISH ISLES"
by Arthur Gleason, published by

by Arthur Gleason, published by
the Century Company, viewed
from cover to cover is very interesting
and in some respects a pretty compre-
aensive picture of England to-day. The
author, realizing the complexity of the
field he enters, wisely plans his work to
canvass certain vital divisions of the
national life: labor, woman, Ireland, etc.
There is an important chapter on Lloyd
George, parts of which are reprinted
elsewhere on this page. And there is
set of "Social Studies" which brings the
reader very close to some of Mr.. Glea-
sons more intimate Investigations. II
have had to use only three years Of OBJ
servation," the writer confesses in his
concluding "Vale," "and five months of
writing on what ought to be the work Of
"a lifetime" And, further, 81 have often
failed to; capture what is characteristic"
But doubtless the reader will. be inclined
to the belief that Mr.. Gleason has been
rather severe in his valuation. Three
years may not be a long time to devote
to the study of nation, nor is period
of five months, devoted to composition,
a very lengthy period. Still, one gets
from a perusal of this volume the i'm
preston that these particular three
years and these particular five months
were pretty we'll spent.
The opening chapter traces "Democ-
racy on the March," 1t is asserted that
ENGLAND has acted on the world as
principle of release for freedom, sometimes
by irritating it into activity, as with the
American colonies, sometimes by co0perat-
ing with it, as in Canada and Australia.
The balance of power has departed from
England to q wider area. But the principle
of government which creates and directs
that power continues to be an English prin-
ciple 1t is the principle of democratic
control One hundred years ago England
was in a war in which her three leaders
were Pitt, Wellington and Nelson, three
Englishmen. To-day Great Britain is in q
war in which her three leaders are Lloyd
George, Haig and Beatty, a Welshman,
Scotchman and an Irishman. This is, of
course, only chance illustration, but it
serves to show the fact that the field of
opportunity has broadened, and that Eng
land is no longer the overshadowing power
in union, but is the equal among equals"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
working programme of action and sharp
summary. Happiness and morality, beauty
and religion, are left to take care of them
selves"
The Outworn Attitude
L Toward Woman


Arrived at the chapter on women; one
reads:
"Great Britain and Germany were the
two nations Of the modern world where the
male mind was in full control of the cham
nels of influence before the war. That
woman's fields of activity were church,
children and kitchen was believed in Eng
land as in Prussia The average man
thought woman slightly inferior creature,
politically incompetent; industrially incapa-
BILE, mentally i'll endowed. ,Unconsciously
he has wished to keep her in the ranks of
an unrepresented, exploited and casual
labor class. 1t has required an immense
force of concentrated will, widespread or
ganization, and a constantly exerted press
ure of what Mr. Lloyd George calls 'strin-
gent nagging' for woman to win the power
full, but now very delicately balanced, posi-
ton which she holds in the industrial world.
She is seeking to win status. Status, or
standing is that position which person
or a class holds because it is able to en-
force it's claims by political and economic
power. Influence whether silent, uncon-
scious, or indirect, is nonresident except
as the person or class possesses a measure
of democratic control over the conditions of
life"
The woman's. movement, the writer
feels, is fighting, as one of the main
issues low wage scale. Furthermore
cit is fighting bad shop conditions and bad
home conditions. It is concerned with
woman as an industrial worker and as
mother. 1t has a programme of reform that
deals with woman in each of her two ca
pacities 1t is fighting to free the narrow
suppressed middle class woman, to give her
a good life of self-expression. 1t is fight
ing to enable high powered, wel-educated
women to count in the life of the commu-
nifty, to win for them fuller representation
at the universities, larger measure of in
fuence in civil service and in government
committees concerned with industrial con-
ditions and community welfare Suffrage
ments with which to achieve status through
OrganlZaCIOns
What the writer thinks the wonan's
movement of Great Britain is aiming at
in their. fight for status, which will be
mainly waged through the instruments
of trade unions and suffrage, includes:
CD Economic independence; .(2) In
creased sociability; ~ A freedom of
choice in selecting the mate--a freedom
(which was imperfectly granted the
woman in the restricted domestic area
where she formerly passed her life";
(4) An equality in the home; (5) Love
("The deepest craving of her nature is
to be, loved. The old-time home did not
fully meet this need, because love is based
on equality, and she was not an equally !;
co. Intellectual and spiritual recogni-
ton; CD A community motherhood
("There will always be large numbers
who will turn to the outer world to ex-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
It's No Well-Oiled
] AufOcracv

The principle of democracy is again
emphasized over toward the end of the
book, when the writer declares:
"The thing that initiates us about Eng
land is the same thing that offends US
(that is. Americans) at home. Here is no
well-oiled autocracy that runs on a single
track to a visible goal. Instead of that,
fclean, smooth, organized, docile, it is a de-
emocracy, with an immensely rich variety of
fife ssprawling all over the place. Tbs air
sis full Of voices, because every one is al
lowed to speak. If you don't like it, re-
member what it is that you don't like; it
is a free people, choosing to make its own
mistakes, living its own life, and just now
out on the warpath to chase some tres
passers off the premises. Doubtless, If the
critics were running the performance, they
would give a more unified and polished pro-
ceeding. But group of persons is run
ming this war. The people are running it.
So, instead of losing strength as the press
ure increases, they gather force and mo-
.mentum with each mistake. They teach
themselves by failure. The will of the great
German General Staff can be snapped by
defeat, because the staff is handful of
men. But the will of 100000 people can
mot be broken"
And the principle, he believes, will be
greatly broadened in the future:
1.-THE dimensions of it are so large that
the Imagination even of its projectors has
not wakened to what it implies. A great
organism of democracies, excepting only
India, will exist in world still half in
political bondage. 1t will carry it's commu-
q nifty far along in the twofold purpose Of all
e government-the control of environment
Z and the betterment of human relationships.
:. The war created highly desirable
friction between Great Britain and her
1 colonial democracies, which revealed the
present unsatisfactory status and the need
+ of new order. Out of that friction has
come the vision of the new commonwealth ~
; Mr.. Gleason discusses briefly the ques-
ton, Can democracy produce lead
ers? finding that in turning to experts"
appears quite no abrogation of the demo-
cratic ciples-rather, zone express
sion Of it,; because "a democracy in it.
, self can generate only an impulse"
Then he turns to another topic-labor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
blood Spilled in Battle
- Is Justified

As for the things the war has done
mo friend Of radical democracy need be
worried by the results of the last two
years" (He is writing in 1919 "Thc
blood spilled by the working classes at the
front has been justified by the profound
notifications wrought in English conscious
ness. nation modified and under arms
IL rich field for radical ideas. Blood fer
.tilizcs the soil for change.
England is taking strides toward CO.
operative socialism. For the first time in
their history the English are thinking in
terms Of a statc~fa modern state. in ali its
completely, with scientific laws and regula-
tons"
But
ut IL a mixreading OF English character to
think that anything remotely resembling
the state socialism of Germany, the card
indexing OF the community for vocational
training, the regimcnting OF the intellectual
life into body Of gtate-controIlcd profess
Aefs, will result from the present English
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

Nv al n eth els asmokin
yexchan fomaIya to knowe
land
the and yand
n humility, ievegr
thar Gleason
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

phrases. The nature and direction of his
rebound are determined by the substance
that he encounters. He was born to react
He has a mind that kindles and a style
that rises very lightly and gracefully into
poetic beauty. There has been no such
passage Of prose produced by the war as
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-29
PUT 1T SQUARELY UP TO DAD
Young Son of Famous Member of wig
iIantes" Frankly Considered His
Father a Stacker.

Ellis Parker Butler. the author. who
lives at Flushing. and is devoting his
energy to aiding In the successful
prosecution of the war. does not bear
an enviable reputation for patriotism
in his own household. Mr.. Butler has
been writing for the Thrift and War
Stamps campaign.
Mr.. Butler is the father of twin
sons of tender age Several nights
ago he returned home tired after a
days work for the Red Cross and
took his seat at the head of the table.
After they had finished their dinner.
the twins produced their Thrift Stamps
and started TO count them.
dad. look at all the stamps have"
said one OF the youngsters. 81 have
200. Look at brothers pile; he has
more than T.
Mr.. Butler nodded approvingly To
Mrs. Butler and they both smiled.
There was silence for minute. then
one of the twins looked up and ex-
claimed: dad. why don't you do some
thing patriotic?"
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-29
WILL FURNISH ALLIES FOOD.
America Will Sacrifice Food as Well
as Blood. Declares Hoover.

New York.-The United States will
share with the allies their sacrifice of
food as well as blood in the cause of
world democracy. declared Herbert c.
Hoover, federal food administrator, on
his arrival here Friday, after a brief
visit to England and France.
Asserting that 1--WE have to make
good" pledge to this effect which he
has given to the allied food administra-
tors while sitting TAT common table
in common cause" Mr.. Hoover said
that, to do so. America will next year
have to supply the allies 1000. 0O0,00O
pounds of fats. 900,000.000 pounds of
beef products. 500000,000 bushels of
cereals, and 100000 tons of sugar.
However Mr.. Hoover added, beginning
September l there will be no need for
drastic food rationing in the allied
countries, except in the case of sugar
and beef.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-29
SHE GOT COMPOSERS MIXED
Queen victoria's Error Must Have
Caused Mascagni to Pass an Un-
comfortable Few Minutes.

Sometimes when a great parsonage
essays musical criticism embarrassing
errors arise. Once Queen Victoria
invited Mascagni. the composer of
Cavalleria Rusticana. to play for her
at Windsor castle. When the musician
was at the piano her majesty said:
81 am passionately fond of one of
the numbers of your OPERA
Mascagni played the Intermezzo.
NO said the queen, that is not the
melody | mean"
Mascagni played the Prelude.
That's not ii. either
Mascagni played the dramatic Duet.
The queen became almost impatient.
"Tll help you to remember it, she
said, and hummed few measures.
With increasing CONSERVATION Mas
cagni listened as the queen sang the
Prologue to Leoncavallo's l Pagliacci !
lie Gaulois. in telling the story. does
not say whether the musician inform
ed the queen that she had made a
mistake.-Yo uth's Companion.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-29
GIRLS! USE LEMONS
FOR SUNBURN, TAN
Try I'll Make this lemon lotion
to whiten your tanned or
freckIed skin.

Squeeze the juice of two lemons in
10 bottle containing three ounces of
Orchard White, shake well, and you
have a quarter pint of the best freckle,
sUnburn and tan lotion, and complex
ion whitener, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces Of Orchard White for a
few cents. Massage this sweetly fra
grant lotion into the face, neck, arms
and hands and see how quickly the
freckles. sunburn, windburn and tan
disappear and how clear, soft and
white the skin becomes. Yesl 1t is
harmless.-Adv.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-29
vERMIN ATTRACTED BY FOOD
II No Scraps Are Around There viii
Be Little Trouble With Ants or
Reaches.

The surest way to keep house free
from ants Is to leave no food lying
about on shelves or in open places,
where they can reach 1t. Ants go
where they find food, and If the food
supplies Of the household are kept in
ant-proof metal containers or in ice
boxes, and If all foods that may hap
pen to be scattered by children or 9th
ers is cleaned up promptly, the ant
nuisance will be slight. Cake, bread,
sugar, meat. and like substances, are
especially attractive to the ants, and
should be kept from them.
Roaches Will not frequent rooms
unless they find some available food
material, and If such materials can
be kept from living rooms and offices
or scrupulous care exercised to see
that no such material Is placed in
drawers where 1t can leave an attrac-
tive odor or fragments of food, the
roach nuisance can be largely restrict
ed to places where food necessarily
must be kept
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-29
Editor Finally Turned.

And this" said the alleged old sol
der. Fostering a long-suffering editor
who was an old soldier lis where the
Arabs were maSsed in front OF us.
"Here"-pointing to another place on
q dirty pocket map-'iS where our di-
vision was drawn up in zareba
I'VE deployed in this direction. and
our left wing was attacked by the
enemy on this knoll. Just at this point
l was wounded on the left shoulder.
and hundred yards further on l got
my right arm shattered by piece of
one of our own shells. and"
But" interrupted the bored editor,
"where did you get your brains blown
out?"-London Tit-Bits.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-29
Fewer German Socialists.

The membership of the socialist par
ty I'm Saxony has decreased from H.
600 in 1914 to $1,000 paying members
den dispatch to the Berliner Tage-
blatt. The decrease was due to the
number of socialists serving in the
army and the split in the socialist par
ty of Germany. Deputy Gradnauer
speaking at the convention of Saxon
socialists. said that the circulation oil
socialist newspapers Ia Germany had
increased from 61S.000 copies on April
l. 1917. to $4,000 on April l, 1918.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-29
MEN CALLED IN NEW DRAFT.
Provost Marshal Issues Call for 1878
Men,

Washington.-Four separate draft
class. constituting the first of the Sep
TENDER calls and requiring 1S6.773 men
to entrain for training camps between
August 30 and September 6. were
issued Saturday by Provost Marshal
General Crowder. Every state and the
District of Columbia is called to furn-
ish men for training to augment the
forces abroad. For general military
service 125,000 white men and 21,270
negroes are called; for limited service
40,503 white men are called.
Utah is to furnish 900 white and 5
colored draftees under the call. Idaho
will send 700 white and l. colored
men: Nevada. 100 white and colored I;
Wyoming. 300 white, and Montana,
1000 white and Is colored men.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-29
Not Rafferty's Feet.

It n parade of company OF newly
led up men. the drill instructors
: turned scarlet with rage as he
led new recruit for his awkward
Now, Rafferty," he roared, you'll
q the line with those feet. Draw
b back ut once, man, and get them
me"
Rfferty's dignity was hurt.
Haze. snrgint." he said, they're
mlne; they're MIcky Doolnn's In
FEAR rank I"