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anime closely all the chimney fues.
II the chimney Is not constructed
properly Il would pay the owner to
build a new chimney rather than run
the risk Of having the house destroyed.
Thousands OF dollars are lost by fire
each year which could be saved II
proper attention were given to a few
simple rules governing the chimney
and connecting parts.
Fires may start In defective fues,
backs OF ranges. under hearths and
In other places which are not In view.
Defective fiues cause a great many
fires Of this kind and a little care In
building may prevent a catastrophe.
The chimney should be built from the
ground with q substantial foundation
OF masonry. The foundation should
be ut least a foot wider at all points
than the chimney. The use OF wooden
brackets as supports should be avoid
ca. as they are liable TO start Dire
around the base OF the chimney.
Experts advise that chimneys be
built az least three feet above fat
roofs and two feet aboye the ridge OF
pitched roofs. The horizontal clear
anco above the top Of the roof should
be al ieus1 - fcrf. II these susxes-
lions are observed the danger Of IRE
ffx,m FILLING sparks viii be greatly
reduced and an. Increased draft will
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pound ever since and give you my per-
mission to publish this letter." Miss
FLO KELLY, 476 So. 14th St, Newark,
N. J.
The reason this famous root and herb
remedy, Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
compound, was so successful in Miss
kelly's case was because Il went TO the
root OF her trouble, restored her to a
normal healthy condition and as aresult
her nervousness disappeared.
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sThs engine 10 celd.' he announced.
moment and dripping on these flowers,
which need waterf"
Lucille took him to the telephone. I
followed at q leisurely pace. and by
the time r got to the house ! found
Bopp whirIing the telephone lever ex-
~ssperatediy. II was one OF those coun-
Try telephones where you have TO grind
q little business on the side OF the box
until central hears You swearing az
the fransmitter. The operator seemed
more obliviops than usaai. and Bopp
remarked ~Henof' In every possible
tone Of voice from Mheedllne 10 ~
threat.
II wonder. Iinclle m~urrnured vague.
IL. slf maybe ii WASN'T lha Telephone
cable which Won dug up with fha bro.
peller OF tho launch
What's fhat1e Hqpp demanded.
r said. IT must hare been TIE telc'
phone cable yQn Sor mixed Uni 81 Ytheg
rod RIM me I1Npch aground XbA{s
MI1 II won't W1<i-
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SYNOPSIS.

LiciIe Green. charming, but with fads,
10 visited at the Greens summer island
weel's fast. All food Is banished. Frank
Boep, q rival sutton, appears unexpected
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w. N. u, sioux FALLS, NO. 12--1sts.

The man with a good appetite never
wastes time specializing on the ele-
mentS of war bread.
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A NERVOUS
BREAKDOWN
Miss Kelly Tells How Lydia
+. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Restored
Her Health.

Newark, N. J.-"For about three
years / suffered from nervous break
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CHAPTER III.

w OPP managed to make the en-
CINE run again and started to
back on from the bar when the
~..u.HI-- -. -A.-N-.---
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Loquacious Locomotives L
(From "Chat and Comment" IN The FAN

(From Chat and Comment" IN The Fall Ripey
NeUs)
Have you noticed what the railroad Ioco-
motives are saying nowadays as they 20
about their business? It's McAdoo, McAdoo
McAdoo, McAdoo. Say it aloud to yourself
and you have it as the locomotive says it in
starting. Mc-A-doo, Mc-A-d doo Presently it
gains Roadway: Mc-Adoo, it says And now
1T is at full speed. tearing down the clear
way: McAdoo, McAdoo, McAdoo, McAdoo,
until 1t is out of hearing. Some of the en-
glnes seem to be cheering for their new
boss, roofing through town and country for
the director of railways. In some Of them
there is sort Of sycophantic note I think
l used to hear this class of engines wheez
ing out Elliott, Elliott, with their air pumps.
as they stood waiting in the railway sta
ton. Then there are old and decrepit loco
motives, whose kind Is not unknown IN
these parts, which have a plaintve. imnlor-
ing tone which calls for help with a hoarse.
aspirate, almost choking voice: Mack-oh-doi
What rousing Presidential campaign tho
director Of railroads and most other THINGS
could run with his name shouted above the
housetops Of metropolis and hamlet from
ocean to ocean at every puff Of everv steam
engine in the land.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
The s'Yanks" Are Coming

General March took long chance
when he placed his heel on Sammy"
The fate that rules nicknames is queer
and cantankerous, and just for this pro-
test might pin the name on our soldiers
till kingdom come. But we guess not
Sammy has not made headway. It's
preposterous unftness for the he-men
composing the American army was as
obvious to the French, who first took it
up, as anybody. The French have a lik-
ing for "L'Oncle Sam" in their cartoons
But Sammy is another matter, in sound
and sense. 1t simply won't do and
can't be.
The "Yanks" are left. 1t is a good
mouthful with tang to it, 1t has much
international usage, the world around, to
give it momentum. Like all good nick
names, its derivation is lost in time. The
explanation that it is derived from
"Yengeese," Indian for "English," in the
French-and1ndian War period of the
American colonies, is too historically
simple. 1t stood for a small part of
America for long time, but the act of
nlcknaming is no respecter of accura-
cles 1t is the best, the only good name,
suggested thus far. May it f1ourish
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16

ment. That rule applies to the conduct
of neutral nations only. We were at
peace with Spain when the Cuban Re-
public Of 1870 asked for recognition.
Recognition would have been a serious
affront to Spain. But we recognized the
Cuban Republic in 1898 when we went to
war with Spain. 1t was a natural and
necessary war measure.
We are at war with Austria-Hungary,
and nothing restrains us from recogniz-
ing the belligerency or sovereignty Of
any portion of the Dual Monarchy which
sets up claim Of it's independence In
the Civil War Lincoln recognized State
of Virginia W. ch existed only on paper.
Congress aftegward severed West Vir-
ginia from Virginia, admitting the for
mer as an Independent state
A state of war overrides ordinary
technicalities attaching to the recogni-
tlon of new state like that Of the
Czecho-Slovaks. 1t is not yet on the
map. But it's people have done enough to
make it obligatory on the Allies to put 1t
there. Let us help to give it local habi-
tation and name.
No people have more richly deserved
liberation and nationality.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
AS the ShQdow of
A Great Rock

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: I wonder how many Of our New
York City people realize what cool place
the interior of our churches is these hot
days. Many Of the churches are open
good part of the time--either the front or
side doors being open. have recently
gone into two churches on a weekday
the Grace Methodist, in West 104th Street,
and St. Johns Episcopal Cathedral, at Am
sterdam Avenue and 113th Street. In both
it was far cooler than on the streets or in
our homes. In the large cathedral found
but five people at 4 o'clock in the afternoon
resting and probably quietly worshipping.
II people but realized the comfort-physi-
cal-they could secure in such large build
ing these oppressive days-not to mention
the mental and spiritual benefits to be de-
rived by getting into the quiet and holy
atmosphere of these places of Worship
am sure larger number would 20 there.
| am sure all the churches would be Glad
to have the people spend all the time thew
want there R
New York, Aug. 13, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
What Mr.. McAdoo Wants

Mr.. McAdoo's struggle with the Wavs
and Means Committee for a fiat 80 per
cent tax on war profits and for leaving
the excess profits tax as it is goes much
further than difference of opinion over
war revenue and becomes social oues-
tion. Mr.. McAdoo makes his case COM
plete in seventy-three words, thus:
"A war profits tax finds its sanction in
the conviction of all patriotic men, of
Whatever economic or political school,
that no one should profit largely by the
war. The excess profits tax must rest
upon the wholly indefensble notion that
1t is function of taxation to bring all
profits down to one level with relation
to the amount of capital invested, and to
deprive industry, foresight and sagacity
of their fruits"
Yet apparently the Ways and Means
Committee, and especially, as we under
stand, Chairman Kitchin, cannot be easilv
penetrated by argument The war profits
tax IS not so much distrusted as Mr.. Nc
Adoo's request that the excess profits
tax be left at maximum of 60 per cent
where it is. Mr.. Kitchin wishes to raise
1t to 80 per cent. Mr.. McAdoo logically
contends that the excess profits tax is
not war tax; that it favors the large
corporation Of diluted capitalization with
earnings of or per cent on hundred
million, and is correspondingly unfair to
the little business that earns 80 or 40
per cent on a capital investment of So.
900, and that it very often fails to touch
war profits at all. Mr.. Kitchin and his
committee are skeptical. They wonder
why Mr.. McAdoo all of a sudden has SO
much tenderness for capital, whether he
is sure of what he thinks, and whv. in
any case, high profits should not bear a
higher tax
Mr.. McAdoo wants both the 60 per
cent excess profits tax as it is and also
the flat so per cent war profits tax. with
authority in every given case to choose
which pair of shears to use That is for
revenue primarily. Then he wants such
drastic luxury taxes that people will have
to stop wasting the country's strength in
non-essentials. But Mr.. Kitchin repre-
sents those who have first of all a feud
with great profits as such, who think
them antisocial, and who would aha+o
them progressively under the pretence
of war time necessity.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16

from the reverses of last spring, is now
stronger than ever in the present war
and is in better shape materially. 1t has
full ranks and it has enormous reserves
in guns and munitions. 1t also has an
account to settle, and it has already
taken the first step in paying off the
Germans for the defeat of March 21. In
all probability the great burden of the
offensive operations of Foch for the rest
of the year will be borne by the British
with a measure of American help. The
French have disposed of the offensive
possibilities of the army of the Grown
Prince Of Prussia. The British have
still on their hands the army of Rup-
precht Of Bavaria, although his often
sive ambitions must have been rudely
curbed in recent days.
In sum, the British victory at the
Somme, like the French success at the
Marne, is a striking and major detail
of the campaign of 1918; together they
have wrecked Ludendorf's offensive
plans. Haig, like Petain, is entitled to
AeAA ~ COio olCHOuoH CllS SQpIcIue praise
must be reserved for Foch At the
Somme the French have been even more
useful to the British than we were to
the French at the Marne, but it is only
just to credit the larger responsibility
for the second success to our British
allies, who after heavy defeat have come
back with renewed energy, determina-
tion and with scientific mastery of the
new methods Of fighting which is i'm
pressive.
Comparisons mean little, after all.
yet on August s the British covered
more ground between daylight and noon
on the Somme front than they traversed
in all the fighting from July to No.
vember Is, 1916, lost less than 10000
men in doing it, where they lost more
than half million two years ago. and
captured five or six times as MANY nris-
oners as on July I, 1916. We are not
going to return to the old-fashioned war
of movement. We shall fight on from,
position to position until German re-
sistance utterly collapses or German
craftsmanship surrenders, but the rate
of progress between positions in 1919 az
compared with 1916 is something that
should be in all minds henceforth
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Lewis and Whitman

Merton E. Lewis has a notable record
of service in office.
At the beginning of the war he sug-
gested and moved the enactment of an
emergency law, Statute sos, which con-
fers upon the Attorney General very
broad authority to inquire into matters
touching public peace, safety and JUS
tice in war time.
1t was under this law, for which there
IS no equivalent in the Federal statutes,
and at his direction, that the Assistant
Attorney General, Alfred E. Becker, de-
veloped the proofs required by the
French government against Bolo Pacha,
recently shot at Vincennes, France, for
the crime of treason to the Allied cause.
Bolo's devious trail crossed that of Will
lam Randolph Hearst, which was the
beginning of another story, yet unfin-
lshed. 1t is appearing serially. Under
the same law and in the same wav legal
proof of the German ownership of The
Nea0 York Evening Mou was perfected
and delivered to the United States gov
ernment. And when confscation pro-
ceedings against that newspaper bv the
Enemy Property Custodian were about
TO be suspended because an offer of pur-
chase had been received from a Hearst
representative, on condition that the
facts be suppressed, it was the Attorney
General Of New York State who held
the power of veto. His office could do
what it pleased with the secret. It
would not sanction Hearst buyer, and
that hopelessly ended the negotiations.
10 the manner in which Mr.. Lewis
has exercised the war powers of the
New York Attorney Generals office
and to the zeal of his assistant, Mr.
Becker, we are indebted for the follow
ing things, namely:
THAT Bolo Pacha, spy, propagandist
and traitor, has no longer any interest
IN the use of news print paper;
That William Randolph Hearst has
much more scrubbing to do;
THAT The Nea0 York Evenino Moips
career as an enemy-owned newspaner
ended when it did, and
>~1AA No NSW OTE EUPnlUO Mail
dld not become a Hearst newspaner
without notice to the public of it's pre-
vious German ownership.
1t is large record. Its imnortance
may be measured by the scurrilous fury
win which Hearst attacks the Attorney
General, who is now candidate against
whitman for the Republican nomination
We wish Mr. Lewis would stand unon
his record and allow his friends to ev-
plolt 1T for him, instead of making his
campaign upon the suggestion that tho
German influence may reach Whitman
through Hearst. He can pin the Kaiser
on Hearst. He might even pin Hearst
on Whitman. But he cannot pin the
Kaiser on Whitman-for one reason
among others, that he does not believe It
himself The Amercanism of Cover
nor Whitman is invulnerablc.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16

ing the new routes with the impossible
schedules that have been followed.
The failure to provide adequate ser
vice between Brooklyn Bridge and
Grand Central is an achievement of
sheer stupidity. Here was the maximum
of congestion under the old system, the
load that determined the minimum of
service throughout. Yet when the new
schedules went into effect this service
was cut from sixty to forty-two trains
an hour, according to the announced
schedules, and from sixty to twenty-five
trains by actual count Of Tuesday night.
The scenes of discomfort and insult and
danger that have resulted were the nee
essary and logical result. Plain COM
mon sense and no vast railroading abil-
lty was needed to foresee this situation
and care for it.
The whole episode of the shuttle at
Forty-second Street showed an equal
stupidity. 1t should never have been
opened in the unusable condition in
which it was. It's whole serviceability
in the future is placed in question. What
assurance has the public that the pres
ent alterations will make it genuinely
safe and convenient?
The cry Of war times and a shortage
of men is put forth. There is obviously
a problem here, but it can be met and
must be met. Other railroads are meet
ing 1T. There is no earthly reason why
the lnterborough should not meet it.
What Mr.. Shonts and the Public Service
Commission do not seem to realize is
that efficient subway service is a neces
sity, war essential, without which New
York is handicapped in every activity
of peace and war.
Men are hard to get. Yes. They can
be got at price, and the Interborough
must pay that price. If necessary. the
public will gladly pay it's share thereof.
All this should have been settled weeks
ago, and for the present tange the Pub
lie Service Commission must doubtless
share the blame. But the primary blame
rests on Mr.. Shonts as the operator of
the subway. He has been hoping to pla-
cate the public with window dressing
while letting the service go to pieces.
lie has been expecting to wheedle a six
cent fare out of the public by giving it
three-cent service.
The whole situation is preposterous
and insupportable. The city has spent
millions and will have results in proper
tion. The public has taken much from
the lnterborough. 1t certainly will not
take this. 1t has suffered repeatedly
from muddle-headed Public Service COM
missioners. It certainly will not suffer
this
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Reckless Pedestrians!
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Two articles in your issue OF Aus'''
8, one your own editorial and the o'na
an article by r. E. Young, Of White Fls''
N. Y, deserve more than passing attehu'''
and in the hope that some one more s''
than the writer will also take the msI'el W
I beg to enter protest against the pfen's'
assumed and the conclusions drawn W'"-
are all against the automobile driver. ''~
neither an owner nor driver. but SiA =.
the automobile insurance business, whei' "
necessity, come in contact with huno'''
of cases of automobile accidents, VIII 'l'''
subsequent investigations and settlsnsD'
and the Investigations show that III -
cases of accidents to pedestrians W.
large percentage of them is the reSu'
foolishness or carelessness on the pau
the injured party, and firmly believe ~,
this is due in great measure 70 inc w.
paign Of miseducation on the paF' Va ".
newspapers, which almost without eAcsr
create the impression, by the tenor y.
ticles on this subject, that the pedes",
has no responsibility at all as he travei' =, =
streets, but it is always up 60 the o1hs' y.
low to see that the careless or foolish Wv
not hurt. 1t is time for our papers " -
to educate their readers 10 take e''s1
able care Of themselves rather than pp.
burden Of doing it on others. .
Paterson, N. j., Aug. IA, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
The Subway Outrage

The new subway has been failure
from the start. 1t has not relieved con-
gest'on. In some instances, particularly
the East Side route from Brooklyn
Bridge to Grand Central, it has increased
congestion to conditions that are un-
speakable and unbelievable.
All this has been patent to the man
in the subway from the start. II sbould
nave been patent to both Mr. Shonts
ana the Public Service Commission that
exactly this woad4 ks tAs Ses,alt Of opcn-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Mais Oui, Mr.. BRIGGS
( (From The Atlantic,

When you have been on patrol long
way behind the enemy lines, shooting nm
towns and camps and railway trains like
pack Of aerial cowboys; when, on YOUR wav
nome, you have deliberately disobeyed or
ders and loafed long way behind the Other
members of your group in order to watch
the pretty sunset; and as punishment for
TINS aesthetic indulgence have been over
taken by darkness and compelled to land in
strange country, only to have YOUR machine
Immediately surrounded by German so]-
diers; then, having taken the desperate re-
solve that they shall not have possession ~
your old battle-soarred avion as we'll %. 30
your person, when you are about to touch
match to it, If tho light glistens on q lonc
French bayonet and you learn that the Ger
man soldiers have been prisoners since tho
battle of the Somme and have just finished
their days work Of harvesting beets to he
used IN making sugar for French poisus-as.
lsnt 1t Il grand and glorious feeIing?"
10 which | would reply, "Mais oui. mon,
vieuxl Nsix' oUil"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
The Victory Draft

The new draft should be called the
Victory Draft. General March says 1t
is needed to furnish the fighting power
with which the war can be won. In that
case everybody ought to be for it,
The revised American programme
calls for eighty divisions on the fighting
line in Europe by June 80 next Count
ing 10000 men to a division, including
auxiliaries, that would mean 100000
men at the front. Eighteen divisions
100000 men-would be in the camps at
home as reserve, and as they crossed
the Atlantic their places here would be
taken by new divisions
General March says that 100000
Americans in France, under a single
commander, could go next year any
where they wanted to go. That is not
oversangulne. Germany will not have
the strength left year from now to
hold any line against 100000 Ameri
cans, aided by the French, British and
Italians
To keep fighting army Of 100000
going we should have to raise between
100000 and 100000 men. We have
about 100000 volunteers. The first
draft and the two classes reaching
twenty-one between June 5, 1917, and
June 5, 1919, probably will furnish more
than 100000 men. 1t is the War De-
partment's present aim to raise about
100000 from the new draft. All these
recruits will be needed Any attempts
to limit the new conscription will there
fore endanger the programme of VIC
tory.
If the minimum age is raised to n,ne-
teen the maximum age will have to be
raised above forty-fve, or else the pres
ent exemptions between nineteen and
forty-five will have to be narrowed That
IS the nut which the opponents of the
Senate bill will have to crack. We must
get the men. Age limits and deferred
classifications will have to take care Of
themselves until the creation Of an armv
of victory is assured.
Congress must act in this spirit. Let
US develop our man power to the utmost
and quickly. Otherwise we shall have
missed the meaning of all the military
experience of the last four years
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Why Not a Moving Platform

To the Editor of The Tribune. g..
Sir: Why not suggest to the fu0N' ~.
vice Commission the feasibility OF ..-.,,
ing sidewalk in the Forty-secona ." -;
subway connecting Grand Cen''M La
Times Square? This sidewalk wou'a ~.
unlimited capacity and be always S'AI' a,
using two sets of tracks, one east S"' ~,
other west bound, and leaving the ,.s,
pair for trains in emergency or ofea'
of sidewalk. a.
Also, why not suggest to Mr.. oh0A.s 1
he use the space now occupied py '..G
his gems of thought" Zone in eaeo ~ ,,a
each car) and in place of the gems -
a map or diagram showing the u -
ways as now operated, each side Oh 80
in different color. Get this diagi"" ~.
fixed in the minds of the dear puo''s ..s,s
constantly seeing it in the cars a"' .,a
would be accomplished in the way .,,r ~
cation. ! J. O'RElLLf MpVNS
New York. Aug. 3, 1sls. ..-.----...1zs.