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mics, she was fighting on two fronts. TODAY
the ring is broken and only one front has
TO be defended. Russia has ceased to be a
menace TO Germany. and the vast Russian
grain supplies viii flow into Germany as soon
as hcr engineers put the railways in service
Germany has conquered Belgium and North
ern France; she has her foot firmly plant
ed OH Italian soil; she has destroyed Serbia
ana Rumanla: she has reduced Austria and
bulgaria and Turkey 10 the status of vas
sal states Against this we 1--WE link our
selves with the men who have brayed dam
ger while America has stood idle because
whilc we have not yet fought in spirit we
are tbelr brothers in arrns) have Avrcstcd
nom Germany her colonies, great spaces on
the map, but which she would gladly sac
riiice for the gain Of that little strip OF
Belgian coast she holds tenaciouslv: and
we occupy Jerusalem. The success of the
Ia!estine campaign. Mr.. Lloyd George told
the House OF Commons Il few day. ago
would have permanent effect on the his
tory of the world. We are willing TO be-
leve this, bat that Will nol win the war The
war viii be won III France and Flanders:
t IS only when tie Germans are driven out
OF France and their hold on Belgium is
broken that Germany viii be defeated and
compelled to accept the terms we shall i'm
pose. Everything else is merely sideshow.
me war ought TO nave been won BY Ger
many before the close OF the wear 1914.
While France hastily organizing and
England was recruiting, Germany. organized
as &c nation has ever been. recruited to
the last man, swept forward Those sirat
months we're the crucial period of the war
Had TIE french wayercd or the English fall
tered had the Germans possessed I little
greater military skill or trihe more resolu-
slon-so evenly did fate posa the scale
Germany would have won. She did not. I'm
aple TO WIN then, she cannot win now; gut
she has not yet been defeated. Can we win !.
when we speak OF winning the war we
60 not mean Il stalemate peace. We can
Fave peace tomorrow on the basis of the
map OF August l. 1914, but that would be-
no real peace. it would be simply a tempo
lary truce; L would be breathing smell
to enable the exhausted belhgerents to re-
eupera'e and fevershy prepare for re-
neWai OF hostilties on an even greater scale;
and N reality it would be German vic
tory. Peace. a peldurable peace. viii come
only when the fangs Of the mad beast OF
Europe have been drawn when the military
rower OF Germany IS broken; when tn.
German people arc under the harrow. sweat
ing to pay the indemnity that is the price
. OF their crime, IN their poverty and suffer
ing made TO realize the suffering they have
brought TO the world az.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

CHIPPING is the centre of interest this
= week Jhc transport Tuscania is
sunk off ireland by a submarine, with. the
loss Of about 100 men from more thar
100 American soldiers and large crew.
Mostly Wisconsin and Michigan contln-
wnts were ON board.
This calamity, happily less, serious than
mary of the U-boat's $ toll since February
!. 1917 In that time some 6,5OO,O0O
tons of shipping have been sunk, approx
imatcly half British. Last July England
had 15,o00.o0o tons OF shipping afoat,
and since then has probably produced as
many ships as were sunk. The United
States lost III, 200 tons, and expects to
build from 100000 to 100000 tons
in 1918.
While the January shipping losses are
the lowest of any month yet recorded, in
The last week large number Of grim re-
mndcrs appear. With England on ra-
tons, 500, 100000 bushels Of wheat lie
useless in Australia. The British Ad-
mralty asserts that the U-boat is being
held, but again calls for more ships. The
United States plans to halve its imports.
An American shipbuilder says that this
country's limit is 100000 of new ton
mage in 1918. Henry Ford turns to null
tiplying U-boat chasers.
At the same time another Argentine
vessel is torpedoed, while Spain sends a
strong protest to Germany for the same
reason. \ British warship is sunk, with
the loss of 224 lives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

anticipate the growing demand for a
war council with something of his own
construction. Two more arsaignments of
Secretary Baker, however, interrupt the
Presidents progress.
In one Senator. Hitchcock rcnews the
agitation for q war council ministry of
munitions, blaming the "breakdown" on
the present system rather than on Secrc-
tary Baker and the President. Senator
Wadsworth then shows by diagram how
Mr.. Baker is overloaded with responsible
ity. AS result Secretary Bakers fig.
ures 'on shipping troops to France are
seriously questioned and Mr.. Baker again
goes upon the stand in his own defence:
At this point the President personally
attacks the shipping problem. Secretary
Baker, testifying, meanwhile demurs
against telling in open session the basis of
his hope of landing 100000 troops in
France this year. He indicates, however,
that the Allies will help, and that Ameri-
can troops may train in England and
fight in Flanders with the British.
The game of give and take progresses
with lightning rapidity. Even while Mr.
Baker is being cross-eXamned the Presi-
dent asks blanket powers from Congress
to reorganize and coordinate all Federal
departments, bureaus, agencies, officials
and personnel. This sweeping request
may be viewed in the light of the past.
At this writing one wonders whether Mr.
Wilson, with the reputation of master
at disarming his critics by Incorporating
and capitalzing their thunder, has no,
countered with a broader constructive
programme than that being urged upon
him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Count Czernin's recent reply to President
Wilson was crudely distorted by the Aus
trian censor, making it falsely appear that
Austria was ready to defend Germany's
possession Of Belgium rather than Ger
many's "pre-war" possessions.
Yet there are other straws in the wind.
DR.. Wekerle, Hungarian Premier, reiter
ates Hungary's sincere readiness for peace.
It is reported that strikers threw a bomb
at the Imperial Palace in Berlin last week.
With negotiations at BrestLitovsk at an
uncertain stage, Won kdhimann returns to
the conference still hoping for separate
peace with the Ukraine. Meanwhile, an
other weighty conference Of German chiefs
is held in Berlin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

clubs which do their own baking, sets
gross profits on white flour at maxi
mum OF one cent per pound: prohibits
speculation in coffee on the New York
Coffee and Sugar Exchange and is in
vited to eat whale meat by the American
Museum Of Natural History
Meantime food conditions abroad con.
tinue very critical, even member of the
House of Commons being fined s2.0O0
and $40 costs for food boarding Aus
tria is now dependent upon Hungary and
Rumania for grain. it is reported, while
Holland abolishes ) o'clock tea.
Hoover's intention to put America on
meat rations in no wise quenches tie
ardor of Francis j. Hcney's pursuit OF
the packers, who seek to halt his search
of their vaults by citing the espionage law.
At the same time it is limited that the
Forthcoming report of the Senate Com
mlttee on Manufactures will substantially
indorse the food administration, but not.
the fuel administration
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
The Committee Public Information Calls Hatred "Debasng
but Colonel Harvey Says It's No Time for Rhetoric, Since
the Foe Is "a Beast Whose Lust Is Destruction

every bigot and zcalot has done. Believing
WITH sincerity that there was only one way
to gain salvation that every other way led
TO eternal damnation, with clear conscience
and the frenzy of the fanatic he consigned
to the rack and the stake the misguided,
because better for them ocath or torture
than torment without end Our boosted civ
lization is back in the Middle Ages if in
this enlightened day we arc willing to make
war to spread the political system Of which
we approve.
"But, as we nave said over and over again.
what We are fighting for is not to make the
world safe for democracy but to make the
world safe for US. Forced into war by
lessly as she did those of Belgium. we are
fighting of self-defcncc. We are to-
day in peril To avert that peril we have
taken up arms. We fighting to defend
cur wives and children from the detling hand
OF the German. We are fighting to protect
cur homes from a beast who knows no mercy,
a beast whose lust is destruction: we ara
fighting to preserve the institutions we love,
the liberty we cherish. the freedom dear to
us. We arc fighting in France because it
is there we can strike the enemy, but if We
are defeated in France shall be conquered
in America; longer Shall we be freemen
but the slaves of the most merciless and
brutal taskmaster the world has known. Our
danger is great. and only our courage and
our determination can avert it,
Nor is it true, rhetoric again to the con-
trary. that we are fighting not the German
people but only the German Empire and the
German government, and for the German
people we have no feeling of hate. You can
no more separate the German government Mt
from the German people than you can sepa-
rate the bite of the mad dog from his blood.
The wickcdness and nfamy of the German
people in their blood; it is the corrup-
ton and poison of their blood that have
made the German people-not a small class
or a caste, not their rulers alone but the
whole people-a nation of savages. Nor is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

\HEkE appears TO be slight dill
ference Of opinion down in
n Washington over this interest
ing and important phase of
warfare. 1t has seemed to be
the verdict of history that hatred shall go
hand In hand with war. But new phi
osophy WAS set up by President Wilson
when he declared war without hatred" or
Germany. Time is putting it to the test.
And the process of testing brings out evil
dcnce on both sides.
For example, last week was made public
news bulletin of the Four Minute Men,
published by the Committee on Public In
ormation. The bulletin contained ir-
Suuctlons 10 10000 government speakers
and emphasized the Importance of refrain
og from all Indulgence in hymns Of hate.
IN part this document, which may be
"oked upon as an official Administration
u'erancc, reads as follows:
hatred many say, is an emotion necessary
'0r war. The soldier, they say, cannot fight
euIess he hates.
LET them ask the soldier; let them talk
w 'he veteran who has given and received
'"uuhdS, and they viii find that the greater
,sfca Is among civilians. Passvity makes
WI an emotion Of hatred; busy man thinks
..ONly of his job. Furthermore, the charac-
s'suc OF good lighters is that they are good
JSOr.s They know the other men are or
'"u 70 night as they arc ordered. and the
oa' s soihlerS are often those men who thor
'sniy respect their foe
. na'red has been stirred UP in civilian
ibspulaton IN order to encourage enlistment,
- 49, thanks to the draft, this debasing feature
war is not necessary in order to secure and
'a,ntain our army.
A'df' perhaps. is rather an important ele-
1, .s"' 10 be bred in the civilian populati ion.
o., S different to unite people by talking
fss on the highest ethical plano. To fight
tba. an IDEAL, perhaps, must be coupled with
susn's OF self preservation. SO a truthful
,ppeai 70 tho fear Of men, the recognition Of
e'riple things that would happen if the
4. imam government were permitted to retain
al s'"1.'gc. may be necessary in order that
y:eopic unite in the support Of the needed
a.. ou. whether the appeal be to hatred or to
.s's' the fundamental Of all 10 that it be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
M ust Think in Terms of German
wi Dead, Killed by American Rifles

"With this premise established our duty
lies clear before us.
"Our duty is to kill Germans To the kill
ing OF Germans we must bend all our ener-
glcS. We must think in terms of German
dead, killed by rifles in American hands, by
tombs thrown by American youths, by shells
fred by American gunners The more Ger
mans we kill, the fewer American graves
there Will be in France; the more Germans
W" Kill. the less danger to our wives and
daughters; the more Germans we kill. the
sooner we shall welcome home our gallant
lads. Nothing else now counts There is
no thought other than this, no activity apart
from the duty forced upon us by Germany.
The most highly civilized nations are united
as they never were before, actuated by ahe
same impulse. In England France and italy.
among the English speaking peoples of the
new world, under the Southern Cross and
ca the torrid plains, they like u.s. see their
duty clear /. is, we repeat to kill Germans
"We have no apologies to make, no ex-
cuscs to offer, no regret for having I'M
clothed the masquerade Of rhetoric and nut
the case in stark and naked words. Doubt
less we shall offend the overnice sensibilties
of those we'll meaning but unbalanced per-
sons who waste their sympathes over the
sufferings of the lobster as his complexion
turns from dirty blue into delicate pink while
they are unmoved by the knowledge of the
misery and distress Of the poor and un-
fortunate. We hope So We are endeavcr-
ing to arouse the millions Of easy going
complacent Americans, unctuously hattering
themselves they are good Christians because
they feel no hate. to whom the war has as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Tickle Wea:hey

~ APRICIOUS weati1sx firts with tie
~ Eastern coal and transportation
situation this week. After a f---cipitate
two-day cold snap Of almost unprece-
denied severity. the worst railroad tie-up
in history is followed by melting weather.
The welcome relief. as sudden as was
the cold, finds New Works coal bins at
their lowest Reports that fuelless Mon
days will be rescinded are quickly dis
credited
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

yet no meaning, to a realization OF what this
war means, not only to them but also to
their men; that it is the lives OF their men
against the lives Of Germans.
eve do not know how many Germans we
have yet to kill. whether it is 100000 OF
100000, but do know that when the
necessary number has been killed. when the
German people lose heart and rebel against
being led to the slaughter this war will end:
but that is the only way it will end. We
may play at war and pay the cost in the
toll of blood. or we can make war with
courage, resolution and intelligence, and our
reward shall be fewer Of those pathetic
crosses on the wayside of France
Recognizing the bravery Of our allies
and In all history there has been nothing
more superb than the heroism of that CON
temptlblc little British army fighting with
bare hands against the onrushing German
legions armed with machine guns and heavy
artillery. who day after day were forced back
and tiercely contested every foot with never
q thought of surrender, and then at last
turned and defeated the enemy; or the
French fighting and feinting until they we're
in position to stop Kluck and save Paris
from the barbarian; the italians inch BIZ
inch scaling the snowcapped mountains; or
the Russians moved down by thousands
stolidy waiting to take from the dead a
rife. in the end to be betrayed by their
Understanding what they have suffered
the sacrifices they have made, the misery
they have endured; knowing, what we have
yet to know in this country the devotion
of their women. who have offered their lives
and sacrificed their health and abandoned
their comfort as generously as their men
are forced to ask ourselves in view OF
this will to win among the peoples of the
Allied nations. and the resolution with which
that will has made itself felt, why is it that
the war has not yet been won, and why after
three and a half years of sanguinary warfare
no decision has been reached
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

The work of American artillery in shell
ing German trenches and supporting in
fantry under attack received high praise.
In several minor actions score of casual
ties resulted.
Otherwise the fronts record only aerial
activity. and trench raids, particularly in
the West, where the German blow is con-
fidently awaited. Hindenburg is quoted
as saying that he will be in Paris by April
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

represented, but Washington dispatches
hint that America does not feel committed
to the reply. 1t is reported that a high
American official will, for political reasons,
attend similar conferences in the future
This "war to the end reply meets APP
prevail in the United States, stirs up dis
sent in England, and is viewed in Ger
many as are about all Allied replies
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
(ol. Harvey Says America First
~ Duty Is to Kill Germans

But now for the other side. For hatred
has champions. One Of its champions is
Colonel George Harvey, editor of 'Thc
North American Review" who has estab-
lished headquarters at Washington for the
purpose Of editing war weekly in addi-
ton to the magazine. Colonel Harvey be-
]ievcs that Americas first duty is to kill
Germans. "We are fighting" he says, "to
protect our homes from beast who knows
no mercy, a beast whose lust is dcstruc-
ton" And this beast. he contends, does
not stand symbol alone for the German
government. 1t represents the whole Ger
man people, "You cannot" he points out,
separate the bite of the mad dog from his
blood" But the article, which appears in
the February number Of "Thc North
American Review" is worth quoting more
fully:
"For three years and half Europe has
been drenchcd in blood For three years
and a half the manhood of Europe youth
in the glory Of its galantry, in the splendor
Of it's promisehas been fed to the furnace
of war. Europe is a temple of sorrow, and
Rachel mourns for her children because they
not.
"Soon, all too soon. France, hitherto the
playground of the Western world, will BE-
sacred soil to Americans There our dead will
rest. Rude wooden crosses will dot the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
No Nearer Victory than in the
/ y First Month of Hostilities

For now with half of the fourth year of
combat spent not only have the Allies not
won, but, surveying the great theatre of
war as whole, are no nearer victory
than we were IN the first month OF hostili-
ties; and, what Is more disheartening. Ger
many is to-day the victor. Unwelcome as
II Is to be forced to make that admission.
we should be guilty of the same Grass folly
against which we have warned our read
ers we're we to blink the truth and find
comfort in the delusion of fatuous opti
misnl. At the beginning of the new year Ger
many is stronger than she was twelve
months earlier. Then, encircled by her enc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

vember .l3, when Ger
mans first capture d
American troops, is Off
cially admitted - thu t
United States troops are
now holding a small sec :
tor of the battle front in
Lorraine, northwest OF
Toul and near the Rhine
Marine canal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
STILL TO BE A w. AR WITHOUT HATRED"?

based on truth. Preparing ourselves to pour
out the life blood of the nation on behalf Of
ideals we must not bcsmirch these ideals by
the vulgar methods to which the war lords
for centuries have rcsortnd.
Furthermore, matter Of practical wis
dom want abiding truth, for it makes
abiding conviction, Emotions may wave and
surge. They are readily stirred by some
story, some incident about some individual
soldier. Frightful resolves thus easily
inspired.
But let the next man come with better
story, let superior orator appear few days
later and there is reaction. The emotion
subsidies even turns the other way
"On the other hand, feelings built on be-
lief beliefs that founded profound
convictions and convictions dug deep into
the rock of Fundamental fact-thcsc are not
swaycd and stirred like waves in storm.
Not an appeal to emotionalsm. but an appeal
to the emotions through conviction by state
mcnt of facts, secures true converts, converts
who when once convinced remain convinced. -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

shell SCARED battlctields, each simple cross
marking the grave of an American soldier
who died in France in defence of the Amer
;ca he loved and those dear to him. America
has yet to suffer her spiritual agony but she
cannot be spared. She, like Europe must toll
painfully the weary road to Calvary.
HAS not the time come for America to take
stock, TO ask itself if it knows the meaning
of this war, to face facts instead of feed
ing on illusion? Millions of men have been
slaughtered. pore millions have gone forth
in the pride of their strength to come
back broken. Shall America swell the ever
mounting toll, giving and yet giving the
yout. on whom it's future centres. or shall
the guiding hand Of America lead the world
10 peace?
"Rhctoric is spiritual stmulant and like
its grosscr counterpart often valuable when
sudden burst of moral or physical energy
is required, but after the effect wears of
there comes reaction, cxaltation gives way
TO depression, reality takes the place of
imagination and truth is grim. 1t is I'M
fortunate that the American people entered
this war with two aluring rhetorical phrases
ringing in their unfortunate because it
has obscured the real meaning of the war
and diminished its Importance to them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

government control until Congress should
order otherwise by specific legislation
Two bills to settle that question imme-
diately appear in Congress this week. The
Senate bill would return the roads eigh-
teen months after the end Of the war. the
House bill two years after.
At this juncture Warren G. Lee, presi-
dent Of the Brotherhood Of Trainmen, be-
fore the Railroad Wage Commission
charged that the arrangements of the ma
TONS railway systems are deliberately
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Council answers the
German and Austrian
peace notes, finding. in
them mo real approx
imation of the moder-
ate conditions laid
down by the Allies
governments I h e
United States is not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Ton vanish before the
mailed fist. One of
these is the sentencing
of Socialist Deputy
Dittmann to five years
in prison for melting
high treason in the
strike. The other is evil
dence showing that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
ITO Make War for the Defence of
i Political System Is Indefensible

1--WE were told that We went to war to make
tho world safe for democracy. If this were all
there is Of it, clearly in the long catalogue
of immoral and wanton wars that blacken
the page of history there would be no war
more immoral or more wanton than this. We
believe in democracy; we know its blessings
in the strength of our conviction we see that
through democracy the world marches to
progress; but if should try by force Of
arms to make peoples embrace democracy
who arc welded to autocracy. morally we
should be guilty as Louis XVI. who slew
his thousands in the name Of the gentle Christ
who taught charity and love 1t is what
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
The Way Council Race

ODDLY enough, shipping is also the
" centre OF the War Cabinet stua-
ton at Washington this week This un-
expected turn appears after two other
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

openings had appar-
emily been found in
Mr.. Bakers armor
the delay Of Amer
ica's airplane sched-
ule and the very re-
c e n t cancelling of
airplane cont r a C t S
held by Mr.. Bakers
brother.
Mr.. Baker success
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

WE have learned that the ends Of
noses has prolonged this CHASTITY
day when mankind released from it's tcrrors
WadSworfh, before
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

THE week on the battle fronts is
heavy with significance for Ameri-
cans. What has been suspected since No.