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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Not Worth One Grenadier

When Bismarck, disgruntled over involun-
tary retirement from the chancellorship in
1890, publicly confessed TO the infamous
game Of treacherous duplicity he had played
against Austria Hungary for the period
1884'90, the Germans were practically
unit in stating that their ally's Balkan
policy was mot worth the bones of one
Pommeranian grenadier," an expression
used before by Bismarck in relation to the
Balkan situation as whole.
Germany was not exposed to any danger
of being crushed when the Iron Chancellor
concluded in 1884 with the St. Petersburg
government treaty which assured Russian
neutrality in case Germany and France
came to hostilities, and German neutrality
in the event of Russian-Austrian war
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Papered Germans
By Captain Fl. B. G. Pollard
ONDON, May From March 1, 1918.

II ONDON, May From March 1, 1918.
the Berlin housewife has been faced
with new peril for no paper or
cardboard or scraps thereof may be In
Guided in the dustbin under a penalty Of
s5 for each offence!
The Industrious German has made the
best of bad job. His natural genius for
the manufacture of inferior, non-durable
and inexpensive rubbish has come we'll to
the fore, and the paper fibre industry has
advanced wonderfully, paying enormous
dividends-on paper After the war there
is no doubt that there will be some attempt
to food the worlds markets with these un-
desirable substitutes for good natural wool.
silk and cotton goods; but for the present
there is ample demand for them in Ger
many, where any wbven material that will
cover the nakedness of the people is badly
needed
At an exhibition of fibre and paper ma
terials organized in Berlin by the Imperial
Clothing Office all kinds of goods were
shown The best of these were the
Stitched" or "wadded" clothes, consisting
of layers of several kinds of paper fabrics
stitched together in close mesh by ma
chinery. The inside layer is made of
paper wool, but though soft and warrn the
clothes are expensive and have a deplora-s
BILE tendency to dissolve if caught in
shower of rain.
Quilts, dressing gowns, imitation lowered
silk jackets and waistcoats, underclathes
and even paper oilskins for submarine
crews, were shown. large section was
devoted to the paper novelty" lines, where
"tastefully designed and decorated' rub
bish of all kinds was exhibited. The mill
tary section displayed paper saddles and
harness (for export rather than for use in
the German army, paper sand bags, towels
and variety Of pressed cellular cardboard
cases which are said to be nearly as good
as wood. Besides these but useful
goods, soft flowing mixed fabrics of arti-
fetal silk and paper-sutable for ladies
and children's dresses"-(to quote the Der
liner Tagebatt' of March 5, 1879, were
also shown
These goods are all duly praised by the
press, but the preference shown by the Ger
man people for real material-when they
get it's traceable in another adver-
tisement column: sef
For sale, batiste silk 1879 per metre.
Japanese silk 16 g metre width. Crepe de
Chine 30/."
These figures speak for themselves.
The German breads a government levy
upon his slender boards of old clothes, for
a Berlin paper has revealed a government
plot to seize all male civilian clothing, leav-
ing each person two suits and no more.
Both the "Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger," March
6, and the "Deutsche Tageszetung," March
6, hope that these steps will not be neces-
sary-but they do not appear optimistic.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
An Opportunity for the Very Rich

No good American likes to read of
Liberty bonds being sold below par. 1t
may be quite unimportant The utmost
decline thus far has been small. 1t is no
doubt simply barometer of the money
market. But the effect, none the less. is
unpleasant.
Dozens of plans of stabilizing have
been proposed. But as Secretary Nc
Adoo remarked in his testimony, any at
tempt by the government to "peg" the
price would be simply to make the bonds
a demand loan. And this is not advis
able
The government cannot do it. No
single individual could do it, not even
Mr. Rockefeller or Henry Ford. But it
occurs to US that possibly an unofficial
agreement among our very rich men
might achieve the end desired. Suppos
ing a hundred of our richest men. includ-
ing the presidents of our great banking
institutions, were to say publicly, or lust
among themselves:
We pledge our fortunes to the
maintenance of Liberty bonds at par"
These men could do what it would be
unwlse for the government itself to do;
1nat Is, they could simply ask any firm
or individual offering Liberty bonds for
sale the reason for that sale and the
name Of the bona hde sellers. Without
this information they could ask that no
broker undertake such sale. Where
perfectly good reasons existed tho hond.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
In Memoriian

(From The Westminster Gasette)
Captain T. p c. Wilson, Sherwood Forester
Killed in action, March 24)
The larks are happy in the sky,
The little lambs are gay,
And under blossoming orchard trees
The children shout and play
Hid in the hazel coppice green
The love-mad thrushes sing:
All Earth's unheeding things are glad
For glory of the Spring.
Be gay, you silly innocent lambs.
For he who loved you we'll,
That you may frisk in quiet fields
Has paid the price of He'll.
You thrushes, drench with song divine
Your leafy solitudes;
His voice is stilled that you may nest
Unframed in English woods.
And you, you little children. plav:
How should we wish you sad?
For he was young, and he has given
His life to keep you glad.
TERESA HooLEY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Unfit to March
tFrom Euerybodu's maoosi,e

tFron Eoc7ybodU's Aa0dsfne)
United States Senator Howard Suther-
land, CT West Virginia, tells story about
mountain youth who visited recruiting
Office in the Senator's state for the purpose
Of enlisting in the regular army. The ex-
aiming physician found the young man
sound as dollar, but that he had fiat feet.
'.I'm sorry" said the physician, but III
have to turn you down. You've got nav
feet"
The mountaineer looked sorrowful. mo
way for me to get in it, then - he inquired
~ guess not. With those fiat feet o.
yours you wouldn't be able to march even
Ave miles"
The youth from the mountains studied
moment. Finally he said: I'm tell you
why ! hate this so darned bad. You see.
walked nigh on to one hundred and ntsee9
miles over the mountains to git here, ana
gosh, how hate to walk backl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Outraged DupHcity
By Gustav Miller

A FTER they had denounced the French
~ Premier Clemenceau as a liar and
"A cast suspicious on Count Czernin,
the Germans, especially the German news
papers, and most of all the pan-German
publications, breathed indignation because
Emperor Charles of Austria, in March of
last year, had sent to his brother-n- law,
Prince Sixtus of Bourbon Parma, letter
reading in part:
II beg to convey privately and unofti.,
cially to President Poincare that l will
support by every means and by exertng
all my personal influence with my allies
Frances just claims regarding Alsace~
Lorraine"
The apologies, made by the Austrian
press to appease the Germans, that Emperor
Charles had acted under the influence Of
his consort, and also Charless own insin-
insinuation that the confessor of EN-
press Zta had forged the letter, were alto
gether super1uous.
Charles had two good arguments, accord
ing to the official German standard of sim
cerity and honesty.
First, he could quote the former German
Chancellor, Won Bethmann- Hollweg, who
tried to justify the violation of Belgian
neutrality by dcnouncing solemn and
binding treaty "scrap of paper" And
the outlook of the Dual Monarchy, in the
spring of 1917, when the Sixtus letter was
written, was as dark as dark can be, so
dark indeed that Austria was thousand
times more justified in applying the claw
of necessity" than Germany was in August,
1914.
Second, the Austrian Emperor could
argue that he followed only the example
of Bismarck, who rhapsodized on, by
Charless bitterest critics, for the German
Russian MISUNDERSTANDING (Reinsurance)
Treaty, which was praised by the Prussan
junkers and their organs as the accomplish
ment of the highest type of farseeing
craftsmanship. Even radical German news
papers justified it as a measure Of precau-
ton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Mention Verboten

is It Was edited in
"The Nev York Ameyi-
can."
The Metropoli-
tan Magazine and
Golfers Magazine
and a Nezc York
n e7cspapor have con-
sistently upheld the
war. :"
Golfers" h a s
been attacked by
Mr.. Creel. .
He also has attacked
The Metropolitan
and q Nee York
" e1cspaper."
"All of these quo
tations and many
others like them
may be found in re-
cent issues of a Nesv
York Newspaper"
"By turning to a
Nezo York Nezcs-
paper of May s, 1918,
Postmaster Burleson
will find an ardent
tribute made by the
former German cor
respondent of the
'Koelnische Zeitung'
to Mr.. Hearst and to
Mr.. Hearst's editor
in-chief, Mr.. Arthur
Brisbane, for having
been auxiliaries of
valued influence to
Germany"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Why She Couldn't Spell
(From The Boston Transcrspt)

Old Mrs. Donahue managed to get along
in the world in spite of her educational
deficiencies. One day she was called upon
by lawyer to sign rather important
paper.
You sign it yourself, young man, an
IN make me mark" said the old woman.
Since me eyes gave out I'm not able to
write wurrd"
How do you spell ?" he asked, his pen
poised above the proper place.
Spell 1T whativer way we Place" said
Mrs. Donahue promptly. "Since l lost me
teeth there's not wurrd in the iwurrld
can SPELL"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
A Stranger, He Took Us In

UlSDufCh)
1t seems impossible that our bewhiskered
and benevolent-looking old Indian guest
Rabndranath Tagore, whom we dined and
wined as far as his religion would permit
US to do few years ago when he was
over here plotting with German spies
against our neutrality, could be associated
with those rude gunner revolutionists who
mussed things up in court at San Francisco
the other day, but the evidence is against
him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

could be taken over. But we imagine
the total offerings would be relatively
small.
This seems to us opportunity to per-
form real patriotic service, and one
that would be highly creditable to the
doors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

From the te1t of Mr..
Roosevelt's reply to Post
master-Generdl Burleson.
The Metropolitan
Magazine and Col
lier's Magazine and
The New York Trib-
une have consistently
upheld the war :"
"'Collier's' has been
attacked by Mr.. Creel.
He also has
attacked the Metro
politan' and The New
York Tribune"
Cali of these quo
tations and many
others like them may
be found in recent
issues of The New
York Tribune.
"By turning to The
New York Tribune of
May 8, 1918, Post
master Burleson. will
find an ardent tribute
made by the former
German correspon-
dent of the "Koel-
nische Zeitung" to
Mr.. Hearst, and to
Mr.. Hearst's editor
in-chief, Mr.. Arthur
Brisbane, for having
been auxiliaries OF
valued influence to
Germany. :"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

That treaty was in force while the Triple
Alliance, to which the GermanAustran
Alliance had been enlarged by the accession
Of Italy in 1883, was in force
In the course of controversy between
the Berlin "Vossische Zeitung" and the
Hamburger Neueste Nachrichten" as to who
was responsible for the estrangement of Rus
STA and Germany and for the RussoFranco
Entente Cordiale, Prince Bismarck stated in
the Hamburg paper of October "a, 1896:
"a good understanding between Russia
and Germany was, however, restored at
Skiernewiece soon after the accession of
Alexander III Gear of Russia), and con-
tinued unaltered until 1890. Down to
that year both empires were completely
agreed that if either Of them were at
tackled the other would remain 'benevo-
lently neutral.
cat the time of the Crimean War Rus
STA found herself confronted by France,
England and Italy, while Austria threat,
ened to adopt similar attitude, should
Russia refuse certain cHYcessions, and
Prussia, the last of the Russojhile Powers,
was, with difficulty, * trained from com
pleting the anti-Russian coalition. We
do not say that a repetition of such a
complication is probable, but we find it
ineligible that so powerful and i'm
pregnable state as Russia should think:
We must try to retain in Europe a trust
worthy ally"
NO CQuSe FOR SnQn7G
Later Bismarck appended the interesting
statement that the treaty was only con-
cealed in Difference to the wishes of Russia.
In this respect the Hamburger Mach
richten" of October 81 1896, said:
"The Russo German negotiations of
which spoke belong to history and to
the archives. From the beginning there
was no need for to keep them
secret. The secrecy was due solely to the
desire Of Russia, and the situation from
which that wish formerly now no
publication would have been in the inter
est of Germany, since for US there was
for shame in the whole affair,
but, on the contrary, good reason for all
peace-loving partisans of the Empire, to
look back upon the occurrence with salts
faction. :.
"The assertion that the Russo German
agreement which lapsed in 1890 was in
compatible with loyalty to the Triple ALI
ance is baseless in the eyes of all who
are acquainted with the agreement"
1t should be noted that the Russo Ger
man reinsurance treaty was concluded be-
hind the back of Germany's allies. 1t was
an agreement which made the Austro- Ger
man Alliance superfuous. Nevertheless,
there cause for shame in the whole
affair" That was the opinion not only OF
Bismarck and the Hamburger Neueste
Nachrchten," but Of the overwhelming ma
jority of the German people. What cause
for shame, one must ask, is in the Sixtus
letter, according to the German standard
of morals?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
A Week of Verse
Whom the Gods Love

From The Dosioncr)
4 II, NOT because Life is so fair
~ And Death so gray
Do we lament you over there,
Dead yesterday!
Until the end your world was whole
No vacant place
Tormented you and haunted you;
No well-loved face
Appeared to you in ghostly dream
Harassed by pain,
Exposed, on some grim battlefield,
To wind and rain.
see you, smiling as you march,
Your bright head high,
Along flag emblazoned street
Beneath blue sky.
I see your beardless boyish mouth,
Determined sweet,
| feel the breeze, soft from the south.
And hear the beat
Of drums that throbbingly mark time;
The Avenue
Repeats the echo like a rhyme
But not for you'll
.
| ceased to pray that you might stay
Or here or there:
l came to see that Life is gray
And Death most fair!
You went while living still was sweet
Without stain,
Nor ever learned that Youth is feet,
That Love is Pain!
ELIZABETH NEWPORT HEPBURN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Here We Rebuild Clock Towers

From The Philadelphia Public Ledger
They are scrubbing the outer walls of
City. Hall. That is as deep as the cleaners
ever get.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy
(Frons PoetryD
Mans music changes
With the changing of his hours.
Though birds trill the same sonos
They trilled on Petra's towers.
Always
From olden Railways
he led to beauty's ample rooms
Gut to her rain-drenched gardens frond
ou' 10 her suns beyond
beyond.
AM did we call his art whim,
Before we woke to him?
High above war
His music, rising past the stars.
Is heard at heavens door.
Heaven opens to the soul of song,
And unto art that never ends
The soul of song ascends.
AGNES LEE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
America

QFrom The Pagan
extravagant ~.~4
And that your women were too free and
open;
That your children had no respect for age
And that you gave no thought to the past.
They said you had no artistic sense
And accused you of setting up an altar
To the Almighty Dollar America!
And they smiled when your name was men,
toned.
But yesterday
There marched an army down the street.
An army Of brave-eyed men with boyish
mouths,
Straight-backed and proud in their new
found mission,-
The saving of the world!
And yesterday somewhere
at
A white face foated
With empty eyes upturncd to an unseeing
sky.
ana yesterday in barren field
mere boy fell from his perilous
work on high
While great ships heavy with substance
Plough stolidly through the deep
O America!
You are the hope of the world to-day!
GRACE C. BOSTWICK
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

The ascot Is exclusively entitled to the use
,r ynu,bcation Of all dispatches credited to II or
not otherwise credited in this and also the LOCAL
OF spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights OF republication OF all other matter hefeih
reserved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

w. ran ,urenass merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safetor II dissatisfaction re-
suits In any The TRIBUNE guarantees 10 pS IT,
We make good promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

Entered at the rostoce New York as Second e'a''
Matter
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-05-14
BUILDING BIG U-ROATS.
Germany Hopes tc Wrest Mastery OF
Sea From Allies.

Washington. May 14.-Real!zing
that American and the allies have
gained the mastery over the present
type of submarine, Germany now IS
said to be planning new; series Of big
U-boat cruisers with which she hopes
again to. assume the advantage in her
unrestricted underwater warfare.
Announcement o. the new German
scheme is made by George Lcygues,
the French minister Of marine, in an
interview received here yesterday in
an official dispatch from France. No
details regarding the new u-boats.
were given by Vi. Leygues, but from
information from Other sources 1t APP
pears that the cruiser submarine VIII
be heavily armed and armoroa, and
will be designed especially to meet. the
menace Of the tCrpedcboat destroyers,
which haze proved so effective IN
hunting down the smaller submarines
now in operation.
NJ. Laygucs declared that the allies
are ready to meet Germany's new et-
forts. ard that they will not rest upon
the "fine hcsults o5tained' in the
past.
Eve shall not stop he said, until
we have cleaned up the sea as one.
cleans up trench"
Just how effective has been the war.
against the U-b0ats i shown by fig
ures on destruction Of allied shipping
given TO the naval committee of the
French chamber OF deputies Saturday
bv Minister LcyGue5. They reveal,
that sinKings Of merchantmen have
fallen of to the, point where new con-
struction IS exceeding the destruction;
even now before the American yards
are in full swing on the great build
ing program mapped oIt by the ship
ping board.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-05-14
EPISCOPAL COUNCIL find BACON ONV

The One Hundred and Twenty-third
Annual Session to Convene in ST.
James Church at Lcesburg To-
morrow.
The one hundred and twenty-third
annual Council of the Protestant Epis-
copal church in the diocese Of Vir-
;ginia will convene in st. James church,
Lessburg, Va, the Rev. Conrad H.
Goodwin, rector, tomorrow. Wedncs-
day morning, May Is, at 10 o'clock.
The opening service will consist Of
the administration of the Holy Com
munion and charge from Bishop
Gibson. There are one hundred clergy
economically connected with the diocese
and two bishops-Bishop Gibson and
Bishop Co-adjutor Brown.
The business at the council will be
chiefly concerned with the affairs Of
the diocese, although some matters
in connection with the general church
will be taken up, such as the revision
of the prayer book. But the final ac-
ton will not be concluded until the
next annual session as the general
convention will not meet until the
fall of 1919.
The council consists of the clergy
2aronically entitled to seats and lay
delegates from the various parishes
and churches. About $50 delegates,
clerical and lay, will probably be in
attendance. Bishop Gibson spent last
night with DR.. Phillips in Alexandria,
on his way to council. 1t is expected
that all the Episcopal ministers of
this city with their delegates. and the
professors of the Seminary near the
city, will be in attendance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-05-14
AID TO sLACKERS OFFERED.
Protection Promised 70 Evaders of
Draft By I. W. W..

Chicago, May 14-An American
soldier. John Byra, Of Franklin, n. j.,
testified at the trial Of 1l2 Industrial
Workers of the World yesterday that
a representative Of the organization
promised him and his fellowmen pro-
lection from the authorities if they
evaded the selcctiye service act. By
ra's testimony formed a link in the
chain Of evidence By which the gov
ernment seeks to prove that nation
wide conspiracy to disrupt Americas
war plans was entered into BY leaders
of the organization.
Private Byra testified that John
Avilla, a defendant and organizer OF
numerous strikes in New Jersey. Mas
s&chusctts ami New York, while in
Franklin furnished him Boston
Mass. address. ''He said to report at
the address and need have no fear OF
military service" said Byra. lie
could not recall the address.
Marie Coppens, stenographer tor
Ayilla at Boston, identified letters
submitting his reports to Haywood
when I wa: put out Of Fall River, a
bio fire broke out in the mills. Avilla
notified Haywood early in 1917.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-05-14
Entire Police Force Enlists.

Philadelphia, May l4.-Ever hear Of
town so quiet and orderly that the
entire police force, in. order to get
something to keep them busy, enlistet
in the Marine Corps?
That is the case of the little town
Of Mauch Chunk, Pa, which recently
waved a fond farewell to its whole
police department without a qualm CT
fear for It's own safety as the men
left FOR Paris, Island, S. c., the Ma
rine training camp. The force consist
ed Of four able~bodied men-Robcrt
Nader, Clinton Nader, Charles Shut
and Chester Bisby.
The jail as Mauch Chunk has not
been occupied BY prisoner since last
Christmas, hence the departure Of the
guardians Of the neacc.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-05-14
THE WAUKESHA CASE
Jury Being Drawn to Try Womar
Who Killed Wife of Man She Loved.

Jury Being Drawn to Try "omar
Who Killed Wife of Man She Loved.
Waukesha, Wis, May 14.-She slew
the wife of the man she loved and g
Jury is being drawn today to deter.
mine whether or not she is insane. The
defendant, Miss Grace Lusk, school,
teacher, pleaded with Mrs. Mary New,
man Roberts to give up her husband
and Mrs. Robert refused. The shoot
ing followed.
Here is the code of morals laid
down by Miss Lusk that will be sub
mitted to the jury when it is finally
drawn:
"The passing of a husbands affec-
tion for his wife is a sufficient annul-
ment of any marriage vow.
"So-called respectable women ignore
the loss of a husbands love to live a
life of ease.
"Those who truly love must be
brace enough to stand together be-
fore a cold world, which is bitter
against anything it cannot under
stand.
Hiding real love is the only sin
that is why feel ! have sinned."
DR.. Davis Roberts, husband of the
dead woman, sat within twenty feet
of the school teacher today. He has
been called as witness.
Today or tomorrow counsel for the
defense will present their opening plea
to jury made up largely of farmers.
When court closed yesterday nine
teen jurymen had been temporarily ac-
cepted by the prosecution. Half of
the number had been examined by
the defense.
Those in close touch with the trial
declare the defense has made every
effort to assure themselves that the
jury's personnel shall be made up of
mn of maturity. The aged father OF
the defendant will sit by his daugh-
ter's side throughout the trial.