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New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
What They
Are Good For

But education in the grmy goes much fur
ther than that. When the National Army
was still on this side and was beginning to
swing into its gait General Pershing wired
fot 5000 engineers. Company commanders
who were beginning to see their companies
tune up and become coherent organizations.
with esprit de corps and other oualifi
cations of good companies, had to endure
seeing some of their best men plucked out
from the classification index and sent to
France
Nothing like that happens now. There
Is a civilian advisory board that foresees
demands Of this kind and either picks its
men beforehand or trains them. The edu-
cation committee has the largest college,
Jot in the world. If there aren't anv
schools, schools are created. But best of
all. technical schools and colleges in the
united States are to be utilized to such an
extent this year for short intensive courses
TO- men in uniform that by the end of
1919 100000 men will have acquired an ed
ucatlon they wouldn't in the normal cir
cumstances of peace have had the oppor
turity of getting.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
are rightly equipped it is your duty and
privilege to try.
Recruits Now Ride

Several days ago we noticed the fact
that recruits for the United States Naval
Reserve Force applying at 81 Chambers
Street were confronted by sign ad-
monishing them to avoid the elevators
and walk up" Then we had letter
from Lieutenant Commander C. Mars
den, district enrolling officer, desiring us
to make the necessary explanation"
that
"The signs referred to'U. s. Naval
Reserve Forcc-Enrolling Office, Third
Floor--Elevators Do Not Stop--Walk Up
were not put up by the Mayors COM
mittee or anybody connected with the
Hall of Records, but were put up by my
direction. The reason for this is that
we have from 800 to 400 men applying
for enrolment daily, and one can readily
realize that it is utterly impossible to
allow these men to use the elevators, as
it would interfere with the other tenants
OF the building"
We printed the lieutenant command
er's letter. We now reflect upon the
possibility of the utterly impossible" +"
The walk-up signs have disappeared and
the elevators are lifting recruits to the
third floor, as they should. Will the
lieutenant commander please make the
necessary explanation?
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
The Fears of Little Children

One of the strangest things in the
psychic life Of children is the fashion in
which they will suddenly develop a fear,
and it may be deadly terror, of some
animal. AS rule, the attitude of chill
dren toward animals, even dangerous
ones, is Of the utmost friendliness. A
child will fondle a snake or even at
tempt to make friends with a wildcat
Natively they have no fear. Whence,
then, the sudden change?
There seems no special animal tow
ard which this dread is directed. 1t
may be kindly horse, the pet dog Of
the family, cat, mouse or even a
harmless beetle. AS a rule, these fears
or "phobias,' as they are called, die
away of their own accord within few
years. But sometimes they are carried
through life. And we have the familiar
"cat phobias" and the like of grown
people. 1t has long been known that
these fears were in the nature OF Il
neurosis. That is, very simply, ner-
vous or mental disorder of some sort. 1t
has been the service Of the new psy-
chology to at least throw some light on
the origin Of these strange obsessions.
So far as they have been carefully in
vestigated, they seem almost always
substituted fear of the father But
some cases seem to go yet deeper, and
these suggest that there is generally
common ckground-namely, strong
repression of the child's deep interest in
the mysteries of life. 1t has been one
of the services Of the newer research to
reveal that this interest, even in chill
dren of three or four, is very active.
1t is evident that there is here fas-
cinating and fruitful field for investiga-
tion-all the more so because we now
know that the deeply formative and
directive years of our lives are the first
four or five. This, in the light of the
new knowledge, is actually the time
when what we call our "characters" are
largely formed. The period of very
rapid growth is precisely this first period
of four or five years. Practically the
rate Of growth begins to slacken almost
from the day of birth, to reach in
adolescence nearly a standstill. 1t
would seem to follow that the years of
extreme vital intensity would be like
wise the highly plastic years when the
events of the outside world would make
their deepest impression. A large part
of the new psychology might be summed
up in the remark that it gives new and
more vivid sense to the ancient adage
that the "child is father to the man."
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
Our Cartoonists

1t is difficult to realize the subtle and
pervading influence which the cartoon
has come to play in our daily lives To
take but single morning, could any,
thing else have brought home to our con-
sciences the magnificent work of the
shipbuilders as did Mr.. Darling's vivid
, cartoon of Saturday showing Won Tir-
pitt overwhelmed by the hundreds of
ships which Uncle Sam had cooked for
him? Or who can imagine that the little
daily woes of married life are not light
ened immensely by the genial and highly
sympathetic satire of Mr.. Briggs?
Thousands of heartbroken golf wild
ows probably piously cut out the Briggs
cartoon on the man who gets up at on
Sunday morning to play golf at sunrise
and laid it silently on husbands plate.
Millions meet better the disappointments
and eXasperations of the day after they
have had laugh over the Man Who Is
Always Taking the Joy Out of Life or
the Handy Man Around the House.
And millions, we are sure, have felt
finer sense for country and the war,
have been stung into deeper patriotism
or heartened to more vigorous effort, by
Mr. Darling's telling strokes that pict-
ure, often with nascent thrill, the
needs and the achievements of the pres
ent struggle. Often they strike deep, as
in the memorable cartoon of month or
two ago that mirrored the "tiddlewink
feeling" as he called it, that we all have
over our own affairs after we have read
much of the vast tragedy that charnels
the fairest part Of civilized Europe.
1t has been pointed out by the new
psychology that the cartoon in many
aspects curiously resembles the dream;
like the dream, it deals in symbols and
very largely with feelings. We must
know the language of the symbols and
have within US the feelings the artist
would evoke or the most powerful car
toon would pass over our heads and
seem as fantastic and unintelligble as do
most of our dreams, unless we are prac-
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
Strengthening the Home Front
10 the Editor of Tho Tr;hu,n

OeA chg lAACilLlS the home Front
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May by your courtesy correct an
lnaccuracy in your otherwise admirable
statement in to-day's issue of The Tribune
of the views which hold in common Will
all patriotic men and women on what is
conveniently called Boshevsm?
AT the close of the interview with ma
your representative states that have beap
invited to speak in Washington by the Ma
tlonal Women's party at a patriotic rallv
lhls is not the case. l have not been invited
nor have l refused
so far as my time and strength permit 7
am prepared to avail myself of all suita b,c
opportunities to cooperate with the pa-
'rlotic efforts of both mems and women's
organizations whose chief objects are to
support the Allied armies in the field If
battle and by combating Boshevism and
selhshness at home make secure and strorc
'he nome front. E. PANKHURST.
Washington, D. c., June 80, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
Fussing Over
Directors

What of the conscientious objector? /?
There aren't great many of him-prob-
ABLY not more than 900 out of all the mill
icEs. But the problem is to use him in
such way that, if he is sincere, he can't
be said to be treated unjustly, and at the
same time to make some use Of him in the
var. In the end usually he finds himself
on the way to military service of non
military nature. A great deal of corre-
spondence gets itself written about him.
All his relatives come to Washington D.
some time or other about him.
Most of the conscientious objection is
rel;g Gus in nature. The Mennonites have
seven different varieties alone, and al
though the pro-German may have used OBJ
lection in some cases as a way out, the
figures show nine-tenths of the objectors
are native born. The Seventh Day Ad-
ventist is willing to stay in the army if he
doesn't have to work on Saturday, which is
his Sabbath The job of the morale makers
i to get him a Sunday detail.
The gathering of a great army disclosed
lot of facts that Americans might not
otherwise have found out about their coun-
try The army, as it was constituted few
weeks ago, had in its ranks 10000 men
almost three divisions--for whom English
was not spoken language. That is where
the Y NJ. c. A. has proved its adequacy, for
the first step in military training was to
teach these soldiers the English language.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
The Amny's Soul Bureau
By Ralph Block

w T ASHINGTON, July 6-The question
w was natural enough: What was
the job of the unmilitary end of
the War Department in the war? Freder-
ick Keppel, who was fam,narly known as
Dean Keppel until War Department ap-
polntment botted out his academic career
in the flooding light of wars immediacy,
stopped minute before entering his rri-
vatG office again and puzzled. He didn't
krCw, he said. But he meant to find out.
Ara if his interviewer would come back in
two weeks maybe the question would be
answered. 1t settled on that basis.
The two weeks over, the Assistant Secre-
tar2 of War in charge Of non-miltary ac-
tvities sat in swinging chair in the de-
serted State, War and Navy Building one
warm evening and described the job.
Fundamentally, the military activities
Of the army, like so many r1atters that have
bclbed up in the present war, come down
to the familiar problem of morale. Chap
lains, Red Cross, Y. NJ. C. A, Salvation
Amy. hospitals, training camp activities
everything to which the War Department
is related through the Training Camp Com
mission comes down to matter of morale
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08

meath the weight of the great military
power they will have set up; the revolu-
tionists in Russia will be cut off from all
succor or cooperation in Western Europe
and counter revolution fostered and
supported Germany herself will lose her
chance of freedom
This was remarkable prophecy. 1t
has been fulfilled even to the end. Ger
many has lost her chance for freedom.
1t was exchanged at Brest-Litovsk for
some Baltic provinces.
Nobody will ever believe Philip
Scheidemann again.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
All These
Non-Military Things

The Assistant Secretary of War for nom
military activities is kind of Joint be-
tween the War Department and the orqsni
zsflons that have these matters in hand
He has not, wisely in view of the usual
Washington procedure, gone to work to
buiAd up another and complicated admins
trative machine. Fresh out of a knowyedos
OF administration in great university. he
has used the available organizations +bo+
were ready on the job, and is merely spend
ing MS long hours seeing that the several
machines all work in concert
II isn't an easy job. There are several
oezen organizations not officially connected
Win what ne calls "the training camp
commission and its constituent parts" Tho
ked Star, fraternal orders from all over
the United States, humane societies +bo
Y. M. c. A., the American Library Asso-
c!ation, the Jewish Welfare Board tho
hnlghts of Columbus, the camp commur;
tles--ln TACT, every one who wants To bel,
/" 'ne Joo OF making the soldier feel fitted
10 MS ]ob-c t. Washington to the War
DtTsrtment, and Secretary Keppel's of4,cs
Is %here they finally land. He confers nm
nur' ing, on the decoration of graves abroad
on cooperation with Four-Minute Man -.
camp publications, on draft apnea,s fron,
,0c"' boards. he appoints chaplains, which
oe'' mes a pretty problem by itself under
." Dill providing for the distribution
chaplain among every 1900 men.
ne IS tall man with a high forehead
i@'Ier youthful eyes, and hair that sears
- dc getting gray before it ought. Il NAV
'' srAyer still before he gets through.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
Tagore's $ Lying World
CFrom The Columbia. s. O.. stat.

OHF INC CUfunbIu, 3. G., State)
ON, how | love this world that is lying
3" quietly sang Tagore. Unfortunately
the singer has laid himself open to the sus-
iiclon of loving too we'll that part of the
world that has not been lying so quietly
but especially brazenly and blatantly, since
we entered the war
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08

l'evo the morale makers of their response
bi.ity when that accident in War Depart
ment life occurs. If the division doesn't
get something to take it's mind off its
troubles it will make trouble for the army
itself
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
The Hearst Within Our Gates
ISSUED by the Vigantes)
Herr Hearst in Germany


From the Cologne Voltsseituno, April 3. 1879
"in the daily press the numerous Hearst
papers of New York, Philadelphia, Boston,
Chicago, San Francisco and other cite.
were auxiiares for US of valued influence
Readers of The New York American or
The Evening Journal were not wholly
immune, indeed, to the poison of the Brit
ash cable, but Hearst carried with him an
effective anttoxin In the first place he
has his own cable service, and was there
fore rather independent, although he made
now and then regrettable concessions to
sensation. Nevertheless, how far Hearst's
international News Service got upon the
nerves of the London atrocty manufact-
urers is shown by the cable embargo which
London finally placed upon the Hearst SER
vice. thereby cutting his European life
nerve.
More valuable, however, than the news
were the editorials of the Hearst newsna
pers. They were unexcelled models Of
popular style and arresting composition;
they made the most complicated legal ques-
tlons attractive to the simplest mind"
Mr.. Hearst controls the following
publications, with total average daiIy
circulation of 2,572,885 for the Hearst
newspapers and total average circula-
ton per issue of 2,2S1 ,627 for the Hearst
magazines:
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08

You can purchase merchandise advertised In fHs
TRIBUNE With absolute safstyfor Dissatisfaction re-
uits In any eass THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
money back apon REQUEST. No rad taps. No qubbns.
we make ssod promptly II the advertiser docs not.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
>,rxp,n OF TIE Assoc1ArEp PRESS

Associated Press is exclusively entitled to me uss
foy Republication OF all dispatches credited to OF
not oherwise credited in this and also the local
ncws Of spontaneous origin published herein. .
All rights OF republication all other matter herein
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
Newspapers D.:

NeDspapers:
The New York American
The New York Evening Journal
The Chicago Herald and Examiner
The Chicago American
The Boston Advertiser
The Boston American
The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta American
The San Francisco Examiner
The Los Angeles Examiner
The New York Deutsches Journal tdiscon.
Magazines:
The Cosmopolitan
Good Housekeeping
Harpers Bazaar
Hearst's
Motor
Motor Boating
Puck
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
GUARANTEE

Entered at the Postoniee New York Second Cass
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
Every Little
Cog to Watch

The man who is taken out of civil life for
translation into a military career at once
pcses several neat and knotty problems. If
h. was subject to selectlve conscription
his change from one kind cf life to another
was not of his initial choice His frame Of
Mind is at once disordered, inclined to ac-
cept any kind of disintegratlon, awhirl with
sense Of loss and strangcness. His case
demands the construction of an environ
ment-a mental and psychic environment
thai will supply him with some kind of
guide post to a normal life and develop
ment, even if it doesn't approximate the
environment he left behind
All this is closely connected with his eff
CLERGY a soldier, as much as with the
rlace he occupies in a machine that must
go smoothly if it is to go at ALL The dis
rlrited or bored soldier is a bad soldier in
every way. The worried soldier is bad
so.dier-bad in his effect on his fellows.
-"at is where the civilian relief of the Red
Cross has its part in assuring the soldier
that while he fights his home isn't going to
pieces.
There are particular problems in the lob
of making and maintaining morale. One Of
o''>''A 10 W 'e"ch the Sol0ler VINO never
learned before how to play. The Canadians
played football at vimy Ridge even when
they were most on edge. 1t was the kind
OF spectacular playing that knit them to-
gether, kept UP their group courage made
them trust further in themselves. The SOL
dier who first comes to camp has gen
era frame of mind that the makers of
morale have to watch. If it is new to him.
as il is to most of them, he looks around
ant says to himself silently: "Well. this
IS what the aAsny's like" The chances are
he's generall,Rwrong in what he thinks he
sees He sees the strange, rough corners.
the edges of an unfamiliar life He doesn't
sec the inside of it, not until discipline and
developed experience unconsciously give
him a dim understanding
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
The Idea Of
footing

The military police have an important
work in the army. For instance. there ia
always the man whose nervous system
jumps at the idea of a "toot" when the
hrst leave comes around. Probably that's
a normal reaction to an American citizenrv
who haven't had to learn discipline until
now. 10 meet that there isn't only the
zoning law against liquor and the ban on
th' prostitute. Repression would be silly
procedure against the men whose great
value against the Hun will be their high
grade of vigor and their vitality of spirit
Instead of repression there are all the
vared activities of the camps, substantial
community organization to give the soldier
something worth while that will at the same
time satisfy his desire for free expression.
One result of this is that at the present
time the health conditions in the great
camps scattered around the United States
ar better than in most normal civil COM
mites.
The troubles aren't all the normal
Troubles of men in large groups. For in
stance, there is the necessity of somehow
satisfying division that is under the i'm
preston it is headed for France and sud
derly discovers that the plans have been
UPSET. 1t is satisfying to know that Ameri-
can soldiers feel that way-feel disap-
polntment when something blocks the road
TO the tight But satisfaction doesn't re-
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08

owned and published daily by The Tribune Association
New York Corporation Ogden Reid. President; u
vernor Rogers vice President Richard H. Lee, Secretary
f. A. suter Treasurer Addrcss Tribune Building. lS&
Nassau Street, New York Telephone. Bcckman Sooo
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-18
Cases Disposed of
In Superior Court

Harriet Peck of Greenwich was I'M
able to identity Martin Rogers of the
same place in the superior court yes
terday as the man who attacked her,
and the case was nolled by Judge. ].
H. Webb on recommendation OF
States Attorney Homer S. Cummings
Other cases disposed of were:
Lee, Newtown, receiving stolen goods,
nolled; Frank Williams, Bridgeport,
burglary, one year in jail; Charles
Ginty of Norwalk, horse theft, 80 days
in Jail; James H. Riley, Danbury, as
sault, one year in jail; Charles W.
Lee, Danbury, assault, nine months in
Jail; Fred A Kouhoupt, Danbury,
serious assault on Mary Clark, not
less than fiven or more than seven
years in state prison; Albert A Hoff,
conspiracy to defraud, nolled;
Thomas Moore and William Thomas,
Norwalk, burglary, nolled; John
Theodos, attempt at robbery, no1led.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-18

San Francisco, Cal, May 6, 1918.
My Dear Brother,
We are having very sad news from
the seat of war, and all over the
United States, patriotic men and
women are giving their best, and do
ing their utmost, toward aiding our
Allies and helping our own boys at
the front, our President even telling
US that we all may yet be obliged to
sacrifice to a greater degree than
now.
Under these conditions confront
ing the country, you in Bridgeport,
are planning to expend a large
amount something like 100000,
understand, to beautify the city, at
a time when every available dollar
from all sources, should be conserved
contributed and loyalty devoted to the
single aim and object, of winning the
war, and identifying a. city at great
expense does not appear to be an es-
pecially loyal, or patriotic way OF
winning a war, but on the contrary
it seems to be a good way to lose it
especially if other cities should fol
low the same example.
And this use of public funds is al
time when all loyal and patrioiC
cities and people, should be econo-
MIXING and retrenching in public ex-
penditures. Instead, seeming sepc-
ulation of a somwnat unusual charac-
ter appears to be allowed to propa-
gate.
The result seems to be, to the IN
doing and at the expense of those
good and loyal citizens who are sud
denly being thrown out of and de-
prived of their rightful opportunities
to carry on their several businesses
by apparent profteering under the
guise of a proposed PLAZA" to be
constructed at cost Of some
$4,000, 1000, when it would seem tina
the $4,000, 900, ought to be devoted
toward buying Liberty Bonds, instead
of being expended toward beautifyins
city in war time.
And this also, is when the whole
nation is compelled to economic
and "Hooverize" on food. Wher
many restrict themselves through
patriotism to single lump of sugar
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-18
PLAZA

William S. Hart in one of the real
ly big, strong, red blooded screen
achievements of his noted career,
The Primal Lure" will be the Plaza S
main offering for tomorrow, Sunday
night and there is little doubt in the
mind of the manager that his cosy
playhouse is going to be packed to
the doors for both shows
1.-The Shadows of the Rockies" a
drama of the west; "Rulyant of
Scotch Highball," a Vitagraph two
act comedy and the World Library
will be shown in addition to the Hart
feature.
Today brings to close the engage
ment of LES Aristocrats," the preten-
tious classic dance extravaganza thai
is heading the vaudeville program
Burke and Burke in their screaming
ly funny skit entitled The Messeng-
err Boy and the Maid; Louise Dacre
the Anglo-American Coincidence;
Frank Shields, the champion rope
thrower; Draft 25S", the great pa.
triotic spectacle with Mable Talia-
ferro in the leading role and f@The Art
Bug the first picture produced by
James Montgomery F'lagg, the noted
author.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-18
HUN TAXATION
PUTS TERRIBLE
BURDEN ON POOR

Amsterdam, May 18-For the first
time since the war began, Germany is
now attempting to help pay the ex-
penses of war by new taxation. The
new finance program calls for new
German taxes to yield over $S00,000,-
900. This new burden is described
by the German Finance Minister as
the price of victory" New taxes on
beer, wine and spirits, tea, coffee and
cocoa are to yield $3.50, 00O, 900, while
postal and telegraph increases are es-
timated to return $S5, 900. There
are also to be increases in stamp du-
ties. These taxes, which are said by
the newspapers to be "only a begin
ning,T are the greatest in amount
ever asked from German taxpayers.
The finance minister describes the
taxes as mainly aimed against only
the richer classes"