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The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
AMERICANS HONORED BY FRENCH

With. the American Army in France,
Monday-The citation of three more
American soldiers, carrying with it
the French war cross, was announced
today from American army headquar-
tiers. White on the Luneville sector
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

six officers and six sergeants and two
privates received the war crosses at
an impressive ceremony. The MAORI
ty of the men honored were from New
York.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
MISSOURI LEADS IN SALE OF W.S.S.

Washington, March 1s.-Missouri,
with a total of nine millions, is lead
ing the country in the sale of war
savings stamps, according to the first
detailed statement Of the campaign.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
GREAT DAMAGE DONE, IN GER
MANY BY AIR RAIDERS

London, March 19.-Fifty persons
were killed and great material dam
age was done by allied airmen when
Cobleng, Germany was raided March
IL, according to neutral travellers who
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

A lot of people would be better off
if they drank more water Try it;
you will be surprised how much bet
ter you will feel.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

Washington, March 19.-The requi-
sitioning of Dutch ships in American
waters was still awaiting for word
from London at noon today. All de-
partments of the government are
ready to proceed with the seizure the
minute the word is given
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

Fatty Arbuckle doesn't have to go
to war. He has just been declared
over weight by Uncle Sam, and there
fore is exempt. But he is doing his
bit in many ways, one of the principal
ones being by creating laughs for the
boys in training camps, in the Para
mount comedies.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
Germans Invite Newspaper Men to be
Present at Great Offensive

London, March 19.-The heads, of
the German army have invited num-
Der of neutral correspondents to be
present when the Germans launch
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

Triplett says it's no harder to hoe
than to play golf, and wants to know
why we should play golf. Trip ought
to know better than to ask foolish
questions-Tampa Tribune.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

NOW IS THE TIME to mate your
hens. VIII sell one fine young Orp-
ington rooster, Ph;lo strain, cheap for
cash to quick buyer, or will trade for
two pullets or hens. Smith, Leader
Office. Phone ".
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

We are not mad with anybody; life
is pleasant enough for us to enjoy
and we wish everybody was just as
happy.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
Hangar at Miami Collapses, Killing Two,
Injuring Thirty-Three

hangar at Dinnerhey naval air star
ton five miles south of here today
during thunderstorm. Nine OF the
most seriously injured were brought
to Miami hospital.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

Other states with total and per capita
sales include Florida, 1881 900, per
capita SO cents; South Carolina, $751;
900, per capita Is cents; Georgia,
$640,000, per capita % cents.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

Miami, Fla, March 1.-Two men,
Mathew Mullen, of Brooklyn and an
other white man as yet unidentified,
were killed and thirty three others in
jured in the collapse of an airship
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE IN SESSION
AT ATLANTA

Atlanta, Ga, March 19-Secretary
Of Agriculture Houston is the princi-
pal speaker at the meeting tonight of
The state council of defense which con-
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

The Italian government has also
decorated some Americans for valor
at the front.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

So-called economic laws have been
busted wide open by the price fixing
habit.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
THE LEADER
TARP0N SPRINGS FLORIDA
Member The Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication of
Nail news dispatches credited to it or
rot. otherwise credited in this paper,
and also the local news published
herein.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
PINELLAS RECORDS

The Welsh Development Co. to
Webster E. Little; S100 and other;
lot "a, block 5, Welsh's Bayou addi-
ton, Tarpon Springs.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
SHIPWORKERS STAY ON JOR

Mobile, Ala, March 19.--All ship
yard workers in the Gulf coast district
are working today. The walk-out that
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

The British labor party is challeng-
ing the supremacy of the great nation
al parties.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

arrived Monday at The Hague, the
London Times reported. The traveller
said the people believed the air raid.
ers were Americans.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
AMERICAN ARTILLERY BOMBARD-
ED TOWNS MONDAY

With the American Army in France,
Monday.-The American artillery on
the Toul front today bombarded towns
within the enemy lines on several oc-
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

vened today for two days war confer
ence. DR.. ]. B. Shearer, field council
of national defense, is the chief speak
er at the afternoon session.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

They are now predicting a winte,
egg famine. Can them!
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

The Red Cross will ask anothe
hundred million in May.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
COTTON STATISTICS

Washington, March 19.-Cotton seed
statistics for the period up to Febru-
airy % announced today by the CEN
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

Some peoples ideas are formed by
the way individuals they dislike act.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

The world is full of mysteries, and
everybody can name new one.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

Wor kwithout plan and a guide
amounts to little, so does living.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

Are you saving little money with
which to buy liberty bonds?
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

their offensive on the western front.
These correspondents will leave for
the front on Wednesday, March 20,
according to news from Copenhagen.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

The parcel post weight limit has
been increased to seventy pounds.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

For puzzle experts-try keeping up
with the Russian situation.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

The fear of famine in Great Britain
has been passed, and thousands of
acres of new land are being cultivated.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

sus bureau show receipts of 100000
tons; crushed 3,2O3,O00 tons; on hand
133, 900 tons.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
ALL CLOCKS MUST BE SET FOR
WARD ONE. HOUR, APRIL l.

Washington, March 19.-The day
light savings bill, which was signed
by the president today, puts all clocks
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

caslons. A considerable number of
gas shells were used. Some shells hit
in the town of Essey and others in
Montsec, according to observers.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

from time to time to be approved by
the president was announced TODAY bv
ene council of national defense. Rob-
,ert Brookins of the war industries
board will be chairman.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Tennis and baseball weather is here.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

Entered at the postoffice at Tarpon
Spfings, Fla. as second class matter
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

The Cologne Gazette speaks of the
Friends of German Democracy, re-
Gently organized as "dirty pigs"
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

was scheduled was called off pending
an investigation, it is announced.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

est communication.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-19

forward one hour on the last Sunday
In March and turns them back again
ON the last Sunday in October.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-05
A Public Utility Lesson

BY the final adjudication of the claims
of the City of New York against the
Empire City Subway Company the sus-
picions of thousands of citizens that
the city was being defrauded through
the Juggling of accounts among public
utility corporations should be dis
sipated.
The Subway Company, which controls
the underground conduits for telegraph
and telephone wires, constructed under
a franchise granted in 1891, was re
quired to pay to the city all its net
earnings above 10 per cent on the cash
capital invested. When the city's re-
ceipts, decade after decade, amounted
to nil the citizens who were convinced
that every franchise to use the streets
was gold mine vociferously charged
Justification of accounts and conceal
ment of facts. Fifteen years ago an
action was brought to recover millions
Of dollars alleged to be due the city,
and now the three referees, cx-Judge
Lacombe, Adrian H. Larkin and George
Gordon Battle, unanimously report that
up to January l. 1914. the company
New-York tribune., 1918-12-05

long preliminary work, and Colonel Mix
ter because Of his reputation as genius
in speeding up production.
In some part the result of their work
was the production of 10000 of what is
now universally recognized as tho most
highly perfected aeroplane engine in the
world. Only those who know what MAX
ing an aeroplane engine on such a trc-
mendous scale means can properly ap-
preciate the achievement. The Presi-
dent. in announcing his decision, cX-
presses the belief that
"Ihe two gentlemen concerned were
entirely innocent of any improper or
selfish intentions, that their guilt was
only technical and that their services to
the government which have been of the
guishcd sort, deserve cordial rccogni-
tion.'
Mr.. Hughess report expressly stated
that mo ruling in the Federal courts
with respect TO the applicability of the
statute to such an officer or agent of
the government has been found 1t
would seem as though the issue of a
'pardon, for no crime committed, was
an unfortunate method of clearing up a
case where evidently complete exoner-
alton was the intent
New-York tribune., 1918-12-05
Who Did 1t?

Who pushed Germany into the war?
The eX-All Highest says that he didn't.
According to his story, Bethmann-Holl-
veg was the evil genius who shunted
him off to Norway in order to give the
Foreign Office a chance to incite Vienna
to attack Serbia
Bethmann- Hollweg denies Williams
charge. He has good alibi because he
was away on wedding trip at the time
of the Serbian note crisis and Won Jagow
was the nominal head of the Foreign
Office.
The ex-Crown Prince says he opposed
the war and tried to end it in October,
1914, by offering to surrender Alsace-
Lorraine to France. According to his
account, the Grand General Staff ruled
the roost, treating both him and his papa
with scant courtesy. Ludendorff, he
says, was the man who prolonged the
war But Ludendorff cannot be accused
Of causing it, being, in August, 1914
only an obscure colonel.
Nobody is hankering after the distinc-
llOn OIL having drawn the German sword
out Of the scabbard in which it had so
long been ratified. Denias will be as
thick as the leaves in Vallombrosa. And
the great controversy will never get any
where. No one German brought on the
war. 1t was in the heart and mind of
the German people. 1t was the out
growth of years Of mental suggestion
The German nation made the war. And
the whole nation must now pay for its
crime and folly.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-05
MIR. Garfield

Few men came in for a larger share
of the country's displeasure and vocifer
Gus disapprobation than Mr. Garfield
last winter. Perhaps he had an impos-
siblc task. Perhaps the dismal fueiiess
days were needed to bring order out of
the chaotic railroad situation and get
the needed coal for the Ships. 1t is said
in Washington that Mr.. Garfield has
learned his job. Thanks to vigorous
propaganda and the resolute action of
the fuel administration, we shall proba-
bly, get through the winter with plenty
of coal. All of us found genuine relief
in taking it out of Mr.. Garfield a year
ago. Perhaps it would be only fair
evenng-up if we spent little time
praising him now. He worked hard. He
produced the goods. Nobody knows that
anybody could have done more.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-05
You Never Can Tell

The joke may be on G. B. S. or it may
be on the House of Commons and the
English people You never can tell But
it is bound to be an interesting expert
ment, and for the gayety of nations we
shall hope that East Middesbrough does
its duty by its labor candidate
Our only fear is that if Mr. Shaw is
elected he will presently under the press
ure Of custom and habitat subside into
regulation. compromising middle of the
road publicist. Impossible and incon-
ceivable, you say? But stranger things
have happened in the suppression Of per-
sonality. That is one reason, we suspect,
why the rigorous Independents, the
critics, the revealers of shams, always
balk at entering "public life" English
politics offers vastly more freedom than
American. But even then the steady,
safe, mediocre man beats out the brilliant
thinker almost every time. MI. Shaw
has again and again refused this par
ticular crown, and perhaps his instinct
was sound.
There is only one factor which might
mark the beginning of new era, and
that is woman. Let us suppose that Miss
Chrlstabel Panllhurst is elected along
side of G. B. S. Surely, some of the
ancient tendencies toward the routine
hubdub Of politics might be expected to
vanish in their presence. But-we wait
to see. The peppery, explosive ingre-
Hipntc Of tho human, roco oro how'd +o ,,,;x-
into comfortable government The
dull. sticky substances roll together so
much better.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-05
had failed to earn it's 10 per cent by
the sizeablc sum of $2,6OO,OOO.

had failed to earn its 10 per cent by
the sizeablc sum of $2,600,O00.
Both advocates and opponents Of
municipal construction and operation
will find arguments for their side in
this result. One will alcge that % per
cent was prohigate rate for the uncn
ligltcned authorities in 1891 to alot;
the other will exult that the city got
the conduts and the removal of ugly
and obstructive telegraph wires from
the streets without losing penny.
while private capital, as the event
proves, has received smaller return
than its risk warranted.
This is a concrete example that should
be recalled when proposals are made to
municipalze alleged public utility
gold mines" under conditions which
assume a certainty Of rich returns that
may quite possibly not materialzc.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-05
TIE Metropolitan Division

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Your paper announced to-day that
telegram from Secretary Baker states that
troops 'returning from France VIII parade
only n their home cities. 1t also says that
this viii limit New York's celebration 10
the date Of the return OF the 27th Division.
| would like 10 ask if the 77th Division.
known as the Metropolitan Division and
composed entirely Of New York City men,
IS not also to be considered a New York
unit. Surely they will parade somewhere, to
allow the people to express in some feeble
manner the gratitude they owe to them for
their gallant work on the Marne, in Lor-
raine, in the Argonne and on the Meuse.
And surely no more fitting place for their
parade to be held can be found than the
streets of New York.
No other division can be any dearer to
the hearts Of the people Of this city and
no other division deserves more enthu-
siastic welcome from those people. Is it to
be withheld from them
F. A. MURRAY.
New York, Dec 8, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-12-05
Bon Voyage F!

Yesterday the President of the United
States sailed out Of New York Harbor
on a high, romantic errand.
1t is all his own. He heard Old World
voices calling to him to come himself and
slay the dragon.
And he has gone His ear for once
was deaf to those atmospheric voices
which are the inarticulate thoughts and
feelings of his own people.
AS his vessel and grand convoy passed
down the river and out to sea sirens blew
and people cheered, but there was no
spontaneity in the salute, no gayety at
possible, in fact, to Danish a sense of
vague uneasiness.
May hope propitiate the clements.
Faith be our hostage to fate and destiny.
Optimism is our ational trait. But this
is a strange adventure. The end is not
to be lightly prophesied. We doubt if
the President himself sees it clearly. He
is swept forward by a sovereign emo
tion. He has a vision of New World
democracy triumphant in the Old, like a
tableau The details of what shall hap
pen afterward are dim We suspect that
they are dim even to him. He says he
must see that no false or mistaken inter
pretations are put upon his principles,
and forgets that they have not been
definitely interpreted to American de-
mocracy.
We say this in no spirit of criticism.
1t is too late for that We mention it in
the historical sense, and for the reason
that it is a fact which deepens the
mystic quality of this unique and amaz-
ing political drama.
That is ALL
Gratuitous comment be at an end We
cannot afford to seem petty about it,
Mr.. Wilson will represent in Europe the
power and dignity of the United States
If by i'll chance he should fail to repre-
sent the thought of a majority of the
American people, that would have to be
dealt with separately and afterward
But we hope not
New-York tribune., 1918-12-05

but in December, 1918, it is the last cir
cumstance preceding the coming of
enemy troops to the Fatherland
The lesson is a lesson that was neces-
sary and will not be lost No victory
could be a sufficient victory which ended
the war on French or Belgian soil and
left the mass of the German people con-
scious Of failure in aggression, but obliv-
ious to the meaning of defeat, still inn
mune from the consequences of an un-
successful raid upon neighborng states.
When American, British, French ana
Belgian troops are along the Rhine
when German provinces are patrolled
and administered by enemy garrisons-
although there is lacking devastation.
the concomitant Of German invasion and
atrocity, the attending circumstance OF
Teutonic conquest, then there will be
the solid, immutable proof that wars
begun abroad for conquest invariably
and inevitably end at home, end with
hostile armies in control of the home
lands.
The invasion of German is the final
demonstration of the collapse of the
German idea. The fleet has crawled to
British port and hoisted the white flag.
The army has surrendered without con-
dition, leaving its artillery and its ma
chinery behind it, and is sinking back
home. And now-the enemy is coming
he cannot be checked or resisted His
will is law west Of the Rhine He may
be rude or considerate, heavy handed or
gentle, civilized or German. but he can
be what he will.
And to me the accounts Of correspond
ents, who describe the stupefed silence
OF the populations Of German cities as
the armies Of occupation march in, arc
of supreme interest They are the last
sign and evidence that the great fact
has been established-the German dream
Of world power is over-the long task OF
reparation and restoration has begun
Miitarism is kdput-Germanism has
failed.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-05
The Case of Colonels Mixter and
Vincent

Very curious is the action taken by
the President and the Attorney General
in freeing Colonel George w Mixter and
Colonel J. M. Vincent from the techni-
cal charge laid against them in the
Hughes report. Before any action had
been taken against them, before any in
dictment or trial, and, we believe, with
out any request for any such exculpa-
ton, the President, on the recommends
ton of the Attorney General, grants
them pardon" This puts these two
officers in the position of having to ac-
knowledge the technical guilt in order
TO accept it.
AS is we'll known, Colonel Vincent was
one of the designers of the Liberty
motor, and Colonel Mixter was produc-
tion manager for the Aircraft Board.
The technical charge against Colonel
Vincent was that he still held stock in
the Packard Motor Company, of which
he was vice-president, after he accepted
a commission in the army. That against
Colonel MiXter was that before accept
failed to sell twenty-five shares Of pre-
ferred stock in the Curtiss Aeroplane
Company. An equally small holding of
common stock had been sold. There was
no suggestion, implied or remote, that
either of these officers protited in the
most distant way by these holdings or
that there were any irregularities of
any kind in their dealings with the COM
panies Colonel Mixter's offence con-
sisted technically N having several
times visited the Curtiss plant in his
capacity as head of the inspection de-
partment. He had nothing to do with
contracts. Both were men of means
who gave up important positions to take
up government work, Colonel Vincent
by reason of his connection with the
Liberty motor. which WAS largely az
out2rowth oi the Packard Company's
New-York tribune., 1918-12-05
Strange Mention

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
CIR: There nave been various comments
~ on President Wilson's farewell address;
none OF them refer to few words which
may. or may not, be significant Of his
frame of mind as he goes to conference
with the two great nations whose sacrifices
during weary years made possible our ad-
vent on the scene OF action.
The speaker referred to the enormoAs
number Of soldiers we had sent abroad in
very brief space of time, giving the
figures of the monthly sailings. He did
not state that two-thrds of them were
brought over IN British ships and that
one-half of the escort which shepherded the
fotillas across was British. nor what con
tribution British mine sweepers and sub
marine chasers had made to the enterprise
There was no reason why he should; he was
informing Congress and, through it. the
people of the United States what this coun-
try had done. and needed to make no
reference to the doings Of any other coun-
try.
Then he referred to the ridiculously small
losses sustained this oversee crusade
most of them on the Tuscania The state
ment is thus phrased: an ali this move
ment only 758 were lost by enemy attacks
$50 of whom were upon single English
transport which was sunk near Orkney
Islands,"
When the successful work is being re-
ferred to there is no hint of English CO.
operation; when there is a loss to he noted
1t IS charged to an English transport This
may seem small matter-the writer is no.
oblivious to the fact that the word "small"
connotes more than one meaning in English
speech-but experience has shown that the
old Latin proverb ''ex pede Herculem" is
often verified. Il it applies here one may
not unreasonably be solicitous as to the
outcome of the approaching conference
L. HENRY LACOMBE.
New York. Dee 4. 1913.