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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-08
SPORT BRIEFS

coRvALLis. Ore. Aug. SIT W
HArxisr. athletic coach at Kansas
state normal school last year. was
elected coach OF the Oregon ATricui.
turai college. He viii rcpor, Angus,
20.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-08

GREAT LAKES. m. AUG. STR,
han C'Red'1 Fab.r. formerly star Of
the Chicago White sox hurting corps.
now In training for naval service.
VAS overcome by tho heat Wednss-
lay. lie was removed 10 hospital.
but his condition ~ reported TO be
not serious.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-08

MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. s-Fred
Fulton. heavyweight boxer. knocked
out by Dempsey recently. announced
that he had quit tho fighting game
until after the war. he IL working
as a guard and helper In local flour
mill
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-08
EVERETT TRUE.

The u. S. checker
champion has joined
the army. He'll be
there in carrying ont
motchful rafting poll
ciss.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-08
BY ALTMAN
BY AHERN.

Air raids are indirectly blamed for
much OF the infantilc sickness and
mortality in England. according to
British medical authorities.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
Germans Scoldit,g
By I'm. c. Dreher

n n UGH has been said in this country
WI since the war began about German
efficiency, about Germany's genius
for organization. 1t all seemed to many per
sons to reach The level of Gabolica ingenuity
Our own shortcomings were shown up in con-
trast: our experimentation with machine guns
while we should have been equipping our
troops with ehem, the delay in our ship con-
struction pshs, our inability to distribute our
food supplies, the coal famine, the breakdown
OF transportation and so or to the end Of the
chapter.
But the boasted efficiency of Germany is
developing serious flaws, as the latest news
papers from Berlin Indicate That the eco
noinic machinery has lost much of its one
time perfection is evident from the proceed
ings Of the Prussian Chamber on January e1,
when one member complained that the rail
way system had become so run down that il
would require billions within the next few
years to put it into order again
Another member showed I'd the bureau
cratic bungling in the production of atmos-
rhcric nitrogen for fertilizers One would
think, in view of the grave pressure Of hunger
in Germany, that the men in authority re-
sponslble for augmentng the supplies of
ntrates would not fall short of even the
highest standard Of efficiency. But this an
pears not to be the case This speaker had
received from some of the nitrogen factories
themselves information regarding the state of
production. The factories built under the
auspices Of the imperial government com
planned that they were not able fully to util-
lze their facilities for production owing to
the Bureaucratic compulsion that encun,-
bered them" There conflict OF author
lty, this speaker asserted, among the author
tiles concerned. The Prussian Minister OF
Agriculture and the Secretary OF the Imperial
Treasury were pulling together for efficiency
and quick results; but they scored but little
success against "other authorities in the
empire"
For MONTHS" this speaker said, "the i'm,
perlal factories had to send in petitions to
the distributing Offices to have the necessary
raw materials allotted to them, and although
these materials were at hand they were lib
Grated much too late, so that other work.
which should have followed Immediately upon
the erection of the factories, had to be post
poned. 1t was the same way when the allot-
ments OF labor came to be made. And whom
the Imperial Coal Commissioner prepared his
lists OF factories to be supplied with coaY.
the imperial nitrogen factories-ren1arlah
enough--were not at the head of the list.
Thus 1t comes to pass that these factories are
at this moment producing only about so ne
cent of what they would be turning ont if
these hindrances did not exist"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
Why Not Abolish Tips?

The war has done q plenty of small
good deeds to compensate for its one great
crime. Why should it not include the end
of tips among them?
Everybody agrees that the tip is an
isolated anomaly in democratic country
where there is no such thing as service in
the old sense of the word 1t is an anach-
ronism, survival of the class system
that had to provide for obsequious menia.s.
Obsequiousness is very scarce commodity
in America to-day. The tips we give buy
only work performed and very little of
that. The waiting of walters, for ex~
ample, could scarcely be much worse, and
we suspect that it might improve in essen
tials if the ending Of the old servant sys-
tenn were frankly recognized on both sides.
But it can't be done was the plea when
the question arose in connection with the
Pullman porters. Custom is too strong
Well, custom has grown amazingly weak
under the stress of war, and there stands
our chance. Let the government start
with its railway porters. Pay them fair
wages. End tips. Behind this entering
wedge who knows how many BARRIERS and
walters and taxi drivers might be glad to
follow under stress of war economy!
We are all getting down to hard pan. It
is high time we squeezed out of existence
so incXact and inappropriate pay-check
as the tin
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
American Instability

We have had occasion to point out
more than once that--in spite of the
enormous rise in prices, the increase in
wages, the tremendous increase in NOM
inal activity, as represented by bank
clearings-thc nations actual product Of
goods, of food and fuel, staples of all
kinds, was apparently rather less last year
than in 1916.
What was the reason?
A large steel company of Pennsylvania
reports that out of total Of 5000 new
men hired for the year not 1000 could
be retained.
One of the largest typewriter COM
panies states that in spite of substantial
increases in wages at the factory, while
the total number of new employees for the
year has exceeded 5000 this has resulted
in net increase Of only 500 employees
at the end of the year.
The largest of the pressed steel car
companies goes further. 1t says:
"We cannot better illustrate the diff
Guilty in labor conditions than by saying
that during the year we employed four
averaged only three months service
with u.s.
These reports could be duplicated by
scores. In the shipbuilding industry, in
the munitions factories, conditions have
been even worse than this. Consider what
it means:
In great factories and plants employing
ten. twenty and thirty thousand men the
entire personnel of the establishment is
changed on the average once in three
four or five months.
This is the reason why the output falls
as wages and cost Of production rise. or
course, the people of the whole nation
pay.
This is what the war means to indus
Try. Exactly the same thing happened
in England. 1t grew so bad that the gov
ernment had to intervene or face a seri-
Gus curtailment Of its products.
1t is an equal problem for US.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
Rope

We have much sympathy with those
aldermen like Mr.. Kenneally who resent
with disloyalists of the Algernon Lee type.
We hope that whenever Mr.. Kenneally
feels like expressing his opinion of un-
Americanism he will do so forcibly. But
when it comes to action we disapprovc Of
expulsion on the ground that vocal dis
loyMist in a patriotic body is useful as
an example and q provocation. Let them
alone, which is to say, give them all the
rope they will take.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
No Gay Sweaters!
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: # the commercial economy board OF
the Council Of National Defence wishes to
save wool it should try to compel the manu-
facturers Of woollen yarns TO curtal their
output Of brightly colored worsteds: That
this proceeding would save huge quantities
OF both wool and dyes may be better appre'
clated by glance at the daily advertise
ments IN the papers. Here are some Of the
shades mentioned in detailed advertisement
of all kinds of sweaters for women:
Black, white, green, purple, sky. ross'
reseda, pink, lavender, nile. corn, water
melon, Copenhagen, emerald and apricot.
The rage for sweaters of vivid hue, which
has prevailed among women for at least two
or three years, has surely left nobody unpro'
vided for in that line. Women could yesy
we'll endure life if they never saw any new
gay sweaters until the war is over, but Il
such garments are placed on sale they are
certain to be bought by some women, sna
their further manufacture encouraged
Plainfield, N. J.,.Feb 10, 1918. A. 6.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
The Luxuries Of War
cFrom The uanchestcr Guardian


The war is bringing about strange domestic
changes. The other day a woman with a
shawl over her head entered a piano dealear,s
shop IN Yorkshire, saving she wanted piano
The salesman hesitatingly suggested a sound
instrument at a25, expecting thus to end tho
inquiry "Not that said the woman shortly
"a real one" Taken aback the man moro
boldly indicated one at $50. This was thouebt
better but not "up to the mark" and another
at $50 or 500 was also dismissed as inadeouate
Il want one o. them with big broad tom A
grand! Now beyond surprise, the salesman
meekiy pointed out the cheapest of that order
at $3.50 "That's more like it, said the GUS
TONER and then, reassuringly, "Aw've got t.
Brass produced at the same time a sufficient
roll of notes from the recesses Of her cloth
ing.
a lady district visitor to whom the story was
told followed the grand shortly after to it's
cramped new quarters, where such splendor
had never been seen before 1t was safelv
installed, filling the humble room with its
bulk and the family with pride "But they
can't make any Of such thing" declared
the perpleXed salesman when the visitor re-
ported to him. Eyes, they can" insisted the
lady. They were having their dinner on it."
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
Britain s Jewish Regiment
(Tropl The Iou,jo,, y,ucs,

fronI The London Times)
battalion of the Jewish regiment is to
march through London. Four companies
that is to say, half the strength of the bat
tallon-wlll take part in the march. under
the officer commanding the regiment.
Much interest attaches to this march owing
to the fact that this is the first occasion in
our history in which a military unit COM
posed exclusively of Jews has fought under
the British flag for Great Britain, and that
Interest is increased by the consideration
that the common aims of the Allies include
the freeing of the Holy Land from the dom
ination of the Turks. Practical effect was
first given to the idea of raising a Jewish
regiment last August, and since then very
satisfactory progress has been made Popu-
larly known as the "Judaeans," the official
designation OF the regiment is 3Sth I'D Bat
talions Royal Fusiliers. As is well known.
Lord Rothschild has taken d great Interest in
the movement
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
The Convenient Two-Cent Piece
(Front The Philddciphia Yno,iire,l

CFronl The Phtiadciphia Inquire11
Most persons will agree with the mem
bers of the executive committee of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers Association who
have urged the Treasury Department to re-
sumo the m'ntins of two-cent pieces. 1t will
not be any innovation by any means. There
was time when had both two and three
cent pieces, but for u number of wears we
have had nothing between the penny and the
nickel.
Conditions at the present time would make
a resumption of the mnting of two-cent
pieces very desirable. They provide con-
venient medium of exchange in the purchase
of newspapers, which have generally ad
vanced to that price because of the hipb
cost of materials used in their manufacture
The humble penny seems to have lost in
prestige. 1t appears to be dreadfully insiy
nliicant, so much SO that the charitablv in
clined hesitate to offer it to the street beo-
gar. New coins are in order, and two-cent
piece for our favorite daily newspaper is q
necessity.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
A Hopeful Protest

We should like to hail the explosive let
ter which Representative Fuller has just
written to Speaker Clark as q sign Of the
tinnes-as the sign of a violent dissatis-
faction inside the House with that body's
clumsy methods Of functioning. There
is good reason for such dissatisfaction
The House is routine-ridden. 1t has tied
itself up in red tape of its own creation.
1t has become stodgy and reluctant to
tinker with its out-of-date machinery.
Mr. Fuller resigned from the Committee
on Expenditures in the Interior Depart
ment because the committee never did any.
thing. 1t exists only to furnish com
mittee room and some petty patronage for
the use of its chairman. There are ten
similar committees in the House, charged
nominally with supervision of the expen-
ditures OF the various departments. They
also do nothing beyond providing sinecurc
chairmanships.
Yet the work they leave undone is Of the
highest Importance. Under popular form
of government the legislative department
holds the purse-that is to say, it controls
public expenditure. In our scheme Of con-
troll we reverse the rational process. The
executive branch, which is to spend the
money, ought to draw up in detail the esti-
mates of expenditure. Instead we put on
the appropriations committees of Con-
gress this tedious and unfamiliar task, al
lowing the executive to escape all RESPONSE
blity for the cost OF government. Then,
when Congress votes appropriations more
or less at random, the executive is per-
mitted to turn over to agents of its own
the auditing and checking up Of the en-
penditure.
In order to fix responsibility and secure
exactitude and economy it is much less i'm
portant that Congress should construct the
budget than that it should scrutnize the
manner in which the money is spent. Con-
gress ought to know in every detail
whether appropriations arc used in accord
ance with the lav2 whether they are being
used promptly and intelligently, and for
what reasons, if they arc unused, they are
turned back into the Treasury.
At present the legislative and executive
branches NOik aU cross purposes. regular
committees of the House and Senate, COM
mittees created for purposes of general
legislation call Cabinet and bureau chiefs
before them to inquire what disposition the
latter have made of appropriations.
They must depend on the testimony Of
those who spend the money. But through
its own auditing committees Congress
ought itself already to have had the fullest
information about department expendi-
ture. Then it could talk and act in the
light of its own knowledge
The eleven do-nothing House committees
on expenditures in the departments ought
to be merged into one body and become one
Of the Houses most useful and powerful
agencies. The new committee should rank
with the single, consolidated Appropria-
tions Committee which would result from
the introduction of real budget system.
Mr.. Fuller didn't point all this out in
his letter But his letter exposes the
righteousness of the present arrangement
for supervising expenditure. 1t tells
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28

truths which the public doesn't know and
which the House knows, but hides under
blanket. These expenditures committees
have become atrophied because Congress
has chosen to exercise control of the purse
in the least effective way. The system
which makes them useless is at fault. The
Fuller letter may help in creating public
opinion which will compel its amendment.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
Did the Railroads "Brealx Down"

We invite the attention of "The Spring.
field Republican" and of all others inter
csted in this question to the facts printed
yesterday
In 1916 the railroads of America car
ried the greatest traffic in their history
almost one-third greater than in the first
year of the war. Fix it firmly chat, ham
pered and embarrassed by every sort of
difficulty, with the labor unions, with the
Interstate Commerce Commission, with
twenty or thirty separate state railway
commissions, and more than all by the
grave difficulty of obtaining capital, the
railways carried at least quarter more
Of freight and passengers than in the
record year Of 1913.
Now, last April the railways handled
"A per cent more traffic than in April,
1916
In May the increase was 16 per cent
over the year before.
In June it was 80 per cent
For the three months the average in
crease' was nearly 20 per cent over the
highest point ever before known
Does this look like "a breakdown?
Priority orders began the railway tie
up in August. In that month the increase
over the year before was only 40 per
cent.
In September. it had shrunk to 2 9-1o
per cent of increase.
In November it was the same.
viii "The Springfield Republican" or
any apologist of the government tell us
the reason for this difference?
For the eight months that followed our
entry into the war the increase in ton
miles carried was II $40 per cent. II
there had been no priority orders it would
probably have been the same as in the first
three months, namely, about 20 per cent
double what it was.
Even as it was an increase of II $40
per cent over the record traffic in the
history of American railroads does not,
we submit, paint the picture of "brcalz-
down"
We add this detail:
In this same period cars in the shops
Locomotives in shop for repairs de-
creased 9 2-10 per cent.
We pointed out that this tremendous
increase was in the face of the fact that
''in 1917 the total tonnage offered, in all
the basic lines Of production, the raw
materials of Notwithstanding is, iron,
copper, food lumber and the rest-was
rather less than in 1916" The whole of
the increase in tonnage was IN manufact-
ured products, and this apparently, from
the governments census, did not much
exceed, if it reached, 10 per cent.
There was no colossal increase in traf-
fic last year, and there was no ''break-
down" until priority orders had done
their work
'The Springfield Republican" is, we are
told, the only newspaper the Presiden,
reads. 1t is ordinarily accurate in its
statements. viii it kindly heave to?
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28


& bit of the George Ade we used to
know. hunor pungent and lambent-
ly acrid.
The fable tells of the return of our
American Consul to the distant island of
Comato, after an unbrozen absence of
thirty years. Impressions, reported with
a proper supply Of Ade-ian Capitals, are
g solace to the war-bowed-down soul.
Rodney j. goes to the Theatre and re-
ceives Jar.
"Mr. Whipple bought Front Seat for
some newfangled Drama called Revue and
went IN prepared 10 take good Nap
"One hour later, just the barelegged
Dancers, each OF them wearing as much
Material as goes into a Shopping Bag, were
performing a Classical Number entitled.
The Satyr's Saturday Night Mr Whipple
dashed out of the Theatre with his Hat in
front of his Face.
"He was the only Gutter.
'All the Seminary Flappers home on
Vacation, and the sweet-faced old Chap
erons, and the various Pillars OF the
Baptist, Unitarian and Congregational
Churches stuck in their Places and con-
tinued the Anatomical Researches, while
Mr.. Whipple leaned aga nst Mal-Rox out
side gasping for Breat..'
He recalls that ''in 1878 he had slipped
away from Home one Evening to attend
Performance by the British Blondes
"ie compared that evening of guilty
Pleasure long ago with the brazen In
decencies and the Haunting Shameessness
OF what he had just witnessed in first
class 50 House catering to the Family
Trade.
"The Cycle of Change evidently had been
making about 2,400 Revolutions per min
ute
Rodney j. happens in at "a Small Dance
and looked over the Card for the Lancers
and the Polka and the Military Schottisohe
after which he secreted himself behind
Palm to await Developments"
"The Band began to Jazz
"Mr Whipple held his Head
Either the Orchestra had forgot to tune
up or he was going off his Dip-he couldn't
tell which
He knew it wasn't Music, but they were
on the Floor, making epilept;c Efforts to
ride Oh the choppy Sea OF Discords.
They shuffied in close Formation, writh-
ing as if in Agony.
Mir. WhipDlc wondered if he had made
Mistake IN leaving the Island"
He was asked if he had seen the newest
Cabaret dancers: "He asked them what
they meant by Cabaret and they told
him he had better not go out again unless
he had Messenger Boy to lead him
around He has last thought
Grand Opera seemed safe refuge for
an Old-Timer.
Sure enough, he found the same de-
pendable Faust with Oakum Beard trailing
the heavyweight Marguerite, and Romeo
trilling TO Juliet with Grandchildren at
the From.
He was pleased to know that the best
Traditions OF Music had not been lost in
the Shuttle"
That some of the directors of the Met
ropolitan may read before Opera in New
York dies Of xerosis.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
cost of this was as follows: ::
Total cost $40

If we had bought five large sacks of white
flour we would have paid S16.25, an actual
saving Of s6.o5. Besides, we had the con-
scousness of duty done.
But the best of it all is the fine variety
OF breads we enjoy We look forward to a
new bread the next meal and wonder what
wlll be on the table next time.
The war is teaching American women ho,r
to cook and wisely utilize foodstnrs W.
are learning to study food problems in tho
higher sense of the word.
In the future we expect to have the diff
1erent flours for breads whether the war CON.
tinues or not. We see the value of il fnan.
clally as we'll as the real good to us as food
MRS. DAVID B. PARR.
Brownstown, H., Feb. IL, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
How 1t Works
o the Editor of the Tribune

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: When the food administration began
its vigorous campaign for the saving of flour.
we decided that our table should be Hoover
ized to the best of our ability We wished
implicit obedience in our home.
We had grown wheat, rye and corn on
our farm and decided to clean a bushel Of
each to take to a grist mill hard bv to
have ground into whole wheat -four. rvo
flour and cornmeal Then we bought sack
OF white flour for 1925 and forty pounds
OF ground oatmeal in bulk for So.
Thc cost Of This WY Do fol la.....
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28

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Associated exclusively entitled to the use Tor
republication OF all dispatches credited to or not
otherwise credited in this paper also tho local news OF
spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights OF republication OF all other matter herein are
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28

You can purchase merchandise advertised In 'he
TRlsuNE absolute safetor dissatisfaction results
any THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your money
back upon reuucst No red tape No euihhn9. We make
good promptly the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28

incalculable value to have, at this time, an
authentic statement of the real plans and
purposes OF the Administration.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28

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Mail Matter.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-28
AntediluUian
Opera

Y N THE latest Of his fables there is a
B bit of the George Ade we used to
know. a hurnor pungent and lambent-