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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
The Bridge to France

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: / am conducting campaign anon
the employees of this and other YARDS "
the purpose of creating greater enthusss'
and patriotic efforts in turning out ana i
pairing ships of our navy.
10 this end l am drawing and reproau'
ing sketches and cartoons which RAISE :.
very important question concerning ~
winning of the war. :.
These sketches are posted all over W ".
shops; the men gather around them, su..
them, discuss them, and the result IS su Nv.
that l have been requested to repr0'' =
several very excellent cartoons. one y
them is your "The Bridge to frsh'''
which fits exactly the type OF ske'''''
am making for our campaign.
l am requesting your permission - =,
produce this cartoon. If you nave /,
other cartoons which will aid us he's |,
driving home the gravity of our pos''i ''..,;
this world war it is earnestly reqas.s.
that you send me newspaper copy OF ~.
ana you may rest assured that your i;.,,d
otic assistance will be greatly app.ee's d
ny one and all others connected win WIN ="
this work FRANK NJ. WATSON
Master Psints'
Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. April 8, 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Too Much Art?
war lasts.

Il thought it was a movie STUNT said
the eyewitness Of a hold-up in broad
daylight Robbers in motor car, ex-
press wagon-of course! Who could
have guessed otherwise? 1t is the same
story all along the line. When the lovely
lady dashes into the breakers before your
eyes you do not dream of trying to rescue
her. for fear of spelling the films. Film
life and real life have become SO mex
tricably tangled that nobody can tell off
hand where one ends and the other be-
gins.
There is suggested the one possible
danger of the movie. Can it make art
too common? Bad art corrects itself.
But is it possible that a people might
feed too much on the artificial life of art
and so overbalance their supply of real
eXperience-just as too much canned
food may lower to the danger point the
supply of vitamines?
The too-bookish man is an obvious
type. He has failed to reach his full
growth simply because he has lived too
much in other peoples thoughts upon the
printed page. Is not a too-much-filmed
public equally possible?
There is no substitute for life. That
is the point. Art is the supreme COM
mcnt upon life. 1t can be a wonderful
corrective, critic and inspiration. But it
is not life. Is there danger that the
movie may some day swamp life?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Baseball
By Arthur S. Draper
T ONDON, March 25.-My Office window
oyerlnnks the Earln HIT which Is

ONDON. March Ny Office window
overlooks the Eagle Hut, which is
the most popular Of y. N. c. A
headquarters. Any clear day crowd Of
Londoners, boys and men, girls and women
may be seen looking through and over the
picket fence behind which soldiers and sail
ors are tossing baseballs about.
The Giants warming up for game at the
Polo Grounds are no greater magnet than
these youthful Americans and their Cans
dian brothers in arms. who have learned to
love baseball The American destroyer ner,
who have yet to see the inside of German
trench; the Canadian veterans of Ypres,
NImy Ridge and Lens, and now and then
tall, lanky Australian, never fail to draw
crowd when they begin 10 toss the balls
about
Baseball will probably fail to disrlar
cricket in the affection Of the British but
will be recognized sport on this side 81
the ocean before the last Yankee soldier r.
turns. Leagues are being organized not OIL
IN France, but in England as we'll. The DE-
stroyer fleet, with its Irish base, expects 70
have first class team this year. Even ''s
soldiers at the American army headquarters
have formed a team to compete in the Ing
hsh league. team composed entirely o
alrmen in training in England will play tbs
spring.
1t seems far cry from baseball to bar
onetlng Germans, but war is full Of sudoea
changes. The team. which is leading at Toe
beginning Of the last half of the ninth inf'
ing is not always returned the winner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
The Undying Flame

AM sowing seeds Of life with the bodies
Il of the brave,
am sealing up the Past in planctarv
grave.
| shall use the blood of races on the nalctte
of my will,
shall scupt another Dios with the brains
of those | kill
For am Liberty, the alchcmst, and Man
is my rctort.
was nailed high in the Caucasus, where
my faith hung by hair;
But I lived to sound the tocsin in indie
pcndcnce Square.
Thcr have INJURED me in foul dungeons.
sealed up with seven seals.
But my spirit smotc the Pharaohs and mid
in dust Bastiles-
For l am Liberty, the Phoenix. and 7 dc
to rcsurrect.
Now across the seas they call me to n Eu-
rope raped and rivcn,
By the Pharisces of Kultur by their ma
droncs dashed and driven.
They have called me through all ages. and
never yet in vain;
Flash the sword and sound the bugle from
San Diego up to Maine.
Fer | am Liberty, the gendarmc and
have warrant for n king!
BENJAMIN DE CASSERES
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11

The city Of Albany has its way. The
New York Central Railroad is now en-
joined by statute law from erecting any
other than single span bridge across
the Hudson River for it's Castleton cut
Oft. The bill which The Governor has lust
signed was in our opinion selfish and mis-
taken. The country's war programme
needs the Improvement in transportation
service which the project planned by the
railroad would have brought 1t is to be
hoped the railroad will not permanently
abandon it's PLAN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Prospects for Coal Prices
'The Coal Age" says that

The Coal Age says that:
"The production OF coal so far this wear
has been more than million tons less
each week than the output estimated as
necessary to prevent another fuel famine
next WINTER
1t adds that:
ain face Of this situation there arc
dlscontent and the threat Of strike in
the Pennsylvania mines"
The Coal Age" states that part Of
this discomfort and part of this shortage
are due to Mr.. McAdoo's new railroad
administration.
1T says that the latter is now and has
been making contracts with certain mines
agreeing to furnish these mines with
full supply of cars if they will reduce the
price of coal to the railroads.
These railroad mines, as conse
quence, double their production and draw
men from all adjacent colleres.
"Thc direct result is dissatisfaction and
disbursement on the part of the miners
at the idle plant and an increased cost
OF production for the less favored com
panes.
Men can't live even on high wages
when they can work but two or three DAYS
each week, and the companies cannot mine
at low cost under such conditions. Presto.
up go coal prices and wages, and the pub
lie pays what the railroads save."
"The Coal Age" declares that no GOOD
is accomplished by this questionable
policy, for the railroads could secure sat-
lsfactory fuel and plenty of it through
priority, without disrupting car distribu.
ton and disorganizing mine production.
1T is obviously matter in which every
buyer Of coal has an intimate interest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
The Greatest Waste

Some figures recently published bv a
boston committee showed that even on
only those strikes from which the com
mittee had been able to obtain definite in
formation the number of man-hours
which had been lost by strikes in the
United States in the first six months
from last April totaled over 5000. 900.
What was the actual total for the whole
country no one knows
Nor does any one know how much was
the actual waste in lowered productio,
through the discomfort and unrest from
which these strikes resulted. In the shin
yards alone we believe that the time los.
would have been equivalent to the con.
structlon of fifteen 5,000-ton steel vessels.
II the pact concluded by the board of
which ex-President Taft is chairman -
Kept alike in the letter and the spirit hy
both employers and employees Throughout.
the whole country, it will represent. per.
haps, the most signal achievement for the
successful prosecution of the war since
we undertook to 20 to war. It viii
not be an easy pact to keep. If the infla-
tionary policy on which the government.
backed by some Of the ablest bankers OF
the country, seems definitely to have en-
barkcd is maintained, the cost Of living
the cost of production and the cost Of the
war will 20 on rising steadily, month by
month, just as it has in every month
since the war began, and since the huge
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
An Ovation

To tho Editor Of The Tribune. ID,
Sir; Tho Department of justice a,
found good and sufficient reasons ~. N
'hternment Of Muck, Mr.. Higginson "a al
rcse OF his loyal American group my ~ III
no proud Of their successful enote ..,..ia,
UNA impudent representative Of ~ esp
lam an ovation at the last New aos 80
eere OF tho Boston Symphony osS ,,rSsi
New York. April Z, 1918 Is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11

Discriminating Against Greenwood
'From Tho Charleston Ne,us and cowrtsr)
The German confectioner and clerk NJ
whose store in brooklyn nm American sailor
bought candy with ground glass in IL nro
probably looking forward to pleasant
summer vacation In ono Of the comfortable
nterment camps in the mountains,
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MrNRER or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tho Associated Is exclusively entitled to the nse
fer republication all dispatches credited to " or
otherwise credited in this paper and also inc o'"
news Of spontaneous origin published hereu
All rights Of republication o. all other matter herein
re also reserved.
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You can purchase merchandise advertised IN INC
TRIBUNE with absolute sasey-for II d's'ats'acuo" re-
Suits In any case The TRIBUNE guarantees TO pay your
norsv baok uron request No tape No auhbin9
VIZ make qood promptly il the advertiser does not.
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GUARANTEE

i.a,crc,l at ,hc roso"cc a; New York as Second VI
Mall Matter
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-15

It is regrettable that anything should
increase the uncertainty and suspense
which is the natural portion Of the
relatives of soldiers. There seems to
be no better reason for concealing the
identity of men named in the casualty
list here than in England.
The English newspapers publish cas-.
ualty lists daily, showing the name Of
the soldier and the arm unit to which
he Is attached. His place of residence
Is omitted, and such an omission would
not meet with opposition in America
II regiments were indicated In the
American list that list would give all
the information the public would need
and it certainly would give no more
information to the enemy than do the
casualty lists published IN England
We cannot know the reasons OF the
war department for issuing Its arbi-
trary order, to be sure, and those rea-
SONS may be good. It is Tar more
probable, however, that this is merely
one more instance of improper and
needless censorship whose disadsan-
tages far outweigh any advantage It
may hold
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-15
THEIR CODE OF HONOR

Now it appears that Trotzky resign
ed from Lenine's cabinet" because
Lenine told him he must. The d1sa-
greement, according to the story from
Russia, rose over Trotzky's insistence
that the Russians, having been forced
to accept a peace which was notnlng
less than disgraceful surrender, were
not in honor bound to respect the
treaty. He urged resistance to the Ger
man invasion by guerilla bands but
Lenine refused to agree with him.
Lenine, having sold Russia to the
kaiser. seems to have regarded 1t a
point Of honor to make his betrayal OF
his people complete. To be sure, there
is no proof at hand that he has been
guided by German hands and paid with
German gold through all these montns'
but there is no other logical explana'
ton of the course he has followed.
There is little indication that Trotz-
XIV ha, any greater feeling OF SYM
pathy or responsibility for the Russia
which he has helped to make safe for
German autocracy. Rather, he saw an
opportunity to add one more double
cross to his record, and to brand Ger
many with it.
It is queer code these idealists have
a queer code Of morals, honor and JUS
tice. They evidence no consciousness
of responsibility, though they were
quick enough to claim power, ana so
insistent about claiming it that thou
sands Of Russians paid with their lives
for opposing their claim.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-15
ARBITRARY CENSORSHIP

Instances are numerous to prove
that the abbreviated form in which
the casualty lists from France are
published under the war departments
new order works great hardship
on the public. One Of those instances
was supplied in Ottumwa yesterday.
Coincident with the receipt of OIL
cial notification that Captain Steller
had been injured rumor was circu-
lated that one Of the private soldiers
in Company G had fallen in battle. The
report spread rapidly and was re-
peated and enlarged as is usual with
such groundless rumors.
The fact was that name somewhat
similar to this soldiers had been pub
lished in recent casualty list and
noticed by one OF his relatives in a
western state. This person sent tele-
gram to Ottumwa, asking the soldiers
sister IL her brother had been killed.
No notification that he was even in
jured has been received from the war
department, and doubtless the name
which aroused the curiosity of the sol.
dier's relative was that Of a man from
some distant state.
Such MISUNDERSTANDING will multi.
ply under the method which the war
d1naxtnenk has indica0tha1nh1ie
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-15
HOG CHOLERA
DRIVE STARTS,
DR.. JOHN SIMoNDS TO WAGE
WAR ON SWINE PLAGUE; URGES
CLEANING PREMISES.

Dr.. John Simonds q. s. veterinary
representative in this section Of tho
state has begun a real campaign On
hog cholera. DR.. Simons is not going
to let the dread swine plague get
foothoh now that spring Is near, with
out first doing what should be done to
follow up the work started last sum.
n1er and fall.
, When the winter came the work
was web in hand and much had been
accomplished. Several farms had had
outbreaks of cholera among the herds
and the winter arrested part of this.
However, pains are being taken by
DR.. Simonds to see that such places
or wherever infection was discovered
last year, shall be cleaned and disin-
fected. He urges cleaning and disfn-
fecting to be started at once on all
farms where cholera was discovered
last year.
WILL MAKE SURVEY
Dr.. Simmons win make sanitary
survey of the district over which he
has jurisdiction giving special atten.
ton to the farms where he knows
there has been cholera outbreak.
Thorough cleaning and disinfeeting
will be urged to eradicate cholera and
any other swine disease. The terri
tory in which swine herds have been
affected and to which he is going to
give special attention follows:
White Oak, Cedar, Garfield and
Spring Creek townships in Mahaskz
county.
Center, Locust Grove, and Black
Hawk townships in Jefferson county.
Competine, Columbia, Dahloneg1
Highland and Richland townships in
Wapello county. .
HOW TO STOP SPREAD
The method he suggests for Kidding
premises of infection follows:
Remove all manure and mix it
thoroughly with quick lime
Burn all litter, rubbish and old hog
Ftroughs.
After the premises ale thoroughly
cleaned, spray walls, floors and other
surfaces. including remaining hog
troughs, ETC.. with disinfectant q.
part compound cresol solution to 30
parts water). Where hog houses are
small, turn them over, exposing inter
ior to sunlight. Clean premises, prop
erly exposed to sunlight will not 10
tain infection any great length of time.
Wallow holes and cesspools should
be filled in, drained or fenced OF.
All runs underneath buildings
should be cleaned and then boarded
up to keep the hogs out
Destroy hogs that do not fully re-
cover, as they may be carriers u
cholera infection.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-15
EDDYVILLE

Mrs. Roscoe Kitterman who has
been i'll in the Ottumwa hospital was
able to return home Saturday.
Mrs. Lizzie Reed and daughter
have returned to Charlton after a
short visit at the Thos. Kale home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Alcorn Of Oska.
loosa spent Sunday in Eddyville at
the parental Fred Crosson home.
Mrs. Pearl Hall and daughter Vera
of Minneapolis arrived in Eddyville
Sunday having been called by the
death Of Mrs. Halls nephew Robert
Crosson.
Mrs. Howard Life Of Evans spent
Sunday in Eddyivlle visiting her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. E FL
ln2npd
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-15
THE soLshEvlk PERIL

Il Is difficult to credit the dis.
Oaiches from Washington which, with
h the past week, have indicated that
the United States government is con-
sidering official recognition of the boil
shevik clan. in Russia as de facto
government AS signs multiply, point
Ing to the German influence behind
the Lenine.Trotzky enterprise. it IS
lnconceivable that the Washington
authorities will permit themselves to
be hoodwinked, by the most consci-
enceless and lawless band OF anar-
ehists the world has known.
Lord Robert Cecil, British minister
81 blockade, and other persons OF
authority in European governmental
circles, declare the bolshevik are act
ing openly in collision with German
agents and propagandists, with the
purpose of spreading the poison Of
bolshevism throughout the nations
9th which Germany is at war.
This is major peril, not only for the
Oeriod of the war but afterward. Until
anarchy and socialism are recognized
and Stunned for their destructive and
euinous doctrines, organized govern
Nent will be menaced seriously and
world progress will be retarded.
Anarchy has ruined Russia in less
than a year. Were it given free rein
In America, England. France or Italy
It would work it's way to chaos much
more slowly, but the result would be
no more pleasant to contemplate than
Is the present conditions of Russia.
Russia was the most ignorant Of ma
lions. Collectively the Russians were
llliterate and incapable of self-govern-
ment; the proportion Of literacy and
and education was low despite the
tact that many individual Russians
were highly educated end possessed
Of superior talents.
Never having experimental with
democracy, Russia had only vague
conception Of its meaning When au.
tocracy was overthrown, anarchy
plus Gerlnanism, plus ignorance. plus
greed, plus cowardice. carried Russia
almost in single step from one ex.
treme to the other-from absolute
domination by the state to condition
= which naittAr state nor law MOI
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-15

ing from the schedule on which they
have been operating throughout the
winter. Saturday supplied an instance.
The Rock Island train leaving Keokuk
last Saturday morning and arriving
in Ottumwa shortly before noon
brought a single bootlegger with a
cargo of six clinking suit cases.
Ordinarily the importers have arrived
on the evening train.
DEGRADATION Saturday was achieved
at the Union street freight depot.
where, according to prearrangement, a
reception committee awaited the trav-
eler.
It is hardly necessary to add that
there were no officers among those
present. And this fact recalls an
other
Apologists for the officials whose
duty it is to enforce the law against
bootlegging. and who are making a
mess of that duty, have informed The
Courier that no amount of official Wig
lance can fasten on the suspects
proof of illegal liquor sales. There
fore, the apologists say, it is useless
to trail the bootleggers and arrest
them. Indeed, they aver. the law
breakers themselves, having escaped
conviction, might claim damages on
the score of false arrest.
All of which is the. most ancient OF
old stuff. Conscientious effort for a
couple of days on the part OF any
capable officer would produce enough
evidence of illegal liquor sales to con-
Wet half of the busiest bootleggers IN
Ottumwa. Another couple of days
work would make the business so I'M
popular that the price of whisky would
rise far beyond the present quotations.
Any one Of a dozen bootleggers IN
Ottumwa could be arrested tonight on
a vagrancy charge, jailed and expelled
from the city.
It would be unnecessary to worry
about proof of sales should a few OF
the suitcase parades be interrupted.
A notorious bootlegger, arrested while
bringing into the city enough whisky
to fill couple of cavernous punch
bowls, would find it difficult to con.
vince judge of his innocence should
he be hailed into court with his suit
cases and their contents.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-15
M'eovERN. PATRIOT

The senatorial race in Wisconsin
has been simpiified by Mr.. McGov.
ems withdrawal and his espousal OF
the candidacy of Congressman Len
root. The course for loyal Wisconsin
republicans is made plain and there
remains little doubt Of the outcome of
the primary race between Lenroot
and the La Toilette entry.
Wisconsin is normally republican
by a large majority and there is every
probability Of Lenroot's election to
the senate However the race between
him and the democratic nominee may
result, the state Is certain to have in
the chair of the late Senator Husting
loyal man whose influence and
voice will counteract the baleful in
fluence of La Toilette.
Mr.. McGovern's withdrawal from
the primary race reflects great credit
on him and should be rewarded by
Wisconsin at an early opportunity. II
there had been any doubt as to his
loyalty and patriotism it would have
been wiped out by his action In leav'
ing the field to Congressman Lenroot.
Had McGovern remained in the race
he would have divided the loyal vote
and given an opportunity for pro.
Germans, La Follette's disciples and
renegade socialists to return as Wis.
consin's senatorial nominee man
whose campaign for the ONCE is being
made under La Follette's direction
and with his sympathy.
Mr. McGovern has set an example
which politicians and aspirants for
public ONCE in other states may well
emulate at this time. Never has II
been so important as now to have IN
both houses Of congress loyal Ameri.
cans. committed to the nations war
program and staunch in their support
of the measures the government is
taking to put an end to Prussianism
and milttarism. The test Of democ
racy is at hand. The time for careless
voting has passed. II it ever existed
The duty of voters is to choose loyal
men for Office, putting aside every
other consideration.
This is Just as true of local offices
az of congressional honcrs. Absolute
loyalty must be the first requisite fol
every political candidate, no matter
what may be the once he aspires to
I'LL.