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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

make IN favor of a more unified war admin
lstration and more vigorous conduct of civil
and military preparations he will be mis-
Judging the needs and opinions of the nation
and failing to meet his own obligation to
satisfy them. There is still time and space
IN which to deliver himself and the country
from the deplorable consequence of a fight
in the midst OF war between the executive
and legislative branches Of the government
lie can still offer a substitute for the
doubtful plan OF reorganization proposed
in the Senate bill plan of his own which
would be better designed to secure SINH
lar result. If he would only adopt this course
he would not only break the force of the
attack of his enemies, and enable his friends
to continue their undivided support, but he
would do away with the most formidable
threat which has yet been directed against
the war morale of the American nation"
new note, one suggesting that the
people are beginning to lose faith in the
President as the David of their present
needs, is voiced by THE Villager":
"Mr. Wilson has nodded. Whatever may
be the immediate outcome of the war cabinet
affair, there can be no question that he has
forfeited his singular strength with the mass
OF the nation The full loss may not be
apparent tomorrow or the day after:
'SluiSeo may remain unSDQSen aWnllc, but
they viii grow more artcuate with each
crisis of our internal affairs, until there
will be no mstaking the voice should any
misfortune attend our effort abroad The
Presidents political skill, which succeeded in
uniting the crowd behind him, has been ad-
mitted even by those who have dep!ored the
dangerous and insincere method of group
panderlng. Dismissing deeper judgments,
forgetting possible costs and remembering
the unconformed elements which two years
since were making Babel of the national
voice, none may deny Mr.. Wilson's achieve
ment; organized labor was with him, the
Socialists and anarchists placed the finger Of
expectation on their lips when his name was
spoken, his own party stood solid and the
opposition mad been reduced to protestations
of loyalty; IN short, the Presidents position
seemed impregnablc.
And so it might have continued to be il
we could have gone on indefinitely being of
the war but not in it, if there had not to
be all end to The period in which We could
touch the war and not be touched by it
period in which sacrifices were on paper
and our sutferings in words. SO long as war
meant no real hardship it is not surprising
that the people We're back of Mr. Wilson;
wages were going up. the costs of living were
to be kept down by fixed prices and between
the official lines could be read rosy promises
of what democracy might mean after it
all over
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

breaks with Congress and public opinion. He
has recognized the danger for an American
President of alternating Congress or of get
ting either too FAR ahead or too far behind
public opinion In practice this waiting atti-
tude involved patient and sometimes ap-
parently procrastnating handling of specific
economic and political situations and prob
lens. He has allowed the full complexities
and difficulties Of II situation to develop be-
fore irrevocably committing himself and the
country to particular policy, because by so
doing he expected to meet with fewer obsta-
cles and less opposition in securing the
acceptance Of his decision. He has applied
this method to all the newer and more seri-
Gus questions of domestic and foreign policy
which have come up during his two admins
trations, and while the practice has brought
urcn him much criticism from more impatient
and less flexible minds, it has usually been
successful in its chief purpose-that of Great
ing relation of mutual confidence between
himself and majority Of the American peo-
pie. His Fabianism frequently plunged him
into difficulties, such as those in Mexico, from
which he could extricate himself only with
loss, but the whole it has been a source
of strength rather than of weakness. Fabian
ism is an essential ingredient of democratic
craftsmanship, and whenever, as sometimes
happened, Mr.. Wilson's. delberation tended
to degenerate into procrastination he realized
his danger in time and succeeded in making
sufficiently quick recovery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

part, gently suggesting all the while an
advisable course for the President to pur-
sue. Now the danger flag is hung out, be-
ginning with the assertion that the Presi
dent "is, we believe, committing a grave
mistake in not advancing to meet more
half way those members of Congress who
are only seeking to institute a general
staff, without which no commander in
chief, whether military or industrial. can
plan successful war" For in this Jour
halls estimation, "The existing mechanism
will continue to creak and groan and ex-
asperate its victims, and the President
himself will eventually be obliged to pro-
pose different and better method of i'm
proving the war organization He can
not persist in standing pat unless there is
substantial and wholly improbable turn
for the better in the results of his war
management"
Fuller comment in this same direction
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

was adopted reluctantly, and none of them
dealt with the fundamental difficulty of secur-
ing satisfactory relationship between those
who planned executive policies and those who
carried them out
"For many months the present crisis has
been coming to head The President, Con-
gress and the country should regard the
existing breakdown the red flag of danger
1t should be a warning to the American peo-
pie of the indiscriminate ruthlessness of war
and of the kind of sacrifices which they will
have to undergo before it can be brought to
successful conclusion. 1t should be a warn
ing to Congress of the disastrous conse-
quences OF trying to make political capital
out of national caamites. 1t should be a
warning to the President of the impos ibility
during war of seeking to accommodate the
American public to the need Of drastic
changes and sacrifices BY allowing such
crises to gather and to break. Instead of
keeping the confidence of the country and
avoiding drastic remedies, he is rendering
himself vulnerable to the attacks of his
enemies, he is jeopardizing his own popular
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

inner cause of the war paintings of this
country.
From the Pacific Coast, for example, far
removed from the turmoil at Washington,
comes this view, appearing in "The Sunset
Magazine":
"The real trouble with Americas conduct
of the war lies not in the carrying out but
rather in the formulating of it's war policies.
There are too many policies, each one run
ming around loose and pulling it's own par
ticular rope. Only unified pull in one di-
recton can win the war
"Viewed from this quiet corner across the
width of a continent Washington is not car
rying on one big war. 1t seems to be fighting
dozen wars, each department of the gov
eminent fighting the Kaiser on its own hook
without much regard for the campaign of
any other department. At present there is
not one agency which can correlate and CO.
ordinate the separate campaigns carried on
by the different departments-except the
President, and he cannot humanity under
take the additional task"
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verifying the result is to send up an air.
plane and photograph the region. When
this is done it is found that the two methods
agree so closely that if on the largest scale
maps a guns position determined by one
is marked by pin the position as found
by the other cannot be marked by second
pin-therc is not space. This means roughly
that the location Of a gun at a distance of
six miles can be determined definitely within
some fifty feet. which is sufficiently close
The English officer who had charge of the
sound observations at the Messines fight told
mo that in one day sixtythree large German
guns were located and all sxty-three were
DESTROYED"
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then follows Congress is made a partner
IN the proposed now order of things, but
that the President is principally addressed
I is clear:
The critical moment has arrived in the de-
velopment of American organization for the
conduct of the war. Upon the action taken by
Congress and the President during the next
lew weeks will depend both the military and
economic efficiency Of the American nation
during the remainder Of the hostilities and
inc unanlmlty and enthusiasm with which the
government will hereafter be supported Both
the President and Congress stand at the part
ing OF the ways. If they can agree upon a
desirable measure of reorganization which
Will provide an effective remedy for tn.
backwardness and laundering that have been
uncovered in American military preparations.
1T will still be possible to recover the effective
cooperation between the Legislature and the
Executive which is indispensable to the energy
and success of American military policy But
IT they both prove TO be unyicldng. if Con-
gress insists on its own plan of reorganiza-
ton, irrespective of the Presidents wishes.
and If the President stands pat on the whole
matter OF administrative demonstrations the
results may we'll be disastrous. The nation
viii be torn by civil strife ut the very moment
when it most needs to be united, and the
success of American war preparation and the
future Of those salutary prir cip]es in domestic
and foreign policies of which Mr. Wilson is
without doubt the greatest living spokes
man will be seriously and unnecessarily COM
promised
"The President will be making great mis-
take in attributing the demand for changes
in the administration of the war chiefly to
his personal enemies. The morale of demo
cratic nation during war depends in part upon
the justice and the popularity of the cause
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
\ War Came More and More
n Into the Lives Of the People

But now something has happened which
Mr.. Wilson, in the obsession of his manipu-
la'lFe powers. failed to reflect upon often
enough; war, in the presence Of which every
thing else becomes little, is suddenly and
actually III our midst 1t was one thing TO
bargain with avarice and ambition, but fear
and suffering are larger even than these. or
IMAM Presidents and theories. The debacle in
Europe, first Russia and then tho Italian
verse. was shock which gave quick rise to
the consciousness that there was needed from
us great deal more than moral even
financial support The sugar scarcity brought
the first suggestion that the times might
much as discommodc US, and then came the
coal situation, with Its tain Of actual trou-
bes. What followed has been, to use Mr..
Wilson's own phrase, purely psychological
most important mental and emotional revou-
ton. Almost urknowing, the people have
found their allegiance transferred for them
by force beyond their or Mr.. Wilson's con-
troll. Automatically they have come to be no
longer behind the President, but behind the
war; they are TO longer for Wilson; they
are Tor victory. j. IS not surface change;
the Administration will make a great mistake
# 1t persists in treating it mere furry
brought on by politicians. If the President
will have no war cabinet or munitions minis
try, he will not, and there is probably the
end 10 1t; if he persists in thinking Mr..
Baker the ablcst official in America, Nh
Baker will probably remain. and there is an
end TO that. But it is by no means the end
to this new resolve which has sprung up
throughout the nation. The people arc no
longer biindly accepting Mr.. Wilson's deci-
SONS; they are beginning to wonder and re.
fleet II not yet to doubt and IN the enc
something must break before the volume o.
their determination"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

for which the nation is fighting, and in part
upon the confidence of the country in the
management of the industrial and military
enterprise. President Wilson has defined for
his fellow citizens which even his
most embitte!red critics have only furtivcy
opposed, and for which the nation can be
depended on to fight until success is
'ehlevcd. But he has failed as yet to create
an organization of the war services in which
his fellow countrymen feel confidence or have
reason to feel confidence
"lf the United States were ruled by a
Cabinet responsible to Congress the existing
government would be superseded. The appre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

hension Of the public and it's demand for a
speeding up of the preparation for war
would have to be placated by new group
of executive officials selected particularly for
the purpose of giving unity to the organiza-
ton Of the war and more energy to it's prose
cution.
II his TACT imposes on President Wilson q
peculiarly burdensome responsi blity 1t rests
primarily with him whether the country will
or will not be extricated with minimum Of
damage from the dangerous consequences Of
the first serious domestic crisis of the war.
IT he positively refuses either to order any
major changes in the personnel Of his admin
lstration or to consider any of the proposed
plans Of reorganization, he will be acting
wholly within his legal rights. But he him
self must realize how disastrous it might be
to stand inhexibly on his legal independence
of Congressional control. In that event for
the first time since the beginning Of his
Presidential career he would be dividing him
self from the better public opinion of the
country He would be leaving himself and
his assistants defcnccless against their enc
mics in the conduct of the war was
embarrassed by further serious difficulties
He would be jeopardizing his own personal
prestige in this country and abroad and his
own future power of moral leadership
Presidents ability to assert his independ-
encc of Congress depends upon the popular
support which he command Mr.. Wilson
should realize that, if he inflexibly opposes
the Congressional pressure for reorganza-
ton, he will be inviting civil strife and en-
couraging the growth of body of public
opinion dangerously hostile to himself
"Thc prcdicament in which the President
finds himself is peculiarly significant for the
student of American political processes, be-
cause Mr.. Wilson'S tactics have been designed
particularly for the purpose of avoiding
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Advance Agenting for Trade
Saturday Euening Post

HARDLY less interesting than the de-
l. 4 velopments of the present peace
offensive on both sides of the war is the
corresponding trade" offensive being
simultaneously prepared. This is not
following the lines laid down at the ia
nous Paris conference of the Allies in
l9lo' IN which it was proposed to boycott
Germany after the war. That policy, says
Isaac t. Marcosson, writing in "The Sat-
urday Evening Post" was speedily recog-
nlzed as more of an evil than anything
else, and it incidentally helped make the
Germans fight all the harder.
But the economic pressure is neverthe-
less powerful weapon, and it is being
rapidly perfected in England. This writer
continues:
Before we go into details. however. one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
seThank God for Wilson!" b,
/ fie Needs Help

One passes from this mild indictment to
the more f1orid views of Colonel Harvey in
"The North American Review" While he
utters fervent Thank God for Wilson"
in the January issue of that magazine the
colonel does not let things rest with the
Deity. He proceeds in this fashion:
"It is a fearful responsibility that fate
has put upon the President, and he has the
sympathies and the prayers of millions, but
it is none the less maddening that he should
persist in attempting to bear the whole bur-
den alone. Again implore him to abolish
the latest makeshift for War Council, COM
prising ovcrworked heads of departments,
charged to meet once a week, and draw to
his aid the five biggest minds in the coun-
try-men of the calibre of Chief Justice Ed
ward u. White and Elihu Root-and hold
them at work every day and every hour that
may be within the range of physical posi-
bilties Surely, if, as the President plainly
warned our allies, unified direction is essen
tial abroad it is less a requisite at home.
READERS of this Review need not be
reminded that within a mo2th after war
declared directed the attention of
the President to the fact that every power
in conflict had been driven to this recourse
and depicted as the overpowering and press
ing need such a concentration of direction
Ol UdHlio!u uiNtlEtHt IVIccS as Woulu COu-
stitute "a combined sieve and buffer and en-
able him to achieve effective coordination.
Now. after six long months, we read Imply
in the Washington dispatches that 'as the
has progressed the need of more cf
fective coordination of effort has become in
creasingly evident that heads of depart
ments have looked at problems only with the
idea in mind of solving their special diff
culties,' and that this lack of teamwork, with
its resultant reduction in efficiency, is re-
sponsblc for the decision to establish new
War Council consisting of the six members
of the old Board of National Defence and
five additional supernumeraries.
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luHy ulScontcnted, cTerv act OF a great
leader should not only be but LUMINOSITY and
Enthusiastically appear to be disintcrested and
noble. In no other way can great people
be kept as wholly united as the President be-
lieves this nation now to be-
Mot Wilson'S Fault He Isn't
X Y the Right Man
The cry that the President has failed to
make the most of talent lying loose in this
country--of different political bias, per-
haps-appears strongly in the criticism of
"The Metropolitan Magazine:
at may be said that the President IS
responsible for Mr.. Baker. And to attack Mr..
Baker is to attack the President Well. il
that Is so, all we can say is that the time has
long gone by for standing on ceremony
Nothing at this great crisis is more damning
to the public welfare than the idea that we
must suffer gross mismanagement Of the war
because to object is to oppose the Presi-
dent
at is not Mr. Wilson's fault that he is not
q man Of the executive type. His language
and intentions are undoubtedly lofty; and
his determination to see The war through is
a great strength to the Allies But he is
wofully slow in making decisions. Long ago
the railroads should have been under govern.
ment control. The delay is due to the Presi-
dents inability to take a decided line quickly.
That is constitutional defect for which we
cannot blame Mr.. Wilson. We elected him
with full knowledge of that failing. But there
is no excuse for the failure to place real
executives in the important departments"
ssThe New Republic" Holds Out
l A Danger Flag
Here the metropolitan" expands on the
iniquity of conditions forcing such men as
Mr.. Roosevelt and General Wood to plan
minor parts in the "big show" adding:
"Mr. Wilson may continue to prefer Mr..
Baker; he may continue to deprive the coun-
try of the driving power Of Mr.. Roosevelt and
General Wood. But if he does so, he takes
Upon himself a responsibility for future dis
aster which he can never evade so long as
history is written and read"
And now one reaches the latest pro-
nouncements of "The New Republic"
which for weeks has been quietly cunning
for "real reorganization" on Mr.. Bakers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Vilson Attempting Task Too Mighty For One Man;

NlRST the newspapers and then this
country's magazines begin to won
der if President Wilson is not
laboring under burden greater than any
one man should attempt to shoulder At
the same time. the outspoken criticism of
the President, noted last week as breaking
loose unrestrainedly in the press for the
hrst time since the United States entered
the war, begins to appear in the maya
zines. Practically always, of course, the
news criticism" of Mr.. Wilson centres
around the War Department, Secretary
Baker and the proposed Ministry of NUM-
tions and "War Council" There is also a
marked desire to get beneath the obvious
facts about the War Department TO the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Science at the Front
Atlantic MOnthlu

THE great Importance of science in
u the present war has been admitted
from the first. Some interesting exam
pies of how scientific methods are applied
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
With a Revolver at His Head
independent

A FEW months ago a short dispatch |
~ from the Western front told of
how an Allied nilot caught he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

fully disconnected. every act of n great
leader should not only be but LUMINOSITY and
Enthusiastically appear to be dsintcrested and
noble. In no other way can a great people
be kept as wholly united as the President be-
leves this nation now to be-"
The spectator., 1918-09-17
AItuS

Mir. Willard Duffin is moving his family to Superior. Okla. this week.
 Jno. Wilson has sold his home to Dennis Turner and moved to Ft. Smith.
 Priv. Ed Metz is home on a furlough. Ed is fine looking soldier.
 Victor Harris was married to Miss Lottie Baker. Sept. Sth, Rev. l. ]. Partain officiating Their many friends wish them happiness.
 Mrs. Earl Musgrove died Fri day in the hospital at Ft. Smith and was buried Sunday at B D m. in Nichols Chapel Cemetei :. Rev. J J. Partain preaching the funeral. Her death has caused much sadness here.
The spectator., 1918-09-17
WataIuIa

Everything moving nicely Nice rain again today.
 Cotton picking has been nov ing here. Small bale sold from Mir. Greens farm. Mr. Herbert is gining fast and fine, is turn ing out some nice bales which IS a fine price for all.
 Some nice. letters from the boys now in France. to their mothers which they joyfulIy receive after a long wait for them,
 Graton Harris made a home visit last Saturday returning Sunday to camp. He was ac- companied back by his brother. Cole, and Mir. Finley.
 Some of our people attended the $. $. Convention at Pleasant Grove. Had a very nice, interest ing time.
The spectator., 1918-09-17
Pie Supper at WataIuIa

Called together with with music by the band.
 The purpose of the Pie Supper will be introduced by Mrs. w II. Morris. Prayer by Hattie Floyd, Music. Welcome Address Miss Stella
 Herbert. Response by J. A. Floyd. Speech by Hoyet Rose, Reading by Miss EIvla Vaught Speech Gull Harris Music. Select Reading Ethel Herbert. Rec. Rebecca Gray, Music. Rec. Miss Myrtle Harris. Some Special Songs, Select Reading. Miss Bonnie
 Baskin. Rec. Connie Cagle, A Talk on Ladies War Work, by
 Walter Harris Music Rec. Miss sGussie Arbottle, Rec. Thelmer Hallis, Speech Garrett Herbert, Music, Speech Stanton Riggs, Rec. Donnie Beck, Closing talk by L. M. Guthrie Pie Selling, MT. Baskin, assistant l. w. Whitson,
 The proceeds go in behalf. of the 4th Liberty Loan of this Red Cross branch of Ozark. Everybody invited to come to help and enjoy a nice time, All the ladies and girls bring pies. Boys come and help the good cause of our country. Come all.
 Committee.
The spectator., 1918-09-17
Garrett-BoIger

Miss Pearl Garrett and Mr Chas. Bolger of Poteau, Okla. were married Sunday ' D. m. in that city. Miss Pearl is the daughter of A. A. Garrett of this city and though she has held a responsible position in Poteau for a number of years she is well known in Ozark where she has a large circle of friends who wish them happiness.