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New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
lie Was Shielded by
l / Prison Walls

The report got about that Prayer had
made some remarks at Maryville, a
neighboring town, which were disloyal.
He was lodged in Jail at Collinsville and
concealed when mob formed to mete
out punishment of it's own making. Many
of its members, according to press re,
ports, were under the influence of liquor.
The story of the mans alleged offence
grew. From tar and feathers the pun
ishment demanded for his supposed dis
loyal remarks at Maryville became hang
ing. The victim was dragged from his
hiding place in the city hall, and despite
his protests Of loyalty was hanged. He
went TO his death bravely, the leader of
the mob admitted, and asked to be buried
wrapped in the American flag.
The strongest expressions are to be
found in the press denouncing the act al
the worst sort Of un-Amcricanism. Ac.
cording to "The Indianapolis News" the
lynching was nothing less than mur-
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

sacrifice. The sigh of relief that went up
at the discovery that life was at last worth
living, if only because of it's brevity, was
echoed in the poetry of officers as it drifted
back from the trenches.
"The eternal questions will beat in again
after the new order is established. Is
living wage the final answer to the home
sickness of the human spirit? Does a ma
terialistc conception of life satisfy the
longing of the heart? Are the claims of
beauty met by uniform rows of neat little
dwellings and by sanitary factories? Have
we really crossed thesgreat divide and ar
rived finally in the sunshine? One doubts
it. The life Of the spirit is not so easily
satisfied. But as in the present war of
arms political differences are buried, art
and poetry forgotten, and all the national
will focused on this one thing to do, so in
this greater struggle the vast complexities
of life are overlooked for the sake of q
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

Courier" remarks, "There is no surer
way of encouraging lynching than that
of ignoring the conditions out of which
it grows.
cat the bottom Of the resort to mob vio-
lence is always, in the beginning, feeling
that for some reason the ordinary proc
esses of justice are not to be trusted to
deal effectively with the case in hand
Lynching in the West of horse thieves for
merly fourshed because there were no
courts or else the courts were too far dis
tant to protect the community against these
offenders. Lynching in the South of the
assailants of women was excused because
an outraged public opinion rejected the
idea that the victim in these tragedies
should have to tell her story publicly. But
experience has shown that once men begin
to take the law into their own hands the
tendency is to extend and multiply the list
OF offences exciting a quick use of the rope
or worse.
All our experience in these matters has
cried out warning against the dilatory
methods of Congress and of the Federal
authorities in bringing halt to the activi-
ties of spies and of enemy aliens and pro-
German sympathizers."
In other words, Collinsville exhibited
a violent form of what many people in
the United States feel-that the enemy
agent, caught with bombs and instru-
ments of sabotage, is having too easy
time of it. "There will not be any gen.
eral denunciation of this act in Amer
ica,' "The Macon Telegraph" is so bold
as to say, for the reason that "the Amer
lean people are very resentful of the
treatment given to out and out agents of
the government with which they are at
war.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Only One Thing To Be
Seen

:" lTH every hour that passes tnei'
w is less and less doubt that we al.
returning to fight between liberty ahs
tyranny on the simplest terms. we "iD
not say that democracy is being tessea'
for the English poor have never been 81
lowed to have democracy. But we "
say that their capacity for democfa.'
is being tested; that their potentlai Wv
tory over plutocratic shams manutacF
ured for them in the past is being 'sss
ed. The ordinary Englishman has ise
OF old fallacies to pierce before ne caa
see anything. But if he can do it tne's
Is only one thing to be seen.-IhS W'~
Witness.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
FEW weeks ago the following
editorial appeared in "Leslie's":
EVERY pacifist is an ennn,u

Every paclhSt is an enemv
Every one who stands for negotiated neace
is giving aid and comfort to our foes.
And peace that would leave unsettled
the vital issues OF the war would be only
an armistcc.
"Within two decades the world wou1d be
plunged into a still blooder war. and our
children would be driven to finish the struc-
gle for freedom which in our confidence
we left incomplete.
WOE to England, France and America ;f
they leave such legacy to the next rencr-
ation
Already we have talked too much nhout
peace. The frequency of our peace deAni-
TOMS Berlin and Vienna interpret as signs
of weakness.
Among tho armies at the front there arc
no illusions. Soldiers know but one wav
to win. The Allied armies in France know
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
(From "Inside the British Isles")

LLOYD GEORGE is not afraid of
h being himself. He is as daring
in his comments on men and
things as Mr.. Roosevelt, as charm
ing as the late William James. He is used
to being loved. The lines about the eyes
reveal man who works his purpose by
geniality in flow of fun and charm and
sympathy. The political battles of twenty
years have left less impression on his
spirit than the victories he has won as a
peace-maker and harmonizer.
He ends talk by being more completely
the master of your thought than you are
yourself. He states it clearly and beauti-
fully, and reduces it to a programme of
action.
"To understand your people, or any peo-
ple," he said, "it is necessary for one to
pass inside the temple"
He practises what Sainte- Beuve preached,
that to know religion you must be wor-
shipper inside the church. So week by week
Sainte- -Beuve became mystic and pagan
and an epicurean as he served up the soul
of the writer whom he was interpreting.
This is the high gift which Lloyd George
possesses. He can step up to the very altar
of mans most secret belief. This is the
gift which has made him the one Briton
who is perfectly understood in France. He
spoke only a couple of sentences inside the
citadel Of Verdun, but they revealed to
France that he knew what that symbol
meant to them.
"For in his last moments he becomes
something other than the grim fighter and
the adroit politician who uses all the tricks
of the game. Suddenly for his hearers,
and Unexpectedly to himself, he lifts by an
exquisite imagination to the place of in
sight, and becomes the voice of obscure
people, and understands men he has never
met If he talks with sangy person, he
discharges himself in vivid, staccato
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
<<TNSIDE THE BRITISH ISLES"
by Arthur Gleason, published by

by Arthur Gleason, published by
the Century Company, viewed
from cover to cover is very interesting
and in some respects a pretty compre-
aensive picture of England to-day. The
author, realizing the complexity of the
field he enters, wisely plans his work to
canvass certain vital divisions of the
national life: labor, woman, Ireland, etc.
There is an important chapter on Lloyd
George, parts of which are reprinted
elsewhere on this page. And there is
set of "Social Studies" which brings the
reader very close to some of Mr.. Glea-
sons more intimate Investigations. II
have had to use only three years Of OBJ
servation," the writer confesses in his
concluding "Vale," "and five months of
writing on what ought to be the work Of
"a lifetime." And, further, 'I have often
failed to; capture what is characteristic"
But doubtless the reader will. be inclined
to the belief that Mr.. Gleason has been
rather severe in his valuation. Three
years may not be a long time to devote
to the study of nation, nor is period
of five months, devoted to composition,
a very lengthy period. Still, one gets
from a perusal of this volume the i'm
preston that these particular three
years and these particular five months
were pretty we'll spent.
The opening chapter traces "Democ-
racy on the March," 1t is asserted that
ENGLAND has acted on the world as
principle of release for freedom, sometimes
by irritating it into activity, as with the
American colonies, sometimes by co0perat-
ing with it, as in Canada and Australia.
The balance of power has departed from
England to q wider area. But the principle
of government which creates and directs
that power continues to be an English prin-
ciple 1t is the principle of democratic
control One hundred years ago England
was in a war in which her three leaders
were Pitt, Wellington and Nelson, three
Englishmen. To-day Great Britain is in q
war in which her three leaders are Lloyd
George, Haig and Beatty, a Welshman,
Scotchman and an Irishman. This is, of
course, only chance illustration, but it
serves to show the fact that the field of
opportunity has broadened, and that Eng
land is no longer the overshadowing power
in union, but is the equal among equals"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
working programme of action and sharp
summary. Happiness and morality, beauty
and religion, are left to take care of them
selves"
The Outworn Attitude
L Toward Woman


Arrived at the chapter on women; one
reads:
"Great Britain and Germany were the
two nations Of the modern world where the
male mind was in full control of the cham
nels of influence before the war. That
woman's fields of activity were church,
children and kitchen was believed in Eng
land as in Prussia The average man
thought woman slightly inferior creature,
politically incompetent; industrially incapa-
BILE, mentally i'll endowed. ,Unconsciously
he has wished to keep her in the ranks of
an unrepresented, exploited and casual
labor class. 1t has required an immense
force of concentrated will, widespread or
ganization, and a constantly exerted press
ure of what Mr. Lloyd George calls 'strin-
gent nagging' for woman to win the power
full, but now very delicately balanced, posi-
ton which she holds in the industrial world.
She is seeking to win status. Status, or
standing is that position which person
or a class holds because it is able to en-
force it's claims by political and economic
power. Influence whether silent, uncon-
scious, or indirect, is non-exstent except
as the person or class possesses a measure
of democratic control over the conditions of
life"
The woman's. movement, the writer
feels, is fighting, as one of the main
issues low wage scale. Furthermore
cit is fighting bad shop conditions and bad
home conditions. It is concerned with
woman as an industrial worker and as
mother. 1t has a programme of reform that
deals with woman in each of her two ca
pacities 1t is fighting to free the narrow
suppressed middle class woman, to give her
a good life of self-expression. 1t is fight
ing to enable high powered, wel-educated
women to count in the life of the commu-
nifty, to win for them fuller representation
at the universities, larger measure of in
fuence in civil service and in government
committees concerned with industrial con-
ditions and community welfare Suffrage
ments with which to achieve status through
OrganlZaCIOns
What the writer thinks the wonan's
movement of Great Britain is aiming at
in their. fight for status, which will be
mainly waged through the instruments
of trade unions and suffrage, includes:
CD Economic independence; .(2) In
creased sociability; (3) A freedom of
choice in selecting the mate--a freedom
(which was imperfectly granted the
woman in the restricted domestic area
where she formerly passed her life";
(4) An equality in the home; (5) Love
("The deepest craving of her nature is
to be, loved. The old-time home did not
fully meet this need, because love is based
on equality, and she was not an equal') !;
(6) Intellectual and spiritual recogni-
ton; (7) A community motherhood
("There will always be large numbers
who will turn to the outer world to ex-
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
It's No Well-Oiled
] AufOcracv

The principle of democracy is again
emphasized over toward the end of the
book, when the writer declares:
"The thing that irritates us about Eng
land is the same thing that offends US
(that is. Americans) at home. Here is no
well-oiled autocracy that runs on a single
track to a visible goal. Instead of that,
fclean, smooth, organized, docile, it is a de-
emocracy, with an immensely rich variety of
fife ssprawling all over the place. Tbs air
.is full Of voices, because every one is al
lowed to speak. If you don't like it, re-
member what it is that you don't like; it
is a free people, choosing to make its own
mistakes, living its own life, and just now
out on the warpath to chase some tres
passers off the premises. Doubtless, If the
critics were running the performance, they
would give a more unified and polished pro-
ceeding. But group of persons is run
ming this war. The people are running it.
So, instead of losing strength as the press
ure increases, they gather force and mo-
.mentum with each mistake. They teach
themselves by failure. The will of the great
German General Staff can be snapped by
defeat, because the staff is handful of
men. But the will of 100000 people can
mot be broken"
And the principle, he believes, will be
greatly broadened in the future:
"The dimensions of it are so large that
the Imagination even of its projectors has
not wakened to what it implies. A great
organism of democracies, excepting only
India, will exist in world still half in
political bondage. 1t will carry it's commu-
q nifty far along in the twofold purpose Of all
e government-the control of environment
Z and the betterment of human relationships.
:. The war created highly desirable
friction between Great Britain and her
1 colonial democracies, which revealed the
present unsatisfactory status and the need
+ of new order. Out of that friction has
come the vision of the new commonwealth ~
; Mr.. Gleason discusses briefly the ques-
tion, Can democracy produce lead
ers? finding that in turning to experts"
appears quite no abrogation of the demo-
cratic ciples-rather, zone express
sion Of it'; because "a democracy in it.
, self can generate only an impulse" !"
Then he turns to another topic-labor.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
blood Spilled in Battle
- Is Justified

As for the things the war has done
mo friend Of radical democracy need be
worried by the results of the last two
years" (He is writing in 1919 "Thc
blood spilled by the working classes at the
front has been justified by the profound
notifications wrought in English conscious
ness. nation modified and under arms
is rich field for radical ideas. Blood fer
.tilizcs the soil for change.
England is taking strides toward CO.
operative socialism. For the first time in
their history the English are thinking in
terms Of a statc~fa modern state. in ali its
c0mpIexity, with scientific laws and regula-
tions.,"
But
ut IL a mixreading OF English character to
think that anything remotely resembling
the state socialism of Germany, the card
indexing OF the community for vocational
training, the regimcnting OF the intellectual
life into body Of gtate-controIlcd profess
Aefs, will result from the present English
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Smoking Room Acquaintance

Nv al " "n eth els asmokin
yexchan fomaIya to oknowe
land
the and yand
n humility, ievegr
thar Gleason
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

phrases. The nature and direction of his
rebound are determined by the substance
that he encounters. He was born to react
He has a mind that kindles and a style
that rises very lightly and gracefully into
poetic beauty. There has been no such
passage Of prose produced by the war as
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-12

The Duchess of Marlborough, who
has been named as candidate for a
seat in the London County Council,
is probably the most widely known
of all American women who have
welded titled foreigners. The Ouch
ess is a New York girl, the only
daughter Of William X. Vanderbilt.
In all Anglo-American history there
has been no matrimonial alliance that
attracted so much attention as did
her marriage to the ninth Duke of
Marlborough, which took place In
1895, in the fashionable st. Thomas's
Church in New York city.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-12

"A box factory has been figuring
with the Reolds Farms Company for
some time to locate a plant in Odds
mar, but they required ten-year con-
tract at fixed price, and under the
present unsettled war conditions
which greatly influence the cost Of
labor and materials the Reolds Farms
Company declined to enter into any
long term contract of that nature.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-12

or pig. The farmers have nothing. 7
can't imagine where this place would
be If the U. s. had not stepped it.
Now, folks, don't worry. I am long
way from the front and don't expect
to get very close to it Il am sorry
to say. I certainly would like to
knock my share Of the Germans. Well,
I think it is time for me to ring off.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-12

! will write again soon. R.
me to Gardeners, Collins, H.m '~S
all friends.
Lovingly,
T. W. TOMpKINs D..
U. s. N. r. R.. Battery No, !
Expeditionary Force in Fra.
P. o. No. 7O1, care p wv
/ York. -
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-12

Probably the only woman oakum
spinner to be found in America is EN-.
ployed at one of the new shipyards
in Houston.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-12
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-28
-IN-GERMANY lies
CIRCULATED in CANADA

Canada Is also having trouble with
Made-in-Germany lies calculated to
hinder Canadian food conservation ac-
cording to an official statement re-
ceived from the Canadian food con-
troller by the United States food ad-
ministration.
The stories bothering Canada are
of the same general character as those
the United States food administra-
try, such as the ridiculous salt and
blueing famine fakes and the report
that the government would seize
housewives stocks Of home canned
goods.
The Canadian food controller esti-
mates that when the people listen to
and pass on such stories, each one
has the power Of destruction that lies
in battalion of soldiers.
"Stories without even a vestige of
foundation have been scattered broad
cast" said the Canadian statement.
"Nor have they come to life casually.
They have started simultaneously in
different parts of the country and In
each instance have been calculated to
arouse public indignation.
"Thdg are insidious, subtle, persist
ent. Bit by bit they dissipate public
trust, the great essential in the work
of food control.
"It lies with every individual to for
bear from criticism; to refrain from
passing on the vagrant and harmful
story, and thus the more effectively
to cooperate in work which is going
to mean more than the majority Of
people yet realize"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-28
CORN WILL WIN
DEMOCRACY'S WAR
Americas Greatest Cereal Crop
Is Now Moving to
Market.
MAINSTAY IN NATIONS CRISIS.
Surplus Wheat of the United Statea
Has Been Sent to Famine Threat
ened Europe.

Americas great corn crop, exceed
ing 3,0o0000,000 bushels, will save the
worlds food situation, officials of the
United States food administration be-
lieve.
Corn Is the nations best food cereal,
housewives are beginning to realize.
1t contains all the elements needed to
keep the body In state of health and
when used according to the scores of
tried recipes, especially when COM
bined with an added portion of oil or
fat, will sustain life indefinitely. In.
parched corn alone for many days at a
time, and at Valley Forge parched
corn was at times the sole ration Of
the Continental soldiers.
Owing to transportation difficulties
caused by the war the corn crop moved
more slowly to market this year than
ever before. Now, however, the cereal
is reaching the millers and consumers.
In the meantime the nations surplus
wheat has been sent to Europe.
Today there are approximately 30
bushels Of corn for every American.
This quantity is greater by five BUSH
els than in former years.
Corn has become the nations main
stay in the crisis of war.
Just as this cereal saved the first
American colonists from famine on
many occasions, just as it served as a
or urtr1 fha nf paxr
olution and during the Civil War, King
Corn has again come to the front in
the nations battle with autocracy.
Corn meal is finding greatly increas-
ed use In the making Of ordinary white
bread. Hundreds of housewives and
many of the larger bakers are mixing
20 per cent. corn meal with wheat
flour to make leavened bread. This
kind of mixture is worked and baked
in the same recipes and with the same
methods that apply to straight wheat
bread.
| Corn bread-using corn meal entire
ly-is gaining a greater popularity
than ever before. Housewives are
coming to realize that every pound OF
wheat saved in America means a pound
of wheat released for shipment to the
nations with which America is associ.
ated in the war.
There are score of corn products
that today possess unusual Importance
| for Americans. Corn syrup for sweet
ening corn cakes and buckwheat cakes
and for use in the kitchen instead of
granulated sugar is one of the leading
| products made from corn.
Corn oil, excellent for frying and for
every other purpose filed by salad oils,
is appearing on the market in large
quantities. 1t comes from the germ OF
the corn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-28
THE UNITED STATES FOOD
ADMINISTRATION SAYS:

There is no royal road to food
conservation. We can only ac-
compIish this by the voluntary
action Of our whole people, each
element In proportion to it's means.
1t Is a matter of equality Of bur-
den; a matter Of minute saving
and substitution at every point In
the 2o,ooo,ooo kitchens, on the 2o,-
100000 dinner tables, and In the
1000, 900 manufacturing, whole
sale and retail establishments e1
the country.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-28
VIVA. Women Did In civil War.

Women all over the United States
formed societies and msde bandages
and comforts of various kinds for the
soldiers, bat their work, too, lacked
the direction and uniformity which are
necessary for prompt and effective as
sistance. In the Civil war. country
women We're especially generous In
contributing time and labor to the
cause of helping the sick and wounded.
In many instances the men wero not
given enough green food, and farmers
contributed potatoes and fresh vege-
tables in large quantities, which fre-I
quently saved camp from scurvy and
other diseases. Farm and EixNQldA
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-28
Food Regulations

(From office of Federal Food .Ad-
ministrator, Braxton Beachman, Or
lando, Florida, March &c, 1879
Retail grocers of Florida should I'M
derstand that the New War Flour
cannot be sold without substitutes.
War Flour, as it is termed, is only
a higher percentage of milled wheat.
In other words, it takes in a part of
the bran which was formerly extract
ed from the wheat flour.
In all cases other darker flour which
is known as "War Flour" must be ac-
companied by substitutes when sale
is made.
Pancake fiours in packages must be
covered b. substitutes unless they
contain so per cent. mixture of
wheat substitutes. Very few of these
pancake fiours contain this ratio.
All mixed flours that contain less
than so per cent. substitutes must be
covered by a sufficient amount of
subtitutes to equal the so per cent.
provision.
Canned hominy, corn flakes, cream