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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-21
RHEUMATIC AND KIDNEY ILLS.

Troubled with rheumatism, kidney or
bladder affections? You need Foley
Kidney Pills. Mrs. Frank p. Wood, r.
L. ID. 2, Morrill,, Maine, writes: II
found relief as soon as l began taking
Foley Kidney Pills. My husband also
much benefit from them. He
was lame. could not stoop over: now
feels no pain" Sold everywhere.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-21

Connellsville. Pa.-Dhring the week
which included the Fourth Of July all
coal producing records here were
smashed with an output Of 675.OO0
tons. This was the response to the
fuel administrations call for full steam
ahead. To make this record the min
ers worked a full day on the Fourth
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-21
EXPERIMENTS ON SHELL
TO END U-B0AT MENACE

Evansville. Ind. - William
Schnabel is experimenting on a
shell with which he hopes to end
the submarine peril by shooting
the U-boat instead OF its perl
scope. He says his shell Is nom
ricocheting and that 1t will not
skip along on top Of the water
when shot at an angle, as those
In use now do.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-21
Record il Coal Mining.

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Lord Denbigh asks:

"Why all this 'slop about the German
people? Why is it necessary to draw these
elaborate distinctions between the Ger
man people and the system under which
they are supposed to have groaned? What
ever individuals may have done the Ger
man People-with a large P-have be-
lieved in and applauded this system. II
has made them prosperous and powerful.
and they eagerly anticipated what it would
do for them in the future. 1t was the
German People that went enthusiastically
into this war expecting to be home by
Christmas richer and irresistible; it was
they that goose-stepped at home when
their army goose-stepped through Brus-
sells.
Crushing seventy millions of people
is one thing, and may we'll not be an AL
lied aim, but making them foot the bill
against Us, making them disgorge their
plumber worth thousands Of millions and
pay large portion of the Allies war
expenses is different matter altogether. y
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
The Greatest Crusade

1t was new friendship of the
nations that the flags Of the Allies
hymned on Fifth Avenue, and it is
new friendship Of man that is symbol
lied to-day in that extraordinary gath
ering Of all religions at Madison Square
Garden.
The history Of the world was present
in those futtering colors. The past
there assembled in new order, the
pageant of new unity, the sign and
symbol that new league Of right
marched upon earth. And it is precise
ly the same procession Of mankind, the
same united resolve and hope and
faith that to-day raise a united voice
through priest and rabbi and minister.
The old religions are swallowed up in
one sovereign emotion that knows
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Pranes, Too, Will Win the War

Of the sundry items that will win the
war besides wel-armed fighting men,
food is the most conspicuous. Advertis-
ing copy in every direction solemnly as
sures us that flood will win the war"
We take wee bit less sugar and ac-
claim ourselves patriots. We pass up
the prunes we never did care much for so
that fighting men may eat them. That
lowly commodity of the typical boarding
house menu has risen to new wartime
dignity. Surgeon General Gorgas has
classed it as {: necessary food for our
military forces. Official records show
that our fighting men consumed 10000
900 pounds Of the 1917 crop Of prunes.
AS might be expected, the announce
ment of that figure was the signal for
some one to get busy with a pencil and
paper. The handy man with figures APP
peared in Oregon. His conclusions are
now available to an expectant world.
Calculating fifty-fve prunes to the
pound, he finds that our soldiers con-
sumed 1,100,000,000 prunes of last years
crop. If these prunes were only an inch
long, there would be more than $4,000
miles of them. Laid end to end they
would reach from Vancouver to Berlin
and back again, with enough prunes left
over to build prune branch line to San
Francisco. Or these same dried plums
would be sufficient to tile pathway four
feet wide from our front line trenches
to the Hun capital
There are possibilities in this theme
OF winning the war with prunes. AS
our front lines move closer to Germany's
capital and our prune-eating warriors
increase, the four-foot pathway to Ber-
lin will widen indefinitely Next years
crop will doubtless be of enough mill
ions of prunes to pave Wilhelmstrasse
completely and to furnish such dark
decorations for the erstwhile imperial
palace as will be appropriate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

appeal to the country for personal
and partisan Endorsement Of his acts and
his Administration. While the tendency
has been on the part Of leaders on both
sides to take the Presidents own words
at their face value, and to keep party
strife in the background, the President
at the eleventh hour elects to make the
war party issue and to bring parti-
sanship into the struggle. He forces
the issue, and the issue is clear.
In his fourteen conditions for peace
the President has laid down principles
which are not republican principles and
not those which since the Civil War
have chiefly guided the policies Of this
country.
We do not believe the people of this
nation are for free trade. nor for the
removal of all economic barriers, least
of all with the German nation.
We do not believe the people Of this
country would be content with peace
that does not to the fullest extent real
ize the nations demand and the demand
of all our allies for complete repara-
ton, restitution and punishment.
They are opposed to bargain peace,
to any kind of negotiated peace, to
any kind of policy short Of that terse-
~ and bluntly expressed in the terms of
unconditional surrender"
The Republican party stands squarely
and unequivocally behind what we be-
lieve to be the dominant sentiment of
this nation. We do not believe it can
be DETECTED from its firm resolve by any
appeal for partisan or personal indorse-
ment, nor from it's resolution to stand
by our allies squarely and uncompro-
misingly.
On this issue the country knows, alb
solutely, where the Republican party
stands.
1t does not know, absolutely, where
the President stands
This question is now squarely in the
open. 1t is for the people of the nation
to decide.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
A Week of Verse
The Song of the Cheechas

THE Helen Hare Levinson Prize OF 500 founded
awarded this year to the following Serbian
poem BY John Curtis Underwood, now living In
New Mexico. author Of War Flames" and other
l:sred In 'Poetry"l
THE Cheechas defended Chachak.
4 The grandfathers Of Serbia's fourth
line held her third capital:
For a man is a grandfather here at forty,
and fighter at eighty until he dies.
And the Germans found it out and finched
and fled from them.
They had no uniform but their gray hair
and boards, and needed none.
They had no rations but half pound OF
dry bread a day, and it sufficed them.
They were armed with rifles as old and
battered as themselves, and they battered
the Germans back
Three times they drove them back, and
took that shattered and exploding CAPT
tai away from them.
Then in the fourth attack. when four in
every FIVE of them we're down,
The rest OF the oldest men who had seen
free Serbia born and were seeing her
die
So they believed with the rest-went away
muttering, "What do I care for myself,
what do count for?
Three million people lost, nothing else
matters, three million people lost, three
million lost"
And many of them died by the way, where
hundreds were lying starving and frecz-
ing
Dying on high Montenegrin mountains in
the wind and the that grew sleet,
SO gray icicles grew on their boards and
the slect cut cold skin their faces.
And the wind cut their song into shreds,
the song they were singing when they
died:
The Suabas are building houses, the Serbs
shall live in them.
The Suabas are planting corn, the Serbs
shall eat it up.
The Suabas are pressing wine. the Serbs
shall drink of it.
And they drank to their fill OF the war that
the Huns and their helots had brewed.
But the Serbs and their brothers shall
finish It.
JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
The Case Against the B. r. T.

There may be little chance that case
of manslaughter, or any other criminal
charge, can be made out against the B.
r. t. officials. But if moral guilt is clear
cannot the righteous wrath of the COM
munity strike and punish where punish
ment is due?
Does blame attach chiefly to green
motorman who blundets or to strikers
who strike as the only means of enforc-
ing judgment awarded by the War
Labor Board-or to the company officials
who deliberately fouted that judgment
AND set in motion the chain of events
which ended in a horrible slaughter?
frhe p,-i'na tacie record is plain and
aight. If it is borne out by investi-
cation, why should not the city and the
Public Service Commission sentence the
guilty officers to resignation and dis
grace? Why should they not say: "You
have proved unfit for the great respon-
sibility OF holding the lives of city in
your hands. You have proved unworthy
OF the trust and respect Of your fellow
citizens. You must CO.
The word is "abdicate" in Europe to-
day. 1t is an equally good word for
autocratic and incompetent America
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
MIR. Rockefeller's Position
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: know nothing, except indirectly,
about the athletic sports which are being
gotten up nationally in the interest of the
United War Work Campaign. l have been
on no committee which has dealt with this
subject, nor in any grouo which has con-
sidered it. have made no statement in re-
gard to the acceptance by the campaign,
directly or indirectly, Of profits from box
ing bouts.
As l read The Tribunes article on Octo-
Der 81 felt that, the facts being as above
set forth, it hardly did me justice. | am
neither suggesting nor asking for retrac-
ton, but simply wanting to have you know
the facts, for I am sure you will regret as
much as do that, under the circumstances,
these references to me should have been
made. Very sincerely,
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. Jr.
Chairman United War Work Campaign in
Greater New York
New York, Nov. l, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

Kansas, having passed through the "he
kept us out of war" stage, shows signs
of swinging back to straight Repub-
lican state next Tuesday Arthur Cap
per, Republican Governor, who carried
every county at the August primaries, is
conceded seat in the Senate to replace
William II. Thompson, Democrat. The
Republicans feel sure of the 1st, Sd. 4th:
9Th and 9Th districts, with the POSSIBILITY,
OF gaining in the other three. Toward a
Republican Congress Kansas will prob
ably contribute gain Of one seat in the
Senate and at least two in the House. All
the Republican candidates will profit by
the tremendous vote polled at the pri-
maries by Henry Allen, Republican can
didate for Governor, now doing war work
in France, who will be elected by ma
Jority conservatively estimated at 10O,O 900.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

nARlS, Oct IS (By mail) New York
Will like to hear of the decoration for
the second time by the French GOV
ernment of the twenty year-old son OF
Whitney Warren, the distinguished archi-
tect, who, unheraldcd and unrewarded save
by the satisfaction which comes from SER
vice we'll done. from the very beginning Of
the war has labored as patriot and unself-
ish gentleman INCREASINGLY to bring Amer
lea TO France, to help our people to sympa-
thetic understanding of the Alsace-Lo
raine question and to an intelligent &erasp
OF the difficult problems Italy is facing
Young Warren-Whitney Jun--enrolled
in the American Field Ambulance when
that efficient body was organized, and dur
ing the two years he served received the
CroiX de Guerre for carrying wounded un-
der fire. When the Ambulance became
mlitarlzed on the arrival of the American
army he entered the French Artillery
School at Fontanebleau, was graduated a
lew months ago as an "aspirant"-
candidate-and assigned to light field
battery attached to General Mangins army.
In the recent stiff fighting of that gallant
army driving on Laon he was wounded
while moving his guns under fire to a new
forward position and subsequently, cited for
the Medaille Militaire-the highest award
which can be given French soldier He
has about recovered, and will conclude his
convalescent period with Il short visit to
his mother at Newport
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Where Does the President Stand :?

Since the rise Of party government
in the United States and the sharp
cleavage of our people along political
lines we have never known what it is to
engage, with all our strength and with
all our will, in great struggle with
powerful foe until now
Political conditions in the Civil War
were in sharp contrast to those Of the
present time. The larger part of the
strength of the Democratic party then,
as now, was derived from the South
With the secession of the Southern
States that party was shorn of great
part of its strength. In spite of very
marked exceptions, the Democratic par
ty throughout the Civil War was essen
TALLY an anti-war party
If it had been restored to power it
would have ended the war without vic
tory. If it could have obtained power
in either branch of Congress it would
have stayed the hand of Lincoln and
paralyzed the strength of the Northern
armies and made the war impossible
This is said with no reflection upon a
very large body of loyal Democrats in
that momentous struggle. It is a SIM
pie statement of fact. The record is
clear.
Before we entered into the struggle
with Germany the Democratic party,
under the Presidents leadership, was
distinctly an anti-war party. Even a
year after the sinking Of the Lusitania
the strongest slogan for the Presidents
reelection was "He kept US out of war"
1t is fair, we think, to say that if Mr.
Taft or almost any other Republican
had been President we should have en-
tered the war long time before we
did. This is almost certainly true if
Colonel Roosevelt had still been our
Chief Executive.
From the day we entered the war Re-
publicans, in Congress and out, have.
with very few exceptions, fewer than
in the Democratic party itself, given
their loyal and undivided support to
practically every war measure. For the
time being politics was distinctly lad
journed." If there was any political
issue involved at all, it was with the
feeling, which was not partisan feel
ing, that We were not getting into the
war as fast and as energetically as we
might. For more than eight months
after our formal declaration against
Germany there still seemed some hope
on the part of the Administration that
S.aa 10 MIGHT ho brnu0},t hot,<
The President nov elects to make an
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Commercial

rron The Westminster Gazette
X ROSS, with protrusive ears,
" Sleek hair, brisk glance. Aeshy and
yet alert,
Red, full, and satisfied,
Cased in obtusencss confident not to be
hurt,
He sits at a little table
In the crowded congenial glare and noise
jingling
Coin in his pocket; sips
His glass, with hard eye impudently sim
Cling
A woman here and there:
Women and men, they are all priced in his
thought,
All commodities staked
In the market. sooner or later sold and
bought.
Were | he you are thinking,
You with the dreamer's forehead and pure
eyes,
what should 7 lose ALL,
All that is worthy the striving for all my
prize.
"Why is it. l am not he?
Chance? The grace Of God? The nystery's
plan?
He. too, is human stuff,
kneading Of the old, brothcrly slime Of
man.
cam lover Of men,
And turn abhorring as from fat slug or
snake?
Lives obstinate in me, too,
Something the power Of angels could not
unmake?"
0 self-questionel None
unlocks your answer. Steadily look, nor
finch.
This belongs to your kind.
And knows its aim, and tails not itself at
4 pinch.
1t is here in the world and works
Not done with yetUp, then; let the test
be tried!
Dare your uttermost be
Completely, and of your own, like him, be
justified.
LAURENCE BINYON
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Henry Morris .Urites:

TO profess belief in league of na-
tlons which is to preserve universal peace
by means Of power to punish, militar;lv
and economically, any offending or re-
calcltrant state-and vet to refrain from
visiting with condign punishment the
people and the rulers of the people who
have outraged every doctrine of Chris
tlanlty, every tenet of civilization and
every principle of international Law is
not only to be fundamentally inconsist-
eDt, but despicably self-stultifying. A
league Of democracies now exists. and is
doing its best to curb the criminal ambi-
ton OF race of barbarians and to pre-
vent them becoming the despots of the
world. Is the intention of this league
only to punish Indicators in future. but
to let Germany down lightly for the
hideous crimes she has been committing
for the last four years, and is still COM
hitting? If Germany is allowed
to go unpunlshed now, time will pale her
scarlet sins, and before many years an
other war will come. No league Of ma
tions will have SO good prospect Of pre-
venting war as comprehensive, thor
ough and never-to be forgotten chastise.
ment and the dictation Of peace terms in
Berlin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Surrender First!

If it is true, as our Washington cor
respondent believes this mo. ming, that
the Allies intend to deliver to Germany
the terms of an armistice with no peace
conditions attached or implied it is news
of profound significance. 1t means that
the Allies have avoided the trap Ger
many set for them when she prevailed
upon President Wilson to submit her re-
quest for an armistice as a step toward
peace negotiations based upon his four
teen points.
Germany, already .hopelessly beaten in
her own heart, hoped desperately to bar
ter the confession of military defeat for
position in peace discussions limited
beforehand to principles and conditions
which the Allies had never accepted. In
every note received by the American
government from Germany and Austria
Hungary, and in every note dispatched
ny Cnc American government 70 Cne ell
cmy, armistice was treated as something
preliminary to and inseparable from
peace negotiations on the basis Of Mr..
Wilson'S fourteen points. And in that
form the correspondence went to Yer
sailles--arnfistic and peace negotiations
like the lesser and greater parts, respec-
lively, Of one and the same thing.
Mr.. Wilson evidently meant it to be So
If the Allies had accepted this situa-
ton they would have limited peace dis
cussions to the fourteen points.
If they have, as we hope, rejected the
situation, then there is yet the possibil-
ty of reparation. moral punishment and
economic barriers against the sinister
and wicked permeation of things made
in Germany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

neither creed, nor sect,s save as they
serve the one God of all.
It is the people who have done this
thing. Leaders, Of Church as of State,
have not beer quick to point the way. It
was the people of Belgium, OF France,
Of England, finally of America, who at
the call Of duty melted their differences,
their selfishnesses, their fears, and, for
an ideal, went forth to fight as men
have never fought before. No set form
Of words has defined that duty or that
ideal. It has not been war for dogma.
civil or religious. Rather has it been
true peoples war, uprising from the
deepest springs Of devotion and right in
the hearts of men.
AS our fighting men went forth to
serve the nation, so the nation behind
has stepped forth to serve these soldiers
The works Of welfare and comfort and
cheer, for which to-day's great cam
paign enlists the aid of every American
have never been paralleled in history
The drain upon our country has been
colossal. 1t has been met cheerfully
It will be met cheerfully 1t is the
splendor and salvation of peoples war
that it leaves no loafers or laggards,
that the whole nation is caught into line
and marches in step, as to mighty
chorus.
When wilt thou save the people,
God Of Nations, when
Not kings and lords, but nations,
Not thrones and crowns but men?
BY the hour, or this day of unified
faith and prayer and service, the liber-
alton Of the oppressed peoples of Europe
gives. the answer The crusade of the civ
ilized nations against brutality, against
lawlessness, in behalf Of the weak and
for the triumph of justice and right,
marches to q sweeping victory Never
were the blind courage and faith of man
so gloriously vindicated Never did the
God OF Nations, by whatever name and
ritual worshipped, show his face more
clearly to his people
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Spenser Wilkinson, the famous
military critic and professor of
military history at Oxford Uni
uersity. writes:

War, and above al this war, is
spiritual matter, question Of right and
wrong. The military questions involved
in an armistice are technical, but every
one can Judge of the moral problems, for
every one knows in his heart what is
right. Every one knows that We cannot
now honestly and sincerely shake hands
with the Germans and let bygones be by
cones. There cannot be peace and good
will between US and them until some
thing more has been accomplished. That
something more is victory, plain and un-
mstakablc. It is now within our grasp,
and to forego it would be to condone all
the German crimes. No peace that can
possibly result from negotiations with
Germany at the present moment will
satisfy the conscience of our people, to
which the speeches of all our ministers
of every party have repeatedly given ex-
preston. No indemnity, however large,
which Germany may agree to pay, so
long as her fleet and her army have not
been crushed, will satisfy the moral need
of this nation for the vindcation of
right"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
The Winds
tFror, To-dau)

tffoit IO-odD)
TN THESE green fields, in this green
i spring
In this green world of burning sweet
That drives its sour from everything
And burns the Arctic with new heat.
That seems SO slow and flies SO feet
On half-seen wing;
In this green world the birds are all
With motion mad, are wild with song:
The grass lears like a sudden wall
Flung up against foe that long
Strobe round and wrought his frosty
wrong.
The bright winds call
The bright winds answer; the clouds rise
White from the grave, shaking their head.
Strewing the grave clothes through the
Skies
In languid drifting shadow shed
Upon the fields where, slowly spread.
Each shadow dies
In every wood is green and gold,
The unbrdged river runs all green
With queenly swan-clouds floating bold
Down to the mills swift guillotine.
Beyond the mill each murdered queen
Floats white and cold
If could rise up in cloud
And look down on the new earth in fight,
Shadow-like cast my thoughts thin shroud
Back upon these fields of light;
And hear the winds of dav and night
Meet, singing loud!
JOHN FREEMAN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: want to express to you my deep
appreciation of your patriotic edisoH"t
1.-THE Example of France" in this morn
ing's Tribune. Please be assured tnas ~
this, as in every fine work you are do'ns'
your readers are right behind you In you
persona! as we'll as your patriotic s'ruS
gle for right, truth and honesty. We con
slider The Tribune the "best"
Lorraine V. ROMANS :.
Englewood, N. j., Oct. 90, 1918