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The Washington herald., 1918-01-10
The Righting of an Error.

David Lloyd George made misstep in his
statement Of allied aims before the British
Trade Unions Conference.
The President the error in the twinkling
of eye and hastened before Congress to cor
rect it before fatal damage was done
Here is account of an interview with Leon
Trotzky just before he left Petrograd for the re-
sumption of the peace negotiations at Brest-
Litovsk- 1t is related by Arthur Ransome, Petro-
grad correspondent of the London Daily News:
He was leaving with the mistaken convic-
ton that the entente governments wanted
Germany to succeed in making an advantageous
separate peace with Russia, SO that guarding
herself in the East she might agree more will
Y ihgly to surrender what the allies want in
lhe West The allies, would then blame the
c'shevih for the lost freedom of Poland,
LitfF41ia and Courland. He was under the
|nsse< sio9A that Lloyd George had made
-, c'n. pf l'st, allowed such an Interpretation
asspred him that he was mistaken, but
he lffeult to convince He said THAT
is 1Eak ALLIED POLIcYf q
AssuEfdx the President acted just in the. uiek
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10
A Bankrupt Censorship.

Rdicule American war pretensions has already
crept into Partisan SATIRE gently, of since the
French a polte-indefatigably polite-peope, but
none the less pointed and acdulous 1t is ridicule
which our army folks have brought tumblng their
heads through union of tacessness, stupidity and
that braggart streak of seassurance and sef.satis
faction which has been offensive to Europeans
since the American bourgeoise first began to make
Cooks tours of their beauty spots.
1t is nconceivable that many "doughboys' or Amer
lean officers with thmbleful of brains, in the Persh
ing forces, should show condescension towards the
French anything savorng of that "oh well, IUe
Americans the job now; going to end
the for you" spirit. Yet Haywood Broun and
Wythe Williams, both correspondents of the first
rank, say that such is the case; and that definite
action has set in against in France, not alone be-
of this crude tacessness but because the mere
mite of army have in France has been pampered
and prcss-agented of all proportion to its impor-
tance.
The correspondents themselves are contributing in
voluntarily to Gallo gayety by sending pilin human
interest" dispatches home, the ivory-domed censors
having barred anything of real interest importance
For instance such twaddle that about the "redhead
ed Irshman" firing the first shot the Germans over
the trenchtop; the great todo made about the first
German prisoner captured the little brushes Of the
night patrols worked into sensations have caused the
French to wonder whether the Americans think they
have gotten into another guerrilla scrap with Fpnos
into a Comanche uprising.
Good morning; how is your prisoner today?"
a favorte French jest flung at the American troopers
after the great scarehead stories the first capture
Every correspondent writhes about the kind of "bunk
he is forced to cable by of the stupid double
barrelled censorship he is fighting against They know
that sef-respectng French and British newspaper men
laugh at the kind of stories they turning for
the delectaton of the provincial and unsophstcated"
American public
Intelligent Americans have made the kind of
criticism of the literature emanatng from the PERISH
ing headquarters. Let them know and for all
where the blame belongs. 1t is not the heads of the
newspaper correspondents, but the censors who
pursuing, under the direction of oldfogy, dryrot army
officers, a wrong-headed policy, and one which will
shortly produce an explosion unless remedy is
found.
Suppression of military information is thing;
suppression of facts which the Germans already know
and have published is quite another If American
Congressman can return from trip the front and
inform the American public of conditions of which any
mention is forbidden the correspondents in their cable
reports is not sort of inquiry necessary?
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10
THE TOWN CRIER.

Postponement Of the regular
meeting OF the Suffrage Association
Of she District Of Columbia, scheduled
for today. was announced from head
quarters. lsos Rhode Island avenue.
late last night.
1nstruction In . class Of express
sion will begin at : O'Clock this cven-
ing at the Y. W. c. A under the di-
rection OF Miss Ethel Bartlett. Nor
mai School instructor
Colonel Archibald Hopkins Was
reelected chairman or the Boagd OF
managers Of the Associated -Chsritiys
at the regular monthly meeting 80
the board yesterday afternoon at tie
Social Service House, s25 II street
northwest.
Miss Emma Gray, president OF the
National New Thought Center. spoke
on Mental Poisoning at 4 nlrctinG
OF the Center last night
The FIRST social meeting Of the
Collegiate Club for the season will be
held at $50 o'clock this evening az
the Y. NJ. II. 4 rooms. lGs- PENN
sylvanis avenue northwest. Hrfncsh-
ments and smokes viii be served.
Members of the newly organized
Interior Department Brass Band are
to meet at 80 O'Clock this evening Iu
the auditorium oG Tie nov Interior
Department building; Eighty sm-
ployes OF tho various bureaus have
applied for mcmborship. Victor O..
Dodge is president Of the musical o.
Eanization. c. O. Howard secr,sasv,
and II. II. Rudolph direetog
Members Of St. ANN. Auxiliary.
No. 50. Knights OF -. john. are rr-
quested to attend installation 81 Of
ficers this evening at ID ST Peters
rectory, Second and { si.-ets Soarh-
east.
The art section oT tho Twertieth
Century Club will meet al tho hnrH" g
OF Mrs. Dayton Ward. lea CoIumni.t
road, this afternoon At O'ClCcE. 1'.ra
subject. Tho Women Of The E,naIS-
ssnce." Will he treated by Mrs. 4 x.
CTandal.
Miss Frances miller aud Mrs.
VIM. Asher would like an the Cnuuy.lI
Girls 10 meet in the Eastern Prrshy
terian Church. sixth street and Mary4
land avenue northeast. at C.s1 fhl
evening for an Important uonfcrCnf
Sandwiches aud apples will be ar
sale. All girls who would like 10 Be-
long TO the Council Girls arc cautial-
ly invited.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10
they're All Heroes.

The Germans we're raiding the American first line
trenches in Alsace-
Deadly artillery FIRE splintered shells all about our
boys, new and untried in repeling trench attacks
Even the bravest hid behind anything which SEEM
ed to offer shelter from those screaming messengers
of death.
Two of our boys were hit by shell splinters One,
Charles Box of Oklahoma, was half buried under a
ton or so of earth His "bunkie" worn from fighting
and weak from loss of blood threw himself down be-
side his fallen comrade
The commander saw the boy kneelng there digging
into the earth with his bare hands.
"ComeI" he ordered.
But Charles Orr, Kansas farm lad, only IS, for
the first time refused to obey his commanders order
Come! !" the commander repeated; You'll be killed
there get down belowP
Il can't" Private Orr said Don't you see my
bunkde's wounded? 1 can't leave him here"
And he didn't not until others and dug his
bunke out of the earth Then when Hero Orr and
his bunke got back into the dugout the former insist
ed upon staying right there to battle with the Huns
while the more severely wounded comrade carried
TO the hospital.
When Private Box opened his eyes he whispered to
the nurse:
That's the kind of bunkie to have"
1t isl
George Pattullo telling about that first raid of the
Germans in the Saturday Evening Post, calls Charles
: Orr The First American Hero"
AHe is a hero. There's doubt about that.
But Charles Orr, brave and fearless, is only one
her u hundreds of thousands of American boys who
arc esinx themselves to their country'N Con-
eieur - sslieve that any one of thosS boys would
rff fetrrsDt of German shells and court death itself
10 ,5rae from the battlefield the wounded body of
comrste-.is bunkie!
For t4ats the kind of boys our boys are.
There can't be any 'bravest" when all equally
brave There can't be any "frst hero" when all have
offered the sacrifice of their lives that the Hun horde
may be driven into defeat.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10
Had Tried in Vain.

Speaking at a dinner, Senator Robert L. Owen, of
Oklahoma referred to the wonderful influence welded
by little wiley in most affairs, and ttingy recalled
this anecdote:
One afternoon two acquaintance chanced to meet,
and during the gabfest that followed of them took
the other to task for the latitude in boastng that he
allowed his wife
Say, jim" said he "why on earth do you permit
your wife TO go around telling the other that
she made a out of you? You never hear my
wife say anything like that"
No." rejoined jim, with merry little chucide,
but have heard her say than one occasion
that she had tried her hardest" Philadelphia Tele-
graph
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10
INSPIRATION.

Fame called him loudly, but he never heard;
Wealth beckoned, but his drowsy eyes were blind;
Love whispered SOFTLY Seek and you shall find
The golden goal" but 10, he scarcely stirred;
His mind was mazed with dreams, his vision blurred
With cloudy, formless thoughts, but lf-divned;
His work lay unattended undersigned
Awaiting Inspirations magic world
z hca came figure, ugly, scowling, drear
40 seonrged this dreamer till his task he sought
sAi,e stolled in mingled wonder, pain and fear,
= ~ Rpod time masterpiece was wrought;
To-. ,nsrif ton had brought this to be
tld4 <tt fnask of grim Necessity
BERTON BRALEY.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10
Sly Shots at the Solons.
By THE OBSERVER.

Can il be possible that men who
voted for the Walsh oil leasing bill in
the Senate wanted to give the Stand
ard Oil Company what Arthur Bris-
bane says It will get out Of this bill?
By the way, where does Mr.. Brisbane
get this information which makes him
so cocksure about this Standard OIL
business? Did he appear before a
committee with it-or has he given it
in epistoIary fashion? Congress would
like to know.
II there ever was a time for dem
agog now is that time. In spite OF
the richness OF opportunity. however.
there are few OF this brand OF crit
tiers in the Congressional corral. For
which the country is thankful
Senator Fletcher took occasion TO
still alleged lies which have been 60
ing the rounds with reference to the
swamp land where Camp Joe John
ston is located. Evidently other SEN
ators will have TO follow a similar
course with reference to camps in
their sections Of the country.
There are rumors that the Nickel
lar amendment, in a modified form,
may be fought for at the present
session by those second class postal
rate experts who find the present pro-
vision Of the war revenue law on the
subject decidedly unbearable and sup
posedly unworkable.
Senator GaIlinger took a good rest
during the final two months OF the
extra session. Consequently he IL now
found to be very much on the Job.
1t was smoot, Of Utah, who men
toned something about free trade.
and his opposition to It. when inter-
viewed on the Presidents Tuesday
message to Congress. Can it be that
Mr.. Smoot thinks the President be
lieves one thing We are fighting for is
free trade-as the Senator thinks OF
Il!
Members Of Congress are being
flooded with letters from civil war
veterans who make a righteous plea
for higher pensions. Since the war
risk bill became operative the vet
Grams realize that, after all, they have
been dealt with, with the most eX-
treme frugality.
Speaker Clark dimes Billy Sunday
and Ma" Sunday is there. and so Is
Mrs. Clark. And this hapens on the
day the house votes on woman suf-
frage. And they all four are for suf-
frage-verily, politics and affairs on
the hill are getting to be domestic I'm
the strictest sense, are they not?
or the hundred counties OF the ma
ton which attained the signal honor
of recording more voluntary enlist
ments than their draft quotas called
for. most Of them were from the West
or Middle West. An interesting fact
to recall when one realizes that some
Of our great men insisted the West
was so full OF pacifism that 81
wouldn't respond to the colors.
DR.. Victor Rosewater, Of Omaha,
Neb., who was acting chairman OF
the Republican National Committee
previous to the 1912 convention, was
in the city yesterday. He spent some
time in interviewing some OF the biz
men about chances of the party for
the coming year. Also, he was trying
to find out II any of them knew pre-
cisely" what President Wilson meant
by that third paragraph" OF his
peace conditions.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10
By HEYwooD BRoUN.
Special Cable 20 washinEtoi Heraid
and New York Tribune.

Special Cable 20 washinEtoh Herald
and New York Tribune.
Copyright. lss. By The Tribune Asod.tiOa-l
With the American Army. Jan. D.
When the first unit of the American
army landed It was obliged to borrow
motor trucks from the French.
The American major general ex-
planned that the War Department had
made q mistake and shipped the
trucks on the slowest steamer Of the
convoy. These trucks came In about
five days later and were put TO WORK
after a little gasoline had been bor-
rowed from the French, but the bad
start has never been overcome. From
that day TO this our men have always
been ahead of their material
Material Slow.
Unit after unit arrives and waits
for its wagons and motor trucks.
Sometimes these come in a week and
sometimes II takes longer. but always
there Is a wait Not once has a d.
vision arrived and found its trucks
and wagons waiting. The Rainbow
Division was handicapped in this way.
Arrived in its training area, the d.
vision had mules but not wagons.
At the end Of a week there arrived by
rail a number OF casef containing
wagon parts. Eargerly the quarter
master unpacked these crates. He
found wagon bottoms, sideboards and
backboards. but no wheels. They ar
rived a week later
The American army now has good
many automobiles and motor trucks.
There are not enough to be sure, yet
there is a respectable showing. But
we are still depending almost entirely
on the French for gasoline. We have
leaned much too hard upon the
French. We use their gasoline and
their airplanes and their field guns
and their heavy guns and their bombs
and their automatic rifles. We take
nothing from the British but gas
masks and helmets.
But there is one commodity which is
comparatively plentiful in American
and very scarce in France. and that
is labor. Yet We are using French
labor largely for our preparations in
France. French soldiers build many
OF our wooden barracks. French
women and men are handling our
supplies at the QuartermastePs base.
The question of labor IL closely al
lied with the question OF housing.
This has not been handled well. The
first unit arrived here in summer and
the officers were billeted in houses,
while the men went into barns. AS
far as possible, these were barns
which had been used for storing grain.
A very few had been used for cattle.
These French villages were not clean,
but a little work and a little persis-
tence did much to remove mud and
manure. Perhaps these little red
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10

ouE % sgault It TO the people for
a lsss--sal the men who counsel
cool hoss.s gld slow adjustment OF
our sGRt-s ifter peace shall have
cor'S, arg jEst as anxious to sub
mi K 70 tao people.
/: ersi Theodore Roosevelt had
not bees. 30 critical of. the attitude
OF tls administration upon several
matters Ra would have been an
: idesi aSuTe to inject into the Rus
! sian afaIF. deal. because his char
| actor is the character that the
aver ge Pusi11 likes TO meet. the
kind = helilr es in, the kind he
will follow. the kind that can
achieve results with the Russian.
But with his continual asinine
I nagginS. members OF Congress as
sert, T. RL has put himself in a po-
sition where he cannot do real
service for us in the place he is
most admirably qualified for. and
which he would doubtless be glad
to fill.
No one will ever know-at least
until after the war is over-wheth-
er President Wilson thought of 7.
r. as a possible Moses to lead the
Russians out OF the wilderness.
But IL the President did have the
former occupant OF the White
| House in mind he knew him better
than T. r. thought he did. and he
| must have foreseen that, before our
fight had gone very far. the Col
onel would be an opponent of the
administrations war plans. As
some members at the Capitol have
frequently said. il is a pity that the
Colonel didn't begin right and stay
right from the outset. lie could
have performed meritorious service
| in Petrograd. He could have, per-
haps, been the means of bringing
Russia into the equation at a time
when Germany was most disCour-
aged, and when a firm stand on the
part of Russia would have meant
| Germauy's withdrawal from the
| field.
There is one point. however.
upon which the Colonel can yet
| right himself. He can become a lit
tie more disposed to urge those
things upon the American people
| which tally with the ideals of after
| war existence, as contemplated by
| President Wilson. And he can be-
gin at once to boost for the Presi-
dents way of handling the present
| situation.
T. r. has II In him to remain a
| useful citizen. He cannot be as
useful as he might have been. OF
! course. but he still can deG,-a te
himself to a task for which he is
still qualified. even though he has
made himself useless for another
and a greater task.
His friends in Congress hope T.
| r. will forget self and reinembo>
| America. The country will live
long after the Colonel is gone. 1t
makes precious little difference
what becomes of him-hereafter-
but it does make a great deal of
difference what becomes of this
\ country.
THE OBSERVER.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10
NEW YORK HARBOR CROWDED

The probeTs into the Shipping
Board yesterday heard Edward J..
Carry, director Of operations in the
board, tell OF the crowded conditions
in New York harbor.
"A subcommittee OF the Commerce
Committee, composed OF Senators
Harding, Of Ohio. and Fletcher. OF
Florida. secured from the Shipping
Beard the s1,5Oo,0oO advance 60 the
Newport News Drydock Shipbuilding.
so that Il may erect houses for its
laborers and relieve the crowded liv-
ms conditions
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10
A LINE o. CHEER
EACH DAY O. THE YEAR.
BY John kendrIck Bangs.
GOOD AND EVIL.

I looked about for ugliness.
And found it sure enough.
I truly did not have to press
To find the sorry stuff.
But discovered everywhere
/ cast my eager eyes,
Despite the ugliness, there
Were lovely things likewise.
II there were weeds some flower nigh
Was always to be seen,
And where he clouds obscured the sky
The Garth was lushly green:
Ard tears had laughter playing round,
Ans eECc amid the blur
Au6 n K o. Crime-rid hearts found
TIE sa,a Of character,
Copyright, 1871
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10

Chicago women propose to stoke their furnaces
to save coal The report of the organization of Hus-
bands League of Protest is doubtless untrue.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10

Trotzky hits two-faced plot, comments contem-
porary In hitting anything twofaced Trotzy is likely
to belt himself one on the Jaw
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10

Germany has been bowling for terms. Now
that she has them, what is she going to do with
themo
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10

ouE % sJaUit IT TO the people for
a lsss-Aal the men who counsel
cool hos.as nd slow adjustment of
our sGRt-s ifter peace shall have
conrS, arg jvst as anxious to sub
mil Il to taJ people.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10

THE OBSERVER.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-10

Members Of Congress are being
flooded with letters from civil war
veterans who make a righteous plea
for higher pensions. Since the war
risk bill became operative the vet
Grams realize that, after all, they have
been dealt with, with the most ex-
treme frugality.
Washington Journal., 1918-10-25
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Washington Journal., 1918-10-25
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ergn6:
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Der @erein f~eierte leinen 6S. Sc
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