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New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Saving Doughnuts
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The inclosed clipping of your edi-
toral "No Ersatz Doughnut" is from
"Kansas City Journal" of recent date. 1t
awokc a responsive chord in the region Of
my chest, for I, too, have suffered at the
thought of doughnut camoufageski.
Rye doughnuts indeed and forsooth!
Huh! I overcame that by substituting one
more meal of corn bread, not any hardship
to a Missourian born of Tennessee extrac-
tion, who has plenty of Jersey milk to mix
it with and Jersey butter for spreadings.
Though it must be admitted that corn
bread mixed with water and eaten without
butter would be pretty punk picking. But
to resume--the -four saved by this course
could go to make the delicious rings.
Sugar? That's easy. One more molasses
spiced cake spells sugar saved to feed the
golden twists. But woe is me. woe is you,
what can l do for fat to fry the critter in
From somewhere inside the answer bubbled
up, "Vegetable oil.' l responded, and oh,
joy! the result was not the time -honored
institution of our grandmothers, that insti-
tuition the dear old lady combined with
good, sweet cider to draw gran'ther home
night after night from the Wayward Inn,
nor yet the kind that mother used to make
to lure the children home from school, but
the kind the good-intentioned souls tried to
make-and couldn't.
have no hesitancy in recomme nding the
finished product. They're fine. I'll tell you
how to make them if you want to invade
the cooks realm and experiment in the wee
sma' hours. Don't try it in daylight, lest
a German spy get you and, worse still, the
treasured recipe too.
MRS. j. II. CONRAD.
Edwards. Dawson County, Mont, June
l3, 1918
Later, sadder-Since writing the above
our Uncle Herbert has asked for wheat
less june" and have placed this darling
of the gods on the shelf indefinitely, but
just where l can grab him quick when the
war is over and Jackie, my precious COB,
comes sailing home.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Sim Feir1ers at Home

'''o" 1he London Daily Telegraph Man % 1919,
Dublin, Monday.
Last evening about $50 Austrian and Ger
man civilians who had been interned at
oidcastle, County Meath, since the begin
nlng OF the Swar We're conveyed to Dublin
and shipped thence for internment e1se-
where. At the quays they were the sub
]ect OF remarkable demonstration. Crowds
OF their women folk assembled to see them
OF. These waved Sim Fein and other flags
and cheered, while a crowd of Sim Feiner.
on the opposite side of the river sang the
soldiers song and cheered the denar+;,,o
aliens. The gathering of men was large
one. Once aboard the ship, the Austrians
and Germans produced musical instruments
and their band played Justify as the steamer
moved away amid the cheers of the sym-
pathlzers on both sides of the river.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
The Giant Flo1uer

ERoM the far fields of Picardy,
Across the miles Of land and sea.
Borne on the flying winds along,
SEEM to hear mighty song
A mighty song, crash of song!
IL Is the clear, stupendous cry
Sent from the souls of men who d;e
Through all the thunders of the frav
1t pierces like an arrowy ray,
Llfes own eternal harmony.
From deaths red fields, in Picardv
Out on $the fields OF Picardy
The march of death goes royalty:
Through highways of supreme despair.
With huddled forms tost here and there
The standards of immortal life
Float proudly over waves of strife,
Bearing the spirits recompense-
Where, standing to that high defence.
A living wall Of destiny
Men hold the lines, in Picardy.
oh, sacred fields of Picardy!
oh, dread tumultuous Calvary!
Through your incredible stress appears
A vision of the golden years
When from this seed, in Gods own hour.
Shall spring ct last the giant flower
Rose of the world, serene and free,
sown on the fields of Picardy-
The red, SCARED fields of Picardy.
MARION COUTHoUYS SMITH.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
The City of Dreadful Noise

It was Schopenhauer who averred that
the intelligence of people could be
judged from their sensitiveness to noise.
Measured by that test, the people of
New York would not be barbarians-
they would be savages. What with the
roar of the elevated, the roar of the sur
face trolleys, the roar of the steam rivet-
ing machines, the shrieking of the motor
cars and the steamboat whistles, Gotham
may justly lay claim to prize collection
of noises. Hottentots beating their tom
toms through the night could scarcely
do worse.
The wonder of it is that we have stood
it so long. Paris is noisy, but compared
with it New York is a Bedlam. Every
New Yorker who visits London marvels
at the quiet. But of late the motor
buses and motor cars of London have
done much to destroy it's onetine peace
fulness; and thereat there is already
great outcry.
There seems no good reason why New
York should be city of Internal dins.
Commissioner Enright will gain vast
gratitude from great number of sensi-
tive souls if he wins out in his fight to
suppress needless cacophony. But it is
worth while pointing out that the worst
noises are supplied from single source.
Those are the electric motors which draw
the cars on the surface and electric
lines; and the diabolical pounding of the
wheels under these cars on the tracks.
The coming of electric power seemed to
mean heavy augmentation of the city's
roar, and with the increased speed which
the electric drive made possible came an
other item, and that is the senseless
clang OF the motorman's gong. But these
are matters which are beyond the Com
mlssioner's powers. With proper en-
closure Of the electric motors and thor
ough study Of the means of reducing.
rail- noises and the clatter of the ele-
waited, perhaps a good half of the actual
volume OF noise, especially at NIGHT.
could be done away with. This is a mat
ter which cur Board of Aldermen MIGHT
take up with good effect.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
The Tagging Senate

Suffrage cannot be downed in the Sen
ate of the United States or in any other
body representative of an enlightened
nation. Its consideration can be post
poned by filibuster, as yesterday. The
requisite two-thirds vote is difficult at all
times to obtain for any measure. But the
vote of women is as certainly dawning as
minority Senators appreciate this truth
the better for the nation and for them
selves.
We detect no undue impatience among
the women Of the suffrage cause by rea-
son of the delay. The women of Amer
lea, suffragists like all others, have
yielded their undivided hearts and SER
vice to their country. The decision in
this state, the decision in England, the
accumulating evidence of popular will
the world around, has cleared the air Of
serious opposition. Obstruction and post
ponement are the most that enemies of
the measure can now hope for. Women
have waited long for justice, and they
can abide the few more weeks or months
added to their fight by third, slightly
more or slightly less, of our upper legis-
lative body.
But can any legislators, can any party,
abide the accusation of tagging behind
the English House of Lords in a reform
touching the elemental liberties of a
great mass of citizens? America has
boasted of leading the world in it's grant
of justice and right to it's members. Will
its men voters or will it's women voters
sit by in patience while the nation falls
to the rear of the English-speaking
world in it's treatment of women?
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Mrs. Pankhxsrsf
(Fron The. Villo0er>


hEGARD to Mrs. Pankhurst, we are of
Il the considerable number who. once
crltlcal of her methods, have been
turned into her admirers. The exact time
OF the conversion is not hard to remember
Tor none of this generation will easily for-
get the month of 1914 when England went
'o war. lhe four years since the dav when.
without hesitation or deliberation Mrs
Fankhurst ordered all thought of sufrroro
pu' oy ti'l peace should come again to
nhsiano nave served to intensity our opin-
ION OF ner sincerity. We did not behave
ana we surely do not now believe. that +bo
militant leaders, decision had anv arrare
pensee of political expediencv. II uo,
"hoiiy for reasons of patriotism and 90
i'sn'' ana That her action worked ont IN
determine the enfranchisement of Rr,+;sh
women only proves again that tho rnainoh
ing ,"oia' stand is quite as good politics as
IS 'he way of subtlety and shrewdness
MIS- fankhurst is again in America and
even the intrepid reporter has been unable
70 make her betray her faith Questioned
ABOUT suffrage, she answered about cord-
'.ohs IN Russia; asked about the women,s
.,c.ory' she replied with prophecies Of
Aiileo triumph. 1t is good for all 10 no
men and women, to have tbe r.n,;,se ~
N-is' FahAnurst's sense of duty which her
presence mere inspires; it is especiallv
gooo Tor the less courageous and moro i'm.
pas'ent OF our women's leaders. "Bv w;ss
women the house is builded, but foolish
woman destroys it,"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
History

The Car Nicholas was deposed year
ago in March. If the reports of his
execution be true, the revolution" runs
more swiftly in Russia than it did in
France century and quarter ago.
The French Revolution is generally
dated from the fall of the Bastille, July
IA, 1889. The reigning king, Louis
XVI, was not deposed until three years
later. His execution did not take place
until January, 1793
If Nicholas has now suffered a similar
fate. it may be said that the tempo of
revolutions has distinctly been speeded
uD,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Name Stealing
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your interesting paragraph in to.
days Tribune relating to the activities Of
Sir Joseph Jonas, formerly Lord Mayor Of
Sheffield, and Charles Alfred Vernon is
printed under the head, 1.-TWO Britons Ac.
cused of Aiding Germany"
This is misleading and unintentionall7
untrue. These men were neither Of them
Britons. Both were born in Germany.
Jonas, owing to the silly liberality Of the
British law, was naturaIized as q British
subject some forty years ago, but, true
his German breeding, could be expected 70
betray his adopted country at the firstgood
opportunity. The so-called Vernon vas
born under the name of Hahn, but found u
convenient to change this name for On
English one. To another stupid laxity o.
English law is owing the fact that this
Hun was permitted to adopt and defle the
noble English name Of Vernon, borne un'
sullied for centuries by true and loysi gen
tlemen with credit and renown.
We have in this country family names
AAnSS~rs
and that are repeated with reverence wher'
ever referred to. In most states any one
Of these honored names can be assumedsby
any jailbird who, in his dealings with ~
police, judges it desirable to adopt new
alias, or any German who finds that hs
cognomen too clearly reveals his antecs.
dents and race to make living among Loyal
Americans >rleaeapt
petition under Section 2410 of the Nes
York Civil Code, presented to compls'ssns
judge, is all that is necessary, and the lsa-
bird or German makes his getaway" sas
a new name to which he has no claim. e1s
which he can befoul and drag in the ar
by his criminal actions. The law does nes
recognize any right Of those whose biooo
entities them to the stolen name to profess
against criminals masquerading under II.
1t is said in this community we now hsse
no more German aliens living among eu1
population-all are now Swiss or Danes 9.
Norwegians or Swedes--a strange effect q
recent climatic changes. But before sn-
other year and in view Of the world vioe
hatred of all things German we may eS
pect German family names also to dfsap-
pear and be replaced by American snsss
The dogs eat the children's bread. has.
we no protection from this new invasion |"
the Huns? LEXiNGIOns
New York, June 90, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
where. Let US put in all we have now.
We shall have to put it in some time.
WHY wait?
Fairness

We sometimes believe that special
perversity DEGREES the manner in which
human frailty shall manifest itself in the
making of a newspaper. For example, if
you are taking particular pains to be
fair in the handling of all news that
touches an adversary, or one with whom
you have feud, it is inevitable that
by some stupidity you will give that
person a legitimate grievance and con-
firm him in his prejudice. The Tribune
has no admiration to waste on the chair
man of the Committee on Public 1nfor-
nation, but what it has to say in dis
praise of him it is minded to say editori-
ally, and is, or intends to be, very care
full to keep the news about him fair and
impartial. Instructions to that effect
have been repeatedly issued to the news
department.
Nevertheless, The Tribune was unfair
to the Creel committee yesterday Tin its
first edition only because of one little
word that was deleted from news item
about the efforts of, the Poetry Society of
America to expel Sylvester Viereck. The
reporter wrote that the ousting of Vie
reck had been delayed through the
influence of a person named William
Churchill, who was "then" connected with
the Creel committee. The copy reader
deleted the word "then," because, as he
said afterward, the reporter who wrote
the story had gone home and-could not
be asked whether Churchill was still
member of Mr.. Creers staff. He ought
to have asked somebody else, but he didn't,
and having deleted the only word in the
story suggesting that Churchills rela-
tions with the committee we're severed,
he wrote one bank of the head in the
present tense, thus, zone of Creel's Aids
Intercedes for Him. meaning for Vie
reck. AS the news appeared in the first
edition, therefore, it produced wrong
and unfair impression. In the second
edition the information that Churchill's
relations with the committee had ceased
was written into the story, the head was
changed to read "a Former Creel Aid
Intercededs for Him." meaning for Vie
reck, and the copy reader was upbraided,
but nevertheless this apology is due, and
we offer it in a fair spirit.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
The Self-ConuicHon
Of Mr.. Hearst
r1 MI ... D,.,,,h1;run
From The Arizona Republican

There has appeared in newspapers IN
many parts of the country letter or ar
ticle by w. K. Hearst replying to the
bludgeoning lately administered to Mr.
Hearst by Theodore Roosevelt, who charged
him with pro- German sympathy previous to
our entrance into the war, with hatred OF
the British both before and since the war.
and so of disloyalty to most powerful
ally.
This letter was sent to the newspapers
which have published it and to many which
did not by we'll known advertising agency.
1t was to be paid for. The law requires
that such matter must be designated as adj
vertising by the newspaper using 1t, but In
no case that has come to our notice has
that been done. Most of the newspapers
which have accepted this advertising, how
ever have compromised with the law by
printing it on one of the classified adver-
tising or sporting pages.
1t does not, though, come properly "under
the head of sports," since it is not a skilful
parry to Mr.. Roosevelt's thrust. 1t is in no
sense reply to a word that Mr.. Roosevelt
has said against Mr.. Hearst. 1t is only q
counter attack upon the former because of
his criticism of the Administration for its
conduct of the war.
The Hearst article itself conyicts Mr..
Hearst Of one of the Roosevelt charges,
hatred of the British. In section of it
dealing with The New York Tribune, "a
small and lonely New York newspaper"
which frequently quotes from the pro-Ger-
man and anti-loval Hearst utterances be-
fore and since the war, we find this in Nh
Hearst's so-called reply:
"The New York Tribune which supports
Mr.. Roosevelt in his unpatriotc activities,
is owned by the Mills and Reid estates, two
Of the greatest and most sinister of New
York financial forces, and not even wholly
American in character, as the Mills and
Reid families both intermarried with
the English aristocracy"
So, in the opinion of Mr.. Hearst still, it is
rather disreputable for an American family
to have British connections. SO Mr.. Hearst
has not changed his mind since he declared
just after we entered the war that "thou-
sands of American boys would be sent to
Europe to fight England's battles" Mr.
Hearst still regards connection with the
British arlstocracy as far more deplorable
relation than connection with the German
aristocracy.
We can conceive that Mr.. Hearst has, to
him, sufficient ground for soreness against
the English government, which deprived him
OF the use of the cables over which he had
been sending manufactured war news
favorable to Germany. Mr.. Hearst still re-
sents the exclusion for a long time of his
papers from Canada because of his con-
tlnued abuse of the British government and
his belittling of Great Britain's part in the
war But that is personal grievance Of
MIR. Hearst's, which should not be allowed
to outcrop now when Great Britain and the
United States are in the same boat. bat
tling for their lives
Ii Mr.. Hearst should write another letter
IN reply to Mr.. Roosevelt he would probably
be led into convicting himself of being \
secret German sympathizer.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28

- r LAI let US consider munitions In
~ May. 1916, the Germans were turn
- ing out 100000 shells day, most
of which were high explosive. Britain was
only producing $500 high explosive and
Io,ooo shrapnel. BY December the output
was double. in June, 1916, it was nine
times as great. In December of that year
it had been multiplied fifteen times and in
June, 1917, twenty-eight times. This manu-
featuring goes on in the winter AS we'll as
in the summer, and when fighting is slow
stocks accumulate.
Although we have sent one half of our
worklngmen into the fight. the OUTPUT of
steel has been nearly doubled. In 1914 it
was. 100000 tons; In 1918-that is, this
year it will be 12,O000oo tons. Nearly
quarter OF this steel goes to shells and one
fifth is used by the Admiralty. There are
80 national arsenals and 5,o46 government
controlled factories in Great Britain, all
working day and night on munitions and
supplies. On munitions alone 100000 mon
and 100000 women are employed, and over
100000 women are to-day at hard work
for the country, many of them for the first
time in their lives
If we take the average per week for the
flrst ten weeks of the war find that
expenditure Of ammunition has increased
sixty-fve times, the output of machine guns
has multiplied thirty-nine times. We have
shipped abroad 1000 miles of railroad
track, 1000 locomotives and tens of thou
sands of wagons. We have 235 drydocks
working to 80 per cent of the maximum
tonnage within their capacity, and every
month 1,100 merchant and war ships are
docked. In one month 1000 warships were
completed repaired. To Italy and France
alone we have lent thousand vessels. vet
our imports during 1917 have been MAIN
tanned without diminutiou. This is because
every available boat had been put to better
use. Before the war every hundred tons
of shipping brought 1o6 tons of goods on
the average. 1t now brings an average Of
150 tons.
A word 20 the navy: In August, 1914,
we had 100000 tons of warships. We have
now 100000 tons. Our mine sweepers and
patrol boats have been multiplied from
twelve--that is, one dozen only-to $780,
Of 100000 men carried overseas only
2,700 have been lost by enemy action. In
one month the British navy recorded
100000 miles Of voyage, or ESQ times
around the globe So close has been the
blockade of Germany that in 1917 not one
vessel trading with neutral countries
crossed the North Atlantic and Arctic
Ocean without being searched.
I come now to food In 1917 we added
100000 acres to our cultivated area and
produced $4,000 additional tons OF cereals,
with 100000 additional tons OF potatoes.
Mesopotamia and Egypt have been put under
cultivation, with the result that 100000
tons of shipping will be saved this year.
On the Euphrates alone 1000 miles of
land is being farlned. In Britain 100000
allotments are under cultivation by people
outside the usual agricultural industry.
Most remarkable OF all is the fact that
in Britain and. I am told, in France there
has seldom been so healthy a natural in
crease in population, due to a we'll main
tanned birth rate and to the care with
which children are now looked after.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
q. s. NAVAL RESERVE FORCE
ENROLLING OFFICE
THIRD FLOOR
ELEVATORS DO NOT STOP
WALK Up

The elevators do stop, all six of them.
This is easily proved by civilian not
yet amenable to military discipline. Ele-
vator service is, Of course, essential for
other offices on the third floor, including
those OF the Public Administrator, the
Commissioner of Jurors and the Port
Warden.
For an Office boy, stenographer, a
messenger boy, a porter, elevator service
is as free as entry through the doors on
Chambers Street. But for the recruit
there are stairs. 1t is not climbing the
stairs that he minds-that will give him
no undue exercise. What he feels is
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
The Air Of Home

tFron, The keoIsuk Gate City)
One of the American boys in Pershing's
army writes home that he has survived six
gas attacks. His marvellous endurance may
be accounted for by the fact that he halls
from Lincoln, Neb.. the home of the Peer
less One.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28

cautions are wisely taken. This peace Of
fensive will fail. Indeed, it has already
failed. Herr Won Kuehlmann may re-
sign on that account, not for having mis-
represented the German government, but
because the government, by disowning
him, can conceal the fact that the For
eign Office has been again to Verdun.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
The objectionable Sin
(Tro,e 7Ae DAILY ok,aAon.t

(Fro,a The Daily oktoAon,cSl
Along with the no-wheat regulations go
should be law against serving colo 3
bread, the penalty for violating
should be death by elsctroeuticn, Aeee
poison gas and dum-dum haalsoA
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
The Unwritten Law
(Frorn The. ,So,,or,,, -,

(From The Savannah Ne,os,
<Aiter all summer home in Maine has
Its advantages, sheriff Of that state bav-
ing just ruled that custom takes nreceden..
oser Inc states prohibition statute. an
angler being entiti-l to tata tu,o quarts Of
whiskey into the woods with him.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Recruit? Then Walk

The Hall of Records, which houses thu
Mayors Committee on National De-
fence, has recently made room for the
enrolment office of the Naval Reserve on
the third floor. The first thing that
confronts the man seeking to enlist in
the navy is the sign:
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Wilson at the Crank

tF,o.'s The Charleston Nc,cy ,snd ConrferN
Natural enough that the President had
to take hand in that Michigan Senatorial
situation. Nobody could expect Ford to
be self-starter.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28

that the mere intention to enlist puts
him into a restricted class, such as are
directed by signs to the "Servants and
Tradesmen's Entrance" The spirit OF
the thing is wrong. Proof is that the
sign lies.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Great Britain Ri
By p. w. Wilson

american Correspondent of The London Daily Neys
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28

fntefed the Postonhce New York Second Cass
Mall
Morris tribune., 1918-05-03

A lecture and entertainment, the
entire net proceeds of which will go
to the Red Cross, will be given to-
night and tomorrow night at the Or
pheum. Sergeant Billy Moore, an
American who went over with the
Canadians, and lost leg, will lee
ture on his experiences. He will al
so be accompanied by the Royal
Welsh singers and they will render
a program.
Morris tribune., 1918-05-03

Miss Jennie Towle went to Mime
apolis last week, where she submitted
to an operation on her neck on Tues
day of this week. Reports are that
she is getting along WE'LL
Morris tribune., 1918-05-03

A letter from Dr. Mahaffie this
weeks says that he is now located at
st. Joe, Idaho, where he has charge
of a gang of sixty-nine for the Mil
waukee Railroad. His headquarters
are at Spokane, Wash, but he will
be travelling from place to place as
the men move about. He is keep
ing books and acting as time-keeper
and says he is having regular sum-
mer's outing among the mountains.