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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09

two deep lines around the mouth, gentle
with each other, speaking softly. but Ger
you could find in all the world. We
should not have noticed them particularly
but for the officers dazed appreciation.
They are probably from somewhere in
the mountains" we said, at last.
The officer gave US a strange look.
Such men as these and we took them so
much for granted that we couldn't tell
where they came from,
But we know very little about our
selves
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
Arriving!

If the German assault upon our com
mon civilization is to be repulsed it must
be repulsed by American reserves arriv-
ing at the decisive hour In the struggle.
Three months of acute anxiety are ahead
of us, new and terrific German blows
must still be expected; but the element of
time is already beginning to run against
but slowly losing his advantage in num-
bers; he will lose it defnitively WHEN our
first million has arrived. Once he loses it
his defeat in this war will no longer be
doubtful he can no longer disguise it
from his own people.
The campaign of 1918 is another
Waterloo campaign, played for even
greater stakes with numbers twentyfold
as great, but the conditions are striking
ly similar. And for our allies the arri-
val on the line of Pershing's first divi-
slons has the same meaning that the ap-
pearance of Bulow's advance guards on
Napoleon's flank had for WELLINGTON one
hundred and three years ago this month
Napoleon still believed he could defeat
WellingtOn; in the battle that followed
he came very near to success. But fail
ure brought sure and swift ruin This
is what the appearance of American
troops on the line now means; it is the
promise, if not yet the guarantee, of
German ruin. Torcy and Bouresches,
Cantigny and Chateau Thierry, where
American effort was first exerted in the
present struggle, may yet become as en-
duringly famous as Plancenoit in the
earlier and far smaller imperial conflict
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
Life and the Exhovert

A great many people have the impress
sion that the new findings in psychology
which have shed such a flood of light on
the source of our ideas and emotions have
about them something gruesome and I'M
pleasant. And this impression no doubt
was good deal fostered by the writings
of pioneers like Freud and his disciples.
1t sometimes seemed as if they took
perverse pleasure in Earring the sensibili
ties of folk who were not accustomed to
daily visits to hospitals of the mind.
In point of fact, if the new psychology
has any wide value, outside of it's clinical
use in hysteras and the "neuroses." it is
certain that it will promote a healthier.
saner, SUMMER view of life and our social
relations. This more cheerful side of the
subject has been dealt with very pleas
antly in an excellent little book by DR..
Maurice Nicoll, of London. 1t is rather
badly named "Dream Psychology" for it
has relatively little to do with dreams.
and that little rather vague and dis
appointing. But it has some extreme
ly stimulating chapters on the employ
ment and direction of the life inter-
ests through the recognition of the un-
conscious motive. Of still wider interest
for the problems of education and the
bringing up of children are some quite
vivid pages on the characteristics of what
have come to be technically known as the
extrovert and introvert types. Here is
his definition Of the former:
"They come in contact with fife
eagerly, spontaneously, without prepara-
ton or plan; they are Of that large group
of people who are sociable and who accent
social values unquestioningly
fond of amusement not greatly
burdened by the problems of this world.
They flow out into action and into emo
tional contact very easily love
movement. and respond to what is going
on around them with great facility"
The secret of the extroverts character
seems to lie in the thinness of the barrier
that intervenes between feeling and ac-
ton. So he
must constantly plunge into
situations where previous thought would
have deferred him. He does not regret it
because it is by this method that he
learns. He must feel not once but con-
stantly that he is right, and every one
else is wrong, because he is being guided
by his feelings. He is constantly devisinp
fresh forms of activity. He likes to see
before him number of engagements, be-
cause he forms the sense of his own ex
istence to himself solely by his activities
and feelings"
Because Of the briliancy of their feel.
lngs this type when they think wrong
exists will move heaven and earth to get
1T right. They rarely go to the root of
anything. Their intense life of feeling
entangles them in outer aspects. Dr.
Nicoll adds:
"A constant study of the typical ex
'roverts gives the impression that they
Judge OF themselves by what they see of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
Forty Per Cent Farming

1t is very remarkable letter which
we print this morning from Mr.. William
Stull, Nebraska banker of wide practi
cal experience, on farm conditions in the
West We understand that he was him.
self formerly large holder of farm
lands, but sold out these holdings in re-
cent years on account of the extreme
difficulties of profitable operation and
the low capital return.
MIR. Stull estimates that in his section
OF the country unfavorable labor and
marketing conditions before the war had
SO reduced the number of laborers that
not to exceed 40 per cent of the capacity
of these farms was being realized. And
the war has served to accentuate rather
than to improve these conditions. This
is not pleasant picture to contemplate.
1t is very generally known that the
average yield per acre in this country is
nothing like what it is in Germany, nor
even in England, although the yield per
man employed on the farms is higher in
the United States than anywhere else.
That is owing to the difference in methods.
The great dearth is of labor. 1t is all
very well to talk about the extensive
use of tractors bringing a great change
in farming conditions. In spite of all
the work a tractor can do, in spite of the
high development of machinery, the fact
remains that farming is very largely
sides machines, increasingly valuable as
the latter undoubtedly are
We face a shortage of a million or
more farmhands. Mr. Stull makes the
suggestion that in these circumstances
we should open the doors to the Chinese.
This is not new suggestion. Favor
able discussion of it is rapidly spreading.
1t IS argued that the conditions that
drove this country to exclude Chinese
labor no longer exist, and we are con-
fronted, as Mr.. Stull says, with a very
serious situation. 1t would be easy
enough to import Chinese labor. The
temptation to do so, as the readiest solu
ton of serious labor problem, may be
expected to grow. We perceive the i'm
mediate advantages. We could ourselves
suggest certain practical details, as that
every Chinese laborer admitted should
be put under bond-say, a Liberty bond
to return or be returned to his native
country when, in the judgment Of the
proper authorities, his presence had
ceased to be economically desirable. Yet
we can see how in our haste to solve a
present problem by recourse to Asiatic
labor we might be laying up trouble for
the future. Labor is one thing in theory
and another in fact. 1t is in the alb
stract commodity, fluid and economic;
but 1t is also human and quickly strikes
root in any environment.
Our feeling is that the remedy pro-
posed by Mr.. Stull is acceptable only in
the last extremity, that is, when we have
absolutely exhausted our own resources
IN labor. This we have not done.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
To a Food Crisis
BIZ an agricultural Banker

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: am deeply interested in everyth;n.
that pertains to agriculture and feel sh..
very few business men. East Or West, nav.
anything like a clear conception Of exist-
ing conditions. Just at present, for in
stance, the papers are full Of comments
concerning the Non Partisan League which
took possession of North Dakota year ~
two ago and but for the war would NOM
have the balance of political power in mos,
if not all, states in the corn belt.
will not attempt to discuss their merit.
or dement's feel that to them. al -
every other man and institution, the sams
test should be applied: "Are they for ia a,
against US ?" "Are they helping or hinder.
ing our war activities?" If the latter, th.v
should be suppressed One thing, however
seldom, r ever, mentioned in the press. bu,
which should burn Itself into the con
scienccness of every thinking man. is this
question: what is the cause of such dis.
content that such an organization is possi.
ble?"
Upon the bald promise of lettering mar.
kcting conditions, with 10 good evidenc.
that they could deliver the goods, suf,-
Gent number of farmers in that little Stat.
Of North Dakota contributed SIS per capisa
until these enthusiastic and scf-appointed
agricultural reformers had more than a
million in cash at their disposal to advance
their propaganda.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
Inflated Statistics

We have never had anything approxi'
mating positive knowledge as TO the amount
Of foodstuffs actually produced in this
country. Inflated statistics concerning
foodstuffs constantly published by the De-
partment of Agriculture have been appre-
oiated by the land "boomers," who have
usually exaggerated them still further.
70 illustrate: Since January I the
WestSsn papers, at least, have been
filled With attacks upon the farmers, call
ing them vlackers, ETC., especially in Me-
braska, wh.se these patriots insisted that
the farmers were holding back tremen-
dous amount of wheat for higher prices
Finally the farm holdings of wheat were
invoiced, with the result that about four
hundred thousand bushels were found 10
the hands Of Nebraska farmers-sevsrsi
loaves to be sure, but according 10 govern
ment estimates not qsite enough to feee
the civil population of tA~ sssta for SIX
days and less than one-fourth enough 70
re-seed its fields
AS to the right and wisdom of orr gov
ernment An taking every bushel of tbs
wheat there IS no question On the osnei
hand, that Congress should fail to offer
stimulus to the industry, when in the Sec
ond wheat growing state in the Union 'ns
appalling conditions revealed by the soos'
invoice exist, seems the climax OF fois
quite recently the government fixed 'ns
price OF woods on the basis OF currea'
prices of July 80, 1917 Why on that dsse'
The farmer must pay from 20 to 10 ps.
cent higher wages than these paid on u'a'
date, and most all he buys has advanced u
similar proportion. The prices OF 's'
farmers products FIX his wage.
Why should they be such as to redp''
his wage, when organized labor. even 0'
government work, is demanding and ~
ceiving liberal advances. AS the eas'
element of the high cost of living IS Wv
high cost and small production of labor
theory of wage advance OH that basis - =
endless chain. All these things tena
draw men from the farms and is ten''ss
rapidly to food crisis
WILLIAM sTuIl.
Omaha, Neb., June 3, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
Chinese Poems
(Nrom The NoW Statesman

RETURNING TO THE FIELDS
When | was young, was out of tune with
the herd:
My only love was for the hills and noun
tains.
Unwilling ] fell into the Web of the
Worlds dust
And was not free until my thirteth year.
The migrant bird longs for the old wood:
The fish in the tank thinks of its native
pool
Southern Moor;
And, still rustic, I returned to field and
garden.
My ground covers no more than ten acres:
My matched cottage has eight or nine
rooms.
Elms and willows cluster by the caves:
Peach trees and plum trees grow before
the Hail.
Hazy, hazy the distant hamlets of men.
Steady the smoke of the half deserted viii
lage
dog barks somewhere in the deep lanes,
cock crows at the top of the mulberry
tree
At gate and courtyard--no murmur of the
Worlds dust;
In the empty rooms-leisure and deep still
ness.
Long lived checked By the bars of a cage:
Now | have turned again to Nature and
Freedom. By TAO CHTEN.
PEOPLE HIDE THEIR LOVE
Who says
That it's by my desire,
This separation, this living so far from
you?
My dress still smells of the lavender YOU
gave:
My hand still holds the letter that you sent.
Round my waist I wear double sash:
dream that it binds us both with a same
heart knot.
Did not you know that people hide their
love,
Like flower that seems too precious to
be picked?
BY SHEN 70, 441-513 AID.
TELL ME NOW
"lell me now, what should man want
But to sit alone, slipping his cup of wine ?"
should like to have visitors come and dis
cuss philosophy
And not TO have the tax-collector coming
to collect taxes:
My three sons married into good families
And my five daughters welded to steady
husbands
Then | could jog through happy five
score years,
And, at the end, need no Paradise.
BY WANG CHI, 9th and 18th Cent A D
Translated by ARTHUR VALLEY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
German Corruption
Monthly" BIZ "Lys Of "LHomnae
Libre.v the CleMence0N Journal

the following year of the house of John
Jones, had at once made position for it.
self. It took advantage of it TO enter forth
with into relations, not with the press, but
with the Havas Agency and the Socete
Generate des Annonces (Renier). which to-
gether control the advertising OF the great
Paris papers and of the majority of the
great provincial journals. 1t addressed
them. probably, in something after this
fashion: "Whv should you exert yourselves
to increase your clientele in opposition to
US, of whose power you must be we'll aware,
since we have behind US the great house of
Haasenstein & Vogler, which casts its
beams throughout the world" And to sub
stantiate its words it had only to produce
an account book which was common to the
branch agencies of Haasens-ein & Nceler
and the parent concern at Berlin-a book
which proved the unity of the enterprise.
Master Of The French Press
Havas and the Societe Generate must
have been convinced by this reasoning, as
those two agencies entered into an agree
ment with the European Agency, dated
October 25. 1918. BY its terms the French
concerns pledged themselves not to accept
any advertisements from foreign countries
for the French press, and not to accept any
foreign publication.
Thus, in the first year after its founda-
ton the agency had begun to carry out the
plan that it had marked out for itself, and
to make itself. by slow degrees, master of
the French press, by becoming an impor-
tant purveyor Of advertisements, and con-
sequently the dispenser Of those receipts
without which a newspaper cannot exist.
Even during the war the European Agency
has displayed tremendous energy in monop-
olizing foreign advertisements. On Decem-
Der 4, 1916, it wrote to the MALAY Mail"
imprudently Introducing itself under the
@gis of great French house, from whom
it claimed to have acquired monopoly of
advertisements destined for Australia.
In July, 1914 tho agency sent circular
letter to America, to the large manufacture
ing concerns and business houses, in the
following terms:
NJ. Jean II. Fulgeras. associate Of this com
month OF September. and viii be glad Of the OPP
portunty 10 confer with YOU in regard to the pos
%ln ity of extending your nark-' into France and
houses. Mr. Fulgeras IS ne -,est informed
man in Continental Europe conditions as they
to give you accurate and valuable information in
regard to selling and advertising possibilities on
Our extensive or9anization--we are the sole
foreign representatives of the majority G. the
most important newspapers of France-enabe- as
not only TO offer efficient advertising service ls>
to secure If desired. the reliable ener-
getc selling agents
We believe that have the privilege Of serving
more American advertisers than any other firm or
combination OF firms IN France
Some Of the we'll known American clients W..
serving are 70
6 6oaas' Il 6.iIdasy Piiis and Ointment
Coigates Soap. etc. etc
NuXated Iron
Goodrich Tire Company
Naseline Chesebrcueh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
Figs From Thistles

'From Poetry)
FIRST FIG
My candle burns. at both ends:
1t Will not last the night:
But an my foes. and oh, my friends
1t gives a lovely light!
SECOND FIG
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houssa
stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon
the sand,
THURSDAY
And If | loved you Wednesday,
Well, what is that to you?
do not love you Thursday
So much is true.
And why you come complaining
Is more than ! can see.
loved YOU Wednesday yes-but what
la that q re?
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
What S in an E.piigrame

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR Apropos of epigrams, would YOU
not call the ground well covered" by Dr..
Holiness witty lines;
IAN epigram is like bee, thing
or little size, with honey and sting,
MAY BROWN LOOMS.
CASTLE. N. Y. June 5, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
Goodrich Tire Company
Nasellne Chesebrcugh
Corruptirg America

Thus we find Boche concern Offering to
supply American manufacturers with ire
liable, energetic selling agents" to distrib-
ute their products in our country; Boche
concern undertaking to control, with staff
selected by itself, the course of commercial
transactions between the United States and
France! With what object? We can easily
guess.
It IS opportune at this point to call at
tention to the agency's double game: while
1t is clear, on the one hand, that it wishes
TO obtain orders for advertising which will
enable it TO strengthen it's hold on our
French press, it is no less clear, on the
other hand, that, on the pretext OF develop
ing the sale of American products in Euro
pean markets, it keeps itself posted as to
the terms Of sale of our ely. the United
States. to inform German industrial inter-
ests thereon, as any one can see.
We say, therefore, without exacgera-
ton, that in a democratic state the fate Of
the nation is in the hands of the newspa-
pers. Under many circumstances thew are
needed 10 sustain the moral COURAGE of the
people, and under other circumstances TO
prepare mems minds for the great reorgan-
izations which are necessary, for example.
on the morrow II gsr hike that IN M ~
we are now engaged
We I've, in very truth under & r6pime ~
pubic opinion which makes it impossible
TO carry through any reform without the
approval Of majority; and how are the
people 10 DC stirred to action uniess me
newspapers devote themselves to the task.
unless they are guided by a fervent and
unseltsh desire?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
ur,,nrR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Associated Press is exclusively entitled TO the use
republication all dispatches credited to It or
not otherwise credited this and also tho local
ucws Of spontaneous origin published herein
rights OF republication Of all other matter herein
also reserved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
Renters ord Hands

From a somewhat extensive nvestiea-
ton | am convinced that more than so per
cent Of all the people on the farms in thu
corn belt are renters, hired men, etc, with
little or no property and less ambition to
acquire it. This makes discomfort among
the real farmers doubly dangerous. bow
long would this propertyless class refuse
to give ear to the slver-tongued Socialist
or Bolshevik who suggested division Of
all property?
There is no fear of disioyalty among our
real farmers, but intolerable labor and
marketing conditions engendering dis
content, and widespread discouragement is
more dangerous than disloyalty, as there
is TO means Of punishment
Unfavorable labor and marketing condi.
lions before the war had so reduced the
number Of laborers on the farms that not
to exceed 40 per cent Of the capacity Of
these farms was being produced. The army
has drawn a large number of the very best
and most efficient Of the farm help. Vastly
greater numbers have been drawn away by
the high wages IN other industries. Unless
the prices Of farm products are so in
creased that the farmers may successfully
bid against other industries in the market
for labor the output of these farms mus.
should be enormously increased.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-09
Going Up

Restricting the price on his products
while the price OF everything he buys,
from hitching strap to a steam thrasher,
is going up, is not helping the situation.
In regard to land prices, 1 agree the IN
iation of currency and prices of all COM
modties should lead to a tremendous IN
crease in the value of farm lands. At tbs
present time the increase in farm values
is, however, perceptible only in localities.
1t is not general. 1t would seem as though
the general advance is inevitable if the
war continues. What IN my opinion pre-
vents this at the present time is the fact
war the selling price of land has borne no
rational relation to its value: that is, its
net earning capacity.
How long it will require the machinery
the selling price and the intrinsic value
don't know. l think this discrepancy be.
tween the selling price and earning caps'
city is brought about largely by the dearth
of manual labor on the farm. For mora
than a decade, because of the shortage Q!
help, the farm has not produced 40 pei
cent of its capacity. AS it has been demons
strated that neither the white labor nos
the black labor in this country will do the
necessary farm work 10 properly feed oua
people, we should pen the gates to Chinese
labor
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GUARANTEE I

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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-11-13
AMERICA MUST FEED
] FRANCE, WARNING
drops SHORT IN FRANCE BY FIFTY PER CENT UTMOST
SACRIFICE URGED ON PEOPLE.
By EDWARD NJ. THIERRY.
N. E. A. Staff CORRESPONDENT.

vast quantities of food products must France this
ter All eyes on America.
Abnormal drought last seriously injured the French
harvest warning has been issued sacrifices more
stringent food restrictions, may have to be imposed
France facing the winter looking America to feed its
people Approximately 100000000 wheat alone are
needed for daily bread rations
THE economic situation is alarming Gomot French
senator from the Puy de Dome region A harvess have
been brought in and position needs
Deficiency of Production Seem
Production this has been sadly deficient Despite our
expectations last spring of bumper the deprabe dry
weather has ruined rich agricultural districts of France
There has been almost fruit Vegetables Cereals
Potato which based hopes year
are so per cent less than n 1917
ny the wheat crops have given any at all There
has been improvement in them thanks the awakening
OF the agricultural movement in the abandoned regions
But daily bread rations continue throughout
winter must obtansomehow, somewhere-an additional
thirty forty million hecotres (between 0CO and no.
000,000 bushels) of wheat
France Must Make More Sacrifices
1.-THE outlook bright Something must be done Some
thing viii be The people France must take the initiative
They be willing make sacrifices They must not be
afraid Of further and stricter restrictions"
Paris papers, in commenting the say large quant
ties OF food products by the allies recapture re-
invaded by the Germans after crops were planted last
spring But these apparently have suced equaize the
loss from lack of rain
Senator Comet reluctant Americas share in the
supplying of food of France during the approaching winter
mating that America had already and doing much
that not to ask papers the
public generally frankly look to the great there