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GOuL.DSBORO.

Mrs Lewis Kiddef spent the weekend
IN Sullivan.
harold Young, U. 5. ", recently visited
his parents, MIR. and Mrs. Frank Young.
Fred Foss hss returned from visit with
hs sister, Mrs. Harry Higgins, OF Bar
Harbor.
hrs, Bertha Handy was recent guest
Of her daughter, Miss Minnie, who is EN-
poyed at Bar Harbor.
Mr. and Mrs. James McNulty and little
con OF Bangor are guests of Mrs. Nc
Nalty's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 8. L. Coffin
Aug. 10. S.
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Saturday to spend few weeks with aer
sister, Mrs. Fred Page.
The largest smoant canned at the fac
tory so far this year in one day has been
1896 No. cans and 56S No. 10 cans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Elwell OF New
York are spending their vacation with
their sisters at the Smallidge cottage.
Miss Minerva Allen Of Haverhili, M.s3.,
who has been the guest Of Florence Alien
the past two weeks, returned to her home
Wednesday.
Aug. 10. X.
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M ARIAVILLE.

Wlibert Durham and wife are the happy
parents of twin girls.
cordial invitation is given by the
ntosts to the Cars to meet with them
aug "a at their annual reunion at George
a. Frost's grove.
Mrs. George CARTS family of four chill
a'en, with twelve grandchildren, met at
nef home Sunday for the first time all
nave been together in twelve years. Mrs..
'aiia Stuart came from Cores.
Aug. Is. E..
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REACH.

arrivals this week: Charles Curtiss,
we ana daughters, Helen and Constance,
winchester, Mass, accompanied by DR..
morse ana wife; DIR. Charles l.. knight
sho FAMILY OF Boston; Ralph N. knight
sno ismiiy of Maiden, Mass; Mrs. Charles
lombard, Winthrop, Mass.
AIRS. Margaret Adams and Miss Lois
Auams are guests of friends at Deer Isle.
william p. Lowe OF York island spent a
rev days this week With ms brother, s. t.
Lowe.
Aug. Ie.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Burn German Text Books.

Marinette, Wis.-While scores of
people looked on the German text
books formerly used In the NenomOnit
square, thus marking the end of the
teaching Of the Teutonic language In
the public schools of this city.
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Conn.,, II. @. Pratt, wife ana friend Of
Somervilie, Mass, Wesley Clark and
family, Adelbert y. and Carroll Clark OF
Brewer and Miss Doris CLARK of Holden,
have opened their old home here for a
short time.
Aug. 10. ECHO.
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FlDO'S BATH AND
MEALS ASSURED

Spokane, Wash.-One thou
sand dollars to provide three
meals a day, bath and a bed
for her pet dog is a provision
of the will of Mrs. Quincy Bur
CESS, recently admitted to pro-
bate. When the dog dies the
will provides that it shall be
buried beside its late owner. A
nice easket" is to be used and
the do, ; grave is to be properly
cared for.
M
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-21

Sharon. Pa.-Mrs. james Rasci wait
ed two weeks 10 report that someone
had stolen 1890 from her sew ing ma.
chine drawer bank.
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Frank Jentins OF New York is the
guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Elwell.
Mrs. Frank Day OF Sedgwick spent the
week here with her parents, e. E. Nevells
and wife.
Miss Bertha Carter of Boston arrived
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-21

This massive looking specimen OF
man is big enough to take ones
breath away. The most recent jibe di-
rected at tall men. Jaw, you're too big
To fit In the trenches" is smashed to
smithereens as this picture shows.
The giant" is an Italian colonel,
who is paying a visit TO the Italian sec
tor in France. The Italians on the
western front have been giving good
account of themselves and are co
operating with the French on this
front to stop the German drive just
started.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30
All Should Paw
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: There is no doubt that in the crisis
which has been thrust upon us we are sur
prised ourselves at the results that have
been accomplished. Unfortunately this has
not been the case in regard to taxation;
there are still too many who confuse the
issue. The object of the proposed taxation
IS to win the war not to deprive the rich
of what they possess If it is desired to
take from the rich what they have, this is
coniscation and is relatively simple But il
shonld be borne in mind that thew are tho
only class that save and crippling them up
sets, as nothing else would, established
business of all kinds.
The returns from the income tax should
convince people of the fallacy that there
is tremendous number of very rich.
believe that there were some 55,515 persons
only who pay their tax on incomes over
$4,000. Now, this being the case, how shall
we proceed? Simply try to make as manv
people pay on small incomes as possible.
Durlng the last twenty years there have
Deen TWO great additions to what might be
called the rich: the steel people, those en-
gagged in the production of steel and bene
hted by the Steel Corporation, and the
movies, which have also become great bust
ness, not only for stockholders but for the
thousands to whom they give employment.
Now to-day there is another class added
the munition workers. Many are making
money who never had anything before. This
is shown by the business activities IN all
manufacturing districts.
In all other countries stamps on hanL
checks and all bills, including payment Of
wages, are employed. We did this our
selves as late as the Spanish War, and it
does not require an army of tax checkers
WILLIAM FAHNESTOCK
Newport, r. l., Aug. ID, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30

having already gone so far in attempt
ing to control The Tribune by it's power
of strangulation, the Publishers Asso-
citation went further and ordered the
American News Company not to deliver
The Tribune to any newsdealer at less
than $1.40 per hundred.
No newsdealers' association or union,
nor any individual newsdealer to our
knowledge, has refused for any reason
to sell The Times or any paper save the
Hearst and German-language papers.
Yet you say the newsdealers are striking
against all the papers but The Tribune
for lower wholesale price.
The least we can say about your letter
up to this point is that it must have been
written without knowledge Of the facts.
You probably have trusted too far the
legend that runs on the left ear Of your
own newspaper: "ALL the me7Us that's
fit to print"
However, we are sure the editorial
council would have destroyed your letter
for a reason the existence of which you
have SO gratuitously denied, namely,
patriotic reason. So far as the letter of
the business manager may commit a
newspaper in matters of policy, which is
perhaps not SO far as you think, your
letter commits The Times to a PROPOSE
tion that your American editorial coun-
Gil has not suffered and will not suffer
to appear in the editorial columns. Your
proposition is: "There is no loyalty
issue, and we support Hearst against the
newsdealers."
AS business manager of The Times
you may give Hearst this implicit GER
tificate of character. But the editorial
council will not back you up. 1t may aid
you to the extent of not printing the
news, but it will not go so far as to deny
the existence of the loyalty issue in the
fight against Hearst. You ought to know
better than to do it yourself. 1t is abb
surd to deny the existence of something
that everybody in this town is talking
about Besides, you insult the news
dealers, and that is bad business. You
particularly insult those dealers who
have been at great pains to explain to
you and to all members of the Publish
ers' Association that the loyalty issue is
in two aspects. 1t is what the newsdeal-
ers themselves think of Hearst, and it is
also what their customers think of him.
In many neighborhoods and communities
the anti Hearst sentiment has become SO
vehement that it is improbable to han
die Hearst papers at any price. Yet you
say to those dealers that unless they go
on buying The Nea0 York American they
cannot buy The Times.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30
Opening Mems Clubs to Women

We understand a movement is on foot
in some Of the we'll known New York
clubs, the Union League and some
others, to open at least separate res
taurant to which members NAV take
their wives or other women guests. 1t is
urged that the wars demands have heav-
lily depleted attendance at the clubs and
that many are now functioning at about
half capacity, SO that these beautiful and
expensive homes represent large eco
nomic waste. In some instances the
club revenues have fallen sharply and
brought deficits TO the treasury. On the
other hand, charges at the more preten-
tlous hotels and restaurants have risen
to fantastic figures. With incomes heav
lily strained by income taxes, subscrip-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30
The Rivetless Ship

Advices to The Journal of Commerce
tell of the successful and highly inter-
esting tests of the new welded ship built
in England and launched two months or
so ago. The vessel has now been in SER
vice with full cargo during exceptionally
rough weather, "answering satisfactorily
in every way to the severe tests en-
ployed."
The ship was especially built ''to prove
the ability of welded construction to
withstand the strains peculiar to a ship
at sea-" This principle having been es-
tablished, it is now proposed that future
vessels shall be combination of the
welded and riveted type; and this plan
Of construction will soon be tried out in
the United States. It appears that:
"The United States Shipping Board,
having been in close touch with the ex-
perlmental work, is making arrangements
for the construction of a number of
lOOOO-ton standard ships, in which the
use of riyets will be reduced to 2h per
cent of the number originally reuuired"
The next step will doubtless be test
of the cast steel type of welded vessels,
which has been so long urged upon our
Shipping Board, but which has thus far
not seemed to commend itself to the
Shipping Board sufficiently to test out
in small vessel
The great advantage of this type
would be the cheapness and speed of
construction, which, it is said, would be
greater even than of the proposed con-
crete cargo boats. There would be no need
OF the usual ship plates Of rolled steel,
the short supply of which has been so
serious in limiting our shipbuilding pro-
gramme. The ships would be cast in
rather larger sections, and it is said that
the moulds for the main body would be
interchangeable for either side.
In the repair of the interned German
vessels seized by the United States when
we entered the war it is we'll known that
the Navy Departments bureau of con-
struction and repairs made q spectacular
record with the use Of electrical weld
ing. The ships were put to sea in a
fraction of the time and cost which it
was at first thought would be required.
To many it has never been clear why
this fine object lesson in ship work
should not sooner have been made use
of. The plan of welded ships has been
pressed upon the Shipping Board very
nearly from it's formation. Yet it seems
to have been left to England to take
profit from our navy's successes and be
the first to try out even the new welding
method on complete ship This is
scarcely the American tradition.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30

not trained sufficiently to be highly ef-
fective in an attack upon fixed positions,
but capable of supplying an enormous
aid if the German line crumbles and it
becomes a question Of pursuit of beat
en- enemy to new position and an effort
to turn the defeat into rout
1t is safe calculation that the Ameri-
can troops are still to play a larger part
in the present campaign than they have
yet played. There is a promise Of sit
uation in which their peculiar qualities
will prove invaluable. 1t is a time to
guard against extreme optimism, but it
is also time when we can see that even
in the immediate future there may be a
victory which will be the military de-
cision so much talked Of, even if the Ger
man, like Napoleon, after Leipsic, a cen
tury ago, is able to fight one more cam
paign on his own soil, after his defeat
beyond his frontiers has been decisive.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30
Sacred Cotton

To the Editor of The Tribune.
CIR: In view of the present activity OF
~ Congress in regard to tax bill the
following three remarks, recently coming
to my knowledge, make significant the in
quiry, "Why should not tax be put on
cotton?'
/. The first remark was made IN Boston
by Congressman Ktchin, and to the
effect that this is the North's war and the
North should pay for it.
2 The next was a remark said to have
been made by a Southern cotton planter.
who said he hoped the war would last two
years more, in which case he would be fixed
for life.
g. The third was q remark made in per-
feet good faith and seriousness by gentle
man born in the South, but living in the
North, to whom I commented upon these
statements, ~and said, "Why should there
not be tax on cotton and the South bear
its share Of the burden pressing so heavily
upon the rest of the nation ?" He answered,
in the most matter-o offact and simple way,
"The South would never stand for it,
With regard to Mr.. Kitchin's remark,
which has already been commented upon
y,
pudiation of it by Southern gentlemen.
This is crusade of the American people
against the forces of savagery and evil, and
their sons, equally with ours, are giving
their lives and willing to make every
personal sacrifice to aid in the accomplish
ment of the great purposes President Will
son has formulated for the American peo-
pie Surely the South wants it's share in
the glory of such an achievement and if
America has pledged it's men, its money
and its sacred honor, the South will not
want it later asserted that it only contrib
uted portion of it's share
AS to the remark of the Southern plant
er, it seems hardly credible, and, if made,
it is the assertion of shameless profiteer
that needs no further comment.
AS to the third statement, it represents
rather serious condition and one in which
the whole country is interested. 1t pre-
sents a more serious arraignment of the
loyalty and patriotism Of the South than
the remark of Mr.. Kitchin. Why should
the South not stand for it? Why should
it not bear it's fair share of the burdens
of taxation in these days when Republican
Congressman are sinking all party and per-
sonal convictions in the attempt to
operate in the efficient prosecution of the
war? Why should. Southern majority in
Congress use it's power for purely parti-
san or sectional purposc*
1t is easy mathematical problem to
figure how much reasonable tax on cotton
would add to the national revenue. 1t
would be an interesting line of inquiry to
find how much, during the last year, in the
nature of excess profits tax, was collected
from Southern cotton planters. 1t might
be a dangerous inquiry to follow up to
what the South would do if tax were laid
upon cotton.
If I recall correctly, there was a sugges-
tion in committee that such tax be made,
and it received exactly one. vote, and has
not been heard of since.
HENRY W. JESSUP.
New York, Aug. 90 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30
The ank Antique
From The Villa9er

A ND not even the tank is new; in prin-
~ ciple, we mean. In his essay "Of
Coaches" Montaigne recalls the use
of the coach in warfare. He says--we use
Florio's translaton-"Were my memory
sufficiently informed of them, I should not
think my time lost here to set down the
infinite variety, which histories present unto
us, of the use of coaches in the service OF
warre; divers according to the nations, ana
different according to the ages: to my
seeming of great effect and necessity 30
that it is wondrously strange how we have
lost all true knowledge Of them; Will
onely aleadge this, that even lately IN our
fathers time, the Hungarians DID very
availefully bring them into fashion, sha
proftably set them work against tne
Turks; every one OF them containing laf-
gettier and Muskettier, with certalne
number of harquebuses or calivers, ready
charged; and so ranred, that they mign'
make good use of them; and all over GOV.
cred with a pavesado. after the manner o'
Galliotte. They made the front OF theIi
battaile with three thousand such coaches.
and after the Cannon had playd, caused
them to discharge and shoote OF vohe u
small shott upon their enemies, before 1he!
should know or feele, what the rest OF lns
forces could doe: which was no small aa'
vancement; or if not this. they malnei!
drove those coaches amidde the thickest o.
their enemies squadrons, with purpose
breake, disroutc and make waie through
them. Besides the benefit and helpe 'as'
might make of them, in any suspicious VI
dangerous place, to flank their troup.'
marching from place to place: or in hss'e
to encompasse, to embarricado, TO cover u
fortife any Judgement or quarter"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30
Wars End

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: On April II, 1914, the Emperor Ma
poleon, the Allies having entered Paris on
March 81, wrote and signed the following
unconditional abdication and surrender:
"The Allied powers having proclaimed
that the Emperor Napoleon was the sole
obstacle to the reestablishment of peace
in Europe, the Emperor Napoleon, faith
full to his oath, declares that he re-
nounces for himself and his heirs the
thrones of France and Italy, and that
there is no personal sacrifice, even that
of life, which he is not ready to make in
the interest of France"
Will this war be really won before Will
lam II of Germany similarly places himself
at the free disposal of the United States
and the Allied governments
DENYS P. MYERS.
Boston, Mass, Aug. 49, 1913
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30

tions to Liberty bonds, the Red Cross
and all the rest, the High Cost of Enter
tanning has become serious matter even
to the more opulent portions of the COM
munity.
It is held by the more conservative
members that the big clubs are now the
last haven of beaten and wearied mascu-
Unity against the invading feminine.
And they cry out at any breach in the
citadel. Opening even separate restau-
rant to which women may be admissible
would, they hold, be simply precursor
to the general opening Of the clubs to
women on an equal basis with men. The
argument is the part of fear We point
out that in general the women have been
far more generous, or shall we say gra-
cious? Almost all the women's clubs
have provision for male guests. Yet we
never hear of men demanding admission
to the Colony, the Cosmopolitan, the
Woman's City or others, however much
they might so desire. Etiquette and
taste, if not sanity, forbid. Moreover,
the present proposals come not from the
outcast feminine, but from the members
of the clubs themselves, simply to put to
use an elaborate machinery now in many
cases half unemployed. The war is a de-
stroyer of traditions. The exclusively
n ale club, to which the other sex is taboo
save on exhibition days-may be an
other to go down.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30
Our Ally 8 Names

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l want to thank you for the new
feature you began yesterday "War Names
in the News" I trust you may keep it up
for it will be of very great value to those
of US who do not know French as she is
spoken. | have often wondered why some.
tnlng of the sort was not done to enable us
to pronounce the many names of places
that we read of in the daily news from the
seat of war. Its place, too, on the editorial
page is convenient. Thank you.
Yours truly,
ELI D. SUTCLIFFE.
Poughkecpsie, Aug %.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30


the end of the fighting for this year the
Germans will have to retire out of the
Hlndenburg line and to the frontier. and
1T is possible that the Allies will now be
able promptly to overrun the Hindenburg
line. If this last happens we shall see
something like the spectacle when finally
the ice goes out of Northern river
IN spring, break in the German lines
from the Meuse to the User, from Yer
dun to Ypres, recalling the spring phe-
nomenon.
Just now Boehn has reached positions
east and south of the old Somme battle
field which he hopes will enable him to
gain a breathing spell. He unquestion
ably means to stand behind the Tortille
klver, the upper Somme and either the
Canal du Nord, from the Somme. near
Nesle, to the Disc at Noyon, or the St.
Crozat Canal from the Somme, at Ham,
to the Disc, near Chauny. The obstacle
the rivers and canal offer to the tanks.
the difficulties the pursuer must meet
and overcome to get across these
streams, may compel the purguer to halt
for the moment and permit Boehn to
get his breath and presently to get back
to the Hindenburg line in good order.
But the trouble for Boehn is to the
north and along the Scarpe Horne has
begun to drive east toward Douai; Byng
is pounding down the Arras- Cambria
road, and short advance by either spells
disaster and retreat for the Germans,
retreat which may prove as fatal to the
Kaiser as did Napoleon's retreat from
Moscow. If the Hindenburg line fails
to hold, then we shall see one of the most
tremendous military disasters of all
human history. We cannot calculate
upon it; the chances are still against it.
but there is the possibility, increasing
daily.
We know now that it is the sober iudg-
ment of British and French military men
that had the Germans been able to con-
tlnue their drive in Picardy; had they
stuck to the push for Amens instead of
turning north to Flanders, they might
i'"'S N"PouiSU fAIuIeIlS ana Sepdrdlou
British and French armies. They gave
1t up because their gigantic machine had
run down, it had exhausted the stored re-
sources in the colossal push from st.
Quentin to Montdidier But Foch's
method is quite different; he does not use
up his armies; he does not concentrate
all his human and mechanical resources
in a single thrust. He uses one army
after another and keeps varying the at
tack. The result is that none of his
armies is exhausted, and after little
rest it can resume. There is, therefore.
no let up, as there was in Picardv. no
pause as there was after the Aisne, when
the Germans waited forty days before
trying again.
We have had now since July is prac-
tically continuous attack by the Allies,
now in 1le-de-France, now in Picardy,
now in Artois, and the extension to
Champagne and Flanders is already
foreshadowed. There has been no respite
and there is likely to be none, for Foch
has still very large American reserves.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-30
East Side Children
PLAYING

Il berries
Regards an orange on a push-eart,
AS though he were dwarf tree
Slightly leaning toward the sun.
Near by sits d girl buried in soileo pm
clothes
And swinging striped candy-stick
AS though it we're a sceptre
And the doorstep an ancient throne
Beside her two boys, like hastily paih''~
cherubs.
Grimly slap each others cheeks "'N
weep =.
Then a twisted shaking old man slioes w
And the children smile at him.
MAXWELL BoDENHElA'