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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Dra,om By Matthew w. Wood Counsel for Paul Chapman

Matthew W. Wood Counsel for Paul Chapman
People Senate and
Assembly, do follows:
the hereby amended to read
a follows:
male
between the and twenty convicted OF
felony, convicted felony
fixed by the Trial Court at the court direct the
County Penlentary
Prison in the County Jail located in the County where sentence
than (eghteen
of who shall commit omission which, committed Cor
mied adult would be shall
a other
whether otherwise would
O.
guilty juvenile
of eghteen)
Section 2. This act shall take Immediately
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
A Triunphal Procession
Under Our flag

THE country all about here seems
stripped of its trees. Laon is on the
summit of very high hill. 1t is al
most like an Arizona mesa, steep and
clitflike. For reasons we left our vehi-
Gle a few hundred metres from the main
road to the town and made a detour on
foot up steep, narrow path into which
steps had been cut, and so on into the
edge of the town. We had joined some
evacues who were returning to their
homes with their packs on their backs.
The first people we met said 'Guten
tag to us (they said the German nurses
wore the same uniforms as our French)
but the good man who came up the path
with us threw his arm around Miss Mar
pies shoulder and cried out 'Ameri-
Gaines! Americaines!'
and our triumphal procession into
the town commenced. The whole town
was decorated with the tricolor flags and
with one United States flag. The people
wore trlcolor cockades in their coats, and
as we walked through the main thor
oughfare they hung out Of the windows
and called greetings to us. They ran
out of doors, men, women and children.
grasping US by the hand and telling us
how happy they were to see us. Their
emotion was so compelling that we all
but wept with them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Some of the
Fortunes of War

''Thc roof was partly gone and there
was no glass in any Of the windows, but
we had two bedstcads with spring mat
tresses and blanket and half apiece,
which some American Ambulance boys
gave us; also a choice of several nice,
airy rooms. There We're four of US, so
we slept two in a bed, tight up against
each other, changing at intervals from
one side to the other to thaw out the
parts exposed Somebody during the
night got up courage to close the open
window, only to find in the morning that
what had been closed was a window
frame innocent of glass.
AS there had been a little trouble re-
Gently at Scissors with the water mains,
we cold-creamed our faces and postponed
washing our hands until our return to
Ognon Besides a few French officers
and soldiers, they say there are an old
father and mother and daughter who
never left scissors and who lived in a
cellar during the German occupation
The old people are in the nineties and
the daughter young lady of fifty.
There are no civilians except Mr. and
Mrs. Gilman (Americans), who run
Y. M C. A. canteen, all alone with
little French maid.
They are doing wonderful work Civ
ing out coffee chocolate, tobacco and en-
tertainment to the permissionaires and
passing militaires and ambulance men,
They provided us with coffee in the even
ing and hot chocolate in the morning and
kindness in general. Miss MARBLE, one
of the nurses, who sings, sang for the
poilus in the canteen in the evening
and also for a sous officers mess.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Demands Are Made
In Infant Esperanto

Sensible enough demands from baby
anywhere. Fortunately for the Ameri-
can doctors and nurses, baby's first cries,
cooings and frettings are in universal
language which calls for no translator
except modern science
The striking babies also demand the
minimum layette. They believe that
when they come into the world they are
entitled to complete outfit, including
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

Lucky apostle, if it was as simple as
that for himi
But what are childish things? They
are dependence and submission to au-
thority. 1t is not easy to put them
away-for there is always opposition
from the outside, and, for a timid child,
the opposition of his own fear within.
The average young person is so hedged
about by external compulsions, so domi-
mated by his or her elders, that when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
THANK God NV
Boy Is Coodw

So, mothers of boys, do not turn away
from the picture of the boy behind the
bars, assuring yourself self-righteously
that no such fate can overtake your SON.
1t can. And it may. Perhaps your eter-
nal vigilance will avert it-perhaps Too
much vigilance will precipitate it, But
you must be careful not to be fatuously
sure that your boy will be always good
because he is your boy.
The story of Paul Chapman is already
familiar to Tribune readers. 1t is COM
monplace enough. 1t is the old, old story
of a family deprived of it's father and
older brother, the burden of wage earn
ing placed upon unframed women and
young people taken out of school before
their time.
When Paul was three and his older
brother eight years old their father died
of tuberculosis, after a long illness. The
mother, left almost penniless and IN
trained for any wage earning occupation,
took the first position that presented
itself-that of saleswoman in a depart
ment store-and became, as she herself
put it, half time mother
And this was the time when the state
that intangible, impersonal background
and upholder of US all, which must sue
cor the helpless and above all things
preserve the young SO that the race may
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

The plan was carried out. But inv
stead of finding only man and his wife,
as they had expected, they discovered
another man in the house-and he
showed signs of resistance. There was
a scuffle, plainly audible to the boy who
was waiting outside
And the boy, who was Paul, ran away.
Meantime, inside the house a murder
was committed. And for this murder, of
which he did not even know until the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Tell a Child Lies,
And He VIII Lie

Investigation disclosed that the mother
herself was an inveterate juggler of
facts. Her boy was being poisoned by
the tainted atmosphere of exaggeration
in which he lived What she did or failed
to do was grossly misrepresented. To
her husband her hat cost $40, to her
friends $50, while the truth was SIS.
Do You wonder at the effect on the
boys character? Further investigation
disclosed the fact that the boy was
sensitive, highly imaginative creature,
and had to be carefully handled His
excess nervous energy needed direction
into proper channels. But the first step
in her own eye-a delicate task, and not
a very hopeful one.
Not only are we responsible for home
environment, creating an inviting atmos-
phere to which he may bring his friends,
but we must observe the child among
his companions. In that way, IN the
home, it is possible to observe and sift
out the friends worth while.
Fortunately, there is evidence all
about US of an effort to open parents
eyes to their responsibility toward chill
dren, in the manifold forms of child
study which have become current in
recent years. BY keeping an open, self
critical mind, being alive to what is best
for the child and giving him our best
endeavors, we can do much in our I'M
planting of love and justice to avert
another war like this one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Fear VIII Not Keep
q Child From
Crime
By MARIE DE MONTALvO

Editor the Ne,u Citizens Page
IN Or the fathers and mothers of
growing boys and girls there is
much to be learned from the case
of the Brooklyn boy who, but for the
humanity of Governor Whitman, would
have gone to the electric chair the week
of January under sentence pronounced
by the New York Supreme Court of
Kings County last February, and af-
frmed by the Court of Appeals.
The boys name is Paul Chapman
but his name might be anything else.
1t might be the name of your boy or
mine: for what Paul Chapman. did was
to yield to temptation which may con-
front your boy or mine, which your boy
or mine might yield to if we fail to pro-
vide him, while he is still young and
under our control, with an armor against
temptatiOn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

"A child Of more than seven and less
than sixteen years Of aga who shall COM
NIT any act or omission which, if COM
mitted by an adult, would be a crime not
punishable by death or life imprison-
ment, shall not be deemed guilty of any
crime, but of juvenile delinquency only"
But if he has committed crime which
in an adult is punishable by death or
life Imprisonment, and there is proof
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

house with the intention Of doing him an
injury he has murder in his heart.
Does boy Of sixteen necessarily have
murder in his heart when he plans
robbery and carries revolver?
"When was a child" wrote the apos-
tie, ~ spake as child, / understood as
a child, | thought as a child; but when
I became man / put away childish
things"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

at least two fannelette shirts with long
sleeves, bootees, one pair Of mittens and
a can of talcum powder.
BY means Of Child Welfare exhibi-
lions throughout France, hospitals,
clinics and schools under the organiza
ton of the American Red Cross, the
French beb6 is striking and striking
hard-fOr life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Do Parents Do Their Bit?

During my first years of teaching l
tence and ignorance of so many mothers.
l had class of fifty-boys and girls
more than handful for an inexperi-
enced teacher-when a dejected-looking
mother walked in leading her two chill
dren. Il can do nothing with them, she
pleaded. perhaps you can manage
them" I treasured her, but I was ap-
palled. How could I, who had so many,
manage them when she, with only them
to look after, had failed? She, like many
other mothers, had left their training to
their teachers.
Mere sex does not qualify a woman to
rear a child. The privilege of doing that
entails much thought, infinite patience
and understanding.
We recognize now that environment
overwhelms the influence of heredity. 1t
is what the child sees, absorbs and imi-
tates that is responsible for his charac-
ter. Unerringly the child will construe
your principles from your conduct and
make them his own. If you wish Polly
to be absolutely truthful you yourself
must guard your tongue and thoughts.
Mrs. j. complained to me of her boys
habit Of lying-a propensity which was
first discovered when he claimed to be
the author of poem later found to be
in his reader. When he came to me as
culprit he had been playing truant and
connecting the most marvellous schemes
for aIlaVinc susnicion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

ME babies of France are on strike
that is, the 1000 of them who
belong to the new Babies Health
Union, with headquarters at the Chill
dren's Bureau of the American Red
Cross in Paris. They realize their new
Importance as French citizens and want
to be fit for their post-bellum jobs.
Their philosophy is that any real child
welfare must be an expression Of the
babies concerned. The backbone of the
movement is to make the thing French.
No Bolshevism
In This Revolution
Revolution among the babies was in
stigated by the saving agencies and the
American Red Cross, which cooperative-
~ are demonstrating to French babies
some of the things they might have
which they need, including special hos
pitfalls and clinics for sick babies and in
telligent care for those that are well.
These agencies, however, have been
careful to point out to the babies that
they must appeal to their mothers for
assistance. The voices of the children
of France must be heard first by their
own families.
The members are composed of those
who are practising In France the bust
ness of being baby. Age and neces-
sity are the only qualifications, and the
members are an army of revolutionists,
gurgling their right to live.
Revolutionists since the year one have
cried about the right to live, and threat
ened, but the striking babies are the
only ones who make good their threat
They threaten to die unless life is made
possible for them, and unfortunately they
do it. Eighty thousand babies died last
year in France, and, according to esti-
mates made by the Children's Bureau of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
By ESTHER GRAY
ME lesson of our responsibility to
posterity is forced Oh US anew by


posterity is forced Oh US anew by
our war with government whose
teachings have had a degenerating iniu-
ence upon its people. This year has been
dedicated to the welfare of the children
who hold the future in their grasp, and
everywhere among teachers and students
ideas are sprouting for the benefit of the
child. But the wellbeing of the child
must take deeper root than in the &C
ceptance of modern hygienic conditions
and dietetics with which the average
parent is content.
The Greeks held up the ideal of a
sound mind in sound body-they held
that one without the other is futile in its
power. And the parents who most assid-
uously cultivate the modern contributions
to child health are willing to leave to
accident the cultivation Of their chill
dren's habits of thinking. Had the Ger
man home fostered the conception of
universal brotherhood instead Of the
daily creed of conquest the conflict just
over might never have wracked the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
WOrld.
What's the Matter
With F aGher

1T is the daily thoughts of the child
moulded by its environment that event
ually determine the man to be. You faith
ers who know the effect sun, moist
ure and wedding have upon your garden
do you give as much heed to the power
your kindness, sincerity and self-con-
troll have upon the greatest seeding of
all, your child's mind? And do you hon
estly give as much thought to the train
ing of the child IN your case as you give
to the proper growth Of your business?
One father who prides himself upon
his expert cultivation of roses has COW
cred his grounds with the bushes, but
grumbles when his wife pleads for bit
of ground for the child's garden. But
another man has interested his little
four-year-old girl to the extent that she
begged for some seeds, and with rake
and shovel cultivates tiny little garden
Of her own "as daddy does his" The
ugly influence Of the first example and
the excellent effect Of the latter will show
themselves in the future.
1t is tradition that the father should
relegate the training of the child to the
mother. 1t is so much easier than to ex-
pend the energy necessary to cooperate.
But would he with as little compunction
permit her to run his business? In order
that the child receive a we'll rounded
training it is essential for both parents
to contribute their bit What man would
enter business without carefully study
ing the materials concerned, salesman
ship, advertising schemes, ETC.? How
many undertake parenthood with as
much knowledge and forethought? Mel
Their father nor mother makes much at
tempt to get acquainted with the prob
lem until it is thrust upon them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
No Mans Land
A Witches Cauldron

eve left S. about $3.50 a. m. and
arrived at Laon about H. We passed
through Gruey, which has not a house
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

following morning, Paul was indicted and
finally sentenced to death under the law
that says a man who plans felony
is guilty Of any capital crime which re-
suits therefrom, whether he witnesses or
participates in the crime or not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

A Child of Seven
Can Be Elecrocuted
Paups youth did not save him. The
juvenile delinquency act of 1909 reads as
follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
If You 4 Pprove This Write and Say So to
Your Representatives at Albany

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PENAL LAW IN RELATION
TO THE SENTENCE OF MINORS TO IMPRISONMENT
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

hardfor life.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-25
Training for War work

In all the European countries IL has
become incumbent on women to take
she place OF men in an eveT-iucreasing
degree The initial shock OF war in the
United states mas called for the serv-
tees in direct and indirect ways OF be-
tween ten and twelve million men. This
IS a tremendous draft 10 make almost
instantly on the labor supply OF any
country. even though it be as big and
p0pElOJs as our own Naturally there
aas Oesn a great cry with reference to
the labor shortage and the situation
III some localities is bad. This condi-
ylou Is likely TO become more aggravated
a. ions As the war continues. The ques-
lion =. therefore. naturally being asked
- o what remedy shall be applied
n the United States We have large
number Of the most capable and eff
Client women in the world. \ good
many OF these women have probably
never engaged in active commercial pur-
suits They are nevertheless capa BILE
sf doing 30 most effectively. There
lore, the time seems TO have come when
rhey shall be called on to take the
places OF many men who have been
filling commercial positions. non-tech-
nic2tE POSITIONS. ana asrlcuLtuEal posi-
tons. IL is said that IN England. for
instance. by far the greateT part of the
aWmunitiOnS now produced axe made by
women. II Is true that thousands of
English and French women are engag-
20 IN the handling. management and
oversight OF farms. gardens. orchards
a I'd even landed estates Their eff
,-seHcSys Ter service of this class has been
fully demonstrated. and it goes without
saying that what the women Of any
other country can do. the women Of
the United States can emulate with sat
:sfaCtiOu ard success
There are other lines OF activity in
Which women can engage now and per
form very superior and essential type
Of service for the state and nation
among these are the following: They
NAV prepare themselves by training
and education to supply the ever in
rressing- demands for expertly trained
home economies agents. 70 work in the
counties OF the different states. and
SO aid in the production and cOnserva-
tiQV Of food and in the provision OF
6is.ar~ standards II is not A easy
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-25
APPROVE 10 PER CENT
EXPRESS RATE INCREASE
About S22,OO0,OO0 viii Be
Added to Revenue of Rail-
way Express Company

WASHINGTON, June 22.-Ten per
cent increase in express rates was APP
proved today by the interstate COM
merce commission and will add about
1872. OOO, 900 to the gross annual revenues
of the American railway express COM
pany the consolidated concern which
takes over the interstate express trans
portation business of the county July /.
The commission refused to allow a 10
per cent advance, but hereafter pirec-
tor General McAdoo will have jurisdic-
ton over rates of the new company. and
another increase may be initiated il 10
per cent is found insufficient TO cover
higher operating expenses. Officials be-
iieve. however, that economies to be ef-
fected by the consolidation will enable
the company to make adequate profit oD
the advance allowed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-25

milk should be laid at the left OF the
plate, and broken with one hand only,
Meat must be finely cut and eaten slow
ly; vegetable food requires even more
mastication than meat, as 1t must be,
thoroughly mixed with the saliva 20 Id
sure proper digestion. 1t is better to-
help children to small quantities and
TO replenish the plate, then to give too
large a portion at once When there IS
a decided dislike to any article of food
only mouthful or two should be given
at one tiIne.-Exchange. - I
The above quotation is good as far
as it goes, but there Is Enole lot
more that can be said on this "subtect
In this day and time, when the mother
lis cook as well as nurse and house
keeper. the little child should be placed
in a high chair. near the father, at least
until the mother gets through with
dealing out coffee and milk It should
have tin tray. securely fastened on
the table and then its allowance should
be handled on, the tray In that way "a
small child will get Its daily lesson as
to behavior, and will absorb all the
teachings given it, while il behaves it,
self. Misbehavior should be punished
in forbidding it the table until it minds
what is said to it Parents can save
themselves a whole lot of worry If the
IdDie manners OF the cnlld DeSln early
and a bad child can be taught some
obedience by Withholding what it Graves
until it behaves itself.
You and I have seen young ones that
wanted nothing to eat that was set be-
fore them. Then they should be given
nothing until the appetite for it's daily
food returns to il. Goa king. wheeling
and petting a child that does not care
to eat is time and patience thrown
away.
If child can fling itself around,
while at table, thus annoying the tired
mother out of her appetite, a good plan
is to tie IT securely in a low chair,
and then allow it to cry, it out. cry
ing is good Tor some children's lungs
and while it is unpleasant to older peo-
pie, it can be endured, if you are of a
mind to do it,. A child enjoys its own
little spoon and cup that does not breaH,
ana when it is properly praised for its
good behavior at table it will be a
pleasure to everybody when it gets
larger.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-25
){es!,G 49,
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Dear Children


soldiers and have decided ask you would like to have some active
them well when injured but make their recovery less painful
pillows
denial
be could
lection in
Immediately
them
hospitals
think of Aunt Juas SOL
wish your
best and suggest TINS
of
Red
divert Efforts but
Julas club I'll do all can 10
hell LIE me
being said all over the country as the &C 6
in bells others o
would like to have you say me
bless president sooe our hdo
victory"
MUM - 'ON'
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-25

They Will ALL in our judgment, prove
about equally satisfactory in the long
run. If we were handling this mate
rial for ourselves we would apply II at
the rate of 100 pounds per acre and
would put ii on as soon as the cotton
is chopped out and has reached height
say of about 4 to 6 inches. One or two
applications may be made. We think
there is little to gain by the extra labor
and in view Of the shortage of labor
we advise one. Nitrogen is essentially
growth developer, therefore it
should be put on relatively early in the
season so as to give the plants the long
est period of time in which to utilize
it in their development. Nitrate of soda
is Immediately soluable in water, there
fore as soon as this occurs it becomes
Immediately available to the plants,
which take it up through their roots
On this account nitrate of soda should
be scattered uniformly over the sur
face of the ground between the drill
rows. If you put IT on today the
chances are it will have disappeared by
tomorrow, the ground water rising up
and dissolving it almost Immediately.
In case Of a prolonged drouth it may
sometimes be necessary and advisable to
cover the nitrate of soda into the
ground with a Joe harrow, or any other
dixie surface working implement. 1t is,
of course, better to put the nitrate Of
soda on after rather than before rain,
as it might be quite easily leached out
of the soil. If l had a ton of this ma
terial and only 20 acres of cotton I
would put 100 pounds per acre If I
had 40 acres Of cotton 7 would put on
so pounds. You could. Of course, dis
tribute this material between the drill
rows with any form of implement which
will scatter it in the manner indicated.
We have had quite long experience In
the use OF this material and 7 am Civ
ing YOU in summarized form an idea
of how we have used it so as to insure
our obtaining the best results from it's
application.