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New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

ments to the lands now included
within British sovereignty.
Far more to the point is the ques-
tion what we shall render to France,
when all is over, for her services in
the common cause. No reward that
we can offer will satisfy our sense
Of obligation. In the new map of
the world she will doubtless receive
territory. Britain upholds the claim
of France to her lost provinces. But
France means more, even, than AL
sace-Lorraine, however vital be
those symbolic names. French CIV
ilization must be bruised no longer
by the brutal pressure of degraded
and degrading despotism, ever at
her throat, as it seems to most
Englishmen, the real guarantee for
the security of France must be, not
so much her treaty, whatever it be,
with Germany-that is a mere scrap
of paper-but the bond which binds
her to allies whom she can trust.
The Value of
American Aid
Barriers are breaking down and
international friendship is sealed
with blood. By adjusting her rela-
tions with the Serbians, Italv has
removed local obstacle to perfect
unity, in League of Nations.
France. on her side, may discover
in the backing of the United States
more valuable strategic considera-
tion than. let us say, the Rhine
boundary of 1914. Anyway, for the
moment, it is the business of as all
to work for conditions which will
enable our American comrades ~
make their weight felt most directly
and most rapidly on the Western
front. When Germany has been
successfully resisted. great tasks
will lie ahead of the peoples by
whose sacrifices the victory has been
achieved. In the inner councils of
democracy, the voice of France will
be heard for all time, influencing
world ideals, inspiring, warning,
reconciling, helping. The Latin
civilizations of the Old World and
the new will be linked with the
Anglo-Saxon civilizations and to-
gether will solve the great problems
of Africa and Asia, which have be-
come so urgent. Such league will
not be exclusive, except against
tyranny, and the Teutonic peoples
if we take a long view of the
future-will have to qualify for
membership by evidence of sincerity
and reparation. That is not a stage
that we have yet reached. And, for
the moment, it is enough that France
and Italy sit at the table with the
United States and Britain, laboring
over the birth of a new era. which
will be something more than a
treaty of peace, a termination cf
hostilities. The new era is already
in being, positive, constructive, for
ward looking, and that vision which
French eyes see so keenly, to-day
inspires the millions Of men in the
one united army, who cheerfully
face whatever blow may be impend-
ing
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
When Hungry Smoke a Pine

For long time it was assumed that
the teel1ng OF hunger and thisst origi-
mated in the stomach, and only recent
researches established the error of this
hypothesis. Writes the "Prometheus."
an authoritative scientific magazine;
To-day 1t is recognized beyond doubt
that the upper part of the sophaCus
is the real seat of the feeling of hun
ger and thirst. In order TO ascertain
the correctness of this assumption the
throat and osophagus of hungry man
was narcotized by an injection of a
cocaine solution. Immediately the feel
ing of hunger and thirst completely
disappeared, and for five and six nights
he could not be prevailed upon to
eat or drink from which the inference-
was drawn that the cocaine had killed
IN him hunger and thirst
The same cases also explain the rid
die why many explorers by emulasing
the example of the savages in chewing
the Leaves of the cocoa plant for MANY
days suffered neither hunger nor thirst
The chewing of the cocaine containing
leaves narcotized the palate and upper
part of the 9sophagus
Nicotine acts exactly as cocaine. A
person suffering from hunger and
thirst can with few pipes of tobacco
or few cigars drive OFF this unpleas-
ant feeling for a couple of hours. It-
Is well known that soldiers ~ho smoke
on long marches or while waiting in
the trenches for the field kitchen can
hold out longer without nourishment
than the nop-smokers among their COM
rades
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
By Mark Swan
(Of the vigilantes)

The greatest question before the
American people to-day is "Wherewith
shall we be fed ?" We neglect to an
swer the question because we don't
have to answer it noqv. Some of us
won't even admit that it is a question.
Reginald has always gone to Rector's
after "the show; there's always been
flet mignon and mushrooms. Spike,
the truck driver, has always gone into
that quick lunch, around the corner.
and called for "ham and"-and from
some mysterious region "ham and"
has appeared. Why should filet mignon
and cham and" fail to answer
"present" as long as one has the price :?
Reginald has every confidence in
Rector's and Spike places unbounded
dependence in the quick lunch. 1t is
absolutely inconceivable to either of
them that their haven of food should
fail them.
And they won't believe it-now-
they won't ever consider it or try to
understand it, until ono day the Food
Card will softly step up and tap them
on the shoulder. Thereafter Spike will
have to get along with a lightweight
portion of war bread once in awhile
and the best Reginald will get will be
shredded peanuts and split prune for
breakfast and the wing Of = shrimp
every other Thursday. Yet II % you warn
them they call you Calamity Howler.
Howling When 1t Is Vain
It's terrible thing, for people 70
have to listen to calamity howief
and read his dire prophecies. wnea
there are SO many pleasant Things se
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Sunday Gowns
Dating From 1914

Nobody laughed, certainly, in the
tightly crowded compartment. ldenti-
fcation cards and little flags mingled;
Sunday costumes rubbed against one
another. The heads of the poor travel
lers stood out lamentably, faces drawn,
hair disordered and dusty, above
bodices crinkled by hours of standing
in the train--bodices whose style went
back three years, recalling 1914, care
free peace and all the tranquil happi
ness whose sudden end no one then
suspected.
There was conversation, naturally.
Disputes occurred sometimes. But
more frequently there were little DEM
onstrations of fraternal sympathy,
and, permeating all this, an immense
undercurrent of hope and love. To see
France once more-the true France,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

set will outlast family of most
strenuous children.
A collection of empty spools of diff
ferent sizes is treasure for the child
of three, who will rejoice in stlinging
them on a cord passed through bod
learned skill in this exercise he may
graduate to stringing buttons with
real needle and thread. On baking day
a small lump of dough (made less
sticky by working more flour into it,
which can be rolled and played with on
q bit of smooth board, is great fun for
little folk; and let the mother con-
stantly remember that any fun which
is secured by using the hands does not
educational value.
ws}sr aa washas snd e' s of' o eoh 2 to oRBs
washed out will fill many happy min
utes. The oilcloth apron is indispens-
able for tfIs play, as for the outdoor
water play and for clay modelling: This
last is perhaps the most etcrnally in
teresting Of the indoor occupations tor
little children. If the clay. is kept on
bit Of oilcloth on low table it is not
an untidy element in kitchen.
Making Animals
If dried peas an, soaked for few
pierced by a needle and can be strung
by four and fve-year olds into neck
laces and bracelets, or they can be put
together with wooden toothplcks into
many fascinating shapes. Dried water,
melon and sunfower seeds can be used
in the same way. A box of dry corn
cobs can convert fSee corner OF the
floor into farm with log.-cabin house,
rail fences and barns. Trees can pc
l ut trn1 lct tad hu tx1yfcrc or
clay to hold them upright, and farm
animals can be rudely fashioned out OF
clay, busted over with domestic color
ing material to make them realistic
-four for sheep, cocoa for brown horses
and cows, charcoal for black animals
and then baked in the kitchen oven to
make them firm.
may dive and delve, is a resource for
rainy hours, and If the mother is at
hand to keep. an eye on the process and
tell what colors and materials are, to
suggest matching those colors and
stuffs which are Identical and to make
agreeable combinations with others
rag bag hour is as educational as any
exercise in carefully run modern
school. The country mother has here
mothers in that her work is always at
home and of nature which allows her
to- SUPERVISE the children's play with
out giving up all her time to them.
Provision should be made in the case
of little children for their. desire tc
handle all sorts Of objects; the desire
.. which makes them enjoy so greatly {
tumbling over Of mothers work-basket
There IS no need to let them upset
that when there are in every country
| house such a vast number Of other ar.
/ ticles which are not hurt by bab,
: Tablespoons, tin pans, boxes, tongs
r Furthermore, instead Of being toll
3 1Dont touch!" they should be en-.
$ couraged to learn how neatly aud com
+ petently to perform such ordinar,
u operations as opening and shattini
: drawers and doors and boxes an.
r gates, serewing the tops on cans, hang
) ing up clothes, and taking OF rubbArs
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Both Nations on Eve of Another Battle to
Separate Their Armies, Resolve ON Victory
Over Graves of Their Commingled Dead

British soldiers. twenty-five years
of war had weakened France. And
Germany rose, in due course, to con-
tinue the process of humiliating her
and crushing her Incompatible pres
tige.
What Christendom might have be-
come if France and England had
worked together, instead of fighting
each other, leave to the regretful
imagination. But at least these wars
left no ranking wound. Through it
all Rheims Cathedral still stood,
lovely and entire. Napoleon, like
Lord Elgin and his marbles, occa-
sionally picked up things, but he did
not trample on art. He won battles
which, on the whole, liberated the en-
emy. This has been the reason why
to-day Napoleon is so popular fig
ufe in England. He is inexhaustible.
Our Winston Churchill, like Lord
Roseberry, collects all he can find
about Napoleon. Nine. Tussaud's, in
London, changes the waxworks
weekly. but never the Napoleon
relics. Books on Napoleon fill our
libraries. Every fresh one is re-
viewed at length, and read with
avidity.
The first result of giving our peo-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

Specification. And those who displayed
with so proud an air their rose-colored
bows didn't know that that little butter
fly Of tender hue was for them the
saddest Of all, since 1T consigned them
"a wandering band, whom no one
claimed-to the chance good Offices of
the various departments.
The little gold piece which had been
given to each Of them on their arrival,
the concert offered them, the discourse
made on their behalf--were these pre-
liminaries not promises at last of JOY
of happiness?
A tide of French vigor ran brimming
through the hall The women, when
asked in the cloakroom what piece of
clothing they needed most, invariably
demanded an apron. An apron? To
work. To begin to reconstruct the
past.
Frail, weak and timid, Nine. Dumont
behind the others, waited her turn
Some one came along to examine the
labels they wore. 1t was for all the
travellers, at the climax Of their IA
tigues and emotions, the truly supreme
moment-when they should know, yes
or no, whether some one would claim
them in one part Of France or another;
whether the home destroyed would be
reconstructed again, whether the poor
human dog, whose longing was visible
in all their eyes, was going to be freed
from the pound, in which, shivering, he
had awaited for so many weary days his
long postponed deliverance.
mime. Dumont, senior, widow
claimed at Paris by Nine. Dumont
widow, and her little son"-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Trotzky's Red Army
A Menace to No One
But the Russians
The NcaU York Tribune
FOrei0n Press Bureau


Paul Eric, Pe.rograd correspondent
of lie Journal" of Paris, ia decidedly
of the opinion that no dependence
should be placed on Trotzky's Red
Guards. The first organization, ne
says, consisted of tramps, who were
collected in Petrograd and after two
or three hours drill received a few
hundred francs to arouse their patri-
otic ardor and were sent to the front.
But they did not get very far, disband-
ing as soon as they got outside of Pc
trograd, and proceeding to spend their
money.
The second organization was in
tended as bodyguard to the Bolsheviki
and means for enforcing the power
OF the Soviets. Trotzky constituted
himself the general in chief of this
body and issued call after call for VOL
unteers.
Trotzky announced that he would
soon have an army of from SOC, 900 to
100000 men. bat the first detachment
Of tho new Red Guards. named for
Liebkneeht, committed so many thefts
and abuses Of all kinds that they had
to be disbanded. The SECOND detach-
ment would only consent to duty as
guards for the railroad stations and
railroads. Every day they demanded
an increase in pay and finally 20. up to
$3.50 month.
So far, Trotzky has only been able to
form few detachments, over which he
has no authority, and who are menace
to NO one except the Russians.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

French that to-day we cry, "Dieu ct
Mon Droit" and "Noblesse Oblige."
1t is true that for eight centuries
England and France were at war,
save for troublous armistices.
France was Scotland's friend, Ire
lands friend, Americas friend,
against England. To some extent
the Normans and Plantagenets must
be held responsible. These were, in
effect, French civil wars, with Eng
land feudal accessory. AS boy l
enjoyed reading about Crecy, Poi
tiers and Agincourt, and I am still
proud of the noble lines which
Shakespeare attributes to John of
Gaunt and King Henry Y. But, af-
ter all, the supreme heroine in Eng
lish history is Joan of Arc. We re-
we're Queen Elizabeth. We found in
Queen Victoria a mother of nations.
But the Maid of Orleans, the saint
who to-day unites the worship of
French clericals and French citi-
zens, is one Of those few tender,
tragic, triumphant fgures-indeed,
she is unique, l think, in Christian
annals-whom we dare to greet with
alteration. England's endeavors to
keep France divided and distraught
during the middle ages were crimes
by kings in whose veins, | must in
fairness say, ran much French
blood. The sympathies of the Brit
ish changed with the romances of
Sir Walter Scott, who, writing in an
age still dominated by the terror of
Napoleon, presented in "Quentin
Durward" a final picture of Louis
XI-that strange monarch who
achieved French unity. AS the il
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Selective Draft Labor for Farms or Short Rations

do; but it's worse. much worse, to be a
preaching slowly but relentlessly and
feel that bowling is in vain.
Yet calamity is coming. We have
had slight foretaste Of it this winter.
We have had meatless days and pork
less days and wheatless days and we've
had to deprive poor Fido of the daily
Jumps OF sugar he so gracefully poises
on the end of his nose and gobbles up
on command, but what we'vs had is
nothing to what we will have This time
next year.
Short rations will be with us. and in
stead Of feeding Fido sugar We may be
appraising him with hungry and specu-
lative eyes. The question can be stated
in thirty words. We need more food
staples than a0e raised last gear and
qUe're not going to raise nearly as
mitch as svs raised last year because
the farmer can't get labor.
Does this sound like panic, like
AI1SNt, AlAo . oO6y man 0SA 'hS
farmer. There are meetings all over
the country whore men are agonizing
over this question. They are begging
for help. Their planting tins is upon
them. They haven't the men to plant
for them; besides, why should they be
such fools as to plant what they can't
harvest? Would you start something
you couldn't hnish--and lose money
The Labor Shortage
If you want more evidence, read the
papers. A great New York daily ear
ried four columns Of front page ar
ticle Sunday, March 3. And II you're
not satisfied read the report of the Sec
retary of Agriculture of the United
States, who admits this condition and
states that the Department of Agricult-
ure is doing what it can to cope with
it, and that he hopes=llQpss, mind you
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

that the labor shortage will be met.
Is this a question to be met with
hope? Is this a problem to be solved
with some city gardens and few vol
unteer high school boys and girls to
work on few farms?
When war was declared with Ger
many we called on every man between
twenty-one and thirty-one to be ready
to fight to defend the national honor
and defend our liberties. But this food
question is a greater question than the
war peril: The success or failure Of
the war depends ON it. We must feed
our allies and our army and navy or
they'll have to quit cold; the bravest
man alive can't fight if he's starving.
Our very Hves depend on it. Your life.
Mine. The lives of all of US.
Consider the scientific way in which
we went to war. and the unscientitic
way in which we go to work. We have
met the war. question fairly, to the
best of our ability. and we're not meet
ing the food question at all.
Double the Crops
There's only one way to meet it.
Double tho crops. Get men to the
farmer. Get them to him at once. SO
he can plant. Keep them at it till after
harvest. Subsidize the farmer, or sub
sidize the farm land. Double their
wages--do anything get them.
II necessary draft them. Draft e.
100000 men, and put them at work on
the land. Just as the men who are
| fighting were drafted. Put them under
the same conditions. At that they'll
be better off than the boys at the front,
for they won't be risking their lives
and nine-tsnths of them will come
home at harvest time with "back
to the land" bee In the bonnet.
If this question is put squarely up
to the people of this country and our
desperate Resd explained. public opin-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

under her own fag Still undimin-
ished, the exaltation which stirred US
the rest of us IL 1914-flled their
breasts.
A consumptive, in the last stages,
murmured, with smile:
ut would have been a grief to me
to leave them even my skin"
A soldier, showing two arm stumps,
exclaimed:
"You will see if 7 don't succeed all
the same in working the soil of France y
At the Swiss frontier the trumpeters
who had saluted them told them of all
the music and all the discourses which
awaited them and that their return to
France would resemble an entry into
glory.
At the table at the banquet given
them on their arrival Nine. Dumont,
when the "Marseillaise" burst forth
and the prefect, loaded with decora-
tions, arose to speak, thought she
should faint, as three or four other
women actually did, ~sntirely overcome
by patriotic emotion. Then, in the big
hall of the hotel which received them
she did all the thousand little things
which red tape demanded. She seemed
to go again through all the stages of
the journey.
Throngs jostled her, but with a
wore on their breats, instead of the
German labels, little knots of blue,
green or rose, each with a different
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

pie the franchise in 1884 was that
we fought, in 1851, not against a
Napoleon, but at his side. Despite
one incident at Fashoda, we have
lived for century in peace and har-
mony with France. In 1870 she un-
doubtedly had our sympathy, but our
link with Germany was still strong
and we did not know Germany as
we'll as we know her now. The men
who completed our reconciliation
with our ancient foe were Lord
Lansdowne, who has French ances-
try; Sir Henry Campbell Banner
man, who was stepped in French lit
erature, and King Edward, who was
captivated by French courtesy and
charm. No one will deny, I think,
that French courage appeals to Mr..
Lloyd George.
At this supreme moment, when yet
another French city, Amiens, is suf-
fering the penalty of barbarism
from that German part of Europe
which never came under the civil
izing influence of Rome and her en-
pire, it is for France to rest assured
that she is generously, affectionate-
ly, gratefully appreciated. She
does not need to assert her pre-
eminence; it is granted. Britain
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
By Dorothy Garfield Fisher

60 MANY of our American farm
~ houses are situated in very rigor-
Gus climates that good many
mothers will not think the out of doors
possible playground in winter time.
TINS is less true than they are apt to
Mak On almost any sunny day in
winter little children, if warmly
esssed, will benefit far more by
sflsk, romping, active half hours run
ling and Jumping than city babies do
u their swathed. motionless outing in
baby carriage, And when really bad
seasher drives them in, as it should
mas great advantage in space over
the city one. For there is about
iarm nearly always some corner-a
woodshed, a corner of the barn, an
sulc or an unused reom-where the
ttsie folks may romp and play ac-
hgely. If necessary, the sacred spare
room Is better used for this purpose
nan kept in idle emptiness. And all
Me varieties Of handwork are re-
sources for rainy days.
Encouraging Play
For as the children advance beyond
real babyhood and the mere need for
constant romping and climbing and
running like little animals their in
alnct'vc desire to use their hands in
efeases. and this is an instinct which
snogld be encouraged in every possible
way. Just as the wise mother sees to
That they are provided when babies
With ample chance to roll and kick and
sVmnle, so when they are older she Is
never more pleased than when they are
song something with their hands, and
i0r beginning this handwork. A pan of
beans er shelled corn, with a wide
moushed bottle and spoon, will keep
TWO or three year old happy and alb
sorbed for a long time. A pack of
sards to be ehufIied or used to build
souses is another "plaything" which
ooes not need to be specially bought.
A pan Of bran and handful OF
uothespins occupy even baby. of
.ourteen mohths as he pushes them
mo the closely packed bran and pulls
.aem out. A big rag doll the size OF
sil small chiln is easy to make and stun
WIN cottorf. The most rudimentary
scratches Serve to indicate the eyes
nose and mouth, and the lips ane
eaeeks can be colored realistically with
say red jelly. All children love big
sol! OF this sort and delight to dress il
snd undress 1t in their own clothes
.Aey learn in this way to handle but
sons and buttonboles and to master thu
Imculties of shoes and belts ant
a new corncob pipe and a small bow
& seapsuds mean harmless fun fol
Me faye-year-oid, which iss alway'
xatched with rapture by the little
A Father With Saw
and then there are blocks, .perennia
Ssocks. which need not at all be bough
ssom store. A father with plan
Aa,s saw can plane 8 couple Of two
.loaf stocks and in half an hon
"a fe ss many square or oblong block
{ e inches by BY 8 is q good size) a
~ child needs to rlay with. fhes
blocks not only cost PRACTICAL
sssaang. but arc much better Tor tn
sss.le children 70 use than the smalle
Il ehslye kind that are sold. ard tn
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also her Sunday hat, over which some
black grapes hung tremulously. Like
the others, too, she wore fastened on
her breast, in the midst Of number of
minute tricolor flags, pinned on in the
course of the Journey, the German
identification card, on which was an an
nouncement, written in the two Ian
guages, that the human piece of bag
gage to which it was affixed had the
right to travel, and some other official
notifications of the same sort.