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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Sending a Parcel

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: / wish to call your attention TO the
great difficulty experienced last week when
desired to send a package to a soldier
friend in France. Ny case does not appesr
to be an unusual one, for several acouaint.
ances have had like experiences, and am
sure that little space in The Tribune will
do much to clarity the existing conditions
/ received request from France for eey-
tain articles, and this request was passed
as o. X. by the lieutenant. Upon presenting
the request at my local postofice (Station
R, l49th Street and Third Avenue). I was
informed that must first 20 to 45 Broad.
way for written permit to send the pack
age. Hurrying to as Broadway, the Offices
Of the War Trade Board, l was assured that
my request was entirely satisfactory and
that no other permit was necessary ASH
was now sure of myself I purchased the
desired articles, weighing in all nine
pounds, which I found later to be two
pounds above the limit for soldiers pack
ages.
On the following morning again sp-
peared before the clerks window with
my package, sure that could send " Now.
this clerk was very courteous and obiiging.
but under no circum stances would he take
my parcel without having first compared
my request with other letters from nv
friend He did not wish to be deceived.
Having other letter with me, was
obliged to return home, and in the after
noon the mother of my friend in France
brought the package down, and also several
letters for the purpose of identifying the
handwriting.
There was a different clerk present, and
in just so many words he said no parcel
would be taken unless accompanied by a
permit from 46 Broadway. When informed
that 45 Broadway had said the request was
10. K, he remarked that he did not care,
and also added that the lady had better
return home and learn more about her
business. However, the lady returned 20
as Broadway, where she was again assured
everything was satisfactory, and the pack
age was finally sent off from the postofice
in the Custom House.
Now, such a state of affairs is not very
encouraging to those wishing to send arti-
cles to boys overseas.
JOSEPH T. DUFFY.
New York, June T. 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Cleaner Than His Partners

There are many contradictions in the
Turkish character. The Turkish govern
ment has shown bloodthirsty ferocity
toward the Christian races under it's
yoke. 1t has massacred Armenians.
Syrians and Greeks. But in the conduct
of warfare and the treatment of Allied
prisoners its policy has been in shining
contrast with that of its two Christian
co-belligerents-Germany and Austria
Hungary.
Turkey has earned a reputation for
clean fighting. She sticks to the humaner
code of the past. And there has been
very little complaint of seventies in her
prison camps. The Turk is warrior
and still has the warriors outlook.
1T is not surprising, therefore, that the
British and Ottoman governments have
recently concluded treaty concerning
prisoners of war and informed civilians
which manifests a sincere desire to i'm
prove the condition Of these unfortu-
mates 1t provides for the direct re-
patriation of all disabled prisoners of
war, without regard to numbers or rank.
One thousand invalid British prisoners
and $500 invalid Turkish prisoners are to
be repatriated at once without the for
maiities of medical examination. Officers
and men of the medical corps are also
60 be repatriated, with minor exceptions.
A few surgeons and sanitary orderlies
are to be left behind to take care of the
other prisoners. There is also to be an
unlimited repatriation of informed civil
ians, except male civilians between seven
teen and fifty years of age. These are
to be exchanged, man for man, under
subsequent protocols.
Turkey asked that all civilians
should be repatriated. This request has
been taken under advisement by the Brit
ish government. Another request made
by the Turks is interesting. 1t was that
at British camps for Turkish officers
barbed wire fencing be replaced by or
binary wire or some other form of
fencing. This shows singular con-
sideration Of minnti@ affecting the vel
fare Of prisoners.
Both governments have bound them
selves to considerable treatment of
captiyes. No reprisals are to be taken
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Our 2O6 Multi-Millionaires

ine Treasury Department at Wash
ington reports that for the fiscal year Of
1915 206 persons in the United States
paid taxes on incomes of a million dol
lars year or over. In q rough wav
TINS means that there were in that
year zoo persons possessed of twenty
or twenty-five millions of property in
this country. This was three and one
half times the number reporting such
an income for the fiscal year Of 1914.
That Is what imitation and war profits
mean IN the making of millionaires.
The Treasury does not reveal how
large are the highest incomes paid on.
but there is curious rule or law, known
as Pareto's law, discovered quite some
years ago by Swiss professor Of eco
Monies, which gives US cIew. This law
was first worked out on the income tax
returns of England, Prussia and Saxony.
1t has subsequently been found to hold
good equally in the United States. In
the toughest sort of way this rule is
that the number Of people having any
xiven income, say ten to twenty thou
sand year, is approximately one-third
he number having half this income, or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
L.orraine!

9, From an early novel by Robert w. Chambers
LORRAINE, the scenes of which are laid in Tho
time Of the Franco Prussian War. Published ir
1897 by Harper Brothers.
When Yesterday shall dawn again,
And the long line athwart the hill
Shall quicken with the buglc's thrill.
Thine own shall come to thee, Lorrainel
Then in each vineyard vale, and plain,
The quiet dead shall stir the earth
And rise, reborn, in thy new birth
Thou holy martyr-maid, Lorraine!
is it in rain thy sweet tears stain
Thy mothers breast? Her castled crest
Is lifted now! God guide her quest!
She seeks thine own for thee, Lorraine!
So Yesterday shall live again,
And the steel line along the Rhine
Shall cuirass thee and all that's thine.
France lives-thy France-divine Lorrainel
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
A Government Labor Exchange

Announcement has been made by the
United States Employment Service that
it is now ready to take over entirely the
recruiting and distribution of labor for
war work, and that it is expected the
government will soon issue orders to en-
ployers with war contracts to cease in
dependent recruiting of labor. This
would be an excellent course, which man.
ufacturers would doubtless welcome. It
would relieve them of the responsibility
OF finding workers-a task of vast bur-
den and great expense-and it should
put an end to the Switching" of labor,
which has been holding a good percent
age of workers unemployed during their
transition from job to job and running
up labor costs at headlong speed.
The United States has been slow in
coming to this policy, considering the ex-
ample and experience of Great Britain.
There comprehensive system of gov
eminent labor exchanges, stated by gov
eminent officials, exists. Labor NAV be
obtained only through these exchanges.
Employers register their needs at these
offices; workers register there also. An
interchange of information enables the
officials to adjust the supply of workers
to the demand for them. Wages are
paid at district rates." Leaving GER
tificates' at first were required to pre-.
vent the shifting of labor for higher
wages, but so much unrest in labor or
CARNATIONS resulted that the plan was
abolished, and now there is fairly ex-
tended government regulation of plants
to assure economic use of labor and to
prevent any abuses affecting the en-
ployes. The Employment Service now
has $50 Offices, with comprehensive
system of labor recruiting and labor re-
serves. 1t declares that it is placing
about 5000 men day in munition plants,
shipyards and other war industries. and
on farms.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
The Valleys of the
Blue Shrouds
(Where the ualiant poilus ,ocre buried
in their blue ,lnifornls)
From The Yale Eerscu)

Fror, The Yale Ee,sc,c)
n SHARDS of walls that once held
~ precious life,
Now scattered, like the bones the Prophet
Lying in visioned valley of the slain
Ere One cried: "Son of Man, can these
bones live?"
images Of heroes, saints, and Christs.
Pierced, broken, thrust in hurried sepul-
ture
In sefsame tombs with tinse, dross, and
dreg,
And without time for either shrift or
shroud
smould'ring embers OF Loves hearthstonc
fires,
Quenched by the fercer fires of hellsh hate
That have not where to kindle flames again
To light succeeding generations on!
0 ghost-gray ashes of cathedral towers
That toward the sky once raised appealing
hands
To beg the God of all take residence within
And hold communion with the kneeling
sous
0 silent tongues of bells that once did ring
Matn and Angeus DER peaceful fields,
Now shapeless Stag that will tomorrow
serve
To make new engines for still others woe
0 shardS of sanctuaries and of honest
o embers, ashes gray, and glntng dust!
Ye who were tile or tower in Laon or Ypres,
A village by the Somme, a church in Roye,
IL ID
In St. Die, lycee in Verdun,
A wayside crucifix in Mezeres,
Again hear a cry: "Can these bones live p
Yes AS the bones, Ger which the Prophet
cried
And called the breath from Heav'n's four
winds to breathe,
Sprang straightway, bone to bone, each to
it's place,
To frame in flesh the features and the forms
They still remembered and still loved to
hold
Once more on earth-so shall we rise again!
Will furnish back your fame in crystal
stone;
The cirrus dawns in Parsee tapestries
WIN dZuio DVIucIlHRS Will ClOCne your
walls;
The nimbus Moons will shower golden rain
And sunset colors' fill each Gothic arch
For DER thy stricken wales, 0 valiant
France,
Our love for thee shall prophesy anew,
And Heav'n's Four Winds of Liberty, allied,
Shall breathe imprisoned in thy streets till
they
Shall pulse again with life that laughs and
sings,
And yet remembers, singing through its
tears
The music of an everlasting song
Remembers, proudly and undyingy,
The hero dust that lies in shrouds of blue
But rises as thy soul, immortal France!
JOHN FINLEY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Our 100000

Ludendorff's chief fight in France has
been against time. He is striving to get
decisive results before the new American
armies arrive in force
He is winning territory But,he is not
making any progress in his race against
our troop ships. Since March 21, when
the first great German offensive, that
based on St. Quentin was launched, the
United States has sent 100000 men to
Europe. That half million practically
offsets the losses of the Allies in the last
four drives.
General March announced yesterday
that the American troops now abroad
number more than 100000. This total
includes non-combatant services and COM
batants in all stages of training. But
by the happy device of brigading the
newer units with French and British
commands, training has been greatly ac-
CELEBRATED. General Foch is apparently
greatly pleased with the showing made
by our units on the Picardy, Marine and
Lorraine fronts. Hence his decision to
withdraw the units now fighting with the
French and British and to create indie
pendent American divisions and armies.
We have now two completely organized
divisions-one under General Bundy and
one under General Bullard. Two of our
divisions of 10000 men are enough for
an army corps. Two corps-120.000 men
are enough for an army The German
division has, on an average, less than
$4,000 men, the French division less than
$4,000 and the British division less than
$4,000. Even if our present somewhat
topheavy organization is retained, we
can soon have two complete American
armies ready TO take over distinct sectors
Of the front.
Our troops at Cantigny and northwest
of Chateau Thierry have shown the finest
fighting quality They ought to show it.
for they are picked men, with plenty Of
initiative and high morale They are
more than match--man for man-for
the Germans, for much third and fourth
rate material has been swept into the
German ranks since 1917.
BY July we ought to have 100000
troops in France-more than 100000 of
them combatants. Our men are now only
getting their baptism of fire AS fully
organized American divisions, corps and
armies they will soon be in the thick of
the coming German offensive. The Ger
man High Command knows this The
German soldiers and the German peoplc
don't know it. The Kaiser has been
promising the German public victory ODE
fore the Americans arrive" That prom
Use has been blasted We are already
arriving. Unless Ludendorff can reach
one of his main detectives before the end
of July, his hot race against time and
our transatlantic transport service will
be lost.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
The Stupid Terrible Boche
By Caspar Whitney
Special Correspondent Of The Tribune IN France
iCon,1riaht 1913. The TytbMae Aaeociationl

was recently becoming ridiculously easy to
fetch in solitary Boche sentry. You have,
said they, but to get close to him unde-
tected and the rest is almost as simple as
merely whisting him to heel. Should, how
ever, he discover you before you get within
striking or hailing distance emotional fire.
works ensue which arouse the entire line
and countryside.
AS prisoners the Germans seem a con-
tented lot, and apparently their captors give
little thought to their trying to escape.
Journeying through the base stations of
the war zone, have frequently seen them
working alone in the fields, no one guard
ing them, no one in sight, indeed Once in
the empty street of little settlement
through which I was passing sat down to
information. Soon I heard the stamp Of
heavy feet on the stone paved road and
shortly there came into view three Ger.
man prisoners, carrying kettles which pre-
sumably held their noon ratons. They were
quite unattended, and the only human be-
ings I saw for the full ten minutes
awaited the coming of some villager 1t
was strange to see them thus seemingly as
free as the air, and they certainly were in
prime physical condition, stepping along
though we'll cared for. Evidently Fritz
has no keen desire to return to place in
the Boche firing line.
Now and again newly brought in pris-
oner reveals the Boche idea of making
merit. A French officer told me the incl
dent of soldier in a freshly captured
group forcibly taking the watch and chain
from his own German officer and handing
it to the French officer who passed it back
to the German from whom it had been
wrenched, much to the frank surprise Of
the soldier He knew his German officer
would not turn from such gifts. and could
not understand the Frenchman's refusal
And so, following their German thought
ana DOche mcCnOQ Cncy cream or terrOrlZ-
ing the people of Paris by their raids and
their long gun.
How little they know the Frenchman.
AS looked out my window this morning
while the shells from the long gun were
exploding with fifteen minute regularity,
and great crash had seemed close at
hand and might easily have frightened,
noted the men and women passing as usual
unhurried, unafraid, and two hotel mes.
senger boys playing tag back and forth
from sidewalk TO sidewalk, while no doubt
the expectant guests on whose missions
they were out waited with that patience
usual to hotel guests dependent on hotel
messengers the world over.
Last night amid the crashing CT heavy
barrage against the raiders the peculiarly
unmusical honk of the Paris wartime taxi
sounded with slight interruption under my
window az I read.
"Cest la guerre,' says the Frenchman,
and goes about his affairs undeterred
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

Even Secretary Baker! after that"
ne said to the West Point graduates, re-
ferrlng to the part they should take in
bringing this war to victorious close
After that, as officers of the regular
army, you will prepare, not for war, but
to be ready for another war if anybody
wants to start it," That, in one breath.
is the whole doctrine of preparedness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

There is a place in New York, patron
lied perforce by many travelling soldiers.
where you pay 70 cents for three very
thin slices Of tongue, two thin slices of
soggy war bread and a cup of coffee. Is
this profiteering? Well, if it is the food
administration has strange Job on it's
hands. The place is the Pennsylvania
Railroad Terminal in New York. The
RAILROADS are in the hands of the govern
ment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

DARIS, May 27--When the Germans
started their great offensive on the
West front March II, they opened on
Paris with their long range gun lombard
ment by day and fleets of air raiders by
night in the thought of terrifying the pub
lie and generally demoralizing French
morale behind the line.
And now, May q, with the beginning OF
the new attempt to win decision on the
West front, which the Boche knows he
must have now or never, he is at it again
with persistent night raids and renewed
bombardment--th same tactics repeated
in the same way and in the same vain hope.
The stupid Boche!
How characteristic of him is this long
range bombardment with the thought to
demoralize the French. 1t is but another
illustration of his utter inability to read
Alright or, indeed, get any inkling Of the
psychology Of another-outside the German
Empire.
He can never escape the slough Of his
own mentality, his own warped outlook,
the tyranny Of his unique form of "kultur."
What he would do under given condi-
tions he argues the French also must do
In February, 1916 while at German head
quarters, Charleville, France, on relief
soemnity their campaign against the Brit
ish after they had crushed France at Ver
dun, as they firmly believed they were about
to do and made the separate peace with
her which they counted on with equal con-
hdence!
They know air raids terrorize their own
people, and conclude therefore without
question they likewise do the Allies de-
spite repeated evidence to the contrary.
Theirs is collective courage which needs
formula and command to function Man
for man, it has been demonstrated on the
battle line in those encounters with bayo-
net and knife common to this desperate
fighting, that the German is no match for
his French or British opponent. He lacks
the moral fibre, the physical courage, to
face unsupported resolutely cold steel in
the hands Of determined antagonist of no
greater, more often less, physical bulk and
strength than he.
They need the touch of elbows, the voice
Of their master, which no doubt explains
their close order mass attacks that result
in such slaughter among their ranks. With
linked arms, sometimes singing their ma
tional hymn, they march to their death
bravely, unhesitatngly. But in the open
order of attack, to which heavy losses are
finally bringing them, they are considera-
bly, inferior to the Allies and to their own
previous standard. Along the Allied front
one Ally is reckoned as being equal to two
Boche at least
On guard duty at night the single Ger
man soldier is, comparatively speaking, q
nervous sentinel, subject to panic and rather
easily routed and captured British off
GERS in the Amiens region told me that it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Three Negro Spirituals

From Pott,Y)
THE LOST LOVE
Oh, where has my honey gone?
Fly away, my Jubal, fly away!
Oh, where have they laid her bones.
Fly away, my Jubal, fly away!
Conjure woman shake her head,
Preacher dumb and master sad.
Nobody knows!
Nobody knows!
Why the tears that drop all night?
Fly away, my Jubal, fly away!
Why the heart that burns like fire?
Fly away, my Jubal, fly away!
Angel close the Book Of Life.
Moon goes down and stars grow cold.
Nobody knows!
Nobody knows!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Some Pie Eater
tTimss 0, c~na,

The traveller who had stopped Of the
negro cabin in Georgia watched q picks-
ninny gobbling up large hunk Of pie
"some eater, that boy of yours" he n
marked to the proud father. "Tasssh,
agreed the old man, che shorely kin eat
Once he done sit HIS unpah lip cvsr -
piece o. pie, it am his pie, bosss Il am ~
pie." 81
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

From The ST. Paul Pioneer Press,
What's the use of talking about limits to
the ambitions of Chicago? Once an aspi-
rant to become the nations capital, one of
It's enterprising sons now proposes 20 make
of it . seaport
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Little Nero

From Tn, Washington Star
It Is the world's misfortune that the
Crown Prince developed an insane within to
turn all Europe into cemetery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

against prisoners except on eight weeks
notice through diplomatic channels. The
Turk is still a fighting gentleman.
Would that the same thing could be said
of his Teuton masters!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

WHO is THAT A-WALKING IN rHE
CORN?
Who is that a-walking in the corn?
have looked to East and looked TO Yves.
But nowhere could find Him who walks
Masters eornheld in the morning,
Who is that a-walking in the corn?
is 1t Joshua. the son Of Num-
Or King David come to fight the giant
Near the cornfeld in the morning?
Who is that awalking in the corn?
Is 1t Peter jangling Heavens keys -
Or old Gabriel come to blow his horn
Near the cornfeld in the morning.
Who is that a-walking in the'corn4
have looked to East and looked Ia Vast
But nowhere could find Him who walka
Masters cornteld in the morning.
FE.iTON Johnson.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

five to ten thousand year. Applying
this rule in the distribution of the 206
incomes of over one million dollars, these
would grade up about as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
HOW LONG. O LORD,

How long, 0 Lord, nobody knows.
My honey's resting near the brook.
How long. 0 Lord, nobody knows.
How long, o Lord, nobody knows,
pray she'll rise on Judgment Day.
How long, o Lord, nobody knows!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
GUARANTEE

Entered the Pos.oace at Na~ York sseond Csss
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Extra Sugar Dividends

Directors of the American Sugar
Refining Company, at a meeting held
yesterday, declared four extra quarter
ly dividends of y of / per cent each
on the $45,000,00O common stock out
standing, to be paid to stockholders of
record, respectively, on June l, Septem-
Der 2, December 2, 1918, and March /.
1919. The directors also declared the
usual quarterly dividends of " ner
cent on the preferred and IL per cent
on the common. The extra distribu-
tions will add $1,35o,oO0 to the regular
annual distribution of the common
stockholders. u
The common stock of the American
Sugar Refining Company has never be-.
fore received a so-called extra divi-
dend. The regular rate paid in 1898
however, was % per cent. From 1894
to 1899, IL per cent was paid, while in
1902 the distribution amounted to Q
per cent. The lowest rate ever paid on
the Junior issue of stock was in 1900.
when the dividend was 61a per cent,
Following the announcement Of tho
extra dividend the common stock sold
on the Stock Exchange yesterday I'M to to
HAS. new high for the cur
rent year. The closing price was 1135S
a net advance of y Of point. Thso Ths,
low quotation for 1918 was SO.