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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
With Regard to
The Middle East

With Regard to
The Middle East
Mesopotamia. Syria. Arabia - these
lands may be guarded By our troops,
but they do not belong" to US. Their
future will be referred to the confer
ence, whatever it be, on which Presi-
dent Wilson will hold commanding
position. Indeed, would like to sug-
gest that, for about hundred years,
we have done our bit in helping others
countries onto their feet, ard might
be allowed holiday. do not see
why, with all our other Asiatic. re-
sponsibilities, we should have to take
on the extra burden of the Middle
East, and. with great respect. l would
submit that the United States might
find time for the job.
| would so further. If. in the opin-
ion OF your, statesmen, Egypt or any
other native dependency for which we
are responsible, is inadequately gov
erned. | should be happy to advocate
Its transference, here and now, to the
Stars and Stripes. We have done our
best, according to our lights--let
America come in and do better; only,
say 1t b!untly, we will not hand back
these people who have trusted us and
proved faithful to us-we viii not hand
them over to Germany, power which
they fear and detosr. Won Hertliny
may storm and rave as he likes, but
he will not be allowed 20 lay his hands
on millions Of new victims who openly
dread such catastrophe.
There is undoubtedly unrest, both
il: India and Egypt. 1t must be so.
The Pan-Britannica is accompanied by
commerce and education and a yearn-
ing for citizenship. Many Indians are
rystics and artists to whom mere poll
rites are common or vulgar business.
They are quite content to leave dams
and drains 70 the unasthetic Anglo
Saxon. But there are others. who have
studied law and history at Oxford and
Cambridge, who return to their coun-
try and crave for a career These men
sometimes turn seditous.
But since Lord Curzon left Calcutta
rapid progress has been made with
Indian reform. Natives may now oc-
crpy and do occupy the highest posi-
t,ons-political and judicial-both in
India and in Whitehall. Provincial
/ councils arc growing into legislatures
and Mr.. Montague, the Secretary of
State, an out ard out Liberal, has been
visiting India, with the express object
OF pushing forward these movements
The ancient city of Delhi has been Sc
lected for capital. A Buddhist uni
verslty is being built up at Benares
And slowly but surely India is attain
ing unto unity, with local autonomy
which is, take it, the very foundation
OF your American system. 1t was this
silent and pacific evolution which ut
terly INSCRIPTIONS German intrigue
would have changed into chaos that
would have cost millions of innocent
| lives
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Their Plan Is to ak
Against England

Still, this matter is worth discuss
ing fully. Those in your country who
still sympathize with the much mlsun-
derstood Kaiser do not say so out
right No, their plan is TO talk against
England They will gain their point
If by any means they can stir up dis
sension between the two nations -
yours and mine-without whose Joint
effort the war cannot be won. In Rus
STA. this iargon about British lmpe-
rialism did deadly work among the
Bolsheviki, and you have Bolsheviki
here. The fact that the Allies in Eu
rope do not yet approach the dipIo-
matte situation in the broad manner
Of President Wilson has given Ger
many Z &alectical point: and | need
hardly remark that she says nothing
about France. nothing about Italy-the
only distinction she draws Is between
good and virtuous Washington and
wicked Whitehall. Incidentally, she
refuses TO restore Alsace-L Lorraine. but
that is only an aside-the cuiprit is
London, and | propose. therefore, to
nut tie ether side of the case as I'M
partially as I can before an American
Jury. asking you 30 deal out Justice
strict justiee-in whatever measure
justice be due.
I fully admit thae your President
would be guilty Of high treason if ne
were to send one American lad to his
death in order to bolster up the British
or any other empire 1t is not for en-
pires that your country came into be-
ing, and my first plea for the British
Empire is that it does not exist. The
British Empire IS merely d political
contention. whereby some hundreds OF
millions of quarrelscme people agree
among themselves not to cut one an
others threats. 1t is league Of ra-
tions. as proposed by President VIII
son, only we have had TO do the thing
on a small scale Your notions are
bigger, grander, more impressive. All
We claim is that VIC have made first
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
The Future of
German Colonies

| come finally to the future Of what
We call the German colonies. Let me
remark that not one Englishman will
be one penny richer or poorer what
ever happens to these territories. We
don't covet them. We don't claim
them. II TsingTao does not return
to the Teuton, it is not England's fault.
Japan is responsible. If islands in
the Pacific pass from the German flag.
the reason is, again, not England,
thousands of miles distant, but New
Zealand and Australia. Are not these
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Socialist Assenab.ymen

O. Glow many Socialists are MEM
Ders Of the Assembly ~ Albany, and
what are their namese
Ten. Their names arc William Kar-
in, Elmer Rosenberg. Louis, WaIdman.
August Claescens, Benjamin Gitlow.
Samuel Orr Charles B. Garfnkei, Wilt
am NJ. Feigenbaum. Joseph A. White
corn and Abraham l. Shiplacoff.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Rehearsing Troops
In Razing Towns

The Germans sent out expeditions
in all directions from Picking. They
called these scouting or foraging expe-
ditons But all they secuted or for
aged for was for Chinese lives.
They would march to q defenceless
town and when they turned back that
town would be wiped off the map, it's
inhabitants slaughtered and its build
ings burned to the ground.
The Germans were easy to please.
The life Of an old woman or q baby ap-
parently suited them as we'll as the
killing of an ablc-bodied man with d
gun in his hand to defend himself.
when the Germans returned they
always gave the excuse that as they
were marching through the town they
that started the ibattle.' The Ger.
their later 'alibi-ing' in Belgium.
~ have seen wells literally filled
with the bodies OF slain Chinese WON
en- and children. don't mean only one
or two wells; scores Of wells were
thus filed.
THE first time | saw such a we'll l
was puzzled why the Germans should
take the trouble 10 remove the bodies
Of their victims from the places of
slaughter. Then it dawned upon me
that the Germans wanted to pollute the
water supply of any Chinese who might
have played hockey from the 'Kultur'
classroom.
General Chafee, the American COM
n,ande-, it was who stopped this whole
sale murder, according to the belief
among the American forces. The
slaughter and pillage were becoming so
inhunan that the Americans couldn' t
stand it any longer. General Chafee
was determined to end it. even at the
risk of All open breach with Germany,
the report said.
general Chaffee was said to have
sent a note 10 Won Waldersee that if
he won Waldersee) didn't stop it, he
General Chaffee) would. Won Wal
dersee must have concluded that the
best thing for him to do would be to
comply with the American brigadier gen
erals request. The murders stopped,
At any rate
These American soldiers would like
to see the Allies accept China's offer to
put an army III France. From what
the Americans saw in the Celestial
Kingdom they know that wellarmed
Chinaman can put up rather good
scrap; and. Furthermore, Chinese have
much to pay Germany for.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
By A. L. Parker

TINE German atrocities in Belgium
dumfounded civilization. Muir
der, torture, looting and rape
we're believed impossible as a settled
policy of white nation. Yet, as with
other manifestations of kultur, the
proof of the German purpose had been
written plain for all who would read it
and believe. Germany. almost ten years
before the war, actually used the
methods of Belgium-actually trained
her troops in atrocity.
This was in China, following the
Boxer rebellion. At that time the
sympathy Of the world was against
China, and Germany stood high. Other
civilized powers were her allies and
could not make a public attack or her
in fact, the official reports of her
acts have not yet been published. The
stories Of private soldiers and of civil
ians who testified to the horrors she
sanctioned were disbelieved SO Bel
GUM came as a shock.
The keynote of the German outragcs
in China was struck by the Kaiser HIM
self, when, in his speech to the army
about to sail for China, he said on July
q, 1909: "Use your weapons in such a
way that for thousand years no
Chinese shall dare look askance at a
German" And he added, according 20
the papers of that day: "Be We ter
rble as Attila's Huns" This is not in
the official version of the speech.
How we'll this order was carried out
the American soldiers who took part in
the relief of Picking testify. Perhaps
they will be believed now. Since Off
cial reports are still kept secret there
are gathered here the stories of Amer
leans as to what they saw. They do
not make pleasant reading that
they declare that the Americans, by
force in at least one case and by pro-
tests, mitgated and finally stopped the
outrages.
Germany's particular grievance
against China was that her minister,
Baron Won Ketteler, had been killed by
mob in Peking.
The Kultur lesson which Germany
undertook to teach to China at that
time was the value of a German
baron. American soldiers report that
the Germans boasted to them that the
German army had been sent there to
take 100000 Chinese lives to pay for
the German haron's death. New York
ers who were with the American ex-
pedtionary force in China say that
the Germans came very near to max
ing good this boast, and might have
done so had it not been for the inter
ference of the commander of the Amer
lean force, Brigadier General Adna R.
Chaffee.
f. C. Madden, $50 Yves. l25th Street,
says that he saw German noldiers shot
down by American soldiers in China
Mr.. Madden was the founder of the
Imperial Order of the Dragon, an or
ganzation Of American enlisted men
who saw service in China. He was
Grand Vceroy Of the First Dynasty OF
( the order.
Germans Start Campaign
OF Rape and PilIage
~ was in Company of the 9th In
| f. Il u.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
By Mrs. Edith Clark Cowles

TT THERE is 10 kindergarten near
enough for the child 70 attend
when ne reaches the proper age,
the intelligent mother may guide his
Play in such manner as 10 supply IN
measure the processes Of development
adopted by the trained Kindergarten.
A table or trough containing sand
has unlimited possibilities Cor the ener-
getic child. In the centre ne can build
house with blocks, and lay out
grounds in the sand about II. Twigg
and leaves make excellent trees; tiny
sprigs help TO make the garden. He
ray even have the beds laid of b.
shells. A small pan of water sunk IN
the sand Will serve admirably as a lake.
Clay can be modelled into people and
ANIMAL and more blocks will make a
barn or stable. The beauty Of all this
- that the child can dc everything
himself, and IS most happy in the do
ing
wooden box divided once hori-
aentAlly ard once vertically makes Il
sour-roomed house which can be pa
serea with Wallpaper samples, and
furnished with furniture constructed of
cardboard Books Of instruction, east
~ underatooa By most mothers, are u.s.
rasiy furnished with the heavy quality
81 cover paper used for such hand
WORK
Have an Animal Book
With q pair Of blunt~pointed scis-
ssFs plain manila paper or eolored
PAPER can be cut into the MOST fascinat-
NJ plants, animals, people and many
.hanimate objects. n cloth scrap book
" one Of heavy paper is easily made at
a>ahe, isto Which these cUt~out objects
iHhag be parted. This is delightful work
ar rainy days, and needy little or no
direction.
,vLniIdren delight in strnging objects.
"s,h large blrnt needle ard heavy
sfsad they can string rose pipa, or
-1snnerriss, acorns, acorn cups and
..aaaby ether natural objects When
ssHsss are not available, eolorsd wsodeu
aannsrgarten beads, in the form az
..shefes, cubes and cylinders can he Oh
~, 1,ansa and strung on ghoestrings
s s.s.e beads supplement blocks in
sssssalng form and the knowledge Of
s',sr and number.
Agst children develop early love o.
~ and tal.e great delight 10 count
, *. When tne desire to do this APP
y ~ well 10 meet IL, but not 10
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Child raining at Home
By Mothers Who Have Been kindergarten Teachers

THIS Of articles under the direction of the United
Each ho has training into practice
learned.
find this Of articles helpful them out md them to
ether reaching all the mothers Of the
cotntrg
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
r CAN hardly believe that any one
who has the advantage OF read

r CAN hardly believe that any one
who has the advantage of read
ing The Tribune Will call uDon
4 British subject 20 answer the abuse
heaped upon his country at this time
nv the German Chancellor. Won Hert-
ling. I notice that it is never ascot
land" or ireland" or Canada" or
Australia" "Britain"-that is wicked;
Only England" with her 80 ner cent
OF casualties, ard we English are now
so accustomed to be called "contempti-
bic" in arms. "perfdious' in ethics and
longer vince when our crime is said
TO be imperialism"
The fact is that Germany does not
approve OF Us. We spoil the land
scape which lies between her generals
and Paris. She thinks that we led
YOU simple minded Americans astray.
She dislikes US, therefore,
But / suggest to the German Chan
celor, none the less, that IF, with
his country feeling the strain of war.
he really wants peace. the way to get
it is not to SANDER one of the Allies.
Does he really imagine that such
rhetoric will drive wedge between
you and us? The more loudly he rails
at England, the more surely viii Amer
leans come 20 believe that there may
be some good in England after all.
For Americans are loyal people. 1t is
good to go tiger hunting with them.
They will not desert one whom they
have taken for comrade. merely be-
cause he is specially assaulted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

killed Baron Won Ketteler, the German
diplomatic representative in China"
said Mr.. Pinard.
There were comparatively few Ger
mans in the allied army that relieved
Picking 1t was not until the fighting
was all over that the real German
army arrived, close to 100000 of them.
They came, they said, to avenge the
death Of the baron. One million Chi
nese lives was the payment they asked
They boosted that they would teach the
Chinese lesson which that nation
would never forget, and never again
would a German baron be assassinated
in China.
The advertisement of Germany's eff
cheney in taking that death toll was
hung from the telegraph wires at the
town of Mateou, twenty-five miles
south of Picking The advertisement
was the heads CT eighteen Chinese men.
A Chinese queue made handy thing
to tie head to wire with"
Germany came nearer to collecting
the 100000 Chinese lives than the
civilized world would have believed
prior to 1914, according to Frank l..
Gransbury, 524 West 134th Street Mr.
Gransbury was one of the American
sailors who landed in China.
There was no fighting to dot was
all over-when Field Marshal Won Wal
dersee arrived with the main German
army.
There was no chance to collect any
Of the 100000 lives in actual battle,
so the Germans started collecting the
lives of defenceleSs non-combatants.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Germans Start Campaign
OF Rape and Pillage

~ was in Company E Of the 9th In
fantry.' Mr.. Madden says. "The Incl
dent that opened my eyes to the true
character of German soldier occurred
August 10, 1900, the day before the
allied troops entered Peking.
1.-THE allied troops-American. Eng
iish French, Japanese. and all the
others were in Tung Chow, few
miles from Pcking.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

Lord Hardinge. the viceroy, was
stricken. down by attempted assas-
sination. And what did tyrannical, au-
tocratic England do? Armed a native
population, nearly three times the
whole population OF the United States;
with scores of thousands of white
women and children at the mercy of
the colored people, she reduced her
British garrison--note the fgure-to
$4,000 troops. Fifteen thousand to keep
order among nearly three hundred
millions! And not one woman or
child, so far as | know, was even in
suited. much less attacked. That is
our rejoinder to Won Hertlinss com
mentS CDOn India
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
England and
The Spells Of War

Doubtless you will hear it remarked
that, while humanity bleeds, England,
as usual. happens, most reluctantly and
from the highest motives, to appro-
pirate the fairest spoils of war-Je-
rusalem, Jericho and the Garden of
Eden. have no wish to be unpleas-
ant, but | may remark that, of all
virtually unoccuped stretches Of valu-
able territory. teeming with potential
wealth, by far the richest has fallen
to the great nation which dwells be-
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific
oceans. The splendor of that prize
lay in the fact that the land was va
can't, virgin, unowned. Britain never
owns Egypt or India or Uganda in the
sense in which you own Texas and
Oregon. There are millions of people
already in possession. And the only
question Is whether, by opening their
cities and villages to commerce, in
which your enterprise Is on equal
terms with our own, we can enrich
their still undeveloped civilization.
In these countries there are thou
sands of missionaries. thousands of
Woodworking officials, who come home,
on .pension. their health often i'm
paired, their pockets as poor as when
they went out. If sometimes we talk
with stupid grandiloquenee about our
Empire" it only means that we are
proud of these men. If we wave a
flag, it is with US .as with you, because
the flag is symbol that we are all
brothers, working to build up right
eousness in the world. We have our
prohteers as you have your protiteers-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

attempt. To merge that first ATTEMPT
INTO your larger scheme must be the
great ann OF modern Craftsmanship.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Kaiser Win Plan to Set IT, S. and Britain at Odds

We have spectators as you have spec
ulators. We have jingoes as you have
jingoes. But the real business is Just
dull routine-unravellng red tape
stamping out cholera-laying railroads
and killing cobras.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-22
TELLS UNCLE SAM TO
CUT OUT RED TAPE

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 22.-Thos.
Cuddy, of this city, has received his
QUESTIONABLE but has returned it to
the draft board, with the following
note written across the face of it in
red ink.
Il am as near fit as they make them.
One leg is little shorter than the
other, but nevertheless I am there. I
am fit as fiddle, sound as bullet,
and ready to fight at the drop of a
hat Cut out the red tape and wire
me when and where to report"
Cuddy was recently refused at the
local marine corps recruiting station
on account of one leg being a half
an inch shorter than the other.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-22
GAINES WILL ASSIST
REGIONAL DIRECTOR

SAVANNAH, Ga, Feb. 22.-F F.
Gaines, special engineer for the Cen
trail of Georgia railway, has been APP
pointed mechanical assistant to Chas.
H. Markham, regional director for the
railroads of the Southeast, whose
headquarters are in Atlanta.
Mr. Gaines, as mechanical assist
ant to the regional director, will have
charge of all mechanical matters
coming under the director
Before becoming special engineer
for the company Mr.. Gaines was SUI
perintendent of the motive power He
is recognized as an authority on me-
chanical matters, and is the originator
of the Gaines fire box, an invention
used on locomotives.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-22
WHAT CAN | DO TO
HELP WIN THE WAR?

To The Readers of The Times
Recorder:
Following is the new food
program for public eating
places and the home:
Monday is Wheatless.
Tuesday is Meatless.
Wednesday is Wheatless.
Saturday is Porkless.
One Wheatless meal every
day
One Meatless meal every
day.
Wheatless means no crackers,
pastry, macaroni, breakfast
food or other cereal containing
wheat and no wheat -four in any
form, except the small amount
needed for thickening or a bin
der in corn bread.
Meatless means without any
cattle, hog or sheep products.
On other days use mutton and
lamb in preference to beef or
pork.
Porkless means without pork,
bacon, ham, lard or pork prod
ucts, fresh or preserved. Use
fish and poultry.
Cut this out and paste it up
in your kitchen Observance of
these wheatless and meatless
regulations will help win the
war. ANDREW NJ SOULE.
Federal Food Administra-
tor for Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-22

Why you should use Drews Vapor-
ing Group and Pneumonia salve, be-
cause it is not simply good, but SUI
premely good for Group, colds, coughs,
sore-throat bronchitis, tonsilitis and
pneumonia Because in each bottle
turks the greatest of virtues. Merit and
because you buy Drew's from your
druggist on positive guarantee that
if not found as claimed all you have
to do is return to your druggist and he
cheerfully refunds your money. That's
why.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-22
Major w. II. Bernard Dead.

WILMINGTON, N. c., Feb. %
Major William H Bernard, North Car
olina's Oldest editor and founder of
the states oldest daily, the Whining
ton Star, is dead at his home here.
He was eighty-two years of age, and
death followed a brief Illness.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-22
Compromise on War Reorganization.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 22.-
In accordance with q plan for COM
promise on war reorganization legis-
lation, the bill extending the presi-
dents authority was ordered revised
today and will be reported Monday to
the full senate judiciary committee.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-22
Receipts Make Record.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 22.-
AS the result of efforst of the food
and railroad administrations to move
grain to market to prevent further
deterioration, particularly of soft corn,
receipts at primary markets last week
totalled 22,1O4,O0O bushels, the largest
in any week during the past two years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-22
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System

Take the Old Standard GROVES
TASTELSS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form.
The Quinine drives out malaria, the
Iron builds up the system 60 cents.