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New-York tribune., 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., 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 Marple, 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., 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., 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., 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 un-
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., 1918-12-01

The plan was carried out. But in~
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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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-
tions throughout France, hospitals,
clinics and schools under the organiza
tion of the American Red Cross, the
French beb6 is striking and striking
hard-fOr life.
New-York tribune., 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 reassured 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
concocting the most marvellous schemes
for aIlaVinc susnicion
New-York tribune., 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 cf 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-
ly are demonstrating to French babies
some of the things they might have
which they need, including special hos
pitals 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., 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 ac-
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., 1918-12-01
WOrld.
What's 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 cov-
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
ther father nor mother makes much at
tempt to get acquainted with the prob
lem until it is thrust upon them.
New-York tribune., 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., 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., 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., 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., 1918-12-01

hardfor life.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-06
.LU PRINCETON SETS
 A WORLDS RECORD
Runs Two Fast Miles at North Randall Establish
 ing New Mark.

Cleveland, Aug. 6-Lu Princeton, driven by Walter Cox yesterday, es tablished a new worlds record for a stallion by trotting miles in 2:O2A and 2:O2% in the 2:05 event, the fea- ture of the opening day of the sec ond Grand Circuit meeting of the year at the North Randall track. The previous record was set by Peter Volo in 1915, when he trotted a two heat race in 2:02k and 2:02%.
 Lu Princeton was an odds-on fla vorite and rewarded his packers by easily winning the race in straight heats. Royal Mac had no trouble in finishing second.
 The 2:O9 trot fell to the favorite, Kelly Deforest, which captured the race after succumbing to Gen. Yorke, a rank outsider, after a thrilling struggle in the first heat. Kelly De- forest had things his own way in the second heat, but just managed to win the third by the shortest of margins from Opera Express.
 The News two-year- trot proved easy for the entry from Ben Whites stable, Bruisiloff and Princess Eta wah, which finished first and second respectively in both heats. The pair was a strong choice.
 A fourth favorite won when Walter II. captured the 2:1S pace from the largest field of the day. Close finishes marked the first and second heats. After finishing fourth in the first heat Lady Littleton was distanced.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-06
STAGGERING FIGURES TELL AN
 ELOQUENT STORY OF SACRIFICE

New York, Aug. 6-Great Britain's lies was made public here Saturday, on the eve of the fourth anniversary Sunday of the United Kingdoms en- trance upon the war, by the British Bureau of Information of the British War Mission.
 Staggering figures, that tell an elo quent story of sacrifice, heroic deter imitation and accomplishment, are re- vealed by the bureau which enumer- ates among other things, for instance, the fact that Great Britain and her colonies have raised 7500,000 sol diers. EnglaEd, herself, it is said, has furnished 60 per cent of the fight CTS and suffered 76 per cent. of the casualties.
 It has been estimated, the bureau says, that Blitain has fought on IT fronts during the past four years, in- cluding Belgium, France, Italy, Ser via, Greece, Russia. Palestine, Meso potamia, China and North, East and West Africa.
 To give one an idea of the great StIiu6S IIldu6 Dy NTedL bFlIdln III pTO- ducing implements of war it is stated that the expenditure of rifle ammuni- ton per week is now 65 times greater than the average weekly expenditure during the first 10 months of the struggle. Machine gun output is 39 times greater. The Ministry oS Muni- tions now handles 50,000,000 articles a week and in addition to more than 90 afsenals, Great Britain now has 5,046 government controlled factories, all working night and day on munitions and supplies
 The British navy haz trebled it's personnel and doubled it's fighting armament since entering the conflict It and the merchant marine have transported over seas 13.000,00o men, 100000 horses and mules, 500,00 cannon, gun carriages and other ve- hicles, 25,O00,000 tons of explosives, 51,000,0O0 tons of oil and fuel and 130,0O000,O tons of food and other stores.
 Meanwhile, it is pointed out, the people of the British Isles and the dominions have subjected themselves to a rigorous discipline which bears alike upon all thus stimulating pro- gress toward "a new humanity and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-06

REDS DEFEAT
 DODGERS 5-O Neale- -Magnee Fistic En- counter More Exciting
 Than Game.

Brooklyn, Aug. 6-The fans who daily struggle into Ebbets Field for batting practice had their patience rewarded yesterday by Lee Magee and Earle Neale. Lee and Earle engag- ed in a hurricane bout shortly before game time in front of the Cincin- nati dugout. Though there was question as to the methods he em- ployed, the popular verdict went to Neale.
 The Neale- -Magee added attraction while it did not last long, produced more action than was seen in num- Der of ten-round bouts at local clubs during the Frawley law regime. The reason for the combat went unex- rlained. The players were practical ly all out on the diamond throwing the ball around when Neale and Ma gee lit into each other. For a space there was a lively scrimmage, and the combatants separated and charg- ed ct each other again.
 Magee was met with left upper cut as he neared Neale and the Red leg second baseman went down, slight ly stunned. He arose and then players separated the fighters. The intermission was short lived, how ever, for suddenly Neale started humping the second baseman again. Once again Magee hit the ground and Neale piled on top of him. Neale tried until a cordon of players pried him away and then the battle was over.
 Magee's face as he arose was smeared with blood and his left eye was said to be swollen. Neale did not have a scratch, but only played three innings. -
 Starting the game shortly after wards, the Redlegs were minus soma of their fighting stimulus inasmucnI as Magee and Neale had expended considerable of 1t in their own little imbroglio. The Mathewson clan, how ever, didn't need all their fighting qualities to trounce the Robins in | the parting game of the series 5 to 0> Dick Robertson was walloped for five hits in four innings, including two doubles and triple, and Manag- Robinson called 1t a day for Dick, and sent Larry Cheney into the box | in the fifth. Neale tripled to left in | the second, and after Griffith had walked, both worked the double steal successfully, Neale scoring. In the second Mike Began, who held the Robins safe through the nine innings, singled to centre, took third on Lee Magees double to right, and scored when Roush doubled to right.
 In the sixth Roush got the first hit | off Cheney, 8 single to centre. and Eddie galloped to third when Jimmy Archer, catching his first game for Brooklyn, threw wild to first trying to nip Chase. Cuteo, who replaced Neale in left, singled, scoring Roush.
 In the seventh Wingo tripled and
 scored when Groh was being thrown
 out, and in the ninth Mike Began got
 another single, took second on wild
 pitch, and scored on L. Magee's sing l to centre.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-06
MEN OVERSEAS
 TRADE INDExEb FOR BEST SERVICE:

With the American Army in Eng land. Aug. 6.-When a soldier leaves the United States he should not feel certain that he is going to win glory on the battlefields of France. Wheth- CT officer or enlisted man he is sub jected to further scrutiny in England and in France and until a little corps Of keen eyed and careful officers have completed the examination no one can tell into just what part of the big ar my machine he is going to fit.
 There are in England camps where every man who passes through IS trade indexed.' This is especially true of one camp where large part O the airmen and motor transport forces arrive shortly after debarkation. The records accompanying them snow what the men have been doing In CIVIL life and a further examination Of them and a scrutiny of the demands o1teA determine the part they are to take sometimes only for temporary dutyl but in some cases for an indefinite pe- riod.
 From this lot are selected the men who will go into the big repair shops at once Men experienced in electrl- cal work are sent to stations where their service is most needed. OrdersI for automobile experts are filled ana not infrequently the men in command of the station are called upon to sup ply men for following, for time a least, exactly the same kind ot work they were doing in the United states before their numbers in the draIt were called.
 A big hospital is being erected at one camp. The money for the ma terial was furnished by the Red cross: The work is being done by the aFn1A- The construction of the buildings IS not materially different from that or war hospitals being erected Tn the United States, and the same class or skilled labor is being used. Experts in the use of cement are WorKlnsI there. Plumbers are doing the same sort of work they were paid to do m the United States, carpenters are em< ployed in doing as high grade labor asI could be found anywhere, and t5s drawing of the plans and specified tions was done by architects and en- gineers. All the men whose work 1sl going into the building have been ta- ken from the rank and file of those who reached camp on their way from the ports of debarkation. They will be held there only so long as their work on the structure is required and then they will rejoin their organiza- tfons unless detailed for other work.
 Officers engaged in fixing the trade index of the army have boasted that from the ranks of the National Army there may be found men who can do any class of work required, from grinding diamond to working on the rifAng e6 . h1g ~