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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 zoe 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
rotary 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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 project, loaded with decora-
tions, arose to speak, thought she
should faint, as three or four other
women actually did, Entirely 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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 &C
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
cards 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
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 Away
Watched with rapture by the little
A Father With Saw
and then there are blocks, perennial
Ssocks. which need not at all be Dough
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 TREMENDOUSLY. 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.
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REPATRlATED- BY Nine. Lucie Delarue- Madrus
Translate b nGam McThnson

live comfortably in the home of her
bereavements, and of the young wife
whom he had married two years before
"a household, alas! without children,
but which spoiled ths old grandmother
just as if she had been little child);
she would have known all the sweet
nesses of declining days, little waxen
lady with lamblike face, if the haz-
ards of war and invasion had not come
to brutalize her last moments, to intro
duce tragedy into them and to make
them f1amboyant with terror.
To-day is for her the last day of
three years of hell on earth.
Repatriated!
Nine. Dumont is going to find out
whether or not her grandson has died
on the field of battle, whether or not
her granddaughter was shot
when she fled from the invaders in
1914, when, innocently remaining be-
hind to put the house in order, in their
little village in the north, the fright
med old grandmother had found her.
self, entrapped, without any hope of see
ing her relatives again or even getting
news OF them.
A train of repatriates! Can one ever
realize what that phrase comprehends
of misery and enthusiasm, of tragedy
and comedy, of small and great emo
tions, mixed with sort of mournful
buffoonery?
AS part Of its human freight Call
classes and all ages jostling one an
other), hustled from car to car, from
station to station, from frontier to
frontier, the Widow Dumont, frail, weak
and timid, observed with her astonshed
lamblike eyes all the varied aspects of
this voyage to freedom
Like the others, she had arrayed her
self, to honor her recovered father
land, in the clothes which she thought
the best and most becoming of the lit
tie wardrobe which she carried along
a poor and almoat ludicrous collection
She wore, then, in spite of the warmth
of the season and of the crowded train
her otter muff a rich antique-the
pride of life devoid Of luxuries-and
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ERE is vgmette, done h that delicocy of touch
~ and quoty of poetic suggestion Of a0bich Mme Della
rweMadTus IS MISTRESS The situation is simple in the
ertreeome IN avhich feeling entirely overshados action
But the effect uerg If the situation had been treated
IN more outright dramatic fashion.
With the French the paho of repatriation goes
for any merely conventional expression Of It, TO back
from death IN life prison house to the free friendly
faces and hannah attachments an experience (which almost
beggor3 a0ords Nine DeormeMadrMs Is sparmg IN emotion
and phrases She lets the return of the Widow Duom speak
for itself IN its unossuming simplicity and pathos.
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show that Britain will never learn
to strike an attitude. She has no
Danton, no Lafayette, no Gambetta.
In this struggle we want the best
out Of Britain, and in tact France
is unexcelled. She knows by grim
experience what strain bears down
a nation which suffers the casualties
that aff1ict the United Kingdom.
France marched first through the
valley of the shadow of death. 1t
is now Rritain's turn. And let me
put this point. The war is older
than it was when France set her
great example, whidh means that
the especial British burden falls on
shoulders which must needs be tired.
will add little more. Many
questions affecting strategy, man
power, secret treaties and diplo-
matte approaches are under discus
sion, and, personally, / believe in
such discussion. But its value de-
ponds entirely on the spirit which
we display toward one another.
Some of my English friends think
that | do not sufficiently boost the
British Empire. Among states, as
among individuals, let each think
the other better than himself. 1t is
what we admire. in our friends that
makes US more admirable to them
We have no right to glory selfishly
in an empire which, after all, can
only claim sanction as trust for
mankind. And it would be inele-
CANT to indulge in boasting at 9
time when France is enduring such
crucifxion-France, whose pio
neers contributed some valuable ele
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
luminator Of the medieval regime
Scott was bound to write that novel,
as it were, from France outward.
The People We're
Voiceless Then

Voiceless Then
In the long wars of the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries,
which separated England and
France, l am not prepared to say
that England had all the blame. AS
between our kings and theirs fault
must be distributed pretty evenly.
But with the outbreak of the Revo-
luton the folly of British Toryism
was disclosed. Here was a mighty,
a stupendous assertion of human
liberty. And Germany did not like
it. Burke, who understood Amer
lea, only understood royalism in
France. Carlyle and Belloc were
still unborn. The British court and
Parliament and clergy-for the Brit
ish people had neither voice nor vote
in the matter-joincd in the general
hullabaloo against French freedom,
drove Paris to excuses, and forced
the Republic to defend herself with
the sword of Napoleon. It is that
crime against the light which is be-
ing to-day expiated by millions of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Grief Struggled
Hard With Joy

A flood Of tears blinded the big eyes
of the lamb-like face-one poor grief
griefs. And the little wax-like old lady,
with her beautiful otter muff and her
Sunday best hat, didn't know, when
thus indicted, through that curt phrase,
into the mysteries of the last three
years whether she would sob with de-
spair because her son had been killed
in the war or from joy because she had
still some one on earth near whom to
die; because the little voice of child,
still stranger to her, would greet her
at the end Of the lass stage Of repatria-
ton with those three carefully
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Queries and Answers

ern States any period of unusually
quiet, dry and hazy weather, even IL
1t lasts only few days, may be desig-
mated the Indian summer, provided it
occurs at any time between the middle
OF September and the early part of De-,
cember.
The name is due to the fact that the
phenomena OF the Indian summer are
much more distinctly marked in the
region chiefly occupied by the Indians
at the time this term became current
than they are in the more eastern
regions, to which the white population
was chiefly limited prior to the begin.
ming of the nineteenth century.
Sabotage is the wilful obstruction
OF industry on the part of tha en-
ployes with the object of reducing the
profit or impairing the capital of an
employer and thus compelling him to
accede to demands of the employees.
Code Napoleon
T. H.-Will you please explain what
is meant by the Code Napoleon?
=, At the time of the great revolution
,here was a great variety Of particular
laws and customs prevailing in the
different parts of France entailing
great uncertainty and expense in the
@AOii VI JhotiSG, anu prevent
ing anything like true solidity and.
union in the nation. 1t was Napoleon's
merit that he realized that the besy
remedy for this lay in the unifcation
Of the law by code which might be
applicable to the whole country
Napoleon accordingly gave direcs
tons for the carrying out of this prof.
ect. and it was executed with aston
lshing CELEBRITY. The Code Napoleon, as
we now have it, was published and
promulgated between 1904 and 1910,
The Code Napoleon Cor, as it has been
rechristened under the republic. the
Code CiviD remains in force as the
law Of France at the present day; and
despite many defects in it's original
constitution 1t has beyond doubt
proved great boon to the country.
Napoleon himself is said to have been
prouder of it than of any of his VIC.
tories.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Indian Summer

w. P.-Kindly advise me the origin
Of the term Indian Summer" also of
Sabotage"
Indian summer in the United States.
designates period in autumn charac-
terized by calm and absence Of rain
This condition is especially we'll mani
tested in the upper Mississippi Valley,
where it is in conspicuous contrast
with the climatic phenomena which
precede and follow it. West of the belt
Of the states lying adjacent to the
Mississippi the rainfall is SO small that
the chief characteristic Of the Indian
summer is not exceptional enough to
sippi Valley eastward the autumnai
periods of calm and dryness become
more and more irregular in their oc-
currence, and are, on the whole, of
shorter duration. Hence in tho East
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Child raining at Home
By Mothers Who Have Been kindergarten Teachers

the United
States Bureau Education and the National Kindergarten Association
By PIT training
nth her children and nbodies the sdo she has learned #
find this articles helpful them ont and them to
reaching the
country.
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T, A.-The frst Zionist congress to
acquire Palestine by purchase from
Turkey. with a view to establish ina
jews in the Holy Land, two hundred
delegates present, Doctor Herr and
Basic on August 20, 1897.
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ion will back draft. No one will
object-least of all the men who have
to go. And this is the only remedy in
sight. Get men to the farmer-1o,v.
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All Nations Are
Leagued for France

can imagine that some French
men, of high spirit and an intense
pride, may chafe under the ordeal
of seeing foreign troops on their
soil. Let them think how many
hundreds of thousands of those
brave men will sleep forever near
the villages and beneath the fields
where God and man will restore the
French people to their heritage. Let
them ask if, in the long story Of the
human race, there has been any ma
ton which has rallied within her
frontiers SO many gallant defenders,
and from lands so distant. Under
no compulsion of treaty, but by an
instinct that has spread universally,
all nations of the world, save our
enemies, are leagued together in the
battle for France.
The pictures by Bairnsfather
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Addressing Spaniards

X. B: (New York;: wants to know
the right way of addressing his fellow
citizens and neighbors of the Spanish
tongue according to their respective
rank without offending their Spanish
prlde' and, IN particular, who is to be
don" wa" ~
In Spain and Spanish America
everybody is addressed by his Chris
tan name. To address person by his
family name indicates, as it were, that
you want to keep him at a distance,
involves sober politeness, reserve, SOL
emnity. The superior addresses his
subordinate by his family name. An
employe, official, ETC., not belonging to
the household, is generally addressed
by by ms surname, preceded by the title
Senior The omission of senior NAV
signify, according to the tone in which
the person is spoken to, either con-
tempt or familiarity.
10 show to our superior both our
respect and love for him, he is called
by his Christian name, preceded by
the word Don. Thus reporters when
interviewing the former Spanish Pres
ldent of the Ministry would not ad-
dress him as Senior Canalejas, but
Don Jose. TO say seiior Canaleias
would have been an insult to the
statesman since Senior can only pre-
cede Immediately Christian name
when the person addressed belongs to
the lowest class of society. Less init
mate, but still permissible, is the ad-
dress Senior Don Canalejas, but under
no circumstances should it be Don
Canalejas, because Don can only be
directly connected with Christian
name.
In Spanish poetry we find here and
there Don also jestingly placed before
fantastic names. Thus Cervantes calls
his celebrated hero Don Quixote. and
Quevedo writes:
"Poderoso caballero
es Don Dinero."
The title Don is derived from the
Latin Dominus, and therefore signifies
master, lord. Originally only a few
members of the highest nobility were
allowed to bear this title, but at pres
ent it is applied to every e.s@.ated
person. Berceo Gin Lacia, 1868, a
poet Of the thirteenth century, calls
Christ "Don Jesu Christie" which goes
to show that at that time Don was
the highest title of honor: P. Guardi-
ola and other Spanish historians as
sert that till the fifteenth century
only kings, prclates, grand masters
and members of the highest nobility,
had this title. and in the seventeenth
century it became so general that
Philip II issued law (January 8,
1879 to the effect that the title Don
lor Dona for women) was only due to
hldalgos, as we'll as to the children
of knighted persons. For 200 reals
any person could obtain the right of
placing Don" before his name; for
200 reals the right could be trans
mitted to the next generation. and
for 600 reals it was acquired sd per-
petuum.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Norman Conquest
Made Britain Great

II is a miracle. In temperament
60 are utterly diverse. For thou
ssnd years we have failed to like
oue another. Britain is Saxon and
Danish, with only a dash of the Celt.
II Britain is great it is because the
bulk of her people, rude and inlet
tered, though vigorous, stopped to
the Norman Conquest and became
sub;ect to French chivalry and the
rigorous discipline of French feudal-
ism 1t was to France that she owed
her Incompatible cathedrals, castles
and churches. She clothed the inspi-
ration of St. Louis in native form,
making of Westminster Abbey and
York Minister a truly national
shrine, but her debt is none the less
for that, and, little as people re-
member it, the fabric of the old
Commons House, where Pitt and Fox
we're eloquent, was sister to the
Sainte Chapelle in Paris, and even
today you can compare their
srypts, The official language of our
nerage is still old French. And
there is not a law on our statute
book to which our kings and queens
hsye not given their assent, also in
French. 1t is in French that we or
der dinner, frame our mottos, en-
A broider our standards. 1t is in
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has empire, commerce, shipping, but
all are risked-all are a pledge-for
France. And Of that pledge the
United States of America has added
collateral security. which equals
the original bond.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Bv P. w. Wilson
,..re,.;can Correspondent Of The
London Daily Neavs)

,..,e,-;con Correspondent Of The
London Daily NeaVs)
-TE are on the eve of another
~ battle, and the British
W army, the British nation
.,utes France and Foch. By pushes
I'D propaganda Germany has tried
:. separate us, but Germany has
failed. After four years of it we
suAt shoulder. to shoulder; our
rr;me ministers understand one an
..,sr our generals understand one
,,o,her and our workers also under
,.snd one another. In our resolu-
.;on we are enc; we are one in our
..cas;onal moods Of war-weariness;
. ;s one welcome that we offer to
.sr American comrades. If Ger
,.nv could strike us down we should
d;e together and share one grave.
7. there is a massacre in a French
,hurch it is followed by massacre in
. British hospital. There is
jsaeue of agony, even among our
;ancents.