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The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
Argentine Arranges Credit in America

Argentine Arranges Credit in America
Washington. - Argentine has ar
ranged for credit in favor of the
United States of $40,000,OO0. 1t is un:
derstood that similar arrangements
will be made in favor of other allied
merchants and that the sum provided
in the agreement can later be extend
ed. On the present volume of trade
with Argentina this arrangement
will save to the merchants of the
United States almost $50,000,OO0 a
year in exchange. The value of the
dollar has fallen to SO cents in Buenos
Aires from a pre-war value of SLOT.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
Moral Lesson for Mother.

Mamma" said Willie the other day,
"did you tell Norah to say you were
not in when Mrs. Jones called?'
Eyes, dear"
'Ts it right to do that?"
"Tt is customary, Willie"
''Well, mamma" said the boy after
thoughtful pause, chow would you like
1t if God should tell st. Peter to say
that to you when you go to heaven?'
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.

To half pint of water add OF. Bay
Rum, small box of Barbo Compound,
and Il OF. of glycerine. Any druggist can
put this up or you can mix it at home at
very little cost. Full directions for MAX
ing and use come in each box of Barbo
Compound 1t will gradually darken
streaked, faded gray hair, and make it soft
and glossy. 1t will not color the scalp, is not
sticky or greasy, and does not rub off. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
Comfort Baby's Skin

When red, rough and itching with hot
baths of Cuticura Soap and touches Of
Cuticura Ointment. This means sleep
for baby and rest for mother. For
free samples address, "Cuticura, Dept.
x, Boston," At druggists and by mail.
Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 5O.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
Inner Requirements.

"Mister, have yer got any OF duds
yer don't Want?"
"No; but I've an old automobile you
may have"
"T'anks, but 1 got ernough trouble
supplyin' me own innards widOut beg
GIN gasoline from door to door,
Boston Transcript.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
BY the Court Calendar.

''Edgar?"
Eyes, mother"
"What are you children doing?"
''Playing royalty. l am knight Of
the Garter, and Edwin is Saturday."
''That is an odd name for royalty"
''Oh, it is just a nickname on ac-
count of his title.'
"What is his title?"
might of the Bath" youngstown
Telegram.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

With man an effort must have its
cause; with a woman it must have its
because.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
Unexpected Frankness.

VisitOr-"How many men are study
ing at Lehigh?" Host '1S-"Oh! Not
half of em"-Lehigh Burr.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
Necessary.

"RicheS have wings"
"They need 'em to keep up with the
cost of living"
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
Lucrative.

Papa, why are they always digging
up New York;"
Because there's money in it."-Life.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

Ten smiles for nickel. Always buy Red
Cross Bag Blue; have beautiful, clear
white clothes. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

The man who compliments nine
women on their looks and one on her
cleverness makes only one mistake.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
Nothing But Trouble.

"There is no occasion for you to
envy me-" said the prosperous per-
son. Il have as many troubles as
you"
81 s'pose We have, mister" admitted
Dismal Dawson, 'but the difficulty
with me is that amt got anything
else"
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

Sloth makes all things difficult, but
industry all easy.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

Be happy. Use Red Cross Bag Blue;
much better than liquid blue. Delights
the laundress All grocers. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

It's love that makes the postman go
around with a lot of silly letters.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

God helps them that helps them
selves.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

It doesn't pay to bunkO woman
whose only asset is a gift ~f CAB.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

Men are what their mothers made
them
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

He that lives upon hope will die
fasting.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

Some people are saddest when they
sing and there's a reason why.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

DR.. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet
for a. laxative, three for cathartic. Ad.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAxATIvB h BROMO Quinine Tablets It stops
the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold.
II. w. GROVES signature on each box 5Oc.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
HomicidaI Language on Rifle Range.

OfTicer-'Have you anyone else to
shoot, sergeant?" Sergeant-"No, sir,
I'll shoot myself nOW.'-EXchange
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19
w. N. u, DENVER, NO. s--1s1s.

ONE from healthy
mothers. A n d
m o t h e q will
c r t a j My be
h e a t b y if
they'll take DR..
Pierce's Favor
ite Prescription.
N o t b j n g can
equal it in build
ing up a wom-
ans STRENGTH
The Benson signal., 1918-01-19

NeWspdpeT
Washington, Jan. 9.-President Will
son yesterday, addressing Congress
delivered a restatement of war aims
in agreement with the recent declara-
ton by the British premier, David
Lloyd George. The President present
ed definite program for world peace
containing fourteen specific considera-
tiOns.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07
America i'm France
Major Palmer's Thrilling Story
of the Deeds of the A. f. r.

With maps sVo % oD z 4e ny bddd P5s''!as Msad F9%s e.
Major Palmer has written several
war books of much interest, but no
other comparable with this lucid.
spirited and intensely sympathetic
story Of the doings of the American
EXpeditlonary Forces from the begin
nlng down to- those operations in the
st. Mihiel salient and in the Argonne
which demonstrated to the world that
the tide of war had been definitely
turned: While 1t is distinctively his
tory OF the American forces, it inev-
tably has much to say about the doings
OF the French and British, particularly
about their desperate resistance to the
German drives last spring and summer
at Amlens and at the Marne, when Lu-
dendorff made his last furious attempts
to break through and when at times
the odds IN men were a thousand to
one against the defenders of the Al
lies line. And in writing of the Amer
leans and the Allies there is not
touch of righteousness. The author
appreciates the Importance of what the
Americans did, and he gives them full
credit for it. But he does not brag
valor of the Allies. He does not pre-
tend that the Americans were "the
whole thing" There is an air of gen
erosty and of modesty that is ad-
mirable in the highest degree.
One Of the most interesting passages,
though not as stirring as some of the
battle scenes, relates to the placing of
the American troops at Marshal Fochs
disposal in the dark days of last
spring, when the outnumbered and
battle weary French and British were
standing with their backs to the wall
General Pershing had for some time
advantage of Secretary Bakers visit to
success. The Secretary cabled to the
President, and the President crossed
his dispatch with one Of his own an
ticipating the suggestion and approx
ing it:
On the morning of March %, Cen
eral Pershing's desire no having the
Presidents approval. he hurried to
General Fccn, whom he found in his
garden at his new headquarters He
took General Foch by the arm and,
walking to one side, lnformaliy,in the
impulse of his emotion, speaking in
French, offered, as commander of
the American army, all our troops
and all our material in France to
General Foch to do with as he pleased
We cannot follow Major Palmer
through all his thrilling story, of Bel
leau Wood and Chateau Thierry, of
the second Marne, where the Ameri-
cans stopped the Germans when they
had broken through the French line:
of the marvellous work at St. Mihiel
and Of the great battle in the Argonne.
1t is a narrative creditable in the high
est degree to the American troops and
20 the nation which they represented.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07
Americas iaIf-Doxen Wars

TUE R0ok or AMERICAN WARS ny uelen
NicoaN. With portraits and maps Syo IN sa1
The Century Company. " '''
Miss Nicolay has an attractive stylc
and generally succeeds in presentinp
the salient facts of her narrative in a
lucid and illuminating way. Her devo-
ton of her talents TO the relation
and eNplication of American history
Is praisworthy in the highest degree.
since that history has been too
largely miswritten and popularity
misunderstood, and it is thero
fore desirable to have it truly told, as
1t Is for the most part in her writings.
We are compelled to say "for the most
part" however. because there are ex-
ceptions. due doubtless to inadvcrt
ence, since it would be impossible to
suspect her of intentional misreprcsen-
tatlon. In the volume before us, for
example. she speaks of Washington in
1914 as being defended by Commodore
Barney's sailors "and a handful of mi
lltla.' The fact is that there were at
Bladensburc about 1000 regulars and
sailors and 5000 militia, or T 1000 Amer
leans in all against scarcely 1000 Brit
lsh-rather more than Il "handful." SO
she speaks OF and rightly condemns the
burning Of the public buildings, but
fails to mention the fact that this was
done IN reprisAl for the like deeds Of
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07
Sanity in Hulland
Karl Liebknecht's Utteranccs
During the War

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE. BY
Kari Lcbknccht. Edited and translated By >.
Zlmand, wiih an mtrooduction by Walter o.
Wey l2mo, pp. IA. The Macmillan Company
One OF the few sane voices which
have been raised in Germany during the
war is that OF DR.. Licbknccht, the son
Of the famous Socialist leader of the
last generation. AS ii member Of the
Rcichstag, OF the Prussian Landing and
of the Berlin Council, he had eXcep-
tional opportunities to speak with priv
ilege and immunity, and these he often
improved, to the embarrassment and
wrath OF the Junker government. The
present volume is compilation of some
OF his speeches and letters, and of the
questions which be put to ministers in
the Reichstag. These show clearly his
just conception OF The wanton aggres
siveness and iniquity of Germany in
the war, and the refusal of the govern
ment so much as to discuss some of the
most pertinent points raised in relation
to 1t. A more scathing condemnation
of the course Of the imperial govern
ment, and that from the inside Of the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07
Russian Scenes
Donald J'hompson's Graphic
Views of Land of-Terror

FROM czAR TO KAISER BY Captain Donald
{ Thompson. 200 plates. Folio. Doubleday
Page & Co
Amid the many written records of
the war, here is one that is entirely
pictorial. A caption, and perhaps d
few lines of definition, and that is all.
The camera tells the story. Captain
Thompson, whose vivacious and racy
letters to his wife from Russia were
recently published, travelled in almost
all parts of the Russian Empire ct most
interesting times and saw an almost
infinite number and variety of history
making scenes. 1t is astonishing that
he was able, and was permitted, to take
many of these pictures, but he was, and
the world is richer for it.
1t is not easy to imagine ain i'm
portant phase Of Russian experience
which is not here portrayed from, and
therefore to, the life. 1t would be i'm
possible with uncounted pages of text
to give so vivid and convincing an i'm
preston of the condition of Russia in
times of war and revolution as is given
often in single plate. The whole
volume forms a unique and invaluable
historic record of Russia during what
is fittingly called "the great betrayal" ;"
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07
Mr.. Pennell's Poster
How Thai Graphic Liberty Loan
Appeal Was Made

With nine plates. Alto. ]. B Lipplncott Com
panY.
We are all familiar with that poster
1t was noteworthy alike as work of
art and as a patriotic appeal. There
were "the cloud capp'd towers" of New
York in blazing ruins, the broken ca
bles Of the great bridge dropping from
the shattered towers, the riddled and
blazing hulks Of mighty vessels sink
ing in the waters of the bay, the Statue
of Liberty mutilated and topping TO
ruin, flames and destruction every
where, save for the triumphant U-boat
and the flight of airplancs exulting
in their DEVILS work. We all saw it
and we knew that but for the protect
ing fleet of Britain the whole horror
might have conc true. Wherefore, that
Liberty should not perish from the
earth, we bought bonds Of the fourth
Liberty Loan.
Now here Mr.. Penncll shows US a
mystery. He tells us how that
historic poster was made. Not how
it was conceived in his artistic
brain, but how the technical details of
engraving and printing were executed,
which is, we say one of the profound =
est of earth's mysteries to the average
non-initiate. 1t is a welcome volume,
giving US glimpse into the wonders of
photogravure and rotogravurc and
three-color processes, and what not, as
we'll as fine memorial of a great
ratrotic achievement. If only we
could know how many hundreds of mill
ions Of dollars were subscribed be-
cause OF that poster what significance
the book would have!
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07
The Romance of the Air
Aeroplane Adventures Surpass-
ing Feats of Chivalry

briggs. Illustrated from photographs. lsmo
Up. XVI sol. Little. Brown 4 Co.
Byron was surely right. Truth is
stranger than fiction, more thrilling,
more romantic. In token of this OBJ
serve thea writings of Mr.. briggs.
Some time ago he wrote work of
hctlon about an aviator in the. great
war, Arnold Adair, American Ace"
1t was n capital story, as we were de-
lighted then to say. 1t contained in
vention, imagination, the romance of
grandiosc dreamsA Now he writes
work Of literal fact about various act
ual aviators, and behold! the for
mcr is immeasurably surpassed in
every element of fascination and of
interest. Adair, Philippe and Rein
hardt pale their Intellectual fires be-
fore the immortal radiance OF Guy
ncmer, Lufbery, Ball, Putnam and
their compeers-not forgetting the
mighty Hun, Rchthofcn.
indeed, no chapter of history and
no legend Of romantic chivalry can so
appeal to the imagination and so
tasclnate the interest as these plain
tales of actual achievement in this
commonplace and realistic twentieth
ccntIry; cen. No steed of old, not Bayard
nor Rakush, was comparable With the
alrplanes rushing through the track
less skies with more 6han eagle speed.
Listen:
Ball attacked two two seated Alba
tros machines; one flew off and the
other crashed to the earth. A few
moments later he saw five above
canbrai. He brought down the
nearest one at the very end Of his
gun. The others fed. The next
morning, on patrol at $4,000 feet
elevation, he observed an enemy for
nation which was rising from its
aerodrome. He hid in a cloud and
waited for the Boches. When they
were at 5000 feet he dropped down
upon them and accounted for one of
that the others formed barrier be-
tween himself and his own lines.
What was he to do? He tried to
torce passage. In vain. Then he
made loop, but the enemies fol-
lowed him. That was what he
wished. Now that the Huns were
separated from one another, he
turned about for the attack and
brought down two of them. Then,
short Of ammunition, ne returned.
laughing, to his camp.
Remember that phrase, that bit Of
entirely commonplace record: "He hid
IN q cloud" Who would have vent
ured to say that in a mere work Of
iction?, Yet in this volume there are
hundreds OF such incidents, until the
heart of the reader throbs and his
throat chokes and his eyes swim at
thought of the miracles of skill and
daring and triumphant achievement
which have glorifed the realms Of
upper air in this age of mechanical
commonplace.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07
All at Sea
Fascinating Narrative an
Technical Information
ana

Mslrated. r'.. Large Large Emo. pp. ao3 The ]. i.
Lppincott Company.
MODERN sHIpBuILD1NG TERMS. BY r. For
rest rcase Illustrated l2mo. pp. l7S The
J. i. Lppincott Company
'ERAfAN SUBMARINE WARFARE BY Wesley
Appleton * Co
A CAPTIVE ON A GERMAN RAIDER BY F. G.
IraycS. l2mo, pp. lJl. Robert NJ. Mcbride &
Whoever Commander" may be, he
knows his sea and he knows his ship,
naval life and adventure under the
Stals and Stripes in the great war. It
is a fascinating narrative, and it is
something more. For in the course of
the narrative, and as an essential part
OF 1t, we get a most realistic view of
the war sailors life, with its work and
play, with its hardships and perils and
with its heroism and triumphs. 1t is
capital book for all who would realize
how the men of the navy played their
part in dealing with the Hunnish pi-
rates of the deep.
From the same publishers we get an
terms which is just about the most
complete, in small compass, that we
have ever seen. 1t will be invaluable
to all who are engaged or who expect
to engage in shipbuilding, and it will
be of much service to all who take an
interest in nautical matters and who
wish to make that interest intelligent.
Mr.. Frost was formerly United States
Consul at Queenstown, Ireland, and be-
cause of that engagement had particu-
larly direct personal knowledge of
many Of the deviltries of the German
U-boats. and Of the destruction of the
Lusitania. His volume is filled with
information and is ssslstinct with patri-
otto sentiment and with humane indig-
nation against TIKI submarine infamies
OF the Huns
Mr.. Trayes gives a true account of
his and his wife's experiences on a
Japanese vessel which had been capt
ured by the German raider Wolf
and also on the latter vessel itself.
They seem to have been treated with
a considerable degree of humanity,
though they were glad enough when
their captors were interned and they
we're set at liberty
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07
Peace and lis Perils
MIR. Cheradane on the Essen
tials of Enduring Victory

T1sE ESSENTIALS OF AN ENDURING VICTORY
Srxvi. sSa. Charles Scribners Sons.
Is it peace with victory The
thoughsless and the superficial answer:
"Of course. Has not the enemy sur
rendered." But the thoughtful and
penetrating mind looks beyond the
tentative arrangements of the armis-
tice. into which Germany entered with
suspicious readiness. and sees that the
victory is not yet won. and that the
winning Of it depends upon the char
acter of the terms OF peace which are
yet TO be made and upon the manner
in which they are enforced. 1t is to
a discussion of these supremely im-
portant matters that MIR. Cheradame
addresses himself in this volume. He
brings TO his work the amplitude of
knowledge. the breadth OF vision, the
sanity Of thought, the cogency of ar
gument and the exquisite clarity and
force of literary style which made his
former works on THE Pan German Plot
Unmasked" and THE United States
and Pan Germania" two of the most
important and most influential in all
the literature of the war. If 10 these
qualities we add the timeliness of it.,
appearing at the very moment when
the President is on his way to the
peace council Of the nations, we shall
need no further justification for de-
cIarng it second in Importance to no
other book that has at any time or in
any place been written and published
about the war
The work is marked with the con-
ciseness and the directness which are
characteristic of all Mr.. Cheradame's
writings. He begins by reminding us
of the deceit which Germany has prac
tised upon us from the beginning of
the war, and by demonstrating with
most convincing logic that she is still
deceiving us as to her conditions. and
that her resources of men. munitions,
money and food are far greater than
we are given to understand. This is
confirmed by the daily news, in which
we are told that our soldiers. marching
through Prussia, find the shops and
markets we'll stocked and no signs of
famine or distress of any kind. We
must remember that in purpose and in
practice this has been predatory war,
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07
T. III bills IN ers-N g w 8:

all American citizens, to read carefully
every word of this inestimably I'M
portant book, confident that such read
ing will result in conviction of the
wisdom, the prudence, the justice and
the necessity of such conditions Of
peace as MIR. Cheradame proposes. We
do not know whether an early copy of
the book is aboard the steamship
George Washington. If not, we sin
cerely hope that copies OF it Will he
speeded Europeward at tho earliest
possible moment and that the President
and every one connected with the ncace
conference will read and ponder it as
carefully as though their very lives
depended upon it. They could have no
better counsel and inspiration for the
great tasks which arc before them.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07
America in the War
Speaking Cartoons and Graphic
v ords From Many Minds

AMERICA IN THE WAR. By Louis Racmaekers,
folo' PIP. 2o7 The Century Company.
The oldtime Especial artist" who
sketched with pencil scenes Of battle
was long ago replaced by the photog-
lapher, and he in turn, to some cX-
tent, by the moving picture photog
lapher. But in the domain Of magma
tive and illustrative cartoon the pencil
artist remains indispensable, and in
the present or just past war he has
been active to probably greater pur-
pose and with greater effect than in any
other war of history.
It would be impossible to estimate
the influence which the marvellous car
toons of Louis Raemaekers have had in
'hese last four years. They have been
a part Of the current history of the
day, as also Of its argument, exhorta-
ton and elucidation; but they will NOT
be confined TO the day. Their place in
art and history, for ages to come. is
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07

empire, it would be difficult to imagine
1t was inevitable, Of course, that DR..
Liebknecht's utterances should be
marked with Socialistic bias, and with
animus against that "capitalism" which
he seems to regard as the root of all
evil. Such feelings at times lead him
to take an inaccurate view of the other
nations concerned in the war, though
they do not vitiate the facts which he
sets forth concerning Germany. His
translator and editor has done his work
well. and so has the writer of the in
PRODUCTION, in spite of his extraordinary
bracketing of the name of Lenine with
those of Foch, Wilson and Licbknecht;
and the net result is a highly interest
ing and significant contribution to the
current history of the wal
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07

Americans in Canada. Later she says
that General Thomas's part in this
programme included winning the hard
fought battle of Franklin on Novem Der
so. This was such crushing victory
to be a factor in the struggle" II was
Schoiield, not Thomas, who fought that
battle, and in it Hoods army was not
destroyed, not even 'reduced to panic"
That disposition of it was reserved for
Thomas to effect in the greater battle
Of Nashville fortnight later Despite
such regrettable errors, however, the
volume is Of interest and will be of
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07
Liebknecht's War Talk
War, Art and Letters

we'll assured. 1t was, therefore, fine
thought of his publishers TO bring out
this sumptuous edition OF moro than
hundred of his masterpieces, in colors
and monochrome, and to preface each
with brief sentiment or comment
from some eminent living American,
Senator Lodge, Lindley NJ. Garrison,
ton, John Burroughs Myron r. Herrick,
Ida Tarbell, Agnes Reppler, Lyman Alb
bott, George Haven Putnam. Rear Ad-
miral Peary, William Dean Howells,
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07

John Spargo, William Allen White
these are only few Of the scores who
have contributed to this extraordinary
anthology of patriotism. 1t is WORK
to be greatly priced in the present and
To be preserved for all time as a valued
memorial of "an age on ages telling"
New-York tribune., 1918-12-07

Strange Stories of the Great River
by Johnston Grosvenor illustrated
12ma, PIP. 1875; Harper & Bros.). is a
collection Of historical tales of Mar-
quette, La Sale and other explorers of
the Mississippi. "
In the Midst of Life" is new edi-
ton OF collection of more than two
dozen OF Ambrose Bierce's GALES of
Soldiers and Civilians" just published
IN handsome 12mo by Boni & Live
right. We understand that it is the
hrst volume of uniform edition of
blerce,s complete works. Upon this
enterprise the publishers and the read
,ns N pubic are to be congratulated, for
n,elce' 700 little known, must be
few others among NE real moSta"s as'.s
Of the ciiiicult art of short storv vii lJi
ing. '''iS WIN