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New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

without even asking his permission.
He has come into the world with
a capacity which in itself indicates
mission and he doesn't fulfill his
mission if he remains silent.
Through egoism or through laziness
he fails his country, and perhaps
posterity. That is cowardice."
"You put it strongly, captain"
"But the poet who falsifes is still
worse. He is a traitor. Having
received as pure gratuity the
means of speaking and of moving
others, of making himself heard and
followed, he treacherously abuses
his gift when he uses it to advance
his own fortunes in place of conse-
Grating himself loyalty to express
ing that portion Of the common soul
of which he is the depositary."
Lieutenant Brachon raised finger
as II to present an amendment. But
Cnevlgnard went on:
Tomorrow you can all answer
me, if l am still alive. There, isn't
time for that this evening. l only
wanted to offer this young man, in
the way of legacy, two or three
convictions which l desire to leave
behind me. If they kill me tonight,
my boy, remember my last words,
and repeat them to those who come
after YOU"
"And if I fall, captain?"
IF you fall? Then ! shall print
your posthumous sonnet. Give it to
me-"
"Here it is, captain"
The little sergeant smiled again.
as he handed over the paper. He
was killed that Sight.
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Labor's Hand In Management
no FAR labor in America is not
> demanding voice in the pure
~ ly managerial direction Of in

~ 0 FAR labor in America is not
~ demanding a voice in the pure
~ ly managerial direction Of in
dustry, says Cyrus McCor-
mick, jr., works manager of the In
ternational Harvester Company, ii
an address delivered recently be
fore the National Safety Council
convention in Cleveland. Industr,
is being rapidly democratized in tn
United States to the extent Of giving
employees joint control Of matters
affecting their interests, but he de
clares it will require generations OF
development and education before
labor can take hand in executive
management.
Mr.. McCormick's address on "Co-
operation and Industrial Progress, :"
based on the experience of the In
ternational Harvester Company with
industrial democracy, details his
views on the whole question, includ-
ing organized labor's opposition and
the efficiency Of the system in pre-
venting or settling strikes:
"The war has taught nations once
and for all time that individual work
men must be regarded as human be-
ings," he said. "They are, to be sure,
an element in production, just as is
the management, but the time has gone
by when human labor can be bought
and sold as are machines, tools and
raw materials. . The man, as op-
posed to the machine, has the power
to think, and is endowed with a soul.
He is at last seeking recognition of
this fact.
"1n agreement with many critics of
the present industrial situation, l be-
lieve the most significant feature is
the expressed desire Of labor to share
in the management Of business.
"Now, until recent years, our in
dustrial system was benevolent des-
potism. Large employers in this coun-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Adds Monthly Bills

For the private lines of an au4o
matte telephone system, there is an
arrangement in the central ofFco
which adds up the total number Of
minutes in the month that the mar
ticular telephone as in actual use
The charges to the subscriber arc
based directly upon the reading
taken monthly from this meter
With this system in operation, the
subscriber pays only for tie actual
time that he uses his telephone, a
short call costing him less than q
long one. The justice and general
advantages Of this system are self.
evident.
But the greatest wonder of all is
not the automatic telephone itself.
1t is that crazy Chicago under.
taker should have succeeded where
men highly trained as electrical en-
gineers had failed. How the gods
must laugh on their far-off mountain
at the bitter irony of a fate which
gave to Stronger divine gift, of
thought, the power of inventing a
machine destined to add to the con-
venience and comfort of millions of
people, but carried with it the curse
of madness.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

short at the close and awaited the
verdict.
"Not bad," said the captain. cts
even good"
every felicitous," said Lieuten-
ant Brachon.
Happy both in rhymes and in
metaphors" said Abeilles.
And Chevignard added:
'These boys astonish me-"
The sergeant folded up his manu-
script. He was enraptured. He no
longer remembered that he must
attack in a few minutes.
But Chevignard resumed:
eyes, they astonish me. Here are
these dandies playing their roles in
the most formidable drama ever
staged. They aren't dry yet behind
the ears, and they behave like leg
endary heroes. There are epics in
their smallest exploits. The most
ordinary letters which they scribble
for their papas and mammas fur
nish, almost any day, material for
a thousand years of poems and
tragedies. And these same young
men, when they take their pens in
hand to indite couple of quatrains,
serve us up something already
long ago chewed over. For your
sonnet is that, my boy. It is the
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
I 7 WAS September, 1917. In a
front line dugout, twelve feet

8 front line dugout, twelve feet
underground, three officers
were seated about a table on
which poor candle flickered. Ex-
cept for their faces and a book which
lay open before them everything in
the room was lost in shadow. Cap
tain Chevignard knocked his pipe
against the corner of the table, spill
ing out the ashes. Then he said:
"Read The Albatross' once more,
And read it slowly"
Sub-Lieutenant Abeilles started to
read. But the flap which covered
the opening into the dugout was
raised and sergeant appeared. He
saluted gravely. Without word he
handed a folded slip of paper to the
captain.
"Ah! ah!" said the latter, laying
down MS pipe.
The others watched him as he
opened the note and read it. There
was an expression Of anxiety in
their eyes. A certain tenseness
seemed to pervade the air and the
silence. Chcvignard, without speak
ing, glanced at his wrist watch.
They all understood. The lieutenant
asked:
as it the order for the attack? Is
it for tonight? At what timer"
He passed them the note, which,
perhaps, condemned them to death.
They looked at their watches to find
out how many minutes they still had
to live. But it wasn't desirable to
abandon themselves : to thoughts
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

Then speak, sing, cry aloud! Utter
what is within you. 1t is not only
your right to do that; it is your
duty. For what is within YOU is
something more than yourself. 1t is
the sum of the inheritances out of
which you are constituted, with the
aspirations which result from those
inheritances. You are an accumula-
ton from the past, which now turns
toward the future. You are a ma
chine which is driven by what lies
behind you and which must, in it's
turn, drive what is ahead Of US
that which will be, but hasn't vet
arrived"
II believed"-
Don't merely indulge yourself.
You are reservoir Of forces. What
you call your genius is a store of
ancestral vibrations, spending itself
through mechanism made to pro-
duce harmonies and to demonstrate
to history the number and amplitude
of those vibrations"
THAT is why
"That is why, my boy, you have
neither the right to be silent nor to
falsify. The poet who holds his
place is in way deserter, since
he doesn't give back to the race
what the race has confided to him,
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which might unnerve them. If but
few moments Of life remained
those moments ought not to be spent
in a way to enfeeb1e the soul.
Sergeant Payet!"
eyes, captain?"
"Read US your sonnet"
What sonnet, captain?"
"You don't want to make me think
that yesterday, or to-day, or the
day before yesterday, perhaps, you
didn't compose fourteen lines, which
you think exquisite and which hu-
manity is waiting for? I am human
ity. / will listen to them"
The young sergeant smiled with
happiness.
"It is true, captain, that I have
written little piece on which l
should be glad A master like
you! And since you are so
good"-
"Not so many phrases. We are
colleagues here. You are young. If
l must die at midnight, l shall at
least have left you, as my testament,
sincere judgment. Spout it QUIT"
The little sergeant no longer
thought Of death. He read aloud. at
first timidly and almost in whisper,
then with more warmth and finally
with real emphasis. He stopp{d
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through which one sees the figures
upon the lower disk. To call a
number you take the receiver off
the hook, insert your finger in the
hole in the top disk directly over
the figure representing the first digit
of the number to be called. You
then pull the disk around until your
finger encounters stop, when you
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
CALLING
Pr.ONE

Taking the receiver from the hook a so-caed
slime soch" to pick OF the ten avalable rs select
ors" '0hch is busy. "selector' merely sotch
capable Of connecting one line h OF the hundred
others and actaed by electrical impulses. Wen the dial
the calling instrument is turned the repre-
seting the first digit Of the required NUMBER from
zen impulses the line. These impulses
the mechanism Of the selecor until 10Th
unengaged second selector every respect like the
first, in Of the hundred groups The dining
Of the second digit, by like process, the ssecond
seector' makes ,cish c unengaged
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

necor in OF the ten hundred groups. The con-
necor' merely sselector ,ohch is connected to the
cline s,oitch Of the called The daling Of the
third and fourth digiss in the same ,cay mecha-
nisn Of the c0nnec0r until touches the one of ifs
group hundred lines by those oo dgts
This stitch also rings the bell instrument called as
soon the connection has been completed. the re-
qred line is in use, the spifc" sends the
sSbusy signal, soc audible in the re-
ceirer OF the person making the CALI Ater completing the
conversation restoring the receiver hook breaks the
connection instantly clearing both lines all the SWITCHES
concerned.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

release it, and the disk returns to
its original position. This operation
is repeated for every digit in the
required number. Within two Sec
onds after the disk has registered
the last digit you will hear in your
receiver either distinctly audible
sound, indicating that the bell of
the instrument called is ringing, or
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
ltOmatic Switchboard to Take Central's Place
Telephone Without Operator the
Product of Distorted Brain
of Chicago Undertaken

Haven, White Plains, West Seventy
second Street, New York, and Har-
mon-on- Hudson. A test was made
recently Of the speed at which con-
nections are made over this system.
Five numbers were selected at ran
dom, one from the area covered by
each of the five exchanges, and the
time taken in each case to get the
connection was set down. In four
out Of the five cases the person
called answered in fifteen seconds
or less, counting from the time the
receiver was removed from it's hook.
The fifth number called was a busy
wire. The "busy" signal was received
in less than four seconds! This is
seen to be an even more remarkable
performance when it is remembered
that two Of these calls, those to Har-
mon and White Plains, were to tele-
phones thirty and twenty-five miles
distant. The total time for making
the five calls was less than two
minutes.
Sitting in his office at Fiftieth
Street and Lexington Avenue, the
superintendent of telephones and
telegraphs of the New York Gen.
trail, A. B. Taylor, spoke with great
enthusiasm of the efficiency of the
automatic telephone.
Only -Four Seconds
"We allow four seconds for city
calls and six for those to out-of-town
points, counting from the time the
receiver is taken off the hook until
the call bell begins to operate" he
said. "And / know that the regular
telephone is never used by any of our
Offices for calls that can be made
over the automatic. This system
costs US, counting interest, upkeep,
depreciation and all other charges,
only $5.18 a month an instrument
| believe that the cost should be very
much lower an instrument for
larger >installation.'
Perhaps the reader wonders
whether the automatic telephone is
equally applicable to the needs and
problems encountered in the ham
ding of the telephone business of
great city. The best answer to this
question lies in the announcement Of
the New York Telephone Company
that it will equip with the automatic
switchboard the three exchanges
which are to be opened next year.
1t is, according to officials of the
company, only after detailed tests of
the systems which have been in
actual operation for, in some cases,
as many as twelve years, in such
American cities as Los Angeles,
Cal; Akron, Ohio, and St. Paul,
Mimi, that they have decided to take
this step.
The system is used in more than
~ Ot%SoC =
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Belief That Exchange Was Rob-
bing Him of Business Inspired
Strowger's Efforts

prolonged DO not dropped hopper once 70
throw Of its condition
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
America Awaiting
English Welcome
Of Polo Challenge

Possibility Of an international polo
match between picked teams Of Ameri-
can and English players next year is
entirely in the hands Of the English
polo authorities, according to state
ment made by the Polo Association
here last night
1t was announced that no challenge
for such match had been sent to Eng
land and that none would be forwarded
until such time as the English authori-
ties indicated that a challenge would
be welcomed.
The recent victory of the Freebooters
team over the Thornby four in the
final game for the British championship
cup by score Of goals to at Hurl-
ingham led to unofficial opinion that
England was ready to defend the inter-
national trophy won from America at
Meadowbrook in 1914.
In this match only one member of
the victorious English team of five
years ago appeared. Major F. w. Bar
rett played at No. on the Thornby
four and English reports of the match
indicate that the standard of play was
considerably below the pre-war form
of English polo.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
Browns Overcome
Big Lead to Win
From the Yanks

ST. LOUIS, July 1.-THE New York
Yankees continued on their merry way
down the toboggan when they dropped
q seventeen-inning game to the St.
Louis Browns here to-day by score of
z to 6. Tomorrow may see the Yankees
drop to third place in the league stand
ing, for they hold second position over
the Cleveland Indians by a margin of
only a points.
When the visitors were ready to cele
brate a victory with the score 5 to
weakened badly and the Browns col
lected four runs. Mogridge and Shore
were both rushed into the game to stop
the slugging of the Browns, but all to
no avail.
With the tide of battle turned, Jims
mie Burke, the local manager, sent
Gallia and Mayer into the game as his
new battery. Wright had previously re-
placed Sothoron on the mound for St.
Louis in the seventh. Shore could not
hold the Browns in check in the ninth,
with the result that st. Louis tailed
another run, tieing matters at runs
all. Herb Thormahlen then succeeded
Shore as the New York pitcher
In the seventeenth Robertson singled
end took second, when Bodie fumbled
| the ball. Robertson went to third on
Gallia's bunt and scored on a sacrifice
bunt by Mayer.
The Yankees outbatted their rivals,
for they collected total of nineteen
safeties, two more than the locals.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
Big Meet for PHILADELPHIA

The national outdoor track and field
championships are to be held in Phila-
dclphia, although no date for the con-
tests has been announced as yet.
Samuel J. Dallas, president of the A.
A. u. while visiting here several days
ago, stated positively that the games
would be held in the Quaker City and
that the championship committee was
also working on the matter. The con-
tests will probably be held on Franklin
Field the second Friday and Saturday
in September
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
Men of Moran
Upset Brooklyn
By 5-to-l Score
Sherrod Smith Driven From
Mound;. Daubert Aids i'm
His Old Teams Defeat

The Brooklyn Dodgers drifted back
into the second division when they lost
the opening encounter of series with
the Cincinnati Reds at Ebbets Field
yesterday. The score was to /. The
defeat of Robbies men can be attrib-
uted to their inability to make the
most of thirteen singles which they
collected from the slants Of Slim Sa!lee.
1t required three of these nits to en-
able Brooklyn to manufacture it's lone
run.
Sherrod Smith was ineffective during
his five-inning stay on the mound for
the Dodgers, being found for eight hits
and five runs. AL MamauX was called
Mamaux's feat of holding the Reds to
a single hit during the last four and
half innings were wasted, for the nodg-
ers failed to show any signs of life
with the stick.
While Salee was pounded for the
large total Of thirteen safeties, almost
half of these were infield hits hat the
Dodger batters managed to beat out.
Sallee pitched cleverly when in tight
splcndidly by his teammates. There
were half a dozen fielding features
which won the applause of the small
crowd Of spectators. Jake Daubert
helped to bring about the defeat of his
former mates, making three of Clncin-
MATHS nine hits.
Reds Off to Good Start
The Reds started we'll by scoring run
Daubert flied out to Myers. Smith tempo
rarily lost control and passed Groh, but
Roush singled to left, Rath tallying
from second. Another run came in the
third, when Roush hit safely to right,
and stole second. Kopf doubled to
right, chasing home Roush. Cincinnati
added another in the fourth. Smith
walked Salee, and Rath sacrificed. Dau-
bert hit safely to right, and when Smith
allowed the throw-in to get away from
him Sallee scored.
Smith was. shunted to the showers
before he had succeeded in retiring one
Red batter Neale smashed triple to
centre, and Kopf singled to left, scor-
ing Neale. Manager Robinson then
called it day for Smith. Mamaux
took the mound. lie made an in
auspcious beginning by hitting Bress-
Ter on the arm kidulf later COM
mitted an error that allowed Sallee 10
score q second run.
Ihe Reds were squelched III Sc
quence in the remaining four innings
with the exception Of Daubert, who
singled over second in the eighth. AL
though Kilduff and Miller each singled
in beginning the fifth no runs re-
suited, as Sallee easily disposed Of the
next three batsmen.
In the eighth, Olson and Johnston
singled, but the latter was forced by
Hickman at second. Wheats single
scored Olson, and when Honey also beat
out an infeld hit the bases we're filled.
Here Krueger failed as pinch hitter,
being tossed out by Kopf.
Charles II. Ebbets had the Police
Band and Police Glee Club as guests in
the interest of the company field days
Of the Finest" but as many fans re-
marked the Dodgers are always jinxed
when music is furnished for their bene-
fit.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
Concerning Observation

There still the low
this
using right or left hook for this annoying purpose.
Which another reminder to how
few play
Giants Athletics We
another We appealed
either bindthat happened still
the
got his version which that all three
Two hours later Merke play
testimony disqualified the
morning the to Philadelphia the base disagreed with
Merke OF the six people involved who
agreed the complete
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i'm 18th and Dodgers
Wilde Winner
Ouey' Pal Moore
In 20 Rounds

r ONDON, July 17.-Jimmy
l. Wilde, the British Hywoight
champion, defeated Pal Moore, Of
Memphis, Tenn, in a twenty
round bout at the Olympia to-
night. Referee Corri gave tho
decision to Wilde on points.
Twenty thousand persons wit
messed the fight. Moore admins
tered much punishment to his
antagonist in the early stages
Of the bout, but at the end of
the twelfth round Wilde led
slightly on points.
In the fourteenth round Moore
sent a jab to Wilde's mouth,
which made the blood squirt. 1t
was evident in the last rounds
that Moore was trying for
Knockout, but Wilde's ringcraft
and cleverness prevented the
American from carrying out his
plan.
On the invitation of the
Prince Of Wales, General John
J. Pershing occupied the royal
box with the prince and his
brother, Prince Albert. The
party was given an ovation.
General Pershing frequently
waved his hands or bowed his
acknowledgements to the plaudits
of the crowd.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
champions.
Totals . Al 8 s 80 II 2 Totals SO 10 SO %
.Batted for UerSche in the iChth inning

Totals. Al 8 s 33 II 81 Totals. SO 4 10 So 90 ?
'Batted for Hersche in the eighth inning.
Jersey City..... 3 0 %
Toronto. OIL 0 l. 1t
Two base hits-Whiteman (2) Three
base hits-Mooers. SandberE. Gonzales.
Stolen base-Hersche. Sacrifice hits-W
Purtell. Wigglesworth. Cobb. Mooers
Double plays--kane and Wendell; Mooers,
Bauman and Wendell Sandberg, w. Pur-
tell and NJ Purtell w. Purtell and Onslow
First base on errors-Toronto, /: Jersey
City. 2 Bases on balls-Off Hersche 8;
Of Justin, !; off Sellars, 2; off Schacht. /
Sellars,. in innings. Hit by pitcher
BY Justin (Bauman). Struck out--By
Hersche, 4: by Justin 2; by Sellars l.
Wtnning ptcher-Justin. Losing pitcher
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
New York CricESeters
Win and Lead League

PHILADELPHIA, July 17.-Winnine
their return match against the eleven
of the Germantown Cricket Club, 40
to 139, with five wickets to spare, at
Mannheim to-day, the New York crick-
eters squared accounts for their de-
feat at Livingston last month and as
sumed the lead in the Halifax cup com
petition with a total Of six victories
in seven matches played.
Germantown. by defeating Merton il
the only remaining game, would tie
New York for first place.
The summary:
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Totals .s7 s 10 27 10 Totals .a5 10 27 IA
'Batted for Jordan in the third inning.
fBatted for RYAN in the mint h inning

Newark. o-s
Twobase hits-Le,.er. Casey, Miller
Heating. Three base hit-Donelson. Home
runs-Bruggy. Barney. Sacrifice hits
Walsh. McAlpine. Double play--McAlpine,
Walsh to Miller. Left on bases-Buffalo. s;
Newark. S. Bases on bals-Off Rommel,
3. Hits-Off Jordan. s in innings; off
Ryan. in innings. Hit by pitcher
BY Jordan (Miller). Struck out-By
Rommel. /; by Ryan. 1. Losing pitcher
Jordan.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
Tigers Rally in Second
And Whip Athletics, 5-3

DETROIT. July 17.--Detroit scored
four runs in the second inning on two
deubs and sn1 won snsss from and Phadenha Anonsn
to 8. Rogers, who succeeded Kinney in
the third for the Athletics, allowed
Detroit but two hits, but Love held the
visitors safely in the pinches, and they
could not overtake the lead.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
Phillies Nose Out
Cardinals Despite
Triple Play Break

PHILADELPHIA, July II. - Lee
Meadows and Elmer Jacobs, pitchers
exchanged by St. Louis and Philadel-
phia on Monday, pitched against each
other to-day in twelve-inning battle,
which was won by the locals, to O..
Meusl's single, wild throw by Dill
hoefer on I.uderus's sacriic and Whit
ted's single scored the only run.
In the fourth inning, with men on
second an dthird and none OUT Sticking
hit liner to Lavan, who touched sec
ond and threw to third for triple
play.
The score:
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
O'DOwd Scores Knockout
Over All Mccoy in Third

ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 17-Mike
O'Dowd, st. Paul, middleweight cham
pion of the world, knocked out AL Nc
Coy, Brooklyn, former middleweight
champion, in the third round Of their
scheduled ten-round bout tonight.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
Totals .ssl424sa Totals ...s2 q 10 I
Ran for Killefer in eighth inning.
fBatted for Hendrix in eighth inning.

s;ss SniSAso: Yors:.: g.. . . : . - 81
Two-base hlt-Kauff. Stolen bases
chase, Burns Kauf. Merkle. Left on
bases-New York, s; Chicago. s. Bases on
osiis-OH Barnes. l. on Hendrix, 2. Hits
OF Hendrix. in Z innings; off douglas.
in l. Struck out--By Barnes, g. by
Hendrix. 2; BY Douglas. /. Wild Pitch
EendrtN. Losing pitcher-Eendrix
New-York tribune., 1919-07-18
Sail Over for Detroit Boat

pUT-IN-BAY, Ohio, July 17.-Only
one boat entered the onc-sail yacht
event on schedule, which was a schoon-
er race, at the Inter-Lake Yachting As
sociaticn regatta here to-day. Fon-
tanella, OF Detroit, A. F. jennings,
alone and in light air for the class
trophy.