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New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

"Whoever said that" the colonel
answered, "does not understand or
ganization. The task is not too
great for one chief executive. In
fact, the supreme place is one-man
job. Five co-equal executives
couldn't handle it, The boss, how
ever, must have under him a lot of
big executives to succeed. I think
have them. At any rate, l have
picked them because | believed thev
were big, and they are here only
until they put the job over. Not
one of them would stay permanent
ly in the government service. anv
more than | would myself. We are
simply doing the emergency founda-
tion work and reorganizing this
bureau to meet it's permanent condi-
tons. AS soon as we have done that
and we are going to do tive
are going to quit.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
'Who's Who' of Noske, Strong Man of GERMANY

contemptuous upward and outward
sweep of your hand, accompanied by
the sigh: each ia, der Noske!"
Now, this behooves an explana-
ton. First of all, you have to know
that Gustav Noske, as the German
"Who's Who" for 1914 (the latest
available) testifies, was not only
born at Brandenburg- on-the- Havel
on July 9, 1863, but was born the
son of common weaver; that he
has only a public school education
that he started out on his career as
a cabinetmakerNs apprentice; that
later he drifted into journalism and
worked on different Socialist or
gans till he became editor of the
Chemnitz "Volkstimme," one of the
most important Socialist publica-
tions in that Saxon stronghold Of
Social Democracy. And this weav-
er's son, this "Sozi," this scribbler,
this upstart, this nobody, presumes
now to occupy the Office of Scharn-
horst and a Room and calls himself
Minister of War of Germany!
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

Noske never believed it was war
of conquest.
The fact is established with ab-
solute firmness that Germany has
fought for her bare existence
(otor'ny applause.) The soldiers
counclls-some of then-have con-
trlbuted splendidly to the success
OF the general demobilization. But
TINS does not alter the fact that the
Marines Council, championed by
Herr Haase, is bunch of grafters.
There have been lately charges lev
eiled against army officers It would
be an idle attempt to shield the mis-
1aBes OF the old system. But it
would be shame to condemn whole
sale thousands of men who have
rlsked their lives day after day for
the fatherland. He (Noske) has
since the revolution cooperated with
many of these officers, and he can
vouch for the fact that they have
done splendid work for the veal of
the German people. 1t is not true
that the volunteer divisions serve
the cause of counter revolution.
daughter among the Independ-
ents). 1t is not true that there ex-
lists in Germany a White Guard.
lkenewed laughter) AS to the
Lleoknecht case, of course, it is re-
grettable and all that, but if he
(Noske) is confronted with the
choice of risking the fate of hun
dreds OF thousands for the, sake of
a few foolhardy dreamers, then he
Is all for welding the strong arm.
And then-denunciation of the
Spartacists at Bremen, at Berlin, at
braunschweig. Loud rafting of an
Imaginary sabre. I'VE cherish a
sincere desire to settle things
through negotiations and warnings.
But if the malignant and the blind
refuse to listen, if they refuse to
submit to the majority's will, then
we shall, we must, oppose them with
all our power" (Stormy applause
from the right, centre and Social
Democrats; Kisses from the Inde-
pendents.)
lie Steele" is right. First q Ger
man, and only in the second place a
Socialist. Perhaps he is just the man
Germany needs at present. Perhaps
ne is really the man the German
people---or part of it's praying
Tor, now that the demigods have
gone into bankruptcy. But do what
ne Will, for the junkers and mon
archists and reactionaries he viii
remain "Ach Gott, der Noske. How
can anvhodv call himself Noske?
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

Colonel Henry D. Lindsey Director the War Risk nsur
Bureau

less task of bringing order out Of
chaos and putting the thousand
functionings Of the bureau into a
we'll designed, carefully constructed
and smoothly running machine (for
the magnificent salary of $4,000 a
year), is confident that it can be
done, though the task on it's insur
ance side alone is far and away the
largest enterprise of the kind ever
undertaken by mortal man. An
average insurance solicitor makes
more yearly than Colonel Lindslev's
salary and an ordinarily good one
makes more in a month, by inter
viewing and "selling" few risks.
whereas the colonel has to direct
the largest and worst "balled up"
insurance enterprise that ever was.
lColonel Lindsey, by the way, has
just been elected chairman of the
temporary organization of the Amer
can Legion, the new body Of war
veterans now forming
ut has been asserted" said to
Colonel Lindsey the other day in
his office in the new War Risk
Building, which has room for $4,000
employees, chat your job is too big
tor any mortal man and that it is
doubtful whether even the five
greatest executives in America
could fill it successfully"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

her eyes searched the interior OF
the cars. She saw closely crowded
men removing saturated garments
and rubbing the tilmy mist from
the window for a final glimpse of
their toughening home of the mast
six months.
just over her head car window
slammed open, admitting the full
blast OF the tempest and sendinq
men scamperlng to other parts of
the car with an oath smothered m
their lips. A huge form, with power
1ul arms visible through the tight
~ hitting army undershirt, leaned
TAR over the window sill, his feet
locked IN arm of the seat. His arms
strained as be gathered the wet wisn
OF a girl from the platform. Her
eyes were sparkling and alive: hen.
form was inert and helpless. but
safe in the grip of her lover. He
held her easily, and her face turned
up to him and her lips pursed, ir-
reslstlbly kissable. There can be no
description of their parting caress
That would be impossible.
The elephantine engine shrieked
a warning. The lungs of the mogul
heaved whistling, sooty sigh and
then another. The train was NOV
ing; almost imperceptibly at first,
but gradually gaining momentum.
She watched the train until it
was lost in the mists and turns in
the road. Lost--she turned toward
the rude shack that served as sta
ton.
AS for the second kiss of this
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
A Commander
In a FrOCk Coat

From the Prussian junker point
Of view the tragedy of it all is
overwhelming. And yet you have
to be German, or to know the
German language and German
people thoroughly, in order to
appreciate the supreme funniness
Of the name Noske. 1t is the
hyperbole of Philistinism, of low
caste, of social non-existence. Per-
haps the distance that separates
the name Noske from the name Won
falkenhayn can be rendered by the
English antithesis of, say, STRAIT
ford de Redcliffe and Jones. Or
to illustrate with another British an
alogy the Prussian junker senti-
ment toward mere Noske who is
arrogant enough to command the
armies of German--imagine a Mr.
Tompkins being appointed Lord
Warden Of the Cinque Ports, or
getting the Order of the Garter be-
slowed upon him. 1t is anti-climax
assuming human shape, dressed in a
frockcoat with green hat, pink tie
and yellow shoes.
1t was this symbolism Of the
name Noske that Georg Bernhard,
the well known editor Of the "Vos-
sischc Zeitung," must have had in
mind when he wrote, last February,
in an article describing the scene in
the National Theatre at Weimar !:
"The fnvOrite Of foreign innrnaliat q
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

circumscribed with the rigid rules
and regulations of a bureau. Some
men were born to be bureaucrats-
but not the big business type of
man. / don't mean to imply that
there has been any political pressure
on me. Far from it. There have.
of course, been recommendations of
men for places, but any such have
only been introductions to possible
chances to make good.
"It is absolutely essential, for a
bureau Of this size to make reason
ably good, that its director should
have an entirely free hand in it's or
ganization and administration, and
he should be responsible to the
power above him for every single
act Of the personnel of the bureau.
Under the most favorable conditions
it is not, in my opinion, possible to
reach in such bureau as high an
Ideal Of business efficiency as obtains
In the best organized business insti-
tutions of this country. We can
hope, however, / and those who are
working with me in the organizing
of this bureau, that by the end of
this year it will be functioning prop
erly in its various divisions and SUBJ
divisions and that it's work can be
carried on in the future by men who
are willing to hold permanently gov
ernment positions.
"Why, just think of it! In about
twenty months this bureau insured
more than 100000 men for an
average of $4,000 of insurance
each. 1t carries $50, ,OoO,ooo,o0 of
insurance-all the old line, includ-
ing industrial; insurance companies
of America carry only $27, 100000
000,< and the fraternal companies
only $9,500,O00,0OO. 1t employs
10000 persons. Most of them had
to be trained for their work while
they were in the midst of the most
chaotic job that men and women
ever tackled. Not only did the
bureau have the 4,125, 900 applica-
tions and all the attendant docu.
ments and records to handle, but
it seemed as if everybody in America
took to writing letters to it. Let
ters have stormed in on the bureau
at the rate Of 100000 month and
IN every language known to the
tongue of man. Almost everybody
seemed to have a kick and many
undoubtedly had right to kick.
1t couldn't be helped. Out of moth
ing there was being built up bureau
that has to deal with millions of
people-and that, too, in matters
of intimate and personal concern,
things that get close to the hearts
of the people-sickness, wounds.
daily bread, sorrow and death. A
clerical error on this end became
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

OF the great Berlin rebellions; ane
even his worst enemies had to admit
that he did thorough job of it.
In fact, the principal charge
against him was that he did toe
thorough job of it. His famous
order, issued to the government
troops, ito shoot on sight ANYBODY
caught armed in the Streets" reused
storm all over Germany which the
Ebert government found quite diff
cult to allay. He was denounced as
a bloody despot. The "Freiheit." or
gan of the Independent Socialists
went it one better and called him
Ludendorff. But he Cleaned UPPER
lin, and this constituted no little
JOB IN the eyes of many. His re-
tallatlons for the celebrated Lichten-
berg massacre We'd with the best
achievements Of the German army in
Belgium. 1t appeared later that the
celebrated Lichtenberg massacre.
where the Spartacists were alleged to
have cut down sixty-odd defenceless
government officials, did not take
place at all. But then it might have
taken place and the Spartacists. any,
way, were bad people whom "it lust
served right; so everybody was
happy, except, perhaps, the Sparta
cists. And Noske earned the en;-
thet "the strong man of the Ebert
government"
AT the meeting of the National
Assembly on February Is last
Noske, then newly appointed Minis
ter OF Defence in the Cabinet named
by the newly elected President of
the republic, Ebert, made a speech
it was not the speech of a great
man; tar from it. 1t was not the
speech OF man whose picture a
herman Democrat, a Liberal intel
iectual, would care to have on his
wall next to those Of, say, Schiller
and Beethoven. But it was decided
~ the speech of a clever and able
man, OF one who knows what he
wants and is not very particular as
TO his ways of getting it. The
speech was ardently applauded by
the Scheidemann Socialists and the
bourgeois parties, an applause that
drowned the scornful cries of the
Independents.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

story that came scarcely a fortnight
ago IN a flood of laughing sunshine
at Camp Mills. Units of the heroic
77th were detraining and each was
being greeted by phalanx of rela-
tives.
"A company of infantry was NOV
ing solldly, in squad formation. down
Clinton Road. Although guns were
slung at careless angles, the lines
were straight and quick stepping.
1t was surprising therefore that a
soldier, with eighteen months SER
vice, one year overseas, should
calmly walk from the middle of a
squad toward the side of the road.
"A young lady was standing there.
Her clothes were of the latest Pa
rlslan models which Grand and Di-
vision streets have given the citv.
Her shoes were of bronze hue. She
1iau evidently been standing in the
same waiting position for hours, for
her face was flushed and the sun
had marked her with noticeable
burn.
The doughboy made the last few
strides on unsteady legs. He stop
ped only when squarely in front of
her, his face on a level with hers.
The curbing on which she stood
equalized their height. Her mouth
opened to scream, but closed to
kiss. The powerful douehboy was
almost swaying, when two thin, fer
vent arms threAsened his breath
ing.
They kissed--ending this story.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
Inc Chronicle of Two Kisses

at laborer's trot through the
muddy sea to their jobs.
She stood irresolute and unno.
ticed, a slim target for the furious1v
playing elements. But her love was
the kind which finds a wav and sbc
lnstinctively turned from the gloom
lest bit of Long Island. Her troubled d
eyes swept to the right. A curling
stretch of track led off from the
man line and was lost in the mist
The dim outlines of oblong. un-
painted buildings family rewarded
her straining scrutiny.
The storm seemed determined In
make day Of it, and her progress
along the tracks was slow. Strands
of her hair fled from her cojffure
and explored her face.
She pushed steadily onward
Around her neck hung sometime
that resembled wet rope. 1t had
been fluffy white neckpiece.
Suddenly the tracks veered sharp
ly to the left and she looked eager
Iy, hopefully ahead. Four hundred
yards up the line loomed a masto-
don mogul engine, black and steam
ing. Behind the engine twelve cars
bordered on the uncompleted plat
form. She fell as she crossed a
switch, but only to her knees. Soon
she was abreast of the steaming
engine, and all it's mugginess. The
engineer scratched his head. He had
seen many unusual and admirable
sights in taking troop trains to
transports, but this--my, what a
girl!
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

make their payments promptlv .ns
properly" ''u
Won't this government ,nsrx
ance of 100000 men in the nr;n.
OF life and for SO large an amoun.
as an average of $4,000 be b.rs
en- the regular insurance COW
panies?" / asked.
mo. AS a matter of fact a,
insurance companies are do;na s
better business right now than a.
before. This is partly due to H.
influenza epidemic which, with it, it,
tremendous number of suaa.s
deaths, served to remind peon,e -
the uncertainty of life, partly dna
to the war and partly due to tbs
salutary effect of government n
dorsement of the principle of in.
surance. People concluded that -
insurance was good for soldiers i
was good for civilians also. and lin
gerlng doubts and misgivings abou.
the whole insurance idea were swept
away.
The fact is that the insurance
companies are cooperating grandlv
They realize that we are giving tbe;r
business the best advertisement =
ever had. Besides, most of the b;o
Eastern companies are writing 81,
the new business the law allows aru
way. This bureau has done more u
less than two years to make an IN
surance policy as much matter of
course as suit of clothes than al,
the propaganda Of all the companies
could have done in half century
we Jammed insurance onto 4.00o.
ooO men in the prime of life. most
OF whom knew as much about in.
surance when they took it as cow
does about the metabolism of m;lk
and cared less. They learned bv
object lessons what it means. They
saw their comrades die all abont
them and leave estates for their
widows and mothers In return for
few dollars of pay automatically
deducted. They go home and preach
insurance. Their comrades and ac-
qualntances will take the cue from
them and invest in comuanv
policy.
Besides, as they get along in
life most Of them will want to take
some more of a good thing-and al
they can't get any more of it from
the government they will apply to
insurance companies for it. Some
of the insurance agents will find
their field among the first insurers
restricted for awhile, but even they
will enjoy the compensation of cas-
Ter and better business a little later.
The average old line insurance
policy has been only $4,000, but the
general boom for insurance that is
being created is resulting in
marked increase in this AVERAGE.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
AS to Regular
Insurance

This absence Of the agent, with
out whom Insurance would not exist
In America, is one of the factors in
considering the probabilities of the
soldiers converting their temporary
war term insurance into the various
forms of permanent insurance the
government offers them. The de-
gree to which this conversion
privilege will be availed of depends
largely on the service we can per-
form in informing the men of their
rights and their special opportuni-
ties. We need everybody's help in
this. No soldier can afford to fore
go this great opportunity. You see,
because the nation thinks it only
fair to give administration without
charging for it, the boys will get
their permanent insurance at about
one-hfth less than they could get
1t from any old line company-be-
SIDES, many of them could not now
pass the physical examinations that
the companies require. Ours is the
biggest job of group insurance ever
undertaken and we take the whole
army as it is, sick or we'll. We are
planning to use the postoffices as q
means of keeping in touch with our
insured men and they will be author
lied to accept premium payments
SO that it will be easy for the most
unlearned in business matters to
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

tragedy at the other end Of the
line.
"The bureau has over 10000, 900
individual records in three miles Of
cabinets ~ feet high and it keeps
1000 typewriters in constant SER
vice. Its $4,000 employees have
been scattered over sixteen insult
able buildings, but we will soon
have them all together in this build
ing. Since we started it we have
paid out about 100000 individ-
ual checks amounting to $497,000,-
600, though more than $3.50, 900, 900
of this was deducted from soldiers
pay to go with the allowance they
thereby secured for their families.
I'm getting the soldiers and
sailors insured, in the matter of
allowances, etc, the bureau was
mixed up with the war and navy
departments and other government
agencies. The war was going on
all the time, too, and our insured
men and their benefciaries were
changing their addresses and NOV
ing all over the map. The bureau
had no trained agents or solicitors
to handle all preliminary details in
an orderly manner and put all
papers up to it just so-as an in
surance company agent does.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
By Theodore M. knappen

TIME soldiers of the late wal
made good collective bet
with Uncle Sam. Through
their War Risk Insurance policies
they bet 5000, 100000 with him that
they would "go west" during their
term of service. The cold man" bet
S7o0,000,000 against their $780,
100000 that they would live
through the war. The greater part
of them did, but the hundred thou
sand who won, through death, leave
their heirs about $9O0,000,00O of
insurance, of which S7O0,0O0,OO0 will
come out of the treasury and from
the taxpayers of grateful country.
The soldiers as a whole risked
S200,000,000 and got back their
ante and $700,000,000 besides for
the families of their "buddies' who
passed over. The survivors, who
by the same token did not win in
dividually, can keep right on bet
ting with Uncle Sam on their
chances of life as long as they live
or for various fixed periods.
AS from now on premiums will
meet death losses outside of the
administrative expenses which Uncle
Sam has agreed to contribute free
of charge, it may be stated roughly
that soldiers War Risk Insurance
has cost the government in actual
net insurance liability not less than
$700,000,000. The benefciaries,
however, actually will get about
S1,250,000,000, which will be the
ultimate commuted value of the
S900,000,000 of policies. This is to
say, that as the insurance money is
to be paid to the benefciaries in
monthly instalments extending over
twenty years, instead of in lump
sum, they get the interest accumula
tions of the unpaid balances. On
$4,000 policy this amounts to
$4,000 and brings the monthly pay
ment up to $3.50, instead of
s41.66, which it would be if merely
the face value of the policy were
distributed over 240 months. So
Cor the next twenty years the gov
ernment will have to appropriate
about $62,00O,O00 year to pay
war insurance obligations, though
the net outgo will be about $780,
100000, as the insurance premium
funds will yield the other S12,-
100000.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

that there is a great deal to be said
for getting thinos done"- then
measured by that standard, Noske is
"real fellow"
After the revolution last Novem-
Der he was appointed Governor of
kiel; and, as it is remembered, Kiel,
with the warships in the harbor hy-
ing the red flag, was then the danger
centre of the cyclone that swept the
Hohenzollerns from their pinnacle of
power. Noske, by means fair or foul,
restored order at Kiel. Later, as
Peoples Commissary for Military
Affairs, he did the same in Bremen,
where Spartacist terror had ruled
for. weeks. But his most notable
achievement was putting down one
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

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member of the present
German government; best
hated, that is, in Germany. In AL
lied countries Scheidemann still
stands forth as the arch-hypocrite,
the symbol Of that political resig-
nation of the German Social-Demo-
cratic party" which, according to
the late Rosa Luxemburg, took place
on August 2, 1914. But for the
German masses Noske personifes
that junker militaristic reaction
which to-day poses in the garb of
Social Democracy and republicanism.
Still, it is probably an exaggera-
tion to say for the German masses.
It. would be more accurate to clas-
sify opinion according to the .color
of the German national flag which
is s,your particular color, if you have
the misfortune Of being a German.
1t. works like this: If you are
(which God forbid!) a Red, Spar
tacis., Communist, Bolshevik or
even a mere Independent Socialist,
follower of Haase, then, indeed,
you hate Noske as the devil incar-
nate, dark assassin, mass mur-
derer and things TO that effect.
Then your opinion of him can be
summed up in the exclamation, "To
hell with Nosker'
On the othe hand, if your favo-
rite color is whitehall is, If vol,
happen to be Democrat, Lib
eral, a Republican, supporter of
Ebert--then Noske is your chief
nope in these days, when hope is
about the scarcest OF all commodi-
ties between the Rhine and the Wis.
Lula. Then you cali Noske the
strong man." the man who Saved
the republic" the backbone Of
EDert>s government, the German
Gambetta, If you please. Then you
VII adopt for your slogan the mod
ern German equivalent of eTet
George do it" and will clamor en-.
Enthusiastically LET Noske do it,v