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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Submarine
Reading

There were ten submarines of the
90 type, with the L. S. S. Savannah as
mother ship, which were with the feet
at Guantanamo he said "Of course,
not much Of library can be estab-
llshed aboard a submarine, yet every
sub wanted some books. Officers from
every submarine came to the office; in
nearly every instance the commanding
officer was there personally. The
technical books came in for the first
consideration, as submarine does
not get many technical books directly
from the Navy Department. Books on
Diesel engines, naval architecture and
engineering, machinery, and all the
new books touching on late develop
ments in submarines. or the work of
the submarines in the war, were se-
lected.
Then fiction collections OF about
forty books were made for each sub
marine In every case these books
we're selected from the stock on dis
play IN the Office, 50 the men picked
Out from large collection just what
they wanted"
Another class Of vessels in which
TIE problem was found to be of a
character requiring special arrange
ments vas that of the destroyers.
mere were twenty-five Of these craft
with the feet, and sixteen were be-
Lo
'aeir use the organization furnished
SO special technical works and 1000
Volumes Of fiction.
- Is always a special pleasure to
Dc Of service TO the destroycrs." savs
or. "oostcr. Their naval library APP
preparation III much smaller than that
u me battlcehips and the available
spaee Tor library use very limited. 1t
;" practically impossible 10 have d
real library system aboard. What they
need are books which can be readily
available - the men, small library
" THESE which can be exchanged for
ne" selection whenever they reach
port.
Two or three eases Of general hc~
sA'h can be sent aboard. no officer
mas 70 sizn receiSt for these, and it
explained that they are 10 BE- freely
s'se and exchanged wherever possible
~f urn selection,
These ea&es provide n new lot Of
sssaea for tbs afpall oficers' library
= me wardroom, and then the easez
~ ~ 20 set up In The crew's quarters.
%"s msp have the freest kind Of nc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
By Leon Kelley

TN HOUGH you may not know 8
a single individual in smoking
car there is yet something
clubblsh, If not homeliEe. about it that
you do not find in the rest of the train
A man need only know how to smoke
and he is at home Immediately upon
stepping within. Of course, if he can.
not smoke he feels properly out OF
place, receives bad impression of
mankind, decides that only the de-
PRAYED can indulge thus in sucking and
blowing smoke through the mouth, and
retreats to atmospheres to him cleaner
and sweeter-the headquarters of the
train. To the smoking man, however,
than smoking car there is nothing
that can be sweeter
A devotee of the soothing weed can
not be pried from his seat in the smok-
ing car. He will even deport his wife
to other precincts of the train and
hasten without excuses to the smoking
car, to revel in nicotine while his better
half resigns herself to her fate and
learns to find interest in other things
at hand, or else fidgets and wonders
whether her Henry doesn't love her any
more. Her actions will depend largely
upon several marital factors, such as
duration of the union, quality of her
faith, present conditions as to domestic
finances or domestic interruption by
the third apex of the eternal triangle,
and so on.
Railroad authorities comprehend the
value Of this trait so we'll that thew
allot as many as three and four smok-
ing cars in making up train and post
trainmen at stations with special adj
vertising slogans to shout "Smokng
cars ahead"
A man will often seek the smoking
car with the same sort of feeling that
he seeks his trousers when he gets up
in the morning. This may be due to
habit, but whatever is its cause, he
turns instinctively to the fore of the
train as it approaches, and any attempt
to induce contrary action would but
impress him with sense of utter i'm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Technical
Books

These wartime dispatch Offices.
which followed in the wake of the sue
cessful operation of arDrary methods in
the army, were established on both the
Atlantic and the Pacific. The Offices
nave been maintained at Boston, New
York, Brooklyn, Hoboken, Philadel-
phia, Newport News, Charleston,
Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego.
Those near the navy yards were the
busiest, so that there was great &C
tivity at the brooklyn and Newport
News branches
The Brooklyn office has specialized
particularly in naval technical litera-
ture and during the present stay of the
ships in New York has been busy
place. Books of this class are do
manded especially by those who are
planning to take examinations for COM
missions or in connection with en-
cheering work or who have problems
to be worked out. The ease with which
they may be obtained has added ma
terlally to the pleasure and satisfac-
ton of serving aboard the naval yes
sells, and the plea that has been made
Tor the continuance Of the system Nv
these experts will perhaps have great
weight with those who provide for che
navy's activities in peace time.
The stocking Of the great Atlantic
fleet with literature which has been so
successfully carried out is the greatest
single naval enterprise ever under
taken by the American Library Asso-
citation. The cordial welcome that has
been extended to it by officers and men
is commensurate with the skill with
which, it was successfully conducted. So
much space had to be provided for the
$4,000 books when they arrived at
Guantanamo Bay that after thoro Ugh
search for quarters it was decided that
they should be kept on Barge &C, an old
towboat formerly used by the Coast
and Geodctic Survey. SO completely
was the barge identified with the IL
brary shipments that when Mr. Woos-
ter, the associations representative
told chaplain on one Of the battle
ships that he probably would see him
in New York, the chaplain asked
"Will you make the trip on your
barge ?"
The barge did not bring the books to
New York. for they came on the whole
fleet, so wisely and effectively were
they distributed under Mr.. Woosters
direction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

hold of the ship onto the pier and
Tor trucks to carry it to the lighter or
tug at the end of the pier.
Present on the piers when the
troops are debarking, besides the au-
thorized personnel, are tie Red Cross
women, who literally feed" the SOL
diers; the Salvation Army lassies, who
distribute telegram blanks; repre-
sentatives of the Knights of Columbus,
Y. NJ. c. A. and Jewish Welfare Board
-Santas who dispense chocolate bars,
mixed candies, cigarettes and handker-
chiefs, the latter always being re-
ceived with grin of appreciation by
the doughboy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
By Harry Godfrey

Whose eyes can narrow to Sits of
blue-burning, icy steel,
Or soften with tears
Like a woman's?
If you could see the pictures de-
picting
The climax of the proposal,
You'd understand.
| leave them in each others arms
CHIPPING domestic sentiments,
disrcgardful
Of the Consequences.
In this pigeonholc I keep
The Other Woman.
A variety of her.
Some, gauzily clad,
Rcd-lipped regulation vamps who
look
Like an alluring cover page.
Others, who Mean Well
And are brought back to the
Right Path
BY the prattling of a baby. IT.
that file
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
~YHE SAILORS who came with
the Atlantic fleet when its big
= and little ships swept into New

the Atlantic fleet when its big
and little ships swept into New
York harbor on the present
visit are not to be classed as book
0xorms, but some facts were disclosed
IN the course of their last stay at
Guantanamo Ray before coming here
which gives them new standing in
The readers world. The rugged repre-
sentatives of the navy also made o
5jscovery-that the American power to
organize assured them almost unlim-
tied opportunities to enjoy good liter
ature of the best type and instructive
works of the most scientific sort.
Soon after the ships finished a short
trip away from the Cuban base there
descended upon them an avalanche Of
printed products. The men aboard the
seventy vessels numbered many more
than a score Of thousands, but the ship
ments of reading matter that reached
them were sufficiently large to assure
book for every two men from the start,
and through the system of exchange
that was employed there was no end
TO the variety.
Americas boys afioat proved to be all
that the nation expects of its young
manhood They worked with zest,
played with energy, and in their seri-
Gus moments dreamed in the field of
ambition. They eagerly seized upon
the books which meant first of all i'm
provement of the mind. They con-
tinued to read on the way to New
York, and after their arrival here still
found the time to keep up the &C
quaintance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04


"a hardly think him dangerous in
a any kind of fight. At Camp
Dix he seldom got up enough
wrath to incur the anger of member
of the squad he commanded-and any
corporal will tell you that this is I'M
usual.
True, he was red-headed and Irish,
but somehow the iron-hand methods
were not included in his ideas of dis
cipline. He never tired of explaining
drill movement, and always in a
way that seemed not quite forceful
enough; and yet, when the training
campaign was over the non-coms whose
methods differed from Jimmies had
to confess themselves beaten. Jimmie
had the best drilled squad in the
company.
Captain Keating's attention was
first attracted to Jimmie during the
312th's course of training with the
British army in Northern France.
The Tommes who were instructing the
Ncwarkers in the art of bayonet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

There were also in the fleet seven.
teen battleships, nine repair and sup.
ply ships, and twelve submarine
chasers, the men of which were pro.
vided with reading matter. On the
battleships there were 1880 men, for
whom 1000 technical works and 6.OOC
volumes OF fiction were provided. On
the submarine chasers fiction of the
western and outdoor type proved to be
the favorite means of relaxation from
the serious duties to which that branch
of the service is assigned in war time
This fine book work for the feet
may mean something important for the
navy in the future. The American
Library Association believes that If
should. Mr.. Wooster advises the in
corporation of the library association
system in the navy after the A. L. A,
War Service shall have become a thing
of the past. He suggests that the
navy could probably use several libra
rams to advantage for book circulation
and exchange, and thus the young men
who are serving the country on the
water will have the same fine facili-
ties for improving the mind that have
been provided since the plans arranged
at first for the soldier camps were ex-
tended to furnish similar advantages at
sea-
In the case of the smaller types of
vessels it is urged that great service
could be rendered by system of dis
patch offices at all important points on
the same plan as that which has been
employed IN carrying out the purposes
of the library association.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Hist
My Rapid Fire plots
Tearing at their leashes,
Howling to be unclaimed
To grip you, electrify you.
That dark pool?
Red blood, zowiel
And here, a music box.
Oozing sweet airs-happv emu
ings.
And here is Optimism,
Gobs and gobs of it;
And sugary morsels | insert
In Problem Stories, like a cook
Sticking raisins in cake.
I've just read my story again.
On second thought it's plain that
it's
Literature.
And if the editor
Doesn't take it it's because he
Can't recognize
Masterpiece.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
The Fiction Writer Comfesses

My brain-or is it just my head?
--thumps
Like a hat-wheeled surface car.
I've been writing story for a
magazine.
Corking hero-squarc jawed,
Broad-shouldered, 1.-THE, master
full.
Makes his pile bucking the finan-
cial powers
And grabs fame, discomfting
The political boss.
Has way
Of turning his head.
Heroinc--you'vc met her before.
Cleaning shoulders, satiny skin,
cyes-oh, you know.
dollhouse product.
DO you wonder her artificiality
Kerflummuxes
Beneath the primitive force
OF my hero,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
By Walter Jackson Masters

HVO LOOK at Jimmie one would
h hardly think him dangerous in
q any kind of fight. At Camp
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-13
SCHOOL TEACHERS MUST Full.
FILL THEIR CONTRACTS.

1t has long been observed that
many teachers in the public schools
seem to have the impression that the
contracts under which they are serv-
ing or agree to serve are one-sided;
that they are binding upon the school
district only. AT least it has not been
uncommon for teachers to resign af-
ter entering into contract for a
school year, and it seems that under
the law school trustees are powerless
Il. prevent them from leaving their
positions. Generally the only excuse
for violating the contract Is that the
teacher has an offer of employment
at higher salary, and with this
prospect he or she is totally indiffer-
emit to the inconvenience and damage
the resignation may impose upon the
school, to say nothing of the moral
obligation to faithfully perform the
service required by the contract. IN
der these circumstances school trus-
tees and patrons Of the schools In
Idaho will heartily approve of the an
nouncement recently made by DR.. E.
A. Bryan, commissioner of education,
Miss Edith Redfield, state superin-
tendent Of schools, that hereafter
teachers who leave their positions in
violation of their contracts will have
their certificates revoked and be bar
red from teaching in the schools of
Idaho. There are three cases of brok-
en- contracts now under consideration
by DR.. Bryan and Miss Red,ie cid, who
have been authorized by the state
board of education to hear the evil
dence and pass Judgment upon them.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-13
WHY THEY DID 1T.
(Stoddard King)

''The gallant men of our forces
have accepted my statements
as the substance of their own thought
and purpose" -President Wilson.
Joe Jimsonweed, corporal from out
in Kankakee,
Went forth to meet a German squad
and chased them up a tree,
And as he did SO, loud he cried above
the battles roar:
"Hurrah for our dear president, and
Peace Point No. A."
Pat Murphy of the horse marines, a
leatherneck of old,
Met up one day with seven Huns and
laid the muckers cold,
And murmured as he put an end to
all their evil tricks:
my only motive was my love for
Peace Point No. g."
Upon the battlefield was found right
at the point of death,
A gallant lad who said these words
with scant and failing breath:
"'1is sad to think that in this war
should have met my fate;
But never mind, I've done my bit for
Peace Point No. s."
oh, many times in bloodstained France
the standers-by could hear
Our Yankees charge into the fray
with this resounding cheer
"Hussah, hussah! Well win the day
and never shall we cease,
Till we have forced upon the foe our
fourteen points of peace"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-13
NO ROOM FOR REDS ON AMERl.
CAN SOIL.

The vigorous action Of the depart
ment of justice in rounding up the
alien conspirators who are planning
to overthrow our government is
warmly applauded by every real AM
erican, and the announcement that
they will Zoe shipped back to the land
from which they came is even more
pleasing to patriotic citizens. Inves-
LEGATIONS by the government have re-
vealed systematic propaganda be-
ing carried on in all parts of the
country, and also evidences of a cam
paign of terrorism through a repeti-
ton of the bomb outrages of few
months ago, but on a much more ex-
tensive scale, Ut is hoped that the
government will not permit any legal
technicalities to stand in the way of
speedy transportation of these alien
drastic action by the government must
not stop with the deportation of the
aliens. There are citizens, both ma
live and foreign born, who are also
active in conspiring against the gov
eminent. 1T would be good thing
il the government had a penal col
ony on some remote island where this
class could be transported and kept
until death freed the earth of their
we have no such colony, these advo-
Gates of anarchy and bolshevism, I'M
der whatever name they operate,
should be given no rest until they are
rounded up and securely placed be-
hind prison bars. The great strikes
that have threatened the industries of
the country have been instigated
largely through the influence of the
advocates of radicalism, according to
Investigations conducted by congress
and other means. so strong has this
element become that conservative
leaders of labor have been forced to
yield to its DEGREES, and law-respect-
ing union men have been subjected to
an odium which will last as long as
they permit the radical element to
control their organizations. Decency
and loyalty must dominate the unions
or decent and loyal union men must
get out The government is taking
care of the aliens in the most effect
i've manner. Loyal men in the unions
should cooperate in getting rid of
that equally vicious class who I'M
fortunately claim American citizen
ship.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-13
READ AMERICAN HISTORY.
New York Herald)

An American who had just finished
'e-reading standard history OF the
Revolution laid the book aside with
the feeling remark: 1T Is inspiring
to be reminded, in these days OF con-
| fusion and diversity of counsel, OF
the singleness of purpose that gave
birth to the independence of our
country"
The story of the Revolution is the
greatest epic ever written. But this
epic, immortal though it is, forms on
ly a part of the brilliant record that
the American people have written
with their blood and their mighty en-
deavor upon the face of this contin-
ent.
Every page of American history,
from Concord bridge to the Argonne,
and from Independence hall to YER
sailles, is well worth reading, not on
| " by aliens or the children of aliens
who would make the spirit of Amer
lea their own, but by every son or
grandson of the soil who would keep
his mind and his heart wholesomely
and vibrantly Americana
Not only those who would become
Americans, but those who wish to
remain Americans should make the
reading of American history, as re-
corded by the best American minds,
part of their mental and spiritual
life year i'm and year out, from child
hood to old age
In these days of grave decisions
decisions. affecting the life of our
ctlIntry--We are too prone to think in
terms of the world as whole and too
little of America as the nearest, the
dearest and the most essential part
of the world to US.
We are too prone to lose our per-
spective of history under the stress of
conflicting passions of the hour.
We are. too prone to yield, in times
of depression born of the pains of
growth, to impulses of doubt and APP
prehension as to the future of our
great heritage.
A powerful corrective to these mo-
ments of doubt lis ITO be found in the
record of the mighty things that our
fathers achieved in the face of diff
culties far graver than any that now
encompass our national life
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-13
RAILROAD LITERATURE IGNORES
MINING INDUSTRY.

The railroad administration has
just issued a pamphlet advertising
the agricultural resources of Idaho. II
is well prepared publication, en-
bracing a compilation of general and
statistical information regarding the
state, followed by a brief review OF
the agricultural features of each
county, information that is especially
desirable for homeseekers The PAM
phlet is handsomely illustrated, every
page having attractive scenes depict
ing rural homes, harvest scenes, grow
ing crops, orchards, livestock and
landscape views, all combining to
make remarkable showing Of pros
perity and opportunity on the farms
of Idaho. 1t is creditable publica-
tion and will no doubt result in sub
stantial benefit to the state.
fIolIi d purify
point 1t is not to be expected that
Shoshone county would occupy a
conspicuous place in such publica-
ton, for this is essentially a mining
county. However, it is recalled that
when this pamphlet was in content
plation the wallace board of trade
was asked to send in from five hun
dred to thousand words descriptive
of the limited agricultural resources
OF Shoshone county and calling at
tention to the value OF the mines in
providing market for the products
OF the farm; also photographs show
ing mining scenes. The material was
sent in as requested, but an examin-
alton of the pamphlet shows that the /,
writeup was boiled down to about ten
lines and the mining scenes were
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-13
PROHIBITION PREVENTS DiSOR
DERS DURING STRIKES.

The Pittsburg correspondent of tn,
New York World comments upon the
orderly conduct of the steel strikers
and credits it largely to absence Cd
the saloon and the enforcement of the
prohibition law. He says:
mo strike in the steel industry
and few strikes of such extent in
any other industry have been so
free from violence. Partly this Is
because the men have shown an
extraordinary inclination to good
behavior. which speaks well in
deed for their leaders. More,
however. is due to the fact that
the prohibition laws are being en-
forced in the Pittsburg district.
To prohibition must be added the
Pennsylvania state constabulary.
The combination of alcoholic
drouth and that splendidly eff
Gent and fearless force DIS too
strong for even twice the number
of men now on strike to over
come"
Practically the same comment was
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-13

eliminated altogether. Evidently the
gentleman who had the last word in
compiling the publication had no
knowledge of the relation between
agriculture and mining; did not know
that the Occur d'Alene mines provide
the best market for the products Of
the farm, the orchard and the range,
and that having this market active
all the year round is one Of the great
est advantages to the agriculturists
of north Idaho. What better argu-
ment could be presented to a pros
pective settler in Idaho than to show
him the advantage OF a permanent
market for everything he could pro-
duce? Besides this pamphlet will fall
into the hands of many people out
side of those who are seeking farm
land. There are men seeking invest
IhShlS LA iiiihCo 90 wei % IA
80 we see no reason why the rail-
roads should not devote a little space
to advertising the mining resources
also, especially since they are large
beneficiaries OF mining, and by en-
couraging mining they are helping to
provide a market for the farmer and
the results in both cases bring more
business to the railroads.
Aside from the publication in, ques-
ton, it Is a singular fact that the
great transcontinental railroads which
levy such enormous freight tolls up
on the mining industry of the west
give so little attention to encourag-
ing mining Through advertising mat
ter. We understand of course the
value of their efforts in bringing set
tiers to western lands and thorough
ly approve of their efforts, but the
miner is also entitled to some con
sideration at their hands.