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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-09

One Years Ago Today In the War.
President Wilson created the Ma
tional War Labor board.
Germans vigorously attacked on
twelve-mile front between Givenchy
and FIeurbaix.
Man-power bill including provision
for CONSUMPTION in Ireland, introduced
in the British house of commons.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-09

Have You Little Husband in Your
Home?-Then You Are Sure to
Have Drawn at Least One of These
Prizes, or Surprises--They Are All
"Good Husbands"
He is a good husband, a kind hus-
band, devoted husband
And he loves you!
He married you for love, and fell in
love with you because he admired you
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-09

Journal Want Ads bring results.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
A Factory-to-F actory and
NIine-t tom inc
SURVEY
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which was set on fire when the German.
evacuated Belgium.
80 much for chemistry. In cngineer;rs
the greatest business of those parts vs.
the famous locomotive works of the "a.
pagne Fives-Lille. I went over the n,,oo
with NJ. kariatakis, the engineer u charc.
and he told me the story as we went A.
far machinery went the Germans bsd
made clean sweep. That is to say. thev
had stolen or destroyed 100000 francs,
worth of plant at a pre-war valuation
They had removed, for example. $50 eIoc.
trio motors and. 1850 machine tools. or
AL the motive power which had oncs
hummcd and buzzed in that great factor,.
there was only little gas motor left
/ asked why it had not been taken NJ
kariatakis replied that the Germans had
sold 1t to a manufacturer, but there was
some difficulty about accepting delivery and
IN the hurry OF evacuation ii was left be-
hind In one of the sheds a gang of half
starved workmen were sorting and CLEANING
a miscellaneous heap of rusty dies. gauges
spanners and other small tools How had
they escaped? They had been hidden IN
der heap of old iron.
an another part of the works saw great
steel hammers and planning machines lying
broken on the ground. How had it been
done? The Germans had attached huge
blocks Of iron to the travelling carriages
on the roof, and had swung these blocks
like battering rams against the machinery
When this method failed, they slung the
machines up to a great height and let them
fall with crash on the cement floor.
"Need l proceed further with this melan-
choly list of ruination? Everywhere is the
same J went to Douai and saw the site
of the FORCES dc Doua, which once stood
round the railway station. There are now
only the cement foundations left and four
great chimneys which point rs in mute
protest to the sky. The great workshops
over which they once lowered are gone 50
completely that the casual observer would
be puzzled to say what the cement plat
forms had been used for. And 80 with
the great FORCES de Denan ct Denim.
which employed $4,000 workmcn and pro.
duced annually 100000 tons Of iron and
steal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

these towns we're the life Of hourshing
agriculture which supplied them with
wheat and provisions and the raw material
Of their beer and sugar
"Such was the industrial systcm Of
Northern and Northeastern France. In
considering how it has Jared in the war we
should first Of all divide it for war purposes
into three regions the parts which the
Germans occupied the actual fields Of bat
tie, and the parts which they could only
reach with their artillery
"The region Of the battlefield | need hard
ly describe. 1t is n belt of desert Of varying
breadth which it is difficult to cross except
by rail and motor. I have seen weary eX-
ploration parties laden with food and bed
ding searching in vain for the cellars Of
houses which had disappeared Whole
towns completely destroyed that
even their tiles, bricks, and stones would
be useless for anything but for rubble
The streets mere lanes between heaps
Of noisome and indistinguishable rubbish;
the squares are like the bottom of an old
quarry; the fields over miles of country
are pocked and pitted with she'll holes
that it is difficult to understand how they
can ever De maze level again, the more as
they are full of dud shells which lie like
torpid snakes to kill at touch; the trees
which raise their bleached and spintered
limbs to heaven are so riddled with frag-
ments of iron that they will turn any saw
The whole machinery of agriculture is de-
stroyed; hardly a shed barn or wagon
or plough remains; even the hedges in some
parts have Disappeared 1t is a country
Inhabited only by magpies and rats. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

passes she has the appearance Of a lady,
yet her feet are naked although it is win
ter, and there are two inches of vile mud
in the streets. The trans are not running
1t is difficult to get about. If you make
call YOU look in vain for knocker or bell
puli when you go to bed you discover that
your mattress is stuffed with seaweed or
paper something which is not wool. The
chimncys without smoke; the factories
are deserted; it is not to be wondered at,
for Lille is a city of dead industries
"No outside Lille knows what Lille
has suffered. The French government itself
as dscovered-has only very hazy ideas
on the subject | went about among the
business men of the city. such as we're left
These manufacturers and merchants of
Northern France are fine breed of men,
Their steely blue eyes and keen aquiline
features support the impression of justice
and precision in their statements. They
do not waste words, and they do not exag-
gerate: they are careful to be exact in their
estimates of damage. 1t is plain that there
is great tradition of business honor be-
hind them They speak like men accus-
toned to treat words as bonds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
The Venice of the North

Behind these staple towns lay Mervlle,
proudly calling itself before the war the
Venice of the North Here was the centre
Of the canal system which supplied these
industries with their coal and part of their
raw material. The great waterway of the
Escaut to Dunkirk and its branch to Lens
the St. Quentin Canal and it's tributaries of
Etrun and Janville, form part Of system
which was to have been completed in 1917
by the great state work of the Canal du
Nord; in the valleys of the Agache, the
Tortille, and the Somme. This system was
supplied with many of its enormous barges
by the yards of Melville.
"Ths whole neighborhood was full Of
busy industries before the war Estaires
was spinning centre; Sally sur-la- Lys and
BAGS -Maur made linen; Armentieres had
an important engineering industry; lsber-
que produced STEEL Douai was the seat of
many industries, but principally iron and
steel; Denain and Denim were famous for
their FORCES, which employed $4,000 men;
Aniche produced glass; st. Gobain was ia
nous the world over for its mirrors; St
Quentin had woollens; Valencicnnes was a
centre Of weaving and embroidery And all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
A Clean Sweep

The Chambers Of Commerce of Roubaix
and Tourcoing were busy compiling stats-
tics of damages. which were not complete.
They told me that in the cotton industry
the Germans had taken all the motors, all
the betting and all the brass and copper.
| might go and see them for myself
went. | found the statements correct There
is hardly a motor or belt or morsel Of brass
left in the whole industry: what has been
saved buried hidden away behind
false walls. In some of the factories there
are holes cut here and there into the walls
and floors. These we're made by German
search parties. saw spinning machines
with the steel spindles lying in heaps on the
floor They had been smashed with ham
mcrs for the brass bearings in which the
spindles run
"As for the woollen industry, an order
had come from Berlin that all looms were
to be removed, A mcrciful German officer,
who was himself in the woollen industry,
went to Berlin to plead the case Of his
French rivals. He vas received codly and
told that the order was founded upon set
tied policy and could not be changed The
work was begun; many looms were taken,
but the removal not complete when the
Germans had to evacuate the three cities
"The Germans employed great staff Of
workmen to carry away everything that
they wanted When they were asked for
requlsition notes they said that they
wanted the machinery only for old iron,
and new machinery was accordingly valued
at the price of old iron The lootng was
supervised by a certain Herr Haas, of
German firm which specialized in the re-
moval of machinery. But when everything
was taken that could be taken the work
of wreckage began; and when they had
finished their work nothing was left but
the bare walls of the factory
'ln the Loos factory, in which some of
the machinery was left, the Germans
placed 100 mines, but in the hurry of
evacuation neglected to fire them. When
] was in Lille British engineers had
already removed seventy of these mines
and hoped to get them all without disaster
In the Wattrelos factory they took away
all lead. copper and brass, and then set
the whole place fire; but the manage
ment succeeded in putting out the fire be-
fore the factory totally destroyed NJ
Kuhlmann had fourth factory near Client
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

rats are large, sleek, and numerous; one
shuddcrs to think how they live, and they
are certain to become n formidable pest TO
the neighboring regions when the empty
trenches and battlchclds will no longer
"lt is in the occupied districts that we
see the clcarcst evidence Of the German
economic war. At Levin, behind Lens, at
Courrieres, and in the coal fields of the
Nord, without any military necessity they
blew up with dynamite all the pithcad
pumps, engines, and machinery. In sew
eral | examined, every iron girder support
ing the elaborate structure above the pit
mouth had been separately broken by a
charge of dynamite, and at point near
Lens they had turned the River Souchez
into the underground workings Thus the
source of power of French industry was
put out of working I am told that it will
take at least five years before they can be
put in anything like order again, and that
the French cannot even begin to get coal
from them for eighteen months.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

allies outside Germany" The writer
predicts that this theology will
"spread division among the foes of
Germany, first of all among the Czechs,
Poles, Italians and Jugo-Slavs," and sug-
gests that if the Germans are not un-
grateful they will erect a statue to
President Wilson in the Wilhelmstrasse
The second ally is held by Won Kuhl-
mann to be 'the delightful frivolity of
the French, our good neghbors, who.
as was only to be expected, do not see
anything to-day beyond recovering
Alsace-Lorraine." He points out that
Sin their satisfaction they overlook all
that is happening in the East; make
light of the infiltrations of Bolshevism,
which have become noticeable else
where Oong live Longuet, Loriot, Sa-
doul and their friendsD abandon to
their fate those Poles who could so
easily have been supported one month
ago, and do not speak any more Of put
ting under rigid control our works, our
rehabilitation and our RAILWAYS. as
claimed by Foch at the time of the
armistce."
The ordinary ways of French d.
plomacy, which will pretend to be d.
recting everything from Paris" is cited
as the third ally. And one reads:
Committees will be appointed by the
dozen, which ne fcheront ricn (French
words in the text, and fiery speeches will
be pronounced Everything in the way of
energetic decisions will BIZ postponed till
the following day. In the mean time the
Bolshevik food will rise and the Polish
kumanian barrier will crumble down. In
order to obviatc it, Committees Of inquiries
van be dispatched 10 Princes Island.
french diplomacy, slow and lovely as il s-~-
want 70 emphasize it's the best ally Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

at the blows Of the axe upon her last tene-
ment Faith and death alike are above the
impotent spite Of mortas.
But who shall estimate the suffering
and the injury caused to the present and
the future of a nation by the destruction
of its industries? For what is industry
but human hive in which busy genera
tions of workers live nd thrive? 1t is
warmth, food, and home to them; the cause
Of their existence the inheritance Of their
childrer their aptitudes are shaped by it;
with it they are Of service in their world;
without it they are pitiful, helpful naked
objects of charity. And not only is it the
life OF the actual workers; it is the stay
and support Of the district and indeed, of
the nation.
The centre of production is the foun-
tain of life Industry gives to nation its
right to exist and its place in the world.
Industry is the will and strength Of ma
ton, which is not only clothed and fed but
protected by its products. If a nation can
not arm its own soldiers and fight with its
own steel it IS upon the way of defeat and
cnslavement. Organized industry is the ma
tlonal will, energy independence. France
without its vigorous north and northeast
would be weak and helpless country, rich
in corn, wine, and oil, but unable to arm
itself against the assaults Of the invader
or take any but aborer's share in the life
of the world
"1f we looked at France before the war
what should we find? On the south belt
of flowers and olives, then great plains of
wine and wheat, with industrial islands here
and there, in the valley Of the Rhone, in
Savoy, and in the Pyrenees, where l'huile
blanche, electricity from water driven tur-
blnes, gives motor power, or near an isolated
coal deposit as at st. Etienne, famous for
its ribbons What natural cause or inherit
ed aptitude fixed the supremacy of the silk
industry at Lyons ! do not know; nor do I
know why Paris should be--as she is-a
great metallurgical centre; but it is certain
that Bourges, the Woolwich Of France. was
placed behind the Loire because the French
were determined not to be bereft Of the
power to make weapons Of defence bv such
another surprise as the invasion Of 1870.
Creusot also was far from the frontier.
possibly for the same reason.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
Shattered Romance

"What shall | say OF the mirror works
Of st. Goban? They spoke TO us Of old
France. of the gltterng days Of the
Grand Monarque. How many salons haw
they frightened and multiplied into VISTA
of splendori To how many ladies hsu
they whispered, you are beautiful,' Ant
to how many also have they sighed, 'Yot
are old They are part of the great tradi-
ton of French domestic art They had
grown and hourished through $50 years.
the old regime, the republic the empire,
had all admired itself in the mirrors OF
St. Gobain. I visited one of the factories
1t only a confused mass Of tortured
and twisted machinery. Tall chimneys had
been broken like carrots and had crushed
the buildings below. Great rolling tables
Of steel and glass had been broken with
hammers; caldrons and retorts, boilers
and furnaces had been blown up with dyna-
mite
This. then, is what the Germans have
done to France. They have destroyed her
means of livelihood. or as much of it as
they could reach. 1t is if they had
taken a workman and gouged out his eyes
or cut off his thumbs. They have struck
not only at the present but at the future
of France, and it was a deliberate blow
intended to put France out Of industrial
action"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
What the Wish Fathers

The question is not whether accounts
like this represent the true situation in
France. The significant fact is that the
Germans are pinning their faith to
them. The same tendency to let the
wish father the thought is recognizable
in the following paragraph, published
by the "Berliner Neueste Nachrichten"
as part of a correspondence from the
area occupied by the Allies:
"ln his relations to the British the
American manifests a conspicuous reserve.
His attitude toward the French is almost
hostile. Gallo arrogance Anglers him. con-
scious as he is of the fact that without
American assistance the French would not
be or the Rhine to-day No American
grudges the French territorial gains in the
Rhine country, and only a few of them trv
to conceal their antipathy toward the ally
in-arms."
This is just one example of the many
where German publicists ATTEMPT to
exploit reported disagreement among
the Allies for the purposes of domestic
morale. At the same time. passages
like this may furnish an additional KEY
to the secret of remarkable kindness
shown, in the beginning, at least, by the
population of occupied districts to
American troops.
On the other hand, there is in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
Pas-de-Calais

"Ihe modern industrial system Of France
had its centre and its chief reason Of be-
ing in the coal fields Of the Pas-de- Calais
and the Department du Nord. Compared
with the coal measures of Germany and
England these fields were small. But mono
the less they were fourishing and progress
slve. In 1911 the Pas de- Calais produced
19,500000 tons; in 1912, 81 900 900 tons; in
1872 the Department du Nord produced r.
900 tons, also a considerable increase
over the previous year. These coal fields
had their metropolis at Lens-before the
war not grlmy like our coal mining centres,
but pleasant garden city. and distributed
their coal by a system Of granite paved
roads, canals, and railways among the sur
rounding industrial towns. These coal fields.
then, determined the situation of the French
industrial system, for it is cheaper to bring
raw material to power than power to raw
material. And it came about that three
quarters of the industries of France Law in
the track of the invader. Those which Law
to the east had their protection in the Ar
dennes and the fortress crowned heights of
the Meuse; but the greatest group Of all
Lille, Roubaix, and Tourcong-lay open to
the invader save for the rotten bulwark of
a treaty of neutrality
Lille, the queen Of these cities of tho
north, was famous over the world for it's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
False Signs

Besides the possibility of driving a
wedge into the body of the Entente, the
after-war weakness of France seems to
be the greatest hope of German pub
licists The "Berliner Neueste Mach
rlchten," an ultra conservative organ. in
its issue for March IS goes as far as to
discover "signs of revolution" on the
French horizon. 1t quotes a German
resident of Paris" who, apparently
through neutral Intermediary. COM
municates the following:
NJ PIchon, the French Foreign Minister.
IS having bad time these DAYS. He
glances anxiously toward the East. where
herman bolshevism also called Spartacism.
is rising on the Rhine, under the guidance
OF Russian agents. On the Boulevard
Malesherbes they are dissatisfied with tn.
war adventure. The fnanciers have poured
%'o'ooo'ooo'ooo into Russia, in order to help
ornaments against Germany r, be sure.
the bolshevists declared recently their will
ingness to pay their debt, but thew are on.
ing on with their preparations for the nd
vance westward One thing is certain. Tho
boishevists are laying new snare into
which the French politicians will tumble
In lie HAvre the French have had plenty OF
opportunity to get acquainted with the Bel
glans, many of whom are Bolsheviki. These
things ought to ruf'e French assurances.
as many OF her soldiers and workers will he
caught in this wave Of Bolshcvsm. what
VIII become Of the wonderful dreams Of
French victory?' lie Steele walls. Where
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

German papers counsel Of caution
against undue optimism An editorial
IN another issue of the "Berliner
Neueste Nachrichten" is headlined:
Beware of Illusions" 1t rdicules the
unreasoning confidence of many Ger
mans in catchwords like world revolu-
ton" German public opinion, the ar
ticle says, has forced itself to believe
that the Allies will get scare lest
Bolshevism, gaining foothold in Ger
many, will spread into Entente coun-
tries. If the Germans have thought
that by playing up the DOGGY of Boil
shevsm they will hoax the Allies into
leniency, events show that they were
utterly mistaken.
The chief interest of this article lies
in the implied admission that the Ger
mans have deliberately employed the
Bolshevik spectre for the purpose OF
propaganda in Allied countries pos
sibility pointed out by not a few Amer
lean, British and French newspapers.
The proposed constitution Of the
league of nations has certainly disap-
pointed the majority of German pub
lcists. On the other hand, some of them
true to the precepts of "Realpolitlk,
exert themselves to make the most OF
what they admit is rotten situation
and are on the alert for the slightest
chance to drive wedge into the anti
German combination. Thus Professor
Lujo Brentano, one of the leading
German economists, seizes upon tne
question of free trade and tries 10
prove that the Wilsonian programme
includes the breaking down of COM
mercial barriers among the nations. IN
an article published in the "Berl'nef
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

lister of defence, Socialist, by the name
of Noske or something to that effect. He
won't have anything to do with the Inter
rationale and has declared the other day
that he was first of all German and only
in the second place an international So
cialist. In the mean time French
masses are In state of fermentation
France is not under blockade like the Cen
trail Powers, but profteering is even worse
than there and the government is merely
looking on -"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
Hun System

For my part, ! visited a good many, not
only in Lille, but in Tourcong, Roubaix
and other cities of Northern France, and |
left with no illusions as to the war after
the war. In the four years Of German oc-
cupatoD the Germans left nothing undone
to make France not only unable to com
exist without them.
I'VE have heard great deal about the
plans and the thoroughness Of the German
General staff; but there was another gen
ersl staff, of which we have heard less
which also had plans and was also thor
ough. It was the service OF economic de-
structon, which is said to have had it's
headquarters at Metz, and consisted of in
dustrial magnates, fnanciers, and even
for the Germans neglect no precauton--
international lawyers Some day the full
story of this German state organization
may be told; in the mean time | can only
say that | saw everywhere evidence Of the
system upon which it worked and the thor
oughness with which it carried out it's pol
icy. There is sort of doubt that the
destruction of the industries of Northern
France was systematic and was designed to
destroy france as competing industrial
power.
The French are sentimental people l
was taken to St. Quentin Cathedral to see
the holes cut in the great stone columns
as inches for the Prussian SANTA stick
OF dynamite | was taken down into dismal
crypts by the light of guttering candle
TO see the violated coffin of a nun long dead
broken open in the search for loot. These
are picturesque relics of barbarsm; but l
found out for myself ruins which were
sadder and outrages more cruel The ruins
of cathedral the ruins of the past: the
dead nun did not shrink within her shroud