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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

States. In their present state 228.-
100000 acres Of cut-ovcr land are picture
OF desolaton calculated to discourage the
hardlest pioneer. Lying also large
" II tho eastern half Of the United States
and overlapping the cut.over lands to some
extent arc some eighty million acres OF
swamp land Where enterprise has re
claimed small areas of swamp land the won
dorful productivity Of the soil has been
amply demonstrated Millions Of acres OF
land Of the very best quality are in private
ownership, idle. awaiting the settler
Our Secretary of Agriculture states that
our output from the soil has not even
reached the end Of the pioneering stage.
The total arabic land in the United States
IS $50, 100000 acres, of which only about
4o0,00O,000 are in farms and i'm
proved. Less than 40 per cent is Welding
fairly full returns Besides the idle and
abandoned farms in the East, some 49,
100000 acres of agricultural land in the
United States lie idle because there is
none to farm it." Of irrigable area 800
1882 acres of public state school, In
dian and other lands are available accord
ing to the annual report of the Recama-
tion Service for 1916. We have plenty of
land and qualified families to raise crops,
but these families came to believe that
1t IS impossible to succeed in farming in
this country. v Large numbers of native
American farmers emerated to Canada,
Argentina and other countries. The aver
age resident peasant immigrant rem igrates
as soon as enough money has been saved
out of American wages to enable him to
buy land in his European native country.
In normal years about 1905 900 resident
immigrants remigrate. They export each
normal year about s4O0 900 900
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
Difficulties in
Acquiring Farms

cities offer more Of social life and
Amusement than the farm Most Of our
farmers employ Iaborcrs only for the har-
Fss' season. During the res. Of the year,
especially in winter, the American farm
era would not keep their Iaborers for their
BOARD sewly arrived immigrants do not
engage in farm labor because no steady
employment can be had there Steady en-
p'oymsnt a. satssfactory wages effected
ms emigration from Europe and has drawn
s"sy many Of our native boyg and girls
rom the farm into Industrial employment
Methods and manners Of proceedings in
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Factors Against
characterization

Inc average landowner and land agent
care for immediate profits only A large
initial payment is usually exacted from the
settler for the land, although he possesses
less than what is needed for buildings,
livestock, implements, seed, Transportation
20 and living expenses (untl crops would
provide for income) on the farm 1t
takes time to raise crops and derive an
income therefrom. The average settler
cannot overcome these difficulties, fails.
becomes dispossessed; the land agent sells
the farm over again and again, making
another commission each time, and the
bulk Of those who would be glad to en-
gage In American farming Is scared away
by the example of the exploited victims
improvement Of conditions. therefore, can
not be expected from individual settlers
Obviously, proper sort Of financing and
managing are necessary if the bulk of our
qualified families is to engage in American
farming.
The hunger for land Of our $500 900
resident peasant immigrants is exploited
by highly organized interdealing factors.
These factors conduct systematic and in
tensive work for the prevention of the
AUGMENTATION Of our immigrants, for
having them habitually export their savings
and remigrate. They remind the immi-
grant that industrial employment will not
provide wages in old age That it is i'm
possible to settle down for good in the
United States and live on that compara
lively small amount in America which an
average immigrant family can save for old
age. That it s impossible for lack of sufTi
cicnt cash funds to acquire farm in Amer
ica and thrive. They say that Europe will
be the land Of opportunities after the war
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

ardly way? All these things authenticate
the truth of the DIARY of a German
Soldier which recently has been pub
llshed. The picture which the diarist
draws shows their army going through
France like an army of swine, defilng
destroying, gorging, and guzzling. 1t
was drunken orgy from beginning to
end Both officers and men were beastly
beyond words, ransacking vaults and
cellars for wine and other intoxicants,
breaking into larders and storehouses
for food, and forcing their way into the
bedchambers of women and girls-lust,
thlevlshness, excuses of all kinds mark
ing their steps. One cannot conceive of
their remote Hun ancestors, on their
plundering and marauding expeditions,
being guilty of worse crimes. What thew
could not eat or carry away they de
stroyed. castle or large country
seat was mine to them; they left moth
ing that could be of any possible use TO
future occupants.
Had the Germans been CAPABLE of
i0duil'S NollCNoiv ClS poyCuOlOSy or any
nation that differed from their own. thew
never would have forced this country
into the war. But how shall a machine
interpret living force? How could the
obtuse, pigheaded, sauerkraut eating
and beer guzzling Prussan be expected
to understand an American?
One of the wise sayings of Goethe is
that we finally come to know ourselves
not by thought, but by action. We long
believed that we knew Goethe's country
men, the Germans, through their thought
as embodied in their literature, their
science, their philosophy; it appealed to
US, and we prohted by it, But we now
see that we knew them not at all; their
behavior in the instigation and conduct
of this war has revealed to US their true
character
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

TT OW clearly has the great war
- brought out the fact that the
l. - real foundation of the modern
world is moral foundation, that those
nations which cherish and obey the moral
law prosper and that those who disre-
gard it or trample it under foot are sure
TO fail There can be no successful war
in our time but a righteous war; it is
equally true that there can be no perma-
nent peace but a righteous peace.
Righteousness exalteth a nation and un-
righteousness debaseth it; people who
wage an unjust war have nothing to sus-
tain them in the hour of defeat and ad-
versty, but the very pillars of the uni
verse uphold the just cause. "Speak the
truth, says Emerson, and the very
roots of the grass there under the ground
do stir to bear you wtness'
The Allied cause in this war was the
cause of righteousness; the cause of the
Central Powers was the cause of the
pirate and the highwayman. Hence their
collapse when the final strain came Had
tie murderous Turk triumphed, and the
constituencies German, one would have
lost faith in the veracity of the universe
Such fighting machine as the Ger
mans turned out the world never before
had seen. The tread Of their armies
seemed to make the world tremble But
lacking moral force, lacking a worthy
cause, bent only on murder and arson
and pillage void of enthusiasm for
human veal and human rights, they had
no sustaining power, and went to pieces
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

A ! the present time about / 800, 900
"a resident immigrants toll in our
mines, mills, railroad, lumber and
other camps, carrying into effect
our diverse industrial productions so as
TO supply all the world with all Of its
wants. Unlike our earlier arrivals from
Northwestern Europe, who went to the then
available American farms and stayed there,
the new arrivals during the last three
decades come 20 engage and are employed
III industrial wage earning. In recent
Years few people came to escape persecu-
ton. Criminals and paupers have not been
sApped to Us from Europe n thirty years.
economic consideration caused the influx
o. our recently arrived immigrants, with
the possible exception Of Russian Jews;
wages N Central, Southern and Eastern
Europe are hardly one-third OF ours. Our
recently arrived lmmi grants we're agricul-
fufai people, tilers Of the soil, peasants
IN their countries Of origin. They are
primitive people, Wiling and able to per-
1orm hard and honest work
Inc newly arrived immigran, has no
FUNDS TO speak Of for the acquisition of n
American farm. Il takes at present not less
man $4,000 70 engage and succeed in Amer
lean farming so as TO be enabled to over
come the difficulties Of the beginning
Practically none OF our new arrivals can
command anything like this sum. But
most o. them want farm. The wages paid
1or their labor and their determination to
Undergo all present hardships, even to deny
themselves most OF the comforts Of life
IN order TO save all the money that can
oe saved results in the fact that the aver
age immigrant does accumulate after
ssrles OF years comparative competency
ouch savings are sent to be accumulated in
Europe. All that can be saved is exported
aver each pay day In time the owner Of
inc savings rer1igrates. BY rigid economy
priYation and hard work for seven or ten
years IN the United States, they send
enough savings "home" to purchase an
acre or two and thus be provided for in
oio age. The United States is benefited by
me useful labor for which they received
wages but would be more benefited II their
savings would be invested here instead Of
oeing exported, and yet more If the thrifty
would reengage here in farming instead OF
remigrating
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

on the moral purpose of the enemy, as
the waves break upon the granite rocks
An empire in ruin is what we now be-
hold. The vulture devours its own vitals.
They scoffed at justice and honor and
fair dealing, and now the inevitable
Nemesis has overtaken them; while
France, the object of their fiendish de-
signs, has become a name to conjure with
and to quicken the pulse of all heroic
peoples.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
Available
Land

our Secretary Of the Interior statca. AL
though no complete survey has ever been
made of our land resources il ia Estimated
That there are fifteen million 20 twenty
m'''oh add'tsonal acres Of at present arid
'anh IN inc west for which water il avail
INV - Pfopcfy conserved. BY far
The greater portion Of our unused and un
productive lands, however. is comprised in
the cut-oyer or logged-oy timber land lying
largely within the eastern .lan of the United
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
! he
Remedy

The present appears to be the opportune
time to furnish natives and immigrants.
soldiers and the others who are qualified 4
reliable depository in which TO accumulate
their savings for the acquisition, in time,
on acceptable terms, Of farm homes
Homes in farm communities equipped
with buildings, livestock and implements.
at fair prices and terms are bound to i'm
prove conditions. An initial investment of
$1,000 (and much Of that should be waived
for our returning solders) should be sui
hcient for a fully equipped farm home to
be taken possession of by qualified fami-
hes. The balance Of the purchase price
TO be pald out of crops, in long series
OF years, with reasonable rate Of inter
est national corporation with branches
IN the diverse sections should be estab-
llshed to carry into effect the colonization
OF those who qualified and willing to
engage in farming. Individual settlers can
not accomplish this
Agricultural communities on the Euro
pean village system, with American i'm
provements, should be established, financed
and administered. This would dispose
of the dreaded isolation. Churches, schools.
meeting halls, moving pictures, etc, could
be provided for the settlers living in viii
lagos. This would complete their Ameri-
canlzatlon. The community wood lot, past
ure, thrashing and other machinery, blood
ed stallion, bull, boar, etc, cooperation in
cases of emergency, the cooperative pur-
chase of commodities and selling Of farm
products assure success
In the thus created agricultural colonies
numbers of lawyers. physicians, dentists,
druggists, bankers, hotelkeepers, grocers
butchers, drygoods dealers and others
would be enabled to make living
reasonable commission paid TO those
who furnish the buildings, stock and equip
ment would surely induce their participa-
ton and also that of those who export saw
ings and sell transportation to immigrants.
As agents of this corporation they would
direct the qualified families to the new
agricultural communities, instead of remov-
ing them to Europe.
lnasmuch as governmental action is con-
sidered to be paternalistic and undesirable,
a national corporation chartered by our
Federal government and our several states
should be established by our great fnan-
ciers. This would secure the confidence of
the clients. Finance it to an extent with
the deposits of immigrants Make unfair
competition and abuses of INSCRIPTIONS
schemers difficult and chiefly, improve con-
ditions permanently
Instead of returning to Europe with their
American savings. immigrants experienced
in and enthusiastic for farming would be-
come integral parts of this newly estab-
lished institution. settle down here for
sgood, create traffic and crops. increase our
national welfare economically as we'll as
socially and Illustrate the harm caused by
agtators of evil intentions
Settlers of different natonalities with as
many native Americans among them as POS
sihc should DC placed in each colony;
thereafter all Of them would speak the
American language and the children would
surely grow up to be as good and LOYAL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

Americans as the children o. the earlier
arrivals The sooner this is done the lean
harmful IS bound to be the effect Of un.
employment, Bolshevism and rcmiyration.
and the sooner Will conditions be improved
immigrants prefer TO become owners OF
American farms instead Of returning TO
European oppression, congestion and cxag-
gerated taxation. The success of the III.
oneers would attract the masses 10 follow
their example. This would end remigration.
The danger of floating elements would
thus be done away with by converting these
families into responsible owners of homes.
Unlike tenants, the owners of farms are in
tercsted in the preservation Of the fertility
OF the soil, in lasting improvements and in
permanent prosperity.
After the war Europe Will need its able
bodied male subjects to reconstruct it and
to pay taxes, and their EN- igration will stop
for decades Rem;grants cannot be el
pected to be permitted to come back again
to the United States
The prosperity of our nation depends
primarily upon our ability to feed our
own people and those nations which depend
upon US for food
Farm ownership IS the foundation Of
stable government, of loyal citizenship and
OF the welfare of the population Our safe
~ and prosperity rest on the largest
possible number OF contented farm home
owners The acquisition of farm homes
should De encouraged, aided and assisted
IN the proper and practical manner. The
single family owners Of farm homes in
thrlvlng agricultural communities are OBJ
Wously the best remedy for our economic
ills and remigration
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
The CityLouer
BY Jeanne OLdfeld Potter

by Jeanne Oldheld Potter
remember how he loved the strcets.
And all the city's ways,
It's rush of feet, its crown of lights.
The roar of busy days;
But, too, he loved the shabby house
That welcomed him at night
Romance and poetry had growth
Beneath his study light
"A narrow strip of blue above.
A bat of green below,
A glimpse Of heaven. a breath Of
earth.
Fate gave to him to know;
he complex problems of the poor
He solved with simple art.
But every city street, think.
Ran through his loyal heart.
To-day the ways he knew are fresh
With wooing sun and rain.
But all the leaves of Areonne Wood
Will whisper him in vain.
Q, give him, Lord, where or he be.
he happy streets to tread.
And let there be old books to read.
And lamp light er his head.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

Mr. Steiner, q Hungarian By crtroc-
tor, non tcith the War Trade Board
has made q life study Of Amcricani-a-
ton problcms His recent testimony be-
fore the Overseas Committee on anti
american influences among the fore gn-
born ard particularly the Austrian
propaganda here, created sensation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

recall that about the beginning of
the war Bergson delivered an address in
Paris in which he dwelt upon the diff
ference between the French mind and
the German-the spirituality of the one.
the brutality of the other-and foretold
the probable result of the conflict.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

during the same year amounted to ss7a-
oo80l7; our export Of foodstuFs amounted
to 1899 6sl 1853. The next export, there
fore amounted only to about $500, s52 ,s4s.
thus, We consumed ourselves about 81 per
cent and had only about 3 per cent for
export. Obviously, VIC have serious reasons
for tho increase Of food production.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
1--WE Come to Know People Not
by Their Thought but by
Their Acts"--Coethe
By John Burroughs

beored naturalist and philosopher
birthday HIS rer
the folowng article attests still IN their prime.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
By Lajos Steiner

A the present time about II 100000
resident immigrants toll in our
mines, mills, railroad, lumber and
u -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-01
DELICIOUS POOLING
Arnold Bennett's Comedy, "The Tile"
Lets the Englishman See Him
self as He Is

Arnold Bennett has had fun with the
love of an EngIshman for lord-and
for being a lord-in a delightful farce
that he calls THE Title Mr.. Culver'who
has been active in war work, Is in
formed that the government Is about 10
give him a title. He desplses titles-or
saws he does. They are conferred for
multitude Of reasons and a miscellane-
Gus lot of persons receive them. men
whom he desplses. He decides TO refuse
the honor. But he has to reckon WIN
his wife and with his children, and even
with his wife's maid. The maid. who mas
always wanted to work for lady WIN
a titled husband, gives notice when she
learns that Mr.. Culver Will not peCoine
a lord And in default of a note OF ac-
ceptance from Culver, the rumor spreaus
abroad that the rejected honor is 10
be conferred on a person who has peeh
writing brilliant articles under pseu-
donym 1t turns out that the writer Is
Culver's own daughter.
Here are comedy situations enough
to fill three acts of delightful foolng.
And Mr. Bennett fills them. The play
sparkles and glitters as it moves along
Its satire Is light and good-humored'
but it is nevertheless delicious satire
For example, Culver remarks when some
one says that the government may fall:
mo enlightened patriotic person wants
the government to fall. All enlightened
and patriotic persons want the govern
ment to be afraid of falling. There you
have the whole of war politics In nut
shell. If the British Government fell the
effect on the Allied cause would be bad
and might be extremely bad. But that's
not the real explanation. The real ex-
PLANTATION Is that no one wants the Gov
ernment to fall because no one wants
to step into the governments shoes.
This is certainly a very pungent COM
| mentary on British politics.
| THE TITLE. A comedy in three acts. BY
| Arnold Bennett. New York: George II
! Duran Co, 81.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-01
From, Ranch to Trench

"Reenie" is another member or that
new and universal order Of Suffering
which had It's inception in the great
war. But that Is getting ahead of our
story. which, after all, is the life tale
of noble Dave Eden, the son OF
rancher. who first met Irene when she
was forced TO stay at the Eden ranch
for several weeks until her father re-
covered from broken leg. Inspired by
the love which Irene awakened in his
stout young heart, Dave worked MS way
TO commercial success. but through the
Vaccinations of a man and woman MS
love story went awry. and in despair
he enlisted in the army He fell at
Courcelette, and so "Reenie" came to
ioin the order Of Suffering. Thus runs
the interesting plot of THE Cow
Puncher," one Of the newer stories on
the subject Of the war. Although II
must be said there is nothing to COM
mend 1t as unusual. still the situations
are skillfully handled and the element OF
interest never for a moment is permitted
to lag.
THE COW PUNCHER. BY Robert J.
c. Stead. New York: Harper & Broth
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-01
A Traitor in the Camp

Secret service, international plotting.
events crowded with thrills varied and
unusual, these form a clutch of cir
cumstance' that proves most trying for
the wife of British Cabinet Minister
In the first years of the great war. and
unhappily for the lady she Is not sufr-
ciently strong of moral fiber to escape
its sinister grip. She meets retribution.
the sternness OF which is modified only
by the fact that it comes elsewhere than
in the Tower Of London. 1t is not easy
for the everyday understanding to sym
pathize with the purpose of the young
woman who has written the story of
"Bobs," which is the pet name OF Lady
Roberta Trask. the pro-German matri-
monlal mate of a member of the British
War Council. This purpose obviously
is to convince the reader of THE Clutch
Of Circumstance" that there are condi-
tions under which n woman need not be
entirely destitute of honor when she acts
as spy in her own husbands house
hold, and uses her charms to betray the
country of which he is a trusted servant
Marjorie Benton Cooke, whose BAN
BIZ lives pleasantly in the memories of a
good many followers of modern fiction.
has undertaken a big task in attempting
TO gloss over II not virtually justify
about as despicable a piece OF treason
as it is possible to imagine. As a ''mys
terry story" this new novel has some
claim to consideration in the rapid fire
interest maintained throughout. and in
the wealth of fancy in which Miss Cooke
has enveloped a dozen more or less
strenuous characters
THE CLUTCH OF CIRCTMsTANCE.- BY
George II. Doran Company 81 95
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-01
For Boy NatrirdhStS

THE Boy With the L. S. Naturalists'
is the tenth volume of Francis Rolt-
wheeler's ~. S. Service series the
profuse illustrations are from photo
graphs lent by the Government. Doctor
Rolt- Wheeler, in this new volume, foi-
lows his faYorte plan of placing a
Young hero in actual touch with the
governmental service involved. This
time it is mainly the L. s.. Biological
Survey. ,He shows how the details or
nature fit directly and definitely into
the scheme of American progress, and
the Importance of the Government
supervision of the resources OF the land
and waters thereof. There is much in
teresting information and the story part
is by no means slighted. A good book
for the lad interested in nautral history.
THE BOY WITH THE u. 5. NATURAL
iSTS BY Francis Rolt- Wheeler. Boston
Lothrop Lee & Shepard Co. sl.3o.