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Belittling the Submarine Losses
It is a matter of high encouragement
that the British Admiralty has at last
made public definite figures as to the
havoc wrought by the submarine.
On Wednesday Sir Eric Geddes still
thought it against public interest that
such information should be published. On
Thursday the complete statement is
given out.
It is a matter of real discouragement
that the whole tone and tenor of the
statement is to belittle the losses and to
reassure the public. And in the same ,
breath there is an urgent appeal to the
ship workers in England to speed up pro?
duction there.
And we know the situation here.
We think the impression the average
man will carry away is that the net loss
in nearly four years of war?from all
causes?is only about two and a half
million tons. This is not very alarming.
But if you would have a significant and
relative measure it is expressed in the
fact that the total of sinkings by the
submarine has been equal very nearly, if
not quite,to the whole tonnage normally
serving in the transatlantic ferry.
And this is only about one-half of the
story. The rest of it is this:
Disregarding any ship it has sunk, the
submarine has to all intents reduced the
carrying capacity of Atlantic tonnage by
nearly one-half, simply by forcing the
Convoy system and other protective meas?
ures, with all the delays both in port and
on the Atlantic which they necessitate.
That is, the efficiency of a ship has been
much reduced.
To complete the picture we must add
that the actual vital need of transat?
lantic shipping is to-day perhaps double
what it is in peace times. And with our
entry in the war this need is month by
month becoming greater.
It is hopelessly misleading to leave in
the public mind the impression that a net
loss of two and a half million tons is a
measure of the damage that the subma?
rine has done. And yet with this goes
a still more misleading statement accred?
ited to Sir Eric Geddes which must have
been an error in cable transmission.
This was that the total of Allied and
neutral shipping is now 42,000.000 ton;,.
The inference, then, is that the subma?
rine has reduced this tonnage only by :t
matter of something like 6 per cent. A
more unfortunate misrepresentation of
the facts could not be made.
It is the whole world's shipping that
was given by Lloyds at a little more than
42,000,000 tons. But this includes every
variety of small craft.
The total of seagoing tonnage avail?
able to the Allies could scarce have
been two-thirds of this, or something in
the neighborhood of 25.000,000 tons. And
the statement has repeatedly been made
that of British and Allied shipping from
40 to 60 per cent lias boon commandeered
for military purposes.
Repeated estimates have been made
that the total of seagoing Atlantic ton?
nage available remaining could not have
been over 12,000,000 or 15,000,000 tons at
k the outside; so that even on the British
P figures the submarine has this year alono
actually Eunk the equivalent of somewhere
around half this tonnage. It has re?
duced the efficiency of what remains by
nearly another half.
This is the reality of what submarine
warfare has meant. If any one doubts
the reality, Let him consider one .'.im?
ple fact:
Seagoing tonr?_g_ now sells at eight or
U:n time? its normal price.
As to the figure? now given out by the
British Admiralty, there in 1ch.j. variant.?;
from the German figures than the public
had been led to s-uppone.
The German claim tor the total of all
'', <.-. to February 2 ????? about 14,000,
ooo tons. The British Admiralty figure*
are f'"* a HttJe U?s than 12,000.000 tons.
On the submarine ?inking? for the
year of unrestricted warfare th? dis?
parity happily is much wider. The Ger?
man claim was for 9,000,000 tons. The
British figures are for somewhat over
?;,UOO,000 tons.
The definite outstanding fact is that
there seems now no prospect that new
construction will replace much more
ithan one-half of this loss this year. And
meanwhile the sinkings are going on at
\\ rate equal to if not considerably ex?
ceeding the probable production of the
?Allies and America for 1918.
i The Advertised Offensive
? ? The possibilities of camouflage will not
have been exhausted until appearances
become so deeply distrusted that people
will stare wide-eyed at the reality of a
thing and imagine it to he false. Effec?
tive concealment then will lie in open and
conspicuous display of the thing to be
hidden.
At that point the backward art of pro?
ducing illusions upon the senses will only
have overtaken the more refined and
complicated art of casting delusions upon
the mind. One is physical and the other
psychic camouflage.
Modern strategy combines both.
For several weeks the world discussed
an impending German offensive on the
West front. The military critics on the
Allied sitie took its imminence for
granted and quarrelled only as to its
probable technique. Secretary Baker in
one of his weekly war bulletins told how
Germans were being intensively trained
into "shock battalions" for the great
spring effort. In Germany it was hinted
at guardedly. German prisoners reluc?
tantly suffered themselves to be de?
tached from the information that the
attack would begin on March 21.
Then came the reaction. People sud?
denly began to think it absurd that a
military undertaking of the first magni?
tude should be so widely advertised. A
French paper produced a cartoon show?
ing Ilindenburg blowing a trumpet at
the Allies, saying: "Attention! We arc
coming." It, had become a joke.
Then, the day having arrived and the
incredulous world having abandoned the
expectation as one too naive to be intel?
ligently entertained, what appears to be
the advertised offensive violently becins.
And, it having begun, Berlin is laconic.
The German War Office dismisses with
twelve words what Bonar Law defines as
the heaviest attack of the war on the
West front.
Apparently the Germans have acted
on the theory that the way to deceive
the greatest number is to tell the truth,
or that the way most effectively to con?
ceal an attack is to prepare it so openly
that nobody will believe it.
The third refinement is to lie on the
theory that your adversary will say:
"If he intended to deceive me he. would
tell me the truth."
There is then a fourth refinement,
known only to German statecraft, which
is exclusively reserved for the dialectics
of peace making. On that exalted plane
of deception a thing at one time may be
(a) both true and untrue and (b) neither
true nor untrue.
Tourneys in the Clouds
It. is sheer chance that makes the avia?
tor in his helmet look like the Crusader
of old in his mail armor. Vet no one
who has seen the extraordinary painting-;
of sky lighting by Lieutenant Farre, the
official French artist, will fee! that fate
blundered in thus reproducing the noblest
spirit of the past. These modern tour?
neys in the sky, their heroes, Captain
Guynemer, the noblest of them all?to
see the record on canvas is to realize the
highest bravery that man has ever won.
Neither Richard the Lion-11 carted nor
Launcelot ever equalled the valor of
these modern knights of the sky. Jt is
in a spirit of reverence and worship for
the human spirit thus gloriously soaring
aloft that one stands before these records
of the bravest adventure of the greatest
of wars.
It seems a pity that the exhibition ef
these pictures must so soon end. They
appear this week only at the Anderson
Galleries. If they could now or late.'
become in whole or in part a public and
la-ting record of French valor all Amer
ica would i?e glad and grateful.
If Not Union, Then Comity
The Republicans and the Democrats
of Wisconsin have nominated loyalist
candidates for Senator. The Socialist
i party has nominated a. disloyalist can
' didate. Nothing could be more regret
table now than that the two loyalist
nominees should turn their attention
away from Victor Berger and begin a
fight on each other.
Under existing conditions compari?
sons between Mr. Lcnroot and Mr. Da
vies are odious. Each stands for an
unflinching prosecution of the war.
Either in this respect is a welcome coun?
terpoise to Mr. La Follette. To raise
questions of relative ability and prece?
dence in patriotic service between them
is to weaken each, and thus play into the
hands of the Socialist?, the pacifists and
the pro-Germans.
If, under the law or under Lit o stress
of party conditions as they exist to-day
in Wisconsin, neither of the loyalist
nominees can see his way clear to with?
draw in favor of the other, that circum?
stance should not be allowed to become
1 a cause of friction between them. If
then: cannot be a bipartisan union
there ought to be an altogether friendly
rivalry. If Mr. Berger's canvass becomes
threatening the voters of both parties
will be drawn to one of the loyalist can?
didates. The voters have an instinct in
such matters which rarely fails.
Hut, whatever happens frivolous dif?
ferences between the two loyal nomi
nC?il should !?<? avoided, '?''his is no time
for personal and partisan bickerings.
Let the two major party nominees treat
each other fairly and generously. The
one whose candidacy has the greater
momentum will get the bulk of the loyal
vote. And no factitious obstacles should
be thrown in the way of such a concen?
tration, which the voters of Wisconsin
will know how to make to their own
satisfaction if it becomes necessary to
make it.
Sedition and Free Advertising
We have been criticised by a number
of our readers for giving publicity to the
outrageous anti-war and anti-conscrip?
tion propaganda of Scott Nearing. "Give
him the silence treatment." said these
critics.
You cannot vindicate the law by ignor?
ing a crime. You cannot prevent the
spread of contagion by; censoring the
health reports. It was a form of primi?
tive superstition not to speak of things
which were taboo. Yet experience has
taught us that it is wiser to give such
things their real names and to expose
them in all their native ugliness.
A Federal grand jury in this city has
just indicted Nearing for conspiracy to
violate the espionage law. That law for?
bids activities which "obstruct the re?
cruiting or enlistment service of the
United States." We published extracts
from Nearing's pamphlets, intended foi
circulation among the pacifist and I. W.
W. elements in this country, which, m
our opinioif, encouraged evasion of the
draft law and resistance to its enforce?
ment. Now the government is going to
give him the free publicity involved in
a trial on these charges.
Nearing, still glorying in advertise?
ment, professes to welcome what he calls
"martyrdom" in the cause of free speech.
He boasts that he "counts the grand jury
indictment a greater honor than a degree
from an American university." Emma
Goldman and Alexander Berkman had a
similar honor thrust on them. But we no?
tice that they both made use of every pos?
sible legal technicality in order to avoid
paying the price of such a distinction.
It, will be the.'same with Nearing. In
trying him the government is only inci?
dentally and temporarily ministering to
his vanity and his passion for notoriety.
It is enforcing in a matter-of-fact way a
law which forbids propaganda for the
enemy's benefit.
That law must be applied in the inter?
est of national defence, whoever gets the
satisfaction of publicity and fictitious
martyrdom out" of the application. And
even intellectual eccentrics of the Near?
ing type may come to think that satis?
faction too dearly bought at the price of
a $10,000 fine and twenty years' impris?
onment.
The Specialty Man
Less and less has this world, appar?
ently, very much use or opportunity for
the all-round man. If any boy or any
human being wants to learn the secret
of success he has only to fix his eyes
hard on almost any kind of human
activity and he will see that it is in?
variably the specialty man who wins.
Wc have noticed an odd instance of
it lately in the wrestling matches at
Madison Square Garden. Each man
has some special stunt, some grip or
hold, which he cultivates to the exclu?
sion of all others. On this one hold he
stakes everything.
For example, the other night all thai
one of them could do was to grin the
other man's head with the intent of stran?
gling him. 1 fence his familiar name?
"The Strangler." The Polish gentleman
could only twist the other man's toe.
Another famous wrestler can tlo noth?
ing unless he can get his legs wrapped
around his adversary's body in his fa?
mous "scissors" hold. And so it goes.
You might think that this one line of
attack would be easy to defeat?that
these wrestlers, meeting each other fre?
quently, would soon learn how to handle
these specialty stunts so that they would
quickly lose their value. ft ?Iocs not
sooty st).
Each man relics on making his spe?
cialized offensive a little more effective
each time and to meet a counter-offen?
sive as best he can. If does not give one
a very high idea of the resources of
the game.
But that is what a e;roat many care?
fully observing people come to think
about, the game of life. The most
famous winners-?the money kings, men
of letters, presidents and even baseball
magnates?seen at close range, never
seem very wonderful folk. Most times
rather ordinary, and o-ften dull.
Their secret is always the same. They
are specialty men.
When Prices Began to Aeroplane
An eminent but unnamed Wall Street
banker is quoted by "The Wail Street
Journal" as criticising the view that the
expansion of credit is the cause of tli"
terrific rise in the cost of living.
The high cost of living, says this sa?
gacious economist, is the cause o?' the
expansion of credit!
Any number of people are more or less
of this view, or of the belief that high
prices are somehow caused "by the war."
It will possibly interest our banker
friend, and some others, to know that the
average of commodity prices did not
begin to rise until a year ami three
months-after the war had begun. 'Prices
' were slightly lower in October, 1915,
than in July, 1914.
Prices did not begin to rise until the
? heavy export of gold, occasioned by the
j war, had ceased and a huge return flow
' had set in, and on the basis of this gold
; bank credits had begun heavily to
! expantl.
Professor J. Shield Nicholson has
traced the same parallel between rising
prices and the expansion of credits in
England.
Some day even the housewives will he
i interested enough to know the truth.
ft
The President's
Agent Shadowed
Herbert Bayard Swope
In The New York World
WASHINGTON*. March 20,? ... At
the outset it should be said that the
air programme is far from having
collapsed. With that on the record it must
be admitted that the early claims of the air?
craft board as to development and progress
of the programe were grossly exaggerated.
It is agreed that there had been an over?
estimate, due to miscalculation of the diffi?
culties of 'founding a new industry.
There has been a revision of the plan, and
while the new figures are by no means as
impressive as the old, they arc nevertheless
held to be satisfactory from a military
standpoint, The original programme called
for '22,000 airplanes by the end of 1913. It
is true that this was an unofficial claim, but
it was permitted to go forth and was loudly
and widely repeated, often accelerated by
official sources.
It is less a violation of military secrecy
than a matter of maintaining public con?
fidence, which is in itself of primary stra?
tegic importance, to say again what has al?
ready been said, namely, that the pro?
gramme will not be curried out along the
original lines, and to state for the first
time what the revised schedule calls for,
that is, 11,100 combat 'planes by the end
of November.
What Happened
To Borglum
Mr. Wilson has always been ready to
listen to suggestions and complaints made
in good failli. His attention was drawn to
delays in the air programme last December.
From several sources, both official and un?
official, came warnings that the programme
as at first projected was not possible of ac?
complishment. It. was about this time that
Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, who is ac?
quainted witli the President, laid before him
certain conditions that Borglum had reason
to believe were true.
The President, having faith in Borglum's
good intentions, gave him a letter em?
powering him to make such inquiries as he
wished, so that he would be able to lay a
comprehensive report before Mr. Wilson.
This report was submitted in several parts.
It was disjointed and at times lacking in
continuity. It brought out charges that
seemingly were base?! on truth, but there
was little of an actual evidential nature in
the matter he submitted.
It is l'air tu say thai the report, while
undoubtedly revealing certain errors in cal?
culation, showed a tendency to depend upon
individual opinions and intuitions rather
than upon actual facts. It. contained, due.
perhaps, to the handican under which Mr.
Borglum worked, much hearsay.
Old Charges
Repeated
"The World," which has hat! an oppor?
tunity of examining the report, found that
the majority of the allegations restated old
charges, but there can be no doubt that Mr.
Borglum had artificial difficulties placed in
his path; lie was shadowed by Secret Ser
v ce men of the air corps of the army and
subjected to annoyance that was not to be
expected by the bearer of a letter of cre?
dentials directly from the President him?
self.
Apart from any other points in Borglum's
report, it is reasonable to expect that an
explanation will be asked of the surveillance
?-.?id harassment to which he was subjected
No one will assume responsibility for or?
dering the shadowing, 'nut, so far as cai
he judged, it eaine from th?> Signal Corps
since that department was made the chicl
ground of Borglum's inquiries.
1 he Cost of Economy
(/>.,?.? Tin Clobi )
Here are some considerations for thi
Kmcrgency Fleet Corporation and the |?ub
lie to keep firmly in mind:
The United States will be fortunate if it
casualty list in six months is as low as 1,001
per day, or 7,000 per week.
The war is costing at the rate of $40,
000.(too per ?lay each week of prolonga
?ion means an addition of $280,000,000 t<
i he nat ional debt.
Our participation in I he war. and hene
our ability to furnish the decisive force ti
end it, is limited by the number of carry
?ng ships we can pat afloat. A week's ?lela;
in realizing the shipping programme adds ;
week to (In- length of the war, and thu
will bring sorrow to 7,00(1 American house
holds and the expenditure of more than
quarter of a billion of wealth.
Vet with these, conclusions staring us i
the face it is reported that in yards whic
are building ships or are being prepared t
build ships work proceeds at the leisure!
rate o?' forty-eight hour;; a week. Doubl
and triple shifts are not employed. Oper.',
tiens practically shut down on Sunday. Ex
Ira hours are not ?neouraged because tim
and a half must, be allowed and there i
idleness on Sunday because double tim
must be allowed.
The Fleet Corporation is being "eco
nomical." It is apparently frightened be
cause expenditures are exceeding estimate:
It has been alarmed by Congressional "in
vestigations" and fears criticism. The cor
tractors, under the cost plus plan merci
representatives under Ilie direction of th
Fleet Corporation, although chafing for
chance lo go ahead under full steam, hav
been slowed up by being told they are bein
extravagant have been warned if they don
keep down costs they may find themselvc
in jail. Labor is ready, stands without th
gates begging to be employed; material i
ready, .?n?! asks to be put .in place; th
railway congestion is over; yet the coltl an
clammy band of a muck-raking inquiry ha
fallen on shipbuilding and there is parti;
paralysis through apprehension lest mi
costs, as some half-baked efficiency expei
figures them, will be disclosed as high.
Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, is an exce
lent man, and carries his eighty-three yeai
nimbly; Senator Vardaman, of Mississipp
may he an active worker in the cause c
teaching men of color their place; Senate
Johnson, of California, may be full of zei
as. he attends to his gridiron. But evil \vn
th?' ?lay for the country when the trio at
dressed themselves unto the sbipbuildin
problem and conceived it their duty to sea1
ter suspicion and to scare men into thin!
1 ing they should devote bncmselves to plaj
! ing safe and to "passing lite buck."
"Damn the torpedoes!" said Farragut ti
he went across the mine fields of Mobil?
In regard to the delayed ships, it. is tim
for some ?me to say, "To li 1 with ej
pense!" Going ships are cheap at an
prt'ee. Out of I he money saved by short et
ing the war they could be gold plate?
Double pay! Triple or quadruple pay coul
he distributed with an enormous saving. I,i
bor costs don'L count with respect to ship;
PRESIDENT WILSON AND LABOR
This Is Berger
By CHESTER M. WRIGHT,
Of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy
Over 36,000 Wisconsin Americans voted lt> make Victor h. Berger a Senator
of the United Stales. This is xcliat they voted for:
HEN Victor L. Berger was in Con?
gress those with whom he would
confer on his visits to his home
city quite often gathered the impression
that, in Mr. Bcrger's opinion, the House of
Representatives consisted largely of Victor
L. Berger, the widely heralded "first So?
cialist Congressman."
Throughout its history the Socialist
party in Wisconsin, in all of its activities,
has consisted of Victor L. Berger and
others. Wherever Socialists have secured
strength in Milwaukee there would he found
a direct spokesman for Berger. But Berger
has nevar let slip any chanco to do all the
speaking himsel ?'.
In the years before the Socialists gained
power in Milwaukee as a political factor it
was Berger who talked; it was Borger who
press-agented the party; it was Berger who
wrote the loading propaganda articles and
pamphlets; it was Berger's homo to which
newspaper nun went to got Socialist com?
ment on things doing.
And Borger was a rare hand at "making
himself solid" with reporters. Never was
a reporter abused by Berger. Usually, at
his homo, there was a cigar or-a glass of
wine to impress the friendliness and cor?
diality of Berger upon the reporter. Berger
was a master diplomat with newspaper men.
So they liked him. "Berger is a good old
scout," they would say.
A Good Old Scout
Being n "good old scout." he got pub?
licity where oihers would have failed. And,
largely, he got the kind ho wanted. 1 am
not saying that then" was insincerity in this
friendship of Berger's for newspaper men.
I am merely saying that it got results.
But when "The Loader'' was established
there was always a sigh of,relief through
the office when Berger would depart for
Washington to make "vool" and other
speeches.
?larger has had other ways of seeing that
"his will be done." Borger is an adept at
lashing party conventions into lino. He sel?
dom loses in a party light in his own (.own
or state.
Should he lose on the floor there are
usually other ways of retrieving the loss.
It was for years and may still be the
custom in Wisconsin state Socialist con?
ventions to appoint a "committee on .stylo"
at the conclusion o( the convention. To
this committee would go all resolutions and
the platform adopted by the convention. It
vas supposedly the job of this committee
to see that there were no errors of gram?
mar in the finished product. The Socialist
party of Wisconsin wanted to speak good
English in public.
"Style" to the Limit
But I remember one convention after
which there was some quiet discussion as
to what constituted "stylo." For the plat?
form, as it finally emerged from the "com?
mittee (?n style," was minus a whole plank
of a vital nature.
These committees on "style" were always
composed of wheel-horses from the Berger
team.
In more than one way does a boss work,
his wonder; to perform. And Borger has
boon to the Socialist party of Wisconsin its
father, mother, nurse, boss and prophet.
This has either been proved or admitted so
often that no more evidence is required at
1 this time.
Victor I,. Borger to-day ?a Socialist can?
didato for United States Senator in Wis
. cousin. Lie Still is the boss. He is to the
Middle West what Morris Hillquit is to
New York and what Wilhelm is to Qor
many. He dictates; ho dominates; ho
breaks men who oppose him in party coun
' cils breaks thorn or silences them. lie baa
- silenced moro than one line man in the
Milwaukee Socialist party put. the brakes
down hard and imposed silence.
Socialist, party platforms used to he
written as the expression of the party. The
platform on which Berger is running is the
expression of Borger, and it say., so plainly
In the list of "demandfj" in this platform
the customary "wo" has given wny to the
Borgoristic "I." This is the llna'l act of
?zarism on Berger's part the last straw in
| the load of proof as to whoso in the party
w
in Wisconsin that is called the Socialist
party. "I demand," says this platform.
Again, it says, "I speak for -," "I de?
clare ." etc. This is Victor L. Ber?
ger's platform. Victor L. Berger is the top
of the Socialist party, and its base as well.
Just as he ruled the party press of old, just
as he ruled "The Milwaukee Leader" -and
he has ruled if absolutely--just as ho ruled
the Socialist city administration, so he now
rules to the last extreme in turning the.
party platform from a "we" platform into
an "1" platform. The camouflage is off;
Victor L. Berger admits what he is.
The Keynote
The keynote of this Berger platform in
this campaign is found in the following
worth :
"I demand and if elected shall work for
an immediate general and permanent
peace.
"I demand and if elected shall ask the
American Congrea3 to pass a resolution
directing the President to summon the
warring countries to an immediate ar?
mistice and peace conference.
"So doing, I utter the deepest, desire of
a great majority of the American people.
The American people did not want and do
not want this war. They were plunged
into this abyss by the treachery of the
ruling class of the country -its dema?
gogic agitators, its bought press, its sen?
sational photo-plays, its lying advertise?
ments and other purchasable instruments
of public expression.
"I demand and if elected shall work for
the withdrawal of American troops from
the invasion of Kurone."
This is the Victor L. Berger who want
tu be United Slates. Senator from Wiscon
sin. This is the man who wants to replac
Paul o. Dusting, and who wants to sit wit
Hob L;: Follette to neip hamstring America
' "?"his is HIS platform.
1!" the Kaiser has seen a copy of this plat
form he undoubtedly has said "Amen!"
The nation must be interested when sue
n man seeks a seat in the United State
Senate. Senatorial elections are state a'
fairs, but United States Senators are m
tional spokesmen and they are national lej
islators. The nation MUST be intereste
America, the great democrat of nation
the great idealist among nations, the grei
torch-bearer for civilization, is held up t
this man as the pawn of thieves and co
ruptionists. America, the unselfish; Ame
ica, the great champion of world freedo
ami world democracy, is held up by him
the plaything of* knaves, the tool of che;
demagogues, the sport of colossal scheme
for imperialism! The American people, wl
have gone into the great world war to sa
freedom from extinction, to save the ?den
of enlightened humanity from the heel
the autocrat, to koep liberty's wonder!
, torch alight these free people arc malign
and ridiculed and libelled by this burly r
litical boss from Wisconsin, by this m
who came from Austria seeking for himsi
the blessings ant! opportunities that lay
tin- freedom ami democracy of America!
Up to Wisconsin
And he who came back from Congr?
1 pullily asking "Hal* you read my Vi
speech?" seeks the opportunity now to
turn to the home folk asking "Hat" you r<
my peace speech ?"
It. may he that Berger stands no chai
of finding a consummation of his desires
the election soon to be held. Uut whet]
he does or does not, the whole of Amer
1 has a right to know what the Socialist pa
! is doing in Wisconsin, and it has a right
j know that the whole Socialist party
! Apierica looks on and approves of what
i going on in Wisconsin.
Victor L. Berger, the Socinlist boss of
Middle West, the admirer of Sohoidomi
and (he confr?re of Hillquit, must not
to the United States Senate. It is up
Wisconsin to see that, no .such thing h
pens, It is also up to Wisconsin to Ui
that the whole nation is looking on, wait
with deep interest to see what Wiacor
docs.
Seeing Up
By Theodore M. Knapper?
WASHINGTON, March 20.^Z^Z
\\ remarked that this world, to ?It,,
children looking up, is an enti?
different world than it is to grown 1
looking down. * *" m*?
Not long ago I went through a certahi
shipyard. From all external appeannce J
was the most efficient yard I had seen K0
body was wandering aimlessly around
Nobody was waiting for somebody else to
do some indispensable prior thing. Ev r
where there was intense and apparently en?
thusiastic activity. The results were in evi
donee. Ships were rapidly going forward"
I talked to the executives, and found theni
fair-spoken, plain Americans, unspoiled bv
their wealth and good fortune. They talked
kindly of their men and of their relations
with them. They seemed to be proud of
such things as the fact that they had ur
ranged their industrial relations so that n?
man was subject to the whim of a foreman
Altogether, I was so impressed by the cm
ciency of ?this yard, the apparent eagerness
of the men and the broad spirit of the man
agement that I was strongly tempted to'
open up the "42-ccntimetres" of denuncia,
tion on some of the agitators who were bon'
on disturbing this industrial Eden's (ran
quillity. Here was another proof o? the un",
satisfactory attitude of organized labor in
war time.
Then, by chance, when, a few days later I
had made up my mind that it was' my COn.
scientious dkity as a writer to give organ?
ized labor "all that was coming to it" ami
let the editor take the responsibility, [
had an adventure. By the merest chance
it led me to the home of one of the workers
in that admirable shipyard. 1 spent a whole
evening there.
Results, but ?
The conversation began with an enthusi?
astic outburst by me in regard to the van!
and the way it was speeding up.
"Yes, they are getting results," my friend
said with a reluctance that chilled me.
"Mr. - is a splendid type of the
American executive," I said. "I wish we had
move men like him around our yards."
"I don't." said the employe.
"What's the matter?" 1 inquired with an
apprehension of disillusionment.
"He's a slave driver. He's an anachro?
nism -a cruel, arbitrary, inhuman driver."
"He gets results," 1 said.
"Yes, but at fearful cost. He is exiling
enthusiasm and crushing patriotism. If it's
his kind of democracy the men ?re to savo
by building ships, it's a question in their
minds whether it is worth saving. It makes
me writhe to see what patriots have to en?
dure in that yard. Hundreds, perhaps thou?
sands, have entered the yard through pa
triotism. V"ry few of them have any of it
left so far " s practising it there is con?
cerned. Mr. is the typo of 'he-man'
we read so much about. He is an imperious,
reckless driver. He rules by fear. Some
day when men are harder to get than now
there will be an explosion in that yard.
The men will walk out, perhaps, just as
ships are to be launched at the very mo?
ment, it may happen, when the need for
ships is at the climax. And they will be ex?
ecrated throughout the country as enemies
of the Republic. But lie is the real enemy."
And then my friend, the employe, pre?
sented in detail the counts of his indict?
ment.
He gave me a picture of tho industrial
world as seen looking up. I had seen it
looking down.
The Price of Your Mat
To the Editor of Tho Tribuno.
Sir: Your recent editorial entitled "Peace
Profiteers," aimed at the hat industry, was
well aimed-?but v. hat'- the use? If you
own a hat you arc subject to the tax.
My wife and I have just returned from a
three days' vacation in your city, and I
have been mentally chocking oiT in my mind
the number of times I repurchased my old
hat during our short stay, and verily be?
lieve that, thanks 'o those "amiable" (if
you- come across properly) "pirates," in
any event, my old hat stands me in at least
the price of a new one.
This form of piracy is bound, to flourish,
as its devotees, like the pirates of old,
know no eight-hour day. Any kind o? ha*.
is negotiable to the extent of at least 10
cents, transferable from wearer to bearer,
whether you redeem it after breakfast?
order not to start the day ha'less or at
11:59 p. m.. so thai you may have it on
hand to go through the same succession ?I
hold-ups un the morrov
On one occasion the man 'hanked ?no for
the dime, a conspicuous departure from the
general rulo, although perhaps he Hau not
been instructed that I automatically for?
feited the dime by owning the hat.
A beggar with his tin cup and third ra'e
pencils gives greater value than the?" li?
censed parasites who lia-' attached them?
selves to our necessary "Hooverian" indus?
tries, which stern necessity now compels to
give us so' little and to take so much m
return.
Lot's nil wear caps and put them in our
pockets for the duration of the war and re?
lease the pirates to collect hat.- from t"
Hun. J- u- L
Litchficld, Conn., March 21, 1"'<V
A Noble R?le lor Central Park
iFrom Tin WorMi
Some hysterical persons threaten a tax?
payer's suit to bar from Ccntril ?J
a section of war trenches furnished ??
material provided by the French govern
,>,nnt t., niH the i.ibertv Loan. Such a S?;
the loan committees, even though in
end a legal victory for common sense
assured. . 0?
What is this mysterious sacrednes? ?
Central Bark? Why must one publicP< j(
only be wrapped in cotton batting.?11
i. U~ ....... I ?-..,- tl.rae WCOKS ! H a ?
badly overcrowded. m" ^
rant touch it who dares, oven in m
names of Nation and Liberty.
A Spring Bouquet ^ ^
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