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$?h? |tork tribune First to Last?the Truth: News?Editorials ? Advertisements Member of the Audit Bureau of ClmilaUona SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1918 Owned ?lid rtuMUhed dally hy The Triouno AMortatlon. a New York Corr-oratlon. Olden Held. President: Q. Vernor Roier?, VtoaI'realdent ; Rlehard H. l*?e. Secretar*: W. A. BttUt. Treaaurer Address. Tribune Pudding, 15* Naaaau Street, New Yol*. Telephone, Recaman 3000. SlBSCRirTlON RATES- By Mail Includln? ToMax? L\ TUB UNITED STATES: OVTS1DE OF QEEATER Miff YORK rntST AND SECOND ZONES?Within 150 Miles of Ne? Tork City. 1 ?-. f mo. S mo. 1 mo Dairy and Sunday.$10.?a M.00 $275 *?-00 Daily only . ?08 4.90 2.00 ? Sunday only . 3.60 1.50 .5 -1? THIRD TO EIGHTH ZONE. INCLUSIVE?Mow than ISO Mile* from New York City DaiW and Sunday.$1100 $6 00 $3 00 $100 Dailv only . ?00 4 50 1.2? .80 Sunday only . 3.00 175 *?0 ? ?>? CANADIAN RATES Dally and Sunday.$1100 $6 00 $8.00 11.00 Pally only . 9.00 4 50 2"> ?*? Sunday only . 5 00 ?!..*> 140 .ow FOREIGN RATES Dally ami Sunday.$24 00 $12.50 ??.50 $2.85 Dally only . 18 00 9 50 500 I.T6 Sunday only. T.00 - ?.00 3.25 -85 Entered at the PoslolTloe at New York as Second Clasa Mall Malter GUARANTEE You can purchase m ere hi o dise advertised In THE TRIBUNE with ahsolut? safety?for If dluatUfaetlen re ?jib In any caw THE TRIBUNE ?u?rantee? to nay your money bach uoon rt*?uest. No red two. No nutbbllnf. W? make toed promptly It tho adyertlaer doe? not. MEMBER O? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Asaoeiatad freos 1* excluearely enlltled to the us? ?or rep?blica! ion of all new? dlspaiehes credited to It or not other? is? credited I" this paper and also tho local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Ail nghU of repunlicatlon of all othor matter iierelu are a'.so rcferyed. Wreck of the "Peace Storm" The fifth German offensive is a defini? tive failure. Rheims has been saved and the problem now is not whether the Germans can turn the French out of Rheims hut whether the Franco Americans can compel the Germans to repeat their retreat after the Battle of the Marne and return to the lines north of the Aisne, where Kluck halted on September 13, 1914. The counter thrust of Foch between Soissons and Ch?teau Thierry is still proceeding, and unless it is at once checked we shall soon see the greatest German retreat since the Hindenburg retirement of March, 1917. At the present moment Mangin's Franco-Amer? ican force is still moving eastward straight across the few lines of highway and toward the single remaining rail? way which the Germans can employ to munition and reinforce their troops in the deep pocket along the Marne. Already Soissons is almost within the grip of our soldiers and there are signs which poin. to its evacuation. At the same time, counter thrusts on the other side of the German salient about Rheims are developing, the Ger? man recoil is becoming general along the whole front and we are evidently at the crisis of the battle. The 'offensive on the German side is over. The Allied counter offensive is still in full swing. Ludendorff can avoid a confession of complete defeat only by an immediate and decisively successful use of his re? serves. We shall do well, still, not to expect too much and lose sight thereby of what we have already gained. The Germans have already met with a defeat as com? plete as that of the Austrians at the Piave. It remains to be seen whether Foch, un? like Diaz, will pursue the offensive be? yond the limits of his original front. In a word, we have still to discover whether the Allied commander in chief is yet ready to pas.-; to the offensive or will still wait a few weeks longer before tak? ing up the r?le always dearest to him as to every soldier. We have now to watch closely for the developments about Soissons and between Soissons and Ch?teau Thierry. A little further push westward by our own and the French troops, and the Germans must again leave the Marne. To leave the Marne, too, means to relinquish the only front from which they can conceivably strike toward Paris in the present cam? paign. A retirement now from the Marne to the Vesle or to the Aisne will mean the permanent shipwreck of the larger phases of the German conception for the present campaign. Even if the German succeeds in sav? ing himself, in reestablishing the lines from which he issued five days ago to deliver his decisive blow, already chris? tened the "Peace Storm," his defeat will be beyond question, and at best he can only begin over again those prepara? tions which after forty days of indus? try have just proved futile. It is is a mistake to say?as headlines are now proclaiming?that the Germana have been routed, except on a local and restricted front. It is a mistake to be? lieve that the probabilities now point toward a decisive defeat which will open the road to Berlin. So far a great and dangerous blow has been parried and a counter thrust delivered the conse? quences of which may be wide and are already considerable. But vast reserves remain to the German and he has the power to organize return blows promptly. So far his greatest defeat is on the moral side, considerable as has been his military reverse. His people have watched with apprehensive intentness the entry of the Kaiser's army upon those fields familiar four years ago as the scene of the great disappointment. For the German people a Second Battle of the Marne has been fought, and the issue even now is unsatisfactory. Al? ready Paris must seem to them saved again in the old way. And in Paris, London and Rome the mora] effect cannot be exaggerated. After the Piave a second Marne! What was ominous in March and still threat? ening in June, becomes infin tely less menacing in late July, when after great but only partial triumphs the ?ermaa suffers a check which defies camouflage and may approximate a disaster. To-day we are entering the third stage of the present battle. The German failed on the offensive in the first, he was gravely shaken by the Foch coun? ter thrust in the second. He must now, and completely, check the Allied counter offensive or with equal speed draw out of the perilous country between the Vesl? and the Marne if ho is to escape disas? ter. Under similar circumstances Kluck saved himself at the Ourcq in Septem? ber, 1914, but in saving himself brilliant? ly made the French victory of the Marne inevitable and a German retirement to th? Aisne ineluctable. "My right is routed, my left is re? treating, my centre is shaken?I shall attack." These were Foch's words at the crisis of the Marne four years ago. This time, with right, centre and left in? tact, he has attacked again. His former blow earned him the title of "the first strategist in Europe." He would seem to have maintained his rank in the pres? ence of his most serious rival of the war, Ludendorff. Belgium Unforgot To-morrow is Belgium's Day of Inde? pendence and it will mean much to all her allies. The war has travelled far from Li?ge and Louvain to Gallipoli and Petrograd and Jerusalem and back again. The German can never escape from his crime in Belgium, and to the last day of battle, to the last day of history, the German rape of a peace? able, unoffending neighbor will remain to damn her. The restoration of Belgium is the first condition precedent of any peace. Even the German brain is slowly beginning to perceive this fact. The Allies have ac? cepted this demand by a unanimous vote of all their peoples. It is the first tenet of Allied faith, it is the principle and test of the whole cause for which the free nations are fighting, the restoration of the rule of law and justice to ? world threatened and overrun by a despoiler and despot. To Belgium on her strip of sand, in sorrow and wreck, noble and undaunted, America sends her greeting and her pledge of war unending against the German till the world stands safe again and the last wrongs of Belgium are righted. Not for Roosevelt We earnestly trust that those ardent and admiring Republicans who are urg? ing Colonel Roosevelt to receive the party's nomination for Governor will de? sist. It is not fair to Colonel Roosevelt for anybody to say that he must give himself and his time to save a state or local situation. He has his own work to do in his own way. We happen to know his theory of it, which is that he is the one man who can, who will, who dares to cast a kind of burning truth upon the people. "I expect no support," he says. "It is a thing I can do alone?perhaps better alone. I may have to go further than I could ask any one else to go, fur? ther than any one else should go." Those who are pressing Colonel Roose? velt to run for Governor say that Re? publican thought and action in this state must be raised to a very high plane, and that he is the one to do it. That is true, and we should like it, from a selfish point of view; but it see/ns, nevertheless, very clear that Colonel Roosevelt would be much wasted at Albany. Local mat? ters would absorb time and energy which he is anxious to put upon the national problems. If there is any office at all that could increase his effectiveness we should think it might be that of member of Con? gress. A seat in the House of Repre? sentatives need not in the least circum? scribe his activities; on the other hand, it would bring him into direct and dy? namic contact with the conduct of the war. Also, it would set an example to some other distinguished men, even to Mr. Elihu Root. We do not urge it. We merely suggest it; and we add that the difficulties are unimportant. If it could not be arranged in Oyster Bay his friends would under? take in one day to find him a good Re? publican district in which to run. The Fat There Was Mr. Hoover has sent to President Wil? son a remarkable statement of the achievements of the food administration within the last fiscal year. It appears, for example, that last year our exports of meats were nearly half again as great as in the year before, although they had amounted to over two billion pounds in 1916-'17. By far the larger part of this tremendous increase was in the last six months, from January to July. In spite of an extremely disappointing wheat crop, we kept up the tremendous shipments of the year before, and even increased them. All told, Mr. Hoover cal? culates that the total "nutritional pro? duction" of the country for the fbcal year just closed was between 7 per cent and 9 per cent below the average of the three previous years; and this shrinkage about covered our entire normal surplus in these lines. It follows, therefore, that these tremendous exports under the food Administration have represented a kind of saving by the American people. Therefore, says Mr. Hoover, in effect, may we lay much flattering unction to our souls. But in truth how much? How many among us have achieved true sav? ing? How much have we denied our? selves? How much have you, and you, and YOU? We know not any one who has gone without an adequate and satis? fying meal. And what this country has done the whole wide world has done, more or less. England has achieved wonders. In France food is plenty and fairly cheap, e^'cn though four millions of her sons have gone to war. And do we not reinem bor how all our "expert" food economists hud Germany on her knees at tho end of tho second season because she would be starving? And then the third season, and now the fourth goes by, and we know that most of the stories of German star? vation were imagicitions. The. truth seems to be that the modern organization of life implies a prodigious waste. It seems probable that, without this huge slack to take up, the world war could not go on. Unmask the Bolsheviki! The current of events is carrying us rapidly to some kind of action or inter? vention in Russia. The heroic Czecho? slovak force has achieved a remarkable result. It possesses apparently a con sidcrable length of the Transaiberian Railway; every few days bring new chronicle of the extension of its sphere of influence. The Czecho-Slovaks huve unexpectedly revealed how frail is the ! actual power of the present crew in con ; trol of what remains of Russia and how they go down like a pack of calves be? fore a determined force. Let us note one further fact. The Czecho-Slovaks have appealed to the United States and to the Allies for aid. So have various elements among the Russian people, including the late Pre? mier and nominal President of the Rus? sian Republic. A singic element in all Russia does not ask for our intervention or aid in any way. Russia is starving. Russii is in a state of almost hopeless commercial and industrial collapse. But the Bolsheviki do not ask us for food or for supplies or for engineers or for any kind of help to bring Russia out of the present chaos. Why? For two weeks and more The Tribune has had definite information that docu? mentary evidence as to the intimate financial relations of the Bolshevik lead? ers with the German government have now been in this country for a month or more?documents that show conclu? sively that they have taken German money and that many of them have grown rich in so doing; that they have sold their country for a mess of pottage. Why these , documents should remain buried in Washington we do not know. If they are in the possession of the American government, then it seems to us that the American people are entitled to the truth about those who have prob? ably done more to help German armies than any other single influence since the war began. We hope that these documents will soon be made public. When they are we do not think there will be a moment's question about the temper and desires of the American people. What remains of the weak and mushy sympathy for these wreckers of Russia will be wiped out. Our Counter Propaganda It is not anybody's news bureau or anybody's eloquence, neither Creeling nor sermonizing nor the best of movies. It is our men fighting, their deeds, their words, blazing out in letters of fire on the front pages of our papers?just facts, the nakedest of facts. "A handful of American troops during Monday's fighting northeast of Chalons should have gone back a short distance after the heaviest struggle. They were ; ordered to give way slightly, but imme? diately demanded an order for a counter attack. The order was given and the ground retaken, but it was with difficulty that the men were persuaded to remain j at the recaptured objective. They want? ed to go to Germany." So wrote Wilbur i Forrest at 1 p. m. on Thursday. They wanted to go to Germany! Well, : so does the whole United States of America?and any weak-kneed pacifist who wants a little fighting, but not too much, please, had better crawl into a hole and pull it in after him. Or take this little touch from The Evening Sun: "'Me and the other fel? lows in the first wave were lucky, be? cause we got the first whack at the Hei nies,' said this doughboy. 'We got more of 'em and got more souvenirs, too, than the bunch that came after us.' " Or, personally, we have a weakness for the report of the young American captain, ably conquering his military j officialese with good American lingo. j "We met the Boche on his line of resist i anee. A sharp fight took place, after | which the Boche turned tail and ran like : hell up the hill, pursued by our troops." Propaganda is dangerous stuff, deadl> ! dangerous, in those early hours when | opinion is confused and action has not j begun. But it is like a snowball in the ! place like which the Boche ran, when ! once great deeds blaze up and a nation fires to "the drumming guns that know i no doubt." It is not so much victory as the great | deeds that count. What stirs our hearts , and mists our eyes is the way, the in I tensely American way, our boys are ? flinging themselves into the most heroic j battle of all time. America, our dear, beloved America, is fighting and win ; ning! God help anybody who would ! thwart her! The Secretary of War and the provost marshal general are considering how | the draft shall be extended and particu | larly whether the age limit shall be raised presently, and, if so, exactly how ? much. What does Mr. Baker make of the ; fact that so much of Congress, so many ' newspapers and so great a body of public I opinion all demand a widening of the : draft age limits? What does Mr. Baker think it means? What does he think the ? people think the War Department's hesi I tation means? The Supreme Court of the State up ! holds the right of the people of Mount I Vernon to bar the Hearst papers. I Whereupon the Hearst papers attack i the courts thus: ' "The courts ouvrit to be the shield of the wcnk, tho sure protection of Indi? vidual liberty and collective righU. "Hut they nre not, and everybody knows that they aro not. "The judges ought to bo the last line of defence of tho people against tho privileged interests. "Rut they are not, and everybody knows that they are not'. "Tho judges aro the last line of defence of tho privileged interesta against tho people. "That in what they aro, and everybody knows it." Contempt of all courts is apparently thought to be safe. No particular court is mentioned. Only District Attorney Swann, who failed to make a conspiracy case against Mount Vernon, is named, as j one whose "splendid work" for the peo i pie has been "largely nullified" by the "petty partisanship of the corporation judiciary." The people is Hearst. Elihu Root said it exactly. "Wherever danger from disloyal votes docs not threaten we should strive vigorously to elect Republicans to the Senate and the House of Representatives." Wherever disloyal votes threaten there is one issue and no other. Disloyalism is alone pow? erless, except in a very close contest, but it may fasten itself upon either a Demo? cratic or Republican candidate with sin? ister consequences. Disloyalism did not elect Hylan. It only supported him. Heroes By Charles Vincc THIS is a story of some old men in London who have served their coun? try in a singular way and will have helped to add many battalions V? her armies. The oldest was seventy-eight. They were all over military age except one. Ho was only twenty-four, but ho was an epileptic. Some fine stories have queer titles. The title of this one is "Transmission of Trench j Fever by the Louse." Trench fever lu>s been the great plague of armies in this war. It is not a severe disease, but it has taken thousands of men out of the fighting line, and kept them out of it for weeks. Many drugs have been tried, but none has been found to check the course of the fever. At the beginning no one knew quite what to make of it or how the infection was spread. There were many theories. Some thought that it caino from a fungus which grows on the sand? bags in the trenches, some from rat bite, some from mosquitoes, some from fleas, some from lice. In the end the strongest opinion was that the lice were guilty. If this were proved it would mean a great deal. It would mean that the army could go a long way toward freeing itself of trench fever, of this constant drain on its strength. And now it ha? been proved. It was proved in I London at the beginning of this year. There were cases of trench fever in Lon? don hospitals which could be used for the i experiment, but there were also needed men who had not been out of England and could never have been infected with trench fever before. The committee asked for volunteers and the volunteers came. The first experiment was to see if the ; bite of a louse conveyed the disease. Two ? of the volunteers were bitten by lice which ' had already bitten fever patients. They I were bitten not once, but many times. The j experiment went on for more than a month. Each day five hundred lice were used. They were put on fever patients at all stages of the disease. They were transferred to the volunteers at different times, sometimes a quarter of an hour, sometimes several hours later. But there was no result. No other j volunteer caught the disease. It was . evident: tha.t the bito.s of the lice did not give the disease. At the end of six weeks i th<> experiment was changed. The first two volunteers throughout the whole time of the experiment had been careful not to touch the bites, so that nothing else might be rubbed into the blood. Two other volunteers now came for? ward for the new experiment, which was to see if, when the skin was broken and the droppings or the bodies of lice were rubbed into the places, as they would be by men scratching the bites, the disease would then be caused. This experiment, was at once successful. Eight and ten days afterward the two fell ill with trench fever. Three more volun? teers came forward. They were treated in the same way and all three fell ill. Finally, another volunteer was inoculated with the blood of one of the last three. He also fell ill. The chain of evidence was complete. It was established beyond doubt that tho disease was carried by the louse. It was established how the louse gave the disease. It was established that every man who could keep free of lice was safe from trench fever. It is no small thing to take a disease in cold blood, to commit yourself to six weeks illness, to fever and severe pains. It is no small thing to endure the bites of hundreds i of lice day after day for a month. There 1 are many dangers that every soldier would ; choose before that. And these were men j growing old, had probably already suffered I their share of sickness and the ills to which 1 flesh is heir. Surely they deserve to rank j with their country's soldiers. They have I Buffered for her. They have served her well. By the knowledge which they have j enabled us to gain they have added greatly j *o her strength. New York's Rival To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: Your editorial in The Tribune of ! this morning. "The City of Dreadful Noise." i was interesting, but as far as noise is cor. 1 cerned New York is tame to the noise of i some of its neighbors. The town of Bloom field, consisting of some twenty thousand j persons, can boast of more dogs and noise j than New York ever thought of. Night i after night the mongrels bark, and were j one to quit before daylight the rest would ! take its place. Truly, Bloomfield is the i dog's paradise, and, judging from the way ' the creatures act, they know it. New York is a good place to live in, and if you believe it noisy take a jaunt to Bloomfield and be convinced that New York is at least considerate of the people living within its gates. A. WILLIAMS. New York, June 28, 1918. "WHAT WILL WE TELL THE FOLKS?" This Hearst and That One 1 By JAMES A. B. SCHERER I Who resigned as chief field agent of the Council of National Defence because the Secretary of War put a stov on anti-Hearst talk. To the Editor of The Tribune. . SIR: A friend has just shown mo Tlie j Los Angeles Examiner of July 6, containing an editorial article en? titled "Dr. Scherer and Secretary of War j Baker?What a contrast!" Undoubtedly, there is a contrast between Secretary Baker and myself, but the public is not interested in it. The public ig greatly interested, however, in the contrast between the Hearst of May, 1918, and the Hearst of May, 1917. Since the 16th of May, 1918, when the President signed the sedition act, penaliz? ing with heavy fines or imprisonment, or both, those who seek "to promote the suc? cess of our enemies," "to obstruct the sale by the United States of bonds," or "by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war, or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein" -since May 16, 1913, Mr. Hearst has seemed to be good, and will perhaps seem so for a season, since he now advertises his "loyalty" with his own full-page affidavits. I3ut let us contrast the Jekyll Hearst of May, 1918, with the Hyde Hearst of May, 1917. The Hamburger Nachrichten joyfully reprinted from Hearst's Neiv York Ameri? can of May 3, 1917, these editorial excerpts: "Well, the. facts are these: . . , unless America can pqrform the twin miracles of rescuing England from the submarine anJ of putting enough troops in France to beat off the offensive which the Germans are now beginning to de? velop, . . . "We tell you plainly that in a military, naval and economic way the Germans have the Allies whipped, and that with? out our intervention there was not a doubt that Germany would have victori? ously dictated peace before this year was gone . , . "And we have been plunged into war, without preparation, with the most pow? erful single nation in the world, equipped to the last shoelace with every possible necessity of warfare, filling the seas with her submarine navy, covering half a con? tinent with her veteran armies, and everywhere winning her way with blood and iron against her foes!" Yet the amiable Secretary of War says that nobody representing the government ought to be criticising any newspaper. The Colonne Volkszeitung reprinted from Hearst's New York American of May 17 and 21, 1917, these editorial com? ments: "Our part in this war, for months to come, is to pay the bill?to finance and feed hungry and bankrupt England, hun? gry and bankrupt France, hungry and bankrupt Italy . . . "If the result of war is to be that we will be hopelessly outclassed by England as a naval power and hopelessly beaten by England at the start in competition for the world's trade, then it would seem to be prudent to keep enough of our own money to buiid our industries. . . . "Our money, like our armies and our fleets, should be concentrated at its home bases and not dispersed abroad. "It is plain enough that the bond issue i*. not being eagerly taken, to say the least. The banks have gone in to the limit with commendable alacrity, but the people are not buying the bonds. The* eovernment will doubtless eventually dis peso of the $2,000,000,000 issue, but who i can say as much of the next issue?" The Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger reprinted from Hearst's New York American of May lh. 1017, these gems of editorial "loyalty": "The reports of our own officers say that the Allies will lose the war unless wc send enough war materials, men and bhips to help them win. . "As long as the U-boat danger ?3 not put out of the way, any question of ship? ping men across and also material is in the air. Things being such, would it not be better to end the war honorably? Shall we send troops to destroy Germany ' which, perhaps, may be necessary for the defence of our own country?" While all newspapers look alike to our Secretary of War, the Germans exercise discrimination. The New York Tribune's translation of a tender tribute to Hearst in the Cologne Volkszeitung follows: "In the daily press the numerous Hearst papers of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and other cities were auxiliaries for us of valued influence. . . , How far Hearst's In? ternational News Service got upon the nerves of the London atrocity manufact? urers is shown by the cable embargo which London finally placed upon the Hearst service, thereby cutting his Eu? ropean life-nerve. "More valuable, however, than the news were the editorials of the Hearst newspapers. They were unexcelled mod? els of popular stylo and arresting com? position. "Hearst last year took the sting out of one of the worst pests of the American press when he had his editor in chief of The Evening Journal Arthur Brisbane, with his salary of $75,000, the highest paid newspaper man of America and probably of the world -- to buy The Washington Times and conduct it in a line with his other papers." That The Times has been conducted "ir a line with his other papers" is suffieientlj clear from Hearst's $75,000-man's issue of July 16, 1917, issued within two blocks o1 the White House, whence he is intimate!} addressed by Mr. Tumulty as "My deai Brisbane." "Anarchy rules in Russia," writes Tht Washington Times; "somebody must d< something. The natural somebody is Ger many, right next door to Russia. . , The civilization of Western Europe may h very grateful to Germany if the war find Germany with enough strength left to un dertake the maintaining of order in Russia developing th?; resources there and makin; a few billions of ruble3 in the process." How could Mr. Burleson write of th Hearst leviathan's development in Chicag as "able and unselfish efforts" in behalf o "justice and freedom and true democrat'! government"? And how is it that a Heara agent could dare come into my office in th Council of National Defence Building an boast that tho President himself had intei vened to hnve Hearst's cable privileges re stored??which statement I do not yet pe? mit myself to believe. The Examiner sharpens the shaft aime at rae with the point that I prefer abandon ir.g war work rather than freedom o speech. This would be interesting if true Although i rtbigned from the Council, I an still giving all of my time to war work, ia other branches of service, and shall do 50 fot some time to come. In fact, I am still gi\ing assistance to the Council of National Defence, albeit unofficially, so as to keep to my own conscience the oath I swere wher entering the Council to support and defend the government "against all ene nv.es, foreign and domestic." The Brooklyn Eagle, on the ruornin? when my open letter appeared (June t?), ccntained an editorial as follows: "A Charge That Should Be Answer**.. Dr. Scherer regards Mr. Hearst and his newspapers as dangerous to a country engaged in the prosecution of a great war," said The Eagle. "He expresses that opinion without qualification or re? serve. He sustains his position with ref? erence to Hearst policies as defined in the columns controlled by Mr. HeaM'.. Ik prefers to get out of the Council of National Defence to remaining ?n officer of it with a tongue tied by an order frcm the Secretary of War. . . , The im? putation that Mr. Baker has assumed the r?le of a Hearst defender is serious, Mr. Baker is an able controversialist, and his reply to Dr. Scherer will be awaited with interest." The following day Mr. Baker replied, in ? statement triumphantly quoted by The Lit Angele* Examiner, as follows: "Some one, I believe a repres?ntame of one of the Hearst papers, had told m? that a representative of the Council of ."National Defence was making ?.ddresse* and spending a lot of hn time criticising in harsh terms the Hearst newspaper? I told Mr. Gilford that I thought noboii? who was officially representing the gov? ernment ought to be criticising any news? paper, I don't care whether 1: is Hears'.'? paper or anybody else's, and that while I hadn't the slightest desire to prevent ?"i' man expressing his individual opinion upon any ii"wspaper, I didn't think th? any man as a representative of the go*' ernment ought to be criticising **1 newspaper." Mr. Burleson made an exception of ?* Hearst papers in his rulings debarrmt other publications, infinitely less raise**-*"' ous, from the mails. Had ne not made this exception, individuals would not be i'0' pelled to match freedom of speech ags-i?' the license 01 Mr. Hearst's press. But Mr* j Baker says that his rules have no nctf tions; all newspapers look alike to h'?. and thus the unexceptionable rules of tae War Secretary uphold the exceptions of t-i? Burleson rulings. JAMES A. B. SCHERER' New York, July 19, 1918. Go West, Young Slacker! tfrom The Of ton a Ott**?*) . The New York police say that m0*X^ the 5,000 loafers on the department'? :!! left the city for the West before the "*?r or fight" ordinance came into iorct *?? Monday. The "lounge lizard*" will find?1* change uncongenial, the average Weste being in the habit of deaing some???" drastically with domestic pests. Hor?<* Grecley certainly would feel that *>? dohe the robust, section of the Repu ' mistaken service by his famous *?* could ha have foreseen an exodus of P character from the metropolis.