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A Broken Weapon
We r-.ii'i yesterday that the peace of?
fensive was now Germany's mosl dan?
gerous weapon. But we little knew
how dangerous it was. Who could have
imagined that il would instantly touch
the heart of an institution which hitherto
has been steadfast and unfaltering in
support of the cau ? "
Austria said:
- . . till pc? pies, oi w hatcvoi
thoj may bo fighting, long "oi ?? -
end to the blo.odj it n ggle.
Ti <? Neiv Yorl Times saj - :
All ?; bellig? rents ?le? in tin end of
the war. Fin tri rid longs for
period.
What of victory. O failing comrade?
Austria, who leagued herself with Ger?
many to conquer Europe by might and
frightfulness - Austria said:
. . t he convict ion increa
ng that thi further coi :
the bli od;.igglc must trai foi m Eu?
rope int? ' ' ' tid ii o a tjti of ex
haustion that will mar its development
for de cades to come.
The Times responds with interest, say?
ing:
"When wo consider the deluge
of blood that has been poun 1 out
war, the incalculable waste of treasure,
the ruin it has wrought, the grief that
? aillions of heart; because of :..
we must conclude that only the madness
or the soulless depravity of some one of
the belligerent powers could obstruct and
defeat the purpose cr the conference.
While that was being written The As?
sociated Press was sending out from
Washington the news, officially inspired,
that the government's answer to Aus?
tria'.- proposals would be taken from the
President's Baltimore speech?from that
part in which he said, "Force, force to
tl-ic utmo t; force without >tii I or limit."
Since it was written Austria's proposal
have leen scornfully rejected by a spon?
taneous and overwhelming expression of
nation?-! sentiment. We are that bellig?
erent viewer. Times. We will obstruct
and defeat the purpose of the conference.
Do you say we are mad, or merely that
we convict ourselves of soulless de?
pravity?
Austria said '
We v.ire to hopo that there will be
no ol ection on the part of any bellig?
erents to such an exchange of views.
The Times goes further-?very much
furth? v than to hop?. It .-ays:
We cannol im .?? no that the invital on
w i be declin ?
Since that was written the invitation
has been declined by the President. He
has defeated the enemy's peace offensive.
We forbear to make the obvious applica?
tion of '/'.'<? Tin es's amazing characteriza?
tion beforehand of a power that sh?
obstruct or defeat the purpose of the con
ft rence proposed by Aust i ....
There was never any doubt about what
the President would say to Austria -
none, at least, so far as v.e know, that
had the wish to express itself exc? pt
thedoubtof The Times. Where theenemy
but ventured to hope it could not imagine
that the invitation would be declined.
Yet that was a sequel foretold. People
generally took it for granted. That it
came si; quickly will astonish both Aus?
tria, which too deeply misunderstands the
temper of American democracy to be able
to insult it, and The Times, which has no
excuse ai all.
And lest its imagination should fail it
again at a m? re critical time than this,
possibly in som< hour of stress when the
demands of faith make the body groan,
we urge it to ?o profit by this painful ex?
perience that it can never forget again
What the war is all about.
This German thing we have resolved to
destroy is a criminal, outlawed thing, and
cannot be parleyed with.
Our business with the enemy is sim?
ple. It is to get him, dead or alive.
though we go to Beidin to'do it.
When we have taken lum he shall be
brought handcuffed before the bar of hu
Jnanity and* sentenced as he deserves?
(?> the form of death he will least dis?
grace and to an obloquy eternal.
We have raid too much for freodom to
have to win it twice.
A Chance for Children
Children may he prohibited hereafter
froci running their small legs ??IT to sell
Liberty bonds or barking themselves
hoarse for the sake of the thrift stamp
campaign, but there's one thing they can
still do to help win the war. They may
go up in Columbia University on Thurs?
day evenings and sing, for the children's
twilight concerts have been instituted
there for the prime purpose of giving
V. M. ('. A. student song leaders a sing
ing body to practise* on before they go
to camp and training station to conduct
? ' ngs" for'soldiers and sailors.
Children as a group more nearly re?
semble soldiers in the mass than do
adults. Children an' responsive and flex?
ible; so .?;??' soldiers. Children an- sim?
ple ai;?1, enthusiastic; o are soldiers. It
- one ',! the strangest phenomena of
war that even the most fastidious, over
r? fined men, ene?' in the service, soon
f? rget th?- old sophistications and learn
:.? he amused at the slightest excuse and
tobe responsive to the least attention.
And so tin,1 children, by the very vir?
tue of their childhood, can by singing
one night a week contribute more or
i directly lo the happiness of the biir
rothers in tin service. The song lead
ers try their songs out on the children.
If a song goes with them it goes with
the boys. And the fac? that no adult.
however musical, may enter the concert
Is without a child gives an added
distinction to the occasion that no child
will underestimate.
Jazzing Liberty
Have Americans too much sense of
humor? Ton much to be decently digni?
fied and properly respectful toward great
ideai .' Rudyard Kipling thought so once
when he wrote of our passing "the laws
we flout." But that was long ago. long
evt n b< fore that remote date in a certain
\ . ; when a German army entered
Belgium ami besieged Li?ge. Have we
not grown up and grown more thought?
ful and mannered since'.'
We had thought so till a notice in "The
Billboard"' reached us. That organ of
variety and the screen prints in largo
type, and solemnly, a warning not to
"jazz or rag the anthem." The anthem
is "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the
m< nt i admirable. But why the
warning? Who is jazzing "The Star
Spangled Banner"? Who in this fifth
year of the great war and our second
year of participation is so blind and deaf
and duml to popular feeling and a de?
cent respect to the opinions of all of us?
"Unseemly, uncommendable, reprehen?
sible and evil usage" are some of the ac?
cusations that "The Billboard" pins on
these ragtime patriots. Any others that
one can think of "apply as well. And in
the end all language rather fails to fill
the bill. A good round of hisses might
sati ';.' one's emotions better than any
vvords .mi''' m ire good.
Send Them Letters
Salaries of policemen in New York
were recently raised. Naturally, the
policemen are grateful. But. the pro?
posal of the Patrolmen's Benevolent
Association that each patrolman be as?
sessed h:l for the purpose of buying
presents for the Police Commissioner
members of the Board of Estimate, mem?
bers of the Board of Aldertnen and sev?
eral others who.aided in the salary in
ere: m] . ig is manifestly improper
1 he associati m should no! make such an
; ;ment. The officials should not ac?
cept gifts from patrolmen. Letters of
thanks should be sufficient.
Always Too Late
Austria-Hungary has the habit of be?
ing behindhand. It has been said of her
I that since Napoleon's day she has always
. been late at a battle. The Hapsburg at?
titude toward all tin? domestic problems
of a troubled an?! discordant empire lias
always been one of belated compromise.
Looking at it solely from the angle of
cynical self-interest, Austria-Hungary
I too long before attacking Serbia.
Probably her "punitive expedition"
agaii the lit tie ' Slav state would
have been tolerated by the Concert of the
European Powers if it had been launched
five or six years earlier. For at that
time Great Britain had hardly begun to
cultivate close relations with Prance and
Russia and Italy had not yet drifted
,- way in spirit from the Triple Alliance.
Russia, too, was then greatly weakened
by her unsuccessful war with Japan and
by the widespread revolutionary agita?
tion following it.
i? e statesmen in control at Vienna,
h? ?dwinking the aged Emperor, lighted
the flames o? a world conflagration with
audacious levity. They did not measure
the consequences which Premier Burian
now belatedly laments and seeks to hold
the other powers, drawn into war by
Austria-Hungary's wilful folly, equally
responsible for.
Now Austria-Hungary, facing defeat,
pathetically becomes concerned about the
impending "ruin" of Europe, and asks
enemies for a peace conf?rence.
Again she is too late. There was
a time early last winter when a genuine
peace ; opo al from Austria-Hungary
have been seriously considered.
Before the treaty of Brest-Litovsk ex?
posed the brutal policy of Teuton spolia?
tion in the Last the Entente powers
might have listened to suggestions of ac
con modation coming from Vienna, based
on the alleged adherence of the Czernin
Ministry to the principle of no annexa?
tions and no indemnities and "self-deter?
mination" for subject peoples. The Em
I t ror ("carles sought in the secret Prince
Sixtus correspondence to lay a basis for
negotiations- which should enable the
, Dual .Monarchy to escape from the war
j practically intact. But his courage failed
! him when Berlin discovered what he was
| doing. And the Bolshevist betrayal of i
! Russia may have convinced him that
I there was still more profit, for the I laps
1 burg dynasty in continuing the war than
in ending it.
The Brest-Litovsk treaty closed the
door to any peace of compromise with
the Teuton dpoilers. luven in the ?lark
days last, spring, when a German victory
in Kran?-?1 seemed imminent, the Allies
resolutely put aside the thought of any
settlement with the Teuton powers which
: would leave the latter masters ?if Centrai
and Pastern Europe an-!, through that
mastery, a perpetual menace to the
world's peace.
The die was cast when Russia was
partitioned. Subsequently the marvellous
performance of the Czecho-Slovak armies
?n saving Russia from Teuton domina?
tion compelled Allied recognition of
Slovakia. Tin- Allies have assumed
obligations to the Jugo-Slavs and to
1 the Poles which require a dismember?
ment of what Dr. Miihlon called "that
; outworn, cruel, selfish, greedy and hypo- ;
critical simulacrum of a state -Austria
Hungary."
Sentence of dissolution has been passed
: on the Dual Monarchy. I lea, then, can
, Vienna expect the Allied powers -now
for the first time really conscious of vic
j tory- to enter into a discussion involv?
ing an invalidation of the lentence?
i Vienna has overslept. The Allies have
; pledged their honor t?? tin- cause of the
; Czecho-Slovaks, of the South Slavs, of
I the people of Italia Irredenta, of the
; Poles and of the Rumanians, so foull*,
despoiled by Germany.
If Austria-Hungary wants peace she
knows the terms of peace. She can have
S peace by admitting a readiness to accept
! them.
But an irresponsible conference, bind
? ing no participant and enabling Germany
j and Austria-Hungary (?? parade insin
! cere and tricky compromises, mere baits
j to defeatism and pacifism, would be only
; a Teuton trap. No Allied power will walk
j into it. The Allied peoples want no peace
1 which docs not represen-. Teuton sub?
mission, disgorgement, reparation and
! reformation. In the world which is t?>
? emerge from the present war Teuton
[ rapacity and savagery must never again
; be allowed to go unchained.
Film Libraries
The educational valu.' of motion pict
tires has long been recognized, as well as
their peculiar fitness for social well; re
propaganda. Calling attention to the
need for making films of 'his character
more accessible, Miss Ina '.lenient, in
a report to the Municipal Reference
Library of the City of New York, sug?
gests the need of a film library. She
\ says:
There is inure need for a p ibli? i brary
of films Clan there ever was for a public
| library of hooks, and for the following
reasons: The book is an individual prop?
erty; it. can Le read in solitude; the in?
dividual can purchase il if he wants it.
Hut the motion picture is essentially ..
collective comino? ty, The individual can
have a desired motion i cm re on!*, on
1 condition thai a a - ? : imber of ot er
j people want tin picture a the same
time. This fact makes i; peculiarly out
of question to leave motion pictures to
the exploitation of unlimited commercial?
ism. The public film library, dealing with
a sufficiently large number of schools,
churches and oth? r agencies, would be
able to draw on the world's supply for
whatever film it. wanted and to ransack
the film output of the last ten years. Such
a library could secure copies of interest
ing sections of films and keep them to .
rent or lend to public officials or organ i
aat ions.
Miss Clement has prepared a list of
civic pictures classified m der the follow?
ing headings: Americanization, child
welfare, commerce, crime and criminals,
education, fire protection and prevention,
gardening, health problems, milk supply,
municipal government, police, public util
, ities, public works, recreation, roads and
pavements, safety, sanitation, social ser
, vice, tuberculosis and miscellaneous.
Governments are using films to record
warscenes. The State Historic;;! Depart?
ment of Iowa has gathered films for his?
torical purposes. If, as it seems, there is
a demand for a public film library, it is
probable that the need will be met by the
cooperation of the various agencies in?
terested in developing the motion picture
along wise and useful lines. Properly
managed, a public film library could be
made a power for the public good.
inwards of Journalism.
A NT) now the ! dealers in and
/'-\^ aroupd New V'ork are on strike. TI e
Tribune says the strike is against
the Hearst publications because of their ?lis
loyalty, but this is not the whole truth.
The dealers want to get their papers
cheaper fr? m the pi b his. They, too,
feel the hi? h cos? ? f i verything, While
the dealers refuse to handle the Hearst
papers, they are confronted by a counter
strike on tiie ear-, of all the publishers
except The Tribune.. \1] the papers fighi
Hearst editorially, but thej are in a bu ;i
ness combination with him. They have
told thedealers that if they will not take
the Hearst \ a] : they ?hall not have the
ot her papers. I [ear t ma \ be disloyal to
this count : y. but the b is ness d? pai tments
: of the ? ';; r ; a] i are loyal to Hearst.
Here's a comb no agaii -? which there are
no editorial The news paper
trust :.- securi again: : : ssault from its
componen! pai ; -. But one concei n holds
out - The Tribune. It w ;:; not go in with
the other m w papei .... pporl
of Hearst. It will .' ti ?but ? its papers
through improvised agencies. I ; . con
?stent and game.
Sky Is Our 1 unit for That
I / row Tlu I'itt . ,h U ?:? If,
The price of Mai . mp s to be
cl anged next iveek, but ' don't care how
much a i ckti? foi the K sei c? ta.
( iasless C (insolation
? . i a lo i
h won't in a kt so much difference nuw ill,
it rains on ?Sunday.
An Ancient
Hohenzollern Joke
By F.clgar Stanton Maclay
-?"M?EDEJl?CK THE CREAT has not.
"H gone down in history an a joker.
But at the time of tho Ameri?
can Revolution he perpetrated a "little
laugh" at tho expense of the ntrug
gling colonista which is one of the cher?
ished memories of the Hohenzollern dy?
nasty. In the first stages of the war Fred?
erick's policy was to pursue a "middle
course." taking sides neither for nor against
the Americans; but when he learned of
Burgoyne's surrender he assured Benjamin \
Franklin that he would recognize their in?
dependence "when France, which is more
directly interested in the event of this :
contest, shall have given the example,"
Also he instructed his Minister of State,
Boron Sehulcnburg, to permit American
agent! in Berlin to purchase arms for Con?
tinental troops stating that "tho firm of
Splittgerber & ?'o., contractors for the |
manufacture of arms, have received direr- ;
tiens, to deliver such as you may demand."
Acting under this authority, Arthur Leo,
our < ommissioncr to Prussia, purchased
800 fusils, but when delivered it was found
that ?hey were old, worn-out weapons,
which wore utterly worthless. Leo indig?
nant^ demanded that the Splittgerber firm
b? compelled to rectify the fraud, but was
informed that he, "as a good republican,
ought to know that, the Prussian King had
no power to arbitrarily right private
broaches of contract."
There is a sentiment growing among the :
members of Congress that when the linal
settlement is made with Germany in this
war a bill for $8,000, plus compound in?
terest at 8 per cent for 139 years, should
ho included. Eight thousand dollars at s
per cent compound interest, for 139 year-,
would not amount to an enormous total,
but think of all the fun the Hohenzollern
family lias had over that little joke dur- ;
ing that period of 139 years! From tho i
Hohenzollern viewpoint it was a good joke
on the struggling colonists, and surely Wil- ?
: ? :!.. II. "as a good sport," ought to be will?
ing to pay even if it does como at tho
other end of the joke.
.
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Now and After
To the Editor of The Tribune.
S IK: Too much praise cannot be priven to
The Tribune fer its solitary tight
against the Hear'!, papers. In after days,
when true Americanism will bo appraised
?it its historic value. The Tribune and its
friends will be proud of their stand ?n this
crisi .
The attitude of the other New York
papers is incomprehensible to the ordinary
Papers that wc have all regarded as
bulwarks of loyalty to this country and to
oui allies are now ranged solidly on the
side of the man whom they all know to be
engaged in the subtlest effort to undermine
such loyalty in the minds of the public.
There is no mistake about their opinion of
Hearst; many of them have openly ex?
pressed it until now! By what casuistry,
what plea of expediency or self-interest,
can they justify their course to themselves
ur to their read r ? The average man
doesn't know. He would imagine that they
would be more afraid of tho ultimate con?
sequences of such a course than of any?
thing else that could Ipippen to them. .Sure- ?
ly this is no time to temporize with sedi
lion.
A year or more ago, at one of the mass
meetings in Carnegie Hall called by the
American Rights League, James ?VI. Beck
made a fiery arraignment of Hearst as the
arch-enemy of the Allied cause in this
country, condemning him out of his own
mouth by quotations from his editorials
an those of his henchmen. Mr. Beck
brought to hear upon him all the power of
his judicial mind and his splendid elo?
quence. There was no withstanding such
evidence at the time, even if The Tribune
had not afterward collected such a mass of
incont rovertible proof.
Would it not now help the newsdealers
and the public if a big anti-Hearst mass
meeting were held? We need it. How can
.we win the war- and how can we live if
we do not- unless the strongholds of dis?
loyalty are overthrown? M. C. SMITH.
East Orange, N. J., Sept. 13, 1918.
What Has Happened to
"The Times?'7
? Fro; : The Globi l
ALMOST alone among the newspapers
of the country "The New York
Times" welcomes the Austrian pro?
posal and refuses to believe it will be de?
clined. ''The first veritable peace offer," it
calls it, "and it comes in a form which the
Allies may honorably accept in the confident
belief that it. will lead to the end of the
war."
Hearst himself, in the worst days of his
pro-Germanism, said nothing better calcu?
lated to serve the interests ef the Kaiser.
Is ?t ?lessili!i- that some new influence has
come upon "The Times," that it, of all
papers, should encourage tin- dishonest
peace drive Germany has started in the mo?
on nt when lier military defeat is impend?
ing and her only hope is in weakening the
sprrit of her enemies? "The Times" in the
dark years of the war has done much to
strengthen the wavering. Why should it
faiter in the crisis, when every man of good
faith and sound knowledge feels that the
great object to attain which all our sacri?
fices have been made is about to be at?
tained ?
The authors of the article; that have
appeared in "The Times" clearly setting
forth the perfidy of Germany and the wicked
ne - of coi idering peace negotiation wil i
her ruler--, len whose covenanted word can?
not be trusted, must know that here is
no veritable peace offer which the Allies
may honorably accept. Why. then, does
? I'imes" say it is, living in.the face
of its own policy anil the settled policy
of the United States? Better many d.iy- of
ndecision while the hosts were gathering
on the side of righteousness than one hour
of weakness when the time has come to
st r.ke the final blow.
A Better World
rhc Columbia n
One of William R, Hearst's publical ?on -
has suspended publication. And yet some
I people say that the world is not growing
1 better.
Hase Ifiletw IHIcr?
<mi mimtvtt?xt
AMERICAN HISTORY REVERSED-NO. 5
Hearst Strafing England
Fire yaws before Germany declared war the German navy began to toast "Der Tag" meai\~
ing the day that should see the wreck of Great Britain's vow er.
Fire months before Germany declared war the Hearst newspapers launched in this country
a very violent anti-British propaganda, in which England's power tvas represented in a sinister
aspect.
This propaganda took the form of a series of cartoons on "American History Reversed."
Each of them revived memories of America's struggle with England a century ago, and pictured
the President and hi* associates as reversing the historic procedure and exhibiting a base and
disloyal subservience to a grasping foreign enemy.
The Pacifist "Pincer"
By Frank H. Simonds
(Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune Inc.)
?T IS es ential for all Americans to
see the latest German man?uvre
for the thing it actually is. Ac
as the agent of Germany, Austria is
endeavoring to enable Ludendorff to re?
gain the lost initiative, and thus win the
war, and win it by a military decision.
The best illustration of German strat?
egy is contained in a speech by Herr
Davi>l, a Socialist member of the Reichs
tag, representing the Mainz district, who
said :
-"( ?ermany musl sque? ;e her enemies
with a pair of pincers. The German
armies must continue to fight vigorously
while the German Socialists encourage
and stimulate pacifism among Germany's
enemies."
Now, for the moment, the military
pincer is unable to op ' e, hence the
German strategists are making u<o of
the other pincer, but, and this is capital,
with the express purpose of making use
again of tin militar;, "pincer" when the
way has bee n pre] ! I.
The best way to explain the present.
man?uvre is to ft call the last til
pacifist "pincer" was put into ?;??? -
In the campaign of I DIG, after the fail?
ure of Germany at Verdun and Austria
in the Trentino, the Central Powers lost
the initiative, just as they have now lost
it again. The British and FreFich at the
Somme, Italy at Gorizia, Russia in Vol
hynia and Galicia, passed to the offen?
sive and won consid?rai'!'- victories. Not
even the Rumanian disaster restored the
German situation. Germany and .Aus?
tria were threatened on all sides, and, if
ail their enemies resume.! operations
with the same pace in 1917 a defeat
was inevitable.
Accordingly the Kaiser made his peace
gesture of L91G. What was the result?
First a Russian revolution, then, after
Allied reverses at the Aisne and in Flan?
ders, a war of pacifism ami pessimism in
France ami Britain. While the peace
'?pincer" was m operation the German
Reichstag adopted a programme of
"peace without annexation or indem?
nity"; pacifism and war weariness all
through the Allied countries swallowed
the bait whole.
Presently the preparation was com?
plete. Then the. military "pincer" was
again put into action. First Italy was
attacked and heavily beaten at. the
[sonzo; then Russia., already disarmed,
was treated to the Brest-Litovsk negotia?
tions, compelled to consent) to partition,
mutilation, ruin.
And as a consequence; having di posed
of Russia permanently and Italy tempo?
rarily, Germany recovered the initiative,
abandoned tin.1 peace man?uvre and,
gathering up her fail military strength,
tell upon France and Great Britain,
who.-'.1 armies had been sunken by the
peace campaign, whose publics had been
taken in ami confused by the operation
of the pacifist "pincer."
War Names in the News
Abaucourt .a-hu-koor
Mont des Singes... mon-day-sanzsh
( hut ilion .sha-tee-yon
Sissonne.sis-sun
Chavignon.sha-veen-j on
Sauchy-Cauchj.so-shee-ko-shee
( lourcelles.koor-sell
Mei,'.mes-,
Douilly.dw et-\ ee
We liave now exactly the same
man?uvre. The German military "pin?
cer" is in worse shape than it was two
years ago. But it, is by no means de?
stroyed?it can be brought back into
form again. But it is necessary for the
time being to shift the field of campaign?
ing, to undertake again to undermine
Allied armies and Allied public senti?
ments. When this has been accomplished
then Ludendorff can try again.
The moment, then, is critical. We
permitted the pacifist "pincer" to oper?
ate in 1917, and we lost Russia, nearly
lost Italy and had to face the terrible
campaign of the present year, which
?' rought the Kaiser back within range of
Paris, put our whole cause in jeopardy
again and gave German militarism an?
other chance. It seems incredible that
we should be blind enough to repeat the
blunder.
We have got to break the military
"pincer," and we bave not yet done it.
1 1 '.cent victories are not more con
iderable than those of 1916; the present
military situation is not more promising
. of September 1. 1916. The
German army on tho West frotit had
then lost Verdun and was being terribly
pounded at the Somme; Russia was
I efore Lemberg, having taken 350,000
prisoners, and 15,000 square, miles of ter?
ritory; Rumania was invading Hungary;
Sarra? was striking from Sal?nica.
Yet the German army survived the
1916 crisis, held on through 1917 and
made its greajfc advances in March and
May in the current year.
There is only one. way to get peace,
and that is to remove the one obstacle to
peace?the German army. If it isn't
beaten it will survive any peace negotia?
tion and be thrown against us. again at
the appropriate moment. Ludendorff
has lost the initiative; Foch has it, but
Haig, Joffre and Brusiloff had it in
September, 1916, and subsequently lost
it because of the operation of tho paci?
fist "pincer."
If the German can get us til! to ?talk?
ing peace again, as he did in 1917, he
will be able to strike us again as he
struck Russia at Brest-Litovsk, Italy at
Caporetto and Britain and Prance in
Picardy and at the Aisne. His new
campaign is directed at the "home
front." [f it succeeds lie will be able to1
strike the war front again. Our hoys in
Lorraine will be the victims if our public
in the United States listens now.
We have had the news of our army
from St. Mihiel in recent days. Our
army should now have the news from
home. Victory can come only when the
two fronts are united and the will to
victory is as strong behind the front as
it is along it. We are in the presence of
a new German offensive. We shall risk
losing the war if we fail to repulse it.
It is time for our civilian barrage to be
put down. The enemy attack must be
stopped in its own trenches.
The Proper Retort
(From Th, -, ,-? . ?
This story is from London: A
woman in khaki uniform arid cap met a
Scotch kilty. She saluted. He curtsied.
Constructive Criticism
i /??>?, m '.'?;..? Di troit Ven s-l
Pre idem Wilson's eleven-year-old eaddy
criticises the Executive's game adversely.
That's democracy.
Ras
ta s
Stricken Press
Die New lorfc Tribune
Foreign Presa Burean
T ie Russian correspondent of the
Vossische Zeitung, of Berlin, gives several
interesting facts in regard to the Russian
press. A.-nor.g other : points oat
that advertisements have almost complete
. disappeared. The only advertisements
? ? be : i a R issian papv r to-day ore
nnncuncements about lost and found arti?
cles, most of which are membership cards
of various societies, passports and identii?
n cards.
The price of Russian newspapers has
isen entirely oat of proportion with
?hose of other countries. For example,
he monthlj subscription rate of
? h - Rus ' i was 1H rubl? .- (75
: to-day it is s rubles ($4).
' ? 'culatioi Russ ian news?
papers, the Ia.1 er haf tr<.rldously de
? d becau i of the met] of the
vik authorities. The only papers
? have not lost in circulation are the
vik official organs, the Prod'cta-,
a, and these, are be
ted free by the Bolshevik an- .
The circulation of the other
papers, whether independent of or repre
senting anti-Bolshevik parties, has been
d almost to zero by the Bolshevik
? : of Provisions, wli ich con
rjbution of paper nnd pre
paper to the non-Bol
The Bolsheviki do not limit their control
j of the press to the reduction of the 6upply
- r. rhey never hesitate to suppress
permanently or temporarily any newspaper
that expresses opinions not in accord with
i of the ofiirial organs. With the ?T
n of 1 a organs there f?
. a paper in Russia that has r.ot been
suppressed by Lenine's government. Many
I of these papers have n"t reappeared again,
b it ?' most important "r.es have
peared under new names, ard are no*?
in their utterances.
When one looks at a list of newspapers
published at present in Rus . it is very
oes a? ross any old Rus
: almost all of the names
are new. The Russkoye Slovo, before the
.. Iv? nt of ki wit a circulation
of 800,000, lias now a cii of less
Vashe Slovo
"Our Wor X,, oye Vremya, f?r'
. ?" Russia, is now
! Pon region, which is occu
'???-- tck i, The Dyen, the organ
of tl ig of t ??hanged
' its name to Night, and '': < n, after it was
suppressed, 1 ts name to
less of Night, mA
? ? was completely suspended,
? ' new bourgeois
? i were e a Bolshevik
? ? of :a-: ! ten the start
ng of ..:
Suppose
he Satvrda r. entri? "
Suppose no great war had happened. ^UP*
p ? .. Pre nt of the I nited States had
given Cabinet portfolios to the chairman of
Bethlehem Steel < mpany, a member o
the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., and the
i ... dei ? of the Anaconda Copper Com?
pany.
You need not be extraordinarily endowed
,- th imagination to suppose a roar ?
and indignation. Only two or
tb-ree years ago the Senate stternly refused
? . confirm President Wilson's appointment
the Federal Reserve Beard of an other*
-,v .-?> rep itable and competent man who ?'??
a ,-; re a bi ??? lu >< ?i corporation,
and it had the hardest kind of work to per*
ia le itself that a man with Wall Street
bar. ?.in-* experience might be as service?11
on a banking board as a country editor.
A valued contemporary tells us that At
? u-v instinctively and inveterately *f
? -? competence and success. That soun
hardly reasonable, yet our contemp??1-'
can point to a mass o( evidence. We w0
der Whether the mass will increase ?*
diminu? after the war.