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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1917. 4 his acta have not the condonation of EVOLUTION paternal affection fearing for a draft ed son. vises the Board of Estimate that there is nothing In this contention.

So the decision of the Board of Estimate, legal successor of the Board of Aldermen, not to go through the form of revoking this -'permit" was strictly proper. (Trade Hark "Eagle" Registered.) SUNDAY MORNING, DEC. 2, 1917. Prussian efficiency defies millions of hunger strikers. And forcible feeding is the last thing to enter the official mind.

TMrtrnrti-or rrto nnttnn of lenvini? hp I Entered it the Poatofflce at Brooklyn. S. Korember 12. 1879, aa Second Clan of Mall Matter aider the Act of March 6, whole matter to an incoming city administration has certain unmistakable political advantages. Shop early and take your gifts home yourself, and it will be imputed to you for patriotism at the clearing house 1W- t- a A a i of conscience.

-mm a. it Penitent eyes look on the unstirred sugar in the bottom of a used coffee EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PKESS 8ERVICB The Associated Preaa ia exclusively entitled to the nae for republication of all newi dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in ihii paper, and alto the local newi published herein. Ail rights of republication of special ditpatch.es herein are alto reserved. The Sunday Morning Edition of The Eagle has a Large Circulation 'throughout the United Slates and Europe. It ia the best Adverting Medium for those who desire to reach all classes of Newspaper Readers in New York Gty and on Long Island.

Ing an armistice are perfectly clear, but there are other possibilities that are not altogether favorable to the German plan. An armistice that does not lead directly to a separate peace gives both sides time. Those who still have faith In Russia feel that if there is only time enough Russia, the real Russia, will assert herself and put down the fanatics now in power. Already there are signs of returning sanity even in Petrograd. Reports that the Lenine-Trotzky Cabinet has been replaced have not been confirmed, but the almost laughable experience of Ensign Kryleuko, the Bolshevik "commander-in-chief," is a straw showing the direction of the wind.

Krylenko has been unable to get himself recognized at the front. An armistice may give the Teutons a respite on the eastern front, but there has been a practical armistice there for months. It may give Russia a respite from anarchy it may give the more substantial elements and even the masses in Russia a chance to reflect upon their plight and pave the way to sane counter action against the Leninists. What happens at Brest-Lltovsk may not be so Important as what takes place in the rest of Russia during the strange proceedings there. cup.

But penitence without reform is utterly nugatory. Fine cigarettes are now made from tobacco raised in China. Turkey has begun to pay the trade penalty of fraternizing with Christendom's outcast nation. At least the Teuton spy factories are (Copyright Kane: The Brooklyn Dally Eagle.) WILLIAM HESTER. President and General Manager.

WILLIAM V. HESTER, Secretary-Treasurer. HERBERT F. GUNNISON. Bustnesa Manager.

Address: Eagle Building. sending us a noiseless type these days, which saves our nerves. Before we entered the war eardrums were intolerably assailed. WHAT IMPORT LICENSES MEAN. Considering the wide range of speculation indulged in by the public press and by merchants on the possible effects of the new policy of demanding "import the Government does well to issue a formal statement making it clear what such licenses mean, at least for the present.

The embargo acts of our Allied gov NO LEAN CHRISTMAS. Already croakers here and there are beginning to talk about "a lean war Christmas." In the name of common sense, why for a generation have so many men had work nor have wages been so high. The cost of living is high, too, but it is better to have a job with turkey at 40 cents than to be without a job when turkeys are selling at half that price. The great bulk of people may not have a large surplus for Christmas giving, but they have already sent presents to their boys in France and they will find ways to remember their kin on this side of the sea. The rich are feeling the burdens of war time far more than are those families which depend on the weekly pay envelope.

The bulk of the war taxation falls on them, although some of it reaches, as it should reach, into every home. There Is a strong feeling against extravagance among such families, many public dinners have been dropped and entertaining has been simplified. But those things are the result of the demand for food conservation. There is a shortage of food and coal rather than a shortage of money to pay for them, and if the Government restraints were withdrawn sugar would 'be selling at 50 cents a pound and coal at $20 a ton. But because we save coal for transports and food for the soldiers is no reason why we should deny ourselves the pleasure of remembering our friends on the day which custom has consecrated to that purpose.

Psychologically there is more need for Christmas cheer and gayety in war time than during the piping days of peace. The strain of the war is great and it will, grow greater as the lists of casualties lengthen. When potentialities of sorrow lie in every newspaper which we open is the time to fix the mind firmly on the blessings which we have. Chief of those blessings are our friends, and to let the ties of friendship loosen, under the demand for economy which the food snving has emphasized, Is the worst possible preparation for meeting those bereavements which war will bring. Let us not make our Christmas wasteful, but let us use it to bind closer our friendships and to add, wherever we can, to the joy and merriment of a world that sadly needs heartening to meet its burdens.

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6200 Main. ernments have sadly hampered desirable importations to this country. These acts did not aim to cut us off from raw materials or finished products that England and France could send us. But they dealt with the individual exporting goods from those countries, and they compelled him to prove that he was not sending them here to be reshipped directly or indi rectly to Germany or to aid Germany Advertisements for the New York Evening Post will be received at the office of The Eagle at regular rates. In any way; also that he was not making the shipment for speculative purposes.

Reasonable in themselves these demands imposed a grave burden on mMiftii trade. This burden the new policy will remove. The Thanksgiving remnants are gone in croquettes and hash. Let us hear nn more about turkey for one blessed threa weeks. The Government of the United States will now assume full responsibility for the destination of things imported by those who have licenses and all others will be stopped.

The State Civil Service Commission Is true to the cause in declining to permit exemptions in the city now. It bans politics. It is fair that England and France, Personal and Impersonal that of Adam toward Eve "The World tempted me, and I did eat." Wall Street never saw any plot against the Liberty bonds. sive brands. Among them Kill ma Quick and Sailor's Delight, whioh members of Tammany Hall in off years might accept, would be rejected with scorn.

to which we are sending food and ATTRIBUTED TO SORDID SELFISHNESS. From those who have charge of the distribution of food has come a protest against priority being given to the transportation of coal. From those who have charge of the distribution of food has come a protest against priority being given to the distribution of fuel. One of the protestants is Mr. Hoover; the other is Administrator Garfield, each in authority, but both subject to some sort of control by the Priority Committee.

Chairman Thompson of that committee has decided in favor of coal to the extent of "advising" all interested lines to give to fuel such preference as will be consistent with the relief of terminals and junction points. For each of the protests there was more than sufficient justification. Mr. Hoover would be doing less than Ills duty had he failed to urge that foodstuffs are not among the non-essentials and that many of them are perishable. Dr.

Garfield has a case too strong to be permitted to go by default and the Priority Board may well have found it difficult to decide. But In botlf cases there are many difficulties to be dealt with, including the tendency of dealers and producers to take advantage of necessities becoming more acute. As to the coal situation, the Railway Age Gazette declares that it is becoming menace to the prosperity of the country. It was easily within the possibilities and there was general expectation that soon after the beginning of our participation in the war there would be an almost immediate increase of production to the extent of 100.000,000 tons, or about 17 per cent. The increase lias fallen far short of that estimate, not then regarded as unreasonably high.

Result, a general shortage. The Gazette alleges: That the coal producers have shown not only a want of business ability, but a sordid selfishness and a lack of patriotism; That the mines all over the country are being worked to much less thun capacity; That, after succeeding in securing greatly increased prices, the "barons" have displayed neither fairness nor diplomacy in dealing 'with their labor problems, and That as a result householders and communities are in constant dread lest they be without fuel for the winter. This indictment the Gazette supplements by saying that it does not believe in Government operation of industries, but 'that if there be any industry in the country which lias justified the serious consideration of Government seizure it is that controlled by the coal producer. munitions in vast quantities, and steadily, should do what they can for us to give us what we need to keep our fac "Hands down!" from Lansdowne might rather disconcert John Bull, if he failed to see the face of an old friend behind the mask. Cross and Crown.

tories running. Rubber, for example, Is controlled from London. We need rubber badly. A drunken man's innocent dependents suffer worst. So it is with a drunken nation like Russia.

Rumania deserves all the world's pity. Our judgment is that import licenses belong distinctly to the field of war Only half Huns were the thieves who stole some of the Kaiser's art treasures from Hohenslohe. They didn't smash a thing, though they sold as much as possible. Suffragists are to place a solid told crows on the head of Mrs. Norman Whltehouee, th New York president, at their rational con ventlon In Washington.

Ne. For Mrs. Whitehouse Is the crown Which jewelers emboss; But Alice Paul (et et al.) legislation. The policy as a permanent one for commercial advantage would be irritating to friendly nations and Governor Whitman wants to give Albany's custom house more work by creating a ship terminal around it. Now, if William Barnes were Collector of the Port spite might be charged, but as it is the proposition has to be handled on its merits.

might do more harm than good. Washington Is not looking toward the use of a club on any post-bellum foreign trade. It is good news that Dr. William H. Maxwell is almost well agalu.

His advice to the new Hylnn Board of Education will be invaluable if it is taken 'and followed implicitly. COLLECTIONS AT SEA GATE. The Sea Gate Association is to be congratulated on its ingenuity. It has devised a scheme that no doubt keeps within the letter of those laws which protect a citizen from the offensive advertising of the fact that his bills are unpaid, but which serves the same purpose as would the placarded wagon of a collection agency stationed before a man's door. The householders who fail to pay their assessments to the association for garbage collection and for those other services which the city performs without charge for less fortunate persons who live outside the precincts of a restricted residential settlement find a whitewash splash on their sidewalks.

This proved so offensive that a number If opera and golf are not war industries how comes it that Messrs. Hylan and Murphy are supporters of these forms of waste? Every knock is a boost with Viscount Northcllffe. The Morning Post sees him advancing toward a dukedom. He should hurry, as dukedoms are crumbling. Wanted: Big guns in Congress fitted with telescopes that take in the whole country.

Mole-eyed "dee-strict" legislation is pork that does not support our soldiers and sailors. It would be a great thing for North Dakota if A. C. Townley's talk could in some way enable the soil of that State to produce the thirty-three bushels of wheat per acre common in Germany rather than the seven bushels per acre taken, from a robbed soil. The Commercial Economy Board will never be able to design a mors economical suit of clothes than last year's suit patched to last throughout the war.

We shan't have to sew ourselves in our red underwear like that Brooklyn boy in France, but we can honorably go threadbared and CUTTING THE BUDGET. Though more than $000 for every May boast the double cross. The crown is. twenty carats fine; It really has no dross; But finer still, in piquant thrill. The pickets' double cross.

They had the stomach for a fight, Defiant heads they toss; And those who like a hunger strike Bear high' the double cross. Repudiate the copy book, Which is no serious loss; "No cross, no crown," goes down, down, While cross-girls grow more cross. J. A. business day of the year would be saved to taxpayers if the cuts made in the budget by the Board of Aldermen Any woman or any man now engaged in exploiting, imagined vice in our war camps will take the best possible advice if she or he decides to follow the vaudeville counsel and "make a noise like a silence." There is a distinct limit to American patience.

Those old men at the Hempstead Poor jFarm who went without tobacco for to buy a flag put to shame other Americans. Nobody is too poor to sacrifice something. were to stand, the percentage of the total is very small. Tammany Hall, which controls the Board, has decided at least to make a "bluff'' at slashing We suppose that Lexington, hog which weighed pounds must have been worth more than $1100 cash. of them paid up.

Of course, they ought to out more than $650,000 for new positions. The increases of salaries so much talked about are only brought down by $32,000. The miscellaneous cutting is considerable. pay up, so that scant sympathy will be felt for them. If they want their gar Farmers who raised uo pork are tear ing their hair in all the States.

GENERAL BYNG. (With Apologies to "Ounga. You may talk of war and stench When you're quartered in a trench An' you know the bloody Boches are a-hatin'; But when it comes to fillin' vnni- rv roiiI with killin' Now Mayor Mitchel may veto the rusty if it helps to buy Liberty Bonds A mau diligent in his business may stand before kings, but he falls down and subscribe for the many good bage and ashes collected free, or if they waut to ride back and forth to their business without sharing the cost of a private boat, they should move up into Brooklyn. The city will care for their garbage then and two nickels causes that are helping the boys to slashing done by the Aldermen. Many of his friends think he will do so, in vindication of the action of the Fusion Board of Estimate which made before: police magistrate.

Up in the Bronx grocer, speeding to buy sugar, win. Very comfortable snoes can oe knit out nf raers that have been saved had to pay a $23 fine just the same. for rag carpet. They are more yield a day will suffice for their transporta If there be two sides to this story the producers are entitled to their day in court, but no general denial will tion, but there won't be anything re up the original budget. If a veto comes a three-fourths majority of the Aldermen will be needed to overrule the Mayor's disapproval.

ing than wooden shoes, and besides we have lost the art of whittling wooden shoes. Our Dutch ancestors scuffled stricted or private about either service "Intensive and expensive" is W. Hamlin Childs' description of the Fu We've got a man that never believes in waitin'. Now in all this grinning war, In this hell of blood an' gore There's a man that strikes like eagles on the wing. Of all the bloomin' bunch The man that's got the punch Is our grim two-fisted fighter, General Byng.

It is Byng! Byng! Byng! You lightning lump o' fight-dust, General Byng! i Prnm Beersheba unto Dan suffice. If they try to saddle the rai If they want to keep out of the crush around Brooklyn in wooden shoes on sion campaign. He lias no reason to Tammany by herself isn't strong they should be willing to pay the piper. kitchen floors that knew no linoleum, only sand. There is still plenty of enough for this.

It has 53 elected apologize for using dollars to neu tralize a part of the enemy's misrep resentntions. sand. A Brooklyn stay-at-home The association is within its rights in trying to weed out the people who won't pay. The point is that it has members. The Republicans have 20.

Add the Borough Presidents and the President of the Board, and the show swaddled in rag-carpet shoes and in neatly patched clothes is bound to gain a patriotic feeling unknown to wasters who do not take bond-buying found a method which works. Dark Brown All Cordovan English Last Smart Young Man's Boot $10 This Boot carries the same exceptional guarantee which has characterized all our lines for years. Graham Co. BOOT SHOPS 11 Barclay St. Woolworth Building 211 Montague St Mechanics Bank Building roads with responsibility and it is quite likely that they will the answer to that effort will be that the carriers have more than met expectations.

Without any increase of equipment they have transported 16 per cent, more coal than they handled last year. Administrator Garfield cannot be blamed for fighting for priority, but if incapacity and sordid selfishness are There's no better fightln man Than this horny-handed scrapper, General Byng. THE BREST-LIT0VSK MEETING. Our honored dead must lie in France or wherever they fall till the war is over. So necessity rules.

The sooner the battling and the dying are doue on the other side of the Rhine the better seriously. In France and England old clothes and old shoes are made to yield their last shred of service, and Some time today the Russian peace commissioners are expected to I shan't forgit the night When we put the Huns to flight it is a badge of loyalty to appear wrinkled and frayed. What does that moot representatives of the German for humanity. amount to compared with what the Goernment on the road from Dvlnsk The night we stung era use a Hornet's sting! among his problems, shortage should be traced to its source and dealt with there, minus kid gloves. Ing is Tammany 55, opposition 24.

But if five Bennett Republicans or Republicans seeking favors from Tammany, or for other reasons foes of Mitchel, were to vote with the Tammany Aldermen, three-fourths could be secured. We hardly think anything of this sort will happen, not because Tammany could not find the needed allies, but because the budget cutting Is a "bluff," and the Democrats are just as well satisfied to let the figures stand if they can put the responsibility on Fusion. to Vilna and Journey together to Brest There was quiet In the ranks An' the ghost-like British tanks Litovsk, where they will negotiate for an armistice and discuss the question Went forth like pnantom messengers from Byng. of peace. It will be a strange proceed No juggling of men who have not passed examinations to get them under jtbe civil service blanket is a service to reform.

And that's true whether Republicans or Democrats do it, here or in Washington. The Huns were unaware ing. Two of the three Russian com "SMASHING" THE NEW YORK CENTRAL. We can't quite frame a mental picture of Charles S. Hervey playing a Patrick Jerome Gleason role as a smasher of things in general, but any missioners are Jews, named Schneer Of the menace in the air Till we smashed "em like a fighter in the ring; and Sagalovltch.

The fact has no slg We struck 'em tooth an' nail. nificaiico beyond the fact that the trio bears about the same relation to the Russian people as the Three Tailors other interpretation of his threat in connection with the West Side tracks of the New York Central Railroad Company seems impossible. He is With Ursa Major touching minor chords the big war orchestra Is not disorganized, only disturbed. The Russian Bear takes himself much too of Tooley Street bore to the people of Paris may once have meant France, Jbut Petrograd doesn't mean Russia. Trotzky and Lenine are just trying a sawdust game on Wilhelm the come-on.

Nobody knows yet how far his credulousness will carry him. quoted as saying: England. Much more significant is the fact that the Teutonic representatives will go clothed with authority from Christian Science Lecture First Church of Christ Scientist of Brooklyn, New York New York Ave. and Dean St. Thursday, December 6, 1917 8 P.M.

Friday, December 7, 1917 8 P.M., by Charles I. Ohrenstein, C.S.B. OF SYRACUSE, N. Y. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Massachusetts.

Public Cordially Invited Within twenty-four hours after December 1 the Conference Committee will take advantage of the mandatory boys are doing? Ladies at the Green Rat and other restaurants near Washington Square smoke cigarettes while discussing philosophy with poets. They refuse proffered cigars. Is the cigar more masculine than the cigarette? Women of earlier schools of independent thought have preferred the pipe and it is agreed by all smokers that the pipe is the form for contemplation and excitation of smooth expression. A visiting British journalist does as well with snuff, of which we sold worth a year before the war. The cigar is the smoke of business and of machine politics.

And for that reason very likely it is not favored by women in moods that invite philosophic formulation. It hus been reported that some of our women's clubs also do a good cigar busineas, but there again enters the modification of politics. It will be surprising if women shall leap from the cigarette to the cigar. The approach to the cigar will probably be by way of the pipe. Political reporters always tell us if a candidate smokes and at what angle he cocks his cigar.

This human interest detail must be given about the woman candidate for office when it is possible to uso it as a harmless element of characterization. But until the German and Austrian Governments. To what a pass these two govern powers granted it under the Ottinger Law, forcibly to remove the tracks of The Petrograd moratorium on rents is only "for six months. Why not for six hundred'years? The Leninists, unlike the late Jack Cade, lack the courage of their convictions. the New York Central Railroad Com pany from grade on the West Side.

We can't help fearing that the wood fuel campaign Is like the one in which 'buyers were advised to substitute maple sugar at 3.j cents a pound for 10 cent cane sugar. One thing is certain. Nature's supply of wood is short. Her supply of coal is practically ments have come that they must negotiate for peace with fanatics bearing red flags and yelling for the overthrow of thrones and the uprooting of the We cannot believe that the colleagues of Commissioner Hervey on this com If Uncle Sara builds the stills, and very foundations of society! If any our two big gas companies furnish the proof were needed of Teutonic desper labor and sell at cost, the 1,800,000 gal atlon it is furnished by this spectacle An' we beat 'em like a flail, An' then we gave a British shout for Byng. It was "Byng! Byng! Byng!" It seemed the very stars began to sing; We were wet with Teuton gore, But the shout became a roar, For the man that turned the trick was Britain's Byng.

We carried 'cm away To the hospitals that day; In every voice there was a prideful ring. We had smashed the German line Just as though it were a stein; "I 'ope you liked your drink," sez General Byng. When the final great defeat Hurls the Boches from their feet, An there ain't another face for Byng to land on, You'll find him in the van Still the fearless fighUn' man, Though he may not have a pair legs to stand on. Then you'll hear the Kaiser say With his lips of ashen gray, As ho ponders on the problems of a King: "Though you've belted me an' flayed me, By the living God that made me. You're a better man than I am, General Byng." EDWIN CARTY RANCK.

Ions a year of trlnltro toluol will do of Hohenzollern and Hapsburger dick Just as Suffragists begin to hope to ering with the men who have sent a glorious duty on the European battle front get the first office in the laud a Phila-delpian dies and makes the status of a Nicholas to Siberia and whose avowed aim is to overthrow all governments, mere President's wife more enviable the German and Austrian in particu lar. Puritanical prejudices are wiped out, than ever with a bequest that will pay her, whoever she is, $1,000 a month pin money forever. Truly, this is woman's age, whether she votes or not mittee will play more than a passive part in such destruction. They are peace-loving men. Hervey will have to do the job himself if it is done, and even his perspiring energy will be sorely taxed.

Our conjecture is that if he persists a court Injunction him before he has got more than one rail removed. A long lawsuit may, of course, be started. The Ottinger Law was enacted over a veto by Mayor Mitchel. Its constitutionality is still to be tested. Hervey's committee has decided that the railroad has no "franchise" for West Side streets, only a revocable permit given by the Board of Aldermen in 1847.

Corporation Counsel Hardy ad- Holiday last week meant only roast pork to Sing Sing convicts. But why the "only." Roasting pork at 35 cents a pound was beyond the reach of many honest working people outside that It may be thought that the Teutons Academy of Music Tonight at 8:15 Concert by America's Favorite Singer John McCormack Assisted by Andre Polah, Violinist, and Edwin Schneider, Pianist. Good Seats on Sale at Box Office. Open All Day Sunday. are cleverly playing a game they are as they may be in another generation, it will not seem like fair treatment to say of a woman who seeks preferment as an Alderwoman that she smokes a flD-nr at an angle of forty-five sure to win.

There is reason to be charmed circle of stone walls. degrees. As yet the women, even of Governor Benjamin Strong's severe lieve that the Bolshevik leaders are German led and German paid. If so, Germany is playing safe, but only up to a certain point. The Immediate object of both sides is to secure an armistice.

Germany's reasons for want- John M. Nelson of Madison, Wisconsin, a member of Congress, Is indicted with his son for conspiracy to violate the registration law. But the State's Senator in Washington, Battle Bob La Follette, is still unindictcd, and letter to Champ Clark is fully Justified, The Speaker's attitude toward the edl- Greenwich Village are not naraenea smokers. They inhale and blow the smoke through their noses, but the are sticklers for flavor and for expen- torlals In the New York World was.