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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-22

sisting of about 5000, 600 men has not
yet been sent to the fighting front
Besides that the regular army levy for
1914, consisting of about 100. 900 men
is just now being trained and almost
at the moment ready for service in the
field
THE supreme discipline of the Ger
man forces today which is overcoming
and will completely overcome the en-
emies of Germany, has it's deepest root
a nation can only be strong when 1t
responds obediently to constituted
authority.
you may call this militarism if you
will, but it lies at the very foundation
Of that German efficiency which has
raised the German people from the
weakness of scattered principalities
and Kingdoms to an empire that has
taught the whole world how to ad-
vance along the most beneficial lines
of production, how TO make the indi-
vidual subordinate his own habits and
his own selfish interests to the strength
and success of the social whole and
how TO cheaper the necessities of life.
not only for the German people, but
for the whole civilized world
Russia will be crushed because she
has not made herself fit TO live in her
present form among the family of
civilized nations
Her allies in western Europe will
be crushed because they are not fight
ing with the consciousness that all the
supreme demands of civilization and
social progress and economic progress
are at stake"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-22

the sacrifice of more Austro-Hun-
the outset of the bOmbardme1t Ger
man batteries replied briskly but their
fire had slackened today, according to
advices from Sluis, and il is believed
that most of them have been silenced.
Aviators of the allies are resuming
their activities and it is reported here
that they have bombarded and burn
ed the Zeppelin sheds erected by the
Germans at Etterbeek, a suburb of
Brussels They flew from Dunkirk
and dropped u bombs upon the sheds
escaping without damage. On their
return journey the aerial raiders also
dropped bombs upon Thielt, but with
what success is not known. The first
accounts published in Germany of the
British bombardment of Zeebrugge
reached here today. They quote a
German officer as saying:
THE arrival Of 200 shells was like
hell let loose. For hours the beach
groaned and trembled as the warships
kept up their attack. 1t seemed as if
hell was trying to force itself into the
North sea. There were veritable
fountains of fire"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-22

ent out Of a nation of 100000 in
habitants, while Germany with a pop
ulatiOn OF $1,000, 600 has more than
100000 soldiers in the field today
There is a certain recognized in
sular Selfishness in the English which
will be started violently into life by
these powerful German attacks on the
English coast. With German invasion
plainly staring them i'm the face Moth
ing can be more certain than that the
English Will selfishly prefer to keep
their soldiers at home for their own
defense.
More Raids to Follow.
With Germany attacking the Eng
lish shores-and nothing can be more
certain than that this German naval
raid will be followed up by more
powerful and more successful ones
the new peril OF invasion will stir into
! life the peculiarly English instinct OF
| self preservation and Will prove .
powerful answer TO those who have
| claimed that the British government
| was justified in deliberately intrudine
| itself into the conflict.
! From a military standpoint the
justification of the German direct at
! tack upon the coast Of England is that
il will not only demoralize the Eng
| lish generally, but will compel then
4
| of their own shores and cities, and
thus relieve the Germany army largely
J from the presence of British assistance
on the continent.
| "Of course, no nation can be iusti-
! fed in shedding blood or in destroying
! property even in war unless ii should
| serve a distinct military purpose. The
| German direct naval attack on Eng
| land itself will undoubtedly change
| the whole idea of the war.
THE English must now stand or
| guard on their own territory, other.
wise the conquest of England by Ger
many will be an absolute certainty
| There can be no greater mis-
] take than to suppose that Ger.
many has not enough men to carry or
this war 10 a victorious end. 1t is q
literal fact that there are millions OF
men of military age trained to arms
who have not yet been called to Tire
| front.
LandSturm Not at Front
"For instance the landsturm. con-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-22
CHARLES J. ELIAS
NILES ARTIST DIES
Pictures of Views Along the st.
Joseph River Found a Ready
Sale Here.

NILES. Mich. Dec. 22.-Charles J.
Elias. aged 81 years, died Sunday at
his home. 1901 Regent st. after sew
eral weeks illness with typhoid fever.
Mr.. Elias and his family have resided
in Niles for the past three years. He
was a scenic artist and came here To
paint scenes particularly along the 81.
Joseph river which found ready sale
in this vicinity. He was was well
known on account OF his success in
this particular work. He was a grad
uate OF both the Humboldt (Iowa) uni
versity and OF the Chicago Art instl-
tute. He is survived by a widow and
two small children; also his parents,
several sisters and two brothers.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-22
Victory in Poland Shows
Numbers Alone VIII Not
Win, Declares Dernberg

lean policy would be on he part Of
tho United States. a war OF self-de
tense.
Unity OF Germans Evident.
1T must not be forgotten that the
powers now at war with Germany at
tempted TO persuade the Germans to
abandon Austria in her day Of ex-
tremity in spite of an old and solemn
defensive alliance which was made
for this very emergency.
Nothing stands out in this situa-
ton more clearly than the absolute
unity OF the German people from the
emperor and the chancellor down 10
the humblest man in the German
ranks than the conviction that they
abe fighting for the very life of their
nation
1T is the fact that German militar-
| ism. so called. has produced in its
army morally conscious military
unit that will make the cause of Rus
STA eventually hopeless.
1T is democracy against autOcracy;
! for whatever may he said Germany
today is a true democracy and is in
fact the actual mother of the essen
tials of the democracies of the United
States and Great Britain.
'In spite of the talk about militar-
| ism it must be remembered that
while the German army, a purely de-
leISlNt force pIONlueu DN ndllOD
surrounded by powerful arms and ag
gressive neighbors, has cost about
500. 900 600 marks year. the social
insurance system which has safe
guarded the masses of the German
people has enormously reduced NOR
I tally md added to the productive eff
! ficiency of the masses. has amounted
| to 100000 marks a year. and the in
crease OF German national wealth ac-
quired through peaceful and intelli-
gent industry. has increased annually
about 5000, 100000 marks
Can Spare Troops.
Nothing can be more certain than
when the German forces take the line
Of the Vistula and dominate Poland
they will be in a position to spare
enough troops to crush the allies on
the west side of Europe. After this
smashing blow it will take the Russian
army many months to reOrganize for
a new cam paign.
"The desperate situation in which
Russia now finds herself is clearly in
dictated by the obvious efforts OF the
allies 20 persuade Japan to send
troops into the European field of war
They see defeat staring them in the
face.
Japan cannot be drawn into the
European field without some tremen-
dous inducement
There can be little doubt that
| Japan can be induced to send her
troops into Europe only on an under
standing that China viii be abandoned
to her and that the islands of the Pa
cific will be permanently turned over
/ to her.
THE brilliant raid Of a squadron Of
| German warships upon the coast of
England is another illustration of the
| high intelligence and initiative of
Germany which will make her ultim-
ate triumph an absolute certainty.
This bold German naval attack
must bring home 10 the English peo-
/ pie a keen realization of the fact that
every serious attempt to invade Eng
I land in the past has been successful.
There are something like 200, 600
British troops lighting on the cOntin-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-22

garians in the war have taken place
within the last two days at Vienna,
Budapest, Prague and other cities. A
dispatch brought by courier from
Innsbruck says that on Sunday a
great crowd gathered before the
German embassy in Vienna and
threatened TO destroy IL. being dis
persed only by the help of cavalry
in whose charges several persons were
killed and injured.
When driven from the embassy"
says the dispatch, "the mob gathered
about the royal palace and cIamored
for peace"
Food is scarce in several towns and
this has resulted in other outbreaks
led by women.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-22
AUSTRIA HUNGARY TORN
BY RIOTS OF ANTI-WAR
PARTY WHICH GROWS

GENEVA. Switzerland, Dec. 22.-
Anti-war demonstrations are occurring
daily in Austria and Hungary. Aus
trian defeats in Servia have encour-
aged the subjects of the dual mon
archy who have been working for
many weeks to have their country eff
feet a separate peace and leave Ger
many alone in the contest.
Private advices received here report
that violent demonstrations against
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-22
WARSHlPS lombard
GERMAN POSITIONS ON
COAST FOR So HOURS

ROTTERDAM, Dec 22.-British
warsnips have been keeping up bonn
bardment of German positions along
the Belgian coast for sc hours. At
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-26

from an invisible ship by noiseless shot,
we remain cold"
Potash and Perlmutterings on Buyers
One way to tip off a buyer where he
could see a stronger line than you're
carrying, Mawruss, is to let him hear you
knock a competitor, amt It?
One-eye Felgenbaum was up to see
Sammett Brothers line last week. Nav
russ, and right away they blew him to
a glass of elegant schnapps and 30
cent cigar. .Feigenbaum told 'em II they
ever open a cafe he would give 'em a
fine recommendation, Mawruss, and then
he come away and bought his goods
somewheres else.
Don't get sore at an out-of-town buyer,
Abe, II he wouldn't be stuck on your
up-to-the-minute Paris styles. His store
probably amt located on no bullyvard,
Abe, and there's plenty towns on trunk
line railroads, understand me- where even
dolmans amt classed as stickers exactly.
A buyer which considers price before
quality, Mawruss, would also consider
terms before price,
Seemingly, Abe, some concerns per-
suades a buyer to take what he dent
want, understand me, just for the pleas
ure Of receiving cancellations and having
lot of stickers left on his hands.
Close buyers usually don't got to ask
extensions from nobody, Mawruss.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-26
Trentini and "Spaghet"

When Mime. Trentini comes to town
spaghetti is not featured on the menu
of the leading hotels. She has just de-
parted bag and baggage from one of
New York's leading hostelries, leaving
after a stormy interview with the man
agement, because they christened a new
variety OF spaghetti after her,
Though the prima donna is almost vol
canic in her patriotic outbursts, she does
not like spaghetti and refuses to give 1t
the Endorsement of her name.
IT have had flowers named for me.
yes," she declared, "and ice cream, yes.
and even salad, yes. But spaghetti-NO.
1t is not lovely. II Is not good for the
digestion. And 1t is very. very bad for
the voice. You have given me the insult.
go!
And she went.
Her chief injunction TO her manager
has been:
Spaghetti, do not like 1t. Spaghetti.
I will not eat 1t. Tell everybody"
What Trentini adores above everything
else is alligator pear salad, and II 1t is a
bad year for this luxury, it is bad year
for the little star. Next 10 the alligator
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-26

CONTINUING.
ADBLPHE-"suzi," with Jose Collins and
Tom McNaughton and an excellent
cast A musical comedy of Viennese
origin. More tuneful than brilliant
but well acted and pleasing. The story
concerns the courting of a young prima
donna by the son OF a colonel Of hussars.
FORREST - "Ben-Hur." The familiar
spectacle Of the prosecuted jew. from
Lew Wallace's novel. The chariot race
remains It's 'ibig scene" Richard
Buhler leads in acting honors.
GARRICK-"Potash and Perlmutter," 3"
Montague Glass popular stories Of the
clothing trade made over Into the sea-
sons most heartily amusing comedy.
LITTLE TREATRE-"TheC Critic" sheri-
days satire on things theatrical in his
day and ours. A very amusing perform
ance of this tragedy within comedy.
LYRIC-"The Peasant Girl" with Emma
Trentini and Clifton Crawford. A Con-
tinental operetta recording the capture
OF a ''milk-fed tenor and Chicken
hawk" by Miss Trentini. The music is
excellent and Mr.. Crawford most anus
ing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-26

critic who Tets a show down easy"
spoils somebody's expectations of good
evening and let's him waste hard-earned
money on It, too.
Styles in Stars
There are fashions in footlight favor
ties Just as in everything else. Nowhere
perhaps so much as in musical comedy.
Two players here this week arc living
testlmonials-Tom MoNaughton and Cliff
ton Crawford.
In the 'S0s comic OPERA" as they called
those disquisitionB on tropical geography,
usually sported comedian as the gentle-
man with his name In the electric bulbs
and his hands on all the good lines of
the piece. Occasionally some lady with
a soprano voice and a couple OF far bet
ter developed talents, got her name on
the billboards by slipping into the shoes
OF the fairy prince or the dashlng cava-
iier. But the comedian was king; De
Wolf Hopper, Frank Daniels, Jefferson
de Angels, Francis Wilson, Jerome Sykes
then later, Raymond Hitchcock.
The invention OF American musical
comedy rocked the king's throne a bit.
The advent of THE Merry Widow and
Vienna shook II badly. Up cropped DON
aid Brian. Julia sanderson and other
young men and women who could sing
and dance, and carry on the romance that
was now the chief motif of operetta- An
all-round cast, with retired stars as come
dians. has become more the rule than
the exception.
Clifton Crawford and Tom MoNaugh-
ton9 In the nineties the comedian OF
"suzi'' would have been a comic opera
star OF the first magnitude. Clifton
Crawford would have his name in the
lights all by himself II he weren't too
amusing for the Prince Danilo "5tufr,"
"serpent Nile"
Why are stags Bgyptans-female sex
so wtckedr Probably Cleopatra set ths
habit At any rate Shakespeare gave her
a running start, and Dryden. rewriting
Shakespeare. fastened the serpent Nile"
upon our stage. All Egyptian women ara
evil. Just as all "adventuresses' are from
Paris Though Aida Is as proper a miss
as opera can tolerate and still draw au-
diences, Amneris, plotting her dsstruo-
| ton, makes up for any gleam OF kindll-
ness that the slave girl manages to slip
into cur mental picture OF Egypt.
When sardou and Shaw tried their
hands at Cleopatra they did very little
TO tighten her guilt, while Robert Hich-
/ ems plunged the Egyptian still deeper in
/ infamy when he furnished Mime. Nazi-
nova with the chance to give her imita-
| ton OF the famous queen In Bella
Donna" And now here Is Ben Hur''
with Iras leading young Ben aztray
Even without Turkey Joining the remains
OF ths Triple Alliance here Is plenty OF
easus bslh for Egypt
Staging the Impossible
A drama with 1sO scenes. with chsrae
ters ranging from Napoleon to disem
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-26
NEZZ/E H. NIGWOL s.
TT AEZZHS

bodied spirits and abstract principles, and
with some 500 pages OF printed text
doesn't seem very promising sort OF
war play. even If Thomas Hardy is the
author. But Granville Barker. England 3
most enterprising manager and most ar
tistic producer, has taken that monu-
mental curiosity of the libraries, Tho
Dynasts," and put some OF 1t on the
stage in London to answer patriotic de-
mand.
The review of the London Daily Tele-
graph describes the result as history
in glimpses. a set OF colored Illustrations
to history" He writes Of the fragments
presented: What Mr.. Barker has taken
may be easily described. He gives us
Trafalgar, the Peninsula and Waterloo.
The struggle with Napoleon becomes
merely England's affair. The continental
dynasts are ruled out AS for the various
spirits, very little indeed Is left of them,
and that little not wholly typical They
are represented by two gray-robed ladies'
seated on either side of the stage, who
give us antiphonically from time to time
the gentler and simpler poetry of the
drama. In the middle, in front of the
stage and below. Mr.. Henry Ainley sits
at reading-desk to expound to US the
scheme OF things and give us Mr.. Hardy's
elaborate stage directions, which are, OF
course, essentially suceinct history of
the period.
Upon the stage. with no more scenery
than the simplest suggestion, we have a
swift procession OF animated pictures, al
most all OF real moments, After glimpses
OF the Wessex rustics at Weymouth we
are at Trafalgar. To Villeneuve's quar-
terdeck succeeds Nelson's. We owe Mt.
Barker many thanks, no doubt. for spar
ing us the old-fRshioned stage battle. with
its lurid eolored fire and it's headaches
OF bangs But We do not know that the
new style Is much more impressive
When Trafalgar Is fought without smoke
or sound. when We behold Nelson smitten
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-26
Trumpeting as a Fine Art

Marie Tempest has brought over to
America for her present tour in AT the
Barn" and other pieces young lady
who appears to be an artist In the gentle
feat of blowing the nose loudly and
therefore, humorously. Kate Serjeant-
son has been good enough to confess to
a reporter lust how she accomplishes the
miraculous hullabaloo and who serves as
her model.
''Reyiewers and others have frequently
paid me the doubtful compliment OF say
ing that / could blow my nose ike
fshwife," says Miss Serjeantson. THE
same people would be surprised to know
that my model, so far from being a fish-
wife, was nothing more nor less than
her Royal Highness the venerable Prin-
cess Mathilde sister of the late King OF
Saxony Any one familiar with Dresden
rs or 80 years ago VIII remember the
spectacle presented by this excellent
Princess at concert and opera, at both
OF which she was a devoted attendant,
and where never a bar of music was
played until the little old lady sitting on
a dais or ensconced in the royal box had
dived into the depths Of her skirt. pro-
duced a voluminous handkerchief and
blown her nose until the auditorium re-
verberated with the royal noise. When
she had finished and the handkerchief
was restored to the cavernous depths OF
her pocket the conductor lifted his baton,
and one heard no more from the Prin-
cess until the intermission, when the
whole proceeding was repeated, music
loy ng Dresden looking on and listening
with the utmost gravity and respect
"How the Princess blew her nose
through all those years in that violent
fashion without bursting a blood vessel
has always been marvel TO me, as to
any one else who ever saw or heard it,
laughed Miss Serjeantson. For hers
was the genuine article; mine is only ar
imitation. II is giving away one oil the
tricks OF the trade. but I really don't
make all that horrid noise with my nose
at all, I'd never survive one perform
anee II did, I do It entirely with my
throat
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-26
RuRLFsour.

EMPIRE-"The Ginger Girls" win r,
Lee wrothe, under the manaesne6s j.
Joe Hurtig, in burlesque and wad,g.iI.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-26

TTTITH a gentleman named Sheer in
wv "The Critic" Sheridan needn't have
gone to the trouble of making Pun both
press agent and reviewer, as well as
playwright. But there are plenty OF such
composites nowadays, just as there were
in the days OF tho good King George.
There are gentlemen of the press
though perhaps not In Philadelphia-who
and their friendship for a dramatist a
great labor-sAver when It comes to writ
ing their reviews. Pun at the Little
Theatre tells US the recipe;
The day before It is to be performed
write an account OF the manner In
which 1t was received. have the
plot from the author. and only add.
"Charaoters strongly drawn-highly
colored--hRnd of a master-fund of
genuine humor-mins Of invention
neat dialogue-attio saltt"
The Eternal Cliche
That little spsoimen-liIks all the rest
sf The oritio''-ls as true to the present
day as to the time when SHERRY nour-
iahsd At Old Drury and was a great
figure IN Parliament ht the age OF 20.
Those tiresome routine remarks might
~ ths ~cllohea'' with which half OF the
ArzmaGie critics Of America receive q
ns~ piscs. or course. we make our own
additions 20 tho list "Compelling." AT
lagE = piAyf'' "sure success Mastery
a ssehniuus.= s'Red blood and, abovs
IN, 'sPndh' h'-that Is the modern sign
EnnEuaga By which the public must learn
Whsther play Is really enjoyable or not.
with such exact information at hand
u Il any wonder that Pun should be 90
nearly right when he saysi '-rhe num-
Der OF those who undergo the fatigue OF
Judging for themselves is very small
But ths sslteha,~ ne stock phrase, ths
sp4gTan1mat1o tag, iH not an easy thing te
1orego. Ths Newspaper reviewer has the
pguhiem % space 70 contend with, and ht
Knows the reader wants the verdict short
and sharp. The temptation to haul Out
enc az ne familiar labels Is only bal.
auped b. ehs prsdiiaotion to be eolorless
ma nonoonmit1Al
Confsszions Of Critic
n ehs ease Of a not very pleasing piece
how often The critic hnds himself In {
cui de sac. A ''roast''-easy and cheap
aay lay hin open to AL sorts OF persona
altelcAttong ranging from friends whit
disagFss 20 managers who ars asgrievet
zt the Ioss Of some thousands OF dollari
f. capital n - no easy thing to accep
ro1ponsihility-ev very partial respons
fbility-for the failure OF a play upoI
which q Grsat dsai OF labor and though
ana = COED many dollars have beeI
apsnk Moreover after a reviewer ha
written about ths theatre 9or q hal
aoaan years. his artistic Bensibrities ar
apt 70 become 80 calloussd that q medic
ere piece seems nothing but the ordinary
run of his work There are plenty of sE
auses Tor lanisaoy.
-.
is7 At least once a month a dramat
critic needs 70 remember that the ayarag g
naaa rays gpo1 coid cash for his enter
tainmsnt He doesn't 20 TO Lhs theatr
en- passes. He doesn't see play after plai
AZ a matter Of earning his daily bread
The piayEosr'H expedition means any
where from dollar 10 six or seven. IN