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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-10

OF my men TO be carried away. II, 4
After that; i thought III was
about time to get away myself. and
It was then discovered that my
leg was broken, for 4 could not
walk, 1t is extraordinary how your
nerves kin tho pain during the time
you are obliged to give orders. I
crawled away on all Tours, or rath-
er ON all three. for $500 ineters.
The others were too terribly wound
ed to help me. And then for the
first time ] was afraid. The Ger
mans continued to sprinkle us with
shot and my only thought was;
oh, IL those shells would spare
nue., now that am wounded; it Is
not playing the game to IRE now
And; they did miss me, every one OF
them, and crawled at last to safe.
Sts. my poor uniform IN tatters.v y &
MEN DRIVEN TO Il
INSANITY IN tTRENCHES.
Back in; the hospitals the women
see the effects OF the life In the
trenches whore men are driven to.
insanity by the strain. & y !
The insanity wards In the big
government hospital at Netley are
filleds to oyerflowing, and all. the
hospitals in the south of England;
have many patients who; RsGfhered3
4 absolute nervous collapse and haSe.
been sent back 20 sngiand for treat
( inaft. Z. = u q e al;s
Most Of the eases show decided
RFe'tsrst 1901, ts,ef'
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-10

Gould acco,nmo date Ships Of t0en-
1--WE feet but II was In operation
eleven years bee ginning in 1859. be-
fore vessels Of such draft sought
passnge. By 80 Its depth had been
Increased to tsfenty-nine and one
halt feet and when the United
States announced Its intention 10
make d canal forty one feet deep
and 800 feet wide at its narrovost
tom point at Panama. the work
( Suez was extended SO as uItI-
nate1y give d bottom width OF
154sE feet and depth Of thirty
six and cne-twe lfth feet. It was cx-
pected TINT this enforcement would
be complete by next year. but the
war has interrupted Operations.
How much larger than the aver
age demands for "a canal the Pam
y anna yaterway has been made H.
strilkingly sh own by a statement
from Sdez to the effect that only 1
per cent or the ships seeking pass
age By that route have a draft OF
twenty Eight feet.
In 1863. fen vcssels passed
through the Stez Canal. In 1919.
{ s, ships steamed THROUGH. Of
~, 81 s, 1l2e net tonnage. and paying
Z for this priy ilege around >e5. 000.-
900 Seven ont OF every ten OF
3 these siiips few the British I1or.
England has dominated the canal
ever since the Khedive. IN 1875.
sod his 70 COZ canal shares for
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-10

the sSptihns under Sefi / and
Rameses ~ 5pined the Nile BY vi, "a
OF Lake 1rimsaii to the K ed Set.|
thus operating 4 watersSas he
itrcht ype OF the present canal. from
the Aieait erranean. over the Stiez
lIstimpss to the orient. Tliis canal
VAS choked by sand in the course
Nechc. about 500 3. 81. began 4.
canal from ancient Bubastis. and;
Darius Hsstaspis 100 years later.
completed the work, once more
bringing the Red sea and n lie to-
gethers Though nearly choiked III,
by the beginning Of the Christian
era. IT was navig RbIe to q degree as
late as the battle OF a ctinm. and
some of Cleopatra : ships escaped
this was 10 the r ed Sea. &. 3 z
srratan restored the canal. 1t fell
Into lisuse and chols Sip again.
Amrt the 1siainic ccnqueror az
Egypt. restored 1t for the Inst time
in the seventh century, connecting
I Cairo with the Red sea. Napoleon;
caused the old route to he surveyed,
but but was forced 70 drop the project.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-10

After him, Nfetternic Inc GREAT Is
dictionary Prime Minister on Aus
tria-H Hungary. stimulate ed 4 Suck
missi6n III IS a. MOI hing, how
ever. cana of II. a e = & \
AS the world we'll Isnows. the
S;uez lii9i was bun b 81 the man
who failed 20 hniid the PANAMA
Canal Count Ferdinand d Lcs-
sepf rs orieinsi dopth WIS twcns :
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-10

j.
grayed on: the left shoulder of Lady
Deries. formerly Mics vivien Gould,
who was severely wounded by
Z piece sof shell while acting; as Red
Cross nurse on the battlefieldsS of
France. The former Miss Could Is
the first OF the American girls who
married foreign titles to be wound
ed in the service OF the land of their
husbands.
While many Americans seek to
discredit the title seeking heiresses
Z Of this country. Lady Decies has
done much to counteract the unfa-
vorable opinion by her action In
3 the present war. With other Ameri-
can hciresses she has gone to the
front and shared the dangers Of mill
itary life with Lord Decies
It was during a raid Of q Zeppelin
tsairship that Lady Decles was
wounded. She was caring FOR some
wounded soldiers when bomb was
dropped near her. 1t burst into
fragments and one piece struck
little French peasant girl. Another
fragment struck Lady Decies. AL
though wounded severely. Lady De-
cies rushed to the aid of the little
girl She bathed the wounds of the
peasant child and carried her out Of
the danger zone. When physicians
came to attend the titled English
woman she pointed to the girl. who
was suffering most.
War is q great leveler. Perhaps
~ .te. g..
and all the othen grand ladies win
retire to their palaces and fine
houses, where their fellow beings
cannot enter. They probably will go
back to their old diversions. but for
the time being they are human and
deeply interested In those around
them. In time of peace Lady De-
cies could not have been nurse. It
h Is beneath her station. In time OF
war thereeis no station. Lord De-
can get as muddy as tho gainin
from London. Lady Decies can do
the humble work Just as wellias the
1owly women from the poorer sec
tons Of Liverpool.
Perhaps from the hospitals these
women will have opportunity to see
more of tho evils OF war. than II
they we're on the firing line. The
men see only the glory and glamour
OF the fighting. Only occasionally
do they have time TO reflect on the
ayfulness of 1t all. Back In the hos
pitals where Lady Decies and the
rest.of the nurses spend most of
their time they hear the stories from
the front with the glamour elimi-
mated, Y
The story told to a New York girl
IN "a letter from a French hospital.
fittingly describes the hospital life.
The letter was written from the
youngest Captain in the French
Army at Orleans. It follows:
SHE'LL STRIKES '.
IiABoRER'S COTTAGE.
]. II am writing stretched out, be-
cause my ankle is broken. and my
back and my body are .cramped up
and my head scratched: but that is
nothing: a few scratches and
small fracture Will keep me whore,
i ] am. about q month. when I hope
TO 10 back to my regiment. am
no afraid II. will be all over before
return; but I have had luck.
WAS; IN "a .Slaborer'sE little cot
fage. Keeping It as q lookout tele-
phone station from which to direct
my battery OF four beautiful can
y mons All my own. because ] was
made a Captain on the battlefield OF
Wailiy Our position was surely; re-
ported to the Germans by. spies. for
ON the morning Of the fourth day
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y ~ Z q e ~ ~ n 49, =
quired for admission to the Amerl-
can Army they would get few re-
cruits. The public schools in Ioh-
don and other large q Ties are hay
ing the teeth OF pupils examined
I and encouraging proper care OF The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

been a critic and writer for THE New York
Telegraph" and other papers. There is Rob
crt Carleton Brown, who until lately was edi-
tor of "Pearsons Magazine" and a well known
novelist and short story writer. He now de-
votes his voluminous energy to making charm
ing md spritely free verse, which he entities
Bubbles" John w. Luce, the Boston pub
Usher, will bring out a book of Mr.. Browns
poetry in the fall. Orrick Johns, the poet, who
a few years ago won the Lyric Year prize for
American poetry has lately joined the colony,
having turned to free verse some time since.
William Carlos Williams, Adon Lacrox and
Alan Hartpence all live there and get their
inspiration from the lovely countryside nes-
Ting upon the crest and slope of the hill.
Although these are all who actually live in
Ridgefeld, there are many gatherings there of
the followers of the modern muse from New
York. Almost every Sunday a half dozen or
so flock to Kreymborgs little shrine to ex-
change talk Of the latest star that has appeared
on the free verse horizon, or Of the new rhythm
which one Of their number may have invented
since the last meeting, and to plot the dostruc-
ton of the traditional school of poetry.
Lately in the group have appeared several
members of the older London and Paris groups
of "Imagists" and "Vorticists" who have been
associated with Ezra Pound in his militant
English propaganda for unrestricted rhythms
Although it is not generally known, Mr.. Pound
himself and almost all of his early followers in
London are Americans. Among the Imagists
who have been driven back to the United States
by the war is Horace Holley, formerly director
of an art gallery in Paris and originally New
Highlander, who since his return has had sew
eral books published by Mitchell Kennerley
Skpwth Cannell has also returned from
Paris, and is now an interior decorator be-
sides being a very valuable addition to the
famous writers of America. His work has
been published in English journals mainly
but is known here through THE Little Re-
view" and Poetry" of Chicago. John Gould
Fletcher was also connected with f. s. Flint
and Ezra Pound in London, and is back in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

the village Of that name, is unique and charm
ing. The houses are clustered together on
the side of the long hill which slopes down
from the Palisades, overlooking the Hacken-
sack Valley, and few miles beneath the
Hackensack River flows like a silver thread
in the blue haze The locality is hardly more
than a half hours trolley and ferry ride from
New York but the atmosphere is that of
peaceful inland village, as separated from
the din and hustle of the city as though it
were in the mountains. Yet Ridgefelders are
distinctly Gin the know" for news travels
swiftly between them and literary New York,
or at least that part of it around Washing
ton Square which dotes upon originality and
newness and the bizarre.
The costumes of the dwelers in the COM
munity varies as much as the verse they
write Chinese coats and trousers and
white duck marine suits, with barefoot
sandals, are notable combinations among
the men. The women also have adopted the
barefoot sandal, and run to smocks and out
door skirts of hardy material and even to
paiamas, of the long-coated Chinese variety,
while the MILDLY blouse, the khaki Norfolk
and the Russian blouse of fimsy material
also hold their own. Hats are taboo. All,
both men and women, either write or paint in
the Futurist manner, and dig in ambitious
though small gardens.
The only source of water supply is from a
well across the road which is no more than a
spring with a cover over it, and for the mail
and the household purchases the community
ties must walk a mile to the village, which
has become gradually immune to the shock
of their strange garb. OF course, there IS no
such thing as gas or electricity, and candles
and old-fashioned lamps that smell of kero-
sene have come into being again To be the
possessor of a little metal antique Spanish
lamp, casting more shadow than light into
the room, is to be the envy of all the neigh
bOrs.
Most of the inhabitants of the poets col
ony are already more or less known to the
American public Alfred Kreymborg has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25
Fuuris Verse-EnncIe1cy
E1erSeM
LoydP zle--"O Is the Name of the FIELD
YouRG us Wander to Grasp It,

Each free verse writer has his own theory
of the origin of the free form. Some claim
that it is derived from the modern French
followers and adapters of Whitman's style.
Some say that the manner was born in the
London group, others that it started in Chi
cago with the aid Of Miss Harriet Monroe's
Poetry" others that it comes naturally to
Americans in direct line from Whitman, still
others that it has Chinese origin, and some
that it is as old as the Songs of Songs Each,
moreover explains his use of the new method in
a new way, but without exception all of them
agree that it is the only form in which poetry
can ever again be written for intelligent
readers.
While the large majority of the new school
poets began as most of the Futurst painters
did, by practising in the od-fashioned style,
there are few exceptions to this rule. Alfred
Kreymborg, for instance, declares he has never
written rhymed verse, and that ne came to
writing free verse through prose, novels and
short stories, regarding 1t as a more efficient
use Of language. In fact, rers lbrists claim
to be natural products of the age, in the
brevity effectiveness and conciseness of their
STYLE For instance, on any page of Edgar
Lee Masters's spoon River Anthology" the
reader meets with material enough for thrill
ing short story condensed into perhaps fifty
words slightly more or less. And again in
the cardinal principles" set forth by Mr..
Pound in "A Few Dont's by an Imagist," pub
lished in poetry year or two ago, the writer
of Imagist poetry is told ito use absolutely no
word that does not contribute to the presenta-
ton" The rers Hbrjsts we may be sure, would
not disdain to have the word efficiency, sacred
to modern America, applied to their work, as
it applies to most of them personally, for they
have discarded forever from their personal
adornment the long hair and flowing tie of the
past, and are, as a rule, producers of other
things besides poetry.
Another notable feature Of the movement is
the early prominence taken in it by women.
Two, at least of the best known leaders are
women, Miss Amy Lowell and Miss Monroe,
and, nearer at hand, we find two of the five
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

Arkansas at present, writing free verse
paans to American wheat Dorsey Hyde
has been identified with both the London and
Paris advocates Of the new form and is in
New York as a social worker. During his
activities in this capacity last year he be-
came deeply interested in New York's West
Side, and will shortly put out volume of
his impressions of that section in his chosen
medium. Wallace Stevens is another New
Yorker devoted to free verse, who has re-
turned from his travels to join the group.
Other uers Hb,ists not in New York are
nevertheless claimed by the group for their
predominatng influence in the larger world
of letters. Foremost among them IS Edgar
Lee Masters, who lately came into fame as the
author of "The Spoon River Anthology" His
work was first introduced by William Marion
Reedy, in "Reedy's Mirror" of st. Louis, and
needed no more than an introduction to at
tract the attention of the English speaking
world of poetry lovers 1t was through the
praise of John Cowper Powys, the Cambridge
scholar, that Masterss work came to the atten-
ton of the greater critical public. Mr.. Masters
is a successful lawyer in Chicago. Carl Sand
burg, also of Chicago, has made quite a stir
with his poems against the war, published in
Poetry" of that city, and in "The New York
Call" Amy Lowell, of Boston. the author of
Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds" is another
of the more widely known reys Hbrists Of
America and has also been associated with the
London group her work appearing in the Eng
lish Anthology. "Des Imdgistes," published in
1914. To these should be added the sculptor,
Adolf Wolff, author of revolutionary poems;
Arturo Giovanniti, the |. W. W. poet and edi-
tor of I'll Fuoco," and Edmond McKenna, the
author of "The Likes O. Me-" many of whose
poems appeared in The Masses; while among
those who formerly gained wide reputation as
writer's of verse in rhyme and meter for the
magazines, at least three, Arthur Stringer,
James Oppenheim and Walter Conrad Arens-
berg, have openly declared for the new form.
The field is becoming clogged with new
names that it would be necessary to revise
the list from day to day to include them all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

* URELY, if any one should be familiar with
the mental processes by which the clti-
~ zenS Of this country have come to their
violent and often preposterous conclusions
about the rights and wrongs of Europe, 1t
might be the editor of any one of the national
weeklies through whose editorial offices flows
the daily stream Of newspaper and magazine
expression Of the nations sentiments.
"The New Republic" has definitely named
itself magazine of opinion
went to Walter Lippmann. | began by
asking him what opinion was.
I'VE understand it here in this Office he
said. "as belief for which one is not quite
ready to be burnt at the stake. Humility is
necessarily a part Of the process Of arriving
at IT,
1T is" Mr.. Lippmann went on in his rapid
pum-cakc manner of speech, "a crystaized
something. yet always changing-the human
fashion of trying answers to problems not by
looking on high, hut by looking around. No,
no. not dogma-that you know he broke off,
lis a sort Of sanctifed intuition conforming
pretty much to individual Indigestion"
Then l began again with What is opinion?
I must know, you know, if I am to know pre-
cisely why l feel such a tremendous dissatis-
faction with what people tell me is true-what
they obviously believe is true-conclusions l
am certain they arrived at from fimsy kind
Of evidence and irrational emotional reaction
that they would have blushed for year ago
and not been so rritatedly ready to buster and
fight for?'
We stumbled along with an answer said
twice.
"Opinion is all you can have about a situa-
ton like this and what you have is something
you've got either from having it handed to you
or out of your own prejudices. 1t is an object
Of life to have opinions and know why you
have them.
"Of course you are right in feeling nightly
uncomfortable about the breakdown Of organ
lied opinion. But recall when the war started
the first thing that impressed everybody was
that two small nations were being attacked by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25
AnqRRTCAN CP1NTON is IN a PRETTY STAT
"Americam Politics Cannot Stop al
the Waters Edge-The Balkans,
as Well as Tammamy,
Our Problem"

out TO be part Of world system Real esta,.
values have risen in Bridgeport because The
Allies are buying munitions Of war there; II.
textile industries are hurt because the British
navy won't let Germany export dyes.
"Never did we have 50 many new things %
think about We are like a country yokel sud
denly planted at Broadway and Forty-second
street He is bewildered and fascinated
tempted TO 90 forward and half inclined u
run home to mother. That is about where
year of war has left US. We don't know
whether to go forward and play part in
the greater world of all the nations, or wheth.
er TO close the windows and put or extra
heavy woollen socks. This is the real unpre.
paredness Of America, a more dangerous
thing than petted army Of artillery thai.
can't shoot. Guns we can buy, officers W,
can train, but where shall we get the knowb
edge to be citizens Of the world?
"If ever we needed men 10 lead Us it is now
men who can lead US out Of the fools para.
disc where we imagine that we can save our
own souls and leave the rest Of mankind to
stew. In the last few years we have learned
a
government infects every one; that we are
all bound together and will all have to save
ourselves together. That was the lesson Of
progressivism, a lesson we have by no means
taken to heart. The war has shown US tina,
we live in a society larger than any nation,
that American politics cannot stop at the
waters edge, and that the dangerous states
of the world-the Balkans, China, Mexico,
Turkey and so on-are as much a part OF IN,
American problem as Tammany Hall and the
New Jersey swamps.
"If we can learn this lesson and take it
seriously we shall have gotten something i'm
measurably important out of this CHASTITY war
1t will redeem a little its cost in prejudice
hate, despair and pain Hideous as is the
thought of it, the price will not be too great
if we learn the beginnings of a world citizen
ship. If we don't learn them, if we remain
in our ignorant and romantic isolation, thu
very dead will curse us.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

A, the came time the leaders Of American
thought and business have got the most inti-
mate connection with England-we are tied
Lv family. books and above all, by trade
"And we had tremendous sentimental IN
forest in France-in its lowest form, that
French maid is a little sweller than an irish
one: in its middle form, in our fancy tor LOUIS
XVI parlor furniture; and in its highest,
feeling that the Freach have developed the
art of life to a more exquisite form than any
other people in the world
Even at this | felt little comforted for the
rash violence of our neutral opinion our pas
sionate acceptance of positions pro this or that
an hearsav evidence, and / waited, incoherent
and a little disturbed, while the Analyst Oh
Opinion swung a final effort to explain the
state Of the air now cluttered with desperate
innuendoes.
"The way to study American unprepared-
ness is to watch the American in Europe. lie
treats Europe as if it were little more than
summer resort surrounded by museums, caba-
rets and dressmaking establishments. Inc
Europe that most American travellers know
is as unreal as summer Irritation. AS for
them it's patch on the map, and rather
hazy patch at that.
"In school history generally stopped either
at Napoleon Bonaparte or at the War OF 1917
The Europe of the Balkans, of Austria-Hun-
gary, of Turkey is little more than good
setting for comic opera in which the American
naval lieutenant in white trousers and blue
coat arrived just in time for a dreamy waltz.
The idea that the Balkans could set the world
on fire probably never occurred to one Amerl-
can in a hundred thousand.
"How then could we possibly be prepared to
understand the war, to talk abous the war, to
he neutral about the war or take part in the
war? We have believed in the Atlantic Ocean
as kind of gigantic immunity bath. Now
the Atlantic Ocean has turned out to be
myth. We are discovering that America IS
not an island world all by itself, place where
we could forget about Europe. 1t has turned