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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-03-22
WILL NOT
GALL AN EXTRA SESSION
(By Associated prsss.)

WASHINGTON. D.. c., March 22.--
At the white house this afternoon Sec
rotary Joseph Tumulty gave out the
formal announcement that President
Wilson has no present intention OF
calling an extra session OF either the
senate or congress before the regular
session convenes In December.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-03-22
COTTON PRICE At HIGHEST
POINT OF THE SEASON
MAY OPTION Is AGAIN ABOVE
CENTS MARK

Americas cotton factors and holders
of the fleecy were pleased at the
substantial advance made in the cot
ton market today. The May contract
position advanced to 9OS cents, which
is the highest water mark reached
this season. There is a fair demand
for spot cotton, but no important sales
were effected this morning.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-03-22
MEMBER PARLIAMENT TO
ENTER AERIAL SERVICE
(Ry. Associated Press.l

LONDON, March 22.--Lord Hugh Ce-
ell, Member OF Parliament, is learning
to use flying machine at the Shore
ham Aerodome. He has been receiving
regular instructions for several weeks
and expects to receive his license and
90 on othe front in q week or two.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-03-22
Old BUILDING IS RAzEO
AND IMPROVEMENT IS GREAT

The old shell of a building which fol
r quarter century has disfgured Lee
,treet, near the artesian corner, upon
=, norton of the former Hudson prop
,rty, was pulled down today and cart
cd away. When the other shacks in
that vicinity go, and Lee street Il
widened and made straight at thai
point, the improvement viii be appre
,iated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-03-22
GERMANS RECAPTURE
BLACK SEA PORT
(By Associated Press.l

BERLIN, March 22.-An official
bulletin published at noon by the Ger
man war Office states Memel, the East
Prussian Baltic port, recently occI-
pied by Russian forces has been re-
taken.
Details of the recapture Of Mcneil
are not given in the official announce
ment.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-03-22
STORMS INTERFERE WITH
BOMBARDING OF DARDANELLES
CBy Associated Press.)

LONDON, March 22.-StOrms have
again interrupted the operations Of
the international feet attacking the
Turkish forts along the Dardanelles,
and comparative quiet prevails there
today.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-14
For all zoe haze and are, :
For'aH our childrens' fate,
Stand up and meet the zoar,
The Hun is at the gate"

great literature 10 be produced In
complished more quickly than great
literature, yet that for which Lord
Nelson Is remembered took more
than three years. With the advan-
tage of perspective OF Il hundred,
or two hundred, years we may ex.
pect the essentials of this war to be
worthily illuminated in poetry. OF
infinitely greater value at this time
than the current efforts Of living
poets are the expressions OF our mas
ters in that art long since dead and
gone.
Some Of these have recently been
quoted i'll the newspapers. and thus
their power has peen felt by the
multitude at time when their in
iiuence was needed. For example,
can recall nothing more potent and
pertinent at this time than Words
worth's ode to Duty" Shakespeare.
Tennyson, Goethe. Schiller-the
tain whole poems and inspiring lines
innumerablc whose message to
humanity. IL taken to heart. would
make war an impossibility. even en-
able us to tear up all our treaties.
Sad to relate. but equally true, one
American rag-time song, guiltless Of
a rag Of art in either it's verses or
its music. has done more to harden
our "Tommies' in the trenches than
the whole of the current output Of
war poems. High minded and we'll
intentioned persons in England have
done their utmost to substitute for
this music hall ditty words and
music of high or artistic value, but
all in vain. Tommy" simply would
have his "Tipperary"
You remember what Roget de
Lisle's "Marseillaise" did for the
French Revolution. and how it still,
better than any other song, crys-
tallizes patriotic sentiment in
France? 1t seems to me that your
Civil War production, John Browns
Body is an example Of equal force
The popular punch" which nobody
can escape lies in those two happy
lines:
John Browns body lies molder-
ing in the ground,
But his soul goes marching on"
That was true. and nothing more
remained to be said
l suppose that "Tipperary" and
John Browns Body" are equally val
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-14
Mr. Alfred Noyes Declares That War Poems Help Quicken
the National Spirit and That No Able-Boded Engslman
Can Resist the Appeal of These Lines by Kiping:-

ears of the whole army at de-
cisive moment. might raise its spirits
and courage to pitch that would In
sure victory. Or, II is conceivable
that poem Of the opposite tendency,
fired uncrringly into the ranks of the
enemy, might so convince him of the
error of his ways that he would turn
anu flee for very shame But so far
as ! can see, poets Of that calibre are
yet to arrive.
In my opinion, the best Of all the
short poems thus far inspired by the
war is almost the worst in respect
10 It's Misrepresentation of realities.
refer to William Watson's sonnet
entitled: ITO America Concerning
England" 1t is admirable art-but
90 you Americans believe that at this
date the people generally of any
part OF the civilized world consider
the situation to be as Mr.. Watson's
poem takes it for granted? The last
six lines point the error as to facts:
Neutrality! The Tiger from his den
Springs at thy mothers throat. and
canst thou now
Watch with strangers gaze? So be
II then.
my loss is more than hers, for
bruised and torn
she shall yet live without thine
aid, and thou
without the crown divine thou
mightst have worn"
ouch expressions are not logical,
nor do they voice any general feel.
ing. Still more illogical and opposed
10 reality is the most venomous poem
which the war has brought forth
mat German production called, "a
ihant of Hate Against England" 1t
IS not true that the German people
nate the English people any more
'han it is true that the English PEG.
PIE hate the German people. Yet this
poem assumes TO speak for the Ger.
man nation in such lines as these:
oU we viii hate with n lasting hate
we VIII never forego our hate,
Hate by water and hate By land
Hate OF the head and hate OF the
hand.
Hate OF the hammer and hate OF tho
crown.
Hate of seventy millions. choking
down.
We love as one. we hate as one.
We have one foe and one alone
England"
All evidence OF an unbalanced
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-14

deny, however. that as a patriot
propagandist-poct KipliDg scored
heavily with For All We Have and
Are"
MOST or the recognized poets OF
England, during the early days OF
the war, evidently felt this way about
ii. for they expressed their views in
different forms of their art-mostly
proper and worthy views, but more
or less Enthusiastically expressed, owing
TO haste and lack OF perspective.
From the art standpoint 1 probably
am as guilty as the others. Though
mad been called a paciiist. and had
a smaller audience, probably. than
some of my comrades felt il my
duty TO enact role in which had
some recognition and address my
countrymen on the burning question
of the hour.
AS poem. perhaps that contribu.
'on is not worse than many others
similarly inspircd-but 1t will not be
included in any future volume of my
poems.
Many Of these war poems were
published simultaneously in England
ana America. If you have given the
matter any attention, doubtless you
nave noticed that the great bulk of
these poetic expressions appeared
during the first two weeks following
me shock OF the first general knowl.
ccge mat war was inevitable. 1t
was this shock that stirred the
patriotism of the poets. In ordinary
conditions they had been simply
poets. You might say that now they
were patriots first and poets second
ari!y. But no sooner had they Der.
formed their duty as patriot-poets
than their art standards were to the
lore again. and they realized that
me great poems about this war would
not be written until the war was long
over. Accordingly the output of war
poetry suffered a sharp decline.
Probably ii is true that il exactly
the right kind OF poem should reach
every soldier in the trenches at lust
The psychological moment, II would
have material bearing on the fort.
iines OF war. Armies are not beaten
until they feel that they are beaten.
SUCH poem. suddenly ringing in the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-14

ueiess from the art standpoint. There
where the poet and the song writer
nave SO little in common-witb tho
"u''h'age, in the case of spontaue.
GUS production, all on the latters
side. You can't stop "Tjnnerarv"
ana you can't get general attention
ior even the hes. OF current war
poems.
~ learned Italian psychologist las
been at great pains to analyze "TIn.
p"rary' and show just why it is the
Sest KIND OF song for the soldiers OF
lhe allies. It's really very simple.
1t voices every "Tommy's" point OF
honor to buck up" when there's
trouble ahcad-he confesses that It's
long way to Tipperary," while In.
dulging the unspoken conviction tina.
IT. "a jolly lot longer way for the
Germans"
Tommy Atkins" never deceive,
himself. Disturbing truths he accents
and enunciates even in his most
ebullient moments. Like the instance
when trainload Of them were leay.
ing to embark for the front in France
and Belgium. AS the train slowly
started with every window open and
filled with heads one Tommy yells to
his comrades revealed at other win.
dows:
Are we downhearted?"
No! Noi"-a laundering chorus
CT negatives.
We'll. if you amt downhearted,
you bloody soon will be-"
That's Tommy all over. What ara
you going to do with such chaps?
Certainly it's no good writing war
poems at them.
When Seymour Hicks, Elaine Ter.
r1ss and other popular English actors
and singers went over to Flanders
and gave our soldiers a music hall
programme they did not neglect
hundred or SO of the badly wounded
lying in a certain hos pital. In spite
OF the wounds-some OF them hope.
iess-never was there more cheer.
full or enthusiastic audience. At the
END or the programme came an un-
expected revelation. In a very low
voice Miss Te;riss sang "Tipperary."
Wondering at the sudden hush, sha
looked about her. Hardly a CO,
among the scores of them that was
not shaken with the sobs of o
wounded and helpless Tommy"
Personally | don't think much OF
current specimens of war poetry. not
excepting my own.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-14

mind. If hate exists on the part Of
those seventy millions" of Germans
it you'd be logical to represent it as
directed at Sir Edward Grey or Lord
Kitchener. And maybe there are quite
q lot of English citizens who think
they hate the Kaiser. The whole
thing is futile-reminds one of the
celebrated bus story. The drivers
whip accidentally nips a choleric
Briton standing on the curbstone.
He Immediately pursues the bus
with appraised umbrella. Being too
late 10 reach the driver with it he
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-14
By Alfred Moves.
Most Distinguished of England Younger Poets,
Tin an lnterview.)

NVTHERE poetry has helped or
wv hindercd either side In
this war | feel quite certain
''at IL Is the poetry OF the past
more than OF the present. Poems,
III order to be OF any real as.
sisiance to bullets, must share in
me artistic perfection OF bullets.
Bnilets are not created OH the SPUR
oil the moment; neither are the sort,
OF poems which infuse a whole
nation with uncomfortable valor.
Both are the result OF experience.
ripencd knowledge, preparation, de.
hberate craftsmanship.
Every true poet understands this
When extraordinary occasions ,enpt
hihl INTO spontaneous production he
Is apt to be sorry ever after that he
yielded; though in case like the
present, when his country is sud.
denly involved I'm war. he really has
no choice. If he is poet whose
views are at all recognized he is ex.
pected to express them.
The effect of these war poems. ~
any is Indirect They help to quicken
the national spirit Over here in
america the impression exists. | am
told that Rudyard Kipling's pocm.
for All We Have ana Are" was
splendid propaganda for the War
once They say that /, placed added
'housahus III line at the recruiting
Stations. Yes. think propaganda"
Is me right word. What ablc-bodied
Eng!ishman could resist the appeal
OF the first lour Ines:
For all we have and are.
For all our childrcns' fate,
Stand up ana meet the war.
Inc Hun is al the gate!"
NO living poet is safer with pos
terity. ms with contemporary readers,
than Mr. Kipling is. But The Hun
Is at the gate" as he very we'll
knows, has nothing TO do with his
reputation as poet. AS a poet Mr..
kipling Is distinguished for his
originality. AS poet he would not
paraphrasc Byron's line: .
The Mede is at the gate,"
Or be beholden to "Bclshazzar" for
his rhythm and form. Nobody can
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lands on the conductor-and walks
away entirely satisfied.
Like their English comrades, Ger.
man poets appear soon to have
recognized the futility OF war poems
that stretch the truth beyond what
the truth will bear. Otherwise why
has no inspired singer of that coun-
try celebrated the famous remaining
Of Ostend? Wouldn't that help the
German people to believe that Ostend
really is Calais?
1t is now five months since the war
began. How it is possible to expect
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-14

W. HERE Eiss.I poetry has helped or
w hindercd either side In
this war feel quite certain
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29
PLEA FOR PEACE
 BY L|EbKNECHT

BERLIN, via London.-Dr. Karl Lie bknecht, Socialist member of the reichstag, has addressed the following appeal to Socialists in England and all throughout the world:
 AS a labor leader l am pleased to be able to write a message of brotherhood the ruling classes of Germany and Great Britain are trying by all the means in their power to incite blood thirsty hatred between the two peoples
 But it is painful to write at a time when the radiant hope of previous days, the Socialist International union, lies smashed with it's thousand ex- . pectations. when even many Socialists of the belligerent countries in this most rapacious of all wars of robbery willingly put on the yoke of imperial ism.
 Just when the evils of capitalism were becoming more apparent than ever the British Independent Labor party with their Russian and Serbian comrades, saved the honor of Socialism against the madness of national slaughter.
 "Confusion reigns in the rank and file of the Socialist army. Many So- cialists blame our principles for our present failure. It is not our prin- ciples which have failed, but the re- presentatives of those principles.
 All the phrases of national defense and Liberation of the people, with which imperialism decorates it's instru- ments of murder are deceiving tinsel The liberation of each nation must be the result of it's own work. Only piinohess can command the continua- ton of slaughter until the enemy is crushed.
 Nowhere have the masses desired this war. Why should they. then murder each other. It would be a sien of weakness. it is said, for any one peo- pie to suggest peace. We'll. let all the peoples suggest it together. The na ton which speaks first will not show weakness but strength and will win glory and the gratitude of posterity.
 Already among German workers there is far greater opposition to the
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29
THE EFFECT OF THE
 GERMAN SHELLS IN ANTWERP

German batteries were firing salyos.
 We heard them as they came. We heard the roar in the air which they caused, sounding at first like an ap preaching express train, but rapidly increasing in volume until the atmos phere quivered as before d bowling cy- clone. Then came an explosion that seemed to split the very earth. Huge geysers of dust and smoke shot high into the air above the shivering city. When one of these projectiles struck a building it did not merely tear away it's upper stories or blow gaping aperture in it's walls: the whole build ing collapsed in utter ruin as though tattened by mighty hand.
 From The Taking of Antwerp" by F. Alexander Powell, in the January Ssribner
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29

NEW YORK-The recent sugges- tionof the Aero Club of America to arrange for an expedition in an at tempt to rescue Vilkjalmur Stefansson and the members of his exploring party has met with much encourage ment Prominent men have become interested in the project, including Robert E. Perry, Alan R. Hawley and Burt M Mcconnell, meteorologist of the Canadian Arctic expedition of last year.
 It will be remembered that the small schooner King and Wing picked up detachment of Stefansson's party at Wrangell island. That was in Septem- ber and this detachment had made it's home on the island after wandering over the ice following the crushing of Stefanssons ship, the Karluk, north of Siberia, on January II of last year. Stefansson and the ten men still miss nig broke up into two attachments, one composed of three men and the other of eight. It is believed that these men are safe somewhere on the drift
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29

The bombardment of Antwerp be- gan about ten o'clock on Wednesday evening The first shell to fall within the city struck d house in the Berchem district, killing d fourteen year old boy and wounding his mother and little sister. The second decapitated street sweeper as he was running for shelter. Throught the night the rain of death continued, the shells falling at the rate of five minute. The streets were ab- solutely deserted. Not living being was to be seen The few who had re-
 mained in the city were covering in their cellars Though the gas and the electric lights were out, the streets were illuminated by the glare from the blazing oil-tanks at Hoboken, which had been set on fire by the Belgians. The racket was deafening. The pave ments trembled The buildings seem
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29

Visiting Cards at the N.aast Office
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29
PLAN AERO EXPEDITION
 TO LOCATE SUPERVISION

planes in the Arctic was warmly ap- proved by the Aero Club because the high and long flights above the ice might result in the discovery of new Arctic land. It was considered cer- tain that the flyers would at least bring in much valuable data about the Arctic air oceans above the surface winds.
 Knowledge of these air oceans Is badly wanted by the Aero Club officials for use in the projected plan of map ping the air against the day of pos sible transoceanic flight. It Is expected to equip the expedition with fifteen men as a crew. for less than $125,000 It is expected to receive considerable assistance from the Canadian govern ment MT. Mcconnell acted as secre- tary to the lost explorer during the fore part of the last expedition. and is anxious to have rescue party start as early in the spring as navigation opens.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29
MEETING NOTICE.

Local S6s, B. I. L. eff A. (Affiliated with the A r. of L.) meets every first Sunday in each month at II 2. m.
 CHAS. SANFORD, Sec'y.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29
NOW IS THE TIM 6.

To come in and see us, as the bright sunny days are coming on, and have your clothes cleaned, pressed and re- paired
 We make them lock like new. We clean hats.
 We make alterations.
 We guarantee irst-class workman ship.
 Wa guarantee modern methods We guarantee prompt service And we will appreciate your patron age
 We alse make suits te order.
 NOME TAILORING COMPANY, Between Segsrstron < Hagen and R. '
 Zshners Jswelry Stores.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29
ITALIAN AViATORS PERFORMING
 GREAT WORK.

ROME, May 29.-Italian aviators are distinguishing themselves along the Austrian frontier Already much damage has been done to towns along the border and several desperate sky battles have occurred between Italian and Austrian aviators in the majority of cases the Italians coming off vic torious.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29

ice north of Alaska, and that an aero plane that really looks over this area will find them.
 The idea of the Aero Club is to send d steamer next summer into the Arctic ice as for as possible along the north coast of Alaska. From this base it is proposed that aeroplanes should fly out. with the Arctic sea north of them mapped off into checkerboard. A full month of good flying weather could be counted on between the open ing and closing of the northern waters to navigation During that month it would be possible for one aeropane. if good luck should attend it's flights, to search practically the whole area with in the zone of Stefanssons possible 
 The flyers, who would return to the same base each day, could report any signs of human presence on the ice fields or any sign of a nabitation the explorers might have put together In addition to its service as relief measure the proposed use of aero
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29
100 TONS OF FLOUR.

Broad only Do. Nsrth psls Bakery and Anvil Bakery.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29

ed to rock and sway. The very air Vibrated to the incessant concussion. It was indeed d City of Dreadful Night. There would come the whistling shriek
 of shell passing low over the house.
 tops, followed, an instant later, by d rending crash, and the
 whole facade of the house where it had struck would come toppling into the street in d cascade of brick and
 plaster. It was not until Thursday night, however, that the Germans brought their famous forty-two centi- metre guns into action. The destruc- tion wrought by these monster cannons
 was appalling. The projectiles they rained upon the city weighed a ton apiece, and had the destructive proper
 ties of that much nitro -glycerine. So terrific was the noise of their discharge that it seemed at first as though the
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29
AT THE NEW EAGLE.

Old Lewis Hunter Rye and the Fa. nous Athsrton Bourbon whisksys, Dis. titled spring 1904 1905, bought in bond and reduced to 90 per cent. by U. 8. government by tho bottle or gallon.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29
CLEAN UP.

All property owners and residents are hereby required to clean up their yards as sosn as the melting of the snow permits.
 By order of tho Town Council.
 J. H. MUSTARD, If Health Officer.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29
ITALIAN FLEET MINE
 CLEARING IN ADRiATlC

ROME May 29.-The Italian Adri- atic fleet have opened a blockade of the upper Adriatic in the vicinity of Trieste and Palo and has begun the work of clearing out the great mine fields along the Istra and Croatia coasts.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29

war than is generally supposed, and the louder the echo of the cry for peace in other countries, the more vehement ly and energetically will they work for peace here"
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-29
WHY EAT POOR BREAD.

Whom you can get GOOD, WHOLE SOME Bread at 5c per ioaf.
 ANVIL BAKERY,
 NORTH POLE BAKERY,