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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
Canned Cladness.

Frequently a book or a play passes he
yond the narrower confines Of the pure art
interest and becomes a social symptom.
The dramatization Of "Pollyanna, the Glad
Book is a case in point. The popularity
Of this piece Of sentimental absurdty de
serses serious study by social psycholo-
gists. Hese at the moment when the world
Dis in the iron clutches Of the most terrible
Of all wars, when every communication
from Europe is burdened with narratives
Of unprecedented horror and death poorly
written, saccharine story, which is fairly
sticky with machine-made gladness. be-
comes the centre Of a cult Of easy optimism.
Critics who have dared to hint that this
piece Of infantle joyousness is the essence
Of about all that honest literature ought
not to be have brought upon their heads
the charge Of being apostles Of discomfort
and righteousness. The dislike which
mature minds feel for the whole class of
manufactured sunshine literature, Of which
"Pollyanna" is representative, is not based
upon hostility to gladness, but upon the
hostility toward nauseating insincerity
Everybody welcomes gladness wherever
it may be found. No sane person would
willingly throw the smallest shadow across
the field Of another's JOY. If any one can
find genuine gladness in an improbable
story, wholly wanting in sense Of humor,
in which a little prig Of a girl presumes
without knowledge Of life, to rebuke and
set to rights her perplexed seniors, and
effect, through the magic Of ignoring the
patent facts OF experience, the miraculous
uplift of everybody, he is welcome to his
pleasure. But those who have reached the
age Of discretion may be pardoned If they
see in such an exhibition the very opposite
Of real gladness.
A few years ago we had series of
plays, like "The Passing Of the Third Floor
Back" and "The Servant in the House."
which catered 70 the popular superstition
that we could all without effort attain
goodness by a kind Of vicarious magic.
Those who had any Grst-hand knowledge
Of goodness knew well that human superb
ority could not be achieved in that easy
fashion. Now we find like cult Of glad
ness by magic. And again the untruth Of
such a misrepresentation Of life is obvious
People who are endowed with "A capacity
for joy do not have 10 make virtue Of
qladncss. II is only those who require a
mental anesthetic 10 help them endure this
universe who become the victims Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
"War Christianity"

Dlvines on all sides in this great war
continue strenuously to insist on the essen
italy Christian nature of the conflict. only
they are not agreed which party is the
chosen instrument of the worlds salvation.
The Bishop of London thinks some heather
may fancy that in the space of nearly two
thousand years Christians might have
achieved a more perfect realization of
their profession, but the Bishops answer
is that the war is not in reality among
Christians. Germany, he holds, is not
Christian nation at all, though he allows
that there are many Christians and de-
vout persons in that country"
On the other side, German theologians
of sundry denominations are united IN the
belief that their country has for the time
o sort Of monopoly in Righteousness, and
think it narrow Of their foreign critics to
harp forever on the little cruelties of war
without making proper allowance for their
mighty mission. Thus, the general super
intendent Of the Prussian Protestant Mis-
sion, much as he dislikes to see the suffer
ing Of the relatively innocent, can discover
nothing essentially wicked in the massacre
of the English. Hence, he has publicly ex-
pressed the pious hope that a hundred
ZeppelinS will drop bombs on those un-
repentent sinners, because in that way we
may hope more speedily to bring peace on
earth to men of good will
Socialist paper denounced this utter
ance as embodying a new doctrine which
it called "War Christianity To which
an organ of the Lutheran clerics replied
that at any rate it must be accepted as
"the Interpretation likewise of our in
most thoughts" And now "Germania,
representing the Roman Catholics of
Prussia, comes up valiantly on the same
side, declaring there is nothing that Chris
tianity can possibly condemn in Zeppelin
raids. and that where England is con-
cerned such methods are doubly justified.
II argues the case thus:
1T is true that for the Christian
war is a bitter and hard trial, or
daincd by God, and he prays and
implores God it may be brought to an
end speedily. This cannot and must
not, however, prevent the Christian
regarding himself as the instrument
Of God in this same war, and froU
making use Of all the permissible
means at his disposal in order to gain
victory for his nation and its just
cause
Hard as the lot Of the Christian is, it .
must be an immense satisfaction to him
to feel that he can do his duty in this war
without fear of sectional dissensions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01

What took place in that little Iowa group
will take place throughout the whole vast
Middle Western territory when the Allies
are willing TO use the only methods that
avail in modern democracy namely, the
use of public opinion, publicity, and the
periodicals granting facilities for infor-
nation to the representatives, Of a democracy
when they come desiring to know the truth.
Constantly one is met in London and Paris
when seeking Information on German atroei-
ties. German frightfulness, German methods:
"But surely your people know all thai
How can they know il? Ou~ newspaper
men have rarely been permitted access 10
the facts by the Allies. But to every phase
Of the war they have been personally con
Quoted by the German General san. II hos
been as much as our liberty was worth, al
once or twice almost IA much as our life
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
Portals at Columbia.


Since women are admitted TO the bar in
New York State it is clearly important that
they should obtain the hest training that the
state affords. How long, we wonder will
Columbia University require to accede to
this view. The Columbia Law School s not
4 club, and belonging to the male sex should
not be equivalent 20 belonging 10 the priyi-
legged sex. Medicine. sociology and Eliza
bcthan drnme are open 10 women NJ Column
uia but not the law. We do rot believe that
there is any robust ant-femnism in the
attitude Of thosc who do not arrange for the
women who desire to enter the law school
Their Indifference and inertia. however. are
sufficiently discouraginG and the feminist is
entitled TO make capital out Of II. Does any
one imagine that the foremost law school in
The ,aato would be closed to women If New
York were suffrage state?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
The Mississippi Valley Progressive.

The Middle West has put into execution
commission government in more than two
hundred Of its cities. the nrst great move in
the overthrow of municipal graft. Ii prac-
tises city planning. Many of its towns are
models. Our sane radical movements in the
direction of equality are Middle Western
To curse this section as money
grubbing. uninspired, and TO praise the Har-
ward Boston Brahmins, the Princeton-Phila-
delpha Tories and the Yale-New York ilnan-
cial barons as the hope of our country = 10
twist values. Both elements are excellent
and necessary. Out of their chemical com
pounding will come the America OF the fut-
ure The leaders Of the Middle West are
Brand Whitlock, Bryan, La Toilette. Herbert
Quick, Henry Ford. Booth Harrington Ed
ward Ross, John r. Commons. william Allen
White the Mayos. Orville Wright. \ few
Of them are Of third-rate mentality. But they
nre honest, and their mistakes nre the mis-
takes of an idealsm unrelated 20 life rs II
is. The best Of them have a vision for our
country that is not family perceived oy the
East. Their political ideal is Abraham Lin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
The Cricketers of Flanders.
CFron The Spectator

CFrom The Spectator
The first TO climb the parapet
With cricket balls" in either hand;
The first to vanish in the smoke
OF God-forsaken No-Man's Land.
First at the wire and soonest through.
First at those rcd-mouthed hounds of hell
The Maxims, and the first to fall
They do their bit and do it well.
Full sixty yards I've seen them throw
With all that nicely of aim
They learned on British cricket fields.
All. bombing is Briton's game,
Shell-hole to shell-hole, trench to trench,
"Lobbing them over" with an eye
As true rs though t were a game
And friends were having tea close by.
Pull down some rt-oiTendng thing
OF carven stone, and in its stead
Let splendid bronze commemorate
These men. the living and the dead.
40 figure Of heroic size,
Towering skyward like a god;
But Just a lad who might have stepped
From any British bombing squad
His shrapnel helmet set atilt,
His bombing waistcoat saggIng low,
His rifle slung across his back;
Poised in the very act to throw.
And let some craven legend tell
OF those weird battles in the West
Wherein he put old skill to use,
And PLAYED old games with sterner zest.
Thus should he stand, reminding those
In less believing days, perchance,
How Britain's fighting cricketers
Helped bomb the Germans out of France.
And other eyes than ours would see;
And other hearts than ours would thrill;
And others say, as we have said:
"a sportsman and a soldier still"
By the Author Of "Kitchener's Mob"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
WAR POETRY
Official Teuton Triumphs.
WILLIAM 10 ms PEOPLE

VI 4Ll4AAM ~ Ills LIZ --%~'
From P,mch)
rA.-oriInr TO the 'vosslsche Zeitung." the Kali
ser has issued order TO secure uniformly IN
the celebration Of vci9Ties La iutute ,n ma ybst
is ro. "3 victory" and when o. victory Is ol'ola
or'-r- Win b. issued Tor ne hosting 81 n9ss on
ulifr building ana the firing 81 salutes, rhle the
=. iesiastics authorities wi. send out telegrams
o. ler.ng the ringing OF church beils.l
when may you boom a victory and why?
Who gives YOU leave 70 let the bunting fly!
AID loud carllons rock the staggered
steepes'
Official lips alone can state
Whether the facts demand a fete,
And rot the common peoples
A private citizen should never cheer,
Or drink delight Of battle with his beer,
Or touch off cannon at his own volition.
True sons of Germany will not
DO anything until they've got
Authority's permission.
So don't expand the individual chest
over our fine offensive in the West
For JOY of some obscure affairs OF pickets;
But rather stand in silent queues
Till we announce the sort Of news
That warrants victory tickets.
Nor yet indulge in desultory shouts
BASED on the view that our intrepid scouts
Are busy ravaging Rumania's borders;
Wait for a real official scoop,
Then let the total nation whoop
BY military orders.
7 Trust us ere long, to organize show
Where in the wind all flags at once shall blow
With general salvos uniformly flashing
As when the Lusitania sank.
With one accord we danced and drank
And had the JOY bells clashing.
When we have fattened London's final street,
And for second time our glorious feet
Sets ocean from the tyrant's cruel spell free,
Wave, flags. and, cannon, belch your fire.
And to your Aocks, We bishops, wire,
Saying, Bring down the belfry!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01

professional sunshine mongers. Counter
felt gadness is but a poor substitute for
the real thing. 1t may be that this imIta-
ton optimism is pardonable just now, when
preoccupation with a great world crisis has
rendered US all more or less foolish. But
the suspicion remains that public which
may he duped by The "Pol'yanna' brand Of
canned gladness might also content itself
with a fools paradise in other and more
serious matters matters affecting our ma
tional destiny
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
Our Aero Squadron.

from Irianou o4d i,roa0u'icai Irrf'rlagp
On August %, for the first time in the
history Of the United States regular army,
aeroplanes passed in review of their COM
mandng officer, with troops Of other arms.
This review was held Somewhere in Mexico"
before Brigadier General John J. Pershng
Long should this epoch making date be re-
membered. and great should be the praise Of
those making the event pc ..ble. But equally
interesting is tn fact that the machines
were efficient for combat service.
The twelve aeroplancs with General Perish
ing's expedition are al equipped with engines
Of 100 horsepower or over. and have machine
guns mounted for immediate service. Every
aeroplane carries also two 351 Winchester
automatic rifles with 200 rounds OF ammuni-
ton. Bombs of both an incendiary character
and also explosive bombs form part of the
equipment, and there are automatic cameras
with this squadron After all the criticism
that has been levcled at the aviation arm Of
The service, IL is genuine pleasure to make
a record Of which every American should be
proud.
And the performances Of these machines
during July give promise Of a brilliant future
ior the aeronautical squadron These twelve
machines were in the air a total Of $50
hours. about ten hours a day for a month
This flying was accomplished under the most
unfavorable conditions. and proves that the
many difficulties which were encountered at
the outset have been overcome.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01

IRON The Matchmaker GasetteD
You lay and smiled across at me.
The Day was drifting out of sight,
Some flowers foated in bowl
! stayed where | could watch your face.
Relentless toward Eternity
Our perfect hour was taking fight,
And torrow sought TO reach my soul
within her secret hiding place.
We did not feel the need TO talk
A sense OF JOY there seemed to bloom
OF perfect love that understands,
Like roses through the dusk: to those
II comes at length whose spirits walk
Together in that Swallowed room.
Was IL laying on Of hands
In silent blessing? All. who knows,
A red flag dipping in the West,
A star TO crown the poplar trce
The outside world now dying fast.
ore little bird that loved TO sing
Some swallows stirring near their nest,
The breeze that round the corner free
Slipped out 20 race the clouds at last.
No, much TO need remembering!
SYBIL GRANT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01

One section Of America, Of Civil War ira
ditions, is intensely pro-Ally, and has proved
itself so in speech and action. The new
America. spreading out over the immense
areas of the Middle West. is neutral. i is
neutral because it does not know the facts.
am sometimes told over here in Europe
that it is the chrk Of our money that has
made my country deaf. But our neutral peo-
pie are our earnest Middle Westerners, hard
working and humanitarian.
The Middle West has not given money
and it is warm hearted. Il has not taken
sides, and it is honest This neutrality Is
the result Of the Allied methods Of conduct
ing the war. In England and France there
has been an unconscious disregard Of nCotrai
opinion, an indifference in the Treatment Of
IFS representatives, an unwillngness 20 use
the methods of democracy in appealing
20 a democracy. A government report issued
by beligerent power has little effect on a
community three thousand miles away. Put
the first-hand accounts. sent by It's own writ
ers, who are known to be accurate and mpar-
tal. have wide effect. Il is unfortunate
that through the first two years Of the war
more news was given TO American journalists
by Germany than by England and France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
Germany's Alertness.

Much o. the interesting war news, most
of the striking interviews, have come from
the German side. The German Genera staff
has shown am understanding Of American
psychology, a hexibiity in handling public
opinion. The best stories have often come
out of Germany, given to American CORE
scondents. Their public men AMI their off
GERS, including generals, have unbert and
stated their case. An American writer going
10 Germany has received every aid in gather
ing his material. A writer with the Allies
is constantly harassed.
This is novel experience to any American
journalist, whose status at home is equal TO
that Of the public and professional men
whose work he makes known and aids. My
own belief after twenty-five months Of
work in obtaining information and passing
it on to my countrymen) was that such effort
m their behalf is not desired by France and
England, that their officials and public men
would be better pleased if we ceased 10 annoy
them was thoroughly discouraged by the
experience, until very recently, 50 slight is
The interest over here in having America
know the truth.
# a democracy like England is too proud
10 present its case 10 "A sister democracy,
then at that point it is not a democracy. II
il gives as an excuse (and this IS the excuse
which officials give) that the military will
rot tolerate propaganda, then England is
more dominated by its military than Ger
many. Of course the real reason is neither
Of these. The real reason is that England
is unaware of the situation in our Middle
West
The Middle West is a Woodworking, ideal
istic, "uncommercialized" body of citizens,
who create our national policy. II has some
CT the best universities in America-places
Of democratic education, reaching every
group of citizens in the state, and profoundly
influential on state policy. Such universities
rs the universities Of Wisconsin and M:chi.
gan are closely related to the life Of their
communities. whereas Yale University could
not carry local election in New Haven.
What the late Professor Sumner (of Yale
thought. was OF little weight at the Capitol
ut Hartford. Conn. What John X. Commons
professor at the University Of Wisconsin,
thinks has become state law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01

A clear proof that the cause OF the Allies
has not touched America except on the At
lantic seaboard lies in the exact number Of
men from the Eastern universities who have
come across to help France, AS compared
with the number from the Middle Western
institutions Of learning. For Instance, IN
the American Field Ambulance Service Har-
ward has 9S men, Princeton, Is; Yale, q;
Columbia, 9; Dartmouth, s. These are East
rrn institutions From the Middle West
there is occasionally one man from college.
The Official report up to the beginning Of this
wear shows not man from what many con
slider the leading university of America, the
University Of Wisconsin, and less than six
from the entire Middle West. There IS no
need of celebrating the point The Middle
West has not been allowed to know the facts
Because my wife told her friends in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. the facts of the war, three
men have come four thousand miles TO help
France One is Robert Toms, general man
ager of the Marion Water Works; one is
Dr. Cogswell. successful physician; one is
Verne Marshall editor of THE Cedar Rapids
Gazette" For eighteen months Mr. Mar
shall's editorials were neutral, and he was
speaking not only TO his city Of 3GoOo. but
to his section Of 100000 people Since his
arrival on French soil his special articles
have been strongly pro-French. pro-Ally.
Each man OF the three is successful worker
and gave up his job. These three men are
as significant as the ninety-eight college boys
from Harvard.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
Where France and Britain Have Failed

The friends of Franz ard England lie '''
yonder in the prairies England and fI"n''
Rave much to teach them and much 20 l'sn
from them. But to efTest tho eNehahse
England and France must be willing 70 spe"
70 them through the voices they know. ser
Il only one way OF reaching American pVV.'
opinion-the newspapers and periodicals w
other agency ayails. England must iec0-"'
the function of the correspondent IN W
modern democracy. Through him come Wv
facts and impressions on which people mas MAJ.
up their minds. He supplies public opin'gSji
with the material out Of which TO 0'"'
policy. =.
For American failure 20 understand y.
war France and England must snare
blame with America. We should have VI
ready enough 20 alter our indifference
Ignorance into understanding. 4 only
writer's had been aided 20 gain intorms'v-
But the Western Allies have little kno"'v
CT American public opinion. and small o''
20 win il. Any one. coming on sneh W,
as | am on now. that Of proving "e'". :,
methods from frst-hand testimony, Is resN,
by the Allies ms partly a nuisance ana pa
misguided II any public criticism .s
made of my coun,ry's attitude by the IN ~.
or English. we that have sought to SER "A
Allies, will be obliged 20 come ior"S'a ~,
tell our experiences namely, that " car
been almost impossible 20 obtain fac"
America. as the Allies have seen III " -.
regard her public opinion and seo'n .sln
methods and channels of reaching '0'' P'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
By ARTHUR GLEASON.

was worth, to endeavor TO build up the FRO
Ally case. so constant have '.. the oNsta-
cles placed in the way of tho.e writer's Of US
that are ant.-German.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
The Pacihst Theory.

lie believed his experiment had Gear"
human nature Of its hates lie believed that
ideals no longer had 20 be fought for Phrases
became q substitute for the ancient warfare
against the enemies Of the race. And all ne
time he was busy with his new continent
Results. action, machinery, became his ssuH
outer life. Tic Puritan strain in HIM,
religion Of dealing very directly with lie
Immediately at hand, drove him yet ~
harder to tackle his own patch Of soil, ia'
then on 70 a fresh field in another towa %
another state. Work, but work unrelated |"
his community unrelated 20 a civic sense
70 national life-least Of all related %
international ideal
And he let Europe go its own gait VI
finally 1t has become n dim dream and lS''
now very evil dream. But OF concern ID
It's chickering's he feels none. So to-day N
refuses to see a right and a wrong IN Wv
European war He confuses ;he crinIhh
and the victim. He regards the Uhlsn $40
the Gerbeville peasant as brothers. ""
don't they cease their quarrel snd I've
we live?
That, in brief, is a digest Of lioyelsaSs'
searching analysis Of our national SOU
this crisis We have not understood the Wal
We are not going to see it unless We s'
ided. If We do not see Il, the future o. 'h'
democratic experiment is imperilled.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
THE NEUTRALITY OF THE MIDDLE WEST

coin. Walt Whitman eyprosoi vha. 'rg
are trying TO make OF our people.
A clear analysis Of our Middle West .
contained In the second Of ". Emile Hove
laque's articles in recent issues Of The Rev"
de Paris" In that he shows hcw dis'ane
and isolation have operated TO give our eog''
try. particularly the land-bound heart Of D.
a feeling Of security. 20 sense OF being un'e
lated to human events elsewhere on he
planet. lie shows how the brcak Of me IN
migrant with the Old World has lef. BIS
inner life emptied Of the old retro poets CT
off from the ancestral roots. That yaeanq
The new man IN the New World filed Fia
formula. with vague pieces Of ideaIism abasi
brotherhood
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