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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
More Profound
Than TOIStOi.

From his early youth he became =
believer in the philosophical and era
truths of the religion Of Christ--sr''r
Tolstoi, but more profound, more lssrk
than the mystical dreamer Of KraS1l
Polnaya. He was a convinced adwSn
of the union of the Greek ORTHODOX &
Roman Catholic churches. The main y
pose of his activity, however, was 70 81
that Christianity and reason are not @
Trajectory terms.
Solovioff's philosophical system ne
we'll be described as sort Of NeofS
tonism, and he himself as kind Of ~
sian Philo.
The identity Of the World-Soul VI
Hagia Sofa, the Wisdom Of God, o.
other words, the idea OF total and ~
crete revelation Of the divine, had w
the earliest times attracted the reilse1
consciousness of the Russian people -
oldest Russian churches were dedlca'e'
the Divine Intelligence, ard one o. :
most attractive features for the h0s'
people in its Dream Of Byzanee ~
sacred House Of God near the GoldeS nv
built by Empress Helen, and which :
the last asa years has been held BY Tx ?
fidel Osmanli. D..
Ossified as Greek orthodox tneoos! ?
pears to US Westerners, so much IS es'N-
that there are in this world Of ours -
1OO,OOO,O0O people, from the higny = :.
ured Boyar TO the illiterate MULE
still firmly believe that the Deny 10
carnated itself in the (accordlng 70 " ~.
oldest and purest form Of the INV" !,
Church, the Greek Orthodox. 10 y ..
rational Interpreter Of this ice" :.
the world at large was the sen''nr
task Of the life of Vladimir sefs'''"
Solovioff.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
America Embattled

pride of the Sea, in the light Of the
- morning,
Rise from your couch at the edge Of the
world;
Poised on the rocks, the twin oceans
adjoining,
Count the bright stars in a standard
long furled.
Rise in the splendor of youth and OF
beauty,
Out of a slumber that bordered on
death;
Call to your legions! See, honor and
duty
Start at the summons, and stir with
your breath.
Star of the West, that the Lord Of Crea-
Laid like a gem on the breast of the
earth,
Lighting the way of the slave to saliva
Rise up in majesty, land Of my birth.
Tyrants are plotting your death and your
shamlngi
Liberty totters-America, wake!
Stretch out your hand for the sword,
fercely flaming;
Strike, for your own and humanity's
sake.
Lo, she has risen The visions that bound
her,
Wrapping her close in a fabric Of
dreams,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Current War Poetry

And the wheat that should succor a
worlds Distress
Till the deep sea groans for the bounty 1t
bore,
And the outraged waves shout out to the
shore
Through the blood-stained foam on our
iron lips,
Ships! More 0hipSi
Ships (cry the buoys). How else shall be
Outwitted the dragons that crouch in the
sea?
How else, when the dragons are mastered
and dead,
Shall the world be fed?
Young land where the fields are I'm.
touched by fame,
Where the rivers flood
Is water, not blood,
Give ear as we cry in the old lands name
For the speeding sail and the hurrying
screw.
Calling to you,
With your treasures Of tree-trunks and
iron and gold
And your treasures Of manhood, the Old
World stands,
Riven and blasted, starved, cold
Bereft of its sons, its acres awaste,
And reaches its hands for the help of your
hands.
Haste, cry the living, the dead, make
With funnel and mast on the broad sea-
lanel
And again, again,
The need of the famished, the blood of the
slain,
Cry out through the clang Of our iron
lips.
Ships More ships
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer,, in The
North American Reuiew.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

Serving the minions Of Mammon around
her,
Fade when the Eagle of Liberty
screams.
Blow, all We trumpets! Exult, o We ma
tionsl
Freedoms high priestess is once more
arrayed
Proudly for battle. A worlds tribulationS
Rouse her to action and whole-hearted
aid.
Hail, she is comingl Behold then her
banners!
Who shall retard her triumphant ad-
vance?
Greet her with cymbals, with shouts and
hosannahs;
Mingle her stars with the lilies of
France.
Hear We those drumbeats, insistent, COM
polling?
Treading the path that their forefathers
trod,
Count We her armies, with ranks ever
swelling,
Instruments all of the justice Of God.
Beatrice Barry, in The NeC York
Times.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

~AIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS, bet
ter known as Pliny the Elder,
~ died at Naples 1888 years ago
August "a, 10 A. D. The son Of a
Roman eques, he was born at Comum IN
the year % A. D. Before ne was II years
cid his father took him to Rome, where
he was educated under P. Pomponius
Secundus, poet and military commander
who inspired in him love of philosophy
end rhetoric. His military career was
rot insignificant, and he saw service as
commander of cavalry under Corbulo
in Lower Germany. Famous principally
for his rather stupendous work, the Nat
,rahs Historic, he was the author also OF
a History of the German Wars" IN
twenty books, which, however, was soor
superseded by writings of Tacitus and
sank into oblivion.
It was his interest in natural phenom-
ena that resulted in Pliny's death. he
was stationed at Misenum, as project OF
the Roman fleet, at the time of the erup-
ton of VesuviuS which overwhelmed
Pompeii and Herculaneum. A desire FOR
g. closer observation of the phenomenon
as well as TO rescue some of his friends
led him to cross the bay to Stabi@, where
he persisted.
IT'S Astounding industry and devotion
i L to study called forth the following
comment from his nephew and heir. Pm!
the Younger, in letter written to Macer
twenty-seven years after his uncle's
death:
"He began to work long before daybreak
He read nothing without making eX
tracts; he used even to say that there was
no book so bad as not TO contain some
thing of value In the country 1t was only
the time when he was actually IN his batf
that was exempted from study. When trsv
cling, as though free from every other care
Re devoted himself to study alone.
In short, he deemed all time wasted that was
not employed in study"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Throwing the Gods Out
Of the Window.

Who was Vladimir Solovioff? The few
facts concerning his external life are
quickly told. He was the son of the IA
nous historian, Sergei M;khaiovich Solo,
Wolf (1S20-1879), the author of a twenty
nine volume History of Russia" born
January l6, 1853, at Moscow, and brought
up in his native town. In early youth he
was a great admirer Of Darwin, 2enan and
Ludwig Bdchner, one of the heads of the
then materialistic school Of Germany. One
day his parents surprised him throwing
out Of his room all the holy ikons, i. e.,
images Of the saints. The learned, toll
Grant father smiled, preferring, deep psy-
biologist as he was, iconoclasm to indif-
ference. His mother, WHO belonged TO a
noble Ukrainian family, smiled, remem-
bering one of her ancestors. considerable
philosophical writer. She evidently be-
lieved in atavism.
In 1874 Vladimir graduated from the
University of Moscow with a dissertation
on THE Crisis of Phioso ply in Western
Europe" After half years instructor
ship at his alma mater he travelled for a
year and a half through England, France,
Italy and Egypt, increasing his then al
ready enormous stock Of knowledge. Soon
after his return, in 1877, he was appointed
associate professor at the University of
Petrograd
After the assassination of Alexander
H. March 10. 1881, Solovicff, in a remark
able lecture, later condensed in the form of
a direct letter to Alexander III, had the
courage to ask for the pardon of the assas-
sins of the "Czar-Liberator." This settled
his official career, and although he had
never been a great favorite with the Tchin
bureaucracy, he and his literary activity
were henceforth more than ever watched
by the censor and the Holy Synod, whose
chief, Pobiedonostcheff of unsavory mem
DRY, accused. him alternately Of being in
the pay Of the Pope, of the Rothschilds
and the Alliance Isrdelite Unirersellsi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

A LII SMILES limp more or less, but II
n is pretty certain that he who has
IA studied the works of both the only
,road-gauged creator of genuine Amerl-
an philosophical world system and of the
one truly remarkable thinker that Russia
has ever produced will easily find for him.
self the reason why such caption as
the above sprang into being. Few outside
the strictly philosophical circles and the
small group of students of Russian litera-
ture have a correct idea of the work of
Vladimir Solovioff and his claim to being
counted among the worlds philosophical
classics.
The latest edition Of the Encyclopedia
Britannica has not as much as a cross-ref-
erence at the place where we had the right
to expect full-sized article.
Well, everything comes to him who
waits. The man who during his lifetime
was regarded by all but a few friends and
disciples merely as a clever and, at that,
somewhat eccentric individual is now con-
sldered by the most competent critics the
central figure in the development of mod
ern Russian thought.
To the small but solid group of "appre-
Citations" which appeared since Solovoff's
death in non-Russian periodicals must be
joined the well deserved tribute of love
and respect paid to the great Russian
thinker and brilliant writer by Mrs. J. n.
Duddington in the last number of the
HILBERT Journal (London), in the shape
Of brilliant essay on :he trend of his re-
ligious philosophy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Telephone Brokers IL
Japan

In Japan, apparently, the NAN 49,. *.
is not that the subscriber is cut on " ..,s,
or is not being connected quiek 60. :, !
hut that the instruments are haf'
tain. - =.
In 1915 the city of Kobe had ~ '..I,
plications for urgent telephone w." 90
tions. Three hundred and 'eu go,
granted by the Department OF 0Oa :. I'd
tions. In 1916 1928 people sent u
applications; 700 were granted .-,.,
Why? There is no scarcity Oh y. y
ments. But the telephone oroA 49,,
come a we'll established ins'''u =
Japan. He obtains licenses on s
leases them to the highest biao3'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Pliny the Elder

The only fruit of all this unvs..
dustry that has survived to modsr. :
is the Ncturolis Historic, which
present form consists of tbir-, y
books-a vast encyclopedia Of CIV s
knowledge and belief turning UPON ,r '
every known subject. It comprise, - =
matters of Importance, collected f,c,. = I"
1000 volumes, the works Of loo -.
Ct authority, together with ADDS
matter, the results Of his own expA,,..
and observation.
4 S TO Pliny's theories and do...a
- no doubt he was consider.S !. =
time one of the maddest Of the 49,. ~
OF the infiniteness of the world Ia -.
"The world, and whatever thu -.
we otherwise call the heavens. Nv - sHa
of which all things are incloss5 "'s
conceive TO be a Deity, to be ets,,,, luN
cut bounds, neither created. nor AN. .N'
any time, TO destruction. To inoyi,.
is beyond it is no concern Of man ~. H
the human mind form any eOni,s,-,. "
specting it. II is sacred, eternal ,,s ~
out bounds, all in all; indeed in,l,s|
everything in itself; futile, VET M, -.
is infinite; the most certain OF oil 80
yet like what is uncertain, exter,Ilv
internally, embracing all things in s,'4
il is the work OF nature, and it,,p :.
stitutes nature
With Ptolemy, he believed in the,nb..
cal form of the world. That il Ia, ..
form of perfect globe" he writes
1--WE learn from the name which IA, n.
uniformly given 70 il, as well as from ,s-.
erous natural arguments. For not Ouly H..
figure of this kind return eyerywh,r. ,s
itself and sustain itself, also inelQds, !
self, requiring no adjustments, no, ,,,,
BILE of either end or beginning in rv a
its parts, and is best fitted for that nss,,
with which, as will appear hereafter 4 /,
continually turning round; but stn IA,
because we perceive, By the evidence q 4,
sight. TO be, in every part, convex and ~.
trail, which could not be the case v,r 4
! of any other figure"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

ard, as it were, physically-a man exclusively
of sea and ships; the sea the only world that
counted, and the ships, the test of manliness,
Of temperament, Of courage and tidelity-and
of love"
lie STOOD on the wharf, charmed. He
l. L Toasted his eyes on the vigorous
sum of her virtues:
AT first glance | saw that she was high
class vessel, harmonious creature in the
lines of her fine body, in the proportional
tallness Of her spars. Whatever her age and
her history, she had preserved the stamp of
her origin. She was one of those craft that,
in virtue Of their design and complete finish,
will never look old Among her companions
moored to the bank, and all bigger than her
self she looked like creature of high breed
an Arab steed in string of cart horses.
"a voice behind me said in a nasty equivo-
cal tone: 4 hope you are satisfied with her,
captain ! did not even turn my head. 1t
was the master of the steamer, and whatever
he meant, whatever he thought Of her, knew
that, like some rare women, she was one OF
those creatures whose mere existence Is
enough to awaken an unselfsh delight. One
feels that it is good to be in the world IN
which she has her being.
"That illusion of life and character which
charms one in mems finest handiwork radi-
ated from her An enormous bulk of teak
wood timber swung over her hatchway; life
less matter. looking heavier and bigger then
ANYTHING aboard of her. When they started
lowering il the surge of the tackle sent
culver through her from waterline to the
trucks Ut the fine nerves Of her rigging, as
though she had shuddered az the weight. 1t
Lad bnr
Half an hour later, putting my foot on
her deck for the first time, | received the
feeling Of deep physical satisfaction. Moth
ing could equal the fulness of that moment,
the ideal completeness Of that emotional
experience which had come to me without the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Daughter of Zeus

Tuerons la lune.-Martinetti
We will not STAY the moon,
For she is the fairest Of the daughters Of
Zeus,
OF the maidens Of Olympus.
And though she be pale and yet more pale
Gazing upon dead men
And fierce disastrous strife,
Yet for us she is still frail lily
Floating upon a calm pool
Still tall lady in austere garments
Comforting our human despair.
Richard Arlington, in The Esoist.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Attacking the
Black Hundred.

Soloviof, deeply immersed in religious
matters, in order to be able to go to the
bottom of the Jewish problem, studied not
only the Biblical but also the Talmudical
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

A LII SMILES limp more or less, but 1t
n is pretty certain that he who mas
IA studied the works of both the only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

TEE WAS standing stoop-shouloered
II beside a rust-colored gun jacket.
II n as heavy and unwieldy as himself,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Twenty Billions
For the Farmers

When the government makes pub
lac its estimate of the total value OF
all the products of the farms for this
year it will probably show that slo,-
600, 100000 worth (peace prices) Of
things from out of the ground have
been put into the markets OF the
world labelled, Marked down to
$4,000. 000,O 900 by order Of the gov
eminent"
Next 10 the labor of the farmer
the great wealth producer in the fer
tile fields of America is the railroad.
L is transportation that has made
possible the wonderful agricultural
development Of the West and South,
and that has placed the American
farmer in his commanding position
in the worlds markets. For their in
dispensable service in bringing the
markets TO his barn door, the rail
roads are paid no more than when
his products sold for half or a third
of present prices. His S10,OOO,OO0,-
600 worth has been revalued at $780,
900. 900 900; is it not reasonable to
suggest that there should be reval-
uation of the products of the rail-
roads?
The farmer strenuously denies that
&c is a profteer. When asked why 1t
IS that he complains Of having TO sell
MS wheat at 1920 when dollar wheat
made him rich, he presents convinc-
ing figures 10 show that all his pro-
drction costs for labor and materials
have risen enormously. The vicious
circle" Of the rising cost Of living
embraces all industry. But the farm
or is paying no more for transporta-
ton in this period Of extraordinary
prices than in the old days when
wheat was selling for third of its
present price, despite the fact that
he labor and materials which go to
make railroad transportation have all
heen caught in this same vicious
circle"
While it is conceivable that great
rise in the price Of wheat, corn and
cotton might result from causes that
would not affect the cost Of transpor-
totion, such an economic development
10 not possible with rise in the price
II iron and steel. coal and copper.
These great basic commodities from
out Of the earth are intimately re-
lated 10 the production Of transpor-
'2tion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

railways. Not only are their earn
ings, under present rates. inadequate
to provide any considerable surplus
for reinvestment. but there is very
vigorous opposition to allowing the
carriers to devote their earnings to
capital expenditures. In the recent
opinion Of the Commerce Commits
sion in the Is per cent rate case IS
to be found this comment on this
question:
A number Of witnesses laid stress
upon the large accretions to prop
erty which many of the carriers have
been able 70 make out Of earnings.
The theory Of this character
of evidence seems TO be that :
property paid for out OF the revenues
of carriers does not in fact become
their property in the sense that they
may be permitted or are entitled 10
earn a reasonable return thereon
and that the public In reality
owns such property, and, therefore,
cannot lawfully be asked to pay rates
and fares which will yield a return
on such property.
This is a short-sighted and un-
economic policy, directly opposed to
the public interest. II a farmer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

earnings ought to be large enough
to enable the carriers to devote q
portion Of surplus earn
ings to expenditures for the safety
and convenience Of the public, but
unproductive of revenue. The de-
velopment Of passenger station facili-
ties, the abolition of grade crossings,
the installation of safety appliances
and other similar Improvements will
mean in the future an increasingly
larger outlay of money. 1t would
seem that such expenditures, made
solely in the public interest, and un-
productive of revenue, ought not to
be financed by the sale Of new capital
securities. Railways are to-day 60
ing into debt to provide these i'm
demanded in the public
interest, we'll knowing that they Will
not earn any interest to pay the
creditors, to say nothing Of meeting
the debt at maturity.
The railroad problem is perhaps
nearer a solution now than any OF
us imagine. The panic of 1907 made
it plain to the country that there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
About the Vcos Circle Rising Costs Materials and Labor Which
Commerce Commission in the Argument for Higher Freight Rates

bought additional acreage out OF his
profits from s. wheat, he probably
would regard as Of unsound mind
any one who suggested that this new
land was not in fact his property
in the sense that he was entitled to
earn q reasonable return thereon.
The growth of the Steel Corpora
ton is an excellent example OF a
well-managed business, constantly
putting earnings back into the prop
critics. Since its formation sixteen
years ago the Steel Corporation has
reinvested in the business $780,
100000 from earnings, with the re-
suit that its steel producing capacity
has been enlarged from 9,50O,OOo
to 100000 tons year. And in all
this time its outstanding capital
securities have increased less than
SOC, 100000. It's capital securities in
gross amount stand to-day where
they did ten years ago, but its actual
capital has been increased by hum
dreds Of million dollars out OF earn
ings.
In the public interest railway
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
By Frank Fayant
(of the RGilrvoy Executives Advisory
Committed


Committed
T>HIS years wheat crop is &c.,
100000 bushels. At the 1920
war price established by the
government the market value of this
harvest is 81 ,452, 100000. Before the
war dollar wheat" spelled prosper
ity in the Mississippi Valley; it en-
abled the farmers to burn their mort
cages, buy touring cars and send
their sons and daughters to the uni
versities. In the five years before
the war the average price of wheat
was 80 cents; this years harvest at
the normal pre-war price would be
worth 1894, 100000. The excess war
value of wheat this year, therefore,
is sS5s,OOO,OOO.
From the corn fields this season
the harvest is 3,200,O00,000 bushels.
The average value of corn in the five
year period before the war was 60
cents, and the normal value of this
years crop would, therefore, be ST.
100000 900. The course of prices Of
corn for future delivery indicates
that s1.l0 may be taken as a mini
mum price for the new crop, giving a
total market value of $3.50, 100000.
The excess war value Of the corn
crop is 81 ,6OO,OOO,0O0.
The South prospered amazingly
with cotton averaging s62 bale be
fore the war lifted prices. The nor
NAL value of this seasons crop Of
l2,50O,000 bales would have been
S775, 100000; but S125 a bale, or
s1,562, 100000 for the crop, is what
the planters are likely TO receive.
The excess war value Of the cotton
crop is 1857 100000.
Three and a quarter billion dollars
"a hundred per cent-added to the
market value of wheat, corn and cot
ton. In these days, when war ex-
penditures are measured by the bill
ion, $3.50, 100000 is not a sum be-
yond ones imagination; but it is
greater than the total revenues of
the railroads in any year prior to
1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

was something radically wrong IN
our banking system, and we detsr.
mined then that there should never
again be such spectacle in thi,
great, rich country. The first
achievement Of the present Wash.
ington administration was the re.
form of our banking system by The
enactment Of the Federal Reserve
law.
The country is now awakening TO
the fact that there is something
radically wrong in our system Of
regulation of railroads. We have no,
had transportation panic, but We
we're on the verge Of one last win.
ter, and there is not going 70 be one
this winter if the government and
the railroads can prevent it. But W.
have no such insurance against dis.
aster as We ought to have.
Is it not conceivable that the sams
Administration that built new and
lasting foundation for our banking
system may, in this critical time,
build a new and lasting foundation
for our transportation system?