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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01

sought to find true fatherland through
education and humanity.
In all of them a long repressed spirit
reasserted itself or was trying to do so.
The disappearance of the tormentors who
had aggravated their hard condition
opened a new vista, the vista of future
which the exiles hardly dared to hope
would realize the end for which 50 much
had been sacrifced-so many lives, 50
many noble martyrs.
Some one suggested:
The gcndarme Gouyilof, with his
dropsy. could not have got away. He
cannot travel; we ought to find out some
thing from him
They ran-many Of them-to beat on
his shutters and his door In place Of the
oaths which they expected only dead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01

NJ tho Press, the military Office charged with
the censorship. a proof of each of their pages
as soon as il is made up. The censor must
indicate ANYTHING which he wishes to have
taken out. The newspapers responsibility
ends in literal compliance with the orders re-
ceived If the censor overlooks anything II
he instructs some statement to be suppressed
in the body Of an article, but fails to order II
out Of the head, or vice versa IA not lnfre-
cpert occurrence), the newspaper is under no
Utilization to remedy or call attention to the
error.
-, great amount Of time is lost in the
nroccss Of censoring War newspapers IN
France. il must be remembered, consist OF
two or, at the most, four pages. All but one
mage can be submitted to the censor before
the hour Of going to press. The last page Is
cont nv messenger on a bicycle, and within
half an hour Of the time the sheet is received,
ae q rule the censors Office telephones the
newspaper. indicating what, if anything, must
no tsker out. Commonly the intervening
time has been used at the newspaper once IN
stereotyping the page in question, and II any
thing must come out IT is simply chlpped OH
the Mate and the journal sent 20 press.
In remaking censored pages for subsequent
editions il il usual to fill up the blank spots
so that widely circulating morning daiiies'
like ale Petit Parisien," "Le Matin,' lie
Journal" and "Le Petit Journal which print
different editions timed for the various local
tiles OF France are usually able to issue
their final. or Paris, newspaper without
caviar"
Toere is much 70 be said against this prac-
tic. Of filling IN the blanks made by the CEN
sor. and some publications do not do 1t. From
the purely business standpoint IT rs doubtful
policy. The public has right to know to
what extent It's journalists and its censorship
differ as 10 what should be printed; nor
should u be lost to view that in covering up
the evidence journalists deprive themselves
Of a weapon for lighting excesses on the part
Of the censorship. for the Bureau Of the Press
does not like to have the publications OF the
country appear with proof Of too much at
tention a. IT'S hands. Most persons IN Paris
did not know that France had been seriously
invaded until the train service TO Boulogne
s,opped and let the cat out Of the bag.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
THE LOANS BLACK SPOT

treated with measure Of liberation on The
ground that they affected a domestic stua.
ton which might be trusted TO right itself
But new conditions have arisen, and with
the nation at war. fact which many people
still fail TO appreciate, everything else must
be subordinated to that condition. The one
imperative thing is that the whole might Of
this nation shall be put forth in such
manner as 10 bring this war to a speedy
close, and to establish forever and beyond
all question the principles for which 70 is
waged. Everything else is insignificant 10
comparison. And when Townley stands on
public platform and attempts 20 infame the
minds Of lis audience against the govern
ment Of the nation, and to deprive that gov
eminent Of the financial support which is one
of the first requisites in the wa, The
Herald" has no hesitation in chergt-. hin
with treason, and in urging for him the
treatment that the laws metes out 20 traitors.
The situation has been complicated
somewhat by the fact that the !. ". W.,
another organization that aims at the con-
scription Of wealth and believes that this
is a rich mans war, has declared for a
new scale of wages for farm labor and
has invited the league to open negotiations
with it. Now the league, apparently de-
voted TO the principles of the /. W. W.
but actually as opposed as any entrepre'
neur and capitalist may be opposed 70
those whose labor he must command and
may sometimes exploit, finds itself in
difficult position.
THE Grand Forks Herald" points out
this dilemma:
These men have preached 20 the labor"
the same sort of doctrine that Iownley
preaching to the farmer. They have az
sured him that he is abused and do"ntr0''
den. that the hand of every man is agaih'
him, that he is slave as truly as The nesiV
was slave before the war. and that y
both his right and his duty TO employ ever
means, OF whatever nature. 10 wresi if0m
those VINO are now his masters that ~hi''
belongs to him.
But the farmers are not without news.
paper defence. THE Aberdeen American
says for them:
II was unfortunate that farmers oil 'H'
Northv st were so bitterly criticised oy Wv
Federal Reserve Bank officials in trying /"
explain the slump in bond subscriptions -
this district. Undoubtedly il was not me'D'
as it sounded, for surely there is no nor
patriotic class OF citizens than the popu''
tion of these Northwestern states.
And the odds remain with the farmers
controlling as they do the machinery v
the state government. The case IS cur'O'.
in its indication of how far movement
that was purely economic in its beglnh'w
has been able to extend itself mo GUM
fields of action.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
Our Bargain

is ALL our world upon counter laid?
Il That is their taunt who say they
know us well.
Then, like true merchants, let us to our
trade;
What wares has God to sell?
A world Of liberty path made clear
For steadfast justice and enduring
peace,
Nations released forever from the fear
OF evil days like these
A sound investment! but the
price is high.
Long boarded wealth in ruin, fame and
steel,
Death lurking in the sea and in the sky
What say you? Shall we deal?
Shall we know terror, shall our strong
ones fall
That others children, fearless in the
sun,
May see our visions and accomplish all
That we must leave undone?
We take thy bargain, Master of the Mart :;
Though we may finch, we cannot turn
away.
Send thy resistless fire upon our heart
And make us strong to pay.
Amelia Josephine Burr.
From "Fifes and Drums" the first Of
the "Vigilantes Books" published by
George II. Doran Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
Current War Poetry

The present marches; and the past COM
mands.
Lo, from earth's womb, long pregnant
with our seed,
Arise the hoary captains Of our cause,
And palely stand, in dauntless dim array
As once at freedoms birth they stood
.aglow
To guard the treasure of her sacrament
Who goes with freedom on her great
empriSe?
Ye trumpet airs, give answer! Winds,
reply
Say how America, colossus-limbed,
Looms on the red horizons of the world,
Her torch upheld above the moaning
seas
To cleave the holy purpose of her path,
And in her hand forbearance turned to
steel,
Hold, France. Hold, Russia. Hold, ye
British brave
Italia, hold, We come, we come with
swords,
Dana Burnet, in Nunsey's.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
The Day of Swords

NTOW wakes our warrior spirit from the
To meet the challenge of the trumpet
hour;
Now dawns the slow sword from the
scabbard's mouth
Like some aurora of forgotten stars
Freedom is up! She lies no more in
dreams.
Behold her now, beneath her banners
flame,
Her sombre robe Of patience flung aside,
Disclosing the bright body of her wrath
Which time shall burnish with a thou
sand suns,
Until its sRendor, slanting down the
world,
Blinds dark oppression from his last re-
treat
And casts a light upon the futures eyes.
Shining she stands to keep her ancient
trust
Let high-crowned hate beware, drilled
slave take heed!
For liberty has never feared king.
Then stir, ye valleys, and awake, We hills;
Cry forth the hosting to the utter soils!
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.
! ~ spot in the Liberty Loan campaign
and North Dakota newspapers are
divided into two camps-those who are
ashamed Of the showing the state made
and those who are perhaps sympatheti-
cally inclined toward the Non-Partsan
League, which fought the bonds, and tow
ard the men who believe the farmer is
not needed to help win "a rich mans
war"
A peculiar condition exists in the upper
Of the Dakotas. The state is now con-
trolled BY an organization of farmers,
/ banded together to fight all boards Of
trade and other organizations that make
profit Of handling the farmers product.
/ The Non-Partisan League, as it is known,
has elected a Governor and is now trying
hard to elect a Congressman. The league
is headed by A. {. Townley. who has been
carrying on a speaking tour over the state,
| fighting the Liberty Loan and carrying
his message Of "a rich mans war" to thou
sands of farmers.
The Bismarck Tribune says in a news
statement:
Assertions by officials Of the Federal Re-
serve Bans Of Minneapolis that the farmers
OF the Northwest have shown an apathy tow
ard subscriptions to the Liberty Loan bonds
and that the Non-Partisan League has endeay.
ored TO defeat The sale Of the bonds among
its members, have added zest to the meetings,
eliminating recently in the adoption of reso-
lutions at several Of the sessions requesting
President wilson to remove Governor Theo-
dore Void and Chairman John H. Rich Of the
Federal Reserve Bank at Minneapolis because
OF their statements and because of their al
legged antagonism to the farmers of this re-
gion.
The methods of the league are illumi-
rated by the following:
The league never has had a great amount
Of strength in the slope. Il now has less
than ever before The slope prdcs itself
upon thoroughGoing Americanism. The
sicky Socialistic sentiments Of Fownlcy and
his sycophants have been regarded by slope
people as an insult to their intelligence.
Realizing this, each succeeding speech
Townlty and Frazier have made in the slope
has shown the results Of careful pruning
But so thoroughly saturated is Town,ey
with his gospel of class hatred, dissatisfac-
ton and distrust that even the cool recep-
ton he has received everywhere west of the
river, except AZ Beach, has not suficed to
purge him Of the malady.
Editorially THE Grand Forks Herald"
urges that Townley be tried for treason.
\ year ago. while the extravagances and
abusiveness of Townley were disgraceful
and injurious to the state, they could be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
Restoring the
Glory of Hellas

TNWICE before in history there has
been New Greece. When Achai.
became Roman province, in l4s
&. c., it looked as if, politically and moral.
w.. the race were dead. The Hellenized
Romans Of Horace's and Virgirs DAYS
looked down on their Greek contemporaries,
with a certain contempt, for they lacked
the virtues that make for government,
strength of purpose, grit and staying pow
err. But it was. nevertheless, the HELEN.
lied East that, two centuries later, with.
stood the onrush of Teutonic. Slavic and
other barbarianS upon the eastern frontiers
Of the Roman Empire.
Greek officers commanded Roman troops
Greeks were governors Of provinces. Il
was the public spirit of the Hellenic race
that made possible the long history of III.
Byzantine Empire, which was Roman in
organization, Christian in religion and
Greek in language.
The last Byzantine Emperor, Constantine
NJ, fell 1853 on the walls of Constantine
pie, mar fully defending his capital against
the onrush of the Osmanlis. From tha,
year to the battle of Navarino, in 1921.
when Greece regained her Independence.
with Capo dIstria as first President Of the
Hellenic Republic, the Greek people lived
by commerce and-their indomitable hope
in a national resurrection.
Greece, for the last ninety years, has
steadily progressed in almost every field
Of human activity. But the advance would
have been a still larger one if the Greek
interIigenzio were not so dangerously close
to the lazzaroni type; agriculture and in.
Gustrial work often have to yield to pot.
house politics.
There are. no doubt, to this very day
among the leading Greek politicians many
men of the loftiest patriotism: Eleutheros
Venizelos is the best known representative
of this group of\disinterested and clear.
eyed lovers of their country. Under the
new Kings and his combined leadership
the great ideal of modern Helas, the re.
demption of the Greek "Irredenta'-l. e. Of
the 100000 Greeks still living under
Turkish ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS yet be realized
as one of the consequences Of the war.
No national revival ever found more
ideal leader. In appearance Nenizelos is
curiously like the bust Of Peric.es by
Cresias in the British Museum: a stern
and determined man, benevolent, moderate
and full of humor; a soldier as well as a
statesman. Like his great predecessor Of
nearly 2,4O0 years ago, the former and
presumably, Greek Premier-to-be says the
straight, unpleasant thing-and be it on
the eve of a general election.
Ii will be the privilege and the duty OF
the Allies-now that Queen Sophia has
Joined her brother, William II, and eX-klng
Constantinos will again be allowed TO roam
about the world as private citlZen-to help
Greece, which for US represents the only
living bridge between the past and present
of European history from Homer TO the
present day, in the realization OF her noble
ambition, j. G.. the consummation Of her
national unity and the founding Of a great
Hellenic empire with new lease of life
TOR the old spirit Of ancient IIellas.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
The Censor Game
in France

"HE Americans escape from the
censorship restrictions contem-
Il Mated in the defeated gag pro
visions of the espionage bill enables nm
10 view with composure the plight Of the
French press, over which censorship
more strict than anything experienced even
in Germany is imposed sy the government.
According TO Arthur Draper, writing IN
"The Outlook" the French censorship Is
absolute. The French humorously refer
"a the censor as "Sainte Anastasie,' an
agc-old reference to Emperor Anastasius,
who imposed a rule Of silence upon his
household. This French nickname has
been in use since the origin Of newspapers,
in the good old days when Sir Roger
LEstrange. the English censor, suppressed
all newspapers entirely on the ground that
they were teach ng the people TO have IAN
itch for participation in the affairs Of gov
eminent" Mr. Draper gives US details OF
the French press gag operations:
France. where there was more liberty Of eH-
oression before the war than in any other
country o. the world. has since the European
co,airt lived under q censorship Of the press
be.,de which that o. Great Britain Is nothing
\ Censorship more restrictive, perhaps than
hat even Of Germany or Russia. France at
tributes the suddenness OF her disaster m
.is7o 20 information printed IN lie Temps
and me was determined when the present war
bur,, upon her tina, there should be no repe-
ti,ion o. that blundcr. But her censorship
goeg beyond such safeguards II - not simply
military and diplomatic. Il is extended prac-
,jcally. II not legally. 20 the discussion Of all
questions.
Intelligent minds in France DO not under
e..ir,ate the dangers 20 democracy in such a
surrender, but il is philosophicslly tolerated
because n p nation is united in the single pur-
po,e Of carrying on the war, and frenchmen
are frankly disirustful Of their ability TO do
this effectively without putting a gag on their
tonzuts The principle OF press censorship
In France il the reverse Of that which pre-
vals in Great Britain, where final responsi-
b,lnv rests on the newspapers for what they
print and where they are the judges OF what
,bsy ought 20 submit 20 the censor In France
eysrything Is submitted TO the censorship. and
final responsibility rests upon IT to eliminate
whatever i regards ~ dangerous.
In Paris the newspapers send 70 the Bureau
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
What DO | Know of the
War?

WHAT do know of the battlefield?
w Nothing at all-but there he lies
Where harvest winds once blew their yield
And moonlight falls on his eyes.
And that know and nothing more,
His song is hushed, his lips are sealed
That's all | know of the war
Nations may fall on the battlefield,
Victor and vanquished come and go
And flowers bloom where the cannon
pealed-
But only this do | know.
j. Thorne Smith, jr., in The Masses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
W

silence followed their calls. IN iteiI%y
they redoubled their shoutings. Coarse
iokes mingled with these, and by using
their fists in concert the mob multiplied
its attacking power. Soon an entry was
forced, panel being smashed in and its
fragments tossed into the street. But the
crashing Of the wood and the tumult OF
voices provoked no imprecatiOns.
lie must have gone with the others, IN
spite Of the water which he carries as a
penalty for having drunk too much vodka
We must 20 to the bottom Of this, all the
same"
Inside a lamp was still burning before
some religious images. a portrait of the
Gar in the uniform Of hetman of Cos
sacks, smiled stupidity down on his vic
tins. Overhead they saw the body of the
gendarme Gouvilof. lie had hanged HIM
self His corpse was cold and stiff. They
said little in it's presence, for death
clothes with a certain majesty even that
which was base and vile.
itAkl.At. WIN lpNHtA4tN ANl4 : 49, -AAN N's'7
cussed the suicide. There was fresh
stirring Of hope. Si6guine, who had got
up late, according to his custom, appeared
tapping the ground ahead of him with his
stick. lie carried his head higher than
any one had ever seen him carry it before
Feeling the presence of the group, which
his attitude struck with amazement, he
called out these words-words from the
sacred book which he had long since
stricken from his faith:
and the blind shall see.'
Announcing his name, Alexander Kara.
dine, his junior by two years, counting the
Gays of their exile, kissed the blind man or
the mouth as on the morning Of an Easter
Sunday, and said to him:
"WassiH Payloyitch, our Mother, Rus.
STA. has arisen
When the junior had told the senior OF
the fight Of the gendarmes and Of the sui
eide Of Gouvioif, the two old men, EN-
bracing each other. wept for JOY. One
could see q flush Of fever color their cheeks
always 50 pale, as the red wine mounts in
the carafe which one fills. And Siegulne
said, in Q voice broken by his struggles fol-
breath:
Il dreamed all this last night"
All that he learned from them had been
made known to him in vision, by that
mysterious messenger who visits every
man whose thought pursues an ideal un.
tainted by egotism.
Speaking for the benefit of all, he said
to Karadine:
an all truth. Alexander Ivanovitch,
tell you this. The good news has spread
over the whole earth, everywhere where
there are Russians who are exiles or fugi.
tves and who are dying Of inconsistencies
for their lost fatherland. See the dawn
for which have fingered | can die now
|, blind man, see the aurora before you
do VINO still have your sight. Russians,
awaken Russia, without a Gar, stands
erect before the world"
He sobbed like an infant. And they all
believed what he said, because none of
them had suffered as much as he.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
The Children'S War

THIS is the Children's War: because
L The victory's to the young and clean
Up to the Dragons ravening jaws
March dear Eighteen and Seventeen.
Fresh from the Chrisom waters pure
Dear lads, so eager to attain
To the bright visions that allure
The knights ordeal, the red pain.
The light is yet upon their curls;
The dream is yet within their eyes;
Their cheeks are silken as a girls;
The little Knights of Paradise.
o men with many scars and stains,
Stand back, abase your souls and pray
For now to Nineteen are the gains
And golden Twenty wins the day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
Before Action

DY ALL the glories Of the day,
~ And the cool evenings BENSON:
BY the last sunset touch that lay
Upon the hills when day was done:
By beauty lavshly outpoured,
And blessings carelessly received,
BY all the days that have lived,
Make me a soldier, Lord.
BY all Of all mems hopes and fears,
And all the wonders poets sing,
The laughter of unclouded years,
And every sad and lovely thing:
BY the romantic ages stored
With high endeavour that was his,
BY all his mad catastrophes,
Make me a man, o Lord.
|, that on my familiar hill,
Saw with uncomprehending eyes
A hundred of Thy sunsets spill
Their fresh and sanguine sacrifice,
Ere the sun swings his MONDAY sword
Must say goodby to all of this:-
BY all delights that | shall miss,
Help me to die, o Lord.
By Edward Melbourne wv. n. Hodg
SOM, Lieutenant, Devon Regiment. Kile
in the Somme advance, July, 1916.
Vanity Fair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01

Brown heads with curls all ripped over
Young bodies slender as flame;
They leap to darkness like a lover
TO Twenty-one is fall'n the game.
1t is the Boys War. Praise be given
TO Percivale and Galahad,
Who have won earth and taken Heaven
By violence. Weep not, bit be glad!
katherine lyman, in The Spectator.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
Yep Captures a Ship

4 NEW use Of Zeppelins is reported
~ by Dutch fishermen from Yrnuiden.
n They report that early in May,
while fishing near the Tarbot Bank, they
saw Zeppelin stop the Norwegian
bark Royal. A prize crew put off from
the Zeppelin boarded the ship, and took
it 10 Germany.
Unfortunately they do not report how
the Zeppelin managed to get low enough
TO halt the Royal without being exposed
TO the fire Of the Norwegian. Most likely
the Royal, being Norwegian merchant
man, had no three-inch gun mounted
aboard.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01

" TASSILI SIEGUINE had lost his
w sight in the salt mines of the
Gar of all the Russias-in the
depths of that Siberia whose rigors he had
risked in the service of the ideal Of his
youth-the emancipation of all the brTh-
rem held in slavery by the Romanoffs.
In his soul the flame still burned which
lad lighted him in his student days to the
great sacrifice The first ten years in the
mines had made him an old man. At thr-
ty-two he looked sixty. But faith still
Illuminated with occasional flashes the
eyes whose sight was gradually passing
away. When finally his vision WAS extin
guished the hope Of liberty within him
dwindled down to a faint, Pickering ray.
Useless underground, he was brought up
on the surface. Stick in hand, he walked
from door to door, received everywhere IN
the village as a father who had been
robbed of his children. The gendarmes
cid not modest him, except when they were
drunk. He had the fugitive consolation,
when new convoy of martyrs arrived
from the West, of hearing, in the soft
speech of the women and the vibrant voices
of the men, that the name of the student,
Wassili Seguine, inseparable from the
Cause, was still revered by the multitude
ever increasing in spite of police sur
veilance and imprisonment-of free
hearted Russians who had sworn to deliver
the races of the fatherland from the Cas-
plan to the Baltic and from the Nistula to
the Sea of Okhotsk.
Meanwhile the little ray of hope grew
feebler Sometimes for weeks it seemed
to be extinct An effort of the memory
revived it when at Wassili's house some
other exiles gathered and told their stories.
Then it vanished again until the next
happy mood arrived. born Of some favor
able augury which turned the blind mans
thoughts again toward liberty. 1t was
then his habit to say that since he had
lived so long prisoner in his gloomy soil
tude. exiled in two senses-by Punishment
and by blindness-it must be because he
was destined to sleep in the bosom of the
earth only after the coming of the aurora
which he had so long watched for with
pure and loyal heart.
At Karskoiesk one morning the news