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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-06-07

Mary Abel Hays, American prima
donna soprano Of New York, has been
specially engaged as soloist for the
evening concerts. She has been de-
scribed by Musical America" the
great musical authority, as 'having q
voice Of beautiful quality, marked
technical skill. excellent style and
taste" -a.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
Rodmi

Angelo it is because his dGeptoR is not
so interesting. If he has failed to dis
credit Dubois it is because when you
compare them, quality for quality, Du-
bois proves the finer type.
In that matter of fneness lies the
crux of the whole business. There is
certain theatricality in Robins char
acteristic design; there is a certain
speciousness in the very beauty of his
modelling. The dark side of his in
fluence has its source in n weakness
which he shared with his imitators, the
weakness Of preferring a transitory
effect" 10 the solder virtues of great
sculpture. One thinks, for a moment
tout of all the men of genius who have
loved, and created, beautyD, Of John
Keats. There was swooning sensu-
business about him which is betrayed
even in the last tragic line he wrote. on
the eve Of death. But the essentia!
Keats was concerned with nobler
things. He never pretended to live TO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
The Sonata to the Star

Translated from the French BY William L. McPher'on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
What Auguste Rodin
Meant in Sculpture
The Question of His Influence and the Light 1t Throws
His Own Characteristics-Is He Master To Be
Followed or Feared?
By Royal Cortissoz

the world which themselves with
ngularity, with strange of beauty that
they dwell perpetual isolation They like the in which
some man only vouhsafed him life
time know what relations James Graham Marquis of
had with the literary of time All
lines his immortal In the Louvre where the great
Victory spreads her divine wings only the anxious
dutfuy bordering the lectures for his semester
effort fixing place the development of Heenic art Botce
maors but they minds IN the presence OF MS
Michael Angelo the other hand cannot but recall
pohuous archetype Of
that which interests only ITSELF but in its
effect be distinguished with from
that professional The important point
that not imply propaganda but the un
conscious of personality They say? What say they! Let
them busy bother about his influence
showed little bad habits through emulation OF
bgn incidentally they showed how mimab ne was "here
does Rodr stand recalling that of the Italian MASTER
The makes indispensable part OF MS story
Has perncou? And either what does
reveal these questions is bound to recu
after sentiment inspired by the recent
news of his death In embodied challenge
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25

hands Of his imitators it more often
suggests the transactions Of some
ardent pastry cook. doing incredible
things for the centre of the table with
a bowl Of sugar paste; nay, with bowl
Of whipped cream. Nothing could be
softer, sweeter, suaver than these
pretty improvisations in the current
shows, and often they are miraculously
clever. But nothing could be more
inimical TO the true genius of scu!p-
ture. That genius rests eternally upon
an honest searching analysis of form.
II develops, as it were, from the inside,
the figure in clay that is to be put into
marble or bronze. 1t implies knowledge,
not merely flair. Sculpture is an art OF
construction, il ever there was one. 1t
involves the manipulation OF surface
only as that is expressive of the form
under the skin. That personal touch
which we have mentioned as so impor-
tsnt, that spark Of individuality which
10 as the very life-giving principle,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25

have referred. They have Jumped all
his productions in one portentous mass,
before which they have flung them
selves PROSTATE. The sentimental
balderdash written about Rodin has
probably. exceeded in quantity that
written about any other artist of his
time, with the exception Of Whistler.
When he was employed at Sevres he
made some magnificent pen drawings.
In his old age he produced a lot Of
scrawls. of interest, save in compare
lively few cases. TO no one but him
self. In the ordinary course they ought
to have been swept out by the boy in
the mornings, along with other studio
rubbish. But these late drawings are
hailed in some quarters as though they
were jewels, like the souvenirs OF
Sevres. That way lies complete obfus-
tication for the student who would APP
prehend the characteristics Of Rodin.
There is no occasion for our worrying
about the question IS to whether his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25

makes itself felt in no easy adroitnes:
Of technique, but in the whole grain
and character of the work. For the
/ stimulation of such touch only the
severest of taskmasters is adequate.
With a recognition of that fact we
come back to Robins responsibility fol
an unhealthy fashion.
Surely he is not TO blame, we say
for the ineptitudes of his disciples. Is
it his fault that they go on dealing in
whipped cream? But what if the ex-
ample he sets does actually SAVIOR OF
the same frivolous material? We have
spoken of quality. 1t is Robins quail
ity that turns out, in the long run, to
be the stumbling block in appreciation
of what he did. Il is the quality of
an inspired soldier, Of virtuoso in
technique, not of great creative
sculptor. The story which Gsell tells
of the "Pygmalion and Galatea" we
have reproduced before, but must re-
produce again. The sketch for il rep
resented the embrace of a nymph and
faun, He had not been intrigued by
an idea, he had been playing with
form and clay. Not Imagination, but
observation, had ruled him. The group
was a product of the fingers, exclu-
sively, not of the mind. It is the tone
Of his mind that rescues Dubois from
the dulness of the Academy. 1t is the
tone Of Robins mind that kept him
from mounting to the heights he tried
to scale, and left him in sphere of
bewitching but shallow picturesque
ness. II his art shrivels beside Greek
art and that of the Renaissance it is
not because he wanted share of Greek
or Renaissance craftsmanship; it is be-
cause he had his artistic being on a
lower level. II he is inferior to Michael
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25

knew, knew what was the matter with
his education and what he wanted to
40. Forthwith he made his prepare
tions, got to Paris. and applied TO
Rodin for the kind of mechanical work
for which he knew he was fitted. The
great-hearted sculptor gave it to him,
and every day he was absorbing price
less lessons in the art which had en-
gagged his ambition, living in an at
mosphere which was alone an inspira-
ton to him, preparing him for progress
and new ventures of his own. Now,
that disciple was typical. / do not
know how many others have made such
a pilgrimage as he made. | do know,
for exhibitions ad nauseam have shown
it, that the younger generation has
been bitten with the Rodin idea of
things plastic as by a fever. In the
case Of the pilgrim aforesaid, moved by
the recital Of his devotion, kindled by
the old spell. remember thinking only
of the good that that idea was DONG
The exhibitions have put the matter in
another perspective.
Rodin has done his followers some
good, melting them to freer sense
of form, a more supple mode Of model
ling. But he has done them an i'm
mense amount of harm through exalt-
ing into false eminence those "modu-
lations" which reused Leroi's wrath.
The most obvious of the tricks of the
trade" which Rodin practised was a
supersubtle caressing of the marble,
especially in the soft surfaces of the
female nude. Like Swinburne's "Ho-
sannas Of the flesh his statues get the
last SILVER of sensuous sensation out
of the subject. In his hands the process
has frequently been productive OF
marvellously lovely effects. But in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25

assured his glory, one work the more
for France and Immortality for MS
name.
once.
She hesitated no longer. Had he not
said that she was his star? And ought
she not 10 protect his genius! wrap
ping her husbands greatcoat about her.
fitting his KEPT to her head. and puliing
down the hood Of the coat, she stole
silently into the shed. got out the mo-
torcycle and started of into the night,
filled with the thunder OF cannon.
Now she was returning, bent over the
machine. fortified by her own heroisn'.
proud to have fulfilled her mission and
not a little astonish-d that she should
have undertaken it. What unknown
force sometimes takes possession OF
us, Captain Berger. ready 70 get IN,
der vav. mounted on ais horse. had
received her in the shadow and nad not
recognized n woman's face. under the
lowered hood.
Now. having escaped death twenty
lines. she was coming back with ALI
possible speed. Mon Dieu! Perhaps
Jacques would not have passed unin,
iured through the shellfire, as she had
done, There came 70 her joyous
contempt Of danger. She no longer
believed in it. She felt herself I'M
mune. Her goal drew near. The pom
bardment diminished in intensity. A
supply convoy passed her.
4 she'll burst in the road. There was
a cry in the night. Horses nelghed;
men cursed. But the convoy reformed
and passed on. leaving in the darkness
the single victim OF the proJectlle,
woman who had fallen TO the ground
her body half shattered by the eApioo-
ing shell. cL
She had not lost consciousness. she
still breathed. her mouth full OF warm
blood. having but one thought oil de
yotion and love.
Fortunately il was not he.'
She dragged herself along the road,
caught A glimpse of the house with
the garden full Of roses and, suddenly,
a melody came floating toward her.
IL was the principal theme of the
Sonata. The chef d'euvre, free. pow
erful and noble. was at last perfected.
Perhaps Jacques, in his fever Of conf
position. had net yet noticed his wifc's
disappearance. The cannon were silent.
and as if a pure victim had been needed
TO nourish his genius again the inspi-
ration burned in him like a lambent
flame. He developed the new rhythm.
which was going to enchsnt the multi
tudo. The pure and perfect phrase
mounted into the night. rounded
curve of melody, and, like a cradle song
or a requiem. the SONATA TO the Star
soothed the dying Laura's last agony.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25

any excessive extent by his honeyed
sweetness. Rodin made that mistake.
He banked too heavily on the melting
delicacy Of his contours and planes,
until he lost touch with the sterner
stuff of his art. When Michael Angelo
hewed a figure cut of block Of Car
rsra and left portions of the latter IN
the rough, mis- conception seemed to be
struggling out Of the marble like an
organic growth. The unchisel!ed parts
affect you as accidental. IN many Of
the numerous works by Rodin which
show how the thing attracted him an
I air Of premeditation tingcs his idea
with an unfortunate artihciality. Wit
ness the popular head known as LA
( Pensee." II is a charming thing, but
there is nothing really haunting
about it.
To the sworn disciple of Rodin the
foregoing observations must doubtless
seem very much beside the point. Have
not the masters works, he would ask,
| been fixed forever in the great body OF
French sculpture? Was he not, after
his first years Of rebuff, made the re-
cipient of innumerable public commits
sions? OF course he was. One of the
most interesting things about Robins
career has long been his prodigious
| success. The action of the French gov
eminent in starting him upon his
J famous Porte de l'Enfer" in 1880 pre-
figured the final generosity which estab-
lished him in the Hotel de Biron for
llfe, and set apart that building to be
a Musee Rodin after his death. All the
! rations likewise have honored him. In
London, for example, there has been as
| keen an enthusiasm for him as in Paris.
| When there was a monument to Whist
lei 70 be erected there was but one
SCULPTOR to get it from-Rodin. The
books about him, as we have already
indicated. make a little library. We
have even lie Vrai Rodin," by NJ.
Couuiot, to make sure that the legend
should not go wrong. Rodin had the
artists passionate desire to avoid be-
ing misunderstood. He was as jealous
cf the correct expression of mis- ideas
az he was of the proper treatment OF
his works in an exhibition or in the
rages of an illustrated book. Once
wnen | wanted TO reproduce some'ot
his sculptures he would not let me
rely upon the skill Of my own photog-
rapher. He sent me instead a collec-
ton of the plates made by Druet, the
photographer he had trained in his own
wav and could trust in the important
matter of light and shade. He was
anxious always that the secret of his
art should be made plain to mankind.
It is not. as we have shown. hopelessly
inaccessible. If it is at all clouded to
the view, it is the fault, indeed, OF the
busy biographers aforesaid.
"He has commentators said Vol
taire of Dante, (which is one reason
WHY he is never understood And the
crucial error Of Robins commentators
has been their inability to see how
variable he was, how his earlier
strength was Slapped by the steadily
growing artificial traits to which we
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25

Here story wh Sires fresh setting to familiar sia0'on
The ot OF feminine the face Of ddnged ronan accept
ug mans risk dying his PLACES old as military fiction But
here the circumstances the wods sacrifice hare nor ana appeal
ingly romantic cooring 49,.
To the eaaom of added the erddton Of artistic senstouy'
There is q pc which real distinction
feeling suggests W. Rene BenJdWm IN one " nv
softer imaginative moods
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25

works arc in very truth fixed forever
in the body of French sculpture. We
do not know. Time alone can tell. But
there is occasion for our trying TO APP
prehend him for what he is, not for
what the delirious hierophants say he
IL. And TO that end what the student
needs is discrimination. No other mod
err sculptor OF his eminence so imper-
atively demands the exercise OF that
faculty.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-04
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE A SURE
DEFENSE.

We all know that when suit is
brought by one man against another
that the defendant usually appears In
court to defend himself. If the de-
PENDANT by reason Of his ignorance OF
this right fails to appear OF. because
OF his negligence fails to put In de-
Tense, the plaintiff. even though his
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-04
EVILS LIE.

We have already stated that. as ex-
planned in Christian Science. all evil.
sin. disease and mortality 10 but the
suggestions opposite Of the spiritual
and true creation. To be sure. evils
universal lie Is q big one.--but what Of
that? Can any one get nearer truth
or In any way change truth by telling
a big lie or by telling many lies, or
by putting all the lies together in some
form of organized falsity? Is there
any more truth in million lies than
in one? Is the sum of a column of
zeroes more than zero or Is zero as
big as goose-eGg any nearer some-
thing than one as small as q pin head
OF course not The question confront
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
THIS LONG BRIDGE HAS
TRESTIiE IN CENTER

A bridge has recently been COM
pleted by the Burlington railroad
across the Platte river at Yutan.
Neb., which has girders at either
end. while the center is trestlework.
This unusual form of bridge con-
struction is described in the Popular
Mechanics Magazine. At Yutan the
stream often oVertlows, becoming
over half a mile wide, and in winter
destructive ice jams have formed
on it. With a view to providing a
bridge strong enough to resist the
ice and yet not excessive in cost, the
width of the Platte was decreased at
this point from 1000 feet to about
1880 feet by building an embank-
ment on one side. This intensified
the two currents that flowed near
the two banks and automatically
deepened their channels, so that the
ice was more easily carried off in
spring. The two current beds were
spanned by girders placed on piers,
set 10 feet apart, while between
these was built a trestle ZOO feet
long.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
Russian Crown Lands
in Siberia Are Turned
Over to Poor Peasants

Petrograd. May A. The crown
lands in Siberia, which, the new pro-
visional government has confiscated
from the imperial family and turned
over to the State. include almost the
whole of the provinces of Altai and
Nerchinsk. embracing a territory
larger than Germany and probably
richer than Germany in its natural
resources.
Since the eighteenth century. these
lands have been the personal prop
erty of the Russian emperors, who
being occupied with other matters,
have paid little attenIIon to their de-
velopment. Both provinces are rich
in minerals, including gold. iron,
zinc and lead. Included in these
crown lands also are the coal fields
of Kuznetsk, which are said by ex-
perts to be among the richest in
Europe. The Altai region includes
also thousands of acres of unde-
veloped farm land of high fertility.
The opening of these lands is eX-
pected to simplify the agrarian prob
lem and facilitate the work of eco
nomic adjustment after the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
BELL HELPING
FRErSERVICES
Wardens' Names and Ad-
dresses Will Be Placed in the
Next Telephone Directory

Commissioner Conklin announced
to-day that by the terms of an
agreement entered into between the
Bell Telephone Company and the
State Department of Forestry, COM
plete lists of the forest fire wardens
In ffty-six counties of Pennsylvania
Will be published in fourteen of the
new telephone directories to be is
sued during the next few weeks. The
wardens will be listed by counties
ana townships on n page in the front
advertising section of the direc-
tories. They will be indexed also un-
der the heading Forest Fire War
dens,' and numbers and calls will be
given for all lines which connect fire
wardens, whether the lines are part
of the Bell system or not.
This move is part of the campaign
OF the Department of Forestry to re-
duce, the damage from forest fires
by making it easy to turn in an
alarm. Most of the fire wardens
nave telephones, and after the new
directories come out there will be
small excuse for anyone not report
ing forest fire Immediately to the
nearest warden.
The first conviction of the year
for seeting forest fires has been OBJ
tanned in Johnstown, where two boys
were fined for setting fires in the
hills of Lower Yoder township, Cam
bria county. The boys were hailed
before DR.. Bertha Caldwell, proba-
ton officer of the juvenile court.
with their fathers. but after fines
and costs had been imposed. the ia
theirs in some way got out of the
room without paying, As result the
boys will probably be sent to the
Ebensburg Jail for a short term
as a lesson to them and to other
boys of the community.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
SMOKE "GUN" SAVES
. SHIP FROM SUBMARINE

Equipped with a new device in
vented by British chemists and en-
gineers for concealing ships by a
cloud of heavy black smoke, the big
Glasgow freighter "Lakonia" ar
rived at Baltimore recently with a
tale of thrilling escape from Ger
man submarine by the successful
operation of the smoke gun" as the
captain called it. The Popular Me-
chanics Magazine reports that all
that appeared above Geek was a fun
mel structure resembling a ships ven-
tilator. the rest of the apparatus be-
ing described as n large cooper vat
below decks, into which certain
smo producing chemicals are slow
ly run and mixed, and a fan which
blows the resulting smoke out hori-
zontally through the funnel on deck
The heavy smoke screen thus pro-
duced rises very slowly from the sur
face of the sea, effectually hides the
vessel from sight of an enemy, and
enables it to change it's course unob-
served.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
5000 Men in Binghamton
For Gardening Work

Binghamton. n. Y, May 4.-Stir-
red by the campaign of the National
Emergency Food Garden Commits
sion. of Washington. for a larger
food production. twelve manufactur-
ers. of this City and officials of the
ID. L. and VI. railroad, have agreed
to release with pay for two weeks
every employe who will agree to
work on a farm.
At the conference between the
manufacturers and the railroad of
ficials, a committee was appointed
to investigate the requirements of
the farmers in the vicinity of Bing-
hamton. The Lackawanna agreed to
furnish free transportation for the
farm volunteers and to release be-
tween 500 and 500 track hands for
this service.
The project is expected to produce
5000 men fog farm work during the
summer.
The city officials are also CO.
operating with this committee. The
city judge to-day proposed to re-
lease on parole men arrested for in
toxication who would agree to do
farm labor for periods equivalent to
their sentences to the city stone
yards.
This patriotic action on the part
of Binghamton manufacturers and
the Lackawanna railroad, will do
much toward relieving the scarity
of farm labor in the Binghamton
district. The shortage of farm labor
is one of the biggest problems facing
the farmers of the country in their
effort to increase their crop produc-
ton, and If other corporations in the
country follow the example set by
the Binghamton manufacturers part
of the labor problem would be
solved
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
FOREST FIRES
IN OUR COUNTY
School Teacher Accused of
Permitting Blaze to Go I'm
checked on Mountain

Reports of forest fires received to
date by the chief forest fire warden
indicate fire season very much like
last years. with fires about the same
in number, but being eXtinguished
more promptly and therefore cover
ing smaller areas and doing less
damage. The first forest fire of the
season was reported as burning on
March 2Srd. whereas the first fire
last year burned in January.
wheather conditions so far have
been rather favorable. and the
Easter snow undoubtedly prevented
many fires.
The largest fire reported to date
covered 1900 acres in Dauphin
county. and one of the most stub
born fires burned about 600 acres
of the mountain just east of the
big stone-arch railroad bridge at
Rockville. 1t was apparently eX-
by different crews of fire fighters. 1t
is said to have been started by ar
butus pickers from Harrisburg.
One of the Dauphin county
wardens last week found u Sunday
school teacher from Harrisburg with
her class of boys comfortably seat
ed on big rock on the mountain
side. with merry fire burning and
a thirty mile gale blowing toward
impression. she said that anyone
might start a fire anywhere in the
forest provided buildings were not
endangered. The warden lost no
time in eXtinguishing the fire and
correcting her impression.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
PATROL BOAT OF NEW az
TYPE ADDED TO THE NAVY

Among recent additions to the
navy is the 60-foot patrol boat
"Chingachgook," officially known as
NO. TO-" which was exhibited at
the last annual motorboat show in
New York, as a sample of the type
approved by the Navy Department
for coast defense. 1t was hoisted
from the water by a floating derrick
and transported on a special truck to
the show. Its beam is 10 it.. draft
3 feet, and steel bulk-heads divide the
hull into six compartments. It's arm
ament consists of three-poundnr
rapid-fire gun aft, and a .30-cali-
ber Colt automatic forward. The
gasoline tanks have a capacity of
$40 gal. and two S-cyl. motors. give
it a maximum speed of about 20
miles an hour. At that speed it's
radius of action is 600 miles, but at
a cruising speed of IL miles it can
cover a distance of approximately
200 miles without refilling its
tanks. Berths are provided for a
crew of eight. A picture of the craft
appears in the Popular Mechanics
Magazine.