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La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05
IL RACCONTO DI UN REDU.
CE DALLA GERMANIA

Tn giovanotto di Bradford, che
recentemente e riuscito a fuggi-
re da Roubaifx, ha iniziato sui
"Times" la storia del due ami e
mezzo che egli ha dovuto passare
in Germania soto i tedeschi.
''Tra lie varie cose - egli SERVE
- che vidi ed udii a RoubaiX ed
Lila, nulla mi fece piu impress
stone del mutamento avvenuto
mel contegno dele truppe tede-
sche dal'ottobre 1914 alPottobre
1916. | combattenti sono stanchi
della guerra ed hanno abbando-
nato qualsiasi pensierO di conqui-
sta. Combattono solo perche Gre
dono che lie lorO case e lie lorO fa-
miglie siano minacciate. Quel
mattino dautunno del 1914,
quando lie truppe tedesche irrup-
pero in RoubaiX erano lutte &C.
citate dalla vittoria, non dubi-
tavano che dinanzi a loro doves
Sc aprirsi facile liberia la via
di Parigi e di Londra. Cantava-
no forte, allora, passando per lie
strade. Adesso non cantano piu.
Motif, 10 stesos 10 vidi, recano in
volto il segno degli affanni che
hanno mel cuore. Ma per la for
"a dell abitudine, tutti hanno con
servato la piu rigorosa discipline.
Sempre obbediscono al loro uffi-
ciali senza esitazione e senza bat
ter ciglio e Ii salutano, al pas
saggio, cola rigidezza compassa-
ia degli automi. L'anno passato
no semitic dire da parecchi che la
guerra sarebbe finita il novem-
bre 1916. Come mai quella data
precisa fosse stata enunciata dai
profeti non saprei dire, ma il fat
to e che la credenza era ira lie
truppe assai diffusa. Di regola,
non 81 puo dire che i tedeschi
,haltrattino la popolazione civile
di Roubaix, a memo che non vi
siano costretti in special casi da-
gil ufficiali, come quando, per e.
sempio, strapparono gil abitan-
ii allie loro case per costringerli a
Ilavori di schiavi. Maltrattamenti
propriamente detti, dunque no,
ina prepotenze parecchie. l tede-
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05
IL CONFINE DELLTsONZO

IL confine al tempt delPalleanza
era ssegnato come termine mas
slmo allie nostre rivendicazioni
dalla longanimita teutonica per
bocca del Fischer. Ma non e oui
che PItalia puo acecttare i suoi
confini, anche Sc non perseguisse
che il solo fine strategico, perche
lie occorre a difendersi tutto il
bastione naturale dele Alpi dalla
Carnia a Fiume. In tutti tempt
la Inca dell'Isonzo flu baluardo
lnsufficiente a proteggere la pc
nlsola. Sc sulPIsonzo flu portata
la difesa estrema d'Italia quando
Pimpero crollava sottc l'urto bar
barlco, e Sc Teodorico, varcando
quel fiume, disse di aver ricevu-
to sulle sue sponde Pimpero dI-
talia, Roma non 81 era contentata
di fortificare la linea del fiume;
ma sbarrare quella notevole
porta d'Oriente aveva opposite il
"limes italicus orientalis" mura-
glia discontinue, che muovendo a
levante di Fiume afforzava il
CarsO, 81 spingeva verso nord-
est a toccare il baluardo natura-
lie dele Alpi Guile e chiudeva gil
sbocchi ALA pianura friulana.
Non 81 e padroni delPIsonzo Sc
non 81 riesce a dominance la Inca
strategica (dalle vette dai pas
81 dele montague. Questa verita
e confermata dalla storia militia
re della repubblica veneta, oppor-
tunamente ricordata nej ruoi rap
porti con la difesa def contlne O.
rientale da P. Revelli mel "Tou-
ring Club Italiano". Difatti We
nezia, non motto prima che Trie-
ste cadesse sotto la protezione
austriaca, puni i vincitori del con-
te di oGrizia, feudario del pa
triarcato di Aquileia, perche non
avevano esteso il dominic di S.
Marco fino allie Guile. Non e n
sonzo che puo fermare la marcia
degli invasori; e invano mel 1472
"fu fatta una trincera presso il
ponte di Gorilla, ALA parte verso
il Friuli, sui fiume Lisonzo flu
tirata per sci miglia lungo la ri
va fin dove e Gradisca e poi con-
tinuate per oltre otto miglia"
perche Turchi irrompevano dai
varchi indifesi dele Guile e de-
vastavano la campagna friulana.
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05
Robert Louis Stevenson

Sixtoy years ago, little boy, am
only child, lived in Edinburgh. His
father came of family OF great en-
gineers, the Stevensons. His mother
was of Covenanter stock, brave and
good. But Robert Louis Stevenson was
such a puny, delicate child, that it did
not seem as if he could ever do proper
credit to his ancestry. He had one i'll
ness after another. Every winter and
spring his mother had to take him
away from the cold Scotch climate, so
that his schooling could not go on
regularly. When he was eight years
old, he was an ailing, white-faced boy,
not even able to read. But he loved
books, and his mother and his old
nurse Alison read aloud to him CON
tinually. He dictated to his mother,
too, when he was six years old, a
history of Moses, founded on the
Bible story. He drew pictures for this
story himself.
At eleven, he was doing fairly we'll
at school, when his work was again
interrupted by illness. A boarding
school near London did not help his
health. At last he was put in a small
Edinburgh school intended only for
backward and delicate boys, and there
he was able to keep up his lessons for
several years, though every now and
then he had to go south on account of
his frail lungs. At fourteen, so an old
schoolfellow tells, che was assuredly
badly set up. His limbs were long and
lean and spidery, and his chest flat, so
as almost to suggest some malnutri-
ton, such sharp angles and corners
did his joints make under his clothes"
He was never precocious, but always
persistent and hard-working. He loved
languages, and had made up his mind
to be an author. He laid out plans for
educating himself in style and express
sion an dthose who knew him best, say
that he toiled like a hero to fit him
self for literature. In the midst of i'll
ness he was always cheerful and
plucky. "Quit you like men, be strong"
was the text he always remembered
and followed. Manliness was his aim,
and he delighted in hard tasks. Health
of body he could not have; but he was
determined to have health of mind;
and he did. "True health" he once
wrote, "is to be able to do without it."
When he grew up and began 10
write in earnest, he always took the
valiant and wholesome side of things.
He tried engineering to please his
father; he tried the law, but his health
threw him back more and more upon
writing, and he loved it better than
anything else. All the power and the
courage that was in him, famed out
in his work A London critic objected
to some of his essayes, because they
treated life from the standpoint of
careless strength. 1t was all very well,
the critic said, for this new author,
who was evidently splendidly
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05
NOTE VARIE
UN DECALOGO PEI SOLDAT1
FERITI

Ii prot. Gustavo Luserna hs
compilato un decalogo per solda.
ii feriti. Ecco i dieci utili conan.
damenti, che ogni combattente
dovrebbe avere present.:
l. Non toccare mai la ferita ne
con lie dita, ne col fazzoletto, ne
con altro oggetto che non sia ne.
pacchetto di medicazione.
2. COpri al pi1 presto possible
la ferita con la garza del tue pac-
Ghetto, ma devi evitare mel modd
piu assoluto di toccare il pezzo di
garza che dovra venire in contat-
to con la ferita.
3. Non lavare mai la ferita ne
con acqua, ne con soluzioni che
puoi credere disinfettanti.
A. Sc possiedi la tintura di jo-
dio, applicala intorno ALA ferita.
5. Sc hal una ferita al ventre,
bada di non bere e tanto piu ba-
da di non mangiare.
6. Sc hal una ferita anche leg
lera al capo, dopo averla fasciata
col materiale del pacchetto, va
subito a farti medicare al posto
di medicazione.
7. Sc la ferita da sangue, dopo
applicata la garza del pacchetto,
stringi la fascia, in modo da COM
primere la ferita.
8. Sc 81 tratta di ferita del
braccio della gambia, e ii accor-
gi che dopo la fasciatura la ma
no o il piede diventano gonfi,
vuol dire che la fasciatura e trop-
po stretta.
8. Sc a malgrado della fascia-
tura stretta il sangue continua a
scorrere, cerca di comprimere e.
nergicamente con una mano la
fasciatura stessa contrO la ferita
e, Sc 81 tratta di un braccio o di
una gambia, prega un compagno
che con un fazzoletto una Gin
ghia 0 con un laccio qualsiasi ii
leghi circolarmente e motto stret
to il braccio o la coscia, al DISC
pra della ferita.
10. Ricordati che, dopo essere
state cos1 legato al di sopra della
ferita, devi subito andare al po-
sto di medicazione, perche man.
tenendo per pi1 di due ore il
braccio legato in modo cosi street
to, corri il pericolo che gil arti ca
dano in cancrena.
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05
GIL ANIMALI COME ARMI
DA GUERRA

La "Domenica del Corriere"
ha parlato dell'impiego dele api
come arma di guerra. Gil antichi
popoli oriental impiegavano in
guerra oltre lie api anche lie serpi
velenose. 81 ponevano questi ret
till in vasi d'argilla che 81 Ian
ciavano come bombe in mezzo a.
gil assedianti.
Ma qualunque possa essere
Peffetto dele api dele serpi, vi
sono dele bestie ancora piu te-
mibili, dele quail 81 servivano gil
antichi per attaccare lie piazze
forti. Durante Passedio di Co.
stantinopoli furono raccolte pa
recchie centinaia di topi infetta-
ii di peste che furono lanciati
sugli abitanti della citta assedia-
ia con questo mezzo 81 riescl a
decimare gil assediati.
l tedeschi, che non sono che i
mitatori del barbari, vollero imi-
tare anche questo mezzo barbara
per annientare loro nemici, ten
tando di introdurre i microbi
della peste in Romania, come flu
rivelato da una scoperta fatta
nella Legazione tedesca a Buca-
rest, e di cui la ''Domenica" pub
blico document.
81 conosce Pimpiego degli ele-
fanti in guerra. Pirro e Anniba-
lie Sc ne servirono con successo
contro romani. Gil antichi per-
siani ricorsero spesso al gatti per
incendiare lie citta e villaggi del
paesi nemici. Durante Pinvasione
di Dario in Grecia, general di
questo re barbara, lanciavano
sulle citta greche degll inter-
branchi di gatti, che portavano
una cintura fascia di pece ac-
cesa. | gatti non solo appiccavano
il fuoco allie abitazioni, ma tor
mentati dial dolore assalivano gil
uomini. La storia ci cita del casi
nei quail fuorono impiegati per-
fino degli uccelli per provocare
degi incendi nellie citta associate.
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05

healthy, powerful young man, to talk
about fortitude and achievement.
What did such writer's know about the
struggles of the weak and suffering?
Stevenson, when he read this, wrote a
personal letter to the critic and told
him what the truth was, and they be-
came great friends. When they met,
the man who had imagined him as q
young athlete, was shocked at the
frail, delicate individual whom he saw.
But Stevenson was not weak, except
in body. He was like a sword, strong
and valorous in frail scabbard.
He lived much of doors, canoeing
and camping, and travelled about
good deal, and lived in the south of
Europe, in Switzerland and in Cali
fornia. He had terrible hemorrhages
from the lungs, and more than once
seemed to be dying but he never was
daunted. A great Scotch critic has said
that to understand Stevenson, zone
must have put up a little blood" To
realize fully the quality of his brave
gayety, we must know how he faced
death and yet smiled. When he could
not write, or even raise his head for
fear of bringing on fresh hemorrhages
he would dictate and dictate me-
morable pages, too. "His life seemed
to hang by a thread for years. The
slightest exposure or exertion was apt
to bring on a prostating attack of
cough, hemorrhage and fever. He
was rarely out Of the Doctors hands,
and often forbidden to speak. Yet the
torial was manfully borne; his pre-
sence never ceased to be sunshine to
those about him; and in every interval
of respite, he worked with eager toll
and in unremitting pursuit of the
standard he had set himself"
What he accomplished all the world
knows, from the boy who devours
Treasure Island" to the man who is
deeply stirred by "Dr. JelSyll and Mr..
Hyde" Stevenson was true novel
list, standing always for purity and
righteousness. His essays are among
the choicest treasures of English IL
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05

schi 81 sono riservati il diritto di
Vlaggiare gratis sui tram e spes-
so requisiscOno lie vetture intera-
mente a loro prolific con danno
della popolazione borghese che
costringono ad andare a piedi.
Gil ufficiali che hanno il bigliet-
to d'alloggio nelle case 81 riser
vano lie camere migliori e scom-
bussolano mobili ed appartamen-
ii a loro capriccio.
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05

terature.
Stoevenson's health exiled him to
Samoa, and the people there honored
him as a beloved chief. When he died,
in what would have been may a mans
prime, the whole world mourned for
one Of its strongest souls. Out of
weakness, Robert Louis Stevenson
won abiding power.
BY John F. Daniels
in Kings Treasures.
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05
Banca COlOniale
Frank Cerceo, Prop.
700 Christian st. Philadelphia

Trasmissione di danaro mezzo
vaglia postal e telegrafici nell
lie principal citta d'Europa
ed in toutti i comuni d'Italia.
CambiO in ragiOne del prezzi
cOrrenti in piazza
ST rilasciano tratte a vista sulle
principal citta del monde
specialmente d'Italia
Biglietti di passaggio da e per
PEuropa dele principal com
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La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05

bussolano mobili ed appartamen-
ii a loro capriccio."
LA SIRIA DELE CROCIATE
La Siria e la Palestina, fa-
mosi paesi della Bibbia, del van
gelo, dele crociate, ritornano a
vivere nella vita moderna, e Pat
tuale guerra resuscita il loro no
me. Intorno ALA Siria Franco, la
Siria dele Crociate, parlo con
grande competenza nell'ultimO
numero della "Revue de deux
Mondes" 10 storico Louis Made
lin. Erano i crociati tutti ed e.
sclusivamente mossi da un ideale
religioso? II Nadelin non 10 Gre
de. Alcuni avevano pei capo ben
altro che la liberazione del sepol-
Gro di Cristo. Lo stesso Tancre-
di, che nella "Gerusalmme" il
Tasso ci rappresenta come il IT,
po perfetto delleroe cristiano,
prima di occuparsi di Gerusa-
lemme ha tentato di tagliarsi
fuori per Sc un principiato mel
Tarso, sulla costa di Cecilia. Be-
monde, suo zio, altro noTmanno
di Stella, giunse Panno seguente
a farsi principe d'Antiochia, men
tire inoltrandosi nei paesi dell'Eu-
frate Baldovino di Boulogne vi
diventava conte di Odessa. 81 vi
de persino Raimondo di Saint
Giles insediarsi sovrano di Tri-
poll, Gerusalemme rimaneva 10
scope supreme ella crociata,
giacche sarebbe grave errore spo
GLARE interamente la spedizione
del suo carattere idealista, ma
tuttavia per ottenere Jerusalem
me 81 doveva "organizzare la
conquista". Gil ecclesiastical che
accompagnavano la spedizione,
intendevanO che la Terra Santa
diventasse una colonia della Chic
sa. II patriarca doveva essere pei
papa una specie di vice-re. II pa
triarca stesso, Daimberto, fino
dial primo consiglio ne formula la
pretesa. Non ci vuole nessun re
egli proclamava, la dove Cristo
aveva predicate il vangelo, nes-
sun re pure vOlevano / feudatari
crociati, ma in pari tempo non
intendevano essi essere sotto-
messi al preti. Essi pensavano di
fare della Palestine una specie di
"Repubblica feudale" e per POGO
lideale non fu raggiunto. In ogni
case, essi seppero, fin dall'inizio
dopo aver eliminate lie pretese
del patriarca, impedire che un
ere" fosse dato ALA conquista.
La leggenda vuole che Goffredo
di Buglione abba "rifiutato per
modestia cristiana di portare la
corona d'oro la dove Cristo era
state coronato di spine. L'esame
del testi infirma questa pia ira
diZione. Sc, riconosciuto capo del
la citta, non prese che il titolo di
"difensore del Santo Sepolcro" e
che signori preti erano daccor-
do fra loro, almno su questo pun
to, mel non ammettere nessuna
.monarchia in terra santa. Goffre-
do, dopo aver assicurato la sua
conquista, 81 addormentava nella
pace del signore al piedi del Col
gotta. Senonche accadde questo
lie sue virtu ed suoi servizi gil
valsero tale autorita che basto al
suo letto di morte che egli desi-
.gnasse come suo successore, suo
fratello Baldovino conte di Edes-
sa, perche questi fosse sui punto
di imporsi. Ma aBldovino era am
bizioso quanto Gofredo era mo-
desto. Egli prese il titolo di re
ed il "Regno di Gerusalemme"
veniva cosi fondato con una spe-
Gle di supremazia sulle attire cit
ia della Siria.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-03
"The Present Generation"

To all that very considerable remnant
of aged and decrepit mortality now tot
tering toward the grave in the ripe thir-
ties we commend these lines of doom from
the current "Scribner's" touting the auto
biography of one Henry James, novelist
of some note, it appears, in ages gone;
To the present generation Henry James
is comparatively little known, but no
reader of American literature can overlook
the high place he established for himself.
Many of his earlier novels were very wide
ly read and his typical American girl,
Daisy Miller" was long referred TO and
discussed as type. His long life in Lon
don brought him into friendly relations
with many famous English men and women
of letters. and these posthumous papers
are highly interesting.
The present generation! We confess
to finding in this signpost the first intima-
ton from a young and crowding world
that we, ourselves, aged what you will be-
yond the roaring twenties, were anything
but precisely that present generation"
Comparatively little known, Well, we
knew lHdI tnIS was All HlpdllSllC age, Plc-
ferring movies" to the drama and mean
ing by paragraph" an epigram of some
eight or ten words. We realized that
Henry Jamess paragraphs were often
pages, and his ideas very difficult to as
simulate in the space allowed an audience
to master a film caption. But we had not
thought of our revered Henry as having
gone glimmering into the minor classics to
be written of as a glib young English pro-
lessor might lecture on Peele or Ford.
Should we be plunged into gloom by this
discovery? Or should we jeer bitterly and
loftily at yonder sophomore? Jeers will do
no good, we are convinced. Sophomores
who sound precious new have, after all, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-03
The Right Punishment

Columbia. and President Butler have
acted wisely and periodically in expelling
Professor Cattell from the faculty. The
complete record of Professor Dana has
not been made public, and evidently IN
permitting him to resign instead of sum
marily dismissing him, as was done IN the
case of Professor Cattell, the trustees have
wished to indicate the lesser nature of his
offence. With the general aims of the uni
versity in both cases there can be only
the heartiest public approval.
The spectacle of Professor Cattell had
become fragrant. His example not only to
the men of Columbia but to the commu-
nifty was vicious and disheartening. AS
an individual his arguments will carry
only the weight of their hysterical logic.
As a professor in a great university his
words had an undue influence now happily
ended
The cause of free speech will be aided,
rot hampered, by this action. Professor
Cattell had carried his utterances far be-
yond a legitimate discussion of ways and
means to the point of plain obstructionist
tactics. To protect such utterances under
the guise Of free speech would bring the
whole doctrine into ridicule and contempt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-03

forth proposals of peace born of humani-
tartan instincts, born Of the highest and
the noblest sentiment, the nation which is
enslaving Belgian women and Belgian
men. which is stripping Northern France
and Belgium Of the last bit of its machin-
cry. which is plundering where 1t can,
numbering where it chooses, marching from
one crime TO another, is exploiting this for
eign pacifsm as its last possible weapon
by which to win the war.
The war will be won only on the battle
field. The war will be won only by night
ing. In our Civil War in 1854 the same
talk and the same ideas were abroad as
may be found in all the Allied nations now.
But that great man who was President OF
the United States, Abraham Lincoln, saw
clearly that there could be but one end to
the war. Thanks to him the war went for
ward TO its logical and inevitable conclu-
sion. and at Apponiattox secession died.
Henceforth the United States was assured
of its unity. There can be no other solu-
ton now, and just as certain as was Con-
fcderate defeat in 1864 is German defeat
now. if only the will to persevere and to
realize the fruits of the labor already per-
formed is as unshakable as that purpose
which moved the North through and after
the bloody summer from the Rapidan to
Cold Harbor, through and after the bitter
winter from Petersburg to Five Forks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-03
What Milk Producers Get

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue Of September 20 Elkn
Nathans states that the dairymen are receiv-
ing six cents a quart for September milk and
that would $40 a can. Now, the fact is
that we are getting s245 per 100 pounds Of
3 per cent milk. which is five and one
quarter cents q quart. Then in October, he
states. we are TO get seven and four-renths
cents a quart. Now hope that is true, but
the price that has been set for October milk
is six and two-thirds cents. His figures would
show 1896 a can Of forty quarts, when we
are to receive only $40 per 100 pounds.
equal to $3.50 can.
In September, 1915, pay for day help was
81 day; in September, 1917, the wages TOR
day help are $3.50 Cornmeal in September,
1915, averaged $3450 ton; in September,
1917, il is $50 a ton. In April and May, 1917,
feeds advanced 3S per cent over winter
prices and milk prices were lowered 10
per cent, and the dairymen lost money
in both months. All we get for our hay is
the fertilizer and the privilege of drawing
it out in all kinds of weather.
The Health Department compelled the dairy
men to expend thousands Of dollars to meet
its ideas, and now the department has learned
that it amounts to nothing. The farmers
knew more than they were given credit for,
and that is why there was so much opposition
70 the inspectors.
Mr.. Nathans says now that the dairymen
are making too much milk. Less milk is
being made around here now than for several
years. People are selling their cows and they
are shipped to New York, for they can't pay
the price for feed The city dealers advanced
the price three cents quart to the city peo-
PIE and the dairymen got one cent raise. If
they wapt TO close up a lot Of their stations.
il is their business to do so, and the dairy
men will live just the same.
E. f. STEBBINS.
East Meredith, n. Y, Sept "a, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-03

young tides under them. Our particular
wave may vet be far from the beach ;
under it we may still feel the sweep OF
the open sea. But why shut our eyes to
the fact that other waves are, IN fact, be-
hind us: that the water is shoaling. and
that the moment must come, is nearing
steadily, when we shall have our Climax
and, as a wave, say goodby forever, to be
reassimilated into the one sea, like all the
waves that have been before us!
No; at the risk of writing ourselves
down in the hopeless twilight, we here
with abandon "the present generation TO
the class of 1917. There is no present gen
eration-except as the phrase is used by
each new line of youngsters that sweeps
w above the futures horizon. Let them
oar and tumble as they will. Like Henry
James. they are entitled to their day, and
who should worry What one wave can
destroy is surely not worth mourning.