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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

bly, the most French. They appear, too, in
the same newspaper, though it has been
changed into daily and is now called LA
Victoire." Jolly, healthy, tremendously
alive intellectually and physically, and as
approachabe as the least important of
newspaper reporters on some New York
newspaper, it would be absurd to suppose
that this is the same Herve as the other,
even if there were not that difference in
the temper of his articles TO clinch the
point. | have even heard an American
correspondent in Paris wonder aloud
whether perhaps the French Foreign Office
did not use LA Victoire" for some of its
semi-official announcements as all
French governments have habitually used
the grave and wide-paged Temps"
Nerves occasional indiscretions are at
any rate useful to his government" says
my friend the journalist; this is true
enough, though personally | much doubt
that they are ever INSPIRED" 1t is an
old story in France, this charge that So
and-so's newspaper has been bought by
the government"
In the case of LA Victoire" it is hard
to see why it should be subventioned, for
already something like 100000 copies are
printed and bought by all classes of the
population, especially the solid bourgeois
whom Herve physically, at least, resem-
-blesr-~4hree times as many copies of ia
Victoire" are sold as of "Tiger" Clemen-
ceau's bilious journal; probably no purely
political organ in all France has so formi-
dabe a circulation. All the same, Herve
lives on in his own modest apartment of
the Rue de Vaugirard-just the kind of
apartment you would expect to find an
underpaid professor of history in some
French college inhabiting. No, l will not
believe that this man has been bought by
the government" any more than | believe
that he is "Caillaux's voice" If he does
still believe in internationalism, he is per-
shaded that the only road to the United
States of Europe follows the defeat of the
Germans and the Austrians and the Turks.
Internationalism through nationalism.
That he sees now, if not always. Nature
refuses to skip process and history re-
fuses to be hurried. Here it is Herve the
ex-history professor who is reasoning.
And What Is Natonalism?
When ! sat face to face with Gustave
Herve in his work-room in the Rue de
Vanguard asked him mindful of his
eternal internationalism) in what does ma
tionality consist, anyway? Men have said
that it is the national spirit which is the
basis Of wars. What, then, are the nation
alities? 1t was large question, but not
too large for the ex-professor Of history.
"Nationalities, said Herve, speaking
slowly, "are living beings, each of which
has its own outside, its own form, habits
and, above all, sensibilities. We Latin
Celts. for instance, have not the same form
or habits or sensibilities as our English
allies. and our minds do not work the same
way, any more than do our soldiers.
But language is, after all, the principal
frontier; toward the crossing of more tan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

ter by promising that if they commended
themselves to American judgment, and
were in line with American principles, and
held out fair prospect of permanency,
the United States would be ready to join
with the rest of the world in guarantee
ing them and in expanding the immediate
settlement into universal covenant. Prac-
tically he said to the belligerents: make
a lust peace and we, the American people
and the American government, will help
YOU with all the resources at our COM
mand to see that never again is it broken"
Now. for the moment, / am not con-
cerned with Mr.. Wilson's ideas of what
would constitute just peace. But | am
very much concerned with his assurance
that given just peace, the United States
would enter a federation of the powers in
order tn make it lasting and invioate. ]
want to know what this assurance is
worth. | want to know whether the Pres
ident, or any President, by a mere ipse
dirit has the power thus to commit the
limited States to course of action that
seems on the face of it to be not only a
departure from, but a reversal of, her pre-
vious and traditional policy. ! am aware,
of course, of the almost illimitable infiu-
ence which, under the American system,
the Chief Executive possesses in shaping
the foreign conduct of his country with
out consulting either Congress or the
electorate. But does it go quite as far as
all this? What guarantees have we that
Mr.. Wilson can carry out his side of the
undertaking, that the American people
are behind him in this matter, and that his
views and aspirations will have the slight
est hold over his successors in the White
House? Is this pledge Of American CO.
operation in the future ordering of the
universe merely personal deliverance or
a national policy? What power OF popu-
lar support does it command? What
ground is there for thinking that 1t may
not be abandoned as suddenly as IT has
been formulated?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
FRENCH SCORN INVADERS PEACE, SAYS FERVE

the way Of progress. In spite Of what
you may say about the German radicals,
Germany as a state, and it is Of states
that we are talking, is three long centuries
behind the Allies, both morally and intel
lectually. That is what you neutral ma
tions have had your chance to appreciate.
Are you still waiting for further demon
STATIONS?
The Role of the United States
"If the United States stays out of the
war, the United States can obviously be
of only secondary importance when it
comes to settling the treaty arrange
ments,' adds NJ. Herve. "You tell me
that Mr.. Wilson has at times been thought
to entertain the notion that he might be-
come ultimately the arbitrator in the
world war M. Herve was speaking before
December 18l, but nothing is more i'm
probable than that chief of state who
said nothing when Germany massacred
Belgium should have anything to do with
determining the results Of the war. He
is even more impossible as an arbitrator
than Pope Benedict himself-representa-
tive of the past-whom | understand the
Germans favor for this task. 1t is the
present and the future we must live, in!
And what more natural than that those
who have suffered most and made the
heaviest effort should determine that
future"
When the end Of the war comes-what
then? What more natural" replied NJ.
Herve, ethan such a perfection Of GUS
toms arrangements between the countries
which have struggled side by side as will
make their return to full vigor of pros
perity the more rapid" Will the neu-
trails suffer in some degree? asked him.
That may prove to be the fair price Of
their undeniabfy profitable neutrality. AS
for Germany, how can the ending Of the
war be expected to lower the moral bar
riers against her-and if the moral bar
rier remains, why be so stupid as to lower
the material barrier? On the material
side, Germany will have less economic
Importance after we have regained the
basin of Briey and Alsace-Lorraine: and
when France has again these deposits of
coal and iron which have made for Ger
many's greatness in peace and war, there
will be much less need of the world count
ing on Germany or considering what shall
be the Allies attitude toward her indus
tries-industries which must, moreover,
bear the brunt of heavy indemnity paid
in yearly instalmepts. Above all, this
victory Of the Allies won at the Marine and
at Verdun, this victory toward which we
are marching on the Somme and shall
march from Salonica, must be not an eco
nomic victory, which has besides already
been achieved, but a military victory. The
only possible peace thunders NJ. Herve,
"the only peace which will restore health
20 Europe's tortured nationalities, is the
peace we shall sign at Berlin"
1t was before the reconstruction of his
ministry by NJ. BRAND that | saw NJ.
Herve, but that nowise affects the interest
or the value of what he next said to me.
For my next question was to ask the great
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instinct of the American people, which
leads them on almost all questions of for
eign policy to "stand by the President
these are forces which Mr.. Wilson knows
supremely well how to turn to account.
But when one thinks of how largely Amer
lean foreign policy is a one-man policy and
subject therefore to tangential surprises
and reversals; when one reflects on the
general Nervousness Of the American peo-
pie on external affairs and the difficulty
of welding them to any common unity of
thought or action; and when one attempts
to estimate the power of those precepts
and traditions that hitherto have for the
most part restricted American interests to
the American hemisphere-one cannot but
conclude that Mr.. Wilson's pledge to the
belligerents, to Europe, and indeed to the
world, is rather an expression of personal
opinion than a declaration of fixed ma
tional policy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
BY BARTON BLAKE

N CABLE the words come - words
| spoken Of Bethmann-Hollweg's peace
kestion and President Wilson'S rein
kment Of it in that famously misun-
God note to all the belligerents.
["Thc French people makes no peace
fh an enemy occupying its terrific
Is. A people 'chich treats 1cith an
cmy upon its territory is vonq'sished
odvGnce."
bese were Robespierre's ringing words
les. and to-day it is Robespierre's fell
|revolutionist, Herve, who echoes them.
GuStave Herve is known to the world
II incorrigible internationalist; paci-
long before Ford and Bryan, in more
les than one.
that else is this Gustave Herve, any
i've a boy a good lay education; send
after boarding school and university,
he Normal School. where only rare IN
gences are admitted for their polish
| nh him by the freedom Of your inst-
|ons with enthusiasm for institutions
freer; train him for the law also; in
meanwhile that all Frenchmen live
% wears in barracks doing military SER
what do you get? Perhaps there
no s,s this question. but
Cue 49,. Frame, cot a mind
,eptir 1allys.At. . lorouz ~ French,
a mind consecrated to causes odious to
Iditional French patriotism; a worker
the Inteyn0t5onale, that aimed to tran
nd and make ridiculous all the patriot
|s.
Eustave Herv6, the schoolboy, the
kngster. the near-sighted citizen-soldier,
|eved from military duty after perform
only a month of his three years ser
J. the Normalien, the history professor
secondary school in the provinces
tns). became lost in Gustave Herve the
|tator, the preacher against orthodox
even ideal nationalism, the Socidliste
tortaire, who, in one of those sublime
rsts Of absurdity that sometimes char
erie your Frenchman, invited some one
plant his country's flag on the dunghill.
was for issuing that invitation, believe,
1t Herve spent in a French prison sew
d Of his eleven years plus four months
penal servitude. Even before that his
tent radicalism had cost him his uni
-sity position and his practice at the
MS bar.
The Hervs of To-day
There is in Paris to-day some recollec-
b of an Herve like that, an Herve who
ached against militarism, an Herve who
srged from eleven years in prison to go
preaching to the people "a little more
,reetly, it may be- through a weekly
rspaper called ia Guerre Sociale." 1t
however, only a Renaissance. That is
the Herve one finds people talking
ut in Paris to-day.
hat Herve is the Herve who quotes
riot Robespierre; the man who writes
dearest and most forceful political
cles for the French press-and posi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
"A Recluse Among Nations

These are fundamental questions. They
bring America abruptly to the crossroads
Of great decision. Since she chased the
Barbary pirates off the sea the United
States has been virtually recluse among
the nations She has signed Hague con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

glDle frontiers all our mOuefH sclehSo mas
been turned-steam, electricity, railroads,
the telegraph, the telephone. 1t is a small
er world we live in to-day. See! even
China is a part of ito her JOY or sor-
row? 1t is not the world of inexhaustible
spaces that made possible the provincial
politics and politicians Of the past. And
as science reduces the distance between
nations so do the nations grow closer, until
by growth. not conquest, we obtain the
United States Of the World, which is the
internationalist's dream"
Words for Mr. Wilson
Right here is where the thought of a
reasoning internationalist like Herve-an
internationalist who has thought his prob
lens through to conclusion-differs from
the bleating pacifism of America: the fruit
of uniformed minds whose inspiration takes
the form of a peace-ship, or whose we'll
meaning eloquence coins its golden words
into Chautauqua lectures. "If we are ever
to develop a larger conscience than the
national consciousness provides" says Gus
tave Herve, at must be by the develop
ment of an international police. Your
notion that has been expressed by serious
persons in America-by ex-President Taft,
for instance, and by President Lowell of
Harvard University your notion of a
League to Enforce Peace is at bottom
sound. But what is the bottom-since
everything must have one? A league to
enforce peace must take cognizance of the
world that is. In moving toward the fut-
ure it must begin with living facts. 1t
must be active, not negative; preventive,
not merely optimistic. NO nation, says
President Wilson himself, can any longer
remain neutral as against any wilful dis
turbance of the peace of the world. The
nations of the world must unite in joint
guarantees that whatever is done to dis
turb the whole worlds life must first be
tested in the court of the whole worlds
opinion And yet | ask you, has Presi-
dent Wilson recognized the moral respon-
sibility or moral consequences of the world
conflict of which he is to-day spectator,
or, recognizing these responsibilities and
consequences, has he acted or spoken in
accordance with them?
"The assassination of Belgium's neutral
ity by wel-armed burglar ought" con-
tinues NJ. Herve, "to have awakened the
neutral nations. Then was the moment for
Holland and Switzerland to have grasped
the actual issue, moral and material, and
above all for the United States to have
grasped it. The international police (for
that is what the armies of our allies have
come to be) ought to have been recruited
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Things To Be Dealt With

But there agreement ends. Between
the Endorsement of an abstract proposition
and the fashioning of a scheme for its
fruition there is in this instance an al
most infinite gulf of hates, uncertainties
and jealousy opposing views. And one
Of those uncertainties very closely con-
cerns the United States. The President
in his Address to the Senate stated, what
hardly indeed needed saying, that the
limited States would have no voice in de-
termining the actual terms of peace be-
tween the belligerents. At the same time
he endeavored to influence their charac-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

mankind. no mirage has so often deluded
il. as this one of an enforced and unlver-
sal cessation of war. History is strewn
with the wreckage of just such schemes
as President Wilson now commends to the
attention of the universe. But, happily
for humanity, faith and hope are stronger
than skepticism or experience. There is
always an insurgent conviction that our
forefathers failed because they were OF
the past and that we of the present In our
fuller day, with our new instruments,
among our more plastic conditions, can
succeed where they went astray
There can be no question, then, of the
response TO the Presidents lead. Europe
needs no incentive from Mr.. Wilson or
any one else to take up once more the
Sisyphean task of insuring a worldwide
peace She knows-and it is far beyond
the power of any looker-on TO conceive
what war is All the belligerents have
proclaimed, and with equal sincerity, that
the latest war must also be the last, and
that this is a war to end all wars. They
are fighting, one and all declare, that
neither they nor their children nor their
children's children may ever be called upon
to fight again. 1t is not the words, how
ever moving, of any one man, but the
waste and horror that have come upon
millions of men that have sown the seed
of what unquestionably must prove the
most sincere and the most sustained effort
that the world has yet seen to organize
an enduring and endurable peace. To
President Wilson's ideal, as an ideal, the
whole universe subscribes, and no section
of it with a greater passion of enthusiasm
than the section which is now at war.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-05
HANDSOME FLAG RAISED
AT CENTRAL M. E. CHURCH.
Presented By Edward c. RyOn In
Memory of His Deceased Wife.

Promptly at 1890 o'clock Sunday
morning the large flag, which had
been presented to Central M. E..
Church, Linwood, by Mr.. Edward G.
Ryon in memory of his deceased wife,
was raised to the top of the new 81
foot flag pole by little Miss Flora
Ryon while a salute of 81 guns wa
fired by a detachment of Joe Hooker
Post, G.. A. R., and of the Sons of
Veterans of Atlantic City. A large
assemblage standing around the pole
sang "The Star Spangled Banner"
led by the choir of Central Church.
After prayer had been offered by Rev.
J. C. Kulp, the people adjourned to
the inside of the church, where a
handsome pulpit flag wal presented
by Miss Helen Babcock, a niece of
Mrs. Nina Burroughs, in behalf of the
latter with the words, "In memory
of Grandmother Clark from Auntie
Burroughs" The pastor received the
address of acceptance. At the on
clusion of these exercises, Judge Allen
B. Endicott, of Atlantic City, address,
ed the audience, which packed the
house, on "Patriotism," dwelling upon
the three practical sides of the ques-
ton, viz: fighting, economy and rails
ing foodstuffs. This was followed by
a duet by Mrs. Raymond G. Ireland
and Mrs. Wharton Stokes, accompan-
led by a refrain by the choir. "nhree
Cheers for the Red, White and Blue"
rendered in a thrilling ann A
solo by Mrs. James G. Scull, of Som
ers Point, "My Mothers Patchwork
Quilt" va also greatly enjoyed. Mrs.
Kulp recited Bishop Wilson's poem,
"Wave, Flag of Freedom, Wave" in
a most acceptable manner, and Mrs.
Raymond G. Ireland sang in her US
ual effective style. "Let Us Have
Peace" a song which has been dedi-
Gated to Mr.. Taft during his Presi-
dency, and which has since become
very popular. The exercises of the
morning were closed with the singing
of "America" by the whole company
with unusual vim and spirt.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-05
TWO SMALL ITALIAN BOYS
NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH.

The lives of two small boys and an
Italian gateman at the crossing of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Main street,
Pleasantville, were sayed last Sunday
night by the quick work of the motor
man of the TOO o'clock electric train.
In bringing his heavy train to a quick
stop the motorman gave several hun
dred passengers a violent shock. Some
were tumbled forward in their seats.
The two boys started to walk across
the tracks Immediately after a trolley
had passed and which obscured their
view of the approaching train. The
noise of the trolley drowned that of
the approaching train. At a shout of
the gate tender the boys stood terri
fled. The 1agman then dashed to
their recue. The train stopped with
in a few feet of them.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-05
GREEN STOCKING"-GREAT
COMEDY SUCCESS-RETURNs

Margaret Anglin, the distinguished
actress who will appear at the Apollo
Theatre on the last three days of next
week in a revival of her greatest COM
edy success, "Green Stockings, is the
daughter of one of Canada's leading
politicians, Timothy Anglin. She end
joys the distinction of being the onlYb
child ever born in the House of Par
Lament at Ottawa, where her father
was Speaker of the Canadian House
of Commons. Brought up in a quiet
political atmosphere, Miss Anglin's)
mind for some reason was bent FROM
her earliest childhood toward the
stage. This ambition was certainly
not inherited from her father, who abb
horred the theatre, and her mother1
interest therein was slight. NevAf-|
the less. Margaret Anglin determined
for herself a stage career, and as soon]
as she was old enough she went to]
New York and enrolled herself as a.
student at one of the leading dramatic
schools. After a two years course
she found the way to achievement just
as hard as had been predicted, and for
two seasons she struggled along, earn4
ing a mere %pittance. Her father had
died and it became necessary for he'd
to be self-supporting. Much has bee1I
written about Margaret Anglin's SUD-
cessful achievements, but little il
known of the h~ardships she suffered
in the accomplishment.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-05
Who Can Tell of the Morrow? Don't
Delay. Go to Church Next Sunday.

GONE of the young people of today when asked why they do not
GO TO CHURCH say that they are too busy having a good
time; that they will GO TO CHURCH when they grow
old. They'll vehemently declare their belief in God and admit
that the church is all right. But they repeat that they will have
ing years.
How many of these young people are sure that they will live
to be old? How many of them can positively say that they will
LIVE TO SEE ANOTHER DAY? Procrastination is the thief
of time. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today: If
you are having a good time now and neglecting church, GOD
MAY NEGLECT YOU when you need him most.
AFTER ALL, THE so CALLED GOOD TIMES ARE MORE OR
LESS EMPTY. YOU'LL HAVE A REAL GOOD TIME IN CHURCH.
IT'S THE MAN WITH THE EASY CONSCIENCE WHO HAS THE
REAL GOOD TIME IN THIS WORLD. TROUBLED coNscIENcEs
RESULT FROM MANY OF THE so CALLED GOOD TIMES OF
TODAY. ISN'T THIS TRUE? THINK 1T OVER. GOD WANTS THE
YOUNG PEOPLE. THE CHURCH WANTS THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
PREACHERS WANT THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN CHURCH. THE
LESSONS THAT ARE TAUGHT THERE FIT A MAN OR WOMAN
FOR THE BATTLE OF LIFE.
1t seems that in every line of endeavor but the church YOUTH
is ENTHUSIASTIC. Why not become enthusiastic over church?
Isn't the goal worth while? Every young man and young woman
in this community should make it a point to GO TO CHURCH
next Sunday. When you were a child you went to church. Why
forget the church in the days of early manhood or womanhood?
If there ever is a time when you NEED THE CHURCH MOST
til then. It is the MOST CRITICAL PERIOD of your life.
The church is the BULWARK OF THE NATION. You
will have to admit that, young people. Then why not help along
this grand GO TO CHURCH movement and attend divine serv-
ice next Sunday?
GO TO CHURCH.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-05
BUILDING PERMITS.

Building Inspector Paul Wootton
reports the following building permits
issued during the month of April
Charles S. Adams, contractor, for
George King, owner, frame bungalow,
w. Wright street; $1,000.
Charles S. Adams, contractor, for
Lemuel s.. Connolly, owner, frame bun
galow. S. Reading avenue; $2350.
James Yates, contractor, for War
rem c. Marshall, owner, frame cottage,
w. Washington avenue; $4,000.
w. o. Perkins, contractor and own
err, garage, Noah's Road; $25.
Charles Vincent, contractor, for
John R. Lake, owner, rear porch, Plea
SAINT avenue and Main street; $40.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-05
REV. MORAN OFFERS
SERVICES TO COUNTRY.

In response to a call issued by the
War Department through Roman
Catholic Bishops throughout the coun-
try for 400 priests to serve as Army
chaplains, Rev. Gregory Moran, pas
tor of st. Peters Church at Pleasant
vile, was among the first of the Ro-
mar Catholic clergymen in New Jer-
sey to volunteer. The call to the New
Jersey priests was sent out by Bishop
McFaul, and in two days time Father
Moran hurried to Trenton and person
ally volunteered his services. No diff
ficulty is expected in recruiting New
jerseys full quota of clergymen.