The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-10-27

OF the day, the count claimed to have
ian inside tip" that Mr.. Lansing wal
} about to resign and as one Of the cor
respondents who was present on tina
occasion now puts IT, "he sought Il
have us print It for all that 1t was
worth"
1t Is perhaps a tribute to the shrewd
ness of most of those who were pres
ent that day to say that all OF them
except one had suspicion that the
German ambassador was trying to put
something over which would injure the
American secretary of state and there
fore the well-being of this country In
n critical time.
With one sole exception the news
paper men present refused to print the
Tip" One Of them, however. did
print II and the result was that Ii be-
came necessary for Mr.. Lansing to Is,
sue an official denial from the state de-
partment of any intention on his part
TO resign. OF course when a story
| like this Is printed not everybody reads
the denial It is hard to overtake lie
| with the truth and so II was that Won
Bernstorff partly succeeded in his de-
| sign to stir up trouble for the admin
iStration and. therefore, mt that criti-
| cal time. for the American people.
Won Bernstorff found out generally
all that he wanted to know about what
government officials had said concern
ing this thing or that thing. for there
was no great attempt in those days to
hide things under a bushel. From the
German embassy there were running
many paths leading to places where in
formation might be obtained. Into the
German embassy went the gossip Of
the day and out of the gossip Won
Bernstorff succeeded in getting many
golden grains of information.
Artists Learning camoufage.
Every day recruits are coming
In for the battalion of American
artists, enlisted or commissioned as
a part of the United States engi-
Deers for the purpose of using brush,
color, and every ingenious artistic de-
sign to fool the German enemy on the
lines in France.
The work which these soldier artists
do is called by the French camouflage,
French stage intended to be descrip-
tive Of the makeup of the actors. In
its military sense the term refers to
the work of so cOncealing or Disgusting
an object that the enemy cannot
recognize 1t for what II is.
The endeavor Of the artist runs along
lines like these! The enemy discov-
ers when too late that peaceful rock
is a death dealing gun; a hedge not
grown by nature but constructed by
the artists, conceals a regiment:
sharp-shooter, after the artist gets
through with his uniform, cOloring IL
here and there, melts so into the back
ground that the enemy cannot see him;
that which appears to be a mound OF
earth really may be row of helmets
with a rifleman behind each-and so
the work of the camoufieurs runs.
A company of artists now commits
stoned or enlisted ms Company A.
Twenty-Fifth United States engineers
is encamped in the city of Washing
ton. A goodly gathering Of artists.
sculptors, architects, civil engineers
and others who have won fame with
brush and chisel. and many of them
men who have earned large fortunes,
are now drilling and experimenting
In this camp at the capital. They must
be soldiers as well as artists. for no
one who goes upon foreign battle
Gnt H. a., - h.
States is permitted to be there until
he has learned how to take care Of
himself
Some Of Our camoutieurs.
This company of artists which Is 20
go abroad to fool the Germans by
making things seem what they are
not" Is commanded by Captain Nixon
Miller. who for more than seven years
was a member Of the Pennsylvania
National Guard. and who was employ
ed as civil engineer in the Panama
Canal construction.
A first lieutenant Of the company IL
Homer Saint-Gaudens, n son of the
man generally acknowledged to be the
greatest American sculptor. Lieu
tenant Saint Gaudens Is a stage d.
rector of note. 1t was he who pro-
duced the wonderful effects and illu-
sions in "Peter Pan" and other plays
which held the eye as well as the
mind. The second lieutenant is VIII
fred s. Conrow, the landscape painter.
The company contains many men of
the highest standing In their profess
sion. Fry Is n pupil of NacMonnies.
dorado Taft and other distinguished
sculptors, and like two others of the
company, Faulkner and Harry Thrash
er, has taken the Prix dc Rome.
Among the comrades are Suffer, Tube
sing, Denver and Nell, the painters.
Twigg Smith, who has been painting
exquisite scenes Of the Hawaiian Is
lands, has come back and enlisted.
Sanger, Hoyt, Foster and Comstock
are enlisted among the architects.
All are young men but they come
from the best offices In the United
States and many already have made
oy,,ac For thomaaIvea s,eslto THIN oh