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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
I'm Actor GOeS to commencement

A CTORS talk but rarely, and not
IN infreduently with disastrous ef-
4 n fects. They spend so much of
their lives on the sentiments of other
people that the world sometimes never
discovers they have often admirable
and attractive sentiments of their own.
George Arllss wrote the following bit
Of impressions" for "The Columbia
University Alumni News" and it is note
worthy for the fashion in which it illu-
mines the spirit Of the occasion (com-
mencement, 1879 and for it's honest ex-
preston of an onlooker's reactions:
81 feel some ditfidence in confessing that
long association with theatrical entertain
ments has led me into the habit of think
ing through the theatre. I cannot help
this. In the greatest and most solemn mo-
ments of my real life, even when | have
been most deeply moved, my mind has
flashed the whole scene upon the stage and
weighed its value with an audience | have
been surprised at and ashamed of this
frivolous trick of my BRAIN but have been
unable to prevent it. SO when found my
self in the gallery of the gymnasium |
began to think how long it was since last
sat in the gallery of theatre, and when
| caught sight of that net below me re-
membered how, years ago, the presence of
a similar net in the theatre aroused de-
lighted anticipation of the tight-rope
walker to come.
"And then | looked at the gathering
crowd upon the stage, and l thought the
scene was trife disorderly and wished
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25


lover Of the theatre. He goes on to saw.
"How long this particular i'll would hav.
ravaged our powers had our peace and
material comfort proceeded UNINTERRUPTED
one may not say; it would seem that RI.
war caught US at the turning point, but it
may be we should have gone tunnel,;ne
still further into the darkness before shoe.
lack of air had forced us up into the star
light.
at all events, the education in German
philosophy and German taste which tho
war has crammed down the throats of all
Of us has caused the name of realism to
smell very badly; if there is any one thing
we have all learned out of this conflict il
is that the things which matter most ar.
the things which no eye can see and no
tongue can tell, which no realism can
touch even at the fringes. Men and women
who have come through this recognition
will not be content with Belascoism either
IN play producing or IN play writing; thew
cannot be satisfied with the Ibsenism which
solemnly spears hypocrisy and pro
claims it is thereby presenting reality
Undoubtedly the comedy of manners
the romantic play, the tragedy. the his
torical drama-an anything, indeed, which
leaves the imagination free to 60 back to
its own source of inspiration-wll FREEDOM
mate in the playwriting of the coming
half century. Men who have endured
wounds and filth and ntoerable losses will
not care to see these represented in the
realistic manner; it is not because these
things are painful that they will not want
to be reminded Of them but because there
are other and higher experiences worthier
remembrance. 1t is our opinion that the
historical play which has been written into
the drama of very nearly every older coun-
try will have its chance in America when
the is over"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
TheSilence
OfAnatOle
France
w 7RITING in "The London
" Graphic" Winifred Stephens
observes:

"
observes:
ITO many already famous French writers
the war has proved an abundant inspiration.
Their Bourget, Bordeaux, Bazin,
Provost, Barres-on yellow volumes encir-
cled with the pink label Went de paraitre,'
grow more and more familiar to the Eng
lish reader. But Anatole France is not of
these.
"Son of member of Charles KS body
guard, himself at twentysix a soldier of
1870, at the beginning of this war he an
nounced his intention of exchanging his
pen for the sword. When the French gov
eminent refused him permission to wear
the soldiers uniform Anatoe France re-
tired into the provinces, where he observes
kecnly, talks brilliantly but writes lit
tie.
"Since August, 1914, he has signed his
name to two volumes only. In 1915 ap-
peared Sur la Vote Glorieuse,' collection
of articles and letters to poilus, published
(by Edouard Champion) for the benefit of
wounded soldiers, and in 1917 lie Genie
Latin a series of prefaces, utterly remote
from the war, having been written long
ago and collected and published by Lemerre
in 1913, but now reissued by Camann Levy,
with few alterations, chiefly suppressions
How can one account in the face of the
greatest conflict humanity has ever wit
messed, for the silence of so shrewd and
phiosophc writer, who is more famous
perhaps, than any other living European
author? With that delicate taste which
has always distinguished him, M. France
may regard the present as not time for
that satire and irony which are his greatest
gifts. For many years before 1914, OBJ
sessed by sense of the impending calam-
ity, he had discussed it. AS far back as
1908 | heard him foretell it, Speaking of
the Franco British entente, he then said
to me: In the great European conflagration
approaching England and France will
fight side by side against Germany. You
will do all the work on sea, we on land
Not an unnatural representation, consider
ing the size of our army and the French
ideas of their own military strength! Then,
with mischevous smile, he added: And
by way of reward you will send US some of
your excellent Chester cheese
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
Translated by William L. Mcpherson

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

arisen from two separate creative impulses,
neither copied from the other or an imita-
ton of the other; each beginning over
again from the beginning.
"And, just as when Mallarme wrote the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25


poem it was considered uninteligible, not
poetry at all, the words of charlatan, and
so forth, so Debussy's music, being new
of its kind and not made on traditional
lines, has seemed doubtful to many people
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

HCHORTLY before the war. HAVING
~ bought a house at Versailles he was
about to leave the Villa Said. On a Sunday
IN May LIZA, we were gathered several of
US, IN his library. Everything spoke of de-
parture The shelves had been stripped of
their books, which had been packed into
huge cases, ranged all round the room.
mere relgned an atmosphere of crisis and
upheaVal, like that Of NJ. Bergcrets re-
moYai. Though VI. France explained that
ne was not abandoning the house only leay-
ing II temporarily for the purpose Of GER
tam demonstrations, could not help feel
ing oppressed by a sense Of finaltv.
After seyen months OF war, in February.
1910 saw the house again. Passing down
the villa Said, instinctively, though | knew
lie maitre was not in Paris looked for his
house looked in vain. In vain / sought
the well known door with its bronze knock
cr, the head Of woman delcatelv carved.
and the peep-hole, that Judas through
which used to peer suspiciously the eve of
ms old servant, member Of the Reformed
Church Of Geneva. Madame is seeking the
housc OF 81. Anatole France :? said butler
coming out onto neighbours doorstep.
There it is
u looked and nothing but blank
wall. Knockcr, door, windows even, all had
disappcared Blind and dumb remained the
masters house. More struck by this sight
than by anything | bad sccn or heard in
Psris since the war, fingered in front Of
this transmogrifcd facade. Gradually it.
grow expressive. Was not the house, which
mad once spoken 70 cloquenry Of its mas
t~s's ya1yinz moods, non as silent as the
x0A4tAxz"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
Realism
Must Go
Next

CCORDING to "The Villaper.
\ stage realism is doomed-a fact
n which, the writer maintains
should greatly hearten the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

sSEROM almost every possible angle NJ
Il France had regarded this stupendous
modern problem of war With a wellnigh
unique capacity for considering things from
varying points of view he had turned the
question about and about. He had foreseen
a future from which league of nations
would Danish war. He had also foreseen
one in which strife if not between nations
between classes, might kill civilization
Wars he had condemned as execrable, and,
with his able, Jerome Coignard, he had
Jeered at man as I'm animal mousquet
But those we're wars of conquest. This
war, which the Germans have made the
most hideous the world has ever SEEM he
glorlfes as une guerre de defence, de IL
beratlon In moment of optimism he has
even gone SO far as to call it the last war;
"Of soldiers and sailors NJ. France before
the war expressed varying opinions. Once
he wondered whether the dangers to which
they were exposed were really greater than
those run by civilian workers, constantly
threatened, through our wretched industrial
conditions, with death from disease and
poverty. Elsewhere he had pronounced con-
hdently that-cest aux soldats que revient
HohHeur ueS Plus DeauX ct deS plus peni-
,bles Sacrifices With a like versatility he
mad treated the arts of war. Indeed, he
had dealt with these subjects in much the
same way as for many years he had been
accustomed to deal with his own house in
the little blind alley, known as the Villa
SAID, which turns out of the Bots de Bou-
logne.
That house was always in the hands of
the workmen, forever undergoing recon-
structlon, passing from one stvle to an
other as the interests of its master shifted
When he had completed his Jeanne dare
Tor instance, and was turning from the
Italian art of the fifteenth century to the
French and English painters of the e;ph-
teenth, beginning work on Proud'bon
which, If completed, has, as far as know
never been published, he exchanged the
massive chests and cabinets of the Rena;s-
sance period for the lighter and more grace.
full furniture OF Louis XIV
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

a CTORS talk but rarely, and not
IN infreduently with disastrous eff
4 n fects. They snend so rn,1ch of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
Grandma Talks
About Babies
,Yl.ee v.,.ACfrclsof Listeners Who Prof.
r. 81 Her Wisdom and Ezperieaca.

In almost any community there Is 9 grand
IA who knows Mothers Friend. Not only
q she reminiscent OF her own experiences,
but IL was through her recommendation that
% many expectant mothers derived the COM
fort and blessing Of this famous remedy
Mothers Friend is an external application
prepared especially fer eSpsctant mothers
After the formula of noted family physi-
cian II certainly has wonderful effect
Ia relieving tension brought about by ex-
banding muscles, ard Is n most grateful en-
coura cement to the woman awaiting moth
eahcod.
The action of Mothers Friend makes tbs
muscles free, plant and responsive. When
baby arrives they expand easily, and pain
and danger at tie crisis 10 naturally less.
Strain upon the nerves and llgaments n
lsssened and In place. of period OF diseon..
Dort and consequent dread, is is . season Of
salm repose and happy anticipation
Mothers Friend enables the mother TO pro
berve her health and natural grace and Ehs
remains q pretty mother by having avoided
Che pain and suffering which more often
Than otherwise accompanies such an occasion
Nhcn nature Is unaided. y,
Write tho Bradneld Regulator Co..
Lamar Bldg. Atlantis, Ga, for their Moth
erhood Book" 70 valuable TO expectant moth
ers. and In the meantime do not by any
chance fail 10 purchase bottle of Mothers
Friend from the druggist and thus fortify
yourself against pain and discomfort. Moth
ser's Friend should be applied night aad morn
1n9 with the utmost regularity.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22

loud against the refusal Of the presf
dent to insist upon a fair price 10.
cotton. 1t is time for the people q
the north to quit their maudlin az
qulescence in some of the great ~,
justices being done. 1t is not resi
patriotism to suffer in silence Ensn
the correction of a wrong woud We
beneficial to almost the entire ooun'
try. The square deal will help VII ~
the war, while a crooked deal Wa ~.
obstruct the way Why not realI
adjourn politics long enough to desi
with the cotton situation?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
IN PRICE FIXING

Webster City Freeman-Journal:
The farmers and others ought to
raise vigorous protests against the
Partially shown in price fixing. It
IS an injustice to fix the price Of
wheat and wheat flour and allow the
price OF corn meal, cat meal and
other substitutes to remain the foot
pan OF Spectators and profiteers.
There is absolutely no lust reason
why corn meal, with corn a cent a
pound less valuable than wheat
should be selling at more than wheat
flour And while the protesting is
good, farmers and others made to
feel the weight OF excessive profits
IN cotton ought to protest long and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
Do You Sell Youself to Others?

In an editorial note, the editor OF
The American Magazine says in the
August issue:
Some people fail utterly when it
comes to selling themselves to others.
They arouse antagonism. They are
constantly in hot water. They don't
make friends. Their associates dislike
them and do all they can to block
them.
Yet selling yourself TO other people
is the most important sale you can
make. The ordinary man is no king.
He can't order folks to bend the knee.
He can't break their necks II they re-
fuse to do it. He must win them to
him, get them with him. gain their
loyalty by careful handling.
Many man in business needs
above everything else some good hard
practive In the gentle art Of coming
OF his perch
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22

KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF sECUR.
1TY, KEOKUK COUNCIL NO. 1899
meets the first and third Monday Of
each month at Woodman hall at 500
O'Clock. H. c. Dose, president;
Wayne c. Schenk, financier; Mrs.
Blanche Martinez, secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
May Finish Season.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
WASHINGTON, July 22-Ban play.
ers, affected by Secretary Bakers
edict that they must do essential work
or fight, may be permitted to finish
the present season. it was intfmated
on high authority here today. While
there was no official confirmation. it
was stated that a conference between
representative of the major leagues
and war department officials would he
held within the next forty-eight hours
to determine the question.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22

Marshalltown Times Repuonesn.
While there isn't much DOUBT us sI
the legislature viii ratify the nauolin :
prohibitory amendment, II is me4e. "a.
common precaution to know ana ~
derstand just where candidates So
on that question The liquor in.s
ests are like a snake with a orose
.back-its tail doesn't stop wlsshA'
until shutdown.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
Advance at Verdun.

While this battle was still in prog
ress the French high command prepar.
ed and staged another great attack
at Verdun on both sides OF the Meusa
WHICH launched on August 20, HnaIIv
carried the French lines at practical.
" every point back to what thcv were
before the launching of the crav,n
princes great suicidal attack Of Feh,
ruary, 1916.
With this victory achieved, but with
severe fighting still going on dav ana
night along the entire Verdun front in
an effort on the part of the Germans
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
But K Was Done.

New York World: ut can't p'
done" says the Norddeutsche Angs
meme Zeitung of Secretary Bake, !,
figures on the transportation o. o.
American troops to France TnaI :
what Senator Hitchcock said In Fey
ruary, but it has been done
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
The Anti.oeoroe Wars.

The several unsuccessful attempts
that have been made to unhorse the
LloydGeorge administration, which
was created solely for the purpose of
more efficient prosecution of the war,
are traceable to three elements. These,
in the order of their importance, are:
the "Old Gang" the opponents Of uni
fled command; the pacifsts. Some
times they have opearted independ.
entity, sometimes together. Com bined,
they occasionally have managed to stir
up quite lot of commotion-but SO
far the net result Of their activities
has merely been noise. Not only do
these elements comprise very small
minority in parliament; they do not
in the slightest degree represent Brit
ish public opinion.
Granted the present administration
has made mistakes. these have been
of commission rather than omission;
and there are mighty few persons,
even friends OF the wait and see" re-
gime. who would chance restoring the
Old Gang to power, even II 1t were
possible to throw Lloyd-George out.
The opponents Of unified command
have been squelched AS for the paci-
fists, they are no more numerous and
no more influential than they were
when the war started. 1t is the same
old lonesome crowd.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22

FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Keokuk Aerie, No. esq. meets first
and third Wednesday OF each month
at Eagles hall, 407 Blondeau street.
Visiting brothers cordially invited.
Hugh r. Crawford. W. President;
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
LOYAL, ORDER OF MOOSE

Keclcuk lodge No. 7O4, meets every
Tuesday night at 500 p. m, In Moose
hall, corner of Sixth and Main. Visit.
ing brothers cordially invited. A. E.
Moore, dictator; A L. Laubersheimer,
secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
ROYAL ARCANUM.

Keokuk council No. $50 meets third
FRIDAY each month. Hawkes. hail
Eighth and Main. Visiting bretb.
rem fraternally invited to attend. G
C. Montague. regent; ]. 1. Annable.
secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22

interesting reading, the world at large
is very apt to form erroneous conclus-
ions as to the real British wartime
spirit
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
B. P. o. ELKS.

Keokuk lodge No. log, meets first
and third Thursday nights at Elks'
hall, Sixth and Blondeau streets
Club rooms open daily. Visiting breth.
rem cordially invited. G. Lloyd Nor.
man, e. R.; Leroy ]. Wolf. secretary
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
II IN n

Morning Star lodge No. 5, meets
at Fifth and Blondeau, K. Of P. build
ing, Tuesday at 1880. o. ". Rowe
chancellor commander: J. A. Burgess
K. of r. and S. Visiting knights fra
ternally invited.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22

Puckechetuck Encampment No. Z,
meets first and third Thursday even.
fngs of each month. John Eisenhuth,
financial scribe.
MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA.
GIBBONS HALL.
Keokuk Camp No. 622, meets every
Wednesday evening at 1880 p. m. Our
latch string is out to neighbors Z
n. Wilson, V. c.; N. ]. Hancock, clerk
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22

Elmfra Chapter No. 10. o. E. S.,
holds its regular meeting the first
Thursday of each month, Masonic
Temple, Seventh and BIondeau. Miss
Carrie F. Hanson. w. NJ: Mrs. L. N.
Hahn, secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
DAMASCUS coMMAhoERY NO. /:

Meets regularly every third Thurs
day in each month. Visiting hreth-
rem cordially invited to attend. Frank
J. Venning, z. c.; Beranrd w. Mer.
,Tiam. Rec.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22

Gate City Chapter No. Z. r. A. NJ.
regular meeting second Friday OF
each month. o. W. Young, II. p;
F. G. Stockton. secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22

Hardin lodge, No %, holds its regu-
lar monthly meeting the first Mon
day evening of each month. c. G.
Meister. w. NJ; Geo. Duerkop, secre-
tary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
CLUB STANDINGS
Yester day's Results.
National LEAGUE,

New York. Sc: st. Louis. %.
Boston, So: Cincinnati, 2-7.
Brooklyn, 6; Chicago, 8.
American League.
Washington. 4; Chicago, 2.
Cleveland. 3-5: Philadelphia. 2-5.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
FRENCH VALOR
WINS COMMAND
Nations Splendid Record in War
Brings Her Admiration of
the Whole
World.
SACRIFICES ARE MANY
Genius of French Race Responds to
Every Crisis and Fills
Each and Every
Breach.
by Henry Wood, United Press Core
spondent1
copyright, 1918, by the United

Press.l
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES
lAFIELD, July l. (By Mail0-The
fourth year of the great war must IT.
revocably pass down in history as the
year in which the genius OF the
French race, rising to new heights in
the vigor and virility of its armies and
in the soundness and brilliancy of Its
generals, was conceded through the
sheer force of superiority alone the
recognized military leadership Of the
allied nations.
The fourth year of the Great war
must always be marked by the fact
that France, sending her armies to
fight on the Macedonian and Italian
fronts, bearing the great shocks and
filling up the breaches and gaps on
her own front, and sending scores of
her best generals and thousands of
her best officers to all parts of the
world to impart her military science
to all of the allied nations assumed at
last the dominating, controlling role
in the direction of the worlds strug-
gle for humanity and civilization that
could only be assumed by and
conceded to the nation showing the
greatest genius, the greatest fitness
and the greatest superiority.
This triumph was all the more re-
markable in that 1t came at the mo-
ment when France was generally con-
ceded and believed to be It her low
est extremes. 1t constituted in fact
the rising of a Phoenix from her ashes
almost without parallel in the worlds
history.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22

Eagle lodge No. IL. holds It's regu-
lar meeting the first Tuesday evening
OF each month. Geo. Banks. W. N;
Alvin Kraft, secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22

Puckechetuck lodge No 43, meets
every Friday evening at 500 o'clock.
IA. w. Jones, N. G.; George w. I'M
snegart. perma uent secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
American League.

Today's Schedule.
National League.
Boston at Pittsburgh.
American League.
st. Louis at New York.
Detroit at Boston.
Chicago at Washington.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
FRATERNAL CARDS
MASONIC

~ Third floor Masonic Temple
~ Seventh and BIondeau.