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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

fed under four main different forms, I'M
equal in Importance and singuarity, equally
irrational in their foundation, ali Of them
diverging from the admirable suggestion Of
the American humorist: Don't never
prophesy- unless you know These four
expressions of the anticipative faculty
might be distinguished as follows:
81. Presentiment, by which the individual
has some inward premoniton concerning
his own future; II. Prescience, by which
some one not entitled, technically, to know
about coming events foretells what is to
happen, and knowing in part, prophesies in
part; III. Prediction, by which definite
issues are anticipated, without any rational
knowledge of conditions or real informa-
ton about possibilities leading to an omi-
nous future; w. Provision, by which even
times to come outlined as differing
more less from the present, and which
appeals partly to some historical knowledge,
struction."
Of the last-named division Of
prophecy, "prevision," this writer says:
"What is to come after this war, and
through this war-not only the new map
of Europe and of the world, but the great
moral and social issues which, mora than
any material results, can give full signif-
canoe to such momentous event! Here
are, of course, in realm where pre-
vision is mostly chance, where, as a
matter of fact, the widest enticipations
allowed to meet the sanest expectations.
Both seem to me to belong, anyhow, to the
great species of prophecies, because can
not see mind really capable of know
ing all conditions at the same time, of
grasping the struggling forces and Of fol-
lowing up to their consequences the diverg-
ing tendencies that may evolve into new
realities"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
The Message of the West

/ LLOYD GEORGE said the other dav
- that the United States had never
fought war that it had not won. He
might have added that we never fought
war in which we did not know that we
were right. This war, however, is to be
a supreme test. We are to test the fibre of
our people; we are to test our ability to
cooperate; we are to test our sense of
nationailsm; we are to test our loyalty to
democracy; we are to test to the ultimate
the resources of our nation. the capacity
OF our mines and miners, of our farms
and farmers, of our mills and ,nillhands.
we are to test our own vision and the
greatness of our own minds-whether we
are worthy of a large future or welded
TO little life; we are to test our own
conception OF this country and its rela-
ton to the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

go into the cannon that will fire the mis-
slles across the line? This thing is up to
me, Mr.. Washington. What is my duty?"
What would he say to you? He would
say: Gentlemen, that is a challenge that
l had to meet more than hundred and
fifty years ago. | was the richest man in
Virginia, the richest man in the South
All the associations that 7 had were
with those who believed in comfort and
prosperity. | had great dreams of ex-
tending my land holdings in the far, far
West. saw myself the master of great
system of canals uniting the coast and
the Mississippi. But when the challenge
was put up TO me pledged not only my
life and my sacred honor, but my fortune
behind the cause of liberty"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
The American Pioneer
NHALL tell you who he is, this key fig
~ ure in the arch of our enterprise?

NHALL tell you who he is, this key fig
~ ure in the arch of our enterprise?
That slender, dauntless, Flooding, mod
est figure Is the American pioneer.
TO me he is, indeed, far more: he is
the adventurous spirit of our restless
race
Long ago he set sail with Ulysses. But
Ulysses turned back.
He sailed again with Columbus for the
Indies and heard with joy the quick COM
mand, "Sail on, sail ON, and on" But
the westward way was barred.
He landed ut Plymouth Rock, and with
his dull-eyed oxen has made the long.
long Journey across our continent. His
way has been hard, slow, momentous.
He made his path through soggy, sod
den forests, where the storms of thou
sand years conspired to block his way.
He drank with delight of the brackish
water where the wild beasts wsllowed.
He trekked through the yielding.
treacherous SHOWS; forded swift-running
waters; crept painfully through rocky
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
The Unconquerable Soul

TIME bravest sight in all this world
is man fighting against odds.
The swimmer with his head up
stream, the climber facing the storm, the
soldier with his back to the wall
The rich young man putting away the
easy cup of pleasure which drugs into
uselessness
Abraham Lincoln, the tired ploughboy,
making the cabin fire light his path to
knowledge. Helen Keller, fighting her
way up out of the lonesome darkness
slowly rising, step by step, on the golden
runged ladder Of imagination out of a
voiceless, nameless, colorless. formless.
thoughtless, hideous world into one of
friendship, purpose and beauty These
are our heroes.
We envy the gifted-the swift runner,
the sweet singer, the burdenless-we call
them the chosen of the gods But our
hearts go out to those who are not started
at the scratch, the ones who have a
handicap, who know it and in whom re-
bellious bitterness is transformed into
resolution. Their triumph makes as all
proud.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Why Do We Fight
Germany?

4 ND SO we came into this war for our
selves. 1t is war to save America
Ito preserve self-respect, to justify our
right to live as we have lived, not as some
one else wishes us to live. In the name
of freedom we challenge with ships and
men, money, and an undaunted spirit
that word "Verboten" which Germany
has written upon the sea and upon the
land. For America is not the name Of so
much territory. 1t is living spirit. born
in travail, grown in the rough school of
bitter experiences; living spirit which
has purpose and pride and conscience
knows why it wishes to live and to what
end; knows how it comes to be respected
of the world, and hopes to retain that
respect by living on with the light of
Lincoln's love of man as its old and new
testament. 1t is more precious that this
America should live than that we Ameri-
cans should live. And this America as we
now see it has been challenged from the
nrst OF this war by the strong arm of a
power that has no sympathy with our
purpose, and will not hesitate to DESTROY
us IT the law that we respect, the rights
that are to US sacred, or the spirit that
we have, stand across her set will to mako
this world bow before her policies, backed
by her organized and scientific military
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Max ers of the Flag

THEN came a great shout from Tn
l. Flag:
"The work that we do is the max,
ing of the flag. 81
Il am not the flag; not at all. an
but its shadow
Il am whatever you make me, nothing
more
II am your belief in yourself, your
dream OF what people may become.
Il live changing life, a life Of moods
and passions, of heart breaks and tired
muscles.
Sometimes l am strong with pride.
when men do an honest work, fitting he
rails together truly
Sometimes I droop, for then purpose
has gone from me, and cynically pls
the coward.
Sometimes l am loud, garish and fpll
OF that ego that blasts judgment.
But always / am all that you hope
to be and have the courage to try for.
\ am song and fear, struggle and
panic, and ennobling hope.
i am the days work of the weakest
man, and the largest dream Of the most
daring
Il am the Constitution and the courts,
statutes and the statute makers, soldier
and dreadnaught, drayman and street
sweep, cook, counsellor and clerk.
Il am the battle of yesterday, and the
mistake of to-p,orro,y
Il am the mystery of the men who DO
without knowing why.
Il am the clutch of an idea, and the
reasoned purpose Of resolution.
Il am no more than what you believe
me to be and | am all that you believe
can be-
j am what you make me, netting
more.
Il swing bfore your eyes as bright
CLEAN of color, symbol of yourself, the
pictured suggestion of that big thing
which makes this nation. My stars and
my stripes are your dream and your la
bors. They are bright with cheer, bril-
liant with courage, firm with faith. be-
cause you have made them so out Of
your hearts. For you are the makerS Of
the flag and il is well that you glory in
the making"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

There is, indeed, no easy escape from
prophetical necessities: and one must be a
very steadfast and stanch positivist to
skip ones opportunity to speak about fut-
ure events. Rare are those who consent to
answer, like the charwoman in Punch
who is asked by her lady what the weather
is going to be. ooh, don't know, mum;
I'm not much of weathercock.'
Are we to account for this vulgariza-
ton Of the prophetic faculty by the mere
necessity to be helped over the dim and
uncertain present by sangune anticpa-
tions? But provisions in time of war are
as frequently pessimistc as the reverse
Is this general tendency due only to the
fact that everything, in democratic era,
is considered as accessible to everybody?
Voltaire, writing about prophecies in his
'Dictionnaire Philosophique,' was satisfied
to say: Prophets still exist; we had two
lat the Bicetre in 1923. both calling them
selves Elias. They were whipped, which
put it out of all doubt 1t cannot
be denied that the occupation of prophet
is exceedingly irksome and dangerous For
one who, like Elijah, sets off on his tour
among the planets on a chariot of light
drawn by four white horses, there are
hundred who travel on foot and are ob]ipeu
to beg their subsistence from door to door
Voltaire would perhaps be surprised to see
that prophecy now is, in its way a better
qualification for success than even writing
philosophical dictionaries. And he would
perhaps be compelled to admit that other
forces are at work, too, in the manifesto
ton of such tendency, so contrary to his
own habits Of mind.
MY explanation for it may appear too
simple. 1t is not, as the occultists saw.
that the consciousness of the transcenden-
tai self has for its perceptions a different
and far more rapid rate of vibration than
the normal man of waking lfe,' and that
war may produce certain conditions akin
to trance, where have reason to believe
that this rate of vibration can be almost
indefinitely accelerated.' 1t is rather that
in war time, and especially in zones of
actual danger, the ordinary, rational and
positive associations of ideas arc loosened
and even dissolved, more instructive means
of information supplanting the advisory
faculties, so to say, of normal times
Sociology is replaced by intuition; Her.
bert Spencer gives way to Bergson. In
stinct having to look for defence or action
in the future, tries to project itself into
the field of thought: not the instinct of the
herd, but rather the instinct of the indi-
vidual which, feeling dimly some connec-
ton with the general order of things, with
God, with the stream of lfe,' is more
keenly sensitive to the shadow cast before
by coming events. In the same way as
our French peasants, in the districts in
vaded or menaced by the Germans, had a
more natural recourse to spontaneous
leaders and occasional supporters than to
their deputies and other elected represen-
tatives, human nature, in high emergen-
cies, is naturally inclined to do away with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
LIE Was a Good Prophet
1 1 And Went Provided

"A friend of NINE French newspaper
correspondent in Petrograd, went back to
AIS Y'ess, in July last, carrying as personal
luggage three tons OF canned food. can
not helT, feeling that there was a greater
deal If prophetic sagacity in the check of
this private traveller than in the reports
OF raany official informers of Western opin-
lou about the same time. And l may we'll
say that in France nowadays any deter
snlnation rests on a greater amount of in
tuitive foresight than in quiet times.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
A New and Greater
America

A DEMOCRACY making war is never
= an agreeable sight, for it is not in
its normal line Of life. And those who
sneer or Jeer because it does not play
the game as well as might be paw an
unconscious compliment to the merits of
free institutions It takes time to aceus
tom men to the short, hard words of
command and to the surrender of per-
soaal Judgment. 1t is not easy, either
LOT has'on to turn its back upon the
conceptisn OF world where inst;ce
works out its ends by quiet processes
ana In It's stead come to the stern belief
that the ultimate court is hatt,st,s,d
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
prophecy a Kind of
/ National Service

"lf we consider, however, to what extenf
prophecy has been operative, for good and
evil, in times like these, | should noe wor-
der if, in the course of the war, prophecy
became again a sort Of national service. as
it was indeed in the remote days of Hellas
We have seen boards of public information
established everywhere, German propaganda
running high, convincing movies, tanks or
submarines, and even, as a climax of Prus
sian state organization, the idea that Ger
many could make herself systematically
sympathetic!
why should not a ministry of prclhe-
cies, or at least sub-secretaryship, or /.
simple bureau, be intrusted with the col.
lection and the publication of such fore
casts as may prove of benefit to national
cause? False prophets would be severely
punished; fortune teliers, >astrologers, crys-
tai gazers, spiritists and sbyls would be
allowed, under state control, to appeal to
different classes of customers; and even
reviv!ng Joans of Arc, instead of being dis
heartened, would stimulate under certain
conditions the soul Of the crowd.
"a careful censorship would revise, not
only from the point of view of poetry, dis
tichs like this:
In nineteen hundred seventeen
The dove of peace will once be
"And committee of specialists, whose
provisions had been tested by verifcation,
would examine for their probability all
suggestions brought to it, in the pro-
phetic branch, by amateurs or professionals
But l am schemng, and in the most
illogical manner; for is not prophecy
about prophecies the very substance of i'm
possibility, logical contradiction and in
consistency"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Greater Than Max ing
Money

TT YOU asked George Washington to
l. stand before you to-day and answer
the questions, "What is my duty at this
time? How can 1 allay discomfort in this
country? How can l make the man at
the front feel that am back of him, and
that while cannot sacrifice my life / can
make sacrifice of something else in his be-
half? How I can stir up the industries
Of the United States; can build aero
planes; can build shells; can furnish
the coal that will melt the iron that will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

gorges, where Titans had been at play:
clambered up mountain sides, the sport
of avalanche and of slide; dared the limit
less land without horizon; ground his
teeth upon the bitter dust of the desert;
tainted beneath the fail of the raw and
ruthless sun; starved, thirsted, fought;
was cast down but never broken: and he
never turned back.
Here he stands at last beside this west
ern sea, the incarnate soul Of his insatia-
BILE race-the American pioneer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
4 FRENCH writer. Fernand Bal
"a densperger, has contributed an
article to "The Columbia Uni


Nersity Quarterly" in which
ne makes some very interesting specula-
tons about the practice of prophesying
IN war time. Certainly, he argues
at is very interesting and curious fact
this prcnhesylns tendency in time of war;
tncugh by no means strange one. If
there are moro things in heaven and earth
than arc dreamed Of in everyday philosophy
why should not the very ancient, human
and natural desire to anticipate future
events, partly dormant in norma times, be
auickeped and aroused by crisis like the
present one? Great and small, bodies and
individuals, being involved in the struggle
each clement in the mankind of to-day, per-
haps may be affected by conditions where
anticipation is the most natural way of
thinking.
"Proclaimers of destiny in ancient times
ware mainly professional; and prophetic
insight among the Greek or the Hebrew
was sort of privilege. Because she was
something Of an amateur, poor Cassandra
remained the symbol of an unfortunate
though clears gh ted, faculty In our DAYS
s greater freedom is allowed to the utter
ances of outsiders. AS if they were revfv-
ing the predictive qualities of the Celt, the
visionary tendency of the Slav, the collec-
tive soul of the Latin multitude, the spirit
of religious allusion of the Anglo Saxon.
the frantic mood attributed by Tacitus to
the Germanic wives as if stirred to the
depths OF their nature by emotions of an
exceptional order, innumerable prophets
nave scrutinized the sky. There would be
no political speech possible and no exhorta-
tons to the troops, strategical COM
ments and no diplomatic communications.
without a certain amount of prophetical
hazard, where actual certainty, accurate in
duction, correct construction, are hardly
possible. Club and fresidc, trench duty
and mess talk, even knitting and after din
xer cigar would be equally dull if guessing
of some kind were not such an important
element in each conversation and medita-
ton. Even in the most ordinary details of
life, in times like these, something is in
volved which cannot be compared to the
ordinary provisions of normal epochs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Every one is a harlequin.

Every one is harlequin.
Laughter is tipsy; joy is drunk,
Inc treasure Of Captain Kidd is sunk
Desp IN the wells Of maiden's eyes;
inc Golden Fleece of Jason lies
Ready to seize in her throbbing heart;
Argonaut bold from shop and mart,
Reel into step for the golden quest
And be as giddy as all the rest.
Hat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat,
we should worry where we're at.
Wheop-de-doo, whoop-de-doo
I'm silly myself, but so are you!
Elias Lieberman, in Paved Streets
lThe Cornhill Company
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
American Trad ton
THERE are no grown-ups in this nav

HERE are no grown-ups in this new
world OF democracy. We are trying an
experiment such as the world has never
seen. here we are, 50 many million peo-
pie at work making living as best we
can; so'ooo,0o0 people covering half a
continent-rich, respected. feared. Is
that all we are? Is that why wa are?
10 be rich, respected, feared? Or have
we some part to play in working out the
problems Of this world?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Three Flags in the Same
Colors

THE most dramatic and most symbolic
n picture which it has ever been my
fortune to see was that presented in
front of the tomb of Washington on Sun
day. AS we came in front of that simple
shrine the first thing that the eye caught
were the flags of the United States, Eng
land and France, side by side, browning
the tomb of George Washington. AS I
looked at those flags for the first time I
really discovered that, after all, each had
the same colors, each was modification
of the other. There is bit of symbol
ism in the position of those flags and in
their common coloring, which has it's
meaning. They speak for a common
cause to-day,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

So if there is wrenching and side-slipping
and confusion there should be no sur
prise. The surprise to me has been with,
what comparative ease the transition has
been made, and how much unconsciou;
preparation for the new work had beea
already made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Coney Island on Sunday
An Impression

pleasure parading with fife and
\ drum
Boom jig boom, boom jig boom!
won't you be merry, stranger? Come!
Boom jig boom, boom jig boom!
Forget the troubles you have to tel,
On bumpty bump or carouseI;
Crooked or straight or tall or thin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

the ordinary proceedings of the mind, and
"Taken in broader sense, and traced
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

own experience and of information gath
cred from many sources the prophetic
mood, in time of war, appears to be graft
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

fahln Lame Secretary of the INTERIOR some
Of ms notable recent eumces and they published
BOOK to,m by the Frederick Stokes Company
lhe American Sp"1t" There of the particularly
Stf71nq 1.o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
In Merry Mood
From the Trenches to Coney Island

"0h death, where is thy sting-a-line-a linz
Oh grave, thy viotorys
The gates Of He'll go ting-a-ling-s.ling,
For you, but not for me-"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
The Bells of Hell

KIT AVE you seen these verses
whleh arc said to have
II n vogue in the trenches ?"
asks Horstio 8. Krans,
director OF the Columbia University Ser
vice Bureau in Paris. The question is
asked In "Ths Columbia Alumni News, !"
and here are the verses in which Mr..
kFans lnds "a racy and devil-may-care
ring;
"fha bells Of He'll 90 ting-a-ling -a-line.
For you and not for me-
For nae the k9gels sing ling-a-l
Through IN eternity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

wherever actual knowledge Of the future
seems to be much feebler than affirmative
foresight, considered in the light of nv
The Carlisle independent., 1918-07-18
Discouraging Letters Cause Desertions
 From Army Camps


 In a recent statement the War Department strongly advises against discouraging letters to soldiers:
 Recent reports from com handing generals of certain Army divisions indicate that one of the fruitful causes of soldiers absenting themselves without leave is the discouraging letter from home. Such letters ire ouently give alarming and exag- gerated reports of conditions sTrrornaiag the soldiers family, that somemember is desperate ly ill, that all are starving, or that they are being in some way harassed. In instances such let ters have iso preyed upon the minds of soldiers that they have absented themselves without leave to go home, only to find