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New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
By Ralph Block

TIME French have penchant for
telling the truth without plum
ing themselves on it. There is
an impulse toward seeing clear
y that is so persistent in their natures
as to assert itself even in the midst Of
'nelr most romantic periods. They do
not deceive themselves when they are
eng romantic; for satisfaction they
et themselves have a try at romance,
out they do not ever fail to continue
Srsnely conscious, like Rochfoucauld,
q the trick they are playing. This ap-
Nssntly eternal Gallo quality may be
he fsason for so much French litera-
lals and art in it's most excessive
psrods seeming quite modern. 1t is of
10 use to try to say in what modernity
consists; there is too much of it to be
caught 50 easily. Possibly now it is in
ue act Of changing it's colors. At least
y 100 has a desire to be freed of illu-
'i0ns and to build sturdily on facts seen
yearly and whole, without hypocrisy or
lsl's sentiments.
henri Boyle, who called himself
Aendhal, was a modern. Z. =. Dutton
Vo' have brought out a translation OF
as LIE Rouge ct lie Noir," and it is ap-
parent even from one Of his novels, and
"e The most famous perhaps, that he
Aew eyerything-nothing has been
saaed to him since. On observing in
1s book his cool and assured estimate
'. passions, the labyrinths Of emotion,
~ the reservations Of human pride,
~ discovering his amazingly subtle
rs'entation Of them in action, the sur
sssy Of more immediate psychologists
"'s' something Of its novelty.
'st that is not the only revision that
accomplished by projecting stendhal,
- iandscapist u 1890, into to-day. It
"Ay people as unillusioned as the
''''ea who can develop an organic sys-
~ u manners, and continue enjoying
7sn IN complete recognition of them
9sreiy the fringe OH life. The French
ps'asion for elegance fingers in the
- % democracy; they have not tried
uAntain that democracy insisted on
ssance. stendhal seems by his
s'A'ion Of elegance, even in the still
~'so aftermath Of Napoleonic turbu-
. unconeciously endow the amen
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
"HE foolish magnetic pull Of the
B crowd in the street I found ire
H. sistable. I ran to join it like a

TNHE foolish magnetic pull OF the
crowd in the street I found ire
H sstable. I ran to join it like n
boy Seventy or q hundred people
were jostling about an object on the curb
or in the gutter when I arrived. Yet the
occupants of passing cars seemed as little
able as I to discern from their vantage Of
height what it was, what drama in minia-
ture had drawn this audience Of practised
critics. In the now lighted windows of the
shops round about faces peered out indif
ferently watching for some extra token of
interest sufficient to draw them out of their
boredom.
Later arrivals were now tiptoeing and
clutching at my shoulders, and and
heard no more than l. Whatever sounds
proceeded from the core of this seething
hive were drowned in its hum.
What is it?" asked of neighbor, who
was too engrossed to hear me.
Then something became audible from the
gutter, above the chatter and laughter of
the crowd; and thick voice said:
II love you, Billy. I tell you love you.
I love tn 'ole worl', that's what I tell you.
I c-cant help it,"
The voice, for all its alcoholic thickness,
was so strangely familiar that before 7
knew it my muscles we're answering to
quick impulses and my arms were brushing
aside the curious.
On them the sound of the voice had an
opposite effect
Nothing but a drunk" one spokesman
my progress inward became the harder.
The slaves of this human barrel had been
tough enough to drive in. Flying outward
and apart, they swept me for a moment off
my feet Then got among the half dozen
who still fingered about the limp figure
squatting on the curbing.
1t was ne.
Leaning over him was a policeman, in an
attitude of Difference rather strange TO
policeman with common drunk" on his
hands. The officer was saying something
What it was I could not at once distinguish.
From time to time he encouraged the help
less one with a pat on the shoulder that
was positively friendly.
But it was he-Brookes. physician of
some prominence in our neigaborhood A
courtly figure, the pink OF propriety as well
as of fashion, I always thought him. as /
saw him sometimes, about to enter his car,
always with a cane hooked over his arm, a
pair OF speckless gloves on his hands, a
carnation at his lapel. Once or twice had
made overtures to acquaintance, but he
showed himself Indifferent. lie seemed
never to depart from that cold and offish
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

the eternal stupidities, but those that
are of the time. It would be the Wells
ian way. Yet events are too swift to
make much good out of this. 1t might
be said that the real faith of a demo-
cratic civilization is the calm belief that
a we'll ordered and pointed world will
eventuate as a matter of course, that
nothing can resist the innate but intelli-
gent movement toward balance. In view
of that the Wellsian Katharsis becomes
too repetitious. SO much indignation is
wasted; the world may already be past
that point. And if there is a need for
desperate causes, life seems to take care
they will not be lacking.
Stendhal seemed to recognize all this.
Life was no less uncertain, important,
expanding, and galvanic for 1880 than it
is for 1918 lie contented himself with
burrowing into human beings, by no
means abstainng from plentiful tran
scription Of the scene; but satisfied with
people more than things. Balzac will
always have a faint flavor of fiction
about him. SO will Wells, even when
the method of "'The War of the Worlds"
is turned into the material of "The New
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

along in the dim twilight of the gods, to
the measure of a terrific orchestration
of evils and utilities. 1t is granted his
subject matter in the war prints Is ade-
quate to this manner. There is no dep
recation Of the blood lust that let evil
fall on the world. These are the SYM
bols of all terrible and furious passions;
they are as awful as the deeds them
selves, if that could be-
Bellows takes delight-if he takes de-
light-in the flesh and it's drama. Not
all Of the Autographs are about the war.
He shows men under the knife, the
common ugliness of most human beings
after they have lived while. What he
sees always appears massively to him,
lovers and lunatics and prize fighters
and mothers and convicts. He isn't
piteous especially before this huge Gar
gantuan spectacle His attitude is not
an emotion, except it be the emotion of
"cXcellng at the TRUTH
Yet in all this superlative of man
ner there is one exception. At need, he
knows how to be delicate, and fine. Not
all the stories about Nurse Cavell will
do so much to visualize this spun steel
courage as the serene white figure that
walks slowly down the steps into the
bestialty that slew her.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Machiavelli." But Stendhal still seems
to be talking about life.

TIME administration of the art of
Il George Bellows is not very irnpor-
tant, though it is still the fashion
to consider heaviness and crudity an ad-
vantage. 1t is only an advantage when
what you have to say is heavy and
crude. And George Bellows does not
make the mistake of being crude any
where except where he means to be- His
paintings are full of colors that weigh
tons, great ponderous grays that do not
smash so much as thud. His Autographs
are like this, too. Some of them are
being shown at the Keppel Galleries,
and where you will not find anything Of
tones and soft values in these printings
you will fall back unexpectedly before
the heavy impact Of their uncompromis-
ing black and white, and their blank
naked projection Of fact.
There is something thunderous about
these war pictures, like tremendous
rocks bounding down mountain canyons.
They are brutality shouting at brutal
ity. All the people in the world take
strange grotesque forms in front of him.
They are misshapen not alone in body
in spirit. They are distorted figures
crawling and stopping and numbering
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The Day.!

Written at Doocm November II. xqg...
Blow. Whistles blowl o steam
exhaust thy power,
And bells, and bells, join in the
joyous frayt
At last the dawn of dawns. the
hoped-for day
When men no longer meath the
tyrants cover,
Nor more the livid war clouds sullen
lower,
But as the golden light supplants
the gray,
The Peace Of Nations flashes Ger
the way
AS Might, dethroned, knows Retri-
buttons hourI
How small the glories of the elder
timel
How shrinks the wreath on Alex
anders brow,
The boast of Caesar or of Tanner
lancl
Before this victory supreme, sub
lime.
All Past and Future bow before this
Now;
For, 10! the people rule and eer
shall reign
HARVEY N. WATTS in Tbe
Phi'odelp1io Public Ledger.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
A Poem by Amy Lowell
The Fort

With here and there touch Of red
Wind cuts through the grasses,
Rasps upon them.
Draws a bow note out along them.
Swish h!-Oh-h-h-!
And the low waves
Crash soft constant cymbals
On the shingle beach
AT the foot of the cliff
Good gracious!
A seal!
After how many years?
He turns his head to look at US,
He lolls on his rock contented and
hot with sun.
The disappearing guns would shoot
over him
IT they were to FIRE.
Is he held in the harbor
BY the submarine nets, wonder?
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

T%FlE. disappearing guns
4 Are hidden in their con-
crete enplacements,
But, above them
Meadow grasses fall and recover,
Bend and stifen,
Go dark. burn light,
In the play Of gusty wind.
A black-and- orange butterfly
Fits about among the butter-and-
egg flowers.
And the sea stands up,
Tall in perspective,
With full-spread schooners
Sprinkled upon it
AS roses are powdered
Over a ribbon Of MORE blue.
The disappearing guns are black
In grey concrete cmplaceme
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

ou turn the crank SO.
Do you see her move?
IF you stand here, you can see the
springs for the recoil. "
Perhaps | can,
But cannot see the orange but
terhy,
Nor the seal,
Nor the little ships
Drawn across the tall, streaked sea.
And all can hear
Is the jingle Of a piano
In the men, quarters
Playing a comic opera tune.
Is it possible that, at night.
The little hitter-bats
Hang under the lever-wheels of the
disappearing guns
In their low emplacements
To escape from the glare
Of the searchlights,
Shooting over the grasses
To the seao
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

its big items are $6,315,135,OOo for
the quartermaster corps, $S,396,0oo,-
900 for ordnance, $1,028, 100000 for
the engineers, s99O,oo0,0OO for avia-
ton and $267, 100000 for the medical
corps.
A provision prohibiting the use of
stopwatches or other speeding up de-
vices in plants where money provided
in the bill is spent, was adopted by
vote of 63 to So. @
During the debate Representative
Longworth and others condemned
what they called oYer-optimistic state
ments concerning the number of Ann
erican soldiers sent overseas and the
amount of arms and equipment pro-
vided for them. Mr. Longworth re-
ferred particularly to statement by
Senator Lewis of Illinois in Chicago
yesterday that there were more than
a million American soldiers in Europe.
Representative Caldwell of New
York predicted the million mark will
be reached by July 4.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

Washington, June Women who,
as wives, mothers, and sisters Of the
soldiers, have deep realization of the
necessity for painstaking care in their
work, make the gas masks for the
American army.
Somewhere in the United States, F"
at plant whose location for obvious
reasons is not made public, thousands
of them are engaged in the delicate
and intricate operations, and in con-
Quoting tests on the finished products.
They have been organized in military
fashion, and specially selected for the
work.
ut soon became apparent that the
type of women needed could not be
secured through the ordinary channels
of employment says statement of
the gas defense service, that section Of
the surgeon generals Office which con-
trolls the manufacture" and men were
sent to localities displaying service
flags to secure the services of women
vitality interested, who would be most
loyal in their work, and extremely
anxious to send out perfect gas
Masks
Sewing face pieces, assembling Sec
lions and making sure that the finish
ed mask will be impervious to gas re-
quires whole series of complicated
operations. Schools were established,
and the women we're trained in special
courses until they became proficient in
all the divisions Of the task, the state
ment adds
After that they were assembled in
divisions, companies, platoons, and
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
American Women Now Make Gas
Masks for Our Boys Over There
Thousands Engaged in This Work in Plant the
Location of Which Cannot be Disclosed

squads, under women leaders, and the
defense service says that the method
produced unusual results both in lis
cipline and control Of production.
Friendly rivalry as to the quantity
and quality Of the output is carried on
between the different companies
Soldiers who have experienced the
horrors of being "gassed' have lee
tured to the workers, and special mo-
ton pictures have impressed upon
them just how deadly fumes, against
which the work Of their hands is the
only defense, are used. At the same
time, the government has paid special
attention to the welfare, work, the
statement says, and at the immense
plant hospital, rest room and recrea-
tion facilities have been provided.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
TARPON SPRINGS AGAIN GIVES UP.
THE FLOWER OF HER CITIZENSHIP
Besides Those Already in Service Four Others En-
listed Yesterday-C c. Hill, R. c. Shaw, Fred Jack
son, Bob Ivey, Enter Mechanical Aviation Depart
ment---WilI Leave in Thirty Days

Tarpon Springs has given the flower
of her manhood to the service OF the
country-the boys have willingly and
gladly answered the call and great
many are in the training camps and
some are in France. Recently Mr..
George Ball enlisted in the tank serv-
ice and we have been told he is to have
bomb at hand and when capture is
inevitable is to blow up the tanF with
its occupants rather than let the Huns
take it.
Yesterday c. G. Hill, r. c. Shaw,
Fred Jackson, and Bob Ivey went to
Tampa and enlisted in the mechanical
department Of the aviation service.
They will now have thirty days in
which to- arrange their affairs after
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
American Trans
port Sunk On
Return Trip


London, June News of the tor
pedoing of the American troop trans
port President Lincoln by German
submarine in the naval war zone yes
terday, reached London today. The
ship was struck while returning home
and sank within thirty minutes. The
latest wireless adyices this afternoon
said the casualties were light. The
ship carried only her crew and few
convalescent soldiers.
Washington, June 1.-The navy has
received this statement from Rear
Admiral Sims:
ssThe President Lincoln was torpe-
decd at 1850 o'clock this afternoon and
sank an hour later. She was return
ing from Europe"
No further particulars have been re-
ceived. No mention was made of cas-
ualties.
The President Lincoln. 15,000-ton
vessel, was formerly Hamburg AM
eriean transatlantic liner plying be-
tween Europe and New York and was
taken over by the government at the
acela tx i;a1 off in s-ss
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

which they will enter some aviation
school for about three months, then
will be sent to serve in some Factory
where they will be taught to take care
of machines so they will be competent
to follow the aviators and keep the
machines ready for the air at all
times.
This is a very important service and
we hope some time soon after the war
is over these Tarpon Springs boys will
all come flying home; each with a big
German Gotha which they have cap
tured singlehanded and retained as a
prize of war. But whether or not
they capture or kill any Germans we
hope they all return safely after vic
tory has been won.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

a large quantity of war materials,
have been captured by Greek troops
on the Macedonian front, according to
an official communication received
from saloniki last night.
The statement ssys:
Greek troops, supported by French
artillery, have captured the strong en-
envy positions of Srka di Legion, on the
Struma front, on a width Of twelve
kilometers and to a depth of two Kill
ometers. More than 1,500 Bulgarian
and German prisoners were taken, in
Guiding thirty-three officers. A large
quantity of material was also cap
tured.'
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
CUT U-B0AT IN TWO

Big British Transport, Intended Prey,
Turns the Trick.
An Atlantic Port, June Ia Ger
man submarine lying in wait for
transports carrying American troops,
was rammed and sunk off the Irish
coast during the second week in May,
according to authentic information.
In full view of the soldiers assem-
bled on her deck, the big steamship
rammed her way into the submarine
and "cut her like q piece of cheese
an American spectator said.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

Washington, June 1.-THE largest
annual army appropriation bill in his
tory, carrying s12,O41, 6s2, 900 and au-
thorizing the president TO call into
military service all men who can be
trained and equipped, was passed late
yesterday by the house and sent to
the senate.
The house broke its record for speed
on an army bill by taking the final
vote after three days of debate.
The measure is framed to provide
for an army of 100000 men during
the coming year, in accordance with
the governments revised program for
rushing soldiers to France. Some Of
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

and drove back the masses of Ger
mans in the region of Scissors and
on the line of Chaudunvierzy, gaining
ground everywhere and taking several
hundred prisoners, the war Office an
nounces.
Along the northern bank of the
Marine the Germans pushed forward
advance parties as far as Verneuil on
the French right. There was sharp
fighting on the road between Dormans
and Rheims. The situation northwest
and north of Rheims is unchanged.
Paris, June German airmen at
tempted two raids on Paris last night.
The first was a failure, but on the Sec
ond occasion, some bombs were drop
ped on the capital.
Washington, June American vol
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

unteers of the technical departments
yesterday blew up thirty-uwo enemy
dugouts and bridge, killing or
wounding more THAN twenty o. The
enemy, says an addition to General
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
Are to Raise Til.
Pullman Car Rate.

Washington, June lin line with
the increase in passenger fares, the
Pullman company viii shortly raise
the minimum over night rate for
sleeping berths from dollar and
half to two dollars. Other Pullman
rates will not be changed materially.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
Democratic Primaries
Held in SO. Carolina

Raleigh, N. c., June 1.-THE demo
cratic primaries held throughout the
state today were marked by contests
in the third and eighth districts. Sem
ator Simmons and eight congressman
were unopposed.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
Aviator Evans
Fatally Injured

Miami, June Lieut.. j. B. Evans,
of Philadelphia, student pilot, died
last night of injuries received yester-
day when his hydroplane plunged into
the bay from a height of five hundred
feet. Chief Quartermaster Monaghan,
who was with him, was slightly hurt
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
WEATHER REPORT

Fair and warmer weather for the
South Atlantic states for the first half
Of the week and showers the latter
half are forecast for the coming week.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
Peasants Revolt
in Ukrainia Huns
Use Machine Guns
Revolutionists Are Burn
ing Forests and Destroy
ing Crops and Refusing
To Surrender Farming
Implements

Washington, June 1.-The Germans
are using artillery to put down the
peasant revolt in Ukrainia, said dis
patches received here today from the
Petrograd Telegraph bureau. The rev.
dictionaries are said to be burning for
ests, destroying crops, and refusing to
surrender agricultural implements.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
BANKS CLOSE MoNnAY

The banks viii be closed on Monday,
June 3, that date being the birthday
anniversary Of Jefferson Davis, the
hero Of the Confederacy.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
GREEKS CAPTURE 1900 GERMANS
AND BULGAR|ANS IN GREAT DRIVE
Tarpon Springs Greek Citizens Are Jubilant Over
Success of Their Countrymen

London, June More than $500
German and Bulgarian prisoners,
among them thirty-three officers and
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
Largest Army Appropriation Bill
In History Passed Yesterday, Pro-
yiding For Three Million Men
and Twelve Billion Dollars !

Washington, June Passed by
the house in record time, the twelve
billion-dollar army appropriation bill
was sent to the senate today. Speedy
enactment there is expected.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

Americas first field army is TAX
ing form. 1t will consist of 100000
picked men from troops now in
France. Mr.. Baker, Secretary of
War. said that as long ago as when
he was in France General Pershing
had the organization under consid-
Grafton, while Major General Hunt
er Liggett was actually working on
the scheme. Since them. the Sec
rotary said. he had not been adj
vised of the progress made.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

Paris, June 1.-THE German attack
continued during the night with re-
doubled violence on the western side
of the new salient between scissors
and Chateau Thierry.
The French made counter attacks
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

Germany's Artistic Conscience.
Germany is about to make an inven-
tory of the art treasures of Belgium
and to photograph them in order To
facilitate the study of art.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

Pred 5 o. Free
muh
asthe Pesden IN he pe pemre shows
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

Washington, June Lit is the opin-
ion here that the Germans, having
reached their present objective. the
Marine, probably will dig in and pre-
pare for another drive later, General
March told the senate military affairs
committee.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
Situation More Reassuring.

Situation More ReassurIng.
Paris, June 1. Military critics,
says the Havas Agency review today,
still view the situation as serious, but
consider signs increasingly reassur-
ing.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01

With the American Army in trance,
June Another German airplane
was brought down this morning BY an
American pilot in an air battle, crash
ing to earth near st. Mihiel, in the
sector northwest Of Toul, according to
information.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
FIRST IN THE LOCAL FIELD

All the local, county, and state
news-that is news-while it is
news. Boosting Tarpon Springs.
Wide-awake, Truthful, Unafraid
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
Pershing's communique of yesterday,
received today.

London, Jtne 1.-Fhe Garraan err
tillery is considerably more active this
morning in the sectors of ViIlers Bre-
tonneux, east Of Amiens, and Hebu-
terne, north of Albert, is is announced
officially.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-01
Little Present Posi-
bility of Alliance Be
tween Germany and
Japan" Said Premier
Terauchi to Toxic C Correspond
ent Of London Daily Mail

London, June There is little pres
ent possibility of an alliance between
Germany and Japan, Premier Terau-
chi told the Toxic correspondent OF
the Daily Mail in an interview recent
ly. He asked to be excused from dis
cussing intervention in Siberia