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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-12-27

gions, with conditions most serious In
Finland.
Bohemia, Serbia, Roumania and
Montenegro have already reached the
famine point and are suffering q heavy
toll OF death. The Armenian popula-
tion Is falling each week as hunger
takes Its toll, and In Greece, Albania
and Roumania Sc serious are the food
shortages that famine Is near. AL
though starvation Is not yet imminent,
Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Tur-
key are In the throes of serious strin-
gencies.
In order to fulfill Americas pledge
In world relief we will have to export
every ton Of food which can be ham
died through u ports. This means at
the very least a minimum OF 90, 600
tons compared with 5000, 900 tons pre-
wal exports and 11.S20,0O0 tons ex-
ported last year, when we were bound
by the ties Of war to the European
allies.
II We fall to tighten the black spots
on the hunger map or IL we allow any
portions to become darker the very
peace for which we fought and bled
will be threatened. Revolt and anarchy
inevitably follow famine. Should this
happen we will see In other parts of
Europe q repetition Of the Russian de-
bacie and U fight for world peace
viii have been In vain.
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= food map Of Europe today shows
not . single country In which the flu.
ture does not hold threat Of serious
di0culties and only a small part which
Ii not rapidly approaching the famine
point. With the exception Of the
Ukraine only those countries which
have maintained marine commerce
have suficlent food supplies to meet
actual needs until next harvest, and
Uvoa n the Ukraine. with stores accu-
INFLATED on the farms, there Is famine
= the large centers Of population.
Belgium and northern France, as
WI - Serbia. appear on the hunger
zap distinct from the rest of Europe
boeause they stand In q different rela-
III from the other nations to the peo-
- Of the United States. America has
~ four years maintained the small
War rations Of Belgium and northern
u1ance and II already making special
e4koFtD to care for their Increased
after-the-war needs. which, with those
= Serbia. must be included in this
y1nn, are urgent In the extreme and
ln1st have Immediate relief.
he gratitude Of the Belgian nation
~ The help America has extended to
- during the war constitutes the
1oengest appeal for us 70 continue our
WpEk there. The moment the German
tn1oe withdrew from her soil and she
- oDtnblished once more In her own
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But Owen Cobb Holleran did not in
tent to 90 home. He said anybody
who thought his fighting days were
over just because he had game feet
had another guess.
"He said he had read about a new
type of airplane while at the hos
pital. 1t was operated entirely by
hand levers, which fact gave him an
inspiration. He said he had given
the matter much thought on his cot
and while summing himself in a wheel
chair. He had finally resolved to be-
come an aviator and he felt confident
he could make good.
THE next thing I.heard about Hol-
leran he was a full-1edged flyer In
the British air force. He made good
from the start. One day a very large
and ofhcial-loOking envelope came to
me. 1t contained the honorable dis
charge of Owen Cobb Holleran from
the Dublin Fuslleers. 1t had been
sem by the colonel of the regiment,
who wrote very flatteringly about the
young American. I hadn't seen or
heard from Holleran for months. /
finally learned the location of his
squadron and forwarded the army
certificate.
Physical Defect Barred Him.
"A few days later / received a
cheerful letter thanking me and invlt-
ing me to dine with him at my earliest
convenience at the squadron mess.
You could have knocked me over with
a feather when, at the end of the let
ter l read that Owen Cobb Holleran
was now n captain and flight com
mander. He mentioned more than
once that he regretted his inability to
serve his w country when we en-
tered the war, but his physical defect
barred him. And he wanted to keep
right on fighting the Boche, so he re-
manned in the British service.
II was very eager to see him and
to congratulate him on his success.
but had to defer the visit owing to
the activities of the British army. 1t
'pfNANN tiot Il SCACIlCu Illt udH
Following the most dramatic day in
Holleran's career, but 1 was too late.
Motoring to the squadron | found
English and Canadian and American
aviators In a spirited game of base
ball. / asked for Captain Holleran.
A fellow shouted to a lieutenant who
was playing second base. The lieu.
tenant came up painting. He said /:
Captain Holleran is gone 'Goney' /
reiterated. What do you mean? He
isn't dead. is hep
mo. Taken prisoner by the Boche
yesterday. l roomed and chummed
with him. Gang miss him terribly.
Happened like this: We went on a
daylight bombing raid. Holleran led
the flight. Before we started he re.
marked that he had a sort of pre-
sentiment something was going to
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Gets Wish of Kaiser's
Defeat, Then He Dies

Bellingham, Wash. THANK
God, nay wish has been gratified.
The kaiser has been beaten. Now
l can die in peace"
This was the exclamation of
William Follies, cighty-nine
years old, as he was told of the
signing of the armistice with
Germany. After that he lost in
terest in life and died a few
days later.
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DAILY MARKET REPORT
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happen to him. Our bombing trip
was a success. We had orders to fly
low on the return and machine-gun
certain positions. Ran into heavy en-
envy fire. Holleran's machine was hit.
He went down inside the enemy
lines.
"'We could see him waving to us,
Then we saw Boches surround him
with leveled guns and saw HOBS
arms go up
"Can you beat 1t for a melodramat-
ic last scene?" asked Captain Lowry,
"Holleran was captured on Sunday,
September Is. A game kid. Pity they
got him."
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Miss Helen Besler Is
Proposed To by "A. E. F.
''Barkis Is Willin' Attitude
Adopted by Soldiers Fol
lowing Song
lowing SOng

PARIS, Dec 3.-Miss Helen Besler
daughter of the president of the Cen
tral Railroad of New Jersey, is prob
ably the most proposedto girl in
France to-day 1t all came about be-
cause one night in one of the Amer
lean camps she ran out of "encores
and sang little nursery song called,
of No One Ever Marries Me-" 1t goes
like this:
"lf no one ever marries me-
And | don't see why they should,
For nurse says l am not pretty.
And I'm seldom very good"
The fate of the little girl in the song
was to buy a rabbit-hutch and live all
alone in little wood But the Amer
lean soldiers saw no reason why Miss
Besler, who is pretty and "petite" and
typical American girl. should have a
similar lot. After they had given her
the three cheers and tiger with which
they usually thank the Y M. c. A. en-
tcrtainers, they hesitated a moment
and then added q purely personal mes
sage.
"Barkis is wllin'," called the A. E. F.,
as one man.
Since then the incident has been re-
peated in every American camp Miss
Eesler has visited. No censor would
allow an estimate of the number OF
proposals she received in that way to
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

or homes, the welcome advent of this
jolly saint will be the signal for joy-
Gus outcries. While there will be
plenty of toys and similar presents for
the young, the most interesting gift
provided in large lots will be for men
Of the Allies who have formed friend
ships with our soldiers. This present
will be booklet illustrated with pho
tographs of the wonders of America,
from the skyscrapers of New York to
the canyons Of the Colorado. The prin-
clpal reason for the selection of this
>Booklet as gift is that so many of
the British soldiers and some of the
French have expressed disbelief when
told that America had a building fifty
one-stories high or a canyon mile
deep.
The merrymaking and Christmas
mas night when, after the children
have been cleared of furniture. there
will be dance in every centre. In
some huts, of necessity, it will be a
stag" affair, while the soldiers at
other larger huts will be more for
tunate IN having few American girls
to dance with the entire unit.
The swift moves since the Germans
collapsed and American troops began
drawing into larger units with many
being sent home, has necessitated some
changes to the programme arranged,
but on the whole it will follow the
lines laid down. Paris will be in gala
attire for the event, with dances for
the soldiers and the many American
women war workers, nurses, telephone
operators, Y. NJ. c. A. and Y. w. C. A.
secretaries. The American Theatre
will put on Christmas revue
Entertainment on Board Ship
In the base ports, where the facli-
ties are excellent, the Yuletide enter
tainments will be more elaborate than
those in the regions further inland.
There will be bands from the warships
and plenty of lively fun and entertain
ment all day. On board the warships
in the harbors the celebrations will
have all the comforts of a city hotel,
with elaborate Christmas dinner fol-
lowed by boxing and other athletic con-
tests IN the afternoon.
For the men waiting on board trans
ports to start for home, so near and
yet so far from the dear ones, the Y.
NJ. G. A. secretaries viii be particularly
sollcltous, distributing present boxes
and organizing entertainments
1t promises to be the greatest, most
heartfelt Christmas in ages.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Soldiers Planning to Sho1u
the French Real Christmas

huts and for the 1900 foyers. Others
were shipped to Italy, where the "Y"
maintains Case Del Soldatos, and to the
Balkans, where a few centres were
manned by American secretaries.
Men were sent out to locate and pur-
chase Christmas trees and to make ar
rangements for getting them to the far
flung huts. These trees were trans
planted in tubs or anything else that
was convenient, and on Christmas Eve
will be adorned with tnsel and candles.
Hundreds Of four-foot Christmas trees
were ordered d~far all of the hospitals to
be sent appropriately decked in Christ
mas costume.
Christmas cards were bought by the
million for distribution among the SOL
diers and for their distribution to
friends in France or at home And for
soldiers in out -the-way places spe-
cial cards have been issued, emitting
the holders to a certain amount of
smokes or eats when presented at the
huts.
Toys were provided in abundance
through the Y. M. C. A., on the theory
that the soldiers, deprived of their
wonted celebration with their families
would wish to make presents to the
children in France, finding unusual hap
plness in giving pleasure to these little
citizens of the great sister republic
which has suffered so long.
Entertainment Not Lacking
Because the season is one of real re-
Joicing this year. there is more than
usual appropriateness to the wide
spread presentation of the Christmas
Eve entertainments, with a strong
comedy tinge, provided by the Y
M. c. A. entertainment department.
Every one of the eighty-fve profess
sional theatrical companies playing
ever the "Y' hut circuit will be busy
with as many performances as they can
crowd in, to say nothing of the forty
amateur companies the Red Triangle
/ has developed among the soldiers.
The soldiers will furnish the Santa
Clauses and the minstrels, whose jests
will keep every hut in gales of laughter
on Christmas Eve. And in every hut
will be presented Tom Cushngs
comedy sketch, especially written for
Plenty of dramatic talent has been
discovered and the men have rehearsed
dutifully.
The plot of the comedy has been
kept dark secret, but it is said to
abound with laughs. especially adapted
to the appreciation of our soldiers
overseas. Arrangements were made to
PleSeIt the Sketcn IN every hospital
where the invalided soldiers could be
cheered up and made to forget their
pain for the time being In addition
to the. play and the tree, the "Y" ar
ranged to provide all the i'll and wound
ed with real. American ice cream as
part of their Christmas menu
Carols will greet the officers and
men on Christmas Morn, carols sung
from the heart by choruses in khaki.
Special Christmas morning religious
services in the huts will follow, with
the chaplains of every denomination
represented given place on the pro-
gramme. Appropriate addresses viii
be delivered in both English and
French.
Following the services the Santa
Clauses who have been chosen for
that duty will fare forth into the
French communities, distributing the
presents from the American soldiers to
the French children. In schools, halls
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

after the superb qualities of "The Muir
der of Edith Cavell,' which the same
artist is showing at the Allied War
Salon.
There are other war subjects Mr.
VIII II. Low gives us the formal, aca-
demic Interpretation of the current
theme in his "Nictory," and Mr.. Gill
bert GaUl essays the dramatic in his
battle scene, "Greater Love Hath No
Man" Mr.. Charles S. Chapman is ro-
mantically symbolical in "Thc Dust of
Battle" and very picturesquely eff
fectivc INTO the bargain. His crum-
hllng cathedral ruins make a curiously
haunting composition. With this the
play of ideas comes very nearly to
an end. There are echoes of it here
and there. Mr.. Hawthorne, for exam
PIE, has put a fine, mystical quality
into his "Motherhood Triumphant" a
painting IS subtle in expression as it
Is alluring in color. But we come back
soon enough to the decorative motive
aforesaid and to purely technical ex-
crcises.
AS it happens, these latter are now
and then of most rewarding interest.
Mr.. Leonard Kroll detaches himself
from the ruck with eXhilarating vigor
We notice his wholesome assertiveness
first in the case Of the large nude"
which hangs in the centre gallery. 1t
is not by any means an impeccable per-
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

formance. Mr.. Krol has been sitting,
perhaps, at the feet of Cezanne Some
strange preoccupation, at all events,
has dlslocated his sense of values. But
If the picture, as a picture, does not
quite hang together there is no
doubling the essential virtues of the
technique lavishcd upon the figure in
it. This is modelled with true BREADTH
with true painter-likc feeling We go
on, carrying the handsome, robust ac-
cent of the work in mind, and then
presently, in the next room, we come
upon Mr. KrolFs portrait, "Leo Orn-
stein at the Piano" and see that he
is decidedly in rich, productive mood
lie has color here, color that is
stronger. more resonant by far than
that in his "nude,", and this time his
grasp uron fact is even bolder and
surer. More obvious, too, in the por-
trait, is certain vivid pictorial in
ventiveness. Altogether Mr. Kroll has
"arrived." One other portrait in the
show we would mention with his LEO
Ornstein." This is the "Giuseppe Fer
rota." of Mr. Maurice Fromkes. There
is much to be said for the brilliant
black, blue and plum tones in this can
vas, brilliant in themselves and brill
iantly fused in ringing chord. There
IS more to be said for the SCULPTURE
esQuc power with which the figure is
modelled and detached from its back
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

hlbltion which opens tomorrow at the
Arden gallery. 1t is devoted entirely
to portraits and caricatures of the
master, beginning with the famous
painting by Fantin-Latour, and it con-
tains also quantity of miscellaneous
souvenirs. These include autograph
letters and various items of a purely
personal nature 1t is proposed to hold
an evening devoted to short talks by
people who knew Whistler Tickets
for this occasion Will be sold for the
benefit of the Art War Relief The
show will remain open to the public,
free of charge, until January 6.
The Macbeth galleries announces it's
second exhibition OF intimate" paint
ings, WORKS on a small scale by Win
slow Homer, George Inness, Maurice
Fromkes, c. W. Hawthorne, Robert
Henri, Gardner Symons, ]. H. Twacht-
man, j. Francis Murchy, R. L. Newman,
and dozens of other American artists.
At the Whitney Studio there is new
exhibition and sale of contemporary
paintings and sculptures. In the grand
ballroom of the Hctel Majestic more
than hundred American pictures
have have been placed or view, pictures by
Blakelock, lnnes, Twachtman, Luks,
Kent, Glackens, Lawson and others.
The native painter, in short, is very
much in evidence just now.
The American Art Galleries an
nounce the sale early in the new year
of the Oriental collection. left by the
late Rufus f. Moore 1t consists of
antique Chinese porcelains, bronzes,
enamels, pottery, jades, crystals and
other objects. The catalogue will run
to good many numbers, the dispersal
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

and art societies. These various agen-
cles are to be encouraged to establish
local chapters of the federation to ex-
tend its propaganda into every city in
the United States. A national conven-
tion, to be held in New York in Jan
uary, 1919, will open what promises
to bean effective campaign for the bet
terment of American taste. DR.. James
P. Haney, director of art in the high
schools of this city. is president of the
new body. Mr.. William Laurel Harris.
the mural painter. is secretary. The
first pronouncements of the federation,
to be expected at the forthcoming CON
vention, will be awaited with lively in
terest. The plan as thus far outlined
IS obviously one of merit, promising,
as it does, to carry ideas of good fur
nishing to the people through the CO.
operation of the arts and the trades.
ldealism and practicality, we take it,
are to walk hand i'll hand. From such
harmony something of value ought
surely to proceed
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Decorations Versus Ideas OF
Human Inferesf-Recenf
POrfrditure-Mr.
Leon Kr0II
By Royal Cortissoz

ms famlllar subject was expected of
course, only to enhance the beauty Of his
pictures. 1t did nothing of the sort.
ms nag pictures arc on the whole the
coidest, least inspired things he ever
ava IN his life. Now let us turn to
NJ ms Academy picture. The title,
Ianagra; The Builders" is only nomi-
nally relevant. The statuette upheld
ny the figure in the composition, the
glimpse of building operations to be-
mad through the window at which she
stands, have nothing to do with our
interest IN the work. That springs
entirely from the sensuous charm
Wnlch the colorist and technician have
achieved. "Tanagra" is in reality an
affair of still life, decorativc color
scheme in which the girl portrayed
Supplles one note, the screen at her
PACK another, the table with its bowl
OF flowers in the foreground a third.
Inc ensemble is opucnt, luscious.
Sensuously beautiful. And it is sue
cesSful. clearly. because this is the
kind OF picture that Mr.. Hassam was
meant to paint. He has done it be-
tore He will do it again. The whole
testimony of his work as we have
seen 1T for years enforces the fact
lhat with such a motive as this he is
at his ease and in command of all his
resources. He is painting, here, what
interests him, and he paints it super
latlvely we'll. We do not for q mo-
ment question the validity of his in
Ierest IN the subject of his flag series
1t is simply that in the one case he
has made "interest" Synonymous with
ruling passion" and in the other has
not succeeded in doing so. The differ
ence is vital
The decorative motive as it is ey-
plotted by Mr.. Hassam in this instance
and by Mr.. Fromkes in "The White
Heron,' lovely bit of color-is an
old characteristic of the Academy. II
plays its part this season, as usual, and
we are not sure but that in the i'm
memorial conflict of decoration versus
IDEAS it has triumphed again, as it has
triumphed before. Certainly there is
nothing in the show to beat Mr.. Has
sam S glowing canvas. Still. the paint
ters who have attempted to bring some
imaginative warmth into their work are
not altogether negligible. Mr.. Mora's
'Llberators,' the huge canvas in which
an anguished Christ brings solace and
courage 70 the fighters who have been
wagine His war, is fine in conception,
impressive in atmosphere. What ii
lacks is hardly to be described in the
word "fnish," yet that is the word
which insists upon presenting itself.
We miss the sense of design carried
through with force, with authority, of
q large idea largely realized. Big as
the canvas is, it yet has something
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

of the collection requiring some seven
sessions. Mr.. Moore was the expert
who in 1880 joined the late James J.
Sutton in organizing the American
Art Galleries in this city. Two years
later the partnership was dissolved
and henceforth Mr. Moore carried on
an Oriental business of his own. At
the American Art Galleries there has
just opened, by the way, without con-
ficting with the Allied War Salon, an
exhibition Of ancient paintings belong
ing to NJ. f. Joschans, of Paris. The
collection viii be sold tomorrow even
ing.
The Contemporary Club. of Newark,
in conjunction with the Museum Asso-
citation of that city. has organized an
exhibition of rather unusual char
acter. The pictures. by American art
lists, are exclusively of winter scenes.
Clifford Beal, Charles Basing, Childe
Hassam, Walter l.. Palmer, f. w. Red
field, John T. Carlson and Gardner
Symons are among the painters repre-
sented. The show opens next Tuesday
afternoon, in the gallery of the New
ark Public Library.
The organization of a new art So
ciety is announced. This is the Ma
tional Association of Decorative Arts
and Industries. federation of existing
business, educational and art associa-
tions which was formed in New York
last month It's object, as editorially
explained in the December number of
Good Furniture" IS to improve pub
lie appreciation and demand for better
home furnishings. The scope of its OPP
erations includes, besides the manu-
featuring, wholesale and retail home
furnishing trades, museums, libraries,