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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
Golden Stars
A Snapshot of Wartime
Tragedy in the Crowd

mlen. AS ne was always alone except for
MS driver, 1 took him for bachelor. until
some one dropped the information that he
was wldower, with two sons in the service
Can ! be of any help, officer ~ I asked
on wedglng nearer. 81 know him slipbtl,,
UT know where he lives"
i've got him, thank you, sir. He'll be
all right in a minute"
"Tha's righ' Pm all righ,.7 the djs4i,-
guished tippler agreed "very good Of Won
m sure,' he nodded to me, for the frat
time. Everybody Extremely GOO to me
showing me SO mush 'tention."
Let me take your arm, sir" the officer
sa'd' in shaking him gently.
What can it be, wondered that % sud
oeniy and SO utterly shvers these hard
natures into splinters?
Suddenly the unsettled gentleman 1u,cb,s
10 MS feet, and, to steady himself thre,v
an arm about the policeman'g neck
Against the light gray of his sleeve q biscl
oand stood out. And on the black band
made out, in the uncertain lights If ~
street, two gold stars. x
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

A Novelist and Eternity-The
Thunder of George Bellows

tiles of developed societies with perma-
nence. 1t is a way of giving testimony
that must not be unwecome today,
where elegance necessarily is set the
task of survival by the side of so much
that is simpler, and more obviously hui
man, and fundamental in the movements
Of modern life.
This is France after Napoleon in ole
Rouge ct lie Noir," yet there are pages
in it that might have come, say, from
"Daisy Miller.' The critics. have all
said this before about Henry James; it
is oaly astonishing in the proof of it, in
the revelation that the mirror of society
at the two ends of the century could be
so much alike. 1t may only be guessed
what HenrynJ ames would have found to
say if he had survived the war ExceprI
for style, for which he had richly
elastic tongue to aid, he said nothing in
not have said
In the newer novel, there is nothing
like it, Mrs. Sidgewicll and the less
original Jamesians discounted. For
the novel Of manners, the world has
lusciously Robert Chambers. That is
,c4i1 ~
who venture to-day into the great world,
like Stendhal's ambitious and romantic
and skeptical Julien Sorrel, spend their
monastic youth drably in settlement
houses, and always end on the thin note
Of PHILOSOPHY" Of life. That IS to
say, nobody is here now to see living
any way except with terrible gravity.
The contemplatve irony which pierces
egotisms and other false sentiments by
hidden daughters is absent Conrad is
a god-or on a lower pedestal then
Galsworthy or Wells. There is much
angry lunging at the scheme Of things
and some piteous listening to the dis
lncordancies of the eternal music. But for
US, learning to laugh honesty in elegant
fiction-likc Mark Twain in evening
dress, or Samuel Butler at a balls
still ahead. 1t is thing to learn and
there might be some bravery in doing it.
The Stendhalian contemplation arising
on the skyline now when there has been
another turbulence abroad makes a criti-
cism which is quite its own. The fashion
on one side now is To dissect not men,
but their contemporary expressions; not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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
az 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
me 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-
IONS 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
20 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
AIS 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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 NINA
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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
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
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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 !-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 Tolls 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

GU 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
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-11-28
BOND BUYERS ARE
URGED TO HOLD
Small Bond Holders Become Backbone OF
Americas Financial System
-, Says Director

Dallas Texas. Nov. .S--N H. a. Harding
Secretary NJ the Federal Reserve Board III
Washington said yesterday "'Thc board
strongly dcprecatcs amy movement nn the
part NJ Liberty Bond holders a. dispose of
their bonds ~ this time The war has been
brought ~ n glorious conclusion and treas
ury financing because of war win probably bc
completed during the year 1919. Government
securities will doubtless have Y tendency to
advanrcsnnd holders would ~ consulting their
own interests M retaining their bonds A. an
Investment unless absolutely obliged ~ srII.
The strength ~ our banking situation a.
pcnds largely upon thc absorption uf these
bonds IN the public and thr Federal Reserve
Beard ventures. therefore. tn express the
earnest hope that Liberty Bond holders will
make any reasonable sacrifice necessary n"
enable thrm ~ retain their bonds until such
time w. the financing operations NJ thr Treas
ury have been completed ani thr market "
ready tn absorb the bonds at par nr better"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-11-28
EX1RADIT|0N
Is OPINION OF
F FRENCHMAN
Paris Professor of LatU Holds
that Political Crime Theory
VIII Not ExOneyafe
BIG GERMANS TREMBLING

Paris. Nov -. William IIohcnzoIern
can ~ cxtraditcd. according % the opinion of
Prof Isarthelmy VI the Paris Law Faculty
and can ~ brought ~ England IN France and
tried fer riunginE the world into war and
bombing hospitals and making air raidS against
wutnrn and children and other crimes.
The opinion of the eminent French legal
authority confirms the upininns recently *
pressed m british legal authorities.
Prof s;arthcmy explains the guiding princ
pies NJ thr tnSc. H. says that when Iaw and
common sense conflict the latter " ta hc fpI-
lowed EIc says that thu theory that \ politi-
cal crime ~ amy crime inspired IN political
motivr~ has long been abandoned and that
the atrocities ordered TN The former cmpcr-
WV constitute common INV crimes.
Holland n seeking tn escape from driiv
crinE the former Kaiser nnd othrrs nf the
ITnn autacE1iry IN the ground that their
crimes were political AMI nat cEiminal and
hence uxtradition could not ~ allowed
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-11-28
ARGENTINA
AND BOLIVIA
May Have a G0-Ar0und Over Long Un-
settled Question of Boundary Line
And Rich Territory u

La Paz, Bolivia. Nov aS-t Correspond
American capital into the central republics.
III South America for the development oL
vast areas y. hitherto untouched resources
has caused Bolivia and i'araguay u awaken
u realization of the possibilities that ny Ia
the disputed zone known H. the great Chaco.
The boundary line between THESE two r.
publics never has been definitely fixed be-
cause ~ the wildnosS II the cuuntry, bnt
both nations have been satisfied with going
~ record ~ claiming MI the zone and then
going ~ about their daily business without
forcing the issue.
But now thar the great development COM
panics from the United States are seeking
concessions. the newspapers and public men
are urging that the old question n brought
Up for final settlement.
The Great Chaco H. vast area north ~
Argentina between the Pilcomayo and lara
guay rivers. II j. claimed ~ both BOLIVIA and
Paraguay though bot hadn't that their
claims are - large that they will have I"
Cove III large areas i'll the final reckoning.
For several years Bolivia has been pre-
pairing quietly for the day of final settlement.
- thai IL T. now III position to press the
issue to advantage That country haS con
structcd chain of forts ~ Intervals III
twrntv miles. IN direct wireless cemniunirl-
tion with iii Taz. put IL army n possession
III the tsrip and settled hnck to wait for The
argument which now appears ~ ~ approach
iu-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-11-28
ONLY FOUR COUNTIES HAVE
GONE OVER TOP IN STAMPS

According ~ figures III thr hands M DS-
ear lpancy, county chairman the War Say
iugS stamp campaign. ony four counties in
Texas have thus far gone over The TOP. These
counties arr Maverick Aran~aS. Roberts and
kleburg. klriurE'S quota Was >>G..S0 and IL
subscribed >S>.~n711. NurcrS county which
lad quota III Sil.I.u subscribed ~ date
sos. iGi ~ IIidal-n county with quota NJ
$:.5l 500 ha~ taken 81 lIng-s1 81 and stands
11Sth in thr hit nf counties Cameron conn
n with Y quota W SGll.S0 has subscribed
$l.;5lSTT> ann stands .uith III the list.
Webb county with \ quota of Sila.5>n has
subscribed S7l .>Gu9o nud stands 22:;rd in
thc list
Nillacy. Starr aud Zapata counties are
H. follows Wiury quota >i9.-.Gn subscribed
S:iT1GS> Zalnta quota >laliO. subscribed
$l.i75l. Starr quota SIIG.u y subscribed
SlnTialT There arr only four other coun-
ties N thc state .hat have made worse
showing than these three. And of the 30
counties III thc state Cameron stands 2nith.
Cameron las subscribed ~ date only Si12
per person and the quota III SO Ter person.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-11-28
PRIVATE CHAMPION WRITES
HOME TO the FOLKS

George Champion tax assessor ~ tam-
qron county. has received mn interesting
letter from hi son who A. now III France
and has gone over the top several times
thu. far without n scratch. The letter
" dated October I'D and Mr. and Mrs.
CHAMPION are anxiously awaiting 70 get
letter written since the arnIsticc was
signed. The letter from The son A. M
follows:
Somewhere in France, Oct Ill, 1918
Dear Ma and Pa
/ received your letter dated Sept 23rd-
and I'D ID this date / am All right and
getting along fine. We have been M the
front line for quite a while and are cx-
pecting ID Dc released soon-
We are III the front line and fighting
them hard 10 see them retreatlng. we
have been over the top three times and
hope tO ~ back home soon.
All III the Brownsville boys that know
around here are well and they seem 40
like fighting just a. well A. doing any
thing else.
We sure done our share of fighting anu
we kept our courage up, and glad tO state
that the Brownsville boys arc making our
Brownsville citizens proud of our actions
III the battle lines, and no doubt WE will
~ back home with glory
The letters | got yesterday were the
first ones | received from you all since \
got here, @ don't forget and write often
| will try to write ~ often as 4 can.
| think that X will Ne kind of difficult
for me I'd write from now Oh a. time ~
getting % that We can hardly spare "A.
or when We have, We have no paper to
write on in the trenches But anyway,
don't worry about me, IL | stay three
weeks without writing, ~ \ have seen
four months without getting line from
You.
will be twenty years old day after to-
morrow and surely wish ! was there with
yon All. | am having Iot of fun, and
quite n good deal Of excitement with the
Dutchmen here but \ am All right
Answer soon and don't worry about me-
Your son. RAYMOND
Address me Private Raymond w. Cham
pion, lIdq 90. Hist Inf, IA. E MI.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-11-28
ROBBERS ARE 3
I LANGU|SH|NG
COUNTY JAIL
Three Men Who Sought To
Rob Enrique TyeUin0 Store
Last Night We're Caught
la the Act
ONE OF THEM WAS SHOT

Three men who attempted 40 rob The
store NJ Enrique Trrvino nn Adams street,
between Sixth and Seventh last night are
now III thc county jail. One .of them was shot
IN part ~ his anatomy that will make n
more comfortable for him NJ rat off the
mantrI for some time to come.
Some time following midnight. Mr.. Trc-
vino heard thc breaking VII glass and few
minutes aftcrward NV Eut action with his
shot gun and discharged load NJ buck
shot into one VI the men attempting to gain
an entrance into thr building. II hit him in
the rear and NV was later taken to the hos
pital. but II was discovered thar his injuries
were hot serious and after being given med
iral Hid hc was taken Az thr county jail w.
about III o'clock this morning
The city police arrested two other mel in
the gang and thc entire bunch WAS locked up-
one w them gave name. hat N H. not w.
iicyrd that Nv gave thc rishtname- AlI three
nrc McSicnns and MS believed they came
from across thc river and arc The same men
uho robbed the store WI E a. IA Rosa afrw
nights before and rot across the river with
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-11-28
Late Telegraph

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caIluD hav. refused ~ handle ,arrcnes from
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-11-28
GovernmentH Helps Soldiers
ToF ndNew Employment

San Antonio. NOV. 3S.-With view q
lending every possible aid a. the American
soldiers a. they are released from the militia
rs service Secretary III Labor Wilson has in
strnctcd Federal Director III. W. Lewis 10
send 4 representative nf the United States
Employment Service a. MI "f the Army
advised ~ the needs of the various indus
tries throughout the state and nation
when possible the snldicr will ~ placed ~
the Employment Service. An ~ the men will
he offered the facilities II the free employ
,nant service of the Federal government and
II i expected that many viii take advantage
~ the opportunity \" r'gSster with the serv-i
ice