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Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
q OMAHA, NEBR.

Donosza z wiarogodnych k6l, IL W
Omaha, ia %zachodniej stronie miasta,
organizuje sic nova polska parafia, kt6
rel proboszczem ma zostac Y. Jan Pa
lubicki, dawniej misyonarz, czynny po-
miedzy Indyanami, znany dobrze W
Chicago, gdzie posiada rodzine i ucze-
szczaf czas jakis do Kollegium p. W.
Sw. Stanislawa. Parafia nova ma wszel
kie widoki p]owodzenia ma II bye
pod wezwaniem sw. Jana. Zyczymy do
brego rozwoju zamierzonego dziela.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
1888-Piesni PoIskiej
Czesc-1918.

Dnia 3-go lipca uplynie lat 80, jak
grono patryot0w m%ilujacych Piesn Pol
ska, ola krzewienia tejae ma Obczyznie
i azeby p~ozostawic ia W spusciznie 1
w~szczepic zamilowanie do niej W miod-
szej generacyi, zalozylo W Chicago, ILL.,,
dnia SGD lipca 1888 +. pierwsze Tow.
spiewacze pod nazwa ,Ch6r Chopina
Mr.. l.. w dniu 3-go lipca r. b. upfy-
ME vice so lat piracy cichej, znojnej,
bezinteresownej, lecz chlubnej, kt6ra
poloay} ola Armii Polskej / spoie--
czenstwa W czasie swej egzystencyi
Choir Chopina.
Rocznice swej so letniej piracy Choir
Chopina Swiecic bedzie wielkiem kon-
certem W dniu pierwszym wrzesnia +.
b. w sail Zj%ednoczenia. Swieto bedzie
to wielkie ola ch6ru Chopina i uroczy-
seize swiecic so Choir bedzie, poniewaz
rocznica 80 letniej piracy ch6ru bedzie
pierwszem tego rodzaju Swietem W hi
Storyi druzyny spieWaczeJ Polonll A.
merykahskiej.
Ola tego tez chor Choplna Juz roz-
poczat prqce mad programem honcer'u
Dcnod azeOy ID roc~ss'oso VIZ"
fem sfoWa tego s"letem Spie
waczem oSfa' a %e cnor onopina s'a-
ME ma "SZyhle s"eso Iauania " uni"
3O-eJ sweJ rocznlcv' Zape"nlc sic Ho
Nn" pi"'q s'tn"q
zystego %ar]auu SA'au A'oteso na iuA
1918 Wchodza Roman J' uos~|cAsnshi'
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
z EDWARDSVILLE, Pa.
: UmarI W EdWardsVille, Pa, " dI

23-go grudnia, 1917 roku W domu swej
c6rki S. p. Kazimierz Zdanowicz, pre-
zywszy Il lat. By} to prawdopodobnie
ostatni polski zofnierz z powstania ro-
ku 1863. S. p. Zdanowicz wkr0tce pc
upadku p%owstania przybyi do Stan0w
Zjednoczonych i mieszkaf w Nanti-
coke, Priceburg i Edwardsville, Pa. s.
p. Zdanowicz byl wzorem polskich pa
tryot0w z roku 1868. Kocha} Polske,
zyi i pracowal jedynie ola Polski. ME-
chat przeto odpoczywa W pokoju.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
u EASTHAMPTON, MASS.

Niejaki Antoni j. Szczepanek os-
karzony zostal o zabicie pewnej ko-
bietv W Newburyport. Gdy go obec-
ME no diugiem poszukiwaniu aresz-
towano, wykazal swoje alibi l zostaf
nozostawiony bez kaucyi ma wolnej
stopie.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
Y HOLYOKE, MASS.

Ma ulicy Lyman bawiiy s;e dwie
7-letnie polskie dziewczynki a mia
nowicie Paulina Obara 1 RadWanska.
Przez nieostroznoSG najechaf ma ME
woznica firmy Lyman Mills Co. Gle
zarowemi saniami, wskutek czego
bardzo powaznych doznaiy pokale-
czen,
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15

W Nowym Yorku | zorganizowal je tax
re Komisya Wojskowa uznala je "a
wz0r ola innych blur, Opuszcza stano-
wisko oficera rekrutacyjnego ola Cen
trum nowOjorskiego i udaje sic ma "a
ch6d. gdzie zajmie stanOwisko lustra-
tora blur rekrutacyjnych. Miejsce jego
obecne zajmie OBJ. WOlski, dOtychcza-
sowy organizatOr ma Long Island.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
II ~BRATTLEBORO, VT.

H. Burek wskutek nieostroznego
obchodzenia sic z bronia zastrzelif
mania John Seesaw, make dwojga
dzieci, kt6rej MAJ wyjechaf a kilka
dni do Albany, n. Y. Widzac co sic
stale. Burek s~trzeli} rowniez do sic
bic Oboje zyli tylko kr6tki czas l
zmarli prawie 0 jednym czasie W
szpitalu.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
q PAWTUCKET, r. I.

Jan Midura LEGACY q lat, zazyt
w dzien Bozego Narodzenia trucizny.
Odwieziono go natychmiast do szpi-
tala. lecz ratunek byl bezskuteczny.
Pozostawii on po sobie zone l Jedno
dziecko W Central Falls.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
Z PITTSFIELD, PA.
Ksiadz Wiktor Zarek, prObosz

tutejszej parafii polskiej pod wezwa-
ME Nmiepok. Poczecia Najsw. MarEi
Fanny, wyiezdza do polskiego obozu
ola Armii Polskiej W Niagara-on-the-
Lake, gdzie bedzie spe1niai czynnosci
kapelana. Otrzyma on range kapitana.
- Nastcpcy jego dotychczas ME Ia
mianowano. Ksiadz Zarek przybyi do
Pittsfield W roku 1913.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
z NEW YORK, \. y.
Jersey City dzielnie sic spisujt

Jersey City dZielnie sic spisuJe'
iesli idzie o pOpieranie Armii POlskiej.
Tamtejszy subkOmitet Obywatelski pod
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Henryka Sieminskie-
20 pracuje gorliwie i rezultaty tel pra-
ey wspaniale DO MOVIE grOmady Ochot-
nik6w gotowe zawSze do kazdego odjaz
du do obozu. Dnia 30-gO grudnia sub
komitet ten urzadzii wspaniaie poze-
gnanie ola odjezdzajacych z Jersey CT
~ o~chotnik6w W kt6rem wzieia udziaf
Delegacya Armii Polskiej, kap. Casio
rowski i pOr. Szaniawski
Oh. Jan Przyprawa, ktory tax
dzielnie prowadzii biuro rekrutacyJne
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
II WORCESTER, MASS.

26 ochotnik6w odjechaio do obo-
zu KoSciuszki, dnia 1870 grudnia
1917. w niedziele, dnia 16 grudnia
odbyi sic ~wspaniaiy pochod pc uli-
each miasta Worcester. Pc nkoncze-
niu pochodu udano sic ma vice; sala
byla tax przepelniona, re DUO ludzi
odeszlo. Ma wiecu tym przemawial
ks. FIR. Cyran, ks. Homes, ks. Nell
nowski, mayor miasta i officer re-
krutacyjny z. A. Czaczka. Ma armie
zebrano 10000. Poprzednio wye
chaio z Worcester, Mass. Al ochotni-
k6w. Kierownikiem centrum rekru-
tacyjnego jest z. A. Czaczka.
Prawto kindly IekarE poiFkl STATE '
,lo.1a avA 0Odziny nfia0w0 m NEpk
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
z o.

- rs. l.. s. Legowski prObOszez pa
rafii polskiej sw. Kazimierza we Ere
mont. Ohio. Kt6ry zgiosii sic ma ochot-
nika jake Kapelan z pOczatkiem wojny,
otrzymai teraz rozkaz ably sic udai do
fortecy Wayne W Detroit, Mich. ma eg-
zaminacye.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15

firm amerykahskich ma Polsce. Po-
zostawia pc sobie wdowe i troje
dZieci.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-01-15
y CONN.

Franciszek Bornos, LEGACY AZ Ia
ia. powiesil sic tutaj ma pasku. "a
trudniony byi cd 10 lat W jedneJ z
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

The other day, during the passage of
six floors, bag was opened and a
check for $3.50 was removed as we'll
as $35 in cash. The thief was evident
ly nervous novice, for the check was
dropped on the floor of the car. Later
the rest of the money was recovered.
1t is not always money that pays the
penalty. Sometimes valuable jewelry,
q pearl necklace -or diamond brooch
on the way to the repairing depart
ment is considered fair game by some
woman who has just paid her income
tax.
The shops, alarmed by the increase
in this sort Of thievery since the be-
ginning Of the war, have more than
doubled their vigilance. With the
aid Of an augmented staff of detec-
tives they hope to get the percentage
Of thefts down to normal. In this thew
can be greatly aided, they say, by the
public-especially the feminine portion
OF the public who command. goods to
be strewn before it in confusion on the
counter and who stroll about with an
ever-present temptation hung loosely
from its wrist.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
KARL MUCK

nature is guiltless or incapable of
political sentiments now abhorred
by nearly all the nations of the
earth, the masters who created it
with neither knowledge nor premo-
milton that the people to whom they
belonged would revert to moral saw
agery after their death and the
practitioners who are living under
that savagery and upholding it. Yet
to make such a distinction ought to
be Instructive in every intelligent
child. To Danish Wagner's dramas
from the stage can as little serve the
cause for which the wealth, life and
honor of our nation are pledged as to
bedaub the statues of Goethe and
Schiller, as was done at Chicago and
Baltimore. Are not such acts fool
ish and futile follies of which we
should be ashamed? We set up a
statue of Heine in New York large
ly as a protest against the attitude
Of the German Emperor, who will
not tolerate memorial of that un-
compromising democrat in Berlin.
Why should we seek to dishonor the
symbols of our former veneration
fer the genius of Goethe, who re-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
German War Sufferers
Form Socialist Union
Demand That all Money in
Empire Be Employed in
Their Interests

The "Berliner Neueste Nachrichten"
reports that in Berlin there has been
formed 'Union of War Sufferers and
FORMER War Participators," which now
has 300 branches throughout the en-
pre-. The Junker paper suspects that
the union has been founded by Social
lists and brands the aims of the un;on
as anti-German.
The German "Union Of War Sufferers
and Former War Participators" has tho
following programmes:
l.. All money in circulation is to he
employed for war sufferers. war widows
and war orphans.
z. The empire shall stop the nav.
mont Of interest on war loans unt,,
the demands Of the war sufferers sha,,
have been satisfied.
o. ALI war profits above a certs;r
amount which is to be more dehnita,v
determined must be confiscated a,S
distributed among the war sufferer.
:. Auxuries, vaIuables and oth.,
precious objects Of the property hold.
ing classes must be confiscated bv tn,
state and used for covering the mead,
OF the war sufferers
5. All wealth which ia wor+h 49,,
ono million marks is to be eonS...tsl
hy the stata
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

unselfish self-sacrifce of Brtinn-
hide. Are not these principles ex-
emplified in the great conflict raging
to-day? The brutal reign of the
Hun must give way to the dominion
Of righteousness. Shall we quarrel
with that ideal? Or with the basic
conception in "Tannhauser" that
salvation comes to humanity through
the love of pure womanhood? Then
must we condemn the uplifting fable
of Alkestis and empty our vessels Of
contumely on Euripides and Gluck.
Is there aught of political or moral
obliquity in "Parsifal," whose funda-
mental thought is that it is the en-
lightenment which comes to human
ity through pity and compassion
which brings salvation? How do we
feel toward Belgium, which inter-
posed it's dead body between the
Hunnish wave and civilization? Or
Serbia? Or Armenia? "Die Meis-
tersinger"? That comedy has no
other than an artistic purpose-to
illustrate the conflict between the
creative and regulative impulses in
art, between radicalism and conser-
vatism, romanticism and classicism
rightly understood. sLohengrin"
Alas, for proud Elsa and her proto-
type, Psyche! The Knight of the
Grail ought not to have stayed up
so late to apostrophize the balmy
zephyrs and odors on his wedding
night. But he came in chivalric
pity to rescue a damsel in distress.
Is there harm in the contemplation
of his dilatoriness?
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

march to glorify William I, but his
political reputation wrought it's re-
lection at the function for which he
had designed it. He also wrote a
march to celebrate the centenary of
the Declaration of American Inde-
rendence, though with it he gar
nered as little artistic glory as he
had with his foolish French farce.
Should Wagner's dramas be ban
ished from our stage because Of the
doctrines which they inculcate? The
world has learned to smile at Wag-
ner as philosophical poet. Even
the redoubtable Shaw breaks down
in the elucidation Of the doctrines of
socialism assumed to underlie "The
Ring Of the Nibelung" when he
reaches the last drama of the te-
tralogy; wherefore he proclaims
"Gotterdammerung" mere opera
and poor opera at that. But the
underlying purpose Of "The Ring
is to teach that selfish egoism ex-
pressed in terms of brute force must
give way to new dispensation of
justice and love; the selfish will of
Wotan is broken by the willing and
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
THEORETIC AND APPLIED PATRIOTISM AND MUSIC
The Attitude of the Public Toward
Germanic Music; Its Dead Com
posers and Living Practitioners
Creative Spirit in Their Music
Crushed

of Schubert, Schumann, Franz
Brahms and other masters Of Gem
man lyricism-the music Of compos.
ers who wrote before the material
ism created by German imperialism
had crushed the creative spirit ont
of German music. Let it not be for.
gotten that the days Of Germanys
greatness in literature and music
were antecedent to her political
greatness. The soil of Prussianism
has produced nothing in art. The
last truly great composer who lived
down into the days Of the empire IN
the line of succession to Haydn, Mo-
zart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schu.
mann was Brahms, and he was the
son Of the once free city of Ham
burg, as his predecessors were sens
Of the people of their petty states,
The Great Dead owed nothing to
Germany united under the yoke Of
Prussia-neither the poets who
were destroyed by the monarchs
whom they had compelled to eman-
c;pate themselves nor the composers
who sang in blissful carelessness Of
the political conditions which sur
rounded them. Beethoven only
loomed up in his time as a democrat
willing to remain estranged from
his native Rhineland, chafng under
the bonds which held him in Vienna,
damning the regime which gave him
of it's bounty and admiring the Eng
lish and their constitution. "You
have heads on your shoulders in
England" said he to an English
visitor, and on his death-bed he
called for a reading of the entire
speech of Canning, advocating rec
ognition of the independence of the
South American republics. But we
must not listen even to Beethoven's
celebration of conjugal love and
fidelity because 'Fidelio" has Ger
man words.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Russian Could
Not Be Found

The committee into whose hands
Major Higginson surrendered the
task which he performed so long and
so we'll made q strenuous endeavor
to secure the services of Mr.. Rach-
maninoff, but was, we believe, un-
able to locate him owing to the dis
turbed state of everything in what
once was Russia. Mr.. Rachmani-
noff made a deep impression upon
the musical people Of America who
came in contact with him during his
visit to this country, and there would
have been no reason as yet appar-
ent to question his loyalty to the
cause of America and her allies in
the war against Germany and her
cohorts. This cannot be said about
some of the others with Slavic
names who were mentioned privately
and in the public prints as candi-
dates for the place. A vote of the
people of Seal Harbor, Me-, would
scarcely have offered a position of
patriotic trust to either Mr.. Stokow-
ski chad his conduct toward the Gin
cinnati Orchestra not debarred him
from consideration nor Mr.. Gabril-
owitsch, to whom Detroit has offered
a berth, accompanied by the procla-
mation-all the more vulgar if it is
true-that he is to receive the larg-
est salary ever paid to a musical
conductor in America. Both of
these gentlemen are now advertising
their loyalty to America and Ameri-
can ideals, but they have not invited
inquiry among their associates as to
their private sentiments.
The manager of the PHILADELPHIA
Orchestra, in announcing series of
concerts in New York next season,
tells us that Mr.. Stokowsh was born
in London of Polish father and an
Irish mother, but this is far from
being even presumptive evidence of
an hereditary hatred Of Teuto-Aus-
trian aims In the present war or
sympathy with this country in its
efforts to nullify those aims. When
devoted admirer in New York pre-.
sented him with a house as a gift
he chose Munich as it's site, not New
York or Philadelphia. Mr.. Stokow.
ski is said to have "announced his
intention of becoming citizen Of
this country" Immediately after
coming to America in 1905, and il
is added that ain due time this in
tention was realized" which is a
somewhat vague statement concern.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
By II. r. Krehbiel
EF, AS has been said and then un-
\ said, Sir Henry Wood has been

EF, AS has been said and then un-
said, Sir Henry Wood has been
engaged as conductor of the
Boston symphony Orchestra, the
problem set by the internment OF
DR.. Muck has been solved in a man.
rer equally agreeable to the mere
patriot and the mere music lover.
To the music lover who is also filled
with a lively sense of patriotism
such a solution would be more than
agreeable: it would be cause for
sincere rejoicing, which could be
greater only if an equally capable
American had been chosen for the
position. Such man, however,
does not seem to be in sight, and If
the managing committee Of the or
chestra must needs go abroad for
their conductor it will be a comfort
ing and reassuring circumstance If
they make choice from people
whose loyalty to the cause in
which America is enlisted Is ab-
solutely free from suspicion. This
would not have been the case with
any other one of the men whose
names and merits were canvassed IN
connection with the post except ST.
gnor Toscanini. This great artist
would. no doubt, have been enthu-
siastically received everywhere, but
especially in New York, where ne
would also have repaired the detec-
ton which will probably result from
the controversy which embittered
the closing days of last season. But
Signor Toscanini's greatest admir-
ers here had grave doubts as to
whether he is constitutionally and
temperamentally fitted for the oner-
Gus task which a fundamentally
wrong system of concert-giving has
forced upon the symphonic organl-
cations of Boston and New York.
Such work as Signor Toscanin1
did in preparing the concerts which
he gave at the Metropolitan Opera
House, when he amazed the knowing
with his performances Of Beethoven's
D minor symphony and Richard
Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel," would
be impossible were he obliged to con-
duct over hundred concerts in SIX
months; and it is his nature not to
be satisfied with anything short OF
the best. His habit, too, of memo
rizing thoroughly every score to
which he gives a public reading
would ruin the mind Of even musi-
cal Morphy. Let US be glad that so
sincere an artist was not tempted
into the dangerous experiment.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

and no mistakes are made.
The Kind the
War Has Made
At the Brooklyn Court of Special Sss-
sions last week there appeared the
type of shoplifter brought into ex-
istence by the war. Young and crushed,
she sat awaiting trial. The agonized
look in her eyes was reflected in her
aged fathers face. Anna, the wife Of
a German reservist, now a prisoner of
the British, lives with her parents,
honest and respectable. All her life
she has known nothing but thrift and
economy. When she married life
seemed brighter Then came 1914 and
the war. Her husband went to Ger
many. Since then good times have
been few and far between. Anna has
done her share of the housework and
spent most of her evenings at home,
reading or talking to the old people.
Then came the call Of spring and
Anna took her old hat to be retrimmed,
Lying on the counter, temptingly with
in reach, lay the very hat of Anna's
dreams. But it was marked, "Price
$40" Anna tried it on. An uncon-
trollable impulse made her look about
hastily and walk out, leaving the old
headgear on the counter. But like
many another novice she was seen and
taken to court. A sympathetic proba-
ton officer listened pityingly to her
story and seemed to understand how
difficult it had been to resist the little
ray Of sunshine that had seemed TO
aim itself straight in her direction.
When Anna faced the judge, picture
Of misery and humiliation, the officer
stood ready to help her to get O light
sentence.
Still another temptation menaces the
woman whose income has been reduced
through the exigencies of war-the
temptation of the carelessly carried
handbag. Prosperous looking bags
swinging idly with unguarded clasps
from the arm of wealthy nonchalance
S~AAh0S 4oi1 ~ CAcEL aU UNCONSCIOUS IN
fiuence upon the thoughts of women
who feel the pinch of straitened
circumstances even as they are goaded
by the sight of the enticing wares of
the department store displayed with
the utmost cunning.
Those Who Are
Too Careless
Women who enter crowded elevat.
ors with their bags hanging unguarded
from their wrists frequently find upon
al'ghting at Ladies' suits, dresses,
coats and furs" that everything valu-
able has been taken and that only a
few hairpins, a powder puff and an
eyebrow pencil remain Of the forme.
contents.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Opera and the
Political Beliefs

Why should Wagner's dramas
have been banished from the Metro
politan repertory? Because of the
political beliefs Of the composer?
-Assuredly not, for he was a revolu-
tionary against the monarchical
state while living and after death
left no preachments which can bring
comfort and justification to the
would-be destroyers of the political
ideals for which Americans are
fighting and dying. He wrote a
silly lampoon on the French govern
ment after the Franco-Prussian War
but it's banality avenged it's compo-
sition on his fame. He wrote a
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

The good Offices of clothes are con-
stantly emphasized. By and by, when
the heroine becomes happy bride, the
girl in the audience is again made
conscious of her own impoverished con-
dition and lack of opportunity.
II could look like that, too. if I only
had the clothes," she sighs and notes
again the value Of making every good
line count-something that cannot be
done without one Of those expensive,
simple gowns and just the right ac-
cessories.
The Training of
Shoplifters
Another reason for the increase in
shoplifting Is the coming into exist
ence of female Fagins, who, their in
comes drained by the war, train young
girls to abstract articles from count
ers and boxes while their innocent
young eyes gaze artlessly about the
shop. 1t is indeed a hardened and
cynical store detective who would
dream Of attempting to fasten such a
crime on girl in knee dresses and
Mary Pickford ringlets!
One of these female Fagins was
recently arrested in Brooklyn. She was
found to have three young girls work
ing for her. Having bribed or fright
ened them into doing her bidding, she
sent them out two or three times a
week into the larger stores and ordered
them to get whatever her fancy die
tated for the day. Sometimes it was
something for the kitchen. Again, she
needed bit of lace or bolt Of rib
bon or small clock. At Christmas
time, it was brought out, one of her
pupils had been told to bring home a
set of beaver furs. She did, and re-
ceived praise that was no doubt en-
couraging.
They are getting shoplifting under
control in Brooklyn, where it had be.
come almost as popular as 1t is in
New York. Word has been passed
about among the old offenders that it
is just as we'll to confess at once when
caught and that the tears and Mysteries
are only waste of time. Among the
novices, of course, these are induced
by fright and are genuine. The diff
ference between the fright of the
novice and the willy attempt of a hard
ened professional to excite sympathy Is
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Creative Spirit in
Their Music Crushed

The man Wagner then cannot be
to US the rock of offence, nor can
the ethical aims Of his creations.
What remains? Only the language
of his vocal music, which has be-
come hateful to US because of the
nation that uses it as a vernacular.
Because of this hatred we have suf-
fered the loss of not only Wagner's
dramas but the music of the songs