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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-11
"Gun Without a Peer"

What the Scientific American calls
ga gun without a peer is the new
$40 millimeter mobile howitzer built
by the Creusot works for the French
army. 1t is mounted on a railroad
carriage and fires a shell 20.47 inches
in diameter. 1t Is fort wrecker, and
one shell from it is said to have suf-
feed to reduce Fort Malmaison, on
which the Germans had spent so much
time and labor, to a pile of dust and
debris.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-11
/, NAVY EVER ON THE ALERT
Case Of carslessness at Sea 10 a Thing
That Commanders Punish With
Necessary Severity.

With not light showing the trans
ports plowed the Atlantic, bringing
American soldiers to France, writes a
naval officer IN the Saturday Evening
Post. Lookouts high and low, under
navy discipline, searched the seas for
hostile perlscopes. The convoy, the
apex of which was a big cruiser. was
invisible in the black night. The Wig
ilance of the navy training protected
the soldiers, sleeping with their life
belts on.
Suddenly out shot bright light on
the leading transport; merchant sail
or, one Jesus Fernandez Mendoza, a
Spanish fireman, flashed an electric
torch, fumbling about the deck. The
light could be seen for miles. Instant
~ navy lookout reported the occur
renee to the navy officer In charge of
the ship. A sharp command, scuf.
file on deck, bluejacket kicking the
torch overheard stayed the Spaniards
desire to fondle an electric fiashlight
in the submarine zone. Five days sol.
itary confinement ended the lesson
| Showing a light on a man-o'-war al
| night In time of war is a court-martial
offense; even lighting a cigarette OF
having matches. The navy command
er, in absolute charge, enfOrces mill
tary discipline on a merchant vesse
carrying troops and Furnishes the
guilty.
Because of the navy, criminal care
lessness and conduct involving tht
safety of thousands of men came t.
naught and a possible catastrophe was
| aYerted. The navy was In command
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-11
Effect OF French Language.

A writer In Scribner'S Magazine
speculates at some length on the eff
feet the French language will have on
our own when the soldiers come back.
He says: "One of the most prolific
sources of new words in language is
an attempt to name new ideas. Amer
lean soldiers in France Will absorb
many new ideas from their contact
with the French and British; there
will be many new shades of meanings
for ideas denoted by old words. To
express these the men will inevitably
adopt French words or use English
words with new shade of meaning
have not yet collected any examples
of this; but 1t must take place, and
one who watches the literature that
follows the war will see many exam
pies, if they are not observed before"
Light is the task when many share tn
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-11
Encore.

Hotel Proprietor-Did you enjoy the
cornet playing in the next room to
yours last night2
Guest (savagely)-Enjoy 1t should
say not. / spent half the night pound
ing on the wall to make the idiot stop.
Proprietor-Why, Jones told me this
morning you applauded every one of
his pieces and he was going to send
for some more music right away so
that he could play for you again.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-11
Cockney Repartee.

Some of the senior boys from a
vauxhall schools literary class were
taken to the old Vic to see The Mer-
chant of Venice"
When Shylock, In the court scene,
was urgently demanding his pound Of
flesh, bright cockney boy, In eager
tones. cried out to the Judge.
Hi, you! Ask him for his meat
card london Tit-Bits.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-11

Every opportunity is golden of which
the most is made.-Albany journal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-11

Light is the task when many share the
toil.-Homer,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-11

Hats off Red, white, blue asters, 15c
dozen, until 2So. A. II. Harvey. 153-tf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

doing was to pass through the miseries
that accompany all usurpation of nor
NAL human energy and aspiration.
Beauty was being crowded and pushed
and clipped by the rule of machines, by
q machine made life The individual
human character and flavor of things
disappeared in the multiplication table
of mass organization. Existence and
adventure had become kind of cosmic
Cocks tour, perfect schedules in all
variations. The machine, the symbol in.
concrete of physical laws, became the
symbol of every sensitive souls obses-
sion. What more natural than that thew
should have tried to escape it by ex-
pressing 1t in mechanistic symbolism, or
find relief in far-fung Tahitian roman
ticisnl?
Machine talk became artist talk. All
the geometric jargon Cezanne left be-
hind OF the cube, the cone and the
cylinder-and all that he left behind
OF ponderous mass-was picked up for
new use. 1t was physics trying to re-
discover itself in some new form of
beauty. trying to become aware of itself
through the imagination. There was
nothing absolute about it, nothing mys-
teriously interpretative of universal hui
man longing through all time. 1t was
merely temporary psychosis, arising,
as they would all hate to confess, out of
the kind of reality they were living in.
Now we've come to another place.
Humanity has immediate testimony at
hand to the fact that life can't be tied
down by rules, that it has an inner and
necessltous movement that keeps it going
inevitably, despite all machine subiec-
ton.
Plainly, the proven, unacceptable an
archy OF the quality of existence makes
temporary anarchy of the imagination
unnecessary At least, in the light of
all that has been happening these later
days, the rebellion of the artists be-
comes poor and puny thing.
After all, one may suppose there is
something mischievous about time
that forces it's human beings to turn
ASIDE for fear of facing the facts. A
great art has an inner integrity because
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

woman when the poems came into her
hands, and after writing an article in
defence Of him against the shri,l Vic
torian voices that feared so much hu-
man revelation, she began q correspon
dence that lasted until her death. fifteen
years later
Mrs. Gilchrist loved Walt Whitman
passionately. Her early letters are
illled with an impetuous worship of the
man who was able to call to her so pow
erfully across the intervening sea- While
tie letters are chiefly her own, few of
Whitman's are interspersed, and it is
clear that the feeling he returned to her
was in no degree reciprocal. The let
ters he wrote to her and her own reac-
ton to them both illuminate his reluct-
ance TO engage in so violent and COM
plete a deliverance of his essential self
as love affair with her would have to
become. 1t was as if he feared the sur
render of the inner citadel to any power
so avid of the color of his soul, so alb
sorbipg of his quality. The editor of the
volume, Thomas B. Harmed, who WAS
one of Whitman's literary executors.
says that the poets affections were
otherwhere's engaged. Yet his ap-
proach to Mrs. Gilchrist is so sensitive
and delicate, SO careful of her feelings
without yielding his own, that there
comes out of this volume a sense of
conscious discrimination against the
tremendous fact of personal passion
itself.
1t he was hard, with a kind of in
terror hardness, he did not make any
formula about his feeling for her. He
characterized it with the richness and
variety of which only such poet was
capable when he said of her to Horace
Traubel; II have that sort of feeling
about her which cannot easily be spoken
or love tstrong, personal love,
tool. reverence, respect-you see. it
won't go into words: all the words are
weak and formal" And later, 'sRessetti
mentions Mrs. Gilchrist. Well, he had a
right to-almost as much right as had (:
sort OF brothers right: she was his
friend, she was more than my friend. I
feel like Hamlet when he said FORTY
thousand brothers could not feel what he
felt for Ophelia."
He may have been afraid to take
from heri he did not fear to give.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
THE most astounding news of the
week from Germany was the down
fall of Ludendorff, the man who had

ME most ASTOUNDING Hc"o W WV
week from Germany was the down
fall of Ludendorf, the man who had
come to stride the German world
like Colossus. Unheard-of at the begin
ming of the war, he early became known
as satellite of the brighter star, linden
burg, to whom he was assigned as chief OF
staff when Hindenburg set forth to drive
the Russians from East Prussia. In course
of Tine, however, Ludendorff came to domi-
nate the entire German horizon, both mill
tary and political; and the Junker elements,
right in the midst of the recent political
overturn at Berlin, were even looking to
him to declare dictatorship to save the
country and their precious solves
The fall of Ludendorff is of the most
promising Of recent occurrences in Ger
many. Why was the powerful usurper over
thrown? The cablsd reports of the week
mentioned only that his resignation fol-
lowed quarrel in an interview with the
nav Chancellor, Prince Macmillan. From
this hint, particularly in connection with
the incidents surrounding Hertling's over
throw, it is easy to guess what happened at
the interview between the two men. From
study of the German newspapers down
to October 10 it is'possible to believe that
Macmillan announced to Ludendorf that
a new regime now exists in Germany, I'm
der which the military must take its orders
from the civil government, and that Luden-
dorff refused to submit
That conclusion is warranted by the fact
that the movement to which Hertling sue
cumbed was aimed chiefly at the usurping
military power Hertling foil because he
had proved too weak to withstand Che en-
croachments of Ludendorff and the local
military governors upon the functions of
the civil government The members of the
Reichstag, made wise by long and sad ex-
perience, had at last resolved to create
a strong government, responsible to the
Reichstag rather than to the Kaiser, which
would keep the army officers within their
purely military functions.
The German Revolution" began with the
meeting of the Main Committee Of the
Rcichstag on Tuesday, September "a. 1t
began with a speech by Hertling, which
showed that he had mo conception what
ever of the actualities of the situation
He dealt only with political and military
generalities, but avoided all live wires, like
reconstruction Of the government machin-
cry in the direction Of parliamentary re-
sponsibility and it's liberation from the
military usurpation. "How could he be en-
pected to speak about such things" asked
Theodor Wolff, "since they are repugnant
to his Utmost soul? Hertling belongs to an
epoch whose death knell is now ringing
amid the thunders of the cannon" Yet the
Junkers were pleased with the speech one
of their organs called it "preeminently
statesmanlike."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
\ Cold Shoulder
"A for the Junkers

The Conservative, or Junker, party itself
was turned down with equal promptness.
After they had announced their surrender
to the new order of things by Sacrificing
their convictions" as they said, they signi-
fed their willingness to take part in organ
izing coalition government. This was,
however, quietly ignored by the majority,
which was in no temper to treat with q
party which, as they felt, had brought ruin
upon Germany.
But the Conservatives made big sur
render at still more important point.
After having fought the equal and direct
ballot in Prussia for years, they at last
saw the handwriting on the wall and an
nounced that they would vote for the gov
ernment's whole suffrage bill. This change
in itself will amount to a political revolu-
ton; it means the end OF the domination
of the old Prussi2n aristocracy i'll Germany.
The majority treatment of the National
Liberals also throws favorable light upon
its spirit and purposes. That party has long
been an uncertain element; a strong wing
of it, including its leader, Stresemann, has
been completely dominated by military am
billions during the war and has stood for
big annexations and indemnities In view
of this record the majority parties treated
it with marked GOODNESS in establishing the
new order. They did not ask it to take
part in drawing up the majority's pro-
gramme, but only submitted it., after having
been fixed, to that party TO take such action,
as it might think fit 1t also read the
handwriting on the wall and accepted the
M M Mt al.
lowed to retain the Cabinet positions given
to it year ago when Hertling came in.
Thus, under the blows of Foch at the
'front.' the German people have apparently
taken their affairs into their own hands
wrestling them from the hands of the great
generals who have even controlled the
Kaiser. These blows of Foch were neces-
sary; but they supplied the needed i'm
pulse. Germanys dreams of victory and
conquests had to be transformed into what
the "Frankfurter Zetung" calls q sunk
heap of illusions" before the German PEG
pie could be moved to act
Finally German Interpretation Of this
movement may be quoted here from the
newspaper just mentioned;
"The Conservatives have been usurpers
of power, without any other warrant than
the weakness of other. Now these others
have been aroused from their sleep through
the frightful danger into which the home
land has been brought by the predominancc
of the politicians Of force. These others
have the overwhelming majority in Germany,
they have the spirit OIL idealism and hu-
manity, and that spirit is again to take
the leadership in Germany against min
GRITTY that has heen hurled from power and
is now to be excluded from it to the ut
most"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
The Rebellion in Paint---Walt Whitmans Grand Refusal

returns with the Cezanne motif-still
the Cezanne--the pears that are really
round, the table of blue that is round
only as a table is round in a fever, the
rugged and robustious flowers in a vase
And they are palpable and ponderable
flowers, too.
Undeniably, something is gone out of
these anecdotes in the absolute Would
it be too much to say that there is no
longer any sweet rcasonableness in them,
that the time has grown past them? The
astheticians who played wet nurse to
these movements always aimed to avoid
direct reference to the common stuff Of
living. They dealt grandly and absorb
eddy in distractions, but there was al
most something frantic in their efforts
to keep going at it. No spade was ever
called spade by them. 1t would be
rather Scheme in Garden" They
played furiously with metaphysical ideas
old Pater's music as the archtype tow
ard which all other arts strove to ap-
proach-and so human a thing as the
time-spirit did not exist for them: they
rwere the children Of no yesterdays but
of all tomorrow.
Yet, however suspect anything so COM
mon as the time-spirit may have been,
they were verify the truest sons and
daughters of it. The avoidance itself
was part of the malady that afflicted
them. With so much Of the war to the
rear, it is not difficult to go back and see
in retrospect that fevered and uncon-
scious world, and find easily and speed
lily in 1t the suppressions and frustra-
lions OF human energy that caused the
Imaginative will to become malformed
and to seek its escape in metaphysical
romanticism.
Life at that time had something in
human about it.; it was noticeahly too
full of formula, efiiciencies, rules for
complete adjustment of living. And it
was satisfied to have it SO, blindly, as If
the quality Of existence ever made room
long for the stereotyped phrase or for
any complacency at all. The anarchs of
art believed they were going through the
| travail of Kew art birth; all they were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

ters. They are figureheads which the real
rulers Of the country have found useful in
the past, which would be flung aside and
discarded without mercy or remorse if they
seemed likely to bring disaster on the men
who in fact, though not in appearance,
hold the real rens of power. in Germany
If proof Of this be required, it will be suffi-
cient to cite the case of the interview which
the Kaiser gave some years ago to 'TNo
Daily Telegraph
"The interview was Objectionable and in
convenient to the supreme powers of the
country, and their representative, Chancel-
Tor Won Bulow, went to the Reichstag and
stated that he had obtained promise from
the Kaiser that he would grant no inter
view for publication for the ensuing six
months. The fact is that the Kaiser has
always been at liberty to call himself All
Highest, to declare that the Spirit Of God
is upon him. to utter as many magnificent
phrases as he will. But he is not the real
ruler Of Germany.
"All the true power, the power that counts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Junkers-The Real Reason for Fear

II T is the Junkers who are to be feared
4 in making peace with Germany and
not the Kaiser, warns "a Diplomat"
writing in "The Daily Express" of Lon
don. They are the men who run Ger
many, he says, and they would throw
over the Kaiser without conjunction if
they could thereby keep themselves in
power. The article follows:
"The Kaiser is not the man who runs
Germany The Hohenzolerns are not the
family which runs Germany. The imperial
and kingly caste is not the caste which
runs Germany. Germany is run by the
Junkers.
"The time approaches when all the Allied
powers must be prepared to table their de-
ma,ds and their conditions of peace; it is,
therefore, Of the utmost Importance that
the true state Of things in Germany should
be clearly perceived. 1t is not sufficient,
then, to raise the cries, NO peace with the
Kaiser!' NO peace with the IIohenzollerns.
Neither Kaiser nor Hohenzollsrn mat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

commanders be broken? The government
must have the power to carry its will into
effect"
Thus pressed by the majority leaders
Hertling finally made another brief speech
CT Thursday, saying that the government
had become convinced that some changes Of
the administration Of military law had
become necessary aud was considering what
should be done. Hertling had not yet heard
his political death knell sounding. On Sat
urday, however, Fehrenbach, the President
of the Reichstag, went to him in behalf OF
the majority and practically gave him his
marching orders. Hertling accordingly set
off at once to see the Kaiser at the SUI
preme Army Command to place his resigna-
ton in his hands.
But Hertling, according to the German
papers, did more than that. Although not
himself a believer in parliamentary gov
eminent, he had to make known to the
Kaiser that the time had come for the lat
ter to yield up most of his power to the
Reichstag. Thus Hertling had to ring out
theold, ring in the new; and already on
Monday, September &c. the Kaiser issued
his decree that laid the ground for the new
order in Germany. He consented to the es-
tablishment Of parliamentary government.
The most correct Interpretation of that
decree probably given by the pan-G Ger
man "Taeglche Rundschau," which wrote;
"on this day, September 80, 1918, the old
monarchical system based upon the Con-
stitution Of the German Empire has abdi-
Gated in favor of the parliamentary sys-
tenn"
Some Of the developments in connection
with the reconstruction of the government
tend to confirm that judgment. Thus tho
appointment of Prince Max as Chancellor
was made only after each Of the majority
parties rogressives, Catholics and Social
ists-had separately declared themselves in
his favor, and only after they had adopted
p programme Of action. The various min
listers and under secretaries of state were
also selected in the councils of the party
leaders.
One little incident may be significant. In
the midst of the negotiations Won Berg,
chief of the Kascr's Civil Cabinet, appeared
upon the scene in order to take part in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

and directs and governs, ia in the hands of
the Junkers. These are primarily the
landed gentry Of Prussia, but of late years
they have gone into business. They count
IN high finance. They count in banking.
They count in shipping. . . They CON
troll the diplomatic service. They own the
army. They are supreme in the higher
ranks of the Civil Service
ut is they who pull the strings when the
Kaiser figure flourishcs its shining sword
And there can be no doubt that these
Junkers would throw over the Kaiser. the
Hohenzollerns and the empire itself, and
turn republicans--if they thought that they
would succeed in running the German Re-
public as they have run the German EN-
pre.
Therefore, let US beware Let US not
say: No peace with the Hohenzollerns!'
Let us rather say, NO peace with the
Junkers No peace with the caste and the
system that have made Germany the terror
OF the earth. So far as the IIohenzollcrns
are concerned, they are doomed anyhow"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

Copyright 1918. New York Tribune Inc,


COMETHING seems to have taken
the heart out of the radicals OF
~ paint. Every SO often the world
of reality puts on show that
makes the most extravagant ecstasy Of
the fancy seem pallid inertia by COM
parison. Certainly, matched with mod
ern warfare, the modern aesthetics of
disintegration seem to be feeble and
childish thing. At the Daniel Gallery,
at West Forty-seventh Street, there is
now an exhibition Of the brothers and
sisters of the new eyesight, good many
of them bearing the assaulting names of
1915 and 1916, but scrutiny of their
wares will not disclose any but the most
conventional violences. They are, indeed,
radicalism with tongue in cheek; al
ready the grimace of emphasis softens
to grin. 1t is surely now an amiable
kicking up Of the heels.
Here is Macdonald Wright, whose
aquarelles barely retain anything sinis-
ter or connotative in. their mouldy pur-
pies and decaying greens, nor do they
present anywhere an absolute and az
resting design. So far as design in the
naked fact of it is concerned, the most
impressive work is Man Rays "Souve-
mir" pigmented with bits of hairpin and
human hair, though in the end it is, after
all, only an obvious bit of common geom-
etry.
Even radicals, having traded one dog
ma for another, may be expected to have
their own kind Of good form, and Will
lam Zorach's rich water colors probably
approximate that standard. Vaguely
based upon the landscape of the outside
world, they present a satisfying and
original organization of line and color,
without mass, it is true, but composed, it
would appear, out Of the imagination of
the painter rather than from his inven-
ton. However, good form does not stop
there. Mr. Lawson pipes sweet and
tenor note in this medley of brass, a
singer wandering into almost strange
lands. Preston Dickinson, in y common
enough village scene, shows his vistu-
osity in contingent and intsgsectins val
ues--a method toward the production Of
bulk without line. And Samuel Halpert
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

mentioning other cases of military agrees
sion. Groeber demanded that as the war
was now approaching its end, it was neces-
sary to have STRONG government, one
that will not permit the reins to be taken
out of its hands," He admitted that con-
fidence in the honesty of German policy
had been shaken through the measures
adopted by other authorities outside of the
government. He demanded the immediate
withdrawal of Won STEMS order, adding
that the Reichstag could net permit its own
decisions to be disregarded. He also called
upon Hertling to crush out the harmful
intrigues Of the military authorities against
his power, like prohibiting. public meetings
to discuss the Prussian suffrage reform.