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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
The Mauve Terror
ent time

There have been all kinds of terrors
in Russia. There was a Black Terror
in the old days of the Gar; and Red
Terror when the Red Guards succeeded
to power; and White Terror when the
anti Bolshevists invaded Finland. 1t is
a new and prettier horror that America
contributes--in the columns of "The New
Republic" 1t is the Red Guard menace
in terms; all the terrors Of Petrograd
waved before US and pictured as our
possible fate; but waved and pictured
so moderately and calmly and wisely
that its color cannot possibly hold. 1t
fades gently, imperceptibly, into really
beautiful tone. One draws up a chair
and listens entranced while this voice
of culture discusses cutters running
blood as if they were a new kind of di-
rect primary.
One can never tell when the threat
will pop out. 1t comes at the end
or in the middle of almost any article
An editorial paragraph is explaining
how necessary is food for Europe "What
would it profit the overburdened British
and French and Italian taxpayers to
secure financial reparauon from the
Central Powers if the revolution pros
pered and abolished taxpayers along
with the property and privileges out of
which they pay taxes?" exclaims the
writer. The revolution is pictured as
rolling westward so rapidly that the
peace conference may have "to trans
form itself into an international COM
mttee Of public safety" The reader
shudders with despair--to be relieved a
moment later by the news that "there is
doubtless some cxaggeration in this view
Of the state Of Europe" But---famine
must be avoided.
This is clear reasoning. at any rate
The bogy is flashed in our faces for a
specific purpose, to make US hurry food
to Europe. Inferentially the policy adj
vocatcd is to halt the revolution some
where east Of the Vistula--or at any
rate east Of the Seine and Sandy Hook
We pale, but we understand.
How square this, however, with an
other wave Of the bogy-man ii few pages
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

later? A leading article says, "Let Us
Have Patience" And why? SO that
the apparent power Of those imperial
istic Prime Ministers, Lloyd George,
Clemenceau and Orlando-"a apparently
they are nearer to possessing a truly
imperial authority than any group OF
political chiefs since the days of the
Caesar" -can be gradually undermined
and reduced to it's real nothngness by
Mr.. Wilson's appeal to the masses of
Western Europe. Which may be trhe
ambiguous in itself but is speedily
cleared up in these final sentences:
But the process takes time and the
menace of a Red Terror constitutes no
sufficient reason for bringing it suddenly
and prematurely to close. For if the
Red Terror did not hover in the back
ground as a genuine alternative there
would be small chance of liberal and
democratic settlement of the war
There is the dilemma which "The New
Republic" holds out to the Caesars of
Paris "The Red Terror or the Four
teen Points! Choose which you will
have'
1t is dramatic scene Unfortunately,
it does not fit in exactly with the logic
of the famine plea. For why smother
the Bolshevist with food if you need him
alWe and kicking to hover over Paris
and persuade justice and right out of
Messrs. Lloyd George, Clemenceau and
Orlando? What may also weaken the
plea and save this trio of tyrants from
surrendering instantly to it's threat is the
point we began with You cannot toy
with Red Terror, put it down and
take it up whenever convenient and
have it stay really red. And while we
have no doubt that the Caesars of Paris
are, like all Caesars, easily fright
ened, it is little too much to expect
them to be bowled over by Mauve Ter
ror threatening rivers of gore in Har-
ward accent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
The Life of a Jelly6sh

In recent lecture to children at the
Royal Institution, London, Professor
Darcy w. Thompson told Of jellyfish
known as Granny that was rescued by
Sir John Graham Dalyell and kept alive
in sea water. Granny, according to
Professor Thompson, was carefully tend
ed by Sir John and fed regularly on one
half mussel fortnight. She throve ex-
ceedingly under this kind attention. Six
hundred of her offspring were known.
On the death of Sir John she passed to
the care of an Arctic explorer and was
bequeathed by him to another scientific
man. Granny outlived four protectors
and died at last, on October II, 1897 at
the authentic age Of siXty-seven years,
because of the neglect or ill-treatment of
a botanist
Professor Thompson did not say so,
but he left it to be assumed that had the
ncglectful botanist been as careful and
attentive as was Sir John Dalyell
Granny might yet be alive, in which
case she would be no less than ninety
eight years old, and assuming that she
was at least two when Sir John found
her, which seems probable she would be
we'll past the century mark.
She might have lived to be the very
jellyfish from whom William Randolph
Hearst saved the toad last winter on the
Palm Beach sands, as reported by Mayor
Hylan. rAnd that would have made her
immortal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

royal houses Of Europe 1t seems that
an edition of the Almonach was lust
ready to go to press when there was
suddenly 4 great mortality among the
royal heads of Europe, and the editors
of the Almonoch dc Gotho faced the
necessity of making over" just at
press time-and only an editor knows
what a narrowing experience that is. To
make matters worse, d lot of names had
to be eliminated, and, no new ones com
ing in to take their places, a great hole
was left in the forms. From the royal
houses of Germany alone, such houses as
the Hohenzollerns, the Wittelsbachs Of
Bavaria, the Zachringers of Baden, the
Coburgs and the Schaumberg-Lippes,
us rclgnlng princes are missing; and
when one considers the casualties among
royalty in Austria-Hungary, Greece,
Bulgaria and Turkey the troubles of the
editors of the Alnonach may be i'm
agined
The German Democracy Bulletin sees
oniy cause for amusement in this situa-
ton, and says:
"of course, it does not compensate en-
tlroly for the sacrifices which hundreds
OF thousands of better men had to suffer
because these 278 highnesscs of divine
right were permitted to become ordinary
mortals, but it is nevertheless one fruit
OF our victory"
The next issue of the Atmonach de
Gotha bids fair to be a much attenuated
volume
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Mr.. .Logan's Luncheons

To the Editor of The Tribune. ~
Sir: Joseph Patrick Tumulty is private
secretary to the President of the United
Stats.
Thomas Francis Logan is the Washington
representative of Swift & Co.
Logan admtA under oath that he has
luncheons with Tumulty frequently.
But Logan insists that he never intro
duced Tumulty to any of his clients.
Why shouldn't he!
Why should he's.
8 ALVIN NJ. HIGGINS.
croton-On- Hudson. N. y..,Jan. "a, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Dilemma OF Royal Editors

me editors Of the Gcrunm Densocracy
:. organ Of the new regime in
oefnany, indulge in unrestrained mirth
- the expense Of the editors Of the Al
"samoch de Cotha, which il the German
"ho's Who" Of royalty. In it has been
..saaoed, since it was first published in
40, not only a full and particular ac-
uht OF every member Of the many
'0ya' houses Of Glossy, but Of all the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

while in France it cannot be bought for
money 1t is not there, so no amount of
cash can buy it.
These unspeakabes have their propa-
ganda system working now more than ever
before. Yesterday heard two American
soldiers talking about how rough the French
were with the people of the occupied terri
tory-how they actually took their chick
ems ard ate them without paying. They
thought it was terrible. This is just an in
stance of the result of Boche propaganda.
The soldiers did not know where they
had gotten their information. Then |
butted in, and after few remarkg of what
the Hun had done l told them that onIy
wished we we're permitted to do that. and
they agreed with me. The hell of it is no.
body can remember further back than his
last meal
"a sample of the stuff that is legal tender
for news in the town iss the story heard
to-day That the French and Americans
had had a battle at Bitburg and that thirty
French and Americans had been killed Of
course, it was not | had just been in
Bitburg the day before myself and there
wasn't Frenchman in the town Here's
another story current to-day Japan has
declared on the United States.
couldn't deny that one of my own knowledge.
Anyhow, these samples of some of their.
clumsy work. These Germans think thew
will be able to start scrap among the
Allies. They honestly think There are
lot of people at home who will pooh pooh
such a statement, but they are the same
fools who in IA said there never would be
another war, and who would not believe
atrocity stories and who now think thew
have seen the last war"
Another officer whose letters | have re-
ceived, writing from Spincourt, says under
date of December /:
''The Boche have not yet started to de-
mobilize. 1t makes me uncomfortable.
Their strength a power has gone, but
I fear treachery even yet We are on
the move with every gun loaded and the
ammunition train filled to the brm."
The same officer writing from Oberkail
Germany, under date of December ~. saws:
"The thing of all things that has i'm
pressed me is the condition here We have
just left France. We have been in the
peaceful parts of France and in the war
zone, but here in Germany in every house
hold there is more food than anywhere we
have been in France. Here thew have
chickens, eggs, milk, cows, horses, butter
and cheese and everything desirable, EXCEPT
the ration articles, which are bread. -four
and sugar. They have a kind of sugar.
and they have any quantity of fairly good
beer and Rhine wine. Every household here
has cellar full of preserves and all sorts
of Injuries such France has not even
seen for four years. The Germans are liv-
ing better than you, and have been through
out the war. Pork is chcaply served at all
restaurants, as are also beef and milk The
children unlike those of France. arc fat
and healthy looking. They all seem to be
we'll clothed and we'll shod There IL
fair quantity of wood and an abundance of
briquetted coal, which is good enough for
use even in peace times. The people arc
,sullcn and reserved. but, eiTeve me. thew
come through with supplies when | send
them requisition. Sometimes | almost feel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
myself slipping into that chicken-hearted
state of mind, then remember and go to IT.


my men have done. we'll They are
fine workers and in this 200 mile hike over
muddy roads have come into camp pulling
ON the draw ropes of the guns to help the
tired horses up the last hill. We are here
probably for the winter. 1t is not to be
looked forward to with pleasure. We start
a training schedule soon to keep our minds
off more pleasant places in the world, but
this Is hard for the men are beginning al
ready to go to the hospitals with nostalgia,
because the American soldier does not un-
derstand garrison duty. The days are long
for him. The streets are muddy. There is
no intercourse with civilians, and we are
all tired of each other. 1t is to be ex-
pected, but I shall do everything in my
power to keep the men up until something
happens-either Berlin or Hoboken.r
GUY M. WALKER
New York, Jan. %, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
a Week of Verse
The Wind in the Hemlock
(Fronl Harper's Maoa~ine)

(Fron. Harper'S Mdeastne)
NTEELf stars and moon of brass,
~ How mockingly you watch me pass,
You know as we'll as how soon
/ shall be blind to sun and moon,
Deaf to the wind in the hemlock-tree.
Dumb when the brown earth weighs on me.
With envious dull rage | bear
Stars. your cold, complacent stare;
Heartbroken in my hate look up,
Moon at your bright immortal cup,
Changing to gold from dusky red
Age after age when | am dead
To be filled up with light, and then
Emptied, to be retilled again
What has man done that only he
Is slave TO death-so brutally
Beaten back into the earth, g.
Impatient for him since his birth?
Oh, let me- shut my eyes, close out
The sight of stars and earth and be
Sheltered moment by this tree.
Hemlock, through your perfumed boughs
There .noves no anger. no grim doubt
No envy of immortal things.
The night-wind murmurs of the sea
With yelled music ceasclessly
That to my shaken spirit sings
From their frail nest the robins rouse,
In your pungent darkness stirred,
Twittering low drowsy word
And me you shelter, even me-
In your quetncss you house
The wind, the woman, and the bird.
You speak to me and | have heard:
If AM peaceful shall acc
Beauty's face continually,
Feeding on her wine and bread
shall De toholiy comforted,
For she can make one day for me
Rich as my lost eternity
SARA TEASDALE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
491,ooo,ooo
32,84O,OOO
Total
$8Oo,84O,OO0

There will be perhaps $15O,OOO,OOO
available from the company's rentals
which can be devoted to capital expen-
dltures, leaving balance of about $685.
100000. SO to be on the safe side the
new Director General asks for a round
three-Quarters of billion At which
there quite likely will be a considerable
cutlery, for this is not war measure,
but peace-time expenditure in a try-out
OF governmental operation of railroads.
Nevertheless the plain facts are that a
much larger sum than this is actually
needed to put the railroads in shape, to
make up for at least $500 900, 900 of de-
ferred maintenance from last year and
to provide for that normal increase in
capacity which has not been made in the
last four years. There never was time
when this country had so much money
in its hands, never such large opportu-
mites for foreign trade, never such ia
vorable chances for selling it's surplus of
foodstuffs and raw materials at scarcity
prices In the judgment of many able
and farseeing business men and finan-
ciers in another six months our indus
tries>will be driving ahead at capacity
rate and business will be at high mark.
If anything like this should take place,
the country will be crippled for lack of
adequate railway facilities and part of
its normal expansion will be curbed
Meanwhile nothing could be of
greater avail in the present period of I'M
certainty and hesitations than definite
programme of adequate railway buying
and Improvement announced at the pres
ent time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

HOW shall we praise the magnificence
Il 4 of the dead,
The great man humbled, the naughty
brought TO dust?
Is there a horn we should not blow as
proudly
For the meanest Of US all, who ereeps his
days,
Guarding his heart from blows to die OBJ
scurely?
am no king. have laid no Kingdoms waste
Taken no princes captive, led no triumphs
OF weeping women through long walls of
trumpets;
Say rather | am no one, or an atom:
Say rather two great gods in vault Of
starlight
Play ponderingly at chess, and at the
games end
One of the pieces, shaken, falls to the floor
And runs to the darkest corner; and that
piece,
Forgotten there, left motionless, is
Say that I have no name, no gifts, no
power
Am only one of millions; mostly silent;
One who came with eyes and hands and a
Looked on beauty and loved it, and then
left it,
Say that the fates of time and space OBJ
secured me,
Led me thousand ways to pain, bemused
me,
Wrapped me in ugliness; and like great
spiders
Dispatched me at their leisure.
Well what then?
Should not hear, as lie down in dust,
The horns of glory blowing above my
burial?
Morning and evening opened and closed
above me,
Houses were built above ME, trees let fall
Following leaves upon nae, hands of ghost
Rain has showered its arrows of silver
Seeking my heart; winds have roared and
IS ~ tossed me;
Music in long blue waves of sound has
helpless weed to shores of unthought
silence;
Time, above me, within me, crashed its
gongs
Of terrible warning, sitting the dust of
death;
And here I lie. Blow now your horns of
glory
Harshly over my flesh, you trees, you wa
ters.
You, stars and suns, Campus, Deneb. RigeI.
Let me lie down, here in this dust.
Hear, fer off, your whispered salutation,
Roar now above my decaying flesh. you
winds;
Whri out your earth-scents over this BODY:
tell me
OF ferns, and stagnant pools, wild roses.
hillsides!
Anoint me. rain; let crash your silver ar
On this hard Aesh 1 am the one who
named you.
l lived in you and now die in YOU,
l, your son, your daughter, treader of
~ music,
Lie broken, conquered. Let me not
fallSin silence.
CONRAD AIKEN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
A Sheltered Life

From Contemporary Verse;
A CRYSTAL rim of ice
4 n Where dry reeds in music SILVER.
Gray gulls and white
On the blue, blue river
And across there in the city,
Where the smoke flags are Aging.
Each hour sees a baby's birth 49,.
And mans dying. ~*
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celestial
SARA TEASDALE

From, The Little Rev ie,r. The title IS the
srdnser tptton OF Greek uord meaning ut is
ended Three stanzds omitted
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You purchase merchandise adYertised> IN The
TRIBUNE with absolute safety-for II dissatisfaction re-
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money bach request No red tape. Mo qubbns
We make good promptly il the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

In asking for an appropriation of
$750000,O 900 to meet the necessities of
the railways in the coming wear. Mr..
Hinesssubmits the following items:
Equipment ordered fer 1913 1926 o00,0oO
Other capital expenditures
for additions and better
ments Observation-Disclosures. 4e1,ooo,ooo
Loans, etc. observation-disclosures. 32,84O, 600
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while in France it cannot be bought for
money 1t is not there, amount of
cash can buy it.
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New York, Jan. %, 1919.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-12-10

About Our Town .nd It's People

Alvah c., Snyder, of Evart and
Bertha L. Mcdonald, of Bedding were
married at the Methodist Parsonage
on the evening of December 8. They
were attended by Mr.. and Mrs. A. p.
Minzey, of Lansing. Mrs. Minzey is
a sister of the bride.
$50 buys a good organ if taken at
once. Miller & Harris Furniture Co.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Edward c.
Johnson, of South Bridge street, this
Wednesday morning, seven and one
half pound daughter, who has been
named Marion Ella. DR.. Dutt reports
mother ano Fighter as-doing nicely,
while both "a and Grandpa Johnson
are telling very "chesty" over the
event
Jensen & Wheeler's will have a
sample line of furs on sale, Saturday,
December 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Meyers, of
Ionia, returned home Tuesday after
spending a few days at the home of
Mr.. Meyers sister, Mrs. James Car
rol.
Solve your gift problems with pho
tographs this year. Now is the time
to have them made. Telephone 376
for an appointment. Dennis Studio
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-12-10

Mr.. and Mrs. George zimmerman,
with their aunt, Mrs. Maggie Saver
cen.
Miss Anna Dezenski left Thursday
morning for Alpena, where she will
spend her vacation with her parents
and other relatives.
The Misses Cora and Elsie Belitz
spent Monday night at the home q
Mrs. Goodman, in Greenville.
~Visic the Kenilworth Gift shop.
Beautiful gifts for the Christmas sea-
son. Ballard Lloyd Co.
The Misses Helen Olsen and Ella
Paulsen, of Greenville, were over SUM-
day guests of Miss Ida Paulsen.
The children will tell you that Bal
lard-Lloyd Co. is the place to buy
your toys, dolls, sleds, etc, etc.
The Spiritualist Aid will meet with
Mrs. A. G. Shaw on Thursday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Whitford, who
have been in Ypsilanti, for the past
few months have returned and taken
up their residence in this city again.
Just received barrel Of Horehound
cough drops sc per package. II. J..
Connell, The Dexall Druggist.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Shattuck left
here Saturday for Detroit.
Try a bottle Of Rexall Rheumatic
Tablets. We guarantee them to give
satisfaction or money back. SIC .
bottle with the tax II. J. Connell,
the Rexall Druggist
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The Misses Beryl Mason and Alice
Rowley spent the week end in Ionia
and Grand Rapids.
VIM. Strnad. Of Chicago, arrived in
the city Monday morning, called here
to attend the funeral Of Mrs. J. p.
Laux. Mr.. Strnad is frequent Wis
itor here and always enjoys getting
away from the city for time. While
her he is also attending the funerals
of JOS. Albert, John Fisher and Leo
pold Krupp, with all of whom he was
acquainted. t
Just received a car load OF
Clover hay. Get our prices. Cleaner
Clearing House Association. phone
100.
Carleton Washburn, Of Chicago, ar
short visit with his parents, Mr..
rived in the city Monday morning for
and Mrs. +. A. Washburn.