davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-02-08
Las nadones puenas tendan gua representation que and
I sEL PELIGROSO VARGAS VILA...(sic)

cducacion que Sc da Ell las escue
las de nuestro pals ell las que III
puede ejercer ninguna infiuenci;
tai cual escritor porque escasa
mente Sc lee, v 81 Sc hace, es Ell
lnuy mezquina proportion, no te
niendo la, ,culpa de clio nuestra jul
ventud, y 81 ell sistema de educa
ci0n al que puede tacharse de RU
TINARlO Y FALSO y que ma
tara 81 no Sc tOman las precaucio
nes debidas e inmediatas ell espf
ritu de nuestra patria y con e
nuestra persOnalidad. :.
Eel peligro consiste ell que, sin
la DEBIDA PREPARATION, sc
nutra ell cerebro de. nuestra jul
yentud con obras cOntrarias a
nuestro espfritu, que desordenada.
mente, sin un sistema previamente
1elineado Sc proceda al estudio
lie obras de filosofia contrarias a
AuestrO temperamentO; y por en-
Gina de todo, que Sc de la ms
trucci0n Ell un idioma extrailo con
nenoseabo de los conocimientos
lue debemos adquirir en- ell nues-
ro para potler asimilar con pro
echo esos estndios n que Sc SO;
los etlHean,los.
\ hamOs yenid0 4 Gaef en- fln
tema que puede discutirse larga-
mente. V no es este nuestro deseO
hi nuestra intenci0n, pero llevados
por LII fuerZa de los argumentOs
que expOne el Sr. Prim, moons
cientemente tOcamOs el peligrO
yerdaderO que eXiste para nuestra
juventud, que no es precisamente
leer a Vargas Villa, que mas qui
sieramos nOsotrOs que Sc leyera
mucho, mucho Y con provecho
para poder discutir, rechazar,
aceptar y formar juicio exactO de
los conceptos appendices 10 que
traeria necesariamente la cultura
paulatinamente, pero segura, fir
me. v serfa una base para asental
los ideales que sc perfilan va, Sc
gun ha exteriorizado esa misma
juventud que, guiada cOnvenien
temente, formara la patria del
mai1ana, sana pujante culta; y 81
queda estancada como esta, some
tida la falsa educaci0n que hoy
sc lie da no puede traer OtrOs re
sultados que la perdida de nuestr;
personalidad Y el ridiculo par;
.nuestrOs intelectuales, a los out
Sc ha tildadO va, recientemente
con adjetivOs que nos muestral
los frutos de ese NAL que nos he
mos permitidO apuntar, y lo'
cuales contest0 ell clarivident'
poeta Evaristo Ribera Cheyre
mont Ell las pulcras y vibrante
estrofas publicadas ell Ell I'M
,PARCIAL.
Termino pidiendo exsusas a To-
lectOres que me hayan seguid'
hasta aquf, 10 que me darfa un;
prueba de haber expresadO alg
que no he pensadO yo solamente
sinO que esta latente Ell el am
biente y que plumas autOrizada
debfan exponer para que surja e
remediO cuantO antes, Y veamO
afirmarse ahora, para siempre, e
verdadero concepto de nuestr
patria que no Sc formara precise
mente con el recurso a que ech
mano el Sr. Prim de proscribi
la circulation de los libros de est
o aquel autor sino mas bien DE
CRETAR La lectura obHgatoria !
fuera clio menester.
MAGRABC
Mayagiiez, febrero 4, 1919.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-02-08

Leyendo el artfculo que asi, con
ese titulo, public0 ell este peri0-
dico ell seiIor Oscar Prim, acerca
de la perniciosa influencia que, Sc
gun Gl, puedan cjercer las obras
lie aquel escritor Ell la mente de
la juventud estudiOsa de nuestro
,als, sc me han OcurridO estOs CO.
nentarios que, con perd6n de mis-
escasOs mGritos literarios, creo
podran rectificar las cOnclusiones
a que llega ell Sr. Prim para aca-
bar la una vez, Jay! avasalladOra
preponderancia que, entire esa
misma juventud, alcanzaran un
liza las Obras de Vargas Villa.
PerO antes de entrar en- materia,
luierO expresar al autor del ar
iculO que nos Ocupa que no vaya
creerme discipulo de la escuela
ilos0fica que defiende en- sus Ii
)ros ese escritor; no, por ningun
Oncept0 vaya supOnerme nj a1n
admirador del "estilov suyo, pues
I'll mis- correrias Hterarias ell ma
vor delete que he saboreado me
10 proporcionaron los "clasicos"
de mi idioma y en- filosofia, por
rara Iaralloia de aii iftido esFi-
sYf1js, I,s,fesp Ia siei 4Stfs TiudaAie
eptiInisino..
Ne extraila YER afirmado por
un culto escritor que el remedio
para atajar la Influenza de de-
terminada escuela de doctrinas en-
~ juieio maleficas, consiste ell
,uprimir la circulation de los Ii
bros del autor que las defienda 0,
mejor dicho, las eXponga en- ellos,
muchO mas 81 cOnyenimos en- que
ell autOr sea ''magO de la rina",
'sorfebre de la palabra, etc, pues
entonces verfamOs, reducida la
production literaria de multitud
de escritores que, aparte de esa
falta, la de eXponer sus convicciO-
nes contrarias las nuestras, tie
nen clarO talentO demOstradO, co
mo Ell ell case de Vargas Villa, al
que puede tacharsele de tOdO me-
nos de que sea un imbecil, pues ha
escrito paginas muy bellas, pasa-
jes Ell que Sc puede admirar el do
mimic del idioma undo a la facil
dicci0n saturada de una limpia y
hermosa inspiration poetica...
Como muy bien dice Ell Sr. Prim,
cada lector puede hacer su juicio
con respecto a la Obra que lee y
por mi parte, 10 tengo hecho de
las obras de Vargas Villa, pero
dejemos este aparte y concrete
monos estudiar otros puntos Gle
vista. Cada lectOr hace su ''jui-
clio" sobre la lectura que escOge
| Y claro esta que acepta la que
mas Sc adapta o la que asimila
su alma, por este no es l6gico que
sc supriman tales o cuales libros,
porque uno de los elementales
principles de filosoffa nos dice que
sabemOs la existencia de un con
cepto al comparable con otros
sabemos de la virtud por cOmpa-
rarla al vicio y del bien por co.
nocer el NAL.
Dice ell Sr. Prim que sin la sin
ceridad no puede haber arte y
que el Sr. Vargas Villa predica la
soledad y en- cambio fecha sus
trabajos en- Londres, Paris, Ma
drid, etc. iDonosO argumento
No pueden- acaso concebirse en-
cualquier parte estas Q aquellas
Manifestations del espfritu? |. Nc
es sabido que del contraste dc
lnuestros sentidos con el ambients
en- que yiyimos pucden nacer be
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-02-08
DON MANUEL RIOS OCANA

DON MANUEL RIOS OCANA
,Ha dejado de pertenecer a la
Redacci0n de Ell IAIPARCIAL,
el joven y distinguido escritor Ma
nuel Rios Ocana.
Ell compahero ha presentado su
renuncia.
Lamentamos vernos privados de
una collaboration tan inteligente
Y lie deseamos muchos exitos pro-
fesionales.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Personal Wotchfu
The Real Defence

Beyond all this, however, will have
to come constant watchfulness and
patriotism on the part of all Ameri-
cans.
Unless they realize that war is going
on the German will be able to work in
his opening wedges in many places.
Unless they are on the watch for
propaganda they will succumb to much
Of it.
Unless they are willing to make sac
ritices in temporary price advantages,
and understand that those sacrifices
will be to their own advantage in the
long run by keeping the American pro-
ducers in the field, and preventing the
Germans from recovering and exploit
ing a monopoly, few years will find
the Hun exacting heavy tool from us.
Finally, unless there is a careful
preparation made, if another war should
come, we would find the German. as in
this one, in control of many of orr
most essential war industries, and able
to cripple us beyond estimate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
German Papers
Gaze Best CIeaps

AS has happened so often, the Ger
mans themselves gave the best of as
sistance in seeking out these proper
ties. German organization demands
that the central authority shall know
all that is going on, and throughout
the war the American investments and
companies were continually reporting
to the home offices. Since November,
1916, when the government took over
the Sayville wireless plants, most of
the messages have passed through the
hands of the naval censors at Sayville
and copies Of all these messages have
been kept. There are 100000 Of them.
Mr.. Garvan had these messages as
sorted and searched, and he then be-
gan Investigations on the strength of
the information unearthed and the re-
lations shown between American COM
panies and Berlin. One big concern
was seized, for instance, following an
inquiry started because it had con-
suited a Berlin person about some
raises in salary, though on the surface
it was purely American. Mr.. Garvan
feels confident that there were few
German concerns here which did not
consult their German owners at some
time during the American control of
the wireless, and he has got hold of all
that did
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
No Legislation Ye:
10 Meet Ne,o Menace

Against this gathering menace Amer
ica can set no measures for defence
mat nave been taken, no preparedness
that is ready, except what has been
done by the Alien Property Custodian.
This is much. Many measures have
been suggested, some have been pre-
pared Opportunities for defence or
tor counter attack are on every hand.
but there has been laid before Con-
gress no comprehensive plan, nor has
one been offered, and the protection
now given by the great war boards is
vanishing as they fall to pieces. In
deed, they were never built, and thew
have not the powers, to give such pro-
lection.
One thing has been done, not indeed
Tor the protection of America, but for
the benefit of American trade, and that
is the great damage inflicted on the
German machine in South America
through the efforts of the intelligence
division Of the War Trade Board. It's
weapon has been the use of the enemv
trading list for the control of exports
and shipping which the export and
bunker license power gives, and with
this 1T has forced into liquidation many
German interests in South America.
and has driven others to expensive and
Gripping subterfuges.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Must Dislodge Hun
Within, Our Gates

81 have already referred to the i'm
portance and necessity of dislodging
the hostile Hun within our gates,
whose methods are such as to unsettle
the future peace of the world" he says
again. And he reports that the fight
has started.
with the cessation of hostilities
something of new fighting spirit has
developed" he reports, "and lawyers
who, while the war was on, would have
been unwilling to play any part in re-
sisting the just demands Of the govern
ment in taking enemy property have
not hesitated to throw all sorts of OBJ
stacles in the path of the Alien Prop
erty Custodian"
His evidence does not stand alone.
The spread of new propaganda, the
appearance of German agents all over
the country. the appointment of high
officials in Germany because Of their
familiarity with America, the diplo-
matte attitude and commercial prepare
tons Of the whole German fabric, all
prove the same thing. The main out
line Of the German campaign, IN
AMERICA, is already coming into plain
view. With a startling accuracy it
follows the lines laid down by Herzog,
the commercial Treitschke
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Huns Still Hare
Fast Resources

10 back up her campaign Germany
stlll has vast resources outside her own
territory. Her policy of secrecy and
the elaborate camoufage under which
she has worked make it impossible tn
DO more than guess at the figures.
Those given are such a guess. con-
Cured in by several men who have
been in close touch with the matter.
and are as of the beginning of the war.
Since that time there has been 2
heavy seizure in Allied countries. much
injury done in neutral countries nv the
blockade, the trading with the enemv
lists, and similar measures. and. on
the other hand, a considerably IN
creased German investment in neutral
countries and in Russia. Whatever t.
now amounts to, this sum is out of
reach OF the measures taken by the
peace conference to put German home
wealth under control, and will be avail
able for financing her new war.
These are the figures: The United
States, two billion dollars; South Amer
lea, two billions; Great Britain. one
ollllon; Europe, two and one-half bill
ions, and Africa and Asia. a billion
and one-half, making a total of nine
billions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
$7o0,OO0,OoO and may run as high as
ST 900 600 OOn

$70O,000,00O and may run as high as
$1,000, 100000
Mr.. Garvan believes that the Gus
todian's office is now within measur-
able distance of completing the task of
finding and selling enemy property
the job of administering and disposing
Of it will last for many months. Some
parts of the country have been swept
clear already of practically all that
can be seized under the law, and q
minute search of other sections is
going forward rapidly. New York,
which was, of course, the chief centre
of enemy investment, is practically
clean, and within another month or six
weeks the bulk of this work will be
over.
Indications of new enemy properties
are still coming in, but most of these
now involve only small amounts, of
little Importance from the point of
view of commercial strategy Under
the law, too, those which have not been
reported, and may still be discovered,
will be subject to seizure for failure
to report, even after the signing of
peace.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Kaiser Tried TO
S0Ue Lnuaders Here

So vital were these American invest
ments to him the Kaiser] that wher
the seizures began he sent an unprece
denied note of protest to the State De.
partment. In this he said:
"The condition put upon the dis
possession, which is left to the dis
erection of the President, that it
shall be necessary for the national
security and defence, cannot be &C.
cepted as valid ground for such
rule, since the above stated ground
can always justify a seizure for
use during war, but not lasting
acquisition of the property.
The German government must see
therein an attempt to shack)e
through measures of force, the op
portunities of German interests in
the future consciously a;ned
to do lasting injury to German eco
nomic existence"
The recovery Of these interests will
be sought in every way--throueh law
suits, through attempts to repurchase
both openly and secretly, and through
the use of such German agents as still
remain inside the seized organizations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Bad Faith and
Bribery to BE Used

slXTH:-BAD FAITH Germany
taught us what "scrap Of paper" is.
In commerce. as well, her merchants
are notorious for their failure to keen
their agreements. American business
men already know what Germans
word is as good as his bond--it re,
quires full security to make either
worth anything. Germany will count
her Willingness to break faith As an
asst in her new war, as she did in the
old.
"Commerciol treoties win como aoniy.."
s1ys Herzo0, "hke other International
n0yeoments, ind pvobabty aoiu be broken
n0ntn. They must be couched In such
teyws thnt they bvimg odvanta0es 10
the e2poyt tvade as lang as then arc
kept G,sd do not threaten 1ts suistencs
whcm, (oy u little v0victy. they are ar
bftvariLy nbroOated."
sEvENTH:~~BKIBERY. Any Ameri-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Germany Has Big
Army in america

sECOND:-ESPIONAGE. The coun-
Try is full to-day of German agents; it
has never been cleared Of them. Cap
tain George 3. Lester, Of the Military
Intelligence Division, testified before
the Overnan committee that there was
q silent army of more than 100000 per-
sons registered at the German and
Austrian consulates, ready to give
their services, usually without pay, to
the enemies Of America. That army
has never been dlsbanded. Some of It's
members were driven away-they are
beginning TO Yeappear. Some were in
terned-they will soon be released. A
few Of the worst we're imprisoned, but
even they will practically ali be freed
within two years.
Men who were on that list permeate
our business life. They are agents and
executives for our factories and trad
ere. They are confidential accountants
and sxperts. They have their fingers on
syery pulse. Legally, they cannot be
~uchsd, but there they are.
German industries" says Her
zo2, must therefore be constantly
informed, IL IL seIf-evident
mat for this purposs the Industrial
ears to making private connections
mich have deeper insight into
tns special conditions Of each case"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Secrecy to Marx
Huns aggression

RTH:-SECRECY. The German
goods will come under other trade
marks and names. The German agents
will appear as of other nationalities
Plans for this have been carefully
made and are already in full opera
ton. The most astute purchaser will
often be deceived, and it will more
than often be difficult to detect the
hand of the Hun behind apparently ad-
vantageous proposals and offers.
''1n the immediate future" says
Herzog, the presence of anything
German among formerly hostile ma
tons will evoke emotions which are
not advantageous for the advance
ment of commercial relationships. Of
this there can be no doubt. Germans
will certainly be more careful than
ever not to give offence. But in this
they will be successful only if they
take as a pattern the Swiss method
in linguistics. Men in manufacture
and industry must take care in flu
ture to use foreign languages in the
native way. We need not
fear that Germanism will suffer be-
cause of this.
"a foreign exterior is necessary
for purposes of protection.
German efficiency must link itself
with conformability not hitherto
exercised. Decentralization
of goods should not be avoided.
The intrinsic quality Of ex-
ported goods must be typically Ger
man; their external garb, for better
or for worse, will have to be anony-
mouS--neutral"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

can who has anything for sale which
the Germans want can get his price.
Bribery has always been Prussian
weapon. The chief clerk, the confden-
tial employee, the private secretary
who has information can always ind
market with the Hun agents..
ready before the war the German or
ganization succeeded in buying its
copper from America at a price that
averaged 5 to 10 per cent lower than
Americans themselves had to pay. The
German organizations are strengthened
for this now. By joining hands and
placing tremendous orders they will
seek to cut under the American market.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Other Hun Firms
DriUen Underground

Those concerns which have not been
taken over have been driven so far un-
derground that they have been put to
great expense and badly crippled, and
they will have to stay there or be
seized when they come out. In the
mean time, in the strategic industries
at least, American companies have had
time to get a fair start, and, with
proper protection through the next
critical years, should be able to meet
German competition with more than an
even chance of success.
Furthermore, some thousands of
patents owned by the enemy and bear
ing royalties have been seized and sold
to Americans, or will be so sold. These
form double protection-they enable
the American owner to manufacture
here the article which had previously
been imported from Germany, or made
under German supervision in this
country, and they also form a protec-
ton against German imports of that
article, which would infringe that pat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
TaCo Weapons IN,
american Hands

Aside from the limitations which
may be put on German commercial ag-
gression by the peace conference, or
which already have been placed on it
by the Allied terms and by the cir
cumstances growing out of the war,
only two possibilities so far have been
suggested in the way of purely Ameri-
can defence. The first is the revision
of the tariff with distinct view to
meeting the German menace. The sec
ond is the transfer to peace uses of
the commercial weapon which has
grown out of the wharf.-the import
license.
Great Britain already is using this
last named weapon as a protection for
her industries not only against German
competition but against all the world.
Under this system she absolutely con-
trolls all imports, whether of manufact-
ures or raw materials, and assures
that there will not enough Of either
come IN to prevent the full production
OF her own factories, mines or farms,
or to andercut the prices necessary
tor their prosperity. Incidentally she
prevents the importation of Injuries
which might drain off money needed
for other purposes, but that is more
or less a side issue.
1t has been suggested that such q
system be introduced to protect Amer
lea, and on its behalf is urged that it
does not give the home manufacturers
or other producers the same oppor-
tunity to raise prices that tariff
wall does. One such measure, designed
to give the American potash produc-
ton time to develop, already has been
introduced in Congress, and another
to do the same for the dye and chemi-
cal industry is being prepared and
will be submitted by the Chemical
Foundation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Germans Ai,Uoys
Working Together

F1FTH:-MUTUAL AID. The Ger.
man invaders, often if not always
camouflaged, will always be found
working together against the Ameri.
can business man and buyer, their
manoeuvres controlled from Berlin
their joint efforts being centred on
man or business, which is often
unaware Of attack, and still less often
aware that he is between two hostile
forces, which are cooperating against
him.
Organizations to assure this have
already reached tremendous proper
tions in Germany, and the consolida-
ton is still going on, with every :ndi-
cation that it will not cease till every
German exporter has been brought in
side single. great cartel, which will
control all their outside activities.
What we need says Hcrzog, ais
safeguarding Of industry, as
whole, against the special interests
of individual industries, which could
only be satisfied, to the detriment
OF industry in general, and there
with the whole export trade.
War conditions have caused or
carnations for the purchase, sale
and distribution of material to spring
up IN our economic life, the posi-
bility OF whose formation every one
would have doubted before the war
economic organizations with formerly
unthinkable authority, and oper-
ating, perhaps for this very reason,
with shining success. Smooth off
their rough edges and you can easily
imagine similar bodies in time Of
peace"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
CermanyIs Turning
10 Latin Countries
South america To Be Fa.
Uored Zone of Teutons
in Efforts to Rescue
Shattered Markets

A Washington dispatch to "The
San Antonio Express" says:
Despite the reverses of the war, Ger
many is making strenuous efforts "a
provide Jumping off" places from
which she can make still other efforts
TO regain her lost trade, according to
information which has reached the
State Department from various sources
She looks to South America as her
great future stamping ground" be-
cause of the presence there of neutral
at the present time, and this accounts
is another place that Germans have set
IN the category of "likely zones OF
occupation" and the United States IA
listed among countries which do not
regard Germans in the same light that
they are viewed by the British and
French.
Hundreds Of Germans, it is known.
are anxious to come to the United
States as soon as the peace treaty is
signed. The government, however, viii
not permit an influx of population
from the enemys country and they
therefore will be compelled to turn
to other lands. The attitude of this
government Is known to many of them
at the present time and this accounts
for the rush on the Mexican and Ar
gentine legations, especially in Berlin,
by Germans who seek by migration TO
escape the war penalties the Allied gov
ernments will impose on their coun-
try. Most of the prospective emi-
grants, though, carry with them au-
thorizations from German business
houses and corporations to open
branches in the countries TO which
they are bound