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New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
Perspectives

seemed to foresee that speedy answer to
in a clean, sure thrust at the world he
could not believe in. Doubtless the COM
plete sense of his performance will al
ways remain caught in his own Ian
guage: it is a French untranslatable, full
of flying daughters, tiny echoes of chuck
ling, thin edges of ironic ideas that have
no equivalent in other tongues. He does
no fail to draw material from all cult
ures. Hamlet quotes Hobbies in explana-
ton of Ophelia's passion for him: Moth
ing is more agreeable in our ownership
Of goods than the thought that they are
superior to the goods of others" And
when he dies he cries with Nero, "Ah!
quals artlfeX pereO,"
There are many diversions of ideas.
Hamlet carries with him package of
Bulls Eye" the equivalent of later
Bull Durham. Polonius was a bon
vtvant who died Of apoplexy. On the
headstQne of his grave Hamlet finds en-
graved "Words. Words. Words !"
Yorick, Hamlet learns from a grave dig
ger, is the son of a gypsy and his half
brother "Stability," exclaims Hamlet in
the play meant to destroy his false
mother and her king, "thy name is wom-
an" The play is too much for royalty;
it is so bad that they become easy prey
to death.
Arthur Symons has translated the
graveyard soliloquy:
perhaps I have still twenty or thirty
years to live, and shall pass that way
like the others Like the others? O
Totality, the misery of being there no
longer! An, would like to set out to-
morrow and search all through the world
for the most adamantine processes of
embalming. They, too, were, the little
people of History, learning to read, trim
ming their nails lighting the dirty lamp
every evening, in love, gluttonous, vain,
fond of compliments, handshakes and
kisses, living on bell-tower gossip, saying,
What sort of weather shall we have to-
morrow? Winter has really come. I.
W. have lIdU IO plulIS LulS year. All.
everything is good, if it would not come
to an end. And thou, Silence, pardon the
Earth; the little madcap hardly knows
what she is doing; on the day of the
great summing up of consciousness be-
fore the Ideal, she will be labelled with
a pitiful iden, in the column Of the pinia-
ture evoutions of the Unique Evolution,
in the column Of negligible quantities.
To die. Evidently, one dies with
out knowing it, as. every night, one en-
ters upon sleep. One has no conscious
ness of the passing of the last lucid
thought into sleep, into swooning, into
death Evidently. But to be no more,
to be here no more, to be ours no more!
Not even to be able, any more, to press
against ones human heart, some idle
afternoon, the ancient sadness contained
in one little chord on the piano!"
There is in this what Mr. Symons calls
his daughter of Pierrot, more than half
a sob, and shaken out of him with de-
plorable gesture of the thin arms, thrown
wide" Laforgue, too, was a Hamlet,
when he lived even as when he died.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
Daybreak'' 1.-The Story Of an Orderly

tortured sleeper stirs under the white
coverlets.
There are poppes woven into the pat
tern of those coverlets-great, full blown
poppies that hang their heads and are
drowsy, as though with sleep. l only wish
that l could feel as tired as they, but
wide awake. Perhaps my eyes have
forgotten how to sleep.
The bombardier IN thirty-six looks gray
and old in the half light of the dawn. Yet
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16


him with the answer before he has
himself finished hunting for it. Ac-
tors have the fine fortune to parade in
their Hamletique PROSECUTIONS as if 1T
were disguise taken on for the moment
Thus they escape the implication that
underneath they, too, are contemplating
the abysmal mystery of existence or have
any doubts of its necessity. The rest Of
US, gravediggers, lawyers, storekeepers,
presidents and professors-of all kinds
spend our days in more or less open
confession of it. Cone Hamlet the less"
says Jules Laforgue when his cosmic
Harlequin in the "Moralite Legendaries"
goes down before the poignard of
Laertes, and he adds with little laugh,
'but the race of them still lives"
This was Hamlet that Shakespeare
saw only for minute, the Prince who
laughed at the stupidities of Polonius and
in rare intervals could be contemptuous
of the world. In a time when the Ham
let in each of US faces about again tow
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

he is not old-eighteen, perhaps. His lips
are blue and twisted and he has bitten his
tongue, for there is blood in the corners
of his mouth I wonder vaguely when I
will bring the screens for him.
There have been screens about Lockes
bed for two days now. l move them aside
and speak to him. One eye opens and
looks at me- The white gauze bandages
cover the rest of the head. Anyway, the
other eye is gone.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

''What time is it?"
look at my watch.
almost half-past five, old man."
when will it be morning, corporal?"
tell him.
"Will you lift me up? p the voice
trails away.
gather the broken body in my arms
Slowly, slowly. l put two pillows behind
him and turn the head slightly, so that
the eye may see.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

For am an up to- date knight
And my armory unrivaled.
aimed above me,
At the sky between two sails
Pngl went the bullet
And round blue eye peeked at me through the
wheeling sail.
fired again
Two eyes winked at me- jeering
Then ran at the wind dnill with my fsts
But it struck me down and left me-
All night lay there,
And the great sails turned about and about
And brushed me with their shadows
For there was a moon
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
The Laughter of
Another Hamlet

HAMLET is in each of US;
every man asks many times
whether he will be or not be,
and let's his mortality sunnlv
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

well continued Gramp remniscently,
as lie tapped his pipe on the piazza rail,
81 remember l had collar once, cut down
from fathers. That was great day fer
me, and twice in my boyhood 7 had nat
that hadn't been worn by Uncle Charles or
Uncle George or your grandfather And
once | had a pair of boots. ! remember
those boots ss we'll as if it were only yes
terday. And as for neckties, why, until
was thirty-fve I never knew what a real
necktie was. And so you see, Dickie," con-
tinued Gramp, when I see a young man
Of your promise throwing away so much
money on clothes I feel ike checking him
before it is too late and he becomes a dude.
For you know, Dckie, once a dude always a
dude"
Auntie, who had been sitting staring at
the old gentleman as if he were a curious
kind of maniac, suddenly arose and entered
the house. In moment she returned
holding in her hand number of daguerreo-
type cases.
Here, Dickie,' she said, addressing that
grinning hopeful, "here are some pretty
accurate pictures of your grandfather at
that time. Perhaps he may recognize them"
and she opened and passed the first on to
the old gentleman and his grandson.
The picture was Of small boy in a
PLAID dress, ankle-ties, and with his hair
curled and a prodigious ringlet down ths
middle of his forehead. Under the picture
were the words, Little George on his 4th
birthday" The next picture was of boy
Of thirteen or fourteen, with waist Of
checked linen trousers buttoned to the
waist and reaching to the ankles, white
stockings slippers, q spencer or curious
sort Of short jacket, and Rollo hat Under
the picture were the words, George, aged
thirteen
The third was Of beauteous youth Of
nineteen, with a most lurid thunder and
lightning vest, high dickey loose and
abundant necktie, swallowtail coat. evi-
IDENTIFY bright blue, with brass buttons. a
pair of nankeen trousers, vanished boots.
slouch hat and severely black gloves. He
bore most stern and forbidding aspect.
and evidently considered himself the Beau
Brummel of the locality The picture was
labelled Mr.. George Shute, aged eighteen y
The next case when opened disclosed the
picture Of young man, with mustacae
and side-whiskers, raven black, long black
oroadcloth coat, voluminous gray trousers
falling in folds abok his manly legs, white
vest stock and black silk scarf. brightly
polished boots, cane and. wonder of won
ders high silk hat. This picture bore the in
scription, "Mr George S. Shute. ESQ.
aged 24.'
AS Cramps eyes focused each picturs r.
succession look Of amazement and CON.
fusion passed over his countenance, but M,
Tor long, for he was game.
Well Dickie." he said sorrowsully, aT am
prepared for most anything. but I nsv.,
expected your aunt would do this. Thss,
pictures are Of my Uncle George, whc dief
before was born"
1eorge Shute!" gasped Auntie. "weu.
never didl*
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
10 a Would BE
Umpire

- fsrseus babbted not Of peacc, m1tile
free
gsa0 mere stan the Govgom's taloqss.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

How do you do, Professor Tufts?' said
Gramp, suddenly bowing low
Dick started guiltily, hastily pocketed his
pipe, and glanced round in confusion to find
nobody
Gee, Gramp What do you want to scare
a fellow to death for?" he gasped, taking
out his pipe again. Il thought l was on
probation sure
"a guilty conscience needs no accuser,
Dickie. See Exodus, chapter 3, verse 16,
edition of 1908. Well, as I was saying,
from my earliest days had to work my way
along, and clothesl we'll if you could have
seen my outfit you would have laughed. and
would have pitied me. Poor boy, poor boy"
he continued sadly. Lessee, sister, how
long did l wear those oilcloth pants that
were made out of the kitchen carpet?
Was 1t five years or six? I never could
remember, only I know I wore them so long
that I had the pattern printed on me so
that it lasted until I was twenty-ons years
old
Then do you remember my Sunday suit
sister? A blue-drilling coat, no vest,
jumper made out of the greenish-yellow
lining of an old chase top, pair of pants
made out of the lining of an old side saddle
that had been hanging up in the shed since
1902, and an old pair of Uncle Georges
boots SO run over al the heels that became
temporarily bowlegged."
well, I never did, George" said Auntie
IN amazement
"You see Dickie, your aunt was very
dressy, and of course some ore of the family
had to go short, and it generally fell on
me. and I felt dressed up as long as
wasn't arrested by the police for being in
sufficiently clothed But your aunt. why,
her toilets were the talk of the county"
"My gracious! George Shutel" remon-
strated Auntie.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
Cramps Thunder-and-
Lightning Vest
Being Discourse of Gentleman of the
Old School on the Folles of Modern Dress
BY Judge Henry A. Shute
author Of The Real Diary of Real Bou."

Gee, Auntie," said Dick, 81 didn't think
that of you
you know I did no such thing, Dickie."
said Auntie, but anything would be justit-
able to get rid of some of his old clothes
| do hope, Dickie, you viii try and always
look neat and well dressed, as gentleman
should"
"Now, sister, said Gramp in tone of
remonstrance, don't try to make dude of
the boy. 1t is enough to know that he
wears ice cream pants, turned up almost
far enough to show his knee-caps, and
Mary Jane shirt with sleeves rolled up,
traverse-runner yellow shoes, and such
striped adder stockings,
as it right that an old mans declining
years should be made sorrowful by the
contemplation of such foolshness ?" de-
manded Gramp in tone of sorrowful ear
nestness, winking at Dick as he spoke, who
grinned, took a seat on the steps, after
carefully pulling up his trousers, and draw
ing pipe from mis- pocket filled and lighted
it.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

~ RAMP sat in his favorite rocking
chair on the broad piazza. He
was asleep. The rhythmic creak
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15
Sunday Takes Post-Mortem
Crack at John Barleycorn
vigorous Discourse Booze Convnces Hearers Meta
rous Traffic at Last Is Where 1t Beongs-In Hel-Lte
OF Theology, Much of Fact in Evangelist's Sermon

Sure. whiskey is all right in it's
place, said Billy sunday during his
afternoon sermon yesterday, but it's
place is in hell" BY special request
the evangelist preached his famous
Get on the Water Wagon" sermon
and even IL ii was post nortem crack
at John Barieycorn, ii served to con-
vince many Richmond people for
good and all that booze is in its right
place al last.
Statistics that helped make many
states dry. and which astounded his
congregation here. were given in such
abundance and presented in such a
convincing way that whoever heard
him will never regret the loss of their
nightcap or toddy in the dry, dry
days TO come.
He recalled some OF the names
which famous men have given liquor,
such as The Solution of he'll" dis
tffed fsanrnrtfonN and ether aescrip-
tive epithets. but all the denuncia-
tons in history could not be con-
densed into stronger argument
his audience yesterday afternoon.
SOLID FACTS.
Rilly's arguments were not senti-
mental they We're solid facts. His
address, hit the liquor traffic squarely
and fairly on he %t,e4S with no re-
course TO emotionaiism I'm my fight
nave asked no quarter and have
given none. he declared and
mere Is no wonder that whiskey gang
night back. You could build six
tanama canals on the money the
hoozc myers took out OF the work
ing men $ pockets last year alone!"
sundays financial arguments were
the most powerful in his sermon. He
pictured the bicycle path eighteen
inches wide which could be built 10
the moon from the silver dollars
poured into the liquor hole each
year, the good roads which could be
built out OF this money, tho cash that
would he In each persons individual
pocket III divided. and described the
utter waste Of al that money in
vested in destruction.
"A murderer only robs you Of your
life" "a thief steals your money, but
saloon takes away Your life, money.
wife, family, reputation and every
thing else that makes life worth liy-
ing. \ saloon is the murder mill OF
a poison factory, it is Gods worst
enemy and the DEVILS best friend: 1t
Is the Matching place OF every trea-
sonab'e plot ever bred in America
and the only difference between a
high class saloon and an ordinary
saloon Is that one at them smells
bad and the other stinks."
LITTLE OF THEOLOGY.
There wan little Of theology In
saHFS ~ .psing
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15

lent Ia the liquor interests while the
saloons lasted. and claimed that II
every church -goer in America had
opposed the liquor traffic II would
have gone out of commission long
ago, He used the piainest language
he has spoken in any sermon he has
preached in Richmond SO far. and IL
he did stoop to vulgaritv occasionally
II was To express very decided opin-
ion about something much more vul-
gar than the words he employed.
Germans and German interests
were blamed for a great deal OF the
liquor agitation in America Sunday
denounced the foreigners who con-
trolied American hreweries in strong
terms, calling them every denuncia-
tory name in his extensive vocabul-
airy.
The climax of his discourse came
when he called. six boys mp beside
him on the platform to demonstrate
the products of a distillcry. This h
the raw material for a distillcry," he
said. And it Is the only raw material
on earth that isn't improved by the
process Of manufacture. This raw
material In turned into thugs, thieves
murderers and sots. but the breweries
get what they are after--they don't
give whoop INN Germany--for
YOU or the hnys ali they are after
is the money, and they get It, Thank
God that we have got those devils
backed up against the ropes."
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15

Taking the stand that the modern dance little than
huggng match set to music Billy Sunday ayed the terp
schorean art last night in before been flayed
Ian Richmond during his "Amusements 1.-The
modern dance he said tends to crush all that good
land women and makes devils food of human society
Other pernlclous amusements also attacked numerically
Card playing analysed branded the main source
gambling.
The theater got off easy compared amusements
but even that picked and criticized strongly
Ian advocate Of all healthy anusements deliberately
chosen to make all of you you of some of the
lyon do not know about and don't it does make YOU
(mad!'' he said in introduction
The largest crowd of converts yet welcomed at single
ing forward after the lasting hours
80 and 400 people including large number young girls
marine and several wounded soldiers received by Biv
after the sermon
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15
SHARP RESIGNS AS
AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE

Washington. Feb. 1A--William G..
Sharp, American am hassador to
France, has resigned. and President
Wilson, in Paris. has accepted his res
fgnation. which becomes effective
upon the qualification OF his successor
The resignation Is dated December
lS,l9lS, and the acceptance Deem
Der Il. The correspondence was
made public at the white house to-
night
The letter OF resignation by Mr..
sharp discloses that he rendered his
resignation soon after the signing of
the armistice. requesting that he be
relieved early this year. At that time
y appears he was persuaded to con-
tinue IN his post. although his health
ana business AFFAIRS, he said, made Il
acsirapls that ~ rive NJ his, work IN
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15

Paris, Feb. 14-Woodrow Wilson scored the birrest
triumph of his today when before penary
sion of the conference draft of the league
nations covenant ~
the United States triumph of the moral forces Of
civilization epoch making victory the forces Of rood
over the forces Of evil Of the principle peace right
war and might and of universal of brotherhood
secret alliances and balances of power
In Mr. Wilson snatched victory out of the laws az
defeat for only hours ago there seemed to be an
unbdgabe cleavage between the peacemakers Overnight
almost by the sheer force of his personality and diplomatic
American president turned the darkest threatening
phase OF the worlds congress the brightest dawn n
the history of mankind -
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15
Put u. S. Products
In Worlds Market
Initial Step Is Taken to Place
America Among Leading
Maritime Nations Of Globe.

Washington. Feb. l4-The ship
ping board today announced that it ia
going TO dispose OF more than .o00.-
600 tons of vessels built to meet the
demands OF war. The ships to be
sold include 10 wooden vessels Of
total lightweight tonnage of 500
400. twelve composite ships Of a.
500 tons. and a large mum Der OF the
small steel cargo ships constructed TO
nelp supply the American army in
France.
The sale OF these ships Is to be one
OF the first steps in broad con-
structive program. the object OF which
is to place the United States among
the leading maritime nations OF the
world. Other government agencies
are cooperating in the effort which
has for its object the pia ciug of
American products. carried in Ameri-
can bottoms. in all the markets Of
the world.
In disposing Of the wooden. com
posite and smaller steel vessels, the
the funds obtained from the sale for
the construction OF large steel ships
designed especially for the character
or trade-~iong voyage hauling
which American ships will be called
upon to perform.
Already the designs for the type of
ship considered most desirable have
been agreed upon and recommended
by committee headed by James A.
Farrell. and of which r. A. s. Frank
lin, OF the International Mercantile
Marine. is a member. This is fast
ship of great cargo capacity, OF sufYi-
cient tonnage tn withstand the bat
tering OF continued long voyage
through the world.
HURLEY SOUNDS SLOGAN.
Edward y. Hurley, chairman OF
Continued on Page Two.)
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15
Preliminary Peace
Must Be Concluded
Intermediary Stage Cannot
Continue, Says French Wri-
ter-Matters Have Dragged,
and Limit Has Been Reached
BY SAINT RRICE

Foreign Editor al LIE journal
Paris, Feb. 1.-THE intermediary
stage between war and peace cannot
continue. Not another armistice, but
ed. II has always been done that
way.
| THIS time matters ,a!reatr hay.
dragged for three months. on account
of the colossal size Of the war ma
chine that had to demount Never
theless. the limit has been reached.
We must get over 1t and cannot do
1T recklessly. We must have pledges
| OF such a nature that any gestures
! on the part OF the vanquished be-
icome unimportant.
| !. is that the way We shall proceed .
Certain illusions to certain expressions
permit us to hope so, Only yester-
day We heard mention OF a prelimi
mary peace. But when We get to the
bottom OF things, we feel prompted to
be less sanguine.
I. To be sure. II has been. or will be.
decided TO impose almost total dis
Armament upon the Germans, leaving
! them perhaps a score divisions or less
fer the maintenance of order. Fur .
ther, We viii demand the delivery of
the greater portion of the war ma
/ terial which was enumerated in my
recent article, and of which an exact
/ list is demanded by The allied high
command. Nor will our demands be
! limited tn the German army.
| Won't Let Chance Pass.
! British will not let this chance pass
/ for assurance against any possible re-
newal of German naval power
! Special attention is being given TO
Poland We will not content our
selves with removing from the Ger
mans every means OF warfare, but
will force the evacuation by them of
definite zone comprising naturally
everything included in the largest
Polish demands Fasapist, Eastern
Prussia. upper Siiesia. In other
words. we will create situation Sim
liar to that on the left bank OF the
Rhine.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15
vor wuLsoNIAx DOCUMENT

Let there be ciearness on this point.
The monentous document which Mr.
Wilson read before the assembled r1en.
tpotentiaries OF the allied and aseo.
ciated governments today is not VII.
sonian document: the twenty-six arti-
Iciss are not twenty six Wilson points,
they are not the article OF a covenant
which he is trying to jam down tbs
throats Of the worlds nations
On the contrary. the sull draft 40
read by him constitutes compendium
Of the conclusions reached by the beet
brains of many scores Of men after
colossal labor that began away back
in the darkest days Of the war.
There Is nothing ''wilsonian- about
this document and the League Il NOT Z
Wilson league. But what u wilsonian
ana typicaliy and solely "a, y the tact
that II ever forced It's way into : plAn-
airy peace conference session tuskaaA of
being piMsonholed or killed u o. ~
tho many and interminablA commitfas
sitttngs
WILSON -xy1E. Y4ft a. S.l..s.ssss.ssx
The plan for tire league. tharafors, Ii
a world plan. but the achievesaAnt II
that Of Americas chief executive he
Is it's pilot 5ssas9 q 81
Embryonic drafts Of the ,earwe vey.
ready even before President Wilson ieft
Americas shores to come to Eur0pA
and sec II through
1t Is no secret that even some Of tho
r*no nscrs OF some Of the eFfRtoxkl
schemes for \ league were not ovcrtrs
-thnsiastic or overconhdent az the t6ea
ever becoming practicable. Hut WtlR~st
had proclaimed, In the midst Of tha
war. that theeleague must be the cor.
nerstone Of reace: that II could not
wait TIL after the peace treaty wac
signed, And the statesmen of Europe
knew, from past experiences. that M
meant business. and that he would naf
bulge. So, II league there must be,
Some OF them argued, they world hex
ready for II. From the moment M sets
foot on Eurcpe's soil. Wilson began XIX
hammer away on the league idea. and
he kept the whiphand to this day. Nofste-
times In the face OF odds that stag
Cered all about him. Nv
WILSON .SAW yT vHROUGn.r
The heavy work" on .thNr araf4 AiAV
been done during the past montk.A 4t1N3A
and time again there arose d2a4f6Ak
In the committee having eAnF9es n16
the plan. limo and again the Iosiox<
tty OF workers on IL threw ~ their
hands In despair. Calm. suave. cpnMsN
dent. determined to see II thre9HA1
into the conference. nod to hi0 fStNq11 ~
cooIIy face hts foes. listen stAeNe3x SI&s
to both. and then give full plAT III ht4#
greatest Kift. the power o. ~ n;
and mediation. On the fIl0
he stood pat: on details ~ ~ @
peal 70 reason WeS his k@e14lf i
irrNfutahla lngt4 - l~cf4 y
NJ mS1t reNekkNl r. S