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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

some part of the boys costumes re-
newed every year. wherefore the gar
ment can never be said to have worn
ouy. so they continued to dance. and
they dance and Viii dance so long as
it pleases the canons and the Lord
In our record and brief review of
last Wednesday nights concert we de-
plored an effect of monotony produced
by the grouping of four compositions
which had singular likeness Of
theme. Il was no doubt a coincidence
merely. except in the case OF the Rus
sian choruses by Leo Ornstein, which
were not announced as arrangements
Of folktunes. But since we have said
that the Catalan music was not at ali
like the Spanish music with which the
public is familiar. we present the
characteristic motif at the beginning
Of two Catalan melodies and of the
two Ornstein choruses:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

e@Naners o. TIE Middle ages. with
l. 'u.eG rar ,-'s ana T f stoc"ings.
facing the altar. At siena III from or,'e a
priest soft strains from violins broke
me me gb , .Olil snenee o. the church.
With the s5en OF cor-r, s a., .''' .'vG
began TO divide. interming.c. separate
and come together again with Z thou
s2nG greet " Eoyen'eents' and then
, oi, e~,'. .sc NY -o'' ',.o a h"n 1o
through Tie sloom o. the Vast cathe-
cral IKE the singing Of an angelic
enc en- H., a II, a mgmenr later (hey began
With tsmbour;es No r .'U C''e V csro
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
BY II. E. krehbiel

!, To say that such a social and po-
li,cal catastrophe as the world war
could no. happen without affecting mu-
SIC is TO utter commonplace truism.
gycry activity in which civilized hui
mainly is engaged has been profoundly
affected. ana therefore every form of
artistic expression. The strife had
scarcely begun before prophets began
IN tell rs VIVA, was going to happen to
music. and there has not been mo-
men. since in which wiseucres have
no. told us of results already achieved.
RI. thoughtful minds have received
b.,le food for contemplation. For one
thing. the world was to break into com
muna, sone; even .ne voiceless and
those unfortunate beings who. like
Charles Lamb, were organically incap-
sba 81 tune. were to join in har
meniocs haNelujahs and hArpins sym
nhonies. And Out of this was to arise
new spirit of art which was to trans
form American composers in particular
into being but little lower. if not
indeed higher, than the cherubic hosts
into which the Palestrinas and Beetho-
esens. it is to be hoped. have been trans
lated America was to come into rights
we know not Of what manner, which
had heretofore been denied tive
know rot how An insidious propa-
ganda for political immortality which
was ius.illing into the minds and souls
of sanity people through the per-
Torrance OF the compositions OF such
designing devils as Haydn, Mozart.
Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Wag-
ner and Brahms, not TO mention the
lesser demons, was to be arrested so
that the popular and hungry ear might
be filed with the new evangol preached
by those OF beautiful feet upon our ma
tive mountains. The English tongue was
to come into it's estate as musical We
hicle. Some Of us thought that it had
long enjoyed that estate everywhere
save in our theatres and concert rooms
and that the blame for this deficiency
wa one for which the great German
dead were as little responsible as the
great dead who wrote in the vernacular
puny talent creative as we'll as recrea-
tive, was suddenly to expand into
genius.
To some people this and much more
fantastic talk Of the same order, most
of it the expression, not of knowledge
nor O intelligent observation, not even
Of expectation based on reason or ami
able desire. but Of vulgar and unmiti-
gated seldshness, has been merely di-
ye-ting when not saddening or exasper-
atm. They have seen some Of the
effect Of the war; and what they have
seen has not always been beneficial in
prescn7 gifts or future promise We
have seen one patriotic song perfume
torlly exalted to the dignity Of a ma
tional HYMN and more beautiful and
apter utterance ignored. We have seen
body Of lyric and dramatic song Of
lnes,imable excellence and value ban
lshed and Its place given to compo-
sitions not only inferior in value, but
harmful 10 taste and an obstacle 10
culturai dave Torment ytro ta..e rooo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

No. l is the beginning of the
'atalan Christmas song, "Fum, fun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

fun; No. II that Of the Catalan bal
lad "El Comte Arnau"; No. III and
~, respectively. of "A Russian Win
ter" and A Russian Festival"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
Salvation Army's Appeal

[From the New York SUM-
That the Salvation Army well de-
serves the $13,OOO,OOO it asks for its
Home Service Fund is the popular
judgment expressed by the enthu-
siam with which it's cause has been
taken up by people of every station
in life in every part OF the United
States. Its services to the soldiers
in the war made its services among
the unfortunate more widely known,
and it's work is now receiving the
recognition it merits.
New York's share OF the amount
which it is sought to raise is only
$1,5O0,O00, very small sum indeed
in comparison with the good the
money will do when expended by this
self-scarifcing and capable organ
ization. New York Is certain to give
as much as this. and really should
give a great deal more.
An important fact to bear in mind
is that with the $13,000,00O in it's
treasury the Salvation Army will be
relieved of it's greatest burden, that
of soliciting funds by the methods it
has been obliged to practice in the
past. 1t will then be able to devote
all it's time to the work 1t knows best
how to do, that of relieving suffering
humanity
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
GERMANY WAILING

~ FRMANY continues to wall over
~ the peace terms imposed by
the Paris conference. but even
in Hun land there are those who
comment with disgust on the pro-
tests of their countrymen. Having
utterly destroyed a large part of the
manufacturing area of France and
Belgium the Germans are now COM
planning of the hard economic pro-
visions of the peace treaty They set
out deliberately in the beginning of
the war to destroy the most prosper
Gus sections of the neighboring coun-
tries. This was done with the def
mite purpose to destroy competition
in the after-war period. 1t comes
with mighty poor grace from such
a source to bewail the alleged injus-
tice of the Allies in imposing just
terms upon those responsible for the
barbarism of nation.
President Wilson is constantly
quoted as the one to whom the un-
regenerate Hun looks for aid and
comfort and it is even intimated
that he has in a telegram to L lot
of pacifists at Berne intimated that
the peace treaty which he has been
assisting in formulating is rather
harsh in its terms. If our mbitions
and autocratic chief magistrate has
sent any such telegram it is not
more surprising than his several ef-
forts TO discredit the. representatives
of the allied countries with whom
he has been associated in the peace
negotiations by appeal over their
heads to the peoples whom they
represent.
Apologists for the Wilsonian atti-
tude are prone to criticise all who
choose to differ with their idol, but
with the present Congress deter
mined to re-establish the powers and
functions of the legislative branch
OF our Government at Washington.
we may expect the kowfowing TO
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
THE SALVATION LASSIES

You've seen them. l know. as you
pass to and fro.
The Lassies with bonnets of blue;
They're doing the work that most of
us shirk.
And bravely they're doing it, too.
They seek out the people that no one
else wants,
Their Master in each face they see.
'Tnsomuch as ye did 1t to one of these
souls,
The same ye have done unto NJ"
And when our own soldiers went over
the sea
To fight for the loved ones left here.
Oh, the Lassies went too. TO cook.
bake and brew,
With never a doubt or a fear.
So now they are asking your help in
their drive.
So that others they'll help IL they
can,
For Down. but not out" Is their slo-
gan to all
Their message from God unto man!
-Nita Guernsey Symonds. in New
York Times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
Marriage and DiDorce

The latest statistics of the National
Census Bureau (1S16) are said to
show 1850 marriages and 112 divor-
ces to each 100000 of the popula-
ton, in other words one divorce to
every nine marriages, a considerable
increase since the previous tabula-
ton in the ratio of divorce to mar
riage in the United States. over
against these figures is to be set the
judicial consciousness that eight
women out of ten, provided their
husbands are kind. affectionate. So
Der, and faithful. will stick to them
through thick and thin. because such
is woman's nature, which, as 1 have
already indicated, has blossomed
afresh with buds of efficient tender
ness in the forcing process of uncon-
ventionality occasioned by the war.
And vet, especially among nice
people, who would no more expect
to become associated with the statu-
tory causes for divorce (unless in
fidelity or desertion) than with shop
lifting or arson. there has been.
swift growth of the doctrine that 1t
is incumbent on a man to retain his
wife's affection. and that IL he fails
to do so he must not be surprised
or unduly annoyed If she likes some
prevalent note in Anglo-Saxon fic-
ton for some time. especially and
more openly in Great Britain, but
also frequently here, the distinction
being that the British heroine is apt
to burn her bridges, whereas her
American sister, who has told her
husband that she is tired of him and
has become attached to another man,
prefers to motor back to quasi-re-
spectability over the causeway of
collusive divorce. Here is tendency
over which both the courts and the
church have ordinarily little con-
troll. A husband was always free to
leave his wife if ready to pay for
the luxury of supporting her apart.
To-day the privilege is nearly recip-
rocal in that there is no bar except
public opinion to prevent a WiIe
from forsaking her husband If she
can maintain herself or get some one
else to maintain her. and. provided
she mend her fences (sometimes
even II she does not), public opinion,
before condemning her. almost In
yariably inquiries: why did she have
so7-From "The Limits of Fem
;nine independence" by Robert
Grant in the June Scribner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
Has Hdig Forgotten?
[From the Pittsburgh Dispatchl

[From the Pittsburgh Dispatchl
The complete report of Field Mar
shall Sir Douglas Haig. copies of
which have reached Washington, is
said to have astounded American
officers. The only reference the
marshal makes of Americans, If he
has been correctly reported, is that
they occupied Coblenz after the
armistice. He calmly assumes that
lit is the great battles of 1916 and
1917 that we have to seek for the
secret of our victory in 1918" He
ignores the fact that it was in the
spring of 1918 he had to issue his
dramatic appeal to his retreating
armies: I'VE are fighting with our
backs to the wall" He ignores also
the American divisions which fought
under him and took the lead in the
final drive on Cambria. Nothing is
said to recall the we'll known and
then admitted fact that the Allies
were virtually "all in" when Amer
lea in response to frantic appeals
rushed its armies to the rescue, that
in the race between Wilson and
Ludendorff," as Lloyd George de-
scribed it, America won, that it was
Pershing's insistence on an offensive
that compelled the Allied command
to revise its program for postponing
the supreme effort until 1919, and
that it was the Americans who
checked the German rush at
Chateau-Thierry, who in a few days
wiped out the st. Mihiel salient that
had defied the Allies for four years
and who stormed and captured the
Argonne in the face of Allied opin-
ion that it was impregnable.
This amazing myopia on the part
of Sir Douglas Haig is the more in
teresting because it bears out eX-
actly the statements in the Thanks
giving Day article in the Dispatch
recording the Impressions of Amer
leans abroad gathered by the editor
of this paper on his tour of the war
zone. These observers. commenting
on the European disposition at that
moment to minimize Americas part
in the war. remarked upon the fail
ure to give credit to the American
soldiers and the tendency to assume
all the glory for themselves. That
tendency, as predicted in that ar
ticle, has grown since until now
Field Marshal Haig can only see the
Americans entering Coblenz after
the armistice, and claiming the war
won in the battles of 1916 and 1917
which landed him with his back TO
the wall just before the Americans
got into the fight. Haig, if correctly
reported, is neither just nor gener-
Gus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
SOMETIMES

Sometimes, when going a weary
mile.
We wonder. If we should rest awhile
And seek old friends whom we used
to know
Away back there in the long ago.
And seek a stream where we used
to wade,
And rest awhile in the grateful
shade,
And bark awhile to a wild birds
song
Would all of the world we're in go
wrong?
If we should stop for a chat and
smile
With friends who once made the
world worth while,
If we should go for a day out far
Where the meadow-blooms and the
Where trees are tall and the skies
are fair.
And drop all worry and drop all
care
Would all we're working to win and
do
Go whirling wrong and be all askew? /?
Friends were so fine in the old. old
days!
The resting trees and the blossom
ed ways,
The wildbird song and the care
free times,
The rushing streams and the noun
tain climbs
And now we're meshed in the gears
of life.
The rush and crush and the work
and strife
We sometimes. going a weary mile,
Wish we might turn from the way
awhile.
The Houston Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
CAUTIOUS CRITICISM

A MOTHER captious critic sends
u the Harrisburg Telegraph a
complaint against Mr.. Burle-
sons personally conducted postal
service. He quotes the following
item from the Weekly Herald, of
Beaver Springs, and wants to know
if this newspaper does not consider
the instance another evidence of the
wretched incompetence of Mr.. Will
sons poor excuse for a Postmaster
General:
A business concern of Nc
Clure, Pa, sent a letter contain
ing a check to a party in Har-
risburg, Pa, on Dec. 81, 1918,
at 3 D. m. This letter was cor
rectly addressed and perfectly
legible. but did not reach it's
destination until May IA, 1919,
at 4.30 p. m, consuming AZ
months to traverse about so
miles. Inquiry from a postal
official at Harrisburg as to the
cause of the delay brought the
response that he could not ac-
count for it. as the letter just
arrived" 1t was postmarked
plainly Mcclure. Pa, Dec. 81,
1918" and the date of the check
enclosed corresponded with the
postmark.
Do we think this an example of
"wretched incompetence" Not al
all; not at all, dear reader. We ex-
planned a day or two ago that we
believe the Postmaster General
simply hasn't been able to get out
from under the Christmas rush. and
this communication only seems to
prove the theory. Note the date OF
sending. please. The Postmaster
General has to have time to get
over the Christmas rush, hasn't he ?
Well, then.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
FLYING SIX MILES HIGH

ings many times before; and so /
went on talking 20 myself. and this
/ thought was good sign to begin
taking oxygen, and l did. l was then
over $4,000 feet up and the tenn
perature was twenty-five degrees
centigrade below zero.
As soon as l started to inhale
the oxygen the sun grew bright
again and my motor began to eX-
haust so loudly that il seemed some
thing must be wrong with it.
was no longer hungry. and the day
seemed to be most beautiful one.
l felt like singing with sheer joy
as | gazed about through the small
portion of my goggles which had no
frost, due to the drop of oil which
had splashed on them from the
motor.
Il kept at it until my oxygen gave
out. and at that point l noticed my
aneroid indicated very nearly $4,000
feet The thermometer showed
thirty-two degrees centigrade below
zero. The lack of oxygen was af-
fecting me and / was beginning to
get cross. l could not understand
why l was only $4,000 feet after
climbing for so long a time. ! re-
member that the horizon seemed to
be very much out of place, but l felt
Niitil was OiICSliyI anu lhdI
l was right and the horizon wrong.
About this time the motor quit. 1
was out of gasoline, the propeller
stopped. and everything was quiet;
so down l went in a spiral. When
had descended to about 10000 feet,
began to feel much better. and
realized that the lack of oxygen had
affected me, ! passed down through
the clouds at $4,000 feet. and, as
remember. il was showing from
these clouds upon the next layer
some 1000 feet below.
During the entire trip l did not
see the ground from the time |
went up through the clouds above
Dayton. until l came through the
clouds again, at 1000 feet above
Canton. L landed near the house of
Joseph Schario, and one of his
little daughters came running up to
me. but she was speechless. asked
her, Where am IL" and she replied,
Canton, Ohio" Well. it almost
took the wind out of ME to think
had drifted over 200 miles from
where | started. reached my
greatest height los minutes after /
started. 1t required twenty min
utes to come down. ! was in the air
125 minutes, flying in a westerly
direction practically all the time,
and came down 200 miles east OF
where L went up"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
Saga of the Flying Fleet


Into the fog of the Banks they
zoomed,
Where the winds blew cold and the
billows doomed
Over the old wrecks sand entombed.
The NC-3 and the NC-4
And the NC-1, with a rush and roar,
Where never a plane has sped be-
fore.
Bellinger. Read and Towers. all
three
True blue sons of the salty sea,
Versed in its moods and mystery.
The dead ships rocked in their oozy
graves.
And the fishes fed to the darkest
caves
AS their great wings ruffied the roll
ing waves.
The soul of a Norseman, veiled in
spray,
Rose from the foam and led the way
over the waste of heaving gray.
Out of the mist to port they came,
Clear in the moonlight's silver flame,
One was missing and one was lame.
Fayal under the lunar light
laundering welcome across the
night,
Lisbon ending the ocean fight.
Oh. what a memory to keep,
That first wild voyage across the
deep.
The navy planes prodigous leap!
Brave commander and dauntless
crew,
Yankee sailors who dared to do,
The hats of the world are off to you!
-Minna Irving.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
LOOKING FOR A GOAT"

NF course we all know that the
Railroad Administration has
fallen down on its job. That's
the reason President Wilson is so
desirous of getting the roads back
into the hands of their owners. And
we all know. too, that the Railroad
Administration has been for some
time looking for goat on which
to place blame for its awful failure
to make good. But who would have
thought its members would stoop so
low as to try to shoulder the blame
on the shapely shoulders of lovely
woman?
Now it is unquestionably true that
train service has been slowed up
since the Government took charge
Nobody would deny that for a mo-
ment. But it required most in
genious goat hunter" to charge
train delays up to tight skirts worn
by good looking ladies who like to
appear in the height of fashion.
They take so long to get on and so
long to get off," says the Commis-
sion, that train service is held up
Yes, but dear Commission. you fail
to take into consideration the fact
that fewer ladies ride on your trains
since the fares have been boosted
and excursion rates largely discon-
tinued. 1t would require a million
aire to finance both a fashionable
wardrobe and frequent railroad
rides under Government prices, and
We respectfully submit that there
are not enough millionaires travel
ing these days to delay many of the
way trains.
You will note, also, that the pas
senger trainmen raise no objections
TO the tight skirts. They are mostly
bright. good-looking young men
who know a good thing when they
see it
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col: w. IT. zeidt. we'll known ins
National Guard circles, is in charge
of the new employment service in
Wilkes Barre. He recently return-
ed from France.
Warren P. Laird, University of
Pennsylvania professor of architec- u
ture, is working on plans for the
new Delaware River bridge.
Provost Edgar F. Smith. of thet
University of Pennsylvania. re-.
ceived kilograms from university
alumni all over the State yesterday,
in honor of his birthday.
w. A. Kessler. who presided atd
the convention of Pennsylvania post
masters, is postmaster of Homestead
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
AS TO MEMORIALS

~ OVERNOR SPROUTS views on
u permanent memorials to the
heroes of the war. as expressed
in his inaugural address. are en-
phasized in a special bulletin of the
American Civic Association, which
likewise urges care in the selection
of these memorials even IL such care
involves delay in their erection. The
general thought of all who are CIV
ing serious consideration to this
matter. is that haste may result in
improper decisions and unfortunate
choice of designs.
Pennsylvania is likely to avoid
much of this sort of thing through
the recent creation of an Art CONF
mission by the Legislature at the
instance of Governor Sproul and the
impressive memorial viaduct which
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24

will be a part of the Capitol Park
improvements, with its majestic
pylons dedicated to the men who
served in the great war;. will prove
substantial demonstration of the
importance of care in choosing per-
manent memorials. :.
1t is an open question to-day
whether any art commission would
ever have approved the placing of
the Barnard statuary. chiseled out
of marble. against the granite front
of the Capitol. and it is obvious
errors of this sort which are to be
avoided through more care in plac-
ing lasting memorials.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
The Longest Way

One of the longest wars, or rather
one of the longest existing states of
hostilities. in history is about to
come to an end. The Republic of
San Marino has officially requested
Senator Scialeua of Italy to represent
her at the exchange of credentials
with the Austrian delegates. San
Marino Joined Italy in the war in the
last century against the Hapsburgs,
but when the peace treaty was
signed Austria refused to recognize
San Mariho and her name did not
appear on the document. Thus since
1860 San Marino has been In a state
OF war with Austria. From the New
York sun
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-24
The Essential Thing

Germany cannot. exist very long
at the present peace. 1t is quite
evident that people do not work. but
loaf and draw unemployment allow
ances and spend their time in po-
litical agitation. They have i'm
mensely important industrial plants;
they are personally skillful and in
dustrious and thrifty, and IL they
will get to work. as several of their
own leaders have told them, they
will be better. happier and able to
pay the indemnity. The essential
thing for Germany is to get the war
ended on any terms and go to work.
From the Philadelphia Record.