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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-14
FOYERS IN FRANCE.

Four departments OF the French
Government have asked the American
Y. w. Q. A. 10 open social and recrea-
ton centers for girls employed by
them-Finance, Commerce, War and
Labor.
Lieutenant Poncet of the Ministry
OF Labor recently requested that this
Y. W. @. A. work be begun for girls In
his Offices after seeing the social and
recreation eenters which had been
opened at the request Of the Ministry
OF War. Sixteen centers Of this kind
are operated in six cities In France.
Three of them are in Paris.
The last OF these Foyers des Alliees
IL for girls who are working In the De-
partment Of Labor. II 10 far down the
Seine, under the shadow OF the Einel
Tower. and oyeriooks the ouai d'orsay.
The rooms are bright and cheerful.
with ehintz hansings and cushions.
comfortable chairs. reading and writ
ing tables and O fireplace. A kitchen
has equipment 20 that girls can pre-
pare meals for themselves. They 60
to the foyer for their two hour lunch
con time. for social evenings and for
clssses In English.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-14
Safety Nets

The safety department of the irdus.
trial accident commission of the state
Of California, believing that a man
doing useful work at q height OF sew
eral hundred feet needs as much pro-
lection as a trapeze performer in a
circus, has been responsible for the
Introduction Of safety nets In building
construction In San Francisco. The
safety nets are similar In character
TO those used by circus performers, as
well as by fire departments In the larg.
er cities in rescuing persons jumping
from high MISUNDERSTANDING Amer
lean.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-14
Peoples Verde. Reversed.

William Henry Harrison ran for
president twice. In 1885 he was noml-
mated by an snti-Masonie convention
held In Philadelphia and was defeat
ed by Martin Ven Buren,. In 1910 he
was nominated by the Wing party,
running q second time against Van
Buren, and defeating him by a large
majority. In the frst election. Van
Buren, received ITO electoral votes TO
Rarrisou's rs; in the second election
Harrison received ~ electoral votes
10 Van Buren's 90
The sun., 1919-07-20
Poem on Lincoln Crowned by French Academy

a newspaper poetry contest winch disclosed
that In addition to fifty manuscripts
which took Lincoln personally and directly
as subject, 80 or One-4uarter Of the en-
tire number submitted introduced his name
In some prominent manner and not In
mere passing allusiOn.' l wrote to
NJ Grenier for confirmation of what ne
had earlier told me.
You wish to know how / came to
write my poem ON the death of LlneOlnf
| quote from his letter of February "a,
1897, written shortly before his passing.
Il had two motives, first, to pay due
homage to an illustrious American; and
second, to play trick and give blow to
the despOtism of Napoleon III, whom l
hated and despised, by gaining the prize
and thus of course Obliging the French
Academy to proclaim Republican truths
and words of liberty amid the universal
and constrained silence and the prostra-
ton of the France of yore. So ! sue
eeeded, and it is to me a new success to
see my forgotten poem revived by your
pen and your friendship"
my literary and exterior life," he
wrote again, "has brought me great and
charming friendships which hope to re-
count some day. The great public ignores
me, but 1 am content with this elite
world"
Souremrs Litteraires, then in mind,
materialized in print in 1894 and Is to-day
the Congressional Library's only volume
of Grenier
From q contemporary we have this
vivid portrait of him, written the day
after his death, and not infrequently
quoted in French anthologies:
NNo one knew less how to aid himself
than he, no one was less the aatterer and
the intriguer. He had singularly proud
soul The habit of dwelling on the sum-
NIT of thought away from pettiness and
vulgar combinations. He would have
had horror Of acclaim and Of all that
resembles the American manner of making
a fortune"
The sun., 1919-07-20

souvenirs Of this rarely wise and simple
soul.
Already an old man, Grenier had a
singularly fresh and youthful face, with
the asking eyes of child. Since 1857 he
had been writing and publishing volumes
of poems and plays.
| being an American, it was as the
author of The Death Of Lincoln, crowned
by the Academy, that he was introduced
by our brilliant hostess, who added with
adorable French disregl 4 of truth,
"Devant la naissanee de IA belle Amer
icaine BEN surev
Grenier was a nan of means and
product Of generations of inherited
French culture He resided in the family
homestead, Baume -les-Dames (DOubs),
where he was born and died, coming in
season to his Paris Hotel, ia Boulevard
st. German. AS to my life" he once
said to me with a childlike simplicity ir-
reconcilabIe with his forty years of di-
plomacy, 1T has been stormy enough, and
poetry gave it a certain unity with love
Of family and country"
He was such an ardent Republican that
the dry following the Coup d'Etat, he
resigned the secretaryship of Legation,
to which he was appointed by Lamar
tine. II refused" said he with the fire
of youth, ITO be secretary at command
of king. l resigned my post in order
to remain faithful to my Republican
convictions and my friends who were
prescribed"
From royalist Paris he went to India,
where for two years ne was secretary to
Prince Ghyke. That beautiful and inter
esting country continued to color the
poesy to which he devoted himself ex-
elusively from 1890 to his death.
Although his poetry had carried off
two Academy prizes and third volume
had been given "seven voices of lauda-
ton" the abiding pride and joy of his
old age was in the Academy crown Of
Ia Mort du President Lincoln.
Apropos of Lincoln anniversary and
The sun., 1919-07-20

TINE On Actire Serrice series Of war
Il books under the general editorship
Of Coningsby Dawson consists so far of
FIVE works published and eight to follow
shortly. We have in hand two of the five,
The Boy With the Guns, by the late Lieut..
G. w. Taylor, and Three CkeUroHs, by
Major II. F. Bidder. Major Bidders
book is good and Lieut.. Taylor's might be
if he had been allowed to speak for him
self The Last section, "Our Serbian Ex
petition" which is told directly, is of real
value, giving a clear and satisfactory ac-
count of both the expedition and the con-
ditions that led up to it. The long intro
duction by Lieut.. Taylor's grandfather,
Sir James Criehton-Browne, in which he
bewails the Governments failure to award
his grandson a well deserved decoration,
and the more or less garbled account of
life at the front by the youths sister,
Sybl Cookson, are far from being har-
monious with his own simple style.
Mrs. Cookson feels that if her brother
had been allowed to tell his story in the
first person he might have been dubbed
The Boaster. Pronouns are confusing,
and so she chooses for him the simple
title of "Boy," and writes, or rather re-
writes, her brothers experiences, inserting
personal complaints of impositions by su-
perior officers. Between them these two
devoted relatives have utterly ruined the
book and one can but shudder for "Boy"
himself. Perhaps only a soldier can know
how he would have hated it.
Major Bidders experiences are given
first hand, in the form of letters begin
ming in early August, 1914, and ending in
November, 1918, thus covering the entire
war. 1t is not likely that he viii be
dubbed "The Boaster" There is nothing
so essential for a soldiers war chronicle
as that it be written by soldier. Three
Cheorons will be found worth while by a
The sun., 1919-07-20

parently last copy of the editiOn-only
one copy of the poem in the original was
run down in this country. 1t is in the
collection of an ardent Lineolnian.
where did you get iti asked Mr..
Judd Stewart
"Picked it up in Paris years ago. was
the reply. FORGET how my attention was
called to it. No, l don't read French
After more than a generation of AL
lance FRANCHISE propaganda in America,
French departments in our universities.
colleges and schools, FrancO-Ameriean
interchange of scholars and lecturers, in
this day making for world democracy
does it not seem passing strange that
Frances first poem to force the Academy
to proclaim republican truths should be
of so little moment to Americansi
The Death Of Lincoln is the first instance
in the history of the French Academy of
a French poet choosing an American sub
ject for the COneourse de Poesie and win
ming the prize.
No sooner was the unique feat per-
formed than an American woman, Mrs.
c. L. Botta, translated the poem into Eng
lish and Harpers Weekly published it,
October, 1867. Beyond HdTper's Weekly
files this English version was not to be
had until February II, 1918, when thirty
six copies on vellum were reprinted for
Charles +. Heartman and his friends.
This is how the Library of Congress, Co
lumbia University and the New York
Public Library happen to have presenta-
ton copies of the reprint in their refer
enee departments.
That Grenier passed out $500 I'M
aware Of the English translation and its
American publication I have reason to
believe, for during a friendship dating
from 1890 until his death he never men
toned the fact.
1t was in the Paris salon of the late
Nine. Blanc 9Th Benton, La ReUue des
Dexr Mondes) that l met NJ. Grenier.
Delightful letters directing study In by
ways Of French literature are treasured
The sun., 1919-07-20
Two Officers Narratives

large majority of readers. 1t contains
good descriptions of the fighting in which
Major Ridder took part and gives an I'M
usually comprehensive idea of life behind
the hnes--the French children, shepherds
with long blue cloaks, crooks, fceks and
even pipes; gardens where roses and white
lilies, peoples and red eurrants catch the
sun. OF the thstles that grow along the
trenches he says:
81 have seen thistles SIX feet high. 1t
makes one feel like Alice in Wonderland
when she grew small-your head is about
the level of the roots of the grass and you
go along looking up from that position at
these great plants that you are aceus-
toned to brush aside with your foot. One
seems to have become an insect"
THE BOY WITH THE GUNS. By the late
LIEUT.. G. W. TAYLOR John Lane Com
pany.
THREE CHEvRONS. By MAJOR II. F.
BIDDER, D. s. o. John Lane Company.
The sun., 1919-07-20
Quality as an Ideal;
In Several Un-reals

4 QUEER company Of characters are
L n assembled in Lawrence Sterner's
melodramatic novel called The CH-Chris-
tidn Jetr. There Is an apOstate Jewish
rabbi, renegade Catholic priest, Jew
ish merchant in secret business partner
ship with a zealot in tbs cause of united
Christianity, and Russian prince who IS
an instigatOr of pogroms and worker In
the cause of getting American capital in
terested in Russian business to the end
that his country shall be able to laugh at
Great Britain.
The apostate rabbi believes that quality
should be the ideal of work and through
the aid Of his former coreligionists POUNDS
a model city named Quality Town which
has any of William Morris's dreams
beaten to finish.
The author evidently believes that both
Christianity and Judaism are false, and
what we need is science instead of re-
hgion; he uses his novel to advance some
euriously half baked ideas as to the laws
on which those religions are founded, and
some less than half baked ideas on how
they are to be reformed Melodrama is
supplied by the attempt Of a young
American to avenge the de1th Of his sis
ter in the Jewish merchants shop by
abducting the daughter Of the merchant
and taking her to Russia to "sweat" her
in a match factory and by a plot to de-
stroy Quality Town with bombs dropped
from an airplane.
A jumbled mass Of ignorance, preiu-
dice and divers absurdities, written in IN
different English; it originally appeared
In 1917.
THE UN-CHRISTIAN JEW. BY LAW
RENEE STEINER. Published by the Author.
The sun., 1919-07-20
By Ida ROSE McCABE.

no you know that the first American
~ subject of French verse crowned
by the French Academy was Edouard
Grenier's poem La Mort da President
Lincoln, awarded the prize of 1867
Don't worry. You are not the OILY
one. Until the writer began search, some
months since, for the poem in the original
French, both Grenier and his poem we're
apparently unknown to Americ,r libra
RES and booksellers and AmerIc-. j al
ers. Not only was the original poem
unknown to the Congressional Library
and the libraries Of Harvard, Columbia
and Fordham universities, the New York
Historical Society, the Mercantile, the
New York Public Library, the Alliance
FRANCHISE and the Maison FRANCHISE, but
the poets works, published complete in
Paris, 1S94-98, were not to be had In
these informative centres.
l doubt that a single library Of the
United States has to-day a complete edi
ton Of the works of this last idealistic
poet of France-the contemporary of
De Musset, Lamartine, Victor Hugo!
Except here and there a volume or two
if his earliest poems, no library have
mentioned has catalogue record of the
poet. Their information is limited to
French antholOgies. Not One-English
or French-has the volume containing the
Lincoln poem.
The Library of Congress reported one
volume, Souvenirs L;tteraires, Paris, A.
Lemerre, 1894, 347 PIP.
1--WE have ordered his complete works."
wrote the Congressional Library secre-
tary, recapituhting facts the writer had
forwarded, "but cannot say when they
will reach u.s."
Up to- last May, when the writer re-
ceived from Paris a single volume of the
last complete edition of Grenier's works
1S9G) containing the Lincoln pOem-ap
The sun., 1919-07-20
4 "History Of the
Yankee Division"

TTARRY A. BENWELL'S History Of
i i the Yankee DiriSiOn, which was
written for serial publication in New Eng
land newspapers, tells the story of the
Twenty-sixth Division of the Army Of the
United States as completely as is possible
by a contemporary historian, who is con-
cerned with telling story for the gen.
eral reader than with writing a military
work.
There is :; an undue effort made to
present tho Inkee Division as the "first"
division in organization, &C., this phase
even going to the extent of describing the
guns of Battery A of the 101st Field Ar
tiIlery firing the first shot of a full Amer
can division" on February 5, 1918. The
battle work of the division includes de
scriptions of the fight at Apremont, in
the Chateau Thierry sector, at St Mihiel
and at Bots dHaumont in the Verdun
sector.
The work is replete with official or
ders and with praise from various French
commanders for the gallantry of the di-
vision under fire. 1t is filed with ''human
interest stories" one chapter being given
to the Animals Of the DiuisiOH, by which
is meant the draft horses and mules and
the artillery teams. Most of all does Mr..
Benwelps text breathe the spirit Of affec-
ton every one Of the 10000 men Of the
division had for Major-Gen. Clarence Z.
Edwards, who commanded the division
through the greater part of its career and
to whom the book is dedicated.
Gen. Pershing has written tribute"
to the division for the book, as has Gen.
Edwards and Secretary Baker.
HISTORY OF THE YANKEE DIVISION.
BY HARRY A. BENwELL. Boston: The
Cornhill Company.
The sun., 1919-07-20
"The Test"
MR.. PETER HAGBOLDT'S The Test

MIR. PETER HAGBOLDT'S The Test
4V1 is of the late crop of war plays.
Congress has not seen fit to impose an
embargo on this sort of thing, and the
signing of the armistiee and the treaty
seems not to have diminished the output.
The ''test" was IN reality whether we
coald read this play through to the end.
We confess we could not. We doggedly
followed a theme that was interesting as
announced, but soon became lost In a maze
of chatter. A young woman Is engaged
to a German who is suspected of stealing
trade secrets used In the manufacture Of
high explosives. The girls father, who
runs the munitions faetory, enters the
scene as an avenging deity. And the play
is oil. The trouble is it is never on again.
As we glance through the last act 1--WE
confess we have not given it our undi-
vided attention), our eye is caught by the
endless prattle of the absurd and hsping
Frenchman, talk about the District At
torney" and "Unele Sam and then a
speech extending over page and half.
We emerge finally at the end with this:
.. Let us hope that one good may
come to US from this struggle for 8 COM
mon cause.-the unifcation of all inter
ests-into-one-solid -9reGt-Ameriea"
Seriously, the play is paved with good
intentions. But in this instance We have
nothing to do with intentions.
THE TEST. A Play In Three Acts. BIZ
PETEa HAGBoLDr. Boston: The Co<nhin
Company.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-06-04
AUTHORIZATION

To those who understand the plan
for the Americanization of aliens in
the United States, there seems to be
no reason for comparing the cam
paign to the Germanization of Po-
land, Alsace-Lorraine and Schleswig-
Holstein before the war.
The entire movement, from field to
operation, is different. The German
plan was one of coercion and propa-
ganda exercised upon people and ter
ritories involuntarily under German
control. The American campaign is
one of education offered to those peo-
pie who have voluntarily cast their
lot with us. The German plan was an
attempt to make good Germans ont Of
Poles, French and other natiOnalities
who presumably were very much op-
posed to becoming good or any kind
of Germans. The American plan is
an attempt to make good Americans
of people who came here for that
purpose, and to eliminate those who
came here for any other purpose.
Foreigners who come to America
must expect to become Americans. The
great war has aroused America No
longer will she permit her ports to be
used as dumping grounds for political
outcasts unwelcome at home because
of their vicious doctrines. What is
not good enough for Europe is not
good enough for America. American
ization is a weeding-out process for
which the time is ripe, and which
must come if domestic tranquility is
to be preserved in the United States.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-06-04
BILL COMES HOME MARRIED

Ii takes more than warlike nerve
to get in and under the responsible
ties of one big American sergeant who
recently appeared at a troop move
ment office in Brest.
He was accompanied by a woman
carrying baby, and by three other
young women, an elderly woman and
an old man. He said he wanted to
take them all home to America with
him. They are, respectively, his
bride, baby, three sisters-in-law,
mother-in-law and father-in law.
When they arrive in America, what
kind of a reception will Bill get in
his old home town? Bill was fore
man of the gas works in Homeburg
before he left to go to war.
If Bill's job isn't open for him
short while after he gets back, some
things going to happen, because Bills
got hungry mouths to feed
But Bill never was a trouble-mak-
er and he is the kind of a fellow who
can pick up a good job any time at
manual labor Then he married into
a family not altogether unused to
work. That will help a lot.
Ten years from now Bill will be
one of the solid citizens of his town.
His wife's father will have made him
self useful about town and will have
contributed each week to the upkeep
of the large family. The three sis
ters will have learned English at
school and will be married to Ameri-
can boys. The old mother? Oh, she
will always be welcome in the home,
for she has a place by the window
and spends her time darning and
mending for the growing youngsters
Let US not allow a word of gossip
about these boys who are returning
from France with brides. They and
their families are going to make good
American citizens.
The folks in the old home towns
must give them a chance to make
good
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-06-04
LIKES A. f. +. UNIVERSITY
L. ii. Reeder, Former Student, Makes
Use of NJ. L. Yells.

A letter received from Corporal E.
Fl. Reeder, a former student in the
College of Agriculture here says that
he is now a student in the Agricul-
tural College of the A. f. F. Uniyer-
sity. About the University Reeder
said:
There are forty states represented
in the agricultural club here. Our Ii
brary is very good, having reference
and text books similar to those used
at Missouri. School closes June T."
Reeder added that he was elected
yell leader and was using two Mis-
souri, yells. One of the talks given
there was Hog Raising in Missouri" !"
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-06-04
Dean OF Underwood College Here.

Dean of Underwood College Here.
Miss Lucinda de Leftwich Temp
lin, dean of Underwood College of St.
Charles, Mo-, is here on a business
trip and visiting friends. Miss Temp
lin was one of the government repre-
sentatives for the thrift compaign of
1919 for the eighth federal district, IN
Guiding Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas
and Kentucky. Miss Templin is a
graduate of the University. She also
taught a preparatory training class
for teachers at the University. For
three summers Miss Templin has
studied at Harvard University.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-06-04
Sells 10000 Pounds OF Wool.

The Klass Commission Company
has sold 10000 pounds of wool, bought
from Boone County farmers, to firm
in Moberly. This firm will send it
20 the eastern mills. The price was
about So cents a pound.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-06-04
UNCALLED FOR LETTERS.

These letters remain in the Post
office, uncalled for, for the week end
ing May 26:
Barnes, A. L.
Ballew, DelmaF
Bishop, Fred
Chapman, Elizabeth ii.
Caruthers. o. NJ.
Davis, Mrs. Dora
FOuts, Mrs. NJ +.
Griffith. Mrs l.. VI.
Green, Mrs. Likely
Hobbs, Mrs \. Il.
Kester. q. f.
Smith, w. II.
ii. Schuman and Bros.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-06-04
Story Hour on Church Lawn.

The children's story hour was not
held Monday evening, on account of
rain. 1t will be held the following
Mondays. if the weather permits. on
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-06-04

Five hundred invitations were is
sued today to the members of the
University faculty and others for a
private performance of four one-act