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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-07
ClariSSa and Art
By Ella Randall Pearce.

Clarissa had come 20 the big.
strange CITY 90 study art. and Claris-
ga was going back TO her small town
home without accomplishing her
mission OF "a career
StiH, for "a human being whose
ambitions had been ruChIessIv crush
ed and whose foudest dreams had
been cruelty shattered. Clarissa ap-
peared incOnsistently cheerful. She
was packing up and humming soft
- "a popular air as she moved about
her dismanted apartment.
Il had been rather dreadful at
first Clarissa would have told you.
when she began 90 realize that she
had over-estimated her own insight
Meant talents. Even now a faint
pang came 10 her as she tucked away
some Of her work in her big port
folio.
II wouldn't have cared so much IL
could have made the smallest sue
cess. reflected CIarissa. Il never
did expect 20 be famous or anything
like that But an illustrator or de-
signer OF some sort-Oh. but it's
awful hard work anyway"
Then Clarissa stood very still with
her hands pressed on the portfolio
and her eyes turned toward the open
window. She was going back home.
and every one would be very kind
20 her, she knew But how about
stephen Clifford
She recalled how displeased Ste
phen had been over her art no
tions. and how stern and white
faced he was that last evening when
their engagement had been broken.
Tor stephen had said: IF you go.
Clarissa, I shall know you don't care
about me. And 1 shall put all M
strength and soul into forgetting 1
have ever cared for youl' And Ste
phen Clifford was stubborn
Clarissa had hurt him and shaken
his faith In her; and now she was
wondering and worried over the sit
uation How was stephen going TO
take the fact OF her return?
III 1 tell stephen I'm a failure"
she unused. he won't believe I love
MINI But / do-mOre than ever.
I'm glad 10 be going back TO stephen.
hut ne never would believe II. He'd
think ] was just turning TO him for
comfort or convenience. Even if he
forgave me-in time-the doubt
would be in his heart. And perhaps
ne wouldn't even forgive me. know
stephen"
Clarissa did not sing for awhile
after these melancholy reflections
But she sat down after her work
was completed and thought harder
than she had ever thought in her
life. And she tried TO summon all
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-07

her new knowledge TO her assistance:
the bits Of wisdom and philosophy
and craft she had picked up during
her stay in the big, strange city.
After "a time she sprans from her
cushions. SINGING again; and there
was warm color IN her cheeks and
a sparkle in her gentle eyes.
oh stephen. Stephen. II you
won't believe me when I'm honest.
I'll have 10 tell you something you
viii believe" ran her thoughts. And
the fact that her conscience was not
troubling her at all while she plotted
conclusively proved that Clarissa had
become very worldly indeed.
Stephen Clifford went reluctantly
TO call on the return artist. He had
known for three days that Clarissa
was back; but ne had carefully
avoided meeting her. Then some one
told him she was preparing TO leave
again at an early day. This idea
was expressed in her brief note TO
him.
Unless YOU are very angry with
me. stephen. / should not ike 10 go
away without seeing YOU" wrote
Clarissa-
An unfamiliar Clarissa presented
herself 10 an aloof and somewhat
embarrassed Stephen. The girls
shapely figure was draped in a long.
loose smock of brilliant orange color
and Stephen had always admired
Clarissa's tidy waist line. Her soft
brown hair which had charmed the
young man by its youthful simpli-
city was frizzed and pushed out in a
queer knobby effect above her ears.
Then Clarissa wore fantastic red
shoes embroidered with gold stitches.
clankins bangle bracelets and a long
necklace Of blood-red beads.
Stephen could not conceal his
amazement and confusion; but Cla-
rissa was poised and animated. She
bewildered him still further with
new mannerisms and puzzling
/ phrases.
1--WE been following false gods,
I stephen" she declared. But now
1 belive I'm on the right path al
Z last / want you to see some Of the
new art. 1t gives one much a chance
I for soul expression
She placed a few examples OF
cubism before him; weird geometri-
I cal designs in distorted effects and
splashing daubs of color. Stephen
/ had disdained Clarissa's roses and
/ flying birds, but at least ne could
understand them. These chaotic are
/ studies seemed atrocious to his pre-
/ else and practical mind.
This is Twilight Song" said
| Clarissa fervently, clasping hei
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-07

The Indiana desk IN the Han 81
States which Is maintained by the
New York Community Service In
The old Trinity Church rectory at
q West 24th street New York
City. Is one OF the busiest corners
there. All day long soldiers and
sailors from Indiana are being well
coined by home folks
The Indiana desk is maintained
BY the daughters or Indiana in
New York City under the chair
manship or Mrs. J. A. Wood from
Brookville, and has not received
the financial support from the
State or any organizations there
that many more fortunate Hospi-
tality Committees have been fav-
ored with Many OF the states.
such as Kansas and MaSsachu-
sets. have made liberal apprOpri-
atoms for the welcoming or their
men. have provided clubs at which
the men can make themselves at
home after being sent 20 them
from the Hall OF States and have
sent Secretaries here 20 look out
for the very considerable work OF
taking care or the wounded men.
other states like Illinois have been
taken care OF by large subscrip-
tons.
The daughters Of Indiana are do
ing the best they can 10 make
their work equal 20 that OF those
with more liberal financial backing
and BY the aid OF volunteer work
ers are accomplishing great results.
A very important part OF their
work IS that or giving cheer and
a word from Home 20 he wounded
lads as they arrive at the great de-
barkatson hospital here This
work Is the result OF en- arrange
ment by which the War Camp
Community Service obtains every
Lat OF wounded. sometimes 70 the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-07

number OF 1000 IN a day. and by
the use OF large corps OF stenog-
raphers divides them up into State
contineents and gives list 10 each
So ate Committee.
Another important thing accom-
plished by the Committee in the
Hall OF States is the placing OF
men In Jobs back Home. The War
Camp Community Service main
tains here a large employment Blu
reau which. under Ralph NJ. Mac
Donald. seeks jobs for the men OF
the various commemorative, from
the Chambers OF Commerce. Labor
Bureaus and prominent employers
back home. Many Indiana boys
have already been sent Home 10
places which are being held for
them.
Mrs Woods's assistants are: Mrs
@ NJ. Cubbison from South Bend.
Mrs. Joseph Troggat from Rich
Crawfordsville. and Mrs. william
II. Drapier from indianapolis.
Among the boys who have called
are Robert f. Peoples, l1sth En-
gineers. Indianapolis; Jas c Fish.
Private. 15Oth Field Artillery. Co
lumbus, pOssesSor OF Croix de
Guerre, z c. Sanderson. End Lieu
tenant, Sanitary Corps Marion;
Edward r. Curtis, 10th Field Artil-
lery. Brook: John Wright Sanders.
Radio Schol. Cambridge, Mass;
Orleans, Michael Bender. 116th In
fantry. Evansville: II. E Walkuet.
L. s s Dcs Moines, Huntington;
Ed Shaw. L. s. s. Frederick. In
dianapolis; John J. May. Private.
5fth Pioneer Infantry, Kentland;
Otto Givens. Private. l11th Infan-
try. Kokoma. Lester Evans. Cap
tain. 18th Infantry. Anderson: VIM.
Barnes, Pioneers. Brazil.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-07
CIVIC CENTER TO MEET.

Thursday evening the Laurel Civic
center will meet at their school
building. Officers for the ensuing
year will be elected at the business
session, and a program has been ar
ranged for the evening. The lunch
con will be served by Mrs. Barnes
and Mrs. Johnson.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-07

Of your little ruffly dresses on-with
belt. And all the rest. you know"
''All right, Stephen" said Clarissa.
demurely, with a heavy sigh that
was supposed 10 be for her lost
career.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-07

Eleven employers in New York
sta:e are emphatic in stating that
women in their plants produce more
than the men they replace.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
The Opera Season

The musical season Of the Metro.
politan Opera Company has opened
this year with exceptional promise
Of artistic and popular success. The
subscription" has seldom been as
large as now, and last night the de-
,nand for entry was so great that
every seat could have been sold
twice.
The consulate of Gatti- -Casazza
has been marked by common sense,
sobriety and catholicity Of judgment.
Opera is still in many respects an
exotic, but it is steadily being accli-
matized. Less and less is foreignism
flaunted-and this with full acknowl-
edgment that musical art is interna
tional and not national and that
America has still very far to go before
she can properly shake off Difference
to Europe. 1t can no longer Sc
riously be charged that the native
performer and the native composer
have not fair chance
In another respect the manage
ment of the opera house is fully
abreast of the spirit Of the times.
It's motto is not profits, but service.
1t makes no money, it seeks to make
none. 1t is merely trustee to
spend for the public the funds the
public contributes. 1t brings to the
theories of the advanced reform
ers the practical benefits of COM
petent direction. 1t is built on the
old and holds out its hand to the
Now. And this is naturally and spon-
taneously done by group of rich
men, many Of whom take more sat
isfaction in being identified with an
altruistic work than in the gains Of
their counting rooms.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

chart, the line Of progress sweeps
up and down so fast that no evenly
progressing individual can possibly
live lifetime on one side of its
course.
1t is one thing to be radical when
the ball of progress is motionless
we'll over on the conservative side.
1t is quite another TO keep on shov-
ing when the ball is rolling rapidly
down a slope labeled Revolution" !"
Then nine radicals out of ten will
wish to pause and look about Their
pause does not, we suggest, neces-
sarily indicate either old age or
cowardice, as the writer in The At
lantic Monthly fears. 1t may indi-
cate only horse sense-or the sense
of any other animal that prefers to
look before it leaps.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

tern and the screen was not long or
marvellous step.
BY the way, the exact reason for Mr..
Muybridges Photographic studies was
dispute, backed up by bet between
Senator Stanford and another lover Of
horses as to whether all four feet of
trotting horse were ever off the ground
simultaneously. Senator Stanford took
the affirmative side of the question,
and the photographs proved that he was
in the right. 1t is worth recording
that Mr.. Muybridge, after his success
in this particular field, devoted his
Photographic art to the study of occu-
pational diseases and the recording of
muscular action in various lines of
work and recreation. He was far more
than mere Shutter snapper"
FRANK W. HOYT.
Montclair, N. j., Nov. IA, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
The Way Out

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some time ago, having felt ths
pinch of the high cost of living, in
stead of complaining about what other
people had or what other people ate,
| found employment in the home of a
highly educated family to help gener-
ally with the housework.
At present l am paid at the rate Of
So q day. I have benefited, mentally.
physically and financially, by the ex-
pertinent.
So, perhaps, if the wife of your cor
respondent who signs himself "Edu-
Gated" would put her pride in her
pocket and dispense with the luxury of
a woman to do her housework maybe
Educated" could have little real
butter and incidentally kinder feel
ing toward the uneducated worker.
l am the wife of fairly we'll edu-
Gated tradesman and the mother of
:hree American citizens; also the
proud employee Of a highly educated
gentleman. E. G.. NJ.
New York, Nov. 13. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
The Zooscope
With Other Recollecfions of
the First Mouie
q the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: May I add brief reminscence
to the interesting account given by
Thomas S. Weaver of the origin
of motion pictures? also am a news
paper man, and remember with pleas
ure several delightful interviews with
Mr.. Edouard Muybridge. After Mr..
Muybridge had succeeded in taking the
pictures of Leland Stanford's horse in
motion, thus permitting an analysis Of
the various attitudes of the animal, he
naturally desired to reproduce the pho
tographs; in other words, to recon-
struct the movement in order to learn
whether the effect on the human eye
would be precisely the same as in the
original motion. He Immediately
turned to popular toy OF the day,
called the "zooscope." This consisted
Of pastebonrd bandbox mounted on
stand SO that it could be revolved by
hand. Narrow perpendicular Sits were
cut all around the upper border, while
within were placed humorous drawings
representing progressive movements
When the top was spun around a glance
through the Sits gave, roughly, the
exact effect of the modern "movie car
toons." This succeeded admirably with
Mr.. Muybridge's photographs, and from
this crude toy to the projecting IAN
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

be. Senator Lodge, who preferred
amendments, has accepted reserva-
tions instead. Even Senators Borah
and Reed, although personally re-
garding the covenant of no value,
have apparently consented to vote
for ratification. The language of
the preamble is unnecessarily spe>
cific and may we'll be changed. Some
Of the reservations embody repeti-
tions and nothing would be lost by
their excision.
But as usual it is not certainty
that the President is even yet frank.
Senator Hitchcock looks over his
shoulder and talks of compromise.
Thus there is hint that the latest
White House declaration is another
maneuver, not a final statement. If
the threat is bluff and it is hoped
to defeat the treaty and then to
resurrect it, the President is play
ing desperate game and triles
with great matter.
If the treaty is killed no doubt
can be entertained of where history
will lodge the blame. The world
will have before it a case of infan-
ticide. 1t will be set down that an
American public man was so con-
trolled by pride that he was will
ing to sting his own to death rather
than to consent to co-guardianship.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

in the Senate published a round
robin, warning him and the con-
ference that his policy in Paris was
g. personal one.
He ignored this danger signal.
He renewed his assurances to Eu-
rope that American opinion was
overwhelmingly behind him. Lloyd
George and Clemenceau again ac-
cepted him as the true spokesman
of America. They were rash
enough to believe that his sigma
ture to treaty bound the United
States to it Internationally, al
though under our constitutional
system his signature was absolutely
Ineffective without the counter
signature of the Senate.
The United States did not and
could not enter into a contract at
Versailles. The Versailles ceremony
was only a first step. The Euro
pean allies were partly to blame if
they thought it was final step.
In the first sting of their annoy-
ance some European statesmen and
newspapers are saying hard things
about the Senate and the American
people. But the Senate and the
voters here are not to blame. They
did what they could do to enlighten
Europe as to the real situation.
The author Of their disappoint-
ments was President Wilson. He
led them astray. The obstacles to
ratification of the treaty were
created by him. His blunders have
nearly wrecked the work of the
conference. He is therefore now
under moral obligation to the
european powers to dc his utmost
to repair the consequences of those
blunders-by bringing about a
ratification which will save the
treaty and also protect the inter-
ests of the United States.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
The French Elections

Early election returns show a
strong drift in France toward ma
tionalism and moderatism. The war
has had the effect of uniting the
groups which want to maintain a
safe middle ground policy and check
dlslntegration. These groups CO.
operated in the election for Deputies.
and 1t is probable that they will
have two thirds majority in the
new Chamber.
The extreme Socialists lost ground
because of their internationalist and
paclilst tendencies. Pierre Renaudel,
the leader of the Majority Socialists.
and Jean Longuet, the leader of the
minority branch, have both been de-
feated. The CaillauN bloc of Radical
Socialists, the most dangerous of all
during the war, has been shot to
pieces. In the last Chamber it in
cluded originally about 175 mem
bers. Many Of these cut away after
Cai.laux and Malvy's activities as
defeatists were brought to light.
This group Will be impotent in the
rev Chamber, which viii evidently
be soberer and more representa-
tive body than its predecessor, and
far more competent to direct French
policy III these trying days of re.
construction.
The standard of membership has
probably been raised through the
operation of the new election law.
This abolished the small single dis
tricts and restored the sc,7etin de
hste, system by which groups of
Deputies arc chosen by big constitu-
encies. A very complicated scheme
IF quotients and remainders assures
minority representation, so that
every important element in the
country obtains a voice in the
Chamber.
This system has tended to ex-
tinguish the many small party
groups which were SO conspicuous
in the last Chamber. 1t helps to
solidify the voters into two main
parties. In this sense it may be said
to have created the new Moderate
party, which will control the lower
legislative branch by an exceptional
majority. And out Of this majority
government may be constructed
which will have the quality of per-
manency "a thing unknown in
French politics in recent years.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
4 Europe Gone Mad

On the other hand, Czernin has no IL
lusions about the will of peoples.
Clemenceau was bad enough, although
it is plain he admires him. but the real
trouble was the French people, who
would hear to no peace without Alsace-
Lorraine. The Italians were Just as
bad in the matter of the German-speak-
ing regions of the South Tyrol; as for
the Hungarians and the Germans, they
lived in world of vain imaginings.
what could responsible statesmen do :?
Just nothing. Czernin believes; the
world had gone mad, and its madness
marched ineluctably to the collapse.
Copyright 1919 by The Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
american. Solution impossible

Reading Czernin's account Of Rrest,
one understands Paris better. At Bu-
charest Czernin wanted to make
peace of understanding, but the Hun
garians insisted on new frontiers, the
Germans wanted all the industrial re-
sources, the Bulgarians wanted the
whole Of the Dobrudja and the Turks
at once began fighting the Bulgarians,
demanding compensations in their turn
The result was a peace which could
not last, q perpetuation of bitterness,
a peace of hatred almost Immediately
followed by new war, which is still
in progress, since the Rumanians con-
tinue in Budapest
To read Czernin is to perceive why
an American solution to the European
tangles was never possible, is to recog-
nize why the Fourteen Points would
not be accepted by Italians, Rumanians,
by any one on the Continent. Czernin
could not persuade his fellow country
men to make small concessions in the
matter Of the subject races when it
was matter of life and death. Hun
gary crashed down to utter ruin be-
cause it would not buy off Rumania
with an eighth of what Rumania now
occupies Italy made bargain at Lon
don and never for single moment
considered reducing her price, not even
after Caporetto.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
Z nheeded Reason

When Czernin approached the Hun
garians with She project that they buy
Rumania off by cessions in Transyl-
vania, he encountered equal opposi-
Tisza and all other Hungarians
could think only in Magyar, and the
integrity Of the Hungarian state was
the beginning of their thoughts. Nor
was he less battied in all attempts to
deal indirectly with the enemy. The
program, adopted at London in 1915,
when Italy came into the war, provided
FOR the destruction of the Hapsburg
empire. the division of the outer
flinges among Prussia, Italy, Rumania
and Serbia and the creation of sep
arate states.
Thus the dilemma was plain. If
Czernin led Austria to a separate peace
it would still be partitioned, while
Germany would attack it. But on the
other hand it was impossible to per-
suade Germany to make a general
peace because Germany expected vic
tory and saw red had magnificent de-
lusions, rose above all facts. To seek
a separate peace, then, was to commit
suicide out of fear of death.
No one would listen to reason; this
is Czernin's main argument, and he
makes it with real success. At Brest-
Litovsk the Bolshevists were mad. but
the Germans even madder With
Kuhlmann he got Trotzky into COM
paratiVelY reasonable mood and then
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
Europe's Chagrin

The governments with which
President Wilson dealt at Paris ap-
parently took at face value his as
surance that he spoke for America.
They confused his official status and
his moral authority.
He lost no opportunity of saying
that ne knew what the United
States wanted because he knew
what he himself wanted He told
the other peace delegates that he
could not go home and face his con-
stituency unless they let him have
his way on various questions. They
were too preoccupied, perhaps, to
notice that when he came back here
in February he said that he would
feel ashamed to face his colleagues
in the council unless the people of
the United States should sustain
him in the things he was doing in
the interest Of the world at large.
Europe accepted Mr.. Wilson as
the bearer of a mandate from the
American people. 1t supposed
though wrongly--that in accepting
his leadership it was accepting the
leadership of the United States.
That was the tragic error committed
at the peace conference. Not being
sufficiently familiar with our con-
stitutional system, the heads of the
European governments didn't un-
derstand that a President was not
a prime minister; could still hold
office, although unsupported by the
legislative branch; that he could
appear in great international
gathering with a policy all his own,
which had never been submitted to
the people he represented and
which lacked their approval.
Mr.. Wilson's various statements
of American war aims were purely
personal in character. Congress
declared war on Germany in April,
1917, and on AUSTRIA Hungary in
December, 1917. But neither dec
laration contained the least hint of
the causes or purposes for which,
OH various occasions, the President
announced that the United States
was fighting. His Fourteen Points
and his Four Principles were his
private definitions. Congress did
rot assist in framing them. The
country had but one chance to pass
on the Presidents general war
leadership. And at the election Of
1918 it did an unexampled thing
For the first time in our history a
party conducting a war was voted
out of power in both branches of
Congressman that in spite of a
prediction notice from the Presi-
dent that such a vote would greatly
hamper him in his conduct of for
eign affairs.
If we were living under a par
liamentary system Of government,
such as Great Britain, France and
Italy have, Mr.. Wilson could not
have gone to Paris, because he
would not have been in office. As
it was, the country didn't want him
to go. There was a strong protest,
even in the Democratic press,
against his going. Nevertheless he
went. He took only figurehead as
sociates with him, thus emphasiz-
ing the peculiarly personal nature
Of his mission. When he returned
in February last the Republicans