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New-York tribune., 1919-09-28


BACK TO THE STARS
AN ADVERTISEMENT or WORTH
1SS$ZAR R. FRANK CRANE EA ~ T is obvious as most
b, ,ESSM7N that the M kN Great ThnoSir this
}yz trouble with good E3 81 world world arc 'z''' ''>
deal of what is
called success is that it does IS management OF
1,ot 10 on h.c1, f,r a,h WORTH has simply cleared
the ground of all sand and
- 'oo~7eo 'ed"y' you soil and debris and gone down
must go way, way back 10 Red Rock
back the stars. That is
back the fundamentals Because it is House that
Back to the Ter Command is built upon the Rock it
n7ents stands.
One of the striking Sue WORTH understand I'LL
in New York. the City man Nature and knows that
of Business Miracles is Human Nature At bottom, is
WORTH. Good, Square and Fair
Only a few years All the little Cheatings
WORTH was one OF thou Lying and Selfish Tricks are
sand, just struggling along Superficial Folks are not
the line, private in the ranks, really so.
nothing distinctive
WORTH has banked on
Aoody e V!0N1n II estao- the absolute Fairness of Peo-
ishn1ent is acknowledged n1a ,,a 1,ao
leader. Why?
Strict, absolute and invari-
~ 1 1 ~ able dependablity is the rule
4- Of this
isfacti0n they receive this paoo1o ,ro ,,;,1;,o
''o~ for what they get, but they do
WORTH is established in to be deceived
Public Opinion
1t this Fundamental
IL has clhnoeu III ew Trait Of the human race that
years 20 ele enV'oo.0 10 - WORTH has gone back to
'e ~ " when the foundations of this
business laid.
The reason for this is not
far to seek. It is not at all Back to the Stars
strange complex.
1913
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Birds as Tacticians
In Self-Defence

TT has been pointed out that the
military tactics which a com
= mander may employ to deceive
the enemy are practised in limited
way by many birds.
There Is nothing more interesting In
the study Of bird life than the efforts
to deceive which many species put
forth to save their young or their nests
from the despoiler. They flutter Jus,
in front Of the trespasser to attract
"broken'' wing dragging on the
ground, emitting cries Of distress.
The bo0white (commonly called
quail) is a most notable tactician IN
this kind OF deception. This bird II
physically helpless in the face o.
danger, possessing no weapons. rs
power of swift flight for short dis
lance Is great. but when there are H.
tie bobwhites to protect the mother
will not leave them. The nest IS a.
ways on the ground. and the eggs are
thus peculiarly open to the ravages OF
snakes and other enemies.
There are sometimes a score of eggs.
sharply pointed at one end and round
ut the other, SO that space in the nest
is economical. The chicks quit their
birthplace before they are fairly out ot
| tho shell.
They inherit a knowledge Of ira
family vernacular. and each little head
about the size OF a pea, holds quick
perception and resoluto will. II dar-
ger threatens the brood, the mother
bird calls. The young all go dead in
stantly; they drop down wherever
they chance to be at the moment. 4
man or a boy might step on them
they are almost invisible among the
dry leaves and grass. The mother
bird renders herself very conspicucg,
futtering with a broken wing"
The morning dove is another tinid
and helpless creature: she also tries
the broken wing ruse to divert dan
ger from her nest. The dove acquired
| the broken wing habit OF deception
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rude cross and the splash OF black
wings where a wind blown in sinister
crow circles against the leaden sky.
perhaps has gripped the attention OF
visitors to the show more than any
picture In the collection.
The reason for it's hold on tho vlsl-
tors is easy to understand; the visitors
who don't know anything about art
but what they like" are held by the
picture because Of the tragic gloom
OF the subject, and visiting artists
stand contemplatively before the car
vas because technically the painting
IL a most praiseworthy contribution
to contemporary American art.
Scattered throughout the exhibition
are dozens OF charming bits OF mar
tial genre in oil or charcoal and larger
works Of a high average Of merit, u
which is lent an added interest 10
even the inartistic because of tho ra-
ture of the subjects. Altogether the
exhibition is attractive to wide va
riety of picture lovers, from the
learned who appreciates technique -
the parent who knows nothing about
art but knows what he likes" and
besides, has q son still over there.
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the opinion Of Mr.. woolf and his home
folks.
For the artist, while pursuing as-
thetic loneliness along the American
fighting fronts in France during the
was gassed at Rambucourt; had to
sleep for several nights in a first aid
station to the lullaby OF clicging sur
gical instruments and the groans OF the
wounded few feet away. Three SOL
diers. all American boys. were blown
to death by high explosive
beside Mr.. Woolf near Seiche-
prey as he and the three doughboys
raced across a field together in the
general direction of Germany.
A moment later shrapnel ripped open
the artists hand. but he thought so lit
tie OF the wound that he dressed II
himself and forgot the experience until
more than a week later. an American
army surgeon insisted upon removing
the amateur bandaging and giving the
wound more scientific treatment.
Again Mr.. Woolf indirectly was
compelled by the Huns. on another
occasion. to turn cook for several days.
While billeted with some officers OF
the 26th Division shell came through
a window and laid out the cooks.
whereupon Mr.. Woolf and n Massa-
chusetts chaplain, the Rev. Father
OConnor OF the 1O1st Infantry. for
some days had to forget things OF es-
thetics and the soul and rustic up
meals for the officers of the line.
And in my way I made fairly good
as a cook, even If don't know any
thing beyond boiling water" said Mr..
Woolf when encountered in the peace
full atmosphere of Mr.. Woolf's war
like exhibition at the Mich Galleries
one day last week. IN all modesty
can say that I was even a better cook
than my culinary colleague, Chap
lain O'Connor. I could't cook bit
better than he, but l could steal bet
ter"
"Steal?"
"Well, maybe steal is too harsh a
word. When it came to getting the
first meal. you see, Chaplain O'Connor
and I persuaded each other to confess
that we didn't know how to make
toast. tea, or boil an egg. I whispered
to the chaplain. who Is a very sanity
man, that I knew Of a cook shack go
close to our cookless kitchen that IL
we were to wander In there and pre-
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tend to be helping them with the
kitchen work We could run back to
our kitchen with their cooked food
and serve 1t before the swiped stun
had a chance to get cold.
But this Chaplain OConnor not
only was very familiar with the Com
nandments. but always kept them.
even in time Of war temptations. l
tried to drag him down to my own
level. even taking him over near
enough to the rival cook shack 70 get
a Whit of some roasting turkeys that
the real cooks nearby had got hold OF
somehow. Nothing doing. So l framed
1t up to have tho chaplain sent on a
foraging trip for bareback or some
thing.
ut was Easter. remember
Chaplain OConnor started off on his
errand and, when he was out Of sight,
l hotfooted It Off on little errand Of
my own. I shall delete the details Of
my trip. But I'll say this for mys"'
when Chaplain OConnor came III
sight fifteen minutes later he dis
covered me in the act Of removing
from our old cook stove the finest
QUICKEST, Dest DTOWHeu TURKEY our ilesS
ever had eaten. at home or abroad
That was the swiftest cooking I
ever did-about 100 yards in eleven
and a fraction seconds, which isn't so
slow when you stop to remember that
I was handicapped with about twelve
extra pounds Of hot turkey on the
home trip"
But didn't the sanity chaplain
think 1t strange that
"He thought It was the best cooked
turkey he ever had eaten. What else
he thought I don't know. And that
turkey. which / alone procured. cooked
and served in a fraction under fifteen
minutes, made such n hit with tho
officers that they decided then and
there to give me the Distinguished
Service Cross. But on Easter Mon
day. not daring to go back TO the
cook shack near by, I tried to cook
meal unassisted. The mess not only
decided not to give me n decoration
but also threw me out OF the Kitchen
Thereafter Mr.. Woolf tried to forget
his failure as a cook by devoting him
self to pictorial art between explo-
sions. A glance at the many walls
OF his paintings and drawings now
on display at the Mich Galleries prove
Immediately to the discerning that the
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r ClemenCeau'S Love Romance in Am

which he never presented, so far as
records show.
Later ne took n house for himself
in West Twelfth street and hung out
shingle. He wrote home that he had
quickly noticed two things-the Amer
leans had mo general ideas and no
good coffee" His practice no more
interfered with his career than did
DR.. Watson's. and he spent his tina
travelling and writing until, being
short of funds. he obtained, through
Greenwich Village friend named Eu-
gene Bush, a place as teacher OF
French in the finishing school In
Stamford conducted by Miss Catherine
Aiken. As always in schools OF It's
kind French was in great request.
Clemenceau, far from playing tiger
in the doveCote, showed himself an
excellent, satisfactory and thoroughly
tranquil teacher. One of his pupils
may have had something to do with
It. She was Miss Mary f. Plummer.
orphaned daughter OF doctor in
Springfield. Mass. At the time she
elected young DR.. Cemenceau's course
it was said of her that she was the
one girl in the school who wasn't en-
gagged
It may or may not be Clemenceau
and Miss Plummer who are repre-
sented in the foreground of the pic
ture as taking n drive behind a pair
OF spanking trotters. They speedily
| fell in love, but Clemenceau's sense OF
propriety withheld his declaration I'M
| til his sweetheart was graduated and
had come of age. After that he had
to make two flying trips to France to
get his own family's consent
He married Miss Plummer in the
New York City Hall on June %, 1869.
The Mayor, Oakley Hall-within two
years to become notorious through the
Tweed Observation-Disclosures Glenn
enceau selected him, not as Elegant
Oakley" but as Mayor. because he him
self did not believe in a religious cere-
mony. Shortly after the marriage he
took his bride to France They lived
together moro than twenty years. BY
this American wife Clemenceau had
two sons and daughter. In 1892 the
couple were divorced.
The Aiken school in Stamford was
originally established on Henry street
In 1855. In 1862 II was removed to
Clark's Hill, where II was in Prof.
Clcmenceau's time. Still later II was
removed again, 20 n building called
Gothic Hall, and yet again to what
is now the site Of the congregational
church. The illustration OF It is an
old woodcut. taken from a book that
was published In 1858.
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from his "Ready to Go In" which is
No. 81 at his present picture show,
to "IIome Again" tNo. 110). The
Home Again" number is the only
picture in the exhibition that, geo.
graphically speaking, has to do with
an American subject.
Mr.. Woolf made the drawing. which
Ia a stirring sketch in charcoal OF a
troopship arriving here and wonder
fully expressive OF tho close massed
humans and the hurrah of transport
docking in home waters, to illustrate
an article soon to appear in the Red
Cross Magazine.
Nowhere will one find in the Woolf
exhibition a hint OF the false, dress
parade, mock heroics side OF war
which. unfortunately. was fed by the
square mile to America during or i'm
mediately after our former wars. or
back in the days when pictorial real
ism had not yet begun to fold and put
permanently on the shelf the highly
tailored art" OF silly period. There
isn't painting or drawing in the pres
ent show at the Mich Galleries which
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Amid Front Line Fighting Yields Results Despite Odd
Exhibition at Mich Galleries Shows War in Its Horrors
Though the Collection of 100 Paintings and
Charcoals Includes Several Portraits

Paris, bought a little thumb box out
fit, and rushed back again among the
bullets, the only civilian at the front
with official permission to draw and
paint what he saw.
He saw much. For four months he
lived and worked amid horrors. suf-
fering and sudden death at the hot
spots along the st. Mihiel sector, at
Seicheprey. Xivray. Aprcmont. Ram
bucourt. and other places where the
supply of superheated warmth did not
depend upon the within OF a studio
apartment janitor.
Even the busiest men OF the war
seemed to have been able between
bangs to give sittings to the young
American artist whilo the war was
at its worst. Number Fl in the
present exhibition is splendidly
modelled" portrait in oil Of Gen.
Pershing, excellent in color and tone.
for which Gen. Pershing gave sittings
to Mr.. Woolf during far scattered
leisure moments at the American
headquarters in Paris.
Mr.. Woolf persuaded about dozen
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Living Nj O d els
Bl wn to Bits
Sketches Destroyed
and w un d e d
Hand Incidents of
S. ]. Woolf S Ex-
perience
BY FRANK WARD o'MALLEY.

|HAT aesthetic serenity which
popularity is supposed to food
Il the soul of genius when in the
throes OF creative art is sure to so all
to Dot If a high explosive shell. just
when the artist is dabbing at his pic
ture, goes off close by with roar
like the racket in a South Boston
Democratic convention when the COM
mittee on contested seats begins TO
try to throw out the undesirables.
High powered Interruptions of that
kind not only play hob with the ar
lists nerves but also with the pic
ture. Even IL both artist and picture
are not instantly obliterated the dy-
manic interruption is sure to play the
deuce with tho half finished painting
or drawing; the artist ducks and his
picture flops-always face downward
into the mud Of the fighting trench.
Once a picture has been buried even
half foot in French mud it hasn't
chance any place thereafter outside OF
The cubist- futurist picture show which
John Sloan. Jimmy Gregg and the So
clety Of Independent Artists pull OF
underline very noses Of the New York
police each year.
Not once does Ruskin in all three
volumes of his Modern Painters" de-
vote so much as a chapter to the sub
ject of How to Paint War Stuff
Under Fire and Get Away With It
not even a line. And yet, to Judge
from the experiences Of the accom-
plished young American painter and
illustrator s. J. Woolf, who has painted
and drawn the great war from A 20
lizard, no didactic treatise on pic
torial art henceforth can hope to lie
complete without exhaustive direc-
tons as to protective styles in artists
tin hats and chain armor and sugges-
tions as to the best methods for water
proofng, fireproofing and shock alb
sonoing ones canvases.
Above all. the fighting front is no
PLACE for china painting. When young
Mr.. Woolf, for instance, was nicked
on the hand by shrapnel while MAX
ing a thumbnail oil sketch in the
midst Of the fighting at Seicheprey on
April 81 last, the shrapnel merely
bounced off his bones and cut the oil
sketch into two equal parts. If cam
vas is cut in half any seamstress can
stitch 1t together again as good as
new, or IL shrapnel splits a painting
on wood apart, all one has 10 do is to
have the town carpenter repair il
along tho rear elevation with some
tenpenny nails and a cleat. But II
a high explosive gets mixed up with
a china sugar bowl. partly decorated
with hand painted pink roses-blooey!
Ruin, just ruin, that's ali,
In the catalogue Of the exhibition
Of more than 100 paintings and draw
ings which Mr.. Woolf made at the
front during the war and is now show
inS-until Feb. 15-at the Mich CAL
leries. 1903 West Fifty-seventh street,
there is foreword by A. +. Gallatin
in which Mr.. Gallatin dwels on the
item that the artists heated expert
ences at the front saturated Mr..
Woolf with his subject OF modern
war" Mr.. Gallatin. who is chairman
OF the committee on exhibitions OF the
Committee on Public Information, di-
vision OF pictorial publicity, isn't
guilty OF hyperbole-certainly not in
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Is likely to call up even vague memo
ries of the Washington Crossing the
Delaware"
Mr.. Woolf went abroad primarily to
make drawings for magazine about
the time that Haig had his back to
the wall" and things looked gloomy
for democracy. Being unable to get
credentials which would permit him
10 go to France solely as an artist. he
persuaded the War Department to let
him go as a correspondent entitled to
make paintings and drawings.
Once In France he headed immedl-
ately for front line trenches, wherc he
found the painting equipment he had
brought along was impracticable in
fighting zones. He hurried back to
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BACK TO REST BIllETS .

other famous warriors to pose for him
also. Fight OF these portraits, all
drawn in charcoal and DISTINGUISHED
for their feel for character. are hung
at Mr.. Woolf's exhibition AT the Mich
Galleries: the subjects being Marshal
Joffre and American officers that in
cludc Gems Liggctt. Bullard, Coo. Ed
wards and Alexander. and Coils. l.. NJ
Lowell and Edward l.. Logan. All the
portraits, except, of course. the paint
ing of l'crshng, are AUTOGRAPHED by
the subjects. thus adding historical
value AS war re, ords 20 DRAWINGS Of
much nsthetic worth
a CTL'r ou tA' M-.ar," Sowing Il
gloomy stretch of storm swept field
and sky that are relieved only by a
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When the Tiger, Professor Wooed Miss Plummer. His
Pupil, in Stamford School

afraid, but he was sensible. He meant
to live to see France permanently free
and to play a role in bringing it about.
He came TO New York. making his
home with William T.. Marshall. an
American artist and engraver. whose
portrait engraving of Washington eX-
hibited at the Louvre had caught the
eye of Clemenceaus republican pas
sion. The address was III Broadway.
Cleinenceau brought with him letters
of introduction TO Horace Greeley,
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OF liberty first, last and all the time,
had come to the United States during
the civir war period. He came to
breathe free air. His need Of 1t was a
matter of practical urgency. The Gov
ernment of Napoleon III, which--and
whom-the young man desp!sed and
challenged, did not approve of youthful
firebrands who on revolutionary an
niversaries organized a parade of their
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while the tribe Yet nested on ~
ground Tho habit persists al'houl'
rather ludicrous when exercised on th'
bouEh OF tree or on the top ~
rail fence.
The domestic goose is derived tr'in
wild species, Tho pioneer settlers saw
their domestic geese rHn Wild ~
bushes ana nlmos, revert o. t''F
primitive state. Now the COOS" G -
structs very rrctcutious nest o''
ground, Tic olgS arc SO large anu
white that they won'i attract .'
friendly not.ec a. considerable DE-
lance. To avoid this dangerous =
i,ity to eggs are rar"ruN '".
over when the owner l,u'cs IN"
even for short time,
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fellow university students to march
around the Place of the Bastile shout
ing Long live the Republic"
That Clemenceau had done: he had
also done two months in consequence.
Getting out. he was permitted to finish
his course and take his medical de-
gree. after which, there are grounds
for believing, II was intimated to him
that the air of France under the Third
Empire was likely not to agree with
his constitution. The Tiger cub wasn't
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r. HE love romance Of the yout

tn he love romance OF tEe youth
of Clemenceau - Cleme nceau
the Tiger, pilot OF France. as
her Premier, to victory and now chair
man of the world Peace Conference at
Versailles-had its background IN this
country and an American girl for its
heroine. To be more exact, the scene
was Stamford. Conn; to localize it still
further, Miss Aiken's Seminary for
Young Ladies', then a show cultural
feature OF the old south shore Connec-
ucut town.
AS is we'll known, the young Glenn
enceau. doctor by profession. jour
nalist on the side and a radical lover
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exhibition that Mr.. Wooif blends an
immense amount OF industry with his
talents and technical facility. He has
painted and sketched the great war
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-28
REDS PLANNED BIC
OFFENSIVE AGAINST
MERICAN TROOPS

ICY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WiRgl
London, Feb. 27.--What is purport-
ed to be copy of the fun plans of
the Bolshevik in Russian during 1919,
has come into the possession of the
British government. one of the prin-
cipal offensives was planned for the
Archagel front 1t is indicated, how
ever, that the Bolsheviki are massing
troops there for Il greater effort. They
plan to maintain only a defensive
force on the Murman front and Fin
nish frotier.
In the west the Bolshcviki decided
to undertake an attack from Narva to
DVnsk, with the object of oyer-run-
ming Esthonia and LetVia and occu-
pylng Riga, Libau and Reval. They
have captured Riga and still hold it.
They also took Libau, but have been
driven out, The plans to hold Es-
thonia have failed completely and the
advance into Lctva has been checked
east of Iibau The Rolshevik plan of
following the retiring German regi-
ments in western Russia and organiz-
ing the territory under military ad-
minstration has been successful
The Boisheviki have been successful
in their plans to oVerIun the Ukraine
and to force the anti Bolsheviki vol.
untcer army and the Cossacks across
the river Don. Their plans to hold the
northern part of thet Caucasus and to
take all the Caspian ports have been
shattered. however, by the army of
General Denikine.
on the east they planned to attack
on two wings--toward Orenburg,
where they have been successful, and
toward Ekaterinburg. where they
have been defeated and now are 230
miles from their objective.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-28
SOVIET REPUBLIC IN
BAVARIA POSTPONED
icy MORNING JOURNAL srtc,A, leased wrsrl

Berlin, Wednesday. Feb 26 (hy the
Associated Press) The soviet con
gress IN Munich has not yet reached
an agreement regarding the proposal
to proclaim soviet republic in Ba-
varia, to which the regular socialists
are strongly opposed According 10
reports received here the prospects
for the adoption of this measure by
the Munich proletariat which would
signify complete breach with the
national government, are not as strong
as formerly.
The Munich congress however, has
adopted several radical measures. in
cluding one providing for dwellings
for workingmen and one for the reg
ulation of the non-socialist press. The
housing commissioner is given dicta-
torial power to seize palaces, villas
and barracks and convert them into
lodgings for the working people.
The non socialist newspapers are
compelled to publish proletariat prop
aganda and the clerical or"an. the
Bayerische Kurier, with socialist
humor, has been selected TO publish
series of articles preaching atheism
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-28
PALMER NOMINATED
ATTORNEY GENE RAJ
BY THE PRESIDENT


Washington, Feb. 27.--A. Mitchell
Palmer today was nominated by Pres
ident Wilson to be attorney general,
Mr.. Palmer probably will take Of
flee March 4, the date tentatively
fixed by Attorney General Gregory
for his retirement when he resigned
several months ago to return to pri-
vate practice of law.
The resignation of Mr. Palmer as
alien property custodian has not been
announced and there has been no In
timation as to who may succeed him
in that office.
Mr. Palmer is a native of Strouds-
burg, Pa, and AZ years old. He grad
uated from Swarthmore college IN
1891 and two years later was admit
ted to the bar.
In 1908 he was elected to congress
and served three terms from the 26th
Pennsylvania district, becoming n
member of the committee on ways
and means and framing the metal
schedule in the Underwood bill. Since
1912 he has been a member of the
national democratic committee. In
1915 he was appointed by President
Wilson judge of the United States
court of claims, but declined to ac-
cept it, 1t was generally reported
that he was offered the war portfolio
in President Wilson's first cabinet,
but asked to be excused because he
was Quaker. In October. 1917
President Wilson named him alien
property custodian