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Evening journal., 1919-03-07
BIRTHDAYS OF
FAMOUS AMERICANS
STEPHEN HOPKINS.

stephen Hopkins was born on the
7th of March. i707 at Scituate, II. !.
lie was elected member of the Cen
eral Assembly at Providence in 1893
and became chief justice OF the
Court OF Common Pleas In 1853. In
1888 he was elected governor OF the
State of Rhode Island and cOntin-
ned I'm that Office with exception OF
four years until i76S. lie was select
ed TO servo on ScN eral committees
having 10 do with the formation of
the Union and was elected 10 Con
grcss in i77i-76. He was placed on
the naval comm 'ttee neat after John
Hancock and was very instrumental,
in the formation Of the American
Navy lie was one OF the SignerS oi
the Declaration Of Independence
and filled some public service sta
tion for more than fifty years. In
1865 he published The Rights OF
the Colonies Examined" which was
reprinted in London. lie died at
Providence, Rhode Island on the
18th of July, iFS5.
Evening journal., 1919-03-07

They're figuring on introducing a
plan at the peace conference 70 redec-
crate the calendar-i3 months 20 the
year and IS days per month. II the
works go through the new year will
Start In as No. T. Things will be bayl-
ed up Ike a bowl Of spaghetti sounds
like the order Of international landlords
had finger in the hash. Thirteen nrsts
OF the month Tor rent aud bills. Wow :
Anybody born after the 2Sth Of the
month on the present calendar viii be
out Of luck for a birthday on the new
calendar VIII De a boon for the Nyo--
men. They can forget their real ace.
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Lieut.. Duke of the u. S. A.
Gets Goat of German Major

n. Z. A. Special TO The Evening Journal.
PARIS, March 7.--sheer Yankee nerve
and impudencel
That's what Lieutenant James H..
Duke, Of Washington, D. C. displayed
when he was brought before the com
mandaht OF o. German prison camp.
Duke got that officers goat the min
ute he entered quarters, and when he
left he had drawn two weeks Of soli-
tary confinement, but he went out
grinning
Duke was confined at Baihstatt.
He Is in the aviation service and the
German officer sent for him TO ask him
about american planes
Duke N-1tcred the majors office. look
ed about and saw the majors spiked
helmet hanging on the wall He hung
his own cap on The spike Of the helmet
The major was furious.
What did YOU do that for?" he de-
mandcd.
saw the spike there and supposed 70
was 70 hang cans oh, he replied coolly.
The major condemned his insolence
and when his wrath had subsided 80 he
could talk. ne began 10 ask about the
Liberty motor.
Duke at first refused 20 answer.
The major sputtered and grew red
with rage.
g. Duke seemingly relented. and asked
for pencil and paper lie drew a beau
tiful draft Of the Liberty motor He
talked at length on us wonderful ad-
yaniages. He told Of Americas advance
In aviation. He drew an expression OF
wonder from the major when be said
the Liberty motor could easily drive a
Evening journal., 1919-03-07

plane 800 miles an hour.
a popularity Of the American air
plane" he concluded. rs that when it
flies It flaps It's wings Ike bird"
ThCn the major blew up and Duke
drew his punishment FOR presuming 10
kid an officer or the Imperial army Of
Germany.
Evening journal., 1919-03-07

and start In on the new year as year
old. Judges cant hand out any 3o-day
sentences. Can't figure where they're
gonna crowd in the extra month. with
out squeezing the year all out OF shape,
Wen be celebration July iih in the a..
m. and Labor Day in the p. M the same
day. Aye for The good old i2-month
year. The Ayes have itl
Evening journal., 1919-03-07
FRENCH YOUNGSTERS
GET CAKE FIRST TIME

y. Z. A. Special TO The Evening Journal.
PARIS. March T.-Thousands Of
French children. up TO Ave years, are
Just beginning 10 learn what a cake is.
There have been no cakes. FOR the poor
Of France at least, during the war. Now
the sugar ration Is going up and sugar
Is easier to get
Evening journal., 1919-03-07
MORE THAN IS 600
WAR pUISONERS IOST

Me-. A. special TO The Evening Journal
LONDON. March More than 5000
men known 90 have been prisoners Of
war ih Germany are yet unaccdunied
for and the authorities are redouhllng
their efforts 90 locate them or account
for their disappearance,
Evening journal., 1919-03-07
SAME NUMBER KILLED IN
PARIS Is IN LONDON

BY the United Press.
LONDON, Feb. 20-,By Nlain.-The
total number OF mon. women and chill
dren killed IN Paris by air raids ana
the shelling by "Bg Bertha was 522
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
By Stephen Leacock

l have no difficulty whatever in NAM
Ing the books that used to read as
child. inasmuch as I am reading them
still: When l was about twelve years
old | began to read the "Pickwick Pa
pers,'" and I very soon decided that
Charles Dickens was the greatest writer
who ever lived on this earth. l have
seen no occasion since to revise that
Judgment. l read all of Dickens's
books, one after another The only
one that didn't care for was "The Old
Curiosity Shop" 1t seemed to me, as
it still does, very maudlin. AS for the
other books, they seemed to me marvel
Gus beyond words. At the time when
was reading Dickens for myself | was
being made to read at school such stuff
as Millions Paradise Lost" was glad
that it was lost. but wished that it had
been lost beyond recall. Millions writ
ings struck me, when little boy, as
poor pedantic sort of drivel, such as an
uninspired schoolmaster might write
l imagine that, if let them, they would
strike me in the same way now.
At the same time when | was reading
Dickens l was reading Mark Twain s
oooks--such of them as had appeared
with almost equal affection. "Tom Saw
YER | never cared for. But the limo
cents Abroad | ranked in my view Of
the history of human thought on the
same level as Sir Isaac Newton's "Prin-
cipia." l still rank it there. "Huck
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
By Haywood Broun

mere is an uncanny resemblance to
the literary style of the dead Colonel
in young Theodore Roosevclt's book.
Average Americans" published by Put
nam. Whole pages of it suggest the
book about Rough Riders in every turn
OF phrase and mannerism. There is the
same short sentence structure. the same
trick Of mentioning the name of some
officer or soldier and giving a little his
tory of his personality and achieve
ments IN 9 single paragraph. "Average
Americans" is an excellent book in set
ting forth the personal side of the
war. 1t is observant, vivid and humor-
Gus. When Colonel Roosevelt begins to
generalize from his observations we
find him & much less successful
pleader. There is also an unfortunate
tendency at times to a rather petty
spirit of criticism.
Except for one instance" writes
Colonel Roosevelt, 81 do not believe
there is single male member of the
families Of the Administration who felt
that his duty called him to be where
the tlghtng was, single male member
who heard a gun fired in anger -
This sort of innucndo should be be-
meath Roosevelt. But after all, even
i Colonel Roosevelt made his attack
directly by drawing up list of the male
relatives of the members of the Admin
istration, with the part that each
played in the war and why, what pur-
pose would it serve? We trust that
Colonel Roosevelt does not intend to
visit the sins of the children upon the
fathers, the errors of the nephews upon
the uncles. the crimes of cousins upon
cousins. The Rcosevelts themselves went
to war because they felt the impulse to
do so, not because they were sent or
ordered to 60 by their father
There are one or TWO other passages
which indicate the youthfulness of
Colonel Roosevelt-for instance, the
extraordinary statement, France has
no genius for politics. We were also
somewhat amazed by the Colonel's
complaint that the Presidents action
in setting aside the death penalty in
the case of the two young soldiers
who slept at their posts was "unjusti-
fable leniency." To US the author is
much more agreeable and interesting
when he is not taking the stern and
unyielding position Of the professional
soldier, but is unbending enough to
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
War Mysteries
Lives of Famous Spies
Described by Mr.. Barton

MysTERiEs OF THE uRnAT wNR WvJs
ny George Barton The Page Com
This collection of mystery tales of
the great war illustrates the hoary
platitude that truth is stranger than
notion. Mr.. Barton already has gained
a reputation as prolific author of de-
tective stories, but his present book.
based upon evidence taken from the
lilies Of the Department of Justice and
other sober and reliable sources, yields
to none of his imaginative tales in
mystery, fascination and excitement.
Mr.. Barton describes several out
standing tragedies Of the war: the ju-
dicial murders of Miss Cavell and Cap
tam Fryatt, the drowning of Lord
h'tchener, the fate of the former Car
and his family, which is still sur
rounded in obscurity, although the bulk
OF OF the the evidence seems to point to the
conclusion that Nicholas was executed.
he also gives an account of the careers
OF Roger Easement, the Irish leader
who was executed for treason after his
effort to raise q rebellion against the
British rule, and of Mata-Hari, the
Oriental dancer, who was executed by
the French as spy.
one OF the most interesting stories
is that os Bolo Pasha, the French spy
and adventurer. whose picturesque per-
sonality might we'll have come out of the
pages of Dumas novel. Mr.. Barton also
picks out several of the most exciting
incidents in the German campaign of
intrigue and propaganda within the
United States. One of the most daring
of these plots involved the shipment
of large quantity of arms from the
Pacific Coast ports into India. This de-
sign was frustrated largely through
the quarrels and jealousies Of the Hin
du plotters, and the whole affair came
to highly dramatic conclusion in a
shooting afFray in a San Francisco po-
! lice court. Excellent both in selection
and in narration, Mr.. Barton's collec-
tion of stories throws a good deal of
light upon many of the mysterious epi-
sodes which the war produced all over
the world
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
Average Americans -
Much Amusing and Shrewd Comment by Young
Colonel theodore Roosevet-Aso Some Preaching

have little fun with some of our
military methods. Upon occasion he
does this with delightfully."- light
touch, as in his description of the use
OF codes at the front, concerning which
he writes:
eve began here also for the first
time to play with that most elusive Of
all military amusements, the CODE In
order that the Germans. in listening
IN on our telephone conversations,
might not know what we were about,
everything was put in code or cipher.
The high command issued to us the
Napoleon code The Napoleon code is
written entirely in French, with the
result that only a few could send. mes
sages. General Hines, then colonel Of
the 10th Infantry, realized that this
was poor idea, so he made up code
of his own. This code went by the
name of the Cauiflower Code, and the
commanding officer his adjutant, etc,
IN every place were given distinctive
names.
Conversation ran something like this {:
Hello, hello, want Hannibal. Hannibal
is not there. Give me Brains Brains,
this is the King Of Essex talking Sun
flower. No, balloons, tomatoes, aspara-
gus. No, no. l said no balloonsl Oh,
''.'i'A', my hitCHcuS maven I come. INe
them sent up"
Later the code seemed to work grea
deal better, as we find an account of an
order for raid, which was delivered
over the telephone in this fashion,
Hello, hello, is this Hannibal? Han
nibal there is friend we have back in
the country who is very fond Of rad
ishes. He wants one for breakfast TO-
morrow morning without fail" Where
upon Colonel Roosevelt knew at once
that the "friend back in the country"
was the brigadier general, that the rad
ishes were prisoners and that he must
make a raid and bring back ut least
one German for identification pur-
poses before morning.
Later we find an amusing comment on
the French attitude toward American
mass bathing. "To our stad Amer-
cans" writes Roosevelt, 'the unconven-
tional attitude of interest in bathing
troops displayed by the French inhabi-
tants Of all ages and both sexes was a
source Of constant embarrassment.
have known a platoon sergeant to guide
his men to quite a distant point to take
their baths. When asked him why, he
replied, Sir, it isn't decent with all them
frogs looking on"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
Russian Impressions
Experiences in Russia
Under Bolshevik Rule

sayler Little. Brown q Co.. Boston.
The first books published in America
about Russia after the Russian Revo-
luton were generally impressionistic
rather than controversial in their
tendency. Few American authors were
in a position to comprehend the fierce
interplay of contending forces, the des-
perate struggle for power that COM
menced Immediately after the down
fall Of the Car. 1t was much simpler
and easier to describe and comment
upon the many picturesque external
features of Russian life; the endless
parades and demonstrations, the fiery
speeches, the innumersble manifesta-
tions of new life that seemed to spring
up spontaneously as the oppressive
control of the bureaucracy was re-
moved.
Later, especially after the November
revolution, we were deluged with prop
aganda of all descriptions; monarchist
propaganda, Kerensky propaganda. Boil
shevik propaganda, propaganda for in
tervention, propaganda against inter
vention. Mr.. Sayler's book represents
something of reversion to the more
impartial, impressio sionistic attitude. His
interest in Russia is artistic rather
than political. His sympathy with the
Russians, which is quick and warm, is
extended to the whole people and not
limited to any particular class or fac
ton.
Mr. Sayler entered Russia by way of
Vladivostok and arrived in Moscow just
after the Kerensky government had
been overthrown in the late fall of
1917. He gives an eloquent description
Of the venerable city, still beautiful
and majestic despite the ravages of
revolution and civil war. He was pro-
foundly impressed by the great public
funeral services held in honor of the
victims of both sides who fell in the
course Of the previous street fighting
The author left Moscow on the Trans
Siberian express, stopping at the large
Nolga town of Samara. Here he Sc
cured a copy of the famous decree for
the naturalization of women which
has aroused so much discussion outside
of Russia. The decree was ostensibly
issued by the anarchist club of Saratov,
town further down the volga River;
but the anarchists Of Samara indig-
nantly denounced the document as q
forgery and "frame-up." There was
strong suspicion that the Bolsheviki,
who were carrying on a bitter struggle
with the anarchists in Samara and
Saratov, had invented the decree" for
the purpose of discrediting their oppo-
nentS.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
Creative Chemistry
Edwin E. Slosson Work
Readable and Scientific

slosson. The Century Company. New
York.
This new work Alls a void. 1t, ,com-
bines the accuracy of technical
scientific work with the simplicity of
book expressly for the layman, and
the style of novel. The general
reader who would fulfill his "moral
obligation to be intelligent" need not
wade through the ohscuring TECHNICAL
ties of the text-book, race through the
meaningless fairy stories Of the aver
ege popular work, or traverse the
intermediate path of the pseudo -scien-
tific book. To read Creative Chem
istry" is not only to enjoy, but to
understand. The latest achievements
in the scientific field are thoroughly
covsrsd By writer who Il qualified.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
Can't He Take a Joke,

On the strength of your article in
which you give. the perplexed young
man advice on choosing a wife | have
received long distance proposal,
based, am sure, solely on the fact that
Alice in Wonderland" is our mutual
Bible and the Bah Ballads our Psalms.
Now, Mr.. Broun, l ask, Is this sufficient
basis for the insoluble linking of two
lives; will a verse from you Are Old
Father William" soothe him when the
chops are underdone. and will a chap
ter from Alice's visit with Looking
Glass royalty explain away my temper
and lack of logic?
fancy that / am in duty bound to
refuse the proposal and advise the
young man seriously that you are
fraud as Solomon. and that the choice
of wife should depend solely on her
close perusaI and happy choice of such
books as ''The Brides Cook Book and
THE Compleat Housewife"
THERESE JOSEPHS.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06

completed record Of The five years
struggle.
In performing this Herculean task
he drew, as his title page reminds rs
from practically every available cur
rent source. The army of war CORE
spondents and the press OF the world,
as we'll as innumerable official reports
and documents, all were made to pro-
vide grist for his omnivorous yet dis
eliminating MILL and all were frankly
and generously credited with their con-
! tributions. But, OF course, it was not
mere scrapbook work of clipping and
pasting. Apart from occasional quota
tions Of ipsissima vesba. everything
was carefully selected, judged, digested
end resXprcsscd in Mr.. Haiseys own
terse but fluent and lucid style No.
the least admirable feature Of it was
the arrangement which was partly
chronological and partly topical. both
in the volumes and in their contained
chapters; an arrangement which added
greatly 10 the labor of authorship, and
which adds lnmeasurably to the utility
OF the work to the reader.
We have called it a journalists his
tory; not unmindfu of yet certainly
not deferred by the too common and
facile sneer at journalism as unworthy
Of equal recognition in literature. For
we nave itol lailSu 10 oDSerNe lnal
nothing is more valued by the
Brahminical and Rhadamanthine his
torian in writing OF events of century
ago than some random treasure -trove
scrap Of an old newspaper of those
times. If the product of the mere
journalist be thus esteemed genera
tions after date, we at least shall not
deny it equal credit in its own day,
and shall set down as an unsurpassed
benefactor both of the present and OF
postcrty the man who, like Mr.. Halsey,
makes the gist of worldwide journal
ism available for world wide readers
to read and writer's to use as the
! foundation Of their more deliberate
works.
The facts and figures, the dates and
details, erspicuously presented in
! these volumes are simply encyclopedia
in their variety and range, and are IN
valuable for reference. Yet they are
so employed as nowhere to give an air
OF statistical dryness to the work,
which is essentially narrative in style.
There is q profusion of illustrations
of all kinds, including many photo
graphs from official sources, and there
small. There is not q page Of pad
ding with official documents or other
wise; indeed, if we were inclined 10 be
critical we might say that a more ex-
tended use OF documents might profit
ably have been made. Still they are
all readily available elsewhere, and
that cannot be said of the matter which
takes their place. SO on the whole Mr..
Halsey's judgment in that respect as
we'll as others will stand approved.
". F. J.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06

TIE LITERARY DIGEST HISTORY OF
mMA Iir, WoRiD wAE. Compiled from
f.merican. British. French. fierrnan ard
thers. By Francis Whiting Iialsey.
Funk II 'sa :. wasnalis S2lsmui CO. 3s"0 Illustrated
A certain mournful and vet tri
umphant interest attaches TO these vol
umes, from the fact that in the prep
aratlon OF them their author-publisher
SO unsparlngly expended his strength
as to hasten, doubtless, the end of his
useful life, which occurred almost
simultaneously with the appearance of
ms history from the press. Mr.. Hal
sey's career, begun on the staff of The
lrlbune many years ago. and pursued
with Industry and integrity always in
the most honorable walks Of his chosen
prof. icsslon. was marked with many fine
achievements. and its ending was -
grlef to multitudcs beside the old as
soclates who were attached to his per
sonality AS we'll as to his works. Yet,
1t was something in which he himself
so promptly and so satisfactorily to
complete an undertaking which he was
doubtless will ing to regard as the
magnum opus Of his endeavors.
For he was essentially a journalist,
and this is essentially a journalist s
history of the great war; perhaps we
might say that is the journalists his
tory, for we should doubt if a serious
rival to it in its own peculiar line will
ever appear. In view of the com
pleteness of this, there would seem TO
be no room for one; though there must
always be room for this in every COM
plete library Of war literature 1t is
not, of course. the defnitive history
of the war. That yet remains to be
written; perhaps its writer is yet to
be born. We have seen in ou own
day histories of the Napoleonic wars
and fthe American Revolutionary
times far surprising in definitive
qualities all that had preceded them
and indeed filling what ha dthitherto
been, for a century, voids. So the ul-
innate record Of the Huns war against
civilization may be postponed to sum
mers that we shall not see"
Meanwhile there is the immeasure
able food of current information, i'm
preston, and what not, which contains
the absolutely indispensable materia
from which that final history must be
written. 1t must not be lost 1t mus
in some way be impounded, and it's con
tents judiciously and arehens;vel
examined and filtered, and that which i:
of genuine interest and permanen
value stored in convenient form ant
manner for future use; serving also
current use Of the first order. That wa
the gigantic task to which Mr.. Halse,
addressed himself at the beginning O.
the war, and at which he labored s.
unremittingly and efficiently that h.
was able practically to keep pace will
the marching armies, and to meet thu
making Of the treaty of peace with th'
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06

young persons-say from twelve tc
nIteen-are the best readers indeed
the only real readers. Grown~u,
adults are badly damaged They read
in an inattentive way, with no real
effort Of mental power to fuse The
picture before them in the white heat
of imagination. They read and for.
get. They would pass by Weller and
never sec him. They would forgot
Huck Finn's name overnight. Their
judgments are the standard Of educa.
tion and their admiration lies dead
in the grave of their childhood. For
real literary success let me tell a fairv
story to the listening ears and the
wondering face Of my little son OF
four.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06

an unusual amount of adroit maneu
vering that he was able to induce many
Of them to part with certain items.
Many extremely rare items may be
lad in both England and France at
the present time, however, according
to Mr.. Stafford, by the patient searcher.
To cite but one instance, in little out
of the way shop in London he stumbled
on beautiful specimen of the exces-
sivelv rare edition OF Shelley's "Queen
NAB with Saeley's dedication and
imprint intact this is The edition, it
fvill b. recalled, from which the noet
tore the dedication to his wife, his i'm
print ana the colophon from all but q
feu copies.