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New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
The Land of the Turk

Mathews ismo, pp 30 The % George T. T. porsn SSsl
Company.
Within the small space of the slightly
more than two hundred pages of this
little book there is material which is of
vital interest to every earnest student
of world affairs to-day. For, while the
great international conflict may have
temporarily turned our eyes away
from Asiatic countries during the pc
riod of reconstruction, the problems
of the East cannot be ignored. The
first part of the book is given up to a
very condensed but exceedingly read
able history of nearer Asia" from its
beginnings in the remoteness of almost
prehistoric times-for Asia has been
justly called the "crade of nations"--
down to the birth of Christ. The COM
ing of christianity to a disordered
and splendidly told. The author de-
velops carefully and in an exceedingly
readable manner the essentials of the
Christian faith and its message. He
then turns to "the challenge of Islam
and the reasons for it's failure as a
working religion for the redemption of
mankind the despotic, ignorant and
depraved character of its creator, it's
low ideals of manhood and womanhood,
ltS eHerVdtlH2 eHecC ana, ABOVE all, lCS
inability to create in its believers a
real sense Of honor and duty and JUS
tice Professor Mathews does not
shrink from a detailed relation Of the
Turkish atrocities in Armenia, and he
backs up his conclusions with all too
convincing facts. The Arabian is shown
as a better type of the worshippers of
Allah than the Turk, because the Arab
has a chance to gain some vision from
his contact with nature, with the wide
spaces of plains and deserts. He de-
teriorates when he becomes a city
dweller, and with him. in the last
analysis, as with his grosser brother,
the Turk, Islam Is an evil force. We
are very clearly shown the reason. 1t
is worthy of quotation.
The religion Of Mohammed stands
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15

WALT wnlrMAN; Edited. with an 1ntroduc
ton. by Thomas T. Harmed. $40, D. xxxyiil.
2f2. Doubleday Page Co.
These love letters from one welcomed
in chat supreme literary circle which
included Ruskn. Herbert Spencer,
George Eliot, the Rossettis, Tennyson
and many another great mind of that
illustrious age" may be Judged hastily
by some readers as merely evidence of
an neXplicable, abnormal love- call
from a mddle-aged woman, hitherto
of conventionalty and refinement
Let us begin a deeper inquiry at its
beginning: the marvellous "Woman's
Estimate of Walt Whitman" which ap-
peared in "Thc Boston Radical" May,
1870. AS no one nowadays probably
will deny the critical insight in this
article, we may at once lgitimately
inquire how such solid obstinate"
came from the sex not popularity ac-
credited creatures either of reason or
OF imagination. To go on, woman by
her narrow nature has not the passion
nor the patience for criticism of any
art than the one that may be- for the
moment, consuming her-or consum-
ing her lover. And woman least of all,
OF course, has the passion or the
patience of good thinking of this sort
when the mood is unworthy. For while,
at such time, mans brain stops
functioning nationally, stops almost
entirely when in love Of any sort, and
the greater. nobler the love, the great
err the brain paralysis, so to speak
Just oppositely, woman, by the nature
OF her position, grows very angel, or
shedevil. of all things not normally
her own. Type of woman high and
love-mood high, iluminations come,
stimuations of her unframed magma
ton, she becomes "judiciously" intoxi-
Gated, spontaneously becomes sheer
practical idealist, so to speak, love
thing. for the first time inspired, con-
trolling, tyrannical, free!
Anne Gllchrist answers the call of
him she thinks her mate, because the
call is not low, but very high. She
reaches on tiptoes, beyond her visions.
She gets nearest to old Walt himself
and his thrill of creative energies
that anybody is ever going to get.
She knows it. Her soul becomes mill
tant; she bares her body to all his
electric streams" beyond an ocean;
forgets the male is the caller-and
calls, and calls, and calls-for sixteen
years, until DEATH
That old Walt seems to have kindly
and gentemanly withstood, apparent
ly, the onsaughts of Anne Gilchrist
with her exactly perfect avenue to his
egoistic poets heart, shows what an
eternal figure the old white bearded
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
Ireland i'm Our Revolution
The Whitman-Cilchrist Letters

paralytic was. Anne, knowing the
unappreciated poets need of her flat
tering dare of soul-gift, kept on; WIS.,
tied America Con plea Of her daughter
Bees" education); met some unsaid
appointment; went back (on the
same education plea)-but remained
steadfastly sincere toward "the good
gray poet with eyes ardently fixed
IN the same direction your eyes look. :"
The whole unconventional story, the
letters (almost entirely from Anne)
and all are very beautiful.
When Walt learned from Anne's
son of his champion, undesired lover,
and great friends death. he wrote,
in the following beautifully irrational
tone, to Anne's son Herbert, the in
former of sadness:
Dear Herbert:
II have received your letter Nothing
now remains but a sweet and rich
memory-none more beautiful all
time, all life all the earth-I cannot
write anything of letter to-day. l
must sit and think
WALT WHITMAN"
And, later, to Horace Troubel:
'She was wonderful woman-a
sort of human miracle to me.
Her taking off was a great shock
to me. have never quite got over
IT.; she was near to me; she was
subtle; her grasp on my work was
tremendously sure, so all around,
so adequate" l.. G.. W.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15

1t is timely because of the menace
which Bolshevism is now seen to be,
even to America. 1t is authoritative,
because Of the vast fund of informa-
tion which the author unquestionably
possesses and because most of the es-
sential propositions are confirmed from
other sources. 1t is an astounding
picture which is presented of the I'M
perial Foreign Office at Berlin working
hand in hand with anarchists, though
we need not wonder at it when we re-
member the intimate relationship be-
tween Bismarck and an attempt to as
sassinate the Gar. If Bismarck would
acquiesce in murderous assault upon
Alexander II in order to estrange Rus
sia and France there was no reason
why "Willy" should not betray "Nicky"
in order to break up the Triple En-
tente.
In addition to the narrative, which
is intensely interesting and important,
the author gives some of the most
striking views which we have seen of
Kerensky, Lenine, Braunstein-T Trotzky
and others. Her account of Kerensky
will cause much surprise and may pro-
woke challenge. But knowing that so
much of the story is true, there is little
cause for doubling any of it.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15

Tor "despotism without representative
government; the consequent absence
OF freedom; permanent slavery-poly-
gamy and concubinage, and the system
of the veil and the harem, tempered
by Kindness" only at times it would
seem, "to the women, who have, how
ever, no rights; reputation of theft,
falsehood d"-except when directed
toward an enemy; "of murder" except
when religion DEGREES the death of an
infidel, which means any one who does
not embrace the faith of Islam, land
of adultery"-with the substitution of
the polygamous debasement of women
in it's stead, propaganda by the
sword" The system of Islam is rigid.
1t remains to-day unchangeable as de-
livered by its prophet, and it will al
ways, by his decree, remain unchange-
able. There can be no enduring civil
lization based on an Interchangeable
law 'divinely' revealed, through the
one prophet of one God, when the
prophet was man whose active career
began in highway robbery-who ele-
waited plunder to q religious act; who
butchered captives all through the
day, completing the task by torch
light" and who was himself guilty of
all the most heinous and debasing
crimes against women.
The author plainly shows that the
Turk, like our late enemy, the Hun,
cannot we'll be reformed, because there
is no material in his utterly vile and
cruel character upon which to presage
any growth for the better. Education
only furnishes him with knowledge
for greater devilry.
The treatment of the Eastern Jew
is sympathetic. His history and
character are dwelt on at length. One
thing cannot fail to strike the Chris
tian reader sharply. Both Judaism and
Mohammedism hold their sway so in
eXorably over the people because they
have not become in practice seventh
day religions. Every act of every day,
from sunrise to sunset, eating, work
ing and preparing for sleep, is bound
up in religious rites. One wonders
what would happen to the world if all
Christian people should for just one
week take their religion thus serious
ly. 1t is interesting to note that
Professor Mathews believes that the
debasemant of the Mohammedan is
due to his low regard for his women.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
The Ruthlessness of 1871
Hunnish Bolshevism To- day
By Willis Fletcher johnson

pages scarcely trace of the influ-
ence of the last four years. Completed
and published amid the irretrievable
ruin of the great edifice which Bis
marck builded, and amid harvest Of
international woe and hate, such as
the world never knew before, springing
from the seeds which Bismarck
planted, there is scarcely line or q
word which could not have been
Empire was at the zenith of its glory
and its kai ser was still fatuously re-
garded as d prince of peace. The re-
suit of such superbly detached i'm
partiality is an unsurpassed picture Of
the Iron Chancellor at once as one of
the foremost geniuses of statesman
ship the world has ever seen, and as
one Of the most abhorrent examples
of moral turpitude in high places that
have ever. brought reproach upon the
name of humanity.
We naturally and fittingly turn for
illumination and for remembrance to
the story Of the dealings with France
nearly half century ago. The world
was as blind to Prussia's designs then
as it was at the beginning of 1914
"The entrenched Philistia of Great
Britain" persisted in regarding the
German universities, which, in fact
were nurseries of Hunnlsh mllltarlsm
and materialistic savagery, as "cen-
tres of dreamy idealism or the dreary
laboratories of an unintelligible theol-
ogy." France was blind and deaf
Colonel Stoffel, a tragic Cassandra
if there ever was one, for three years
warned his government at Paris OF
what Prussia was preparing; but the
men, like Marechal Mel, who had
OWNED the truth, either persisted
under the surgeons knife or were
impotent. The Second Empire had
justly forfeited the confidence of
thinking and toiling France, and the
ears of the Tuileries and the Quai
d'Orsay we're stuffed with clerical
wax"
At such a time Bismarck wa,
searching with ferocious earnestness
for the opportunity to drive France
into war" He found or made that op-
portunity by falsifying his kings
courteous and harmless dispatch into
"a brutalized and provocative mes
sage;" an act of malignant mendacit.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15

In the new outlook which Turkish
women are slowly gaining through
steady contact with more civilized
peoples Professor Mathews sees a pos
sible hope for the future of Turkish
men.
The book is essentially missionary
one, and the author finds in Christian
education panacea for the travail Of
Asia. Whether we coincide or quarrel
with his views, here is a scholarly con-
scientious, earnest and colorfully
written textbook on Nearer ASIA"
always interesting, often rising to
heights of very fine work indeed-in
reading which any student of world
affairs will gain much. G. c. o.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
Hunnish Bolshevism
Cermany's Use of Russian Con
spiracies and Treason

THE FIREBRAND OF BOLSHEvIsM By Princess
Catherine Radziwll. illustrated. Svo. pp. 2s3
Small. Maynard g. Co.
Russian Bolshevism was conceived in
Germany before the great war as one
of the essential preparations for the
struggle upon which the Hohenzolerns
were intent, and it was promoted and
developed by German agents-some of
them Germans, some Russian traitors
with German money. Such is in
brief the argument Of this exception
ally timely and authoritative volume
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15

for which history provides no parallel,
but over which to the end Of his days
Bismarck gloated with demoniac exul-
tation. On learning from Bismarck
himself of the monstrous lie, Room
unctuously exclaimed "Our God Of old
still lives!" And that night Bismarck
said his prayers with unusual fer
vency." So the thing was done. There
followed the "Terrible Year" And at
its close-let US contrast the attitude
Of the victor of 1871 with that Of the
altruists now assembled at the Quai
d'Orsay:
Bismarck was just as remorseless
as the most truculent militarist at
headquarters. His insistence on the
bombardment Of Paris, his scorn at
"the English catchwords of human
ity and civilization" his jeers at
the sufferings Of the civil population
and the children Of Paris, the din
ner-table ridicule Of the appeals and
tears of Favre and Thiers-by these
and fifty other similar self-revealing
acts, he proved that he neither
wished nor intended to be generous.
Behind the impressive record of
achievement lies an unforgettable
chronicle Of envenomed pettiness
ana coarse brutality.
That is the picture Of Bismarck
which the world will forever hereafte,
most remember. 1t is a fitting por-
trait to hang in the great gallery OF
makers of the nineteenth century, but
we shall remember that he was the
chief maker Of that portion of the
nineteenth century which the TWEEN
tieth century has condemned to eter
nal detestation. We owe great graft
tude to Mr.. Robertson for giving US
at this psychological moment wha'
will, we believes be for all time the
definitive study, estimate and RECORD
of one Of the greatest men and great
est criminals that the last century
produced; fitting epilogue upon the
downfall of the Empire of the Huns
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
Bismarck
"1be Wisest, Brightest, Meanest
of Mankind"

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-tS sss N,nc;eenth Century Series" edited by
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pope's cpigram on Bacon comes ire
n.ably to mind at contemplation OF
n. character of Bismarck; conspicu-
.r.,, so on reading this mastery
rork. Planned for and largely pre-
s,r.i before the war, there is in its
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S4th Street Reformed Church. s07 W. s4th ST..
SUNDAY MORNING ONLY. 1890
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Love Letters

THE LETTERS OF ANNE C1LCHRsT AND
WALT WHITMAN. Edited. with an Introduce
ton by Thomas u. Harmed. $40. p xxxviii.
2f2. Doubleday. Page & Co.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
cut Outs for Children
7Oc and 25c Each

This very busy young lady is spend
ing rainy afternoon in the incest pos
sible cutting pictures" "-as you
see. The Book Department is showing
new "Cut Outs" lovely enough to thrill
any small girl or boy.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15

Tells you how to serve balanced ra-
tions that will give your family the
right amount of nutrition. How to have
better meals for less money.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
MT. MORRIS BAPTIST CHURCH
5,h Are, between l26,h and 127th sts.
JOHN HERMAN RANDALL

Il a MA MODERN PAKARLE''
sP. H-'THE REORGANIZATION OF IN
THIS /, ths tenth OF series OF Sunday evening
srHoas the gcnerd subject: BUILDING THE
NV WORLD; OR. THE PROBLEMS OF RE-
cpXsTRUCTTON'
March 25d-T7ns soct alists' Solution.
s,'cn 39th-Ths syndcalists Solution.
~ sth-Ine British Labor Pary's Programme
AMI l3th-Af,er ths Peace Conference.
The Washington times., 1919-08-20

He says that marriage is risky experiment and
nothing more. And that the system that worked
five hundred years ago won't work today! The war
has created tremendous upheaval in the marriage
relationship.
What is going to happen? Read what this supreme
authority has to say this subject in his sensation
al article in Pictorial Review for September called
What Makes Man Husband ?"
This is the first of a remarkable series Of
articles marriage which will appear in
Pictorial Review this Fall
The Washington times., 1919-08-20

IND it ever occur to you that every married man
- has double personality? Why is your hus-
band different from the man you married? What is
the reason? You probably know a dozen couples
who are unhappily married. Why? What is the
matter with marriage?
Havelock Ellis, the eminent English socologist,
says that nine times out of ten it is the mans fault
and then he gives some startling reasons for his
theory. What do you think? In brilliant and
searching article in the September Pictorial Review
Mr.. Ellis tells why husbands and men are two
different things-and how this difference lies at
the very root of "the marriage question:
The Washington times., 1919-08-20
WHAT WE CAN DO FOR THE BOYS
WHO DIED IN FRANCE

notable article by Mrs. Percy v. Pennybacke president
Of the General Federation Of Womens Clubs the best
memorial give soldiers.
The Washington times., 1919-08-20
Four more great articles in this issue
THE ROUGH ROAD TO MOTHERHOOD
n ID

By Bell BayLeSS
Every mother knows that motherhood isn't easy under the
best condtonsbut in this country 5000 mothers die every
year because they bearing children under the
dtons-amid dirt, neglect and loneliness Read this big
human article on what American do to help
The Washington times., 1919-08-20
.ICANS HATE TO SAVE?
BY William g. McAdoO

No people in the world hate the idea of thrift as Americans
do yet people can magnihcenty-when they
saving for big purpose Read what the greatest expert in
the country has say about why Americans learn
10 save in peace well as in
KATE GLEASON-AMERICA'S PIONEER
WOMAN MACHTNIST
year-and how Third in Pictorial Reviews great series
of American whose achievements arc remarkable
The Washington times., 1919-08-20
What makes a man different
after hes married ~"-'~

It was constantly argued
during the middle ages
that q man Is bound to
rule his wife
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-02-13
PITY the PLIGHT Of Gold.
From the New York World.

FROM tHe New YORK world.
The country is asked by Il committee
of government experts in mining and
geology, reporting to the secretary of the
Interior. to shed a few tears over the
plight OF gold and it's reduced output
which is viewed as a national peril.
Something must be lone is the conclu-
sion; but. while the committee is con-
servative enough to dvise against
bonuses on gold production. it warns
UP to proposals Of war tax exemptions
and the like.
Gold is much in the position OF the
person living on a liked. salary or income.
It's price is established b. law and never
varies. 1t is prosperous when the living
costs OF its mining or the value of labor
and commodities in rotation to itself are
low or falling. and it is in hard times
when labor and commodity prices. as
now, are high. Accordingly at present
the activities of gold mining companies
are greatly restrained for precisely the
reason that the amplitude of the fixed
si:aried PERSONS living is greatly re.
strained.
But we hear of no movement at Wash
inEton to 2bate the war income taxes for
1hat salarted person or people generally
Who suffer from the high costs of living.
We learned to salt soEle hopecks
down, to do without new hat or gown.
tn wars forbidding days: thought
we'd learned the use of thrift and that
we more would drift to our old
wasteful ways. l said. 1.-The lesson war
has taught could never be too dearly
bought. it is of untold worth; we've
learned the value OF the yen. and We
won't blow the iron men while we In
fest this earth. We've learned how
Gds -is to own n surplus plunk, an
extra bone, when comes the time of
stress; he lessons sunk into our souls
ana We'll be careful of our rolls in fu-
ture times, l guess" But when heard
that war was done, that we had canned
the kultured Hun. and stripped hin. of
hts sword ] felt u wild desire to &c to
busy flarts of trade AID blow my little,
yurtime hoard. 1.-The lid is off," told
MYSELF. t merchant has upon his
shelf a lot OF junk I need: to be a miser
in peace times. to go on boarding
plunls and dimes. were %foolishness in
deed. And so I went abroad to buy
whatever doodad caught my y Just
bent on burning mon; and all my
neighbors were abroad. each n re-
solved to blow tire wad he saved ere
was done.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-02-13
Who Will PAY COST of War;

A. Rartoit Hepburl. in February Scri3ner.
we are told. however, on high economic
authority that We cannot postpone to the
future the payment of part of the war
cost by means OF loans: that the cost OF
the war has to be produced today in
terms vi goods; that. when bonds are
paid in the future by taxes. it is simply
a readjustment,, come people pay and
some receive-and the public az a whole
is neither richer nor poorer. But adjust
ment and readiI.tment are the crux of
living. Our government has 5000. 600. 900 of
bonds outstanding which were issued for
funds to put down the rebellion in lS6l-5,
many times refunded, but the principal
il still unpaid. Was not that amount of
debt transferred from the4Civil war period
to the future? ft3ss
Although these. logicians conclude to the
contrary. the mtAn in the street. the man
on the farm. the man in the counting
house. ard the man in the legisla Nye
halls will always believe that a portion
of the present day expense can be de-
volved upon the future and will act
accordingly.
/ recall an Safnple of false premise
which was current in my school DAYS. A
man goes into IL saloon. leans over the
bar and says: We'll. i believe l will
spend my 10 cents for crackers this morn