New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
German Art, German Artists
And The Tribune's Greed
Some Unnecessary and Inconsequential Things Which
Are Personal; Obligations to German Blood
Which Seem to Have Been Overlooked by Re.
viewer; Concerning The New York Tribune
and Its Attitude Toward German Art and Art;s,s
By H. E. Krehbiel

self known for clipping from last
Sundays "Staats-z.itung" and the as
sarance that am the person therein
referred 10 as tho "scrihhIing slave"
sckrs;bkmeektl Of ncwapaper that
seeks homer by disparaging, defaming.
sisndering, eslumniating ttake your
cheies--shey are all English synonyms
Of the German Veruagiimp}cn) every
thing German. am one who devoted
a labor Of love that was sest. wasting
acolumns' of black. inky gail. or Gallo
black ink. foaming at the mouth the
while and barking at sthe great artist"
Gsdski, seeking to reduce her to moth
ingness (VerascAten) and drive her
from she concert-rooms--pres sGmahly
of America. for surely the halls and
theaters of Germany ought to be open
to the wife of Hans T2uscher. Worse
than that, am 'hurdened with the
curse of being obliged to go through
life bearing German name.D
It is pretty hard lines to be talked
about that way in column of SUNDAY
gossip fPlanderei}, but there are COM
pensations to offset the pain. The
writer prcclaims that though the peace
officially concluded by Germany and
her adversaries is an everlasting ans,
infamous mark Of human depravity the
people are seeking the paths which
lead toward each other in the darkness
ana asking reconciliation-or words TO
that effect. OF that there was proof
when the "slite of the population. of
View York "disavowed the Thsrsites of
German blood" and greeted with jubi-
iaslons the gifted singsA. who, great
sr' more puissant, more glorious than
ever IN her art, brought an Offering
winch shall never be forgotten
sounds from the realm of the master
of tones which carried them to the ton
most peaks Of human sensibilities and
overwhelmed all petty terrestrial,
things in the consecration of Art,
SoHfessions of an American
VI German Antecedents
IN spite of my German blood. which
never knew was burdensome curse
! was never conscious, not even a fort
night ago in Carnegie Hall, that tho
audience could be SO completely trans-
ported to the limbo of super-tsrres-
eFsal things by Nine. Gadski's sineino
as the "Staats-Zeitung's" Sunday Gossin
says ii was 1t was not SO before the
war though even then she was wont tn
Groom the idyllic Io-yo-to-ho! in her
concerts Does her voice improve with
age Or IS It's present glory due to the
charn woven around it by association
WIEN the name Of Captain Hans Tau
scher. of the Germany arm, She and
DR.. Richard Strauss. the Sunday Cos
sip assures US, are "two strong pillars
IN the bridge which leads to the recon
Citation Of the nations"
throughout the screed to which nv
attention was drawn by a consids rate
correspondent (prohably with friendly
intent, for he appended a marginal
gloss; Can youabeat it?") the Ger
man writer, as had occasion to re-
mark OF another pro-German propagan-
aist fortnight ago, runs true to ma
tlonai form. "Im deutschen lugt man
wenn manh6fiich ist" said Goethe's
Baccalaureus to Mephistopheles, and
the German some times lies also when
not trying to be polite.
We need no paraphrase of Faust
TO teach us that, for everything that
has been written in German. so far as
nave seen il, concerning the attitude
ut The Tribune toward German music
mas borne testimony to the fact. There
vas nothing ambiguous on the subject
n the utterances of this journal before
the war or during the war: there has
been nothing ambiguous since. And
the raciality of the blood of it's music
reviewer has had nothing to do with
the case. It is not even due to the
fact that that blood has been flowing
IN America, for nearly century un-
adnlteratedly Tsutonic; that it has
been possible for the reviewer to dis
s3nguish between the principles of Ger
man music, their exempliAcation and
the personality of it's practitioners;
also between German art and German
politics.; also between Nine Gadskj
the singer, and Nine. Gadski the wife
Of Tauscher. and the woman whose
utterances and conduct in 1916 ought
to have brought blush of shame and
Indignation to the cheek of every WON
an in the land, native or German born.
Yes, and Of resentment, too; an honest
resentment, with nothing of Chauvin-
ism in its constitution, but which finds
expression, for which. human nature
asks no pardon, In an unwiliingness
that Hans Tsuscher's pockets shall be
supplied with the dollars of love for
which German writer's have long
'witted Americans, and in the pursuit
Of which no folk are more avid lust
new than German artists.
suppose that I ought to feel real
sexed at being called "scrihbiinx
slave" and "Thersites Of German
blood" disposed to slap somebody quite
nard; but can't. My blood and edu-
cation have taught me to look with
liberation on such newspaper sffusions.
! did not permit the fact to disturb