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The New York herald., 1921-03-06
Gen. Townshend Tells His Story

therefore a system which even Ma
poleon would have despaired OF. That
we won the war is no argument
against this contention. We had the
armies of France to hold the field till
we were ready with our hastily i'm
provlsed armies-and then America
came in. ! I'm inclined to think that
the war would have been finished in
1914 had our regular and territorial
forces taken the field instantly side
by side with the French armies"
He says: There is no soldier in
Europe-and | underline the state
ment-to compare with the Turk when
on the defensive and entrenched. He
does not and Will not understand pa
triotism. nor does he care. I believe
for pdtrie-but his religion is his life
and world, and for that he will fight
in the most dogged and tenacious
manner"
OF the siege he says:
II cannot imagine that any COM
mander has experienced greater diff
ficulties than did in this siege. Every
Kind of trial, or of obstacle Is to be
met with In that accursed country
Mesopotamia. As soon as our defences
were respectable, and two assaults of
the enemy repulsed, rain swelled the
river, and the dreaded floods of the
Tigris delayed and hampered our re-
lief forces. Finally the floods came
to wash us out OF our trenches. to
force the men to live standing In water
to their knees, and consequently fill
the hospitals with disease and sick
ness. What worries, what trials. what
anxieties were experienced in that
siegei"
Arriving at Constantinople Gen
Townshend hoped for early release
but while Enver Pacha and the Young
Turk leaders showed him every honor
the former told him that while he
wanted him released at once, the Ger
mans would not hear OF 1t, as they
feared the political effect OF the ar
rival In England of world person
age" like himself. He was given a
villa on Prinkipo Island, and consider
able liberty, but Turkish aide dc
The New York herald., 1921-03-06

OF the implacablo figure or the episode
just narrated we have this:
when the moment for removing the
body came the grief and affection Of
the Car were manifest TO everybody,
for the Car shed tears most abun-
dainty and In the sight OF all the vast
crowd Of people who were assembled
on account Of the solemn ceremony
he gave the last kiss to the corpse"
Peter Is more than all these things
convey. He is the man who loved to
consort with servants and who loved
best OF all and more constantly the
costume Of a Dutch sailor. II was by
his orders that the silver plate on
which food was served was never
washed because the silver surface
was worn away in the process. Urged
BY a dental mania he pulled the teeth
Of his encourage, and when he re-
turned from his travels over western
Europe he himself. ruler supreme OF
All the Russias. piled the razor and
cut their sacred boards.
The anecdotes, penetrating and illu-
minating. can be multiplied, but OF
themselves they cannot convey the
personality OF Great Peter. Some
shading Is necessary; a little chalking
in OF high lights here and there. only
through a great drama. novel or a
painting could the founder of Russia
be Immortality realized.
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
French Observer Paints Our BOYS

races. To my thinking, he who under
understands that people. Men and
women have wept for the same rea-
sons always; but they laugh for rea-
sons that differ in every race and in
every era That is why, though we
can listen to Hdipus to-day, we can
not listen to Aristophanes."
In his French text NJ. Chevrillon
emphasizes the strong social motives
characteristic of the United States.
In America" he. declares, "indi-
vidualism is less powerful than in
France; each one lives much less in
himself and in the narrow circle of
the family. much more in the vast
group of the city, much more also in
a glass house. whose doors are always
wide open. The social instinct,
or rather the instinct of active associa-
ton, Is stronger, shown first In the
unceasing altruistic efforts which found
and maintain, at the expense of the
family. so many schools. universities,
hospitals, so many public works ana
institutions for protection, for hygiene
of body and soul; shown again In the
number and the success of societies
freely assembled and organized for
voluntary cooperation
The author gives many little
snatches of conversation with the SOL
diers and sailors. Evidently he was a
good reporter. For example. he met
one crowd in a railroad train singing
and yelling to their hearts content:
When he asked them where they were
going they said:
We're going to look up some
horses bought yesterday at Plabennac.
Wen come back by the road. Sad,
dies? What for? We're horsemen, all
from Kentucky. sons of planters and
farmers. And good shots, too. you
bet. We were in the army before the
war, surel Down in Mexico on the
frontier. around Ell Paso. The Mexi-
cans tried raid. they fooled us lit
tie. SBut we had fun. Some lark.
"'Hail. Hail! The gangs all here.
ala bandc est an complet.' How
many times would they sing It, that
song! In Paris hospital wounded
American, brought back from the Lor-
raine front. told me that they sang 1t
no longer in his company. There were
too many who mere not there-who
guarded the soil Of France"
Few books !, In English give such
vivid pictures of our troops. And the
work Is done with a sureness of touch.
an art that should give 1t enduring
life when the passing Impressions
of the war are forgotten.
The New York herald., 1921-03-06

LES AMERICANS A BREST. Par
Andre Chevrillon. Preface de M. Owen
Wister. Paris: Librairie Chapelot.
cans in France as any sane person
would like to be seen. He has OBJ
served national traits. and set them
down for the most part with approval,
always sympathetically. yet without
silly ffattery In his English preface
Owen Wister writes of the artistic use
of the old French town as a back
ground for the vividly contrasting
types from young America:
1T is Brest that M. Chevrillon Sc
lects for his past, his stationary back
ground; Brest with its people, the un-
communicative Bretons. These stand,
stare. keep silence. They are of a
piece with the architecture. Together
with their ancient roofs they make
that brooding past of heirlooms and
tapestries and stones of superstition
and memories of wars long waged.
Upon this medieval mass energies and
pours the vigorous, unmemoried, raw,
gay New World. It rises from the
ocean like an apparition. Every atom
of it expresses youth. Tt flows down
from the transports and enters the
town..
And this is Wisters comment. on
the way the main theme Of the book
is treated:
HE fills his crowded but admirably
balanced composition with a wealth
Of detail He tells of youth at work
and at play. He gives bits Of con-
versation held both with those who
command and those who obey. He
visits offices, ships, workshops. He
emphasizes the celebrity Of our meth
ods. He reports the words of the re-
sponsible and he likewise makes one
hear the rollicking laugh of the dough-
boy and his songs. He has seized the
very essence OF doughboy humor. With
equal closeness and felicity has he
observed the American woman's part
in this war; her perfectly formulated
purpose to bring across the sea to
the doughboy as much of his home as
was possible: to suggest to his mind
home feelings, home shelter, home ro-
nance. home decency. home religion"
But perhaps the highest tribute an
American could pay to foreign critic
Is this:
What so astonishes me about him
is that he appears entirely to have
seized our national humor. Not that
our humor is complex or subtle; far
from It But it is the humor, inevita-
bly,. or the youth in us, and this is far
away from any humor of the Old
World, especially that of the Latin
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
Supremacy on the High Seas

merry was both rapid and accurate is
denied by the German gunnery officer
who wrote the story Of the battle In
THE Two White Races" And as for
the statement that after tho battle
cf Jutland never again did the High
Seas Fleet risk another encounter
we have Jellicoe's own description OF
a cruise toward the English coast on
August 10, 1916. undertaken, no
doubt, by such part Of the High Sea
Fleet as had been repaired in order
70 show that It was still capable OF
going to sea-"
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
lERICAN SOL DIERS AT BREST-COMMUNIST NOVEL

camps never left him. He says he
only saved himself from going mad
by working eight hours a day on the
story OF his campaign and on a book
on tactics. He made several attempts
to escape (having refused TO give his
parole) by aeroplane, but none sue
ceeded
Finally his day came, and the great
compensation for all he had endured.
AS the allied successes began to mark
the beginning OF the end, the Turkish
leaders, anxious to escape from tho
irksome control of tho Germans,
sought Gen. Townshend's advice and
assistance in obtaining an armistice,
and he departed for the British feet
with the terms Of surrender of Con-
stantipole, by which the Turks were
to open the Dardanelles and place the
city under British control He truly
says:
AS | watched tho minarets OF Con-
stantinople sink astern I reflected how
strangely I had been instrumental in
which l had been unable to accom-
plish when I was sent with my hand
ful of men to take Bagdad.
'IIad ! not cause TO feel glad and
proud? Izzet Pacha had agreed TO
open the Dardanelles. The Straits of
Gallipoli, the Sea of Marmora and the
Bosphorus would be In our hands in a
few days, and the 30. 900 German troops
at Constantinople would have to sur
render. Turkey would be taken out
of the war. and Austria would also
In all probability make peace. I was
now free-nor had ! forgotten my gal
liant men in captivity for I had stipu-
lated for their freedom, which Izzet
Pacha had accorded"
''And later, the premature surrender
OF Turkey can be considered without
any exaggeration as shortening the
war by several months. saving millions
Of money and thousands Of lives, In
the words of NJ. Clemenceau. whom
saw In Paris Such was the result on
Austria and Germany Of the sudden
collapse of Turkey In October. 1918"
Gen. Townshend's numerous Ameri-
can friends viii be glad to know that
he has lately been elected to a seat In
Parliament.
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
Reviewed by w. B. MCCORMICK.

Reviewed hy w. %. M IONMlIN.
Men who went to school as boys up
TO tho end OF the last century heard
nothing in their history lessons Of sea
power. It had existed since the dawn
Of history, but no ono realized its inn
portance or real place In the story OF
mans progress until Admiral Mahan
wrote his great work on The Influ-
ence OF Sea Power on History" In
1890. Since then veritable library
Of works on this general subject has
come into being, the latest. by Stevens
and Westcott, civilian professors at
tho United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis, n work that covers tho
ground from the frasmentary knowl-
edge we have of Crete as sea power
up to tho end OF the world war.
Within the space OF $50 pages these
two writer's present an admirable sum-
mary OF their subject, less pictur-
esquely written than Gerard Flennes's
recent work OF the same character
called "Sea Power and Freedom" but
better arranged as volume OF refer
ence. Here Is skctched the begin
nings Of navies, In Egypt, Phnnicia,
Athens. 1t IL traced through Rome,
the navies Of the Middle Ages and the
great impetus they received az the
result of the opening of greater ocean
routes that came an the result or the
discoveries OF Columbus and his fol-
lowers. Follow tho maritime wars
Of Holland. the rlvalries OF England
with Spain and France In which we
began to take part, and finally, after
the birth Of the first real fighting iron
clads at Hampton Roads in our civil
war. tho battles OF the world war.
In view of the fact that Admiral
Jellicoe's own story OF The Grand
Fleet" was available TO these authors,
as we'll az tho British Official Nava,
History" OF Sir Julian Corbett, they
do not appear 10 have brought infor-
nation thus available into tho scope
of their work. In speaking of tho
"indoctrlnation" of tho British Grand
Fleet II is stated 1T is hard 10 sec
evidence of any such indoctrination
OF the Grand Fleet before Jutand."
May not the answer 70 this be found
In Jellicoe's quoting his Chief OF STAFF
taying in the midst of the battle. 1T
is all going according 10 plan? Opin-
ions differ as TO the Jutland fight
being "indccisivc." a view which IL
held by some of our naval officers
The statement that at practically all
stages ~ the fighting German gun
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
By PANAME.

~ UR friends OF America have de-
n veloped the cinema with so
much power and skill, they re-
veal themselves such artists in this
medium, that the moving picture win
be at last. I believe, their most perfect
Art form. hope I shall find myself
lin rood company among THE HERALD
readers in confessing my weakness for
the screen. Everybody goes-here. And
for me il really added to the impress
siveness OF the experience to see Tor
the first time between two views OF
the Pathe feature distinguished
gentleman with piercing eyes and ex-
pressive countenance framed by a
dark beard. 1t was A. T'Stertevens,
lRelrian born. French in his literary
ilSjnship. the fortunate author OF Seven
Among Men" and IAN Apostolate"
.tedition iAlbin MicheD. Both works
are of recent issue.
This authors very choice of theme
denotes a keen sense OF the moment.
In these days when the social ques-
ton preoccupies the public mind, when
men speak often such phrases as
organized oppression" and "the. re-
volt Of the masses" these two books
bring fresh fuel to heap in the fire Of
discussion. Fortunately, the author Is
not a mere propagandist. He has taken
time to develop true artistic gift and
he obeys the creative impulse to ex-
press life m its fulness. with It's In
spirations. its vehemences it's gentle
ness. it's miseries, its immoral aspects
and it's ironies. In each book he has
told the story of intellectuals inspired
by love and justice who are friends
of the people," after the manner of the
earlier Russian revolutionists.
THE Seven Among Men" Is a philo-
sophie novel pervaded with a power
rul symbolism. On one side are placed
the masses, unable because Of their
number and diversity of temperament
to understand the prophets of the
future and to receive their wisdom.
on the other side are the enlightened.
who. having outrun their generation
by centuries. are powerless to carry
their contemporaries with them over
the same route. Only the passage OF
time and the most unexpected turn of
events could bring to harvest the good
seed sown by earlier thinkers.
For the people were the people and
they did not understand II was not
enough to be rich and to be willing to
give prodigally of all that one had
For love without reserve and of an
entire abandon, there must be found
the word. the act. the symbol per-
haps. which would draw unto us those
whom we love-"
AN Apostolate" In a different form
pursues the same thesis. 1t Us the
story OF young man who having get
out to offer the world boundless
love Is forced after many disilusions
to be content with the response Of a
demi-mondaine The reader meets the
hero, Pascal NORM, in the Ceres res
taurant. where his comrades go every
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
Destiny of Mankind
Is All interviewer
THE MORALS OF ECONOMIC INTER
NATIONALISM. BY j. A. Hobson.
HouglTton Miffiin Company.

THE MORALS OF ECONOMIC INTER
NATIONALISM. BY j. A. Hobson.
Houghton Mifiin Company
In a short essay. first delivered as
a lecture at the University Of Cali
fornia, this English economist sets
forth the reasons why nations should
be interested in each others welfare.
1t is a fallacy. says Mr.. Hobson. that
nations are economic competitors for
the worlds trade. In the first place.
competition is keenest among cx-
porters from the same nation. as their
products are most nearly alike, while
products Of different nations are apt
TO be supplementary. Secondly the
world market is indefinitely elastic. so
that one nations trade is not largely
at the expense OF another's. And
most important, exports are not more
valuable than imports in any such
sense as the exporters would have US
believe. Imports are more valuable
to the consumer. exports to the pro
ducer; It should be the aim of govern
ments to deal fairly between the two.
If we fail to act the world will
drift into a condition where America
England, Japan ana perhaps France
will be economic overlords of all the
small nations. state which will cause
tyranny on our part and suffering on
the part of our vassals. The result
cannot fail to be class wars interna.
tional wars. and ultimate degradation
of humanity. If America has faith To-
back civilization with all her economic
power, as she did in the war, !, 1t is
possible to look forward to an ultimate
recovery and the prospect OF a fairly
peaceful world.
rs it not the larger interest of
America to live as a great partner In
such society of nations than TO live
life of isolated prosperity, perhaps
the sole survivor in the collapse OF
western civilized states?'
The New York herald., 1921-03-06

passes in liveliness all the earlier
pages of the book. To the French
reader the flavor is all the keener be-
cause the idea Of a sermon in a park
is utterly new to him.
When the apostle throws himself
into his labor OF love he discovers op-
posite him redoubtable challenger, a
kind of revealer to mortals of the
mysteries of the Kabbala, whose ac-
cents remind one of an angry bull.
Pascal is obliged to drown his roaring
with chords from the harmonium.
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
Russian Character
Studies by ChekhOl

THE SCHOOLNIISTRESS AND OTHER
STORIES. BY Anton Chekhov. Trans
lated by Constance Garnett The Mac
milan Company.
To those already somewhat familiar
with this great writer the present
volume offers little that Is new. The
Garnett translations are Of a uniform
excellence and a larger number Of the
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
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The New York herald., 1921-03-06

A HISTORY OF SEA pow by
william Oliver Stevens and Allan
Westcott. George RI. Doran Com
nanyl
The New York herald., 1921-03-06

MY CAMPAIGN. BY Major-Gen. Sir
Charles Townshend. In Two Volumes.
James A. McCann Company.
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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-03
Presidential Votes.

The compilation Of the official fig-
ures Of the popular vote Of last falls
election shows that Mr.. Harding's vote
was considerably larger than the en-
tire vote of the nation for all candi-
dates in 1912, and that his majority
over Mr.. Cox was larger than the en-
tire vote for Mr.. Wilson in 1912, or
for any president preceding that date
excepting Mckinley, Roosevelt and
Taft. Mr.. Cox's vote was almost ex-
actly the same as that for Mr.. Will
son in 1916. The socialist vote was
only trifle larger than in 1912, the
prohibitionist vote was smaller than
it had been since 1896, and the far
mer-labor vote was not nearly as
large as that of the Grcenback party
in 1880.-Harvey's Weekly.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-03
Reorganization Needed.

Police administration in Minneap-
oils is to be reorganized at once on a
basis of Capitalization Of authority,
closer cooperation in the several
branches of the service, and improved
methods of keeping the various rec
ords necessary to intelligent opera
ton, j. F. Walker, superintendent Of
police, said.
The proposed improvements are the
result of an intensive study begun by
Superintendent Walker January 1,
1919, he said, which included investi-
cation of police methods in other cities
by the superintendent and other de-
partment officers.
The Bertillon department will be
enlarged with increased personnel, and
a more thorough system of indcxing
records and application of such rec
ord cards to the daily work Of the de-
tective force will be introduced.
The changes outlined will be made
possible by the enlargement and rear
rangement of police quarters on the
ground floor of the city hall, for which
the building commission already has
provided.-Minneapolis Journal.
There certainly should be a reorga-
nization of the Minneapolis police
system, but it would seem that the
present situation requires more radi-
cal and deep-seated reforms than a
Encouragement of a card index sys-
tenn or a shifting of the office furni-
ture.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-03
The Florida Land CRATER.

We have a letter from one of those
space grafters who wants to exchange
some Florida lots for advertising. We
enjoyed reading tit was so cleverly
written. 1t began by describing Flor
ida as wonderful winter resort, then
went into an explanation of the pres
ent financial depression. This led up
to the exchange idea and quoting the
letter it said, '"This is your chance to
lay by a nice lot for your winter
home" We are wondering how any
publisher, lacking the cash, which this
CRATER does not offer, could build a
winter home if he had a dozen lots on
the seashore. The CRATER also in
closed violet, dried, which we sup
pose was to appeal to our sentimental
side. The only trouble with the let
ter was that it won't weigh enough to
add much to a bale of waste paper.
Albert Lea Standard.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-03
Lloyd Saxon Entertained.

Lloyd Saxon was greatly surprised
last Saturday evening when a group
of young people gathered at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. F. D. Edmison of
Greenbush to celebrate his nineteenth
birthday. Those present were Mabel
Talberg, Mabel Rogers, Mabel Peter
son, Agnes Williams, Margaret Will
liams, Eleanore Williams, Lillian Will
tergren, Gladys Wettcrgren, Anna
Peterson, Winifred Kenely, Ella
Noeskc, Herman Williams, Reuben
Smith, Clarence Wicktor, Frank Ed
mison, Kenneth Kenely, Dave Olson.
Helmer johnson, and Dottie Peckham
from Elk River.
The evening was spent in playing
games and cracking jokes. At mid
night delightful supper was served.
Everyone spent very pleasant even
ing. All wished Lloyd many happy re-
turns Of the day.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-03
First Pub. Feb. 3-6t)
Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure Sale.

Notice is hereby given tina: default has been
made in the conditions of that certain mort
gage executed by Heiko Bruins and Nellie
Maud Bruins. his wife. mortgagors, to State
Bank of Porter. a corporation. mortgage,
which mortage is dated the 22nd day of No
vember, 1919. and was duly filed for record
in the office of the register Of deeds of Mile
Laos county. Minnesota. on the 9th day of
December. 1919. at 90 o'clock p. M. and
was duly recorded therein in Book Is of
Mortgages, on page sos thereof: that the
amount claimed to be due, and which is due on
said mortRage at this date is one thousand
Q,523.S3} dollars; that the premises described
in and covered by said mortgage are situate,
lying and being in the county of Mile Laos,
state of Minnesota. and described, as follows,
to-wit: The east half of the southeast quarter
OF section seven %. township forty (40),
range twenty-six (26); that by virtue of the
power Of sale contained in said mortgage, and
pursuant to the statute in such case made and
provided. said mortgage will be foreclosed by
the sale Of said premises, at public vendue to
the highest bidder for, cash. by the sheriff of
Mile Lacs county; Minnesota. at the front
door Of the high school building in the village
Of Milaca. Mile Laos county, Minnesota, said
high school building being then used as a
temporary court house for said county of
Mile Laos. on the 18th day of March. 1921,
at 2 100 o'clock in the afternoon, to satisfy the
amount then due said mortgage, together
with the costs of such sale and $500 attor-
ney's fees stipulated in said mortgage.
Dated this End day of February, 1921,
|. STATE BANK OF PORTER.
]. N. johnson, Mortgage.
Attorney for Mortgage,
Candy, Minnesota.