davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-08-13

Con que ESQ de los incas, los vi
rreyes y los conquistadores esta "de-
masiado de acuerdo con los moldes re-
ipetidos hasta el cansancio", seno1
Aguilera?
FL critico debe ser en- cierto grado
un erudito, seflor Aguilera. 81 usted
! 10 es en- ese cierto grado, tno recuer-
j da va 10 que dijera Ruben Dario en-
las Palabras Linrinares de Prosas Pro
fanas?
''Si hay poesfa en- nuestra Am@ri-
ca--decia Ruben Dario--ella esta en-
las cosas viejas, en- Palenke y Utatlan,
en- el indio legendario, y en- el inca SEN
sual Y fino, y en- el gran Moctezuma
de Ia silla de oro Lo demas es tuyo
demdcrata Walt Whitman"
Ahora bien, 81 es que Aguilera re-
clama para Pedro A. Gonzalez, $50
den.as'', entonces solo tiene que ARE
batarselo Walt Whitman, el home
rico norteamericano.
IA 10 die antas, nj soy chileno nj
I soy perpano, pcro "al Cesar 10 que es
del Cesar" = Aguilera 81 es un yer.
dadcro pensador como los que produ-
ce Chile debido sus condolences eli
lnatol0gicas, me dara Ia raz6n por mi
defensa de Chocano.
Siento una gran admiration por
Pedro Antonio Gonzalez, pero nunca
esa admiration ha podido nj podr;l
convcltirse en- una irrefrenada passion
proximamente seguiremos comentan
do el trabajo de Francisco Aguilera,
para luego entrar de lleno a comen-
taI la literature chilena, concentrates
que estaran saturados de la mayor
unprecedented.
Sc es mas impartial comentando 10
aieno que 10 propio, al menos, no
hay lugar apasionamientos.
Armando A. MIRANDA.
Bayamon de Puerto Rico, 1921.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-08-13

apasionaga Y presentara q los poetas
chilenos a la altura que estan, es
decir, :; Ia altura de cualquier poeta
de America, que no sea ninguno de
los diez poetas Representatives de
America.
10. cue nj soy chileno nj soy pc
rnaEo {soy .puertorriqueno) en- este
case ms quedo con ell immense Santos
Chocano J conceptGo la aseveracion
del senor Aguilefa de loca, peregrina
Y atrevida
Loca porquc de Jose Santos Choca-
ao q Pedro Antonio Gonzalez hay tan
TO como de Ia Luna a Jupiter, y sino q,
10, digan Andres Gonzalez -Blanco,
Max y Pedro Henriquez Urena nues-
tro notable crltico scnor Enrique Le-
febre.
Peregrina, porque seguramente
Aeui!era Sc aventuro decirla Gre
yendo que la iban pasar por alto
sin refut:;rla, como una de tantas bar
barbados cue diario Sc escriben y
cue nadie las contcsta por no NAL.
gastar su tempo.
Y, atrevida, porque despues de es-
cribir Gonzalez Blanco 10 que escri-
biera como prologo del libro Fiat
Lux de Jose Santos Chocano, cadu-
ca ell que apareZca un novel con apa-
! riencias de critico echar pestes del
grandilocuente (nada mas apropiadol
autor de Alma America, Fiat
Lux Y 'El Romancero de Indias" Y
quien segGn la prensa diaria, falleci0
hace POGO en- San Jose de Costa Rica.
Antes de atreverse decir el seilor
Aguilera que la de Chocano es una
America cinematografica, debio leer
el briliante trabajo de Andres Gonza-
lez-Blanco, cue he citado anteriormen-
te, Y el cual sirve de prGlogo al libro
Fiat Lux, de Chocano.
Despues de intercalar la poesia
"Elegia Tropical, dice Gonzalez z-Blan
co: "Estas estrofas penetrantes ino
dan la sensation perfecta de un pue-
bio americana? Nerdaderamente, es-
tie es el cantor social, politico, elegia-
co, heroico, Y naturalista de la Ame-
RIGA. Comprende toda su America; !;
por ESQ la canta toda. Ha abarca-
do toda la creaci6n del Continente anne
ricano: 10 mismo entiende los secre-
tos de su fauna Y de su flora, las de-
jadeces de sus mujeres criollas Y sus
ardentias inopinadas que los encan-
tos de sus pueblos incognitos, las be-
llezas de sus campos serenos, las idea
Iidades de sus cicl0peas cordilleras y
de sus mares arrulladores.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-08-13
Literature Chilena

al poeta". He ahi por que Donoso
! no ha podido ser nj sera nunca el Me
sias que reivindique las bellas letras
| chilenas.
| Ell senior Donoso, es solamente un
habil tijerista que recortando articu-
los de periodicos y revistas, ha logra-
do hacerse de una collection de traba-
jos, notas concentrates acerca de
todos los literatos chilenos y de to-
dos los que han pretendido serlo.
Ell es, sencilla unicamente, un
gran recopilador.
Al referirse a Pedro Antonio Gonza-
lez, autor del libro "RitmoS' y de los
poemas "El Toqui' Y "EI Proscripto"
dice Aguilera: ''es un gran poeta de
America, por ser el incuestionable
poeta nacionalista chileno, dando al
termino nacionalista- la signifcaci6n:
homGrica whitmanhiana al lle-
gar a este sitio hace una llamada ha-
c;a una n0ta en- la cual Sc lee: "a pro-
posito de poetas de America ic6mo no
acordarse de Chocano? Pero Choca-
no Ono 10 ha diche nadie todavia .
nos presenta una America un tanto
de cinematografo, quiero decir, de-
masiado de acuerdo con moldes repe-
tides hasta el cansancio, demasiado
pintoresca eXclusivamente tropical:
los incas, los conquistadores y virre-
yes de su poemas me recuerdan los
altos peinetones, claveles, mantillas v
,nacajas Y chaquetas cortas con que
un enlpresario yanki, decora toda pc
licula de asunto espanol'
Hasta este punto vinimos de la ma
mo Aguilera Y yo: aqui Sc bifurca el
canino. Siendo como es 81 chileno,
Zen SUI appreciation de Pedro A. Con
zalez superior Chocano 10 demues-
ira palpablemente) 10 ciega' el patrio-
tismo y el afan de conseguir colocar
a sus paisanos en- las cumbres que
Armando Donoso no ha logrado hacer-
les llegar, pero acknowledgements, el
tampoco es el hombre para reivindi-
car las bellas letras de Chile. Lo Sc
ria, quizas, quien 10 duda, 81 no Sc
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-08-13

En- la edicion' correspondence al
idia de julio del corriente ano, del
Iperiodico La Prensa", de Nueva
York, aparece en- la 4ta. plana un ar
ticulo titulado: Literature Sudameri-
ma, Y debajo, Arturo Torres Riose-
CO.., y el cual fue escrito por un chi
leno (segun dice en- ell .articulo) y Gu
yo nombre es Francisco Aggilera.
En- algunas cosas pensanH0s igual
que el senior Aguilera, pero en- mu-
chas diferimos de su no Sc 81 autori-
zada (no lie conozco como una auto
ridad literaria) opinion.
La lectura de dicho articulo y Ia de
otro acefca de la literature chilena
que leyera en- LA Nacion", de Buenos
Aires, hace algun tempo, me han he
cho concebir la idea de escribir un CO.
mentario acerca de la literature de
aquel bellisimo pals que tantos de-
secs tengo de visitar, por el interes
que Ell mi ha despertado su literatu-
IA y por ell aprecio en- Que tienen los
chilenos a nuestro molvidable filoso-
70, pedagogo, jurisconsulto naciona-
lista puertorriqueno Eugenio Maria de
Hostos.
Siendo nuestro proposito comentar
Ia literature chilena, dividiremos el
trabajo Ell varias parties, para tratar
oparadahlente ell trabajo de Aguilera
Y las dos generaclones, la pasada y
la actual de poetas chilenos.
Estamos con Aguilera en- ESQ de que
todos los criticos Y aspirantes criti-
cos (Dios nos libre de ambosD 10 pri-
nero que dicen es que en- Chile los
poetas son escasos debido al frio eli
ma de la Republica Austral, abundan-
do por ell contrario los historiadores y
los pensadores.
iEs que no Sc recuerda que los
Estados Unidos son parte de la Zona
templada tambien?
A su lado estamos en- la opinion que
lie merece Armando Donoso. Usando
las propias palabras de Aguilera, Do
noso mo tiene el genio creador, que
tan indispensable es al critico como
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-08-13
REMEMBER ME-

En- ell editicio Bouret, San
Justo II. encontraran mis-
buenos amigos complete sur
lido lie selectos tabacos de
las mas acreditadas fabri-
cas-, Y cigarrillos de todas
marcas del pals Y america
nos. Nisiten la Havana Ci-
gal. Store" de G. Pedreira.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-08-13
A NUEsTROs C0RREsPONSALES
DE ISLA

Remos de agradcceries cue no nos
envfen menssjes telegraGcos despues
de las doce del dia, cuandc sea con
cl fin de cue Sc les 9e publieided en-
la misma fecha. porque, ordinaria-
mente. Ell IMPARCIAL 9geda COM
Dsgi1 eGo de dece media "a ana
de Ia t2rde.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Swedish Production
Manager Opposes
High Tax ON Films

A high tariff on foreign motion pic
ture productions might be expected to
destroy the American producers mar
kets in Europe, says Nils c. Bouvenr,
production manager of the Swedish
Biograph Company, of Stockholm, and
New York.
Mr.. Bouveng, who has been visiting
in this country for the last six weeks
in the interests of his company, sailed
on the Aquitania on Tuesday for
Europe.
AT present" says Mr.. Bouveng,
"the output of foreign films acceptable
to American audiences is only about
l per cent. Or, in other words, only
about one in every hundred. films pro-
duced in foreign countries is suitable
for showing in America. If the pro-
posed tariff of 90 per cent ad valorem
goes into effect the result will be a
cessation OF foreign films coming into
this country. 1t will also mean that
American films will cease to go into
foreign countries. We feel in Sweden
that the tax is most unfair. The COS
of making 4 film in Sweden is only
about one-third of what it would cost
to make the same picture in America.
If the tariff, therefore, is levied on
the cost of the making of picture
as judged by American standards, one
can readily see that Swedish producers
cannot pay any such tax. AS only 1
per cent of our films go into your
country anyway, why should we be
compelled to pay such an exhorbitant
tax? If there must be a tax it should
be on the actual amount of money
made by the film and not on the cost of
production. And it should be a fair
tax; it seems to ME that about per
cent of the proceeds of the sale of the
film would be just and right
The Swedish Biograph is the larges {
producing corporation in Sweden, and
one of the largest in Europe. 1t is an
amalgamation of two companies. the
original Swedish Biograph Company
and the Scandal Company, the present
company coming into being about two
years ago. 1t controls more than a
hundred theaters in the kingdom, has
four exchange centers and five studios.
The company puts out about 70 per
cent of the pictures produced in
Sweden. Its stars are drawn from the
leading men and women of the Swed-
ISL legitimate stage.
Mr.. Bouveng expects to return to
New York some time in October for
the presentation of Swedish pictures
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
American Farmers
Migrate to Colony
Organized i'm Peru

LIMA, Peru, Aug. is (By MALTA
group of American farmers, comnris-
ing the advance guard of colonial
ton scheme said to involve more than
200 families from the western United
States, arrived here recently en- route
to the Pampa del Sacramento Valley
along the eastern headwaters of the
AmSzon River, in Northern Peru, where
the colony is to be established.
The party is in charge of J. B.
Schoenfelt of Okmulgee, Okla. former
~ United States Indian Agent for Ok
lahoma Territory, who obtained for
colonization purposes a grant of $50 900
acres of agricultural and forestry
lands from the Peruvian government
last October.
After the preliminary location of the
lands in the concession is completed
it is planned to bring the remaining
colonists, numbering about 500, to the
settlement via Para, Brazil, and the
Amazon and Ucayali rivers. The for
mer is navigable from it's mouth on the
Atlantic Ocean to Iquitos, Peru, about
1000 miles.
In an interview published in The
West Coast Leader Mr.. Schoenfelt said
that, owing to drouth and crop failure,
a number of farmers in the Central
West had expressed their desire to
seek more fertile and profitable fields.
~ decided to look over South Amer
ica." he said, "since most of the Amer
lean governments desirable vacant
lands, that could be obtained at low
price, have been allotted to foreign
immigrants. The colonists, who are
chiefly from the West, are farmers of
some means and they can secure their
simple to their lands, as soon as 200
families have been settled on the CON
cessionv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
India Halfbreeds
Hatefully Called
Submerged Tenth
Class of Yellows Despised by
Both Natives and English
and Are Subjected at All
Times TO Cutting Insults

LONDON, Aug. Is (By MaiD.--In
india they call people Of mixed race
the submerged TENTH" writes Margery
Kays from India to The London Daily
Express.
II mean that tragic part of the pop
ulation that is neither black nor white.
but of varying shades of yellow--from
pale maize to strong cafe au lait," she
s-ys.
OF all the worlds peoples these are
neither fish, flesh. fowl, nor good red
herring. They are disregarded by the
Englishman and despised by the native,
There are many pretty girls among
them, who in another land might be
considered beauties of Spanish or Por-
tnguese descent. They show no trace
Of their Indian blood except in their
dark eyes and hair and certain
something which the Anglo-Saxon is so
quick to sense - that Something"
which produces a laugh and shrug
and-a joke.
Every one knows how they talk, their
queer clipped accent-half clipped, vet
nalf singsong which is SO objection
able to English ears. And the way
they cling TO their poor glimmer of o
position is the most piteous symbol of
their submerged status. No one in
India but the half-caste and some few
overbearing and uneducated English.
men ever calls the Indian "a niger"
but the submerged tenth" despised
by the native, shows it's venom by
using this abhorred word whenever
and az often as it can.
During the war great efforts were
made to organize half-caste regi-
ment. and one was actually started,
but it was not a success, simply be-
cause of thE insults that were con-
tinualIy hurled at its members by
Tommy and Sepoy alike.
Many of the Submerged tenth"
have risen out of the sordid elements
which seemed to be their lot and have
proved themselves to be splendid men
and women. Some of these are in gov
eminent service, in postoffices, in
banks, as we'll as in all branches of
trade. They know the native and his
language better than the pure-bred
Englishman can ever. do, and thus can
get their labor, food and clothing for
half the money that we have to pay.
Some. too. have proved themselves
"white all through beneath the skin"
and have been admitted socially to our
clubs and even TO our homes
But the others must ever stand
outside the gates. looking wistfully in
at gardens which seem so fair Just
because they themselves can never
enter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
SIGHT SEEING YACHTS

ALL AROUND NEW yaRk--Lg Battery PEI
10 90 80 Lecturer, srffeshmeafs Tel Brosa sst4
80 sANIy Houk sad sHs OCEAN. Lao 2. ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
U. S. Officially Recognizes
Nest of Bats in ST. Augustine.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Sept. 9 (By
Mail) Uncle Sam officially has recog-
nized the existence of the huge colony
of bats which make their headquarters
in the garnet of the old postoffice build
ing here, the coquna structure on the
Plaza known throughout the country
as the one-time palace of the Spanish
Governors of Florida.
Old inhabitants declare the bats arc
so ancient that they screech in Span
ish, but the Federal government APP
parently does not desire to preserve
them as a relic of the Spanish occupa-
tor, for it has authorized the post
master to contract for their era dication
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18

Mary Tiddell, one of the best known
figures in Covent Garden Market, is
|, England's chanpio pea shelter. For
hearty forty years she has spent her
lays Smelling peas for the London mar
ket
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-01-26
TOWN OF NEW AVON.

Total Tax Rate including State, County.
Town or Village and School, 35 mills.
District Levy, School District No. Z.
Name Of Person,
Firm or Corpo- Assessed Moneys
ration Assessed Value and Amount
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-01-26
TOWN OF LAMBERToN.

Total Tax Rate including State, County,
Town or Village and School, q mills.
District Levy, School District No. ~.
Name OF Person,
Firm or corpo- Assessed Moneys
ration Assessed Value and Amount
Credits OF Tax
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-01-26
TOWN OF MORGAN.

Total Tax Rate including State, County.
Town or Village and School, 30.3 mills
District Levy, School District No. 81.
Name Of Person,
Firm or Corpo- Assessed Moneys
ration Assessed Value and Amount
Hradf%a ~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-01-26
Prepared by c. Y. EVERETT, Comfy Treasurer
TOWN OF RRookviLLE.

Total Tax e~including State, County
Town or Village and school, 29.4 mills
District Levy, School District NO. Il
Name of Person,
Firm or corpo- Assessed Moneys
ration Assessed Value and amount
Credits Of Tax
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-01-26
TOWN OF JoHNsoNvlLLE.

Total Tax Rate including State, County,
Town or Village and School, 29.5 mills.
District Levy, School District No. As.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-01-26
TOWN OF GRANITE ROCK

Total Tax Rate including State, County,
Town or Village and School, 26 mills
District Levy, School District No. 80.
Name of Person,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-01-26
TOWN OF cHARLEsToWN.

Total Tax Rate including State. County,
Town or Village and School, rs mills.
District Levy, School District No. IS.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-01-26
TOWN OF DELHI

Total Tax Rate including State, County.
Town or Village and School, % mills.
District Levy, School District No. So.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-01-26
TOWN OF kiNTiRE.

Total Tax Rate including State, County,
Town or Village and School, 26.5 mills.
District Levy, School District No. So.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-01-26
TOWN OF HOMER.

Total Tax Rate including State, County,
Town or Village and School, 54.3 mills.
District Levy, School District No. 1.
Milford chronicle., 1921-11-25
PeSSimiSm Has No Place
in the Real Spirit of
Time of Thanksgiving

After having devoted so much of
our time to bemOaning the misfortunes
that have come to us as a people dur
ing the past year, it will do us good
on this Thanksgiving day to stop and
look at the other side of the ledger
and cast up the account of the good
things that have come to us.
Our situation admittedly has not
been as favorable in many respects as
we could desire. We have had prob
lens and difficulties which naturally
aroused dissatisfaction and discomfort.
We have been feeling mighty sorry
for ourselves.
Perhaps Thanksgiving occasion could
bring no greater blessing to us as a
people than to readjust our perspec-
tive and displace pessimism with a
new spirit of optimism.
Before we enter into the true spirit
of the day it is necessary to put away
our hatreds, our grOuches and discOn-
tents and center our thoughts upon
the blessings that have come. If one
would give thanks he must realize the
fact of having been blessed, and in
doing so he minimizes the misfortunes
he has experienced. The pessimist is
in no position to give thanks. The
spirit Of optimism will possess us to
the extent that we are able to give
thanks in spirit and in truth to the
Giver of All Good Gifts today.
For the fact remains that, in spite
of our difficulties, we are the most
prosperous and the most favorably sit
uated nation on the earth and that
we have more reasons for cOntentment
and gratitude than any other people.
This Thanksgiving day, if observed
in the spirit of those who inaugurated
it, is capable of lifting the spirit and
thought of the American people to new
heights and Of ushering in a new era
Of cOntentment and happiness.
Thanksgiving day comes to mean
today not only an occasion when we
may express our gratitude to the Most
High for His care and kindness in the
past, but likewise a time when by
marshaling our blessings before us we
are inspired with new hope and cour-
age for the future.
Milford chronicle., 1921-11-25
CranberrieS Always Have
Played Prominent Part
at Thanksgiving Feast

It is a tradition in Plymouth that
the eating of turkey and cranberry
sauce on Thanksgiving day goes back
to the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving.
That little band of self-exiled, de-
voted Christians crossed the stormy
sea in the MayflOwer and landed at
Plymouth Rock on December q, 1920.
Their first winter in the New World
was one of great suffering, marked
with famine and hardships.
Governor Bradford, in his account
of the Pilgrims first Thanksgiving,
does not give a menu of the dinner,
but he often refers to the wild tur-
keys as one of the luxuries of the
colony. However, John JOsslyn, an
English traveller and naturalist, who
visited New England in 1888 and wrote
an account of its "Rarities," says:
Cranberry or bearberry (because
bears used much to feed upon them)
is a small trayling plant that grows
in salt marshes that are OvergrOwn
with moss. The Indians and English
use them much, boiling them with SUI
gar for sauce to eat with their meat"
That cranberries belong to the ira
ditiOnal Pilgrim dinner is shown by
the menu Of the "decent repast'' served
at the first Celebration of the Land
ing of Our Forefathers," which was
observed on December %, 1869. This
day was celebrated by the Old Colony
club of Plymouth with a procession
and a dinner consisting of a large
baked Indian whortleberry pudding, a
dish Of sauQuetach (succotash), dish
of clans, a dish of oysters and dish
of Goldfish, haunch of venison, roasted
by the first jack brought into the col
ony; a dish of fowl, cranberry tarts,
a dish of fresh fish and eels, an apple
pie, a course of cheese made in the
old colony. These articles were
dressed in the plainest manner Gall
appearance of luxury, whose memory
we shall ever respect).
Turkey, succOtash and cranberries
still play their part in the Thanks
giving dinners in Plymouth, and five
grains Of parched corn are laid beside
each place in remembrance Of the ear
ly years of famine.
Milford chronicle., 1921-11-25
Thanksgiving Should Mean
More Than Mere Feeling
of Gratitude for FaVorS

1t is to be regretted that the beauti-
full and appropriate custom of observ-
ing a day of Thanksgiving has become
associated with an abundance of mate
rial things. If crops have been bounti-
fu, if the harvest has been great, if
there has been an overflow of the
good" things of earth, and if the
times have been peaceful, reasons for
thanksgiving are supposed to increase
cOrrespOndingly.
There is something in the outward
tradition of Thanksgiving that would
appear to justify this stressing of the
Importance of material things; but
there is also something in the real
Thanksgiving that would demand the
StreSSing of other things, demand the
placing of emphasis upon spiritual
matters rather than upon conditions
which pertain solely to the physical
well being of man.
The real Thanksgiving demands a
feeling Of deep appreciation for what
ever has come, the acceptance "with
equal thanks" of the good fortune or
tHS Ddu IOIl ullS VI previous IuOHI1S.
This Thanksgiving is essentially an in
ternal thing-it can be observed re-
gardless of what one had for dinner
that day, and its observance is all
affair that should be open to the rich
and the poor of the earth.
: 1t may well be that some, on this
day of taking stock and expressing
gratitude for blessings, can find little
of good that has come to them as the
world counts good. But these are the
ones for whom Thanksgiving may hold
the deepest reality. These may say:
Lord, for life, its love, it's hope, it's
interest, its opportunity for service;
for the great and durable satisfactiOns
Of living that center about home and
work; for deep and abiding memories
of joy that bereavement has brought
into sharp relief; for all these bless
ings may be truly thankful"
To this prayer may be added by
those in prosperity:
"And may be mindful lest in the
excess of good things I become self
centered and forget my obligations to
my fellow men,"