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New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Illustrations by JEFFERSON MACHAMER
Tale Will Hearst and the Wan He trove Bring the World

under way that they could take little or no
interest in the conflict then raging.
"'There be 100 per cent Americans, oh ennis
saries from far lands. But there also be 120
proof Americans
$50 the emirs and pashas from far lands
shut their ears to the clamor and gave ear to
to proposal Of the Emir Hughes that the war
feuccas and galleys of each nation be reduced
in number so that the dinars hitherto spent
on them might be expended in aiding and COM
forting the people.
"And the emissaries from Japan gave what
consideration to the project they might, yet
was their fair-minded consideration of the
matter in hand somewhat hampered by the
Shek ul Islam, who, leaping up and down in
the fashion of the mullah who harrangueth the
Faithful before battle, cried to the four winds:
".Beware! Allaho Akhbar Lay not aside
thy arms. Nay, add more unto them, oh 100
per cent Americans, for menace broodeth on
the Pacific, and the need Of America is more
galleys and feluccas rather than less. To
arms The emissaries of Japan cannot be
trusted. And the Brtons are the allies of
Japan! Remember Lexington! Consider
Bunker Hilln
"And certain man approached the sheik
where he eaped in his frenzy, asking:
"How about Kiaochow and the linden
burg line and Verdun and the Argonne"
''But after lingering in vain he departed,
mourning:
"Alas! that so great sheik should be
so deaf!'
''Yet despite the voice of Will ibn Hearst,
the emssaries of the far lands reached agree
ment with those who had bidden them to con-
ference, and they set forth a treaty binding
themselves together in friendship and trust.
'And the emissarcs who hailed from the
isles of the Brtons spake many fair words
dealing with common ancestry and renewed
trust and future association for the better
ment Of each other, while Will ibn Hearst
safe in his own place thinking of divers things.
'sThen at length he lifted up his voice and
cried aloud
"'Woe, woe British Plot Barred. Prop
aganda Distorts Truth City School Histories
Hail English as Friends
''Then shouted he eloquently in this vein
that the Caliph Hy-lan of the Ruddy Counte-
nance, who ever had an ear inclined to the
voice of his lord, caught fire from his words
and spake extemporaneously as follows:
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
GUAM, AND HOW IT HAPPENED

Of such a situation? The straight untainted
truth was funny enough, goodness knows-an
American cruiser capturing fort whose peo-
pie didn't know the warship was an enemy
vessel. and then, to top that off, that if the
fort DID know it was being shelled it could
not make show Of defense, even to save it's
face, on account of the simple condition that it
lacked powder, and on the additional simple
account that it had no projectiles, and also on
the important account that it had no cannon
other than couple of smooth-bores worth
only whatever they would fetch in the old
metals market.
Frank Robert Stockton then was putting to-
gether yarns that are preserved on Oriental
parchment. Stockton knew the art of SPELL
binding with type, and his Lady or the
Tiger?" at the beginning of this century simply
had to be on your shelf or you didn't belong
Frank R. fell to the account of the capitula-
tion Of Guam with avdity and an imagination
that was working all six. He wrote a
story for which supersensitive souls in the
navy never will forgive him. He semi-screened
Captain Glass by naming no names at all for
the Charleston, nor for the Charlestons cap
tain, and by manufacturing names even for
America and for Guam and for Guam's Coy
ernor.
Stockton, for the purposes Of his sketch.
called America "Cabotia." The "Amerigo''
that goes with the name of the explorer YES
pucci gave America its name, did it not? Why
not take the name Of the explorer Cabot and
name land for him? And so Stockton had
Cabota at war with the mother land of his
"Senor Proventura Torado," the Governor
General of the delightful island of Manana
Stockton's story of the benevolent assimila-
tion of Guam came as near as anything ever
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

Cavite on Manila Bay, with the miles between
them running we'll up into the 10000 mark,
counting the way these four boats sailed
We didn't have to have glasses to see that
the Charleston was fully in earnest when she
let go with her guns and raised geysers of
pulverized rock at the base of a brownish
mass which seemed to be her target. We
knew it was not just by way of lark that
had been routed out of our hunks at
ante meridian and kept pinned to the Peking's
rails awaiting an order to take aim and pull
trigger. That order did not come. The
Charleston required no auxiliary in the work
that she was doing.
1t wasn't long after the American shells
had mussed up the base of the fort protecting
San Luis de Apra harbor that boat could be
made out coming away from the Chareston's
zone of fire. 1t was heading straight for the
cruiser. OF course, Captain Henry Glass, who
was carrying on this operation, at once halted
his action. He could see no fairness in splin-
tering crazy boat perhaps loaded with crazy
people, and he waited. We don't know how
Captain Glass felt. The morning surely had
been one of the EXTREMIST watchfulness and
waiting The captain had right to feel dis
appointed. He had been expecting a fight and
he wasn't getting it,
Captain Glass had been informed in writ
ing that the San Luis fort was an up-to-date
proposition. He had set his teeth and he was
ready to bite right into that harbor, damning
all the boats, all the forts, all the rifles, all
the mines and all the torpedoes that ever had
been shipped out Of Seville
Soon after dawn the captain had traced in
the mists the outline of ship. Could this be
one Of the Spaniards he had been instructed
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

to annihilate. He couldn't tell i'll the nlurk
whether he had sighted a scorpion or some
thing with which he had no quarrel. At one
moment the ship the captain was watching
seemed to be clearing away. For an interval
a wee word of four letters stood between that
craft and something sudden That word was
"Fire!" The Charleston had mighty accurate
cannoneers and her gunners had mighty
curate guns that were beaded down onto that
suspicious hulk. When few impatient rays
of the sun cut through the haze there were
the Japanese merchant colors fluttering from
the stern of a ship that never knew how close
it had come to being total loss. Providence
only knows how near America and Japan came
then and there to negotiations that would have
made entirely superf1uous present chickering's
for little United States-Japan agreement.
There were no complications, nor any negotia-
tions, because Captain Glass was cool and
wasn't opening up till he knew what he was
going to hit.
The captain, his officers and his men and all
on the transports cooked their heads and TO
cussed their eyes on that lazy boat and it's crazy
occupants that were pulling directly into the
muzzles Of the Charleston's guns And crazer
than all was the fact that the crazy boat was
flying. as jauntiy as If it was the smartest
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

"'Woe, woel British Plot Barred Prom.
prop-p propaganda Distorts Truth. City SchooI
Histories Hail English as Friends
"Then after long discussion with the
Sheik ul Islam, the Caliph spake again, say.
ing:
"It hath been brought to my attention
that we at one time fought war with the
British which for some reason the interests
have managed to get into the school histories
without portrayng the British in their true
light of cutthroats and worse Behold it il
Willi--rather, it is my order that these voi
umes be gone over forthwith by one famia.
with history and truth, and the parts in which
the British are spoken of in other than terms
of condemnation be deleted forthwith
"And he spake to Abou Daouad ben Hirsh-
field, the wazir of his accounts saying:
"'Go straightway and make the histories
taught in our schools fit for none but 100 per
cent Americans to read
"And Abou Dauoad, salaaming low, went
forth to do as he was bid"
Then ceased Shahrazad her tale and
Shahryar, king Of kings spake regretfuly.
saying:
"By the holy gates of Medina but this
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
EIWW y HATS all the shooting for?"
AAi A lot Of us asked that ques-
w ton soon after daybreak one
'This day I haze concluded peace Dith
the Ahkoond of Swat''

morning back in June. 1893.
We were aboard the Pacific Mail liner
City Of Peking, which was doing army trans
port duty and was packing her share of Amer
icanos to the Philippines, where there was
bit of mopping UP to do to round out that
performance that George Dewey had brought
off in Manila Bay.
On the particular morning that the flocks
of us on the Peking were asking the why's
and the wherefores of all the shooting we
were lined up at the vessels rails and we had
our old-model Springfelds, the Springfield
that carried cartridge of caliber that was
away up in the forties and which looked like
three-inch shell in its tadpoe state We were
gazing through a tropical mist and could see
the cruiser Charleston-the boat that after
ward was picked up by typhoon and hurled
to sea- bottom thirty-fve fathoms lower than
where flying fishes probably now are playing
upon the bosom of turquosan ocean.
There was the Charleston a-blazing and
arranging away. We got the notion the
cruiser really had become angry about some
\ thing, and we certainly grew intensely curious
] to know exactly what was going on. We
didn't have as much as germ of thought
that the business in hand one day would play
an important part in the destinies of nations.
We didn't have the slightest fare-up of
vision that 30x12 piece of terra firma stick
ing up out of the waters would in this year,
1921 A. D., threaten to become the point that
might make or keep Warren Gamaliel Har-
ding from becoming a greater parsonage in
peace than all the Little Corsicans or the
Iron Dukes ever had become in war.
We persisted in our inquiries and we
learned that We formed firing line at the
Peking's rails and that we were ready, with
our hunks Of Springfield lead, because we
were assisting in the taking Of the island of
Guam and the other members Of the Ladrone
group. The Peking, for this enterprise. had
been turned into sort OF auxiliary battle
ship. She had a set of six-inchers up ford
and also aft, and could have raised quite
fuss, for she had regular U. S. N. gunners
aboard. But just the same it was rather an
innovation to have United States volunteer
infantrymen, carrying blunderbusses that
fired one shell at loading, used as fringe
of rapid-frers to supplement the PekingS
honest-to-goodness and fresh-from-t -the-arscnal
spouters.
r is written in army and navy records
that it was not so much the Charleston's job
that day to raise the Stars and Stripes above
Guam as it was to search out the harbors
of the Ladrones and reduce the armanents OF
any Spanish warcraft happening to be taking
siestas in them. The seizure Of lands whose
title rested in tho crown at Madrid was sec
ondary to the determination not to give any
struggling gunboats q chance to pump holes
in the hulls OF the three transports the
s,i.ar,cgtai. vas conveying on tho awfuly long
.ogage FROM San Francisco To Cavite, San
lxauc,scQ being On San Francisco Bay and
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Crying to the Four Winds: "Ren,eynber
Lexington! Consider Bunker HiIfw

came to being straight fact put into print rs
pure fiction. There were trimmings and liber-
ties, but, morally, the Stockton tale was fair
enough account of the surprise that Guam's
governor experienced very soon after the
Charleston took a shot at his fort. Stockton's
tale had it that the Governor had squandered
all his powder shooting parrots, and was deep
ly chagrined when he found he could not reply
to the foreign man-of-war's generous salute.
He hastened to get into his regimentals and
Sam Browne belt in order to go at once to the
warship and offer apology. His good wife in
sisted that he wear his nghtcap under his
brilliantly plumed chat of state
Out padded the Governor to the ship only
to learn that Cabotia was making war upon his
notherand Proventura explained he had no
powder, and surely the gallant captain would
not run him through on finding him swordless,
but would supply a sword so he could strike
back for the honor of the crown and for his
own personal well being. And the Cabotian
captain actually gave the Governor a barrel Of
loose powder that was cluttering up the ships
magazine, anyhow.
Back to the fort Proventura went TO manu-
facture material for first class communlque.
Also Go think matters over. The Governor
made puny stand with cannon balls too small
TOR his cannon and ceased firing Immediately
when he remembered all the fun he could
have shooting parrots with the Cabotian pow
der. Then back to the man-of-war TO make
honorable surrender. He agreed to deliver
205 soldiers in the morning. Stockton made
the number 2o5. The garrison that did SUI
render mustered 102, one-haf of one per cent
artillerists.
The Governor had busy time getting MS
205 prisoners into line next morning, but By
ringing in three women as vivanderes he 'gor
away with it, Then he had so go back to
the ship for necessary conferences Into
conference he automatically oozed the hint
that the captain emerge from his quandary
over the question Of slowing away 205 pris-
oners, including three vivanderes, by brevet-
ting Proventura a citizen of Cabotia and IN
trusting him with the temporary governorship
of the island after the Cabotian standard had
been acknowledged and duly halyarded heaF-
onward.
A virtuoso at telling tale doesn't drop INTO
his work even nightcap unless for purpose.
1t happened that just before the governor emf
barked on his final boat ride to the man @
war a true son Of the nsctherland rautinfed and
swore he'd be no ones captive till there vas
not one fake Of powder and not one ssnsfs
cannon ball left in or around his oefensss
Proventura thought he had spiked this person
effectively by dropping his nightcap into rne
one cannon that still could hurl shot. Just
as the governor concluded all arrangements
with the captain the report O. the patriot 5
gun was heard Looking up, all en- the shlp
hc hon
the cruiser. 1t pumped upon the quarterdeeS'
almost at theh governors toes "Treachery--
<~ sksNs
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
By FREDERIC VAN do WATER

~ OW thrice to the East, oh ye Faithful!
Allah is great! Allah is merciful.
The knowledge of the ways of Allah
is past the comprehension of the seed
Of man.
Smite reverently the forehead on the prayer
rug in his name and give it couple of extra
bumps in the name of Will ibn Hearst the
Sheik III Islam whom the Caliph of the City,
even Hy-lan Of the Ruddy Countenance Cor
teareth not to worship. For the ways of Will
are like unto those of the Lord of the Three
Worlds for obscurity and wisdom past the
knowledge of mankind. Allaho Akhbar.
Now, when the thousand and twenty eighth
night had drawn on and the evening call Of
the muezzins to prayer had echoed through the
streets and bazaars of ancient Bagdad,
Shahryar. king of kings, sought the harem
where the Sultana Shahrazad, weaver Of tales
of wonder, waited him.
Then as she salaamed before her lord,
Shahryar spake, saying:
ooh, moon of my deight oh, E. Phillips
Oppenheim of Dagdad, unless thy story be
good. let omit it tonight and get the exc
cuton over with at once for distress sitteth
heavy upon me like unto the man of the sea,
which, thou hast told me, held to the shoulders
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Caiph
ron his

great black roc who threatened our lands?"
"And one who knew the ways of the folk
Of Willis land quoth in reply:
"'Some of them are and some of them amt.
For, oh emirs and pashas, there were folk in
this land SO occupied getting the next war
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

and the isles Of the Britons one to the other,
hearing the voices Of Will and those who
echoed his words:
''Are these the folk who went
forth with our fighting men Of late
and slew through stern endeavor the
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1921-03-21
HOY VUELVEN A SUS RABAJOS
LOS OBREROS HUELGULSTAS
Catorce mil serdn los ferrocarrileros que entren
prestar sus seruicios Ell dia de hoy con-
tdndose entire ellos los esquiroles
Telegrama Especial para LA PRENSA:

Telegrama Especial para LA PRENSA."
CIUDAD DE MEXICO, mario 90
En- la manana de aver celebr6 el CO.
mite de Ia Huelg2 de ferrocarrileros
una larga conferencia con ell Director
General de las Lineas Nacionales.
Francisco Perez. con el fin de ultimar
todos los asuntos relacionados con Ia
soluci6n del movimiento huelguista.
Respecto L 10 que Sc habl6 en- esta di-
latada conferencia Sc guarda abso-
luto secreto sabese unicamente que
los huelguistas volveran a sus uaba-
jos mailana lunes.
Las Confederaciones Obreras han
estado telcgrafiando de todas parties
de Ia Republica a fin de que todo ell
elemento ferrocarri!ero que secundo el
movimiento huelguista Sc disponga a
volver manana mismo d sus trabajos.
Como consecuencia de estos mensa :
ies Sc han recibidc otroS muchos que
hacen saber del numero de trabaJa-
dores que manana' volveran sus ia
Heres este numero asciende L ca
| torce MIL segun calculos aproxima
dos, contando naturalmente con los
huelguistas a los esquiroles que Sc
guirAn prestando sus serviclos de a
cuerdo con los puestos que Sc les
otorgaron durante Ia huelga.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1921-03-21
UNA PKUFEIlSA DICE QUE HA WVDU EN- UIRUS PLANEIAOT
Margarte Wo asonbra al dbHco de Paris con qmacione tan
audaces 10 de que por reOelac6n de memorial
recuerda que u1ui6 en- Marte Venus y en- planeta
desconocido por los arr6nomos: Dian7ante

I da V que mi paSado Sc lniclo mucho
antes de que la terra fuese formada.
70 recuerdo, aunque de manera muy
vaga, como era el mundo anteS del
Diluvio Universal; Y recuerdo, TAM
bien muy vagamente, IA existencla
que pase en- otros planetas, como Mar
te y Venus, que son los que mas pre-.
funda huella dejaron en- mi vida. Es-
Ia empeZ6, segQn mis- recuerdoS re-
cogidoS por esta revelaclon asombro-
sa de mi memoria, hace ochocientos
mil amos, y ahora me doy cuenta de
que no solo en- Marie y Venus vlvf,
como ahora en- Ia TERRA, sino en- otros
planetas que no son conocldos por
los astronomers de Europa. Durante
algun tempo, que no podria precisar.
vivf en- el pIaneta Diamante, donde
los teatros v las casas permaneclan a
obscuras, segun me parece, no Sc ha-
bfa inventado en- aquel planeta Ia luz
artificial. Pero el pueblo de Diamarte
era profundamente artista tenla una
voz tan bella, que cuando cantaba
conmovia hasta las lagrimas.
DE Marie recuerdo que el pueblo es
muy franco Y Xtraordinariomente
amante de Ia guerra Y que siempre
esta preparandose para Ia lucha por
que tiene Ia creencia que han de ir a
atacarlo los habitantes de otro plane
ta por el que siente verdadero pa
vor. Ese planeta es Ia terra, pero
ellos no 10 saben."
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1921-03-21
FIRME ACTITUD Sc
OBSERVARA CON
LOS PETROLEROS
Sc exigira a las Gas.
que cuiden de Ia Sd
Iud de los obreros
Telcerama Especial para LA PRENSA"
CIUDAD DE. MESICO. mario 90

Te!cgrama Especial para LA PRENSA-
CIUDAD DE MEXICO, mario 20
Ell Secretario de Industria y Concrete,
Rafael Zubaran Capmany, hizo aver
importlntisimas declar-Iciones acerca
de todas aquellas conpahfas perole-
ras que no dan cunpiiiniento q las
clausulas de los contratos firmados,
que Sc refieren a las condolences hi
gitnicas que deben prevalecer en- los
campamentos peroleroS q fin de que
los obreros no sean atacados po- Ell
paludismo y otras muchaS enfermeda-
des que son precisamente determina-
da.s por esos descuidcs de las conipa-
nfas ipfrlctoras.
Estas companfas. dijo el licenciado
Zubaran, seran obligadas a que hagan
construction de hospitales enferne-
rias en- sus campatnentos para prote-
ger tcdCs sus obreros.
Frecuentemente Sc tiene conocimien-
TO de infinidad de trahaJadoreS que
mueren on Ia zona pctrolera, debido en-
gran parte 4 que las companies no Sc
preocupah por que en- sus dominlos Sc
observer todos los preceptos his1eni-
cos ALI .indispensables, y que los es-
tabJecimientos en- que puedan impair
tirse las atenciones medicas no ofre-
cen sarantfas los obreros. Hay que
poner coto z todas estas lrreguGari-
dades de que los trabajadores SON VIC
tiu1as V para clio Ia Secretarfa de In
dustria V Comercio, segun manifiesta
en- cst2s declaraciones el hcenciado
Zpbaran cpmany. esta dispuesta ha-
Ger toda la preston nccesarta sobre to-
das aquelas companias que de tai susr
to infringen Ids clausulas relativas del
contrato que con anterioridad signaron.
Ell Secretario hizo tambien declara-
clones en- conexi6n con la juna de pc
troler.s norteamericanos en- ell puerto
de Galveston. A este respecto di,o quo
las conclusioncs a que haE llesaoo e.
SOS senores son incongruents, va que
mientras nieg1in al gobierno ei derecno
de disponer del subsuelo, quieren que
los propietarfcs de la superficie de los
nropios terrenos tengan todo el dere-
cho para explotar ese subsueH.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1921-03-21
LA VUELTA DE
JESUCRlS1O Q

Todo ESQ, con ser sorprendente y
audaz, NADIA significa sin embargo,
juneo a IA profecia de que Jesucristo
yolvera al mundo y que en- 81 Tivira
otros treinta y tres amos.
Marguerite Wolf afirma que Jesu-
cristo volvera a nacer, de una fami-
liza judia, en- las cercantas de Paris,
en- un punto llamado Montmorency,
que predicara las mismas teorfas que
predicara en- la antiguedad, recomen-
dando al mundo ell amor Ia virtud
Y Ia fe, que recorrera los campos
deva astados por Ia guerra para dejar
caer so5re los pueblos sus palabras
admirables: "Amaos los unos a los
otros."
La profetisa afirma que el Jesu-
cristo redivivo morira al llegar a Ia
edad de treinta tres amos, pero no
crucificado, sino vfctima de un aten-
tado de un fanaico del radicalismo.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1921-03-21
LOS PERIODlCOS SINDICALISTA9
PROTESTAN CONTRA Uk AC-
TO DEL GOBIERNO

Del servieio Especial para LA PRENSA'
MADRID, mario 2o.-Los periodlcos
sindicalist.s han hectro una Tgorosa
protesta a causa de Ia resoiucion a
doptada por el gobierno contra varios
poriodistas con motive de algunos ar
tcuIos que Sc escribieron a rafz del
sasesinato de Dato.
Ell gobierno consider6 que tales ar
ticulos tendian a glorifcar el crimen
V desarrollar el odio de clases sus
autores fueron enviados prision Co
mo crirninales comunes.
Los rereridos periodicos tamnien
protestan contra 10 que llannan pro
cedimiento de Ia canara cerrsda", Sc
guido en- la persecution de les asesI-
nos.
Ell sobierno ha establecido una estric
IA censura sobre todas. las noticias
que Sc relaciona con Ia APPREHENSION
de sospechoscs y con las inVesnga-
clones de IA rolicfa en- este caso.