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"'Open Diplomacy."
The State Department continues to
exhibit ;i 50 per cent loyalty to the
theory of "open diplomacy." lt has just
made public the text of ;i note written
by Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau under
date of May 29. The Count says, among
other things: "The more deeply we pene
trate into the spirit of tlie treaty the
more convinced we become of the im
possibility of carrying it out."
Such statemehts whet the curiosity of
American readers to know something
more definite about the contents of the
treaty. The German public has the full
text and can follow the dipiomatic ex
changes intelligently. We are not al?
lowed to have the text and can follow
them with difficulty. The abstract
printcd in this country is incomplete and
sketchy. Much of the controversy in
Paris seems to be over provisions which
i mits or leaves obscure.
What is the use of giving out German
protests and Allied answers so long as
;; e text on which they are based is with
held? Half-open, half-secret diplomacy
crf this sort is no great improvement over
the old style hugger-mugger supposed to
have been abolished by the Fourteen
Points.
Let us either have the text of the
treaty and 100 per cent "open diplomacy"
or frankly revert to the old method,
pigeonholing Count von Brockdorff
Rantzau's rather aggravating epistles
until they are ripe for publication in
some Foreign Relations Red Book of 19'_!0
or 1921,
The Same Old Germany
Mathias Erzberger's letter, published
in yesterday's Tribune, lets the world
into the secret of German diplomacy
at Versailles. The appeals and entrea
ties of Brockdorff-Rantzau, the full text
of which the council of three allows
to he published in Great Britain. France
and the United States, are merely a
luction of ;!-" reptilian German
war propaganda.
Germany cultivated the spirit of paci
fism and defeatism wherever it could he
planted and nurtured in cnemy soil. Her
o'.vi alleged ptjeifists, of whom Erzberger
n iw and then figured as one, laughed in
innocence of the emo
ad who Eell for German
pacili:-' ?> tions. They still smile in
al thi readiness of their dupes in
France, Great Britain and the United
States to accept insincere German pro
fessions of repentance and to grrvw soft
hearted over the "unbearable" terms al?
leged to be imposed on Germany by the
peace treaty.
Erzberger knows what the Germans
are doing. Hewrites:
"We learn from rrliahle pourccs that
pacifisl propaganda will be pushed in
every p blo way in Entente countries,
moi ? demobilized solclirrs.
Indo.->fl, it even now is being done openly
? pamphlel and speeches.
; i he French War Cabinet
will be combated; the return of Alsace
Lorraine to France will be criticiscd niul
a plpbiscitp will bc proposed as tho best
of 1 e probli m.
i certain 11 al if the war should
br> resumed anti-militarism would play a
' '''? ? ? l ? armies of tho En
? '' ? tion3 than befi re i he armist icc
tenti ' ential ly weakened in
?" ngth, advocatcs having arisen
for us in th<? vcry heart of our enemies
? ovi poworing force."
Tho sentimental weakness of French
alists, British Laborites and our own
?' 1 radicals will he played on
to 1 p Germai y ? cape a just retribu
tion and to prcpare to repudiate the
'? a few years hence, when, most.
Gero believe. the Entente will
? ? "a hi torical memory."
To Erzberger's mind?and to the av
German mind- the war of 1914
?018 settled nothing. It was only an
inc d< ? ? n the aecular struggle for world
dominati i bi m ri Continental Europe
meaning a '?? rman Continental Europe)
and the Anglo-Saxona of England and
the United Statea. It still ia to them a
<S < arthage agaii t. Rome, London
? :'-? ' I Berlin, "tho Continent against
',:?<?!?
Thia haa been Germai y'e Cannie, Erz?
berger payg. But he predicta that i he will
ri e above defcat, as Rome did, and in
the near future will conqucr France and
Vr.<;n fight il out for world dominion with
Great Britain and America.
Ai ? the?'?<? the viaiona of a <\'u"ir<}<r<-(i
fmaginatioi)? Many partiaano of an
t'uny pi;,'?<? a "peace without vlctory".
rnay think 80, But if they do they
again miaread the Gennan character.
Germany, though weakened, still will
treasure the same idoas of future gran
dcur as she cherished before the war. The.
illusion of world power has sunk too
decp into the Teuton consciousness to be
rooted out by a single defeat.
Those who are inclined to take Brock
dorff-Rantzau's protcstntions at face
value should study Erzberger. He speaks
for tlie real after-the-peace Germany?
a peopie who will break the bonds of any
convention they may sign at Versailles
as soon as they think they have divided
and demoralix.ed their former enemies
sufficiently to warrant a lifi.in.tr of the
mask.
The only snfe guarantee of German
good conduct is a strong peace, rigidly
enforced, Germany is full of Erzbergers,
and they all think atid feel what he has
fortunately been indiscreot enough to
write.
The Rhine Republic
The creation of a. Rhine Republic 1?
a hint to Germany to sign the peace
treaty without further haggling. Other
wise the empire established by Bis
marck will crumble before the signa
tures of the German delegates can be
affixed.
The largcr part of the new state is
under Allied occupation. The Berlin
government therefore is powerlcss to
suppress what it may consider as an act
of rebellion. The Allies do not guaran
tee German sovereignty under tho ar
mistice. They can easily modify the
treaty so as to recognize the existor.ee
of a sclf-determined Rhenish state, if
they see fit to do so.
The republic proclaimed on Sunday
ineludes the Rhine Province, formerly
belonging to Prussia; the Palatinate
west of the Rhine, formerly belonging
to Bavaria; the grand dukedom of
j Hesse-Darmstadt and Prussian Hesse
Nassau. It has an area of 21,823 square
miles and had in 1010 a. population of
11,661,297. Its populatio.i is more than
a third larger than Bavaria's or than
that. of the new Republic of Austria.
The loss of the Rhine region would
nearly destroy Prussia as an industrial
state. Essen, Cologne, Dtisseldorff, E-l
berfeld, Coblenz, Mainz and Frankfort
on-the-Main would disappear front the
German man. Prussia, mutilated on Ihr
west as well as on the east. would sink
back to the status of a second rate
European power.
Here is a peril more threatening than
the "economic servitude" imposed by
the peace treaty. Will the peace delega
tion at Versailles try to buy oiT the
Rhineland n volution by signing at once?
College Men in the War
It is impressive reading, the official
record of Yale's service in the war.
The first complete figures of an Ameri?
can university's service to the country,
they may well stand for that vast
body of college bred heroism, graduate
and undergraduate, throughout the na?
tion, that played so large a part in Iead
ing our forces to battlc. In 1860, when
another danger confronted our nation,
it was the college boys who were first
to rally to the aid of the flag. The men
of 1918 and 1010 were not less quick
to answer.
The totals are large and significant?
8,000 Yale men in uniform; 207 dead;
as many wounded, missing or prisoner;
7G decorated by the (Jnited States for
gallantry; 193 decorated by other na?
tions; 413 officers above the rank of
captain. Bul the figures of the graduat
ing classes ol 191 ? and 1919 are what
tir one's thoughts. Practically the
entire membership of both classes vol
unteered. From the college there were
: 368 men of 1918 in service and 374 of
, 1010; from Sheffield, 235 of 1918 and
' 188 of 19J 9. Takin.cr the college class
: of 1918 as an example, it yielded 1
j major, IS captains, 4 7 first lieutenants
and 61 second lieutenants; also ol
[ naval officers and 1 officer of marines.
Of the 207 names on Yale's roll of
: honor, 72, approximately one-third, were
! members of classes which had not yet
been graduated when America declared
war. Here is a casual item from the
record of the class of 1017:
".Tohnny Overton, captain of tho 1917
track team and a national fifrurc- as a
middlc (1 tancc champion runncr, died
leadinp liia men '??? a pallanl charjre over
thn top at Chatcau Thierry. With him
: thrce other classmatca of MV, a'! offi?
cers of the 6th Marines, One more ? i
mati w a i wounded and n not her decoi ited
f<>r hia service in the sami i piment and
in the same engagement."
It is a traj.>;ic loss to the country that
so many of those young men have died
with their lives unlived. They can ill
be spared. But their example should
mean much to the country in the years
to come; and their comrades who. have
been through the tire will bring an en
riched and precious character to our
national life. There can he no high
devotion without risk, without sacrifice.
Oura is tho obligation to sec that tho
inspiration of this sacrifice is not lost
or wasted. All over the country this
. month our collcges are holding memo
rial serviccs in honor of those who
fought and served and died. The loss
is lis.ted atid grcat. Only if the whole
nation bows its head in gratitude and
dedication can the gain be as grcat.
What Time Is It in Canada?
A fortnight of daylight saving, and
we had alrnost forgotten that our tirnc
pieces were ever slower. The summer
schedule slipped in on us in the night
without confusion. Only the longer
evenings now rcmind us ef the change.
But iti Canada time depends on who
and what you .are. Dominion farmers
this year were able to prcvent the pas
tsage by Parliament of the daylight sav
irii' act. But they could not keep city
dwellera from adopting home rule as u,
time. The result is that rnost of the
larger cities, including Ottawa, Montreal,
Toronto and Winnipeg, are using the
summer schedule.
The Canadian railways, in order to
keep their connections with lines across
the border in the United States, ad
vanced their time at 2 a. m. on March
30. Their justification was that "the
use of different times on the railways
operating in both countries would cause
confusion that would be almost certain,
! sooner or later, in spite of precautions,
to result in accident."
In this stand the railways were sup
i ported by the Canadian RailWay War
| Board. But the Dominion's Board of
, Railway Commissicners demanded that
the railways show cause for their action
in disregarding the will of the peopie
i as expressed by Parliament.
; Meantime, while the controversy rages
j between the Railway War Board, cham
; pioning the cities, and the Board of
Railway Commissioners, championing
I the rural districts, the trains are run
, ning on advanced time in both rural
. and urban regions.
In Canada it is a case of "TeU me who
you are and I'll tell you what time it is."
If a railroad man, stockbroker, soldier,
sailor, traveller (rural or urban), it is
j 3 o'clock; if a farmer, civil service em
| ploye, government clerk, Member of
J Parliament, it is only 2.
The Amazons' Union
Everybody is doing it in Germany
nowadays, so it is only natural for the
| wives of military officers to form a union
j of their own. They have, we are in
! formed by the Bcrliner Neueste Na-ch
richten. The new organization bears the
! name "'Union of the Wives of German
; Officers, Sanitary Officers and Military
' Officials," the admission of the two lat
; ter groups in itself being a sign of the
1 democratic period, as in the bad old
j times no self-respecting wife oi* a cap
j tain of hussars would have conde
cen'ded to talk to a lady linked by matri
j mony to a member of the highly usefu!
but scarcely aristocratic commissariat.
Those are utterly wrong who assume
i that the new union aims at securing t,,;
eight-hour day for its members, with
time and a half for overtime, or at the
i regulation of disorderly orderlies, No.
! Their platform is nothing if not patri
j otic They demand "the creation of a
German people's army, which shall in
i clude the whole strength of the nation;
: restoration of the military authority of
officers and subalterns; creation of a
state ministry to prot,ect military inter
ests." One clause has a touch of "indus
- trial democracy" about it: "Officers to
be discharged only under legalized regu
, lations. Legal security for pay and
pensions."
But the crowning demand is that which
urges that "women also shall he con
scripted for the people's army." Now,
this is distinctly radical, for, with
all their ultra-emancipated bearing, the
officers' wives were politically, as a class,
most conservative. The celebrated slo
gan of the "three K's"?"Kinder,
Ktiehe, Kirche" -coverod pretty fully
their political and economic ideal.
I Times have ehanged, and now the offi?
cers' ladies are clamoring to annex a
fourth K to their domain ? Krieg.
Their rosy dreams about compulsory
military i en ic ? for women niust have
been ba<Uy shattered by the clause of th.
peace treaty which abolishes conscription
? in Germany. However. they may retain
the fourth K i;t their programmc; only,
it will not stand for Krieg any more,
but, instead, for Kaputt. Which, in plain
American, means "busted."
The Parlous Case of the 200
Do girls swear? A reverend critic de
clares that they do. Out of 216 pirls in
a seminary which he recently visited 200
confessed as much. " 'Tis true 'tis pity,
pity 'tis 'tis true"-?that is, if 'tis true.
But perhaps the girls were only spoofing
the inquiring gentleman.
Granted, however. that the confes
sions were in good faith, it would be
interesting to learn to what particular
kind of profanity feminine lips are ad
dicted. There is a distinction among
oaths, as among other sins. Some
are regarded as venial. Thus, a learncd
court once decided that "damn" was not
swearing. Men frcquently use the word
as a plain adjective. Tho swearing
habit is open to gravc objection, but
few would number ii with the mortal
sins. Those' who "erash a curse in
setting down a cup, oi through a
banging doorpost vent an oath," may
conceivably he just as guilty?nay, even
more so - for this means ill temper,
whereas the plain, honest expletive may
be good-natured.
Some rhadamanthine moralists regard
as oath-- many cxpressions that. in them
selves are perfectly innocent. Thus
"Goodness gracious!" or "Oh, dcar me!"
or "By gosh!" if traced to their origins
??an he included in the profane catcgory,
or an ejacuiation starting in English
may he softent d in another language. No
one would accuse a French girhof swear?
ing if she said "Mon Dieu!" Perhaps
these seminary girls had been corrupted
by the study of French.
It would he a pity, of course, if young
women should become as profane as
many of their men friends. There was
a time when women inclined to ape men
j ?when they drcssed like grooms and
: tried to he "horsey." But they no
I longer do that; they set examples, not
1 follow them. We may be sure that the
i two hundred girls who confessed to
j swearing, if they were really serious,
j never use a big, hig D-, or at least
hardly ever.
As in Ireland?
It- i. Thi Wathington Poat)
Uncle Sam Buttinski: "In nthcr words, I
will moddle in your nfTair.;, but you can't
rru-ddle in mine,"
The Conning Tower
On Rereiving a Word of Praisc from a
I'roof reader
You who delve forever
XJirougri printcd word? iike mine,
And in your ofT-hours never
Forget the ill-phrased line;
Who hunl through miles of galley
For split ir.tinitivcs,
And see if all things tally,
And if it's "give" or "gives" ;
Who Beek Inverted esses
With never wearying eye;
Mark "Roman" while the presses
Stand mutc, bul panting, by;
Who catch Ihe slightest blunder
The best of author maki .
And calmly east aaunder
Worda l!:;i'. refuse to break;
You ran't think how I value
Your mced of uncarned praise'.
Will you (or is i-, "shall you?"
Vo gods! my lost school days!.)
Accept my meek oblation,
My thanks for a!l you ctavo ?
i Don't read for punctual i n,
You valiant galley slave!)
< IlIAItl ! - H.ANSON TOWNE
Thts Doodar of Dilettantism has been
unable, thus far, to whip itself into much
! enthusiasm about the pennant race in the
National League, an apathy shared by
1 seven clubs.
It has been suggestcd that we tear a
leaf from tho police book and can at least
five contributions a day. Tut! ? We can
zinc five a minute with one hand tied be?
hind us.
The terms for Austria are one off,
fiftoen davs.
Yariety's Golden Days
Sir: Were you in Chicago as early n.s
' 1892? I was, and, as a boy of eleven, used
to go several times each week to hear
Haverly's Minstrels at the Eden Mus6e
on Wabash Avenue. Among them were
Banks VVinter, Billy Rice and Richard .Tose.
Winter, whose daughter, Winona, ap
peared in vaudeville during the '90s, wrote
all his own songs and they were good. One
of them, "Little Fanny Mclntyre," ran
1 like this:
"1've.a little sweetheart, Fanny, that's For name;
We mel only yesterday ; tell me ran you blamo
Me for loving an angel, with eyes as bright
as fireV
Some day I aiti going to \m| Miss Mclntyre.
? "Little Fanny Mclntyre I
She'8 the one I most admire.
Hair like j I and eyes like firp!
Little Fanny Mclntyre."
Billy Rice used to parody this, and hia
"Little Fannic Makcs Me ' Tired" always
gol a roar of laughter from tho audience,
Winter appearing something embarrassed
the while. Then Winter would favor us
with another, "Father, Shc's My Sister,"
which ran like this:
"l'm proud Lhal I have such a sister, and worthy
to be a bricle,"
' ''? ? Poki an earni ;l young follow to his father
who stood by his side.
"You say thal you'll disown her if sho fails t0
ilo a you say,
An.l marry a man she despises, and east her
brighl future away.
You know that her heart is nnother's, an?
other who's honesl and true.
So dfive from your home your own daughter
and, father, your son goes, too,
"Father, she' mj si ter; 1 .-are not what she's
done.
Father, she's my sister; and she's the only one.
I raro not, father. whal you say, liut this I'll
;" '' clrive your daughter from your home
then I'll go. too."
11" you had your harmonlca here I'd be
i glad to toach you the a'rs for ihe two
W inler songs,
I wonder if som ? . f those old songs
could nol be rcvived? In Ravannah, several
wecks ago, a vaudeville team pulled that
old one, "Fare Thee Well, Honey, Fare Thee
V\ ell, and it wenl big! \Y. [,. (;_
lt was, of eourse, Lottic Collins and not
Lottie Gilson (the first time we heard her
??? "Sweel Rosio O'Grady" and "Elsie
From Clu : ? : " i who m; "Ta-R i 1:.;
Boom-De-A; ." Credil for thi.; correction
Roes to A. IF, K. v <;.. k. S. F., Old Timer,
Dixic Hines, W. J. S., Senex, L. R, r
11. F., and Gwen.
Although we are, as our.delight in statjo
I reminiscence provt^s, a sencscent person,
we have not yet arrived at the uutpost of
senility?tho time when a man wears n
waistcoat, no matter what the weather is.
"What our risen populace was un
doubtodly trying to do," says the Times,
"was to install in the Hall of Fame a bust
of Charles S. Whitman." Nonsense. lt
was a busl of either Malcolm 1). or
Stephen French.
Nnlive sons. especially, will thrill to the
advertisement of the Milb r Boudoir Lamp,
whieh i ? "$n mi ;? r. S, \. ??; vvesl of the
Rockii s."
The Lctters of Dulcinea
Grayce Dearest: 1 haven't written you
>" ?' tnonlh of Sundays. And 1 don't know
where the time goes to. But so many of
'' " bi :? ai e coming back from "over then "
and their stories are simply thrilling. We
can'l reali..vh.it they've been through. I
asked Bill, who was a Lciuctcnent is that
right? l'm an atrocious speller in the
Artillery if it wasn't too exciting and he
said, "I'll say it was." "Wero you
i frightened?" 1 asked him. "You said it,"
he replied. Isn't that like him?
I don'l know whether we are going away
for the "heated term" or not. I'd just as
Hl ?'? stny in little old \\ V? which is a
pretty good summer rcsort after nll. I
always say, Give me my comforl and I'll
stand the hot weather. Besides, no matter
how warm.it is, if there is a bree/.e we
Vr- it.
Went out to New Rochelle Sunday to
, see the tennis. Mr. Hartman beat Frank
Huntcr he married that lovcly girl, you
know and it. was wonderful playing. They
; were so well matched. lt was nip and
tuck, as Bill snys. And Saturday I saw
M'sa G?3s beal Mr.. Raymond at Pclham.
. She plays just. like a man, if you know
; what I mean. I don't play myself?-just
play nt it.
l'm a pig for not having written, but
: you know how it is. Well, over the river.
| j DULCY.
Is the hathing suit subject to the luxury
I tax? The tacil interpretation of many of
' its wearers argues that ihey don't con
i sider it a necesaity.
I' isn't the heat we mind. rt's h?.B
| to work in it. j,-> p A
Some of His Former Patrons Must Have Recommended Him
Copyright, i?i9. Sew York Tribune Inc.
WAN D ATOR tt VH
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A Nation Bom Old
By GeofTrey Parsons
A IIUXURMD VXI) SEVENTV C1UXESB
P( IE.M! Tra . ited by Al thui Wa!< y. ; p.
2 l.'l. Alf d A Knoi f, ?' ! 0<1.
HAT completesl mystery for the western :
world, ' hina, will not be any the less
complete for this limpid and beau
tiful rendering of < hineso lyrics. Bul at
[ea sl ? - re are illumi na1 ing facl i of na tion
al character, of emotion, of life as living
:; porl raiI of the ] earl of (lh ina as ? ?
found.
Was Chini ever young? Not by anythi
fn Mr. Arthur Waley's selection of \ r
A nation born old, from its cradle wisei
than all the other children of men, too
wise to fight, too wise to do anythi ig reck
|< ly, heodlossly, utterly; enduring ex
ile and conquc ' as matlers unplea ;ant b il
inc capable; lovi ng nn n friend > stanchly:
drinking deeply mosl ubtly tive to
beaut j .-.i ?' v lure, bul regarding ' ? i
i ? ? is the an
cha rai ter porl tyed thesi poeni \ As thi
grcal Po Cbii-i 1.772-8-16 A, D.) wrote on ar- :
riving al the age of sixty:
Ri iv.. n ihirl \ and foi ty one Is dlstract 'd by
tho Five Lusts:
Between ?? . nl elghtj one ls a prey to a
1 1 b< as< s
But from fifty to sixty on<> Is free from all I ls
Calm and still tho heai t 1 njoys rest.
I have pul behind me I ove and '".: icd; I havo
don w lUi Prollt and Fame;
I ?m ?'? ph. and deca; ;' nd f ir
l'roin decreplt ago.
Strength nt 11 h 1 till pos ess to seek the
and hl 11s;
Still niv h'Tirt plrlt en iu? h 10 listen to
? :? and jh
At leisun ! ng ti :;? w wine nnd taste several
' ?? . ? 1 1 pi.d sing a wliolo
\
Mcng-ti hu I foi . pnei and hers ivl ? h !
nxllu : I I
Nol t.1111 in of threesrore, the time of
That last pbrasc goes back to < 01
fucius, some twelve hundred years earlicr,
who said that it was nol until he was sixty
that "his ears oboj : m." All China
seems in the phraso the amazing tol
erancc, the cleafr, limpid observation that
sees the essentials of the world unmoved
by passion or the ' n of youth. [mag
i nn tion Ihe re 1 ?. surely, of the highi I
quality. But i' is ag ;: irl from that
smoky, fiaring, wind-blown torch of West?
ern winds. Here is Po < ; pa nting a
pict 11 re:
The* sing rs lia* husl d lh 11 '? ? of ??' 11
fhe ? ? ?? , 1 of t he dancrs nre mol
Ii ugging hi lute, the old hai per of I 'han
1 ? 1 : vaya as he toueh tho 1 chords.
Th 1 louil not.-s swell 1 r ahroad
I h ,ing the raln,
(L note.s
"Ch ieh. ?! li-n," i ? .-? Un ruieo ol .:': ists
Again bil is ery.
Thi ? ? a d oti .: tl genl lc
1 ? m in Po Chii i. Later Inc re ci mt i
more bitc and a quite modern note, not
at all niysterious to modern Westi 1
Th us, for inst a nce, icaks Su Tung-p'o
I 1036-1 101 A. D.) "On the Birth of His
Son":
Familii when ; lld is born,
\ llt lt IrL
! through"
(laving
' in ;- ho] t the 1 . . ? :
i torunl ind lui I
Tln n he . n n trnixiuil life
By becomin , ? : ? dstei
Earlicr in Mr. Waley's volunie, which is
chronologically arranged to give a general
1 view of the wholc art, we come upon this
admirable summary of the philosophy of
tho volume. The poel is Wang Chi, and
j he is writing arountl 700 A. D.:
"Tell nifi, nov . ivhal 1 h ild a 111a n n anl
I But to Mit uion cup nt wh
, I should llko t., Imvi vl lt?i . e ,m. nnd dl ?. .
1 hlloso
And nol In have the tax rollector comlng to
folluct taxen
My thn ? : .rl Into gor. I fnmlllen
And m; II* ilw hd-i ?? ivi ld< d to steady hus
hu n tl s
Then 1 could |og through n happy ftvescore
And, ai the end, ni ? I no !' Lradlae.
That is the concreto plcture. The phil?
osophy is Lo be found in the poema oi'
T'ao Ch'ien (365-427 A. D.), who gave beau?
tiful expression to the Taoist crced, a rc
action from the strict obligations laid
down by Confucius. A singularly fine piece
is his dialogue between Substance, Shadow
and Spirit, which ends as follows:
Tou had beller go whero Fate i- ids
I '-if; on tho Sl rc n m of Inflnite Flux
V thou ,'ithoul fear,
Drifting ui! the stream of Infinite J-'ir-:
is not so far from M. Bergson that it need
be absolutely incomprehensible to strug
gling Wcsterners. In fact, in one Taoist
Song of a century earlier it needs only a
p.inch of irreverence to sce a glorified
Hermione at play amid the ricc tiolds:
I -?? ? i.'.:? ','." : and i I :.- ? i i
M :? ; ln ugl '.- shti II w ander in I he Gi I \ id
i,
\ ? -A . ?. ? ? (? , ? , f ?? ? | -
?':-..-- | ????-.
? I n -. .. ?? stream;
But my is as though : ; l a
1 loose ? . . h.iii- ! go pinglng;
':' ? ' li ?? I ur fronl.iora men |oln n my refi i In
This is tl | irporl of my song:
"My thoug its shall u an the Grcat Void '
Only women seem to have been a matter
of supreme unimportance for the ? poets
of < hinn and b< ings nuitc w I houl thi
of n ii v k ind save occa sionaI ? i f over a
depnrt iiur husbai d. As foi '- a iism, it
bi a i'.- a st ra ngely famil iar n emblanc e to
our modcrn reactions from Puritanism.
There is another note, infrequent and |
exceptional, that makes one wonder what ]
latenl and colossal heroism may reside in
Chincse character; heroism, that is, ac
cording to our aggressive Western stand
ards, that will not only cherish a splcndid
thought, but fight with hands, tceth, any
thing, to win in its name. It shows in a
gorgeous poem called "The Red Hills," by
Pao Chao idied 466 A. D.), which begins
with a picture that might be St. John of
Patmos, retouched by Coleridge:
Red ii Ile athv irl us as a mc n ice In tho
V. . ? . I ,
' ii i ' i ?'!? ? ?; i i : ? terribh In the south
1 i bums, i he head aohi r and tl
I i bi rd lighl here its i il l'orthwith lej
?
I'oin fri ni i lou ly ]
Vnd hot ? . .... ui between th. roeks.
" '??? sun und mnun ai ml ired;
The i-.'iln and dew never staj !??-.
'! ii- ? ii'i> ? ; nts (i hundrecl feet long,
And i.'., siih kes i n girl lis round
The sand spitfers shoot their polson nt ihf
11 b e a n i s;
rl flyini ???-..,-??? -.??:- h --.-. Bhif|.....
Thi hm y monkeys dan not ci me down to
Tl .- birds dare. <?
II ' - feel -. .-,..:? .. i j.. , -,,,,:
1 'ur higli wills n-niouni ih . -, in g of r
The earlier poem in the ? ?? ? m ? "Ba
by Ch'u Yuan (332-295 B. <.'.), is fairly
Homcfic in its sweep of action and the
doings of its godliko warriors. But these
bursts of vigor and aggression are rare.
The quotations show what exquisite and
sensitivc poetry Mr. Waley has produced.
His translations have been highly pra I
by scholars as well. They certainly bear
every mark of conscientious and able
i ranslat ions, not a free and easy r. cn a
I on, but beauty litcrally transshipped
from one ves lel to another. Mr. Waley has
written a simple and readable dntroducti -
for the general reader who would know
something of the form and history of Chi?
ncse' poetry. Altogether, a distinguished
and precious labor, for which every lover of
poetry can be thankful.
The Grea.t White City f
1 ? the ii litor of I he Tribune.
Sir: Dark, dingy courts and fences in
old-fashioned places are principally the
cause of dark rooms, apartments and 0f
ficc8 in greater N'cw Y. rk.
If every landlord would use white paint
on courts and fences it. would make a won
derful difference in the light throughout
the city, and it is not difflcult to aecure
thia if every prospective tenant, when ex
amining ari npartmonl or house or offlce
will demand that white paint be used on
cxtoriors of buildings.
If this can he accomplisried Xew Tork
will be known as "the Great White City."
W. F. WAKEMAN.
New l'ork, May 80, 1019,
Weicome, but No Job
To the >:?-.'!
Sir: I was much I b
from an ovei man
man' i esceyl to
g'lve ;-:' .- ity.
My expei
sen '? i to t ., |ow
who is not mai - g.g
? '? ? ?.
too pro d to accept. 1
the plosi ? ?
in 01 e of t
not in any way
ing. I refer to plant ? . of
product ? j
leatln i ...
Afl ; , ? , ...
? ? ? . .
way
...
on "leavo i
able when f returm ;. Vi cancii d
and are filled by noi rvice i r"ir,g
? ran sfi n I from m i
our "leavc o ..' e ctually i .: dis
chargc when we joined tho army.
Two compi titors, at lea t, of ?? g com?
pany I worked for have taken I k every
soldier who returned to them yet this big
company, whii h paid 50 per c I videndi
on.- year and thei
:?'? ?'?' ? ' ' ystem" igh to
reem] . u-ered their coun?
try's c vi
' ?
A "WELCOME HOM
Arlington, X. .f., M io.
Bolshcvists or Ghouls?
N'ever befoi n tl
a world whi :
has there 1 ;'
of i
fomcnti d, Whei we
find, fo ;?
hidden in th
Paper, of execution
Red army bai Is played "
w:-i of icl m oi
m oi
and, ?? ? : . . ' ?
were bi
ind ? | ., ,?
? ? - - .
were then ' I
When tl ' ,;
gravc v, as i ? ' ???
" 0 ':: On
mo\ ::;.-. N - '
of it, he faintcd, wln ;
seized 1
with the prisoners. They v er<
? f killing him, but
. and
he was then let off.
?
Applied Style
?'"'. J
Oklahoma is putting on style A whitt
man has been electrocutcd in the penit*?
tiai . The old method prcvnils f?r colorcd
folk.
Gone But Not Forgottfn
{From The Daltaa .\
What has become of the old fashionw
oil reflner who uaed to cut the price ?*
gasolcnoZ mm