The evening world. Newspaper, March 12, 1918, Page 14

” prronnme sew oe _ Ni TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1018 TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1918 ; ’ ’ | W . es ar-Poster Barrage Fire Signs in the Heavens agi Portents of Victory — : | Will Stir Patriotism and | catory!| 7 7 Help Third Liberty Loan In U.S. War History New Liberty Loan Posters SS eee ea ? aaa ae to Foretett| UNSUNG AND UNPAID WAR HEROES WILL CO\ ER THE WHOLE COUNTRY WITH STIRRING | Art, Much of It Worthy of Place on the Walls of ad perl Ojibway “Thunder Fagle, Reappearing lo Fo ’ EXAMPLES OF PATRIOTIC AMERICAN ART. aire’s Private Gallery, will Stump the Country ina Grea i Another World Crisis, Recalls Strange Phenomena 3 be eal Pictorial Spring Drive “Over Here’ to Financially | That Have Preceded Momentous Events Par ett seis Bi Stiffen Up the Line “Over There.” a) in’ This Country. t y By Will B ] j : . ry ul B. Johnstone By Albert Payson Terhune | Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York evening wort, right 8, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) HE Vhird Liberty Loan drive, the spring drive “over here” Fe CORES of Windsor, Ont., endents “ifs Agel despa: ch, beheld i: 3 back up our front line drive “over there,” is about to be ap. angel, surrounded by flery vapor, suspended in air above the launched. We will soon have posters to right of us, posters to 0 urday night. At Detroit, on the same evening, the left of us, volleying and thundering from billboards and subway sta- city last Saturday nig , angel was seen, brooding over the earth, In both cities the beholders tlons, Art, gome of {t worthy of the walls of a millionaire’s private indignantly deny they were fooled by Northern Lights, They cannot be shaken in the claim (hat they saw an angel. French soldiers, since the war began, have repeatedly seen Joan of Are and St. Michael—so they vow—sweeping across the night skies above the camps. And they believe it means victory. The Ojibway “Thunder Eagle” is on the rampage again at Fort William, Ont. The eagle makes his rounds only when wondrous world crises are pending. He was seen soaring over Thunder Bay, Ont., at midnight on March 7, Most observers took him for @ many- colored light that blazed across the skies, and which was visible from gallery, will be stumping the country from such lowly platforms as barber shop windows and ash barrels, The Division of Pictorial Publicity of the Committee on Public Information, of which Charles Dana-Gibson is Chairman, will release a barrage of pictorial color and beauty in this drive that will make its only competitor, the Easter parade on Riverside Drive, pale into insignificance. The Art Division of the army, the unwept, unhonored and unpald heroes of this war, have been intensively training for the past year in their Pictorial Plattsburg and have risen from the rank and file New York to Canada that night. Only tho Initiated recognized him as the portent-proclaiming eagle, back on the job of foretelling a mighty crisis of some sort. Sticking to proved facts and not dabbling tn superstition, it ts an odd coincidence that many of our country’s great events (as well as big happenings in other parts of the world) have been preceded by sirange signs in the heavens, To cite just one or two such queer cases: Thousands of New Yorkers stared in amaze at the western horizon ove night early in 1898. Pulsating angrily against & dead black sky bung something that looked like a flery red sword whose point seemed to drip blood. The flaring apparition was not a comet or a meteor. For many minutes it swung above the horizon, dazzlingly visible. Later some people declared the “sword” was merely an eccentric reflection of a great fire cast on the clouds. Others tried to explain it as North- ern Lights. There were a dozen explanations, all of them different. The superstitious believed it was a mystic portent of the Spanish Wai which was about to wake our peace-loving Nation to confilct ‘after thirty-three years of calm. War followed almost at once, War—and vietory. Late in 1872 the night was made brilliant more than once by a whizzing mass of fireballs, which might have been supposed to be ordinary meteors if they had not been far brighter and infinitely more numerous than a meteor flight. Superstition felt itself Justified, In the panic which soon afterward swept the whole country, spreading finan- cia) ruin and suicide and chaos. In 1861 a lurid comet, stretching clear across the heavens and filling the night with an uncarthly radiance, ushered {n the first year of our Civil War. The next year—when things looked darkest for our country—a similar comet blazed nightly. And, almost at once, the Nation's fortunes took a turn for the better, preparing for the vic- tory that was to follow. A flaming comet, known for years to astronomers as “the Great Comet,” was causing no end of fear and conjecture when our Mexican War broke out; another war, by the which led us to victory. The November skies, in 1799, were aglare with what {s still men- tioned “the Rain of Fire.” Whether this dizzyingly bright awirl of acrial flames was merely a wholesale fight of meteors or whether It had other cause, our brief war with France was won a few months Jater. George Washington, by the way, died less than a month after this rain of fire. And many insisted the celestial pyrotechnics were @ portent of his death. In 1770 a flercely luminous body sprang Into view in the night akies, It was deceribed as “having a head which appeared about four times ihe diameter of the moon.” It may have been a comet (one was recorded that year), but our superstitious ancestors looked on it as a portent. And presently the supposed “portent” was justified. For tn PROVIDE THE SINEWS OF WAR BUY LIBERTY BONDS "PORTH ROBY JOS PENNA! Prerrneeroveemematremrrn -TO MAKE THE WORLD A DECENT. PLACE TO LIVE IN 0 YOUR PART- BUY. U.S.GOVERNMENT BONDS to commissions of importance. Passing up profiteering profits of the past, they have reduced their fat incomes and soft living and are in a healthy state of muscle, bone, brain and patriotism, like the boys in camp. This third wave of Liberty Loan posters shows a gain of many artistic minds. Howard Chandler Christy still thinks in pretty girls, but his new Liberty Loan poster gors back to, the best work of his career, the Spanish-American War, when he painted the attack on San Juan Block- house from every conceirable angle, fore and aft, with bird's-eye and worm's-eye views, showing all of the seven Spaniards killed In that bloody welter, or rather featherweight, championship. Joseph Pennell, whose middle name should be ART, has contrib- uted a masterpiece of composition and sketchy handling. It is inspir- ing In subject and for pure merit “equal if not superior to any poster” produced by the war artists so far, here or abroad. It will be an edu- cation in art as well as patriotism to have this fine picture spread broadcast throughout a country that has artistically subsisted on the crude monstrosities seen in pancake ads. f Herbert Paus has produced another one of his simple, forceful decorations. He, with Adolph Triedler and Charles Falls, are the premier poster artists in the division, and they have set a standard of art 1n their posters that calls for Congress medals. They are making the billboards safe for art and setting a healthy example for the Bevowviser lthographers and the chromo contingent. Henry Raleigh has a new Liberty Loan poster that will not be considered a scrap of paper, for it will loosen up the rubber band on, the old bankroll, making the band the siacker and not the dollars. °° Nine millions ofthese posters will take the first line fences an shock troops, and their example will inspire the public to “dig in” (their jeans) and consolidate Uncle Sam's position. Back in the Eighth Grade, when we had to learn “Breathes there the man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, “T is my own, my native land?’” it was just something to lear: but these pos- ters will fish it up from a dusty brain cell and convince you that Wally Scott penned a double portion. Mr. Gibson's committee is not only saving the Government thou- sands of dollars in doing all these posters for nothing, but a number of the men have volunteered to go to France in response to a call from Gen, Pershing to do work the nature of which has not been revealed. Harvey Dunn, Wallace Morgan, George Wright, W. J. Aylward, W. J. Enright and Ernest Peixotto are a few who have answered the call to the field of danger. In the near future a new feature will be added to the Govern- ment posters in the way of an official seal, designed by Charles Falls, so when you see the initials D, P. P. artistically combined thereon you will not take them to mean Department of Public Parks but Division of Pictorial Publicity, and you will understand that the poster to which . 3 i ¢ £4: | it ts affixed is offetal and authorized by the eminent artists and de- | a few weeks came the first bloodshed of the dawning Revolution at the \ " : A % M (6% | signers who aro standing sponsor for the merits of these productions. Boston massacre of December, 1770—a massacre that was the actual He rt c . s |= -—_ preliminary bout of the conflict which was to bring us freedom and ws victory! ‘Tecumseu, the mystic Indian Sachem, rought to combine all the ; ; a ” 5 : Sie aire ried of his people against the United States in the War of : : POSTER BN MERRY PALS! 1812, When tho council of lesser chiefs hesitated, he promised them a “sign.” And he kept his word. To this day nobody knows how he could foretell the thing that was to happen. But {t is a historical RIGHT HERE IN NEW YORK eR és sia itil ae |Mere Man Espies the Slender Sylph, the Perfect 36, 7 E i" | and the Strictly-Tailored Suffragette and Was ; fact. Me oa the ene ot vo van anata rumor on anet ore | PTD elm’s Mustache the Cause of War Tut hs Pet te tne ee ' ’ , council, At a given date, he said, he would stamp bis foot and every Proved She Had ’Em and Showed 'Em-— vp house in the village would collapse. At the precise date he named, , . +. © ; Fighti "e Was No Place for a Mere Man. w hile he was far away, a mighty earthquake shook the whole When the Moose Sheds His Skull Hooks His Fighting Days Are Over and When It n i, and wi je le was a UJ 5 ie: ¥ : “ M i \, at ’ —" ig " village to pieces and devastated the surrounding country. This phe the Kaiser Is Shorn of His Fierce Mustachios the War Will Be Cured—One €78:in die of Ma. M Wola Avonas Gho altar devs salam ace 7 Ine n 5 ; ; hi, j re *, n S 2 . Pn purommuiinon ere mnainanpores 10 Pes partabh Th afr it Wale Veale: | of Those Famous Connecticut Mustachio Moths Might Do the Trick, and if ok Gauceaecaitad Sam's favor, not in Tecumseh's. For the United States won the war, ps sae i ei : Wak. sha Bran ehy | gi Ateracaake ark ithaca cpa bine Oleh That Fails 50,000 American Barbers Are Ready to Take the Job. se cp RIRRTITL B Nave Man aitsd-io' sve roy the women walteg and Tec Jed. : : i @ spotted @ Slender Sylph and spied her slender, ayiph-like ankle, go much for our own land, though many another so-called sign BY ARTHUR (*‘BUGS’’) BAER. Ho decided it was an “end girl" opening. Behind her stood a Matronly , on record in American bistory and tradition 4 Bie S nana 1 But tf the K a 1s the real dope on his imperial Matron, And he decided he was wrong. SATOET: OG8 TORR WEP SiRE7 RE THINE: SOUSA URS: S0unAar of Con ieee t rn wanna nei e bodyiseama to s, he should have some sane momenta, Even a Hohengollern Ho periscoped a Perfect 86, He pondered on the possibilities of siantinople, who changed the story of the world and of Christianity I D war seems \ y ‘ bie Aeltald é MayHK Ra ain't eee t discard the tron skullplece “models." Behind her stood @ Perfect 64, And he took @ new line of a take a day off except the Kalser, Even that pugnactous crustacean, can't keep his hat on he © must discard » iro thought. because of a sign he saw in the’ mid igh Ky ; Hi bie pa a the crab, takes 4 vacation when his es Republican and every Lea ar for a hair cut, Even Houdini can't get his hair cut / Ho discovered a Strictly Tailored Suffragette. He thought it was horde of heathen, most of whom were the ancestors of the Germans | starts to lose its eff anes rant that it haan't got ales on, and Houdint ean wrap an elephant up in @ postag® | petted voters. Behind her was a Dolled-Up Debutante—and he stopped and of other Central Powers of te When these heathen were : : : pe i tinine and o | chance ina with @ hardeatell ¢ when old Gus Crab’ stamp, w i stun " Ay SEA ist pressing his tired army most perilously Constantine looked up into the ie Ha Ba ; ve i 4 Cra “i arm e and But as the Ka is a twelve-months-to-the-year yess, as ho is a Instead, he gathered closer and Matened : 4 beheld there a flerp cross. His army gazed at {t ‘ pvel, Ou Je A pape Do you plant ‘em from seeds?” said one sky one 2 oa hava 2 | Plays hookey unt grows a new bomb-proof overcoa thug, net, as he ts a ballyhoo bird twelve inches to the foot, we “No, you dig out the eyes,” said another, in dismay, though various modern a scart tebe have found various The moose yess of the anima 1 who split-hoofs it b e on his tir Doesn't it stain up your hands?" continued the one explanations for the miracle, At the same time, so he declared, Con- chinad (ike te: yet tinectiat alee the Tomine net achios are curved up like a “Oh, you wear rubber gloves, d the other, stantine heard a voice whispering, “In hoc signo vinees!” (Through | cooks hhh a lot oe cgi k Sinai Gut inte & rac flatwheels around with a eet of “I'm dying to weed,” sighed the Matron. “It's swell for your shar this sign you shall conquer!"). He adopted the cross as his standard diveatians i pack t b 1 be all wrong lke a two-foot But T guess you plant rat wand then Tend what you piso! ” and it ted him to victory F : bric-a-brac sprouts out ut eleven f a hat Anyb with an edition of soup strain- | res LT Re aia to grew Oh, It DOE T? The BE a0 C8 Hue MIRAE POOLS BROCE OIA CHAD RINE: Prone BUTNer Of with warts on it ins that. And w 1oowe fecls influe mplex 1 » wrong all over, like a eentipede with flat Well, I hope you don't hwe to watch it dry, because the sun str Julius Caesar—Rome was rent by an earthquake, weird flashes of light enough he imag every 1 hat and tries to hang ‘em on ffe with a sore neck, A mustache like that 1s enough to my hair, But £ adore a Hnrvest Moon, don't you blazed athwart the sky and a huge lion strode across the portico of the his hat rack. But along t summon s hat rack starts in to ag eae | The Mere Man looked nervously toward the door of No, $2 Capitol. (There was nothing ghostly, perhaps, about the Hon. Dur absvond and Mr. M takes a vote an and decides to ad- And just like a ‘0 retires when he loses his horns, just so will | ee was no Keeper in sight ip earthquake bis cage in the Coliseum menagerie might well Journ for the season, Whe porates, John Moose's fight- the Kaiser get normal if we help him to eseape from that warlike mus- | The Dressy Debutante was speaking to the Perfect 64, bave fallen apart and let him escape.) ing spirit disappears 1 I ylum. No moose is tache. If we could t © of those famous Connecticut mustache moths | + “Oh, I think garden hats are much more becoming than a: Ail history is starred with similar fnstances of heavenly por a thug without th up forks on b " 1 the me nows it on the royal upper chin the war would be over, ‘The famous Connecticut | nets. I have a picture of Maud Muller wearing one and leanin tanta portents followed by some epoch-making event. Any ono Fg Th 7 S ABa Gat Ge oe raustacho moth Would eat the mustache for dinner and everybody would | rake—over tho hills the aun 1s setting, But I'm going to wer ho takes stock in these things may feel relfeved to know that, in f a4 pak ni “ is Hae dep SPARE | heels. You know they won't allow French heels on the golf } who takes stock h { y If a crab's b vercoa joose's horns make 'e: be happy, because r Ng TOBS8G A Hoth HeR, sucss it's the same on the farm, It ruins the greens, our country, such signs have generally preceded a stroke of grand pugnacious, what is it that makes the Kaiser ahdurnedlutely It the lo the work c tly, there are at least 50,000 ggg MILLE AeoLber OURRT At De thacizating to ba good It to American arms, | scrappish? Is 1 atx y Anybody who spent hi barbers in the U. 8, A. who would like to t the Job. And they | The Perfect began unrolling a package. It was h ————$_—_—__—_-_——— ee figs Atraatie h of an rally be a rough guy. wouldn't soak Billhelm @ jitney, Al want ts the pleasure of | and done up in brown paper, On the outside was printe OLD NEW YORKERS PATRIOTIC.| SOUTHAMERICA’S SWITZERLAND 0.) could bounce all the rocks ar Third Avenue confetti off eaty vean raz the Imperial chin, with all the cops on the beat land rota Si lihns asa at aia Apad N ays of New York every TDDEN among the Andes of 114 pewter Stetson and it w e off like rain off @ mallard’s hivinw theln Al r pointed toward the barber abattoir. The war oe Feta tly evr Ne yt reyes to move away, I r was ready 4 in the pub- Patagonia o a aes which shoulder blades. | would be cured. The line unlined and crowded around the Perfect x defense, Four BS ees SOs Lege gerard (4 Billhelm'e tin bonnet may be t a for his rough and the Mhawar woulhi ba oven aud the barber pauls eaaiie abarcen! up hia loosed a man-size pair of blue overalls, otherwise kno: Bursher Companice were paraded) travelers Sou hy he he ts a we N on or again, Aft ving the Kaiser, they could tackle the Clown and held them up to her form. meet 1088 they wore orguniond a0) land. 58 io 0 land ap tar; MET Wi Tassaae GTI second Napoleon. Very Diiness wap. Ena Gleen Minch wu Ge ome ’ “Aren't they Just too sweet?” purred the chorus, @ regiment of foot, under the com-|ter and abounds in beautiful lakes, pais . ; y It's only @ step from the Imperial to the Simperial, Tt was no place for a More Man, @aaed cf Co). Nicholas Bayard. foreste and snow-capped peaks. | eecond, %.