U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [237]
he believed in The War To End War.
With mil Mission to Armenia, Aug-Dec 1919; staff corr in Europe for the Chicago Tribune; with the Near East Relief 1920-22; sec Russian Red Cross commn in America 1922; v dir for U.S. Nansen Relief Mission 1923; sec AM Commn Relief Russian Children Apr
1922
In the famineyear the cholera year the typhusyear
Paxton Hibben went to Moscow with a relief commis-sion. In Paris they were stil haggling over the price
of blood, squabbling over toy flags, the riverfrontiers on reliefmaps, the historical destiny of peoples, while behind the scenes the good contractplayers, the Deterd-ings, the Zahkaroffs, the Stinnesses sat quiet and pos-sessed themselves of the raw materials. In Moscow there was order,
in Moscow there was work,
in Moscow there was hope;
the Marseillaise of 1905, Onward Christian Sol- diers of 1912, the sul en passiveness of American In-dians, of infantrymen waiting for death at the front was part of the tremendous roar of the Marxian Inter- nationale.
Hibben believed in the new world.
-183-Back in America
somebody got hold of a photograph of Captain
Paxton Hibben laying a wreath on Jack Reed's gravei they tried to throw him out of the O.R.C.;
at Princeton at the twentieth reunion of his col-lege class his classmates started to lynch him; they were drunk and perhaps it was just a col egeboy prank twenty years too late but they had a noose around his neck, lynch the goddam red,
no more place in America for change, no more
place for the old gags: social justice, progressivism, re-volt against oppression, democracy; put the reds on the skids,
no money for them,
no jobs for them.
Mem Authors League of America, Soc of Colonial
Wars, Vets Foreign Wars, Am Legion, fellow Royal and Am Geog Socs. Decorated chevalier Order of St. Stanislas (Russian), Officer Order of the Redeemer (Greek), Order of the Sacred Treasure ( Japan). Clubs Princeton, Newspaper, Civic ( New York)
Author: Constantine and the Greek People 1920,
The Famine in Russia 1922, Henry Ward Beecher an American Portrait 1927. d. 1929.
NEWSREEL XXVI
EUROPE ON KNIFE EDGE
Tout le long de la Thamise
Nous sommes allés tout les deux
Gouter l'heure exquise.
-184-in such conditions is it surprising that the Department of Justice looks with positive affection upon those who refused service in the draft, with leniency upon convicted anarchists and with something like indifference upon the overwhelming majority of them stil out of jail or undeported for years after the organization of the U. S. Steel Corporation Wal Street was busy on the problem of measuring the cubic yards of water injected into the property
FINISHED STEEL MOVES RATHER
MORE FREELY
Where do we go from here boys
Where do we go from here?
WILD DUCKS FLY OVER PARIS
FERTILIZER INDUSTRY STIMULATED BY WAR
Anywhere from Harlem
To a Jersey City pier
the winning of the war is just as much dependent upon the industrial workers as it is upon the soldiers. Our wonder-ful record of launching one hundred ships on independence day shows what can be done when we put our shoulders to the wheel under the spur of patriotism
SAMARITAINE BATHS SINK IN SWOLLEN
SEINE
I may not know
What the war's about
But you bet by gosh
I'll soon find out
And so my sweetheart
Don't you fear
I'll bring you a king
For a souvenir
And I'll get you a Turk
And the Kaiser too
And that's about all
One feller can do
-185-AFTER-WAR PLANS OF AETNA EXPLOSIVES
ANCIENT CITY IN GLOOM EVEN THE
CHURCH
BELLS ON SUNDAY BEING STILLED
Where do we go from here boys
Where do we go from here?
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
It was at Fontainebleau lined up in the square in front of Francis I's palace they first saw the big grey Fiat ambu-lances they were to drive. Schuyler came back from talking with the French drivers who were turning them over with the news that they were sore as hel because it meant they had to go back into the front line. They asked why the devil the Americans couldn't stay home and mind their own business instead of coming over here and fil ing up al the good embusqu