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Show SECTION' 20 SATHIDAV MAHCH TWILL 1020 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH LIlWT lUGLS Still Prussianism of Busy Propagandists 3Raua6jai3irmjr! -- s 5 vt Making Switzerland . TAcir Headquarters, Junker s Hope For Triumph of Mtght-Bforo-RigUtah Which Sent Germany Headlong to Defeat Have Not Dei paired of Influencing American M Public Opinion tion. Which Daring War IYoj Hotbed of German Propaganda, Again Alive With Active Worker $ For Germany Berne and Geneva Center of Propaganda Work Support For Bolthe vitm as Meant of Helping Germany t Cauie and Making it Possible For Her to Evade Treaty Obligations . 7TT" u 1 nwirrTnr mrnifiwinrffii iiiiinninir'im irir tTirmiiffitiifflmimifffliTnmtrriiiiMiiMT : .4.. 4 . 4 T. l t e ft i X) i : !j ht - iJ7ZL.r'! ::im j t 0- iiL H W f lottMitMi Uf rriuiII Mm ke ImmI Om gala. r c ; ("-- rnMuwi t rm $. Ie I tviIk wM w Nrt 0 r - : ..VT i'OCUlMj , -- T Jl t - Ik .'V; ' What the total number of these gentry Is now in Hwitavriand u uncertain, but they are etiU numerous. On March 29, 1919, gt Weimar, the Cemun National Assembly voted, without any discus.,, indefinite sums -- for the further extension of commercial news service abroad." This . trolled and financed both a Salsa agency and also another press service, both of which are still busy. The former continues to give out alleged cables, ostensibly from New York or other place in the United States, which are so biased that it is impossible not not to believe that those disseminating them still under the control of the German propagan- in phrase dists. the most per- America entered the war, I know that " ho had lived in the heart of Europe during one ofWhen this agencies did actually arrange with somef ' thI ere has been a rec one in New York to send it cable new, for which of the old German general eta ft propaganda of course, it paid; but thin service lasted only a oreign lands. It ia not, however, those n.Uona few whkh remained neutral whom days, for the American government toon perthe German, really ceived its real nature. But whet few cables did to influence so much pe a, the nation, who were war w,th get through served their purpose,, because they were the United States. to be taken to the various Swiss editors as RMti0d4 br the German, are very enough proof of telegrams really being received from New mpl. Fr aencfe which wpply York, thus prevailing on them to accept the newt Information Wul hardly a deceive simple-minde- d 4nce them-partic- .r. n of propaganda which went on for so many years m0 for the war; which, when people finally wokemp to what It meant, filled the world with horror at its complexity, unacrupulousness and wickedness. . One might have thought that, after the ter- rible defeats suffered by Germany," after the drss-tic lessoni taught those who dreamed of wofid-domi- r ba. don. nothmg of the ,rt- Thi. is especially true . - - in Switaeriand, which during the war, was the great Europeaa center of German propaganda. According to a book published by a certain Freiherr von Rummel, one of the German war-tim- e propagandists in Switzerland, the German military attache in Berne had no less than- e fifty Prussian officers to help him in his work, and it is estimated that the staffs of the German legation and German consulates in Switzerland numbered during the war about 1,200 persons! this in a tiny country like Switzerland! That the bulk of these were i . , propagandists out-and-o- ut version of facta which suits their thue tnaking the publie often think not- ought to thiak, but what the Germans, for ' ' . of their own, want it to think. Sinee the armistice several new tmi agenciee have been establuhed in Switaeriand, which may tUl be considered the headquarter, of German prop.- g,nda. One reason why SwiUerlsnd is so suiUble for the purposes of the Germane it that three Ian- t1?6 re spoken there German, French and Italian and newspaper, in all these three appear languages. By influencing news In a French-Swis- s paper, say, the Germane can reasonably hop exert some effect on French opinion. to.. Hun-'garia- - lost with two faces LONDON. necks that is the and outstanding . extraordinary feature of a strange and romantic art discovery made by an English' artist ln'Torkshlre. ' , It seems that the original was the work of the great British portrait painter, but the face and neck were painted over by Inferior - artists to When bring the portrait the subject --a woman sat . for was young,- - fresh, Gainsborough-sh- e attractive. As the years passed, she lost the beauty of youth. Wishing to nave the picture keep pace with her, bhe had It tampered with until, when an old it was discovered. It was that-oand ugly woman. But the beautiful eyes of the original painting, declared to be typical of Gainsoborough, were left unmolested, also the perfect hand and arm and the' superbly painted dress of a woman In the early twenties. The artist who bought the picture removed no less than one fact and six necks before he came to the original. The portrait la that of a Sirs. of the' carved Graham. .At the rood frame ran be en the incrip- f - bo-to- m Mrs. Graham. R. A. It. was sold after the death T. Qalnsboro' of a CoL Angus a year or. two ago. The portrait was said to be that of an ancestress of Ihe'late colonels second wife who was a Graham. The Graham . family were painted by Gainsborough at Bath. I looked up Burkes landed Gentry and found that the colonel did marry a Graham for his second wife. He was a country gentleman In Durham living near Newcastle-on-Tynthe present owner of the picture told me.' "iTim inclined To think that the Graham he married was a descendant of the Graham of Netherby, Cumberland, but I cannot actually vouch for this. The portrait was probably painted at Bath when Gainsborough painted The Blue Boy and Miss Iinley and her brother. The Graham family were immortalised by Sir Walter Scott-iMarmloli' .where he refers to brave Lord Lochinvsr. The Grahams are noted for their beauty oven to this day and they have a distinct type of their own.' Tmg Qnest for a Gainsborough. '"The inan who owns the portrait Is Mr. Greenwood Londsale, ' lie is an anise and lives in the Torkshire man e, -- ufacturing town of Keighley. '. For 25 years, be told me, I have been interested in art, and as a I have had the usual collectors ambition of being the possessor of a valuable picture by a great artist. I always hoped to own . some day a cof-lect- or Galnsboroughportralt. There are, in all, JOO Gainsborough portraits in existence. His portraits of young women are bis best. At the most there 'cannot be more than 109 of them,' and as he was, in ths main, a painter of royalty, a good number of his works are locked up in the royal Collections and in cur largest gallerlee. So rarely is his work on .the market that a portrait of Miss Linley and her brother fetched 60,000 guineas' (about 2259.000) just after the war broke out In 1014. This picture was altered as the fashion altered at the sitter's own request by some local artist or possibly by herself. The alterations took place over 100 years ego when Gainsborconsidered of any ough's work was great Value. The face was shorter by at least tsvo inches. In the original the forehead and chin were each an Inch longer and the width of the face was greater by three-fourtof an nt -- if. ' 1 4: , )r . tit inch. v. I stripped the portrait of six different necks, one on top of the other, with different dr;u effects on each neck; The hair and veil had also been painted out or at least, the hair had been painted over and tbe veil painted" out 7 The" bUst," dress and arm had not been touched. Guhlod By Expert Knowledge. 'The way In which the' picture came Into Mr. Lonsdales hands was strange. It was due solely to his expert knowledge of -- the wsyin which Gainsborough worked that he waa able to restore it. The painting had been previously sent by a London dealer to his restorers, but they were afraid to touch it. Most portrait painters 'use glazes on the faee under and over the eyes, by the side of the nose and on the cheeka Spirits will usually remove them and so spoil the portrait Reynolds Romney, Lawrence and other iatef and lesser men employed these glazes Gainsborough did not I knew, Mr. Lonsdale ezplained to me;' 'That if tha picture were a genuine Gainsborough there would not be any glase to fear. He painted mostly ln solid paint and what IJ 0 O r WrlfylM 1 liHllI rNwMMM(MImM frMtkn At lurl Tift ( IwU rtaad. Mkn l.flww IttoMluU liirn X- - N .True, lhee individuals carrying It on and this solely from patriotism, and that he is now euffertng from not having resigned seem as yet to hsvs contrived to influence only a small section of the,rrman-Swis- s presa. This pro lispvburg movement deserves more notice than it has hitherto received, because In En- tents countries the plane of the German reaction- - at the lima." t . , It is not merely this particular Berne paper ary Prty are being watched with gVeat attention, .which t it still the organ of Prussian propaganda, end because press organa, behind which it is allow The Germane have now established papers ef their able to suspect that any sort of official Influence own. For example, ia Zurich they have one, and in exist, bring discredit on Germany. to It is remsrkabls with what purGeneve, where they attempted unsuccessfully chase a paper, they now have a daily published in French, and sent out broadcast, free, to all who they think may be influenced by Ita lucubrations. This centimes, (one cent) whereat all other 15 centimes, jo gwUt Seal the Berner particular, espouses the cause of German reaction. Now, .this is a newspaper which. during ths war, passionately espoused the views of the the submarine party, and the opponents of a peace based on understanding; and, Tagblatt, In these machinations of German national cliques and we art doing so." to make It clear that ' , ilOMOTr, it has hardly nay advertiaementa, and pvt , U is edited by a clever it it aa ight-pLpaper Swiss Journalist, and ita policy U oetenably the broadest humsntarianism anti-wa- r, ' of all kinds. g n e For a considerable time past rumors have reachn These various - German propaganda us ed about the doings of certain Austrian and agencies in Switzerland did not cease their nefarious work politicians, who are working in the interests when the war' ceased. Quite recently, in Lucerno, of the Hspsburgs and cofisorting together in Switzera new agency, said to be controlled by Matthias land. What has hitherto not appeared so clearly, is Erbzerger, has come into existence. Another agency, that our republican neighbor seems to be becoming also the rendezvous of German national cliques. with headquarters in Frankfurt, during the yar con tton: - consequently it is still wrongly considered by many people as the mouthpiece of German policy. If, on the one hand, the determined with which service of this agency. a foreign newspaper advocates what are, presumably, The only genuine American news which appears German interest seems to merit a certaia tribitte of in the Swiss press are occasional cables too brief gratitude, on ths other hand it cannot but be displeasand too rare to have much effect, so, as regards the ing that this same neutral organ should be casting", diffusion of American news, the German propaganda ridicule upon the president of ths German Empire . 1st agencies have free play. -and hi ministers. . ' . ' JUNKERS ACTIVE PROPAGANDISTS. It is not for us to engags in controversy with It is, of course, difficult to prove that the Ger- the Berner Tagblatt about the German republic. man Government pays directly for propaganda. In Rather would it be the business of ths Swiss press fact, for reasont of prodence, it ie most probable that to deal with one of its own organs, which is fight-- it does nothing of tbs kind. Nevertheless, the prop- Ing for monarchy and divine right, like a Prussian aganda exists, and the rigns of it are everywhere. It Junker, and bespattering democracy with mud. As, is the Junkers who pre mainly behind German propahowever, this kind of interest in German affairs is in the still Frankfurter always connected with German propaganda, our eitung, ganda. Quite recently : 'a leading article, said aloof from wjae.jpolicy.wottld probably-b- ' (Special Correspondence.) March U. A sa . is obvious, .T tT n- ation by brute force, the might have abandoned her propaganda, for the time being at least. But she uUrly to newspapers outside Germany Indue- -' ing them to emphasise one fact or dietort another suppress certain atatementa and enlarge upon oth- - e " , iiri(rirf- I " VIEWG. ' , . -v 4 The propaganda now carried on abroad by .the German reactionary party m longer takes ths form of glorification of German feat of arms and German Victoria, but that of promoting Bolshevism, trying to set one political party against another, and - has create division and weakness, and, above all,' fomenting strikes, interspersing all with a judicious Labor and amount of whining and whimpering. United are States Socialist papers in the eupplied with articles and paragraphs, sent from Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and even Germany. ' ' The Prussian hope still subsists that, if only labor unrest continues and ePP1 sort of revolution can te fomented in France, Italy,' England and the United States, Germany can evade the fulfillment of tier treaty obligations and rise once more to a posi- It is amusing that in the same issue of the Berner Tagblatt an attempt ia to be made to prove that Tirpitz, unlike our incompetent diplomats, did tion if power. . not believe that submarine warfare would work wonJULIAN GRANDE. ders, but merely allowed himself to be used for (Cop) right by ths Edward Marshall Syndicate Inc.) ... glazes he used hs used while the paint women painted by the world's great- them was a box of books consigned to was still wet which .meant, that both est artists which was held in London their settlement, which they Joyfully in the end of 1013. In exhibition claimed, .and after getting lunch and , paint and glaze dried In one solid was a Gainsborough ofthat their mass. Moreover yhls paint was un- blue silk dress. A lot of a lady in a a fresh supply of petrol, started ths original return, trip. like that used by tjie other great picture hsd been painted out and Throughout a territory embracing masters I have mentioned. It. was the white powdered hair replaced by thousands of square miles, the procork-scre- w extwo curls. The vincial government is establishing liginger rather an enamel than a paint. If to smile. and distributing books uryder braries pert began you apply spirits to a portrait palnled You are quite eorreot, he said. the library act passed by the last sesand glazed and varnished, the glazes I helped to organize that exhibition. sion of the legislature. So greatly is The portrait la at present at Mr. the service appreciated that the dewill come off with the varnish as they Lonsdale's home in Keighley. The mand is already, far in excess of the are close to it and very thin. As sitter was afloat 22 years old when supply. , an was enamel Gainsboroughs paint she sat for the portrait. The fact Distribution presents the chief ele' with no separate glaze, I knew I that as the fashions changed she had ment of difficulty. Where towns are and on railroads the books are easily decould safely spread Jhe spirit over the the picture brought finally even had it altered to corre- livered. Otherwise it is necessary for portrait and scrape off all the added spond to her advanced age, may speak the people to come for them, and the paint with a razor. I did this and, well for her enterprise and her fash- wisdom of the legislation is proved as I expected, found tho original paint- ionably standards. but does not say by the eagerness with which the set-- , or love of art. tiers do so. and much for her taste ing underneath, hard, enafhel-llk- e CRO8HLEY DAVIES. Numerous libraries are already in untouched by the spirits. Copyright by the Edward Marshall operation. Others will be established , Syndicate Inc. The picture was in the original and equipped as rapidly as the work can be carried on, an the next sescarved wood frame and bore both the sion of the legislature will Be asked name of the setter snd the artist. It Keen Hunger For Books . for a more liberal grant of money ' was offered to a dealer by a lady who In West Canadian Wilds for packing and shipping charges, and , the purchase of more books to satisfy bought It at the sale ef the effects 19. Two March In the mind hunger of the people VRTORIA, B. C., of the late Colonel Angus. whirled up to the far-flusettlements. fur clad men Among the experts' who have seen a little railroadrecently Kootin of station the fiction, with rohsistlng chiefly the portrait which has been recog- enay district In a powerful touring a few scientific- works, the, books are nized as genius was a man Mho ob- Car. and eagerly Inquired of the sta- carefully selected. ,They wrve to relievo the monotony of life through served, that Gainsborough's work was tion agent; Did our books corns? the winter season, and also to suppletoo valuable to be painted over. Mr. miles ment the educational trork of the They had driven seventy-fiv- e Lonsdale reminded him of the exhibi- frtyn Pegasus, a thriving settlement province, which la one of the chief tion of .the world's niost beautiful to get books, just books. Am siting purposes of the laM. - . . . . - |