The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-30

& Company, of Chicago, who have
been getting out the red Who's who
in America" for the last twelve years,
and the international Whos VINO
Publishing Company. Of No ifos
broadway who lately put on the mar
ket a blue-eovered Who's Who in
the World" The change in the coior
of the cover was not regarded as
, worthy or notice by the couri.
Suspicion of "Pnstjng Up"
From Aldrich fJohn Mertonl TO
Zwemer Samuel Marinus) the red
cover writer's found hundreds of cases
of plagiarism in the book with the
blue cover. The new publication
doesn't hesitate to reprint even the
mistakes of the red-cover writers. the
biographies of Andrew Carnegie.
Mayor Gaynor, Mrs Carrie Chapman
Gait. and others. many others. snow
traces OF similarity suggesting that
the writer's OF the blue covered oook
ran out of ink and so clinped the
life stories of Carnegie, Gaynor, Catt.
and the rest out of the red book ana
-pasted them up" as the trade say
! ing ~oes. T..
court that they were not infaiilple.
When they wrote up the ife-story
of King virginia ANN they men
toned that. besides being born IN
Greenville. Tex, January II, 1895,
Miss King was the owner OF about
i IL. oo0. 600 acres in Jones. Shackel-
ford and Hunt counties. Tex. includ-
ing many ranches and cultivated
1 farms" The blue-covered periodical
| put II this way: owns several mil
! lion acres In Jones. Shackeiford and
Hunt counties. Tex" But they We're
/ both wrong. Miss King herself writes
! tn ga What she doesn't own 1S.o0o,-
: 600 acres, or even several million
acres. She owns only $4,000 acres.
I The difference. of course is only Il
matter Of three zeros hut In the IN
| terest of accuracy Miss King thinks
/ the right figure should be stated.
I The case OF Mayor Gaynor is "a lit
/ tie different. Whereas the red book
is particular to refer to him as Gay
! nor tWilliam J.). the new puhlica-
/ ton omits the j., making the name
! Gaynor, william. But that original
| touch does not atone, in the court II
! opinion, for the fact that the blue
I book and the red book both speak
/ OF Gaynor's battle with John Y.
| Kane First take the red Who's
! Who" 1t says, became nationally
known for his work In breaking up
| rings within the Democratic party and
| his action in securing the conviction
OF John Y Kane for election frauds F."
4 And now the blue-covered book
! became national known for his
/ work in breaking UP rings within the
Democratic party. and his action in
securing the conviction of John Y,
Kane for election frauds"
Matter OF the Missing Mac.
+; The red-cover authors are more
] than jealous Of their rivals for steal
| ing their beat on John Y, Kane. They
think the least the bltte lterati might
1 have done would be to call him John
! y. McKane.
| Carnegie's life story is told feeling
/ ly In both books, and this is no place
( To express an opinion as to which is
( the better work all round. But the
same criticism may be advanced
against both: they both persist in
spelling tha Scottish name of The iron
masters birthplace 'Dunfermline, .
| when the word Is spelled Dumferm-
| line. A small error, 10 be sure. but
/ worthy. OF not before. a court sof Law.
! The maps show that there IL no such
| place as Dunfermline In Fifeshire,
Scotland. There is a Dumferniline.
/ There is such a close resemblance
| between the two stories telling of the
life and work sof Mrs Gait that it is
unnecessary here to introduce one or
| both In evidence. Suffice it to say
that one of the striking differences in
I the new book is that It speaks Mrs.
/ Gait as having worked for suffrage
/ In successful campaigns in Idaho and
Colorado" whereas the red version
| says worked for suffrage in success
| full campaign in Col and Ida. =
| Here We have difference marely of
style. some preferring to abbreviate.
/ while others always write the names
of States of the Union In full.
4 The defense of the blue-cover
! writer's was that when they sought
(, first-hand Information from the great
ones whose biographies they were
about to set down. many of the great
ones referred the writer's tn the biog-
raphies which had already appeared
In the red-covered book The court
did not accept this as an excuse.
Furthermore. the blue Iiterati found n
man who used to he red literatcur
and who swose that he did little
''cribing" fromhother who's-who hooks
now and then when he wrote some
OF the red ho's-who Biographies. But,
as Judge Coke points out in his opin-
ion, the witness does not produce the
books In question. meaning the books
from which he says he cribbed
Walter G. Booth. who appeared as
| lawyer for the red literati OF Chi
cago. furthermore explained to the
court that the man who did the crib
bling was relieved OF his job when the
other red literati found out what he
had been up to-. And hte borrowed
biographies which he inserted had all
been taken out and revised In the
later editions Of the work.
Judge Coxe's Injunction Restraints
tibet blue iiterati from publishing their
book until the case Ii finally settled
New York Post \.
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