The Republican journal., 1915-11-04
Literary News and Notes.

Inc OcIODer issue OF the Natlona
Magazine IS the most artistic and finely
illustrated of all the many original and
generously Illustrated numbers sent out
into the world during the last eighteen
years. Especially beautiful are the six
teen full-page, three-color photo prints
showing the most charming features OF
the Panama-Pacific Exposition. as seen
by the magical radiance of the nightly
illuminations, whose completeness, vivid
ness and richness and variety of coloring
have never been attained before since
the creation of the world A large num-
Der of photo pictures illustrate most of
the National and special buildings and
show devices of the great Worlds Fair,
as we'll as the portraits of many gentle
men and ladies, whose interest and eff
cheney have made as Ortheris said
1.-The 'ole show pay"
DEVELOPMENTS in the fields of science,
mechanics, and invention so crowd one
upon another that there is little or no
room in a magazine like Popular Me-
chanics to treat Of any but the more re-
cent The November number is crammed
from cover to cover with new and inter-
esting material. A British firm has pro-
duced an electric starter for aeroplane
motors; an Iowa physician has contrived
an instrument by which the blind may
read ordinary books by sound; two young
Chicagoans have perfected powerful
lamp, a small battery of which is suffi-
cient to illuminate an astonishingly large
area; the United States Navy has found
practical way to handicap submarine
operations by the use of smoke screen
thrown up by destroyers; moving pic
ture company has equipped number of
automobiles with portable high-power
lighting plant which may be used for
making pictures in places ordinarily in
accessible-and so it goes, page after
page, always something new, something
interesting, something especially useful
Not the least of these are the emergency
devices called forth by the great war and
described in well-illustrated article by
Searle Hendee. This story includes a
full description of the great nets used
in the Dardaneles and the English Chan
mel for trapping submarines.
In the September Woman's Home
Companion Anna Steese Richardson,
writing Mrs. Larry's Adventures in
Thrift" tells how certain Long Island
ing their garden stuff to New York con-
SuLiCl . az 1cil ploil. w liSH .HSJ NC
gan they found that with the best of
tomatoes to- sell they could make no
profit. Indeed their books showed a
loss. They did the natural ,hing-made
a careful investigation of the New York
marketing situation. What they dis
covered is described in the following ex
tract taken from Mrs. Richardson s
article:
"'That investigation proved to US that
the commission men of New York City
had the Standard Oil Company and the
Meat Trust beaten thousand miles.
Among those to whom we had
shipped, we found seven spectators, men
who hever handled or saw the goods.
One man sold Immediately to another
firm, which proved to be his wife; an
other man secured three commissions by
selling our produce to the greengrocers
through two other firm" -one was his
wife, the other his nine-year-old son.
You see, in case of any trouble he could
show two sales.
"'We found men who had no offices,
who had no bank account for their bust
ness, who had no clerks, who had abso-
lutely no expenses, but who were max
ing big money on the producer and the
consumer. One man had an elegant
home in Brooklyn and a beautiful sum-
mer place in Maine. He owned a steam
yacht and three automobiles, but he did
not contribute one single cent to the up
keep of New York City, in which he did
his business, nor to New York State. He
was not even paying license as an ordi-
nary peddler would have to do. He did
not have to file any statement of his
financial returns with the State treas
al
he was getting enormously rich on his
commissions. He was one Of the men
who had promised US to sell at the best
prices which grocers were paying, minus
the commission. And our returns were
six or eight cents a bushel for toma-
toes!"
Intercollegiate athletics have become
mere business, conducted for the pur-
pose of winnir e games, making money,
and attaining individual or group fame
and notoriety." Such is the claim of
William T. Foster in ''An Indictment of
Intercollegiate Athletics" the opening
article in the November Atlantic. Col
himself President of Reed College,
should be controlled by the faculty and
conducted for education. They are now
controlled by the students, directed in
conflict with the aims of the faculty and
the interests of true education, and con-
Quoted for business. They must either
be abolished or Transformed. Mr.. Fos-
ter's arguments, backed up by evidence
secured at no less than one hundred
American colleges. will doubtless unset
tie the comfortable opinions of numer-
GUS "loyal alumni. Another timely
and important paper in the Atlantic is
Drink Reform in the United States"
the first of several articles on the prohi-
bition problem by John Koren. the reli-
able statistician and publicist. Mr.. Ko-
rem analyses the history and prospects of
liquor legislation and shows the fatal
flaws in the proposed national prohibi-
ton. "Waiting," by Agnes Repplier, is
a brilliant study of the American state
of mind during these past months when
war with Germany hung over our heads.
More directly concerned with the Euro
pean conflict are four documents of per-
sonal experiences at the front: the thrill
ling description of a charge at Loos by
French lieutenant who took part and
was wounded in it; and the "reminiscences
OF a British captain, of an American
nurse who was under shell fire at Dun
kirk, and of a French project who saw
Lorraine during and after the Ger
man invasion and has led the work of
reconstruction. These narratives are as