South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-25
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school 10 college and university
and finally into the full panoply of
American citizenship. 1t is an alb
sorbing story, and an impressive
one, which will give a new under
standing OF America 10 every
thoughtful American. There is a
fine challenge in these pages of
struggle and victory-the miracle
of transmutation in countless hum
bic lives going on daily before our
eyes, which we of America by acct
dent of birth almost wholly over
look
While the greater part OF Mr..
Ravage's volume is concerned with
his life in this country, the earlier
chapters dealing with his Rouman-
ian origin and the curious factors
that led to his immigration are OF
unusual interest and call for spe-
cial attention. A land sterile of op-
portunities, race oppression, power
ty, naturally have their place in the
drab background, but against this
is flung a striking and individual
figure, CouZa, who, returning To the
land OF his birth after some years
on American soil, becomes a veri-
table prophet from America" scat
tering incredible largesse of Amer
lean money with lavish hand, and
Wanting the Ell Dorado of the new
world so successfully that the
trickle Of immigration which at
once began gradually developed into
an almost nationwide exodus from
koumania. Eager youths, meeting
in barns, banded themselves togeth-
er for the purpose of walking TO
America" and on this wave OF en-
thusiasm hundreds of men and boys
actually made the trip on foot
across the continent 10 the Atlantic
seaboard, financed by various large
philanthropic societies.
Harold MacGrath's Travels.
Harold MacGrath, whose new
novel of adventure, The Luck OF
the Irish. takes the reader from
New York to Singapore, has trav-
eled extensively in Europe and in
the east Yet. he admitted the other
day that he has never managed to
get TO the British Isles, not from
lack of trying, but because he al
ways planned TO go on from Italy,
and when he was in that country
was so held by its charm that he
could not make up his mind 10
leave il until il was time TO sail
home TO America.
New Mark Tidd Book.
Mark Tidd-Editor." a book for
younger readers by Clarence Bud
ingtOn Kelland. tells of the doings
of the suffering fat boy and his
loyal friends. He persuades his
father 10 buy newspaper and ne
becomes its editor He invents in
genious ways Of securing news AMI
advertisements and meets confident
~ the competition Of another news
paper. While searching for news
he discovers a mystery relating 10
the will Of WigglesWorth formerly
the richest man in town, and the
presence in the WiggleswOrth house
Of boy who is kept prisoner there.
Mark. the concentrator. as his
father calls him. sets his wits to
work 10 solve this problem and 10
make his newspaper a success
Another "Sandsy' Book.
Gardner Hunting. whose book.
"Sandsy's Pal" told the story Of a
boy who had everything. and the
boy who had nothing. says he is
going 10 write a book about Sandsy
himself when boys get tired % the
present one. "Sandsy's Par is
freckle- faced Larry and besides the
rivalry between them there is a
most remarkable dog they both
love.
Don't say you saw IL In the
newspaper. Say News Times.