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clever in seeming bargain and driving t-they
were different in this: that the woman was the
ADLER of the two, and knew it, and it served
to make her generous, where the Deacon was par
simonious. She had been known to forget mort
gage note; the Deacon never
Professor GEORGE WAITING WENHAM, a large
egg shaped person, was principal Of the Tredick
High School and customarily made money in sum-
mer by eseorting travellers about Europe His
party suffered provoking train delay in 1914, but
the Professor looked forward with some expecta-
ton to 1915 when he should be able to conduct his
people on tour of the principal Belgian battle
fields. However, the quite irrationally went on
and on and on until it became apparent that Pro-
lessor WENHAM' S summer plans would be leopard
ed-and on and on until they had to be abandoned
and meanwhile the Lusitania was sunk and Pro-
lessor WENHAM became a pacifst and asked with
nearly all Tredick behind hm) What right have
few stubborn people to drag us into this terrible
war?" Instead Of saying: Mice day, ism t iti''
as they met on tie street the villagers paused shook
their heads, and said to each other: "War is a
terrible thing" The civil war veteran who said
he had purity good time and never minded moth
ing much cept the lice undoubtedly, as Pro
fessor WENHAM observed afterward, mot very
bright
Whoa We Rein In.
This has got to stop. AT the rate We re going
synopsis of Khaki would be almost as long as the
book itself, and the book is only 900 pages You
can read 1t In an afternoon or evening easy-and,
by goy, if you start it you will One thing leads
TO another Professor WENHAM s meeting in favor
of universal peace led to some admirable and I'M
suspected resolutions on the part of PRUDENCE
PERKINS SHERRY GH.sTARs return to Tredick led
to the most exciting moment in Mr. TuDEN's story,
the moment when Tom GII.sTAR, khaki clad proved
himself no coward. Miss PERKINS s determination
led to a sacrifice which woke up Tredick to the
reality of war effectively as thunderbolt. And
that sacrifice led to SAM GREENBERG's enlisting in
the army and making the first public speech of his
life The speech led to-no, there didn't have to
be any leading done and Sergeant GuLIs was right
close by
This story is drama We shall be dumfounded
If 1T does not get itself staged on Broadway in
the coming season. As you read it you can see it
divided before you into scenes and acts-and how
GEORGE Nj. CONAN would put it over!
MIR. THDEN will earn the gratitude of every per-
son who reads hhaki-of every reader, that is, who
is responsive to simple deep flowing feelings; who
remembers America prior to April g. 1917 who
kindles to the glory of America in France even as
IN
out shame We thinking that if those others
abroad will read this book they will understand us
a bit better-it is very American chronicle, and
if it cannot excuse it can and does, in an imper-
feet but honest and moving fashion, explain.
Elias Tobenkin, Reporter
X LAS TOBENKIN, author of The House Of
~ Conrad, works with ERNEST POOLE, fellow
novelist, and both work for GEORGE CREEI in the
Foreign Press Bureau of the Committee on Public
Information. Mr.. ToBENK1N, writing respecting
the interview with him by JOSEPH GoLLoMB, in
Books and the Book World for June 90, says:
II am rather glad he has put so much emphasis
on the oft maligned word reporter in describing
my work. When | read the epoch making authors
of all times and ask myself what makes them
epoch making l inevitably forced to the con-
cluson that it is their truthful recording of the
life and civilization about them; their galvanizing
Of the spirit of their contemporaries of the psy-
choogy of their day and age. In ether words, their