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New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
Pills Put to Test
DR.. Cabot Finds Only a Few
Drugs Are of Any Utility

I work and Of the social assistants work
in the dispensary and in the home"
DR.. Cabot also does away with most of
the ''emergencies" for which people used
TO prepare themselves with home RENE
dies and handy textbooks One such
emergency he blasts as follows:
People frequently consult a doctor
because they are afraid of faintinp,
fainting in church or in the street, for
example In such cases have found it
most effective to say. Well, suppose
you do-what harm will it do?' From
the answers to this question find gen
orally that the patients have in the
back of their minds, unconfessed, un-
realized, the fear that if they faint and
nothing adequate is done to cure them
they will die. They do not know that
people who faint come too just as we'll
II they are let alone. and that all the
fusslng about that is usual when people
faint is useful merely to keep the bv-
ISLANDERS busy and not to revive the
patient"
One of the most interesting chapters
describes just how far the social as
sistant may be used in mental inves-
tigation. This is reprinted from a lee
ture which DR.. Cabot delivered in
France and during the course of the
lecture he has occasion to criticize
American doctors for failure to take
full account of the mental factor in
disease. This. he holds, has led to it's
being overemphasized by various lay
movements. After paying a compliment
to the part which France has played in
the investigation of medical psychology
the doctor continues:
In America, on the other hand, the
conspicuous disregard of medical psy-
chology by physicians has led to wide
spread and serious revolt on the part
of the public. Our physicians have
100 often treated the patient as if he
were walking disease, body without
mind. Medical psychology has been
neglected in our medical schools and
IN the practice of our most successful
clinlcians. The result has been a re-
volt on the part of the laity, expressed
in the popularity Of the heretical heal
ing cults, such as Christian Science
and New Thought. These unscientifc
and unchristian organizations illustrate
an error opposite to that of the phy-
slcians, but no greater in degree. IN
deed, I think that our physicians are
more to be blamed than the leaders of
these irrational cults. because our ply
sicians. having received a scientific
training, ought to be more thorough,
more unprej JUDGED, more devoted to
the truth, and, therefore. less inclined
20 shut their eyes to a huge body Of
facts The physician often shuts his
eyes to the existence of the mind as
a cause of disease. The Christian Sci
enlist shuts his eyes to the existence
Of the body as cause OF disease. Both
are equally and disastrously wrong"
The book is informative enough to
be extremely useful to all who are
engaged in social work, but it is also
interesting enough in substance and
IN treatment 20 claim the attention of
the more casual reader as we'll
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
RED Friiday'
New Novel Tells of
Radical Activities Here

RED FRIDAY. By George Kibbe Turner
Published by Little. Brown & Co o53
pages. Price $40.
Red Friday" pictures what might
happen to America through the union
of Bolshevist agitator and an
INSCRIPTIONS Wall Street operator.
The financial plot upon which they
combine is to destroy capitalism by
building up the national debt TO over
whelming proportions. The Bolshe-
visit keeps wages up by continually TO-
menting strikes and the Wall Street
operator keeps taxes up by influencing
legislation in the Senate
There is never any lack OF money TO
carry on these transactions. because
the Wall Street operator keeps selling
short. Eventually there is a terrible
crash, which is brought about by the
Bolshevist suddenly dumping a huge
mass of securities on a weakened mar
ket. Stocks 60 down TO practically
nothing and the Exchange is closed
Capitalism has been destroyed, but the
problem of the landho olders remains
and just as the Bolshevist is about te
start reign of terror, he is killed by
the heroine. The book is quite fan
tastic and not very credible. Plango-
new, the Bolshevist, is a well-drawr
character, and the story is exciting
even if its contribution to the field OF
political economy seems slight.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
Another Plane Tale
Which Does Not Soar

THE SWALLOW. hy Hutr Dunbar Pub
ltshed hy Boui & ltrerisni.
Most Of US are fed Up on books Of
the war And Miss Dunbars effort.
apparently offered for relief. only
heightens IN oppressiveness caused by
the general mediocrity of our war
tales.
The story concerns lad. who. re-
spending To the inclination Of youth.
offers himself for service shortly after
the beginning OF hostilities in 1914.
Overcoming financial and other DIFF
culties with a hrmness and courage
characteristic OF our novellstic heroes
he finally becomes (oh-ever so
modestly) a severely wounded favorite
Of the Lafayette Escadrille Follows
the conventional hospital-sick room
nurse combination which, OF course
will redeem the book
Told in simple narrative form in
true Horatian or. rather, Algerian style,
there is little if any attempt at char
acterization and only an amateurish
realism which leaves one unthrilled #
not bored
The incidents are based on actuali-
ties, and. though this adds TO the sin
cerity Of the tale, it detracts too from
the imag aginative appeal so necessary for
cumulative interest. This, we think,
is why the book misses fire The un-
mstakable sincerity, though, is com
mendable, and only because of this is
the book worth while. y. L. G..
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
Reviewers and German Books

Difficult, quoted, is precisely the
word to apply to criticism of German
authors by American reviewers. Of
course, German books and plays should
not be done into English while the
present reigning passion against the
Germans is at its neap. Nevertheless
the Germans have produced good
books. We have pronounced as much
before the war. Four fingers of in
tellectual fairmindedness, if at all pos
sible at this moment, would probably
point to the conclusion that the Ger
mems are still writing good books and
plays.
There is, however, one drawback to
the patriotic passion which sternly
rejects the literary activities of our
enemies. The passion itself may be-
come sublimated into chicane and
subtle high bindery, as we'll as that
we'll known variety of plagiarism so
familiar to Broadway. Instead of hav-
ing, let us say. Molnar, Schnitzler, Bahr
or Sudermann, even, on our theatrical
row, we will probably have their plays
just the same, slightly altered but un-
mistakably purloined, by the dextrous
farceurs and adapters who rise on the
basic talents of better men. The
former will be amply protected in
Germany, Austria and Hungary by our
reparations commission there. Is it
too much to expect fairness from book
reviewers? Perhaps the Authors
League will take the matter in hand
and defend their fellow plumitifs the
world over, the before mentioned coun-
tries included. P.L.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07

SOCIAL WORK. BY Richard c. Cabot
Published by HcuSh-on Miftlin Co. 1ss
pages. Price. sl-5o.
Richard Cabot is the most comforting
of physicians because he curtails to
such an extent the responsibility of
both patient and practitioner. The doc
ter has merely 70 confirm his belief
that he has no medicines which will do
the patient q bit Of good and the pa
tiert need do nothing but wait and dis
cover whether nature intends him to
die or get we'll
"The vast majority Of diseases get
well without any help from anybody
writes Dr. Cabot. "and that is the
thing we must teach most often and to
most people, in season and out of sea-
son. In our day and generation few
neople get q chance of observing that
fact. because somebody comes along
ard gives them a drug. And unless one
has seen people get we'll without any
drugs. one continues TO believe that it
was the last drug given that cured
eyery case Of illness one has known to
rst we'll. On the other hand, the ma
iorltv of illnesses that do not get we'll
without drugs will not get we'll at all.
1ave mentioned before the figures
vttch seem approximately true in rela-
t., TO the cure Of disease by drugs.
Drugs VIII cure about six or eight
diseases out o. about $50 known
to science. Anybody who fails to give
d,rug for one OF those SIX or eight
eases is criminally negligent. We
aid press that drug upon the pa
mt. l do not want anybody to think
that | do not believe in drugs. be-
iee in them tremendously in the par
lar cases where thy are of use. But
not stand for the habit of bolster
ing up peoples beliefs that we have
rugs all ready TO cure most diseases.
7 think the future of cure by drugs
cry hopeful do not feel hopeless
c, our discovering drugs for the l42
ou Of $50 diseases which we still can
no- cure. But if we falsely suppose
that we have q cure already, we do not
hustle around 10 get il. 1t is not until
We realize that we have not a cure
already, that we do hustle around to
get it. 1t is not until we realize that
we are now very helpless in medicine
that We shall labor in way to become
less So At present the best that we
car do for most patients is to explain
what the trouble is. let them know
what IS going to happen, to preach some
hygiene, and above all to make them
realize that we care and suffer with
them. That is the essence Of medical
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
By Haywood Broun

1t seems to be an invariable rule
that French novelists become realists
as soon as they approach the war,
while American novelists become ro
mantle. The difference in point of
view is probably the difference of a
year and half o. war and four wears.
But Berger, although he begins in the
spirit Of Barbusse, is by no means of
the opinion that nothing good came
out Of the war Quite the contrary, he
endeavors in the latter part of his new
novel to point out some of the fine
the conflict. This theme, however. is
not quite as compelling as his argu-
ment against the wastage of war be-
cause it comes late in the book. At
least the first two-thirds of the volume
is devoted TO the sufferings of an
auxiliary corresponding to our own
limited service classihcation) who is
stationed in Dunkrk.
Jean Darboise, this auxiliary, saw
service al the front and was seriously
wounded in the arm, which incapaci-
tated him for further active service
Indeed by the strict letter of the
regulations, he should never have been
sent to Dunkirk, and he protests in
vain against his transfer. Before the
war Darboise was young artist of
great promise. but his career seems
definitely interrupted, if not destroyed,
by the war. The work to which he
is put in Dunkirk is of the most ex-
acting and menial sort, anc includes
such tasks as shiploading and wood
chopping and baking Worst of all.
the service behind the lines seems to
be compromised by all sorts of little
spites and injustices. Hard tasks and
easy ones go entirely by favor Dar-
boise is poor politician, and he soon
gets into the bad graces of every one,
which makes his lot all the harder.
He drifts into love affair with a
young woman in Dunkirk, and his in
fidelity is later discovered by his wife,
who promptly leaves him and refuses
forgiveness. Added to this comes q
row with a non-commissioned officer,
which seems likely to bring serious
consequences, and then an illness.
Jean Finds an Ideal
In the hospital Darhoise falls under
the influence of a defeatist and his
morale is at low ebb. when the SER
geant with whom he rowed suddenly
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
Ibanez on Prohibition

In his new novel. to be published by
E. P. Dutton the middle of June. ibanez
shows the influence of the grape on
the Spanish masses and the drunken
ness which results. The book is titled
LA Bodega," with the subtitle THE
Fruit of the Vine" 1t is translated by
DR.. Isaac Goldberg and promises to
be interesting as we'll as timely. Dutton
also publishes lbanezs Blood and
Sand" now in it's sixth edition, and
The Shadow of the Cathedral" in its
twelfth
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
You Know En-. Too

"It's funny how we hate to face real
tiles. I knew a commuter once who
rode into town every day on the s:l3
But he used TO call il the 7:73. He
said it made him feel mora virtuous. -"
From "The Haunted Bookshop." by
Christopher Morley, in the June Book
man"
And then there's the chap who sets
his clock half an hour ahead al night.
so he can turn over in the morning and
get an extra nap.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
Well, Girls?

Simon Pure, who writes the London
letter to "The Bookman," is thorough
~ practical young man In the June
"Bookman" he says: "Whenever hear
Of a young mans becoming engaged
to a most charming girl always
callously ask. Can she cook Will it
be believed that the reply most fire.
quently made is ar indignant 4 don't
know. She's a magnificent pianist.
AS though that cut any ice!"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
Walking 1t OF


LAND HIG HLANDS. BY Allen Cham
berlain. illustrations and maps PUB
lished by fough Miffin Company
Price. s. -.
Even i'll these days of motors. motor
boats and aeroplanes, there are still
people who play the piano by hand and
who enjoy the exercise OF their legs
in walking. For these members of
dying race Allen Chamberlain has is
sued his book to save from oblivion the
mountain paths of New Hampshire,
Vermont and Maine. Many people will
read this volume with yawn for every
2; ge. There are others, however who
will read the book only to lay it down
in haste to pack their kits and follow
its maps and directions into the wlds.
To these faithful worshippers Of nature
Mr.. Chamberlain is worthy high
priest, because he SITS before them
most explicitly not merely the way to
get there, but the wonderful pot Of
gold which the tramper Will always find
a, the end Of the rainbow.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07

-. Dr. Richard C. Caoot, the author Of
Social Work" has long been our fa-
vorlte medical author. Our enthusiasm,
dates from the moment we came across
most comfortable piece of doctrine in
Caoot's "A Layman's Handbook of
Medlclne AS we remember i. his
oic'um was Sleep all you can; you
cannot possibly overdo it," Shake
speare, who seems to anticipate every
body probably had some such idea to
mlnd IN his oft quoted exhortation
"Lay on. Macduff"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07

Menckens book on the American
language is only few weeks old and
already room has been made for an
other word which promises to remain.
Like so much of our native tongue il
is the product of the baseball columns
owens called Ping Bodie out at first
and the athlete promptly did Hawk
er" ' IA
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
Our Weekly News Reat

virginia Tracy. one of our most able
contributors, invariably writes ap
parantly while Natalie McCloskey. the
N. NJ. of these pages, uses bucket un-
less interferred with.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
The Meals They Write

Answering L. S. HIS inquiry as to
an author who serves the right kind of
TODD IN his stories, I refer to Walters.
the English man-servant of Van Bib
Der in Richard Harding Davis's stow.
who ordered for his master but CON
sumed himself, dinner at Delmon-
lco's on hot summer night. which
consisted of:
Little Neck clans first. with chablis
and pea soup and caviare on toast.
before the oyster crabs, with Johannjs
berger Cabinet; then an entree of
calves brains and rice; then no roast.
but bird, cold asparagus with French
dressing Camembert cheese and TURK
ish coffee. AS there were to be no
women he omitted the sweets and
added three other wines to follow the
white wine. 1t struck him as n par.
tlcularly well-chosen dinner"
And for perfect riot of good eat
ing let her read the final chapter in
the recent book by Arthur Bartlett
Maurice Fifth Avenue"-T. H. Bask.
ervile.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
A Life at Stake
Marcel Berger's New Novel Tells
Vivid Story of Army Hardships

A LIFE AT STAKE By Marcel Berger.
Translated by Fitzwater Wray. Pub
lished by G. P. Putnams Sons 464
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07

1t seems to us that this Meals They
Write series is interesting, but as we
are at present on a diet which consists
mostly of buttermilk, it is also aggra-
vatlng. Only our high sense of Jour
nalistic duty has enabled US to keen il
up so far. We think we may manage
to hold out if no contributor finds an
author who has written about cauli-
flower or softshell crabs.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
About a Column

We don't know what we may think
Of Rider Haggard's when the World
Shook" after we have finished it, but
up to now We have a lively prejudice
against the hero who tells the story.
Further" he writes, 81 had. and to
certain extent still have, another ad-
vantage over my father, which GER
tanly came to me from nv mother.
who was, as judge from all descrip-
tlons and such likenesses as remain of
her, an extremely handsome woman.
was born much better looking. He
was small and dark, little man with
oeepset eyes and beetling brows. am
also dark, but tall above the average.
and we'll made. l do not know that l
need say more about my personal ap-
pearance, to me not very attractive
subject, but the fact remains that thew
called me handsome Humphrey at the
and l was the captain of
my college boat and won many prizes
at athletic sports when I had time to
train for them"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07
Pat Grove.
Aviator

Not a hisiors of war. A1t
history ri heart that beat its bes,
over the fields where porp.cs 9lor.
l. gives the ii;e Of the airmen.
their dreams and fears anl nopts.
and the intimate ht'lc chez, uu
ships and shoes and seaAng Wax
and cashag-s ard king.'
The 11fi"r who wro-c tAcse
l''le true stories paid the sacritce.
II is mt sad ifory. tar o-r
sS1k wakCJ uf qiaf 70 hse IN fte
E-oria made hatfy ty bras< boys.
Pictorial Jaoke, and porrai, Of
Pat Grove. C,o,t SiS1.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07

Moreover. he is q fastidious Young
man. Perhaps definition will help."
he explains, Il am like man with an
over developed sense of smell who
wnen walking through a foreign city
however clean and we'll kept, can al
ways catch the evil savors that are in
separable from such cities"
Forelgn cities indeed. Where could
the sensitive young man find more en-
pioyment for his nose than in his own
London, except, of course, in Chicago
or Peking.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07

THE HOME AND THE WORLD BY
Rabindranath Tagore Published By tho
Macmillan Company. ce3 pages Price.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-07

In the hospital Darhose falls under
the influence of a defeatist and his
morale is at low ebb. when the SER
geant with whom he rowed suddenly
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-08-27
TELLS HOW OTHER
PEOPLE GET AHEAD
Pamphlet issued by U. .. Treasury
Answers Question "How Can
Save Money"

AS an answer to the question, How
Can Save Money!" the Savings Di-
vision OF the Treasury Department has
compiled an interesting and helpful
pamphlet entitled How Other Ie1pls
Get Ahead"
For individuals and families whose
Incomes are less than $4,000 year
this pamphlet offers number Of en-
Tightening suggestions as to the dis
bursement Of incomes of various
amounts from SIS week upward. Not
only does the material furnish ready
answer to the problem ot expenses,
but it affords an authentic source OF
information as to living costs. The
figures were compiled from records Of
Official government investigations, into
the several subjects and may be Ie-
garded as up to date and accuratas
This material makes possible a
new attack in the movement to make
thrift national characteristic and to
foster the habit of "Save First-Spend
Afterward" 1t will interest people In
saving more money by showing them
how much other people find it possible
to save and also by showing them how
they can cut down the cost Of living
comparing their costs with average
costs at the same income
The Savings Diyision suggests that
an excellent way to drive home the
truths of the budget system is to have
the schedules discussed at school and
taken home by the children for con-
slderation by the families. Another
method is to organize house-to-house
canvass through committees Of wo-
men who will bring the budgets to
the attention of families aad secure
their agreement to study their own
situation.
Saving and spending budgets have
been prepared to meet local condi-
tions at numbeS Of points, and much
interest in the application Of the Sbud-
gets to the campaign Is being mani
tested in sections of the country
where the National Thrift Campaign
Is being carried out successfully.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-08-27
UNION MEETING

The Union meeting of the third
division of the Edgefeld Baptist as
sociation will meet with the Clark's
Hill church, August 80 and 81.
All parties on program take notice
and prepare their subjects.
11:OO. Devotional by moderator.
11:3O. Roll call of churches and
reports.
Query No. /.
What should be the spirit and mis-
sion of the church, J. G. McKie and
j. M. Bussey.
Query O. q:
The power of consecrated life,
DR.. w. G. Blackwell, O. Zimmerman.
1890. Adjournment for dinner.
Afternoon.
Query No. 3:
The influence of worldliness in the
church, ]. C. Harveley, G. w. Bussey,
Jr.
Query No. a:
What should be our chart and COM
pass in life's journey, Mr.. Frank
Middleton, S. T. Adams.
Sunday.
Sunday school in regular order.
11:3O. Sermon by Rev. Coogler.
1:30. Adjournment for dinner.
Afternoon.
Query No. 5:
What Instructions are given par
ents in regard to training their chill
dren, T. G. Talbert.
Query No. g.:
Why Sunday schools should be fos-
tered by every Christian, j. G. Nc
Kie. =
H. E. Bunch,
For Committee.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-08-27
YoNcE MOTOR co.
FOR SALE.


One 5-room residence, hall with
arch partition, bath room, all bath
and toilet fixtures, electric light fix
lures, private water works and sew
erage system, pure water from rocl;
12S feet deep. Wood and coal house,
auto house with concrete floor, fowl
house, poultry yard, rich garden,
fruit trees. Lot 70 feet front by 210
feet deep all fenced in. One and
one-half block from four churches
and school, 2 blocks from depot and
post office. Also one lob adjoining
this property 105 foot frontage by
210 feet deep, all fenced in. One
building, 10 feet wide, 4S feet long,
covered with red cedar shingles, all
painted. One barn, 1Ox2O feet. Cow
cred with red cedar shingles, all
painted. 1S young pecan trees, peach,
apples, plums, cherry, pears and fig
trees. This property is din the very
best neighborhood and location. Will
sell cheap and give terms.
Box SO, Johnston, S. c.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-08-27
Chance to Buy Wire.

Washington, Aug. %. = Senator
Dial has brought to the notice of D.
W. Watkins, acting director of extern
sion work in agriculture and home eco
nomics for South Carolina, the posi-
bility that South Carolina farmers
and stockmen may obtain wire fenc-
ing at prices below retail quotations
by pooling neighborhood require
ments and bidding for surplus fenc-
ing which the war department is sell
ing. y
Senator Dial has sug ,ested that if
the regulations governing extension
work do not prevent this matter
might very conveniently be handled
through the county demonstration
agents reporting to Mr.. Watkins
The war department has large stock
AAnore than 10000 tons, of barbed wire
storage at Columbus, Ohio. Bids
Iill be opened in Washington Septem-
Pber 8. The minimum quantity for
which bid will be considered is two
tons. A deposit in the sum of 10 per
cent of the amount involved is to
accompany each sealed bid. The wire
is of standard commercial type, with
half inch barbs in groups of four,
spaced three inches apart. Some of
the wire is painted black, the rest be-
ing galvanized. Bids are to be ad-
dressed to Chief, Surplus Property
Division, Munitions Building, Wash
ington. Sales will be made f. o. b.
Columbus, Ohio.
"It looks to me like very good
proposition for any of our people in
need of wire fences to pool their
neighborhood requirements and sub
NIT bids for units of two tons or
more" safd Senator Dial today.