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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
observation-disclosures
And Otherwise

Before adventure and peril and
reckless daring are ruthlessly ruled
out, let us give our children a taste
of adventurous voyages on the sea
of imagination" as Joseph Jacobs
puts it in his introduction to "The
Booh Of Wonder Voyages" put
mann, where we may thrill with
Jason's comrades in their quest for
the Golden Fleece, chasing harpies,
sowing dragons teeth, or set sail
with Eric and Thorkill, the Far
Travelled.
A book akin to this in theme
and one of the most delightful
children's books published during
the past year, is the "Chidrep's
Homer" (Macmillan), retold by Pad
raic Colum and illustrated by Willy
Pogany. In it the author has COM
bined the Odyssey and the Had and
yet has succeeded in giving a very
vivid and spirited and withal very
simple narrative that should prove
absorbingly interesting, not only to
children and to young people, but
to their elders as we'll. But, perhaps,
even more charming than the text
are the illustrations-eight color
plates exquisitely, fanciful in color
and composition and altogether in
harmony with the spirit of the tale;
and fifty pen and ink drawings
strongly reminiscent of the figures
on the ancient Greek urns and
vases.
1t wouldn't be fair to touch on
the ancient Greek and overlook
Hawthorne's "Tanglea0ood Tales"
(Scribner's), and "The Wonder
Books" of which there have been
many editions, not the least of
which is illustrated by Maxfcld
Parrish.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

(Stokes), known outside of Townie's
ken as Lieutenant Colonel Frank E.
Evans, went to the war and wrote
letters about it to his little son. It's
real news and real war, with much
color and noise and much whimsical
tenderness and understanding for
the child he writes to. The drawings
and their captions are quite delicious
in their crudity and shrewd char
acteriZation.
Under the present circumstances
Of social and national emergency a
book like "1'he Land of Fair Play,"
by Godfrey Parsons (Scribner's), is
more than welcome. It is book on
civics for boys and girls, and easily
meets that test, difficult for juvenile
books, of being interesting to older
people. 1t ought to be widely adopted
in school and home for the Amer
icanization not only Of young aliens
but Of our own growing generation.
1t is remarkably simple and direct
in method, with a clever utilization
of playground usage and language
to illustrate the theory and practice
of democratic government. In spite
Of the essential matter-of-f pres
entation of material the book ex-
presses stirringly throughout the
most enlightened patriotism. The
chapter on "The Making of the Con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Reflections for the Choosers
OF Children's Books

1t is. no doubt, an excellent thing
that many of these works have been
entombed in back-hall bookcases or
have been sold to the Salvation
Army as waste paper. There are
genuine advantages in living in
world from which the immoral
piety of Elsie Dinsmore has per-
ished. "The Wide, Wide World"
has, mercifully, been flung to per-
dition in company with Elsie. No
less demoralizing were books like
Grace Aguilar's ''Hcme Influence
and "a Mothers Recompense"-
grisly tales Of too good little girls
who told their mothers everything
until they had contracted, beyond
all hope Of cure, the vice of con-
fession.
These little pests grew up and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
From RackEaH1' "Nofher Goose
Century

married rich, handsome husbands.
Their wicked, independent sisters
eloped with roues and came to early,
tear-drenched, faded ends. This
style of juvenile reading deserved
extinction as thoroughly as the hoop
skirt OF tight kid stays of earlier
days.
1t is only natural and human,
this changing Of modes in children's
BOOKS. Women's sleeves, their fig
ures, mems boots, religion, laws, the
very morals of mankind change in
character and form with the passing
seasons. And whereas it is often
useful to be rid of outworn, stupid
traditions, it is a pity that
great and gracious ones perish with
them. For the maligned publisher
has done much that is noble. The
children's five-foot shelf hangs, gen.
orally speaking, unchanged upon the
wall. There are still within reach
the Holy Bible, Mother Goose, Hans
Andersen and Grlmm's collections
of folk and fairy tale, handed down
from time immemorial; CULVER,
Robinson Crusoe, Uncle Remus,
Esop, Mark Twain, Stevenson, Kip
ling and all the others, which may
be found In any i'll or we'll regulated
library.
1t comes down, then, to question
Of preserving, out Of the past, such
good and charming and simple things
as might to advantage take the place
Of much feeble, juvenile stuff that is
flung feverishly at public trying
10 get its Christmas shopping done
in time. Think of the poor child
who gets "The Angora Twinnies"
twaddle for Christmas present
when he might as we'll have Boutet
de Monvel or Howard Pyle's "Tavi-
light Land" or Dorothy and Nor
timer Menpes's gorgeous books of
pictures of children from foreign
lands, or "Swiss Family Robinson"
all books of bygone days.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

up. In France the scouts began to
help Immediately the war was de-
clared, and when schooltime came
these youngsters put up some rather
unanswerable arguments to justify
their not going back to their books.
Boys and girls to-day will be keen
about hearing what Camp Fire Girls
can do in war time.
"Camp Fire Girls IN War and
Peace" by Basel Hornibrook Ua-
throp, Lee & Shepard) brings in
characters young readers already
know, and so no time is lost in get
ting acquainted.
What mother Of family has not
come home sometimes to find the liv-
ing-room sofa, all the chairs and
two Of the best sheets rugged up to
make an airplane?
If your boy leases you for "some-
thing to do" give him "The Boy's
Airplone Book" by A. Frederic Col
Inns (Stokes). He will get a sheet
of tin, inch wide and 5 inches long;
mark out the shape of a propeller on
it as shown by the broken lines at A
in Figure 21, and cut it out with
pair of shears or timers ships"
This and many other brief, clear di-
rectlons and suggestions will keep
him busy. Only, buy the timers
ships for him and hide your work
basket.
Daddy Pat Of the Marines"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Nothing But
Fairy Tales

One wonders how Mr.. Andrew
Lang, with his prediction for fairy
tales of all lands, happened to over
look the possibilities. of the Spanish
fairy world when one sees the
wealth Of color and materials dear
to all fairy lovers in "The Spanish
FAIRY Book" by Gertrude Segovia
|Stokes). The tales are long and
somewhat involved in plot, and are
therefore best suited to the child of
eight to twelve years or more. They
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
From Rackh4n's "f.o.isr Goose
(Ccufnssj

snakes past, the ostrici's appetite
and in many other ways iortlhes
one for the inevitable question bom-
bardment. She makes of Morning
side Park a place with a thrilling
history and of Grants Tomb some
thing far nobler than a place where
the bus stops. Even parents living
outside of New York may, with
profit, take the outings with Doodle
and Nora and Jack and enjoy Miss
Singleton's abbreviated Baedeker in
novel form.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Wonder Tales
OF All Sorts

If you don't mind flying away to
the Never-near land, where anything
may happen, sit down before your
fire some snowy night when the wind
is bowling and take a look at Arthur
Rackham's "Book Of Pictures" (Cen-
fury Company. That there is no
text accompanying the pictures WON'T
trouble you = bit. We tried the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

stitution' is, in particular, an inspir-
ing one, and would make excellent
reading for quite grown-up parlor
Solsheviki and other pale Reds-if
not, indeed, for those of deeper-dyed
ignorance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

| think of any real old favorite, which
it does not include, and "Johm Mar
tins Big Books for Little Folk"
(Houghton Mifflin Company. A
middle-sized book of this sort is
"Emglish Fairy Tales" retold by
Flora Annie Steel and illustrated
by Arthur Rackham (Macmillan).
No wise parent can possibly afford
to overlook Gelett Burgess's Scoops"
(Stokes). In fact, all the several
books about them are of such moral
force that no household, with or
without children, should fail to in
clude them. The scope is limitless,
for they touch on almost every vir-
tue and sin Of the human race.
The idea of falling through a tel
escope, big end first, and landing in
reduced proportions on the garden
lawn, so that the insect world sud-
denly becomes yours to deal with on
an equal footing, is so wholly re-
freshing that one is rather disap-
pointed to find in "a Journey to the
Garden, Gatc," by Ralph M. Town
send (Houghton Mifflin Company,
unconscious hints of the inimit-
able "Alice IN Wonderland" How
ever, it is very sympathetic in it's
view Of the underbug, and the illus
trations in color, by Milo Winter,
are full of humor and detailed OBJ
servation of nature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

N7HAT has become of the books
w of past childhoods? Do
little boys nowadays ever
read the Rollo books? And do little
girls read "Mr. Thimble- Finger"
'Dottie Dimple" or the Susie books?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
For the Older
Children

When we come to books for elder
children Technically known as adol-
escents) we find that there the war
has welded great influence, and
good influence. Parents who have
struggled with the question of ex-
planning the great war and Of tell
ing the story Of it to their children
will find, in the battle of the
Nations,' by Frederic Arnold Kun
mer Century,, a more than ade-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

abundant, but in placing an
abridgmcnt of this character be-
fore the public the publishers Mac
millan) are filling a real need.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

ignorance.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-20

The ship by Truck" slogan owes
its popularity today to II. s. Fire
stone of Akron, o.
Mr.. Firestone also has given fur
Their in time and money to the after
war stimulus of the motor truck
industry
During the war period the motor
truck shouldered unprecedented bur-
dens. With the advent of peace it
seemed that its wonderful POSSIBLE
tiles as an element Of national trans
portation might be lost to industry.
The time seemed ripe to let present
and prospective truck owners know
more of what the truck could do.
Accordingly Mr. Firestone placed
full-page Ship by Truck" messages
in The Saturday Evening Post, Liter
airy Digest, Country Gentleman.
Christian Herald and other national
publications. BY this method ship
by Truck" was quickly brought to
the attention of hundreds of thou
sands of shippers and millions of
persons who would be benefited di-
rectly or indirectly by this form of
transportation.
AS a result of the advertising, the
slogan quickly came into common
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-20
Poles COMP LING
STORY Of GRIMES
UNDER RED REIGN

NV MORNING. JOURNAL SPECIAL LLNssp wIRE1
Warsaw, Oct. 19.--The Polish gov
eminent is compiling the story of the
atrocities committed under the Boil
shevik reign in the city of Minsk.
now occupied by the Poles. The latest.
brought by an American Red Cross
WORKER who has just returned from a
relief assignment in that newly occu-
pled city, concerns the murder of a
woman hospital assistant who was
rash enough to express the hone that
conditions would improve when the
town fell to the Poles.
The director of the hospital in
question, smarting under an Hire
served rebuke administered to him by
a surly official of the Red regime
warned the latter that the arrival Of
the Poles would bring a change for
the better. For this he was deported
to Smolensk. HIS woman assistant,
who ventured little further in ex-
pressing her opinion was shot into
grave on the dawn before the taking
or the city by the Polish army.
When visited by workers of the
American Red Cross commission to
Poland, the hospitals and orphanages
OF the city were found in such press
ing need of food that many of them
mad been obliged to close One home
for war orphans had been without so
much as crust of bread for more
than week. Many others had suf-
Tered similar privations. According
TO reports on Investigations. only out
side aid can rescue these people from
the chaos of terrors and suffering in
which they are submerged.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-20
THE KIDDIE KOLUMN
New York Evening word)
THE GARDEN STORIES
Lady In he DarIC Hoax

almost like whispered words, and
several more golden leaves futtered
down and around her like tired yellow
butterflies. She came so close to us
that we looked into her eyes.
couldn't tell what her face was like,
because what | saw in her eyes was
too Wonderful-tuo wonderful to re-
peat in words. They We're all full OF
strange, bright lights and they grew
deep, deep, and larger and larger, till
lost myself for a minute and seemed
to be sinking in some deep sea. Then
| was caught up in the heart OF 4
bright, bright star--and went sailing
away--away Mo- | was stil In the
Garden, for the scarecrow was pluck
ing me by the sleeve. The air was
trembling just like a great harp with
wonderful deep soft music. You
know how the telegraph wires can be
heard humming, singing on windy
day out in the country if you put
your ear to the pole Well-all the
air was trembling singing like that,
full of lovely voices singing n
chorus some words that came to me
afterwards when when / cama
hack to my everyday self The words
don't seem nearly SO wonderful. Just
as words, when I say them now. as
they did with that low soft music IN
them. Indeed, I believe that the music
wasn't spoken in just those words
but taht the words are the best my
mind could do to tell YOU what the
music said, BY Ethel Allen Murphy
C'o be eontinued)
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-20
HURRICANE SUFFERERS
APPRECIATE FINANCIAL
AID FROM ALBUQUERQUE

The following letter was received
yesterdal from the chairman of the
relief committee Tor the Texas HURT
cane sufferers in acknowledgment
of the money forwarded by The
Journal. Those who gave to the fund
were George Gensemeg, 500 ana
Andy Sweeney ST. making total OF
$l01 which was sent to the commit
tee at Corpus Christi, Here is the let
ter:
Morning Journal,
Albuquerque, n. NJ.
Please accept, in behalf of this
committee, my grateful thanks for
your favor of the 9Th instant, enclos-
ing remittance of $10l FOR the relief
of storm sufferers. If you will be
good enough to express our apprecia-
ton, through the columns of your
paper, to the contributors to this fund,
we will be grateful.
Through the generosity OF the peo-
pie of Texas and of other states, the
immediate needs OF the people in the
storm area have been well provided
for. The most serious problem which
confronts us at this time is that OF
rehabilitation. Probably more than
5000 people suffered the loss of all
of their worldly possessions includ-
ing homes, clothing and other per-
sonal effects, and in many instances
their businesses as well. We are
therefore, facing the necessity Of try
ing to give these unfortunate ones a
new start in life and it is for tina,
purpose chiefly that we have appeal
ed to the charity Of the American
peolpe for financial assistance. The
property damage exceeds twenty mil
lion dollars. We have no purpose or
desire to reimburse the storm suf-
ferers for property losses. but we shall
try to provide them with whatever
may be necessary to put them on a
self-sustaining basis.
Again assuring You of our grateful
appreciation, l beg to remain, sincere
ly yours,
ROY MILLER.
Chairman Relief Committee.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-20

use. 1t has aroused the needed ac-
ton. 1t has increased the use of
the truck 1t is uniting all those
interested in developing and extend
ing the use Of the motor truck.
Mr.. Firestone followed up his adj
vertising In national publications by
advertisements in newspapers the
country over. These newspaper ad-
Vertisements were planned to help
shippers use their local motor ex-
press lines and to obtain more tom
mage for truck operators.
Inquiries that came in from the
advertisements convinced Mr.. Fire
stone that some one must collect and
distribute information regarding the
truck. He made his own nation
wide organization ready for the work
| by organizing the Firestohe Ship by
Truck bureau.
! To date about fifty-five local bu-
reaus have been formed The CEN
| trail bureau at Akron, Ohio, conducts
! its own research division and also is
assembling ship by truck informa-
ton it receives from the various
branch bureaus and making it avail
able to all. The bureau also main
tains a fleet of motor trucks which
are constantly moving about the
country collecting data and making
demonstrations of the practicability
Of the motor truck as q freight
hauler.
Mr.. Firestone is quoted in re-
cent magazine article as saying that
to obtain success the essential thing
Is to pick out an objective and try
to reach 1t, and when it is reached
to pick out the next higher one and
to begin climbing to that.
Apparently obtaining for the mo-
tor truck all the new opportunities
possible through Ship by Truck is
his latest objective. As a business
man he already has climbed high.
Sixteen years ago, when the use
of rubber tires on carriages was be- |
ing introduced, he learned that an
Akron carriage factory had a rubber |
tire department that it would sell. |
He also located an old foundry at |
Akron with some dilapidated ma
chinery He bought the tire depart
ment and the foundry and launched |
the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co, |
placing himself at the head of four |
teen workmen, one clerk and one !
bookkeeper.
Today he is at the head of the !
same company. But today 1t has IT, |
600 employees and it's capital Is $751; |
900, 900.
The companys growth is the |
story of successive. detectives gained. |
Under Mr.. Firestone's direction and |
with his initiative 1t first pioneered !
in the field offered by rubber tires
for horse drawn vehicles. Then it
pioneered in the field offered by |
manufacturing pneumatic tires for |
bicycles and later for automobiles. |
Finally it pioneered in the truck tire |
field. It's experimental labors in
each effort early obtained for 1t a
product for which there was an
ever-increasing demand. That de-
mand today for autom obile and truck
tires exceeds the supply despite the
fact that the company is building
and adding facilities for increased |
capacity almost constantly.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-20
WAGNER ASKS SCHOOLS
TO ASSIST IN SALE
OF RED CROSS SEALS

tsFtCAI eoRREsPoNpENcG TO MORNING JOURNAL
Santa Fe. oct 19.-Superintende
of Public Instruction Jonathan L.
Wagner has issued the following call,
addressed to the schools:
Whereas, The governor of the
state of New Mexico on August Il,
1919, issued proclamation calling
upon the people of New Mexico to CO.
operate with the Red Cross in all of
its phases of work, and
Whereas, There is now as imper-
alive a need for this line of patriotic
and benevolent activity as ever in the
past,
Therefore, we call upon you, the
teachers of the state of New Mexico,
to again cooperate in the oIganiza-
ton of the Junior Red Cross work to
the end that this great organization
may continue to function fully and pa
trioticaly in the state of New Mexico
and that the Junior Red Cross coop
crate in every respect especially with
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-20
FRENCH WORRIED
ABOUT ILLNESS
Of Mr.. WILSON
Politicians at Sea Regarding
Various Treaty Questions
Which Require Settlement
Commission Should Meet,
BY William Cook.

tStaff Correspondent of the Albuquer.
Que Journal and the N. Y World)
Copyrighted, 1919. by the Press Pub.
fishing Co. (The New York World
Especial Gable Dispatch to the World }
Paris, Oct. 19.--Peace conference
circles are much perturbed by the
latest reports about President Will
= sons health that reach Paris. The
letter written by Senator Moses has
had gloomy effect, Pessmistic opin-
ions are expressed in regard to Mr.,
Wilson's early return to duty and
there are many who fear the presi-
dents Illness will delay various mat
ters awaiting the allies decision now
that the peace treaty becomes effect
i've after its ratification by three pow
ers. While there is general disap-
pointment that the United States was
not the third party to ratify. there
was satisfaction that the treaty had
been ratified and is ready to he en-
forced, until the news of President
Wilson's sickness cast a shadow
across the path of peace.
French public opinion now wonders
what will happen to the clauses in
the treaty which demand immediate
settlement and in which the United
states is directly Interested The
foremost question pfeoccupving the
French political circles is that of the
league of nations, particularly the
first meeting of the leagues council
10 decide de limitations and frontiers
Ihen there is the question Of the vari-
Gus countries who are to become
members of the league. All nations
wishing to join the league are given
IN
decision known.
BY the treaty, Germany. when in
formed of ratification Of the instru-
ment by three powers. must evacuate
Silesia, Eastern Prussia and Schles-
wig, where plebiseites are to be held
ana where many difficulties have to
De surmounted by the conferences
aided by America Germany must
SINK or destroy all ships in the course
OF construction; must hand over her
aerial fleet and make known her
FACTORY emplacements. From the
allied point of view, the reparations /
commission should meet immediately
On this commission America has no /
representatives. and American inter- |
ests VIII be seriously impaired unless |
some step be taken at once to dele. |
gate commissioners Wilhelm II also
IL concerned. Tor he is subject now to |
trial by an allied tribunal.
These clauses of the treaty are but I
rev of those which demand i'm
mediate action and in which America |
is more or less indirectly concerned, I
and there is no doubt that France I
would be much relieved to know ex- /
actly what the United States intends
TO DO in view of the presidents sick |
ness. This country considers the date
on which the treaty becomes effective !
far more important than the date of /
the actual signing, but so far it does
not see very clearly what is ahead t
until America makes known her po- !
sition
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-20

~
THAT cloak, you might say was
black, and yet it wasn't like any black
cloth you ever saw. II WAS d deep,
deep darkness, like The soft darkness
of night in deep water or n deep
woods or in the deep deep night sky
Yet we felt that there was something
hidden under the darkness, something
that flowed and was just about to
shine out. II was Very queer children.
We couldn't say that we saw 1t We
felt it, as We feel that queer light
when the moon is about to rise, only
this light had gold and rose color
and pearly tints in it, we were sure,
4 cool breath came over u3 as again
that wind arose out of nowhere and
passed us. The old apple-tree seemed
to bend toward the Dark Cloaked
Lady. There was stir in its branches,