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Evening star., 1919-03-13
THE WEATHER..

The District of Columbia and Mary
land--Cloudy tonight and tomorrow
probably rain: lower temperature;
fresh northeast and east winds.
Virginia Cloudy tonight and to-
morrow, with probably rain; colder
tomorrow and in northeast portion to-
night; moderate southwest. shifting
to northeast winds tonight.
West virginia--Cioudy. with prob
ably rain tonight and tomorrow
colder in north portion tonight.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings OF
the thermometer and barometer at
the weather bureau for the twenty
four hours beginning at pm. yes
terday:
Thermometer--Yeste pm,
ST; s pm. so; IL midnight. A.. To-
day. am. 40: s am, SO; IL noon. So;
pm, 62. Maximum. g., at pm. today;
minimum, 3S. at G:30 m. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum, Sc: minimum, SO.
Barometer-Yester rday, pm. 3e.34;
pm. 30.32: IL midnight. 3032. To-
day. am, 30.2S; S am, 30.3l: l2 noon
1890; pm. 1926.
Evening star., 1919-03-13
EDUCATIONAL.

experience as Instructor of Gregg shorthand Ia
hest busipes. colleges of the ssuth desires an
evening class. not exceeding ten. In nbove sub
jcct beginning March II; preferably high
school and college graduates; individual In
sfructtou Address I,ox 25S ID, Star office.
Evening star., 1919-03-13
Many Stocks Yield to Pressure.
Washington Stock Exchange.
SALES.

Washington Gas, % at 53iz. = nt h3ia
Americsn Security and Trust. 10 at 22i
Aergenthaier 10 at 156. Ut I38 10 at 1871,
10 st 1863.
After call:
Mcrgenthnler 10 at 1861.
Capital Traction. 10 at s754. az STi..
Bid and Asked Prices.
Evening star., 1919-03-13
ADAM !. wEscHLEK-. -AiUcri0NEER

GEORGE c. BoARaAS.
rh11-d&.Is exsu Surviving Trnsf.e
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
A Whir'ing Vacuum
WITS ASP TIE .woMAS. BY Violet lrv

WITS AND TIE WOMAN. BY Violet Irwin.
Small. Maynard & Co. Boston
There is good deal more woman
than wits in this tale of q girl who
falls under a psychic spell, rushes into
succession of wild adventures on two
continents, and finally brings her eX-
citing career to a close at the marriage.
license bureau. 1'ne plot Of the novel,
in its engaging total lack of probable
ity, suggests a comic movie running at
full speed. AS for the style of the
Rockwell, in the words OF Clarissa,
"the essentially lovable and wholesome
shopgirl" who plays the role of heroine
and narrator: This is no highbrow
stuff" 1t is safe to predict that the
reader will not go more than half a
dozen pages without fully indorsing
this verdict. In fact, it is rather
doubtful whether the strange jargon
affected by Clarissa would be any more
INTEL; gibe to the average shopgirl
than to the average college professor
Here IS an Illuminating exposition of
Clarissa's S own ideas about her work:
My tale is q good tale, a 95-horse-
power, twelve-cy inder scooter 1t
gyrates the whole spectrum in color,
but there's no more art about it than
in a cubisV statue; the plot resembles
most ragged bunch Of coldslaw; and
as for morality in the events-I was
riding on Fate's Twentieth Century
Limited, and don't pretend to justify
myself for every cinder that few out
Of the stack"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

scale OF the business man, the parent.
the philosopher, the artist and even
the moralist Admitting the made
quacies OF the scheme, and even the
most conservative are disposed to do
that, the point of departure in any dis
cussion of the problem is the decision
whether the purpose of civilization is
to teach men their limitations or their
powers. Mr.. Dell believes the latter,
and to that end he pleads eloquenty
for i something which would revitalize
with great imagination he presents
wnat art and morals and indeed human
relations might become under more
elastic conditions Of living. Perhaps
the most extraordinary thing the book
does IS to cut right through the fum-
merry of experts to simple human judg-
ments.
There will be a natural antagonsm
to this consideration of al the sacred
things in life by such lay judgments.
Ihere is a dangerous precedent in
measuring everything by the broad
gauge of simple human instincts, as
this, book does. If you are not willing
to leave teaching to the pedagogue
beauty to the artist, religion to the
prlest-whatever becomes of author
lty? And to admit such unorthodoxy
into education is to invite a similar
dlsintegration into every other depart
ment of life. And that is just what
DelIs book does. So that the child
whom ne regards merely as the initial
point OF release for a world crushed
under its industrial concerns, may
emerge he is willing to see the whole
crust of the social order broken,
Modern pedagogy has tried to make
the school something free and kind
and cherishing of human stuff, over
looking the tact that the tendencies
on which it depends are not particu-
larly cherishing of human stuff. Such
rigorous work as must be done to clear
-he avenues OF living for the child
must be done, Mr.. Dell believes, not
by the pedagogue, but by the social
lnsurgent.
Perhaps the greatest heresy of
Were You Ever Child ?" is its SIM
pllc'ty. There is something in our
conception of education as Something
rtuallstc that makes too clear think
ing on 1t seem Proclamation. Not
Willingly will we relinquish the faith
that there ere miracles Inherent in the
traditional processes of schooling that
are beyond our feeble understanding.
Whether or not one has the stamina
1or such readjustments as are in
volved in Mr.. Dcll's viewpoints, it is
great and exhilarating experience to
find the abstractions of democracy
education and art suddenly given def
milton and purpose and related to the
fundamental business OF life. 1t can
not fail to be a tonic experience to
gee cut of the stufy rut in which dis
cussion on these subjects usually tray
els into something so bracing and Wig
orous and imaginative as this
There is a tactical victory in this
book. Though Dell boldly lays down
every rad cal theory uncovered on the
table, he does it with an in allib!e
good humor, with charm and, with what
IS rarest in the radical. wise
and sympathetic regard for the signifi-
cance of the prejudlces that would op-
pose him. R.D.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
What Rodin Said

Having read your defense of I'm
moral books, | followed with interest
the comments which it called forth.
Two letters, curiously enough, one
pro and the other anti, appeared to
me to confuse the issue equally, by
reason of their conception of beauty
I and uglincss.
"a. c. p. c. asks whether to be a
good writer one must be "a bad one,' or
if ito love beauty means to love the
foul and consequently the ugly of life
This correspondent. while apparently in
full sympathy with your contention
that so-called immoral books embrace
delightful literature, rather betrays
the cause by admitting that his liking
for the books is furtive, and that
against his better judgment he enjoys
ugly things.
M. V. H., who champions censor
ship of immoral books from an entirely
different viewpoint also stresses the
contrast of beauty, understood in terms
Of the whole ONE and harmonious, with
the ugly, which to her is typifed in
nature by the gnarled tree. The read
ing Of these letters brought very
forcibly to my mind an Illuminating
and inspiring chapter in Auguste
Robins book on Art, titled All in
Nature Is Beautiful and the quotations
which | give seem to answer some of
the questions raised in the sane and
unpreju JUDGED language that only such
lovers of the truth as Rodin can
wie,d:
Character is the essential truth Of
any natural object. whether ugly or
beautiful; it is even what one might
call q double truth, for it is the
inner truth translated by the outer
truth.
"'Now to the great artist everything
in nature has character. And
hat which is considered ugly in nature
often presents more character than
that which is termed beautiful be-
cause in the contractons OF a sickly
countenance, in the lines of a vicious
face, in all deformity, in all decay.
he Unborn truth shines forth moro
clearly than in features that are regu-
ar and healthy. There is
nothing ugly in art except that which
is without character, that is to say
that which offers no inner or outer
truth.
"'Whatcver is false, whatever is
drtliclal, Whatever seeks to be pretty
rather than expressive, whatever is ca
PRECIOUS and affected, whatever smiles
without motive, bends or struts with
out cause, is m nnered without reason;
all that is only parade of beauty
and grace; all. in short, that lies Is
'ug!iness in art.
"'When an artist, intending to i'm
prove upon nature, adds green to the
springtme, rose to the sunrise, car
mine to young lips, he creates ug,i-
ness because he lies.
"'When he softens the grimace C.
pain, the shapelessness of age. the
hideousness of pcrvcrson. whcn Ae
arranges nature-veiing, disguis aa-
tempering it to please the ignorant
public-then he is creating uglinez'
because he fears the truth To ans
artist worthy of the name al in M '.a
is beautiful, because his eyes, az
lessly accepting all exterior truth read
here. as in an open book all the ianaz
truth JULIET 7. FORD.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

home the spearhead Of it is not less
So Under its prod the whole lethargic
question of the education of the child
stirs uneasily and reveals large unex-
plored surfaces.
1t is a book remarkable for that kind
OF imagination which relates eyery-
thing 1t touches to the Fundamental
concerns of life, for an illuminating
intellectual honesty and for so sharr
sense of democracy that it extends
>ven to the child. We are complacen.
with ourselves for that modern
humaneness which has wiped out the
adult tyranny of the past. But the
N.gh-how sentimentality ambushed in
our boast that this is the century OF
the child accomplishcs the same eva
sion as the harder tyranny of the past
In neither scheme is the child demo
craticalry regarded. Perhaps there is
even trite more cynicism in the
modern conception that the child is
better subdued by kindness than in the
Id one Of subduing him by force. But
no honest effort has been made to con-
slider the child's needs from his own
points of view. We have not vet made
ne effort of imagination which should
establish tie child's right to have his
own reactions to the world he is ia
live in at first hand.
Were You Ever a Child" is a very
ne child and modern education. Edu-
cation, and indeed the civilization
yhich depends on it, is weighed by the
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

things heard."s As to the moderns,
would add that have recognized and
exto "ed every admirable quality which
col.d find in them. Finally, though
will! take second place to no one in
my wish and willingness to relieve, by
every means in my power, the wrongs
and sutferings OF a miserable human
lty, whether deserving or not, | per-
sonally prefer the society, in art as in
life, of interesting, decent persons,
rather than that of pimps and bawds.
whe her they be fgments of the i'm
ngination Of Pinero, Isben or Shake
speare.'
"As to the Bible, particularly the
Old Testament, we must approach it
with some breadth of culture that en-
ables us to know its background and
realize that it is the work of many
writer's, not all gifted with equal spirit
ua.lty and vlslOn-and that some of it
IS written for a primitive people in
the kindergarten stage OF existence.
Let US never forget that these same
people brought to the world the Won
dertul conception of power outsid ide
ourselves that demands righteousness
In the midst of sordid religions with
no moral significance they alone
grasped this great moral truth. When
we turn to the New Testament we are
told that not only are we to regard the
things which are true and honest and
Just, but the things which are pure.
Inns idea has been wonderfully deyei-
oped by Matthew Arnold in Numbers
one OF his 'Discourses in America,
ana ne brings US a message that we
must need II our civilization is to last
"CORNELlA A GIBBS"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

# the question is left to US, we
should say empnatically that we would
by no means agree ,hat book should
be barred from the library because 1t
was "sordid." After all, there's enough
happiness and JOY III the world already
without having to read books ebou. it.
HEYWOOD BROLN.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
DR.. Jonathan

DIR. JONATHAN. a Play in Three Acts
by Winston Churchill. Published By the
Macmillan Company.
1t cannot be said of Winston Church.
il! that he shrks his duty as a citizen.
In the face of the danger which besets
his country he flies to its assistance
with play. If Or. Jonathan" which
is Mr.. Churchil's stake against the
threatening tide of Bolshevisn. is not
to be counted on very heavily, it must
be remembered that the stress of the
emergency which brought it into being
has given no time Tor any careful
building
Mr. Churchill dramatizes the indus
trial cleavage with the types Of g.
small New England factory town and a
symbolical figure, a man from outside
a Dr.. Jonathan. The opposing forces
Ashar Pindar, the intensely conserva-
tive factory owner, and his grimIy de-
termined employees. are al dead ock on
the question of trade unionism The
only unresolved element is Pndar's
There are in him STRINGS OF democ-
racy which are accented by his love
for high spirited factory girl His
mag nation is stirred by the ideal of
service which Dr.. Jonathan presents,
and he leaves pondering its applicable
ity to modern business. 1t follows him
through his year of fighting. and when
he is wounded it becomes an obsession
with him to see these ideals tested in
his fathers bus ness To save his life
1t is necessary to give him his own
Way, and only in this desperate emer-
gency docs the father relent and give
the boy leave to treat with the work
lnsmen on new and radical lines of
profit shading and cooperation.
There is a consc 'entious progressive
ism in Mr. Churchill that urges him to
partisan the workingmen. But pu
as he will, Mr.. Churchill does not sue
ceed in making the recalcitrant e.e-
ments face about on the sene mental
ground on which he aligns them There
IS something bristling in the industrial
question that does not respond to Mr.
Churchi'l's soothing touch. In spite o.
q curtain dropped or an ecstatic tab
The miller rium GEMS far off if al the
h pc we have is that conta ned in NJ,
Churchil's play. A ter al only fev
employers are acces Bile to c0nvers on
W me means emn owed IN hts play.
The intention Of tie , ay is god
eal better than itS workN- ansh 2.
There is in il the Technical weakness
hat it presents char cter of whose
extraordinary iHfuerce a tic oharac-
-ers speak without anv eviferce Of it
being shown in the act or. There are
flashes 0f cNara cterization hut FOR the
most part +hev are 100 obviously
vehicles for Mr. Churchil's snecches
The QUITO Is still gloomy Perhaps
however, the world is not to be saved
By plays. r. D.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
Out, Damned Spot!

"ln these days, when the insinuating
effort to obscure moral values in the
name of art is in evidence everywhere,
may quote Charles F. Richardson,
Who said: The everlasting discussion
narrows itself sooner or later to the
statement that, other things being
equal, the great artists the world in
any fed have Joined moral perception
20 the perception of beauty Of form
Ald may quote again, this time from
a letter William Winter wrote The
Evening Sum- Foul themes do not be-
come fair ones because Shakespeare or
any other writer has chosen to portray
them. There is nothing sacrosanct in
literature, and Furthermore some work
eNlsts IN 1t vi which the worlo could
-cvantageously dispense. I do knvw
.-t the basic principles of my criti-
c.sn-such as it is-appl led to all writ
ers, have been, are and ever will be
tha. selection is the elemental prin-
clip of art; that beauty should be
shown, rather than deformity: that
contrast is essential to effect, and
hat. therefore, enough of evil must
Ac shown, or a. least indicated to en-
phasize and define good; that, within
oas,nable' limitations, it is not so
much What you show as the light in
which you show it-not go much what
You 40 as the manner in which you do
(which governs effect; and that it
is effect even more than motive which
should govern the estimate of influence
and achievement in the ministra,ion O:
art, and especially OF dramatic art
because things seen are mightier than
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

In reading over your column in the
issue OF October 20 | came across
the article of Mr.. Joseph b. Coden and
his experience in the library IN re
gard to The Moon and Sixpence' ard
would say if the libraries Will not
carry that book because it is immoral
why do they carry Blasco Ibaaez's
Mare Aostrum,' which / nave read and
found most sordid'?
"Granting that lbanez's descriptions
OF the sea are most beautiful, without
doubt, to my mind, it is q book that
The library sAouId bar.
What say you? F. S. BERGER"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
Economy for a Library

Mr.. E. S. Pearson, defending the
Libraries in regard to The Moon and
Slxpence,' says: When complaints are
investigated the Libraries are often
found TO be somewhere between Tren-
ton and New Haven The library l
referred to is the Epiphany Branch,
228 East Twentythird Street And
since Mr.. Pearson speaks of economy
IN the Libraries, may inform him
that this library is also of the saving
KIND. 10 quote one of the Librarians:
Miss X (the head) will not buy Thayels
Lie OF roosevelt" because II costs S5,
out she does buy Chambers. And when
asked her if she did not think it was
wrong to keep out such work as Thay-
er's to make room Tor Chambers. she
replied: Wen, these BOOKS ne p cir
culatlon."' JOSEPH d. CODAN."
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
The Grail of Life

THE GRAIL OF ITFE By John Haynes
Holmes and Lillian Rrowne-Olr. Dodd
Mead & Co, New York
Dr Holmes and Ms Brown Ols
have collected large number of quo
tations from the literature of al ages
bearing upon the subjects OF heroic
,'earh ard immortality DR. Holmes in
he preface explain that he ant ology
vas conceived with the idea OF bring
ng com ort to the millions who have
ost dear ones in the war The com
pliers are to be congratulated FOR the
noble spiritual quality and high lit
Hrsry merit Of their selections.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
In Defense of Selection

There was nothing, it seemed to M.
in Miss Lcwis's letter in your Noven-
ber issue which merited her being
called dear, proper Miss LOWS by
one to whom such epithets indicate
opprobrium, as she is in your Novem-
Der 8 issue. suppose now | am in
imminent dargor Of being addressed
by G. S. H. as dear, proper adelaide.
in self-detense let me hasten 20 say
that, as a student OF thel classics, /
have read vast amount Of literature
which was obviously TO. destined VII
einibus puerisque. l have not hesi-
tated to read it; ! have not regretted
reading it; have thoroughly enjoyed
5ome (not alb Of it, And yet should
mot want literal English translation
of much Of it placed within easy reach
of many of those who frequent our
public libraries. In the reference de-
partmont whittier, for the most part,
eonly serious students penetrate, yes, Of
course; buo not on the open shelves Of
the circulation branches.
CAS- for Shakespeare and the 3 hle.
c. S. H. they are perfectly salo, foe
they are fundamentally what " CAll
moral; what We call immortality is IN
them only incidental; ard q child "a
read them and rovel IT. them, without
perceiving these incidc7.s 1t all. |
know: for as child repeatedly did
so. But. from what hear of The
Moon and SiXpence' Il. too, have not
yet read it) its lapscs from accepted
tandards OF virtue-the standards
which am old-fashioned enough to
believe should not be presented to ou~
youth as the only possible ones-are
obvious and essential t. the plot; no
boy or girl could possibly read without
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

DIR. JONATHAN. a Play in Three Acts
by Winston Churchill. Published By the
Macmillan Company
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
Were You Ever a Child?
An Insurgents Consideration of
Modern Methods of Education

WE'RE yov EVER A CHILD, Nv r,oxs
Deli Alfred a. Knopf. New York.
Were you ever child?"
That is an astonishing question. and
The book with which Floyd Dell drives
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-13
Rail Bill Not to Be
Acted Upon Till 1920

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.--There
was no indication last night how soon
the Senate debate on the railroad bill
might end, but leaders agreed that
enactment Of legislation by the first
of the year was out of the question.
Senator LaFollette, republican, of
Wisconsin, who has talked almost
continuously since Tuesday, still held
the floor when the Senate recessed
until today, Senator McKellar, demo
crat, of Tennessee, dividing speak
ing time with the Wisconsin senator.
No word reached Senate leaders
from the white house to show whether
the President had changed his mind on
the question of turning back the roads
on January 1. In the course of his
attack 0 nthe bill Senator Mcclellan
suggested it might be the best plan
after all, to end government control,
without enacting special legislation
and let the roads work out their own
salvation.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-13
New Political I arty
May Be Organized

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. ia new
political party probably will be or
ganized before July /, it was said at
the national conference of Liberals
last night,
A convention will be held before
midsummer at which it is proposed
to nominate candidates for the pres
idency and vice-presidency, ]. A. II,
Hopkins, of Morristown, N. j., chair
can Of the committee Of as, which il
conducting the conference. an.
nounced.
The report of the committee on po-
litical procedure, which recommended
such a convention was adopted. The
report suggested that the committee
OF AZ be made permanent organiza,
tion and that all progressive ane
constructive Liberal organization
be represented at the convention.
After hours of heated debate res
olution was adopted opposing com
pulsory military training and service
unless in time Of invasion.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-13
People Are Urged to
Buy Red Cross Seals

With the coming Of the holidays the
people are preparing TO do just two
tllings--enjoy themselves and insure
others a good time end to settle up
business deals and take stock and
see just where they stand Tor the
year that is coming to a close. This
is the policy for the young IN the frs'
instence and the settled people IN the
second. There are ot:Iers, however
who may have to take stock, but their
work is never done. One of these Is
the organization which Is now con.
ducting--and will to the end Of the
year--the sale Of the read seals with
which to decorate gifts Of the holiday
season. They arc bri~ht colored TO-
kens Of good will and good cheer. The
proceeds from this sale are used fol
relieving sufferers from tuberculosis
and every man and woman IN III
state is asked to make small eontvi
bution--buying the seals--for th'
work Of the Red Gross society.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-13

. ATLANTA, Dec 13.-By United Press) The drastic fue
conservation orders suspended the South by the Region
al Fuel Committee last night All train service will be restored
to normal BY Sunday night
The heavy making meg hydroelecrc The
return Of almost hundred per of the miners of the unor
to work made this possible.
Federal railroad managers asked to observe the priority
list in delivering coal consgnments to They must
serve the first first and the sixth and seventh pos
sbe Domestic allowed to purchase only one
ton today at time.
The committee that the suspension Of the heat and light
regulations doesn't guarantee plentiful fuel supply and that
consumers must until the production Of normal
serve stock Is aga nbuilt up.