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Great Salt Lake
SaItiest Since 1905
lny InIt.d Pre.sI

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. Nov. %.
Great Salt Lake Is saltier now than
at any time since 1919. but a good
rain viii freshen it again, according to
]. Cecil Alter, government meteorolo-
gist.
The leYcl OF the lake IS now lower
than it has been SINCE January Is,
1909 said Alter today. The abso-
lutte amount of salt in the lake prob
ably does not vary appreciably, and
has not varied since II was first seen
By white men but since the amount
Of water varies with evaporation and
precipitation. the relative salinity in
creases as the level falls
alter said the low stage OF the lake
usually occurs in January whtn the
feeder streams are frozen at their
source, and that the high stage usu-
ally occurs late in Jnne shortly after
the season Of heaviest precipitation.
and after the period Of rapidly melting
snow.
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Graduate of
Academy Marries
a Denver Man

SALIDA. Nov. 22.-The most eiab-
crate wedding of the season was wit
messed Wednesday morning. Novem-
ber 10, when Miss Ruth Mildred Dem
ply and Frank NJ. -o'Neil were united
in marriage by Rev. Father White
who officiated, and was assisted by
Rev Father r. NJ. Hennessey, O. NJ.
chaplain of NJ S. S. c. Academy OF
Canon City
The church was beautifully decor
ated with pink and white NUNS. yell
low roses and ferns. The wedding
march was played by Mrs DR. Bender
accompanied by Prof. Feichtinger on
the violin.
Attending the bride and groom were
Frank Szynskie. acting as best man.
and Miss Rose Newman as brides
maid, and Miss Helen O'Neil. sister Of
the groom. as maid of honor
Miss Newman was beautiful in
creation of yellow georgette de crepe
and crepe mediere, the foundation
skirt OF crepe de mediere draped with
georgette, caught at either side with
rltclIlt blut ioftfh hHDtH. htI HdL
was a bonnet shape faced in yellow
crepe. topped with yellow and brown
plumes. Miss Newman carried a bou-
quet OF yellow NUNS.
Miss O'Nens costume was of white
georgette and satin. falling in long
graceful lines fashioned with runles
edged in satin Her hat was Of white
milene. trimmed in liz ira feathers.
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WILSON TAKES
ACTION AGAINST
A sugar famine
Palmer Given Food Control
Will Use Power to Cut
II. C. of L. Also.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22-Presi-
dent Wilson yesterday placed the gov
ernment again in control of the ma
TONS food supply by transferring the
authority of food administrator to At
torney General Palmer. Revival of
the wartime functions of Administra-
TO Hoover resulted directly from gov
ernment efforts to avert famine in
sugar, but the powers delegated to
the head of the Department of Justice
will be used also to help put down
the ever-mounting cost of living.
For the present the attorney gen.
eral will not put into operation all of
the machinery permitted under the
executive order signed by the Presi-
dent, but should conditions arise to
make it necessary, the full pressure
OF all the broad power vested in him
will be eXerted to meet them.
Mr. Palmer's staff will begin imme-
ton system which will allocate all
sugar stocks in the country. II will
provide an equitable system of distri-
buting supplies and will defeat any
concentration of boarding, officials
said.
Plans, tentatively decided upon. pro-
vide for increasing the price of all
sugar. excepting the Louisiana crop,
for which price of II cents already
has been fixed to IL cents pound,
wholesale.
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AvONDALE farm,
titled BY The
C0NvICTS, WILL
BE SOLD SOON
Land Board Decides School
Land Too Valuable for
Leasing Purposes.
tny United I,rsss.l

DENVER, NOV. 22.-The state land
board today decided TO sell the Avon
dale state prison farm near Pueblo
before March /. 1920. The 600-acre
tract win be divided into 40-acre tracts
and sold at public auction.
The board said that ii did not take
seriously the charge that the prison
farm was a menace TO the commu-
nifty, but it did think that this school
land was TOO valuable 20 be leased 10
the Board OF Corrections at 70 cents
an acre.
1t wiz be up to the next Legislature
10 decide whether or not a new prison
farm will be purchased
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failins over the rim. She carried
bouquet OF pink and white sweet peas
The bridal couple. Mr.. and Mrs. +.
O'NeiI. after an extended trip TO
Denver. Chicago. Buffalo, Niagara
Falls and Toronto. will reside at Cas-
per, Wyo., where they will be at home
to their friends after January l.
Mrs. f. O'Neil is the beautiful
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. DEM
ply. and a popular young girl OF Sa-
Ida. She is graduate OF NJ. 5 =
y. Of Canon City.
f. O'Neii Is the only son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. II. o'Nen OF Denver, and is
connected with the Western Weighing
and Inspection Bureau.
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id is in q mad stampede for golc
! is the one who is left behind.
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Let the Producer Produce

Greater production is a crying need of the day. and
because of the devastation in Europe The bulk of this bur
den falls upon America.
We must increase production.
We must feed The world and we must eat at the same
lime Wemust furnish the implements of cultivation and
manufacture, and must have them for use.
Greater production alone do this.
Future disagreements between capital and labor
should be settled ou of courtin other Words without
recourse to The paralyzing results of strike.
Surely the government and congress can devise some
tribunal which will have the authority 10 settle all dis
pueS and enforce its decisions both sides alike doing
equal justice 10 all and injustice to none.
Nero iiddled while Rome burned.
Let Waslignon iiddling or history NAV repeat
itself.
All men are great, in way another, but princi-
pally is the other
To be sure William silence is golden even in these
days of sirenuosy-when the bill collector is on your
trail.
Coal is king, and diamonds pearls and rubies are but
midsets rejecting in the glory of the mighty.
When corporations become human and strikes are
no more the rest Of US orsoot will also be more
Our wife has forced The bitter truth home 10 us al
last The mice IN The pantry are striking for better
grade OF cheese.
Now let The government enact stringent laws com
pen9 both sides 10 submit their grievances to arbY
ton and put an end 10 lis eXasperatns cutaIment Of
production.
man cusses when he feels ike it, A woman laughs
when she doesn't
The agtator should take warning. The American
foot IS slow 10 move, but hits with terrific jolt
Yes labor and capital will one~day join hands-wI1en
The government CLUES them together
The government has The alien parasite on The run
Give him swift one as he rushes by.
The world is in mad stampede for gold and the
maddes OF all IS The one who is left behind.
These are he DAYS, however, when beauty in spots
IS but powder deep
The wise ells few things The fool tells it ALL
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NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-An eruption
Il rufiles has become almost uni
epidemic IN The fashionable
world. They are breaking out on all
sides feminine sides of course-and
hanntlng their ilamtoysni nuniness
With fetching fascination.
Hufios ars uscd most effectively as
= ffst MD 70 bips-soit Of reinforce.
menis IN the'side lines They run
~ and down. IN diafonni cascades and
frrcFnih.r ~ clusters end uers. They
rFesent o diversity o. sdFos pinked.
fav'led, scolloped. psrcd. blanket.
stitched ~ wool, silk or metallic
iiIieadn. and even finished with an or.
dinsry selssge.
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Wife Found Guilty
of Helping Hide
Husbands Body

DURANGO. COLO Sov. 2e-Mrs
Lucia Baliegos. Mexican. last night
was found guilty OF second degree
murder on the charge OF completely
in the killing OF her husband At La
posta last August
Francisco RaIlesos. her sweetheart.
accused Of the actual killing. is now
being tried. The defense showed the
woman mentally unbalanced. but
failed. The jury was out only enc
hour
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The wise man tells few things The fool tells ii al
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Who Was This Man?

Once there WIS n Man who lived.
With all the BLESSINGS God could give.
He never had childish soy.
With bat and bail or other toy
In fact he never was boy.
lie nr.or in u cradle iaii
because bs never was ishs.
T Joe u,
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81 MAReARET RoHE.
(Written for the United Press !

IWFIitn for inc UnIted Press.)
Belinda IS very much ruffled these
days.
Up one size. down tother and devious
ways.
and not just her garments are ruffled
It's true:
Beiinda's sweet temper Is oft rufled
too.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Grim Play by Dresser
treats Of Case of
Abnormal Psychology

The younger dramatists' protest that
more of life is legitimately the stuff
of drama than was ever admitted by
the older dramatists is a fine and
courageous insurgency. By searching
IN obscure places for what is rich and
strange and moving in human conduct
they have magniiicently extended the
frontiers of drama. Nevertheless in
The Hand of the Potter" Theodore
Dresser has gone adventurng down a
strange path.
1t has led him to the laboratory Of
the pathologist and to dramatizing a
clinical report Of abnormal psychology.
He has built the play around Great
ure degenerate and mad-the deformed
son of harddriven people who have
brought ten children into the world
and given only three a reasonable
chance for life.
1t is not because this is what un-
imaginative people are fond of calling
morbid, unpleasant material that the
play seems to us to fail, although the
sight of a human being helpless in his
disintegratlon is really too monstrous
and terrible a thing to stir the
imagination. 1t is because there is
nothing here of universal experience
in which it may strike root. The we'll
springs of conduct are here, after all,
distorted mental processes to which
only a handful of psychatrists may
have the key. If there is any validity
in the old dramatic law that drama is
mans conflict with his destiny, it would
seem to require as its first condition
that the struggle should be on some
sort of representative terms A mad
man in the grip of his madness repre-
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
The Sober World
German Plots Seen in
Mugs Of us Beer

THE SOBER WORLD. BY Randolph Well
Boston.
Americans who were in the habit OF
peacefully sipping an occasional glass
OF beer in pre~2.75 days probably never
imagined that they were thereby i'm
p5cating themselves in the Kaiser's
schemes for world domination and in
a. the nefarioUs plots OF Pan-German-
ism But this is ONLY one Of the least
startling revelations contained in Mr..
Smiths remarkable book. Every defect
IN American social and individual life
from the days of George Washington
down 10 the present time is ascribed
TO the malign influence of the Demon
Rum.
Mr.. Smith establishes a close and
unmistakable connection between beer
and modern Germany; and then pro-
ceeds 20 overwhelm both in a torrent
of moral and patriotic vituperation
that might we'll excite the admiration
Of Billy Sunday himself. With the i'm
pressive majesty Of Cicero cencuncing
Catiline the author thunders against
the weak and unworthy legislators ae
Washington who allowed their sense
Of virtue and patriotism to be stiaed
amid the fumes OF German beer. With
perfect gravity Mr.. Smith insists that
Americas unpreparedness for war was
entirely due TO the influence Of the
German brewing interests. This seems
bit hard on the noted prohibitionist
and paci6st. Mr. William Jennings
Bryan; but the best conceived theories
will develop their minor inconsist-
encies
With the zeal OF a Sherlock Holmes
Mr.. Smith seizes upon the highly sig
nificant fact that Samuel Uatermeyer,
who represented the brewers interests
at Washington. was also the attorney
FOR the Rand School when that institu-
tion was assailed by the Lusk COM
mIttee. lawyer with = Teutontc
name, the sinister brewing interests.
BolsheVih institution. here are indeed
all the elements Of a plot against the
safety of the Republic. ana tne author
makes the most Of them.
1t would be altogether unfair TO con-
clude review OF this absolutely
unique book without giving Mr. Smith
chance to speak for him self and re-
veal the full measure OF his excraurdi-
nary logical faculties. Here is a pc
culiarly delicious BIT. inspired By the
continued sale of 2-75 beer:
Instead OF six glasses Of beer It
Will be necessary 10 drink sometimes
six times SIX. Instead of an hour in
which 70 acquire the usual Jag the poor
culprit viii have to spend SIX IN other
words like the German, ne Will have
to do one of TWO things-help to build
up machine 10 fight with because
the drunkard always wants 10 fght) or
create a type Of manhood that is Ut
terly devoid Of responsibility and
decency'
Before such crushing Indictment
this the most hardened advocate of
alcoholism might we'll throw up his
hands in despair.
Whether considered IS a pathological
exhibit OF the extreme prohibitionist
mind or as a very uproarlous piece of
conscious burIesque, Mr. Smith
book is unquestionably a great SUCCESS
and deserves a wide audience.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

to them, but not apoloeeticallv shs
accepted the fact that thev s wsrs shorn ome
inable without holding it against
them or letting it clog up the strono
streams of affection which it was he1
impulse to let flow. If in her emo
'lonal reactions she resembled so MANY
| otner women, in her behavior she had
'hat dlfference: that she lived life
quite simply, as it came, without try-
ing to force it into external consistency
ono Is curiously positive about Mary
after reading her book That is the
supreme virtue Of its author. So vital
~; so truthfully has the story been
toid that 1t is impossible to doubt it
frooaoly no actual intimacy ever left
one partner to it so certain of the soul
OF the other as any reader will be of
Mary's. -
AND that brings us to the second
great virtue of Mary Olivier"+the
manner in which its substance is set
forth 'N'
Miss Sinclair tells her story as the
moon throws light on water, so that
the separate dancing glints become one
broad path at little distance. But
one never loses the sense that she is
deliberately Pickering. Perhaps much
OF the sumptuousness the book has
OF it isn't written. 1t is, in form
succession of paragraphs, grouped
under major headings such as "In-
fancy" "Childhood," adolescence" and
so forth.
Each paragraph is tipped on the end
with light. Each leaves it's content ex-
posed on its point, and breaks into the
next. 1t is only after many pages that
these !magistic little fragments be-
n bOr vi
Another fashion Of story telling she
has, not quite, perhaps, so technical
She characterizes each person in her
story through one or two or three
OF the other persons, never directly,
Each IS bounded on the north by what
Mary saw, on the east by what her
brother saw, on the south by Aunt
Charlotte, and so on. Somewhere in
side these is that person, and Miss Sin
cIalr leaves you to find her. Through
the eyes of Mary at two, her father
appears intolerably vile-not to Mary
but to US.
Mary begins to tell her own story
even at two. One cannot but gasp at
Miss Sinclair's intrepidity. Although
no living human has a right to say
positively what goes on in any child s
mind, there is no living human but has
dumb sense of what could and what
couldn't. 1t was Miss Sincair's task
not to challenge that sense. More than
that. she had a tale to start, a whole
family to introduce, and no merely
negative course would do. 1t seems to
US that, barring a few flaws, that re-
creation of a child's mind was su-
perbly done.
Mary Olivier" has many persons in
it, all as drivingly real as Mary, all
done in prismatic highlights refracting
through Mary. 1t is life and many
lives, all full of signifcanc 1t is apt
IN fact, to leave you with the idea that
you have never read a really good book
before. RUTH HALE.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
MARY Olivier-A Life -
May Sincl airs New Novel Carries
Amazement and Conviction as Well

One must resist with scruple the
temptation to call MARY Olivier" an
amazing story of an amazing woman.
and to throw upon her strangeness the
burden of shocked feeling with which
one hears her story. 1t is lazy and
dishonorable to nitrate over the SIM
pie truth merely because it took Miss
Sinclair's eyes to help us see it.
Saul Of Tarsus must have surren-
dered grudgingly. He had been so
much more comfortable the way he
was. Miss Sinclair may find all too
many OF us resistant to her glancng
light, content to try to down her by
pretending she has nothing but Jack
better And she Will know that once
we have qnelled our palpitations in the
face of truth we will suddenly see t
for what it is and know that we had
known it all along.
So, without fear Of having contirma-
ton come too late, we set it down that
"Marv Olivier" is the truth, as vet un-
acknowledged and probably unguessed.
about, say, seven out of ten women in
the world With less hope of confirma-
ton, but with just as stout conviction,
We set it down that, with the change
Of half dozen sentences, Mary" could
be made 20 read John and it would
be lust as true of seven out Of every
ten men. 1t is a book about the heart
deep places. about the mainsprings Of
the mind, the spirits problems and its
consultations. Sex differences may cat
erwaul at the gateways, but they do
not get inside.
Mary OEvier's book begins when she
is two years old and ends when she il
forty-seven. Although, within that
time. she IS played on by many per-
sonalities and by many circumstances
she remains at the end essentially what
she was at the beginning-an eager
mystic feeling out her way to stable
equilibrium.
Miss Sinclair would seem to say that
character is Of piece, neScapable, and
By the same token, invulnerable. No
mortal happening subdued Mary's ca
pacity fo- little sudden rushes of hap
piness, even after she had grown up to
the point of wanting TO put mystic
names on them. No bereave ment less
ened her strong sense of living still
with the spirit Of her loved ones
around her She had from the be-
ginning her secures of conscience,
nIt no SIN redI!N got INTO ner and
stayed with her. 1t was as if, without
knowing why, she would not waste her
tine OF sins. And, most astounding of
all, in the complete forty-five years
Of her story she seemed never aware
OF herself She did not appear to
think her lot pitiful, nor unrightfully
pnched. She did not think herself
patient, or stout hearted, or coura-
geous. Il was plain enough that she
was all these things. but she did not
inspect then-she had other gear to
tend.
She knew that there were times
when she hated her father, and other,
trag,cally longer times. when She hated
her mother. She tried 10 make it up
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
NEW APPLETON BOOKS
BY Edith Wharfon
French Ways and Their Meaning

Mrs wFarton's book brilliant
and intellectual honesty She shows how
ties IN the lives and thoughts
child and how universal they their applicability
nds The
hghtfll
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

Wesley Thompson was a tenderfoot
missionary who ventured into the Cana
dian hinterland, Of which Mr. Sinclair
most frequently writes, and there hard
ened his feet and broadeneo his out
look on life
Sophie Carr was the daughter of a
disillusioned man who sought surcease
from the obligations of civilization in
this same hinterland. A psycho-ana-
lytical mind enabled Sophie to repuse
the wooing of the missionary. While
she kissed him willingly by Freudian
probing of her love she determined d
they never should marry.
A legacy fell to her and her father
and they returned to civilization, while
Wesley developed from half-baked
minister of the gospel into a trapper,
lumberjack, salmon Gamer day labor
er and finally an automobile salesman.
The scene Of the story rambles across
the continent from Hudson to Van
couver Bay, where Wesley, returning
from the war in which he has won
fame as an aviator, overcomes Sophie s
reluctance and marries her.
Mr.. Sinclair departs from the CLAM
ourous road OF the rpmancer at one
point at least He says he doesn't know
whether they lived happily ever after
or not. F. F. v.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

sents no conflict Indeed, whatever the
catastrophe still to come, the strugcle
mas already been fought out, the leaden
weight of doom hung around the pro-
tagonlst's neck before he has so much
as lifted finger
Dresser has done some things in this
play with extraordinary and soaring
vlvldness, though with no sustained
skill. The first act, showing the Ber-
chansky hold-the beaten parents.
the hard knowing sister, the mad bow
just returned from prison for assault
on little girl, the callousness or help
lessness of all to the mounting tragedy,
carrles with 1t undenlaDly the convic-
ton OF pure horror and truth. The
following scenes beat weakly on dulled
nerves-the scenes of court inquiry
and testimony, the scenes of discussion
and even the final catastrophe, are as
heavy as routine pieces of reporting
One foresees that there will be ram
pant ones complacent over the failure
OF the public to appreciate so courage
Gus piece of work-regarding the
GOODNESS to it as another manifestation
OF Phillstlnlsm. But what courageous-
ness this play represents is of purely
literal sort-the deductions it affords
are singularly obscure. BY the bitter,
satlric line which prefaces it, "What
did the hand, then, of the Potter
shake ?" there is manifest the impulse
here of the agnostic. the gesture Of
pity and terror over the incomprehen-
slble. 1t is this intention, only in
completely evident in the play itself,
that marks it fro mthose more rudi-
mentary forms of the theatre. So far
from blazing out a new trail of dra-
matte expression, Dresser has reverted
to the showmanship of the Grand
Guignol, the medical museum and the
freak show r D.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
About a Column
Guilty, as CHARGED

Haywood Broun has to read stacks
Of books. Some he digests, others he
tastes. But that old book called Syno-
nyms ought to be in his old Office dust
er, ready for duty any old second Of
the time that II. B. spends at the type
writer. Under "aggravate" he Will
never find "exasperate." Frankly. it
always exasperates me to see a trained
writer aggravate the common fault
A. F. A
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Boom Town Life

THE LADY OF THE CROSSING. BY
Frederick Niven. Published by George
H. Doran.
kootenay was boom town, in the
first throes Of becoming a city, when
Sam Haig went there to seek his for
tune The Grand Western Hotel fur
nshed bed, board and one free drink a
day, all for the modest sum of 50, vet
lay for Sam, leaving him only ST in his
pocket. Tmpkins's cut-rate boarding
house followed, and a job as a freight
hand tided him over his first month,
when again he found himself plus ST.
Later on, having Dashed a mans face
IN, he served seven days in the chain
gang. Apparently this broke the power
of the magic number and fortune be-
gan to smile upon him. Mildred Hen
derson, tall, dark and classically beau
tlful, did likewise for a while, but Mil
drcd was storm centre, the light at
which all the male moths singed their
wings, and caprcious, as is the habit
of the much desired. A suggestion that
grit was mans most admirable quality
sent Sam on a perilous trip to the top
Of the Lanyon Mine, via the Bucket
Tram.
"He looked down on the tops of
trees that stood precariously on the
almost perpendicular sides of a hideous
cleft of the mountains. He was being
carried over them. Vertigo, or some
thing akin to vertigo, seized him-and
then came cramp, the tendons in his
thighs knotting up SO that he grit his
teeth, made faces to himself up in the
air.
There is plenty of good description
both of places and the queer people to
be found in Western mining town.
The style is easy and pleasant and the
ending entirely unexpected. Z. B. B.