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New-York tribune., 1919-08-16

STATE or THE 1NbUsTRfAL ARTs'
b w Huebsoh, New Uss'I York iuO''S"0a y
In a long and ponderous volume en-
titled "The Higher Learning in Amer
ica" Professor Veblcn attempted 20
demonstrate that American business
men are altogether unfit to control
American universities. In his present
book, smaller in bulk, but equally
ponderous in style, he essays to prove
that they are equally, unfit to direct
American industry. The author feels
that there is a wide gulf between the
actual conditions prevailing in modern
industry and the eighteenth century
theories of political economy which de-
termine our legislation and our habits
Of thought. Adam Smith and his school
did not forcsee the tremendous indus
trial revolution that came as the result
of the Introduction of modern machin-
cry, the evolution of corporate owner
ship, the development of great and
powerful combinations of capital.
Professor Neblen contends that mod
ern industrial enterprises are directed
with view to profits, not to service
Contradicting the familiar theory that
uncontrolled private initiative provides
the best service in the long run, the
author insists that production is con-
sistently and deliberately limited in
order to create artifcially high prices.
Limited production, in turn, entails un-
employment and forces down wages.
Professor Veblen terse]y defines vest
ed interest as "a Legitimate right to get
something for nothing" These inter
ests, expressed in the form of protect
i've tariffs, monopoly control of mar
kets, watered stocks, etc, support a
minority Of the population in idleness
at the expense of the hard working
and exploited majority.
Veblen does not employ the fiery and
unrestrained phraseology that is usu-
ally employed by exponents of radical
views. On the contrary, his writing is
characterized throughout by conscious
restraint, academic precision and deli
cate irony. Upon close analysis, how
ever, his views constitute thorough
going and scathing Indictment of the
modern social organism. 1t seems pity
that such a vigorous and original piece
Of economic thinking should be some
what obscured by the authors heavy
and cumbersome style. Veblen's oc-
casional shrewd definitions and pun
gent epigrams are overbalanced by his
habitual use Of long, unwieldy SEN
tences, whose awkward construction
suggests German prose at its worst.
w. II. G.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16

with more eternal things, such as "Old
Age" and "Going to See the Doctor"
and again Finley Peter Dunno has
worked 80 extremely we'll with subjects
which are no longer of the moment
that he can still gain hilarity.
Golf, for instance, has been rather
extensively cultivated by the humor-
lists. and yet Dunno is able to go over
the ground and find new material. Also
there is fun in his discourse on such a
familiar subject of satire as auction
bridge, in which he remarks, "No one
is surprised to see a lady feedin' tn
baby with wan hand an revokin' with
the other"
The gaze proves a puzzle to Dooley
when he sits behind Hogan and OBJ
serves his bidding
i make it two clubs says Hogan,
Why, ye mamalook, says I in a whis-
per, we haven't got a club in yeer
hand Hush up says he. That's to
tell me pardner I'm short iv dimons,
he says. Thin why don't ye kick him
undher tn table and pint to ye'er shirt
front?' says l. That wud be cheatin,
says he. AN what's this?' says
'Tis givin' information,' says he. Its
what makes tn game tn most scien-
tific in tn wurrld,' he says"
There is also excellent fooling in the
burlesque on the "inside baseball
craze which filled our magazines and
newspapers a few years ago and IN
general an abundance of evidence that
Dunno can write satire about things of
the moment we'll enough to make his
essays carry on.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
"Air Men O War"

I have just received copy of your
review of my book "Air Men O. War, ,
and your reviewers criticism is so
kindly and favorable that I'd hate to
have him left with the belief that l
hadn't played fair and given the Hun
his dues as a fighter. | did not refrain
from telling tale of British .liers out
numbering the German because 1t
would have shown the Hun III favor
ing light, but simply because | never
heard of such a fight. In the last year
or two of the war the Hun fiiers an
parently made it deliberate policy not
to fight unless they had the odds well
in their favor, and ] am sure there are
many American airmen, especially at
least among those who were attached
to and fought in British squadrons, who
will support me in this statement. The
German policy was certainly wise
one for them, because it was proved
to the hilt over and over again that
British and American air fighters could
beat the Hun nine times out Of ten,
with the heavy odds against our men.
BOYD CABLE.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
A New War
Frost Sees Future Menaces
BY Commercial GERMANY

AMERICA. BY Stanley Froat 'AnNIi =, y
Dutton g. Co.. New York L. =
The danger that German commercial,
organization may achieve the cononest
OF the world even after the defeat of
the German armies is vividly set forth
IN Mr.. Frost's book. The author no;nts
out that Germany's industrial fabric
was not touched by the ravapes of
war whereas France, Belgium and
Poland are economically crippled for
years to come. He quotes at length
from the work Of German industrial
expert, named Herzog, to prove that
Germany is planning a gigantic cam
paign to capture and control the trade
and industry Of the world for her own
selfish profit.
Mr.. Frost outlines various unscrupu-
lous devices by which the Germans
have gained commercial success in the
past, and which they may be expected
to employ in the future. Perhaps their
most formidable weapon is the prac-
tice familiarly known as "dumping." A
large quantity of German goods is ex-
ported to some foreign country and
sod at prices which exclude ali com
petition. This practice, Of course, has
been facilitated by the autocratic con-
troll which the German government has
always &crciscd over German indus
try. This control, in Mr.. Frost's opin-
ion, will be strengthened, rather than
weakened, under the present Teutonic
regime of state socialism. Taking
much OF his material from the records
OF the alien property custodians. A.
Mitchell Palmer and his successor
Francis P. Garvan, the author de-
scrlbcs the economic penetration of
America by German capital in the
years before the war. In the produc-
tion of metals and dyes, in shipping
and insurance companies, German in
huence was potent and sinister. A
great deal of enemy owned property
has been sold, but much remains un-
detected, and Mr.. Frost is convinced
that the infiltration of German capital
Will begin again, now that trading re.
strlctions have been removed.
Mr.. Frost points out the grave dan
ger of allowing the Germans to regain
control of the American dye and pot
ash market. He anticipates that large
quantities of these substances will be
shipped into this country and sold at
rulnously low prices in the near future
in order to destroy the American indus
tries which developed during the war
AS matter of patriotism and sound
business instinct alike he urges con
sumers of dyes and potash not to be
attracted by the deceptively low prices
of the German products, and thereby
give Germany a monopoly of the mar
ket again. Incessant personal watch
fulness is the authors remedy for
future Teutonic commercial intrigue
W. II. G.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
And Again Fifty

1t was indeed surprise to me to
see that some one person had suffi-
clent enterprise and sufficient con-
fldence to propose list Of the fifty
best books. Ever since the publica-
ton of the appeal in your column,
have waited anxiously for some one
to come forth with a list containing.
in their estimation, the fifty best
books of literature. Miss Hale's list
is a proof of her erudition, but fails
to make the best of her judicial
powers
Of course, the value and appeal of
books are entirely dependent upon the
person-"Jack Spratt ate no fat ="
but in all tastes there is some com
mon ground 1t would be useless 10
deny that the books contained in the
list compiled by Miss Hale we're good
books, but are they the best books ?
shall not attempt to answer that
question for ~fear that I, too. ight
bare myself to justified criticism.
In compilation such as this
would be willing to omit such masters
SIS Scott, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Turge-
nief, Lamb, Hugo, Balzac, Cooper
Eliot, Calderon, and quantity more
of masters of like quality. Such a
list is bound by the arbitrary number
set by the one who desires it as a
could exclude such delightful stories
as "She Stoops to Conquer" The Es-
says of Ella" The Cherry Orchard" ="
"Ivanhoe," "Ninety-three," "The Wild
Ass's Skin" and host Of others fairly
overlooking with genuineness and true
merit?
But from so small list l cannot
see excluded "Nanity Fair" Thackeray,
The Pickwick Papers," Dickens; Don
QuiXote," Cervantes; THE Wild Duck
lbsen; Iris" Pinero, or any Of the now
popular Leonard Merrick. l candidly
admit that Thackeray, Dickens and
their loss OF popular repute affect the
supreme qualities of their literary
productions? Leonard Merrick's popu
larity has grown almost overnight; a
few years ago he was known to only
few of the initiated, and welcomed
by them as true representative Of
literary talent. The very testimonials
given him by his colleagues should
warrant him leading place IN list
Of the best. Whore can one find moro
delicate humor, applied with so light
Gnu 81 NSAE & SNNSA.5 ~| 80 " 4A4A~
Paris Laughcd'?
1t is almost discouraging to see any
one propose such list with the above
omissions, but to take specific notice
of some of the suggestions:
Why give Jean and Peter" when
'Tono- Bungay' is available?
Has not The Way Of All Flesh" SUI
perior merits when taken side by side
with Life and Habit?
For a list so limited, G. B. SIS Man
and Superman' is infinitely better than
Cesar and Clepara."
And "Penrod and sam would you
want our own Booth Harrington to be
known by the qu -lities contained in
that or rather by the skill shown in
writing The Gentleman From Indi-
ana" or "The Magnificent Ambersons' =?
Are the works Of. Snaith, Huneker,
O'Higgins and Hudson to be compared
with those of Washington Irving, En-
orson, "the Hoosier Poet Scribe,
Flaubert, de Maupassant, Kipling,
Dunsany. Pater--oh and tens of others
who could easily be named? Is true
literary merit to be set aside for cur
rent interest and fauciful appeal?
Is there no one in the audience who
win try to do better-or why not try
again, Miss Hale?
PAUL B. FRANKLIN.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Harrington New Novel
Ramsey Milholland" Has Much of
His Magic Wisdom About Adolescence

that Dora Yocum, listening to The
Star-Spangled Banner sung by chill
dren of immigrants to an out-of-tune
old piano in mission ciubroom, in
Chicago, found herself crying with a
soulshaking heartiness in way diff
ferent from other ways that she had
cried"
There is, in addition to this, only the
brlefest sketch of the manner in which
she arrived at her new point Of view.
This seems to US careless haste.
Ramsey Milholland" is too interest
ing piece Of work to be ended so
abruptly.
The most amusing portion of "Ram-
sey Milholland" concerns the schoolboy
affair of Ramsey and Milla Rust Things
came to such pass between them that
"he was afraid that the day was COM
ing when he ought to kiss her" Eventu-
ally he did, and to his horror the next
day he received the following letter:
"Dearie: am just wondering if you
thought as much about something so
sweet that happened last night as l
did you know what. l think it was
the sweetest thing. l send you one
with this note and hope you will think
it IS a sweet one. / would give you a
real one II you were here now and /
hope you would think it was sweeter
still than the one l put in this note.
1t is the sweetest thing now you are
mine and l am yours forever kiddo. If
you come around about friday eve it
will be all right. aunt Jess will be
gone back home by then so come early
and we will get Sade and Alb and go
to the band Concert. don't forget VIII at
said about my putting something
sweet in this note, and l hope you will
think 1T is a sweet one but not as sweet
as the real sweet one I would like
1t was at this point that Ramsey tore
up the letter. Nothing much came of
the affair, because soon after that Milla
went away. Ramsey received a picture
postcard from Oconomowoc, Wis, with
ooh, you Ramsey!" written on it, but
that was the last of Milla
Some of the new series Of Mr. Doo-
ley called "Mr. Dooley on Making a
Will and Other Necessary Evils"
(Scribner's) have already received
magazine publication and one comes
across a few names which no longer
carry out the original intent. Little
boys no longer idolize "Cap Chance"
nor do people speak now of "Jack
Johnson's punch" But others deal
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
In Defence of ViIlOn

| suppose it is quite futile for an un-
armed layman to seek to break a lance
with so imposingly p&noplied knight
as Rupert Hughes, but I should like
permission for one small joust, if pos
sible. In criticising, and very fairly
criticising, Mr.. Viereck apropos his
long enough to bestow on dead poet
the catholic and appreciatve remark
that he was "a yellow dog"
Now the point to my mind is not
that the poet has been dead a great
many years, nor again that he made a
somewhat sorry mess Of life, but that
the passage Of time should leave ca
pable, aif somewhat hysterical (and
therefore enormously popular). modern
writer IN 8 state OF mind where he can
print such an epithet and not imme-
diately expire from shame at his own
faulty. | do not know on what fact
able criticism of NillOn; | suppose on
Stevenson's essay, or possibly the fact
that Villon was once in jail, place re-
served in Mr.. Hughes's mind for Ger
man spies, white slavers and food
protiteers. Mr.. Hughes has his place, l
suppose, both in literature and life.
He has served his land competently
and long. He has written some fair
iction,> and also some atrocious and
vaporing twaddle. But as an estimator
of poets and men he is just what the
author Of "The Unforgivable SIM
might be expected to be. Please spare
US, your readers, any more of mis- moyen
age French psychology.
If Mr.. Hughes is not too busy turn
ing out pot-boilers, he might care TO
learn the true case nf ViI1Or fror, u =
essays of De We're Stacpoole or John
Payne, two men whose clean wind of
thought might blow the non-conformist
mists of Stevenson and other talented
prigs out of his mind.
RICHARD DESMOND
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16

Russia and Germany at Brest-
Litovsk" is a compilation by judah l..
Magnes of whatever documents. press
clippings and speeches were available
bearing on these negotiations. Censor
ship and official secrecy necessarily
make this a fragmentary history. Nev-
ertheless, incomplete as it is, it pre-
sents a large quantity Of material on
each of the many sides involved
through which the patient searcher
after relevancy in the haystack of red
tape may protitably wade. In the light
Of subsequent events, and in context
with the events that inspired it, Mr..
Wilson's speech on the Brest-Litovsk
parleys has a remarkable effect. 1t is
interesting to be reminded that he said
on that occasion: "The treatment ac-
corded Russia by her sister nations
in the months to come will be the acid
test of their good will, of their compre-
hension of her need as distinguished
from their own interests, and of their
intelligent and unselfish sympathy"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
By Haywood Broun

- there were no one in the world
- than eleven nor more than twenty
~ the supremacy of Booth Tarking-
w ' .mong novelists would be difficult
son n,;srute. In his new book Ramsey
,ws;ssniIand" = Doubleday Page) he deals
nIat n.ast entirely with people between
ams ssass aces, and he shows for the most
W., r, his characteristic skill in depict
Yhe moods and manners of adoles-
eeh.e' The same time the novel 10 not
.,arourhgoing enough by half. Mr..
rsss.tngton has left out what should
i.~s been perhaps the most difficult.
-. NJ. also the most interesting, part of
W. G novel. He tells the story of boy
"a rirl who hated each other in
..sooi and became great friends when
.s-oxn into association in college. 1t
!. =: an ambivalent romance, if you like.
nur;ne their college career the war
.or,es along and the young man and
.se Young woman take opposite sides.
Che is an ardent pacifist and he, while
mich less articulate, is just as firmly
,anyinced Of the justice of America s
cause and the necessity of taking up
.-ms As soon as war is declared the
NV enlists and he and the girl part
rith good deal of bitterness, for she
,till remains among the pacihsts. But
n short and hasty final chapter
Tarkington solves the problem he has
.et for himself by having the girl sud-
denly abandon her attitude and join
the Red Cross to do her bit.
This is not good workmanship, for
Dora Yocum is among Tarkington's
bsst creations, and with great skill and
esre he has indicated the reasons for
her belief in pacifism. He has allowed
her 10 state her case at good deal
Of length, and SO he should follow with
as much care and detail the emotional
and mental processes by which she was
won over to the support of the war.
That, after all, ought to be one of the
vital factors of the novel. 1t repre-
ssnts, we should say, conflict between
m intellectual who has arrived per-
lectly logically at q wrong position
and q much duller witted person who,
with no logic at all, has decided right
sheerly by instinct. But, since we have
been taught in the early part of the
novel to accept the girl as q person
whose convictions are we'll and care
fully reasoned, it is Tarkington's duty
to let us watch the manner in which
she reasons her way out of pacifsm.
It is not enough for him to tell US
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Rollicking Humor in Twins Novel

THE BLOOMING ANGEL. BY Wallace
Irwin. Published by George II. Doran
Company
Irwin's novel is like one-ring cir
cus-concentrated fun. "The Blooming
Angel" is a girl-not one of the darn
noble sort, but bit of fluff, bright,
impertinent and distractingly pretty.
Her assets are complexion, an ability
to re-create from an old hat piece of
millinery, and jolly affection for a
husband who is rather lacking in a
sense of humor.
How the bit of fluff marries Chester
A. Framm, from the college laundry
discourages his ambition to be an ac-
tor, and makes him the millionaire
president of the Framm Complexion
Company, Inc, make diverting story
full of bright situations and much real
humor.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Consistent Best Gnllcrs

Among the six best selling works of
fiction last month, according to reports
from ifty-tve representative bookshops
IN forty-three cities, Doubleday, Page
q Co.'S publications, "The Arrow of
Gold" by Joseph Conrad, and "Christo
pher and Columbus" stand second and
third on the list
Published early last spring, both
their appearance, consistently held
their place in the popular demand
against all varieties of newcomers.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
About a Column
We've Skipped Bigger Ones Than That

Kind Sir: 1t isn't fair for a news
paper critic to take advantage Of his
faithful public as you did when you
gave US the straight tip re "Zuleika
Dobson."
For maybe you know what "peripe-
ty," "virguncules," "deliquium," "orgu-
lous," "dulia," "disscizin," and the rest
OF the little word strangers all mean
But we're just the common people.
And it's, oh, severa! degrees too hot
to be leaping toward the dictionary
every other paragraph. You and F.
hqckett can have your Max in Angus.
II you like. But we'll stick to-oh,
we'll, fill in the aposiopesis for your
sell. TWINKLES
'Gallimaufry, chevelure, susurrus,
oreclslan, jacamar, ataraxy.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
The Vested Interests
Veblen's Book Condemns
Modern Industrial Methods

THE VESTED INTERESTS AND THE
STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
BY Thorstein Neblen. Published by
3. W. Huebsch New York
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Documents of Brest-Litovsk
Published by Magnes

RUSSIA AND GERMANY AT BREST-
LITOVSK, by Judah l.. Magnes. Pub
hshed by the Rand School Of Social
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-16

fully the individual members will
have to do his bit and go over the top
to insure victory.
The last four years have been
times OF great stress. At times it
would seem as though there was
nothing permanent that revolution
Will not sweep away and anarchy
would destroy all government.
| We though that on the eleventh of
November Democracy had almost be-
come universal, that autocracy was
dethroned and governments were
for the people and by the people,"
| We can see by the condition in Rus
STA and in other parts of Europe and
even in the United States, that an I'M
Intelligent democracy without Chris
tianity is the worst foe that civiliza-
ton ever had.
| Great moments have a way of
simplifying the thoughts and emotions
of people sitting out the essential
from the unessential and bringing in
to clearer light fundamental things
S. Earl Taylor, like John Mott, seems
to have clear vision and a large
outlook for the future of the church
in the world. There is but one insti-
d
gram the purpose of which is to bring
| about these tremendous structural
changes which can announce that
program without offense-is the
church of Lord Jesus Christ. And I'M
less we are prepared on the one hand,
to subjugate and regulate the belated
races, or on the other to permit
these races all unprepared. to sit
~ ~
we must either abandon our dream
of worldwide democracies, with it's
accompaniment of freedom of the
seas and international tribunals, or
else we must be about the task of
placing the nations Of the world up
on basis such as will make true
democracy possible. True democracy
has never developed apart from a
pure and intelligent home life, &C.
companied by the free school and the
free church.
These have never developed apart
from Christianity. If then the Bible
has been fundamental to our nation
al life, if the church and the home and
the school have been cornerstones Of
our liberty, how can material forces,
operating apart from the Christian
religion, evolve in a few months what
the centuries since time began have
failed to produce?
This is perhaps the most critical
time in the history of the church,
Enormous masses of men are
threatening to shape up social and
political program for the future with
out any consideration for the church,
and unless the church can come into
closer human touch with these armies
of radical minded men and with a
world program that will command
their sympathetic attention, the
church is lost.
On the other hand there is the OPP
portunity, an opportunity unmatched
in all the centuries, to help recon-
struct the whole world on a truly
Christian, Democratic basis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-16
GOVERNOR SIGNS NEW LAWS.

New laws are added to Wisconsin
statutes today with signing of the
governor of the following bills:
Skogmo-permitting state funds to
be invested in United States or school
district bonds.
Misunderstanding the common
council of any city first elected after
city abandons commission plan of
government to fix salaries of all city
officers in same manner as when city
is first incorporated
Hollweg- abandoning six months
publication requirements of any news
papers upon proof that publisher was
in military or naval training.
French-requiring councilmen un-
der commission rule in cities over
10000 to devote all their time to of
fetal duties except in cities under
special charter.
Coe-Increasing pay of assessors
from SO to SIS per day.
Notwithstanding county Judge
of Rock county to appoint court COM
missioner as substitute in case of ill
ness, duties not to exceed those of
justice of the peace, and fixing pay
at SIS per day.
Nolan-fxing salary of Rock county
judge at $4,000 and that of his clerk
at 5000, two-thirds to be paid by Rock
county and one-third by GAINESVILLE
State Journal.