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@ F course I don't even know H. L.. fl N Mencken the clever man who N v writes for "The Smart Set," and
 lot of other publications; but I'll say this; I'd like to. I believe that he and I would be awfully good friends; ] feel sure we would, especially after read ing his very amusing and attractive eff fusion in a recent number of The Smart Set entitled Notes of a Poet Hater."
 Why
 Because of there is any one thing out side of kerosene lamps and as Irwin Cobb expresses it hot and running cockroach- es'' and snakes and people who hum tunes at the movies and in the street cars, that I loathe, it is poetery.
 And so does Mir. Mencken; that's why I know we'd be good friends-because when two people start out with one thing in common either to love or to have, they are pretty apt to Init 1t off, and become congeniai.
 Now, I don't hate all poetry: and I've liked many poets; liked them and admir- ed them, world without end, but the gem eral run of silly rhyming tintinabulating singing, swinging, messy. "mussy' stuff called poetry, just bores me like nothing else on earth bores me, except a person who is always talking about itself Chimself or herselD.
 Truly, the poetry which I love best IS that which everybody else loves oest' that which makes it appeal through the homely simple things of life.
 James Whitcomb Riley, for instance, knew this and what's more did it.
 It may be said of this wonderful man as some minor poet has put it in his con- cluding lines in memory of James Whit comb Riley:
 .Yet, oh how brighter is the world for men the likes of you"
 An humble tribute to be sure, for the
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Hammerstein a Failure?

GTeenville Vernon, in The Review.
 He failed in every operatic enterpr4ss he undertook. that is, he failed accord ing to the definition of the world. The Manhattan the Philadelphia. the Ion- don, the Lexington opera enterprises passed our of his hands and arc no more Yet who can say that Oscar Hammerstein died a failure? Thero is a world which Is builded neither of hands nor of bank accounts. Accom- plishment is not a matter of length of time, but of final result, and purged of all its bluff and buster and brag the Hammerstefn influence is potent today, and potent for good. He gave to us modern French opera as modern French opera should be given; he gave to us Maurice Renaud and Mary Car den and John Mccormack and Luisa Tetrazini and Maurice Mazarin and a host of lesser artists, but best of all he created a public and an interest in opera where a public and an interest had not been before, and by his com petition vitalized the Metropolitan Opera company and radically changed its basic policy The Metropolitan Opera company Is not today the pri- vate interprise of any manager. but has become a semi-public institution which is none the less such in that it is sup ported by private capital And this charge We owe largely to Oscar Ham merstein.
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simple little thing that this big man did?
 The great naturalist died before an- other summer came around, so the in- cident that Whittier relates has an es- pecial meaning.
 As Agassiz looked about the room where his pupils had gathered to learn of him he bowed his head with a natural impulse and asked those present to join him in silently imploring Gods blessing on his work.
 In the poet, whitter's. words he said:
 ''Of our weakness made aware
 On the theshold of our task
 Let us light and guidance ask
 Let us pause in silent prayer!''
 People do not desprse or neglect the simple things of life; they only get tired of an existence that has only a few breaks in it; where one day dawns so mitch like another. that we cannot help yearning for greater opportunities-nor belitting the things which are constantly repeated.
 We forget that the poems and stories we really love the best tell of the sim pie things of life and that the reason we like them so we'll is that they touch an answering chord in our own hearts. Most of us are grateful to the great people who are lifting us up by their writings so that we may get an idea of l the heights from where they have gained their vision, but do We not owe our greatest debts of love and gratitude to the men and women who, catching a glimpse of the same great vision from below, have made our pathways brighter as we try to follow what they have seen in lives not unlike our own? For ''The thought that goes forth as bless ing.
 Must live as a joy in the air"' MT. Mencken-in summing up his Notes of a Poetry Hater," after rummaging 2,
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Page and company, Publishers. Gar
 den City, New oYrk.
 In this collection of essays, written and printed in various publications dur
 ing the progress of the war, the pre- science shown again and again might be remarkable but for the fact that the anticipations of it's distinguished author were necessarily those of any thought full non-German of ordinary education and appreciation of human nature. Doc tor Thayer says in his preface, dated Oct. 25, 1918, less than three weeks be- fore the signing of the armistice, that from the beginning of August, 1914, when the German Kaiser forced this war upon the world, he did not doubt, nor has ever doubted since, what the outcome would be. In which conviction, it is safe to say, an overwhelming ma jority of the peoples outside of the cen tral empires were with him. In the chapter "The Collapse of Superman," originally printed in November, 1917, he exposes the fallacious claim that Ger , mans were supermen by showing that in battle they never won unless they held odds of about five to one, and that they did not invent any thing new in the machinery of war-Americans originated the submarine, the rapid fire gun, the airplane. and the tele- phone, Bessemer, an Englishman, dis
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covered the process for making steel
 without which Krupp guns large or small would not have existed; a French man built the first balloon, the princi
 pie of which underlies the Zeppelin, and an Italian. with an Irish mother, is the
 father of wireless telegraphy Who
 are the supermen? The author con cludes, on this subject
 Lovers of fact cannot fail to be grate-
 ful to the Germans, the self-announced
 supermen, for their complete demon
 stration that there are no supermen
 Even over here in America it was lit
 tie annoying to harbod the suspicion that possibly the German professor, or
 the editor of the German newspaper, or the fellow who blew up factories and
 wrecked trains and hid bombs in pas senger steamers, being German, might be superman. To Yankee eyes the professor was simply a sneak, oily and eely; the editor, one of the brood that Bismarck called "reptile;" the bomber low william in whom great cowardice did not prelude great crime. Our Yankee eyes have been justified by the pricking of the superman bubble. The Kaisers workers here are no more and no less than our Yankee eyes have seen them to be-curious types of infremen, ] whose portraits, under other names, adorn the Rogues Galleries.
 There are chapters on John Hays
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DALRYMPI.E
 By DOLLY

through the hundreds of verses manned recently by war poets," the hundress of verses penned by ambitious poets-eoes back to a volume of "Posthun,ors Poems''-by Algernon Charles swinhurne. for formation and deleclatior and says:
 Sw1nburne was the spokesman of ab- solute beauty, and in particular of beauty of rebellion against every restraint"
 Which again-brings us back tc the sim pie, homely things of life-through which the real poet makes his appeal,
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Take Lewis Carroll, for instance; by writing Alice in Wonderland" and Through Looking-Glass," more than by working over deep mathematical problems. which he solved and pub lished under his own name, he achieved this plane.
 And how little we care for his real name!
 To us he simply remains Lewis Car roll-a man who never could grow too old to understand childs nature or grown up" persons either.
 Lewis Carroll knew that grown-up people were only children of a larger growth. for in Preface" to Through a Looking Glass" he says:
 We are but older chilcr-n, dear,
 Who fret to find our bedtime near"
 It was because he and the others, like Whitcombe Riley and Eugene Field, did not fret to find their bedtime near
 They gave but little thought to the that they have remained SO young to us. time when they would be called to sleep'-and labored on to make other people happy-so happy that they in turn would not dread the summons to rest.
 It is my observation that great men are usually very simple men; the biggest people that I have ever met and have asked the privilege of writing a story about have found to be the most gra. cious and the most simple.
 Often unconscious of their far-reach- ing influence, and blessed with mod esty that is as real as it is beautiful they spread the beautiful mantle of their personality about all who come in con- tact with them and radiate happiness wherever they go
 DO you recall the story Whittier put into verse regarding Louis Agassz when Agassiz opened his Summer School for Natural History on Pekinese Island-the
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A Home Recipe for
 Wrinkled, Saggy Skin

The famous saxolite lotion recommended by beauty specialists for removing wrinkles and for reducing dis tended pores, can easily be made at home. Ask your druggist for saxolite in powdered form, one ounce, and half pint of witch hazel Dissolve the powder in the witch hazel and bathe the face, neck and hands in the so- lution. Results are remarkable, and instan- taneous. The skin tghtens. and this nat urally reduces the wrinkles, as well as creases folds about the neck, cheeks or hands. The tissue beneath the skin also becomes frmer and more solid.
 One feels much refreshed and exhiarated after using this truly wonderful prepara- tion. Many women look five ten years younger after using this only short time
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full of life and love and sweetness and life worth the living-that when they are gone, we can think of them only as just away"
 The idea brings with it certain amount of comfort. for we usually as- sociate going away" with journeys of pleasure-where we do agreeable things and see wonderful sights. Can we not. therefore, follow tn example of Riley's thoughts and imagine that those we love. when they cross over the river into that "unknown land" may be seeing even more beautiful things than were ever seen before? Perhaps-to them we, too, may be just away and they may live in happy expectation of the time when we shall come home where they are. J. T. Trowbridge was another writer who made the world brighter for hay. ing lived in it.
 In his latter years much that he wrote was of a patriotic nature, but he kept the springtime" forever in nis heart and penned many verses and stories filled with cheer and happiness In one of his later poems which he called "Twoscore and Ten" he summed up the reason for his youthful outlook upon life, when he said: ''The dreamy soul, too sentitive and
 shy;
 The breeding tenderness for bird and
 flower;
 The old old wonder at the earth and
 sky,
 And sense of guidance by an unseen
 power
 These keep perpetual childhood in my
 heart,
 The peaks of age. that looked so bare
 and cold,
 Those peaks and are still as far apart As in the years when 50 seemed so
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THE BOOK SHELF
By THE BIBLIOPHILE

NURSE BENSON"
 By Justin Huntley Mccarthy. The John
 Lane Company Publishers, New York.
 Nurse Benson" is not war story, though it takes place in wartime Eng land and it's hero is a wounded V. C.. It is jolly bit of romance.
 IIardy Gillian Dunsmore is charm ing and willful young woman who is full of whims and caprices, but neither selfish nor lazy She wants to do her bit" and she tries various wartime ac- tivitieS, but she has not yet settled down to any definite task, though she mas taken some special courses in nurs- ing, and is conscious of a real liking and some definite ability. for that kind of work. It is scarcely fair to the read CT to tell even the opening details of the story; suffice it to say that, al- though Captain Tibbenham, V. C., has so far recovered, by the time he is all lowed to leave the hospital for his par ents' place in Bucks, as to need only the simplest care, his mother and father are determined that he must have a thoroughly competent nurse; that in consequence nurse Benson, an expert if there ever was one, is engaged; and that when at the eleventh hour that excel lent woman is unable to fulfil her en- gagement, she issvery greatly troubled indeed. A substitute must be found. A substitute is found. The plot be- gins.
 The story is well told, as all Mfr. McCarthy's stories are, and is worked out consistently and with delightful ingenuity. The characters are all sharp 1y differentiated, and each has an inn portant place in the tale. Mrs. Tibben- hams vanity, MT. Tibbenhams simpli- city, Lord Messigers fads, all contribute to the development of the novel, as well IS Lady Gillian's determination and the intrigues of MT. and Mrs. Ray Mar rison. ~Nurse BensSI' is a good story which should rank high in the library of summer reading.
 DAWN
 By Eleanor H. Porter. Illustrated by
 Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock Houghton 1 Mifflin Co.,. publishers. Boston. Dawn, by Eleanor H. Porter Is tho
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Policy" Beware of a sudas Peace" '1ta1y's Great Service," etc, illuminat- ing and prophetic. In any history of the war the essence of this book, at least, must be included to .- ke it com plete.
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Age. that appeared far off a bourn of
 rest.
 Recedes as I advance the fount Of
 joy
 Rises perennial in my grateful breast; And still, at 50, am but a boy This brings to mind the thought that it is happy thing for the world that we can think of many men and women who have never grown too old to be happy. or to make others happy, and we remember them by some simple things that they have said or done.
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THE GAY-DOMBEYS"

HE 1 S. By Sir Harry Johnston. With an "In- troduction' by II. G. Wells. The Mac milan company. publishers, New York city.
 Of Sir Harry Johnstons book ',rhe J Gay-Dombeys," H. G. Wells, the emil nent writer in an introduction" to the ! charming story, says:
 Sir Harry has to tell of very curious and intricate realities; he knows as thor oughly as any living man can know, the intlmacies Of that queer system in which court, foreign office. colonial office fam fly influence, financial powers, shipping firms, casual adventures, inspired jour nallsts, and the encounters of the Lon don dinner tables and English week end l parties. played their parts in the ex- pansion and administration of the enrpre Of Queen Victoria. It is a world with ! whose exterior assumptions our distin- 1 guished contemporary, Mrs. Humphry Ward, writing from the womans point I of view and with certain romancing ! touch, has familiarized two continents: l but Sir Harry has lived the life, and So I far from his laxities impairing his final effect, the easy carelessness of his pre- sentation adds enormously to our final l conviction of the truths in his picture. | |. There is sheer fun for it's own
 sake in this book, there are viewy pas- l sages and startling aMusions to real peo- l pie. It grows together because it
 is really story built up of real expe-
 riences. and war (and sometimes hot) with passionate feeling.
 THE RUSSIAN COLLAPsE.,
 GA Politico Economic Essay By Boris l Kademtzeff. The Russian Mercantile i and Industrial Corporation, publishers l No. 50 East 42nd street, New York City 1 In a Preface to the Russian Col
 lapse" by Boris Kadomstzeff, the author says:
 "The principal part of this essay was
 written in May 1918. and was circulated
 among the authors intimate friends in the form of memorandum. Since that time many Ereat historic events have
 occurred. but these have not caused the
 author to change the ideas which are
 set forth in this essay, but rather to have made him believe in them the more. | The author is glad to see that at lasr
 the leading statesmen of the world, like | President Wilson, begin to realize that 1 hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the ugly distempers that
 make an ordered life impossible" These
 words of President Wilson may be taken 1 to express the guiding idea of this essay. The author would like to express here | his thanks and indebtedness to Mr. Cliff ton Moore for his kind assistance in
 translating this essay into the English 1 language"
 l WHY WE FOUGHT" By Capt. Thomas G. Chamberlain. 'Foreword by Ex-President Taft. The MacMillan company. publishers. New York City.
 Among the favorable comments
 made by distinguished authorities, on
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Miners employed in the copper mines of Montana were recently given an ad- vance of S1 per day in wages
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evdent that writing the book as we'll as promoting the gardens has been labor of love with him as well as patriotic duty \
 The illustrations are among the most illuminative elements in the volume for they show what has been done in the way of war gardens in many dis tricts besides illustrating the canning and other industries complementary to the raising of the crops The book is not for sale, but is issued for presentation to those who aided in the great econom- ic work of war gardening. But it will be read with interest by great many others who may have an opportunity to examine the volume
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BEAVER CROSS" ON GENUINE ASPIRIN
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"Bayer Tabie.s of Aspirin" to be genuine must be marked with the safety "Bayer Cross" Always buy an unbroken Bayer package which con- tains proper directions to safely re- lieve Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia, Colds and pain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost but few cents at drug stores-larger packages also. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticaci- dester of Salicylicacid
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DOLLY'S MAMMY'S

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 PHILOSOPHY Ole Miss, CT Oman beats CT Man every time kaze CT man IS jes' a plain MISTER, :" while CT Oman is CT 'MISTER-Yw Yassum!
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'DAwN'

DAWN By Eleanor Fl. Porter. Illustrated by Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock Houghton, Mifflin Co.,, publishers, Boston. Dawn" by Eleanor H. Porter is the
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"wHy WE FOIyGHT."

WHY WE FOUGHT" By Capt. Thomas G. Chamberlain. 'Foreword' by Ex-President Taft. The MacMillan company. publishers New York City.
 Among the favorable comments made by distinguished authorities, on
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vOLLEYS FROM A NON-C N-COMBATANT By William Roscoe Thayer. Doubelday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
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Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-01-12
STATE TAX COMMISSION PROPOSED
TO DISPLACE EQUALIZATION BOARD
BY AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION
fBy WARREN W. M0SES.)

Helena. Jan. 1t-Matters Of taxa
ton, the methods to be followed out In
the imposition and equalization OF as
sessments upon all forms OF taxable
property within Montana, will be OF
prime importance during the present
session of the legislature, and Will come
IN for vast amount Of study and con
siderition. The subject. which Is OF
great breadth, has been given more or
less consideration Mt each Legislative
assembly III the history OF the state anu
has been pretty thoroughly gone into
during the past two years ~ state tax
commission appointed for the purpose OF
giving it "A thorough investigation and to
repOrt its recommendations. rms com
mission recently submitted Its report TO
Governor Stewart. and its report IS now
in the hands of the legislators Tor their
information and guidance.
1t is probale that, as a result, nnmer-
ous bills bearing upon taxation Will De
Introduced in the two bodies of the as
sembIy, to be dissected by Joint com
mittee Oh revenues and taxation. POS
sibly BILL or set of bills. will be pro-
duced by the committee. bearing what
are deemed to be the best features Of
the lot or, in other words, composite
bill
Already five tax measures have been
prepared b. Representative Z. a. Ras-
mussen of Dawson county. who has given
much study to this subject. not only III
this but in prior sessions. Two of these
bills have already been introduced In the
Continued on Page Twol
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-01-12
War Board to Act Monday

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE government
stepped in, today. IN an effort to end
the tie-up Of shipping in New York
harbor caused by the strike of marine
workers on demands which the boat
owners refused TO arbitrate.
At the request of President Wilson
and with the reinsurance of the war anu
navy departments. the railroad admins
tration and the shipping board that they
would abide by whatever decision was
made. the War Labor board agreed TO
take up the case anew, despite the attitude
of the employers. Arrangements were
begun Immediately for hearing Mon
day, in New York, and an official request
was transmitted thru the labor depart
ment to the strikers that they return
to work pending decision.
Much discussion was caused BY tfs~
possibility OF the owners refusing to
accept the good offices Of the War
Labor board. Officials declined to say
what would happen in such a case, but
it was believed that the tugs and lighters
would be put under government oper-
alton rather than permit further stop
page of traffic.
President Wilson's cablegram also en-
trusted to the War Labor board the
important task Of stabili2ing labor con
ulElpHS geHeTai!g anu preventing iudust-
rial disloeation and warfare" which it
has been feared might result from un
employment during the period of in
dustrial and military rehabilitation.
Hitherto the board has been concerned
solely with the prevention Of stoppage
Of war work
An appeal to President Wilson to en-
force resumption of traffic in New York
harbor. pending settlement of strike
Questions, was made today by Senator
Frelinghuysen. Of New Jersey, who
cabled the president that large pro-
portion of the strikers are employees of
the railroad administration He asked
that the director general be directed TO
resume operations, with the full author
ity of the government behind him.
Officers of the Marine Workers affi-
Gation announced today that they stood
ready 10 abide by any ruling Of the war
labor board made in response to Presi-
dent Wilson's cahled request for actioP
10 terminate the harbor strike.