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The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-25
PRIMITIVE METHODS
 ALONG DVINA RIVER

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES ON THE DVINA, Oct. 25 lCorrespon- dence of the Associated PressD The shortage of kerosene and candles in Northern Russia has brought into use once more a primitive lighting ar. rangement known as the "svetila." an arrangement to burn birch twigs.
 The "svetilas" have been resur rected from some ancient storing place in the log houses of the villages and are now lighting many of them. The arrangement consists of wooden trough about two feet long. with an iron pan to catch the ashes from the burning birch twigs. which are placed in q fork.like advancement so that they slant downward and burn easily.
 Each twig, or "lutchinka." burns about five minutees. with about as much light as a candle and much more smoke, The members of the family take turns feeding it.
 The "syetiIa" is but one sample of the resort to old-time customs orca. stoned by the general shortage of al, most every imported commodity in the villages along the Dvina river The peasant women are again generally employing the "preelka," primitive wooden loom, on which they card and weave flax for their garments. The result is cloth, both coarse and fine varieties, and not at all bad.looking.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-25
ICE BEING HARVESTED
 IN SIERRA MOUNTAINS

GRASS VALLEY, Cal, Jan. p (by Associated PressD - The harvesting of thousands of tons of ice in the high Sierra mountains, with q temperature ranging well below zero, while at the same time. only a few miles away, in the valleys, oranges, lemons, grape, fruit and other fruits associated with tropical countries are being picked in commercial quantities. is going on in Nevada county, Eastern California. at the present time.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-25
LETTISEi TROOPS FOR
 SERVICE IN EUROPE

VLADINOSTOk, Jan. 25.-General Jannin has been designated by the French government as commander of Lottish troops which are being organ ized in Western Siberia. There are said to be more than 10000 Lettish fugitives who can be moblized. and the work is progressing They will be sent later to Lithuania. it is stated.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-25
NORWEGlANS TO START
 BANK IN MEXICO CITY

MEXICO CITY. Jan. p (by Asso- ciated Pressl. Representative of Norwegian capitalists are arranging for the establishment in this city of q Norwegian bank. which will have branches in various parts of the re public. particularly in the states of Tamaulipas and Jalisco.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-25

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The sun., 1919-02-23

IF say that have just been very much amused
L with Nativity Play Of the fourteenth
tuFy it is still possible that may be misunderstood
What IS more important, some thousand years of
very heroic history will be misunderstood too. 1t
was one of the Coventry cycle of medieval plays,
loosely called the Coventry Mysteries, similar to
the Chester Mysteries and the Towneley Mysteries.
And was not amused at the blasphemy of some
thing badly done, but at buffoonery uncommonly
we'll done. But, as l said at the time the educated
seem to be very ignorant of this fine medieval fun.
When l mentioned the Coventry Mystery many
ladies and gentlemen thought it was murder in
the police news At the best they supposed it to
be the title of detective story. Even upon hint
of history they could only recall the story of
Godiva; which might be called rather a revelation
than mystery.
Is Good News News?
Now ] always read police news and l sometimes
write detective stories am | at all ashamed of
doing either But l think the popular art of the
past perhaps little more cheerful than that of
the present And in seeing this Bethlehem drama
felt that good news might perhaps be as dramatic
as bad news; and that it was possibly as thrilling
to hear that child is born as to hear that man is
murdered. g.. "..
Doubtless there some sentimental people who
like these old plays merely because they are old.
My own sentiment could be more truly stated by
saying that like them because they are new They
are new in the imaginative sense, making us feel as
if the first star leading us to the first child.
But they also new in the historical sense, to
most people, owing TO that break in our history
which makes the Elizabethans seem not merely to
have discovered the new world but invented the old
Nobody could this medieval play without
realizing that the Elizabethan was rather the end
than the beginning of tradition; the crown and
not the cradle Of the drama.
Many things that modern critics call peculiarly
The sun., 1919-02-23

find in the references that are given an ex-
eeptionally large proportion of useful
ness. They represent a considerable
amount of fresh investigation.
As to the less technical reader, he will
benefit by the authors policy of empha-
sizing more than is customary in such
works the comparative view and the sig
nifcance of pictures. Egyptian religion,
he maintains, was not nearly so isolated
phenomenon as has generally been as
sumed, and Egyptian doctrines in religion
found fuller expression in art than in lit
erature.
The mythology of Burma, Siam and
Indo- China "bas been borrowed almost en-
tirely from India and is only slightly
modified by aboriginal characteristics"
but the author Of the second part of this
The sun., 1919-02-23

MANY new publishing projects had
1N1 to be put off because of the war.
and many others had to be suspended
after having been auspieiously begun. The
high cost Of materials and of labor tested
severely the wits and the morals of pub
fishers. Bookmaking was continued on
scale that, now that the stress is relaxing,
seems decidedly questionable on grounds
Of propriety. '..-'.=
The books came in floods; and they
were, TO speak right out in meetin', in
q very great many instances scamped in
manufacture: poor paper, poor printing,
poor binding. And, no small proportion
of them, poorly conceived and poorly
writteni
How much better it would have been to
have printed half as many books and
printed them twice as well! But how could
that have been brought about, except by
the arbitrary ruling Of Government And,
even if such control could have been ex-
cited in our laundering old democracy, as
a matter Of principle, what but confusion
worse COMPOUNDED could have resultedf
The beam in the Governments own eye
matches the mote in the publishers, and
there could be no greater unftness than
for the support of our Government print
inc Office to undertake a comprehensive
course of dictation. Some "rules and reg
ulations' were promulgated and prose
cuted. but the measures taken were utterly
inadequate tons and tons of precious
The sun., 1919-02-23

been sophisticated by process none the less sad
because it is slow and subtle 1t begins in the Eliza
bethans in an innocent and indefinablc form. 1t is
merely the sense that, though Macbeth may get his
crown crOOkedly, he must not actually wear it
crooked. 1t is the that, though Claudius may
fall from his throne, he must not actually fall
his foOtstool
1t ended in the nineteenth century in many re-
fined and ingenious forms; in tendency to find
all fun in the ignorant criminal classes; in dia
lect or the dropping Of aitches. 1t was sort OF
satirical Summing. There was new shade in the
comparison of the coster with the eat; a coster
could look at king and might conceivably laugh at
king; but most contemporary art and literature
was occupied in laughing at the coster.'
From Palace to Pub!
Even in the long lifetime of a good comic paper
like Punch we can trace the change from Jokes
against the palace to jokes against the public house.
The difference is perhaps delicate; it is rather
that the refined classes are subject for refined
comedy and only the common people a subject for
common farce. 1t is correct to call this refinement
MODERN yet it is not quite correct to call it con-
temporary All through the Victorian time the joke
was pointed more against the poor and less against
the powerful; but the revolution which ended the
long Victorian peace has shaken this Victorian
patronage The great war which has brought
many ancient realities to the surface has reenacted
before our eyes the Miracle Play of Coventry.
We have seen real King Herod claiming the
thunders of the throne of God and answered by the
thunder not merely of human wrath but of print
tive human laughter. He has done murder by proc
lamations and he has been answered by caricaures.
He has made massacre Of children and been
made figure of fun in Christmas pantomime for
the pleasure of other children. Precisely because
his crime is tragic, his punishment is comc the old
popular paradox has returned
G. X. CHESTERT0N.
The sun., 1919-02-23

paper went into inferior and ephemeral
bookmaking.
However, even in these late hard years,
some books have been produced that bring
credit to the publishing business in Amer
lea. Some volumes dated in 1918 preserve
the old, good standards of scholarly au-
thorship and careful, honest manufacture.
To the publishers who stood the strain
and probably had to fight hard to do it
praise and honor must be given by all who
are jealous of our natural reputation in
this art and resent the tendency to regard
the making of books as different in no
way but the mechanism Of process from
the making of furniture or any other OBJ
ject of material use. In the fact that it is
such frankly manifest tendency lies the
hope of reform-or, rather, Of return to
the old ideal.
In the spring of 1918 there was pub
lished Volume XII, the fifth to be fin
ished, of "The Mythology of All Races"
series. And this volume shows no sign
that we can detect of deviation from the
course originally laid out for the series.
The printing is excellent, the page and
type page in beautiful proportion, the
binding substantial and firmly put on, the
illustrations numerous (but not extrav-
agantly SOY and carefully done-the
whole thing is good to see in these days
of f1imsy hooks
The first part of the volume, Egyptian,
is by W. Max Miller; the second, IndO-
Chinse, by Sir James George Scott The
first occupies 245 pages; the other 112.
The notes on the two parts are placed to-
gether at the back of the book, pages 361
to 430, and are followed by eighteen pages
of photography. The one fault that might
be found with the makeup is the lack of an
index, but this will be corrected with the
appearance of Volume MIL, an index to
the whole series.
DR.. Miller says: "Sinee space does not
permit full references to the monuments,
l have omitted these wherever I follow the
present general knowledge and when the
student can verify these views from the
indexes of the more modern literature
which I quote" Scholars viii, therefore,
The sun., 1919-02-23

The Humour of King Herod
Copyright, 1919. All rights reserred)

(COpyrf9ht, 1913. All rights reserved
EhZabethan are in fact peculiarly medieval For
instance, that the same stage could be the place
where meet the extremes of tragedy and comedy, or
rather farce. That daring mixture is always made a
point of contrast between the Shakespearian play
and the Greek play or the French classical play.
But it is point of similarity, rather identity,
between the ShakespeariaH play and the miracle
play.
Nothing could be more bitterly tragic than the
scene in this Nativity drama, in which the mothers
sing lullaby to the children they think they have
brought into safety the moment before the soldiers
of Herod rush in and butcher them screaming on
the stage. Nothing could be more broadly farclcal
than the scene in which King Herod himself pre-
tends that he has manufactured the thunderstorm.
in one sense, indeed, the old religious play was
far holder in its burlesque than the more modern
play. Shakespeare did not express the unrest OF
King Claudius by making him fall over his own
cloak. He did not convey his disdain for tyranny
by letting Macbeth appear with his crown on one
side. This was partly no doubt an improvement In
dramatic art but it was partly also, L think,
weakening of democratic satire.
Kings and Clowns. ,.-..t
Shakespeare clowns are philosophers, geniuses,
demigods; but Shakespeare s clowns are clowns.
Shakespeare's kings may be usurpers, murderers,
monsters; but Shakespeares kings are kings. But
in this old devotional drama the king is the clown.
He is treated not so much with disdain as with
derison; not so much with bitter smile as with
broad grin. A cat may not only look at king but
laugh at a king; like the mythical Cheshire cat, an
ancient eat as terrible tiger and grinning like
gargOye. But that Cheshire cat has presumably
vanished with the Chester Mysteries the counter
part of these Coventry Mysteries; it has vanished
with the age and art of gargoyles.
In other words, that popular simplicity that
could see wrongful power something pantomim
icay absurd, thing for practical jokes, has since
The sun., 1919-02-23
Mythology of Egypt and lndo-China

volume shows how serpent, tree and spirit
worship have been grated on to the main
body Of myth. Volume VI, previously
published, has the Indian and Iranian
mythologies.)
Necessary to the scholar in its "ield,'
the volume is just the thing for the public
or college library, and would make a
handsome addition to the @gentlemau's
library" and add a useful treasure to the
perhaps seantiiy filed but highly priced
shelf of the ordinary" reader who prizes
books that last.
THE MYTHOLOGY OF AID RACES,
VOL. XII, EGYPTIAN, INDO-CHI-
NESE. By W. Max MULLER and SIR
JAMES GEORGE SCorT. Marshall Jones
Company. IS. go
The sun., 1919-02-23

G.. X. CHESTERT0N.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-26
CONTRACTS ON STEEL
SHIPS ARE CANCELLED
Hurley announces Action with Re
gard To 1000. 900 Tons---Action
Come After Warning.

WASHINGTON. April .5.--Can-
collation. OF contracts made during
the war for construction OF 1000. 900
tons OF steel ships was announced
today by the shipping board, which
is preparing to close government
work in many yards throughout the
country, This brings total cancella-
tlons since the signing OF the armls-
tice to 100000.
In the brief announcement Issued
from the office OF Chairman Hurley
no reference was made To tho actual
number OF contracts involved or to
the yards affected by the cancella-
uon order, Ia was explained, how
ever. that action at this time would
not come as "A surprise 10 builders
az notice was served on sthem
months ago or the boards new
policy, the chief feature OF which
was the elimination OF building plans
Tor all ships under 1900 tons.
Three days after the armistice
Chairman Hurley announced that
the board had been making com
pleic re-surNey OF its construction
program and contracts. From that
time on. he said. II was planned to
build ships. with reference to suit
ability Tor special service, and with
particular reference TO moro eco
nomical cost OF operation.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-26
NEGRO KILLS NAVAL GUARD
IN YANk BOSTON PARADE

BOSTON. April 25.-A naval re
serve guard was shot and killed anu
a sailor guard from the merchant
marine was stabbed In the left arm
In fight with two colorcd men VINO
were crowding against the ropes "a.
the corner OF Dartmouth street ana
Columbus avenue, while the Yankee
division was marching down the ave-
nue. this afternoon. 4 man was
wounded in the log and two other
men spectators received injuries,
Several women tainted. In the wild
rush TO get away from the shooting
many persons were severely jammed.
The colored man who did the
shooting was arrested. lie also re
uuirsd medical aid. He was sent 10
the city hospital under arrest The
other colored man escaped In the
throng
a Congressman William y. Greene OF
Fall River. more than 80 years old,
and one OF the best known members
OF Massachusetts political NE was
seriously injured 10y falling on the
granite steps OF the state house as
the parade appeared. He sustained
"A severe cut over one eye. together
with n number Of bruises, and was
rendered unconscious. The congress
man was removed to hospital,
hurt
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-26
LOCAL SALVATION ARMY
VISITED BY OFFICIALS

Col +. Gauntlet, secretary OF op-
crations OF tho western district OF
the salvation Army. win arrive In
Tulsa saturday from Chicago and
VIII conduct meetings at the local
citadel tonight aud Sunday after
noon and night. lie Is accompanied
by Lieut. Cot. George Wood and
Adlt. W T.. Hickman. rhe latter was
formcrSNA stationed In Tulsa.
Colontl Gauntlet and his staff are
making a Survey OF thr Oklahoma
field with the purpose oi suggesting
changes and improvements In the
salvation Army organization and
service. Among the improvements
planned H. the building Of an add
tlonal story upon the pre,ent quar-
tcrs OF the army In this city and the
building OF a residence for the local
officers
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-26
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS
GIVE SOLDIERS CHANCE

The United States clvll service
commission announces an examina-
uon FOR Tulsa district beginning at
y 80 o'c,ock May "a TO fiii vacancies
and positions OF rural carrier at
Skiatook and other vacancies as
they may occur on rural routes from
other nostotflces In Tulsa county. .
The examinations will be open to
male citizens and to unmarried WON
en- or To wives OF soldiers or sailors
serving In the present war. The APP
pllcant for these examinations m6st
be domociled in the territory OF
postofficH In the county. Information
on the examination may be obtained
from the United States civil service
commission at Washington or In this
county from r. r. McClne. assist
ant superintendent OF mails at the
Tulsa postoftice.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-26
WELFARE WORKERS GET
BUSY IN WEST TULSA

Following an Invasion into West
Tulsa to be conducted this mornin (
bv Miss Betty Beatesux and a dele.
CATION Of welfare workers, Mrs II.
Il. Cary, volunteer workers, and rep
cesentatlves OF the Tulsa County Hu-
name society. crusade for the es-
tablishment of better health condi-
tions In the town across the river
will be launched.
Many complaints have reached the
city proper concerning conditions
,derogatory TO health in West Tulsa
Feeling themselves responsible city
officials have rendered efficient CO.
operation TO welfare workers IN their
attempt TO better conditions with the
result that West Tulsa is greatly I'm.
proving In appearance. II Is the aim
of the West Tulsa Improvement SO
cietv to make the manufacturing
center as beautiful as the city OF
Tulsa.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-26
PUBLISHERS WANT REPEAL
OF POSTAL RATE MEASURE

NEW YORK, April 25, The
American Newspaper Publishers as
socistlon ac the closing session today
OF It's annual convention, adopted a
resolution urging the incoming con
gress to repeal or suspend for two
years. the wartime act OF 1917, rais-
ing the second class postal rates.
The resolution declared that such
rates crude and unscientlfic In
character and burdensomo alike TO
newspapers and thely subscribers, y
affecting the carriage OF newspapers.
were ill-suited to the needs OF the
country
The election OF officers developed
contest for the presidency Of the
associs tion between Frank J.. Glass
OF the Birmingham tAla) News, the
incumbent. and Richard Hooker Of
the Springfield Mass Republican.
Mr.. Glass was reelected, Four OF the
eight directors. whose terms had ex-
pired, also were elected.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-26
WILSON CRITICISM
IS BITTER IN ITALY
All Papers support Action Taken by
Orlando In Leaving Paris--lm-
prcgnable Rights Dcmnn nded.
CANNOT DICTATE CONDITION
wilson Unable. Press Asserts, TO
Map out Course for All Europe
Appeal 10 Americans.

ROME, April 25.--The reply OF
Premier Orlando TO President VII.
SON apparently has pade a deep I'M
pression on the italian press and
practically every italian newspaper
deyotes much editorial comment TO
the premier's statement
The ropulo Romano says:
Italy replies as one man to her
iinR and her government who de-
manded unswerving tenancy their
sacred and impregnable rights"
After describing the premier's re-
Ply as proud and thrilling document
the Corriere d'Italia says:
The American people cannot be
IN agreement with man who so
haughtily arrogates 10 himself the
right to decide the fate OF Europe
against the desires OF lis government
snd It's people"
Tho idea Nazionsle says that mot
one Italian would dare to sign n
peace as proposed by President WI
son"
The Italia considers that presI-
dent Wilson has perhaps irrem edia h.
ny leopardized the peace OF the
world.
W Hhl IHPp'''u w ~ hllb-
rcther monstrous." says the Gioranlo
4 italia In lis comment on the peace
situation. Against II We appeal to
the common sense OF the American
people asking them whether they
consider the attitude OF their presl-
dent just and straightforward
ono
President Wilson forgot his
principles regarding the freedom OF
the seas and the equality or races
and distributed German. Hungarian
Rumanian and Bulgarian territories
among the French. Bohemians and
Jugo- Slovaks. remembering his prin-
c.ples only to snatch from Italy the
fruits OF her sacrifices and her vic
tory We are tranquil, trusting JUS
't.ce and rights in-Athe knowledge
that a large majority NJ the Ameri.
can people did not share the opin-
ions OF President Wilson, Therefore
We did not consider the generous
american nation responsible for &C.
centr!clties OF its president"
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-26
"HlGHER LAW" IS STAGE
THEME OF TULSA PEOPLE

A play written about Tulsa peonlo
and made In the Magic city Is THE
Higher Law" which will come TO the
Grand theater Sunday, April 81
matinee and night when here last
November the work OF Miss Gilbert
and her support players was well re-
ceived. AftFr showing In other towns
In oklahoma the play will go 10 Fort
Worth. where II IL booked for n
week. Several engagements will he
filled In northern Texas during the
spring and the play be taken to New
York for the opening OF next season.
Being written about our own people
the play Is giving TGlsa some good
Advertising,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-26

PARIS April 2b.-Thc cross eN-
amina ton. OF Capt Edmund G..
chamberlain. the American aviator
on trial before court-martial here
was ended this afternoon. Chamber
lain having been on the stand for
two full days
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-26
The Literary Digest Your Logical Source of News

This is a wonderful time for YOU and for every other
man and woman in the world. The average individual
has hitherto had little share in the direction of
national affairs even in the ultimate decision upon
matters vitality affecting his personal welfare and the
conditions under which he lives and works Today the
statesmen of all nations agreed that the people rule
and that they but the instruments of the popular