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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
The First Book Fair Opens Chicago

a glass case are little dolls truHk, the
doll itself, Meg's cap, ribbons and frills
that 10, Meg, Beth and Amy all played
with. The children especially love this
display, prepared by Little, Brown &
Company of Boston.
The Bill Binding Company of Chicago
is binding, "before your eyes," an edition
of The Amazing Interlude, by Mary Rob-
erts Rinehart, being issued by Grosset &
Dunlap. Girls assemble the book, it is
sewed with machine and passed on down
a row of busy men workers, emerging
complete.
The Amazing Interlude thus becomes a
factor in educating the public in mod
ern binding and the way the public
hangs around the booth is one Of the most
interesting features at the Book Fair, at
least from the buyers standpoint. Every
one wants to know how his pet volume was
born.
A book valued at $4,000 is also on dis
play. 1t is an deliberately gilded and fooled
copy of Die Nibelunee. But outshinig
that is a Lincoln collection valued at
$4,000 These and other rare specimens
are in the display of Ernest Hertzberg &
Sons, the Monastery Hill Bindery
Chicago.
Charles Scribner's Sons have featured
Theodore Roosevelt in their display. They
have pictures, letters and writings of the
Colonel, along with show of original
Wyeth covers.
1 Was There, book of war drawings
and cartoons by c. LIE Roy Balbridge, who
fought through the war, is featured by G.
P. Putnam's Sons. Robert G. Anderson,
in charge of this booth, has brought on
from New York the original drawings
They cover the walls Of the booth like wall
paper, and few get past without stopping
to discuss the types Of fighting men and
the styles in smiles and tears which the
young artist has given to the world.
Sherry is the title of book by George
Barr McCutcheon. Another thing that
Dodd, Mead & Company is "playing up
warm" at the Book Fair is Tirpitz's Ne
nsoirs, not yet but soon to be published.
Miss Marcella Burns, buyer and mana
ger of the book department of Marshall
Field & Company, is in a radiant glory.
"This is my dream of four years come
true" she said. -Four years ago 1 con-
ceived this idea Ever since then have
been working to bring it about. l am
very happy. There Never was time
when the public read so many books or so
good books.
at is very fortunate that I have man
aged to bring my fair (you, not I, call it
mine) about at this time"
She stood beside glass case which en-
closed personal letters in the handwriting
of Longfellow, Charles Dickens, Tennyson
and Nathaniel Hawthorne. They were
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
By LESTER B. COLBY.

by LED En- o, SOLDIs
ZONES now into existence something
~ new in the world of publishers. 1t
is called "The Book Pair" A large part
Of one floor in the great retail store Of
Marshall Field & Company, Chicago, has
been set aside for week, devoted to the
publishers.
Booths have been fashioned; there are
displays rare copies, paintings of book
covers, original manuscripts, letters from
the long dead famous everything Of a
nature to stir the heart of the book lover.
The old and the new have come on
this common ground to meet the public.
The Houghton Miffin Company, ancient
house of EnglislSl lineage, stands here side
by side with the George Fl. Doran Com
pany, modern, American and young.
Houses Of legend; houses without
legend. The Bubble Book, a new idea,
something for the youngsters, a eombina.
ton of story book and photograph record,
occupies booth next to the Bible. Thomas
Nelson & Company publish the latter, "ths
worlds best seller" The house gives
away bit of souvenir, folder called
The Wonderful Story of HoU the Bible
Came Doun Through the Ages. Do you
happen to know? asks the houses repre-
sentative, as he pridefully points to the
Good Book he spreads into every land Of
the world.
Over across, among a number of SCARED
brothers, is tan colored, frayed bit Of
book. Though this is a Book Fair, the
bowler and the ballyhoo are not here. In
stead a serious gentleman, bowling, re-
marks:
"Step inside, sir, and see Noah's first
dictionary. This little book, sir, was pub
lished by him in 1SO6-before he knew
much about dictionaries. And this, his
next, was issued twenty years later. The
house of G. e. C. Merriam Company,
Springfield, Mass, which acquired the
rights from Webster in 1S43, has never
printed any book but the dictionary since
that day. Its presses never stop running"
Down the row of booths is a colorful
spot. 1t is display of colors arranged
after the plan of some genius-medley Of
oranges, black and greens. The booth
shines like jewels.
And yet it is the one sombre spot in the
Book Fair. 1t is q monument to the
genius of P. F. Voland, Chicago publisher,
who back in the summer was shot to death
in his Office by lunatic who had some de-
fusion that Mr.. Voland had abused her in
the matter of miniature which she had
left in his care The Voland house special
ICES in books attractive to children and
advertises, "Start a Sunnybrook Shelf"
Intimate little things from Orchard
House, the home of the Alcotts, just out Of
Concord, Mass, have been brought on. In
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
OSCAR MONTAGUE :
PARANOIAC

By GEORGE L. WALTON, Md, Author q
"Why Worry" etc. Froniispieoe. $50 nj
Dr.. Walton is master of wit end humor; be has
employed all his charm IN this remarkable story,
where the hero, victim Of typical American error q
mental hygiene, tangles up good many lives and
furnishes stirring drama
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
PETER THE BRAZON

BY GEORGE F. WoRrs Fronfispieee. $I50na
A powerful novel Of China and the Big Six
mysterious organization whose influence. silent and
subtle is felt in commerce and politics throughout
the world
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More Princeton Verse

TINE Princeton collections escape the
Il typical standards of college verse
in two ways. First, good share of the
writers included are graduates, men who
have left their callowness behind them
and have already done things in the world
of poetry. Second, those undergraduates
who are included plunge more vehemently
into the vast sea of poetry; they are re-
CARELESS of the old academic standards,
more eager for life about them and less
enchanted by the ancient ideals Of the
classics.
In his introduction to this second collee-
ton DR.. Henry van Dyke loudly proclaims
his joy over the fact that the men in
eluded for the most part eschew free
verse and all it means. These men may
keep away from free verse, but the new
spirit is evident throughout. One may be
just as modern in the conservative verse
forms as in free verse.
The Pope at Confession, by T. Scott
Fitzgerald, IS, is an example of the work
included in the volume, showing how ex-
cellently the sonnet form has been ap-
proximated:
The gorgeous Vatican was stepped in
night,
The organs trembled to my heart no
more,
But with the blend of colors on my sight
loitered through sombre corridor
And suddenly heard behind screen
The faintest whisper, as from one in
prayer;
glanced around, then paused, for had
A hushed and lonely room
and two were there
A ragged friar, half in dreams embrace,
Leaned sidewise, soul intent, as if to
seize
The last gray ice of sin that ached to
melt
And faltered from the lips of him
who knelt-
A little, bent old man upon his knees
With pain and sorrow in his holy face.
This new volume carries on the work Of
such men as John Peale Bishop, Henry
Chaplin, Hamilton Armstrong, James
Creese, Gorge Logan, Raymond Holden,
Robert Coffin, Maxwell Struthers Burt
and Frank Mcdonald, all of whom were
Represented in Alfred Noyes's collection.
DIR. van Dyke is representedby two poems.
81. s. G.
A BOOK OF PRINCETON VERSE, IL,
1919. EDITED BY HENRY VAN DYKE, NOR
RIs WILLIAM CRoLL, MAXWELL STRUTH-
ERs BURT AND JAMES CREEsR. Prince
tor Princeton University Press.
CUDERMANN left short novel, The
- Silent MIL. London expects to have
it in translation before long. So, no
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
SEEING
PENNSYLVANIA
By JoHN T. FAIRS

By JoHN t. FARIs
III illustrations. maps $500 nes
fascinating guide to the wonderful scenic features
OF Pennsylvania many of which have been overlooked
because they are off the beaten track of travel-wth
much historical lore and interesting information.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
SOCIAL GAMES AND
GROUP DANCES

By c. ELsoM and BLANcHIM. TEILI1Ne
IS illustrations Sis nj
A splendid and very complete collection Of games
and dances suitable for community and social use,
very carefully illustrated and set forth.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
LIPPINCQTT
BOOKS
Powerful Work of Fiction by a Well
KnoUn Author Writing Under
Nom de Plume
YELLOWLEAF
$50 nd
By SAcHA GREGORY

by OACHA JREGORY yOU nj
Apowerful and artistic work of fiction. with mem.
orable characters and rare and intimate setting Of
modern London social life This novel, which shows
exceptional rpeness culture and experience Of the
world is worthy Of the best traditions Of our great
modern English writer's Galsworthy. Bennett and
others Of the same school.
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GABRIELLE OF THE
LAGOON
$50 nj

By A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $50 NJ
A dramatic story which throbs with the life thaa
burns IN southern seas. reaching strange climax.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
NetD Edition Enlarged
WHY WORRY?

By GEORGE L. Walton, MD. Sis nj
The new edition Of this famous book Is clarion
call to the spirit Of the new age and practical guide
to sane living. 10 Impressions was the record Of the
first edition.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
Ready Soon
Ready Soon
THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF
INTERIOR DECORATION

By HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLsIN,
ABBOTT MCCLURE and
EDWARD STRATToN HOLLOWAY.
go illustrations q IN COLOR QuusA
Decorated cloth In box, $7.50nd
The splendid illustrations are vital part Of the
book book which is the first Of its kind to foulats
definite body of decorative principles that are ap-
plicsble under any conditions. and which forms an
indispensable guide to the progressive artist. crafts
man. and householder
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-02-08
JOBS IN U. s. SERVICE OPEN.


Permanent employment in the gov.
eminent service and immediate rein
statement in the federal civil service
of men who served in the army and
navy is announced in a bulletin issued
by the federal civil service commits
sion at Washington. In expectation of
the mastering out Of thousands of for
mer government employees from the
military and naval service who will be
seeking reinstatement in the govern
ment service the federal civil service
commission obtained an executive or
der by the president providing for the
reinstatement at any time within five
years of discharge of any person leav-
Ing the classified civil service to en-
gage in the military or naval service
of the country.
Under the presidents ruling it will
not be necessary for the applicant to
be reinstated in his former position,
but anywhere in the civil service, pro.
v1ded that at the time of reinstate-
ment he has the required fitness to
perform the duties OF the position to
which reinstatement is sought.
A long list of occupational opportu-
mites for employment in federal pub
lie works is contained in the bulletin.
Application should be filed directly
with the labor board at all govern
ment plants. ~,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-02-08

revolving fund of $5O0,OOO.O0 was set
aside for the use of the Director Gen.
eral in supplying funds to needy roads
for maintenance and equipment. It
was supposed by the legislators that
that huge sum would be ample to meet
all requirements; in fact it was antici-
pated that long before it was ex.
hausted some Of the first loans made
would be coming back into the Treas
ury, and the fund would in truth re-
volve.
But instead of carrying the roads
through a period Of years, as contem-
plated by the trainers of the legisla-
ton, the revolving fund is practically
exhausted in the very first year of
Federal administration. The Director
General in his annual report admits
that over $453,0O0,O0O of that amount
has been expended already Not only
that but $25,00O,O0O has been taken
from surplus receipts of railroad and
express companies and loaned back to
the roads in addition to the millions
from the revolving fund. Of course
payments to the Government for it's
loans from the revolving fund, if they
are ever made, must come from sur
plus earnings, but when those earn
ings are diverted from that purpose
and turned into further loans the re-
suit is only to sink the roads deeper
into the financial mire.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-02-08
Or. R. R. MoToN's
MISSION ABROAD
WHAT THREE WELL KNOWN
COlORED WRITERS THINK
OF 1T.
What He Went for Made Clear
Last - The South Fears Our Re
turning Overseas Soldiers Will
Not MeekIy Submit to it Out
rageous Insults, Humilia-
ton, Segregation, Etc.
(From the New York. Globe.)

(From the New York. Globe.)
Editor N. Y. Globe: I.wish to ente
a protest against the action of D.
Motion, who is now In France at til
instance of the administration to az
wise the colored troops over there t
behave themselves like gentlemen an
thus leave a good impression upo.
the people Of France DR.. Motion wi.
find that this part of his mission t.
France is unnecessary The coloret
men in the army in France have givel
their commander no cause for com
plant on this score. The French PEG
pie and, French newspapers hav.
spoken in high praise of their conduct
1t is a gratuitous insult to the char
acter OF these men to send DR.. Motor
or any other man to France to teacl
them good morals. r.
DR.. Motion is quoted as saying tina
the Africans are incapable of self-gov
eminent. If he means the Africans ir
Africa, along the gold coast, the ives
coast, Basutoland, Barotse land, etc.
l can tell him that he is grossly mis-
taken, and that he is hbelling the char
acter of these intelligent people who
have for years demonstrated their
ability for self-government along
native lines. DR.. Motion is hardly the
man to pass judgment on the capacity
of the Africans for self-government
He does not know any more about
Africa and the Africans, nor as much
as the American delegates who are
relying on him to advise them on this
subject. -. Z ~" IT
- go. JOHN E. BRUCE.
T.. New York. 1890.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-02-08

world of the utterly undemocratic
treatment of the colored people in
the U. S. A., and they may add their
voice, even if it is a feeble one, to
the general demand of the Colored
World for the abolition of all dis
examinations based on color, creed or
sex, and may really aid in the realiza-
ton of liberty, fraternity and equal
ity for all men.
Just what the proposed League
of Nations" will be no man knows
no one knows just how far it will in
terfere with the internal questions
OF the various nations, but with ia
pan, one of the great powers, and
China, Haiti, and Liberia, all colored
nations, and with Brazil and other
countries with large colored popula-
tons, and India and South Africa
represented, certain broad principles
against color autocracy may be laid
down. Who knows?
The American colored representa-
tives can not hope to get seats at the
peace table, or even enter the con-
/ ference, but they can stay outside
and LOBBY FOR LIBERTY.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-02-08
Should Open the Doors to Opportunity
(From the Christian Register.)

A circular sent out to employers in
large city, calling attention to the
number and quality of young colored
men trained in the schools of the city,
and asking cooperation and counsel
In making their services available,
brought one reply which though anony-
nous is significant of an opinion still
widely influential. Kindly send them
to Africa, instead of mixing them
with u.s." AS the expression Of an in
dividual desire these two points are of
course admissible, but as practicable
measures it is curious that any intelli-
gent person should seriously entertain
them. Does any one suppose that the
colored population of the United
States could be sent to Africa, or that
II they were sent they would 20? So
long as they are here, and have al
ready been mixing for more than a
century, and have the rights of citi-
zenship, including the right to die with
white men for their country, is it any
reckOnable menace to responsibility
and intrinsic leadership to open few
more industrial doors to their proved
abilities and usefulness? While we
write, a moving-van is unloaded by
two white men and one co1ored man.
The colored man is the boss, the
white men take his orders. There is
not the least trouble about it, There
would never be trouble if it were not
made by people Of the temper of the
anonymous objector.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-02-08
OLD EIGHTH ILLINOIS
Chicago's Crack Coloredj
Unit Back With HOnOrS
General Mangin Decorates Heroes 37Oth In
fantry Who Whipped Prussian Guard

Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 22.-More than
400 Illinois men, many of them
wounded, were among $3.50 soldiers
to arrive Thursday on the hospital
ship Comfort and the transports
Lapland, Wilhelmina and Sierra.
Five officers of the old Eighth Illi-
nois and many of the enlisted men of
our crack regiment debarked from
the Lapland. Two of them from the
Wilhelmina.
The soldiers arriving on the three
other ships were sent to Camps Mills
and Merritt, and the wounded were
divided among three of the big de-
barkation hospitals.
Out in the Champagne sector of
France-one of the most blood
stained corners of that land-our
Illinois fighters gained imperishable
fame. For more than two months
the Eighth-now the 37Oth Infantry
was the only American regiment
fighting in the Tenth French army,
commanded by Gen. Mangin.
Lieut.. Harvey J. Taylor, 1851
South Wabash av., Chicago, winner
of the Croix de Guerre and two stars
for special citations, was the first
Eighth Illinois man to leave the ship
His body had been riddled by ma
chine gun bullets and shrapnel.
Whipped Crack Prussians.
The men of the old Eighth stopped
the advance of the flower of the
Kaiser's fighting forces and made
them retreat, preventing a thanking
movement which would have had
dire results for the allies.
rive just went in and took EN-"
said Lieut.. Elmer D. Maxwell, 1925
S. Dearborn st., Chicago, telling of
raid into which he led fifteen men
of the Eighth August 1 near Laon,
and which resulted in the killing of
a dozen Germans, the capture of four
machine guns and eighteen prisoners.
Only one of Maxwell's men was
wounded. For this dashing exploit
the Chicago man received the Croix
de Guerre.
A stunt performed by twenty men
of Company +, led by Capt. Saund-
ers, won decorations for three and
the unbounded admiration of the
French, Maxwell said. Sergt. Floyd
White, 1921, Federal ST., Chicago,
was one of the participants. He re-
ceived the war cross. White is still
in France and was wounded once.
Lieut.. Maxwell's story showed that
the Company F men offered them
selves as sacrifices in an effort to
draw the fire of about a dozen Ger
man machine guns which had been
working havoc among the Americans
and French. .4:
" A Human Sacrifice.
The Illinois colored fighters ran
into the middle of road knowing
they were under German observa-
ton. Instantly the Germans, sus-
pecting raid on their lines, opened
fire on the underbrush by the road
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-02-08

SIDE, figuring the Americans would
take shelter there. -
Instead the Yanks kept right in
the center of the road and few were
wounded. The ruse had revealed
the whereabouts of the German guns
and short time later they were
wiped out by French artillery.
After going through the severest
hghting unscathed Lieut.. Robert A.
Ward, 1928 South Wabash av., re-
turned sick.
The Eighth landed in France April
~, Ward said, and went into a fight
ing area almost Immediately. For
months the regiment had to go
through all the hardship of trench
warfare. The casualties were esti-
mated by Ward at SO per cent, but
only very small percentage were
killed.
Shot in Ankle.
Lieut.. J. R. Wheeler, 3O13 Prairie
av., was wounded in the ankle by
shrapnel.
Lieut.. Benjamin A. Browning,
4438 Prairie av., had been through
the fighting without injury, but re-
turned sick.
Eyes, the Germans are kind of
tough fighters, but we're just a bit
tougher" Quoth Private Luna
Springer Decatur Gill; colored
soldier, wounded in the jaw and neck
by shrapnel at scissors September
II.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-02-08
THE REPRESENTATIVES, IN
FRANCE,

There has been some. misconcep-
ton as to the functions of the repre-
sentatives elected by the National
Colored Congress which met in
Washington in December, to go to
France and present the case of the
colored American to the world, dur
ing the sessions of the Peace Con-
gress.
These people have no official status
whatever, and no one connected with
the congress has, so far as we know,
made any such claim, certainly the
convention at it's meeting did not.
They are not in any sense "dele-
gates" and have no such standing.
They can not attend the meetings of
the Peace Conference. That ought
to be clear to everyone who is at all
we'll informed about the questions of
the day.
= AS THE APPEAL understands the
matter, the representatives are to go
to France and use their moral in
fluence to aid in the abolition of the
color line in all the world. Neces-
sarily they must work through the
delegates of the United States and
other nations which have regularly
accredited delegates. That is all
that they can do. The congress UNI
derstood that and the representatives
understand their limitations.
However, the representatives may
possibly be able to do some very eff
fectiye work. They may tell the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-02-08
Motions Advice 70 Soldiers
Oversee Starts Big Storm
TUSKEGEE'S new PRINCIPAL Tells BRAVE WARRIORS
NOT TO RESIST OLD CONDITIONS ON RETURN
Southern Suggestions Black
Troopers as to Their Conduct Returning
Motions Special Mission Explained

that he ''emphasized" the fact that the
colored soldiers should return mod
est and unassuming." This advice
given by DR.. Motion appeared to in
terest these two American newspa-
pers published in Paris, and it is &C.
copied that his "special' mission to
France, at this time, and just at the
time when colored soldiers who have
been for months fighting in France
are about to return to the United
States, is to impress upon them that
they should be modest and unassum-
ing" on their return, and to accept
quietly, and uncomplainingly what
ever discrimination and segregation
may be imposed on them in the States
on their return, after having fought
for months for world democracy.
Motion was accompanied on his trip
to the camps by Thomas Jesse Jones,
OF the Bureau of Education at Wash
ington, and who, at one time, was one
OF the white instructors at Hampton
Institute, with which DR.. Motion was
connected before being chosen princi-
pal of Tuskegee.