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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
ENGLISH NOVELIST
CONTRASTS BROTHERS
''The Strong Hours" Upholds
Traditions Of British
AriStocrGcy

THE Strong Hours" by Maud Diver,
is story of paragon among young
men. He reioices in the given name
Derek, is the son Of Lord Avonleigh and
the brother of Evan Trevanyon B'ount.
The novel upholds all the traditions Of
the old English aristocracy, even to the
names, and there is proper back
ground of ancestral halls and family
portraits and afternoon teas on spread
ing lawns. Moreover, the book is really
good, despite its wordiness.
Derek is the misunderstood son Of a
statesman whose choice Of u family,
with the exception of Dcrck. was not
especially brilliant. Evan Trevanyon
Blount is all name. And Evan and his
lady mother" (vcry English are cast
pretty much in the same mold. They
don't afford quite the support that might
be expected for Lord Avonleigh, who
has n strongly modelled nose and chin,
and whose eyes shoot forth u hawk
like geam."
Young Derek doesn't take kindly to
the thought of tea and chocolates under
the yews on the family estates. He
desires to see life at first hand, in all its
roughness and crudity, so emigratrs to
Canada. There he acquires lean
brown face" and an expert knowledge of
numbering. and involves himself in a
romance as highly creditable to his sense
of chivalry as it is improbable.
The war takes Derek back to Eng
land, by way of India. where his father
is stationed. India generally figures in
Miss Divers stories. And once back in
England, Derek buckles manfully down
to the duties he had shirked that he
might see how others lived, finds his
brother in the meshes of German plot
ters and finally straightens things out
in great shape and wins the happiness
he most assuredly deserves.
One of the best done parts of the
book is the prologue. in which Miss
Diver cleverly gives the reader a clear
insight into the opposite characters and
Compartments of the two brothers who
dominate the story.
THE STRONG HOURS BY Maud Diver.
New York: Houghton Mihlin Co 81 30.
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Don't wake him, Cert"

Don't wake him, Cert"
She was reluctant to withdraw her.
self.
His little darling fists, so pink and
curled up Little Phonzie darling !"
He hung over each process, proud
and awkward.
Little darling--little daring-here
Phonzie, help"
They transferred the burden, the child
not moving on his pillow. In the shall
low heart of the perambulator, the high
froth of pillows about him, he Law like
a bud, his soft profile against the lace
and his skin like the inncrmost petal of
rose.
''Phonzie, amt he-ain't t he the soft
est little darling Gawd, how-how
she'll love TOTO be wheeling him"
His fingers fumbled with excitement
and fell to strapping and buckling with
a great show and great ineffectuality
Here, help me let down the glass
"Shh.h, every word carries in this
"Now!'
Cert " " ''
She stiffened with a new diffidence.
No. no: it's your SURPRISE"
You done all the work on the Job as
much as me, and it. half your present.
anyways. You roll him down the hall
and stand next to her till she wakes
up. She's u tight little sleeper, but il
she don't wake soon II drop bool,
or something Go on, Cert. roll it in.
No, no. Phonzie. You and her have
your fun out alone. It's your fun any
ways, not mine. This piece of rolling
stock will ro | herself along home now.
'Aw nOw-'
Anyways, I'm dead. Look what q
rag j am Look at the hem of this
skirt! The next time | do a crazy thing
like walk from Brooklyn, | want to be
burned in OIL"
Now. Cert. stick around and II
send you home in Il cab.
But she was out and past him. Gran
ing her neck backward through the
aperture of the open door.
go to it. Phonzie! It's your fun
anyways. Yours and hers. S'long!"
He had alrcad, begun his triumphant
passage down the hallway and on hel
couCl among her T,illows. Madam CLOSED
her eyes in a stimulation of sleep ant
against tie tears that scalded her lids
! In an eastbound car Gertie Dobrinei
found a seat well toward the front
Across the aisle day laborer on {
night debauch threw Ler 4 watery star,
and thick tcngucd, thick brogued re
mark y charwumnn with u newspaper
| bdndr huggcd under one arm, dozeC
in the seat alongside. her head lollint
! from shoulder to shoulder. Rain drop
hal loug since dried on the window
Zane Gcrtic pnL' ;rer cupped her chil
in her raln and sa2cd out at the uuie
street aud the shattered shops hurtlini
past.
Twice the conductor touched he
shoulder, his hand outsretched for fare
She sprang about. fumhling in her purs
for coin, but with difficulty, becaus
through the hot blur of her tears sh
could only grope Intellectually. Whei
she finally found five cent piece, !
tear had wiggle waggled down her cheel
and fell, splOtching the back of he
glove.
Across tic tisle the day laborel
leaned IT, her. betting ~ the hen pheas
ants tail in hcr lat aud cold alco
holic tear dripping flCm the corner o
his own eye.
'Cheer up, my gir-rl." he said
through a beard like old moss, "chee
up and be a spor rrt ~
(THE END
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
ROLLING STOCK
By FANNIE HURST

One, two, three! Gawd, If my friend
from Carson City could only see me
now "
Out on the drying sidewalk they
leaned to each other, and the duet of
their merriment ran ahead of them
down the meager street and found out
its dark corners.
"Honest, Phonzie, won't the girls
just bust when they hear this! -
''And Mil, poor old girl, she's right
weak and full of nerves now, but she'll
laugh loudest of all when she knows
why i went with Slews."
Eyes. She can laugh loudest OF
all.
"What?"
Come on, or we won't get home
until morning"
And on the crest of her insouciance
she thrust out her arm, giving the
shining white perambulator a running
push from the rear, SO that it went
rolling lightly from her and with a
perfect gear action down the slight in
cline of sidewalk. They were after il
at a bound, light heeled and full OF
laughter
"What do you bet that with me al
the wheel, we con clear the bridge in
thirty minutes, Phonzie?"
Sure, we can; but here, let me
shove
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Glory Of the Flag

"The Religion of Old Glory" by vii.
liam Norman Guthrie, is u book of in p
spirational patriotism. 1t interprets
the flags historical meaning and it's
tional symbolism. the revolution Of the
Stars and Stripes, and the innermost
significance of Old Glory. Its ringing
call to brotherhood of the flag" is of
special value just now when the prin :
cialcs for which the flag stands are
under attack by Bolshevists, reds and
faddists.
THE RELIGION OF OLD GLORY. BY VIII.
liam Norman Guthrie. New York: George
H. Doran Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

She elbowed him aside, the banter
gone suddenly from her voice.
mo, let me-"
She fell 10 pushing it silently along.
Stars came out in her eyes. BE ad-
vanced to her pace, making his stride
to hers. fancies like colored beads slip
ping along the slender thread of his
thoughts.
Swell sight, amt it, Cert, the har-
Dor lights so bright and the sky 50
deep?"
Silence.
! "Seeing so much sky all at once re :
minds me, Cert. You know about, that
midnight blue satin Hertz had the brass
to dump back on us because the skirt
was too tight. Huh"
Her eyes were far and away.
Huh, whatta you know about that,
Gert?" 49,
Her hands, gripred around the
handle bars. were full of nerves; she
could feel them Jumping in her palm
"Huh. Gert?"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
A Liuely Romance

The anonymous author of Patricia
Brent, Spinster." one of the most en-
tertaining fctional by-products of the
war, has written IL lively romance in
THE Rain Girl" It's lghtsome and
lightly sentimental. The hero finds the
heroine sitting in the rain. The in
formality of the introduction in
strait laced, conventional London,
starts the fun. He loses her. The ro-
nance and the humor of the quest for
the maid of the London mist will re-
nay the reader in search of an amusing
novel.
tricia Brent. Spinster.'' New York
George II. Doran Co. $3.50
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
BOOKS RECEIVED
General

AN ACREAGE OF LYRIC BY Dorothea
Lawrance Mann. Boston: Cornhill Co.
NOA NOA. Bv Paul Gauguin, New York:
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George Fredrlck New York; u. Appleton
THE ~ coMPr ETE AUCTION BRIDGE
PLAYER BY Florence Irwin. New York:
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a "~'.'aue, BY Hill Wilson Boston;
MY Il oTRS BY Grand Admiral Won Tir-
pltz. New York: Dodd Mead & co. Two
volumes $3.50,
Fiction
ASHES TO ASHES. BY Isabel Ostrander.
New York. Robert NJ. Mcbride.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

Madam Millie Moores, modiste, is
beside herself with misery because
she has seen her husband 60 out and
meet Cert, dress model in the ostab,,
lishment which Millie owns and
Phonzie manages. Phonzie and Cert
are buying a carriage for Phonzie's
baby, as a surprise for Millie.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
SIXTEEN FLYING FIELDS
TO Be RETAINED IN U. S.
Material VIII Be Stored at All but
Two Of These, and Flying
win BE Taught There

Washington. March 13.-Sixteen fly
Ing fields and three balloon fields are
to be maintained permanently by the
war department, acting Secretary
crowell said yesterday. The fields
have not yet been definitely decided
upon but the secretary said two would
be near Newport News, three on the
Pacific coast. one near New York,
three In Texas two In Florida, one
In Mississippi, one on the Great Lakes
and one each in Georgia and Okla
homa.
Actual instruction In flying, how
ever. will be conducted at only two
fields, as previously announced. The
others Will he held In reserve.
Secretary Crowell said department
experts do not believe the training
machines viii deteriorate If carefully
stored, even after period of years.
nor do they believe any decided Inn
provcment Will be- made In these
types which would necessltatc their
being discarded
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
PRESIDENT WILSON AGAIN
WELCOMED BY fREkCHM
Premier Ciemenceau and Pres'oen'
Poincare Among Notables VINO
Give Him Glad Hand

Paris. March lJ.-On President WIZ
sons arrival Yesterday the presidential
party was met at the station by Pfesl-
dent aud Madame Foincnre, Premier
Clrmenceau, Foreign Minister PIchoh'
r. n. Tardfeu. General Rerd0ulat, the
military governor of Paris Major Cen
rrnl MOrdacq, head of the military
cabinet Of the ministry of war; Secre-
fairy Lansing Gen. Tasker ii. Bliss,
Henry White Of the peace mission ;
Ambassador Sharp and Admiral Ben
son
President Poncare gave President
Wilson Il cordial greeting. With Pre-
micr CIemenceau the American eXecu-
tive spoke for some time, congratulate
ing the French statesman on his es-
cape from death in the recent attempt
to assussinate him.
President Wilson appeared TO be
in excellent health and spirits.
The president did not tarry on the
station platform. He let his hand
lngcr longer in that of VI. Clemenceau
than anyone else and spoke earnestly
to the premier as they Strolled down
the platform After he had congratu-
lated NJ Clemenceau on his escape
from death by the aSsassin's bullets,
the premier turned and smilingly said :
MY hide is too thick for Il little
piece of lead to do me any harm"
| Emerging from the station Presi-
| dent Wilson Immediately entered his
motor car, which drove ut high speed
along the left bank of the Seine, cross
| ing the river on the Alma bridge. Ar
irving In the Place DIES Etas Unis, the
streets were virtually deserted, II fact
sharply in contrast with the presidents
appearance in Paris just three months
| ago.
| President Wilson conferred with
| Premier Lloyd George. Premier Glen
cnceau ana Col Edward Nj. House IN
the latter's office yesterday afternoon
| When the president arrived, accOmpa
MED by his wife. he was cheered by
| the crowds around the hotel De CrillOr
and he acknowledged the greeting will
, Il salute.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
HUN SHIPS ALLOTTED TO U. S,
Condition Of Vessels Believed to Be
Such That Repairing Them
VIII Hardly Pay

Washington, March 13.-Offlcial In
formation has reached the state de-
partment that the German ships laid
up In Chilean waters have been
allocated to the United States by the
supreme war council at Paris. Off
clnls said yesterday that these vessels
had an aggregate tonnage of more than
100000 but that probably not more
than three or four of them could be
put into service within several months
ms most of them need extensive re-
pairs.
Title To these vessels as well rs to
those which were laid up In Brazilian
waters and subsequently, transferred
to France, and those In Uruguay and
Peru chartered To the United States
will be determined later by the allied
commission.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
CLEMENCEAWS ASSAlLANT
is CONDEMNED TO DEATH
Anarchist Coffin Makes Statement
Saying He Is Opposed to All
Constituted Authority

Paris, March 1s.-Emile Coffin, the
anarchist, who recently made an at
tempt upon the life of Premier Georges
Clemencenu, was yesterday sentenced
to death by the courtmartial which
was trying him The verdict of the
courtmartial was unanimous.
After Captain Mornet, the prosecu-
tor, had asked for the death penalty
on the ground that the crime had been
premeditated and no mitigating cir
cumstances shown, Coffin rose and
made n most amazing statement. He
said he was II militant anarchist, an
-militarist, an anti-patriot and
against all constituted authority.
II would have shot the kaiser with
more relish than NJ. Clemenceau, be-
cause he. too, represented authority
he continued. II have no country
my country is the world"
He made a long. rambling state
ment, saying that he had gloried in
the deed he had done and that he
favored bolshevism and spartacanism
and he wished to strike down all who
were in authority.
When he concluded. Oscar Bloch
made plea that Coffin was irrespon.
sible, asking that the court should not
pronounce the death penalty.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
MARROW ESCAPE FOR LEON
Assassin's Bullet Comes Within Inch
Of Letting Something Into
Trotxky'a Head

London. March 15.--i.eon Trotzky.
Russian Bolsheylki minister of war
and marine, escaped assassination by
m inch last Sunday. according TO a
dispatch TO the Daily Mail from Hell
singfors,
Trotxky was returning to Petrograd
from visit To the red army on the
Riga front. When the train stopped at
small station three members of the
red guard fired several shots at him as
he was leaving sleeping car, The
same evening Trotzky related the In
cident To the rctrograd soviet and
showed bullet hole In his hat less
than AN inch above hts head. lie added
that one member of his staff was
killed by the shots and another slight.
~ wounded.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
KEEP HUNS OUT Of PARIS

Paris. March 1S.--When the time for
the signing of the peace treaty ar
riyes, IL Is understood, Germany's
representatives will be housed In one
of the palaces ut Versailles and will
not be permitted To enter Paris as the
French government does not care To
undertake TO afford protection to Ger.
mans In Paris.
While the German siguatories WIN
not actually be prisoners, and must
not be treated as such. public senti.
meut against Germany Is So high in
Paris the French government is UNI
willing to risk the unpleasant lnei-
dents which might occur were the Of
ficial German representatives to APP
pear publicly.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
FINISH UP DRAFT
OF PEACE TREATY
PEACE CONFERENCE HAS NEAR
ly COMPLETED WORK FOR
WHICH 1T CONVENED
LEAGUE NO PART OF TREATY
Covenant viii Be Handled Separate
Iy.-Huns Will Be Asked to Sign
Treaty Without Farley When
They Are Called in

London, March 12.-Premier LLOYD
George and Foreign Secretary Balfour
have sent word 10 their colleagues mere
that the peace conference has neari!
completed its work, the Evening News
saws il understands. The new draft
Of the peace treaty will be signed be-
fore the end of March.
When the Germans are summoned TO
Puris, the news adds. the treaty Will be
read to them and they will be invited
to sign il. There will be no discus
sions with view to alterations OF the
principle articles Of the treaty. Ii II
is thought necessary, questions invOlv-
ing the adjustment of details VIII De
referred to Il special commission.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
FIGHT WITH WILLARD
FRAMED, SAYS JOHNSON

Havana, Cuba. March l5.-Jack
Johnson, former heavyweight cham
pion, In signed statement given to
the Associated Press, declares his fight
In this city four years ago was pre-
arranged affair and that he allowed
Willard To win. In addition to the
sum of $4,000. entire rights to the
moving picture films in Europe and
8is per cent of the proceeds of their
exhibition in the United States and
Canada, are mentioned by Johnson. to-
gether with the promise OF aid to set
tie Johnson's difficulties with the fed
eral authorities in Chicago so that he
might return there to reclaim his prop
erty and see his mother.
The former champion declares that
unless Willard agrees to fight him
within reasonable time he will claim
the worlds title, He signed his state.
mcnt; Jack Johnson, champion"
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
u. S. EMPLOYMENT
SERVICE CURTA|LED
FiLieusTER IN SENATE CAUSED
FAILURE OF AppRoPRIA.
q TON MEASURE
STILL CARE FOR FIGHTERS
Work on Behalf Of Returned Soldiers
and Sailors viii not Be interfered
with. but Many Regular or
ficea viii Close

Washington. March - -lecductlon
Of - per cent Ia the force Of the
United States employment service. Of
fective May II. has been announced by
Director General Densmore. This
WINS made necessary. IL WINS explained
by the failure of congress 10 provide
FUNDS for continuance of the work
Mr.. Densmore said the number Of
employment offices would be reduced
from u tn 30. but that none of the
work In direct connection with the RI.
turn Of soldiers and sailors to civilian
employment would be discontinued
Cut to the Bone.
The reduction Of the employment
service cuts IL Ia The bone" said Mr.
Densmorc. ''fhe special work In plac-
ing engineers aud other highly trained
inen. persons handicapped by old age
and physical disability. vocational
guidance for Juveniles. the trade tests
for skilled workers aud the training
Of employment examiners must all
cease March -.
The maintenance OF "a skeleton ad-
Ininistrative organization In Washing.
ton and the states and the continuance
Of camp representatives. soldiers bu.
reaus and the clearance system. to-
gether with 30 branch offices In stra-
tegic Industrial centers WILL however,
permit the directing Of national EN-
ployment work by the employment ser
vice. and enable II TO resume fun op.
Grafton when congress appropriatcs
funds"
Secretary Wilson. In u statement ok.
planning the plan for retaining the
skeleton organization OF the service
disclosed the service could not be run
on President Wilson's $IO0OO0,OOO wal
emergency fund because practically nll
Of u has been spent or pledged.
After fhe urgency deficiency bill
was killed In the fllihuster In the clos
Ing hours of the last session of the
senate. Secretary Wilson appealed I,
the president. lie received this reply
M radio from the presidential ship
George Washington. at sea
Regret nothing 50 much us the dis
continuance Of the work of the EN-
ploynent service bureau but the fac,
In that Including pledges made my
fund IL practically exhausted. whal
remains would not suffice To maintain
nee no escape from dlshandment.
hope Il Will be possible To keep skel
eton organization"
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
ALIENS WILL BE SENS HOME

Salt Lake City. March i2--Immedl-
ately upon the signing of the peace
pact between the central powers aud
the allies aud United States. - enemy
aliens confined In the war prison bar
racks at Fort Douglas. near here, will
be deported To Germany aud Austria.
II WAS annoIslced yesterday by Il, NJ.
Price of the United tSates bureau of
Immigration. They viii he kept at the
war prison until peace Is signed.
Most of the men are members of
the |. W. w, according To Price, but
they are enemy aliens, Too. and sub
jcct To deportation because OF their
alleged anarchistic preachmgs.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
GERMAN OPERA SEASON Us
INDEFINITELY POSTPONED

New York, March 11.-DeSpite an
1ouncement that the management of
the Lexington theater had indefinitely
postponed its advertised season of Oh
era in the German language. nearly 500
soldiers, sailors and marines in mill.
tary formation marched up Lexington
avenue early last evening to see that
the theater really was dark On be-
ing informed no performance would be
given, the men marched away in or.
DERBY fashion and later disbanded.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
WAR SAVINGS CAMPAIGN
WILL NOT BE ABANDONED

Washington, March Is. - Reports
Thar the systematic war savings cam
paisn might be abandoned in some
parts Of the country were specifically
denied last night at war savings head
quarters. 1t was explained the re-
ports probably developed from the re-
organization effected this year by the
substitution to a large extent OF surer.
vision of the campaign from federal
reserve district headquarters instead
OF from state headquarters.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
NAME GERMAN PEACE ENJOYS
Willy Old Diplomat Has Been Selected
to Head Hun Delegation TO
Conference

welmar. March i5.~~The German
delegates To the peace conference will
be- count won Broekaortt, Rantzau, the
foreign minister. pr. Edward David.
majority socialist aud first president
at the national assembly. pr. Adolph
Warhurg, nr. Adolph Muller. minister
90 Switzerland; Professor Walter NJ,
A. Sehuecking of Marhurg university
and Herr Gelsherg. minister Of pests
and telegranhs in the rrusslan minis.
Try.
coun, won Rroekdorff Rantzau Is a
graduate of the German Imperial dipla.
macy md has heea foreign minister
since the formation of the Ebert gov
ernment.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
DEFENSE COUNCIL WILL
HELP SOLDIERS AND SAILORS

Washington, March 15.-An emer.
seacS committee on employment for
>"td1ers aud sailors was organized yes,
''e'iaS hy the council Of national de-
f'nSe with the approval of the war
and labor departments. The purnose
: 10 meet the situation created nv
the radical curtailment OF the machin.
cry of the federal employment SER
vice, made necessary by the failure OF
congress to provide funds for the re-
mainder of this fiscal year.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
ARGENTINE CEREAL MARKET
TIED UP BY PORT STRIKE

Buenos Ayres. March i3-The cereal
markets ARE practically ~ Il >tuud
Still owing 10 the continued r.et
strike, Elevators nj nh the Argentine
ports are filled and must ~ them ar.
closed. The railroads running into the
ports are crowded with cereal trains
Foreign buyers have retired and local
dealers are doing virtually nothing.
Since February - there has been ne
cereal transaction of more than 2oC
/ tons.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-21
Sensational Reports Denied.

Washington. March ia.--MaJor Gen.
eral Treat. commanding the American
troops In Italy, has cahled the war de.
partment that personal inspection Of
the xEand Infantry had fallesl to sun
port the sensational charges nlatie m
newspapers regarding the condition
OF the unit. The men never had been
ied on horse meat aud were never
compelled TO steal food. aud added
that 1.-THE allied commanders and IN,
senefns public without exception vol
h,ariis gave highest praise to ,hi,
egiment.