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The sun., 1919-07-06
81 HAVE learned what difficult road

HAN r. learned what dlihcult road
L is the one that leads to success.
Amid its bumps and hollows honest men
stumble and fall and perish 1t really isn't
Il road at all, but a Forest. in which the
gentler animals are merely the food of the
wolves. SO no longer lay too much blame
upon a business mana deniZen of the
Forest-if he makes of himself wolf.
Nowhere else is the law of the survival of
the fittest 50 rigidy enforced as in the
Forest of Business"
This paragraph is from HoIres a short
and intense novel Of American Big Bust
ness, by Alden W. Welsh, who is new TO
the writing of novels but long trained in
the forest of which he writes His first
novel is in MANY respects a notable one.
1t is executed with vigor, reserve and an
absolute lack of waste, and the mystery
element is so ably handled as to convince
us that Mr. Welch can if he chooses be-
come first class master of detective
stories.
The conviction came to Erich Congreve
early that business was "a deep forest
peopled by wolves in mems clothing and
that it only remained to discover which
wolf had the longest and the sharpest
teeth. Mr.. Welch uses young Congreve
as his central figure, showing the effect
which continual struggle had upon his
character. There are numerous minor
issues which need not enter into this dis
cussion but which will interest the reader
In some respects Mr.. Welch's method is
strongly reminiscent of Arnold Bennett.
In meticulous manipulation of detail,
especially in the minutia of household SER
vice, the touch is similar and there are
times when the theme and certain situa-
tions in Wolves incline toward The Price
Of Lore, through the plot and development
are quite dissimilar.
In literary execution Mr.. Welch falls
far short of Bennett. We question wheth-
kcr Bennett even after merciless business
training could ever have spoken of "a
brace of excessively humorous remarks"
At any rate this unpractised writer has
the art of winning and holding the inter
est of his readers, and these viii include
people who are not usually drawn to
novels in which the comI1ereial element
is stressed. Although not without TO-
nance, this is in no sense romantic novel.
The sun., 1919-07-06
"SOCk SONGS"

OUBTLESS Books and The Book
~ World should take up the volume
of Sock Songs with Il diffident hem and
haw and downeast eyes, for the songs
were called forth by contest in another
department of The SUNDAY Sun, and
they reappear between covers with the
benefit of an imposing Office preface
Miss Lula Merrick, a Magazine writer,
invented the contest and proposed it to
The Sun. Her idea, which worked out
admirably, was TO stimulate patriotic knit
ting and to prompt knitters to make up
CHEEKY, hon@ly little jIngles for enclosure
with the socks 10 the men IN France.
Within its first month the contest as
sumed proportions no one had expected.
The weekly prizes were s. worth, 50
worth and 81 worth of wool and it is safe
TO say that many a serious poetry compe-
tition has failed TO produce more crafty
ing results, both in quantity of entries
and-the conditions allowed form aver
age quality.
The contest ran from May. 1918, until
the armistice. Each Sunday the three
prize winning songs were published, with
ten others of honorable MENTION" and
sometimes few more that seemed inter
csting. All that were published have
been made-quite independently of THE
SUN-into presentable little book. which
is one of the souvenirs Of the work at
home to win the war
Our heart sinks with Il fear that Messrs.
Mencken, Colum Frank Harris, Francis
Hackett, and (ast but not greatest) Clay
ton Hamilton, should any or all these as
sorted wiseaeres happen TO pOunee on this
volume, would search it in vain for a
milestone on the pathway up Parnassus.
The writers of the Sock Songs were made
happy in the writing and few odd tens
of thousands of people were in the read
ing; and this at time when happiness
was scarce and strictly rationed. And
50, for our part, we are glad that there
were Sock Songs, and glad that there is
Il book of them-albeit we could have
wished that the books appearance had
been more timely.
OF the two or three hundred songs re-
published good third seem ingenious
enough to hold their own in thu 5nek of
The sun., 1919-07-06

IHIS uniform edition of Leonard
Il Merrick looks like an attempt on
the part of distinguished authorship to
command from the public, during the life
time of a neglected confrere of high
deserts, the material recognition that Is
sadly overdue him. If such is the case
the experiment is a heartwarming thing to
watch and the edition, which is 4 good
one, doubly merits enormous sales.
But why has Leonard Merrick gone
neglected?
Our friend who edits Il popular magI-
zine undertook to tell us why. Although
you would not suspect it from his work,
he is one magazine man whom nature
intended not for real estate agent or a
patent medicine vcnder, but for poet
He had borrowed CONRAD in quest from
us and had, of course, succumbed; he had
met Leonard Merrick and was his.
He said Merrick heretofore had never
been properly advertised. Advertising
could make not only money but momen-
tarly serious recognition Cor bad fiction.
Want of it could damn the best Tell even
the pundits insistently enough tEat Mary
Ann Peterkinss Hearts and Han was a
great novel, and 10. they would begin to
think it was. a piflling incompetent
author could be built up" provided some
editor or publisher would take trouble
and buy the space
Our friend then went off on shop tan
gents Able promotin. could force any
magazine down the public throat in any
quantity. II one of Mr.. Saffron's editors
thought The lcLIoW B0udOir RerieW was
ready TO profit in ads by 100000 more
circulation, he had only to report to that
effect and next month the thing was done.
Fiction editors no longer watched the
mails for promising contributions; they
called up Harlow b. BlenkinsOp, genius
while you wait, and ordered 5000 word
love story interesting to business men,
the copy to be ready by Thursday noon.
The sun., 1919-07-06
Readers Authors Present an "AuthOrs' Author"

Decidedly one trouble with Leonard Mer-
rick Is being an honest man.
He does the thing his way and as easily
and unconstrainedly as he does everything.
He refuses to take himself hard as a sage
or softly as a pander. And ne has no
partisan Svmpathies among the char
acters. Blanche originally married to
Fairbairn and Oiiphant to Alma would
have been happy ever after according to
their different lights and worthy enough
of any ones respect although there
would be no novel The wrong man hav-
ing married the wrong woman. each in
behavior following natural bent, both cut
sorry figures-the man ds an arrant prig,
the woman as an unfeelmg mother. an I'M
sympathetic comrade, a sordidly faithleSs
wife
OF the two, conventionally she appears
the worse, because the ideals with which
her situation conflicts, luxury and electric
light celebrity, are ideals conventionally
inferior to domeSticity and artistic nteg-
rity. And so more than one recent re-
viewer has jumped at the conclusion that
the author is partisan of the prig.
Which is a mistake. The point of The
4 ctor- Manager, if it uneonsciously has a
point, Is that anybody, always himself
and true to himself, may appear admir-
able or contemplate according to the
natures of the. persons with whom he is
surrounded and related.
w.
This novel being what ii Is, lis failure
of popularity Is more or less understand
able But what of Conrad. the golden
Conrad, which isn't limited in interest by
anything, but is lightly fiddled on one of
the heartstrings of every man and woman
over 30? Mr.. Howells asks our own ques-
ton about the neglect of Leonard Mer-
RE and makes several guesses at the
answer-guesses that must have failed to
satisfy Mr.. Howells himself.
What is the correct answer. anyway
Perhaps these twelve distinguished spon-
sors have supplied it and the world at
large is to discover Merfiek at last under
their auspices. We hope 50.
THE ACTOR MANAGER. BY LEONARD
MERRICK. Introduction by William Dean
Howells. F.. p. Dutton & Co. Limited
edition, 81.
The sun., 1919-07-06
Aren't Business Men Wicked"

What romance it has was evidently not
in the original prescription but has been
laid on in a thin coating as concession
to consumers. The lack of a deeper love
interest will not be found detrimental.
and Is preferable to an excess of senti-
ment in a book. of this nature. As the
author says, speaking for his hero. What
has a wolf to do with love!"
WOLVES. BY ALDEN W. WEIGH Alfred
A Knouf 81 40
The sun., 1919-07-06

AS novel the book is a little ineohel
emit writes London reviewer of BtiHl
AHey. 1T strikes you that a seduction
here and there is thrown in because a
w. L. George book Aithout sex would be
too great an anomaly foy any one" Evil
IDENTIFY the worthy W. L. is not without
honor in his own country.
The sun., 1919-07-06

the beginning. then TO get out Of the way,
finally to return, not to provide happy
ending, but to prevent mistake Of Mr..
Merrick's attitude for tragic one.
The idealist and the commercial actress
marry, prosper together professionally
while tormentins each other connubially,
and naturally break apart the lady pro
viding for her future by masking a ''scom-
drcl'' OF the rich romantic. her husbands
friend This, the reader Is allowed 10
surmise, frees the husband to be happy
with the woman he should have married Iii
the first place.
The sun., 1919-07-06
"The Mystery Keepers"

TINE manifest need in fiction Of
Il psychic detective of the better class
has been supplied by Marion Fox in The
MyStery Keepers. Marteyne, the psychic
sleuth, does not rely upon seances to bring
out the guilt of murdercrs, and there is
only one bit of table turning in the whole
book. He is mild sort of medium who
Just wanders around the scene of the
crime and gets rather cloudy revelations
Of what happened.
The book is equipped with haunted
abbey and a self-starting family tradition.
1t is never dull enough to put the reader
TO sleep at noon, or exciting enough to
make him fall out Of hammock
THE MYSTERY KEEPERS. By MARION
Fox. John Lane Company. $3.50.
The sun., 1919-07-06
III

We have seen Mr. Merrick admired in
print for his knowledge of the seaD
side of the theatrical profession Now if
only he did exploit a scamy side The
4ctOr- Manager would probably be a best
seller in this country. But unfortunately
for his royalties. Mr.. Mrrrick. who knows
actors, insists on seeing small difference
between their natural history ard that Of
any other class. What seams he does turn
up run through the entire human fabric.
If his idealist Ohphant were a lawyer.
the worldly and On-maternal wife
Blarche a social climbers daughter true
to breed, and Alma King stenographcr,
the Developments could be the same-al
though Blanche in characterization would
be somewhat different, since she is, as
Mr.. HOwells notes, specifically of and for
the stage.
Half a dozen kinds of maltrcatment of
the material without any rebuilding of
the plot might have made it go like hot
cakes. Suppose the scientific
view were taken of Blanche EllertOn.
Have her ever 50 Advanced; dedicate her
to her own Personality; repudiate her
claims Of motherhood on woman-toot for
birth control; Hay Oliphant as a pre-
destined medieval prig; give Fairbairn,
not the acute romantics, but ruthless,
primal strengthened buy yourself your
Rolls-Royce and your villa
Or take the syrupy-sentimental attitude
toward Oliphant: make him as Noble as
all -get-out; have Blanche Bad Woman,
vampire; let Alma King love and re-
nounce in sanity silence, only to let her
lips and ELEPHANTS meet on the last page.
The sun., 1919-07-06

Here is British opinion of lara
Head: Mr. Hergesheimer has two grave
faults Il; novelist-his sensuous passion
for hot, highly eolored decoration, and his
contentment with occasionally slovenly
Engks1t,. It would not be worth men
tioning this if We did not think he was
capable of becoming a very great novelist
indeed That "a sensuOus passion for
hot, highly colored decoration" is grave
fault is nonsense That the decoration in
lara Head is "hot" is matter of personal
tcmperature-and pray, on which pages
is the '.slovenly English"l
The sun., 1919-07-06

Gertrude AthertOn says in the July Nc
Cures that she doesn't drink and is agin
prohibition. and the other day We met an
author who does drink and is strong for
prohibition on the third hand it can be
authortatively stated that Rupert
Hughes's The Cup of Fury will help no
one to decide
The sun., 1919-07-06

THE MYSTERY KEEPERS. BY MARION
Fox. John Lane Company. $3.50.
The sun., 1919-07-06

SOCK SONGS. Boston: The CornhiIl Com
pany. $l.25.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17
FEARS HOPPER
INVASION HERE
Lockwood Warns Farmers
Against Carelessness in
Destroying Insect.

Stewart Lockwood Of FarKc, United
States special field agent. in charge of
the North Dakota graSshopper control
work, arrived in the city today, and
spent some time in conferences with
A. J. Surratt. federal field agent for
the crop reporting hurean. While in
the city, MI. Lockwood visited the
state fair exhibitions
In speaking of the grAsShopper sit
uation throughout the state and In
this district particularly. Mr.. Lock-
wood said that as vet he - not pre-
pared to make any formal statement
as to the seriousness of the situation
in regard to the crops The grass
they are doing more damage in the
west than in the valley district. How
ever in this county. some parts are
now badly affected and farmers can
rot be toe cautious in preparing
against the insects.
The only practical way to combat
grasshopper. Mr.. Lockwood. after
serious study Of the matter contends,
is to make use Of the graxhopper
poison. the formula for which has
been published before. Parts that are
only partially affected this year,
should be leaned in order to prevent
the return OF the pests next year, he
said Mr.. Lockwood stated this morn
ing, thai n grasshopper to every
square yard, which was left unframed
this season. would result in the ap-
p%earance of SO to he same square
which is generally believed to be an
enemy Of the hopper, he says, has no
material effect in destroying the in
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17
ESTATE; CASE
TESTIMONY IS
NOW FINISHED
Arguments to be Made in
Observation-Disclosures
Called This Morning.

h last Of the testimony in the j
G. McWilliams estate case was offered
IN county court this morning before
County Judge L. K. Hassell., The cas-
will be argued before Judge Hassell
some date in September, not yet set
George E. McWilliams. brother OF
deceased. will continue as special ad-
stipulated that Claude LaDue Of Lar;
more shall act as agent for Mrs
Reina O'Brien, the cross-petitioner,
representing her interests.
Mrs. Reina O'Brien was called to
the witness stand for the first time
this morning. her testimony relative
to the case was necessarily limited.
Proves Old Case.
NJ. w. Spaulding, clerk of court, was
called to prove h DISTRICT court rec
ords of the breach of promise case of
Miss Minnie Hall against the late J.
G.. McWilliams in the eighties. Mr..
Spaulding. who was a boyhood friend
of both Miss Hall and McWilliams,
also testified that it was common
knowledge and belief and has been
so for than thirty years that ].
c. McWilliams was the father of Mrs.
Reina O'Brien.
Deputy County Auditor John Nelson.
also an old acquaintance of Miss Hall
LIN ~ " " SAAS
same main facts as offered by other
witnesses called yesterday. that j. c..
McWilliams was commonly UNDER
stood to be the father of Mrs. Reina
O'Brien.
Doctors Deposition.
The deposition of DR.. A. P. Rouns-
veil. now located in Florida, was filed
with Judge Hassell at the court ses-
sion.. DR.. Rounsvell was the physician
who attended Miss Hall during con-
finement prior to the birth of her
daughter, Reina Hall, now Mrs. Reina
O'Brien.
In this case. arguments in which
will be made in September. brothers
and sisters of j. C. McWilliams, de-
ceased, petition that George McWil-
liams. a brother, be appointed admin
istrator of the estate which is esti-
mated at approximately $4,000.
Mrs. Reina O'Brien is the cross-peu-
toner, claiming that she is the natural
child of the former Grand Forks
county bachelor and therefore the heir
to his estate.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17
CAFE SERVICE
NORMAL AGAIN
Dairy Lunch Re-opens With
New Force After Walk
out Wednesday.

Restaurant forces that were Grip
pied or weakened by the walk-out
called Wednesday noon in restaurants
whose proprietors refused to recognize
the walters and cooks union, have
been back on a normal or nearly or
NAL basis today.
: The Elsin Lunch, the most heavily
hit Of local restaurants by the walk
out, was forced to close last night but
today has been running with d COM
plete and efficient force. Gilbert
Johnson, one Of the proprieton stat
ed this afternoon hat he refused to
recognize the union and will not do
80 because he asked for an opportu-
nifty to wait On a union committee to
discuss the matter OF Monday, but
that no such meeting could be ar
ranged. g5ss
The Chocolate, Shop. also crippled
by tho Walk-out, was running today,
serving sandwiches and light lunches
owing. to the fact that a suitable cook
B~rousseau. proprietor OF the shop.
stated this afternoon that he had not
signed the union contract and that
he never will sign 1t. He is making.
arrangements to oecure q competent
chef and will continue operating, he
says.
Only one employee of. the Empress
S04c W0AA0O OOIa JcoS0H VAy 01EV IlI2A
eating establishment is running fun
The Harry Harm Cafeteria and
Fishers conceded the demands Of the
union early In the game and IRE run
ming full force. The Harry Harm
Cafeteria will be closed all day Sum
day in order to allow employees to
rest following the heavy rush Of bust
ness during fair week., according. to
the proprietor.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17
Ranchman, Detained
In Belgium During
War, Was Mere Slave

Marmarth, N. D.. July fray
mond de Jaugher, former Cannonball
sheepman who returned to Belgium
just before the outbreak OF the war,
and who had been detained in his ma
tive land for five years, is home again.
De Jaugher states that during the
early stages of the war his American
citizenship was a protection, but that
later it seemed rather to be a handi-
cap, and that he was compelled to do
a slaves work and to submit to all
name of indignities. Mr.. de JauE-
hers family shared this experience
with him. Fortunately for him, he
left his money on deposit in a Mar
marth bank, where the Germans
could not reach it.. ) u. L-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17
FAVORS
Low TEST BEER;
Y. N. c 4. SLAMMED

Appleton, WIS., July 17.-sRssolu-
tons fayvcring 3s3Aepers cent beer and
hibftion were adopted5si5 to 10 AZ to-
dAy'st*seesion Of the wisconsin STATE
E1ederahon ofssIAbor convention fol-
3loRinx ashsAted debate. John Ger
ling. ssrapressnting the Milwsukee
TIypQgrsphicals union delegates was
2 only sp9eaker Against the resolu-
ton&sss ~ ,.i. h M
ArsSolutihn, thankip9 the local 81.
y: 81 A..2forSyfnvidnk the delegates to
,mAkesffee tssof tho buildings here
49, yoted DOWN aktsr one delegate
ib6ldy 81 an: fordodato vote asainst ii
On account 81 the bad .odor, connected
wsth ths =, NC. ~ ;in the army.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17
NORTH DAKOTA
! GOLF TOURNEY
! CARD ARRANGED
Best Players Of State Will
sE -s
4 \ Compete in Annual
q Tournament.
t{1rlIEa MtE.s3stl 7Es Ar.H. .-aEe Nsa-1 .s

u The best golfers in the state will
compete in the North Dakota state
xolt tournament that will open here
the morning of Tuesday, July %, with
the qualifying rounds Of the women's
championship qualifying rounds and
CLOSE Saturday afternoon, July 26,
with the finals in the mems cham
II Players will be divided into flights
of sixteen according to scores. First
or championship flight. semi-fnals,
and finals, SO hole matches-other
flights all matches Is holes.
u Prizes will be given to the winner
and runner up of the championship
Night n also for the best score in
the qualifying round. A prize will be
given to the winner Of each flight.
8 In the women's championship the
best eight of the 18-hole qualifying
round will qualify. All matches will
be 18 holes with prizes to the winner
and runner up. In the team match
the best five scores of each club will
count for the Is holes.
" A great deal of interest as usual will
center about the driving contest and
yhe approach and putting contest.
8 The program of events:
Tuesday. July %.
ii $500 a. m.-Women'S champion
ship. Qualifying rounds
n 1900 p. m.-Team play, IS holes.
- Wednesday.
3g S:15 a. m.-Men's championship.
Qualifying rounds.
q $3.50 a. m.-Women's championship.
First rounds (match play).
100 r. m.-Men's championship.
Qualifying rounds.
Is Thursday.
$3.50 a. m.-Men's championship
first match. First matches of second
$3.50 a. m.-Semi-fnals women's
championship.
y 100 p. m.-Men's championship
second match. Second matches of
second third flights. First matches of
defeated Fights.
Friday.
- $3.50 a. m.-Semi-fnals mems
championship.
4 900 a. m.-Semi-fnals. second
third flight and all defeated Fights.
~ $3.50 a. m.-Finals women's cham
pionship.
N 100 p. m.-Semi-finals mems
championship finals. Second third
flights and all defeated Fights.
Saturday.
" 9:0Osa. m.-Finals mems champion
ship.
81 9:3Q a. m.-Driving contest.
lo:30 a. m.-Approaching putting
100 p. m.-Finals mems champion
ship.
Herald Wants Bring Results.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17
Slope County ToaLe,e
l5,e00 Head OF Cattle

Fargo, S. D., July 1s.-There arc
10000 head of cattle in Slope county
and Is per cent of these must go into
new fields because Of drouth condi-
tons, Charles Eastgate, county agent
Of Slope county, told bankers, mef-
chants, county agents and commits
sioners in session at Dickinson the
first of the week to study the finans-
ing of the western North Dakota
farmer, who is experiencing his fourth
consecutive crop failure. MI. East
gate said there is no feed for them
and the probable cost of hay-$4o per
ton-will be prohibitive.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17
ALL RECORDS FOR
! TROOP SHIPMENTS
BROKEN IN JUNE

New York, July. 1s.-Formef German
liners, converted bmerchantnaen and
warships operated ~ the cruiser md
transport force Of the Atlantic Fleet
transported from Europe TO the Unit
Cd states during June q total Of 31S,s
oS7 troops, or SEQ more. than were
transported TO Europe BY Al vessels
month 81 ne war. Il wss snnounesd
here today by Vice Admiral Albart
1GlAavee. This NaS In addition To-
troops carried BY other agescieos
TO handle these troops 13E ships
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17
Sheridan County To
Have Picnic Serie,

Plentywood. Mont, July IA
series Of farm picnics will be held in
this county under the auspices of the
derson, as follows:
July 1s, Whitehall, all day, at Com
munity ehalE & j. ~ + &s5
July -, .Dasmar, all day, at Brush
Lake.
Speakers:
J.. M. Brander. field agent in mar
keting, Market Problems"
r. E. Fuller, field agent in agron-
omy, Forage Crops and the Crops
tural agent, Permanent Agriculture"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17
MAYOR FAILED
TO PERFORM
DUTY; FIRED
Iowa Executive Removed
For Failure to Oppose
Parade of Slackers.

Dubuque, Ia. July 17.-Following
charges that a Stacker parade" had
been held in Cascade, Iowa, in May.
1918, Mayor P. J. Kehce of that town
was ordered removed from Office by
Judge Kintzinger in district court
here today. The mayor, it was al
legged, made no attempt to stop the
demonstration in which persons sus-
pected of d~isloyalty took part.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17
INDICATIONS FOR
BITTER PROHIBITION
FIGHT IN HOUSE

Washington, July 17-Considera-
ton of the prohibition enforcement
measure was resumed today by the
house with half a doFen members In
offering objection to certain provisions
Of the bill.
fight on the measure. section by Sec
ton would be bitter.