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The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-07-24
NEW EQUIPMENT
TO BE BOUGHT

Recommendations for fire protection
reforms, personally presented to the
city council Monday night by Geo. W.
Stokes, who with his fellow deputy
state fire marshal, Gilbert W. Allen,
recently spent 10 days here making
thorough investigation, will be acted
on at once by the city fathers. The
council will proceed Immediately to
purchase all hose and other apparatus
considered a vital necessity by the
deputy fire marshals.
The recommendation provides for
other expensive equipment, and it is
urged that building, to accommodate
at least six men, be erected as home
for the fire department. The council
will undertake to comply with the sug-
gestions as soon as financially able.
Mr.. Stokes, who left for Forest Grove
to investigate the causes of the con.
f1agratlon that wiped out a business
section of that city, compliments the
Volunteer fire department as follows
Hood River has water in abundance
and fire department Of clean, up to
date, WldeaWake young men that would
be an honor and credit to any commun-
ity, but they are not skilled in the use
of equipment for saving property from
fire, for the reason that they have no
equipment. "
The city council, as the result of IN
creased motor traffic and the visits of
scores OF motor tourists daily, is plan
ming numerous civic Improvements. A
narrow intersection at the Front and
Oak street corners, used by Columbia
Highway motorists crossing the city,
will be widened, a corner lot having
peen purchased from A. X Stranahan.
A part Of the lot will be used for a
rest park and comfort station. The
council is also considering the staight-
ening of State street. used by traffic
crossing the city, and section of the
street will be paved, according to plans,
when the state completes the paving Of
the Highway between here and Cascade
Locks.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-07-24
GROWERS MAY EX-
CHANGE OLD COWS

To stimulate the movement of the
herd of purebred Jersey cows brought
here last week by k. V. Wright, the
livestock interests of the valley and
men promoting the sale have arranged
that owners of grade cows may trade
in their old animals for the high class
cows. 1t was found that many orch
ardists were willing to invest in the
pureberd cows bought from l. NJ. Simp-
son. Of Independence, provided they
could sell cows on hand.
The purebred Jerseys are moving
rapidly, growers from all districts visit
ing here to inspect them. 1t is thought
that more TIN half of the herd of 35
will be sold before the week is over.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-07-24
Attention Royal NeighbOrs of America

At the last regular meeting of this
month, to be held Friday. July 25, at
the K. of ?. hall, referendum vote
on the repeal of Section 2l8 of the by
laws, changing the assessment rates.
will be taken. Each member is urged
to be present.
Mrs, Emma Jones, Recorder,
The sun., 1919-04-20
"The Jervaise Comedy"

volved in the net Of circumstance. Al
midnight of Saturday in summer the
Jervaise house party stops dancing TO
bid the parson and his wife false good
night before making a fresh start. Dur
ing the lull it is discovered that Brenda,
the younger daughter of the house, has
disappeared, also the chauffeur, son of
the farmer Banks. No one knows better
than Mr.. Beresford how TO do such sit
uation justice. 1t would be idle to at
tempt pursuit of the events of the next
twenty-four hours here when he has done
It so admirably.
What part Of. the book is serious con-
Germs the evils and unfairness Of the Eng
fish class distinction, but most of it is far
from serious and concerns the vicissitudes
and rewards Of Melhuish as he develops
from staid and conventional young gen.
tleman Of the upper class into a creature
of impulse during the course Of night
and day. A comedy is nearly always
too long, and the terseness and original
it'll of Mr.. Beresford's style, while it is de-
ightful, is apt to become tiresome. At
about the point where the second act
would end you begin to feel slight dis
comfort, as if you had come near being
bored and wouldn't quite trust the third.
This is because you haven't been fair TO
the book. 1t ought to be read in three in
stalments. Taken 80, it is wholly cap
tivating.
THE JERVAISE COMEDY By j. d.
BEREsFoRD. The Macmillan Company.
$50.
The sun., 1919-04-20
BY CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE

SSTF you would interpret the riddle
l. of human motives, put no conf
dence in logic The principles of logic
are founded Oh the psychology Of Anyone,
nd Anyone is a mechanical waxwork, an
ktellec,ual abstraction, thing without
seul or sub-consciousness." So writes
the versatile ]. d. Beresford as he evolves
The JerraiSe Comedy from situation
which is saved from triteness by the de-
termined exclusion Of logic. This new
book gambols along in the wake of Gods
Counterpart like lamb at play and
represents literary holiday on Mr..
Eeresford's part. Melhuish, the play
wright who tells the story, is totally I'M
like the painful and doubt-ridden Philip
Naming and much more like the author
himself we venture to say. "What fine
playwright this novelist would makeE
you may remark innocently as you read.
To which your erudite husband will reply,
"Why, my dear Tor, you poor IDIOT, as the
ease may beg, he is one"
Then only will you begin to appreciate
to the full the capabilities Of this man who
can be either a playwright or a novelist
or both at once.
The action of The Jerudisc Comedy
covers twenty-four hours and is divided
between Thorp-Jervaise, Hall of the Jer-
vaise estate in England where week end
party is in progress, and the cottage of
the tenant farmer Banks. The two fami-
hes and one of the Jervaise guests, that
Melhuish who stages the story, are in
The sun., 1919-04-20
ByF. PARKER SToCKBRIDGE.

LOW completely America was mobi-
l. l. lized for the war is perhaps not
vet fully realized, even by those who
have some familiarity with the stupendous
figures of four million men in uniform
and under training at the signing Of the
armistice, half of them overseas and
many divisions actually in battle, within
eighteen months after this country's en-
trance into the combat. What our fight
ing men did at the front has been told
and retOld wildly and picturesquely by
the army of war correspondents and
writers of war books. What our soldiers
did behind the lines, the men who never
fired a gun-and there were a dozen of
these for every one who actually smelIed
powdcrr-is a story without which the
record of our part in the war would be
incomplete. Every record of mans con-
quest of time and space contains dramatic
possibilities. Nothing, Of course, can ap-
peal to the human scnsibilitics and stir
the finer emotions like the stories of men
in battle. If it were possible to read the
account of the gigantic organization called
the Service of Supply, which Isaac +.
Marcosson tells about in s. o. s., with
out constantly thinking Of those at the
front who at all times had everything
10 lose and nothing to gain, one might
feel more Of q thrill than this particular
book reporter has found it possible to
experience. Mr.. Marcosson has done a
comprehensive and readable piece of
work in telling about the men and the
methods by which the fifty pounds per
day Of food and supplies that had to be
sent overseas and distributed for every
soldier we had in France were handled
and got TO the front.
70 Mr.. MarcossOn the Service of Sup
ply was apparently the most wonderful
thing America ever accomplished. Su
perlatiyes and exclamation points leap
out from every page. The reader gets an
interesting and detailed account Of the
transportation Of supplies to France, the
The sun., 1919-04-20
By DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH.

THE conscientious obieetor,, that
Il rroblematic character whose mo-
tives kept the Government guessing and
whose fortunes furnished material for
many a pen, is now the subject of book
by Major Walter Guest Kellogg, chair
man of the board of inquiry appointed by
the Secretary of War to examine the
directors. The Conscientious Objector,
though an official book, makes downright
interesting reading, regardless Of ones
opinion as TO what should be done with
such men.
In the first place we learn, or are re-
minded, that the conscientious obiector
is not new. As far back as the third
century men we're executed for refusal
to fight. Gibbon in his Decline and Fail
Of the Roman Empire records Two
dramatic instances. "A sentence of death
was executed upon Mayimilianus, an
African youth, who had been produced
by his own father before the magistrate
as sufficient and legal recruit, but who
obstinately persisted in declaring that
his conscience would not permit him to
embrace the profession of q soldier"
And then there is the case of Marcellus,
the centurion who con a day Of public
festival threw away his belt, his arms
and the ensigns of his Office, and ex-
claimed with loud voice that he would
obey none but Jesus Christ the Eternal
King, and that he renowned forever the
use of earnal weapons As he was
convicted by his own confession, he was
condemned and bcheaded for the crime
Of desertion."
This official report inculcates belief
that the DIRECTORS are in most cases sin
cere. Major Kellogg began his investiga-
ton convinced that the objector was n
coward or a Stacker, but soon changed his
mind. Il began to see him in a new light
And an examination of over 800 directors
in twenty widely distributed military
camps and posts has convinced me that
they are as a rule sincere-cowards and
shirkers, in the commonly accepted sense,
they are not"
Major Kellogg tells US that Great Britain
and the United States have gone furthest
in the effort to be just to these men.
France has executed q number of them
for desertion, and the fate Of the CON
scientious objector in Germany can well
be left to the imagination. Only in Eng
The sun., 1919-04-20
"The Conscientious Director"

land and America have the motives OK
men refusing to fight been taken into
account. No man in either Of these two
countries has been put TO death for his
stand, though many have been sentenced
10 long terms Of imprisonment.
Major Kellogg tells us that, contrary
to public belief, 80 per cent. of the con-
scientious DIRECTORS he examined were
American born. He thinks that pro.
German sentiment had little to do with
their convictions. They belonged to
widely diversified religious sects-ths
Mennonites, Quakers, Dunkards and many
others. Besides those who based their OBJ
jections on religious grounds, there were
others who are classified in this book as
idcalists and as socialists. The board ex-
ARMED only nineteen negro DIRECTORS, who
gave quaint reasons for their decision.
A number Of individual cases are cited,
one Of Mennonite whose faith forbade
his wearing military uniform and who
wore civilian clothes and was assigned TO
on-combatant duties while he was in
the service. But the camp paper had .
note concerning him on his discharge. IL
said:
evidently Hoffer admired the men
around him who wore the uniform. for
when he was discharged he HE'D himself
to Dodge City and purchased classy
uniform to show the folks at home how
he looked as soldier. His religion gave
way to pride IN his personal appearance.
and his conscientious scruples gave way
to his vanity"
One may smile over Hoffer, but ono
can feel only respect for Richard L..
Stierheim, who found himself overseas
and about to 80 into action. He left his
organization, was caught on the Spanish
border, and testified when he was court
martiallcd that he left TO avoid going into
battle. But that he was no coward was
shown later by his volunteering for most
difficult and dangerous service. At night
in No Mans Land and under heavy fire
of machine guns he rescued six wounded
men unassisted. Later he carried wounded
men through perilous sheIlfre, and for
eight or nine days before the signing Of
the armisicc he was constantly at work
performing services Of the bravest type.
showing absolute Indifference to his own
danger.
THE CONSCIENTIOUS DIRECTOR. BY
Major WALTER GUEST KELLOGG. Boni 8
Liveright. 81.
The sun., 1919-04-20
MarCosson's IS. O. s."

construction Of piers and docks by Ameri-
can engineers at French ports, the cnor-
nous system Of warehouses al various dis
tributins points. the organization aud
construction OF an American controlled
railway system in France, thc work of the
Motor Transport Corps, the salvage Of
materials and the enormously complex
and intricate business and accounting
system that had 10 be set up to keep
track of these great operations. Well
informed readers who have talked with
officers who served in France may be in
clined TO doubt whether our system really
worked as perfectly as one would gather
from the evidence of this book alone. 1t
Is unfortunate that the author permitted
such overstatements TO creep in as that
1--WE have laid down and operate series
of railways equal in scope to the Penn
sylvania SYSTEM" when as a matter Of
fact our railroad construction in France
amounted to a few hundred miles OF
double tracking existing single track
roads, and the construction of terminal
yards.
s. o. s.: AMERICA s MIRACLE IN
FRANCE. BY ISAAC +. MtRCossoN
John Lane Company. $3.50.
The sun., 1919-04-20
By EDWARD N. TEALL.

Now that Boston wears its broad "a
with self-consciousness it Is easy
TO believe in the existence of a real Amer
lean language, such as Mr.. Mencken has
undertaken 10 describe in his book, The
American language For authentic
American" we are directed to the baseball
stories of Ring w. Larner:
II was willing TO tell her all about
them two poor girls. They must not be
no mistake about who is the boss in my
house. Some men lets their tcife run all
over them. Allen has trent to a college
football game. One Of the reporters gre
him a pass. He called up and said he
hadn't only the one pass, but he was not
hurting my feelings none. The fiat across
the nah from this here one is for rent.
Il we should Of bOaghteH furniture
The italics are supposed to mark the
Amcricanisms. But the double negative
is as old as the English language. "Has
vent" is merely bad grammar. 1--WE
should of" substitutes, quite arbitrarily, a
proposition for clipped have OF snml-
lar pronunciation. This here is not as
interesting as ''they must be no mistake"
Disagreement, in number, Of subjects and
verbs has less right TO itahc emphasis
than "boss," reporter" "the flat across
the hall" and "for rent" These Obser-
,aiions are made, not at all by way OF
arguing with Mr.. Mencken. but to indl-
cate the difficulty and depth of the sub
.ect
Consider the conjugation of verbs:
"Am, WAS, bin Tor benz \ footnotc
remarks that BIN is the correct Amerl-
can pronunciation. Bean is the English.
Eut | have often found ben in such
phrases as 81 ben there" Whittier wrote,
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The
saddest arc these, it might have been"
He probably said "ben" habitually. Pope
could rhyme ''tea" with "Cathay" and
'line" with "join," because in his day they
said stay" and cine A footnote to
"h'ist" in the Common speech says it is
"always so pronounced"
The. vulgar American has two contrasts,
to both Of which the book does justice:
with polite or written American, and
with Englislimons English. la making
The latter comparison there is danger of
overlooking the fact, in It's full value. that
there are different Englishes in England.
1t isn't right to compare e"lloquial
American with aristocratic British. But
all this IS miles from McnckCn.
II is not false modcsty that makes Mr.
Menrken say: ''1'he book IS ANYTHING but
an exhaustive treatise; all it prcends to
90 is 10 articulate some Of the materials"
Such being so. as We believe they say in
Kansas, the philolosist by speciality and
he grammarian by technical training
The sun., 1919-04-20
Yankee Spoken Here!

will have no right to treat the book as
butting into their own "feld," or tres
passer in their preserve, rs they might
"put" it. They have only the right to
"okeh" or reject Mr.. Aencken's pigeon
holing of individual locations And, from
another "angle," the authors plea in
avoidance imposes upon the average
viewer of his work an obligation to re-
frain from bruising the flesh of its hu-
MARTY.
Our language has been growing Topsy
fashion. Perhaps it is not quite accurate
to say our grandfathers had more Ian
guage consciousness than their grandsons
nave; but there were more individuals
among them, proportionally, than there
are among us, who gave thought and care
to discrimination in the use of words and
who studied the art Of verbal construc
ton. 1t is not an ineSplicable thing that
the covenant Of the league as first pub
lished moved with so hating a gait beside
the Immortal document Of 1889. And
there is food for thought lis that an
American idiom, or did they use it in
Nile land half dozen millennia ago?) in
the connection between mental power in
affairs and mental power in language. Mr..
Mencken has done this one good thing: he
has written q large and serious book
about the language we speak in way
that will set good many people think
ing about the good sense and the practical
usefulness Of really studying the language
we use.
Mr.. Mencken's book is scholarship with
the dust rubbed off, research not done in
desert, grammar and syntax with pulse
and some temperature. And if, in say
ing that, We ALLEVIATE from the book the
potential affections Of any philologist or
grammarian, We have done hun hurt.
Also if, in saying so much for the lin
guistic scientist, We have frightened away
any friend Of simple, human letters, We
have done him out of a good thing. If
the grammarian will 90 to the book he
will find hundreds of references, a big
photography, and rich Glossary The
other fellow will find regiments of words
that he hears and uses all the time passing
in review, to his great edifcation and con-
siderable advantage
The sun., 1919-04-20
THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE By II. L.
MENCKEN. Alfred A. Knopf 81. Linn
tied first edition.

Corinne Lowe has completed novel
said to be of the kind and calibrc Of
Abraham Cahan's The Rise of DdrM Le-
rinsky. 1t il a sort Of an epic of the
cloak and suit trade, apparently, the side
Of Abe Potash that Montague Glass has
neglected to show us.
The sun., 1919-04-20

Since publication in full OF a letter She
wrote in a volume called The Women
Who Maize oar Noueis Sophie Kerr
stamps all her communications 0 the
author: Penalty for public use-$50o."
The sun., 1919-04-20

OLD RARE ENGRAVINGs. COLOR PRINTS
etc, Original ORA wing and Paintings OF the French,
English. Dutch and American schools. Rare Books
Catalogues just issued % Old Paintings and Draw
ing, Color Prints. Old Masters. Musical Prin.a
% Americana. Mr.. Albert Berthsl, Prin, Roon.
Picture Gallery. Ansiaa aftAn Library, - anA q
Nov Oxford -, London W. O.
The sun., 1919-04-20

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The sun., 1919-04-20
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Seven words to line.

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The sun., 1919-04-20

s. o. s.: AMERICA s MIRACLE IN
FRANCE. BY ISAAC +. MtRCossoN
John Lane Company. $3.50.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-20
The Borderland Route

Yesterday automobiles On the This statement significant only that shows traffic the Borderand 
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 ences and relied on roads years their ayOcaion outdoors" The west especially has appealed to them
 
  The BOrderiand travelled he tried of trail, going En selected Roosevelt Globe and thence he into Arizona along the lines
  This of the has already made his is
 the best Its towns largest hotels traveller The road the disturbed highway east prefer
 This testimony nOtorist It is a tn Now while the available advanced its cities the state, and its citizens will benefit
Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-20
The Civil Service Bill

Legislation which bids before legislature when A
 
  legislation. is the proposed
  aries regulating the service providing providing Present employees of the maca included in the civil service the positions he is Qualifications be
  Employes of the offer opportunities for advancement Each working
  Therein the law provides for initiative employees active interest work, and further insurance of efficiency the Where discharged soldiers hold under preference Therein lies opportunity the legislature tangible before them positions which  Positions of this
  formerly held this  which piece
 
  personal affairs at home guiding
Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-20
This Way Out, Please

Mine host the genial thrown the fair to lose his hospitality. introduced into Congress bill which
  aliens marked in 
  Judge John Knox denying application of
  dsoder
  him he'll close up the house and possible that the discovery well as in will have of Some those papers may somey influenced
  deped they really think New
Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-20
The Lowell Centenary

The 22nd of this ngtons birthday and celebrated Americas on February 22nd and that this his
 In this of has AngloAmerican is felt that this especially nghmen of letters coming with
 
 ambassador will between the United an country
 speaking friendship chancellor of the coordination had finer representative of beautiful Lowell nothing fOrceful Amersnism
 fitting pride by his closely he good feeling between the other Enshpeakng nation and oVn-TucsOn Star.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-20
15 NEW MEASURES ARE INTRODUCED IN
 SENATE AND HOUSE
Changes in Dairy Laws Among New Legislation
 Brought Forward
CBy Review Leased wlrel

2 l PHOENIN, Ark, Feb, 19,-Fifteen new bills were introduced in the sen ate and house today, five in the house. and double that number in the, senate. | The total number of bills introduced in the house so far this session is l4s. while in. the senate there are 1sS. Legislation which was forecast last week by Dairy Commissioner Barr made its appearance today in a bin fathered by Lillywhite The bill ap- pears to em6Ody all the changes in the existing law which Barr said were be- ing sought by the dairymen. creamer- ieS and ice cream makers and to which he objected The dairy com, missioner asserts that the enactins into law of the dairy and creamery suggestions would take out of his hands the promOlgating of any orders to insure safety in handling milk pro- ducts and create an inelaStie law which might fail to meet certain em. ergencieS,
 Sealey introduced a measure to ere ate the offices of state fire marshal and deputy niarsaai. the former ap- pointed by the governor with the con sent of the senate on a $S00O salary and the latter to receive a salary of S2OOO
 Waters seeks in his new bill to bet, ter inform the public on proposed con, Stitutional amendments and initiated and referred measures by causing the secretary of state 10 publish weekly during a period starting SS days be, fore a general election the texts of all such documents.
 Road Sill introduced
 Stark brought in a bin to provide for the survey and building of road between Williams in COconino county and Clarkdale in Yavapai county.
 Among the measures brought down in the senate was one by Young, in- tToduced by request, to submit con stituuOnal amendment to the people as follows:
 No member of the legislature dur ing the term for which he shall nave been elected shall be appointed or elected to any civil office of profit under this state which shall have been created during said term"
 An appropriation of $45, 900 to com plete the tsird story of the women's dormitory at the University of Arizona is sought by an emergency bill intro duced by the senate appropriation committee.
 Provision for fire companies in un- incorporated towns is made in a bill introduced by Hughes.