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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-05
Democrat Wins Maryland.
OHIO MAJORITY GROWS

COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 5-Additional
returns received up to noon today by
Secretary Of State Smith served only
to substantiate earlier predictions
that the drys carried all four prohi-
bition proposals by big majority at
yesterdays election.
Chief statistician Of the secretary's
office said the dry majorities would
reach $4,000 bearing out the claims
made last night by dry leaders.
Yesterdays dry victory came just
a year after Ohio first voted state
wide prohibition by majority OF 25,-
900 and less than six months after pro-
hibition became effective, on May q.
posed repeal of statewide prohi-
bition, Ohio yesterday apparently
voted by big majorities to uphold the
action Of the legislature in ratifying
the federal prohi bition amendment;
to kill proposal for the manufacture
and sale of beer containing as high as
2.75 per cent alcohol. and to put into
effect the Crabbe prohibition enforce.
ment bill passed by the legislature
last spring. All Of the prohibition
proposals were initiated by the vets.
COOLIDGE PLURALITY 124,173
BOSTON, Nov. 5-Governor Calvin
Coolidge, Republican, who made sup.
port of law and order the sole issue
OF his campaign, was reelected yes
terday by a plurality Of 124,173 over
Richard II. Long, Democrat. The re-
vised vote Of the state complete:
Coolidge 317,s47; Long 1864.
The vote given Governor Coolidge
was the largest ever cast for govern
or in this state. although his plurality
has been exceeded. The total vote
was unusually heavy.
Long also opposed Governor Cool
idge last year and was defeated by q
plurality of 1905. Yesterday the
Coolidge vote was more than 100 O0C
ahead Of that Of 1918 and the Long
vote 1000 behind. Longs lead o
19,909 in Bostin last year was cut tc
5,149 yesterday.
In his campaign Long appealed par
ticularly to the labor vote on the
ground that Governor Coolidge hac
shown hostility to organized labor in
denouncing the striking Boston po
icemen as deserters. That the appea
was unsuccessful was shown by the
result OF the balloting in the cities
Of the state.
oulSlOG VI OOSlOus LOuS Cdrf1eC
only, four cities out of 81, and in al
but one Of these his plurality wa:
much smaller than a year ago.
"wE1" WINS IN new JERSEY
TRENTON. N. j., Nov. 5-Edware
l. Edwards, Democratic candidate TO,
governor Of New Jersey. was elected
yesterday by a plurality of approxi
mately $4,000. With returns missint
early today from only 81 Of the 2,O1,
districts in the state. he had 2O9,371
as compared with 1s7,147. for Newto,
A. X. Bugbee, his Republican oppon
ent.
The victor staked his political fu
ture upon "wets" and won. The Re
publican nominee had the backing O
the anti-saloon league. Leaders o
both parties professed to believe thi
was the issue which had most to d.
with deciding the contest
Continued on Page Four
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-05
FUEL FAILS
AS STRIKE
LENGTAENS
Northwestern States and
Others Feel Pinch of Cold
Production Resumed in
Many Places.
CONFISCATION BEGUN
(By Associated Press,

CHICAGO. Nov. 5.-As the approx
inlately 425,000 coal miners added an
other days idieness to the strike the
fuel shortage made itself felt further
by the public in some parts OF the
country. notably Montana. From st.
Louis also it was reported that fuel
shortage threatened. Other places,
mainly west Of the Mississippi. were
making what preparations were posi-
BILE to combat the advent OF winter.
In the central and eastern districts
no severe shortage today had been
threatened and reassuriug statements
were issued by officials in some Sec
tions.
So far railroad operation has not
been interfered with and the closing
down Of no industry because Of the
strike has been reported.
There was little change in the gen.
eral situation during the past "a hours
Reports from West Virginia that four
| union mines in the New River district
were in operation and that two in the
| unorganized Guyan field were closed
! by a sympathetic strike; a threat OF
the North Dakota Ignite miners, who
returned to work after one days lay
off, to walk out unless increased
wages were granted and a statement
by the warden of the Oklahoma state
prison, that four mines on the prison
farm probably would he re-opened
with convict labor Thursday were re-.
garded as the most important.
Should the Oklahoma mines be
placed in operation, it would be the
first resumption of production in the
southwest in any mine affected by
the strike. Ed Boyle, mine inspector
OF Oklahoma, however. ordered his
aids to see that the state law against
inexperienced persons working In
| mines was enforced.
Operators Will Sue.
Thomas T. Brewster, chairman Of
the Coal mine operators scale commit
tee announced that the operators act
ing individually probably would sue
the United Mine Workers of America
for breach of contract He denied
breaking Of the contracts by the opera
tors. who hold that the war is not yet
officially over, as against the miners
claim that 1t has been terminated.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-05
STATES Split:
DRYS TRIUMPH
IN OHIO VOTE
Massachusetts, and Kentucky
Republican - New Jersey,
Mississippi and Maryland
Are in Democratic Column.
Law AND ORDER UPHELD
(By Associated Presso

Wy <ASSoSadlSo
More complete returns today on the
offff-year elections yesterday, In sew
eral states. did not change the out
come in any important respect The
smashing victory of Calvin Coolidge,
Republican, in Massachusetts, re-elect
ed to succeed himself as governor by
the largest vote ever polled by a
gubernatorial candidate in that state,
shared honors with an almost equally
decisive "dry" victory in Ohio as the
most striking result of the voting.
AS a possible indication OF the drift
Of popular sentiment preparatory to
the national elections next year, yes
terday's results were being closly
scrutinized by party leaders.
Kentucky was swept into the Re
publican fold in the governorship fight
but today's return made it certain
that New Jersey had reverted to the
Democratic column.
Legislature Split.
The senate fight over the league OF
nations entered into the Kentucky
contest to some extent. Governor
Black declaring for the league in his
campaign. The Republicans also will
control the lower house of the Ken
lucky legislature. while the Democrats
will control the senate.
Lee M. Russell, Democrat, was elect
ed governor of Mississippi by the
usual majority. lie was opposed by
a socialist. who polled only about
10000 votes. The legislature Will be
solidly Democratic.
In New York state, the election
turned on judges of the Supreme
court. Tammany hall candidates suf-
fering complete defeat. In the city
Representative F. H. Laguardia, Re
publican. was leading Robert L. Nor.
an. the Tammany Democrat. for pres
ident of the board of aldermen but an
official count may be necessary.
Democrat Wins Maryland.
BALTIMORE. Md, Nov. 5.-Albert
c. Richie. Democrat, was elected
governor over Harry w. Nice. Repub-
lican. by a plurality of approximately
900 votes at yesterdays election in
Maryland, according to unofficial re-
turns aud estimates received up to
l o'clock this afternoon. 1t was the
closest election ever held in Mary
land.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-05
coNFIscAT,oN BEGINS

2 PITTSBURGH, Nov 5.-The distri-
button Of coal confiscated by the gov
ernment among essential industries in
the Pittsburgh district began today.
The movement was expedited by the
preparations of the railroads for the
past two days in anticipation of the
governments approval Of applications
for fuel.
The domestic coal supply was re-
ported somewhat improved. Retail
coal dealers attributed this to higher
river stages which permitted the ship
ping of coal held at the mines.
Contradicting coal operators re-
ports that more than 10000 miners
were working overtime in the Fayette
and Westmoreland county district.
Philip Murray, president Of district
five. United Miners of America de.
clared there were not that many non
union miuers in the Pittsburgh dis
trict
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-05
MINES WORKING

CHARLESTON, w, Va, Nov. s.
Twehty-six coal mines were reported
today to be in operation In the or
ganized district Of northern West Vir-
ginia. Eighteen Of the mines are 10.
Gated in the Fairlnont-Clarksbur dis
trict, four In the Wheeling district,
aud four in the Upper Potomac field
in Mineral county. The aggregate out.
put OF the mines Is small. however.
Twelve OF the mines in the Fairmont
district produced Is cars OF coal yes
terday 1t was reported
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
SOMERSET MAJ UGHAMS UNUSUAL NOVEL HAMMOCK FICTION
Mystery to the Last Minute

A mystery story that fails to mystify
is as unsatisfactory to the addict as
2.75 per cent beer. +. r. Punshon
can produce story as full of mystifi-
cation MS July whisky is full Of
alcohol. He has done it in THE Soil
tary House" 1t is the story of a
man out of work and out of money who
takes refuge in a house in a lonesome
neighborhood and Immediately begins
to have curious and inexplicable expert
ences. His clothing is in rags and he
dresses himself in garments he finds in
the house. A caller mistakes him for
the owner and he decides to pose in
that capacity for day or two. Then
girl is mysteriously assaulted near
the house, and he rescues her and has
her nursed until she recovers her
health. But her memory is gone. There
is terrifying visitant to the house at
night the nature OF which no one un-
derstands. A nurse summoned to care
for the girl in her illness decides that
It is the devil and fees incontinently.
Many curious and exciting things hap.
pen before the whole complication is
explained. 1t is the kind of a story
that will keep the weariest novel.
reader awake.
THE SOLITARY HOUSE BY e. R. Pun.
shon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $3.50
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
Did CobS Like These?

of Duty is a collection of stories
selected by Wilhelmina Harper. for
merIy a librarian in New York and
during the war assistant librarian at
the Pelham bay naval training station.
Her anthology is subtitled "A Dozen
Yarns for Soldiers and Sailors" Miss
Harper 5 experience. of course, was
such that any selection she made ought
to be, per Sc, of interest to those for
whom it is designed. And yet. LOOKING
over her selection, one wonders. Pos
sibly professional predilection-whicn
in most of US foreshortens the perspec.
tive--has impelled the compiler 10 select
stories that her audience "ought
to like" One can hardly fancy a husky
COB wasting much time over the stylis-
tically adroit The Nightingale and
the Rose" from Oscar Wilde's Fairy
Stories" " And few doughboys, few
anybodies, for that matter, would relish
very keenly William Dean Howells' 5
dullish The Case of Metaphantasmia. "
On the evidence of this book the army
and navy was very partial to fairy
stories one of Seumas McManus's pals,
that mentioned by his fellow celt, Oscar
Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde. Rex Beach
Stewart White, Zane Grey and Ham
lin Garland are the red -blooded con
tributors to the list. o. Henry and
Edna Ferber are weakly represented.
OFF DUTY. Compiled by wilhelrina Har.
Siit.5o. Nc" t''"' Inc century Company
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
Connie Morgan's Exploits

Interesting from beginning to end,
and at times thrilling, is the story of
Connie Morgan With the Mounted,
by James B. HendryX. The hero is n
boy of sixteen or seventeen, who from
his skill and bravery in rescuing an Off
Ger from a floating ice cake was made
special constable of the Royal North
west Mounted Police Force of Canada.
In this service, on the Alaskan frontier.
he did remarkable work in tracking and
capturing poachers, rum -smuggIers and
gangs of outlaws. The feat which
showed the most brain force was tho
canture of a "prospector, known as
Notorious Bishop, for whom the whole
police force was searching. He had a
habit of whistGng Yankee Doodle, y
and Connie hearing him in the forest
recognized him and joining him brought
him to headquarters without betraying
that he knew him. superintendent, y
said the boy, standing very straight and
yorv alert. I want to introduce-No
tor;ous Bishop The whole story is
told in a very simple way and largely
bv the people concerned themselves, SO
that the reader gets a vivid impression
of life in that region.
rr&NIr MORGAN WITH THE MoINT,E:D
Nv James B. Hendrix. lllustrats4. Ne"
YorE: a. P Putnam's Sons. $l.-o
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
Why Books Lire

If one can trust James Branch Ca
bell. books about books are frequently
more interesting than the books about
which they are written. For example,
he tells us in Beyond life" that Don
Ouixote is made much more entertain
ing in the essays about him than Ger
vantes made him in the first place. Mr..
Cabell's book, which is a discussion of
books and what makes them live, is GER
tainly much more delightful than many
novels and histories and PHILOSOPHERS.
He sets forth the interesting proposition
that the only genuine realism is roman
ticism and remarks that facts must be
kept in their proper place, outside of
which they lose veracity; and he tells
us that "the creative artist must re-
member that his book is structurally
different from life in that, were there
nothing else, his book begins and ends
at a definite point, whereas the canons
of heredity and religion forbid us to
believe that life can ever do anything
of the sort"
Readers interested in theories of lit
erature and in discussion of those quail
ties which make literature vital will
find Mr.. Cabell's discussion both sug-
gcstive and vastly entertaining.
BEYOND LIFE Dizain des Demiurges. By
James Branch Cabell. New York: Robert
NJ Mcbride & Co. 81 So
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
Black Sheep Chapel

Margaret Baillie Saundsrs-appar
emily. new novelist-deserves a worthy
place among the group of the younger
English fiction writers who make closely
observed studies of cross sections of life
in their stories, but do not spoil the
stories in the process. 'Black Sheep
Chapel is rich in romance of spirit,
but it is not lacking in realism of de-
tail.
1t does for what might be called
Anglican circles-and others not so
churchly-the service that Mr.. Frank
Swinnerton's fiction has performed for
upper middle class and provincial Brit
ondom. The reactions of a clustered
boy and girl to the great world outside
their cathedral close. as it were. es
pecially5 the effects of life on the clever,
interesting lad, are the main threads
woven into a particularly entertaining
and substantial story.
BLACK SHEEP CHAPEL. By Margaret
Baillie Saunders. New York: George II.
Doran Company. 81. 80.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
FAIRY TALE FOR
HAMMOCK READING
Nothing but Magic Can Et.
plain George Weston's Norel

''You NeTer Saw Such Girl"
George Weston calls his new novel.
Well, you never did, outside of Grimm,
Anderson and Laboulaye, nor did any.
body else. Nor such a novel, outside
of George Weston.
Once upon a time the Princess Marty
lived with her uncle and aunt in a little
cottage on the top of mountain Her
real name was Martha, but no one ever
called her that Thus the traditional
mode of the fairy story of approved
style.
Marty Mackenzie lived with her
Uncle Ebau (whose name rhymed with
Esau) in a little stone house on Green
Mountain. Her real name was Martha,
but no one ever called her that" Thus
Mr.. Weston S modernization of his plot,
in names, illusions and other externals.
But the spirit is distinctly and de-
lightfully of fairy lore.
Marty is a resourceful, capable, vi
vacious and, Of course, beautiful girl.
Her odyssey from her mountain top to
Newport, of all places in the world, in
a motor van with a prim school teacher
as companion. to find her naughty and
opulent grandmother and the charming
young khakied officer whom she finds
there and the romance of it, with mis-
understandings and tribulations to be
sure, will make any hammock even
more agreeable these warm summer
days. There is even a fairy godmother
lowering protectively above Martyrs
destiny, in the genial person of Mr..
Weston. One wave of his magic foun-
tain pen or a few taps on his enchanted
typewriter. and presto, all trials are
obviated and all difficulties are as
naught.
And they lived happily ever after
ward The last page does not say
so but it says: He held out his arms
and she found her place within them,
knowing full we'll her search was over,
that here at last, even where the quest
had started, she had entered the King
dom of Hearts Desire"
YOU NEVER SAW SUCH A GIRL. By
George Weston. New York; Dodd, Mead
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
Var Poetry

The demand for the collection of war
verse made by Professor George Her
bert Clarke, of the University of Ten
nessee, about two years ago was so
great that he has been moved to edit
another volume, including in it the
noems that were written after the first
collection was completed and some
worthy ones that he had missed in max
ing the first collection. 1t now ap-
pears as a second series in "a Treas
ury of War Poetry" Included among
the poets represented are Hilaire Belloc,
william Rose Benet Bliss Carman, c.
Fox Smith. John Galsworthy, Harry
Kemp, Christopher Morley, Alfred
Noyes, Sara Teasdale and Margaret
Widdemer and scores of others.
A TREASURY OF WAR POETRY. Second
Series Edited with an Introduction by
George Herbert Clarke. Boston Houghtor
Mifflin Company.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
FACT OVERRIDDEN
BY ODD FANTASIES
Social Studies of the War;
VIII Perplet, Amase and
4n,uSe Readers

One of the disadvantages of volume
perpetuation of journalistic serial per
petrations is that the discrepancies of
an inconsistent writer will be. shown
up glaringly in book form. This is the
case of DR.. Elmer T. Clark in his
Social Studies of the War rol-
lection of papers written, as he notes.
Tor the daily and religious press. The
result between covers will certainly
perrlez and confuse the reader at first
and finally lead him. to amazement and
amusement. Doctor Clark saws in his
preface that he has been criticized fire.
qu"ntly and his conclusions disputed by
clergNmon and others. One hardly
wonders Mt this. Doubtless his clerical
and other critics felt that such book
ms his. with its Quagmire foundation and
insubStantial framework of fact bigh1v
plastercd and ornamcnted by the fam
tastes of "rrnnt personal opinions, was
likely to work harm. Much that he
asseverates is not in accordance with
the observations and views of others
who have more status and had more
opportunity for intensive study rather
than cub reportorial investigation of
important war topics He so often runs
counter to accepted and carefully
evolved opinions that one is inclined to
rate him with the sensation mongering
preacher Ton the presumption that he
is clergyman.
Our soldiers who have returned from
the war clean and decent Will hardly
relish his blanket statement that i'm
morality was rampant-and this is dis
proved by official military statistics.
He seems to have the mania of the
pruricnt prude on this subject Some
times to the pure (?) all things are i'm
pure. To him the church has failed
and fallen. though the momentum and
numcrousness of testimony is against
him. He even contradicts himself
page 12i (the American soldier "does
not indulge in sexual immortality to any
large degree'D gives the fb to most of
Chapter |. And this is not the only
contradiction in a book OF inconsis-
tcncies. One must admire the ingenu-
ity by which he has the pope aiming
to abandon the Vatican hill to estab-
lish the papacy in 1reland--to desert
Peters chair for Patrick's see at
Armagh That would be "a pretty
howdydo." as Gilbert says-or shall
We say kettle of fish," quoting Gil
bert again? Doctor Clark says that
His Holiness desires a seat free from
the sovereignty of any other power is
we'll known and Ireland is the only
place on earth where his occupancy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
STILL APOLOGIZING
FOR MERRICK
Hewlett Is the Latest Intro.
ducer to Admire a Literary
artist With Reservations

The distinguished authors who arc
writing introductions to the series of
novels by Leonard Merrick now being
published in this country continue to
apologize for the man they admire. Bar
re began it with conrad in Quest Of
His Youth" Howells continued it with
THE Actor Manager" And Hewlett
carries on with what he has to say
about Cynthia" Hewlett tells us that
Merrick started to write a story about
a novelist and changed his mind in the
process and produced a tale about a
woman. But for all their apologies
based. doubtless, upon their conviction
that they would have written the tales
very differently--the introducing au-
thors agree that Merrick is a great lit
erary artist And they are right. A
discriminating lady who turned to Mer-
rick the other day after reading Locke
remarked that Locke seemed crude in
comparison.
There is doubtless much autobiog-
raphy in Cynthia. The novelist in
it, who is the husband of Cynthia, had
an experience similar to that through
which Merrick himself passed. He was
a conscientious literary artist. but he
could not sell his books and had to write
for cheap magazines. The story shows
the contrast between a weak man and a
strong woman. The man sent his wife
into the country and stayed in London
to write, and drifted into an affair with
a writing woman. The scene in which
he confesses to his wife is one of the
most perfect of its kind in the English
language. 1t is tragedy, restrained and
heartbreaking, where the wife goes up
to London to congratulate her husband
on belated success and discovers what
he has been doing. Cynthia is an un-
usual woman. She loves her husba nd
and she seems to have an understand :
ing broad enough to encompass forgive
ness, for the book ends with a reconcil- :
iation which makes one hope that the
man will prove worthy thereafter of the
love of the wife who has borne him
a son and loves him enough to pardon
him for the misdeeds of which he has
repented.
CYNTHIA. BY Leonard Merrick. With m
INTRODUCTION by Maurice Hewlett New
York E. P. Dutton g. Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
OUTDOOR FESTIVAL TONIGHT
Many Features Planned by Plaza
Park Community Service

FdTR community service
Motion pictures, games, a community
sing and dancing will be part of the
open air festival to be held at s o'clock
tonight in Seventeenth street between
Oregon avenue and johnson street. The
entertainment will be given under the
direction Of the Plaza Park Community
Service Association.
The community sing will be led by
Raymond E. Taylor, assisted by an
orchestra and Thomas B. Hobson, cor
netist. The boys games will be super.
vised by the Boy Scouts, while Miss
Loretta Gowen will have charge of the
girls games. The war camp commu-
nifty service will arrange the games for
adults. Fred A. Moore. of the COM
munity service of Philadelphia, will
sspeak. There will be songs by quar-
tet, and several reels of motion pictures
The entertainment will conclude with
) dancing.
Officers of the Plaza Park Community
Service Association are : James NJ. Mil
Ter, president; John McCaughan, vice
president; Robert C. Boyd, financial
secretary; o. Louis Ehmann, com
munity secretary, and f. F. Stutzke,
treasurer.