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New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Alex the Great

BY H. C. WITWER
Author of "From Baseball to
Boche."
There is no warrant for
skipping a page, much less a
chapter, of this merry ro-
nance of business. Laughing
is healthy exercise. New
York Sun.
Net si.75 (by mail $500
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29

The Secret House
BY EDGAR WALLACE
Author of "The Man Who
Knew
A decidedly clever, we'll
worked-out detective story.
Mr.. Wallace is guilty of an
other top-notcher.
Net $3.50 (by mail $1.75)
Publishers
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
Boston
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Distinctive New Fiction
A Woman's Woman
BY NALhRO BARTLEY

Author of Paradise Auction
we are convinced that here
IS a writer of interest to all
american readers of fiction.
AL, we say, for the book is a
good story, to begin with, and
well written, to continue with.
and solidly substantial--to
finish off. It's great stuff
tNew York Sun.
Net s1.75 (by nail $500
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29

ma ntained for some years that Eng
lish novelists excel in devising new
and irregular ways to tell their stories
and this late book is conclusive proof
to me that l have not read and COM
pared in vain. Poor Stroeve. Every
time his name was mentioned we had
a long harangue about his foolishness
and the temptation to laugh at him.
Probably the author so amused him
self at these points that he actually
went outside to laugh Charles Strick-
land. Fettered genius of the new
school in art. Do you not think real
genius would have smashed the china
and killed child or two to relieve the
monotony Of those forty-tive years ?'
In regard to May Sinclair's MARY
Olivier" Julian Hinckley writes
Il am glad you have the courage to
call Mary Olivier a great book. Not
that think it is, but because | believe
May Sinclair is a great writer and that
her contribution to literature is in
need of recognition. Do you know that
Mary Olivier was serialized in part in
Margaret Andersons Little Review
appearing along with James joyce and
Dorothy Richardson? OF the latter Miss
Sinclair is a self-confcssed admirer 1t
seems to me that Miss Sinclair has
ters' is, to my mind, a very great book
You can read it again and again and
still find points that had previously
been missed. The situation is more
real than the extraordinary triangle
or trangles Of Mary Olivier and it is
full Of humor. Nor does it ape the
fantastic literary forms Of The Little
Review Besides, it parades the in
growing virginity of its author. She
has stated her prob EN- and solved it SO
much more frankly in the case of Ally.
nothing by way Of analysis to compare
with Ramsey Milholland's revulsion
after his first kiss-for sheer realism.
"'The Tree of Heaven is prose
poem-'Iron breasts of engines advanc-
ing triumphant under the fanlight of
the arch 1t is her own clear style
warped In Mary Olivier it is quite
led astray. feel. with all the dismay
Of literary prude, as if Miss Sinclair
had been seduced.'
Miss NJ. G. Hewes writes of MARY
Olivier:
81, too, had the conviction that here
is great book'-and like you. l did
slowly and even reluctantly. because
it was so amazing that I couldn't bear
the thought of finishing it. In fact, |
even laid it aside several times just
to prolong the pleasure of reading it.
Of course. it ism. pleasant book
but it is powerful book and strs me
to enthusiasm over its artistry The
wonder to me is how any one can
resist it, and yet I have already heard
several people say that they didn't
like it-poor. benghted beings. say |.
suppose they didn't know what Mary
was talking about when she describes
her sudden, secret happiness,' but to
any one with a spark of imagination or
desire or talent for creative work
that's like meeting an old feeling
framed in words. Why, I had the sud
den, secret happiness as read some
pages of Mary Olivier'-and I couldn't
help but feel that you must have felt
it too, or you wouldn't have written
as you did about the book.
st seems to me that no one who
has really lived IN the spiritual sense
could resist Mary Isn't it good to
know that there are still authors who
can give Us this great pleasure.'
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Assisting Roosevelt Memorial

Samuel Abbott, who wrote THE
Dramatic Story of Old Glory" is as
listing the Roosevelt National Memo
rial Association in its flag work.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08
If the English Speaking Union Stand
Together, True to Their Ideals
By WINSTON CHURCHILL, British Secretary

well said the OF safety eternal vigilance Inc
The
intending the what they do whe
tbev are tired The hardest all the test of victory We English
world ndeaor however hard 1T
NAV seem TO meet the new per responsibilities
ron with residence buyancy and OF resolution
don't quite see happen harm the Englhpeakng
roue to work together spirit practical comradp for the
bility and progress of civilization
IF we fall apart the end of everything. All that have
achieved in this struggle will collapse to the ground
IF we fall apart limit the evils which might be Embossed
upon mankind
But hold together the larger hope that good will out of
fortified consolidated
degree Together together unassaab together
with our eant ally France SHALL if pursue and honorable
policy the horrors and the anxees OF the present time and
benefit and the admiration future the
have won this long and cruel war;
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Appeal Of France to America: Don't Be
Too Generous to German People
By STEPHAN LAUzANNE, French High Commission

If this hour dreadful nightmare away mutt
lated France another appeal America her sister and en
she say o her: "Dont be too generous
Two mperious memorable duties before France must
have PREPARATION; France have guarantees.
France must reparaon for of her departments In
area and wealth to the State Yor-hae been laid waste burned
down and RACED fifty thousand houses have been
broken into pulled down bits and it has been
pued that merely to would require Of 100000
men working for twenty furnish that army? France
No, but the destroyers and ncendares.
The mines have been scientifically and cevery
tamped with filled water destroyed Who will supply France
with the coal she SO badly will be Germany who should have
left those mines alone.
thing France cannot do and that is distinguish
between the the German people In 1914 1t
undoubtedly the German hurled itself at the ats of
France and Belgium humanity and democracy but it also the
German people, of Belgium not cry indignation
was raised In undoubtedly the kaiser and Tpz who
ordered the sinking utana but when that became known
it was the people of Germany who howed with JOY
For four years undoubtedly the military caste Germany and
the German general allowed heng and punerng and author
lied their men to everything they could from Belgium and France
but the robbery plumber profted the German people
There reparaon would be enough make despair
of Justice on There punishment it will all begin
again.
France guarantees and all organized societies guaranty
against the repetition obtained Furnishing the upr The
German people committed series of the German people
pay the price
Why speaking America for whom have deep and
abiding Affection America whom henc bound by the ties
of eternal friendships America with whom have fought side by
side for of ideals her. "Fo Gods sake don't be
generous"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08

at takes Il years to build up
championship ball club.
That's the way Charley Comiskey
figures 1t out, and Comiskey ought
TO know, as he has built up several of
them.
1t takes about ten minutes to break
up a winning organization, if the man
who owns it can make a deal that
quickly.
William f. Baker pulled the founda-
ton from under his block house with
the stroke of a pen. Baker had a
near championship bah club in the
Phillies, a pennant winner in 1915
and runnerup in 1916 and 1917.
Lost Two Stars.
The chief reason Baker had pen
naut winner and contender was Gro
yer Cleveland Alexander, the greatest
pitcher in baseball, and Bill Killifer,
one of the greatest catchers. When
hr lost them he lost more than Alex
ander's ability to win more than 30
gatnes a season, and Killifer's ability
to catch more games than any other
receiver in the National league; he
lost the winning confidence of the rest
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08

of the ball players on his team.
There's lot of psychology In base
ball. Imagine, If You will, the conf
dence of ball club going into the
field with Alexander, in top form, in
the box and Killifer behind the bat.
Figures do not lie and they show
that Alexander wins three games out
of four he pitches. These BAN play
ers know that they have only one
chance in four of losing with him
and play up to the confidence that
knowledge breeds.
Took Away Confidence.
So aside from losing pitcher who
would add in the neighborhood of 30
victories to the club'g season totals,
Baker took away confidence that
would bring other victories.
This fact is one of baseball's first
axioms.
In 1914 Connie Mack stripped his
American league champions OF half
dozen stars. Since then the Ath-
letics have finished a poor last.
The great Cub machine was
broken into a pitiful selling platter
after winning a pennant.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08
Hal Chase.

caree- for McGraw, because he be-
lieves the latter, good judge OF
human nature, will handle the TEN.
peramental star properly. And the
shifty first baseman dotes on putting
ON the hit-and-run sign with run
ner or runners on the sacks.
"Chase is one Of the greatest hi
and run men in the game" said Row
land recently. "He can hit back Of
a runner any time. That Is where he
will be invaluable to McGraw.
"That Is McGraw's style Of base.
ball and Chase, because Of his almost
uncanny talent in whacking the ball
when a runner is going, will make II
possible for the Giants to score many
runs.
81 have not had much of a chance
to study McGraw's method Of playing
the game, but / have heard enough
from other smart baseball men to
know what he does and also got O
pretty good idea of his ways In the
1917 worlds series.
htiOW WHAT NbuoC $nh hos ihNi Y
fore | predict they will hitch well
and the pitchers of the National league
are going to be kept busy watching
Hal when runners are on the bases.
"Then take Burns, Kauff, Young
Zimmerman, Doyle, and McCarty, and
you have a group Of 300 hitters that
will make life miserable for the twirl
ers in the league. The Giants are the
players the Cubs will have to beat fol
the pennant.
II do not think Chase will rur
amuck under McGraw, as he has done
on other clubs. His recent experience
has, I think, taught him a lesson.
believe McGraw will have no difficult,
In getting him to play the brand o.
ball of which he is capable.
"Chase is the type Of player wht
has TO be petted little. He must b.
made to think he is brainy player
that he knows when to do the RICH
| thing, and has to be permitted to us'
his own judgment considerably. Nc
Graw may allow him to do that. 1
he does Chase will play as smart |
game as he ever did In his life."
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08
BASE BALL-
STORIES

Pitchers have two kinds of control.
Good and government.
Earl Smith Is catching extremely
well. His throwing to bases has pleas
ed McGraw very much.
The st, Louis Cardinals have releas-
ed Pitcher Elmer Knight to Little
Rock of the Southern league.
They never quit. For instance,
there is Josh Devore playing the out
field for the Kansas City Blues.
Billy Meyer, second baseman, last
year with Waco in the Texas league.
has been signed by the Mobile club.
First Baseman Wally Pipp Of the
Yankees is said to be about twenty
pounds heavier than he was last year.
Percy Haughton, ex-rresident Of the
Boston National league club, has an
nounced his retirement as football
coach.
Pitcher BIZ Fincher, formerly Of the
st. Louis Browns and turned over to
Little Rock, is back from overseas as
sergeant.
The Washington Americans are try
ing out Shortstop Davis, who was with
the Wichita club Of the Western
league before the war.
Lee Foil is much taken with the
work of Harry Lunte on third base
and says the Indians are safe on that
corner, Gardner or no Gardner.
Frank Delaney. young soldier
catcher signed by Manager Charley
Frank of Atlanta, has been traded tc
Memphis for Outfielder Pete Allison
| Promoters of the New England
league further advanced their organ
ization by electing John d. Donnelly
of Lowell, president for two-yeal
4
| term.
The trip Of the Cubs to California
this year mas been something of {
novelty-not one of the stockholder'
went along to tell how training CANT
should be conducted.
Rube Schauer, having become prop
erly repentant and restored to goot
standing by the national commission
has been released by Connie Mack tt
the Minneapolis Millers.
Manager Barrow gives his men al
sorts Of talks. Many Of them are no
exactly along baseball lines. but Bill,
Sunday would applaud freely If h
could sit In and listen.
The Baltimore club announces tn
sale of First Baseman Pug Griffin t.
Memphis of the Southern league. 10
Slattery held out for more pay OF
Memphis and this Is his answer.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08

association. He was playing great
ball, and several major league teams
were after him.
Weeghman set out to get the player
at any price. He finally did secure
him for something like $4,000.
Workman joined the Cubs late In
the season three years ago. he
fielded well In the fall, but hit little
or nothing. But Wecghman waited
another year before passing judg-
ment.
The next season Workman showed
clearly that he was not of major
league caliber, so the Cubs had to
90 out and dig up Charley Hollocher.
Workman was carried all last year.
But he figured in few games. NOW
he is back in the American associa-
ton.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08
End OF His Rope.

Because a fellow has failed once or
twice, or dozen times, you don't want
to set him down as failure till he's
dead or loses his courage-and that's
the same thing. George Horace Lor-
liner.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08
MAJOR Won KoLNITz QUITS
Former White Sox lnfieIder Is Through
With Professional Baseball
Goes Into Business.

While the Brooklyn Dodgers were
ashore at Charleston recently they
ran into Maj. Won Kolnitz. whose
home is In that southern town. Won
Kolnitz, who leaves the service as a
brevet lieutenant colonel, will not re-
port to the White Sox. He is through
with professional baseball and will go
into business with his father In Eas-
ton, ia. "von" gave the boys a royal
time In Charleston.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08
STORY OF CLASSIC BLooMER
Shortstop Workman for Whom Chi
caao Cubs Paid $4,000 is Back
With American Association.

Shortstop Workman has drifted back
to the American association. He VIII
be with Columbus this year.
Behind this news Is the story Of a
classic bloomer of baseball.
Several years ago Charley Weegh-
man. who had just broken into the
National league from the Feds by
purchasing the Chicago Cubs, started
to build up his club. Since the pass
ing of Joe Tinker the crying need OF
the team has been capable short
stop.
Workman was playing with the
Kansas City club Of the American
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08

has been spent and squandered the for international andeny
The experience of has made actual what imaginable before
B tbre are or would the old system to continue two new
factors at work
The first and obvious the unexpored and still neacuao
effect of the Harvesting the chariot of destruction
We have seen in years only the pdlmenta apphcao
undmed of the campaigns
the past Science matters only not SAID the last wora
she is still isping the alphabet of annihilaton
she her humanizng mission OF recrean
our shattered revvng places and endowlng anc
enrehng our be diverted for another twenty
into the of the mechanics and chemistry
destruction we may pray the pedest possible return to thu
glacial epoch.
planet which human life has become physically mpos
dgeneraed into form OF organized suicide
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08
MUST HAVE HIS GAME

You cannot cheat an Ameri-
can soldier out of his baseball
even II he has to make his own
supplies.
A company of soldiers now on
German soil suddenly discov-
cred that their supply OF base
balls had run out. For while
1t appeared as IL there would
be no baseball until new sup,
ply arrived.
However, one ingenious sol
der got cork from a wine bot
tie, unwound the worsted from
one of his socks, twisted the
worsted around the cork and
|: then cut cover from an Off
GERS old glove. The harness
maker completed the Job by sew
. ing the cover on.
: A number of games were
played before. the homemade
: bali became physically unfit for
!: further service.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08
SAYS HAL CHASE is
INVALUABLE PLAYER
One of Greatest Hit and Run Men
in Game, Says Rowland.
MoGraw's Group Of 800 sluegers VIII
Make Life Miserable for Twirers
In National League During
1919 Season.

In acquiring Hal Chase, McGraw
obtained one of the best hit-and-run
players, and one WHO Is able to hit
back of runner at all times. Chase
will fit In with the Giant machine
like cog In a well made Swiss watch.
He is McGraw's style of player
1t Is predicted by Clarence Rowland
that Chase will play the game of his
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08
TERRY TURNER NEAR RECORD
Signs Sixteenth Consecutive Contract
to Play With Cleveland Amer
lean League.

T. l.. Turner has signed his sixteenth
consecutive contract with the Cleve-
land Americans. Next to the record
made by J. H. Wagner with the Pitts
burgh Nationals, this is said to be the
best record for any one major league
club. :.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-05-08
Science Only Lisped Annihilaton's
Alphabet During the Great War
By HERBERT AsouIrH. British statesman

If those who oppose the league of nations idea have
any gift or faculty of imagination let them try to pre-
sent to themselves the alternative Let suppose that
league of nations is if not baseess fabric at
any rate impractical policy. What is to take its
place?
Let us suppose that the nations go on in an unreg-
ulated competition gamble would be better word
of ambitions and resentments, with their necessary
instruments on sea, land and in the air What VIII
be the outcome after the lifetime of another generation
Arizona republican., 1919-12-17
w. L. George, England's Famous Novelist and Writer On Feminine Psychology, Pre- d i c t S Competition In Marriage Market and New Moral Code
BY ZOE BEckLEY

LONDON, Eng, (By MaiD-There are 2,2OO.0O0 more women than men in England and Wales today. What is the answer? Shall woman betake herself wholesale to the nunuery? Will emi- grafton solve the problem? Must the government establish husband lot tery with a system of lucky numbers :? Find some glorified innovation along polygamic lines? Arrange for lease hold marriage (AIl right, all right be calm: we didn't really mean iti) Or win the two million divide itself. accepting its celibate lot with the smiling defiance Of the bachelor girl or the gentle effacement of the Vic torian old maid?
 Even such a student of woman and the world as W. L. George cannot give a nutshell answer to England's new riddle of the "superfluous woman" went to him, however feeling that the author of The Intelligence of Woman, Woman and Tomorrow" The Stran- gers Wedding" "A Bed of Roses" etc, would know whatever answer there is, and would express it with the colorful candor for which he is as well known in the United States as he is in Flu rope.
 Aids to Marriage
 What does life offer I asked 'to these 2,200,000 unmated women?"
 They will not wait" he answered promptly, for what is offered. They will make life for themselves. A freer life. fuller. more interesting.
 Don't expect a moral somersault Most women prefer marriage to any other career. Therefor the competition for eligible men will become much mort fierce
 Aids to marriage will be more ardently sought. Beauty, clothes, ac- oomplishments, education, financial in dependence--these are the chief aids tc marriage"
 Mir. George at this point made { slight detour into the by-path of per, sonal preference in feminine dress. H, is 'all for modern fashion" and if yo,
Arizona republican., 1919-12-17
WHAT WILL BECOME OF ENGLANDS
 HUSBANDLESS TWO MILLION

must improve. too. for with chances or marriage 2,2o0;G0O to the bad, few girls will risk success by indulging in cat tishness and durability for most women know that good nature is the keystone of sex attraction"
 Thus by intensive competition, ac- cording to the novelist, women will ac- quire more and mere charm, to the great benefit of themselves whether they marry or not and to the world. Girls who work hardest In the marriage game will win the prizes--as in any other game. The ones who are natur ally handicapped. the lazy ones who are too timid shall have to be content with something less than marriage, for we all agree with MT. George that despite it's inevitable Appointments it's sacrifices and its frequent dullness. marriage is woman's most profitable and satisfying career"
 What is this something less than marriage to be, then. for these 2900,- 900 surplus British spinsters and widows? If I expected Mir George to answer 'polygamy' or 'leasehold mar riage,' 1 was disappointed.
 He poured out more tea, passed the scenes. picked up Aristophanes, his beloved yellow Persian pussyeat and answered:
 For the majority of the two million plus, work will have to form the back bone of life. This does not mean that work replaces marriage, but that work will become pleasant, and not mere thing we do only because we are paid for it.
 New Moral Code
 Al. are opening for women. Nobody pities the successful woman because she has not married. In fact, does anyone ask more than that she is prosperous, and decorous in behavior? I contend that the economic independence of woman governs her political and moral atti- tude
 without wishing to skate upon thin ice I point out that there is too much work in the world for us to send women wholesale to the nunnery Nor can emigration take care of our surplus woman problem. As for any form of polygarny, woman herself would squash the idea She would prefer to keep her spinisterhood and lose her complexionl
 But given the new freedom that women have gained by the war, theii increased capacity and opportunity foi earning their livings, the evolution oi thought to which the world has beer tending for years-and we arrive at ar inevitable suggestion: That while few women of stereotyped morality will b. affected, at least a proportion of tn, superfluous two million will arrang their lives upon moral code to whicl their conseiences subscribe, and with out mourning the penalty of seriou social ostracism.'