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New-York tribune., 1919-06-14

THE STATE AND THE NATION BY
Edward jerks. Published by +. 2. Dut-
ton & Co. 312 pages. Price $500.
An explanation in simple terms Of
the necessary functions of govern
ment, based upon an historical ex-
animation of the main lines of social
and political evolution. from the most
rudimentary communities of early hu-
manity up to the most advanced forms
of the great state Of to-day.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
Juvenile

ROLLOs JOURNEY TO WASHINGTON.
BY Richard D. Ware. Published by the
Page Company. ITO pages. Price 81.
Another chronicle of that delightful
hero who has won for himself a host
of youthful followers. This narrative
is laid in the capital city of this coun-
t,v in time Of war
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
Our Library Censors

Even so august an institution as the
New York Public Library does not sit
in an Olympian~ serenity of academic
freedom, unmoved by the outraged
cries of the conservatives or the pibes
Of the radicals. 1t must constantly
steer the middle course between those
extreme radicals who would put Have
lock Ellis into the hands of every
child and those indignant Victorians
who think that Adam Bede is unfit for
any adult. 1t takes the practical view
that when book rouses too much an
tagonism it is better to drop the book,
since often the storm it rouses is dis
proportionate to the value of the book.
The war has made this troubled ques-
tion Of censorship a more delicate one
than ever to handle. An extraordinary
explanation was frankly given by one
Of the library executives in response to
The library depends for its appropria-
tions on the Board Of Aldermen, whose
idea Of an adequate sum is chronically
at odds with that of the library execu-
tives. In the last year the matter
of insufficient pay came up and the
executives asked for an increase of
100000 for the current year. "In
view of our difficulties" the librarian
explained earnestly, "we could not
jeopardize the just claims of so many
people by giving the board the oppor-
tunity to say, why give more money
with which to buy more Bolshevik
books? ?" A curious illustration. this, Of
the erratic paths of academic freedom.
Nevertheless, there is fair repre-
sentation of the literature of revolt
at the New York Public Library, the
gibes of the extreme radicals notwith-
standing, including Liebknecht, Karl
Marx; and even the French syndicalist,
George Sorel, Bertrand Russell, Charles
A. Beard, Sidney Webb, Norman Angel,
Walter Weyl and other dissenters are
here. There are a few significant
political omissions. Bakunin, the Rus
sian father of anarchism, is not there,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14

than dozen vivid descriptions Of act
ing in all English literature. Just now
the only author we can think of who
ever made anybody act so that we could
see him was Fielding in the chapter
where Tom and Peacock went to watch
Garrick. Merrick makes little effort to
show us anything about the acting
methods of Oliphant, We are asked
to take his skill on the stage more or
less for granted.
For our part we found that difficult
because Royce seemed to us so sim
gularly unlike an actor in his point Of
view about many things. The fact that
he came of clerical stock did not seem
to us sufficient to account for the
pettiness of his prejudices. We got
definitely out of patience with him in
the quarrel scene which we have
previously mentioned, for it was here
that he outraged us utterly. Royce's
wife, Blanche Ellerton, has not had an
engagement for some time, and at last
the Sceptre offers her part in new
play.
From professional point of view
writes Mcrrick, "it was an extremely
good part; from Oliphant's, it was a
very offensive one. She was to play
courtesan; and as courtesans in
drama are much more brilliant than
courtesans in life, she had to utter sew
eral epigrams which he objected to his
wife's delivering. He tried to induce
her to cancel the engagement, and their
argument grew heated"
Blanche then protests that the en-
gagement at the Sc~ptlc means much
to her, and that he seems a phi1istine
to which Royce replies: 'I'm your hus-
band, that's what am. I respect you,
darling; the greater the hit you made,
the worse l should feel"
Passing by the rather co4entious
subject as to whether her being his
wife made the whole affair any of his
business or not Ca subject on which
we are rather definitely committed)
we are amazed at the unprofessional
attitude Of Oliphant. We mean unpro-
fessional in the worst sense, for a point
OF view not unlike that of Merrick s
hero is taken by few shrewd COM
mercial managers in respect to some
of our popular ingenues who are
doomed as long as they remain on the
stage to gingham, obtrusive virtue and
early girlhood But we can think of
no competent player who ever thinks
of asking, as this character which YOU
want me to play good woman?" As
far as we know it has never been neces,
sary to issue calls for Camille candi.
dates.
I or course, no author is under any
obligation to make his characters Ap.
pea!ing or admirable, but there is every
evidence in "The Actor Manager" that
Merrick hopes we will bestow our sym.
pathy on Royce Oliphant. Indeed, the
success of the story depends upon that
sympathy. The novel is aimed to create
an effect of tragedy. The form is ad
mirable. 1t is only the substance tc
which we object We cannot under.
stand how the author of Conrad In
Quest of His YOUTH" which is wholly
delightful and wholly immoral, ever
found himself in prim enough humol
to write "The Actor Manager" Per.
haps he did it to annoy Tricotrin. Will
lam Dean Howells has written a mos,
persuasive introduction to the book, but
when he gives it as his opinion that
THE Actor Manager" is "in every way
the best of Mr.. Merrick's stories sc
far as I know them," our perplexit,
grows more profound.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
The Meals They Write

Inc Meals They Write
"Although not an extract from a
novel," writes Carolyn Wells, "isn't
this delightfully."- pictured ?"
THE LUNCH
A gothic window, whore a dana SIX curtain
Made the blank daylight shadowy and un-
certain:
a slab of agate Ger four ca gle talons
Held trinity up and neatly taught to balance
A porcelain dish Ger which. in many
cluster,
Black grapes hung down, dead ripe and
without lustre:
a melon cut in thin delicious slices:
A cake that seemed mosaic work in spices:
TWO emma cups with golden tulips sunny,
And rich inside with chocolate like honey;
And she and the banquet scene completing
With dreamy WOrdS-and very pleasant
eating.
Thomas Bailey .4ldrich.
For both foreign and domestic dishes
l recommend to 81. S. H." James
Huneker's "New Cosmopolis." The fol-
lowing example from "Prague" may
mean little, but vt certainly sounds in
viting to me: 81 had an Omletta royal,
Fogos fish, Telec flet specarky
and Ledovy creme, ending with an
Ameriky compot, and, of course, some
Austrian light wine" -Manuelo.
The meals Balzac wrote for his
herones were usually as follows: A
partridge wing, a few sips of cham
pagne, hothousc peach, but here is
a meal he is said to have eaten at the
famous Verny's-a hundred oysters,
hors d'euvres, a sole, twelve chops,
a young duck, a pair of roast part
ridges, dozen pears, wines, coffee and
hqueurs. f. B. B.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
Labrador Days

LABRADOR PAYS. BY Wilfred T. Gren.
fell. Published by Houghton Miffin
Company. Price $50
DR.. Grenfell has given us some more
good stories of Labrador life, strong,
virile tales these, of the hardy fisher
folk and their struggles by sea and
land. The book holds ones interest
from cover to cover.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
Among Those Present
War and Reconstruction

THE AMERICAN AIR SERVICE. BY
Arthur sweetser, Captain Air Service. =.
S. Army Published by d. Appleton &
Co. 3S4 pages. Price $3.50.
To the stupendous task of recording
the military efforts of America from
the inception of the art of flying to
the unprecedented production and
achievement at the end of the war
Captain Sweetser has set himself and
achieved complete success.
ACCORDING TO ORDERS. BY F. Brtten
Austin. Published by George H. Doran
Company. $50 pages. Price $3.50.
A collection Of eleven short stories
which reflect phases and events of the
Great War. They are told with fine
regard for graphic detail, and have no
small degree of literary merit.
AFTER THE WHIRLW1ND. BY Charles
Edward Russell. Published by George
H. Doran Company.
With faith in future frightened
by democratic idealism, Mr.. Russell
has written an enthusiastic and vigor-
our paan of triumph over PROSTATE
and fallen autocracies, and the rea-
sons why they fell.
WARTIME FRANCE BY Major Francis
Stoddard. Published by Motfat, Yard 6
GO. POI pages. Price s15O.
Sent to France to study the methods
used there for protecting coast cities
from attack, Major Stoddard gathered
information and detail which he has
used to advantage in writing of France
in 1917. The book is full of personal
anecdotes and is written in a delight
fully free and unconstrained fashion.
RECONSTRUCTINCi AMEHICA: OUR
NEXT BIG JOB. Edited by Edwin
Wildman. Published by the Page Company.
Boston. 421 pages. Price $500
Being contributions from thirty-tw
of the country's greatest thinkers and
constructive and industrial geniuses
on reconstruction and adjustment.
LABOR AND RECONSTRUCTION IN
EUROPE. By Elisha NJ. Friedman. Pub
lished by e. p. Dutton & CO. PIG pages
Price $3.50.
A lucid and comprehensive collection
of reports, recommendations, pro
grammes and legislative measures in
most European countries, with special
emphasis on England and Germany
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
The Actor MANAGER

THE ACToR-MANAGER BY Leonard
3MaiI;n 3Merrick with an introduction by
r; r. Dutton Co. 332 pages. Price,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
History and Government

THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA:
FRANKLIN'S COLLEGE. BY Horace
Mather Lippincott Published by ]. B.
Lippincott Company. 24S pages. Price
$3.50.
A complete history of the University
of Pennsylvania, compiled for the first
time by the alumni secretary-an annal
that includes bright account of the
one hundred and seventy-eight years
of this institutions romantic and use
full existence.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
About a Column
The Food of Keats, Mary MacLane
and o. Henry

The Food of Keats, Mary MacLane
and o. Henry
N regard to the question Of Book
Meals raised recently by L. S. H.,
several interesting repasts occur
to me. An oasis in the English Lit.
course foisted upon US at boarding
school was the ideal midnight spread"
IN the "Eve of st. Agnes" of
"candied apple. ounce and plum. and
With Jellies smoother than tho creamy
And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon;
Mamma Mamma and dates. in argosy transferred
From silken Samarcand TO cedared Leb-
anon"
1t lacks only pickles to utterly
recommend itself to us.
Another famous literary night snack
(read some years later) is the Cold
Boiled Potato from the family icebox,
so ghoulishly enjoyed by Mary Mac
Lane. "1t's satanic delight take in
it. It's a sly private orgy l make of
1T; pirates banquet, thieves picnic,
pagan rite, heather revelry, con-
ceit all and unhallowedy my own"
1t must be sweet, dark pink potato,
eaten with salt-shaker in one hand,
when it tastes Of rainwater and roses
and many other things. This seemed
to us one Of the more commendable
Of the vivid Mary's emotions, though
we do not wholeheartedly participate
in it, our own preference in nocturnal
icebox delicacies being chocolate
blanc-mange. We were considerably
startled, however, the other day, to
read "Psychoanalytic Review and Ap-
probation" of 81, Mary MacLane" in
"The Interstate Medical journal" for
March, 1918, in which the Cold Boiled
Potato is interpreted most surpris-
ingly.
"Are we not here" query the two
ingenious authors, "in the archaic
realm of a phallic phantasy?" And
they elucidate their theory with an
explicitness which, unfortunately, is
denied to the correspondent of The
Tribune. Medical journals make su-
perb reading.
Well, we were going to remark that
.. Henry looks particularly to the
nourishment of his characters, as light
be expected from his hearty humanity.
Indeed, we always felt the reason for
the bad temper of the McCaskeys (two
of the Four Million) was an excessive
protein diet. You remember, of course,
the progress of that dinner. Mrs Nc
Caskey first hurled stewpan of bacon
and turnips at her spouse; the latter,
who "was no novice at repartee," re-
taliated with a roast sirloin of pork
This missing the lady, she was able to
toss at him a bread pudding in an
earthen dish, but hunk of Swiss
cheese soon after hit her in the eye.
Nevertheless, she had the last word
with well-aimed coffeepot full of a
hot, black, semlfragrant liquid" You
may smell all the table d'hotes in Man
haitian in O. Henry's pages, with the
beans and pancakes of the West and the
tamales of torrid countries But for
perfect characterization through food
we recall nothing better than the timd
young man named Seeders, who "worked
in a laundry Office and appeared to
have been recently rough dried and
starched. He usually sat at
one Of Tildy's tables, where he devoted
himself to silence and boiled weak
fsh.' F. r.
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that such changes would make s
a better world for common peo-
pie to live in. But the point ID.
these stand-patters and reae-
tionaries don't want any
changes at all, and that's what
they are mad about. They
want the world to settle back in
to the same old rut that it was
in before he war. They want
the poor workers to meekly sub
nit to the same old slavery and
oppression-getting barely
enough to sorter keep life in the
body-while the rich lord it over
them and pile up still bigger for
tunes.
In every case the enemies OF
the League represent the Old
Order. They represent Special
Privilege. They just can't COM
prehend how it is possible for
the fat picking that they have
had to be taken away from
them.
Wilson and Taft and all the
friends of the League are show
ing a better spirit. They win
not accomplish the great things
they hope for, but they are at
least HONESTLY TRYING to
do something for the betterment
of the world, which is more than
can be said of Lodge and his
gang.
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HEART-To-HEART TALK.

Now, dear readers and friends
this is a personal letter to you. ]
want you to regard it as just a.
personal and just as important a.
If I had written it direct on m!
typewriter and mailed it. to you IL
a sealed envelope under a three
gent stamp.
What do you think Of the lint
of talk I am giving you this timei
If, you believe my New Message
contains something that thepeoplt
ought to read and think about
then I want you to appoint yeur,
self as a missionary to help spread
It among your friends. Tote this
issue around in your pocket and
read it to people you meet and
ask them what they think about
it. You will find more people
thinking along these lines thar
you might suppose. And if yot
happen to strike a few who have
not yet begun to think on these
things, this paper will wake then
mp and put them to thinking.
The whole human race today is
aware Of the fact that this Ole
earth is passing through a great
crisis, and that SOMETHING oi
far-reaching consequence to the
people must be the result. The
human mind is in a questioning
attitude, wondering if this really
Is the end, and the old cut-and.
dried conceptions Of what is going
70 happen in the wind-up are be-
ing changed rapidly.
Hence the time is ripe for this
New Message, and / want you to
help MT spread it into every nook
and corner of this broad land. Il
Is going to take a great deal OF
money to run this thing unde,
present conditions. Print pape,
costs about twice what it former
u did, and some kind Of war tau
Yin the form Of postage or other
wise) is going to fall heavily OF
all publishers. And besides that
/ Am constantly needing to ado
new machinery and office equip
ment to handle the business. Yot
folks hustle up the clubs and II
furnish the chin-mrsic till every
thing sosa easy. !.
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Let me tell you once more that
you had better begin to study that
question of "The Times Of tho
Gentiles." Learn what the term
means. where it started, and how
long it is. The Bible gives all the
figures very plainly. By looking
into this you viii find ont some
things that win surprise you.
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Every owner Of a Ford car
certainly ought to read Ford's
paper, and that would give it a
right smart chunk of a circula-
ton.
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If Lee Overman is to have his
way, where shall we look for our
boasted "democracy?" Take it
from me, Lee is some edemo-
crat" these days.
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Our great leaders have done
made up their minds that there
shall never be another war, but
at the same time they are deter
mind to be ready for the next
one.
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Tobacco as we'll as likker will
have to be cut out when Christ
comes to reign on earth, and we
just as well begin cutting it out
right now.
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Just a few years ago and the
expression, "Billion dollar con-
gress," was enough to scare peo-
pie into fits. But the late Sixty
fifth congress which on March
4th adjourned "sine Deo," as
Tom Marshall says, might easily
be called a Fifty Billion Dollar
Congress-" And we take it all
as a matter of course. My, but
amt we goin' some?
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Next thing you know 1t will
be $4,000 fine and ten years in
jail to wear a beard. IF some
body would put up a barber shop
in Russia maybe it would help
some.
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And now the next prohibition
fight is to be for the prohibition
of tobacco. Well, that won't
touch me, either. I have never
used the weed in any shape nor
form. Perhaps it isn't as great
an evil as liquor, but it is a use
less, expensive, injurious and
filthy habit, and I would be
mighty glad to see it go along
with J. B.
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The new Republican congress
belongs to a past age. You can
see the moss growing all over it.
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ANOTHER SERMON ON THE
LEAGUE

question in the world right now
is the League Of Nations. Every
person who takes any intelli-
gent interest in the affairs of the
world is thinking about it. The
press is shedding barrels of
printers ink over it, and the
silver-tongued orators are not
giving it any rest.
I want to say right here that
I am neither for nor against the
League of Nations. I am a neu-
trail. Some are fighting for it
and claiming that it will solve
every problem. Others are
fighting against it and swear
ing that it will only make bad
matters worse. But, standing
here as a neutral and looking on,
I can see the folly Of both sides.
I will not oppose the League
of Nations, because I know it is
one of the steps in the Divine
Plan. Neither will I yell myself
hoarse in praise of it, because I
know God does not intend for it
to do what it's advocates think it
will do. There are other steps
in the Divine Plan that the
statesmen have not seen and will
not see. Neither the friends nor
the enemies of the League plan
have any idea what is ahead of
them. They are just founder
ing about in the dark. They
have not consulted the only
Authority that could throw any
light on the subject.
If somebody would walk into
the great council chamber and
lay an open Bible on the Peace
Table and say, Lets see what
God says about this" every del
egate in the room would simply
roar with laughter. It would
be such an un-heard-of thing
that it would be a great joke
among them.
Some of the delegates to the
Peace Conference are perhaps
very good NOMINAL Chris
tians, and in a formal sort of
way they pretend to have a
great reverence for the Bible.
But they all think it is a "sky-
book" They think it talks
about something that is to hap
pen away up above the stars
some time in the far distant fu-
ture. They don't think its talk
has any connection with this
earth and these days in which
we are now living.
And so they are going ahead
to fix it up in their own way,
and in their own strength, and
without any thought of God in
it at all. But, without knowing
it, they are doing the very iden-
teal thing that God said they
would do, and the way it will all
end will be a mighty big sur
prise to the whole bunch.
But I want to say this much
more. Henry Cabot Lodge and
his bunch of reactionaries in
| the United States who are fight
ing the League so hard-they
are not fighting it because they
are afraid it will fail. No-sir-ee!
They are fighting it because
they are afraid it will succeed.
They see and understand that
if such a thing is put into opera
ton and works successfully, it
will simply compel a great many
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Some of these days Senator
Borah will want to borah hole
and crawl in it.
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Tobacco next!" is the cry Of
the prohibition forces. All
right-that suits me. If we are
going to clean up, why not do
a complete job of it? Why
wash one foot and leave the
other one a-stinking?
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Senator Knox is giving the
League OF Nations some terrible
Knocks.
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Switzerland asks to be admit
ted into the League of Nations
as a NEUTRAL. In other
words, Switzerland wants to be
in the boat, but don't want to
help paddle.
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find that lots of people come
to the point of accepting tths
great Millemial truth, and at
the same time tryeto hold on to
some of their 4old errors that
can't possibly be made to fit into
the Millennial plan. It is like
putting on a nice new coat, but
keeping on the same old ragged,
dirty pants. They don't match.
The ikker gang can be allow
ed to organize and talk big
about how it is going to over
ride the laws of the land, and the
Overman committee does not so
much as bat an eye. But just
let a man with beard on pass the
window and it yells "Bolshe-
visit" and throws a fit.
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Gan you imagine Jesus CHRIST
going along the street putting at
a ten-cent cigar? Can you
imagine him STOPPING down in a
dark corner and emptying a
half-pound "chaw'' out of his
jaw before he began to preach?
Ask your tobacco-using preacher
what he thinks about that?
They are going to try to fix
the League so that any nation
can withdraw it's membership
any time it's wants to. In other
words, you can ride awhile, and
if you don't like that you can get
off and walk. Seems to be sorter
like a heaven that you can leave
any time you get tired of wear
ing wings.
The political and financial
bosses of the world are expect
ing to go right on with the job
just like common. They don't
even know that their lease of
power has already ended. Man
has not been running the world
since 1914-he has just been
TRYING to run it. And TRY
is all he will ever do any more.
Just wait and sec.
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