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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
Flag Defamer's Jaw
Stops Hard Wallop

NEW YORK. April ie.-when Sen.
ator George Chamberlain closed his
speech ON The American Flag" at a
dinner In tho Sphinx club to-day. a
rabid "Bolshevik." who had managed
to slip in unnotiocd. shouted. TO hell
with tho American flag"
Edward w. Mitchell. vice president
Of the Texas and Oklahoma OIL Co.
landed the first blow In the scramble
tina, cnsued. lie caught tho disturb
or flush on the jaw and knocked him
down.
Tho man was treated 10 the rush
act" by members OF IN. club and
landed on the steps outside tho back
door. His identity Is unknown.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
Judge Denies Root
Claim Under Will

MOUNT VERNON. April H.
Judge T. r. Hardin has sustained the
provisions of the will Of George Adm.
with the exception OF that relating TO
n bequest mad. the late Milo Root
Adm died two years ago. leaving an
estate Of $4,000. The viii was being
contested by tho heirs Of Root. who
claimed that he was to receive 40
acres OF valuable land from tho prop.
erty OF Adm. according to its provi.
siona. Tho court held that this part
OF tho will was void. as Root drew up
the document and must have excrted
undue Influence.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
Have COLOR IN CHEEKS
Be Better L oking-Take
Olive Tablets

II your s1rin b yellow-complexion
pallh-tongue coefed-appetite poor
you have . bad taste In your mouth
. lazy, no-good feeling-yUu should
take Olive Tablets.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tabiets-a sub.
edtutc for calomel-were prepared b.
Dr.. Edwards after II years Of study
with his patienta.
Dr.Edwasds' Olive Tabletsare . purely
yegetabIec Observation-Disclosures
You will know them by their olive color
Tohave aclear, pink skin. bright eycs
no pimplcs, . feeling Of buoyancy like
childhood daysyoumustg atthecause.
Dr.. EdwardS Olive Tablets oct on the
liver and bowels like caIomel-yct have
no dangerous after effects.
They start the bile and overcome con,
etipation. That's why millions Of boxea
are sold annually at l0c and Csc per box
All druggists. Take one or two nightly
and note the pleasing resultA
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
Private Wong Wing
Returns With 91st

Coon Dip. Chinese consul In Scat.
tie. received word Tuesday that his
nephew. Private wong Wing. had ar.
rived In New York with tho sist divi.
sion.
wong Wing was one OF tho first
men % BE- sent 10 Camp Lewis. He
went overseas and saw scrvicc with
the sist In all It's important actions.
lie was offered the rank of sergeant
az ono time. but refused II because he
cannot speak English fiuentiy. Wing
ls a native of tho Pacific coast and
viii be given a roasing wcicome by
local Chinese when he arrives here.
next week.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
BLOOD POISONING
Hamlin's Wizard Oil . Safe FIrst
Aid Treatment

How often iockjaw ard blood poi.
soning result from the neglect Of
slight scratch or little cut Hamiin's
Wizard oil IL a safe and effective
first aid treatment II Is powerful
antiseptic and should be applied i'm.
mediately to wounds of this kind to
prevent danger Of infection.
II is soothing and healing and
quickly drives out pain and inflam.
nation in cases Of sprains. bruises.
cuts. burns. bites and stings. Just
NJ reliable. too. for stiff neck. sore
feet. cold sores. canker sores. ear.
ache and toothacbe.
Get It from druggists for 80 cents.
n not satisfied return tho bottle and
get your money back.
Ever constipated or have sick
headache? Just try Wizard Liver
Whips. pleasant little pink pills. 30
cents. Observation-Disclosures.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
All Ready to Begin
Sluicin4 Duwamish

siuicing 10 remove Duwamish head
will soon begin
The promontory In West Seattle
will be removed by this process TO
make room for n public park. and the
engineers office Is all ready to start
the work.
The 100. 900 cubic yards Of land to
be removed will be used 10 make fills
on Aiki ave. which viii be paved
from Spokane At 90 Luna park.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
Reported Missing,
Puyallup Boy O. K,

PurALLuP. April is.--Afs-r b.
ing officially reported as missing In
action and mourncd NJ dead by his
relatives. Lloyd Riscr returned home
today. fec,ing very much alive and
telling many thrilling exploits about
Americans in the war. Rixer was
wAsscd at the Argonne. but In ravIdiy
recovering. Hc has ten months to
complete his enlistment. and win 30
to Camp Lewis to serve the rest Of
his time.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
PLAN DOCK FOR
FERRY SERVICE
Kitsap County Men Busy In
Quest for Funds

business men OF Kitsap county.
headed by Frank Pierce. A. u. cowan
and Fred Harper. have started out to
raise $4,000 for tho building OF a
dock at Harper. 5000 OF which Is to
bo raised in Seattle and $1,000 in Kit
sap county. The dock represents the
eounty's agreement with tho King
county commissioners for the install.
iation OF ferry service between Seat.
tic and kitsap county.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
McAdoo Calls Off
His Seattle Trip

William Gibbs McAdoo. who quit
his Job as secretary OF the treasury
to become a movie magnatc. was ex-
pccted In Seattle. Wednesday. but he
didn't show up. In fact. he's speed.
Ing East. McAdoo. who Is President
Wilson's son'in'law. spent Monday
IN Portland, and had planned 10
come to Seattle. He changed his
mind At the last minute aud aban.
doncd his Puget Sound vlslt.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
Vanderveer Wins
for Ex-Le9islator

SPOKANE, April IS. - Police
Judge witt Tuesday exonerated
John Metcalf. former member OF
the state legislature from Stevens
county. from charges OF violating
the city disloyalty ordinance, In dis.
tributing certain literature. Attor.
ney George yanderveer, OF Seattle,
appeared for the defendant
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
Russian Mobiles to
Live in California

LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 10
c. J. Mcdzikovsky. financial agent
of the Russian embassy under the
czars regime. Ia en- route back to
New York today, after purchasing
n large tract OF land along the ia
nous cliff drive ut Santa Barbara.
He declared the land will DO used
by refugee Russian mobiles, who viii
come TO Santa Barbara TO live.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16

The temple chorus of the First
Methodist church. Fifth ave. and
Marion ST.. viii sing Handlers
Messiah" on Good Friday. There
will be no admission charge but
a silver offering will be taken.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-16
New Gloves fou.
EASTER

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New-York tribune., 1919-05-17
Soaring on a Complex
Albert Mordell Finds Repression
A Stimulus to MANY Writers

instead. She put everything she wanted
into the books. DR.. Mordell greatly ad-
mires LIE Rochefoucauld, because most
of the maxims were finely descriptive
of the processes of the unconscious
the ego and the libido. Poe, he says
talked so much about the death of
loved ones because before he was
twenty-threc he had lost six women
with whom he had been in love.
The author asserts without qualif-
cation in a paragraph all to itself: "If
there were no repressions there would
be little literature"
He confesses this is not pleasant
theory to believe, but feels it is the
truth and must be swallowed. 1t leads
to strange paths. What were the sup
pressions that made Laura Jean Libbey
and Ouida? Then there are Mrs. Flor
ence Barclay, Gene Stratton Porter and
Harold Bell Wright. 1t may even ex-
plain the deeps of Joseph Conrad and
the stone labyrinths of Henry James.
AS an angle of criticism, doubtless
with more thorough application of
facts and fewer generalities, this
ought to open UP good many new
avenues of approach to creative genius.
AS a final pronouncement it seems to
take life and its expression a little too
mechanistically and unimaginatively to
obtain credence for long as anything
more than an hypothesis.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17
Rv Ralph Block

~rr FRoITc MOTIVE IN iIIEkAII RE. BY
'1iI AIo<r. NerdeiL Boni Liverish'' New YORK
N.i5 net
r. one reason or another, DR.. Nor
alp. book on 1.-The Erotic Motive il
T;.srature" fails to do all it seems tc
.~on,ise. The failure is due partly
:. .hs method and partly to kind OF
ss,tantious flag waving over the
s:~ritv of art and life in general that
s'i,.s s's into the scientific attitude and
u~sbss il out of the way. Freud and
t. dsscendants set up pretty good
anls,,avork n's for a scientific analysis of
.sa''i .ta smotions of literary people and
.Ls;r relation to reality. 1t promised
auch in the right hands toward clear
80 away the fog of guesswork and
s.sls that gathers around the lives of
~ neonle who deal in the stuff of the
a:as.g;nation. a. DR.. Mordell makes a ten
.s,;se approach toward this kind of
ss;snti6c criticism. but the old fashion,
,r;tb it's easy generalizations, is hard
- ha rid of. Between this unwilling
,sss of the old criticism to give up
r,sgnihcencs and sentimentality and
.snecially didacticism, and DR.. Nor
JsIl,s ignorance of the fact that good
MANY people may be already familiar
,r;th modern theories of suppression
ard the unconscious, he manages to
tnrn ont a book which is partly warmed
over truths, several platitudes and a
ANAL original contribution to research.
The erotlc basis-erotic as DR.. Nor
deu nuts it in the sense of any con-
nsetion with passionate love-of most
Great imaginative expression is a good
enough basis for research, but it is
N, Of course, new idea. A fairly
strong belief in it existed long before
Ersud had anything to say on the mat
tsy Mr.. Huneker, who is late in the
lie, mas spent fruitful lifetime writ
Inc about it. DR.. Mordell seems to
,muly. without saying so. that these
ars really matters for astonishment.
Hs seems unable to get over being
amazed and not little shocked by
what is going on deep inside the human
consciousness. He says, for instance,
IN his chapter "Eroticism in Life"
ANY one who has listened to the
conversation of men in the club or
smoker, in the factory or office, in the
barroom or sitting room, cannot be
blind to the fact that the erotic inter
ests rule US far more than we wish to
admit. He who thinks that the wealthy
ere too much absorbed in accumulating
more riches and the poor too much
worn out by the struggle for exist
ence to be occupied with erotic fancies
is mistaken. A day spent in fac
tory or an evening at a club viii show
me that the millionaire and the pauper
are brothers under the skin"
After a good deal of Freudian re-
statement DR.. Mordell says q number
of interesting things about household
literary gods. He finds Browning and
Wordsworth, pedestalled so long by
the pure in heart. swollen with uncon-
scous erotic imagery, symbolic Of the
suppressions in their personal careers.
Cowper was ruined mentally by the
Gdipus complex, and Byron and
Shelley both wrote lot of fine litera-
ture in their efforts to escape the
"brother and sister motive" Charlotte
Bronte wanted to have children by q
Mr.. Heger, and, not being able to get
him for mate, wrote lot of novels
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17
Sketches by Ibanez
Several Striking Short Stories
Included in Luna
Benamor"

lo7nez. published by the J0hn W. Luce
& Co. 200 pages. Price, SIPS.
Luna Benamor" seems to be the
work of man who is still experiment.
ing. 1t contains flashes of brilliant
tinguished other books by Ibanez, but
there is no evident mastery of the art
of telling story. In fact, there is
little story to tell. The book is a
rather forid romance of Gibraltar, a
Puccini piece without music. The
story concerns the love of a young
Spaniard for Jewish heiress and ends
with their inevitable separation on ac-
count of the religious barrier which
is raised by her family.
The characters of the two chief per-
and the other figures in the book are
merely types. The book has a good
deal of color and certain amount Of
passion, but it brings no new light on
an old theme.
The novel is comparatively short and
is followed by six short stories, three
Of which are brilliant The manner
is that of Maupassant and even the
unsuccessful tales are at least good
limitations. Luxury" Compassion"
and "The Windfall' are better than
Cudt. lie ilISL Oh UneSe Is q SkeCCn OIL
a man who pauses to moralize as he is
about to leave a den of iniquity. 1t
has quite the point of view of Maui
passant but it contains enough origi-
nal and true observation to make it
something more than a study after
another master. Compassion" in
spite of its tragic ending, has some
thing of a heroic gesture which lbanez
could not have learned from the
Frenchman, and the irony of the ex-
ceedingly striking story "The Wind
fall" is softencd by an engaging kind
illness
"The Toad" is less original. 1t is
written around a cruel joke such as
Maupassant might have enjoyed, but
it has not the plausibility with which
he would have endowed it. "Rabies"
goes into a detailed description of a
victims symptoms and is horrible
without having any compensationg i'm
portance. "The Last Lion" is trife
The publishers say that much of the
early reputation of 1banez was founded
on these short stories, and at least
half of them are striking enough to
have given good promise of the work
TO come. III. B.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17
Kerensky, by Himself
Russian Makes Clear Some
Reasons for the Revolution
BY William Henry Chamberlin
THE PRELUDE to ROLSHEvIsM. BY A..
Z. keren sky Dodd, Mead & Co, New

THE PRELUDE to ROLsHEv1sM. BY A.
i. kerensky. Dodd, Mead Co., New
York. $3.50 net.
1t is always interesting to read q
statesman's analysis of the causes of
his own downfall. And Kerensky's ex-
tended discussion of the Kornilov plot,
with its farreaching and disastrous con-
sequences, is peculiarly valuable and in
Structive, because it is written in an
eminently impartial and fairminded
spirit. Throughout the book the authors
personal feelings are altogether sub
merged in his consciousness of the su-
preme tragedy which Kornilov's ill-ad
vised and reckless movement brought
upon Russia.
Kerensky sets down the stenographic
record of his testimony before the com
mittee appointed to inquire into the
kornilov affair. He also appends a
number of subsequent explanatory OBJ
servations and reflections. Both the
testimony and the comments give a
strikingly vivid picture of the young
Russian democracy in its death agony,
. maintaining futile struggle against
the twofold attack of Bolshevism and
convinced that, but for Kornilov's ef-
fort to set up a military dictatorship.
the Bolshevik revolution could never
have taken place. In support of this
theory he points out the fact that in
August, 1917, at the time of Kornilov's
movement, the influence of the soviets
was perceptibly waning and there was
every prospect that Russia would soon
adopt an orderly, democratic govern
ment. based upon the cooperation of
all classes. After the revolt, on the
other hand there was a tremendous
outburst of popular feeling against the
army officers, against the propertied
classes, against all who were suspected
of desiring or plotting for counter
revolution. This feeling, skilfully stim-
ulated by Bolshevist agitators, finally
heaval, which definitely destroyed the
provisional government and plunged
Russia into the desperate civil class
war which is still going on.
The value of Kerensky's work to the
student of the Russian revolution is
great and unmistakable. 1t sheds light
upon a number of puzzling and am
biguous episodes 1t gives a clear pict-
ure of the composition of the provi-
sional government, of the personalities
OF its leading supporters and enemies.
1t places q deserved share of RESPONSE
bility for the Russian collapse upon the
shoulders of the "Bolsheviki of the
Right" of the generals and capitalists
who were willing to see their country
perish before they would cooperate
with q genuinely democratic regime.
Above all, the book is calculated to ex-
cite sympathy and respect for its au-
self as a true, self-sacrifcing patriot,
who did all that one man could to save
his country from impending civil war
and dissolution, but finally fell a vic
tim to forces which we're too powerful
for him to resist
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17

ABOVE THE BATTLES by G. H.
Andre. Translated by Mrs. Philip Dun
can Wilson Published by Doubleday
Page & CO. Price s1.5o.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER. by Marcel Ma
daud. Translated by Florence Con
verse. Published by Doubleday. Page
& Co. Price $3.50
The romance and tragedy, the monot-
ony and sudden terrific excitements Nof
the life of the French Flying Corps are
sketches they are. disconnected Incl
dents with the indcmitable spirit of
the airmen the unifyin9 note. that
spirit which confronts countless dan
gers and utter weariness with daunt-
less courage to attack and patient cour-
age to endure.
There are no real personalities, only
brief glimpses of the men who act in
the tremendous drama of the air bat
ties. Because the stage and the play
are so vast that the actors are relative
ly unimportant they are not missed.
We take the parts ourselves. We know
the ecstacy of the leap of the wide
winged plane into the fresh sky of
early morning, the fear of blind fog,
the struggle against wind and driving
storm. We feel the sharp anguish of
close combat against odds, and the
exquisite relief of sudden succor and
escape We hear the hideous roar of
battle rising to US even above the
clouds and we know the weary return
from a successful flight, too exhausted
from the aRonizing hours of endurance
for exultation in work we'll and safely
done.
There is a certain sense Of monotony
toward the end, but it does not come
through any lack of variety in the in
cidents. 1t is impossible to maintain
the same intensity Of interest through
out 80 many breathless adventures
high pitched note too long held will in
the end dull the most sensitive ear.
Nadaud's book, Birds of Feather"
gives a personal touch to aviation
His four heroes are definitely and eff
fectively characterized. The book is
made up Of q short series of the fic-
titious adventures of these fiers. The
incidents are in turn romantic, humor-
Gus and tragic Perhaps the best is q
story called 1.-THE Clmbers,' in which
two French aviators are forced to de-
scend behind the German lines at
night and manage to repair their ma
chine and get away again just at day
break.
When the plane reaches home the
commander of the squadron rushes
forward to congratulate the pilot. In
reply the pilot draws from beneath
his coat bunch Of flowers and sup-
gests that they might be a pleasing
present for the captains wife since
these are flowers picked on German
soil. Much of the grace and gesture
of French army spirit has been caught
in Birds of Feather"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17
THE BOUNDER
By Arthur Hodges

1t is a good deal to say that American
literature is being enriched by work that
almost indisputably spells genius. and yet
it is no exaggeration to say that readers
of Thackeray or of Dickens must have
felt much the same when first they read
Vanity Fair or 'Dombey and Son as
the reader now feels who peruses The
Bounder
In mediocre New York apartment
house Mr.. Hodges finds most of his char
acters. They are writers, professional
dancers and broken-down or self-exiled
aristocrats, delightfully."- human people.
with the inclinations to sample life. to
wrest from life its most fascinating secrets.
1t has been argued that the great
American novel will be a tale of the wide,
free West; but such an argument is futile
in the face of book like The Bounder'
If this be not America, if these be not true
Americans, if this be not American life.
then there is no such thing as American
life that can be grasped and reduced to
paper. Philadelphia Press $l60 net.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17

great deslfe to meet Theodore Dresser,
and a meeting was arranged A long
silence followed the introduction, but
at last Miss Wellnan cxclaimed: ooh.
meet you. I've heard so much about
you!" X. O. /,
can Language" +. To- L. Meneken me- Al"est at-
tributes TO William Dean Howells the
opinion that new words are made much
faster In American than in English, and
that they are, in the main, words of
much greater daring and SAVIOR"
Mencken seemingly shares this be-
lief, but 1t seems to us that the last
four years have produced evidence on
the other side. The English army, &C
cording to our notion, invented not
only more war slang than the Ameri-
can but much more expressive slang.
In fact, we &took over a number of their
words such as dud and cootie, and bus
(for aeroplane). Our army was slow in
manufacturing words. During the first
year Of the war the Americans had no
slang word for German. Hun was
used sparingly, but only by officers.
Frtzie was rarer. Boche was tried
but proved to be i'll adapted to Ameri-
cans. They seemed afraid of it, and, in
Finally, after year all these foreign
substitutes were abandoned by the
enlisted men, and the German became
Jerry. Curiousy enough, the word
WAS almost invariably used in the sin
gular. We heard a soldier telling
about patrol encounter in which he
and twenty companions had driven a
slightly larger German force out of
an abandoned farmhouse, and he said:
when we came over the top of the
hill we found Jerry He stuck to
that usage all through the story.
In the last year of the war the Amer
lean army began to find names for va
rious things, but the slang list of the
first year was short. All wes can re-
member just now is "clacker" (for ten
centimes), win blanked," the various
twists of "pll say so, "IIl tell the
world" "I'll say it is," etc, and "looie"
(for leutenant). The French army was
the most prolific of all in language, and
several large dictionaries Of French
trench slang have already been pub
lished.
In discussing slang Mencken OBJ
serves, correctly, we think, that it is
individuals. Not little of it. he saws
is made up by baseball writer's, but we
think he puts no high valuation upon
their inventiveness by citing such
labored phrases as ito clout the
the sphere" "the initial sack" "to slam
the pill" and the dexter meadow"
Much better are "southpaw," fade
away" hard boiled egg" "foater"
and "solid ivory"
Lest any reader get the impression
that the purpose of this column is
solely to record disagreements or dis
approva. we hasten to add that Leonard
Merrick's Conrad In Quest of His
Youth" is a charming book and. al
though the present edition is a re-
issue of work published several years
ago, nobody we can think of has been
able in the mean time to equal Mcrrick's
skill in telling gay story which is not
altogether gay. Nobody else. or few
at any rate, can picture the merrine az
so we'll or heighten 1t 80 sdroitly with
background of shadows.
HEYWOOD BROUN.