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New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
The Wrongness of Samuel Butler

There is no doubt considerable
Stiffness on the part of worshipers
Of Samuel Butler, but we have seen
nothing to equal the Stiffness Of a
recent criticism attacking the fame.
person and labor of the author of
"The Way of All Flesh" in The
Evening Post Several thousand
words are devoted to the task of
proving what has never been con
tradicted that we are aware of--the
general perversity and sardonic bit
terness of this grim old idol
smasher. Of discussion of the
intellectual labor in issue there are
only occasional traces. The CON
clusion is naturally presented that
Butler was an immensely ovelrated
and thoroughly wrong and bad old
man.
We suppose Samuel Butler was
wrong upon more things than any
other man of equal intellectual
ability that we can recall He could
not we'll be otherwise; for his favor
ite occupation was to stride into
some utterly novel field of laborious
intellectual cndcavor and seek to
prove that everybody was wrong.
He had perfectly clear conception
of what he was doing. AS he says
in his Mote Book:
~ am the enfaNt terrible of litera-
ture and science. If | cannot, and
know | cannot, get the literary and
scientific bigwigs to give me a shil-
ling, | can, and l know l can, heavc
bricks into the middle Of them"
Not wholly admirable spirit in
which to live ones intellectual life?
Decidedly not; and if this were all
that was insisted upon we could
accept the criticism with applause
and agreement. Butler had much
of the aggrieved and disgruntled
failure about him. He was sorry
lover, a hating son and vitriolic
enemy. His thinking showed at
times what Mr.. Francis Hackett has
called diseased contrariness. No
wonder Mr.. Bernard Shaw clasped
his posthumous being to his bosom
as long-lost brother!
But with all his wrongness of
thought and life, it was Samuel
Buffers achievement to plow first
furrow in an untitled field, and
that is an achievement which no
cohort Of dyspeptic critics can
erase. His thought was the legiti-
mate ancestor of the philosophy of
his grandchildren-though proof
of its status turned up only after
his death, very much like the lost
Will in the last act of a melodrama.
Pragmatic is the convenient tag
that has since come and gone
lapsed into something almost un-
fashionable. The way of thinking
is with us yet. will be with us for
years to come. 1t is in spirit moth
ing more or less than that open
minded, questioning freedom from
cant and conventional beliefs that
Samuel Butler lived and practised
and was. The method, not the re-
suit, is his monument.
To be wrong through ones own
thinking is better than to humble
the truth learned by rote. Not
exactly a safe or a comfortable
world, if all were Samuel Buffers.
But the utmost of such intellectual
freedom that the general run of us
can achieve is small item. 1t can
at most, and in the mass, stir slug
gish waters and help slowly, very
slowly, to move mountains. The
family, for example, will survive
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
The Deadly Stein
To the Editor of Tho rr;h

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: "Pse very much troubled IN
mind" We have a number Of ste;ns
that we have used as ornaments
the Dutch shelf" in our dining room.
Are we violating the prohibition law. :,
Is 1t a mitigating circumstance tbat
these stems enjoy their virgin nur;,v
never having been contaminated bv
the touch of beer7 Please relieve NV
anxiety. LAW AprnCn
New York, Feb. 1, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
Exchanging Bad for Worse

tFfom The PhWddeiphid Epenig Public
Led0er)
The Bolshevists are making the pop
ulation of Russia work twelve hours a
day seven days week. Had the down
trodden proletariat" known what was
going to happen it might have hesitated
before overthrowing the "hated aristo-
Gratis and the "despised bourgeoisie. j."
But apart from the damnable compul-
sion there seems to be praiseworthy
appreciation of the country's needs by
the new despots.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
A True Prophet
(From The Wheeling Inteu;os - =

ffrom The Wheeling Intelliosneey)
1T was the celebrated Greek ma,ho-
matlcian, astronomer and phi,osonh..
Ihaies who said that "all comes from
water and will return to water" And
ne iived some twenty-five hundred years
before our times.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

ficial and temporary. The Anderson
ties have robbed US of even these few
moments.
believe there are millions of
Americans who resent the Eighteenth III
Amendment as bitterly as l do, and I
believe they will yet be heard from.
S. MILES BOUTON.
jamestown, N. Y, Jan. 80, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

Realpolitik. The true German does
not know or care as to what really
is; he is coerced by the force of his
assumed major premise, and such is
the force Of his logic that he fire.
quently confounds "ought" with "is."
He is sentimentalist parading as
logician.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

Samuel Buffers diatribes against
it. But 1t may we'll be made bet
ter institution through his frank
discussion Of it's successes and it's
failures.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
The Coming Tower
A Cure for Insomnia

A Cure for Insomnia
Laura, my love, when you rccite
With azure orbs ashine, aglistcn,
The dream you had the other night
do not listen.
NV Postumus, when you explain
The virtues of your car how cheap
Its upkccp is. | cannot feign
| fall asleep.
And when, Belinda you essay
To tell me of the current shows,
Weaving the plot of every play,
My dear, l doze.
And when, O John, you tell this bard
OF poker pots you used to take
With all details well, | can hard
Ly keep awake.
Tritc though these tales, my swee
Miss Smith,
Gold are they from fairy hoard,
TO your experiences with
The Ouija board.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
The Paramount Issues

tFrom The Baltimore AulericanJ
What is to become of Fiume? and
What is alcoholic content? bid fair to
be the two prominent puzzles of the
century.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
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also the local news Of spontaneous origin published
herein
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herein also reserved
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
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New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

We do not recall that Secretary
Daniels ever had any sea service
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1920.

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New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

Sir Arthur wants, he says, his stu
dents to be sensible that a sloppy SEN
tence is no more nearly "good enough"
than dirty linen is good enough. 81
desire,' he says, chat among us we
make it impossible to do again what
our Admiralty did with the battle of
Jutland, to win victory at sea and
lose it in dispatch. And | use this
illustration because many who will
hardly be convinced that thing is
worth doing we'll for it's own sake NAV
yet listen when you show them that
to do it i'll, inditferently, laxly, means
public damage. There used to be
saying in the Fleet-and it should
have reached the Admiralty that
Nigh-enough is the worst man on the
ship"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

Owing to the condition Of the side
walks, the enforcement of the foot
fault rule temporarily is suspended
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

Nobody could be so deft so cutting,
so reverent a parodst as Sir Arthur
CUTLER Couch has been without being
deep and observant critic Sir Ar
thur ("Studies in Literature") is lee
turing his class at Cambridge on The
Poetry of George Meredith. "And
after ALL" he says, "what does it
matter to this large world in the long
run if a tripos candidate should pro
nounce mistaken judgment on the
merits of Lascelles Abercrombie, John
Masefield, or John Drinkwater?" 1t
matters not at ALL What matters is
the fear-in critics-of pr0nouncing
wrong judgments. For even your mis-
taken judgments are not held against
you. Who reviles Samuel Pepys
because 'he chara cterized many of
Shakespeare plays as poor stuff, or
praised plays that probably were with
out merit?
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

The more We read Sir Arthur Quiller-
Couch's lectures, the more we wish
that he were touring this country.
Rather. as far as we are concerned.
one of his lectures than fifty years of
Alfred Noyeses and a cycle of Sir
Oliver Lodges
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

how about unseating the groundhop?
F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

Other authors do this with certain
words, making the words almost their
own. Mr.. II. G. Wells does it with
'brlght' and Miss May Sim
clair with "sulen."
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

Sir; My first day at school was ,o+,,
failure My teacher looked hundred vears
Ola to me. and all the other girls in tho
class seemed to know great deal ahort
subjects that did not interest me in tho
least. So at 30. when the class w.s
sent downstairs for recess, went home and
told my mother didn't care for school md
didn't think I'd go back l went b.cL-N
with mother-next morning.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

20 JOY, o Rapture Unforeseen. the CIoud.,
Sky Is Now Serene"
From The Elizabeth IN. J.) Journan
On January 3, 5. s, 1920, l gave notice ~
the public that I, Fred Traut, would not bs ,s
responsible FOR any debts contracted by INV
w'le' 'uha Iraut' which was mistake, a,
i was pushea to doing same. I am glad to
say we are together again. ~
FRED TRAUr.
62t Spring Street, Elizabeth N
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

In Fargo, N. D., is the Holland Will
Oats Separator Company, concern w
W. E. thinks should command the ~.
tention of every college faculty. :
The Washington times., 1920-09-23
OPENINGS IN SOCIETY
Marshalls in Chicag0-W. G. McAdoo Visits White
Ri f HOuse-Weddings and Engagements

been visiting them at 0raceiands
their place at Elkins. have returned
to their Washington residence
Comdr. Reginald n. Belknsp. U. :.
n, and Mrs. Beiknap. OF Washington.
are at the Averiii cottage In stock
bridge. Mass.
BAKER BACK FROM LENOx.
Raymond T. Baker director OF the
Mint. returned yesterday from Lenox,
Mass. where he. spent the Weekend
with Mrs. Baker and their small
daug liter. Gloria.
Mrs. Frederic X. Harris. who has
leased her house. 23s0 Massaehusetts
avenue, to Mr. and Mrs.. Robert L.
Craigie, OF the British embassy; has
taken an apartment in the Con-
necticut for the winter.
Mrs. Craisie Is now making q series
OF visits in Virginia and the south.
Mrs. Roscoe Carlyle Bulmer has
been In New York for several weeks.
She will 20 to White sulphur Springs
the end OF the week for the month OF
October and will reopen her apart
ment at 1902 Eighteenth street on Mo-
vember 1. Mrs. Burners mother. Ars.
Charles ii. Poor. has sold her home
ut 1914 Twenty-nrst street and leased
the apartment occupied by Mrs.
Morris Ernest Locke, at 1902 Eigh-
teenth street to. be near Mrs. Buimer.
Mrs. Poor will return to Washington
the middle OF October.
Mrs. Ira e. Bennett has returned
from Charmion, Pa, where she spent
the summer at the PillinK cottage.
and where Mr.. Bennett Joined her for
frequent visits.
Their daughter. Nine. Claude
Langlais. who spent the summer In
Maine, has rejoined M. Langlais at
Wardman Park Hotel
Mrs. Susan Hunter Walker viii be
hostess at the dinner at the Arts
Club tonight. when the speakers VIII
be Mrs. Helen II. Gardener, civil serv-
ice commissioner: Mrs Annette Abb
CONTINUED on Page Ntne)
The Washington times., 1920-09-23

TINE VICE PRESIDENT AND MRS.
MARSHALL. who have recently
been at Petoskey, Mich. for sew
eral weeks. are spending some days
In Chicago. and next week Mr.. Mar
shall viii start campaigning. He VIII
devote a month TO speechmsking In
Illinois and Iowa. and Mrs. Marshall
will accompany him on his tour. They
are not expected back In washington
until December.
William Gibbs MeAdoo who was In
Wash tom yesterday. made a call
on the President and Mrs. Wilson dur
ing the afternoon. He returned last
night to New York. George Creei
dined informally at the White House
Tuesday evening. Yesterday after
noon President aud Mrs. Wilson took
an automobile ride together for about
| an hour.
Mrs. Newton ID. Baker, wife OF the
Secretary OF War has returned from
Pottstown, Pa. where she was called
by the death OF her mother after a
lingering illness. Her father, Howard
Leopold. accompanied her and will DO
her guest for an indefinite time.
NEREDITHs TO NEW YORK.
The Secretary OF Agriculture and
Mrs. Meredith and their son Edwin
T. Meredith. jr, will go to New York
today for the weekend. Secretary
and Mrs. Meredith have spent several
weeks in their home in Iowa and re-
turned to Washington the nrst Of the
week.
The minister of Sweden. w. A. r.
| in Washington today. Nine. Eken-
| gren, who has been with the minister
at their summer home at Edgartown.
Martha's Vineyard, Mass, Is now at
the Vanderbilt Hotel, New York, and
has been Joined by her sister. Mrs.
Deming Jarves. Mrs. Jarves will sail
for her home In Dinard. France on
the Mauritania on September so.
Nine. Grouitch. wife of the minister
from the Serbs. Croats and Slovenes,
returned yesterday from SoutnhanSp-
ton, l.. /. The Mlnister and Nine.
Grouitch will spend the weekend at
Elkins, W. Va, with Mrs. Stephen b.
Elkins at her home Harriehurst. .-
William Pugsley. governor of the
province Of New Brunswick. Canada,
and Mrs. Pugsley. arrived in WASH
ington yesterday for a brief visit and
are staying at Wardman Park Hotel
JAMES w. GERARD HERE.
James w. Gerard, former American
ambassador to the United States. has
arrived in Washington. and has taken
.1artm~ot At Wardman Park
Hotel for an indefinite period.
J. de IAgerberg, secretary OF inc
Swedish legation, and charge oar
,a,re. ad Interim, entertained six
The Washington times., 1920-09-23
An Unfailing Way
To Danish Hairs
Beauty Notes.l

Ugly hair growths can be removed
in the privacy of your own home IL
you get a small original package Of
delatone and mix into a paste enough
of the powder and water to cover the
hairy surface. This should be left
on the skin about . minutes. then
removed and the skin washed and
every trace of hair will have van
ished. No harm or Inconvenience can
result from this treatment but be
sure you buy real delatone.
The Washington times., 1920-09-23
TO Youth-ify"
GRAY, Streaked mair

: Ask anybody to guess how old
YOU are, and notice how their first
appraising glance Is directed at
your hair.
To be answered "You can't be
more than thirty; l can tell by your
hair" must give to any woman who
is really forty or more sense OK
pride and satisfaction.
But to become prematurely gray
at 80 or 40. to look ten years older
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
PHONE OPERATORS TELL
OF SMALL PAY RECEIVED

HONOLULU, May 15-Rural oper-
ators were called to testify before the
Public Utilities Commission at it's pub
lie hearing on the present strike of
electrical workers of the Mutual Tele-
phone Company here last night.
One rural operator testified that
she received $35 per month, of which
she spent So for food, and that she
had saved $50 in six months.
Seven other rural operators receiv-
ing from $50 to $50 a month testified
that they were satisfied.
The chief operator at Honolulu said
she had been working for the company
for Is years, that she received $40 a
month, and was satisfied. One of the
striking girl operators said she could
not live on her wages and should get
Sc a day. The hearing has been on
tinued until Saturday.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
Huber To Be Asked
Curb Fish Dealers
Complaint Of Waikiki Vender Who
Charged GO Cents Pound For Ulua
And Refused To Weigh -PrOfteer-
ing Checked On Oahu

If U. S. District Attorney Huber has
any authority to regulate the price of
ashland he is said to have admitted
the impeachment-he is to have a
chance to try his hand on Maui, if
eloquent persuasion can accomplish
that result. Attorney Huber, it is re-
ported, did some time ago cause some
kind of a fury among the fishermen
and fish dealers in Honolulu, and
later in Hilo. One of the things
he put into effect was the use of
scales and the compelling of all sales
of fish to be made by weight.
The first of this week a prominent
Wiluku resident went into a Market
stree fish stall and inquired the
price OF Iva by the pound.
How n YOU like?" inquired the
dealer.
Il want to kn w how much one
pound" the lady fSDlied.
you buy whole fsSS ,35 cents one
pound" Indicating a&9large fish
weighing perhaps 40 pouno
But l don't want the whoTe% fish.
How much for one pound?" ~
The Japanese stubbornly refused I.
talk business on this basis, however,
and finally the lady in order to find
out just what she was up against in
Dictated a segment about the size she
wanted, and asked the . price. The
Japanese promptly demanded rs cents
He vas paid his money, the fish
cut off and wrapped up, and then the
lady laid his package upon the scales.
1t weighed Ia pounds in the wrap
ping. She had paid. at the rate of
60 cents per pound. The Weight ~
later verified at another place, where
it showed a trife under a full IL
pound.
The matter has been reported to
the U. S. District Attorney, who ap-
parently is the only one at the pres
ent time who has any authority in
cases of profteering.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
Maui Plantations
Make Good Progress
Waikiki Sugar Co. Got Late Start But
Will Finish On Time-H. c. & S.
And Paia Also Doing Well

Notwithstanding the fact that the
Waikiki Sugar Co., got a late start
in its grinding season owing to the
delay in arrival of some necessary
machinery, it has now practically
caught up and, if everything con-
tinues as favorably as heretofore will
finish the season the latter part Of
next month, well within the usual
time.
Other plantations on central Maui
are also doing well although the Maui
Agricultural Co., is reported to have
had some little trouble in its harvest
ing which is delaying things to some
extent. The Hawaiian Commercial &
Sugar Co, expects to finish it's crop
in about 5 weeks more of grinding.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21

becomes doubly difficult when Brian
returns with the brazen Belle as his
wife.
children of Punishment" Mitchell
Lewis second Select Picture is the
story of Dick Bream, a foreman of
an INSCRIPTIONS lumber company. De-
spite much opposition from the influ-
entail lumber company, he succeeds
in building up a thriving logging en-
terprise of his own. The THE Chill
dren of Banishment' are Allen Mac
kenze and his wife Eloise, with whom
Dick falls in love. His rigid moral
code will not allow him to show her
the love he feels. He leaves in order
to make it less hard for himself. AT
her bidding he returns, but not to
stay for long.
There is much excellent character
drawing in "All-of-a-Sudden Peggy"
Marguerite Clark's. The story, which
was taken from Ernest Denny's play,
produced in 1907 with Henrietta Cros-
man in the leading role, is English in
theme and locale. 1t tells of an ~
pulsive Irish girl, who her
engagement to a young man to fur
ther the love affair of her widowed
mother.
Oral Humphrey, as Lord Cracken-
thrope, a scientist, gives a splendid
Characterization, while Lillian Leigh
ton, as the widow, furnishes some de-
licious bits of humor. Miss Clark is
her usual vivacous self and Director
Edwards has brought out the finer
points of the story in a manner well
suited to her talents.
Shadows of Suspicion" is the latest
Screen Classics, Inc, play in which
Harold Lockwood will be seen in a
powerful drama of the secret service.
The play shows the deadly injustice
which can be done a man in war time
if, though he is not seen in the uni
ioi" VI thC NouiiIiy, hc 10, ho'ClIlN-
less, silently and secretly using every
energy and nerve in his brain and
body for the safety of his country.
Mr.. Lockwood, as Cyril Hammers
ley, the young Englishman, is seen
in the most powerful role of his caree
and gives a Characterization of the
loyal patriot which will thrill all who
see it.-Adv.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
Centennial Fund Campaign

The week of May 1880 has been set
for a general campaign throughout
the territory for raising the $4OO, O0O.0
Centennial Fund. This fund is Ha-
walls part in the great Inter-Church
World Movement campaign. This
fund is our memorial to the mission
airy fathers and the achievements of
the past hundred years. 1t also re-
gisters our determination to Garry
n in the great task of completing
the structure of Christian civilization
whose foundations were laid a century
ago. Here are some facts about the
fund:
1. 1t is made up of four distinct
obligations, all of which would prob
ably have to come to the people some
time. 1t has seemed best to combine
them in one campaign.
2. The money does not leave Ha-
wall. 1t is used here. 1t goes to
endow u OWL schools and give them
more adequate financial support.
8. Maunaolu Seminary is one of
the beneficiaries and will receive a
large endowment from the fund.
4. Pledges may be made payable
in three yearly instalments. Liberty
bonds will be accepted at par.
5. Of the total of $500, 100000 over
$275, 100000 has already been under
written.
6. The various churches of the Ha-
waiian Evangelical Association have
committees appointed to conduct the
campaign in their various localities.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
TURKS THREATEN UPRISING
TO RESIST TREATY DEMANDS

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 17-All
political parties of Turkey, apparently
unitedly opposing enforcement of the
treaty terms as outlined by the Allied
supreme council have Joined in is.
suing a proclamation widely posted in
Stamboul (Constantinople) saying:
"a Christian crusade is being under
taken against Moslems, Arise and at
tack your enemies"
The breaking out of a revolution
all over Turkey except in CONSTANT
nople directed toward the Allies was
reported as imminent through Buda-
pest channels several weeks ago..