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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-18

imagined the extent to which that
welcome would be carried, even
knowing the kindness of Americans
You accept the stranger here so
much more readily than do the
+ rellch. / feel as much at home as
if / had lived here for years.
II am the only one of my kind in
mlth"-this with an infection of
he voice denoting sense of humor
land the girls ask me many ques
ions, but | like it,"
"The American girls know seem
% have decided sense Of response
biity, because of the advantages af
forded them," continued Miss Rotiva,
Il think the feeling is general and
that it manlfests itself in the wide
preal desire there is among Smith
iris to take up teaching or social
DIRK, in preference to the more re-
muncrative lines which are now omen
10 educated women. They feel that
chese are the two professions where
a woman may pass along most ef-
fectlvey and in the most direct man.
ner that knowledge for good which
it has been her privilege to acquire
Just now it requires the firmest
convictions on the part Of a girl to
take up either Of these professions,
because of the inadequate compen-
sation."
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a s A SPECIFIC against any
~ lingering traces of the
jealousies and petty rival


tr1buted to the feminine, Miss
Denise Rotival, the French girl who
is taking her senior year at Smith
college, Northampton, Mass, as
an exchange student from the sor.
oonne, prescribes college life. Bv
college life she means not so much
the elected studies but chat chanc
to play together as we'll as work t,
gether," as she so naively puts it
This American college spirit, Il
che has experienced it at smit
since last September, has impresse,
Miss Rotival strongly, for there j.
nothing like it for university women
In France. There they meet at lee
lures, but never come together 80
cially.
when a,ooo girls sing together
there ia a spiritual elation that
takes possession Of ones entire be
ing. Nothing unworthy can surviv,
IT," she says.
To illustrate that such contacf
produces more than a mere passing
emotional wave she described the
friendships Of her American college
LIE, the loyalty among the girls.
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To Be Great, Die

another objection which comes to
our mind is that the governmental
book reviewers have largely gone on
the familiar theory that the first
requisite Of great writer is that he
should be dead. Although right here
and now We are living in perhaps
the greatest age which the English
novel has ever known, names of liy-
ing authors appear but rarely in the
government lists. We can remem-
Der from our school days that our
aftention was directed too much
among the literary graveyards.
There was no escaping the implica-
ton that literature was something
which had been and was gone. We
received no hint Of the possibility
that almost any day there might
arise some new man as fine as any
of those who had died. Writing
Sssmd 10 as one Of the lost arts, like
chinese porceiains or something
else for which modern men iad Tor.
gottsn the trick. Tbs result wss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-18
Walt Whitman Barred

It is specifically stated that poetry
has not been included in the scope
Of the list, but no justification is
given for this limitation, and any
selection of American books seems
woefully incomplete without Walt
Whitman.
Our preference is, perhaps, en-
tirely personal, but we much prefer
Simeon Strunsky's "Belshazzar
Court" to the "Autocrat at the
Breakfast Table" Bret Harte's
Luck of Roaring Camp" We would
be inclined to shove aside in order
to make room for Ring Lardner's
Letters Of a Busher." Such selec-
tons might be open to criticism, but
there should be little opposition to
including something of Theodore
Roosevelt's, 1.-THE Winning of the
West" perhaps, in spite of the fact
that he was a Republican.
One novel ought to be enough for
Hawthorne. Tarkington's "Seven-
teen" could then come in and "The
Man Without Country" might we'll
get up and offer seat to Joseph
Hergesheimer's "Three Black Pen
nys." We prefer "My Antonio OF
Villa Sibert Gather to "The Reign
of the Law" by James Lane Allen;
and surely there must be something
more deserving of attention III
American literature than Charles
Dudley Warmers my Summer in
Garden" Most of US will be IN
clined to miss "Connecticut Yankee
at King Arthur's Court" and IN
spite Of the fact that this would
make three Twain books, it might
not be amiss to include his Letters.
The other lists we have not scruti-
Il zed so carefully, but we note Win
interest that Professor C. Alphonso
Smiths "What Can Literature DO
for Me?" appears on no fewer than
two lists. This seems q coincidence
since Professor Smith happens to DC
one of the experts whose advice was
sought in making some Of the Sc
lections. We are also somewhat pus-
zled to find that the reading course
for parents includes "Pollyanns
and that Mahomct is included in ~
list Of "Thirty World Heroes"
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20. with Fire and Sword" HENRIK
Sienkcwicz
80. "Treasure Island" Robert Louis
Stevenson
Of course, it is impossible to make
any list of thirty great books of fic-
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ton without arousing controversy
from some quarter. If we had the
making of such a list, not more than
ten or twelve of the volumes on the
official list would find a place. For
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many Of our selections support prob
ably would be scant.
A Vote for ssHuck's

And yet we trust that it might be
possible to find numerous allies in
the contention that no list of "Thir-
ty Books of Great Fiction" can afford
to neglect "Huckleberry Finn" We
can conceive of no process of rea-
soning or intuition which puts Will
lam Dean Howells among the "a
vored thirty and omits Mark Twain.
1t also seems to US a little prepos-
ferrous to let Mr.. Howells crowd out
DostoievslAy, or to have "The Pilot"
of James Fenimore Cooper preferred
to Hardy's Ear From the Madding
Crowd" or "Tess of the d'Urber-
villes," or ''The Return of the
Native" not to mention at least
three others by the same author
which have a much better claim to
consideration than at least half of
the books on the government list.
Also, since the list is identified as
fiction" and not confined to novels.
we wonder what has become of our
old friend "Gulliver's Travels" The
short story deserves a better rep
resentative than Bret Harte. Ger
tainly De Maupassant would be
more suitable, and so would Kip
ling. Personally, we quarrel vio-
lently with the fact that Dickens,
Thackeray, George Eliot and James
Fenimore Cooper appear with two
volumes each.
Anybody who has not read "The
Old Wives Tale" by Arnold Ben
nett, or "Tono Bungay" or 'sThe Re-
search Magnificent, by H. G. Wells.
has no business looking at Cooper.
AS matter of fact, from our point
Of view, there are at least two hum
dred books which might we'll be
called up before Cooper's name was
We have the profoundest sy1n-
pathy for whatever government EN-
ployee made out the list. ANY man
who has set vast numbers of his
countrymen to reading Lorna
Doone" when they might have been
spending their time on Joseph Con-
RAIDS Lord Jim" or Anatole Frances
Penguin Island" or Flaubert's
MADAME Bovary" can hardly sleen
well at night. To be sure, a list of
thirty books is soon exhausted. which
makes the problem all the more diff
cult. In addition to the books which
we have already mentioned not a
few might be unwilling to slight
Lewis CAROLS alice in Wonder
land" Barrie's Sentimental Tom
N.Y." Samuel Buffers 1.-THE Wav of
All Flesh" Galsworthy's 'sThe Dark
Flower" D. H. Lawrence's "Sons
and Lovers" Roman Rolland's
jean Christophe," Turgenieffs
Fathers and Sons" Kipling'a
Kim" zola's Mama" Henry |
James's "The Golden Bowl" or any
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81. "Vicar of Wakefield" Oliver Gold
smith.
20. "Last Of the Mohicans." ]. Feni-
more Cooper.
20. Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Haw-
thorne.
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A Dissenting Opinion

This, as we have read in the news
papers, is no time for fomenting dis
content. The book lists of the gov
eminent are official and, therefore,
sanctified. Still, it comes as some
thing of shock to US to find "The
Pilot" of James Fenimore Cooper in
list of Thirty Books of Great Fic-
ton. But when we find in the same
list r. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone,"
"a Modern Instance" BY William
Dean Howells; Guy Mannering," by
Sir Walter Scott, and "The Luck Of
Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte, ones
patriotism is strained to the break
ing point. 1t becomes all but impos-
sible not to open the window, shout
STUFF and nonsense!" and await the
coming of Palmer's men with as
much fortitude as possible.
In extenuation of our conduct in
feeling so i'll disposed to a list Sc
lected by governmental depart
ment under the sanction Of the
United States Constitution, we can
only say that we are fundamentally
opposed to all selected lists Of read
ing. It puts function which should
be free and untrammeled upon q task
basis. From our point of view, q
reader might much better spend his
time on Sherlock Holmes" for the
fun Of it than read "The Ordeal Of
Richard Feverel" and be bored by
it. Half Of the fun Of reading lies
in making your own selections and
discovering the charm Of some great
author simply by stumbling upon
him without the benefit of hints O,
advice from government or teacher
When the Department of the In
terror, or anybody else in authority
boldly sets down the names of GER
tain books and says, "Now, these ar,
great-read them," it runs the ris]
OF helping create a tribe of hypo
critics, who will Judge all books b,
what they think they ought to fee
about them.
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"a. "The Pilot" J. Fcnimore Cooper.
rs. "Les Miserables." Victor Hugo.
Z6. III rec Muskcteers." Alexandra
Dumas.
u. "Pere Goriot." Honore de Balzac
%. "Anna Karenina. "Count Leo Tolstov.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-18
The College Girls First Lesson

their ambitions and their kindly re-
ception of her as stranger.
II was assured before / came that
l would be we'll received" said Miss
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Rotival, at the home of Hamilton
Holt, editor of "The Independent"
with whose family she spent the
Christmas holidays. "But l had not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-18
Famous Names Not on Uncle Sans 5-F00t Booksh
Authors Must Die
Before Entering
Hall of Fame

one Of half dozen Of his otbsr
novels
For our part, although we wou,d
hardly class them as great books WA
think that May Sinclair's "Maru
Olivier" Theodore Dreiser's "sister
Carrie" and Leonard MerrcL,,
"Conrad in Quest of His Youth" ara
more deserving of a place on n
thirty-book list than several ~
those mentioned by the govern.
ment's agents.
The Quick and the Dead
Reading Course No. 2-American
Literature" seems to us convention
al and dry as dust. Practically every
author mentioned is dead, in spits
Of the good health of Finley Peter
Dunno, George AIDE, Booth Tarkinp.
ton, Villa Sibert Gather, Simeon
Strunsky and Theodore Dresser.
The list is as follows:
l. "The American" Henry James
2. "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
5. "Ben-Hur." Lew Wallace.
4. "Biglow Papers" James Russell
Lowell.
8. Essays" Ralph Waldo Emerson.
6. Representative Men," Ralph Wslds
Emerson.
z. Democracy" James Russell Low.
ell
8. "1he Federalist." Alexander Ham.
ilton.
9. -Four Million" O. Henry
10. "Goldbug," etc. Edgar Allan Poe
II. "The Grandissimes. George WASH
ington Gable.
IL. "Huckleberry Finn" Mark Twain.
49,. "Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain.
IA. Last of the Mohicans." j. Fsni.
more Cooper.
Is. Luck of Roaring Camp" Bret
Harte.
16. "Man Without Country" Edward
Everett Hale.
II. marble Faun." Nathaniel Haw-
thorne.
10. Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Haw-
thorne.
19. "a Modern Instance" William
Dean Howells.
20. "Montcalm and Wolfe" Francis
Parkman.
81. "My Summer in Garden" Charles
Dudley Warner.
%. "The Sketch Book" Washington
Irving.
"a. 1.-TWO Years Before the Mast" r.
H. Dana.
25. "Walden." Henry David Thoreau
The inclusion of Ben Hur" seems
to us little short of ridiculous. It is
almost as ludicrous as if somebody
high in authority should suggest
making William Jennings Bryan
Secretary Of State or sending David
Francis as Ambassador to Russia.
Nor can we see any good reason for
listing "The Biglow Papers," They
are at best no more keen in their
satire than "Mr. Dooley" or Fables
lin Slang" and they labor under the
additional disadvantage Of having
stalled perceptibly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-18
''Tom Jones' Missing

But the amazing quality Of the
governments lists consists not only
in its sights to the moderns. One
or two estimable gentlemen Of an
other generation are sadly neglected.
In "Home Reading Course No. g.
Thirty Books Of Great Fiction" we
find, for instance, Samuel Richard
sons "Clarissa Harlowe" and no
mention Of Henry Fielding's "Tom
Jones'" It seems to US that "Cla-
rissa Harlowe" is of interest only
to those who are making a study of
the history Of the English novel. We
can think Of no good reason why it
should be on a list Of general read
ing. We find this particular list
irritating throughout. It is az fol-
lows:
/. "Adsm Bede." George Eliot
2. arabian Nights"
8. "A Modern instance" William
Dean Howells.
4. "Clarissa Harlowe." Samuel Rich
ardson.
s. David CopperAeld." Charles Dickens,
8. "Guy Mannering" Sir Walter
Scott.
q. History Of Henry Esmond." Will
lam M. Thackeray.
8. "Ivanhoe." Sir Walter Scott.
9. Joseph Vance" william r. De
Morgan.
TO- kidnapped" Robert Louis Steven
son.
II. Lorna Doons." r. D. Rlackmore.
IL. Luck of Roaring Camp" Bret
Harte.
ID. "Ordeal of Richard Fevcrel." George
Meredith.
IA. "Pilgrim's Progress" John Bum
yam.
i6- pride and Prejudice" Jane Aus-
ten.
10. "Robinson Crusoe." Daniel Dsfos.
II. "Romols." George Eliot.
ID Tale Of Two Cities." Charles
Dickens.
10. "Ths Cloister md the HAarth.r
chasies Rs.ds.
20. VANITY Fsir,v William N. Thsck-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-18
Roosevelt and Walt
Whitman Among
Writers Ignored
By Haywood Broun

TIME United States govern
ment Is now In the book re-
viewing business to the ex-
tent Of furnishing selected
lists Of reading through the Bureau
Of Education, which is part Of the
Department Of the Interior. Each
person who gives satisfactory evil
6cnce of having read all the books in
any Of the lists will receive certifi-
cate bearing the seal of the United
States Bureau of Education, signed
by the Commissioner of Education.
The lists include The Worlds
Great Literary Bibles, Great Litera-
ture-Ancient, Medieval and Mod
ern, Reading Course for Parents,
Miscellaneous Course for Boys, Mis-
celaneous Course for Girls, Thirty
Books Of Great Fiction, Thirty
World Heroes, American Literature,
Thirty American Heroes, American
History, France and Her History,
"After War" Reading Courses.
We are informed in the prospec-
tus that "In the preparation Of the
courses Of literature the bureau has
called to it's aid specialists in every
subject, such men as Professor
William Lyon Phelps, of Yale Uni
versity; Professor Richard Burton,
Of the University of Minnesota; Pro-
fessor c. Alphonso Smith, of Vir-
GINA, and Professor Charles Forster
Smith, Of the University Of Wiscon-
sim"
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XENXNZxXxzxNZ

that we were led to reverence liter
allure rather than enjoy it. 1t
seemed at best a pursuit for anti
quarians. Many Of the things which
were set before us as great bored US
dreadfully, and as a result some
pupils lied to themselves and went
on painfully struggling with books
which they did not like, while others
decided ruefully that they were
without literary taste and might as
well abandon books for things more
productive Of amusement.
Our teachers could have bucked us
up lot If they had told us that the
Mr.. Dooley series was actually lit
erary satire Of high order and that
George AIDES "Fables in Slang" con-
tanned shrewd and wise comment on
modern life.
Just so, the teacher Of to-day who
wishes to lead her pupils away from
the Horatio Alger books, or what
ever corresponds to them to-day, or
from "Pollyanna" and such like,
! would do we'll to offer them "Huckle-
berry Finn" or "Seventeen" rather
than James Fenimore Cooper or
Walter Scott.
The Washington times., 1920-02-05


row heads almost to the hips.
Time was when skirt must hang
perfectly evenly or il was considered
a failure, but this season skirts may
hang seven ways for Sunday and the
more irregularly they hang the
more in style they may be said to be.
Both Michael and Milgram show
skirts several inches longer in back
than in front and, except in the
more strictly tailored models. all the
designers indicate an utter disregard
for evenness of line. Whether this is
in the nature OF a reprisal in revenge
for the "happer walk" of the last
few seasons "a gait which makes the
best hanging skirt hopeless), no one
was able to say.
Elton and Bolero Effects.
Speaking of flappers, the Eton and
bolero effect, both in suits and dress
es, seems to be their fate for the
coming season. They are altogether
charming and invariably show three
quarter length bell sleeves, filled in
with lace or contrasting material.
,(Continued on Page 6, Column -
The Washington times., 1920-02-05
Mother Who Slew Suitor
Watches Every Move In
Picking Jury.
HUSBAND DENIES CHARGE
Claim That He Sought to Be-
smirch Her Name to Get Di-
vorce Branded as "lie."
By A. STAFF Correspondent.

CUMBERLAND, Nd, Feb. B.
With her sixteen -months-old daugh-
ter, Virginia, nesting in her arms.
Mrs. Katherine Uhl was placed oa
trial for her life today in the Alle-
gheny Circuit Court here. The
pretty young mother of three chill
dren is charged with Staying Edgar
Bryan Pownall, twsnty-three, former
ly of the United States air service,
on December 81, last. Pownall was
stabbed to death with carving
knife. Mrs. UhPs defense is to be
the unwritten law. She claims Pow
nall was stabbed to death only after
he had attempted to attack her.
Her Lips Culver.
Mrs. Uhl displayed deep emotion
while talesmen were being examined
for the jury, in whose hands will rest
her fate. The jury box had not been
filled by noon. but the prospects are
that the panel will be completed be-
fore court adjourns for the day. Pro-
conceived opinion of the case, ob3ec-
tinn to capital punishment, ana pres
sure Of personal business served 70
excuse many of tho vcniremen. Dur
ing examination OF prospective jury
men, Mrs. Uhrs lips quivered percep-
tibly. This was particularly notice.
able when talesman was asked II
he thought 1t justifiable for a woman
to kin in defense OF her honor.
The defense will be conducted by
former county prosecutor, David Aus
tin Robb, and Saul Praeger. while the
State Is represented by County Prose-
cutor Fuller Barnard, Jr, assisted by
Joshua w. Zimmerman, of Romney,
w. Va, who was engaged by the
father of the slain youth. Principal
witnesses for the prosecution will be
Thomas J. Pownall, father OF the
young man and prosperous fruit
grower of Three Churches, w. Va,
and Mrs. William +. Pownall. Edgar's
aunt. Both were in the house at the
time he was stabbed to death.
Mrs. Uhl will go on the stand In her
own defense sometime tomorrow, 1t
is believed. Many character witnesses
have been summoned to testify in her
behalf.
Sisters Send Candy.
On the eve of her trial. Mrs. Uhl
was voted a box of candy by the Ma
tional Women's Suffrage Association
of Allegheny county. The chocolates
! were sent to the woman at the Jail
last night.
I'VE feel sorry for Mrs. Uhl." said
one of the suffragettes, land when IT
was suggested that box OF candy be
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column p
The Washington times., 1920-02-05
DEATH Of GRAIN
CORP0RAT|ON0.K.'D D
Senate Agricultural Committee
Orders Favorable Report
on Gr0nna Bill.

The senate Agricultural Committee
today ordered a favorable report on
the Gronna bill to discontinue the
United states Grain Corporation
The committee inserted a provision
requiring all profits of the grain
corporation, estimated at about $50.
OOO, 900, to be turned into the United
states Treasury. The bill was also
modified so that the corporations
activities rcl-ting to cotton are to be
continued until June 80. The com
mittee voted unanimously for a favor
able report.
The Washington times., 1920-02-05
ALLIES TO PUNISH BERNST0RFF FOR war GRIMES
Demand Surrender of Former
Ambassador to y. S.

BERLIN, Feb. Count Won Bernstorf, former am
bassador to the United States is among the 800 "war
guilty" whose surrender is demanded Other names on
the list include:
Princes August and Eiel Frederick, of the for
Kaiser Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria Princes
Oskar and Friedrich of Prussia Prince Ernst of Sax
ony Count Bismarck, Admiras Won Scheer and Won
Trotha Prince Ratibor Enver Pasha, Turkish LEADER
Taalat Pasha the Grand Duke of Hesse, the Duke of
Mecklenberg, Otto Won Below, Admiral Capelle and
nearly all of the famous grand headquarters generals,
including Won Bulow, Won Behler, Won AInim, Won
Hutier Won Gawitz, Won Bothmer, Won Marwitz, Won
Kluck, Mackensen, Won Moltke, and Won Hausen.
The Washington times., 1920-02-05

Whether it,s~ mere. accident or
whether the ssaerican designers have
a sense of the eternal fitness of
things, at any event, the FIRST year of
American made fashions for Ameri-
can maids is dominated by the col
ors and designs that original Red
Indian Americans made famous. Not
content with showing hats with a
band of Pocaffontas feathers around
the front, American originators. now
exhibiting their creations in the
grand ball room OF the Hotel Com
modore here, are embroidering arrow
heads all over costumes and putting
generous touches of Indian red every
where they can find the slightest
possible excuse.
Genzburg features the Pocahontas
hat of multi-colored feathers with
a marvellous gown of terra
Gotta duvetyne, while Bendel dis
played a head dress of uncurled os-
trich on exactly the same lines. BY
curious coincidence, the mind OF
Michael was also running to Indian
motifs and one OF his most stunning
Tailored suits showed the skirt EN-
broidered in good-sized Indian ar
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