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The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
Complains at Dolls Lack Of
Development.

The doll is a sardonic creature. We know
her age to be at least 1000 years and the
perfection OF the Egyptian dolls of that
period makes it certain that their ancestry
is considerably more remote than this. Yet
she remains unchanged and unchanging,
throughout history, nursing our decisions,
giving us away without scruple, silent
witness to our emotions and our needs to
the futility of all our efforts to present our
selves as other than we are, to the devas-
tating truth that there is no real dividing
line between mortals and Olympians, even
between children and grown-ups. Further,
the doll has no respect at all for the ques-
ton of nationality, so greatly aceentuated
of late. There are no great nations and
no small ones; there are no enemies and
no friends among dolls. All of them alike
from Greece to Peru, from Greenland to
Abyssinia, from Bolshevik to Imperialist,
have dolls, cannot do without dolls, are
compelled to preserve in dolls living tes-
timony that human nature whatsoever and
wheresoever has weakness and foibles that
it would under no circumstances admit.
BY dolls, l mean those toys that are
usually given to children to play with. The
religious element does not come IN here, or
when it does the doll ceases to be doll
proper. The hgurines, for instance, placed
in Egyptian tombs for religious purposes,
are not dolls at all, though they can easily
be mistaken for the real dolls found in
cfNdren's tombs but with entirely different
functions. Sometimes the two functions
are interchangeable. In the Brooklyn
Museum, for instance, the magnificent col
lection from New Mexico shows the doll
used primarily for religious purposes. When
it has served this purpose, it is made over
to the child, and from that moment be-
comes a doll proper. Similarly in the four
teenth century, royalties used to send each
other dolls, primarily to exhibit upon them
the latest fashion. Later these fashion
dolls were given TO the children and SO
began upon their legitimate career. 1t is
the real dolls, the dolls given to children,
who really preserve continuity of history
and who really give us those unexpected
plimpses into mirror, whose reflection of
ourselves is so different from that upon
which we have counted.
Perhaps the most unexpected truth
brought home to us by dolls OF all ages, is
that they are by no means the monopoly
of the child. There are children's dolls
and there are Olympians' dolls and there
are very many more of the latter than OF
the former. The child's doll may be
piece of stick wrapped in duster, but en-
dowed with soul, which in later years
cannot be recaptured. 1t may be a melan-
choly wreck, yivihed by tenderness into all
that is brigk and beautiful, and, above all,
INDISPENSABLE You simply cannot classify
the true child's doll, because most OF If is
imagination and so you never know what
form it will takc.-Muriell Harris, the
North American Review.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
Edgar Allen Poe Speaks.

AS Edgar Allen Poe stands, within the
distant Aidenn," and sees that many people
are cor contributing to the fund for restoring
the little cottage in Fordham, N. Y, where
he spent the last years of his life, it is not
unlikely. that his thoughts 60 back to a
time when no editor was willing to pay
him more than sIo for "rhe Raven"
saw a binding vision;
Where l dreamed the dreams no mortals
ever dared to dream before;
Where / pierced the black, oppressive
clouds, and roamed in fields Elysian;
Where l heard the ancient raven grimly
murmur, "Nevermore-"
Only this, and nothing more.
Ali the place was bleak and bare, \
And nameless, dumb despair
Seemed to permeate the air;
But my eyes perceived a brilliance
That l know was never there
That I'm sure was never there
And 1 sensed the golden glamour
Ot realm where romance dwells, e.
AS l listened to the clamor -..
Of the bells, bells, bells
To the rhyming Ginning clamor of the
bells.
Why attempt to cloak my cottage in garb
it never wore?
Why endow it with smuguess that it did
not know before?
Why should kindly hands restore it?
Why not fout it and ignore it,
As the world ignored its owner
In the, dead dark days of yore?
Or if men refuse to spurn it 80
Let them seize the torch, and burn it!
Let the flames have full possession
From the roof-tree to the floor.
But hark well-for when the FIRE
Sends its daggers higher, higher
From the flames soundless voice will rise
And murmur, "Nevermore-"
Merely this, and nothing more.
Til at last the crimson flashes
Fab and die, and only ashes
Will remain to tell the story every black
ened ruin tells;
And there'll come distant mocking
(Such a strange, persistent mocking),
From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells,
bells Ssy .
Oh, the scornful, mournful mocking of
the bells Life
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
The Importance Of Not Being Earnest.

A wise man who was fonder of para
doxes than even Oscar Wilde or H. L.
Mencken, once said: ."Only the weak
know how to be strong; only the old
and the useful and busy know how i'm
portant it is to play" Helen Haiman
Joseph must have Glanced on this saying
Or one like it in her study of old manu-
scripts, when she was preparing "a Book
of Marionettes" for B. w. Huebsch her
publisher. The latter half of the epigram
would make an excellent motto for two of
her interests-puppets and play-sehools
As founder and patron of Cleveland
play school, she expands the play-idea as
ton. As author of the only record in
English of the puppet theater, Mrs. Joseph
has forever espoused, together with Ber-
nard Shaw, Anatole France, Socrates and
Georges Sand, the cause of the artform of
play for grown-ups. Her study of this old
and jolly recreation covers all countries
and many periods, and is illustrated by
nearly half hundred fulLpage pictures.
A gift book certain not to be a bore.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
A Biography Of David B. Hill.

Coincident with the preparation OF a
"dehnitive" biography of Grover Cleveland
by Princeton University professor Sc
lected by his widow, there is coming into
being a biography. of David B. Hill, by
George S. Bixby, of Plattsburg, N. Y. For
the benefit of a generation that knew not
Joseph, let il be said that David B. Hill
and Grover Cleveland were rival leaders
for supremacy in the Democratic party
in New York State, and that many OF
Mr.. Cleveland's difficulties while President
arose from the implacable hostility of Mr..
Hill, Senator for New York. With these
biographies in hand a historian of the
Democratic party during the last two dec
ades of the nineteenth century will have
new data for his task.
Mr.. Hill never was a major figure in
party or national history, but he was a
successful politician with more than ordi-
nary intellectual capacity, and he was very
adroit and at times very malignant Like
other conspicuous men Of his type then
and now, he had private virtues and public
vices. He would use any sort of helots
and tolerate any kind of sin to win politi-
cal victories, while remaining Sexempt him
self-a fact / had reason to discover when,
in 1890 invaded Elmira and the region OF
New York where he lived and talked with
his neighbors and fellow citizens In the
Senate chamber he hit hard, and his arro-
ganee toward Southern Democrats pro-
voked some sharp retorts, as when Harris,
of Tennessee, designated Hill as "a me-
phitic bubble on some chance-allowed mud
hole Of affairs" and as when Senator Coke,
of Texas, said of him that he (HilD was "a
natural despersdo."A As for the independ-
ent, rmugwump' press of the North, It's
opinion OF the man was fairly stated BY
the New York Evening Post, in the DAYS
when Codkin still wrote for l. Il said:
with no more convictions than msnakin,
no more courage than . worm, and less
honor than gambler, he was the last man
to send into a conference over a money
plank with Mr.. Bryan
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
By Capt. George Harding, in Exhibit at Arts Club
Depicts War in All Its Grim Terror
Harding Canvases Are Put on View
BY PHILIP A. ORME.

War as Wagner sounded it, as Tennyson
sang 1t in "Idyfls of the King" and as
Sherman mathematical it-war, the uncon-
troHable' whirlwind sprung from the calcu-
lated sowing of the imperial will-to-power
this is the theme developed to the utter
now on exhibit at the Arts Club of Wash
ington.
George Harding. the man who executed
the half-hundred pieces, was widely known
as travelling artist for Harper's Magazine
before he donned the uniform of a captain
in the Engineer Corps and entered the vor-
tex OF the world struggle as official artist
for the A. T. F. The results of his deeply
impressive work, very literally within the
jaws of death. will be on view in the club
salons for several weeks. 1t has an appeal
even for those who were so far from the
blast OF the great conflict that they heard
only heroic echoes. s.
Materially speaking, the exhibit is Sc
quential drama of Americas victorious par
ticipation from the wailowing approach of
a convoy tot French shores to the trium-
phant entry of Montabaur, Germany, De-
cember, 1919.
Spiritually, however, the pictures are
those of pygmics, struggling onward
through maze of their own making to
what consummation they know not; atoms,
terribly involved with wire, gas, shot-win-
moved forest and shell-wrecked chateau.
There is the look of automatons upon the
faces of the dead, the wounded and the liv-
ing. They are not the masters but the
slaves of war.
All of This might appear absurd to
military tactician who would see in Capt
Harding's works in tempera, charcoal and
wash, the graphic history, in part, of Cha
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
A National Disgrace

Under the authority of the Board of
Indian Commissioners of New York a
survey has been made of the Indians of
that State. 1t finds that of 6,ooo reser-
walton Indians, not over 10 per cent are
even half breeds and probably none full
blood.
1t finds these peoeple Gin the State,
but not of it." segregated IN groups, not
amenable to State laws and with certain
tribal independence. The report continues:
On the reservations crimes 60 un-
punished save by the feeble revenge
OF the aggrieved parties; marriage and
divorce laws are openly disregarded:
school attendance is purely voluntary.
For forty years intelligent State and
health regulations cannot be enforced:
Federal commissions have repeatedly
investigated and reported, but the
chaos only grows worse.
This condition is not peculiar to the
Indians of New York. 1t is only measur-
ably worse, perhaps, because they have
been longer in civilization, but not of it.
In broad terms it tells the fate of all
the Indians of the Northwest as well as
of New York They have been held in
tutelsge but tNnever advanced. They have
been held as wards with no chance of
gaining a sense of individual and personal
responsibility.
They have been measured by the
standards of civilization with no, oppor-
tunity to acquire them. They have been
rcpressed. lied to, chea.cj. stolen from,
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
The Federal Councils Choice.

The Federal Council of Churches Of
Christ in America, at its meeting in Bos-
: ton, has decided to abstain from assuming
the mantle of the defunct interchurch
movement. Instead it will rally the thirty
Protestant denominations it now enrolls-
and others to be admitted later-to a great
forward movement of its own.
In this campaign it will utilize all the
experience it has gained during the decade
of its existence, and it will profit by avoid
ance of the errors of the interchurch move
ment The plan which it will. operate
guards carefully the autonomy of the sects
that are to cooperate, especially on details
of assessment and expenditure for the COM
mon cause.
No group will be implicated in any gen.
eral plan or any financial crusade without
full consideration by its own highest court.
For the larger work to be done henceforth
the council asks that fund of 100000
year be raised II
One of the most interesting and -signih-
can't happenings at this Boston meeting
was the address of Bishop Talbot, of Beth
lehem, Pa, a spokesman of the liberal
party IN the. Protestant Episcopal Church,
body which is not affiliated with the
council now but which has many repre-
sentatives in the local federations.
Bishop Talbot went further in his recog-
milton of the parity of standing of his non
Episcopal fellow Protestants than most of
his associates in the board of bishops will
go; but he justified his action by the exi-
gencies' of the hour and by the crisis facing
Christianity, and also by the recent formal
platform issued by she Lambeth Conference
urging church unity and marked alteration
of the Anglican position with respect 70
the validity of non-Episeopal orders
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
Where Are tie Maids Of Yesterday

In Texas these days, and in much of the
South very likely, the ladies are divided
into two classes: Those who are buying
electrical machines, toasters, broilers, dish
washers and laundry outfits; and those
who are hoping something will turn up,
and are meanwhile (persuading their hus,
bands to cold suppers,l canned goods,
plates The few who have cooks keep
quiet about it and try to hold their
thoughts to other things, fearing to tempt
Providence 1t is one of the homemade
problems in labor that peep through the
very curtains at you.-The New Republic.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
Balfour vs.. Doherty.


jurist, Mr.. Doherty, clashed at &C.
neya. The issue in dispute happened to be
immediate amendment of the covenant of
the league of nations. Mr.. Balfour, of the
council, wanted no alterations of the Ver-
sailles compact at this session. Mr..
Doherty, of the assembly, did.
Quite apart from any assent or dissent
which the assembly may give, under pres
sure, to the bold action of the Argentine
Republic and the equally bold disobedience
of the Canadian representative the hssion
between Great Britain, the dominant factor
in the British Commonwealth, and Canada,
the independent daughter, is profoundly
significant
1t is another stone in the structure of
Canadian nationalism, the foundations of
which have been under construction since
the Boer war, and on which the superstruc-
turc is now rapidly rising. To these facts
we have alluded from time to time for sew
eral reasons; notably because as Canada
asserts herself more and more, the policy
of the United States toward Great Britain
and toward Canada must undergo a like
change.
This should be based on information of
a dependable sort, and both Congress and
the people need to make it their business
more than they have in the past, to know
what is being thought and said at Ottawa,
Montreal, Toronto Winnipeg and in the
region beyond.
We are to reckon hereafter not with
what London may advise Ottawa to do,
III H.
to do and will do.
Balfour spurned by Mr.. Doherty symbol
ICES an England whose daughter has come
of age and thinks for herself, and who in
tends to act accordingly.
The revelation of this clearly defined at
titude of national independence by Canada
at Geneva, and not wholly lacking at Paris
during negotiation of the peace treaty, must
modify somewhat the fears of persons in
this country who have contended that one
reason why the leagues covenant was to
be rejected in toto, was because Canada
would always vote with Great Britain and
forever say, "Me, too," to Great Britain.
Canada has now shown that on some
issues she is far more likely to vote with
the United States, when it enters the
league, than she is with the mother coun-
try. Her nationalism and her own stand
ards of life will weigh more imperatively
than will the desires of the British ministry.
Rejecting on this fact, and also on the
record that the Argentine Republic has
made at Geneva, where to some extent it
reflects the opinion of the republics of the
South, it must be quite evident to European
statesmen by this time that from hence
forth the Americas are to be more Of
unit against control of international prof.
ects by the "big powers" of the war
wracked continent than they were before
the war came and established new centers
of power.
London, Paris, Rome and lesser capitals
must reckon hereafter with the powers on
this side of the Atlantic Mr. Balfour and
his generation will find it hard to make
the adjustment. But it is imperative If the
Americas and Europe are to remain on
good terms.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
imposed upon. swindled and withheld

imposd upon, swindled and withheld
from their own.
Their native characteristics of .cour-
age, independence and integrity have been
dwarfed and dulled. 1t is all black
page in our history. 1t can never be
cleared. but it can be lightencd by re-
versal of the government policy; by giving
to most of them immediate release from
this wardship bondage, and training the
rest to intelligent individual responsibility
looking to their personal freedom.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19

We go eastward to realize history and
study works of art and literature, retracing
the steps of the race; we go westward as
into the future, with a spirit of enterprise
and adventure
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19

And, so we ssunter toward the Holy
Land, till one day the sun shines more
brightly than ever it has done, shall per-
chance shine into our minds and hearts,
and light up our whole lives with a great
awakening light, as warm and serene and
golden as on. bankside in autumn.-Henry
David Thoreau.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1920. q

We are all clever enough at envying
a famous man while he is yet alive, and
at praising him when he is dead.-Mim-
nermus.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1920-01-14

production. America may be counted
upon to keep well apace. The cost Of
production and labor, and the in
creased shipping and banking facil-
tiles, as compared with pre-war COM
petition conditions, greatly favor the
American trader. The uncertain fac
tor in the immediate future Of our for
eign trade Is the unsolved problem Of
foreign credit.
AT the rates of exchange prevailing
October 6, 1910, a bushel Of wheat
which costs $2.371a +. o. b. at our At
lantic ports. in terms of our money
abroad. would be worth abroad the
equivalent of $2.74 in British money,
1888 in French money, $4.48 in Ital-
ian money, and $13.47 in German
money. If the depreciation Of Euro
pean moneys continues, or the rate Of
exchange becomes more abnormal. it
will probably restrict imports not only
of bread cereals, but also of other
commodities, to the bare necessities.
and will constitute a powerful stim-
ulus in foreign countries to increase
production.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1920-01-14
MOTHER DENIES
CHILD IS HERS
until PROVEN
Take Children's Footprints In
Hospitals To Prevent Infants
Born There From Going To
Wrong Mothers.

New York, Jan. ia system of
taking footprints of chilc!r.n has been
adopted in the New York Nh .sery a-.l
Child's Hospital to prevent iaf.,nss
born there from going to The wrong
mothers. It's adoption was due > The
fact that assoldier's wife wh, recently
gave birth to baby in tha@ hospital
at first denied that The child was hers.
The young mother, who had been
reading stories of accidental substitu-
ton of children at hospitals and SINH
lar public institutions, declined to
nurse the baby.
eve brought all the proofs We could
muster" explained tho superintendent
"but the mother persisted in her hal
lucination. She became hysterical
with grief and fright. Finally,
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1920-01-14
FRENCH REFUGEES RUSH BACK
Four.Fifths Have Returned to Their
Homes In War Devastated
l.t Areas.

Washington OF the pre-war popu-
lation of $3.50 900 in the devastated re-
gions of France, four-flfths have re-
turned to their former homes, accord
Ing to a report issued by the Ameri-
can Red Cross in Paris.
During August more than 100000
refugees returned to the ruined areas,
Of whom $4,000 were in the Lille dis
trict. Some Of the more prosperous
districts, such as Chalona sur Marne,
have actually added to their peace
time population by the influx Of ref
ugees, from the less fortunate regions,
the report stated.
Relief work Of the Red Cross has
been carried into $500 Of the towns and
villages in these areas. Supplies val
ued at 15.OOO,O 900 francs ($3.000, ,OO0)
were distributed to 10000 refugees
during August.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1920-01-14
- p1yMa IAu Vol1.D AND Il11f- -ocAAN

brought her our records which showed
that only little colored babv and her
own had been born in the hospital that
day. That convinced her, but JUS,
think Of what would have happened to
that poor woman if other white babies
had been born here ON the same day"
In order to avoid q similar expert
ence the superintendent engaged =
finger-print expert to instruct the
head nurse in trying the system en-
the babies. 1--WE found VIC couldn't
get good prints of their hand" said
the official. "Their feet, however,
came out beautifully and for greater
security the mother is fingcr-printed
ALSO"
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1920-01-14
Brother, Meet Aftsr Years.

Fort Scott, KAN meeting Of two
brothers after twenty-four years sep
aration occurred here the other morn
ing when r. M. Hensley Of Fort Smith,
Ark, aged sixty. stepped into the
local Young Mems Christian associa-
tion and came face to face with his
brother. H q. Hensley, aged eighty
four. r n. Hensley had heard his
brother lived 10 Fort Scott, and had
stepped into the Young Mems Chris
ttan association to inquire about hiz
address. Several years ago II q
HenSl6y, hearing his brother was %
Fort Smith yisited that city. but could
not And hiss Y: I.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1920-01-14

10 one can tell where he got his nose
or his eyes or his mouth or the color
If his hair, comparison OF tie ioct-
print taken at birth it was said, will
tell whose child hi. IS from among the
hundreds of infants in this New York
institution.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1920-01-14

Very young babies, is was said, may
look just alike but their feet are quite
dissimilar. One child, the superin-
tcndent declared, will have perfect
ly formed miniature pedal extremity,
another's will print mostly vague criss
cross lines and still, another will look
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1920-01-14
Find Frozen Bodies
Of GurMers in Alps

Geneva.-The frozen bodies
of several Austrian artillery
men, perfectly preserved. have
been discovered by st. Bernard
dogs in an Alpine trench near
the summit Of Stelvio pass,
about 10000 feet above sea
level. 1t Is believed that q whole
battery was buried in the deep
snow. Searching parties al
ready have uncovered seven
bodies. 81 3J5s Il ls.3.:
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1920-01-14

like ian egg and five tovthpiclss."
Under the pres mt system, which
has been in operation nearly six
months, the child's foot is linked and
stamped on the hospital ch:,rt of the
mother. Although he may net resem-
bic any enc in the family and though
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1920-01-14
Church Call Pastor.
Especial To The World.l

New Salem, N. d., Jan. 8.-The
Presbyterian church. Of New Salem
at congregational meeting on Sum
day evening, extended call to Rev.
F. B. Stephenson Of Crosby. Mime
sofa, to become the pastor of the
church.