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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
Vaughan Out of Character
One Of His Play Plots Shows Up in the Form
Of a Book
of a Book

~ h %HERE is, Of course, a practical
way to account for the contrast
q. between the paste fash Of : Mr. v =.
Somerset Maugham's plays and
the hard-wrouGht brilliancy of his nov
els Mr.. Vaughan writes plays to
please the public in order that he may
write novels to please himself. But
that is, on the whole, too obvious a
theory, and besides does not take into
account 'The Explorer" which is writ
ten in Mr.. Maugham's best theatric
manner. 1t seems more imaginative 10
believe in a Jekyll-and-Hy literary
existence, in which the nighttime Mr..
Vaughan laps over into the daytime.
"The Explorer" is an early novel
which Doran has just resurrected for
American readers. 1t is clearly enough
the work Of the author Of Mrs. Dot"
Lady Frederick" and Caesars Wife"
But speed and sparkle are not as easy
to produce on paper as on the stage,
and the novel misses the lghtness
which is the chief virtue of the plays
1t IS dreadful accusation to point at
the author Of "Mrs. Craddock" and "Of
Human Bondage" that "The Explorer"
is chiefly dull because it is 50 heavily
freighted with a moral bias.
"The Explorer" was entirely con-
ceived in the terms of the theater. The
nero is a strong, silent man, the owner
of several collieries, but he can find
no downtrodden people to cham
pion nearer home than Mombassa,
Africa. The heroine is sweet and wom-
anly. In addition, there is what is
technically known in the theater as the
Second lead" the best friend of the
hero, who falls in love with the best
friend of the heroine. They furnish a
comedy relief by the diverting manner
of their courtship. They are faithful
to the hero and heroine throughout
everything, and they are incorrigibly
effervescent. They converse only in
epigrams. If Mr.. Maugham's dialogue
for them were spoken in the thcater
it might have q better chance. In cold
type its joints show. Sometimes they
seem q little haggard with the strain
of having always to be amusing.
The Strong" situation of the book
comes when calumny points it's finger
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
A Story of Steel
Wally Gay, a Self-Made
Man, a Model Hero

W7ALLY GAY, the hero Of Herschel
IVA S. Halls novel, "Steel Pre-
ferred" (Dutton), may fairly
be called model young man. Born a
founding and brought up in the murky
CRIME and sitting heat of great steel
plant, he never for n moment rebels
against his fate, but sets diligently
about any task which Is assigned to
him.
Wally Is represented as versatile
person, able to master any Job with
phenomenal rapidity. Not only is he
adept in all the muscular work re-
quired in the making of steel, but he
is abnormally quick at figures, and the
most difficult problems of engineering
present no terrors to him. Naturally
his advancement is rapid, and he earns
the steel companys undying gratitude
when he takes leading part in break
ing strike. In describing the strike
the author pays his respects to the
fulfilled, welldressed, oilytongued,
handed gentlemen" whom he
blames for seducing the ignorant, in
flammable, foreign workmen into quit
ting their jobs.A
The mystery Of Wally's birth reap
pears throughout the story, and love
episode plays subordinate part. How
ever, the novel is primarily q picture
Of great steel plant in full activity.
Not the least attractive feature Of the
book is Its handsome and brilliantly
colored cover, which represents . fur
nAco In vixoroua- operation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
A Symposium on Spiritualism

ssGPIRITUAL1SM: Its Present-day
~ Meaning" edited by Huntley
Carter, has been published this week.
Leading teachers OF science, religion,
ethics, philosophy and economics have
contributed. They include Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, Father Bernard Vaughan,
Viscount Wordsworth, Sir Francis
Younghusband, Sir John D. Mcclure
Sinnett, G. R. s. Mead, editor of
"Quest"; David Cow, editor of "Light";
the Rev Percy Dearmer, DR.. r. B.
Meyer, Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, Sir Ar
thur X. Yapp, Professor Henri Berg
son, j. D. Beresford, the Rev. Walter
Wynn, Dr.. r. f. Horton, Miss r. r.
Scratched, editor of "The Asiatic Re-
view; Miss May Sinclair, Mr. Allen
Upward, Mr.. George Russell CA. Ed,
General Booth, the Rev. J. A. Magee
and Joseph McCabe. MIR. T. Fisher IN
win issued this volume on July 81.
Though the book is published with
the hope that satisfactory answer
may be obtained to the question Of the
effect Of spiritualism, it is difficult to
see how 1t can do more than increase
the amount Of discussion. The editor
has succeeded in bringing together q
group holding widely divergent views
1t is packed with information of value
to the general reader, the scientific In
vestgator and the student OF psychic
subjects.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
$50 Jayne Street"
Greenwich Village at War
Pictured by Mary Austin
T HE war was en- unstable prop
for novelists. Already its emo

T HE war was en- unstable prop
for novelists. Already its emo
tons have foated out OF sight.
30 that a novel like Mary Austin's 20
Jayne Street. (Houghton Miffiin Com
pany) throws its hawser in the direction
of a vanished landing. 1t belongs to
the season of "Mr. Drifting" and "The
Tree OF Heaven" when an exalted
search for righteousness was the
proper literary mode. But in the in
-rtia and cynicism Of these postwar
days the imagination responds only
mechanically to Mary Austin's spur at
memory.
Her novel centuries up again the
intellectual and emotional experiences
of the early days OF the war. Meth
Schuyler, the daughter OF very old
and aristocratic New York family.
caught up in the spirit of her time,
takes command of her life, as the single
women OF her limo have never done.
She goes to Greenwich Village to live,
from which point Of vantage she OBJ
serves ell the ferment of movements
and causes that the war stirred Up.
Mrs. Austin is nobly indulgent about
the young NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. her
book IS a satire of Greenwich Villages
attitude toward the war. But who, at
this late date, cares what Greenwich
Village thought about the war?
1t is this ephemeral quality in the
emotional content of the book that
makes 1t seem outmoded, as only the
fashion of the year before last can be
and as the fashion of hundred years
ago never is It is, however, easier TO
understand the satire Of the book than
its mysticism. Mary Austin has in
times past used mysticism with power
full effect-it is on the whole her right
full medium. 1t Is in this story a.
vaporous and cloudy veil which robs
the characters of their none too album
dant vitality.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

at the hero, returned from the African
wllds, and accuses him of having
caused the death Of the heroine's
brother. The heroine is torn between
conflicting allegiances, until it is ap-
parent that the strong, silent man will
suffer any contumely to save the honor
Of her worthless brother. They en-
brace, the curtain is lowered and the
lights go out
One hesitates to believe this Of Mr..
Vaughan of the books One believes
it very well Of Mr.. Vaughan of the
plays.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
Who Is Going Find Panacea for Sick Tndusfr7
A Mrs. Norris Novel
Wholesomencss Describes
Harriet and the Piper"

ONG ago Mrs. Kathleen Norris
adapted to her literary craft
the modiste's wise advice to
learn your type and dress to 1t. She
adopted then the style that comported
best with her buxom, pleasant faced
personality. 1t was Wholesomeness-
the bright, breezy, invincible whole
someone's which makes subtlety Of
line unnecessary and which can be
worn anywhere in this country. I'm
fading and unshrinking, adaptable to
the uses Of our national genius for ad-
vertising, 1t makes synthetic butter
and liver, pills as alluring as litera-
ture
Mrs. Norris has carried enthusiastic
cally into the literature OF American
maturity thf ideals and conceptions Of
life OF American Juvenile literature.
Good and bad are neatly checkered off
INTO little squares. Home is always
the abiding place of sweetness and
light. Those who live in cottages are
virtuous and happy; those who live in
palaces are worldly and wicked. The
tlncture Of her sweetness is combined
in careful proportions with 1norallzing.
snd In the end Mrs. Norris parcels out
omn1potently to her characters their
just rewards. This is the wholesome
American novel which apparently is as
1T ever Was and ever shall be.
Yet the ethics Of the wholesome
novel always seem to us wierd and
wonderful. Consider Mrs Norris's
latest, Harriet and the Piper" pub
lished by Doubleday, Page & Co. Har-
riet Is very beautiful, high minded
young woman who has atoned for a
lapse of virtue on her part with ex-
emplary service as companion secre-
tary to the troubled household Of
Richard Carter, fnancier. The mem
bers Of the household, besides the pre-
occupied head Of the house, are the
Eighty, firtatious Mrs. Carter, the son
just turned twenty. and the daughter,
who Is Harriet's special charge. 1t
occurs to Harriet that she has it in
her power to establish herself securely
by marrying the impressionable boy,
who is considerably her junior. At
this point the ghost out of her past
rises before her. Blandin, the artist
adventurer who caused her misfortune,
appears now as the fortune hunting
sutton Of the young girl of the house.
Much as she despises him she is
obliged in defense Of her own alnbi-
tons to further his. Just then Mrs.
Carter, the mistress of the house.
elopes, and Harriet finds suddenly that
it is not the son she cares for, but the
father Nevertheless, when the father,
having secured his divorce, proposes
marriage to her, Harriet cannot accent
him. He is a divorced man, and her
ideals cannot permit her to marry a
man whose wife is living, even though
they are divorced. At which Mrs. Nor
ris obllgingly contrives an accident at
sea, which disposes of the wife and
her lover, and Harriet marries the
wealthy Mr.. Carter. to the confusion
of the adventurer lover.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

Baedeker Supplanted by
New Travellers Companion

Americans 's' sss '' :s s'' sss nsssss
In one week. If so, there is
big field for the up-to-date guide
book. Baedeker is now a thing of the
past, for old boundaries in Central
Europe are pretty we'll pcrapped and.
besides, that particular publishing
house was German. So we greet with
genuine pleasure William Hartman
Blacks "The Real Europe Pocket
Guide-Book" (Brentano's), a neat little
volume of nearly 600 pages, ready for
cne's side pocket. 1t is remarkable the
amount of actually necessary informal
ton that is packed into this book.
Everything Of major interest, from
Norway on the north to the heel of
Italy on the south, from Portugal to
the Caspian, is covered, and there are
twenty-three simple outline maps Of
the thirty-three new countries. We
predict big sale foy this little travel
er's companion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
By Arthur S. Draper
London, July 81.

L0ndo1, JNty 81.
RVIN COBB, dressed in a CORE
y spondent's uniform, is sight
IL which the Strand will not soon
forget. Irwin Cobb's negro sto-
ries, told in the days when the specific
gravity of government ale was low,
are still remembered in London clubs
Whether he was the guest of the
Premier, the Lord Mayor or the gen.
eral staff, he had the faculty Of leav-
ing his host chuckling as he skipped
away to his hostelry in the Strand.
And they say the British have no
sense Of humor! Remember, Cobb was
wearing uniform. Not one of those
$3.50 Fifth Avenue sack suits or silk
overalls designed 10 reduce the high
cost of dressing. Cobb was a war re-
porter and he dressed accordingly.
Cobb caused chuckles; he made heap
of friends.
"From Place to Place" has arrived
In England. Cobb's "Bill Of Fare" was
a disappointment to his British
friends. 1t left its British readers in
an unhappy Notwithstanding Of
the feeling which The American has
after his first boiled suet pudding. or
the stories in 'From Place to Place."
"The Gallowsmith" Ia selected by the
reviewer Of "The Daily News" as the
best-and very good it seems to him,
though she strains phrase here and
there, but not often" This reviewer
also praises "The Thunders Of Silence"
which he regards as a flrst-class speci-
men Of "story-1nalking, energetic and
capably engineered" Cobb "shows us
people perfectly comprehensive and
likable," writes the critic, who would
now "voyage to America without the
dreary apprehension born Of the Bill
Of Fare"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

- IFFERENT aspects Of mod
II ern industrialism are dis
/ oussed in three new books
published by Harcourt,
Bracc & Howe THE New Unionism,"
by J. NJ Budish and George Soule,
IS study % the methods employed
in organizing the clothing trades in
this country. As the title indicates,
Industry. Emotion and Unrest by
Edward Thomas. ranges over wide
variety of subjects. And Mr.. ellison
Gardner, TIE we'll known Washington
correspondent, gives an categorical
picture os the capitalist social order
II ~ New Robinson lrusoe."
Mr. Budish and Mr.. Soule make a
sharp distinction between the old,
Business" unionism and the new
socialist" unionsm. Their ANALYSIS
Of these TWO types Of labor organiza-
ton may be briefly summarized as
follows:
Old and New Unionism
Tho "old" unionism is primarily in
terestod IN obtaining the highest pos
sible wages and tie shortest possible
hours. 1t has no quarrel with the
employer Per Sc; in fact, it affirms its
belief in the validity Of the present
system. 1t has only the most inciden-
tai interest in the management OF in
dustry: and It does not look forward
TO the assumption Of more power and
rcspons bility in this direction by the
workers. In unions of the "old" tyne
the officials are often very unrespon-
sive 20 the will of the membership.
The new" unionism. which is chiefly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
Love Misplaced
A Novel OF Romantic Mis-
understandings
T~HERE is good deal Of msdirected

T%HERE is a good deal Of misdirected
d emotion in Arthur Stringer's new
novel "The Prairie Mother" (Bobbs
of three children, suspects titled Eng
lish lady of alternating her husbands af-
fections. The titled lady is fully ready
to accomplish the alienation, but the hus-
band remains constant and only firts
with the temptress m order to regain
his estate, which has been lost in
financial panic
All in all 1t is o rather difficult situa-
ton for the heroine, who finds her chief
consolation in the love Of her children
Of course. everything is satisfactorily
adjusted in the end.
The book is written in the form of a
diary, and this adds touch of intimacy
to the prairie mothers character. Along
with the sentimental complications of
the story there are many descriptions of
the vicissitudes of farming in the Far
West, and hailstorm on one occasion
assumes the proportions of a tragedy.
The heroine is 100 per cent American.
When her English rival speaks disparag-
ingly of Americas lack of culture she
holly replies:
eve don't live for the moment, its
true But we live for Tomorrow We
write epics in railway lines, and instead
Of working out sonnets we build new
cities, and instead OF sitting down under
palm tree and twiddling our thumbs
we turn wilderness into new nation,
and grow grain and give bread to the
hungry world where the gypsies don't
seam quits aha 70 make both ends meet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

After covering the two national con-
ventions for his old newspaper, "The
Baltimore Sum-" H. L. Mencken makes
the following report: "All is lost, in
GLIDING honor. had few lingering
hopes for democracy. They are ell
gone. 1 am now ready to betray the
republic to the Japs for mess of pot
tage."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
A Fairy Story

princess White Flame" by Ger
trude Crownfield, announced for early
publication by +. P Dutton & Co, is a
tale of the fire fairies for young read
ers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
BOOKS BOUGHT

THOMs b ERON, inc. A CORPORATION
dealing In old and rare books, auto
graphs. etc, are. the largest buyers and
distributors of old books in this country.
We are in the market to buy fer spot
cash books in large small quantities
and entire private libraries. We especially
want limited SETS de luxs editions and
late encyclopedias. Autographs also
bought. Free packing and removal The
advantages accrued to the seller of books
IN dealing with a large concern are OBJ
vious. TIOMS & ERON. INC. - Barclay
st, New York. Tel S062 Cortlandt
G.. E. STECHERT & Co. i51 w. 25th ST..
AHEs Agent Tor Universities. Go GGe,lsges. Public
periodicals and books new. secondhand
foreign. domestic. Libraries bought
OUT OF PRINT BOOKS FURNISHED.
River St. Troy N. T.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

1zUVttO7dY y LotV UIs
RVIN COBB, dressed in a CORE
3 spondent's uniform, is q sight
Il which the Strand will not soon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

h %HERE is, Of course. a practical
u way to account for the contrast
q between the paste flash OF Mr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
Diagnosticians Are Busy
Different Phases of Labor Unrest Discussed in
Recent Books

- IFFERENT aspects Of mod
. Is ern industrialism are dis
cussed in three new books
published by Harcourt.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-09-23

CONGRESSMAN T. l.. RUBEY hopas to be at the fair
this year. Our congressman . a Mansfield fair booster and
always attends when it 10 possible for him to do so. he IL the
partys nominee for re election and our people will be glad
10 see him and hear him address the crowds at Nanslsds
big ff.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-28

called on Horace Lamar Monday eve
ming. 49,. Miss Leora Crist returned
home with Edward Vandeventer and
family Sunday, and will spend a few
days visiting. :. Mrs. Elizabeth Brook
bank. spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Brookbank . . Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter Pohlar spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Rollie Woods. :. . Edward Vande-
venter and family of Connersville,
spent this weekend with Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Crist. Lewis White and family
and Mr.. G. M. White of Frankfort,
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Lamar
Friday evening. -. Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Will spent Wednesday with Ray Miles
and family. .. Mr.. and Mrs. Truman
Lackey spent Saturday evening with
Horace Lamar and family. 49,. Lewis
White and family motored to Liberty
Saturday evening. Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Miles were the Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Horace Lamar Mr.. and
Mrs. Clyde Newkirk purchased a fine
collie pup of Mr.. Brattin, near Rich.
mond, last week. wv. S. Dubois and
family motored to Cincinnati Tuesday
.....T The Liberty high school com.
, mencement will be held in the Stanley
Memorial building, Tuesday evening
May rs. Mr.. Charles McMahan, OF
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-28

NEW YORK, May 2S-The question
that has been agitating the American
people since the end of the war, Why
are clothing prices SO high? may be
answered during the coming trial Of
the American Wooden company of
Massachusetts and the American
Wooden company of New York, COM
monty known the wooden trust and
William NJ Wood, president of both
companies, just indicted by federal
grand jury on charges of profiteering.
Herbert c. Smythe, special assist
ant United States attorney general in
charge of the prosecution said that
the governments inquiry had revealed
that besides enormous" salaries from
both companies Mr. Wood in 1919 re-
ceived $515, in commissions.
This was charged as a part of the
manufacturing and selling expense and
he further asserted that the companies
made an increase in cost of more than
800 per cent over the prices for 1919.
1t was in this class of materials
that the companies are charged with
obtaining profits of more than 100
per cent. In the goods manufactured
during the present year. Mr.. Smythe
said the inquiry showed prices 50 per
cent above all costs.
The profits of the companies in
1919, during which there was a strike
of most of their important mills last
ing five months, were $15,513, 414.7O,"
asserted Smythe.
This information has been supplied
from printed statements submitted by
the president to the stockholders.
THE output during this period was
only 100000 yards, whereas the
normal output Of their mills was TO-
100000 yards per annum, the company
operating 46 cloth mills.
In the present year. when appar-
emily for the first time the cost plus
system of fixing the price was adopt
ed, the amount of profits being raj
lied exceeded on an average from 300
to 400 per cent over those of 1919
For instance, on an article known as
tricotine for women's wear, the profit
for 1919 was 40 cents per yard. while
for the same goods for 1920 the profit
per yard was $1.60.
THE ratio of profit is much in
creased and worse for the consumer
when it comes to the companies deal
ing in stock that had been manufac
tured and placed in their warehouses
in 1919. where the cost was ascer
tanned before the opening of the sea
son. which was not the case with tn,
incidents already cited.
"ln the latter class the percentage
Of profits, instead of being 35 per cen
over cost, is as much as 100 per cen,
over cost.
This inventory surplus from the
preceding year opportunities four and
one-half million yards.
I'm view of this increase and not
withstanding that the making and
selling companies are subjected to ar
expense, on account of the same mar
being president of both companies, OF
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-28
LIBERTY, Ind.

LIBERTY, Ind, r. 3.-Miss Goldie
Teegarden and Herschel Lamar were
guests Sunday of Ben Teegarden and
family Mr.. G. w White of Frank
fort, Ind, is here now visiting his old
neighbors and friends. .. Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Haag had for their
guests Sunday, Robert Whiteman and
family, of near Richmond, and John
and Sherman Haag. -. Frank Crom-
well and family and Theodore Crom'
well, of Fairfield, spent Sunday with
Guy Cromwell and family, near Ever
ton Mrs Andy Baudendistel and
Miss Leona Haag motored to Liberty.
Monday Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde New
kirk spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Hyle Barcus, in Liberty. Miss Lou
Use Veal spent several days last week
with her grandparents, Mr., and Mrs.
Frank Cromwell Mr.. and Mrs. Hen
nv Pohlar entertained at dinner Sun
day, Frank Behlmer and son and Bud
Pohlar of Batesville, Mr.. and Mrs.
Watsie Drummer and babe of Liberty
and Miss lola Doty. =. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Templeton entertained at din
ner Sunday, John Bum and family
Miss Carrie Bum and Effie Croker
Mr.. ad Mrs. Link Adams enter
tanned at dinner Sunday, Davis Adams
and family of Milroy. =. Elmer TEN
pletOns and family spent Sunday with
hurry Burk and family. $50 Mr., and
Mrs. Frank TempletOn entertained
Rev and Mrs. Coddington and daugh
ter Garnet, Saturday night. Mr.. and
Mrs. James Miles, Mrs. Ray Miles and
babe, Mrs. Laura Baudendistil and sis
ter, Miss Haag, and Mrs. Mary Har
line and Mrs. Lamar attended the dec
Grafton service at Franklin Saturday
afternoon. Clyde Newkirk called or
Horace Lamar Monday morning. 49,.
Andy Baudendistel is hauling corn
which he purchased of Elmer Post
Monday -. Donald and Harold Dubois
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-28
SULPHUR IS BEST
TO CLEAR UP UGLY
BROKEN OUT SKIN

Any breaking out or skin irritation
en- face, neck or body is overcome
quickest by applying Mentho-Sulphur.
says a noted skin specialist Because
OF its germ destroying properties.
nothing has ever been found to take
the place of this sulphur preparation
that instantly brings ease from the
itching, burning and irritation.
Mentho-Sulphur heals eczema right
UP, leaving the skin clear and smooth.
1t seldom fails to relieve the torment
or Disagreement. A little jar of
Neutrality-suspicious. may be obtained at
any drug store. 1t is used like cold
cream Reimbursement.