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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
A Genius for Compromise

Heroes are habitually represented az
answering, inhexible, uncompromising.
very few men possess these qualities in
full measure in real life, and it is for
tuna'e that this is so, for obstinacy is
one of the most formidable obstacles
to practical achievement. Mr.. Snendar
does not conjure up any myth of
adamant purpose about Lloyd George
On the contrary, he does full ius-
tlce to the Premier's positive genius
for compromise. 1t is just this genius
tor compromise, this willingness to give
full and fair conside ton to the opin-
IONS of others, this readiness to change
his opinions and his policy for sufficient
reason, that has saved Lloyd George
many of the hard bumps of political
life and that has preserved for him.
almost alone among the Allied war
leaders, position Of unquestioned
prlmacy among his people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Living Alone "
High Imaginative Quality in Fantastic Tale by
Stella Benson

N SPITE Of the glorification Of
solitude, to which her book Living
Alone" (Macmillan) is dedicated,
there are rare social qualities in
Stella Benson. She has Imagination
and wit and really satiric outlook on
life. She has--but one hesitates to
admit it. so greatly has the adjective
been strained-and odd whimsicality.
Now whimsicality has become for a.
least one reader terrifying literary
quality. 1t is mood whose inspira-
ton must come straight from heaven
or the result is too fearful to contem-
plate. 1t is an exceedingly narrow gate
to literary grace, and few be those who
enter it. But Stella Benson is one Of
them.
With crafty little preface Stella
Benson disarms the literal-minded
seeker after hard boiled realism. "This
IS not real book" she says, ingra-
tlatlngly. at does not deal with real
people, nor should it be read by real
people. But there are in the world so
many real books already written for the
oeneht of real people, and there are
'tlil SO many to be written, that can
lot believe that a little alien book
UGH as this, written for the magicallv
Inclined minority, can be considered
90 assertive a trespasser."
Whereupon follows the story of the
'ewlldered charity committee which
'ound suddenly that it had m
us list OF cases a very youns
witch. Like all exceedingly re
spectacle people, strong in the
consciousness of doing their duty the
lnolvidua! members of the committee
held very low opinion of happine IS.
But some subtle pagan emanation, some
tacit promise of happiness derived
from the witch, leads them to follow
her into wild, dreamlike adventures.
Ihey lead to the House of Living
Alone, which, after all, only the deaf
splhster Sarah Brown and her dog, David
Blessing Brown, find inhabitable.
There are moments of high extraya
gance, moments of sharp wisdom and
OF real poetic perception. Under the
widest absurdity there runs an under
current OF sadness. But the absurdity
IS irresistible. In the chapter entitled
The Regrettable Wednesday" there is
the same fantastic inconsequentiality
coupled with the intense gravity of the
immortal tea party. And Harold the
Broomstick, the witch's faithful com
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

on Public Information unouestionablv
had valuable function to perform
but Mr.. Creel exaggerates its sirnif
canoe so grossly shat the reader i.
tempted to minimize it. It is a cues.
ton whether its work would not have
been carried on equally effectively
and with far less friction, under thu
direction of some less hot~headed ana
bombastic chief.
Eulogy of Wilson
There is not much to be said for Mr.
Creers other work, "The War, the World
and Wilson" The author has apparently
adopted as his first article of faith tina,
Wilson can do no wrong So competent
an observer as Count Bernstorff did not
regard the President as unfriendly to
Germany until the declaration of un.
limited submarine warfare. But Mr.
Creel represents Wilson's vacillatinp
do-nothing policy of 1915 and 1916 as
animated throughout by a firm deter
mination to bring the imperial German
government to account. Of the Iona
series of notes he says:
Fools laughed at them, but thew will
stand for q all time as milestones in
Americas longest march to the heights. u
The Fourteen Points
The author is about the only person
who has been able to find the fourteen
points in the peace treaty. BY re-
markable distortion of words and facts
ne attempts to prove that the President
gained complete victory over Clemen-
ceau and Lloyd George On this point he
d.sagrees very emphatically with Score
tary Lansing, who testified before the
Senate committee that the famous points
were scarcely mentioned at Paris. This
fact, together with Mr.. Lansing's fall
from grace and the Cabinet, doubtless
accounts for Mr.. Creels contemptuous
depreciation Of the ex-Secretary:
"Mr. Lansing, elevated to be Secre-
raty of State at the time of Mr.. Bryan's
sudden resignation, was never anything
but disappointment. His ideas were
annual, and, what was even worse, he
approached every question from the
viewpoint of hidebound conservatism.
His slow mind, unwilling and unable to
cope with the midstream Of life, chung
like limpet to the rocks of the back
water
Then there is abundant abuse of the
Republican Senators and doleful pic
ture Of the imaginary bitterness and
contempt which the European nations
feel for America because of our refusal
to accept Mr.. Wilson's League of Ma
tons. The Presidents course at Paris
has few defenders now; but he may
we'll pray to be delivered from such
friends and advocates as Mr.. Creel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
MIR. Jones Perorates
Playwright Laments Pop
ular Education
PLAYWRIGHT in his decline ha


n time to contemplate many things.
n patriotism and Popular Educa-
ton (E. P. Dutton) is an epistle Of
314 printed pages addressed by Henry
Arthur Jones, the author of MRS.
Danes Defense" to the Hon. Il. A. L..
Fisher. No book, as Mr.. Jones himself
admits, has ever grown more strangely.
It stsrted as a letter to the press pro-
testing against the edict disbarring
children from the stage. On consider
ing the matter Mr.. Jones saw that it
involved the subject of popular educa-
ton. This in turn illuminated the
problem Of the decay Of the drama, Of
which Mr.. Jones had himself expert
enced many blighting proofs-and that.
Of course, proved that the national ex-
istence was threatened.
But this whole train of the epoch.
making thought was inspired, like
Isaac Newton's famous discovery. by an
exceedingly commonplace incident Mr..
Jones's cook was making him an
omelet, when her little girl, bright
child Of fourteen. who was just going
through her school examinations, rushed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

THE WOMEN WHO CANE IN THE
MAYFLOWER- BY Annie Russell
Marble. Published BY the Pilgrim Press.
Boston and Chicago.
An account Of the women who helped
to build up the life Of the early New
England colonies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Zanzibar
Full Account of Island or
African Coast

T IS said that Mr.. George Creel once
/ observed that he thought the
OKralne was musical instru-
ment' The name Zanzibar might con-
vey some such impression to most
Americans. A full supply of infor-
nation about this island off the eastern
coast OF Africa is contained in "Zanzi-
bar: The Island Metropolis of Eastern
Africa" by Major F. B. Pearce, a stout
attractive and highly priced book pub
lished by E. P. Dutton & Co.
Major Pearce is the British Resident
IN Zanzibar, and is equally we'll &C
qualnted with the present condition and
past history of the island. His ORR
entail erudition is beyond praise. and
ne traces the history of Zanzibar from
prehistoric times. The story of thn
island is far from uneventful for #
has experienced many changes of SOW
erelgnty. 1t was occupied for a time
by the Portuguese, in the days when
Portugal was attempting to build up a
great Eastern empire. Some adventu-
rous Arabs later secured possession
OF Zanzibar. At present it enjoys the
peaceful status Of a British protector
ate under an Arab Sultan.
Major Pearce describes the climate
OF Zanzibar and its neighboring island
Pemba, as not insalubrious, for the
tropics. The island is great produce
OF cloves. Monkeys and leopards are
among its most important four-footed
inhabitants, and there are many tropi-
cal birds. The author INDUCES in
some interesting speculations about
some ruined mosques and remnants of
old pottery which have been discovered
in Zanzibar and Pemba. He is evident
ly an archaeological scholar of no mean
achievements.
1t would scarcely be possible to
stimulate emigration to Zanzibar by
recommending the island as summer
resort. But, although it Will probably
not be Of interest to many prospective
tourists, Major Pearces work is a solid
and interesting addition to our store
of African and Asiatic KNOWLEDGE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
on Want to Know Who Won the War? Ask George Cree

in and besought her mother to tell her
who Cicero was. The mother paused
to help her child and the omelet was
ruined. As Mr.. Jones chewed that
leathery omelct he also chewed the cud
Of reflection. He saw how good cook
was needlessly sacrificed. He saw all
the vicious ramifications of popular
education, and he straightway set him
self to enlighten the misguided Hon. H.
A. L. Fisher. who is the president of
the British Board of Education.
The whole trouble, as Mr.. Jones sees
it, is that popular education has the
devastating effect of taking people out
of the station to which it has pleased
God to call them. Indisputably, heaven
has decreed the carpenter, the miner.
the dustman as it has decreed the gen.
tleman. Popular education flies in the
face OF that Providence. Time was
when workingman worked twelve to
sixteen hours day, read no papers.
neld no opinions on politics and went
out to fight when he was called with
out asking troublesome questions. Now
that is all changed
Consider The peril to the state from
the simple instance of Crusoe and his
man Friday. Robinson Crusoe could
have given to Friday body of collated
information about Cicero, only at the
cost to himself OF much labor and
valuable time. Friday could have re-
celved such body of information only
at the cost of much labor and valuable
time. 1t is evident that if the pair
OF them had given any considerabl.
amount of labor and time to Cicero
the state would have tottered."
And so Mr.. Jones views with alarm
all the evils that have followed on
popular neutrality-suspicious. slang. the
decay of the workmanlike spirit-hsd
cooking To restore the empire to its
pristine glory, Britons to their former
virtue and the drama to its former
nigh estate the British board has
only to let all the little bows out of
scnool and put them at military drill
an this last Mr.. Jones is very en-
pnatic- He will feel very unsafe until
every British workingman is ready n
spring to arms in his defense. And To
this proper spirit popular education is
an enemy.
Some Millions must remain mute and
inglorlous, says Mr. Jones, who is ex-
ceedlngly dissatisfied to remain a;+bar
mute or inglorious.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
A Life Renewed
Many Incarnations of Phra
the Phenician

TIME ordinary historical novel aims
to recreate a certain limited
segment of the past, bounded by
the life and experiences of the hero.
But Edwin Lester Arnold, in 1.-The
Wonderful Adventures Of Phra the
Phnnician," sets for himself a much
more ambitious task. The book is an
"Ivanhoe," "Ben-Hur," westward
Ho," rolled into one, a presentation of
the career Of being who enjoys five
separate incarnations.
Phra first appears as a Phenician
trader. He is attracted to Britain by
the love of Druid priestess. and there
falls a victim to the suspicion and
hatred Of the natives. After a siesta
of some three or four hundred years he
comes to life in the days of the decadent
days of the Roman Empire. Next he is a
follower Of the Inflated Saxon King
Harold on the field of Hastings. He
goes to sleep again, waking up in time
to take part with Edward III in the
victory of Crecy. Commissioned by
that monarch to bear the news of the
triumph to England, he meets with an
accident by the way, and ultimately de-
livers King Edwards message to the
astounded court of Queen Elizabeth.
All of Phra's lives are filled with
adventures: for he is redoubtable
fighter, and his incarnations come in
turbulent times. The author never
quite succeeds in investing him with
the magical lifelike quality Of an Ivan
hoe or d'Artagnan. Yet the work
has in it the elements of good romance,
many ringing blows are given aud re-
turned, and a beautiful mysterious
heroine reappears as regularly as
Phra himself to give color and inspira-
ton to his exploits. The authors his
torical scholarship lends dignity and
reality to his background.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
"Bughouse Poetry"
Engaging Frankness in
Mr.. Grifin's Title
THERE are several distinctly at

THERE are several distinctly at
tractive features about Mr.. Rich
ard Griffins work, "Buehous Sc
Poetry" published by the author). In
the first place the title is so engag-
ingly frank. Mr. Griffin is unime
among bsrds in admitting with so lit
tie reservation the model and insnira :
ton OF his verse. Then the authors
frontispiece picture, which represents
him as gentleman with prominent
eyes, soft hat monocle and a cane
held in a peculiar vertical position
creates an immediate arrestins sense
at personality. And no one who has
suffered the pangs of rejected manu-
script can fail to sympathize with Mr.
Gr1fnn's gallant defiance of publishers
and editors, printed on his title nage.
can't and publisher who
~. ..' q Eve We, me chance with my ditty;
We canvassed with quite a few
In various parts OF the city.
ny 70 my trusty canoe
ons n n oxsr y through; yes l paddle
Ia spste OF their critical twaddIe.
~ "si WITH such rank fiddle PADDLE
some OF our unconventional poets
nave been more or less justly accused
OF lack OF patriotism. This charge
cannot be brought against the super
1uturlst, Mr.. Griffin. who brings his
poem William the Butcher" to the
Following dramatic conclusion:
snt night and day forever, yea.
iN~
. .UuI name pooe clay, to black decay.
William. the butcher King"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
A Boxer as Actor
Mishaps of a Pugilist Film
Star

TT c. WITWER is perhaps one Of
ii. the best specimens Of If the he
machine-made story writer.
dls tales of baseball, business, the
prize ring or the movies are compounds
OF Charles E. Van Loan plus Ring w.
Lardner, favored with quantity vaude-
vile speech that is Mr.. Witwer's most
important contribution to letters.
His latest volume lat the moment Of
writing this) is kid Seaman" (Small,
Maynard), series of stories dealing
with the adventures of welterweight
champion in filmdom. They are breezy
commercial products, which our maya
zines seem to be glad to buy, and If
they are without the peculiar distinc-
ton Of some Of Mr.. Lardner's work or
the humanity Of the late Mr.. Van
Loans best efforts, they are reasonably
entertaining trifes, which will help to
tighten railroad trip.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

panion, the Mad Bus and the dragon
who feels himself born out Of his time
are fascinating creations Of a delight
full Imagination.
Miss Benson brings her most indi-
vidual quality, however, to the char
acterization of real people. "Mr
Darnby Frere was the editor OF an al
vanced religious paper called 4 Won
der but he never wondered really. He
knew almost everything, and therefore
while despising the public for know
ing SO little, he encouraged it to con-
tinue wondering so that he might con-
tinue despising and instructing it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

Miscellaneous
PICTORIAL COMPOSITION N PHOTOG-
RAPHY. By Arthur Hammond Pub
iished by the American Photogra phic
Publishing Company. Boston.
Practical instruction in the principles
Of photography. The book contains
forty-nine illustrations by the author.
who is associate editor of American
Photography"
THE CONSTITUTION AND WHAT IT
MEANS TO-DAY By Edward s. Cor
win Published by the Princeton INT
yersl.y Press. p.ts-e.E--
The text of the Constitution, with =
full and lucid explanatio. of various
passages.
THE AMERICAN GUIDEBooK TO
france AND ITS BATTLEFIELDS.
BY e b. Carey. 0. o. Ellis and r. V.
D. Magorin. Published by the Mac
milan Company. New York.
This work, prepared by three Amer
lean officers, gives a full description
OF the battlehelds and also Of other
points Of interest for the traveller in
France. 1t also includes shors sketch
Of the American combat divisions and
quantity of miscellaneous informs-
ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
LRANCIS BRETT YOUNG, author of "The Youno
Physician, published By e. P. Duttoa C Co.
England's Great War Leader
Sympathetic Biography of Lloyd George by
Harold Spender

says Mr.. Spender, "Mr. Lloyd George
was never the prime mover, but always
faithful follower of President Wilson.
Thus it was that Mr.. Lloyd George
never framed scheme, but took the
schemes of others as the basis for
his advice and counsel. He profoundly
believed in the League of Nations as
the only way out for the human race.
But he had not very deep faith in
schemes or constitutions. His idea was
rather, in the good old British way, to
evolve league from the peace confer
ence. He had in mind the precedent
OF the imperial conference, and he be-
lleved that periodical meetings of the
Teace conference, gradually including
nations at first excluded, would lead to
slow growth Of understanding be-
tween nations now too ardent for SOW
ereignty to be affected by any decisions
from Paris or Geneva
The author analyses the British policy
at the peace conferences policy that
during the last year, as follows:
Speaking broadly, Mr.. Lloyd George
and his colleagues followed throughout
sound British tradition. Instinctivelv
they were in 1919 pursuing in Paris
the same policy that Wellington and
Castlereagh pursued during 1915 in
the Congress of Vienna, and the second
I-eaty of Paris after the victory Of
Waterloo. Just as they prevented a
triumphant Prussia from crushing
France, so Mr.. Lloyd George and Presi-
dent Wilson prevented a triumphant
france from shattering Germany to
atoms"
Lloyd Georges favorite poet il
Byron. He likes George Meredith best
among prose writer's, and he is an en-
thusiastic admirer Of Handel in music
The only music that profoundly moves
him, however, according to Mr.. spender
Is that of the old Welsh hymns and
folksongs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
High Praise for P Propaganda
Achievements OF Committee on Public Informa
ton Painted in, Glowing Colors

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Books Received

War
RISING ABOVE THE RUINS IN FRANCE
By Gorinna Haven Smith and Caroline
r. Hill. Published by G. P. Putnam's
Sons, New York.
An account Of the progress which the
French people have made in restoring
their devastated regions by two women
who have been associated with relief
work in France. The book contains
eightyeigh illustrations.
AMERICAN GUNS IN THE WAR WITH
Published by p p. Duston Z CO. s' new
York.
The story of Americas achievements
in the production and use of guns Of
all kinds in the war. The author is a
former assistant instructor in tactics
at West Point who has written several
works on military subjects.
MY A. q. F. By Frances Newbold Noyes.
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany, New York.
A tribute to the American forces in
France by ''Y" girl.
Fiction
WHEN TYTIE CAME. BY Alfred Machard
Published by the Reilly & Lee Com
pany, Chicago.
A children's comedy by a French
author.
MARIAN FREAR's SUMMER. By Mar
garet Ashraun. Published by the Mac
milan Company New York.
A story of American home life, cal
culated to appeal especially to girls.
History
THE NEAR EAST: CROSSROADS OF
THE WORLD. By William H Hall
New York.
A study of political, social and re-
ligious conditions in the Near East by
professor of the Syrian Protestant
College at Beirut.
The courier-index., 1920-10-08
Our Cotton Crop
Commercial Appeal. )

It IS generally understood that the cotton crop this year IS about three weeks late As a result of this understanding there have been few bales of cotton glnned in the Memphis territory and because there was not buyer every corner when the farmer got to town he concluded that the cotton was sorry asset and had no market value
 The reduction that has taken place in many things mas no doubt caused the spinner and specuator think that cotton should be reduced too The price of cotton not too high, and present prices and better should e realized for every pound of white cotton pickedth fall.
 When things are little uncertain most people do nothing and then few people do very silly and foolish things
 Do not the farmers and their tenants realize that Memphis and the towns in it's territory with the rail- YOads, merchants and bankers, depend mainly upon cotton for their occupation and their living and their prosperity? The cities of the north and east sell mil lions each year that paid for in cotton The balance of trade in favor of the United States with foreign countries put each year our favor by our cotton exports
 With these facts in mind is it not strange that people refuse to use their own good Judgment and instead, when few hundred bales of half and half cotton are sold below the market price in Texas they jump at the conclusion that cotton has gone to the boWWows?
 There is ample money to move this cotton crop in a gradual and orderly marketing.
 Pick your cotton clean, pick it rapidly. so as to get out much good cotton you can before frost
 Do not try to sell before the market opens up We all still draw rations, and the man will act wisely who does not rush his cotton and Seed to market at this time
 Pick your cotton clean and pick it rapidly Good cotton will sell well.
The courier-index., 1920-10-08

bred stock were attended and indi- vidual breeders were assisted in marketing theAAAnimals @
 Sweet potato growers were aided in organizing state exchange with local organizations at 21 points and a membership of more than 250. Fifty-two cars of sweet potatoes were marketed at an average of more than 31 cents bushel above the price offered by local buyers on the same dates, with profit to the growers of more than $8,O00. In- vestigations were conducted regard ing different types of sweet pota- to storage houses, and plans and specifications for approved houses were furnished growers at 62 points in Arkansas and Five points in other states.
 Cooperative shipping during the year saved shippres $4,000 on 12 ears of white potatoes and $1,500 on 10 cars of watermelons. Six associations for marketing white po- tatoes were formed.
 Demonstration during the year in grading sweet potatoes were 42 in
The courier-index., 1920-10-08
ArkansaS Farmers Profit by CO-Operafi0n

Arkansas working in cooperation with the Bureau of Markets, United States Department of Agriculture, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, was able to save more than $86, 300 through cooperative mark eting of live stock and other prod ucts.
 During the year definite plan for the organization of cooperative live stock shipping associations was worked out and two associations were formed. Short courses in live stock marketing were held at four points in the state. An investigation was made of the states live stock shipping pens. Assistance was given farmers in the cooperative shipment of 333 cars of cattle, hogs and sheep from 39 different counties. which resulted in an estimated net saving of S73.548 to 3.030 cooperating sihp- peEs. Two auction sales of pure