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New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

EVERAL months ago the editors
~ of The Liberator, semi-official
4 y organ of Bolshevism in America,
triumphantly reprinted a speech
by Bertrand Russell, extolling COM
munsm from a theoretical standpoint,
and hailed him as philosopher touched
with the true vision of new day
Shortly afterward Mr.. Russell went
to Russia with the British labor dele
cation. And most of the subsequent is
sues of The Liberator have been de-
voted to the difficult and ungrateful task
of trying to take away the reputation
which had been so recklcssly bestowed
At the same time the conservative pub
lications, which formerly denounced Mr.
Russell as a radical and pacifist
showed themselves quite ready to accept
and publish most of his conclusions
about Soviet Russia. He is unquestion-
ably the star witness of the year against
Bo.shevism.
Workers Oppressed in Soviet Russia
Boshevism: Theory and Practise (Har-
court, Brace & Howe), the book in which
Mr.. Russell has embodied the impress
sions of his Russian visit, attacks the
Soviet regime from two angles He con-
demns the Bolshevik philosophy, based
on the MARKHAM materalistic concep-
tion Of history, as fundamentally mar
row and unsound in many details And
he is convinced that as means of
improving the condition Of the masses
Russian Polshevism is a dismal failure.
He credits the Soviet leaders with the
virtues of military despot or an in
dustrial magnate, ruthless energy, the
will and capacity to work hard and
long, courage and skill and tenacity in
military and diplomatic relations. But
he sets down as propagandist myth
the theory that the workers and peas
ants Of Russia are actually the gov
ernors of their own destines Power is
concentrated in the hands of the Com
munist party, which possesses approx
mately 100000 members. The govern
ment of Russia is not dictatorship Of
the proletarat, but over the proetariat
Mr.. Russell's impression Of the practical
functioning of this dictatorship is
summed up In this vigorous sentence:
"A sweated wage, long hours, indus
trial conscripton, prohibition of strikes
prison for slackers, diminution Of the
already insufficient rations in factories
where the production falls below what
the authorities expect, an army Of
spies ready to report any tendency to
political disafection and to procure i'm
prisonment for It's promoters-this is
the reality Of a system which still
processes to govern in the name of the
proletariat"
The author is not in sympathy with
the Allied policy toward Russia, which
ne repeatedly stigmatzes as criminal
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lan James, Psychologist He Is Revealed by lis Letters

manner, thing which is indefnable in
terms of speech, but Enthusiastically to be
recognized wherever found. Otherwise,
though, | could observe nothing about
her calculated to excite the casual passer-
by. But my friend WAS all enthusiasm.
No End of Class
"'Class!' he repeated. Glass, did you
say? Say, listen! That COW has all the
class there is. She's less than two years
old and she cost me a cool $500 cash
and cheap at the figure, at that
Fifteen hundred I murmured daz-
edly. What does she give?
"'Why, she gives milk, of course he
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HCipk> t1,it t,ti ,

1HoIs EXON. INC. 4 CORPoRATTO%
dealing !n old and rare BOOKS, auto
sra 2hs, etc, are the largest buyers aa1
dlstributors OF old BOOKS in this country
we are in the market to buy fer spo-
caSh books in large or small Quantities
and entire private libraries We especially
want limited sets. de luxe editions and
!aNe ercyciopeo!aS Autographs also
bought. Free packing I'D removal Tnn
adVantages accrued to the seller OF books
IN dealing with a large concern are OBJ
vious. TEOS g. ERON, INC. 81 Barclay
ST., New York. Tel. So62 Cortlandt
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explained. What Else would she be Civ
.ng?'
"'WelI,' said, should think that q.
that price she should at least give music
lessons. Perhaps she does plain sew
ing7'"
But why rob Mr. Cobb of his royalties
by quoting the best passages from his
book? The point is we should like to
have him go back and Go the mulberries
over again. We are confident that he
could better his initial performance by
q dozen paragraphs and at least laugh
line. Judging by the cows, we feel
sure of Il.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Bertrand Russell Recants
British Philosopher Repudiates Bolshevisrn
After Visit to Russia

NEVERAL months ago the editors
90 of The Liberator, semi official
4 y organ of Bolshevism in America,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
A Novel of Suspense

CHE WHO WAS HELENA CASS, by
- Lawrence Rising (Doran), is the
story of mysterious Disappearance
that seems to have been suggested by
the famous Ruth Cruger case. The
events which befcll the missing girl
after she passed out of the public eye
are audaciously enough imagined to
make this highly ingenious story Of
suspense.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Story of the Militants

FAILED FOR FREEDOM, by Doris
~ Stevens (Boni g. Liveright) gives
the history Of the militant suffragist's
for the Federal amendment.
The material it contains is just enough
for a slight pamphlet. Only the en-
will rejoice to see its slight
substance expanded to the bulk Of an
impressive volume.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

"Odin Gregory, the author, and Hor-
ace Liveright, the publisher, of 'Caius
Gracious are both candidates for
the literary Croix de Guerre *
never since the days of Shakespeare
has a play written in English metrical
verse aroused any apprec'ag measure
# popular enthusiasm some
find in 'Caius Gracious a drama OF
vivid color, marked psychological in
sight and compelling power . u"
the \. Y. Tribune said of "Caius
Gracchus," by Odin Gregory. All
booksellers, 50 net Boni G. Liveright,
Publishers, New York.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

Some of the pictures Of Roman life
n the second century +. c. challenge
comparigon with the hest descriptive
passages in Quo Vadis? and the Last
Days Of Pompeii His picture
OF the patricians. OF the wealthy, Ia
Tremendously impressive In It's fero-
cious bitterness. In the Consul Fannius
ws have MepnistophcliAn Polonius,"
,he N. Y. Tribune sa.d Of "Caius Crac.
chus," by Odln Gregory. All booksell-
srs. 50 not Boni A LAArght,New York.
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CHAPTER Iv-continued.

3d.
81 don't know that It's splendid"
he said. 'Tm going to buy some
Books; and then
He hesitated. The girl dropped her
eyes and stood toying with the bonnet
strings around her arm. She did not
mention that the storekeeper had told
her the tragedy Of the grave at Fallen
Rock. of the mother who had died
the very evening" of success; whose
eyes had not been permitted to rest
on the faultless sheen Of the JeWel Tor
which she, too, had searched me
time.
"And then" she repeated, when It
seemed he was not going on.
A tiny breeze fell into the woods
through the gap cut by the road, and
stirred the leaves. There is death as
well as life in the woods. Death al
ways; even in June. The breeze
found a dead leaf among the living
ones and shook it loose. It threat
,ened to light on the girls bright hair,
but fiuttered down past her face and
fell at her feet
The breeze; the falling leaf-the
woods her woods, had whispered; and
'she heard,
'Daddy!" she cried suddenly. 'I've
left him too long"
Her voice had grown serious. She
eheld out her hand for the basket. The
Pearlhunter passed it over and she
turned away.
1t was an awkward parting and the
sPearlhunter felt it, but he was man
iof slow speech. His words had to be
clipped by hand out Of the rough, one
at a time. as men of old fashioned
their arrowheads.
"Wild Rosel"
She turned. The name had brought
the dimples back.
'NIay / walk along with your
The words were past recall before
he knew It.
''The woods are as much yours as
mine" was her smiling answer.
He never could remember just how
the basket managed to get from her
arm TO his as he walked away with
her, the sole recollection that stood
out in his memory being the fact that
the path seemed to fly up and hit his
feet before he quite had time to set
them down.
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another man without name
GRO BE coNTINUED0
ABSURD NAMES WORK HARM
NAV BE Witty, But They Too Ere
quentIy Tend to Put Community
In Disrepute.

FreaIkish and absurd names given
to communities. villages and counties
nv some waggish wit in the primitive
times, have a way of persisting, cling
ing to the community. so that it Il
most difficult to get rid of them wnen
new people have succeeded to resi-
dence there. Some Of these absurd
names are so ridiculous they harm the
community, tending at all times to put
it in disrepute, make it jest and
byword.
All over the country are to be found
places where the Old-time wit left his
contribution of harmful levity, against
which the community struggles. In
the northern part of Missouri was q
little community that was given, in
the days before the war. the rather
startling name of Burnshirt. The
name grew out of an incident that
took place when some big-game hunt
ers were encamped at the settlement.
The name appealed to the risibilities
of the community and for two genera
lions it was compelled to bear that
name 1t had small degree Of COM
fort from the fact that a lesser COM
munity, hard by, had won the name
of Pinhook. HooppoIe township in
Posey county, Indiana, is quite the
most widely known of any township
in the Hoosier state, yet strangers
might not be induced to locate there
because of the attractiveness or prom
Use founf in the name.-Ohio State
Journal.
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THE RED MASK.

synopsis. Never having known
his father, and living with his
mother on q houseboat on the Wa
bash river, Pearlhunter-the only
name he has-learns from her a
part of the story of her sad life.
The recital is interrupted by a
fearful fit of coughing and he hur-
ries ashore to seek root that az
fords relief. He meets a young
girl whom he mentally chrlstens
the Wild Rose. She eludes him be-
fore he can make her acquaint-
ance. A vacant cabin on the shore
has attracted the attention of the
ailing woman, and they move into
It. Their first meal is interrupted
by the Man-in-the-F Fancy Vest
Pearlhunter strikes him. Gunplay
threatens. The mother dramati-
cally drives the intruder away.
She says he is the "Other Man.,
whom she has not seen for 20
years. They find a red mask
dropped by the Other Man. That
night Pearlhunter finds the Blue
Moon, great freshwater pearl.
His mother dies without revealing
his fathers name. Pearlhunter
and the Other Man meet in the
village; a pistol fight is narrowly
averted. Pearlhunter believes him
to be the Red Mask criminal. Pearl
hunter rescues Wild Rose from the
Other Man and meets Wild Man,
her father.
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he has been like-this. The knife he
must have taken from the person that
shot him, for he had none Of his own.
1t was clutched tight in mis- hand when
found him-the knife. and this
She beckoned him across the room
to the book case. It was the first car
pet the Pearl Hunter had ever walked
over. He set his feet down like man
crossing thin ice.
She, fumbled out from behind a row
Of books small packet, with the eau
ton:
you mustn't let Daddy see it. He
will go wild if you do. | used to keep
it stuck behind the picture, but it
Workede6ut into sight one day. and he
drove the knife through it before
could get it away from him. If he
ever finds the man it belongs to he'll
serve him the same way, I'm afraid.
Sometimes I think that's why he
haunts the woods-to see if he can find
him. There, you can see where the
knife went through"
She had been unwrapping fold of
paper as she talked. The sight of it's
contents surprised low exclamation
from the PearIhunter 1t was red
mask.
The Pearlhunter fingered the bit
of stiff cloth lying across the girls
palm with such quick eagerness that
her eyes sought his face curiously. The
red mask! The slit of the knife near
an eye hole-no man in the Flatwoods
better able to read the story it told
none better able to piece together the
fragments of that seven-year-old trag-
edy.
Up through the eye holes there
seemed to glow a pair of eyes-blue,
like blue ice; eyes that glow black
when reused. He knew what they
looked like when the blue turned to
black.
Suddenly, without warning, a deep
groan set the silence ashiver The
girl crammed the packet back behind
the books; the Pearlhunter whirled.
The Wild Man had risen from his
chair and stood peering toward him
with wide, weird eyes. With a step
that was ghostly noiseless he crossed
the floor. Quite close he came, his
dulled senses seeming to need the
stimulus OF close contact. His 5ony
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CHAPTER v.
cabin Of the rhree Gables.

CABIN OF tie nree ladies.
For some distance back from the
river the Earthmaker scrambled the
FIatwoods. Scramble0-that's exact
ly what seems to have happened to
strip along the north bank. A maze
of gulch and cliff. of gully and bluff
all bearded thick with trees and dense
underbrush; all alive with the teasing
mystery of growing things.
The path the girl Travelled wound
4tself, or rather unwound itself, right
through the heart of the hills deep
into the mystery of the thick woods,
until it turned sharply and led up the
east bank of Wolf run, the little
stream in which the Pearlhunter had
washed the elecampane roots.
A short distance above the pool, so
near that the Pearlhunter wondered
ne had not seen it before, a three
gabled, one-story log cabin snugged
back against the bluffs just where they
left the bank of the stream and curved
to the east. A step farther a small,
ulot of creek bottom had been cleared
and fenced-what the Flatwocds called
a garden patch" Back of the gar
den, a stable Rugged the bluff, but it
was half hidden by rank weeds.
The cabin was built of hewn logs,
nOtched artistically at the corners.
The roof projected well beyond the
walls; the chimneys were of red brick;
the doors and windows of a finish
rather more pretenticus than was
common n the woods. There were
three wings, extending at right an
giles from a common center, making
four rooms, in all, three along the
front, with another, probably the
Kitchen, extending back from the CEN
trail room.
Where the path left the stream to
Eurn toward the door the girl paused
and held out her hand for the basket.
Slowly the Pearlhunter passed it over.
lit was an awkward moment His
eyes travelled past her to- the tiny
garden. He noticed that the fence
e1UEsaG h WE gagged and broken. The
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opening FED TO another room up tie
west; similar opening. with Cae eur
tain loopel back and tied wttL bill
of ribbon, disclosed room on the
east. A closed door gave entrance to
the third room, probably the kitch
en-, logged a little to allow for a win
dow near the northwest corner of the
center room.
His gaze Travelled to the fire place
A revolver-a very dependable look
ing six-gun-lay upon the mantel
Above it, arranged across a draped
American flag, hung silk sash. a
tasseled cord, a pair of silver spurs
and a sword Looped in the sword
hilt were two stranGs of ribbon, one
purple, the other gold. There came
dim remembrance that he had once
heard somewhere these were the col
ors of famous regiment that great
ly distinguished itself in the Indian
wars
The half minute or more he had
spent looking over the room had Civ
en- him time to recover his calm. anc
now his glance came back. to the ruiz
in the chair
The Wild Man was whetting his
knife against his palm, mumbling an6
| muttering. He seemed to gloat ovel
the glitter Of it-and the girl within
easy reach of his hand The Pearl
hunter stiffened; gathered himself tc
spring. She happened to look up
caught his eye, and shook her head
Seemingly unconscious of any danger
she came to the door, picked up hel
basket and his hat and put them or
the table beside the vase Of wild roses
you're not afsajd?" asked the Pearl
hunter.
Gle wouldn't harm a fly"
sBut the knife?"
'He plays with 1t by the hour
| That knife" as If weighing thu
thought it raised. "He keeps 1t will
him night and day. / fear death viii
sometime come Of that knife Il"
His eyes urged her to go on.
Seven years he's been as you SCI
/ A1A1Ls ~ u ~ L1lClL CAllC AC W az LAAC AA4Oo
wonderful father girl ever had. HI
wasn't gray until then, and he didn'
wear beard. Those who knew hin
then wouldn't know him now. 1t wa:
seven years ago this June-the TWEEN
tieth. / remember it because it wa!
my birthday was twelve. That eve
ming | heard groan at the kitchen
door. | ran out, and there was Dad
| dy. holding to the door post to keeI
from falling, his hands covered will
blood, and blood all over his face ant
hair. helped him in, washed off thu
blood and discovered 1t came from {
wound in his head. bound it up thu
best l could and ran to the village TO
the doctor.
"When he came, he said Daddy hat
aeen shot. There was a long scar
like a groove-that the doctor salt
was made by the bullet. It had causet
cUncussion of the brain. Since tina
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Gagri, a port to the southeast toward
the Georgian frontier.
Other Bolshevik detachments are re-
ported at KAYAK, southeast of Tif1is,
while the tenth Bolsheyik army, which
has been operating along the Armeni-
an frontier, is said to have passed
through Karakliss, moving toward the
Georgian republic.
Independent Georgia has been toll
Grated by the Bolsheviki because Of
the trade advantages offered at
Batum, which has been regarded In
Moscow as a corridor which permitted
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hands and long arms Sere quIyerins !;
his hollow face twitching pitifuIly.
Hes never like this" the girl
whispered.
The young man glanced at her and
stood still. The thin hands fiuttered
over his face and head. Even their
| lightest touch was heavy with a
strength that must have been prodig-
| ious-as if the fires of his malady kin
| died a force in him more than human.
| Some impulse Of compassion must
have reached the heart of the Pearl
| hunter, for he stretched his long arm
| forth and laid it about the old mans
shoulders. Instantly he felt the weight
! of the gray giant upon him. 1t might
have been the one thing the stricken
man craved in his dumb way-the
touch Of his kind the prop of a mans
arm.
The situation embarrassed the Pearl
hunter. It was like winning the con-
fidence of a little child, and then rot
knowing what to do with it.
The girl was quick to see his embar-
/
might coax child away from some
one she imagined it was annoying, she
led the old man back to his chair !;
then. leaving him, she hurried across
the room to the book case.
81 never saw him SO restless before, =
she said, as she passed by. 'He seems
to like you, though" she continued
while finding the book she wanted.
strange, too, for he's cross usually.
even to the doctor. Won't you excuse
me till quiet him?"
Before he could reply she had found
/ the book and hurried back to the chair.
Opening it, she laid it upon the old
mans knees. He bent his head and
felt over the open page with his hand,
but the weird eyes could no longer re.
solve the frozen magic of the words.
/ He fidgeted in his chair and the book
slid to the floor.
The picture was too distressing, and
/ the Pearlhunter termed his face
away. From where he stood he had
an almost unobstructed view into the
east room, the girls room, and before
he realized it his eyes had strayed
past the curtains. Amusement held
! them there moment in spite of him.
/ The room, in striking contrast to whaI
he had seen of the rest Of the house,
was almost bare of furniture-a car
! petless floor; the rudest of beds; a
broken chair. and little else.
He heard her walking across the
floor and turned away half guiltily.
She had her hand upon the curtained
entrance of the west room, and he no.
4 ticed that it was carpeted, and was
otherwise furnished quite in keeping
with the room in which he stood, GER
tally in very decided contrast TO the
room upon the east.
But he had no time to reflect on all
these things, for the girl reappeared
j in a moment carrying a cello. which
she placed between the old mans
knees. She put the bow in his right
hand and lifted his left to the. strings
i He laid his cheek down upon the in
strumeut; grew quiet. The faltering
bow tried to wake the strings, but in
vain. The old mans body seemed to
shrink together. His chin dropped
down Upon his breast. But the next
instant he sat upright and rigid; his
wide eyes, cropping around, found the
i Pearlhunrer, and he started to rise
grappsed up. strained up, as If by a
4 power outside himself.
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Fatch Your LinoIeum.

When linOleum wears out in any
spot mark out with chalk on the limo
Ieum the piece you wish to repair. The
shape of this piece should be square,
circular or triangular. Cut it out with
a sharp, short-b!aded knife and place
it as a pattern on new piece of limo
leun and cut out carefully. Put hot
glue around the edge and little I'M
derneath and fix 1t into the empty
space. The glue will secure it firmly,
filing up the crack ali around, and so
prevent dust from entering the joint.
No nails are required. If the linoleum
has a design ard the new piece is
matched the joint will scarcely be
noticed.
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Harding's Plan for Association
Of Nations Reaching Def
mite Form.
MORE CABINET PREDICTIONS
Dawes May Head Commission to Reor-
aanize Government service-House
Passes Warmers Relief Tariff
Bill - Scandal in Coal
Prices Uncovered.
By EDWARD w. PIcXARD.

President-elect HaTding'S confer
ences at Marion with the best minds,
though by no means ended, seem al
ready to have resulted in the crystal
lizing of certain of his policies into
definite form. OF course the two that
arouse the greatest public interest are
those relating to foreign affairs and
the League of Nations, and to the plan
for reorganizing the nations business
and establishing it on more econom-
ic basis.
In discussing an association OF ma
TONS there is no evidence that MI.
Harding has converted to his own
views such irreconcilables as Senators
Borah and Reed, or even Mr.. Bryan,
whose invitation to Marion aroused
the ribald laughter Of the paragraph
ers. But Mr.. Harding seems to have
brought his theories into form fit for
presentation to the world. According
to what is said to be authoritative IN
formation, he believes the first APP
proach to the formation of his "asso-
citation of nations should be to OBJ
tain the assent of the five leading ma
lions, the United States. Great Britain.
France, Italy and Japan, his theory
being that, once these nations have
Joined. the other nations will fall in
line. The basis of this association is
to be a world court to deal with justi-
cable questions.
Mr.. Harding holds that no associa-
ton Of nations can succeed without
the Endorsement of the leaders OF pub
lie thought, in America and elsewhere.
and that these leaders must reach
agreement in the essentials, leaving
details to be settled later; that all
governing features must be eliminated
from the association, each nation re-
manning free to make its own de-
cisions; that the agreement must be
specific enough to prevent the posi-
bility Of an offensive and defensive
military alliance of the five great
powers, and the association of ma
lions itself must place all nations on
an equal footing in the presentation
of their views on matters OF world
policy.
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the Bolsheviki to bring in supplies
from Europe Reliable information
from Batum, however. indicates seri-
Gus disturbances, the Georgian gar
rison there having revolted
This resulted in a panic and people
stormed the ships In the harbor, seek
ing to escape before the arrival Of
Bolshevik troops. which were reported
In the neighborhood.
1t is understood the allies have con-
sidered aending warships to insure the
evacuation of allied missions In
Georgia.