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New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
By
Heywood Broun

fishers have recognized it. The order
lists Of Western and Southern book
stores proclaim it to the needing eye.
Eventually, say about 1910, it may reach
even the American short story writer.
And, in my fitting to and fro, am led
to wonder more and more at the New
York mind, as represented by essay
lists and takers. Does the inhabitant
of Manhattan really think that the
readers of Memphis and Denver clamor
for the Good, the True and the Beauti-
full? In the course of the last month
l have talked about tJurgen' to a dozen
booksellers in small cities Of the West
and South and in no place have l found
the excitement against it that seems
TO be current right here between Green
wich Village and the Harlem River.
And in no other center have / heard
the books salacious features (if thew
are salacious) so discussed as here
to the pitiful exclusion of its wit, its
fantastic qualities and its occasional
beauty. New York, which takes Amv
Lowell and Kreymborg seriously. hasn't
SO much wherewith to reproach Grand
Rapids when it comes to gaping at
mountebanks and staggering over bare
legs. l grow more and more inclined to
the belief that the largest collection of
the Menckian Boobus Homo is to he
found here and not in Moline, III, Fur
ther, I wonder if my neighbor in the
lmagist beard who decries 'Harper's'
and The Saturday Evening POST as
purveyors of warranted pure and senti-
mental mush ever reads those publica-
tions? Or isn't he taking his last ladv
dlnner partners word for something? I
nave lately seen, in both, tales rather
more lronlc and sharp than the AVERAGE
artful Greenwich Village sheet puts
forth-and l don't think the moral con.
tent OF Mrs Gerould, Mr. Hergesheimer.
MIR. Steel and Mr.. Beer has much to
40 with life as the New York wit
lmagines it desired by the virgins Of
Detroit, Cheyenne and other points
west. Still, as l sighed above, New
York can learn. 1t may get converted
some time or other. In the manner Of
Mr.. Wells, one imagines Mr.. Mencken
the last to succumb. One fancies him
dragged to the Altar of knowledge still
Kissing, 'Pishposh, Yokel and Boobus
Americanus" under his breath and st;l,
convinced that w. Allen White ia the
idol of Western America"
Perhaps" writes Sparkes, "vou.d
like to know what a Communist reod.,
after he reaches Ellis Island. lamned
IN bundle of books addressed r.
Stocky Max and lying in pile of bao-
gage on the immigration station ferrr
these titles: The Astounding Amer.
cam Selections From the snecta+or, !,
julius Caesar The Merchant of Venice 4,
Summer by Edith Wharton and .rh.
BUSINESS Letter Writer"
1e Is also interesting to know nov
haps' that no "Rcds" were ever denortaa
from Gilead, but, for that matter 49,
was no bomb in Gilead.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
Books

In spite Of Oliver Lodge, Conan
Doyle, Maurice Maeterlinck and others
who would chart for us, with some de-
gree of defnteness, the land beyond
death, James Branch Cabell has come
closer than any of the rest to ex-
pressing the feeling of Immortality
which is in most Of us. We are re-
ferring to the chapter in "Jurgen"
called "The Brown Man With Queer
Feet" in which Jurgen, the hero, is
threatened with extinction by a char
acter who may be Fate or what not.
"None the less," says Jurgen, "I
think there is something in me which
will endure. am fettered by cow
ardice, I am enfeebled by disastrous
memories and l am MANNED by old fol-
lies. Still, seem to detect in myself
something which is permanent and
rather fine. Underneath everything
and in spite of everything, really do
seem to detect that something. What
role that something is to enact after
the death of my body and upon what
stage l cannot guess. When fortune
knocks | shall open the door. Mean
while, tell you candidly, you brown
man, there is something in Jurgen far
too admirable for any intelligent ar
bitter ever to fling into the dustheap.
am if nothing else, a monstrous
clever fellow, and 1 think l shall en-
dure, somehow. Yes, cap in hand goes
through the land is the saying, and
believe | can contrive some trick to
cheat oblivion when the need arises"
says Jurgen, trembling and gulping,
and with his eyes shut tight, but even
so, with his mind quite made up about
it. "Of course, you may be right, and
certainly ! cannot go 80 far as to say
you are wrong; but still, at the same
timc"-
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
The Profitable Hen

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: have been reading a few of
the letters in The Tribune regarding
the cost and selling price Of eggs in
this day Of high prices, and l give
below actual figures for my own "back-
yard flock" Of fifty hens for the month
Of December, 1919:
80 hens laid in the month 81
dozens Of eggs at 81 dozen. $500
800 pounds Of feed at $420
nundred ...........--..-... 21.00
Profit over cost of feed alone. S31 90
In the good old days, say, twenty
years ago, the same number of eggs
would have figured out about as fol-
lows.
52 dozens Of eggs at 80 cents. :. .s15. go
600 pounds Of feed at $1....... 500
Profit over cost Of feed alone. $1,000
According to these figures. the profit
IN producing eggs to-day is almost
three times what it was long ago.
AND yet 1t is a fact that farmers and
small poultry keepers have given up
the business in very largo numbers,
because, they say, "feed costs so much
there Is no profit In keeping hons"
ARTHUR p. FAIRFIELD.
Hanover, N. H. Jan. g, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07

Has your column space to shelter
some remarks from one driven by hon
esty to admit that he is both provin-
clal and motor salesman 2" writes c..
Hewitt Cheney. Last night, seated
behind group of three metropolitans
at the play, l got the full benefit of a
conversation about Cabells .Jurgen.
The central figure was tall person.
age, possibly celebrity, as his friends
gave him the sort of attention that
suggests an upspoken Cher Ma1tre,
and he wore a beard which may be
lmagist or Futurist. His voice echoed
with the fine freedom one ascribes to
the tea lions roaring. Jurgen,' quoth
he, will be suppressed by rural Amer
lea. 1t is too great and too bold a
work for the darkened American mind
to grasp. 1t is too subtle and too
lovely. The Grass Puritanism of the
West, the Middle West and the South
will squash it. The small-town Y. M.
G. A. will function against it. Oh, he
moaned, when will light break on this
benighted land? Here is work of
art as great as Remy de Gourmont's
Night in the Luxembourg and a gang
of corn-fed school teachers and people
whose standard Of literary art Is made
up from 'Harper's' and The Satur-
day Evening Post will tread it under
foot. Outer America, he shuddered, is
too pure
Taking ono consideration with an
other, this person seems to be the type
Of thinker among the intelligentsia
that does more harm to the production
of literature in the United States than
any other. Letting pass the insult to
Mr.. Cabell implied by comparing his
excellent volume to the stale, stained
glass drivel Of tho dc Gourmont tale.
it is almost time that the New York
wit woke to the fact that outer America
likes, roads and demands immoral art
IN letters. Some Of the magazine pub
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07

doubt that the voice Of Theodore
Roosevelt would be emphatically
raised for the ratification Of the
treaty of peace with about such
reservations as have been prepared.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
A Prayer for 1920

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
o'i; May our next President be nom
partisan. May he fill his Cabinet w;th
business men of brains. This INV
prayer and only prayer.
NJ l.. LENGYELA
New York, Jan. 4, 1890.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
Our Parting Words
fFrom Tho wasA;rot,.. y.

's.0'n lno Washington Post)
nsae ~, 1912 you peace faker, pro-
hibitionist, Bolshevist, strike aritator
destroyer Of exchange, sugar proAtesr
wood alcohol fend, bankrupt. hypo-
critic and universal knockcrl
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1920.

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New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
The Diary ofO Own Samuel Pepys

January 3-Lay late, and did arrange
my books in the new cases, which are
come. But it takes more time than
had thought it would, forasmuch as
| find myself opening books I had not
looked into in many years, and read
ing for an hour; SO it consumed all
the day, but I enjoyed it greatly. To
j. Toohcy's in the evening, and played
at cards till late, and won small
sum, albeit II. Ross taunted me with
my inability to win, saying he could
play better than |, albeit he lost what
it would have taken him six months
in the army to get
4-Up, and placed the rest of my
books in order; and my little cozen
Aline to dinner, and l took her to
skate, which she does prettily and
bravely. To H. Swope's to dinner, it
being his birthday, and Kate and
Marjorie there, than who none I love
better to see; and II. did ask US DR..
Cranes questions on general informa-
ton, but who wrote "The Greatest
Thing in the World" I did not know
nor ever had heard Of. Nor can I
find out aught about it in any book
have.
5-Vcry cold, but up early, not hav
ing the hardihood to let my wife rise
and close the window. Clara, our
new handmade, is the first ever we
have had that cooks the bacon as
long as ! like. At the office all day,
and in the evening with my wife to hear
"lolanthc," full of delight found it. and
thraled again by Miss Gladys Caldwell
Also Miss Edwards very good, albeit she
should not say claws" when she means
claw; and Mr.. Peacock should learn
correctly the words In "When Britain
Really Ruled the Waves" nor should
he say "intwalectual." Home, and had
Il beaker of milk and to bed
6-To the Office, and payed some in
surancc premiums, which left me without
any money at all, and depressed. At my
desk all day, and home to dinner.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07

We wonder if the apothecary who
filled the prescriptions written by
Cary Grayson also got the Navy
Cross.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
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New-York tribune., 1920-01-07

Rupert Hughes's verses, written at
the age of 7, were necessarily less
mature than those (Rrst printed in this
Peristyle Of Prosody, b. the w. by Miss
Phyllis Duganne when that gifted young
woman was only IL. Her poem began
Oh, little town Of Scituate
You are my native town.
If l grow up to be an author
You will be of great renown.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07

Just why tickets should not be sold
at $40, or $40, apiece, we cannot see
The sugar folks, the landlords, the res
taurateurs, the paragraphers, get what
ever they think they can for their
products. If there were 100000 per-
sons who wanted 100000 newspapers
every morning, would the price remain
at &C.? Not unless the newspapers
could print 100000 copies. And the
capacity of a theater is limited. Some
night 5000 persons may want to see a
play playing at theater whose capacity
is 1852. In a perfect world, the price
would remain constant; but in p. W.
there would be no poor shows, and
enough good ones to go around.
In a p. W., also, there will be no anna
teur economist, like us, whose ratiocina-
ton, in single paragraph, is as un-
stable as bowlful of jelly.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
SUBSCRIPTION n.rrs-s, u.u ,,.n,,,n,

GUARANTY
you can purchase nefchandlss advertised In THE
th'6uNE With absolute safsty-fsr IL dIssatisfao.
tien results In aay case TINE TRIBUNE guarantees
. pay your money back upon request. No rcd tape.
Nc aainbiIns. We mako coed promptly u the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07

When man pays speculator $40
Tor theater ticket says Mr.. Sam H.
Harris, "it is impossible to make him
think the manager is not in on the deal"
We don't believe the manager is in on
the deal; but until it is possible to go
to box office and buy good seat for
successful play the public is going to
De skeptlcal of the managers sincerity
when he says he is trying to serve the
public. If man is willing to buy
seat at the box Office two months or
three months ahead he should be al
lowed to do so. eve are sold out to
March ~ says the treasurer. "Give me
seat for March g." says the purchaser
"None on sale," says the treasurer.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07

The Great Connecticut Refinement
He had broad face and whist that wns
ample,
Which shook. when he laughed, like a gela-
tine sample. L.C. r.
He had broad face, and I'm lanr,aue
meticuous)
His diaphragm throbbcd to reactions ridden.
ious. A. p. r.
He had broad face and a front elevation
Vibrating responsive to each cachinnation
c. 7. Roof.
Many n subway door advcrtiscs It's
sympathy with the unrest. You know
THIS DOOR NOT WORKING.
r. r. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
The Coming Tower
Footlight Motifs
Gladys Caldwell in "Iolanthe"

Gladys Caldwell In "lOlanthe"
None shall keep my pen iron
praising,
In an unrestricted style
And in euphemistic phrasing,
All the splendor of thy smile.
l the fame, and thou the taper;
l the tide, and thou the time;
l the pen, and thou the paper;
l the poet, thou the rhyme;
l the laurel, thou the glory;
| the flute, and thou the theme;
the reader, thou the story;
| the slumber, thou the dream.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07

Gladys, lest thou nakest fun of
What is printed here above,
Let me tell thee thou art one of
Only fifty girls l love.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07

This is growing to be the land of the
free, untrammeled, and dangerous "Red"
and the home of the brave, dauntess De-
partment Of Justice agent.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
I am Young

am Young
Happiness grows like grass beneath my feet
Happiness flows like n girde from my waist
Happiness runs like black dog at my side
10 remember the lyric path that we have
traced.
When I die. leash a swift dog to guard the
grass,
Lest 1t follow me into the earth.
Then put girdle across my lips
To catch my mirth
HLDEGARDn FLANNER
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-24
MAIN CANAL GOES
OUT WEST OF TOWN
Hope to Have Break Repaired
this Week-ShutdOwn will
Probably Kill Weeds


A section of the embankment where
the main irrigation canal circles the
hill west of town above the Halvor-
son and Cranmer farms, gave way
Wednesday forenoon and as a result
both the Valley and the Highlands
will be without irrigation water for
several days. A large repair crew is
at work and it is expected that irri-
cation can be resumed by the last of
the week.
The break, which is not in any new
work, is supposed to have been caused
by gopher hole. 1t is not thought
that damage to growing crops will be
serious and that the few dry days will
probably result in more good than
harm to the farms or the extreme low
er valley. For nearly week before
the break it had been impossible to
maintain deliveries In the lower val
ley on account of the growing weeds
in the canal. Unless the weather con-
tinues cool and cloudy these weeds will
be killed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-24
LOCALS LOSE TO SUNNYSIDE

The Kennewick-R -Richland team drop
ped another game Sunday when they
met Sunnyside on the home grounds.
The visitors started the game by put
ting two runs across in the first in
ming as result of errors. After that
the local team frightened up and held
Sunnyside scoreless until the sixth.
The locals started the fifth by putting
three men on bases with nobody out
The rally, however, netted only one
run. Sunnyside put one across in each
the sixth and seventh and circled the
bases for seven in the eighth. Yedica
pitched a good game and held the WIS.,
itors down to a few scattered hits un-
til the eighth when combination of
heavy sticking and errors brought dis
aster. The final score was 10 to 1.
Sunday the local boys play at Pros
ser. %:
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-24
TYSON HOME IS SCENE
OF DOUBLE WEDDING
Dual Ceremony Unites in Marriage
Brady Tyson and Miss Pritchard
and Mr.. Bushell and Miss Tyson

A very pretty double wedding took
place Sunday afternoon at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Brady Tyson, when
their son Brady Tyson, Jr., and Miss
Nellie May Pritchard of Modena, To-
wa, and their daughter, Miss Lena
Eleanor Tyson and Leonard E. Bush
ell were united in marriage by Rev.
A. B. Hotchkiss, pastor of the Con-
gregational church.
Both brides were charmingly dress
ed; Mrs. Bushell wore gown of white
satin, with shadow lace; Mrs. Tyson
was dressed in beaded georgette OF
deep cream color. Both wore wedding
wells held in place by c;usters of crr-
ange blossoms and carried beautiful
boquets of roses.
Following the ceremony a wedding
dinner was served, feature Of which
was large wedding cake which had
been sent from Moderna, Iowa by Mr.
and Mrs. Pritchard, parents OF Mrs
Tyson.
The happy couples left for Spokane
where they will spend their honey
moons, after which they will return
TO Kennewick to make their homes.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-24
NON -PARTISANS
HOLD CONVENTION
Knute Hill is Delegate to State
Convention and BentOn's Can
didate for Congress


At the county convention of the non
partisan league held in Benton City
last Saturday Knute Hill was chosen
as Benton county's delegate to the
state convention of the triple alii-
ance which meets in Yakima June 10.
One of the purposes of the state con-
vention will be to endorse candidates
for state and congressional Offices and
Mr.. Hill was instructed. to cast his bal
lot for himself for congressman from
this district and for E. E. Bowles, of
Prosser for lieutenant governor.
While the convention indulged in
considerable informal discussion of
candidates for county and legislative
Offices, official endorsements were de-
ferred until after the state conven-
tion. The names Of A. S. Goss and Jos.
Gerards are being prominently men,
toned as possible league Legislative
candidates. For the county Offices
there seems to be as much of short
age Of candidates in the league ranks
as in the ranks Of the two old parties.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-24
NO MORE DARK NIGHTS AT
KENNEWICK SHOW HOUSES
Remodelled Princess Opens Saturday
and Liberty will Open on
July 3

Kennewick is no longer showless,
After two weeks Of darkness the Prin-
cess Theatre doors We're again op-
ened Saturday evening and the public
showed its appreciation by packing
the house for two shows.
Altho in the same location there is
not much left of the old Princess. The
grade of the floor has been changed
the seating capacity enlarged, new
seats installed and an entirely new
front put in. Altho shows are being
given without interruption the i'm
provements are still in progress. When
the work is completed the Princess
will be one Of the most attractively
appointed little show houses in the
state.
The finishing touches are now being
applied to the furnishings and inter-
ior decorations of the new Liberty
Theatre. Manager w. A. Baker, how
ever, has delayed the opening date un-
til July 8, SO as not to conflict with
the Chautauqua. A special opening
program is being arranged and will
be announced next week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-24

cry other worthy project for the past
10 years, seeing its value to the en-
tire Northwest. He declared that any
project involving increased food pro-
duction was one that would be of per-
sonal benefit to every resident Of the
nation.
About two-thirds of the irrigable
area in eastern Washington, he said,
is embraced in the Columbia Basin
project, which covers 2,736 square
miles and is the largest single irriga-
ton project in the world. He assert
ed that when fully developed the area
will support population equal to the
present population of the entire state,
and that it would increase by more
than a half the total taxable wealth
of Washington. It covers areas in
Adams, Franklin, Grant, Spokane and
Walla Walla counties.
The water for irrigation would be
Continued on page Sky
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-24
MOULTON SELECTED
TO DRAFT LAWS
State Reclamation Board Rec0g.
nizes Ability of Local Att0r-
ney in Irrigation Matters

The state reclamation board an
nounced last week that it had en-
gagged M. M. Moulton of this city as
special investigator to draft irriga-
tion legislation to be presented at the
next session of the legislature. Al
most simultaneous with this announce
ment came the statement from E. F.
Blaine, chairman Of the Washington
Irrigation Institute, that Mr.. Moulton
had been selected to do similar work
for that organization.
These appointments come as re-
suit of the state wide reputation which
the local attorney enjoys as an au-
,thority on the legal phases of irri-
cation within this state. No other
man perhaps has had SO wide exper-
fence in interpreting the state laws
and directing irrigation procedure
under them as has Mr.. Moulton. As
attorney for the Columbia, the Ken
newick, the Richland, the White Bluffs
and the Alfalfa Irrigation districts
he has acquired a fund Of practical
information which will doubtless be Of
great value to the state board. He
was one Of the first men to recognize
and point out the inadequacy Of the
states irrigation laws, especially the
lack of provisions for facilitating the
marketing of irrigation securities. And
it is in the hope that some Of these
defects might be corrected that the
state board and the state institution
has selected Mr.. Moulton to prepare
new legislation.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-24
REV, HOTCHKIss TO BOSTON

Rev. A. B. Hotchkiss left Monday
for Boston, where he will represent
the local church at the international
Ter-Centenary council Of the Congre-
gational church, which will be held in
that city from June. ~ to July 2
Eight hundred. American and three
hundred foreign delegates will be in
attendance at the meeting which cele-
brates the landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers three hundred years ago.
While in the East Mr.. Hotchkiss will
visit his parents at Waterbury, Conn.