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New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

fight for their own pockets A hush
usually follows all of the Rev. Mac
Millan's utterances. General Morier.
too, impresses the gathering eve Of
France" says he, ''love the fallible
thing which is France better than anv
cosmopolitan fatherland." And on the
league of nations, modestly: I'VE and
you together, and the Americans, are
security enough for peace, for though
we are unlike, yet our qualities supple
ment each other and the sum is po-
litical wisdom. I do not like to think
Of my country shorn of her strength
for defense, which is the pride Of every
man and every people, surrendering
her honor to an international debating
society" This, too, is conceded in an
other thrilled hush.
The captain Of industry is a benefi-
cent creature, who regards himself the
shall come into wisdom enough to ad-
minister it for themselves. The land
problem comes up for discussion, too
and it is admitted to have its evil
aspects, but it is granted that that is
the fault of rich absentee owners and
not of such fine, old fashioned land
owners as the Lady Guidwilie Of
Waucht, who carries soup to the cot
tagers.
1t is generally admitted that that
raw, lowering thing which is democ-
racy must be taken in and domesti-
Gated. The new era must be met with
broader social and political assump-
tions. Mr.. Burford and Mr.. Jonas, the
Labor members, are given room in this
circle and listened to with a fatterng
respect. Mr.. Jonas is a workingman
and drops his "aitches," but he is fed
tea and crumpets from the very hand
of his hostess. Cadmus and Harmonic
do not dwell on the satiric aspects of
this picture. The Labor members may
be said to be the pets of the household.
They are touchngly deferred to-and,
anyway, the inference is clear that to
reject the Labor party is to invite
something worse.
The discuss on finishes in a cres-
cendo of harmony in which all the dis
sonances are resolved in a motif of
sweet reasonableness and sung to the
tune Of profit sharing. Nevertheless
in this carefully staged spectacle Of
liberalism there are some curious
omissions The Bolshevist is not rep
resented, not even as lay figure to
be used as a target; there is no one 10
express the discomfort of India, and
the Irish situation is dismissed with
a sde-swipe from the hands of an
American politician. Malone. THAT
poor little island is living in bogus
past and trying to screw some pride
out of it. Ireland hasn't any
thing to swagger about except a moth
eaten ragbag of wrongs. And the worst
of it is that this sentimental grieving
isn't sincere. Apart from a few poets,
it is only the stock in trade of vulgar
careerists."
There seems to be something lack
ing in the sweet open minded reason
abeness of "Thc Island of Sheep" 1t
contains little too much treacle and
too little brimstor to be a good tonic.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

~ 2. DUTTON & co have just
l.. published "Fostcr's Russian
Ban by r. F Foster. the
card expert and author of several
books on bridge and Auction, which
makes known new card game, de-
veloped from crapette, for two play
ers. II is usually nlayed with two
packs of ffty-two cards each, having
backs OF different colors, such as red
and blue, but some players prefer the
smaller pack OF thrty-tw two or thirty
six cards for the sake OF the quicker
action and shorter game. The book
gives. lucid and detailed description
of the principles Of the game and of
how it is played and then carries the
xeader through the playing Of an IL
Illustrative hand in which the text is
still further made clear by half dozen
diagrams illustrating the hands and
progress of the game. Mr.. Foster says
ethat '"in addition TO it's attractions
Russian bank has proved to be a
refuge for the many sensitive persons
who have become a little tired of the
fault finding partners that are so com
mon at the bridge table"
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

~ ioO remember those books
o. youth IN which the pills
Of instruction were pur-
veyed in a thin sugar-coatine
OF story Something of our childhood
resentment at this betrayal still lin
gers-but persuading ourselves that
the dialogue form is an ancient and
honorable method of instruction. and
being concerned with the problems of
e-Vlilzatlon that beset us, we choke
down our irritation and read on in
The Island of Sheep The authors.
Cadmus and Harmonic, address them
serves TO the class of readers to whom
the STRAIN of too continuous thinking
IS pleasantly aileviated by such digres
slons as Mr.. Jonas refused a glass
CT port, leaned his elbows on the table
and collected the eyes of the company
or Presently across the lawn came
the butler, followed by a footman and
a parlormaid with the materials Of
tea" All the thinking in this volume
IS taken we'll diluted in tea.
1t IS the praiseworthy intent of the
authors to pick out of the passion and
neat of the forum representative of
each Of the factions who are warring
over the problems of victory and.
bringing them to some peaceful spot.
TO set them each calmly to celebrating
upon the claims Of the others. This
occasion IS afforded by country house
party at which the hosts, being mem
bers Of that liberal English middle
class which is presumed to be impair
tial, listen in judgment
1t IS indicated that most of these
people, however conflicting their be-
liefs are. are thoroughly we'll inten-
toned citizens, sincerely concerned for
England's 5 safety. Nevertheless, there
are some cranks among them There
is Mr.. Albert Wyper, the progressive
journalist. for instance. He is the rad
zeal intellectual, the theorist who, it
IS clearly enough Indicated is not to
be taken seriously. He is burlesuued
as an absurd figure in glasses with a
-N'.''t entNeiSi'ii+'itt iOl MS ulSpd ICn
case, and he speaks in the standa I'd
terms Of the radical. He believes that
the. obscurantist views of the Junker
parties of all countries continue to
cloud the issues. and mentions that
his faction opposed the war because
il suspected England of not going in
with clean hands. A faint onus of
slackerism attaches TO him, and he is
eXtinguished early in the discussion
There are more robust idealists pres
ent. however. There is the Rev. Mac
MILAN, clergyman, but mans man
for all that. He is mighty fisherman.
democrat in no academic sense, who
fought with his men in the trenches.
He exhorts thus for the safety Of civ
ilization: "l7or Gods sake. do not let
us forsake the complex legacy of the
past for a jerry built usurpatlon of
some raw new class. Let us oppose
Germany's darkness. not her CLEANS
Of light Those who would base the
world on d shallow MARKHAM materialism
are more Prussian than the Prussians.
The Junher creed has more idealsm
than the Spartacists, and the Russians
who fought for a corrupt czardom were
better men than the Bolsheviks who
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
e Spring Tone Is Predominant in the Latest Fiction
Practical stagecraft

ais book. on Shakespeare foa
.cni.v Players" which (. P. Dut-
Co. have just published, Roy
~ takes nothing for granted on the
=; his reader except desire 10
from other peoples experience
xr;sss for me beginner, proceed
se says, IN perfect confidence
:. the true artist is always the
;;.st 10 study another mans state
:. a. fundamentals" There are
-,srx on choosing the play and on
- .,;s;rg to produce IL, on rehearsals
stage settings. on costumes. ac-
. aries. lighting, makeup, music
:, osher phases Of amateur produc-
- Many illustrations and diagrams
..,s types of costume and Of stage
.,;rcs
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
George Won Lengerke Meyer

,, aGeorge Won Lengerke Meyer;
r. II. and Public Services (Dodd
s..N NJ. A. De Wolfe Howe has
...,rucsed an elaborate biography
: man who filed the the Offices
!; Ambassador to Italy and Rus
! postmaster General under Presi-
vt Roosevelt and Secretary of the
r.ev ander President Taft. Mr. Meyer
= type of all-around
,s,jsncy, as business man, administra-
|, and diplomat, which is most often
E:suntered in America.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
biography Of Mcrcier

Charlotte Kellogg, whose biography
Of Cardinal Mercier is attracting favor
able attention, has just sailed for Po-
land to engage in relief work. On her
way she expects to stop for day II
Brussels IN order to present in person
copy of her new book to the Belgian
primate.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

they present decisive evidence in favor
Of the continued existence of human
personality after bodily death. 1t has
been translated by Agnes Kendrick
Gray. THE Vanished Friend has
been translated by Alice Rollins from
that we'll known work Of Jules Thi-
hault, "LAmi Disparu." 1t calls at
tention briefly and clearly to the phe-
nomena, familiar to. peoples in all
parts of the world. indicating the re-
turn of those who have died, states the
scientific hypothesis to which they
have led and the means which have
been employed to reproduce them. Tho
book has a translation by Mrs. Mar
garet Deland
Stevcnson's First Aid to Writers
Learning to Write is the title under
which the Scribners announce a new
book that will probably prove one OF
the most interesting Stevenson books
which has ever appeared. 1t is a collec
tion of everything that Robert Louis
Stevenson says in his books, his essays
and his letters about learning 10 write
In one of his letters to Henley, Ste
venson once wrote that some day hs
hoped to write book, The Art o.
Literature This he never did, bu
be filled his works with 80 many illu
minating remarks, so many observation!
helpful to the writer, that when they
have been collected they make
fascinating book in themselves. N{
writer in modern times has been 81
successful in so many forms of liter
ature as Stevenson, and this book i!
sure to be intensely interesting to ever.
intelligent person concerned with The
art of writing. 1t is announced 10,
publication April 9.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Appleton New Editions

:. .. Appleton g. Co. are printing the
se~enth edition Of Hollingworth S ''Vo-
cat onal Psychology the sixth edi-
ton Of Jordan & Kellog's Evolution
and Animal Life the eighth edition of
George Moore's novel. The Lake" the
fifth edition of Collinss Book OF
Electricity" and the tenth large edition
og Songs the Whole World Sings"
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Multiplied Editions

D. Appleton e. Co. are printing the
eighth edition of Maxim Gorky's novel,
"Mother"; the tenth edition Of Hayes s
"Introducton to the Study of Sociol-
ogy." the 112th edition of the famous
Ollendorf method for learning the Span
nsh language and the fortysecond
edition OF Darwin's Descent Of Man"
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Two Psychic Books

Two BOOKS Of psychic interest will
be published next week by T.. p. Dut-
ton Il Co.~-"Proofs OF the Spirit
Worldv and "rhe Vanished Friend
both transIstions from the French.
The former, by l.. Cheyreuii. is a care
snl and scholarly ANALYSIS Of mum
Der u representative eases reported BY
psychscai research societies for the
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Popular Juveniles Reprinted

Among the Harper books to be re-
printed this week are two popular
Juveniles: "The Dwarf's Tailor" by
z. d. Underhill, book Of fairy tales
collected from widely scattered
sources; and Peter and Ellen by
Gertrude Smith, the happy childhood
adventures Of most @ttr@ct've brother
and siafax
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
South American Drama
Life of Argentine Cowboys Pictured in Three
Interesting Plays

.HE American cowboy, hero of
SO many novels and so many
dramas, is not very poetical
lnd1NiNa1al Al,o,. :.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Book Gossip
\ New Card Game

- p BUTTON & co. have just
H. published Fosters Russian
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
A Surfeit of Sweetness
There Is Not Enough Birthstone About *sThe
Island of Sheep

~ YOU remember those books
OF youth in which the pills
~ OF instruction were pur-
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-12-30
PILGRIM TRIALS REToLD
Sen. Lodge Delivers Grafton At
Precautionary Celebration.
Representative of Great Britain and
Holland Join With Americans in
Ceremony.

Plymouth, Mass.-On the shore of
Plymouth bay, where "the breaking
waves dashed high" when the Pill
grims set foot on Plymouth Rock on
December 81, 1920, their descendants
joined with other distinguished men
of this generation in America, Great
Britain and Holland in observing
with due solemnity the teccentenary
of their landing. The orator was Sen
ator Henry Cabot Lodge, a successor
in representation in the Senate from
Massachusetts of Daniel Webster, who
delivered the famous plymouth Ora
ton" at the two hundredth anniver-
sary.
An address was delivered by Cover
nor Calvin Coolidge, vice president
elect, and a poem, "1%62O-192O," was
read by Dean LeBaron r. Briggs of
the faculty of arts and sciences of
sciences of Harvard university.
Hymns appropriate of the occasion
were sung, including the Landing of
the Pilgrims" by Mrs. Felicia Hemans,
known to every American school boy
and girl for generations.
Senator Lodge gave a scholarly out
line of the Pilgrim story and in draw
ing from it a lesson for present day
America he pointed out that they set
character first sought to give men
freedom both in body and mind" and
tried to reduce the sum of human
misery"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-12-30
New York Banker Advocates
Leyying a Flat Tax on Profits
of Corporations.
FAvORS HIGHER TARIFF
ReapeaIing Of Excess Profits Tax and
Placing Tax on Sales Would
Check %Profiteering He
Thinks.

Observation-Disclosures of a
profits, reduction of the higher rates
on income s%ur-taxes, upward revision
of the tariff and the levying of a flat
tax On profits of corporations, we're
advocated before the house ways and
means committee by Otto H. Kahn,
New York banker, in a comprehensive
discussion Of tax revision legislation.
Mr.. Kahn dwelt at length on the
question of a sales tax, partly in re-
Spouse to indications in the committee
that that sort of tax is gaining in
favor. Chairman Fordney, before Mr..
Kahn was called, said he and several
other members believed some sort of
sales tax would eventuate, but that
they were seeking methods by which
the tax would not be multiplied and
the consumer unjustly taxed in the
final purchase.
AS a result of the chairman's state
men Mr.. Kahn discussed that phase
of the problem. Advocating legisla-
tive provisions which would require
the tax to be made known in each sale
and added to the selling price as a
separate item. Such an arrangement,
he said in his opinion, would check
the proiteering which has resulted"
from the excess profits tax.
In his discussion of a need for a re-
vised taxation program Mr.. Kahn de-
clared that American bushes; could
not experience a healthy growth if the
government continued ION a road of
excessive taxation and continued to al
sorb the life blood of business through
concentration taxes on income and
capital"
Commercial Development Stopped"
He added that the tax burden" had
already actually stopped commercial
development.
What has happened in the past"
he continued, "can reasonably be ex.
pected to happen again in the future.
We have seen the end of this tax plan
and have seer its disastrous results.
1t has forced every business house to
run to banks for credit to conduct bu'
S1neSs, but finally the banks ran out
and the federal reserve board had to
call a halt.
after this came the collapse in
markets. 1t hit the farmers first but
none have been spared and all bust
ness has felt the effects. The retailer
has not been struck to the extent that
I fear he will. You can see from that
what will happen unless the principle
is changed"
One of the means suggested by Mr..
Kahn for lifting the present tax bur
den was a funding of the victory notes
and was saving securities. He urged
payment out of taxes of tho treasury
certificates Of Indebtedness, however,
saying it appeared this could be done
without Inconvenience before they fall
due
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-12-30
Lands RELEASES THIEVES
Federal Judge Refuses to Punish Men
After Wilson Pardons Cattle kinq.

! az S0dSS TlStdSCS " fuIilST wen
After Wilson Pardons Cattle King.
Chicago-Judge X. M. Lands re-
fused to sentence six men charged
with stealing 600 sacks of sugar from
trains in interstate commerce after
learning that President Wilson had
last week granted a pardon to James
j. Dorsey, of Gilbert, ILL.,, known as
the Millionaire Cattle King" Dorsey
was sentenced to eight years in Lea
venworth by Judge Lands after con-
viction of selling several thousand
head f -ubercular cattle throughout
the West under forged papers, repre-
senting them as government tested and
healthy. Lat July President Wilson
cut the sentence to four years At
that time Judge Lands, in open court,
declared he could not understand the
workings of the Presidents mind.
81 can't sentence these men with the
Dorsey thing fresh in my mind" juice
Lands declared in court. Dorsey,s
activities ran into the thousands of
dollars while these men stole only a
few hundred dollars worth of mer.
chandise. I will continue this case
indefinitely.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-12-30
DEFENDS SHIPPING BOARD
Chairman Benson Says More Than a
Billion Has Been Earned by Fleet.

Chairman Benson Says More Than a
Billion Has Been Earned by Fleet.
New York-More than ST, 900, 900 900
in gross revenue has been earned by
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS merchant
feet since it began operations, Chair
man Benson of the Shipping board
said in an address before the Municipal
club of Brooklyn.
While the board cannot show a profit
as large as would have been the case
if the fleet had been privately owned,
Chairman Benson said, this billion dol
lars stayed in this country and but
for the possession of a fleet built by
the government, would have been
spent for the use CT foreign bottoms.
Had there been no nation able to
take up Germany's position when her
maritime power was wiped out, he as
serted, ocean carrying tonnage valid
have been monopolized by Grsat
Britain, whose crying trade needs ma.
turally would have come first"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-12-30
irish GET HOME RULE
Bill Passes House of Lords With
Only Slight Amendments.
Measure Provides Creation of Senates
for Both Northern and Southern
Parliaments.

London-The Irish home rule bill
now is safe and will be placed ON the
state book in a form only slightly
amended from the shape in which it
first left the House of Commons. The
House of Lords, after a brief debate,
agreed to all the amendments made to
the bill by the commons.
The only amendment discussed by
the Lords was that adopted by the
lower house providing if either area in
Ireland refused to set up a parliament
the executive could not make the offer
a second time unless within three
years after June 1 both houses of the
British parliament adopted a resolu.
ton asking for it.
Earl Middleton objected to this time
limit of three and one-half years and
challenged a division on the question.
He was defeated 81 to IA, w%hereupon
this and the other commons amend.
ments were agreed to without further
discussion.
Owing to a slight modification made
in the House of Lords at the sugges.
tiOl VI Lulu ZIG lOTQ
chancellor, the bill again will have to
be submitted to the House of Commons
as a formality and it probably will be
voted over before the royal sanction is
given.
Two Senates Created.
One of the principal changes made
by the Lords is that Senates will be
created for both the northern and
southern parliaments. AS proposed by
the government the question of the
method of establishing the senates was
to be left to the Irish parliaments.
Another modification secured by the
Lords is that instead of the council OF
Ireland being nominated by the two
parliaments, each Senate will appoint
sever of it's members and each Par
lament IS, making 40, while instead
of the president Of the council being
the lord chancellor of Ireland, as pro
posed by the government, he will be
nominated by the lord lieutenant, or
the advice of the Grown.
1t is generally supposed that the
government regards the bill as the ba
sis for future negotiations and will
this idea has reserved the questions o
customs and excise from the bill.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-12-30
Fordney Emergency Bill Wins
Despite Protests of De-
fiant Minority.
VOTE STOOD 1856 TO IS
Measure Is Designed to Protect Some
TWenty-odd Farm Products For a
Ten Months Period-Defeat
in Senate Predicted.

Washington-Over the protests Of a
defiant minority, the House adopted
the Fordney emergency tariff bill by
a vote of 1876 to sc. The vote was
taken after eight hours of debate.
A political analysis of the vote
showed 154 Republicans for, and a
against; 4 Democrats for, and ~
against; 1 Prohibitionist, Representa-,
tive Randall of California, voted for
the bill.
Representative Walter H. Newton,
Explaining his opposition, in a speech
to the House, after he had vainly tried
to have the bill amended so as to pro.
tect contract purchasers of wheat, he
declared that the Measure was a jug
Handled" bill, whipped into shape
hastily without careful study, and that
it Vas so framed as to include pro.
ducts from the South as we'll as the
North, so as to get Democratic as well
as Republican votes, in case of a veto.
Veto Is Expected.
That President Wilson will veto the
bill, in case it passes the Senate, is
in the minds of most of the members
in Congress.
Representative Ellsworth, Keller and
Carss, of Minnesota, were absent when
the vote was taken. All other north.
western representatives voted in favor.
1t was evident, long before the vote
was taken, that supporters of the
measure, designed to protect some
twenty-odd farm products for a ten
months period, had the situation we'll
in hand. But Representative Rainey,
Democrat, of Illinois, leading the op-
position, opened a bitter attack, which
increased in intensity as the debate
wore on.
Opposition speakers charged that the
measure would send the cost of liv.
ing higher, and branded it as class
legislation. Defenders of the bill, on
the other hand, said it would save the
agricultural industry.
Only Way To Bring Relief.
Representative Gardner, Democrat,
Texas, speaking in support of the bill,
said he felt that it was the only way
in which Congress could extend relief
so urgently needed by the farmers.
Representative Garrett, of Tennessee
said he saw in this bill "a determined
effort to divide the Democratic party
and to make members of that party
turn their backs on every principle Of
taxation, for which the party had stood
in it's whole history"
During the day a number of Sena
tors entered the House chambers, and
their presence there led to reports that
they were prepared to talk the bill tc
death in the Senate. Many Republic
cans said they were almost convinced
that the bill would not be passed
there.
Chairman Fordney of the Ways and
Means committee said, in the course OF
the debate, however that he hoped tc
see Congress, at the extra session, sub
stitute for this bill a relief measure
which would remain in effect until g
scientific tariff schedule could be
worked out.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-12-30
"crime Cruisers Launched in N. Y.

New York-Twenty crime cruis.
ers" were added to New York's equip.
ment for shattering the crime wave.
Twenty automobiles, bristling with the
latest automatic armament, carrying
five policemen, made their initial
cruises today. The crews, consisting
of n sharpshooter, one uniformed
man and three detectives, experienced
In strong arm" tactics, conducted in
dependent Investigations and worked
with patrolmen. They are to Shoot Il
kill any criminal caught in the act.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-12-30
400 KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE
Wide Stretches Of Argentina Flooded
Following Tremors.

Buenos Aires-The number of per-
sons dead and injured in Fridays
earthquake disaster now is estimated
at more than 400. This figure is based
an reports from relief parties.
Wide stretches Of territory are be.
ing flooded with water which continues
to spring from crevices opened by the
earthquake.
Relief work is being carried on with
difficulty. Large numbers of tents
sent from Mendoza are furnishing
shelter to hundreds made homeless by
the disaster.