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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-03-04

poverty. Her face Is deeply lined
trenches made by suffering Her eyes
are downc1sf and dead. Hope futters
weakly In her breast faith has faded
from her soul. Her home Is house
of darkness. The fire on the hearth
has turned to cold gray ashes. The
kettle no longer sings. It means. Her
mind Is weary, her body Is wasted.
Hunger has robbed her Of her strength.
Her stockingless, shoeless feet are
blue from the cold. Her lips wear
starvation color. Ice In the winters
wind Iashes her shlvering. half-naked
body. She mumblss ~ she stares va
easily into sspace--she II tired, so
tired. As beheld her II seemed to
me that q face 70 troubled and sad
must never have known 4 smile.
! listened to her muttsrings. found
that she was counting. Over ard over
again she counted on her thin, tired,
worn hands--she was counting her
dead
Thinking Of Her Loss.
She was thinking. Her eyes looked
over the hundreds Of thousands OF
square miles Of war zone, slashed
with trenches, pltted and pockmarked
by shells. She sees where they fell.
No tears are In her eyes. Long ago
the hurt had reached the point where
tears dry up. Row upon row, line
upon line, mile upon mile, white
painted wooden crosses mark their
graves. For the most part they were
her youngest born. her most beloved,
Who dug deep In the soil to sleep for
,ver In the dark dugoufs.
Az they fell bleeding from steel and
cad. choking from gas, writing In
Igony from fire. they proved In the dy-
ng word they spoke that they were
mere boys. as they had shown In their
lighting that they were brave men. To
he peoples they intrusted their mes
age. and the red peoples remember
he last word of Europe's dying sons,
Who went out Into the great beyond
With this last word on their lips, |
Mother"
She has finished counting; an ache
through her bent body. She
ighs and sobs, Seven and half mill
lon Of my sons are dead"
Her thoughts turn to the living. her
rms open TO receive them, she holds
hem to her heart. They have come,
Ut how?
Some with slghtless eyes, doomed TO
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-03-04

There are people who never have a
movement Of the bowels without it is
produced by . cathArtic. Most of them
have brought that condition on them
selves by the use Of mineral waters
and strong cathartics that take too
much water out Of the system and
aEgravate the disease they are meant
to relieve. A mild laxative tonic like
Chamberlain Tablets affords q gen
tie mOvemert Of the bowels that you
hardly realize has been produced by a
medicine, and their use is not so likely
to be followed by constipation.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-03-04

Public Shines for Turk Women.
1t Is quite customary now for Turk
lsh women to have their shoes shined
at the public stands In the streets.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
satisfaction. remarked: ain my opin-
ion it would be unwise for America to
enter the league Of nations"
A Versatile Novelist

Charles Neville Buck, whose latest
novel, "The Tempering.' a story of the
Kentucky mountain folk, the living
prototypes of our pioneer ancestors.
has established him as q serious and
able portraycr Of American life, is a
very versatile man. Although still
young, he has practiced and abandoned
many professions before becoming. as
he says, IAN irredeemable novelist. .
Like most writer's, he served an ap-
premiership as a newspaper man. Then
law attracted him as a career until he
practiced it. After forsaking the bar
he became cartoonist, later a land
scape painter. When he started writ
ing novels he says he discovered that
all his past experiences had been good
training, for the writing business COM
bined all the professions he had ever
tried.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Commander Reed Honored

Commander Albert C. Reed, who
with Commanders G. C. Westervelt and
Il. c. Richardson, has written the ac-
count Of the developments Of the NC's
and the transatlantic fight of the
Lame Duck published this month un-
der the title "The Triumph of the
NC's" doubleday, Page g. Coz, was
recently the guest of honor at ban
quet given to the commander and crew
of the NC-4 By the Aero Club of Texas.
Avlators from all the flying fields near
Houston flew in formation down the
snip channel to greet tho NC-4 as it
came up from Galveston. Among the
500 guests at the banquet wAre Reed
G. Landis, the second American ace, and
Lieutenant Harold G. Peterson, who
was lost in Mexico and held for ransom.
Members of the crew were presented
with handsome gifts and Commander
Reed with chest OF silver.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
w hy Men Strike

Samuel Crowther's new book. "Why
Men Strlke,' is published by Doub ble-
day, Page & Co. Mr.. Crowther is a
sound economist and an authority on
the relations of capital and labor, both
in this country and in Europe. In this
book he points out the notable fact
IN connection with many Of the recent
strikes, that the men strike first and
tken later, with not a little difficulty.
uncover what are their grievances. 1t
is his conviction that the real cause Of
the present unrest lies in the miscon-
cepuon on the part of not only the
workers, but also the employers, of the
real function and ownership of capital.
The strikes are against capital as such
and are due TO the feeling that the
fruits Of labor are unjustly distributed
and that in the industrial organiza-
ton capital gains everything and labor
nothing. His conclusion is that the
possibility Of death struggle between
capital and labor can be averted only
II the margin of labor's wages be
returned to capital; thus, when all
are capitalists the ground for profound
difference between employer and en-
ployed Will be removed
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
"Efficiency Edgar

CTUDENTS of amatory technique
and lovers Of hght-hearted fiction
(the two need not be mutually eX-
clusive) Will find instruction and enter
tanment in Clarence Budington Kel-
lands efficiency Edgar" (Harpers).
Here are three short stories which
demonstrate what correspondence
course in the science of efficiency may
do to make man healthy, wealthy and
married, and together they form one
of the brightest bits of genial bur
lesque published in recent years.
Edgar the Efficient decided that q
weekly salary Of $50 and an estate
valued at $4,000 was sufficient excuse
for him TO wed, and that his lovely
neighbor, Mary Pierce, was adequate
proVocatlon.
"She was young woman any man
would be proud to be seen with in pub
| lic," records Edgar. mo home can be
truly efficient if the husband cannot
feel q degree Of satisfaction in the ap-
pearance of his wife. Mary Pierce was
all that could be asked. Her equip
ment in this line was of the most mod
ern and satisfactory type"
BY revising his strict daily schedule,
Edgar succeeded in finding time for a
courtship planned on the most up-t to-
date principles of salesmanship, which
included an ingenious series Of follow
up letters aud reminders. His most
forclble selling point appears to have
been H saXophone which he mastered
to demonstrate his superiority over a
guitar-playing rival Any one who
studies this instrument and practices
by the open window as Edgar did
should be condemned to marry a lady
Jazz drummer, but eventually Edgar
clinched his sale and, Of course, Mary
Pierce.
The story Of the effect OF efficiency
on Edgar's home circle is somewhat
less amusing than the courtship, but
Edgar's efforts TO train Edgar Junior
along efficiency lines are fascinating.
Every one who ever was or ever hopes
to be a parent should read this book.
Farcical as it is, it has universal
appeal.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
An Omniivorous Critic
Ezra Pounds 'Instigations" Work of Pro
found ErudtiOn

adequately "1nstigations" in the con-
fines of a column or even two columns.
The essay on Henry James alone a
clear. we'll reasoned discussion Of that
masters Works-would furnish mate
rial for several thousand words of com
mcnt Much typewriter ribbon could
be consumed in combating Mr. Pound S
cnthus asm for James joyce and Wynd-
ham Lewis, both OF whom he rates
above Wells, Benaett and Hardy. His
puff for George S. Street, his praise
for Nina 10y and Marianne Moore of
the "Others' sorority for producing
something distinctly American in quail
lty' (the basis for tn s argument seems
to be that "anothcr author has been
reading French poets, and usin~ words
for the communication Of thouGhts''O -
Even to catalogue Mr.. Pounds In
stigations' is a space consuming task
The reader who IS interested in radical
tendencies N modern literature will
do we'll to become acquainted with Ezra
Pound. He is worth knowing, ever
though one is tempted TO hit him owe.
the head with bulky volume OF
TcnnysOu.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Praise from a Senator

81 wish that every member CT the
Senate could read this book
This remark was made by Senator
Frelinghuysen in a recent speech be-
fore the Senate and he was referring
to "Creative Chemistry" ty Dr.. Edwin
Z. Slosson, which the Century Company
published not long ago. After char
acterizing it as "a wonderful book the
Senator went on to read several pages
from this popular explanation of what
chemistry is doing for tho world, using
their contents as effective ammunition
for the argument he was making And
1T all was printed in "The Congress
sional Record"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Our Ships Abroad
Ralph d. Paine Describes
American Sailors
BRITISH sea dog, Rear Admiral


"A Sir Douglas Brownrigg, in his
manly book "Indiscretions of
the Naval Censor pays tribute, some
times with a chip on his broad shoul-
der, to a number of authors with whom
he came in contact during the late war.
The only men who got by him with
complete praise were Kipling and our
own Ralph y. Paine OF the latter he
wrote: "Another charming man and
delightful writer who came over here
IN the late autumn of 1917 was Mr..
Ralph Paine. Wherever he went he
won friends. He saw every single thing
there was to see in the life of that gal
liant tiotllla and never had word CEN
sorod or deleted from anything he
wrote
When we read that bit of sincere
praise we had finished reading Paine S
"Ships Across tho Sea" (Houghton,
Mihin) and were about to write re-
view to open with a comparison of the
methods of "Bartimeus" and Paine in
their sea stories. Brownrigg character
zes much of the work Of "Bartimeus"
as "slush,' rather cruel one syllabled
comment, we believe for this English
spinner of yarns Of the British navy
although a times prone to introduce
strong emotional situations, has sue
ceeded in picturing the men of the
English service, and especially the mid
shipmen, in an individual and graphic
way.
"Bartimeus' is splendid foil for
Paine. Both men are quick to perceive
the value Of an event IN the life of an
underlIng at sea, when that event in
terprets a phase of life on battle
ship or the doings of the average sea-
man ashore. But Paine seems to get
nearer to the machinery Of the glorious
background. Where "Bartimeus" ere
ates moment controlled perhaps too
heavily by the psychology of crisis
Paine builds up to his supreme crest
and then, merged in il, produces q
picture, solution wherein man and
machine are nicely balanced
"Ships Across the Sea- contains nine
short stories of our navy during the
war and while it was in or near Euro
pean waters. All are hctional, purely
but more than one has basis in fact
in some deed that actually occurred
during the war. 1t makes our hear
beat fast and sly moisture to din
our eyes as we find in the pages OF
his book, so effective an evaluation ot
the American sea fighter, evidences OF
endurance, of heroism, of gentle kind
ness spontaneously shown by rougf
natures. "Ships Across the Sea" shoult
receive wide reading. for it gives u,
as no other book to date succeeds il
giving assurance that Old Glory still
futters at sea over men Of the fbe
of Paul Jones and Farragut, yet blessed
with the tender compassion of woman
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
DR.. Gibbons Opposed to League

Dr.. Herbert Adams Gibbons, author
Of The New Map of Europe" and a
recognized authority on world affairs,
recently delivered an address before
the joint convention of the Pennsyl-
vania Library Club and the New Jersey
Library Associa hon. DR.. Gibbons has
only just returned from five years
residence in Europe, and after declar-
ing that he doubted whether the AMIGA
Bile ending of the late conference of
rremiers at San Reno meant more than
a surface peace. because Of Italian dis
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

K is one Of the boasts of many
American critics that whatever
may be said Of native novels,
poems and dramas the American
short story, and especially the Amer
;can humorous short story, is an in
diGenous achievement in which all of
us may take pride. In this form, if In
no other, we have found something that
is not only fine in itself, but character
istically American. So the pundits
say.
Comes TO hand Alexander Jessup's
BEST American Humorous Short
Stories" one Of the latest additions
to Boni & Liveright's excellent Modern
Library series. This compilation hard
l. will serve as evidence to prove the
case in favor of the American humor-
Gus short story Out of eighteen tales
only four or five have distinction, and
we doubt whether any Of these would
gam entry into Mr. O'Brien's annual
year books.
The title Of Mr.. Jessup's collection is
misleading. The book really is an an
thology of representative American
humorous short stories from about 1910
down to the present day. II Mr.. Jes-
sup had lived strictly up to his title
practically every story in his assort-
ment would have been OF recent vintage.
for the best American humorous short
stories are being written to-day. From
the periodicals of this year Of grace
it would be possible to winnow a crop
OF amusing tales that would make q far
more favorable impression than Mr.
Jessup's anthology. Yet "Best Ameri-
can Humorous Short Stories" Is valu-
able work. Handicapped by space lin
itations and by copyright difficulties,
Mr. Jessup has succeeded in presenting
a group of narratives that shows the
trend of American humor over period
Of some eighty years. and that will en-
courage young writer's immensely.
Most of the early stories are of the
slapstick- dialect variety. George Pope
Morris's The Little Frenchman and
His Water Lots (l839) is a semi-pa-
thetic yarn of Monsieur Poopoo, who
invested his earnings in Long Island
real estate only to find that his land
was in the East River. To-day this bit
could not pas the editor Of grammar
school magazine. Edgar Allan Poe's
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Lord Charnwood on Lincoln

Daniel Chester French, the sculptor
of the new statue Of Lincoln at Wash
ington, is reported to have said, In q
recent interview: "Strangely enough,
the two books which influenced my
feelings for Lincoln most strongly were
both by Englshmen, one by Bnns and
that OF Lord Charnwood These biog-
raphies tell the story Of the American
President with a mastery that I have
not found in any American study of the
man. You would think Lord Charnwood
had lived lifetime in Springfield, H.,
his chapters on that Western town are
so alive with understanding" Lord
Charnwood's biography, abraham
Lincoln" is published by Henry Holt
&, Co.. and, according to the publishers,
is now in its ninth printing.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Hebrew Romance
Religious Element Strony
in Sorrows of Mona"
NIfTH all It's romantic and no...
w passages, the Old Tes.sr...

VA "a" All i'S romantic and po..,,
w passages, the Old Tes.sm.,,
has inspired very few meas,.
works OF fiction. One Of tbs,.
"Ahavath Zion" by Abraham W..
which has been translated into Envg..
by Joseph Marymont under tba ,,s.
Sorrows Of Mona" Ma. onal B,.,
Publishers). The author ia deserb..
as a noted scholar; and .he story 60.
gests that perhaps he knew NOR. ~.
tho Talmud than of human natur.
The scene is laid in Jerusalem sr,
ing the reign of King Ahaz. The MA.
is worked out in strict accordance v...
the authors conception ot eira, p.
tice. There is successful crime. hr.
its authors are ultimately visited v,,,
condign punishment. Virtue il go.
down and depressed; but il a An,n.
restored TO honor From the bepi,n,,.
there is little doubt that the innoc.s
and prosecuted Mona viii be vlndlc,...
and comforted and that the good .s4
beautiful young lovers, Ammon .sa
lamar, will be happily united. r..
author introduces few villa rs. bu, h.
never gives them a fair chance to xf.
out their evil desiSna.
The intrinsic interes, e. Sorrow, @.
Noma" is enhanced by : admix,ur. 0;
Hebrew history and rel gon. A,
novel it IS crude and halting.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
South Seas Book on the Screen

Frederick O'Brien, author Of that
romantic record of Polynesian life,
white Shadows in the South Seas" Is
off again for his home in California.
For some weeks Mr. O'Brien has been
staying in New York, where he and
Laurence Langner, of the Theater
Guild, have collaborated on a dramatic
version Of the book. The play will be
called "White Shadows" and will be
produced at the Garrick Theater next
autumn. Mr.. O'Brien's book also will
be made into six-reel film this sum-
mer. The picture will be taken in the
South Seas and the author will aid in
securing a faithful rendering Of the
color and picturesque beauty of his
book
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Broken Germany
Country Seen as Hopelessly
Weak and Disunited

A \ ENGLISH statesman during the
"A war declared that Germany must
be made either free or power
less. According to the observations of
Mr.. George Young, an English diplomat
who spent some time in Germany af-
ter the close of the war, Germany is
now certainly powerless, even if she
is not yet free
Mr.. Ioungs book, The New Ger
many" (Harcourt, Brace & Howe), is
the first detailed account Of the Ger
man revolution to appear n this coun-
try. The authors sympathies are
strongly with the parties of the Left,
the Communists and Independent So
cialists; and he admits that much of
the Old ugly spirit Of Prussian mill
tarism remains to be exorc sed Many
abomina atrocities were penetrated
by the free corps in rcpressing the
Workmen's instructions in Berlin and
IN the provinces. Behind the nominally
Socialist government the power of the
great industrialists, the feudal land
S"'Ni0 anu VIC itliiNil SIS 1cLIdillS III
many respects unbroken. By the eX-
clusion of officers and men suspected
of democratic or radical sympathies
the army has been transformed into an
instrument of reaction.
At the same time, the fear. often ex-
pressed in French official circles, of
revival of German miltarism in its
pre-war strength seems very much eX-
aggerated. lndustrially Germany has
been completely broken by the block
ade and the peace treaty. And indus
try is the indispensable motive power
behind every modern war. Moreover.
the old German unity has vanished
The hatred OF the great mass of the
volunteer forces is genuine and deep
rooted. SO far the reactionaries have
been able to maintain the upper hand
in the sporadic civil war which has
been raging ever since january. 1919.
because most OF the officers and the
best trained troops have been on their
SIDE. But the Workmcn's powers Of
passive resistance are by no means
| negligible, as was demonstrated by
the general strike which brought the
Won kapp adventure to an inglorious
conclusion.
i Mr.. Young seems to have been very
successful IN making his way about
revolutionary Germany and being on
the spot to witness outstanding events.
he glVes vivid descriptions Of the street
, hghtlng IN Berlin n March, 1919, of
, the suppression Of the little Soviet
republic of Brunswick, OF the condi-
tons which prevailed in Bavaria at
the time of the Communist experiment
| Munich. He also discusses at length
'he reaction of various classes of the
German people to the peace treaty.
! his last chapter is devoted to an analv-
SIS of the Weimar Constitution. and
the full provisions of that document
appear in an appendix. Mr. Young's
book is valuable contribution to the
understanding Of modern Germany
written by far minded liberal. 1t
aoounds in passages of keen, salty,
trenchant INSIGHT and observation,
such as:
Weak as it is politically, the present
German governmental system seems too
strong police -ically to be overthrown
by force"
"The strength Of the German rsvo-
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Was II Not Remarkabie7

"The only remarkable thing I ever
did," says Adele Luehrmann, author of
"The Triple Mystery" according to my
friends, was to take q heroine, young
and beautiful, through eight short
stories and never let her fall in love
once. They were not detective stories,
either. | remember them as the pleas
antest work l ever did in the writing
line, because Bob Whiting, of 'Ainslee's,
who ordered the stories, told me to write
anything | wanted to-
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Isn't 1t Funny What Our Fathers Regarded as Funr
Book Gossip
A Professor Reads Mencken

TT 1.s.es. ManchnS hs. ~sn n' an f's sss.2sS s'
IL -Ae In tho ranks Of the enemy. He
is Professor Merrill Dakln, OF tho chair
Of English in the Northern High
School, at Detroit. Naturally enough,
his conversion has brought him to grief.
Some time ago the indignant mother Of
student explained to the Detroit
Board Of Education that Professor
Dakin was reading extracts from Mr..
Mencken's "Book OF Burlesques" to his
classes and demanded that he be
cashiered. Professor Dakin, however,
was not to be daunted. "The whole
thing" he said "is delicious burlesque.
The students seemed to enjoy it i'm
mensely. My object in recommending
good modern literature is to inspire my
students with a love Of reading" The
chapter read by the professor was that
entitled "From the Memoirs Of the
Devil" His fate is now in the hands
of the Board Of Education.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Birds and Man" In New Edition

Alfred A. Knopf has announced a
new edition of W. H. Hudson's "Birds
and Man"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
INNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK author of the Third
Window" published By Houghton. Miflin e CO

luton Is in labor. tts weakness IL
the land"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

ONT be a friend Of q
friend Of Ezra Found
advises the jacket Of
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

7 is one Of the boasts Of many
American critics that whatever
may be said Of native novels,
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
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