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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-28

F. L. Pinet, secretary of the asso-
citation, left this morning for Hays, and
will visit the sectional meetings at
Hutchinson and Independence, as well
as dropping in to look over the work
of the convention in Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-28

The popular superstition that a wo-
man can't go anywhere without a,
Saratoga trunk is again knocked in the
head. Not teacher has been seen so
far who carried more than one suit
case or handbag
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-28

The Fort Hays Normal school will
have an informal reunion and supper
at the Y. W. c. A. Friday evening at
5:45 o'clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-28

An unusual situation arose in the
listing of rooms for the teachers at the
Chamber of Commerce. This year
more Topeka women wanted women
than men as roomers. On other years
men have been in greater demand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-28

"IIave yuh picked yuh out a teach
er yet?" was the general morning
greeting of the lads.' this morning
The lizards were all out early to look
'em over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-28

Mrs. Hattie Moore Mitchell, dean of
women of the Pittsburg Manual Train
ing normal, isfone of the most inter
esting and popular visitors at the con-
vention. The work of Mrs. Mitchell
as lecturer and educator is so much
in demand that her time is engaged
for the whole summer of 1921. Mrs.
Mitchell is the originator of the ex-
precision, "Giggle. gable. gobble, git
as applied TO many social gatherings
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-28

The relation of tobacco to the po-
sition of city superintendent of pub
lie schools was made plain by Supt.
Harry Mcguire of Ottawa today. Nc
Guire was offered a cigar by a state
house employe. Mcclure eyed it Gag
erly, then sighed and waved away the
tempter. NAY, nay" he said, II val
ue my job"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-28

The ukase has gone out that all
Aggies and 'in-laws" of K. S. A. c.
and their sweethearts must have writ
ten excuses if they absent themselves
from the reunion banquet of Shawnee
county Aggies to be held at the First
Presbyterian church Friday evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-28

Window decorators have planned
the displays for every shop window
along Kansas avenue during the re-
mainder of this week with special at
tention to the likes and dislikes and
needs of school teachers. Most of the
stores have put on special entertain
ment or hospitality features rest room
or the like for the benefit of their
teacher customers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-28

The meeting and dinner of alumni
OF Kansas university attending the
teachers convention and living in To-
peka is to be held tonight at the
Chamber of Commerce, instead of on
Friday night, as it was originally
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-05-20
A Complete Thouaht

''Tll make a bet that you don't know
all the words of The Star-Spangled
Banner"
'Don't need to know 'em all. When
! have said; THE Star-Spangled Ban
ner, oh, long may it wave; I don't feel
that any more words are absolutely
necessary"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-05-20

Select your tires ac-'
cordifi6 to tho roads
they have to travel:
In sandy or billy eoun-
try, wherever the going
is apt to be heavy-The
U. S. Nobby.
For ordinary. country
roads-The U. S. Chain
or Usco.
For front wheels-The
U. S. Plain.
For best results
everywh ere--U. s.
Royal Cords. !.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-05-20
Methc, X Eils Actlor

"Bliggins Is always asking. me for
advice"
Yes. He wants to make you listen
to his troubles instead Of his having
to listen to yours"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-05-20
The Origin Of Species.

Village Pedagogue- Darwin says
we're descended from monkeys.
His Auditor-Well, what about It?
My grandfather may ave bin a gorilla,
but it doesn't worry. me.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
History of Journalism

u. Appleton e. Co. will publish this
week volume entitled "History of
journalism in the United States" by
George Henry Payne. The book takes
up chronologically the most important
newspapers from the earliest times to
the present day. Every great editor
from Benjamin Harris to the leaders
OF to-day is given consideration. The
colonial newspaper, the growth of part
press, suffrage and slavery as factorc
IN journalism, the development Of
papers in the Middle West and West
the inauguration of penny papers, the
editors of the Civil War and the Recon
structlon Period, the growth of modern
Journaism' and scores of other simi]a r
subjects receive adequate attention
MIR, Payne is a newspaper man Of wide
experience and his book may be re-
garded as authoritative.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20

which any particular class of workers
may be prevented from profteering at
the expense of the entire working CON-
munlty. 1t is not likely that any Brit
ish labor leader would have been left
as helpless as Mr.. Gompers by Gov
ernor Aliens question about the unlim-
tied right of laovr TO strike
When they speak of workers control
OF industry as their ultimate goal, the
spohesmen of British labor are not ue
ing loose or empty phrase They
have studied the problem carefully;
and they are not inclined to underss-
innate its difficulties. They realize
that the manual workers must undergo
further processes OF self-education and
self discipline, that the cordial CO.
operation of managers and technical
experts must be secured, that a difficult
happy mean between stasnant bureau
cracv and runous syndcalism must be
struck. The most radical advocates of
social Transformation, Smilie and
Hodges, anticipate transition period
of five to twenty-five years before labor
is qualified to assume full control of
industry.
Mr.. Gleasons work contains an ap-
pendlx of some 200 pages. Th. ap-
pendiN includes several important doe
uments of recent industrial history,
such as the Sankey report. recommend
ing naturalization of the coal mines,
the governments offer to the railway
men and the report of the national in
dustrial conference
1t seems quite probable that England.
with it's aversion to violence and its
instinct for constitutional measures,
will become laboratory for the peace
full working out of interesting social
experiments. Mr.. Gleason's new book
provides an almost indispensable in
strument for the understanding Of the
laboratory and the experiments.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
Book Gossip
Origin Of a Prize Story

England to America Margaret
Prescott Montague's story which won
the 0. Henry Memorial Prize Of the
Society of Arts and Sciences and which
has just been brought out in book form
by Doubleday. Page E. Co., is based
upon an actual occurrence. A friend in
Richmond, Va, gave her the idea for
the story. Gas soon as I was told the
incident of how British soldier urged
his chum, just going to Bighty on
leave, to visit his family" said Miss
Montague, In commenting on the story,
and OF how the parents had received
news Of their boys death unknown TO
the visitor, who was stranger to them,
l saw the possibilities Of the circum-
stance.
"My friend then told me that the
soldier was somewhat rcpulsed by the
apparent coldness Of his host and host
ess, and, thinking this was their nature,
he wondered how his chum in the
trenches could be the child OF people
go entirely opposite to his CHEEKY self
Later, ne learned Of their superb self
control in not mentioning their over
whelmng grief, preferring to keep it
to themselves on the principle that
their own sorrow was nothing to COM
pare with the great cause Of humanity
then at stake.
II changed the arrangement, for the
orig nal involved two British soldiers
and the story makes the visitor ar
American aviator: saw much more n
the tale than just pleasing and nm
pressive anccdote. for to me it held q
rare symbolism, capable Of drawing the
two countries closer togcther"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20

probably is the first effort by one who
is famed as a Shakespearean scholar cf
the OLD school.
Mr.. Furness, who has succeeded his
father as the editor of the Variorum
Shakespeare, doubtless is one of our
greatest authorities on the bard, but
his little play fails to reveal anything
new or illuminating. Shakespeare is
shown near the end of his days, dis
gusted because the groundlings prefer
his farces to his serious efforts.
THE ignorant rabble care but for a
comedy or a jig, and I care not for
their praise or what any man may do
as we'll as l." he complains.
"Thinkest thou that Othello, Mac
beth or distraught Lear could suffer
all, and | not feel each pang of theirs ?"
he asks his last collaboration, John
Fletcher. "The child brought forth in
tears and anguish is loved the more,
for with it's coming comes surcease OF
pain-and JOY is in such birth"
He declines to continue work on "The
Two Noble Kinsmen,' saying that no
longer will he write to please the rabble
If the rabble will not accept his TRACE
dies as we'll as his lighter pieces. Sew
eral children, including the youthful
Oliver Cromwell and young Jack
Milton, come to visit the old gentleman,
and their enthusiasm for his work is so
pleasing that his spirits revive. After
predicting that "Noll" will "be King
hereafter" and hailng Jack" as a poet
he cries to his friends:
"The future-aye, the eternal e
lis mine when it can speak and IKE
response in hearts and souls like these"
There the curtain falls
The historical inaccuracies in the
piece are Of no consequence, for so
little Is known of Shakespeare's life
that almost any episode may be as
sumed. But there is something incon-
gruous in the presentation of the hard
ened old man of the theater waxing
lyrical over his future fame and
prophesying the careers of the lord
protector and of the author of para
disc Lost There seems to be more
truth in Shaw's literal snapper up OF
unconsdcrcd trifes,' in Moellcr's con
ceited opponent of Lord Bacon or ever
in the unknown dramatist's Broadway
ish Shakespeare who presents his laun
dry woman with an autographed pic
turc with "What's in name?" in.
scribcd on it. Perhaps Mr.. Furnes!
has written "The Gloss of Youth" t.
defend Shakespeare from the cynca
playwrights who portray him as
small soul. 1t is impossible to write
wholly uninteresting play abou
Shakespeare, and Mr.. Furness's attemp
is not without charm. But it is no.
particularly effective as drama, and j
somehow robs the poet of his human
ity by ovcridcalzing him.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20

good deal Of unemployment and a good
deal of industrial unrest in England.
That this unrest produced very few
serious crises is largely due to the in
stnctive lf-discipline of the British
worker. It may also be ascribed in
large measure to England's freedom
from politicians of the type of Speaker
Sweet. Not even Mr.. Horatio Bottom
ley would be likely TO advocate the ex-
pulsion Of legally elected Labor mem
bers of Parliament or the licensing Of
labor colleges. SO far both sides in
England have played the constitutional
game strictly according TO the rules
"Direct action" is more often dis
cussed than practiced by British labor.
At the Glasgow conference small ma
jority of the delegates expressed them
selves somewhat ambiguously in favor
of the principle. But its application
has been extremely limited. On one
occasion the management of Albert
Hall, in London, refused to permit a
radical meeting to be held in the build
ing. The union Of electrical workers
brought about change Of decision by
cutting off the lights in the hall But
on more important issues the conser-
vative instinct of the British workers
has made them hesitate to use a weapon
which would probably precipitate a
very serious outbreak of class hostility.
Intervention in Russia was denounced
over and over again at conferences of
the Labor party. but it would be a
misstatement to say that labor fore d
the government to withdraw the Brit
ish troops from the Archangel region.
II was the collapse of kolchak, Denikine
and Yudenitch that convinced Lloyd
George and majority of his Cabinet
that intervention was a losing game.
British labor is generally fortunate
in its leaders. Men like Clynes, Hen
derson, Smillie and Hodges command
the respect not only of their followers,
but of the nation as whole by their
clear, honest thinking on political and
economic questions Although Amer
lean labor is more conservative on the
take a more narrow and selfish attitude
in regard to its obligations to the com
munity. British labor recognizes the
necessity for an adjustment of inter
ests between producer and consumer
| for the necessity of some system by
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
Lancashire Plays
Pungent Humor in Mr..
Brighouse's Work

"A Mr.. HAROLD BRIGHOUSE has
lV dedicated the volume Three
Lancashire Plays" Samuel
French, Ltd to Miss A. E. P. Horniman,
the patron saint Of wwhat is now widely
known as the Manchester school of
young playwrights, to which Mr.. Brig
house belongs. In his preface Mr. Brig
house defends the Manchester school
against the charge that its interprc-
tatlon of life is drab. Perhaps, he sug-
gests, Lancashire humor is not every
ones humor-Mrs. Metherell in the
first play, "The Came" might be set as
test Of that. BY that test, or, in
deed by the test Of any of Mr. Brig
houses creations, it would be hard to
deny the pungent, peculiar, idiomatic
quality Of Lancashire humor Mrs.
Metherell Is such woman as Bunty or
the managing young person in Mr..
Brighouse's own "Hobson's Choice"
must surely have become when time
had cleared up the. obscuring mist of
youth and charm which blurred their
outlines. She is a sharply favored
personality-a grim, indomitabc, IL
morous old woman with terrifying gift
for plain speaking. Her meeting with
that other indomtable woman, the in
tensely modern young New Woman to
whom her son timidly inclincs, which
constitutes the principal scene Of "Tho
Game is an encorAter worth watching
"Zack' is character comedy, too, but
of an inferior sort. Zacl1 is sort of
male Cinderella. He is the clumsy
kind, undervalued younger brother in
q family of narrow, petty tradespeople
Tho incidents of tho play are rather
automatically devoted to recording the
triumph Of misunderstood virtue. Of
course, he wins the heroine against his
smart, sharp, unpleasant, favored elder
brother. Though In this play the inte-
grail qualities of Lancashire humol
seem to have been made self-conscious
and Lancashire character is sentimen-
talized, there is enough genuine, shrewc
perception Of local character to save il
from commonplaceness.
"The Northerners" deals with indus.
trial history It's scenes occur in 1920
when the weavcrs rose in revolt against
the introduction Of machinery into the
Lancashire mills. There arc spaciou;
moments in the play-vivid groupings
scenes OF intense conviction. Tho is
sues Of that phase of tho industrin
conflict seem so old-fashioned and re
mote that an unprcjudiced view OF
them Is easy, and yet Mr.. Brighoust
has not fnilcd In rcvitalz!ng them tc
prescn day significance Mr.. Brighous'
has not quite made this into a play
the deadly, limp carly Victorian f.
malo who ia its hcrou- lies like ar
unasfmilntcd lump in the dough-bu
he has at any rate pu. his hand OF
vital dramatic material.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
Business

ocEAM STEAMSHIP TRAFFIC. MANAGE
MENT. BY Grover @. HuebnA Pub
lished by d Appleton e Co, New York.
This book. written by the assistant t
professor Of transportation and com
merce at the University of Pennsyl-
vanla, aims to present the facts, form s.
practices, functions and principles
which men engaged or interested in the
shipping business should know with
respect to steamship traffic manage
ment
THE FOREIGN TRADE OF THE UNITED
STATES By Thomas F. Ford and l..
Cummings Ford Published by Charles
scribner'e Sons, New York.
This work, dealing with the char
actcr, organization and methods of
American foreign trade, is indorsed by
William L. Saunders, president Of the
American Manufacturers Export AS.
eociation.
BANKING PROGRESS u j. Laurence
Laushlin Published by 1harles Serb
ners Song, New York
a xtuGy Of the evolution of banking
principles during tho last twenty-five
years.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
Distance in the East

Among the Mark Twain tit-bits col
lected in Moments With Mark Twain. y
recently published by the Harpers AL
bert Blgelow Paine includes this:
In Constantinople you ask: How
TAR is 1t to the Consulate?' end thew
answer, About ten minutes How far
Is 1t to the Lloyd's Agency Quarter
OF an hour How far is it to the lower
Or'dge" -Four minutes l cannot be
positive about it, but think that thera
when man orders pair of panta
looms, he says he wants them a ouarte,
Oh minute in the legs and nine
seconds around the waist"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
British Tribute to O. Henry

On this tenth anniversary of g
henry's death it is a notable fact tha,
not only America, but England and the
Continent, pay him tribute as the mas.
ter short story teller.
The distinguished British critic
writer and playwright, Dion Claytor
Calthrop, says of him:
Il do not think this man is q small
great man. I feel he is giant. 80
therefore, l may speak of giants in his
company.
10 me the finest short story is the
story of Joseph and his brethren; the
finest novel, David CopperAeld'; the
nnest poem, The Song of Solomon:
the f1nest romance, The Three Mus
keteers'; the finest pamphlet, The Phi.
grlm's Progress.' II I were upon q
desert island-familiar discussion-]
should like to have with me the com.
plete works Of o. Henry.
"He is more Of a Boulevard than INV.
thing else. He has what Dickens had
the power Of putting down a crowd or
paper and giving wonderful Vibration
to that crowd and wonderful characte,
to the background.
Il soak in Shakespeare as I soak ir
the sun | am drenched by great music
as l am drenched by the rain. In the
case of this man I am hurried, eager
staring, as child looks with wonder al
his first sight Of the sea.
This is my poor nosegay, 0. Henry
1t IS laid to your memory as you woule
like tin the Street of journalism"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20

mise and peaceful adjustment
is most admirably ILLUSTRATED d
py the present industrial stu
alton Drastic and far reaching changes
IN the social structure are beinr dis
cussed with minimum of hatred and
bitterness. British lator's vision is
hXed upon new order, in which the
clement of private prof will be largely
eliminated from industry. But it wishes
TO bring about this new order peace
.uliy, through the normal processes of
democratic progress. 1t frowns upon
sabotage and violence. Its ideal is the
Parliamentary electoral reform of the
asst century, which cnfranchised mill
ions of voters without the spilline of a
single drop Of blood.
An extremely interesting and COM
Nrehensive picture of British labor in
the first stage Of this "gentle revolu-
tlon" is presented by Arthur Gleason
in what the Workers Want" (Har-
court, Brace & Howe). Mr.. Gleason.
who has spent five years in continuous
study of British labor conditions, com
Slnes the qualities of an excellent
acholar and a GOOD reporter. His
knowledge of social theories and prac-
teal industrial problems enables him
to arrange his material scientifically.
At the same time he gives vivid first
hand accounts Of the Labor party con-
ventions at Southport and Glasgow
end of the hearings before the Royal
Coal Commission. And his sketch of
Robert Smilie, the miners leader, is
a magnificent Interpretation Of a rug
gcd and appealing personality.
Neither employers nor workers in
England have much reason to antici-
pate an immediate bright future. The
task Of paying for the war, in Mr..
Gleason's opinion, will keep England
poor for at least another generation.
Britain's past supremacy in the world S
markets has been partly based upon
low labor costs. The war has doubled
the wages of British labor; and it is
safe to say that they will never be
lowered again. Ultimately improved
machinery and increased technical skill
will place England's foreign trade upon
a sound basis. But in the mean time
British manufacturers must be resigned
to the loss of many markets.
Since the armistice there has been a
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
Miaccllananus

WONDER WHY. By Milton Goldsmith
Published by George Sully g. Co.. New
York
An attempt to provide an answer for
the lnnumerable questions asked by'in-
quisi.ive children.
AN INDEX NUMBER FOR State
SCHOOL SYSTEMS BY Leonard p
Ayr"r Fubi'shed by tho Russell Sage
Foundation. Now York
A statstical measurement of the
educational standards and achieve
mcnts of the various states
THE history AND POWER OF MIND
lfy Ilchhtd JnRhlrhe. Published by
bodd. Mond a Co, Nnw YORK.
new and revised edition Of n work
which undertakes TO explain the laws
undrr which psychic or montal pho
nomcnA occur.
OUR NORTHERN AUTUMN by Harriet
l.. Keclcr. Published by Charles Scrib-
ner'a Sons New York.
An illustratcd description Of the
flowers, fruits and foliage character
istic Of this season Of tho year
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
1cal British War Histories Hew to the Line of Truth

Frederick O'Brien, tramp, sailor, bar
keeper, reporter and adventurer, is de-
scrbed in q booklet which the Century
Company will be glad to send free to
any one who asks for it. OF Mr.
O'Brien's book, "White Shadows in the
South Seas Rupert Hughes said
"Never have read book in any lam
guage or translation which fascinated
me more than White Shadows in the
South Seas"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
New Harper Books

Harper & Brothers announce that
they have ready for publication next
week George Creel's "The War, the
World and Wilson," in which the erst-
while head Of the committee on public
information discloses such things as
why President Wilson would not let
Roosevelt go to France, why coalition
cabinet was not formed and the why
and how of many other affairs at
Washington during the war.
Herbert j. Seligmann's "The Negro
Faces America study of the race
question. will also be published by the
Harpers next week.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
Bv Arthur S. Draper
,,,., The Tribuaes F,ropedn Bureau
LONDON, June -.

s,,-s The TribuHf : fnropedn Bureau
LONDON, June -.
HISTORIES Of the great war
I'll !: :::: t.: s: :: &: !. $: :: e:
= hedges. but those written by
.s.;sl historians are only Just begin
20 reach the public. The official
.;torian has no worries on the score
: competition, ard then. besides. he
=. mass Of documents to sort and
..nsv which do not delay the average
!storisn.
y- Julian S. Corbett is the official
,;.,orian of the British navy. His
set volume, called Naval Operations" ;"
,.s come from the press of Longman.
ropeh he has written 436 pages, the
...ount of Britain's part on the seas is
,,,noh. down only to the Battle of the
r.tlands. on December s, 1914, when
lsnirsl Won Specs squadron was de-
.,rOved. Much water will pass under
- bridge before the final volume is
,,oduced. but, then, this work is not
isucht out to meet a popular demand.
+ Is intended for the students of naval
urfsre, who are curious for every
f.s detail The casual reader will
,,d that the Admiralty's historian gives
,sdi. where credit is due, and does not
,tempt to hide mistakes or to twist
;;sats into victories-which could not
,rsys be said of writer's in the days
!, hostilities Just why government
,=cials were frequently so fearful of
he public knowing the full truth was
aHcult to understand, especially as
f,i,ons always showed their finest
usli.ies after learning of a serious
averse.
Sir Julian has few mistakes and de-
hats to record in his first volume, but
!. does disclose in q striking way the
urousness of the situation at Scapa
Flow at the outbreak OF war, when the
!Gnnd Fleet hurried there and for sew
nal days was st the mercy of the u