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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
Herbert Snenrer

From "Heroerc spencer. le2C-t92o," by
 George Sarton; in the Scribner
 He was born just a hundred years ago. IL occurred to me that while re- turning to him with reverence on the oc- casion of his centenary, we might take advantage of our pilgrimage to exam inc whether the ideal to which he de- voted his life was a sensible one and how far he succeeded in attaining it. We are less anxious to know the re- suits he arrived at than to test the value of his method. The problem is then: Was Spencer right in trying to do what he did? Is it worth trying again?" Of course, from this new angle, his failure becomes just as interesting as his success, because they help us equally to solve the next practical problem; How can we again do what he did, and do it hetter?
 The life of philosopher is generally less exciting than that of a war corre- spondert or a prima donna. Spencer's life is a very plain one indeed. If one does not insist on quoting the titles of the books and essays, which are the most conspicuous milestones of his ca- reer it can be told in few words He was born in Derby on April 2. 1920. a thoroughbred Englishman. His father, George Spencer was a teacher, a man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
Third R in Afghanistan

fTOfH dH tHSllittT III AlSudnSldN, Dy Ali. c. Jewett, in Asia.
 When I first went to Afghanistan, the Amir sent me twenty boys to serve as apprentices on the electric work. l asked for boys that had been educated in the schools. H. M. frowned, hesitated, and then said, We haven't got" There are schools in Kabul but the Amir had to bribe boys to go to school After they graduated they were asked wheth- CT they wished to be doctors or en-
 gneers, and then they began their pro- fessional careers by being paid seventy rupees month. It was optional with them to work or not to work. Of course, they were all superior to work of any kind. A grammar school boy could have put them to shame in any branch of learning. However. my stu dents could all read and write and knew a little mathematics. They were supposed to be from sixteen to eight cen years old; but some must have been at least forty although they shaved clean and tried to disguise their age. They all came to me dressed in frock coats and equipped with foun- tain pens. After much labor my as- sistant and I piloted them all through the multiplication table. I became so expert that I could say the multipli- cation table crosswise and upside down in Persian. Those who were notoriousiy backward and lazy we punished by making them carry hand barrows with the common workmen They did not like this and would walk along repeating seven times six is chihil u du," etc. If one of the twenty could do problem in mathematics, the rest copied. So one day we gave out different lessons. The answers re- turned were all alike. About the only spur to achievement was to work on their vanity or jealousy of one an- other. And ridicule often brought re- suits that could not be obtained with a stick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
"CANAAN,,

CANAAN By Grace Aranha of the Brazilian Academy; (authorized translation
 from the Portuguese by Marian J. Lorente); Introduction" by Gug lielmo Ferrero; the Four Seas Com pany, publishers, Boston.
 Out of all the considerable literature that Brazil has produced in the last half century, this novel by Graca Aranha of the Brazilian Academy is perhaps the most remarkable. As Professor Fer rero says in his introduction: The per sonality of the author as well as the work itself equally deserves the at tenton of cultivated people. Aranha is writer and diplomat, descended from an old family, and truly repre- senting the intellectual classes of the great American nations. His is an ex- tremely fine mind, endowed with re- markable force of intuition. and on which all the cultures of Europe have eNerted their influence. He has not merely studied and read books, but he has come into contact with life and some of the great problems of man. kind. He was for some time Brazilian minister to Christiana, and afterwards represented his country at The Hague. Relinquishing his post in 1914, he re- turned to Brazil and became one of the leaders in the anti-German move ment that finally brought his coun- try into line with the allies and the United States. He, therefore, knows the world, yet he is at heart a true Brazilian, passionateIy fond of his country, it's beauty and its traditions"
 Canaan" has already been trans lated into French, and has made deep impression upon European critics. It is the story of young emigrant who settles in one of the colonies of Brazil The present edition has been translated directly from the Portuguese by ar rangement with M. Aranha
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
Guarding Overseas Dollar

George E. Roberts in the Nations Business.
 It is a serious matter for an inves- tor to consider that if he places his capital in foreign country. In the event of war between his country and the country where his investment is located. his property will be taken over by the foreign government and probably be sold out under the ham mer, abruptly ending his business op- erations.
 We have seen this done by our own government to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of German property whose owners had been cordially in- vited to establish these industries and who individually had committed no of fense against this country. That policy may be Justified by the law of nations. but it creates a very evident hazard in international investments. It is said that the German properties in this country were appraised, and in no case sold below the appraised value, but that even that method in busting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
SEVEN

and wire, small wheels. and secret chem
 cals The life-size figure, draped in. Oriental garb, supports a zither in it's lap as it reclines on a couch of costly wood From the couch bottom many wires are seen to lead to mass of deli cate machinery in a box below.
 The automaton displays it's greatest skill of course, in playing upon the zither in it's lap. In response to the hu man voice, or to the proper strings of the piano, it plays any one of sixty-three familiar ompositions. Both hands pluck the strings. the right carrying the mel ody, while the left accompanies with the chords In an illustrated article Fopu- lar Magazine goes on to give m<e de- tails of this mysterious mechanism whose skill is almost human.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
Automaton DispIays Skill

Mechanical genius in every age has at simulate the motions of animal, and par
 ticularly of human. life. And seldom has the worker been more successful than an American dentist, who. after sixteen years. has now put the finishing touches to "Isis," a puzzlng woman of wood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
Old Sporting Prints
From American Sporting Prints .

From American Sporting Prints," in the
 Field of Art. in the Scribner
 The term sporting prints bring to memory those British colored aquatints which glorified the field sports dear to the heart of the British gentleman. In the United States. in those early nine- teenth-century days. there was not thu artistic talent nor the tradition of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
Navigation Made Safer

A vessel equipped for measuring it's ex- act distance from land. without compu- tation, is in little danger of running onto known reefs or shoals. Several ships or the British mercantile marine are now using a form of range finder, developed during the war, as an aid to navigaUon, save an article with a full-page illustra- ton in the Popular Mechanics Magazine The range finder is of the astigmatic tyne. the distant object being viewed through a system of prisms and lenses mounted in a long transverse tube, with an eyepiece at the center.
 Agricultural workers in England arc demanding a minimum wage of $l9 per week for forty-eight hours work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01

THE TRANSIT OF VENUS" by John Philip Sousa- Small Maynard
 S Co.,, publishers, Boston.
 John Philip SouSa, in addition to his success as composer of music, has written number of novels distinguished Tor real wit and shrewd observation. Tn "Fhe Transit of Venus" he has given us charming love story of unusuaI flavor combined with brilliant, penetrat. Ing criticism of life, in a strange set- ting.
 THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1919. And the Year Book of the American
 Short Story. Edited by Edward J..
 O'Brien. Small Maynard & Co. pub
 lishers Boston.
 The Best Short Stories of 1919, follow the successive annual productions of Ed ward J. O'Brien, beginning back with
 The Best Short Stories of 1915" and continuing right through until the pres ent time.
 Life" says of MT. O Briens efforts,
 From every point of view-from that of the actual probabilities of reading en- Jcyment to be derived from it by all sorts of readers; from that of the vivid and varied, but always valid, concern ment with life that it maintains from that of technical literary interest in American letters, and from that of sheer esthellc response to artistic Quality-The Best Short Stories" warrant an em- phatic and unconditional recommenda- tion to all. Life.
 Authors, editors, librarians. teachers of English, teachers of short story writ ing and others find it indispensable. Many colleges have adopted the book as a regular feature of their courses in English and short story writing" says the Philadelphia Ledger.
 ''The Best Short Stories of 1919" con tsins among it's numbers twenty stories, among which may be mentioned
 The Kitchen Gods" by G. F. Alsop From the Century,; An Awakening" by Sherwood Anderson drom the Little Review; ''Willum's Vanilla" by Edw.rx Stanton Babcock (From Harper's Maga- zine); "A Night Among the Horses" by Djuna Barnes (from the Little Review); Long, Long Ago." by Frederick Orin Bartlett from the Bellman); Dishes" by Agnes Mary Brownell (from the rlc- tcrial Review) "The Blood Red One" by Maxwell Struthers Burt Grom Scrib- ners Magazine); "The Wedding-Jest," ," by Horace Fish (froin Everybodys Magazinel; Government Goat" by Susan Glaspell 6rom the Pictorial Re- view) ''The Stone" by Henry Goodman drom the Pictorial Review); ITO the Bitter End, by Richard Matthews Hal let Qrom the Saturday Evening PosD, and others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01

Ballou in Boston, is sort of woodcus summary of the Autographed hunting scenes Pictures of game, dead and alive, were a natural corollary-birds, bagged and hung up. by Tait and Palmer, or waiting to be, as in J. s. HilPs "A Very of Quail,' or Palmers Happy Family, Ruffled Grouse" Tempora mutanturl Today the sportsman is beginning to buy dry-points of flying ducks by Frank W, Benson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
A WORLD REMAKING OF PEACE
 EINANCE
"DRINKWATER"

! By w E. B. Dubois; Harcourt. Brace Howe, publishers, New York city.
 companion volume to The Souls
 or Black Folk" dealing with the place 1 of the darker races in the modern
 world. Not a dry contribution to the sociology of the negro problem, but a human document of extraordinary in- tensity and insight, describing the awakened conscience and aspirations of
 the darker races everywhere, how it feels to be a black man in a white
 world, and how the solution is to be i found. not in considering race or color as separate from the problems of work and wage, domestic service, govern ment, sex and education, but as part and percel of them and having no reality without them. Even more than the late Booker Washington, MT. Du- Bois is now the chief spok esman of African blood
 w. E. B. DuBois was born>in Great
 Harrington, Mass, in 1868. of French, Dutch and African blood He is a grad nate of Harvard from which he re- ceived the degree of doctor of philos-
 ophy and then spent two years at the Universities of Paris and Berlin For several years he was professor of sociology at Atlanta University. Since 1909 he has been director of publica- tions and research of the National As sociation for the Advancement of Col ored People, and editor of the Crisis
 He is the author of "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade" The Negro The Quest of the Silver Fleece" and many other books. but 'Darkwater" and The Souls of Black Folk" have a power and intensity all their own, which are certain to move the hearts of men so long as there is an oppressed race in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01

proprietor from his business which he has been years in building up and field which he has been years in developing can hardly be regarded
 as compensatory or satisfactory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
GREEN DUST"

By Edgar Wallace. Small Maynard x
 Co.,, Publishers, Boston.
 Watched over by the indefatigable Mr. Beale, Olivia found herself the center of a conspiracy, far-reaching and far flung, intended to wreck the world What was the green rust? The secret and the strange circle interested in this curious discovery is the center of MT. Wallace S most appealing novel that has yet ap- peared. It is a genuinely powerful mys- tery story, for it takes the reader through series of exciting adventures and piques his curiosity by the divert ing solution of one adroitly handled sit uation after another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
WHERE THE SUN SHINES"

WHERE THE SUN SHlNES By Gertrude Capen Whitney. The Chris
 topher Publishing House, Boston.
 When one recalls the charming books written by Gertrude Capen Whitney, 'I Choose" Roses From My Garden "Above the Shame of Circumstances, "The House of Landell." welcomes most cordially her latest book, entitled Where the Sun Shines"
 The author not only possesses the talent for writing charming stories. but she un- derstands the art of selecting a title which is .'catchy" and arouses the in- terest of the reader, and Where the Sun Shines" follows in the footsteps of it's predecessors, both as to charm in it's title, as we'll as in it's contents.
 Beginning with the opening sentences of "Where the Sun Shines the reader is delighted by this greeting:
 His Majesty Hypocrates Socrates Moon was a worthy king in many ways"
 Sc we are to have a story of kings and wealth untold and "gold mines like tow ering castles standing upon the surround ing plains, and rivers Of liquid silver rushing underground with tn sound of mighty roars. His majesty's audience chamber was adorned with tapestries of fiimy lace, into which, traced with mas terly workmanship, were representatives of wonderful landscapes unknown to higher subjects-all of these upsiue down."
 Pretty word painting, isn't it? And delightful introduction to fairyland in which the characters romp and pirouette atout to the tuneful strains of music and life and love.
 Where the Sun Shines is filled with subtle beauty and virile. strength, this fairy romance Of the little moon prince, who, by struggle and aspiration becomes a Sun-man, enchants with it's dainty charm and enthralls with it's wit. philos- ophy and unexpected touches of drama
 Appealing equally to the imA gination of childhood and the experience of age. Where the Sun Shines will be received with delight by both youthful and ms- tire minds. and will place the writer still more firmly in alignment with such writers as Charles Kingsley J. M. Barrie Aud H. c. Wells.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
1.-THE SHADOW"

By Mary White Ovington Small, May
 nard & Co.,, Publishers, Boston.
 "The Shadow" by Mary White Owing ton, is the story of beautiful southern girl of aristocratic family whom a strange fate has placed in childhood on the doorstep of negro cabin. and whom fate again sends into the white world wien she discovers the secret of her birth tale of the negro in his cabii and the master in the great house as well as of the northern factory and workshop, with sane and sympathetic attitude toward northerner and south erner. black and white.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01

WHAT OUTFIT. BUDDY?" By T. Howard Kelley. Harper Brothers, ~Publshers, New York City.
 Say, Buddy. were yeu there?
 Did you sleep in beaucoup mud an fight the cooties? Did you go over the top in the cold an gray. or lie out with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01

the star shells bustin' overhead? An did you ever go A. w. o. l.. and bunk in barns an get your chow at one O them of stone farmhouses?
 We'll
 Me an O. D. are you an your Buddy an take it from me you'll wanta go along if you start on the A. W. o. L. we went on! It sure was THE little personal conducted tour o France! All you folks who didn't get over for the Big Show, say, just come along! wen give you the chance you been lookin' for!
 Your'n
 JIMMY. P. S.-This aint one O them regIation war books. Nothin' about savin our souls, or maxim the world safe for profiteers, or the League O Nations in it-but a lot about the heluva good time me an o. D. had, just the same as you an your Buddy. J. This excerpt from What Outfit, Buddy" gives the reader a slight in- sight into the jist of this readable and attractive book by T. Howard KaIIaN i.sr which is commended for it's originality and charm.
 "A WORLD REMAKING OF PEACE
 FINANCE. By Clarence w. Barron. Harper Broth- CTS, Publishers. New York City. Ine key-word to the great problems or reconstruction is-money. The au- thor In this keen analysis of the world situation today shows the dramatic role played by finance, from vast ex- penditures in propaganda to subtle ma nipulation in international credit Shows now our problems, from the Russian situation to international competition in shoes and machinery, are problems of finance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
'IN THE SHADOW OF LANTERN
 STREET.

By Herbert G. Woodwork. Small, May
 nard & Co, Publishers, Boston.
 East Is East, and West Is Vest This is the fundamental thesis fthis strik- ing novel, which begins in the Orient and ends in America. The complications which a Chinese viewpoint bring into dramatic love story afford strong real iza tion of the difference between the ideas of the east and west. There are striking scenes, dramatic situations, and ideas which make this story an unusual combination of the novel of drama and of intellect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
"REVOLTl
REVOLT By William H. McMasters. Illustrated. Small Maynard S, Publishers

By William IF. MCMasters. IIIuStrateu.
 Small Maynard & Co.,, Publishers,
 Boston.
 '"Revot," heralded as "an American novel; by William H. McMasters, is a combination of national politics, intel- ligent organization, a fight for the presi- dency of the United States, a clash of wits and finance between the world S first millionaire and his idealistic son, publicity on an enormous scale, politi- cal interest against public incidence, woman suffrage at it shighest point, an attempt to throttle the revolt of intel lect; with a clean, wholesome and dramatic love story running through it all.
 That is the story offered by Mir. w. H. McMasters in Revolt"
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-03-27

Grand Master, Col. E. ID. Jefferson
of Muskogee arrived last Monday at
loo p. NJ. and that evening presid-
ed at initiation of a large class of
novitiates at Flower of Tulsa Lodge
of Odd Fellows. The Colonel also
visited the Tulsa Star office, where
he is always welcome.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-03-27

Keep informed--read the Star.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-15
May II Is Date Of
First Game Played
In Twilight Series

An important meeting Of the Cherry
City Baseball league was held last
evening at the Y. NJ. c. A. conference
chambers, Representatives from
Hauser Brothers. the state house
Valley Motor company Salem woolen
Mills, spauldngs mill and the Y. M
G, A. were present.
The league was formally organized
and definite schedule Of games map
ped out for the season, which opens
Monday evening. May II.
Az games win be played at the Will
lamette field, on each Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday evening. The pub
lie is cordially invited to attend these
games, which are without admission
charge.
The opening game will be played
between the fast nine from the spauld-
ing mill and the well known Salem
Woolen mill team, The team lineups
will be published at later date and
Include many first class players Of the
great American game.
c. Il. knickerbocker Is secretary Of
the new league and James Elvln is
president.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-15
Salem Hooger CIub
Accedes To Request
OF Support Change

Paul B. Wallace, president OF the
Hoover Republican club Of Salem. has
received word from o. c. Letter. sec
retary Of the Hoover republican club
Of oregon asking that the Salem cub
accede to the request made by Mr..
Hoover which he withdraws from the
field in the Oregon primaries. May
21.
Mr.. Wallace has also received in
struetions TO cancel the lecture date
Of Mrs. Jennie NJ. Kemp. who was to
have spoken here in advocacy IF
Hoover. May 20.
While it is too late TO remove Mr..
Hoover's name from the primary
ballots. which have already been
printed and are being distributed;
those who had intended to support
the former food administrator are
given an opportunity to definitely ex-
press their attitude for or against any
of the republican candidates who have
expressed themselves on the league
Of nations subject, according to Mr..
Wallace.
Members of state and local Hoov-
er organization are confident that
Mr.. Hoover will be dominant factor
at the national republican convention
at Chicago.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-15
John Gray, Here
On Visit, Passes
Suddenly Saturday

JOHN GRAY 12s45e G G eR
John Gray, age rs, who came to this
city week ago from his home at
Cottage Grove, 20 visit his daughter.
Mrs. r. NJ. Gregory. 1885 Fairmount
avenue, died at her home suddenly
Saturday morning Mr.. Gray had Just
arisen from bed, dressed and fell ovor
dead. A weakened heart attendant 80
old age is given as the cause Of his
death.
Mr.. Gray was born near Augusta,
Maine, August 22. 1S44, and has
made his home at Cottage Grove for
the Dast A5 years. gYp,
Two daughters. Mrs. Fannie p.
Gregory, Salem, and AIRS, Nettie Lin
der Of san Francisco, and two grand
children, Herbert and vernie Barlow
OF this city, mourn hts death.
The body Is being held at the par
lcrs OF the Rigdon & SON company.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not yet been made.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-15
Support Of Road
Bond Bill Asked
As Economy Step

The only thing in Oregon from
which the taxpayers derive any benefit
without any cost TO themselves is good
roads. according to Charles Hall of
AIashfield, president Of the oregon
Chamber Of Commerce, referring to
the proposed constitutional amend
ment raising the state bonding from
two 10 four per cent to be voted upon
May 2i at the primary election.
"The people Of Oregon should make
This measure carry unanimously" said
Mr.. Hall. Good roads build up the
state and the time has come for US to
get out Of the mud. When the good
road movement was started there were
only $4,000 automobiles in the state,
and now there are $4,000 registered to
date.
Good roads in one community in
spire other communities to build them
and greater effort along the lines Of
advancement should be put in action
at once. The automobile license fees
and gasoline tax are sufficient to pay
interest on and retire any bonds which
may 0C A1oUE0 uAtAtt lA1C HtODUcNu
amendment. and the money from
these bonds viii match federal aid, OF
which s2,e2s.555 remains unclaimed,
as all available funds are exhausted
by being spent or contracted. In ad-
dition, whatever would be apportioned
mnder the proposed bill before con-
gress. which is sure to result In ore
gon having the opportunity to claim
more than s5,Ooo,oOO would be lost
"The cost Of good roads to farm
er is easy TO figure out, but the cost
of bad roads to the same individual is
hard to determine. A farmer living at
Meadow Lake stated that bad roads
cost him SO cents bushel to haul out
his potato crop, which. Of course, is
paid by the consumer at his
table. Never have the market paid
higher prices and the farmers want T.
get their products to market to selL
them.''