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New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
Endowment for Mothers

How are we going to preserve the
American home in these days of high
rents, the cost of coal, of clothing-the
cost, in other words, of being q family :?
And having family is even more ex-
pensve than being one. Is it fair to
make the having of children, on which
every nation depends for it's very ex-
istence, such a handicap that both par
ents and children in large families
must suffer privation while husbands
who support one or two children get
as much pay and have more money
to spend? The American edition of a
pamphlet entitled The Endowment Of
Motherhood, published by B. W.
Huebsch, Inc, offers plans for solving
this unfair taxation on the next gem
Grafton and suggests ways of adapting
the English sociologists' report to our
problems. The American edition is es-
recially edited and adapted to condi-
t'cns in this country by Katharine
a -;thony.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
A Bear Adventure

M LUEBERRY isn't d nice name for
a little bear, and especially
boy bear, but we don't blame
J. L. Sherard one bit for chosing Blue
berry in preference to Bib. as Mamma
Bear first wanted to call the hero of
his latest book published by the
Thomas V Crowell Company.
The story will thrill children. Blue
berry, on his very first adventure out
in the open fields, sees his father cap
tured and carried away by animals
most bitter cnemy-~man. Left 10 care
for his mother, the little bear braves
the world and provides for her for
nearly year. when, partly through
failure to heed his mothers warnings
and partly through his own careless
ness. he, too. is captured by a farmer
and thrust into a dark prison. He is
not very long in prison when he dis
covers his father. Being a very cum
ming bear, he soon plans their escape,
and it is not long before the three
bears are all very happy again in their
home in the woods.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29

through which we white Americans
have got to save our country, and
among them the free play of class
contribution is almost the first. Saw
these fellows that go jazzipg about
class welfare get my goat Glass CO.
operation is what we want, and it's
what classes come into existence to
give. You can't suppress classes. not
yet awhile at any rate, in a country
full of Inequalities; but what we can
do IS TO get the classes that form
themselves spontaneously to take their
gifts and pass 'em on to each other.
Each works out something that an
other doesn't, and so can benefit the
bunch all round"
The spiritual quality that is always
associated with Mr.. Kings works is
marked characteristic of The Thread
of Flame. Above the play of the mar
rative one is always conscious of the
teIepathy of mems and women's souls.
And there is action, and love. and
mystery in short, all the ingredients
of first rate story. The present
novel may we'll take rank as one of
the very best books that Mr.. King has
written.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
Mrs. Rinehart's Vacation

Mary Roberts Rinehart is a happy
woman She has been spending the
past few weeks at Eaton's ranch in
Wyoming and has thus renewed her
old custom, interrupted by the war,
of spending her vacation in the wilds
riding, fishing and hunting with her
exclusively masculine family. 1t is
three years since the Rineharts have
been able to get together on one of
these famous excursions Even now
the family is not complete, for the
eldest son, Stanley M. Rinehart jr
is lingering in the East with another
Mary Roberts Rinehart-his little
baby daughter. After his discharge
from the army Mr.. Rinehart married
Mary Doran, daughter of the pub
Usher.
new novel by Mrs. Rinehart is
announced for October publication by
the George H. Doran Company. 1t is to
be called A Poor Wise Man, q story
of American life after the war.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
From the Yiddish
Stories of Aleichem Prove
Him a Master

SHALLOW ALEICHEM had writ
ten in a language other than Yid-
dish there is no doubt that a
greater measure of recognition would
nave been his. There is something in
him enduring and ne and common. He
has the broad humanity of Chekhov and
Dickens Chekhov's love for the infinite
variability Of human character and
Dickens's delight in idosyncrasy. He
mas Chekhov's exquisite since rity-the
simple inability to falsify an emotion.
These sketches of life in a Russian Pale
are rich with color and yet translucent
with truth. Though his material came
to him in the cramped village life of
the Russian Pale it yields up spacious
vlstas of living, rich flows of humor and
tragedy and poetry.
Like all great writer's, Shalom Alei
chem had deep understanding and
feeling for youth. He wrote of boy-
hood in an infinite number of moods.
humorously, wistfully, POLITICALLY
sentimentally - and some of these
sketches have been gathered up to make
the volume called Jewish Children.
translated by Hannah Berman, pub
lished by Alfred A. Knopf.
The first and last stories form a pro-
logue and epilogue of extraordinary
and moving power. "A Page from the
Song of Songs" is a sketch of a Pass
over eve in Russian village, and it
shows how inextricably for the Jewish
child life was entwined with the poetry
of the Talmud. The mind of the imag-
NATIVE Jewish boy kindled to it until
all the common farmyard and the hum
bic Passover was wrapt in the glory of
that impassioned poetry, and the sad
little orphan girl with whom he plays,
an adored older cousin, becomes to him
the symbolcal figure Of the Shuamite.
And in the epilogue there is the mood
Of nostalgia of the young Jew, weary
with disillusionment, who returns again
to the village on Passover eve, hoping to
find again his boyhood rapture.
But between the two are stories ro-
DuSt ana rlcn, lnaC are pNySlcai IN their
high spirits and yet spiritually sensi-
tive and sad so swift in their emo
tions that each story seems to hold
comedy and tragedy entwined. One
of the best stories is "On the Fiddle"
which tells of the yearning of Jew
ISL boy Of an extremely pious and
respectable family for fiddle. Of
course it is we'll known that only out
casts are musicians, and so m.sad-
venture and disgrace only follow when
he dares to pursue his ambition in
secret. 1t is ali done in high vein
Of comedy, and yet the most hilarious
caricature lies in full sight Of tragedy.
The Dickensian family of Bohemians
with whom the boy establishes an H.
llcit friendship are extraordinary. The
Lnappreciated musician had marshaled
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
Convicted By. Their Own Words
The Evidence Is Gathered From Their Own
Papers and Speeches

te at sufficient length TO show how
Russia may free itself of the Boil
shevist government. He goes so far
as to admit that many of the atroci-
ties generally charged to Bolshevism
are due to 1.-The ignorant selfshness,
superstition and the capacity for saw
age brutality which all primitive peo-
pies have. Nor does MFR. Spargo wax
sufficiently explicit on the important
question of propaganda. He denounces
the insidious publicity Of the Bolshe-
visits, but he fails to indicate how it
operates. Mr.. Lincoln Eyre, a writer
whom Mr.. Spargo classes with men of
Bolshevist sympathies, has given US a
better account of the workings of the
Bolshevist propaganda than Mr..
Spargo.
Because Mr.. Spargo is Socialist
who has. won the respect of practically
all fair-minded non-Socialists his vol
ume comes with particular force 1t
lis not a dispassionate, unbiased ex-
animation Of the subject, but Mr.
Spargo does not pretend that it is
merely the evidence in the case. 1t is
sound and ingenious presentation of
the facts against Bolshevsm. AS such
IL should be widely popular
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
The Supreme Standard of Life
DR.. G. Stanley Hall Sees Morale as Most Impor.
tant Influence in Character

cannot be entirely disconnected from
our sudden and enforced abstinence.
The Problem of BoIshevism
Psychology sees one way, and one
only, of setting a backfre TO Bolshe-
vlsm and its perversion Of the soviet
idea, and that is by efectin. the re-
organization of industry on broad
cooperative basis and giving the world
an object lesson of harmony and eff
cheney in production, with the recogni-
ton of the primacy of the human
factor, in order to substitute mutual
good will for unrest and conflicts. We
should rely no longer on the summary
intrusion of courts, should give up the
idea of transferring industrial prob
lens to governmental bureaucracies
and, still more, we should avoid every
thing which will cause the more iso-
lated and independent organization of
laborers versus employers, for this
intenslfes the class consciousness Of
both and can only result in more set
crystallized forms Of opposition We
should waste no time in trying to limit
the workers inalenable right to
strike and to bargain collectively, and
should attempt no more raids or de-
portations. Labor and capital must
speedily abandon their long and in
veterate antagonisms and unite their
interests and sympathies, each recog-
nizing the rights, functions, place and
needs of the other"
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
Good Novel With Bad Title
True Love Much Better Book Than It's
Name Indicates

the figure of finely strung English
man who is caught up out of idealistic
distractions, whirled violently in the
maelstrom of opinion and hurled
against reality. In the impact he
learns that empty phrases have their
physical embodimcnts in the vital con-
facts Of his life. The simple dis
tnguishng twist of True Love is
that the hero finds that the girl he
loves, an actress, is German That
seems bare and crude melodrama
enough, except that Monkhouse has re-
fined it into a deeper significance. The
girl becomes the mans symbol for the
ideal attitude toward his enemy-she
represents his clutch at chivalrous
and romantic conduct against the dis
integrating tide of the war.
We are weary enough of the war to
bestow no great amount of encourage
ment on the war novel. Yet it goes on
being written into novels with a swift
and breathless rush in spite of an
inert and apathetic reading public,
simply because young English writer's
find release from it only by throwing
it off in this way
True Love has some swift, keen per
ceptions of character; it has in Mary
Arden, Geoffrey's spinster sister one
distinguished portrait. 1t has slack
stretches when it stakes out more than
it cultivates. 1t is uneven and some
times thin. But it is inmeasurably bet
ter than its title.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
Youth in Harley
Gerould Gives an Idealized
New England Picture

r n A sort Of conjugal concordance of
ideals Gordon Hall Gerould afFirms
his wife's criticism of American
modes and morals by giving US in
Youth in Harley (Scribner) an ideal
iged picture Of that New England cul-
'ure whose passing Katharine Fuller
ton Gerould so spiritedly laments-
Harley was American "to the core
It was in the sos village resplen-
dent in white paint, nesting among its
green fields, the abiding place of har-
IRONY and religion. happiness and pur-
ty If any inhabitant ever deviated
from virtue, Mr. Gerould looked the
other way.
An impossible peace broods over Har-
ley. Only simple" and wholesome"
experiences befall in the book whose
chief theme is the coming to Harley
of q new schoolma ster, Stephen Quaid.
He meets and promptly fall} in love
Y tn Cynthia Darrell, the primary
school teacher Their loven.aking is
ar example 70 modern hectic young
I eople of coolness and dec,rum. 1t
is carefully devitalized of all sexual
significance. 1t IS not without its spirit
aal solicitudes as well. "CTnthia took
his hand in hers. Aren't some Of the
books you've been reading dangerous,
Stephen? I've been afraid lately. from
\. hat you've said TO me- End 20 Uncle
H.icah. l suppose Herbert Spencer is
q great man, put l wonder if it's really
safe to read him. Please be careful.
Won't you %
1t goes without saying that Stephens
Re estes do not set the river on fire.
a slight ripple breaks the calm when,
in a momentary flare of missionary
zeal. Cynthia aspires TO become doc
tor but she soon sees the folly of de-
string any nobfer aim than that of be-
ing a good mans wife.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
News of Books
And of Writers

" DGAR ALLAN POE, who oc-
r. casionally found in cheap jour
nalism an opportunity to make a
needed penny gave to the celebrated
moon hoax story of Richard Adams
Locke the credit for the success of
penny journalism-a triAe too enthusi-
astically, as one might expect from
man Of Poe's temperament
From the epoch of the hoax" he
wrote, The Sun shone with unmiti-
gated splendor. Its success firmly es-
tablished the penny system through
out the country, and Through The
Sum consequently we are indebted to
the genius of MIR. Locke for one of
the most important steps ever vet
taken in the pathway of human prog
ress'
George Henry Payne, in his new book
History of journalism in the United
States, hardly agrees with Poe. He
says: Although the story scarcely
1ustiies Poe's encomums. nevertheless
it gave The Sun international fame at
time when Day could not reasonably
have expected to attract attention be-
yond the confines OF New York City.
Locke. a man of education and great
ability-he had Poes unstinted admi-
ration reporter on The Sun at
$l2 week Needing more money he
outlined his moon story to Day, to
whom the project was acceptable and
after q preliminary announcement 10
the effect that great astronomical dis
coveries had been made by Sir John
Herschel, The Sun published on Au-
gust %, 1885, three columns of what
purported to De reprint of Herschel's
report, credited to the supplement OF
The Edinburgh Journal of Science.
ut purported to give an account Of
the astronomical observations Of
Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope.
made through an enormous telescope
For the next four days the articles
grew in interest until finally they
were describing the appearance of
man bats and the most minute vegeta-
tion on the moon. They were so we'll
written that even the scientists were
deceived and most Of The Suns con-
temporaries, even the six-cent sheets
which pretended to despise it, took for
granted the truth of the reports
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29


novel, The Thread of Flame
(Harper's), wakes up in mid
ocean without the slightest idea
of who he is, where he came from or
why he is on board the ship. Landing
in New York, he struggles desperately
to regain his identity, to find some
point of contact with his family and
friends. All his efforts are fruitless;
is compelled to earn his living as a
manual worker for two or three years.
Then p chance meeting solves the
mystery of his personality, and he is
identified as Billy Harrowby, a wealthy
Boston clubman, who enlisted in a
French ambulance corps early in the
war and suffered an acute case of
shell shock.
Mr.. King reserves the most subtle
problems of his story for the conclud-
ing chapters, when Harrowby is
brought back to his wife and his old
circle of society friends. For ugly
questions are asked about the genuine
quality of his malady 1t is hinted
that his "shell shock" is really an ex-
cuse for running away from the front,
And his wife, proud, highs pirited
Violet Harrowby, who had been eager
to make vicarious sacrifices of all her
male relatives during the war, dis
plays marked inclination to prefer
dead hero to living husband who
rests under disagreeable cloud of
suspicion.
Harrowby is saved from shame and
despair by new faith that has come
to him while he was working in
humble circumstances. This faith is
belief in the abiding virtue and COM
mon sense of the everyday man and
woman. He leaves his doubling wife
and his sneering friends and goes back
to the humble folk whom he met as
a result of his lost identity. 1t is
one Of these friends, a boy who was
blinded in the war and is struggling
pluckily to carry on, who gives an
excellent definition of Harrowby's own
ideal of brotherhood and service:
"There are three or four big jobs
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
EOHN SPARGO has done an amaz-
ing thing in his The Greatest
Failure in All History (Har-


3 ing thing in his The Greatest
n Failure in All History (Har-
per'sl. He has succeeded in
producing an anti-Bolshevist tract
without indulging in the theatrical
fnger-shaking that is the basis of most
discussions of contemporary Russian
rolitics. Not once in the course of his
stout volume does ne picture Leninc
and Trotzky as shaggy bearded adven-
turers with sputtering bombs in hand.
With the spectacular clements of
Bolshevism as they appear in news
PAPER cartoons Mr.. Spargo has no
traffic He presents his argument
without even asking the reader what
he would do if his wife or his sister
were to be nationalized. Despite Mr..
Spargo's omission of these "sure re"
outbursts, his book is fully as damning
as any previous onslaughts on the
Soviets: perhaps it is even more ef-
fective 1t is frankly the summing up
of the prosecution against Bolshevism,
and it is al honest, intelligent forensic.
In its essence Mr.. Spargo's book is
conviction of the Bolshevists ''out of
their own mouths" but it is more than
a mere bit of literary opportunism, an
adventitious assortment of damaging
admissions. Although Mr.. Spsrgo as
sumes the role of prosecutor, he does
not seek TO win his case by incriminat-
iae utterances torn from their context
DEGREES, speeches, regulations. official
propaganda and quotations from rec
ognized Bolshevist organs are printed
with something like completeness. Bol-
shevist sympathizers doubtless will
find retorts for many Of Mr. Sbargos
conclusions, but they cannot accuse
him of disregarding the ethics of de
bate.
Mr. Spargo's attack hinges on the
broken promises Of the Bolshevists.
His leit-motif is that the Soviet sys-
tenn. designed as a guaranty of free
dom. has developed into an instrument
Of bureaucracy and oppression. Waiv-
ing the fact as Mr. Spargo does. that
degree of tyranny is inevitable in
warNorn lands. his argument is com
7rehensive. we'll documented and per
suasive. He demonstrates conclusively
the awkward structure OF the present
government he makes pitiessly clear
the wreck Of industry; he exposes the
bondage into which labor has been
delivered; he drives home the corrup-
.on and the unreliability Of the politi-
cal rule. OF course. Mr.. Spargo has
limited his field TO the matters that
seemed best adapted for MS purpose,
but within that field he has been sue
cessful
Unlike many anti Bolshevist books,
Mr.. spargos work is not 3 condemna-
ton Of Russia at large.
The Russian people, he maintains,
live not because they have found good
In Bolshevism, but because they have
found means 70 circumvent Bolshevism
and set II aside. What progress is
being made in Russia to-day is sot
the result Of Bolshevism, but Of the
growing power OF those very qualities
Of mind and head which Bolshevism
sought 10 destroy"
On this point, We think, NJ. Spargo
is not wholly convincing. He does not
illustrate how the Russian people have
managed 10 defy their leaders He
does not dwell on the Russian cnarac-
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
TRUE LOVE is n dreadful. title.
The most vivid tale fades to
blank righteousness under

. ci~Hh iHkciIuOusueSS uuQcr
the mawkishness of it. A re-
viewer predisposed to pessimism faces
fearful struggle 1t is, therefore,
disconcerting to find degree of real
sophistication in Allan Monkhouse's
novel of that title Henry Holt).
Allan Monkhouse is young Man
chesterian-o of that group of young
lntellectuls brought up under the agis
of the august Guardian. Indeed, The
Herald, the great Liberal paper which
employs the talents and loyalty of the
journalist hero of the story, seems to
be The Guardian lightly disguised, as
the hero's experiences in playwrtng
may be Monkhouses own with "Marv
Broome."
Monkhouse writes in the intellectual
idiom of that particular corner Of
England. The wars effect on the Eng
land Of it's time will never be half so
we'll told in the histories as it is now
being done in these contemporaneous
novels with which young Englishmen
are analyzing in retrospect their re-
actions to the war. Ephemeral and
wasteful of words as a large part Of
this writing may be, it is vivid and
eager,9it holds the emotional content
/ of the experience as no formal account
ever will.
Monkhouse's novel differs little from
the others in pattern. 1t dramatizes
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
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The Allen-Gompers Debate

The debate which took place last
May at Carnegie Hall, New York, be-
tween Samuel Gompers, president of
he American Federation Of Labor, and
Henry j. Allen, Governor Of Kansas,
will be published in book form shortly
by K. P. Dutton + Coz
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
Emerson's Essays

A volume of Emerson's Essays, edited
by Arthur Hobson Quinn, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. is being added this
month to Charles Scribner'a Sons Mod
err Students Library.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
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The Man Who Lost T himself
A Case of Forgotten Identity Furnishes Theme
for Basil Kings Gripping Novel

NHE hero of Basil Kings new
novel, The Thread of Flame
(Harper's), wakes up in mid
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29

THE word morale" was first
brought into general use by
the war. DR.. G. Stanley Hall
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29

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11e Nassau Street. New York
New-York tribune., 1920-08-29

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Link Riper Dam
Construction Begun

klamath Falls, Or. Aug. 9.--Work
on the Link river dam, which will con-
Itrol the storage of Upper klamath
lake, will start at once, according to ,.
Thompson, division manager OF the
California Oregon Power company. A
construction camp has been establish
ed and crew Of 100 men will be at
work within few days. John Boyle,
assistant engineer of the corporation
is in charge. 1t is estimated that the
dam will cost $4,000 and will be com
pleted next year.
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